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Especially when English isn’t your first language
> Government is a necessary evil

Everything is a necessary evil, if you want to see it that way.

> Government is not supposed to keep us safe from ourselves but protect our god given freedoms.

A lot of the job of the state is to keep us safe from other individuals and other states. History proved that one of the best way to do that is to respect individual freedom in a very strong way.

Personally I am not convinced that personal freedom is an end to itself, I see it as the only stable principle that is able to fuel a civil and fair society. More freedom is good only insofar as it produces healthier societies.

I think we have quite different world views on this.
Yeah, I asked on powershell repository. It wasn't supported ever and there is no plan to do so - its not an interactive terminal protocol.
No personal experience with this, but GaTech OMSCS [1] seems very compelling. Great testimonials, and impossible to beat price.

[1] https://omscs.gatech.edu/
> every human in 2020 is either an ancestor of every human in Y or of no human in Y.

as the population increases in size, the likelihood that at time T' there is a living descendant of any given individual at time T increases. It never becomes 100%, but it does increase (for reasons you note).

by contrast, for the likelihood to decrease to zero means that as (T' - T) increases, an ever increasing number of descendants have to die before having children. for example, if i have two children and T' is T+1 year, then both children must not have children or must die in the next year. Now increase T' to T+30 years, and we now require that both my children, plus any children they have in the intervening 30 years, die before having any more children (at which point, I will have no descendants at any time beyond T'). Increase T' to T+300000 years, and we're talking about a huge number of people who must all die or have no more children before T'+1.

That's more or less what you've said above. But the problem is that it applies to every living human today also. For the situation to change such that I (or any other living human) become the IA, the descendant trees that do not include myself (or that other currently living human) must all vanish. This would be a near extinction event, since the number of humans in every descendant tree except the one connected to the IA will vastly outnumber those in that tree.
A cupola is mentioned for letting hot air out. It does even more than that. If set up properly, the wind will accelerate moving across the roof slant, then hit and blow through the cupola. This will create suction which will pull the hot air out of the house.
Show HN: Free workflow software for startups and small teams
https://www.dgendill.com/posts/technology/2019-10-15-publish...
Absolutely... but the best PMs I know absolutely hate meetings, and are constantly trying to clear them off of their plates. I've actually had PMs on my team specifically petition to remove meetings and replace them with emails, Slack checkins, or (my favorite) nothing.

It's all about aligning incentives. You need to reward PMs for getting stuff done, rather than looking busy.
You're right that the parent comment is exaggerating, but 20 million for a project of this size is still a bit crazy. The same app cost Austria "only" 2 or 3 million, IIRC.

Plus, I just don't understand all the NIH. Why isn't this kind of stuff being developed in one place and then forked by the respective countries instead of everyone creating their own tiny island?

That said, I don't have any major gripes with how the code turned out, just with the cost.
- José Eduardo Agualusa (My favorite)

- Valter Hugo Mãe

- Gonçalo M. Tavares

- Raduan Nassar

- Rubem Fonseca
That being said, I do think that services with high monthly payments should be for actual services, something that is actually done each month (eg. hosting, maintenence, etc.), but unforunately this is not how the world works.

The big advantage of this, is that people would focus more on creating more value instead of creating some value that can be sold for exorbitant prices just because "that's the market".
It's a lot of fun.
The existing situation favors quick-witted people who can fire back another insult and come away unharmed. But your proposal favors physically advantaged people who are strong/brave/skillful enough to punch someone. I don't think it's clearly better, just different.

It's also how it works in lawless societies where everyone has to protect their honor using violence otherwise they'll be seen as an easy target and get abused by everyone else. That includes, school, prison, and countries with poor rule of law. It seems like a default way for humans to behave in the absence of civilization.

It's also an almost uniquely male behavior, so women wouldn't really function in this system very well. They may make alliances with and become dependent on men to protect their honor on their behalf.
While a widespread vaccine requirement to be physically present in places that will be important to many is a fairly big stick, it's still a far cry from vaccinating people by force. Certainly I might well favor the former but would be horrified by the latter.
Thank you, and great point — another way I've heard it said by a friend/mentor is that "80% of PM is prioritization and communication". Where prioritization basically means "making good decisions on what gets prioritized".
For lookups, it's not that hard to do your own recursive resolver.
Ask HN: Good and logical resources on growing kids
I have a 10 months old daughter and it's getting tougher than ever. We are living outside of "grandmas" location, so we're definitely struggling with focusing on something else than our baby. I took some holidays now, but it seems that the most I can do is relax from taking care of the baby.

Do you know any good books on that matter?
Sounds lame but this story really touched me. I recently visited a family member who's nearing the end and it broke my heart to see them in that condition.

