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> The rich aren't obligated to hand you money

> use your own money to support open s...

Why should he feel obligated to support others?
Afaik, they dont. There are few money maker teams and the rest of them is financial loss.
The timing of this with the mixed messages makes me think that Washington tried to dupe TSMC/Taiwan.

Washington waited until the new fab deal was done before putting TSMC into crossfire. If that's the case, it probably backfires and the US must make hard choices.
Tidelift is one of a dozen similar ideas, the problem is all of them rely on the OSS contributors to self-market, and for most of us, you might as well ask us to go jump in shark-infested water.
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But how come people have different pain thresholds then?

I did a bunch of research on pain some years ago, and in order to "standardize" it, one would apply a treatment when the person said pain was greater than 7 out of 10 on a scale.

If pain were measurable "objectively", this wouldn't be necessary.
15 years ago I was on a date with a wonderful young lady. We had a picnic and I brought my (at the time) very modern projector to watch a movie, projected on a bedsheet in the woods. Windows Media Player refused to play the DVD. No internet access at all. I thought I had failed...until I remembered that I had installed VLC. Opened the VTS.VOB on the DVD directly and boom, the video started and played back without a single hitch. I was a tech hero that day.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for VLC!
>Taiwan is a country of 24 million people and had, on the same date, 440 cases and 7 deaths, or 0.3 per million. With no lockdowns and relatively good weather

Wait, what?

Taiwan did take a lot of measures, including punishments for people violating the quarantine, which goes well beyond the shutdown measures he's complaining about.

>Among those early decisive measures was the decision to ban travel from many parts of China, stop cruise ships docking at the island's ports, and introduce strict punishments for anyone found breaching home quarantine orders.

>Couple fined NT$300,000 (USD $10,000) for breaking 14-day home quarantine rule

>Government announced the spread of fake news on epidemic can be fined up to NT$ 3 million (USD $100,000)

So he wants the western world to emulate Taiwan's response, huh?
So the first one has indeed become an insult (if it wasn't all along...)

The second and third are also insults. Whether the Chinese government pays posters or not, the fact is that the terms are most commonly used in an insulting and harassing manner against anyone that has posted something deemed too "pro-China".
>>> If lockdowns worked as advertised, then we would not expect to see such enormous variability in the reported death rates.

Quite the leap.
Also, check out FastAPI, which is quite nice. Fully async with a lot of other nice features:

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
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Almost for django:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/async/
Thanks a ton for all the great work you and the team put in!
P.S: Most people I know refer to traffic cones as VLC :D
I never felt I was earning worse than on US, while enjoying my 30 days vacations, home office, unemployment support, health insurance and having a privileged life above many of my friends in "regular" (non-IT related) jobs.
You stop. Stop using $current_panic to justify trampling the parts of the constitution and the parts of the system you don't like. These are legitimate questions that need to be answered or we'll just be in a worse place in the future.

It's so transparent; any time there's some crisis, whether it's terrorism or guns or drugs or a pandemic, there are always people calling for us to ignore the actual issues of our system and ram some "fix" through because this time, no seriously, this time it's life or death and we have to act.
This link at the bottom of the readme is incorrect fyi. I'm too lazy to create a pull request sorry.

https://littleballoffur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/intro...

--->

https://little-ball-of-fur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notes/in...
Yeah, they aren't interested in pursuing this. Phish on.
> On the other Hand people like Dr. Erickson get censored, because they simply dare to question the lock down

Erickson, among other things, makes provably false statements about the prevalence and mortality of covid19. You’re allowed to be misinformed as a private citizen; you’re not allowed to grandstand in public as a physician and spread misinformation. He’s lucky he only got deplatformed, rather than have his license taken.

You make it sound like he was expressing an unpopular interpretation of the data, rather than actively spreading untrue assertions.
Same here. About the only time when by browser + mIRC + WinAMP + IM + Visual C++ 6.0 combo slowed down was when the VC++ was compiling the game I was working on. I would then close the IM, because doing so would speed up the compile times by 1.5x.
> But now I had to upgrade my RAM.

But I can't. My ram is soldered on. How many tons of carbon dioxide should I emit so that you can use React? There are ways to do declarative ui/state management without dom...
Pretty sure that’s how it will end up being, eventually, in the same way GoogleMaps had to buckle.

