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Check your facts:

Obama never had a policy of separating kids from their parents, like Trump does, and the cages were only used for 72 hours before releasing them to the Department of Health and Human Services for further placement.

The Associated Press reported in late 2019 that an unprecedented 69,550 migrant children were held in U.S. custody over that year.

So do you support separating kids from their parents, and keeping them in cages for longer than 72 hours? If not, then why are you defending the Trump administration's policies to do just that, by complaining about Obama? Of course I don't approve of Obama putting kids in cages for 72 hours either, but that CERTAINLY does not justify Trump separating them from their parents AND putting many tens of thousands of them in cages during the Coronavirus pandemic for much longer periods of time, then refusing to cooperate with the efforts to reunite them with their parents. Your argument is pure whataboutism and deflection.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/12/border-...

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-democratic-national...
That's unlikely, especially in Manhattan. Maybe the bill should be more targeted, but there are certainly areas of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that would benefit from it, so targeting just Manhattan isn't a silver bullet.

Don't forget about the density in NYC. Not just population but also services. It's dense enough that most families don't even own a car [1]. So if people went out to get the stuff themselves they'd most likely do so using public transportation, which is far better equipped to handle the traffic than roads.

The other part is what kind of traffic you're reducing. The minority that would use their cars create rolling traffic. The delivery vehicles double parked create roadblocks and bottlenecks. The latter increases traffic problems by a significant factor compared to the former. Reducing the number of delivery vehicles and replacing it with an equivalent (or even higher) number of personal vehicles would likely be an improvement from a traffic perspective.

Like I said, maybe it could be more targeted. But I don't see any similar calls for people living in Rosedale or Staten Island to be exempt from the city tax.

Remember that nobody drives in NYC; there are too many cars.

[1] Only 45% of households in the five boroughs own a car, and in Manhattan the number is under 20%.

https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars
Assuming it makes it through the pandemic, one of the original huge "tiki palace" type restaurants from the 1950s, Bali Hai, is in San Diego. There are some older ones in LA, but Bali Hai is more of an experience. (And actually has good drinks and food, from what I remember, unlike its closest surviving relative in San Francisco, the Tonga Room.)

I expected real estate prices to start going down, well, any year now, and they're definitely a drag on things. I'm likely to have to leave California in a year or so for family obligations; moving back a few years after that will prove difficult, I suspect, unless I find one of those "merely" $300K desert cabins!
You should look up Dominion Election Systems old name: Diebold Election Systems. They did not have exactly iron clad security...
Do you have invites for https://pixelfed.social/ ?

Would love one if someone has them... daron@hey.com
The bias comes from me. I'm the guy who got a CS degree a decade ago. I can tell you from personal experience, 100% of tech-related course material in uni fell into one of two categories: either "I know this already" or "this will never be applicable in a real-job scenario". And I know I'm just some guy on the internet, but I went to a "good" university, and I'm director-level at a tech company you've heard of. As you say, "applying a a systematic approach to debugging, algorithms, automata" is absolutely essential in what we do, but I'm asserting you're much better at all of the above by researching, discovering, and applying it for yourself rather than memorizing textbook definitions and answering multiple choice questions.
Nice work. Though you might want to be careful about putting an artist like Miley Cyrus on your home page. ;)

A volume control woud be nice on the player embed too.

(I built amazingradio.com)
Why do I have to go to Wikipedia to see the solution?

Would it have been that hard to stick https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5b74... in the article?
Something like $3bn so I guess so. (Assuming they have 3% and the market cap is 100bn)
It's hard to price a backup service per byte when all the value comes from software. At the small end there's barely any profit, and at the big end the costs get ridiculous.
Glorifying the binder full of maxed out credit cards here without even a hint of a mention of survivorship bias seems irresponsible. I'll happily believe that most successful high growth startups have a "never give up" attitude but it's human psychology for readers to ignore the thousands or millions of similar people who failed and had to deal with that binder in spite of the same attitude and energy.
>What was special about the Airbnbs was how earnest they were.

So earnest. Their inability to police fraudulent/scam listings. It comes from a place of earnest conviction. Their blatant attempts to circumvent and disregard local laws about illegal hotel listings. It comes from a place of earnest conviction.

Why is there always a need to sugarcoat these bio pieces like they're describing somebody in line for canonization?

The Doordash piece was even worse.
Right, but the difference today is that Centos is always behind RHEL updates though, yeah? In the future, Centos Stream is always ahead of RHEL point releases, and on day 2 they are close to equivalent, and on day 3/4, centos is goes back to being ahead (at 8.4 and getting security updates), where rhel is at 8.3 and getting security updates.

