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January 14, 2020- There is no human to human transmission of covid-19

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20

WHO officials and their Chinese counterparts should be on trial.
As if ads is the only possible business model on the web.

At best the ad revenue is taking money away from other web business models by instituting that kind of mentality that drives people away from donations and paid accounts.

Please, consider a paid account/membership when you read the guardian, the intercept, or look for the donation page of quality content articles in wikipedia or any of the loads of blogs written by authors with patreon accounts.
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Donations exist, LMAO.
> I don't understand why this isn't done

Because when there's a security update to (say) OpenSSL, it's better for the maintainers of just that library to push an update, as opposed to forcing every single dependent to rebuild & push a new release.
Nice one! Fixing...
Sure, but there's no particular reason to suspect that here; the original edit seems to have been simple vandalism.
WHO isn't faultless, but that's a fairly misrepresentative version of what that Tweet actually says..

"WHO said there's no human to human transmission" vs.

> Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.
Same when you buy a house or car or anything that is public record. And thanks to adtech, now everything is public record!
> the definition is necessarily loose. If you could make it precise then you could carry out Cantor's diagonalisation procedure to produce a precise description of a real which couldn't be precisely described

Is this true without the Axiom of Choice? Don't you need a choice function to order the numbers before you can diagonalize them?
To pile on a +1 for this: I've seen a huge increase in basic documentation after switching from RST to MD. 5x or more. Highly-crafted docs are indeed better in RST (or some other rich system), but it's also a huge turn-off for random contributors due to its unfamiliarity and verbosity.
It really shouldn't be hard. There are endless amounts of guides on how to set up OBS and stream to YouTube. You can even get live support by volunteers within a few minutes of asking for help.

Most of the time you don't even need to really set up much. You just take the key and plug it into OBS.
How is “not making money” not a consequence, exactly?
> Maybe you think social learning just happens by putting kids together, but that's bullshit.

Not to put too fine a point on it—but I don’t think that very many people who work in education think this way. Especially not the teachers running the classrooms. You leave children to their own devices and you get Lord of the Flies, which was written by William Golding, who based the book on his experiences as a schoolteacher.

My personal advice, as someone who “survived” school, is that intense feelings of anger in reaction to school add too much color. You have to wait and let the logical, non-angry patterns re-emerge in your own mind each time that anger reappears.
> I am shocked that you think it is okay for the government to take people's property and liberty

What property are you referring to?

What about the money they took from me to fund the Iraq War?

And you think the government should compensate when they take away liberty? Do you have any idea what the NSA has done since 9/11? I never voted to have my 4th amendment rights taken away and I've never been compensated.

Earlier you said

> I mean, the government shut down the economy, not the virus.

That seems to be the entire basis of your argument.

First of all, the government didn't "shut down the economy". They responded to a pandemic. What other action could they have taken? Pretty much any action will have an effect on the economy. So what? This isn't new.

What about when a hurricane is coming or something else that causes forced evacuations? Or when people aren't allowed back to their homes immediately after? They could have saved their property if the government didn't intervene, right? Does the government owe them money?

Companies should be responsible like citizens are expected to be. They shouldn't just always assume the happy path and then cry when a disaster happens because they weren't prepared. Always be prepared. You're profits may not accelerate as fast but that's not my problem. Businesses being dependent on loans being the norm has to stop. That's why our economy is so fragile.
Probably mandatory, easy, and ranked voting plus improved education. To be honest I don't think even that's going to push people to care about their government. I think the average person sees it as too complex, too corrupt, and overall meaningless for them to be bothered to vote for, let alone learn about policies.

For example, you could ask 10 people on the street if they would like to get rid of corruption in government and most (probably all) would say emphatically "yes". I don't know how we translate that into action though and deal with the spin and whirlwind news cycle.
Fire can also reproduce given a reasonable environment - would you call fire alive?
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Can you name a legit site for the general public that doesn't even have a domain name?
I think so, I've emigrated up to Canada and comparing the parliamentary government up here to the system in the US has been interesting. Canada has had some majorly extreme parties over the years (including the PPC[1]) but there is room in the system for these parties to grow outside of the centrist parties. Currently in Canada the dominant party is the Liberal party it's a rather centrist but socially liberal party that's about equivalent of America's corporate Democrat types like Clinton and Pelosi - but in recent elections a more left leaning party has gained some ground and is challenging them from the outside.

There is a lot of party loyalty in Canada, but since the political field isn't purely divided between Liberal and Conservative there's significantly more freedom when it comes to elections, the election system is still first past the post but most voters can vote their conscience rather than strategically.

I think the failure of the democratic system is reducing elections to a binary vote, and I think that that reduction is impossible to avoid with direct election of the executive branch instead of being driven by the composition of the congress - additionally America's system is very vulnerable to having a minority party executive and while minority governments in parliamentary systems is a thing, it tends to be less damaging by still ensuring/requiring that a minority government is able to form a coalition government initially.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_of_Canada
There is well defined name for "useful reals": Algebraic numbers. Of course the well-definedness necessitates some limit on how the symbolic description looks like (ie. algebraic numbers are roots of polynomials with rational coefficients) because every real number can be described by some arbitrarily complex symbolic notation.

Edit: I vaguely remember that there used to be some name for the intersection of algebraic and real numbers, but I neither can remember it nor can find it on wikipedia.
It depends more on what platform you're targeting. On GitHub, cross-reference is easy enough with links (ala hyperlinks) using relative paths. On LeanPub, I can add notes and references with their small extensions.

For most documentation, though, the basics are good enough. For some projects, yes you may need more structure, and either building a custom docs site or more heavily customized documentation is a good idea.

But even for medium-sized doc sets, Markdown still works great (I maintain a Docs site for Drupal VM[1] using Markdown with Read the Docs).

[1] http://docs.drupalvm.com/en/latest/
Will do! I would like to add, it would be kind of nice if you added a picture of yours to either your site or the github repo. I can see the premade ones and get an idea of what's going on but it would be nice to see a fully built one.
I wonder how much it would cost to sponsor compiles-via-c support. I'd love to use zig-the-language but I need to compile for platforms that LLVM does not support, so I would need to use the native C toolchain (assembler/linker at the least, but using the native C compiler seems easier).
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"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China," - WHO.

Sounds like these were preliminary results, which would have been well rectified by February. Wuhan was under quarantine Jan 23.

There is a substantial difference in being wrong a month or so after a new virus is discovered, and being wrong after a country has been shutdown for nearly a month.

EDIT: Updated for correct date Jan 23, not Jan 29, of Wuhan shutdown.
> great for security

That depends doesn't it? You'll be safe from Little Snitch but Little Snitch will have less power to protect you.
You can help improve the signal-noise ratio by writing or submitting high-quality technical articles.
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I don't understand that argument. But in any case, Cantor's argument is very constructive. It literally gives you the decimal expansion of the new number not in your set.
Thanks everyone for the kind words! It's been a lot of work to get this far, and the Zig project has further to go still.

If you have a few bucks per month to spare, consider chipping in. I'm hoping to have enough funds soon to hire a second full time developer.

https://github.com/users/andrewrk/sponsorship
Maybe we can just skip the video part in videoconferencing and keep only the infinitesimally smaller audio of it all. Honestly I'm already sick of looking at a bunch of balding white dudes barely moving, it adds nothing.
> Because in the initial days, the CDC had a valid point. The W.H.O/Chinese test wasn't that reliable (at the time) and it wasn't unreasonable for the US to make their own. It wasn't until week after week went by, with the CDC straight up lying to the FDA/HHS, that the real failure became apparent.

The initial test was developed in Germany, and was ready by 17 January. This test proved able to isolate the virus from other coronaviruses, and thus received the recommendation of the WHO. CDC published its protocol on 28 January, a test that was less efficient and reliable than the German test. In the mean time, WHO had recommended countries use the German protocol.
That was noted in the first line of my comment FWIW.
Yes, its infuriating but hardly surprising. This is what happens when you don't have a responsible adult in charge during a crisis. The economy does matter, but the longer we wait, the longer we'll have to endure a crippling lockdown. So far some governors have filled in for the missing executive function of this country. Unfortunately that's localized and states simply cannot apply the same level of resources or coordination that the federal government can.
They might not mean "easy" in the same way you mean. I sometimes find myself saying "easy" when what I mean is something more like "approachable" or "without many ambiguous roadblocks". I very much believe it is "easy" in that way to learn new programming languages. It is still hard work, requiring lots of reading and trial and error and plenty of failure, but it doesn't have that same experience of complete stuckness as the first time learning to program.

But I wouldn't say it is "easy" after learning one language. It definitely takes two or three, with step-changes each time you learn a language in a different paradigm than you have before.
Do these libraries use deep learning models? It's not entirely clear from the doco.
Congrats on launching!

Are you able to share further technical details on what you've had to do to get the speed gains you're describing?
Fortunately these days you're supposed to use __has_attribute, __has_extension, and __has_builtin. But I'm not sure if, overall, things have gotten better.

For example, overly eager diagnostic warnings have come at the cost of an increased need to disable diagnostics--perfectly standard-compliant code, not to mention widely supported extensions, will often trigger diagnostics with -Wall. You can disable those inline (and I try, because good luck trying to figure out what's the equivalent of CFLAGS in the build pipeline du jour, or simply expecting the user to figure it out), but they often have different names in different compilers and sometimes you have to resort to version guards to maintain a diagnostic-free build out-of-the-box.

Also, the default compiler on RHEL7 is GCC 4.8, which lacks __has_attribute and friends, among other things. EOL for RHEL7 is 2024! And __has_builtin didn't even come around until GCC 10, and didn't work reliably prior to clang 11.
Gotta get rid of all my Mac OS network switches....

I think they value the security and reliability from evicting those kernel extensions and nobody dreams of using this in some high performance production switch so I think it’s ok.
Microsoft moved the graphics drivers to user space way back at Windows Vista.

It was a painful transition, sure. However it was worth it just for reliability reasons.

Previously, poorly written graphics drivers were the leading cause of blue screens.

After the change, the graphics subsystem restarted itself on error instead of taking the whole machine down or allowing the driver to corrupt system memory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework
The translators, Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, did a fantastic job with the translation.
When the government decided to regulate smoking that hurt tobacco company profits, but it was for public safety. Should the government have had to reimburse tobacco companies? No. The government changes laws all the time. Some of these laws hurt/help businesses more than others. Do they owe the ones they hurt money? I don't think so.
Yeah, I realized I'd see this reply as soon as I submitted the comment. Of course they're selling my data. I wish they didn't.

And to circle back to the original comment I replied to: They don't have to. A business can be run providing entertainment without granular user tracking. HBO and Showtime did it back when they were just add-ons to cable packages.

What OG commenter was implying, is that the Internet will be worse without 3rd-party cookies and tracking. I can't disagree strongly enough.
I mean sure, but I was just saying that countries outside US takes unauthorized access to personal medical data incredibly serious.
If memory serves, the new one uses an extra object header that points from the old object to the new one during move operations, and any reads of the old object get forwarded to the new one.

I'm pretty sure that would have not performed well without the aggressive prediction logic in modern processors.

Java 1's object accesses always read through an indirect pointer, but that went away in the name of performance, either when Hotspot was introduced, or on the next round of GC impromevents.
Do you not think it's possible to use fingerprinting to track users?
Exciting! This is almost what I was thinking would be lovely about one month ago when I was last hacking on C.
I raised this on Ask HN to little fanfare so hoping people could opine on my thoughts here:

Does anyone else worry that the natural progression from this mass WFH will simply lead to outsourcing in other countries instead of hiring American?

Now that companies are learning the hard way to WFH, and were seeing memes like “now we’ll know which meetings could have been emails,” does it concern you all that the next logical step is to double down on platforms facilitating a WFH culture during the inevitable recession? The last recession in 2007 saw very slow job growth (compared to other recessions) simply because companies opted to adopt technology rather than train+hire expensive labor. I fear that the next leap will be widespread prioritization to set up satellite offices in India and other countries where labor is cheap. If I were a Fortune 500 CEO, my top priority during the coming recession would be to offset the lack of H1Bs in the US and just go straight to the source- because I know every other CEO would be doing the same. I fear for my future prospects a year from now.
Hi Andy, thanks for your hard work on this. I am not a Zig user/sponsor yet but hopefully I will be soon. It's looking better and better every month.
How long would it take to spin up an injection molding line?

Aren't there parts that exist that are easier to 3D print, due to overlapping elements or internal geometry which require additional manufacturing steps when using injection molds?
> make public health decisions based on hope, assumptions or guesses

In the absence of data, which you've acknowledged, that's exactly how decisions are being made now, worldwide.

> even 15 weeks would be too early

Not if you want to avoid starvation and riots. It's not like there's some magical grocery fairy or "the government" putting stuff on the shelves. People have to work to put stuff there.
The point isn't that the photographers don't have rights to these particular photos.

The point is you criticize a person for even asking the question.

Not everyone has the same insight into the licensing and legal ramifications of images being distributed with OSes, and there's never a reason to be condescending and demeaning to someone asking a simple question.

You could have chosen to educate them in a helpful and friendly way, but you didn't.
if US were to attack a force with WW2 era level of preparedness, experience, and tactics, they could've taken more losses.

It would have still been difficult for the Iraqis to do much. The Iraqi T-72 tanks (the best they had) didn't include night vision systems. Also the M1 could engage far outside of T-72 effective range.

Preparedness and tactics go a long way. But the equipment disparity was overwhelming.
$1500 MBP Pro (2015) is budget, GTFO with that bullshit
I would not venture into an argument about semantics. However, you'll probably find the following useful - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_medicine
>If I get to watch videos of cats for two months on 480 instead of 1080, and that may save 500 people, bring-it-on!

How does less video traffic save lives?
Care to elaborate? Like every sentence you wrote?:-)
I would expand that to "If you learn to program in one language, it's easy to learn another within the same paradigm".

If you know Python, Ruby or PHP will be pretty easy for you to pick up. You might have some difficulties with Haskell and Lisp.
Come on, man. Acknowledging the harms of an extended lockdown isn't an argument that we should ignore the harms of death.
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There's a pretty decent collection of pre-OS X wallpapers here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6c8veze05y4dou8/AAABpBWhiGAtqKzOc...
Yeah, like Tim Sweeney.

"It's interesting that many games can afford a constant 10x interpretation overhead for scripts, but not a spikey 1% for garbage collection."

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/880607734588211200

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Garbage_Collection_Overview

Which was it again, the engine chosen by Nintendo, Microsoft and Google as first party to their 3D APIs?

https://developer.nintendo.com/tools

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/unity...

https://stadia.dev/blog/unity-production-ready-support-for-s...

https://developer.android.com/games/develop/build-in-unity

The anti-GC crowd on the games industry, is no different than the ones that fought adoption of C/Modula-2/Pascal over Assembly, and then fought adoption of C++ and Objective-C over C.

Eventually they will suck it up when the major platform owners tell them it is time to move on.
> that was the question I had - clearly it's smaller than reals, but how and why is this field larger than rational numbers?

As pdonis points out sidethread, this isn't really a valid question. (Or rather, the question is fine, but the answer to all questions of this form is already well-known, so there's no point in asking this specific question.)

It is not possible to prove that a set is both smaller than the reals and larger than the rationals, because such a set would disprove the continuum hypothesis. (And symmetrically, it isn't possible to prove that no such set exists, because that would be a proof of the continuum hypothesis.)
In this case you can define an order without using Choice. By definition of 'useful number' each useful number has some finite string that describes it. The finite strings can be put into lexicographic order, and then the useful numbers can be ordered according to the position of the lexicographically first string that describes them.
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discussion thread when it was first announced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570909
These are pretty common complaints, servers, signs and many people get updates forced on them. Windows 10 was forced on many, many people. Just because you don't care doesn't mean lots of people haven't been burned.
I think it's simpler than that. It's The Button. Would you be willing to push a button and get a million dollars knowing that someone somewhere else will die. A lot of people are willing to push it for a lot less than a million.
> every real number can be described by some arbitrarily complex symbolic notation

This seems like it would have to be false, because otherwise the reals would be countable (iterate through every possible 1-character string, then every possible 2 character string, then 3 chars, etc and in a finite (but potentially very very large) amount of time you would come across the description of any real number that can be described).
According to this[1] about ~350k tests have been administered as of today.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/us-daily/
> they should have let the market decline due to people dying and then refuse to bail out corporations

That sounds great in theory. In practice, you'd have everyone who could work from home continuing to do so. And everyone who could not, forced to come to work, get sick and possibly die, under pain of losing their job (and therefore, their healthcare).
Thanks I think I was conflating this with the cloaking 3rd party JS payloads in first party domains
this reminds me of unit testing, where the tests come up with arbitrarily defined numbers, and the function you test tries to come up with a consistent way to count them. If you can change your function each time a test is added, the tester never wins. Isn’t this similar? It seems like cherrypicking to include simple formulas with e and pi in your numbering system.
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