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I don't think you answered the question you're responding to. You're still talking about the app, the question is about all contact tracing generally. Actual epidemiologists appear to disagree with your (I'm assuming) amateur opinion that contact tracing, in general, is useless. They are aware of all the things you mention, and still believe it is useful. There also seems to be examples of success with contact tracing in conjunction with good testing regimes in countries that are faring much better than the US. It seems like arrogance to me to think that we can't learn anything from those successes.

(But I'm very uneasy about these app-based approaches, and much more in favor of hiring tons of humans to do contact tracing instead, or at least as the primary mechanism.)
In sales or trading, if someone is selling courses its a strong indicator that their advice isn't any good. If it was they wouldn't be sharing it.
The article did specifically say it is more advanced than a bag ("provides better care than “bag squeezer” emergency ventilators because it precisely regulates flow, pressure, and volume"). And it linked to the paper (http://op-vent.stanford.edu/docs/need.html) with more specifics. The "Prototype Specifications" section of the paper might be a good starting point for information about its capabilities.

Are your criticisms based on an understanding of how this specific device actually works? Sorry to be blunt, but by suggesting it is comparable to a bag valve mask, it sounds like you did not learn a lot about the device before making up your mind about it.
Anybody know what the minimum is to invest in this?

I emailed them a few months ago trying to invest, but they ignored me.

I realize it's going to be a large amount, but is it like $1M+, $10M+, $100M+, or something larger?

Also, is there a way to get in, indirectly? For instance, banks will pool smaller investors' money to get them into private equity. Is there a channel like that, to get into Universa?

I imagine I would have made a life-changing amount of money if if I had gotten into this fund when I attempted to. (Although my goal was to hedge, not to make money.)

Stupidly, I also followed the fund managers's advice (in their literature) of "don't try to do this yourself." In fact I could have done well buying put options.
AOT: GraalVM Native Image (https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/), Project Leyden: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-April/0...

SIMD: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338 (to be merged soon), plus, of course, auto vectorisation, which is already in.

Allocating small objects on the stack: this already happens automatically through escape analysis, but more generally (and more importantly) arrays-of-structs: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/sov/01-backg...

UTF-8: What do you mean? Java has supported UTF-8 for a loooong long time. Even the source files support Unicode with UTF-8 encoding.

compile-time asserts: Not sure what you mean. But there's a rich compile-time plugin mechanism: https://www.baeldung.com/java-annotation-processing-builder and even pluggable type systems: https://checkerframework.org/manual/

Async/await: how about lightweight threads, instead? https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/
"I doubt the locals in whatever country they're in consider them "expats." Just Americans."

The locals definitely refer to them as 'expat' or something along those lines in local vernacular.

And it's generally a Western thing, not just American or Anglosphere.

These people are completely unlike immigrants, there's almost no comparison.

If someone married a woman from Bali, moved in, was working as a manager in her Father's factory ... the term 'immigrant' might apply.

Most ex-pats are temporarily stationed, they are not there permanently, they work for international conglomerates, governments, news agencies, universities. The 'drop shipper' thing is a little specious but roughly in that category.
That is not exactly how you claim it to be.

Introduce enterprise into any system and complexity goes over the roof ASAP - suddenly its not only your machine but TEAM of people, history, dashboards with metrics, logs, automation, security etc...

This one isn't even approaching any of it except dev side and CI.
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I hope some enterprising startups find ways to make work social because for me sitting at home with slack/chat/zoom is death.

It may be less efficient but I like going to work precisely for the face to face time and camaraderie. Though I have been lucky to work more often than not work on projects I was passionate about with people I liked.
It’s funny watching two true believers argue about who’s doing a better job chasing their shared vision.

The narcissism of small differences comes for all of us, it seems.
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France is doing both.
> Our mortality to date is shy of 20%.

