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I still use Alfred daily! Its development is going strong.

I love Alfreds custom workflows. Half the time I’m using it the same way I’d use Spotlight, but I’m also using it to trigger custom workflows constantly. (Which often just call out to CLI utils or run zsh/Apple/Swift scripts, integrations that Alfred makes easy)

I also appreciate its global hot key support. For example, I’ve setup the F14/F15 keys to adjust brightness on an external monitor. (Just by having a workflow call out to `ddctl`)
> copies from a few animals that are really essential to us as wolves, red jungle fowl or horses

Wolves or horses? I see no reason to bring either outside the planet except for zoos, experiments or otherwise totally non-vital things.
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You'd need a pretty solid reason to want users to download the Python engine to run your code in their browser every time they visit an updated version of your site though. "I like writing Python better than JS" would be a sucky excuse.

If anyone does choose to do this I hope they spend significant amount of effort making their caching and code splitting optimal.
> Yeah I just want to suss out that picture in picture is indeed working just fine for iOS users as it is documented as working by Apple.

It does not. I just re-tried (iPhone XR on the latest version of iOS). If I jump out of Safari I get the PiP video for about half a second and it disappears. It works great with Vinegar, as advertised. Websites that use the standard video tag work as they should as well, from what I have seen.

> I don't use iOS, if you say YouTube is treating it differently than Android and blocking said feature, that sucks and they should change that for sure.

Indeed. And in the meantime I will work around them. And if they block it, I’ll just YouTube-dl stuff ahead of time. And keep laughing when Google devs whine about Safari not supporting Chrome’s HTML extension du jour.
Lets not forget that after Taiwan warned the WHO. The WHO then lied about it and told us that China informed them, then revised their own timeline to state that they had to ask China first as China didn't approach them at all.
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> Maybe cost is too high for the average customer?

Well yes, and even for the non-average one. Plus the goal is generally to build things which barely stand, a building which can face the vagaries of time for thousands of years would generally be way over-engineered.

Countries where pozzolanic ash is readily available do use it but that’s not usually the case. Fly ash is also being explored for that role.

An other issue is understanding of the material’s properties over time.

Also our modern world makes a lot of concrete.
> The amendment to end slavery

This didn't happen, and the constitution still explicitly allows slavery.
EuroDisney, outskirts of Paris. And you forgot to mention Tokyo Disneyland. And I didn't know about Hong Kong Disneyland. 11 theme parks between them at those locations, i.e. about 3 per location.
Absolutely. I am a chronic expat, and frequently move countries. Due to ridiculous restrictions, I am unable to get movies and TV shows, in English, with English subtitles. Most of the time it is dubbed in $native_language without subs.

I want to pay for my media. But it want it in English please, with subs. The copyright lobby won’t let me, so I grab torrents. For free.

Same with Formula1. I had a annual subscription to watch races online, in English, until they made some deal with some local broadcaster, meaning I need to sign up to the local broadcasters’ service on terrestrial, cable, or satellite (the ‘90 called, they want their broadcasting model back) and have commentary in $native_language.

- I have disposable income
- I’m happy to fork some of this over to the media companies
- I consume media on an industrial scale
- They refuse to provide a product that is consumable for me

So, thanks, IPTV and torrent sites!
Having had epidemics previously or having advanced genomic capability doesn’t imply a robust logistics network for the world’s first RNA vaccines which require particularly cold refrigeration.
Pardon, what is PEG?
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No webchat on a website, how does impact/reflect confidence on the B2C site abilities? What sites MUST HAVE have a webchat driven by live agents?
Why was no automatic transmission cars a problem?
I’ll follow up and say I think one place that the networked season passes might be driving on the real estate front is that I think they make it less attractive for “locals” to get started skiing and to stay local. The massive increase in day pass prices means where once someone in Seattle, Sacramento or Denver might just try a few days skiing to see if they like it, they now have to make a much more major commitment up front to get into the sport. Those “locals” would just drive in an hour or two rather than rent a ski town property.

The multi resort passes make it much more attractive to take a dedicated ski vacation than just check out a different nearby resort.
We have Bosch. We will never, ever again buy another Bosch.

For Bosch, quiet means effectively eliminating the heated drying cycle, so that they can get rid of the fans. This means that nothing inside gets dry after being washed.

I’m happy to take recommendations for other brands, including from Consumer Reports. But whatever it is, it has to have a functional heated drying cycle, with fans to exhaust the wet air.
I am South African. Can you give a citation for this claim?
There is nothing that will every satisfy the people that push the 'it was a lab leak' angle that it wasn't just like there is nothing that will ever convince people that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job that it wasn't or that pedophile democrats are running the world.

