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Read my other comments. I'm not disagreeing with you or the other poster. There's a possible misunderstanding in what I'm saying here.

We're all blind in certain sense. I'm thinking people like you who were possibly abused cannot see the other side of the coin. Can you imagine a bond so strong that for parents with abusive/toxic children there is no choice.

If my child was a psychopathic killer, I have to love him and support him until the bitter end. I have many choices in life such as the choice of committing a crime or refraining from committing a crime. The choice of risking my own life to save another or watching someone else die.

For my child, I do not have a choice.

If a parent-child bond exists, I think it's the strongest bond in all human relationships. Many mothers describe it as taking a piece of your soul and letting it walk around outside of your body. It doesn't exist in all cases but when it does exist there's nothing else like it.

But obviously not every parent and child will have this bond, I'm sorry if you or anyone reading this didn't.
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Anyone in different time zone that our parents are, how do you effectively deal with it? I have about 10hr time difference and whenever I have free time either they are sleeping or I have to stay till late hours at night. Not great.
Tested on Java versions ranging from 8 to 14, Burningwave Core is useful for scanning class paths, generating classes at run time, facilitating the use of reflection, scanning the filesystem, executing stringified code and much more...
I actually tried it on my laptop.

That’s why I pointed out the 2 cases.
I'm one of those people with moderate throughput production applications using Redis as a primary store (500-2000 requests per second); in a multi-region active-active setup without redis enterprise no less. Its a very real use case at a LOT of companies.

Favorite datastore to date. The only thing I wish for frequently is native global change-data-capture without doing something manually with streams (I've thought about writing a replication protocol consumer, but the way resync's are handled is a little problematic)
I think it’s tough to say and tie it in directly. My understanding of 2008 is that the over valuations were tied in with residential Real Estate and the associated MBS’ (mortgage backed securities - the owners of the loans). Everything else was largely contagion and concern around the sanctity of the financial system.

The subsequent crash and economic calamity was focused on home owners, and existed within the financial system more broadly, not just stocks/equities.

Maybe a better example is the dot-com bubble - many investors thinking that “the Internet was going to take over” etc etc pets.com. So the thesis at the time was tremendous growth rates for questionable business models. Once it was evaluated as a “bubble” =~= overvalued =~= these set of companies will never make back there money -> a stock price correction occurred.
Its possible to put in a solid effort and fall flat. For natural reasons, such as the limits of our intelligence or institutional reasons, i.e. I lack access to the tools to work on my passions because they're highly regulated, expensive, etc.
> and if they don’t work out of the box, the average user gets upset.

Adobe tools are specialized and not for the average user, getting upset doesn't help anything, should MS be blamed that designers can't use Sketch on Windows?

Average (read: least common denominator) of users needs MS Office, Skype, Dropbox etc. Some work and some don't on Linux. Hardware compatibility isn't completely solved issue on Windows or on Linux. My relatives couldn't upgrade without issues to Win10, so that machine went into the dumpster after a couple of drilled holes through the hard drive. Such a shame, environmentally speaking because it wasn't slow, RAM could have been upgraded (stationary i5 Haswell CPU and Intel graphics) and could just have bought an SSD. But they couldn't be assed to "upgrade" to Linux even though I offered my help with this, simply just went to the store and got a new Windows 10 machine. It is a commodity after all. Too much precious time can't be "wasted" to learn Linux and Windows is "always the same".
It turns out the majority of things people work on are a critical and fragile component of the supply chain of an essential good or service.
There is a difference between being forward-looking and being able to predict the future.

Nobody thought the American economy was going to shut down, until it became clear that was going to happen. That was when we hit the circuit breakers.
We wanted to make everything clear. We do routing using Radix tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree) and we call it routing tree. BTW, more documentation are on way to be added
phone calls (POTS voice) are better than text, thats not only my opinion, but also for those on the receiving end of the call
Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10289890/how-to-write-io...
I agree that metrics should be tied to actual individual income and not the stock market or GDP. (As an aside, my cynical belief is that we've always known those to be poor metrics but we use them anyway because they measure what people with power actually care about). But keep in mind that even median income is not a good indicator of economic standing with high cost of living. Whatever it is would ideally capture how much spending/saving power is left over after essentials (warmth, shelter, food, water, health etc).
Partly, that's where the "discounted" part comes in. The further out a profit, the less it factors into today's price.

The other part, and this took me forever to realize, is how much "expectation" matters, in the sense of information. If on Monday, I flip a fair coin to decide whether or not to dissolve my business, and then tell you what the coin landed on on Wednesday, then the amount you'll pay for a share in my company on Tuesday is going to be incredibly different from what you'll pay Thursday. Noting for the business changed between those days. Only your perception changed, but it's insanely important. That's a reason swings can happen so near-instantly. The company's finances don't change that quickly, but the information available to investors does change that quickly (like on an earnings call, or after the release of an investigative report).

So in 2008, the near future was weighted heavily and not rosy ("intrinsic" values go down), while investors realized they'd been wrong about their expectations (market prices go down further).
In my experience, the problem largely stems from, and the people to blame are, in-fact the arrogant atheists that use science as an argument against anything non-rational. You know the type I'm talking about. And to be clear, I'm not saying there aren't those times on all sides, but here me out.

It reminds me of a video I came across a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDu2dgTT5t4. It's a debate between an atheist professor (from University of Arizona?) and a christian professor (from MIT?) where they polled the audience at the end to determine a winner. The prompt was not "does God exist". The prompt was "does science refute God". The atheist spent the whole time trying to disprove God by saying he'll believe in a god if the stars align and send him a sign. The christian spent the time arguing that it doesn't matter whether anybody believes in god or not. Science is simply not a tool that can be used to make any statements on the metaphysical, whatsoever. And concepts like religion, morality, ethics, etc. only make sense in that realm.

My two takeaways were 1. how annoying it was that the atheist missed the subtlety in the prompt and insisted on trying to disprove God rather than discussing the actual prompt of whether science can actually study things that aren't observable. Perhaps maybe that's the definition of a true rationalist, though. And 2. how sad it was that the audience also seemed to miss it, voting for the pompous atheist at the end. As far as I could discern, the atheist failed to provide any argument leading to the conclusion that science can refute God, irrespective of whether anyone believes in a God or not.

Which brings me back to my point: things should not have to be scientific to be valid, socially. You should not have to argue that psychology, or economics is a pseudo/soft science in order to validate funding it. An archeologist or historian should not feel invalidated if they need to sprinkle in some interpretation to connect dots between the facts at hand. In fact, applying scientific method to domains where it does not apply is at best wasteful and at worst counterproductive. The whole "science vs the arts" mindset is a false dichotomy. There's a lot of useful knowledge to be gained that is neither rational nor strictly artistic. But if we reduce it to that socially, then you need to argue that you pursuit is someone rational and scientific in order to justify it to peers, etc. And I do blame the "asshole atheist" for that reductionist mentality.

I think everyone should read some Thomas Kuhn. It's interesting to look at what happens when the popular rational dogma itself changes. Rationalists and even atheists are equally susceptible to dogma. And sometimes it's not about whether you're right or wrong. It's having the humility to admit that there might be another way to skin the cat that ultimately leads to real progress.
Article in Vanity Fair about a computer scientist who plans on submitting a paper for peer review at some point in the future.

I wear a mask, but I have no illusions about how unsettled the science around doing so is.
Actually I don't think I skipped over that. I explicitly mentioned "spinoff technologies" and in my analogy to digging a hole in your back yard I said

> Arguing that it'd have good effects like increasing your fitness and "who knows, you might strike gold!" isn't really a convincing argument for me to dig up my yard.

What I mean by this is that I don't think that the spin off technologies or discoveries from high energy particle physics research (i.e. the fitness you might gain by digging up your yard) are a valid justification for doing it.

Spin off technologies and discoveries will be found in almost any research endeavour, including other particle physics experiments that aren't just "build another collider, but bigger", they're not a justification for the research, they're a bonus.
How would science be applied to determine that prices should exist?
That may be true, but the evidence mostly is pointing in the direction of undercounting COVID deaths. In northern Italy the official death count was less than half of "excess deaths", with the worst-hit areas having the most excess deaths. Certainly some of the excess deaths are due to people avoiding hospitals, or higher stress levels, but a lot are due to COVID deaths at home, or undiagnosed COVID deaths. Also, we still don't really understand this disease enough to know what effects it has on the body. There have been reports of people with COVID having strokes at much higher rates than would be expected for the same age demographic. It will be hard to tell which complications were coincidence and which were caused by COVID until later on when we have more data.
Pretty sure it's this: https://www.crossies.com

Related from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250659
That's just so factually untrue it's hard to know what to tell you.

Do you understand how corporate boards work? How large shareholders get their own board seats? How boards hire and fire members of the management team?

The idea of a toothless board is a complete fiction. I don't know where you got the idea, but it couldn't be more wrong.

