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>It is the guy's fault that he relied on an untrustworthy third party to host his code that lots of other people were using in production, meaning they lost access to it when that third party screwed him.

He can literally git push to any webhost and they can literally git pull from there, or has everyone just forgotten how git and the web actually works? He can drop a zip file somewhere the way we used to do back in the ancient days. And that's not even considering the plethora of other hosted Git portals he could push to as well.

And everyone still has access to their own repositories. They only thing anyone has lost here is momentary convenience.
The article was later published as American Economic Review 71(3): 421-436, one of the absolute top journals in economics, and selected as one of its top-20 papers in the past centuries[1], and one of the works that won Shiller his Nobel Prize in 2013[2].

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.101.1.1

[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2013/shi...
"I often go out of my way to talk to the wall flowers and shy people that no one is talking to, but I've found by and large, they are also much harder to talk to!"

Conversational ability comes with practice, and those people probably just haven't gotten enough practice yet.

Also, some people are just naturally reserved, and it takes a while for them to warm up to you and start talking more freely.
To clarify - shutting down trade isn't on the table right now - all trade lines will be kept open for the immediate future.

This announcement was solely about persons moving for non-logistical reasons.
> is implementation-defined behavior, not undefined behavior.

They're (confusingly) misusing the word "define" there. Implementation-defined behaviour is required to be documented, but every behaviour is something that "you must define" in the sense that you have written down some (possibly implicit/emergent) definition of it as part of the compiler's source code. Ie, it's not "the standard requires you to define this", it's "you are not capable of not defining this, and the standard requires(C89)/doesn't require(C99+) you to pick from the following options".
Indeed, these two projects alone have turned around my long-held opinion on Microsoft, to "cautiously optimistic".

TypeScript and VS Code have been an invaluable contribution to the community. I'm a daily user of both and so thankful for the talent, ingenuity and effort that have gone into them.

How Microsoft have managed the acquisition of GitHub, giving them autonomy and infrastructure support - so far, it's been all around positive.

Now with NPM under their wings, the centralization does worry me somewhat. I hope there are conscientious decision-makers who will guide the project for the good of community and ecosystem.
I am certainly very lucky, but you are correct. I suppose a better word would be grateful, rather than lucky.
take walks. You usually get walks in the office from meeting to meeting. This is small, but makes a huge difference to focus.
If the airline profits are incredibly high then someone with a large amount of capital will start their own airline to compete.
Just work a regular full time job for a while. No shame in it. And if you absolutely can’t get past the idea of being employed for a steady paycheck, then just think of it as a way to raise cash for your next venture when you get a good idea.
Lower headlights???
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I don't follow your reasoning. South Korea has tested 35 times the number of positive cases. That's a lot. Presumably, it's not a random sample, but people who have been in touch with people who have had obvious symptoms. Maybe some random sampling in outbreak areas, I don't know their methodology.

Certainly there's a number of people that are not picked up throughout that process. This means that the real death rate is not ~70/8000. The real denominator is bigger.

But it wouldn't be on the order of 10 times bigger. In most of the groups of sick people, there's likely to be some that show enough symptoms to prompt a test, with a positive test leading most of that group to be tracked down. The exception would be tiny groups that somehow did not spread the disease further, or untracably spread it to similar tiny groups.

I don't buy that there's a massive amount of such lonely cases out there. Twice as many as detected? Sure. But not a dramatically bigger number than that.

Maybe there's a way to show mathematically that this reasoning is wrong, if so, please feel free.
Italy here.
I agree with your point. Luckily despite the rumors of war like triage we're still treating everybody because we increased capacity. There is a little slow down in new cases today. Still a race between setting up new capacity and hospitalizing people.
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You don't understand. I am making this assertion as a former physicist. We have stumbled upon extremely general function approximators.

Effectively the same way that we can use equations to make inferences about reality - but because of the nature of mathematical notation and the limitations of human ability, though powerful, math has limitations. E.g. you can write out the idealized equations for heat propagation in a conductive medium, but solving them for a real object requires empirical simulation.

Deep neural nets are the next step. Now you can essentially train these neural networks to infer not just the general idealized behaviors, but specific details, discrete values for X and Y on a fine grid that are beyond the practical limits of applied math.

But this is much bigger. It turns out that, much in the way that idealized equations apply to many problems (e.g. exponential growth arising from diff EQ), neural nets generalize to all manner of real world problems, provided the training data is appropriately curated.

These neural networks excel at learning human like heuristics, with machine level precision. You can make inferences for both continuous and discrete probabilistic systems. This is a major development and it's just starting. We've finally assembled the pieces in the last few years.
Well the other angle is the US public just doesn't give a damn about anyone else in general.