For one you are trying to prove a negative, for another, you are asking others to prove a negative, when in fact it should be the opposite: there should be some pretty hard proof before a lab leak hypothesis would even rise to the same level of consideration that a zoonotic jump (which is default) should be given. Absent such evidence you can safely discard it, and if and when such (non circumstantial) evidence does surface it would be a good time to get seriously upset about it. But until then it is a complete non-issue, except in those places that seem to go out of their way to make this a 'China has tried to destroy the world and then tried to cover it up' story, none of which seems to match the available evidence. That said, the Chinese have not made their own story any better with their initial handling of the pandemic and the degree to which they were transparent with the data that they must have already had at their disposal. But that is nothing that can't be explained by their usual reluctance to own up to fuck-ups. Other countries (the Russian Federation, and the United States, India and plenty of others besides) have done similar if not worse things, it seems to be a political reflex: try to squelch the problem in an attempt to avoid blame. This of course doesn't work and only makes things worse.
I wouldnt do my job either If I wasnt allowed to shoot people whenever I felt like it.
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Alright. To be fair, I've reached the front page on HN by just compiling a C linear programming solver with Emscripten.
I've done the same recently for my home. It's tough to keep good interior air in the winter when the building is not designed for it.
> Term limits are inherently anti-democratic.

No more than age limits to be allowed to vote or hold office. Limits don't halt democracy.

> membership in congress would be even more held by the type of person who jump from CEO to congress to Federal bureaucracy and so-forth

Term limits don't change that. The problems to address are:

1) they are underpaid while in office,

2) they are allowed to act in the interests of their previous industry ties while in office, and

3) when they are out of office they are allowed to profit from having held office.

To address #1 pay them ridiculous FU money while in office. And make #2 and #3 very strictly policed, harsh felonies.
Facebook is where people were defending the behaviour, not where I heard about it. That was circling in more obscure smaller libertarian circles as an example of the escalating insanity of Australia.

The defense of the behaviour has indeed also caused me to stay off facebook, though.
Where in Canada? Not Whistler...
I imagine it has to be something that another company can generically understand and take over. A startup where the founders deep domain knowledge / connections is the key - that domain knowledge / connections go when the founder leaves.
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Others have answered, but I'm only interested in community based software distributions, or ones backed by an ecosystem of companies, not ones ran by a single corporation.
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Yes, having been through situations like that you can feel bummed and dejected at the time because the deal didn't go through, but when you look back it can seem like a really positive learning experience.
It's TRUE for all large web tech companies. Everything is launched via A/B tests. Your performance evaluation as an engineer is dictated by how much your teams goal metrics moved thanks to your changes(impact measured by A/B tests).

At any given time, a single engineer might have a couple of A/B tests running. That's the single biggest engineering change I have seen in the last 20 years.

A/B tests are now crazy simple to set up; just click a few buttons and decide how much traffic to send. The major con is that it leaves a lot of dead code behind when the best of N A/B test arms are launched; the (N-1) unsuccessful arms stick around as dead code.
> profit too low

> important growth metrics

> product storytelling

Yup. Everything that's wrong with (predominately US) modern business culture.

Product doesn't matter, storytelling is. Nothing matters, inflated growth metrics do. Profit doesn't matter unless it's high (for some definition of high), but even that doesn't matter if you have hyperinflated growth metrics.
Sounds good. An instant NO is better than a dragged out and expensive NO.
Animations can be a great way to create a sense of dynamism to a website. But it has to be very subtle, and done right. I sense most people’s knee-jerk reaction is to hate these, and I can understand why. I think the trick is to not break any expected UI conventions. So many flashy web experiences hijack the scroll, or create mystery buttons that aren’t clearly clickable. Harking back to Steve Krug’s mantra, “don’t make me think.” The best web design is so clear and intuitive, it rarely draws attention to itself. It’s like iOS animations, when closing an app, and seeing the app get sucked into it’s icon. It’s so quick and subtle, you barely notice it.

Kudos to the reduced motion advice at the end of the article, for better accessibility. I didn’t know this.
Most high end houses in Japan are already built this way. Lots of insulation with a air exchanger. They are not as low energy as passive houses, but sell brand new at prices regular families can afford.
"The fact that humans are the only reservoir for smallpox infection and that carriers did not exist, played a significant role in the eradication of smallpox." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication

SARS-CoV-2 eradication is probably impossible.
Makes me wonder if the atmospheric increase from ~280ppm to the current 420ppm over the past 200 years is having some minor, but statistically significant effect on our collective cognition.

