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Stopp Corona App Source Code – Austrian Red Cross’ Contact Trancing App
> If you can't take a read-only copy of the engine and implement a game on top of that then you don't have an engine. Marketing will still want you to name the 'engine' though!

I guess id Tech 1 -- which they licensed to many developers -- was not an engine then? I don't think that's a useful definition.

> Back in the earlier days of Unreal there was an industry joke that Unreal was great if you were making a single player third person space marine game on Xbox or PC.

Did Unreal really fall that far after the glory days of Unreal, Unreal Tournament '99, Deus Ex, Clive Barker's Undying..? Wow. The Xbox generation of games really ruined so many things.
- Mentorship, and how to find it

Reflecting on my career of failure, unfulfilled potential, compared to the biographies of "successful" people, what they all seem to have which I lacked was a mentor.

That person who said "You can do this. I believe in you. Let's talk it thru."

To counterbalance all the people who actively or passively tear you down.
Radiation Therapy a potential treatment for Covid-19 pneumonia?
This kind of care is only available for very wealthy people.

Which explains why the current administration sees it as a viable treatment.
While this is probably generally true, the 2018 6th gen X1 Carbon (I have one and run Fedora on it) has had significant problems with Linux trackpoint support, which still aren't fully resolved. I had to run a firmware update from Lenovo to get things more or less working.

Even though Lenovo provides some firmware via fwupd, this particular trackpoint firmware was only available via a Windows utility, which sucked since I wiped Windows off the machine as soon as I got it. (I had to make a Windows live USB for the sole purpose of installing this update.)

The trackpoint still occasionally dies after waking up from sleep (but much less often since I installed the firmware update.) When this happens I have to run a shell script I set up to bring the trackpoint back.

So, I can't say the Linux experience with my laptop has been great. I'm guessing the device support for these new laptops with Linux preinstalled will be much better.
The counter-treatment is a bunch of people getting sick and dying, unfortunately.

Relying on expertise and ignoring charlatanism gets a lot more palatable when you realize expertise is what's keeping your parents and friends alive.
The news cycle is so chaotic and contradictory these days that I can't make heads or tails of anything.
It's right here on HN. I've been in threads where that sentiment was expressed. Don't gaslight.
Okay, but it's not male-specific.
Vitamin D?
(S3 -- see footnote) Classes don't "implement" anything in R the way they would in other languages. They are labels that tell dispatch functions how to deal with an object. A tibble is internally a data frame. The last example in my post makes this exactly clear.

The other OO systems in R do act closer to traditional classes, but all the tidyverse stuff is S3.

(But the OP was correct in another sense related to the example narrowly!)
I get really good results with a 550F oven (pretty normal top temp in the US) with a pizza stone and a 7-9 minute bake (actually temperatures vary oven by oven, and some like to let the actual temp sag by as much as 100F rather than holding, so you've gotta reset them sometimes to get it back to 550).

Then again I also think the dough my Zojirushi bread machine turns out, left to rest overnight in the fridge, is close enough to my hand-made dough that I don't really bother with the latter anymore. So maybe I'm just not very discerning. My pizza's definitely better than all but the highest-end, fancy-pizza-oven places locally, though.

Stovetop start in cast iron is great for pan-style pizza, though. Heat the oven, build the pizza (on oil) in the pan, heat it 'till it sizzles for a minute or so, then in the oven, broiler to finish the top when you think it's getting close to done. Way less clean-up and lower equipment requirements than a stone-and-peel bake.
73 deaths in one day is the maximum this week.

Deaths per day is on a downward trend right now. Two weeks ago the maximum on a day was 108.
What if we alter that analogy to a person who makes 100k/yr with a 110k mortgage, and next year they make 101k with a 115k mortgage, and next year they make 102k with a 120k mortgage, and so on?
why are people still talking about agile?
R to Python convert here (numpy, pandas). Agreed about the general claim of clunkiness, but at least for statistical computing R still wins because of the richness of the long tail of packages (representative example: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/poweRlaw/index.html). In my experience, Python equivalents are much less developed and documented, if extant. Many data scientists I know would disagree with this claim, but that's because they tend to stick with things supported by scipy, pymc3, statsmodels, and a few other common libraries.

One solution I have found for small and medium data is to use rpy in Jupyter to let me keep most of my workflow in python, then shuttle stuff to R for exotic tests or to use key packages (ggplot, brms, lme4).
It's interesting to see other implementations of Codenames!

We've made one here http://those.codes
I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

$ fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing

If you temporarily enable, apply the Prometheus fingerprint updates then disable you won't need to worry about installing unstable firmware that will affect the system more widely.
Ah yeah.

