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Having started a serious programming language, I am finding truth in writing the parser myself. I started with ANTLR, and while it helped me go fast, it is slowing me down now in some features. For instance, sane error messages are an exceptionally hard problem.

I'm finding wisdom is stopping on the first parse error because if you try to fix those on the fly, then you are just creating more junk. It is better to make parsing super fast and done up-front because then you don't waste your time debugging non-issues.

Once parsing happens, the same philosophy applies to type checking. Spool out the first error within a sub-tree, and move onto the next sub-tree.
Maybe, just maybe you shouldn't look at new cases as your measurement when you are constantly ramping up testing. If you test more people of course you will find more people with the virus. You should be looking at hospitalizations and those numbers are pretty much down across the board.
I take exception to this analysis:

"The numbers killed in terrorist incidents may be small. But the threat is endemic, and the texture of everyday life has altered profoundly. Video cameras and security procedures in public places have become part of the way we live."

The author writes about this as if our response to terrorism is some sort of deterministic feature of the natural world. Instead, however, our response is series of distinct policy choices, none of which were ever inevitable and all of which are subject to change (even if that change is hard to accomplish).

The security theater in (particularly US) airports is not a deterministic consequence of terrorism - it's the result of the policies of the GW Bush administration. The widespread use of CCTV cameras in the UK is not a deterministic response to crime and/or terrorism - it's the result of several governments worth of explicit policy, as evidenced by the remarkably lower use of such cameras in other nations affected by similar phenomena.

Talking about "what has happened" as if it was inevitable, and not the result of choices made by the powerful is dangerous and dampens the possibility of a belief in other outcomes.
A quick Google seems to indicate that the title is fair:

From news article:

> Up to 30% of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus are developing dangerous blood clots, according to medical experts.

(One doctor anecdotally thinks its higher)

From journal article https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01403-8

> Studies from the Netherlands and France suggest that clots arise in 20–30% of critically ill COVID-19 patients. 1,2

But yes, rounding "20-30%" up to "one third" is a bit odd. The news article seems to leave the reader to do their own discovery of sources. So you're not wrong to be skeptical, but you're not right that it's wrong :)
Why would it be? that it madness.
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Sorry, what's your age ?

edit:
OK I got one downvote instead of an answer.
Wasn't the question gentle enough?

The death rate for my age is .37%,
it seems that the death rate for your age may be not important at all -correct ?
They’re gonna pay the mortgage for three extra months, not a lump sum at the end.
> I'm sure you can find examples of crazy people on Twitter, it's a group of over 100 dissatisified people, but that's certainly not the majority.

The world is so large, you can find examples of just about anything if you go searching for it.
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I doubt that he has any special knowledge that provides an edge; nobody knows what the fallout will be from all of this or when/if a vaccine will be developed.

More likely, he’s just thinking about the same facts differently than others. Buffett tends to be quite cautious with regards to potential catastrophic failures, so he’s probably more focused on all of the ways that airlines, banks, etc. might lose a ton of money rather than worrying about missing out on the recovery.
And how are they determining it from patient records?
That looks nice, however for those interested, only the plugins are opensource and usage is not free. The good thing is that it shows what is possible.
Oh, so then it's nicer than what they're doing with rent.
An alternative way to look at this is that you shouldn't remotely consider reopening if you don't even have enough testing capacity available to identify nearly every case. You can't control outbreaks if you don't have the data needed for contact tracing.
What happens when network drops? Do you have a chance to merge conflicts? Or one version wins?
It's frightening to me to think that people assume it would be OK/normal for a government to have the power to allow travel.

(I don't mean this as a personal attack on Chris.)
This. And many (maybe most) of those deaths could be prevented with the right prophylactic treatment.
So you are saying companies such as Blackrock, Marriot, and Carnival Cruiselines are critical infrastructure?
I tried this yesterday. It seems biased towards the interests of the curators, and, like Google in regards to "some ideal average consumer", is therefore useless if you fall outside a certain level of similarity to the target demo.

For example, I enjoy weightlifting and strength sports. I did a search for "muscle", and every result but one was using the word "muscle" as a figurative metaphor. Barely anything about actual muscles. Searching "funk" was just as bad. One page about Motown and a LOT of midis.
Because there is in many other liberal western countries. I think they just relaxed it but if I tried to travel to go hiking where I am (not as badly effected as parts of the US) the police would stop me under the Coronavirus Act.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death because heart stoppage is the definition of death and the “default” value when the actual cause of death is unknown.

