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I follow the “ski-rental problem” rule on automation - if it takes 12 hours to automate something I will wait till I have wasted 12 hours of manual labor doing it, and the automate the beejezus out of it.

It’s not an exact rule but it removes anxiety and doubt which are a lot more damaging than the manual labor itself, freeing up the mental cycles for what really matters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem
I’m working on a nebulized ethyl alcohol biocidal therapy for SARS-CoV-2 and had to research this (plz see my Twitter for a chronology @jhazani). I’m disappointed the link abstracts the actual mechanism of action, other than a hypothesis that evaporation time and contact time makes a difference. It still does not explain distinctly the effects of contact time, which principally involves the polarity of alcohol which disrupts the viral envelope and “denatures” proteins according to the CDC [1] and their arcane reference text you can only find in a medical school library [2].

In other words, the hypothesis is there is electrostatic attractive forces that rip the buggers apart, in which this “pressure” is quantitatively stronger in the presence of molecular hydrogen bonding, ie greater dipole moments between the aqueous solution and the virus.

(PS our study design will rely on 200 proof absolute ethanol for go-to market simplicity and for lowest surface tension deposition into the alveolar pulmonary region to promote alveolar stability)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...

[2] Ali Y, Dolan MJ, Fendler EJ, Larson EL. Alcohols. In: Block SS, ed. Disinfection, sterilization, and preservation. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins, 2001:229-54.
We also have Chrome (with add-on blocked) if you need to browse any modern website on the internet but don't expect any entreprise tools/intranet website to properly work.
Tesla has blatantly misrepresented the status of the factory to the county. It is actively making cars for export abroad, as seen on Pier 80. https://tslaq.org/letter-from-the-saf-to-alameda-county-offi...
FWIW, WebKit's complete history is available in its Subversion repository, all the way back to the initial commits in 2001 when they were importing KHTML and convincing it to compile without Qt. Granted, there was around two years after Safari's initial release where Apple simply published source code drops, but the full code history has been public (first in CVS, then in SVN) since mid-2005.
> This does not mean their core products necessarily make less money than it costs to operate them

Generally, yes it does. The up-front costs for building and marketing a platform so that it ultimately becomes profitable are enormous. In today's climate, the idea that a company could just "choose" to be profitable now and in the long-term rather than grow is disingenuous: over the following few years, other companies will eat their lunch and they'll fold.

But with delivery apps, answering your question is not hard. First, paying delivery people is expensive. Crazy expensive. That's obviously the main variable cost. Then there are huge fixed costs with creating and maintaining a multi-platform app, customer service to deal with late/missing/wrong orders, sales and support for restaurants, marketing, and all the normal business stuff.

That's your answer. Food delivery apps aren't spending half their revenue on frivolous side projects like space rockets or cities of the future, or questionably/fraudulently siphoning revenue to a founder. They're just trying to operate as normal businesses, and there's zero evidence to the contrary.
When they are asking you such uninspired questions I'm totally unsurprised when they can't even make their questions consistent.
The typical problem is that you end up distributing (eg) Apache 2.4.99 compiled for Unikernel on x86-64 via Red Hat Network to a million customers and they're all running the same binary. ASLR helps here ...
I'm not a historian so I can't definitively say whether any empire was able to provide a decent standard of living for its own citizens (even if it was at the expense of other people it conquered).

But this is probably the first time we've had resources, technology, information, and supposed social structure (ie democracy) that should make it all within our means.
Similarly, I have always wanted a YouTube search filter for "least views", since that content is invariably way higher quality
Sounds exactly like me. I work very late at night as well to make up for the day where I have to check on the kids a lot as my wife works away from home.
This breaks my use case

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Bitcoin Gives You an Unique Opportunity to Choose Your Future Regarding Money
"Further" meaning "past the edge of the country", but not meaning "more miles/kilometers".
Female toads breed with a different species when it helps their tadpoles survive
> The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces the transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected droplets in both laboratory and clinical contexts. [1]

When the primary vector of spread is through water droplets expelled while talking, coughing, or sneezing, I would think the importance of reducing the travel distance of those droplets would be self evident.

[1] - https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v2
They don't destroy the cells themselves, but they wash away oils and significantly dry the skin, quickly leading to skin irritation and potentially cracking.

This is why hand sanitiser usually have some sort of moisturiser as part of the solution, and why if you wash your hand a lot you'll quickly get irritations and worse if yon don't also moisturise them regularly.
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‘Brett Callow [an analyst at Emsisoft with expertise in dark web criminal activity] says this is more than interesting; it is significant. “As far as I know, no ransomware attack has ever been classed as a terrorist act, and that includes attacks on US cities and hospitals, so organizations have always been permitted to negotiate. I can only assume this classification is due to the threat to Trump.”

