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I am basing this on the news reports which say a german company is ready for in-human-trials which last months. after that, they would be able to produce millions of vaccinations in weeks. I think it's very promising. The us president apparantly also thinks so, since he has been trying to bribe them into exclusivity.
> that would be a pointless and depressing life.

The point of social distancing and quarantine measures now, is the choice between a hard time for the next few months, even to the point of it being "pointless and depressing"; and death.
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And of course Youtube itself is an institution. There was an article here about a library built in Minecraft by volunteers to bypass censorship, but Microsoft is an institution. As you say these are not opposed, they are just different relationships between creators and distributors.
If you rush a vaccine that causes 5% of patients develop a fatal complication in 1 year you've just killed twice as many people as COVID-19 would have.

Personally I'd rather take my chances with COVID-19 than risk injecting myself with an untested vaccine.
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That may be the point, but it's not the premise. Even the title is based on this flawed idea. If the author wants to make a point, they can do so without trying to drive it with incorrect ideas.
This term is new to me, and I find it funny that basically the same phenomenon was called "crowd wisdom" ten years ago.
> The WW2 debt was managed by growing the economy to the point where the debt became a small fraction of tax revenue.

The WW2 debt problem in the US was managed by roughly tripling the share of the economy taken in in taxes, not just growing the economy. Taxes aren't fixed.

> Going into debt is a big problem if it eats up all of your tax revenue to service it

It's a big problem if it eats up all of your productive output; tax revenue is an arbitrarily-adjustable figure.

OTOH, if your debt is denominated in your own currency, so is (in real terms) the debt itself.
But the point is that warnings are often not good predictors of problems. There's a good argument that "warning" on anything at all is an anti-pattern, because you're just attracting valuable attention towards something that may or may not be anything to worry about.

Where warnings are useful are when "something is actually now going wrong" - they provide a valuable context that can help an engineer figure out what the issue might be, which is exactly how it worked in this case.
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Is it frontend or backend problems that keep you awake in the half hour or so before you fall asleep? Which gets you out of bed early the next morning?

Truly think about this, and I think you'll have your answer. There's lots of jobs at the moment for both tracks.
I don't think it is a good idea or good tool at all. I don't need or want some external authority to tell me if I'm allowed to leave my house. I used the example of "Anti Social" behavior as a joke and I thought that was obvious...but apparently not. The idea is entirely antithetical to a free society.

As someone indicated in another comment, the proper way to do this is through personalized incentives and social encouragement, not through authoritarian state action.
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From the wontfix issue:

> We collect data that you submit via kontena account registration.
We collect data about events that are happening in Lens app: application started, application stopped, logged in, logged out, cluster settings page open, cluster view open, cluster feature X installed, cluster feature X uninstalled, cluster feature X upgraded, terminal opened and kubernetes resource applied. There is no metadata related to these collected.
We are not collecting any kind of telemetry data from Lens app: for example we don't know how many clusters you might have, how many nodes you have, what is actually running in your cluster etc.

vs.

> It's the only way for the company behind the product to see how many users are actively using it.

That's a lot of data for the simple task of seeing how many users are actively using it.
The video creators should do the same and commod their comps! Don’t stick to YouTube. Distribute wide. Reuse parts of your udemy course on vimeo. Brand yourself and build a list of followers by email, Twitter etc.
Very systematic and accessible description of the problem and various alternatives including their origins. I learned a lot reading the post, thank you!
All surgical steel is reused exactly this way. There are plenty of plastics that get autoclaved as well.
Thank you, but that looks like a lot of work :-( and I have a brown thumb (everything I plant turns brown).

It seems reasonable to me that native plants should grow without intensive assistance (else they would go extinct). Why does this not happen?
The best example are embedded platforms, full with extensions that probably will never be part of ISO C.
wash your damn hands thoroughly, clean your keyboard and cover your mouth when sneezing/coughing!
I didn't say you were :) my comment was just an additional complementary point to yours
I don't think the chinese government is intentionally lying about the data. If we can assume their numbers are trustworthy enough, we can infer their measures were effective. Of course, if it happens it will be a bitter pill to swallow for everyone.
You're a ML engineer, not a specialist in this area.
Correct, the bug is that LLVM (being mostly built around C++?) did not have a concept of infinite loops that could not be removed for quite a while. Here's the Rust bug about this, which also contains links to relevant discussion on the LLVM side, including some forward progress: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728. I believe the current status is that machinery has been added that language frontends can use to mark loops as having side effects, which will indicate to LLVM that they should not be optimized out.
It was one of the hardest things i wrote, making a schedule for students, teachers and the classes. Worked like a dream, written in pascal. They used it for years.
> For this crisis, people are saying, give $1000 to everyone... that money is mostly going to find its way into the pockets of already rich people

