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React Native and Firebase

or, if you want to be more independent

React Native and FeathersJS
Someone posted somewhere that switching to an usb-c monitor fixed their issue (instead of usb-c to hdmi adapter). Anyone here have some experience with this?
I agree with you but for different reasons.

> In cases of normal business operation, normal corporate management, delegation, and accountability techniques generally work quite well. Decisions are extensively researched and weighed before being taken. Doing things right, not quickly, is the goal here.

In Amazon’s case, the opposite is heavily encouraged. Here is one of their “leadership principles”:

> Bias for Action: Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.

Of course, there are other principles like “Dive Deep” and “Be Right A Lot” that balance this out, but Amazon is definitely tuned for speed of decision-making.

If anything, I would take the opposite side of this change as the real indicator. In normal circumstances, Amazon does what it does well enough for Jeff to deep-dive into specifically interesting projects while the S-Team (the executives reporting to Jeff) are trusted to run the company day-to-day. We are in far from normal circumstances now.
Hey, I'm in broad agreement with you, but, a nit ...

> Here’s how you can tell people’s philosophical positions: if they talk about fear of a “second wave” they are Containers, since that implies the initial “wave” will not infect the majority; ie the virus is successfully contained.

Here in the SF Bay Area we pretty effectively blunted the first wave with public health controls, which meant health care was not stressed much. Despite the Stanford serosurvey saying that we have 3% with a history of infection, the real number is probably more like 1%. Daily case counts are decreasing, so the initial "wave' did not infect the majority.

It's not enough to decrease Rt noticeably at all. We need to figure out how to loosen up controls in a way that provides economic benefits, keeps a nice constantish burn towards herd immunity, but with enough safety margin to prevent catastrophe that New York got too close to.

Instead, our public health seems to be further tightening instead of experimenting with small measures to relax the controls. There's a loud contingent advocating what would effectively be permanent controls.
Yea well those strategies keep on always able to be done "next year".
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The main reason that works is historic, I think.

It could just as easily throw a compilation error to index a constant with an array rather than the other way around. I don't think this works in Rust even if the resulting machine code for array indexing is the same.
Your 0.7-1% fatality rate is not in line with current figures, which peg it closer to 0.35%. I've been rounding up to 0.5% for the US to account for the poor state of health here.

The rest of your napkin math is completely absurd and is just you progressively multiplying an arbitrary number until you magically hit that 5% number that you started out with. Funny how that works.

You should understand that even the 5% mortality when hospitals are overran is likely to be a huge overestimate for the same reason that we have been overestimated CFR all along. The vast majority of cases are not a big deal and don't need medical care whatsoever. But particularly for those over 70, you get covid and you have like a 1/8 chance of dying. It's that population that does get crushed when hospitals are overwhelmed, but when you run the hospitalization numbers, it's not clear that we would overrun the hospitals.

Which is a moot point btw since my actual position is end the lockdown but reinstate policies briefly if we are at the edge of the precipice.

Looking at https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4tqvk/dutch_antib... you can see that for every 500 20-29 year olds who get infected, we have one hospitalization. Even 60 year olds only have a 3.4% hospitalization rate, which while high does not support your assertion without a much, much more rigorous analysis.

Thanks for the discussion. I'll keep following along.
I agree that they're generally have good advice. But, I looked at their mask guidance, and they're still recommending that healthy people do not need to wear masks.

This ignores the possibility that people may be asymptomatic and contagious. Some government authorities have called for mask wearing outside. They are contradicting the WHO.

Should Youtube remove these views? That's why I said it all depends just how strictly they're going on WHO guidelines. If they're only removing obvious nonsense, fine. But the WHO should not be the only authority, especially if different health authorities may disagree.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist, 2001
I have a virtual synth with such intricate discrete component modelling that it can bring a modern i7 to its knees all on it's own.
tldr.. get a PRIME account

I'm in Canada.. you're right BUT you need a prime account. I ordered some stuff and it was due to come in a month (non prime account).. and after 1.5 weeks it didn't ship. I canceled it and used a family members Prime account (still the delivery date was ~1 month away).. I got the stuff within 3 days.
For me, it's the reverse. Kernel usage spikes when I use the top right port for charging. It's fine if I use the left ones.
Exactly the case, it is taking an extreme amount of time in some states. I have family that lost a job, it took 5 weeks to begin receiving unemployment, and another week for the additional $600/week to come in.

