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> Your snide metaphor

If you can’t take it, then don’t dish it out.

> The EU Parliament only exerts some powers over EU nations

The same holds true for the Federal government of the US. The 10th Amendment ensures this. Similar to the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, EU law overrides Member State law (E.g. GDPR).

> The Health Department of Germany cannot made decisions on behalf of the health department of France

Yes, the same way the Minnesota Department of Health cannot make decisions on behalf of the New York State Department of Health.

> I understand you’re going to compare this to two American states, but honestly, it doesn’t work

Saying “it doesn’t work” again and again doesn’t magically make it true, you need to provide actual concrete counterpoints.

The US is a Union of States. The Federal government does not have the authority to issue lockdowns or stay-at-home orders. The vast majority of US testing is being funded and administered by States, not the Federal government. In practice, this is indistinguishable from the EU.

The US contains 330 million people, and consists of 50 different states, each with their own Constitutions, legislatures, and their own responses to COVID.

The EU contains 500 million people, and consists of 27 different states, each with their own Constitutions and legislatures.

We can do this all day, but it’s pretty clear that your argument doesn’t have any legs.
This was not the flashpoint, and the comment was not an attempt to make fun of xtraeme's situation. I had no knowledge of his situation until long after that comment was made, pushed to the fortune file, and reverted.

Watching the situation unfold reminded me acutely of the arguing and escalation I witnessed in the aftermath of my parents' divorce and the gradual destruction of my father's second marriage.

I made the comment in an attempt to lighten the mood in a Void IRC channel while a situation that nobody wanted in the first place spun out of control.

Knowing how the comment was perceived, I regret making it. I also regret that it has now been immortalized by another user in the commit logs of void-packages.
I recently switched from Ubuntu (before 20.04's release) to Clear Linux which has Flatpak integrated by default.

Along with the native package "bundles" (e.g. dev-tools, ruby-basic, containers-virt, etc.) that include built-in dependencies, Flatpak/FlatHub apps seem to work better than Snap/Snapcraft in my experience.
This is why I want Firefox to prioritize Progressive Web App support, and for PWAs to become more popular. Then an open device that can run Firefox can have access to a variety of apps that will work just the same as they would on an Android device. I understand there are drawbacks compared to native, but I really think they're worthwhile tradeoffs to enable new platforms to be immediately compatible with an existing set of cross-platform apps!
Wow you're right, that was 3.5" only.

The notch could be done to trick single-sided drives into letting you flip the disk over, which is probably what I was thinking of, but TFA says most drives can't read those with this controller.

According to wikipedia 40 track diskettes could be read by most 80 track drives, but once it was written to by an 80 track drive it was typically no longer readable by a 40 track drive.
Will the game have a Bob Sacamano character?
SnapTube Premium APK v4.87.1.4871101 Final and Beta (VIP)
Retesting positives won't work because we don't know whether it's independent. If there's some rare common cold coronavirus antibodies that some of the population has, that set off the test, they'll still have them later.

Not sure how well having the Bay Area do one thing, and large chunks of the rest of the country dash to herd immunity is going to work.
This is obviously a controversial topic, and I have mixed feelings.

The bottom line (for me) is that diversity at universities and other organizations is either good, neutral, or bad. We've (mostly?) collectively agreed diversity is good as diversity in sex/age/race bring diversity in thought, which presumably results in more innovation/competition/challenging of status quo/etc. The only way to increase diversity is to practice negative discrimination on dominant groups or positive discrimination on minorities...

Either that or universities need to dedicate a large amount of funding marketing to minorities so that they get more competitive applicants from said group. However, discrimination is easier and cheaper to implement.
There was this one last month, but it was fast and fairly small and I don't think anyone's tried reproducing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611099
Hi there. We are developing a saliva (e.g., spit in tube) type test. There are a couple of reasons for this including:
- supply chain issues with flocked nasal swabs and viral transport media
- enable self-sampling limiting healthcare workers SARS-CoV-2 exposures and PPE utilization
To be fair, that twitter account is incredibly far from funny.
And you still cannot use one unless it's "tethered" to your iPhone (assuming you have one). The day Apple un-tethers the thing is the day that I buy one.
"I assure you that liberal white people are far more offended on anyone's behalf than actual minorities."

Sometimes, one upvote is never enough.
This makes important points.

But time and money are the things by which companies live and die. Not keeping tabs on them is suicidal.

OTOH measuring time and money consumption of some technical internal steps is just uninformative.
Snaps < Flatpak

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I like & prefer Ubuntu. But where else is Fedora/CentOS/other distros ahead of Ubuntu?
I think Harvard should be 10x bigger than it is. Why can't we have that? This needn't be zero-sum.
The Paysa number is probably correct... For the tiny minority of workers in Amazon Warehouses who are salaried. If we look at actual wages (not just salaried employees) it would be far lower.

