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There's a switch in "File > Preferences" to turn that off. Overall it's just usage about the tool, not data about the user that's using it.
So when you talk about getting anywhere near lego you're talking about a type of problem that's in a completely different ballpark. 3D printing can't even hope to reach those tolerances. If they were making a part that could simply be 3D printed, the type of manufacturing relevant to the article, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have had all those problems.
Climate change is not the immediate threat to old men that it needs to be in order to get things moving.
The author claims that, recently, the ocean has been getting concerningly wet. GCC 1.17 dates back to 1988 and would launch nethack as an easter egg in response to something as tame as implementation defined behavior (#pragma use.)

This is incorporated into a gamedev variation on "nasal demons" I've heard/parroted: "It can launch Nethack, it can launch nuclear missiles at a cow ranch in Alaska, or worse - it can do exactly what you expected it to do." The first two being perfectly standards-compliant behaviors when your code has an RCE vulnerability thanks to invoking undefined behavior via, say, buffer overflow. The last turning compiler upgrades into a minefield, and bug trackers into a dumping ground for once-encountered heisenbugs.
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I think it would be hard to master programming without developing such an attachment -- emotion is what motivates people.

You've become emotionally attached to the operation of the program, it seems, in being "simple and effective".

I suppose then you have mastered, or are mastering, a kind of engineering.

It isn't clear to me why working with you would be any more or less pleasant than the other kind of a person. Sometimes a master of one craft is needed to repair/supplement the oversights of another. Arguments you cause about the "efficiency" of some approach are no doubt a problem, and may injure the long-run intelligibility of the project.

Those who master programming as such are the frontal lobes of teams who master engineering -- providing a global, planning, synthesizing, rationalizing perspective which keeps the program intelligible.
I don't think the 'I must have argan oil and lime caviar in my next shampoo because the advert says so' need is qualitatively the same as your clinical need though is it? If anything I'd say that indicates the failure of unrestricted markets.

This all started with black_puppydog's comment:
> I don't agree with the conclusion. We can scale down our economies and still maintain production of essentials by ``drumroll`` scaling back shit that nobody needs.

Anybody whose life would be drastically worsened by having 10 different types of shampoo rather than x hundred needs help.
Better than fixing Covid-19, swing for the fences. Use Covid-19 to fix climate change instead.

This disaster is showing us that the goal of cutting emissions and saving our planet, while still sitting down and having a beer and watching Netflix at night is real - it can be done.

Of course it's tempting, compelling to try and fix Covid-19. It's a real shit show, and it's here and now and it's cutting people down around us. It's tearing the economic fabric of our world apart. How could we not want to throw everything into solutions?

But the hard fact is that even if we were to lose one or two percent of the older slice of the global population to Covid-19, on the other battlefront climate change will keep coming for our youngest generation, and it will be immeasurably harder to stop.

Our experience of Covid-19 presents an incredible opportunity - the biggest there's ever been - to launch a full frontal attack on climate change - to really move the needle.

We know our current ways of living are unsustainable. But up until now, no-one has known what the alternative was.

Now, in Italy, and soon in the US, we're living that alternative as a society.

And under that alternative, we are cutting emissions - enormously. It's claimed [1] that "the pandemic ultimately could trigger the most significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of the past century".

And life is going on.

There have been economic lockdowns before, but this is the first one that's happened while there are virtual alternatives and even improvements for the things that we've lost in the physical world.

We now have the internet. For the first time, giant corporates can continue to function with their employees locked down in a physical quarantine. Not just FAANGs but all sorts of businesses and organizations.

Could we make any of this way of living stick? After Covid-19 has swept overhead past us on its first go-round, can we somehow break our patterns and not jump back into our cars, or onto our cruise lines, or into planes to hotel rooms on the other coast?

Can many of us keep living these low energy, virtual lives - even after the virus?

That's the long game. Instead of joining everyone in trying to flatten the curve of Covid-19, look for innovations that could somehow lock in these healthy new ways of living that the virus is showing us - flatten our emissions curve.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/1...
It seems that the '1%' is symbolic, though. Just a round 'very small' number that sounds nice. Probably way less currently, orders of magnitude less.

