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You're not technically wrong, but I bet that 90% of the projects or at least the examples have some sort of intentional or unintentional reliance on Maven Central, that would break the build if it weren't there. Even a lot of companies that set up internal repositories don't realize that they hit still are gonna hit Maven Central initially, before everything is bootstrapped, depending on how things are configured. It would reflect just really poorly on the Maven ecosystem (or any ecosystem alike, I have to assume, but know less about) if the canonical repository would just... "poof".
Not all policies are fair and there should be exceptions during times of crisis. Hotels do questionable advertising practices all the time to lure in customers and then hit them with arbitrary fees during checkout which seems like bad faith to me.
Medcram (which is the video linked) has had some great coverage of COV19. Numbers, trends, and conclusions all backed by the original published papers. Awesome.
Printing money also doesn't create wealth, but central banks seem to think that it's good for the economy.
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As others have mentioned, false negatives and false positives are both annoying problems. The standard diagnostic kit for example comes with a positive control, which frankly is absolutely essential. Synthesizing a primer is trivial, a positive control is not as trivial (especially if it's an RNA sample). It's also an RT PCR, which means it's extremely easy to contaminate samples among each other (so you can never be sure if even one of your samples actually has the virus whether ALL of the samples have it or not). Further, you can't trust regular gel results too much, you need a qRT-PCR cycler which most labs would have but probably not these hackers.

Also were talking about a virulent pathogen sample. Do you truly want to stand in line and collect random snot samples with covid virus without proper training and PPE?
Most global hotel chains like Marriott etc have waived their refund policies. It's the small indie ones that may not budge.
Here’s an article (without much information...) about an upcoming trial for Chloroquine in Australia.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor...
If you can get by with audio only I'd recommend Mumble with a strategically placed location of the server (to keep latency consistent between users assuming no routing shenanigans, need to test for this) and hope for the best.
I used to work for Spectrum, in Business Class tech support. Several friends still work there, in NOC and Enterprise tech support. All of them have laptops, "in case [they] ever have to work from home". Meanwhile, they're not allowed to work from home.
Hard to find a non-cynical comment on HN these days, so I'll just say: this is cool. A way for people to get crucial goods in a relatively safe way, and some new jobs with a pay boost in a time of economic instability.
My company uses Dashlane and I decided to try out others because it's terrible. Switched to BitWarden since it was free but that to had some quirks but far better than Dashlane. Now I'm using both BitWarden and Keeper and find them both to have their pros and cons. Both are much another to use than Dashlane though.
But good luck getting back in when they reopen. The waitlist was brutal before, and now you're on the bottom of it.
Everything is just a few percent here and there, and everybody shifts the blame saying we should be cutting XYZ instead of ABC.

Efforts should be made to reduce all sources of emissions.
Yup! I went from "I don't even sing karaoke or sing in the shower" to really liking my voice, performing super comfortably in public & preparing to record my first studio EP. I guess it's been 3-4 years at this point.

I had a musical background which definitely helped, but the main thing is I desperately wanted to be able to sing.

The main thing you can do is take weekly vocal lessons with a good vocal teacher who you vibe with and practice every day. I didn't have lessons for that whole time, but the periods where I have had a teacher I got better quicker way better than when I just practiced by myself.

The cool thing is that singing unlocks songwriting, and songwriting is absolutely transformative as a self-care practice. It's also infinitely more fun to sing your own songs than covers. But also performing your own songs gives you a drive to get better at singing. Virtuous cycle.

edit: here's a recent song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrd7Uvm2h00
That tax incentive was set up deliberately. It's socially valuable for people to have retirement savings, so the rest of us are happy to subsidise you in that saving.

Buybacks are an accident of tax law and ought to be taxed the same way as dividends.
The US govt has recently dumped trillions into the banking system in a matter of days. Last I checked they were talking about additionally cutting payroll taxes for the year.

Somehow they were able to do this without raising taxes by 50%... Turns out we have the money after all.
The math currently does not work in Sanders Favor
Yeah, cheers! ^_^ (It took me years to notice that.)
Oil price war may revive China's global yuan ambitions
The problem with UBI is that most versions of it would essentially liquidate social services that people would normally receive. UBI only makes sense in addition to the other parts of a comprehensive safety net (universal housing and healthcare), not as a replacement.
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Put a land value tax in place, and then the incentive to hold property for speculation goes away, in favour of selling it to people who can use it productively.
By booking a non-refundable rate, which is generally cheaper, you took that risk. So long as the hotel is open, it's not really their problem. The fact that they have more money than you doesn't give you the right to steal from them.

If you really need the money for basic survival, fine, we can argue about the morality of it. But even with a possible recession looming, it's unlikely that the price of a hotel stay is going to be the difference between life and death for you.

