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Works on Firefox too - it's what I use right now to read this article
We had few COVID deaths in the first wave and no excess deaths. Now we have lots of cases ~3000 daily, some 20-30 daily deaths but excess mortality is waaaay higher than COVID deaths. Most can ve explained by reduced accessibility to the medical services because of COVID precautions and general fear in public. Only now we start to feel pressure on the healthcare system caused directly by COVID cases.
That math doesn’t add up. There are only ever going to be 21 million bitcoin, 19 million are in private hands, and the remaining 2 million will be mined over the next 120 years.

A billionaire is worth 1,000 million dollars. If there are 2,895 of them, that’s equal to 2,985,000 millionaires.

But with only 21 million bitcoin, that’s 137,000 millionaires— per bitcoin. And that number gets much higher if you divide by the available supply not the total supply.

There’s never going to be enough bitcoin for the millionaires to own even one, if they all wanted to.
I find the timing of these reports interesting. They tell a story of a nation state adversary who has been behind our lines for months. If true, I assume we have known, but reporting up the chain and especially to the public has been...prevented. Now is the first calendar time- at the cusp of the electoral college vote- when these reports reaching the public may lead to positive action in response.

If these reports and this surmise bear some resemblence to reality, I look forward also to seeing more reporting about steps and countersteps taken in response to these breaches. The timing for this reporting is too neat to not be intended to spur some stronger response.
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-)

Edit: yep. As suspected.

Let me just say this, if I may:

1. You don’t have to like every idea, but please consider that some people do.

2. I’ve been using this successfully for a decade. I’m using it right now to organise a project. My boss loves me for it, because guess what? We can find things!

3. I’m not alone. I’ve done essentially nothing to promote this yet still I get multiple emails a week from strangers telling me that they love it and asking for guidance.

Okay, carry on. I’ll answer questions here where doing so feels productive.
Depends on your hardware. For new AMD cards, they a lot of times bring critical bug fixes. Same applies to a lot of other cases.
I am looking forward to it because it is an LTS release that has all the latest io_uring enhancements.

io_uring looks like it will be a big deal, it will probably be a while before it really hits mainstream, but I was waiting on 5.10 before trying it out.
It’s a bubble driven by exuberance and extreme government financial stimulus. It’s like pets.com, Worldcom, AOL, BlackBerry, etc.
The point is that if many organizations developed vaccines in the same timeframe it’s not really a “record”.
> In this context, if the FDA notices that there are not enough non-white people in the testing group, the FDA should not certify the vaccine for non-white people.

The FDA does not certify vaccines as being safe for particular races, for one simple fact -- races are a social construct, not a biological reality. What we call "races" are actually mishmashes of a large variety of different ethnic groups, many of which have little to nothing in common with each other genetically.

Vaccines are certified by age and by gender and that's it. There will never be a "whites-only" vaccine and the very idea is morally repugnant and biologically ridiculous.
So apparently Russian hackers were able to infiltrate the Office 365 accounts of multiple federal agencies.

They were able to do to this by targeting one of the government's suppliers, a company called "SolarWinds" in Austin. The hackers were able to slip their software into a software update from SolarWinds over the summer.

And get this: "SolarWinds says on its website that its customers include most of America’s Fortune 500 companies, all top ten U.S. telecommunications providers, all five branches of the U.S. military, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the Office of President of the United States". Yikes.
New devices need new drivers or fixes for existing drivers, an anecdotal example is that my new T14 the lid close wasn't detected correctly and it was fixed with a new kernel release, so I was expecting a new kernel release, I'd figure that is the most common reason, linux is ready, but new exciting features are still being actively developed
Retailers are largely still not profitable with internet sales.

Pre-pandemic a brick and mortar was doing about 5-10% via online and it was at best break even.

Why would you invest money in something that was unprofitable when Amazon wasn’t even profitable for so long?
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I do, that's how I learn about how some new hardware work or how a problem I had to do workarounds for was solved.
Hard to fight physics.

Especially when you have spy satellites that can digitally send you data, why design a new one.
> 2001-09-12 00:26:08 Metrocall [0134738] A ALPHA Frm: MSN Txt: Hotmail TheFreeStuffNews.com:Take a 5 minute Survey to Win $1,000!

I see that spam was alive and well back then
I'd figure that by adding the value I'd get by selling it still wouldn't be as cheap as buying the app
> The debate seems to be pretty complex.

The debate is complex, but the amyloid plaque people have been steamrollering everybody else into submission--which is unfortunate as their hypothesis has failed every single time it has been put to the test.

However, Big Pharma is no longer backing amyloid plaque research because every single drug targeting them has failed for Alzheimer's.

At this point, it's very likely that amyloid isn't the problem. It's probably a response--and likely one that occurs long after the damage is done.

