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The ability for soaps to clean hinges on the same physical manifestation that keep creates hollow cells for life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micelle
This is the automated handle style that Twitter gives you if you don't specify or if your first choice is not available and you click through without realising this.

So that can also apply to naïve users.
Yes and no.

There were a lot of two-digit dates out there which would have led to a lot of bugs. Companies put a lot of effort into addressing them so the worst you heard about was a 101 year old man getting baby formula in the mail.

The media over-hyped it, though. There was a market for books and guest interviews on TV news, and plenty of people were willing to step up and preach doom & gloom for a couple bucks: planes were going to fall out of the sky, ATMs would stop working, all traffic lights were going to fail, that sort of thing. It's like there was a pressure to ratchet things up a notch every day so you looked like you were more aware of the tragic impact of this bug than everyone else.

That's the part of the crisis that wasn't real, and it never was.
Take a look at the light eval method [1].

Even with HBM on the card... while it will hash fast, you're still going through the memory controller. What you need to do is skip that. Get rid of the memory hardness entirely. Generate the DAG on demand.

[1] https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/progpow-audit/blob/m...
All investment is gambling. You’re betting that the stock will go up if you’re long and that you can sell it for more in the future than when you bought it. Call options just allow you to leverage more as do put options.

Your own statement just agrees with me. Investing and trading is gambling, but if you hedge properly you’re able to control the odds of success a bit better than you can at say a craps table.
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It wasn't a crisis, but it was a real problem that needed to be, and was, fixed in plenty of time. It didn't surprise anyone in the industry as it was well known throughout the 90's it was coming. The biggest problem was identifying what would break and either fix or replace it. Many companies I dealt with at the time humorously did both: they had big remediation projects and as soon as they finished, decided to dump most of the old stuff for shiny new stuff anyway.
Why would I follow someone with only 73 followers in the first place?

I wish twitter can let me choose to filter out any information from accounts with less than 10000 followers, with exception of my own followings.
Big clue for what?
It's a flag, but not necessarily a sure indicator. For example, I have a separate twitter account I only use for political discussions, so that the replies I get don't overwhelm the other things I'm interested in.
> If you don’t want to start a startup, just invest in one.

In a recession, there may be a lot of people with talent, a lot of time, but little to no money. Investment is a game for the rich in the first place, which is why most people don't care about rules involving accredited investors.
Forgive my ignorance, how come they hit a high when the market 'crashes'? The market probably looked better on feb 10, no?
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It's not which is why their comments are confusing to me too and also highly anecdotal. I know just as many half life fans who are super excited for it.
Government is not politics.
I am the poster of this post. I think with people being forced to work at home that I’d share what’s worked for me for over a decade.

I hope this helps at least one person.
Not that it particularly matters because it sounds like all soap is pretty effective, but I wonder if a grease fighting dish soap would be the most effective of all. Don’t mind me, I’ll just be doing dishes for the next few months.
That is exactly the same thing the parent post said...
Not really. At least not like it was portrayed. The public thought that all computers stored dates like `99` for 1999, so potentially all code that handled dates/times would need to be fixed.

But actually most software uses epoch time or something similar. So the scope of the problem was much smaller than the news implied.
A website run with a leftist agenda, or any agenda for that matter, can take "facts" and word it in ways that can give the reader a false world view. To give an example from the right, while most of what fox news says is factually accurate, most open minded person would not use it to know what's going on in the world.
Yes, I am perplexed by this. I have noted an insane number of bots commenting positively on Donald Trump's twitter account. It's obvious they're bots because of the username, lack of other activity, spelling and grammatical mistakes (due to phrases being directly translated from Russian).

P.S. Whenever I mention the above on here, I am subject to a barrage of down votes. Almost as if bots are searching HN comments and trying to down vote anything that is negative towards Trump. If this gets down voted heavily, it'll confirm my suspicions yet again...
Yes and no.

People keep turning to the media because our institutional outlets provide inadequate information for the majority of the population. The institutions default to saying nothing useful because they are scared of blow-back.

I check my city, county, state, and world health sites and there is simply inadequate for my needs. I want to know what closures are in place in my community. I want to know if asymptomatic transmission is real. I want to know if there is a plan to widen the testing criteria.
Not sure what you were aiming for with the analogy, but I'm glad this made me look up the size difference between ants and humans. Humans are O(100 kg) and ants are O(1 mg), 5 orders of magnitude.

It would be interesting to see a graphics API designed to cover a range of 100 000x in performance.

Looks like Nvidia TNT had 2 GB/s of memory bandwidth in 1998 and the high end current ones have ~300-600 GB/s. That's just two orders of magnitude difference. Current fast mobile GPUs seem to get 40 GB/s so that plops to about the middle of the historical PC dGPU range, and is just 1 order of magnitude less than dGPUs.
There's always uncertainty. In societies where you have fewer mothers of young children working, economic cost of closing schools is lower.

All said I agree with GP that existing evidence suggests kids aren't a driver of the pandemic.
There's one real person in my Twitter environment (I don't follow him, but we follow and interact with a lot of the same people so the algorithm shows me his tweets a fair amount) who has a handle something like John415141. I think he chose that handle ironically.
So, the people that have been warning us for 50 years were .. actually correct.

No, they weren't. We didn't end up in a mini ice-age. The glaciers in Glacier National Park did not disappear. The polar ice caps did not melt. Widespread famine did not occur. Widespread destruction did not occur.

Instead, humanity has experience it's greatest period of prosperity in the same period prophets like Ehrlich assured us of our impending doom.

Doom is always right around the corner.

Who would have thought that science could work!

Science always works. But scientists get things wrong frequently.
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Colleague was just dealing with a clients of their who was still using TLS1.0. They're running classic ASP on Window Server 2008, and can't (effectively) migrate. Colleague had been raising the alarm for months (since they started on the project) that "this is going to mean all your systems will stop working in early 2020" but no one seemed to care or understand.

They did, last week, put in ... haproxy as an SSL terminator in front of the main server, and will test a switch over this week. This was 8 months of foot-dragging for about 3 hours of setup/config, and a couple more hours of testing. When all your clients are hitting a web server, and their browsers will all stop rejecting your certs, things will get ugly fast - as in "your business will effectively stop functioning". It just sounded like "doom and gloom" but... how do you message this effectively? It requires the receiving parties to actually understand the impact of what you're saying, regardless of terms you use.
If you know Python you can easily learn Ruby. Not hard to do that transition. Although not similar they share the same idiomatic programming principles drawn from languages like Perl. Also, Ruby was inspired by Python:

"I was talking with my colleague about the possibility of an object-oriented scripting language. I knew Perl (Perl4, not Perl5), but I didn't like it really, because it had the smell of a toy language (it still has). The object-oriented language seemed very promising. I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language – OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language maniac and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for but couldn't find one. So I decided to make it." - Matasamoto.
“ Will it regain the peak, for sure. By when ? Hard to predict”

I don’t think you can be so sure of this
I was involved in several of the efforts at the time including building the communications systems for the "studio NOC" at AT&T in NYC. I started hearing about vulnerable systems about 5 years before 2000 and we were doing serious work on those systems about 2 years before. I predicted (to friends and family who didn't always care to believe me) that it would be a non-event because disruptions would be localized in smaller systems (we were expecting local banks and credit unions). Even I was blown away by how few of those systems had problems. So know when people say Y2K was no big they fail to recognize the work that went into to ensuring it was a non-event.

There's a very current equivalent - if we're good about social distancing, people may talk about COVID-19 the same way.
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Google offers something called Jamboard. It’s quite fantastic.
Always strange to see things close to home on HN. I spent New Years in Southwold, a lovely place to visit on the Suffolk coast with the fantastic Adnams Brewery right in the heart of the town.
I'm sure it's a troll. It's a humblebrag at best, troll at worst.
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"As I’ve mentioned above, I like to use modules that expose groups of functions. These functions accept state and other dependencies. These modules tend to look like what my colleague Drew describes as the functional module pattern."

I dislike that.

When I see a class, I expect it exists because there is a central state around which the methods revolve, and are meant to expose or change it.

When I see a function, I expect it to be side effect free.

Sure you can use any paradigm to make any program, but I use paradigms, just like I use design patterns, to communicate intent. Solving the problem is half the battle. In a way, coding style is documentation. I think we should build boring API, and only use cleverness to find solutions, or make the API easier to use and more elegant.

I worked once on a code base that broke a lot of implicit expectations. Like, it could add objects in a registry when you instantiated some classes, get_stuff could set other stuff, do_stuff would not do stuff but actually_do_stuff would, etc.

It was a nightmare to work with, because anything could happen anywhere. You had to look at the code every single time and keep the whole system in your head, which had 900k lines of highly technical code.
Right, everyone was well aware. But I think there was a bit of "We don't need to worry because we're replacing the mainframe with the new ERP system in 1997", and then whoops the mainframe was still running.
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Given the pressure that Elliott is putting on Dorsey to aggressively grow Twitter, I don't think it is likely that things will improve.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/9/21171482/twitter-jack-do...
Love it aesthetics!

Not sure if it has its niche though. I mean, "stack based" is not really a feature on its own, and we have tons of options to do tensor processing in conventional languages; but the conception is awesome.
I've always heard a different explanation from the one in the article: that the soap isn't actually killing many viruses or bacterial cells, but rather just getting them off your hands and down the drain so you're less likely to infect yourself when you inevitably touch your face (I assume I'm not the only one who has been discovering this week just how hard it is to not touch your face). Is that not correct?
I've seen that in some comments I made on another story. Not sure whether it's Russians or Russian bots or just HN-reading Trump fans.
Soap does not generally react with molecules in dirt or virus, not does it break them down. Soap interacts with the molecules in a way that pulls them apart from each other. All the original virus molecules are intact when they get soapy — they’re just no longer assembled into a functional virus.
One of those hidden gold comments that make me read comments in the first place.
By buying a "put" he is wagering that the price will fall.

The more the market crashes, the higher the value of the put.
Soaps are salts from fats and metals, you could run a panel on lithium grease(actually a soap), sodium and potassium soaps, and maybe something crazy like calcium. Just don't use your hands as the substrate for the experiment.
The second decade millennials never experienced a down market until now. Perhaps that will put a stop to all those silly Financially Independent - Retire Early (FIRE) blogs about millennials retiring early to tropical islands and living off ever increasing tech stocks prices.

First decade millennials were screwed by the 2002 and 2008 recessions in find jobs after college.
Or buy puts on spy/calls on VXX and hedge your downside in an uncertain market
Reminded me of a quote from Paul Arden: "All creative people need something to rebel against."

It's why things were simple and easy to understand in 1999. But then we all rebelled making it more sophisticated and complicated on purpose. And then now we all want to rebel against what we've done. The pendulum swings and swings. I do prefer the 1999 version myself :)
I'm not saying it's not risky. It just sounds like the OP misread it about applying for jobs at startups. I'm not going to guess where the better risk/reward lies.
There are some bad plans. Demand your HR department give you better options.
That's the problem, yes. I still ignore the media, others don't. Both approaches are fine. The thing is, the media doesn't have any other sources, do they? But the have to produce content, so they do. Not very helpfull in the quality department if you ask me.
It seems like both effects are happening.
Hackers are using these fake coronavirus maps to give people malware – Business
From what I’ve understood, the wave ban is partly because they don’t want the spammers to be able to figure out exactly what triggered the ban.
Be sure to harvest some of that profit now. Going all in for 1200% gains is fine for wacky WSB plays using disposable income, but not when you need it to build up a safety net
What is a lazy-three portfolio?
The WHO waited an extra month before declaring a pandemic, and US national sources are generally considered by experts to be understating the severity of the issue. What you want is the top slots to go to the experts, who are not necessarily ranked correspondingly to the hierarchy of political bodies. For example the top virologists are probably in labs and universities, not the Cabinet.
Probably very little considering every founder that sold to FB seems to have left after butting heads with Zuck.
Systems like TPDNE can generate random fake people but can they generate multiple different images of the same fake person? If that is not the case then the existence of different photos should prove a person is real.
A Put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell an item K at price X to a counterparty.

If you've agreed to sell a thing for $5 that is worth $4, you're a dollar in the green. As market prices drop your profit increases
You realize in real terms equities prices in EVERY western economy in the world beside the US are negative since 2000, right?

In Japan, they're (very) negative since 89. As much as 7%! Depending on if you measure using global inflation, US inflation, or Japanese inflation.

You realize that even in the US, there are three 20 year intervals where prices did not increase in real terms since 1890, and 1 30 year interval.

That's a decent percentage of the time.

The idea that they can never go down and stay down is lunacy.
we've reached peak "well ackshually..."
classes only encapsulate context. nothing else. you don't have to use them if you don't want to.
No one is talking about them, it is still a skunkworks project like their self-driving car.
Did the clocks built by dinosaurs include leap seconds?
Similar story, had an older version of MySQL on a 2008r2 server until a few weeks ago.

Advocating for 2 years to migrate off that box.
Please don't upset the NeWS fans on HN or we'll come and tweak your transformation matrix ;-)
“Flatten the curve” is a reference to a chart suggesting it has the most benefits if done today. I can imagine objections about the parameters of the chart or the authoritativeness of the source, but I haven’t seen anyone argue against it on those terms; the vast majority of counter arguments I’ve seen are casual dismissals that it could become so bad when things are mostly OK today.
Preliminary report on aggregated expert predictions on Covid-19 [pdf]
There’s a huge difference between having the foresight to say this is risky and predicting it will crash to $5 in 372 days. One is prudent investing the other is gambling.
> The implication often given is general purpose productivity superiority.

