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I wish I knew. Sales and marketing are way outside my skill set. Fundamentally I just want to be convinced the product is "better" before I agree to jump through the hoops of giving up yet more of my personal information to a company that's going to spam me until it dies. Make me want your product so much I have to seek out the "Get Started" button.

I know that's not how VC metrics work. They want maximum engagement in minimum time. But IMO these kind of "engagements" are hollow and customer-hostile.
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No real solutions until credible leadership takes charge.

For example: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
People are buying guns because of Corona concerns
Thankfully, modern compilers have begun inserting traps much more often upon running into undefined behavior.
If you're all connecting directly to a streaming server (instead of using something p2p), the server will have 10 connections for inbound video feeds and then 10*9 open outbound video connections to send each video to each client connection.
Ya know, because we humans can't regenerate organs at the drop of a hat... or at all. So if your lung tissue starts dying, that's it. The best you can hope for is permanent scarring to replace the dead tissue. Scar tissue is a poor replacement for the original by many measures.
I've worked with plenty of HDDs and SSDs (software engineer for enterprise storage products, working on the hw-sw integration), HDDs and SSDs have pretty rapid failures. Sometimes you get several days or weeks of low-frequency errors or high latencies but more often than not you'll get an almost one-instant failure.

Most of the HDDs I worked with were 7200RPM enterprise drives (SATA & SAS) and the SSDs were enterprise quality too (SAS & NVMe).
I don't buy these arguments. Suppose you have a little bit of UB:

char foo[10];
foo[10] = x;

That's a buffer overflow, and a clever attacker can supply input for which this really will format your hard drive. Writing a standard that allows literally anything for this particular example of UB but somehow requires sensible behavior for other types of UB is not obviously possible. Merely saying that it can't happen doesn't make it so.
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Have you looked at Scala implicits?
The surgical masks are disposable which I get but worst case wash your makeshift mask or carry multiple and keep them segregated in bags. It's not as easy as tossing a surgical mask but a viable alternative in a pinch.

And a further thought, I wonder how many surgical masks we'll find floating in the great garbage patch in the next few years. At my work they also threw out all the plastic cutlery so assuming there is a massive trash surge happening. I'm interested in the environmental impact of this outbreak.
You don't even need to root it.

Most Xiaomi smart-devices speak a protocol called miIO. There are several libraries/bindings for your favorite languages/tools as well as a nice CLI tool[0].

The only tricky part is getting the device token[1]. But once you have that it's smooth sailing.

[0] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vacuum.html
[1] https://python-miio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discovery.html#...
Yeah, no kidding. I'd rather deal with all of the other problems (which aren't really problems as I'm not liable anyway), than risking getting a counterfeit product from Amazon. Also, more websites need to implement Apple Pay.
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> this is WW3 The World vs a Virus

if only we were so unified though. It would be a great ww3 if we were all fighting this together, but it seems like when it was in China the west was like "this is a chinese problem" and now it's in the west and almost dead in china it's more like "this is a democratic problem" (since allegedly democracies were too brittle to be able to respond until it was too late - democracies dither while autocracy hide).

it could have been fought together but instead it's only about us vs them.
> Circuit breakers, like many finance regulations, are intended to address the emotion-driven aspect of prices as perceived by humans, but should not be necessary as trading becomes more algorithmic and less superstitious.

I was under the impression that algorithms were created by humans.
I wonder if OP meant "1 outgoing and 9 incoming" streams.
Sorry this is not a "slightly worse flu". The "Spanish Flu" was both less virulent and less deadly and killed ~50 million world-wide. This is the mostly deadly pandemic since the "Black Death" of medieval times.
Sorry I assumed op was underestimating the mortality rate(which is easy to do if you just look at the mortality rates without digging into the overwhelmed vs not overwhelmed rates), not that he didn't care about human lives.

I think many people think that if we don't strongly mitigate/contain the virus the deaths are measured in 10's of thousands which would need more careful consideration of the downstream effects of closing off a part of our economy.

Looking at my comment the restaurants and bars could sound flippant but I posted that before the thread turned nasty so I wasn't as careful with my words as I would have been had I known this was a contentious subject.

I wish the tone in my head when I wrote the comment came through, I'll try to be more careful in the future, especially regarding this subject. Just sometimes the tone of a comment sounds very different in your head then how it might read.
This is as good a case for jury nullification as I’ve seen in a long time.
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Yeah, most if not all of the larger cities are back to work now.
> I mean, clearly it does not, as this guy was sitting on 17,000 bottles of the stuff.

Because he wasn't allowed to resell. He had no intention of sitting on it.

