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>For those saying you've never been helped by your CS degree, [...] You've seriously never bothered thinking about, say, algorithmic complexity?

There are lots of successful working programmers that will never need to deal with "algorithmic complexity" because "programming" encompasses a very wide spectrum of skills. I attempted to explain a rough categorization of 2 groups:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079697

So yes, a programmer in group 1 -- let's say a 30-year veteran of COBOL -- can conceivably never have to make a decision about designing an algorithm & data structure to be O(n) vs O(log n) because he works at a higher abstraction level using COBOL. His domain of work doesn't need to deal with low-level things like raw pointers to linked-lists in C/C++ where Big-O complexity is considered when engineering a custom b-tree from scratch.

The programmers in group 1 are not any "worse" than group 2. They just do a different type of programming.
Just do a reverse sear. It's incredible if you're doing a whole tenderloin or similar.

https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/03/how-to-reverse-sear-best...
I agree that the US health system is beyond fucked up, but the statements in this comment are dramatization and not accurate on their own without a ton of qualifiers and clarifying statements.

“Out of network” doesn’t mean your health insurance plan doesn’t pay for anything. It usually just changes coinsurance rate. Anyone who has a major expensive hospital event while insured will just hit their maximum annual out of pocket amount and that coinsurance rate won’t matter. That’s not a good thing but it also means that this comment is misleading, implying that being out of network means that the insured person just has to foot the bill and that their insurance company dips out.

The whole point of the insurance network is that your health insurance company is encouraging you to take your routine doctor’s visits and scheduled non-emergency procedures to a place where they negotiate.

And acne and pregnancy aren’t disqualifying. What are you even saying they’re disqualified for? That’s a vast exaggeration.
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How can you rule out the possibility that mask use has a net negative effect so easily?
I'm in india and may be I do not understand gravity of the situation, but I'm more worried about USA, here people are already scared as shit and most things are in lockdown, which helps the situation.
That math only makes sense if you take the medical industry’s insane pricing model as gospel.

If you had a straightforward nationally run healthcare system the math would be way more favorable still.
Yes I also didn't get if he had died or had left Dropbox until the end.
I think Go is there also, the riscv-go repo proclaims itself obsolete with "This port has been upstreamed in Go 1.14.".

Also probably most interpreted languages work out of the box (Ruby, Python etc)
Rust’s standard library is about on par with C’s, though.
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Macbooks since 2018 physically disable microphones and webcams when the lid is closed: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-air-and-2018-m...
Maybe, maybe not. Until we get the hard data regarding what is happening in London, we can't say anything definite.
Look at Italy - it was a horrible pandemic - until we got the data, which made it much more reasonable.
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> There is no "actual data" in your comment above

There is in http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#w which I said matches what I've found rather well.

> The other poster doesn't have any responsibility to tell you "how to model the data better".

Yes he does,
A similar study was made for phone calls, with similar results.

The counter argument is that while it is easy to let go of the phone when things get tricky. You can't sober up at will.
The exact element does not actually matter here.

What matters is that the atoms in question have some of their electrons in ridiculously highly excited orbitals. This dramatically changes how the system works, and in fact if you have one highly excited electron and many tighly bound core electrons, you can approximate the system by modeling it as hydrogen, regardless of what element it actually is, due to how well the core electrons shield the outer electron from the core.
No graphs but maps:

For Germany I recommend:

crowd sourced from local data (faster than official, links to sources): http://www.risklayer-explorer.com/event/100/detail

New official from RKI, you can switch between levels of detail in the top left: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...

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For the Netherlands:
https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-kaart-van-nederland-per-geme...

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For the World (finer than just countries, with links to sources): http://www.risklayer-explorer.com/event/6/detail
Alexa et al are also normalizing "always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet" technology. According to the bright-line rule from Kyllo v United States[1], when a technology is "in general public use"[2], police no longer need a warrant when they use their own devices based on that technology to see the "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[3].

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens' dissent.

[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph
Ask HN: Who is compiling a detailed open dataset on the pandemic?
Two weeks ago there was no central repository for accurate data on the pandemic that is more detailed than the Johns Hopkins dataset. Lots of researcher time was being squandered scraping by hand from a hundred national websites.

https://rviews.rstudio.com/2020/03/05/covid-19-epidemiology-with-r/

Is this still the case? If so, who is working on fixing it? This seems like unusually impactful work that can be done remotely.

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Update with most comprehensive datasets I know about:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases

Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE)
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Corona Datascraper
https://github.com/lazd/coronadatascraper?fbclid=IwAR1jvkchJbBEAoq99QbUTWqGjR7Kbj2YwiF0w1i840kOpSwlZNXry8R5hHM

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According to OurWorldInData (two days ago), the only other global dataset available is from the WHO, but it has significant bugs. They offer a combined form of the Hopkins and European CDC data.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-sources-comparison
Is there in any way a brighter side to this?

Something I talk about a fair amount: It's incredibly hard to measure what didn't happen but should have. Humans are really bad at that, and understandably so.

If we had adopted a lot of the practices being advocated currently and avoided the epidemic, no one would know or believe we had accomplished anything. Having a pandemic and defeating it is the only way humanity can know and understand with confidence that we need to make a lot of changes to make life work with so many billions of people on the planet.

I have a serious medical condition. I've gotten off all drugs. I know what my life is supposed to look like because I know what my condition is supposed to do. Other people have what I have. I know the typical prognosis.

Yet I have no credibility. I've been mocked and attacked and dismissed online for years because other people cannot see that I've done anything and don't believe I have. Other people can't see what I see and it makes me look to them like a loon suffering hallucinations, not a visionary that people ought to listen to.

I once had someone email me and tell me "I give my child the sea salt and coconut oil you've recommended, and he's in the ER less, but he's not on fewer drugs."

She meant he still was on the same amount of maintenance drugs as before. She wasn't really recognizing that fewer ER visits meant fewer rounds of antibiotics, steroids and similar.

The child was taking less medication, but the mother couldn't quite manage to count the drugs that weren't happening. In her mind, it would only count if her child could reduce his maintenance drugs.

There are a lot of things I hope we change. But the reality is that without a pandemic, no one would believe those changes actually provide germ control and actually matter to the functioning of the world. People would just find the restrictions annoying and pointless and would rebel against it.

You are only going to get compliance when enough people have been burned that change seems less onerous than not changing. That's basically how humans always handle things.

It's frustrating. I wish it weren't so.

But people don't change everything at great cost to avoid disaster based on predictions and models. We make those changes because we got burned in actual fact, not in theory, and we don't want to go back.

And then it's no longer hypothetical. Then it's actually real and we aren't running from Boogeymen. We're problem solving and dealing with actual reality.

Then you see real change.
You have made dozens of posts repeating this argument. It’s just mathematically inaccurate. Modulo taxes, in liquid markets, existing shareholders are compensated identically with share buybacks and with reinvested dividends.

If you wouldn’t have chosen to reinvest your dividends, you can sell a fraction of your shares to achieve the same effect.

You may think there are social or cultural reasons why one return of capital is preferable to another (I can’t tell, you haven’t made any of those arguments as far as I can see), but mathematically, a return of capital is cash in existing shareholder hands, and there’s no difference between the two approaches.

Share buybacks have an impact on taxes paid, but we have a system where people are encouraged to minimize taxes, so you’d need to make an argument about tax rates for that to make sense.

It’s true that changing the number of shares for the same size pot of money has an impact on share based compensation schemes, but that’s an argument about not liking share based compensation.
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> A person majoring in education could skip all that, even if intending to be a math or science teacher.

A person majoring in education earns nowhere close to what STEM grads does even if intending to be a math or science teacher. Knowing those things is what makes you valuable, anyone can learn programming but not everyone will know how things works and you can't program stuff you don't understand.
>This person can call the billing department and say “I can’t pay” and watch that bill plummet.

I don't think it works this way that often. It might just get sent to a debt collector. They might give you a lower fee, but it won't be by that much.
also gooey effects!

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This is a great comment and I endorse it.

Lots of other languages make it way easier than C to write "fused quicksort". Although it doesn't pay much regard to programming language theory, Jai is another interesting language in this area, made by a guy who's mostly concerned with being able to express the fully specialized/fused version of everything without creating extra work for the programmer.
Unless the developer accidentally delivers a slim .exe without malware and and a fat one with said malware.
In this case, there is no need to crack so why would they?

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/fli390/um_guys_...

