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I'll have to disagree with you on it being cleanly designed. Mozilla would have to do a lot to fuck ne over before I switches off of FF, simply because Chrome looks like a Fisher Price toy. That's a deeply subjective complaint, though.
>> then forcibly lock people into their homes

> Turns out, that's the right thing to do. Now almost everyone is doing it to some extent.

When I say "forcibly locking people in" I mean welding the doors shut[0]. Last I checked that's not something the rest of us are doing.

> Also: after China stopped pretending there's no problem and locked down Wuhan, it immediately coordinated the rest of the country to support the virus control efforts in Hubei.

Which if they hadn't pretended in the first place, would not have been necessary. So why did they pretend, and why did they stop?

My guess is that the deceit was somehow connected to protecting the Chinese government's legitimacy, and that only once news of the outbreak spread and deceit was untenable did they own up to it.

A world government has every incentive to suppress any information that may challenge it's legitimacy, and no external entities capable of publicizing the truth.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/01/coronav...
By that you mean it's merged into NSAWC? Because there's still a TOPGUN course.
We do have all the information needed to do static checking at compile time in Julia instead of runtime, we just choose not to.
You typically can't get insurance on race cars either, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone.
It's truly wild that he was taking cross-country road trips
Oligarchy means government by the few: https://www.etymonline.com/word/oligarchy (although today we tend to use it as a synonym for plutocracy, which is government by the rich). So the opposite of oligarchy would be democracy.

Aristocracy means government by the best: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=aristocracy, so kakistocracy would be its strict opposite. In fact, it was probably coined for that reason, since the people who invented it would have known that "aristos" means "best" in Greek. (Edit: the Wikipedia page says that.)

"Best" in aristocracy doesn't mean what we nowadays mean by that word, which is "most qualified". That would be meritocracy. That's strictly a modern notion, in fact a postwar one, and it has not aged well: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Actually it was a satirical creation to begin with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy, and the British academic who invented the word would have been aware that he was sticking a Latin and a Greek root together, making the satire funnier, since in classical terms only an ignoramus would do that. See https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/the-monstrous-ind... or, if you prefer, https://www.google.com/search?q=%22polyamory+is+wrong%22&sou....

The pre-modern sense of "best" in "aristocracy" has to do with being of the best class or, if you like, having the best breeding. It has nothing to do with individual quality, except insofar as praiseworthy qualities like "nobility" were traditionally associated with the nobility (making the point rather hard to miss).

There have been a couple of HN threads about Michael Young, the coiner of 'meritocracy'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16338360

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18179583

From the Economist (see the first of those links):

Young used the term pejoratively on the grounds that meritocracy was dividing society into two polarised groups: exam-passers, who would become intolerably smug because they knew that they were the authors of their success, and exam-flunkers, who would become dangerously embittered because they had nobody to blame for their failure but themselves.

Sounds just like 2020, no? If you generalize "exams" to "education", things exactly like that are being written today. Relatedly, the 1970s coinage "professional managerial class" is currently undergoing a revival (if there were a language market, I'd go long on that one).

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/on-the-origi...
Data analysis notebooks are annoying to read because you're forced to choose between:

a) ugly, unlabelled plots

b) including tons of uninteresting code that labels the axes (etc)

c) putting the plotting code into a separate module.

There are some extensions that do help with this, but extensions also kinda defeat the whole purpose of a notebook.
I remember seeing an article about how ICP “juggalo” makeup fools some facial recognition software, I wonder if that has been solved yet?
Oligarchy translates literally as "rule by the few" [1], and aristocracy as "rule by the excellent" [2]. Kakistocracy is "rule by the worst" per the featured article. So kakistocracy and aristocracy are opposites, and oligarchy describes something different: the number, not quality, of rulers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
> Old infections aren't interesting for this

Yes, healed patients who don't produce viruses any more aren't important, but anyone still infectious is still a danger. Even if you are supposed, often even legally required, to stay at home while being infected, there is no guarantee you aren't. I'd bet that most of these people also take their phones with them, after all far more serious criminals like actual murderers are often taking their phones to sites of crimes as well. The IDs of those devices are still relevant. Quarantine after diagnosis may last up to 14 days, so your phone should be uploading IDs for 14 days to the diagnosis server.

Given continuation of exponential spread, we aren't far from having 3 million new patients within a span of two weeks in populous countries like the US.
> It means that contacts with infected persons can't be linked across days, and it means that I can't build an app that alerts me that someone who was previously infected just walked by.

