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software engineers use "containers" to densify deployments. But in cases like this, real containers can't densify or offer mobility. Indian Railways engineers have submitted a proposal to mobilize trains for quarantine and mobile hospitals. Retrofitting is not too difficult and a prototype with designs have been shared. (even to SAARC nations, I guess).

https://theprint.in/india/governance/rail-coach-as-icu-how-m...

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‘A good idea’
According to media reports, a Kochi-based firm called Asset Homes had submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) where it offered to fashion hospitals out of trains.

“We have 12,617 trains with 23-30 coaches in our country. We can easily convert them into ‘mobile hospitals’ with facilities like consultation rooms, medical store, ICU and pantry,” the firm’s managing director reportedly wrote in the letter.

“Each train can accommodate at least 1,000 beds. Using the 7,500+ railway stations, the patients can be admitted to the trains.”

A senior railway official said it was good idea to convert coaches into mobile isolation wards, but added that it would be easier to first convert the railways’ Accident Relief Medical Equipment Vans (ARME) — or rail ambulances — into isolation wards.

“These are basically moving hospitals meant to provide medical treatment and assistance in case of rail accidents,” the official said. “It might be easier to convert them into isolation wards since they already have some medical facilities.”

Among other steps taken to check the pandemic, the railways have been instructed to introduce isolation wards at railway hospitals.
Not really. I'm tempted to write something to slowly scrape them all to find them though. I once found one about a fist fight(!) at a barbershop and the person who started the fight took the employer to a tribunal and lost.
You don't get government unemployment benefits in the UK if you have >16k in savings (i.e. most programmers, presumably)
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The article is about the imbalance between matter and anti-matter.
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I use recordMyDesktop. If what I need is a gif, then I convert it with ffmpeg.
This massively depends on the architecture of the package manager though. Composer (PHPs primary package manager) only serves the metadata and directs the installer to the already packaged ZIPs hosted on Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab. This allowed them to serve the whole community as a small team of 2-4 for almost a decade now without any outside funding.
Hey OP here,

My wife finally launched her UI side project. I helped her with the technical stuff required to put it into motion.
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As a Canadian who doesn't really consume Rolling Stone as a news source, I'm left to wonder:

1. Is this a "fake news" person, who refers to all journalism that isn't Breitbart/Fox as "the MSM" or some such?

2. Is this person still holding a personal grudge from when Rolling Stone left Rush off their best bands of all time list?

3. Are they snarkily referencing some incident(s) where Rolling Stone abused their position/punched down but can't be bothered to link to it?
Yes it is. They backed a couple hilariously bad bets in a big, public way, and people like feeling smarter than rich strangers.

I would be curious, though, if there are other funds with similar scope and track records to Vision 1 that have just managed to skate under public scrutiny thus far.
Particularly for German, I highly recommend https://deepl.com it does a much better job than google translate.
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You cannot be fired if you protest in a reasonable way yes. Disclosing or destroying customer data is not acceptable no. I'm not a law expert so I cannot tell you were the line is. I guess nobody really knows precisely.

Kidnapping is for sure not acceptable. Stripping the clothes as well, it was very criticized everywhere in the world including France when the AirFrance HR cunt got his shirt destroyed. If you work in France in the future, don't be scared about being kidnapped by your co-workers. It's very unlikely, especially if you are not a bad CEO, and I don't remember physical harm happening. I'm not saying it's acceptable, but it's a very small risk and you should not dismiss the benefits of protesting for only a few protests that went wrong over the last 10 years.
Everybody hates SoftBank nowadays, it's not even cool anymore, lol
I tried it a few months ago because i really prefer GUI tools to entering weird codes in text files (and i'm saying that as someone who has made his own tools with his own weird codes :-P) and it felt very "alpha quality" to me too. It would randomly crash or hang, losing changes or do nothing and when it worked it would feel sluggish. To test it out i tried to replicate some pages from the first section of the original Turbo Pascal 3 manual (which is mostly text) but i could barely do more than two pages.

I like the idea, but the execution wasn't that good. It really didn't felt as something i could rely on at all.
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A six year old, retracted article written by somebody described as "a former journalist".

What else ya got?
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I always wondered if fuckedcompany.com had back-door access to the Internet Confessional database.
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Having done budgeting for hiring employees in the UK, for small and medium sized companies, the factors that went into calculating staff costs never included any severance or redundancy factors. Paying redundancy is relatively rare, so doesn't need allocated funding until you're in that process.

