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China’s system is, in fact, pretty decentralized. Local authorities have a lot of autonomy. Many people doing business in China for the first time thought they needed to talk to the central government to get things done. The central government nodded and said ‘that’s a good idea’, but then nothing happened. The businessmen are then surprised to find out that they need to talk to local authorities to actually get things done and that the central government is usually not very involved in the process. The same applies the other way around: the central government is surprised that foreigners don’t know this.

The way the Chinese bureaucracy works is that lower-level local government officials have less experience than higher-level officials. They get promotions based on results. Xi Jinping himself was, during the SARS period, the head of a province, and did very well within containing SARS within that province. It doesn’t surprise me if local Wuhan officials simply weren’t as competent in matters of disease containment than the central government.

The Chinese government is not a monolith. Comparing to 1984-style authoritarianism wouldn’t be entirely accurate either. I think it is best compared to a large corporation.

You seem to be afraid of China exporting its model. Chinese diplomats have repeatedly said that they are not interested in doing that. They say: the Chinese way of international relations is one of mutual respect: we will not impose our system on you and you will not impose your system on us. But if you voluntarily want to learn from us then you are welcome.
I would expect pg or sama to look into this. This is a situation that needs high level attention.
>Create a new account under a pseudonym.

I've not been on Facebook for years, and I tried doing this recently. It was relentless in pestering me for a phone number for "security reasons". It would not accept any of the online SMS services I found. I ended up abandoning it.
No, I think that some news outlets do have that and some do not. Do you think that every modern news outlet has a consistent, left-leaning, anti-Trump agenda?
The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation and bound by its charter. The split structure is an artifact of corpotations being better-understood legal entities than foundations, and thus easier to deal with in various situations (hiring, contracts, etc). See also the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger, LLC.
That's your inference. It's a sign of panic buying and the inability of the supply chain to handle it. Regular buyers cannot buy things they normally buy because quantities aren't being limited and more people than usual are rushing around purchasing items they may not need. It shows the fragility of the total retail supply chain ecosystem.
There was a video taken of one of the hospitals in Wuhan around that time, with what looked like at least 1000 people lined up and corpses in the hallways. Put two and two together.
Sputniknews hahaha...
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I have seen some tiny single seater electric "cars" around recently. They are kind of like your regular mobility scooter but with a roof and windows. I saw a short mention of these about to be trialed somewhere in Europe which would allow children to drive them around since they have the same top speed as ebikes which kids are also allowed to use.

Seems like a good idea tbh. Kids largely get locked out of the outside world due to car centric design. This seems like a pretty good solution which is no less safe than cycling. Maybe even more safe since its more visible.
The US really really /really/ needs to get out in front of this. We have the lowest per-capita testing rate in the world, there are likely already significant outbreaks in Seattle, Santa Clara co, NYC, and DC. Probably elsewhere. We are literally like 12 days behind and can see into our future.

If this virus does indeed require such intense hospital resources (as in Wuhan and now Northern Italy) letting it spike is just madness. Must put into place heavy restrictions now.

We don't need travel lockdowns, but public events, movie theatres, etc should be closed, and businesses should be highly urged to allow workers to WFH if nec and/or try furloughs with public money (ha! good luck...)

In any case, just waiting until we see a spike in cases and then trying to get behind it seems like so much madness.

Large sports events? Museums? sigh
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> Okay, great, you're working in a language where you already effectively have to think of it as, 'I'm not telling you how to do this, just defining the concepts.

I don't think this is really the same thing. You're discussing the object level; I'm discussing the meta-level.

Haskell is based around "define the concepts as you would naturally define them and I'll use that definition to create a program". However, this is entirely implicit in the language. Defunctionalisation explicitly reifies this, allowing the language to discuss how it does it.

I see your point as basically "what's the use of continuations? I already have `goto`".
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Sounds like a job for a burner phone.
Right now no, it's just a small group of friends (and hopefully future HN users like you :)).

I'm assuming since all podcasts are public and free it would be okay (i.e. I'm getting it from ListenNotes). It's a good point that I should include links to the podcasts in the description so people can go directly.

What do you think I could include in the audio to help with giving credits to the podcast authors?
It’s more likely they are confused because of all of the conflicting opinions on the web. You’ll see people on HN who seem to have a personal vendetta against DNSSEC for reasons that only make sense to them.

For example, a common argument is that DNSSEC is controlled by world governments, as if certificate authorities and domain registries are free-standing entities separate from the countries they’re based in.

Many of these folks are actually misinformed, but there are quite a few who are clearly disingenuous about how DNSSEC works.

