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I am an engineer with 7 years of experience. Even though I am a a very well rounded full stack dev my bias is definitely in the front end. I have worked for both massive corporation (80k+ people) and small startup in the fintech and Blockchain space.

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We've basically split our population into two groups, a large group that is (hopefully) staying put and not interacting with the world as much as possible, and a small group that is still going about business as usual, because we need them to. The smaller group is hopefully doing everything they can reduce their risks, but small risks repeated frequently become likely odds.

As a civilization, this still buys us a lot (in the US, it's the difference between 30 million and 230 million people catching the disease and some percent of them dying), but even if you assume all 3 million grocery store employees are in the low-risk 20-29 demographic, we're still expecting ~1200 of them to die from COVID-19, given our current understanding of the disease.

That alone would make working in a grocery store roughly as dangerous as being a coal miner in the present day US, or roughly 4 times more dangerous than being a police officer; it gets worse if you assume many employees are not in the lowest risk category.
That might be stretching the definition of "deterministic". If it depends on implicit state, precise timing, external conditions, etc., I would say it's closer to fitting the definition of "chaotic" than "deterministic".

With perfect observation and recording, it may be possible to see a tornado and work backwards to figure out which butterflies flapped their wings to cause it, but that would still be a long ways off from being able to train all butterflies to move only in ways which won't cause tornados.
There will never be a final nail. It's a game of cat and mouse.
I think this has been asked before?
I will give the parent the benefit of the doubt and assume they think it's fear mongering because of the style and sensationalism of the article (and others this month), not that they are heartless and don't care about the well being of these workers. I don't think it's productive to take that line.

Of course its horrible, I assume we all hate to hear this. I think about how bad it must suck to work at a grocery store every time I go and see the people there working. The issue I think is when an article puts things like "It's a War Zone", or "As more of them die" in the headline for example.

It is true it must be very risky and stressful to work there right now. Hard to imagine. But there isn't much actual analysis of the numbers. 'At least' 41 are dead? How did they calculate that number? Is that a lot? More than we would expect for a give occupation? I don't know, they don't really explain, it's just a bunch of super sad stories and interview quotes.
You're less likely to touch your face with gloves on, at any rate
Was there any response from AWS after this?
wait until people discover `yarn install` ... :)
The Arrest (Call to Bar) (Episode 3) by AY Comedian
I went to a Trader Joe’s last week and the policy appeared to have flipped: I didn’t see a single employee without a mask on. Every register had been outfitted with plexiglass as well.
Ask HN: Whats Your Bet on Tesla?
Disclaimer: 2 Week stock market experience

As many friends in WhatsApp groups talk about stocks, I recently installed Robinhood to see how it feels to buy and trade. I covered reading some internet resources on the basics. I see the increasing stakes from people on TSLA, which is doing wonderful (I think), at this point in time. While stocks, unlike Cryptocurrency, is a long term gamble, what percentage of growth do you see in the next 15 years?

"In 2018, the U.S. automotive industry contributed 2.7% to U.S. gross domestic product. That's $545.4 billion out of the total $20.5 trillion produced." [1]
Considering that stat, will TSLA ever be a stock like an FB, AMZN or AAPL or MSFT in comparison over a 15-year duration.

I often see top investors calling Tesla as a Software company because of its "powerful-vision-AI models", which might be, isn't the stock concerning the revenue which is proportional to car sales? Do you have a reason why Tesla will not offer its core AI models as a service to other manufacturers? If they do so, will it be in the top 10 highest revenue companies?

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/economic-impact-of-automotive-industry-4771831
I feel like I'm missing something. Even if we assume i is never 4 or 5, why can we assume that v is contained in the table? Even with undefined behavior, it seems like that's bugger compiler behavior.

By the author's logic, even if the undefined behavior didn't exist, you can still assume i is never 4 or 5, but that doesn't meant the function always returns true. Is there something I'm not understanding here?
The problem comes when you need to peer inside the black box because it's working counter to your expectations of it: With most systems you can do so by reading code / documentation etc. With ML you're kind of stuck. You can conduct experiments to see what changes about the behavior of the model, but even that proves tricky when the model has thousands of inputs.
I think I found a nice example: https://youtu.be/v7Mt0GYHU9A?t=1237
99% of my junk mail is sent via USPS. Junk mail actually gets a better rate than regular 1st class mail. It's something like 20 cents for marketing mail vs 50 cents for a piece of regular mail. In exchange I think the marketer has to do some presorting of their own, and they lose the ability to do things like forwarding or return to sender.

USPS actually has a monopoly on mailboxes. It's illegal for FedEx or anyone else to put a letter/package in your mailbox, although I don't know how much that's enforced.
It protects others from you and it's also harder to touch face when wearing them (try it). Also you might have a little paper cut...
This is huge for decoupling zoom clients from zoom backend servers.

