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I think you might want to re-read the commit message :D
The USSR/Maoist China were authoritarian communist regimes. I'm not sure how that's relevant to the democratic socialism of Sanders etc.
You’re one of the few folks on HN talking about this who actually has something to worry about...but ironically, you’re not spreading misinformation or panic, like so many other people. I hope this doesn’t end up being as bad for sick people as it seems it might.

That said, I think your comment about “failing an open-book test” is a bit unfair. Yes, the governmental response around the world has been bungled, and no, it isn’t good. But it’s also pretty much true that there was never going to be a chance to contain this virus, outside of isolating it to Wuhan in November (i.e. before anyone knew about it). And a bad flu will rip through vulnerable populations as well...it’s why we beg and plead for people to get the flu shot every year (even though they never do...)

There is simply no way to contain a respiratory virus that has spread to tens of thousands of people. At that point, you need to plan for isolation and care for the vulnerable, and stop flailing around with travel bans (which don’t work) and quarantines and whatnot. It’s insane to me, for example, that Seattle public health officials are operating as if this virus isn’t already endemic. They have good evidence that it is!

The biggest test we’re failing right now is controlling panic and allocating resources intelligently.
Sanders is no Mao, and he won't control the Congress. If he is able to make any changes, they will merely bring conditions in USA a bit closer to conditions in e.g. Denmark or Finland or Germany, which are more socialist than USA but are by no means disaster zones. On many global measures of well-being they fare much better than USA.

[EDIT:] I seem to be tempting fate, with the only non-[flagged] comment on a [flagged] page with only [flagged] comments. Very mysterious...

[EDIT:] ...and then I was [flagged].
Yes. Reinventing the wheel in this case is far less work than it sounds. You aren't really reinventing anything. Here is my current project where everything is vanilla.

* Code: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

* Demo: http://mailmarkup.org/sharefile/demo1.mp4

The video demo is a few months old now, but in the current code I have broken network sharing during a refactor. The GUI and local file system still work well though.
Don't worry folks, it'll be different this time.

FWIW, Sanders really isn't a Socialist.
> Hindsight is 20/20. But their mindset, about not wanting to start an unwarranted panic, about wanting to investigate things fully, is understandable.

When there's clear evidence of the beginnings of an epidemic, a public panic (like we're seeing right now, but on a global scale) is much better than the epidemic spreading.
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> Similarly, you can eat raw fish (if you don't worry about parasites), but you pretty much want to eat them right out of the water. As soon as you cut it and leave it alone for a while, it can start to go off.

Raw fish used in sushi/sashimi is often butchered properly to prevent the fish's muscles from producing lactic acid (see ikijime), and then aged for flavour: https://medium.com/torodex/the-sushi-you-eat-isnt-fresh-f347...
> when did antimatter start existing

The same time matter started existing. According to our best current models, that was at the end of inflation, when the energy that had been stored in the inflaton field (the field that was driving inflation) was transferred to the Standard Model fields (leptons, quarks, and gauge bosons). This process is called "reheating" (somewhat of a misnomer since it was really the first "heating" of the SM fields).

The most natural expectation is that reheating would have populated matter and antimatter fields (i.e., quarks-antiquarks, leptons-antileptons) equally. Then, as the universe expanded and cooled, the matter and antimatter would gradually annihilate, producing radiation (mainly photons). If matter and antimatter fields had really been populated equally at reheating, this process would have left nothing but photons within a fairly short time (a fraction of a second) after the Big Bang. "Local imbalances" might have made that time a somewhat larger fraction of a second, but it is not at all plausible that they could have lasted for billions of years and allowed a region the size of our observable universe to have essentially no antimatter at all but billions of galaxies' worth of matter.

Since our observable universe does have essentially no antimatter and billions of galaxies' worth of matter, one of two things must have been the case: (1) reheating did not populate the matter and antimatter fields equally, or (2) there was some asymmetry in the interactions involved that created a slight excess of matter over antimatter. As I understand it, most physicists believe (2) to be the case, although it is not known exactly what the asymmetry was.

> could this huge burst of energy that would be released from that be the Big Bang?

No. The energy had to be put in to the matter and antimatter fields first. See above.
Doesn't an /almost/ perfect cancellation actually make the question "Why is it so close?" not "Why is there an asymmetry at all?". If I tossed a million coins and ended up 499,999 heads and 500,001 tails I wouldn't be surprised by the difference, but by it's small size.
Based on the color of light you can see where east and west Berlin were.

