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Possible Pandemic System
I feel like, as a whole, we could be doing better about this virus. I get it, I'm not an expert in the field; but I do have common sense. Here is what my common sense says on how to deal with COVID. Please join in and share your thoughts. Maybe there is something I'm not seeing, but it's 2020 and it seems we aren't really using technology to it's fullest to deal with this issue.

Why don't we....

1. Allow pharmacies to test for COVID (currently illegal in California)

2. Make COVID testing mandatory every 2 weeks via a statewide digital system (like jury duty). California could then partner will pharmacies to allow wider spread testing. We could even create jobs by hiring and training those who are unemployed to administer the actual tests.

3. Make it mandatory that every business/person use the statewide system to scan people to ensure they have been tested recently. That, combined with temperature checks at the door will serve to catch any issues quickly; as well as providing REAL TIME feed back to the state about possible infections and outbreaks

It seems to me that pandemics are the new normal. We aren't going to have a vaccine ready for every virus within 1-2 years; so it seems prudent for us to invest in a good system now with a virus that isn't as deadly.

What does everyone else think? I really would like to create a thread and have some of the best minds (yes that's you) work on a real solution. Let's plan it and build it!
I just use Tweetbot. The “authentic” Twitter is a mess.

Also very few accounts I follow are verified so I don’t know what this “cake” thing is all about.
Calm down.

I'm hardly accusing anyone of any wrong-doing. It is a turn-of-phrase that I'm sure most english-speakers have encountered.
TikTok may only allow 90% of videos, but its algorithm is biased toward exploration of random subjects.

Youtube may allow 99.9%, but its algorithm is biased toward what the user has recently watched.
I'm not sure what you're trying to really portend here but this is a huge, huge part of that article considering it's almost the entirety of the current working class parents;

Sixty-eight percent of adults 70 and older are mortgage-free, while 15.9% of Millennials are free and clear of mortgage payments.

I'm in my mid-30s and I hardly have any friends that own houses and if they do they're tech workers with decades left on their loans.
I'll read through the article but is D really like python in any way? functionals, closures, comprehensions, decorators etc.?
Yes, this is controversial. Rust requires accepting that it operates on broad rules, and even changing design patterns to fit them. It's unacceptable to some C++ programmers.

OTOH if you roll with this, it makes things simpler. You get uniform rules and guarantees for all interfaces. You don't need to evaluate correctness in detail on a case-by-case basis "is this code safe in this situation?".

It also helps with fearless refactoring, since you can't have these unobvious dependencies on implementation details. You can change a VecDeque to a plain Vec, and if it still compiles, it's still safe.
It's not an apt descriptor at all because there's no test for a normal range of a chemical that depressed people are outside of.
Mansplaining is not what people make it out to be. It is in extreme cases a bad thing but anytime a dude explains any type of concept to a woman they're pointed at and ridiculed as doing some mansplaining. And it is toxic in the sense that it makes some man, who would otherwise not have a patronizing attitude to women, not want to interact or convey any information to women. All this fingers pointing and exaggerating is a freaky thing.

But we as humans tend to see things from the prism of a late concept we just learned about and gauge it against various models in order to test its validity. The problem is that in this case it is not about being valid but about some sort of subjectivity.
Whoa. I have a strange mix of reactions to this. It's impressive, and interesting, and worthwhile, slightly creepy, and potentially hugely useful for a11y, democratizing cutting-edge HCI, AR, gaming, etc etc. Surprised it's not getting more attention!
The Twitter account for the British Prime Minister said that you can both exercise in parks and that visiting parks put lives in danger on the same day. Of course this should be expected from a populist government that needs to put forward multiple ideas to gauge public opinion before implementing policy but then any advice from the (English) government just comes across as contradictory and hypocritical especially when the politicians themselves don't follow the advice.

We had the whole 'masks don't work' song and dance too and by all accounts England is one of the worst countries for mask adoption rates despite a decent majority of the country thinking that they work, adoption rates might change a little when masks become mandatory in shops in a little over a week but for most people it's after the strict lockdown has ended and well past the point of being necessary. So I'd agree with you here, it has been very hard to take the official advice seriously and it's a real shame that a government is muddying the waters for political reasons.

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/12467792104101437...

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/12468073039756206...
> there is no room in the type system to return an error

There is: you panic, like in the array case.

That would have been much robust (at the cost of performance).
He has some really nice looking forearms though.
Which was organized by a subset of campus, in response to Milo giving a talk. Doesn't really support the notion of the institution of Berkeley being Marxist.
IntelliJ blows anything out of the water for at least Java/Scala development. I’ve used PyCharm a little bit but I don’t think it’s that much better than what’s available in vscode.
No one really knows and it can't be proven one way or the other, so this isn't worth debating
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Again, your dismal of the seriousness of a nuclear meltdown is not helping your argument.

