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The large tech companies do basically take practical education into their own hands. When you are an engineering manager and you get new graduates in your team, you have tools like code review and mentorship from tech leads to teach your new hires practical skills. It’s wise to expect a new grad new hire to spend some time just getting up to speed on practical programming methods, and not necessarily be super productive day 1.

Startups are different, but Facebook or Google love to hire new grad engineers who don’t contribute much for six months as they learn from coworkers, then slowly develop into a top-tier contributor over the next year or two, then perform at a very high level consistently for the rest of their career. They prefer that to someone who can write medium-low quality code right now, let’s say enough to be a consistent 25th percentile performer at Oracle, and will continue to write that quality of code for the rest of their career.
In preparation of stopping next pandemic, maybe we should have an international agreement like Paris climate change agreement. Like climate change and nuclear weapons this is an existential risk.

Yes, outbreak of zootonic diseases is still possible through widely consumed firm animals (chickens, pigs, or cows). But we can dramatically reduce the risk of next pandemic if we stop eating exotic wild animals like bats, which is not hard to give up. We may have been able to stop outbreak of COVID-19 on the first place if we had learned our lessons from SARS outbreak and stopping eating exotics animals.

EDIT: bat was used as an example. You can replace any exotic animals in place of bats, the point still stands. This video touches on the topic of outbreak of coronavirus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54
After I saw this SMBC comic about this subject, I never really kept looking for more critical takes on modern architecture.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-16
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and by 8th-90th grade I was pretty much caught up

So it only took you about 80 years to catch up? ;)
Thanks for the feedback, I was conflating copying with copy-on-write. I have made a correction in the article.
I agree, I'd never argue that there isn't creativity involved. It's essentially language. And someone said before that there's a base level of competency involved in making API decisions. It's more the argument of what's actually making you money or providing competitive edge. I can see edge cases where, with matching feature sets for two competing products, the API matters a great deal. API and functionality definitely influence each other, I just see it as a weak argument that copyright is broken when the interface is copied, not the implementation.
The human aesthetic can't practically be programmed as a classical algorithm. The human ability to identify cats can't even be programmed as a classical algorithm, that's why neural networks were invented. Maybe a neural network could predict how interesting mathematicians would find a theorem but by that point there's no point for anybody to do anything, even artists.
Moreover, many repubs don't believe in science, which pose additional risks.
And it should be very obvious from the fact that the rate of positives relative to the number of tests is enormously higher in the US than elsewhere that the number of infected are much higher than believed. Alongside this, cost prevents many from seeking care for things like respiratory illnesses, and in the case of one that actually requires care would probably do so until it is severely progressed.
Coronavirus Has Northern Italy's Hospitals on the Brink of Collapse
CVE-2020-0688: Удаленное выполнение кода на сервере Microsoft exchange
The virus is called "SARS-Cov2", the disease is called "COVID-19".
I don't think that's what this paper is about though:

"This paper investigates how changing the length of the school year,
leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings"

In-person curriculum != online curriculum (social interactions, lab classes, PE...)

Short school year != Interrupted school year
Disclosure: I work for AWS, and I approve of the name "Bottlerocket". :-)

It's getting largely a positive response out there: https://twitter.com/alexwilliams/status/1237773085039722496
Wait, what?

I'm not familiar with how the US system works but that seems... strange. Why would the WHO declaring it a pandemic affect your coverage?
The Surface Duo is an Android phone running a Qualcomm CPU, whereas the Surface Neo is a Windows 10X device using an Intel CPU.
Cheers. I've been sitting on that email to my PM since the weekend, then yesterday finally I heard this on the radio which validated my feelings (listen from 26:00 onwards):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000g3j9

Summary: Dr. Sarah Jarvis saying don't be so gung ho about the virus, because you might be a transmitter to the more vulnerable.
I'm pretty sure that in the U.S. professors are paid way lower than what they could get in industry. They probably get at least six figures but so does anyone in the industry, especially with as much experience as a professor would.
This seems to be far more true now. Thirty or forty years ago, there was no other easy way to get access to a professional-level computer and software that one could write programs with. These days, of course, one can pretty much have it for free, along with a wealth of educational material.

In addition, for people that had motivation problems, a University is a nice framework for forcing yourself into working through a lot of not-always-interesting material.

That said, if I was graduating high school today, I'd probably already have five or ten years of solid learning and programming experience, and just join a startup directly rather than trudging through a BS.
Well you're in luck cause there's no treatment.
For now. It's still expanding rapidly. A lot of countries, including the US, don't exactly give the impression they've got a good handle on this.

If left to expand, this is going to turn into another unavoidable seasonal flu, except more contagious, more severe, and more deadly. And for now, with no vaccine.

