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Oil is useful. I get it. How much oil is burned in comparison to oil used in manufacturing? When we typically talk about eliminating oil we are talking about not burning it anymore.
I actually share your confusion but If I had to guess, Nations is thinking about the oil market specifically, where both US and Russia are exporters and would usually both benefit from high prices.
High-energy particle physicists figured out video conferencing a long time ago
Except here the demand for food didn't disappear, it shifted from HoReCa (hotels/restaurants/catering) to groceries. People don't suddenly need less food during a pandemic, so the food that rots on the field now is that much less food in peoples's bellies.
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It's already 80% full, isn't it?
> Do you think CDR will be lower next year because we will eventually get back to average?

There will certainly be a drop in mortality just after the pandemic. Especially for older people. If you look here https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html (European data). You'll see spikes in mortality corresponding, I think, to the severity of that year's flu epidemic.

Right after the each spike, there is a small drop proportional to the size of the spike. It is especially visible on the 65+ graph.

These graphs can also tell you the magnitude of of bad flu season, it is too early to tell how COVID-19 will appear.
nevertheless 8511 masks disappeared from the market, and Amazon is telling me they are available only to gov't and institutions. On eBay the masks are listed at over $25 apiece. Unfortunately when doing dusty work one mask will only last for a day or less.

I started having trouble sourcing these in late January.
In America, compared to other places I've lived, people's sense of responsibility to their jobs often seems to override responsibility to their friends and families. Especially people in lower-earning jobs seem to have very rigid expectations of attendance and can even be punished for talking on the phone during work hours. Although they care about other people, they need to be careful to protect their jobs. In some poorer European countries, low-paid employment seems like a much more casual relationship.

None of this is true in the highly-paid and highly-privileged world of elite tech workers in America, where the better employers emphasise flexibility, well-being, and taking care of your loved ones.
I built a similar open service at https://3geonames.org/api . It supports XML and Json output and is entirely free. Eg: https://api.3geonames.org/51.4647,0.0079.json
I use the PARA method but continually try to refine things. Start here with Marie Poulin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI3zExav2c

All her Notion videos and techniques are worth watching. Also https://www.notion.vip is a great resource.
>Between acceptance and publication, Everest was summited.

That's obviously what they want you to think!
“Fear the Walking Dead” deals with these questions very explicitly. One of the main characters is what you could call a zombie sympathizer.
When I was attending Colorado School of Mines (~1999) conventional wisdom held that the maximum price should hover around $80 a barrel, since alternatives for industrial applications start becoming competitive beyond that point.

Keep in mind that oil can degrade while in storage, and degrade the storage itself. Taxation complicates the picture for commercial interests.

All things considered, the world probably has more above ground storage than it needs, and what exists is already full. From the perspective of at least one major oil company that I know of, this was already the case a decade ago.
I kind of need the opposite, something that pokes me with a stick if I take a break before I'm supposed to.
That tool is only available in the latest versions of Postgresql (11 and 12), which very few stable shops are running in production.

Checksums were introduced in 9.3, yet not made the default until 9.6. Converting it requires lengthy downtime, back to the original author's point of major version upgrade pain.

Everything worthwhile in PG is introduced over a long time, requires a lot of pain to adopt, and if not adopted quickly, suddenly becomes "lol why aren't you doing this it's been there for years." That's the disconnect between people who actually run these clusters and the somewhat ivory-tower views of the postgresql devlopers.
>> I know this is a temporary thing, but it just feels like preserving food is something that has been done effectively on a local scale for so many years - it seems weird to let good food rot because large-scale canning factories can't keep up with demand.

It' temporary only if someone can pick produce and people have the money to buy it. Having your own food supply is also peace of mind, someone who has gone to sleep hungry started to plan and it stuck to the family.

Covid will also change habits and lives. You never know when the next tragedy will hit and how will it find you financially. Having basic food at home for x months means you have a head-start.
True. 99% of their users on HN want an API. :)
I too would fear something - if it were deadly.
I'm not a mathematician but coming from the software world if one guy wrote a massive program (I'm assuming 600 pages is massive) in "an impenetrable, idiosyncratic style" you could virtually guarantee it would not be correct.
In principle, yes. In practice, it seems like it's often not installed on the random hosts I encounter. This isn't a fatal flaw, but it is a small advantage in favor of sed and awk and probably even perl, which are essentially ubiquitous these days.
Location: Austin TX

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- Microservices (w/Kafka distributed messaging), OOD, TDD, serverless, REST, applied ML w/Kubeflow and DVC

- Java (Sprint boot, Spock)

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- Javascript (ReactJS, Jest, Angular 1+2)

- SQL (PostgreSQL)

- Applied ML (Kubeflow Pipelines, DVC, Tensorflow 1.15, Jupyter)

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Ask HN: Solution for Music Rehearsal over the Internet
Now that everybody stays at home I wonder how different music groups (choirs, bands) try to solve rehearsal.

I am thinking about a dedicated VPS and self hosted Jitsi meet, hosted in the same city as our choir to cut down on latency, I wonder how well it would work. A solution like [1] could make it more like an actual in-person rehearsal for a choir (voices standing close to each other).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772800

If it doesn't work out then I want to try some offline/async solution for practice, but I don't have a satisfying strategy yet.
Anyone who likes the idea of a minimal virtual DOM (like this) will probably appreciate MaquetteJS: https://maquettejs.org/
Saddens me to hear that. At least from their blog, OSS, and the end results I see as a citizen, GDS is a breath of fresh air in a never-ending series of farcical, failed mega-projects. And as a tax payer, I'd much prefer my taxes to go towards building a capable team, rather than paying billion after billion to oursourcing firms, and god only knows how much in pork to to politicians.
The elastic does breaks down alarmingly quickly (I wonder if this is intentional) -- I have a box of N95 masks I bought a couple of years ago when doing some drywall work and the elastic has utterly failed.

Meanwhile the elastic in my underwear seems to last forever! I guess I know how I can fix those masks ...
The Apple Tax is the cost of distribution, Amazon has widespread distribution so they are off the hook, not saying it’s fair but that is my reasoning behind it
NASA Outlines Lunar Surface Sustainability Concept
I was just browsing/reading his old Linux articles. May be interest for others as well: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/linux/index.html
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-an...

I think I mixed up things in my head, sorry - I don't think there's a claim of that exploit being used in China in particular. (I was probably confusing it with https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d... / https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/31/china-google-iphone-uyghur... , which is about iOS, in fact - but IMO there's a big difference between new bugs being discovered and "CVE-2019-2215 permits attackers to fully compromise a device with only untrusted app access or a browser renderer exploit and despite the patch being available in the upstream Linux kernel, it was left unpatched in Android devices for almost 2 years." I don't think either Apple or Google is doing an adequate job here at all, but Apple still seems to be a bit better, between the options.)
Isn't it actually better for them not to have the liabilities of cars, hotel rooms etc on their books? They can lean up and cut costs and spring right back up once the pandemic is under control. At least theoretically.
Those businesses work perfectly well -- see banks, retail stores (who often don't even own the inventory they're selling), Amazon. The ones that don't work are the ones whose markets are affected by natural disaster, which is true of any business.
Neuromarketing
> She purchased a Prius last year specifically to rent on Getaround, using the money to cover both its monthly costs and those of her primary vehicle.

That seems like a risky move, and an attempt to compete in the general car rental business without the protections of a well established business (compared to a startup).

While it may make sense for a car owner to assume some risk to recoup costs on a vehicle they already own, buying one for the sole purpose of renting it out seems less sensible.
I don't see it as tax or rent, but a business partnership with a revenue sharing model. Amazon has a unique deal, Google has a unique deal to bring search in Safari, Microsoft has a unique deal. Apple can't sign unique deals with all developers so this is a fair and scalable way to create business deals using APIs. It isn't perfect, but it works. If it didn't, it wouldn't be so successful.
This bug is a year old, and Firefox Preview / Fenix has in the meantime gained support for uBlock. Considering that's mentioned as motivation for native support, I'm not sure this is still planned?
One interesting thing that I read the other day from a lead developer at Gov.uk was about how fast they managed to built a service within a couple of hours[1]

What I also really like about Gov.uk is that they seem to have their apps open source[2]

[1]https://twitter.com/RichardTowers/status/1243904365506760709
[2]https://github.com/alphagov
What do you want but can't afford currently?
Facetime claims to be end-to-end encrypted and apple claims to not be able to decrypt it.
It's interesting to take the featured article's bit about the Bill of Rights and think of the procedural emphasis of the USA criminal justice system as a flawed attempt at reconciling the USA's many different constituent cultures. Like, we have no bedrock agreed cultural principles, so we're just going to settle for codifying how the process works rather than the abstract ends ("justice") it should achieve. That's disquieting.
In a country that sends a clear message that "being a plumber is an important and rewarding job with above-median-income job", more people will entertain aspirations to become a plumber.

In a country that sends the message "being a plumber means you're fairly stupid, have no other talents and are doing a nasty, dirty usless job", people won't aspire to being plumbers.

Note that in the US at least, experienced & skilled plumbers are paid above median income (in some cases, a lot above median).
Trickle down then? Nope. Let's ask Adam Smith...

https://i.redd.it/0vz5zevo2rq41.png
Hey, that's what Flems is for. Check out https://github.com/porsager/flems - a single include embeddable sandbox (coincidentally written in mithril as the original post references). It's also used for https://flems.io
When I moved to SF, I was probably eating for $2.50 a day. It's totally possible if you buy 20lb bags of rice and beans.
The point is that you have no idea whether fault lies with Apple in this case or not. Yet you seem to immediately assume and insinuate incompetence of the GP who was, as they already said, just sharing his experience.

These types of comments are not useful or (IMO) enjoyable to read.
Surely they can, but tell it to Adobe, Apple, Oracle (Java), Google (Chrome), Razer,
That would be nice. Closest thing in reality might be the Thankpad X1 Carbon with ElementaryOS or Hackintosh if you're up for all of that.
If it is implemented that way there’s no way to tell from the user side. It just looks like it’s a part of whatever website you are on. My password manager even refuses to autofill.
This is an interesting take on what zombie fiction is about:

> The zombie myth has roots in Haitian slave plantations: they're fairly transparently about the slaves' fear of being forced to toil endlessly even after their death. Then this narrative got appropriated and transplanted to America, in film, TV, and fiction. Where it hybridized with white settler fear of a slave uprising. The survivors/protagonists of the zombie plague are the viewpoint the audience is intended to empathize with, but their response to the shambling horde is as brutal and violent as any plantation owner's reaction to their slaves rising, and it speaks to a peculiarly American cognitive disorder, elite panic.

Contrast this to Christian Thorne [0], who writes:

> Zombie movies are always going to be about crowds. People-in-groups are the genre’s single motivating concern. Other classic movie monsters are like malign superheroes, possessed of special powers, great reserves of speed and strength. What’s peculiar about zombies, when put alongside vampires or werewolves or aliens, is that they are actually weaker than ordinary human beings. They are really easy to kill for a start, because their bodies are already moldering. Their arms will tear clean off. They go down by the dozen. You’re in no danger of being outwitted. They can kill only because they have the numbers, and so that’s the menace that zombie movies are always trying to clarify: The threat of multitudes.

I've watched/read a fair bit of zombie stuff, and I think Thorne is more on the mark about modern zombie movies. -- lots of scenes of zombies breaking down barricades or tearing people out of their cars (America's favorite refuge against crowds!). But movies that try harder to have a point, like the original Day of the Dead, lay it on pretty thick that we are the zombies (who, even after death, return to the mall to amble around). Which is, I think, more in-keeping with a 'zombies are slaves doomed to eternal toil' reading.

Colson Whitehead's 'Zone One' flips the slave/master dynamic by having a mediocre black protagonist advance in post-zombie society way more than he was ever going to pre-outbreak, because the C student who survives in a low-effort way is more resilient than traditional high-achievers.

0: https://sites.williams.edu/cthorne/articles/the-running-of-t...
If food production does break down, all that surplus of canned goods would mean cheaper food and healthier meals for everyone. There's argument to be made for canning the surplus on the grounds of derisking. Doubly so, given that the calamity isn't hypothetical - we're right in the middle of it.
He's the hand sanitizer guy. Taking land off the market then "solving" the supply issue.
Kernel developers have to deal with concurrency, interrupts, preemption and more on a daily basis, so why would this be more dangerous?
A combination of Stickies.app, Reminders.app, Asana, Google Keep, Trello, Snoozed Emails drafts, Chrome Bookmarks bar, Toby extension... and a notebook
> What, if any, government interventions could be put in place to somehow add value to BTC mining?

Well, the typical answer to "what can government do about this thing that is bad for society, but not bad enough to ban outright" is "tax it", though as another poster pointed out offshoring limits the efficacy of this strategy.

I'm going to interpret your second question as "What are your thoughts of governments using a resource such as hydroelectric dam or wind power to mine BTC and using it to increase their budget?" since in general, money spent on Expense X doesn't remember whether it was generated from Assets Y or Z; money in the budget is money in the budget. That said, I suppose I'm not strictly opposed to the idea, though I'd be interested in an analysis of the returns you can get on those CPUs when you're optimizing for a community rather than an individual - for example, how much benefit does society get from putting all that CPU to work for something like folding@home?
Is it possible yet, to identify whether someone has already had the virus and is immune?