>So where is the real disaster?

It was Fukushima, which resulted in more loss of trust for nuclear energy. It seems you're more angry at the media for covering a nuclear meltdown, than you are at the operators rolling the dice and making huge errors in their management of the plant. The lame stream media didn't cause the plant to meltdown, that was TEPCOs own hubris and blind ignorance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework#Licensing

The ecosystem looks like a hodgepodge of proprietary, MIT (accompanied by a potentially non-enforceable "patent promise"), and Apache. It's better than what Oracle is doing with Java, but Apple did the right thing and released Swift under Apache.
You're right. In the case of a narcissist or someone looking to argue (or someone very emotionally invested and stirred up), the "broken pop machine" method is better. They try to press your buttons but you don't react, saying things like, "Gee, I can't help you with that," and they eventually disengage.

Applying Karpman's triangle assumes both parties genuinely want to (and can) move forward.
This is why I believe the best path to promotion is simply to quit and find a company that will give you the title you want.

I'm not the kind of person that gets promoted, for whatever reasons, so I've been moving up by moving sideways. It sucks, but it is what it is.
Physiology Witches et al.
Some food products have increased in price since the pandemic mostly due to production and distribution chain issues. However, the basic staples you mention are such a small proportion of the budgets of people that even a significant rise in their price won’t move the inflation needle much compared to other categories.
I understand not prioritizing Linux for commercial purposes but Mac? General assumptions about people with Macs: 1. have disposable income 2. more likely to care about privacy.
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>one the techniques that authors like Huxley and many from his era employed

No, it's one of the beliefs they held. The weasel phrasing "technique (...) that they employed" means they didn't believe in those, but used them cunningly to dupe people.

Second, merely saying "is an example of essentialism" doesn't solve anything, as if the case for essentialism or not is a solved one and we should now dump it. It's just a different school of thought. And can be far more nuanced than its given credit for, it's not just some caricature.

>There is no normal/abnormal spectrum as Huxley would have us think. Just a complicated web of complicated agents, sometimes in harmony with their society and other times not. When the net entropy to the agent is relatively low, that's "normal".

Well, normal could just as well be people adjusted (e.g. by the passage of time, cultural norm, brainwashing, etc) to horrendous conditions. There would have been many "normal" people by your definition in USSR, for example. Slavery was also normal once -- and not just free citizens consider it as such, and based on accounts many later generation slaves internalised this as "just the way things are" (the "Uncle Tomas" variety).

Without a degree of essentialism, that is, an idea of what is normal and what a person/society should strive for, you can accept anything.
This reminds me of a little trick I learned while working in finance.

If you have bad credit but have over $1,000 in cash, go and get an unsecured loan for roughly 90% of your cash on hand. Ideally the terms should have a negligible or nonexistent prepayment penalty. Once you have the loan, repay it within 2-3 business days.

Rinse and repeat until your credit score starts to improve.
Fair enough, I expanded my comment with more explanation and detail.
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Because that mames it mire difficult and fun, I guess :)
Google has a culture of internal peer bonuses and kudos, which in some ways is great and meant to help with this kind of thing... except that it also leads to an internal culture of "congrats!" and "thank you for your amazing work!" centi-threads which often overlook other contributors on a project, or are used strategically by overly political managers to boost their own reports and projects and gain corporate visibility for them.

Lost in this is just the work ethic of doing incremental non-glamorous work and managers and people around you _doing their job_ by recognizing it. Many corporate perf processes, peer bonuses, and so on simply smudge this over, and they indirectly or directly encourage _fame seeking behaviour_ which is in my opinion the most corrosive thing to a company's long term performance and bottom line.
I mean topics different from the usual exact matches. I had only that word in mind. Sorry for the confusion, I fixed it.

I didn't know about this though. Thanks for mentioning it.
> ? Probably not, if you're talking about her actual offenses and not simply "assault" and "theft" in the abstract.

There is no "Probably". This is a statement of fact. The crimes were serious enough that they justified a prison sentence. The criminal was trialed, found guilty by a jury, and sentenced.

Just because the criminal was put on probation that doesn't mean the crimes committed by the criminal weren't serious offenses.
My family texts me (whatsapp) asking if/when they can call me.
I never knew this was such a big deal. I don't understand Twitter and the people that really live their lives by it, for it.

These people are all my age, and I've never felt so glad to be so disconnected. To not understand the memes or be involved in this Twitter conversation is fantastic.
I didn't mean to imply that all technology is "dehumanising" but I'd argue that most if not all that influences you has done something to your humanity/technology balance.

