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Be careful with how you throw around your "not very American at all" claims.

America is a big place. It is unwise to presume you know all of it.

In my part of it, most of us think letting people die of privation due to misfortune and societal factors outside their control in such a wealthy society is cruel and foolish (read history to understand why it is foolish). In my part of America, most of us also think letting random individuals own weapons constructed purposely for killing multiple humans quickly is absolutely insane.

YMMV
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Guess what? They're all bad! Incompetence, perverse incentives, misinformation, exploitation: we're surrounded by it.

On Hacker News I expect a technical discussion and shared files how to build PCR kits at home to test for the virus. I want to see people sharing biohacks. Not this meaningless useless byllshit.
You're not even being a good mechanical watch snob if you aren't valuing complications like a perpetual calendar.

And what's up with the condescension and looking down upon people who want more than the barest possible level of functionality? Get off your high horse.
> I'd go nuts if someone told me I had to use more classes, or a certain language, or tabs over spaces, or whatever

Yeah, but they usually have loaded guns to our head so we tend to comply.

Jeez.
The test accuracy of the WHO test as far as I understood it was good if someone was already experiencing symptoms once viral load was high enough. The bigger issue was false negatives, people would get released from quarantine measures, then spread it (like the cruise ship). They recommended anyone within contact to self quarantine until symptoms had reached a point they could get a definitive test. At this point testing early and coming up negative doesn't mean anything, you should still stay quarantined and continuously get retested, since a lot of people who tested negative were found to have had it the whole time when symptoms present and were given the all clear before.

In summary, the testing early doesn't change the decision tree, which is stay quarantined for 14 days, until symptoms present or not, so little point was seen to testing until then.

Problem is now, we can't track it, so everyone ideally should self quarantine or limit as much as possible social interaction and get tested if they have good reason to believe they've been exposed. Early testing will catch a lot of people but not all, so it will slow the spread, so at this point the decision tree changes and we need to start testing more, if nothing else to get a sample to extrapolate the true spread of this thing.
> We have _scientific_ proof that COVID-19 is not a big deal.

Are you one of those people who think Y2K was hyped up too?

China is calming down because of a tremendous amount of hard work, and some draconian restrictions on personal freedoms. The virus didn't just die down by itself. We shouldn't panic. But we should also not be calling it nothing.

On a meta-level, this is why societies don't value prevention. And why firefighters who pull people out of wrecked cars are considered heroes, but Nils Bohlin, the inventor of the 3-point seatbelt, usually is not (I think they're both heroes, in different ways). Because we have people who deny there may problem in the future, and then after it's prevented through the application of a ton of someone else's effort and ingenuity say "So it didn't turn out all that bad after all. See? I told you."
The perception of Apple's Midas Touch has never been dependent on banal things like objective comparisons.
The description says 2000 and the title says 1200
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I have made a large amount of money trading cryptocurrency over the years. This correlation is spurious at best. These stories are so wrong it is hilarious. The price action of crypto is unlike any other market. What we have seen over the last month is massive legs down caused by whales flooding the market at specific times. These bart patterns are so obvious I can't believe people can't draw these incredibly easy to see conclusions. Crypto is pure manipulation. This coronavirus panic happens to coincide with a period right before the block reward halving where it is in the interest of miners to drop the price as much as possible as to make the mining operations of competitors infeasible leaving them with a larger slice of the mining pool.
>most of it wasn't some coordinated attack from St. Petersburg

This is completely false. A cursory search will yield results explaining Russia's massive effort on social media (and Twitter in particular) to interfere in the election.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/2016-elec...

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2017/Update-Ru...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/19/twitter-a...

etc....
On the other hand I have bought 2 used System76 laptops from eBay and they honored the existing original warranty and replaced the motherboard without ever asking me for my proof of purchase (its all tracked by serial #). So yeah I recommend buying the extended warranty, and they are really good about repairs and Linux support.
they call it deadwood trimming in corporatespeak
Public spheres of all sorts have long not worked that well for women and girls.

I don't think this is the way to remedy that.
Sure, I meant for the non-technical aspects that the previous poster mentioned - chain of custody, sample integrity.
No. Not at all.

I just feel attached to my bed during work.
I remember being impressed with how rigidly the 90s show 'Crime Traveller' stuck to the rules it outlined of time travel.

Aside from that, it wasn't a great show (only 1 series made) and watching the first episode[1] back I can safely say it's not aged well either.

But it's one show that has always stuck in my memory for when the writers actually took the theory of time travel seriously.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118292/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpuzsJMaUg
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Naw I think you hit the most important bits right up front :)
> login info and MFA devices in a lock-box for them to inherit.

