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The Fed's job is supposed to be to keep inflation stable. Inflation is as stable as it's ever been. If stock prices go down, that means nothing to inflation. Somehow, since Greenspan, the Fed's job evolved to include pumping up asset prices to benefit asset owners (the top 5% own 80% of assets).
I don’t think GP asked for every country manufacturing their own equipment, rather they should ask for significant insight and auditing into the design and making of critical infrastructure
I agree, this is how I started. It was well worth a couple hundred dollars in losses 2 years ago to learn the fundamentals. I considered it the cost of learning that I've more than recovered.

Now I have a much larger account, and I'm trading / investing with a much lower risk profile, because of what I learned on my >$1000 account. I consider that the exact opposite of wasting time.
This is a claim from the submitted article with no evidence:

> In all likelihood, however, given the one-off infections that are being detected in disparate locations, thousands if not millions have already had mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV2.

An assistance director general and epidemiologist for the WHO, Bruce Aylward, makes the opposite argument in a recent Vox interview (https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21161067/coronavirus-covid19-ch...):

> Bruce Aylward: ... More of a surprise, and this is something we still don’t understand, is how little virus there was in the much broader community. Everywhere we went, we tried to find and understand how many tests had been done, how many people were tested, and who were they.

> In Guangdong province, for example, there were 320,000 tests done in people coming to fever clinics, outpatient clinics. And at the peak of the outbreak, 0.47 percent of those tests were positive. People keep saying [the cases are the] tip of the iceberg. But we couldn’t find that. We found there’s a lot of people who are cases, a lot of close contacts — but not a lot of asymptomatic circulation of this virus in the bigger population. And that’s different from flu. In flu, you’ll find this virus right through the child population, right through blood samples of 20 to 40 percent of the population.

> Julia Belluz: If you didn’t find the “iceberg” of mild cases in China, what does it say about how deadly the virus is — the case fatality rate?

> Bruce Aylward: It says you’re probably not way off. The average case fatality rate is 3.8 percent in China, but a lot of that is driven by the early epidemic in Wuhan where numbers were higher. ... This suggests the Chinese are really good at keeping people alive with this disease, and just because it’s 1 percent in the general population outside of Wuhan doesn’t mean it [will be the same in other countries].

I find Aylward's arguments cogent and backed with evidence from the ground. I also don't see "mass hysteria." The evidence points to COVID-19 being more severe than the seasonal flu, we have an opportunity to contain it, and we're trying to do so. Canceling large events and unnecessary travel seems reasonable.
In which way terrible? Error messages for C++ were at times unhelpful, but I can't remember being dissatisfied with those for C. Outside the Desktop environment, is there much C++ code in the FreeBSD system?
Founders are typically the first and primary owners, at least initially... Is the objection that founders and investors get a larger slice?

People have a strange reaction to the word 'exploit.' It smells bad, and it gives the sense that those using the term want something to smell bad.

'Exploit' just means 'to make productive use of' to me. Musk 'exploited' his workers? Good. Theyre making cool stuff. That's what he should be doing. A company 'exploited' a uranium deposit? Good. We need those hot rocks for fuel rods.
I had some call options on Robinhood that I wanted to sell after the spike caused by this rate hike. Now I'm watching my gains slowly go away since Robinhood is down again. Two days in a row.
Squeak 5.3 Released
Artificially propping up pension funds and the like, basically an indirect cash donation from the FED to the middle-class people who are over 40. We’ll see how it goes, because we didn’t really experience capitalism without creative destruction until now (which looks like the path we’re headed on).
With a tiny caveat: most folks actually won't feel this, because GCC hasn't been included in any x86 installed base system for quite a while now. Most exposure to it for many users would have been if they were cross-building archs that still required it, as the build infrastructure would bootstrap an appropriate GCC4.2 at that time.
That's true, and it's nice that it works, but it's just more magic information you have to memorize about tar. And it works one way but not the other. What is the flag for creating the archive compressed with bzip2? Without looking it up? I have no idea. "b" maybe? Does the file name come before the folder name, or is it vice versa? Who knows.

How about:

tar c folder | bzip2 > folder.tar.bz2

I didn't have to look any of that up.
Parent is kinda right. Wayland was supposed to be this great next-gen display protocol for Linux, finally doing away with the cruft of X and thereby making development faster and easier while bringing modern features and yadda yadda. Instead it has taken 10 years to kinda-sorta catch up to X and is still behind its equivalents on Win/Mac.
At a 0.2% rate. Nothing to welcome, sure, but also not something worth defeatism.
> One of my weaknesses as a grad student is a tendency to want to multi task and take on many side projects (as evidenced by the above youtube video and the text you are reading now).

Yeah, this is my downfall as a human being, which is why I needed to build a singular project [0] that could be used as a sort of containment system for all of the particular side streets, dirt roads, and barely trodden pathways that my mind can wander into. That way, even if those ventures do not themselves turn into anything of any practical benefit, they at least then at least the "meta thing" in which they live is still being constantly used, tested, and improved when necessary.

[0] https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os
There isn't an HIV vaccine.
I'd disagree. My impression is that the authorities in Seattle, in order to minimize short-term disruption, are choosing to increase the potential difficulty on long timescales.

To paraphrase: "We don't want to take aggressive action until we're certain that it is actually bad.".

In many situations, that is a fine approach, but when the adversary scales exponentially, it is a dangerous road to travel.
I see 3 things driving the market now. An overdue market correction, reasonable reaction to supply chain issues and an irrational reaction to the virus.

A temporary boost to the market gives more time for the true long term impact to the supply chain to play out. It may turn out that the boost only gave a short respite but it may also turn out that it saved the market unneeded turmoil.

A short term boost also gives people a chance to take a breath, step back and take a more rational approach.
Cloudflare DNS resolution error...
No they won't,they'll slow down the spread therefore fewer people die before the vaccine becomes available, also any vaccine that comes out will be months away from now, if not a year or more. They have to do animal and human trials before they can start mass production.
yes that is workable but a nebulizer is what is currently being proposed.
I ran FreeBSD for years, and this title still surprised me. I thought it was gone from ports too for ____ reason. Misleading
The problem is most brokerage firms don't have two days of downtime where you couldn't trade at all, while the market is in such huge fluctuation.

EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted for this..? That's the reality of the situation here.. If I missed something, please reply instead of just downvoting.
I was making a general comment about clang vs gcc: the push to clang was not exclusive to FreeBSD.
Many people are not actively investing on a daily basis. Trading long and adjusting positions occasionally is not value destroying.
I believe that's tracked in Bug 1210729, which is included in the overall hardware video playback tracking Bug 1210726.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210729

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726
True, but the general reaction was severe. Large events were cancelled and people quarantined.

To be honest, I am due for a skying trip in three weeks and the most fear I have is that they just shut down the location and don't let me in (bad) or don't let me out again (not that bad).
In the modern world its also about incentivizing/disincentivizing debt.

There is no argument that cannot or does not have long-term effects, and no we would not all be incredibly rich, as it absolutely costs something to increase to money supply.

When you increase the money supply you devalue each and every current piece of money in existence. Money (fiat) can be infinite but what you buy with it is not.

>Every underdeveloped nation would simply increase their money supply and poverty would end for ever.

No, it wouldn't. Have you heard of hyperinflation? A gallong of milk would simply cost $1000 dollars. Kind of like how milk used to cost 5 cents a gallon 50 years ago. The countries that do try what you are talking about, and there are plenty of examples, amazingly, all end up incredibly poor and economically devastated.

The argument that monetary policy cannot affect the real world economy is more about its limitations, where it cannot really make up for something like a months long interruption to international trade because the world's leading manufacturing nation has quarantined half its population.

The best it could to benefit the long term, I would think, is to make credit more available and cheaper to make it easier for companies and governments to weather the storm with minimal damage.
Bullshit.

Read Apple privacy policy properly. They share data with "advertising partners".

Apple sued Samsung for billions on a ridiculous patent case on rounded corners in smartphones.

Apple patented optional chaining in Swift. Although there is lot of prior art, and the thing is fucking obvious for any PL designer.

People like to shit on Google. But Apple is just more evil than Google any given day.
The "Newly Infected vs. Newly Recovered" chart on the site I linked above includes cases in China. The virus does in fact look to be somewhat under control in China, but not elsewhere.
Robinhood only trades in the US and the US markets are closed on Saturday and Sunday which means there were no live orders on those days which in turn means that certain code paths were not executed and errors were not thrown on Saturday and Sunday the two days when it would have been detected.
Right there with you. I only use RH for options -- so thankfully not a lot of money in there for me, but I'll be switching everything over to tastyworks.
Seems like a natural progression given the growth in usage of these tools over the last few decades. How many people were using these tools in 1979 compared to today?
Good luck folks :)
Considering that a majority of the Lets Encryot userbase would probably be running http rather than https if it weren't for free certs, it's still probably preferable to have only one
or a handful of malicious entities able to observe traffic. You're not wrong though overall, the certificate model doesn't have built in protections for malicious CAs.

Overall I would argue that companies that are dealing with sensitive data should be using EV certs anyway to help users defend against phishing attacks which Let's Encrypt doesn't offer to my knowledge. This is tangential to your point though.
This seems like a bad move.

It isn't going to help, because it doesn't address the actual cause at all -- but it will help heighten the panic
Most of my meetings are throug video, so having half-screen the video-feed and other half some sort of note-pad is fairly useful :)
Someone who uses their GUI as the worlds most over-engineered tmux session should be careful about calling others "out of touch".
Well, I've been here close to 13 years (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc). Seems a shame to leave now.
Wow. That is negligence, plain as day.
Can you provide examples?

My broad (20 years) experience is that IT is usually later than forecast and often the 'business' make up the shortfall by producing miracles/take the pain.
Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions
its already found, its just the finer details have to be investigated before it becomes a legit treatment.
I'm not sure why I was downvoted.

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/18/coronavirus-warnings-...
No, I'm serious. Information wants to be free. So does weed.
What's most important here is retention. Otherwise you're spending a ton of money for nothing. Appeal to as many modes of learning as possible and give yourself multiple tiers of notes.

When in a lecture, see if you can record it and revisit it to create more notes. Look for visual cues and if there's something you can touch or do, feel it or try out whatever you're learning, whether in class or on your own time. Keep asking yourself questions about what's being discussed to stay engaged.

In class, do an outline so you can record everything as quickly as possible. If you can do written, it's better because it activates your spatial memory and forces you to put things in your own words. Only take notes about what matters. Dates, names, formulas, historical significance, pros and cons, theories, arguments, pictures, and questions you have.

Once you have an outline, come back to it and create a mind map so you have an overall picture of what you learned that day. Extra credit if you cultivate a separate mind map of the entire course over the semester.

For study, you could use the Cornell system to make it easy to quiz yourself and use Anki for rote memorization on the go. Review any time you're waiting like for class, an elevator, in line, etc.

If you're studying with a textbook, highlight, write your thoughts in the margin or on post-its in the book, and use color coded tabs in the best way YOU see fit. Group by theme or topic, or whatever suits you.

If you've pretty much rehashed notes in as many ways as possible, you'll retain a whole ton of it already just by activating all kinds of memory, not just one. You won't have to study as much later if you put more time up front right when you were exposed to it. The longer you wait, the more it fades.

But next comes review and this is the MOST important step when it comes to note-taking and retention. If you want to remember something long-term, look at your notes daily for a month. You don't need to quiz yourself or check that you've got it committed to memory. Just read through your notes once per day and be done with it. You can quiz yourself a little later into it by covering the notes and recalling as many facts as you can before looking at them. Also you can practice whatever it is you learned or listen to the lecture again any time you'd listen to music. To make it even more effective, choose different places to review your notes so your brain doesn't only recall information in your primary study location. Don't be hard on yourself here, patience is a virtue.

Once you've reviewed your notes daily for a month, you only have to review them once a month to retain it for years and years to come. Choose one day a month to read through all the notes you've accumulated up to this point over all your classes and go have fun with all the free time you have now.

Hope that helps!
Structured products!

More or less, this is a deal with an investment bank where they take your money and hold onto it for a fixed term, while watching the level of a stock market index. If the index ever gets above a pre-determined "trigger level", they give you your money back early, with interest calculated at a fixed rate. If it never gets above the trigger level, then at the end of the term, they give you back your money, without interest. Unless the index has fallen below a "barrier level", in which case you don't get all your money back - you lose it in proportion to the fall in the index.

So, it's a bit like investing in the stock market - if the market goes up, you make money, if it goes down, you lose money - but rounded to fixed levels.

Here's an example:

http://www.marianainvestments.com/adviser/contact/view-plan/...

The term is 10 years, the index is the FTSE 100, the barrier level is 70%; there are three options for interest rates and trigger levels, and the safest, option 1, pays 8.55%, and has trigger levels like this:

Year Level
2 102.5%
3 100.0%
4 97.5%
5 95.0%
6 92.5%
7 90.0%
8 87.5%
9 85.0%
10 82.5%

So basically, if you think the FTSE 100 will hold its current level over ten years, or even decline slightly, you get a 8.55% per annum payout.

Or, if you think that it will make it to 105% of its current level, you could go for the full-blooded option 3, which pays out 14% per annum.

And bear in mind that a fall in the index only matters at the end of the term. If there's a crash, and the index has fallen to 50% of the current level by year 3, the product keeps running. If the index recovers to 87.5% of the current level five years after that, the product pays out! It literally cannot go tits up.
The problem is that 5g wasn't designed to be secure against malicious carriers & governments. It could have been, and modern cryptographic protocols used over it can be.

The assumption that you can trust communications infrastructure is outdated. It must not matter if an adversary has back doored a router or cell tower or similar to send copies of all traffic to them, since the data should be entirely encrypted (except for some minimal routing information). The 3GPP designed the 5G standards to allow back doors, so we get back doors.
How many cases? Are you talking about the woman in Japan?
I noticed that even with NSFW content not hidden, some posts were still censored. Hopefully that means all content was reviewed prior to release, with proper permissions obtained.
I like how you guys are pouring free money into the financial system while still asking $3000 if an uninsured person needs to be tested.
I didn't get the email, and my domains were affected. (Two of them are in the list, one of them current.)

I do get "you didn't renew your certificate" messages on a semi regular basis (domains that have passed out of my control) so I know they have my details.
Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
Stock bubble -> Stock crash -> More QE -> QE fails -> Bond crash & Govt crisis -> Currency crash -> Commodities skyrocket -> Civil chaos
Command line options are a terrible surface for usability and more importantly, discoverability. We are at least two decades overdue for replacing them with a structured, typed, reflective API and yet every generation of hackers persists to cargo-cult the cli utility, taking pride in remembering copious minutia as if they were wizzards in command of arcane incantations.
Housing is overpriced because anyone can go to a bank and get as much cash as the house is appraised for, which is circular. So the actual constraint is just the inverse of interest rates. The same goes for education. There are underlying supply problems with each of these that need to be directly addressed, but they're exacerbated by the current economic policy of giving out as much rope needed to hang one's self.

I think much of healthcare could be solved if providers had to publish uniform prices and couldn't post-facto bill, you know, like every other business. Imagine going to the grocery store, paying at the register, and then two months later receiving a bill in the mail for the cashier's time!

Still, I am not opposed to single payer as a way forward - assuming it doesn't get transmuted into mandatory patronage of the same corrupt system. It's not like Medicare currently solves the underlying issues, it just absorbs the cost disease.

Basic income is a natural extension of quantitative easing. It will help people in rural areas, but do nothing for in-demand areas (being swallowed up by housing). I do agree it's much better than just giving the money to the banks though!

Direct infrastructure improvement - party on! Government "public works" is currently focused on the military, producing a surplus of chaos and misery abroad, while our infrastructure crumbles. I don't know that subsidizing suburban infrastructure fully makes sense, but I do know it's better than squandering the resources elsewhere.
I think there’s a difference between government emergency policy being being sluggish vs. individual response being panicked and hysterical. The latter leads to hoarding and all kinds of avoidable premature issues.
Broadcast channels for Python async web apps
The US is also moving into a demographic downturn, thanks to republican policies.
Be wary of how proof of concepts can sneak into production (2019)
Counterpoint

Like the Y2K bug, focusing a large amount of society's resources on the problem is the only think that may prevent it from becoming catastrophic.

I also don't see much hysteria - some real concern, starting to slowly take action, a long-overdue stock market correction that's already moderating, but not hysteria.

Moreover, this author seems to have little knowledge of the dynamics of exponential growth. They also miss the fact that the USA has essentially zero testing capability, restrict the tests to absurdly tight criteria (returned from a known hotspot, or contact w/+tested person), so new cases are now popping up across the nation.

Mostly there is completely insufficient data, especially in the USA, where the administration has gutted the science-based agencies including the CDC, is trying to protect the stock market for it's re-election before protecting the people, and so is basically flying the in the fog saying "it's fine, we don't see any mountains".

Sitting the the same dataless fog and saying "it's fine we don't see any mountains either" is not helpful.
> I don't think stores provide any security guarantee anyway, anything you can do with an app installed outside the store, you can also do it with an app inside the store. The security is provided by the sandboxing capabilities and the permissions, not the store.

In Firefox's case they also have a "Recommended Extensions Program" with more thorough security review by Mozilla. All of the extensions I use (Stylus among them) are in this category.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...
Actually, that's something that seems inspired by Plan 9 with its /net/tcp/xxx files. Bash just tries to make it cross platform so it cannot rely on the host OS like rc does.
i think this article misses the mark.

consider that the preliminary WHO incident report regarding the chinese response to the outbreak in wuhan essentially said that the radical and severe measures taken by the chinese government were the only thing which allowed for some semblance of control over the course of weeks. if we assume that the chinese are not fabricating their numbers, it's not much of a relief for us because they still had thousands of deaths despite their colossal efforts. if we assume that the chinese have been faking their numbers, the picture is much more grim.

a lot of the hysteria in the US is stemming from the fact that the CDC is asleep at the wheel as a result of political pressure or potentially severe incompetence. after seeing how seriously the chinese took the outbreak and how badly iran is getting hit by it right now, it is extremely disconcerting to see our own government doing absolutely nothing as cases continue to mount.

we're barely even testing people. daily life is continuing as normal when perhaps it shouldn't be.

i know that this isn't the end of the world, but i'm starting to expect that this epidemic might make life a bit less comfortable for a while.

if the US gets hit very hard and some of the preventable/fixable weaknesses in american society end up being exposed and exacerbated by the epidemic, i think we'll be in a severe crisis.