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What are some tips to make it through an extremely busy day?
What are some tips to make it through an extremely busy day?

I have some days with meetings booked all morning and then a bunch of deadlines for work in the afternoon. I end these days feeling completely exhausted and find myself a bit overwhelmed as the day unfolds. Looking for tips to make it through a busy day.
> Development tools like this with an obscene amount of dependencies, not to mention multi-language dependencies, is extremely worrying and irresponsible for the future of software development

Care to elaborate why?
There's more languages native to unix-land than Bash, you know. Find me a linux distro that doesn't have GCC or Clang installed by default, or even Python for that matter.
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existing markets by their very nature don't want to be disrupted.

Its like saying librarians didnt see any issues with the storage of information before the internet came along.

The ‘issues solved’ by programmable money are the opportunity for full automation of the finance industry and for businesses to interact with it via smart contracts (instead of accountants and lawyers)

Uniswap could be a replacement for all the worlds exchanges, real estate agencies, commodities markets (including livestock) and your business could buy items from these markets with a script.

Combine this with something like self driving cars delivering goods and you have a whole supply chain that functions with zero human involvement.
There are 2 reasons for JNJ’s lower top line numbers.

1) There were more of the variants going around, not more of the original strain going around when JNJ was tested and all the vaccines are less effective against the variants. PFE and MRNA were tested when only the original strain was going around. All the vaccines were designed to combat the original strain.

2) JNJ doesn’t protect as well against mild Covid. But the symptoms from this mild Covid are comparable to the side effects from the second dose of PFE/MRNA which affect 30-40% of people and based on anecdata from people
I know nearly everyone.
There is almost definitely more poetry and literature in general being written today than in the past, you just have to search for it.
It has Value Classes which are essentially the same thing. They transpile down into the value itself but wrap the value in extra functionality if you so choose.
> Isn't it being null sometimes — the whole point?

No you have it backwards - the whole point is that Optional is never null. You use empty instead.
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> If you would have told me 5 years ago I'd need to install node and typescript in order to get auto completion for bash, I'd have called you crazy.

This line right here means there's no runtime dependencies https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server/blob/fa5a65...

edit: turns out there are runtime dependencies (see child comments). Still, typescript is not one of them.
I just created the repo for issue tracking etc.

I have plans to make certain parts of Notesnook open source. Especially the security related ones so they can be audited and reviewed by the public.

Notesnook as a product will remain proprietary though.
Isn't adding functional genetic material modifying?
> The way to make sure you have the right to talk about people being gay is to fight for those rights by throwing bricks at cop cars, not to trust a bunch of think tanks who say they value the abstract ideal of free speech.

If there's enough civil unrest then it's much easier for a law-and-order candidate like Nixon to win votes; I'm expecting this to happen in the next election.
Decentralized finance is pretty massive right now and has some really novel ways to deploy capital. It's not mainstream or outside of crypto perhaps but it is definitely based on strong utility.

Scroll down this list[0] and you'll find many projects providing a ton of utility (and some, I'm sure, that do not, but I'm definitely not claiming all crypto projects are legitimate/useful)

[0] https://defipulse.com/
When I was in college SSNs were still used as our ID numbers. Every dept had folders in the hall outside the office for each student. They'd put grades out in those folders. Guess what was printed on those grades.

If you had a mag stripe writer you could grab a random person's grades, encode their SSN on a student ID, and then use the card to buy stuff on campus.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-hopes-t...

3 bn PER year. Trust me. You may have to get vaccinated every year. Don't get me wrong, the strategy makes sense. Still not very encouraging.
In the list provided in the article: record syntax, switch expressions and var.

And by the way for the downvoters: there wasn’t any snark, C# itself being at first a copy-pasta from Java, and now taking heavy inspiration from F#. That kind of features transfer in-between languages is a good thing.
Cool! Some of the biggest problems we have seen are:

* scripts being poorly documented: what's the point of having a script if no one knows how to use it
* scripts going stale: often built by one person / an infra team. When they break, no one knows how to fix them
* creating scripts: bash isn't the most popular language these days, but it's still supported just about everywhere. How can we make building them easier and faster but still just as powerful
I would say pets.com is better for the environment than the web. :)
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It’s a percentage reduction in risk. If a random unvaccinated person has a 10% chance of infection and a vaccinated person has a 1% chance of infection, the vaccine is 90% effective.
>Is that very fundamentally different from like... eating food?

yes
> Who says the click farm was offering such a service?

