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Product feature innovation is not the only kind of innovation. Supply chain innovation provides the cost reductions needed to lower prices. And you regardless need product expertise to know where to cut costs.

As a super-obvious example, an accountant looking to cut costs at a hamburger chain might first suggest reducing the amount of meat or using old meat. But that reduces value as much or more than costs, so it's a bad optimization.
NYC did not particularly flatten their curve, and they did not see excess deaths due to lack of available care.

I'm pretty sure all the family members of the people who died would regard their loved ones as "excess deaths". Your technocratic language ascribes no value to the lives lost, in which case of course the actions seem excessive. For people who don't value the lives of others, it would be hard to understand all the fuss.

This isn’t a disease for which “flattening the curve” makes particular sense. That would require there actually be an effective treatment.

This is a self-contradictory statement. The whole point of flattening the curve is to buy time to develop exactly those effective treatments. It is also possible to flatten the curve to an extent that there are fewer deaths under it, and based on the continual downward revision of the IHME model fatality estimates, that appears to be exactly what is happening.
The article sounds much worse if replace "bug in code" with "made a mistake at work". Imagine if we're talking about a civil engineer, an electrician, or a doctor.

I agree with you, it's outrageous. What an awful article. I get the point (you should have robust and multi-layered quality systems) but just the complete rejection of accountability is embarassing.
bloomberg's media business is a giant content marketing play for the terminals themselves (that's why so many of the stories have deep links or whatever to their software)
looks like the JavaScript doesn't run because of CORS

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
Library of Congress Unveils New Digital DJ Tool
They use their own engine called the APEX engine.

"Just Cause 2 was announced in January 2008. Powered by the Apex Engine 2.0"
The concept of "bad luck" is reinforced by endless self-comparison with those who had extremely good luck.

It's MUCH more valuable to compare yourself to those who are unlucky: the mentally disabled, those who died from COVID at age 29, those born/raised in North Korea. Compared to these people, we've all hit the fucking jackpot.

Adjust your mindset and you'll notice you're luckier than you thought you were.
I think even more predictable is the apologist tour the day afterwards trying to convince us the American President is not, in fact, a moron.
Those Italians in your coworker space, were they baristas or office workers? I would expect that Italians in Italy also cannot produce perfect espresso unless they made it their profession.
> the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity).

I'd say the great majority of those benefits are going to Apple.

There's nothing that Apple does in their app store that a third party app store owner couldn't do. Anyone can curate apps.

As a customer of the Apple app store, I've absolutely experienced the detrimental effects of Apple's behavior. For one thing, I can't build software for my own device because Apple is too concerned about losing control. There are also whole categories of software that I simply cannot have because Apple won't let them be sold in their store.

They already lost the anti-trust case to decide if they can be sued again by customers. I hope they lose the next one too.
Good point. I actually just discovered via a link in the TomsHardware article that the Seagate drive I purchased a couple weeks ago is, in fact, SMR. While I shouldn't have issues with it because my workloads aren't particularly write-heavy, this has definitely not helped my trust in Seagate.
Of course countries with more dangerous roads should expect larger drops during shut in. I wonder if this’ll cause political agitation to create safer roads once this is all over.
Labor Costs Will Explode After the Pandemic. Here's How
Yes amazon does, its widely reported.
> You write some code and a code reviewer points out that you used an API incorrectly, which you did because the documentation is out of sync with the actual API. You will, of course, fix the mistake, but will you "apologize"?

If it was feasible for me to catch the erroneous API behavior through testing, before code review, I would see no reason to not apologize.

Your second scenario is not even remotely ambiguous, of course I'd apologize if I caused other people that much hassle.
> A game is something that you opt into doing because you want the experience of playing it. Labeling every obstacle you run into in life, a game quickly robs the term of any meaning.

This strikes at the heart of the pernicious trend 'gamification of all the things.' Those tools have nothing to do with games and everything to do with dark patterns.

> part of playing a game is taking on a responsibility that you weren't required to take.

Gamification is the opposite - pulling you into an engagement you wouldn't otherwise choose (for better or for worse).
More specifically though, these are also neither "hacks" nor "secrets". I wouldn't even call them "tricks". "Tips", sure, makes sense.
Hadoop Indexing for Apache Druid at Scale
As with all things, there's a balance and a place for technical trade offs to be made. The first entry on the list, Activision/Blizzard, built Hearthstone in Unity. A better case study would look at what games are successful, and then look at what engines they use.