It seems that the proportion of ground-breaking individuals is less a function of population than of the state of things. Meaning, it doesn't matter how many are trying if there are only ever X slots available for 'greatness' at a given time. E.g. when one Musk or one Gandhi arises, a thousand others might have just missed that spot for this life.

At the very least, there is a relation between the two — pushing population to extreme numbers obviously increases the number of exceptional individuals because there is more need; but I see a rather linear bottleneck here, whereas context dictates a lot of what you can and can't do. In that sense, the greatest are the most adaptive (evolution-style, applied to civilization), they find the 'correct formula' to solve in their own space and time. And execute on it.

I think it's more of a “few thousand people” worldwide at any given time in recorded history, maybe 10x or 100x more today than in Ancient times but... nowhere near the population growth ratio.

Obviously, it's all just my subjective perception. I could be so wrong it's actually not-not funny to think about it... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> What does the compiler know about memset? Why it should? It can be a function called heyLetsFillTheMemoryOverHere(&a, wrongSize); and still it's the programmer's fault.

Because memset is defined by the ISO C standard to have specific semantics, which the compiler can leverage to make your code faster.
That's not even true, I saw a study that showed that even makeshift masks reduced the risk of infection, though obviously not as much as a N95 mask.
That's where 0% credit comes in. It needs to take the whole chain. We shut down for 3 months. Net 60 terms become net 150. Net 90 becomes net 180. Everyone pays as planned, just up to 6 months later and with no interest.
Ask HN: What should an ideal ML engineer interview process look like?
There was a similar thread about the ideal developer interview process (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585677), but hiring machine learning engineers is quite different as you need to assess both CS and ML skills.
One consumer? No. All consumers, it definitely will.
This would be ok some decades ago. Now we know that prions can survive
So calling jobs of many people here "bullshit", like the original comment did, is okay? Apparently so.
Surgeon General sufficient for you? Masks still contain droplet, at least reduce them so even DIY paper towel masks help.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa...
I would expect a gaming system to emerge (to force positive test results when people wanted time off without suffering any consequences). Done well, that might be the most valuable purely wasteful invention ever created.
That seems to be a very different thing. You’re talking about a utils file / module you’re carrying around, OP is about a ready-made application template (à la cookicutter).
Go is very much not the state of the art in anything. It's really based on 1980s ideas.
> Are you suggesting the entire world work from home and interact only over the internet for the rest of our lives?

Seems perfectly fine to me. Some essential jobs require manual skills but I think those can be organised to avoid most of the physical human contact.

Some can be phase out by more automation.

And we have so many inessential jobs in this economy that shedding them might be beneficial to us all.

Do we really need new snowboard clothes every season?
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Start with pots of perennials instead.
Of course we could have contained it. See Taiwan for a golden example. About one case per day since this started.

China, Japan, and South Korea or other examples.
You can invest in companies that are building/using renewable energy and/or helping the environment.
Was anyone able to download the 3D model of the said valve?
yes of course, you would need a well grounded summoning grid.
You're confusing things. Not everyone who has the disease is diagnosed or treated in a hospital. In fact the majority of people are probably not. As the healthcare system is stressed, you will see higher "mortality" in the hospital cases because only the extremely severe patients will seek treatment and the rest will try to get by on their own. None of this is _population_ mortality. Meaning, these numbers cannot be extrapolated to the population as a whole, due to the selection bias inherent in them, and the lack of accurate infection rate estimates.
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Banks are some of the most highly regulated businesses that participate in markets. One should not draw general conclusions from government intervention in regulated banking programs.

> when apparently in the provision of basic necessities you are arguing this is going too far?

I made no such argument.
> that will zero any padding too and end up just doing the right thing

No, it will not; the compiler can and occasionally will transform this into two writes that don't touch padding. It is surprisingly difficult to actually zero out padding bits. (However, your code is better than the one mentioned above, as it does correctly zero out the structure's members.)
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There are no more pressing needs than tail risks involving the entire population.

But again, you leave it to markets and people that think in broken expected values and yeah it will seem like the project is stupid.