I do think you're correct here, which is that this idea sounds simple but has a lot of edge cases.
He used the term "disinfectant" immediately after talking about UV light, which is a most definitely a well known disinfectant. However, he was also obviously not being clear, but never mentioned any other specific disinfectant. Therefore, the only good faith interpretation, after considering context and applying a modicum of critical thought, is that he was referring to the UV light when he used the term.
Hey nice to meet another Polish dude! We use Twilio's Video SDK and their P2P rooms. This works fine for most users on desktops and good internet. When I play with friends in CA (I'm in NY), I don't experience any serious issues. Sometimes there's feedback when a user has their speakers blasting. Many of our users experience problems on mobile when there are a lot of players in the room. We're thinking about switching video providers to one with an affordable server option to improve the larger game rooms experience though.
People need food to live.

Not everyone can cook. Not everyone has a big kitchen or a place they can store food.

Good food is important to people's quality of life. It provides comfort. It brings people together. It's a cornerstone of culture.

People need "third places". Places to gather, meet with friends, meet new people, discuss things. Revolutionary ideas in art, science, and politics started in coffeehouses.

Yeah, I'd say restaurants are necessary. Not all restaurants of course. But I don't want to imagine a world without restaurants.

And what's not necessary? 90% of the "uber for x" VC pump and dump schemes that we spend all our time on.
Indeed. The article doesn't seem to consider the probable "wave" nature of this and pandemics. 70% having caught it this time around might result in a level of herd immunity by the time the second wave should hit. Otherwise it is correct - we still need to slow it down, as we have been with self-quarantine, etc., so that the hospitals don't get overrun in the meantime.

One should understand the phrase "flatten the curve" doesn't come with the expectation that fewer people will get infected over the years we expect to be dealing with covid19. If we slow it down, more people can be treated adequately, which is likely to result in increased survival rates.
R's killer app is interactive analysis. Import some data, graph it, look at the graph, do some clean-up based on what you noticed, graph it again, run some summary statistics, fit a model, graph the residuals from the model, etc. It's amazing for this - arguably the best available open source software for this type of task. Comparable tools for this would be MATLAB, Stata, Mathematica, etc. (all with strengths in slightly different domains).

It's comparatively very weak for "software development" - writing libraries, long-running programs, etc. Even data cleaning/data analysis scripts are a headache beyond a certain length or number of contributors. People tend to have the same complaints about MATLAB, Stata, and Mathematica.

These are related - a lot of the features that make interactive use concise and easy to pick up end up being kind of a mess to handle consistently in a larger program.

Python is at a different point on this spectrum. It's moderately good for interactive analysis, but there are still a lot of tasks that are concise and easy in R that require a bunch of verbose object manipulation in Python. This is a choice - "explicit is better than implicit", etc. Python is also moderately good for "software development" - it has enough consistency and code structuring features that you can write libraries, systems, and infrastructure while collaborating with a small number of other people pretty easily. You still hit a point where Python's dynamic features make things like refactoring harder than you'd like, but it's usable.
In different senses. Socrates prefers philosopher kings. Aristotle, a mixed polity, e.g. a government with checks and balances.
On the other hand, there are reports of Coronavirus spreading through a building through the air conditioning, and it's a fact that presymptomatic people can be infectious, consequently you really may not wish to live in the same building as an emergency physician or nurse these days. Their work still deserves recognition, but meanwhile quarantine on the hospital grounds might be a wise move.
That presumes that IBM knows how to create something of value with its R&D department. If the R&D department is just finding faster ways to answer Jeopardy questions, real resources are going to waste. Those smart people could be doing important work somewhere else.
I'm sorry, I'm still confused. Perhaps the best question to ask you is where does the risk come from him borrowing the money either way? He gets it for virtually free. The fed propping up the market devalues the currency, yes, but it just gives him more time to act and everyone else is in the same boat with him. The way I see it, even if his stock goes down, he still has $70B and a trivial amount of interest to pay.

Also, we should probably use a lower number, because I struggle to think of a scenario where a single individual would actually need that much capital at once. If we need to use someone else for a different hypothetical I'm open to that too, because Amazon's stock has risen 46% since it hit its YTD low on March 16th, which is 10% higher than its previous all-time high.
Because it doesn't, not remotely close.
I have no idea and I didn't so =\
I don't believe it. They said the same thing more than a year ago, it is still announced in their website for the P models (the choice for ubuntu or fedora), but yet they are impossible to buy. I have harassed the lenovo sales people for months and I have given up in buying a P laptop with linux installed. I do not understand why do they play this kind of stupid games. The only thing that they offer is to buy the laptop with windows, then renounce the windows licence, then follow an online guide to install linux. Honestly, to buy a few laptops for 4000 EUR each, it is fairly insulting to be told that.
If you look at the cumulative distribution, around week 11 is where things started and the peak is at week 14, during week 16 the slope is already less steep.

