skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I described extremes (for simple maths) to just show that it's plausible that a virus could have this effect given those conditions.

If you look here, you can see only 72% who die are above 64

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

Median I would guesstimate based on this data to be around 72 or so.

But the point is how many people are dying who weren't productive members of society and how many years these people would have lived if coronavirus didn't strike them.

For illustration purposes if it always killed those first who were closest to death anyway and death rate was 2% it would mean I guess 74 * 0,02 years lost for median person or 1.5 years.

This number will increase of course because true nature is more random.

And to be completely fair then if in US each year dies a bit less than 1% of people and not all of them at old age. So let's say it's 0.6% dying of old age, then 2% death rate might mean around 3 years lost for median person.

But as I said this are illustrative and non-precise calculations.

If I had to guess I would say it's reasonable to estimate that median person would lose 1 - 7 years of their life due to coronavirus.
I have to say, despite running Gentoo for more years than I can remember, the only time I've ever had anything break on me was when I was first starting out. I had a mask conflict causing issues during emerge/package update and it was only because I was doing something exceptionally stupid. Note that this didn't actually cause me any problems, it just made me change how I was doing something to the correct way of doing it.

Outside of that however, Gentoo has been the smoothest distro I've used in a long time. I've tried out Arch (started out on Arch), RHEL, and Debian in the past but nothing has been as cooperative as gentoo has been.

Portage is really quite a slick packaging system for what it is. Every time I've had an update that could be potentially risky, I've just followed the upgrade instructions (eselect news) that Portage gives me and within 15 seconds any potential issue has been resolved.

Mind you that like you said, this is very much a "mileage may vary" scenario however after switching to Gentoo, it really is hard to want to go back to other distros when the system is so low maintenance after the initial install.

TL;DR Gentoo isn't really as much of a wild west distro as people make it out to be. It is bespoke to be sure but there is very good documentation and during any update Portage provides a very clean and straight forward way to handle the rare manual intervention as well as integrating new package and system configurations into your own.

Maybe this was out of place but I always see people portraying Gentoo as either a toy for experimentation or too crazy, bleeding edge, and unstable to use for real purposes.
People already do that on Facebook. It's a much more effective tool than an app would be, especially since it already connects you to your like minded neighbors.
Yeah that's the usual terminology in JS world. Persistence (the naming) comes out of algorithm theory, which IMO has pretty poor naming in general (dynamic programming and cache-oblivious also come to mind as unfortunate names). Not entirely sure why that is.

There's a few "levels" of persistence available, just as an aside. Immutability I think corresponds to the ~strongest level, but also means it can be hardest to achieve. One easier version allow only _querying_ old versions of the data structure for instance, no modifications except at the tip. Sometimes that's enough.
This is amazing!

Here's another awesome 256b demo that I love: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66372
Adapting technologies for diffusion to new communities
> think the key deciding factor isn't even technical, but: if you want to enter Slack (or Zoom, or similar), it is streamlined, easy and clear what you need to do. Compare it to IRC, where you have to find a client, make the choice, and make many other small decisions.

> 1. Dealing with Riot/Matrix system/client confusion. Most people don't care about such distinctions, I should probably just focus on talking about Riot.

Ugh, this is depressingly on the nose. As someone who loves choice in his software it's hard to admit that most people are beyond not caring and it is legitimately a negative factor for a lot of people to have to pick.
I fundamentally reject the idea that society is obligated to help Jeff Bezos protect his $100 billion dollar fortune.

I think it is absolutely fair to say that society will not allow you to have more than $1 billion. Flat. Out. Wealth. Cap.

Then maybe instead of corporations squeezing their customers for every nickel and dime and screwing pensioners they can retire to their private islands and enjoy their life.
I was forced to start drinking coffee. I had to drive myself to high school at 7am, didn't get much sleep with extracurriculars and homework and work. Eventually it got too dangerous to drive in the morning being that drowsy so I had to start consuming massive amounts of caffeine. The withdraw symptoms were in some ways worse than nicotine imo.
Covid-19: How is HR Technology Responding to it?
Oh I know, but your shots specifically are lovely! I will check it out :) I imagined you did it at home... have wanted to do the same but haven’t had space, so use the mail-in services which are not bad.
There's not much reason to believe that either countries numbers are wildly off base. There have been international teams in both countries and their reports mostly agree.

There really seems to be a delusion setting in among Western commentators that China or Vietnam, just because they don't have a free press, must be unable to contain a virus more effectively or that there is at least some merit to some aspects of their social organisation.

It looks like it's not China but the US in particular which drifts more and more into conspiracy territory even among its leadership.
tl;dr: Basically everyone will decide this summer.
Smells like "we've concluded this person died of normal causes and if you say it was covid-19 we will fine you heavily for spreading 'fake news'.".