‘Which could be terrible news for the REvil criminals and, indeed, the celebrity clients whose documents they possess. Once terrorism is brought into the equation, the hunt for such threat actors takes on an altogether different dimension. “The criminals have shot themselves in the foot by mentioning Trump,” Callow says, “There’s no way they can collect a ransom, so they’ll probably publish the rest of the data or auction it.”‘
I disabled everything possible in Slack, but still feel the same. Can't go for more than 1 hour without checking it, pretty unproductive, but needed in order to help friends get things done.
No, I did not make the point that Twitter arguments are counterproductive at all o the contrary this one looks very productive EXCEPT for the author.

So now you're straw manning me as well, then say I'm gatekeeping and no true-scotsmanning. I don't appreciate that all and am therefore out.
@ainar-g: “IMO, HackerNews has a few frills, mechanics-wise. Like the fact that you can't downvote direct responses to your comments. ”

I would prefer a voting-up only option, else the down-voting option gets abused.
Taking this company to global domination and making you rich enough not to have to ask this question ever again.
The article makes great points. Alot of commenters here all make great points. However, what part of "The U.S. has pumped $20 trillion dollars" do people not understand? There is a massive amount of stimulus and the Federal Reserve has also said it'll do more if necessary.
"In five years I would like to drop my kids off at school, play 18, then pick them up."
I know the term but I can’t quite understand how to interpret it in this specific context. Does it mean you can only program an FPGA once? Only one FPGA? One object per bus?

I really don’t understand it.
A 'frill' in this case is any construct that is not obvious to a person a who has programmed a few years in the particular language. For example, this definitions makes most C++ templates used outside of STL-like usage very frillic.

"Higher-level constructs might require language features like template metaprogramming, or a level of indirection."

I think we have different definition what a "higher level" means. To me it means a particular pattern has been identified in the code and lifted to an implementation that needs less thinking and fewern lines of code.

You can have quite high level clever program logic using the basic algorithmic toolbox - the basic containers and large zoo of well known algorithms to operate on them - the array, the list, the map and the graph.
That’s what hacker news is for ;)
> At that point, things that people thought were secure assets (like, say, their bank accounts)

what possible justification is there to be worried about their FDIC-insured bank accounts? even sticking that in as an off-hand comment is spreading FUD.
I wouldn't draw that conclusion. A) Taking vc money sometimes points you at different types of businesses that you are urged to explore more. B) Just cause you can run a database as a unikernel (and you can) doesn't mean the people who want the other database wants to deploy it as one. In my experience those who buy managed databases generally aren't wanting to do any system administration at all.
The loans in question actually did have very strict collateral clauses - basically if the borrower defaults the lender can take possession of assets that basically put the borrower out of business.

There are three possible explanations for why I think the businesses in question are doing this:

1.) The lenders in question are philanthropic organizations, and would take a PR hit if there's a protacted court battle that puts the borrower out of businesses. They may be betting that the lenders won't enforce their contracts (turning out to be a poor bet in retrospect, but many businesses see philanthropic capital as dumb money).

2.) The court systems are closed. It's going to be many months, possibly years, before they can actually take possession of the capital.

3.) The business may not believe that they'll be in business in the long term. If by not paying back a loan, you end up out of business in a year, but by paying it back you end up out of business in 3 months, you actually do have a fiduciary duty to not pay it back.
Feel the same, it looks like people used to stop by your desk at the office can't move to async/written communication, despite it being much more helpful for the company.

I'm trying to evangelize coworkers as much as I can, sharing content on the topic, asking for things to be written, but it's something slow to change.
The problem is that these delivery apps are trying to scale a business on top of a product that already has thin margins. They're trying to squeeze in between the restaurants and consumer and both sizes is feeling the squish.

IMO the relationship between delivery apps and restaurants could be a bit more mutually beneficial.

How this could potentially work -

1. Restaurants modernize their web presence with the help of the app company. They make it easy for consumers to order online through their website, or some sort of aggregation app, but the restaurants maintain their brand, and process payments.

2. Restaurants put out a bid to deliver an order through the delivery app and someone in the area agrees to pick it up

3. The delivery person receives the fee and perhaps a few bucks as tips upon delivery

The app company would make money through long term contracts (partnerships) with the restaurants to service their delivery needs. These types of long term partnerships could be much more valuable to both the app (tech company) and the restaurant - the app company could help the restaurant modernize and maintain their online presence which is much more valuable than pinching them with fees.

Obviously this is more challenging for both sides since it requires buy-in, long-term collaboration, etc but the other option is to not adapt and continue fighting delivery apps for tight margins.

