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I'm Asian. I just applied for several grants specifically for minority owned businesses.

Yes, Asians are over represented in colleges. Being Asian won't help you in your admissions.

> I implore you, in the meritocratic tradition of the hacker culture, to speak out against affirmative action and support Asian kids who want to pursue these passions.

How are you unable to pursue your passions-because you didn't get into your first choice school?

> So, if I want to go to a good school, I shouldn't study computer science, even though that's what I want to do, just because of the way I was born?

Speaking of Asian stereotypes--going to a good school isn't really that important in the grand scheme of things.
Very concerning that this comment is downvoted so heavily.

Edit: the author seems to have removed his comment, which was a long list of studies on education rate, incarceration rate, etc. for African-Americans in the US.
Ask HN: How to Master Poker?
I know nothing but I hear is a great fun game to play.

How did you learn it?
what's the best way to learn the basics ?
poker tips?

Thanks a lot.
I found the chroma key implementation, but this seems to assume you have a green screen or similar: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/plugins...

I thought GP was asking for an implementation of background removal without a green screen.
The problem is that these "leading indicators of success and failure" aren't. A late team struggling to meet a deadline might be a sign of imminent failure, or it might the team working hard to do something that is genuinely difficult to do.

The core problem with Agile (most forms of software management) is that it massively overweights "first mover" advantage. I keep hearing, as a justification of agile, that software needs to be delivered quickly so that the company can go to market first, and gain marketshare while its competitors are still floundering. But, in practice, that's hardly ever true. I can't name a single product that succeeded solely because it was on the market first. I can name many products that were first to market and failed because they were clunky and difficult to use.

Heck, Apple's entire business model consists of being second to market with a product that is more polished and easier to use than its competition.

Yes, if a developer or team is well and truly stuck (as in spinning their wheels on the same problem, week after week), that's a problem. But you don't need Agile to tell you that. A simple weekly status meeting with incremental demos is sufficient. The only thing Agile does is create a bunch of graphs that allow management to comfort themselves with "story points" and "velocity" so that they don't have to confront the hard reality that they have no idea what it is they want to build.
We have a real-world experiment going on right now - East Asia vs. the West. The result is clear despite other variables like population density being very much in the west's favor.
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Not so for the default mode in LaTeX.

It tries to guess which periods indicate end-of-sentence (based on whether the next letter is capitalized) and will add additional horizontal space accordingly, unless you tell it not to by declaring your document uses “French Spacing”.

(Edit: and my memory may be serving me incorrectly here, but I recall 20 years ago having a support package that also detected double-space in the source as another indicator of end-of-sentence, but that was probably a non standard extension.)
I wasn't trying to hate on quickbreads- banana bread is too good of a dessert to throw shade at. It just doesn't strike me as something particularly practical in a discussion of supply chain shortages.

To be fair, I was coming from the viewpoint of not being able to find things long-term and using what you can grow and source locally, but that isnt practical for people who live in cities.
The GraalVM system/tooling itself, for generating native code from JVM was a big download/install - the generated binaries, I can't speak to too much.
Without have the ability to merge two files that have started from the version and then diverged, git loses a lot of its usefulness, IMO. Unfortunately it's not trivial to merge the type of files that other professions use (eg: images for marketers or drawings for architects or even standard .doc word files). Not to say that conceptually it shouldn't be possible to merge the files, but the tech isn't there.
Learn how to count cards in a deck and look at face cards already dealt. You can guess what cards are in what hands if you do that.
Thanks for sharing this; I will be trying this out for searches that don't work well on Google.

Millionshort allows you to remove the top n most visited sites from your search results. I'm expecting this to be useful for surfacing more blogposts and fewer SEO-optimised websites.
"many people are willing to take some risk now that the pandemic hasn’t turned out to be plague-levels of badness that some initially feared"

Without expressing an opinion of my own, how can you write as though from a twilight zone without causal relationships?

I mean, you, or anyone, can doubt that the lockdown is necessary. You might be right!

But you must acknowledge and challenge the causal connection between the lockdown and "not plague levels of badness". Comments that just ignore the possibility creep me out, because I can't imagine what the writer is thinking, except maybe "wishing will make it so".
how is that these comments are being downvoted when they're beyond a shadow a doubt verifiable certainties. how can you possibly disagree with reams and reams of data on this.
This would've been great a few days ago when I was making officer decisions for a student club of mine. I had it narrowed down to approximately 10 candidates but the process after that was painful due to the balancing of factors like technical expertise, leadership experience, free time, etc.
Hey, I'll drink it?
The virus has shown that a relatively small number of humans wielding incorrect models (disproven in mere weeks!) were able to influence the leaders of hundreds of millions of people.

After the first human ran a four-minute mile, that feat was repeated by other humans. Don't underestimate the lessons learned by the non-winners of the last two months.

