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"How do you prove to others?"

The point of writing is to express an idea. You prove this to others by providing relevant metaphors (with respect to the subject, and to the intended audience), supporting ideas or evidence, and tie everything together into a concise, organized format.

"How do you tell if your writing is good quality?"

People listen. People take your opinion seriously. People respect you, and mimic your ideas or style of writing. The evaluation of writing quality is almost always a subconscious process, since analyzing communication itself is somewhat meta.

"it's really easy to evaluate technical skills like coding"

It's easy to evaluate coding, in some sense, because it's easy to communicate to a computer. Humans are much better than computers at thinking, communicating, evaluating, and responding to their input. So no, evaluating writing is more difficult and more subjective than evaluating coding ability.
No, you claimed "an expert made a statement". I want to clarify. No expert made a statement on youtube. Two nonexperts made statements, and Youtube removed them, presumably at the behest of experts (like the WHO, whom youtube is using to set guidelines on removable content).
note that the new graphics backend is still optional, and exists alongside the existing backends.
A use-case for the nullish coalescing operator
I disagree. There is plenty of abstract art that's considered art that is visually no different from what a computer might generate. There's plenty of art made by small children, animals or spilled paint and its considered art. None of these things distill any human experiences or creative agency or anything, but are considered art.

Computers can totally do that.
You're right: this is a great example of the free market not solving a problem. Which is only a relevant point if you think the free market is the only way to solve problems.

A decentralized video platform not under the control of a centralized company would bypass all the issues you mention. There are technological challenges, but we've made slow progress toward solutions over the past few decades.
Tech companies pay a lot in stock when their business is at risk.
Blender: Recipes for building an open-domain chatbot
Home CPUs AMD Reports Q1 2020 Earnings: CPU Sales Fuel Big Gains
Yeah, I think that's more likely. But for all electric I think hydrogen makes more sense than batteries, since improving batteries enough for real applications requires new chemistries, while I think the obstacles for hydrogen are more about economics.
Everyone is vulnerable during a pandemic though, and the US is suffering from the effects of a lack of critical foresight and initial preparedness. I have no doubt at all that this is going to wind up in the Supreme Court but I don't think it's a cut and dry case.
No need to be so formal!
Why? I just assume they wouldn't hear me.
Note that [dead] itself is not necessarily a shadowban: an unpopular comment will show up like that too. To figure out if the user is shadownbanned you want to go to their profile and check if the account is new or has multiple [dead] but reasonable-looking comments.
It does not deserve punishement, it deserves correction. Punishing speech is a dangerous game.
I assume it’s a Merkel reference.
They mentioned future experiments with other magnetic media like VHS tapes and compact cassette but what about old floppy discs? I have a friend with a bunch of old 5.25 floppy discs that he hasn't thrown away but they also can't be read. Would this approach have a chance to rejuvenate an old bad floppy?
The Chinese trial got aborted early due to lack of patients as I understand it so that's not that surprising.

It also means this isn't any sort of "miracle" drug though.
Isn’t the German government taking a stake in the company again, as a state holding? They can sell that to recoup the investment later on. Letting it fail seems like it would drop GDP / tax revenue while pushing thousands onto social welfare.
I believe that this is the correct interpretation.

From the findings section: Although not statistically significant, patients receiving remdesivir had a numerically faster time to clinical improvement than those receiving placebo among patients with symptom duration of 10 days or less (hazard ratio 1·52 [0·95–2·43])

In other words, the patients that were going to get better, got better regardless of if they got the drug or not. However, those that got the drug got better faster than those who got the placebo (but as gfodor points out, not a statistically significant change, but a trend).
Q: "Why does my company use the blandest possible codenames for everything?"

A:
Almost every pilot starts their training in a Cessna because the basics of flight apply to every aircraft, and operating a small simple aircraft is far less cognitive load than sitting in the glass cockpit of a jumbo jet. An electric plane removes the complexity of operating the engine which is not insubstantial, even in the smallest of general aviation aircraft.
I think you're being a bit hard on yourself - moving to spec-first is super hard. Erin McKean from Wordnik helped create OpenAPI spec and she talks a lot about how it's a journey to get there.
Except "gainful employment" has been quietly eroded year after year with things like institutionalizing contract work/gig economy/worship of hustle/eroding worker's rights to organize and bargain with employers...
> The joke is that a team should be small enough that you only need to order two pizzas to feed them all.

That's a tricky way to measure, given that I can eat a large pizza myself in a single sitting ;)
United has treated me better than LH.

