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Hey ezekg, I know this is not the subject of the post but what was the desktop app you were working on and why did it flop?
It's kind of funny that when a discussion about multiple players in an industry comes up, HN is often the bastion of competition. But when we talk about an industry like streaming content, too many people despise the fragmentation.
Could you please detail more? Heavily interested
As does the entire USA.

I couldn't say about the rest of the world.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of drug requires testing like this? Suboxone or something similar? Seems like an invasion of privacy unless is somehow related to rehabilitation I suppose.
Would that be an issue if it was owned through an S&P 500 fund?

I would agree that options look suspicious, even if they are not "short dated out of the money" types.

But mega cap stocks are lot harder to manipulate than some tiny obscure company.

I think I read that Barack Obama put all his savings into government bonds while he was in office, which is admirable and maybe it would be good to mandate high level people all do that.

But if we don't have such a law, it doesn't seem too far out if they own the same big companies that almost everyone who invests in the stock market does.

Before accusing Mr. Pelosi, at a minimum, I think it would be relevant to check how much different his investment returns were from an index of the entire stock market.

I think there have been Republicans that were overzealously accused of insider trading during the beginning of the pandemic too. I forget who, but there was a fuss made about several of them and Matthew Levine dissected some of the claims in his column and didn't think there was much there.
I work for a Kiwi company and many of my colleagues are Kiwis. When I posted this on company messaging platform, many of them were surprised that Australia gets earthquakes too. I felt quite strong tremors here in Ringwood, Vic. Wife and I ran out through the backdoor to the garden. It was quite an experience.
Lenovo X1 Carbon.

Solid laptop and great for travelling as small and light, thought docked mainly these COVID days.

Thinking of getting something with a bit more grunt next time. I seem to flip between better specs vs light each purchase or 2. Generally I've found lenovo to be most reliable.
True, that's why I am a big fan of "liquid Democracy", there they would have to bribe the people directly, which es ok I think. Look at Island, it's a far superior democracy style opposed to 4 year period representative democracy.
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The best Kobos and paperwhites have the E Ink Carta HD which is 6" and 300 ppi. I find it to be excellent for reading.
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Probably not Victor Dominello.
Wow, the linked article about the Lancet letter which shutdown debate on a potential lab origin back in March of last year is pretty damning as well - https://archive.ph/dXc0n

Excerpt:

> All but one scientist who penned a letter in The Lancet dismissing the possibility that coronavirus could have come from a lab in Wuhan were linked to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders, a Telegraph investigation can reveal.
I took an ethics class in college taught by the computer science department. It definitely wasn't an ethical indoctrination, as much of "here is what ethics is, here are the basic frameworks, and here's why it matters to programming."
Now tell us what Cuomo and Biden said, and let us know if you are FOR or AGAINST elected officials breaking their own city ordinances designed to protect the public.
the last thing people want from a company with a dismal reputation for privacy and content moderation is their hardware recording sound and video inside your home.
how about people in these positions shouldn't be trading... if i was in power i would think people would assume i am corrupt if i did trade.
> but the tooling in PHP is amateur hour by comparison

Looks like maybe the ignorance goes both ways? People really underestimate the size and maturity of the PHP web development ecosystem and it's professional community, and there's no shortage of tooling to build and support apps on the language.

Django: 34,019, Laravel: 26,881, Rails: 9,300

https://github.com/topics/django

https://github.com/topics/laravel

https://github.com/topics/rails
If Covid impacted the general population the same way it did kids, this would be over by now. We know who the vulnerable people are, and almost all of them are over 50. I don't think that's the best way to approach the issue.

Fundamental freedoms can be dangerous. This is something that's hard to admit for people who've never experienced the more real side of life, the people who haven't stared death in the eye before.

Patrick Henry was not the only person involved when he made his declaration. Many people died, due in part to his words. Life is nasty, hard, and has a 100% mortality rate.

Let me put it this way: would becoming a full police state be worth it to you, if it eliminated Covid? No? Where's the line?
You should consider Kabul if you are pious. Rental prices dropped by 50% recently and you can snag luxury apt for 200-300/months. News agencies report that petty crime pretty much disappeared and city is much safer than before. Regular flights just resumed and new authorities has not established visa requirements yet. No Covid testing or vaccine requirements.

You can watch history unfold before your eyes!