This seems wise, but won't work unless the software allows multiple MFA devices. I need my MFA device & phones on me to access my accounts several times a day. My bank logs me out after a few minutes and requires MFA to get back in
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They are selling these for ~$6000. They already tried this marketing approach with Shaquille O'Neil. It's just not that cool to wear googles on your head.
Perhaps. I can think of a couple reasons to steer people away from Rc/Arc: they are less efficient than references and they don't support cyclic garbage collection. On the other hand, Rc/Arc are very helpful for newcomers coming from garbage collected languages and they can be more efficient than cloning. If I asked an employee to convert some high level module to Rust and that employee used a lot of Arcs where they weren't really necessary, I would say that employee had done a reasonably good job.
Zooming in on the image crashed my phone.
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Good point. To help make such decisions, maybe one could also try to gauge the overall level of honesty, competence, and responsibility (edit: and strength given trends) of the sponsoring entity. (I have been in USD and varied bonds rather than stocks for a while now, partly due to general debt and overconfidence levels, and plan to revisit things, around August after current trends play out more.)
No need to be a jerk, I didn't realize that because I'm an American without a background in financial markets' histories.

You could rephrase this comment more cordially

> Most western economies outside the US have been negative since 2000 as well.

> In Japan, they're quite negative over the last 30 years, once one accounts for

> Over the last 130 in the United States, there have been three intervals of >20 years where prices did not increase

You can present additional information that helps illustrate a point without being an antagonist, and people will be more receptive. It's particularly counterproductive to aggressively reply in agreement with more detail.
One major difference here to keep in mind is that Europe as a whole generally has much, much higher population density than most of the US, as well as far less distance between population centers. Accidental spread between towns and cities is much easier there just by pure geography.
Ask HN: What is a reasonable level of bug reports for a web application?
We are a two developer team who just release a web application to solve an issue in an existing online community. It was a rush job (we only had 3 weeks to get it done), but we pulled it off and we are fairly happy with the result. The issue starts with the fact that we expected about 300 users total, and quickly surpassed 1000 in 24 hours. This has easily become the largest application either of us have worked on (in terms of unique visitors per day).

So here is the crux of the issue. What is an acceptable ratio of bug reports to users? We are getting some weird reports that we can't reproduce (and I strongly suspect is a result of the unexpected speed of scale), so where is the line between we can write it off as "A billion proverbial monkeys at a billion proverbial typewriters will manage to find an edge case. It happens", versus "This is a chronic issue we need to prioritize".

We would love the input from someone who has experienced this before, as this is entirely new ground for the both of us.
Anyone who ignores an invitation to have a drink with Stephen Hawking[1] has nothing to say that is worth hearing.

1. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...
> Who is the counterparty to these trades?

Typically large trading firms, market makers.

> When the market sentiment is negative, the number of these counterparties are narrow and dwindling

That's why his $2600 initial investment made in a much calmer market is now worth $310k :)

For the right price you'll find somebody willing to sell you the insurance you seek. But in a volatile market like today, that price may be way too much for most people.
> ...one of those people...

Ad hominem

Proof question: How many rats do you need to test to determine with a high rate of accuracy a disease's CFR?
It needs to be a UVC disinfectant bulb/source though, so massive cancer risk increase (and VERY bad for your eyes).
Stars are by far the largest fusion reactors physically possible in any given system. It makes sense to use them as such if you can.
Yup. If you look at the end of the 'changes' link[1] you'll see individual bugzilla links for issues (or PRs as they call them) that were resolved in a given point release.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/changes.html
As a biochemist, i think it's absolutely clear that viruses are not alive, because they don't do anything. No metabolism, no signalling, no changes in structure, no use of energy or materials. They just float about! It's only when they encounter a cell that anything happens, and then it's mostly the cell's machinery doing it.

If i was a molecular biologist, i would probably think it was absolutely clear that viruses are alive, because they contain a genome, and proteins encoded by the genome, and they use the proteins to make more copies of the genome. What else is life?
I don't really know much about the financial market in the US and after all the stuff that has been going down, I am really enjoying the education I am getting from so many sources on what exactly the market can do and how people are continuously trying to beat it (some winning) even as it heads to the ground. Having a 401k but not really knowing much about it, I really think I need to do some more research into all of this before I continue down that path.
Okay you're just trolling now. We are very much in the initial exponential phase of Covid-19. As I derived above, once you get to 10% you might start seeing deviations from exponential in the SIR model. The bump that you saw in China is not due to this deviation from exponential growth behaviour. We luckily never got close to 10% infection. It's due to getting to negative exponential growth. The beta(t) part of my answer above.

You're free to use whatever sensible model you want in your analysis, but you are criticising people for using exponential models. You have no arguments for that. Then you throw out Wikipedia, falsely claiming that exponential models are nowhere to be found there. Then you demand peer reviewed studies that use an exponential model, which I provide. But somehow that is not enough either.

In fact there are numerous assumptions in the SIR/exponential growth model. These might not hold. We might get slightly sub-exponential growth in some diseases. There is vast literature on that. But the base line in all the vast literature on this is that the most natural, obvious and common behaviour is exponential.
Wouldn't it be this?

date="200$year"

Or does foxpro somehow know to zero pad a 1 digit number?
I don't think so. It's used heavily by D3. There are many useful applications of SVG for rendering on the web.
Depends on the crisis and what you consider "currency". Hyperinflation is also a crisis.

More generally, in times where people would rather have useful things like food, tools, and gas than pieces of paper you'll be screwed if cash is all you have - because there's going to be one hell of a price hike. Even more so because economic output is likely to go down.

Then in case the crisis gets really bad it'll turn out you can't eat cash. Nobody is going to hand over food or other useful things in exchange for a few bits of paper with questionable value.
I guess the SD card thing depends on your requirements, but I like carrying my music library with me and a few movies, so I don't mind if the volume of my phone is a few cubic millimeters more.

I would be fine with an easily replaceable battery though... but again, I don't mind a little more volume.
It depends on the nature of the crisis. In a monetary crisis, yes, probably. But this is a bit different than that.
No, the hard part of trading anything is having edge over other people. Options are not priced assuming there will be a "miraculous recovery" in the next 24 hours. They're priced based on the world's expectation of future volatility, through a very competitive market mechanism. There is no reason to assume you have better insight than people who model this stuff full-time.

It's irresponsible to suggest that making money trading is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Best case, it's a slightly negative EV gamble with high variance.
The ability to test for this scales linearly with number of people...
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You’re thinking of the early 1920s for Germany, during the Weimar republic.
So there is nothing governments can do to help, its 100% down to personal responsibility?
What’s been going on in Shanghai? How serious has the lockdown been?
Not exactly a breakthrough as testing take 3-5 hours in other countries... and in the US.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/were-behind-curve-us...
Q: What's the turnaround time when you have a sample on hand? How long does it take to extract RNA from the sample, put it into a polymerase chain reaction machine, etc.?

A: About 2 to 3 hours to do the testing, but because the process requires us to batch samples, you can't really just test the sample as they come in. In order to conserve reagents and labor, you' wait until you have a certain bolus of samples and then test them together. So you do testing once or twice a day.
Not saying that fiat money is necessarily a good idea, and not clamping down on gold standard currency, or anything, but the article doesn't say that the money would be printed. If I'm not mistaken.

If what the mostly conspiratpry documentaries say is true, then the Fed lends "the state" money (at interest) which is then needed to be paid back.

That would mean that the Fed probably has money reserves on its own.
> I wonder if some soaps are better than others at destroying the virus.

not in any related field, but from what I understand the more basic ph the soap the better, modulo additional added enzymes and chemicals
I still assume it is possible and likely that something like cryptocurrency will eventually become incredibly valuable, but I see that happening only when technical and social hurdles are overcome to make it as widespread and scalable as the current credit card system for everyday transactions.
Unfortunately for current cryptocurrencies, they just don't have what it takes to compete with decades of trust to get everyone to put their daily spending money in them, that is what will make a future system valuable. The current role they play as a speculative investment seems quite silly to me, literally they only thing they are good for is transactions, if you can't do that effectively I don't see value in the tokens at all.

Imagine if someone started a stock exchange and listed a single stock, their own, the stock for the exchange itself, and no one else's. While you can buy some things with bitcoin or ethereum, it's nowhere near widespread, so that really seems to be effectively what it functions as for now, which looks very bizarre on its face. Unfortunately for the people who do want to get rich, if there is an eventual winner in crypto, their rise will probably look something like what we see now, limited buy in from speculators followed by some inflection point, so it's entirely possible buying this dip of ethereum or some other coin might be the right thing, but I'm just not sure any of them are ready yet. Even with SegWit and other stuff happening in bitcoin, it just isn't clear to me that becoming a cash or credit card replacement system is even the goal anymore, which seems like they are just riding on their first mover advantage to prop up the value more than anything at this point.

