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I was using "philanthropy" in a broad sense. A large portion of what the government does is akin to philanthropy. So I just meant taxation.

And yes, I think it just boils down to option 4: more money to individuals through employee bonuses. I trust the individuals more to support good causes than a corporation with its own agenda.

But note that I also think dividends are a good thing too, for the same reason I think bonuses are a good thing. I think it is generally better for most corporations to pass their cash onto other stakeholders. I wish it was more balanced toward employees rather than shareholders, but I think both are usually better than the corporation holding onto it themselves.
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Yep, and according to things I've previously read, AirBnb switched to RSUs in 2014 and those all have a 7 year expiration date.
> pulling or pushing a tube down a patient's esophagus

No, that's another procedure. Intubating respiratory patients involves targeting the trachea and avoiding the esophagus. An esophageal intubation can be Very Bad.

That said, as an early advocate for face masks for the general public, I'm in 100% agreement that face shields are pointless for the general public. We don't need them.
This can't be accurate. Everything Tesla does is novel, groundbreaking, courageous even. Pay cuts during hard times are for the patriarchs of the bourgeois.
The Antikythera mechanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) "variously dated to about 87 BC,[22] or between 150 and 100 BC,[13] or to 205 BC,[23][24]" -- may have been an early differential analyzer -- but that's a hypothetical conjecture...
At work I've seen often the [see inline] tag at top if someone did not top post. But yes, that was sadly the exception.
Start with CLRS. It's an excellent intro to the fundamental algorithms and DSs that makes up CS. Absolute must read.
Wear a reliable mask, fitted properly and remove it properly.

Also, wear indirect or non-vented eye protection, or you're that gate on a road without a fence that the virus drives around.

Finally, think carefully about airborne persistent micro-droplets, fomites and personal sanitation.
Such a novel and powerful idea, I think it might end up very revolutionary and disruptive. I recall don't think you could Carl it off the mark.
Arabic culture will sometimes adopt a name after you have a child as “father of X”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunya_(Arabic)
Today my college lets me do the same. I wonder if I could even possibly use `mod_wsgi` to run something like a Python server.
Also correlated is a reduction in blood donations...
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/03/23/820089376/it-s-safe...
This is a natural disaster, businesses shuttered before the government did anything because many people wisely started to quarantine themselves. So to be fair to the government, a lot of shutting down was happening anyway.

Being a natural disaster, I think the fairest characterization of the money is a relief effort, just as if a hurricane had struck.

A bailout is a fair term if the market screws up, as in the 2007 financial crisis due to subprime mortgages. Though the causes were complex, people were selling dodgy financial products that obscured value and risk.

In this case, many companies are adapting to a big shock quite well because of automation and delivery, but there are a ton of businesses that closed because they have a face to face business model.
Sure, maybe it's both. What I'm saying is that it seems muddled to me in these articles, I can't quite tell which thing is actually the problem, or whether it is both.
Worldwide housing supply is never going to keep up with radical changes in usage. One takes literally trillions of dollars worth of construction in not just housing but also transportation etc, the other takes a website.
> The further down the stack you go, the slower technology moves and the easier it is to stay relevant.

I don't think this can quite be generalized. Front-end web certainly moves the fastest, but does Windows application development move faster than lightweight microservices? I doubt it.
I loved my community college, I wasn’t there for long, only a couple semesters, but after I took calculus I felt like I had put in a lot of work and my life was going in a totally different direction.

I actually ended up buying a hoodie from the college book store in the end and it’s pretty important to me, I don’t feel the same way about the university I graduated from (although I definitely had more fun there.)
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Let's be honest: owls are birb ninja assassins.
Gives me a lot of faith they can’t even be bothered to get the details right in a demo.
to prevent evaluation.
No no, but... nowhere in the PUT request is there a mailbox ID. In fact the PUT doesn't contain any token from the mailbox creation. So how does it link your email without searching for every mailbox ID that currently exists within your email? I mean, maybe that's how it works, since they expire in a fairly short amount of time... seems ripe for DDoSing.
Why is Tesla a tech company?
Total BS headline. It seems like they did they best they could.
They paid for a service and did not receive it. Many have even been kicked out of housing. Sounds like one party broke the contract regarding tuition.

Pass or not it really makes no difference. College degrees are losing prestigiousness so who cares.

