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Well take a good hard look, because as economies are slowly re-opening, everybody is going back to their old habits, even worse like people wanting to stay away from public transport as pointed out in this thread (1). I see it locally, but it also has been measured in post-lock down China (2).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255270

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
Surely you see the difference between explaining what dark matter is, and making solar cells cheaper.

Which one fits your definition of important scientific question that we should answer?
Visual programming languages aren’t plain text and therefore are harder to do version control for and harder to share. Whatever benefits visual programming languages have, and they are many, version control and easy sharing are more important.
While I love WSL2, my biggest beef with the install process is I had to turn on almost every crap privacy-busting feature back on. I had 'decrapified' my Windows 10 install previously and the WSL2 reversed almost all that.
Ask HN: All the processes, tools, am I getting crazy?
Just a tad of background, I am a bit over 40 years old and developing software since age of 19. Was working in field of security, networks, system development on windows and linux, I am fluent in most of language in tiobe index and I CAN write code, preffering c/c++, driving hobby side projects regardless of family etc.

In last 10 years I became apathetic, not to the coding on its own but to all the crap that has stick to it. Methodologies, jira, toolchains, tools, frameworks, git... Yes, you need to track bugs but with jira it went over the border (instead of tracking bugs bunch of fields started to fly in that no one really needs but "they are nifty"), git came in and suddenly normal task become more complicated than they should be, not due to complicated/distributed projects but due to someone decided that it is nifty. Frameworks. Omg. You can do hell of a lot in one line but to figure out and understand that line you no longer code. You read someones code, typically badly written or unnecessary overcomplicated.

I dont know, but am I the only one that sees whole world as overcomplicated, overbloated, unnecessary manager oriented pile of steaming <something> or everyone has just accepted that "this is the way to write code", regardless if there is any benefit for the development process or not. We were doing nasty projects 20 years back from API hooking to developing hardware terminals, inventing our own hardware terminals,... but we were having fun doing it. And I still enjoy coding at home... But at professional level now everything seems streamlined and without any apparent benefit or reason. We just do it that way.

Am I just getting old and cant cope with it any more or the whole development process today is utterly fked up?
According to Spanish government's estimates[1] based on their own seroprevalence study:

For the age group < 10 yo, the estimated IFR is 0.002%

For the age group 10 - 19 yo, the estimated IFR is 0.003%

For the age group 20 - 49 yo, the estimated IFR is 0.002%

For the age group 50 - 69 yo, the estimated IFR is 0.04%

For the age group > 70 yo, the estimated IFR is 4.1%

The study is considered to be well designed by Carl Bergstrom[2], for example.

[1]: https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/a... Look for the table on page 15.

[2]: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1261041466882678784
This used to be called "quality assurance". Web and .com blew that apart. We ain't got time for that.
Is your code on github? I'm actually working on something very similar, and would love to get some ideas from what you've done.
I guess that depends how much of the Rothschild portfolio is applicable against open source software. A few invalidated patents, plus a strong message that trying to put a FOSS project through the ringer will get your patent invalidated could be far more powerful than just one promise from one entity.

Also, there's a question of how widely this legally binding promise is... will it apply to anyone else who wants to buy these patents?
Is this package manager in the default installation? How do I find out if I have it?
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I think this hits close to home. I wish creators of new programming languages would reuse syntax of existing programming languages (ideally the ones in the mainstream). Or at least think about it.

Also think if you even need a new language. It seems that too many new languages have features that can be handled by functions or macros in existing languages.

Some languages like Forth, Lisp or Haskell are very powerful, have strong metaprogramming facilities, and most likely can already do anything that would need a new language and new syntax.

Think about it - if you avoid creating another syntax variation, and work with an existing syntax (or better existing language), your chances of somebody actually using your efforts will vastly increase.
Neat! Pair this with some sketchy ad tech, and you can start raking in the bucks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/17/broken-internet-ad-system-ma...
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The old TRS-80 Model 1, Level 1 had 4KB of memory and the only permitted variables were integers (A-Z), and two strings A$ and B$. No decimals, floats etc.

