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I think you're the ones letting emotions get in your way. The whole point is to dilute the wealth in this country to bring million/billionaires down to the commoner's level. Then let society build its way back up, because you'll end up with something much different when the average American has the same purchasing power as the wealthiest American.

Right now if you want to start a business, you have to get "approval" from a wealthy American in the form of an investment or loan. If you remove this "approval" process, you will end up with a true free marketplace of ideas, where everyone can try something out without needing to ask someone's permission first. More importantly, demand won't only be coming from the top down. Instead of billions of dollars going into acquisitions of valueless corporations like WeWork, billions will be spent on making American's lives better.

A dollar is a coupon you can use to redeem for some amount of human productive output. Instead of letting 1% of society decide how we use this productive output, it should be a decision for all Americans to make (by spending dollars, which they haven't had the opportunity to do in the last 2 decades).
I restarted Firefox because I thought it was crashing...then I noted the new version and came here. Yeah this address bar UI change is both jarring and disorienting.
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As analogy, drain all of the oil from your car's engine. Start it, put it in neutral, and floor the accelerator until morale improves.
It’ll be interesting to see if public k—12 schools will let older teachers teach from home, while forcing students to show up to the physical virus breeding grounds.
Kind of. For various budgetary reasons and capex vs opex and stuff like that, the US only has two aggressor squadrons now, the 18th and 64th. The 65th shut down recently. We're kinda getting out of that business.

Something quietly muttered about is we don't have the labor force anymore, so better off having our pilots in fighting squadrons instead of training squadrons.

Another topic not mentioned much is the whole concept of aggressor squadrons and Top Gun etc came from fighting similar tier adversaries in the 60s and, while not losing, not winning at a high enough ratio, and cold war REFORGER war plan against the Soviets was to use our higher tech to hold back their larger numbers. We needed each of our F-14 to shoot down at least 7 of their Mig-21 to win WWIII in 1985, or at least to not lose too quickly. None of this has really been relevant since 1990 and drone and cruise missile tech and so forth make the whole concept pointless. So political bureaucracy rules of warfare are such that if you can't shut down an obsolete program directly, you can outsource it all on a contract that coincidentally will not be renewed in 2025 or whatever year. We're just never going to see future air combat where its a war of attrition between our small number of high tech F-14 tomcats vs a larger number of mig-21s. Put the money where it'll actually be used in the future, such as drones, cruise missiles, smart bombs, fancy AA and AG missiles, etc. The idea of training F-14 pilots to do air combat maneuvering using guns and 70s performance missiles against a number of Mig-21 is VERY 1980s.

Or future adversary isn't going to send 8 Mig-21's against each of our F-14, they're going to launch 240 anti-personnel quadcopter drones toward the airfield per day to shut down operations. Sure at a thousand bucks per drone plus COTS grenade, thats a quarter mil per day to deny air operations... now is that quarter mil cheap or expensive? Compared to the damage a functioning air force base can do to an opponent, that's cheap. Or they'll build $100 cloud steerable laser pointers and deploy them randomly across the land by the thousands to lase the eyes and sensors of every vehicle in the air that's not one of theirs. They'll win that war of attrition if they deploy 10K semi-autonomous weapons that each cost $1000 and we only have 1K ATG missiles in theater which cost $100K each, either way they win.

Well, generals always like to train to win the last war, not the next one, thats been true for a couple thousand years now.
> there'll probably another closure next time the disease surges

Honest question: do you think a second quarantine will be as effective as the first? Tracing and isolation after the first quarantine must be as close as spotless as possible, because personally I don't believe that the population will tolerate a second lock-up as easily as the first.
Are we reading the same HN threads on this page? I'm seeing people who I don't consider to be stupid, who obviously have some Linux knowledge, still advocating that user accounts are a waste of time for most desktops.

A fool isn't necessarily stupid: plenty of people have knowledge yet terrible judgement.

If anyone is smart enough and knows enough about Spectre/Meltdown to understand the risks they're taking, they are also smart enough to search online how to disable the kernel protections. The commands aren't hard to find.

If anyone is not smart enough find that information online for themselves, they also don't have enough knowledge to make an informed decision about whether or not it's safe for them to run.