The east used gaslamps
There's a $380 bounty for this [1]. If you fixed this, please collect this. You deserve it. I hope this doesn't get lost just because it got fixed in a different ticket number.

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/55506502-add-va-api-hard...
Those greenhouses are the size of many football fields.. Putting tarps over them is a job that will take many days :)

But yeah shutters or something smarter (like two-state glass) should work IMO. I think you even get glass that can switch to mirror mode.
My new favorite vim/tmux bug (2014)
I haven't experienced problems reading articles and books in PDF format on my phone.
I worked in a debt collection center where all the call center people used Linux workstations running wy60 terminals and a custom check viewer I wrote in Java (had to reverse engineer our vendors that I did get working in Wine, but it crashed a lot).

Installations and updates were automated. After getting the company logo and xplanet in the background, I got permission to put SETI@Home and FOLDING@Home on the machines (I think I did half and half). After all the machines were barely doing anything other than terminals and rendering TIFFs. Our company name was listed as the team.

Looks like the stats are off line for SETI@Home teams .. wonder how much that cluster kept contributing after I left.
Does that mean folding@home is next? I think the screensaver dying out eventually killed it. Also cloud computing.
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I think I read that South Korea is doing a great job, despite being hit hard
Proof of work relies on computations that are hard to do but easy to check that someone has done. The entire network has to check someone's proposed result. There are very few computations that have sufficient asymmetry to the degree needed to make bitcoin work, and the types of things that SETI@home needs don't fit that bill.
This is great! I found SerenityOS after it got posted here a few months ago and I've been keeping up with your videos. Unrelated note, how stable is SerenityOS on baremetal? Would love to have it up & running on a spare desktop in the near future.
> China is doing the best it can to stop this outbreak where it stands.

Apparently doing the best they can involves discrediting doctors warning about an outbreak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/asia/coronavirus-doctor-whist...
> could such an annihilation provide some of the energy of expansion?

No. The universe was already rapidly expanding before the annihilation period. The expansion was slowing down all during that period.
No, chance puts it at a /distribution centered/ on 50-50.
Should probably fact check this before publishing, but the lockdown was rumored ahead of time on wechat. They didn't enforce it for like 8 hours. That's why there were lots of people who managed to flee Wuhan. That's a well-known fact.
Firefox doesn't tell me that. This is a well-known archiving site, so such a warning makes little sense.
We probably won't know until a year or so. Europe at least will treat everyone, so you won't have people avoiding doctors/hospitals because they can't pay.
I had the opposite problem. Knowing the importance of offsite backups I had the brilliant idea of backing up my wallet.dat on Dropbox without any additional encryption. My bitcoin were only worth a few bucks, who'd bother stealing them, right? Years later, I saw that BTC had gone up in price a few orders of magnitude so I tried to load my wallet.dat and cash out. Except when I opened my wallet file, the balance was zeroed out. Oops: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real/
Do you have any ready to use development environments? If not, do you have a detailed doc around setting my local dev env? Thank you!
I don't know if it qualifies as a structure since it's open, but the ancient theatre of Epidaurus is renowned for its acoustics and is still operational to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Epidaurus
> double-tap to zoom

Why wouldn't you just zoom with the center point being where the tap occurred?
Did Chicago figure out the issue with LEDs and snow. The old lights melted snow, the LED lights did not
I did read back and look more than a few times. One was what I wrote when a person, wondering what I said then. Other times trying to see the first mention of an experience.

I definitely didn't go back and read sequentially though, because mostly I didn't do anything interesting day to day. But I've found that sometimes things stick out that I didn't realize when I was writing it. By the end of that stretch when I did write daily, I got very in depth because I was curious what would be of interest later.
This is a fluff piece about some project MasterCard has thrown a bit of time and money into. The whole interview could be set up to validate the projects very existence. I remember one a while ago about Microsoft researching if it was possible to measure someone’s level of frustration though their mouse and offer custom help/support wording based in that.

Of course gait recognition/biometrics isn’t going to replace ubiquitous NFC payments for transit, just as windows isn’t ever going to tailor its help messages depending on how hard you are gripping the mouse.

But sure, invest a bit of time into it, you never know. I believe the term is throw enough shit against a wall and see what sticks?
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Was it really necessary to add a second comment to the parent, repeating what the first one said but more dismissive?
Is your product only on the cloud? My privacy/internet security team won't let me use products that save customer or vendor data on the cloud because you might get hacked. Only giants, like Microsoft, have been approved after an evaluation.
Several years ago I noticed that the northern edge of Alaska was lit up like Vegas on one of these light pollution maps.

