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> You can't "disprove" data.

In the interest of correctness, yes you can.

To disprove means "to prove to be false or wrong"[1], and that's exactly what the OPERA collaboration did to their own data that showed super-luminal neutrinos, when they later discovered it was caused by a bad fiber connection[2].

There's also the case of BICEP2[3], where the raw data was not in dispute, but rather the inevitable post-processing required to extract the "science signal" from the raw data.

This is of course why scientists prefer to have multiple independent measurements of the same phenomena, to eliminate possible sources of error and bias. The LHC for example has two independent main detectors[4], built by different teams using different approaches, for this very reason.

That said, at least in the physical sciences (I don't follow life sciences as closely), cases like OPERA and BICEP2 are exceptions.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disprove

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICEP_and_Keck_Array#BICEP2

[4]: https://home.cern/science/experiments
I didn't know about Cresson_Kearny [1] until this but he was pretty great. He reminds me of a cold war Macgyver-like survivalist with a number of interesting gadgets [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_air_pump
Only 5%? It seems like this should be much larger, especially to see the reactionary takes about opening the economy.

Put that way, it's a hell of a deal. Killing off 1% of the population, plus the economic damage of nobody wanting to go out because of fear of getting sick, and that's unimaginably worse than 5% for a quarter, economically. Of course there are are likely to be knock on effects for several quarters, but given the typical lifespan of a human, we could go several years of 5% less GDP before it would equal the economic cost of the loss of life. Not to mention the social cost, which is hard to assign a value to.

It makes me think of other comparisons. Imagine if we had terror attacks that killed 60,000 people a year if we worked to stop them, but several million people if we didn't work to stop them. How much did we decide to spend on wars in response to 9/11, and his manu soldiers of our own did we decide to kill in military actions, and how many foreign innocent civilians? It really puts 5% GDP into perspective, as almost a nothingness compared to what we willingly sacrificed in response to the last disaster, which had economic effects on top of that.
Let the old and immuno-compromised shelter in place then while the rest of us build herd immunity. We don't shut down the tobacco or alcohol industry even though second hand smoke and DUIs kill orders of magnitude more innocents than covid-19 ever will. Millions of people die every year. That's never going to change - such is life. You gotta draw a line somewhere and I think the "save lives at all costs, even the cost of the nation's economy" attitude of covid-19 is too far. You'll pay for a ruined economy later in suicides and increased crime (not to mention suicides snuff out way more man-years of life than old people dying of sickness who were already nearing the end of their rope).
Why would/should 'China' care? They have an internal market of about 1,4 billion people. They shrug and go on like they have always done.
> I don't trust Apple and Google but I trust my government even less.

That's a really interesting statement. Could you elaborate on your thinking? Under what form of government do you live? Why do you feel Apple or Google is more trustworthy than your government?
Of course, the tech is different. I meant the end-goal being achieved is the same.

> what darch does can be done by chroot, namespaces etc and is not that complicated.

Exactly my point.
That's... a very wholesome response. Not something you see often on anonymous forums. I hope you can find some nice, peaceful strategies to live by - good luck
The same way Thailand has only 52 deaths, the blokes here could have explosive diarrhea and still won't consider washing their hands (granted the woman are the polar opposite - washing their hands continually - scared to death of it) and with mass exodus from the cities when hospitality went belly up the other month there is no way it isn't everywhere in SE asia non-city towns and villages. Whereas Singapore is fucked and they have western approaches to hygiene, a bit odd that wouldn't you say. Ineffective testing, or ineffective tests, head in sand, photoshots for the big boys, hospital directors worried about their livelyhood etc..

All cynism aside I do think SE Asia has fared better than Europe, but the reasons won't be worthy of someone getting an award (although no doubt their will be award like ceremonies for years to come) - the temperature theory is rebounding now etc..
yet another very obvious incentive to promote it, ideologically-- a factionalized workforce is easier to divide and rule over.
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You can be pedantic all you want, but there was a lockdown. It wasn't Federally initiated, and each state locked down to differing degrees, at different times, but they locked down. No one said it was homogenous; it's amazing how blind people on HN are to strawman arguments.

