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I don't think testing provides much benefit now. Containment is not an option.

There isn't really a specific treatment plan so I don't think testing is necessary for anyone at this point.

I'd say just recommend everyone minimize social contact and self isolate if you have any symptoms at all to try to minimize the peak that hospitals are dealing with.

Hopefully there is a reliable treatment plan soon, maybe that is inexpensive with little side affects that they can just hand out like candy for everyone with any symptoms that might be COVID19.
I fell into that trap and now with an account I also can't read it. I don't recommend creating one, you'll see the same annoying message but with "upgrade for $X/month to read it" message.
> qualified and licensed people in repair shops

In the US, anyone can repair a vehicle and not void the warranty. No license needed.
> What interpreters such as GNU APL does is to first evaluate b+c, resulting in a new array, and then add that result to a.

Is this really what most implementations would do? I'd assume it would parse the expression `a+b+c` into a tree like

+
/ \
a +
/ \
b c

But then run a pass on the tree to identify expressions like this that could be fused together without creating intermediate results. I know that most APL implementations have more efficient implementations of certain idioms (commonly-used sequences of operators/functions), so I figured they must be doing something like this to be able to identify those idioms.

This is just conjecture though, I'd love to know more about how this actually works in practice.
If soap is less bad for the environment and still really effective, why not just spray a soapy solution around some areas where there it is safe to property to do so?
Some bad code is hard to lint automatically (e.g. if there’s a single function that all it does is arg.slice(1), no linter will catch that).

I’ve found all kind of bugs just refactoring code because poor code obfuscates them.

Your way of building things will lead to debt and bug reports
As they should. Most people will be okay following the same protocol as they would the flu.

Stay hydrated, keep your fever down, relax. If your fever is uncontrollable and you're having trouble breathing, you need more serious attention.

"Testing" and figuring out that the cause of your symptoms is/ is not SARS2-CoV doesn't change the course of treatment. There's no wonder drug.
This isn't the first time he's done it, and it sadly won't be the last.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Crony capitalism needs these events to redirect more money to the beneficiaries.

All hidden losses from the past 4 years will be booked in the Coronavirus quarter and then it is bailout time again.
This is the man who went up on a debate stage in front of millions of Americans and said vaccines cause autism. Quelle surprise!
... and the main reason for the ARD/ZDF to have useless apps and content on their websites in the first place is so that they can demand not-tax from everyone instead of only those who still own a TV.
Some people have character.
> Why on earth would someone would pick C to start a new project in 2020?

Please ask yourself this before writing any code (For a cross-platform game).

By just reading this, I thought to myself if I were to write a cross-platform game in 2020, Is C necessary to accomplish this? Perhaps anything C can do, surely Rust can do it safer and arguably better.
Lorn's stuff is so good and unique, recommended!
When searching their name the whole results page is related to them. I don't think this would be the case with a combo of simple words. Would love to hear more on the origins of the name though. Congrats on the launch!

edit: the name is explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552385
Considering this is really just an ad for the KnowYourTeam product, I think just getting someone to arrive at your blog should be enough. Also needing some info from them is asking a bit much.
We buy milk and bread almost daily.
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The financial economy is much much bigger than just the equities market.
People who use screenreaders aren't necessarily completely blind. Maybe they want to watch videos but have a vision impairment that makes reading the text on the site difficult, thus use a screenreader.

People use screenreaders for many different reasons.
I concur.

Boris Johnson looked very tired, but actually - and I can’t believe I think this - did a good job yesterday.

I was thinking after — they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Many people seem to want draconian measures now, judging from the WhatsApp photos going around.

Then there’s the markets etc etc who want stability etc.

The “any fever or persistent cough = self isolate” was a good call i think.

It takes a lot of untested sick people - potential cases - out of circulation before all hell breaks loose.

It buys time with minimum disruption - many people might take the time off sick anyway if they’re already ill.

Also buys time to implement infra. and org. planning.
The article without Medium paywall: https://hownot2code.com/2020/03/13/why-im-using-c/
A primary source referenced: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/new_ci...

It looks like a "right to repair" for appliances has already been adopted. https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/energy-efficiency/energy-...

Note e.g. the requirements for monitors: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/c-201...

This is in many ways the opposite of the cookie law in that it specifies pretty precisely what outcome has to be achieved.
That does give some food for thought. Of all the new language features, the elements I really need —functors, asynchronous syntactical sugar, and static null analysis— don't require much of the bloat found in many modern languages.
One thing that I am disappointed is not discussed in the article are the experiments done to validate statistical independence based on extremely old and far-away phenomena. There have been experimental validations of Bell's inequalities with measurements chosen based on distant quasars, and they held up very well. This would suggest that the state of two particles we just fired is caused by reactions in a quasar millions of years ago, or by even older phenomena.

