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> To what degree will loss of hand sanitizer further the spread of Covid19?

somewhere around not at all.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent...
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Not in quite the same way, but I was inspired by watching Apollo 13 as a kid. I felt like the heroes were the engineers who could do the math and calculate the trajectories and work out the procedure for starting up the LM with low power. I was drawn to the engineering side of software by that. I keep an antique slide rule and some other old engineering instruments on my desk as a reminder of that inspiration.
I'm pretty sure the supply chain changed drastically when hand sanitizer went into high demand mode. Opportunistic companies that had access to methanol, ethanol, or isopropyl alcohol probably jumped in too quickly.

Purell, a popular brand, is made in Ohio and France.
The simplest software is no software at all. Reduce your technical debt as much as possible, and focus on simplicity. It's like the Apple principle.
Early warnings from the FDA said “in most cases methanol did not appear on the product label”[1] or I remember reading something about methanol being mislabeled as ethyl alcohol

[1] https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
I agree, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for that mentality and generally draw the boundaries between work and life. However, in this precarious time, I need to find another job.
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I get that it was a hobby project so you could just be doing these optimizations for the heck of it. But if you do have measurements of how much each of these factors contributed (especially the two points about custom kernels), it would be useful.
Stitchy, a Crochet Pattern Generator
This is much more relatable to me than the early risers - I’m curious: approximate how old are you?
> obvious use case is AAA games running in your browser, but I think once we've got 80-90% of native speeds on the web

The thing about AAA games is that it is not just about the speed but also the memory requirements. Currently there is no way to load the many GB of memory required for many games in a browser.
Sounds a better future than your basic healthcare being solely determined by your bank balance. You can always go private in both cases.
Can you define "huge"? Android enables that possibility, so a good randomized sample to prove the point: how huge is that problem in the android world, as in, how many millions of vulnerated devices and users are out there? How many millions of installs these "scam stores/apps" have?

It's a genuine questions since it's likely someone in hn can provide some peer reviewed data.
Do you think this art of the deal stuff is really working out even between America and its allies? It's giving them second thoughts on depending on America for trade and even defense. It won't work with China either.
Wake up whenever, exercise+stretch, wash up, do something productive while occasionally eating things until sleep time, exercise, wash up, sleep.

Though lately there's been a lot of internet fuckery like HN interfering with the productive things.
Can you point me to your source on the planned constellation total switching bandwidth? I haven't read about that anywhere.

I have read that they don't expect to be able to provide high levels of service in dense urban areas. Which does make me question the business model...

I think you nailed it that the military and government will be a big customer. Iridium has ~1300ms+ latency and very low data rates, very high costs and the government is their largest customer from what I understand.

Airlines are another likely market that would be a significant amount of business (post-covid19).

If Starlink can compete against Iridium and the other existing satellite providers on price, they could at a minimum take most of that business.
Right. You can easily argue the Peloton bike isn't worth $2000, but of course the content costs more to produce than Zwift content. Whether you think that's worth it or not is up to you as a consumer.
there is also r/globaltalk
Cancel culture is so ableist.
stupid journalists! Because of increased "digital transformation", money is moving from retail to online.Techn companies' profit have nothing to do with 40M who might fact evictions.
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The FDA primarily cares about methanol in hand-sanitizer because alcoholics (and teenagers) sometimes drink hand sanitizer. In a public grocery store, you're probably not drinking the stuff.
You realize a concentration camp implies concentrating people’s physical bodies into a contained space, right? There are many examples, including right here in the US (border camps, Guantanamo). Being subject to a corporation’s whims is not comparable to being an enemy or prisoner of the state without due process.

Palantir, on the other hand, has a direct role in this process of concentrating undesirables.
Curious question: If you are picking OCaml over Rust in 2020 for a new project, what is your reason for doing so (other than being already familiar with OCaml through college courses, or wanting to try out something new for fun) ?

The only reason I could think of was being able to compile to JS, but other than that Rust seems to be a superior choice for all the use cases I could have used practically used OCaml for.
> A lot of stores require that you use those upon entry

Is this actually a thing? None of the stores I’ve been to require you to use it.
Hmm. I suppose you could make your own with aloe vera and some everclear from the liquor store.
I see huge numbers of folks on Peloton groups who have gotten into outdoor cycling as a result. It's actually a near-constant stream of folks on the FB groups asking for advice.
Bologna Massacre (August 2nd, 1980)
There is also https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2019fa/textbook/. Yours is 2019 Spring, this is 2019 Fall. This version covers many more topics.
Methanol is usually an accidental byproduct of ethanol production. If the ethanol is untested, the end product might be labelled "ethanol" and contain methanol.
It was bipartisan then but in different terms.