Trying to tease out the data your asking for isn't possible due to inadequate reporting, inadequate testing, and the fact that travel between states is free.
For children or for adults, the fatalist style of Tolstoy is what lends him the unmistakable charm. A part of our being, I think, will always desire to be liberated from the norm of not discussing pity or death without any moral undertone. Life and violence can be sad and violent, Tolstoy reminds us.
Engineering clarity and politics apparently don't mix. Not a good state to be in. How did democracy ever become "the loudest bullshitter calls the shots"? How sustainable is this?
Yeah nobody understands that we can print money. It’s the easiest solution and every other country is doing it already.
Thanks for checking it out.

finnhub.io has a nice API for getting finance and stock information. They are the ones I used for this.

The next plan is to create a mini course for entry level engineers to learn some frontend development. I don't really plan on updating this site much though.
Make it work now and fast potentially has maintainability issues down the line. Make it maintainable and brautiful may miss the mark on what’s actually needed and may be overengineered. Somewhere in between there is a sweet spot that can be found by luck or with some planning, a POC, etc
> Why is it ok for people to shop at Walmart and not at their local small business that sells the same goods and is better equipped to enforce social distancing, with customers explicitly opting in to visit the smaller store?

Small local businesses in the Bay Area that sell similar items to Walmart are open right now, from hardware stores to produce markets. I imagine apparel stores are shut, though many around me are doing online and appointment apparel shopping.

If Walmart is the only store open where you are, it's likely the only store that exists selling essentials where you are, and that is a different problem.
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It depends on your risk tolerance. If you're hedged with a long put on a decent time horizon, I don't think you have much to worry about, as you're locking in a price in case the REIT falls significantly. Your max loss is capped at the premium+commission you paid for the long put. It helps to have some physical precious metals, as paper precious metals are risky and I don't think COMEX can enforce their futures contracts effectively. This is to hedge against currency risk.
> They have far fewer tools to make a contact tracing app happen

They can get businesses to enforce the requirement for them. Want to enter the grocery store? Be prepared to show a QR code from the tracking app, or you can’t go inside.
"Wikipedia is a MMORPG for bureaucrats." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMOR...
Yes some kinds.
What's the problem with render props? You need a component to provide values to its unknown children, you either do render props or you need to clone the children injecting them the values. I find render props to be a much more clear pattern than clone. It also works nicely in TypeScript doing the proper type checking.
Am I missing something?

Edit: I think I missed the point. Hooks do make providing state to children simpler in a lot of cases. I just don't hate render props that much :)
Sounds like you did your best to be of support. I’m curious about the particulars of the shaking exercise you recommended. I have heard of one called TRE (trauma release exercises), perhaps something similar?
I don’t believe that.
> If data was presented today that conflicted with your existing views you would try to label and disprove it.

Trying to disprove new data that conflicts with your existing views is fine, as long as you can accept the new data if it holds up to scrutiny.

It isn't about being right, it's about accepting to be wrong.
> [Apple and Google] can't possibly say "stronger contact tracing for Canadians, but not for Mexicans" - it has to be one global standard.

Why not? Apple and Google could just as easily say, "Only countries that meet the standards we set get access to more data."

On one hand, it seems like the HN community seems okay with giving Apple and Google the power to set norms on technology policy that apply worldwide (e.g., what level of potential privacy loss is acceptable to combat a pandemic), but on the the other hand we don't trust Apple and Google to know how to distinguish a totalitarian regime from a government that respects its citizens' rights?
May I assume that you read https://lkml.org/ ? If you research the contributors, then you will be able to identify where they work and thus identify any possible job openings.

Google's Fuschia project might also be of interest.

In general, kernel level programming requires years of experience. Most of the work entails device drivers and sub-systems, e.g. filesystems, networking -- all of which rely on knowing standards and their implementations.

Being located in SE Asia, I would think that equipment manufacturers could be interested in your skills in writing device drivers for their products. Another area might be embedded systems, which in addition to Linux might use one of the BSD variants.

In order to be effective at the low-levels, you need a good grasp of CPU architectures and their many idiosyncrasies. In addition to x86-64, ARM and RISC-V knowledge should be very applicable.
I don't think so.

I believe with some precautions (masks specifically and distancing and prohibit mass gathering for a bit) most places could open right now and the amount of additional hospitalizations and deaths would likely be economically inconsequential. People in general are going to be careful for a while.

Yes, opening would likely lead to more deaths, that is true, and perhaps we should not open for a bit for safety, but the key concept here is "economically inconsequential".
Most authors today have to hold other jobs to support themselves. In fact it's likely the vast majority. I know several successful authors. None of them make enough off of the books to live on.