In five years post graduation it really means little. You don't go to college to learn you go there for the degree to get into that first door.
Meanwhile, ICU admissions have fallen off a cliff last week in NY, https://twitter.com/RebeccaJarvis/status/1247546048291143681... after they started giving HCQ to the patients en masse, at the long last. So they gave up their share of ventilators and they now project that they will not exceed capacity.
Don't tell me this is Zune bad.

https://youtu.be/C08WmKiwcSs?t=76
Except a lot of governments have indeed enacted policies that protect tenants and employees during this period.
Well Tesla isn't a tech company. They should really only be compared to other auto manufacturers and maybe some dealers.
https://guscost.com

70% rants, 30% computers and math. Most try to be amusing, but you might get mad at some.
Otherwise the single-unquoted ( would be treated as a function call.
How would you rewrite it? At some companies, "VP" isn't that senior of a position, and there are hundreds of them.
I mean, I agree, they shouldn’t, but the reality is, they are.

Now, what happens if this extends for multiple semesters?

Are all the Ivy schools going to PASS/FAIL online until graduation?
> Employees who haven’t been assigned to critical tasks and who can’t work from home will be furloughed without pay, though they will keep health-care benefits.

That sounds more like 100% than 10% to me.
I wouldn't want my doctor to be someone who got an auto pass on his/her exams.
I think it's a complexity problem. Someone downthread pointed out that there are some viruses that are small - so small they consist of only two genes.

It's possible that the super simple minimalist viruses are spontaneously produced and abundant in the universe. If all that's necessary is a strand of nucelic acids and a repetitive peptide unit, then it's within the realm of possibility that these would form simply because it's thermodynamically favorable for them to fall together in some systems. Then, if they encounter a living being, they're able to piggyback on it to multiply, mutate, and recombine.

This could be further supported by the fact that viruses can coinfect cells and effectively transfer genetic and protein material between each other.

By this model the simplest viruses are just products of chemistry that, when exposed to life, gradually become more and more complex.

I guess the underlying point is that they could very well be forming on earth, continuously. If they are, then that would explain the baffling, unending diversity. They're just always forming new genetic material that gets iterated on until it works well.
Many Americans have two word first names like “Sue Ellen” or “Mary Anna” as well as a middle name. Double last names are even more common.
The access to the Safari Books is alone worth it.
My brother works at GM, they did a 20% paycut to everyone, I want to say the leadership took larger ones like 30% but I can't completely remember.
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Whoa hold your horses! DGML first.
is it difficult to add SIMD to the existing time-series database?
Lol. We-eeks.
Why would they do this? I thought this is what travel insurance is for, at least in Norway I think they are liable for the bill when the government deems an area unsafe to visit
That's a reader macro to make it quoted.

What that means is 'don't try to evaluate this as a function call'.

Basically it's a data list.
In the reality of what is about to happen to our world and the US economy and job market, there will be many more job applications than jobs.

I would rather hire the person that graduated from Yale a few years ago versus the one hopefully graduating next year, even for a fully remote position.
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What if the police were wrong here though?

What if it violated our right to assembly?

Even if it was a needless it's a massive abuse of power and a constitutional violation.

Virus or not civil liberties still exist as provided by the Constitution.
The link you posted does not have any data to support your claim. As yet I have seen no data to support the effectiveness of HCQ for c19. I understand that testing is still underway and that assumption for or against is entirely premature.
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The first company I worked at had a great team in all departments until we got a new head of technology. Immediately all new projects went to outsource teams, some occasionally good and others bad, so much so that we (existing devs) began to “run out” of work. Eventually they tried to replace all the devs but me, the junior, and use me as the US based engineer for customer calls and maintaining legacy products. I said no and left on good terms with everyone but the new head who didn’t understand why I wouldn’t want to stay.

Within 6 months the new head was gone, the legacy code hadn’t been up kept and no new products had made full releases (of a planned 4-5). I did some maintenance and rewriting/launching one of the products I had originally started on as the only dev until they could hire someone else, but it did cost them 3x what they were previously paying me.
Woah strawman. There's no fetishization going on here, it's a micro-tutorial.

It's the opposite of profound - and decidedly so.

You're focusing on something called syntax and legibility, not this article -- which is why you see no diff. between the two expressions.

Of course on a superficial level the difference is nominal.

Why the first one is more powerful than the second goes much deeper. The first expression is both a function definition and a first-class list. The latter is pure syntax.

The consequences of this go deep - but if you're looking for something profound at the surface of things then carry on shaving your yaks.
I'm wondering, if the bottleneck in testing is number of tests per day available, could we use Bloom filter methodology for it?
Like, for example, take samples of 1024 people, assign them 10-bit IDs randomly, mix samples of everyone with bit 1 in position 0 in one pool, with bit 1 in position 1 in 2nd pool and so on. Then do 10 tests, and whoever has negative result in any of set bits of his ID, does not have virus. If too many people of 1024 have virus, add another set of random IDs and do 10 more tests, etc.
If there are no technical limitations, that would allow to get negative results to, let's say, 900 people from 1024 with only 10-30 tests. Other 124 could be tested personally. That's 85% reduction in number of tests needed.
Your Yale degree isn't going to mean anything in the 21st century. Everything that can be learned there can be learned on YouTube for free.
Pray tell, what else could have caused ICU admissions to drop so precipitously?
> Nothing reliably consistently beats ARIMA models in time series forecasting to this day

Not sure this is true in practice. In some situations, Holt-Winters (ie. algorithms in the ETS family) may do better, and it's often a good idea to try both.

