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Most of our family PCs run Xubuntu LTS. Because they are low end / 10+ year old machines I always uninstall unnecessary stuff like snap. Have not seen a single case where I would have regretted this.

I have been using Xubuntu 20.04 for several weeks and it has worked well. Because that's a high end laptop I have not bothered to uninstall snap yet, although that has been on my mind.

I am surprised that the article writes there are snaps installed by default. Checking in Xubuntu 20.04 that's luckily not the case

$ snap list
No snaps are installed yet. Try 'snap install hello-world'.

So the only somewhat worrying news is that chromium is gone.

$ apt show chromium-browser
Package: chromium-browser
Version: 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1
...
Pre-Depends: debconf, snapd
...
Description: Transitional package - chromium-browser -> chromium snap
This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.
.
chromium-browser is now replaced by the chromium snap.

Not that I would use Chromium more than 3 times a year. But occasionally some web site is broken on Firefox. And if it is important like a flight check-in I start chromium. But flying is not a valid use case in Europe at the moment so lets see how long I it takes until I note the lack of chromium again.
Ugh. I fat-fingered the url on this one.
https://arweave.org

Arweave has developed a new type of blockchain based on Moore’s Law of the declining cost of data storage. Users pay upfront (one time payment) for a hundred years of storage at less than a cent per megabyte, and the interest that accrues will cover the dwindling storage cost forever. More than one million pieces of data are now stored on the permaweb...

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-censorship-arw...
Owning a mistake like that so openly is pretty inspiring, in an already upbeat story.
"If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives will be empty indeed."
Reminds me of /r/amitheasshole - can someone in an emotionally convoluted/charged situation figure out if they are objectively (by judgment of strangers) being an ass. Obviously there is a ton of bias based on how the OP presents a situation, but the idea of getting an outside opinion has already proved popular.
Travis Scott is apparently a rapper, in case anyone else was wondering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Scott
The mobilization (you could say weaponization) of social pressure campaigns has been, by far, the most impressive thing I’ve observed throughout this entire saga.

I don’t mean “impressive” in a good way, but that’s in the eye of the beholder.
I'm "pessimistic" that majority of them will do just like they downloaded Tiktok, Facebook, Gmail, Zoom etc.
Seems to be based on iup that supports both Windows and Linux? http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

The new crop of immediate mode cross platform GUI libraries are more interesting (such as nuklear and Dear Imgui). I also did some experimentation with these libs a few days ago: https://liuliu.me/eyes/write-cross-platform-gui-in-swift-lik...
Are TRLs usually used outside of government R&D related things? If they got an SBIR I guess they'd be familiar with the technology, but I'm only familiar with it because of DoD funding applications and stuff, it's not terminology I've seen used in the private sector too much. Maybe it is, I'm curious to know if that's the case. I've usually only heard stages of tech development discussed in terms of preclinical, clinical stage, and other regulatory frameworks rather than tech readiness level necessarily.
The thought process of "we can disinfect surfaces why not people" is essentially how germ theory and antiseptics were discovered. It's incredibly strange and scary to me how this form of thinking is now pathologized.
What’s a good alternative workflow? I’d be quite interested to know as what you said identifies with what I’ve experienced.
Why should I believe IPFS will still be running in 30 years?
Asian discrimination in the US includes the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1917 Immigration Act, bans on the ownership of property (leading to the development of Chinatown ghettos), and internment camps.

Furthermore, many Asian immigrant groups came to the US quite poor, such as early Chinese, and in more modern times, Vietnamese.

I think this comment speaks more to personal ignorance than the actual truth of the matter.
50 or 100 sites, each with say a few dozen liquid handling robots. Let’s say each site runs 200 plates per day.. doesn’t seem unreasonable. The only hard parts are the funding and regulatory requirements.
Two spaces are the only civilized option, and I hope the world's numerous, two-space-loving lawyers use their now abundant spare time to lay into MSFT about this.
On top of all of this bad behavior... I did try Snap to install Opera browser. Opera is written such that you need to put widevine libs in a certain directory for it to work. After tons of hacking and Googling, there is zero way to inject files into the file system of a Snap. I understand the security precautions, but that feels ridiculous. I left Ubuntu after more than a decade over their obsession with Snap.
My understanding of the proposal was that no third party including Google and Apple could access any real information from this. It honestly seemed like privacy was the primary consideration in the design. I realize that's a losing perception battle to fight.
I heard FirefoxOS is doing well under a different brand? Does it have interesting apps, I wonder.
If market forces demand some sort of contact tracing application, but it largely violates Constitutional ethos, can the “business” be declared Unconstitutional? Is that even in the purview of the Constitution? I wouldn’t imagine so, but I’m just musing on the topic. When our foundational ethic runs in direct conflict with our economic ethic, which takes priority?
Ask HN: What will you do when WFH ends?
For all the people here who are willing and able to WFH effectively during this period, what will you do when you're asked to return to work?

