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I understand the need to treat life as a dichotomy between work and play, but I feel you might have lost some of the magic of your childhood. For me it's the opposite, I hated complex games as a child but really enjoy them today.

For me, the best feeling is working hard for something and really getting into the details and enjoying all the complexity of the experience / challenge.

I think that most human beings are wired to enjoy this kind of activity if they can get past the energy activation barrier.

I've been in situations where I did not value the above. Looking back, I believe I was:

- too mentally drained to enjoy anything

- any free time goes to diving into Random Access Media (reddit, hnews, youtube, etc)

- Never feeling full of energy or excitement and unable to find meaningful recharge

I saw a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with depression (systematically defined as not wanting to do anything at least once a week). Since then I've taking an active approach to monitoring and improving my mental state. Specifically:

1. Identifying true energy restoring activities: 3 of them are - 1) engaging in conversations where there's a decent amount of laughter 2) Sleep / naps and 3) exercise

2. Identifying energy traps - things you do when you have no energy but don't restore energy. Several examples: 1) Netflix, 2) social media, 3) reddit, 4) youtube

3. Figuring out my mental health dietary needs (what is it that you're longing for that is unconsciously affecting your decision making) and making active plans to get them in a regular way. This could be social validation, laughter, new engaging experiences, feelings of accomplishment or accolade, etc.

Instead of feeling like I don't want to do anything when I wake up, I more often find life as exciting and looking forward to the challenges and new experiences of each day. And yes, I enjoy Factorio a lot when I have the time to play (which is rare).
> That solution, to the problem of rich white people trying to stop sharing their school funding with poor black people, is to not allow them to leave. That's what happened.

But what about the solution to the problem of the rich people not wanting to share with the poor people? What if that's a major part of the problem? Was that addressed at all, or just swept under the rug as "racist people will be racist, just don't let them"? Preferably, something that also addressed the issue of poverty, or at least kept it acknowledged as part of the problem.

> If anything, it would be more accurate to say that they saw a white shop owner consistently turning away black people and took them to court to say that black people should not be turned away.

Exactly. But is that the better solution? What about the poor white person that comes in next? Do they get turned away, because they're not black? What about the fact that they're both still homeless?

When you identify the wrong problem, you're at risk of implementing a worse solution. Racism is bad, and it's sometimes the case it perfectly explains what happened, but not always, and not often entirely, but it's convenient because it means nobody else has to change or do anything. We all get to point at the bad people that make convenient scapegoats and comment about how we would never do anything like that, while nothing really changes, because the problem was only partially racism to begin with, and there's not a lot to change structurally to stop it that hasn't already happened when it is racism.
I feel it the same way, and for myself I’ve put not enjoying gaming down to getting older. I don’t mind watch some streams here and there but the thought of getting a gaming machine and actually following through with gaming is no longer appealing. Although I do have peers that still game.
I went to the twitter account then find the blog and checked over the blog post titles. I still don't have a clue about what snail text is. What indeed.
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Aren’t vSphere licenses a bit expensive for the average homelab? I personally went with a larger former workstation with more cores and RAM, because I expect to only ever have a single node, even if I’d love to have a full cluster.
That is not censorship but removal of illegal content (with the exception of non-child porn)
While I am not in any way approving such unethical behavior, I think he probably meant that you just can't expect this from most of the CEOs. At least the market does not incentivize such behavior in the short term (I means before you company goes bust :)). Shouldn't the ethics be on the government side in such cases?
"Which platform specific code? With a compatibility layer and a cross-platform graphics API we're talking about a vanishingly small amount of code."

Again, do you have really first hand experience, how "vanishingly small" that amount of code is?

I have not much experience in that area, as I specialiced on the web years ago, BECAUSE I heard too much horror stories about the difference in "theoretically cross plattform" and reality.
Instead of testing people who already have symptoms, maybe we could use those tests to ensure sick people don't come into contact with their groceries?

Of course quarantining part of the population is hard, but I fail to see how it is harder than quarantining the whole population
In India, we have this app called cure.fit[1] which now conducts live CrossFit classes for anyone to attend from home. This is just body weight movements and no equipment.

[1] - https://www.cure.fit/live
Didn't follow that, but invoking csh is indeed very, very sad.
They tried again with surface pro x:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20950487/microsoft-surfac...
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True, there are liquidations of physical assets.

