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> from "wouldn't-it-be-nice-if-we" column into the "must-be-done" column

Sounds like some of the benefits from the Coronavirus crisis, like the increase in working from home.
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Given the repeated outages on the platform it seems silly for someone new to investing to join up with them now. Any alternate recommendations for a free or close to free platform for an amateur doing this mostly for fun?
Capitalism has taken a hit since Roman times.
There's intuition built on copenhagen interpretation, like probabilities and such, and people want to elaborate on that intuition.
Sum types in general are really cool
found one:

https://www.podchaser.com/creators
this is incredible. you have no idea how times i have been needing to monitor multiple log files on our server and never new about this. here i am opening multiple ssh terminals and switching between them. you are a life saver.
I worked at a University that had a 28 story tower. Around 1998 they set the clock in the lift management system to 1 January 2000 and all the lifts lowered themselves to the bottom of the lift wells because they hadn't been serviced for 50 years (or something).

So yes indeed stuff was broken, but it got fixed before the big date.
This has been the mainstream position for most of those 50 years. Working on the "foundations of physics", which is what you call "arguing" was considered disreputable and career-destroying for a long time. Read, for example, "Something Deeply Hidden" by Sean Caroll for more about this.

A lot of really really smart people tried to solve this by experimenting more. It didn't work. It's time for philosophy again, and in my view, also to accept that the weirdness is not going away. Nature doesn't care about what we find weird or not.
They didn't mention confiscation anywhere.
I'm not convinced since maybe in the early days only the worst cases were being tested so they may be missing a significant proportion of the population. The article itself didn't balance the strengths or weaknesses of their approach which would be helpful. Open to being told otherwise.
The idea that you can provide a default option that is the best tuned for every workload is a very naive one.

There are many changes I would make to increase performance for one workload that would have a deleterious effect on another. An easy example is the dirty ratio in Linux - depending on the speed of your local storage, what the size of your working set of memory is, how frequently the data in the working set changes, keeping the settings the same across workloads and systems could be disastrous - it could result in extended periods where you are stuck in a synchronous flush to disk and block all other IO. That same setting on another server might be perfectly acceptable and prevent having to go to slower block storage devices sooner than necessary, increasing overall performance.

It's the same with how you configure your servers - you can throw more spindles at sequential workloads and have great performance, but a random workload really should be using flash storage, etc. etc. etc.

Most people strive to provide sane defaults that strike a good balance for the majority of workloads. This is going to be beneficial to the largest number of people. It's totally fair for someone to provide feedback on this sort of thing, and give details on how things could be further optimized to fit a specific workload. Defaults are not best practices - they are a starting point.
>In emergencies it is pretty standard procedures to ration essential stuff in limited supplies

We're talking about laws restricting free access to drugs before emergencies, not emergency quarantine.
Every second you spend on HN instead of moonlighting for extra cash to donate (it goes without saying you already donate your salary beyond what's required for subsistence) is frankly disgusting to me. You're murdering by the second.
Chelsea Manning ordered to be released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562041

one thing i love about hacker news is proving snarky people wrong.
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> I saw that the large majority today was lost on longs, with shorts being much less active.

Given that Futures now have the most open interest, I'd say the long/short ratio is practically equal these days in Bitcoin land.

> Do you believe it’s likely that the crash was intentional with the large exchanges pushing the price down on various exchanges to make money off the leveraged longs?

No. Only bad traders will say that! I don't think there is any kind of price meddling from the exchanges themselves. Any exchange that does that will end up burning to the ground eventually (and there were exchanges that did that). The reason is, a single exchange will unlikely be able to move the price to the sought after direction. Given that trading is distributed through multiple exchanges that are in different jurisdiction, I can hardly see them colluding to manipulate the price.

> Some of my family is heavily invested in crypto, so I like to know what is going on.

God help them.
I think you should stop saying it is impossible. You know, billions just vanished on the stock market.

If enough people will believe that it is possible to change, it will change.
Re home: Maybe split it into two: an "uncategorized" tab and an "all" tab
Medical personnel outside of China were still laughing this off as "just another flu" until mid February at the earliest. Unfortunately all I have is anecdote...but it took far too long for people to take this seriously, because doctors are humans too and aren't necessarily trawling internet forums for happenings.
k9: yes to all.
In Africa when you suffer from Malaria they gradually give you Chloroquine, Amodiaquine or even Quinine. From my experience, Quinine is the strongest. I grew up taking those medicines. Man. They knock you out. Your ears are no longer working the first 3 days of taking Quinine. You lose the sense of smell. I guess they slow down the Corona 19 virus. My mom has already sent me Amodiaquine and Quinine here in Italy.
Self-infecting to 'get through it' is an individualistic approach for those outside the risk groups and will appeal to different degrees based on cultural norms and government policies in different countries.