More than a few HN readers could work from home and people in some states are about to make very different choices from their neighbors in other states. Time will tell who wins. If you listen to the rhetoric, it is claimed that some will literally die because of the policy choices of their governor.

It is true that past behavior does not support the migration theory, but the near future does not (sadly) look much like the past.
Would you expect anything else from the distro that rammed half-baked versions of systemd, pulseaudio, and unity down users throats?
Seems pretty cool. I originally thought from the name that this would post the questions and then let users vote on them, but this is well-made.

As a note, your label for the highest level of importance should be for="factor-weight-4", currently two labels point at for="factor-weight-3". This means the wrong radio button is selected if you click that label. But props to you for actually using labels and inputs properly so you don't have to try to click on a tiny radio button.
What's novel about this?

If you have a background picture, you have all the info you need to identify your subject - just plain subtraction. I think this is what the Photo Booth app on my circa-2012 MacBook does, quite effectively.
My liver is indestructible!
I always uninstall snapd, too.

Inspired by this post I checked what is actually offered as a snap.

This one surprised me: https://snapcraft.io/aws-kernel

Who can explain me how I would use a kernel running as a snap?

Well, last updated 2017, so I don't think I want to try that one.
Depending on the size of your files, burn a burn of duplicate DVDs or BDs. They have the longest lifetime in cold storage tradeoff vs equipment/money investment. Period. Store those disks in a fireproof bag or box and they're pretty much there for a lifetime.
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I remember our first computer (a 386SX16/20) which my Dad bought sometime around 1989/1990, started out with two 5.25 inch floppy drives – a 1.2MB drive and a 360KB drive, so we could write 360KB disks without corrupting them. (My Dad thought this was important, I guess it was somewhat back then.)

Soon he decided we needed a 3.5 inch floppy drive as well. But he didn't want to give up having both the 1.2MB and 360KB 5.25 inch drives. The existing floppy controller only supported 2 floppy drives, so he went and bought a new one which supported four floppy drives. The chassis had enough drive bays to fit all three floppies and a 40MB hard disk. We had to make some changes to CONFIG.SYS (maybe an installable device driver??) since BIOS/DOS couldn't detect more than 2 floppy drives by default.
There were some serious complains around upstart. Notably, jobs may get stuck in a bad state, difficult to recover. This was never fixed. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/96420..., https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/406397 and http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2012/09/29/upstart-job-gett....
I thought it was a euphemism.
“Executives say draft beer typically stays fresh for between two and six months.”

Need to work on this.
I wonder if the personal image of car ownership isn't being diminished.

An upmarket car used to be an indication of your financial status, now it just shows you can put your signature on a loan application. The flashiest cars in my neighbourhood are parked outside the housing association properties.
The choice right now is 'stay inside or die'.

Just 'wearing masks in public' is obviously not a solution or else we'd be doing it, or someone else would and we'd have evidence that it works, but just the opposite.

Without a vaccine, our options are extremely limited.

'Universal Contact Tracing' with testing follow up is employed in Korea and it's the only solution that has been shown to work (other than total eradication like Taiwan, but you need very strong borders for that).

So 'right now' if we had our act together, we could probably start to loosen up, so long as we had contact tracing - and teams ready to follow up on those 'positive tested' so that their contacts can be traced etc..

Just like with everything, there are winners and losers.

It wouldn't cost much to get granny a SIM+cheap mobile, and let her know all she has to do is 'keep it on' for her own safety. She can do that with some help.
Having spent most of my time on Arcus, it feels like SmartThings and Arcus are at least conceptually similar. If IRIS had invested more resources into an API and exposing a lot of the internals, they might have had a chance at attracting more technical users. For example, the rules engine and device query system could have been extended to allow more custom automation, and I suspect they could have built out an other "bridge" to provide an API for home-build integrations. However, the IRIS team seems to have been to focus on a relatively small number of things that were exposed to the user, and tried to get them right. I feel like it's a reasonable platform to built on top of, but brings a lot of non-trivial complexity.
You may be able to store 1 TB in S3 deep glacier for $1 per month, but it will cost you $90 in bandwidth to do a restore.

I recently had a RAID array rebuild fail and had to restore 10 TB from cloud backups. That would've cost me $900 on S3.
Hmm, that thought never occurred to me.

I had assumed that having specific interests would help me because I knew exactly what the school had to offer (courses, concentrations) instead of a vague "I want to go to your school because it has good CS" / "I want to go to your school because it is prestigious," where other high schoolers may have difficulty thinking of what to say. However, the admissions officers probably never heard of PL, which hurt me.