[ Link about Doom Eternal launched with and without malware - 0day news. ;-) ]
We know that a good rule of thumb in the USA is that health care costs are roughly twice what they ought to be. So just multiply by two: We could have treated around 238k people.
7,4 € per month for everyone ( Belgium)

https://www.cm.be/lid-worden/cm-bijdrage

Eg. Going to a doctor for a blood check costs 1€, 14€ is paid by the insurer
The face values on medical bills in the US are like a bizarre joke - to a first approximation, no one ever pays them. Everyone with insurance gets insurer-negotiated "discounts" to around ~10% of the listed cost.

It's tougher for people without insurance - my understanding is that you can negotiate with the entity that sent you the bill to get significant reductions, but I don't have first-hand experience doing this. Even so, it sounds exhausting, since a single doctors visit will often result in bills from 2-3 separate entities (doctor, lab, radiologist, etc.), so you'd have to negotiate with each of them individually.
Huge amounts of oil-backed money handed over to be managed by folks that don't understand tech.
Is this really an example of “freaking out”?

==“Perhaps we’re being slightly paranoid but we need to have a lot of trust in these organizations and these devices,” Hancock said. “We’d rather not take those risks.”==

Seems like a pretty reasonable measure and advice. The baseline assumption you make is that you know the who, what, where and when of Amazon sharing data.

Does Amazon actually have an incentive not to violate your trust? You could make the same argument about Facebook and they have routinely violated users trust. It seems the real lesson is that without legal protection for consumers, companies will continue operating in the gray area.
I think the idea there is that it physically disconnects the mic, since the laptop instead tries to use the headphone mic (which in this case isn't connected). Not sure if it would actually work, it would be easy to 3d-print one to test.
Remember it's not security, but obfuscation.

Many of these systems are just continuations of anti cracking schemes that go back to the 80s, littering the checks for piracy throughout the software in otherwise unrelated function calls and causing them to be tripped in situations that aren't necessarily the initial bring up.

Modern software like this is more akin to malware than license checks. Many of them will try to detect containerization, virtualization, and tools which might be used to monitor their memory to defeat the checks. Most run with root privileges and will install their own extra malware to try and detect tampering outside of the actual binaries. This is very similar to the detection that are done to try and defeat anti malware scanners. You can get around this by using hardware memory editing devices which are sometimes used to cheat in games without any ability to be detected.
Some companies are doing interviews fully remotely right now.
no country has the ability to go to the moon tomorrow. if there were a pressing reason to do so, the US and probably china or russia could do it eventually, but it takes time to organize that sort of effort. it's probably true that the time between deciding to go to the moon and actually doing it would probably be longer today, but a large part of that might be increased expectations for the crew's safety.

it's a similar story with the PPE. the US has moved a lot of manufacturing capacity overseas because it's economically efficient. the US is certainly wealthy enough to manufacture as much of this stuff as needed, but it isn't a switch that can be flipped overnight and the unit cost would be much higher due to regulatory burdens like worker protection.
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> It's been explicitly stated that Python will never make the type hints mandatory

Type hints are already mandatory if you want to use data classes. This is unfortunate - the two features really should be orthogonal.

At least when Guido was still BDFL, there was little resistance to type hints encroaching on unrelated areas of the language, and hence becoming less-and-less optional.
My main point of contention, is someone has to explain the delta between Italy, China, and Japan.

My favored hypothesis on exposure to local pollution does a decent job of explaining. That said, so far every curve people are looking at assumes all nation's curve should be the same. But they aren't. Not even the cruise ships we have locked up have followed Italy or China style patterns.
Wait so there isn't a Healthcare cost problem in America then? I don't live in US but if your uninsured and can just call, say I can't pay and pay much less or just have your insurer pay, it seems to be OK either way?
This is one place where voice assistants could help. They can’t right now because they’re not good enough to rely on: I for one don’t trust Siri to do what I tell it, or even know how, without taking my eyes off the road to make sure. So the CarPlay system ends up underutilized because I can’t afford doing that.
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At the present time, I agree with you, Swift is very good for user facing software and because of the new built in support for auto differentiation it looks very promising for deep learning. I have some bias here: I am working on a book on Swift AI development. Common Lisp has been my go to language for AI since 1982, and I wanted to explore an alternative. Specific to Apple’s ecosystem, support via CoreML is very good, built in NLP libraries are also good.

I wouldn’t build network software in Swift.
This is not an apt counter analogy for many reasons, and actually can be made to argue against the point you are trying to make. I'll give a few examples here:

- In a computer science education, you do indeed still use a computer.