But what they have done is leverage the status the books conferred into lucrative careers.
I talk to the janitor that services our offices at a really high end space near the Moscone. No way dude, those poor people are contracted by a bigger firm, they lost all sources of income over a month ago.
CA unemployment is near $1000 a week with the federal stimulus.
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>In some modern homes the hotwater heater runs far above safe delivery temperature

Is this a modern feature? It has been this way for as long as I can remember.
The new order includes several approved low risk activities and transparent indicators that will be used to gauge safety to further reopen. Is there something about this you don’t feel is backed by science?
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Well said. Though as I was re-reading your comment I remembered the incidence of PTSD among drone operators. Even though they have the perfectly controlled physical environment, they seem to be negatively effected too. I doubt their triggers are similar (like fireworks reminding gunfire) though.
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Unfortunately for us, the delivery vehicle for caffeine can taste great and the process to remove the caffeine can leave a substandard result.

I’d totally use other nootropics in managed doses if I could do so long term with no serious side effects.
"Your dev machines localhost" is confused - this is unrelated to the loopback. Also "the loopback address of the container itself" - there is a loopback interface per network node, be it a container or host, different loopback addresses (127.0.0.2 etc) would not change anything.
Why do you think they should pay their workers more? Do you have data that they are paying below market wages? If they are paying below market wages, then how are they able to hire so many people?

Median pay for Amazon is $14 per hour, whereas median hourly wage for warehouse employees is $13, so it appears that Amazon pays a small premium over the market wage.

What makes you so special that your gut feeling of Amazon is something that people should pay attention to, rather than market wages?
what an expected outcome...
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Make your mind MSM. Last night a national news broadcast said Japan’s medical system is on the brink of collapse from all these COVID cases. I then see articles like this.

Which is it? Is Japan improving or about to collapse?
It certainly helps me when splitting, comparing and picking changes between branches. Also to keep track of how upstreams have changed compared to my working branch before doing rebases.

Oh, and re Githubs fork view (which could be improved on the UI side), is helpful when seeing if anyone else has picked up the ball on unmaintained repos.

If you don't find it useful, fine, I don't think we all need to grok each others personal workflows and motivate them to each other?

Maybe you can compare it to a visual file manager that visualizes your directory structure as a tree; some people find it a necessity to get an overview of their file system, some don't.
Fair use is like a guilty plea. You're saying "yes I violated the authors copyright, but I should be allowed to." Then a judge decides if you're right. They use a test, and much of the criteria is a spectrum. However commercial use is more binary. You charge for something, you lose points.

Is this work transformative?
I may be an outlier in that I've always collected links that I find interesting and periodically revisit them, but I really don't think it's that much work to find links; curious exploring should get you far.

Also, I just want to point out, as someone who plausibly had the fastest accumulation of karma during the first months of having an account,* that "and those who accumulate it the fastest" may not be quite accurate.

* (I actually got called out for it by three different people; my first five thousand points were achieved within (-/+ 5) ninety days of making the account, and that was with fifteen days of not posting anything (my account was made on 91919, which is a palindrome I find nice); my first thousand was within thirty days of making the account.)
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That’s great. Here in Minnesota we average 20 a day and the number of cases keeps increasing despite a 1 month lockdown.

People want to open up and get we didn’t even pass the first test!
My sister and brother-in-law used to live in Bellingham, and they would get black black beans that positively oozed oil. And the taste... (Although this suggests I'm wrong: https://www.sagebrushcoffee.com/blogs/education/61606981-the...)

Where does one find good dark roast beans? The on-line descriptions of flavor are not very helpful. I guess what I need is a sampler: a few ounces each of a bunch of beans. Alternatively, I'll listen to advice on good dark roast beans.
North Korea is doing even better.
The first few lines explicitly state the numbers are unreliable. There should be no further discussion.
Yes, because there's no real choice. Only installing from an app store adds a little protection, but not much. The fundamental issue is the design of desktop OS' security models, which are focused around protecting local users from other local users, not around protecting local users from untrusted software.

(More than happy to hear suggestions for easy-to-use sandboxing for desktop software. The whole situation makes me quite uncomfortable.)
Its nothing like stealing whatsoever, that is a huge distortion of the term.
I think you are forgetting that, minus NYC, the disaster didn't happen. Hospitals in states that dragged their feet like Georgia never even approached capacity.

Excluding NYC, the US is on par with Germany. We never came close to being Italy.

I thought for sure we were going to be. I saw data that led me to believe it. The data is richer now. There is more of it. I was wrong. Reality is telling us that for once, there is good news.