There is absolutely no change in behavior here.

In weeks if they were stacking bodies for lack of storage space, I am still not sure people here would change their behavior, everyone feels special/priviledged and not affected until it suddenly hits them.
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Since when has technical superiority ever determined which product wins in the marketplace?

The Linux kernel is ubiquitous and free-as-in-beer, so it might win out. Android has already shown how you can build a proprietary userland on top of it.
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Be thankful for small blessings!
Agreed. Many years ago I left a job that had ground me down and started the next thing immediately, which went better. But 3-4 years into it, I realized I hadn't had a proper rest in several years.

Whatever your next thing is, you should start it with fresh energy.
Does typescript support pnp somehow now? (That's actually the thing I'm wanting ...). npm's cli going away was an attempted tease (in bad-taste i think)
This is heart breaking for me! I am a Brit planning to come to Canada on an IEC visa which expires at the end of June. I'm writing to the IRCC begging for an extension to my entry date.
Neither side is announcing a price and NPM has been struggling financially for a while, so the likelihood that it was a "good exit" is low.
I hope it's not going to do a left-pad fiasco on everything in github.
Should not be for every American but rather people that need it.
Off the top of my head, half of that is utter bullshit. For example, your diet does not affect the pH of your blood or body, so alkaline foods do nothing.
maybe, if you didnn't pay 47% of your income to the government, you'd have savings.
From p28 of the slide deck:

“Go outside - sunlight is the best disinfectant”
Thanks you saved me a snarky comment
Utilities, staple goods, healthcare. People still need to cover the basics even if they're not going to work.
That's not been my experience. Every time I flash my highbeams at somebody with their highbeams on, they turn theirs off. Most people (yes, even most Americans!) aren't being deliberately malicious. Forgetfulness is much more common.
For example, the "poor" American system has the most ICU beds per capita than any other country. It might be cost a lot to stay in one, but that's probably they we have so many.
I used to feel this way until I rode around with my roommate a bit in his pickup. clipping a curb in my small hatchback would scrape or even deform the rims. in a big truck you don't have to care. he wouldn't even try to avoid curbs; he would just roll right over them if he felt they were inconvenient.

another (possibly more legitimate) reason is that many speed bumps seem to be calibrated for large vehicles with lots of suspension travel. the speed bumps at the grocery store I go to are incredibly jarring in my car, feels like I am bottoming out the suspension even under 5mph. in a big truck, this is not a problem.
Care to compare specifics? There have been enough major downturns that all three previous administrations' responses can be compared. Let's not forget that downturns are part of normal market cycles.

Besides, isn't the stock market too complicated that it can't be controlled, not even by POTUS?
Actually it is a return to their roots, given Xenix.
I don't know where you are, but here in Madrid it's forbidden. Also the gym is closed so it's Netflix + HN.
Cancer death survival rates (US vs. Norway)[1]:

Prostate (97% vs 86%)

Breast (89% vs 86%)

Cervix (63% vs 71%)

Rectum (64% vs 65%)

Colon (65% vs 62%)

Leukemia (51% vs 53%)

[1]https://ourworldindata.org/cancer
I would also like to see the following features:

- Enter the number of respirators in a country.

- Enter two fatality rates, with and without respirators.

Also, I don't understand why the peak number of hospitalizations would be so sensitive to the initial number of infections. That doesn't look right to me.
One question GitLab's CEO (sytse) is rightfully asking is whether the ability to trace code from npm back to the repository will be available to competitors. If not, less competition is bad for users.

I still think this is good news, given where npm is coming from, but it's certainly not risk-free.
It doesn't look like it is just visitors. People with Study and Work Permits seem to be affected as well.
We already have the biggest oil surpluses ever recorded, and it's just going to get bigger:

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Largest-Oil-Glut-In-Hi...
Honest question, since I have no expertise in the field: If
C89 says that "Permissible undefined behavior" includes "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results" can you give an example of something that would constitute non permissible undefined behaviour according to the standard?
Perhaps where the market thought model breaks down is that in a marketplace, the value of the product offered is compared against the price and the transaction goes forward or does not. Friendship requires some sustained investment and so might be modelled more like a chemical reaction: high activation energy to gain new friends with comparatively lesser energy going into the interaction once the friendship has been established. With this model, it makes sense that individuals would seek to maintain existing friendship instead of acquiring new ones because the energy expenditure is much lower in the former than the latter.
You can't get isopropanol/isopropyl/"rubbing" alcohol as sold in pharmacies usually near the hydrogen peroxide? You can mix this with aloe vera lotion in ~50:50 mix for a diy hand sanitizer.
I’m not sure it’s accurate to say/imply that “many” have short-term plans, which is what were reauthorized. Those plans make sense for some but certainly not many.they Are edge case solutions. There are, as you say, many with no health insurance.
What are the pros & cons of governments bailing out airlines?