When you're employing people you're not already thinking about their future exit. You hire based on your growth, so you're usually optimistic about the future and thinking about employees being long term. If not you hire contractors, who you can lay off easily.

Part of this is that you can't just fire people without good cause and without following a process. There are probationary periods to allow the hire to be let go if they don't work out in the first 6 months or so, but after that you're into a long "managing them out of the business" process that may or may not end up with a pay off.
Materialize exists to efficiently solve the view maintenance problem: https://materialize.io/
Probably jealously about people working at places like this getting paid more and more - https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W9509T/a-billiard-table-a-table-te...

Versus people working here having their per unit value of work cut by Medicare to 62% of what it was in 1998: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/02/17/opinion/sunday/17...

Have got to say though software/data skills have been super useful for research projects, which are the fun part of medical school vs the absolute grind of pounding facts in.
In my experience, there are few of those type of valuable influencers around and they have a limited career path. Maybe a promotion or two above standard engineer, but that is it.

Those that rise higher to the very senior positions are are able to promote their image, regardless of how much value that actually provide, and in fact they often provide negative value. That is in IT structures. Our primary mechanism for promotion at Big Corp is "influence". But influence is measured in a completely stupid manner by people who have been promoted to senior positions via the same completely stupid process.

People who come up with a "risk reduction" methodology and manage to sell it to someone senior, that requires all engineers to start adhering to this new methodology, which provides very little risk reduction but negatively impacts a huge amount of productivity, is very likely to get promoted.

For example, one person may have inadvertently done something stupid on a production host such as running CPU intensive operations on huge log files. So instead of looking at the correct fix, which would be to immediately form a small, very capable team of engineers tasked with going across the firm and helping teams get log files streamed off correctly, so engineers have very little need to go onto prod hosts, nope, some person with "influence", will decide with no consultation and no notice that all engineer access to prod hosts is gone. So now to support our applications we have to ask a support team to transfer large files around our network in an ad-hoc manner just so we can perform the analysis we need. Not only is this not much risk reduction, it completely hinders engineers ability to do a good job, which negatively impacts the company.

Yet this person if he isn't already senior, will be able to in the yearly review hugely sell his "risk reduction" exercise and will almost certainly be seen by the other idiots as someone equally capable as themselves and worthy of a similar position.
And they have a lot of the supporting facilities and infrastructure you need in order to run a medical facility (kitchen, laundry, plumbing and locally controllable HVAC to every room, etc). It's way easier to rip out carpet than it is to add all that stuff to containers.

If you wanted to have cheap and easily deliverable ICUs you're probably better starting off with RVs since those are already designed around all the stuff you need to make a habitable space. Containers are great for transporting many at a time over a long distance because they stack and are also designed to facilitate fast and easy inter-modal handling (which is why the military uses them for certain facilities). Once a containers are within a few hundred miles of its destination they tend to move one (40+ft) or two (20-25ft pup trailers) at a time by truck which is the same method of transportation used for RVs (one behind a small truck or two on a flat bed behind a larger truck). Unless someone is assembling container ICUs in massive volume and shipping them across an ocean or rail transporting them across a continent I would be very, very surprised if the extra resources required to convert and ship containers to hospital rooms is lesser than the effort required to convert (and ship if applicable) existing hotels, RVs or any other structure already equipped for living in into hospital rooms.
I would assume that we're talking about the physical location being sequential, like stages on a rocket.
Or black sky with a moving "NO SIGNAL" notification box. That would actually fit to a cyberpunk novel I guess. ;-)
> Consent can be withdrawn at any time, with no further obligations or liability. That’s key in a free society.

I'm sorry but there's plenty of both liabilities and obligations in the event of early termination. Have a look at your telco contract if you don't believe me
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Another happy Buildkite customer here. Beautiful UI and it just works really well.
I've been doing the exact same with French for the past few years : you manage to find a lot of decent quality stuff in French overall, but as soon as you need to look up GitHub issues or stack overflow answers, using French is a clear issue.
Indeed I'd also like some Europeean equivalent (maybe that deserves its own Ask HN ?).
The port is ready and working. We are waiting the release of TeXmacs 2.1 soon and then we will start working to integrate it to the main branch. TeXmacs will run with Guile 3.0 with the codebase fully compiled. It should improve loading times and some critical operations, but not benchmarks have been done yet.
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Whether the European social model is sustainable is another question. There are plenty of apparently reasonable economists that argue it is not.
When was the last time a person with the title engineer was an actual engineer? Even software engineers are usually just programmers, sometimes senior sometimes not. Hence my question.

