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If you were a member of the media and the President of the United States - of any party - suggested people try injecting bleach as a cure (for anything), what would you do?

What would you say about other politicians who implicitly supported such irresponsible behavior.

This isn't even a political question - I mean it's basic science. Bleach.
its possible that your ISP has a bad peering connection. Checking with your ISP usually helps understand what is going on.

It could be the bandwidth limitation of your ISP itself.

Sites like Github are slow when accessed from few countries. It's just that their servers are located mainly in the US(afaik).
Yeah, because you validate the writes across all files on the system.

Many people also swear that only bad programmers write C programs with memory corruption bugs.
I see, that makes more sense. It still doesn't explain what was going on before, but at least this thread doesn't seem to have the same issues previous threads seemed to have.
In any case, we can all agree that regardless of the value of the number, its "way too many fatalities". My family has lost several colleagues/classmates already. This did not happen in other years. This year is very different, and concerning.
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser is a title that covers some items on the list, although it’s general for writing non-fiction. It taught me to get rid of the fluff in sentences to make my writing more compelling.
Because it's Apple, not Google.

And because the drivers own their cars, and will want to be compensated for any alteration to the car. Just like they get compensated for hanging ads of their headrests.
Please don't ever post your passwords, even in jest. The web is filled with crawlers that scrape passwords and add them to vast password dictionaries to be used in cracking.
That is what you want to know? :D
> A 401K retirement plan is not a pension.

Are we both talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/401(k)?

"In the United States, a 401(k) plan is the tax-qualified, defined-contribution pension"
Surely before being bankrupt, a state would be forced to raise sales/income taxes?

At some point, those taxes would be so high, people would start leaving the state, and at the point of bankruptcy, the state would be a ghosttown.
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I could see value for self-driving/ride-sharing data collection for Google. Google wants to make a ride-sharing program, well has one now I guess, having all that data seems like a boon if Lyft is a cheap buy. They could also collect a lot of data for use with their self-driving research as well.
That’s a great list! One thing I would add is empathy. There seem to be a lot of great engineers who are also strong communicators, but still struggle with this.

For example, if someone encounters a problem when running or integrating code you’ve written, you will almost always get to the heart of the problem more efficiently and with less negative emotion if you start by demonstrating that you empathize with that person’s frustration. That’s true even if the issue ends up being something on their side of the line. Acting defensive in these situations is natural, especially if you feel that anger is being directed at you unfairly, but it tends to just get in the way of finding a solution.
I don't think that's the case at all. If there's any problem with the media, it has been overly deferential to power.

That's always been the case. But whatever one thinks of Trump, it's pretty obvious that his campaign and post-election behavior is fundamentally different than presidents in living memory. He has rewritten the rules. The media just hasn't been able to adapt successfully to that, and still often writes about him and his administration as if they're covering things in a different era.

Among many others, journalism professor Jay Rosen has long been making this point, and made it again recently on his blog: https://pressthink.org/2020/04/a-current-list-of-my-top-prob...
If you decide to make the jump, I found tsdx to be really useful boilerplate generator for getting started: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/tsdx
"Parental Income Has Outsized Influence on Children’s Economic Future"

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases-...

"Your ZIP Code Might Determine How Long You Live—and the Difference Could Be Decades"

https://time.com/5608268/zip-code-health/

"New U.S. Census Bureau Research Maps the Roots of Social Mobility"

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/opportun...
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This is like asking if one needs more than eggs and a pan to make a meal? Not if the meal is an omelette.

Can this be phrased differently by asking the other questions:

- What value can I deliver with what I already know?

- What things should I learn to overcome the difficulties encountered trying to deliver value (through a product) with what I thought was sufficient but clearly is not?

In other words, one wants to deliver value and start building a product as a vehicle of delivery with the skills they possess. At some point, the skills are insufficient to complete the vehicle to deliver value, and they either change the vehicle or acquire the skill.
How would you recover at all if your body weren't producing antibodies capable of killing it?
Since the extra words express the point more forcefully,
perhaps they were necessary after all :p
> This might be true but also sounds like it's spoken from a very privileged position.

What does "privilege" have to do with this conversation? The GP's comment is a prediction about business travel. He made no such prediction about personal travel.

> It's not only about tourism and business travel.

It is for the hotels and airlines. They make most of their profits on business customers who don't have time to count pennies because they have work to do. When I visit family on the other side of the planet the total cost is often times less than the cost of a week long business trip to New York.
I can't believe the performance of sshuttle is anywhere near Wireguard...?
Pretty curious: someone seriously disagrees this header should not exist? I'd really love to hear the arguments!
This has been hypothesized for some time, as it is a phenomenon seen in other respiratory viruses (indeed in other viruses in general) where your test is detecting a fragment of virus. These fragments persist after clinical recovery, and, combined with imperfect sensitivity/specificity of your test, can show a pattern of "re-infection": positive test during illness, negative test during/after recovery, then positive test again later.

The gold standard (sort of) for whether the actual virus is there is isolation and "culture" of virus from a swab using, say, a petri dish. But unlike (most) bacterial pathogens, this process is laborious, requires actual relevant cells (many bacteria just grow in goop like Agar) and is slow. (Alternatively you could just try to infect someone else! And if that second person can subsequently infect someone else, then you've shown the virus was there in the first person. And the second person. Sorry, second person.)

Empirically in hospitals we've been seeing a couple of patients retest "positive" but haven't seen any get sick or re-hospitalized, so that's also reassuring.
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The saying pilots generally have is "If you have time to spare, go by air"

Ok, going 40mi you have only so much weather than can go wrong, but I've had friends trapped at an airport due to weather, leave their plane and drive/fly commercial home. It's a fun hobby though. :D
Well yes - there was a civil war! And more recently, the national guard was used to enforce school integration. Things have been much more antagonistic between the federal government and the states at times in the past.
In theory only bad programmers write C code that corrupts memory, and yet it happens even in projects with top coders and multiple levels of code reviews.

Files are just memory in a different storage device.
Seems like this would make serology tests a lot more useful. I would really like to know if I've had it so I can know how at-risk I am (and consequently the risk I pose to others).
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That's not who's protesting with assault rifles demanding that their hairdresser show up to work

Again, it's easy to paint a group as a "type" to justify disregarding their viewpoint. There are opportunists at any large protest. Ultimately, the protest is a collection of individuals, each with their own story.

People who are "lower on the socioeconomic ladder" are the ones going on strike for PPE, hazard pay and sick leave that the media are dutifully ignoring.

Noted!
Adding to this, hooks make it much easier to pull related state management code out of the component. They help make state logic just as composable as UI logic.
Very few people in the United States have pensions.

Mainly pensions are available for state employees, or union members. And for that matter, state employees tend to be part of a union.

Unions are responsible for pensions, and the only people who have held onto them as the 401k has taken over.

Edit: Because I apparently can't reply to chriseaton below - 401k is defined contribution, you contribute $x which is a set amount and non-taxable. Pension is defined benefit; you receive $x, guaranteed, after x,y,z parameters are met (age, years experience, etc). They are not even slightly the same thing. Not even close.
Here have you seen a pension in the tech industry? 401ks are ubiquitous but no modern companies offer pensions
Don't forget that the government paid $3B to destroy 665k perfectly good cars in order to drum up demand for new cars.
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Is 0.00...1 times 34 equal to 0.00..1 times 3.4?
I don’t really understand what “no code” is. You can put up a storefront and conduct business without writing a line of code, simply by adding plug ins to Wordpress, calling out to stripe etc. The result is somewhat templatized and slightly generic looking but that’s great: your value comes from the content, as the author correctly describes, and the visitor will presumably understand navigation etc.

This kind of process has decades of predecessors, from dbs like Delphi, Excel, to Emacs in the ‘70s to (so it was claimed at the time) FORTRAN.

Is “no code” meant to somehow imply something more?
An advertising campaign to attract drivers is probably a lot cheaper than buying Lyft.
Isn't that exactly what Amazon is doing?
That's the ticket though: I suspect the entropy is really bad.

This is how encryption_key gets invoked: https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/blob/8ba0511e...

This is where the entropy is sourced from: https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/blob/8ba0511e...

The global secret comes from: https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/blob/8ba0511e...

self.key comes from gibbler.base(36): https://github.com/onetimesecret/onetimesecret/blob/8ba0511e...

At no point is anything touching /dev/urandom, which is how cryptography keys should be generated.

(Additionally, HKDF-SHA-256 should be used for splitting a master key into multiple sub-keys.)

I don't know if I want to file an issue for this on Github or not. Usually when the crypto is this bad, there's a lot of cargo-culting and I don't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with a vim-crypt style debate.
I think a 401(k) is a pension? Almost all companies offer a 401(k) for full-time employees.
The media's job is not to fawn over the president, actually. They are to report the news and tell the people when the president lies.

Therefore, they are doing a great job.

By the way, the most watched cable news is Fox News. I assume you aren't talking about them?
Your source has Massachusetts in the bottom 5, which lets you know right there it's laughable.

Never lived there myself, but I know for a fact they're consistently in the top 5 of contributors to the federal kitty of all states both nominally, and per-capita. They get almost nothing back compared to what they put in. They are, arguably, the largest contributor to the nation if we're considering individual burdens. And a top 5 contributor by outright total aggregate tax contribution.

Illinois and New Jersey, by total outright tax contribution, are also consistently in the top 5 of states that contribute to the federal government. (And I'm from Wisconsin. I hate Illinois. But facts are facts man.)

Hate to tell you, but your source is bogus as far as analyzing the biggest contributors to the national kitty.
> situation from 2018 until the pandemic was sustainable

Exactly. Many, most ?, were expecting a correction/recession even without any pandemic in 2019/2020. Now this massive shock is bound to shake everything up. I'm not going to use the D word but recession is a given.
Hope you don't get me wrong! But why is it so common to post about "I made X amount of money"? It's also very common to see on Youtube "How I made X amount of money". It usually attracts a lot of people, which seems to me that's why it's posted and it's mostly fake...
"Monolith -> microservices : difficult refactoring" I guess my point is that it doesn't have to be complicated if you architect the monolith carefully. That usually doesn't happen though because frameworks don't necessarily promote the practice and projects are short sighted.
Insomnia is great. This will be a great addition! However, it annoys me that the image showing the tool is not zoomable or clickable, so you can barely see what it's showing.
There is no issue here (except the one highlighted by joejev).

Many standard library functions return a pointer which they got as a parameter (or another pointer offset from it, as is the case here). The compound literal is no more "temporary" than a variable that was introduced right before the function call. Lifetimes of compound literals are specified in section 6.5.2.5 of both C99 and C11.

func((int[256]){ 0 });
// is mostly equivalent to
int __a__[256] = { 0 };
func(__a__);
The number of people in the US with defined benefit pensions is quite low and consistently falling.
As someone who has written about this previously [0], worked briefly in HFT before, and read dozens of papers on the subject, I can say with very high confidence that the results are not to be trusted. This paper, just like pretty much any academic paper on the subject, ends with a backtest on historical data, not a real system.

Not only is it (very!) easy to overfit backtests (especially with so little data they are using here), but backtests are nothing like the real world. In the real world there are HFT traders front-running you, latency, jitter, fees, hidden order types, slippage, and a lot of other complexities that don't fit into a short HN post. Whenever you see a paper ending with a backtest you can already assume it's BS.

It's similar to training a robot in an extremely simplified 2D simulation environment without physics or other interactions, and then claiming one has built a real robot. A mistake many people make is believing that trading is all about AI. But in reality, the model often matters less than infrastructure/latency/system/data issues.

In addition to that, people who are actually "good" at trading don't publish papers, they silently make money. Papers are typically published by academics or students who have never built anything profitable but would like to put a paper on their resume. I have yet to see a single good academic paper about trading.

[0] https://www.tradientblog.com/2019/11/lessons-learned-buildin...
Firefox with tree style tabs is on another level. Firefox also supports lazy loading tabs when restarted, so only pinned tabs and tabs you view consume resources.

I have nearly 1000 tabs open in Firefox and navigate them extremely efficiently. Does chrome do that?
> I doubt the political will exists to tax capital gains

A friendly reminder that capital gains is taxed (when it is realized).* I assume that you are actually complaining about closing loopholes that exist for avoiding paying the full rate.

* Obviously this comes with the caveat that the tax code is large with lots of "loopholes" (in quotes because they were mostly intentionally created). Capital gains losses are somehow socialized as tax deductions and the "carried interest loophole" allows certain fund managers to treat capital gains as a different class of income.
There's a Japanese Phase III trial ongoing or about to start, last time I checked.
Exactly. Lyft doesn't have anything they can't create for a lot less money. And if they buy it, they get a lot of headaches: legacy code, legacy staff, legacy relationships to partner and drivers.
Ride Austin is wonderful, but does not do the same thing that Uber and Lyft do. Namely: they're only in Austin.

Additionally, from their own site: http://www.rideaustin.com/faq

> How much has it cost to build RideAustin?

> The tech community contributed technology to power the app that costs millions to develop - but it also took over $7 million in cash donations and significant in-kind services donations to make RideAustin what it is today.

That is non-trivial.
Would love to give your images a try and would appreciate a bit more documentation. Certainly useful! Thank you.
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This was actually less complicated that I had expected it to be.
Very few professionals in the United States have pensions.
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for me it was 21 day bug for a broadcast video encoder, some internal frame counter was coded with int instead of int64. would reset every 21 days. fun to debug it was not!
Hi, I read about lancet trial in news actually ... it is not "powered" ... not enough patients. they say the wuhan virus went away before trial finish.
it's not even that viruses don't work that way, entropy doesn't work that way.
They're clearly using a different definition. In Cello, you are not passing a fat pointer ("a pair consisting of a pointer to the start of the array, and a size_t"), but a totally standard pointer that points to the second member of a packed struct containing a size_t and an array.

The difference is massive. Bright's idea would allow me to use existing interfaces with fixed structure: as long as I know the declared length of an array, I could pass a fat pointer to a function that accepts one. The Cello approach would require me to modify the interface to accommodate the new size header that is packed with the array. ABI break, not compatible with existing C code and libraries.

One could justify the name of fat pointer, the other is really just arrays with headers.
Nevertheless, it is a drug that has shown some positive efficacy in a real trial (the NIH one, I mean). IMO this is a significant step forward.

I hope other viable treatments emerge from the other trials on drugs set to close by June.
I really like the idea. However, the fact that I can only purchase it from the Mac App Store is a blocker for me, since I primarily use my work Mac, where I'm logged in w/ my work Apple ID. Seeing as there's no way to share or transfer apps between my work Apple account(s) and my personal Apple account, I'd have to buy two copies, which I don't want to do.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not arguing that covid only impacts old people, I'm saying 4 things (in general, maybe not the one particular quote above):

a ) covid won't destroy society in any case

b ) we cannot endure a lockdown until the disease is eradicated or a vaccine is produced

c ) a lockdown ended before the disease is eradicated or a vaccine is produced will just lead to a second wave of the disease

d ) the economic burden of the lockdown will increase exponentially as more businesses run dry

I don't want your uncle to be sick. But I'd rather your uncle get sick than have you, your wife, and your uncle lose your jobs; and then have your uncle get sick anyway.
good news ... i think then vaccine will work?
With respect, the story of both governmental and private sector response to COVID has almost universally been not being worked up enough.
So in order to have a business, you believe that you should have to cater to everyone regardless of what they do or say because otherwise you are censoring them?
I'm terribly sorry for your losses. It's an awful disease, and loss of life is terrible. It is indeed concerning, but if we can understand whether these fatalities are due to high morbidity or "simply" because it is highly contagious, we can make better decisions about treating the disease, setting policy, etc which can all drive down the amount of suffering and death. That's perhaps a small consolation to those who have lost friends and family already. :'(
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Your link supports the claim instead of debunking it. Off course they don’t physically print cash, but they increase the account balances.

The Fed adds to (or subtracts from) the amount of money in the economy by buying (or selling) U.S. Treasury securities and other financial instruments. This is referred to as “open market operations,” since these transactions take place in the open market. (The Fed isn’t allowed to buy securities directly from the U.S. Treasury.)

The Fed pays for those securities by crediting funds to the reserves that banks are required to hold, either cash in their vaults or deposits at a Reserve bank.

“So, in that sense, we can think of ‘printing money’ as adding reserves to the banking system,” said David Wheelock, vice president and deputy director of research.
It looks like their code is assuming a fixed commission of 20 rubles, which is apparently equivalent to US$0.27. Does anyone know if that's realistic? https://github.com/evgps/a3c_trading/blob/master/configs.py#...

Depending on how liquid the market they studied is, code that assumes there is never any slippage may not be very realistic.

There's no comparison to a simple buy-and-hold strategy, which may be less interesting from a computer science perspective but is a good way to avoid spending lots of money on transaction costs.

(I once posted my own algorithmic trading project to HN that had very flawed, naive assumptions about what trades could be executed.)
>investor quarterly reports

God forbid the needs of the user harm the interest of the investor.
What evidence are you using to show people have recovered who are still testing positive? What confirms that the positive test is false?

Can you provide some sources?
Well I was just pointing out there are other options besides removing content.
You can prove really good drugs quickly in a scientific sense, so you and I would be convinced.

But in the legal sense, my impression is that FDA never approves anything in under 2 years. Happy to be proven wrong!
The latest build fixes the install issue on windows. It turns out that one of the node modules had a really long path, causing it to exceed the max path length in windows.
> Your link supports the claim instead of debunking it.

The claim was that they "printed" money. They didn't!
Well, I learned the better technology (Pascal) rather than the popular tech (C), and then I could not find a development job
There are very few companies that offer pensions. A 401k is not a pension. A pension is recurring money that is given to you upon retirement in perpetuity. A 401k is just a means of investing your salary into the stock market pre-tax. Your employer does not even have to contribute to it although many if they offer a 401k plan offer some form of match up to x%. My last employer offered to match my contributions up to 6% my current employer offers no match. 401k and pension are very different.
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