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The article seems misleading: they keep insisting that the only innovation we have is software because that's how we want it. As if, investors and entrepreneurs only have interest in producing software. As if, we don't see the enormous potential for innovation in other industries which much bigger problems (education, housing, transportation and medical). As if, no one wants to do anything about it.

I've mentioned this before. Just look at what happens when a company wants to do even the slightest bit of innovation: and put a few buses on the road in the bay area. they're not asking for much, just a few buses. And they were shut down immediately, denying society the benefits of lower traffic and less pollution. With that
kind of government/voter attitude, you can't go blaming innovators for just producing yet another lame software app.

How many permits would be required to create a factory that produces millions of masks? And, what about housing and transportation: these are industries that are absolutely unassailable. in it's current state of regulation, a potential entrepreneur or company, couldn't even begin to imagine any innovation.

The solution is for government to start talking to industry, and businesses to find out which regulations are preventing innovation and progress. You first need to make innovation possible before it can happen. Until then, it's just going to be yet another software app.
> Over 90% of the dead so far are old with comorbidites such as Hypertension and Diabetes

What's your definition of "old"?

I looked at your statista.com link and about 2/3 of deaths in NY are from people aged 75 and up. That leaves a non-trivial number of deaths for "middle-aged" people (and maybe younger).

Also, I don't know many middle-agers without some co-morbid condition, so I'm not sure we can just ascribe the deaths exclusively to "old sick people" because an enormous portion of the US population is "sick" with a morbid condition.

That being said, I will admit that there are many conflicting pieces of data flying about.

Are the PCR and antibody tests reliable enough to base our lock-down decisions?

Do we already have "herd immunity" and we're just too stupid/reluctant/lack-the-testing-capacity to realize it?

I have no clue. From my vantage-point it seems that most of us have our philosophical flags planted and we aren't willing to soberly assess where we are and maybe change our opinions.

It would be "nice" to have an AMA from an epidemiologist with expertise in this area to cut through the noise.
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Thank you so much for that very awesome explanation, that was fascinating to read. I'm checking out the links you sent now.
>And if I may be so bold, I believe that many would be well-served by realizing that out there beyond the cosmos above us is something that deeply loves each of us.

If I may be so bold, could I interest you in hearing the good word of dialectical materialism as interpreted through category-theory according to Robert Harper Thought?
As a New Yorker it's been eye opening to see the extent of the Cuomo worship nation (world?!) wide during the COVID outbreak. The view of Cuomo from many in the city was quite negative before, and I've been waiting to see how long it'll be before perceptions snap back to reality. Stories like this feel like the start of that, and there will be much more to come.
Most likely they saw https://twitter.com/mcannonbrookes/status/125437688433222860....

They're not all positive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22986688. Currently split about equally, in fact.

In the future, if you'd please follow the site guidelines and email hn@ycombinator.com such suspicions so we can investigate, I'd appreciate it. I only saw this comment randomly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hi, we are currently 3 students working on a open source project for our class "Open source software" and is mainly about learning about how to cooperate on open source projects. This project is a strategy game, where players can fight 1v1 with different fighters.

The project is currently in development, and we want to invite anyone who is interested in helping and learn about coding. The project is written in java, but uses other languages such as HTML and possibly CSS for further design.

The project is licensed by GNU General Public License v3.0

If interested here is the github link https://github.com/Brofo/BattlegroundGame

Thank you for your attention :)
I think it’s a good thing that the states have taken different approaches at solving the problem. This is how we experiment and improve on the system. You can’t make innovation without experimentation.

If the federal government rolled in with a heavy hand, we’re all stuck with whatever they think is best. The governors should be the ones that decide for their state, and the federal government should support that in whatever way possible.

The same is said for countries. When the dust settles we can examine the data and see what really worked and what made things worse. This is how we become stronger.
Except if it's stored on AWS, then the US "CLOUD" act means US federal - eg the three letter ones, probably others too - have access to the data anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Ask HN: What program are you most proud of making?
Inspired by a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g86t0t/the_first_program_i_ever_felt_proud_of/), I wanted to ask you guys what program you are proudest of making. It could be a very recent complex program, or one that you did fairly early in your coding careers.

I remember when I was a teenager starting off programming and I wanted to create a sudoku brute force solver as a teenager. Learning and seeing recursion in action for the first time had me in absolute awe. I had great pleasure when it finally worked.
So, the strategic planning was done by Dr. Strangelove?
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IMO, big reason for why Linux doesn’t support it, is that big tech companies, who drive a lot of development and funding, found that it’s just not worth it.

