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Where am I spreading germs all over the place if I’m isolating myself in my home? Please read my text.. I agree Let’s not double down on failure. Look at what China did, it worked let’s follow them. Practice social distancing until July. There is no other option until our hospitals are under control...
Even so, that is even a bigger mountain to climb for Godot.

If I was an Unreal user, I wouldn't let go of Blueprints and GC enabled C++.
You also need to take into account how a "case" of COVID-19 is defined: it's any case where the virus is detected. Doesn't even mean that the patient died from anything caused by the virus.

Considering that most deaths are in people who had serious preexisting conditions (which would've likely killed them if they acquired pretty much any other infection), the actual COVID-19 CFR is bound to be significantly less.
Don't be dogmatic about TDD
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IMO it is completely unacceptable to have a persistent permanent non-expiring store in the browser. The potential for abuse is too high.
Sydney airport just started checking everybody arriving and it causes a big queue and people all breathing on each other.
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FYI, this isn't your typical AV, this is expanding their EDR+NGAV offering. Their competition supports Linux but they don't so customers with Linux servers have to buy two EDR products. This will solve that problem by letting you expand that super expensive E5 license to Linux and OS X and kick out other EDR solutions.

Defender ATP is quite special. There are better competitors but Defender has the advantage of being able to access Windows telemetry across all windows installs, Office365 telemetry for their threat intel and being able to literally walk to NT kernel dev's cubicle if they have a question or need a feature plus Azure as their backend!

So this really is welcome news from a corporate security perspective but I would never install this on personal desktops or servers just like I wouldn't install Crowdstrike Falcon either (the leading EDR vendor), because privacy.
What kind of office is it and where is it located?
Adding tests when you don't have time to
In kills VERY FEW people under 60.

No matter what pathogen is involved there's always some people who would get very sick from it due to quirks of their immune systems or undiscovered pre-existing conditions.
AnnChain is the core engine of the new generation consortium blockchain
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Orion Project [pdf]
It's a prop trading firm. It's pretty important to distinguish between hedge funds that take public money (which are generally probably low quality, as the OP described) and prop trading firms that only or primarily trade their own money (Two Sigma, Renaissance, Jane Street, Jump trading, etc.). The latter deserve their mystique, because you only trade your own money if you are actually beating the market.
I don't like embracing Big Brother
I got a story about the Wall Street Journal. Back in the mid 1980's Genentech had it's 'clot busting' drug Alteplase in trials. And Genentechs stock was on a tear. And then one day the news came that the FDA rejected approval saying they needed more data.

Next day I read a howling butthurt editorial in the WSJ with my morning coffee. Basically accusing the FDA of murder.

Since then I don't take the WSJ at face value. The only thing they care about is making money on corporate stocks.

Same thing is going on here. The WSJ only cares that they've taken a bath.
There's https://syncplay.pl/ for video files.
Singapore Government to open source its contact-tracing app
Further checking -- on BBC article from 2 days ago it says

> Australian firm Rapidward said that five days ago it began supplying Covid-19 blood tests direct from China to Switzerland"

...meaning 7 days ago. But company "RapidWard" was only registered in Australia in the last 1 or 2 days: https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=67639947970

That article also says:

> it is registered with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK

This is easily checked:

https://medicine-seller-register.mhra.gov.uk/search-registry...

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That Kenya facemask story looks highly dubious and likely to be fake. The main source seems to be rt.com. Do you have a credible source?

The stories I've seen claim to be quoting der spiegel but I don't see the story on der speigel itself. For example, nothing is showing up on https://www.spiegel.de/suche/?suchbegriff=mask+kenya&seite=1
Why would the error range be that high? We'd know about huge spikes like that through hospital data, insurance claims, and the sales of drugs, and there aren't spikes like that. The number of people who are ill is relatively stable year-on-year.
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At a time like this, spinning up new revenue is a luxury that time does not afford. Get to a sustainable burn rate then grow from a new foundation.
Remember, there’s probably a similarly high false negative rate. Also, take into account the number of people who won’t be going home, but will instead be flooding into ERs.

If you want to cause true mass hysteria and quickly overwhelm our already strained medical infrastructure, tell 10% of the population that that have SARS-CoV-2.

You need to stay home. There’s no way around it—certainly not for $20.
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Why would it be 2x the normal evening peak hours? Yes, normally maybe second shift workers and the rolling shifts of people going out to eat would reduce normal peak usage slightly, but I can’t imagine it being 2x.
Frankly I find this subject far too depressing to read about for your needs.

I'm sure you're perfectly capable of google searches and reading about the history of slavery on your own if you're so interested.

We were taught this in school, that it was a very common practice with little to no barrier to entry in the early days, and wasn't even racially discriminated until rebellions started. There are even well-documented records of freed slaves becoming slave owners themselves, it was that trivially accessible and generally accepted.

My point was that slavery was accessible to many, contextually in contrast to prisons today, context your quote omitted. Slaves you'd acquire in units as small as an indentured servant, prisons are far more complex with substantial barriers to entry. In an environment of legalized slavery any household could easily get in on it, I can't even begin to imagine how I'd go about starting a prison yet it's presumably legal for me to try.
No doubts that with such a name this service will go viral

PS sorry, I couldn't resist
look again, if it gets flagged/downvoted enough, it gets masked completely with "flagged"
As an iOS and Android developer myself, this doesn't effect me but I still think Apple and Google making things harder for PWA is bad because Apple and Google are the gate keepers for what goes on their native app stores. I can cut some slack for Google as they at least allow third party app stores but Apple doesn't.

Either Apple should stop being the gate keeper or stop making life harder for web devs.
Or more, as now "watching on-line videos" doesn't compete with alternatives like "going out" or "being too tired after work to do anything but eat and sleep".
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You’re getting downvoted, but I agree. Enough with shitty UX’s already!
6T and counting. I'm angry because of the same thing. It would be much easier to stop the virus from spreading if the messaging wasn't that full of lies.
Because ordinarily, not everyone watches videos in the evening; people go visit each other, go out to bars, go on dates, etc. Now however, meeting and outside activities are unavailable.
Isn't this behavior in Python already via the functools module? Can't look it up right now but I'm pretty sure it's there.
As far as i know (form my college days in mid-2000s), we had this issue for setting up movie nights. Some people claimed that rented videos had an agreed-upon audience of (i think) 8 people. So to accommodate, let's say 100 people, we had to rent about 12 of the same videos.

Of course, we were in college and laughed and said screw it and just rented the one DVD.

But I never went back to check up on this.
To me, as a user of the device. Native apps can be a joy to use, websites almost never are.
You're deploying to clusters of x86 machines in the first place because people in the 90s realized they were a little too into the proprietary APIs of their big iron vendors.
I think the wrong model is the problem. Surgical masks provide small protection to you, but significant protection to others. It isn't for you, it is for everyone else. Think of a mask as portable social distancing.

By catching droplets from (asymptomatic) infected wearers, it reduces the virus on surfaces and in the air. That's the benefit.
If that's the case, few generations from now people won't have immunity to as many common cold viruses as we do. I wonder if that could be detrimental.
Ask HN: Covid virulence in Islamic states where women are veiled
If masks are supposed to be retarding spread of covid, has anyone collected data on covid virulence wrt gender in countries where the genders are segregated and the women are veiled?
Some seem to agree https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/24/21192638/coronavirus-bi...
And before this pandemic that was generally considered a virtuous habit. I wonder if that will change when this is all over
Glad to see construct 3 is out. Built a full html5 metrovania game in under 100 lines of code. Very nice.
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jq -c -r '.[] | .id_str' | head -10 | tail -1
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We face a war against coronavirus and must mobilise accordingly
A single false negative is worse than a single false positive, but false positives affect far more people with equivalent percentages. They’re both problematic, but in different ways.

Our medical infrastructure is already strained. If you tell 100x the number of actually infected people that they are infected, everything will grind time a halt.

It’s important to find a balance. A single false negative could be disastrous—but so could 1000 false positives. If the false negative and false positive rate are both 10%, and 0.1% of the population is infected, there will be 1000 false positives for every false negative. Both of those are going to cause huge (but very different) problems.
As an iOS user, I’d like you to do both!
Whatever happened to moderation. Extremely all or nothing ideology is how we got in this mess in the first place.

If people's take away from this all is to wash their hands,stay home when sick, and cough into their arms, tens of thousands of lives will be saved
You don't need to use Oculus Link (PC); Unity can build and deploy straight to the Quest itself (Android). That said, it's a lot more convenient to iterate in Link mode when possible due to how slow the Android build process currently is.
There has also been a decrease in traffic accidents and violent crime.
This is data from hospital casualty units in South Africa
I wear a mask and it doesn't increase my face touching. In fact, it reduces my face touching because it serves as a perpetual reminder of the situation.

It may also signal to other people to keep their distance from me.
MIPS is highly orthogonal.
Funny thing is, term "physical distancing" doesn't make sense without mentioning "social distancing", because without that context and by itself it might mean different things.
>Harvard Economics PhDs

tbf, academia is its own racket.
No absolutely not. As others have mentioned, there are also potential scenarios where this crisis ends up having positive impact on the freelance market. Short term contracts can be attractive for companies in turbulent times with unclear future.
Just to add my own two cents here: while I absolutely agree that numerical simulation is a great approach for understanding physics, the canonical closed-form solutions really are a necessary step for building an intuitive understanding of principles like symmetry and the importance of choosing useful reference frames. These are things that are very well complemented by building numerical models (and I think it would be tough to build those models without that understanding of concepts like that in the first place), but it's important to recognize that it's very difficult to skip directly to the numerical models stage.

As I said, I think the parent covered that, but just wanted to try to make it a little more explicit.
This is very true. I recently moved from a mostly on-site company, where I thought we used Slack a lot, to a globally-distributed, fully-remote one where Slack is the primary form of communication. We use it very differently, as the volume is far higher and we have to deal with timezones. e.g. in my previous job, I found threads annoying and rarely used them as I found they meant messages got lost. In my new one it's a faux pas to not use threads except for in very low-volume channels, because otherwise its tough for people to catch up on channels.
What if I had 5 regular surgical masks and after the usage Id press iron on it an then quarantine it for 72h?
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That's because people with computers are at hunkered at home and social distancing.
Google is so big I'm sure they had their own ups and downs. I see so many school districts doubling down on Google Classroom--the district may have used it previously, but were now adding accounts for Kindergarteners.

While Google usage is way up, ad buys dropped like a rock.
Vendor lock-in does not come from using GKE/EKS/AKS or derivatives.

What ends up happening is that your application consumes services (storage, analytics, etc.). You start using those services from the cloud provider, which makes sense as long as it is the right thing for your business (aligns w/ your cloud-native blueprint).

Kubernetes, by itself, is cloud-provider agnostic.
Functions.singledispatch allows overloading based on the type of the first argument, but doesn't allow complex overloads, like arg-count based or multi-type based.
Not really, everything related to app development is just gone, dead, with Qt and wxWidgets being the remaining survivors.

VCL is only available to corporate shops and those that aren't into FOSS religion.

MFC is in maintenance mode, and so far Windows developers are more keen moving into one of .NET UI stacks while keeping some C++ code as COM/DLLs or even C++/CLI, than jumping into UWP/WinUI. It remains to be seen if WinUI 3.0 will change the migration trend.

Then on mobile OSes, it isn't even an option, unless you want to write your own GUI from scracth using OpenGL/Metal/Vulkan.
Assembly is an abstraction, as the others have mentioned, but many compiler people are aware of this as it affects performance.
I thought the headline was hard to understand so I found where the 30% number came from in the article:

> Four climate models for which FWI could be calculated show that the probability of a Fire Weather Index this high has increased by at least 30% since 1900 as a result of anthropogenic climate change.
> Trying to hide your code is a stupid thing to do

That's not what I hear from reputable reverse engineers, at least for IoT devices.

Even though security by obscurity should be frowned upon, and being understood that hiding code might give a false sense of security, most RE workflows assume availability of firmware, and it is a giant pain to start breaking platforms where the unknown firmware must be manually extracted first, especially the boot loader.
You can get cheap refurbished 10GbE cards on eBay. I got a couple of Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards for like $30 or so and get 1.1GByte/s without tuning between my NAS and my Win10 desktop PC.

The MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S+IN is a relatively cheap 4 port 10GbE switch.
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As long as the gaming hardware giants (consoles and VR) continue partnering closely with Unity and Unreal and giving those engines several months of lead over open-source engines when it comes to platform support... no, it will not.
> our smartest people - both in the actual elite and here on HN

We should be open to the possibility that these are not our smartest people. Plus we should admit that there are smarter people outside of our bubble.
Archaeologist here.

> In archaeology, there seems to be an assumption that people in the past only ever did things for two reasons: Utility and religion. If an object doesn't seem to have an obvious usefulness, it's assumed that the artifact is of religious nature.

> I wonder if archeologists actually do believe everything was either utilitarian or religious, or if that’s just the way it gets reported?

This is definitely now how archaeologists think. Archaeology is a subfield of anthropology. Our goal is to understand how people live through the lens of material culture, i.e. how people inhabit a world made out of stuff. Of course it is common to consider the pragmatic aspects regarding why weird things might have been created or the purposes that they might serve in people's lives, but chocking the unexplainable up to ritual or religion is just dumb and amateurish. No archaeologist I know actually does this. Archaeologists generally feel comfortable acknowledging that we can't explain certain things from our current standpoint, saying that it's ritual without a basis for that claim is just plain dumb and is never taken seriously. It is an extremely outdated trope.