But, how is wanting to go to a school because of its strength in PL theory any different from a kid who say, likes AI and applied to a school because it has a strong AI program, or a bio major applicant who's really interested in molecular biology or something? I wouldn't think that people would see these kids negatively. (I'm not trying to argue with you, you bring up a possibility that I hadn't realized and I want to consider it.)
Awesome thank you! I'm up near the twin cities; the saint paul board game meetup goes to a lot of breweries and I prefer that vibe too. I like the game aspect but I think the social part is important too. I'm hoping to move this year, but a lot of that depends on how long the pandemic lasts unfortunately. I'm happy to hear there's some good groups. I don't mind traveling a little bit to meet up, but I'll check out the north side a bit more if it's nerdier.
In Xubuntu 20.04 no snaps are installed by default. So you can simply uninstall snapd or just leave it there.

However, if you want to use chromium-browser you are out of luck. It is no longer available as a .deb package.
It’s a science problem. More specifically, chemistry.
I don't think that's right, or at least maybe not for the colonies.

I grew up in New Zealand and my mother was very insistent that I spelled and spoke "Proper English", rather than American English. This was before Microsoft Word was popular and the source of truth for the English language, especially for my tech-illiterate mother. She also didn't like me using slang, especially the Kiwi tendency to say "sweet as" and put "aye" on the end of sentences.

Maybe it's a colonial hangover, trying to hold on to the British identity, or maybe it's because she had a less privileged upbringing and saw "Proper English" as a sign of higher status.
Do delivery companies actually pay IRS mileage rates and minimum wage, though?
The correlation is between countries who were harder hit with SARS. They were better prepared for this outbreak.

But it's also a good deal of luck. Test and tracing works until you miss enough people that you get controlled community spread.
Oh no! China fears the terrible might of Tesla, which sells fewer cars than even the smallest domestic manufacturer!

More likely, China will simply steal Tesla's technology, share it with domestic manufacturers, and tell Tesla to swallow their medicine or leave the market, like they've done with every other foreign manufacturer that tried to dictate terms.
See https://web.archive.org/web/20171218122807/http://www.heracl... for a great article on the history of wider spaces between sentences — how there were two traditions of typography and things started to shift towards equal spaces in the 1930s–1960s (i.e. inter-sentence space being the same as the inter-word space). I'm even holding on my lap right now a book published in 1957 by a reputed publisher (Parkinson's Law — Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin, 24th printing) that uses wider spaces between sentences. As do of course all of Knuth's books (e.g. TAOCP Volume 4A from 2011).

For some reason, the other typographical tradition (which I suspect owes its ascendancy to William Morris in some way) is dominant today (which is fine), but the way they've nearly completely rewritten history (e.g. blaming “double” spaces on typewriters) is mystifying.

The current version of the relevant Wikipedia article is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_senten...
Hollywood is complicit with the deep state. The anti Asian propaganda is tied to their requirement of public support for wars in Asia starting from japan, korea, Vietnam, and now China. Look into the project code named mockingbird.
This is maddening reading this thread. What is the reason for a federal gov't but to coordinate such cooperation? It goes back to creation of the "United States"! (this is hypothetical question, not one i expect you to answer)
People in my office (well, formerly) have been buying kegs straight from the breweries. They were intended for commercial and now are sold to consumer and delivered by the same trucks.
I don't understand the need to remove it, if you don't like snap, just ignore it and don't install anything from it. There is no harm keeping them instlaled, right?
And critically, ensure there aren't really enough details to evaluate the proposal.
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You work at a hospital, you're required to get a flu shot. I don't know how long this has been the case, but I can say firsthand over a decade.
It's always cool to see all the interesting people that are on HN. I imagine without this platform, unless I went to CMU, I'd probably never get the chance to even ask you this question.

I agree with you that having some method to recognize those who have faced systemic obstacles and overcome them is extremely valuable, especially when considering how these things are pretty much impossible to quantify purely through something like GPA or test scores. What are your thoughts on affirmative action based on income rather than ethnicity in light of this?
That's definitely my impression, and to my knowledge, OBS doesn't offer it. I'd be thrilled to learn otherwise.
Why does rand() repeat numbers far more often on Linux than Mac?
SmartFence! It could zap the wearer when they get within 6 feet 6 inches of another human. That ensures no crossing of the six foot boundary and cuts down on expensive quarantines and contact tracing. Also teaches obedience and deters shoplifting.
Young people, barely sick with Covid-19, are dying from strokes
A compelling integrated GPU would work wonders in the laptop space. Intels iGPUs are too slow and discretes are power hungry and buggy when switching back and forth.
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"They see the current crisis as a way to extend their power over people, and intend to do that as much as they can get away with."

Where is your evidence for this?

While it's always a risk, I see people trying to mitigate a crisis the likes of which none of us have ever seen.