See Derek Lowe's blog about this stuff:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/12/an...
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/alzh...
I also really enjoyed the Long Way Up travelogue which HN might appreciate because they did it on electric Harley Davidsons with Rivian support vehicles.

Also, it's just gorgeous footage and Ewan McGregor is pretty entertaining.
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Even in Seattle there are a plethora of super-commuters who drive from Auburn, Enumclaw, Issaquah, north of Marysville, etc every day in 15+ year old cars as it is cheaper to drive and park in the city than take to commute via another means or pay to live close to work.
It sounds like you are complaining about the inability to game the system (in this case the TOS) by demanding that all potential abuses be proscribed in advance or excluded from moderation.
> This is one vector for complexity, to be sure. Saying "no" to a feature that is unnecessary, foists a lot of complexity on a system, or has a low power to weight ratio is one of the best skills a senior developer can develop.

I don't consider myself to be an exceptional developer, but this alone has launched my career much faster than it would if I was purely, technically competent. Ultimately, this is a sense of business understanding. The more senior/ranking you are at a company, the more important it is for you to have this tune in well.

It can be really, really hard to say no at first, but over time the people ask you to build things adapt. Features become smaller, use cases become stronger, and teams generally operate happier. It's much better to build one really strong feature and fill in the gaps with small enhancements than it is to build everything. Eventually, you might build "everything", but you certainly don't need it now. If your product can't exist without "everything", you don't have a strong enough business proposition.

----

Note: No, doesn't mean literally "I'm/we're not building this". It can mean two things:

* Forcing a priority. This is the easiest way to say no and people won't even notice it. Force a priority for your next sprint. Build a bunch of stuff in a sprint. Force a priority for another sprint. Almost inevitably, new features will be prioritized over the unimportant left overs. On a 9 month project, I have a 3 month backlog of things that simply became less of a priority. We may build them, but there's a good chance nobody is missing them. Even if we build half of them, that still puts my team 1.5 months head. For a full year, that's almost like getting 2 additional months of build time.

* Suggesting an easier alternative. Designers have good hearts and intentions, but don't always know how technically difficult something will be. I'm very aggressive about proposing 80/20 features - aka, we can accomplish almost this in a much cheaper way. Do this on 1 to 3 features a sprint and suddenly, you're churning out noticeably more value.
It's hypocritical, is the point.

Apple has to deal with places like Saudi Arabia, but they don't need to legitimize and hob-nob wit them.

Also, MBS has been caught doing some notoriously bad things, it's just not a good look.
I would say there are some at this very moment who owe their election to office to the CPP.
> And it feels like the disruption can happen faster now; like nobody is safe^

^ in industries that meet the following criteria:

- Customer base has always-on internet connectivity

- Integration points into meat space are already digitized

- Is not regulated, or is regulated in such a way that regulations can be ignored / externalized
curios as to how Russian hackers slipped their software into solar winds. sounds like a major breach.
It will only get worse; Apple has little incentive to support general computing over a walled garden where they get a cut of every software purchase.

About 92% of all iOS apps on the App Store are free; pretty sure the numbers for macOS are similar:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263797/number-of-applica...
It's literally illegal to teach anti-capitalist political philosophy in the UK

Do tell? I haven't been there in a long time and don't have time to keep up with education policy.
"Patriot" is another term that seems to have mutated in modern US politics.
Is this HN satire?
it's a bet that tesla will convert their marketshare into real production numbers. The bet is based on assumption that entire market will shift to electric cars in 5-10 years. To give you understanding the current numbers. In 2020 tesla will deliver ~19% of what BMW delivers. BMW probably is the most direct traditional competitor. Luxury sport segment. 25% of audi and 5% of what toyota delivers.

To keep this valuation assumption in place, tesla can lose a lot of market share and only "keep" 20%-30%.

In this case it will outsold any other car brand and will outperform it's valuation.

They could remain their share higher. In this case they are undervalued.

They obviously can loose competition to traditional players, but also to emerging Chinese brands. Musk himself consider them a bigger competitor.

The market itself can shirk a lot, due to robotization, in this case you don't have to own a car in most of the cases. In this case the entire market will be changed dramatically and current valuation doesn't make any sense.
And low interest rates (part of government stimulus).

It feels like a bubble to me too, but on the other hand, the failure of traditional car manufacturers to deliver electric cars leaves the possibility open that Tesla will be the next Toyota/GM.
> mocking the idea of bringing manufacturing back and saying how dumb Republicans are for wanting to do it.

At what point did I ever say Republicans were dumb for wanting it? I'm mocking the idea that Republicans actively denounced corporate welfare (saying it's a Democratic thing), yet just do it themselves (and then fail at actually make the change for that matter).

