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> we need more focus on speed of information dissemination

I'm curious why you think so. This report is very detailed from a medical point of view, if you want current numbers there are other news sites for that. Besides, why do you need the current numbers, so you can panic faster?
Why would someone want to clean so many bathrooms?
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> I guess the lesson is that you shouldn't take investments as a sign of something cooking

Leaving aside acquihires, I think it's always a sign of something cooking. Apple just seems atypically content to let things simmer until they feel they've got a compelling product, and they aren't afraid to kill things that don't work.

Sometimes it happens quickly; Fingerworks was acquired in 2005 and the iPhone was released in 2007. The AuthenTec acquisition closed in 2012, and Touch ID showed up in 2013.

On the other side, you have acquisitions like PrimeSense. Apple bought them in 2013, and Face ID didn't show up until 2017.
You can only do that in a solid dictatorship. That is also true for the wide reaching quarantines.

While some might be scared that much that they approve of these measures, I am just glad not to live in China.
Maybe houses have many bathrooms, but my experience from the US was that it is incredible hard to find public toilets which is very annoying when you're a tourist.

When we found one, they were pretty disgusting. Even places like Starbucks didn't even have a toilet. I mean what the hell? How can you serve people coffee which makes stomachs rumble without having a single customer toilet?

From a European perspective, this was very uncomfortable and I also have a condition which makes my stomach untrustworthy.
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> Do middle class Americans clean their own homes?

Middle class Americans (petit bourgeois) might, but probably contract out for at least some of it; middle income Americans probably can't afford to contract out and probably do their own cleaning. But Americans often say the former when they mean the latter, so it's not usually clear what is being discussed.
I do not think that there was ever a period when "the only option for computing for quite a while" was text files. It certainly wasn't the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s. dBase databases were not text files, for just one example.
There are roughly 3 phases in your career. In the first, you don't know much and do things simply, naively. In the second, you know quite a lot, and like it or not you will be quite attached to your own expertise, it will be part of your identity. Your solutions tend to be complex, but you believe they must be that way, and you have evidence this is so. In the third phase, you begin to perceive systems as ephemeral results of some causal chain, and have a sense of how they became the way that they are. This depth of understanding allows you to embrace simplicity again, but this time you understand precisely the limits of that complexity.

I think a lot of professionals (not just programmers) get stuck in phase 2. This is where, in our field, most of the code comes from: capable, smart people writing new code furiously, and with the not incosequential fact that it provably works. Sure, it has bugs, but you can get to those eventually. It also happens to be the most "defensible" phase, where you get to speak down to others - you have concrete experience, real knowledge, so you are justified. I would guess this is also the bulk of working programmers.

So, the OP's solution could be coming from a phase 1 or phase 3 place. You are certainly coming from phase 2. I would encourage you to stretch a bit and consider when the OP's simple solution makes sense, and when it doesn't. I would hope you would do this in an interview as well, because you'll find phase 3 people saying all kinds of whacky things, which might not make sense to you unless you ask.

(A careful phase 3 will make sure to preface his simple solution with his limits, and to not do so is a little bit sloppy, but personally I don't think that's a deal-breaker.)
And why do Americans keep using that kind of toilets with high water level and soft flushing that tend to get clogged?

I mean, in my 37 years of life in Europe I haven't ever clogged a toilet, I don't think it's even a thing, at least if you don't throw anything that doesn't belong in there. But in my trips to America... I'm not going to be specific, but let's just say that some experiences have made me very cautious when I use the toilet there.
I thought it was a regular (as in color) photo of a white tiger.
"A war situation" is precisely when you need this sort of thinking: the modern ethical framework for medical research with interventions is heavily influenced by "The Nuremberg Code". I don't think we need to describe in detail why people thought that code was necessary.

In most of these cases, it is highly unlikely that any significant number of the patients will withhold their consent: so to not ask it is basically saying "we can't be bothered", there's no obvious scientific basis for such a waiver. When patients are incapacitated there are equivalent frameworks which take their personal circumstances into consideration.
Isn’t it obvious? Have you seen what we eat?
It's not US specific I live in Ireland houses are way smaller here yet most(all?) new construction have large number of bathrooms.
I'm sure you could make a tool which could read and write to SQL Servers mdf files. That wouldn't change that SQL Server is a RDBMS.
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> Wow this is the first I've heard of the infection and death rate being 'lower than hyped'.

GP only said the death rate was lower (which necessarily means the infection rate is higher, not lower, assuming all the deaths used in the reported rate are real deaths associated with the disease of concern.)
Roaming tunnels your connection back to your home provider.
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On the other hand...the road is the road.
It's not like the logistics companies are trying to automate train traffic, public transit is all about them boats and others are into the road business.
They're all on the road and the main thing that might differ is the behaviour of their transport to a certain extent (eg trucks vs cars)

You could focus on highways only for logistics transport but even then you might need to be able to react to a sudden pedestrian...even if it's just to make truckers lives a bit easier because you can always rely on human error.
Wow, good place to go while suffering from Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
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Reminded me when I wanted to visit Battersea Power Station.Until a few years ago it was shut for decades and just before they were planning to start development on the site,they opened it for a couple of days to public.I thought 'OK', how popular can it get? Will go there in the morning, queue a bit and get in.When my GF and I arrived there, there was a queue of at least a couple of miles..It looked like the whole London came to visit it..
> It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it.

It's hard, verbose, and littered with snafus, but it is also a solved problem.

POSIX and C shell are a source of quoting difficulties. The semantics of Plan9's rc and now fish are much more straightforward. I think that shells could be a robust technology if we were less fixated on faithfully capturing familiar idioms.
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Yeah same, just recently was in US and I think first time in my life I clogged a toilet. And it was a respectable hotel.
"and legislation allows it."

That's Tesla's usual whine. Uber had the same complaint until they ran down a pedestrian. California's DMV is willing to license autonomous vehicles right now.[1] The manufacturer have to demonstrate that they work safely, and accept full responsibility for anything that goes wrong, of course. Some wannabe self-driving car companies have a problem with that.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/a6ea01e0-072f-4f93...
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Yeah those quora comments really made me think that Americans have diarrhoea way too often since it is mentioned numerous times as a reason for the high number of bathrooms.

The same way I've often read silly threads on reddit mentioning those fecal problems (like after mexican food, it seems like a ritual for us folks to crush the toilet bowl) which don't seem as common or popular in europe.
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Hmm lived in/visted many places in US honestly never had this issue.
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bcrypt does not allow me to not use a salt. A connection is the same if it's the same file descriptor and it's been open continually. My client uses public key pinning to ensure it is talking to my actual server. I don't have any mechanism to prevent someone who can break TLS and take over TCP connections from impersonating users in my online game.
That site is pretty painful to visit. Is it someone’s business model to submit stuff like this to hacker news?

Edit: I mean it’s called BigThink; does the flashing adverts (on mobile) between every sentence not make that name a little ironic?
>Lord knows that's what happened with "Unix" starting in the 90s, and Javascript in the 2000s.

What do you mean with this bit?
> The first step of this is to explore more ways to establish new and strengthen existing connections – and also to improve findability. We don’t have to reinvent everything from scratch but can build on so much that already exists.

I use ActivityPub as both the broadcasting mechanism and the mechanism to obtain comments for my personal site. It also allows people to follow my account on my blog from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc).

So far, not much engagement (mostly my fault for not posting too much). But a working proof of concept. It isn't easy to do though, and I skipped all the other tech to do the AP support first (webmentions, rss/atom).
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Regarding 1, I think you should not obsess over it, maybe some other people were kept because they were less paid (That's usually quite an important metric during layoff..) not necessarily because they were better. It is also possible some people had a key skill on a specific tool or process that was thought important.

And in the end, it is totally possible that the wrong decision was taken by someone not really familiar with the situation (some HR people you have never seen in your life), but the good news is that you don't have to suffer the consequences of that mistake.

Regarding 2, we all suffer from that to some extent because of the time we spent at work, but it is a good reminder to not become only defined by work, because this is something more fleeting and unreliable that we'd like.
the US Healthcare system is second to none in the world.

The actual CARE people in the US get is the best in the world, wealthy people from every nation come here to get their care

It is fucking expensive and has issues with how we go about paying for it largely do to government regulations and interference in the market place

But the actual care... No that is not "objectively worse" to any country anywhere, our health care is the best.

People often confuse care with insurance, our Insurance system sucks largely do to government
BNO News is tracking the numbers and updating every 30 mins or faster it seems. https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus...
That may be the case and I don't doubt your view, but you'd be surprised at how good the Surimi manufacturers are at producing "sushi analogs" these days ..
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Interesting piece thanks. The tl;dr is we probably need all the neurons inside our brains and evolution didn’t miss a trick to make us run on mini brains.
The article is overthinking it

The question is: what happens when you have few bathrooms (maybe only one). It's a constrained resource that is usually used by people at around the same time frames.

Sharing one bathroom across a family of 4 is not easy. Two or three make more sense.

This gets worse if it's 4 unrelated people
yes there are plenty of them. just google for something like "kaldi vs google".

in short: not surprising the blockbuster cloud services provide better results as they have way more training data. tradeoff between price, privacy, quality.
That’s exactly the point, the section was added to note the new definition of serverless vs the one that has been there for over a decade.
What I would like to know is why the America average wash cycle requires around 40 gallons (151L) of water [1], when my machine in Europe uses around 13 gallons (50L) and a 10 year old one uses 22 gallons (84L).

[1] https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/08/new-california-wa...
Yes, if you use exhaustible resources which become more expensive to extract relative to labor, sustainable goods, and everything else over time simply because the cheapest to extract are already extracted, you get a deflator that ridiculously overstates general inflation far more than any reasonable argument could be made that the headline CPI or any other commonly-used consumer inflation measure understates it.
Because it is a nice luxury to never have to wait on someone else to be done in the bathroom. This is further amplified because our bathrooms customarily have more functions that tie them up, as we don’t use separate water closets.
I think with modern hardware as for instance the now available first byte-addressable NVM variable sized pages and buffers should in theory get more widespread use and the reading/writing granularity gets more fine granular in the next years. I think as of now the Intel Optane memory however still has to fetch 256 Bytes at the minimum.

However, variable sized pages also allow page compression.

Can you give us some links to the mentioned issues and techniques that achieve high cache and storage bandwith efficiency without VSBs?
Nothing about this is a war situation. This just reads like reactionary fear mongering.
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Seems you visit some places with poor plumbing then.

In my 40 years of life in the US the only time I have experienced a clogged toilet is because someone put something down it that did not belong (or the entire plumbing system was backed up do to tree roots or other issue unrelated to toilet design)
I replaced every single one of mine with a Toto. I don’t care if it’s four times the price of American Standard or whatever: I have literally never had to use the plunger since.
It adds significant value to the home, every room is basically a potential high-value rental unit, especially if they're full baths.

Oftentimes homes with many small rooms each having private bathrooms were actually designed specifically for the purpose of room rentals, think elderly shared housing type places.
There is nothing to suggest that any patient has withheld consent, just that the requirement to get consent in written form was waived. Given how sick these patients were this is reasonable.

Time is of the essence here. If I was put in the situation these researcher are in I would act first and take the risk of being put on trial later. Real ethics means sometimes you have to do more than just follow rules.
I can't imagine being anything other than skeptical about outsourcing authentication to a third party service..

Just to clarify, I said framework not service. I'm advocating in favor of using things like Passport.js that you run entirely yourself. I'm not advocating for auth services like Auth0 or Firebase Auth (which have there place, but require a lot more consideration beforehand).
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We have to go with the data we have. Nuclear has a long history of promising more than it delivered, when it comes to cost. Investors can't ignore this. And I can't ignore it either, no matter how much you want yet another do over. All the "but next time will be different" doesn't change that.

Nuclear's competitors don't have to resort to this increasingly desperate salesmanship. Renewable installations come in within 10% of initial cost estimates. They're fundamentally easier technologies to plan, work with, and deliver. Screw up 1% of the module installs in a PV field and your output is down 1%. Screw up 1% of the concrete pours, or 1% of the welds, in a nuclear plant, and it's world of hurt time. The complexity and interdependency of big plants means they are going to be difficult and expensive to build.
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The USA is slowly moving to front-loading washers. The top loaders were water hogs.
Hah so true. Having lived mainly in Europe and Australia I have never once managed to clog a toilet but without fail I seem to manage to clog almost every US hotel toilet. We're not talking about a few unlucky incidents but many.

Just on the general topic of the number of bathrooms increasing surely it could be related to the obesity epidemic. They do seem correlated. People getting fatter and fatter every year, they need to relieve themselves more often and of more material, this all takes time so it goes without saying they would spend more time in bathrooms.
My front-loader in the US uses about the same as yours.

Top loaders were popular in the US for a long time, and they generally fill all the way up.
Because we like our clothes to actually get clean
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...and exactly how do you know this?
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I thought this "argument" around welfare queens had its day in the 90s...not the 2020s
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It's really convenient compared to low water level kind. No splashes, no marks left, no time for smell to develop.
Or is it any program that _responds_ to comms on a network port. The "serve" part of "server" ;)
The dirt does not go up with the number of bathrooms but rather the number of uses. With more bathrooms you either have to clean less often or less as much.
Could it be as simple as poor design?

Another trend that I think is poor design is the "open-floor" trend for newer homes.
To make matters more interesting the actual gamma curve you should be using should be the one corresponding the the display you use to view the image. Very frequently this isn't sRGB or anything close to it (pure power gamma curves are relatively common, if you're lucky the gamma is somewhere close to 2.4). It is in fact not even rare to encode an image with a gamma curve that's intentionally different from the display that's supposed to be used to view it, in order to, for example, prevent crushing black details or to avoid numerical problems (both reasons for the linear component in sRGB).
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no, i've only tried it out for myself:

https://github.com/CoderDojoZH/resources/blob/master/cards-p...

i really liked it, but i don't consider it a mature product i would use "in production".

because of our approach, we can't really adopt it until it's natively supported by a "package" like mu-editor or thonny

my conclusion was:

as a "senior" programmer, who grew up with procedural programming, i'm still "scared" about relying on annotations and async programming.

but, for kids coming from scratch and without much other experiences, i'm not sure that it will be a big stumbling stone.

they will simply "learn" it in a different way: at the beginning, programming is (mostly) black magic anyway : - )

it might be even easier for them to use play, than relying on the magic update() and draw() functions...

(and, no, i don't think it makes a big difference to call those function from a main loop like in pygame or having them implicit like in pygame zero)

probably, the biggest issue would be that the founding blocks of play do not match what the kids will learn in most python tutorials and books (they probably won't find any reference to async or annotations in most programming books for kids or even for beginners!)

all in all: i like play and i think it could be a good match if the focus is more on computer science topics...

in our case, the focus is on the kids having a good time on sunday afternoons and getting them to learn to be an (active) actor in front of their computer, not just a (passive) consumer. we are not too picky about the concepts : - )
I don't think nuclei emit any light except when they're either fusing or breaking apart. The light is probably coming from a cloud of excited electrons, a certain number of which have an extremely high probability of existing near each Strontium nucleus.
In the US most people clean their own bathrooms.

I.E in a 4 bedroom, 4 bath home, there are likely 4 people living there, each person cleans their own bathroom,
>...unnatural by the time the sequence has shrunk to the empty one. That is ugly, ...

I reread his article for clarity. He first makes the “ugly” argument, which originates from 1) natural number domain definition issues, and 2) only then he goes to the range definition argument based on 1). It may be valid when you’re working in your mind on math problems of natural numbers starting* with 0, which is a self-referential argument btw. But it doesn’t have to be applied to software arrays of items. Dijkstra’s argument is repeated as a mantra, but the general consensus is that representation of natural numbers (unsigned ints) brings more issues than ought to solve, so we don’t use them today, which defeats 1), and then 2) loses its causality.

>>find(x) could return 0 as an “item not found” marker instead of returning -1 or worse uint_max

Let’s test that against Dijkstra’s statement on range unnaturalness? Which is more unnatural, 0, -1, NSNotFound?

Programmatically it doesn’t make any sense except in salary gains from mastering off-by-ones.

* Edit: natural numbers start differently in different countries, but you may s/0/1/ there and it still holds, because he speaks about domain borderlines. The same holds true for e.g. [321..500].
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Meanwhile, American showers still have a fixed showerhead mounted on the wall and a single control that doesn't let you adjust pressure, only temperature.
Additionally he doesn't understand trading, just because they lost a dollar on a trade (likely on another index) doesn't mean they lost a dollar over all, they presumably listed the sell-order because that price is already itm.
In fairness, the GP is bait too. It's just more thoughtful bait with paragraph breaks. It's basically elegant finger wagging.

Decay of the west bit aside, the parent has a point. Do you freak patients out by getting them to sign things when they are already in quarantine and fearing for their lives? Or do you prioritise research and response?

related: "Conducting Research in Disease Outbreaks"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669128/
Right! When shopping recently I was looking for 1 bed 1.5 bath places for precisely that reason. I got extra lucky and snagged a 1 bed 2 bath place...
Having been well traveled in both places I found for the given population density of a particular city finding a toilet is harder in Europe than the USA but both are horrendous. Public toilets are a basic human right in Australia.