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Much like how government backed student loans turned into guaranteed money for tuition seeking educational institutions.

People don't take into account that the value of money largely comes from the confidence that said money will have value in the future. If cash flow becomes guaranteed, the confidence that the business can demand more money from its customers goes up, ultimately lowering the value of said money for the customer while allowing the business to have greater investment opportunities.

There's a bit of irony in that, since the value of the US dollar largely comes from the confidence in the guarantee that the government will honor the value of treasury notes. The Chinese Yuan is comparatively worth much less than the US dollar, not just because of the dominance of the US, but because the perception of China is that it is far more corrupt and not as reliable than the US in terms of paying back its lenders, lowering the confidence that exists for its currency.

So I guess it comes down to this:

Business confidence > Customer confidence = monetary value decreases

Customer confidence > Business confidence = monetary value increases
> why wouldn't changing the extension trigger the OS to convert the file?

If you change the extension on any operating system and then open it in the image viewer, it does appear to work. It doesn't as image viewers do not trust the file extension and ignore it, but there is no indication of that to the average user.
Alright, with fresh eyes:

When the console host (just C:\windows\system32\conhost.exe, not the new Terminal) exits it emits the following information for processes that had connected to it:

* How many ANSI/VT sequences they used

* How many of the above we understood

* How many of them we did not understand

* The executable stem name (ConsoleApplication1.exe, wsl.exe, cmd.exe)

* How many times we saw that executable

~1-5% of those entries make it into a data pipeline that I believe we stopped looking years ago. These pipelines are usually(?) turned off by the OS, so it's possible that these were rendered inert. Still, though, and because the executable stem name might be a little more exposure than anyone's comfortable with, I've filed https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/6103 to yoink it.

(It's been a long time and I still don't know how to format things properly on Hacker News :))
Right, but Biology isn't the only AP exam that requires calculations. Dealing with integrals for AP Calculus is much more of a pain.
It's not zero-sum, but we also aren't perfectly aligned. There's room to make decisions that benefit you and don't benefit your employer.
I have no idea why someone would use a bank instead of a credit union.
Yes. Worse, as I understand it, public figures may have lawful claims for defamation even if all statements are already known true to the court! This is a mind-boggling situation, and helps contextualize why the United Nations Human Rights Committee recommends that libel and slander be decriminalized. It makes the USA's defamation laws, SLAPP-happy as they are, look positively humane by comparison.
sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qqdtt)

Done.
I wouldn't call all of the votes on a stolen post called "My Dog Spike" organic though either. Users have been manipulated in some, perhaps small, way because they've upvoted a post they otherwise might not have. How many of those people would have upvoted the same post titled "Some Random Guy's Dog Spike"? I suspect fewer or karmawhores wouldn't frequently use that tactic.

> I wouldn't consider it vote manipulation by my definition.

I suppose that's kind of my point. Your definition and perspective come from your experience on reddit as someone who posts that way. But there are other people who don't play the game of karmawhoring who might see things differently.

It seems to me it's a very blurry line that is difficult to define and largely a matter of perspective. The people who have mastered the system feel it's a matter of merit while the rest feel its a matter a manipulation. Reality is probably somewhere in the middle.
Wondering how many of those rejecting it are sadly adults sharing a home with other adults, live in crammed rooms or just have empty lives. These are aspects to be taken into account - and wfh might give them the opportunity to live in better conditions and maybe move where they can finally live on their own and make actual friends.
You are right.. sleep deprivation is a bitch
And in LA, local city councilmen operate as feudal lords in their districts with absolute authority on what gets built and especially by whom.
Boulder or Seattle are the two places I'd like to move to the most. Sadly I'm stuck in WI for now.
Did you notice the "I think the attempt is..." part of my post, which positioned it as an attempt to understand the employer negotiation position, not as my own views?

It's a view on negotiation, not on employment.

But I think feelings like yours get in the way, regardless.

"Determining your value" is internalizing things way too much. Failing to convince the opposite side in a negotiation is very different from "your value".[0]

Being a cog in a machine - or, more directly in this situation, being seen as replaceable by the next candidate who would accept the offer you don't like - isn't about how you feel or think of yourself, it's about what you can do and what you demonstrate. That holds true for far more than just the initial interview and offer negotiation, too.

[0] I'm tempted to suggest the person who's happy to be a "cog" - show up, do some work, get paid, and define their life and their value in non-work terms - may value themselves more than us maximizers!
With this reasoning, all food videos showing desserts with high calories and high sugar content should be banned, since obesity is an epidemic that kills and is harmful.
The great beauty of the anonymous Internet is that people now believe any libelous claims published on random sites. The democratization of propaganda has diminished the power of the press. Thankfully so, since the press has always been an instrument of propaganda.