But the biggest benefit to the last remaining employees and board members (particularly those who are Directors or Officers) is reduction in liability around the details of shutting down a business. It's not about the thousands of dollars you get for the office furniture. By the point a company does an ABC, payroll obligations are likely the only category of liabilities to impact any employee still involved.

A firm like Sherwood will in fact readily offload that stuff to the most reputable firm who can haul it away, whatever is most efficient.

It's the forgotten obligation that Sherwood helps protects you from (e.g., rent payment, tons of small bills). When that bill shows up after you have had the hard conversations with stakeholders, that's yet another reminder to your investors that things went south. (Sherwood gets the missed bill and pays it out from a carefully planned escrow and based on a wind-down agreement that your investors signed off on). Much preferable to all of your investors notifying _you_ of an outstanding obligation. Firms like Sherwood play an important role in allowing all of us to move on with life.

There are several details here I'm skimming over that someone at Sherwood would correct me on, but hopefully this is helpful.

Sherwood=good guys who help startup people move on. Hopefully you have your business well-organized. Sherwood has the process down to a science.

[EDIT]: 'who pays for this?'
There's typically a negotiation between the remaining creditors with voting rights (your board members at time of wind-down), but the cost of a firm like Sherwood is small compared to the risk of you trying to shut down your startup in your spare time. (Don't do that.)
The Surface Pro X that was released last year uses an ARM64 processor.
Macs have hardware echo cancellation, and most software appears to enable it.
I think the point there is that the person clogged up an ICU bed for five weeks and will likely recover. Focussing on who will most likely die does not answer the who will overwhelm hospitals question. Increasing pressure in that sense will increase death rate even further amongst vulnerable (to dying from lack of ICU beds) populations.
It could be that it's a small regional hospital, or it could be something else, I don't know. It could be that the statistics are measuring something different. She's been on the cardiac critical care unit (converted to negative pressure covid-19 ICU beds for the duration) for 12 years so I suspect she's at least as aware of the normal ratio as google.
Wow -- really enjoyed the write up by Balaji S. -- I had heard about these flaws earlier, but didn't realize how great they really were.

I still maintain the gist of my point though -- we don't have sufficient evidence for widespread quarantine. New York and Italy are outliers, and should be understood as such. Even if the results are 5x or 10x instead of 50x -- it still means decisions were made on grossly inflated worst case data.
Re: hung juries, I do understand what happens; I'm saying it just doesn't make sense to me. The constitution says:

"... nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; .."

On the face of it it seems like complete nonsense to say that you're not placed in jeopardy of life or limb until after the verdict is delivered. Then why were you sitting in that seat being tried for a serious crime? Were you just chopped liver until the jury delivered their verdict? And suddenly when they acquit you then it turns out your life were(/are) was in jeopardy after all? I feel like I must be missing something...

As for the opinion, I guess I can understand that if that's the case, but I'd be a little bit surprised if they got a case about non-serious crimes and went "just kidding, the same reasoning applies here too".
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Google searches are not reproducible, different users can get different results on the same query.
In fact it was plainly stated by proponents of non-unanimous juries when they were introduced, as pointed out in the article.
Agreed, on both counts. I've seen some other War Stories videos and they're pretty good. It's interesting to see some perspectives from people involved other than developers (although they can be a bit hyperbolic/dramatic at times). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ3iqq49Ew8
I'm unsure if the person you responded to undertstood what you meant. I understood it as "if I am >60+, e.g. at risk, would i be free to not participate in the quarantine if partial quarantine were to happen"

I'd argue that no, you should not be. Because if you get it, you will most likely require care and overload hospitals, which is what the whole point of that (partial) quarantine is. Either that or you forfeit your right to healthcare, which has loads of moral issues
Ah, promises are something I didn't think about but a great one!

Can you elaborate on the time-line? What do you mean by it?
> have a seriously good planning ability to create something that doesn't instantly turn in to a spaghetti

If you only design factories from scratch by yourself, that's akin to being handed an assembler programming manual as your only reading material and building up every programming abstraction yourself. You likely won't discover the best abstractions.

After a while playing factorio I decided to watch experts play the game on YouTube, and that's like a programming novice watching an expert. They know how to create well-known patterns (especially with belt mechanics) and deploy them readily. Watching these videos is like someone handing you a library of programming abstractions your can put into your own code.
Yeah, I asked my wife about that the other day because I read some of the same reports. They are trying many different things but for various reasons the most serious patients still end up on ventilators.
wow, great. I will have a look today
Yeah I'm also a "recessions kill people" person, and people I'm close to personally are struggling.