I feel like Yelp would be in a perfect place to do this if they weren't too busy pinching restaurant owners for ad money.
>Being a geoscintist does not make you a climatologist. It's amazing to me that people who are experts in one domain think that gives them the authority to talk about other domains.

I literally consume the same data. It's a sister field. We have the same problems with the exact same uncertainty because we use the same instruments for collection. My opinion is valid but that doesn't matter because anyone who take a position remotely critical of climate science can expect an immediate, vicious, purely dogmatic response.

>I keep seeing this nonsense repeated, but China reported cases very early on. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/27-04-2020-who-timeline....

>The only difference was that Vietnam and Taiwan took it seriously and prioritized people's lives over the economy

It's easy to dismiss other peoples' arguments as "nonsense" when you misrepresent them. The question isn't whether China reported cases or not. It's the fact that China deliberately underreported cases and contributed to an underestimation of the pandemic by laymen and professionals alike who are too naive to understand the dishonesty typical of authoritarian regimes like the CCP. The peoples who have been dealing with China for millennia hold no such delusions.

>The ability to deny facts is absolutely surreal. We're no longer talking about predictions here. We're talking about actual events that are happening around us

This is only true if you cherry pick your literature. I'll remind you our discussion is about future predictions of which only catastrophic outcomes are suitable for (one sided) discussion. The fact that some minority of models agree with current measurements does not resolve the uncertainty regarding the predictions that spawned this entire discussion.

You underestimate the complexity and chaotic nature of science. Certainty in doomsday climate predictions is hubris.
Indeed. I'd suggest a change in this code even if this change in FF hadn't arrived.
Art is technology that is designed to be appealing and interesting. I appreciate and support this interdisciplinary effort to recontextualize art and share it with others in strange new ways.
The effect of the lockdown on the IFR is zero. That's a rate. Only certain categories affect the IFR, like density, age distribution, obesity, air pollution, health system.

The lockdown could have an impact on the number of absolute deaths, but the question is still out of its positive or negative. Flattening the curve kept the virus longer alive than necessary, it was only necessary for countries with not enough ICU beds. Not many countries were in that desperate situation. Then we have 7 countries who didn't do these lockdowns, which do have the very same curves. Then we do have the countries where the curves already went down before the lockdown. Seeing the lockdown measures in the curves is pretty hard. You mostly see it with manipulated curves, as the NY times curves. Then you also get curves not from actual data, but calculated data from estimation models. And we know you bad those models were. Like the famous Imperial College model, which was totally off. Or the German RKI model which always points up for the very last week, but with the real data coming in next week it was still going down. Wrong model. And it's getting worse, not better. They don't give away the data, but you can see the wrong models at their web page. Since April 24 also on the previously serious euromomo.eu stats. Now it also went to the false model data.

You do those drastic measures to keep the ICU's working but not much more, as too much lockdown will only lead to more deaths, not less. Keeping people in their homes is counterproductive, as this is their natural habitat. There it will be kept alive.

Of course lockdowns do help with the spread, to keep the R rate down not becoming too exponential. Esp with an initial R0 of 5. But this only helps in the very first week, afterwards you cannot run after each single case anymore.

When was the last lockdown for flu? Spanish flu famously. Massive immunosystem overreaction, like with the critical MERS virus, with an IFR of 50%. Was there a MERS lockdown, even if it was the most critical flu event recently? No, it was for an medium harmless SARS-2 variant, with an high R0 and a low IFR (of about 0.3, with 0.02% for <65 year olds). Remember, this rate is lower than using your car driving to work. The economy crash is due to a huge media panic to save a couple of fat old men, who would have died with the next flu anyway, to say it overly bluntly.

The comparison to computer viri might be interesting. Why is there always a panic on more harmless viri with an extremely high distribution rate, and not with the extremely harmful ones with a much lower distribution rate? that's the strategy of terror. for an effective computer virus you do make it spreading, harmless, unpredictable to keep the media circus rolling, and you need play the media. Destruction rate of 0.3% sounds perfect.
> Accepting a 10% risk of death to "end a lockdown", of all things, so that people can go stand in stores, is completely incomprehensible to me, which just goes to show that not everyone's risk tolerance is the same.

It is not about wanting to stand in stores. It is about avoiding long-term damage to the material conditions of millions, maybe billions, of people.

Do you not think the lockdown will cause a huge increase in poverty, homelessness, and starvation?
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A non Electron desktop app for Gotify. It uses Dot Net Core and AvaloniaUI to support all 3 platforms. Looking for Mac testers as I don't have one and honestly feedback/bug reports. It works fine for me atm. Not sure what else people would want.

https://github.com/ajmcateer/GotifyDesktop
With that line of reasoning you're countering your original point.

If companies don't sell shares, then there's no stock market. If there's no stock market, then there's no rate of return for stocks. If there's no rate of return for stocks, then stocks aren't an inherently superior investment to bonds, cash, or goods.

If someone founds a company that's 100% owned by that one person, then you (as an outside investor) aren't partaking in any of the value that that business creates. Let's say you want part of the ownership of that company. Companies don't just give out shares of ownership because they feel like it. Companies give out shares because they need liquidity. They can exchange fractional ownership for liquidity directly (e.g. selling shares) or indirectly (e.g. giving employees stock options instead of salary). However, shares are not the only way for companies to gain liquidity.

Ownership that is not traded has no value to investors. Ownership that is traded is traded for a reason, and must be compared to alternatives. Those alternatives are not inherently less valuable than shares.
You can uncheck some of the sources to reduce the amount of horizontal space needed (for example, I immediately took out the German ones, and then took out the ones that appeared to have a lot of gaps, to the point where I'm down to "Mapping the Commodore 64", "Programmer's Reference Guide", and "64map").

But yeah, hopefully this becomes more of a starting point for a combined reference, since that seems to be more useful as an actual development resource than having to decide which source references to show side-by-side.
The government has no control of bubble bursts.. in fact they usually aggravate the possibility. According to history, bubble pops usually happen with one small pop and another much larger one after the fact. This second one will happen when people least expect it because the media has thus far spun a narrative of extreme optimism in contrast to reality. The reality is the economic numbers don't look great and will take awhile to bounce back.
I always answer this kind of dumb question just as you suggest. Nobody asks orthodontists where they want to be in ten years. It's stupid to have growth expectations for senior programmers. Companies should know that they are hiring veteran engineers for what the company will learn, not for what the candidate will learn.
A menu (pdf is just fine) and a phone number and I’m good. I am baffled what the friction is.
If you're interested, and happen to be in Hamilton, Ontario, he donated his archives to McMaster University. They have thousands of documents and things like his Nobel Peace prize. It looks like a lot has been digitized now.

https://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
>"where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

Don't say "doing your wife", don't say "doing your wife"

"Doing your... son?"

Sorry for the cheap laugh. I really needed it right now. Maybe some other people do as well.
Wouldn't the fastest web site consist of static HTML files? I don't see anything that needs React or any rendering or build step. Writing JS that does nothing more than put HTML in the DOM seems like a Rube Goldberg contraption for a site with static content.
I say: I don’t have that kind of powers and move on
Great point. Our environmental factors are so easy to forget. I do use a very high contrast monitor and definitely prefer pastel colors at night, so my eyes dont hurt, but now I can clearly see how someone with low contrast wont' see a damn thing.

There is a solution, but it's a bit more complicated and requires introducing additional user preferences. Supply two color options in the css, and allow user to choose high/low brightness.

HN already has some profile filters, so adding one more might not be a problem, but I can also see how it becomes a slipper-slope of new features.
This is an excellent advice - it will force the discussion without looking adversarial. One may also ask for expected deliverable, such as a decision, or a list of questions to be circulated afterwards, etc.

It is generally a useful practice to ask about the expected artifact to be produced from any activity - it anchors the expectations and provides focus (narrows the scope).

If you’re really brave, or really desperate, have a chat with the organizer the day before and ask them which problems are looming over them and see how you can contribute to a solution - the meeting may dissipate by itself and you will gain an ally.
Wow. Impressive.
It seems fairly notable already. It doesn’t even take a future look back.

Compare the current access to healthcare amongst citizens of the wealthy “1st world” countries to the United States. Amid a pandemic, the number has dropped by millions for Americans.
I'm curious, could you describe the usecase?
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Paradox is constantly patching it. I believe a new patch is about be out right around now, adding tons of new missions to minor nations.

Steam claims I've got 3000 hours in the game (I think much of that was paused while I was doing something else), and I'm just doing my first complete iron man game. Possibly the first time I ever got past 1700, or at least the first time in a very long time.
Nobody thinks "I hate having simple code, I'm going to replace it with a complex one!"

It's always "ugh, this code is a copypasta convoluted mess. I'm going to replace it with a simple solution".
ever since I work remotely (since 5 years so), I've never felt bored "at work"
This is a shame, best podcast app available on the playstore, by far.
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Indeed

> OpenBSD does not support Bluetooth

Anyone have the story behind that? An explicit desire not to support it or lack of manpower?
I have used password-store (pass) to generate passwords and paste them to forms without realizing they were truncated and simultaneously those sites don't have the same maxlength on their login form.
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