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> Note that this does not apply to infinite loops with constant conditions. For example, given `while (1) { /* ... */ }`, the above doesn't apply and the implementation may not assume the loop will terminate.

Where is that guaranteed? I can see that the above rule suggests that the implementation may not make that assumption, but it doesn't actually rule it out.
I highly doubt that circuit breakers put any meaningful dent on trade volume. If anything, they're merely delayed until the markets reopen.
I don't think many people on HN believe that the US armed forces underpin peace. But that's your soapboxing, and not what I was trying to say or even my opinion.

The utter dominance of America's armed forces has achieved extraordinary peace and prosperity since World War II, since its dominance has prevented numerous smaller scale conflicts or new world wars. Me saying this isn't trying to diminish the terrible suffering that has happened in the world since World War II, but it's pointing out that historically speaking the suffering and stupidity should have been far worse.

The US armed forces don't embody peace in the slightest, but they do achieve it just by virtue of existing and being so dominant.
The Fed lost its independence at least a year ago, since the President has maintained a sustained and public campaign to pressure them.

But the real issue here is that people don’t see this as a monetary issue and the fiscal side is dependent on an administration that has only just come around to recognizing it as a problem after having spent weeks trying to minimize it and actively discourage steps to reduce the impact of COVID 19.
Leader of the free world? Don't make me laugh. It's not 1995 any more, Harrison Ford and Bill Pullman figures are not in charge.
None of that should be tied to the stock market. That has been advice from all the experts for ages. Even the strongest stock advocates have said the stock market it for long term savings.
Aye, downloaded Uber Eats and SkipTheDishes for the first time this weekend.

The streets are empty and the local gub'mnt has been advising people to avoid gatherings like restaurants and bars. They're open still, and probably slingin mad amounts of food, but all delivery...
Three words: negative interest rates. Trump won't be happy until the US has the most negative interest rates of the world.
> big company CEOs will get large government handouts

Indeed, which is why I'm against emergency loans, but for emergency equity... it's free market capitalism, if your company isn't able to survive on its own (due to your lack of planning) and needs government help, then you don't deserve to own (all of) it.
>I've never seen studies that say anything about "permanent lung, kidney, and testicle damage, even in young and healthy patients". Where did you read this?

It's obviously bullshit. How would we know about "permanent" damage from a disease a few months old.
The unsigned short to signed int promotion is an example of "compiler-manufactured" UB. The compiler could have chosen a type promotion that does not cause UB.
In this specific case, the context is fortunately irrelevant.

The statements mean exactly what they say.
Majority of the population of Wuhan is still susceptible, risk of new outbreak
I'm a layman so apologies, but any examples of these highly leveraged companies you can give?
Same. I can no longer just schedule it to run unattended. First I must “prepare the house to be roomba’d”.
You don't understand how putting the brakes on the world wide economy for one or two years would lower earnings?
Those traders are wrong because.... there are a bunch of self-centered idiots who can't take responsibility for themselves?
> The White House coronavirus briefing has been moved from 10:30am to 3:30pm, per updated White House guidance.

https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1239540793213366273

Guess they're gonna try the "goose it right before the close" thing again.
That's also an issue of crypto exchanges not having "open" hours isn't it?
nitpick because the slant of your argument is correct, but in a self-hosted system you don't necessarily need a single machine to encode 10 video feeds, each client (assuming this is a P2P approach) only needs to encode one - the user's. It does need to transcode that to 9 outbound streams, which is asking quite a lot of even current high end laptop hardware, and basically impossible on a smartphone.

Add in the unrealistic upstream bandwidth needs and, yeah, your point still stands.
Every time I see one of these articles I'm reminded that it was only just over a month ago I had a conversation on here with people suggesting that taking a 7 year car loan to buy a car and using their saving to buy mutual funds was a sound financial decision.

It's amazing how quickly the whole world can be flipped upside down.
When I buy something off another site…

- Will I have to register an account? Will I have to take time unsubscribing from the email lists they sign me up for?

- Will the checkout form work? Will it be secure? Will it be a single page, or will there be separate pages of shipping info, billing info, payment method, confirmation of sale, and receipt?

- Will any of those pages be broken, forcing me to start over?

- When will it show up? I'm not even so impatient that I need the "two day thing" (I usually pick a later date for a $1 Amazon digital credit anyway), but, when? There are nearly never estimates, and about half the remaining MIGHT send a tracking number later.

