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It is misplaced. The government is not in control of the virus. The British government is not pretending to be in control.

This offends the sensibilities of those that revere authority.
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The two Lisps Naughty Dog developed had different (heh) goals. GOOL was more of a scripting language; GOAL was developed for close-to-the-metal programming and was used to write much of the engine for J&D.
They do tend to vote for tire-burning candidates, on the whole.

I personally feel there's a sort of vicious circle going on between the social isolation of the elderly, the elderly consequently watching too much TV, then (on the whole) developing rather unfortunate political views.
p4 is still great, that there are workarounds to be usable on similar workloads on git doesn't takeaway p4s inherent advantages. they're two very different tools.
That sounds like a sweet ride - glad you found one that works for you. I got a trek something (one of those cases where the fancy version from last year was on sale because the new model has cables inside instead of outside and made it obsolete or something) and it's been awesome. It also got me into cycling for fun as well - and again - Philly streets, it's been nice to have something able to stand up to it instead of what I had before haha
This isn't black swan. Taleb is really condescending when he try to make his point.

He really tweet fight over other statisticians about the concept of black swan when it's in the statistic. I can understand if he wants more emphasis on it but he makes it as if statistic does not take this into account.

Black swan is something that is never seen. Seeing how there were many similar viruses coming out of China and one in the middle east already means this is not a unseen or will blind side.
Never mind that they're assembled by Walmart employees who have no idea what they're doing, and can be quite unsafe. You wouldn't buy a $10 airbag replacement for a car, and you shouldn't buy the cheapest bike possible. This is safety equipment; a failure at speed can be quite injurious to your body.
The dataset also revealed the location data for each post, which could be easily used to identify individuals. Did the service stated in the EULA that location data is also going to be public? If so, did they notify this to the users in a clear, straightforward manner?
the key here is that what you're making doesn't go bad, worst case is it wastes space in storage but you don't have to make as much of it later
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Interesting. How would you do that if your deployment is, say, a couple of new tables in a 50TB Oracle database?
> We use both Puppet and Ansible at work, and its constant complaints and delays with Puppet whereas Ansible is little complaints and no delays.

That's probably because you are not running masterless, which means your puppet master is a bottle neck.
I ride a motorcycle with a lightly modified exhaust and I promise you my neighbors are way more upset about the 80db parrot :D

The bike is less loud than an old car. Just don’t rev like a maniac in the evening when streets are empty and you’ll barely notice it above the normal noise.

Now the parrot ... that little dude is something else. We’ve tried everything and you can still hear him a block away if he wants you to.
This reminds me of an app a friend of mine made for finding and coordinating volunteers:
https://pointapp.org/

It's focused on non-skilled volunteering, but would seem easy enough to add and match qualifiers (e.g. medical skillsets) between organizations and volunteers.
Or just enforce limits and price increases and we all have TP.
> while there exists substantial evidence to the contrary (people getting reinfected)?

No. There are instances of people testing negative and then testing positive again, but the strong consensus is that this probably results from faulty testing and/or changes in how viral material manifests at different stages in a person's infection. The chance is very small that people are truly getting re-infected.
Coronavirus is causing only positive consequencies:

- old people die, reliefing the public pension system

- air pollution has been drastically alleviated

- relations between US and EU finally started to decline thanks to Trump, and China aims to replace US' part

Now people should just realize that our extreme capitalism is root cause of all the bad things which happen in the world today, and it should be severely limited and private companies should be replaced with state owned groups, where that makes sense (like for example for the health system).

Where that doesn't make sense, fine to keep capitalism, but we need much less of it
Treating the death of a young adult as several times more tragic than the death of an elderly adult is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irrational.

Now, laughing in an elderly person's face is obviously rude and unnecessary (although I won't necessary begrudge gallows humor as a coping mechanism.) But expecting people to treat the death of elderly people as seriously as the death of young people is unreasonable.
I think there's a little more to it than that, but just a little...

A most uncomfortable truth!
I'm a year-round bike commuter, and I really appreciate those disc brakes when I'm biking in heavier rain. Don't underestimate how much better they work than rim brakes in adverse weather conditions.

I'd say it's just the other way around; disc brakes are most useful for commuters, and least useful for dedicated race bikes, because you just don't go out racing when it's raining a lot (and you're typically on a closed course besides so there's less braking).
I have short-reach dual pivot brake calipers on a bike which sees >2000 miles year-round each year in NYC, and my rims are still fine after 7 years.

From my experience, stopping distance is usually dictated by road conditions more than the brakes. This is with 34mm wide tires, and properly adjusted brakes (a lot of times when people complain about rim brakes, the issue is that they are not working properly).

