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Will one day the Pulitzer be given for the best computer program of the year?
Just came across this quote which I found interesting and decide to share.

"I look forward to the day when a Pulitzer Prize will be given for the best computer program of the year."

- Donald E. Knuth

Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical Writing, page 21.
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When do you expect USCIS to reopen?
Yeah, different thing, and the studies I quoted are talking about aerosol transmission. I didn't mean to imply they're the same, simply that aerosol is microscopic "drops" of liquid.
So where’s the disconnect here? SNAP is widely available, so we need to investigate the gap.
Yes, you can upgrade that way or by doing 'apt full-upgrade'.
It is an "Android phones with the latest Snapdragon", is it not? And it was outperformed by iPhone 11. These goalpoasts are sliding...
There's a middle ground: the spiritual mumbo-jumbo is a crock of shit, but the treatment still works because of the touching, the patient taking time for this to relax, and maybe the patient believing that something is being done about their pain or other feelings of unease. It's possible that the theory is wrong but the practice still works.
I don't believe so. Did you actually interpret the headline as being literal? I don't think any other readers share your struggle.
Giving people money won't solve this problem. The food desert phenomenon is very real and very unsolved.
Amazon execs labeled fired worker 'not smart or articulate' in leaked PR notes
And food banks tend to provide groceries, which is good for people with fridges and pantries..not as helpful for homeless or people living in their cars, friends couches, etc.
Suzuki and other Japanese companies well known for how they treat employments as long-term relationships. And American companies are known for the opposite.

It would be interesting to see how Japan recovers economically relatively to the US post Corona crisis.
You gotta let each small victory be a victory, not tear everything apart for not being perfect
With so many billionaires in this country, poverty is not a problem we have. With so many condos by Central Park and mansions overlooking LA, neither city has a homelessness problem.
>replying instead of blind downvote because antisemitisim has many forms it seems, even here :(

[It damages the conversation when people assume] racism when there is no evidence of racism.
3M Response to Defense Production Act Order
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/06/msg03020.html
How do you foresee the current COVID-19 situation will affect Green Card applications?
How Can HR Harness VR?
Coronavirus Statistics Dashboard
Didn't the federal gov't just cut SNAP benefits? The maximum a single person can receive is 6$/day, the average a single person receives is $4/day.
They make up over 60% of the launch market now:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a27290/one-ch...
My main complaint about Zoom is that, when using it on PC, you have to install something. You can't just use it in the browser.

At best, Zoom's devs need to RTFM for WebRTC. At worst, they want to do some kind of intentional surveillance or even malware-like activity.
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There's no doubt it complicates the change of employer process. That person would have a 60-day grace period after the end of his or her employment during which he or she would be considered in valid H-1B status. The challenge is this: although an H-1B worker can change jobs based on the filing of a new H-1B petition alone, most workers and most companies don't want to make a change unless and until the petition is approved and right now, without premium processing, we just have no idea how long this will take. Note however that once premium processing is brought back, a pending petition can be "upgraded" to premium.
>Well, now you are attacking my humanity.

I do.

>But you are going to need to pay for the evidence, lyme people, because we feel like we did our due diligence with the first study, and don't need a repeat of the public health resources that were wasted searching for the autism-vaccine link over and over again.

Because this, especially 'lyme people', and other elements of your post show your disdain towards Lyme patients.
Can you imagine someone in the 80's saying those 'AIDS people' should fund their own research? This kind of behavior towards patients who are suffering severely is exactly why so many fall in the arms of charlatans and quacks.
Elixir?
José Valim, announcing the just-released Elixir v1.9:

… releases was the last planned feature for Elixir. We don’t have any major user-facing feature in the works nor planned. I know for certain some will consider this fact the most excing part of this announcement!

[1] https://changelog.com/news/the-elixir-language-is-now-featur...
The needy rarely have many choices. In this case, go hungry or get sick or both.
I never claimed that "subtle energy" is the same kind of energy that is well-defined by the science of physics.

I use that term because it behaves a lot like physical energy. It has intensity. The more of it there is, the more things become active. It keeps being used as a term because for those who experience it, the concept of energy describes it very well.

But one of the characteristic it has that is not described by physics is that it carries information: emotions, concepts, awareness, sentience.

For example, there are two forms of subtle energy that can be described as "electric" and "magnetic". It is similar enough that people use those terms for it. The Theosophists of the early 20th century popularized that notion ... but the actual experience of the "electric" energy is more like living, liquid, luminous lightning (electric). It is not electricity.
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
I'm also thinking that it would be easier to use git-hooks to push to AWS CodeCommit (in a random region that GitHub is unlikely to use) paired with CloudWatch events to invoke service backup to Keybase
I've heard this before .. in his books so the senior officers get luxurious quarters as they did in the TV series? That seems to be a contrast with basic egalitarianism?
Shameless plug: You might be interested in TiDB (https://github.com/pingcap/tidb), an open-source distributed HTAP database.

