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> No one really needs to be near other people.

This isn't true now or at any point when "humans" were an identifiable concept. We're not solitary animals. If you made everyone live alone, we might well go extinct.

People do vary in how much contact they need with other people. Some people will quickly become mentally ill if they're not getting enough social contact. I'm quite far over at the other end of the spectrum... but after living in China with no social group for several months, a friendly cashier greeting me in English with "Welcome to Lotus" was enough to get a very positive reaction from me.
Yes, and consistently despite varied causes of economic decline, it has led to decreased mortality.
My life would be much easier if I didn't have to dig through piles of useless garbage like that post.

As a matter of fact that's why I like and keep coming back to Hacker News is because most of the posts I can read here are less fluffy than anywhere else.

So yeah, if I don't respect something I am willing to fight for the right to see something I have respect for; even if I don't like it btw.
Don't most violin students play pieces from before 1923?
The Slack UX that crashes and self reloads when you read a conversation and don't click on anything?
My wife is my editor, so I am lucky. She does sometimes provide editing services to other authors for a modest fee; email me if you need an editor. re: 3): this is a big drawback of self publishing. When I wrote for conventional publishers it was always a thrill to see my books in Barnes and Nobles, etc. But, but.... the ability to make frequent improvements to eBooks and effortlessly push changes to readers trumps all the advantages of conventional publishers.
When I was on ship, when it was trash day you'd watch them take every trash bag, slit it open, and toss it into the sea.
Anything by Tolstoy.
Thanks for taking the time to answer @kejaed.
I feel like I’m nudging my team too much, I do these 1:1s on a weekly basis, but still I can’t say I find blockers and dependencies on time, and thus it prevents me from delivering my plan as I should. do you know methodologies or tools that can help me with that?
Also, can you share how do you measure your teams?
Just donated. This is one of the good sites on the web. Please lets keep this one going.
This puzzle has stayed with me for a decades for two reasons. #1 is it was the first time I was embarrassed in public discourse on Usenet. Guy shot me down pretty hard, but when he was done there was no uncertainty- he was right and I was wrong.

#2 is I finally realized the importance of that postulate of Quantum Mechanics: The wavefunction contains everything you can know about the system. This problem pointed out for me that probability is not an unvariable thing. Different people will calculate different probabilities for different events (think if we're playing cards and I have three aces and you have none- you will calculate a different probability of drawing a ace that I will) and we will both be correct. This without this postulate the probabilities of QM would be meaningless.
I think a worst case scenario is one in which:

- The virus becomes seasonal, like the flu

- Like the flu, every year there are new strains (so surviving it doesn’t grant immunity)

- And we’re unable to develop a vaccine for it

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but this scenario implies that the situation we’re in now becomes the new normal. Every year, we’ll lose an additional percentage of our elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Medical systems will either be ground down by repeated surges, economies will be ground down by enforced social distancing, or both.

What else would be in the cards?
No, it's a matter of the complicated and only partly known geology underground. See other answer.

Another way of looking at it is: You've drilled holes to make the oil flow. There are kilometers of rock on top of the oil layer, pushing down, pushing the oil towards the holes you've drilled. You can close the end of the hole, but you can't make that weight go away. The system is going to find a new equilibrium. The new equilibrium is not one you've tried to optimise for maximum total oil production.
When the developer doesn't have experience with anything but JavaScript...
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged of course), it really rose my bar for great storytelling.

Also the sandwich is pretty good.
The words "contact" and "tracing" didn't even appear once in the article. Are people outside of Asia not even considering test'n'trace as a possibility? Privacy concerns aside, it seems like an effective way to save lives without forcing everyone to stay home indefinitely.
Much of Neal Stephenson's work provides me inspiration, similar to William Gibson's work. It envisions future tech/life that stirs me to see if I can create some of it.
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Answering your question properly requires more details about your platform (CPU, GPU, resolution, operating system, etc.). If your hardware can offload video encoding from the CPU, that would probably be your best strategy. I would suggest experimenting with OBS Studio to create an CPU-friendly encoded stream from your screen, then exposing that to conferencing software using something like OBS-VirtualCam on Windows or ffmpeg+v4l2loopback on Linux.
“ How much time will it be over $30 before the shale producers start up again?” I work in this field, and the answer to your question is “instantaneously.” The largest operators will not go out of business because they have sufficient exposure to non-shale assets; they will simply immediately drill the wells they had planned to drill when the crisis hit. Capital will rapidly find its way into the hands of the people with the expertise to drill and complete money-making wells.