I think it would be quite remarkable if people managed to die from 5 weeks of eating at home without exercise.
> Oddly they are taxed differently.

Most dividends are treated as 'qualified,' meaning that they are taxes as LT cap gains. So in that respect, the tax treatment is the same as selling the appreciated stock at a profit.

The big difference is that you're forced to pay taxes on a dividend the year you receive it, while you can theoretically defer capital gains taxes forever in a reinvestment scenario. Practically speaking though, most people own mutual funds that rebalance every year or so (think, S&P500 index fund), and pay out LT Cap Gains quarterly/yearly. So for most investors, there's not a huge difference between the two.

Additionally, there are schemes to allow for different tax treatment on dividends, such as capital dividends or stock dividends.
I’ve got friends in LOW Places...
Debian Stable is never going to be a “laptop” distro, to be fair. One needs Ubuntu, Fedora, or some other quick-turnaround distro.
> Printing money is a very effective way to even some of that out. Possibly the only form of 'wealth tax' that can actually be executed successfully.

This only holds if the wealthy are holding their wealth as USD, not assets. This is not the case. The wealthy do not typically have Scrooge McDuck-style vaults of cash laying around waiting to be inflated away.
From reading the article, this may be because the banks choose to service the loans directly, or because the loans have priced-in higher risk (as they lack a government guarantee).
> Seems like Sweden is on track to hit herd immunity long before everyone else

There's zero evidence of that. At this time, officially less than .5% of the population has been infected, so you'd have to postulate something like 99% of cases being asymptomatic.

> Their daily new case count has been mostly plateaued for weeks

Case count depends a lot on amount of testing (In which Sweden lags behind even the US) and testing criteria. Their death count does not look great.
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Loans that are likely to default have higher interest rates. However, jumbo loans also have high interest rates due to the size of the principal. Although they're supposed to be less likely to default, being held by high-income individuals, if they do default then you lose more principal than a regular loan. For a bank in good times, you get to charge high interest rates normally reserved for risky borrowers on safe borrowers. More profit with less risk, what's not to like? In bad times though, when those previously safe borrowers start defaulting, even if only a few of them default they do so on larger chunks of money. Instead of losing your money with many small cuts now you could end up losing money in chunks.
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If you blast a bright enough light it has the potential to penetrate extremely deeply. It would be a balancing act of maximizing luminosity while minimizing human tissue damage.
No, you're right.

One of the big issues in historical discussions, especially if you get out of scholarly material is that a lot of people do tend to have overly simplified views of conflicts and if they've got a side they are biased towards, the other side is demonized, as you have said.

In any conflict, especially war, the door is opened for vendettas and sociopathy and basically evil (chaos is a ladder). The Nationalists had Hitler and Mussolini as backers, the Republicans had Stalin. Of course, both sides (yes, both sides) had good people that were stuck in the middle of it for whatever reason.

Hemingway's account in the middle of For Whom the Bell Tolls where the rebels go into the town and murder priests and other supporters of the conservatives really struck me. Hemingway actually fought with the left and was sympathetic to them, but even he was aware of atrocities that were being committed by his own side.

The demonization of the other side and the inability to call out our own side when they're doing wrong really just weakens one's own cause. It's kind of sad that we as humans still haven't figured that out, but I guess it's something about how we are and it's a tragedy cause on that other side is just another person.
The reason you've had to point that out many times is that it no longer matches common usage. Most people who use "flatten the curve" nowadays insist that it is about an alternative to herd immunity, that herd immunity is absolutely unacceptable and we can't permit it. (You're right that this is not originally what the phrase meant.)
I don't think this is a sound argument for further enriching the rich and leaving the common person to struggle. An oligarchy is not a desirable model any more than a monarchy is.
This news report from the BBC on Sweden's approach gives both sides of the debate an airing.

Why Sweden rejected a coronavirus lockdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzzVxw5FyYs
> Bleach, isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide...

UV light injected into the body via fiber optics...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969680
it depends on where you live. Find Asus/Lenovo/Dell
http://www.oxygenhealingtherapies.com/my_ozone_doctor.com.ht...

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048192335
>A stock buyback is theoretically the same as a dividend

I don't think that is true at all.

A dividend is literally "We are paying out some amount of cash. If our stock price is $40 and we give $5 to each shareholder the shares should immediately go down to $35". Although since the stock price should be a NPV of the company's cash flow, they technically have even less working capital to create returns over the years, so I think the price should go down by even more than $5.. but that's a different discussion...