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/house-prices-fall-50-pc-163121020....
Oh I knew there was good Linux support. I just thought that you couldn’t get it without windows preinstalled. But it turns out I was wrong about that.
Everyone loves kids' play spaces when it's other people's money being spent on them, but when there's money on the line it looks like commercial real estate generates a lot more value.
The battle between the U.S. and ransomware hackers is escalating
Right. There's very little in common between, let's say, the Moderna and Sputnik vaccines. The effects appear to be similar but the underlying technology is completely different.
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What would you say about Winston Churchill being celebrated as a hero while, Indians who are aware of the atrocities committed by him well call him a monster and an equivalent of Hitler?

Shouldn't the British children be taught about the atrocities committed by British because, if you talk to general British public, they think that the British Raj was benevolent & a very good thing happened to the Indian subcontinent.
Thanks, but I had already had courses on that. We never associated the condition for stability (λ<μ) with Little's law (L=λW).
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Sure. Still seems awfully manufactured even for someone who enjoys NPR. It's about what's not covered as much as what is covered.
Hrm. You know? I can remember times in .de where public healthcare was really free for everything! Meanwhile we have Zuzahlung/co-pay for more involved dental work and glasses.

Not that I needed it so far, but I get that they can be massive, especially for anything dental. This tends to be funny every few years on routine checkups at the dentist when they try to sell this and that which isn't covered by anything, and I'm like: 'No, just the basics, dammit!'
By “expensive” are you talking in the $20-30 range for a single sufficiently long cable? I don’t replace cables that often but I don’t see the big deal paying a reasonable for a high throughput cable when needed.
This should have been a thing a long time ago, I would take the plunge but a 13" laptop is not something I would enjoy working on, if they ever release an option for a ~16" frame and monitor I'd jump right in!
What are you doing now?

Is it for profit or just for fun. I love to read stories like your's.
I don't sense sarcasm but can't believe you are being serious either
Influenza is more deadly to children than Covid. Stop standing on the shoulders of children for political points.
> Seems kind of improbable that the biggest anything happened in the most recent 0.77% of the observed time interval,

The biggest has to happen sometime, and whenever it does will be an improbable time for it to have occurred if the probability is uniform and the resolution of time tracked is high relative to the total interval.
That's good to know -- it's a great feature for these sorts of gradual systems, in my opinion.
In BC where I live we have 85% of people vaccinated. We are back in lockdown with mask mandates and vaccine passports.

They are still going on about the unvaccinated, there’s no such thing as herd immunity in the politics of COVID lockdowns.
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This is a silly argument but I disagree. Seemed like a perfectly neutral statement to me, including "I insist on living in NYC because I think it's the best place to live"
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Nothing screams ignorance like people who comment on threads like these equating Chinese censorship to Western censorship. Is their censorship in the western world? Absolutely. Are theere authoritarian psudo-dictatorial states in the Western world with a society that is held in informational bondage compared to the rest of the world? Not to my knowledge.
The building was gutted a couple years ago and is still under construction
Simultaneously inspirational and solar-roadways-ish
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You won't get the ryzen. However, you could go a lot cheaper on a smaller build with an IntelNUC
Thanks! You bet I will post a Show HN post!
They've replaced discoverability with "repeated unwanted notifications about mundane updates"
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, those examples are all absolutely true. There's no chance of Apple complying with a spec which doesn't meet their sense of industrial design (which there's no way this would).

I will say, they're not alone. Look at Razer, for instance. Electric green is not exactly a part of the USB 3 standard.
Try the "E Ink Mobius Carta", I think it's the best now.

You can find e-readers with 10.3" displays, 227 PPI, double front-lit (warm and cold, you can mix them for the best experience, work independently), full android on the device.

To be precise, I'm talking about the Onyx Boox Note series (note 2, note 3, note air) that I picked after my previous kindles and pocketbook. It's awesome.

Android is adapted for the best experience with its unique features, you can use any application in google play, and the screen is so good in "speed mode" that you can browse the web and even watch youtube. Stylus for notes, and you can buy a "paperlike" protector for the screen.

For now, it's the best one from around five different e-readers that I have before.

If you want to take notes, there is Remarkable 2. You can check PocketBookt InkPad Color, Onyx Nova Color, Onyx Poke2 Color, and Kobo if you wish for color display.

Check this blog for, there are excellent comparisons and reviews for almost every model you can find on the market
https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/
Nope. The world didn't keep a control group for smallpox, even in the most distant villages. We simply eradicated it.
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> But you reap what your beliefs sew.

