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RaTG13 is not the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2. Full stop.

Other, more closely related viruses have recently been found in nature (by a French team in Laos). That immediately 100% rules out all the conspiracy theories that have to do with RaTG13.

I'll also just mention that Wuhan happens to have wet markets where wild animals were sold until the end of 2019. The initial outbreak was clustered around a market that is known to have sold wild animals that are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2. That market is on the opposite side of the city (and it's a big city, about the size of NY) from the WIV.
Started a new job. Been thinking about ways that IT support could get automated in the near future.
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Sometimes you see articles like this that insist that you have to play a status game of some kind etc etc. The hacker in me sees that as even more reason to look for examples of ways alleviate myself of such nonsense.

If you read books like "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" you run across stories of him playing with Status games and poking fun at them. Though I'm sure one could argue Feynman had status games he played in his own way.

In any case thats always the attitude I've preferred to take towards status. I just don't know how anyone can take themselves so seriously in a world where the highest paid and smartest among us wear rainbow hats with propellers.

Don't take life so seriously and goof around a little more. Thats how you turn up interesting ideas anyway, not by playing status games.
Utah got rid of the "use it or lose it" water rights policy. This is huge. https://westernresourceadvocates.org/blog/watch-these-three-...
Dyn*: can we make dyn sized?
Indeed seems to ask for a 68 question personality survey after applying. Just a heads up, you might lose candidates who don't want to take that
It looks so boring.
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If someone asked you if a tennis ball could fit into a keyhole you couldn't answer?
> not had an outage

You just said 2017. I said 2021. And there's also at least 2018.

> You will find that

I will not find that, because i told you what my experience is.

> Illusion

Illusion or not, it's real. /s

> Missing the point of the exercise

The point being lying and contradicting ir sequential sentences to pump a pyramid scheme.

Cryptocurrency on is not fit for any of the stated purposes, and HN will ban us both if we continue, so i bid you good day.
Even as a workstation - I already pointed out that Adobe and Serif won't port their apps to Linux. And that's one example of a professional use case. Think about the doctors, lawyers, technicians, sound engineers, video engineers, who all need to use some proprietary app that only works on Windows or Mac. Sure, if you're a programmer then you have access to everything you need on Fedora, but we are the least interesting group for the desktop, we are all power users and not the segment that matters.
> Normally this kind of movement would be a strength of the left. But lately the right has become quite populist, so maybe this plays in their direction.

I saw an op-ed from a conservative magazine on this exact theme: [1]. The author basically says, "if we're claiming to be the party of the working class, shouldn't we be in favor of this?"

1: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/republicans...
> The simple fact is that an adult needs X amount of money to be able to live with roommates, eat, drive their car to your job, etc.

Sure. Let's pay everyone $50 an hour then?

Do you understand how ridiculous it is to base a minimum wage on what an adult needs to live with roommates?

It's a need. Of course it is a need. However, forcing a minimum wage isn't the solution at all. If it were, we could "fix it" by paying everyone $20, $30, $50, $500 per hour. Anyone but a complete moron can easily understand what happens if we set a minimum wage of $100 per hour. EVERY JOB THAT CAN BE EXPORTED WILL BE EXPORTED.

For everything else, inflation will absolutely explode. Which means that your $100 per hour won't buy you anything except for everything made in China (which will have higher prices because the Chinese are not stupid and will raise their prices to make more money). Home will cost 10x more and cars will double or triple in price. So, the $100 per hour quickly turns into a real $10 per hour. All we've done is play with numbers to create funny money. The ONLY ONES who benefit are the Chinese because they are doing everything they have to do in order to grow their economy and become the dominant economy in the world for the next 200 years.

That's the game and the stakes. People are allowing politicians to run us into the ground (or below it).

Your "simple economics" isn't real economics. It's wishful thinking. In the real world, with a globally integrated economy, a job and a standard of living can only exist in the context of where goods and services can be delivered more effectively.

This isn't even about greed. Anyone who has migrated work to China and other shores understands this very well. Only the ignorant equate this to greed. The truth of the matter is that market forces push pricing down. Since you won't pay more than $99 for a blender, everyone has to make them in China and margins are narrow. Nobody is making 300% margins because they went to China. If they do, those margins will collapse very quickly as competitors move their ops to China and push pricing down. That's economic reality. Like it or not.