This suggests there isn't even some kind of 'local-ish' theory of hidden variables, like in the case of throwing dice, and we would really need to account for the state of the whole universe for all of its history to accurately predict what happens when we type at our keyboards.
Matt Colville did a number of twitch streams of NetHack. I don't think he does them regularly but his archived streams were a great introduction for myself.

He goes by MCDM on twitch and youtube.
Among the eye-opening deficiencies across our efforts to contain the disease, the most stupefying is the the inability to conduct adequate testing. It would appear there is a variety of factors at play, including red tape, bureaucracy, logistical failure, and incompetent decision making. But it really has been shocking at how utterly disastrous this aspect of the response has been. Especially so given that the entity appearing deserving most of the blame for this particular problem is the CDC, which I think many of us considered unimpeachable up until now.

It's striking how the hubris and organizational failure in the decision making process developing these tests seems to mimic some of the fiascos that occur in the tech industry, though in hindsight I don't know why any large organization wouldn't be susceptible.
A sad state of affairs. Also cant help but wonder - the us army constantly brags about bio warfare. It had a good few months advance notice about this virus. What has it done in preparation? Other than stacking bullets to “isolate” areas.
How about a multi angle camera switcher controlled by a foot pedal? I think open broadcaster studio could pull that off relatively easily. Or how about a 4 way split view?
> DWD is to offer a cheaper and better product.

How? Their product is "free", unless you count taxes. They could make it "cheaper" by keeping it free and not using taxes.
Yep, this was something that many firms were delaying spending on it. It's pretty frustrating because this seems normal. Only do something about an issue when the time horizon is near rather than take it on when it's further out.
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They sure do, but in small numbers. Mostly the old or infirm. A nasty flu virus like COVID will push those numbers but they're still outliers, doubly so with modern medicine.
Well, if there's a widespread virus that has "the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection" the "economy" and "international trade" would be the least of our worries...
I assume that since he's writing a game, he's using some kind of library/engine/framework, but doesn't specify which one. This would affect his arguments for reliability (is the framework available on all these platforms?) and simplicity (how simple is the framework?).

Maybe he's only writing an ascii game though.
Which is why Result and Error types exist. With those you get both the context of the error as well as making it clear that the code you are entering needs error handling to be safe. Much less of an issue than calling code that unexpectedly raises exceptions.
The biggest advantage C has over Rust is the sheer breadth of platforms. As a developer, I would always prefer Rust over C, if possible, but sometimes C is more realistic.

In most cases, C would only be more practical on obscure or outdated hardware, though.
Yes considering Ryes Syndromes, aspirin can be even more dangerous as a causal treatment.
He also said that he learned a lot in his time away from Apple, that he became less tyrannical in the interim. So there's a strong argument to be made that he learned to be a peacetime CEO during his time at Pixar et al.
The plural of anecdote is not data, but here is an anecdote that should give pause.

Yesterday I took my sick daughter to a hospital to see a doctor with a fever, cough and sore throat. We were screened for strep, told it was viral and sent home with no further testing. Talking to my ex (an urgent care doctor) she said that she is still trying to find out how she can even get a test for patients of hers who fit the symptoms for COVID-19.

This is in Orange County, CA. Which has only 5 confirmed cases, but lies between Los Angeles and San Diego. Both with known community spread. I'm now more amazed that doctors in Los Angeles and San Diego were able to get tests to verify community spread than I am confident that Orange County does not.

There is a lot of theater around COVID-19. You can't even show up for a hospital visit without being asked whether or not you have the symptoms for coronavirus. But the show of looking for symptoms combined with the failure to follow up when you find them makes me think that it is mostly theater. We are taking lots of action to make you aware that we are containing the spread, but we are also avoiding finding out any potential bad news that we don't want to hear about.

Going forward I am calling this what it is. "Public health theater."
Why are CDC's Covid-19 daily case count numbers so low?
A key measure for whether an epidemic is getting worse or better is "new cases per day". If that number is the same or lower than the previous day (regardless of the absolute number), the in theory the epidemic has reached the inflection point on its logistic curve. So I looked for case counts reported in this way (most headline graphs only show the accumulated total case count). I noticed the graph on the CDC's web site shows very low numbers[1] compared to another non-CDC site[2]. What's going on here? How am I misinterpreting the data?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html (under "Cases by date of onset").

