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“Pence tells me no new cases or deaths, so it’s a hoax”
Presumably, I'm older than you. I was actually watching this on the news at the time it was happening.

At that time, it was not framed as "if nothing is done and we stand idly by and watch it burn." It was framed as "We simply don't have the manpower to resolve this and it's likely that many of these hundreds of oil well fires will end up simply burning themselves out while we try to get to them because the scale of this is just beyond what we have capacity to try to fix."

Then crack teams from around the world converged on Kuwait and developed new techniques on the spot that were more efficient and effective.
You'll never convince these armchair epidemiologists that they're wrong and virtually all the public health and medical experts are right.
yes there is indeed like a bajillion of POS systems. I'm the founder of one of them https://www.waiterio.com

I found ridiculous how there is a bajillion and everyone is claiming to be the LEADER IN THE INDUSTRY or 1# POS SYSTEM

It's a big market, there are a lot of restaurants and there is space for a lot of software.
As far as I experienced there isn't a lot of virality in growth due to referalls since it's a B2B so no winner takes all happened (despite what some POS would like to make you believe).
FYI the interface format seems to be inspired by borg-prune[1].

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/prune.html
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When you put it like that, I see that it's a rather minor detail.
Reminds me of a hard sleeper bunk on an overnight train. Actually, much better than that considering you can still sit if you want.
The way I like to think about the expression / statement divide in Rust is that everything is an expression, and the semicolon is an operator akin to `ignore` in F#; it takes any operands, disposes of them, and returns the unit type `()`.

Rust in general is just such a pleasant language. It can be a bit tedious to work with sometimes, but that's usually because the problem in question is tedious in and of itself, and you didn't even notice all of the little screw-ups that could occur until you saw how Rust dealt with it.
That is an interesting question.

Business and First classes already have this problem in spades, of course -- but they're expensive services and lower person density (leading to less average uncleanliness).

Maybe forego carpets and build in an automated hose-down system? (probably not)
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It might matter then what cases you need to optimize for, which statistics are most important, and what instruction set you are using.
What a terrible article. Not a single piece of information about actual technology. Almost reads like someone fed a Markov chain generator with content from the websites of a few bullshit blockchain startups.
The claimed weight is 50kg per unit - more than a modern aircraft seat but not dramatically so to the extent it's likely to unbalance anything - and they seat the same number of passengers per metre of cabin. The bigger question is how on earth they expect to get an airline safety certification for something involving passengers sitting high above the cabin floor and accessing the aisle by sliding out ladder in the middle of it
That statement is different, the rhs is not a variable's name, so I agree with you, all of that is not a no-op.
>> forbids the creation of commercial test kits and the importation of foreign ones

I was wondering about this... Very hard to justify that in my opinion.
Those big public companies are really being reined in by their shareholders: Comcast, Verizon, Exxon Mobil, Valeant, Equifax, Wells Fargo. Oh wait...

The public equities market has failed and will continue to fail to punish unethical behavior. Elliot, Scott Galloway, all the biggest equity funds all only care about returns. Scandals and misbehavior can affect returns but it’s often more efficient to cover them up or lobby to make them legal than actually fix the issue.

I almost feel like CEO owners have more of an incentive to prohibit bad behavior to protect their individual legacy. Adam Neumann made out great from WeWork but it’s rumored he left America and I don’t blame him. Jack probably doesn’t want to be the guy who led to the downfall of the American democracy, and I’d trust him to do more about it than any combination of nameless funds.
No doubt no doubt. Again, I'm not saying it's more likely than not at this point that we'll stamp it out. If we continue with our current behavior, we certainly won't. But I think there's a decent chance that as western countries are more and more affected by this disease, we will start changing our behavior. Hopefully it will not be too little too late.
I'm trying to understand where subject release documents fit into this. So I don't have to get those signed to take pictures of people, even in public? What if it's a still from video?
They are supposed to only test people with flu like symptoms that test negative for flu. Which this person did.
There's still social stigma not being able to work 100%. Even if people were just clerks for eachother and total Waste, the stigma would still be there. People seem to not mind infecting others.. Except as dictated by political correctness.
just make everyone in the company do it IMO, and let the managers distinguish who was an over/underperformer later on

Of course, you'll just find out that there's practically no correlation.. Some of the least useful teammates I ever had ended up at Google, and one of the best programmers I've ever met makes $10/hour at a fucking call center out in the middle of nowhere
Yea that sounds like a huge pain. Thanks for clarifying.