A couple of important reasons to try to slow this thing down are:

* Hospitals don't have the capacity to deal with the number of severe COVID-19 patients they're likely to get. There's a good reason China built a new hospital in a week. Severe cases end up on the ICU, and we could end up with hundreds of thousands severe cases.

* Slowing it down gives scientists more time to find a vaccine.

If you wait for it to get worse than the flu, it will be too late.
I can't seem to find a source, but I thought I'd read that MIT and Hardvard and others were either pulling out or removing old courses from edX due to some accessibility laws. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
Downloading a daily build of Fedora 32[1] to test this out tonight, but from what I have been reading[2], the performance improvements are quite substantial. Hopefully, that includes GNOME Web, as it eats CPU like crazy when I have too many tabs open.

Time to sync and update my Adwaita customization.

[1] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/32...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/fgq3lz/loving_336_mi...
Much worse is that it’s always slow at t compared to what it’ll be at t+1. No matter how crazy it seems at t.
Looking forward to reading this comment in a month :)
Speaking as a college professor:

Read your textbook, do homework exercises, and (above all) feel free to contact your professors and ask them for help. That is what they are paid to do!
We use keeper at our company too and find quite the opposite experience.

The browser extension worked the best of any we trialed (this includes Dashlane, LP, Bitwarden, and 1Password).

Our users found the 2FA to be self explanatory and liked the option to use Yubikeys (when the platform supports it) and defaulting back to TOTP when not available.

The UI is simple and clear and as you pointed out the records are flexible.

Sharing is easy and the most robust of any solution we tested. (see what happens when a user you didn't intend to share with gets ahold of the share link in LastPass).

Data replication between uses and devices was near instantaneous with no user action to ensure the vault was in sync.

Additionally, we subscribe to BreachWatch and have gotten immense value in knowing that our users are not using breached credentials.

One final note from an enterprise perspective, the admin console for Keeper was clearly the easiest to use with the most features of any of the solutions we trialed.
There is a poll that said that Democrats are taking it much more seriously than Republicans:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-po...

Irony.
wave :-)

We know this is how you show you care. I don't think there was any reason to downvote or flag. But not everyone on the Orange Site knows one another, so I can see how it could be misinterpreted.
Today's XKCD is a direct response to this line of thinking: https://xkcd.com/2278/

Just because something hasn't happened yet does not mean it's completely unpredictable. COVID-19 is coming, and if we don't put significant preventative measures in place, many more people will die from it in 2020 than the yearly flu.
In the Boston area, Harvard, MIT, Boston University, all five UMASS campuses (including Boston and Lowell), Tufts University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, Northeastern and Olin have all moved to online classes. Plus Amherst College out in western Mass.

That seems like a lot until you realize there's still Boston College, Simmons, Berklee College of Music, Emmanuel, Brandeis, Babson, Bentley, Wellesley, a pharmacology college, two art colleges, and a bunch of community colleges -- and plenty of others I'm forgetting -- I could reach via public transit are still to announce anything, presumably because it's all still being discussed.

For Boston this is really weird and impactful. There is a massive population (somewhere between 350,000 - 400,000 students I think) in the area that is just a transient student population. Though outside of NYC and VERY specific parts of the SFBA, the Boston area is one of the most population dense parts in the US, so there's no more fooling around.
MERS has camels as hosts, is the deadliest by far and 1) camels are not exotic in the Middle East 2) you don’t need to eat it to be infected.
It's an interesting question. Urban areas, it would seem, are likely to get the spread a lot faster, but they also have way better medical infrastructure. It will spread slower in rural areas, but you have way fewer hospital beds, and less medical infrastructure in general.
This isn't a new project. Also tooling is a thing & in bigger companies you have to deal with inertia (retraining people is hard). I think at some point the bullet has to be bitten. I also think there's some value in figuring out how to write C/C++ -> Rust translators to automate some of this process. That's the only way we can get ahead of the curve.
Is there any evidence whatsoever that the current coronavirus outbreak was due to eating exotic animals.

Yes, the press has reported that a market in Wuhan sold exotic animals, but it seems this is uncorroborated, and after asking an acquaintance in Wuhan about it, I was told it's fake news, and that said market sells farmed animals as far as she's ever seen.
in the USA?
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
~Frank Zappa
But it does get paid back if it does earn out. The payout profile looks basically the same as a non-recourse loan.
On the other hand, "Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism" [1]. Which wouldn't necessarily swing the election obviously one way or the other (left or right, Democrat or Republican -- although my gut tells me it would swing things to the right to some degree), but could definitely be a confounding factor to the above theory.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641067/
By definition, that stuff is things that you don't use in your job, as otherwise you WOULD have learned it eventually.