- For OLTP workload and some ad-hoc queries, you can use TiDB + TiKV. One of our adopters has a production cluster with 300+ TB data and can easily cope with the spike caused by the brought by COVID-19.

- For more complex queries, TiSpark+ TiKV might work well; for heavier queries, we added a columnar store, TiFlash, see https://pingcap.com/blog/delivering-real-time-analytics-and-...
When I read measles has an R0 of 18 that just blew my mind.

That thing just spreads like wildfire.
That reminds me of a funny story. Back in the 90's before they all killed themselves, the Heaven's Gate UFO cult actually tried to recruit at my college by passing out flyers titled "Last Chance to Advance Beyond Human". Of course we all thought it was hilarious. Next week some guys threw a kegger and put up flyers to advertise: "One More Chance to Advance Beyond Human!"
The gap are people who are given food stamps and they use them to buy soda or to exchange them for other goods.
Given the large number of people losing their jobs in the US right now, do you think the US should be importing foreign labor?
The average SNAP recipient receives about $4 a day and sees their balance run out after just 17 days.

This is not enough.
the Masbia organization already has that covered
It would help if you could back up your claims with actual sources.
Money Horror
Learning from the crisis: empower civil society organisations
Testing daily is science fiction right now. My assumption is that they check the temperature and that's about it.
I've been told that more than once, but I don't think that avoids the "perfect colours" effect.

People in here seem not to understand that some of the colours not displaying perfectly or a colour "merging" into its neighbouring screen colour is a feature, not a bug. I do not want to see all the pixels and all the colours on the screen as they are, it's as simple as that.
Obesity in this country is closely linked to poverty. The foods that people in poverty have access to (because of cost but also because of food deserts) offer excessive calories but poorly balanced nutrition.

That means that people are obese but at the same time essentially starving to death from lack of nutrients. Which causes more food cravings that people are able to attempt to satiate only with more food with poor nutritive value.
I’m sorry you feel this way. The food bank I’ve volunteered with “in order to feel good at myself” literally just puts a bag of groceries in your trunk, or as much as you can carry.
It's entirely possible that he can still hear the distant practitioner, and that the practitioner's words are enough to trigger the effect.

If it even works without hearing the distant practitioner, then yes, go win that million dollars.
Our district has been doing pick-up but mainly at the larger middle schools and high schools. Starting next week they will also be running a bus route through neighborhoods where kids can get lunch delivered between 10 and noon.

I'm not sure how well it will work, but it at least shows an understanding that not all families can get to the handful of schools that are offering meals.
Even the third point is likely to discourage people from using masks. I find it difficult to believe that people with a mask, even if used poorly, see absolutely no benefit from the mask. The mask's presence on your face should already make you less likely to touch your face. Furthermore, the novel coronavirus is not the only thing to worry about. All of the other illnesses are still abound and will likely make you more susceptible to the novel coronavirus.
More so when we are in a time when people have the time to document things.
> "Common sense" and "intuition" is what let people look at the early stages of an exponential curve and say "this won't be a big deal".

No, they actually aren't. The "this won't be a big deal" response resulted from a combination of conditioning(things were relatively safe for a long period of time), learned helplessness, and the MSM telling everyone that "it's just the flu". There were even pundits laughing at "crazy people" wearing masks for "just the flu".

You're right, nobody said that(that I'm aware of). What they did say was that masks weren't effective for people not showing symptoms(unless if you are caring for a sick person), which is wrong on multiple levels. Even if you aren't showing symptoms, you could be shedding the virus, which was known months ago, hence a mask would be appropriate even for someone who isn't sick. There's also no evidence that the virus and the droplets that carry them are exempt from the ability of any kind of mask to filter things out of the air. If a mask is only 25% effective against the virus, that still means the person wearing a mask is less likely to get sick.

All it takes for the common person to make the rational choice is a cost-benefit analysis. If the greatest cost of putting on a mask is that the mask does nothing and they are out a few bucks, then it's better to buy some masks ASAP and wait for a good reason not to wear them rather than letting their trust in authority gaslight them into believing the sky isn't blue.
There aren't an infinite amount of non-Americans, and they're not all arriving tomorrow. You can figure out what expected growth is and account for it.
Opening [Firefox Telemetry] data to understand social distancing
I guess it could be analogous to watching say a circus (say Cirque du Soleil) presentation with a story and a presentation without a story -- one with just actors doing impressive stunts, the other with a narrative, clothings, a coherent aesthetic, but still centered on doing impressive stunts, movements, etc. The story-free might be interesting, some would feel there is something missing (I would), the stunts themselves not as remarkable as they could be.