The typical order for natural fiber clothing is actually:

1. Sow

2. Reap

3. Sew
I remember when I lived in Germany that you were able to choose from different health insurers. I chose Big-Gesundheit . I never really understood the difference between them, but I did use the health system quite a bit : I had several tests done (including endoscopies, colonoscopies, MRI , allergy tests among others) in addition to a stay in the ER (syncope, hit my head and lots of blood everywhere), including an ambulance.

I think at most I had to pay like 200 EUR myself for something after the fact. But overall, the German health system was amazing.

I had similar stories in the NHS which I think is even better. Too bad the UK government is dismantling it.
I wonder if it’s just deaths or if there’s a decline in births as well. I could see a lot of families put off having kids for fear of packed hospitals or other restrictions.
At this point in my career I'm typically the one advising my manager(s) because someone else already paid me to make or watch someone else make the mistake we're considering making. Perhaps I've just been fortunate to work with mostly smart and reasonable people so my advice is usually respected or if it's not there's usually a good reason - if it was a consistent pattern that I was just being handed random, ill thought out tasks with no context or reasoning I'd probably question what I'd done to get myself into that situation in the first place.

I consider advising and guiding the engineering organization as a whole part of my job description but there's a point at which just doing the damn thing wins out over protracted debate and sitting in endless meetings. At that point my focus typically shifts to mitigating toil/drudgery/future maintenance for myself and my teammates - I've cursed the names of people I've never met because I've spent months undoing work with their name all over it and my driving motivation in situations like that is to not have my name be the one being cursed by whoever takes my place. I take pride in my work but I don't really tie my sense of self-worth to it at all, which I've seen end poorly for engineers who become emotionally invested in their pet solution or project. When you realize anything you come up with, even if it's the greatest, most beautiful, most elegant solution will likely be replaced/rewritten/become full of hacky bullshit within the span of a few years it makes it easier to accept that.
What are facts, exactly?
Feels like some more detail is needed somewhere... sounds sort like "The Australian Dollar is the fastest moving currency"...

...that might be so, but moving relative to what?
Whoa, whoa, ⅔ log₁₀? I learned the Richter scale which is log₁₀ and didn’t realise that wasn’t what was used any more, and I’m pretty sure that’s a normal misconception.

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

> Because of various shortcomings of the ML scale, most seismological authorities now use other scales, such as the moment magnitude scale (Mw), to report earthquake magnitudes, but much of the news media still refers to these as “Richter” magnitudes. All magnitude scales retain the logarithmic character of the original and are scaled to have roughly comparable numeric values (typically in the middle of the scale).[citation needed]
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Friendly reminder that Minecraft: Java Edition, is still pretty active and now runs and ships with Java 16 (MS Build of OpenJDK).

Gaming in Java has always been possible.
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> Life is nasty, hard, and has a 100% mortality rate.

The same is true of rabies. Say what you actually mean.
You forget the computer is there! I have been so overwhelmingly happy with my M1 (with RAM upgrade) as a dev machine. It's THAT good. My co-workers cry when they see how fast my docker containers build.
In practice, they want to be the first people to experience the price movement on newly public information, so you're right it wouldn't be front-running, my (incorrect) interpretation was that they would 'get in front of the trade made by C*O of fictional company before anyone else notices'. It's also not considered tailgating since they have no financial relationship with any of the executives, and acting on these fully disclosed positions would be completely legal.
Your education didn't fail you. Australia is an incredibly stable land mass because it sits in the centre of a single plate.
A little background: When Governor Wittmer ran for office she promised to fix Michigan's roads. The state's roads are the ninth worst in the nation while having one of the highest gas taxes in the America. She failed in an attempt to raise our gas taxes to the highest in the nation.

Now the Governor wants to raise taxes even higher to benefit EV's which currently make up 0.3% of all vehicles in the state. Presently 41% of the states roads are rated 'poor' and repairing them will now have to wait.
They are if you buy the right cables. Just buy cables which have the capabilities you want, and are obvious to you. It's pretty easy, as long as you're willing to put about 5 minutes into the effort one time.
Asana uses ProseMirror and Slab uses QuillJS, and neither of them lag by default if you look at the standalone libraries.. so :shrug:

If you have free time, I'd pop open Chrome Dev Tools, run a performance monitor on both and try to diff out what each of those products do that cause the additional input lag (if there's no code obfuscation).
Man I loved the idea of PCMCIA back in the day. Mobile network access (EDGE, if I remember correctly) via one of them on my chunky Toshiba was awesome.
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> Why do reporters use this nebulous nobody/everybody instead of directly stating who makes these kinds of statements.

