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> as soon as a certain famous snake oil peddler starts yammering about his n-th insane theory

You mean Donald Trump or Michael R. Hamblin? Because if it's the first (as a comment downthread implies) then I must've missed a big story, and if the second, then I personally haven't heard this name before.

I'm guessing most HNers are like me: drawn to interesting ideas that seem to make sense on the surface. Here, UV light is a known and powerful disinfectant (and seemingly very much underused in this pandemic), ionizing radiation is commonly used in medicine, and applying it as a blood filter sounds like a plausible idea - so overall, sounds like a compelling reason to check out the article and the comment section.
Yea, and you get these weird inbred tools and insane levels of Not-Invented-Here
I want it without labels and colors :)
For anyone curious about the details of building a Turing machine in MtG, Because Science did a thorough breakdown and demonstration, using actual cards: https://youtu.be/pdmODVYPDLA
Thanks for the reply and for offering a unique perspective :)

> Your prior employer isn't going to tell anyone, if they know what's good for them. Small, inexperienced companies with no lawyers might, but no real business is going to risk a lawsuit by saying anything bad about you whatsoever. They'll confirm that you worked there and that's about it.

This is an interesting point. I had been under the impression that even companies with fairly restrictive HR policies could safely disclose whether or not a former employee was terminated. After some fresh googling it seems I might have been incorrect and that now employers increasingly might just admit you existed :)

> Do not under any circumstances tell people that you were unemployed or lost your job due to depression or mental health. I'm not going to sugar coat this for you. Never admit this during an interview. It's a bad idea to mention anything health related. It's also none of their business, unless you require an accommodation that needs to be addressed before you're hired.

Sadly, I think you're very much correct re: mental health. I almost wish I could be more candid, but everyone (here and elsewhere) seems to agree that's just a terrible idea.

> It's a bad idea to mention anything health related.

I have, however, mentioned health / medical issues in some of my early conversations. I definitely understand how that could make potential employers nervous, so in some future interviews I may try to omit mentioning health at all.

> You'll be fine going forward, although now isn't a great time to be looking for a job, so it might take longer.

Thank you :)
It's not semantics. Capitalism doesn't mean an 'unregulated hellscape', capitalism requires a state to exist in order to defend the right to hold private property. In capitalist countries, the legal system functions mainly as a way to defend the rights of corporations, with occasional compromises to prevent an uprising (e.g., $1200 checks during the covid pandemic).
If police didn't exist, corporations would have to hire private security to defend their property - and in fact, this is what they did during the 1800's.

For an example of what an "unregulated hellscape" looks like, take a look at the world of cryptocurrency and how common it is for people to get all of their property stolen.
So I woke up to some “news” about said ridiculous statements and said snake oil sales. So as I do now, I went and got the actual source and not the media interprition of it.

Can you find where in this clip he says to inject Lysol or sells snake oil? https://youtube.com/watch?v=zu60uj0_-Nw&feature=emb_title&ti...

Because I saw him ask questions to his medical professional and make very general statements that are objectively true but at worst impractical or irrelevant.

Can anyone time stamp the snake oil for me?
Nearly everywhere I've worked the quarterly earnings report is the problem. Due dates mean that time has to be managed so any attempt to use a methodology seems to regress to some not fun way of developing software.

In places I've worked without the pressure of the quarterly earnings report I've seen that developers tended to use whatever methodology worked best. It could be Agile, pair programming, or just walking over to each other's desks and talking on IM.
Not sure which country you are in, or if you care at all but you might want to avoid using trademarked game titles like Boggle to avoid any legal disputes. Perhaps a subtle nod like Bogly or something would be enough to let people know the general game...
Read up on Hudson Yards and think about it some more.
Continental philosophers were approaching the topic of philosophy very differently. Much of it comes off as convoluted nonsense: rather than clarity of expression it feels like mysticism for which you need a 'guru' to elaborate and elucidate.

To take existentialism, the basic message is "you have to decide and take control of your life". Sure, that sounds good, but what is the advice about how to do it? Existentialism seems to offer no guide.
You're spending time with the wealthy people of those countries. Half of the world does not have a flush toilet at home.
> These people are normally rational.

I doubt that. Crises surface suppressed flaws (and strengths), not usually create new ones.

People who would threaten anyone with "you will be killed" for anything, got there before the crisis.
This problem is endemic.

It is human nature that when talking to your boss you put things in the most optimistic way that fits your understanding, and your boss hears it even more optimistically. After a few steps up the chain this results in a complete disconnect from reality.

http://www.stamey.info/Humor/shithappens.htm is a humorous but basically accurate take on the dynamic.