There are literally billions of people locked in their homes and there is no feasible plan to get out. 'Contact tracing' Korea style is the only proven option on the table.

There's no reason to believe reasonable operational elements can't be put in place.
We here in South Africa, we have actually banned the sale of alcohol and cigarettes while in lock-down for almost a month now.
Of course we are going to get another TSA agency. This one comes right after you finish walking through TSA, FSA checks for viruses in your system.
>> I implore you, in the meritocratic tradition of the hacker culture, to speak out against affirmative action and support Asian kids who want to pursue these passions.

> How are you unable to pursue your passions-because you didn't get into your first choice school?

I meant that people see Asians liking math or CS as a negative thing and it feeds into the stereotype of having no personality, when there's nothing wrong with liking math or CS.

>> So, if I want to go to a good school, I shouldn't study computer science, even though that's what I want to do, just because of the way I was born?

> Speaking of Asian stereotypes--going to a good school isn't really that important.

It's not so much that I want to go to a "good" school than that I wanted to go to a school where PL had a presence. It's about my interests, not prestige.

In fact, there were "good" schools that I didn't apply to because they didn't have PL, which in hindsight could have been a bad idea given the advice I've received to get a well-rounded education in undergrad and only specialize in grad school.

And being Asian has nothing to do with this. Non-Asian kids also obsess about prestige, going to the Ivy League, etc, but only Asians get the flak, which is where the racial double-standards come in.
The website Asymco http://www.asymco.com/category/asymcar/ , run by Horace Dediu is a great resource for understanding the declining utility of cars. In many ways I feel like the automobile industry is linked with other industries, causing it to lag behind. As of now there is a slow pace towards newer technology, but the energy industry and automobile component manufactures do not seem to follow as enthusiastically.
I can’t read the article due to the paywall, but I hope it went into the science around heat and oxidation as well as the regulations preventing breweries and distributors from buying back the kegs. Maybe it even offered a glimpse of hope from post-processing via distillation
...So the Dalvik VM sucks?
Grandiose statements with zero technical details make this sound a lot like "Theranos for Viruses".
Most craft beers, especially those high in terpenes (dry-hopped IPAs come to mind) have flavor drop-off relatively rapidly and are best consumed fresh. Monkish, Fieldwork, Other Half, Tree House etc are some of my favorites but they’re usually bursting with flavor the first two weeks or so. “Drink Fresh”
With opengl, libuv, and libcurl, and Dear Imgui, I can write a C program resulting in a binary that's about 400kB unstripped, to put 5MB in perspective. And for a simple program like what you wrote, I don't even bother trying to free the memory myself sometimes, I just let the OS free it when I exit. With that design choice in mind, the end code is like <1000 lines, and a decent bit is reused snippets.

In the end, this feels like a an appraisal of IUP and Janet more than a demo of anything new. If that's the case, then familiarity with your stack is more important for this kind of productivity than anything else, so trying something new is less appealing to me.

But I was curious about Janet, so seeing some examples was nice.
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We are not better off as a group that's socially acceptable to disrespect and hate on in American society. There is nothing to be proud of for that. Why can't Asian Americans ask for the same exact treatment American society gives to other minorities? Why do you talk of that treatment as a negative thing? It's good that people can't freely say the N word when speaking of African Americans. Do you disagree?
In theoretical physics, "why X" stands for absolutely nothing more than "please derive X from some other principle". Some people will use Y to derive X. Others will say that's not a real explanation, you really should use Z to derive X. And yet others will flip the derivation around and say that X really is the fundamental principle, and use it to derive Y and Z! (The route one takes depends on what one views as "more fundamental", a metaphysical notion that nobody agrees on.)

It's completely fair if you don't think any of the answers were satisfying, but it's not like there's another option on the table.

A lot of laypeople think that a truly satisfying answer must be mechanistic -- something like "there's an invisible jelly everywhere and it wobbles at a finite speed, and that is the speed of light" -- but the 20th century taught us that this completely natural desire is actually counterproductive, because you have to add piles of epicycles to hide the jelly's other effects.
What about macOS? So far Racket seems like the easiest solution for a lisp with easy cross-platform GUI support (Linux, Mac, Windows). It would be nice to have more easy choices, but also nice if all 3 major platforms were supported.
I wouldn’t plan on reopening the nation, since it was never closed from the top down to begin with. Individual states, and in many cases cities and counties, made the decision and continue even now to enforce rules different from one another.

Hawaii is an island, thousands of miles away from the rest of the USA, so why shouldn’t it open on a different schedule?

Even China, ground zero for the crisis, close and reopened different providences, districts, and even neighborhoods independently.
A very similar event was done in 2019 with Lindsey Stirling and WaveVR, so the tech is certainly there.

https://vrscout.com/news/lindsey-stirling-vr-concert-400k-vi...