Edit: This actually turns out to be correct, but your conclusion:

> It means that contacts with infected persons can't be linked across days, and it means that I can't build an app that alerts me that someone who was previously infected just walked by.

Is not possible, because every time secrets are made public, the secret key is reset.

[1] https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20White%...
Do you think IBM cloud will get more competitive price and feature wise? AWS (and Google and Azure, etc) are overpriced in many ways (dgress charges anyone?). I would love to see IBM cloud be price competitive. If it also then featured first class Red Hat products that could be compelling even to startup and hobbyists. I'd happily pay the same cost I pay now for a VM to get the equivalent CPU/mem/disk in an OpenShift cluster.
Geez. I wish they would ask for permission to do this. They'll just get every day "Default Browser: generally not Firefox." What they are doing here is one method to keep it that way.
Except a random person might not know what these names refer to.
Thank you for this. It may take me a little longer to digest.
Firefox is running on the remote, connected to a different X11 session. It is not running on the local. When I use `firefox --new-session --no-remote` on the remote, I see a dialog pop up on my local machine stating Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
Uh that sounds bad. But it wasn't at all what I meant — with actors in a casting you do let them play — but when they are done you either give them a hint and repeat it or you move on to a new thing and tell them what they should focus on.

What you should not do is constantly interrupt while they are doing their thing. Of course you watch them. Beeing watched is part of their job — it isn't for a programmer or someone in tech.

However it can also be hard for actors to feel watched. Contrary to popular expectation they are often not extroverts — this is why it is key to develope some sense of trust beforehand, e.g. I tell them that I will guide them and do all I can to get the best result from them. So I usually make it about solving the problem and not about them.
Did you try on a non-standard port too?
Zhaoxin KX-U6780A x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips
The receivers can be made to report their GPS data back for tracking purposes.
Show HN: PagerNation – A simple, free, and secure browser-based intercom
The general public doesn't have great trading strategies, but Senators may be more well informed. I wonder how a bot based off of their trades would do.
Any feedback is welcomed :)
Indeed, if I understand correct, the device locally stores a bunch of keys of people you've been in contact to, and there is no way of working backward from the keys to who it was, and these keys also change daily. Then when someone marks themselves as infected for days A through Z, their keys for those days is sent to devices, where the devices check locally if they have the given person-day keys stored.

Do I understand this correctly? It's almost all done locally, there's nothing about location, and almost nothing is send up until you mark yourself as infected, right?

EDIT: This is the best high level explained I've found: https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contac...
> I actually told myself I would need to be extra careful from now on crossing the road. The noise cancellation was so good, I thought I might be hit by a car.

Sounds like the author hasn’t ever used any other good ANC cans? Both the Bose and Sony pose the same hazard.
Anybody who knows more Greek: is this word in any way related to a Greek word for excrement?
I dont see any mention of it in the current context of bluetooth device proximity tracing. It is possible, however, that apps that will build up on this API will also fetch location history separately from already established mechanisms on each OS.

As a matter of fact I see this as a very likely scenario as this is precisely what South Korea has already done.[1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-cA4UK07c
The nature of swift itself, similar to C++, makes it create bigger binaries compared to equivalent Objective-C code. So even with no runtime included, they will still be bigger on average.
Also, efficiency depends on how many persons can be tested. If it's 10000 a day, in my country, it's about 1/500 th of the population a day... If it's enough to test say 1/10 of the population to have some results, this will take 1-2 months...

I have the impression that all of this is forced upon us as to make us believe that it is safe to get back to work ASAP. Wouldn't it be better to just wait ? (I'm not interested in the economical debate : this will invariably lead to compromises such as how many victims can we afford to keep the economy going ? (nobody will tell it that way, but in the end that's the truth behind those arguments))
I think this would be a good solution for essential workers to track their personal health while social distancing is in effect.

I can foresee a large second wave due to this falling short if we relax social distancing measures. There have been cases where people test positive then test negative and then positive again. It would require redundant testing per individual on a schedule.

There are a lot of people who will not be tested, there are a lot of people without smartphones. This virus has spread so far at this point we’d need to test every US citizen to know the blast radius.

I understand people are hopeful and want things to return to ‘normal’ but I can’t imagine it without a vaccine in the US.
> Take away Roddenberry's vision of a better future and you've got Babylon 5, eh?

There's a hell of a take! Whatever Roddenberry's virtues, I don't recall him ever having the gumption to write a story in which the heroes go to war against the gods because the gods aren't doing it right.

(It's a very Klingon thing to do, though, unless Worf was joking about that.)
As an embedded reverse engineer, I recently made the jump to Ghidra and haven't had any issues yet. I've been reverse engineering Infineon Tricore firmware and it's been great, though I will admit their support for it only came out recently.
Now that's a sophisticated name for the way my country is governed.
You get downvoted despite saying a tacitly true and very valid dichotomy.
He doesn't have crystal ball, how did he came up with this?
A manufacturing lesson during uncertain times
I suspect that the risk increases the longer you're in an enclosed space with someone shedding the virus. Thought experiment, if spending two hours in the church with people singing meant 50% got infected. Then spending 5 minutes assuming it's linear (and it likely isn't), is only a 2% chance.

Brings up the difference between public health risk and personal risk. Public health perspective you want contacts to be infrequent and importantly short.
Nazi artifact plundering and destruction was a huge loss for everyone. (Same with the firebombing of Dresden, for that matter.) Thankfully, the West also set up the MFAA post-war, and recovered a great deal of material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments,_Fine_Arts,_and_Arch...

The theft of a single painting is not the same as looters running rampant with destruction. Nowhere is 100% safe. That is the entire problem with long-term conservation! The best we can do is go for maximum political stability.

When I younger, I saw first-hand exactly how much mainland China lost during the Cultural Revolution. Destruction of anything old was the (literal) rule of the day. Again, it was a loss to the history of humanity.

What I want to avoid is events like this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-...

On a long enough time scale, they become exceedingly common. The one surity of things is that if something is valued by one group, someone else will want to destroy it. The best we can do is ensure that these artefacts are in the most stable locations possible. Over time the particulars will undoubtedly change. But the base answer is the same.
I felt the same way when I first played pong on a TV set in 1972 or 1973. It was shocking that it was interactive and I wasn't just a passive receiver.

I'm not a gamer but understand the technology well. It is funny I can look at these technically amazing FPS games and yawn, but pong was riveting just because of the context of the times.
That is true, however one of the main arguments for micro frontends is the freedom to use anything: one team can use React, the other Vue, one uses this table library, the other another. If you don't do that, micro frontends offer very little in benefit as far as I see. If you do do that, what you're left with is pretty much regular architecture, just in separate repos and harder to keep in sync.
Technically, a stock that never issues a dividend or buyback (direct or via aquisition) has no intrinsic value to the shareholder.

I'm not sure the alarmism here is justifiable. An argument that the boards of these companies are incompetent might be supported, if they go bankrupt as a result, but capital is still very cheap so it's hard to follow the logic.
Yeah those three nations are not that different from each other relative to the spread that exists between them and other nations.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-cases-traject...

If you look at who has the LEAST per million (absolute number of cases are worse than useless and what most statisitic sites are showing) it's not nations usually associated with good governance, ahem...

So what's going on.

It's traffic. Flights into a nation, and especially flights from China. The nations with the best per capita numbers are low-air-traffic nations, per capita, so Belize, South Africa, Thailand, Andorra places like that.

So mystery solved. The difference between the US and Germany, the best of the "developed" nations, is not that big at all. For a long time, weeks and weeks, it's been mid 700s for BOTH nations. I am not sure where the very latest data is getting we're at 100 per million now, but still they're comparable in the larger scheme of things.
Its a good thing Bernie dropped out of the race. This could never have happened with him still vying for the prize.
Gig economy apps being criticized or even sued is not evidence they are bad.

*I don't personally like them, but no doubt there are workers that like their jobs at doordash or uber--> not everyone doing those jobs is doing them out of desperation.
That is high, but that study assumes a serial interval of 6-9 days, which is on the far long end of estimates I’ve seen (~4 days).

That basically explains the difference...
I bought the more expensive version and I find it worth it. I do a fair amount of web design/dev consulting (as a side gig) and frequently use the component gallery to get my layouts designed before I write a line of code.
All those actions look unprofessional and chaotic, why not use cellphone data, surveillance needs to use their power, to track down cases and contacts. They doing that anyway, why not leverage that. Call it emergency whatever.
Would be interesting to create a senate-tracking "index" fund. Wonder how that performs against the market.
I was speaking to the question of whether governments would then demand access to the data. They could force Apple and the Telcos to turn over the data they are already collecting pre-corona. I was just saying that that risk isn't new.
Integration and Taking the Integral
This, precisely. Maybe we find better treatment (especially treatment that reduces the incidence of patients needing hospitalization or ventilators). Maybe we get testing technology widespread enough that we don't have to treat everyone like they're positive unless proven otherwise. Maybe we get antibody tests that allow us to figure out who isn't immunologically naive to the virus. Maybe we learn more about how it spreads. Maybe we learn more about why some people are asymptomatic.

Basically there are countless ways in which quality of life can be improved over time as we continue to maximize efforts to contain spread.
Agreed! But should we share based on choice or because it was stolen and we have no say over it?
“Normal” is a wild goose chase. Society is too fluid to call “normal” at any time. It’s just different.
News "every other day" seems to be a good approach these days.
Buybacks are tax-efficient dividends. They aren't exotic financial transfers.

If you'd prefer that corporations keep billions in rainy-day funds, invested in low-rate federal bonds instead of being reinvested, or paid out for others to reinvest, that's an opinion, but don't claim the criticism is "buybacks", you're complaining about the entire concept of cash return on investment.
What drivel. I love seeing the vilification of companies returning capital to shareholders, and the armchair economists claiming companies should have cash reserves to independently weather the most disruptive financial calamity in human history.

States needs the Federal government to buy their masks for them, but airlines legally barred from flying customers just shouldn’t have been “so greedy”.

Aren’t these narratives tiring to most people?
Contagion very rarely trace back to kindergarten and schools, kids have much higher chance of mild infections and it is possible low amounts of virus exposure are safer. Not enough evidence so leaders need to lead and experts collect data and analysis, what measures may not contribute enough to justify.
If historical data is available, an aggregated result of this could be compared to the S&P index. To see if their trades actually outperform and therefore if they a better traders than average, and if so, this might mean they have better info.
Is there an issue with leveraging high-interest loans for stock buybacks to show higher performance and potentially get bonuses as management? Yes.

Are stock buybacks back? No, it’s a just a form of dividend with a different tax treatment and anyone disputing this is insane.
I don’t know. I can only assume they took this into account. I don’t want to be condescending, but do you really think that you just thought of a rather trivial catch that a bunch of expert virologists didn’t think of?
I'm the dev of Gaius.jl. I'm not sure it will ever end up Julia's Base, but I think of it as a prototype implementation that might inspire (or possibly evolve into) a real implementation that could end up being bundled in the language eventually.

Julia really does have the tools to solve this problem natively, and they're maturing quite a bit more quickly than I ever would have guessed a year ago.

Last year if you had asked me I would have predicted the development of something like LoopVectorization.jl as appearing maybe by 2022 or something. Instead it's here now, albeit with a lot of work ahead to make it more robust.
I wish I could have as well. Unfortunately she died a couple of years before I joined the Navy. My rate (DS) was heavily influenced by the things she did.
you might also like The Challenger Sale and To Sell is Human
Yeah but the joy of a yacht probably has less to do with piloting it than the joy of piloting an F18.
That will just make all of the logical mistakes you make in your program return an an empty list.

We keep implementing languages this way because it solves our problems; not the problems of architectural astronauts.
Ah I'm not using Google anymore so I did not notice it, but the recent Slack update has the search box behaving kind of the same.

So there's a trend (fad?) here in design language, and I would be fine by it... if it wasn't clashing with every other part of the UI language, from Material cards to good old desktop windows. But this way, the extra Z value, size and color flash attention grab is just cognitively dissonant.

I place the new pointer support on iPad OS on the same trend, as the pointer moves, the target has varying physical changes and hints the user with a little poppiness on the Z axis (parallax as the pointing device is operated, extra box around), but it's 1. a hint, not shovelled in your face and 2. consistent with the surrounding design language.
To respond to your argument - it may not matter that the others exist, but allegations that the books have been cooked are unfounded. The books are there, plain as day, and there are no shenanigans with them.
Alas, they were a gift :/
> Management by locating pain points.

In a way, that's close to the concept behind theory of constraints. This idea pushes organizations towards the ideas in DevOps and extreme levels of automation.
Why do you dislike it? Do you dislike the language itself, or the code that people have written in that language that you are currently having to work on?

What do you like better?

Java's OK as a language, neither great nor terrible. It has really complete libraries, which are (IMO) the secret of the language's success. Garbage collection makes it nicer than C++ for some problems.

Java often gets used for large-scale enterprise apps. This environment can be soul-crushing, but it's not particularly the language's fault.
I’m not an expert, but I’d imagine that’s related to seniors voting much more reliably than the youth.