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As someone who has dabbled in Rust, I think the Rustaceans are just too careful to bump something up to v1 before it's near perfect. In other languages the package ecosystem looks more mature because people are less careful in bumping up numbers.
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This type of situation is the strongest case I've seen for a software-engineering certification on the level of the ones for civil-engineering.

The trouble with software is that a lot of it is really unimportant, and some of it starts out as unimportant and becomes really important over time, and there's an entire continuous spectrum between the extremes. Whereas the distinction between projects that do and don't need to be regulated is much more clear-cut when it comes to physical engineering, mostly because of cost barriers.

But we need something. I'm sure that half the people on HN could easily make an app like this that wasn't shoddy and bug-ridden. Heck, it's possible the original developers could have if they'd put forth their full effort. But as long as these contracts are going to the lowest bidder, and as long as there's no meaningful bar to placing a bid in the first place, digital bridges will keep collapsing.
The standard library currently only contains what is necessary to define _what_ a Future is. It contains no tools for actually executing them, and this is the role of Tokio.
FWIW I'm not familiar with CA specifically, but that sounds like the same kind of lockdown we have here in NY.

Offices are voluntarily closed, as far as I can tell, not by fiat. While you're only supposed to be working at an office if you're an essential worker, the definition is somewhat loose.
I just went to the ER last night for what turned out to be a kidney stone. The place was empty. The doctor had just learned that day that the owners had laid off 50% of the staff.
That we have dropped 50% from the peak is true according to the site you linked as well...

https://update.covid19.ca.gov

115 deaths on April 22nd.

45 deaths on April 26th.
I would expect HN of all places to know the difference between paper and liquid net worth.

People are stuck at home and as result are forced to shop online which results in increase revenue for the largest online commerce store.
> violence and bloodshed

And ideally, most of that sanitized away by the media which just talks numbers, shows air strikes from 50 km away, and tells you how many "insurgents" were killed today.
I had a similar experience. In my case they allowed my account to be opened without a phone number as I requested that they delete the account because I didn't want to provide my phone number. I deleted my account soon afterward anyway.
I'd also like to see comparison to Toshiba/Kioxia's fork TRocksDB: https://github.com/KioxiaAmerica/trocksdb
As you say, per the twitter terms of use they're already allowed to use your tweets in their promo materials if they want. There's no reason they need to force-opt you into their ToS if that's all they want to do.

the problem isn't just that this sounds like it was written by a legal alien, it's that they're claiming rights they don't need. The disney ToS outline all kinds of things that you aren't allowed to do, and it's obviously ridiculous to suggest that you can't include their hashtag in a tweet that violates their ToS.
> the major complaint I have about hooks, which is that it's no longer Javascript

Are you saying that hooks are implemented in a way that needs a compiler (e.g. like CoffeeScript or TypeScript) for them to work? I've always assumed they were implemented using closures or a similar pattern.
SublimeMerge[1] allows staging only chunks of files.

[1]: https://www.sublimemerge.com/
i recommend doing forum software with cgi. it's fun and challenging. After that there are plenty of stuff you can do with gtk.

over the years I have a bunch of small gtk c applications that ranges from mp3 players to rss readers.
> Meanwhile, German students went back to school a week ago. And in Sweden, lower schools were never even shut down in the first place. Logical analysis

Where do you fit Italy, Spain, or even Portugal in your logica analysis? Because arguably the US is being hit harder than any of those countries and yet they are respecting their quarantine with notable results.

Meanwhile, neither Germany nor Sweden has suffered as much as neither Spain or Italy.
Apple applied very similar terms to their "Shot on iPhone" campaign. The public outcry was over paying the winners, but Apple's terms for the campaign gave themselves a license to use any submission, which was defined as a public post that used a certain hashtag and contained certain information.

The fact that no one seems to remember this about "Shot on iPhone" is a good clue that few people actually care about this sort of thing.

Which makes sense because from a practical perspective--whether or not these terms are actually enforceable--it's super easy to avoid them. Just don't use that hashtag.
Let’s be clear: even without LTO, the compiler knows what malloc and free do at a semantic level.

I buy the sized delete win, I’ve seen that too, in some niche cases. But that’s a far cry from the claim that not inlining malloc is bananas. If that’s all you got then this sounds like a stunning retreat from the thesis of Jeff’s post. You’re just saying that you’ve got a free that benefits from size specialization, which has nothing to do with whether malloc got inlined.
And all it took was a few thousand unnecessary deaths. Vietnam and Taiwan temporarily shutdown, and the former had 0 deaths while the latter has had less than 10.
Why aren't there integrated systems for heating/cooling? (Or maybe this exists and I just don't know the proper terms to search for)

We have multiple cooling devices: air conditioning (dumping heat outside) and refrigerators (dumping heat inside). Then we have multiple separate heating devices: furnaces and hot water tanks that burn electricity or gas to generate heat.