There is always a story and an aesthetic -- if you chose to tell no story, you'll simply be clinging to the aesthetic of modern hospitals (with innocuous minimalist environments), hospital or casual clothing, etc. It just may not be sufficiently captivating, at least not for everyone.

At least it's worth research and experimentation instead of dismissal as "unscientific" or "woo woo".

To give other examples, imagine hospital clowns (hired for kids) without clown clothes or being identified as 'clowns', but rather 'entertainment therapists'. Possibly lame, just not the same.
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Micro Droplets Suspending in Air
Hi Peter, some US consulates around the world are currently shut down indefinitely. My appointment for an L1 visa interview had been cancelled today, as a matter of fact.

Do you have any estiamte when consulate should reopen? Do you see any chance consulates would conduct online interviews at any point, in countries where there are restrictions in place?
"food insecure" may be a relatively low bar: it looks like it includes "reports of reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet. Little or no indication of reduced food intake." https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
I've used a few multigas sensors that had O2 when mapping volcanic caves -- Draeger Multiwarn, MultiRAE, National... Safety (?), and CrowCon GasMan. The CrowCon was my favorite by far. Disclosure: they gave us equipment for free as sponsorship for our expedition, but it was also honestly just way better than the Draeger or RAE. Great datalogger built-in with good serial interface, small, waterproof enough for our uses (the others said IP68 and still died of water damage). I suspect all CrowCon products are quite good and cheaper than the competition.
I agree with everything you wrote. The salient point for me is that it’s no longer a question of the technical merit, it’s just a political judgement against Zoom being Good or Evil.

It’s easy for technologists to forget that video-conferencing was terribly, horribly broken not because of some terribly difficult technological challenge, but because the average user simply couldn’t get it to work.

Security always involves either bootstrapping of an existing trust, or some level of ease-of-use trade off.

For example, the calculus for “I need this meeting to start on time” and “My meeting password needs more entropy against brute force attacks” necessarily comes down on the side of starting the meeting in most threat environments.

But in the end I just don’t see Zoom as the evil empire, and I’m deeply suspicious of articles which try to convince me otherwise. I’m not sure where your perception of “growth at all costs” comes from.

From what I can tell, they make one of the best conferencing products on the market in terms of quality and usability. I think the privacy and security issues are significantly overblown.

For example, why refuse to install their client software? It seems highly unobtrusive, it’s not malware, nor spyware, nor adware... it doesn’t ever nag me or get in the way, or randomly start sapping CPU or give annoying update prompts. It’s quick and simple to install and uninstall. Overall it seems nicely written.

I see the “dirty tricks” they had to pull to make their install simpler overall as reasonable hacks aimed at improving their end user experience and increasing the percentage of users who are successfully able to get into a meeting.

Again, I think we tend to underestimate how hard using computers can be for so many people. Making video conferencing accessible to quarantined populations is pretty crucial right now.

Zoom doesn’t have a monopoly position to leverage like some do to pre-install their product on billions of devices. So they need every little bit they can find to make on boarding fast and easy.

They screwed up on their marketing of end-to-end encryption and should be fined by the FCC for that. I never saw that marketing claim, but nor would I stop using their product knowing that it’s not decentralized.
If you're firing 1000 employees and 1 "defecting" (war time vocabulary you're using there, referring to treason, by the way...) and your business is in trouble, then your foundation is very shaky.

Plus if I were your competitor I could probably head hunt 5-10 of your key lay offs and probably have them recreate your IP just based on their collective memory, anyway.

This paranoia should stop. It's covered by NDAs and such, anyway.
Gloves when shopping would be even better.
I'm a Canadian applying for a green card under EB-3. My priority date of January 2020 was current, but in March it retrogressed to January 2017. How likely do you think it is I will become current again in October?
I'm honestly curious about what happens if someone is supposed to leave the US in the next month or so? (For example, if someone's visa is expiring.)

What is someone is in quarantine? What if someone has genuine travel challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
To get good documentation, you can either take a documentation expert (they exist and they're worth their weight in gold) and teach them the relevant part of the code base, or take the code author and teach them to write good docs. In my opinion, the second approach is best because the code author has the nuanced familiarity necessary to provide high-level context to an end-user.

