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> Yesterday kiwis were allowed to fly to Australia and enter the general population without quarantine.

The Australian general population? That's fine, it's getting back in to NZ that's the issue.

There will come a point where lives will be sacrificed in order to get economies going again. It's harsh, but true.

Has NZ's economy escaped unscathed? I'd imaging that tourism is quite a large part of their GDP; but if I as a tourist have to quarantine for two weeks on arrival there's really not much point in visiting NZ at all.

Once the rest of the world starts operating again, vaccine or not, NZ will have to follow and relax their isolation. They're hoping that by the time that comes there'll be a vaccine or better treatments. But there's no guarantee of that. The rest of the world will be in the position where those who would have died from Covid have already probably died, but NZ won't.
Not directly answering OPs question, but I think VoteBox[0] answers most of those criteria you're mentioning (except initiatives and waiting times)

[0] https://votebox.us/
> Education is woefully underfunded in America, especially rural America.

Relative to what? The US spends among the most of any country on education. https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/International-E...

If the assertion is that education is underfunded everywhere in the world, that’s an interesting assertion, but what’s the basis?
same goes for taiwan. its not news that relatively small islands with restrictive and defensive covid policies got this right.
Is fear bad a priori? I don’t think so, this is an unprecedentedly dangerous virus, I think if you’re not at least a little scared then you’re delusional.

Dismissing action as motivated by fear is ridiculous, we should be scared of dangerous things and let that fear motivate us to take rational action.
Where is the data hosted? Somehow it feels like the devs are located close to the data and don't notice the lag. And for me in central Europe, some requests must travel across the world and back.
Ok, but the right to repair goes beyond just opening the laptop and clearing dust.

Your warranty should be voided and the manufacturer should no longer be liable if you make unauthorized repairs.
And so they'll be holed up a while. So? The vast majority of humans never leave their countries their entire lives.

If the time comes that they're willing to let their elders die so the wealthiest among them can travel or fOr tHE eCoNOmY, they can always open up their borders.

What they have is a choice. They had their elections last night and governing party was re-elected by a landslide, which means the people are happy with their current strategy.

> waiting for a new invention as part of policy is idiotic.

Saving lives and buying time is not idiotic.
It has a chance to work for islands, but not anywhere else except maybe North Korea.

During the last few months it has been about how to manage, while waiting for the vaccine. That plan seems to require the half-destruction of many people’s lives unfortunately.
RISC / CISC was basically IBM-marketing speak for "our processors are better", and never was defined in a precise manner. The marketing is dead, but the legend lives on years later.

IBM's CPU-advancements of pipelining, out-of-order execution, etc. etc. were all implemented into Intel's chips throughout the 90s. Whatever a RISC-machine did, Intel proved that the "CISC" architecture could follow suite.

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From a technical perspective: all modern chips follow the same strategy. They are superscalar, deeply-pipelined, deeply branch predicted, micro-op / macro-op fused "emulated" machines using Tomasulo's algorithm across a far larger "reorder buffer register" set which is completely independent of the architectural specification. (aka: out-of-order execution).

Ex: Intel Skylake has 180 64-bit reorder buffer registers (despite having 16 architectural registers). ARM A72 has 128-ROB registers (depsite having 32-architectural registers). The "true number" of registers of any CPU is independent of the instruction set.
I haven't see anyone talking about policy since Trump got elected. I've seen people screaming for their teams and calling everyone who disagrees with them a fascist. To the point an actual fascist policy like that of NZ is celebrated as a progressive victory.

It is a confusing time to be alive.
What a nightmare. The patent system is enormously harmful to the world and should be done away with.
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How Substack Became Milquetoast
They can go out to a bar or movie theater right now. All movie theater chains in the US are about to close for good, and 1/7th of small businesses in the US are now closed for good.
That should be pretty clear, given that the choices are between 1) no tourism economy or domestic economy and 2) no tourism economy.
Speed limit in our neighborhood is 30kmh (18 mph). And driving the bike into the fields meant like down the Road onto ways that were only open to farmers‘ cars.
I agree those who are symptomatic should stay home. But for COVID we go further and tell asymptomatic people to perform (flawed) transmission control measures. Where do we do that with Flu?

The point is if I don’t know I have COVID and spread it to Grandma at the grocery store, in your eyes I’ve killed Grandma. I wonder why we don’t apply that logic everywhere.
It seems to me people are ignoring that the C stands for Complexity. What's reduced is Complexity of the instruction set, not the size of it (or even the instructions themselves). In the context of the coinage of the term, they almost certainly could have called it "microcode-free ISA", but it wouldn't have sounded as cool.
There are ~6 sheep per person in NZ and lots of wine, so I’m gonna go with yes.