In a stock buyback.. let's say the price is $40 and they buy the equivalent of $5 back from the market. Well.. yes they gave away $5 but they also gained $5 of value because they are now holding the shares. It's a net zero transaction if their stock price doesn't change from it. Which.. it shouldn't unless you think it's a signal of something. Yes there's a bit more details, but value is not "given away" in the same sense.

In the dividend example, the company gave away money.

In a stock repurchase, they gave away money in return for shares of (almost) equal value.
Yes, and about 4-5x the death per population of their Nordic neighbours, which may be a more relevant comparison while the epidemic is growing.
To expand on SamBam's response: how this works, if in fact it does, it's not by directly killing pathogens in the blood. FTFA, less than 10% of the blood by volume needs to be irradiated for effectiveness.
Sweden is very efficient at attributing the cause of death, so that's probably why it stands out in CFR rankings: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

A recent study by the Public Health Agency of Sweden came to a similar conclusion.
There's my crap https://secrethitler.io. (because of some poor design decisions its capped for new players at around 250-300, there's also https://private.secrethitler.io and https://beta.secrethitler.io as well)
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Maybe it was the same people that told Emanuel Macron that hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin was a promising treatment. You can't act like Trump is the only leader who talked about it. Macron went further than that, spending three hours talking to the researcher who proposed using it.
Would you rather argue the precise meaning of words or discuss the nugget of an idea that someone needs your help articulating?
Where’s the best place to shop for a mortgage?

Bankrate, Rocket Mortgage all claim to have the lowest rates but there’s direct smaller lenders that definitely have them beat.
Peroxide is directly virucidal through oxidation of the lipid envelope and RNA degradation. Whether lymphocytes would be activated in lung tissue in vivo is entirely speculative.
Mobile money could get a second revolution in Kenya
Their gamble is that it will come out in the wash - in the first period they will have scary, unpleasant numbers. But as the disease progresses through every community will have the same scary, unpleasant numbers - but in Sweden the economy will be able to reopen fully and finally in a month or two after everyone is recovered. But for the rest of us, it'll take an extra six months or a year; the same amount of people will die[] it's just a matter of how fast or slow.

[] in the non trivial sense, since obviously we'll all die; but presumably we won't all die from this pandemic.
Ok, but they don't control inflation. At some point, I think it's obvious that printing money becomes counterproductive. But where exactly is that line?
This looks great. Do you think your friend might add a short paragraph to the home page explaining what this does? Might engender a little more trust.

I'm totally gonna use this to play Codenames with my parents-in-law.
On all the various mods and variations, I don't doubt it's thousands. Minecraft took in all this generation's version of quake and half-life modders. In the late 90's early 2000's I remember tracking 20-30 different quake and half-life mods, most having small teams of people working on them. Minecraft is a couple orders of magnitude more popular, so I wouldn't doubt a few thousand. There's enough people making content for it that you can probably find a youtuber playing some new mod or specialty level with complex logic every day if you look.
Inventor thinks Bluetooth is unsuitable for Corona-app
I see what you're saying, but given how addictive FB is, and how much advertisement they use, you're kind of giving them the upper hand by playing neutral.

For instance, I never go to Walmart (but sometimes do).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repxFQXVsHc
Researchers restore injured man's sense of touch using brain-computer interface
How much time are you spending specifically on interview question practice (HackerRank/Leetcode)?

I've got close to 20 years of programming experience, including working at Google for several years and launching some very high-profile projects. I still fail interviews if I haven't studied for them. You could argue that it's a stupid system where they test 20-minute coding exercises with a trick answer, and you'd be right [1]. But it's a system that can be gamed, and can be gamed with relatively little time. Putting in a week full-time, or working a problem a day for 3 months, will put you way ahead of most of the rest of the competition.

[1] But the interview bullshit serves another less-obvious purpose: it tests how much you actually want to work at the organization. It's relatively easy to bullshit enthusiasm in a calm chat with a hiring manager. It's pretty hard to do it when your brain is occupied by solving a hard problem and you're frustrated because you have 5 minutes left to solve a problem and there's still a sticky bug.
> I personally didn't realize how bad the calculus of chasing after companies in tech hubs looks until I started doing costs-of-living calculations while evaluating job offers with relocation.

Your mistake was waiting until mid-career to try to pivot to a higher paying job in a HCOL area, because then you'll be 10+ years behind your peers. If you start your career in a HCOL area it's not unfeasible to reach 400k+ by your 30s, at which point you can afford a family even in San Francisco if you wanted one. It's also much easier to find a higher income spouse in a HCOL area, which helps the math too.
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