Whose pockets do you think it's going to come out of, whether by taxes or inflation (which is a tax on holders of dollar denominated assets). It's just doing more work for other people along the way.
Nah, that's not the point. I forget who it was, maybe Oxfam did a study on the "American dream" income requirements, I think it was:

Family of four, one breadwinner, property owner, annual vacation, eating out once a week, two cars, college education for children...

You know, baseline idyllic suburban living. For the bay it was I believe north of $200K.

That's what I'm talking about. Someone making 250K in Mountainview isn't in it "for the money", they are just trying to live a life that frankly, most other countries can tender for about $75,000 but because of decisions we've made in how we structure society, it takes a quarter million a year.

This is the real equivalent to the 1950s idea of "middle class", it's just gotten so out of reach for most people, we construe people looking for it as greedy.

They aren't. Once you understand that, you can align incentives ... A $5,000 reward doesn't mean much for these people since 250k doesn't mean they're chasing dollars, instead a challenging rewarding job where they can work from home whenever they want, that's what keeps them around.
> eliminate bullshit spending (on things like alcohol, tobacco, lottery)

How do you propose to prevent people acquiring drugs, and gambling?
> The compiler is not responsible for the quality of the source code. The programmer is.

The last 40 years have proven how well it works in practice, specially if one plugs some kind of networking into it.

Taking the responsibility should be taken to the same liability level of other engineering disciplines, then it would be interesting to see how long the myth of only bad programmers write bad C will survive.
Oh come on! Hundreds of minor variations on the 'round blobby SUV with redundant angular surface forms' style; thousands of different variations on 'fat and water emulsified together with a dash of scent' for making your skin softer; fifty gorillion different types of shampoo - 'Because you're worth it!'.

I'm all for a Hayek/Friedman approach to the markets, but I think even they would consider above trivialities in comparison with things like a supportive family, spiritual nourishment, a shared culture, social stability, etc. etc. The market needs to be kept in perspective. If all of that (illusory) choice was vastly attenuated tomorrow, people would quickly adapt.
Will all messenger apps become payment apps by default?
Six spheres of climate: 1. Atmosphere, 2. Biosphere, 3. Hydrosphere, 4. Cryosphere, 5. Lithosphere (tectonic plates), and 6. Solarsphere (Milankovich Cycles).

This is a fantastic article that helps fill in the puzzle of glacial termination/reglaciation. The LR04 Benthic Stack is the overarching story and it is nicely complemented by Arctic/Antarctic ice core data, Chinese cave data, and now Italian cave data.

I think it is the feedback between the configuration of the tectonic plates of the Lithosphere and the ocean currents of the Hydrosphere that controlled the transitions that first initiated the 23k Cryosphere glaciation cycles and the subsequent 41k and 100? K cycles. The isolation of Antarctica, the connection of North and South America, the closing/opening of the Mediterranean, etc.
Sometimes, high-tech solutions from 'developers' isn't needed to combat the deadliest of diseases. Just basic common sense can slow the spread and delay it for enough time for a vaccine to be developed.

Just cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing and wash your hands regularly.
No way. You’re not giving Americans enough credit.
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Sanction the rich. If the rich and middle class loose out on luxuries that they see other countries enjoying, a regime change will quickly follow.

Having the mot bags of rice, or the largest cattle herd only makes one feel rich if they don’t know about the existence of other luxuries. Sooner or later, someone will think I’d we simply off the king, we could have power AND an end to sanctions.
You're twisting history. The tea party backlash was to the bailing out of banks.
One "fun" thing about working in Scala is that you get attacked from all sides; there are people who say that the language is too weird or too purist, and then there are people who say that the problem is that it makes it too easy to have mutable variables or imperative code, or the fact that it allows you to do traditional OO inheritance.

FWIW, my experience is that when you introduce a bit of mutable state or hidden side effects, you usually regret it later. I probably come across as fanatical at times, but that fanaticism is coming purely from painful experience; these academic, theoretical concerns become a lot less academic when you've had to deal with production bugs that they could have helped you avoid.