There's a claim that Holt-Winters is a special case of ARIMA (the claim is ARIMA is more general), but this is actually not the case. There is equivalence in only a subset of cases. [1]

I've fitted Holt-Winters models that beat ARIMA models. ARIMA models can have trouble generalizing from training data with long horizons because they tend to overfit to the distant past. Holt-Winters on the other hand has a natural "forgetting factor" built-in which moderates this.

As well, my experience is that stacked models with well-chosen exogeneous variables (if you have causal variables) tend to outperform pure time-series methods because they are anchored on more independent variables than just t. Pure time-series models bank on the assumption that patterns have a repeatable time-dependence, and most of the time this is just not true, so have to be augmented with other variables.

[1] https://otexts.com/fpp2/arima-ets.html
Yale bubble has just popped.
So the crazy thing is that if you take a teaspoon of soil and sequence it for bacterial information, almost all of that information is similar to what's been found elsewhere. If you take that same teaspoon of soil and look for the viral genetic information in there, it's wholly unique. They seem completely unconnected to the rest of life, as far as nucleic acid signatures go.
Just curious, how do you define what a tech company is?
No matter what's in the contract, I'm pretty sure it just comes down to Sun saying "You want the money? Sue me. Good luck, you'll never see it."
> A poorly fit N95 is no protection at all

There’s no plausible mechanism of action for masks under which this is true. A properly fitted N95 will block 95% of particles which is less than the kind of hazmat spacesuit with face shield and positive air pressure you’d ideally be wearing if working with someone with Ebola or similar. Maybe it really is impossible to get proper fit on a reused mask. Perhaps it’s only as good as a normal surgical mask which blocks just under 90% of virus sized particles.

Every reduction in the amount of virus that gets into your lungs makes it less likely that you’ll get infected and if infected gives your immune system more time to ramp up. That’s why people care about viral load. Running through someone’s cough is less likely to kill you than being in a small poorly ventilated room with someone coughing uncontrollably for minutes at a time.
It's a way to establish power and extract value out of what would otherwise be a more efficient company or system, since those efficiencies don't benefit you directly. The company might do better but your incentives align in a way to extract value from it. If the customer gets burned, or poor quality products get launched, the feedback mechanism is broken. Consolidating power and crushing the competition is more tangible than anything the business actually does.

Which is why stock compensation was expected to help this, at least in theory.
Shared sacrifice would be you volunteering to pay more.
Tesla is really strange company. They don’t pay like tech and don’t have same business flexibility. But at the same time they’re valued like tech and take same shortcuts (or “optimizations”) in the processes like tech.
Before we jump to conclusions...

Undergraduates were forced off campus a few weeks ago.

Imagine yourself in the shoes of an international student who left New Haven in a hurry. You're now required to attend online lectures at 3:00AM local time. Five nights a week.

You don't have a reliable internet connection in your country. You lost your job when you left campus. You're missing out on office hours. You can't collaborate with classmates in the United States. You need to take care of at-risk relatives at home. You're in a state of heightened anxiety during a lock-down. Don't even think about taking a nap! Your next discussion seminar (with mandatory attendance) is in fifteen minutes... at 4:30AM!

Now, is it really so unreasonable to ask the administration to relieve some of this pressure? We should empower students to seek knowledge without sacrificing their health and family obligations.
I'm not trying to get into a lengthy discussion so I'll leave it after this comment.

> the reality is, they are.

But Yale admins/faculty have the power to change that. Whether the change is worth it (and what the best course of action is) is a matter for debate. But I wouldn't say that the best course of action is to sit back and say "that's just the reality of the situation" when we have a capability to effect change.

> Now, what happens if this extends for multiple semesters?

> Are all the Ivy schools going to PASS/FAIL online until graduation?

That's certainly not an ideal course of action, but (in my view) it may be what the Ivies are forced to do.
I'm only familiar with RSUs in a public company, how can an RSU expire after vest? I thought once it lapses you simply own a share.
* > Employees who haven’t been assigned to critical tasks and who can’t work from home will be furloughed without pay, though they will keep health-care benefits.*

Sounds like a 100% cut for most folks, less whatever inadequacy our unemployment insurance system pays out.
But those employees will be eligible for CA unemployment insurance, which will pay them a large fraction of their normal pay for 26 weeks, plus the new $600 weekly federal checks (which in the case of part time or low paid employees can actually make their unemployment checks larger than their regular after tax pay).
Is your wife helping to care for elderly parents, or is she immune suppressed, or with other chronic illnesses?

