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As someone who codes on a remote server the whole day, mosh is absolutely necessary and it is fantastic

Advantages:

- you dont see any lag when you type, it is exactly as if you were on your local machine

- when network disconnect, the terminal freeze and when network is up again, the terminal becomes interactive again preserving everything in between

- connection is preserved as long as the terminal is open, so even after hibernation your session is preserved

Drawbacks:

- you can't scroll , but if you use tmux then it is possible . I've tried using Eternal terminal, as it allows to scroll but it doesn't perform well at all on laggy connections

- You can't detach and re attach mosh connections (same for ET)

- I'm not sure it is possible to preserve middle-click copy/paste (at least I've not managed to make it work)

- time to connect is a bit longer than normal ssh
I agree with you on everything basically.

There are two things at play here, one is misplaced trust. These people are trusting the wrong authority that are feeding them bullshit. Why? They may have had legitimately bad experiences with the sources you and me trust. Or they may just not know one way or the other.

To go along with your example, flying these people to Germany so they can check for themselves whether Angela Merkel is the Chancellor might actually work.

Then there are also people with mental illnesses like schizofrenia. They will not be persuaded either by logical arguments or having the evidence in front of their two eyes.
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I have heard many false negatives are an issue. Diluting samples down might make that even worse.
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I was already using tmux for session persistence, so the local echo and handling of congested networks were the two features that made me wish I'd switched to mosh earlier.
> I think hospitals should maintain enough capacity to handle influx.

Ooo, you're sooooo close to understanding the problem. Keep at it!
Works on Firefox on Debian 10 just fine. I had to let media & scripts through uMatrix, but that was easy enough.
You seem to imply that you are holding the greater truth. You also imply that people that don't hold your views need some "cure", they are somehow sick. Haha! Question yourself why you think like that before trying to cure the others.
I tried to pick up a webcam last week... nothing anywhere.
You should try to understand differential forms, if you have those then Maxwells equations in vaccuum really aren't strange any more.

But Differential forms aren't that strange really. They are the mathematical objects that allow you to integrate along surfaces and curves. Of course their theory hadn't been developed when Maxwell wrote them. And Maxwell was very much concerned with EM in matter, which mixes the properties of the EM fields and materials, and that can thus be expected to get a bit messy.

But I don't see what you are striving for when you say "really" understand them. I think this is a psychological category, rather than a hard criterion. Can you apply the formalism to calculate consequences? That's the main issue. Maybe you can have a better or worse intuition about the consequences, but that is often mainly due to practice. You can't expect to correctly intuit all possible consequences of a system as rich as EM.

> Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann
I love the idea. Is there any way to programmatically distort a digital signature so that I can avoid printing the signature pdf too?
You could have just rotate everything 90 degreees and the site would be readable for everyone.
Very nice, just wondering the security implications of having those nice PNGs stealed, someone can sign anything in your behalf...

Adding some known pattern to the signature that can be recognized later in the print would be nice if you need to prove that it was not actually signed by you. But if you get to this point it is already a big mess...
That's... more misleading thsn useful by itself. Of course when people they die they'll do so at home when they can't be somewhere else.
A must-read for fans of Conway's Game of Life and laypersons looking for an approachable read. It covers both the history of GoL, and its implications for understanding the nature of Life itself:

"The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809252023/ref=as_li_ss_il...

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Such nonsense. How do they explain the black plague? or the Spanish flu?
There's an interesting point around whether people want what they need, or need what they want. Here's a two-by-two matrix:

Need but don't want, e.g. vegetables.
Want but don't need, e.g. click-bate.
Want and need, e.g. Apple products.
Don't want and need, e.g. pain.
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Not in practice, unless they're signed to a guaranteed, multi-year, cross-org contract. Fixed price has so many issues. Hourly has its own Pandora's box.

The incentives (mostly turn time) are just too misaligned to create good solutions, even with good consultants.

Consultants also aren't empowered to fundamentally push back on a client's demands, nor have existing relationship with other IT orgs they'll need buy-in from to get durable work finished.
Maybe it's a white noise generator? Several (maybe all?) of my past offices have had white noise generators. One never notices them, but when they are off then suddenly one notices their absence.

I wonder if I should get one for home …
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I'll ignore Gish gallop of questions and respond the the last sentence.

> I was raised to respect people’s right to express their ideas even if... especially if I disagree.

No one is threatening or infringing on his rights. YouTube is not a government entity and has no obligation to host his content. If he wants to put up his own website, which I believe he has, and host the video there then he can do so.
If you just want a persistent connection, you never have to press the command key or even acknowledge it exists, do you? And you didn't answer what difficulties you've personally faced.
The one that this first happened with is now much bigger and well documented, oh well.