If we're gonna have a reasonable policy discussion about this, my understanding is the plan is to not evict/foreclose/repossess for the time being, and print money to bail people out. That seems within our power. Containing the spread of coronavirus without sheltering or a massive testing regime doesn't.

It doesn't solve everything, people's lives are put on hold in more ways than just financially and we need to keep looking for answers. But again I think we can figure that out.
Anecdotally, I find that consuming the mushrooms in fresh ginger tea help with stomach discomfort.
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Wikileaks was like that before it got infiltrated in 2016. Then it changed rapidly, not publishing when it does not serve Russian interests. One very prominent example:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
2000 times more than a ZX81.
Reminds me of the confusion with negatives and languages:
-Vill du inte ha glass? [Don't you want ice cream?]
-はい [Yes]

Does she want ice cream? Answer: No, she doesn't. I added a not, so she's reversing the answer as Japanese people do.

The number of times I've been dumbstruck by this is larger than I'd like to admit, and I'm a coder.
Great point. I've been battling this in my head but definitely not an immediate goal to encrypt. However, I personally want to make sure I do not have access to your data. As I start to work on providing functionality around syncing across devices I'll be keeping this in mind.
Or not use ed(1).
>> My father is currently in a hospital for an unrelated reason and it's almost empty -> they are 'prepared for war' and there isn't a single COVID patient in the entire area, let alone hospital. They are all empty.

Which is just as anecdotal. The virus doesn't spread everywhere at once, and there are a lot of places in the country/world that aren't NYC/North Jersey yet. If they have similar population density and do a similar job of social isolation then what magic do you suggest will make the outcomes different there?
Yes, that's exactly right.

But no one expects perfect predictions far into the future.
That is not necessarily true. Reporting methodology differs a lot between countries.

I would be very cautious about comparing statistics from different countries.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

https://www.thelocal.se/20200414/understanding-swedens-figur...
It also puts a lot less pressure on the network connections involved when they aren't also loaded with 8 real-time video streams.
You can't troll HN like you did in this thread. We warned you once already. I've banned this account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google is always been giving me negative feelings.
When this internet censorship started, they just manifest them self to clear to me. Then I was sure this company is nothing but trouble actually. Sad anyway so many good innovational products have to be part of censorship company. I can't support any of they actions against people and ideologys. Sorry google, but you are evil to me and many others.. lies lies .. and tax avoiding and people censorship is your core business.
Good list. Just for pedantic's sake: only a few of them ary indie games.
> I don’t have any conclusion to draw from all this. It just strikes me that there are enough little weirdnesses to make me wonder if something is going on that we’re missing. I can’t imagine what it might be, since the basic epidemiology of pandemics is reasonably well understood. And yet.

Where's the conjecture? It lists observations and then declines to comment. If anything, the article is asking the reader to challenge the observations.
So, what happened to all of these? I feel like a multidimensional spreadsheet would be a great alternative to things like MS Access.
It doesn’t due to potential echo but you can set this up yourself with most headsets or with a mic and mixer; you need to with headphones that shut out your voice or you will shout to compensate.
Civ 6 is still a 2D (gameplay-wise) tile based strategy game with a cartoon art style. You can't even rotate the camera, there are plenty of optimizations they could've made graphics wise.
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Though, as that article points out:

1) It's too early to say for sure if it even actually has worked

2) The Swedes are actually staying home and social distancing.

Even if it ultimately does work out for them, that doesn't mean they made the right decision with the data they had. Sometimes people gamble on a long shot and get lucky.
I think the complaint is that people would like to play Civ 6 on their low powered laptops. It's perfectly okay for the laptop to be awful for reflex skill based games because those are expected to require even more processing power.
> 2. Identifying energy traps - things you do when you have no energy but don't restore energy. Several examples: 1) Netflix, 2) social media, 3) reddit, 4) youtube

So, do you avoid them now? If so, what do you do when you're tired after work? It's hard to feel entire afternoons with exercise, sleep and conversations...
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> Our actual solution is to store the state in our server-side database. This feels wrong at first glance: we're storing a client-side React component's state as an opaque JSON blob in our server-side database, and we're doing that knowing that some of those JSON blobs will go out of date and be unusable in the future. But io-ts and the type system keep us honest here! And this is a convenience feature, so we can always change it later, even if that means throwing away all of the saved states. (When a user finishes a lesson, that record is stored in a separate part of the database.)