Why else do you think they were doing it? They just really like clicking things?
Hi everyone! Gram creator here.

I developed this after visiting makerspaces around the world and finding that parametric design was too inaccessible. I also wanted to provide people with a tool to learn about powerful ideas in programming while making stuff.

It draws lots of inspiration from the Logo language and I received a lot of feedback from some of Logo's creators. While drawing inspiration from Logo, Gram is actually quite different with tools like layers and lots of built-in functions for making things which can be fabricated.
https://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/value-classes.html
Node is not a runtime now? :)
I mean, I'm always all for better worker rights, but are you saying they had better sick leave policies mid last year?

Because my understanding is that that's roughly when social gatherings restarted and coincidentally when infection rates started to rise again. I'd argue that social distancing protocols at places of business are more strict now than they were then, and I'm not sure better sick leave policies necessarily would help, since a lot of transmission is asymptomatic, and I don't imagine anyone in their right mind is going to allow a visibly sick person to be up and about at a workplace regardless of sick pay.
Light cones helped me understand causality from a slightly different perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZv3ycr6Jxg
> The main thing I'm wondering is if the people that got covid post J&J had really mild disease (like a tiny cold or something) or "mild" disease like absolutely miserable but just didn't have to go to ICU. Is that information known?

Of course. It's right there in the FDA report, starting on page 51:

https://www.fda.gov/media/146219/download

7.1.1.5.3 Case Definition for Mild COVID-19

• A SARS-CoV-2 positive RT-PCR or molecular test result from any available respiratory tract sample (eg, nasal swab sample, sputum sample, throat swab sample, saliva sample) or other sample;

AND at any time during the course of observation:

• One of the following symptoms: fever (≥38.0°C or ≥100.4°F), sore throat, malaise (loss of appetite, generally unwell, fatigue, physical weakness), headache, muscle pain (myalgia), gastrointestinal symptoms, cough, chest congestion, runny nose, wheezing, skin rash, eye irritation or discharge, chills, new or changing olfactory or taste disorders, red or bruised looking feet or toes, or shaking chills or rigors.

You will find equivalently precise definitions of moderate and severe disease, as well. And if you care to look, you can find the same thing for all of the other FDA-approved vaccines. They're similar, but not identical. In general, "mild disease" is what most reasonable people would consider to be mild disease, but there are minor differences in terms of which specific symptoms/thresholds are used. For this vaccine specifically, you can see that having two or more of the above symptoms will bump you into the "moderate disease" category. So they're pretty strict.

> The question is if one is better than the other and the answer seems like yes.

Given that you clearly haven't read the data, I don't know how you can possibly make such a speculation.

I don't mean to pick on you specifically, but this entire affair has been defined by people who are way too willing to speculate after reading a few news articles.
U.S. iPhone Users Spent Average of $138 on Apps in 2020, 38% More Year-over-Year
Amplifi is a Ubiquiti product.
Huh, one needs to see first party Java libraries from earlier times. It is pretty clear engineers at Sun also believed that AbstractFactoryFactory everything will be the way world need to be rebuilt.

Of course one can show empathy and understand justifications for things they like and simply laugh out "LOL Go No Generics' when they don't.
>Care to elaborate why?

Not particularly, since it'll only fall on deaf ears considering HN's demographic.
Indeed, Hanna Diyab is a very interesting person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Diyab
If it's satellite based internet, there's no way to shut it off, especially if gateway is not in the same country. Of course, the government could always patrol around looking for antennas...
I spent about $75 sending a $250,000 wire transfer (actually split, but nominally) from my bank to a bank in another country. It was easy, safe, and cheap.

Wire transfers really aren't designed for your $300. You can complain that EFT should be easier (like they are in Europe) but that isn't a problem with the currency. You could have sent your friend a check for < $1, if the time to clear was acceptable.

I get that change is frustratingly slow in this, but none of it requires a fundamental currency or technology change. I just paid my rent by phone for $0 in fees, and regularly exchange funds with friends for the same. Between countries this is harder but that's more regulatory than technical.