Take your triggered self over to Reddit.
Most of the deaths in Sweden happened early in the pandemic and are more result of a bad luck than some policy. Now my country has more daily deaths than Sweden despite having 1/3 of the population and being in the second quarantine since Nov 7th.
The restrictions will be way stricter from this Wednesday.
I get your point, but without paragraphs of explanation, I doubt I could persuade you.
I can say this... It was meant as a solitary exercise, not as a group.
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In 2019 I was compiling my own kernel to include a fix for my logitech racing wheel until the release was out. Also made me find out that its impossible to use the nvidia proprietary drivers on a prerelease kernel so I had to buy an AMD gpu as well.
The problem as I've understood it is conflict resolution, not diffing.

Rsync only does one-way sync so it does not help much here.
It seems like Walmart has made pretty major investments?
> If I pay I want

> Non-canned support responses that don't ask for information I literally put in the ticket three weeks ago.

No, sorry. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but you get this if you pay what I want, not what you want.
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These mostly sound like variations of "the bike lane is poorly designed/maintained" or "the bike lane isn't wide enough". If the rightmost lane of a cars-only road was treated as a poorly maintained gutter this would be an issue as well, but society treats cars as the norm and bikes as marginal. Same goes for the "cars in bike lane" issue; double parking is also an issue, but somehow we have decided that that is less tolerable than doing so in the bike lane.

As far as width goes, in European areas with high cycling rates bike lanes are very wide, nearly a car lane wide, so one can pass. American ones tend to be very narrow because cycling use is low and biking is treated as marginal.

You can have roads without bike lanes at all that are still safe for biking, but they have to be sufficiently narrow and slow. Most American streets are extremely wide, and so people often speed, which is an extremely common complaint in American residential neighborhoods. The difference is that most people will ask for a stop sign, which sometimes doesn't do anything, or they ask for speed bumps, which cost a lot of money.
Denzel Washington's Man on Fire is in the same arena of films (obviously action-sensationalized, however still good for what it is):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Fire_(2004_film)
As if ninjas wore neon... phishing and attacking a national database of compromises aren't opposite or even orthogonal they're a component. Not realizing that is scary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-gov...
It’s really fascinating to see these comments about bitcoin being “near all time high” from people who seem to imply that means it us risky.

In 2017, bitcoin hit the high $19,000 price on huge volume, intraday during a bubble.

Now it has taken months to go from $10k to $19k, with many pull backs and many dips being bought.

If you average daily closing prices over a sliding 30 day window, this is currently bitcoins all time high by a fair bit.

Yet no mainstream media attention, low trading volume, etc etc.

The current situation is analogous to December 2016 when bitcoin was flirting with it’s 2013 All time high of $1,000.
To me market cap is as meaningful as GDP - it doesn't represent real value, just whatever the market is willing to pay for an infinitesimal amount of shares, but extrapolated to the whole stock.

Just how many company buy outs are done via cash?
Indeed! Very common as well, thanks for the reminder.
Reverse classic HN meta comment: this website is crazy fast and easy to read. Well done Johnny Noble, thank you.
Tariffs just cause US buyers to pay more without much help. Tariffs have no way to make a US manufacturer competitive globally. US made goods would just be that 25% more expensive. At its best its a regressive subsidy from one set of Americans to another.

Why not just a direct subsidy to US manufacturing under the usual tax code?
Drive a Tesla on autopilot and your opinion will chnage.
a lot safer C. not as safe as rust but much simpler. c programmers would likely feel at home.
I think it's because they are the only car company / brand / patent portfolio the market is near certain will exist in 30 years.
> I wonder if some of the differences between MacOS and Linux comes from the former's origins in Mach/BSD via Nextstep.

My understanding was that this is most of it. The problem is relatively basic—macOS uses the BSD versions of most unix tools, which means basic commands like sed sometimes function quite differently!
Sorry for the delay updating the article - one heck of a week. I've linked it and added a few more notes from folks who wrote back.
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Tesla designs chips, builds software, sells solar panels and home batteries, operates a global charging network, sells insurance, etc in addition to just manufacturing cars. It also sells and services its own cars, as opposed to the franchised dealership model under which most other OEMs operate.

Therefore to make a fair comparison you'd have to add in the rest of the global automotive supply chain, not just the OEMs. Add in the valuations of all the dealers and retailers on Earth (some of which are publicly traded), add in Nvidia and other chip makers' automotive businesses, add in the market cap of Waymo, Cruise, Zoox and all those major hardware and software players that plan to compete with Tesla's Autopilot / FSD software. Add in the market cap of all the charging networks in China. In an apples to apples comparison Tesla's market cap would be less than one third of the global market.
This would be a good system for managing Tasks and TODOs.
It would be great if it was documented on how to get access to that funding or even the problems to be addressed in that space for a potential startup.
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Only speaking to the output, Servant by M. Night Shyamalan doesn't strike me as risk-averse overall despite the micromanaging detail from the article, and Ted Lasso is widely considered to be top tier.
Could you explain what you mean by middle talent / middle layers?
Again, I’m not saying that cars are perfect. I was just pointing out how I frequently see cyclists breaking traffic laws and norms. I don’t think that because cars are assholes that bikes can be too.