Let's clear this up: DNSSEC creates a chain of trust, from the root zone (the “.” at the top of the domain hierarchy) to your zone, such as example.com.

The chain is

. --> com --> example.com

Browsers trust hundreds of root and intermediate certificate authorities that can issue a certificate for any domain. This has happened more than a few times.

The DNSSEC trust chain is far more constrained and you get to create the KSK and zone signing keys (ZSK) for your zone.

Root Key Signing Key (KSK) is the public key of the key pair that’s for the root zone. The private key of this key pair is used to sign the top-level domains such as .com, .net, .org, etc.

The root KSK ships with all of the DNSSEC-supporting DNS resolvers and enables them to verify the authenticity of the trust chain.

It’s not clear what the paranoia is about; the public KSK is public; it’s referenced on thousands of websites and everyone involved with running the global internet knows about it. [1]

If something malicious or nefarious were to happen, all registries, regional internet operators, ISPs, etc. would immediately know about it.

All of the DNS resolvers that support DNSSEC have a built-in way to automatically upgrade to a new KSK when it’s released [2]. Even if you imagine the world’s governments colluding to change the key for whatever nefarious reason, DNS resolvers know not to trust any new key unless it’s been available for 30 days.

(The new key would need to be signed by the old key anyway, but for the sake of arguement, lets pretend that’s not neccessary.)

What those people neglect to mention is you’re not required to trust the root KSK. You can decide where your chain of trust starts if you wish, including only trusting your own zone. You can also create islands of trust, zones or domains you feel comfortable with.

Anyway, you can read rational, fact-based responses to these and other DNSSEC falsehoods. [3]

[1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/root

[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5011

[3]: https://easydns.com/blog/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
I did my most recent liquor run at the nearby Amazon Grocery.

They check ID entering the liquor section (and it is a human that checks), but otherwise it is bag it and just walk out.
...no, I'm not. CUDA kernels didn't even support classes for the longest time.
I mean, they didn't support classes for a long time. That's not C++.
I see nothing in WHO’s actions that suggest they are downplaying things. If anything, WHO has repeatedly issues warnings for western countries to do more.

In my opinion, the distrust in WHO just reflects poorly on the people who are distrustful. They are so hell-bent on confirming their world view that China must be the bad guy, that they would rather believe that the WHO is corrupted than accepting the facts.
Doing labor for the community is a feature of almost every system of criminal punishment. It at least sounds more enjoyable than traditional prison labor like breaking rocks for construction projects 10 hours a day, and the injuries that tended to go along with that.
>Cuomo unveiled the “NYS Clean” hand sanitizer during a press conference, calling it superior to existing products thanks to its scent and alcohol content of 75%. That exceeds the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s recommendation of 60%.

Umm, no, the alcohol doesn't work like that. 75% of alcohol is no better than 60%.
There aren't many countries with the capabilities of China in that regard. Though ones that get out front much earlier (SKorea, Japan mostly so far, Vietnam) seem to be doing alright
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> It converged upon a dramatically better solution in a few seconds, and didn't really improve it in the next few minutes.

Which in turn is, I think, a manifestation of the Secretary Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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At PIXEVIA we develop the technology and run a fully working convenience store in Europe.
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The Endpoint Security Framework which this app relies on is a 10.15+ thing.
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C++ is anything that is part of ISO C++, including subsets thereof.

When did C started supporting templates?
That comes with the territory. However partisan comments like yours never seem to address the issue.

Is this administration doing what it should be doing to mitigate the spread of this pandemic?
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Whatever languages you choose, the chances are, you probably won't use that language 10 years later unless you're maintaining the 10 years old software. So learn anything you think its interesting.
Apparently, a serine protease inhibitor works. I didn't hear anything about regular ace inhibitors.

https://www.dpz.eu/en/home/single-view/news/die-vermehrung-v...
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I have family in China outside Hubei province. If COVID-19 really did spread widely to the rest of China then I would have known it, and hospitals would have absolutely been overwhelmed.

There are even multiple foreigners in China who can confirm the situation. Checkout the Youtube videos by Daniel Dumbrill in February.

Might there still be hidden carriers in the population? Absolutely. China must remain vigilant. This stuff is hard.

My wife is considering flying back to China if things get worse here in the Netherlands. I agree with her: I also think that by now China is probably safer than anywhere else in the world. Multiple provinces have downgraded their emergency level, some are even virus free. Within Wuhan, multiple temporary hospitals have closed because they are no longer needed. People are slowly getting back to work. Containment efforts are shifting from ‘preventing the virus from getting out’ to ‘prevent it from getting in from foreign countries’.
Ah, I see, it’s the somewhat subjective claim long-range.