It risks creating a higher transmission rate - initially for the individual and their community, and then across wider populations - and that could overwhelm health services, leading to insufficient care coverage and ultimately unnecessary harm & deaths.

Developing herd immunity is a useful eventual population-wide goal but it mustn't be rushed since the virus can require intensive care and have fatal consequences for at-risk groups.

Unvaccinated chicken pox has a fatality rate less than 0.01% for children and 0.02% for adults[0][1] while COVID-19 has been estimated anywhere between 1% and 5% and is certainly higher than that for those in older age[2].

It is these higher fatality rates for at-risk populations which make the idea of intentionally spreading the virus dangerous to the community due to their potential to increase load on health services.

It might be sensible and responsible to re-title this post to 'Warn HN: Discourage Corona parties'. There's also some risk involved by spreading awareness of the idea of a Corona party, unfortunately.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_disease_case_fat...

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/varicella.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Progn...
I think the point is to have the viewer at least try to read the long version. If they can't or won't, they can quickly scroll down.

TL;DRs at the top are just like attention grabbing headlines and opening paragraphs that often don't tell you the whole picture, either on purpose or simply because it's impossible to do so in a sentence/paragraph.
There's definitely a few competitors, but many are dodgy, too localized, poor quality, fraudulent advertising.

X-Team and Gigster seem decent, a little higher than Upwork, below Toptal.
I checked the most recent result from that search: http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=50843

At the very bottom, it says "original data will be published on web-based public database in 6 months after the research" which is a bit disappointing.
Finally.

I agree with you!

Need to see wood not just trees.

That's also why I'm so triggered all the time when some bozo talks about "recession risk" again as if that was the problem.

This is a systemic crisis (in fact, my bet is on system collapse) and it's been years in fact decades in the making. If it hadn't been "coronavirus" hysteria it would have been something else to ignite the tinderbox.

Good riddance. It's kind of inconvenient for me personally but I think the system is stupid, evil and not accessible to reason or even pleading for change. As long as some portion of people can happily profit from status quo, they ride roughshod over everybody else and compensate their conscience with meaningless social wokeness and virtue signaling on IG/Fakebook.

Let the system burn down, maybe then people will listen to reason.
so she is ordered released but still has to pay $256K in fines. i was so hoping that those fines would be waved.
All interesting but you just can't compare a Flu in 1918 with today.

The list is endless of what we didn't have in 1918, from computers to do DNA sequencing to even testing the way we do today.
>But if you put the intelligent, intuitive individual on the factory floor or trading floor to learn the complex supply chain and shadow the most skilled in the business, then you not only give them a well-paying job with growth potential, but you also give them the bespoke skillset to flourish in the role and the industry.

>This model isn’t new. It’s apprenticeship

This model is the existing model for every new graduate who starts a job today. Any new hire in a decent company is going to be getting taught the industry skills from more senior members of the team. Plenty of companies have mentoring programmes. The fact they have a degree which provides the basic mathematical and theoretical pre-requisites for their job doesn't mean they turn up at Google on day one and are expected to sink or swim. Even beyond that, plenty of companies provide new college graduate schemes where you rotate through the business.

I just don't understand what this article is bringing to the table that's new, other than maybe informing us that some Swiss banks were failing to run their business properly for a while.
Someone here probably knows this, so I figured I'd ask: I submitted a small patch to the kernel a while back and I made a typo in it and it broke the tests, and then I couldn't figure out how to get the test bot to pick up my new patch and by that point I assume anyone who would possibly have reviewed my patch stopped bothering. Is there something I should do to get it looked at again?
That's because it's not an interesting thought as related to the notion of free will. Everyone accepts that humans have subconscious biases that impact their decisions. The discussion of free will is higher level than that. The fact that you can't will yourself into not breathing is not a refutation of free will.

The question is essentially, when all biases are accounted for, is there some aspect of free will that remains? You experience free will constantly, and you assume it in all interactions with other agents. Is that an illusion, are we just puppets in a play? Many philosophers believe that it isn't, even if determinism is real. I'm not sure if super-determinism is still compatible or not, but it may well be.
So you were correctly 'stereotyped' and decide that the best response is to complain about that?
Checked access to c++ containers also throw ... https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/map/at
All that Purell need to be put in good use.
Yes, key point is to separate classes if they have state or not. I have a simple convention in my code base, a repository does not have state, a service depends on repositories & can have state, thus a repository can have lots of methods (different ways of retrieving data) & a service is specialized & only have small number of methods.