One way to look at things, is who in recent years won the (imo) biggest indie game award, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

- A Short Hike: Unity

- Return of the Obra Dinn: Unity

- Night in the Woods: Unity

- Quadrilateral Cowboy: id Tech 4

- Her Story: Unity

- Outer Wilds: Unity

- Papers, Please: custom using OpenFL/Haxe

- Cart Life: Adventure Game Studio

I admittedly started looking because I knew Obra Din was Unity, so there's some bias in category selection. That brings us to 2013. That 5/8 Unity, and 7/8 using an engine. The remaining 1/8 (Papers, Please) was developed by Lukas Pope, who later made Return of the Obra Dinn in Unity. This is a list chosen by game developers, but I would think that would skew the list towards impressive custom things.

I do agree with the spirit of the post: You don't have to use an engine. Nothing about a game engine is magical. There's lots of success stories on both sides.
please see the top comment in this thread, or the fourth top comment in this thread. I'm not sure why I was downvoted for making the same point as the top comments.
Someone attempted to evict a paramedic in the UK.
And I can see the point too that in the short term in the middle of a crisis, they did what they had to do for the economy to survive. It’s after the crisis is over, and things start recovering, that they are really going to have to make unpopular decisions or reinflate the bubble.
But surely the goal here is the opposite of clarity? :)
If you don't want to discover things through small steps you practice yourself, you might just want a book on the topic.
Edit window now closed, but yes. My point was that a counteroffer can only ever change a very small set of things, so they're very rarely worth bothering with.
There are similar stories in France, but it's mostly hearsay.

And with some "journalists" relying on twitter to write their articles, it gets harder to distinct hearsay from real news.
I watched an interview on YouTube with Stephen A. Schwarzman from 'The Blackstone Group' which was really eye opening. There is a part where he explains how to multiply ROI on any investment using bank loans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kThTbLUQdU

When you take into account that the credit is printed by banks out of thin air (and more so given the latest 0% reserve requirement), it's not difficult to see why the ROI surplus derived from this 'magic trick' (as Schwarzmam refers to it) is basically free money.

Corporations and financial firms with a lot of capital have access to huge loans on favorable terms; this puts them on a different playing field than small companies which don't have much capital and can't use this 'magic trick' to multiply their earnings in the same way. Earning 30% ROI is simply not possible for most individuals and small businesses.

I suspect this is the same trick which Renaissance Technologies uses for their 'Medallion fund' to hit 66% ROI per year on average... Maybe they're able to take loans against collateral owned by their other mainstream funds.

If I have $1K in cash and I can find a bank to loan me an additional $5K... If I invest that in an asset which returns just 10% per year, given the 0% interest rate environment, I can make $600 per year in pure profit on my investment... Which is 60% ROI! Anyone can be a legendary investor... You just need to find a bank which can give you 5x leverage.

These leveraged loans which yield free surplus ROI are impossible for small businesses to access. This is why they're fundamentally unfair. The efficiency advantages of economies of scale are greatly exaggerated. The real advantage is mostly financial.

And remember, that 'leverage' credit was printed out of thin air by the bank... So any extra profit which can be derived from it by an individual or company is by definition also 'printed out of thin air'... Especially when you know you're going to get bailed out every 10 years when things go wrong - There is no risk.
Given how sensitive the lungs are to irritants, and how damaging UVC is to cells, I wouldn't want my lungs irradiated with UVC.
Hmm, nothing in the WS tab of Chrome Dev Tools but you're probably right.
Winter is its own natural social distancing of sorts.

This of course is unsurprising. Even random street violence drops during winter, as cold temperatures drives everyone inside and away from each other.
Indeed, irrationality fuels innovation! Look at the phenomenon called life.

Life evolves by doing random mutations, and throwing away everything that fails hard enough. No analysis is performed at all, and reams of completely pointless changes are tried.

This process has produced the most innovative and advanced chemical, mechanical, and information-processing devices known to date.

The problem of course is that the random-walk approach immensely wasteful. In our daily lives, we strive to somehow less waste, and tend to avoid being an unfortunate random mutation destined to fail. Here genetic evolution gives way to memetic evolution.

But the memetic evolution has many of the same properties: many "random" things are tried, and a number of most spectacular successes are results of lucky coincidences and following patently wrong initial ideas. Of course, most of such crazy ideas just fail, like in biological evolution.

I would compare innovation to stock market: while you can sort of predict some local movements with a chance better than rolling a dice, you still face a fundamentally random process, and it's rational to approach it like one. For one thing, it means to accept its unpredictability and the limited usefulness of any rational models. Following a hunch may be as good a strategy as careful analysis. Probably a mix of both would give the best results; it looks like what some famous innovators did.
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I am in a similar position as you. I have a medical issue and I was fired in August 2018. Differences being:

- I intentionally got myself fired so I could get an extra $25k in salary/severance/unemployment.

- It was my first job out of college.

- I have positive references I can give. (my manager sucked, other people were cool)

- Medical issue is physical and not mental. (herniated disc / sciatica).

