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Kanye was broke when he married into the Kardashians. I suspect he gained a lot of marketing knowledge from them. Good for him.
As a native U.K. person that went to school in the seventies (ie long before spell checkers), I can assure you that British English used S rather than Z in the kind of words you are talking about.
The only thing stopping Americans from seriously protesting is cheap beer & cigarettes & sports on TV.

One is already gone, there is no way they'll take away the others.
> The real challenge is scaling testing beyond what can be reasonably implemented from central lab facilities

The SPR machines I’m familiar with are not inexpensive. Are there machines appropriate for these tests that are less expensive such that it could be rolled out widely? Sample cost is low, but a warehouse shift change of several thousand people isn’t going to need only one machine for screening as the load on the machines will be very bursty.
This is written by a doctor at the conservative hoover institute. Good to keep in mind, doesn't mean he's wrong. In this case, he's wrong.

He has 5 'facts', I paraphrase them. I will just prejudice this by saying we need widespread testing and PPE, then we can consider opening up. Why don't we have these? Because we are acting like idiots here in the us and we can't organize ourselves.

1. "The vast majority of people do not have a significant risk of dying from covid19". It's true but there will be young people dying who have no other risk factors. The problem is overloading the hospitals with those who are sick. It's the actual problem.

2. "We can protect older at risk people and eliminate hospital overcrowding". Perhaps. But the entire world is failing to do this! Even Sweden, the place without shelter in place and allows open bars is expected to have over 10,000 deaths; similar sized Switzerland will have around 1,800 deaths according to IHME [1] (8.5 mil pop Switz., vs 10 mil in Sweden). In a sense, because they are similar countries with similar medical systems, There are about 8000 people dying in Sweden who probably wouldn't die if they had shut down society like Switzerland. How many extra deaths are worth opening the economy?

3. Herd immunity is prevented by isolation - it's potentially right that more herd immunity could help later on. But we won't know how much immunity without being able to test for antibodies. Every western country trying this strategy seems to not be doing great (see Sweden).

4. "people dying because hospitals stopped doing nonessential procedures". I'm in seattle. We got to the edge of hospital overload. All the docs were filling out their wills, they made plans if they died, there were medical workers married to another medical worker, they were afraid to go home. At least 3 med workers here in Seattle died. I think people died from being afraid to go to hospitals, but there were people with all the prep available (docs!) and they died.

5. We know who the risk population is and we can protect this. This just seems so irritatingly wrong. We know we reduced covid-19 cases by staying home. We are failing to protect people at risk. If we stopped sheltering in place, we'd get more cases. We already can't protect people with the cases we have. Adding more cases does what - it kills more people.
I would add NixOS to that list. Especially if you value rolling back upgrades or pinning package versions.
Yes, I agree completely. Because I personally don't come from a poor background, I fell into the racist trap against my own race of forgetting about poorer Asians (who may also live in such neighborhoods, and may be bullied if they locally comprise of the minority). Thank you for correcting me and for downvoting (I assume).

I also agree that the current situation of having to write a touching essay for some WASP is messed up. To be fair, not all essays are sob stories and people actually warn that it shouldn't be all sob and you need to show how you grew, but the whole idea of essays and personality is so vague and subjective, and kids get so stressed over writing a good essay.

EDIT: Offtopic, but looking at your username, do you happen to be the author of the Haskell BEAM library?
I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but: certainly lower-class Asians have their own issues, but I still don't see anyone can honestly, truly state that anything compares to being enslaved as property for hundreds of years.
I think there are a few varieties of regulations across different states regarding the shipment of alcohol. I'm not sure how far they go with respect to "last mile" delivery but it could be an inhibitor in something like this.

For example, I can't purchase wine to be delivered to my home over the internet in my state.
Around these parts, Asian most readily conjures either far east or south. The other option is not simply european, but near East / middle east and central Asian. Though middle east is predominately associated with Arab, there's also plenty of other such as Egypt, which is technically in Africa.

Generalizations are useful for generalizations. We should remember that, and abandon them when dealing with individuals.

If we want to help the impoverished, then do so. No need to introduce race into the mix, or erroneous assumptions about how race affects a person's character or finances.
I disagree with the author, it's really easy to test the examples of Nuklear.

I made applications with Nuklear that runs on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and share the same main C code. For me, it's a dream come true if you create a cross-platform application that needs a simple GUI.

Dear ImGui is also fantastic and more complete than Nuklear.

