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>don't realize how much $6T is

This would be more relevant is we tallied how much actual credit "money" is getting into the hands of average people. Divide 6 trillion per every person and if that was the extent of the calculation and legislation, we'd be better off. But it's not, the same financial beneficiaries in good times are the ones getting the bailout money in bad times.

>being injected into the economy

Except the crux of the problem is this money, arguably, doesn't "get into the economy", certainly not in any uniform sense.

Big chunks go to bail out large corporate stockholders, bonds, financial assets. Some are funneled through the banks via loans that are hard to come by for some. What is sorta kinda direct payments to people amount to 1 time events, and too small at that. And given no commerce & fixed obligations for many small businesses, what good does debt & "loans" do for them?

The biggest lie in all of this is that the money is actually getting to people that need it. It's not, yet.. and calling it helicopter money doesn't change the fact that many aren't anywhere near the helicopters to get it.
So in the example of the linked list, how do you add an element to the middle? I actually don't think you can make this work in a conventional sense - you'd copy the whole list and lose all linked-list advantages. Instead, my impression functional programming uses list objects that appear to copy the whole list, are efficient but actually use shared memory and are mutable "behind the scenes". And sure that works but it results in one's code being a few more levels of abstraction away from what's happening with the processor.
> lead to a lot of FOMO and constant checking

An alternative view - you just let go those conversations - saves time :)

Btw, can you please say a couple of words about the tech? (this is HN after all) - I see it is Clojure (not ClojureScript) - so how do you use it for the front-end?
I'm certainly no expert in CV, but having worked in government/law enforcement tech previously (pre-Snowden days) I have full confidence that if people started actually using CV Dazzle to evade detection, they would work on breaking through it. Generally speaking those systems only receive features that are actually problems the users are facing. Once they identify the problem they can throw nearly unlimited amounts of money at it, and they will win.

This is why I'm focusing my efforts on political solutions to protect our privacy, rather than technical solutions. That's not to say I don't think technical solutions are important, because they absolutely are, but even things like encryption could be made illegal politically if they want to. Thus politics is the most important arena for privacy advocates IMHO.
We learned so little after 9/11, we still live with TSA security-theater nightmare to this day (ironically now spreading covid19 with their groping and concentrating crowds into small spaces)

So now this nightmare is going to give historical tracking data to government entities without warrants forever.

And Barr is going to get encryption backdoors with his theater.

How about just making a test that costs a few cents in million quantities that you can take at home. It won't be the last time we need that tech for a virus.
I question the tacit assumption that all "enemy" aircraft types they might wish to simulate will have worse performance than an F-18.
There are many examples of sketchy investment behavior in the Federal government. I remember this one, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi and Visa. I thought I remembered her offloading $MMs of FB call options too just prior to railing against them, but I can't find an article on that one now that I'm looking. Link on Visa: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pelosi-corzine...
For herd immunity, the number discussed is 80% of the population getting Covid-19. Since there are cases world-wide, I don't see containment at this point working.

To even consider containment succeeding, we would need a way to test 300 million people a couple times a week. Since we can't do even 1 million tests a day, the math doesn't add up.

"Giving up" is a strange way to look at it. We have various flus annually. There will be a time limit to lockdown of several weeks, not 18 months.

So it's important to look at the data and make an informed public healthcare policy decision.
Because they clog up slots that could be used by someone ambitious. If you've got 500 Major slots, but 400 of them are occupied by people who don't want to get promoted, then you only have 100 Majors who can get promoted. So they either have to spend less time in the job than you really want, because you need a certain number of Majors to get promoted to Lt Col each year... or you don't get enough Lt Col promotions, so you don't promote to Colonel as fast as you should. Repeat for every other rank.

That said, of late in the USAF, the promotion rate for every rank below Lt Col has been 95%+. And I think Lt Col has been fairly high as well. The issue isn't kicking them out once they reach a rank, but rather them deciding to get out before then.
Yes. The point was (I think) that Apple respects user privacy, having a very different business model from the data-slurping advertisement firm that ships the other OS. As such, having Apple’s participation can be seen as guaranteeing some decent privacy standards (as seems borne out by the spec).
> The most common action performed with the URL bar is to search for something or to navigate.

No. The only thing the URL bar (Ctrl-L) is used for is to navigate to explicitly typed URLs or URLs in your browser-history.

The search bar (Ctrl-K) is used for searching.

Having 2 distinct bars and keyboard shortcuts for 2 distinct actions makes all this mess they are trying to “solve” with this mega-bar go away.

I don't want any of that. I don't need it. I will disable it and userChrome.css all and everything I can of it away.

God damn it.
It does matter. We can easily repair retirement programs without enriching the rentier class.