I can see the smartest countries providing a standard webservice: you-private-company-using-geolocation will have to query a certain area, and get back a shape that you must blur or otherwise suppress. Access to the service should be heavily logged / throttled to avoid mass-scanning, and obviously “customers” will be vetted and forced to sign onerous NDAs. You don’t like the service constraints? Tough shit, here is a law that says use it or be fucked.
It used to be like that the first couple of years but the newer systems never give me that and feel very accurate.
Relevant comment that argues in this direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23221295
The idea of end-to-end encryption is just too broken. You always need to make sure that the implementation of the idea isn't controlled by the vendor from which it is supposed to protect you. But it is pretty much never the case, all the WhatsApps, Signals, etc. control implementations, updates and openly fight against attempts to decentralize or weaken that control, making sure that ultimately they are the ones deciding whether they get access to your data or not. At best it's just acts as a regular encryption with the vendor.

And while there is definitely no hope for binary blob consumer software to ever have real end-to-end encryption, there is hope that it could happen for open source software, distribution of which is not controlled by software vendors with many competing parties that package and ship it and an incentive not to sneak anything in because of that.
While I was aware these were largely a relic of the Little Ice Age, I hadn’t realised how rare they were even then. Nor had I appreciated the confluence of factors that created them, including the narrow arches of the previous London Bridge.
You might like Baldur Bjarnason's link blog: https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/

He always seems to have interesting links to good blog posts.
Yeah, the scammers ordering their stuff are only getting the good stuff. Don Julio, 1942, Johnny Walker Blue, high-end wines, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059662
Shrimp scampi at the deli by me is like $16. Ordering for a family of 4 with just 2-3 meals a week would easily cost $5k+
A lot! The script is similar (circles and more circles), and when I watch Malayalam movies, I pick quite a few words.
I use Podcast Addict every day, I would even say that is my most used app on android. I work listening to podcasts and PA is the best app for those who like highly customizable software. You can change almost everything.

Its sad that we are in a situation where a company can dictate what we can install on our computers/smartphones. I know we can sideload apps on android, but the majority of users doesn't care about this and just give away its freedom to really own the device in exchange for the easiest way to operate it. And every day we walk towards lesser control of our property and more dependency of those companies.

Another problem is that developers can, without notice, be locked out of their incomes for whatever reason without ways to properly appeal. Those who can, we should consider supporting the developer Xavier Guillemane on Patreon, at least until this situation gets resolved. The amount of work he put on the app, its probably his main source of income and I wouldn't like if he need to abandon the app development due to this. The lowest tier is just $1.
... and this post has now disappeared from the front page? It was #13 with 77 upvotes.
> open standards

Meh, a friend recently sent me this study from the parliament: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487... .

There is not much consensus regarding open standards, and the first plan of action would appear to be "a European firewall" (quickly renamed to the cloud for obvious reasons). So there will probably be some action, but I don't think it will be what many hope for. We Europeans may end up with a more closed, albeit more local, network.
Seems still in early stages but very plausible: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/republicans-urge-trum...
Something similar has happened before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955
Works like a charm for me. I can't even remember when I paired this browser. Must have been months ago.
Nope, there is zero support on Win32 sandbox and UWP, ICD drivers aren't allowed.
and is written by a single person, in Qt
That's an artifact of IP laws. The reason you don't have to curate your own mp3s again is because some service managed to find a way to give you a searchable, streamable collection of music that's also legal. But that in no way implies Spotify needs to be so bloated.
As long as you avoid the west coast, you should be fine as inflation adjusted price per square foot hasn't really changed [0].

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
There's already a PR to fix this, looks like there's a missing space after one of the minus signs.
People are thinking about this the wrong way.

Masks reduce R0 so much that in Austria the infection rate plummeted after Apr 6 when masks were required.

The lockdowns are a last resort, the result of a public policy failure to contain the virus.

The entire US establishment including the CDC, Fauci even Mike Pence said until mid March not to wear or buy masks. Mind you, not even the cheap surgical ones that are 50 in a box.

I have pamphlets in NYC written by the city’s health agency Feb 26th that insist there are no confirmed cases in NYC and the risk to new yorkers remains low.

NO ONE was willing to get ahead of this thing and look silly requiring masks when there was no emergency.

So the outbreaks were swift and led to exactly the lockdowns we were in now.

We will face this situation again as we emerge from the lockdowns.

We can’t rely on government to create a clear framework for businesses to follow. We need businesses to step up and sell a standardized solution.

At Qbix we are doing our part. Contact me if you want to help in your community.

Even the most staunch libertarian can’t say no when a private building enforces a mask policy in their lobby and in public areas like elevators. No amount of social distancing will help in elevators - only masks can.

But the stupid attitude is “a mask can’t protect me, so why bother?” No!! The masks are to prevent everyone from spewing virus particulates into the air.

Seriously this is the 21st century and several months after China got the epidemic, the richest countries in the world are still complaining about not enough masks.