Is that across all Covid patients? Or ventilated Covid patients?
They are doing well. The symptoms are the same as mild flu or allergy, and the effects are nearly non existent except in already old and sick. If half of infected got severe complications, it would be a blood bath with military on the streets already.
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This download is strange. Because synaptics was the role model for th e interface. Probably HP messed this up.
So he made a sacrifice because, what, he just woke up one morning and felt like it? No. It's because the public brought it to his attention with enough public support to probably not hurt his career.
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That is not true. We have personally run k3s on AWS including cluster-scaler and spot instances.

Last I checked, K3s is a fully certified distro of k8s.
Tried to email, but it bounced.

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Sure. The most notable one I can think of is that integer multiplication is not in core. It's an extension. Anybody that's written a compiler or even stared at assembly would tell you how prevalent integer multiplication is, for any sort of loop or pointer addressing.

Even more baffling, is that the same extension that adds integer multiplication, also requires integer division, telling me that the spec authors think that multiplication and division are of the same circuit complexity, and used with the same frequency. And for one example for how goofy of an idea that is, ARM has never included integer division in its core ISA.

Then there's the whole JALR mess, which I don't know how to describe it other than "tech debt". Basically, they tried to simplify different kinds of jumps and returns into a single extension, by allowing any register to be used for the source and destination addresses. But for branch prediction reasons, and prefetching, you really do want to have a single link register, so the spec says "please don't use anything other than x1 as the link register, or you might not get proper performance".

There's a lot more that I can go into.
And yet I've had a VPE with a FAANG pedigree tell me that "remote teams are a surefire path to mediocrity"
Given their penchant for keeping their touch interfaces (and software) separate from their non-touch, I'd imagine you'd get a full-fat macOS compiled for ARM. At this point, I'm sure they have internal builds of macOS on ARM that they've been toying with for years.

It just doesn't make sense to adapt iPadOS even more to a MacBook Air computer if they're not going to include a touchscreen. With them holding out as long as they have on touchscreens, I can't imagine them reversing course.
It's more insidious than that because they could have built a sizeable endowment from their past income. None of which seems to be accounted for.
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Having played with this now via their "kiosk"[1] it's very cool and I think there's something here.

I expect only the kind of people who visit HN will ever try it and fewer will ever use it, but the protocol is very nice and simple. I wish it would take off and that a nice GUI client was written so that it was easier to use.

[1]: ssh kiosk@gemini.circumlunar.space
This is nicely done. It could benefit from some non /g examples on the basics page, especially since flags are not covered until chapter 8.

One visual enhancement that could be really helpful would be to hover over the regex or the match and see the reciprocal highlighted.
Just because it lacks a formal definition does not mean that somebody cannot say it. It's a human notion, not a formal one.

(Also: I'd suggest that it's pretty rude to tell somebody they "absolutely cannot say" something, and try to avoid telling you that you absolutely cannot say that somebody absolutely cannot say something)
> BUT, it makes the benchmark programs poor choices to compare the verbosity of languages.

Because?

Because the way some link to an external library is more verbose than the way they link to an included library?
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Please don't throw out accusations of being "intentionally misleading" just because you don't accept or understand 100% factual information that's been posted.

Fact: .ORG - like virtually every other extension - has been the home of anyone who wants to register it for decades (two), even prior to the establishment of PIR in 2003.

It was specifically intended for non-profits a generation ago, for a relatively brief 10-15 year period, during most of which relatively few people were online, relatively few websites existed and relatively few .ORGs were registered.

For the past 20 years, a period when millions of .ORGs have been registered, there has been nothing special about .ORG other than its grossly inflating price, which has been continuously jacked up for more than a decade.

Any non-profit genuinely concerned about watching the pennies would have shifted to a different extension years ago, but is it supposed to be a comfort for .ORG owners who don't want to give up a name (like myself), that the people screwing us over call themselves "not-for-profit"?

