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Having all Don Rosa comic books still in my shelf. Two of them with his autograph. Naturally all in Finnish, him and Barks being almost like national heroes in there.
The Trump administration has responded quite slowly compared to the Obama administration's response to H1N1. The CDC commenced emergency operations a week after the first H1N1 case was detected, and advised school closings less than a week after that [0]. It seems likely that Trump's unfavorable comparison of the Obama H1N1 response to his COVID-19 response will come back to haunt him [1]. We'd be extremely lucky to get away with only 12,000 US deaths, this time.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-tim...

[1] https://www.countable.us/articles/42948-tale-2-pandemics-gov...
I'd rather we don't suggest options that limit the amount of money creators get.

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> I believe that most code is read more often than it's written. (You pass through a lot of code while tracing down bugs!) It pays to reduce the brainpower necessary to understand a block of code, and good abstractions and good models are key to this.

Bad abstractions and models make it much harder to understand code, though. So for junior devs, yeah, it would often be better to be very, very careful, and think very, very hard about your abstractions before creating them.

Everyone wants to turn every problem into some sort of framework loaded with interfaces and different implementations of them vs being ok with "feature X needs to do thing A, B, and D; feature Y needs to do things A, B, C, and E; let's just have them as two separate endpoints with separate biz logical calling those methods sequentially instead of trying to coerce them together."
Right. SAT solvers are an excellent theoretical fit and a terrible practical fit, at least at the current state of tooling. Their runtime _does_ explode and the tooling _is not_ any good at hinting as to why even when the explanation turns out to be very simple. "lol install takes an hour now" makes for a very poor error message, and debugging a black box that takes an hour to evaluate each input is just.... ugggggghh, and I can only thank my lucky stars that it did finish after an hour rather than taking an indefinite amount of time.

In contrast, the "danger" of heuristics is that they fail to dig up an exceedingly clever combination of archaic package versions that technically fit the user's specified requirements. It's such a small problem that it might even be considered a feature, since said exceedingly clever combinations are likely to be the result of poor version definitions and unlikely to be what the user actually wants.

Of course, if the only people who can be persuaded to write package managers are people doing research in the subject, then I suppose letting them inflict their pet projects on us is one way to compensate them for an otherwise thankless task, and perhaps in that sense it's fair.
Read the comments.

This appears to be him:
https://www.bellaandduke.com/our-story/

His latest scam involves a terrible DIY website hocking "healthy" dog food
>Japan appears to be severely and deliberately under-testing for the coronavirus, although it has stepped it up in recent weeks

and

>Possibly, coronavirus deaths are being hidden among pneumonia fatalities. South Korea has had 120 deaths from Covid-19, but Japan only 49. So, it is possible that the more populous Japan is sweeping Covid-19 fatalities under the rug?

I suspect that they are hiding the spread of disease. Until just recently their main motivation was to make Tokyo Olympics happen.

Japan is full of elderly people, so I fully expect the death toll to relatively large.
I recently got an unexpected netflix marketing email too.
One of my takeaways from this situation is that there's been too much dependence outside the country. I actually think this situation will result in bringing some level of previously outsourced work back onshore.

This may go hand-in-hand with a (degree of) rolling back the uber-capitalism of sacrificing long-term "anything and everything" for the potential of an immediate bump to the stock value.
Some of us use linux as a desktop environment, and like having the security patches be applied as soon as the relevant package has updated.
Why, when I can spend $380 and have a setup that is easy to use and doesn't require me to train on. They watch a nice video and we don't have to do a deploy of OBS to a bunch of laptops.

I'm all for free or open source software, but I'm still dealing with a commercial entity either way. Plus, I don't have to worry about YouTube's algorithm flagging some content.
Thanks; I was aware of this but last I checked it only supports a subset of LLVM (whatever Julia needed).
What happens when I launch my game on this platform and Google kills it next fall with no warning?
I think you're talking about a theoretical best-case scenario for YouTube where I'm talking about the real world with videoconferencing.

For people at home, the bottleneck is often something like their apartment building or block or neighborhood -- wherever their ISP didn't provision enough. Obviously "proper queue management" on your home router doesn't affect this. To the contrary, a series of routers full of buffers means that congestion absolutely does increase latency, and drastically.

"Bufferbloat" is a known phenomenon. We may wish it didn't exist, but it does.

So your claim that "no changes should be needed" to ensure videoconferencing latency is unimpacted is just wrong, and flat in the face of all real-world evidence.

Have you ever tried personally using videoconferencing on a saturated network? This isn't theory... it's something you can try yourself. (I used to work in videoconferencing and latency caused by network congestion was the #1 quality issue.)
Can we stop threatening criminal negligence charge for every single mistakes people make?

It's not going to improve performance in the next pandemic if people are afraid of doing their job or engages in ass covering.
Michael Lewis wrote a whole book about potential scenarios like this which could arise from lack of capable executive leadership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Risk
In some places there's literally no space - Venice for example, land is expensive and it's such a historic city that you can't just build a skyscraper (nobody would give you permission). This is the point about them being at capacity. In summer everywhere is booked. The argument is that lack of beds stifles demand, but then you can barely walk round Venice in high season. It's not about hotel capacity, it's the capacity of the city infrastructure itself. Venice has no land for hotels, or anything else!

Resort style hotels tend to be sited elsewhere with space for pools and recreation, and people don't leave (or they do so on a couple of tour coaches a day). Though look at Oxford or Cambridge in summer to understand how busy "the odd coach" can make a city centre.

Cruise ships are also full of mostly low-paid, high-turnover jobs (often seasonal). Hotels confine people which means they then go and spend time (and money) in the city. They might go for an early breakfast, eat out, see some museums.
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To be clear, because I don't think I was, I am not saying "God exists and some people are just blind."

I'm saying different people have different perceptions (which includes mental models or thought processes) and relate differently to reality around them. It's usually a pretty pointless thing to argue about. Both sides are generally pretty adamant about their views, a la The elephant and the six blind men.
btw there is default 'Screen Sharing.app' in macOS. You find it via spotlight or via facetime/messages in menubar
> How do you decide how much to give a business? I don't think it's fair to just give specific industries money. Maybe the company you work for got hurt too but not as bad. Don't you they deserve money? You need to distribute the money to every business in a fair way, but it's pretty much impossible to determine what's fair. You can't just give every "business" the same amount of money and have it be "fair" for several reasons.

if you were really interested, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to come up with a reasonable figure. take average revenue n weeks before the shutdown, then subtract average revenue during the crisis. pay out in proportion to calculated losses, conditional on backpaying employees their average weekly pay. real productivity is down by a lot, so no one is going to be made completely whole, but we could share the burden a lot better than we are now.

as an aside, just giving everyone a flat sum would be the best outcome for me personally. I'm still getting paid and my company is doing fine. I'm arguing against my own interests here, which I don't do often.
Showing the deprecation message before the API that replaces it is actually out? Isn't that a bit of an a-hole move? I know everyone here is a developer and hates code older than a month, but really? Nobody gonna call them out on that?
The specifics of the speed gains are our secret sauce, I’m afraid! But at a high level, we reduced the time taken in every step of the pipeline between capture > encode > send > receive > decode > render that we could, while still remaining WebRTC compliant.
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I got through the hazing ritual, so that works great for me personally. There is far less competition for my job.

For the benefit of society, or the country, or the world, or something like that... the situation is terrible. We're wasting years of human lives on unproductive education. We're excluding capable people from CS careers. We're driving up the cost of software.

If we trimmed out the non-CS stuff, people could do combined BS+MS degrees in the time that we currently spend on BS degrees. The extra CS education would be valuable to the people and to their employers.
Didn't the Trump administration slash CDC funding?

This claims so:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-cuts-programs-respo...

And here we have him saying "I'm a businessperson. I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them," Trump said. "When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defend...
But the government does control it's response to the pandemic, right? Is it not liable for it's response?

I don't know what the right answer is here but it's an interesting discussion.
I'd really like some PostGres sync tool that would allow me to use something like "copy-on-write", i.e. do an upsert on each row, unless some condition evaluates to true, using both target and source data (e.g. target modified_at > source modified_at). Would allow for some common date to be easily shared between databases (better performance characteristics than e.g. a foreign table/union view).
Interesting, yes.

Incredible, maybe.

Open-source, not really.
Twitch has audio only mode. I use it when working outside.
>"It's interesting that many games can afford a constant 10x interpretation overhead for scripts, but not a spikey 1% for garbage collection."

Why is that surprising?

Games are basically about humans predicting things and random spikes prevent that from happening in time sensitive games. Beyond game play implications, I suspect there's also something about jerkiness in movement that bugs human senses.
A simple fix for the specific issue you mentioned is to stop sharing your screen for however long you want, while still staying in the meeting. You can then turn it back on whenever you’d like.

Having said that, I’ve heard this request a few times now, and we will likely get to this soon. But I am curious whether the workaround would work for you for the time being.
> If you learn to program in one language, it's easy to learn another, I assume that person doesn't know much about programming.

This is flat out wrong.

If you know Python, it'll be easier to learn Rust than having to learn Rust from zero. Engineering is about problem solving and formulating solutions with algorithms and data structures. If you don't know what those are yet, it'll take much longer to learn.

Learning one of anything makes learning the next one easier. Programming languages, spoken languages, musical instruments, sports cars, martial arts, sports, weapons, drawing, etc. Your brain builds a rich scaffold you can hang new concepts from.
> They live in small appartements, sometimes with young kids

That's most likely the reason why they "work in the office by choice".

Back when I was still working in a physical office, I couldn't understand why someone would want to escape from their home into an office. As a WFH father of an infant, I fully get it now. Working with a small child nearby pretty much precludes any regular focus or deep working sessions.

> Agree. It takes self-discipline not to follow this to closely.

Indeed it does. I've never wasted so much time obsessively reading the news like over the past month.
Ok, we've stuck a default up there.
There is also the https://www.pine64.org/clusterboard/ for $99 which takes these modules https://www.pine64.org/sopine/ at $29 a piece, which are quad-core ARM Cortex A53 with 2GB LPDDR3. This is their wiki: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64-LTS/SOPine
Consoles take DRM safety seriously, the fact that that aligns with user security is purely coincidental.
Seems like another thing that would help is every browser and media service adopted AV1 for video and WEBP for images. That itself would save an insane amount of bandwidth (maybe a quarter of the world's bandwidth).
Very cool. Obviously your website is getting the HN hug-of-death right now, but still got signed up and poked at it a bit.

Suggestion: (rather than complaint about the name), it'd be nice to have a little faster/easier method of changing the audio/video devices. Like the device arrows in zoom. I happen to have multiple of both devices (on my desktop) and sometimes apps get confused on which to use - so a quick way to change it back is always preferred.

Suggestion #2: Everyone seems to be killing for their whiteboards back right now. So a mode to have more strictly a digital multiplayer whiteboard would be cool.

Bug (Windows 10 x64): When I left my first meeting, the app didn't release the camera (light stayed on) & microphone (windows said it was in use) until I exited the application (from the tray). Relaunched the app and created a new meeting and it didn't happen again, so I'm not sure why. Just fyi.
I don't see how the two will conflict. I wouldn't change anything.
Anecdotally, I've heard even kindergarten teachers are running reflection sessions over videoconferencing, and trying to help kids feel less lonely.

In my personal experience, being able to see others' faces and eyes has been helpful during this time.

That said, many video conferencing tools I've used let you switch into an audio-only mode (and not downloading the others' video) if you prefer.
Simple stuff like this looks very similar to Rust: https://godbolt.org/z/spkKai

Rust quickly becomes harder though, while Zig is much easier to grasp.
Another factor to consider is how whatever window manager you use will interact with them. Things are probably better these days, but some WMs aren't very smart about multiple monitors.
It's not whataboutism; it's correcting an inaccurate statement you made that a so-called "one nation" policy is adopted by the current government. The country was founded on the "one nation" principle (hence it's called Union of India) and it's not something Modi invented. It's always been there.

By all means criticize your government, but I suggest you also acquaint yourself with history.
For some reason I thought this was the pitch and I LOVE this idea. Is it possible for a password manager plugin to capture your "paste" and verify the window url? I know there's an onpaste clipboard event so sure seems like this would be possible.
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I don’t see how this necessitates cookies at all.
What is Quadrature Amplitude Modulation then?
> However, I think we must be reimbursed for the government-ordered loss of rights.

Alright: let's have the government compensate your for your loss of rights during this pandemic by paying you 10% of your pandemic-period income. Let's have it pay for that by assessing a special one-time tax of 10% of your pandemic-period income.

The government ain't some magic other, it's us, and your compensation has to come from somewhere. The virus isn't going to pay. This is a country-wide disaster, and there's no getting around the fact that all of us are going to have to pay for it, one way or another.
Honestly, no, since that is not fail-safe. Ideally remote control could be set to be disabled by default. Until that feature is available I'll probably continue to use Zoom screen sharing.
I don't want to be negative as there's too much of that about but gcc and similar can do some pretty hefty optimisations, and for any real work I suspect those count for a great deal. Just because zigcc can compile C, neat as it is, doesn't make it a drop-in replacement for gcc.