Do you think it’s appropriate that a bike passes a car in its own lane? Do you think the law should be changed to allow this?
Shit, SolarWinds is how MS does a lot of its electronic software distribution. I've received multiple things from MS SolarWinds download links.
"Customers that have 5 or more End Users will receive a total amount of Google Drive storage equal to 5TB times the number of End Users, with more storage available at Google's discretion upon reasonable request to Google." is not very comforting language.
> any other form of abuse, such as spam or malware.

The difference you seem to be overlooking is that basically no one wants to receive abuse, spam or malware, whereas (depending on who is doing the censoring and who is being censored) maybe 30% to 50% of users want to receive the messages that the censor decides is "hate speech".

I think what you're actually saying is "I advocate for centralized platforms combating hate speech provided their definition of that term happens to agree closely with my own".
The article was actually authored by Agence France-Presse, SCMP is just licensing their content. You can get the exact same text from elsewhere, e.g. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201213-workers-riot-...

So you might want to ask yourself whether AFP's coverage has become more pro-China after the recent 'National Security Laws' that were enacted in Hong Kong.
Another mini dot-com bubble in the making. Anybody remember when Cisco became the most valuable company in the world? I don't, and I am pretty sure a lot of young investors in their 20s and 30s don't. This phenomenon is nothing new. Issac Newton, after losing 3 million dollars (in today's valuations)- "I Can Calculate the Motions of the Planets, but I Cannot Calculate the Madness of Men".
This issue was due to Apple's system for checking for expired developer certificates and for malware. Their OCSP server failed, among other things, which is why some apps couldn't launch.

I use mostly free/open source software for web development on macOS; the outage didn't affect me at all.

Details on what happened: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/16/checks-on-executable-cod...
Funny reading this. A classmate of mine from USC was telling me that their production company was working with Apple to produce a show and it was not going well. Apparently among the folks they felt if Apple just filmed themselves flailing around trying to make something it would be a better show than the show they were making. They reminded me of Truffaut's "Day for Night" which we had seen in Cinema 190 (the cinema elective that engineers often take) and said it was kind of like that, only way funnier in a sad sort of way.

We have a running comparison of "LA people coming to the Bay Area to do tech because 'How hard can it be?'" and the reverse being true as well, "Bay Area people going to LA to produce television/movies because 'How hard can it be?'"

Reality is complicated, and smart people so often seem to miss that.
My first thought on this was that it was an EvilginX hack, ala https://www.thecloudtechnologist.com/office-365s-mfa-is-vuln...
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This may or may not work. The gender diversity etf SHE, for example, has underperformed so far [0]. Again, this isn’t an indictment against female CEOs, just that one must consider non-gender factors (which could be conditioned on how society views gender).

[0] - https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/she/performance
> Why the negative [stock price] reaction? Because this time the Bitcoin would be bought with other people's money, instead of the cash reserves already on MicroStrategy's balance sheet.

How about a correction after a face-ripping rally? Check out this chart:

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-MSTR/

That's liftoff for the month of November. Sooner or later profits will be taken.

Also, check out that price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of over 2,500. That's stratospheric and not even Amazon can match it right now. Clearly it was caused at least in part by vast appetite among certain investors for some way, any way, to gain exposure to Bitcoin price moves.

What's more interesting about Microstrategy is that it could be a preview of things to come. Large and/or public companies holding cash need a way to preserve its value from erosion due to the avalanche of government deficit spending to come and the inflation that will come with it. The range of options is rather limited, and Bitcoin has some unique properties that make it especially good at the job.

That said, a public company buying Bitcoin on credit sounds absolutely bonkers. That's not capital preservation. It's a sign that management can't figure out how to grow the company. And it might be a boat that an increasing number of companies find themselves in.
Fun fact: English isn't my native language and I learned programming before becoming fluent in English. I believed for a long time that 'else' was just a shorter alternative for 'otherwise'. I used to say things like "I'll have apple juice if you've got some, else I'll have orange juice."
Lack of trust.
The same goes the other way. We see articles "A young person dies from COVID-19". True, but it aldo true that half of the COVID-19 victims were in the age bracket that is 10 years older than the life expectancy in the country.
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The SR-71 was crazy expensive to fly and maintain and the U-2 apparently is not.