International Trade Treaties were meant to do so earlier but wound up botched by including too many outright special interests forcing deal breakers. Beyond even state level interests into irrelevant "noisy minority" ones like trying to enforce location name branding onto new world which used it for centuries as implicitly "in the style of Parma".

The IP strategy ones often missed that it wasn't stealing - they sent the plans over themselves to save money. Even without illicit third shifts or counterfitting per se they would fundamentally learn enough to compete on knock offs. If the IP was actually precious to them they would have never sent it abroad to manufacture as the percentage saved wouldn't be worth it.

In my opinion what is spoken about IP in general and trade with China beyond "it is cheap/has high industrial concentration advantages" are comfortable lies to ease anxiety of the status quo as opposed to recognizing a nuanced and messy strategic situation of many actors which doesn't fit into a TED talk let alone a sound bite.
What you are not allowing is that the “universality” will not be inalienable... which we already see in terms of, you have a right to free speech, but it’s not “consequence free” which was how the soviets treated free speech. Their constitution also enshrined free speech, but as the joke went, they could also say “Reagan is an idiot”, not only Americans.

The likelihood of universal basic income being completely strings free is very low. You get convicted of some felony, you lose it, you are guilty of domestic violence you lose it, you say something very un-PC you lose it. And you may say, yeah, so what, those are bad people. But it would be like “hate speech”. Hate speech in the 90s was one thing, today it means someone disagrees with you on policy.
Is this another selective comparisons article?

Autopilot is primarily a highway tool, but the vast vast majority of accidents happen on normal streets, and is generally unavailable in many of the cases where accidents are common.

A comparison of crash rates is only relevant when comparing similarly situated crashes. So what is the average American crash rate on highways in clear weather, without construction, etc? I suspect that crash rate is far better than at night, during a blizzard, on an ordinary poorly lit suburban road. Yet AP wouldn't run then.
We're not talking about the kind of system where you just turn on the rockets and it'll probably work okay here. Propulsive landing based on running 8 rockets is gonna take a ton of highly tested hardware and software, including speed and orientation sensors etc and all the software to balance things out perfectly.

No way they're adding in a big pile of extra untested software and hardware for an unlikely event. NASA would never approve, and correctly so, as that would be a massive number of extra things to potentially go wrong.
Ask HN: Other examples like “Kodak missed digitization” for presentations?
When you listen to a presentation about digitization, innovation, or something like that, there is a massive chance that the speaker will mention Kodak as an example of a company that slept through the digital revolution and, therefore, no longer exists.

I'm looking for more handy examples, metaphors, etc. that could be used in presentations. It doesn't even have to be about digitalization. It could be about anything. But they should not be boring and worn out.

Thanks. :)
For lowest latency applications I void avoid using RT priorities. Better to run each core 100% with busy waiting and if you do so with RT prio you can prevent the kernel from running tasks such as vmstat leading to lockup issues. Out of the box there is currently no way to 100% isolate cores in Linux. There is some ongoing work on that: https://lwn.net/Articles/816298/
As a newbie to vinyl, I had no idea about tone arms. Part of my intention with this was to replace all the guts with a Raspberry Pi and control things like the arm digitally.

As for the wear on the vinyl - there are quite a few original pressings of Sgt Pepper. I don't mind scratching this one to hell and back!
Sony's original reader was crippled in many many ways. I considered buying one back in the depths of time before the g2 Kindle came out. The I used a g2, and bought it right then and there (while sitting at the bar at a Texas Roadhouse).

For context Sony's reader required a windows app. Kindle had whispernet.

I wasn't a huge fan of either company at the time but ended up working at both in the following years.
Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USPS struggles to keep up
> is that it gives enormous economic and political power to the United States

All the best to them :-) I think having models in nations that actually use a language as their native tongue is far better than choosing a language for which there is no living model (such as Latin or Esperanto).

But then, why don't you also add Britain, Australia, Canada or South Africa to your list?
It’s not. And it’s only possible because I have no commute. Also any activities such as driving to hockey practice and so on will eat some of the free time (if hockey practice is at 3pm I’ll have to work a bit in the evening).
That's so interesting. I was thinking about comparing the length of tracks with the CD. Or using OpenCV to count the RPM. I had no idea people could hear subtle pitch changes like that.
deprocrastination.co, I can't use HN or any social sites before 1PM weekdays.
I have another article on virtual memory: https://rigtorp.se/virtual-memory/
Random one: https://www.riziv.fgov.be/nl/covid19/Paginas/terugbetalingsv...

I will look up the 5€ one later, didn't saw your message before
This is likely correct, the FDA is reasonably concerned for at the extreme end.

“Although all persons using these products on their hands are at risk for methanol poisoning, young children who accidently ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute, are most at risk.”