Terribly naive to include that point in the argument.
Flour have been in short supply at the nearby grocery store. First it was pasta and toilet paper, then flour and eggs, now it is mostly back to normal. My guess is that many people cook more than usual during the lockdown.

I don't think there is a significant shortage of the raw material, but maybe there is not enough of it packaged for grocery stores.
I'll never forget the moment of realization I experienced when I was about fourteen, and it clicked in my head that all video games were essentially just sets of cartesian coordinates being drawn on the screen, and pressing the controls was just changing numbers.

It was actually kind of a shattering moment, realizing there was no magic. After that, every game I played with friends, I struggled to enjoy the magic because all I could think about was "holding this button is just increasing or decreasing a number".

I stumbled upon this moment of realization by accidentally opening a debug overlay in what was probably a NES emulator. Naturally I had a look around and stumbled across a set of numbers that consistently changed as I moved my character on the screen.
This is ultimately the point I think Mary is trying to make. Agile became and end to itself rather than a way to learn how to build software within minimal waste and delay given imperfect information. Obsessing over it is a cargo cult.

That said , plenty of tech companies have inconsistent practices that don’t necessarily lead to great success. To say Google’s methods are “far far superior” to Agile assumes they’re uniform, portable or relevant externally, or that they lead to above average success. That’s debatable given Google’s reputation for abandoned half-built products and an almost comical lack of customer focus.
> Yes, but the only suspect does not mean conclusive evidence.

That's... exactly my point. The evidence pointed in favor of human-to-human transmission specifically because there was no definitive common source.

> Li Wenliang said it was SARS

SARS-CoV-2 is literally a different strain of the virus that caused the original SARS (SARS-CoV; now called SARS-CoV-1). "It's SARS" is reasonably accurate (especially given the information available at the time), even if not quite specific; it's like calling Ebola, well, "Ebola" without knowing if it's specifically Zaire ebolavirus or Sudan ebolavirus or Reston ebolavirus or what have you. Regardless, if the public and Chinese authorities had treated it like how said authorities should've treated SARS two decades ago, the world would very likely be in a much better position than it is now. And likewise, if foreign governments (including my own) believed it to be SARS instead of just some weird flu, they might very well have restricted travel earlier and imposed stronger quarantines early instead of waiting until it was too late to be effective.
No, what I'm directly asking you is: Are you willing to die to reopen society? I'm not asking you to to take an acceptable risk.

The reason why I bring this up is because when you argue for reopening society based on 'acceptable risk', you're not just risking your own life. You're asking other people who are at risk (ie people with asthma or other issues) to die for you.
Do you happen to have links?
Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
> All these times that we are currently having are so uncertain and I just wanted to, like, show that there's a little bit of normalcy still in life.

What’s more normal than a very public typo?
In my opinion KDE has always been way less polished than gnome and is currently not financially backed in any meaningful way. They also have problems focusing on the core product and won't stop shipping half-assed programs nobody asked for.
I just noticed that the above bug refers to switching input methods vs. just keyboard layouts.

Input methods are a separate concept from keyboard layouts (XKB), and I only ever use XKB stuff. Input methods load separate libraries which interpret keycodes, and are commonly generic enough to allow "external" complex input definitions (think Arabic or CJK) — not sure how fast they used to be before, but perhaps combining IM and layout selection is the culprit.
Netplan is another fail... although I love Ubuntu otherwise
That would just get them sued and their game blacklisted, which as fans of the show I doubt they would want.

Jerry Seinfeld et. al. might not care about a game made with their property, but that doesn't mean they won't protect their rights against copyright infringement if it happens without their approval. Star Trek fan films have to follow a strict set of guidelines set by Paramount, but there are no such guidelines for Seinfeld.
Couple of things at play here. First is we are developing a non-PCR based viral detection test. Many of the molecular tests approved rely on many of the same ancillary components (RNA extraction kits, flocked nasal swabs, viral transport media) as well as instrument systems. What we are developing is a non-molecular based test to directly detect SARS-CoV-2 particles in fluids, specifically saliva.

We've just begun our clinical testing so don't have specificity/sensitivity metrics yet, but will be sharing them when they're available.
This is happening again tonight at 9PM Pacific if anyone wants to join.
Marine Corps Bans Public Display of Confederate Flag
Because there is potentially merit in having institutions that are concentrated with the most talented. Not that it necessarily works out that way in practice, but 10x would entail lowering admission standards.
Mirror: http://archive.md/N4xFZ
Yes! Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967978
You need a test in real time. Ten minutes for millions is gonna be hard to enforce them to sit and wait every day. I’m assuming you need to test them every day. You need a real time scanner and even that may or may not work depending the speed and invasivness of collecting before the actual scan.
Water buffalos.
But, see, Engineers do not self-organize effectively, without some kind of frame of constraints to guide them - customers/users, design, time, quality, tech, architecture, etc.