(Perhaps you're confusing it with boards where a single shareholder has more than 50% of shares, thus making the board largely irrelevant because the shareholder controls it. But even in that case, the CEO effectively reports to that shareholder, and there have been many, many, many cases of underperforming CEO's being fired. It happens all the time.)
Friends of ours own a cheese farm (as well as a dozen cheese shops in Amsterdam), and they're also struggling. They keep making cheese because the farmers supplying them cannot turn off their cows, but sales are in the gutter, especially since tourism has always been a big part of their business.

So they're just dumping their cheese now at extreme discounts, and are focusing more on their webshop (I'm not entirely sure they even had one before; the webshop could be entirely new), and they donate a lot of cheese to food banks.

They make some amazing, interesting cheeses, and with the discount, they're extremely affordable, so we're ordering cheese from them and sending them to people who could probably use some cheese in their life. It's a nice way to help two people at the same time.

If you know where to look, this crisis offers some great opportunities to learn about local companies and supply chains. Stuff that used to be business-to-business, or have other reliable customers, is now looking for new customers. Of course lots of people have enough trouble of their own to discover this. You need to be flexible to adjust to the crisis, but it's hard to be flexible when you're suffering. So reach out if you can.
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> Windows has been trying to catch up but with every step forwards, you also hear of things like "ads in your OS" which just sounds entirely backwards.

You still don't get ads in WordPad so there's still way to go.
I had a very hard time understanding why this setup was so widely accepted during the last corporate welfare program in 2008/2009 when the amount was in the $500B range.

I’m now at a complete loss as to why there isn’t more of an outcry when it’s in the $3T range.
Well, you can't live inside stock certificates :-)
When school buildings reopen, will remote attendance remain an option?
I'd agree...

It's also for speed to market... Our Infra setup where I work is extremely slow and at times takes over 1 month to setup a database.... and a VM about the same.
This is not at all the situation. Reality is the 1% (wealth) making the 10% (income) pay for the 90% (both) to support their investments with consumption and debt.
Definitely in compiler, but also in daily JavaScript as a way to avoid deeply nested callbacks.
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Thank you for sharing this! I’m always grateful to read some of Dalio’s thoughts on the future.
FWIW my dad and I are also political opposites. While being a gifted physicist, he also believes in some crazy crap like faked moon landings, 9-11 truth, etc.. We don't talk every day, or even every week, but when we meet up for coffee or drinks, our polarized opinions fuel interesting debates. We also both know when to pump the breaks when it seems we reach an impasse.
Thanks a lot! I look forward to your feedbacks on the product itself as well.
even HN is getting bizarrely disconnected from reality

Notice what gets downvoted.
Former DBA here ... you don't disable fsync.
> Code should be compact and functional, not airy.

I would have to disagree for similar reasons to fooker.

> It breaks copy & paste, ... not for actually communicating about code or writing tutorials.

I posted it in another respond, but my research shows retyping code can be beneficial for learning. This extends to pre-internet coding books where that was the only way to recreate the code and Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" [1] where he explicitly states "You must type each of these exercises in, manually. If you copy and paste, you might as well not even do them."

[1] https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/intro.html
Is that 86% figure a portion of the public market, or of the entire market?
If I may provide some unsolicited feedback, if you are targeting the United States you may want to check the use of the word quotations in this context. I’ve not personally heard “quotation” used this way, so I wasn’t sure what the software is for. Maybe proposal or quote or RFP process would resonate more? (I googled “salesforce quotations” to check myself on this and indeed do not see any results using it that way)

Could you explain on the marketing site what type of business this would be best for? Are there other workflow tracking features?

For grammar, there are only a handful of things which don’t ring quite true for me as a native speaker, like “stop losing your time” which for its prominence on the page seemed worth mentioning. Others might think it sounds fine, but that felt awkward to me compared with “stop wasting time”, for example.
Still have very find memories of exploring, have been waiting ever since for another realistic open world game based in London.
not sure why the title of this has changed. previously it was "Ubuntu Studio: Progress on Switch to KDE Plasma", which while it does not match the title on the linked site was informative as to what the post was about.

it is now "Progress on Plasma" (matching the site), which given hn's diversity could mean near anything. the context is easy to figure out if you're browsing ubuntustudio.org, but difficult to figure out if not in that context.

I've noticed quite a few of these changes lately, and understand the request to "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize", but adding context to a very generic title isn't editorializing.
We do have microlensing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_microlensing
Why do people write article with false premises just to make readers click and state opinions and argue? Oh yeah, it's click bait bullshit.
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Amusingly enough, the spelling of the original word became very easy to remember after seeing that, and the phrase that I made up to keep that was "two asses in a nation".
Yes, all this, plus most of those out of work today are doing fine because of the stimulus and additional $2400 a month in unemployment from the federal govt.