Marking cardiac arrest as cause of death is like filling in the blank with “died by not living anymore”.

Therefore it is not a meaningful stat to say the heart disease is the #1 or #2 cause of death. I cringe when that is used by fitness gurus to justify their videos or when scientific discussions are derailed by making the comparison.
Realistically, the end of WW2 was indeed followed by unprecedented social progress and economic equality in many parts of the world.
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At least for GitHub the consent request is for Read/Write access to all public and private repos, settings, deployment keys and a bunch of other stuff.
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This is a valid point, and folks who take a long-term view tend to come out ahead over the long periods, even going through worse disruptions than COVID (which, in my view is not that big when compared to wars, revolutions and such).

I am not a financial planner, but just a few thoughts. First, folks who try to invest in crashes or divest on peaks tend to do it too early. Most of such events give you more than one opportunity to buy/sell and not being first in/out can give big advantages.

Second, we did not (yet?) see a big drop. A rise of 20% would put S&P at or near all-time highs. For comparison, during the 2008 crash, S&P dropped by over 50%, so the rise back would give you ~120% return. Thus the reward for "catching the knife" today is much, much smaller than in 2008.

Finally, a lot of stocks are now indexed and held in retirement accounts. Many folks there hold more than they should in stocks because they have been going up and seem to be the only game in town beating inflation. And all advisors say "leave your retirement accounts as is, long term view, yada yada". If a significant number of people start moving retirement money out of index funds, which they might do in uncertainty, there may be a lot of pain for stocks. For example, many smaller stocks just do not have the trading volumes to withstand even a moderate sales increase driven by index funds. My 2c.
Do critics of government hold other prediction "markets" to the same standards?

People predict sportsball outcomes. A much smaller problem domain, with far more historical data, insane audience engagement (interest), and ample expertise.

Are sportsball predictions qualitatively better than pandemic predictions?
> it would be OK/normal

I don't think anyone thinks it's OK or normal.

Does the US have no absolutely mechanism at all for restricting travel if there is an emergency? What would they do if there was an invasion or a pandemic where there was a much higher proportion of people dying?
Coronaviruses aren't that common to the point that people are repeatedly infected with then throughout their lifetime.
If you're used to fast paced web apps like Trello, yes.
There's even a historical graph of this, called the Shiller P/E Ratio: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

We are still at the highest point ever except for the dotcom bubble and black tuesday of 1929 (and directly before the recent crash, although not by much).

So to answer the parent, pick a ratio somewhere below that. Price has been the main thing moving upward disproportionately for the past decade, now earnings will take a dive.
Seems like we are seeing inflation, it’s just in assets not commodities. How else do you explain the current P/E ratio of the stock market?
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If you're too lazy to read the whole paper I've made a quick explainer video:

https://youtu.be/3NWUgBsEXiU
This seems weird to me though. New Yorkers should have wide exposure to the common cold due to density, as would people in Wuhan.. why was this sars-cov2 so lethal then?
Hey! Thanks for the comment and that's really cool! Your product looks really slick as well!

Would you mind posting in this "who's using kea" issue about versoly as well?

https://github.com/keajs/kea/issues/35
Regarding clicking on the wrong link, then moving the cursor away and releasing the button, I do this often as well.
I been waiting for this project for a while. I saw an amazing demo of this on youtube video. In the demo a regular Jetty server running a simple endpoint that slept for 1 sec was DOSd with multiple concurrent requests. You can see as the number of concurrent requests increased, the execution time increased. The presenter then changed the code of the Jetty server to create a new Fiber vs a Thread. Then reproduced the test and this time there was no increase in execution time.

What I really like about this project is that we can keep Spring MVC applications in non-reactive form. Spring MVC came out with reactive framework for implementing APIs. But I'm not a fan of this style for a few reasons, plus there is millions of LOC doing it the non react implementation. By utilizing project Loom, we do not have to switch over to the Spring reactive way, and we can increase the performance of existing code.

EDIT: Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csc2JRs6470:

- he goes into Loom at 19:30.

- he goes into the demo at 24:00.
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See also this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187140212...

> COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affects black and minority ethnic individuals. The underlying mechanism is unknown.

> One potential mediator could be their higher prevalence of apparent vitamin D deficiency.

> We explored whether blood 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration was associated with COVID-19 risk.

> We found no evidence that (25(OH)D) explains susceptibility to COVID-19 infection, either overall or between ethnic groups.
You are contributing to society. You've shown your value to the economy and got rewarded capital for it, which you now move in an efficient (?) way.
I've settled on "healthy fear" as my view of the proper reaction.