If an existing services does not match exactly what you need to do, you write a new service and reuse the same repositories.
you'd have to take ridiculous amounts of zinc for long periods of time for that to happen.
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Being a small country definitely helps in situation like this, it is not likely US as a big country can be as effective as Singapore. What do you want the government to do? lock down cities with troops?
> Your consensus has been disputed elsewhere.

That's fine. Not every one and last climate scientist has to agree to this consensus. It's enough that the vast, overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree.

> It's plainly obvious that the bulk of climate change has nothing to do with humans.

If we're talking about the climate change that's been happening in the last 150 years, that's not what the scientific consensus is. Going back even further it becomes more obvious that humans have a massive impact on climate and weather. Did you know that the whole southern Mediterianian coast used to be woodland?

> Right, because you disagree with them, they must be untrue.

No, they are untrue because they are not supported by facts. They are irrelevant because they don't provide information to explore the topic. I don't have problem changing my conclusions when new relevant data are provided that would necessitate that. But your points are all either disproven or irrelevant.

> So convenient where the graph ends there. [...]

What data would you convince you otherwise?

See, that's what I mean. You give me some hand-wavy arguments why climate change is not related to CO2 or why the sun is the culprit or whatever else. Even if I refute your points, you just give more vague excuses without actually entering into a discussion about the points provided.

To me this feels intellectually dishonest.
>The list is endless of what we didn't have in 1918, from computers to do DNA sequencing to even testing the way we do today.

And the vast majority is useless to people when you've got 100x more patients than you can deal with.
Its not tests we should be counting but the number of people seriously sick and work back from that.

If we know that a percentage of the population will get hospitalised we can get a good estimate of the actual infected population.

I think that the UK estimates that 10K people have it in the UK for example. (Number may be wrong, but they have produced an estimate based on the number of sick who tested positive)

The UK is basically saying, currently, to not expect to be tested, that you will get it and that they have good knowledge of the levels. They are testing sick people in hospitals only. They also say that advice is likely to change each week.
Not the best example due to the physical addiction factor, but overall you're right. Just knowing/believing that things can change/be different is enough of a push for one to actually try and make the change.
"nobody seriously denied happened"

Nobody seriously found any evidence of collaboration between Trump and his "flunkys". That's the result of the Mueller Report.

Meanwhile... it's public knowledge that Democrats and the DNC paid foreigners for information from a discredited source to get an unproven Dossier to affect an American Election.

They are both conspiracy theories spread by the side that has proven evidence of worse crimes (IE: Email Servers, Joe's quid quo pro, children of elected officials getting kick backs from Burisma, etc)
The progress is stiffled by belief that this is not a problem and there should be no arguing and no experimenting and everybody should shut up and calculate.
> But the idea that many folks make an affirmative choice not to seems pretty far down the totem pole.

That's not really the point he was making. People internalize a lot of behaviours and beliefs that limit their realized potential. It doesn't require a conscious choice to limit yourself, it takes a bunch of internal, unproductive thoughts and emotions and decisions that sabotage you even though you may not be entirely aware of it.
Such a sad state of affairs.
Why would antibiotics be given for a viral infection?
Also we have some disadvantages we didn't had 1918.
Like most people living in dense cities. Or it is harder to force people into quarantine.
If WetterOnline was paying for their weather data then they didn't get their data from DWD.

The DWD data is completely free. You don't even need a registration or API key or something like that. I just tried and downloaded Radar images. I can't read that format, but I could download it.

The issue is that the legal mandate of DWD is just to provide the data and not to compete with private companies. It probably made sense when those laws where written, but now it is just stupid.
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To treat the secondary bacterial pneumonia that some people get.
I'm watching the UK government decide not to implement 'delay' measures today, ostensibly to protect the economy. It seems there is always a reason not to do the right thing.

I hope they change their mind very soon.
Why would a host allow that? In many cities, renter rights begin on day 31.
>has a long history of providing public services for the common good, rather than profit oriented motives.

Hahaha. BOM charges extortionate, nonviable prices for <i>everything</i> above the basics. Australia is one of the hardest countries for us to get reliable weather data from.

The trouble with government agencies run on a cost-recovery basis, is they have no incentive to do anything at a cost that will be recoverable.
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Isn't that the "tonic" in "Gin & Tonic" ?
The pendulum has never been as far left as Bernie talks in this country.

And as for near communist, am example among many:

>Sanders has recalled feeling “very excited” by Castro’s 1959 revolution, which played out during his teens. “It just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people,” he said in 1986.

He has a history of visiting and praising USSR and satellites with little open criticism of their atrocities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-cold-war-travels-...
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The 2 sites we currently support are available in many languages.

https://s.typingclub.com/docs/user-guide/account-setup/forei...

https://de.khanacademy.org/

If anyone wants us to create a plugin for a particular learning site, please create an issue on github.
I think GP was wondering why the flu was so deadly per person rather than how it racked up a huge body count. The article explains the body count but not why any particular person would die at a higher rate than another strain of flu.
>Slight tangent, but the excessive focus on tests is misguided.

During H1N1 in 2009, within 30 days we tested 1 million people. This led to a vaccine developed within 6 months. Testing is core to understand spread.
really really short things, it ends up being shorter than the names you would use, so you can just write the thing rather than your name for it

I inherited a kdb/q codebase like this, the problem with it, is that when you making a change, you need to find all these little code snippets and change them.

You need to rely on TDD to make it work, and this doesn't really scale to large projects.

Much better strategy if you don't want to name functions, is to use their hash.

But still conventional approach of choosing meaningful (longer than 1-2 letter) identifiers and writing comments works much better.

Also the same expression in q can represent several different things, i.e. a symbol might be a name of the column in the table, a key in the dictionary, an enum, a string, a constant, a global variable, etc. Without naming it, after a week you will no longer remember the original meaning.

To add salt on injury - you are limited on the number of global constants (really variables) you can use, so it's not always possible to name everything.
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I guess you need to couple this mindset with a "do my best, but failure is acceptable" attitude. Either that or a IDGAF attitude towards other people's opinions.
Which is a major failure in risk assessment. You know, that thing capitalists are supposed to be good at.
15.2% omg ...
I have so many questions without clear answers...
Do asthmatics have a higher case-fatality rate?
Is it true that when we catch the coronavirus, it leaves serious after-effects on our health?
I’d refer back to the absence of evidence for many asymptomatic cases relative to symptomatic cases.

WHO looked at 320k background tests and less than 0.5% were positive.
It does as well - to quote directly from article:

"Not only was it shocking that healthy young men and women were dying by the millions worldwide, but it was also how they were dying. Struck with blistering fevers, nasal hemorrhaging and pneumonia, the patients would drown in their own fluid-filled lungs.

Only decades later were scientists able explain the phenomenon now known as “cytokine explosion.” When the human body is being attacked by a virus, the immune system sends messenger proteins called cytokines to promote helpful inflammation. But some strains of the flu, particularly the H1N1 strain responsible for the Spanish flu outbreak, can trigger a dangerous immune overreaction in healthy individuals. In those cases, the body is overloaded with cytokines leading to severe inflammation and the fatal buildup of fluid in the lungs."
How will country-based mitigation measures influence the Covid-19 epidemic?
This is genius ! Congratulations for the idea and the execution. It's been a while since a tech product amazed me that much.
Jokes on them, I never knew about the DWD app before any just now bought it because of this article.
Your explanation of why you don't believe in free will is very philosophically unrefined, and your smug tone (implying people who do believe in free will must not understand determinism) is not helpful.

The reality is that a great many philosophers believe that determinism and free will are perfectly compatible. There is also supernatural defense of free-will, as in many religions (where the physical universe may well be deterministic, except for interaction with a spiritual world of will, which may produce physical effects without a physical cause). Both of these ideas are example of people who believe in free will even if they do understand (physical) determimism. There are probably other groups as well.
Redis.io is running in a $5/month droplet
would be unfair to the real low-quality free channels...

There are German comedy channels?
What make the diff is sanitation and effective communication, not DNA sequencing.
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> the structure doesn't matter to the person paying the bills - the outcome does.

The structure matters to the outcome; but the outcome problems of bad structure tend to manifest after paid-by-engagement contractors have left.
Have you watched the presentation yesterday? Or just reading the news articles today? Because that's precisely not what they said.

What was said was - from epidimiology point of view, there's no point in telling everyone to stay at home right now when the spread is in the early stages. It will have a marginal effect, and the spread will continue anyway. By government's own estimates 80% of people in the UK will get infected, and imposing a quarantine right now won't change that. What would help is setting the quarantine for 14-18 weeks, and they know that people won't abide by that, so instead, they clearly said they will impose quarantine just before UK hits the predicted peak infections - to lower the stress on the NHS and to achieve the maximum effect of the quarantine. Like, it all made sense if you watched the actual conference.