Assuming that, on the day of a RHEL point release, the two distros are roughly equivalent in packages, with the caveat that the Centos package repos at that point move to the next release (8.4), so you don't get any updates ( presumably mostly security related) in the 8.3 repos... at that point - with those assumptions, if you were on the previous Centos (8.2) - would waiting for the RHEL release to upgrade to the next, now unsupported Centos point release (8.3) be close to roughly equivalent with what the situation is today in terms of compatibility/stability? (I'm not sure what the answer there is)

Or - could just track behind a minor release to approximate the situation today with the caveat that you're not going to get all the updates? Does Rocky linux end up just being the previous centos stream version with updates to the package repos?
Serious question: why not just open another terminal?
Right that's my understanding. I guess this is a good reason to consider getting tested though.
No, my penalties were waived more than one year.
Is there any technical reason why it couldn't work with serverless?
My family gave a serious look at this, or as an alternative just relocating ourselves for a while, but in the end it would have required our kids to go to bed immediately after dinner and to be in school hours before the sun would even be up.

I got a lot of family hate for having suggested something this cool only to ultimately be the one to veto it.
But we've had disk quotas before that mostly worked?

If anything it seems an easier problem than processor time.

I recall disk quotas on shared systems at university back in 1998 and I'm sure they existed before that.

Two thresholds IIRC, one at which you get a warning, second at which you can't write any further and the disk write operation fails.

I don't think they deleted files, it was just you couldn't write more than [quota] bytes to your disk.

Is there something particular about cloud based systems that prevent this from working?

ie. is this a specific problem with distributed storage?

edit:tone
What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book
In my experience, the problem with scenarios like fight the ObjC folks in the story is that the "curmudgeons" don't see the need for anything to change. Their arguments are not "We should use ObjC and do X, Y, and Z to make sure the problems are fixed," but rather usually turn out to be something like "We should use ObjC (and throw out the rewrite entirely; everything was fine before)." Which at best only results in kicking the problem down the street a ways and at worst is not possible.
I think the point is that the same document can compile without errors for one document class (style file), while being erroneous for another. So switching styles is not simply a matter of changing the \documentclass at the top, contrary to what one might expect.

I've had mixed luck with switching styles: when the styles are very similar things tend to work better…. Yeah my problem with LaTeX in contrast to plain TeX is that it's too hard to understand what's going on, and one gets all those package conflicts… I agree with you about the cross-references and bibliographies being the main benefit of LaTeX; I imagine one can get by with a more lightweight macro package like eplain or opmac, though I haven't tried them much. Ideally IMO one would do these things separately (and generate TeX files that have the cross references simply hard-coded) and not via the macro system, but haven't tried that much either.
> How about restaurants stay open and there is little to no additional loss of life?

That's a disingenuous answer. There's an obvious choice here. The virus spreads through social contact, so what's needed to reduce spread and save lives is a sharp reduction in contacts between people. Closing places where people gather socially is a key component in any rational plan to reduce spread of the virus.

> Oh geez why didn't I or LA or the US think of that? Alright then, pack it in problem solved, let's just make sure everyone's compensated.

It is simple, and many countries have done it. I currently live in one that is doing precisely this - closing businesses and compensating them. The lockdown has reduced transmission without causing major financial hardships.

> Australia and NZ benefit from largely homogenous cultures

Australia and New Zealand are extremely diverse immigrant nations. They're very similar to the US in that regard.

> There's nothing authoritarian about the government imposing a lockdown?

There's nothing inherently authoritarian about it. If the government were cynically using emergency powers to suppress political opponents, I would call that authoritarian. But in an actual public health emergency, a democratic government implementing rational, effective public health measures allowed by law is not "authoritarian."

> Sure, except none of your conditionals there actually get bourn out. Many people question the effectiveness (again not just of reducing cases, but on providing a net positive impact to society) and in the US stimulus measures haven't been nearly precise enough to find themselves to the right hands.

First off, lockdowns are effective, so if people question them on that basis, they're simply misinformed, or they have a strong interest in preventing a lockdown. The latter is the reason why the president of the US has militated against lockdowns. His #1 priority is the stock market, and if a few hundred thousand Americans have to die so the DJIA can break 30k, he really doesn't care. And he's not the only one who thinks that way, which is why there's so much FUD around public health measures.

If there were a rational government that would explain the situation and the necessary measures, I believe there would be a majority in favor of a lockdown. And in fact, this spring, an overwhelming majority of Americans did favor lockdown measures (around 80%). Since then, it's become a highly partisan issue. Support among Democrats has remained high, but it's plummeted among Republicans. I think Trump's vocal opposition to public health measures had a lot to do with that. Even basic measures like wearing a mask are now partisan.
It's missing the 1 guy that slips in "I use arch btw"
Ugh I had a CAD architecture class in engineering school and the final project was to design a restaurant and we did an amazing job building the best restaurant in the world until the teacher asked... where's the kitchen?