Unless you are taking the (extreme) view that states shouldn't be able to see, control, or tax/tariff such transactions your issue is with the regulatory hurdles and incentives to integrate incorporating them, not on the networks (or currencies).
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Stunning birds, some of the guys in the photography forums I'm on go down and spend days shooting the sandhill crane migrations, and the photos they come away with are breathtaking. Would love to make it down there one of these years.
> Possibly just because the media refuses to cover it.

You mean the government funded state medias? Yeah right...
Even years ago before the previous bull run, the most compelling narrative was that bitcoin would first displace gold as a store of value, and then maybe become a global currency. Some people did still cling to the 'digital cash for everyone' narrative, but it's pretty clear that doesn't scale. It's not clear if bitcoin will scale for global payments with second layers, but it seems like the most compelling approach.

Now, there is a competing narrative that bitcoin doesn't even need to take over as a currency. Rock solid store of value that is impossible to debase is more than enough to still be worth at least an order of magnitude more. It's a technology to protect savers from having their wealth stolen through currency inflation. Wealthy people already protect themselves with a diversified basket of assets and treat currency like a hot potato. But the poor and middle class often don't have the knowledge, time, or access to protect their wealth.

The trend of widening wealth inequality in the US seems to have taken off right around the time we abandoned the gold standard in the 70s. It used to be that everyone could just save their currency and that was a really good store of value. Now savings accounts yield ~0.5% and you have to put your money in more risky assets just to preserve your value.

It could be that we end up with a world with both bitcoin as a reserve asset, where you sweep all your excess cash that you don't want to invest, and government fiat currencies, which they can continue to use for stimulus and to print their way out of debt, but without debasing savers to do it as they are now.
No more than Bash :):):)

And either way, you don't need TypeScript to run this language server. You just need node. If you're not happy with that, well, consider this repo a reference and get cracking.
Sorry to be a downer here.

Contrary to what the text on the site says, do NOT blindly copy and paste code from StackOverflow without understanding the license under which its content is released. You can get yourself into hot water.

Secondly, if you actually want one of these, you can find a three-key QMK-compatible keyboard PCB and do it yourself. Lots of schematics and variants exist, and they're not incredibly expensive. There's a whole scene for that type of deal.

Cute joke either way, though. :)
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So you are really looking for compiler checks for null?
Kind of like kotlin?

var truthy = null; // Compile fails

var nullable? = null; // Compile passes

You don't need value types for this?
It's basically a version number.
-> and :: operators are to be replaced by . operator in the upcoming C++23 AF00L proposal.

Happy 4/1!
It affects different user segments differently. Disconnecting wireless internet means that you're mostly disconnecting consumers/social media users/general public, while the businesses that are non-digital but rely on the internet for their daily operations keep functioning - if you disconnect all the internet then you're likely to disrupt e.g. ATMs and retail store logistics and all kinds of technical service monitoring which cause you trouble; but if you "just" disconnect all the mobile internet (except for a whitelist of phone numbers used by gov't employees) and the residental networks, then the general public is without communications but the economy can still be mostly functional.

Also, a key goal is to disrupt the communications between protesters in the streets - so that they can't coordinate any reaction between themselves or those who are at home until they themselves leave the streets; we saw similar actions a few times last year in Belarus.
Nice! Submitted two entries for NZ (Auckland Domain & CHCH Avon river). Thanks!
For handling text, there is no better language than Perl. It's a great language for scripting on Unices and unix-like systems. But OOP and API oriented programming really got going in the late 90s and Python is by far a better fit for those concepts. It's probably a better language for general purpose programming altogether.

However, I think languages like Perl, PHP, and Tcl get far too much grief. To quote Hemingway "Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."
>most deaths come from 20% of population and we have vaccinated over 30%.

In the US, most (59%) deaths come from people aged 75+ according to CDC. People aged 75+ make up roughly 12% of the population.
I like minimalism, I agree with cutting down dependencies, but the person who does the work gets to pick the language. If I did it, I'd do it in C, Rust, or Kotlin, but I appreciate having an LSP for a new language nonetheless. Looks like it has no runtime library dependencies, then that removes risk of supply chain issues, so I think they've done a good job.
Stroustrup's talk on this is worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs
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Density and demographics are two interesting points.

SF and LA are pretty dense in some areas, and not very car-friendly.