Level 2 allowed any number of letters in a variable name... but only the first two were recognised as unique. CUSTORDER was seen as the same variable as CUSTLINE.
They tried building modern aircraft; the Columbia 400 was very competitive with the SR22T, but hardly sold any. Seems like people enjoy their tin can airplanes just fine.
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I'm merely asking because the things I could get away in my 20's and things I can get away with in my 40's appear to be wildly different, and I don't seem to be an outlier in this respect :)

(mind you, for me second monitor is about sanity/efficiency, not ergonomics; but a well adjusted chair, keyboard and mouse make a stunning difference to my fingers & wrists these days)
>they’d stay at the Hilton Union Square, eat and drink at Cultivar, share a tour of Chinatown, and receive matching Uniqlo jackets. All costs — a projected $16,900 for the group,

> “We look to you as influencers in your industry,”

So, turn local cops into part-time salespeople for Nextdoor, and its advertising clients. What could go wrong?
This probably won't be a very popular opinion since it's not really a nosql database but if you have a relatively small dataset and not very complex querying needs you may be able to use Redis as a pretty decent datasource. Another solution may be Firebase Realtime Database although that will limit you vendor wise.
MacOS GUI - I used to use DiskInventoryX, then found GrandPerspective which has met my modest needs for years.
Are empty roads causing people to drive recklessly? Or are the isolation and disruption to people's lifestyles causing it?
That's not what I understand.

> diagnostic data collection (telemetry) is not enabled for private builds

> this data collection is covered by windows 10 privacy, You can find the windows 10 privacy statement and details of controlling the diagnostic and feedback settings here.

So if you build from source, you can disable it, and if you don't build from source but install it from the store, then telemetry is controlled by the central privacy settings in Windows 10.

Presumably this would be a problem only if you specifically don't want MS to have telemetry from winget, but you also specicifically want them to have telemetry on the rest of your OS, which would be... weird.
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It's a new package manager, currently just in preview.

Discussed on HN a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236218
Though note that Factorio never goes on sale.
Additional remote positions do not make a company remote-first any more than additional @media queries make a desktop website mobile-first.

To understand what real “remote first” might mean, let’s define the status quo: “in-person first”.

To me, in-person-first companies are those in which being a remote employee means hampered career potential, and mingling with the right people at the headquarters is sooner or later required to advance.

By that logic, remote-first companies either flip that on its head, or at least make personal presence not a factor while encouraging remote participation.

Becoming X-first implies a fundamental shift. Improving X does make you more X, though.
Great answer and great example of how small changes in framing and wording can have a huge impact. Neutrality is very hard. If the majority of people writing on a certain topic, or approving the writing, hold a certain view, it's very hard for that view to not leak into the writing in some way.
It seems that a good chunk of the web design community went bananas on Humaaans[0], probably because Facebook started using similar small-headed, monstrous-limbed, absurdly deformed human caricatures. I absolutely abhore this trend, and feel the same way you do: it deemphasizes what's truly unique about humans - our brains, our minds, our personalities.

--

[0] - https://www.humaaans.com/
Like registers in a processor. e.g. the ARM1 had 16 32-bit registers, some of which were special (e.g. one was the pointer to the next instruction). From the point of view of a running program, those registers are the only true 'variables' that the processor had. Everything else was achieved by swapping them in and out of memory. I guess its the same for all processors. So a language with a restricted number of variables is actually pretty realistic - it represents the bare metal quite well.
dunno about the others but 27$ Win10 is OEM license that is locked to a single machine. Seems legit.
When it comes to things like this, it feels like old "Linux is a cancer" Microsoft is battling the new multi-platform open-source Microsoft for whether the company should be evil or not.
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Got it, thanks! It's just struck me that my project about visual programming have stallen exactly due to the lack of vision how to find time/money for it, and I've never thought about grants possibility.
> I'm pretty sure I've heard of companies using open source emulators for backwards compatibility with old consoles/selling 'classic games' before.

I know at least Sony uses PCSX ReArmed for their "PlayStation Classic".
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I'm not sure about the long term, but it's working pretty well immediately after exercise.

I'm WFH these days, and follow a relatively flexible schedule, so basically every day whenever I find it is hard to concentrate as usual I would go downstairs and have a 15mins running. Then I can focus for quite a while. I usually do this two to three times a day.
Don't know why you're being downvoted.

According to Spanish government's estimates[1] based on their own seroprevalence study:

For the age group under 50, the estimated IFR is about 0.003%

For the age group 50 - 69 yo, it's 0.04%

And for those over 70, it's 4.1%

The study is considered to be well designed by Carl Bergstrom[2], for example.

[1]: https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/a... Look for the table on page 15.

[2]: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1261041466882678784
I recently installed an Insider build of Windows so I could use WSL2 to run some docker containers in a Linux environment.

The insider build requires that you enable full telemetry which includes sending your visited websites to MS. I need WSL2 so I’m just avoiding doing anything private on my personal computer for now.

I understand why the data is useful to them but I don’t think they understand or care why this is an important issue to others
Don’t play Factorio if you have other responsibilities such as family, friends, work or hobbies.
Atlanta recently worked with multiple jurisdiction to put a stop to street racing which saw a major uptick during the stay at home order.

Georgia along with other states have super speeder laws [1] which throw additional penalties upon the infraction. You can already get charged with reckless driving at high speeds so it all tends to pile on.

Sadly Georgia did [2] online only driver license testing during the initial lock downs but it appears they are going back to actual testing but I don't think it will be as good as before when those being tested would have someone in the car with them

Far too many drivers think they are better than they are but I believe that distracted driving is far worse; Georgia's hands free law resulted in people using window mounts to place phones in their line of sight which is a horrid outcome

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[0]https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/44-arrests-29-cars-impounde...

[1] https://dds.georgia.gov/reinstatement-faqs-super-speeder

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[2]https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/driving-road-tests-start-ba...
I'm keeping an index of company remote-work announcements here: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7

If you know of companies that have made changes like Coinbase, please help me build the list by sharing anonymously here: https://airtable.com/shriP4XRx0ewbBWM0
To be fair, it's not broken — but coming up with clever viewport-dependent layout changes takes up enough of resources to consider it a low-level priority for some business cases.
My initial reaction is very positive. I believe there is a market for a tool like this. Lets see how it handles marketwatch.
Right, any comparison would need to be done within the context of what they are optimizing for. China's priority right now seems to be securing the S. China Sea.

There's also nuclear weapons as a concern. I'm not sure we're quite talking mutually assured destruction, but we wouldn't want to go there. So far, nuclear deterrence has held up.

There's a lot of ways to fight a war. Conventional military technology likely wouldn't be involved on any battleground we would find ourselves on with China.
I think yours and the parent's issue is in misunderstanding the difference between WFH and "remote work".

Remote work is not WFH. It is not a discussion about the home vs office environments. This is largely irrelevant.

The fundamental shift that Remote Work will bring is that it will allow people to separate physically where people live from their work activity. This means that people will no longer have to live close to their jobs - for whatever definition of "close" you have. It's one degree of freedom that everyone can get when choosing where to live.

And it is a very important degree of freedom. When choosing a place to live, one has many things to consider: is this a good environment for my growing family, will I be surrounded by like-minded people, can I find good schools, is the weather good for the kind of activities I enjoy doing the most, etc, etc... but none of that will matter in a location if the jobs are not there. In the current situation, people flock to where the jobs are because they can't afford to choose a nicer place with no jobs.

If you prefer the office environment, you can and will be able to have that even when Remote Work becomes the norm. The key point is in understanding that your office can now be in SV, Texas, Croatia, some city in South America, South East Asia or the Ukraine and you will (should) not be missing out in any professional opportunity.
> Maybe their curriculum gives them more time to work on these things?

I should have mentioned that I didn't go to college in the States. This could be true, a lot of the technical college experience in some parts of Asia involves doing practical stuff. In my part of the world, the theory is often lags practice because the curriculum rarely keeps up with state of the art in academia or industry.

> If one team does dramatically better than another team, I would look at training and resources.

They were definitely better funded than other teams. They also had unrestricted access to the biggest hardware markets in the world, and perhaps some bleeding edge automation technology from the industry.

> If I'm going to college and I'm putting all my time into something other than a conventional pursuit of a college degree, then I'm going to question why I'm there and if I would be better off elsewhere.

Yeah I guess the average US undergrad experience in Computer Science/Engineering is more focused on preparing you for a job and/or grad school. The coursework is rigorous enough that it prevents you from going for more hobbyist pursuits. America's path-breaking innovation comes from its Science funding and Graduate Programs, and that's where China and other emerging powers have a lot of catching up to do.
This type of design also deeply repulses me.

At a prior start up where I worked I fought against it with all my might. I call it "infantile simulacra" design -- rather than simply making a design to convey information in a clear and simple fashion and thereby treating their user with respect, it instead invites the reader and/or viewer to experience it as if they are a cartoonified, infantalized version of themselves... and thereby implying that company or service views their users as naive children too.
You could make it dynamic with "bin -OpenAutoComplete" to have the binary output the Json. This would allow gradual introduction and backwards compatibility. It would also keep the completions up to date with binary versions, and still allow a shell to cache the Json.

More importantly, you should consider other metadata before you go to far; binaries could carry their own documentation, licensing, dependencies... What should be in and out of scope?
The link I attached is to a normal license, not an OEM one, which goes for even cheaper: https://www.g2a.com/microsoft-windows-10-oem-home-microsoft-...
It's not quite so clear. The data collection policy linked in the comment (that can be controlled in settings) distinguishes between required and optional data collection. It's possible to disable optional data collection, but not required data collection.

Here's one of the elements that is required (and so it cannot be disabled):

Information about your device, its settings and capabilities, including applications and drivers installed on your device

I find that quite obtrusive.
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As other commentators have mentioned, the analogy to "kawaii" is inaccurate and inappropriate; it's much closer to what's been termed Corporate Memphis[1] than kawaii. Key differences:

- Corporate Memphis uses an abridged contrast ("flat") full range palette that is meant to a) be legible and b) not stand out. Human forms are flattened, with intentionally minimized, abstract differentiation between entities. This makes sense because the emphasis is on legibility and universal visual communication, not flair.

- Kawaii uses uses an expanded range palette with a lot of emphasis on pastels and cel shading to create a 2.5D world that is probably aesthetically closer to Surrealism. Kawaii human forms are caricatures, full of cartoonish distortions. The whole point is expression, quirkiness, flair and alternate reality building.

[1] https://qz.com/quartzy/1728767/why-editorial-illustrations-l...
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On the other hand, an insider build is a beta, the only purpose of this is specifically to be able to get telemetry to detect issues before releasing.
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Very interesting! I hadn't heard of Conduit before.

So, if that's available, why not use Conduit as a candidate for the p2p-matrix? Wouldn't it be a better choice than Dendrite? AFAIK Mozilla is already heavily pushing Rust into the WASM territory so perhaps that would make a lot of sense.
I suspect that even a pandemic may not suffice. The only thing that gets through is a direct personal loss, and the death rate seems too low for that. You'd need deaths in the millions for everyone to know someone who died.

Even then it's easy to blame it on someone else. There's a reason they are calling it the Wuhan Virus.
Can't the same be said about a lot of conventional medications?

I find it quite frustrating that placebo can be observed to be effective in many scenarios but many scientist seem to dismiss it out of hand.
Also: burning trash every night
> I need WSL2 so I’m just avoiding doing anything private on my personal computer for now.

This is madness. It's hard to consider a machine your "personal computer" if you're afraid of doing anything personal on it.
Are we currently able to easily integrate an existing community (usernames) to a matrix server?
I’m far from an expert on China, but I’ve been under the impression that Deng Xiaoping was a generally positive influence from an economic perspective.

I’ve kinda understood him as the one that stepped away from the planned economy of Mao (but I’m not really knowledgeable on the subject)

What am I missing here?
I think that's more of a licensing things really. Some of those old games had really wierd diels especially for music rights.
Website looks terrible, practically unreadable on mobile. Black and red don't go well together either.
Ferrous Systems is a private consulting company that specialises on Rust and sponsors some community projects such as Rust-Analyzer. I don't think the company has any "official" relationship with Rust governance. However, Florian Gilcher and Aleksey Kladov who both work at Ferrous Systems are active community members and also members in some Rust teams.

It's generally thought in the Rust community that the community benefits from diversifying the pool of stakeholders and also commercial players. Rust doesn't want to identify too hard as "Mozilla's language".

Edit: Forgot to mention: There isn't currently any legal body such as "Rust foundation" so it's hard for the Rust project itself financially sponsor this kind of project. It's mostly either Mozilla or then some "third party" player.
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Arguably Google started this trend - it had a multicoloured logo, their head office was called a "campus", they had beanbags, etc. It has defined a generation of corporate messaging: non-threatening, childlike simplicity. Compare and contrast companies called things like "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES", built at a time when corporations wanted to exude power, scale, financial strength, and technical brilliance.
According to a recent post, we spend 34 years of our lives staring at screens. If Microsoft wants 34 years of data on each of us, let's collectively bargain on a value for it.
> Um no, you need to allow opting out of telemetry.

Entitled people is what drives developers away from projects.
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I checked the first link, it’s about the common cold. They test groups with and without masks and in both groups there was one person getting ill. Conclusion: the sample size is far too small to reach any conclusion.

Also checked the second link, it says:

There is some evidence to support the wearing of masks or respirators during illness to protect others, and public health emphasis on mask wearing during illness may help to reduce influenza virus transmission.

Not very convincingly concludes the opposite of the claim.