Here is my advice:

- Practice interviewing at a bunch of no-name companies you don't care about. I practiced at a dozen or so startups, got rejected by half of them and learned the red flags. Now I'm at the onsite stage at Google / Facebook, both asked about previous employment history, which I talked about, and everything worked out ok because I practiced.

- DO NOT MENTION, OR INSINUATE, YOU WERE FIRED. And don't lie. If you imply that you were fired, nobody will give you a chance. This sounds like a death sentence, but thankfully interviewers don't probe into it too much if you tell the right story in the right way. Find a good narrative and build on it like you would an essay. Practice this. Over and over and over and over again. It's hard to get right, but once you do, it becomes a non-issue.

- I try to avoid saying negative stuff about my last job. It's about 50/50, some hiring managers see it as a red flag and others sympathize. It's best to come up with and practice a few neutral stories to tell them

- Nobody cares about a 6-month employment gap. I know plenty of people that take more than a year off. If anyone asks just say you were focusing on your health, family, hobbies, whatever.

- See as many practitioners as you possibly can about your medical issue. Good ones are hard to find. It took me 20 tries (and $5k down the toilet) before I found someone who could treat me.

- I should have put this behind me way sooner. Moving to a different city helped me a ton. I'd recommend getting an Airbnb in Lake Tahoe or Hawaii if you can afford it.

Good luck.
That really sucks, especially given the emotional-geographical significance of Germany to the author. Wow.

One observation: He's doing a fantastic job being vulnerable and authentic in a very tight spot. Someone who has cultivated this gift is going to go far in life in general, just IMO. Those who can't let themselves express what the author expresses here may have to spend a lot more time spinning their wheels when bad news hits.

Here's wishing the best to him, and much gratitude for providing an impressive example of processing a difficult outcome.
I'm not so sure. In the public sphere, certainly.

There remain many dark corners, where these pathologies flourish.

Social media just changed the landscape. Engagement maximizing algos birthed outrage cancel culture. It lets people find each other. It accelerates radicalization, both left and especially right leaning.

And the filter bubble keeps these things out of the public sphere.
Ask HN: Why do electron video calling apps use so much CPU on Mac?
I noticed (that's the very easy part) that all the electron apps (like Slack or MS Teams) take 60-80 % of CPU on my i5 2017 Macbook Pro 13" during video calls. The CPU runs on a high frequency (2.5+ Ghz) during the call.

I always thought that this is normal, but recently I tried a same call on the dual booting Macbook 12 2017 (significantly weaker machine with a same generation CPU) under Windows 10, and same MS Teams call didn't even raise the CPU from a default 1.1 Ghz speed, and took about 30 %.

My hypothesis is that on mac, Electron video meeting apps don't use the video (h265) acceleration on CPU or GPU, and instead take the slow non-accelerated path, while it works in an accelerated way under Windows 10.

Is this correct? Is there a Chromium patch that is looking into this?
> IBM did 140 billion in stock buy backs in the last decade.

And? What is the alternative, and is it any better?

> IBM has effectively been dead money for the last decade. They’re up 20%, including dividends, versus 315% for the tech index (XLK). IBM currently has a market cap of ~$100 billion, so when people hear they spent $45 billion on buybacks while their share price went down 38%, people get angry. I get it, it’s an easy argument to make.

> But a better argument, which Jake made recently is that poorly managed companies like IBM are doing the right thing by returning cash to shareholders. That’s $45 billion into the hands of investors who can then take that money and actually invest it in companies that are, you know, not terrible. Would the anti-buyback crowd be happier if IBM invested that $45 billion and had a negative ROI? And what about the $76 billion they “wasted” on dividends? Why does this return of capital to shareholders escape criticism? More on this in a minute.

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2020/04/22/returning-cash-...
Nope, complete FUD that shouldn't be on HackerNews. Whitney Webb writes for The Last American Vagabond, and I didn't have to dig deep on their site to find material on "Metaphysics" and Illuminati et al conspiracy theories.

Find a better source.
Well under that definition Socialism has never existed because there has never been a state run by the proletariat, although sometimes people masquerade under the banner of the proletariat to increase their own personal power, i.e. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc.
I thought the same as you. But when I watched it again, he was talking about how you can disinfect in under a minute. He clearly was talking about the point the previous person said about how rubbing alcohol killed the virus is 30 seconds. I don't think he's talking about people injecting alcohol or bleach into their blood, but it's very easy to misinterpret that, and what he was saying was dangerous.
This looks like a blast! I'll have to share it with my friends this weekend. We always think of new board game ideas but never take them anywhere. DoomGrid could really help.
Oh, no, won't someone think of the poor doctors and their salaries!
GDP is per year. Analogous to a person making $100k/yr with a $110k mortgage.