I would be more concerned if your using hand sanitizer 10+ times a day, but a single use from a random store is almost certainly harmless.
There is some cool stuff for OCaml, that is not (yet) possible in Rust, e.g. building a unikernel using MirageOS (https://mirage.io/)
I don't see the problem. Spam and scam apps still make their way on to the Mac and iOS App Stores, and I'm sure that other app stores can use the 30% cut (or less) more efficiently compared to how Apple or Google uses it to run their app stores.
Our legacy systems use SQL and relational DBs. There's a big push to go to DynamoBD for everything new. We are copying old data into these new systems. It's a real mess trying to slot DB2 or Oracle data into multiple DynamoDBs, and in piecemeal fashion no less.
You realize we're talking about the modern "diversity" movement, not civil rights? Where's the effort? What has changed in the culture and pipeline that causes the continuing imbalance? Why is the focus only on the hiring and specific industries? Why have other minorities done fine since the beginning?

This movement is the epitome of good intentions paving the road to hell. It's been stretched to the extreme. It calls for hiring people based on nothing more than race/skin color. That's racial discrimination. It calls for things like "black-only" spaces. That's racial segregation. These policies are very public and direct at this point, and impossible to ignore.

Yet the defense seems to come from people who are either ignorant or willingly complicit and would rather just say the "right" things instead of focus on the change, just like this article points out regarding media.
The pot is probably for adjusting the motor speed. This is VR151 on the circuit board.
Many organisations run water cooled overclocked servers in production. I have not yet heard of any production use of sub-ambient cooling, but that would be awesome!
What was the game? Could you elaborate on your release model for the $100k game? Any website or blog posts?

- a solo indie dev several months in
1. No borrow checker

2. Compilation times
We're already "scored" all the time ... all types of insurance, mortgages, credit ratings, past criminal record, and so on. Now, we may wish to control the use of data being used on us or against us, and I support that, but to the degree with which we are being "scored" generally, we are already being scored all the time across tons of other dimensions and commercial and even governmental applications.
Maybe where they are selling old oil rigs outside of territorial waters..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
That would be a cool project. Do you already know the resistance curve, or you're just saying SOMEONE knows it? I'd worry that it would be impacted by heat, but perhaps not significantly.

I've got a Peloton, have a Stages power crank on my road bike, and previously had Favero Assioma power meter pedals (highly recommended product BTW). I ran the pedals on the Peloton for a few rides to get a feeling for how close the calibration was. (surprisingly close, in my case).
heh, you seem to have messed up the bracket order for the markdown links. I memorise it as the mnemonic "square bracket": first the square [], then the bracket ().
It’s awfully sure about statutory sentencing.
prime driving conditions means: well marked freeways.

Accidents primarily happen in areas like suburban and city streets with pedestrians, effectively randomized lighting and road surfaces, and random mix of traffic lights, stops sign, and poor road markings.

The closer you get to the latter the less likely AP is to engage, and also the higher likelihood of a crash for any vehicle. Effectively AP is ensuring that it can never been operating in the situations that produce the bulk of the crash rate statistics, so any claims of relative safety are kind of meaningless.
Well, this is Theo specifically.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing with BSDs. Base system code should compile with a base system compiler. But there is no reason to bring a Rust (or Checked C) compiler into base if nothing uses it.
I do have a list of 10. I don't really feel comfortable posting it because I don't want to shame people, and also because it will guarantee a bunch of no-true-scottsman, "X, Y, and Z were student projects and Q was just a demo and R only panic because cargo built a debug build by default and there was an integer overflow, and M was only because I didn't provide all the required command-line arguments...".

All those things are true, but my experience, in practice, is that the overwhelming majority of rust things I have attempted to use are broken out of the gate in a way that software written in C/C++ is usually not. I'm glad to hear that not everyone has had that experience-- I did kind of wonder if my comment was going to trigger one of those things where everyone has had the same experience but no one talks about it until someone breaks the ice--, but I have also heard other people express experiences similar to mine the experience is jarring particularly because of the hyped context that rust is usually discussed in.

> still shows examples which make use of expect or unwrap,

right, or older code which is full of unwrap from top to bottom. :)
Here he defines his own success as the ability of his patreon to support him financially. He says he couldn't make that work.