Just one of the many examples about how LH has treated me badly:

LH has to downgrade the plane from FRA-LHR, and people will get involuntarily denied. (LH Metal FRA-LHR, UA Metal LHR-ORD) I have 2 award tickets on my iterary. I offered to voluntarily reroute we can go United metal leaving Germany, the agent's response was "WHO TOLD YOU THIS!" They tried to offer both of us FRA->ORD direct via LH, I rejected. They ended up sending my bag to JFR later for me to claim missing baggage. (United had to fix their problem) My dad's bag arrived just fine in ORD.
How is it a crappy business? It literally took countries shutting down their borders and people not traveling at all to bring them to their knees.
It means it didn't help people who already had severe symptoms, but might help people if it is given to them earlier.

This is actually quite well known when treating the flu with anti-virals. My doctor has said in previous years, if I wake up with full body ache and feel like it's the flu, come in immediately and he'll prescribe anti-virals. He said if I wait, there's no point, though.

Makes sense the anti-virals might only be enough to stop viral replication if given early on before it's all over the place.
I’m not seeing a lie. Google intentionally cripples/degrades software in Firefox. Hell, Google degrades YouTube viewed in iOS Safari because they want me to install the app.
Probably too long. Very difficult to crop titles to fit HN limit.
I think if you disagree with what they have done, you should express that fully and also stop using the platform in favor of others who share your views.
At least this China-based RCT isn't underwritten by GILD?

That's something.
> This case sounds like an unfortunate mistake, I’m sure they intended to present the material in a somber manner.

The tone of the presentation is far less important than the tone in the minds of the people doing the presenting. You can present as somberly as you want, but if a laugh track is secretly playing inside their heads, they can fuck all the way off. Workers deserve actual compassion, not the facade of it.
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This gives you high frequency data of common roads at an incredible cost. Street views only need very low frequency data of all roads, so you'd be paying a premium for data that isn't needed while still having a gap.
5x-10x * ~0 is not a huge difference in practice. Flu is also contained towards the winter, what would it do for the whole year?

I've already had the virus and known several friends to have it, we're not spring chickens, but were otherwise healthy. Our daughters didn't even get it, sons were mild. So fear mongering about the young is not very compelling.

Lockdowns are useful in big dense cities, they make a lot less sense in sparser areas. One size does not fit all.
Ah, with your information I'm looking into the container_of macro which I'm not entirely certain is legitimate but hasn't run into problems.
> I have done the work in removing the "resistance" for you.

Sorry, you misunderstand. The "resistance" was on the day that the system was installed and while casually scanning a list of installed packages and selecting ones to be removed, and then having the package manager complain about unsatisfied dependencies.

Your message is a path to achieving the original goal. But it's not a magic eraser that made the original resistance disappear. Your message here suggesting how one might get down to the bottom of things now is neither unwelcome nor welcome. It's simply moot.

> the point of the service is to sit idle for a really long time (potentially on the timescale of months/years

I'd wager that the difference in size between these two groups:

- those who go months or years without ever having used the thing, and then suddenly change their patterns and start getting use out of it; versus

- those who go months or years without using it, and never end up doing so

... is probably an order of magnitude (or maybe a couple) in favor of the latter group. Even ignoring that, there's an implementation strategy up for adoption that facilitates the former use case but doesn't involve persistent services sitting by idly, waiting for the first instance to come along. It doesn't have to be a trade-off; that's not an intrinsic consequence of the problem here.
From the commentary:

> Of course, even the paragraph that explains the thesis seems almost like a modern updating of the famous "what have the Romans ever done for us?" scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian
I have an idea. Bring the concept of microservices into software!

Within software module interfaces that can only communicate with one another via socket like serial interfaces with no type checking!

Or simply have all your software modules running as forked processes on the same hardware and have them all communicate with one another via sockets or http. That means every software module must be it's own server!

To further imitate microservices, make sure that code in one software module can never ever be moved to another software module. Make it hard to reorganize things. Also make sure teams can only ever work on one section of the code base.

Does the above make any sense to you? If it doesn't make any sense to you it's probably because code organization using microservices doesn't make any sense period because the examples above are literally doing the same thing in software that is done in hardware.

If it does make sense to you, then why are you using microservices to add extra complexity to the code? If you can do the same in software then you'd be doing the exact same thing as the hardware equivalent minus the extra complexity of multiple containers or VMs.

Don't use hardware to organize code, use code to organize code and use hardware to maximize performance.
That is true, but it not just the lack the humor, it is the pretentiousness and the faux-politeness.
> The idea of the 401k is such an amazing hustle for the wealthy.

You make a very interesting point!

I wonder what a "reverse 401k" program would look like (e.g. box the wealthy into aligning their actions with the interests poor/middle class while only marginally benefiting themselves).
Clothes and accessories are more straightforwardly signaling devices. Cars are interesting because they split the quality vs. signaling divide. To some of my friends, the point of a good car is to be seen in it. To others, like my dad, the point of a good car is what you can do with it alone on a country road. If may only leave the garage when you're taking it out for fun; you roll up to work, social occasions, etc. in your more ordinary daily driver.
Open source plugin for automatic programming metrics and time-tracking in editor
I don't play the guitar: I'm a keyboard person. But I'm very concerned about the future of the guitar market.