When company-wide WFH ends in your area, are you going to return to the office without question? Try to extend your personal WFH period and hope the second wave causes longer WFH? Quit your job?

I would love to see some discussion about how people are planning to handle it.
I think team herd immunity is going to have a rough time of it.
I worked at Integrated Plasmonics in 2012–14, the major problem you will face is fluidics and sample handling not so much the sensor design. You should consider stochastic plasmonic features grown using dna self-assembly on the surface of a cmos sensor (lots more recent work on DNA-based plasmonic nanostructures). I worked on varieties of ways to characterize a chemical signal even from stochastically distributed plasmonic features by running calibration during manufacturing. We were able to use support vector regression to characterize known chemical reaction signals on a per sensor basis.
I quit FAANG and started doing my own thing. I found I hated a ll the paperwork. Dealing with taxes, accounts receivable, accounts payable, business registration, finding clients, meeting with clients, networking for new work, unmovable deadlines, pressure, fears of disappointing a client or the client being late on payment or me being late on filing some form my government requires but I have no idea I need, or a million other things.

I realized that some level of not getting 100% of the value i generate is worth it to have someone else deal with all that stuff.

I'm not saying whether or not engineers are underpaid for the value they create but it's worth something > 0
> while finding ways to connect remotely with the people who are important to us

Good stop-gap, but not remotely viable long-term. Humans aren't made for isolation, even if video calls help take the edge off soon. FaceTime and Zoom have a significant cognitive load, too. As long as we're talking about how society should adapt to this sort of risk, we can't just go to living in individual hermetic pods with internet connections. The mental health cost will be monstrous.
> You told me that was the confidence interval on the parameter. The confidence interval contains the point estimate for the original study. It's as valid as any other point within the confidence interval. As you say: "you cannot use confidence intervals to argue the validity of a point estimate inside the CI".

> Which includes 1.5%.

And everything else in the CI. If we're treating this like a CI, then it's like saying a dice will land on 1, just because it's equally likely to land on 6.

The actual P(1.5% | prevalence) is quite low at 3%.
If you don’t understand the difference I can’t help you with that one...
i18n Ally v2.0 Released – All in one i18n for VS Code
I'd like to eventually learn to make a simple 3d engine suitable for a retro FPS. However, to start with I'd like to learn how to make 2d engines for side scrolling or isometric action games.

Basically, game dev is a hobby for me so I'm in no rush to actually publish a game. I'm interested in learning nearly every aspect of how games are made.

I've already been playing around with Unity and Game Maker Studio a bit. I'm continuing to learn Unity but rather than spending tons of time learning how to use a game engine's libraries I would prefer to learn how these things are built and make one myself.
Encouraging, then. Putting aside the toxicity of it, it's just not a helpful strategy for this kind of discrimination. If we push for fair treatment on an individual level, we hopefully can get it. If we push for fair treatment of Asian Americans as some monolithic bloc, people are going to compare 6% of the general population to 20% of the Harvard class, and they're not going to see what the issue is.
I'm talking about from the view of public health administration. There is no intervention available to us that will ensure a change in behaviour economically.

We do have available to us the speed limit.
Debian is a bad choice if you want to package go applications (or rust apps, for that matter). Debian requires that all those little static dependencies be individually packaged. Common container software like lxd, podman, and umoci are not found in Debian.

The following distributions package LXD (that I know of):

* Void Linux

* Alpine Linux

* Arch Linux

* Gentoo

Some of those are more suitable for production installs than others, but if you know what you are doing and manage your deployments well, all of them could work.
I think it's more of a situation where group A has problems x y and z, and group B has problems f g and h, and you're saying "boy I sure wish group B could get in on some of that sweet x y and z."
R has quite a few specialized libs to deal with large datasets (out of memory). Nothing keeps you from hosting the data in a DBMS and using SQL (or dplyr) to pull the data in an appropriate format.
That China will promptly ignore.
Remember when the CIA did fake swab tests in Pakistan to promote vaccinations, but it was just a smokescreen to catch Osama Bin Laden? Yeah, no... I’m not trusting PRISM Partners to enable this on any of my devices
The play devil's advocate, affirmative action isn't supposed to just compensate for what an individual's upbringing was before college, but the multigenerational racial discrimination that led to his community and family not being able to prepare him for college. The Asian American historical experience was very different from the Black American historical experience. Most Asian Americans today are descendants of well trained technical immigrants post 1950s. The US immigration process acted like a filter that selected for immigrants that were already above average in their respective societies. Asian Americans don't just outperform other minorities in the US, they likely outperform their compatriots back in Asia due to this filter. Black Americans, on the other hand, weren't exactly chosen to immigrate to the US because of their technical skills. They were forced to migrate due to the legacy of slavery. An Asian and a Black student clearly do not have the same family or historical background. Even within the Asian American community, you see differences in achievement between descendants of economic migrants and descendants of refugees. Indian and Korean Americans do much better than Vietnamese or Hmong.
Does this enable the possibility of having ClojureScript loaders for Webpack?