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ (under "Daily new cases").
Apparently they are different enough that people mod them to look like year-later models. Since these wouldn't have different capabilities it can only be for asthetics or social signaling.
Ok,

I think since none of his reasons include I am doing system programming

I will debunk

Reliability: C is not the only language with a reliable ecosystem, and what should matter most is the reliability of the program, not the tools made to create the program, so in this regard, I think Rust, OCaml, C#, Java are all as reliable, and I would argue it is easier to write more predictable or reliable programs in them

Performance: Yes sure C wins almost every performance benchmark, but Rust is very Fast and Ocaml is also very fast so unless you are working on system programming stuff, I think you have better options that are more reliable and predictable

Simplicity: Here I would like to contrast simplicity of the tool vs simplicity of the product, complexity does not go away, complexity is abstracted, simple tool = complex product or process, complex tools on the other hand may allow you to create simpler tools and processes, if you use simple tools you will transfer complexity to your products, which I don't think is necessarily a good thing
Despite rhetoric and protestation otherwise, "purely malicious" is a pretty good description of the US legal system.
China is still testing aggressively. If the number of active cases were expanding, much less expanding exponentially, the number of reported cases would be more than a handful per day.

It's a pretty good assumption to make.
How do you copy data from one array of structs to another in rust?

Also, if foo is a non-shared pointer that copy doesn't seem safe.
"But It’s not just about running fast, battery life matters as-well. Fewer cycles means less battery consumption which is a major win if you ask me. As long as I can help it, I’ll do my best to avoid draining a user’s battery in five minutes."

I was thinking about languages in terms of ecology. I'm a Python fan and while its lack of performance never bit me in the real world, how many Joules would be saved if my apps were written in another language ? I'd love to see a study/comparison based on real apps (not algos implementations).
It loads for me but the asynchronous loading makes it feel really slow. The page loads but it doesn't show the body until 4 seconds have passed. There is a 34KB image and a short text. It's kind of absurd how the asynchronous loading takes 3 seconds for a cached image.
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It is apparent that the rulebook as it stands is perhaps the largest factor in impeding the ability to respond to this crisis, so yes, at least some of the rulebook clearly needs to be thrown out.
I worked at IBM as an intern during the crossover, and there was a TON of internal activity. It might seem like there was nothing going on, but in fact, there were a lot of interns (like our entire intern class of about 200 that I know of, across entire IBM in all disciplines, research, database, microprocessors, AIX, QA, mainframes etc) who were basically doing the same thing - Y2K readiness for our respective departments.

I worked in QA in one of their bank teller application development branch offices, so all I did for weeks was enter in date times between 99 and 00 into the software and test that the fixes were successful.

The unique thing about Y2K was that the problem was well understood and came with an actual deadline, so you could project manage around it.

Any normal bug couldn't be project managed this way, and you can't just throw interns at regular problems, whereas with Y2K, if you had the money, you can just assign people to look at every line of code to look for date handling code.
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Flattening the curve isn't enough if our healthcare workers become infected
Everytime I read a article about a java update it feels like its getting bigger and bigger in mundane ways.
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This is a misguided sentiment. I've already had this debate before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22507508), so I'm not going to rehash it too much. But the short version is:

- decentralized systems hold up to these regulations better than centralized systems, but that doesn't mean these regulations are good for decentralized systems. It will still slow development, and still make it harder for companies and large nonprofits to use the technology. If our goal is for encryption to be universal, then large, public organizations need to be able to use it.

- the DOJ and local police will happily target individual homeservers to make an example of if people start using these services in mass. Anyone who thinks our federal government won't be petty or vindictive about small operators hasn't been paying much attention to them. The DOJ will go wherever encryption is; the only reason they're not currently complaining about Matrix is because no one uses it yet.

- most of the people who care about privacy are already moving to decentralized alternatives, so a ban on E2E encryption may not actually speed that process up. It may just create a bigger technical gap between users who care and users who don't, since decentralized services like Matrix/Mastodon won't be able to make easy onboarding servers.

- decentralization is not an end goal in and of itself. User freedom and privacy are the end goal, and decentralization is a means to accomplish that goal. It is counterproductive to give up user freedom and privacy in order to get decentralization.

We should ramp up efforts to build decentralized platforms in anticipation of bills like this, since centralized platforms can't cope as well and we need mitigations if the laws get passed. But we should not become any less zealous in fighting bad laws, and we certainly shouldn't encourage them.
> OK. So they're planning an invasion of the past?

No, you can only go back to the point where you start the time machine. Secondly, its Aaron, so its probably his private corporation running the new machine. Aaron is the one who is manipulating the stock market and in it for the profit.