Assembling a talented team that ultimately delivers nothing of value is practically a cliche in this industry.
This. Came here to post the same bug. I've been following the thread for the last 3 years, and it's an absolute mess.

I feel bad for the maintainers; it must be difficult to deal with all the rude and borderline disrespectful comments -- and particularly for something you're donating your time for free after all. But I must say that the architectural decision of creating a ~/snap was a colossal mistake.
Yes... but the comparison shows the Android phone taking over a minute. That's what makes it a stupid comparison. If they showed it side by side with your Pixel 3 it wouldn't look as impressive (or so thinks their marketing team).
Yeah he def have skin in there
Good sleuthing! As you suspect we functionalize the our sensor surface to specifically bind the virus. We've partnered with a therapeutics company developing highly specific monoclonal mAbs against SARS-CoV-2 which we leverage in our diagnostic platform.
>The only way to increase diversity is to practice negative discrimination on dominant groups or positive discrimination on minorities...

That's kind of like saying, "I can either take money out of my wallet or put it in the cashier's hand."
>perhaps they've been optimized too much for shelf life

this has definitely happened to tomatoes. Supermarket tomatoes vs heirloom varieties are night and day
> All the hard work to make it a viable OS is done by Debian

You could equally say that all the hard work to make a viable OS is done by Linux, so screw Debian? Last I hurd, the GNU developed OS is unviable (no 64 bit, no SMP).

Or equally say that all the hard work to make the majority of end-user programs (you know, the raison d’être for an OS) is done by other open source projects, not Debian, so screw Debian...

These are open source projects, with cross-pollination everywhere, each with their own opinions on licensing. Ubuntu mostly helps the ecosystem, and certainly isn’t a parasitic player (although like all, they are not perfect).

Why bag on Ubuntu just because it happens to be popular? Should we also cancel all the other Debian based distros?

PS: complaining about upstart shows you are just being biased (or perhaps misinformed). Canonical were developing upstart before systemd was developed - and systemd was developed by RedHat. The main con given against upstart was not technical, but due to licensing. “In terms of overall feature[s] there is really rather little to distinguish upstart from systemd” https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart
I'd be curious to see your criteria. That seems like the biggest determinant of a quality decision, along with the ability to honestly evaluate them.
plus Java's had various unsigned integer operations on Integer for years
Canadian spelling is a hybrid of British and American. For example, centre not center, but aluminum not aluminum.

For this particular word (spelled/spelt), British spelling allows both forms interchangeably, with spelled mildly preferred in Canada but both may be found:

https://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/
Testing by itself does nothing to reduce transmission. What it does do, though, is give you the opportunity to identify infected people and isolate them. And if you can identify and isolate them early enough in the course of their illness, you can prevent them from infecting many other people, and that’s what reduces transmission.

Given that it appears people with COVID-19 can shed the disease for many days before showing any symptoms, if your goal is to pinch off outbreaks before they become outbreaks, frequent, universal testing is the only way to get there.
Why is there no Git workflow for non-devs?
it seems like a lot of the principles could be transposed (in some way) to how marketing, ops, legal, etc. work - why isn't there a product that does this?
The 1918 flu pandemic is not a good baseline, except for identifying where we fell short in science, public policy, and action. Remember, 50M+ people died (>500K Americans) at a time when there were maybe 1.5B people around.

People weren't quarantined. The death toll was much higher. Not saying those two are directly correlated -- many other factors -- but there's not a good comparison on the "rights" front because of that death toll.
It is weird how racial diversity is given so much higher weight than other forms of diversity.

We are different in economic and social class, religion, politics, urban/rural, interest in sports, interest in music, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race.

And yet, when we talk about diversity race trumps all other forms of diversity. It is the most visible (other than gender) form of diversity. All other forms of diversity requires getting to know the person.

When it comes to discrimination, again, the most visible form of difference is the most common basis for discrimination.
Or allowing people who are equally as qualified get in? My understanding is the issue is capacity and not quality.
The privacy and security infographic doesn’t address what Facebook does with the video.
Even if it was 10x bigger, it might not change the ratio of each ethnicity (which is the implicit metric for diversity, right?)
I appreciate that in general but not here. What does reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(p) tell a reader that (intptr_t)p doesn't?
Pretty sure, I can attest to this theory. Just takes a sneeze and a few coughs and they fly.
On ubuntu 17 there was a dependency issue when I installed the .deb.
The value of Harvard is in its exclusivity. If they just let anyone in over some SAT/GPA cutoff then the value of a Harvard diploma drops.
The value of a brand is derived from its exclusivity. If you making 10x bigger, then a degree from there won’t be as valuable.