In theory, using a fixed/trusted set of client assets (javascript+html, e.g. an electron wrapper) allows groups of users to choose a Jitsi "backend" provider that they don't even trust if the encryption key is never sent to the server (and can't be, i.e. it is never in the URL hash).

Since the video is e2e-encrypted and in theory the server never has to be given the key, this would allow people to purchase hosting services from untrusted providers or spin up a VM in a public cloud with the confidence that the content of their conversations is not available to the provider.

Yes, we could just argue that this is XMPP servers and Pidgin all over again (in fact, Jitsi uses an XMPP server internally), but the modern UI and the timing w.r.t. COVID-19 lockdowns and Zoom privacy issues is fantastic.
> And then what happens when someone who doesn't have the ability to shop via app needs groceries? Do they call in, and take up another employee's bandwidth while they take down the list?

Absolutely. An employee taking orders on the phone instead of working the cash register is an employee who's not getting exposed to coronavirus.

I can't believe we're talking about unemployment going to the moon and at the same time saying we can't spare precious labor resources. Talking grocery orders over the phone is something anyone with a grade school education can do.
In my country (Spain), fatality rates for March have tripled for what is usual. They don't know where to store so many corpses, in fact they're using ice skating places as morgues. So it's obviously more than a flu and the systems are collapsed.
If it isn’t clear, these 75,000 jobs are in addition to the 100,000 jobs which Amazon announced they would hire about a month ago. The article states that they’ve already(!) hired the previously announced 100,000 jobs.
It is not legal, in the US, for anyone except the USPS to put anything into your mailbox.
I don't know. The whole point of using Prettier is that you're delegating your style choices to someone else.

And there were already some (very small) breaking changes between Prettier v1 and v2.

Changing from Prettier to something else doesn't sound like that big of a change, as long as Rome's formatter is not too ugly or changes are too drastic.
Breaking the data into "current daily" is the most extreme way of framing the data, given that we are currently suffering a rush of deaths due to the delayed effect of accelerated infection rates that occurred before the shutdown. (Many of the individual infections occurred after, but the critical mass of asymptomatic carriers occured before, in NY and other hotspots.)
All our JVM projects use gradle. We run `gradle build` and it resolves all dependencies and runs all tests. I don't understand the claim that node has the least getting started friction.
Ah yes, urbit, because feudalism is a perfect model for widely-used software.
I like gdscript and my only gripes are that I use python for work and while gdscript is Python like I find the instances where it doesn't work like Python frustrating. Auto complete works great and it works even better when using typed gdscript, though it's still a new feature, and still has some edge cases that make it a little tricky to use sometimes.
Workflows for Highly Distributed Companies
Are you aware of program management or project management methods for distributed organizations? I am designing workflows for a highly dispersed company where everybody is WFH, languages are split between English and Chinese, and time zones have high variance.

Real-time meetings should be avoided in a distributed company, that is obvious. But what do you replace them with?
> 98-99% of non-covid deaths that are just as tragic and heartbreaking

I think this belies a lack of understanding of COVID's growth curve. Early numbers were low compared to other diseases, but the exponential nature of the spread means that without the drastic measures we are taking (which some call excessively fearful) COVID could enact a massive death toll.

Even with all the measures we are taking, COVID has already overtaken all other causes of death in the USA: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-leading-cause-of-dea...
The Legendary John Conway (1937-2020)
I run Nomad List and Remote OK by myself. Nomad List brings in ~$336,000/y with 972,480/mo pageviews and Remote OK ~$301,000/y with ~628,210/mo pageviews. I do everything myself from coding, designing, front end, back end, marketing, etc. I have one person on emergency call in case the server goes down when I sleep but that hasn't happened in years.

You can see live revenue/traffic here, as I share it all:

https://nomadlist.com/open

https://remoteok.io/open

I have no funding, no debt, no employees, just revenue and profit margins are somewhere in the 80%-90%.

Nomad List got started when I was traveling and working remotely ~2013/2014 and wanted to discover more cities that would fit the criteria of nice weather, affordable and fast internet. Since then I've added hundreds more criteria and it's become a giant database, and also a community. The community is how it makes money as people can pay to join the site and access a chat, a trip planner, a forum and many more features.

Remote OK is a much more simple business as it's just a job board. It got started because after building Nomad List a lot of people around me wanted to start working remotely and traveling but didn't have remote jobs. There was like one remote job specific job board back then and it was quite limited. I thought "why not aggregate remote jobs from traditional non-remote job boards". So I did that, and slowly started selling my own job posts on the site which is how it makes money now.

