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Nobody paid my mother to raise me well. Nobody pays me to call her, or visit her. Nobody pays me to coach my younger siblings. Nobody paid that one great teacher to cultivate a love for programming in me, when just doing okay was enough. Nobody paid that one guitar player/singer who left a lasting impression on me with his song.

Nobody pays for my girlfriend to show affection to me, or spend time with me. Nobody pays... you get the point.

So many of the best things in my experience have not been quantifiable, or in fact even actively hostile to commerce. That guitar player was not getting paid, but he wanted to play because he liked the vibe of the bar. For all I know he was good enough that he usually gets played. I know that some of the top performers in my country (stadium-level audiences) would do so at no cost at this bar, randomly, and if you were lucky it was when you went there for a beer.

I do hope you don't really see the world as a matter of finances and payment. It's depressingly reductive.
>I fully expect to see of the room to come back ( even if it is with a fee ).

Is that really a good thing? The market has spoken: people clearly prefer money in their pockets than a few inches of extra space for a few hours.
I don't think that comment is a call for war or anything like that.

They are expressing amazement at those saying "it's all fine - lets go back to normal". The "9/11 everyday" is referring to the daily death toll (it's slightly lower now, but the point is well made).
I clicked through on the comments to this because I'm looking for something similar to Draw.io and now I know about Graphviz as well. Once again, serendipity provides.

Even if a particular project isn't that interesting to me, the landscape surrounding the project may be. The community here provides some context for the world this project lives in and that's pretty valuable, IMHO.
I don’t understand this move - right now is when the US economy needs business-creating immigrants more than ever.
SQL for Smarties tends to have a nice coverage of common problems encountered and how to resolve them.
What do you mean by bets? Things I'm so sure will happen that I'm actually willing to put money down, or stuff that I think will happen to a decent degree?

And do you mean in any particular field or about life in general?
I did not get any contact, so I guess you do not need my help.
Yes, I should fix `sed` to only match end-of-line.
WASM is entirely different from Svelte/React. WASM is a compilation target for native-code languages, and can't interact with the DOM except through JS shims.
You'll know they're serious when they do the same for H2A/H2B.
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This is the syntax used in todo.txt, which I've found works well, especially if with syntax highlighting to guard against typos. You're right that it would be harder to parse, especially if you carved out an exception for digits and special characters to account for the examples you mentioned. I'll admit that I'm not especially well positioned to weigh the benefit of syntactic sugar versus the development cost of parsing, so perhaps you're right.
How much H1-Bs account for jobs in US ?
Doubling of cumulative cases in 6-10 days, after adjusting for increased testing, is not that far off from Rt=0.94. Even Rt=1.1 still falls within the uncertainty interval.
Interestingly, employers prefer to layoff citizens before h1-b’s because of the illiquidity in the h1-b system.
My best guess is that it will end up somewhere between the extremes. I don't expect to get on a plane this year if only because I don't expect any business events I'd normally be traveling to will be on. I certainly hope they're back next year and, if so, I'll be traveling.

That said, I don't expect there will be a vaccine by then and of course there's no guarantee how effective a vaccine will be. Not all vaccines are especially effective.
Ah thanks for the clarification !
Tangentially related point - I've had several recruiters contact me through my Github profile (I have my location on there). While I don't know if really it makes a difference having a link to it on your resume, it can be a source of opportunities.
Sept/Oct the central banks can't save economies from the 2nd wave of covid-19 and the markets fall 40-50% in 7-10 days time.
This is quite wishy-washy but in my experience the magic of type driven development is feeling like you’re working with the computer.

You can achieve this with other languages (e.g. Smalltalk), but many of the most popular languages feel more like inanimate tools (some very good ones!).
> Is it all just... human inability to calculate risks and our focus on the "flashy"?

I think this ^

Plus, on the ground we think we have control... someone sick comes on the bus, we think we can 'escape' from the bus on that (or next) station. Same with general safety.... if you drive a car, you think you're invincible, and that your superpower reflexes and supersenses will predict anything happening around you, and you'll be able to avoid any accident... but on a plane, engines stop working, and there's literally nothing you can do, sometimes for many minutes until you (probably) crash and die.

Of course, statistics show different safety numbers, but for most people, statistics is about "them" and not "us".
On the other hand, you have seen the mighty US army not being able to suppress a few guys wearing flip flops in Middle East. So, if things get real nasty you won't have people "begrudgingly returning to their jobs". If that thing is possible to happen, there would BE no revolution in the first place, as the conditions would be not harsh enough.
But sadly, it doesn't work like that.

