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I wonder if there is something in your immune system, maybe genetic or your viral experience, that determines how well your body will cope with this new virus. There are reports of really old people (I read a 103 and 99 year old's stories) who recovered from a bout, yet my niece lost a 30 year old friend.

I guess its like debugging an app you have never seen and the source code is in a language you barely know; everything seems like a clue as to what is going wrong, yet much of what you think it's doing is simply a mystery because you don't understand enough.

Even in 2020 there are mysteries in the human body we simply don't understand yet.
"Established chess powerhouse" - not in the eyes of your average reader who doesn't follow world chess events, and most likely wouldn't be able to name any active chess player, with the possible exception of Carlsen himself.

It's CNN, not ChessBase. They have no reason to assume any chess-related who-is-who knowledge on the reader's part.
Why bencoding and not BSON or CBOR or any of the other serialization options?
It is. Good post. I already said the same things but fear of writing like this - so many still choose to ignore or be overly optimistic. It will get worse, much much worse before it gets better.
Yeah and the original cons cells had proper equality defined on them, which common lisp doesn't have.
Also the original lisp wasn't a lisp-2.

In clojure you can trivially use your own cons cells and get equality for free, in common lisp you can't build the proper mathematical properties without essentially reinventing clojure.
For businesses that will probably never return.
Hydrogen storage may be useful in the future. But probably not for cars. Battery EVs are better environmentally (much lower carbon footprint and higher efficiency), have longer range and more power.

It’s too bad the story had to be written about car applications rather than the MOF itself.
Thanks for playing ! Can't believe I made it 2nd, first podium of a tournament for me xD

Another haxor created a team we can all join to keep in touch: https://lichess.org/team/hacker-news

GLHF ;)
But removing fed funding would mean they have to remove their honeypot backdoors.
Yes, this is Hacker News and that means we understand systems thinking.

Either the people collectively get a say in what is "factually accurate", an ill-defined concept in the first place, or they don't (authoritarianism); the mechanics do not matter. And if we accept your premise that large swaths of the population have been "robbed of their ability to think critically", then whatever the system decides is "factually accurate" will be corrupted if the people have a say in it. Or, in other words, "garbage in, garbage out".

If there are other options, please articulate them.
Hey. At the moment what is implemented is exactly what you are going to find in the three books of the Ray Tracing in a Weekend series. If I can find the time to continue this project, I am going to make a git tag for the current version for people who just want to use this while going through the books and I will also add a changelog for any changes I make from that point onward.
Yeah. The 6' safety distance applies to non-moving situations. If you have either moving people (you need more than 6' when following someone moving at a decent pace) or airflow (wind or air conditioners) it changes. This should be obvious, the only reason for research would be to figure out how much it increases the needed distance.
> But this isn't what the whole US system is built around. That's (at least part of) the problem. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, many of the things Andreessen says he thinks we need to build are thinks that the free market would like to build, but can't because of legal and regulatory barriers.

Really? Which thing? I haven't really been sold a narrative that "regulatory barriers" are in the way of securing domestic manufacturing capacity or building high speed rail. It's securing the initial and sustained capital to build the systems.

> That said, it is true that free markets are a tool, not an end in themselves. Free markets can help you to provide goods and services as efficiently as possible, but they can't tell you which goods and services should be provided and which should not. So free markets on their own are not enough to have a good society.

Folks misinterpret the literature around free markets all the time. They do not make guarantees of efficiency. Neither does centrally planned economies. The idea that either one is inherently more efficient is the legacy of various propaganda campaigns.

> So free markets on their own are not enough to have a good society.

All that said, I do agree strongly that this is true. To some extent, no system inherently promises this. It's just that some systems guarantee equity cannot be sustained (e.g., capitalism or despotism).

As long as American society implicitly believes in the Hayek-ian notion that freedom exists to empower the hypothetical Galt's that they dream exist and imagine that America's moneyed aristocracy serves an important function of assigning value simply by virtue of their spending, no among of free marketspace will fix our problem. Folks have been duped into buying into a scheme where they think they need aristocracy to survive.
5 second search on Google Scholar returns the full PDF as the 1st result.

https://www.hhs.se/globalassets/swedish-house-of-finance/sem...

Link should be changed to full PDF
> I am sure there are quite a few who know this gnu-tool

You'd be very surprised if you start actually asking.

I predict if you start actually asking, you'll find that those who even know it exists are a very small minority of the group, and that those who actually use it are a small minority of that already small minority.
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https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/
> considering all s-curves are exponentials at the beginning

Sorry, but I hear a lot of people saying this and it's driving me crazy. S-curves are S-curves from the beginning, not exponentials. It can be useful to use an exponential growth model at the beginning of the curve for short-term forecasting, but these two models will diverge dramatically at the S-curve inflection point.