- There are still proprietary techniques, substrates, solutions and materials that industry chemists use that you almost certainly don't have access to in your standard university classroom. These would be akin to the variety of frameworks, tools, and libraries that exist in the programming world, many of which are open and documented, many of which are proprietary and closed sourced. Hopefully, however, your university education has taught you how to learn to learn in order to use these things.

- Chemistry is not about test tubes and beakers. That's just what it looks like today. Likewise Programming by typing characters on a screen is just what it looks like today. To introduce another analogy, just like Geometry is no longer about rulers and measuring pyramids, Computer Science is about how to formalize knowledge and it just happens to look like semicolons, braces, and 0's and 1's today.
A positive sign that the human thirst for knowledge knows no bounds!
It mostly just mentions mitochondria and lactate though. I think it’s still subject to the same criticism.
They do accidentally trigger very often, though. If you have Alexa devices and check the history, it often records fragments of things that were not intended for it.

If I was to have a very sensitive conversation, I'd unplug them.

But day to day it really does not concern me (or I wouldn't have four of them around the house...)
They use it since it correlates better to later performance review scores than anything else they have tried.
A lasting collapse in economic growth, then, is the worst thing that could happen. Not only would it ruin the lives of millions of vulnerable people who were already in precarious straits, but it would starve us of the ability to make the investments needed to prevent the next big crisis, whether it’s epidemiological or ecological.
Then you clearly didn't read the article, the headline is:

> The government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the coronavirus pandemic
Heartily recommend sous vide.

> You can put the meet in a zip lock bag and suck the air out with a straw

You can stay safer by leaving just he corner not zipped and pushing the rest of the bag slowly underwater, it'll squeeze the air out for you.
I’m sorry, you sound like you’ve been through a lot, but what does this have to do with the article, or even the sentence you excerpted?
Let’s go back to the point where he said poor kid. It’s really hard to get those opportunities. Many poor kids have to work through high school or provide unpaid child care for their family, many of those also have to deal with food and/or housing insecurity. It’s extremely difficult to not only have the connections to get in someplace for an internship or a volunteer experience for your scholastic resume but also to be able to get there or have the time outside of work/school/family to do it.
> all the stuff you learn at school about algorithms and faster ways of doing work, has been negated by hardware advances that mask poor coding practices

Sometimes it isn’t, and we end up with Electron on the desktop :(
I'm not saying anything there is wrong. I'm saying they don't answer the question - they're incomplete. They focus on listing differences between cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, but those differences don't obviously explain why one gets tired and another doesn't.
That’s just a roundabout way of making money.
Unless there are millions of deaths in the US from this, a return to the status quo seems like the most likely scenario, as people will assume the scope and danger of the pandemic was overblown by the media all along.
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Wow, I had no idea that the Lemmings developers went on to become the Grand Theft Auto devs. That now becomes the craziest connection I’ve learned about in this blog series. (Previously it was that a weird French shareware game called “Popcorn” was made by the same guy that later did Alone in the Dark.)
Capitalism got COVID-19 and knocking on socialism’s door pretty hard to get life saving treatment.
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Added. It’s all in the first paragraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
Hopefully good hand washing habits will stay with us
White wheat flour is not that good for you, but of course it's an easy starting point. Try some healthier receipes next time if you start with this.
Hi everyone,
I just like you goose847 and I've also been working at home since the corona virus was found and it ruined everything.
To make it easier to work at home, I do these things:

-I made my room look like an office, and I threw away the distractions, you know, like ps4 :) or something like that.

-When I'm working I try to stay away from any news and just focus on my work.

-At home, try not to get into discussions that you know are long; these days talking about Corona virus can be one of those dangerous and endless debates.

-Schedule a time for your work, for example start at 8am and finish at 5pm

And for the last tip:
When you work remotely you need to work harder and stay in touch with your manager and explain what you have done.
This is because when your manager does not see you, he constantly thinks that you are not working, so you should try to build trust between you and your manager.

I hope this situation ends soon. be safe
I didn’t say anything about comparing the US to Europe? I was explicitly saying to keep it in mind when comparing the numbers from the US to Italy!
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False positives does hurt the perception, because the device will usually do something or utter a response unless it fails to detect something intelligible or writes the request off as not intended for it (having two devices at opposite ends of a large open space living area can sometimes get frustrating, but looking at the history, you see how often they correctly determine which device should respond)

An occasional false positive is funny, but it gets old pretty quickly.