(FWIW: it's shoreleave https://github.com/shoreleave/shoreleave-remote, it allows for exposing a server-side namespace as a client-side API in the browser).
Right but that's an orthogonal issue to what the market will pay for a given property. I agree that a lot of the draw of Airbnb is that it's cheaper than hotels but this is the case where the current crop of regulations are harmful since people on Airbnb know exactly what they're getting. The regulations aren't addressing any information/knowledge asymmetry or safety concerns that aren't covered in "this is just some randos house" disclaimer. I'm sure that helps Airbnb's funnel but I doubt the absence of hotel regulations would make the current crop of hotels any cheaper since the regulations are tailor made for what they were doing already. Yayy regulatory capture. Right! Back on topic. But none of this matters because we're not comparing hotels to Airbnb, we're comparing Airbnb to renting or selling which is a different batch of zoning regulations they're skirting.

But that reinforces my point since the reason that city planners zone properties/areas for long-term residential only sans a few excepted hotels is keep the prices down to levels that individuals and families can actually afford because you're only competing with other people in your rough income range and not commercial buyers. So I don't see a contradiction in cities just banning Airbnb like any other commercial activity for that reason but it's all like artificial mannn.
These are out of stock, everywhere.
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>> Disclaimer: COVID-19 data is the number of ACTUAL US deaths since March 15th, 2020 as reported on Worldometer against the backdrop of the EXTRAPOLATED DAILY number of deaths for top 15 causes of death in the US based on the latest (2018) data from the CDC. This chart is not meant to represent statistical analysis of any kind, it is meant for visual purposes only to help raise public awareness of the exponentially increasing COVID-19 deaths in the US

This is a really awful chart. The number of deaths from Covid-19 is animated as they increase day-by-day, but the numbers of deaths from all other causes remain constant. These numbers (the blue bars) are stated to be the "EXTRAPOLATED DAILY numbers of deaths from the top 15 causes of death in the US" (other than Covid-19), but if they are "DAILY" numbers, why aren't they changing daily?

The last sentence in the disclaimer is at least honest about it: this graph has no real information content. I for one find this graph to only serve the purpose of sensationalising a situation that is already dramatic enough without the need of animations and special effects. Really. The only thing missing is epic music in the background. Something from Carmina Burana, perhaps.
Sorry, I misread. This doc says (look at last couple pages) the 2014/2015 and 2017/2018 seasons had over 25k deaths from flu.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

So my calculation shows cov2 is about twice as bad as a strong flu, with no preventative measures. If we hit the 20k or less with preventative measures that the Imperial model predicts, this will be on par with regular flu season.

At any rate, much less than the 200k+ deaths originally predicted by the Imperial model and that pushed the UK to lockdown.
Ask HN: Covid-19 Should we wash our faces too?
Hello,

It may sound silly, but shouldn't we wash our face too? I mean, if the goal is to avoid virus from sticking to our face, then washing it makes sense to me.

Then perhaps mobile "face washing" machine could be deployed on the streets?

What do you think?

PS: Be safe.
Here's a HashLife implementation that runs in the browser, with an infinitely scrolling universe:

https://github.com/raganwald/hashlife
Thing is though the government is not saying don't go out. You have to go to work, (if you're essential). You have to go to the grocery store. And truth be told, you should be exercising to keep up your immunity and overall health. That's all good stuff.

But when you're calling up your friends to go on that errand with you, or to go on that walk, or run, or bike ride with you, that's where I think people are going off the rails. I think the government and public health people probably meant for us to do this stuff alone. So there would be no need to say, "WE won't get close to anyone while we're out". Because you're not out with anyone. Only one family member needs to go to the store. Your bicycling group is still unsafe even if you're keeping 2 meters away from each other. Etc etc.

The question is, does ubiquitous surveillance help alleviate this sort of thing? My suspicion is that it doesn't. I'm thinking this is an education issue. A lot of people still aren't getting it.
WHO is a propaganda machine made up of cowards that stand by and let their bosses commit human rights violations as modus operandi.
Feels like Apple could boost their ecosystem by making great iPhone/macOS webcam integration. There's Kinoni's EpocCam and it seems to work, but it is a bit rough and requires installing their driver which I don't love.
Sadly, that is very likely a main reason.

Political discussion isn't so much about the exchange of views anymore, but about "winning" and "destroying" the other side.