Who cares who's doing it, other than the people suddenly complaining because a for profit company might become involved in a money printing exercise.
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You have two choices: no censorship at all, or arbitrary censorship.
Of course you can redistribute wealth in many meaningful ways. (just think of mandatory social insurance or minimum wages.) The problem is how to produce the wealth you want to distribute in the first place. There has been no system that comes even close in regards to innovation and efficiency when it comes to production.
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> but that's because I like my coworkers

I feel like this is key even for remote work. Teams that didn't get along or who didn't like each other are going to continue to struggle in new (and worse) ways if working remote. If people didn't communicate well before, I doubt they are going to do any better now.
This seems like a trivial administrative hurtle. My AI didn't invent that, I did....
It would have done fantastic in that timespan!

Remember, the dotcom crash had huge drops across almost all of the tech sector for a few years straight.

Plus, 9/11 happened in that time frame and took out travel stocks.

It is those huge drops that Universa counts on.

So he would had done well - probably on the level of a Bobby Axelrod (yes, I know Bobby is fictional, but he's a great composite character of raw trading instinct based on his 9/11 trades).
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Offices seem to fundamentally be an arms race in subversion of its own purpose for both good and ill. The quiet compared to say a factory floor was a feature which gets compromised for increased quantifiable benefits. Digitalization means the stacks of literal file cabinets and references aren't needed while. Focus and extended work are what they are meant to promote but the two concepts are at odd - either work only when most focused or work for an extended period with breaks ans interuptions. It is a very versatile compromise essentially which is ironically very unfocused.

I suspect the cheapness of rent reduction may win over many companies to remote long term just as open offices and cubiciles seduced them in the past. It may give increased delays for certain tasks but lets face it - they had no problem with increased delays from travel before.

I suspect we might see some increased very short term rentals for interviews and meetings in the future if the bottom line beats out the culture for a change.
mostly accurate piece. I can't say I agree with the stablecoin analysis since many are being used as novel financials instruments, but I see where he is coming from.
‘If you’re stable, you’re probably not writing music’
Yep. A lot of things that purport to be "simple" just push the toothpaste to another part of the tube.
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My point that I'm having a hard time expressing is that these dropshippers do not seem to be "enjoying this new freedom" in the way you imply. As in, they aren't people who wished to travel, were previously unable to do so because of work commitments, and now are able to enjoy travel because of extra work freedoms.

The majority of "nomads" I've encountered seem like they are mostly uninterested in travel, but they do it anyway because that's "what you're supposed to do" if you're a nomad. This leads to a bizarre culture where talking about the places they've been becomes more of a "digital nomad resume" than it does a recounting of enjoyable travel experiences. Instead of "I went to the Batu Caves and it was gorgeous, they have such interesting architecture there!", it becomes "yea I've been to the Batu Caves, there's a really nice cafe with good wifi just outside that I used to work from".

Have you ever had a conversation with a professional consultant and they have this weird habit of bragging about waking up at 4am to catch flights to NYC, and the only thing they ever tell you about NYC is how nice the Midtown Marriott's beds are? It's kind of like that.
The analogy is definitely apt, but the difference is that we know a lot less about what is going to help with this problem than we did about the terrorism problem. Furthermore, it seems like contact tracing has helped in some countries who are already doing it, so there is some evidence it is not just theater.
Are you able to do Visas for those already within the US?
You would think that the left, OF ALL PEOPLE, would be wary of totalitarianism.
The part about Lightning making "higher throughput blockchains irrelevant" is correct though. Blockchains inherently do not scale unless you sacrifice decentralization, and once you've done away with decentralization then you don't need a blockchain. You're better off for many reasons using a database instead.
> it's just you doing the same thing and suddenly being right.

That's the whole premise, that inevitably they will be right.
How popular is OpenShift? Seems cool but have never heard of anyone actually using it.
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There are formal definitions of complexity, of which Kolmogorov complexity is perhaps the best known.

This may not be the sort of complexity you are thinking of (perhaps you have in mind 'hard to understand', which is an important issue that is not necessarily captured by formal measures), and formal metrics measure solutions, not problems (or, at best, a specific expression of a problem.) We cannot often decide whether a given solution is the simplest possible, but there are several fallacies that do not follow from this fact, such as:

1) Therefore, there cannot be a simplest solution.

2) Therefore, there is ALWAYS an opportunity for a reduction to be discovered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity