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And I discovered that I like to always see in the prompt the return value of the last command executed, if it is not 0. nd that I don't need the name of the machine and the user name in the prompt on my main computer.
I would suggest you start with Racket. It's cleaner than both Common Lisp and Racket and the bundled with a nice and beginner friendly IDE. https://racket-lang.org/

Also it comes bundled with tons of useful libraries.
> I wonder if we'll see a big drop in flu deaths

The flu season overlapped with a period that included initial reports and fear of a novel respiratory disease and then historic, mandatory countermeasures (for the vast majority of the population) against communicable respiratory disease; it would be bizarre if there wasn't a big drop in flu deaths.
Should at least be cushioned a bit by the absence of traffic noise and pollution related stress.

Would be nice to have the benefits of both: very little motorized traffic AND no viral threat. We have no control over the latter, but we most certainly have some control over the former.
Romans needed many more than 3 "digit" (or rather letter) to represent this date. Also, the AD system (counting the year since the birth of Jesus Christ) was introduced much later.
Indigenous solutions typically develop differently for a reason. Building standards in a wet humid climate prone to flooding differ from those in the desert because they have different needs: if you make a standard set of guidelines that applies universally, it will inherently need to be more complicated than the guidelines adapted for a specific scenario.

Part of the brilliance of the internet is the way things are layered; you can have all kinds of different solutions for different layers while keeping things interoperable. If Australia has a different wifi standard than America, it doesn’t mean they can’t connect.

While I understand the impulse to have some central body moderate unproductive standards wars, if you enforce overly strict standards by law you stagnate industries whether you’re trying to capture them.

Just imagine how much time and effort would be wasted trying to get every software engineer to use the same programming language. Arguably it would lead to way less duplicated effort, but you’re never going to get everyone to agree on all aspects of the language. And that’s as it should be; people should have the freedom to chose what works best for them.

If we’re smart and focus more on building base, opt in, very generic/low level infrastructure that can federate responsibility and adapt to differing higher level standards rather than getting everyone on the same set of high level standards, I think we’re better off.

I’m not sure exactly what the regulatory equivalent of a tcp/ip layer would be, but some sort of very basic, fill in the blanks kind of regulatory template would be better than enforcing various discrete world standards.
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in 2 months. 1/6 of a year.
No one, other than us, cares about that.
Like addition for example, can be useful in many different contexts.
> We have seen patients who got through it but were left with persistent neurological effects i.e. loss of smell, heart damage, weakened immune systems etc.

Not a significant percentage of patients by any means.
> I'm just easily triggered with language :P

Me too! It makes me irrationally angry when people regurgitate linguistic clichés. I was already mad with:

"python does not have a go-like concurrency story"

when it would be enough (and 1000x less cringe) to say:

"python does not have go-like concurrency"

I think these mindless clichés make language really ugly and dysfunctional, and even worse they are thought-stoppers, because they make the reader/listener feel like something smart is being said, because they recognize the "in-group" lingo. In my experience, people get really offended when you point this out. It's kind of an HN taboo to discuss this. Which is also interesting in itself.

Going forward we should pay more attention to our communication use cases. Btw: I wonder if we can stack several of these clichés. For example: "leverage" + "use case" = "leverage case".
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There must be some sort of "flushing the pipeline" effect involved, provided that the virus kills the vulnerable to some extent. So I wonder how that will affect the numbers in the near future.
You make some good points but I disagree with:

4. Macros: Many other languages have good macros now (Elixir, Rust, etc). It can be useful in certain situations, especially how it's used in Rust's stdlib and third party libs, but it's not a panacea as commonly thought.

For me, the big deal with lisp macros, is that you write the macros in lisp itself and can call lisp functions at compile time.

The last time I wrote a Rust Macro they only supported pattern matching and templating -- any rust code was only run by the final compiled program. Have Rust macros got that much more powerful now?
>I'm also super impressed at how it can understand where the lane is in this 5 lane intersection that crosses a tram line. Even I couldn't understand where I would have had to drive!

This is actually one of those things that's easier for an AV than a human since they have localization and full lane maps of the city.
> Shitpost: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

> The purpose of this certificate is to allow Honest Achmed to sell bucketloads of other certificates and make a lot of money.

Well, they're more honest than any current certificate authority.
But the assumptions in many of them were made a long time ago and don't necessarily apply anymore. In the case of air pollution for example, there probably exists a price that could be paid to significantly reduce it and improve the overall health of everyone.
I think it starts to make sense when you add in subways and the personal cost of car ownership (1 car vs 3 car families) then density makes complete sense.
I'd put Rust in the obsessional camp and Swift in the hysterical. I'd put Haskell in both camps.
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Violent crime should increase. Most violent crime is domestic abuse. Now all of America's abusive parents are out of work, stuck at home with their kids who are also stuck at home. So I think the pandemic will lead to more violent crimes in the household, at least. Dunno how other parts or life will be affected.
> Your risk of dying is, accepting the 0.37% for the sake of argument, 0.37% if you're infected. The actual chance of anyone, even of someone in a more dangerous demographic, of dying of Covid in their lifetime is significantly lower than that.

I personally believe that given the R0 and the large number of asymptomatic cases, there's no putting this genie back in the bag, and I agree with prominent epidemiologists that we're all going to get it one way or the other -- because nobody's going to stay inside the 18 months it'll take to develop a widespread vaccine. That's why I support Sweden's model. [1] So I just rounded up to 100% and projected out.

> Additionally, I believe the 1% chance of dying in a car crash is over the course of a lifetime. A 55 year old has likely lived well over half their life and has also aged past a significant chunk of the riskiest time to be in a car (likely 16-30).

Good point! I wonder if it's a bimodal distribution. I assume older folks can't get out of the way fast enough as pedestrians and are more likely to get into accidents when driving.

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
> Markets would love to build more housing. But they're prevented from doing so by the regulatory state. Markets would love to build nuclear power plants, but they're prevented from doing so by the regulatory state.

I don’t like it when people anthropomorphize concepts like economic markets, but I _especially_ don’t like it when they do this to make it seem like the anthropomorphization should be a sympathetic character to the reader.

Like one of the GPs said, above: the market is something that responds to incentives.

Regulation and bureaucracy shape those incentives, sometimes in the ways that you’re describing, but the market is just as “happy” to capitalize on bad housing regulation as it is to capitalize on a lack of any housing regulation at all.

The problem of constructing just the right amount of regulatory apparatus is very difficult, though.
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My guess is it will slip to slightly below the norm after the pandemic has passed. There are still a lot of people dying that had many years of life ahead of them.
Where are you going to get all these truck drivers and taxi drivers to work on call when the robots can't?
The Maxim's MAX6816/MAX6817/MAX6818[1] are pretty good as well in that you don't need RC filters for each input, so less components needed to debounce inputs.

[1] https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX6816-MAX6818...
I think it depends on the country, here in New Zealand we locked down early, and hard - we've only had 12 deaths - but the reduction in the road toll in the same time is roughly 20-30 so yes we're technically ahead on the deal.

Generally though, covid deaths go up exponentially while road tolls likely don't go down the same way, our trade off is probably only likely if you get in early.

In other news we're likely taking the first step of getting out of out ~1 month lock down later this coming week - our idea of getting out has been described as "lockdown with KFC", roughly equivalent to California's
I added a warning in the GitHub’s Readme. SHISHUA is not to be used for cryptographic purposes.

You mentioned the lack of cryptanalysis; there is also the lack of rounds (which prevents researchers from breaking partial versions to ease their study, and allows setting a security margin).
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Which year are they talking about? Is this an octal number?
Second wave of two new generations of locusts will leave East Africa starving
Of course there is not a shared level regulation among all the states. But generally speaking, the healthcare industry is a highly regulated system, which means higher costs.
>due to COVID19

It is more accurate to say due to the shutdown.
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I would recommend Racket over CL and Clojure. The ecosystem is self-contained (unlike Clojure) and the design is very clean (unlike Common Lisp). Also it comes bundled with a nice and simple IDE. https://racket-lang.org/
Are they saying that the frequency produced is the same as the note in the Elvis song or just that the ratio of the two notes in the song is the same as the ratio of the two frequencies detected?

I mean, I am not sure what the frequencies generated by orbiting black holes would be.. but ~260hz (middle C) sounds destructively fast to me so I'm guessing the latter. What is the orbital frequency likely to be here?
So in your opinion I should have the right to enslave you?

Some liberties have to be put into context to see that they're plain amoral.
It's easy for slavery, but harder for other topics.

The same applies to the other expression you have an issue with.
Some freedoms are detrimental to society and accepting them causes actual harm to people.

Things are never easy with topics like this.
Like I said: I write a .js file and run node. I need none of what you mention.
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Compare older architectural styles such as colorful and elaborate Victorian or Renaissance, with newer ones like big gray concrete Brutalism or Functionalism. Why can't we build good looking and interesting buildings again, despite our better tools?

Now there are modern glass buildings that can look really sleek also, but honestly they are a bit repetitive and featureless and don't really match those older ornate styles.
I'm slowly deprecating a python system at work and replacing it with elixir. We don't use containerization or anything, and installing the python system is a nightmare. You have to set up virtualenvs, not to mention celery and rabbit, and god help you if you're trying to operate it and you forget something or another.

With elixir, you run "mix release" and the release pipeline is set up to automatically gzip the release (it's one line of code to include that). Shoot the gzip over (actually I upload to s3 and redownload), unzip, and the entire environment, the dependencies, the vm, literally everything comes over. The only thing I have to do is sudo setcap cap_net_bind=+ep on the vm binary inside the distribution because linux is weird and, as they say, "it just works".
That’s an awesome summary, thanks for writing it.

Second Life is funny - I commented to a friend the other day that the place seemed to get overrun by genitals (not my exact wording.... ROFL) and casinos. I actually worked for a company that got a bit into Second Life back in the day (we made an official port of Tringo to a TV set-top-box games service).

I got the sense that Second Life couldn’t outgrow prims. They were great when bandwidth was low, but game graphics just overtook Second Life and kept going. Content creation was really fun though, especially the collaborative aspect.

I haven’t checked it out in a few years actually. Impressive to hear it’s still going, though it’s a shame they couldn’t really jump into VR when the Oculus Rift came out. I vaguely remember something about a VR client, but can’t even recall if it was officially supported. I always remember wondering where they were and why they didn’t seem more prominent. It seemed like VR was what something like Second Life was waiting for, yet they never came to the party. I got Linden’s other experimental thing on Steam (Patterns) and then it disappeared before I got around to really trying it.

I’d add AltspaceVR, Bigscreen, VRChat and Rec Room to your list of what’s currently happening in ‘metaverse-like’ things. As a user I find AltspaceVR frustrating as I’m never quite sure when events are on in my local time-zone. Stuff ends up being on at odd hours and I never seem to catch it. Or something seems promising but then you realise most of the people there are kids and it’s off-putting. As for Bigscreen, it’s great for hanging out with friends occasionally. Never really got into VRChat much, but it seems very much ‘Second Life’ in a lot of ways. I haven’t tried ‘Rec Room’ myself but have heard complaints that it’s been overrun by kids.

The hardest thing though is finding friends that have VR headsets and that are willing to install any of these apps and go to the trouble of setting up accounts. In this sense I think Facebook Horizon will have an advantage over the others when it does finally become available (it’s not the only one that lets you use an existing account; I remember being able to use my Oculus account for one of the others but can’t remember which one off the top of my head).

I also still find that I feel an inertia to entering VR, despite owning an Oculus Quest and being really enthusiastic about it. It’s just easier to pick up my phone and play something on a whim. VR still requires more effort and I think it’s just the isolation from everything that makes it feel like that. Especially when you’re in a place with other people. It feels weird isolating yourself around everyone else, at least for me.
Good solution. Our experience with “chickens” (roosters) resulted in angry notes on our cars.

I wish a relatively sound proof coop was offered for sale.
Kudos. I really wanted to learn Elm to have a type safe way to write widgets that third parties would run on their sites. Seemed like Elm would have given me type safety + small bundle size.

Due to issues w/ websockets in Elm 0.19 I went with Angular, resulting bundle is 440k before gzip. Not great, not terrible...
There are two MOOCs based on this on edx.org, taught by Gregor Kiczales, called "How to code simple data" and "how to code complex data".
Ask HN: How to get a music player to always play in mono?
I recently lost my hearing in one ear..and discovered VLC can play stereo tracks as mono. But you have to manually turn it on for every track, it seems, no preference setting for that. Does anyone know a player that can be set to always play mono, or some way of getting around that? (Besides getting special headphones) Thanks!
Cobble (the noun) is a term for a small stone, and in particular a geological term these days such as would be picked up and used for the purpose described. It is retroglossed in an abbreviation for the cobblestone paving in an urban setting, but this article references the more basic term. An abbreviated dictionary like you’d have in your house might drop the more basic use but a full dictionary like the OED would not.

Note that in the US “cobblestone streets” is often used to describe what are not even cobbles but setts (square trimmed blocks) which are still found in some older US cities like Boston or Manhattan and European cities like London or Paris.

I would not consider this terminology arcane.
No my point is that their kids shouldn't have to drop out of school, their parents shouldn't have to decide between meds, their family shouldn't lose their health insurance, etc. Maybe there are jobs that are so repugnant we should punish the families of those who hold them, but no matter your thoughts on the media or your political stripe, I hope we can agree that journalist (or any of the other myriad jobs at Vox) isn't one of them.
You also have to take into account the uncertainty in your risk evaluation. The fatality rate is largely unknown so it's a bit deceptive to quote numbers like 0.37% as if it could be measure up to the second decimal. The German study probably came with error bars that were larger than that. For the age group 50-59, maybe it's 1.3% according to NY state (for both males and females so if the person you responds to is male, it's higher), but it could very well be 2% (or 0.5%) without it being surprising.