This virus isn't as bad, and the lockdowns can be eased. That's the data NOW.

My God, why is it that since Trump got elected, that every position on a factual argument turned into an ideological hill to die on.

I changed my mind, yet it's like I'm wearing a maga hat for saying it.

Regarding my brother's business:

His debt was no issue when he had customers. The government shut down the economy for the first time in the history of the US. He didn't account for that when taking out the loan. This decision now seems unnecessary.
If data starts to show that I'm wrong, I will AGAIN change my mind.

I just wish others on here would try that themselves.
> My bet at this point is within a few months.

What if it doesn't? What if a few months pass, and we're at the same spot we are now, except we're all a few months older and poorer?

My jurisdiction is already testing everyone with symptoms with only about half of their current testing capacity, and still has no plan to move forward.
My Daikin is near instant, even when near freezing outside. The compressor is yuge though, so maybe that’s why.

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This is quite the generalization, equivalent to saying that Americans love the Democratic Party. A poll in 2019 found that satisfaction with the NHS hit an eleven year low, with 53% of respondents satisfied with services in the year prior.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47472472
Probably for the best, I've never been invited to lobste.rs; without an account, lobste.rs is pretty pointless because it has like four new stories on the front page per week, and as such I've never really paid that much attention. It probably does have that feature.
Totally agree. The first example was clear and intuitive, but I was lost when the author outlined the idea of blocks indexing blocks indexing values. Maybe an additional example could clearify this subject, improving considerably the quality of the post.
These lockdowns are very much constitutional. Perhaps you should actually read it.
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Couldn't you show that they're willing to enter into a contract by hash tag, therefor they're pretty flexible on how they enter contracts. Or is it only the unconscionable ones?
Lately I’ve been thinking about the other side of this, the faith one must have to trust science. Most people will never crack a textbook for real, let alone do the experiments themselves. There are so many people I know who look at an anti-vaxxer and say “how could they be so dumb” but they themselves know nothing except what they parrot. Not to say an anti-vaxxer is correct. It’s just that so many people on the side of science only believe because everyone else does, because it’s just “so obvious” and I can see how someone would lose their way if they didn’t have that faith.
In my state, unemployment maxes out at $400/week, not half my salary. So with CARES, I would get an additional $600 for a total of $1k/week. This doesn't last indefinitely, only 26 weeks. Also, unemployment isn't immediate; in my state (prior to the huge backlog) it could take up to 21 days to get paid. Now I assume it's longer.

So someone on unemployment is only "making" up to $26K, then they're SOL.
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I don't think it can be handled well. The Tildes implementation is done by arguably the only (that said, former-)administrator on reddit.com who can be called "universally-loved"; it wasn't done by an amateur, and it seemed to have a lot of thought put into it.
I guess I should have disambiguated my usage of "persistent". In this case it refers to a purely-functional data structure[1], not a data structure that is persisted to disk. Inserting an item into a persistent B-tree produces a new tree, while leaving the old one intact. Ideally, this is done with minimal copying; unchanged subtrees are just pointers to the same subtrees in the old tree.

This is very similar to persistent hash tries, which are used by purely-functional languages like Haskell. But I designed this B-tree library as an implementation of SRFI 146, which uses a comparison function, not a hash function, to create a key-value mapping.

If you're interested in B-trees being persisted to disk, that's how most databases and most filesystems already work.

[1] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/persistent-data-structures/
Download discoverability is a harder problem than it seems to solve. People may go a long time without seeing their desktop, because it is covered by windows they are interacting with. If they're not familiar with what is on their desktop, they would not easily recognize a new icon that shows up there.
The basic idea is that a generator yields one potential parse of a section of input-string. The caller continues checking the rest of the string but if it fails to find all expected syntactic elements it will go back to the generator basically asking it: Your previous suggestion did not work out, can you give me another possibility?
So it's sort of like the javax API?
You can't have the expectation of paying debts and simultaneously take away people's means for repaying it. Responsibility without control is cruel.

Growing up, my parents maybe would have had an extra $100 at the end of the month. My dad would have probably been out of work - given that, each month they were out of work would have put them in a year's worth of debt. A financial death.
It's one more of those meaningless demonstrations of support that social media has generalized.

Communicating that "we're all in this together" is as effective as a giving "like" to the Facebook page of a person dying from cancer raising money for their treatment.

The person who hits that "like" surely feels better about themselves and sees social media as a facilitator of this effortless moral redemption.

PS: The individuals building these systems are aware of this.