Other things crop up, but basically there's countless little things that can go wrong and you if you pick Amazon they _all_ go away.
We need to dig into the fiscal policy toolbox.
Speculative production ramp-up must be part of the solution, as long as it's not binding equally or more important production capacity. But still, vaccines are hard because you can only test them on the healthy. But treatment drugs, their development scales with desperation. If patients with beginning pneumonia symptoms could be sent home with a drug that would put them on a painful but safe path to recovery and that drug was available at scale, concerns about medical capacity would be pretty much gone and you could basically "brit it out" the hard way. My money would be on scaling treatment candidates, not vaccines.
Here's some information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_debt_bubble
>the ostensible leader of the free world literally got on TV and said

This doesn't mean the US president the way it used to mean it.

I think Merkel has a greater claim to this title than Trump.
Very cool!

It's slightly marred by a typo: "Tueday" is missing an "s". Unfortunately I don't see contact info except a twitter handle, and I don't speak tweetish.
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The technology for keeping such large debates manageable predates electric lighting. Applying rules of order to a teleconference scenario would no doubt have its wrinkles, but overall I don't see why it couldn't be done.

The "mixing desk" would be virtual.

Probably the major cost would be provisioning backhaul, but who are we kidding, Verizon and Comcast would get the contract. Gouge like hell for it, too, in the best tradition of government contracting. But most of what happens in the process of legislating doesn't happen in the House and Senate chambers, and I do wonder how well that'd play out without anyone in physical proximity.
Currencies trade 24x7, and somehow that works just fine.
Aluminum was once more precious than gold: An emperor even ate off of aluminum
It's not just a few months though; a 0.2% recession (say) quite possibly translates to everyone in the future being 0.2% worse off, forever.
Long term they do. However in the short term the stock market is about something completely different.
You also need to take into account the probability of the company going bankrupt.
Among other things, a stock's price also reflects the "maybe this stock will go away when the company goes bankrupt" possibility.
To put a finer point on it, a fully funded safety net is a good idea before moving money into investments. Enough to cover basic expenses for, let’s say, a year. How long exactly depends on your risk tolerance.

Not a financial advisor, standard disclaimers, etc.
There was already a lot of uncertainty over everything. Supply from overseas is all delayed. Production at home delayed because of supply issues and probably quarantine measures. Demand at home is all over the place because people are preparing to self isolate. Oil prices crashed, and the oil & gas industry is a pretty large portion of the US economy.

A lot of companies were already over leveraged so this is probably not a good situation to be in with so many things that could mess them up.
> We can... [big list of good ideas]

Those all sound like good ideas[1]. But exactly how will those affect the R0 of the virus if we all keep going to the pub, and the club, and church, and the office, and schools, and concerts, and sporting events? Particularly if we ride the bus and the tube and trains and airplanes to get there?

Fundamentally, not enough to keep it from saturating the population at least once. And if immunity doesn't last long enough for it to die out after that, not enough to keep it from saturating the population over and over.

Which isn't to say we shouldn't do all the things you suggest. But simply slowing things down isn't our ultimate goal. Going back to some semblance or normalcy is our ultimate goal: Perhaps with tiles instead of carpet and bowing instead of shaking hands, sure, but not everyone holed up in their homes permanently. And towards that goal, there's not a clear path.

[1] Except for "move to passive solar design", which I didn't really understand.
I think Xerox was pretty renowned for their “we’re a photocopier company; we make and sell photocopiers” attitude, or they’d never have given such golden opportunities away. Much as Kodak is a photographic film company that makes and sells photographic film… oh, wait.

https://www.businessinsider.com/this-man-invented-the-digita...

But I’m sure senior management collected their fat salaries and performance bonuses as-per always, so that’s alright then.
I think handing out checks during a crisis is vastly different than doing it all the time.
I'm in the US and I'm seeing $240 on both the manufacturer's website and Amazon (Sold by EufyHome and Fulfilled by Amazon). Amazon even has a $15 coupon.
Would you like to provide some context? Not the OP, but it seems that this needs a national level response, and my impression is that the President is not handling things well.
> I don't understand this at all. Stock prices are supposed to include estimates of all futures earnings of a company, discounted for distance in the future, right?

In theory, yes, but we're in uncharted territory. Everyone is struggling to predict how this this temporary shutdown will impact the economy. The market will fluctuate wildly until we can start estimating what the actual impact will be.

There is a large risk element as well. People are currently choosing to invest in safer instruments instead of stocks. Sitting on the sidelines.

> Even in the worst case where four or five percent of the population die and the economy is impacted by quarantines for a few years until we reached herd immunity, I don't see how this lowers future earnings by 30% and more.

We're in the middle of a mass panic and a societal lockdown. People aren't going to rush out and immediately put their spending back to 100% of the previous levels. It's going to take a long time to get back to normal.

