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> …incredibly naive [about] those humanities subjects they skipped in university.

Yip, but not nearly a naive as the humanity students are about technical subjects.

If we are going to fix anything, we need to force our arty friends to finish with some understanding of how the world works.

And by "how the world works" I mean the things that would remain unchanged even if every human vanished.

Like, to be topical, exponential growth.
hehe, me too. All good. cheers.
Yea it's bad, Alberta has been trying and failing to diversify their economy for 50 years: https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/after-...
well, who does the secretarial jobs now that we eliminated the secretarial class?
> unlikely that stocks will make a quick return to their prior levels unless governments engage in massive asset inflation.

I agree with you, and I'm especially concerned about this "unless". Markets are supposed to reward accurate predictions, but I would not be willing to put my money where my mouth is now. How can we trust the stock market will not be massively manipulated by the US government, by bailouts, and by measures like stock buybacks?
"Marburg virus was first described in 1967."
>> does someone living in Toronto get any benefit from this increase in GDP?

As someone living in Alberta your comment answers a question we ask each other frequently: Do people outside of Alberta understand the benefit they've enjoyed from energy revenues over the past 20 years?

Your comment suggests NO, but I'm not sure where you are located.

Canada has a massive transfer payment process from "Have" provinces to "Have Not". This is not something as academic as "overall GDP increase" but is BILLIONS of actual dollars that Alberta has contributed during all the good times that were then redistributed to other Canadians, just like people living in Toronto. Not to over-emphasize the point, but I'm talking cold hard cash literally taxed from one province and given to the others, with the Federal government taking their vig during the transfer.

If you're not Canadian it's unlikely you are aware of the direct positive impact this has had on the entire nation. If you are Canadian and unaware of the relative value of transfer payments... well, this accounts for a huge amount of the alienation the Western prairie provinces are feeling.

This is an issue outside of the debate around where our energy comes from. The reality is a huge part of the entire country's expenditures has been financed by oil and gas revenues for a large part of the past 20 years.
That wasn't the case - now it works fine, before there were errors while trying to load resources.
These calculations aren't helpful at all.

Drugs don't evenly distribute in the body. Some drugs get bound to specific proteins, so the observed concentration is much lower (i.e. higher volume of distribution). Others get concentrated in specific organs once they equilibrate across the body.
That's been available for quite some time: https://www.coronavirus.gov/
Hi, can you say more about how you have come to view HN as a 'them' - do you see the HN community as separate and apart from you as a member?
> But that just motivates someone else who isn't you to prefer another language

Sure, they'll want to, and they probably will, but they won't have to due to performance or other constraints, which is how I understood the goal.

> But the ability to build any complexity by composition is itself the motivation to create another programming language that doesn't require the extra work of composition.

That's what the macros are for. All part of the plan.

> ... Even though that's true in sense, people don't think of "C Language" as the One True Language.

C is not certainly not a convenient language for hosting DSLs, due to insufficient abstraction capabilities, but the real missing ingredient is interop between the DSLs. C doesn't make it easy to pass data between them, etc.

NAND gates are not a great comparison. You want to be composing abstractions to create other composable abstractions. You could extend the analogy to composing circuits into bigger circuits, but that's really just converging back to a high level language.
Many music teachers are doing online lessons now, mostly via Zoom.

It seems that Zoom is the only popular videoconferencing software these days that allows you to disable all the postprocessing on the audio signal (echo cancellation, noise reduction, etc) through advanced settings. This postprocessing is very useful for /conversation/ meetings among many people with bad audio setups, but for two musicians and music signals, the postprocessing is highly detrimental, causing strange audio artifacts and causing instruments to drop out sporadically.

(It seems like there would be a market for videoconferencing software optimized for musicians, where the audio signal is sent at higher quality, given higher priority, and not postprocessed in detrimental ways. And without all the privacy concerns.)
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In an attempt to cut its own cost, Google effectively automates everything, even in terms of detecting abuse (eg. clickjacking or click fraud) and advertisements that go against their rules (I think even in terms of mentioning Covid-19 in ads since I haven't seen any ads mentioning anything about "virus"/"covid"/etc at all this month). I wouldn't doubt you got hit by this automated system.

Maybe you should write a blog on this.
It's because your response is the intellectual equivalent of throwing your hands in the air simply because you don't think you can have any contribution towards fixing the problem, and the only course of action forward is to simply describe why things are the way they are. It's complacent, and it's sad.

It's a lot like someone complaining about Trump being elected, and you respond with "Yeah, but we live in a Democracy". It's not a very helpful comment, and it doesn't get us anywhere except to keep us in the exact same place we are today.
Stop thinking of who is CEO, who is CTO, which one should do what kind work. Startup founders should think about what makes your company survive.

