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I was looking at this page https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm and it's not styled with any css. And it looks so old school. Why not the browser software creators get together and make the default look and feel much more modern?
For example, if I'm typing something in the word or Google docs, the font, the typography, the default text color, the TOC, all look so much better out of the box.
I hope the browser creators make the pages look better without any styles.
I'm referring to personal use (i.e., friends and family) as to per the parent comment's argument.
Quarantine for the sick is an age-old method. Lockdowns of entire populations for extended periods is a massive experiment, and the closest analogy we have is the wholesale internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, based on the idea that some of them might pose a danger.
The housing affordability crisis is mostly a problem of land use and development restrictions, poorly related to billionaires or macroeconomic policy. Many of these housing policies were originally designed by the white middle classes with the goals of keeping black people out; today they occasionally still serve that purpose but are more about helping property owners prop up their net worth, comprised substantially of housing wealth.
https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm
Then whatever else it is that is spreading, it is certainly not an idea and none of the requirements you listed could have happened.
NZ tourist spending was 60% domestic pre-COVID. A lot of outbound tourism also happens that will be going domestic now. We also expect to have a "travel bubble" with Australia and possibly other countries where COVID is effectively eliminated --- Australia was 50% of international visitors pre-COVID.

Other affected industries are international students and TV/film production. We will be admitting people for those with at least a 14-day quarantine and testing. That's not much fun but if you're a student or a media producer NZ looks like a particularly good destination at this time.

All assuming we can keep COVID down, of course, which we shouldn't take for granted.

Yeah, our economy's going to hurt, but countries wracked by ongoing COVID and various levels of lockdown for the forseeable future will suffer worse.
Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode
Then they would report negative excess deaths. That's important information.
There is a prevailing sentiment on this site that I can only, for the lack of knowledge of a better term, call American evangelical-puritan. It's, in it's entirety only about getting money, getting more money and getting more efficient at getting more money. The holders of this sentiment seem to find it offensive to find pleasure in anything else than being the best worker ant this quarter they can possibly be. It's rather creepy to witness.
Lee Jae-Yong, Samsung Boss, to Be Arrested
Being from the US it wasn't immediately clear to me why they would do this.

Found the relevant part of the article:

> In Poland, workers say they were told by their line managers and HR that they were underperforming and would be terminated if they didn’t leave voluntarily. But in Portugal mutual agreements stated that dismissals were a result of a reduction of 40 per cent in the group’s activity and a 30 per cent excess in staff numbers. By getting employees to voluntarily leave, Revolut has avoided launching a group redundancy consultation, that, among other things would give employees the right to severance payments and the chance to be offered alternative roles within the company.
“[Mutual agreement] is better for Revolut because they can’t go to labour court [employment tribunal],” says the source from the HR department. “The way they prepare the terminations are so bad that if someone would go to court Revolut would lose,” the source claims.
Our understanding on the nature of atoms is not something someone suddenly "discovered". Rather, we've gathered evidence of various phenomena over the century. There are lots of models to explain the findings.

This is a bit of a long winded list of discoveries. There is no simple sophism you can utilize and say "atoms are this or that" unless you actually understand something of the background.

This Khan academy lecture is as good resource as any:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/electronic-str...
I do love the chapter name "Frisbees of Dreamland ".
Yeah criticism of Hasidic jews is usually allowed to stand, because (as a generalization) non-Hasidic jews don't like Hasidic jews and see everything they do as an embarrassment. Maybe Unorthodox will change the perception somewhat, since it humanizes them even though it portrays them negatively.
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Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU
Clear-sighted satire in games
The actual execution of how elderly care is run, is very sloppy too. Lots of people come and go and didn't even use any PPE because there wasn't any.

Also not washing hands, and using PPE incorrectly, and so on.
“Relying solely on solar and wind is a fool’s hope, I think,” Binderbauer says.

We’ve had this discussion many times on HN.
For what it is worth, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter are all part of the data transfer project which is designed to do that [0]. It is still in development though and I cannot comment on how much each company is investing in it.

[0]: https://datatransferproject.dev/
Australia’s ancient geology controls the pathways of modern earthquakes
> We are talking about teaching.

I'm heeding the way of my professor. She cut serious points from non-working code as expected but commented on our code in great extent regardless of its state.

She one to one explained to all of her students why their code didn't work. She similarly reduced grade of a working but, non-readable code and she clearly told why she did that. Also you got bonus points for informed experimenting, going the extra mile.