Are you in a hotspot?

These factors are pretty significant.

All in all, probably not unreasonable, or even quite reasonable, depending on those factors.
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They contract most of the factory workers out so they can claim it's not Tesla.

There are some absolutely awful stories that come out of Tesla's factories. Like horrible injury rates, extremely high drug usage, workplace doctors incentivized to not report anything, and workers suffering permanent life-destroying injuries due to Tesla's negligence.

Some day I hope these stories come to light in the mainstream and technology "journalism", but I am not hopeful that Musk will ever be held accountable.
I've been playing around with Clojure, having a lot of fun, and enjoying the community around the language. I love it, I absolutely love it, and I will come around to saying some glowing things about it at the end of this comment.

But first...

When I saw Bob Martin writing about it, it was a bit of a, "Damn.. Spaceballs!" moment. And the post itself didn't exactly light me on fire. So I don't know if this is the greatest introduction to the language.

And to be honest, the syntax is hard to read. It imposes more structure on everything you do: certain kinds of operations require more nesting, more context. Nothing just sits on the page with a standard layout and structure: it's always governed by these parantheses that are running around all willy nilly. And that's just harder to read.

BUT. There is one huge, huge, huge, huge win from it:

Every single thing in the language works the same way. Everything! It's all just expressions.

That might seem like no big deal. But as a programmer, it means that if I don't understand why a piece of my program isn't working, all I have to do is put my cursor right after the expression I want to understand and type C-c C-e to evaluate that subexpression.

So if

(defn f [x] (+ (* 3 x) 1))

...isn't working as I expect, I don't have to run (f 5). I can bind x to 5 and evaluate (* 3 x). And the same applies to any larger program I write.

There are other things that I love about Clojure, but this has certainly been a breath of fresh air coming from other languages that have more ceremony. It is liberating to be able to isolate and assess a portion of code without having to refactor it into a standalone method. I can move much faster, and have a lot more fun.
Perhaps they need to learn the life lesson that bad things happen. Sometimes it's really bad, really unfair. But you can always make the best of it.

It'll be harder for them than others but they can demonstrate an ability to overcome and achieve during hard times. That'll be a huge personal confidence booster for future hard times.
Assuming, on the off chance, that this isn't some sort of quack treatment ploy, anything that works significantly would be a plus.

I'm on my 13th antidepressant now that is yet-again not working well and I'm starting to wonder if my condition is inflammation-mediated rather than receptor- or neurotransmitter-caused as only mirtazapine (also a powerful antihistamine) ever helped me significantly, but only for a limited time.
HN and Reddit require far more scrolling to go through all the comments, and make it difficult to find recently posted comments (though Reddit has this feature if you have reddit gold or are a moderator of a subreddit).

A typical newsreader shows a thread index overview which, even for thousands of posts, doesn't require that much scrolling, and makes it easy to see new posts within the thread.
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If 3-6 are totally unreasonable, then why are medical workers bothering with gowns? Why not just wear their normal coat or scrubs?

I do question the effectiveness of spraying shoes with alcohol, but I personally try to maintain a barrier between what I wear to the grocery store, and what I wear inside in the house.
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This is totally incorrect. First, the MOA of hydroxychloroquinoline (HCQ) in malaria is completely incorrect. It works through lysosomal function regarding the presentation of antigens to the immune system. Secondly, Covid-19 is not a DNA virus but an RNA virus, DNA is not involved nor is an interaction with hemoglobin involved in the anti-malaria activity of HCQ. There is nothing in the scientific/medical lit as of today about any interaction with hemoglobin and covid-19, nor any reason to think HCQ would interfere in such process. (WKJ, Professor of Pharmacology)
Investor is suing for breach of contract (the unpaid convertible note), trying to "pierce the corporate veil" by claiming alter-ego.

In the end we'll "win" this, but that will not save us from having to spend $50-$150k in lawyers to resolve it (if this goes all the way to trial, it's about 18-24 months of paying lawyers which cost about $500/hr, at about 10hrs/month).
I'm in the same boat. Another thing I've realized is that while my interest may jump between half a dozen different things, if I just let it run its course, it tends to circle around. I.e. I don't leave an endless trail of projects in my wake, I revisit different ones as that interest rekindles. But before I realized this, I would be really hard on myself about switching, trying to force my interest to sit still, which really just killed my interest in all of them.

Bottom line: don't try and pin down your interest, open up to it and let it run its course. The course may not always make sense but it knows what it's doing.