Note: reposting this from the stock trading halt discussion after its parent appears to have been deleted.
Couldn’t that be exploited by holding the person hostage, making their dead-man’s-switches fire while they’re alive?
But this excerpt says that this technique obviates the need for a server process? Are they saving the contents of memory into files using mmap, and then using this state on every run?
The money that they are injecting is only going to be a momentary stopgap against the coming credit collapse.
It's not a "perfect" analogy, but what ever are?

The patent is the land, not the crop. The products that can be produced with the patent are the crops, with which it is impossible to have without the patent. Think of it this way, you spend years cracking a new invention. You bring it to market. You immediately go out of business because a larger company takes your invention and sells it at half the price you can because they don't need to recoup your R&D costs. Without patents you cannot protect against this circumstance.

Trade secrets don't protect against this because trade secrets don't protect against reverse-engineering whereas patents do. Patents are a temporary monopoly. Trade secrets can last indefinitely. Patents have a relatively short lifetime, though people do argue one still too-long for software.
Neither do I if I can avoid it, I use type hierarchies and generic methods.

Unfortunately it's not very popular; the only supporting languages I know of are Common Lisp, Julia & Perl 6.

I've designed and implemented several scripting languages [0] over the years, but they all have this pattern in common, I've never felt tempted to implement classes.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
You don't have to transport a heavy metal, instead all you have to do is ensure an electrical grid, fully functional internet access, and a distributed network of other people! I'm not sure that's any easier than carry around metal :P
It's estimated that human circadian rhythms are just over 24 hours.
To address your point more directly: many think that Bitcoin isn’t tangible because you have to trust that the network of full nodes are verifying transactions, and if they stop then Bitcoin ceases to exist.

Full nodes have financial incentives to run and they do so today at a scale that rivals the internet. It’s not a favor to Bitcoin, it’s a business. They would only stop if the financial incentive ceased to exist. I can’t think of a reason node operators would cease to care about their own financial well-being. That’s baked into our species.

Note that your reservations apply equally (and potentially more so) to fiat. USD is a virtual currency. Cash is on the way out. You will not be able to spend your USD offline. USD is based on a network of centralized banks. You cannot spend your fiat without a computer asking permission from these centralized systems.

The world stops if the internet stops. That’s not a Bitcoin problem. Bitcoin actually improves on the state of things by replacing encumbant authorities and centralized computing systems with math and a decentralized network.

I’ll add this. It’s not the current state of the world, but there is a very real chance Bitcoin can be made available off-internet via a satellite network. This would prevent state-level censorship like what we see when authoritarian regimes cut the internet.

https://github.com/Blockstream/satellite/blob/master/README....
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen those terms before, but yeah, I have been debating it for a while with coworkers.

I'm a bit in between the way described there, though, since I'll often happily leave other objects mocked as long as I know that my contract successfully called that object. I don't need to test all the way through their own implementation - there should be sufficient testing on that object to drive a refactor of it. I just want to support a refactor of me.

My view is basically: "we're gonna have to restructure some of this code as future requirements come in, so let's make sure our tests ensure that the things we really want to happen do happen" (like an update being sent to the database or other backend service layer).

I have similar hesitancy about applying a lot of design patterns early. Most of the places I've worked have been in the experimentation and rapid feature development stages of the business, with all development being internal development (rather than providing an SDK to others), so being able to change the code is more critical than being able to treat the code as more of a framework.
While that's true, a competent Presidency still would have benefited people in a variety of ways, such as realistic centralized messaging about the risks of the disease and how to prepare for it, and better oversight and support of test kit distribution.

And, you know, not literally calling it a 'Democratic hoax' in the midst of people in the US being infected by the disease.
It should use whatever browser your operating system has set as the default. But please let me know if that is not the case.
I won't disagree with anything you said when it comes to what the governement did/didn't do but that's the thing, I think the sheer element of luck and numbers that comes with pandemics makes most of that irrelevant. Infected people came from Europe, Iran, China, etc. I don't think any adequate response could've dealt with that. Consider Italy, in which we just didn't know the extent of the disease's spread.

Would it have been wise to test people that travelled there? What if Italy was doing just fine but Sweden had an unknown huge infection number? Would checking every single traveller make sense then, because it could've been anywhere? And from the point when it was already inside the US and highly contagious, does Trumps incompetence really matter?

I mean we are at that point where it's definitely not stoppable. if the situation worsens in terms of mortality and infection numbers become unmanageable then yeah I think that would be something else. But right now the US is actually doing better than the average