Not that we shouldn't plan as if exponential growth will occur in a crisis like we're in now, but many people I know don't understand these dynamics and it has lead to a lot of undue panic.
The impossibility of low-rank representations for triangle-rich complex networks
This is a primarily large company focused initiative. You’ll need to work with apples partner integration chat providers to build on it. It’s invite only at this point.
> The Democrats did a fine job "gatekeeping" Sanders from the 2016 and 2020 nomination, to what end?

I don't understand this perspective. Sanders lost because he lost primary elections. That happened because democrats didn't believe in him as a candidate. Many of us have been steadfast in our disbelief for years due only to listening to what he himself says about what he wants to do. Why discredit our opinions this way?
I got suspicious staring for playing with my kids in public. She could play with other people's kids without even asking.
We need to wait until we have antibody testing to get a clear picture about this.

A theory is that these asymptomatic cases simply had latent virus in their nasal passages (thus testing positive), and not actually be building any antibodies from an infection.
Security through obscurity? Nah.
What can John Gray's “Black Mass” Tell us about the limits of utopian thinking?
> However, in my experience “intuition” and “mathematics” can often be hard to reconcile.

They can be hard to do, but you must absolutely reconcile them for your effort to be fruitful. Until they are separated, your intuition or your mathematics is wrong, and you can't know which is.
Funny coincidence to have this article on the front page while fixing the last sentences in my blog post. This post might help some people in regard to audio passthrough with PulseAudio in QEMU/KVM, which had a lot of problems until recently. Check it out: https://bitkeks.eu/blog/2020/04/compile-qemu-42-on-debian-bu...
Related Tweet: https://twitter.com/bitkeks/status/1251892611343880194
Won't this reignite the spreading of the virus? Like, they missed a few people who were asymptotic and not tested, and are roaming the streets with other people?
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OHMSS is also my favorite. Out of curiosity which would you say have not aged well? Dr. No has some issues racially as I recall but not that I can think of as outright offensive. I ask because I want to know what I have missed (sometimes the blinders are up and you don’t see what you should).
The hypothesis suggested in the science article sounds more plausible - these patients are truly oxygen deprived, but potentially because of the vascular Nature of the infection, the typical gasping response is not initiated
I agree that people didn't really understand what they were getting into fully when they initially agitated for it, but it's definitely the case that there was broad initial public support which is what allowed the companies to get a foothold.
I was a little bit confused what Clover was referring to— "Clover EFI is a boot loader developed to boot OS X (Hackintoshes), Windows and Linux in legacy or UEFI mode." (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clover)
What happened with SBA loans that forced everyone into needing VC funding? Didn't people used to just get SBA loans to fund inventions and small businesses? Now it seems like everyone defaults to VC funding.
>...people are seriously considering 12 month style lockdowns to protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life.

"Good years" for who? The accumulation of experience, knowledge, historic context, etc., tend to make a person's life more meaningful with time not less. To insinuate that the good years come and go with youth is either a statement about your own life or a failure of your imagination. Not even getting into the fact that you feel you can measure the worth of millions of stranger's lives and determine they're not worth saving.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. Seems like the self-centeredness of people who are better off (kind of like that 2016 election, eh?). Programmers and developers can comfortably work from home. Most people, most people in the lower working classes, cannot. So either they starve or go homeless or they risk their lives to provide for themselves and their families. How is it even a question which of the two is preferable? Are you really asking them to starve because of the risk?

You know, if you want narcissism, look no further than the moralizers, especially the ones comfortably clacking away at their keyboards in the comfort of their own homes and making six figures.
> Do IPOs/liquidity events/exits/etc all happen when the right price has been determined; ie when we can see what size the company will be, and it is no longer useful to capitalize it further? When all growth paths have been explored. Is that time the inflexion point?

To answer this question, you need to ask the question: what reason is the company going public?

For example, in the dot com boom, companies went public with a business plan (almost). They were clearly looking for funding to expand on their business and were nowhere near the inflection point.

In contrast, with WeWork, SoftBank was pretty clearly looking to unload radioactive garbage on the public.

So the answer is: it depends.
No, you misunderstand in that case, sorry if I was unclear. I think people who "start" wars are an anomaly, the vast majority of wars are started as a consequence of a long chain of events, among which the notion of mutual deterrence and the accompanying need for an arms race is one of the most important. Outbreaks of world wars are the empirical proof of failures of that doctrine, and it has happened 2 times with devastating consequences.

Let's understand that mutual deterrence is not the way to prevent world wars already. Let's urgently try other options.
I don't really see why this suggests Sweden's approach should be emulated though. The reality is that we don't understand the conditions where COVID-19 thrives well enough yet to understand why some areas are hit so much harder than others.

