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Show HN: Matrix filter for Teams or Zoom, use for your xmas party!
https://github.com/petersonh/teams-matrix-filter

Had some fun making this, won my MS Teams background contest ($5 coffee gift card! lol). Full disclosure, not all code in this is mine, some is pulled from a few different spots around the web.
If anything, the New York Times is shifting to the Haaretz-type business model of selling chiefly to a political/worldview/educated-class base via subscriptions, rather than distributing across a metro area with ad revenue.

Economics of digital media are basically the same everywhere, especially when you actually face more competition from trying to act as a genuinely local, printed paper than in the digital space.
I once had a 100x speedup on a large dataset by using a reference copy rather than a memory copy in one critical section of the code. I also found a bug in the language because the reference copy was supposed to be automatic.
In addition, there's an incredible 3D character creator named FlyCat who makes some absolutely insane timelapses. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXU0MjnApXHZkf3uGYbLSA
Netherlands to ban live boiling of lobsters, crabs
I'll write one today!
I've read the article only once cursively, but enough to ask, if the conclusions are indeed correct, and the reduction is SO DRAMATIC (like in the order 40x reduction with a well-fitted mask using the numbers given), than in theory masks would be enough to basically eliminate the circulation of the virus, but in order to do so we have to accept them as a permanent fixture of daily life.

I, for one, would not find that acceptable. But what if there is no other way, how many more years do we go on living with the visible symbols of the plague all the time?

The other day I had a weird experience where I somehow managed to enter a store without a mask on, and only realized it when I was already in line at checkout (small store, nobody told me). It really struck we how naked I felt and how much I had gotten used to this. It's very strange, I understand the rationale (which is what I want to discuss here), but we can't say it's not having an effect on us, maybe one that's undesirable (I think particularly for children we need to question what that might be doing).

Of course, one last thing we need to discuss is this kind of annoyance is not on the level of the scenario I'm discussing, as most people (myself included) are NOT strictly adherent to best practices the majority of the time (wearers of "fashion" cloth masks being at the most extreme end, as I understand cloth masks don't do much), and certainly I'm not wearing one all the time, not when having a discussion with friend, or in social settings, etc.
It looks like they have added a manual payment option, though certainly not preferred, so that they can technically comply with some definition of charge card perhaps?

https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414521565719-...
I don't know what you mean. Could you please elaborate?
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The engineering effort and scientific expertise this telescope requires is staggering. I really hope it goes well - not just for having a better look at our universe - but as a milestone, proving that humanity can still pull off the impossible.
I've bought a bunch of LEGO during the pandemic and I very rarely see pieces that are only present in one set (and when I do they are mostly printed pieces, or standard shapes with unusual colors). I think that what makes the models more "realistic" aren't custom pieces, it's smaller pieces. A lot of models have a lot of 1x1 square, circle or quarter-circle tiles, or small slanted pieces, which allows for finer details. At the same time, these pieces are often smooth on top, so they are less composable than studded ones and harder to manipulate, especially for children, so I can see how this could be a problem.

There are also a lot more colors and shades than there used to be, so it is a little harder to make substantial custom constructions that don't look like rainbows.
Ive got two actual personal encounters with them. Long ago someone who talked up his souped up motorcycle/gokart engine (with reason) explained it to me, shortly before that engine died wide and energetic. That was fun, and may have had other causes :)

Then my wife paid $1,800 for a "packs & plugs" job at a dealership, when our usual guy was aware that our Honda Insight had that issue and needed that attention and said he'd have charged $200 for it. Individual part numbers for 3 plugs. But still. She was out of town and they talked her into "it's sputtering but it could blow up at any moment!"
Your comment has nothing to do with the article. Stop shoving your sick agenda down our throats and save your "links" to yourself
"Although the detailed analysis by the Max Planck researchers in Göttingen shows that tight-fitting FFP2 masks provide 75 times better protection compared to well-fitting surgical masks and that the way a mask is worn makes a huge difference; even medical masks significantly reduce the risk of infection compared to a situation without any mouth-nose protection at all."
That's the real number.
I am well aware that's the official story.

But I prefer reality, and I haven's seen any definitive proof that's the case yet, quite the contrary.

It looks to me like the more we vaccinate, the sicker we get.
>NYT since 2016 became a tool of progressive indoctrination. I never feel that reading Haaretz.

Then you're not checking Haaretz English against Haaretz Hebrew ;-). Haaretz did this particular business model before the Times did.
Google now offers fully remote roles. In my org, literally every single application for a transfer to fully remote was accepted.
I agree, this could fix a massive amount of headaches depending on what kind of site you're building.