She always asked us hard tracing questions in exams. I complained once: "Why do I need to compile this in my mind while the compilers can do all the job?" She calmly answered: "If you can't compile that code in your mind, the compiler can't do it either.". It took me 6 years to sink that in but, when it did, I really enlightened.

With her style, you got to write working code to pass the course, regardless of all bonus points. If you can't code, you can't pass the exams either. She was great because of this.

Professors shall teach to write readable and working code, there's no exception. She was actively developing NLP systems when I last talked with her. I develop scientific applications. Both of these fields create convoluted code by default so, writing readable code is a really great ability to have.
I did not see this one yet, thanks for sharing! (Watching it now)
This sounds like a misconception. Implementations don't have to declare the exceptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23410443.
>If you have any friends who are not rich, or are European or South American

One: 55-60% market share in the US, by definition, is not confined to "the rich."

As to the other categories: my personal answer to "If you have any friends that aren't American" is "that's what whatsapp is for." I imagine for a lot of people the answer is that, or "I don't, actually."

Like, all the teenagers in my family. Their list of non-US friends is near-zero. Their non-US family are all on whatsapp.

They don't experience a gap.
> Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.

I have very much thought the same thing. We might be overly optimistic but it would solve so many problems.
Didn't know that's great to hear! it's fun to play ^^
Not necessarily. An AAMRAAM derivative could have used passive radar homing. After all, if an AWACs is the target, it's emitting huge amounts of signal on well know frequencies.

In fact, the Soviets had AWAC hunter teams using exactly this type of missile. They figured (correctly), that sacrificing a squadron of planes to blind NATO would be a fair trade. The number of E-3s in NATO were limited, and extremely expensive. The R-27 had radar homing variants with a range around 70km. This would require the launching aircraft to get very close to the AWACs and it's protective escort.

The Russians have continued this with the R-37, which has a range of up to 400km. They plan on targeting AWACS, tankers, ECM aircraft (JSTARS) and other high value aircraft. All of these are slow, easy targets for a fighter.
Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address
God, I miss kuro5hin
It really boils down to how wealthy the country is and how stratified the wealth is. In the US we have higher averages because we have higher salaries on the high end, but that does not carry all the way through for the entire country.

The idea that most good programmers move to rich countries is just asinine.
"Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?" You _would_ expect that post to be mostly failure stories.
For those, like me, wondering what Permit A 38 is: https://asterix.fandom.com/wiki/The_Place_That_Sends_You_Mad

I wasn't familiar with it before, but might start using it, as it's unfortunately relevant at work.
Would your next hire be a Virtual Being?
A vaccine which might never come. Or which may come in a year or more. Or which has side effects.
Why? The wealth was not taken from those children.
Not a single real image in that laMe fluff piece.
Fitbit gains FDA authorization for its low-cost emergency ventilator
> So you can (in theory) burn hydrocarbons while capturing the emissions and still producing energy.

I like this theory, any example of trying it in practice?
and commodify and exploit social resources for profit?
You compare two of the worst approaches in the world and present a false fallacy of "shut down the world" when in fact the countries with stricter quarantine/tracing/tracking approaches had far better outcomes:

Germany, and Japan, and Korea, and Taiwan lost far fewer jobs, killed far fewer people per capita and nearly eradicated the pandemic while it is still rampant in the US and Sweden.
I hate to be the critic but this article reads like it was generated by a similar algorithm that "wrote" those pretend scientific research papers that were accepted by predatory publishers...

http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien...

There's a whole lot of acronyms and basically zero context. The language is so generic you could swap out many of the terms and acronyms with random ones and it would still seem like it makes sense.

When I read the title my first thought was, "Wait: When did GUID Partition Table format version 2 come out? They're already taking about version 3‽"
Both are of course among the word's oldest democracies so were set up when just convenient ideas like maintaining a big book of everyone's names or mailing ballots to everyone was surely impossible.

There have been lots of updates though. Several states allow same-day registration and at least one state does not require registration at all.
And the politicians should have put in that severe, very expensive effort. But that would have required them to be fast, which is not a very Swedish thing. Everything is extremely decentralised and in many cases privatized.

Either the state (highest level) should have forced an intervention, or all actors should have acted responsibly. But there is too much inertia. The elderly care is so poorly managed, it was not only a disaster waiting to happen, it actually was a slow burning dumpster fire even before Covid19.

So many wasted opportunities.
>And you're never going to cover all the different paths through the compiler.

Depends who you work for and how willing they are to let such justifications stand in a court of law.
Okay, then just don't configure it. It's not like it's going to go there in one click from a clean install.
> We had 1.5 months of partly lockdown.

No, we did not.

Portugal's state of emergency consisted of imposing the duty of home confinement only to risk cohorts, comprised of sick and actively monitored patients. Everyone else was only subjected to "social duty to home confinement" and was obligated to wear protective masks on public transportation, customer service, and services open to the public.

> We closed pretty much everything until a few weeks ago.

That assertion is somewhere between disingenuous and confused. There was a healthy general attitude towards the civic duty of home confinement, but it was primary self-imposed restrictions. The Portuguese government ceased to impose general confinement restrictions after they revised the first declaration of state of emergency, which were downgraded to mandatory facemasks in public transportation and public services.
How gutting for the researcher. It's very admirable for him to be so open about it all
Now you've got me curious. Are these people in the tech industry? What would their age range be, roughly?
> The only problem is that any messages that the iPhone received while the middleman was out of range won’t get to your PC

That is not a problem. MAP is sort of like the IMAP protocol. You can ask the phone to give you older messages and the iPhone does indeed support that as well.

Moreover, with this scheme, you will likely have to keep the donor host iPhone and the middleman at home and have them plugged in 24/7. So then your middleman doesn’t have to be extremely clever, although it wouldn’t hurt if it was.
For gmail, gmvault is great:

http://gmvault.org/
> Can’t reveal my source

That's an odd thing to say. What is the reason?
On they will win!
Tesla, I mean.
GM is too old school.
Kindof like "hacker news"
I wish they would stick to hacker news. All this globalist bullshit makes us all want to hurl.
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The smokescreen is you focusing purely on "how much wealth (in terms of imaginary currency units) some people have", as if that is somehow indicative of anything meaningful when it comes to the way we live our lives.

Bezos has 1,000,000x more wealth than I do, it's true. But his life is not 1,000,000x better than mine. I guarantee he is not 1,000,000x happier than me. The food he eats is not 1,000,000x better. The gym he goes to is not 1,000,000x better (by any metric, even if it's nicer than mine and in the comfort of his own home). His TV is not 1,000,000x better than mine. His car is not 1,000,000x better than mine. etc. etc. Not anywhere close. The numerical value we assign to some (very few) of those things do have large deltas when compared with what I have (e.g. property he owns), but it is still not even gonna approach that 1M multiplier. And even more certainly, the value he personally is deriving from those things is not anywhere close to 1,000,000x, even if what he paid for it is (which again, it's not).

The major difference is many things he has that I do not: for example, a private jet. But not everyone on earth can have a private jet, that is untenable. I am happy for the people with private jets to be the people who, by-and-large, have delivered the most economic prosperity to others.

Prosperity is not a zero-sum game. Yes, total value in currency is a zero-sum game (kinda, if we ignore inflation and such), but luckily this doesn't actually matter. What matters to humans is prosperity, and prosperity is not zero-sum. In fact, Bezos has increased the prosperity of humanity in ways that I very much doubt I ever will, while simultaneously creating a massive "wealth disparity" between himself and myself. Almost like just because a disparity exists doesn't mean the world is worse off. In this case, it actually means the opposite.
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You can resolve atoms despite all the uncertainty just like you can resolve a tree at distance despite it not having a clear surface.

The electron distribution falls with an exponential function on large distances, what is much cleaner than a tree surface anyway.
Does Fathom honor DNT requests from visitors?
One thing to be careful of; J has evolved quite a bit between j805 and j902[1]. While JforC is usually fairly simple examples, I don't think anyone has done the work to bring it up to date (in fact it's probably j5 vintage). Might also be true of the dictionary and some of the phrases. Nuvoc is the bleeding edge language reference. [2] Great book though; it's how I learned, more or less, along with the "labs."

[1] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/ReleaseNotes

[2] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc
I am trying to decide between LastPass, Bitwarden and KeePassXC. 99% of passwords in LastPass as I've used it for many years but all my passwords for my most recent job are in KeePassXC (plus some others) and BitWarden beats them both in terms of a few security features (such as 2FA options), plus is cheaper than LastPass.
Police services were relegated to the township. It was rather uneventful otherwise. I'm not sure what happened to the officers, but I wouldn't be surprise if they were hired by the township that took over policing duties.
> but I’m taking the product name “Github Classroom” seriously. Maybe it should have been named “CSLab”.