Now, you say, reality eventually intrudes. Yes, but it is normal for upper management to not realize that deadlines will slip until about 2 weeks before they do. And will continue to think it is about 2 weeks off indefinitely.
or, load it in Firefox, while content is still loading cancel loading, and use reader mode
And not knowing that rebuild time can cause you to incorrectly allocate physical drives to the array (based on AFR, size, and rebuild speeds). Changing the drive allocation for zfs requires destruction of the array.
Flattening everything into being equal remains fallacious.
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I've written something similar on here recently, but to repeat: I am, at this point, pretty sure that trying to combine manager-facing and team-facing planning/tracking/task/reporting tools into one thing is fundamentally a bad idea.
The chance of something being pitched is correlated more strongly with it making money than with it actually being a sane idea.
I don't believe any of his statements imply moral equivalence. I can believe (using your example of WW2) that on the whole, Imperial Japan was a more evil system (rape of Nanking? unprovoked attacks?) but still see Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the murder of Japanese prisoners of war as evil acts of their own. That's not the kind of slippery slope you are describing, it's just how history works

I really think bringing in the rhetorical attacks and the references to Shapiro and modern politics (nobody wass taking about that guy) is disingenuous and takes the discussion out of the historical and into today's politics, which isn't useful and distracting.
Docker was bullied into fragmentation by Redhat and CoreOS
How the Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio (YouTube)
US plus Canada is just 23% larger than EU by GDP [1]. Based on PPP it's 20% [2]. Considering we are talking about ~20 trillion in GDP and very similar PPP, that hardly seems to be a large enough difference to give your "absolute sure" statement merit.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...
Aren't these the same folks out protesting that they can't go get their haircut?
DuckDuckGo offers a dice rolling tool as well, although this Google one is a lot prettier.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=roll+3d12&ia=answer

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=roll+two+dice&ia=answer
Genuinely fascinating guy who was briefly a writer on Roseanne of all things.
> but I have to iterate on features holistically and sometimes speculatively.

YES. THANK YOU! I've been trying to tell people this for ages. Maybe other people are somehow capable of perfectly predicting every conceivable edge-case and consequence without even starting to work on something, but I can't. I have to start building something in order to see it clearly. And this ENRAGES certain kinds of managers, I have found.
Well, to quote the article:

> Now that I was making games, I shared Richard [Garfield]'s belief that I needed to have a working idea of what exactly constituted a game.

> Even if you're just a game player and have no interest in designing games, I think having a working idea of what you think a game is will shape how you think of games and help you further engage in the hobby. I want to stress that I don't believe it's important that everyone have the same definition of games… but I do believe it's important for each gamer to have a definition that works for them. Today's column is about my definition.

This is an article about how a game designer thinks about games.

Of course the properties are not orthogonal, but that's not to say the words aren't gesturing towards slightly different parts of concept-space. The words certainly don't cleanly demarcate disjoint chunks of concept-space, but Rosewater's article nevertheless does have some content.
I'd gander that an AWS team would be more capable than your average startup team. And testing if AppFlow works for you will take way less than building your own.
Dedicated Security Chips in the Age of Secure Enclaves
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens
What's wrong with the comment support?

You can't have comments at the end of a line, but that's sort of the nature of supporting arbitrary strings as values. I don't want my users to have to quote or escape special characters if they happen to want to use them. They're not programmers.

# The note to display
note = Our #1 customer!

rather than

name = Our \#1 customer # The note to display.

or

name = "Our #1 customer" # The note display
Totally agree with the whole dual GPU + nvidia thing, now using a modern intel integrated on an XPS 9370 FHD and zero issues... It makes me feel like the most i have to look forward to on linux is maybe the more powerful integrated vega AMD gpus which look to have good in kernel linux support.

Is there any reliable mobile discrete GPU graphics experience to be had on linux these days?
Saving face refers to trying to recover from screwing something up. Perhaps it's possible that something will come to light showing that lockdowns were not the best way of handling things, but they're a very good default when you don't really know what's going on, but can't afford to wait for data. I would have used a different phrase.
The main problem for me is the misalignment of goals between upper management, middle management and the rest, the higher you climb the less interested they are in they user/client, they only care about some bullshit metric that will end up paying their bonuses.
This is specially visible in public companies where they only chase the metrics that the market looks in that decade, ignoring the rest or the actual user satisfaction (they do try to put a metric on that, with bullshit forms and all :))
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Yeah, I love these! Definitely made me want to give it a try! Maybe embed them both the home page somewhere?
That's not how it works. The ramblings of the president do not have any legal force.
It’s usually signalling. Specifically, it signals “I can afford to invest so much into stocks that I live and breathe stocks, and if you don’t, then I don’t care about you.” It’s a very conceited attitude.

Of course, in this case specifically, it might be because they worked for 10 years in an investment bank, and might be used to always speaking about companies in terms of stocks.
If you're genuinely confused, I assume they missed out the word "selling" before "software".
Who is also rapidly approaching 80. It's really sad that the whole political establishment in the US is so old. Pelosi, McConnell, Trump, Biden. And they don't let young people come up. With "young" I mean 50 and still at the peak of their abilities and not going downhill.
This made my heart pretty heavy. I learned about Prune and Gabrielle from "Mind of a Chef", and her cuisine just seemed absolutely fascinating. It was definitely among the most intriguing of that series. I had planned to make a beeline there the next time I was in New York.

Who knows exactly why the restaurant was unable to transition to the takeout model that many are now subsisting on (at least here in LA). Maybe it's just that NYC has been hit particularly hard by the virus and peoples' habits have been too-far eroded there.

In any case, I hope she is able to continue at a later time. It's sad to think of all the truly good small restaurants with visionary chefs going under and leaving us with very little other than mega-conglomerates to serve us food outside the home.
I wouldn't call it "feeling bad", but "feeling responsible" for your own bugs. No finger pointing and blame games, just sit down and fix your own bugs, try to not run into the same problem next time, and inform your team mates about what the reason for the bug was and how the fix looks like.

But there's no need for a "formal apology" to your team either. The user might deserve an apology by the PR department, but this shouldn't single out the actual developer who wrote the bug.
Ahh the old "shareholders are the only thing that matters" argument.

Buybacks and dividends are not equivalent, buybacks are tax advantaged in ways that dividends are not.

We've allowed numerous companies to get to a size where they are "too big to fail". They know they are too big to fail, and they get to take advantage of this position. They get to go into near unlimited amounts of debt to finance buybacks to enrich shareholders and C levels, and when times are good this all works out. When the economy enters a downturn and they don't have cash on hand to weather the storm, they know the Fed will be there to bail them out.

Something is fundamentally broken here. You can reasonably argue whether it is with the buybacks, or the bailout, but this system is fucked.

For more in depth reporting on this, I highly recommend checking out Matt Taibbi. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/resetting-the-bomb
> snapd itself is distributed as a snap, which seems like a very poor idea to me

I took this as a "vote of confidence" that snap could self-host snapd.

Hosting via snap means they can push updates and not have to wait for users to `apt update; apt upgrade`, as snaps auto-upgrade without user intervention.

I don't know of other benefits, though.
It wasn't by a Boeing exec, was it lol?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-bo...
Or live with family / many roommates.
definitely mileage varies. like I said, I understand why some want a bare-metal install of linux for reasons like the one you described. It goes both ways for sure. Some things have better support on linux, and some have better support on windows.
> like how bad it is compared to the flu, while ignoring/defying the political connotations therein

What political connotations?
I say grant them their wish. Foreign nation state operatives hacking in plain sight in the US, in active war zones? Treat them as the enemy combatants, terrorists even that they want to be recognized as.
> If I make an off-by-one error, I could have done better.

"I did not do X, therefore I could have done X" seems clearly false. How do you know you could have done better? And if you could, why didn't you? And if you actually didn't, what does it usefully mean to say you "could have"?

You "could have" done better but didn't, does that imply you didn't want to do better? Is that what you want to communicate - you wanted your code to be worse - because that isn't in your favour either. You wanted to do better and didn't do better, that's back to implying you wanted to but weren't able to, i.e. you couldn't.
No, the math coprocessor was for floating point, all integer operations (or at least all the basic ones) were on-die.
Sure. Again, this is where the mechanism matters. There are plenty of things that kill viruses; you have to be able to deliver it in a useful way that doesn't kill the patient.

As XKCD points out, a handgun kills cancer cells in vitro. https://xkcd.com/1217/
To the commentor below, since I can't seem to reply directly:

> Bryan said

Last I checked, Bryan wasn't Trump.
can you link directly to the book? thanks.
A function of these press conferences is that he is communicating to the American people. Not the time or the place to "ask questions" about "injecting disinfectants" or spitballing with his advisors.

Edit: Apparently he was being "sarcastic". Unbelievable. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1253736546534141963
Yeah, and, in my opinion, the reason why Reckitt Benckiser Group quickly issued a statement after Trump's claims is as much the media as Trump himself. The media had an opportunity to educate people on "proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device" to which Trump is referring and instead ran stories about Lysol. Would we even be talking about Lysol if they had led with Healight? I won't claim to know the answer to this question because I don't but it is worth considering that the answer is "no".