That seems very... bold. That said, I could see this being useful for more ephemeral situations where it's okay to not be entirely in sync with the server. Like the user signup example: multi-step forms, or some create-only or override-always sort of arrangement, or maybe some filters for some sorting/slicing data tables, etc.

It's then useful for not being jittery on load + not storing half-baked data just to have semi-persistence of incomplete forms. Quickly rendering existing state is always a win, without resetting it then loading the updated position.

Otherwise I could see this introducing a lot of race conditions and additional work being done post-load to clean up the data.

Since there's a relatively short line here where it just makes sense to rebuild the state, it's probably preferable to utilize this for smaller isolated parts of the site, like a single form's data, instead of the wider state. But still an interesting approach none-the-less, made easier with the reducer pattern...
I wish they were, it'd be handy to know when you can go during quiet periods!
Ask HN: Why are there almost no intermediate-level learning resources?
My experience with learning almost any new language / framework / library goes like this:

1. There are plenty of beginner tutorials. Often they just go through the examples from the docs or show a very simple proof of concept. Not very useful if you can read the docs.

2. Then you are left on your own reading through uncommented GitHub repos to understand how to put these things actually into production for use cases that go beyond 'add a todo to this list'.

You almost never find tutorials on how to structure your application, best practices, common mistakes etc.

That's the knowledge that is really helpful though and that I would pay $$$ to learn. Not 'how to create a simple todo app'. Why are there barely any learning resources that target the intermediate level?
> You and I can. Many of my friends have missed a rent or car payment, and may soon miss another. Most people cannot work from home.

Sure, and I'm very aware of my privilege in that sense. If people have the choice of getting the disease or missing rent payments that is a social failing we should all be ashamed of. I also don't mean to ignore the global perspective. The U.S. is materially wealthy enough that we could take care of people who need help as we get through this. Other nations don't necessarily have the resources.
English has similar confusion even for plain, non negated questions.

Q: "Do you mind if I sit here?"

A1: "Not at all!"

A2: "Sure!"

Both are valid answers and mean the same thing, the person asking is welcome to sit there. This has always amused me.
Very similar to my process.

Most people struggle with prioritising because they think that it is deciding what order to do things in - I like to say that far more important than that is deciding what things you are NOT going to do.
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It depends of which unit. In an intensive care unit the norm is 1:1 or 2:1. Lies and statistics ...
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Tbh, I just called directly to the moving companies that handle the physical moving from office to liquidator, and asked who the usual suspects were.

Scored some nice adjustable desks for pennies on the dollar.
Note: This is not about the "anti-stratfordian" conspiracy theories. It is about the well known fact that certain of Shakespeare plays was written in collaboration with other playwrights.

Scholars have discussed at length exactly what scenes are written by who. In recent years computer-based text analysis have been used to discern between different authors based on word frequencies and other quantitative characteristics.

This article posits that quantitative textual analysis is basically pseudo-science. It provides the example that two different quantitative analyses yields different attributions of scenes for Henry VI. So at least one has to be wrong, but possibly the whole approach is flawed.
I agree, but it forces the player to do something about it.

After a few hours in a game, I typically develop an autonomous train network with various train stations. I build one for my own personal train (which gets loaded with all the stuff I might need for an outpost). I can call that train to my location, provided I'm near a train track, by setting a temporary station and manually asking my train to pick me up there.

I must admit, navigating my world in a high speed train (eventually, my train gets fuelled from nuclear cells) is exhilarating.
> It's impossible to calculate how much damage one does to the environment, [...]

You can use approximations.

> I don't think it's possible [...] to offset what living in 1/4 acre or more lots does [...]

Sure, dense living has a smaller footprint.

But individuals can still buy enough offsets. It's just going to be more expensive.

You can also get more creative with your offsets. For example, I could try to find two people who are currently living sparsely and convince them with a bit of money to move to a dense neighbourhood. That would more than offset any personal decision to live in a sparse neighbourhood.

(Slatestarcodex had a similar idea about eating meat: just bribe other people to become vegetarian, if you are worried about your net impact but still want to eat tasty, tasty meat.

Obviously, normal well-adjusted humans don't take kindly to trading in such indulgences.)
The only one of those, that does not indicate by name to me, that it is about mutability, is the on of Swift. I guess you could argue, that in math, when someone says "let x be 2", then x is constant. In the context of programming though, I am more familiar with the var and let in JS, which is not at all about mutability.
I wonder what the actual end to end process is like to make these services available in each country