What I like a lot with Nukear and Dear Imgui is that you have a GUI that is GPU accelerated and so can be updated at 60 FPS without burning resources.
it will affect him in job applications too ;)
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> If developed via nurture, you didn't pick how you were nurtured

You pick how you nurture yourself every day though. Nurture didn't magically stop on the second you became 18 (or 21 or whatever arbitrary number your country recognizes as becoming an adult).
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(And for context: the Catholic Church is the biggest employer in Germany - I am not talking about priests and nuns, but all the organisations and companies they run here)
I think you really need to re-read his points because you seem to be arguing against things he never said.
I have a hard time believing that any reasonable person would think that the poor treatment of Chinese laborers (which was exceptionally discriminatory) or the confiscation of Japanese property (a crime, no doubt) compares to being kidnapped, transported across the ocean, and enslaved as property for hundreds of years.
A wide space after a period is only sensible when the period ends a sentence.
Both are beautiful in their own ways. I think ReasonML, or even SML or OCaml might be a gentler introduction since they let you write imperative code (more closely to what you probably write already) whenever you need to.

For example, I think there is a gradient from OCaml > Clojure > Haskell about using mutable data structures in your code, from Encourage > Discourage > Disallow. I think learning Haskell as your first FP might turn you off given how strict it is in this regard. So using that as a line of reasoning, using OCaml or ReasonML might be best since it lends an imperative hand whenever you need it, and lets you explore all of the amazing things FP has to offer.
Since there is nothing in the "about" page, I looked at your HN profile. But it only carries a link to LinkedIn which only shows me a login page.

A link to a personal website or Twitter profile would be nice.
I don't strictly oppose this typographical tradition; my native tongue has many widths of spaces (in particular between a measurement and the unit there should be a slightly narrower space) and I'm used to it.

What I dislike strongly is this idea that one should alter the source manuscript to emulate these typographical conventions. It makes no sense to replace a wider sentence space with two regular spaces. They are in no way equivalent!
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If you look at the comment through the Hacker News API, there's two spaces before the last sentence.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/22975749.json?pri...

Although, the documentation says that field is HTML, so I'm not sure what to think.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
thanks for speaking up about this. 31 y/o asian male here. i have worked in the tech industry and seen plenty of skewed hiring practices in the popular tech companies. people are starting to speak out.
I use LyX (https://www.lyx.org/) which just silently ignores the second space (acting as if you hadn't pressed the key). I think this would be a better way for Word to do it than flagging it as an error.
It's because netplan uses a system generator /lib/systemd/system-generators/netplan, to parse the files in /etc/netplan and generate systemd-networkd configs from them on boot (Like how /etc/fstab gets parse into systemd mount units). It would be nice if there was a flag file or something you could touch to disable it though.
So I think it doesn't quite miss the point. the point is that you want one ASCII space after a period and then you want the layout algorithm to do something intelligent (like make it as wide as two spaces or 1.5 spaces). This is why "1 space" is correct and two spaces conflates different layers of document creation (the textual information to display and how it is laid out).
It's very weird to me rich Nigerians can abuse the system, but poor South Africans are rejected as 'African American' altogether due to the color of their skin. Honestly, US race dealings are a cancer, I would move anywhere else.
I am making a meta-point, which is that to isolate discrimination to an individual's supposed opportunities at education or professional success is to entirely miss the point.

To say that "if you take a black man and an Asian man and control for everything but race, the Asian man will be more disadvantaged in pursuing things that matter" is built on the massive assumption that these things are equally accessible and that the groups are equally culturally prepared for them.

Opportunities in life are not items in a grocery store, easily accessible to any person walking in off the street.
Even assuming the goal is to get something like the below?

Mr.^Smith^turned^off^the^lights.^^Then^he^went^to^sleep.
> Are we still talking about doctors and medical staff here?

I assumed not since Japan does not have “a history of confining [doctors and medical staff] to villages” So your comment could only apply to the treatment of burakumin.

> Sounds like you just want to drag a whole host of other issues into this conversation

You’re the one who made mistreatment of minorities the issue, it’s not really my problem if it also makes you uncomfortable.
It is also trivially easy to turn your old beer into gourmet vinegar :)

https://preserveandpickle.com/how-to-make-a-vinegar-mother/
Ask HN: How can I ask for more pay if I'm not bringing any change?
I'm 25 years old web developer living in Melbourne, Australia.

I'm not learning anything new at my current company mostly because the company does not have resources to invest into learning. We are pressed with deadlines all the times and this is the one of the reasons that I think I'm loosing interest in my job.

I'm been with the company for 3 years now and there is not a single day that I got a chance to research new things or work on things. A few times, it gets worse where I work on old technology stack which is far below than my level and it is very uninteresting. Part of the reason, I can't ask for more pay. Have you been in this situation before, any advice ?
Well, let me try explaining how it works, because they honestly do a pretty bad job of it.

So SmileBASIC 4 itself costs 25 USD (40 AUD).

