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> And for that matter, flu kills a ton of people every year, are we going to add another flu to the world without fighting back

I feel like they're realistic limits. People are not gears and you cannot turn humanity off like batteries. There is unrest in Ecuador when cities began running out of morgue space. There's unrest in parts of the world where people haven't seen paychecks for two months. Most high income countries have been overproducing food for years, but we're still losing a lot of food quickly. We're depending on that overproduction slack to hold.

Combined with the difficultly of creating coronavirus vaccines. I've read people attribute the lack of a good SARS1 vaccine due to the economics/capitalism, but there seems there more to it. Animal and human trials have produced vaccines that may not provide long lasting immunity and have dangerous side-effects:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/

A vaccine in less that 5 years feels very unrealistic, not for a safe one. I have a feeling humanity may need to come to the realization that our life expectancy may have been significantly lowered for the next several years, if not decades.
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Italy too:

https://www.corriere.it/politica/20_marzo_26/the-real-death-...
All of my friends who are usually strident "all cops are bad" types are seemingly gung-ho for what's probably (and hopefully) the closest we'll get to a police state. It seems like people are dying for the opportunity to label others as murders - look at all the runner shaming, etc.
How is a worker supposed to know if the benefits are properly funded? Even if they can know, some of these used to be funded correctly (when they were hired) but later cuts made them underfunded.
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> This error is repeated throughout the document where there's this idea that the changes that we've seen are due to lockdown and will just go away otherwise

For these, it could be good to compare what has happened in countries or areas with different responses to these. I.e compare sweden vs norway.
The article seems to argue that

1) there is no viable search competitor to Google, therefore

2) search must be a much harder problem that takes more engineers than we expect, therefore

3) it's hard to reproduce Google's success because you can't actually do what 10^n engineers do in a weekend.

I think that's plausible, but it needs to be emphasized that search could very well be not that hard, but no one has overtaken Google because they have inferior marketing, distribution, present too high of a switching cost, etc.

Just because Google has a bunch of engineers solving that problem (and reproducing what Google does seems complex for correct reasons pointed out in the article) doesn't mean that the engineers are actually adding that much marginal value. My guess is that even if Google invested less in search engineering, and didn't solve real time indexing and some other edge cases this well, it would still be leading the field.
The data doesn't really talk about the demographics of the users from what I've seen. Maybe I'm wrong.
There's lots of proposals in this thread to inflict the consequences on the workers.
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Why do I see a network transaction for it?
It's amazing what people can accomplish... Gives me hope that old video games will one day receive the same treatment. Way too many of them lost online multiplayer after the game company moved on.
Pure speculation, but it's quite possible that it was written in Delphi (the last iteration of Borland's Turbo Pascal lineage), which had a fast single-pass compiler that did very little optimization. Delphi was very popular in Germany in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
> Why do you feel like that is appropriate behavior?

Honestly, its a means to an end. He has beceome the defacto person for the EV movement, Mars colonization, and to a degree AI (for good or for bad).

many have tried before him, but none had the savvyness or presence that he has.

I worked for Kimabl and approached him several times while at work and I can tell you right now, I would never try that with Elon. My friend asked if I saw Elon at either Tesla or SpaceX when I went to my interviews, I told him if he was I'd walk other way. Definitely say thank you in passing, but that's about it.

He's not someone I'd bother, I like what he does and how it effects all the movements I care about, that's how I justify it. The polemics from his twitter antics can be entertaining at times, and that's engaging a broader audience so I encourage it as well.

His stance on COVID was misinformed to say the least, but he isn't an epidemiologist so I'm not going to listen to him on that. When i want to hear about Starship SN4 I'm all ears.
I've always wondered what this is useful for. So it's purely for performance?

Why is it faster to establish the connection? Does it re-use the authentication from the existing ControlMaster too, so you skip the handshake? Seems like it could be dangerous if you're not careful. I guess that's why you can configure it to use `ssh-askpass` for conformation (which, btw, is missing on macOS these days).

The other neat-looking directive that I've never tried is `ProxyUseFdpass`, which tells OpenSSH to expect a file descriptor back from your `ProxyCommand` instead of using stdin/stdout. I'm not sure why it exists, but it feels like it could be a performance optimization. Particularly for `scp`. But I've never actually run into a performance problem using `ProxyCommand` so shrug?
> You are pathetically evil. I will patiently wait for you to die.

I have posed an engineering solution to disease that harms zero humans and furthers knowledge many fold, yet you wish for my death. Wow. You are incredibly misguided in your anger.

> what society would ever produce decephalized humans when they could produce cephalized humans? a weak society that could not possibly adapt or grow.