Meanwhile in Taiwan the buildings are handing them out and you can drop them off. That’s how it should be.
I have always enjoyed sanic for my python apis

https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I gave a lecture in marketing at an university using that story.

To this day it is one of my favorites.
That probably applies to 共匪, but 五毛党 (50 Cent Party) or 五毛 (50 Cent) are reasonable terms that can be used to discuss a particular phenomenon and don't carry anything inherently insulting, the only insulting part is the reference to that group (so if someone considers that group to be immoral, then associating with an immoral group may be considered as an insult) - if everyone decided to call them "fluffykittens" then soon "fluffykittens" would be a trolling term and insult in some sense, but that definitely would not be a reason to delete posts using "fluffykittens". Clear nominative use should always be allowed. I mean, calling someone a troll is an insult pretty much equivalent to 五毛党 but we clearly want to be able to talk about trolls and trolling here, and we want to be able to call someone a troll even if that might insult them.

To invoke Godwin's law, calling someone a nazi is usually an insult, that does not justify deleting posts using the word "nazi" even when clearly using to associate someone's actions or behavior with nazis - a reasonable discourse needs the ability to equivocate bad actions with other bad actions, comparing them with appropriate labels, and there are actions where every appropriate label will be insulting simply because the actions themselves are bad, and every non-insulting label will be unappropriate whitewashing.
The problem is that they have to act across borders.

Examples:

In the EU you don't need to filter pornography the same way as in the US. In the US you don't need to filter personal information (eg individuals' faces) the same way as in the EU.

Or does Google need to ban insults of the Thai king?

Which legislation should apply? Already now China has split the global internet in a China and non-China part...
Many people on HN say over and over that Facebook is a private company and they can ban you whenever they want for any or no reason.

A company that behaves this way cannot be trusted of course. If I get banned I cannot know about closed schools and garbage collection dates? And with no way to appeal or get redress. Of course completely unacceptable.
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SEO is the problem. Most authors figure out at some point that nobody goes to their website. So, they move to different channels (linkedin, facebook, medium, etc.) and at best might cross post to their blog and those channels.

When it comes to reaching people, the odds are stacked against you on your personal website because of multi billion dollar companies optimizing for ad revenue and vastly preferring directing people to ad equipped channels of their choice rather than your website. This is also the real reason Google killed Google Reader: they wanted to capture the ad revenue and instead force content producers to use those. Which is why all news publishers bend over backwards to ensure their news shows up in Google news.

It's that simple. Any click that goes to your website directs the user away from their money making channels. So, they don't. With RSS readers, most of your potential audience will never find you unless they subscribed to your article or it randomly shows up as a link in some channel they follow. Getting lucky on HN helps. But most people don't get that lucky.

So-called influencers basically try to manipulate the odds by doing what they think yields the best results. That's why clickbait exists, why your twitter and facebook feeds are filled with crap, and why it is so hard to find channels that contain curated content. That's also why we all love HN.
I'm using and loving gitkraken ! A lot of git functionalities are accessible in one or two clicks. The UX is really well thought and I personally like the UI. I'm using it for 3/4 years and I'm sure everyone can improve and speed his git workflow by using gitkraken. Super efficient specially if you work with multiple repo / submodules.

Seriously, how can you work without visualizing a git tree like gitkraken does it for you ? I can't go back to a full git-cli workflow... I didn't find any equivalent or real challenger. The only drawback is that it's not open source and free to use with private repo.
Why do you think so? How do you know it's not the response to multiple attempts to put liability for content on platform owners like Google and Facebook? How do you know they did not respond strongly because most governments have declared state of crisis, which means more severe punishment, and punishment of things that would be OK otherwise (and of course nobody knows what that actually means, let alone all around the world)?
Thanks! I read that book and "Exactly What to Say". I found them both interesting but the individual managers at my company have little power. The rating and compensation is done at a meeting of all the managers in a the department. So I can make my case to my manager, but I have no real representation at that meeting.
Do people with split brain syndrome have an internal “stream of consciousness”? Or two? I’m not sure what the right word/phrase would be but I’m talking about our internal monologue or narration.
How did you power the projector? Did you drag a generator into the forest too?
Until recently, Vision Fund proponents had been able to point to paper gains as signs of the fund’s performance. The fund is now underwater [1].