Try to make something not-trivial in the US or Europe and see what happens. Most people would be horrified by the reality those of us in manufacturing understand all too well. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
Every one I've seen requires a college degree for internship/apprenticeships.
It's literally their highly refined tried and true formula with BOTW. Hard to believe that you don't see the parallel in open world design if you've played both games.
I wish this trope would go away. Can you hurt yourself picking things up, especially if you pick them up incorrectly? Yes. Can you hurt yourself trying to pick something up beyond your limits? Yes. But neither of those requires DLs to happen, and shouldn't stop people from learning how to properly pick something up from the ground. People also don't need crazy weights to make the deadlift useful[1].

Too often people avoid DLs because 'they don't want to hurt their back', w/o realizing they are setting themselves to get hurt later. Years of DLs mean I instinctively pick up everything with good form. Meanwhile my friend hurt his back by awkwardly picking up his toothbrush that fell on the floor...

[1] I heard a measure once that for non-workout people, a good rule of thumb is to be able to easily and correctly KB squat and DL ~#45-#50 - the average weight of a toddler.
Games that haven’t been given much attention by computer scientists.

If you’re talking about two-player perfect information games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information) with players alternatingly choosing between finitely many moves known at the start of the game, I don’t think any game would hold up long today against attempts to write a world-champion crushing program.

That’s likely limiting the set of games a lot more than needed, but I want to rule out games such as Nomic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic), where I think humans still have an edge. Chances are you’re not calling that “an alternative to chess”, though, as it’s quite different from it.
I'm a little surprised they could combine KJV and ESR without some kind of sulfurous stench, or a glimpse of a forbidden geometry from beyond the stars.
You can't keep that much memory in registers easily. Just storing all those quires would 16 512 bit registers (which on x86 is all you get)
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Reduce the contrast, i.e. make the black less black.
Slave is just a USA thing, like many others. Let the rest of the world be please!

https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/o4h1fq/using_go...
I don't even know how to respond to this fantasy you paint. As I told someone else, try to manufacture something non-trivial in the US or Europe and you might begin to understand.
Relative nonsense, anyway.
Author here. First of all thank you for making this article appear in the HN frontpage. I read some interesting comments and approaches but I feel that a piece is always missing (or maybe I did not understood). The piece of how the authorization fetches the necessary application data it needs in order to decide what to do. If you do not need this piece then you can get really creative on how to solve authorization and use an approach that fits best to the needs of your system. But if you do, then I would love to hear more details about this part.
> But something about the name of this award rubbed me the wrong way

I totally get this. Sure, it may be a compliment in many ways, but the fact that other people decided to give you a "weirdest brain award" also gives the sense that "you ain't part of our normal people club".

Maybe it comes down to there being something inherently insulting about being told who you are by someone who can never fully understand you. I suspect it's similar to how any minority feels when the majority culture tries to tell them how things are without having experienced it themselves.
> this is just 'sandbox' gameplay

That sums it up. Enjoyment comes from core game play mechanics, not quest content. I'd be just as happy with core Street Fighter mechanics in an open world, with no-explanation filler content between boss encounters.
Isn't the idea of persistent data structures, that they may be more expensive than their imperative versions, but try to reduce the expense to a minimum? So by using a persistent data structure, one should already have taken that potential additional expense into consideration. The wasteful solution should not be that much more wasteful, if we assume, that there is an OK-performing persistent data structure for the use-case. Otherwise I guess one should not choose a persistent data structure. But then you run into problems, when you want to make use of multiple cores to throw at the problem.
I think it's rarely status on its own, but people keep seeming to turn activities into status competitions. Even something humble like a retired man doing woodturning wants to make a more beautiful piece that people appreciate.
You are entitled to prefer to use whatever you want to use, but you are only the dictator of reality in your own mind.

Also Docks are terrible UI. They are annoying, take up too much space, and you can never really find a good place to move them so they are out of the way.