You can't dissect or experiment on thinking, feeling humans! That's immoral. Decephalized humans never have a thought process or consciousness. They're vegetables grown in a lab. Using them to further science and heal sick people is even more ethical than using lab animals, and I would argue it is our moral imperative to attempt this as soon as possible.

You do know that humans are animals and that our time in the universe is limited? My perspective is that there is no god other than us to lift ourselves up to reach the stars. We have to help each other as best as we can, and this technological reverse salient is begging for exploitation. It unlocks so much potential.

Biology is a platform, a machine, an ecosystem. We need to fully commandeer it. We're still in the punch card phase, and I want to see us reach the biological equivalent of compilers.

It's a fluke that I even exist, and I want to take full advantage of my limited time here. You're putting up artificial barriers and limitations.
Both Uber and Lyft have self-driving initiatives. Perhaps their regular ride-hailing business doesn't have much tech but they hired some famous people to do their self-driving tech.
It isn't about 'actual' football, it is about a simulation.
The title confused me. I thought the summary would expressed in seconds, like Unix epoch time.
How is that hacking the offside rule? That is a basic attack in football.
I don't feel like she's underestimated. I do feel she's under-spoken.

Anyone who scratches the surface of SpaceX knows she's an absolute force.

Elon says things during press conferences ranging from semi-ridiculous to full on crazy and Shotwell rarely comments, but when she does, it's taken rather seriously.
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> Specifically, once the proportion of recovered in the population reaches 1/(1-R_0), there are no longer enough vectors (infectable indviduals) remaining for a serious outbreak to occur. It’s worth noting that this is the same principle that vaccination relies upon; vaccination is just an artificial way to build immunity without having to undergo a full infection.

I should learn to never read anything from random people working in areas they don't have any expertise in. This whole section is wrong.

The idea that vaccination and epidemics need the same percent of immunity is completely 100% wrong. An active epidemic is going to infect way more people before dying out than the simple, naive herd immunity calculation will give you. In fact, while an r0 of 2 indicates that you get herd immunity with just 50% of the population, a typical active epidemic with the same r0 would infect 80+% before dying out.

This is clear when you think for about 1 second about it. The `1/(1-R_0)` value gives you the point where infected people infect 1 more person, it doesn't give the point when the infection stops spreading.
How does github not have an AAAA record in 2020?? The faster people move to gitlab the better. ipv6 servers are not at all rare. Useful for individual use since you can save $1/month by dropping a useless for personal use feature.
The term immersive sim has existed for decades now. Here's an article from 2000 talking about it: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131523/postmortem_ion...

It is a fairly loose concept though, of course. Plenty of games have "immersive sim" aspects. Even games like Breath of the Wild or the latest Hitman games. But there are open world RPGs that don't match the immersive sim philosophy, and immersive sims that don't have an open world.
That doesn’t explain why cities like SF have banned all flavored vapes. Not just juul brand. It clearly is the flavors that people are taking issue with, this marketing thing is just a footnote. So much so that I almost never even hear this incident referenced.
I've heard that, but then this article says:

> In practice, however, this strategy, which was rejected in the United Kingdom, is leading to a much higher death rate in Sweden than in other Nordic countries.

and they cite a CNN source. But then I look at this data plotted on a log chart and it appears they're leveling out:

https://covidly.com/graph?country=Sweden#growth

I think it's way too early to make any inferences about which method is working better. There is a lot of noise in all the data.
One problem with zinc is that dosing isn't standardized and people use it in stupid ways, cf. nasal sprays. High concentrations of heavy (-er than calcium) metal ions are of course neurotoxic; putting high concentrations of zinc in direct contact with olfactory tissue is to be avoided. Many supplements contain 50 mg of zinc or more, and worse, people take multiple pills. However, studies show similar effects using only 12.5 mg of zinc:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11073753?dopt=Abstract

Studies using much higher amounts of zinc do not show larger effects than this. The duration reduction in the above study was 28% while studies using 200 mg found a reduction of 35%:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20542704176942...

Simply put, it does not make sense to multiply the dose by a factor of sixteen in order to improve effectiveness by 20%.

Yet I don't know exactly what GP is talking about. There are loads of studies about zinc for the common cold and there are loads of pills on store shelves containing zinc and claiming to treat the common cold. At least here in the United States, that is. People don't take it because of the side effects and the stupid dose forms available (although the situation seems to be slowly improving).
There would be no Tesla brand without him. The brand is quite literally "We are building electric cars, get the fuck out of our way!" so I think it's pretty on brand for him to be saying what he's saying.

The man demands action, if he didn't he wouldn't be running the most ambitious companies on the planet.
Your world view is very bizarre to me. Death of sentient beings is fine or good, but creation of inanimate, non-sentient things - which will invariably reduce sentient suffering and death - is evil?

>what society would ever produce decephalized humans when they could produce cephalized humans? a weak society that could not possibly adapt or grow.

...Huh? What?

>only if you redefine cruelty to mean "what happens when bad things happen right in front of you". If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears...

How? Going from killing conscious beings to not killing them anymore is the opposite of cruelty.
Hospitals are actually suffering economically as a result of this entire crisis, too. They are postponing and cancelling more profitable elective procedures[1]. If anything, they're incentivized to underreport the # of cases.

[1] See the FT: "Counter-intuitively, healthcare was one of the sectors that provided the biggest drag on the economy, as hospitals stopped performing lucrative elective procedures in order to focus on dealing with coronavirus patients." https://www.ft.com/content/06493320-083a-4a7d-94cc-8db581f9e...
Do you think that your experience of looking for a job in the middle of the lockdown might have introduced subconscious bias into your argument?
TBH my original comment skirted the line on trolling, mostly because of its terseness. But it's a genuine thing to consider unquestioned, unstated assumptions like the idea that an inventor is entitled to a percentage of every single productivity gain everywhere that results from their invention, regardless of the incremental cost to them. You can see the discussion elsewhere in this thread about that. But maybe on your own time you can consider why you accept and defend this principle which so obviously benefits rich people and powerful corporations the most.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I read it as 'mo analytics, mo problems'
A combination of `RemoteCommand` and `RequestTTY` should do the trick:

Host <host>
...
RequestTTY yes
RemoteCommand tty

The problem is that this will mess up your one-off command invocations of ssh, git ssh connections, etc:

$ ssh <host> ls
Cannot execute command-line and remote command.

However, we can use `Match` blocks to get around that! There are a thousand ways to skin this cat, but one way is to use an environment variable, here `t` for "tmux". Put this at the end of your config:

Match exec "test ${t:-0} = 1"
RequestTTY yes
RemoteCommand tmux has-session && tmux attach-session || tmux

and the following Just Work, reattaching tmux sessions as necessary:

$ t=1 ssh <host>
$ ssh <host> ls
This might help https://support.insomnia.rest/article/66-app-not-responding
Charging money for something is not a factor in whether something is a commercial use. It is only commercial use if the images are used for advertising purposes. None of your examples are murky, and none of them are commercial use.
I totally disagree - for simple actions there is no need for a touchscreen. Just put a button and a label. And LED to confirm the action, buzzer if sound is needed. That is all you need.

The only advantage of a touchscreen is surprisingly not the ability to touch, but the ability to reconfigure the input interface through software. When you don't need to reconfigure things, encoders, toggles, push buttons, rotary switches, etc. are far superior (with some downsides - cost, reliability).
I don't know, I find a bunch of yellow-spined Springer texts to be appetizing just shelved together. I didn't realize the shelves weren't empty until I saw the top comment and went back to look.
Economics disagree.
According to that chart you have to change your Mark as Read setting... who knows where it might be though
Oh that brings me way back. Got my start in dev idly editing websites in Macromedia Homesite and Freehand and Firesomething. I figured Adobe already killed off the MM stuff.
Ok, I seriously don't get this. How is the stock market doing so well? This article about Lyft is just but one glimpse of what's happening to the economy. And it ain't going to get better any time soon. I've been waiting to invest in the stock market, but am totally whiplashed by the rise of stock market. It's completely disconnected from the real economy.
because that drive to pull ones self up is what built the US into what it is today. without that drive what is the point of being more than what you are today? the struggle to be something more is literally the driving factor behind all of existence. the opportunity is out there for most people if they look hard enough. that said there are definitely some who need societal help to pull them out of a rut but it is most definitely not even close to a majority.

like others in this thread, i too came from a family living below the poverty line yet somehow turned that into a career despite not even having a degree. opportunity to me seems plentiful
The entire point of the article is that the long tail of things to do grossly outweighs the happy-path MVP...
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Greetings! First of all, I hope everyone is fine. That being said, my virtual assistant's husband has been impacted by this bug and is immediately available for a new opportunity. I wanted to inquire if anyone needs an East Coast USA former Merchant Link Business Intelligence Developer? He also has been on lots of agile teams.

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Keep the good vibes going! :)
Commercial use in the context of copyright is not about money at all, but if the images are used to advertise a product or service. A newspaper could use a non commercial licensed photo to provide context to an article, even though the newspaper is made my a for profit company, they sell newspapers, and they charge for advertising. A newspaper could not use the same photo to advertise a product, even if the newspaper company is a non profit and gives the paper away for free.
No, that’s not correct. You’ve gotten a logical implication inverted in there somewhere.
HFT = electronic trading, or at least the bulk of it. The human traders that existed before HFT firms & HFT desks at banks were largely doing the same thing that HFT firms do now - making markets on a wide range of securities, but less efficiently.

Latency-arb is a small part of HFT, if you consider strategies that provide liquidity to be "good HFT" and strategies that take liquidity (via latency arb or other arbs) to be "bad HFT" then those strategies are largely executed by the same market participants.
I'd recommend using DynamoDB for your database.

Best of luck.
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Yes! it´s too much to ask someone who is trying to do non-conformist things to conform. You can´t have your cake and eat it too.

Also what you call bullshit is not bullshit to everyone. You don´t like it? dont invest. Leave the rest of us be.
Public transportation is one of the biggest challenges to reopening the economy
I don’t mean learning styles particular to students. I mean something specific to what is being taught: the dozens of different ways of teaching each skill.
Just in general, look up .ssh/config and configure it.

A lot of software uses ssh to do various things. You can pull a lot of neat tricks with SSH config coming in through a bastion on a non-standard port to a host machine into a shell executed in a docker container with the right .ssh/config, aliased to "machine", and the you can use anything that can run on SSH to "machine" with all that fancy configuration. Check your favorite editor; good odds it can edit files through that mess, or give you a remote directory explorer, or whatever.
The train of thought I'm on now is: why was keeping the Union together back in the civil war such a great thing?

Now we have this bloc of red states in the South who are backward, racist, intolerant science deniers, and they've managed to get just enough on the winning side of the electoral map to make the advanced, multicultural, cosmopolitan science-respecting blue states' lives miserable.

That chunk of states should be a separate country. Then they can go their own way and the rest of us can carry on without them.
And another important component is unions. Politician wants to get elected. Unions can help. So politician have to pay back unions later. Can’t break this cycle unless public worker unions are banned.
What is your reasoning for it not making sense to choose rails now? It's mature and has a big community no?

Hard to recommend it to a beginner, but not sure if I would recommend Node or Java to a beginner either, so that's a tough one.
While I agree that yes, we probably should have systems in place a system to formalize these sorts of powers, that right now at this moment is not the time. We should be focused on solving the current crisis over debating over constitutional law. You (probably) disagree, but I'm not really interested in debating over differing core philosophy.
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Matt changing random algorithm parameters he didn't understand is kind of on him, sorry. I'm glad of the work he's doing, and your funding of FreeBSD native wireguard work, but just changing random cryptographic parameters before had had packets passing was an exercise in foot-shooting.
Every road is dangerous for a cyclist. Really the only solution is to adopt pedestrian-centric traffic laws like The Netherlands or Japan.

In Japan, blowing a stop sign and killing a cyclist would be a "dangerous driving causing death" charge, which would result in a prison sentence, loss of your license, a fine, and ~$1,000,000 in compensation to the family of the person you hit.
The concern is not about race conditions or shared memory where two things would be editing it at a time. Even though the server always renders it first then the frontend, you still need to share knowledge across both the backend and frontend about all the details of all the components to know how to change the values in jquery or whatever you want to do. Any time you change something on the backend, you have to make sure the jquery stuff is updated to still work, and potentially in many different places if you have different interactions that can update the same state. It makes for very tightly coupled and brittle code.

It’s still a matter of preference, you might still prefer that over a full frontend react codebase. But having seen both nightmare jquery messes and react messes, they can both be painful to work with. I definitely don’t agree that things were much simpler in the old days.
They are also presumably comfortable with improving their work with feedback, even in relatively small ways. Some HN readers seem to believe otherwise, though.
The abolition of slavery was worth it. But the failure of Reconstruction allowed the south to backside right where they were.
Indeed, it's often more fun than playing the game itself; but then again, I'm someone who has been taking things apart since I was very young (and not surprisingly, got into trouble a few times for it...) I suspect RE is something that's closer to what those in the other sciences do, i.e. analysis and thinking more about how/why things are the way they are, rather than what they can build; which is why not a lot of developers (who almost always build, except when they have to debug) seem to have any interest/skills of RE much if at all.
Here in Los Angeles, crime is actually down. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/us/los-angeles-coronavirus-cr...
But making Multics open source wasn't useful until the simh simulation of the processor became available. Before that, you're going to run it on what, your Honeywell mainframe?
I would strongly dislike being a recipient of this "praise". The thought of all of my co-workers following this rule when reviewing my merge requests makes my skin crawl. You can see from the rest of the thread that other people have a negative reaction to it too. It's nice that you enjoy it but the same does not hold true for everybody. Is there a way for somebody working with you opting out from it or are they given no choice in the matter?