Let's say I render a reflective vase in V-Ray and use NVIDIA OptiX denoising. The ray-tracer will cast a few specular rays so that some pixels will get super bright from having a direct reflection of the light source, while other pixels will not yet receive specular illumination. The OptiX denoising will then blur things out, so that the entire vase is equally brightened up.

But that quick preview looks so significantly different from the final rendering result, that it is effectively useless and, of course, highly misleading. In the final result, only the parts of the surface where the curvature is "just right" will receive specular. In my preview, everything will.
I'm all for using standard and documented libraries provided they follow the rules of the language, and I don't think Scala goes against that - if anything "microlibraries" that do one thing and do it well seem to be more common in Scala than in Java. What I'm objecting to is frameworks that violate the rules of the language and require their own special understanding, even if those frameworks are well documented.
True. This might all be statistical fudging.
I pretty much only ever use my Surface (which is quite old now) for RDP'ing into my office desktop machines to give demos - usually via a 4G connection as a lot of places I visit don't have a public wifi network.

Only problem I've ever had was when I accidentally pulled the ethernet cable out of one of my PCs as I was leaving to give the demo....

Edit: Only other problem I had was constantly losing the Surface video adapters - solved by attaching the adapter to my Surface power supply cable with a cable tie.
Also, I think the rest of the world is headed this way under US based MMT weather they like it or not. Meaning the USA spends at will in their countries as well as its own states and just backs off once they have inflation.
Just copy 9/11, invade a country that borders China /s.
The low rate of spread is due to lockdowns. Once things start opening back up, herd immunity will happen quickly.

I don’t understand the rest of your post. Why does the fact that herd immunity will cause deaths and other health effects mean that it’s not going to happen?

(Edit: also, I don’t think it’s relevant, but FWIW that 4% number is CFR, not IFR. The best estimates of the true death rate are under 1%.)
Is any American firm even hiring internationally at this point? I imagine the only H1-B processing going on right now is for transfers.
This lecture contains a similar graph on asset prices - he uses returns from the S&P for the period 1871-2013. The book really is worth a read too, it's more accessible than the lecture or slides might indicate.

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/336523/speculative-asset-pric...

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/shiller-lecture-s...

The comparison is between the actual stock prices against the constant discount rate of subsequent real dividends.

Day to day prices are unforecastable, and it's not really understood what drives pricing in the market.
What you say sounds more like "to hell with those beggars who can barely afford current fees. Air travel should become a luxury as it used to be in the past".
Go buy a ticket in business class if you want a better service and leg room. It also goes with that warm "I'm better than the tramps several rows behind" feeling.
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First, flying is usually an optional thing. Commuting is not.

Also, I have flown maybe 50 times in my life, but only been on a packed subway maybe once? Not the same for most people.
Installing PiHole is copy pasting a shell script. Raspi is introducing a lot of new users to the linux community.
I spent several months with JS off by default. I relented after one too many broken sites. Since then, I've suffered from sites with HTML popups, autoplaying videos, and not one, but two "subscribe to my newsletter" prompts which trigger when you move your mouse to the address bar.

Disabling JS by default severely reduces the ability of websites to pull user-hostile tricks (though it breaks web apps). No website (presenting static information to be consumed) should ever break with JS off, and any site that does is defective. I won't extend this to web apps (interactive dynamic functionality like Google Docs) though.
To a degree I feel discussing this is a distraction of my basic point (we have become productive enough even in just a few decades to indulge in these experiments).

But honestly I think it's a great point. Our taxes did not go down, as far as I know. I'll check in one of the coming days, but I'd be shocked to find out it did...
There are going to cut routes and make us drive further to fly. Consumers aren't going to accept higher prices to fly and airlines aren't going to continue to fly at a loss.
Great point. I hope the drinks don't get even more expensive!
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If you mean to equate wearing tinfoil hats with employing a blacklist-by-default Javascript policy I'd gladly hear your reasoning. I'm sure it would help others not confuse your point with vapid shitposting, as well.
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Me too! Good to see some people voicing both sides
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Would love to hear what you think!

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Airplanes are private so the authoritarian left is happy over regulated them. Buses and trains are usually public, so no one dares talking bad about them.
I generally don't use those terms. I was just saying they exist for a reason.

I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board of HN. My gender continues to prove to be a barrier to effective networking here and I have been here nearly eleven years and between my old account and this one I have over 50k karma, which would put me fairly high on the leader board if it were under one account.

I'm not acting like race or gender are "the determining factor," but my experiences in the last decade or so make it painfully clear that a factor like gender can be stubbornly hard to overcome, no matter how hard you try and all that.

