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That is an excellent example. Who really has the upper hand? Depends on how close the competition is, I guess. And how close the competition is to their competitors..
Not bureaucracy, that can be reigned in easily from the legislature.

The problem is there are a lot of things in local minima (or maxima if we're optimizing for maximum of some goal function).

The Penn Station story is very illustrative of this problem.

Klein writes that too many people vetoed it. But that's not what happened. No one had put up the money to do what they wanted. Every stakeholder wanted to get off easy. Sure the MSG owner did not want to move for free, neither the USPS, but why would anyone expect them to do for free?

The Federal decision to move the USPS was easy, but then no one reigned in them, so they were able to simply procrastinate for a decade. Why? Because no one gave a fuck about it in the administration. (How hard it would been to order the site manager to move in 2 years or get fired, and assign someone from MTA to check how the move is going? Easy peasy, but no, nothing like that happened.)

And ultimately NY/NJ/AmTrak doesn't want to pay for a new station, because they don't have the money for it. (To buy buildings, land there, to do a megaproject in the heart of Manhattan.)

And it's not even one institution, but many on many different levels.

And the solution seems simple, make it one, and give it a revenue stream, but don't allow it to spend it on anything else, and eventually it'll solve the problem.
Wow, so what does it look like when you are attacking someone personally?
Probably by implementing strict quarantine measures at the start of the pandemic. They likely had many undetected cases in the beginning as well, the quarantine reduced the pool of infected people a lot. Given that the number of infected people is relatively low right now, their testing capacity probably allows for fairly good tracing of cases, which is one of the primary reasons why their numbers remain low, in addition to factors such as social distancing and high hygiene standards. But the large number of undetected cases in the beginning would would reduce the ifr significantly.
Flu most likely?

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/summary-infl...
Something like 70% of farming is growing crops to feed animals which we then eat. Meat is an incredibly inefficient way to turn sunlight and water into calories. If we all switched away from meat and ate mostly plants instead we’d have more than enough without needing such intensive farming methods. More seriously than that though, current methods are actively destructive to the soil - the longer we farm so intensively the less viable farmland we will have. Does that sound sustainable?
> life just isn't a very deep thing

Surely life is the most profound and magical thing you will ever experience?
Oh, but they are just lecture notes. I am quite a bad lecture-note writer (and, honestly, anything else) but for lecture notes, the Nichomachean Ethics is splendid.
Marshmallow. You can use its schema validation for any dict/json, which makes it a nice fit for validating json config files (which mitigates some of the json concerns from the article). Just immediately move the json.reads through a schema validate, build some classes around it for different config files.

marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/
You are 100% wrong, Sweden is doing a lot of things to minimize the coronavirus impact.

But I'm curious why you are claiming something that is so completely wrong. Where did you get the idea from? Are you living in Sweden and strongly disagreeing with the official response, or are you living somewhere else, but "read it on the internet" ?
Sad post: a lot of work, a lot of nice data, zero explanation of what it means.
There’s always meaning. Even if creators don’t intend there to be meaning or commentary, a work will still to some extent reflect the creators’ morality and general worldview
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Untrue. Large memory nodes are par the course for genomics workloads. Only a few stages of the analysis pipeline can stream the in/out effectively. Even then, going to disk for the result only to be read back is going to bottleneck your pipeline.

The authors go in more detail around this topic in: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
VSCode has telemetry too. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
My biggest gripe with this headline is the word "hire". Let's rephrase that to: "250k shoppers signed up". They were not hired. They don't have benefits, they don't have medical, and they are most definitely not employees.
I think the biggest reason for the custom code in the small teams is that they make 2D games. A 2D engine barely deserves the name and it's usually more hassle adapt to a 3rd party engine and its limitations than just write it yourself.
Somebody should make awesome-turing-complete project on github, so we can merge everything from the comments here into a neat list...
>the book writing is obtuse
It could be by translation but I found it quite plain.
That's actually a heuristic I often use to decide this dilemma: Would I want to open this in a new tab / copy the link? In terms of styling, I like to start both from zero so that a button "look" can easily be a link (like "learn more").
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I highly recommend Jonathan Blow's (Braid, The Witness) streams on custom programming language development (jai [1]) and game development: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ

In one of the videos he says that the big engines are trying to be everything for everybody, and there's value in developing a custom engine for your game's specific needs.

[1] https://inductive.no/jai/
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It's starting to be eaten in the UK, but really it's just a bastardised version of Carbonara, so people prefer to eat that.
>Chances are you can't just give the A13 a 95W power budget and see it hit 5GHz, it would have to be redesigned and the kinds of changes necessary to get there would generally lower IPC.

It's not really a difficult concept to understand. If your CPU runs at 5GHz then maximum time a single cycle is allowed to take is 0.2 nanoseconds. CPU designers have to make sure that this limit is never exceeded anywhere on the chip. If you make a even the slighted mistake in some unimportant corner of the CPU you will end up limiting the maximum performance of the entire CPU.

Most CPUs are optimized for a specific clock frequency and going beyond it is not possible without sacrificing stability.
Bread and circuses. AND circuses; you can't just give people houses, food and money, you need to keep them busy and / or entertained as well. I think instead of just giving people money, you should give them work and purpose in life instead.

The goal should be well-paid jobs at up to 40 hours / week, so that people can get job satisfaction, don't have to stress about money, and still have time left to have a balanced life.
Really incredible, when you have to go through university for at least 5 years, with heavy technical and at least for me mathematical lectures. Also incredible, when the complexity of IT systems is ever rising. Incredible, when we basically have to build mathematically correct systems, to make sure things work exactly like they should, including weird user wanted behavior, just for historical reasons. Also weird, that working in IT often requires a degree and that degree has requirements in educational background, which do not exist for plumbing.

Besides all this incredibility, yes, I do work professionally in an engineering role.

Limiting a statement is not the same as a completely making it meaningless. Of course there are plumbing projects, which are more complex than a static blog. Besides that, I would also like to remind you of the little part of the phrase "I'd wager that". I did not know, that it is an "ignorant" statement, to express ones believes.
>Switching architecture is unlikely to present a major problem for most developers, especially given that they're probably using Unity or Unreal Engine.

As a former game developer I can tell you that that is an issue. Apple is totally against using cross platform tools. They break compatibility as much as they can.

Framework change, architecture change and so on.

Instead of going with OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenCL they made Metal.

If user base is large enough, as is the case with iOS, there's an incentive to go trough the pains of releasing for that platform. But that isn't the case with macOS. Maybe for Adobe is worth it to spend resources to build software for macOS, but for other companies that might not be the case.

Anyway, you make much more money by targeting Play station and Xbox, and the resources needed are the same in money and man hours so it kame sense to target macOS last, if ever.

And no, not everybody is using Unity and Unreal. That is true mostly for indies.
Tree guy, you can have Christmas without a tree. I hate Christmas trees. They take up space I don't (didn't; I have more space now) have, and spread needles everywhere. And I'm Christian, so I'm not that big on the pagan symbols anyway.
The study wasn't one day but one week, and even then, I assume they wouldn't be stupid enough to collect blood from the same person over and over.
I try not to engage with people who go directly to snarky extremist characterization, as above. But yes, political agendas are a factor here, as is simple appeasement.
I want to believe fiber is cheaper than copper, but that should still have some value, right?

Of course, it only has value in its complete wire format, while copper is easily melted down. If it has to remain intact it's likely more traceable.
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As an aside, I strongly recommend reading Thucydides. Once you know the story of the Peloponnesian War, everything that Socrates and Aristotle talked about will have a much deeper meaning.
Jobs come back. Dead people do not.
That metaphor sounds nice but conjurs the wrong image. The vaccine could very well be worse than a Covid infection, i.e. you grab your shield, but that newsly invented shield has spikes on the inside.
IANAE but ... all three years show the pattern of what I presume is the flu season (broadly speaking), causing deaths (mostly in the elderly), and differing in severity/rate between the three years.

2020 is different because there is a clear step-change in death rate after week 11, and the implication/fact is that that is COVID-19.

The conclusion is that those deaths are excess deaths on top of those that we would have had as a consequence of the 2020 flu season.
To assume the infection fatality ratio(IFR)is 0.5% from this is retarded. We know that when covid-19 began to spread in South Korea at first it spread among a younger population who were ignoring or at least not following government advise so closely and taking chances the IFR was looking like about 0.7% to start with (In SK). We know this as SK kept excellent data / records to begin with. We also know that the Diamond Princess with a more generally aged population has a IFR of 13% +. We know this is a disease that adversely effects the elderly and infirm (in the developed world) If you are over 80 getting covid you might as well play Russian roulette with a Magnum .45 .These groups of people know there at risk, so if they have any sanity they are staying the hell at home. So people who are going into the Grocery store in NY city aren't representative of this population. This is why we are staying at home mostly to protect the old and infirm. That's not to say you want Covid-19 yourself either because there's about a 5% chance you will end up in the ICU (and an as yet undisclosed chance of death) even if your a member of the Hungarian Olympic Shot-Putting team. This does kill young tough people, it does happen but this is mostly killing the elderly and infirm. Why are people so fecking retarded? I can't take this anymore!! Stay the Sm3g at home! It's stopping the hospitals being overloaded.. It's buying us time to figure out new treatments / how to treat this better.
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How is my experience affected by being on a different instance to others?
I'm afraid the population who has these options (and spends its time on hackernews) is called the 1% for a reason, and probably aren't going to bias the stats significantly.
Any recommendations on which edition or translation to get? Thanks in advance!
People seem to forget that people are still getting ill as usual, in addition to the covid cases. Hospitals still have to treat everyone they used to, in addition to all the new covid patients
I read HN because not just that happens, but also the comments will usually provide several other insights or links of equal value!
They have around 10k tests per 1 million, that's not regarded as very little. US keeps saying it tests the most in the world and it's at 14k. Korea is known for massive testing, at 10k. Rich and well-struck countries like UK/France tests fewer cases.

They're not top testers but definitely significant testers.

In part it helps that they're one of the least dense countries in the world at around 20 people per square kilometer, compared to say 400/500 for the Netherlands and South Korea. The difference is less pronounced in cities of course but still there (when will we ever get population density figures for the median person who is weighted towards living in proximity, rather than a country-wide average)
I think it's normal to assume averages when comparing things.

I would be interested in some experiments of average developers learning average plumbing vs average plumbers learning average development. I'd wager theres an order of magnitude difference in the results(time spent, quality etc).
So we are glad that we can use the data of the memory mapped file directly and do not have to allocate or copy anything. But of course you may solve the problem badly if you prefer so; after all, there are even "scientific" publications that do it that way, as the example shows.
> My guess is they are sick of scrapers and data miners. If login is needed, they can ban and the proxy hustlers will have a hard time.

As someone who's been writing integration (not nefarious!) scrapers for years, this is crap. Email accounts are free, VPNs and captcha solvers are dirt-cheap and at the end of the day, if they screw up the web version too much, the mobile apps are even easier to turn into scrapers as they usually use some kind of JSON API.

They did this for the same reason as Reddit and Facebook:
- it's harder to make ad profiles for anonymous users
- new users is a metric that investors love
- psychological trick (I can't remember what that specific phenomenon is called) to turn lurkers into posters
> Don't you then miss out on human readable Git diffs when posts are changed? And now you can't edit posts with a standard editor or e.g. the GitHub web UI?

You never got those with wordpress either. Seems like they're going for some kind of hybrid. Trading some of the simplicity of standard static file generators for some of the power of a tool like wordpress.

I quite like the idea.

Nothing to stop them from storing historical versions in the DB, then it wouldn't be much more logic for the site generator to spit out the site at X point in time, or a diff. Whether that's a feature you'd want is another thing.

> what language are you using?

"re-writing the core of Wordpress to Elixir"
This is the right way to do it. Glad to see it actually gets used.
This argument makes about as much sense as saying seatbelts may give a false sense of security and cause people to drive recklessly. The WHOs mask advice is all outdated and from the perspective of stopping people from trying to catch the virus, whereas in Asia masks are worn to stop spreading your own virus. It's total crap that we can't question WHOs advice here - especially when they've been so behind the curve in other areas - when it could save lives.
Absolutely nope. Both unfamiliar naming and the console interface is overwhelming, it's overkill to learn it just to run one VPS.
How many middle class people do you see stealing copper wire? Not many, so there is some amount of money that stops people from doing that.
But that's not actually true. That hefty sum was nowhere near sufficient! Sure, it was hefty, but the parties involved were not ready to do real serious work. NYC could have used eminent domain, and yes that would have likely gone to the courts, but that is how it is supposed to work. Or they could have bought the thing, but that was too much money again!
It seems to be jargon for "median". 50th percentile.
Factorio made me super stressed out when I was playing it. One of the reasons I quit.
Actually no, the excess mortality that was reported yesterday was not negative. What was (very slightly) negative was the excess mortality minus known covid deads, which means that sweden excess mortality is accounted for. Some places like Italy are seen excess mortality twice as big as the number of accounted covid deads, which means that they are way under reporting.
Read an article that over half of Europe's Covid deaths might be from nursing homes...
You're confusing a declarative v. an imperative statement. What you propose is a declarative, and you're correct that it ain't contradictory.

The WHO's messaging, however, is imperative¹ (emphasis theirs):

"For healthy people wear a mask only if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCov infection"

This makes it clear that it directly contradicts the more widely-accepted similarly-imperative advice of "wear a mask in public, no matter what".