I’m not saying that is right,
but most exclusive colleges do brand management based on exclusivity.
> "The only way to increase diversity is to practice negative discrimination on dominant groups or positive discrimination on minorities..."

Uh, are you saying that Asian-Americans are a dominant group and not a minority? If so, a lot of us would have something to say about that...
Qualification is a continuum, there is no such thing as "equally as qualified." Regardless, if Harvard accepted 50% of applicants rather than 5%, the student body would not be equally as qualified.
Yes, but not after April.
Broadcom orders software employees to return to work a week before Colorado
Sorry, typo. I meant SPR (surface plasmon resonance).

I’ve worked at a number of NGS platform companies developing new sequencing approaches. The problem is that sequencing is still expensive at the per-run level. It’s possible to be cost competitive with qPCR if you multiplex samples. But this isn’t ideal.

It would be interesting to create a small/cheap sequencer which could be applied to point-of-care/at-home testing. However, most of the money has gone after attacking the market leader (Illumina) on a cost-per-base, rather than cost-per-run.

A 1USD per-run sequencer would be interesting. But I’ve not seen anything that will hit that target in development. If anyone reading this is developing such a system, let me know, I’d love to get involved.

The idea of a programmable qPCR system is to add some of the versatility of sequencing to qPCR.
The number of people “qualified” to go to Harvard is probably more than 10x the current capacity of Harvard, though. Maintaining scarcity/exclusivity in the brand is more valuable than servicing the number of people technically qualified to go there, from Harvard’s perspective.
Back in the day, not much of my country, or even the US, had particularly fast internet. Nor did everybody have a disc burner in the days before USB booting being supported by the majority of computers' firmware.
Title truncated because of length restriction. Full article title: "Broadcom orders its software employees to return to work a week before Colorado will allow others"
If Clojurescript can actually work with Webpack and external modules under advanced compilation that is pretty amazing progress. Probably the biggest improvement in half a decade.
Unlimited unpaid time off... for the next seven days. Even a cable company would blush at using "unlimited" like that.
We need micro PCR machines built into our phones. They could basically test for everything all the time.
Yes, but many of those people choose to go to other prestigious schools. If Harvard admitted 50% of applicants, I don't see how you can claim quality wouldn't suffer.
Maybe the whole thing makes no sense and the apparatus is just in place to make the loudest minorities feel like they are being treated "fairly".
Investigating hand-translating C to x86_64 vs. GCC
Related:
Welcome back, cubicles? Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/welcome-back-cubicles-long...
I have found that the key to getting the dough really stretchy is the autolyse part: first mix ~⅔ of the flour/yeast with all of the water to make something like a pancake batter, stir for a few minutes, and let that sit for at least 20 minutes. Then add in the rest of the flour, knead, and let rest overnight.

This isn't mentioned in the linked BBC article, but both http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm and http://www.perfekte-pizza.de/ swear by it, and I think it has made a noticeable difference to my dough.
This seems to make fun of the show and not celebrate it.
1998 Honda Civic, 225k miles. Drove it to the Microsoft campus everyday, and parked next to Porsches.
Amazon publishes this page detailing the benefits + their per-paycheck costs [0]. The prices for the coverage received seem very reasonable.

[0]: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us
In motorsports it’s known as the racing line.

You’re right, the gains are small for the average road user :)

Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_line
What Is Speculative Execution?
That would be sweet. Lead-time on this one is likely too long, however.
By "Asian American" do they mean Americans of Chinese descent or what? Does it include Filipinos? Thai? Afghans? It is an odd term.
Harvard engages in this sort of "affirmative action" for many different axes, not just race. I think race gets such attention because it's such a charges issue, not because it is the only diversity promotion effort at play.
I'd disagree with the reputable part.
There is an episode of Sliders (Fever, Season 1, Episode 3), where they slide into a world affected by an infection with no cure, and scanners have been placed at the entrance to every store to detect if you have it.

In the show the disease is used as a classist thing or something. Anyways, its bacterial not viral, and they discover than antibiotics were never discovered so the Professor scrapes some fungus off some trash and takes it and is cured.
> diversity at universities and other organizations is either good, neutral, or bad

That phrasing suggests there isn't a tradeoff involved. Instead: diversity is either more important than, equally important to, or less important than avoiding discrimination.

> We've (mostly?) collectively agreed

Back when I took Justice (the class at Harvard), one week's homework involved a mandatory online poll and debate about affirmative action. Opinions were split 50/50 for and against. My own strategy was to pick the (slight) underdog and argue for it -- and evidently others were doing the same thing, because the poll kept bouncing between 49/51 and 51/49.

So no, I don't think we have collectively agreed, even though the administration certainly likes to pretend that we have.