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Ah yes, that's not a subjective thing at all, all we have to do is query our database for all laws where the PREVENTS_STUFF_FROM_BEING_BUILT flag is set to TRUE, and we disable all of those. Easy.
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it's trying to understand why the patients retested positive for COVID-19 despite previous negative tests.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/04/18/COVID-19-Survivor...

Not to mention: Denver had a significant spike in 1918 when interventions were removed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVHzq2AWkAEhbJo.jpg

Note: I didn't locate this image on WashPo's site.
You’re not including the fed balance sheet, which is much larger than the stimulus.
>... what parts are failing.

Client usability is one thing.Conversations for Android is an example of how to do things well. An example:

You start a multiuser chat and Conversations just picks the options that will allow OMEMO encryption by default. You do the same thing on Gajim and it picks the wrong options and then uses completely different terminology in the error message when OMEMO is attempted. There is no way to know how to change the options to make things work.

Supposedly iOS XMPP clients could use some work but I have no direct experience.

The protocol itself is reasonably good and there are lots of implementations out there.
Because Formula 1 - like most other sports - has such a dependence on an athlete's physical fitness to actually express the skill they have, I think it - and most other sports - is rather unlike chess.
I think you'd be surprised at the infrastructure that out there for plasma collection. I was doing due diligence on one of these companies a few years back and was surprised to learn that the pharmaceutical company owns thousands of plasma collection clinics. The IV Ig market is quite large.

That said, you're right, this could never be used with every infected patient, but companies could probably produce enough for the sickest patients.
The only reason that Hydrogen powered cars are even still discussed over battery electric is that 95% of industrial hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels. In other words the people pushing it are probably protecting their oil and gas interests. They aren't going to put money into research to cut themselves out of the loop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
I'd just remove the emojis, but I'm curious whether they actually have an impact, negative or positive on conversion.

It "reads" to me in a really bad way, but I might be overly cynical due to exposure to things like https://i.redd.it/9q7jj7uw2qp41.jpg
Best response in this entire thread imo.

And I have yet to hear from pmarca or anyone else an answer to this puzzle that is even slightly convincing.

Which gives me pause.
Because there has been more time to collect and analyze the data about the previous ones.
> Volunteer for a political campaign?

How is that an option, do they house and feed you if you vomubt for a political campaign?
Just to add to this: it's not strictly necessary to pull an MLB from a real Mac, although that can certainly be a shortcut.

If you present Apple with computer information that makes sense, and you do it right the first time, they'll usually accept it as real. I've done this around five times now and it has always worked. I can actually enter my made-up serial numbers on Apple's website, and they show up in the system as real computers[1]!

The serial, MLB, hardware model, etc all need to match, and you need to get it right on the first try! Apple seems to get suspicious once you've fed them weird data.

[1] When I tell people this, they always ask if I'm sure I didn't collide with a real serial. The possibility that this happened--especially every time I've done it--is incredibly small, so I'm quite sure that isn't what's happening.
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I'm sure people would be happy to provide more bad examples--indeed, they have done just that (and I contributed my own gripes about Adobe Acrobat).

I can think of bad UI choices in nearly every application I use. I think one over-arching issue being raised here is the lack of consistency among applications, even on a single platform.

But if you don't think everything is bad, perhaps you could provide examples of software with good UIs?
It's entirely possible I have missed something, and I'd love some links!

I'm especially looking for reporting on why it's so slow, what the bottlenecks are, and who's responsible.

Even if there is some good reporting out there, I think this should me one of the main news items in a healthy society.

I have seen reporting on the bungling of the initial testing rollout, like this one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/contamination-...
I did it with a Dell XPS 15 last summer and it was easier than installing Windows. Sleep worked fine, the wifi card was the only thing that had to be changed.
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I think there is a ton of innovation occurring. Biotech is exploding right now with CRISPR-CAS9, optogenetic application to mind-machine interfaces are already in rats and monkeys. Medicine, despite covid, is doing great stuff. I'd bet that the large scale testing we're doing will be somewhat sticky and our risk tolerance at the FDA will expand a lot. EE is about to take off again when someone can come up with a cheap and workable memristor; it'll completely change how we do logic at the substrate level, going from discrete to 'analog' math. We're revolutionizing history and literature with tools like google trends. I think a lot of the 'malaise' is just cyclical. Innovation comes in spurts, we're at the end of a business cycle, it's kinda normal.