My gut feeling tells me, that half of the other 47 of the total 98 residents may also have already had the virus.
> But relative local impact _is_ the extent.

No, absolute scale is the extent, that's pretty much what “extent” means.

Relative local impact is the...well, relative local impact.

Both are important, though which is more important depends on what you are doing with the measure.
I don't feel the app store promotes only major corporations. I don't check it all that often but those editorials seem to have plenty of independent apps.
The author seems to be well travelled and barring a few exceptions (close knit small towns, urban areas) his depiction of suburban life seems pretty accurate and matches what I've seen so far travelling to many parts of the US.
They are using Indico, "effortless open-source tool for event organisation, archival and collaboration" → https://getindico.io/
Even without direct funding from Congress, the executive branch has pretty wide discretion for filling the reserve, mostly by accepting royalties-in-kind from producers on Federal land or offshore.

Basically, they can accept oil into the reserve instead of cash payments owed. There's also quite a bit of leeway for borrowing and lending oil as needed, as well as ways to lease unused storage capacity.

And the overall capacity is rate limited such that it takes almost half a year to fill/drain accessible reserves, so it's not like we could just purchases $3 billion in oil tomorrow and instantly put it there. It might store 35-40 days of US needs, but it takes 140-180 days to fill and/or access it. Which makes royalty based purchasing over time align more with ability to accept delivery.

So just because Congress removed that $3 billion, doesn't mean it's not getting filled.
Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society
You are correct that I don't like this advice... not because I find it to be wrong, but because you are approaching it solely from a competitive perspective -- "Your competitors don't have ethics, so you shouldn't either." That doesn't help someone who is engaging in research and trying to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Isn't this just accelerating the inevitable for many of these companies?
Since 2012 and still happy with the following.

1) Permanent storage:
Big flat text file.

2) Fleeting notes:
Whatever. If it's good enough (maybe 5-10% of these notes) I'll make the effort to copy it to permanent storage from slips of paper, email, simplenote etc. Most of the time, second glance on the fleeting note reveals it is not worth it and the note can be tossed (rewarding!). They are important, though, because you need the second glance to know.

I used to stress text files not being "mobile friendly". These days I prefer not to make permanent notes on mobile. But you can view them easily, they're just text.

As for local multimedia, I just mention in the text file that I have an image or video stored somewhere. If I need it, I can find it. Too much hassle making permanent filesystem URL:s or anything like that.

Max gain with minimum effort. Plus, I LOVE tossing useless fleeting notes.
they arent going to distribute the oil to civilians so they can drive to the beach or buy groceries, this oil would go directly to military operations that would then establish more long term oil production
Here’s a noob question. The coronavirus is made out of a whole bunch of proteins. Have we fully mapped out all the protein structures and corresponding DNA code?

The antigen is also a protein, I assume the DNA sequence for it is well known. Right?

How far are we in terms of tech to print custom proteins from arbitrary DNA sequences?

Is understanding protein folding and protein to protein interaction the holy grail of making massive improvements in molecular biology? What are the big unsolved problems?

Like if we know the virus’s DNA and it’s 3D protein architecture, we can solve for antigen proteins in a computer that outputs possible DNA sequences and we can manufacture them the next day in a protein printer. How far away are we to that future?
Hypocrisy is relevant (even if bringing it up is offensive) to whether an opinion is genuine when a person fails to solve a personal problem according to what they claim they believe.

It's not relevant when the problem is collective.

Your opinion (2) doesn't make any sense to me, because if you did grant that the manufacture of all smartphones involves massive human suffering, how could manufacturing of everything else not?
"I am Legend" not only portrayed surviving humans as more sympathetic toward each other, but even humanized the infected zombies (to a degree). The zombies had a leader, and he was motivated not by a desire to kill humans, but by what appeared to be desperate love of someone taken from him.

I won't give any more details, but if you haven't seen it, it's a great film.
I suggest you rename to visuo bot.
7500 per day is roughly the death rate of the country as a whole. We're less than 4 doubling periods from that.
I don't think that it is entirely irrational. When I was in school, I used to take notes in class. Often I'd copy my notes into a nicer form so that I would eventually be able to review them more easily.

I almost never reviewed the notes. The act of recording and organizing them helped fix the concepts in my mind so that I didn't need to.

(I do tend to review my bookmarks from time to time, and I tend to use [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org) to capture them along with notes about why they're being saved, these days.)
This is kernel space. If you have a way to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory all bets are off, even with no modifiable code.

Apple's policies are dictated by commercial reasons, not technical, so not much to discuss there.