Its the "success" story for Aaron, he rebuilds a bigger time machine, but with the power of a corporation / large money backing him now (probably funded from repeatedly winning in the stock market). Aaron cannot stop the original experiment or otherwise travel to the past, but he can make money in the future.

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There are roughly 3 machines you need to be aware of.

1. Machine #1 is what the movie is mostly about.

2. Partway through the movie, Machine#2 (failsafe) is revealed. The main character turned on the failsafe simultaneously with Machine #1, so if the time-travel got too confusing, he could always go back to the beginning and turn off Machine #1, cancelling the entire experiment.

3. The other main character, reset Machine #2. Instead of sending you back to the beginning, it now sends you to Day2 or so, preventing the change of the early days.

4. The conclusion, where Machine #3 is revealed. There was no leadup to machine#3, its just a bit of closure for the greedy Aaron.

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The movie goes off the rails and really stops making sense. I've put a lot of effort into trying to understand what they were going for... and ultimately came to the conclusion that Stein;s Gate is just a better thought out time travel plot.

I give Primer credit for being a relatively consistent time-travel movie with more thought put into it than the average time-travel timeline. But the ending is still in the "audience's hands", and still leaves ambiguity for the audience to figure out on their own.

A lot of actions in the middle of the movie don't seem to have any relevance to other events. The father (Thomas Granger) randomly coming in through the time machine but unconscious for example. While it is clear that Thomas Granger is from "some future timeline", such an interpretation naturally conflicts with the Primer theory thus far (which has no "multiple timeline", everything should be consistent)

There is also an Aaron clone running around, but it isn't really clear from what time the time-clone is from.
True. But I think he said this mainly to stop other people from believing that one is born as a genius.
Has it? QE has been happening for the last 10 years already, and inflation hasn't (in products; asset prices have inflated though).
When you buy a physical object, such as a home, a car, a shirt, or a smartphone, shouldn't you be be able to repair it, modify it however you want, use it for different purposes, loan it to friends, sell it to others, and so on -- you know, all the rights and benefits associated with the concept of private ownership? And when you buy a software object, shouldn't you have the same rights and benefits?
The US is the single largest exporter of grain in the world. Not the largest producer, not the largest consumer, but the largest exporter.

And the US farming population is ~1% of the total US pop. Modern tractors and combines are amazing.

Doesn't mean there aren't a ton of bodies involved in processing and transportation, though. You can probably find local-ish wheat in the US, but you're not going to boil and eat the wheat berries for a porridge like it's 1850 (though you could); you're going to buy breakfast cereal.
Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp
I'm quite surprised no-one understood an AS/400 in 2000 - they were still pretty current and an important part of the IBM range, surely.
> Languages, especially dynamic ones and their runtime environments come and go like fashion.

Sage advice.
Reality is now more cyberpunk than fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
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There is plenty of transport, and plenty of diesel fuel. Thus my city doesn't need to be self sufficient. I'd expect my beds to be exported to other nearby cities, while they work on making ventilator parts.

I'm not sure if it is needed though: there is probably more than enough lumber in the local lumber yards currently intended for local construction projects but when nobody is building/remodeling...

Actually I live in a manufacturing city so I'd expect we would be making ventilator parts, since I don't have machining experience I'd be repurposed to packing the parts into boxes. Any city has enough tablesaws to build beds, not every city has as many people who know how to run a lathe as mine.
Block javascript on medium. Makes it much better, no nagging, no limitations... sometimes you miss an image or two, but the text is there.
I don't think so. The American meddling in Ukraine before Trump even was in office is highly suspicious. You could argue that it was a justified reaction to the Crimean invasion, but saying there wasn't any stuff is completely dishonest. Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a public defender. He was even praised for doing so. This hypocrisy seriously damages any credibility of those accusing Trump of meddling in Ukraine.

Of course you should ask yourself what Russia and America are even doing in Ukraine in the first place, but that is probably a lot more comprehensive.

Some news papers argue Biden didn't pressure the public defender out of office, but that would be clearly fake news. As I said, there are people on record praising him for doing so.
That's a bit simplistic and literal after all War is "war is the continuation of policy by other means"
Been saying something similar for ages.

One thing they're not replacing soon though; is creativity. Designers, strategists, architects, technologists, problem solvers, etc. - these people will always be needed.
We're at war. War against the "foreign" coronavirus. But instead of fighting the war, we're sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting "lalalalalala!" because for some reason, lower numbers helps certain people politically.

It is criminal.
Sounds like a ware of time when you can buy tonic syrup and mix it to your own strength.
I can see how this can have sense. But it doesn't.