Who are you going to stop, McDonalds? Reddit's /u/blazeit420? You don't know who he is. And a ban will just result in /u/cockscrew69 picking up the ball.
Yes that will probably be better in your case. I'm sorry I didn't really notice your other replies stating that you wish to go fully serverless.

On a side note, for the $15 a month Heroku charges for a 50MB Redis (wtf?) one could, for example, get a 4vCPU/8GB/160SSD server on Hetzner cloud with 20TB of traffic or multiple smaller servers and have a much better infrastructure and room to grow without any added costs. Oh well, I guess "managed" is where the big bucks are :) /rant
Open competition among standards is the way adoption has mostly happened at least since the VHS/Betamax days. Otherwise it’s decision by committee and/or fiat which can sometimes be a net benefit but more often than not standardizes on a cumbersome standard that is not a good fit for any one application.
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Can you it clear if you are U.S. only? The site doesn't say what countries you can pay out to, it would be helpful to be specific. I know w lot of Europeans who would be interested.
> Perhaps Apple should make it easier or automatic to convert into a format that's universally usable.

Further down this thread you’ll see that the board have messed up and they aren’t accepting images they should due to poor implementation.

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oefrha 1 hour ago [–]

Tried a standard input tag with the proper accept attribute
<input type="file" accept="image/jpeg,image/png" />
Selected a HEIC file from Photos in Safari, the selected image was automatically converted to JPEG”
That is again a limitation of the particular language you were using (which one?) and not a limitation of the paradigm. There's nothing there that's an inherent problem of visual programming languages, which is my point in asking.

For example, in LabVIEW, you have TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, CAN, serial, MODBUS, and more protocols and can build things out of them. If there's a missing protocol, then you can write your own, call a C/C++ DLL, .NET assembly, Python script, or a command line application, just like any other language (actually more than most languages).
Is it really so tough to shove an HEIC-to-JPEG converter in their pipeline?
I think Medicare for all people under 200% of poverty could easily be achieved if we hiked up the corporate tax rate to what it used to be 50-100 years ago.

But you have to stop the birth tourism, stop handing out citizenship to anyone not in America for 4+ generations, and deport all of your illegal aliens. Coastal, liberal americans want to have it both ways - expensive government services for the poor, and the continuous importation of a serf class from the 3rd world.
Yes this feels a bit like clickbait. The town definitely seems to have gentrified in the past 2 decades. Its like trying to build affordable housing in an area where everyone wants to live.

It'd be the equivalent to trying to build affordable housing next to Central Park in NYC or Waikiki in Hawaii. Its great to try but don't make a big fuss when it is expensive.
The question is, is it the exam developers task to produce software that works in the world as it is or the world as they would like it to be?

If the latter this is a roaring success.
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> You need to have expertise in the specific area to know whether it's a lie or not

That is exactly my point. The knowledge that the expertise is based on is available for everyone. If you actually read the conspiracy theories around the virus, and don't allow popular media to tell you they're all idiots, you'd find there is very well researched information out there. You don't need an academic position to know how to do research. And if you know enough, you can validate for yourself of what you're told is true - unless you advocate taking the official sources as unquestionable.

> Reality has disproven this more than enough.

I was thinking the current distrust of the WHO and China was enough evidence of my claim being true. Not to mention the declining trust in mass media (though whether that last one is deserved is a rather partisan question).

Getting caught in a lie is not "just a temporary sting": it's why people become "conspiracy theorists", which is another way of saying, someone who doesn't trust the official story.
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It's not middle management that benefits the most from in-person work. It's new hires and new grads (like me) who are just starting their careers and benefit a lot from knowledge gained passively in the workplace.

And--wouldn't it be great if our cities were designed so that people don't need to drive long distances to work? Density + mass transit in cities would go a long way towards reducing emissions.

(and no, we should not use the threat of a once-per-century pandemic to double down on isolated, suburban lifestyles--instead, we should work to make sure cities are clean and support a safe, sustainable density of people)
I have to agree. Adding lawyers to the process will definitely make things better.
How is the current title misleading? Organ transplants down: Fact. Number of fatalities down: Fact.
>> “ Fox and MSNBC is they are entertainment programs”

No, maybe to you, but to vast amounts of people, millions of people, they watch a singular source for news and to them, that is the news.

In the US, since you’re referring to them, the news legally used to have to allow all sides of an issues to present their views. In the 1980s, the laws changed, and that is how news became so one-side.
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Your own comment says "if he ever had any expertise it was in cancer, not epidemics, and he has no business speaking outside his field."

Why doesn't that disqualify Bill Gates according to your own reasoning?

>It's my general impression that if Gates says something about Covid, he's just repeating what experts said.

And who determines if he is or isn't repeating experts? Also, who decides who is or isn't an expert? An advertising company? Sorry, but that is a scary path.
Your guess appears to be wrong. I couldn't find anything about FB Shops using Shopify platform. Only that you can stock your store from the Shopify store.. which is a tool that Shopify provides. In other words, Shopify is using the FB Merchant and Store APIs. Like anyone can.

It seems like a bad deal for Shopify sellers. They must pay FB 5% and Shopify 2% of each transaction. If they jettisoned Shopify, they'd just pay FB 5%.
Just a guess, but it seems like you work in theoretical lala land and never have to deliver something that works.

I'm not saying you are wrong- sure you can argue that it's the iPhone that is broken, from a non-standard format. However, if you are designing an app that needs pictures to be taken and about 45% of your customers (the students) can't just take a picture without going through some conversion while on a time sensitive test- then you majorly fucked up.

End of the day this is on the AP designers for not adding a format which 45% of their base will use by default.
If you’re ever in Manchester, the John Rylands Library mentioned here is one of the local jewels and absolutely worth the visit.

If you are a library connoisseur, there are also Chatham’s (one of the oldest libraries in the land, and likely the oldest dedicated to music), the Pantheon-inspired Central Library, and the elusive (and exclusive) Portico. The Law Library was pretty striking too but sadly they moved and the original building was sold.
On top of the strangeness of collapsing distinction between loading up markup with single-use classes and single-use style rules.... in the era of CSS mixins, it seems like it'd be easier than ever to come up with one or two class names that encapsulate the key document semantics (either semantics for presentational abstractions, or data semantics), and then if you really need a quiver full of fine-grained presentation-detail bundles, mix them in.

But instead it's really common to do what you've pointed out: something that's effectively inline styles in spirit.

The benefits of the semantic approach in terms of flexibility and abstraction seems really high. The only downside I can see is a bit of one common complaint about OOP, "everything happens somewhere else," requiring a context switch to figure out how markup is being told to present. But that seems like a problem better dealt with via tooling.
I understand that HK was under British rule for a long time (I remember well when the hand over happened). But after the hand over I don't understand why HK was not treated just like any other Chinese region/province/state/district (I realize now that I don't know how China splits up it's country)? Why was HK granted special privileges that made it different than other parts of the country? To me it would be as if Kansas is allowed to do things totally different than the other 49 states, such as not pay federal income tax. Why would that kind of thing be allowed?
This brings up an interesting point: how come math input is so difficult on a computer? Even TeX seems like an awful solution for this.
I am no export but I have heard PH say, that it's much worse than the AMQP-0.9 Spec. It's a design-by-comitte thing, where he was sidelined.
You make it sound like this is some big secret. It's not like Facebook exclusively hires from people in the area only. Facebook and nearly every company regularly hire people from outside the area. Most developers in the bay area are from outside the area. Out of my team of 30 people there's maybe 1 person that's from the bay area. Everyone else was re-located.
Thanks for sharing. First I've heard of this company. It's definitely an interesting position as they look to be providing the browser (viewer) as well as the ad platform. It's unclear if they are hiding/replacing website ads with their own and how the websites are getting their revenue otherwise.
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He probably means in the standard library? According to git NewtonSoft.JSON (the defacto standard) has been around since the 2007.
6k is rent a luxury 2 bedroom in the heart of Soma in SF. You can do a lot cheaper for a decent place.
It also means you need to go through the traumatic and stressful experience of taking the test again, when you thought you were already past it.
There was probably a "I don't care" option, not far fetched to imagine that these 3 options combined were more than 50%.
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Media format support will always be a chicken and egg problem. You got to start somewhere.

Apple's approach of automatically converting images at the edges is the right way to go. It does require your software to be explicit about what media formats it understands. This is where the College Board failed.
...Or the IRS, on your W4.
So why should a student with an Apple product be punished for hostile moves Apple has made? What if the school issued the device the student took the test on? You're punishing the wrong party here.

And knowing that these big companies do stupid stuff around standards is part of building software. This isn't any different from the browser wars. It's completely unrealistic to expect developers to not have to deal with these kinds of issues.

I think the anger around Apple's hostility towards standards is valid, but completely out of scope for this kind of issue.
It definitely should. But one real problem with bureaucracy is that it tends to go to great lengths to justify itself. It also self-replicates like a virus.

So, in practice, I imagine there would be lots of offices and agencies, services and interdependent liaison offices and agencies along with the requisite inspector general offices and agencies and the necessary committees, subcommittees, and working groups that would have to be created.

