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The lives involved are mostly not economically productive. (This is not to say they aren't very valuable and worth living, just that your quip is incorrect)

In my view, lives are for living. A rampant covid 19 (which we'll probably get any way) would cost a few months of life expectancy. I'm unconvinced preventing many from living their lives to the fullest for months in the hopes that covid 19 will magically disappear is worthwhile.
Reading Lem in early age spoiled Matrix movie for me. I hated movie, it seemed unoriginal and weak, compared to Ijon Tichy story, where one professor created artificial universes in lockers or chests. Later I have learned appreciate Matrix series, but my first impression was negative.
Lem has several really cool stories, "Return from the Stars" is one my favorite.
The primary statement aside, I find it laughable when people parrot the talking points about "unelected" officials being an issue.

As if they were duly elected and making the same decision, the commenter would suddenly be appeased. Or when a judge makes a legal decision that's disagreed with, it's an "unelected official", but when it's to their liking, that concern disappears. Have some intellectual backbone, man.

By the way, if elected officials did their jobs properly and we were all free of the ridiculous political/social climate we find ourselves in, maybe unelected officials wouldn't have to step in to fill the void.
> Finally, "person fails interview because interviewer expects to see cultural signal and interviewee does not broadcast cultural signal" is a common failure mode. Think about someone who wears a suit to a tech interview.

Honest curious question: Is it really considered that much of a faux-pas to wear a suit to a tech interview nowadays?
> Are some people scared that we might realise just how much activity is really fluff?

Absolutely. The people pushing this simply don't care about ordinary peoples lives. What they care about is this is a direct challenge to their carefully constructed status quo. The one that gaslights people into thinking is we change the power relations even a tiny bit the roof will cave in.
Why QRP?
>How much money do you think the recession will destroy? Take that amount, and add a few percentage points of the total money supply to it.

I think we'd have to print more than we could assume is safe. We're in an unprecedented situation right now. This isn't a normal depression. We shouldn't stumble into a battlefield and expect the old skirmish tactics to save us. We're acting unbelievably foolhardy and cavalier about the serious threat this poses to the poor.

People on hacker news, the media, and in the CDC have no real fear of being evicted or going without food, so why would they seriously consider it? If you're a doctor or an epidemiologist, your work is essential so your main threat is the virus. You're optimizing national policy for one variable (disease spread and deaths) rather than multiple variables (disease spread and deaths, starvation, suicides due to job loss, increased homelessness, and general welfare of the country).

>If you want more businesses to re-open, we should be working on better mitigation for the virus. The more testing, the more contact tracing, the more PPE, the better we comply with social distancing requirements, the better we can prevent spread in workplaces, the more non-essential businesses can re-open.

I wholeheartedly agree and think that we all need to realize that we have a great responsibility to do our part to protect our loved ones from this disease. Funding testing and contact tracing is a life or death decision.

>Could it be because the same political factions that are pushing for re-opening aren't interested in paying for it?

I can't know for certain since I'm not in those political spheres. I can predict that the wealthy want their businesses to continue operating while they will personally self-isolate until they get a vaccine (social distancing for me, not for thee). Regardless of how our national policies change, I expect that the poor will get no significant financial support, as always. I predict that if we do print money, it will just go to businesses. About 80% of the financial assistance distributed so far has not gone to individuals. It has mostly bailed out businesses like hotels and airliners (because we desperately need hotels and airliners for the next two years!).

That's the main reason why I don't buy the notion that the government will bail out individuals. It never has. It's a carrot on a stick.

Anyways, I appreciate the insight on QE to offset deflation. Do you know of any interesting books on that topic I could check out?
You are correct. However, some elected officials have (for incompetence, or just wanting to deflect responsibility) completely abdicated from their functions, and they act (or say they act) like whatever the experts tell them.

"We'll reopen when the scientists say so" was a common mantra the past two months in my country. That's an admission of giving up responsibility, IMO.

On top of that, experts not always agree, which makes things even more confusing. Some say (again, my country) that masks and social distancing are "worthless" (in favor of indefinitely long lockdowns), others say that they might work, others say that they definitely work.
Who wants people with visual impairments to read their posts?
Lots of architects are also pretty bad at taking people's needs into account. There's still more women in the profession.
I'd love to know what these plans to wipe out covid 19 are that everyone but me seems to have been informed about. I must clearly have missed some big news.
Jesus Christ man!! Chill out a little bit. Yikes...
> Half the people want lockdowns to continue and cite research papers supporting the argument.

I don't think anybody who's thought about it for more than a few minutes wants the stay-at-home orders to continue indefinitely. I certainly don't, and it's not what my state has proposed.