Stock prices aren't linearly proportional to earnings. For many mature industries, margins are thin. Small changes in earnings can have massive effects on stock price during normal times. This isn't a normal time, so those small changes will be even amplified even further.
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I agree. The Fed has no [legal] bullets left to fire.

Not everyone is "freaked the fuck out" due to what Trump says or does. Unlike many folks, I never placed faith or trust in government to handle any crisis of magnitude. I worry about what I can control: my own actions and how that will affect my family who lives with me. I'm not looking for a savior in Daddy Government.

I'm worried because most people are irrational and highly emotional, not logical. They make decisions against their best interests all the time. In a pandemic, that forces me to be overly cautious, despite that not necessarily being my normal disposition. The irrational risks are, in some sense, greater than the rational risks.
> If you don't pay people to do jobs, then most jobs that make up a complex society won't get done.

I'm advocating for paying people enough to not die even if they don't do any job.

And I'm not saying that it will immediately do away with all bullshit jobs. But I'm saying that it will reduce supply of work available to those jobs and it will broaden the choice for workers to choose more meaningful jobs by giving them safe harbor.
More fundamentally we need more explicit privacy protections. The "unreasonable" in the 4th amendment clearly isnt sufficient. The right to encrypt would then be a correlary.
This rate cut is just feeding into fears.
I'd expect a drop slightly larger than the expected loss of life, not the craziness that's currently going on.
I reckon the Dow (and the FTSE100) are down about 35% on a month ago.

After 9/11 they both fell about 10%.

In 2008 the Dow dropped about 40% in a month, and about 50% in 6 months.
I think a lot of people are trying to get out before the markets as closed and impossible to liquidate if needed.
When Facebook Is More Trustworthy Than the President
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/fiusxv/covid19_megath...

OP/mod just edits a post to put a list of links in the top self-text comment or a top-pinned comment.
I think I may be wrong about Berlin. Googling around it does seem like Toronto and Johannesburg are close together (both around 10 million trees), but are the trees in Toronto planted or natural? In JHB most of the trees were planted.
Tangential: we've been using xcodegen (https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen) to generate our projects from a simple yaml file. Don't need to muck around with Xcode toggles, easily repeatable, and .xcodeproj literally stays in .gitignore. Never know why Apple consistently shyes away from more programmatic generation of stuff.
Yeah, see, no they're literally not. Like, you can see them yourself (check the sibling comment for the full-context tantrum) and the argument doesn't hang, except insofar as you can claim that a guy who's regularly sundowning at noon can't have context. Which is a fair argument for cutting your racist uncle some reluctant slack, but not your President.

It's very curious how the guy's constant reality-averse shit-talking of everyone who doesn't give him everything he wants, now-now-now, is somehow not "cheap partisan points," though.
> Sometimes doing a tiny change can cause the entire page to re-render.

What kind of change? If you are talking about repainting the visual CSS rendering to the viewport that isn't the DOM. That is your hardware. This is why modern browsers use GPU acceleration.

Changes to the DOM are changes to the DOM tree and the markup represented by that tree. These changes can have second order performance implications if the change to the tree results in adding/removing many nodes of it results in execution of events, which is outside the DOM, that result in the execution of additional DOM instructions.

> If you render your templates directly to the DOM you might start a rerendering chain that needlessly wastes performance.

I have never encountered this. Could you provide an example?
Your first paragraph has been said by various people for various reasons for at least the last 10 years.
At a minimum the executives should lose their net worth. We are always told that they do the risky work which means that they should also have downside risk. When you look at executives at Wells Fargo, Equifax and other companies it seems they have huge upside when nothing goes wrong, or smaller but still very big side upside when things go wrong under their watch.
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I agree that now isn't the time, let's not argue blame.

That being said, the president could have handled his response better. Poorly chosen words at a poor time make for a piss poor performance. It's, at the very least, very unfortunate.
For anyone curious, this is a more full context:

"One of my people came up to me and said, “Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.” That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was not a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax. But we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We have 15 people in this massive country and because of the fact that we went early. We went early, we could have had a lot more than that. We’re doing great. Our country is doing so great. We are so unified. We are so unified. The Republican party has never ever been unified like it is now."
I think so. But it is about to change.

There are some beta games coming out with this kind of functionality (shared roomscale) for Quest. When they get released, it will lower the cost of VR arcade substantially.
Stocks were overvalued two months ago, based on super-rosy projections. The move from tech stocks' price-earnings ratios of 50 to 30 will greatly reduce valuations. But it doesn't mean that the economy is falling apart forever. It just means that it's not worth paying nearly so much for any company's growth curve.