Whoops. We got so excited about the pool table and the bar and the reception area that we forgot the only thing that makes a restaurant actually a restaurant... a place to cook food.
The amount of total light is the same, but the smaller the points of focus, the easier it is to distinguish image elements from each other because each point overlaps less with its neighbors.

Here’s a metaphor. Let’s say you have 10 glasses, with 10 different amounts of water in them. When you hit them with a spoon, each glass makes a different musical note: 10 different notes.

If you pour the water from each glass individually into 10 new glasses, you preserve those 10 notes.

If you combine every two glasses into one, now you have 5 glasses, and only 5 notes. It’s the same total amount of water but you lost information.
It's funny when people try to play this up as some huge scandal.

Someone told Clinton's campaign manager that there would be a question by a woman experiencing heath problems related to Flint's water supply. [1]

The debate was being held in Flint.

Do you think maybe everyone kind of knew that one was coming?

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/303556-emails-brazi...
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At first I thought do we need another one but this looks pretty good based on the screenshots!
I built my startup on a combo of DO and Firebase.

If I knew something was going to take more than a couple dozen milliseconds to run, it was built on the DO droplet.

Why would I pay by the CPU second for something that is taking a lot of CPU seconds? That billing model doesn't make sense.

For my super quick REST endpoints, yeah, all on Firebase, the convenience of writing + deploying makes it an obvious win. (Unless something goes wrong, debugging Firebase functions is not fun...)
Perhaps the draconian entry polices they are enforcing have contributed to their tourism collapse. Maybe rethinking those or a good court challenge is what's needed instead of a program like this.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/504423-doj-back...

Protection of public health and rights of citizenship need to strike a balance. DOJ seems to also believe they are not in balance. Some states have done a better job than others but right now hawaii is the worst in my opinion and I have no desire to give them a dime of tax money.
The suggested website gives me a white page? Need to unblock my content blocker to get it loading. Not a great start imho
Rawhide is a bad comparison to use. CentOS Stream will never get any major fundamental changes to the system like Rawhide does on a regular basis.

It's technically rolling release compared to RHEL, but the window of acceptable changes is very small. It's not like Arch and Rawhide and Debian Testing where major OS components can be swapped out under your feet. The majority of the changes would fall into the categories of bugfix backports, backports of extremely useful/important features, and backports of support for new hardware.
The himalayas are the source of water for the region because it is abundant and cheap. Infrastructure to bring water in from more distant sources, desalination plants to generate more fresh water, wastewater treatment plants to recover more water, and changes to water use such as different agricultural methods which conserve water are all options to increase supply.

On the demand side, if moving is not legally or socially acceptable, what is the difficulty of changing the laws or culture? If cities are sticky, move the things that attract people to those cities elsewhere. If new cities are difficult to set up, how difficult is that compared to modifying an existing city?

there's a big difference between "there isn't any water" and "we won't take actions to get water." Now you may be saying "but those things are hard and expensive" to which I will respond "yeah, providing for the needs of 20% of the world's population is going to be hard and expensive," but on the brightside 20% of the world's population is an incredible resource if utilized properly.
> How do you turn rural areas into places that are hardest hit?

By acting like it isn't a big deal and not taking it seriously at all and therefore taking little to no precautions.
Ask HN: How to build mental models of what the world is like?
I'm amazed by the level of details that occurs in various comment sections. People just seem to have deep understanding of a wide range of topics.

I know this kind of knowledge isn't easy to come by and is often a by-product of work, life experience, and maybe even just reading.

As someone who is probably relatively naïve and isn't that far in life, I'm curious about what's the best way to build accurate and coherent mental models of the world and how it operates?
> we're allowed to profit by releasing a new clone of candy crush but not by saving humanity from a global pandemic...

Pretty much, yes.

We also shouldn't be allowed to profit from saving the humanity from crime (by running private prisons), for the same reasons.
Cyberpunk 2077 characters can’t get their es to stop poking through their
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Most electron apps look and behave almost exactly like their web app counterparts. It reminds me of early mobile apps that were basically a wrapper for a "m.domain.com" website. So what even is the point of creating a desktop version?
I use Clojure because I am not a particularly wise programmer (I have been fortunate to work with many actually wise programmers).

I like to write dumb, obvious code. Most Clojure code is about taking your data, representing it a sequence of maps, and transforming them into different sequences of maps. The maps are open (easy to change over time), immutable (impossible to encounter data races, weird equality semantics, or concurrency issues), dynamic (no pre-definition or ceremony required), concise (thanks to a literal representation that does not even require commas between elements), and have a generic access api (no custom functions/accessors/etc).

Because I use the exact same transformation functions on EVERY PROBLEM, there is an enormous amount of reuse of generic operations both within and across Clojure code (even Clojure code that manipulates Clojure code, which is after all, just data).

Because the center of our code is open data, coupled with generic functions open to later extension (multimethods, protocols), Clojure is notably good at handling information systems that evolve over time in requirements (a feature of essentially all of them).

The core constructs are not hard, certainly they are easier to learn and use than complicated things like mutable classes and locking. The unlearning from other languages is often bigger than the learning. Nubank for example is certainly not hiring 100s of Clojure developers - in most cases they are hiring good people and teaching them Clojure. There are other successful companies doing the same.

Large Clojure programs can be hard to reason about because large programs are hard to reason about. One benefit of Clojure programs is that they are often 100x smaller than the equivalent program in a popular OO language. They are also trivial to interact with live in your REPL so that you can inspect the data flowing through them. I will happily take live data and interactive function execution over 1000 classes with custom methods. Both require time to learn but I'm much happier changing the smaller, simpler one.

The idea that "Clojure requires wise developers" is completely backwards. Enormous modern class/annotation based OO programs are the ones that require the smartest developers because that's what it takes to understand them. Clojure is accessible to all.
I was talking about Clojure as a filter, not about unconditional superiority of Clojure devs.
Indeed, any particular company usually attracts either all very good or all mediocre Clojure coders.
My point it is easy to establish who is who.
Trading at a $110B valuation is surreal.

But it’s hard to really disconnect execution from the insanity of our monetary system this year...trillions in dollars pumped into our economy, 0% rates, and a retail options frenzy has created the perfect environment for speculation on growthy tech stocks.
Wow, I had no idea! On app load, maybe checking speed and then displaying a link to the web version for low bandwidth areas would be a good move.
Oh yes, today I learned that RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) is apparently an established term, but I didn't get what "engine rich" means until now.
Exactly my point, and the same applies to corporate censorship. Since we have allowed corporations to perform censorship completely independent and on their own, free speech is a thing of the past.

Another way to see this is that those with less education or influence are basically the new women. The argument against giving women the right to vote was basically based on the same viewpoint. They dont know about the world, so all they can do is harm if allowed to vote.
Definitely worth using this platform. I tried the mobile app and it works great for the messaging, task management too. Built in notes is awesome too. Kudos to you guys
The cost of the futures contracts would go up in anticipation and other capitalists would invest in order to make some of that sweet profit and then there would be more people competing to produce water. Basically the opposite of the government, who would tell you "you use too much water", raise taxes and institute rationing.
Don’t see the source code in GitHub. When do you plan to open it up? Interested in digging into your engine code.
> It's pretty much the whole world that got screwed by this, and China itself hasn't exactly escaped unscathed.

But authoritarian China has done far, far better than most of the rest of the world (and especially better than the US, the supposed standard-bearer of liberty and freedom). If you actually care about liberty, one of your priorities should be making sure it actually performs better than the alternatives. Acting foolishly and using liberty as an excuse just soils the reputation of the latter. If that pattern continues, I expect liberty will end up on the retreat worldwide.

I'm not so sure the cold war would have turned out the way it did, if the USSR, for all its oppression, managed to consistently provide comparable or superior material living standards to its citizens. It certainly wouldn't have had such a problem with defectors.
Huh? If all the housing is occupied then how is it possibly an oversubscription? If anything it sounds like an undersubscription -- even more people would live there if there were more housing, but there isn't, so they can't.
It also depends on what metric is used to determine "hardest hit". ICU headroom used in Washington is about the same or higher than many states in Middle America.
The valuation warning signs for stock markets
GPL is copyleft, they're mainly doing additions and modifications to code that is GPL. They have to publish their code. I believe they try to be sneaky and hide how they add it but it's all open source.
By other things, you mean compiling? :-)
>> the cost to fix would be peanuts

> If you fix them all they add up to not peanuts and then you don't have any money left

The initial criticism is worthwhile in its original context (0.02% of the agency's budget). By scaling it up, you took it out of that context so that it runs up against worries about the total budget, implying a shortfall even though the argument is about the same 0.02%. The obvious answer to your comment is "well then it's easy to cut a little from $ELSEWHERE", which will inevitably devolve into overt zero-sum partisan bickering.
Brave Private Content Delivery Network
Ugh. That may ALSO be true. Which would make this a self reinforcing and growing problem.