> Sold out is always a function of 'the cost of getting it to me is too high

Arguing by trying to redefine words is the lowest form of discourse. You know what the term means, and what I meant by it!
Would these specs be good enough to support some kind of VR system similar to the index in the future?
The problem is that this completely ruins any competitive FPS on console. The keyboard/mouse players have a huge advantage.
I can, as a "UX" Designer (Or whatever we are called nowadays) attest to that users do not care about the native look or feel.

The most important thing for a user is how pleasing it looks, not even how easy it is to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic%E2%80%93usability_ef...

The reason that icon sets are similar is probably because they are quite ingrained into our memory. The save icon, although younger people have no idea what it's supposed to represent, is evident to them to be the save function. And since icons are generally meant to guide the user, then you opt to use something they already know. After all they do not have much agency compared to the main content of an app or site.
Totally agree. I just checked my order history: I bought my current Roomba 650 in May 2014, so it's been running 4-5 days a week for almost 6 years straight with various simple part replacements. Really great little product, and excellent customer support and user community.

At one point the tread wore out on the wheels, so it was struggling to get over the threshold into different rooms. Rather than buy a whole new set of wheels, I found a blog saying that Kirby 301291 vacuum cleaner belts just happen to perfectly fit on roomba wheels and work as replacement treads. Now it's been happily rolling around on vacuum belts for the past year or more.
It's paywalled and they still can't afford a copy editor.
They don't really support generic software
It is not a slightly worse flu though. There are numerous experts in record pointing to it's long incubation time, that some people are asymptomatic, that it may be airborne, the death rate... It is not normal seasonal flu and it demands a different response. Now, what that response is can be debated, but it should be more than doing nothing.
I thought that the problem with moss is that if you have a dry spell it just dies away and flakes off leaving bare unprotected earth. Grass dies back but stays physically there for longer, holding the soil together, and then it's ready to recover more quickly afterward.
The fact that the PC and the XBox share the same OS/ecosystem is not enough. A game console is deliberately limited what it can do. You can, for example, remove DirectX from Windows no issue, but for a gaming platform that would be devastating. The simplicity is reflected in the UX.
Because the code was broken from the start, and previous compilers just didn't have the machinery to recognize that or do anything useful with it.
A single company setting a price for its own product, for which viable alternatives exist in the same category at different price points, is a very different animal than a group of suppliers using their monopoly status on a product category to inflate prices for their own profit.
If we’re gonna talk about the economic value of individuals to society, it makes sense to evaluate that value correctly. The premise of the discussion was that a life has finite value to society.
Sometimes the right thing to do is to do nothing.
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I hear what you're saying. The steps we have already taken are good.

Here is why I don't think they are enough.

1) Isolation is not uniform across the country. Some people are working from home. Others aren't. Some schools are closed. Some aren't. Some trips are cancelled. Some planes are still flying with some people. There are still large areas of the country where it's spreading with little or no isolation. The cases there will grow, and walk across state borders.

2) It's not enough, yet. We have some isolation in some spots. But there's not yet even one single spot with measures as drastic as are needed to stop this.

Italy has had stricter measures than the US in place for a little while, and the number of new people seeking hospital care per day is still growing.

The places which have successfully turned this thing around have put measures in place much more drastic than the US, and on a consistent national basis.

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I guess we disagree about the US being more isolated than Italy or not. I think Italy has more isolation in place. Please let me know in what ways things here are more isolated than Italy.
> Surgical masks do not prevent catching the virus, but they help sick people not to spread it due to the mask catching some of the spray droplets when they cough / sneeze

That's not true at all. There is a reason why surgical masks are used by surgeons, but for the protection level needed by medical professionals, it is used as a part of a wider system.

Used casually it prevents much of the droplets in the air from entering your respiratory system, as well as preventing a lot of touching of the face. There are studies that indicate wearing a mask decreases virus respiratory several-fold.
I find this a little surprising because, Anker, Eufy's parent company, has a good reputation from my perspective.
i agree, and its for the wonderful msp430 architecture
Yes ! We use this one at work (150 employees) and it's really good. You can do only audio or audio + video. It supports recordings and is self hosted. Give it a try !
In this case do you mean the world's xenophobia of the states? I find it hard to believe that this message somehow stokes the United States to xenophobic sentiment.
>It is surprising to me to. If this was Star Trek world, you'd have computational models built by experts shared and discussed the very first day

The problem with Star Trek (esp. TNG) is that it doesn't reflect reality at all. It gives you the idea that the people in charge really know what they're doing and are competent. In our reality, this simply isn't the case.