Does yours do loop unrolling, code hoisting, optimise array accesses to pointer increments, common expression elimination etc?
> Today, with containers becoming increasingly the de facto means

This assertion makes no sense at all and entirely misses the whole point of shared/dynamic libraries. It's like a buzzword is a magic spell that makes some people forget the entire history and design requirements up to that very moment.
Getting the test was difficult enough here in California. A bigger problem that isn't being discussed is the delay to get the results. I had a test 10-days ago and still do not have results. Obviously, still self-isolating.

The local health county department have taken over issuing the results. Yesterday, after multiple calls they told me to call the hospital as they don't have an answer. Was able to contact someone today at the hospital - they told me to call the local health department again.

The city keeps issuing updates/running daily conferences with new data (more than likely 1-2 weeks old).

If the US had enough tests at the start - we would probably still be seeing similar data points in the news as the backend infrastructure of issuing results is in no way able to handle the amount of cases as is.
Why isn't Big Tech embraced in its own backyard?
Yup they shut down the folks in washington after they started getting positive results!!
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That depends, as others have mentioned, if you have to kill the fish to find out if it has the parasite, then that hasn't saved the fish at all.

Also, people aren't the only predators for salmon, so you have to wonder if the other creatures are as picky?
Zig uses clang on the back-end, so while IANA compiler expert, I suspect it does all these things.
Both the WHO and the CDC have (deservedly) lost trust with the public.
Interesting read on why California stays ahead of the curve
Yes, it's clang under the hood.
My initial thought was that it could be related to the leak, however my email doesn't exist in HIBP.

You're absolutely correct - someone - not me - has created an account using this unique email address.
As I recall, a lot of the media was saying we should be more worried about the Flu than this. That was the prevalent mantra from Jan-Feb.
I'm seconding this. Love the product, hate the name.
I don’t remember the internet being like that before invasive advertising and tracking took over...
Interesting. I get 256 on Catalina (0-255), as opposed to 4 (0-3) on Mojave. /dev doesn't appear to be dynamic as it is on Linux, so they've chosen to pre-create more device files. More importantly, on Catalina the permissions are now ug=rw (0660) and with a group name of "access_bpf", whereas on Mojave they were u=rw (0600) and "wheel".

So, yeah, looks like Catalina was a stepping stone.
Have some emoticons, that are auto-extracted by the camera, interpolating between states close enough?
Most humans struggle when reading garden-path sentences, so I would be quite impressed if an NLP toolkit handled them easily out-of-the-box.

EDIT: On a related note, when I was an undergrad there was a group on campus that was doing research on how humans repair garden-path sentences when their first reading is incorrect. They were measuring ERPs to see if something akin to a backtracking algorithm was used + eye-tracking to see which word/words triggered the repair. I graduated before the work was complete, but I might go digging for it to see if it was ever published.

EDIT 2: Apparently this is better researched than I realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P600_(neuroscience)
I have no idea, but it doesn't matter, in the sense that it's simpler than that. You can't post the way you did, even if you were being trolled. This is in the site guidelines: "Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead." That's an indirect phrasing of "please don't feed the trolls".

Commenters here need to follow the rules regardless of what others are doing. It always feels like the other person started it and did worse, which is to say: it always feels like we're justified in breaking the rules. If we go with that feeling, we're guaranteed a downward spiral. The only solution is to inhibit that feeling and hold yourself to a higher standard. Maybe the other person doesn't deserve better (certainly not if they were trolling), but that's not why we
do it. You do it because the community deserves better and it's in your interest to have a functioning community here.

(I can tell you from experience, though, that most of the time that it seems like someone is trolling, that's a misperception, in the sense that they had no such conscious intention.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You get a compensation check for your time and lost value to your business. Just kidding, you get nothing.
Thank you! I’ve just pushed the following change to the site (will be live in <10 mins):

>Neither Screen nor these third parties store or record media data as part of the Service, nor process it other than for the purpose of providing the Service to you.
They're not. Trump authorized disaster counseling in Washington but has so far not done anything else. Inslee asked him to authorize the full gamut of disaster relief services including food distribution and unemployment benefits almost a week ago. You'd think if Trump were taking this seriously he would actually authorize federal disaster relief. I fear this is going to be a repeat of Katrina but in Washington instead of Louisiana.

The Senate and House have also failed to provide any relief bills that do anything but prop up the economy. Specifically they aren't authorizing the purchase of any medical equipment or supplies to support people through this emergency, but they're perfectly happy to make sure major corporations have enough money to wait out the period while we're all dying.
CDC and FDA having strict rules on who could test is vastly more important than the CDC botching its own tests, imo. The Seattle Flu Study had proof of community spread in January from their own testing, and the CDC and FDA told them to stop testing because it was against the law (per a NYT article.)