Expected values make no sense when the system lacks ergodicity.
Ehy, fellow italian here.

Check out mobileJazz, they seem cool and were looking for a software engineer proficient in Nodejs etc, so it might fit you.

I was looking to submit it myself, but I have a stable job right now and I think I won't lose it so it could be of more help to someone else. Hope it helps you.

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From a purely economic perspective, you might be right. However the cost is blood. The mortality rate goes from about 1% to above 3%, since the UK’s hospitals will quickly be overrun.

The cost will be at least the delta 1.3 million preventable deaths. This doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of folks left with pulmonary fibrosis, which has a 3-5 year life expectancy.
I see overuse of antibiotics around me all the time. Just the other day my friend's daughter had bronchitis and readily prescribed antibiotics. A couple of days later when it didn't get any better, she got a stronger shot of the same antibiotic. Then it still didn't get any better and another doctor just decided to change it to another kind. There wasn't any of the "let's wait it out and see if this is viral instead of bacterial" or any testing done. And this isn't a single case. It's the norm with 80% of doctors I hear about.
From this link:

https://news.yahoo.com/government-official-coronavirus-vacci...

Even if initial safety tests go well, “you’re talking about a year to a year and a half” before any vaccine could be ready for widespread use, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

So even if these trials go well that suggests a vaccine is a long way down the road.
Ask HN: Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?
As we switched to full home office at my university, we started establishing short regular video conferences. Unfortunately, most tools are overwhelmed and we would like to self host our infrastructure.

Do any of you have experience with self hosted tools for video conferences?
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UB isn't a side effect, nor does it imply a sequence point or completion of other side effects. The compiler is largely free to reorder things anyway. And indeed the standard allows the compiler to bail out and throw an error during translation. UB is beyond time. But even if it were bound to time, well, unpredictable results could include accidental time travel.
Sharp drop in London Underground and bus passengers due to Covid
The 'climate doomers' preparing for society to fall apart
I'm wondering if `binwalk`'ing the initial dd-image would have worked. That's the first thing I would try.
Since there are likely plenty of rich people reading HN:

you can probably help your country and save lives at minor expected cost to yourself by just giving this guy a legally binding promise to pay him for unwanted masks should he ramp up production now and no one wants to actually buy them.

Basically offer him a put option for free, it's unlikely he'll need to make use of it.
FP libraries have pretty much solved this IMO. You create a value that describes what you want to happen and that description can include cancellation if some condition is met (e.g. it takes too long). There are limitations imposed by the runtime on what you can actually cancel (e.g. I don't believe all OS calls can be interrupted) but beyond that it works as specified.

Here's one example of such a library, though without a bit of FP background it probably doesn't make a great deal of sense:

https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/typeclasses/concurrent.htm...
Indeed, 82 comments from 2 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484096
> I have a brown thumb

Definitely could help with that. Send me a mail with some close photos of the weeds in the area, and basic info about the continent and climate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone)

You can cut the house or recognisable parts in the photos. I don't care about that and I don't need your exact location. Soil, exposition (sun?, deep shadow?) and climate is much more important.

Of course if your neighbours or administration throw weed killers to the soil or water systematically, nothing will grow, no matter what you try. Nothing except the more badass plants, but then you would have bigger problems than brown thumbs.
yeah, and YC has already built some stuff out thru startup school to make this easier.
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Yes, and usually the people they worked with or learned from were also extremely talented.
That seems very cheap. Like it wouldn't even pay for electricity...

I would set up a numberstation just to mystify people.
Versions of the Deep Adaptation paper

https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/
This is the advise we are getting

"If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection."

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

"If you are not sick, do not buy a face mask. If you have one already and you are well, it is not recommended that you use it."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-compr...

Is this in your opinion "false information"?
Stop. You've got it completely backwards.

The entire point of doing research - devising a theory, doing an experiment, assessing the results, revising the theory - is to find knowledge that could be benefit humanity.

However, research itself NEVER guarantees up front if a theory, an idea, an experiment,... is going to yield a beneficial outcome for humanity.

