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If they were to have a revolutionary technology that they haven't released yet, they'd release it as soon as their OEM and enterprise sales actually started to take a nosedive. Even though PC enthusiasts are outspoken about it, Intel is still doing just fine in their much higher-volume areas.
I liked here. It feels more efficient when the illustrations or photos are not a parallel reading exercise. Where you're never quite sure when to read the photo caption or end up with it just repeating what you've already read in the body.

You could do that without the weird scrolling stuff, but I thought it worked well here. I will resort to reader mode if it gets annoying.

I do worry a little bit about archival challenges, however. Not sure that we'll be able to replicate the full experience as browsers continue to evolve and change.
I think you meant economists. People working in finance are usually under no illusion of whether the market prices in all the information at a given time, and are rather focusing on who does what.
Shopify seems to be working towards exactly this, and recently announced their new Shop app: https://www.shopify.com/shop

It only includes Shopify sellers, and of those only the ones that choose to be listed on Shop, but with the Shop app and their new fulfillment network, I think Shopify is currently best positioned to become a real threat to Amazon.
This isn't really a garbage collection problem. Any runtime using the same basic code would allocate system-crushing amounts of RAM, which is a problem on its own regardless. This will cause other problems for other memory allocation techniques, such as this being a great recipe for fragmenting all of your RAM, and still having a fairly slow deallocation process due to sheer number of objects being churned.

The real problem here is that where a streaming parse is called for, a parser that fully manifests all the objects in RAM was used. Streaming parsers remain relatively rare.

(It's actually a legit advantage of the XML library infrastructure; they're readily available there, though typically you'll be using them directly because the libraries that build further layers of abstraction on parsing often concretely manifest everything in RAM anyhow....)
I have a really good friend who works for one of the bigger hospital networks in Michigan. He says they are fortunate to have jobs because even though their hospitals are all empty. He told me staff isn’t being let go or furloughed for now but the staff spends their shift walking around and cleaning things. Even without rooms and equipment being used. Just to stay busy.
Depending on which country you're talking about, maybe it's also about having a humane and compassionate healthcare system.
I’m not sure leaving is the best thing though, unless it’s high profile or a large group. If people leave in a trickle then others will replace them that won’t have that conscience.
In principle this makes sense; you shouldn’t be able to harass the county clerk with lawsuits as they implement laws duly passed by state legislators. There are other mechanisms to challenge laws.

The problem comes into play with lethal force, and how transparently thin the excuses tend to be. Qualified Immunity defenses hinge on there being a specific law and precedence that the cops must have known about before doing something illegal, a gross perversion of the principle that “ignorance of the law is no defense”. This leads to clearly unjust situations where cops get away with killing citizens or destroying their property, because there wasn’t sufficiently narrow case law to overcome qualified immunity.
Current prices reflect the ongoing monetization of gov and corporate debt. If the Fed today announced they will refrain from any further QE then markets would really fall.
It might not be. But we can’t count on that either, given that shorter timeframes are common for many coronaviruses. It would be very foolish to act yet on an assumption that immunity lasts years.
Please don't shut these down, we might need them eventually. This is only inning 1 of the next 2 to 3 years.
The article is presenting this as some sort of scandal, that we spent a lot of money to urgently build things that we didn't end up needing. This way of thinking about things is why we are generally not well prepared for unlikely disasters: most work you put in will not be needed.

Instead we should see this as really positive: we were working to make sure that if stay-at-home (which has cost far more than $600M) didn't work we would have space to treat people, and then we kept the infections low enough that we didn't need to use it.
I have a great story about generating word searches. I once got an angry email from a superintendent at a school district in Washington state using my algorithm. He said 'the generator inserted the phrase "killanigger" in the middle of the word search. This is obviously intentional on the part of the programmer since the odds of a phrase of this length being generated randomly is exceedingly small.'

I was very confused because I had implemented a bad word filter which I knew worked (it was the most interesting part of building a word search). And obviously, I didn't hard code that string in my program!

I asked to see the offending puzzle. Upon inspection, I found that the word search contained the word "ORIGINAL". When reversed for the word search it is "LANIGIRO" (which contains the substring "NIGIRO"). The start of another word - "LAW" - was placed next to "LANIGIRO" (by random chance) creating the string "LLANIGIRO". The two preceding randomly chosen letters were "K" and "I", forming the string "KILLANIGIRO".