I also was confused about the scope they are going for with this. My initial assumption was that since it's GitHub, it's probably mostly for coding lessons. I read your comment though which implied it could be used for more generic lessons and I mistakenly assumed you had used the offering and had more info about it than me.

> Github/Gerrit workflows seem ideal for these types of collaborative projects

Are you suggesting complicated version control could be useful for e.g. some group of teens doing a 6 paragraph research paper in their social studies class? Again, that is just...so bizarre. That has an even lower chance of being easy for teachers or students to use than markdown.

> conclusion from your feedback is that a Google Docs-like WebUI is a requirement and my question switches to when is it appropriate to peak under the covers and see the plumbing.

That's totally valid. The difference between manually editing markdown and using a GUI toolbar is all that it takes for me to approve of the idea really. If there's a way to make the underlying format be markdown and still maintain the broad appeal of Docs/Word then I think that sounds great!
how else am i going to get to my local church for a bible photo op?
One thing I've been looking into is automated time dilation. I get that part of the thing with these sorts of screencasts is waiting for the host to think; but a lot of the time things are resolved with documentation instead. If you spend ten minutes waiting for the host to find the right documentation, it may not be the greatest.
I was up there for a month or two and did Vipassana there in 2003. It was wonderful. I met many very interesting people.

The town was already overpopulated for its size, but these days I hear it's really extreme. I talked to somebody who was born and grew up there. He said that now there are so many hotels and concrete developments all over the hills. It's just a mess.
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Hi OP here,

We are getting close to the official launch with boardme, feel free to let me know your thoughts or drop me a message if you have any questions.

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> But Norway has lockdown ?

No it doesn't. We have prohibitions on large gatherings but private individuals may come and go as they please, visit each other's houses, etc.
> Do delivery cars, scooters, trucks not produce noise?

There are a lot of existing laws about aircraft noise that cars, trucks and scooters don't need to worry about. And once you reach a certain number of takeoffs and landings your "airport" falls under additional regulations that require things like permanent noise monitoring and paying money for noise abatement for nearby property owners.

In my state, any citizen can file a public nuisance suit for unreasonable noise that interferes with quality of life. With trucks, cars and scooters it is perhaps a little difficult to track and attribute noise sources. One company making thousands of drone deliveries makes for a very easy target.
funny.. all these questions are small talk to me :)

not a criticism at all by the way! i like the concept and interested to see how it works out (plus thanks in general for thinking of thing people may like and putting the effort into creating them!).

Just that i would describe it as small talk with interesting queues :) - note IMHO small talk is very important and is a great way of learning about people and the world without getting into a fight :D.. this is just small talk that is less likely to be boring :D

*edit: the assumption being that as there is no trust between participants - they will answer these questions in a certain surface only way. the only thing that would make these questions not small talk is if they were part of a wider conversation.
There's wisdom out there that an incorrect but clear and well-commented program is better than a correct but unclear one. This is quoted at least in O'Reilly's "Practical C Programing" [1], which is a pretty good book. A lot of programmers believe this, too. I think the concept has merit (without taking it to extremes, of course).

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-c-programming...
I think OP is from Austria (like me), and we all grew up with those movies. The scene with Permit A38 is especially memorable (to the point of becoming a kind of meme), as it perfectly describes the helplessness one feels when dealing with overly bureaucratic processes.
Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same.
Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)
That is precisely the problem. I don't give either of the two viable presidential candidates consent to govern. They're illegitimate to me. There are also no particularly noteworthy third party candidates on the radar to offer a throwaway signalling vote.

MLK said a riot is the language of the unheard. Huge swaths of the country are completely ignored. I'm not one of the ones particularly suffering for that, but it's deeply frustrating.
> ...it's new information to me, regardless of how many times you've said it!

Reminds me of a joke:

— "What's your name?"

— "Damien."

— "Oh, you don't hear that name every day!"

— "Actually, I do."
Seriously? You all are still pushing the Covid narrative?

It’s not as deadly as we first thought fam. We have people looting in the streets because they’re unemployed and poverty-stricken yet you guys still have the nerve to fear-monger. SICK.
oh yeah, also I keep my phone's browser in Private Mode so whenever I go to a distraction site in the browser I have to log in every time, for every tab I spawn. It's really annoying but it's the right kind of annoying because it pushes me back out of this bad habit of staring at the phone when I'm out in the world doing stuff.
Probably the latter. The pattern doesn't really matter when 85% of the facial features are covered by cloth.
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