Does anyone know if there's a way to basically indicate, "I'm not planning to buy anything on credit" and freeze your credit the way you would freeze a bank account?

Then again, I don't have a great credit score to begin with, so maybe that is enough to keep people from being interested in impersonating me...
Probably for the Chosen and the shadow government. Me and you are done for.
Feb 29th should be NationalTechDebtDay
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https://linuxfr.org/news/requetes-et-jointures-avec-pgmodele...
> the only confirmed case of community-spread COVID-19

There are now 4 confirmed cases of community-spread COVID-19. 2 in california, 1 in oregon, 1 in washington.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/high-school-student-washington-lat...
Ah, that makes sense now. I am in San Diego County which did not adopt the new procedures.
Covid-19: Infection Biology Lecture by Prof. Marcel Salathé, EPFL, Switzerland
One of the key findings coming out of China is that CT scans can outperform reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) lab tests in diagnosing the Coronavirus[1].

[1]https://www.itnonline.com/content/ct-provides-best-diagnosis...

If the CDC's current tests are flawed or too few, then the CDC should provide guidelines to health providers to quickly diagnose potential patients using CT scans.
One person has died in the US. It's not time to panic. I expected more logical comments here.
>Most international flight businesses class experiences are just economy class with very slightly more legroom

Do you mean domestic business class? I have seen few international business class that didn't have lie flat seats.

Now, on domestic, business is not usually that great in the US, though the seats are generally still much more spacious than even premium economy.
> Most international flight businesses class experiences are just economy class with very slightly more legroom

That isn’t true at all. Not on any trans-pacific flight, and not on most trans-Atlantic ones. The only time I can think of business class as being kind of like Economy are on some cheap biz class seats to and from SE Asia (e.g. on HK Express, but even then we got lie flat seats). I’m sure discount international airlines like Norwegian do something similar as well.
I don't know where to begin with this opinion and commentary so I'll just say how I feel.

Finding solace of potential human loss of life through a lens of reduced carbon footprint is tonedeaf to those who have lost loved ones to this disaster, and furthermore alienates an enriching dialogue between climate deniers by providing a scapegoat to keep heads in sand.

"Look at those climate cry babies, celebrating loss of life"
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I've been, even in recent times, on hold only to be stuck with staticky music. Not just low quality, but literally from what sounds like a half-tuned-in radio station.

In such cases, I am left to assume they want you to do your deeds online so they don't have to pay people to answer the phone and inevitably tell you to do your deeds online.
Interview with Prof. Salathé:

“We need to buy time for a vaccine against the coronavirus"

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/we-need-to-buy-time-for-a-vaccine-...
Summary on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coronavirus-what-facts-ks%C3%...
Is it possible that the virus has been circulating in the states since Christmas or earlier?

I live in the states, though not in Seattle. My wife's best friend teaches ESL at a major university. She has several Chinese students in her class who went home over the semester break in December and January. In mid-to-late January, the teacher, her husband, my wife, and I all came down with the "flu" in swift succession, we all rode it out at home and none of us were tested to see if we actually had the flu virus. We just assumed flu because what else could it be? At that point, we'd never heard of novel corona virus.

The illness we all got was characterized by a deep and persistent cough and chest congestion, brutal sore throat, and a fever with teeth chattering chills and soaking sweats. We all had various levels of relapses of the cough and chest congestion (generally without fever) after the initial recovery.

I stayed home from work, of course, when I was ill, but a few people I had contact with at work also came down with something similar right after me. Many had had the flu shot since we get it for free at work. The general sentiment was that this years flu shot was a dud. I've been wondering if it wasn't actually flu going around.
I read that whole thing. I actually agreed with sorein's first couple of emails, but man, did it go downhill from there.
This is very good but... Description of traits suddenly dumps references, mutable references, reference bindings, dereferencing with zero explanation:

--- start quote ---

Trait methods can also take self by reference or mutable reference:

impl std::clone::Clone for Number {
fn clone(&self) -> Self {
Self { ..*self }
}
}

--- end quote ---

What? What does this even mean? What is <asterisk>self, and why?

Too many questions, not nearly enough answers.
I really like their Seek app when finding myself in the woods or in a botanical garden.
How does this compare to the video course? e.g. what are the differences?
It probably varies and you'll be paying out of network rates and it may not cover prescriptions in any case. But, if there are gaps that are of concern, you may want a supplemental international travel health insurance plan instead of "travel insurance" in any case.

I've always been covered for international travel as far as I know. Fortunately never had to test how well it worked.

I do buy travel insurance now and then but it's mostly to cover costly cancellations or expensive rescue/evacuation costs when those factors are relevant.
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The number of reports of asymptomatic and mild cases which are asked not to go to a hospital are specific reasons why the true fatality rate is less than 1.4% and may be considerably less than 1%

Total speculation. There is no reliable data on how many uncounted people there are. I've been watching your comments on here for days and it's clear you want this to be overblown, as we all do, but you're intentionally twisting the uncertainty in the evidence and data to try and downplay things. Things could turn out to be worse than we think, not better. Look at the death rates in Italy and Iran. Not to mention how high hospitalization rates could overwhelm our medical infrastructure and push the mortality rate even higher.

In short, unless you're a working expert in a relevant field, there's exactly zero reason to listen to you. I'll continue to listen to what health officials are saying, and watch what they're doing. And when I do that, it's pretty clear that you and others like you who claim this is overblown and no big deal are almost certainly wrong.
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Not sure I understand what Obama given his job as President and you have in common re: my comment.

If you can go to your kids school events and it doesn't impact your work (or happiness or makes you happy for that matter) in some way (and your ability to provide for your child's future (key point)) then that is your choice. But this idea (that goes around in today's popular culture) that it's vital in some way that both parents (man or woman) need and should be fully engaged in a child's school activities is simply not right both from my experience and observation over the years (with my own children (grown up, educated and well employed)) and history as well. It's a concept that is bandied about as being good not only w/o proof but absolute.

So my question for you is did you think about this and come to the conclusion that you should attend your kid's school events on your own or is it something you have read in many places and never questioned because 'it's what you do as a parent and it is important'.

Let's take it one step further. Men and women go off to war 'for their country'. They are not able to even be with their children (let alone attend events). It's service for your country that's what you sign up for. Do you think that the job of the President is less involved and important than a single soldier or more? Don't you think his thought process should be on the country and what's good for them and not his (for this particular case) his children?

One last thing. If Obama really cared about his kids he wouldn't have become President. There is nothing normal about being the child of a President. Given both his education and level of achievement and his wife's his children would have had a very nice life going forward w/o needing the drawbacks (both attention and security wise) of being the child of a President. (Not questioning the coolness or upside just saying there is plenty of risk and downside I mean talk about a not normal life even people you meet are most likely angling and want to be around you because of who your parents were and are).
I want books written like this. I've had too many books where I die of boredom over and over again in the first 150 pages and then I never read them again. It's like there's some rule saying books must be super wordy.
Regarding reversing Unicode strings: This is simple, just render the string in a purposefully crafted mono-space font using distinct, non-overlapping bit patterns for glyphs (this will be a rather huge font, we may suggest a 0xFFFF x 0xFFFF matrix for glyphs to be on the safe side), slice the resulting bitmap image, detect and recompose. ;-)

(Obviously, this is a trick answer.)
I've been writing code in C and C++ since I was 12 and I still sometimes forget where the array size and brackets are supposed to go.
Janitors in SF doing pretty well: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/how-one-bay-area-janitor-mad...
I never understood why SD cards are so unreliable (or a least have this reputation) as they are usually used in cameras to store pictures. Something that people don't really joke with.
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In any case we need more than masks for this. Medical equipment like mechanical ventilators, intubators, and external oxygenation machines. Those will run out very quickly.
I have to ask—since you admit to causing environmental harm with your admittedly unessisary travels—how do you morally accept the damage your selfish actions are causing? I’m genially asking, and not trying to be judgmental.
One interesting point in the article is that Thomas Watson worked for NCR and was eventually fired. He went on to help build IBM.
Is this actually going to happen or just a proposal? I can't imagine this is going to pass safety standards. You can't even have your bag sticking out in the aisle or a less than able bodied person sitting in the exit row.

Imagine 20 ladders jutting out into the row as passenger frantically exit an aircraft in an emergency.
An interesting side effect if it does lead to long-term change is the airlines. Currently ticket prices are kept low by expensive business class tickets and late purchased business travelers. If either of those sees a >10% drop, some major disruptions are going to hit the aviation companies and ticket prices.
I’m glad you asked, skepticism can be a healthy attitude in moderations and there is a lot of FUD around, but here’s an article from the Lancet. These were 99 patients, 11 of whom ultimately died. That means from the stats below a significant number of the patients with organ damage, possibly most of them, must have survived. Also the stats below were on admission, it’s likely even more of the patients may have suffered organ damage by the time they were discharged.

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736...

>Many patients presented with organ function damage, including 17 (17%) with ARDS, eight (8%) with acute respiratory injury, three (3%) with acute renal injury, four (4%) with septic shock, and one (1%) with venti­ lator­associatedpneumonia(table2).
In January I also had similar symptoms (and I live in a community With probably 30% Chinese). They claimed it was probably influenza B, so perhaps you had that as well (or my docs were wrong)?

In either case, I have pneumonia to go with it and gotta day it was awful - 5 days of 105 fever, cough, I could hardly do anything.
Development time? He is President. You make as if they are going to have some kind of normal life in any way shape or form.

> Being president is just another job, albeit far more high profile.

Just another job? More high profile? You are joking right?
I can’t imagine that with stacked seating and ladders that come out and block the aisle that you could evacuate a plane in 90 seconds or less. That’s the standard for the FAA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/fir...
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Please don't be a jerk on HN, especially in response to someone's work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Was/is there any US corp not cooperating?
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Trump just said in his press conference that the deceased was almost 60 years old.
Does everyone understand something I don’t about #1? It never said they were unique integers.
> rather than empathizing, you skipped

hmmmm... I had tried to convey "hey, not being listened to really sucks" but now that I re-read "That lack of weight given to your experience as a signal of real business cost is a real problem." that's a pretty damn sterile way to express that. Also you're right that it should come first before the "here is this other perspective you should consider" bit.

> You switched to first person (“how can I know...”) representing the boss. This not-so-subtly puts you above the person you’re responding to.

hmmmm... really I hadn't considered that. My goal had been to suggest seeing things from the leader's perspective because they have a goal of changing leader's mind. But now that you point this out, I can see how this also creates a pompous framing.

Thank you, thats helpful to know to watch out for.

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> enumerated lecture

By this do you mean I was overly verbose? Or that having things in numbers comes off as...professorially pompous? Or both?

> no-one asked for ... how they should be behaving.

So I had interpreted the comment as a combination of an emotional vent but also a request for advice, particularly the "I'm unsure how to solve it. What do we do..."

Is this unreasonable?

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> They made a hyperbolic comment ("literally shooting knives")

> Copy-pasting a definition comes off as pedantic.

> Of course they’re just exaggerating

I... I guess I'm really struggling to cope with the loss of a word which is so dear to me and my ability to bridge gaps of understanding with my fellow human. Like, if the word "literally" no longer means.... _____

...I don't even know how to express the concept without a verbose and phrase like "a way of speaking that is completely accurate and unexaggerated." that would overtax the patience of anyone. Take that away and...as far as I can see whole swaths of meaning about the world that I'd want to express are silenced. And I let the emotion of that get away with me.

The word is dying.

And if it affects me so deeply, I should not rage against the dying of its light but actually find a way to properly grieve it on its way.
And yet, I have amazing coffee in my house pretty much at all times, from all over the world -- and every market I visit has 300 different beers in a wide variety of styles (including gross IPA), and not just the four standards like it used to.

Low quality everything exists, and mass-market everything exists -- but niche interesting everything is cheaper and easier to get than ever.

I travel overseas often for work. Over the years, bringing gifts home for people has gotten much harder -- because the "good" versions of absolutely everything from everywhere are available at home for affordable prices already.

Finding something that isn't just a tourism-souvenir (like a shirt with the name of the place) keeps getting harder.
The bit where he said he wanted to 'move to Africa for a few years' was such a big red flag, I can't imagine any CEO without a retirement horizon ever saying that.

It's like he was signalling to the market he wanted to get taken over.

Of course, it's not an unreasonable sentiment, but from a corporate / investor relations communications perspective it's fatalistic.
To stop virus’ spread, Japan must end its fixation with being at the office
Hmm, the president just said that it was a 50 year old woman that died. But the Seattle Times stated that that woman was at home resting comfortably. We'll probably know more after the 1 pm press conference by King County health officials.
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It's fine to post links to your own work occasionally when they're relevant, but we don't allow single-purpose accounts on HN, and definitely not for promotion. At some point (sooner rather than later, in many HN readers' minds) it crosses into spamming.

You're welcome to participate in the community here, but the way to do that is to post/submit on a variety of intellectually interesting topics, including your own stuff occasionally.
No. If that's how it worked, how many programs would have Arabic support at all? Everyone would use EnglishString for everything (because that was the example code they copied from StackOverflow) and the whole thing comes crashing down if I enter even just an umlaut.