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Independent contractor, self employed, and gig workers can get unemployment now because of the stimulus bill even though they aren't normally be eligible. If you are making substantially less than before you can get partial unemployment, and it could make sense to quit working and quarantine given the benefits and your economic prospects. I agree that this won't work for everyone though. The bay area specifically has more people with jumbo loans, and these are not federally backed and part of the forbearance program. The cost of living in the bay area is higher, so this stimulus will not go as far as many places. The cost of healthcare is still a concern if you get sick, even with insurance.
Yes this this is a very common strategy, not only in tech but many businesses
Trust means something fairly specific legally. A group of businesses that team up to, in theory, monopolize a market is a trust. A cartel would be when those businesses are all the manufacturers or suppliers, leaving, for instance, retailers with no other recourse but to pay the higher prices that the cartel sets.

I think what you're thinking of with Amazon is more of a monopoly. I'm not sure they really need to team up with other businesses.

EDIT: Yes. I know that Amazon does not fit the legal definition of "monopoly". I was only saying that if we bend the legal definition of "monopoly" a bit in just the right manner, Amazon would fit. Whereas Amazon would never fit the legal definition of "cartel", or "trust".
Let's say that you failed to gain the skills necessary get a job back then. Would you prefer the worst case scenario of having UBI vs not having UBI? Do we subject some people to homelessness to keep other people motivated?

My thoughts are those people can find something else to drive them. I bet at some point you will likely get bored or depressed of simply playing video games and watching anime all day and you'll seek out challenges for yourself.
I can't find any evidence of this with a search. Was this a joke? I can't tell.
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Really though the governments planning has been very opaque. Even now they don't seem to give any clue on what is going to happen once the declared lockdowns end.

Also government is keen on pushing a shady app for monitoring purposes, I home some one does a security audit of that app.

And the police has been acting in heavy handed manner. Instead of seeing this is a health care issue, the government seems to view this as some kind of law and order issue, and turned the whole country into a police state, putting countless people into misery, especially migrant labourers with hardly any concrete scheme put in to take care of them during this.

There has been serious lack of empathy and care towards the citizens from the government. Government seems to act to preserved face and reputation, rather than for the peoples welfare. Testing rates has been low, also testing is slow, it seems to take 2 or 3 days for people to get their test results. Projections, analyses etc has been hardly published by the government. Also many people have been testing positive more that 30 days, after they have arrived from out of country, that is still yet to be explained by the government.
I don't think there's a bright line dividing systems programming problems between GC and non-GC languages. We use Go extensively at FullStory and it works great for a large class of problems. Rust has a compelling story for spaces where GC makes life harder or just isn't feasible. I will say that Rust being usable without GC does seem to put it in a better position around interoperability than languages with a GC, since composing language runtimes and GCs properly is a really challenging problem.
Vertical integration, even to the point of being a vertical monopoly (which they aren't, because you're not locked into other services, they're just cheaper and more convenient) isn't necessarily anticompetitive.
Well, if the data isn't sent to a central location, then how would Palantir access it?
> C is about giving you maximal control over memory, with a very thin layer of abstraction over the hardware.

Which suggests an avenue I haven't seen anyone take yet: Pick a subset of features common to sane hardware and write a language which gives access to those features in a way which is reasonably portable and as explicit as C.

Pick a spot midway between a macro assembler and a language with a complicated optimizer and give as much access to the hardware as possible while not wedding yourself to a single ISA. Make cross-compilation a first-class feature using a module system, and error out if the programmer tries to use SIMD intrinsics when compiling for an MSP430 or something.
Sorry. Too much booze. Also, someone on the Internet was wrong. :-/
IMO this is a horrible case design - why make it round so it rolls around on your desk? Can't stand it up right, etc. It is not an object that you continuously hold in your palm, then why not make it a box? Add draft angles to help with the injection molding process.

Industrial designers are continually chasing organic forms for no reason at all from car interiors to headphone cases - functionalism takes a back seat, fancy presentations to executives impress and sexy curves appeal to the masses.

It is almost as if we've forgotten how to design things from the ground up - functional aspects should define the form. Earbuds are fine though - they need to be ergonomic to sit in the ear.
Can you cite any instances of this "fragility" being abused? There have been very few instances of voter fraud. Fraud in elections is common, that's how we end up with criminals and liars in charge...But election fraud is virtually non-existent.
Are the other frames lower resolution? The short videos are quite low frame rate. On iPhone X at least you can choose a different frame to use as the “main” photo. They don’t seem to be lower resolution.
CSPAN is already broadcasting the house and senate floors today, and committee meetings. There is no worry about breach of sensitive information, you could literally turn on cable TV and watch it before. e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/watch-us-house-panel-holds-h...