Also, there’s the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival in NZ (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokitika_Wildfoods_Festival), where everyone dresses up in costumes and voluntarily eats foods that one might resort to during an apocalypse. Highly recommended.
The Bacterial Flagellar Motor
It has good amount of meat/fish, exporting a lot now. But fruits and veggies are harder due to weather (but still possible with green houses, hydro, etc, tho to a smaller scale). It still needs corn, wheat, soy, etc to be imported.
Is the Huawei Matebook AMD edition available in your country? They are available with Ryzen processors and even better screens with a 3:2 display ratio.
Why not? The only thing that really eats ram is chrome tabs
Planka – an open-source self-hosted Trello-like app
The problem is, the vast majority of Americans are at high risk because of being overweight or obese. We can't send them all away.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/health/coronavirus-obesit...
When I realized this, I immediately stopped reading and made a mental note to avoid the site in the future.
Intellectual Ventures did the initial work on this project, and while commercialization languished for quite some time, an org somewhere in the Microsoft alum web ("Global Good", supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) is moving forward with commodification of the technology [1]. The patent doesn't expire until 2032 [2], but I've always had the thought that an open source version would not easily be constrained by patent laws (especially if the open devices were deployed in developing countries, where needed most) (IANAL).

[1] https://photonicsentry.com/

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US8705017
I'm skeptical of the source numbers here. The early dates on the X-axis were over 7-months ago.

Full factor mortality adjusted tallies from early months don't seem to be included? I can find no mention of full-factor mortality adjustments on covidtracking.com.

In other words, are the numbers verified and adjusted by other methods? Full-factor mortality is among the most accurate measurements of society. Yet there appears to be no mention of it. Did I miss it?
A recent AMD microarch was 10-20% faster than the previous one, despite running on the same physical process. No single component was responsible; there were changes to several components, each of which increased speed by only 1-4%.
NZ can wait. If it really turns out that there is no vaccine they can still try different strategies. Until then, this is the best possible option a country could pick.
There are currently very serious issues with the wd19tb docking station.

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9300-and-WD19TB-li...

This leads to random black external screens and network/usb disconnects. It is so unreliable that I stopped using it for real time communication.
(Note: I have the xps 13 2-in1 2019 laptop, i7-1065G7)
Long-awaited congressional investigation highlights big tech “monopoly”
Being really far away from everything else makes that a bunch easier
If you literally have not seen any criticism of Trump’s policies then you are not looking at, well, any remotely relevant media whatsoever.
I don't like putting a dollar value on a human life so find it impossible to weigh damage to the economy and deaths.

I haven't seen much discussion about at what point damage to the economy means we can't feed ourselves and medicine stops flowing. I have always wondered if we could "pivot" fast enough to feed everybody if the economy literately died.

I did read somewhere that Australian cities have 7 days of clean water after international shipping stops (in war for example). We are dependent on international shipping for chemicals that clean our water.
I'm in the UK, and yes, Faster Payments are clearly an improvement and more like how things ought to work. But they only work for payments to others in the UK.

Elsewhere across Europe, SEPA provides a similar facility, but again only "within its own walls".

I would love to see the sort of alternative payment methods you mention taking off as a replacement for card payments. That is exactly what needs to happen. But as you say, there are some very powerful organisations with a vested interest in preventing or disrupting any such change.
>The vast majority of humans never leave their countries their entire lives.

The majority of people in New Zealand are 0th of 1st generation immigrants. The majority leave the country at least once a year and have multiple citizenships.

>Saving lives and buying time is not idiotic.

Yes, Queen Victoria buying time for the invention of penicillin is idiotic.
The FSO Nabarima [1]:

> is a floating storage and offloading vessel permanently moored offshore of Venezuela at the Corocoro oil field in the Gulf of Paria. After production at Corocoro ceased in 2019 following United States sanctions on Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Nabarima fell into a state of disrepair, and was reported in 2020 to be at risk of spilling her cargo of about 1.3 million barrels of crude oil.

> Following the Corocoro shutdown, Nabarima was abandoned with about 1.3 million barrels of crude aboard, and in July 2020 began listing to starboard, followed by a leak into her engine room the following month that failed bilge pumps were unable to pump out.

The YouTube video maker/poster seems to be jumping to conclusions, much as HN commenters did with the Kamchatka Eco-Disaster. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Nabarima

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24760072
The US has a mortality rate from car accidents per capita of 0.01%/year(1). The CDC's best guess infection fatality rate estimate(2) for the 20-49 age group is 0.02%/infection.

With a conservative herd immunity threshold of 50%, that'd put an uncontrolled COVID-19 pandemic and random car accidents about equal for that age group. For the 50-69 age group, the CDC estimates a 0.5% IFR, so COVID-19 would be 25x higher mortality than random car crashes.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
2) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
How would antibody therapeutics be a thing if it didn’t produce a certain immunity in the survivors?
Tesla's boring company login code is 1234 (05min30sec elevator)
https://camelcamelcamel.com/

I've used them for so many higher end items and got great prices (watches, tools, cameras, etc). You just need a bit of patience is all.
Not even remotely. Nothing in the RISC philosophy says anything about pure data-path ALU operations. In fact this instruction is pretty banal compared to many other FP instructions.
Most of them, but with less hype than Tesla.[1] All the big automakers have a Level 2 system - lane keeping and autobrake. Nobody is shipping level 3.

Cruise and Google have level 4 on the road, doing taxi service, in small scale tests.

[1] https://www.gmc.com/safety-features
I work near a restaurant kitchen, and they spend much of the day with a flyswatter in hand getting rid of these pests. I have actually verbalized this idea to the chefs in the past, I'm glad to see it actually being done. If made cheap enough this could be a real solution to keeping bugs away without resorting to nasty chemicals or netting everywhere.

This has the potential to be a big win for not only comfort, but health and safety as well. Less bugs in kitchens = less chance for food getting infected or worse yet, having eggs laid in it.
On Continuous Delivery
pandoc is great :)
I spent several months in the Netherlands during the pandemic. It was great. Walking around without a mask is underrated now I suppose.
By and large, consumers don't actually want that. They like protections such as being able to chargeback if services they've paid for don't get delivered; goods are defective or counterfeit and so on. Yes, this can make life hard for merchants: on the other hand, they are free not to accept credit cards. Most do, because it's a price of doing business.

That's the problem. You're free not to accept credit cards, but only in the sense that you're free not to be able to actually sell anything to a large number of people in some very important markets. It shouldn't be a "price of doing business" to accept chargeback abuse, and it shouldn't be OK for the financial firms that permit chargeback abuse using their systems to wash their hands of the resulting liability. But right now, in practice, it is.
I have seen criticism of Trump masquerading as policy criticism and a large memory hole of all the times Democrats had implemented the same policies.

Now I'm seeing more criticism of Trump masquerading as praise for NZ and a large memory hole of the fact that this is a literal fascist policy.
You're right. I meant W-2 workers, not 1099. Thanks for the correction.
Who has been innovative? Because the results speak for themselves here.
I moved to XPS 15 as my first non-Mac machine in over 10 years, and I must say I'm far from impressed by the build quality.

These laptops are gorgeous new, but they are SO fragile. One of the screen hinges is broken, I've replaced numerous keys, the keyboard is now developing some debounce/key registration issue all over the right-hand side, the speakers are both blown (left first then the right), the trackpad sits 0.5cm above the case (needs replaced), the glue holding the rubber to the bottom of the case expanded with heat and leaked out everywhere. Probably more I've forgotten

I'd still consider buying another, but I'd also strongly consider changing vendors once this machine finally dies
And I just noticed that their population density is between those of Sweden and Argentina.
No. The virus doesn’t travel over land, it travels via human hosts.

Any country could eliminate it, island or not, by closing its borders to international passenger travel.
That's not a good comparison. 'kill' has that meaning in the context of OS processes, while the title talks about MacBook as being a hardware product.

Killing hardware has a very different meaning generally.
If the photos span the camera's full position-orientation vector space, I don't see why you can't put the camera anywhere in the scene.
How will these Linux developers know that it is lock free without any race conditions?
Here’s a rebuttal from a statistician at Columbia University: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
In cloud software at least, sales engineers/solutions architects work with the account manager to drive adoption of services. A lot about evaluating a customer's problem space or existing architecture, and proposing possible cloud-native architectures.

Sales engineers also do educational sessions and service-specific "immersion days" for the platform, which usually tie into the customer account manager's sales and advocacy for the platform, and helps to build relationships with the customer's engineering team.
> personally I'll get back on the plane in 2021 and just make everyone else accept the risk.

FTFY
How long does immunity last? How robust is it? How will we know what the cost would be, so we can make an informed decision on the tradeoffs? Do we have a robust model of the broad immunity response that can help make sound policy decisions?

(These are all honest questions, I’m not leading. I don’t know where to find this information summarized.)
Why does the title not mention proton and differ from the article's title?
same here. I wonder whether it is related that the O-negative is universal donor - i.e. it has lowest chance of causing immune reaction by not having all those antigens/factors, and thus i'd speculate lowest chance of "indigestion" in mosquito :)

Wrt. the original post - if we put "mortality inducing" laser on a drone so it would collect the "fried" insects sparrow style then we'd have a nice protein rich dinner after half-an-hour of the drone flying around. Turning the tables so to speak.
I feel like kotlin is a much better language than dart, has many more use cases and compiles down to javascript also.
Esperanto sounds and feels too Spanish. If you prefer to replace English supremacy with Spanish-ish supremacy, be my guest.
Or look up DNS records.