I was very curious what the heck this was and took to Google Maps. Found that it was oil fields as well. I'd personally assumed lighting for workers however and not gas flares.

- https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5&lat=10294175&lon=...
Here's the way I try to relate postmodernism to people familiar with CS.

The relation "means" or "signifies" is a predicate taking 3 arguments: a source-text term, a conceptual definition, and an interpreter. That is:

means(A, B, C) is true iff source-text A signifies concept B to interpreter C.

The postmodern project seeks to emphasize the role of the interpreter (or their frame of reference) in the interpretation of everything. That's the third term in the predicate, which we often like to think is universal, in the way that "universal suffrage" turned out to be not universal at all.
I can't speak for Rust, but in Go accessing properties of nil objects and dealing with 0-values for non-pointer values can cause bugs in certain contexts where you "let your guard down".

func getFoo() (*Foo, error)

func main(){
foo, err := getFoo()
if err != nil {
// be an adult and handle your error
}

foo.Work()
// panic because whoever implemented getFoo returned a nil object
}

Also worth noting dealing with booleans in JSON is wonky because boolean values default to false, even if that json property wasn't set over the wire. Thus you end up unmarshaling to a pointer to a boolean, which now requires nil guards throughout your codebase when working with that unmarshaled object...
Jon Stewart used it in his 2006 Oscars intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfAwXWs0TXQ
Yup IRC is a simple and robust technology with minimal cruft.
Given that putting your name to public criticism is a career-ending move in China, I think it's great that western media gives dissidents a voice.
Hmm, kind of like SXSW planning to go ahead.
The participation rate isn't set, it's measured.
The next would be work@home (aka "freelance")
I have parents and grandparents. I like people. Im an uncle of 3 young kids.

I'm worries and don't think it is a problem if we would reduce the global economy fora year to get rid of it.

Or that everyone on the planet should get vaccinated and should life more aware.
this is proper research as depicted by the publications linked to ref. [0].

the origin of the elements composing the organic compounds is very likely non terrestrial as indicated by isotopic ratios.

the time and nature of the assembly of these compounds is not apparent.

assembly may have been primordial involving cometary CN and production of polyglycine.

assembly may have been metallo-organic catalysis, at any time from formation of the parent "rock" chondrite, upto the time circa. discovery

a biological process may have been involved with assembly, after impact of the meteoric subject with earth.

the suitability of this material for exploitation by chemolithotrophic organisms in the past should not be overlooked
I've worked with music software GUIs, these are notoriously plagued by feature-creep.

For a desktop paradigm, there is always a way to do better with GUI as you add more features; but you'll refactor / redesign a lot on the way and that has a cost in familiarity, which directly impacts user productivity. It's a trade off.

The dirty secret of discoverability is that only a tiny subset of features is relevant at any time in the UX, and identifying that subset + triggering user awareness about it is the "art" part. We learned a lot with mobile in that regard because the harsh limit on real estate becomes incentive to identify the essentials.

Discoverability doesn't have to suffer from complexity of the software, but it's not just UI design, it's UX.
The ability to consider contradictory propositions often leads to insights. No one is asking you to give up your television. Rather, one might suggest that considering previously unknown drawbacks of obviously beneficial customs might lead to further improvements in those customs.
From the article:

> In contrast to Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Jefferson or Immanuel Kant, anti-foundationalists argue that there are no self-evident truths or inalienable rights, and indeed, no such thing as a stable, discoverable human nature, rational or otherwise, “for human beings make themselves up as they go along.”

That is what at least one branch of postmodernism (Rorty) says. But in mathematics, without axioms you can't prove anything. In the same way, if nothing is self-evident, then nothing can be proven. (If I recall correctly, I'm stealing this line from C.S. Lewis in "The Abolition of Man".) I think that's what's so hard about postmodernism - they say you can't prove anything, and in fact you don't know anything.

But the same thing is true of the postmodernists themselves - they also don't know anything, and can't prove anything, including the claims of postmodernism. They can't even prove that you can't prove anything! (That doesn't disprove postmodernism. But if they are just spouting theories of which they can't actually be sure and that they can't prove, then they can give you no reason why you should take them seriously.)
Grass is greener on the other side when people are disgruntled. These stale China collapse because XYZ recent disaster always gets pushed by western MSM because it's easier to find dissenting voices during times of crisis and hysteria. Then shit hits the fan in comfortable democracies and people wonder why we can't build a triage hospital in 10 days.

>Why were we notified about the city lockdown at 2 a.m. on the second to last morning before the Lunar New Year?

...

>We tried every method to escape from Wuhan, but the cage was already locked.