It's unlikely you are in basic survival mode yet, unless you've already lost your job and are living paycheck to paycheck and there are no available government programs to help you right now and no friends or family to turn to.
> ICE is the enforcement arm for immigration, which handles people who cross the border

No, it's the enforcement arm for immigration and customs, the former of which is people who are living in the US despite not being US citizens. Enforcement of people (and goods) crossing the border is the Border Patrol and it's parent organization Customs and Border Protection.
For California: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...

For the Federal Goverment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Service_Act

The list (for the federal government) of diseases is managed via Executive Order [PDF] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-04-09/pdf/03-883...

The CDC also has a link to this: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...

These measures have precedent, so good luck in getting these overturned.
30% over 4 years from their peak. Still a pretty big drop. (RIM/BlackBerry has been a 95% drop over 9 years, and hasn't stopped yet, but looks to be levelling off.)
"Our approach to keeping software comprehensible is to reduce information hiding and abstraction, and instead encourage curiosity about internals."

This sounds rather vague, "encourage curiosity about internals". If I don't need to understand the internals why should I spend time trying to understand them? Isn't it better to "hide their details" into another compilation unit or module, which only exposes its API through an interface so I can easily understand WHAT it is doing, without having to understand HOW it does that?

It sounds like they suggest instead of sub-routines/procedures/functions I should have a single big main program, because those sub-routines/procedures/functions would be hiding information from me.
Bio-extortion, at most...
I hope you are joking...
It's going to be hard to get the assay working and trusting without a positive control though
I adorrrrre my Iridium. I have Guitar Rig & Bias FX and a bunch of other sims, but the Iridium is really special. The sound is _inspiring_ - in that it makes me want to just sit and play guitar for hours on end because it sounds so damn good. It's expensive and I try to not be a gear addict, but imo investing that much in my joy was money well spent.
cryptocurrency is what alchemy would look like if it appeared in 2008 instead of the 13th century. Both are the work of people who work up ever more complex technical arguments from fundamentally invalid premises, who try to reify these prwmises by endlessly tweaking their implementation apparatus instead of rethinking their assumptions from first principles.

both phenomena even ascribe these first principles to color coded documents purportedly authored by mythical, pseudonymous departed sages, the emerald tablet of Hermes trismegistus and the white paper of Satoshi nakamoto.
Can 3D printing accelerate ventilator mfg?
Is it possible to manufacture ventilators using a combination of 3D printed parts and locally available off the shelf components?

Second question: How to organize a project to make it possible and publish plans?
You must be new here.

Two things: the people you're replying to can't downvote you, and complaining about downvotes will earn you downvotes.
There's nuance to each of the terms. Asocial is what I would say an introvert often is; avoids social interaction without necessarily wishing ill, perhaps dislikes being in the company of others. Anti-social behaviour is disruptive to others, perhaps violent.
I have a fairly tame quinine allergy (and subsequently was incredibly relieved when artemisinin-based treatments became a thing) - this is interesting but also mildly horrifying news.
>If the demand for milk goes up, I can switch to soy milk. If soy milk goes up, I can switch to Almond. And if all of them go up, I just drink water.

What happens when the water gets privatized and you can't afford that?

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/water-privatizatio...

>After privatization, water rates increase at about three times the rate of inflation, with an average increase of 18 percent every other year
Congress woman Tulsi Gabbard (the Clinton blacklisted presidential candidate) took on Yang's UBI initiative after he ran out of money and dropped out of the presidential race.
Gabbard introduced HRes 897 last Thursday and has been vocal about providing an urgent $1k per month UBI payment for the projected 10 million US citizens who will lose their jobs.

The DNC in their wisdom have again chosen to blank Gabbard and focus on AOC and Romney thinking about doing the same thing, although I believe there are now co sponsors and momentum for HRes897.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/include-ubi-in-the-economi...
Isn't it more that NPM specifically has had a bumpy ride, and people are seeing this acquisition as a sign of better times to come, and it not being a value judgment of other open source initiatives.
It's also reasonable to think about the scenario where mutations are fast enough to compromise any vaccine or herd immunity strategy.
I had this theory a few weeks ago, based on some personal experience and observations of unusual respiratory illnesses in people I know, including one hospitalization. However in recent days it seems unlikely to be valid due to the deteriorating situation in Italy and then Spain. It'd be wonderful if proven true. We will find out in the next 14 days.
I trust my BTC wallet.
Most of this is silly, but there is one correct point: large enterprises will never use WG unless we can get NIST to approve ChaCha and C25519 under FIPS.