There is also a big assumption in considering the risk to be front-loaded. This is not the flu, but it could very well come back next year or in ten years in a different form. We just don't know yet this virus with enough confidence to do this assumption. Anyway, it is a bit strange that the ability for this virus to mutate next year would impact the risk of dying by going out tomorrow which, I think, the person your responded to was thinking about.

Finally, you're saying the flu deaths this year is double what the coronavirus has done, but again the uncertainty is high: the CDC estimation for the flu is from 24,000 to 62,000 deaths this season [1]. So it could be the double, but it could be actually lower. Let's not do things like chosing the estimate that better suits the argument without saying it's a high end of the estimate.

[1] - https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Americas-2019-2020-flu-sea...
There are exceptions to every generalization, and this exception is pretty cool. The Welrod MkIIA is a semiautomatic pistol, designed for covert operations and assassinations, that is genuinely movie-quiet.

Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons) has an excellent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12AjvEsaHg

"When it's properly set up, this is as close as you get to an actual `silent gun`. You can, by all accounts, be within about 15 feet of this thing and not recognize that a firearm has discharged."
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A 1% chance of death that’s evenly distributed across 80 years is dramatically less impactful to one’s expected quantity of life than a 1% chance of death that happens immediately.

Additionally, I’d note that nearly all higher income individuals take steps to reduce their auto death risks including buying safer vehicles, living closer to work, and using professional drivers when drunk or otherwise impaired.

As for your final paragraph, it is wholly unreasonable to imply that covid (which is killing thousands of Americans per day despite a massive distancing effort) is less serious than the flu (which has persisted over a much longer period of time and which was not subject to special responses).
> Because the ratio of recoveries to deaths is way higher in germany than the united states. The risk of covid varries a lot by geographic region and usa seems like one of the worst.

You'd need to be a lot more specific. Which state are you referring to? Most US states are safer on Covid mortality than Germany. California + Texas + Florida (the three largest by population) combined have the same population as Germany with half the per capita death rate.

It would be like combining Italy, Spain and Greece and pretending they're all seeing the same situation.

Germany has a per 100k mortality rate of 5 for Covid.

Texas has a per 100k mortality rate of 1.5. California is 2.7. Florida is 3.6.

Germany has 89m people with 4,538 deaths. Texas has 29m people with a mere 453 deaths.

California + Texas + Florida = 89m people, with 2,290 deaths.

More large states? Ohio is 3.9. Virginia is 3. Arizona is 2.4. North Carolina is 1.5.

So as you can see, most of the US in fact doesn't look like New York, New Jersey, Michigan. Just like most of Europe doesn't look like Spain.

More countries in Europe for comparison (per 100k rate):

Belgium 47, Spain 44, Italy 38, France 29, Britain 23, Netherlands 21, Switzerland 16, Sweden 15, Ireland 11.6, Portugal 6.7, Denmark 6, Austria 5, Norway 3, Finland 1.6.

The three largest US states combined have a rate of 2.5.
Well, GDPR is not actually a law, but a framework that must be used by EU member states to implement their own laws. That may be one cause of local enforcement being not fully aligned with GDPR.

But yes, the local GDPR laws do seem to be intentionally underspecified, like you said.
> I don’t like it when people anthropomorphize concepts like economic markets, but I _especially_ don’t like it when they do this to make it seem like the anthropomorphization should be a sympathetic character to the reader.

> Like one of the GPs said, above: the market is something that responds to incentives.

What's your point? The incentives are aligned to build more housing. That's what high prices do, they incentivize supply.

> Regulation and bureaucracy shape those incentives, sometimes in the ways that you’re describing, but the market is just as “happy” to capitalize on bad housing regulation as it is to capitalize on a lack of any housing regulation at all.

So?

A) The point your making is irrelevant to mine. The fact that markets will exploit poor regulation is really neither here nor there.

B) The solution to the problem you pose is, just like what I said, better regulation.
I've slowly been moving all my classic machines over to solid state storage and the lack of sound does take something away.

I wonder if you could design something to sit inline on an IDE connection and emulate hard disk sounds in relation to read/write workloads...
The built-in macros haven't but there's good support for procedural macros ("proc macros"), which are Rust code run at compile time that transform AST to AST.

However, this is "just" a particularly well-polished form of compiler plugins - technically you can run C code at compile time with a GCC plugin, do cool things with libclang, etc. Writing project-specific compiler plugins is unusual but not totally unheard of: Linux has a couple, for instance.
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Firstly, that's just not true. That is a thing that happens, but it is not the only thing that happens. Bureaucracies come about for all sorts of reasons, and in all sorts of ways. The one you describe is only one among many of those mechanisms.

And secondly, what's your point? The problem is still what it is. The regulations are the location in the stack that need to be corrected.
I just write all my commands to a log. It's saved me a number of times.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/