Media does it: and it is strong editorial policy/media market preference, because it allows a stronger, more emotionally engaging narrative to be crafted without literal untruth.

People associate “engagement” with new/social media, but old media has been about it for centuries, just with less precise analytics.
Several = 25
There are ways around this and I have seldom seen it used outside of government services, so not really.
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Increasingly, and surprisingly, M1 mini. Over a 2020 MBP and liquid-cooled i9 with 2080s.

I still do local Jupyter stuff on the i9, but... less and less as my clients are happier to have me spin up instances on AWS for dev work. Suits me fine. :)
That's because the Python regex module caches the regexes it compiles, so it only happens once. It's proper and good usage to specify the regex string inline, even in a hot path.

I'd only use a variable when I'm using the same regex multiple times in code, and even then I could still just have the variable be the string.
I was looking at mITX boards, but microATX just seems better overall. Cheaper, better VRMs (can even overclock), 4 RAM slots, more onboard drive slots, extra PCIe slots (more SSDs, ports, or a fiber link to your NAS or Wifi, but that's easier with a LAN-to-OpenWRT router).

I didn't know a mITX board could handle a Ryzen 9 though.
Pelosi or her husband bought a bunch of Tesla call options when TSLA was at $900 or so. Those are way underwater.
This seems like quite possibly the worst advice I've ever seen. I'd assume it's a joke, but if so, that's some seriously dry humor.
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Seems it got covered just because the state's health officer said mentioned it in a health briefing. The nationwide analysis was done months ago.
> Alabama isn’t alone, though; 25 states had the same problem last year.

Very interesting. I wonder if the reason this narrative about Alabama catches so many eyes is because it plays into negative biases about Alabama, and other similar southern US states.
Better to go that way than be on the periphery and get badly burned and maimed and die slowly.
You're being downvoted which seems a bit weird, but I agree at least for myself. I went USB-C only in my house, and it's been pretty excellent, up until my new job gave me a Windows laptop that has exactly one USB-C port and requires Mini-DisplayPort 1.4 for its display output.
Which border? Most sex workers don't enter via land, and the worst drugs don't either.
And there is a ton of waste just in doing these deals, negotiating them. Since the govt already approved them they did slot divestment per govt request, which may need to be unwound? Will the govt pay them?

It's a colossal waste of time and energy when just having some much clearer guidelines, or being able to pay $500K to get a likely ruling based on a proposed deal would save a ton of everyones time (and our tax dollars).

Quick note that I think the case is relatively weak at first glance. The case highlights for example routes that used to have both carriers and makes NO mention if those routes also have other carriers which is such a critical distinction it's kind of appalling the DOJ wasn't able to analyze that.

Ie, a route with just AA and Jetblue - comp is DEF reduced with this. However, a route that they were both margin or second in against on the majors out of NY etc - not sure comp is harmed by beefing the AA/Jetblue position.

A fair bit of their antitrust has been surprisingly weak, but I like this because at least it is focused on supposed consumer harm rather what they were pushing for before (ie, to help businesses without regard for consumer).
its is... very very stable.

those are facts but they're not really in context.
“A vaccine may save your life. It is good to consider the feelings of the people trying to make you better.”
Because people will click on articles where the headline validates their pre-existing beliefs.
No, HR doesn’t schedule work or features. It’s practically impossible to pad timelines for the case where an engineer decides to effectively pad their two weeks notice by an additional six weeks except for large companies like Google.
Unless you are a Data engineer, or React Developer a career move to Australia is career suicide. Just go to LinkedIn and search the variety of jobs and salaries across all of Australia compared to the UK, it doesn't even come close. Salaries are one thing but it's also the variety off work that depresses me more. NZ would be even worse.

I came to Australia and had a good four years but now want to leave after the honeymoon period has worn off. I see all my UK friends doing nice interesting work and I'm stuck doing Python ETL sorry big data / data engineering as that's the demand that pays the bills. My partner is Aussie and want's to stay in Australia so I have some tough choices ahead, career or accept the Australia job market and stay with my partner. I know a few developer immigrants in Australia and they all seem to be over it work wise, COVID and not being to leave Australia to see family has been a big decision changer for most of them.

All my old UK friends and colleagues are now contracting. It seems full time salaries are low in the UK but if you are a contractor things are reasonably ok.Haven't been keeping in touch much but I think there's been recent IR35 changes so not sure how that's changed the contracting landscape. On the lower salaries it does look like they are now higher than when I left a few years ago but when you compare to USA it is still night and day.