The Coronavirus has substantially affected my business:

Nomad List especially has been affected losing over 50% of its revenue. The site is made for people working remotely and actively traveling so that is to be expected during this crisis. You can even see the complete disruption the Coronavirus brought to traveling members of my site, scroll down to "Trips Taken by Users" on https://nomadlist.com/open.

Remote OK is less affected and might even get a positive effect out of this crisis since remote work becomes more popularized and mainstream during and after this. There is in fact a rise in jobs posted, scroll down to "Job Posts Sold" on https://remoteok.io/open.

Personally I'm less affected financially since I don't have employees and I've saved most of my revenue over the last few years, hardly spending anything. Most people have told me to repeatedly over the years to hire and spend more, but I did the opposite. That means I have a very solid cash buffer now so I can weather this storm quite well. I feel sad/scared about other businesses with high costs that might not be so lucky, especially the employees involved.
The problem with 'normal' is it was a planet destroying sickening consumption madness with a majority on psych meds or other substances to numb the pain.

Surely this pandemic is far from ideal, but can't we stop and think about a few things we perhaps need not return to?
>> As we test the alpha version of pophurdle, we are offering it free of charge! May not even be paid in the end also and continue to be free.

The wording here is weirdly casual and wishy-washy. I'd never pay for this add-on, but if someone is considering helping you alpha test it they might want a little firmer future commitment.

Combined with your answers in this thread I think you should slow down and consider some of the questions and concerns comments have brought up. Your responses are inconsistent and somewhat concerning.
Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger
That's great to here. Hopefully the improvements that are coming with 4.0 will make your demo even more performant.
A morbidly interesting fact, the total number of coronavirus deaths as of 2020-04-13 is 118,304 which makes the list total of 411, ~0.35% of the total deaths. [1] This compares to the 950,903 living "notable" people on Wikipedia out of the world population of 7.594 (~.013%) [2]

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9814707

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
Life Without the Concept of Free Will
I run a web book publishing company in Washington D.C: https://bubblin.io

Covid19 has been a blessing to us since all our books are online and both writers and readers get to chat with each other alongside the story they are on.
Coming April 18: Control Your Zoom Data Routing
It's not at all clickbaity since "apps and services can still scan for nearby devices at any time" doesn't clearly indicate what's happening with that information. It should be better said as "To improve USER experience, apps and services can still scan for nearby devices at any time and extrapolate/derive/get location data, even when Bluetooth is off." This clearly indicates to someone that turning off bluetooth from the pull down menu doesn't make you invisible via blueooth which is what I've always expected.
I know why, and I don't like it.

1. Pure "Collaboration" being a "soft" nice-sounding word institutions won't buy your plane tickets for.

Planes are bad and those institutions are being bad for thinking that collaboration. Do cheaper rail-accessible regional events, which also help with communication graph ossification and density, to negotiate with them better.

2. Academic rat race becoming ever more pernicious as job market grows tighter.

Academia is broken and research is yielding a lot less per cost than it used to. Academia needs to fix its shit or some right-wing goverment is going to succeed in turning off the money hose. I have zero interest in seeing status-quo-preserving procrastination on this front.

3. People that aren't qualified to partake in hallway chat are still eyeballs for marketting at industry conferences.

Let's not hitch everything good in the world to the monster than is marketing and advertising?

4. Big conferences are more glamorous

Giant hotel are is tasteless and so are people that uncritically enjoy them. But OK fine, Vegas conferences are exempt from my proposals.
Not sure how much interest there is in this, but you can AMA here as well.
Yes, I agree that would be excellent.
invest the surplus into purchasing more land and conservation efforts.
> you can either buy a larger house and portion off an in-law unit

Wouldn't that make it even more expensive to buy the larger house? You have to get the larger mortgage and pay to remodel the home on top of that. Plus I'm pretty sure there can be zoning restrictions on turning single family homes into multifamily buildings.

> You could buy a smaller house.

If what you claimed is correct [1], then that implies that smaller houses are relatively scarcer than they were in 1978, and thus harder to find. Just "buy a smaller house" isn't actionable advice if the houses available to buy are larger.

[1] The price per square foot has stayed constant adjusted for inflation, and the price increases are due to houses "getting bigger."
Once the i == 4 and i > 4 cases have been eliminated, all code paths in the function return true. It's helpful to remember that the

if (table[i] == v) return true;

line has an implicit `else continue;` clause, not an `else return false;` clause.
The value of gloves is they help keep your hands clean. If you don't wear gloves, you are reliant on a good hand wash to get the virus off. You can miss spots, it can get under your nails. Gloves aren't going to help if you are touching your face with them, but they allow for a better decontamination process.
So it looks like you can have:

CONSTANT NOT COPY NAND OR AND XOR XNOR NOR ANDNY ANDYN ORNY ORYN MUX

... so pure, combinational logic operators. You can build up some serious functions with these, yes.
open ended thinking on a framework level is basically R&D, many companies don't have money for R&D, they just need something to sell and get paid so you can get your next paycheck, but u can try and find a sugar daddy or live off of foodstamps for a few years and really put some thought into it lol.
Sorry, yes, "a handful" was stretching it, but it's not a big issue. Wild boar meat is hunted and sold all over Sweden and the radioactivity is measured.