Over the last three years there have been numerous articles about how the guitar industry is in serious trouble. Electric guitar sales have dropped by a third over the last decade, and profits are way down. Guitar Center is in trouble. Gibson is bankrupt. On the other hand, Rolling Stone put out an article about how Guitars are Doing Just Fine Thank You Very Much. (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/guitars-are-ge...). It feels very... apologetic. So I don't know what to think.

Here's what I know: DAWs, electronic production tools, synthesizers, etc., are doing very well. Today's underground seems to have a lot of rap, synth metal (NiN, industrial, whatnot), EDM, even pop. [I'm none of those things]. Is the garage band going away, to be replaced with the bedroom producer?
I was once shadow banned because I had submitted a link incorrectly (switched the link & the title which apparently many bots do). I emailed dang and he sorted it out in a matter of minutes.

In my experience the mods are super responsive and more than willing to look into things & hear you out. If this person cares enough to reach out about it they should have the opportunity. And if they’ve been shadow banned for a good reason I imagine they would be told as much.
Monetary policy and globalism. We've got an economy built on debt. We went from a production based economy 40 years ago to a consumption based one. We exported skills. We believed that a service-based economy was sustainable in the long run. We went off the gold standard and embraced an inflationary monetary policy that punished savers. Then we built a retirement system (including state pensions) dependent on yields, which causes retirement funds to chase ever riskier asset classes. We made debt so available for so many things, like education, healthcare, real estate, etc, and we made it so artificially "cheap" that it drove up prices. We never really recovered from the 2008 real estate bubble. The Fed's answer was to buy mortgage-backed securities by the trillions, and bailed out the people responsible without punishing anyone. So we kicked the can down the road and now, this downturn is so massive that we will not be able to escape the deep financial consequences and it is going to take years to overcome this. We have nothing left to borrow against and we're in tens of trillions in debt.
It sounds like the patients in the study were a bit far into the illness already. Maybe lots of damage is already done and they are just having to additionally cope with the side-effects of the drug and not getting much of the benefit due to it having been started too late.
Shrewd negotiation by the CEO! Unlike, say, Volkswagen which has a significant stake owned by Niedersachsen and politically appointed board directors, Lufthansa will have two non-politician directors and no state veto.
> If something is 10x more expensive today than it was a few decades ago, just agreeing to pay the 10x price is not a good solution.

That's not what those proposals were. Single payer healthcare and state-provided education is how you fix those problems.
I am not saying that’s how SOA was defined, just that it was used to refer to such team organization around architecture. EX: Amazon famously uses a Service-oriented architecture where a service often maps 1:1 with a team of 3 to 10 engineers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

At the beginning Microservice was generally viewed as more granular than SOA, though that’s been backed off of.
Even for small projects, I would choose Vue client-side rendering over back-end rendering. I'm a back-end dev so I don't do it because I love front-end work, I just haven't found a better way to do it. I can update the back-end API and front-end use on one machine and deploy both in a minute.

Sometimes all the work is client-side with third-party services as back-ends.

The only other solution I like is to have server-side rendering with live updates like Phoenix/Elixir, Vaadin/Java, or Rails/Ruby. These have scaling limitations but probably beyond what most of our apps need to support.
This is an older study which IIRC terminated early because they couldn’t rectuit enough ppl.

There is newer, positive data coming out today from the ongoing study of advanced covid: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-sho...
What’s happening now is very analogous to the 2000 dot.com crash. The economy overall will recover, albeit slowly. However companies are questioning why they need 100 engineers instead of 50. That doesn’t just reverse itself overnight. As the OP said those that weren’t around the last time might find it hard to believe that tech jobs really just disappear for years.
Yeah, but it isn't statistically significant. So this claim is a statement about the data itself, not about anything beyond that. It does provide a reasonable direction for future research since it's a 'lead', but from a pure interventionary action basis, it seems to contain zero information.
Because huge debt might decrease future returns?
But is max-pos - cur-pos better to read than maxPos - minPos or max_pos - cur_pos? I would say no to both cases.
Building up socio-economic status is a straw man point here given how widespread the effects of this downturn are. It could be that parts of the middle class that are protesting may have lost their jobs or businesses and the stimulus checks don’t offset that as much as it would for lower income folks.
Agreed, if I could have Sailfish on a Huawei P40 I'd be ecstatic. As it stands using Here maps, built in browser, and basic phone tools get me 90% of the way. I'm cheating a little in my transition -- I've moved my must use apps over to my iPad pro. 2FA, Instagram (a drug habit I hope to kick later in the summer), Keybase, mobile check deposit, etc.