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¹: https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coro...
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> A 2D engine barely deserves the name

If you say so. The vast majority of programmers would have no clue where to start if you put them up to the task.

A game engine is much more than a renderer, which is the only easier part in 2D versus 3D.
Another poster says that people shouldn't try to find interpretations, but just feelings, like for music. This is what I was responding to. If they're puzzles it's a different assumption.
I just hope that this won't make the situation worst and that it will work. I can't wait for this pandemic to be over, I really miss my old life. Moving on stay home people.
Weekly? Try daily or hourly. I routinely read HN starting at https://news.ycombinator.com/active which shows flagged stories and I have showdead switched on, exactly because I don't trust the moderation here. All kinds of interesting and useful stories get flagged for no obvious reason at all. HN's own guidelines are very vague and contradictory.

I'm sure the mods just erase stuff outright too, but unfortunately there aren't really many better forums out there - subreddits are hardly a paragon of transparent and fair moderation. Slashdot got it the most right even so many years ago but the site has been abandoned and was decaying for a long time. It's just unpleasant to use these days (not because of the comments).
Is there any actual evidence that the flu vaccines indeed work? Given that 'flu' is actually a very broad term for a disease that can be caused by =many different viruses that also mutate each year.
> It doesn't prove that it was lab-made

It does prove they were doing SARS research. Just great.
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More or less the same story with a water vending machine.

The more rugged the machine was, the more did it cost when it was vandalised. It makes no sense to make a $10000 ATM if it will get vandalised, and broken anyways.
The ideology is well alive in California, even if there no-tax/NIMBY folks don't have to vote R to have their voices heard.
Sweden’s position is that deaths are not avoidable. At the end of the pandemic they expect the death rate across most countries (with the exception of some outliers, like Italy) to be broadly similar. As such they have decided it makes no sense to completely shutdown the economy with all the longterm implications that would entail. As long as moderate social distancing prevents their healthcare system from being overwhelmed, they believe that to be optimal.
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Numbers do not look that bad yet, but the trajectory is steeper. Is that sharp drop real or just lag?
It's a cumulated graph. Earlier flu seasons were responsible for excess deaths in 2018 and 2019, and since flu season starts earlier in the year than pandemic deaths, by April, more people had time to die than has died in total from covid-19 in 2020 so far.

You can click the "weekly" button and you'll see that covid-19 is deadlier than earlier flus, but has been killing people for a shorter amount of time.
I'd imagine that user base would move to Windows if Adobe won't release an macOS/ARM version.

People care more about the software tools they use to do their jobs than on the operating system and hardware.

So, it might depend on how much would cost Adobe to release for ARM.
If you want to know how to live, start with the stoics. They answered this question VERY successfully thousands of years ago.
Read my reply again, note especially the part "While this happens". Obviously I am acutely aware of what you are saying, no matter how many Wikipedia articles you link, so your comment is not only superfluous but also makes no sense, as I was asking OP if he was personally affected in such a way because he seemed bitter. Your reply does not answer this, and you should let him answer for himself.

> I'm not sure what your definition of "very few people"

I think my definition is about the same as every accepted definition of "very few", the number of people affected by such bugs falls within this definition, considering how many users software has.

> Many people have been significantly affected by software bugs. Therac-25[1] is one I constantly remind myself of; it killed 5 people.

5 does not fit the definition many in anyone's book.
Perhaps, but given Google's track record of banning users without explanation for strange reasons I somehow doubt YouTube is able to perceive that daylight.
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Take first Critique, and read it as if a software engineer wrote his ideas now some software might be architected in order order to work as it is working right now: that is the point of Transcendental Argument.
> But maybe that's just a result if it being so new. 'ls' has been around for almost 50 years...

Even so, I don't think we can use that excuse given that it was released over 13 years ago...
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> Finding an appropriate n might be a delicate, many big (legitimate) businesses have really complicated ownership structures

It is something between 10 and 13, if you accept that governance structure of an organisation must match its social communication structure. It is something between 14 and 16, if you accept that governance structure of an organisation must match its business divisions. Any n>16 is prone to communication shortcutting.
That makes the assumption that any refcounted object lifetime management can be replaced with manual management, which is not the case.

As the paper states: it is not possible to manually determine the object lifetimes due to the nature of the problem, data and openness of the configurable analysis pipeline. Manual alloc/free would in their case mean holding on to much more memory than a GC/refcounting solution would.
Oh, but it is. There's a riddle inside the mind of every man and when he solves it he gains a window into things far beyond himself.
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