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You're right, and yet...

We live in a consumer society. The messages pulling us to buy things are pervasive and highly effective. Our self-worth has been successful tied to those cars and iPhones by the companies who sell them. It's a real phenomenon that when a low income person gets a windfall they might buy a TV. But there are a number of totally legitimate reasons for that. Besides the marketing, money has a totally different meaning when you are low income. It's not some safety blanket you can store up for later. It's more like evaporating pools of water on a hot day. It's going to go somewhere, and soon. It's pretty rational to have it go towards something you know you or your family will enjoy instead of the next bill collector. The bill collectors will never be satisfied anyway.
I think it can be used in building a workout app to assess whether your pose is correct or not for the exercise you are doing
Thank you Elon Musk and Donald Trump!!!
As the global diagnoses go up, the daily death rate is declining, so this makes sense.
This is not science, this is magic right there.

“It is clear that today the COVID-19 disease is different.”
The only difference is social distancing, for fucks sake.
I would advice to get a hold on the book "The inner game of tennis", which is, exactly like it sounds, a book on tennis training.

Except when it's not.

It hold advices that can be generalized to improve your ability to learn without using analysis and develop natural actions in a given field.

Apply it to social interactions. Those are much better for everyone involved when you mostly instinctively react, yet subtly adjust using logic, not the opposite.
The form factor of this and the Apple Magic keyboard are just an ergonomic nightmare.

I have a strong preference for natural / split keyboards, but I'm perfectly content with typing on normal keyboards if that's all that is available. It might take me weeks or months of typing on a standard keyboard before I start to get the aches going in my wrists. I lasted barely half a day with a 2015/2016 era Magic keyboard before my wrists started hurting like sweet merry hell. It's far too cramped, forcing the wrists and arms at weird angles, even with the keyboard out at full arm's length. (I find the Magic Mouse to be similarly absurd from an ergonomic perspective. Shape was fine, but having to arch a finger to use it is crazy, and similarly bad for RSI)

I was really curious to see what the offering was here, but, ignoring price, this is just such a terrible, gimmicky choice of form factor. They immediately eliminate a sizeable potential market by choosing this one.
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Simplifying Board Games
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Don't know which module they are using, but you won't get partial refresh timers faster than 0.3 seconds, and full refresh timers faster than 2 seconds.
So could a couple make $9000 a month, or more with children?
does this belong here?
a ghost writer, not a psychologist...
In all fairness, I led him that way. I called it "extracting configuration from code", which is reminiscent of #3 of the 12-Factor App (https://12factor.net/config).

You can extract config to various degrees. My example is perhaps the mildest: just group it together, near the beginning. You don't need complex frameworks. In fact this technique first caught my attention when I was reading other people's shell scripts.

The next step would be to move the config to its own file. This is very common in Linux. You have some tight binary, that is compiled and hard to change. But then you have config files, often with dozens of options. It's a nice way to do things.

The next step would be to move the config to a different level, no longer in a simple file. This is often either a relational database or environmental variables. Linux commands use environmental variables along with their config files.

For very large systems, this technique is the same in kind, just different in degree. You get fancy specialized systems, like Hashicorp Vault, to store your configuration, at least your secret ones, like passwords and stuff.
I love Monzo's tone of voice guide. We basically use it as our own, with a couple of small tweaks.
Maybe we don't have to move certain things, like "design", into the area of technology :).

Frontenders at the the time didn't see themselves as engineers.
Do those of you downvoting me, do you think it's because I think those officers are innocent or something?

They are guilty.

I also think there are many people using this tragedy as an excuse to commit crime and somehow justify their behavior via a bifurcation of their world view.

Are you applying your beliefs about a group (the police in this case) at an individual level or in one broad stroke? Is not the definition of bias / prejudice (racism as a subset?) essentially applying beliefs at the group level rather than the individual level?
> I think anyone who wrongs another is ...wrong [...] Is there something wrong with that?

No, but that is an overly simplistic reduction of the current situation in the United States, and any conversation around this situation requires an acknowledgement of its complete history and many nuances.

> Is asking about how people can condemn one version of malevolence and condon another wrong?

No, but what was the point of linking that unrelated article from 2014? Would you like me, a protestor, to condemn it? I condemn it. And I also condemn police brutality because it is so much more frequent, disproportionate, and violent.

> Are we past the point of trying to hold each other to higher standards?

No. Police must be held to a higher standard, period. They have badges and guns and are entrusted with a higher power.

> What percentage of the protesters / rioters would not be there if they had jobs to go to?