There are several states that are aiming for something like the South Korean solution: stay-at-home until the level of cases drops low enough that we can test mild symptoms, track contacts, and safely treat everyone who falls ill. This is literally the official proposal in my state, and we're relaxing the stay-at-home order now that the conditions are met.

I won't pretend that this proposal will be easy to execute. IIRC, Seoul just re-closed all its bars after an infected partier visited four bars that hadn't been following the social distancing rules.

As someone in my 40s, my risk of death is fairly low. But a substantial portion of hospitalized cases are younger people, and something like 30% of severe hospitalized cases are showing some loss of lung capacity, loss of kidney function, or micro-clotting with risk of stroke. I earn a living with my brain; stokes scare me.

So you can reopen the economy all you want, but I'm not setting foot in a restaurant, movie theater, airplane or barbershop until I'm vaccinated (or recovered). Whenever possible, I'll be buying from merchants who offer curbside pickup or delivery. And I've been trying to support local merchants as much possible, including takeout from several local restaurants.
https://www.lingscars.com/ Also comes to mind as too perfect on the font rendering side of things
US isn't the only country in the world
I mostly prefer the layout of the after, for its added vertical spacing. The one thing I really don't like, and don't understd either, is that they've made the font grey instead of black.

Grey on white has less contrast than black on white which reduces readability - I doubt it can ever increase readability. It's basic human physiology - probably basic physics.

So an open question to all those who describe themselves as UI/UX experts - why do you do this?
You asked for 'inheritable genetic physical diseases'. I gave you a list. Now it seems you actually want a list of 'mendelian' genetic disease, i.e. those which are caused by a single genetic variant.

Mendelian diseases are not the only sort of genetic disorder. This is a misunderstanding of genetics.

Source: I was a university researcher in psychiatric genetics
You can convert them to Bitcion on Lightning Network here: https://kriptode.com/xlmtoln/index.html
There is yet another thing about that quote. When I was still a programmer often the best ideas came when I had lunch break or a tea break or waking to work, etc. Our mind needs free time to make the deep connections. What exactly that 'free time' means is a bit elusive - sometimes playing simple games like tetris or minesweeper would work (or work as a step into the right state of mind), but I think that it needs to be something that we can do on autopilot, like walking, or eating. Reading hackernews or reddit also felt like the right thing, and maybe it did a part of the job - turning attention away from the work matter, but it probably wasn't very effective (it still had some other good outcomes - like finding new programming ideas).
Rust doesn't currently support splitting borrows in closures, to my recent frustration.
A bureaucrat is specifically someone who is an elected official dealing with governance and policy. A bureaucrat who is an expert in health is exactly who you would want advising on an issue that is primarily driven by the management of a pandemic.

But the reality of it is none of these people are making the decisions, they're advising, your governors are making the final calls. So your governors should have information from economists, health officials and other areas and should be making decisions based on their best judgement of all that information.
So far it seems like that hasn't panned out as Sweden is suffering from the same economic downturn as its neighbors.

See for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden-has-avoided-a-coronaviru...
Amusingly, i have antialiasing disabled in Windows 10 (though sadly not everything respects the setting - but Firefox does) and it took me a while to realizing what was going on :-P.

But then i thought to try enabling it and it turns out it looks blurry here (100% scaling in case anyone wonders, since i saw others mentioning non-100% scaling). Firefox, Windows 10.

I wonder if it has anything to do with cleartype settings or whatever.
Depending on how it ends.

Will he be reduced to a mad man shouting on twitter, with nothing left to his name but failed enterprises?

Or will he carve the moon in his image?
> The notion that only old people are affected is wrong.

Let's not read too much into a sentence that's not super nuanced. It's not only old people, but it's mostly old people and people with severe comorbidities.

> And the comparison you're making is inhumane and possibly a false choice. We should strive to save both the "whites in their 70s" and the poor people of Africa.

Yes, ideally we'll always save everyone. Unfortunately, the world is rarely ideal, so we often have to make choices. If two people need a lung transplant and we only have one, what do we do? There's one 80yo smoker and one otherwise healthy 20yo. Do we flip a coin?
Thanks, appreciated! I'm planning an update soon - speaking of which, I might take a page from your own site with the custom scrollbars. :)

AFAIK bitmapped fonts can be rendered in-browser, but only if they're installed on the host (aka the 'old' way), not as css webfonts. Embedding bitmap strikes in a TrueType font is a neat trick used by e.g. Terminus, and by many CJK fonts shipped with Windows, etc., but the browser sanitizer thing just strips them - more info here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57930594

(Unfortunately this type of font has its pitfalls even outside of the browser. E.g. Windows makes you jump through a completely unreasonable series of hoops to make them work: https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-f...)
there is nothing wrong with ads in podcasts. unlike digital media, they vet their ads . Advertising helps podcasts remain impartial and free from pandering to a hardcore audience of subscribers.
All the three parts of a functioning government (executive, legislative, judicial) have their own duties and responsibilities towards each other and the citizens.