I've always thought it would be more efficient if these units were all connected with some kind of coolant loop, and a heat pump / control unit that could route heat/cooling to where it's needed.

I did find a similar system for connecting air conditioning to heat a swimming pool (instead of outside condenser unit), which is pretty neat, but I'm thinking bigger. If you're going to dump excess heat anyway, might as well use it to heat water, at least.
There's a comic titled The Four Vices, each pane the character is taking a day off from their vices. I guess my problem is now that I have had coffee I don't want off and I pretty fearful that I'd just find another vice instead to fill the void.
That may be true, but that isn't going to change human behavior. Encouraging people to continuing to work out at home is a good thing, but most people are demoralized. Fewer people are going to exercise because there's nothing to do, nobody to see, and not much to look forward to for the next year. I know my fitness has decreased due to demoralization. Sure, I can exercise, but it's hard to find reasons to exercise beyond mere health. Most people also want to be fit because they want to look good, but during the pandemic, looking good for whom? Toss unemployment income and "survival" junk food into the mix, and you've got a population that is probably overall less healthy.

I'm on board with keeping up the exercise, by the way. It's just that the reality is that people aren't going to come out of this more healthy because their motivation has been crushed.
Ahhh; thank you!
Once you commit to some success metric, you're going to be stuck with it even it proves to be a bad metric. Let's say we all agree the "2 weeks with decreasing number of deaths" is a good target. Then we go back to work, and we discover that going back triggers a rapid spread and kills a bunch of people and starts to overwhelm hospitals. Now we need a new metric.

This is a novel scientific problem. Caution and study are warranted. People's lives are at stake.
In this equally public and legally enforceable format I would like to announce that if The Walt Disney Company ever again tweets an octothorpe followed by any other character(s) they hereby agree to immediately release all of their intellectual property into the public domain, with no further action on their part necessary.
The title appears to break HN rules, as it doesn't match the title of the linked article. @dang?
What are you attempting to say/equivocate?
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Care to elaborate on that point? I was under the impression that MIMO works just fine these days.
Back in the good old days... http://web.archive.org/web/20141020194316/https://www.ycombi...

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Intellectual property is the probably the number one way the western world oppresses the poor.
The current so-called shutdown (at least where I live) seems to be mostly voluntary. People are out and about horsing around all the time. There's no difference in traffic before and after on my street. It's pretty much being ignored by many people, and there's no visible enforcement. It seems more like a stay-at-home suggestion than an order.
Reading and listening to https://www.oyez.org/ - a fantastic resource for Supreme Court transcripts - it's clear that regardless of their backgrounds and circumstances of their appointment, each justice is incredibly intelligent and engaged.

The problem is that when it comes to the really sticky, complex issues that affect huge swaths of human rights, it's very possible for justices, in your words, to "rely upon fact and logical argument," but base their end goal/optimization function on either "what did the founders of the country factually and logically intend" or "what do the norms and ideals of modern society suggest would be factually and logically sustainable" without regard to the opposite viewpoint.

A real balance between these viewpoints keeps the pendulum from swinging out of control; it serves as a low-pass filter on the often-wild steering of policy, or the whims of a short-term-focused electorate. But it's equally important that the ultimate power reside long-term with the people. And one very possible outcome is that our justices succumb simultaneously to a pandemic, during an administration that, to be as charitable as possible, does not seem particularly concerned with nuance, system stability, or universal enfranchisement. And it's a lot to ask of a justice to hold both the meta-meta-viewpoint and legal precision in mind, especially as it seems likely that constitutional questions will be in play as November approaches. All we can do is hope they will rise to the occasion.
I think a key difference is the Twitter API externalized things (people building on top, creating an ecosystem) whereas IG/TikTok stickers are inclusive and focused on people building within
We should separate LA from ex-LA. Bay area has peaked.. if you exclude nursing homes (which the lockdown relatively failed to protect), it's even sharper of a drop.

https://covid-19.direct/metro/BayArea
Probably something along the lines of their economy suffering quite a bit just the same.
'In contrast with other countries where political leaders have fronted the national response to the crisis, Dr Tegnell has led the majority of news conferences'

'chief state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell is broadly popular in Sweden. An experienced scientist with more than 30 years in medicine, he is known for his relaxed demeanour and preference for pullovers.

"He's a low-key person. I think people see him as a strong leader but not a very loud person, careful in what he's saying," reflects Emma Frans, a Swedish epidemiologist and science writer. "I think that's very comforting for many."

She argues that many national and international media have been "searching for conflict" within the scientific community, whereas she believes there is a consensus that Anders Tegnell's approach is "quite positive", or at least "not worse than other strategies"

~

This seems a much better non partisan approach than the endless two party C19 press conference and criticism political warfare the US & UK have to endure
Sweden banned international flights from outside of Europe.

Sweden banned gathering of more than 50 people.

Sweden closed down the universities.

Sweden permanently closed down 5 restraunts this weekend for flouting social distancing rules.

And, most importantly, their cases are not plataueing, their deaths are not plataueing.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...
We're allowed to drive in California too - its supposed be for "essential" travel only, but that is pretty broad. I'd estimate in the Bay Area, traffic is only down by 50% or so (though certain commute routes are more dramatically impacted).
Designing from top down may help you a bit when you already have a mental model that you'd wish to convey in written form rather quickly, otherwise risking to loose sight of it when you get into details. UML helped me write down ideas (mostly communication flows and other behavior related aspects, not class diagrams), but I can understand why one may feel restricted when that's not necessary. Growing organically has its benefits for sure (is more fun, at least), but I also had more than one case of reconciling diverging/incompatible parts of a system simply because I went ahead of myself there with improvements on the go. Wasting time on that under deadlines is less fun.
> it sounds like the court ignored precedent and effectively made up a new law out of whole cloth to reach this outcome.

> We may be okay with this particular outcome, but would we feel the same way if they did it for say Roe v. Wade

That's... pretty much exactly what they did for Roe v. Wade.
Not to mention turkey intervening to provide medical care to a dual citizen refused care in sweden.
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Sure you don't wear seatbelts and install airbags to mitigate the risk of COVID-19, but the point is that you can take measures to reduce the risk of contracting the virus to a socially acceptable level and not have to destroy people's livelihoods. We have after all not waited for the perfectly safe car before allowing millions of cars on the road. The lockdown in its current form seems more like waiting for the perfectly safe car.
No, no, no. Heritability = 50% doesn't mean "genetic factors explain 50% of differences between people's symptoms". That's not how any of that works. Most of the time it doesn't even make sense to attribute a percentage of outcome differences to "genetics" because genes constantly interact with the environment such that both become inextricable. This stuff is not additive. And also for the n-th time, heritability does not imply genetic determinism.
I guess my question on this specific topic would be, "What aspects of bicycle operation are not adequately explained by gyroscopic action under the control of a human rider?" That would give us a good basis for inquiry into other possible principles.

Sure, a bike could work some other way, but my point is, it doesn't need to. Anyone who has ever picked up a hard drive should understand how a bicycle remains upright. What else is there to know? It's not like an airplane wing, where the "obvious" conventional wisdom is inadequate, misleading, or incomplete.
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Quite some people lost there jobs

-Signed a guy who lost his job today :(
How is copyright anti-competitive? If you come up with an original work independently, why do competitor principles require ever letting someone else copy that work? We aren’t talking about limited resources here.
Thanks. That goes on my to-do list, then.
Sounds kinda like a ZFS.
I use Namecheap, but other providers offer it as well: free dyndns service with a domain - no monthly checkin required.
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One thing I think is important to point out is that Sweden has the highest percentage of people living alone of any country in the world, and it is much less common than, say, Italy to have older people living with younger people.

Similar to how NYC, the densest place in the US, has been hit so much harder than elsewhere, I think it does at least make a good argument that approaches should be regionally based.
Cases have not really plateaued.

The large graph in the article is very misleading because it's a type of 'epi curve', the reporting is late on the data points making it always 'seem like' it's tilting down, even if it never actually is.

With an epicure - you don't know until some time after the flattening that it has happened.

Daily cases are here [1]

It's inconsistent largely due to the cyclical nature of testing and reporting, but it's softly trending upwards.

Note of course that it's not exploding, however.

It'll be at least a couple of weeks before we see if it's plateauing.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
How did you approach incrementality? I have some experience in this area, and get frustrated when marketers talk in terms of ROAS/ROI, without discussing the return compared to other options.

The ultimate goal of the marketer is to use the most effective, scalable channels. The optimization isn't against a fixed goal (CPA), but against the entire universe of ways to spend each marketing dollar.
It is JavaScript, but it doesn't feel like JavaScript. What looks like a pure function isn't actually, and can do a different thing depending on where and when you run it, all hidden in some magic within the React library.
Sounds like a usecase for Bitcoin trading.
I just viewed the source to read the whole content.
Very cool, so I can choose my own impl. Does Tokio have a true competitor today? From my cursory look at some projects, Tokio shows up everywhere.
> It's interesting that the original appeal of React was that it was "just a view library", but now apparently it's more like a "language"

Well, it was prototyped in standard ml first[1], wasn't it? - then ported/re-implemented (shoehorned ;) into plain js.

So some things that sml has, and made sense in sml, had to become part of the library/language/framework that is react?

Later came reasonml (a ocaml dialect) which is a lot closer to sml than js - and I think the state handling reflects that, like the readme for reasonml variant of redux:

https://github.com/reasonml-community/reductive/blob/master/...

"The code behind Reductive is incredibly simple. The first 40 lines include the entire re-implementation of redux. The next ~40 lines are a re-implementation of the react-redux library (without the higher-order component connect style implementation)."

In a sense, react has always been a design pattern - and a library to support/enable that pattern in Javascript.

[1]
https://www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/jordan-walke#come-ide...
The latest Intellij-rust added debug supporting in IntelliJ IDEA. https://intellij-rust.github.io/2020/04/27/changelog-121.htm...

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> fork, and its maddening interaction with file descriptors

What's maddening?
Only if you consider a Moore Nanotech diamond-turning machine "not so specialist"...
People's lives are always at stake. That's how public policy works. Like 100% of the time. Try painting lines on the highway or administering a school lunch program without putting people's lives at stake.

The only thing novel here is completely abandoning the concept of public policy goals. There's nothing scientific about setting your public policy without any metrics at all. This is kind of the opposite of a scientific approach.
Low, medium, and high-frequency radio waves (below 30MHz, wavelengths longer than 10 meters) are a form of EM radiation. Which means that an antenna is 'transmitting' low-energy, long-wavelength photons. (Which gets us into the whole wavicle question.) But the signal from a radio station appears to be continuous.

So: how to picture this? Is the signal made of discrete 'photons' overlapping, or combined somehow? Or is it that the 'wave-like' aspect of these photons is so predominant at these frequencies? (I've grappled with this one for a long time.)
> an absolutely huge departure from vanilla JavaScript

Doesn't it just convert to React.createElement? I wouldn't call it absolutely huge.
I'm referring to SF's stay at home order:

https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs

"Everyone is required to stay home except to get food, care for a relative or friend, get necessary health care, or go to an essential job... If you need to get into a car or on public transportation to go for a walk or run, you’re going too far."
Great question. I'm not thinking about competing. All I care about is users and building a great library. I think the best way to advance the state of the ecosystem is by experimenting and shipping improvements. IMO Ideas are best shared as working code.

The Tokio team has been very active on that front. Recently, we've shipped a new strategy to improve the cooperative scheduler (https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption/), and a bunch of other new utilities (https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.12, https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/releases/tag/tokio-0.2.11).

Standardization can be extracted once proven. This is how `std::future` came to be.
In 2019 I lost nearly everything I loved, in the space of a week. I shook my fist at the cobalt sky, and hoped to die.
The rust plugin updated today with debug support for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
If people buy more vegetables then we all win
People aren't going to be able to pay their bills regardless of whether they're locked down by mandate or by choice. However, if we allow the low-risk population to continue working, they will generate tax revenue that can be used to provide for the high-risk population. From that perspective, lifting the lockdown for low-risk persons is strictly better for the high-risk population than maintaining a blanket lockdown.
I could see that. You're supposed to do that with aquarium filter media as well to flush out any manufacturing debris.
Is there any open source widely used implementation of multi paxos, because single paxos doesn't seem useful by itself.
Nowadays everyone's wrong on the internet, but that doesn't mean I want to read a book about it.
> If this worries you plant a Victory Garden now

Don't forget to tell your neighbors to stop using pesticides on their lawns. Per acre, Americans use 10x the amount on lawns as agriculture.
Sweden’s population is 10 million. They have had 2194 deaths as per the WHO’s latest data:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

The US has a population 328 million, or roughly 33 times higher. On the face of it with rough calculations their per capita death rate if it was the Us would be around 70k deaths vs the 40k deaths we have so far.

So I think it’s a good point you bring up.
> The Bay Area's r is probably under 0.8 at this point

Could you tell me where are you getting this magic number ballpark estimate from? (somewhere concrete, not just your gut and imagination)
What a strange and eerie coincidence... over a hundred years after yellow fever ravages 'Yellow Hook', One of the most concentrated areas infected with Coronavirus today is the neighborhood of Corona, Queens.
That's a really good point! If we can reduce R_t with widespread social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands etc. down to <= 2 we are in much better place and this app could seal the deal and we could just about eradicate the disease.

And even if we "only" drive R_t to almost 1 we can at least buy a lot of time for our healthcare workers, which is valuable.

Either way, I didn't mean to be that pessimistic. I think an ensemble approach is necessary. For now, general (easy to follow) shelter in place rules, followed by test and trace using these apps, and then targeted relaxation of the rules as we discover what we can reopen without causing a spike in R_t.