If it's proven to be performant enough, I think it would work for 90% of sites out there (pages of information + pictures)

Theoretically you could even have a graphic designer build a site without much code knowledge instead of hiring a webdev.
we've had a few issues with missing pieces but it's usually a color problem: extra red brick, one less white brick. There's roughly the same weight of contents but not the exact item.

A bigger issue is the reliability. some pieces have been broken in the bag, specifically longer flat plates. other pieces literally crumbled upon assembly, specifically low-grade sloping pieces near the edge. doubt these pieces will last as long as the pieces from 10 years ago
Iirc the argument bind this would be along then lines oft precendes. I.e., you didn't defend your TM against person A so why are you sueing person B.
Struggling to directly address things isn't really our failure mode (if anything, we tend in the other direction). With the specific example of driving, I don't expect much of an issue there. My wife and my mom frequently run errands together anyway, so I expect that will just become the default. My dad will be annoyed, but he's a _very_ pragmatic and risk-averse person and my guess is he'll be the one to make the call (probably earlier than we would)

We talked a lot about money going in, and one of the requirements was that the house had to be something that my wife and I could afford entirely on our own. We own the house (my parents aren't on the deed). If my parents moved out tomorrow, we'd have to tighten up a little bit, but we wouldn't be at any risk of having to move if we didn't want to. My parents pay us monthly based on a sq ft percentage of the house (utilities, taxes, etc), and they have invested a fair bit in their side of the house out of their own pockets (renovating the kitchen, building a small addition, etc... things that also benefit us in terms of value of the property)

As far as your second two points... time will tell... We're not far enough in to run into those issues yet. I think we're all on board for the long haul (3+ decades), but that's easy to say now. We do have regular intentional check-ins about how things are going to make sure we all still agree on where we're at and where we're going.

Your summary is spot on. If you nail expectations, finances, and boundaries, I suspect you'll be in good shape.

All in all, it has been a huge quality of life increase for us. It's really great for our kids to have such a close relationship with their grandparents, and there are significant practical benefits for us as well (my wife and I are able to get away for a weekend every few months, something made much much easier by the fact that we have "live in childcare")
That's sad-funny because the cannons nowadays fire pieces again.
You joke, but me and several co-workers laughed together when we realized after a year and a half, we didn't know how to make small talk anymore. Or even talking felt awkward/forced the first few days

It was pretty funny actually
This is just another incident in a long list that goes back decades of Israel getting carte blanche to do whatever they want to the US with little to no repercussion. The most famous probably being USS Liberty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident)
In my local school district there is a dedicated Arts School (Art, Music, Dance, etc.) for grades 6-12 and a dedicated STEM school for grades 6-12. Kids within the district have to apply to get accepted to either of them otherwise they just go to the traditional middle/high schools.

A neighboring district has a similar school geared towards Healthcare.

These schools obviously teach all necessary subjects but have more advanced classes geared towards those subjects than your average school would have.
I think it comes from that rewrite everything in Rust camp.
There are about a dozen serious problems with this plan. What happens to the rest of your spin system when your payload releases? What about air resistance? If you’re spinning up in a vacuum what happens when your payload hits atmosphere at orbital velocity?
What are your neighbors going to think about living near complicated, delicate, high velocity things like this?

I also take issue with the notion that “scientists” are working on this. Engineers? Yes. Dreamers with a nifty idea? Yes.

Will it ever work? Maybe if what seem like insurmountable problems get solved. I’m not holding my breath though, and I don’t want to be within 10 miles or anywhere down range of the attempt.
Isn't it traditional Indian culture for old people to become ascetics and indulge in spiritual pursuits? The Hindu texts talk about renunciation being most important in final ashram/stage of life as a Sannyasini. Wonder how is that goal achievable if old people are treated like a young child. Letting go of attachment amd material comforts is difficult, but it is the right thing to do according to Hindu Dharma.
I started reading the California Math Framework but stopped partway through the intro, when I got to the part that says:

> we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents

It must be nice to think about a world in which every child is an equally-capable blank slate. But we do not live in that world. We live in a world where some people are tall, and somewhat more likely to be successful basketball players. And some people find math easy, and are somewhat more likely to succeed in math.

When you start out with flawed assumptions, it's not surprising when your prescriptions (no advanced math for anyone!) are foolish and counterproductive.
liberal arts may include parts of stem, but stem and humanities are pretty much disjoint, which is probably a better way to have this discussion. I think there's an argument for not forcing people who are interested/capable in stem to suffer through perfunctory humanities courses (and vice versa).

is something lost when someone learns about propositional logic and set theory without learning about the vienna circle and logical positivism? yes. does it matter very much practically? probably not, and stem people who are interested in that kind of thing can probably pick it up on their own.
Your comment isn't an argument, just a pair of questions. Don't ask me to justify your opinion, figure it out yourself.