There are some closed door hearings with sensitive information, where such security precautions would be needed, but that’s no excuse for not at least restarting the hearings and actions that would have been public before.
It's certainly possible to tax the average person $1050 monthly in order to pay that average person $1000 every month, but i really just don't see the point. There are just not enough rich people to transfer $2.5 trillion from annually.
I wrote about almost the same experience I had in a previous thread that happened to me a decade ago.

In some seller categories, you are required to show Amazon where you purchased your items. The excuse is that they need to make sure they are authentic.

While this may be the case, Amazon will most likely use this information to go around you and put you out of business. In the re-sale business, sources are your best guarded secret and competitive advantage.

You aren't really building a business anyway. Amazon doesn't allow you to access any real customer information, you can't communicate outside of Amazon's communication channels, and you will get banned if you include any advertisements for your own business/website.

When selling on Amazon, you could sell there for a decade and have nothing to show for it.
I gotta say as a meat eater, maybe we can cut back at this point in time. I mean I won't like it either, but still.
I agree we need modernization. Do you have any links to how we can provide vote tracking/verification and voter eligibility while maintaining anonymity? It seems this type of system would work well for some other subjects.
I think the difference might be in that startups often do not have their own dominant & profitable products that they can leverage to undercut the profit in complements.
No thanks, the internet has fundamentally changed society. Software companies can now steal software and hack everyones machine on an unprecedented scale.

The last 20 years of PC gaming has been one of theft and grand larceny by steam, valve, EA and co. We used to get dedicated servers and level editors in games.

The internet allows companies to steal software from the point of production, because 2 or more computers in a network act as a single machine. So that means the internet is one giant world sized computer that companies de-facto own and control because they now "issue commands" to other nodes in the network.

We now live in a digital authoritarian society where we must get permission to use our software and have no privacy if we want to participate in the culture.

AKA the internet has been the greatest force for software theft and dispossession in all human history.

Because of the criminal way in which IP law was coded the public never got any property rights and this has created the greatest human rights disaster in all of history.

DRM in the OS, apps or games is literally you living in an open air prison and CEO's and government orgs can literally spy on everything you do.

Windows 10 is a case in point. There's no reason for client-server software anything for a home user.
As far as I can see, the article has no links at all to the actual product?

Adding some might help with goal nr 5. :-)
While I agree with your point, and this doesn't change that, saying most of this country is rural is misleading. Rural areas cover 97% of the nation’s land area but only contain 19.3% of the population (about 60 million people). And only 9% of that 19.3% live in what is classified as very rural, meaning their entire county is rural. [1]

[1]: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210...
So the previous code wouldn't compile unless the compiler knew what values were going to be passed into whatDoesItReturn?
There's more nuance than that, because sensors have a certain fixed amount of area, given a resolution, dedicated to control circuitry. Larger sensors make the control circuitry a smaller fraction of overall area.
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Ask HN: Why does JavaScript sort() order numerical arrays alphabetically?
As you may or may not know:

>>> [100,11].sort()
Array [ 100, 11 ]

From the Moz dev docs[0]:

"The default sort order is ascending, built upon converting the elements into strings, then comparing their sequences of UTF-16 code units values."

I find this:
1. surprising: I am not aware of any other languages that do this.
2. inefficient: sort() converts everything into a string first.

I've looked around but could not find any discussions about _why_ this choice was made. Can anyone share any insight on this design decision?

On a more personal note, I have just wasted a considerable amount of time chasing a bug caused by incorrect usage of sort().

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort
How about, ask for an integer between 1 and 2. Can't think of one? Guess they're the same number then.
> The solution to most monopolies and other over-concentrations of market power isn't small-fry consumers attempting to compete with them directly; that idea doesn't even pass the smell test. The actual solution is some kind of government regulatory action, and the complaining you deride is part of the process to (possibly) make that happen.