If we don’t allow the funds and enterprises to go bankrupt we are damaging capitalism and just running socialism for the rich. We have to allow these enterprises to fail and have their equity be wiped out to have a functioning capitalist economy.

Again, fixing the lower 80% of America’s retirement programs directly, without bailing out enterprises they hold capital in, would be far cheaper than giving trillions to millionaires.
I like native apps on my machine. I have enough tabs open in chrome as it is. And when I want side-by-side views of a Slack tab and some other webpage, those tabs turn into mutliple chrome windows. Then I'm alt-tabbing between Chrome - Chrome - Chrome - Mail - IDEA - Chrome - Terminal. Why is it so bad to install an app? This has been the default since computers became a thing, so what's the argument for sticking everything into your browser?
TBH there's different threat models there. A crypto fs makes sense if you're worried about a box getting stolen, while spectre/etc aren't a concern if you're running regular userland stuff on a single-user box.
Moxie's analysis: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1248707315626201088
1. It's old people AND people with comorbidities, which is a ton of people.

2. Lots of old people, which for Covid is about 65, still work full time jobs. Some of them fly every week. These aren't 95+ year olds.

3. I'm sure people of all ages think their life is very valuable, and very few people consider themselves candidates for sacrifice. Certainly not for privacy concerns.

4. 10x deadlier than the flu.
his spelling error was "would've" and "may've"
> So if you want both "commit very often"

I honestly think that commit very often is overrated. It really ought to be save and back up your files very often.

When I implement something, I don't bother making commits until I have completed the features. I then take the diff against the code and then selectively stage parts of the diff and make commits out of them.

If someone else wants to see what was done so far, I just send them the diff as it is.
It's somewhat like the phrase "it beggars belief" - it means that 'belief' is left in a very poor condition, begging alms ...
What exactly do you mean by "a strong work ethic"?

I ask because I thought opening up this post that I was going to start with an easy answer, but the more I thought about it, the less I was sure what "work ethic" even meant.

So, I looked it up:

"The principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward."

So, I came to this post/question absolutely certain that "a strong work ethic" was absolutely something I agreed with and would look for in myself and colleagues. Now, I am not so sure.

Is "hard work intrinsically virtuous"? Is working harder rather than smarter more worthy of reward? There are plenty of jobs where real unpleasant, hard work is required yet is often of little value. The architect will get more reward than the foreman who will in turn get more reward than the person spaying gunite. Life seems full of counter examples to "hard work is intrinsically virtuous".

Even when comparing people in the same job...

Would I rather work with a partner who was "lazy" and produced 10 widgets because they knew how to best use their tools, or would I rather work with someone industrious who produced 10 widgets through sheer force of will? I think the first one rather than the second.

Ultimately (to try to actually answer your question). If I did not know a candidate or their actual "work ethic", I would ask them to tell me about a time/job/project/assignment that was a (potential) failure and what they did during and after the project as it was ending. What did they personally do to mitigate the failure and after the project had ended what did they personally take away from the post mortem.
Sharing is up to the owner not the receiver. You are concerned about learning about other culutures, that is what I mean by a disconnect, if they had the ability the countries of origin would inavde (war, killing,etc..) Over those artifacts. This would be unthinkable in a western context. Look at syria,do you think they would prefer if the US or UK permanetly took their artefacts to preserve them instead of letting ISIS destroy them?

Imagine someone taking libery statue and the whitehouse by force to keep them safe and learn about american culture. You're speaking this way because you are confident those countries won't invade your country and kill your people over it
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I agree. The up front regulatory & capital requirements might be similar to starting a bank.

Perhaps the traditional banking lending product that matches this idea is "unsecured personal loan". Traditional bank would need functions to assess credit risk of loan applications, handle disputes, chase up loans in default, offer assistance to borrowers in financial hardship. Also need a way to obtain capital to lend.

Not obvious to me why a business that is not already a bank would want to take on some/all of these functions to offer loans to employees.

Also, there is increased potential to create messy situations by combining employer:employee relationship with lender:borrower. E.g. current economic environment where companies have massive drops in revenue and need to lay off staff. If employer lays off staff who have borrowed money from employer, quite unlikely that loan will be paid back. Perhaps situation is structurally more risky (due to correlated risks that impact employer and employee) than if a third party (e.g. a bank) was lender. Similarly if employee has borrowed from employer but is fired.
48MB per day just isn't that much these days.
My question still stands. How do you evaluate someone's half-finished work? Do you prefer if I finish more features or my already finished code is better quality or better tested?

