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This is HN after all, so no comment thread is complete without a bunch of nitpicking the Web site itself.

There's a bunch of grammatical errors on the site (space after exclamation mark, missing words), which prevents me from trusting it.

The design is also very... strange. It looks like a mess. (Sorry!)

There's that first logo "BA net" which looks pretty bad, like someone took someone elses app icon and used Paint to draw a rectangle and some text above it.

Everything around the header is positioned weirdly. My eyes don't know where to focus. There's no visual hierarchy. (Also, what's with that weird "party" icon at the right? At least make it the same size as the BA net logo, and align it to the top right.)

Above the header there's a sort of feature list, I thought it was a menu at first. Why use a period to separate items? Maybe move it down to the features list along with some context ("Here's what you can use it for...")

The big button looks ok, but it's encased in a grey border. Why is there a border around it?

Same with the feature list. The border just makes it look ugly. There's no padding to the left of the "Features" header, and the first item randomly doesn't have a border. Why?

Is anyone actually using those audio and text chat iframes? First of all, they're way to small to serve a practical purpose, and they also have a border again.

The operating system icons don't look nice against the grey background. Are they even needed?

Finally there's some mess in the bottom menu link items. Just a bunch of random stuff, I guess? Maybe just remove it, and use some proper CSS instead of periods and no-breaking space characters.

You're using a lot of boxes that don't align, sometimes there's a border, there's all sorts of different font sizes. It's kind of sloppy, which reflects poorly on the underlying product.
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Never thought this way about food preparation, and the different motivations people have for doing it, not always prioritizing the "eater". Nice comment!
Just because the decisions are difficult to make doesn't mean there's no need for this feature or ways to implement it.
Given the timeframes on a project like an aircraft carrier, both sides are equally screwed here.
They're creative and interesting, but not that many of them are actually funny.
Clearly lots of people commenting here that are losing money every day.
https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

And already, US healthcare spending is at least twice that of other developed countries, at arguably much reduced availability to the average American.

as an outsider, the inability of the USA to change its healthcare system is baffling.
The book is in its final stages. We're just making final corrections.

I'm chatting with Robert about whether there's a chapter that he's comfortable releasing now. If not we should have something Monday or Tuesday and the entire book within a week or so. I need to confirm on Monday.

The 30% off coupon listed on the books page is good on the print purchase, which also includes all the ebooks.
Billing alerts are not real time; far from it, actually.
Please please please please please do not hijack browser controls.... I went to the helix page, tried to hit back, and it has been hijacked to "move backwards" in the helix. That is the WORST thing you could possibly do
What's with all the "I figured this out by myself..." comments? The article says as much, that people figure this out themselves. It's just giving some insight into why that works...
It’s doable with a year of planning and social initiative. But we’d also need a sea change in our laws to make it not a yearly recession.
Oh, so it's a matter of the well itself too, not just of its surroundings? TIL.
> However blaming first southern people for being "inferior" to Germans and having "less hygiene" fails to the fertile ground there

I understand that you find that offensive, I do as well. But please don't generalize from statements made by fringe conspiracy theorists. That's almost as divisive as the original statement.
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Apparently the author, Dr. Sui Huang, is a molecular and cell biologist. It seems unlikely that he is a credible source of advice in the fields of epidemiology and public health policy. The fact that he decided to use Medium to advance his theory makes me even more skeptical. Caveat emptor.
I kind of agree with your point, with the caveat that I just don't want to spend much money if I'm not getting much out of it. I'd happily buy a book for 200 eur if I knew it's going to be worth my time. In the recent years, I've mostly regretted the time I spent on books. Life is short, free time is scarce, and there are so many other things I could be doing.

In this case, I'm definitely curious about the book and would like to skim through it just to satisfy that curiosity, but I have my doubts as to whether I'll get much out of it (I've been writing C for 15 years and I do it professionally). Maybe there are gems of wisdom (or things I've overlooked) in it that would make it worthwhile, but it's possible I'd just regret the time and money spent :-(
I was thinking about adjusting parameters like: background music volume, segment length, pauses, etc.

I'll give it a try, perhaps its so fast that previews aren't really necessary.

I also think this could be an amazing tool for personalizing video marketing too
I'm a truck driver, been in the LA area a few days. It's surprising how large the area looks without oppressive smog and haze, and how sharp and detailed the hills and mountains have become.

For what that's worth.
Getting a real kick out of using Video Puppet. The idea of creating a video from assets and a script is not a new one, I first saw it in the context of Real Estate at a Kaltura conference back in 2012:

https://connect.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Automated+Video...

The existing tools for doing this sort of thing seem to either require quite a bit of programming / video skills e.g. Media Lovin' Toolkit, ffmpeg, sox, jimp, ImageMagick etc or they are templated / opinionated tools like https://www.magisto.com/

What I love about Video Puppet is that it provides a simple and easy to use set of tools and an API that through GitHub actions allows you to put version control and early/often feedback loops at the heart of your projects.

I'm using it to document the development story and back story of an Indie Video Game I'm working on. Previously I was doing it as a Google doc which I was sharing with my collaborators.

With Video Puppet, it requires little more overhead - I was writing this stuff already - but when I see and hear the results played back I can immediately see whether the story makes sense or not. I can see if I am jumping into talking about something I haven't set up properly or if I am trying to say too much.

One thing that would help me is to get feedback on fails in the markdown script quicker, before even pushing to GitHub. For code, including things like Terraform, I'd use a linter, or CircleCI has a validator tool you can run locally.

The other place I'm going to start using it is for describing defects in a product I am coaching a team on. Previously I would do a screen cap and then upload that to frame.io. Now I can do the screen cap, describe the problem and stick the whole lot into version control with a bunch of github actions to point the team to the resulting video.

I will be following this product closely and actively using it.

Greak work Gojko!
Does bring up the question if it makes sense to practice convnetional social distancing for a place where everyone is already lives so physcially apart that it's a pain in the ass to provide them with modern infrastructure; you'd think the curve would already be flat enough for them that whatever urban hospital services the area could handle it.

To put the density in perspective the entire population of 500 sq mi Coles County is 2k less than the population of all 2 sq mi of Uptown Chicago
Galway isn't much better either, even in 2016. I was looking for long-term accommodation there for a masters program at NUIG and pretty much everything was taken up by short-term for the summer. I could hop around place to place until October, when they basically agreed to some winter long-term. It was awful.
Please add per-capita options!
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>why would I want to personally own and maintain one?

Because you won't have a choice since no one would become a landlord because it isn't profitable.
a friend helped create this video on the same topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGl3_92KW7I
Not glue. Hot wax. You can put down and pull up hot wax easily. Basically you have photo blue grid layout boards. Photo type setting, border tape and various photographic techniques. Mask mode in Photoshop is red because of rubylith which was a red film you would cut around a photograph and since red light does not expose B&W film, one could make the background white. All the layout just had to last long enough to expose the negative to which was then used to make the off-set printing plate.

I grew up in a graphic arts photography studio in the pre-computer graphic arts days. My father had an 1942 ATF camera, which was about 14 feet long and you were the "mechanism" in the darkroom placing the film on a vacuum board, exposing the film and running it through a processor for positive film or the usual three trays for negative film. The camera was originally made for WWII to enlarge surveillance photographs and had very little lens distortion.

Photo typesetting was expensive. Many times the way to fix spelling errors was to copy the type setting on to positive film then find the missing letters and with hot wax and an exacto knife, fix the error. I think it was cost of photo type setting that pushed graphic artists to get a mac and an early laser printer. Photo type setting was vastly better quality, but we would have the graphic artist print all their type out at 200% then reduce that down to 50% with the stat camera to get the resolution up.

As a teenager, it was always a rite of passage, especially with the girls, that you got your forearm hot waxed. Fun times...
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If this can get the non-C programmers to learn and understand the usefulness of a simple, minimal and direct language ("modern" languages are just too bloated), it is well worth it.

I have said it before and say it again; C will allow you to program everything from itty-bitty MCUs to honking server machines. It is also the de-facto universal "glue" language and its real-world benefits far outweigh any perceived difficulties.

Bottomline - Every programmer should know C whether you use/like it or not.
There are approximately 7500 crude tankers on planet earth.

I bought and sold tanker stocks based on the following:

IMO 2020 regulatory retrofits.

Coronavirus

Saudi Russian Oil Price War

Shipyard Shutdowns

My next bet is going to be based on the drawdown in US Oil operations. I'm gambling on $FCG based on the notion that the price of natural gas will go up a bit because the associated gas from oil wells is no longer in play.

Right now, the volatility is a gambler's paradise.
Yes. Basically everything you hear about like flattening the curve, social distancing, all of it is informed by variations on the classic SIR model of epidemic propagation.