> People have not changed much in the last few thousand years, and thins that we find interesting today must surely have been interesting in the past. In your example, why wouldn't a person 1000 years ago consider a replica "ancient thing" just as interesting as we do today?

Note in my definition of archaeology I don't focus on the past? That's intentional, since archaeologists very commonly examine contemporary material culture.

> Just imagine a future archaeologist looking at the modern work with the mindset of current archaeologists? What kind of religious symbolism would they ascribe to a picachu cosplay outfit?

As an archaeologist, my understanding is that pikachu products exist to make money for the people who sell pikachu products.

You need to understand that archaeologists are never working in the dark. We reason through an abductive process, like adding brushstrokes to a never-quite-complete painting (also similar to medical diagnosis). We'll never actually understand how people lived in the past, since it is impossible to verify any such claim. But we can come up with a reasonable understanding by slotting different streams of complementary evidence together.
I think vector[0] does what you are asking for.

[0] https://github.com/timberio/vector
I’m surprised it’s not 100% more likely given what we know based on evidence ?
My career got started because of these programmes.

I even spent 5 years working as an engineer at the BBC. There were plenty of BBC micros around performing ad-hoc tasks.
Well their error bars may be smaller this year but they're comparing to past years.
Also once people we’re assigned it would be implemented by people who were (normally) not very good and could take months or years by the time they were finished because of all the extra features that weren’t actually needed were implemented and by the time they had changed frameworks, languages, tools and actually been deployed
Ive worked a couple java based hft platforms at major firms. You write code that never gcs after startup. That means not using certain language constructs and rewriting almost every library along with using off heap memory.

I have personally worked on systems that would run an entire week between deployments and never gced.
I totally agree that JavaScript sucks, but that's not a good enough reason to boycott it, because it's absolutely ubiquitous and so well and widely supported.

And no matter how bad it is as a language, it still beats compiled languages as a dynamic extension and scripting language.

Another non-technical advantage: Apple allows iOS apps on their app store to dynamically download and execute JavaScript code, as long as you run it in Apple's Safari browser component (which UnityJS does). But even though it's technically possible, you aren't allowed to do that with Lua, Python, TCL, Visual Basic, Pascal, C++, C#, or any other interpreted or compiled language.

So JavaScript occupies a special spot in the universe, the web ecosystem, and also the iOS ecosystem, that makes it not matter if it sucks.

Plus a lot of smart people and big projects are working hard to mitigate its suckyness, make it run faster, and integrate it with all kinds of different platforms and APIs, like TypeScript, WebAssembly, AssemblyScript, React Native, Chrome Embedding Framework, Electron, and all the apps like PhotoShop you can script in JavaScript.

Even Adobe finally figured out they should use the real thing instead of jerking you around with ActionScript or some other weird language like AppleScript.

UnityScript sucks much much more than JavaScript, and has none of its advantages of tooling, libraries, running in every browser, etc. It's a terrible idea to make or use yet another language that's almost but not quite entirely unlike JavaScript.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAswvg60FnY
I have heard from nurse with specialization in contamination that wearing masks are worse than nothing because we would handle them wrong. That is touching the mask to speak, multiple use and the like. They don’t do that in hospitals. You put it on and throw it away only touching the strings. Like it was contaminated, because it is, if it worked..

I do however see one way masks would work. They act as a constant visual reminder to keep distance and not touching stuff. That works.
Which is why game developers love consoles so much.
Blackface letters are used in in mathematical notation, so it’s not so much a different font as an extremely broken equation.
My mask makes me less likely to touch face.

> False sense of security - people engaging in risky behavoiur

I dont see people with masks being closer to each other then people without masks.
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That's an article on why Godot is porting to Vulkan, not about why games should be ported from Unity to Godot... Unity supports Vulkan too, of course.
> People aren't throwing their homemade masks after every trip outdoors, so any contamination their masks "stopped" is just waiting for the next use to infect the wearer.

The general recommendation is to put them into boiling water after each use for 30 minutes.

Those who have only scarf probably dont do this, but they are still less likely to infect others if they are asymptomatic carriers.
Any idea on how to identify devices then? We currently check the user agent to to send a new code when an user logs in from a new device. How would you do this without user agent?
How do I get into using Usenet?
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I second Feynman lectures! It is a delightful introduction to physics.
Susskind's theoretical minimum series is also a good starting point: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses