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I agree that what matters most is UX and battery life, but these are not fixed and are actually pretty malleable, otherwise the only thing that would beat a mbp could only be next year's mbp.

I had a laptop with terrible battery (desktop replacement) and it was great for my use. I also have a xps13 and it's great. I also had a mbp15 and it was great too. As you guessed, I had a different use case for each.

If I had to spend my money, would probably be the Acer as long as battery was ok.
All true. And in addition, we got to see the reactions of a large number of insiders, which changed the way a lot of us think about Google. If you haven't read the internal list captures, you owe it to yourself to do so.
There is already a congestion charge in London that makes driving prohibitive for people on lower incomes.
Not too many. I mostly "visit" sites using RSS. https://lobste.rs/ is another one of similar sites to Hacker News that I end up on very often.
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This is a very nice piece of work, and I think very important: it shows that it's very much possible to make slick interfaces without using javascript/web technologies. It's also just as hackable as something like vscode or vim. I hope there's a shift back to native or semi-native applications as opposed to web-based stuff. It's certainly not perfect yet (it has some scaling/rendering issues and is slow to open large files), but is still a pretty great start. My two cents.
Ok, I suppose we all have our priorities and biases. I can see how being able to feed for one's family can feel more urgent than being able to exercise their freedoms.

Perhaps the (late) CCP deserves credit for improving economy, infrastructure, efficiency and quality of life, to the extent that it did. And for being less cruel than its predecessors.

It is just that from the perspective of westerners, it is hard to judge positively a government that still has no respect for individual freedoms and private aspects of people's lives -i.e. looking the social score system, it is a step to the wrong direction.

My worry is that if the Chinese people become complacent and just feel grateful that they have more prosperity than before, the day where they are able to enjoy the freedoms that every person deserves will be far. And that, if they are not used to having free access to information and being in control, it will be more likely for someone less peaceful than the current CCP leadership in the future to start a war or something.
Microwave based power transmission systems do not rely on the photovoltaic effect for the conversion of the energy in the beam into electricity. Instead you use something called a "rectifying antenna" or rectenna which can be 85-90% efficient[1]. If you put 1000 watts of power down on a square meter of a rectenna you could pull 850 to 900 watts out of it.

Most of the proposed space-based solar power systems (SSPS) posit a reasonably large rectennas (like maybe 10 - 20 acres or 4 - 8 hectares) sized fields.

The challenge is to make the field low enough density such that things flying through it aren't harmed by it. Fortunately energy density falls off with the square of the area so if you have a enough open space you can make it arbitrarily low power per square foot or meter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna
even with OpenCL I find FPGA's extremely complicated to program on

it doesn't help that Intel is charging $5,000 licenses to compile on them, for some things
So, nostalgia really no longer is what it used to be.
A similar approach was used in this tool, whose writeup I found quite interesting: https://devblog.dnanexus.com/faster-bam-sorting-with-samtool...

Background: "samtools," a tool meant for processing multi-gigabyte genomic alignment data, uses a sort algorithm basically the same as `sort`. This fork instead jams the data into Facebook's RocksDB, and then extracts it back out.

Speedup ranged from 1.2x to 5x, with bigger input files and slower disks seeing the most gains.
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My question is what R0 looks like in a city with mass transit vs without. The subway in NYC is huge and puts so many people together in close contact every day.

Is it outrageous to think R0 could be 3.5 in NYC but 1.5 somewhere else?
This causes a whole lot more people to be hospitalized with severe illness. Severe illness tends to result in morbidity even if you survive.

A fair number of people with SARS-CoV-1 ended up with chronic fatigue ailments, etc, afterwards, too.

We don't know, but there's almost certainly going to be more lasting morbidity from this epidemic than the common cold. If it's a little bit, it doesn't change the calculation much. If 1/4th of those hospitalized develop significant morbidity though, that sucks.
- Bayesian interpretation would use what we do know about viruses in general, coronavirus specifically, anD sars/Mers as the prior.

Has anyone here done the research that we can use as a reasonable prior? My assumption was those diseases all produce long lasting antibodies.
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Depends on your browser/os, search "reader view" for Safari or Firefox. Looks like for Chrome you have to install an extension.
Thanks, I just found the perfect example to illustrate too:

https://twitter.com/RepJoeKennedy/status/1258900004623835136
The UK is a largely rural country.

No it isn't.

83% urban: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rural-population-...
> These are states where people take pride in driving big gas guzzling trucks and the government supports them in that.

Stereotypes like this are ridiculous.

Do these people exist in those states? Absolutely.

Do they also exist in California too? Definitely.

This type of blindness is so prevalent in California it's staggering. I had a friend who was (rightly) furious about North Carolina's homophobic legislation and declared "That kind of thing would never happen in California."

We stood there blankly looking at each other for a moment until I mentioned "But California passed Prop 8."

Of course he had a rationale. But how quickly we are to see the exception or nuance for "us" but never for "them."

We need to remember the plural of annedoate is not data.
Low percentage of men is nuanced, low percentage of women is racist.
Crab bucket mentality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
Stumbled on the below - just denying covid is the cause of death is another angle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/coronavirus-d...
Off-topic: Maybe it's just me, and this is not important in the least, but I have been always slightly irritated by the use of the term "proton" in chemistry which they use to denote the (positive) hydrogen ion. Two reasons: unlike "electron", the term "proton" belongs in physics exclusively and not chemistry which only deals with point-like nuclei carrying mass plus an electric charge, and the electron cloud; the other reason was that just like many - if not most - chemical elements, hydrogen has several isotopes, and it is conceivable that at least some of the ions may have a neutron in its nucleus.
If there isnt a name for this there needs to be, somehow being a 'tragedy of commons', while being 'economy of scale' at the same time. The more smart people go into finance, the bigger finance gets, the more jobs in finance there are, the more job security and competition in finance, the fewer opportunities outside of finance, the economy becomes woefully lopsided and crucial industries like domestic manufacturing are crushed. Maybe it's just called 'late stage capitalism.'
I'm really hating this phrase "The New Normal". I find it weirdly sinister.
"Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives."

There have also been reports of people in China with significantly reduced lung capacity even months after recovery. Still so many scary questions about the long-term effects of this virus, possibly the biggest ones being about the post-recovery immunity. How long does the immunity last and how encompassing is it?
Thats easy: if you are politically left leaning it is price gouging, if not then it is supply and demand.
No excuses for that! Assuming the game publisher wants to pay for developer time to do the fixes, generally that doesn't happen until the hackers are obviously affecting the bottom-line.
You can find two bookies with different odds, such that the expected value would be in your favor. I however did work for a company combating this,by alerting the bookies about such opportunities so that they adjusted their odds.
Sure, you can also not wear seatbelts or bike helmets. It’s a free country.
This seems pretty reasonable. Fuel-grade ethanol probably has other stuff in it that may or may not be safe. The FDA doesn’t want people rubbing it on their hands until the factories demonstrate that it’s safe.
Observation of YouTubers: if they have a website, they rarely if ever link or mention it.
Interesting that it uses SDL. It would be nice if Vim or Emacs had an SDL backend, so it could be used on more esoteric platforms. I remember there being a distinct desire for a good homebrew text editor for the Switch.
An initial review of immunity/reinfections with coronaviruses suggests we shouldn’t be optimistic about the duration of immunity:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long...
The German hospital Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE) performed more than 190 autopsies of patients who died with COVID-19. In a study (where they covered the first 12 cases) they found an unusually high number of of thromboembolic events. Therfore they are now recommending a prophylactic heparin treatment (a commonly uses blood thinner to prevent thrombosis), even for ambulantory care.

Here is the study:
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2765934/autopsy-findings-...

And for those who speak German, here is their press conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvH3mG-v0Ms
From Technopoly (1992) by Neil Postman:

In the United States, we have 260,000 billboards; 11,250 newspapers; 11,556 periodicals; 27,000 video outlets for renting video tapes; more than 500 million radios; and more than 100 million computers. Ninety-eight percent of American homes have a television set; more than half our homes have more than one. There are 40,000 new book titles published every year (300,000 worldwide), and every day in America 41 million photographs are taken. And if this is not enough, more than 60 billion pieces of junk mail (thanks to computer technology) find their way into our mail-boxes every year.

From millions of sources all over the globe, through every possible channel and medium — light waves, airwaves, ticker tapes, computer banks, telephone wires, television cables, satellites, printing presses — information pours in. Behind it, in every imaginable form of storage — on paper, on video and audio tape, on discs, film, and silicon chips — is an ever greater volume of information waiting to be retrieved. Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, we are awash in information. And all the sorcerer has left us is a broom.

Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems. To say it still another way: The milieu in which Technopoly flourishes is one in which the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose.

All of this has called into being a new world. I have referred to it elsewhere as a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable world. It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies. We tell ourselves, of course, that such accomodations will lead to a better life, but that is only the rhetorical residue of a vanishing technocracy.

We are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even wonder how to control the process. We proceed under the assumption that information is our friend, believing that cultures may suffer grievously from a lack of information, which, of course, they do. It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.
Look forward to seeing this evolve. Very fun project. Commenting to save for later. Thank's.
I am worried about this disease. I am perhaps even more worried that I can't calibrate how worried I am supposed to be.

Case in point 'There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more.' Taking 'hundreds of thousands' to be 500,000 and 'number of people worldwide' to be 8,000,000,000, we get 0.006% people with long term adverse side effects. This is much less than 1% we assume are going to outright die. Is this ballpark even remotely accurate? Do we have reliable clinical / epidemiological data to ballpark this number? Do models have any credibility left after being adapted on-the-fly by an order of magnitude or more?

As of the Grand Princess / 6 divers scenarios, something doesn't add up. Either 50% of people [in context, 4 billion] are going to end up with serious long term oxygen deficiency or not. If this is indeed the case, I don't understand why the medical community doesn't explain in more stern terms the severe [Black Death lite] long term implications. Given the implied severity, why don't we have a Manhattan project to replicate these studies, in every single developed country out there? Drop everything else you are doing, pick a 10,000 sized city with a sizeable outbreak and CT everyone in that city, repeatedly. Send the Army if you have to.
How much time have you spent working around MacOS bullshit?
I think stop paying attention to the hate is the best thing to do. There is a mindset right now to think of these problems as completely technical ones, I.e. “it’s easy to do server validation and anyone who doesn’t do it is a dumbass”, but there are very real limitations in regards to money and time.

It’s like some engineers are forgetting that most problems faced when programming are not technical.

I started my career developing on a real time OS, learning from people in industry for 20-30 years. I’ve since transitioned you something “higher level” and more web/server focused and a lot of the foo spat out like this is complete BS.

When developing on a real-time OS the only problems I faced was a simple product story (we are building this to solve X problem), and a simple technical problem (build a system which uses under 1% CPU to do X).

When developing these other products though suddenly there are many other considerations to take into place. I appreciate that you bring up latency concerns in multiplayer games, it can be the biggest downer to play a competitive FPS game where players have wildly different pings.

There is truth that we’ve coded ourselves into a corner of complexity and that we there are much efficiency gains to have in terms of output and program efficiency. But it’s willful ignorance to think that is the only problem or that it is trivial to solve, or even that the people involved in a project don’t think about this all the time.
Did you tell him about the new framework called http://vanilla-js.com/? : )
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Sorry that's how you saw it. I was trying to start a conversation and tried to present my material in the best light achievable in a couple of days of side work with some assistance. It certainly wasn't my intent to capture customers but rather hear from hackers about what I'm trying to lay out and whether it jives with how they think of tech, the web, and how to build things together.
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It's always fun to read these kinds of stories.

But still in the end, if you distill it all down, doesn't it always come out to the conclusion:

If your potential winnings are capped (fair or not, by the casino), and your losses are unlimited, what is gambling but a slower way to lose a bunch of money while getting a little entertainment out of it? At least for those of us who are not going to become professional card counters...
That could possibly be a result of the image compression as well, no?
"lower than the classical level" would be a nice way to make the submission title make sense and be a complete sentence.
This article is discussing the hope that immunity lasts forever, and I agree there's no reason to believe that. The important question is whether it's shorter than a year or two - we're developing other strategies to handle the virus on timescales beyond that.
Bonkers indeed. An interesting point of comparison is this "interview" with Prince, written over the course of months by the writer tapped to write his memoirs [1]. It seems that Prince and Little Richard both had an extravagant overflowing creative instinct that just...dazzled people. As someone whose personality tacks way more toward clear and consistent structured logic, it's interesting to see.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-book-of-pr...
They don't lose interest like it's some unstoppable force of nature on a timer. They lose interest if the harm caused by the disease is either low or contained. As long as the world continues to experience significant death, impact on the health care system, and economic damage... there will be interest in a vaccine.
“Let’s be clear: Without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again. The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide.”

Worldwide? It is fair to expect this will take years.

In the mean time what does normalcy look like? Sweden?
That interesting. I guess it’s something you wouldn’t know if you didn’t spend much time playing blackjack, but for others reading: casinos are usually open about identifying people counting. For example, Barona casino, which had some of the most favorable tables for counting in the country for years, will call checkplay if you spread more than 8 times the minimum bet. A pit boss will walk over and literally obtain the count from the cards in the discard tray. This is more of an intimidation tactic, as you likely won’t get banned right there if the count is high, but you will have your account marked (when that occurs, your watched every time you sit down at a table). Sometimes the dealer will even call check play based on your play, though this is rare and against the interest of the dealer (as they want tips).

Having a marked account definitely makes for some interesting plays, as you’ll have to work to deceive the pit boss that you’re not counting (Eg randomly betting large spreads when you know the count is low).
FPGAs can achieve very compelling performance when programmed properly, but usually not for compute bound workloads. Most interesting problems are memory bound these days, and that's where FPGAs shine, since you can design your hardware to be as wide as your problem. Or alternatively if you have many parallel sub-problems, you can make your hardware as narrow as the sub-problems and replicate it many times.

You can usually move data on and off chip very quickly also, since high end modern FPGAs have many hundreds of pins. Generally these get connected in to hard-logic like fiber networking or PCIe.

An FPGA soft core is never going to beat an ASIC if both were designed well. But they can beat general purpose ASICs (e.g. GPUs) for certain classes of problems, mostly those where you can exploit the massive memory bandwidth of the FPGA.

I think that for rendering computer graphics, you really just want a big fat pile of FPUs. FPGAs will usually have a number of hard logic DSP blocks on-die, but nowhere near as many as a GPU. If rendering 3D graphics is the problem you want to solve, you probably really want a GPU.
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This low-carb version of stuffed cabbage is just as satisfying as the original. The secret: cauliflower rice. Homemade riced cauliflower is extremely easy, but you could also buy it pre-made.

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It does change the economic break even point a little bit. If intervention A reduces infection count 10% in the time to a vaccine, whether it's worth it depends upon whether it prevents 20,000 deaths, or 20,000 deaths and 40,000 long term illnesses.

The threshold to herd immunity depends upon contact rate. So interventions well short of "lockdown" may not completely prevent the spread of the virus but still reach equilibrium at a lower number of people infected.
So provide a sliver of this evidence. You keep alluding to it, but your story doesn’t correspond to the CDC’s own statements, nor the initial review of coronavirus immunity durations I linked.
State-level State of Emergency declarations activate "price gouging" statutes, which have almost no way of including a pulse oximeter. The price gouging statutes are often codified to last 30 days, because if the state of emergency lasts longer than 30 days then something much much bigger must be occurring, something far outside the capabilities of that state. It looks like the legislatures were accurate.

There is no reason to pay attention to any price gouging idea or statute anymore. There is a market price and that's it.

If the state really wants to disrupt a market to alleviate cost pressures on their consumers, then they can subsidize over a particular price if it wishes.

There is no interstate price gouging statute so basically any online merchant can conform any price around a different state's price gouging statute. When you see the Federal Government saying they are investigating price gouging, it doesn't mean anything, the Feds just extend enforcement resources to help a state enforce state level laws, which often don't apply to anything that's actually happening.

When the state of emergency lasts forever you just have a market.
That's quite a moderate price increase compared to face masks. In January the price for a single surgical mask was about 6 Eurocents. Now you will pay about a Euro, if you are lucky.
Thanks for your comments--I'm curious about real estate funds and have been looking into REITs, but your point about what happens when things open up is a good one. I've been looking at Fundrise and similar services but I have such a knowledge gap about real estate that I'm not sure I could make smart decisions on individual funds. I'm willing to tolerate some risk, but need to get smart on the involved issues first.