I don't know, I don't have that data. But from personal experience, I can tell you that people in this country are fed up with police forces that have no accountability. This is a natural consequence of allowing violent LEOs go unpunished for years, with no recourse for the innocent people being brutalized.
It's also worth mentioning that coming back isn't necessarily a fixed requirement. I would happily live a shorter live on Mars - with the risk overhead of being stranded in the event of a catastrophic failure - for the chance to be one of the first Martian settlers.

Foreign colonists in the Americas (ignoring any political aspect of this) faced disease, starvation and attacks from natives but still colonised America because of a dream they had.
We use Janus as a WebRTC SFU for projects in the education/gaming sector. Its general purpose approach to WebRTC has been a good foundation to help us build custom solutions.
Whilst I do not support any statement in ancestor comments:

Only a very small set of people is "free to leave [a] country".

Most people are limited by finances.
I'm pro-protest and pro-police-accountability-reforms, but some of your logic fails.

> Besides, these businesses are all insured

Some of them are. But having to claim on insurance is an expensive proposition that eats into profit margins (which is extra difficult in the middle of a worldwide depression).

> Im certain that Apple and Luxottica, some of the richest companies in the world, can write off the loss.

Most companies aren't multinational megacorps in high profit businesses.

I drove through South Central Los Angeles about 1 year after the Rodney King riots. I don't know what proportion of the businesses were rebuilt, but it was pretty clearly that many of the buildings hasn't been rebuilt. Large scale building damage takes a LONG time to rebuild and probably means the business can't run until it's done.
Unbelievable what Elon Musk has been able to create for humanity. So grateful for him and this administration. Looking forward to see more free market ingenuity
I've heard the 2015 riots resulted in a stand down of the police force in Baltimore, and since then crime in the city has increased significantly. Sounds like the reason criminals are not rioting is because they won. Great for the criminals, but not great for their victims, which are probably mostly the improvished, not the affluent who can afford a replacement for the missing police.

In all these riot situations, it is portrayed as the poor sticking it to the rich, who presumably are using the police to oppress the poor. But I suspect that in reality it is mostly the poor becoming even more downtrodden by the criminal elements, and the rich remain unaffected. Perhaps the rich even profit a bit from what happens, such as politicians winning more government money to "help with all the troubles".
Are you refering to German building codes here? Most German apartments that I know have no active ventilation system except in the bathroom and maybe the kitchen.
Long.

Because before they can start saving basic needs (home, food, health i.e. mediciens) need to be satisfied and especially the lower percentages might not be able to do so every month with what they earn. Especially health cost might stack up (e.g. a delayed dentist visit because it can't be afforded) and some get more then linearly more expensive when stacked up (small problem with tooth escalated, interests etc.).

So it's not absurd to assume that in the lower percentages of the population getting 110% income will get them at best 10% of a income savings and likely only after some month already passed. With that they would need 60!! month to build up that savings.

Now I can't say where the this stops, is it the lower 5%,10%,20%,30%,40% no idea. But it's gradual.

Also the gap between poor and rich has become quite absurd in the US, so this can make make people much less wealthy then you might think end up in the middle 80%.
Could you name few better than js?
Servers for Playstation Vita’s Killzone: Mercenary shut down without warning
True. How else would one implement this as a workaround for security? Perhaps a locally running version of the same thing that hopefully doesn't upload the data back to some server?

Edit: some users already commented in another thread about pacakges that can do it instead.
Variables changed; social distancing is in effect, medical field is much more effective then it was two month ago. But hey lets say magically virus is changed.

In what way it makes sense to you ?
Why not just create a simplified welfare state ? Claim benefits for up to six months no questions asked.
Which is also why I lean towards libertarianism...
Could this be due to mutations?
Ask HN: Will long hair come back after COVID?
I've noticed a number of my friends have not been going to the barber and consequently have long hair. I'm curious to see how long this can last.
Shit, how about just pasting Trump’s face over everyone’s and not bothering to blur it? There’s probably enough pictures of him out there to match any angle and expression. Detect face, deep fake that area into Trump.
"corporatism" != control by corporations, or anything at all do do with the concept of the modern concept of privately owned corporations necessarily.

The term for that is corporatocracy, among other things.
A query hint is a clause you put into the query to make the planner execute the query in a certain way. Planner hint might not be the right term, Oracle has tools to show you different execution plans and to force a plan without touching the query on the application side.

I'm not sure why shared storage would be a problem, the world runs on SANs and making them redundant is pretty much a solved problem. For running a RAC cluster you are required to have at least two network paths for each cluster node. Furthermore cluster communication is separated from storage communication.
I've heard about the ZZT reconstruction project. It's pretty exiting to see. Both communities have always been somewhat related.
It’s very likely that the majority of that cash is being used to pay rent and pay off credit cards, while a percentage is being held as cushion for the very uncertain near future.

You can get angry about it, but I don’t know how productive that is when the majority of this money was sent in equal payments to everyone below a fairly generous cutoff level.