You Jamie for pointing that out.
Thank you for the advice! I thought the appeal of HSLUV was that it has distorted CIELUV as little as necessary to map it perfectly onto three predictable parameters. Thus it would never require clamping. I was hoping there would be an official way to convert the hue/saturation to Cartesian coordinates without losing that benefit, but perhaps it wouldn’t be too hard to do myself.
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Yeah, I didn't mean to insinuate that function extensionality is provable or testable in those languages, just that one can ensure that one is actually writing total functions today. I'm sure the same could be done in a simple or polymorphic type theory, I'm just not aware of one. Is there a Haskell extension like Idris's totality checking?

I was gonna say, just wait until the OP hears about HoTT.

Thanks though, I didn't know Cubical Agda exists.
>Then HEVC isn't doing so bad

Sure, but it was massively pushed as the successor of h264 as the new de facto video codec standard, after almost a decade in use it has clearly failed in that respect.

IMO this codec generation saw no winner, instead h264 remains the undisputed king, the next battle for the crown will likely be between AV2 (or whatever it ends up being called) and VVC (Versatile Video Coding).
...aaand now we're distracted by a completely irrelevant annoyance of technology instead of discussing the content of the article and some very serious issues...
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I think its okay,if I want gossips, or cats, I'm going to social media, for information, Reuters, WSJ, etc.
ah, the joys of being deeply introverted. avoiding restaurants, bars, gyms, and large groups -- why, that's my ideal day.
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You are thinking about what is logically efficient, but the market is also concerned about what is emotionally efficient.

A certain proportion of people believe climate change is a hoax, a certain proportion stand to make a lot of money shaping policy as if it were a hoax. With the coronavirus, merited or not the panic is real and the markets are reflecting that panic.

In a world economy driven by consumer spending, how people feel is more real than what is actually real for the market. Therefore, the market is always at its most efficient.
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Meanwhile, the number of teslas in Norway passes 50 000:

https://www.tu.no/artikler/na-har-tesla-solgt-50-000-biler-i...
[sarcasm] Because the virus is fake news:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370273563148697...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370245512943820...

I'm amazed not only at these affirmations, but at the likes they get. Incredible.
I had to price out a CANoe license for a project at work a while back. They came back to us asking for low five-figures.
I install firefox + ublock origin + https everywhere whenever I can weather it's friends, family or colleagues. After a bit of explanation they usually understand the matter. It's all about user education.

I have had zero "relapses" back to safari or chrome so far, they all seem to like browsing without ads and tracking.
It's not completely irrelevant, disabling javascript used to be a way to somewhat protect your privacy.
From experimentation with recent Mercedes and BMW, its encrypted, although I do recall that early X5's were not protected.
They didn't believe what happened in Wuhan would happen to them, mostly because of racist superiority I think. Surely our hospitals must be better than China's, we are healthier, et cetera.

And people distrust anything coming out of China's government so they simultaneously think China covered up a lot and there were way more dead, and they exaggerated how bad the virus is...
The MSM means the stuff every local tv news outlet repeats word for word verbatim:

Conan O'Brien has some great segments on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

They also do this for serious political stuff, repeating the same phrases over and over again, but posting those video compilations would just invite downvotes.
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I would say 20 meetings per week.
10x 45min 1:1 with my team
1x 120min weekly area steerco

The remainder are not mine, forced to assist. Mostly 60 mins each. I try to join via Skype from my desk and shoot emails while people drone on.

My tip: never give more than 45 mins in your schedule. Your reports will focus more and you can use those 15 mins to take notes, to-dos
This seems like a well reasoned argument.

Have improved emission standards done more to comeback air pollution that Telsa?

I’m no expert, but I’m willing to bet: yes.

Will has improved emission standards always out compete electric vehicles? I’m willing to bet: no.
Yes, but there's no way I'm investing neither money nor time in jumping through silly Facebook hoops. What's to stop them from suddenly requiring dental x-rays, or some other nonsense, for "security reasons"?
Agreed - I like fiverr over hiring direct because I don’t really want to be in someone’s rolodex as a customer they are going to call and pester. As for maids, I feel the problem there is you rarely get anyone who is going to do more than feather dust your home. So a “service” isn’t going to radically improve that. As for glasses I really want to like WP but their plastic frames really are subpar. It’s a far better experience to buy off the rack at Costco if cheap is what you’re seeking. For years I would spend $600/year buying zero G from a small boutique until I decided maybe instead I should have five pairs of WP... so I tried that and every single one of them had something I didn’t like.. so one day I found myself in Costco and decided to give that a go and have never looked back. Heh that’s probably indicator #641 I’m turning into an old fart.
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How is this better than Dtrace? Looks cool though
So glad to see the second comment on the MacRumors article says "Eat up Martha."
I think worse.