If your customers/investor come to you because of your R&D, R&D head should control the company, earn most, and all other work should be done by other co-founders.

Otherwise, if they come to you because of your product strategy, then you should let that guy control the company, it's good for you at the end.

If none of you know what is the core competitiveness of your startup, you all should more concentrate on the product/service/marketing per se. Who take control is not important and you all will learn a lot.
> you don't give up your principles because the cost outweighs the benefit

Yes, a rational person does. You're thinking of dogma. People don't give up their dogmas when the costs outweigh its reasonable benefits because holding onto their belief system is practically infinitely valuable.

Dogmas are hard boundaries. Principles are guiding factors. Sacrificing privacy as a principle in the midst of a global pandemic is perfectly fine in most cases. It's still a guiding factor, but it's of lower priority than competing interests.
Some of your gripes are valid, but:

> absurd cost of living in major metropolitan areas

I fail to see how this is the Boomers' fault. Cosmopolitan urban life is a choice, often fiercely defended by Millenials on account of access to "culture", which frequently boils down to a wide diversity of differently-decorated venues in which to get drunk.

Sure, suburban life is boring, and living in the country is hard. But it's not a choice your Dad or your guidance counselor made for you.
> I am surprised at the number of people who think that stock prices going down is due to financial health of companies

The financial health of many companies is significantly affected by virus mitigation strategies. Companies that were healthy in January may be on the brink of insolvency in June. The market is pricing that in to some extent.
under the guise of enriching the company through stock growth
Even though the watches have the technical ability to measure spO2 right now, I’m not sure that’s even recorded anywhere. On the bright side there are references to it in iOS 14, so it might be coming soon.
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What exactly would be the appeal of this, besides pure novelty?

Commercial space travel? Of course. You're weightless, you get to see the Earth from an entirely new, potentially life-changing perspective.

Commercial ocean-trench travel? It's too dark to see anything but what's right in front of you. I don't understand the appeal beyond bragging that you were rich enough to afford it.
The title of the blog post says "funding and grants". If it was all funding, they could have just written "funding", but they didn't.
Yeah, but one huge difference there is that wartime ravaged physical cities and buildings with bombs, and all sorts of other things. The coronavirus isn't having any affect on *physical", real objects (other than people), so it's not realistic to assume that it will have anywhere even close to the same side effects as a 6 year war. Comparing it with world war 2 is hyperbolic, at best.
Coronavirus: India 'super spreader' quarantines 40k people
Keep in mind that over the past couple of decades, Walmart has replaced small mom-and-shops in most towns and small cities.

An enormous amount of people in America would be utterly screwed if it went away.
They should be giving agencies free ad credits then, because a lot of small/medium sized businesses outsource their ad work to agencies...so this doesn't accomplish all that much imo.
Maybe I'm biased but video quality doesn't really bother me nearly as much as audio quality, and Zoom kinda sucks there. Part of it is the codec, but their AEC is so godawful we have to force everyone on calls to use headphones.

Video quality is really only necessary when screen sharing, and zoom does OK there.
The bubble has been enabled by the Federal Reserve. Quantitative easing and money printing has served to inflate asset prices over many years.

For some reason markets going up is fine but when they inevitably decline sharply this is viewed as 'disorderly' and the Fed prints money to keep asset prices high. The Fed ensures that hedge funds have counter-parties to buy their toxic overvalued assets.

It's now clear that our economic system is run for the benefit of corporations and hedge funds.
That's going to skew the R0 factor.
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I suspect, many of the "shit" jobs will "die" out, or at least need a lots less people. I could easily imagine trash-collection, deliveries, all-kinds-of driving, cleaning etc to become fully-ish(95%+) automated, if not entirely for large sectors.

Hell, if BostonDynamics can build RoboSoldiers, that can salto and run parcour, they sure as hell can build something, that can scrub my toilet. Currently I can't afford their "house-hold"-chores model, but in ten years Samsung will probably have a line-up of models between 1000€ and 10000€
I think this will only happen when Linux Distributions will insist. I think it would be much more sane if you can install both MySQL and MariaDB on the same system same as you can install MySQL and PostgreSQL or Apache and Nginx (if you think about services sharing the same port)
I don't think it will be so straight forward as that. Power is handed down, and people who have power generally don't want to give it up.
The Third Plague Pandemic
You could probably jerryrig "seamless synching" with some initial effort simply using VimWiki and git, of course the Android portion is going to require the most significant setup, but I don't see a reason why it wouldn't be doable (but then I'm not too familiar with Androids filesystem and I'm assuming it works at least marginally like the Linux filesystem)
Temporary until Saudi Arabia folds.
Surely this is not a false-positive, but rather a false-negative?

That is, the patients were observed clinically to have caught and recovered from the virus, yet the test shows no trace of the viral infection.
Building Reddit apps in Go with mira
So many things in the economy have turned into arms races. Property prices, advertising spending, education spending, status symbols. If we could somehow get out of it we'd have fewer $100m pieces of artwork and a lot more housing and free time.
No, I didnt understand that the "OFF" meant different things in the control panel vs the settings panel.

THAT is "apple software lying"

And your point is absurd "If you want a phone you can trust, then you need to build your own phone"

Fuck that logic.
The amazing thing about bubbles is that you can only know that was a bubble only after it explodes but you can never predict it before.
Thanks, I'm interested by your sense that health is assessed after 'leaders of the community define what their goals are' and not, for instance, that 'members of the community' define their goals collectively, could you say more about this?
> It's now clear

only if you haven't been paying attention
Hold up, you really think the HN community is generally empathetic and self-aware? Like, you believed that while typing it? Do we read the same people?
Hey myu701. Thanks for the link. I unticked the setting mentioned a bit lower on that page[0] to disable reCaptcha. It's not clear to me if that changes it for their landing page.

Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up.

[0] https://mailchimp.com/help/about-recaptcha-for-signup-forms/...
I should amend my point to say that stock prices cannot acceptably fall without massive intervention by the government. The system is set up so that those who have the most invested in the market (mostly the older generation who are trying to retire, institutional investors, high net worth individuals) will do anything to prop those prices up, and the government will listen because it's beholden to the interests of the older and the wealthy. They'll bankrupt this nation's economy for those that will inherit it to save those retirement funds at the benefit of wealthy investors.
They’re the worst form of interview, except for all the other ones.
Here's what I don't get: this article claims that big (since that's what matters for stock market index levels) business sits on a mountain of debt. At the same time many economists (e.g Yanis Varoufakis) claim that big business sit on mountains of cash kept in tax heavens rather that "working" for the benefit of the economy. Which way is it and are there any confirmed statistics to check it?
Institutional buy-in and support. When your 40,000 student university's administration declares "we are using Zoom for online classes and it's been integrated into our class management system by IT", it just gets used.

And that university chooses to use Zoom over another solution for many reason - after-sales support, SLAs for performance and availability, pre-written API integrations for their CMS and student ID system, guarantees from their sales team about regulatory compliance, and the like.
I say it as a telecom industry insider watching the industry cannabalize itself in the chase for margins because of over-provisioning and terrible self-regulation of reseller and whitelabel programs, and even poorer regulation of service delivery.

This isn't a critique of reselling or whitelabelling a communications platform that provides good value; it's just that there are a LOT of bottom-feeders latched on and hiding in the tangled web of resold trunks and bulk-purchased DIDs wreaking a lot of financial havoc.

I speak of course, to robocallers/robotexters and their kin, which are not new problems but have only been amplified when access to the public switching network became as easy as 'buy a voice over IP DID for twenty-five cents'. I am however curious to see the impact of SHAKEN/STIR.

This all to speak nothing of toll fraud committed via compromised SIP trunks (most often due to poorly configured Asterisk instances setup so an MSP in BFE can say "we sell phones"). Preserving the names of the involved parties but I have seen bills for some consulting clients that reached beyond six figures from one month of toll fraud. The culprit? The office had bought a "PBX in a box" from a local vendor, who only configured it enough to get a dial tone and a phone number from randomly registered CLEC, connected the thing to the public internet, and walked off with a hefty paycheck.

The FCC doesn't really get off the hook here either, while there are requirements and guidelines for inter-connectivity to the public switching network, enforcement is-or in my own anecdotal experience since 2001, non-existent sans making sure you've paid your USF dues. I'm open to correction on this point, if anyone has experience on the matter I'm curious to know what the interaction was like; the rest is mindless opinion.

Taking this last point a bit further and bringing it all home: You could very easily start a "phone company" in rural Georgia with pretty low comparative overhead and sell phones service to an entire community and trivially disappear overnight before the Feds even glanced in your direction with more money than you put into it. Left improperly secured, the robocallers just found a new forward operating base.

If anything I'm aiming to point at the (perhaps unintended) results of making telecom so easy, in a way we created these problems, this is the bed we've made for ourselves in the industry.
Of course I've used it!

And I've created a small npm package that contains all the code that I've ported from the linux-minidisc project to JS.

https://github.com/cybercase/netmd-js

Actually, not sure if you're the right person to ask, but how did you manage to reverse engineer the "uploading" part of the protocol?

I mean... I'm not new to reverse engineering of communication protocols. I've done that in the past, and I've always relied on some "trick", like disassembling binaries, flip a debug flag, and assemble them back into a new binary that printed logs that the original dev left there.

