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Scientists are people to. They don't magically know how a new never before seen virus works, instantly. It takes time to study it. Advice at the beginning are best guesses; some is going to turn out to be wrong. With time and experience, knowledge gets more firm, advice shifts and solidifies.
> Has the potential to be better than Erlang

what's the overhead of a wasm instance?
Acronyms. In my role as software architect I encounter a new block of acronyms every few months.
I used Envy Code R [1] for many years, recently I changed to Iosevka Term SS10 [2], which is kinda same.

[1] https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co...

[2] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Router tables, however, are a serious joy to use. I prefer the table. To each his own.
for all their flaws, are very decent speakers in a small footprint

This is an understatement.

I bought one just yesterday, and was very very surprised by how small it is. It just blends in unobtrusively with the room. It's like it's not even there. A pretty good step on the route to making computers blend in with the world.

If you're a tech nerd who is OK with wires and blinking lights all over your home, this won't be important to you. But if you are someone, or live with someone, for whom the aesthetics of your home are important, this is a very important feature.
This is a problem with pretty much anything. Just being consistent every day gets you 80% there.
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The crew is only a small part of the price. The first plant has a lot of costs which shouldn't impact as much the next ones: r&d which gets amortized on more and more units, sourcing parts and certifying providers, eventual blueprint adjustments at building, certification and safety assessments.
My bad, I was looking at the R-51M, not the R-51PM. The 'M' is a passive speaker, the 'PM' has build in amplifier and bt
you're not wrong; it's definitely a tradeoff. different points along the continuum of new features vs compatibility will make sense for different products.

imagine a word processor that made breaking changes to its file format every year. there's no new feature that could be worth that amount of hassle in 2020. in markets that are still changing rapidly, it's okay to be more aggressive with phasing out support for older versions. from my perspective, the desktop OS is already mature. more than anything else, I just want it to not break things that already work.
The one I had ran on a timer, so it could be run up to 60 minutes at a time. I usually ran it from 10-20 minutes, depending how cool it was going to get.
Do you have any idea how much work it is to rewrite all of that software?

The solution people are actually moving to is https://developers.google.com/time/smear. The downside is that measurements of elapsed time will be off in that day. But no rewrite needed, and most applications are going to be just fine with that.

Article is from Jul 2012, GMT was not in effect at that time. I guess they meant UTC, but if tech journalists don't know that GMT is depreciated as a concept of "universal time" what hope is there for meaningful time reform...

Timezones may have multiple names. Greenwich Mean Time and Zulu, aka GMT and Z, are officially defined timezones that happen to be UTC+0. Both are in widespread use and are not wrong.
I was listening to an interview with Paul Offit[1] a vaccinologist and member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (which advises on COVID-19 vaccines).

His message was "You honestly don't know ahead of time", but his caveatted guess was actually that it would be long-lasting (giving the example of measles), not like the flu.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Z7m56ACJ1VZ0ZKuw4iiGb
Looks great! Is a Windows and/or Linux version on the cards?
> https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Headphones-Bluetooth-Earbuds...

But Wish is in a retailer vs Shopify as a platform. I Highly doubt wish has the same value. In fact, I don't know a single instance of someone shopping wish and being satisfied. Someone will buy it, it'll probably be way over valued, and it will eventually drop back.
How does that compare with other viral illnesses?

Not downplaying, I've had bad episodes of flu that left me low on energy for weeks, want to see how that compares and if it's been looked into (I expect not given recency).

My recovery from Covid in March was about on par with a bad flu, was late April until I felt good again and was back to normal on a physical level.
I've noticed this a lot with culture, particularly with television. At the moment, there seem to be an infinite number of shows that rehash the 1920s and the 1980s, as if we just jumped back a century, with 1920 being the present and 1980 being the future.
Wow, never heard of Prosthaphaeresis before. So cool! Really enjoyed playing with your notebook. So concise and clear. thanks!
The virus will never be gone.
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About time!
AMP is terrible.
This explains the cost, but why are they supposed to be more buggy? Should you have time to test those individually if there's just a small number of them?
Isn't that Enterprise Edition, though? I don't recall it being in Community the few years ago I was working in a Java shop.
"-storage" is no trivial caveat.
Ask HN: What happened to the law of supply and demand?
It seems common these days that manufacturers have very limited supply, yet are pricing products as if there was no supply issue. Some examples:

o Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles are have very limited availability from retailers at their MSRP of $500, and are instead being scalped on eBay for upwards of $850 to $1300.

o Thinkpad AMD Ryzen 4xxx T series laptops have ship dates of more than 5 weeks, yet have massive black friday discounts.

o Apple M1 laptops with 16GB of RAM have ship dates a month out, and are not being sold at a substantial premium.

Why are manufacturers not taking profits when demand is so clearly outstripping supply? In the Xbox/PS5 case, its clear that scalpers are taking profits. If the natural price of a PS5 is $800, isn't it better to just let me pay that via normal retail channels, and not have to deal with a potential scammer on Ebay?
I don't think a Pinebook Pro has a 40 pin GPIO header, so the possibilities for interacting with the outside world are limited and thus fun is severely reduced.
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How can you build today something, with any kind of electronic parts, and excpect a life from 50 years?
This is a great article. Anyone who parrots "Intel uses RISC internally" when talking about CISC/RISC should be directed here for edification and correction.
Sure, but only short-term. And if you only care short-term, because you are a politician with a short term, then fine (for you).

But that's a different plan from "the government" in general.

> a more efficient system would have ‘welfare’ programs for people in crisis that lead into a series of help up services that eventually lead to full independence.

You are describing "safety-net" welfare, but how do you ensure any form of welfare remains a safety-net, and doesn't become a norm? welfare for those not in poverty is much more likely to work this way. If you specifically set out to tackle poverty, the most important thing are educational programs, and limited welfare programs.

I'm not against welfare in any case, but I see it as a double-edged sword that is too often seen as a "throw money at the problem" solution.

> Also, fuck no

It's a metaphor, the difference between men and children aren't relevant. The abstract meaning is dependence vs self-dependence. Giving a child food solves their food, but not their poverty.

The way it was originally stated:

what if instead of spending so much time wondering why ‘Johnny’ can’t add, we spent that money and effort on making sure that Johnny was fed properly

I could just as well say "what if instead of spending so much time wondering why a man can't fish, we spent that money and effort on making sure that man is fed properly", and the answer is the same: because then they will be dependant on us (the government) to provide food. This doesn't mean we shouldn't provide food, but that both are required, since the original post post specifically proposed providing food should displace education i.e. we spend money elsewhere. In fact, what we spend on food is a problem in itself, but unrelated to what we spend on education, we should not cannibalise one in favour of the other as if they are competing solutions - they are both solutions to the same problem, but do not compete because they have different scope: one long term (poverty) the other short (hunger).
Target group might be older but there is definitely a large group of children playing these games.

Personally, I don’t care. Violent video games argument is pretty old. The historical part being so inaccurate is probably more damaging.
Gah, the mobile UX is pretty horrible right now. I'll prioritize it, thank you bzb6
Thanks for the links. So how do I know these value are abnormally high compared to say a severe flu? I've read in the thread on hn that posted about the mental illness results that the values for a severe flu are 13%. And what implications do, say, a "lower left ventricular ejection fraction, higher left ventricle volumes, and raised native T1 and T2" have? Why is that worse than the risk of potentially (without knowing any probabilities obviously) developing autoimmune conditions as a result of taking the vaccine?
We did evaluate pulumi. Our experience was that it basically gives you alternative, more error prone way to create terraform resource graph. Also while they claim to support python, it definitelly feels like second class citizen, it's not very idiomatic (more like almost-literal rewrite from the typescript).

So for time being we are sticking with terragrun&terraform combo.

But the concept of pulumi looks interesting and we will likely re-evaluate in a year or so to see if it has moved in the right direction.
They look like the sort of pack-in speakers you got free with a Packard Bell computer in 1993.
As an old school sysadmin for a long time, the feeling I've always gotten from DevOps is that it is like anything else in the big ball of mud we call "computer science": a new generation re-inventing the wheel.

To be sure, the scale is larger than ever before. But history is replete with "IT in the large". Just look at mainframes, quietly ticking away for decades on loads that people are re-discovering how to handle.

Partly I blame this on the hubris of the young - "this ain't your granddad's IT." Heck, I recognize it in myself from years ago, when I was all in on Linux, but the BSDs had been around a while.

But I do believe there is a wanton lack of communication in the industry and academia. Part of this is on purpose - companies don't like "giving away" their hard won lessons, nor is it (short term) profitable to pay people to write documentation. But there's a bigger culture around "if you don't understand, you're just not smart enough." It's toxic.

We could sorely use something like the group in "Anathem" that does nothing but study history and remind others of it.

I wish we could learn the lessons of the past without having to repeat them and adding yet another standard to the fourteen already out there.
I play AOE2 as well (the Definitive Edition is really great), but I never got that serious about it. I play with relatives and friends mostly. I've watched some videos about how to increase my efficiency and some basic strategies (killing the boar, fast castle, etc.) but never really dedicated myself to it. Really brilliant game. It just gets everything right and the graphics are timeless. I can't think of another game that still gets regular updates and has a big online following 21 years after it was released.
There is some recent research indicating it produces the kind of immune response that provides long term protection [1], at least if you get a strong initial response. Here's an article about that research [2].

There have been some people who have been reinfected with it, but I saw another recent article about this latest research that talked a bit about those cases. It said that they are believe to be people who did not have a strong immune response the first time. The vaccines should produce a strong response.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/27/scie...

[2] https://www.darkdaily.com/mount-sinai-researchers-find-that-...
It depends on what one's definition of viable is. Take VC money and become a billionaire?
Pretty slick, reminds me of Erlang in that Actors are just functions. I've always thought this made stateful actors a bit weird since they have to recurse. I like the wasm approach though.
> until the virus is gone

Gotta go kill all those animal carriers and test/innoculate every person in the world (more or less) continuously for some time, then you have a chance. The specific virus will not be eradicated within our grandchildren's lifetime, afaik.
>But Ireland is in GB, right?

No, Ireland is in Ireland, which is the island next to Great Britain. Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. Those and Northern Ireland are in the United Kingdom, and Great Britain, Ireland and a bunch of irrelevant islands make up the British Isles. The British Isles are in Europe, but the United Kingdom isn't in the European Union, except they kinda still are for the next month and some. But one of the Irelands definitely still is, but the entire island of Ireland isn't fully in the European Union, except that they don't want a hard border despite the fact that it's now one of the outer borders of the EU.
My main point was to note how far apart the paradigms are.

I think you're right that few projects are started with aspirations to gaining support contacts. It does seem like it might help OSS be more sustainable though. If I could transition to independently working on some of my projects I'd be glad to make a fair number of compromises to do so.

2 is definitely the best option and can be surprisingly low friction, especially when Bob points out that otherwise there's an ongoing maintenance cost to the business to keep merging the upstream. Bob also has his personal time even though that shouldn't be on the table.

I've succeeded at 1 & 2 and failed at 3.
The more I look at “modern” web sites and apps, the more I think that there should be a way to force software providers to offer discounts if their products are, essentially, bloated. (Prior to getting the software, you cannot tell how it is going to be implemented.)

There is a measurable cost to me for using these “lazy” apps:

- time and data plan spent downloading and updating these monsters

- my disk space (yes, my previous laptop ran out of space, which is hard to accept when you see “simple” apps using hundreds of megabytes)

- my battery life and utility bill (it is easy to measure the absurd CPU use of some of these things)

I am literally subsidizing your development with my own resources, because you couldn’t be bothered to create something that is at least moderately optimized for users.
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For super simple apps, sure, you might be able to get away with OS native (or frameworks like GTK). And the look and feel will be better.

That's not really the point I was making. The point I was making is that if you want to do anything more complicated then "push this button", you'll quickly find out how limited pretty much every other UX environment is.

Javascript isn't "Great UX" it is "Great UX ecosystem".
It seems to me that having a dozen redundant copies of the same core libraries isn’t the best design, and doubling that may be the breaking point where they consider separating the runtime from the app. I mean, I’d prefer more native apps but it seems like that ship has sailed for a lot of desktop use cases, but at least it could be made more efficient.
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Lol it's so true
You could just zoom out, though a web browser's font rendering can differ from your programming environments anyways.
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>It's a very recent development in the language

And we in the party all agree that it's very much doubleplusgood.
I'm really concerned about long term implications of mRNA vaccines; Hope they won't turn humans into zombies;
The only thing I’ve found to help here is to make sure the act of reviewing the cards is inherently fun— then you’re less likely to get behind.

My strategy for this was to dump the entire text of some good literature into Anki decks that give me one new paragraph per day. The steady drip of unseen material removes the stigma of pressing the “again” button and gives me a small reward of story progression from each session.

In a separate deck, I use cloze deletion on sheet music to help learn songs. That deck only gets reviewed by actively playing music, which is an inherently enjoyable activity on its own.
According to several studies, that's not true.

"Two new studies demonstrate how severity of disease is predictive of longer-lasting antibody production and detail how immunity wanes over time but may exist for up to 7 months."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/10/studies-...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isola...

There's also evidence of re-infection

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
My favorite model is to make it closed source initially, then once it's paid itself off plus profit, then open source it.

This is what John Carmack did with the game engines he wrote at id software, and the id lawyers hated it (but it was a great boon to the rest of the world)
These Usborne (and other) books were fantastic!
And the observation clearly placed a great weight on Fisher, Rest In Peace. Capitalist Realism is short, but very heavy. I highly recommend it to the HN community.
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Meanwhile, you mention ethical philosophy in the context of a mail security extension and get downvoted to hell. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25119305

Philosophy is doing a bad job of explaining its importance to the world. Philosophy nerds care about it, but everyone else thinks it's stupid.
Awesome. Thanks for highlighting this.
Nah, simply created a uBlock rules, took few seconds.
What type of connection do these system have (e.g. 10GbE) and how much latency? Would it be possible to span a ZFS Pool across multiple regions (us, europe, ...)?
I think maybe we're a bit too far afield. I don't think people are talking about phrases like "a little problem" or "a big deal". Do you take issue with the point I raised about "falling on deaf ears?" Why are we talking about hypothetical complaints people might have about the word small when we have real examples about the use of "falling on deaf ears" or "master" terminology in tech.

I think people are making good faith attempts to communicate that those phrases hurt their feelings. I think it's not wrong to make a good faith attempt to avoid hurting people's feelings. I think complaining about a hypothetical slippery slope misses the point.

> I am not interested in devoting half of my brainpower to self-censoring

But we already do this. You don't just blurt out everything you think. If you walk by somebody in the supermarket who smells strongly of perfume do you just shout "you stink"? When you're speaking to a group you're probably picking appropriate language to use. You're not dropping a bunch of f-bombs at work and probably not using a ton of programmer-specific technical jargon or metaphors with your friends who aren't in tech.

When one of my closest friends from childhood came out as trans it took me a month to stop using the wrong pronouns for them. I had to think about it in the moment... until I didn't anymore because I built up a habit and got used to it. Now it takes no brainpower at all. This is normal. This is how normal habit-building works.

> Being conscious of your partners emotions...

But not my coworkers? Not my black peers? Not a potential hearing-impaired contributor to one of my oss projects on github?
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The record size setting is the max, ZFS can use less in some cases. The best one depends on the data youre writing and the ashift of the pool, so testing is best. Large record sizes are helpful for large files (less overhead losses).

Some good beginner info
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eigh...

Some advanced info
https://www.joyent.com/blog/bruning-questions-zfs-record-siz...
Not the commenter you replied to, but I recommend the book A Secular Age by Charles Taylor as an 874-page answer to your question. The short version: modern secularity is really more like a new development, where new influences interact in a (still essentially) Christian, Western context, and not a mere subtraction of previous religious attitudes.

Really fascinating book, I can't recommend it enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age
Once you get cards to an interval of over a year, you have 'learned' the card pretty much. So if your worry is about eventually quitting Anki, it shouldn't be an issue.

>I feel like Anki is not designed to help you succeed. Eventually, you'll start missing your reviews. One day you'll open Anki, see that you have hundreds of cards scheduled, and just quit the app.

You could also just do it every day, if it's important to you. You're not destined for failure, it's a choice you make.
Knowing the future is hard. Knowing how Apple has behaved in the past and how they are behaving currently and extrapolating is much easier. All indications are that apple is doing this to re-lockdown their market.
Comparing a compiler to a language is comparing apples and oranges.
> Okay. So using a browser library for building a browser is a shortcut, and that disqualifies it from being a "full" browser.

Using an off-the-shelf library to provide core browser functionality disqualifies it from being on a list of browsers that do not use and off-the-shelf library to provide that functionality, yes.

I didn't say it wasn't a full, browser, so please to imply that I did, I said it was a shortcut to providing a full browser (which implies it is a full browser), and it is a shortcut compared to writing one from scratch.

Bottom line, if you write software utilizing libraries in a way that is extremely close or identical to a way that other software does and that method is being blacklisted for security, expect problems. It's the same for interpreted code and app stores. For security they don't want programs that can change how they function after review, so they often disallow interpreted code and downloading code to run, and in Apple's case, require their own webview library to view remote sites because of this. They don't even allow a set of other valid webview libraries, they just draw a line in the sand and say "ours only".

> Of course any application that uses the COF is indistinguishable from Chremium itself, but Google won't then distrust Chremium because it can't distinguish it from COF any more, right?

Probably. Seems like a bad business plan to follow in your snarky alternate reality. A better one might be to figure out how Google disambiguates Safari from the iOS webview, Chrome from the chromium webview, etc, and follow the same path. You might have had to trade some of the snarkiness in your example for reality, in that case.
A filter for LaTeX fonts currently installed on Overleaf would be helpful. Installing fonts in LaTeX is a professional level skill.
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