Let's not forget the impact of big stock buybacks, which served to reduce the float of shares and make per share earnings go up. This is small-time financial card shuffling, but for a few years investors believed that all kinds of companies with only modest sales growth were incredible profit-making machines because their per-share earnings were surging. So these companies got very high valuations.

Now if we're heading into hard times and there's no available cash to do the buybacks, the game stops. And with that -- the illusion of fast growth companies goes away
I don't recall Angela Merkel saying any such thing
> None of that should be tied to the stock market

Crashing equities inhibit capital formation. That happens in both the public and private markets. That, in turn, puts pressure on credit markets.

The firms that survive will cut back on spending. The ones that are too leveraged will go under. Both have tangible effects.

In this case, there is the uncertainty around demand destruction. Markets falling more than expected communicate a belief that more demand will be destroyed in the coming weeks than was expected. That, in turn will prompt corporate planning to reduce outlays. Not only is cash from financing expected to drop, but cash from operations to do so more than expected.
Even better! Seal them in a box labeled "break glass in emergency" if capitalism is the main objection.
Yes, The Internet Historian on YouTube has made a series of videos about this: "HWNDU" (He Will Not Divide Us).

It started with a flag outside in a public place [0], followed by being moved to a flagpole in the middle of nowhere (the one you're thinking of) [1]. The flag was then moved into a museum in Liverpool [2], and finally it was moved indoors with a camera pointing at a plain white painted wall [3].

Beware: lots of memes and occasionally offensive language.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4h3jwJob0

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZuj_SDqDo

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ldHq3NzC0
Note that it's 121˚C (and under pressure), not a tepid water bath.

Things like needle drivers and forceps hold up fine with some care, but things with delicate moving parts are not supposed to be autoclaved. Plastics depend on the material--some are fine, some deform.
This does not specify commercial traffic, thats often allowed even after closeups. But really depends.
I have two responses to that. The first is that I think your specific example is mistaken. The C89 standard mandates a diagnostic message “for every translation unit that contains a violation of any syntax rule or constraint” (2.1.1.3). It also specifies that a string literal is a sequence of “any member of the source character set except the double-quote ", backslash \, or new-line character” (3.1.4). So my reading is that an attempt to include a newline in a string literal is a violation of a syntax rule that requires a diagnostic, and is therefore not undefined behavior. But I am far from an expert, and I would be glad if you could correct me if I have misunderstood.

But my second point is, the people who wrote the C89 standard were really smart. They were compiler writers from many areas of research and industry and worked very hard to find a workable compromise between all of their conflicting needs. It has often happened that I've seen someone say something like “an unclosed string shouldn't be undefined behavior, it should be a syntax error”, and then someone from the committee would show up and say “we wanted to make it a syntax error, but we were supposed to codify existing practice. Widely-Used Compiler X didn't diagnose that, and in fact couldn't, because of …”. And the reason would be something I couldn't have thought of. So I have learned to give them the benefit of the doubt, because they know way more about it than I ever have or will.
I thought the last step was driving around town honking their horn until they heard it on the webcam stream.
That test doesn't really give you any more information than noticing that you didn't get a "card not found" error. A full-capacity write and read verification is a test that's actually informed by the possible failure modes that wouldn't be immediately apparent from ordinary usage.

If you're worried enough to take the deliberate step of manually testing your storage device, you should at least make sure it's a useful test that tells you something you don't already know.
fwiw, he was referring to the botched rollout of testing, not the whole thing or the market. [n]

[n] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/03/13/trump-...
I suspect that stock prices were artificially inflated over the last several* years. If we were in a bubble, then this coronavirus ends up acting more as a catalyst for popping the bubble, then you would see a significant drop to the market beyond the immediate effects to the market.

> Even in the worst case where four or five percent of the population die and the economy is impacted by quarantines for a few years until we reached herd immunity, I don't see how this lowers future earnings by 30% and more.

Though, that worst case scenario a 30% drop seems low to me. For some particularly hard-hit sectors, a lot of business would go to 0 in the scenario you described.

* For some pretty ambiguous definition of "several" that I can't pin down with precision
But if you use the jitsi sfu (media server) the streams are not really encrypted between the participants, its only encryped peer1<->sfu and sfu<->peer2
It's a double edged sword. A lot of system failures happen because every single thread winds up accidentally blocking on something that is never going to return for one reason or another. In such cases a timeout is able to unblock the threads.

Maybe the developers collected lots of data and said p99 latency is X, so let's set the timeout X+alpha. If something takes drastically longer than most requests it's probably something going wrong. Maybe your latency was the 99.99999 and the timed you out.

Or yeah the devs just guessed and guessed badly and the timeouts cause more problems than they solve.
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And what expertise is your speculation based on?