Edit: just to combat the obvious response, would we even be talking about Lysol if Trump had not made those comments? Obviously, no. Two wrongs don't make a right
Not saying it will work for all cases, but a majority of integrations are pretty basic. I have done a few. Usually just data mangling between different systems, which is exact what AppFlow is good for. Also if you are on a business plan, the response time is pretty good. I got feature requests done in Sagemaker.
In my experience "Agile" whatever that means is still the best of all the bad options. Is there really a better methodology? I feel like it works pretty well as long as management doesn't pick and choose the easy parts of it and then add their own layer of BS on top, which is very common.
I also enjoy to install linux from scratch. But having a laptop available with linux installed is a big plus. That way, I am sure that all hardware problems (correct throttling, hybernating, etc.) are my fault and not lack of hardware support. I also have an example install with working drivers. Then, I do the installation from scratch, if it is for me. Or if it is for a new postdoc that just needs a linux laptop I can leave it as it is.
> "I simply cannot "decompose" a single feature into 500 different sub-task Jiras."

Nobody can; that's the primary failure mode of waterfall. Anybody who is telling you to decompose a feature into that many subtasks might claim to be doing agile but they really are trying to do waterfall.
I'm not a biologist, but my understanding is that bacteria are much more likely to undergo horizontal gene transfer when undress stress. (Particularly troubling these days for antibiotic resistance.)

Seems like it would be a natural next step for single cell eukaryotes to have a similar mechanism to fix bad DNA, especially given the much longer genomes of eukaryotes, which the article discusses without mentioning bacteria.

By the time you get to multicellular creatures, this gets even more important and leads to males, who pass on only nuclear DNA, and females, who pass one nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.
Although I do see your point, and I agree when it comes to Animal Crossing, I disagree with the broader concept that only an author's explicit intent matters when trying to understand a message. The two questions "what does that statement mean?" and "what did the author of that statement actually wish to convey?" sometimes coincide, but just as often do not.
Switch from apologizing, to thanking the person that found the issue. Profoundly different effect.

One is all-about-you. The other is a team-building action, recognizing the folks who normally get a lot of grief(denial; accusations; ignoring their input). Testers respond amazingly when they're heard and treated seriously.

It is so profound, let me tell you an anecdote. My test lead had gone to a conference (they have them!) He was in a bar at the end of the evening, shooting the breeze about all the type-A developers they have to deal with, with a group of attendees.

He told the group "I have a guy in my company, I find a bug, he thanks me! Then works closely to categorize and then fix it. No complaining; no yelling. He just says Thank You! and gets on with it. Says I saved him embarrassment if the bug had gone any further, and saved the company money."

Another guy in the group, from a different company in a different state, said "I know who you're talking about. I'll write his name on this napkin, you tell me if I'm right".
He wrote my name and passed it over.

They had never met; never working the same companies at all. Were in different places in their careers.

But I had worked with both of them. One of them, 8 years before. But still, still I was the only developer either of them had ever dealt with, that responded positively to a bug report.

Think about it, and then go thank your tester.
The problem with RT-PCR is that it only pick up viral RNA from a currently active infection, while IgG and IgM (antibody) tests will tell you if the person tested had been infected in the past.

Also, depending on how effective the detected antibodies are in fighting off the infection, we might get insight in to how much immunity people have and how long it lasts.

RT-PCR will not tell you any of that.
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Then again the North American market is ~500 million, the European market is ~750 million. Also the current statistics (I linked to them in a comment below) suggest Linux usage in North America at ~1.5%, and in Europe at ~2%. This suggests higher usage in Europe.
Not a medical expert, but Encyclopedia Britannica seems to say that the nasal cavity counts as an internal space:

https://www.britannica.com/science/nasal-cavity
> As you said, finding any laptop with linux is near impossible.

For you, maybe?

I can go on Dell's website and buy a laptop with Ubuntu on it right now. I'm looking at it in my cart as we speak.

System76 is a reputable company that _only_ ships systems (including laptops) with Linux on them. I don't own one but most reviews that I've read are quite positive. (Both regarding the hardware and the System76 Ubuntu-based OS.)

Here are at least a couple dozen more: https://linuxpreloaded.com/
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right.

Just to clarify one possible misreading of Chiang's point I noticed due to the way I excerpted his statement: he's not suggesting that incompetent officials should not be called out and held accountable.

He's saying rather if you're a fiction writer and you were trying to write a story about a plausible sci-fi pandemic and you added a character like Trump and depicted a scene like that press conference yesterday, you'd literally lose the plot and lose any serious reader. It would unsuspend disbelief.
> I hope this means more corporate IT support for Linux desktops.

Admittedly I'm biased by my own experience, but my understanding is that many software-engineering-heavy companies already primarily use some flavor of Linux for their corporate engineering workstations, including many of the FAANG companies (and excluding, for obvious reasons, Apple).

Of course, I doubt many non-engineering workers are using a traditional desktop Linux, but I recently noticed that my kids' pediatricians' office does use a form of desktop Linux (something Gnome based) for their scheduling/reception system computers.