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> If nothing changes, someone might pull a Hitler and channel the frustrations of the poor...

This is a much more likely scenario with broad joblessness as the economy continues to be shut down than it is with the vocal 5G crowd.

There’s always consequences to our actions. Surprised so many people are whistling past the graveyard with regard to crippling unemployment.
you got the yeast, eggs, sugar, cheese, toppings, milk etc all for free?
Why do you think its about race and not merit or personal qualities?
Looks like the new XPS 13 has a 16:10 ratio screen :)
If you really want to take the "Learn to type fast" advice to heart you can get a Georgi keyboard [1] and spend a few months learning stenography [2]. That can get you typing at above 200 WPM! (but it does require a significant amount of time to learn)

[1] https://www.gboards.ca/product/georgi

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-Qb-dB6g
> You can't influence the result of a coin toss, unless you're using a manipulated coin.

With a fair coin and enough practice, you can: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8248810/
FWIW, the Oxford English Dictionary lists it as all right; note that it is a distinct entry from an earlier (now obsolete) word alright meaning "exactly, just".

Regarding the spelling, though, it notes:

> The form alright is frequent, although more widespread in non-literary printed sources (e.g. newspapers and journals) than in literary texts. Compare the standard spellings of already (adj. and adv.), altogether (adj., n., and adv.), always (adv). Although these analogues exist, the form is strongly criticized in the vast majority of usage guides, but without cogent reasons.

I suspect that while all right is generally regarded as the more "correct" form, alright will eventually be accepted as a valid alternative in modern usage, though traditionalists will be fighting a rearguard action for some years yet.
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Burraco (that's how's called here) is fairly popular in Italy as well. My family has been playing it for generations and has been a staple of family reunions.
yeah, also 5m out of 100m is nowhere close to an all in. There's a good chance he just had it lying there amongst a bunch of other stocks he was gambling with and didn't even think much of it.
In TeX or LaTeX the command to turn the extra space after the period on and off is called \frenchspacing.
I remember this because the proof reader of my theses asked me why I had so inconsistent spacing between the sentences and told me that I should stick with a single space. I remember that I had little time to figure it out and that I was very happy when I found that the \frenchspacing command would do it.

I don't remember if \frenchspacing means extra space or no extra space though. Also don't remember if it is a TeX or LaTeX command, and therefore if Knuth called the option like that or if it is Lamport's invention.
I never said it existed, but that the US has less of it then it had.
Why is no one talking about the true jerk in this situation? The guy legally forcing the other to mortgage his house in order to give him $500k — because of rock, paper, scissors...
Carpet pythons are the second-biggest predator of wild koalas
I think that's the whole point of Grid 2, just to tech people about racing lines.
Making this worse, the final size of an epidemic can be estimated as not p=1-1/R0, but rather p=1-e^-R0 [1]. With this, those R0 estimates give a final infected population of 95%-~100%... we can't let herd immunity be the solution.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506030/
Do we really need a rehash of the belabored "DAE dislike airbnb? XDD" just because the title mentions Airbnb?
Yes. It seems many developers will honor coding conventions or Internet RFCs but love to engage in debate about orthography when it suits them, rather than referring to the Chicago Manual of Style or another authority.
I run multiple OSes as part of my job.

The small investment in VMWare Fusion was worth it but I still need some dedicated machines.

I just have a few issues:

Problem #1: Disk space requirements. I have a late 2013 MBP and windows gobbles up a min 60GB for the image, which is 1/4th my SDD. This is why I ended up buying cheap beige boxes for every other OS (or AWS).

Problem #2: Clipboard on VMWare is a trainwreck. Same goes for VNC and Microsoft Remote Desktop which I also use. My workaround is to use a text file on my router's USB drive so that I cut and paste through that in each OS.

----> I would pay someone $1,000 to come to my house and fix my clipboard problems.

Problem #3a: The magic mouse blows chunks on anything but macOS. And even running Excel on macOS is impossible with a magic mouse. The left-right slop makes it difficult to scroll vertically without drifting diagonally... I don't know how macOS apps solve that.

Problem #3b: I would kill for a mouse with a real middle button, not a scroll+button. Unix/X middle click paste is a feature I sorely miss on macOS and Windows.
External VDIs -- that's exactly my use-case, but I've stayed back on Mojave. Any bug page I should follow to see if this gets resolved for Catalina?
WSL2 makes this super easy. Once you have a distro installed, you just go into Docker Desktop's settings, click "use WSL2 backend" and it does it. Then you don't have to have Docker's slow boot2docker VM eating RAM all the time in the background. It's great!

The reason it doesn't work on WSL1 is because of the whole Linux kernel not being there, the features required for Docker to work don't exist. But since WSL2 is a (rather performant for certain tasks) VM, it works fine.
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They did raise $2B in the last month. That should help.
Destroyer underway in Pacific fighting Covid-19 outbreak
Interactive Course about Fractals (From Mathigon)
bad use of statistics. if gp is to be believed, once in ICU you are already in the 0.x %. the question then is, are you in the 0.1 or 99.9.
Show HN: Wormhole – tunnel HTTP to localhost (in Rust)
Airbnb missed the IPO window in 2019. They will not IPO for years now if ever.
I don't use Twitter - I find it unsubstantial. I can't imagine following anyone or anyone following me. Like, how do you acquire followers - posting geeky jokes or retweeting jokes from others? (etc...)
They meant .prettierrc: https://prettier.io/docs/en/configuration.html
For film transfer, you should at least be setting manual exposure control on the camera. But realistically, matching the film frame-advance rate precisely to the camera shutter rate will be all sorts of tricky, and you should either have proper synchronization, or do it a frame at a time and then capture the audio separately.

For any video format, you're spot-on -- using S-Video instead of composite does wonders for the quality, although if it was recorded from a composite source, you won't squeeze blood from a stone. There are plenty of capture cards with Y/C inputs, and modern PCs are fast enough to keep up with even the pathetically buffer-starved models.
That last line sounds like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
One of the comments there concisely summarizes history better than modern typographers do:

> I think most books don't do this any more [have wider spaces between sentences]. Newspapers certainly don't. It's way too much trouble escaping out all the abbreviations.

If you need wider spaces between sentences you also don't want them indiscriminately after every period, so you need to exercise more care and indicate them differently in the input markup. For example, using two spaces:

This is a sentence. This is another. Dr. Smith wrote in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. about NASA. It was good.

Or in TeX, which makes the typical case easier by using the heuristic that a period after a lowercase letter ends a sentence, you need to indicate wherever this heuristic fails (you can also use ~ to prevent a line-break):

This is a sentence. This is another. Dr.~Smith wrote in Proc.\ Amer.\ Math.\ Soc. about NASA\null. It was good.

Having to keep track of which periods are ends of sentences is a bit inconvenient in the general case, which explains why wider inter-sentence spacing was given up first in newspapers, then low-quality mass-publishing, then finally high-quality printing as well (almost). But typographers today (see my other comment) make it seem like this has always been the case and wider spaces was just a quirk from typewriters somehow!
> $ per Month Setup & Backup: 10h? 1000$

Servers do cost money, but storing large amounts of data for upload and download, and keeping them backed up does not cost anywhere near that, unless you have extremely vast quantities of data.

Something I run streams ~200GB/day from a ~1.5TB (and growing) data collection that is highly replicated by the data store. It costs me less than 10USD/month.

It is also all automated - I don't need to touch it unless something goes wrong, which might be once every six months.
How did the Superior Court become aware of it? I doubt they routinely study home mortgages...
His channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgMagm3-NwKdfGiXp8WILg
Well, we do not know what would happen if the situation were opposite. They both entered into the agreement, presumably seriously. It seems like just playing the game qualifies both sides as jerks.
Maybe she sensed that you would tend to be a better provider if you were a little more confident and let you win.
His stock was worth $320 million after the IPO, and he let it all ride. On a single stock in a two-year-old company. Nobody could afford to do that unless losing most of $320 million wouldn't affect their lifestyle. Being wealthy explains most of it, but I suspect being 72 years old was a factor, too.
We're still missing my original point: the kind of people who rush out and buy 2 bags of flour at the last minute and have otherwise not prepared to be self-sufficient for more than a couple of meals? They absolutely have not frozen a stockpile of bananas to use when yeast is scarce.
Oh yes, I definitely messed up my calculations. Half life is (inversely) proportional to the reaction rate itself I guess (I were associating it with the exponent, because half life is usually in the exponent), so the half life itself would be proportional to exponential reciprocal of temperature (e^(a/T)).

This means significant differences in HL for minor temperature variations under e.g. Arrhenius model (consistent with your graph I think). To extrapolate it some parameters need to be estimated though, which sounds interesting, I'll get around to that later...
Coding a Python Stock Trading Bot with Alpaca
Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality
Best description of this is from Jack Dorsey: you have to get the details perfect, and the only way to do that is to limit the number of details.
Hi HN! I made this while I was lockdown-bored.

The data sources are linked on the website. I plan to add scientific reports on water-levels soon on a city-level.

I want to raise awareness on how saving money and the environment often comes hand in hand when it comes to drinking water. For most people around the globe drinking straight tap water or using a water filter is a better solution than giving money to bottling companies like Nestlé!

I'd like to monetize this by either adding affiliate links to water filtration systems. Hope this helps! I think plastic pollution is one of our greatest challenges right now and I’d like to contribute to fixing that.
Wow... so beautiful!
I fully support this, Harvard has definitely committed some questionable acts recently. However, Ivy League schools in general are well known for their prestige, and they usually have a rather high quality of education in most subjects. Why should any one group of applicants be excluded from seeking out that opportunity?

The same systems are in place at most private schools; all of them have affirmative action, holistic review, and control who gets in with their final say. Even public universities have this issue, look at gender-based admissions in CS for example.
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I've been using racket/gui for a while now. It only comes with a small handful of widgets; if you want to use racket/gui for anything beyond the bare basics, you'll be implementing a lot of your own widgets. Want a text-field% with autocompletion? You'll have to write that yourself.
Thanks for the info! Good to hear.
> Do people actually say "A service delivers me value for its price, but I already have too many subscription services, so I won't use it"?

Sounds like Silicon Valley thinking. If you're used to massive salaries (and massive housing costs), you probably won't care about relatively small subscription costs.

But for the majority of people elsewhere in the world, those costs really do add up. There's very little appeal in renting a PC or games console in the cloud, then getting a sub-standard PC or console experience for an ongoing fee.
Yeah, probably before society even existed. They likely always will and that’s okay too. What’s your point?
I do wonder if it's time for some tiny social cost to not even doing a cursory google search, though. It couldn't be easier, yet all sorts of people's time is wasted on places like r/learnspanish by people asking "what's pero vs perro?"
Audio versions of scripts sound good. I'll look into this :)
Am I on reddit? "Man makes lucky bet, gets rich" doesn't really seem very "hacker"-ish.
You know a lot of poor South African white people who immigrate to America?
I don’t think making my children compete fairly with others is sacrificing their future, quite the opposite. If they will ever achieve anything meaningful they’ll need to build their own engine instead of just riding on the skis that I’ve greased underneath them.
The Myth of Silicon Valley Innovation
Waiting in line for a venue can easily take 20-30 minutes. So why not deploy this to places like this. You get the test done while waiting in line at no extra time cost to you. So you wouldn't even be waiting 10 min to get in. That's already something you do.
It's humorous to me that Hacker News allows this kind of unsubstantiated slander. No example of "obvious errors", no mention of which talk this even was.

I'm not even a Gun fanboy. I've just used it successfully and it has done for me what it claims to do.

Could it be that Hacker News has a vested interest in seeing competitors to IPFS fail? I'm not sure, but either way, your comment grosses me out.
I'm a high school senior of punjabi/white descent, and I fully intend to mark my race as Hispanic.

I dont understand the point in putting CONTROLGROUP as your last name, though. Could you explain.
Must-read article for people in charge of "re-opening" of Europe and US states!

The extent of the measures taken to prevent further infections and the re-emergence of the epidemic are truly eye-opening.
Yes, almost all are there and clickable: http://wordsandbuttons.online/#programming_languages
The on the ground reports from NYC in This week in virology has been talking about moving away from respirators for at least 3 weeks. Now the ability of reporters looking for sensational news to actually listen to the professionals or read studies is a completely different issue. I wish they could just ask some of them to write opinion pieces to lay out the facts as they exist.
AFAIK it is indeed a convention in TeX, and LaTeX. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/frenchspacing/info
How Slack became king of the remote-work world
This is just a trailer video, but you can access the course itself at https://mathigon.org/course/fractals
Word of warning from someone who has a Pocket CHIP. As nice as it was while it lasted, the company is a ghost, now. They up and vanished, with outstanding orders, and problems with the OS.

Don't touch this.

Flashing, and reflashing, is a pain, and the OS itself requires some binary blobs that have made it incompatible with any modern version of Debian.

The people controlling the site are one of the third party resellers.

> We are one of the original third party retailers for Next Thing Co.'s amazing products. While we never received much of the bulk of our product purchased for our store, we are now offering up the remainder of our stock to interested customers.
This doesn't paint python in a better light to me. Two spaces is not so that you render two spaces, it just made it easy to distinguish the end of a sentence. Calling it mostly propaganda just shows even then the python crowd got strings of the day wrong.

Is also why two line feeds indicates end of paragraph. Works way easier than requiring container markers. Disagree? Just look at in house Java projects to see how many screw up the doc thinking they did multiple paragraphs.

And yes, that is the same thing. Books do not have extra space between paragraphs. It is a stylistic choice, period.
“I have an academic lifestyle. I’m not into ramen noodles, but my friends are academics, so it doesn’t really behoove me to be flashy,” Springer told Bloomberg at the time. “I feel that I’ve had more than enough wealth for myself for some time. I don’t feel I need more.”

Compare and contrast with:
https://youtu.be/eb3pmifEZ44
https://youtu.be/mOI8GWoMF4M
The technology inept organizationally can’t even figure out how to use that 64GB of RAM properly is my point and more RAM won’t fix a full blown table scan on every other query coming in because people don’t have a way to stop queries without limits. However, you can add modern SSDs with millions of IOPS to paper over complete ineptitude at using a free query analyzer in your database. But to myself, inability to bring oneself to use that is about as incompetent as not being able to use a debugger or profiler. I can certainly understand a level of inability when hiring only junior devs or having one’s hands tied when dealing with production systems locked behind compliance and bureaucracy, but all these things are problems that hardware nor more people will fix honestly.

And TBF, I am mostly familiar with the guts of technology laggards and they’re adopting K8S at frighteningly fast rates compared to anything else I’ve seen in almost 2 decades. Very common to see pretty smart people familiar with the latest tech yet lacking some serious holes in fundamentals familiar to those with experience.
> Staying in sub-par accomodation ...

> Support good hotels and chains, who hire and invest in great staff.

It's a bit less so now (pre-COVID), but this is the Airbnb discount. It was cheaper than hotels for a reason. It's like buying a used item from a third-party seller on Amazon. The product offering is completely valid, but the quality and support are hit-or-miss, so the risk you're taking is baked into the price.
One thing gets overlooked here and it's America's sickening love with elite universities (and other elite institutions). Put some effort in raising the baseline.
I'd say another option might be PouchDB in combination with CouchDB. That's what Hoodie uses.

But I don't see why you couldn't try GUN if you wanted to. It's disturbing how HN seems to demand a kind of "brand loyalty" regarding technology. Just use what works.
> It is more than sufficient for the 99% of devs that need key in hand data structure and good enough performance (Meaning faster than 99% of over programming languages already).

I really don't get this argument. If you don't need pedal-to-the-metal performance then why are you using C++ in the first place? (Unless, of course, your answer is "legacy code".)

C++ is being touted as being high performance, but basically every standard data structure besides `std::vector` is garbage for high performance, pedal-to-the-metal code. And not only data structures - `std::regex`'s performance is bad, `std::unique_ptr` doesn't optimize as well as a plain pointers, no vendor has a best-in-class `std::hash` implementation (they're neither DoS-safe nor the fastest), etc.

> BTW, you will very likely have to do that in any language anyway. Because it is impossible to design fast forever-living data structure. They (almost) all become obsolete when architectures evolve.

Do you, though? Rust already replaced their standard hash map implementation with a completely different one which was faster, so it shows that it can be done.
Yes... and it's amazing :)
I really didn’t think this got to the heart of what makes time being the only real currency such a great insight.

The rest of the article goes on to deliver, frankly an opinionated way for young developers to act to maximise on their time.

I really think this is short sighted and honestly all of that can be boiled down to having the ability to scale yourself effectively.

It’s basically about Kaizen, continuous improvement, but perhaps ironically that takes time.
You’re thinking of CSS Logical Properties, and they are super cool: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Logical...
Dr Ignaz Semmelweis had this ludicrous theory, back in 1846, of “cadaverous particles” causing high deaths in women who had just given birth. Despite evidence that it worked, he spent the rest of his life trying to get people to listen. The doctors of the day were so threatened by the possibility that they were the ones killing their patients that they rejected the practice.

We haven’t culturally evolved much further it seems. ”Wacky” ideas are routinely rejected by mainstream science; eg ulcers being caused by germs rather than stress, and can be cured as such. What societal changes need to come about that this doctor doesn't have to make YouTube videos for a month?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Most operating systems these days show you a "Do you want to open/give access to this app to make changes on your computer?" prompt or popup. We then click "yes" while rolling our eyes for the inconvenience. The end. :)
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The Micro:Bit doesn't _have_ to use the Internet. It runs MicroPython just fine with upload of a local serial line. (I believe that the Scratch base, that I've never touched, also runs locally, and uploads over serial.)
Are you able to address this point that comment made?

> users who objected to the telemetry found bugs that caused data to be recorded even when disabled.

> KDE's response was to ban said users from reddit.com/r/kde and call them "paranoid schizos."
After reading a few sentences, it felt the same for me. I always feel alienated by blog posts that try to hide the fact they're an ad by pulling off a "hey, we're just like you" stunt.
> It's cheaper to reuse the same USB 1.0 controller chip than update. That's it, the dirty secret.

How can this be for high end gaming keyboards that retail for $150-$200 or more?