And there is a reason for that. There is an interesting interview with a US 4-Star General about the topic of "controlling the public" in cyberspace: https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE
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> internally, you can make inroads supporting stakeholders with evidence for their decisions!

The problem is that this can all too easily become motivated reasoning: one provides a stakeholder with support for the decision he already made. From his point of view, this is a valuable service, but it does the organisation a disservice: decisions should be made after considering the data, rather than consider only those data which support a decision.

Also, while ethical issues certainly arise, I think that Greyball is not a good example. Uber evading police enforcing the taxi monopoly is no more unethical than the Underground Railroad evading fugitive-slave agents. The taxi monopoly is itself unethical, and evading it increases the common good.
OpenVMS absolutely does crash. I was actively involved with a very large cluster - and with enough abuse - individual nodes will tip over - and if you aren't careful - you can take down an entire cluster.

It was an interesting OS. Some different ideas in there. But the idea that it never crashes is simply false.
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Is the 1M/day figure for individual tests? When the expected number of positives is low, can't you run group tests? Mix the first samples from 16 patients together and test them as a batch. If the result is negative, all 16 are negative. Otherwise re-run the second samples. Depending on how many samples you take from each patient, you can binary search, or just run 16 individual tests on the second samples. By doing this, you can get something upwards of 10x increase in people tested per day.
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It’s about ham radio.
Thanks for this, going to try these.
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You should anyway run mosh+tmux. Not sure about this though, ssh still disconnects and you have to reconnect and then launch tmux attach again. I agree it doesn’t seem like much, but just opening any device and continue from where you left off without any extra interaction feels great. It is kinda like auto save on iOS, you could argue that pressing the save and open button isn’t that big of a deal, but once you experience it the experience changes completely.
I know it's annecdotal, but now I've had two elderly relatives die -- one from covid-19, and one from a heart attack, in the past few weeks. The second wasn't able to get into the healthcare system because it is just too overstretched. Firstly, causes by a very slow ambulance, and got diverted to an ER just about as far away as you can get.

I have also seen more people walking along our city exercise path than ever before. There's not really a good middle ground here, exercising your civil liberties is resulting in deaths.
Nice example signature
I took a look at your post history, and I don't really agree with any of your reasoning not to wear a mask going outside.

But here is the biggest one: at pandemic level, it's much more productive and safer for everyone to assume that they are potentially infected, and wear mask to prevent spreading it elsewhere. In my country, when facing guidelines of social distancing, a lot of people are responding with "I am healthy, and I don't really care if I got infected so I should be able to go outside and do everything I want". And if you follow it up with "You might not care about your health, but you might spread it to other people, so you should still stay home", their answer is "Are you saying I am infected? I am not". Your argument is suspiciously similar to that line of reasoning.

Yes, non-medical mask might not block things coming into your body, but everyone is a potential carrier, and if everyone wears a mask, society gets safer, quicker.
Use multiple versions of a web component on one page (ponyfill scoped registry)
It seems odd to note that you think the only store which had the product you were looking for is useless.
Google "yeast water" for an alternative
In the last 3 months our team worked hard to build Krisp Chrome Extension.

We had to squeeze our noise cancellation DNN 30x to fit it inside Chrome.

This was quite challenging and thought it’s a story worth sharing.
I don't get the magical power of a signature at all. Everybody can write my name under a document.

This project basically allows you to forge your own signature. Is it still legally binding? Do these rules even remember the original intent?
Seems to be pretty static. But built with react, next.js, webpack, http/2, vanish caching, and some apollo js.
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Writing code is different from writing mathematical equations. Developers (humans) prefer meaningful variable names, method names, expressions, etc. Comparing this to maths where conciseness is key is not the best analogy IMO. And it is not about experience (btw, I have no problem being one of these newbies who "need to learn those before they can understand what is being said "naturally""), it is really about expressiveness to reduce the mental effort to match things (what I have in mind and what I see in code). That's why there are many attempts [1] to create programming languages that are as close as possible to people's natural languages.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
What about memories, can you audio-visually recollect conversations, arguments etc. that you've had or just their content ?
The product launch a few days ago made an interesting "Show HN." Because there is nothing to "play with or try out" blog posts are not really in the spirit of "Show HN." Even when the author is posting, blog posts or articles are more suited as regular submissions.
Author here: thanks for sharing! I'm curious to hear what other interesting ways people use Binutil commands or if there are other ELF introspection tools that I neglected to mention in the article. I only touched on it at the end but some of the commands in libabigail such as abidiff are really neat and useful too!
May I ask, why do you keep using Prompt? Full disclosure, I’m one of Blink Shell devs.
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I think it was covered previously but Wyze offered an image that makes their security / surveillance camera into a webcam. Requires a USB cable and sd card in addition to the camera. I see Wyze cameras available on Amazon at a markup and with some delay, but their website seems to have them in stock? I didn't go through the checkout process to verify.

https://wyze.com/wyze-in-response
Flatten the curve so that much fewer people will die until a vaccine can be developed.
Why do you code on a remote server?
I'm using a combo of OBS, NDI, and OBS-NDI plugin as per scott hanselman's guide.