I'm not sure what to take from this. But thank you for sharing it
If you are in the general area of Seattle, Kaiser is looking for people who might be interested in volunteering for studies. They included this in a recent email to Kaiser members:

> The Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, which is currently leading a study for a COVID-19 vaccine, is seeking volunteers in the Seattle area to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine registry. If you sign up and qualify, you may be called and asked whether you'd like to participate in a future trial. Learn more about the registry.

The "Learn more about the registry" was a link that ends up at [1].

Requirements to be registered are at least 18 years old, in good health or with stable medical conditions, live in the greater Seattle area, and can travel to the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute clinic in downtown Seattle for multiple study visits. No need to be a KP member.

[1] https://corona.kpwashingtonresearch.org/
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How does that address the issue of the UI changing? If the markup changed, you still need to update your tests.
The exchanges make huge amounts of money off live price feeds. Wrongly IMO, but that's another tangent.

Basically there's no way they would let a player like Bloomberg forward that kind of data to their users without getting paid a lot. In fact if you work in HFT you might have heard of something called a non-display fee which is a kind of ransom money they make that kind of firm pay.

Consumers like the ones who look at finance websites are probably not people they care to market to. Hence someone like investing.com can cut a deal to show live prices. They're not depth and pretty slow in any case.

But basically Bloomberg do not own the equity prices, the exchanges do.
> Traditionally many things used to take an awful lot longer than it does now (e.g. gene sequencing). Technology advances.

This may be true with chips and gene sequencing, but is not true for vaccines. The waiting period for vaccines is mainly for safety and efficacy, not waiting on technology like the other two.

We may become more certain some vaccines are safer given intrinsic properties, but that probably won't result in any statistically noticeable difference because it's very hard to tell how a vaccine will behave without actually trying it as far as I understand it.
My go-to technical encyclopedia for getting a house right:

www.finehomebuilding.com/
Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
From first paragraph: this is a 56,000 word summary of Peter Thiel’s view on progress and stagnation in his own words, sourced from a number of his interviews and articles. This document consists only of direct quotes from Thiel, lightly edited for clarity (except for headings and where marked otherwise). Key quotes are in the summary. Compiled by Richard Ngo (@richardmcngo) and Jeremy Nixon (@jvnixon).
Link to scientific paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65976-0
Also the Woodward plan for Detroit: https://www.recivilization.net/AmericanCityBuilding/215woodw...
Google Bridges Domain Gaps in Semantic Segmentation of Lidar Point Clouds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8HiHZcgEE&t=1478s.

It's a terminal for access to market data and also has chat integrated into it. You can also trade on it if you want.
It might be decentralized, but how do you actually get a .com domain name without going through some kind of corporate gatekeeping or paying a fee?
There is more to the immune system than antibody production. A lot of the focus is on antibody production, because it is easy to measure. T Cell responses, for instance, can be very durable for coronaviruses--for instance, people who recovered from SARS in 2003 still have a T Cell response when exposed to a protein from that virus (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/ne...).

The Oxford/AZ (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/20/ne...) and the Pfizer team (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/20/mo...) have both reported T Cell responses induced by their vaccines.

Robus T Cell responses should be protective, but we are still mapping that out for SARS-CoV-2 (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/ne...).
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I use a tilling window manager and would love to just pop a window into an external eink display.

Works for other types of wms too, just use a main display to browse and the eink to read.
Spirit and Opportunity: https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/multimedia/images/ (raw: https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/multimedia/raw/ )

Curiosity: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images (raw: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images )
Gave it a go - looks great https://codepen.io/StamiLabs/pen/wvMRpwp
You can follow this request for comment: https://fragdenstaat.de/anfrage/zusammensetzung-der-kosten-f...

Legally I believe the government is required to answer that, even though it already seems they're trying to weasel themselves out of it.
Racial bias may begin in babies at six months, U of T research reveals
Downside in having an old (1890s for us) home: nothing is the same size, and none of them are the same.

Upside in having an old home: you get to go to a restoration/recycling center, wander through the vast sections of hanging doors until you find the section that fits what you need, and find an interesting one you like.

Our home was a hobby for a while. Now I have different priorities for time. But that was an awesome learning experience, and I feel lucky I went through it.

My dad drafted a house at night at work (he was a mechanical engineer prior to retirement). Then he built it, subcontracting out parts like some of the framing, drywall, etc. My parents ended up with exactly the house they wanted. It was really cool to see happen, made anything seem possible.
Does this still happen?

I bought my Win10 Pro key from a grey market site for like $10, so I figure it's likely an illegally sold volume license copy. Yeah, I totally acknowledge that it could get voided, but I know several other people who have bought their Windows key from these types of sites, and none have ever had a problem.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm on Digital Ocean; I had to do a quick droplet upgrade to avoid the "hug of death" – I'll keep Cloudflare in mind!
Call me cynical.

1. This vaccine race seems like "first one gets eternal glory" scenario, which might pressurise scientists to take shortcuts, which may be bad.

2. Even with successful vaccine trials, wouldn't take atleast an year to setup supply chain capable of distribution?

3. Virus mutates very fast, is it possible that all these early vaccine trials resulting in super virus which can't be killed by any kind of immune system.
It seems like their admission requirements demand a technical (math/CS) bachelors, and my diploma is from completely unrelated field.
Except you can do multiple colors, by introducing differently charged pigments inside the capsules:

- https://www.eink.com/assets/img/technology/GIF_Cup_E.gif

- https://www.eink.com/assets/img/technology/GIF_ACeP_E.gif

Refresh rate was always an issue, but it is gradually improving. For static reading it's not a problem.
About the sloping driveway thing. Yes, I see a number of driveways sloping towards the house where the builder installed a gutter just before the garage door. This works most of the time, but then the leaves (or snow & slush) clog the gutter and the garage floods.

Your garage is going to flood if the driveway slopes towards it.

I've had a flood from a broken washing machine hose before. I had a lot of water damage to repair. This house has a floor drain under the washing machine, with (as usual) the floor sloping towards the drain. Ditto for under the water heater.

In the new house, I've had two gushers in the laundry room and one leaking water heater. No flood damage! Usually, a leaking water heater is an emergency. Not here, it could wait until normal business hours.

I have never, ever seen this feature in any other house, and it costs next to nothing.
The article doesn't go into it, but the actual paper[1] states that this vaccine has "has previously been reported to be immunogenic and protective against pneumonia in a rhesus macaque challenge model", and cites to [2].

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.093195v1
Zovirax cream, 5%, is listed on drugs.com at almost $200 per gram... for a cream, but only $10 per gram for an ointment.

Looks like this particular med has been the subject of all sorts of market shenanigans - https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20150306-colu...

So perhaps is not going to be very representive of anything much.
American here. It sucks. ISO dates are the best solution.
"How did we justify this whole 'cancer' thing being SEV-1? I really don't see the urgency."
Sorry, but frankly this is unhelpful. The comparison is quite far-fetched.

For one thing, Worms Armageddon is a PC game. By design, PCs can run arbitrary software alongside the game, and the game software can be relatively trivially modified to do whatever the user wants. It is practically impossible to remotely prove that a PC is running exactly the software that the player claims it is running.

Second, competitive gameplay in a multiplayer game is very different than speed-running. Though similar variations exist (e.g. time-trial rope races, where contestants can take as many tries as they want to beat a map off-line and then submit their best replay), mostly we're talking about actual online tournaments (often with community-pooled cash prizes). Forcing every contestant to set up video recording and other proof as you describe would make competing impractical for most players.

Third, cheating massively hurts the game even for non-competitive play. In situations such as what I described above, when an easy-to-use cheat program becomes easily available and before we patch it out, many groups of players will download and will use the program. It is very demoralizing when players run into one cheater after another when they're just trying to enjoy a casual but fair game. You can find plentiful evidence of this in other games, which were bombarded by complaints and negative ratings after the developers' lenience to take action against cheaters in multiplayer games.
Au contraire! I am a developer. As a developer, one of the biggest issues I've seen with product management is a constant shifting in product direction. Each time there are great power point slides defining a new product vision, but rarely ever is any justification for this new vision, nor do I often see evidence that the change increased revenue.

By requiring evidence for a particular prioritization, not only does that increase my confidence that what I'm working on will actually matter, but it makes changing the prioritization harder, and hopefully means that it will happen less often, and that perhaps I can actually ship something before the PM changes the vision (again).
Any number of billion-dollar consulting companies might want to disagree with that.
I can recommend listening to Thiels episode on Eric Weinsteins The Portal podcast if this sounds interesting to you.
The spread can be bisected into two parts:

1. Droplets directly exhaled. This is the stuff that you mask for.

2. Particles suspended in air. This is why staying indoors is particularly dangerous; it tends to hang around and build up without being vented.

The virus dies quickly outside of droplets and in direct sunlight: this is why being outside is low risk given masks and distancing. Either it's coughed on you, or it dies within minutes.

An indoors area that circulates its air quickly is almost as good, provided UV is part of the process. Fans are mostly a good idea in this respect and one could imagine an indoors "UV gate" through which air is pushed to disinfect it. I would not be surprised if the idea already exists.
From the comments' guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's to stop somebody from doing that now? If you have seen any movies in the last few years, you would know how good special effects and CGI are. We can already create fake people, and generate fake voices, or find people who sound close enough to pass. Ever since the invention of video, the potential for fakes has existed.
Why not? It's a single thing, that if it fails, causes your app/website/whatever to fail.
“They would have said faster horses” – An example of asking wrong questions
I assume you’re responding to “at the expense of”. My understanding is that the US bought almost the whole global supply of remdesivir, among other things, which will make it harder for other entities searching for a vaccine/treatment to operate. OWS is targeting producing 300 million vaccines as quickly as possible, which seems very “America first”.