But i askari think it will go exactly like the Spanish flu. We will have a second wave which will also kill the younger.
Arrest means either cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest.
I don't think it's new information that the natural biases of the most dedicated editors can be seen in Wikipedia, but I have not seen it accused of being a government psyop before.
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Ballistol (non-toxic as well).
(Disclaimer: I really like Ballistol and use it on a lot of different things.)

Ballistol is... something of an acquired smell. I don't mind it, but some people absolutely detest the odor. It's been likened to a combination of Pine-Sol mixed with any or all of the following: Dirty gym socks, licorice, mint, and plastic glue. This is most likely due it containing anethole (and the MSDS indicates it's mostly medical grade white mineral oil, various oleates, and alcohols). If you don't mind star anise or licorice, you probably won't find Ballistol repulsive either.

Similar to other lightweight oils, Ballistol acts as a creeping oil. It's not an especially great penetrating oil, but it works surprisingly well on a lot of things. It's usually joked about as "German WD-40" because of its lineage, although it's a lubricant first and foremost.

Interestingly, because it contains anethole, it can readily form an emulsion with water. Due to this and the other ingredients it contains, it's used by black powder enthusiasts as a cleaner and neutralizer ("moose milk"). I'm not sure how effective it is in the cleaning department, because it does a pretty subpar job at cleaning modern smokeless powders, but the neutralizing effect on black powder residue may actually be true (it has a pH around 8.5 to 9.5).

Amusingly, when I clicked on the comments here, the first thing I did was search for Ballistol. eth0up didn't disappoint!
Thankfully my preference (or more precisely my wallet's preference) for sleeping on couches and recliners has limited my ability to confirm or deny those reputations first-hand, so I'll take your word for it :)
> Duggan said that financial reasons should not be a reason for Detroiters to live without water amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Any other time is fine though, water not being essential to life if you can’t afford it but rather a luxury. The US is an insane place. What a time to be alive.

It could have been an Onion piece but nope that’s real life.
Are the stories I hear all true? From what I heard, in the US

- people are afraid to get tested because of the cost
- people can’t get tested because there are no tests
- people are afraid to stay home
- people think corona is just slightly worse than the flu
- people think it will just peter out

That’s terrifying.
> And Korea now is effectively the lowest fatality rate for any of the effected countries which points to excellent surveillance and adequate treatment."

No, it doesn't. All it points to is that the cases are still active and have not had a chance to die. You cannot draw any other conclusions from that fatality data.

> I would note in China's case, with infections declining everywhere, the fatality rate outside Hubei is fairly low also.

For exactly the same reason. These infections are newer and have not had a chance to die. With each update, the CFR outside Hubei has increased, as expected.

> I think Korean model - ie, lots of testing - looks good in total

I agree that more testing is better. Why do you keep bringing this up? It has nothing to do with the fatality rate.
What are some ways that a startup can compete with giant existing solutions?
Might be a silly question, but when I look at some of the big social sites like Instagram, Yelp, Meetup, etc. I wonder how can another company compete with them when there are so many people using those platforms?
Why would someone buy a whole new phone just to use a shitty advertising network they explicitly did not want to use?
I think that's correct, or at least helpful. The business of a browser is to get data from the internet regardless of what stupid domains people use. The browser shouldn't stop you visiting an invalid url if that url will return some data. The business of Let's Encrypt is to certify the security of a domain, which includes checking if the domain is valid. LE should stop you signing an invalid URL. That is also correct.

The real culprit is the domain registrar and the DNS server software. Neither of those should be enabling invalid domains to be accessible.
We can also discuss the trustworthiness of the CIA when deciding whether to believe anything they claim to be true.

They have the power to do that sort of thing. They would have a clear motive to do it. It’s not any different from the regular business-as-usual sort of thing they get up to. What reason would I have trust this?
Lots of workers who can't stay home when they're sick without losing their job though.
Throw on some cheaper looking clothes and try again.
Walmarts is amazing. It doesn't tell when you don't bag something, you don't have to touch the screen at all. You just scan and pay.
Grow a beard and learn COBOL.

More seriously: there are bunch of niches in the market. The fact that there are hundreds of open positions for X can also mean that for every job you will compete with a herd of ppl who learned X badly in a week.