You do realize that all the problems you listed exist because of regulation or can also be solved with regulation? Maybe instead of regulating how Comcast does business we should regulate things so it's easy to have many ISPs. That has a lot more benefits than trying to baby sit the one ISP:

* more jobs (many small companies are less efficient than one large company, economy of scale in reverse, leading to more jobs to do the same amount of work)

* better local community impact (decisions that impact the community aren't being made by people living somewhere far)

* more competition (better services, better prices, see some of the places where there's a lot of ISP competition are also the places that have the best cheap Internet and also overlaps with places with not very strong regulation, or enforcement, that directly affects running an ISP)

When I talk about relaxed regulation that affects ISPs I don't mean relaxed labor regulation (minimum wages, benefits), the bulk of the labor costs for an ISP comes from people that are payed much over minimum wage and get good benefits. But I do mean things like copyright strikes/enforcement and other Internet regulations, I mean things that control who and how can install wires, a fair market to rent existing wires and interconnect with existing ISPs.
Tiny minority? 100% of the citizens of Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah vote by mail. There is no other way to vote in those states, other than by mail.
> * Imagine that the famous vote on repealing Obamacare had been done remotely and someone had hacked John McCain's famous thumbs-down vote to be a vote in favor of repeal.*

It would've been corrected in minutes. McCain knew he was the deciding vote and the media firesform would've alerted him to an incorrect vote almost immediately.

All of these people have large teams monitoring their coverage and managing their PR. A voting mistake would be caught.
Something like consumer trust only makes sense if compared relatively to competitors, otherwise you're making a statement about the general public rather than about Amazon.
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Maybe so but the customer is king and if more customers move away then maybe sellers will move as well.
All of these papers used it: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AJ....157...98G/citati...
Right, but that's explicit in the license. On the other hand, it's broadly accepted that you can sell stuff that includes BSD-licensed works, despite the BSD license not explicitly saying you can.
I think you are more likely to be correct than the poster on principles. A marketplace model makes more and easier margin than being a seller.

However as any gigantic organization, Amazon is not a single minded entity. It's likely these activites are handled by totally separate entities with different employees and targets. So it's entirely possible that Amazon is pushing simultaneously for more marketplace and for more own selling actively sabotaging both aspects.
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dwitter gives you some built ins so its not 140 but its not significantly more. I am sure you can convert most posts into 256 bytes of raw html+js.
The changes I actually noticed: new versions of `zsh`, `curl`, Python, GCC, LLVM, kernel, and dnf. If you arent' using rolling modules, then you'll get a much newer version of Sway as well.

The new version of DNF features colored output for more commands.

The purge of stale python2 packages continues at a good pace.

EarlyOOM has also arrived.
I would imagine it would live in my pocket more often. In that case, the round design is a lot more comfortable.

I'm not sure why I'd want it to stand up-right on my desk either. It'd just accidentally knock it over.

To each their own.
People are largely forced to comply to the lockdown because police are often resorting to using of indiscriminate force, which isn't becoming in any modern country. Serious lack of empathy from the Police and Governments in India.
Woops, you're totally right, I think I should've said "sequence".
Hmm, I thought that because it was a diuretic that it would cause dehydration. I stand corrected - thanks for clearing that up!
Here's another source:
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos
Poor man typically doesn't have $10,000, what they have is $10,000 and a $200,000 debt.

And not all inflation is created equal. With QE, the printed dollars never make it to Main street, they end up inflating asset prices, while the price of butter stays the same. Whether that's a good thing is an exercise for the reader.
Ask HN: Does Google restrict your ability to conduct valuable research?
When conducting research on your desired topic, does Google search's flaws inhibit your ability to conduct the research efficiently? What are those specific flaws?
>What if you have 0.9̅4?

Well, you fundamentally can't. If the 9s go on for forever then you never reach a point where you can add the 4. The definition of infinity precludes anything after infinity, because it never ends so you can never get there.
What's misleading about "Amazon has chosen to go the Google route and only offer support if you can drum up a lot of attention on social media, even if you pay $5000 per month for a support agent"?
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no... latest Android, one of the snappiest Android phones I had. But I understand where you're coming from, it's typical experience with most Android manufacturers sadly, especially with Samsung where it turns into lagging abandonware 2 years in. I'll stick with it unless Pixel 5 is a compelling upgrade and returns the fingerprint scanner back.
These days when Sweden is often touted as “the experiment”, you can actually go there to see what e-commerce looks like in 2020 without Amazon. It might sound crazy but there is... no Amazon.

If I go to amazon.se I end up at amazon.de
There is no same day delivery of household products (like toilet paper). If I want a book I need to go to an online bookstore.

Why this is I’m not sure. But it’s interesting.
So far this is release seems really good.

Most of my experience is with Ubuntu but I'm really liking Fedora 32. Specifically I like the changes they've brought into Firefox; it's now using Wayland widgets by default and GPU acceleration with the Intel GPU that I have.