In both cases, there is value in forcing users to display a modicum of knowledge about even just the fact that Spectre/Meltdown exist before we give them a command to run that turns off an important security setting. Anyone who knows anything about Spectre/Meltdown already knows that the mitigations affect performance. They should already know what to search for online without the aid of no-context commands being pasted at the top of HN.

You're considering it as advice, when really it should be considered more like a doi.
You can buy BTC using USD via exchanges, you can buy BTC futures, you can buy funds that contain BTC along with a mix of other assets. This is what I mean by the traditional economy, NOT you can go down to your neighborhood grocery store and pay for your groceries. The point is that major financial firms have integrated fiat economies and the Bitcoin ecosystem, which makes Bitcoin much more valuable compared to other cryptocurrencies.

When I talk of BTC crashing I'm speaking of the price of BTC going to 0 and never recovering. What you are observing is the volatility of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a highly volatile asset, but that doesn't mean it still can't provide good long term value. Plotting a linear regression on the price of BTC will show an upward trend and that's over a 10 year period even with all of its ups and downs.
I don't think they can be so sure with the fatality of 0.37% without

a) giving confidence intervals, and

b) telling that several of the infected patients have their worst time yet to come.
Here's the thing though, that binary choice is predicated on what we know right now, tomorrow we may know more, and we will definitely know more in a few weeks, in a month or two we may know enough that we have better choices to make. Our ability to treat this virus is very limited right now, but that may not be true in a month, so just throwing up your hands and saying let everyone die now when we don't have good treatment options is basically just signing peoples death warrant for no good reason.
If the code runs once and works, then it works.

Until it doesn't work and it takes down all of production.
VPGATHER is actually significantly faster than scalar loads at least on Skylake, possibly on some earlier CPUs as well (Broadwell?).

On Haswell where it was first introduced... yeah, not very fast, like you mentioned.
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You really think everybody is enjoying being isolated inside, alone, with no human contact, no mass gatherings like concerts or games?

> As a society I think that we've outgrown the idea of just going to a movie theater and hanging out with friends.

This is an antisocial and unhealthy perspective. We've yet to see the mental health ramifications from this extended period of isolation. We're not built to sit inside by ourselves all day. Even as great as online connections can be, they are no replacement for the real presence of a human being. Saying we've "outgrown" it is preposterous.
Yeah, but I can even use a yat.

Not many people can use an FA18... the accessibility of anysort of utility drops pretty fast when it is "can fly an f-18"
more or less on par with MS-RDP on Windows

That's surprising. I tried X2Go a couple of times on multiple machines (always logging in from Windows to Unbuntu 18.04 if that matters, on a local network) and it was horrible. At least a crash a day, couldn't get numeric keypad keys to work, slow. Not sure if I did anything wrong or just had bad luck.. And those are just the basic features. To get on par with RDP it should also do multiple screens properly (i.e. not one big screen, it's not 2000 anymore), drive/audio/... sharing and so on. But I never got to trying that, went back to VNC. Which also has problems but at least it allows me to do work.

Unfortunately the OP is about right (in my experience, for the things I do): if the connection allows it remote desktop should really be like you're sitting in front of the physical machine. RDP does that for me, on the same level SSH/Mosh does that for terminal stuff. I'm not sure what is so hard to get right to also get something equivalent on Linux, so maybe it's really the lack of interest?
> And both Julia and Python are also strongly typed (there isn't really a language that lacks a type system).

No they are not. At least not for my definition of the term "strongly typed". Of course you can use a different definition, but if, as you say, "there isn't really a language" that does not fulfill your definition you might want to reconsider its usefulness. The point of classifying languages is mood when every fan comes along and says "my favorite language also has that, if you tweak your understanding just a bit".
The dropdown list of suggestions/search results is not the expanding thing that people are complaining about. The URL box itself expands. Maybe you wouldn't have been so dismissive of people's complaints if you had fully understood what this change does.
One of the complains is that the select-all on single-click is anti-idiomatic for Linux and *BSD users, and when text is selected in X11 it is automatically copied. The standard way to select the whole content in a text box is to triple-click it.
In practice this seems to be a subset of the first choice. Everyone who has a proposal to control the rate of infection also says we need to lockdown indefinitely until their proposal is fully implemented.
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Spot on.
Besides, W. Lippmann was apparently a lot more sophisticated with capacity to influence wider circles of intellectuals and mandarins. The title of Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky’s book “Manufacturing Consent” was borrowed from Lippmann’s writing where he was making the case for the elites to manage the perception of the meddlesome public.
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Ok but besides that one feature, almost every other feature can be done in Chrome. I run Slack in Chrome. Why not? Because of some features I don’t need?
> 7) CBS was on record as NOT favoring the commercialization of TV at that time citing a list of reasons (to follow). Virtually every other firm in electronics was in favor of TV being authorized for commercial operation.