I need to find a replacement for Google Keep (love how easy it is to move text/urls/photos between devices, jot down ideas / record thoughts) and Hangouts Dialer still.
Creating new shares dilutes the existing share value. Paying employees in shares means you're diluting the stock value every time.

Of course, for most publicly traded companies there are so many outstanding shares that this is negligible.
I certainly wasn't trying to be flippant.

The approach you previously (something like "I need to get people who've already acquired the experience") is very common in the USA today, but less so in e.g. northern European countries.

The approach you explicity describe here (the existence of a training/experience pathway) is something that you currently require to exist, but seem less willing to be the provider of.

I understand that there are going to be employment situations where providing those training pathways is impossible (or almost impossible). But particularly in the USA, we've gone too far in the other direction: offloading the generation of "experienced" to other, unnamed and unidentified people and organizations, and then expecting to be able to reap what others have sown.
How to build a breakthrough the secret of Backcasting
I know of another technique that requires special hardware for Apple II, it's a floppy read mechanism that can read / re-read the floppy at the 'flux' level and build up a statistical profile which often is correct about the hard to read areas. ref (https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/episode-6-applesauce-with-j...)
When you've got 100s of thousands of unemployed talented engineers on the market, you're not going ot be able to sustain $200k salaries for people who know how to write a yaml file for long.
> evidence to the contrary

It depends on what you mean by lockdowns saving lives: when this first started, the catch-phrase was "flatten the curve". That means, we're all going to get it eventually, but we're going to try to spread out when we get it. If it's fatal to X% of the population when they get it, then it will be fatal whether they get it today or two months from now.

Now, on the other hand, if we stay locked down until a vaccine is invented, or just stay locked down for the rest of our lives, then yes, of course, the lock down will save lives and will continue to save lives, at least until the lack of commerce leads to mass starvation. Which will happen before a vaccine can be developed.
How broad is your definition of unrest? If it’s as broad as ignoring laws while being quiet about it, then speeding could technically be seen as “unrest”. As for quietly disobeying the “shelter in place” orders, I don’t see that as unrest, but as I said earlier, depending on how broad your definition is, it could be.
And it also didn't end when TWA, Eastern Airlines, Braniff or Tower failed either.

It seems oddly perverse that these same American carriers who made billions by "nickle and diming" their customers with fees, penalties and taking basic services away now want a bailout from them. And it's hard to imagine a future where these same carriers don't go back to these same practices with a fervor in order to pay that money back or return to profitability.
The context of the comments matter. Just saying...
You're saying that even with a Senate majority, Obama couldn't get his own party to consider public option, while also arguing that through candidates that are "far to the left" of Obama (except Bernie Sanders apparently), we can achieve the kind of structural economic change that people who support Bernie Sanders want. Seems a bit contradictory to me.
Why Apple chose digital Lidar for the iPad Pro
stocks almost always bounce after layoffs.
What can be done to stop this Covid-19 related fraud?
I think it's just another way to word DavidVoid's explanation a few comments up.
Related question: Does it still require hanging around and waiting for an invite to create an account? If yes, then I’m not going to try again and waste my time.
There really is a cost to paying people in stock. That's why SBC is on the income statement. Additionally, analysts will often not add SBC back to cash flows.
It seems to me like people "talking much about" unproven drugs is the problem, and that favipiravir (and its patients) is lucky to have been spared much of that nonsense.

People want to talk about this stuff because it feels like a magic bullet. Viral infections don't have magic bullets[1], they just don't. We have to beat this with elbow great: huge amounts of testing and tracing once the outbreak is at a manageable baseline, and high uptake of mitigation strategies like social distancing until it gets there. And yes, that costs a lot of money.

[1] Rather: they do, but they're called vaccines and take time.
Apple would only buy Lyft if they could control the brand experience to a level that just isn't possible at scale with humans as the primary service delivery (cough) vehicle.

Consider the Apple retail experience. Retail is relatively easy to train for, there's a big labor pool to pick from, and with Apple's revenue/sq.ft. they can afford to compete for good staff.

Now consider the sum of your Uber/Lyft experiences and the scale of the problem. Is it reasonable to expect an Apple retail level experience in the ride app space? Even with a tolerable up-charge?

Retail experiences have always varied with some brands able to offer consistently stellar experiences. Tiffany comes to mind. In all my adult years hailing a car has always been a total shit show except at the most extreme price points. I won't speculate as to why, I'm just saying, the quality problem of mass small auto ride hailing has yet to be fixed by anyone.
Premature optimization. If you end up using a tool only once, buying the best quality tool for that is a waste of money. And you can rarely tell in advance which tool you'll be using often.