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I have to add this little thought to the thread. I was in the U.K. recently. I was forced to quarantine in a hotel there for two weeks. And naturally while I was in the U.K. I was thinking about the usual political and cultural topics, including gun control and the stabbing problem. I was watching a huge amount of British television due to being stuck inside this room, and I ended up watching a lot of the British equivalent of “cops.” I saw a criminal getting apprehended and it was the most amazing thing: there were two male officers grappling with a man, trying to arrest him. They got him on the ground and the one cop was on top of him, screaming. His hands wandered around on the suspects body and he seemed to jump up and down on top of him like a small baby pretending to be a doggy. He was also quite chubby so the similarity was difficult to escape. There were no arm bars, choke holds, no kind of decisive movement or action whatsoever on the part of the police. This cop could not grapple his way out of a wet paper bag. That’s when it hit me. How incredibly deeply different the US and U.K. are. That’s when I realized why there are so few guns in the U.K. prohibition doesn’t work right? But it works with guns? No, the hidden answer is that there is no demand for guns in the U.K.! People in the U.K. are physically weak and feeble. The cops can’t even put you in a proper hold. They flail about... there is simply no need for a gun in the U.K. because a knife works just as well. It intimidates just as much. It kills a feeble Brit just as well as a gun. Plus, people in the U.K. probably couldn’t even fire a gun properly. A Brit probably couldn’t even tell a BB gun from a rifle... In the hands of a Brit, a knife is probably way more deadly than a gun. The reason why there aren’t so many guns is because there simply is no use for them.
The case of the Iroquois and lacrosse is really the only case I'm aware of where the issue of indigenous peoples being represented under their own nation would actually make a meaningful difference in how competitions would go.

Naturally, the Iroquois have used this to drive some more publicity for their sovereignty claims--in particular, they insist on using their passports when traveling internationally. While I'm sure the US and Canadian governments aren't happy about this, they have both ultimately said "yes, we will let them back in on these passports."

Their exclusion here appears to be because Olympic rules are that dependent nations are not allowed to to participate under their own flag, except those that had an existing committee 30 years ago. I think those rules are a mistake, and the organizers here should override those rules to let the Iroquois compete. If (perhaps when) lacrosse becomes an Olympic sport, this issue is going to become even more important, and I would hope that both the US and Canada would campaign to admit the Iroquois as nation in its own right when playing in the Olympics.
The Haudenosaunee (incorrectly referred to as the Iroquois) have a fascinating and complex legal system. This video explained the system and how it came to be. Highly recommend for anyone interested in legal systems or history in general

https://youtu.be/S4gU2Tsv6hY
No, there is no pattern. The last one happened when I got a new Android phone. I logged in on my work account and my personal account, and the work account got suspended. It said "suspicious app", but the only app I used it with was Google Meet. The personal account was used for much more, but didn't get suspended. I half suspect that they deliberately have false alarms so they can act like they're more secure, but it's more likely just a horrible, unaccountable AI.

I treat all Google accounts as throwaways now and don't use the work email at all because I want to know that I can actually receive emails that are sent to me. That's a huge problem even without randomly losing access, because their spam filter has a ton of false positives and those emails don't get forwarded to my real address.
Why some mosquitoes prefer humans
Very true, which is why I, as a manager, ask senior devs during interviews why they made those choices and how they integrated and deployed the changes. In a lot of cases it turns out their flashy new tech choices were for one-off greenfield projects that were support systems and not primary production systems. I'm usually more interested in how they improved prod systems using the existing stack. This helps me figure out if they're into maintenance work or if they're only interested in tinkering with shiny new things. Both activities have their places on dev teams, but I take it consideration for the actual role I'm filling.
Yeah this is why we need to make it normal to wear sun glasses and trench coats and baseball caps. Both a fashion statement and a rejection of surveillance everywhere. Also bitcoin and cash should be as normal as popping out a credit card
I think it is not that work necessarily ruins everything. The problem is turning your hobby into a job means turning your hobby into a business, which is were in my opinion most of the friction comes in.

For programming the difference between what I like to do and what I can easily get paid to do is not that big, so it makes sense to combine as a career advice. But for hobbies like music or painting, unless you get extremely lucky, it is whole lot harder, takes much longer and requires to make much more compromises to get to the point where it is really fulfilling.

I only ever tried the latter semi-professionally. And it was already a soul crushing experience at times.
It satisfies one’s intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess my biggest question is not really a technical one.