Panic isn't helpful and you can't sustain it.

Disregard is just plain stupid - it's a lethal disease that messes up a lot of young and healthy people pretty seriously.
Thanks for the info! A common pattern I’ve seen for anyone who’s successful is failed interviews, it definitely is a crap shoot.
Hey I am not saying people weren't perfectly in line to ask about this and raise the point/push for only releasing at feature parity. That's not what I recall the tone was though, heck even in this thread people are claiming that Mozilla wanted to eliminate extensions altogether. Mozilla employees also responded to these HN threads straight away clarifying that extensions were being looked at closely with intent (albeit no commitment) to have feature parity at launch.

As I said, given the history they should have had a clear communication of what they intend to do about extensions when they premiered Firefox Preview. Of course that also implies that they would have had to have a clear idea of what they are going to do about them at the time.
That's not past tense yet...
> Yet we decimated our economy out of an absolute panic and still continue to push for lockdown even when numbers show it’s time to start things again.

Remember: the correct recation to a situation like this will probably look like an extreme overreaction.

There is basically no way of telling the adequate response from a complete overreaction right now.

Even if it turns out that in the end the IFR of the disease was just 0.1%, or that 50% had existing immunity... then that will only change after the fact what would have been the correct response. The decision needs to be made without that information.
> If stock prices represent anything concrete, how is it that Snapchat's market cap is higher than Ford's?

> Do any of us actually believe that Snap's stock price is reflective of its value to society?

of course not. the stock price doesn't represent the value to society; it represents the (perceived) value to investors, taking into account potential for growth. ford is an established, stable company, but it's hard to see any avenues for massive growth over the next decade. I don't personally believe snapchat will grow massively, but it's more likely than ford to do that or get purchased for a huge amount of money by a tech giant.
Zube.io is pretty good. It extends Github issues. Devs who want to work purely in GitHub can use their existing flow and PMs get nice sprint boards and larger tools like Epics in the Zube UI.

I personally really liked it as a dev.
Consider that the first-order effects of just _older people dying_ may not be everything entailed with this outbreak:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kawasaki-disease-coronavirus-il...

A _novel_ virus means we don't know what it does to everyone yet. At a minimum, closing the schools globally probably has saved millions of children from this "new polio"... for now.

Perhaps also maybe grandparents would like to live long enough to see their _healthy_ grandchildren again.
I’ve sort of been thinking about it. Our car is 20 years old and gets driven about 100 miles a month. When it dies, it won’t be replaced. My regular bike is fine for commuting and light errands, but I think a more cargo-type bike might be good to have. One of my coworkers got a nice one that she likes a lot—hauls her kids around on it.
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Sweden begs to differ with this statement as the as the misleading headline article from the NY times shows that their numbers aren't meaningfully different than other European countries which did lockdown. UK which has a lockdown policy was quite a bit higher.

CDC own numbers on this aren't really supporting the panic level either.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Pneumonia is still stomping covid19 as far as deaths. Death projections are made from the 2017-2019 data and as of now they're at 101% of their protections. That number moves up and down but has been sticking really close to 100%. With 60+k unexpected covid19 we should be around 105-107% deaths but we're not.

Things aren't over yet but all the be data coming out is very much supporting that is has been a massive overreaction. If we're going to overreact for the purpose of saving lives, why don't we don't we do it to solve the 9.1 million deaths from hunger and hunger related issues?
When Buffett cut cheques to Goldman, GE and Bank of America in the financial crisis of 2009/2010 there were not many other players willing or able to invest billions of dollars. Berkshire might have the most solid balance sheet in the world - they are strong when others are losing their shirt.

The source of Berkshire's strong performance was a combination of very good investments (buying American express in 1964) and insurance float, a great credit facility with negative interest rates.

Given the size of the private businesses Berkshire owns, it is quite naive to assess the firm purely on stock-picking performance of Buffett. The operating results really matter, producing $25bn+ of operating profits per year isn't too shabby.
I dunno, with kids and grandkids seems more likely they would be infected over the lifetime..
> I move the cursor away from that link and let the button go up on the correct or in free space

I do this a lot as well.
>Wouldn't you want your extra effort to pay off?

Yes of course I would always want to make more. For example: The company can say my pay is $100 but then after some complex calculation, I get $50. I don't care how they calculate it, all I know is from my perspective my pay is actually $50 (not $100) and I would then use this $50 number to compare with my total effort (normal effort + extra effort).

>but it's not like the net pay of delivery drivers is particularly good

Then I simply won't do it. This has nothing to do with the pay model
There is still a piper to pay for the lockdowns, and that is the patients who will die due to untreated heart disease, missed cancer treatments and surgeries, mental health problems, und so weiter. Not to mention all the people who will now find their disease at a later date and suffer a worse prognosis for it. The lockdowns could have created more deaths and suffering than were prevented, but we won't know for some time.
Here are the current numbers from Italy, which has been dealing with the virus for a while, has a good health care system, accurate reporting, and widespread testing.

https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/en/
Thank you!

It works over some VPN's but not all. We will look into why and try to resolve.

Yes, it works very well when we need to call eachother or share files with eachother in the office. At home, I mainly use it to share large pictures and videos with my wife as it is very fast.

Yes, different channels and group calling should be added. We could add a chat function in it aswell.

Even though it is based on your local wifi and the data never leaves your home/office network, we have still encrypted it by default so we can integrate online calling and file sharing in a secure manner and dont have to redo the whole security aspect again!
When I read that it's const I can in my mind "drop it". It's there, I know where the value was set and don't have to skim any longer for updates. It isn't for the compiler, its for me, the next guy who has to read your code.

Same thing with doing two separate things in the loop. Not only can it stop the the compiler from optimisations from time to time (the c++ compiler is very clever... but many times it gives up), I've had speed increases in breaking it up into several loops, but I also have to search and in my mind break things up. Very easy to do when I'm writing the code (and I'd probably do the same because of laziness), but quite annoying when I read someone else's code that does it.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That all travel should be allowed by default, and the government should never deny you the right to travel?

Because I'm sure that any reasonable person could name at least few situations when obviously the government does have and should have the power to limit the ability to travel within its own borders.

Or are you arguing that it isn't in the government's power to "allow" travel, merely to restrict it in special cases? Well, then I'd like to point out that pretty much anywhere in the world if you want to travel, you need to ask your government for permission(obtain a passport or a form of internationally recognized ID).
>What am I supposed to do whenever I'm involved in a new breach? Burn all my accounts and start again?

If you reuse passwords, then change your passwords for all the accounts that use the breached password. Hopefully, it'll spur you to start using a password manager so you can easily have strong, unique passwords.

If you don't reuse passwords, then change your password for the breached account. Sometimes services don't tell you about breaches and it is HIBP that first informs you about the breach.

If there is some email address that you really, really don't want bad guys to know about (perhaps a dedicated email address for your important financial accounts), then it helps you know when to switch to another email address.

HIBP helps you know how often a service has been breached in the past, and that might help guide what services you want to use/not-use in the future.
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Oh yeah, the parachute has slowed my free-fall down considerably, it is certainly time to let go of it.
AFAIK it depends on how long lived the antibody response is. Memory cells can last different amounts of time for different infections, or (like for certain calicivirus infections?) hardly develop at all. Have no nice paper on hand to back this up though. But if it's a short lived response (as in years, not decades), it's good to be freshly exposed and like another commenter said, kids get colds all the time. And likely parents of young children too (I know I did). Maybe that helps?
You are exalting ignorance. That's what actually needs to stop.
What point are you trying to make here - just letting others know your a libertarian, or that you’re terribly naïve? Or both?

It is normal and pretty much always has been throughout human history, stretching back to hunter gatherer groups that wouldn’t let you just wander off and go traveling without them. I mean, ever heard of a passport or a Visa? And that power becomes particularly useful during a pandemic, a war or any one of a huge number of other relevant occasions.
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Don't browsers do this themselves? Preload links on a page you visit? I think firefox calls it pre-fetching.
The unexposed samples were from blood draws taken from 2015 to 2018.
At the expense of all other medical procedures that people needed, let us not forget. We did all of this despite a whole bunch of people effectively having already been vaccinated against COVID-19.
> Google's dominant market position was achieved through market competition not through impairing the ability of smaller companies to enter markets

Not sure about that considering how many startups they buy each year
Even if you showed them your papers?
Excuse me but what do you mean with "It's a bit odd that the one retailer than meets the most aggressively demanded Progressive goal" ? real question.
Very cool. Was this inspired by Hy?
>After recovery, their adaptive immune system should have developed an additional immune response that is customized to defend against Covid-19.

The extent antibody-dependent enhancement causes mortality is questionable. Ongoing studies (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04324021) to treat cytokine storm cases will hopefully be able to better estimate it.
The choice is to adopt a crap product like Jira and use it to model your existing flows or buy an SAP or NetSuite product and have it govern your business.
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