The oil industry is like one of those organisms that evolved to thrive in an intertidal zone, or in a region with random lengthy droughts. The industry knows how to shed or calcify all the parts of itself it doesn’t need in lean times and then rapidly redeploy those parts as soon as the environment changes, because this sort of thing happens over and over and over. Sometimes the thing the industry doesn’t need it and therefor sheds is “workers” and that’s a shame, but so it goes.
I am Jacks Bias.
Done.. wish them the best of luck
R2 – a Router in Rust (HTTPS://r2.rs/)
My experiences building R2 with Rust - https://r2.rs/blog/
The tower uses a Uniquiti Prism Rocket 5ac Gen2 with a 45 deg sector antenna. The receiver on my roof is a Uniquiti PowerBeam AC Gen 2. They’re about 1.5km away with clear line of sight and minimal interference. I don’t recall the specifics on the back haul on the tower. My signal has been solid as a rock in all weather conditions for several years.

I think the clear line of sight and little radio interference were key to making this work. We don’t have cell or tv signal here. From what I understand the sheriff’s radio coverage is spotty as well.
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One of the original points (though they've expanded in capabilities since then) of cloud services is that they're pay-per-use and can scale up and down as needed. Of course, that cuts both ways. If you mostly just care about compute, you probably just want some traditional hosting service with bandwidth caps (rather than transfer overage charges).
You can easily calculate what the bill will be at the end of the month if no new data is stored or deleted between now and then. So if you need a hard cutoff for storage, use that.

There's enough room there for workflows where I know I'm going to delete data later that allowing configuration would be valuable. (Maybe I can set a timed expiration at the moment of storage, instead of having to store first and separately delete later? That would keep end-of-month predictions accurate.) But it isn't difficult to set the hard cutoff.
The typical plant by itself just sits there producing heat, and it's well shielded so emits no radiation.

If we look at all the NPPs (so we factor in all the accidents) and average out then we get a higher number.

And if we look at a full lifecycle analysis (so from uranium oxide mining to plant building, to long-term nuclear waste storage, and/or reprocessing and whatnot), then we'll get an even higher number.

But all of that is quite meaningless, because the real question is health impact anyway.
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Yes they are. These types of models have been studied for decades. For instance the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak in the UK, models were used :

https://www.ft.com/content/7e56cf84-6a9e-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcc...

Or if that link doesn't work: https://www.google.com/?q=FT+Neil+Ferguson+a+virus+modeller+...

The article talks about the modeller Neil Fergusson, and in my next link it talks about how he has advised the UK government:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
Interesting. I wonder how prevalent and deep such reflections will be upon people after this.

It’s possibly the best thing we could have done for the people who claim to be ok with the standard of pollution and climate change baked into an oil based civilization. Like pulling your hand out of a warm bath of water it’s been soaking in for a few seconds and plunging it back in the same water feels much warmer.
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I don't see how this accounts for dots not becoming infectious after a set time. If someone sits at home for two (max 4 weeks ) they're not infectious, even if they had the disease. Does the simulation account for this? This should put a damping effect to the spread.
see my nick, but in addition to stephenson, the books i come back to over and over again for comfort and wisdom include:

- Lord of the Rings: The other bible. Not even the very wise can see all ends; be of good cheer.

- A Wrinkle In Time: 9 year old me, there is such a thing as a tesseract, and there is also Mrs. Beast.

- The Master and Margarita: apocalyptic reading from someone who knew, and a cat who always pays his way.

- the Discworld series: Sir Terry knew our hearts better than most, and sin, young feller, is treatin’ people as things.

- If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveler: a perfect joke that you can tell once, plus a love story.

- Good Omens: Gaiman and Pratchett team up, what’s not to love?

- Moby Dick: And so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.

- Lucky Jim: grad school, a survival guide. Come in on the fa la la las, there’s a good chap.

This doesn’t include poetry, which is also in my head constantly.
Worthless article. Basically says 1-month to years. Well thanks Sherlock.
I agree but these clubs of piano teachers are very conservative (in the meaning that they don't want to rock the boat) and it's hard to get the sort of collective action required to effectively economically boycott these publishers....
Often the limit is way lower than the "safe" speed - e.g. the variable speed limits on motorways restricting you to 40mph on an empty road in perfect daytime conditions, or the 15mph limit for London - both only exist to manage traffic flow and/or dissuade people from driving.