Shadow-cljs is great, but from time to time, it seems to be easier to integrate with the ecosystem if it can be loaded as Webpack modules. For example, loading arbitrary image, file, and possibly Rust modules, etc.
Boston/Cambridge are beautiful city and you’ll love it there. The whole town is A big college place and you’ll mingle plenty from students in all the schools.
A friend of mine from HS went to northeastern, and long story short cashed out plenty from Juul recently. She worked very hard, but There’s a lot of luck involved in life too.

You can make your luck by being open minded to things you don’t know and seeking out mentors. I went to UPenn and confirm the PL GRoup is solid, and the prof in the PL group are really kind people as well. Do you have a particular thing you want to work on in PL?
That is not true. At certain points in history, e.g. WWII, rationing was in effect wherein the government forcefully replaced the market with rationing stamps and created limits on how much each family could consume to ensure there was enough for the war effort and each household [1].

It's crazy to me how quickly people forget such interventions and then think that any government action of such a nature is unprecedented. It's not.

If, for example, we start to have COVID decimate migrant farm labor who pick our crops and often live in very tight quarters, then we might end up in a situation with systemic food insecurity. At that point, it might be become more reasonable for more extreme interventions to happen.

Similarly, society would be better served if people who are under forced quarantine orders due to exposure COVID were provided meal delivery services so they don't have to leave their house (ideally designed to minimize moral hazard or cheating). Providing those services will most likely come through governments using market services. But we shall see.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Stat...
Right now, 9:30 PM on a locked-down Friday night, it's 12 minutes by car from 3rd and King (you can get closer to the onramp, but not that much) to Treasure Island. 5 miles. So a round trip is 10 miles, 24 minutes, and it has to be a round trip because there's nothing there. So $6 in IRS mileage, $7 in wages. With a 15% cap, means the bill needs to be $87 to break even on bare minimum delivery costs.
Not commenting on the underlying issue, but regarding the comparison, it's a little bit unreasonable to think they're trying to pull the same thing here.
That method is exactly equivalent to using revolutions as the unit with a fixed-point numeric representation. Maybe your skeptical colleagues would find that perspective more palatable?
As a manager, I want to measure leading indicators of success and failure. Absolutely, feedback control based on the real output is important. I must measure that! But I’m always looking for ways to predict that, so I can steer more gently. What’s a leading indicator of a crisis? A late team struggling to make a deadline. What’s a leading indicator of that? Mismatch between estimates and performance. I need to know about bad point estimates because if I don’t fix it—I mean fix the PM’s misalignment—they’re going to push the team into something dangerous.
While I'm generally one to rail against this kind of tracking, you're right. There are so many entities already getting our precise location data, would it be so bad if we add one more that will actually save lives instead of just selling us useless shit?
Can't help but say that your childhood dream reminds me of Homer Simpson's childhood dream of buying the Dallas Cowboys - he ended up getting the Denver Broncos. Needless to say, he wasn't very impressed.

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys
> Even if testing capability doubled every month, it would take 8 months before we could test every American once a week.

At this point, I'd consider that a success.
As Naval said, https://twitter.com/naval/status/1252185901087592448

> Recent serology studies may be wrong. But if wrong, they‘re all wrong _in the same direction_.

Finnish: 20-50x undercount
Scottish: 27-55x
Stanford: 50-85x
Italian: 30x
Mass: 17x
Germany: 0.37% CFR
Denmark: 0.21%

> If true, COVID19 has much more spread and much lower fatality.

So we have consistent data showing that the risk is much lower. Could we update our now-incorrect models that were used to justify contact tracing and Palantir social network analysis?

If we don't trust these expensive studies that all point in the same direction, why should we trust Bluetooth? If we don't trust the tests used in the above studies, how can we use those exact tests to forcibly quarantine not only the people who "test positive" but their entire Palantir contact chain?

It would be helpful if we can pick one mathematical dystopia and stick with it. The math-rhetoric dissonance is deafening.
This reminds me of the Tabs vs Space discussion, and how once Bill Gates did an AMA on Reddit and his answer was that tabs was better because of consistency.
JavaScript Rolling-Shutter Simulator
> Businesses are paying market rates salaries to employees who generate them revenue.

You use this argument to defend engineers but then question c—level executive salaries. The exact same principles apply but at a multiplicative level.
> can the “business” be declared Unconstitutional?