I think you can usually tell what someone is not by looking at their job title. The last word tells you what they're not (except for those management positions where they do it backwards and say "vice president communications" - in those cases any parsable subcomponent of the name tells you what they are not; a vp comms can neither communicate nor are they a vp).
The developer in SF might be financially better off, but the developer in Berlin is better off in general.
Not even remotely viable - this prevents slipping it into a pocket easily, or sitting flat on a desk. Plus it's dead ugly.
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Forgive me if I missed stuff, please point me in the right direction if you've covered it, but some questions if I may (after I've said well done!). I've considered this problem before and it seems very difficult . So:

1. Do you have a paper on this with a rigorous justification of the algorithm?

2. This surely has to rely on the isolation level being pretty high, or EventReduce might be reading while n other processes are updating. I don't see that mentioned.

3. Surely you need logical clocks for this? If not, could you point me to a high-level description of the algorithm to show why they aren't necessary.

4. Why does sort order matter? A timestamp yes (see 3. above), but I don't understand why the order matters.

thanks (and trying to understand this might be the thing to get me into looking at BDDs again. I never understood their value).
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> Japan, the nation which prefer single handed usage and small size Smartphone

Do you have a source for that, or do you just expect them to want small phones because of small hands?

The rest of Asia are the front runners of large smart phones, so I don't see the small hands thing being relevant to phone sizes.

To my recollection, phones have always been pretty big in Japan. When I first visited in 2006 I asked my Japanese friends why all the phones where so big, and they just said "It's fashionable, nobody wants a small phone", but I've never noticed a trend towards small devices, just more features and bling.

Moreover, given that Japan sees relatively little usage of computers, but historically has been extremely cellphone oriented, it actually makes sense that you want a large screen as your primary screen.

Lastly, I've noticed that young people on variety shows, when doing a gesture for "typing", swipes the air with their index finger over the palm of the imposing hand, suggesting that the primary mode of text-input is on (1) your phone, and (2) this is done with 2 hands. I don't think Japan has a special affection for one handed usage, at least not since they moved to touch screens.
Yeah there's loads of work around from what I've seen.
Thanks, that clears up a lot, including why Kyiv changes too. I was suspect that it was about political correctness.
> The ideal is (IMHO) CEO -> SVP (PA level) -> VP -> Eng Director -> Manager (of managers) -> Manager (of ICs) -> IC.

That assumes a fanout of 7-8 at the current size of Google. I think that's too much at certain levels.
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Your claims are not supported by reports from industry experts: https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about...

Our supply chains are optimized to have essentially no slack. When people switch from using the toilet at work to home, and when they buy a month at a time instead of a week at a time in order to comply with shelter in place orders, they drain the grocery stores extremely hard.

No selfish or hoarding behavior is required to produce the effects you're talking about.
And here we have a prime example that the gender pay gap doesn't exist. Those women got paid half as much as a man but it was ultimately a meaningless comparison because men didn't even get hired in the first place and therefore their effective wages were 0. Cheap female labor completely drowned out the male competition. When one group of people (such as illegal immigrants) gets an unfairly low wage what happens is that this group ends up dominating the job.

The idea that women don't work male dominated jobs because they get an unfairly low pay because of their gender simply makes no sense whatsoever. If the misogyny existed, the opposite would happen. The job would become female dominated overnight.
> They are on a statewide lockdown.