I made it my hobby to try to get articles to the front page of HN while I was homeless. I hit the leader board about a month after I got myself back into housing without going through some program and then I changed my handle. So for various reasons when I share my thoughts and observations on things like poverty or gender issues, some folks here are interested.
Flying on planes isn't a right.

If planes are going to be empty anyway, and the ticket prices have to go up anyway, the airlines may as well differentiate themselves with better customer service.

Sheesh. I'm a lefty too but not everything has to be class warfare.
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That's 32-bit DOS, not the same.
I don't think we know enough to decide why markets swing wildly around the actual return, but that they do is demonstrable fact.
Do you really propose a manufacturer like Apple is going to grant continuous access to the GPS receiver in their phone to the providers?
UBI would have helped me. I am building plastic recycling machine in my free time and I am also helping communities build their own machine.

If there was UBI, I'd have completely focused on developing the machine and helping others around me full time.

Here's my project: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Now my project is successful, I've given away tons of face shields and also made $4000 by selling filament on on e-commerce websites.

It took me a long time to get here, UBI would have definitely made it faster.
I’m very curious as to what you’re working on. Is the language open source?
Estimated to be 400,000 mostly in IT.
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If transmission on the air plane is the risk you worry about, I agree that it doesn't appear that different compared to other risks associated with going outside.

However, travel obviously takes you to a new place, where the every day risks might be much greater or at least less well known than the ones you have to accept by virtue of just staying alive where you live.

Further, you also have the risk of being stranded due to local outbreaks closing borders at some point during your trip, making the duration of the trip itself uncertain. Not many people take lightly the risk of not knowing when they can get home from their vacation.
A plane costs 200mil and a bus costs a few hundred k. I don't think it's "flashiness" ... It's cost.

Also, arguably we over fit tragic experiences. Because we lived through 911, we made sure the exact same thing would be hard to repeat... We didn't make it much harder for that type of thing to happen
Real-time has a few slightly different meanings. So it's hard to say what the author means.

One meaning is just that you can guarantee specific deadlines. So if your programme can react within an hour guaranteed, that would be real-time. (Though usually we are talking about tighter deadlines, like what's needed to make ABS brakes work.)

For 'real time' music usage you wouldn't need strict guarantees, but something that's usually fast enough.
When businesses and stores are even partially open in transit-centric cities, what choice do people have? Even if more walk/cycle, that can involve a lot of crowding too. There's no way that people somewhere like Manhattan can maintain separation from each other indefinitely--other than moving out of the city.
To much IT jobs for sure
I've always felt like the vast majority of apps do not need to be on React. It's too low-level. Surely it makes more sense to just use a framework like Next or Ember, where you can focus on developing your product functionality (what sets you apart) rather than bikeshedding on routers, build configs, developer tooling, etc.
It doesn't. You can access all Objective-C features from C, it's just a bit of a pain. There is a C interface to the Objective-C runtime.
>> Eg: Why did Uber choose marketplace model instead of a fleet, how did zapier decide to pick a specific niche while starting off, etc

For this type of thing the easiest thing to do is look for interviews with the founders online, either in youtube or just old articles. You would be amazed at what you can find.

>> 1) Failure post mortem.

Not aware of any companies that do decent failure post mortem but you can find lots of startup failure post mortem on sites like this one[0].

[0] https://www.failory.com/interview-failure
No - rich Nordic countries have an obligation to open borders due to their wealth, relative privilege and the climate emergency that will push everyone up northward into these countries
Keep in mind the device "lapability" improved a lot in the subsequent iterations, for two reasons:

- the kickstand is now freely adjustable, you can set it at any angle (there are no pre-determined stops)

- the keyboard "sticks" to the bottom of the front side, this both gives the device more rigidity on your lap and improves the typing angle

I have never used an OG Pro, but I've used an RT and the difference is night and day
Most cloud / Android / iOS software which is free as in beer isn't libre. Which is where the consumers are the product.
I don't know about you, but on a plane I'm definitely closer to other passengers for longer periods of time than I am on most metro rides. It also exposes you to people from a geographically wider spread, and many of those people have likewise been exposed to people from even more different places earlier in their trip.
At what point does living in a airport become a crime?
Also the pretty obvious quantization noise which sounds as if the effect had a wide bandwidth, which is impossible with their op-amps at these gains.
UBI would be cheaper than the current system (in the UK at least, but likely other countries as well).

First off, those that are currently entitled to most benefits would be getting UBI instead, and those that are not currently entitled to (most) benefits would be getting UBI and paying it back in tax.. so in theory its the same cost, less the administration and means testing.