A server ticket costs 5 USD (9 AUD). Despite the name, these tickets never expire or get used up. How these work is as follows:

- If you have 0 tickets, you can only download once every 8 hours, and you can't upload anything.

- If you have n tickets, where n > 0, then you have unlimited downloads, and can upload 10*n projects at once. (Note that you can take down old projects to make room for new ones.)

Personally speaking, unless you really need to upload a lot of projects at once (and 10 slots goes further than you might think), you really only need one ticket.

The reason this server ticket system exists is because SmileBoom is a pretty small company (their site lists 8.2 million yen in capital, about 76,000 USD or 120,000 AUD), and this helps offset server costs.

In any case, if you still find this system distasteful, there's nothing stopping you from continuing to do it the old way, manually typing in programs by hand. That said, I don't think it's so unreasonable to ask for a few bucks for server access, especially as a one-time fee.

(Note also that originally the plan was for SmileBASIC 4 to only be sold as a bundle with one ticket. The standalone version was added because there were issues with it showing up in the eShop properly otherwise.)

EDIT: One more note: this is a project limit, but you can have multiple files in a project, and the maximum project upload size is 20 MB. As you probably know, text doesn't take up much space, so you can cram a LOT of small programs into one project if you need to.
I’m currently mindblown at one of the programs publicly available for download in the software, which is a NEC PC-8801 emulator... I peeked at the BASIC code and it does indeed appear to be emulating a Z80 and it even includes support for loading real BIOS dumps and floppy images seemingly.

I can’t find much information about the software online but I think it was developed for one of the competitions and I’d highly recommend checking it out if you decide to purchase SmileBASIC 4.
Explain to me how something like this ends up so highly upvoted.
proper agiles a way of life, cramming the unproductive types of people into it was never going to be as good as making a team of agile people
You mentioned that many lower class black Americans have no cultural capital regarding the "process of academic achievement, applying to colleges, getting a professional job". I agree that's true, and that a legacy of slavery is an important cause of the problem.

Do you think that the children of uneducated nail salon workers who don't speak English have this cultural capital?
just because something exists in some form today and is decentralized doesn't mean it will stand the test of time. the internet is a graveyard of abandoned and failed projects and protocols.
I develop software that tries to target as many distros as possible, and I really don't see how Manjaro is in any way better than Arch. Botched upgrades aside, Manjaro is the only distro that couldn't produce a valid iso to boot on KVM/qemu. It has a very weird kernel config, sometimes users don't seem to have modules that are found on literally any other distro. Which is very sad because Arch just works.
The limitations of this one are pretty crippling. It hardly counts as a controller, it's just a USB floppy reader. Even the software has some absurd limitations.
I put in “where should I run?” just to get past that first stage to see what would happen next and ended up going through the whole process. Really simple, kinda fun, thanks!
Hi, thanks for the interest! Yes, we are planning to publish more details about the novel index structure, so feel free to visit https://blog.mireo.hr/ every 2 weeks.

Very soon we will also launch a live demo with 200,000 vehicles, so you'll be able to try SpaceTime capabilities on your own :)
Yes they will. Simple option which is Airbnb contracts with a local professional cleaner and every rental in that area provide an extra cleaning service if you want to pay for it.
I don't recall the brand, but bamboo toilet paper was the last to disappear from the shelves last month.
fzf fizzy history search with ctrl-r is my favorite new shell trick. Fzf is a wonderful program
Searching an acronym is like reversing a weak hash... they should be spelled out. When searching AKF I got mostly results about church organisations.
So should black people stop organizing along lines of race, because that doesn't seem like an effective way to fight racism? That just means less black representation.
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I actually think they will have a MORE inventory. The economic devastation of Covid will have people want to drive additional revenue stream and thus securitize their unused space.

So ironically it could bring AirBnb back to their roots which is grow with unused and extra rooms by individual homeowners/renters.
Your "answer" sounds like it has value, but I'm not sure your "question" is well framed.

I would expect actively maintained repos to have a preferred channel for seeking help and/or discussing changes (ticket system, mailing list, gitter chat, IRC, etc). I think you'd do best to use that channel even if your "expert" is not there. If the expert isn't making themselves available there's probably a reason. For example if people contact me privately about my FOSS projects I almost always direct them to use the preferred channel. Perhaps it's still useful to identify who those people are, even if you don't contact them (e.g. to read their commits, their blog, etc.)

On the other hand, if we're talking about forensic work on an inactive repo perhaps it makes sense to understand "who is who". Another use-case would be understanding who-is-who on a repo you have no intention of working on (think, investigating some algorithm details in Chromium).
Personally, in comments I do that yes.

I think the end of sentence space looks much better with two than one in monospace font, but I'm not especially bothered either way. When there is one space, it looks more like an abbreviation.