Edit: Although perhaps not that analogous because is this even technically "debt"?
That's exactly what Amazon has succeeded with: Owning the marketplace, but without any of the liabilities you mention...
You can also join blind dev works.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?nomobile=true#!forum/blind-...
> They’re not wealthy by the standard of the Bay Area, which is the point of the comment you’re replying to. Wealth is relative.

they end up in possession of an asset worth $1MM. ill-liquid sure but still a durable asset. you can borrow against that asset, it appreciates proportionally, you can eventually sell it, etc. what's the difference between it and $1MM and equities holding? i don't understand how you think being in possession of something like doesn't cross the threshold for wealth simply because other people in the neighborhood are also wealthy?
I understand solid white lines to mean "crossing is legal, but discouraged"
Without debating the pros and cons of religion...
Isn't there something in Revelations like this?
5G was, in hindsight, not the best example to throw in there. It came to mind because because I was having an orthogonal discussion on Hacker News a few months ago about 5G safety and radiation modelling. One commenter there said something like (heavily paraphrasing):

> You cannot tell me what effect 5G will have on the body in 50 years, because no one has tested it. Who knows what might happen?

And y'know what? Technically speaking, he or she is absolutely right: despite our best modelling, we can't really know what deploying 5G at this scale will do in 50 years, and we won't know until 50 years from now! All we can say is, this are what we've extrapolated from the models we have.

Is there specific evidence to suggest that COVID-19 will cause extremely high rates of lung cancer in 30 years? If not, we're just in the messy realm of "anything could happen," which is both true and not particularly useful.

I think you have to compare the (very real!) risks of a challenge trial with the risks of not doing a challenge trial. Maybe it does only speed up development by two months, and the number of health care workers and other members of the public who will die in that time is low enough to not be worth risking the lives of study participants. But that is a question we need to actually look at and consider!
That’s a Fed program. Fed != Treasury.

What does this have to do with the Treasury?
I hope you prove more right than wrong.
the US economy cannot be compared to anything because no other country have (or had) the military world power ensuring the dollar as the only tender for internation oil markets.

it completely screws even the wilder economy theories, to the point of printing trillions in recent years with zero consequences. no other economy could have dreamed of this.

it has almost nothing to do with the way this particular small stimulus was dispersed.
given my experiences, HN isn't special in the sense that their experience is deep in one area, and shallow in another and therefore have simplified views of the areas of shallow experiences. I volunteer in a local sports league. The number of times I get the "why are my dues so high? where does the money go? you're just lining your pockets!" in 1 season is absolutely ridiculous. But most people never stop to think about the details.

In this case, biology has a bunch of details, many still unknown, and problems look easy until you get into the details.
Being outdoors in sunlight would realize UV blood irradiation through skin capillaries?
R's come a long way in the last decade. The tibble and data.table packages both address this issue. data.table (https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table) is the more strongly-typed of the two, by default it fails loudly when it encounters data that doesn't conform to the column type. It's also quite fast--binds to C code that parallelizes with OpenMP. It has very terse and expressive syntax, I find it so much more intuitive and easy to work with than pandas.

If you're happy with Python, by all means keep using it. I use both languages. Just suggesting that if you gave up on R that long ago, you might be pleasantly surprised by how much better it's gotten since then.
Matthew Bird's RISD lectures on line are wonderful! I've watched them all.
In the discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22934704 patio11 was pilloried for claiming that, We project a true count of over 500,000 infections, including more than 5,000 severe cases, and a breakdown in provision of care (“overshoot”) in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo, before the end of April.

And yet, according to medical staff, Tokyo is close to a collapse of the medical system. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/ says that there are currently over 12,000 reported cases in Japan and this doubled in the last 10 days. So it is likely to be in the 20-25k range by the end of the month. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-virus-deaths-... says that New York reported COVID-19 seems likely to underreport actual cases by a factor of 10. Which puts Japan at the 200,000-250,000. But as widespread reports say, Japan's testing has been extremely anemic. That can easily put us back in the ballpark discussed.

You know, that projection is looking reasonably close for having been made over a month ago.
Dopamine keeps you addicted to your phone, there's no way we are setting them aside any time soon.
Isn’t senior debt always the highest pecking order in the event the company fails? I thought that’s how the bond agreements worked, but I haven’t dealt too terribly much with senior notes so if you know more please expand :)
Claims about the surface area of fractals are almost always true if generally interpreted. If you went down to the atomic scale you could probably calculate that the surface area of your lungs would cover the Earth. :)
I feel your pain. As fun as online sessions are nothing beats physically picking up a figurine or meeple. I also found Gloomhaven particularly hard to use on TTS. Wingspan, on the other hand, was a joy to play.
I think it should not be Turing complete. It should never loop and tooling should be able to decide that a configuration file never loops!