Even doctors in China were punished for trying to speak out, it's easy to believe the Vietnamese govt would do the same
Wow, thank you for putting that so eloquently.
> disincentive to return to work

Arguably, this is a positive unintended consequence of the act in this situation.
So what is the plan for re-opening then?

If we continue to shelter in place we just push the curve out instead of flattening it. We need to start reintroducing people to society at a measured pace to actually flatten it.

Don’t misunderstand me, pushing the curve out has tremendous value in that we can better prepare but it also has a tremendous cost.

How many business and livelihoods will be ruined because we couldn’t reopen until a vaccine was available?

It seems crazy to sacrifice most of what makes this city great while the “smartest political minds” do what’s best for their career by transforming it into a partisan issue.
You have extremely misguided logic.

By extension of your statement:
Given that there are always people starving somewhere on Earth at all other points in time too, isn't it immoral to feed pets at all? They should be put down and that food should go to people! Dog food in general is immoral, because it could instead be given to someone starving somewhere.
Some data to back that up.

91% with a favorable view of Amazon, and that's sourced via a media company:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21144680/verge-tech-survey...

Amazon the 2nd most trusted brand in America:

https://morningconsult.com/most-trusted-brands/
> It was in direct refutation of your claim that they have dealt with this type of load before.

No, I said they have dealt with load past capacity before. Saying it’s 1% or 200% over capacity does not change the fact they have procedures in place to deal with it.

> It is paramount to their success.

Yet, you have not said how it suddenly inherently spikes in cost after their capacity is reached.

> They're still giving credits if you call in and complain that your item didn't arrive within two days.

That’s not an SLA, they will do quite a bit if you call and complain up to a point. It’s designed to maximize revenue not a contract obligation, many companies budget this under advertising costs for a reason.

Further, on the flip side they can reduce normal advertising spending which is more than enough to cover some nominal difference. But you don’t need to take my word for it, their a public company and we can just wait and see what their profit is.
Check out Cafe Kerouac. That's where you will find everyone at OSU these days who smokes american spirits.
Soros fund management backs electric-vehicle charging startup
Oh my god this book is amazing! Thank you
Permanently, too, if this causes a paradigm shift and virtual learning becomes the norm. Beyond the crisis, colleges were already planning on declining enrollment due to demographic shifts. Real estate in exclusively college towns, dependent on collegiate rentals, will be seeing long term changes regardless.
I can believe it when a single confirmed case lands almost a thousand people in quarantine. There's not just the fear of getting the virus, there's the fear of being sent off to a quarantine facility for two weeks if you are in contact with enough people that you end up on an F0's F1 list. And then if you're F2 you still must stay at home, and your neighborhood police ward will check up on you (and the neighborhood snitch on the payroll probably will keep an eye out for you too).

There are still villages under lockdown and just a month ago a heavily trafficked road was locked down with its inhabitants stuck at home just two kilometers from the center of the capital city.

If a Michigan style protest happened here everyone at the protest would be declared F1 because there's bound to be an F0 in the crowd, everyone the protesters have come into contact with with, including staff at businesses or restaurants, co workers, delivery drivers, other diners at the same restaurants, other people shopping at the same store at the same time as them will be declared F2 and have to stay at home. Then they will do three more rounds of recursive contact tracing and monitor those people in case others start showing symptoms.

I've had a dozen friends wait out quarantine at military camps and two had their quarantine period extended when their roommates started showing symptoms (but ended up not being positive). Heck if you go to a pharmacy to buy cold or flu medication the pharmacy will report you to the police so they can monitor your symptoms (after patient 247 infamously had a fever, took medication, then went to a bar to celebrate beating his fever).

It's almost a police state with the perfect set of tools to fight the virus, and the success of the government has been really effective in getting people to feel patriotic. That does provide perverse incentives going forward. We can hope they remain truthful. At the end of the day we know that the measures that have been undertaken have been some of the best in the world and that not everyone in other countries would tolerate such measures.

Also, please download the Bluezone app. This plea goes out to any other expats or immigrants in the country. We need contact tracing to be ready for the next wave.
Def a qualified yes. The pass by value will often allow the compiler to deal with less as a pass by ref/ptr makes it more pessimistic. You see this play out in trying to get the auto-vectorizer going by copying N values to a local buffer in the loop prior to operating in them.

The optimizer in c++ compilers are really good at inlining and if it's a single TU more so. So the size isn't the issue in those cases too. In addition, on the other size most optimizers have a form of return value optimization that elides the copy/move on the return value.

Where they often get hit up or lacking is heap allocations. They seem to hide a lot and only some compilers can elide a heap allocation.

Use after move is interesting. Many cases of move are not necessary anyways (returning an automatic storage object) but the complexity of the code already would be on part with using std::move. I don't think an optimizer will do that one even if it is that last usage.
I don’t see why an open source design manufactured by a competent manufacturer would be any different from a proprietary design. It would need to pass certifications and the regulator may require a version freeze, but it seems like it could be done.

There’s also countries all over the world who don’t have these regulations, and would appreciate good quality plans for useful appliances.
I do not understand why anyone uses water tanks at all. The tankless or demand-type water heaters tend to be more energy efficient, take significantly smaller space, less parts, and have been in use successfully since the 19th century.
Am I missing something?
Never. Derivation is not a property which can be "lost". Deriving more things through the process of derivation at not point stops the derivation connection.

You should not include code at any point if you do not have the proper license for it. The copyright pollution spreads and any attempt to "clean room it" would be more expensive than re-writing from scratch.
Hey, maybe you're right. I don't care that they care to be honest, I mostly care about our future for now.

But you ask "why should they care?"

Well, I profoundly believe (stressing: belief, no crystal ball here) that no, they won't be able to just shrug it off, they stand to lose a pretty f-ing lot, and it has begun.

Ultimately damaging, delaying or even killing the "Belt and Road" project. That's Xi Jinping's #1 thing, by far the biggest international move they were actively executing, and it will certainly hurt if they lose it (I think the correct phrasing is "now that they've lost it", but let's be conservative here, time will tell).

I think the massive drop in foreign investment, combined with sanctions (or worse) may be huge enough to send them into a depth of economic crisis they hadn't experienced in decades (if only because it takes time to re-profile an economy this vast. A decade or more. They've quite possibly 'doomed' the growth of an entire generation).

We could right now be witnessing China's failure to actually reach #1 GDP (at all, or sustainably beyond momentum). This could be the turning point that cements the USA as #1 for another 1-2 decades.[1]

Considering a big part of Chinese population support for the CPC's is based on the premise of economic growth and ever-higher living standards (that's why they shut up and don't ask for more freedoms or political rights, afaik, because they are content to just see their income rising crazy fast), I don't know what this means for the stability of the CPC there (but surely, 10-20 years of recession is a major, fundamental risk to the very existence of, or compliance to, such an oligarchic model).

But yeah, you may be right. We'll just have to agree to disagree on forecasts for now, which should be easy since none of us predicts the future. And my convictions are, again, strong, but loosely held. We need more data (notably, origin of the virus, cause of the spread, etc).

____

[1]: Assuming the USA doesn't worsen their situation too, which seems, ahem... increasingly less likely as we speak, given the abysmal leadership (I don't know how many deaths from COVID it takes to put this country to its knees, but it sure looks like it's trying hard to get there... so weird).

Not to mention the growing hostility towards all foreign powers almost irregardless of their 'allied' status (as if decades of shared history and partnership suddenly meant nothing anymore...)

This to mean rules apply to all, not just China, and everybody might do well to humbly heed that memo. Including national governments in their handling of the situation.
How about the fed's estimate of a ~5% hit to GDP in Q2.

That's true. This is a serious attempt to model, and I did in fact hear about it, now that you remind me.
In California, Obamacare IS Medical (aka Medicaid). I signed up once. I couldn't get my Vyvanse for my ADHD because it's a controlled substance, and the Medical doctor wouldn't touch a prescription for it.

Pro-tip:. If you pay out of pocket for your regular doctor (maybe tell then your situation and work out a deal), you can get Medical to pay for the prescription (verify before trying).
Kind of pointless without knowing how many people were tested
So where do us monkeys line up to get a shot?
You are correct. Field corn is (usually) harvested by a giant combine harvester and shucked/processed automatically in the machine, with the kernels dumped into a waiting truck parked alongside. Then it's stored in grain elevators for days, weeks, or months until it's processed for fuel or feed.

Sweet corn is (usually) picked by hand on a much smaller scale, left in its natural leafy husk, and transported for retail sale within a week or two.

It's a whole different ball game. I'm sure we COULD take big portions of our feed/fuel field corn and grind it into human-ready cornmeal for mush and cornbread, but it wouldn't be a walk in the park :-/
If it is true that placing the 45 degree lens third or first does not show the same effect, it is much less astonishing.
There's actually a lot of these sort of 90s cafes still around in major cities at least. They accumulate a cult following and host events like open mics regularly. The cafe as a business might not be long lived, but the vibe never really dies so there are always at least a couple in every major metro.
Zithromax is an antibiotic, so I wouldn't expect it to mitigate the effects of a virus, but I'm not an expert.
This is very true. And OPs point is good: the HN/millennial technorati is really out of touch with how much pain will is and will be descending upon the world.
Or they can simply hire more people, which they’re doing. I’m not saying Amazon employees are greedy, but I find it ironic that people claim that the altruistic thing to do is to concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer people.
This does not work. setMyState() is asynchronous. doSomething() would run, but not necessarily with the updated value of the state.
You have stated a plausible hypothesis. That's one step in the scientific method. Now do the rest of the steps. The actual math isn't so simple.

We all understand that in a crisis sometimes leaders have to take decisive action based on incomplete data. That's fine. Just don't dress it up with some fake veneer of "science".
There was also Fabrik in Smalltalk, which began as a spreadsheet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080511202219/http://users.ipa.n...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/62083.62100

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1175
Antibody surveys suggesting big undercount of Covid infections may be unreliable
Front-end testing: How to test your website layout
You're being deliberately obtuse. There are millions of people out of jobs, and soon there'll be millions of people starving. Put moral relativism aside for a minute and think about the real pain that people are feeling right now.

These poor dogs aren't going to find homes that can feed them for a long time.

At some point you need to stop being selfish and putting your own feelings aside to think about the people around you.
Never saw that but thanks for the link! It's a much better wording than I'd ever have come up with.
> (how do they do this btw?)

these links might help explain

https://medium.com/@ryardley/react-hooks-not-magic-just-arra...

https://dev.to/kayis/react-hooks-demystified-2af6
Brain implant breakthrough may reverse paralysis
They take longer for the water to heat up.

And a heat pump is going to beat it hands down.
If you brew it yourself, coffee is cheap. Too cheap in fact, as it is fueled by exploitation.

I have an espresso machine and grinder at home, about 1000€ worth. My everyday coffee is at ~15€ per kg, I dose 14g per cup (espresso double), and drink about 4 cups a day, about 1€ per day. Let's amortize the equipment for 5 years, add a bit for electricity, water, cleaning supplies, ... That's 2 € per day, for maybe Starbucks-level coffee.

For 3-4€ per day, you can buy gourmet coffee and a high end grinder and machine. The result will be better than in 99% of coffee shops.

If you just want caffeine, you can buy cheap coffee for half the price, and spend 10x less on equipment bringing the price down to less than 1 € per day.

Sure, it adds up, but is is far from crazy. On par with drinking store-bought soda or fancy water, and definitely cheaper than smoking.
On the other hand I am not quite sure what these people told their kids and if one can apply the same standards. I think people used to be more cruel than they are now, for example public executions were drawing huge crowds. Also mortality was higher and people died at a younger age, especially child mortality used to be much higher. The concept and meaning of childhood was probably not exactly the same as today, child labor was quite common. As a result I don't quite know how to read the cruelty in original folk tales.

In addition to that you can't tell exactly if the Grimm brother weren't doing some editing on their own behalf.
Consul is the one you’re thinking of.
They are making stuff and making money. The money is often just as or more important because it is necessary to buy other stuff, particularly when "essential" things are still operating and "non-essential" things are shut down, because the people doing "non-essential" things still need money in order to buy "essential" things.
With regards to HIP, here is a quote from AMD's FAQ:

> Most developers will port their code from CUDA to HIP and then maintain the HIP version. HIP code provides the same performance as native CUDA code, plus the benefits of running on AMD platforms.

E.g. AMD wants developers to develop primarily in HIP. The CUDA->HIP transpilation tools is to help developers make the switch.
I had not heard of Condensing Gas Tank water heaters before. They are very clever. Gas water heaters are very popular here in New Zealand. Do you know how much more efficient the Condensing Gas Tank water heater is over regular gas?

If I understand it correctly, the difference is that the condensing system pre-heats the cold water with the exhaust gas from the burner.

https://www.hotwatercylinders.nz/images/source/Bosch_26eco_C...

Did you compare costs of a regular gas heater vs. condensing?
Jack Dorsey was on the Disney Board until 2018, so probably not.
It hasn't gone, just look for cafes that maintain this vibe. They are out there.

The key is that they are a commercial coffee house last of all, in direct opposition of the business strategies of most high end gentrified cafes. The priority is the place as a gathering or event space for the local neighborhood or community. Look for board games in shelves, look for open mic events, look for booze on the menu, look for american spirit or clove cig butts in the ash tray outside. These are the telltale signs.
For a better comparison, I think you need to look at deaths per capita.

The US is somewhere in the middle of the pack on this metric.
Break-even != lower absolute mortality.

The same X% of the community will need to contract the virus to have herd immunity. If the healthcare system is not overloaded, then the mortality rate is the same, just sooner. We should look back after this has occurred, either through community spread or a vaccine has been invented and successfully deployed
I have yet to see any real code that got simpler from hooks.

I have classes that need to do stuff when they appear on screen and that need to clean up when they are unmounted. They also have some local state.

Hooks make doing all that messier. Class components make doing it easy to read and sensible.
US Army examines the potential of electrifying its ground vehicles
I heard they could present a challenge for the blind