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The government, and the US, and in fact most countries, are actually really really big places. 300 million people is a lot of people - much larger then anyone can imagine as actual, real human beings.

The government stockpiling and coordinating emergency measures is exactly what a government is for. The US maintains the largest military on the planet for exactly this stated purpose - just in case. Why is the idea of allocating capacity to preventing non-military disasters seem like such an impossibility?

300 million people is a lot of experts, studies, research and development and logistics, which can run simultaneously to plan for multiple disaster scenarios and review those plans continuously.
What about the nerf-golf-cart idea?
This is a great description. And, to be clear, I"m not really advocating for either system being better. Just pointing out some of their differences.
Also, those Chinese bats and bat eaters are still there, so this won't be the last coronavirus to make the jump successfully.

Edit: That's not a joke: Cheng et al. (2007) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection [0]

> Coronaviruses are well known to undergo genetic recombination, which may lead to new genotypes and outbreaks. The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.

0) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2176051/
Side project ideas to work on during the Covid-19 lockdowns
That only works if the things that are exchanged for money aren’t destroyed on use, which doesn’t apply to most of the services industry, the food industry, etc.

If everyone just gets free money from the government, nobody will actually do work to receive money from everyone else.

Money is not a closed system. It’s only useful when it’s traded for something that isn’t money.
Big construction corporations and bought-and-paid-for politicians will continue to love nuclear.
I had no idea! I was about to try out the linked article, but this is all I really need. Excellent!
> One of the not-ideal aspects of the design is that SHISHUA is not reversible.

Why is irreversibility a bad thing? Is it just the loss of useful state which reduces the internal entropy?

Is irreversibility ever useful? Wouldn't some amount of discarded bits make it harder for an adversary to infer the state?
Stallman's bit where he dresses up in robes and calls himself St. Ignucius is more grounded in reality than this talk was.
And it goes well beyond Marc.

The list of socially valuable things VCs are responsible for helping to build in the past 10+ years is pretty darn small. Considering their outsized influence and wealth, if they want to know why the future isn't what it should be, they can start by looking in the mirror.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-magneto-a...

"Banks regularly use Faraday-shielded rooms to protect servers."

But they do not seem to be air gapped, as then the use of the data would be very limited.

I would assume, the main interest in air gapped systems are top secret, high value research projects, as well as many secret agencies, who must assume, that their IT equipment comes with a backdoor installed at hardware level.

Other ways of getting the virus in: at some point, the computer needs software and data. When the data comes in, so can a virus and uae a unknown zero day exploit.
> Markets would love to build more housing. But they're prevented from doing so by the regulatory state.

I'm not certain this is a problem outside of the Bay area.
> The reality is that the abstract machine modeled by C is a long, long way from what modern CPUs actually do,

But some modern CPUs fault on unaligned access or make such access slower. (I think Intel is actually sometimes in the latter camp.)

I don't get why people label "modern" as a synonym for their pre-existing favorite idea and then demand stuff reflect that "modernity" or else it is totally illegitimate. Seems like some kind of hangup.

As some have mentioned in similar discussions, even the x86 machine code does not reflect how the CPU really works, there are things like caching and branch prediction and speculative execution and microcode and ... There is a long list and probably no one person is aware of all the abstractions.
What markdown editor do you use on Mac and other platforms?
Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. People in the first half of the 20th century didn't give up anything to develop electricity, automobiles, air travel, etc. But if our current regulations and institutions existed back then, we'd have missed out on many technologies.

Heck if aspirin were invented today, it's unlikely it would be approved by the FDA. Even if it was, it would be prescription-only. And if caffeine were invented today, the FDA would ban it and the DEA would find and arrest anyone manufacturing or using it.
What does “public” mean in this context?

And if you want this thing, why don’t you make it?
> We don’t have enough coronavirus tests, or test materials — including, amazingly, cotton swabs and common reagents. We don’t have enough ventilators, negative pressure rooms, and ICU beds. And we don’t have enough surgical masks, eye shields, and medical gowns — as I write this, New York City has put out a desperate call for rain ponchos to be used as medical gowns. Rain ponchos! In 2020! In America!

This passage is followed by a long list of things we urgently need but don't have in America, from a great educational system to a great healthcare system. I agree 100% with that list of things and the urgent need for them. I'm also happy to see this on the front page of HN!

> The problem is desire. We need to want these things. The problem is inertia.

"Lack of desire" and "inertia" are surely NOT the root of the problem. All of us already want all those good things.

The root of the problem, I think, is that during normal times people and companies have strong economic/competitive incentives NOT TO INVEST in the kind of expensive, robust (i.e., inefficient/redundant) infrastructure that everyone agrees is necessary but on which the payback is highly uncertain, highly diffuse, or might not be recouped until after everyone today is dead.

For example, any company that during normal times heroically decides to make the investments necessary to survive rare events like a global pandemic or world war will quickly go out of business as more nimble competitors sidestep all those costs. Financially it makes more sense for the company "temporarily to ignore" the possibility of such rare events in the future so it can remain competitive today.

No amount of exhortation will change that.
What rambling nonsense
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A bit off topic, but is there any guide/tutorial for using the LLDB API? The official doxygen-generated documentation doesn't seem to provide any hints about how to get started with the SB API.
The Alexanderson alternator was an intermediate technology between the spark gap transmitters and tubes. Unlike the spark gaps transmitters, it produced a more spectrally clean waveform, but only at modest frequencies (up to 600 kHz, according to the Wikipedia page).
What's the founding source of Tor project?

I thought people would be more willing to support them in current situations. Assuming they are on some crowd sourced funding sources.
For a brief second I thought your link was the Radiohead cover that used old computer equipment, including hard drives as speakers. Here’s that link: https://youtu.be/pmfHHLfbjNQ
This is very cool. Beyond being kind, it makes me think about what I'm about to say, and how best to say it given I don't know the audience.

Good work!
Hi I am new to Hacker News:) Any tips for new members?
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How many people or organizations are likely to donate to a random project they’ve no idea if it’s something they use or care about?
In iTerm2 on Macs, command-E shows timestamps of lines in an overlay, with dates and down to the second.
Are you sure you had a IIc+ and not just a regular IIc? The easiest difference to notice is that the IIc+ has a 3.5" floppy drive, while the IIc has a 5.25" drive. The IIc+ came out in 1988, as opposed to 1984 for the IIc.

I don't have hard data of course, but I've been an avid Apple II and Mac hobbyist for a while, and own every model of Apple II. I think the only Apple II model that's rarer than the IIc+ is the original II, and that might not even be true. (The original II is _definitely_ more expensive, but I assume demand is also much higher.)

The IIgs is pretty easy to come by. It came out two years before the IIc+ and was also on sale for a lot longer than the IIc+. The IIe is definitely the most common. It was in production and on sale for 11 years, and schools bought tons of them.
Except for the ultra slow data extraction part, all other aspects are feasible to a highly motivated state actor. There's a habit of stuxnet being raised as a catchall example of what can be done, but it really was a highly remarkable operation and also answers your second question. They basically infected all the vendors that had access to the airgapped machines for maintenance and got the software onto the machine through someone pluggin in their usb. I think it was said they actually ended up just planting/converting a mole in the vendors during access for more reliability but it's still quite extraordinary
I’m sorry to hear this, also surprised. Is the funding for Tor going to be so immediately affected they had to cut staff without a public appeal or anything?
This got me to think about the ACLU and what they are doing.

I see some issues about accommodating justice and other issues affected by the pandemic and the intersection with liberties... it's more about looking at the compounding effect than protecting against fundamental change and fundamental threats to civil rights.

But I don’t see any take on any measures governments have taken to kerb civil rights in the time of the pandemic as well as talk about tracking and contact tracing. Also kerbs on the right to assembly and to go out and about, etc.

Yes this would abut against the fight against the disease, but that’s not their job. They usually don’t contextualize liberties. But here they seem silent and it’s a bit puzzling.
Do you know of any working Android port for ipad 1? I have an ipad 1 in excellent condition.
I do mean SARS which first surfaced in the 2000s in China.

Swine flu has been around for much longer, at least for 100 years.
> There are no structural issues, misallocations of capitals, disincentives.

Who created the structure? Who allocates capital? Who creates incentives?

These are not natural phenomena that arise without human intervention. Someone made the decisions that created them and someone has the power to make different decisions. Yes, even decisions that you personally make might contribute in some way.

Instead of throwing up your hands and blaming everything on "structural issues" look for something you can do that makes a difference. Maybe it's a small difference, but large societal change can often be the result of an accumulation of small actions.
Ultimately I prefer sharing my thoughts, opinions and information with people who are part of my life, as opposed to the internet as a whole.
Not just you! Some text doesn't scale at all.
For either case, Python’s story is more complex than Go’s.
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Excellent point. Seeing when a command in the history list was run is very useful.

My preference is just for a date in the history, rather than date and time. I find that when I'm searching history, date is usually granular enough for me, so I can omit the time and save a little bit of screen real estate.
It is usualy better to submit an article here, instead of the whole blob. Which is your best article?

Usualy it is beter if the article is about a small project and bonus points for some graphics or photos if it's a hardware project.
For those unfamiliar, from the second greatest Star Trek film: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xaVgRj2e5_s
TLDR: It can be calculated based on the clearance rates found in this study that
enough E. complanata mussels to clear the entire 6.5 acre Constitution Gardens
Reflecting Pool in one month clearing constantly at 40.5ml/mussel/hr would be:
6.8 acre-feet x 1,233,482 liters/acre-foot x 2.75 ft depth = 23.1 x 106 liters
divided by 744 hours/month x 40.5 ml/hr/mussel = 766,678 mussels. This
would be 99,515 lb of mussels, average weight 59 gm.
Similar calculations for C. fluminea give 307,409 clams or 7,033 lb of clams.
Although the proposal to use native mussels as a clearing agent for the
Constitution Gardens Reflecting Pool is admirable and ecologically friendly, it
would be a formidable amount of molluscs to collect and distribute in the
Reflecting Pool as well as probably affect the sources in local rivers. The
suggestion was good but the implementation is not advised.
Don't forget the effect of voluntary lockdown. Looking at the Google mobility data for Belarus and Sweden suggests there is a lot of self-isolation going on.
I was inspired by Josh’s TIL previously and have been storing TILs at https://TIL.secretGeek.net for years now too.

Just last night I rebuilt the site using a new static site generator I built for it (called Clowncar) so I can cut gitbook out of my life.
I have just found this page, but it looks very promising:

https://ethw.org/Category:Computing_and_electronics
What I'd really want to see is Android phones running iOS.
On tablet the share widget on the left covers the content and follows you down the page, making it near unreadable.
Lawyers are expensive only if _you_ have to pay for them. In English law (UK/EU) loser pays most lawyer's fees. This also disincentivizes businesses to start unwinnable cases in order to ruin other businesses with legal fees.
The Internet is a network of networks. Among those networks there isn't any central network. That is what "decentralized" is supposed to mean. And while some networks are more prominent then the others the Internet _is_ decentralized.

Services that work atop the Internet are what they choose to be. For one centralized services are easier to code and easier to monetize, so not very surprisingly more people choose to build centralized services.
Uber is special, but the rest of the companies you named there were at one point rather early in their lifecycle profitable, no?

AirBnB for sure. Pretty sure Dropbox and Slack were in the black for awhile. Please feel free to educate me about Pinterest, I have no idea.

But personally, I think the idea of companies designed to corner a market and then get acquired are just a different kind of medium term investment strategy. For every unicorn you see, there are hundreds of failures where the plug got pulled and information got fed forward to preferential incarnations of the venture.
I'm most familiar with BBN for their contribution to acoustics, but the firm is best known for its development of ARPANET among other contributions to computing. Here is a PDF of collected stories by employees.

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/pdf/CultureInnovat...
The indent is getting rather crazy on this thread; I'll reply further up-thread so as to make the indent less crazy.
Yeah, when you can credibly consider the NSA as an adversary, you need a strong team
I’m just finishing reading Sapiens. Highly recommended!
There are definitely uncontrolled intersections once you get out of the cities. My understanding is that if unmarked, there’s an implied give-way at the side road in a T-junction and all roads in a four-way junction.
Wow, that's a thing. Would you care to link your user page.
The ACLU has largely transitioned away from civil rights absolutism towards progressive advocacy. They haven't entirely tossed it out the door, and still sometimes defend the civil rights of non-progressive groups, but the modern ACLU definitely feels it's important to contextualize liberties.
I think it starts with the financial system. The current system incentivizes bureaucracy, regulation and stagnation in part due to the cantillion effect but also indirectly because it destroys capital, increases debt and prevents a savings / capital asset accumulation desire in the populace. Say what you want about the gold standard but it did lead to the great industrial revolution in such a short period of time providing a -somewhat- playing level field for inventors and technologists to push forward while Kings and courtier, Parlamentarians and Senators had a very difficult time ‘controlling the markets’. I see the return to a non inflationary reserve currency as the first order problem to be solved.
> Having that high end third option effectively gives folks the permission to select a more expensive option that probably has more utility for them and/or their organization

You're assuming that just, you know, telling your customers about what extra features they get in the more expensive 220 option isn't enough to persuade the ones for whom it would genuinely add value to choose it.

Which means either you aren't communicating your features effectively (and you should fix that instead of worrying about hacking your pricing page) or you think your customers aren't capable of judging what's in their own best interest given accurate information, so you have to manipulate them for their own good. The GP, by saying "this is all about tricking people", is simply expressing what to me is highly justified skepticism about the latter position.
I feel like all the replies comparing legal system differences between the US and the EU miss a crucial element - the difference in the characters of the people participating in each society.

I'm now going to make a couple of broad generalizations. Note, that I'm aware they do not apply to every person, or even state in the US, or member nation of the EU.

However having lived in both for a number of years, I do have some personal insight.

Europe and Europeans are a cohesive society where the ideal is a flat society without too many outliers. Standing out from the field is not promoted. And career aspirations are about attaining a work life balance and produce meaningful work. The overall societal system works, offers many opportunities for education and entrepreneurship, but within a well lit path. Europe is a fast moving train.

As a result, people look for ways to succeed within the system.

The US is a "land of opportunity" in all the best, and all the insidious ways that this implies. People are looking to separate themselves from the pack, to be "insanely great" in some way or another, and see society and laws as just impediments to that goal. The US is a rocket powered supercar.

As a result, people look for ways to succeed in spite of the system.

This is why both the US needs a common law system (because the population would never tolerate a restrictive "write everything down" statutory system because would consider it overly restrictive to their liberty), and also why it fails. Because people and corporations abuse the common law system to violate the spirit of the law as much as possible to succeed and thrive in the short term. So half the country is constantly tries to create more regulations and the other half is trying to tear down existing ones.

This is why in the US the most innovative companies and people can succeed on a 5-10 year timeline, and so the biggest public companies in the world are there, but why Europe is much better at building 20-50 year projects and so have better infrastructure. (I'm ignoring China completely here because China is better than both at everything now, but is also an authoritarian dictatorship, so it's even harder to compare that apple to the other oranges).

Ultimately my point is that the EU raises a certain type of person and attracts a certain type of immigrant, and the US another.

I'm Canadian, so I frankly think both extremes are distasteful. I find the US a post-apocalyptic every-man-for-himself dystopia. And I find the EU a restrictive stifling nanny-state. Canada is just right for me.

But I appreciate that the world has both extremes.
I think there's better scaffolding/explaining to do with content guidelines and expectations, but the general idea is that content that causes concern like this should be reported. A lot of explicit content would probably already be caught by a filter for manual review.

It would be taken down and I would send a message to the writer with mental health or counseling resources (ex: crisis text line). I take all messages seriously by default, even if it appears to be trolling.

If that person continued to write content like that, I'd do a bit more digging. This is where it'd be subjectively up to me as the moderator to take action. Banning or shadow-banning would be a last resort, generally.

There's no strong accountability on my end (beyond people not using the app), but I'm interested in creating a system people can trust. If the app continues to gain traction, I'm thinking about writing formal moderation rules and expectations and seek input from the community.

If you have any ideas, I'm eager to listen!
Nothing you said has anything to do with your passive-aggressive reaction to the response to your baseless claim that the app is trying to replace the church. You're trying to change the subject away from recognizing your error.
Especially in places who have not had a significant impact as of yet, I expect compliance with the lockdown to wane as we go forward. To use Oregon as an example, it is definitely plateaued and looks like it's slipping a bit. Probably because out of 4 million people we're only seeing perhaps 5 deaths a day from COVID19, and it doesn't seem to be increasing.

It doesn't help that we have a weak governor and nothing even resembling a plan. So people are starting to make their own judgement call and going about their business. I see a noticeable increase in the number of people having gatherings of friends & family at their home.
That's an important distinction. I was wondering how in the world arbitrary data was making it to the fan.
You lot are always so fixated on snow. Give it a decade or two and with global warming, the environment might meet us halfway on that one.
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