You're welcome to match other drivers - enjoy the speeding tickets you'll both get.
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OK this actually made me lol. Thank you.
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
If that's going to be the prevailing attitude once this pandemic is brought under control, it would seem I picked a doubly bad time to quit programming and become a restaurateur.
Only if you have a 5th grade understanding of Geo-Politics, and Macro-Economics do you believe that is a Win-Win.

US Production of Oil and Nat Gas provides for the opportunity to the US to be less dependent on Mid East oil, which is WONDERFUL for Global Peace.

Also because the value of the Dollar is tied to Oil being traded in Dollars, reliance on Mid East oil puts the US in a HUGE economic Liability.

So sure from a pure climate standpoint it has some benefits but in EVERY other way shuttering US Production of Nat gas and Oil is TERRIBLE
I don't know, we ended up just eliminating the sheet music from the judging of the festival because it was just too much to figure out in a compressed timeframe.
To show my gratitude to the author's guild, I'd like to point out that Library Genesis exists and is pretty great. Unlike the Internet Archive, they don't bother paying lip service to cretinous publishing industry lawyers; 'lending' is fully unrestricted year round. Up-to-date URLs to mirrors can be found on their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
It would be longer than that. At 14 days, some people would just start exhibiting symptoms. However those can be mild enough to disregard. I believe recovery would still take another week. Then multiply that by the number of people with whom you cohabitate. And that assumes you didn’t go food shopping or collect your mail.
See William Barr remark on buying controlling share in SE & Nokia if Huawei dominance becomes real, it'll be Crypto AG round 2. Going with SE & Nokia just means maintaining status quo, aka giving US preferential access since they control much of the higher OSI stack. It's a disingenuous argument. In fact the Australian PM has recently confirmed the "conspiracy theory" that the primary concern AU intelligence over Huawei wasn't interception of intelligence by China rather denial of access to networks with Huawei hardware which compromises intelligence sharing, i.e. it makes it harder for FVEY agencies to spy on each other's citizens.
Michael Stevens of Vsauce does a fantastic job explaining why this works: https://youtu.be/TVq2ivVpZgQ
For reference: World Energy Outlook 2018 https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2018
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The problem is that gig economy in Europe actually slowly erodes our rights. People working for uber, deliveroo, &c. don't have the same rights as people working for let's say mcdonalds or starbucks. It's becoming the new normal, no pension, no unemployment benefits, no job security, ...
I realize this is a matter of personal preference but for me, using editors that are changing the text I write as I write it between code and markup is really annoying. I can buy using pure WYSIWYG (i.e. Word) or typing plaintext, but something is just off for me when the editor tries to do both. I prefer knowing whether what I'm looking at is the actual contents of the file or just a representation of them, but whatever floats your boat obviously. Since a terminal based editor will never be able to to what you require it to, unfortunately this means your selection for "optimized" editors is limited.
Is that the term for tracing and alerting people who were near people who positively test for covid-19? If so, it does seem to be done local to me, but probably not with the same rigorousness.
just updated the main readme once more to highlight some of the new things.

feedback appreciated!
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My friends and I in London are already salivating at the prospect of going to the pub, night clubs and music festivals. Each to their own.
They were widely used in offices too. Roneo and Gestetner were two common brands in the UK.
Not as a check. Because of the continuous stream of oil money in KSA, it has been possible to grant subsidies on goods or handouts to people. Even not collecting any VAT on good or if so a rather low VAT. When you are losing a lot of your income as a state, you can't really keep that standard up.

I suggest reading this, it's an older article, but the circumstances are the same: https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabian-social-contrac...
Again I'm not talking about you in particular and I'm sorry if I upset you, I'm glad it helped you but I'm convinced that in the grand scheme of things it isn't a net positive for the world.
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From reading HN, it seems like there is a cultural outlook where everything other than the problem to be solved is first and foremost when choosing a place to work. Like, do they use the right tools, the right OS, the right management methodology, have the right perks.

And when I look at job ads, it seems clear that there is a fair amount of competition among employers to appeal to these sorts of employees, by following trends or appearing to.

I think it's obvious why - people who care about things other than problems for their own sake, if talented and self-motivated, are more versatile and therefore valuable, because they will do a more or less equally good job on any problem.