The Apple Dock was something designed to look cool and fresh in order to sell a bunch of G3 and G4 iMacs back in the day, but it's a step backwards from even Windows 95's taskbar.

Gnome devs staying away from that is one of the more laudable decisions they made in terms of design.
They’re already exporting jobs.
But the only electric current on the molecular level is coherent current...? Chemical reactions are not macroscale phenomena, and so it shouldn't really matter if the energy comes from a random distribution or not. Also please don't insinuate that I'm "profoundly ignorant", that certainly isn't relevant to the discussion.
Why would a union be company specific? It makes a lot of sense for a union to represent all workers doing e.g. car manufacturing.
Or bought a USB driven floppy disk drive and fitted that instead. They are cheap - I bought one the other day to recover some data (although I haven’t tried it yet).
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This is yet another example that the United Kingdom does not have free speech. They've been doing this for years now.
I've grown up reading C64 magazines and typing up the games that were in there across the last pages.

I can totally recommend going for a 6502 because the community is welcoming and there's still a lot of people in the demoscene hacking together projects with it. Lots of emulators too, so you don't necessarily need to debug with an oscilloscope :D

There's also the C64 mini that recently came out but I didn't get my hands on one yet so I dunno whether it's 1:1 compatible with the old instruction sets.
That's unrelated to aphantasia, and is instead related to knowledge which doesn't require the ability to visualize to apply. Any common keyhole is going to be obviously smaller than a standard sized tennis ball to any person aware of both objects. An inability to answer your question would occur if someone lacked knowledge about one or both of the two objects, or had a fundamental inability to recall information about relative sizes and shapes of the two objects (perhaps generalized to more than just those two).
From an admittedly quite outside perspective, the state of FOSS dev seems to be showing some cracks.

Spending some spare time developing something useful for others, great. Spending pretty much all your spare time doing so, seems unsustainable but you do you. Having that treated as a given rather than a special committment, with extra demands and workload placed on top, this is a problem. Having to get a second job to support your project, what the fuck is going on.

If you do that and you're happy with it, don't let me interfer. But this doesn't seem like such a happy post.
But Clojure also has a habit of implementing core functionality that needs to be fast in imperative Java.

The thing about copy-on-write is that it's only a good solution when writes are infrequent. My sense is that Clojure largely deals with this by simply not targeting business domains where frequent writes to mutable data structures are particularly necessary.

Which hints at my own opinion on how to deal with this Gordian knot: just acknowledge that there is no universally best programming paradigm. Some problems are, as a practical matter, best modeled in an imperative manner. That's fine. And I don't think it should be personally threatening to us fans of functional programming. John Backus openly discussed it in the paper where he originally proposed the paradigm, and I personally prefer, for moral reasons, his suggestion for how to solve it. In a world where everyone's trying to build the best spork, I think I'd rather have one good spoon and one good fork.
The slope is slippery because, given enough time, lawyers are always be able to form a causal effect chain from human action A to undesirable outcome B.
> Extreme power imbalances are seldom (and I'd dare say never) good. I've seen unions effectively bankrupt business during tough times.

Please be specific.
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> "Credit cards and phone numbers [...] should not be modeled as numbers."

Agreed that they shouldn't be modeled as a numeric data type. The actual field behaviors are also appropriately implemented for their respective data types in the browsers. I wouldn't so quickly absolve HTML5, though.

The type field describes the purpose of the data, not its 'data type'. Most people consider the term "number" very general and treating it as a special type of value with specific uses and properties is an artifact of software development. HTML isn't a templating language that processes data, and in my experience, many creators and consumers of HTML are not software developers.

The rest of the values are consistent with that intent, maybe except text and to some extent local date and time: Hidden, Text, Telephone, URL, Email, Password, Date, Month, Week, Time, Local Date and Time, Number, Range, Color, Checkbox, Radio Button.

What are the really common uses of "numbers?" Product quantities? Currency? I can't think of much else— certainly nothing people would normally label using the word number. What are very common fields that aren't numbers? Credit card numbers, phone numbers, social security numbers, account numbers, ticket numbers, reference numbers, confirmation numbers...

The label makes sense to people who write application logic using variables where whether something is or isn't a number is really important. To everyone else, labelling a phone number 'text' makes much less sense than labelling a telephone number a number.
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This is really cool. I dig it.