The post you responded to specifically used Java as an example, though. Clojure specifically is clearly targeted as an alternative to writing raw Java. A number of other languages rushed in to compete for that space, and while Scala and Kotlin seem to be more popular than Clojure, I have to admit the only JVM app I actually rely on now, uses Clojure.

Puppetdb, specifically. Puppet is a ruby project, but the database component is written in Clojure. I dislike Puppet for many reasons (syntax, coupling, architecture), but not because of its database backend.
Containment has already failed. That's why COVID-19 was declared pandemic.

Governments, and their public health employees in particular, should be switching to management, mitigation, triage, and treatment now. The assumption is that everybody will get it. The goal now is to ensure that a person occupying an ICU beds will be treated and recovered by the time the next patient needs to be admitted into it.

Issuing more extensive travel bans now are driving in the rear-view mirror instead of keeping eyes on the road ahead. It's already here, and spreading in the community.

First priority is viable testing. You can't manage what you can't detect.

Then it's like controlling a nuclear chain reaction with irregularly-shaped fuel in a randomly-configured reactor. You want to eventually consume all the dangerously radioactive fuel, but you don't want a runaway reaction and core meltdown either. So you stick control rods and moderator fluids and neutron reflectors in as needed to control the rate of the reaction, based on your monitoring, and just keep doing it until all the unreacted fuel is gone. And the whole time, people are dropping dead from the radiation. But then the reaction finally burns itself out, and you can breathe easy again, then reflect upon your failures to revise your plans for the next one.

The federal response has already failed. Now is the time for lots of smart people, who can adapt quickly, to implement ad hoc measures at the local level, based on local conditions, and draw on their public health emergency budgets, that hopefully weren't cut or raided already, and their preparedness efforts, that hopefully actually exist.
Using classes doesn't necessitate using inheritance and polymorphism. Whenever I'm programming in a non-OOP language, I still gravitate towards class-like code. From my perspective, there isn't much different between:

doStuff(&fooStruct, ...) vs. fooClass.doStuff(...)
Everyone lies - it's just a question of degrees. This isn't unique to China.
It's true that you can use put options for purely speculative purposes, but that's not their only use, and that's not what they're supposed to be for.

The more official purpose of a put option is to control your risk profile. That is a perfectly reasonable thing for an investor to do, and is something more like the opposite of gambling.
How much does coreboot care? It needs to support the specific motherboard+CPU, but after that it's not like coreboot needs to handle most hardware. Excepting of course storage (USB, SATA, etc.), but that should be equivalent to laptop difficulty, and possibly network cards for network booting, which I grant might well be harder in desktops.

But mostly I'd expect coreboot to need fairly minimal hardware support and then just pass off to the real OS with proper drivers.
Goldman and OP both think a further fall by summer is likely [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2020-03-11/goldman-...
We’re in a real situation where choices (or the lack thereof) will have major consequences. If the best estimate we can make is a rough one, it’s still sensible to use it as a guide for our actions.
If money is the only motivation, maybe you shouldn't neither.
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Yeah, that's by far the most likely. Note that one of Gernot's non-goals is "Stopping you from shooting yourself in the foot": this is to be taken seriously. The userland libraries provided by SeL4 have no proof evidence at all, and IME look and feel like any other C codebase. It's very likely that they the same class of security problems. Further, it's /very/ difficult to build anything on SeL4 without using said libraries (ease of use is another non-goal, remember?), so I'd expect many real systems to be built on them and thus share some class if issues among them.
Maybe that's just me, but I read hackernews comments for the usually insightful additional information and related discussions that are often more interesting than the article itself.

GP comment provides no useful information nor sparks interesting discussion related to the topic. It's better suited for reddit than hn.
I'm also a huge fan of my Withings Steel (not the HR). Classic looks, step counter, sleep tracking, and a battery life of 9 months with an easily replaceable traditional watch battery. I've had it for years, and it's never failed.

Every once in a while I flirt with the idea of moving to Apple Watch, but I just can't justify it when I realize that all I really need is basic quantification, and thus motivation, of activity.
It’s hysteria without question. So what is the game plan for humanity? Tank the global economy every time a novel virus hits? We are only gonna get away with this hysteria once, it’s not something a society can tolerate. This has to become a ‘new normal’.
What advantage does System76 have for running Darwin? Or do you just want a hackintosh and like their hardware?
You can share your iPad screen on zoom. I‘ll do sketches that way. Sadly the other person can’t interact with it.
External factors can impact expected lifespan, expected retirement date, amount available to invest, and long-term structural factors impacting allocation.

Those things shouldn't change in response to short-term market fluctuations, but not all external events are limited to short-term market fluctuations.