Its also high return as its mostly spent on the basics when it isn't directly taxed back, so the money changes hands (taxed) several times within weeks. But also savings from the health service (10 billion spent each year in UK on preventable poverty related disease) and on courts and police (another 5 billion spent on petty crime directly related to poverty -likely not the full figure). Or as mentioned; the massive possibility for profit as you free up millions from demeaning repetitive low tax jobs to chase their dreams and entrepreneurial ambitions or higher education, as well as a permanent stimulus to the economy replacing much of the bailouts currently needed.

IMO we also really need an automation tax, as more and more jobs are automated the extra profit can't/shouldn't be focused on the few, though this wouldn't be necessary for UBI.

edit; I also want to add that back in the 80s early 90s, the UK welfare system was basically a guaranteed lifelong income. People were still falling over themselves to get work, i remember 10K applicants for 50 ICI jobs (low wage long hours).
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> but only been on a packed subway maybe once

Can you explain your situation? Naively that sounds like an incredible feat!
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I wonder if anyone can help me please? I'd like to take an image and vary the intensity of the channels separately to show different features. Ideally I'd like to be able to do this in real-time but a batch process to spit out individual frames which could be combined into an animation would be fine. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might achieve this please? I'd be grateful for any help.
At my old place we had some automation around this. Essentially our custom resources was mostly just the python scripts and then any deviations from the basic custom resource definition. Made life a lot easier.
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But how much food can you buy with all the things you've listed as something you didn't get paid for? How much rent can you pay? How many plumbers, electricians can you call with your mothers love? You can strike a deal with an electrician, to call them or visit them, if they want, but if they don't, you have to offer them something they want - usually that's money.

You can still do all that, but you're expecting other people to do paid work, the government to take away a huge chunk of that money, and then give it to you, so you don't have to do paid work, and call your mom.

You can still play your guitar (or do whatever) for free, just for the love of doing that. But if you didn't get people to give you money (food, services,...) for your music then, or for you calling your mom, etc., you cannot expect the government to force them to do it on regular basis, if you play/call, or even if you don't.
A transfer of wealth would indeed be an issue. But I am wondering, would UBI give more people the option to live outside large cities, given that the scarcity of income is no longer an issue? And as such the demand for rent would go down? Will try and comment less, because debate on HN gets heavily penalised unless it conforms to certain patterns. But yeah UBI and inflation / transfers of wealth are an interesting topic.
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Because it’s an abusive program. What you’re describing is a problem, not a curiosity.
The rate of infection you refer to is probably the rate of detected infections. The true infection rate is probably higher. What else do you suggest than herd immunity? The only other solutions I see is containing the virus, which is very hard at this point, or developing a vaccine, which will also take some time.
Your link describes accuracy in an imaginary, optimal case to be ‘can see which block you’re in’.

Sorry, that’s not even close to the data they show in the article, where they can pinpoint the cage someone is watching in a zoo.

Makes sense of course, otherwise, why even have a GPS receiver in the phone?
C# is a fringe language?
What are you talking about?
> The problem is that, as far as I can tell, there is no language with zero-cost dependent types, i.e. a language with dependent types that has a subset equivalent to Rust that compiles to machine code as efficient as the Rust compiler outputs.

AIUI, dependently-typed languages don't really have a fixed phase distinction between "compile time" and "run time". The type checking pass can involve execution of "run time" code (this is one way to understand why these languages are generally not Turing complete), and "run time" code may be required to somehow build complex code like a JSON parser "on the fly", depending perhaps on user input.

In practice, some systems have a "code extraction" component that's intended to filter out the "irrelevant" parts of the code and transpile it to a conventional programming language, which obviously reintroduces a separate "run time" deployment step. This could definitely be done using, e.g. Rust, provided that the issues due to a lack of general GC in that language are addressed too.
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Nah... the 0.5l bottle of water will still be 3EUR.

But the mandatory 'bottle steriliziation fee', will be 5eur more.
Unfortunately, it often seems like "low barrier to entry" means "no prior effort invested" even if it means knowing basic logic notation which is taught in gymnasiums
No, that's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm talking about the fact that most flights are useless or vain. Global warming is real. Increasing the fare would discourage needless trips, while also improving customer service for those who need to get on a flight.
If I were confident that I wouldn't catch it, and wouldn't pass it on to others, I'd have no trouble flying just now.

I suspect most airlines are going to go through bankruptcy, but those which emerge may get back to flying normally next summer, it depends how the disease progresses this year and what treatments are devised.