This switch by Rust seems in line with that thinking. The Rust community, through no accidents, has incredible standards when it comes to documentation. Now that the feature teams have learned to write docs that live up to that standard (a skill as valuable as writing tests IMO) it makes sense for them to do so.
If you disagree with the parent, you could courteously exert the small effort to explain why directly and briefly.
no one making vegetarian food is going to use utensils that have touched meat.

So I dont see how vegetarian food could not be kosher. Am i missing something?
So, to be clear, USCIS service centers are still open and processing applications and petitions, only the local offices have shut down. USCIS's announcement says April 7th unless changed but almost certainly this will be changed and will in the end depend on the facts on the ground but I think it could easily not be until May or even June before they reopen.
That doesn't mean it doesn't work. Placebo and meditation do work. I suspect Reiki works in exactly the same way.
The issue is "common sense and intuition" is what gets us anti-vaxxers, climate change denial, etc. As the saying goes, common sense isn't common.

I'd like to see steps taken to increase the independence of organizations like the CDC from the political world.
Or food riots.
If they were in the first place, that is!
The sad reality is that the supply chain is all messed up and there’s weird expectations still with food banks. For example, I can’t take my 50 lb bag of rice and divide it up into 5 lb bags because of food safety issues and regulations. So rather than getting a huge shipment of some grain and doing that, they’re stuck scrounging for the small stuff.

They’re also still tossing expired foods even though Best By dates are largely irrelevant.
True. By "distant" I got the impression that the practitioner is in another building or even another city, but that might not be the case.
Wikipedia has a great visualization of this for those who are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...
What sensible options there are to immigrate or be able to work 5+ years?

I know of green card (lottery and marriage), L1-visa, H1B-visa, and OPT, are there any other sensible options?
In every group, there's going to be a small percentage of people who are selfish (look at the TP situation). So, how do you keep those people from running out grabbing the supplies each time you drop? You can't possibly drop all the supplies at one time from a drone.

This is a bad time to try drone drops.
This is great, but a sobering idea of how bad things really are. This sounds like Great-Depression-like conditions and feels like a "Don't look behind the curtains" moment as to how bad our economy really is for many, if not the majority, of people.
Surprised they didn't mention Apache OpenMeetings. Or any
other self-hosted alternatives. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

I know this isn't video conferencing, but I will always have a special place in my heart for Ventrillo. It's been around forever, takes practically no resources to run a server or a client, and it's just really simple to setup and live with. The original program is closed-source, but there are open source clients and servers (like Mumble) available for every platform.
Well, to be more accurate: they are saying that proteins get created in response to physical force. These don't necessarily "reprogram the brain." It's just that punching your brother in the arm will result in a localized response long before the chemical response arrives from other organs in response to the brain's signals of pain.
Right. Food insecurity need not be a problem for anyone in the 21st Century. It should be like running out of oxygen: nearly impossible because it's essentially free and widely available.
As far as I understand, food prepared by a non-Jew isn't kosher even if the ingredients are. This is not the case for halal food, which may be prepared by non-Muslims.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this! What are the implications of working remotely and outside of the US with a H1B1 (similar to H1B)?
Interestingly, kosher food is usually considered acceptable under Halal but not vice-versa; so if they made kosher meals they'd be covering both.
That's really tough to say because that date depends on actual filings as well as projections but my personal feeling is that that number will move pretty rapidly in the coming months although I don't think it will be current in October.
Cool idea!

I think permaculture encourages us to think in terms of large scale systems like ecosystems and societies and in terms of small systems, like individuals and families, and consider the consequences of our actions in terms of whether they weaken those systems or whether they strengthen them. As a simple example: we all have to eat. But if I grow food (or eat food that was grown) using methods that deplete the soil of nutrients that action weakens the overall system. Permaculture principles would teach me that I should grow my food using methods that improve the soil it is grown in.

Attempting to translate this into software engineering, suggests to me we should design systems and code with an eye towards the future. Our programs should be readable, maintainable and robust to unexpected input. They should make careful use of resources. They should be secure. We should realize the things we build are not going to exist in a vacuum but within an overall system (of the internet and society at large) and it is our goal to strengthen rather than to exploit that system.

I'm just brainstorming here. Would love to hear more considered opinions and thoughts if anyone has them to share.
That's a great way to see the wealthiest people flee your country in droves.
>"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." - Nikola Tesla

Material reductionism has really done a number on Western civilization. The notion that existence is limited to what can be measured, and all claims to the contrary get painted with the brush of pseudoscience, to me, embodies the hubris that is holding science back. Not to diminish the achievements of science and academia – they just have one eye covered.

See the work of Dean Radin for a series of studies on nonmaterial phenomena, that I hope are the start of a wave of discovery.
As long as not taken from shop to shop.