The modelling most often goes wrong either when people do something bizarrely stupid that the modellers didn't think of, like farmers in the UK foot and mouth disease epidemic moving animals at night to farms that had been declared clean in order to avoid having them destroyed, or lack of good numbers to go into the model in the absence of adequate testing.
This is actually normal. The US is huge, and outside of the major urban centers and their extended suburbs, it becomes very rural, very fast. And by "very rural" I mean most of the amenities that urban city/suburb dwellers simply take for granted do not exist (or are a half-hour or better car ride away).
It's not unreasonable to decline to laugh at a joke that is not funny. Critical services are no place for whimsy, and while it's disappointing that Google has apparently taken so long to figure that out, that they seem finally to have done so is all to the good.
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> Intuition implies that given a random choice between a, b and c - chances are 1:3. And given a new choice a or b, chances are 50/50. But you only get to act on new information (make a new choice) if you change.

This is not the correct interpretation. In fact, the choice of getting the car if you switch is not 50/50, up from 1/3. It's 2/3. The choice of winning if you don't switch is 1/3.

The reason for this is that the second choice is not independent of the first choice, so you shouldn't model them as different choices.

Essentially the problem could be reformulated as: you choose one door at random. Then the host asks you if you would rather keep that door, or choose to get what is behind both of the other doors. The door opening is just a red herring.
That goes for Phantom Menace as well. The heads in some of the shots of the pod race stadium were painted q-tips, and they couldn’t digitally get the waterfalls in Naboo to look right, so they poured table salt.
That's what the "recovered" block is. However they have to actually be infected to join that block.
If you’re baffled you can start with the concept that all that extra money being spent is going to specific people and organizations, who will work to preserve it.

It’s a textbook tragedy of the commons example.
I can't find any page by Colagioia about Thue, so I can't say if he was the originator of this trend, but it's a shame not to see any mention of the origin of the name Thue on the esolang page. He was quite a mathematician; he originated the systematic study of string-rewriting systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Thue_system and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue–Morse_sequence), which is why this name is appropriate, but made lots of other contributions, too—as a number theorist, I know him from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth%27s_theorem (which Wikipedia calls Roth's theorem, but which I think most number theorists call the Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem).
My impression is that medicare for all covers people, and reinsurance covers insurance companies. A huge danger would be that the premiums would be insufficient, and it would become a taxpayer bailout program. Spreading a cost over the population doesn't necessarily mean it's a reasonable cost.

Perhaps a middle ground is to have it like the FDIC, which covers depositors not banks. As I understand it, if a bank goes under, the FDIC takes it over and runs it until a suitable buyer can be found.
I just don't think that's true. Every infectious disease expert I've seen has been very confident that survivors gain long-lasting immunity, based on their knowledge of how other coronaviruses and diseases in general work. We don't have a ton of specific data about this specific virus, but it's not accurate to say we know nothing at all.

Even if it were true, there are decisions about strategy and response that must be made now and can't wait for data to come in, and those decisions are being made under the presumption that survivors become immune.
https://esolangs.org/wiki/IBNIZ
It seems that all of the recent ventilator projects require intubation.

Have there been any non-invasive ventilator projects?
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Also: Labriola on the mag mile.
It's not a tragedy of the commons if there's a specific class of people who control the resources who dictate what is politically possible.
I am not a fan of these semi-log plots of total cases. They don't really tell much.

If the question is "how bad it is?", than the linear plot makes more sense. Going from 1000 deaths to 10000 is 10 times as bad as going from 100 to 1000, it shouldn't be shown in the same interval if that's the info you are conveying.

If the question is "are thing improving?" it is not that helpful either. Here, what we want to know is if the growth is exponential or not, and there is no obvious feature in the plot telling us that. The plots of South Korea and Italy have similar shapes, one just looks more stretched out than the other, and yet, they describe completely different situations.

The only case when a semi-log plot can be useful is when it shows a straight line, meaning an uncontrolled exponential growth. But such a phase never lasts, it can't, even in a worst case scenario.
>> What is going on with the sudden profusion of books on C?

21st century C is 2014(?) and Understanding and Using C Pointers is from 2013, so it is not exactly sudden profusion.

Edit: Using C Pointers is from 2013
Cool, looks like the WebWorker examples I saw with React and Yew.
> Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year

Don't they every year? Not even kidding.
> Saudi Arabia extracts "light" oil and it's a frickin' desert, so the environmental impact of that extraction is quite a bit lower all things considered.