I find it impossible to imagine the same being true for the C devotees. I've seen fast and slow programs in all sorts of languages. I've never seen a performance problem in anything other than a scripting language that wasn't either solved with a little bit of profiling, or just fundamentally impossible in any language. I've seen a C++ program rewritten in Haskell for a 5x performance speedup. And I've seen so many segfaults.

FWIW, I've found it pretty easy to escape C. In JVM-land you really don't have to deal with it, at least 99.9% of the time; I've hit like two JVM bugs in my entire career. Scala is by no means the easiest to hire for, but it's a great language for getting on with solving business problems - whether you want to do that by churning out reams of code, or by abstracting out the mundane parts and writing only the parts that are specific to the problem. It makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible; very rarely have I felt that the language was limiting me or stopping me from doing what I wanted. There's plenty wrong with it, but it's the best choice I've found.
Why would it be misused? I could just as easily misuse a function written with static types.

Think about all the ambiguities in the English language. Imagine if you just couldn't get your point across to someone because the words you chose together bring up a different image than the one you intended. And if you really want to have nightmares think about all the ways using the public highway might go wrong.

At some point you have to stop worrying about things that aren't a problem in practice. Type errors represent a tiny proportion of the bugs in dynamically typed programs. It just isn't a problem. Emacs doesn't even have namespaces or anything, yet it still works.
Most static analyzers are already able to spot a big chunck of such cases, even if not everything, e.g. clang tidy and VC++ 2019 lifetime profile.

Additionally, SPARC ADI, ARM MTE and CHERRY can be used to invalidate memory regions after free and trap on further accesses.

While not perfect, better than nothing.
Yeah, that's not the case at all. LCP is to ease the suffering of people who are going to die imminently. It was also phased out in 2014, to the detriment of people who want to die with dignity.

https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/news-analysis-what-...
How much extra tax do you think people will be happy to pay -- forever, not just now while we have a pandemic on our hands -- to support this?
It's been a few years since I ran into this, but if memory serves you can work around the limitation of only referring to the recursive table once by joining a lateral subquery into the recursive part of the query. Inside the subquery you're then free of this limitation.
None? More research needed to discover Isaac Newton's buddy to whom we evidently owe so much. Then we can get to work on Proust, Emily Dickinson, Michaelangelo, Kubrick, Thoreau and Nietzsche. All presumably unfairly taking the fame.
"Democracy will die in silence, behind a paywall."
Srsly, I hate the complacent acceptance—even proud embrace—of unsafe unreliable irresponsible tools in this profession. It’s like a badge of pride, and very unhealthy. Because while you may get away with it when your programs are small and simple and manually verifiable, it is an approach to software construction does not—can not—scale.

Worse, it breeds a culture of casual contempt and responsibility shirking that permeates everything we make and do. It’s not just developers—I’ve got plenty choice words for modern management too—but ultimately it’s the developers who are meant to be the domain experts in converting users’ problems into solutions. Too often they convert them into more problems.

As a user who got so hacked off at programmers’ failures to deliver the solutions I need that I eventually taught myself how to do the damn job myself, I’m well aware of all the pitfalls and mistakes on both sides—and have made most of them myself. But at least I learn by it and do my damndest to improve.

..

Now some of my bad attitude may be jealousy, as I really envy your big powerful capable Mk10 programmer brains while I’m struggling to emulate Programmer 1.0 on the wetware equivalent of a Timex 1000 with the wobbly rampack. But mostly it’s furious disbelief with a huge side of frustration as I see all you smart people squander your smarts lazily brute-forcing bloated ugly crappy not-quite solutions, instead of using your smarts to figure out much better ways of doing it and then doing that.

K&R worked under massive, crushing limitations (obsolescent 60s hardware) and turned those limitation to their advantage. Those limitations forced them to work small, smart, and fast; and that paid in spades. Delivered UNIX in record time, which had its flaws, but by golly unlike the “superior” MULTICS it shipped. Creating their own dedicated kernel-implementing language just to do that job, instead of bodging it in some unsatisfactory off-the-shelf language? Yeah, the follow through is not so great (Unix’s faults are well railed on elsewhere), but that original process of creation? Brilliant. #GreatArtists
I describe it in and after the paragraph you took that quotation from.
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It's correct that the memory cells in your body will last a long time. However, (I think) what the parent is getting at is that within a relatively short amount of time the virus will have mutated just enough to evade detection by those memory cells.
None of this really has anything to do with solving the problem.

Living in permanent social distancing, waiting to die from 3rd or 4th infection ... is not a humane way to live.
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I took a SNAP based course in high school before it was part of AP CS principles. I would have preferred if they used scratch. SNAP seemed to have bugs if you wrote non-trivial programs. I tried to write a checkers min-max ai, but it kept on spitting out panics/exceptions at me.
As a metapoint, the fact that there is this confusing epistemological minefield around the specified semantics is a bad thing in itself, separate from the evils of UB.
"Endpoint security" in practice translates to full disk encryption (good) but seemingly also corporate-mandated spyware that logs and reports process and network
metadata, even traffic and keystrokes (bad).

Security isn't the only thing in the optimization equation; endpoint security is only useful — and humane — to a point.
A virtual DOM is a copy of the DOM that is usually diffed and updated based on the differences.

> can we have SPA without it?
Yes. You can set divs to be visiable/hidden based on routing with vanilla js. And there's a framework called Svelte that is a SPA framework without a vDOM.
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No-one should be deciding for others what should be important.

If I were a dictator, maybe I would think pets are pointless. Another person may think science is pointless.

I think the vast majority of what people want is wasteful, but who am I to tell others what their priorities should be?
I remember being a kid. Clunky interfaces didn't bother me, but maybe things change, since I was exposed to clunky interfaces first.
Of course it's not survival of the fittest. We're not shutting down the NHS. People with manageable symptoms are being told to stay at home so the NHS will be able to take care of those who can't manage.
And that is how many CVE entries end up being created, because performance above anything else is what matters.
I am not aware that I claimed any place would have completely open border.

I am certain that you know what I am referring to, but want to avoid a serious discussion by playing with technicalities. No thanks.
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Yes there will be deep social and economic impacts. We wont get out of this unscathed. I think that's obvious. No i don't mean locking people in for a year. That measure should be localized and temporary.
Yes, most likely. But it can be more or less severe depending on whether we manage to contain the 'first wave'
Yes, and I don't really want to discuss the pros or cons of open borders. But it is also notoriously complicated to get a million dollars.
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Yeah, they are contagious. We're all going to get this eventually. Unless you want to somehow live in isolation until a vaccine is found (which is unlikely if nobody is working).
I'm not sure we can wait 12-18 months... Everybody will have to put all resources onto this, because if the virus comes back in autumn, it's going to be worse according some predictions. Hope it's not tho.
there was another thread here recently where the user was discussing if it made sense to show if one was infected on social media - I guess there are several states available in actuality:

1. don't know if you have had or not - had some symptoms now gone.
2. no symptoms ever.
3. have it now for sure. have been tested
5. might have it now.
6. have recovered for sure no longer dangerous. have been tested.
7. think you have recovered.

there are also some other things to check, like have it and have it bad.

If you and other families know you have it and someone is bad off in some family could take care of the bad off kids.

If you have had it and are not a problem anymore you could go back to work (or continue to work home) you could also take other people's kids who are bad off.

Of course this does not handle your problem right now of needing to watch kids and work, but in the future there may be ad hoc systems for taking care of these necessary things. If you have connections to others through your community you should maybe take the time now to figure out strategies. And find out what will happen to kids if and when you get sick and are too sick to take care of them?
Indeed. In particular, one of the biggest and richest industries exists primarily to artificially induce demand for things that aren't needed.
So Trump didn't need to try to buy a German biotech company to produce a vaccine "for the US only"?

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/president-trump-tries-...
scaling back shit that nobody needs

That's half of Silicon Valley gone then.
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Thank you for this tip. This sounds horrendous in terms of maintainability but nice to see it's possible.
Done :) Look forward to hearing from you.
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I hate credentialism like this. It's anti-intellectual.

There are many smart people on HN who are perfectly capable of reading and understanding research literature in an area that is NOT their primary expertise, and who can make half-decent arguments and deductions.

Reply to the points he raises (if you can). Don't belittle him.
> But what happens if they guess your Password Managers master password?

The author fails to mention the fact that most password managers have multi-factor authentication which provides additional checks into logging in to a users account which the attacker will have a hard time finding a way around. 2FA via a phone number shouldn't be recommended at all but a PIN, U2F key / TouchID + master password, etc should be enough to stay secure.

So even if someone installed a keylogger on your computer somehow and obtained your master password, they would need the PIN, U2F or TouchID codes in order to access the manager or even extract a single password. But that depends on the password manager you use. Open-source or not.
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