Why do porn sites get so much traffic? Why do people enjoy consuming pornography as much as they do, at the volume/frequency that they do?
> Microsoft did that for operating systems, productivity software, stalled the web with IE6

Android, GSuite, Chrome
This is the video I was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yJTCDU4uE

As a sibling reply already mentioned, it's an interview with Tyler Cowen who does a terrific job at interviewing Peter. I don't have specific search phrases because I stumbled upon this interview by lucky accident.
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Solving technical problems until you die sounds much more boring than having the freedom to solve technical problems one day, teaching the next, volunteering the third, and taking the family on an extended weekend trip the rest of the week... or literally anything else you want to do. To each their own I suppose.
All of the stuff you can do with regexes can be done with some hand written code. Since thst code often implements the FSM for the regex, it contains a fair share of case statements.

The benefit is that the regex library costs a lot in hidden complexity - debugging why a particular regex works slowly or eats lots of memory is hard. If a similar problem pops up in hand written code, you can use your standard profilers and other tools to see what's happening.
So there are a few unknowns:

1. Does the virus remain infectious in food? In particular, does hot or reheated food affect it?

2. The digestive process produces more acid. Will that kill the virus?

3. Will the virus even touch the wall of the stomach? It may be in food after chewing, rather than directly on the stomach wall

There are some reasons to think that swallowing virus replicating in your throat is different than having some inside a chewed up piece of food surrounded by saliva.

We don’t know of course, and someone super high risk should perhaps avoid takeout salads. But as of yet we haven’t had any case cluster reports where a superspreader cook spread the virus to their colleagues + customers via food. No country has reported a single instance of a traced infection via takeout.

This doesn’t mean it’s impossible, as contact tracing is not perfect. But the lack of any evidence so far is suggestive.
had this bookmarked for a while, gonna test it out soon.
As others have stated, no one really knows what is going to happen. But I also think that arguing about inflation vs deflation greatly oversimplifies reality. For example, the Fed's monetary stimulus is likely creating inflationary pressure on assets (stocks, bonds, real estate, etc...). And the pandemic has resulted in a drop in demand for a number of goods and services (travel, clothes, gas/oil, etc..) while also increasing demand or disrupting the supply of a number of other goods and services (food, medical supplies, fitness equipment, etc...).

I don't think the aggregate statistics are going to really tell the full story. We will likely see significant inflation in some sectors, while at the same time seeing significant deflation in others.
If the amount to be paid is agreeable for the services expected to rendered, why would you want to take a stand?

If the amount to be paid is not agreeable for the services expected to be rendered, why would you want to utilize said services?

There does not seem to be any reason for a group to take a stand. It is either worth it or it isn't. If it is, everyone is happy. If it isn't, there is no loss in not seeing the transaction take place.
Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Think seminar, July 1982
> We’ve become conditioned to breathe too much, just as we’ve been conditioned to eat too much.

How is one conditioned to breathe too much? We eat too much because there is so much available to us and it's engineered (by trial and error) to be as delicious as possible. That has not been done to air.
>Climate and Urbanization Drive Mosquito Preference for Humans

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)...
> by default code sandboxed by wasm is fully deterministic

Sorry? I'm not sure what you mean by "fully deterministic" here, because as far as I was aware you can do basically anything including choosing to not terminate inside of WASM.
New York must pay Uber/Lyft drivers unemployment benefits
In other words, they are buying elitism. Ivy League educations are not for everyone.
Your article literally is an example of what the OP cited:

- Multiple citations from Zenz (+Pompeo for bonus points)

- Entire article revolves around testimony of those with 2+ children being subjected to family planning policies (IUD / sterilizations etc).

- Mentions "now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy" without providing context of that new "Two-Child" policy is in affect for everyone, with no minority exemptions.

- Claims 30 interviews reveals how wide spread the practice is. Hint: you can interview 1.3 billion Han Chinese to see how wide spread family planning program was for the last 40 years.

We already know from leaked internal papers the purpose of these camps, the reality is, the camps themselves are boring techno authoritarian reeducation camps (like in France), but the threshold for manufacturing consent requires something meatier like literal genocide. There's sufficient state-level intelligence capability to actually verify the scope of the camps, but western media insists on quoting the same few unsubstantiated sources + Pompeo musings while conveniently omitting facts that goes against the narrative. I.e. recently ASPI "slave labour" study, casually glosses over that the minimum hourly wage from contracts was equivalent to basic salary at Foxconn and 2x annual GDP of prefecture the workers are from. Because the mental image for a prisoner stamping license plates for 50c an hour is different than $20 an hour.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

Also, note that the guidelines are pretty expansive in terms of what is on-topic:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Does a quick practical guide about how to do this and reap the benefits exist anyway?