If you look at the sources more closely, you'll see the "70%" figure was the number of wild boars that have measurably higher levels of radioactivity. Not the number above the limit.

This has been a big thing for the Hunters association since the limits are very low and fallout was very localized, hunters in some areas are very much affected since they could not sell the meat.

It's a pity, since even Livsmedelsverket themselves say 1.5 kBq/kg is safe to eat several times a month[1]. The limits are set very low. Granted, they state above 10 kBq/kg should not be eaten, but there were very few animals above that value.

[1] https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/livsmedel-och-innehall/oonsk...
Yes, also USPS is only one of several carriers here. Each has a slightly different market. Decrease in one could occur simultaneous with increase of another.
The question of freedom comes when a user then comes to your software and then wants to:

- Use the program for any purpose,
- Freely examine the source code,
- Make improvements and distribute them to others (in the spirit of being a good neighbor).

These things sound very sensible, don't they? Do you disagree that they should be called "freedoms"?

And those are the freedoms GPL helps protect.
It's crazy how inaccessible testing still is in the US today. We're completely deluding ourselves if we think we can just open everything back up in May or June and everything will return to normal if we still haven't figured testing out.

Who's going to want to risk themselves or their employees if we can't ensure our own safety? Don't get me wrong, it's great that we're seeing signs of the curve flattening. But we're still bungling the Covid response on a daily basis by not making testing easier and more accessible.
There is a long list of problems with this suggestion, starting with how amazingly classist it is.

Let's just point out that some people are homeless, soup kitchens are closing and homeless people still need to somehow eat.

Homelessness is a problem we should have already done something about before we had a global pandemic, but couldn't be arsed because we were too busy being in denial about the systemic issues that help foster it. We prefer the narrative that "It's just a bunch of crazies and junkies and not caused by our crappy housing policies and health care policies in the US. No need to actually build housing that people can afford to live in without a car and without taking on a roommate they've never met before."

As someone who actually has a compromised immune system, I don't want delivery drivers. I hate getting food delivered.

People are at their worst when they are alone with no eyes on them. I don't want angry, stressed out, underpaid people alone with my food for ten minutes or more while they drive it to my home (which happens to be not conducive to contactless delivery and I don't want to get into the reasons why, suffice it to say it isn't a McMansion in the 'burbs).

I don't know what possesses people to imagine that delivery is superior method for germ control. That doesn't at all fit with my understanding of life, the universe and everything.
Except that "normie" is the name a particular in-group gives to their out-group. It's not a name that out-group adopted. Most normal people seeing "normie" will both intuit what it means (a normal person), but also recognize the person using it is also signaling in-group status.
Grocery worker COVID deaths: 41/900000 = 0.00004555555
(this number is from article and only for union members).

Total US COVID deaths: 28000/328000000 = 0.00008536585. So seemingly there's nothing particularly risky about being a grocery store worker. In fact, you're about half as likely to die!

Keep in mind the 328mm number includes children, non-working adults, etc and of course total deaths are skewed towards older non-working adults. Still it's extremely frustrating, but not surprising, that the media refuses to do any sort of cursory analysis like this.
I think longer this goes on, the more essential basic roles become needed. Dentists can close offices for a few weeks or a month, but after several months cavities go untreated, cavities are created because teeth aren't cleaned/maintained, preventable issues go unaddressed etc.

For a week or two sure essential is very narrow, but after several weeks that can expand.

I will say though, my state at least deemed most of the roles you mentioned essential. I can still get my computer repaired, get construction/maintenance done, and at least consult with my medical professionals over the phone/video chat for now in terms of basic consultation. I know betterhelp.com is a service (there are others) my spouse has used.
I believe that's why the poster referenced the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. It entirely depends on your definitions and you can keep endlessly narrowing your definitions. All of them GC, right? All of them are doing some form or another of incremental, right? (Some in all generations, others only in some generations, based on balancing and tuning needs.) Do all of them have realtime characteristics? Yes and no. None of them are allowed to stop the world, certainly, but does that mean that all of them or any of them can be called "realtime"? It's a semantic hedge forest.
Also I would imagine that the person who also code as a hobby is more likely to have a burnout later on. Just a guess though