Florida skews heavily toward relatively well-off retiree who might already be a little more socially distanced than the norm.
It's reasonable to provide a single implementation of an interface, if the goal is to facilitate dependency injection for that component. The problem I find with Spring is that it is designed for dependency injection at all levels of its architecture, leading it to be one of the ultimate examples of Ravioli Code.

https://wiki.c2.com/?RavioliCode

DI is a powerful concept, but Spring projects rely on DI in such a generic way that it often doesn't even make sense for your application. You have to gain intimate knowledge of the abstractions, and inject a bunch of code in a bunch of places just to make it do the very-straightforward thing you were trying to do.
> if you want the godly language it would be Rust, anything about Rust will be upvoted.

That is just better half part, sad part is anything negative about Rust will be heavily downvoted. Most of the time I disagree with Java/Go in their thread it would be just fine but not with Rust.
Ah right - that's not really what we're talking about here, even though they have the same name.
Said more in another comment below but decentralized finance is pretty big. There are a lot of novel ways to deploy capital there. Check out any of the projects listed here and feel free to dig in more/ask questions: https://defipulse.com/
It's a bit different then lottery.

Each crypto currency (well most) act like a collectors marked, i.e like art, antiques, trading cards and so on.

The only lottery aspect is weather or not niche currencies become well established, kinda like weather or new sources of classical collectibles become well established.

Some now would argue that collectibles in difference to crypto currencies have a real world value which backs them but that's a misconception such real world value is most times completely negligible if the collectors marked fails. In some cases it will even cost you money to get right of the now basically worthless collectibles.

Also similar to there being cryptocurrency which are a scam there are collectibles which are such. Like supposedly priceless pictures being sold for over a thousand dollar being only worth like 5 dollar or so, i.e. you basically lose the full investment
Ask Saddam Hussein, who tried to price Iraqi oil in Euros in 2000. Or Gaddafi, who was tolerated by western powers until he tried to introduce the pan-African gold Dinar and encourage oil producing nations to de-dollarize in favor of it.
I think that is going to depend on your definition of "significant". I think at best we would have similar numbers to Israel right now by then. That would still represent >250 deaths per day.

(EDIT: If there is some reason that our rates will fall more quickly, I'd love to hear it.)
>Gold. There's a fixed amount of it with a pretty well known supply and demand.

At least until someone lands a autonomous mining craft on an asteroid full of it can crashes the market. Anything can be upset by changes in technology.
aka click bait
And dynamic--anything dynamic--was completely insanely cool.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Streams API.
54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today
IP masking was applied very early but it did cut down a large number of requests, I am not sure how many though. Next were filters that would block devices sending more than a few hundred requests a minute or so on. These would be usually bots or compromised devices. Then we would look at cuts of traffic where the characteristics were outside of acceptable parameters and block those. E.g., say a particular OS, OS version, device model, request country etc. This could be made much more granular. If you see too high a CTR or too low a conversion rate, or abnormal time between ad being displayed and being clicked on (fraud clicks had a tighter distribution between request and click as compared to genuine clicks) or any other weird stuff, you could block that cut of traffic.

Also, we refrained from calling it fraud, the term was invalid traffic. This also accounted for things like someone double tapping on an ad instead of once, and so on. There is a good report by Alexander Tuzhilin [1] commissioned by Google when they were sued for charging for invalid traffic that might give you some more ideas.

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/pdf/Tuzhilin_Report.pdf
Here's the thing. People who respect science will understand its imperfections and iterative processes, how evidence really works and how "truth" is hard to come by.

The people that want these sorts of apologies are the ones that are looking for reasons to deny science. Those sorts of people simply never change, and will always look for reasons to disregard it.

So no. This wouldn't solve anything. It'd just make things worse.
Why wasn't this done before?
Yeah.

When I gave this a shot a while back, I looked at its dependencies and it was way larger than the footprint of coc-clangd for some reason.

Wasn't a good signal so decided to remove it after that.
I love a good math article where "digital" means "base 10".
Show HN: JavaScript linter for keeping files small and modular
If you are looking for a super simple CRUD site, then Ruby on Rails is best in class.

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2. Generate 99% of the code if you don't care about styling.

3. The small portion of your site where you need something more complex is simple Ruby code instead of spending months reading No-Code documentation.
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