Amazon promoting products that Amazon is most likely to sell is NOT "anticompetitive behavior."

Every company seeks to do things to benefit themselves. Do you oppose them all?
If those are benefits you value, you should be happy to (indirectly) pay Amazon the premium that they charge for it.
It’s new in the sense that it suddenly afflicts my family on an almost daily basis.
My oldest is 24 and my youngest is 2 - I thought I would be done having kids by 30 but life happens (story for another day).

In general people are waiting until they’re stable financially before they have kids.

As for older parents, they simply had plenty of kids spanning 2-3 decades. For example - I’m 6th born of 8… so when I came along they were in 40s.
Very neat - I love the idea of building tooling for a very specific workflow. Must be satisfying to show people and have them go "what? That's it?!"

> The long term goal is to make a tool to replace Illustrator

As in your ambition is to have the original content creation happen in the tool you make, take Illustrator out of the process entirely? That's ambitious! (or it seems like it, with little actual knowledge of what functionality people use within Illustrator to produce content like this).
Yeah, all the sites I work on are responsive.

I wonder if there's some way to make this approach responsive, even if just using breakpoints (vs serving a completely different site requiring a pageload). Doesn't seem like it, but I haven't thought about it much.
I see this as a neat way of exposing a graphql interface but a pattern with a number of limitations that are traded off against the goal of reducing the network latency. Definitely useful for users who want a single datasource and only want to expose access through GraphQL (cannot scale db resources indepedently of the api access layer). Wondering if the graphql engine could make use of the postgres stats collector for optimizing graphql resolver execution ex) resolver dispatch scheduling or pre-execution query optimization?
Amazon has mastered the art of selling cheap, crappy goods. At some point Walmart was the leader in this strategy but now Amazon has taken over the lead. I am increasing dreading to buy from Amazon because when you look for something you get 20 different listings of the same looking product with sketchy reviews. Their search also seems very manipulative sorting and showing and hiding of filter criteria based on probably an algorithm that benefits them.
Because the virus is dangerous for the risk groups, and one of the risk groups is "people in an area where the hospitals are currently overloaded". If you're confident that you're not in another risk group and that you'll catch it at a time when few other people are infected, then you've little to worry about.
> There's a lot of railing against copyright law, EULAs, etc. which have nothing to do with what I'm asking.

Intellectual property is a legal construct, and the thing being violated here is a EULA. (I'd also hardly describe what I wrote as ‘railing against’ anything. I just stated some facts about what IP is.)

> So what's your theory here? Apple is big enough and profitable enough that meaningful harm to Apple is the determining factor?

My ‘theory’ is that meaningful harm is a pretty good criterion for ethical objections in general, and that well-founded moral objections to things which are harmless are exceptional. This isn't a novel or controversial view; it's foundational to liberalism.

> Or is it that no concept of property exists outside of the physical realm - so that e.g. musicians should have no control over who records their performances, nor artists over who reproduces their work, nor developers over who uses their software and for what purposes?

I'd say that physical property is also an instrumental legal concept. Its existence, like the existence of intellectual property, is mostly grounded in histories of power and its exercise. But there are good arguments for its usefulness in certain contexts, and there are good moral arguments related to ownership. And the best arguments relating to ownership of physical things don't apply to ideas because ideas are not like physical things.

Your question, as posed, also overlooks the fact that intellectual property as it actually exists in fact does little to ensure that artists have control over their work. In the same way, Apple's policy on the use of macOS on non-Apple hardware is totally outside the control of actual developers who work at Apple.

If you'd like to tell me about how developers at Apple have an interest in ensuring that macOS is not used on non-Apple hardware... congratulations: you've just started outlining a case for how projects like the one in the OP are meaningfully harmful.
When you're right, you're right. Did people really think economic growth would bypass the entire MENA region just because the Arab Spring revealed some unsavory things about the governments? Or that anyone in the regional tech sector would hesitate for a second to make money off MENA states getting back at their old colonizers?

Actually, the author's name being Edan Ring (eg: obviously Hebrew) aside, that's the most interesting political angle here! NSO is opening doors for Israel to act as a Middle Eastern country, eg: spying, cracking, abusing human rights, trying to fuck with Europe, and making money off the whole lot. To a certain degree, the "shock and horror" angle is because Israeli Leftists and Westerners have actually bought their own bullshit about Israel being a Western implantation into the region, rather than a native growth: they have to at least pretend to be surprised when a Middle Eastern country (Israel) acts like its Middle Eastern peers (Morocco, the UAE).
Upvote for chair lift. This is the piece of technology needed to make sure he can stay in the house safely.