It's hard to even begin to imagine what things would be like if television hadn't been authorized for commercial use. The world would likely be vastly different though.
Denmark completely shut its borders.
Austria has made everyone wear masks, and have been shutdown for a long time.
US states like Mississippi are still arguing that everyone should be essential.
There are at 11 states with double the number of confirmed cases as Denmark, and I don't see any of them actually slowing down currently. They're all experiencing 4 times more daily cases than Denmark.
It's because corecursion is harder to reason about than recursion, requiring a slightly different set of fundamental tools and vocabulary, which aren't taught, because it would have to be on top of the current set.
I bet it was a boomer.
I was wondering generally, is SIMD a good idea for general purpose CPUs. Imagine if the current high end CPUs had double the number of cores, no SIMD, but possibly higher frequency and the algorithms that benefit from SIMD were all run on integrated accelerators instead.

At least as a side observer it looks like a huge number of very large registers take large portions of a core, for sure consuming a lot of power as well, just to sit idle while the core is running JavaScript. Can somebody with CPU architecture experience say what is the real tradeoff here.
Can't answer for parent post, but I do my living room browsing on a 1360x768 dumb TV and having the bookmarks toolbar open in any tab other than a blank new tab eats a noticeable amount of screen real state, so I default to new tab & click on bookmark.

It's a bummer that Firefox is not respecting its own compact layout by needlessly enlarging the address bar while on focus, but the shadow dropped from the new monstrosity obscures the bookmarks toolbar in my desktop with default layout, too, and that's a real usability concern.
What has changed is that now the telemetry is collecting data that has nothing to do with them. It is a leap from collecting how many people have Firefox as their default browser to what other browser they have set as the default.

Also this is way beyond the usual ‘we need it for debugging’ excuse. It’s just collecting data that is worth money.

And of course, the first time you launch Firefox on a new install they aren’t going to wait and see if you perhaps opt out. They’re going to get what they can before you opt out.
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Sorry but are you an epidemiologist or virologist? The armchair advice you're giving very much belies what established experts in the field are saying. It also ignores all the cases of respiratory and cardiac complications in not just the elderly. Is "very old" equivalent to "older than 20" for you?
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> The type check works just like any language.

It is not a type check if it happens at runtime.
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Do you believe the point of isolation is to stop the spread or slow the spread? If the point is to slow the spread but ultimately for everyone to be exposed, wouldn’t it make sense to do that as quickly as possible without overrunning hospitals?

At this point new hospital admissions are significantly down from their peak. If the point is to slow the spread but acknowledging that it cannot be eliminated, we’ve in fact over-corrected.
This is the same mindset that led the MAGA people to shut down the pandemics response team.
It is possible I am not expressing myself clearly. The API may not directly access location data ( though I have a hard time believing that either ). Processing may be local, but I just find it very difficult to believe that the information gleamed from that common platform would not be used. And if it can be used, it will be used. And then it will correlated with information that was previously gathered via regular means. I am not sure how that is not a concern? To Trump's credit, he seems hesitant to go all in on this front.

edit: There is something that occurred to me after writing this. FB had an API at the beginning of their game when they were shooting to get developers' attention. They did. As the leaked documents show what really end up happening, API evolved in ways that benefited big boys. I guess my rambling point is that whatever current specs say, may quickly become rather distant past.
Why is this needed? and why would i sign up for it , esp. knowing how much they both know about me already? The text doesn't tell us why contact tracing is important

- Did contact tracing apps really save anything in singapore/taiwan/israel?