Yes it's mostly bullshit. No it won't ever change. FIPS is a check box and its all about liability and things like insurance. It has zero to do with tech and everything to do with standards and bureaucratic and legal requirements. Nobody ever got fired for using FIPS approved stuff. Use something different like WG and it (and you) will be blamed for any breach.

Note that I'm not sure to what extent this is true in Europe, but there you have another problem. In my experience European industry is just culturally super conservative and does not like to adopt new things. So even if they don't have the FIPS boat anchor, they're just terribly change-averse.
Concentration camps are for political prisoners. These are not the same. And there are US citizens and children in jails and juvenile detention too, which is what happens when crimes are committed.

I'm a naturalized immigrant. I've been in far worse places than America. I suggest you visit CBP and ICE. Talk to the agents. Visit the border. See the shelters. View the damage done by criminals who prey on these people and find out how much the agents do to help them while risking their lives fighting cartels and traffickers.

Like I said, America is far softer with borders than other nations. Crossing illegally brings enforcement and penalties. I'm not sure why this is so controversial, or why protest against govt organizations is done by proxy of software companies.
83 milligrams per liter for tonic water, so about 6 liters to get a 500mg therapeutic dose.
If you don’t pay, you lose your place in line and there is usually a waiting list (though with the upcoming recession, those might go away). You also don’t endear yourself with the staff if you don’t plan on switching.
How's this enforced?
Not OP, but leaving your house has always been explicitly dangerous. You could give someone a flu or kill someone in a no fault auto accident.

The risk is always a matter of degree.

What is a reasonable threshold should be open to debate.
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I read some links implying that Quercetin was potentially useful against coronavirus, although they sounded a bit like PR/sales, and site that had links is down (bad sign?) so I can't find the links now.

Edit: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/a-made-in-canada-solutio...
First person in US gets experimental coronavirus vaccine
US Patent 3,419,029 Breathing Valve Assembly
HH Straub Dec 31 1968

This appears to be simpler solution that can be AM'd quickly

Also, medical staff prefer not to use face masks because if the mask does not fit well on to the patients face there is a potential to aspirate body fluids and aerolise the virus.
No, I use functions: https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme

I just propose to not maintain 3 levels of functions where one will suffice, just to preserve some "interface" for "backwards compatibility".

You aren't forced to understand internals. But it is an explicit design goal to make the internals comprehensible against the day you want to learn about them.
This sounds interesting. What kind of custom perspective did you create?
Most other utilities have cost structures that scale with actual consumption rather than capacity.

If you use more water, even if there is plenty of delivery capacity, they could literally run out of it. There is only so much in the reservoir.

If you use more electricity, even if there is plenty of transmission capacity, they have to burn more fuel to generate it.

Transferring more bits doesn't risk depleting the supply of bits and doesn't require burning more fuel. The worst it can do is consume all of the available transmission capacity. But the amortized cost of a bit is very low -- if you charged true cost then it wouldn't meaningfully deter usage, so you'd still need about the same total amount of transmission capacity. At which point charging for usage serves no legitimate purpose.
Take your samples before giving them the vaccine, but do the actual screening later.

Is there a type of screening that requires you to do tests over a period of more than a week, because you need the results from some slow tests to order other slow tests? If you just exclude all the people that need unexpected additional tests, is that so many it will ruin the data?
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Needing the money more doesn't change the agreement.
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This would be great, but watch some of the videos of Italian Doctors detailing their experiences and see if you still believe it.
> prices will rise in an attempt to capture some of that known financial excess

The assumes financial excess. The reason for UBI is that there isn't excess. If 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, then that's not excess. If 63% of Americans can't afford an unexpected $500 bill, that's not excess.

You're right that inflation happens when there is excess, but given these stats, I don't buy that part of the argument. Even if these stats could be explained away from being financially irresponsible (I don't believe this is the common case), it still wouldn't be excess because people are still spending. If we don't assume excess then this argument becomes as silly as saying that giving people jobs with an income will cause inflation.

So where could this money be captured? A person that couldn't afford a car can now. I person with a $1k beater car can now buy a $5k car. Someone that was living paycheck to paycheck can now take a breath, buy a TV and a Netflix subscription. Someone that was unable to invest before could use that money to invest. The money affects everyone in different ways, but supporters of UBI think it is clear that there are already avenues to "capture" this money without inflation and that different income groups will spend the money differently. Studies have also shown that when there isn't full market capture cash injection doesn't cause meaningful rises in inflation.
Are you proposing to break backward compatibility?
Just one tip: Comment your Intent, not the code.

Anyone can read the code and see what it does.

No one can read your mind to figure out what you intended it to do.
i currently take Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) for rheumatoid arthritis, and my doctor did indicate it may be helpful against Covid but not enough tests to confirm. Is it close enough to chloroquine to be the same ?
>Well, you're all wrong, because I define sociability as [...]