If it is, it's probably far overwhelmed by the shear weight of more well educated people and better tools at our disposal.
How would news outlets then sell ad space? What else would they have to talk about on television? How would you distract away from rising inflation, higher living costs, and inadequate paying jobs?
Keeping controversy alive is a much greater tool than finding a resolution.
Proper ventilation has been a major part of every epidemic for the past 150 years, and yet no one has spoken about it…at all.
Yes, and these factories are many, and are not concentrated in one place, because shipping cement is expensive. It’s the same with aggregate: not everyone has sand in their backyard, but there typically is good amount of suitable sand within a few dozen miles.
This is probably because YouTube exclusively uses VP9 for 4K streams, instead of HEVC.
This. The OnePlus 6 is a great choice. The Cosmo.. not so much. The available Debian is just broken at this point and has not been maintained for a while.
Don't worry there isn't that much content in this game. You can finish the story in a couple of hours, will take longer depending on how much you want to tweak your scripts but it'll take tens of hours at most.
Haha I remember my first designs as a Jr Engineer after I had crammed the book into my brain before starting. I’m pretty sure the other devs just threw those classes into the trash when I wasn’t looking. For about a year I thought everything had to be a design pattern and making a vanilla class was a faux pas.
14 years later I don’t think I use any of the patterns anymore. Maybe facade if I’m refactoring a complete mess of a project
Land value taxes don't make any difference there at all.

Your scenario plays out just the same. The opportunity cost difference between any two uses is exactly the same.

There's a small difference in a detail of accounting: in one case you see a higher LVT bill, in the other case you pay more for your mortgage. (Or alternatively, if you own out right, your opportunity cost for holding onto the land increases.)
I have tried for a few hours now to try to formulate a reasonable expository response to your reply, but I think its just beyond explanation... one might invoke the phrase "ineffable."

As an American-- there are plenty of very real "conspiracies" (our banking system, our medical system, our economic system, Jeffery Epstein) that are completely ignored while a substantial portion of our populace tilts at (imagined) windmills.

I have no explanation other than that, a significant sub-population of our people must be absolute morons.
Thanks for the informative posts!
Previous discussions of Tiny:

2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806500

18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739381

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905777
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> handsets that don't work with VoLTE

It's kind of amazing to watch them keep pushing out half-baked protocols with the details on what phones actually support being so hard to find. I guess the lesson they learned from rolling out LTE phones with no Voice over LTE support is that nobody really cares, which is why they repeated the same issues with 5G and there's all this stuff about "non-standalone 5G".
There's an A12 Blackbird in LA in expo park. It's just sitting outside near a parking garage, free to see anytime like the DC-8 or the F18 or Endeavor's fuel tank (Endeavor itself is indoors in the science center).

It's amazing how large of a vehicle it is in person. It's got to be twice the size of the F18 in front of the science center. It still looks like a spacecraft from the future even though it's nearly 70 years old.
Not the only source. American rice is grown sometimes on old cotton fields, which were sprayed with arsenic to control boll weevils.

Apparently washing the rice does remove quite a bit.
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>Naming it “Xi” would be as stupid as naming it “Biden” or “Putin.”

Did Biden or Putin direct gain of function research?
The "public" in public health refers to the fact that it's the aggregate health status of a population that matters.

Arbitrary guidelines are chosen:

- Because at the population level they're likely to be effective. Yes, individuals may get sick. Or die. But with the measures in place, overall risk and impacts should be reduced.

- They're actionable, memorable, and can be monitored and observed. Masking, hand-washing, limited exposures, limited occupancy, maintaining distance --- these all help reduce transmission, they're simple guidelines most people, even young children, should be able to comply with, and they can be readily and visibly observed.

It's a balance of benefits, risks, adoption, and enforcement.

Immunity status is harder to assure and measure, but vaccination standardises the innoculation, creates a memorialisable event, and can be checked if needed at specific locations and junctures.

The "five second rule" is far less meaningful than what's on the floor. But if you happen to see something fall, note that where it landed was reasonably clean, and if possible can wash it ... you're likely to make a better assessment than if it's been sitting for a few days. Even then, I'd make a sharp distinction between five seconds on my bedroom floor, vs. in the bath, or in a public building or street.