I explained it to the superintendent, and all was well again.
Humans can have a beneficial impact on the environment too, by terraforming and making the land more productive.

There's some evidence that the Amazon mix of fruiting tree and nut species were selected for by humans.

"The Supposedly Pristine, Untouched Amazon Rainforest Was Actually Shaped By Humans"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untou...

Since some people us this as political grounds for eugenics and population control. Such as one child policies, like China used to have. I think the proper way need to view ourselves, is as "gardeners" and caretakers. What we destroy in one area, we should rebuild in another, or make better.

For example, we could make connected "green corridors" that span the entire country, through which animals can migrate and live in. We have disrupted the migration paths of some species with out cities. But nothing says that we can't make it better by providing routes for these animals around our cities and farms.
To prevent deaths.
That's going to be the biggest challenge here - how do we transition from acute to chronic care of this pandemic. I hope someone is creating lessons learned and new operating plans for all this stuff so that they can react efficiently over the coming months and years to pocket outbreaks which are sure to occur.
3-manifolds have some pretty great descriptions to https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of...

Bill Thurstons Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology is a great read
hear! hear!
The "Text to SQL" parser bundled with Allen NLP may be a good starting place (https://demo.allennlp.org/atis-parser). The devil is in the details when you have to make assumptions on what the user wanted though. For instance, does "What was the worst week for tech stocks?" mean by market cap, largest relative losses, etc. If you can constrain the problem you may be able to get away with just named entity recognition.
The great thing in Rust is that variable lifetimes are defined on function boundaries. Taking that away would take away the guarantees that Rust libraries can provide.

In another word it's a good thing forprogrammers that Rust doesn't allow more freedom, and requires them to restructure the code if necessary.
You want evidence that Google provides free services in exchange for tracking and interpreting all of the content passed through its services, turning it into a multi-billion dollar enterprise?
To quote Tommy Boy:

Ray Zalinsky:
Goin' a little heavy on the pine tree perfume there kid?

Tommy:
No, it's an auto air freshener.

Ray Zalinsky:
Good, you've pinpointed it, now the next step is washin' it out.
>It's difficult to know what user coldtea had in mind

I didn't have a particular paper in mind that I remembered.

Just remember reading several articles in the past month about new strains. Some examples are easy to find:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-06/new-coronavirus-covid...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/05/the-coronavirus-mutated-and-...

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-06/...
I don't think it says games owned, it just says games... Maybe a recent change?
For now, playback for UHD blu-ray and protected 4K content, including netflix.
Tried to play some UHD discs on my living room HTPC, which requires either Intel SGX, or a Pascal-based NVidia GPU.
Then why not oragono?
Am I the only one who looked at all the graphs and thought, man this is going to make it really hard to make good graphs during the next recession :)?
Sssssh COVID-19 is super scary and we need to set our society up to deal with scary pathogens because of it. Right now. We'll figure out the economics later. /nod

(Well just warning them beforehand didn't work so let's use this to get the ball rolling, huh?)
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Immunity isn't well understood, or at least it wasn't well understood when government guidelines came down.

Also if the government risks hospital overcapacity by not imposing restrictions, and high deaths per capita resulted, then that would look very bad politically.
ER admissions are down 50% or more depending in county.

People did not magically recover from heart conditions during lockdown

Those people died, or skipped on critical treatment that would have made their condition improve.

One cannot help but wonder if those missing people are going to be swept under the COVID rug...

Meanwhile, field hospitals sit empty...
There's a risk that not much will happen (from this realization alone). Most people don't have much power to do anything about it other than joining political movements. And for the individual life goes on. Once it starts to affect society itself we will act but only to do something about the immediate concern.

The economy/society works like this, it can only be forced into action because there is yet no efficient way to coordinate action over the scale required.
Another on the list of Bowie innovations was a random lyrics generator called the Verbasizer https://youtu.be/H7Sgq0XoxPw
I'll go a step further: Not only is the evidence and history of US-Taliban relations all still there, but the accused-1984 people weren't even denying the history exists. They were, at worst, just glossing over it.

Let's suppose that there are five tiers on the spectrum of "good" to "1984": Acknowledge the history; Omit it; Contradict it, Erase it, Punish dissenters.

Prior to 2016 most US politicians never went past Omit.
It’s a combination of factors. Flattening the curve is attempting to avoid exponential growth and making the situation completely untenable. This provides hospitals time to prepare protocols and obtain equipment.

We didn’t know what we were up against. We arguably still don’t. We understand the disease 10% more than we did previously, and are using this information to establish guidelines like masks and social distancing, maybe eventually contact tracing.

The ultimate intent is to suppress r0 long enough that we can develop a series of treatments and protocols (and eventually a vaccine) to minimize the negative effects of this virus.

It would have been impossible to a) gather enough data in time and b) drive change in behavior in the mass population without a SIP ‘reset’ taking place.
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First look at how their campaigns are funded. You will not find any meaningful action from politicians who are dependent on support from billionaires or powerful corporations. Then I would look at whether they are committed to supporting the Green New Deal and how their policies are rated by climate groups like the Sunrise Movement. This has helped me learn more about climate policy in general, and has made me more able to distinguish platitudes from serious proposals to address this crisis.

My favorite writer on the subject is Naomi Klein. I think her work is a good resource for learning more about the politics of the climate crisis.
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I think I was/am one of the students that would have benefited from more cross-pollination of topics and a mix between self direction and directions.

I never enjoyed math for its own sake when I was in school and my grades where pretty mediocre, later I had the same with algorithms & data structures.

On their own, how they are often presented in books and platforms like hacker rank, I find them rather boring and solving challanges just with a correct and optimal solution in mind is not very appealing to me. But as soon as I'm in a work context, or when I dabbled in computational biology or digital signal processing for music on the side I can completely lose the sense of time while digging into whatever is necessary to get done what I want to do.

So I think there a ways to get from nebulous goals and activities into measurable impacts.
I'm just about as socialist as they come, but I'm dropping you downvote. Yes, this move is clearly precipitated by capitalism, yes, capitalism sucks.

But I think we do everyone better by trying to put some effort into posting about why it sucks, and how it specifically seems to be impacting this situation. Low effort posts aren't going to change anything, and they clutter up HN.

E.g. Intel's primary motivation is to increase their capital, they have relatively fixed material costs and somewhat flexible labor costs, and so they choose to expend their labor (in this case by putting them in a risky environment) to continue to increase their capital.
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Well, a scientific theory could be bunk as well.

E.g. somebody claiming they invented a perpetual motion machine.

Their claims might not include any conspiracy involved, just a bogus idea of what they accomplished...
So I saw, am still seeing, all the doctors and nurses in NYC pleading for help. But there were thousands of empty covid-specific beds open in that state. Why where they not sending patients to these field hospitals? Is this about money? Would private hospitals loose out on payments if they transfered patients?

I feel sorry for the frontline workers in NYC, but I don't know how to reconcile knowledge that there were open covid-specific beds availible just down the road.
I'm definitely not pro-government. I want power to be in the hands of individuals, not any centralized entity.

The problem is, if you don't have a powerful government, you get something worse: powerful corporations. At least government (in a democracy) has to maintain some pretense of serving individuals. The only times corporations have to pretend to serve individuals is if their customers are individuals, and even then they can just lie about it: the whole field of advertising is devoted to that. Governments can (and do) lie about serving people too, but they have it a bit harder: consider the difference in connotation between the words "advertising" and "propaganda". And in an ideal government, there's a great deal of transparency, which makes it harder to lie. In contrast, corporations have largely unquestioned active protections over their internal secrets, and corporate transparency is practically oxymoronic.

The role of government is to protect the weak from the strong, and in order to do that, unfortunately, government has to be strong. In this context, that means regulating corporations so that they can't trample individuals. Ideally, government also has checks and balances so that government also protects individuals from government. Obviously that's hard to do, and no government I know of has implemented it perfectly, but it's the best idea we have--if you have a better idea feel free to share it. And so we're clear: having an anemic government isn't a better idea: that just gives you rule by corporations.
Since reading about Paul O'Neill's turnaround of ALCOA, I've been convinced that worker safety (or well-being for less life-and-death office environments) should be the one OKR/KPR/whatever-you-want-to-call-it every company is focused on. Especially for manufacturing companies. As Charles Duhigg notes in writing about O'Neill's leadership, it's a focus that can improve communication and performance all around:

http://txti.es/duhigg-keystone-habits

Instead, it feels like most corporations are managed by the people who run Royco in Succession:

https://youtu.be/UcTmBfA7Qik?t=48
The same philosophical discussion can happen with respect to raising the speed limit by 5 miles per hour; it will result in more deaths... is it worth it?

But letting Covid-19 run unchecked is more akin to raising the speed limit by 50 miles per hour. The prudent choice is not to go with it.
For context: New Zealand only has around ~5 million people and is pretty remote, relative to the rest of the world.

By comparison Ohio has ~11 million people, Canada has ~38 million people, and California has ~40 million people.

This is awesome for the Kiwis, but they are small and isolated.
I agree. And the other thing too is nobody wants to hear about the prospect of overpopulation. In fact, I think most of our problems stem from this.

Bill Gates, for example, says we can "feed 12 billion people". Ok sure, but at what cost to the planet and our quality of life? Others say "the whole population could fit in an area the size of Texas". Or they look at Hong Kong density and say "it's possible". But I don't think that is sustainable or desirable.

When people think of picturesque countries like Norway, they often forget that those countries have low population densities, which allow them to leave parts of nature untouched.

Another issue that arises is that the global economy is built on a forever growth model. We're kind of stuck with an economic house of cards standing on the back of continued population growth.

/Bit of rambling here.
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This is why older computer scientists get jaded. It's the same problems again and again, which you foresee and try to make sure don't happen, but you can't make the world do the right thing. So you say your warning, people laugh at the "paranoid nerd" and give up their privacy for a handful of cents.
It cuts both ways. Yes, there has been horrendous tech legislation that has been passed before. On the other hand, there is a lengthy list of serious abuses by individual companies and entire industries, both in and out of tech, that have been enabled due to weak or non-existent legislation that would have prevented it.

At this point, both the hyper-capitalist trust in the free market, as well as the hyper-socialist belief that labor/the state are always better than private corporations are both closer to dogmatic religious beliefs than actual reality. There are certainly instances when the government will do a much worse job at running an economy than free enterprises. And there are instances when clearly government intervention and regulation is needed to protect society from bad actors (as what seems to increasingly be the case for certain megacorporations in tech, finance, the insurance industry). A balanced, case by case approach is necessary.

Unfortunately, more simplistic, easy to digest platforms based on worthless platitudes get more traction, probably because those fit on a bumper sticker or in a tweet more easily.
59:1 is pretty good. Sometimes debugging gets me really down
> Remember when this first happened we had no data

Every time news come out and people wonder why the market is up, this is what they miss (and I've explain in more detail in other threads). Risk is priceable, uncertainty is not. Bad data (not wrong data) is better than no data.

When people say 'it's priced in' what they typically mean is that uncertainty often pushes the market lower than bad things that are knowns.

And, it makes sense. Individuals are almost always more stressed over an unknown than known bad news. It's human nature.
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Parts of the US government also know not to share certain information with law enforcement.

"[FBI] policies have been crafted to take into account the active presence of domestic extremists in U.S. police departments."

"White supremacists and other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies."

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-inve...
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The Fed’s actions are the only rational explanation. Many large companies who had access to the investment-grade bond market were locked out and having to raise as if they were junk quality. Then Jay Powell said the Fed would buy corporate debt and would pretend that everyone’s credit rating was the same as before the crash in March.

The market hit a hairpin turn around that time and started heading up.

shrug
If its so trivial, I'm guessing the developers would welcome patches.
American here — we have more guns per capita than any other country in the world.

In the UK, the criminals ~never have a gun (and less crime occurs), so it makes sense that the police wouldn't need guns either.

In the US, normal citizens are often legally armed, and criminals are very often illegally armed.

It would make no sense to tell an officer "you can't carry a gun" when both average citizens and the criminals have guns. While the UK undoubtedly has a fine model for itself, it can't be extrapolated to a country where gun ownership is so common.
I think this perhaps comes from the decades-long use of “accessibility” as euphemism for “application preference settings needed by handicapped people”. It never really meant “accessibility” alone without the euphemistic baggage.

It seems to me that the gradient from “application state” to “color scheme/theme” to “preferences” to “accessibility” is a continuous one, and we are still treating it from a mental model standpoint as discrete buckets.

Now it’s back to being used in the literal meaning of the term, which, as you pointed out, is basis for confusion. This is one reason why I try hard to avoid euphemism in general; imprecision that results in context-specific definition drift makes for needlessly messy communication.
So what?

I don't understand this attempt to discredit the person because they previously made some money at amazon.

A million dollars is still a lot of money. They still had to make a decision to turn down that easy money and speak up about it. They could have just as easily continued to work at amazon and save up 10+ million, etc.
Someone in this very thread is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23111557