I like that there's a Sublime Text package for it. Seeing my plain text todos with nice syntax highlighting is a perk.

I maintain a Zenburn color scheme[0] for Sublime Text. After playing with this, I added specialized support for [x]it! and I think it looks pretty good[1].

[0]: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Zenburn%20Color%20Scheme

[1]: https://github.com/ryanolsonx/sublimetext-zenburn-theme/issu...
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Very recognizable :) I had a Citroen DS that had locks that were so bad that it was pointless to try to lock it, and getting it started required 10 steps or so and getting one wrong meant you weren't driving that day (or at least, not until the excess fuel had evaporated away again).

Probably more secure than the class-5 alarm on my current car :)
Welp. I suppose I grew up in trailer parks, single alcoholic mom, food stamps, HUD paid rent, absent dad.... end up working my way through college without debt (FT job + FT course load).... what's your story? Because I know a lot of poor people and their psychology pretty well.

My quoted "struggle" is because there is a distinction between real poor and bottom, in my mind. Bottom is just that and can be quite functional and the struggle comes from perception and comparing to other things/people. Sacrifice is necessary at this level. You can not get every new Apple product, etc. But that's been normalized and they feel they are struggling when they can't get the shiny things. They typically can afford housing but have to sacrifice on location, commute, schools, etc.

The "$15 federal minimum wage" topic is a good example of the bottom. It's billed as a "living wage" because it's compared to current prices. However, if implemented, just moves the bottom upwards. Their position on the ladder does not change, rents go up and they still have the same affordability issues they do right now.
The response from Couchbase appears reasonable IMHO.

https://twitter.com/couchbase/status/1509959831016251395
I am doing an excel sheet, 52 boxes per row, one row per year. Inspired by waitbutwhy article.
I always find that people who claim that they or a geography have fewer/no status sports are only referring to the “popular” games. There is always an alternative game.

People in Europe claim it. I have lived in Africa, Europe, US and the Middle East. The only difference I saw is the type of games people generally engage in.

Geeks claim it, because they don’t engage in the typical meat world status game. But again, we just usually play a different game.

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I rather like tcl's solution: copy on write, with reference counting. Values are immutable, so if you to alter a value in place, it gets copied; but iff nothing else is pointing to the same value it can get modified in place because the end result is indistinguishable. This does lead to the occasional need to explictly unshare things for performance[1], at least until the compiler gets smart enough to prove that the value is unshared.

[1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/K#c2a6014c2d129837889d8a8000d...
> if two libraries require different versions of the same transitive dependency, the newer one is chosen.

Unfortunately, this is not how maven works. It picks the version required by the dependency nearest in depth to the project root, breaking ties by first listed in the file. It is deterministic, but it's not what anyone ever wants by default.

(This is called "dependency mediation" if you want to Google it.)
I think I would prefer not to but it is not one of the preoccupying thoughts of my daily routine.
If you're Betty Crocker and only 10% of your customers want lemon cake mix but 80% want and buy chocolate...yes, it does cost more to make lemon cake mix, because you buy chocolate ingredients at nine times the volume you do lemon.

If you're a cake mix company that only sells chocolate cake mix, switching up production to include vanilla has expenses all by itself. You now have to manage extra ingredients in your supply chain, schedule time to switch production and all the overhead and downtime in doing so...and your factory-to-retail logistics chain is now both more complicated and split between the two products.

If you retail cake mixes, why would you dedicate capital, storage, and shelf space to something that sells at one ninth the rate?

Etc.
I think you can't just erase cultural conditioning to value certain things by recognizing differences, especially if otherwise the culture or organization doesn't demonstrate that it values those differences.

You have to actually value it, not just say crap or make empty gestures. People can tell.

For instance, "most improved" or "participation" trophies: Boomers gave these to their kids, then later wrote articles about how entitled, etc, millennials had turned out to be as a result, but the truth is that we all knew those were the consolation prizes for those of us who sucked.
One category I can think of is called "code". Credit card, SSN, could be the same category as zip code. Anything number that does not in calculable semantic (e.g. index, id)