Lastly, it’s hard to see a stimulus effect in consumer spending when stores are closed and there are supply side constraints.

The truth is most households spend almost exactly as much as they make every month, and the fear of the virus combined with the lockdowns basically blew a gaping hole in many people’s income with no easy way to fix it. The cash transfers are basically the government applying pressure to that wound to prevent it bleeding out. It buys some time.

Whether or not we’ve used that time well and are prepared to handle what comes next is a very different question.
Looking at the Canonical CLA [1], you're right that it allows Canonical the right to relicense contributions under any other license:

> 2.3 Outbound License

> Based on the grant of rights in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, if We include Your Contribution in a Material, We may license the Contribution under any license, including copyleft, permissive, commercial, or proprietary licenses. [...]

However, please note that my original comment [2] was asking for a CLA which prevents usage in a proprietary setting, while the project is under a permissive license like Apache/BSD/MIT (emphasis added):

> I've never seen an Apache/BSD/MIT project where the CLA (and only the CLA) prohibits commercial / proprietary / closed-source or any other use cases — if you have an example or two, could you please point them out?

[1] https://ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/agreement

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365535
And we certainly could still end up with that charge, but my point is that the police committing a crime should act as an enhancement to force prosecutors to charge it more seriously. If a random person commits a crime that would be third-degree, the same crime committed by an on-duty police officer should be charged as second-degree or higher.
Sure, for less and declining viral loads. But this is mostly anecdotal.
But you know that they kneeled. Their marketing broke through your attention defenses.

The problem is converting that into something tangible that furthers their goals.
I've hidden the submission. Hopefully it helps. Thanks again for making this a better place!
Downsize government?
More optimal allocation is exactly what makes people happy. You are free to pursue your interests instead of growing potatoes in a village somewhere.

Someone that's happy to grow potatoes somewhere can now trade their labor for yours via money.
If that is true, it must happen very early. Some two year olds are already extremely non-autistic.
An RSS reader that I'm happy with. yeah, I've tried pretty much all of them.
Kubernetes had a non-public prototype in Java. None of the code in the main tree even resembles the code from that prototype (I was one of the first non-googlers to contribute).

It’s just ugly because that’s how it evolved after a community formed and that’s what real evolved software looks like. :)
Meanwhile lots of people lost their health insurance. You wonder who came out ahead. It's the old confusion between revenue and profits again.
It's vCard, not URL.
People always come first. And it's not like the "march of progress" somehow has skipped Germany, so that's a rather flimsy argument.

Neither is Germany "paying people with tax dollars to continue doing the same thing for life".

Can we move on from the empty talking points? Can we talk about how the social security measures in Europe ensured that, as opposed to the US, we won't see 50+ million people suffering hunger later this year? Can we talk about the oh-so-beautiful paragon of capitalism has gleefully murdered 10s of thousand of people for the sake of the economy? When that "economy" really is only propping up Wall Street?
Why lie? The guyt threated people, but was not unharmed and his car was burned. https://twitter.com/MsDBZbabe/status/1266904275785056262?s=2...
Mutating to survive less successfully in your environment would be evolutionarily unusual...
>You are then fully aware that you are covered by a gold plated healthcare

My healthcare plan is not gold plated. It's trivial to find a HDCP on the open healthcare exchange with the same $4k deductible. The only atypical thing was that my employer covered the $4k HSA deposit, but paying that $4k does not lead to financial ruin for the vast majority of the middle class.

>and your experience is utterly atypical.

Did you even read the survey I sent you? I think your view has been heavily tainted by political arguments about healthcare, which focus on the minority it doesn't work for. Again, the reason healthcare is so hard to change in the US is because it works for the majority of the population.

>HN guideline prohibit me from saying what I think about people like you.

Consider why you are so emotionally charged about the topic and take a step back. Is there something that deeply upsets you about healthcare not being a failure for more than half of the population?
Updated. I wish HN had proper blockquote formatting.
It could also be that the extended benefits were a way to keep low income people content. At least where I live, most of the layoffs have been minimum wage positions, like wait staff, sales associates, etc. Even if they aren't spending the stimulus money, it could at least help them feel safe, reducing the chance for civil unrest.
You know buying a use second hand iPhone can be a better monetary investment then a new android phone when you get convinced by all the Apple marketing about superior build quality. (Because Apples definition of that tend to not include physical robustness).

Also if buying a car allows you to save hours every day you can then use to work more and earn it back pretty fast (or take care of you kids or whatever) then this might be quite reasonable.
Ask HN: Guidelines: what is 'an interesting new phenomenon'?
The Hacker News guidelines list as off-topic, "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. "

So -- what do you think does (or doesn't) qualify as an interesting new phenomenon in politics, crime (not sure why that item's there, to be honest) or sports?