It's just an unnecessary source of stress during the test.
Unless your cobalt mine in the Congo is generating billions in revenue, fending them off with modern combat aircraft is probably going to be a net loss. It's not uncommon to have maintenance costs of $10,000 or more per flight hour (the F-35 is apparently $20,000). A fleet of 46 aircraft flying, say, 8 hours per day is going to cost $110,400,000 per month at a $10,000 flight hour cost.
thanks @dang would never discover it "comments > 0"
I don’t think I made an opinion either way. :)

I think it’s highly problematic. It stifles pure research from the companies that have the most capital and talent to do it.
Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?
2.7 Billion Microsoft Teams Meeting Minutes on One Day
Stock buybacks are blatant market manipulation. There is not even the pretense of anything else. The CEOs are making themselves richer at the expense of the company and its customers. Companies that have engaged in such activity deserve to go bankrupt. Anything else, like the current bailout, is just feeding criminals more money so they can continue pillaging. Regular people will pay for American oligarchs to get rich while many are unemployed and about to become homeless. Same story as in 2008: fuck the poor (80-90% of America) for the benefit of the < 1% super rich who already fucked the poor at every turn they got and now need a bailout because they are too greedy and therefore irresponsible to run their businesses properly.

> "The Commission has recognized that issuer repurchase programs are seldom undertaken with improper intent… any rule in this area must not be overly intrusive."

Ah, so the creators of this rule knew it would be abused, were ok with it, and let it happen. The alternative explanation is that they were so stupid they knew nothing about human nature and actually believed the bullshit they wrote: impossible.
Histre: Effortless Knowledge Base
Tracking Companies Circumvent Ad Blockers Using WebSockets [pdf]
In Asimov's Foundation series you see similar references to housewives having "nuclear knives" for slicing meat like in a deli, as well as washing machines I think
>How can anyone cope?

by cutting unecessary information out. Instead of reading the news everyday subscribe to some high quality weekly newspaper like the economist, deinstall all the social media apps or reduce your usage to an amount of time that is more reasonable, and replace that activity with stuff that's healthy like working out, getting some sun, whatever.

There's no real mystery here, just remove the things that stress you out and replace them with habbits that are conducive to your well-being.
People die every year from flu in the tens of thousands, or car accidents, or myriad other causes.

Rather than an emotional response, we need healthcare policy experts to look at the data as of today.

What has changed in the past month is that we know ventilators don't work 66% - 90% of the time, so they should be taken out of the "flattening the curve" equation.

Please see my post with several links to learn more.
I'm afraid this tool is very easy to circumvent. It only checks the first argument to a syscall for containing a forbidden path.

But for example openAt gets it's path as the second argument.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat.2.html

This tool is a nice demo for how to use ptrace in golang. BUT PLEASE CHECK THE CODE BEFORE USING THIS FOR ANYTHING SECURITY RELATED
I came across this on HN in a comment and thought it was interesting, so I wanted to re-share it.
Why not? As a civ you can buy even a decommed tank if you got the money and stomach for beurocracy.

The trick is buying ammunition for them and also undoing some decomm work that requires expertise and equipment.
Well, that's a legit point. And I won't pursue this topic much longer (tiring to talk meta about threads).

But equally, if someone is sensitive about being asked what's it good for, then maybe don't seek worldwide attention for it on the front page and get offended when the world asks you such questions.
So in order to post a youtube video you would need to take a camera operator course, study the history of movies and pass several advanced english courses?

The term professional programmer means the programmer is getting paid that's all. You want to put a barrier up? Are you worried about lives being lost? Professional programmers don't decide what to program that comes from the project owner. They translate human requirements to computers.

The people who decide what programmers write are defined by rules governing their project. If it's a health project laws around privacy restrict what the project owner can do.
Very promising early results. The caveats for non scientists to be aware of is that these are not randomized trials with a placebo and all - this is just through a mechanism called "compassionate use" that allows Gilead to give people the drug. Also, 68% of patients improved, the title implies that patients say a 68% improvement in their symptoms which is not the case, the 68% is the number of patients improved divided by total number of patients. To get a good picture of how much the drug improves outcomes compared to not having the drug administered, we need large placebo controlled randomized trials so we can get the statistical signal to see if it works and how well it works. As the paper states, those trials are underway.
Down for this also. If you have a way to sign up for testers etc I'd be up. (Down, up, what is language? :) )
Forecasting with (Un)Certainty
I doubt it's that involved of a decision process when it's much more simply explained in terms of liability. I'd think it's a no-brainer to end the possibility of telling someone that their kid died being used as practice bait, and that this almost certainly ;) has value to the military.
The first transatlantic flight (Alcock and Brown) went from an island to an island. Lindbergh's famous New York to Paris flight left not from New York City (which is mostly on islands) but from Long Island.
I’m curious if you would tell someone who was really struggling if they should “expand their view” and consider those who are not affected at all.
Ask HN: Reasearch Recommendations for Understanding OS
I would really like to learn more about how Operating Systems work at a low level. Does anybody have good recommendations for good resources to start with, maybe a good book, article or youtube series/video. I am more inclined towards unix-like os, but I'm open to anything that would be helpful. Thank you!
It's written about extensively in this chapter: "Human Factors of Nuclear-Powered Aircraft." [1]