Fully human being is very hard to explain. According to my knowledge of Huxley is that it's someone who has essentially reached an ego state that has certain values(life, beauty, suffering). All is each which is all. I think if you haven't really dug into Huxley this could be confusing but fully human being is a specific thing.
Uh....you’re the one following them. Take some freaking responsibility for yourself.
I would assume because you want it to. The worlds are quite different, foremost being that there is no active war going on. Is there something more substantiative than “Trade controls in Asia” that is being drawn on to inform this opinion?
I'm guessing they could've inflated the price of bitcoin as well. Like have some major fund managers say they were moving into Bitcoin in a big way.
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Why would you recommend they use a VPN at all? Is this for the USA or elsewhere?
Yes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/65819
Any plans to go international? I see there is a collaborate page: https://supporters.eff.org/collaborate-atlas-surveillance
A lot of philosophers have had similar (but different) takes on this phenomenon over time.

Plato:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/

Jiddu Krishnamurti:

https://charleseisenstein.org/video/it-is-no-measure-of-heal...

https://www.wildmind.org/blogs/quote-of-the-month/krishnamur...

Terence McKenna:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7391624-we-have-gone-sick-b...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5998836-the-reason-we-feel-...

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9243.Terence_McKenna

Interestingly, this sort of phenomenon is rarely if ever discussed in the mainstream - rather, when any such ideas are discussed, they are typically mocked, trivialized, discredited, misrepresented, framed, "debunked", etc. It makes one wonder why things are this way - is this consensus perspective accidental, or might something else be going on? Can we point to any other historic examples of people being deliberately (mis)led, by coordinated and powerful actors, to believe certain things to be true, that are not actually true?
I still use vim for sysadmin tasks, but I agree that VS Code makes dev work so much more pleasant.
> Humans have proven time and time again that we are very good at optimizing for specific metrics, and apparently generally very poor at choosing the right metrics to target.

Maybe it's Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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The UK is wearing masks at a higher rate than many EU countries

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1114375/wearing-a-face-m...
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I don't think it is.

I've had times in my life when I certainly didn't constantly distract myself, and being of a contemplative type, sometimes also delved into existential thoughts. But I didn't automatically (or generally) feel angst about it.

I'm not religious and haven't been since I was 15 or so. (I don't deny possibly having something of a mildly spiritual side, but I consider that different as it doesn't require belief in anything other than various kinds of feelings and experiences being part of the human experience. It also doesn't provide an externally assigned meaning.)

In times when my mental health and wellbeing have generally been worse, existential questions have also become much more distressing.

So yeah, maybe for some or even many people, existential questions may amount to angst, but in my experience it has depended a lot more on my other emotional and psychological state.
Yes.

It's almost a reflection of 'Golden Parachute CEO' behavior: There's an implicit benefit to making decisions that have 'good optics' at the moment even if it takes you down a road you'll regret.

Seen this a LOT with 'buy/build' decisions almost everywhere I've worked. The cost savings look great up front, but by the time you've added all your custom bits, you're hitting things like API limits (either in surface or billing) and having to shell out, or building so much boilerplate to get around the limits you may as well have built it yourself.

But hey, it saved X$ the first year, who cares if it costs more the next 5 to maintain?
I’ve read stories indicating that some of these companies are ramping up production prior to approval in order to have batches of doses to distribute soon after approval happens. Having a government that will protect said company’s intellectual property helps reduce financial risk to the company, making that preproduction a bit less risky overall. It’s also arguable that protecting that IP is a moral justification for the same reason — saving lives. There might not be as many companies developing vaccines and committing to large production runs before they’re even approved without it.

Keep in mind, I’m not outright saying you’re wrong. I do think you’re way oversimplifying things.
>Relatively few

It is a little while since my 'experiment' with benefits, but in the UK benefits are a real poverty trap. If you take a single days work you can lose a month of certain benefits. Housing benefit was the worst. The next cap was a 16 hour a week rule, that after 16 hours work you lost some of your 'working tax credit', which made you worse off unless you could jump straight to near 40 hours.

Seeing the poverty trap for myself, I am a huge fan of UBI
I'm sure people living in Honk Kong and Xinjiang would disagree with your assessment.
> But somehow when you collapse it, you still have a 2pi rotation! It's just that now it's a 2pi rotation in xy rather than in zx. No matter what you do, if you collapse the rotation path to be the identity on the +z vector, the resulting path rotates _some_ vector by 2pi, instead of keeping it at the identity.

Oh, this is lovely! That's the first good visualization I've seen for the issue. Or at least the one that finally clicked for me...
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I wouldn't strictly limit the term filter bubble to politics here. Sometimes its just "whoa that stuff exists!" moments. Unless YouTube decides to let some video/channel go viral, you'll never get recommended stuff that isn't very similar to the last couple videos you watched.

All the cool stuff that isn't related to IT stuff or retro computing I've found through comments on hn or elsewhere. Like that guy that restores matchbox cars, or the other one who builds dioramas.
https://archive.vn/7Sqxg
I don't go to Youtube for news / information, I go there for entertainment. In that regard, the "bubble" works well, because it recommends the type of content I find interesting.

However, I have refrained from clicking on videos before even if they seemed interesting in the moment, because I don't want to extend my "bubble" in that direction (I've gotten that before). So in my experience, the bubble is actually too easy to extend.
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Yes, and they should call it Verifhide.

EDIT: Also, that's not always the case. The author of the piece herself is Verified and she clearly runs her own account: https://twitter.com/WaterSlicer
> How on Earth does that make it better in any way? [...] That these type of laws exist to punish cultural outliers does not make them just or right.

How did you arrive at the conclusion that GP was saying that? Did you read sentence 2 of 2, in which he clarifies he was not making a moral comparison? If you feel you’re in the upside down, it’s because you’re reading something that isn’t there. Not everything you encounter must be immediately classified as ‘for’ or ‘against’ whatever moral issue you currently feel passionate about. Nuance exists.
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I've met two 40-50 something ex-Oregoners who've said the same thing. They were extremely libertarian, and truly unlike anyone I'd met before. Almost like they came from some foreign(to me) culture. Both complained about how the population influx of Portland ruined the state, whatever that means, and both left looking for new adventures. I'm really curious what Oregon in the 70's-80's was like. The way they described it almost reminds me of Appalachian culture.
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>a11y

I understand a16z is a name but writing other words in this style is very difficult to understand. It would be great for people to use the full term 'accessibility'.
Is anyone else unable to Tweet? It says something like "this message looks like it might be automated, it's been blocked to protect our users".

I mainly just tweet about tech topics and my account hasn't been compromised.

I don't have a blue check mark but I've had an account for years and have it linked to a phone number. This is the first time I've seen such a message but I can't tweet anything.

I opened a support ticket but the ticket auto-response said something along the lines of "thanks for the feedback, unfortunately we can't individually reply to every ticket, but be assured your feedback will help Twitter!".
Did "Russian Hackers" meddle with the UK election too? Because this report is from the UK NCSC, not the NSA or US equivalent.
The point about how you couldn't make money on the stock market is that the SEC has tools to catch insider trading? You could as easily say you couldn't hack Twitter because the FBI has tools to catch hackers.

Many people, hundreds if not thousands, have long positions on Hertz. They may be able to find something suspicious, but not anything that could differentiate you from "I read on wallstreetbets that buying these Hertz calls was a good idea." Especially if you seed your account with a few similar bets first.
I think they just prefer them to be less destructive.
Sadly no, we cannot do that :(.
United States
Excess deaths by country or city
Deviation from expected deaths, %

Jun 6 - Jun 12 '-10%'

May 30 - Jun 5 '+1%'

May 23 - May 29 '+6%'

May 16 - May 22 '+12%'

I was surprised at these numbers and its interesting to contrast these with cases over time and tests conducted. Cases over time has under counted the general population before but to what extent is hard to know. Perhaps (since deaths are behind initial contracting of Covid by approx 28 days (Per Kinsa https://www.kinsahealth.co/kinsas-illness-signal-a-leading-i...) the population Covid numbers were actually trending down in May while tests performed were trending up.
But you see, money can’t buy love.
Rural areas are already heavily overrepresented in the american system. We certainly don't need to put the thumb on the scale further.

The ultimate problem is that "the rest of the state" (for virtually all states) is empty, hardly anybody lives there, and letting a minority override the will of everybody else is tyranny of the minority.

Taken to the extreme, this is ultimately what killed South Africa and Rhodesia and other countries - a relatively small minority imposing their will on the majority, things getting worse and worse with no recourse for the people whose lives were actually affected until things boiled over.

At its core, this is ultimately an argument for anti-democratic principles.
I found Python coding in Visual Studio to be quite amazing nowadays. VSCode and PyCharm are cross-platform though.
Thanks; I found that and still couldn't figure it out, but I'll take another look at some point.
Two different recommendation engines. One optimizes for depth, the other for breadth. Combined results in the feed for a well balanced diet of content.
Whenever I help someone out and they say "how can I thank you" I just say "let my manager know I was helpful".
Experiment: A social network that kicks people off after X,000 followers

In a way, you could "cancel" someone by following them, but if enough people don't also follow them. Then you just see their tweets.

This is actually kind of an interesting idea. What kind of social dynamics would play? On one hand, you want to see someones tweets, but if you follow them, you may cancel them.