Side note: fenders are a must!
I agree that it's immoral, but I do have to wonder if there's much difference between what these people are doing vs Nike making a pair of shoes for $2 then selling them for $400, or hospitals in America marking stuff up 500 or 1000%.

By definition capitalism is about making a profit. Sell things for as much as you can, and win.

I find it fascinating how where there isn't a "crisis" then maximizing profit is just what we're all supposed to be doing, and we accept it but somehow in a "crisis" it's suddenly evil and horrible.

Suddenly capitalism itself starts to feel mighty immoral, doesn't it?
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The popular mechanics article was completely incomprehensible. Here's what I understood after a bunch of Wikipedia and reading the article's abstract:

A pair of a quark and an antiquark combine to form an entity called a meson. If one of the pair is a strange quark (or a strange antiquark), that type of meson is called a Kaon.

The standard model of physics makes predictions on how often a specific Kaon (K_L) will decay as:

K_L→π0νν¯

KOTO is trying to measure this decay rate to see if it's in line with what the standard model predicts.

They observed 4 such decays. 1 of them was identified as background noise. The other 3 decays are still an unexpectedly high number of decays.

If there's a physicist in the room, please help verify my understanding.
Right I understand what it does, but what is it for? Why would someone want to do this?
The President appoints certain people within the CDC and can make budget recommendations (although the budget is ultimately set by Congress).

Regardless of which political party is in power I would say on-the-ground decisions are made by the non-partisan staff at the CDC within the bounds of all existing regulations.

The red tape and disaster declarations are the key levers that the Administration has control over, and it appears to me that they are taking unprecedented steps here to clear the way for testing which was impossible based on existing FDA regulations preventing private and even state run public labs from deploying their own testing.

What sounds like a good idea in general (“FDA approval is required before you can offer any diagnostic health test”) doesn’t work very well during a crisis which requires extremely widespread deployment of a relatively simple but novel test.
Try Puppet Bolt. Workflow is similar to Ansible. No pesky master or certificate setup, no preparation needed, just an inventory file and SSH to the remote server. You get the entire ecosystem of Puppet modules and the Puppet language scales well when your configuration becomes larger.
> a) not enough toilet paper exists to satisfy genuine demand

> b) in order to meet that demand, they need to raise prices

I am claiming that there is not enough local capacity to satisfy a very very short term local demand. And that an increase in prices can help satisfy the local capacity issue.

IE, if there is a bunch of supply in a different place, transporting that is possible, but costs money.

(I should have just talked about transportation, now that I think about it. The "problem" is actually way more short term than something where factory hours matter at all)

> Do you disagree with that?

My main argument that I attempted and failed to communicate is actually more that freaking out about "hoarders" is really silly, and that none of this is actually a big deal.

The amount of time that these local shortages last, is measured in days, before the next shipment arrives.

Which is why enforcement of this law is misguided. It is making a huge deal of an extremely minimal issue.

Worst case scenario, some people have to wait a couple days for the store to get the shipment in, or they have to travel a half hour to the nearest Costco. Not a big deal.
I don't know what the parent said, but Spanish flu originated in China, right?

https://www.history.com/news/why-was-the-1918-influenza-pand...
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P4 is fine on paper. I just wish the the client didn't crash and the server didn't lock up as often as it does. P4V is a mess.
Thank you, that phrases it much better than I could. They are very different tools(although I hear good stuff about P4 Fusion).

Now if someone wanted to make an open source P4 replacement that would be a neat thing.
That is a very well produced video, it doesn't contain a single spoken word and yet it tells the story perfectly. Incredible machinery. Any idea what these cost?
That’s a very good point, you’re quite right. However all three of those are relatively very small population centres with very easily controlled borders. Britain does have the advantage of being an island, but it has a large rural hinterland that the virus can ‘hide out’ in, and many dense population centres without borders, so it’s a completely different environment.

Take London. We could introduce a system of tracking and isolation within the M25, and that might work to lock down community transmission within the London population, but millions of people flow into and out of London each week so it would be completely pointless and ineffective. Meanwhile that level of tracking and isolation simply can’t work across the whole British isles. It’s administratively and logistically impractical.
The thing I've noticed about the younger generation is that they are better at consuming tech intuitively, but mostly have no idea what makes it work.
They seem to be able to use technology almost instinctively, but if they have to troubleshoot or create anything they don't know where to start.

You have to design UI for 'digital natives' to be just as user friendly as you would for baby boomers that didn't see their first computer until after they were grown. Both of them would be equally lost if you plopped them down at a terminal with nothing but a blinking cursor.
This is generalizing, of course, there are exceptions.

Anecdotally the only thing that separates a 9 year old and a 60 year old is that the 60 year old won't want to touch a computer because they are afraid they will break something and the 9 year old will mash away until they get where they want to go. Neither knows or cares how or why it works.
> Yes, that's a failing of the real free market we live.

We don't live in a free market. Not even close.

I would argue that since these laws exist, commercial suppliers are unwilling to raise prices for fear of being penalized under this law. That prevents the market from working naturally, and allows these individual gougers to take advantage.
You're much more likely to infect someone else by riding the subway than you are riding a bicycle. It spreads best in enclosed spaces with calmer air. It doesn't transmit well outside, unless you're breathing right up in front of someone's face (which just doesn't happen on a bicycle, but might happen with e.g. pedestrians waiting in close formation for a light).
> That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues.

Agreed, but even a simple honor system would be better than the current situation. Perhaps verified via a simple browser-based cookie?

Separately: just dawned on me that HN has no obvious way for users to communicate directly. Any suggestions on how to share contact info without begging for spam/bots?
Oh, when the GP said it's unrealistic to bike in a mask, I thought they meant it would be too difficult. Maybe they just meant unnecessary, in which case I agree.
Frequent in that neighborhood, but still very rare in the grand scheme of things. You're missing the forest for the trees.
Young people shut down numerous cities protesting for action on climate change last year. Individually you have people like Boyan Slat. Young people do not have the political clout that the boomer generation has yet but they will in the next 20 or so years. That is why I'm hopeful for the future.
The reported numbers in published papers are more like 0.4% under the age of 50 and 0.2% under 40 and probably lower as there could be a large portion of mild unreported cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
The United States has a shocking number of people who are not on the internet, as well.

The company I work for deals primarily in healthcare for the poor, and even though we have a fleet of web sites, social media accounts, and a text messaging program, we have to also send everything out on paper in order to make sure we reach as many people as possible. And since we're in healthcare, we don't get to be all SV Bubble about it and say, "Well, they should just go buy some money and get a smartphone."

My company requires that all departments have some amount of hands-on with our customers, including us button pushers, often in their homes and neighborhoods.

It's amazing the number of people I've met who have no computer, no internet connection, not even a cell phone of their own. Often a single flip phone will be shared by all the members of a family. Sometimes, a single flip phone will be shared by four or five families living next to one another.
I have serious doubts that religious leaders actually believe in their god or gods.

And the US presidents, to that matter, are all claim to be religious.

Not to mention Nixon's 'madman theory'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
There's something here you're really not understanding, and I don't know if it's because you're not reading carefully enough, or I'm not being clear enough.

I'm not saying that all we do is tell people to wash their hands. Flattening the Curve is not just telling people to wash their hands.

It's also saying self-isolate, where possible don't travel, where possible don't go out at all, when it's necessary to go out, stay a minimum of 2 metres away from people whenever you can.

Flattening the Curve is not about "Just wash your hands and we'll be fine", it's about making as many contributions in as many ways as possible to slowing the rate of infection.

I'm genuinely astonished if you think "Flatten the Curve" just means "Wash your hands".

And when I run the numbers, it looks to me like the US health services are going to be overwhelmed regardless, the point is to do every little thing possible to reduce the amount. That's what Flattening the Curve means.
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In this day and age when one can spool up any number of GPUs on AWS, how much can crowdsourced GPUs add?
Yeah, I'm thinking that's what they must mean. An N95 mask doesn't cut down your breathing that much, and you can simply down-moderate your effort a little bit so that you never hit a pant. It's no gas mask.
Right, that's what I was talking about too; although the version of the book I read was the 1992 edition, this part of the system hasn't changed. It works by using the Oberon language's support for embedding function pointers ("procedure variables") within records, which is precisely what was prohibited in Pascal. You give different windows ("viewers") different behavior by giving them different Handle procedures ("WndProcs", you might say, or "overridden methods") so that, when the system ("controller") sends a message to the viewer, it can behave in a dynamically determined way.
It's true that Trader Joe's in Manhattan are jammed with lines going out the door and shopping there is mayhem regardless of whether there's an ongoing pandemic.
Pointless waste of a perfectly good mask.
Oh, I get it.

This is mostly not a practically relevant issue. (Nor are pre-K&R compilers relevant, although something like this could arise among modern compilers.) As far as oddball situations go, it's far from the thorniest to deal with - it doesn't even involve C++.
This in a nutshell. The tory party hate spongers.
No, it will all be metric.
I agree being remote is not for everyone. And not everyone wants to be remote.
I also agree that productivity will likely drop, but the remote aspect will only be one of the many reasons considering what's going on right now.
I assume any productivity drop during this time will be brought up when discussing remote, ignoring the circumstances and that it was basically enforced without any preparation.
That's the policy of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, who are doing great.

All of which have tiny populations compared to the UK.

For larger nations, there simply aren't enough tests available, nor enough treatment facilities for those who are likely to become very sick if the virus spreads rapidly through the population.
My commute would be almost six miles by bicycle. I'm not especially looking to replace the subway with a bike trip.

We cycled 8 miles to high school every day (so, 16 per day). Cycling 6 miles is not a lot, unless you have to stop every minute at a traffic light.

Up till 1.5 year ago (when I wasn't working remotely), I cycled 7 miles to work every single day (also through rain and snow). For good measure, I'd take an extra hilly route the way back twice a week for some extra exercise.
> The studies show that decreasing stops has minimal effect on transit times. Two stops with ten people each only takes a bit longer to board than one stop with twenty people. You save a couple of minutes across the entire length of a bus route.

As someone with only empirical evidence: 2 stops with 10 people each vs. 1 stop with 20 people isn't a fair comparison. The fair comparison is 10 stops with 1 person each vs. ~2 stops with 5 people each. Over a longer route, the majority of a bus's travel time comes from stopping at/departing a stop.

When I lived in Chicago, I would sometimes take a bus to work. The route I took, 29, had a minimum of one stop per block. In some cases, there were two stops per block. In one particularly bad case, the distance between the stops was literally <500 feet (150 m) [0].

[0]: Go to this link, select route 29, and look between Cermak Rd. and 23rd St. for the two stops in between: http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/map/displaymap.jsp
It’s kind of counter-intuitive, you’d expect lower tolerance to mean the tolerance for deviations is lower, or higher precision
Bad example. Noodles ARE vegan.
I'm so glad to see people stepping up to donate compute resources to one of the best (IMHO) uses of computers, helping humanity.

Thank-you everyone.
4% reduction is still 4%. I wonder if there is an opportunity to jump start the glass/ceramic industry...
It only works with stateless resources.

There's no point in trying to manage a database or similar resources this way.
By what measure are you determining what YouTube content low quality and what is not?

I just opened it up in incognito mode (IP located in California) and I see the first 5 as:
- Eminem music video
- Gordon Ramsey
- Jimmy Kimmel
- 4 levels of onion rings
- A couple building a shipping container home

Nothing about these seems low-quality at all. Is it just because it's not that educational like software engineering and history?
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As someone who rides 2k miles a year in seattle for multiple years your attitude is why I had to pay through the nose and do all sorts of custom crap to have a decent braking solution that didn't eat my rims and worked well on steep hills and the oily wet on the rims. I'm glad that discs are finally taking over, even if it's 10 years after they should have because "they're not tour legal".
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> It would be noisy...

> controlling an AC motors speed is quite a bit more complicated(expensive) than controlling a DC one.

That type of motor is so noisy because it's a universal motor[1] - they can be controlled with light dimmer type circuit[2], but they're basically always noisy and inefficient.

A cordless drill would be a good starting point for a variable speed power train.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_motor

[2] If you're actually using a light dimmer to control a universal motor, use the highest current rated dimmer possible. The motor will be more inductive than the typical lighting circuit that the dimmer is designed for.
If I had those skills I'd volunteer.
Sinclair Research (after sir Clive Sinclair, the founder) was the developer and original owner of Spectrum. The classic Spectrum models are either from Sinclair or a version developed by Timex (who also did a lot of the Spectrum manufacturing, I think) under license.

There were a number of clones too, but Sinclair is the real deal and Timex Sinclair was officially licensed.

Later the Spectrum was sold to Amstrad - at which point you got the Spectrum models that looks like Amstrad computers.
Here's the link https://coronavirustrack.now.sh
Modern web browsers will support the Web Speech API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...) which may or may not involve a cloud service.

Here is the Google Chrome Web Speech API demo page: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
> I'm wondering if there is another reasonable one now that it is so much widespread

Everyone keeps saying there are many more people infected than is known. If true, is there really any other option than accepting many will become infected until herd immunity kicks in?

I'm also not sure quarantines can really work with this virus. The fact the large majority of cases are mild, makes the virus incredibly easy to spread. It remains to be seen if China can keep the virus at bay while they remove the quarantine.