That said, much food comes from the ground. Wash and prepare suitably, you're reasonably safe.
Amen. Also, we have term limits, they’re just not statutory, they’re democratic (and called “elections”).
I do think the patriot act is a good counter example. However I think this is probably because of the point you made in the second paragraph. "There is no defined end." This is true, with COVID and the patriot act. Unfortunately, I think a reason why is because if someone defines and end point, it comes and various things are repealed and something happens, it is a career ender. Taking the Patriot Act as an example because I think it is probably the most clear cut. If tomorrow a group of politicians ended the patriot act on the premise that, no planes have smashed into buildings because of terrorists in two decades, great. But a year later, a plane crashes into a skyscraper, where will society put them blame? Unfortunately, on those politicians more than likely. Not even just planes smashing into buildings, if suddenly a suicide bomber blows off in a town square, there will be lots of people up in arms about the Patriot act being ended. Which is unfortunate, but it creates a situation where I see no politician wants to put a stake in the ground of, "this is the goal." I think propaganda by political parties (both, not a single) is to thank for that largely.
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The WHO has given a running report on the knowledge as it became available and has adjusted their severance in lockstep with that.

The information that they had was flawed and incomplete, which is enough to understand the degree to which they felt the need to sound the alarm.

The only people who are rabidly blaming the WHO for 'failing us' are the ones that would like to distract from the people the really failed us: the politicians that decided to ignore the information coming out of the WHO and that refused to act on it. Those governments that went a step further and played it safe did considerably better, but do note that those very same groups that are blaming the WHO are claiming that these countries only managed to do so by curbing people's freedoms, by abusing their population and so on.

On another note, the people who continuously talk about 'narratives' tend to be the ones that are most invested in sowing chaos and dissent as well as distrust in those authorities working hard to help us get out of this. The practical upshot of this is that you may succeed in undermining the sentiment that the WHO is a useful organization but that will not change the facts on the ground, and the isolationism that this is closely related to tends to be strongly associated with people who would like to reduce the world to little fiefdoms without such niceties as the UN, the WHO, the International Criminal Court etc. Be careful whose water you carry.
The issue with being on call constantly is, that you have to basically give up any private life you should have. Your daughters theatre play? Sad to interrupt! Your long awaited weekend trip with your girlfriend? Would be a shame if you had to cancel!

The quality of life lost by being on call is not insignificant. This is why being on call should always be the absolute exception and not a reliable, planned in, tool at your companies disposal.

If you regularily fail to organize your core business around business hours, maybe you should get someone who is good at planing projects and communicating these plans and put them in charge? Or maybe just close your company and search for a different career path if you are unable to plan your projects?
I've got an SNES from when I was a kid in the 90s, but it's not in great shape I don't think. I'll dig it out and see if it works in two weeks (I'm moving) if you email me (in profile). If it does, I could part with it for shipping cost and a trade of some other thing you have that you don't want, maybe. I think I've lost the TV adapters though, so I can't be sure it will work or not. I have a few games too, not sure which ones. I'm not too into classic games, everytime I play them I get really bored.
We transformed a London borough into a game to get fewer people traveling by car
... great grandfather started this company with one single rickety leaky hand-crafted slave ship, and a simple motto: "People Selling People to People".
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> And lastly, infecting so many new hosts opens the possibility of creating a more deadly variants, just by pure chance, due to so much virus replication going on in the hosts.

Isn't this true of the flu as well?
But the immune system was already rejecting his own insulin creating cells. This is what caused the type-1 diabetes in the first place. Presumably it would continue to do that with the new cells.
Dui. Pinché inyalowda na sa-sa nichts. Que si?
First, we only see the part of Roman architecture that lasted. There's an observer bias. The Romans also made plenty of ephemeral stuff, just like we are making plenty of ephemeral stuff.

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BB2PRY7k

Second, there's more to engineering than making stuff last long. There are different trade-offs. Cost being one of them, but also different material properties.

Eg re-inforced concrete is awesome for lots and lots of applications that the Romans couldn't even have dreamed of. Alas, it's not economical to make re-inforced concrete that lasts forever. (Not even sure if it's physically possible.)
> Going to a Disney park is usually somewhere between a once-a-year or a once-a-decade treat for families with kids.

2 things:

1. You left out the "once in a lifetime" for most folk (eg. from countries without a park).

2. Disney doesn't need to thin the "once-a-decade-or-less" crowd. If those are filling up the parks, build more parks. You won't scare those away with pricing unless your prices really explode - and I'd wager that is beyond the point where you seriously harm the brand for price gouging in people's eyes.
Show, don’t tell.

I really don’t get why this has 500+ updoots. What am I missing?