This cultural dynamic is, I think, an obvious emergent dynamic that has made "don't be evil" a futile aspiration, not just for Google, but for the software industry in general.
I’ve done CRUD apps on mobile mostly for field services (technicians, deliveries, etc.) where it had to work offline. Even then you needed to navigate between screens, menus, navigate to different screens based on options chosen, client side validation, manage state on the client, etc.

You still needed UI changes.
This is what happened with Spanish flu, but people lived with it, and each year it got less deadly, and it still persists to this day as Influenza A [1].

Personally I assume if it's more than a 6-month ordeal people would accept the losses rather than fundamentally changing the economy as we know it.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749954/
By the way, this "best way" is so not true for deep dish pizza.

Good luck folding a slice of Giordano's! ;)

But on the plus side, it has its own structural integrity that makes folding unnecessary :)
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The only downside is that you're now using a free cloud service, so there's the obvious privacy concerns, and the possibility their servers will go down. It's really just a matter of the classic "free cloud vs. self hosted" pros/cons as usual.
Hi.

I would be interested in a demo of the logs AI stuff using real data.
Something like, https://www.honeycomb.io/play/ would do.

Do you have such?
Just be sure not to let the future contract expire before selling it, otherwise you might end up with a barge full of coal being delivered to your investment firm:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
> So, how do you suggest how to verify a public key for a third-party repository at scale?

We already have infrastructure for this. Here's that first line for the Signal installer:

> curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -

You're getting the key from signal.org over TLS. It's an authenticated channel, the TLS certificate is subject to revocation if compromised. Key distribution isn't the problem.

You also don't inherently need a central authority for revocation. There is already a line in sources.list where you're checking for package updates, it would be straightforward to have the package manager to check in the same location for key revocations, or specify another URL to check for that when the key is installed.
Junior devs solve computer problems using computers. Senior devs solve business problems using computers.
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Oil doesn't operate in a free market, not even a "mixed economy"-style regulated market. The majority of oil production is managed by a cartel.
The supermarket is a post WWII invention. Labour was expensive, so why not have the customer walk around and pick. Typically before WWII shop clerks handed items to waiting customers across the counter.

As any invention it can be reinvented.

Organic farmers started doing deliveries 20 years ago, to compete with the big warehouse boxes.
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> How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"?

I may be mistaken here but I thought the reason almost all operating systems allow you to specify more than one DNS is in case the primary one goes down. So if you specify NextDNS as the primary and say, Google or whatever, as the secondary: you likely won't see downtime (but obviously the filtering will disappear until the primary one comes back up and/or DNS caches reset etc)
That's because no-one would donate to you, because you haven't done anything worthwhile. Sal Khan has.
If you switch "you" get to "open" two doors in fact, not one. It's just that Monty picks which one for you. And since your choice is random, you might as well let an RNG do it for you.

If you consider it two independent rounds instead of stay/switch,

Stay: you get to roll 1d3, "1" wins

Switch: you get to roll 1d3, "1" loses, "2" or "3" wins
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I mean, that makes perfect sense. Itll stop when people are resistant. Are people becoming resistant? We dont know. Its presenting the state of things, and that includes uncertainty
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I really enjoyed the Martian and have found it to be a nice distraction if I'm bored - it's not too heavy and short enough to read in one sitting, but has plenty of entertainment nonetheless.

Otherwise, the Hitchhiker's Guide is always a great read.

Anything by Dostoevsky.
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Long before things are completely back to normal, we'll have a "new normal" that allows businesses to reopen under strict anti-virus protocols.

We can't do it in North America yet because we don't have enough masks, gloves and other PPE.

Example from China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddx_z1Qtn9w&feature=youtu.be
I mean in the old days, they did try to distinguish then by tasting them
I just got laid off for the first time in a decade, and I’m itching to get out on a long backpacking trip. Having to stay inside is driving me nuts right now!
In my limited experience, Kotlin seems to have smoother Java interop than Scala. For example, last time I checked, Java getter/setter methods automatically become Kotlin properties, and vice versa, whereas Scala has its own convention for getters and setters. Is that not the case now?
But what's the saudis' end game? Are they really gonna try to starve out russia, and cause them to capitulate? Game of chicken till one country bankrupts?

The saudis are losing money doing this (they have to eat into their reserves to fund the country). Russia at least has other industries, however small it may be.