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"This too will pass" -Captain Obvious

The US will eventually suffer a collapse, that seems like a safe bet. Then it will probably recover, become dominant again (at least somewhat), and collapse again. If we look at Rome, that cycle could continue for 500 years or more.

Wondering who is 'prepared' for a collapse is a weird way to think about it. If you are capable of taking steps to prepare for a collapse -- you wouldn't suffer a collapse.
I support resisting video, especially if the justices are shown while arguments are being presented. They should focus on listening, not thinking about how their facial expressions will be dissected on the Internet tomorrow.
A mutant coronavirus has emerged, even more contagious than the original
This "life always on the brink" preparedness is a major part of what's keeping poor European countries poor.

Everybody distrusts the government, they rely on each other, learn to do things themselves so they don't rely on others. So, money doesn't exchange hands, taxes don't get paid, GDP doesn't grow, more money doesn't get printed.

This is all in a very interconnected world with a mostly free economy, so outsiders just come and buy up everything because at the end of the day, money matters.

Instead of preparing for collapse, how about preparing for being united in work and life and start trusting and depending on each other more.
My (armchair) assumption is that we are still learning.

I'm reminded of the film, "The Andromeda Strain" (1971) — such an intelligent movie. Still feels cogent almost 50 years later.
That delta might be a lot smaller for workloads that need the higher memory bandwidth of the threadripper motherboards.
Running a car costs much more than people think
Much like smallpox isn't equivalent to a flu-like virus, polar bears aren't equivalent to bats/civets/pangolins in terms of how close they are to Atlanta. I don't know why you feel the need to exaggerate every time you compare to Wuhan, but it isn't interesting.
Thanks for the advice! I'll look at it all on the weekend.
I really don't care for their keyboards now. They used to be the best out there, but now they're... just... mediocre.
I'm glad someone has looked into but it doesn't confirm or deny much. They were -measuring mortality- against those already infected and those "instituionalized but asymptomatic". It doesn't seem to say anything about making symptoms milder for those that contracted covid-19 after taking supplements or for those who have already contracted, which is what I think OP was suggesting.
Well, that’s the thing: he’s not that original. He does know how to write enjoyable best sellers with mystic overtones.
They would be caught if this was submitted to the App Store. This applies to self-signed apps by those with a developer certificate.
I'm confused about why everyone is surprised that something that elicits an inflammatory response in the body can increase your risk of blood clots. Increased inflammation -> increased clotting in a number of diseases, not limited to coronavirus. A quick literature search reveals that this is the case for a other viruses and autoimmune diseases.

This was a particularly enlightening paragraph from StatPearls:
There is an interplay between inflammation and the coagulation system. Inflammation triggers a hypercoagulable state.[45] Endotoxin activates the complement system leading to thrombocytopenia and hypercoagulability.[46] The relation between inflammation and coagulation can be observed clinically in patients with purpura, vasculitis, and septic thromboembolism.[47][48] Coagulation helps to limit the expansion of infection, and some bacteria use fibrinolytic properties to oppose this response. Autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, polyarteritis nodosa, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inflammatory bowel disease, and Behcet's syndrome increase the risk of thrombotic events.[49][50][51] The cytomegaly virus (CMV) has correlations to atherogenesis through a change of the cellular lipid metabolism and leukocyte adherence.[52]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538251/
I've noticed multiple advertisements to invest in golf or food production robotics on Instagram, of all places, in the past week. I always wonder what kind of sucker invests into an Instagram advertisement.
How will the economy avoid shutdown when the virus is spreading like wildfire, people are terrified to leave their homes, and hospitals are overwhelmed?

The argument isn't that we can choose between economic shutdown or preventing the spread of the virus. It's that we choose between economic shutdown or the spread of the virus and economic shutdown.
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It's a cost saving measure justified by facilitating communication evoked by people who do nothing but "communicate" for a living.
This condition was observed in the UK and had similar symptoms as Kawaskai Disease:

>The cases have in common overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki Disease with blood parameters consistent with severe COVID-19 in children.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-national-alert-as...

Quite alarming. Not even all kids' immune systems can deal with SARS-CoV-2.
Go with the 3970X. Threadripper will be both cheaper and faster. It has between a 30%-50% clockspeed advantage, which should be fairly noticeable.

The 7502p is better in situations where you need more memory (either bandwidth or capacity) or you need to to consume less power (such as in a server deployment or a fanless case).
On Android the broadcasting bit is fine. But to effectively scan for advertisements you need to start a foreground service and actively scan for them continuously. That will keep the phone awake all the time and rinse your battery. It also don't really work very well because Android's Bluetooth stack is shockingly unreliable.

iOS is much much better. You can scan for iBeacons (a restricted subset of advertisements) continuously in the background and it works extremely well. Their Bluetooth stack is a million times faster and more reliable than Android's. But I'm pretty sure there is no way to scan for, or broadcast non-iBeacon advertisements in the background.

There are waaaay too many gotchas to do this reliably without OS support.
This article is about microservices. If you are not at scale you might not need microservices in the first place.

When data is distributed, one team/service owns user data and other tweets. It becomes not so trivial.
It wasn't Nintendo's CVS it was BroadOn's CVS. It was a third party Chinese company Nintendo allowed to produce Nintendo compatible hardware in China. They had access to a bunch of sdks and the source codes for the system to develop their hardware.
Maybe you should switch to a different programming domain. For example, embedded systems and security software tends to value correctness a lot more than e-commerce does.
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Impacted LineageOS too - https://twitter.com/LineageAndroid/status/125682105610016358...
Some nice insights on Google Meet's direction in 2020...
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Worth bearing in mind:

> This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.

> ...

> It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
That’s calling out a lack of formal trials providing evidence, not discrediting the data that is emerging.

Either way, they still recommend supplementing if deficient(which the numbers for people with IVD are quite high in most regions).
switchd living in userspace was in large part a result of the highly proprietary NDA's ASIC SDKs. Mellanox is making small (and welcome) steps in opening up by putting some functionality into their switchdev driver, but if you want a full feature set in 2020, you need their userspace SDK, which means switchd.

SAI, like OFDPA and OpenNSL before them (and a few more, can't even keep track anymore) are giant closed-source userspace binary blobs that Broadcom released to try (and fail) to mollify folks who want open-source networking. If you're serious about feature set and performance, there is unfortunately still no alternative to the proprietary NDA'd SDKs.
It probably sends your data to their server so you have the comfort of knowing your browsing history is being backed up.
This is a major deficit between Macs and every other kind of computer. It bugs me when people pretend others are about the same, or close, because they aren't.

I don't think it will be an easy problem to solve at all; Apple has been designing such things since the iPod, I imagine with a ton of in-house expertise (and probably patents, but whatever).

It's a tough situation, Apple has made this a table-stakes thing for many (such as myself), yet nobody else is doing it nearly as well. It barely registers as a feature when you have it, but when you don't, it's a real pain.
Another option is to overclock the ram. Mine is rated for 2400 MHz and works fine up to 2666. It still 'runs' at 2800, but I get maybe 2-3 correctable ECC errors in an hour.

But I'm of course not suggesting to run it in this state whil doing anything important.
They've been taking notes from Medium I see
WP is not in anyway static (without plugins) and you will quickly realize that when your site deals with a non-trivial amount of traffic and it completely seizes up.

WP hasn't been a good choice for small business owners for a long time - web security is hard, and hardening a WP install is not simple. There's a ton of options out there that do everything WP does without the overhead: squarespace, weebly, wix, shopify, etc.
To put this in perspective: even responded to, covid has the capacity to double the amount of deaths per year, compared to normal. That is rather higher than alcohol.
No.

* Data races using normal memory access function are impossible in safe code, and undefined behaviour in unsafe code. So unsafe code attempting this is incorrect.

* Data races using atomic types are possible in safe code. Some of the setup code might be unsafe internally while presenting a safe API (e.g. creating shared memory and giving you an `&[AtomicU8]` to that memory).

* Other race conditions (mostly non-deterministic order of lock acquisition) are also possible in safe code. The typical example of this is that writing to the console from multiple threads uses locks on individual write calls, which prevents torn writes but the order of those write outputs in non deterministic.
Good investigative reporting into shady business practices good for this world.

However short selling companies before dropping your investigation is a massive conflict of interest. Muddy waters is incentivized to produce a scandalous hit piece, rather than necessarily do fair or accurate reporting. They will make money regardless. The damage their reporting does may make a self-fulfilling prophecy, ensuring they don't get a reputation hit for inaccurate scoops.

I'm surprised the economist didn't even include a nod to the potential manipulation going on here.
first, answer the question, the explain why sharing the document this way is a problem. if this never happened before, let it go with a warning (if the rules allow that, otherwise apologize and follow the rules that apply to you in this situation)
> when those fail

Then make them not fail. If it's as important as a rifle, you make sure the failure rate is as low as possible/acceptable, right?
> The fact that you refer to it as a magic number implies that this at best wishful thinking.

I agree. It is wishful thinking at the moment but it isn't entirely unreasonable. This is about individual income tax and not corporate income tax (which is a completely different thing altogether which I can't tax like individual income even in my make-believe world [0]).

I think individual income tax changes I propose are very reasonable.
I'd say if you are wealthy, my proposal is very much preferable to a wealth tax.

[0] For example, according to https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/financials?ltr=1 the trailing twelve months, Walmart total revenue was ~523B, cost of revenue ~394B, and the most important bottom line, income before tax was only ~$20B. Ideally, we should be taxing revenue with no regard to expenses but there is no good way I can think of to do that other than drastically decreasing the tax rate to max out at about 2% so this is a different discussion altogether and likely not very fruitful.
Hello HN!

Monitoro is a project of mine that I shared in HN quite some time ago to a warm reception. The goal behind it is to democratize everyone's access to data by making it easy to extract data from websites. It still required some technical understanding of webhooks and some Javascript.

Quite recently, I managed to make it so effortless it doesn't require tech skills or more than 30 seconds to get started.

I would love to hear your thoughts on it, any feedback is welcome!
(and if you want to try it out hit me up at omar@monitoro.xyz for some HN freebies)
They’re touched much less often than most software, but even older games would occasionally share engines and stuff. Games these days often have DLC.
Within the last six months I've developed arthritis in both my hands (and ankles). Each morning when I wake up both of my hands are stiff like they've been in ice water.

My right index finger which I use for scrolling using my mouse scroll wheel (and typing). when I bend in in the morning my index finger it will make a snapping noise. None of my other fingers make the snapping noise.

The odd thing is it isn't the joint. If I bend my fingers in the morning and my index finger snaps you'd think it was the joint. I experimented and cracked my index knuckle after it made the snap and the knuckle snapped.

Anyway that's a tale of my bizarre life somewhat related to this topic.
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Still atrocious touchpad experience? If you discount the constant jumping around, which I experienced on every precision driver touchpad I have used (about 4, including a Macbook. Are MS complete idiots or is this another one of the problems normal people don't notice?!?!?!?!) my experience with them has actually been very good.
The response is way more direct than on Linux and quite precise as well. Application support for scrolling is not great, but not horrible either (browsers, more popular MS apps and JetBrains IDEs work).
Amusing scenario however don't expect it to be a significant risk - any wireless system would most probably perform negotiations before beaming out any significant amount of power. You want that to avoid damaging sensitive electronics, overheating a random chunk of metal, or plainly wasting energy.

Even the good old Qi wireless charging standard does negotiations, tho those aren't secured by any means.
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Creating a set of whitelisted sites that this would work on is a better approach than other extensions like Grammarly have used in the past (not sure if they still do) and grant access to all browsing. However, this specific whitelist is such a weird combination of sites. It includes numerous financial and banking sites, porn sites, and e-commerce sites. Those are exactly the type of sites that I don't think you want on a whitelist as they are going to be full of information that people want private. This should probably be limited to sites with a lower likelihood of compromising data like news sites and potentially social media sites.
I don't disagree with anything you said. I also understand that the "skip" you refer to probably is fun for people that don't have traditional musical experience. That's fine. However, anyone who thinks that typing start & stop into a terminal or text editor to trigger loops is MORE CREATIVE than playing a musical instrument is wrong.
> What would actually make the world a better place is if we recognized that we're really just well paid technicians

I couldn't agree more. It's quite tiresome to constantly hear about techbros somewhere "solving problems", "changing the world", achieving "disruption" yadda yadda yadda. You're building apps and websites, that's just about it. It just sounds unprofessional to describe yourself any differently. What's wrong with just being properly on-task as a well-oiled cog in some huge collective machinery?
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After mucking around a bit, I found this doc[1] which worked pretty well for me on Ubuntu 19.10. There is also some effort underway to build an appimage on their forums[2].

[1] https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi/blob/master/INSTALL-LIN...

[2] https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-as-an-appimage/274...
Yes, but you seemed to hit on an important point - the questions inform how the case will be judged. The questions themselves, not the answers.

Generally speaking, it seems that the outcome of a case is pretty much decided before oral arguments are even presented. They seem to be treated as an opportunity for the Justices to fill in any unanswered questions and check their assumptions.
I know you’re referring to Bush v. Gore and the 2016 electoral / popular vote inversion, both of which benefited Republicans. We’re there any scenarios in recent history of the sort that benefited Democrats? I can’t think of any.

That said, the solution to both of these is to abandon the Electoral College. This can be done either by Constitutional amendment, or by the agreement of a certain number of states [0].

What it wouldn’t fix is the huge body of campaign and election law and regulations that make it so there will always be exactly 2 major parties, starting with first past the post voting [1]. While Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem [2] practically guarantees we will have some paradoxical outcomes if we have 3 or more parties, even if we eliminate first past the post, I believe first past the post is one of the most anti-democratic practices we have in this country.

Finally, while this isn’t really a hard fact, it seems to me that parliamentary forms of government tend to last longer than presidential governments. Changing this in the US would be near impossible, requiring a Constitutional amendment, but it seems to me it is our best hope of lasting another 200 years.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
The article discusses public transportation as an alternative to vehicle ownership. Since this took place in Germany, this probably makes sense. From what I've heard, the public transit system in Germany is pretty great.

I wish public transportation were an option where I live. I hate owning a car.
Robin Newman has just released today a Sonic Pi 3.2.2 deb file for Ubuntu 20.04, see: https://twitter.com/rbnman/status/1257673599755915265

He notes this deb will NOT be suitable for Ubuntu 18.04.
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Grenades are designed to explode only after the pin is pulled. That's a little different than getting a nick in your battery and suddenly looking like a LiveLeak vape fail video writ large. That being said, there's plenty of work being done on batteries that aren't also incendiary devices waiting for their moment to shine.
If you stick with 1 or 2 GPUs and common mainstream motherboards, more recent Linux distro (Ubuntu 20.04). You will be fine. The most problem I had is due to the "high-end" motherboard.
Yup. You can basically write your own language with different syntax and get python to treat it like any other python code. Hy is a language which works this way: https://github.com/hylang/hy (see this part of their documentation for how the user can use this: https://docs.hylang.org/en/master/language/interop.html#usin...)

I think goto has been implemented in a few different ways in python. Here's another example which abuses existing syntax and edits the bytecode of the function after its compiled: https://pypi.org/project/goto-statement/
Has anyone had any luck getting this running on a non-Raspbian Linux distro?
I said "exaggerated example". And the cruise had a hugely disproportionate number of elderly people, which skews the "random" sample.

So yes, it's media sensationalism.
I genuinely don’t get what the big deal about function keys are. I never used them heavily, even on external keyboards. I actually transitioned to external keyboards that don’t have them, to save space.

The only key that’s useful on that top row is escape, IMHO. They should make that a key. Everything else is low utility.
Fwiw, the latest fedora manages to make the carbon's trackpad feel as good as a macbook: Might be worth trying it out.
According to the literature I have read, there is no evidence that Its mutating rapidly, nor is there multiple distinct strands. The increase in strokes is real, but your risk if you are <60 years old of having one is still vanishingly small. We don’t know much about the virus, nor will we for a while. Knowing things is hard, science takes a long time. We still don’t fully understand many of the pathogens that have been around for all of our collective lifetimes, so you shouldn’t expect us to be able to fully characterize one that just showed up a few months ago. What we do know from places which have been hit very hard, like bergamot is that if you are less than 60 your chance of dying from the virus is about the same as that of your risk for dying in a year, which if you are young and don’t have co morbidities is a very small number.
No one has mentioned Finite and Infinite Games.
I enjoyed reading your response. Stripe definitely is beautiful and well polished. To be honest, Source Hut looks aesthetically ugly. I just feel that that Stripe's design isn't "great" by any means. To me a high benchmark of excellence in design is from print mediums, specifically, Josef Muller Brockmann and Elliot Noyes. They made print design (before we had digital screens) unadorned and highly functional.
I think a lot of people miss this point entirely. Before the unit test thing, I would always have a tester project, it just wasn't formal or automated.

I see good value in modern unit tests when you are building some sort of automation engine, rules engine, etc. But I think a lot of people see them as a hammer and everything is a nail.
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I had the opposite experience. Jemalloc uses a lot less (virtual) memory, especially with multithreaded applications.
The glibc allocator wastes quite a lot of memory mappings from a thread and never cleans them up even if a thread only had a burst of allocations (there is an upstream bug open about, they don't consider it a leak)
What makes Palantir different than any other software vendor that sells to the government?

Want to know how a lot of that data is generated? Microsoft excel. Arguably without excel there would be less data to act abusively with. If only Microsoft just refused to sell excel to the government.

People are happy to accept that excel is general enough that it isn’t made for that one purpose, but refuse to apply the same reasoning to Palantir; that may seem like whataboutism, but they genuinely are comparable tools if you take away the marketing and fear mongering.

As for your analogy, it’s more like you own shop that makes metalworking tools, and someone buys some. You don’t know what they are going to do with it, and (here’s where it gets opinionated) you shouldn’t need to care. You sold a tool to someone. Can the tool be used to make a gun? Sure. But it can also be used for anything else involving metal work. At some point we need to accept that the responsibility for how a tool of used needs to be placed on the person using it.