Jesus... Do you read what you write before you post it?
The main focus of my comment was this: If you catch yourself rationalizing, it's a sign that something is suspect in your thinking process. Deciding to ignore those misgivings is foolish, especially in important matters.

Deciding which particular activities are too risky in this situation is left as an exercise to the reader.

> Panicking, moralizing commentary like yours does absolutely no good to anybody and just stokes people’s fear.

My comment was not panicking. However, if advocating that adults think clearly and avoid rationalization counts as "moralizing", then guilty as charged.
This is the "two wrongs" argument. They do bad things so we should be able to do bad things back.
I'm thinking it might be possible to build ventilators locally -- maybe even in a hospital as needed -- if it were possible to assemble them from a kit of inexpensive parts plus site-printed 3D components.

Does anyone have thoughts on this? It seems like an idea that could save millions of lives.
I wish man pages were this good!
It's certainly more complicated than I understand, but I see it like this...

Case 1: With no UBI the person who works in food service has to live an hour or more out of town and commutes to work each day. This is because their pay is better in town than out of town so it's worth it financially overall. Or they simply are paying more in housing costs than they should, are feeding money up the rent chain instead of saving to say own their own house and have a tenuous living environment for a family.

Case 2: With UBI the person can just move to a place where housing costs are $300 a month and do whatever they want without worrying about how they'll support themselves in an emergency where they can't find work. They could start a business. Volunteer. Stay at home and raise kids. Take care of the neighbors kids and teach them gardening. Or work if the pay is actually high enough to justify it, which seems to push more money down to human workers over profit automatons. Hey, teachers could live and teach in cities with smaller school budgets!

Is that inflation? I suppose in the sense of rising buying power diluting the dollar some, but assuming it's paid for by a high progressive tax after a certain income amount, I think it's just wealth redistribution that levels out the overall geographical housing cost to income ratio.

I think it would reduce the power of landlords, though certainly doomsayers say it will just push up rental and house prices. I think this is possible to a point, but honestly seems too locally focused. I think a lot of people would leave where they are if they knew they could support themselves somewhere new.

$1000 a month would offset decreased pay more in an absolute sense in a lower cost of living area. This will make it feasible for a family to move safely to a new place without a job lined up. Or know that if they join a union and get fired they'll have baseline support. It's hard for me to see this as favoring anyone but lower income human workers even if it's not perfect in every way.
The Supreme Court has suspended sessions that have oral arguments, starting today:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/...

“The Court’s postponement of argument sessions in light of public health concerns is not unprecedented. The Court postponed scheduled arguments for October 1918 in response to the Spanish flu epidemic. The Court also shortened its argument calendars in August 1793 and August 1798 in response to yellow fever outbreaks.”
Australia. The only country that makes the USA look good for broadband...
>You don't need to try WireGuard to understand it will not be as fast as bump in the wire IPsec implemented in ASIC, which is available today from literally dozens of vendors at 100Gbps+.

But what does that have to do with anything? Wireguard certainly doesn't compete with IPsec ASICs.

>all else being equal

Unfortunately we live in the real world where this assumption doesn't hold true.
This isn't a fair comparison. That injection is a loan. I support UBI, but we can't be making bad comparisons like this. It doesn't help.
Why are people still building native apps for other platforms? Doesn't your second sentence apply to those too?
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This is good! (full disclosure, I know the founder), I've just put Amy's blog post around founder anxiety and covid-19 reality https://www.foundercoach.io/blog/founder-fear-covid-19 and while it doesn't pass the Turing test, it's pretty damn good!
I'd like to read this, but it's triggering my BS radar by the amount of gobbledygook and sentences like "Creating an entire new stack may seem like tilting at windmills, but the mainstream Software-Industrial Complex suffers from obvious defects even in the eyes of those who don’t share our philosophy."
For most people, regular hand washing and not touching your face is orders of magnitude more effective than wearing a mask. But as a society we've become addicted to off-the-shelf solutions rather than boring good habits.

Basic masks can be beneficial for a short time. They need to be replaced at least every hour in order for the benefit to persist. This is routine in a hospital, but is simply impractical for most normal people.

(If a mask stops a droplet containing virus, the virus doesn't disappear. Your own breath and fine droplets keeps the mask material warm and humid—making the mask material great environment for the virus to hang out and spread through the fabric until it can be breathed directly into your lung where it can do the most damage.)
Nonrefundable rates are not marketed as a bet against global catastrophe. They're a commitment that you won't change your mind.

This epidemic is more similar to the hotel burning down. I would expect my money back in that scenario and do whatever I could to retrieve it.