It doesn't really go into detail about whether he offered other direct contracts or work fire hire or other tried other licensing or any other strategy.
RHEL, but all the tools are open source.
Joining Anonymous, hacking police databases, and getting arrested by FBI
Thanks for sharing your routine. I’ve been navigating the realms of long distance running for a few years and I’ve not been able to strike the balance between injury and effort so far. I’m aspiring to do an ultra next year (have done 35m previously but injured) and I’m seeking a routine/rhythm where I can crack that out without injuring myself. Thanks for your considered response!
I think that is too strong. Consider this code:

unsafe { libc::fork() };
let v = vec![1];

This may hang or even crash (malloc in the child) but there's no sense in which the unsafe block is "incorrect." Some unsafe code has unavoidable implications for the entire program.
Similar parasitic fungus that "zombifies" ants: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

A similar storyline is also featured in the TV show Fortitude. The first two seasons are on Amazon Prime, but I haven't been able to find the third season in the US, despite it being a couple of years old now.
You really need to organize your thoughts better, I have no clue what you’re trying to say here but it sounds interesting.
Is it practical to do NLP research using a language you're not fluent in? Like, does most research require the experimenter to be able to judge fluency and ambiguity themselves?
Mid-30s. I realize this isn't a sustainable way to live, but I'm hoping to be retired by 40.
..must either login or use the Reddit app to see comments :(

Edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/
The App Store is only one piece of Apple's business model. They also earn significant profits from hardware sales (including seriously overpriced accessories), extended warranties, and content licensing.
Interesting. I wonder how the fungus adapted to target cicadas which famously spawn only in prime years such as 17 or 19 to avoid overlap with their predators.
That the company may eventually be allowed to tell us after they fact that they surrendered out data to the US government is not much of a comfort.

In any case, I'm not sure that any of the protections apply to foreigners (the criticism is all about how they might accidentally target Americans) so for those who are neither Chinese nor American citizens, it makes no difference. I would be happy to be completely wrong about this if you have information about how foreign citizens' rights are protected from US intelligence gathering.

The NSLs were merely meant as an example to show how US companies can also be compelled to assist in their government's intelligence gathering. You're right that they can (in theory?) challenge the secrecy part specifically.
Isn’t america great again?
The idea of prime driving conditions isn’t really valid, spend a couple hours watching “idiot driver” videos on YouTube and I think it’s pretty apparent that people can make mistakes regardless of how optimal the conditions are.

The number one problem I see (particularly in the Russian videos) is when people try to fly past stopped or slowing vehicles on a two lane road and end up crashing into a vehicle that has stopped or slowed down to turn across the oncoming lane.

The number two problem I see (mostly in US videos) is that people just plow straight into anyone not driving perfectly - no attempt to slow or dodge - I’m guessing this is some cultural thing “(I have right of way|other driver is in the wrong) so physics don’t apply to me”

Number three thing I see is trucks with uneven loads cause a lot of problems. Both the drivers overcompensating for uneven or shifting distribution, and catastrophic failure of the vehicle itself.
If you're emailing links to Google docs and you expect them to last for 5 years then you're doing it all wrong. Google Docs are great for collaboration, authoring, review, publication, but durable publication or archiving is a different use case that only a permanent, self managed, URI based solution can deliver. I guess that's part of what you're alluding to.
Nice question.
I am not that old and only further aware of the more recent "cloud first" and "america first"
Yeah it also invites all sorts of stupidity to paint totalitarianism as "just their culture" which is itself bigotry wearing a mask of anti-colonialism in apologetics to that which should be condemned. It brings to mind dismissing infamous warlord oppression with child soldiers and instituionalized rape as "just their culture".

This should be universally obvious but fundamentally people are people no matter their origin or culture.
Choose the non-teleolgical version: what changes did the fungus or cicada mutate that allowed this integration of lifecycles?
I don't think the alternative would be extermination, as the CCP has been very consistent at using the politically incorrect for slave labor.

The reasoning is given at [1]:

> Mao Zedong's order given in 1957 in one of his speeches, in which Mao explained why political prisoners must not be executed:

> 1st: If one was executed, then more would have to be executed for the same crime later on for equality, and it would difficult to spare the lives of future prisoners who committed the same crime, because justice system would be criticized as unequal, giving preferential treatments

> 2nd: Wrong people and even innocent people might be executed by mistake

> 3rd: Executing prisoners could mean the vanishing of evidence

> 4th: When prisoners were executed, it could not increase production output, could not improve scientific research, could not strengthen national defense, and could not liberate Taiwan

> 5th: You (the Communist regime) would be accused of excessive killings

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qincheng_Prison#Labour

Tracking down the source hit a dead end because I can't justify spending $44 for a speech from 1957. So this quote may not be accurate, but it is pretty consistent with the CCP's behavior.
scam apps are pretty rare on the app store to be honest.

I don't mind apple providing an official, supported by default, highly curated app store. But that shouldn't be the only way to install software.

On the other hand, there is one ecosystem which i wonder is comparable : the playstation one. Can you release a game on that console without explicit whiteflagging by sony ?
Most of these tips apply to all architectures. The only x86 specific parts are regarding CPU power management and turboboost.