This is why.

...

>But people are not thinking critically. They do not understand that if we had human rights, democracy and freedom, we would have learned about what happened in Wuhan one month earlier. And the first whistleblower would not have died for nothing.

See Japanese response. CDC just removed testing statistics from their website. Now that initial hysteria has died down and the virus seemingly contained, Chinese social media is noticing the containment failures abroad from countries with ample warning and commenting that CPC central government might not be so incompetent after all. The WHO report from today is going to reinforce those notions.
Its basically Puppeteer for using Chrome headless to browse to sites I want, then Readability library that Mozilla makes is used to extract text from the page - if that fails it uses the regular page.

It does this every week and emails a PDF to a friend to send in a weekly mail packet.

There are APIs you can use to auto upload and they will send the letter via the post. The problem is they aren't conforming to the rules like no staples, lots, returns, weight, etc.

There are also keyword filters and mappings to avoid some unfortunate article like "How to Kill A..." or some other clickbait that might trigger some kind of review. It would become "How to Hug A" and I kind of just have to keep track of those in my head.
The headline brought visions of a sillywalking John Cleese telling the camera "Identify this!":^)
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That sounds like a recipe for names like Innotek and Infobang.
Seems a bit misleading, they're not distributing more work units, not closing the research center. Nonetheless, this is sad news to me. My entire career path in the tech world was because I got a campus job working for SETI@home.
Hi Aaronstotle! I don't run it on bare metal myself, but there are a couple of other developers who mess around with it somewhat regularly. You should have a fair chance of getting it running on hardware that's a decade old or so.

There are people actively working on various things like ACPI, AHCI and NVMe right now, but hardware support takes time. That said, things have been moving at a pretty decent pace :)
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I think the point is that there is a sense in which you can say that something is simple that pertains to complexity rather than ease of use.

Vim is arguably simple in neither of these senses, but most Vi clones are much less complex than Vim or NeoVim.
They already do this in China. They have one time zone, but people in Western China don't actually shift their schedules. That means that a 9:00 AM start time for work is actually more like 6:00 AM Solar Time. All of China's timezone is keyed to Beijing time.
Because it's still crude and unstructured - my program still has to operate on an array of strings, and I need to author zsh completion and matching voodoo have it distributed and do the same for everyone's shell of choice whereas I would like to be able to export a struct definition and have my program receive it populated with user input instead of argv
Exactly, this almost sounds like humblebragging (I know it's not, but still...) I mean, in the whole EU you literally couldn't find a place with Class 1 at all, unless going far-far North into Finland national parks or Norwegian mountains. Makes you hate civilization.
Why the New Coronavirus (Mostly) Spares Children
From the article: "From former schoolmates who now work in the medical profession, I learned that medical workers were not given medical supplies and were exposed to a risk of death. Many people wonder: Why didn't they go on strike? It is because they were informed that if they went on strike, their licenses to practice medicine would be revoked and their family members' jobs would be affected."

I'm sure that this kind of thing will not happen in Germany and UK.

It's not really the handling of the virus situation, it's his realisation that he's living in a totalitarian state that he's writing about.
Can you clarify whether you are asking how to get out of web dev, but stay in tech? Or are you asking what to do with your life because you lost the passion for tech?

Because the answers to those questions are completely different.
No Aliens found unfortunately :(
Please tell me the practical concerns regarding adversarial inputs against a phone app that tries to tag pictures of birds in national parks.
Ad Delivery Algorithms: The Hidden Arbiters of Political Messaging
Hi pryelluw! There's no ready to use development environment. There are scripts to build a toolchain, and scripts to build the system, but beyond those things, everyone sets up their own environment they way they like. :)

It usually takes less than 30 minutes to have everything set up if you're on a modern Linux system. Build instructions can be found here: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...
As a software person, I found Richard Feynman's paper "Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle" quite interesting.

https://www.history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm

The part about software reliability stuck in my head, because he quickly came to the conclusion it was fine.

Now shuttle software is probably the most special type of software on the planet, but it made me think how reliable software is... compared to hardware (and possibly people).
Isn't it evolution and Darwinian selection?

Bad pieces tend to die out, good pieces get replicated, "breed", mutated and incorporated[1]. Biological systems are not fault-tolerant. They are resilient on the average, under typical conditions.

[1] Among species, we get vertical transfer of genes (parent(s) to offsprings), horizontal (e.g. plasmids between bacteria). Getting as a piece of DNA as a submodule (this element-of relationship) is rare... but happens (e.g the mitochondrium). In software, it is one of the most common relationships.