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001555146&vi...
Same comment I posted on the other thread relevant here:

Very promising early results. The caveats for non scientists to be aware of is that these are not randomized trials with a placebo and all - this is just through a mechanism called "compassionate use" that allows Gilead to give people the drug. Also, 68% of patients improved, the title implies that patients say a 68% improvement in their symptoms which is not the case, the 68% is the number of patients improved divided by total number of patients. To get a good picture of how much the drug improves outcomes compared to not having the drug administered, we need large placebo controlled randomized trials so we can get the statistical signal to see if it works and how well it works. As the paper states, those trials are underway.
Also no munitions. Unless you are worried about info leaks to China (who else is sophisticated enough to take advantage of it?) I’m not seeing your concern.
24 hours isn't optimal, but it gets the job done.
Finally I have an excuse to wear my ugly Christmas sweaters all year long
Unigine engine Community version with C#/C++ support is released
I don't want to be condescending, but did you ever stop to think that the serum tests were not available then?
The problem is with CEO compensation incentives, not buybacks. Buybacks do not increase a company's market cap, just ownership per share.

If a company compensated management based on future market cap and did not compensate with a fixed number of shares, then this would not be an issue.
Ok, I'm just pointing out that this does not bail out airlines at all. It helps on the margin but airlines are very idiosyncratic right now and likely are going to require much different and flexible funding needs than what these facilities are designed for. Congress will (and already is) be bailing out the airlines; not the Fed.

Several IG airlines could have issued over the past few weeks but haven't for a reason. We have had a flood of IG new issuance and not a single airline or adjacent industry. CCL which basically has the same problems as airlines right now (gov basically making business illegal) was able to raise quite a bit of money. Difference is, they know that they aren't going to get bailed out.

And as of today my initial comment is out of date since DAL got downgraded.
Part of the reason why private equity loves bankruptcy is because they're so successful at divesting all the risk and costs of acquiring toxic assets. Change these dynamics by making the employees whole first.
The justification that the most common task when clicking the address bar is typing a new one. Now it's just one click -> type new url. I love it, there was a about tweak you could do to get this before that I had to do over and over on every new new FF install. They made the right choice making this a default.

As for editing a url: just double click the part you want to change, then type to change it.
the first time you have to go through a metal detector / entry search - this will be thrown away due to looking like brass knuckles.
Ask the other way around: Why would this be lawful?

If you sell something you give up any rights on the item sold. You can not any longer demand what the object should be used for, nor by whom it should be used.
Yes. This has an identifier (RPI) that changes every 10 minutes (in a way that can’t feasibly be tied back together, unless you declare yourself infected and upload your diagnosis key), and it does not share or upload any location data whatsoever.

All it does is store the RPIs it sees, downloads diagnosis keys, and checks whether any of the RPIs it has stored “belongs” to one of the diagnosis keys it has downloaded.
Hum.. I'm not sure there's that much hype. It's just saying that Clojure can also be used as a high level layer for fast linear algebra. I do see some claims that as a high level layer, Clojure works even better, it gives you a full REPL, and the power of macros and all that.

It also goes to show you that there's barely any overhead added by the Clojure layer, which is something you want from a higher level layer.

Maybe you need some additional context, but in the Clojure world, there are many offerings for that layering, core.matrix, neanderthal, NumPy, CuPy and others can all be used. So I guess a lot of what draganj is trying to show is he believes neanderthal is the layer with the least overhead, which everyone can agree to disagree on.

You're never going to beat an assembly level implementation, or 50 year's worth of optimization done to a Fortran implementation, or straight openCL/cuda implementation in a higher level language, especially not in Clojure. So in the market of high level languages like Julia, Clojure, Python, R, Swift, etc. and their corresponding libraries, they all are just competing on being more user friendly, having better more useful/flexible abstractions, a better development flow, and the least amount of overhead. So that's what you'll be hearing them all fight over.
This. What's a strong work ethic and why is it important to you? What makes you think the vast majority of people's work ethics are insufficient for your purposes such that you have to specifically look for people with stronger ones?

Have you had a problem with hiring people who slack off and get nothing done? Are you asking how you find people who will work 80 hour weeks for months on end without overtime and without quitting on you?