It's literally: you can't say "well, this experiment is going to yield a useful vaccin, medicine, tool,..." because the very definition of experimentation and research is trial and error.

Maybe it will take a 2 billion dollars to find a vaccin, maybe it will take 20 billion dollars. Maybe it will take 3 months, maybe it will take 3 years. It's literally impossible to predict up front.

This is not just true for medicine, this is true for any and all research that takes place at Universities.

So, if you're going to scale the endowments to academic research based on the "economic productive results" their research yields, well, you're going to miss a massive amount of opportunities.

Moreover, academic researchers don't just get bags of money so they can do whatever they fancy. That's not how this works.

The funding of the vast majority of research projects requires the application of grant proposals which are then reviewed and vetted by peers and governance boards. When the results are published, the project also have to yield a balance sheet and stringent reporting on how they spend those grants.

The vast majority of research proposals are thoroughly scrutinized. You can't just whip up a proposal and a fancy experiment and think you'll get funding. Academia is a cut-throat business if you want to do any meaningful research. Ask any researcher and they will tell you that they agonize whether they'll get the funding they need to continue what they are doing next year.

Academia is a hard place to work exactly because that's how the best ideas float to the top.

As Edison famously said about inventing the electric lightbulb:

> "I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty, as perhaps you know, was in constructing the carbon filament, the incandescence of which is the source of the light."

Exactly. Think about the Wright brothers and flight. They didn't simply set out one day, build a plane, took the hills and flew the kite. It took them many failed attempts and a big risky investment in material and time before they were even able to take off. At the time, they didn't know if they'd succeed.

So. No. "Productive" is the wrong bar to assess the value of research by.
Isn't this all backwards then? If a person can't defend themselves then how can a person know if they did something wrong in the first place?

To me it sounds like an entire profession created a monopoly on what they are doing to artificially keep out "amateurs".
I would actually go further and say that writing to padding is legal C, period, independent of platform. It just doesn't have to actually do anything. (In an extreme example, a call to memset can do piecemeal writes around the padding to only touch the parts of a structure that will be accessed, which can be an issue if you actually want to scrub those bytes.)
Correct. No-one's completely safe. But those companies you mention that are made up of the FAAMNG including Netflix are powering the majority of the internet services such as (AWS, GCP, Azure, Facebook Ads and Apple Services) which are used by many developers and startups. For some of them, this isn't even their main source of revenue generation.

It's the unsustainable VC funded, near-zero revenue, rapid growth and high costs burn rate so called 'tech' startups which some have IPO'd or some are still raising capital with no plan for a profit that will not survive.
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As I said in the original comment:

> Not every solution to a serious problem needs to be some surveillance state dystopian nightmare.

The authoritarian response of shutting everything down, locking people in their homes and instituting all-but-in-name-martial law seems like a massive lack of creativity to me. Plagues are not a new phenomenon. We can come up with better solutions - as Taiwan and Singapore seem to be doing. Throwing away the rights and benefits of a free society should be the last solution.
Covid could kill 40 million people globally in just the first wave of infections and not counting deaths caused by collateral damage.

Just multiply half of the world population by mortality rate of 1%.
That would cover the sceptical 10%. But OK, lets be really sceptical and have only 1% - still 800k - 4 millions. Sounds a bit like millions to me
I worked as a technician for a while recently.

> There are stats you can get from the SSD which will indicate the end of life.

I've seen too many consumer SSDs which failed completely without warning from one day to the next with no chance of data recovery. At least if an HDD starts to fail, there are signs that you can act on (files not opening/saving, Windows behaving weird) and you usually have plenty of time before it actually happens that you can start data recovery and get a decent amount (or even most) of data out of it. And even once it fails, data recovery is possible. SSDs are just dead black boxes. It's why when I upgraded a customer to an SSD, I always put a big emphasis on making backups onto an external drive or a cloud service or, well, anything.

Out of all the failed SSDs I've seen, only a single one managed to put itself into an RO mode for data to be recovered. And they often give the weirdest stats. Like, some of them will report everything is okay even though you're getting garbage or nothing out of it and can't write to it.

When they work, they're great, but the failure states are just obscene.
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