I love watching TNG reruns to relax. It lets me fantasize about living in a well-run society run by mostly competent people. That's not the society I live in now, but this is why this form of entertainment is called "escapist".
This is what I mean.

Suppose you've got a small shop owner. Right now their sales are temporarily down by 60% -- but they're still open, or it would be down by 100%, so they're not unemployed. Unemployment doesn't help them. They also own the building, so reallocating a lease isn't their problem. Their problem is that after making their mortgage payment and utility bills, they can only pay themselves a third of their normal salary, and in two months of spending down savings they won't have money to buy food.

Which is also a problem for all the places they usually buy everything else from, because all the non-necessities get cut out of their budget.

Unless they get an injection of cash.
I love this feature! After a lifetime of throwing my socks on the floor, Roomba finally trained me to put them in the laundry hamper. I've learned to keep my floors tidy all the time, and my life is much better for it.
> Why do modern compilers break old code and then claim that it was broken from the start?

Because strictly speaking that old code is broken in that it violates the standard. Older compilers either didn't use the more aggressive interpretation of undefined behavior or didn't implement the optimizations that resulted in bad runtime behavior.
The difference is that for regular flu we have vaccines, herd immunity, and medicines that work. We have none of those things for COVID-19. The effect of that is to drive up hospitalization rates to the point that it's a DDoS on the healthcare system. People suffering from unrelated issues now can't get care on time, and some of them will die too.

We don't even know for certain if getting it once makes you immune. How do you know herd immunity will work if you don't have the answer to something basic like that?

Isolating just over-60s only works to some extent. What about the healthcare and nursing home workers whom they interact with?
wonderwonder says> "There is no leadership on this issue."

There is an abundance of leadership: however, in many instances the leadership is unnecessary and/or ineffectual. One underlying problem is that those of us brought up as political science majors think they should, indeed, _must_ do something, anything! Better that they wait, watch, proceed with caution and steer within their legal limits.

wonderwonder says> "Health leaders are urging isolation while at the same time elected leaders from a certain party are going on TV and twitter and urging people to go out to restaurants and bars."

Here you paint with a broad brush, smearing all Republicans because of the statements/actions of a handful. Shame, shame. And if those few truly believe that the situation is not as bad as you believe, well then, what would you do? Incarcerate them? Is it not better to merely correct or chastise those who are wrong rather than use them as an instrument to slur millions of innocent people?

wonderwonder says> "thousands are dying in Europe".

It is about one and one half thousand dead right now. More will die of course. "Thousands"? Why exaggerate so? The situation is bad, by why alarm when alarm does no good, indeed harms?

wonderwonder says> "With no captain is anyone surprised the ship appears to be drifting? Pence appears to be doing his best but he is clearly handcuffed..

Vague, poetic, and simply wrong. All those who know what to do are doing it ASAP. Pence is handcuffed because he is the vice president and has no assigned tasks other than what the President allows. He's a backup drive for the President: if the President dies Pence will be plugged in and powered up. Until then he'd be foolish to take a pro-active role.

wonderwonder says> " there is literally zero true planning going on. ".

Everybody who _can_ plan is planning. There is likely too much planning and not enough paying attention to what is in front of us. You are not privy to the planning (probably for good reason - people will take advantage of such situations to make themselves rich or even, dare I say, gain some obscure political advantage!-). "*

I could go on but I've made my point. Better to condense your political views into a post 1/5 the length, omitting the misleading and/or false parts. Sadly, when i reread the post, I find little that does not mislead. You are clearly literate; you can pen a sentence well; you can do much better.
Even if that's the case any gain would be instantly wiped out if one Russian at one time made a decision he, according to rules, should make instead of doubting and waiting things out.

But I forgot already what my original point was. :-) I'll try to educate myself about historical evaluation of Pax Americana.
With what money? The US population is 327 million.

$1,000 * 12 * 327,000,000,000 = $3,924,000,000,000

Collected US tax revenue for 2019 was $3.46 trillion. Even if you could afford it in terms of money, it still wouldn't change anything, because you still have the same amount of goods available.
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> Writing is hard. Expressing technical ideas in writing is very hard.

That.

I'm always baffled by the amount of positive feedback a well written document or well-structured presentation can get you as opposed to weeks of hard work and craftsmanship that no non-technical person is ever going to notice.
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Before you advocate punishing private company managers, consider holding government employees, managers, and politicians to the same standard. Every manager in government should be sure that the people who report to him or her are following the law, else, the manager gets fined and goes to jail.
My understanding is that's CSS reflows what makes DOM operations expensive
This is why CSS contain property is such a big performance revolution.

There is also if I remember well, a special kind of Dom that is only for logic, therefore being unaffected to reflows.
I don't remember how it's called.
I'm guessing it has something to do with game compatibility improvements. Consoles used to only support games from that generation, i.e. Nintendo and Super Nintendo are not compatible. I think the model is more like an iPhone, most apps are compatible with multiple platforms and versions of the OS, to a point. So my guess is that its a play to change the way people think about console generations.
"We here at Carry book a lot of travel."
We'll apparently not. There's literally 100 reasons why this would happen in the normal course of business.
Someone make me this watch, with an open center and gears. You can drop the year dial and maybe the seconds...
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I meant rationality in the economic sense, where we would purely look at the cost-benefit of the decision, and where everyone else would look at it the same way. In that case, even a slight net savings in lives would be OK, even if that meant that administering the vaccine would cause some deaths.

I'm not saying that is how we SHOULD act. I'm definitely not saying that's how we DO act. Clearly, taking into account all of the factors that you mention, we have a very high standard for action, and that's a rational choice given the realities. It's still not a rational choice from the economics perspective, which strictly looks at cost/benefit.
If you don't hear "Your code was wrong. Let's discuss." as a junior engineer, you really should try to find a better team.

Junior engineer code (hell, senior engineer code!) is quite frequently wrong, and a team with a good code review culture should absolutely be pointing that out and using it as a mentoring opportunity.
Games like fortnite (used to?) puts you in lobbies based on input type not platform. Switch was lumped into mobile IIRC.
I think that makes a lot of sense. When people say users don't care about UI - that always leaves me wondering - have they tried releasing a little toy website or something to their friends that didn't have a hamburger menu on mobile? Even with all the blog posts I remember a while back about how those are suboptimal - I got question after question of "how do you navigate?" And this isn't like a rhetorical question by the way, not am I saying everyone would be like that for every app, I'm just curious if there are different social circles that react differently.

My sor of laypersons intuition about UX has been that it's just about reducing cognitive effort for new adopters. For things that don't really matter to functionality, make it consistent with what they'd expect given their context so they don't have to think about it. Hamburger menus aren't "intuitive," give them to a tech naive person and they'll be confused, but they sure feel that way today because of how everyone has been thoroughly trained in how to use them to navigate them, so why not take advantage of that social training to lower the adoption activation energy? I would think that I would rather people spend effort figuring out the parts that have to be different for the new functionality. I'm curious to hear from someone with actual design training if that's a reasonable approach, or if there might actually be some reason that the opposite is actually empirically true (like a unique UX makes people feel like power users and locks then into the platform or something?)
At 85 you have a 10% chance of dying each year for any and all reasons, and it goes up each year.

So most of us are indeed used to losing about 15% of our elders each year, and have been forever.
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> What would the cost be to set up testing machines every few blocks?

Where are you getting near infinite qualified and trained lab personnel from? Machines that can mostly automate the process cost $500k - $1m easily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-jaC3_d3o (Roche commercial!)
The idiotic meme that "masks don't protect you from getting the virus" is incredibly frustrating.

I know H/N loves binary thinking, but the either/or fallacy is harmful and dangerous, especially in this scenario. People fall into it with the age-based impact of the virus too: young people feel completely immune, so why care? The same with masks: they don't protect you 100%, so people just mentally consider them worthless, and then there are dozens of HN posts repeating the misinformation in short order.
> Developers will be using the overall 16GB of memory in two ways: there’s 10GB for fast GPU optimal memory, 3.5GB for standard memory, and 2.5GB reserved by the OS.

2.5GB for the OS? Can someone explain why an OS needs that much?
Would love to see the Clickspring channel on YouTube do a series on this. If you aren't familiar with Chris's work, he's got a series on a wonderful clock he made, mostly brass. Fun to watch. Apparently his machining techniques aren't great but I'm no machinist so doesn't matter to me.
It's a perennial Hacker News topic.
this is a complete misunderstanding of what undefined behavior is, the compiler doesn't detect UB and then call emit_nasal_daemons().
Depends on where you work. My time at Microsoft was much closer to what you said I will not hear.

There was a parable they used to use in training about how a young developer found a flaw that would only happen “one in a million” times - not worth fixing. An older developer does the math on how many times the feature might run across the total userbase and found we’d be annoying millions of users.

Microsoft did have a pseudo hazing ritual where you were forced to setup your own machine. I was surprised how many developers couldn’t do that. I was further surprised that ability to do so wasn’t correlated with skill. Being able to find help if you didn’t know was very highly correlated though.
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