The virus spread so fast thanks to airlines. I think more expensive plane tickets make sense: cut back some of the travel & emissions, make people look more into local holidays, make companies look more into video conferencing.
You're right that it's about government preparedness, but how do we expect a government that's all about protecting the profits of the insurance industry to have the best interests of the citizens in mind?

We're in the midst of a crisis and we still can't imagine giving away tests / vaccines for free. Even though economically it would be the best course of action, we're so opposed to anything that even slightly resembles a handout here. Even when those handouts have drastically positive effects on the economy.

The USA needs to end the whole "crabs in a bucket" mentality, or we'll wind up wondering why this is happening again just a few years from now.
Hate to break it to you but even with COVID-19 people will still have to go to doctors and hospitals for other things completely unrelated to coronavirus.

Yea if you have coronavirus it may be hard to get treatment specifically for that but if you break an arm or crack a skull you can still go in for an X-Ray and cast.
So... it does not have healthcare for the poor?

Sure it does, it has either Medicaid (almost zero out of pocket) or heavily subsidized (up to 100%) marketplace plans.
And how fragmentation on Linux profits OEMs, each with their own little distribution, not giving anything back.
They do expose some limited interfaces that are pretty easy to browse. For example:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
This project may interest you: https://github.com/int-index/kalium. It is a limited Pascal-to-idiomatic-Haskell compiler written in Haskell.
Exactly. There are so many things different about today's MSFT. Another example is Linux support on Azure. People love their tin foil hats though.
We (the company/department I work in) setup Riot.im for chat/room based communication while everyone works remotely. As part of this, we added the Jitsi add-in for conference calls.

At the end of day one I can say that Jitsi audio is pretty good. However, the video does seem to freeze quite regularly. This was in calls with only 3 to 4 people. I don't know if it's a Jitsi problem, or somehow an integration problem with Riot.im.

Then again, because I can imagine that Jitsi has probably experienced astronomical traffic growth over the last few days as more and more people transition to remote working during the corona crisis, I don't want to be overly critical. I'll see how it plays out over the next couple of weeks. However, right now I'm not sure I'd want to use it for client based external calls.
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The July Ultimatum would have happened, or WWI in general would have happened? I’m not arguing that WWI would have been avoided, in fact I said it would have happened regardless. The July Ultimatum could have been avoided, but again if you read through my entire comment you’ll see I believe WWI would have happened anyway.
There's a whole range:

- Free and good (Scandinavia, France, and many other EU countries)

- Cheap and good (South Korea)

- Expensive and good (US)

- Expensive and bad

The US doesn't rank that high out of those options to be honest.

EDIT: Actually, I think it makes sense to make a distinction between healthcare system and hospital. The US has a very poor healthcare system, while it might have good hospitals.
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If it's something that requires a hospital, it's very likely that you won't be able to. You'll be triaged in a tent outside the hospital. If it's something your family physician can do in his/her office, you might be ok there.
Airlines are particularly capital intensive
There goes my plan to flee to Canada once things go south.
Where does the energy come from? CO2 is already "burned" you can't make an energetic hydrocarbon without providing energy, effectively "unburning"/reducing it.
Very much in agreement
Not necessarily wrong? I'm intrigued by the thought process.
Divided into a handful of independent companies, maybe?
nickel and diming is good because it gives you the option to choose what you want to pay for, rather than, just paying for everything whether or not you use it.
I think they are norwegian in name only. Their headquarters is london.
Honestly I'd like to see a 1 month quarantine, with the US government guaranteeing the wages of everyone in the workforce for that time. Something like 100% up to 50k/year, 75% of 50-100k, and cap it there. It would cost a few hundred billion dollars but it would keep the "I have to work or be homeless" people from being homeless and allow them to actually stay home for that time.
In the same lines - Apple Watch or Samsung watch sensing it through sensors would be so cool. I'm not a doc, so don't know the practicality of it
Yeah shadowbanning is not cool, and it is still used here on HN. This shows once again that you cannot trust these corporations with your information and sure as fuck not with your livelihood. Facebook, patreon, google, youtube, twitter, apple, etc. Ironically even medium where this article is posted, as they regularly shadowban accounts.
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Medicare. The US public health care system as a % of GDP is probably 75% of the size of Norway's total healthcare spending...and the US has a private health care system subsidising that worth 3x Norway's total spending as % of GDP.