Anecdotally there seems to be less latency than with my previous set up with Ubuntu 20.04LTS (don't put much store by that as it is just an anecdote for now).

I also like the flicker free vendor boot screen.

I carried out a fresh install. Everything was seamless and quick against an XPS13.

It will be interesting to see what else is different between the two.
Do you think speaking the way you do is actually helpful or positively contributes to the conversation?
Dropping millions of dollars worth of ordnance on a structure built from sticks and clay by hand (or, a tent...)isn't a "sustainable" strategy. Insurgents get several advantages that make asymmetric warfare a truly brutal experience beyond just the cost.

1. Use of women and children as weapon delivery systems, or shields. (Former US Navy Seal Jocko Willink once described a reoccurring situation whereby his team would be clearing homes in a contested territory and the families would act "strange" until they realized that one of the "family members" was not actually a family member at all.)

2. There are no laws. They can deploy whatever weapons and tactics they wish against both our forces and civilians alike. We are bound by rules of engagement (which aren't as obvious or straightforward as they might sound) which severely handicaps our ability to just "go get the bad guys" even if we know exactly where they are.

3. Extremism. Whether it is religiously motivated or not, extremism leads to predictable results. It's easy for propaganda to spread and to vilify anyone, but it's much easier when there's an actual "enemy" you can see. That effect is multiplied further when we inevitably make mistakes.

War is hell. War should always be the absolute last resort. Unfortunately, the people who decide when we go to war aren't the people who actually have to put their lives and limbs on the line to fight it.
It's called a value system. Some things are valued more than others in certain cultures.
? Just because there is nothing between two numbers does not mean the two numbers are equivalent. What nonsense is this
As a counter point, the case is getting some pretty high praise here.

https://youtu.be/rcfItdQddZE?t=71
I can agree on the points you made about the system not having any need to be efficient, a government ran system is just not able to be lean - but as far as people just getting whatever they can for the heck of it, that's probably not the case.

Just from personal experience, I don't have copays or much in the way of direct monetary costs (I'm not American) and it's not like I'm out there grabbing free drugs and surgeries. There's a cost other than money to everything, time and effort and rehabilitation and fear of the unknown and so on. As another example my retired parents have messed up knees and hips but they don't feel it warrants the hassle/risk even though it'd not cost them anything to have surgeries, there's more to it than just financial consideration.

Health savings accounts doesn't seem that great though - I don't know if I'll ever have health issues so if I'm socking away $x00/month I'm removing that from the economy betting against my health. Assuming a somewhat capable health care system I'd rather pay that amount to the government in taxes so they can leverage it now for someone else and if my time comes, then I don't have to worry about dollars and cents and what I can afford.

Also if the government had the money from everyone now in the form of taxes instead of individuals socking it away, it'd be more able to purchase equipment and hire doctors well in advance and the local hospital may have better capacity to cater to my needs.

Just my two cents.
I used public shaming on Usenet once, in the Computer Shopper era, when a vendor kept telling me “next week” on the motherboard I ordered. All summer. The system was going to cost me a huge fraction of my income for that year (student, gift from family) but I wanted it for career advancement. And in fact had cost me, because they charged my card immediately. So I was furious.

Three hours after posting a fair but damning report where all the home brew people hang out and I get a manager on the phone and some sob story about how they probably shouldn’t be selling that hardware anyway. I didn’t disagree.

And even then I had to go to the bank anyway and reverse charges because they tried to charge me a restocking fee for hardware they clearly couldn’t even get their hands on. What are you restocking?

I ended up using the money to move to Seattle instead, which was at least as good an investment.
From their SAS - Core program FAQ:

"How many accounts does each account manager manage?
Each account manager manages between 12-15 accounts. We limit the number of sellers that each account manager has in their book of business so they can focus on optimizing your account and helping you reach your business goals."

So up to $900k/yr of the revenue made by each of such managers. Yet they are either nonresponsive or not helpful. Not sure what to think about that kind of business...
It's as much nonsense as someone saying "infinity plus one is bigger than infinity!"
That's the main problem with tmux in my experience, whenever I open an issue or a feature request on tmux github, the devs say it's a terminal issue. I then open the same issue on the terminal github and the devs there say it's a tmux problem.

Perhaps a solution could be combining a terminal and tmux into one product, so there would be no more excuses, however I don't think core devs are interested in getting a proper mouse support working in tmux.