You don't think that's a problem?
Usually it's next day .. likely you can get the car faster than booking a test drive. Also, you are not failing to pay so it doesn't affect your credit. No consequences
Sociopaths are not inherently evil, they just have no inherent feelings for other people. But they can and often are taught how to behave "normally"–sure, it may not be their "true nature" or whatever to care for others, but if they're trying their best to emulate it and end up doing the same things that a normal person would as a result what is there to judge?

Actually, taking a step back: your comment horrifies me. It's coherently worded and looks similar the other comments in this thread on the surface, but you are very clearly advocating for the author and people like her to be locked up; calling this you're calling this wife a danger to her husband, this mother of a family a menace to society. This is a woman who took the time and courage to write about how she maintains a fairly normal life with a highly stigmatized psychological condition (often eliciting the very reaction you've had in your comment–"pure, unnatural evil") using words that I know if directed at me would make me fear for my very existence. I read comments every day that violate the Hacker News guidelines ("lol the author of this post is dumb", "the Clintons were behind 9/11") and it's usually easy to tell because they stand out as being gross violations that nobody is going to take seriously. But this…the conviction with which you say these words that I don't think I could make any more discriminatory…is what astounds me. I am honestly struggling for words to describe how wrong your comment feels.
I was talking about pre-orders. I never Tesla drove my 3 but was offered to take a model S for a weekend. My buddy never test drove his Y.
Vaccines are imminent.

And, they could progressively open their borders to those presenting with negligible carrier risk. Sufficiently voluminous & cheap testing can keep traveller risk very low, as well as the growing number of travellers who are recovered-immune & vaccinated.
> The rest of the world will be in the position where those who would have died from Covid have already probably died, but NZ won't.

People who've survived COVID can get it again and die the second time:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-twice-death-dutch-woman/
The JSC JIT people seemed kind of surprised by this, which was weird. Maybe the V8 JIT people asked for it?
Short term results only. We don't know yet about long term results (for the economy, for global poverty, for people mental healths, for extra deaths of cancer, for obesity people getting spending time at home, and so on).
675,000 deaths in the US from Spanish Flu (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n...) over 2 years.
That's true. I guess what I didn't really say explicitly is that I don't think there is a 'local pronunciation' in the case of English. French and Saxon seem to have merged on equal terms, where neither was sufficiently dominant to determine how words were re-written, and neither vocabulary would be counted as loan words.

I think English would claim both as the original languages.

I, think, english, would, both = old english

claim, original, language = old french
None because Teslas do not depreciate. It was a trick question.
Have you met the rest of the world? I'd rather spend an age in Lothlórien than deal with Trump. I mean, at least Sauron actually had Infrastructure Week.
They are, but the Matebook D's build quality is very far from e.g. the Matebook Pro. :(
When is Ampion going to be int the discussion? it's an anti-inflammatory and there is some study showing rendemisvir is effective when used in conjunction with Ampion. Or, it might be entirely the Amount helping patients in a therapeutic scenario. All this focus on an antiviral when an anti-inflammatory might have an immediate impact as cases ramp up...
> Lockdown measures had not managed to stop ordinary colds and respiratory illnesses, such as rhinoviruses - which had dropped slightly during lockdown but bounced back soon after. "A lot does come down to their reservoirs and some are so well-adapted for humans and they're so widespread in the population that they are not affected a great deal by the lockdown."

Can anyone explain why colds have not come down as well? I don't understand what they mean by reservoirs.

As a related question, I've read that we all have cold viruses inside of us all the time, and they can be triggered by an immune weakness (such as by being in the cold outside). I've also read that you get a cold only because the virus is transmitted to you from someone else (which is more likely in the cold months when we're huddled together). Which is it? Can you develop a cold from a pre-existing internal virus with zero contact from another person?
Why do it slowly? If you're planning to infect everyone anyway might as well get it over with quick.

Unless of course you're worried about the side effect of making a large number of people seriously ill, but if you don't see a way of doing it without causing a ridiculous number of people to fall ill then perhaps it isn't the best choice?
> If your .vimrc is minimal, you will have a pretty good time using systems that implement "vim like" text editing.

This has not been my experience, fwiw. Everywhere implements "most" of what I do, but I still wind up hitting something in the unimplemented portions pretty frequently.
There were more than one occasion when I hunt for the mosquito sneaked in the bedroom that I had thoughts of building a laser gun to zap the sucker.
What are your companies reasons for avoiding cloud?
So the guy who never talks goes soliciting the public for a piece of litigation that suits him. Theoretically I thought Supreme Court Justices were expected to be non-partisan in their judicial duties.
True, training and test data are usually variate but still we can't say that it wasn't possible. Perhaps in this particular case training data and variavles used were not sufficient