There is a lot of confused thinking on this topic.
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy where they get acquired by a newly-reformed Sun Microsystems (where no stock is owned by Oracle or Oracle shareholders).

EDIT: I'm mostly kidding, but you can't really expect true change of morals when the vast majority of the upper management is the same under the new CEO as under the old one.
I'm glad you bring up this perspective; I feel that reducing these kinds of subjects to some analogy of market forces ends up being really dehumanizing. Especially with things like loneliness and social interaction, it seems that portraying it as trades and estimates of value will sanitize the subject so much that it stops being helpful.

A similar topic (dating on Tinder becoming a market) was covered pretty well recently by The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/02/modern-da...
Actually, the US is probably the best country for COVID-19 treatment due to the number of ventilators per capita. 52 ventilators per 100k residents. Italy has only 5 per 100k. Not sure what Norway has.

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/predicting-america...
Cancer death survival rates are universally 0%
Hey, thanks for you comments. The idea behind yameeting it's the "Ninja Mode" where you have disposable VM's to reduce costs and help to prevent intrusions on the servers where the meetings are taking place.

You can't limit who enters the room using a whitelist with the out-of-the-box jitisi installation but since it's using XMPP you can have that functionality.

I'm pretty sure there are solutions out there that focus on those features.

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I suspect that if you compare the total capacity of the U.S. healthcare system (i.e. the line the coronavirus curve needs to be flattened to fit under[1]), you'll find it's lower per capita in the U.S. than in many other developed nations and more likely to be overwhelmed. The U.S. medical system expects to deal consistently only with the well-insured, less frequently with the not-so-well-insured, and barely at all with the uninsured. Other countries design the capacity of their medical systems for the typical needs of their entire populations.

Couple a system that probably has lower overall capacity with a tardy response from the government and things aren't off to the best start. As a Canadian, I sincerely hope the U.S. just gets lucky this time around.

[1]https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronav...
> Where does the energy come from?

Anywhere. Nuclear. Wind. Waves. Initially, fossil fuels, because most energy comes from fossil fuels.
it's either that and containment South Korea style or total lockdown China style. too much risk to be in between, though some were trying.
Perhaps this person wants to use this superpower to gain a deeper understanding of their closest relationships?
How is you not seeing them correctly a problem with the design?
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But running your own business is a surefire way to get to the top of an applicant list.
Yeah, was published in Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
Has the US ever been in the top 10 or 20 countries ranked for best healtcare? Every time I see a ranking it's around #30...with Norway far ahead.

I am certain that healtcare costs factor in to ranking. Being overly expensive makes it bad.
Boeing has nothing to do with the current situation and it's not really under any more pressure presently even if there is a temporary downturn.
I absolutely can't stand the notion that describing or warning against the very real, awful scenario many Americans face with their healthcare is first and foremost a "diss", as opposed to something that must be said loudly and often until the problem is eliminated. This is human suffering we're talking about.
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I went deep down the art of code rabbit hole on YouTube, a great channel for learning about shaders.

I wrote this blog post on writing interactive SDF shaders:

https://jasmcole.com/2019/10/03/signed-distance-fields/
Romney said that the idea would "help ensure families and workers can meet their short-term obligations and increase spending in the economy."

Given that many states are closing all non-essential businesses, where, exactly would the economy be stimulated? Stockpiling more toilet paper? I realize that online retailers are currently still delivering, but how long will that last?
> keep people from gaming the system

When the system is there to protect the company, I understand this position. When it's a system forced on them by law, I really don't think playing games with their users serves any reasonable purpose.

Laws should be black and white and people "toeing the line" should be treated no differently beyond verifying that they are indeed on one side or the other.

I get that the law puts the onus on companies to verify compliance and that creates an incentive for companies to draw an artificially strict rule of their own.

Nevertheless I think it's important to keep the distinction between a company acting as the police and a company that has a policy serving its own interests. When you're the police you don't get to hide the evidence or the charge against the person you've arrested at least in free countries.
Exactly. This isn't a developer tool, it's a developing the developers tool. ;-)
Show me where that has happened and I’ll believe it. As far as I know, broken arms are still being mended.
Well, indeed there is. Shouldn't Russians share some collective responsibility for their government actions? I guess, in this case this was this specific person's share of responsibility.
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We are talking about people whose non-high-beam lights are blindingly bright.
Plenty of safer languages offer seamless C FFI, no need to write software in C just because those interfaces are defined as C ones.

H2PAS was already a thing in MS-DOS days, just as possible example.