The so-called "unelected officials" (bad term, I'd say, because it's too broad) do not have such responsibilities. They can be either used as scapegoats, as a way to remove responsibility from those who carry it, or use their current influence to push policy in one direction or the other.

All of this might happen, or might not happen at all. "if xxx did their jobs properly" is not an excuse not to remain vigilant.
He says what he thinks and tries to think of everything from first principles rather than assumings the consensus is correct. This sometimes leads to the right decisions ("the market and technology ia ripe for electric cars") and sometimes to the wrong ones ("humans are obsolete, we can automate a car factory"). But regardless of right or wrong, it will often lead to him having very different views from the majority of the population on important issues.
Wish there was an HTML export option for blog posts.
I think this is what is gonna happen (in the U.S.). Because of lack of coordinated shutdown of non-essential economic activity, much more people will become infected, causing eventual shut downs of more essential activity.

So reopening the economy in order to save it is completely backwards. It's like drinking alcohol when you're suffering from cold, which will cause more heat loss. It might feel better, but in fact, it is making things worse, by not conserving heat on the parts of your body that are less essential for your survival.
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The first 2 sentences are a reasonable point. But even if there is spare capacity, people who go into ICU are dying, so it's not like it's a clean cut judgement call that if there's spare capacity, people will be fine and it was just recovery from an illness. Spare capacity still = a death rate.

I think most all the policymakers are aware that there is going to be a judgement call about lives at risk versus economic cost of the lockdown. I don't think anyone is saying that 0 deaths must be achieved. We don't try to achieve that for anything.

The grownups in the room are weighing when to open and restart the economy against the data-backed risk of disease flaring up and causing a worse shutdown to be required. The kids are asking to go out and play without knowledge of anything.
I know in the Blink engine (eg: Chromium) I've seen it render various Asian typefaces without any anti-aliasing, eg: Dotum (including the Latin characters). I've often wondered why that is.

Perhaps whatever causes that rendering might be of use in cases like this, since it would also allow zooming/higher font sizes.

Edit: although it may only display as such on Windows only, come to think of it.
I have a question in order to compare the USA situation to our own: what kind of statements do the expert panels make, when interviewed by the media or in official communication?
There's a key distinction between Tor and Freenet. With Freenet, all nodes host content, access content, and relay traffic for other nodes.

But with Tor, only clients (including onion services) host and access content, and they don't relay traffic. Conversely, relays merely relay traffic, and don't host or access content. Also, only entry guards ever see the IP addresses of clients. And they only see encrypted data going to middle relays.

So attacks like police have used against Freenet are impossible. Because clients never connect directly to each other. The closest analog is taking over an onion site, and then serving malware to users. But that's much harder than running nodes, serving child porn, and logging IPs.

Also, given that relays retain no content, operators have so far managed to escape liability.
Its always the extensions. Not sublime itself. That has been my experience so far
It is. You can build parts of a car anywhere in the world. But because the cost of shipment will be so high you have to build the car in the same part of your continent if not the same country or state.
I'm not sure what you consider to be "advanced", but you can get surprisingly really far with just machines that can fit on your kitchen countertop and still produce some pretty high quality flavorful chocolate. In fact, the main equipment that you need to purchase is a tabletop melanger, which is required to refine the chocolate. (Nowadays, you can purchase melangers specced for refining chocolate for 24-72 hours, but perhaps 5-10 years ago, many people were abusing melangers (wet grinders) designed to make dosa batter in 30 minutes.)

For the whole process, pretty much all you need is:

1. an oven to roast cocoa beans (though you probably want a tabletop coffee roaster for reliable results)

2. a rolling pin to break apart roasted beans into nibs and husk (this does get old pretty fast after 5 batches of chocolate, so people recommend moving onto another kitchen countertop device, the Champion Juicer)

3. a hair dryer to separate husk from nibs

4. a melanger, as mentioned above, to refine the nibs (with any desired additives like sugar and milk powder) for 24-72 hours

5. a couple of bowls and a good thermometer for tempering

6. (optional) plastic molds for shaping your chocolate.

https://chocolatealchemy.com/how-to-make-chocolate-the-compl...

(Off-topic: is there a way to format a bulleted/numbered list to not require separate paragraphs?)
Exactly. Also, most of the time frameworks/Engines has the tool you need to build a game. Only in some specific technical bottle neck you need to ditch game engines and go for libraries or some in-house tools. But in that case, it would be pretty artist-unfriendly.
This is life 101 advice for everyone, I think. I've turned down plenty of people on interviews because of this. The tests I create always contain one or two questions I doubt anyone would ever answer. And that's the reason I always put them there - give them a simple opportunity to ask a question. When I ask someone if they have questions and they reply with "no", then it's clear they are not suitable for a position where they would have to ask a lot of questions. I've had experience with several such developers, who never asked questions. What I've learned is that those can only create a universe of anti patterns and code which is just as hard to maintain as cracking rsa 4096 without a key.
They go where the money is!
Wait for Californians to move there and vote for the same politics that made them leave California. It's happening all over the country.
To share files in a local network FTP or SMB/CIFS may be better suited.

IPFS is content addressable storage by design on entire files. Reading limited set of chunks poses some problem regarding data integrity and deduplication colisions. One bit flip in JPG may destroy the entire image - thankfuly with currently used hash functions the right and broken files will have different "fingerprint". One way hash functions have extremely low probability of collision with full file scan. However when you skip part of files the probalibity of collision is roughly equal to count of bytes not scaned divided by total file size.
This is why I hate hacker news sometimes. Many posts and commenters are really narrow minded and make bold, sweeping, contextual but nevertheless ignorant claims, conjunctions and statements.

To answer your question, no: in Japan there are many technical interviews where it's completely reasonable to wear a suit. It really depends in which part of the planet you live, and what company you apply for.
Looks like an array of lines, which is a completely reasonable structure to use.

There's a good post on the Visual Studio Code blog about why and when they moved on from an array of lines to a new structure based on a piece table.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
It depends if you see the economy as a source of a result. I don't think the current system was built to feed people. It is the end result of centuries of political decisions, individual actions, wars, trade agreements, etc...
It's more an image of the balance of power rather than a tool thought from head to toes to run our socities.
So either we think that actually nothing changed in the environment and we can keep the system as it is or we consider that all the changes that have been stressing this system (covid-19, climate change) required some adaptation so that the system stay somewhat balanced.

I think it's where this becomes quite problematic, re-balancing this requires people with a huge amount of power (the wealthiest part of our society) to accept being less powerful. That's where we've been stuck for years now.
What we're seeing now is how this system should have changed before we were in this emergency situation because it clearly can't handle actual emergencies.
The "before" looks so much better! I really dislike the second layout.
Having read your links, this is an absurd cartoon-like character you're painting here. I've worked in the tech industry for my whole life and don't believe I've ever met a "tech bro". Despite that, don't American universities have a fraternity equivalent for women called the sorority? Why are "bros in tech" a problem but "sorority girls in management" aren't?

This is still just meaningless name calling, not made any better by the fact that it's so entirely US specific. It certainly isn't even remotely close to an explanation for the global preferences both genders express for different jobs. As I assume you're aware that in fact most jobs aren't gender balanced, most are dominated by one gender or another?
What's also telling is all these 'calculations' deny the public any agency. As if they aren't going to try and protect themselves unless the government forces them to. To believe that is insane.

As a member of the public and old enough to have a good sense of mortality, I don't care what happens to anyone's paper wealth if it means I don't die of this. I'm not going to a movie, or a bar, or a concert. Not happening.
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Every workplace exposes people to infectious diseases, covid19 or not. Don't companies do risk management all the time? What's the acceptable level of risk?
No, but the article implies that he was identified by the fact that he was running Freenet.
Given the grandparent was in a thread on a US company in California I assumed a US context.
While I felt highly sceptical at first, I have now learned that this is an amazing sales preview tool for source code tutorials.

Inside the article, all source code is posted as images using Carbon. That way, your readers can follow along and understand what you're doing.

But you didn't have to give away the source code, so you can still ask people to sign up for your $5 monthly membership which grants access to all source code projects as downloads.

Of course, your dear readers could also manually type in all the source code shown in the Carbon images, but at that point lazyness kicks in and they pay the $5.

My personal opinion is that knowledge should be shared, so I'm not sure if I consider such an approach good for our craft. But I can understand the business model that is created by having a tool such as this, which allows indie developers to earn a passive income from tutorials.

The next logical iteration is then to put your source code screenshots into a video, e.g. https://gorails.com/
Do you think this would still happen today?
It is good advice but should not be exagerrated. On one interview i was the one asking most of the questions. And i didn't give myself a job :)
> there's a chance they will never bring them up later

If by that you mean that they will look for another company instead, then I agree. That's what I always do. I am not explaining anything, I just simply ghost the companies who behave like that. I ALWAYS found a more caring company by doing this.