The guidelines also state "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

If said phenomenon does qualify, but is on television, is it on-topic?

Or should we read these guidelines as a general ban on politics, crime, or sports, with an escape clause for if something happens to arise within the context of an on-topic subject?
You may enjoy those 3 months, but then? Chances to find a stable job in a shrinking economy?
Isn't it bad to have a PM who makes decisions based on her own personal fear and ignores the advice of professionals?

Also this needs to be studied better. For instance Iceland didn't close schools for 0-16, but they have far fewer cases of Covid-19 in children of that age, less than 10% of confirmed cases (and they have been tested proportionally more than other age groups). None needed hospitalization.
Yeah I think about this a lot tbh.

Turns out I'm not a very good developer, probably average on a wider scale, maybe a bit below that and certainly bottom teir when it comes to highly tech minded contexts, such as here on HN. And frankly, I dont care for much of it at all. I dont hate programming i guess, and while I rank myself poorly as a developer, I'd same I'm ok as a hacker, meaning I can dig my heels into a problem I'm interesed in and "hack together a solution" from nothin, mostly for the sale of wanting to do it. Its very rare that I'm exposed to a problem that I can get engaged in, but when I do the spark returns.

OTOH no idea what else I could reasonably do. Most careers are going to be plauged by the reasons that turn me off of programming. There's a handful of things that interest me, but all stuff that is out of reach because of education reasons and I make too much money to afford going back to school (but to little to self fund). Its also hard to tell where my intellectual ceiling is and if I'd even be able to work on some of those things anyway.
You’re right. That was fantastic. Hadn’t seen that one before. Thank you.
Yes, it seems they do - I assume that the fact all other countries relied on Russia for the last decade to ferry astronauts and cosmonauts to ISS doesn't fit with the narrative of them being the sworn enemy of the West?
If TypeScript compile times feel long to you, I hope you never have to work with a poor build system with a truly expensive language. A clean build with 8 cores at work takes around 10 minutes on my machine. Without parallelization it’s almost an hour. And this with explicit rules against C++ templates…
This is veering off topic but it's too good not to link Mohammed Ali on the words 'black' and 'white':

https://vimeo.com/139167005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueDbCmG3iu4

He must have been doing those riffs a lot back then. What a master communicator and performer. He reminds me of Dylan's comic side.

Coming back to the topic, if you watch that youtube link to the end, it's interesting how different his recommendation is from 'allowlist' and 'blocklist'. He's not suggesting that whiteness and blackness be taken out of words and replaced with awkward, prudish constructs that no one would otherwise use. Instead he wants positive use of 'black' words: "Rich dirt is black dirt, strong coffee is black coffee". It's a different approach and he expresses it in such a simple and funny way. Of course this was of the moment in the late 60s (black pride).
There are only 61 GIFs in the entire dataset [0] What this project is most clearly missing is an attempt at web crawling for GIFs. This is how Giphy works, and frankly I think it would be trivial to scrape a few thousand GIFs in an afternoon.

[0] https://github.com/bnlcas/OpenGif/blob/master/Data/Gif_Data/...
Why do all these complicated things?

Just draw a black box over faces.
Viruses mutate. There is a selection pressure for them to become more contagious but less incapacitating since sick people in bed do not infect others. It is possible, though not guaranteed that common strains of COVID could become less deadly over time. That said, public health decisions should be based on the science and not wishful thinking or what one doctor said.
The "names and organization behind it" thing is needlessly condescending (not to mention false), and the ability to get things done without generics basically restates David's point.

Was there something in this paper that you felt unfairly treated Rust, the language you represent on these threads? Because otherwise, I can't see what would motivate you to join this thread to snipe.

I'm with David, for what it's worth. Lack of generics has mostly helped me be productive in Go, and the extreme prevalence of generics in every Rust library I deal with has definitely slowed me down a bit. I'm looking forward to generics support in Go, but mostly for what I hope it does to message board threads.
Dealing with their customer service is a nightmare. Almost every request is outsourced to some low cost location where you encounter agents who stay strictly on script and cannot understand the context.
If it was reasonable, it would encoded into the law. It is not for the police to create new laws on the spot, and even if it were, the use of force to enforce it is not reasonable.
Most people will stay at the same employer for their whole life, also because it is relatively hard and costly to lay people off. This leads to very static structures and wrong incentives.

The US certainly manages to allow (some) employers to organize their operations for their maximum convenience, with the conditions of the workers essentially the workers' problem.

This indeed allows efficiency - but only in the short term. In the long term, this effectively generates an ethos that some portion of people are disposable and this destroys society. Which is literally what can be seen in America today, the debt coming due in a multitude of ways.