We've seen hints that blood type, climate, average social distance, average obesity, average age, etc. But nothing definitive yet.

The costs to the economy from these lockdowns are trivial compared to the cost of a runaway and persistent viral hotspot like New York or Seattle, even if we pretend (as some folks here seem to insist we do) that the loss of life is not worth discussing.

What works in a given area population is great; but until you have some idea what your local R factors and hospitalization rates are, you really should play it safe.
It seems like the thesis of the post is that everyone will keep getting mad at each other, and we'll be frustrated by the slow pace is recovery. Which seems likely, but I'm not sure I agree that is worse than what we're going through now? Less people will be dying, we'll be more prepared for the next waves, and the economy will slowly be recovering. If you're not spending your time watching / reading the news and arguing with people online, it feels to me like things will just be getting better (albeit slowly).
Out of curiosity, what brand of mobile phone do you use?
Sed is a command line utility for unixoid shells. It is comparable to awk. I say this because the awk binary is actually an interpreter for the similarly named programming language. So awk is in some way similar to the v8 JavaScript interpreter binary.

Using sed from JavaScript is therefore on similar footing then using Python from JavaScript. It results in a heavy process call with challenging passing of information between the caller and the callee. That's the basic difference between a shell script (which relies by definition on the system binaries) and a high level programming language.

I think a fairer question is: why is there not a npm module similarly powerful as sed. I dunno if there is. Maybe it is :)
This page has many links to such papers:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
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The trouble is, reducing the size of the outbreak doesn't affect the number of tests needed to do this much at all, and the number of people South Korea has been testing doesn't seem to have increased in quite a while. In fact, it seems to have actually decreased compared to back in March. Like, as far as I can tell, they're still using the same contact tracing and testing strategy that failed to contain it before without additional strong social distancing, and the social distancing is weakening.
This has been done. Spoiler: the virus is not from the lab.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
You are inventing definitions here.

> System on Chip are called System on Chip because they don’t expose I/O ports(like PORTA through PORTD on AVR) to the pins thus can’t interface RAM or ROM or other peripherals natively, but only over narrower buses through internal interface chips/logics.

What does IO port multiplexing of the AVR have to do with the definition of SoC?

> In my rule of thumb, every surface mounted “CPU” between 80 to 200MHz across industries were called SoC from 2003 through 2010s.

No. I dont see how the physical mounting of the package changes anything. Most processors are surface mount, even some bga x86 chips.

> Those CPUs/MPUs that do expose I/O directly to be interfaced to SDRAM, LCD or equivalents of North Bridge chip on PC were usually called either MPU or CPU, often MPU for they integrate some peripherals.

No. MPU = MicroProcessor Unit.

> Those under 80-120MHz were often called Microcontrollers(uC). They were also often self contained like SoC but didn’t count, also got a lot higher clocked recently but still don’t.

So modern highly integrated microcontrollers, an effective system on a chip with 300+MHz core speed, sram, flash, eeprom, can, uarts, ethernet, pwm, counters, dac's, adc's, arent system on chips?

> SoC means CPU’s main I/O ports are not exposed to pins.

Uh, No.
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No, because they test people regularly and do accurate contact tracing. Thanks to a favourable regulatory environment and a profusion of capable people, South Korea scaled up testing and tracing capacity very rapidly. Furthermore, they were socially prepared to do the basic social distancing.

Also, Taiwan has done an excellent job, and they didn't need to perform nearly as many tests. AFAIK there hasn't been a single additional confirmed case in Taiwan for the last three days.
Personal opinion: I'm glad Google and Apple are working on this. Because a very likely possibility if they don't, is that the governments demand further access to devices, backdoors to software, and enhanced power related to data collection and use.

Rationally, this would boil down to whether you trust your government or the tech companies more with this data, and opinions will vary.

My, admittedly high level, review of this proposal is that it seems to have a good privacy design. As I understand it, the contact information never leaves your device.
They might be a useful guide, but it's a ridiculous oversimplification to reduce human intelligence to a single number. There is also an inherent social and cultural bias in most such tests which also needs to be accounted for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Criticis...
Meh. The vast majority of parenting advice lacks scientific evidence anyway. (I tried to find some with a proper evidence base as a new dad and honestly I'm amazed we don't have more for what is clearly such an important topic).
Thank you for this response. All smooth curves are also approximately linear at all points, but that doesn't mean that we can't usefully predict and model an appropriate non-linear fit.
In light of social distancing can we get a not-so-hands-on version?
Your calculus is off. The $2T spent (not $6T) is not for the 40k deaths, but for preventing 400K additional deaths. At $5K per saved life, well worth it. If you want to fault the spending, talk to Congress and the WH about why it's so misallocated.
you know that social experiment where they tell kids they have have either one cookie now or several cookies if they wait until later?

that's exactly the test going on right now and it's sorting out those that can give up the cookie now to shorten this, vs immediate gratification to give up a longer term benefit

the problem is, all it takes is a few who demand immediate gratification to drag us all through months and months more of this

btw planning on a vax is a fool's errand, there is growing research that a vax may not work/last and there will likely be mutations where a vax won't help, science may be a long term savior but not any time "soon"

only behavior changes can mitigate this but too late to solve massive inequality, health and discipline differences in american society, it's a perfect storm against a corrupted/corroded structure
Sure. Tbh, I didn't really want this comment to be an opportunity to pitch my company or make it too specific about our solution as there are many different types of solutions, categories and problems that could use innovation capital that are second in line.

flair.co is us.

We have taken money from investors, those that aren't afraid of energy problems, that aren't afraid of energy efficiency, and that invest in meaningful problems (and some others too, but much better portfolio mixes than most). Things are (minus covid 19) changing. We are already a key transitional electrification solution, we are solving peak problems on the grid, and we are poised through a few partnerships to redefine home energy consumption in North American homes. I'm adding that for context as our website doesn't publicly lay that out.

All that said, I'm so thankful for the investors that we do have. They listened to our larger vision from the get go, focus on meaningful problems, and put their money where their mouth is. Now that we are realizing this vision, they will realize returns and leadership ROI as this particular blog post fades into the past.
That is very labor intensive and isn't sustainable. People will get complacent fast.
My understanding is that to mark yourself as Covid+, you’ll need a code from a health care provider.

I agree that allowing self diagnosis would ruin the entire system.
Do you know the rest of the story, too?

Brooks/Gabriel developed an implementation for stock hardware (typically Unix systems with RISC CPUs: SUN SPARC, IBM POWER, MIPS, PA-RISC) which largely debunked their own earlier critique: Lucid Common Lisp.

See this paper: Design of An Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for
Common Lisp, Rodney A. Brooks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lucid, Inc.), David B. Posner, James L. McDonald, Jon L. White Eric Benson, Richard P. Gabriel (Lucid, Inc.), 1986 http://rpgpoet.com/Files/cp.pdf

They even founded a company (Lucid, Inc., 1984), which sold this Lisp very successful for several years. Many companies used it during that time for deployment of Lisp applications.

Richard P Gabriel even co-developed the Common Lisp Object System standard and published the spec in 1988: http://rpgpoet.com/Files/concepts.pdf and http://rpgpoet.com/Files/Functions.pdf

Rodney Brooks also developed a specialized tiny variant of Common Lisp called L, which he then used in many research and commercial robots. 1995

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2949173_L_--_A_Comm...
There are niche scenarios where a horse is more useful(e.g. rough terrain), but for 99.9% of the scenarios of modern life, a car/motor is more powerful and reliable. Horses are also noisy(clop clop clop) and have been known to trample people.

Supersonic flight was tried with the Concorde and its profitability was iffy due to large subsidies involved in its development, and the handling of BA privatization in the late 80s. There are aerodynamic constraints that make supersonic flight inefficient. Unless we magically change physics, supersonic flight is always going to be significantly less efficient than subsonic flight.

Also the quickest way to make something that is starting to become viable(electric cars), less viable, is to make it have to fly(flying drones). You now have to fight gravity 24/7.

This isn't about dismissing the future, it's about people trying to implement these ideas for the last 70 years, and some spunky "disruptor" startup isn't going to magically change the laws of physics once we "git rid of that dang regulations!"
Meant to say: Your probability of not being at one of these during a shooting compounds to 90.86%.
Great thanks for the references!
Same here. You can get a fitness band that measures SpO2 among other things for 30 bucks or so
But if an attacker is already "inside" your system and is able to access the interface for configuring the FPGA, I think you have already lost...
You've managed to argue with the individual phrases while missing the actual point.

Tell you what, let's assume that you're right. The CDC is continuously reevaluating mask usage by the general public, but recommended against it due to fears of a shortage and/or hoarding. That being the case, please help me understand the following:

1) Why did the CDC change guidance on mask usage despite the shortage and risks of hoarding being, if anything, worse than before? If it was the controlling factor before, why is it not a concern anymore?

2) If they are continuously reevaluating policies, and believed masks should be used, why was the guidance not changed at any point in the last 10 years when there was no shortage or any particular reason to worry about hoarding?

3) Why is this a more parsimonious or plausible explanation than the one advanced in TFA, which is that they had a very high standard of evidence which they have relaxed somewhat in the face of a pandemic?
Can you post the link here?