On the plus side, that unemployment benefit is definitely helping with social distancing - with the additional benefits they are essentially making an additional $13/hour over the job they lost and I am sure are in no hurry to find a replacement.
If you see no value in your Prime Membership why not cancel? I canceled mine over the fact that I have to screen what I buy because it could be counterfeit.
Advil may very well be paying for the privilege of being on that shelf. See "slotting fees."
> Parameters to sizeof are not evaluated

Oh, but they are ;) Try running sizeof on a VLA sometime.
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When Bad Coffee Happens to Good People
We’ve gone from “covid19 is just a flu” to “the flu was really covid19 !!11!!”.

It will take years of research to untangle truth from “feelings”.
The couple behind the wiki of drugs (2015)
Sure. I didn't find the detail of how this is like Aurora...called from Lambda, not implemented in Lambda. Asking for that. Why is "Lambda" in the name?
With Shopify you don't pay ~20% sales commission to Amazon per se, but you sure as heck will end up paying for that if not more to Facebook.

Where by FB has no direct incentive, yet. It could be a FB Marketplace PM team someone has already copied Shopify outright and is just waiting for the right time to roll that out to all FB user worldwide.

With Amazon Marketplace the strategy has always been to convert customers off that platform into your own.

Most top listings in most niches/categories are priced for break even inclusive of the multitudes of keyword PPC campaigns they're running with the hope that you leave a review and that you actually pay attention to the little postcard that comes inside the package asking you to register your email address.

Both games suck tbh.
Those are different. Explained elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961009
> If IFR is low, then that means R0 is way higher than we thought, which also means isolating only the vulnerable will not work.

No. If you miss a constant percentage of cases, you get the same shape of exponential curve.

That is, a virus with an R0 of 2 and 1 case doubling to 2 and 2 cases doubling to 4.... looks the same when you miss 99% of infections and see 1 of 100 infections doubling to 2 of 200 doubling to 4 of 400.

This fallacy has been common in the response to this data, but it makes no sense. Large numbers of missed cases shift the curve forward and backward in time, and don't change the shape of it.

All of the current findings are still consistent with R0 in the range of 2.0 to 2.5.
Yeah, even the messages have become more patronizing.

"We're getting things set up for you."

"You'll need the Internet for this."

"We need to update some apps."

And my personal favorite, "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly. Ready? Restart now. Not ready? Pick a time that works for you."

For a bonus, the title to that wonderful dialog was "Let's cross this one off your list."

We work together! We're a team!
WD comes clean and discloses SMR/CMR status of Red drives
Audio channel echo cancellation sophistication and effectiveness will separate the men from the boys. A poor implementation is obvious and annoying. Having this under your belt is important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancellat...
https://www.adaptivedigital.com/vqe-suite/echo-cancellation-...
I see no reason why this should be obvious; it's just a historical quirk of array indexing in C being a literal translation to pointer arithmetic. In C++, for example, there is no way to support this with the subscript operator.
Parallel processing. Normally a few labs would work on a particular vaccine. If a potential vaccine fails they have to retry something else and this whole process can take a long time. Now, pretty much all virus labs in the world are rushing to create a vaccine. There are 70 potential candidates last time I've read, so there is a high change one them works.
I believe it's

apt install lubuntu-desktop
It's a bit more than academic for me personally. I'm not in that profession, but am doing a job most would say is very important from a societal perspective. I'm also paid way under market, and I'd like my employer to fix that. Realistically, though, that's not going to happen short of me quitting. I haven't so far, though I may yet.

So, what's my employer to make of that? I might not be happy, but I'm still here. From a capitalist perspective, I'm being paid enough to hold me in position. So arguably my employer is getting my wage "just right", in that I'm close to not taking it, but not actually leaving. Kudos to them.

This does cause a lot of secondary problems, but most of those are relatively invisible to those making these decisions.

I don't have any good answers to this, but it does mean that many of the best minds of our generation end up working on elaborate advertising platforms and sometimes-dubious finance/trading applications.
That is basically what Whole Foods in SF is doing. They are only open to the public from like 9a-1p and from 1p-7p its delivery workers only.
"Oh, do you need me to make an emotional decision? Right now? Hang on a minute--how do you think this is going for us both?"
Indeed they are liable... well, to a certain degree:

A prime example here is the DMCA — but there are also other existing laws that place restrictions on content, which Youtube (and other platforms/publishers) must adhere to.
"Did Amazon sell the rights to another company to use their brand?" But of course, why not? These kinds of trademark licensing agreements are all over the place, there would be no difference here.
Instragram has ads?
Really? I did not know that!

Small world.
I skimmed through that so please point it out if I missed it, but the numbers don't seem to account for comorbidities. The question was whether COVID-19 is more dangerous than the flu to healthy young people not all young people.
It's more or less epidemiologically impossible that you will see an attack rate of 100% (as you just assumed). Once attack rate reaches >40~60%, the reproduction number drops below 1 because there just aren't enough uninfected hosts.
Most user interfaces are not designed any more with any intent to provide what's best for the user, because they are part of a product being sold to corporations/advertisers.
I think you misread my question. I asked why you wouldn't move the code to run in the kernel, if you have that ability.

Anyway, if I'm understanding things correctly, the point of using JIT is to handle the compilation in a trusted context rather than having it run as the user.
Basically, I'd prefer if pbxes used by these companies providing support did the equivalent of storing short-term 'cookies' that remember you had just called rather than requiring remembering and reentering 'share urls'.
Imo it's mostly due to the sheer number of people using it. More users --> more complaints.
Let the market sort them out then, right?
Podman is a technical superior implementation to docker. No background daemon is required to run.

See details here: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/21/podman-and-bui...

I'm not sure what you mean by Ubuntu doubling down on Wayland. They have no plans to migrate to Wayland.
They are likely good enough yes, presence of strong antibodies pretty much means there's no way the virus can outpace the immune response, and it often is neutralized so strongly you wouldn't even notice inoculation.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs
I don't think in a corporate setting fascination has anything to do with this.
I work for a global bank; we have around a quarter million employees and many of our office spaces employ hot-desking. Each one of us gets a laptop and we can work from wherever.
Especially that you're required to work from home at least one day per week.
as sibling comment author mentioned, look at dieselgate. it was huge conspiracy against emissikns regulations and they did it relatively well for multiple years. and it’s not like it’s simple hack in software. this solution required manufacturing additional special purpoce devices, adjusting assembly line, engineering and so on. definitely it must have some design stages, testing, actual implementaion done.

main thing here is that in big corps you can divide big (evil) task into smaller steps which could be defined as non-evil in isolation, and nobody in actual implementation people crowd would understand big picture.
Although isn't it easy to get fired? Just work a bit too slowly?
Who uses GBh to measure performance? Either you can afford the ram or not. If you can't, you should bench with swap performance.
Regarding Ed Tech, for a merciless look at this recurring insanity, see Todd Oppenheimer's "The Flickering Mind", and in general, Kentaro Toyama's "Geek Heresy".
Are they not taking public transit? Your friends must be some of the most unlucky people ever. The Bay Area has had under 3k cases since the start of April outside group living settings (nursing homes, homeless shelters, etc.). That's ~1/2000 chance of getting covid from anywhere outside.
Spam, scams, misinformation, etc. is why we can't have nice things. Every open service ends up becoming locked down because of abuse once it reaches a certain size. The choice is between censoring YouTube or allowing it to become a cesspool of garbage in which the bad drives out the good. It's just like any other Internet forum.
https://telegra.ph/ZeroTrust-Vendors-04-23

If it's missing anyone important, let me know.
Might I suggest a line? Damage. Quantifiable damage that reasonable people could assess in a court of law. Stop and think about every exception to free speech that the US has: libel/slander, disclosing troop movements, breaking non disclosure agreements, perverting the course of justice, direct incitement of violence... they all fairly directly cause damage.

This line is not particularly fuzzy, and it makes some forms of censorship against speech that clearly doesn't cause direct quantifiable damage stand out as something entirely different than the other exceptions.

Some examples: hate speech does not cause damage that could be proved and quantified in a court of law. "Bad words" do not cause damage. Conspiracy theories do not directly cause damage (unless a court decided reasonable people would do things that caused damage based on the information, so there could be exceptions here).

Everything is indeed complex. But some ways of thinking about a problem can make the complexity more manageable.
Actually that thread doesn't work at all. Because restricting them might cost Amazone jobs BUT:

1. Not all of them, probably a negligible amount. (Just the ones responsible for crating/producing copied products, not any ones involved in any other area)

2. Create new jobs through fair competition in similar amounts as jobs lost, likely even more as more companies being involved means more operational positions like e.g. for book keeping.

3. (2. reformulated). Not restricting it will cost as much or more jobs due to small companies going out of business and amazon as a giant company can better optimize overhead of operation away compared to many small independent businesses.
Thanks for this comment, puts into words what I have been casually thinking. Also, this is the strategy in Sweden, seems to be working out fine for them.
Oh yeah. I really liked Quora in the beginning. There were some good answers to the questions there. Then it got worse, and when it started prompting me to login, I bailed and I've never gone to Quora ever again.
1 In 5 New Yorkers May Have Had Covid-19, Antibody Tests Suggest
> I just take issue with people calling the ROC "Taiwan" as it gives ammo to PRC shills who intentionally muddy the conversation with their claim that "Taiwan is a part of China"

...Calling it "Republic of China" is straight up saying "[this area] is a part of China". Naming it "Taiwan" is giving it an identity independent of China.
Huh, what does it do?
I've been slowly piecing something like this together for myself using jekyll. I'm not familiar with the tools you're using, but the demo site looks very nice. Good job!

Are there other examples of turnkey self-deployed sites like this?
Check out https://github.com/pomerium/awesome-zero-trust
This is exactly what I meant. If the attackers already could make fraudulent discharges, then why should they put up such a complicated and risky attack? Could they not simply have gotten the money via the debit card?
I think it may have been more than a couple of months, IIRC the fee was $20.00. This was a very long time ago.
If you're not paying by the hour then I'm guessing the business model is that you're sitting on a shared redis instance with other consumers, which sounds a bit scary for many reasons. Just guessing though.
> The majority of WHO controversies are made up

If you don't mind me asking, could you please provide the source for one WHO controversy that is made up? Preferably one of the large ones, if applicable.
It's the same force that has been influencing academia for some time now.
What you’re describing is “good enough service levels for what I need” not “the same level of service as AWS” (or a superior level, as the parent comment implied).

If some sanely architected code was all you needed, then you’d expect at least other cloud/IaaS providers to be able to match AWS service levels. Which they can’t, and which some little software shop most certainly cannot either.
It's most likely that I am totally wrong, they just told me it was some "Latvian" branch, Lituanian, so I don't know. I might be confused overall but it's good someone knows. Thank you.
This is why you can't trust companies that want to play all international sides.
More than that, it's totally adversarial. I don't think the interface on a typical website is just sloppy or badly designed; it's designed to hamper access to information in a very sophisticated way, in order to prevent people from getting what they are looking for and leaving, but at the same time keeping them on the hook with the perception they are almost there.
By now - the amount of time teams have spent doing this sort of work from scratch has to have surpassed the engineering hours taken to get to the moon.
This is awesome. The new streaming stuff is particularly interesting to me, and it's very impressive that you managed to implement it with no protocol changes. I have a couple questions. Please forgive any misconceptions as I've never used capnproto myself, since all the streaming I've done has to work in the browser, and as far as I know capnproto doesn't work over WebSocket or WebRTC transports. But I've long been impressed with and inspired by capnproto and sandstorm.

Main question: is there a reason you opted for traditional window flow control a la TCP, as opposed to "request-N" style like in reactive streams[0] (see rsocket[1] for a great implementation)?

So with request-N, a server->client stream would look something like this:

interface MyInterface {

streamingCall @0 (callback :Callback) -> (requester :Requester);

interface Callback {
sendChunk @0 (chunk :Data) -> ();
}

interface Requester {
request @0 (n :int) -> ();
}

}

And the server will only ever send as much data as has been requested by the client with requester calls. This results in really elegant flow control that takes into account both the network, and the client's capacity to consume, without the necessity of tracking windows. The receiver simply calls request(1) each time it processes a message. If you want a buffer you can just start with an assumed N=10, 100 etc.

I've found this worked really well when implementing omnistreams[2], which is basically a very thin streaming/multiplexing layer for WebSockets, since WS doesn't have any flow control. (fibridge[3] is a good example of it in action). I started with a window-style but once I learned about reactive streams the request model was much easier to reason about for me.

[0]: https://github.com/reactive-streams/reactive-streams-jvm

[1]: https://github.com/rsocket/rsocket

[2]: https://github.com/omnistreams/omnistreams-spec

[3]: http://iobio.io/2019/06/12/introducing-fibridge/
True. But I think they were presenting a false premise, because the parent they were replying to made no mention of obsessiveness.
But most life scientists using the library for their work are not; Go is a language they can master, as well as Python or Lua; if they're biophysicists they're likely to know Fortran and C as well, but I rarely meet scientists fluent in C++. Also not sure how much experience the authors have with such software projects.
You just cited the gross income, not what you get after taxes. You still get taxed on that AND you don't have benefits like health insurance - COBRA for continuing health care is expensive as is the alternative, although slightly less so, of paying for health care through an the ACA health care exchanges 100 percent out of your own pocket. For health care all that extra money will more than exceed health insurance for a family of 4. The extra money ends at the end of July.

Again, that is gross income NOT net income. That number is pre-tax income, unemployment is taxed just like income at a job. You can choose when filing to defer paying those taxes until when you file, but you do still need to pay them when you file for taxes come April for the previous year. So when you file you'll end up owing money and have to pay the income taxes you never paid. You're definitely still not coming out ahead.

So again, the additional 600 as part of the CARES act ends at the end of July. And you have to have to wait one week where you're unemployed - receiving no income - to be able to file. So you also lose one week of earnings no matter what. I don't think most people are coming out ahead on this by far.. it seems maybe a very small majority might briefly come out ahead but they seriously risk it all being canceled out if they're unemployed still past July.