I'm also curious about finding references for the studies he mentions.
I'd argue this is a feature not a bug. The internet is a protocol for communication, not archival or retention. Any notion of persistence is owned by nodes in the network. Retrieval from an "archive" over the internet comes in the form of communication. The web introduced hypertext, and a protocol for exchanging hypertext, on top of this communication protocol. But again any notion of persistence of hypertext, and the "links" between hypertext documents, is the responsibility of the nodes in the network.

They were sharing information with the whole world, but in an ephemeral medium.

The web, and internet, is not an inhospitable place for anyone without corporate backing. You can host a somewhat reliable service on a raspberry pi over your home internet connection.
don't know if it's better than google, but it's surely super interesting.
The federal government is already sending out $2400 per month to people who are unemployed.
And NXP is generally considered a very good vendor to work with!
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Groups doesn't (and didn't ever?) Show ads as far as I know. So you're reaching for second or third order effects at best.
That's fair, though one might wonder why it's important to link from headings at all.

Underlining in headings just hearkens back to the WWW of early 1990s.
A decade ago, there use to be celebrity websites which had forums, galleries, blogs now it's just Instagram. Hell so many prominent celebrities don't even own a domain name in their name. Also, it's not like the content has improved. Earlier their use to be HQ images in those celeb galleries now the highest resolution image is 1200x1200. The only thing that has improved is how easily a celebrity can reach millions everything else has gone downhill with respect to discussions, forums, galleries, blogs. Most of these are replaced by poor comments section.

It's not just celebrities, so many independent artists are putting up their talent on Instagram and I don't have access to any of it because I need an Instagram account for that. Instagram web version is forcing to sign up if you scroll 1 page down on a profile.

Sometimes I feel like we need to build cutting edge decentralized applications that will burn these walled gardens to the ground. /rant
Introducing: Python SDK for Vercel API
So we're back to blaming Disney for the fact that legislators can't be bothered to vote with their conscience?
No doubt that their CPU's are missing on the price/peformance ratio, but for gaming, Intel can certainly crank out the FPS. I'm all AMD now, I cant believe what a great machine my Ryzen 3900x is. I was just suprised out how much performance they've been able to wring out the 14nm++++ process. It's only going to get worse for them before it gets better.
Is this statement true? "Holding Bitcoin is literally free."

If we can't even start by correcting it, "Holding Bitcoin is inexpensive," then how can we have any kind of technical conversation about it?

I think in technical conversations, we should avoid hyperbole, and try to be literal. Call it pedantic if you want to, but I don't know how to build logical arguments out of pleasant sounding falsehoods.

It's up to you whom you talk to, people who exaggerate, or people who ask for simple concessions for correctness.

And please note, I was responding to the sarcastic, "If only you could store things in multiple locations." If you enjoy talking to people who are sarcastic, that's also your choice.
Does this mean that it's possible blood thinners could help some patients with covid-19?
Most developed nations allow gun ownership to some degree, with large variations in the regulations and limits around it. The US though are quite unique in seeing gun ownership as a basic right, not a privilege granted/earned.
In reading another current HN post I was reminded that for a long time, this was known as USENET.
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Why do people like alcohol or any other vice that some group may frown upon? I don’t think you’ll find a satisfying answer here. Different people like different things.
Isn't this meditation? What is the difference?

EDIT: rereading this - yes, it is meditation. Why is it being rebranded and written about as if it is some new discovery?
ha, missed connections on HN.
Phone calls and text messages are way different than push notifications. The modem is a separate chip on the device that can almost definitely wake up the CPU, and there is, to my knowledge, no such chip for fetching push notifications over the internet. Even if there was, you can verify by hand that apps like tdesktop don’t support any kind of central push notification service from the operating system, so it would be impossible for the device to do anything special; it simply has to be awake for traditional apps to process push notifications.

Libnotify is for sending notifications to the OS for display. However “push notifications” usually refers to the system that handles the push portion. For example, APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) and FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging.) Lacking a centralized service both on the OS side and in the cloud, it’s difficult to see how a battery-optimized push notification system could be devised. From my understanding, on today’s phones generally the CPU has to wake up periodically to poll, and if you have many individual push services that would be inefficient. (Maybe iPhone has a more clever system than just waking up the main CPU to poll, I do not know.)
Hard to know without widespread testing, and it depends how people define asymptomatic.

But cruise ship cases seem to indicate people with no true visible symptoms. There was a cruise ship with universal masking and a 80+% asymptomatic rate after 28 days.

Now, these patients may well have symptoms such as ground glass opacities in the lungs. But you can’t exactly feel that, so that’s some of the ambiguity.
Part of that is certainly because nobody is actively attacking OpenBSD's pledge, while JavaScript engines are under constant attack. (FWIW, every major JavaScript engine utilizes a platform sandbox that provides pledge-like functionality.)
Ocaml has multithreading support now though (it was merged recently iirc)
why do mennonites and other such groups use low/deprecated technologies? partially due to religious creed, but also because when the electricity is gone, oil lamps still function, and horses dont need a petrol pump to keep running.

likewise many people are clinging to the local operating system rather than moving to the SAAS model.

so what happens if we lose the oldschool languages and platforms entirely, for whatever reason ?

if TBTF corporations are somehow hobbled or neutralized, we need old hand tools to build a tech newtopia from the rubble. if those tools are destroyed then we are beholden to a system that stands on very thin ice.
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Hey! It saddens me too that education quality is suffering because of this.

I am working on a tool to solve the exact problem you have. It's called vlokit [0]. It's an async video chat platform. You can easily upload video, screenshare, audio. It's almost instant. Your kids can go through the content and reply back with audio/video/screenshare within the same thread.

We have seen educators in Asia use our platform to conduct complete classes on vlokit. Kids access our platforms on cheap android phones. It's great because we're have mobile-friendly website and the content works amazingly well on low-bandwidth connections as well.

Let me know if you need help setting this up. I think it'll be incredibly useful for you.

[0] https://vlokit.com
You weren't kidding. They do a pretty good job of hiding photos that show the side view. But wow that thing is dummy thicc.
I agree that person's way of expressing their opinion was inelegant. But I'm trying to cut through to something true that they might have meant by what they said.
I actually like some of the pocket articles on the new page tab. I do have to watch out that I don’t get distracted to often :)
This is a summary article. Those clinicians reached their conclusions months ago.
> He had been ordered to turn over all of their historical arial archives for scanning by Google, and then told the USGS would no longer do arial scanning since Google was doing it. But there was no agreement for Google to turn over their arial scans back to the USGS.

Jeez, that's horrifying. Literally just giving public assets to private corporations.
I can’t speak for all of Europe, but in the U.K. we still have lots of business shut down, like swimming pools and cinemas (at least in Scotland). Masks are mandatory in supermarkets. Nurseries are returning next week. We have just enforced quarantine if you return from Spain and it’s islands due to a spike there. We are also doing local lockdowns in certain cities due to.

So it has died down, but that’s due to the measures we have enforced. The fact that localised spikes are happening I think proves that it’s not “run its course”.
Alcohol delivery service Drizly confirms data breach
It’s a little bit off topic but does any one make WSL2 working on Surface Pro with the LTE connection?
Everything works fine un WiFi but nothing works with LTE.
Why do you feel that it was the job of "corporations" to preserve and archive of every page forever?

In my country, all physical books and magazines which are published must be submitted to the government in X copies. The government then keeps an archive.

With webpages, the problem of obtaining X copies never existed. Why couldn't the government have archived webpages like it always did with books?
I've done a lot of breathing exercises due to freediving. I think the main benefit for me was that it's almost like meditating.

While lying there and breathing up or holding my breath, my mind is completely clear. No thoughts, just staying as relaxed as possible focusing on my diaphragm. No scrolling on my phone thinking about my day, nothing. Just relaxing. Except the last minutes when the body screams at you to breathe because of the co2 buildup, heh.

But not sure if there's anything more to it than that? I don't do it as often anymore, but get the same focus from working out.
They at least aren't using Linux on ARM laptops/desktops, which has been a year away for around a decade now.
Bingo. Modern web dev has actually made me hate my job, it's a nightmare for no real value.

Source: Former Pornhub dev as well.
Maybe it is something that a non-profit dedicated towards preserving knowledge and internet content (such as Internet Archive) should be handling anyways.
If Wayland doesn't work for you, you can still use Xorg, that has worked fine for millions of people in the last few decades. I like Wayland, but I won't switch until it gets to the same level of features and stability of Xorg.

Also if we must be fair, Windows still has no way to reliably install Windows updates through SSH, because you apparently cannot elevate yourself, without even if you are logged in as administrator. I still need to RDP into my Windows instances while every other OS can conveniently be updated using just a few shell commands.
No, we're acknowledging that legislating is a skilled job, and that experience counts.
Doesn't contain a fix for the tearing on Windows 10 with Hardware Graphics Scheduling.
It’s nice to know all those Casio watches I’ve been wearing for years and years probably have lead exposed on them :/
Same here. I especially loathe the "watercooler talk", when people just hang around and chit chat to burn another half hour.

But I have to admit, I have also seen this behaviour in European engineers, so it is not unexpected.