And by extension, I assume he means things that he wouldn't have learned just going to a job in the first place. Many people learn how to do laundry in collage, but that they would have to learn for any form of independence.

So what we are left with are random intellectual pursuits that at best have a marginal effect on your job.

I love learning useless stuff. I'm happy to talk about intellectual history of economcis, or mongolian history. However wouldn't I think its a good idea to force 95% of society to learn about the difference between the New and the Old German Historical school just so they learn something new.

We are talking about a system that costs society a significant amount its resource IF the best argument you can come up with to defend that system is "I was forced to learn some random stuff that I wouldn't otherwise have explored and that was fun for me", then we need to seriously question the resource allocation of society. Sound to me more like a Kindergarten for young adults, and most parents wouldn't pay 50k a semester for it.
Wow, that's fantastic, best xkcd ever!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538779

Might be useful in case you or loved ones get infected.
Keeper is the clear winner in our companies testing.
I did take your comment in the intended spirit! My response were answers in that same spirit (points you might give that executive to say "we're a remote organization already").
Hn doesn't support block quotes
Now, inactive governments may be held accountable of not listening to the WHO. Also, calling it a pandemic 2 weeks ago (or more) would have been perfectly rational.
That just means it's a forgiven loan. The point is that the advance does not add to the money the author makes on top of royalties. Advances are not an additional cost to the publisher. They are an investment with some risk, but they control that risk by choosing the size of the advance.
Cross posting this from the other Pandemic thread since I thought it was interesting:

> d4mi3n

> What happens when the WHO classifies a pandemic? I imagine a number of processes and procedures come into effect--anybody know what they are?

> Hongwei

> My limited understanding understanding is that it automatically releases funding (from the WHO and other bodies) to help with the crisis. It should also trigger some catastrophe and pandemic bond clauses, meaning investors who bought these bonds will lose their money as it now goes towards relief funding.

Full thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547349
This is what I'm working on now, I'm trying to set up 'classes' for my second grader with math, reading, writing, typing, and programing. She has music and art at school and I can't really teach that but I may look into a little more. I'm not too worried about her falling behind, but I do want to make sure it's not just idle time, I assume I'll have to do some WFH though I don't really expect to hit full time with it.
Similarly, once a company has found out (or been reminded) that their author is a sex offender, they should no longer be under contractual obligation to publish it - that would be compelled speech, no?
I thought that the bat soup origin was debunked. I'd suspect it's pretty rare that you come across a novel virus that's hardy enough to survive cooking at temperature and then the rigors of the human GI tract.
In fact, most virus infections hit harder over 50.
I work for one Or at least one where remote-only is quite common. Side effect : I have no idea how many coworkers I have, just know the team I work with normally and a few outside.
It's a tech company, but it's an manufacturing one.

I think one of the important questions though is how does the hiring/firing and maintenance of relationships between employees (including management) be handled when face-to-face is over video conferencing only, usually? How do you measure who's doing well - and encourage them to continue? And nudge ones not doing well - and let them go if they're really not fitting?

And of course maintaining work/life balances is hard....
I think supply chain disruptions for manufacturing the new hardware and disruption to development of the launch games are probably more likely to affect the release plans.
That is good to hear. There is no safe amount
The vote tally there in 2016 was 4,605,515 (49.1%) to 4,485,745 (47.8%), though. And other swing states were even closer.
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The average Republican is 50 and the average Democrat is 47. I don’t think there will be a huge difference in coronavirus impact.

Source: https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demogra...
there is no cure - but there is plenty of treatment.
Carona virus is a scam. By CDCs own numbers the annual flu kills 30,000 to 80,000 people in USA. By not testing more people the infected group appears to die more frequently. When in reality the infected group is just diagnosed more so their deaths are reported as covid deaths. All the people with sniffles covid arent being diagnosed covid and aren't dying.
Vannevar Bush, electrical engineer who built one of the first analog computers
In the latter case, property prices might drop as children inherit properties of departed elderly.
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The Paris Climate Agreement should definitely not be the template. It has zero teeth and is hardly aggressive enough to hit its own targets.
Maybe we shouldn’t have cats at all if they’re genuinely doing serious damage, but having a cat and not letting it outdoors seems very unusual and cruel. They’re outdoor animals. If you can’t have one that you let outside then you shouldn’t have one at all.
Yin Yoga is pretty good, too.
It actually might not be the right thing to do for the reason you mentioned but also, for the families that can't work from home, it becomes a huge economic burden to have their kids not in school. It's obviously a necessary step to contain a deadly pandemic but I think, in this particular case, children are actually in the lowest risk pool. Kids seem to survive the virus at near the highest rate but also contract the virus near the lowest rate so closing schools might be an unnecessary burden on working parents with marginal effect on containment.
Similarly the UK health minister has just tested positive for it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51827356

Parliament has sat today, without her, so it's still quite possible that others will catch it.
See, this is why there's so much single-family-housing-only zoning in the US. ;D
I don't know why people freak out so much about undefined behavior - yes it's not defined in the language standard and that's quite unfortunate, but it becomes defined as soon as you chose a compiler. And, careful work (and avoiding really hacky things) can let you easily write a C++ program that dodges undefined behavior if you're uncertain how stable your build chain is.