You can download an "NDI" apk for your cell phone since the manufacturer removed the app from the play store, to provide the ability for an android phone to serve as a network display interface (of course it's your risk to download APKs from a random site)
Maybe it’s that older people are more used to the concept of death, so show less fear.

When I was 30, the sudden acceleration in the number of people I knew dying was incredible. Aunts, uncles, friends, teachers all started to die from complications of old age. At first I was shocked, but soon I became jaded since there’s nothing you can do about other people getting old.

Once you get so used to that, it’s seen as an inevitability rather than something to be defended against at all cost of quality of life.

As a further anecdote, during this crisis I see young people in stores studious avoiding the 6 foot distance rule, even going as far as to jump out of my aisle to maintain it. Older people though are congregating in groups, and gossiping like normal instead.
You can always try it on one machine and see if it makes your life better or not.
I think you were downvoted because your comment appeared to be making an incorrect assertion confidently, rather than asking a question.

> funny how rust doesn't seem to let you easily work with dynamically sized array

Could instead have been

> why did the author choose a hashmap?
I would know how much work remains by visualizing the uncleaned windows in my apartment.
The point is Iceland has the best statistic on death rate due to comprehensive testing.
The title made it sound like the discovery engine is used in games. So I took a look, but it seems to be the music is used in games.

If you are as music-crazy as me, try this discovery site:

http://www.gnoosic.com

It is my daily driver to discover new music.
Failing is a form of learning. Enabling to fail (preferably in a safe way) is very valuable for learning.
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Also related Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1247866073682030592
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I mean on the website dumbass.
If it hasn't, it likely will be.
Let's think about more simple properties that could be added to create a more interesting dynamical system. Some ideas are: each cell could be a small neural network that learn properties of its surrounding environment; each generation could produce variation of neural network parameters so it could use evolutionary algorithm to evolve; the cells (or group of cells) could be able to move (e g. the evolutionary algorithm will select the ones that move towards the energy source); the cells could have sensors (e.g. sensing proximity of the energy source); cells or group of cells could compete for resources.
What's a reasonable payment to a freelancer to find prospects and close them?
What's a reasonable payment to a freelancer to find prospects and close them?

Hello,

I am thinking of paying a freelancer $200 for every closed client for my B2B Digital Marketing Agency.

The $200 is only a starting payment, but will be doubled after the 50th closed client.

However, it turns out there are 2 seperate parts which I thought was just 1 part. The first, to find potential leads (prospects) and secondly to close them. In which case $200 are turning out to be way less than what I first thought. Someone even had a go at me about that. They said that $200 for just closing a client is fine but the payment won't cut it for doing both tasks.

A different person told me that what I am wanting is a business development, where the following is involved: finding prospects and leads, warming them and then closing them.

What will be a reasonable payment to a freelancer for doing both - finding prospects and closing them? (a permanent position)

I am looking forward to your inputs.

Thank you in advance! :)
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FWIW, linux got pretty decent true async IO with io_uring, at last.
This is a very nice introduction to theorem proving, only caveat is that you cannot save your progress and the lean interpreter in the browser can lock up.

But if you just think of it as spaced repetition I'm sure everyone will agree that it's a great feature! :)
Maybe don't pick the furry one then.

Headphones with mic from your old phone should do it too.
XML was there, being handled natively in databases much before they even looked at JSON.
On a similar vein, my company has had a great experience with Epidemic Sound for their videos and random multimedia. You pay them monthly, and any music you use during your subscription is usable in that finished piece of yours forever.
I continue to love my Roku and some of the oddball niche channels. But their ad serving is really immature. From seeing the same ad 3 times in a row to Overt aggressive insertions to sometimes freezing on an external ad feed to the rampant ad scams, it becomes frustrating to watch anything but The no-ad subscription channels which may not have that culty flic.

I don't mind supporting folks with ad viewing, but I also expect some variety, freq capping, and a bit of targeting. On the plus side, when all those Spanish ads come on, I can recognize almost half the words now.