I don’t really place a value judgement on it, but I stand by the statement. I find it strange I haven’t heard more about this, only that trump is “ignoring” COVID. I was pointing out that this narrative will really backfire if OWS produces a viable vaccine before the election.
Poetry is language subject to some constraint, and it's generally impossible to translate it faithfully while also obeying the original constraint. If you look at Disney's song translations, they follow the rhythm faithfully, are pretty good about following the meaning, usually follow the choreography badly, and don't even try to preserve rhyme. (Even in languages in which poetry is supposed to rhyme.)

From another perspective -- there is a lyric in the song Shiny, in Moana, going c'est la vie, mon ami. That's not actually English. How do you translate it from English? This line was translated into Russian as c'est la vie, mon ami. Russians can be expected to be familiar with French, at least at this level. Languages at a greater cultural distance -- including Vietnamese -- don't translate it at all. Intriguingly, the line was translated into French as c'est la vie, mon ami. This preserves the meaning perfectly -- it's more accessible to the French audience than it is to the American audience! -- but it completely loses whatever the implication was of saying the line in French as part of otherwise English dialogue.

It's very difficult to translate anything that simultaneously expresses multiple things. You're doing well when you preserve a single aspect of the original.
Hi there. I worked on this launch. Designing for Slack had a difficult learning curve and I wanted to share some of what I learned along the way.

Here's a twitter thread I wrote this morning with about a dozen tips that I wish I knew before starting to build a Slack app:
https://twitter.com/kowitz/status/1285254103354859520
This is unusable unless you're also using dark mode
Adobe API – View SDK
ed echoes back the characters you input as you type them. This display would not be able to do that.
Sure, that's what you want.

I would argue that people want a more traditional app instead, with what I'm sure you'd consider a bloated and inefficient GUI. Considering that most people don't even know what a terminal even is, and that form regularly trumps functionality in day-to-day lives.
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Google Kubernetes Engine– How to Deploy Spring Boot Microservice
Google Kubernetes Engine - How to deploy Spring Boot microservice

Step 1: Create a project
After the login goto "My First Project" and click on it.

Step 2 : Create Cluster
If you haven’t selected your project then please do select from “My First Project ” menu. After than navigate to “Kubernetes Engine” menu in the left hand side and then click on “Cluster“

Step 3: Push spring boot docker image to google container registry(gcr.io)
1- Download the google SDK from the ttps://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/downloads-versioned-archives

2- Now you need to goto directory – google-cloud-sdk-294.0.0-linux-x86_64/google-cloud-sdk run the install.sh

$./install.sh

$ docker build -t gcr.io/jhooq-sprinboot-k8s-demo/jhooq-springboot:v1 .

$ docker push gcr.io/jhooq-sprinboot-k8s-demo/jhooq-springboot:v1

Step 4: Deploy the spring boot microservice inside kubernetes cluster

1– Connect to cloudshell. Click on the connect button for the cloudshell
2– Now we need to do kubectl deployment, use the following command for the creating the deployment

$ kubectl create deployment jhooq-springboot --image=gcr.io/jhooq-sprinboot-k8s-demo/jhooq-springboot:v1

deployment.apps/jhooq-springboot created

3- expose deployment on external IP

$ kubectl expose deployment jhooq-springboot --type=LoadBalancer --port 80 --target-port 8080

service/jhooq-springboot exposed

Find the external IP of service, so that you can access the spring boot microservice outside of the network

$ kubectl get service

NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
jhooq-springboot LoadBalancer 10.64.8.231 34.72.142.92 80:32537/TCP 11m
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.64.0.1 <none> 443/TCP

Now you can access your rest end point with the external IP .i.e. http://34.72.142.92:80/hello
Design Systems: React Buttons with the Base and Variant Pattern
Is there a way to know if you've gone through sabre?
De facto monopoly is not a monopoly. It is a dominant player. But a monopoly really is exclusive.
Is there any "360 degrees" content, that can be viewed with VR goggles?
As someone very pro-vaccine, what are the risks of doing this? Is the worst case scenario you get the vaccine and not a placebo and it does nothing? Are there real health risks to doing this?
If you're talking about UK currency, I think it's the Bank of England that promises to pay you the five pounds; a high street bank isn't bound by that promise.

The Bank of England will pay you the five pounds by giving you another fiver and a withering stare:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/freedom-of-information/2016/...
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