Wait, what? A desert is just as much an ecosystem as a rainforest or a city.
You are missing the point completely.
It might help if they were actually funny in any way.

The link you posted certainly isn’t.
They want Russia to come back in line with OPEC. Russian economy depends on oil exports, and the low oil prices might force it back to table. See what happened to Russian currency when price went down.
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Can you elaborate more on your point about tragedy of the commons?

Maybe I'm dense but it sounds a lot less like many commoners taking advantage of a common shared resource to the point of destruction. More like "corporate socialism", "regulatory capture", or "corruption"
Great? Well, I'm not going to suggest _all_ of these are masterpieces of social/personal observation. I'm going to error on the side of entertainment--books which were moving and memorable to me on the drop of a hat (or HN post :^)

(here are a few in no particular order)

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary (2003).

Horror genre. Artist in a community conspiracy--not the 'social machine' sort of conspiracy, but the more personal and creepier 'family horror'. EWWW.

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Stephenson, Neal. The Baroque Cycle (2003, 2004).

This is a story of the dawn of science through the network of scientists surrounding the Royal Society of London. I read these non-fiction books around the same time, so the total effect was very moving:

- Berlinski, David. Newton's gift : how Sir Isaac Newton unlocked the system of the world (2000) [its surprising just how many books have the same theme of 'the system of the world']

- Aczel, Amir D. Mystery of the aleph : mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infinity (2000) [this largely concerns Georg Cantor]

- Swetz, Frank J. From five fingers to infinity : a journey through the history of mathematics (1994) [This is a collection of short essays, primarily for and by teachers. I don't have formal training (past some college courses) in mathematics, so YMMV].

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying (1973).

From Wikipedia: "Fear of Flying is a 1973 novel by Erica Jong which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured in the development of second-wave feminism." (thanks to my GF Martina for that recommendation back in the day).

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The entire works of Willian Shakespeare. When I don't feel like suffering anything too personal or too timely, Bill just connects.

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PLUS1 Not fiction, but frack it. They're good

- Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential (2000)

- Buford, Bill. Heat. (2006)

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PLUS2. I read an article (New Yorker? 2005?) by a retired professor who had the habit of writing a brief review/book report after finishing each book (and he would grading it, too!).

I adopted a similar practice, because I wanted to remember my thoughts of each book in more specific terms. And I was practicing my touch-typing skills. I can say after 15 years I have a good collection of grep searchable text files and much better typing skills.

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Plus3. Astronaut Scott Kelly recommends keeping a journal as a means of wellbeing during this time of self-isolation [1].

I can't think of a better way to start than writing a few sentences about a moving reading experience.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/scott-kelly-coron...
Yes, currently the tight oil industry could be in a good shape, because drilling a well is very cheap (about US$ 5 millions), without the trillions of debts it amassed. The problem may unroll like this:

- demand is destroyed by coronavirus
- prices go down (maybe as low as $10 a barrel according to some analysts)
- existing wells maybe kept pumping, or not
- new drilling stops, ditto exploration, etc.
- cash flow in tight oil industry falls to about zero
- huge debt (trillions) can't be paid back, companies go belly up, banks must be rescued by the Fed...

several scenarii open up from there: would the Fed rescue the oil companies? may the government nationalise the oil industry? What can be the impact on US$? On US debt? financial markets? Who knows, all bets are off at this point.

The crucial moment will be there: in the few months between this moment when the shale oil industry defaults on its debt, and when it's bought back (debt free, therefore in a sane situation), there may be a large gap in production, that could kill world oil demand by sending prices through the ceiling ($100 barrel? $120? $150?) because normal demand can't be fulfilled by conventional production anymore.

Lots of graphs here:
https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/oil/when-does-the...

I myself have no particular expertise, but I've been following quite closely oil and energy since 2005.
It seems to me that a lot of what trips people up is that they don't realize that the host specifically opens a door which they know does not to contain a car (as opposed to selecting the door to open randomly).

Therefore, it seems to me that many people fall for it not so much because they misunderstand the probability but because the rules of the game are designed to be misleading.
With regards to aiming- I picked up a battery powered PoE injector a while back and it’s been invaluable. This lets me experiment with different mounting places quickly by powering up the radio and connecting to UNMS.
The downvotes are really telling. Don't point out the hubris on HN.
Exactly! To be blunt, knowledge of C gives you "programming cachet" like no other language.
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