Tech moved away from mainframe model of keeping single processes up for as long as possible and isolating software from the failures.
Instead they embrace failure at the software layer, which gives you (when executed correctly) both same high level of availability, but also layers of protection against other issues (as node going down in expected way is the same, no matter what’s the root cause) and makes overall maintainability and upgradability systems higher.

Basically, why deal with complicated checkpoints at kernel level, that doesn’t understand your software, when you ca instead deal with that at the software layer, with full control over it.
The site I’ve found to have good info about this (including lenses) is lonelyspeck.com
Without the same fluency in bashism from using it for day-to-day activities, the colleague provided script is less readable and less editable for the fish-fluent, bash-inarticulate. Any fish-specific scripts are also of low-value to colleagues.

It's not that it's impossible to be a shell polyglot, but GP deemed it easier to learn !fish.
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I haven’t stated an opinion on the matter, I’m just cautioning against these offhanded remarks about massive societal re-engineering.

Though your example is telling, actually. Humans are fairly unusual insofar as females do not have significant observable markers of being fertile or not (in the animal example, “in heat”). So you’d really have to go back and look at why evolution selected for this particular characteristic and what its consequences were, how it influenced sexual norms, and only then layer on the consideration you make about contraception.

And yes, this is vastly contentious, and no, we are not going to solve it in the footnotes of a tech-centric forum. But my message was intended to be more general.
Montreal homeless issue is nothing like the USA situation.

The orange line is a dream compared to the London tube.
> In Germany it quite literally took dozens of public interest groups, two weeks of media attention, EU guidance and an open letter by hundreds of scientists to make the government switch from central data collection to an acceptable decentralised approach.

Interesting. Do you have any pointer on the current German approach? I've been looking at the Robert protocol from Inria+Fraunhofer, and I'm not sure I like the central secret DB it requires.
License scanning is a big deal for enterprise, especially the ones deeply afraid of any "GPL infection". Black Duck is one such vendor of license scanning software.[0]

[0] https://www.blackducksoftware.com/
FAT32 is too modern in some cases. I had to fall back to that recently to use with a fairly recent commercial photocopying machine (of the kind that can do full color, A3 paper, staple and fold outputs, etc, so not bottom line).

And I think that, “For sharing a filesystem” nowadays your best option is ”the cloud” for most people.
There was a site called something like mydeardiary.com which allowed anonymous users to keep a diary in public.

It's not the site I miss as such, but one particular diarist. His style of writing and unfolding life had me hooked. A while later when I wanted to reread and see if he had continued his diary, the site was gone.

Thankfully, there are still some `old-school' websites around which I love. For example, this site dedicated to t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ my favourite TV show of all time: http://www.wwwentworth.co.uk/ .
Thanks! I meant how would Amazon prevent it at all. (But maybe they would just sue you. But ... can't you just create a separate company to conduct off-Amazon business?)
I find it particularly odd given that the reason Cuomo is in the spotlight is because his state has done so so poorly, even compared to areas with similar density.
Print the money and give it to local government.
Sure, you'd want to do this with 32 bit floats in production, the f64 was really for prototyping.

I didn't compare smoothstep. It's worth doing an analysis of the tradeoff between performance and quality. In any case, I think in practice this erf approximation will be plenty fast, and probably a bit better quality, especially in the tail region.
The problem is people praise a ship captain who wrestles the ship control 1 inch away from the iceberg, not the captain who proactively avoids icebergs from a mile away.
I love that to be able to take these images he uses a digital camera + software (the pole tracker)
Yes, the unadjusted number you get will be a lower-bound. You could then try to get closer to the real number by noticing, e.g., how much car crashes were reduced and adjusting for that.
Some folks here gripe about FaceID not working with a mask, TouchID not working with gloves.

I wonder if Apple has given thought to something like VoiceID. You see this in Star Trek when an officer gives an access code, and in many other sci-fi shows.

Or, RetinaID which goes based on a scan of your eyeball.

Or even some combination of these in case one is obstructed.
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This isn’t new technology by any stretch of the imagination. Banks have been required to do some version of this since the 70s. I wouldn’t buy this excuse coming from the management and technology clusterfuck that is Wells Fargo and I certainly wouldn’t buy it from Google.
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I think you're right. Back when I was in high school(not too long ago, I'm only 23 now), you could screw up and maybe become the joke at your school, but you can simply move somewhere else and become someone else. Or you'd graduate and move on from all of that.

Now kids grow up in an environment where much of their lives take place online, where dumb things you've said or done are available somewhere, forever, to be used against you. Is it any surprise kids are the way they are when they are shown that even something they said 10 years ago can be brought back and used against them to destroy their lives?
Certainly if you think about it in terms of us vs. them, black and white, I don't see value.

If you're making purchasing decisions, you should be looking mostly at your specific needs, and the big picture around what you need and how to get good value for your money. If you can afford it, vote your conscious as well, and for a healthy future.

I've owned Cyrux, Pentium, Athlon, Core Duo, Phenom, Core i# and Ryzen. I'm partial to AMD as an underdog, and having a personality that always rooted for them. I'm unimpressed with Intel lately, but up until this year I still wouldn't buy an AMD laptop (though I've recommended a few for friends and family if the need and budget fit).

This article does try to paint "one answer for all questions" and of course that's silly. For most consumers I think they'll be better off this year with choosing Ryzen. But the Ryzen laptop chips that are impressing everyone seem to be in short supply. So I can't cheer them on just yet. I don't purchase for datacenters or professional rendering so I wouldn't dare weigh in there.

To sum up, focus on your needs, and individual options, not brand names!
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Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
So I've been working in the industry for a while, and as a hobbyist for a good bit of time before that. Currently my career have consisted of writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that. I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method. Thi bis true not just for CS and software development, but other technical and mathematical subjects I've attempted to learn.

The typical suggestions for people in my situation dont interest me. These seem to be roles adjacent to what I do now and often, but closer to business then tech. These might include becoming a business analyst, technical salesman, fast tracking to management, etc. These are sound even worse to me than what I do now, and given the choice I'd just stick with development.

Now I'd likely have to return to some sort of schooling and I'm young enough to do it (I guess), but given my intellectual limitation and my stubbornness on what I take interest in, I'm not sure what options I have.
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> Tom Frieden, the former C.D.C. director, has estimated that, if New York had started implementing stay-at-home orders ten days earlier than it did, it might have reduced COVID-19 deaths by fifty to eighty per cent.

Obviously that's one person's view, but if it's true that means somewhere between 5,550 and 8,800 people have died needlessly. Innovation is good, but not at any cost.
They are not independent of political systems. When you have an independent party check the work and incentives that align with doing the right thing, the right thing gets done.

In general, the most authoritarian the political system, the less you have both of those conditions.
Please don't do this. The site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any area in the US has "similar density" to NYC
Or spread malware through embedded ads
So in this context you are saying that HIV is a disorder that was invented by advertisers in order to sell anti-virals? Do you have any evidence to substantiate that(or your claim that ED is not a clinical condition?)
Yeah, and? Darch does a lot more than just that.

1. Temporary boots. You can "sudo rm -rf /", reboot, and all is well. You can play around with "apt-get install" without having to commit to your changes being persistent.

2. Checkpoints. Each "bash script that you call on first boot" is versioned and you can easily revert back to any image at any point, as simple as running either "docker run ubuntu:bionic" or "docker run ubuntu:focal".

3. Store your builds in Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/pauldotknopf/darch-...) so that the same resulting image can be run on any of your machines via "darch images pull your-image && darch stage upload your-image".

Your bash-script approach to building a fresh machine would be a lot more involved than:

1. Make changes to your script.

2. Check in a push to repo.

3. Wait for CI build to push to Docker Hub.

4. "darch images pull my-new-image && darch stage upload my-new-image"

5. Reboot.

6. Enjoy.
Since the compiler took advantage of it, doesn't it mean that the speedup is a well-known effect in the circumstances the compiler encountered? I'm nitpicking slightly on "paradoxical" and "chaotic". The behavior may be documented but to a human that does not remember every little rule, it may seem random.
While I don't like the business practice, it is a very common business practice to give something for free for a time and then bill you if you don't cancel it. There is nothing illegal about it as it's all spelled out in the terms and conditions you didn't read.

I avoid engaging in these offers entirely. If a company tells me it's free then fine but I won't be providing a credit card number or any other billing related information. It's not free if you ask to hold on to my money is just a scam so you can bill me later.