That said, yeah, the elephant in the room is the massive concentration of wealth and regulatory capture. All the innovations I just mentioned are kinda happening in the back-rooms and on obscure boards like HN. Getting these things to markets and in the hands of professionals is really just terribly difficult. I get the FDA pushing back on things (and largely agree with it), but the big players just seem to push down really hard on innovators. I mean, look at the App-store, it's nutters. Paradoxically, more government intervention is needed, but against the big fish.
So this is a genuinely surprising attitude to me. You appreciate the software features and hardware stability of a platform, yet you do not want the creators to be paid for their work?

I mean, it must be obvious that doing these things well apparently costs tons of man-hours and someone needs to be compensated for it? How do you maintain that degree of cognitive dissonance?
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Cases per million or deaths per million don't make sense. The virus seeds from people entering the country and spreads exponentially from those seeds. The speed of the spread depends on the population density of the area where the seeds start but the population of the entire country has little to no bearing on that.
Per capita is all that matters.
If the R0 is truly near six, we have probably climbed near the top of the S curve already all over the place. We will know in a month.
> But my question is: if epidemiologists aren't experts at THIS, wtf are they experts in? Isn't this exactly the "classic" circumstance any average epidemiologist should be a able to see in a heartbeat.

They're experts at remaining epidemiologists. Epidemiology is a lose-lose profession. If you overreact, then you get blamed. If you underreact, then you get blamed. Every epidemiologist who was willing to put their predictions in clear, unambiguous language and put their reputations on the line to urge decisive action was drummed out when MERS didn't turn out to be a big deal or Ebola didn't turn out to be a big deal or when H1N1 didn't turn out to be a big deal or when SARS didn't turn out to be a big deal.

Thus, what remains are people putting their predictions in mush mouthed, carefully qualified scientific language that is all technically correct but carefully calibrated not to encourage anyone to do anything.

First time entrants have an advantage in the field in that they don't care if they get drummed out.
What exactly is the negative consequence you are envisioning from 2 years at community college and 2 years at your in-state 4-year school, vs. all four years at the latter?

The typical alternative that people need to be guided away from is one of the for-profit "career" schools that doesn't have transferable credits and is way more expensive than community college.
Professors, faculty, and parents are at risk, though. If corona infects a dorm it will rip through like wildfire. You'll have 100's of asymptomatic carriers overnight.

Then they go home for break...
It is very hard to estimate such matters when you're a junior developer. :) Say you're right. Actually, I don't doubt you. I am certain that I will find I was wrong when I wrote that. But still, this does not mean sed is not a tool worth learning and I am very greedy in such contexts. I love learning. And in some contexts, it seems very reasonable to use sed (and awk) rather than js, python or a 'richer' language?
Did you read the notice above it, or did you just breeze right to the bottom so you could be snarky first?
Well, it’s successful until it’s not. Nature’s primary approach to debugging seems to be: you die. We clearly weren’t intended to open up the hood and fix things.
Not that "initial setup"; the initial setting-up process of getting your Hackintosh from "a stock install where most things don't work" to "customized with drivers and patches that make everything work." That's the time-consuming part; and that's the part that could be automated. It's the thing that MultiBeast tries (but mostly fails) to do.
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The difference is the level of privacy and intrusion. We're comfortable with people being told to get rid of stolen goods, or to delete copyrighted material from their servers. It remains to be seen that we'd be just as okay with people being forced to remove things from their memories.
There's a difference between ARM reference designs for SoCs (the topic in question) and ARM's designs for their CPU cores.

In the context of reference designs, you see stuff like the ARM Juno designs. I've seen people (very very rarely) just drop those whole designs into their boards. But, like I said, almost nobody uses them except as a prototyping target.
But it hasn't ramped up yet and they loosen the lockdown already by monday. The got R down to .7 at best and that only on average, not in the hotspots.

I bet in 2 weeks (I hope it's not even more delay) they will notice that (partially) opening schools and shops was a mistake and will have to row back. I just hope they will be as lucky as with the initial curve-flattening.

Germany has flattened the curve, but that still means they are roughly on it's summit. There are still more infected than ever and every misstep might be costly.

Here are the different regions, just recovered/dead are not included in the graph I think: https://preview.redd.it/x7g0xnlblds41.png?width=894&format=p...

Generally it peaked at 70k infected and is back at 50k https://studylib.net/coronavirus#country-de
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I'm really looking forward to what he is going to build.
This really depends on why you want to go to university. Is it just for the knowledge and nothing else? Save the money and self learn. Since you specifically mentioned developer, you can take a look here https://ossu.firebaseapp.com/#/curriculum

I've looked at and talked to a lot of different people at different universities in comp sci bachelors. For the most part the curriculum is the same. What sets some schools apart are what you do on the side and general academic environment.

Some people might say that going to university just for the sake of a degree might be a waste, but again this depends on you and your circumstances. There are companies that only hire people with a degree. It's a stupid way to make a hiring decision, but here we are.

I've actually just finished my masters degree in info systems and can definitely understand your thought process. Let me know if you have any other questions. More than happy to help.
I don't know much about FPGA's but I tried to read the paper. Maybe someone can tell me if this is correct:

Getting your hands to raw gate configuration helps with cloning. It's pita to reverse engineer.

Any device that uses Xilinx 7 or Virtex 6 SPI or BPI Flash remote update is potentially fucked. There is HMAC in bitstream and no other authentication.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102551/
Why not accept a job and simply decline to move?

I understand it's a shitty thing to do, but at the end of the day your health/sanity is more important than some companies. If you have a good manager/coworkers you can even get them to bat for you to stay, as a remote worker.
This article for example was on the CNN front page, explaining that the major bottlenecks are test swabs and the required reagents and describing a specific FDA action which the governor of Ohio thinks would solve his problems.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/...
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I had no problem spending many hours learning to program the Apple II+ we had but I always felt forced to practice playing the piano. I think the difference for me was the computer was a puzzle to be figured out and I saw a lot of potential reward in it whereas the piano just seemed like something that had little use beyond the skill of coordinating the reading of notes to playing them. My parents did neither of these things so I had no models to base my interests in in these cases at least.
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Where's Linux version? Does editor has vi bindings? People should stop building database IDE without vi bindings.
Notify17 looks great, and I plan on giving it a go.

However, since their example is a curl with plaintext body, I question their assertion that "Whatever your content is, we will never know about it".

It sounds to me more like the content is encrypted at rest, which is important but I still have to trust that N17 isn't squirreling away a plaintext copy or accidentally leaking it via logs or something similar.
regarding this I always wondered why not to simply have a java-like syntax over scheme-like semantics, especially for things like confusing equality rules and truthy values.

I suspect that in the end we would have gotten the same javascript with scheme syntax.
I notice that you repeatedly say "still supports". Do any of them still manufacture and sell those lines?
If everyone gets free money that will just cause inflation.

Get with the program, do something the world needs. Get off your ass and make something. And by something not something the needful. Something well architected.
SciHub is my counterpoint. Many are very supportive of copyrighted material being freely available, depending on the material. To your second point, the future is what we make it. Get involved.
How does testing prevent the disease? Also, if someone tests -ve, is that mean he/she is immune to the disease?
So now you have even more confusing code. Good work!
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> I do have a job at a cybersecurity firm where I'm a part-time developer, and my boss would probably convert me to full-time.

You already have a job and your boss has made you a developer. One thing you'll get in school that you won't get on the job, in general, is algorithm training. This is an important step for developing the best code you can and being exposed to weird and different ways to write things. This is important.

I personally do not see a real advantage to going to an elite school, depending on how you define elite school. If you're speaking Ivy League or some school that's world renowned, then no, that's not really important, I don't think. You already have contacts in the industry and there are "lesser" schools that are still pretty great.

Your company might be willing to pay for your college education. It almost certainly won't be from MIT; but, it could greatly reduce the costs you're worried about.

The next thing to consider is future employment, not this employment. Future companies that you work for may want you to have a degree or look down on you for your lack of one. Lacking particularly impressive projects or lots of random technologies on your resume may cause this.

Whether you decide that's going to matter or not is up to you; but, I think the one thing you should make sure you have experience in, either way, are the classes seen as less important for day to day development: your algorithm classes, discrete math classes, and similar. You can get much of that education online and for either free (YouTube, etc) or through educational sites like Pluralsight.
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I have 5 sons. I exposed all of them to computer, appliance & car repair. That involved setting them in front of the project, tool in hand & letting them go as far as they could.

Only one really bit into it & he largely eclipsed my ability by the time he was 18.

The others found their own skill sets, mostly with stuff I suck at.

Edit: Interestingly, one is training as an electrician which is tangentially related to my skills. However, he came to that totally on his own.

His learning is best aided thru support, not influence.
> you have to admit that you are taking for granted that his intentions are benign

Huh? I made no such assumption. I simply speculated that he was doing this for one form of currency, and not another. He may well want to track everybody, I have no idea.

But the whole premise is absurd. Bill Gates doesn’t need to inject tracking microchips into everyone through a forced vaccination program to “sway elections” — that’s Hollywood supervillain-level garbage: a massively intricate complex plan that achieves so little. It’s like inventing a time machine just to use it to prove to your friend that he really did say that thing he denies he said in 1972.

Bill Gates doesn’t need a crazy plan to sway elections — he can just buy tons of ads! He can fund others’ campaigns!

I don’t know Gates’ intentions — but I’m pretty sure he’s not stupid.
University of La Verne puts professor on unpaid leave for alleged threat against colleague 11-26-19

https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/02/21/university-of-la-ve...
> 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.

You don't need to be "sold a narrative". You just need to go read the reams and reams of Federal and State regulations that any new manufacturing plant or high speed rail system (not to mention any other business) needs to satisfy.

> It's securing the initial and sustained capital to build the systems.

But in order for that capital to be used for a new venture, the people who have it need to see a reasonable prospect of a return. If you don't think regulatory barriers are the reason why people with lots of capital don't see a reasonable prospect of return in ventures that, on the face of it, would seem to have an obvious potential for good returns, what do you think is the reason?

> They do not make guarantees of efficiency.

More precisely, the conditions under which a free market is maximally efficient are very often not satisfied in the real world. But I did not claim that free markets were always maximally efficient. I said they are as efficient as possible; in other words, under whatever conditions you have, free markets are more efficient than any other alternatives. Under conditions where free markets are not maximally efficient, central planning is even worse.

> Folks have been duped into buying into a scheme where they think they need aristocracy to survive.

I think there is a sense in which this is true, but it's not the one you describe. The problem I see is that people think they need to be governed by experts--an intellectual "aristocracy", not a financial one. The manipulation of the financial system by the government printing money and skewing the incentives of financial institutions is certainly part of that, but not all of it.
accept, reverse engineer, if data is aggregated - send spoofed randomised data, if not - just play back time I actually worked on slower speed and use a VM.

As for price, let them make an offer and see how valuable the data is for them.
Fully working Hackintosh laptops are possible, but much harder. You can't mix and match parts for compatibility, and there's actually a lot of extra hardware that needs to work properly--e.g. you don't need a driver to change monitor brightness on desktops.

You need to make sure you get a laptop that other people have Hackintoshed successfully--and make sure you're clear on what exactly "success" meant for the other person. Does internal wifi work, or do you need to keep a USB dongle perpetually plugged in? Is the battery life terrible because OS X can't switch between the dedicated and integrated graphics? Etc etc.

I've never done it, although it's actually something I want to try in the near-ish future. I really want a tablet that can run OS X 10.9...
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Sure. It's not an either/or. An airline company is hard to start regardless of what the gov't does. However, parsing out routes and giving airlines monopolies on them adds a significant number of bricks to the wall.
Given that your file names are pretty unique words, does it really need to be harder than a simple search-and-replace?

sed -i 's/(another-file\.md)/(yet-another-file.md)/g' *.md
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> you do not want the creators to be paid for their work?

Er, no, likely more like "I have what hardware I have, and zero money to buy better. I would like to find the way to tune my existing hardware [e.g. by installing different operating systems] to give me the best possible experience that I can without putting any money into it, because I don't have any. When I have money, then I'll actually buy the thing I think is the best; but for now, a simulacra of it will have to suffice."

You know, the same reason college students pirate Photoshop instead of using GIMP.
I don't want to get into partisan politics, but the US central authorities weren't serious about the problem until relatively late in the process, and our testing ramp up was also very slow. The move to block travel from China was well timed, but it can arguably be seen as more influenced by geopolitics than health concerns.

The US now is catching up fairly well as the country started playing on its strengths, such as the extremely strong industrial base, financial power and, for better or worse, international leverage.

Regarding the more centralized system, it has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of Germany's central coordination is that it made generally good decisions from the get go, so the country was able to move quicker. The US had a confused central response and the states were able to implement local fixes that prevented the entire system from falling apart.

So I think the US model has the advantage of offering a second layer of defense from poor central planning, which perhaps wouldn't be as easy in Germany (I'm speculating here, I don't know much about Germany democratic guards against bad central decisions).
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