It sounds like OP’s father is motivated to stay in the house, which means things like exercise bands will be useful things he uses. Emphasizing meaningful exercise instead of continuing to engage in dangerous exercise is going to help.
The question is: do you need to know?

I handily accept that I don't know a big part of vim. At the same time I use it daily and went as far as developing vim script to automate stuff that are repetitive to me.

Vim bindings are quite easy to pick up and fairly straightforward though, but that should just take a cheat sheet and some usage.
"Advent Calendar" does not exist in my culture, I just see a bunch of thumbnails with an unlabeled, seemingly random, number, but only a tiny number of them can be clicked to read more.
And thus worse!
If you tried to call yourself Applehero, made videos about electronics, tried to trademark that term and sell merchandise with it, with a logo referencing Apple’s apple... well, you’d end up sued as well.

Lego is already close to losing their trademark, they can’t let anything like this slide without risking their IP.
Read Chapter 2: Teaching for Equity and Engagement

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/documents/mathfwchapter2.doc...

Why are they integrating and layering the religion of social justice and gender ideology onto math? I would be just as alarmed if Christianity or any other religion or dogma or ideology was embedded with math and how it's taught. This document is pushing evangelical-level indoctrination and is certainly less about teaching math than our current system. At the very least it's orthogonal to learning how to add and subtract.

"Teach Toward Social Justice"

"Teachers can take a justice-oriented perspective at any grade level, K–12"

"teachers need to work consciously to counter racialized or gendered ideas"

"Students are able to take what they noticed and named – in this case, how gender played out in the problem"

"Learning is not just a matter of gaining new knowledge—it is also about a change in identity. As teachers introduce mathematics to students, they are helping them shape their identity as people"
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Wasn't filling up hospitals the problem we were trying to solve by vaccinating people in the first place?

Isn't that the excuse people use to harass anyone who doesn't feel like being experimented on for profit?
Maybe, but now that I have an OLED, I really want blacks to be truly black.
I don't have tons of extra time these days for music, unfortunately. I give you permission to rip/download anything from here that you'd like and include it in the project, however: https://soundcloud.com/0-aces
Not exactly, it sounds to me that the idea is to push out Algebra I and offer the data-sciency, more "equitable" option earlier. Nerdy kids would still go through the Algebra-Calc-AP track but on a slightly different schedule.
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Amazon is consistently ranked near the top of trusted organizations. In real life I only know 2 or 3 people who might actually complain about Amazon.

But being big means you draw more attention. And journalists love to give them attention.
Thank you! Every crazy axe murderer receives more empathy then the people who simply stopped trusting the system after being lied to one time too often.

Two things drive me crazy:
1. How easy it is to dehumanize a significant percentage of the population.
2. How willingly politicians embrace that in order to find a scapegoat for their own failures.
One thing that really helps me rest better is sleeping on my back. It's more difficult to fall asleep that way, but the sleep I get seems to count more. I dont know why, but it does. I've been doing it since I was a kid, so it's gotten easier, but It's still a struggle to not roll over a few times a week.
I'm finally gonna rant about Vim here. Gets way more credit than it is worth! ("but it's soooo coool! I'm superfast doing find / replace! You just gotta learn the crazy syntax, haha!") My response: "are you sure? I wouldn't rely on those fancy commands... best to use a statically typed language and rely on an abstract syntax tree for renaming tasks than an editor to do that."

Like everything in the software world, because some Google engineers used it, it became world wide famous. There's a saying in german that I love, basically amounting to, "they also cook with water". In short, there is no real tool that has "secret sauce" or is "super magical". It's an editor, that's all.

Say what you will but nano is is fine for me via SSH, VS Code for everything else.

Looks like many of the comments take a similar stance, which I'm actually surprised at.
Perhaps parent was referring to flash sites from 20 years ago? Personally I found them to be pretty unique and creative. Obviously there were problems with security and cross platform limitations, but awesome none the less.
they are cutting geometry a bit, which doesn't make as much sense today as it did 100 years ago when far more people grew up to be farmers or ranchers.

The point of high school Geometry was never to compute areas of fields. Trigonometry is far more useful for that anyway.

The point of high school Geometry is that it is the first introduction to rigorous mathematical proof -- and has been, ever since Euclid's Elements.
It’s sloppy on my part… I meant it’s more acceptable culturally to do so… not that they don’t care.
I'm confused, what is the proposed framework supposed to fix, or how is it better? Is the goal really to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the advancement of top students? Surely, that can't be the goal...that's crazy. Furthermore, that has the possibility to exacerbate the problem by forcing advanced students to augment their math education in the private sector, something only available to wealthier families.

Also, the shifted emphasis on data science stuff is a joke. The very courses they're talking about minimizing are the building blocks of data science and there's no shortcut.
there is little science without mathematics