I know family members who are making more at home now than they do when they are working.
IBonds are linked to the government-approved CPI and the basket no longer represents “true” inflation which, in my opinion, should include the increasing cost of housing, education, medical insurance, etc. rather than cheap stuff outsourced to foreign countries to manufacture.
> What possibly changes that often that you have anything to tell them about on a call that frequent?

When the cadence is so high I don't think it's so much about getting updated information as much as just seeking their company ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you're only building a small "bunker", it's not that expensive to build down there. Just a backhoe, a few hours, 6 sides of concrete and a tin roof.
A good and talented friend of mine produced a similar book: https://www.amazon.com/Willoughbys-World-Wonder-Stephen-Barn...

Don't forget to click the "See all 9 images" link for what I hope you will find to be a treat. (In the interest of full disclosure, I have no financial interest in the book - however, I did buy a copy myself.)
All of the above should (hopefully) improve with time: vaccination (which will take on the order of years and not weeks or months), more effective treatment, more learning about the disease and risk factors, more ventilators and PPE produced and more widespread testing.

The US is especially poorly suited to deal with a lot of people with a life-long debilitating illness from damaged lungs.
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Any recommendations? I've been eyeing the wired Expert Mouse from Kensington
I've worked as a web dev on Linux for nearly 15 years (most of it Ubuntu). My day job requires that I work on Windows 10 and I'm sorry to say this, but from a developer's perspective it does feel like an inferior user experience. To cope I've tried the WLS, but it didn't really do it, then I was able to somewhat cope a bit with Cygwin. Still it's not the same. I miss the extra desktops. I miss the ability to install a proper tiling window manager with sane keybindings (I use i3 so please don't even mention Power Toys). I miss simply configuring stuff with simple text files, instead of pointing and clicking to open layers after layers of windows to simply change one value, which can also turn even the simplest tutorial into a headache (try installing a wsgi server on IIS). I also miss having my configuration respected without agenda, rather than seeing some applications somehow capable of vetoing my choice of a browser, or my language preferences. I miss ubiquitous utilities that are just sort of expected to be there by anything you install, like cron. Oh, how I miss the shell (please don't even utter "PowerShell"), would you believe that I even miss Bash as a language after trying batch files?

I miss a whole lot of other things and looking for replacements on Windows, it's especially annoying that everything that MS produces is promoted as the next best thing to sliced bread, so you're never really sure if the solution you're being sold is just pure shite, or if it's really worth your time. And on that note, I would never believe that I would miss the capricious Linux community, because it doesn't matter how good Canonical gets it on a release, we're guaranteed to have laments about the millions things they got wrong this time. But it's only when you decide to take a stroll on the neighbor's grass that you realize how green yours really is, right?
also known as privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
None of the epidemiologist or public health experts have ever said the mortality rate is that low.

It obviously varies by location—during the peak in Italy, it was close to 8% in the Lombardy region.
> explain to them patiently why their views are wrong

Good luck with that. Best I think is reasonable to hope for with that much of a gulf is to model the attitudes you believe in, and hope the other person eventually comes around. Don't think anyone with radical views has ever been convinced by someone explaining - calmly or otherwise - why they're wrong.

As to the OP's question of whether he's obligated to talk to his father, with whom he shares no interests and disagrees on strongly-held beliefs, multiple times per week. My answer would be a hard no, but that's far from cutting him out of his life.

I agree with you that it's emotionally beneficial to have a connection with your parents where possible, and that OP could try to have contact with his dad. But forcing it on a very regular basis when it's unpleasant and uncomfortable seems counter-productive.
Facebook whiteboard interviews are flawed
Looks great. Congratulations.

(Hopefully constructive) feedback:

1.) Why only four currencies? Now I can't use it. Netflix has helped normalize credit card usage all across the world, so your potential market is huge, but you've only targeted four countries. I don't get that.

2.) All price/currency fields have placeholders in the format 0.00. When I click on one of these fields, I expect it to go blank so that I can enter my own price. So I just click anywhere on that field and start typing. If I happen to have clicked after the decimal point, and try to type in 2000 (meaning $2000), the value I end up with is "0.200". This is unexpected behaviour for a form field, at least for me.

3.) In your quote entry form, you need to widen the tax % field. When I enter 0.09, the 9 is half cut off.