- Is sweden really doing that bad without this kind of surveillance?

- What is tracing going to help anyway? it will warn people to go to the hospital early ? To do what? there is no cure and they 'd better stay away from infection nests like hospitals anyway. It's not like people don't get symptoms days before they need hospitalization

- Is tracing really going to be workable? this is a highly infectious virus, and people networks have very short path length, which means that, without social distancing, 100% of the people will get notified that they might have been infected in any day

- This data does not need to reach anyone's servers. Infected people could just publicly and anonymously upload their location in a public server for other users to crosscheck. The less data are hidden behind walls, the less chance of abuse.

Even if tracing might slow down the curve, this slowdown shouldnt last forever and it should be targetted, not anonymous. It is important that the spread speeds up in the parts of the population that carry less risk (children, women). There is really no good way to do that other than specific , local measures of SD.

It would be very different if these phones had a thermometer, but i think some regulator removed them.
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The Indian Government launched a contact tracing app that has more than 10m+ downloads: https://www.mygov.in/aarogya-setu-app/

Not sure how ubiquitous it is. Nevertheless, given that Android is 90 percent of the market in India, may be this can help overcome the iPhone OS-level constraints that makes it necessary for both platforms to work together in markets like the US.
I have happy with less innovation if it means people don't go homeless and starve every time the economy tanks
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For any of those studies, look for the specificity of the test, which is basically the false positive rate. A serological test with 2.5% false positives is considered a pretty good test. If the test used in Stockholm were similar, they could have zero cases and get that result.
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It's mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but this project likely will take things further to more accurately measure the distance between individuals in small spaces in order to better track the contagion. This project may also have more liberal visualization tools, search tools, etc., geared for a task other then advertising.

No doubt much of this data is already collected in one form or another. But it is a big step from collecting data, to analyzing it in new contexts, to visualizing it well, to making it highly accessible to federal non-technical agencies.
Microsoft has released[1] the RDP documentation, which is what FreeRDP is based on[2]. Open-sourcing their implementation would not help, since it's deeply integrated into the OS.

I was hoping Wayland would take remote desktop seriously when I heard about the effort, but sadly that was not to be.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/

[2]: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Reference-Documentat...
This documentary series forever changed my view of the world and how it works. Everyone should see it (and to be thorough, read it's criticisms).

I also recommend his follow-up series "The Power of Nightmares" for the same reason — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTg4qnyUGxg
You’re right, technically. He has rounds of ammunition for the guns. What I meant was that they’re lacking the missiles. Not that you couldn’t do some damage with the guns, but those are weapons of last resort on these jets. They can’t carry many rounds.
> You don't need to pay people to take biology courses. You need to pay people UBI so that they could choose to take biology courses. Then you only need a (relatively) modest amount of money to design the course, pay the graders, and deliver the content.

I agree with your sentiment, forcing people into Biology is entirely the wrong approach--I was and I detested my HS level classes, and even most of my lower division classes in University as it was mainly just rote learning--but because I met a Community of students and professionals online when I was still in HS I got to learn what research they were focusing on and it intrigued me enough to go to the BS level, all while attending upper division University lectures in various subjects during my Junior/Senior years of HS.

While I'm a proponent of UBI, I still think a concerted effort is needed to make the Life Sciences appealing to the masses; I personally subscribe to the Biohacker and Community Science approach, and having (wet) lab extensions built into local community libraries would go so much further.

I've been out of the Industry for 8 years now, but I'd gladly volunteer and teach Plant Science and some Molecular biology labs for free if we had UBI and I could offset some living expenses. I know of 3 or so recent biology grads who wish they could do the same.
Yep, and very similar words seem to be in most other Indo-European languages as well.
And for windows: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Capitalists or Cronyists?
In some societies people don't have much a say of what they do, who they hang out with, what jobs they do. In a small rural society everybody was/is expected to conform. Modernity lets us hangout with people that we share interests with. This crisis will push that even further. We'll hang out more with people that share our interests, and less just hanging out randomly.
Bend over and embrace the change. This setting is going away in ff77, AFAIK.

Or you could just file a bug report upstream, that would produce more long term results.