In the land of government bureaucracy, the rapidly increasing fixed-pie of current and (hopefully) future taxpayer revenue gets divided up into more and more slices every day.
You're correct, I shouldn't have said their own unique format.

Still, what matters is the reality of the situation. They could have easily made it so that uploading or transferring images, especially to websites, uses a standard format that 99.9% of websites support, instead of one that virtually noone supports (yet).

And at the same time that Apple rushes to support this new standard without providing a good backwards compatible experience, they've been dragging their feet for YEARS on Safari support for progressive web app features that would let devs build truly feature-comparable web apps without being beholden to the App Store walled garden.
they can't just arbitrarily jack up the rent during the term of the lease. but they might when you try to renew the lease, or when you move out. the effect is as if there is no rent stabilization (unless market rents go up above $4000 a month or whatever the "official" number is.)
The first 10K or so units would be for the homeless. But, after that you can rent them out for some small amount to anyone that needs it.

Just imagine, if you're homeless and it's raining. What would you prefer? live in the streets or live in a small micro apartment? Sure, not everyone wants one, but why not give people more choices? Right now, your only choices are this: 2 million dollar condo or 20$ tent under a bridge. Let's give people more options?
My summary of civic philosophy in the Bay Area: "Think liberally. Act conservatively."

In addition to San Francisco I've lived in the US South, the Northeast an in Europe. And out of all those regions I feel the Bay Area has been the most conservative and discordant. It's really a shame how a combination of the Byzantine legal processes and small cadres who know and shape the system have created a tyranny of the minority in the Bay Area and San Francisco in particular.
Let me start by saying you're correct. '

However, it's also the case that the free market seems to now be only in play when it comes to reducing wages, off shoring, and other cost cutting.

The free market isn't at play when it's time for bailouts, subsidies, and government contracts.

Rugged individualism for all, except the wealthy elite.

I'm not sure the person who you replied to has a frustrated / discouraged tone, but that's what I read it as. I share the sentiment and the above is why.
Late response I know, but I would say anyone who needs that feature could learn to do it, at least if they are on Hacker News. Maybe bystander isn't the most accurate term, but certainly anyone with criticism could take the gauntlet.

LLVM is very well documented and so are these standards. The open source community is also huge and full of talented contributors and more are always welcome to join. I think there's a reason why Linux and GitHub exist.

So in short, if it's a question of motivation and it's something you need, then become motivated to make it happen. That's more likely to happen then convincing a company to invest in supporting a competitor.
I'm not talking about programmers at all - rather the technology strategy and policy designers and implementers that come before them.

My background includes software dev in and around online education for almost 20y in both industry and academic.

Totally outside bubbles and following groupthink :)

The conservatism from technologists that you speak of.. in part comes from the politics at post secondaries and the resistance towards adopting technology.

There's no shortage of understanding in most institutions of the problems and how to solve them, only the political will, and leadership who cares.
I worked at a setup like that, and it was really bad because people were coming on random days. In a set-up like this, people need to have agreed upon days to come back to work
I am away from my laptop for the time being, unfortunately. But it's generally a bit of pointer acceleration and enabling two finger scrolling, if I have to configure anything at all.
I can help review if you need.
What is MFA?
> If you've never worked remote before 2020, this is not what remote work even remotely feels like. Everything is very different when it's not a choice. I think we need to keep that in mind.

That's true. But I'm damn happy this is the direction we're moving in, the commute is never fun, open offices are usually draining if you're not with a headset stuck in your focus bubble (which defeats the purpose of the open-office in the first place). Of course, we'll need to find a medium for this, but even an option for remote work is great.
Thanks! I wasn’t aware
This was sort of fixed last year. https://streeteasy.com/blog/preferential-rent-nyc-new-laws-n...
> what Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson from Imperial college created in his flawed modeling

Why do you say that? The reputation of the Imperial College team seems to have become a lightning rod for disgruntled right-wingers but the team is one of the world's most respected.

Imperial is one of the world's top universities. That's probably why Sikora falsely claimed on multiple occasions to be employed there.

There's nothing in the Imperial report that caused the UK government to change course that has been shown to be false. The prediction from the report was that the UK would suffer 20,000 deaths from the virus if extensive distancing measures were employed. The current total is 36,000 confirmed, so if anything the report was too optimistic.
I love how most papers start with this contradiction. Really sets the tone.
For me, my commute reduced from 1 hour each way to zero and that 2 hours of my life that I get back had a huge impact on my productivity. I am an engineer and I feel that I collaborate and prioritize using asynchronous messaging so much better. Even though I was really working only 40 hours, it felt like I was working for 60 or even more when I was working from office