To be honest though, in the modern world, picking a stable compiler like GCC is a good enough choice for life - this isn't the 90s where you might have to dumpster dive to find copies of that specific borland compiler your company decided to tailor their code to.

(edit: All the above holds until you start making assumptions about uninitialized memory, at that point you're really in trouble and, honestly, C++ really should be better about preventing you from using dirty memory)
Carl Sagan and his fans (me among them) understand your sense of awe. I do think it's important not to forget that when you lose religion. I also think it's important, as Sagan probably did, for the secular world--for humanity--to reclaim it as part of being human (whether you call it spiritual or not).
> is that it automatically releases funding

I was listening it live and they said its just a classification, they are already doing what they should be doing, the classification changes nothing.
Ask HN: Don't post unsupported facts about Covid-19
There are lots of unsupported facts, wild opinions, and just generally crazy talk about COVID-19 here at the moment.

For me, this is on-topic:

* Articles from authoritative news sources about COVID-19 itself, or its direct impacts
* Articles and discussions tangentially related

But when internet randoms who have zero medical expertise start telling "what's going to happen next" and "what we should be doing" it's noisy at best, dangerous at worst.

Let's set a higher standard than YouTube comments, please.
Show HN: Saga – Git-style version control for non-text files
Hullo HN!

TL;DR: We’re adding branching/merging workflows to non-code things. Eventually, we'd like branching/merging for Excel, CAD, movie editing, etc.

We’re currently in a heavy use research phase trying to figure out our best entry market (if any) - but ya gotta get something out the door, so here we are.

Any/all feedback on the pre-alpha product or more generally is greatly appreciated!

The website: https://sagalab.org/

The CLI: https://github.com/saga-vcs/saga
Just have them read books and limit TV watching while home.
Here in Austria the government forbade any indoor gatherings of >100 people (outdoor >500), all universities and colleges are closed (except administration and research), including libraries and also museums. All schools and kindergartens will gradually close coming monday. That's more than 1.5m students/pupils against a total population of 8.8m. Nurses and doctors are being honed in from retirement. We completely locked down our borders to Italy. This is all very unprecedented.
That's a surprise, in US one thing that is commonly stressed to new cat owners is that outdoor cats have a significantly lower life expectancy than indoor cats (partly due to disease, partly to being hit by cars or injured by other animals)[1], so it isn't just a question of how many birds they kill.

1: https://www.americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/indoor-cats-vs-out...
Yes, like linux liberated the pc from windows. Now is much more complicated, because a liberated harware is needed as well. Sigh, this is too much, but at least as you say: a normal computer in the smartphone form factor, where I can install the anti-android OS, including the game where you replace the android logo with the ...? Of course the anti-android would allow me to access anything from the android world, but easier.
Well, it's linked to bats (like many such illnesses). One of the biggest exposures to these animals is at such markets, so whether or not this particular outbreak is traced to a particular market is less important than generally lowering exposure.
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How is OP's comment self-contradictory by saying that WHO lost all credibility by declaring it a pandemic too late?
Depends on the field and on the individual. In many fields, the professors would be all but unemployable. And even in hot fields like CS, some professors would not be very useful. It's hard to remember now, but back in the 80s, a PhD in CS was almost a strike on your resume rather than a plus.
> and hospital bed availability is vital to lowering it.

This. Plus, any disease that has very good chances of putting a young, healthy person in some ICU is not "the flu".
Are you serious?

Edit: I do not remember posting this. I certainly did not intend to. Sorry folks for the spammy, uselss comment.
Although MERS is more deadly than SARS-CoV-2, it looks it's less transmissible between people than SARS-CoV-2. I heard an epidemiologist theorize that it might be because people infected with SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus before they show any signs of COVID.

Maybe that's why MERS never spread widely outside of areas where camels don't exist widely.
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They are watching Fox News and listening to the chief executive, who keep telling them "this is fine, as you were".

I myself am not worried, but I AM worried about my Fox News watching elderly parents. They are in danger the most. Also, mis-informed.

This is how years of denial, spin, propaganda, lying, and gaslighting end up being. In fact - deadly.