I'm mindful that if I do that in shared code, some people will decide I'm incompetent, old or something worse (instead of reading the actual code; people can be petty), so I'll modify my writing style to please others.

This HN comment has double spaces after the end of a sentence. Not that you can see it.

I think it's a shame HTML ruined the possibility of typographically pleasing sentence spacing that looks distinct from abbreviations. Way back, I used to add wider end of sentence spaces in HTML when running it through generators (like Markdown to HTML).
> hard Pressed to find asian americans doing lax

Stop with these generalizations. I personally know plenty of asians who played Lacrosse in high school, myself being one of them. Some of these people even committed to play in college. The stereotypes just aren't true, go to a lacrosse game on the west coast.

Yes, these colleges help, but stop thinking of college as the thing that defines your life. It can define your life, but it definitely doesn't have to.
Don't worry. We're not going to run out of cold viruses any time soon, and the pitch was hyperbolic in virtually every way.
No one getting hired to work in an amazon warehouse is negotiating anything beyond what shifts they will be picking up.
The entire console market is retarded like that: you have to sign onerous NDAs, pay incredibly high fees for the "privilege" of creating additional software for the console vendors and thus making their consoles more valuable and all you get is some shoddy SDK with awful licensing terms (what? You used some (L)GPL'd code as your engine's base? Sorry, no can do. - You wrote your engine in an open source language that has no official support and you ported the runtime? Haha, LOL, no buddy, you can't give this back to the mainline developers, this contains our secret sauce, sucks to be you but you'll need to maintain this forever).

I have a PSVita and i really like its hardware, but honestly it was a waste of money since there isn't anything i can do with it. Switch also looks nice, but again it will soon be useless.

The best you can hope for with these is for someone to find some security flaw after the vendor has stopped supporting the device, that will allow homebrew development in the future. But by that time you might as well buy a cheap Chinese android device (or even better something like GPD Win that is a full proper PC in handheld form - though that isn't very cheap) and chances are it'll be both faster and better.
The related podcast "Asymcar" by Horace and Jim Zellmer is great as well, although it ended in w018: http://5by5.tv/asymcar
There are two parts to background matting. The first is removing the existing background and the second is replacing it with something else. Removing the background improves the focus on the foreground - people watching can see you better and they'll listen more closely because they're not distracted by what's behind you. The second part, replacing the background with something else, might be done because you don't want people to see where you are, or because you want to overlay your foreground video on a presentation. Being able to pretend you're on a holodeck or a desert island is a trivial use of the tech.
Thanks! Image support is on its way :)
As an american that has avoided jobs, people and now living abroad, I'm willing to subvert, corrupt, and exploit technology by these tech companies against their own employees, owners, useds and teach others around me how to go about doing it if got out of hand (which I think it will eventually). This might diverge from the current tech group think zigiest, and I'm ok with that, because I think these tools should ultimately empower everyone to be able to work together if they chose to do so and accept the fact that some people may not, as apposed to levered by the few against the masses.

Because of the asymmetric reach of tech, I think the few like me, have an advantage that most aren't willing to explore the ramifications of.

"Freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way"
70+% of humanity lives in Asia.

It's as far from a small homogeneous group you can get.
> Do you think that the children of uneducated nail salon workers who don't speak English have this cultural capital?

No, probably not, but I think it's fair to say that 1) the broad societal stereotypes applied to them are perhaps less damaging than those applied to black Americans and 2) the children of the Asian nail salon workers will be more likely to socially engage with the children of Asian-Americans that do have this cultural capital (and thus be more exposed to it) than the lower class black American children will be to the equivalent (if only because the equivalent is much less common.)

Again, these are all issues which need to be addressed and no discrimination is okay. But the initial claim was specifically placing them into a certain hierarchy, which I am reacting against.
Yep, there are also some interesting notes on this here https://superuser.com/questions/303706/how-does-chrome-know-...
I 100% agree with you. I have this in my head like this: a developer with a low rate might be very expensive, and a developer with a high rate might be very cheap.

Organization is definitely a big factor.

But when I said developers are your biggest cost, this is from an accounting point of view.
Where did people learn to double space? I've never had anyone even mention such a thing in school.
Mozzarella goes in 2 minutes before I pull it out, I'm pretty sure this was also a suggestion in the article above.
I think two spaces makes more sense as an input mechanism, although the ship has sailed so it's no longer possible.

That way the document generator can tell the difference between periods that are inside sentences, and those which end sentences.

When using one space everywhere in the input, the document generator has to guess, and will sometimes guess wrong.

That's why HTML doesn't, and can't, do that kind of intelligent layout. End of sentence wide spaces in the middle of sentences looks awful.