Strictly speaking the business would be criminal (like a protection racket or slave market), but noone ever enforces that, so it's a bit of moot point.
Factory workers lived at plant for 28 days to make PPE raw materials
I love new programming languages, I'll have to give Janet a go and see how I like it
I've only made it to Rule #2 in the book so far. But it is thought provoking. (Not strongly, in a Plato sense. But reflective.)

It mentions studies (or parables? Who cares?) of people taking better care of their dogs post-surgery than they take of themselves. It rings true, and speaks to anyone who thinks or knows they aren't taking good enough care of themselves.

Has certainly been an enjoyable read so far.
This hurts Asian Americans in the short term but increases the equity of admission and also access to resources for other minorities in the long term. The discrimination serves a purpose other than just racial discrimination, as if there were a school of just Asian Americans, who on average already do well, it is not useful for other minorities to ascend as well. Before anyone says that admissions should be completely fair, that could work if everyone has the same access to money and education, but it has been shown that this is not true, so I understand why such discrimination against Asian Americans towards other racial minorities happens. The goal should be equity first and foremost and anything else second.
Thanks grandpa.
One country, one system: The week that China shredded its promise on Hong Kong
Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf]
It seems slightly odd, given that there are different traditions of between-sentence spacing, that there doesn't seem to be a Unicode character for the kind of space between sentences.
"Flatten the curve" and "shelter in place" aren't mutually exclusive with a necessity to ramp up testing or develop a vaccine, they are just things that laypeople can be doing in the mean time to mitigate the negative effects of the virus while those other solutions are prepared.
Settled out of court is the way these things usually go when one party realises it'd save money by doing so.
Many of my computers which I still use do.

But my main workstation doesn't. The primary reason is the motherboard lacks a floppy controller.
Good. The only reason that habit is a thing is because of typewriters, which are monospaced. Some people just cargo culted the practice long past its expiration date...which makes for awkward spacing.
I prefer working in an office, but there are a good number of reasons for be to try to continue working from home. This summer for example - like last summer and next summer - there will be work going on on the railway tracks between me and Oslo.

While the situation has improved with the years so it isn't as chaotic as it used to be this always end up with walking of the train halfway to work, get crammed into a bus where you cannot work, run to get a place on the next train, and then take a short train trip to get to work.

So, I'm trying to work from home at least until school starts, even if it open up before.

In the long run I hope companies see that remote works reasonably well and start paying for inexpensive offices out were people live instead of demanding everyone to jam into expensive offices in the middle of the capital.
Then we will write them a sternly worded letter.
For some some reason, this really reminded me of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: https://www.gog.com/game/zak_mckracken_and_the_alien_mindben...

They really did well with the graphical style!
Software Complexity and Degrees of Freedom
https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data...

5% of doctors are black. similarly hispanic. 17% are asian.

what infuriates me to no end whenever affirmative action comes up is how people refuse to admit just how far behind black and hispanic communities/people are in the united states[1]. and instead of people focusing on the real villain (white supremacy) they pit minorities against each other. the solution isn't to take spots from slightly less qualified[2] black people - the solution is to take spots from overprivileged white people. but that's of course unfathomable right? just like it's unfathomable that instead of cutting welfare programs to pay for some sort policy we increase taxes.

[1] just look at this it's literally a fucking order of magnitude difference: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-fact/median-value-wea...

[2] what does it mean to be "qualified" for undergrad degree anyway.
For people who don't pay too much attention to storage: AWS S3 is a technical wonder, bringing down the price of storage to practically unbeatable levels. It's really a jewel in the crown of the AWS service portfolio. In terms of the amount you get metered down to the penny, it may be the single most impressive thing on AWS, honestly.

If it costs me $1 to store my stuff per month on S3, and you reduce that... so what? It's so cheap it's not going to help my wallet much. This isn't like going from $100 to $2- or even $50 to $20. It's going from like $10/year to... I dunno, $4. I might as well stay on AWS.

That leaves the enterprise market, which, naturally, loves S3 100x more than the random individual, because S3 is a solid enterprise choice, and will always have the enterprise advantage, by a crushing margin.

AWS is itself hard to compete with, but of all the services you could compete with on AWS, S3 is probably the worst. So you're going up against the worst of the worst, here. I can't say it's impossible, but it's like an extra double hard market to compete in, in an already tough market.
"You can't manage what you don't measure"

vs.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted"
There are many unlawful activities that could be solved with cash rewards for people reporting said activities.
I want to learn more about HoTT and constructive math, but I probably have to go to CMU to go deep into that.

At Northeastern, I'll probably explore systems programming languages (I know that Amal Ahmed published a foundations of Rust paper) and gradual typing.
That's based on arbitrary anchoring. If you disconnect anyone from resources to back up their borrowing, they are less creditworthy. There's no absolute objective arbiter of what sources of credit are legitimate and what aren't.