Apparently not. But I agree this remark is out of place.
Thanks for pointing that out. I never heard of materialize.io but I will dive into it. On the first glance it looks like materialize is more like a full product while EventReduce is just something that you use on top of your existing solutions.
The thing that really gets me about HN comments is the lack of plausible deniability for stupid comments. People say dumb stuff on 2^N-chan and you can just assume they're trolls trying to rile up the extremeists. People say dumb stuff on Reddit and you can chalk it up to them being teenagers without life experience to have a more reality based opinion. People say dumb stuff on HN and you can't really make up any excuse for them because they have "Senior Engineer at X" and a link to a personal website that shows they're not an idiot or a deadbeat and you're left wondering how people so smart can be so stupid. Of course it's well known that most people don't know much about things outside their area(s) of expertise but it's still frustrating nonetheless because you'd expect smart people to know this and either not run their mouth or qualify their statements.
This is orthogonal to type safety. In fact, schema-based validation is an excellent way to perform type narrowing even in statically typed languages. An extremely prolific example of this is parsing incoming JSON from network requests :)
You probably meant "Astek Group"? they aren't that small actually
Please clarify for me. In this context is 60 Hz a "lower refresh rate"?
No. Unfortunately, there is little we can do. Most people don't take a strategic or ethical view to their development stack: they are getting a job done, so they take the most convenient / fastest / easiest way to do so (price being equal). And if they get screwed 5 years from now on, who cares - their employer will pay them again to re-do the work.
Many of us use everyday (me included, typing papers of +60 pages on monthly basis). There are still some rugged edges in the GUI but is certainly not alpha quality software. The Qt interface have been there since at least 2009 and nowadays we have one or two nasty bugs which we plan to address in the following months but nothing serious. As you can see from these videos (here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5... ) all is quite stable. Unfortunately TeXmacs stress many corners of the Qt/Mac port and we need to go around bugs there constantly. If you experience more reproductible crashes then would be good to know, either show up in the mailing list or file a bug report in Savannah. If nobody complains we cannot fix them :)
My neighbour literally said to me over the fence the other day 'yay! furloughed!' with a thumbs up and a smile. I wasn't impressed.
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Usually "receiving a golden handshake"
May I also recommend the thriving #bash channel on irc.freenode.net
Or, as any CTFer worth their salt will tell you,

__asm__(“.incbin file”);
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Whether the ${COUNTRY} social model is sustainable is another question.
There are plenty of apparently reasonable ${PEOPLE} that argue it is not.

${COUNTRY} = "USA"

${PEOPLE} = "americans"

it seems to compile as well...
I used Wekan a while ago when I wanted to try a kanban board for organizing my personal tasks at work. Trello was out of question since it stores the data externally.

I found the UX on Wekan and Trello were hard to compare, Trello being polished and hassle free while Wekan still felt like work in progress and many things were straight out broken.

This was like a year ago, though, so maybe it has improved since.
The “!” for optional is the only thing that confused me. Why not “?” for optional?
Unintuitive interface, does not mean bad. Means just TeXmacs is different from other software (like LyX) for example. But the interface is well thought and carefully implemented. It requires some time to get acquainted but then you can do many things are not possible with other software (like shown here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXdYclFpynD0ufg_pp-5...) And is not dead. :) We are a small number of developers but the software is used every day to write academic papers with a lot of math from a very affectionate user base. If LyX works well for you no problem. But you should give it yourself some time before making a judgement. It is surely very different from LyX.
Australian in Sydney here.

Most retail shops are closed. A lot of restaurants and cafes are closed. All events cancelled. So there's a lot of casuals / partimers who don't have any work anymore.

Bunnings, BigW, Kmart, all supermarkets are open with social distancing and limiting people in the store. Not sure a bout bike stores. Hobbyco in QVB is still open. A lot of stores closed their retail but are still doing online orders.

Basically Australia uses a combination of blacklist and a whitelist system. Some places where people gather like gyms and pubs are forced to close, and restaurants are forced to takeaway-only. You also have a whitelist on reasons to come outside of your home, which still include work.

My company was good - we spend a week preparing and now almost everyone is working from home, which is probably unusual considering we work in embedded systems. I have several boxes of hardware in my room with me now.
TechCrunch is just reflects the zeitgeist. Softbank was a whale, mentioning them connects this story to the ongoing theme for readers.
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I'm well aware, but chatting with friends about daily life hardly is of interest to any spies
I love that people try to tell Carmack the most obvious things, like he doesn't know them. It's like watching The Office, such a cringe-fest.
The Coronavirus was just the trigger for the corporate debt bubble to pop. Why do you think the fed is printing trillions of dollars and using it to buy junk bonds?
Yes ! That was a typo, they're not small at all. But they have been doing sketchy things with contractors for a long time.

If you want to read more about the recent layoffs here is a link in French [0] (unfortunately behind an ad paywall)

[0] https://www.nicematin.com/economie/ce-groupe-base-sur-la-cot...
Not tested too, but symptoms and duration were not like the usual cold for me.

No sense of smell for about 10 days which is the most unusual symptom. Taste was affected too, so I barely ate the first week or so. Brutal headache the first 2-3 days, got mistaken for caffeine withdrawal. Muscle aches and chills for the first 3-4 days. Fitness band reported a higher heart rate than usual. Cough was phlegmy and not too severe, could will myself not to cough. Lung feeling similar to bronchitis, went away after two weeks.

There were warnings about NSAIDs in the news at the time, so I took nothing.