I deal with this with Delta's Clear program. They say it's free for diamond medallion status, but they always want my credit card. That's not free then. That's just you're not charging me now and hoping I forget later.
the blockchain is public and immutable.

one should be able to go through a 24 hour section of the ledger to determine how much BTC has moved and call that trading volume

the only issues I see with this data are:

- BTC is used as both a currency and a security and distinguishing

- BTC is moved multiple times to obfuscate (read wash) transactions
> ...I'd rather not contribute to the pile if I can help it.

Predictively on point[1]:

> We fucking hate micromanaging Ivy League grads who are too scared to take initiative and possibly make mistakes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987935
(disclaimer: I'm not your target audience I banned redis from our infra because its overused)

but this sounds even worse to me. okay so you have API compat great, but now you have unproved code running under the hood wonderful.
AWS went from no invoice, no billing email for 3 years to a single $500 invoice covering multiple years? No previous contact? At 0.0116 USD/h that's about 720 days, I'm surprised they wouldn't invoice sooner.
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I do find some value in quantification but I resonate with your thoughts.
I am curious about ways in which people summarize and take notes when reading books. Do you have any specific quirks or methods for doing so?
Self-smelling could be a mechanism for figuring out self-smell for the purposes of not getting confused by it when trying to distinguish environmental sources. In which case it would be perfectly reasonable to not smell 'anything' when actively smelling oneself.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12
OK, correcting you since you're wrong: It's not just New York City that's done badly, but smaller cities and areas of upstate New York that are quite similar to large parts of the rest of the country (that have done comparatively better).
More local control might actually have helped in New York, as Governor Cuomo initially blocked stronger measures proposed by Mayor DeBlasio.
> This sounds a bit cruel, but think of it: running everything through a digital layer of noise filtering would make so many things easier. Society wouldn't have to care how loud something is.

If we had such technology such that humans wouldn’t care, the environment surely would. Noise pollution is a problem for the animal kingdom: communication and noise levels of whales, birds, bats, etc.
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Under normal conditions, people should follow the scientists without requiring orders from politicians out of their own common sense and could differ between quackery and actual science - instead we have 100 people calling the Maryland covid19 hotline about injecting disinfectant and 30 ppl in NYC actually consuming disinfectant.

What happened instead is the result of decades of underfunding in the educational system colliding with years of trust in media being undermined (most obviously with the current Presidency, but mis-information was a thing before his campaign), trust in politicians generally being eroded for decades (gridlocked Congress, Iraq WMD lie) and decades of underfunding of social security nets - of course it is a hard decision to close schools when literally tens of thousands of kids rely on them for basic needs such as food and clothes washing!

The crisis is entirely on the last decades of inaction and underfunding. And not only in the USA (where it is the worst) but also in other parts of the world. I hope that the world at least learns from all the needless death...
There are basically three groups of people now: those who are taking this seriously and social distancing, those who think this is some kind of hoax and are gleefully ignoring any advice or orders from the government, and those that are "essential" and have no choice in the matter.

The hoaxers are a clear and present threat to the essential workers. The number of MBTA staff infected with COVID-19 has more than doubled in the past week; they can't avoid people, and they're being infected by those who won't.
Our generation did have a bit more of a 'happy go lucky' attitude, towards authority and the whims of circumstance both. To some degree I see the determination to buckle down and play a flawed system better than their eldars as the current generation's mode of rebellion against our 'anything goes' ethic.
>How do you visually differentiate nulls from zeroes?

My zero is a continuous line, starting top right and angling sharply left-down after a ~360° oval. That nicely makes it writable in one fluid motion.

My null/empty set is a somewhat smaller circle and a separate slash starting and ending visibly outside the circle.
Would it? Poo. That's my bad.
I am trying this and I think I will move away from my over-configured "mutt" setup, just to use it.

My only "suggestion" is to please keep it functional and simple.
Basically, yes (technically it's #6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I thought that's how it would show up in ps. Apparently I was incorrect. :(
There is a saying: Look after the pence and the pounds look after themselves.
Headless CMS may have that feature but then you have to deal with a more complicated deployment pipeline that a marketer might not be as comfortable with as WP.
What is more eye opening is the extent that a narrative can culminate for someone's future political ambitions, from their own party and from the media. Anyone that doesn't think Cuomo has his eyes set on a 2024 run is insane.
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The long form asks about your line of work. Most people get the short form.
Cuomo undermined Byford at every turn in order to avoid the MTA turnaround being associated with someone not him.