Given how personally leveraged Vision Fund’s employees are to the fund [2], I’m curious what morale is like there.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-posts-9-billion-loss-f...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-lend-founder-and-em...
Meh I like his vision: taking insane amounts of dirty Saudi money and giving it back to the people
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I'm not using it directly or indirectly. The whole point of this sorting literature is a space-time tradeoff that's completely different from when you want an ordered map/index as the end result.
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I'm largely agreeing with you. My only point is that we shouldn't allow courts and corporations to become politicized.
> unpredictable

A short feedback loop (e.g. live preview) should take care of that.
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I suspect that the likes of Steve Wozniak and Dean Kamen probably already do some kind of financing albeit not too openly.

Identifying a Newton or Mozart is a bigger problem that financing them, I think.

It would be interesting to see what people like Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and have been offered by the rich to continue their work. They are worth billions but I suspect they only see a fraction of that sum.
Do you have other examples of this? I've heard this anecdotally over and over again, but I would be interested in reading actual instances where this is the case
Isn’t the whole beauty of Android that it is “open” and that you can sideload apps and you are not beholden to a “walled garden”?
> is it reasonable to recommend a video from someone who argues the lockdown is not warranted

So you're saying we should censor the President of the United States from Twitter?
As a 13 year old, I read this paper [0] by Lorenzo Ridolfi when it came out and it really inspired me to explore stuff like this. Every few years I'm reminded of it and I try recreating the programs outside of MATLAB. The 3D manifolds he creates are really fantastic, you can see the nonlinearity of human vision causing wrinkles in the surface where optimization breaks down.

[0]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Investigating-Euclidea...
A Doordash delivery guy actually has to pick up the food though right?

This also does probably provide some legal cover as well.
If anyone's interested in how this data can be used, this article breaks it down quite nicely.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/01/29/stra...
I don't think this is at all shocking when there's no public awareness, no laws against it outside the EU, no consumer recourse, and no indication that anyone wants to fix it.
I suggest that the 180+ countries which agree should now form their own bloc with an open license system.

If the UK, US and Swiss governments are acting in a way which is harmful to everyone in the world, and against the wishes of 96% of their own population, a parallel power structure should be formed to lock them out and work around that.
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In the short term 3D MMO's are desktop only. In the long term everything goes back to being desktop because the abstractions waste energy. Everything beyond vanilla HTML + CSS + .js for GUI is going away!

I'm also going to burn some karma and re-iterate that there are only two languages worth using: JavaSE on the server (build everything yourself) and C(++) on the client. We need this to be understood so that fragmentation can be reduced!
It was giving that away in his book, rather than any of the other activities at Bletchley Park, that got Gordon Welchman into trouble. Even without any detail as to the techniques used, the fact that he and his group had basically worked out the German operational structure and deployment situation entirely from traffic analysis before the improved Enigma was reliably broken revealed a lot that was meant to be kept secret.
Total commoditization of the chip making process spread across borders. That greatly reduces the drive for China to invest in the technology, thus removing a handle on the global economy.
I think Couch Surfing (the activity) + hangouts work well because you can see how "cool" a person is based on their travel history.
Aha, thanks for that!
The fact that it may be an automatic filter is sort of missing the point, IMO. An irrational, mechanical Kafkesque dystopia is still a dystopia. Censorship doesn't need to be obvious and straightforward, like 1984.
Agreed, although if Go had proper support for explicit value types (instead of relying in escape analysis) and generics, like e.g. D, Nim, that could be improved.
Yeah phrasing it that way -- poison pill -- is a good way to make people feel uneasy when you're staying with them.
I assume any vaccines or drugs will also cost 20x more in the US vs the rest of the world.
So instead of being made by private companies, they should be made by unelected partisan judges....
> Would you mind telling us more about your recruitment process?

So, in general, I ask 2 main questions:

- talk to me about you, what you like and which project you worked on that you liked.

- a generic question, that can be a bit misleading, on purpose. Like "What is the difference between TCP and UDP, and is HTTP over TCP or UDP?" for webdevs or "What is the =0 in C++ classes headers? Since NULL and 0 are the same, can I use "=0" here?" for C++ devs, or "How would you improve C if you could?"

The first type of questions see if the person truly likes software development, and is not here just because "that's what cool kids do" and that removes a lot of bro-grammer.

The second is more to see the generic culture, and if the person was curious enough to look a bit at the core of the technology they are working on. Because there isn't a yes/no answer, you must discuss.

And also, I need to meet in person. No 1hr phone-call, no white-board, no multiple meetings, no complex CS question that anyone can prepare.

I have one big issue with recruitment process: when I meet people, after those 2 questions, I can know very quickly that I don't want to hire them. If we are in the first 5 minutes of the interview, how can I tell them "no" without being too rude?

Finally, the culture, and the political culture of the community must fit. And unfortunately, sometimes that shows on the resume/introduction mail. But to be honest, it's rarely been an issue, except for one intern once.
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