Did you use something similar? Of did you manage to put your hands on some part of the source code of Simple Burner/Sonic Stage?

by the way. I wouldn't be able to write my app without your hard work. so thanks!
In general PCR tests are highly sensitive. Even smallest viral loads can be detected

(Edit) added in general above due to valid points in the comments below
> There are many ways to get the message across, like actually being good and having a connection with recurring customers.

The situation is pretty novel since there are significantly less options for offline interaction available this time. I don't think local businesses can cover most of the loss only with recurring customers this time.
Serious? Good luck with that because in 30 years the 25 year old know-it-alls will be saying the same thing about your generation. The cycle never ends.
Any suggestions for other sources?
I wonder about the opposite application - using it to read autistic emotional signs. Outbursts have ample build up and signs but they aren't noticed or are misread. Because autistic tells aren't neccessarily the same. I liken the situation to trying to treat a cat like a dog and then wondering why they claw you after wagging its tail - in cats that doesn't mean "happy" it means "back off!". Communication is fundamentally a two way street.
Well it's now clear that the Fed IS willing to engage in massive asset inflation. Nothing will stop that until the USD starts to significantly depreciation. Unlimited QE is essentially current debasement, but being the world's reserve currency provides protection.
is anger useless?
Explains why Apple seems to be blocking all other COVID-19 related apps. We’re seeing most people in our ecosystem (Ionic) turn to deploying their apps as PWAs in the short term
They're still losing revenue in that, when these ad credits are spent, they're not receiving any actual money from advertisements that would have shown up in place of these free ads.
What an excellent UI. It's hard to make something relying on scraped data so nice and easy to use, this nails it!

Have a few books on the way now :)
It's not access to culture, it's access to job opportunities and avoiding a commute on highways absolutely clogged to the brim with commuters.

Boomers get the blame for capturing regulatory agencies in zoning and housing construction and preventing growth in cities in like SF.
OSAM has a great data-driven analysis of this question and end up on the other side in the conclusion: https://www.osam.com/pdfs/whitepapers/_2_Commentary_Buybacks...
One man's bubble is another man's under valuation.

Big moves when there is big news (like a global pandemic say) are normal events.

The thing I find concerning is why the FED are "intervening". Dumping cash made sense during a cash shortage. But when there are actual, real, concerns about the future (coronavirus), price falls are perfectly correct. They don't need "fixing". Happy to be corrected if anyone knows?
That's why I started using a second phone just for the Google Authenticator App at the workplace. If your authentication does not rely on SMS, you don't even need a SIM card.
Are there any advantages to Zoom over Jitsi Meet? For most people's use case (a small group of family friends) the simplicity and quality of the Jitsi Meet setup is incredible.
You would think that by making them so much money (they take 40% of income), you would be entitled to speak to a human. We have always followed their guidelines and just appealed to them but from researching others who have had similar issues, I'm assured that is a big black hole.
How about taxing corporate stock buyback transactions at a high enough rate to make it hurt, and keeping the money set aside for social safety net and training programs that support the people who are losing their jobs.

History has shown again and again that corporate tax cuts and repatriation schemes go right into stock buybacks and don't trickle down nearly enough to individuals. So tired of corporate welfare.
a plastic eating pathogen is a prominent actor in 'The Andromeda Strain'

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
An imperfect solution for you might be a cheap device that you only use for 2FA.
if:

- you do them right

- your reagents are good

- the kit was assembled properly

- there's no contamination in the machines

- you got a good sample

- ...

The capability for a highly sensitive and accurate test in no way guarantees that a randomly sampled administration of that test is going to meet the high standard that the test may be capable of.
Iron, aluminum, and salt are extremely common and very much renewable. Concrete is looking like it might be sand limited, and of limited renewability; there's already concern over our long-term ability to make concrete. Oil, on the other hand, we literally burn & convert into C02, and other fun stuff. Once we use it, it's pretty much gone.
Just to put this in perspective, we're talking about one bid for basically land-locked asphalt in a period of essentially zero demand. I don't know what the size/liquidity of the trading market is, but I'd suspect very small. The market price is currently around $2.

This is not oil for energy; reading too much into this is like seeing the price for firewood skyrocket and expecting people to freeze to death this winter.
My mistake. Why would I have thought that a cyclooxygenase-inhibiting NSAID would have anything to do with a cyclooxygenase-inhibiting nsaid. These are entirely different kettle of fish, and I am a fool for thinking adverse effects of one would be at all related to the adverse effects of the other.
It's what they have to offer...

I understand G-suite has had some adjustments regarding limits and such.

I can't fault them for some effort even if it is hardly front line virus fighting. They're just not in that position.

I think your cynicism is just cynicism.
This is a great utility. I'm definitely going to make use of it. I want to make a couple of additions and potentially open a PR.