skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not an epidemiologist and don’t know much about past pandemics, but this seems a lot worse than SARS to me. I’m not sure it’s as bad as this article suggests it could be, and am inclined to agree with the caveat towards the end about it having infected far more people than are being identified due to many having only mild symptoms.

I’ve heard that SARS was underreported as well, and I know the SARS mortality rate was about 10%, but still, this seems to be much harder to contain and likely to infect many more people, despite the extreme quarantine efforts. It’s already surpassed SARS in terms of infections and is very close to beating SARS in terms of deaths, with the numbers we currently have, and in a far shorter time period.

I don’t think it’s going to spread as rapidly elsewhere as it has in China, as it seems there was kind of a perfect storm of dense crowds, meal sharing, incentive to cover things up, and lack of early quarantine measures due to the lunar new year. So while I think it’s unlikely to end up being as bad the Spanish flu because those ideal early conditions are no longer in effect, it doesn’t seem entirely crazy to think it could be comparably impactful eventually.

Obviously I hope I’m wrong. And again, I’m not an expert on any of this, so my opinion should be taken as rudimentarily informed speculation. I know very little about the Spanish Flu or the 1968 pandemic, so my ability to make well informed comparisons is limited. It just seems like this has the potential to get a significantly worse before it gets better.
The article links to this page, which offers a definition near the beginning:

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/how-to-identify-an-i...

FWIW, this author seems to use the terms "moral maze" and "immoral maze" interchangeably, which makes their writing harder to follow than it needs to be.

EDIT: On rereading, that page only offers an implicit definition of the term.

Basically, it's an organization that is steeped in perverse incentives. Most individuals are incentivized to behave in ways that are detrimental to society and to the long-term profitability of the organization, and the corporate culture implicitly accepts this.
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I agree, but I hear more stories from / about ex-googlers along the lines of: I have 20 years experience and 2 PhDs and they have me writing unit tests.

I think its likely hard to hire smart people who don't rock the boat; and thus it takes a long time to hire. It's of course possible (and reasonably likely) that there are only a handful of people that can do the work, but I dunno... with the kind of money that Google has you just open a school and start grooming people specifically for the roles that you have open. Build a pipeline of qualified workers, don't wait for them to come to you.
One of the sweetest Distributed Systems blogs I have ever read:
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

And yes, also my favorite 101 explainer blog:
https://arjunsreedharan.org
Phones need to work with the cellular network, so they sync their time with the cellular tower using a GSM protocol (NITZ) and not NTP.

Your phone's settings should have a way to sync with the cellular network (for example, if you set a manual time and then choose set time automatically).

Cell towers (edit: in the USA) are usually within a second of time.gov, so your offset should hopefully be under a second after you sync with the cellular network.
Did you know that CAPITALIZING your words makes you sound pretty silly?
How does this work if your time is really far off? The actual time is served over HTTPS (and the server doesn't even listen on port 80), so if your system time is so far off that it's beyond the validity range of the certificate, your browser won't let the site load. Then you won't be able to determine the time, and fix your computer.

This feels like the one website ever that needs to be served over HTTP ;)
Since the people doing the labeling became desperate to pin negative outcomes to capitalism even when they clearly don't apply at all.
I'm not in the search engine or SEO industries, but:

Isn't it Google's job to deal with that type of thing in order to give us an accurate print-out of what's most relevant to a search query?

Would they do the same thing (i.e. do nothing) if SEO was burying their own Google products' search results?

My cynicism is necessary for a healthy and thriving ecosystem. It should not be discouraged.
And he could have chosen to lawfully refuse, as others have done. Simple.
You're right, bad habit. Fixed.
Thanks. I got to that page, clicked the "moral maze" link, and did not read further (which I should have).
Watching the final season of Halt and Catch Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series... felt like a 1990s search engine reunion :-) Highly recommended for anyone with 90s (or 80s) tech nostalgia
> Microsoft says that VS2019 runtimes are forward and back compatible with VS2015 and VS2017, however, it turns out that is not always the case, and we definitely encountered one of the incompatible scenarios.

The binary compatibility has documented limitations. As https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2... explains, "The Redistributable your app uses has a similar binary-compatibility restriction. When you mix binaries built by different supported versions of the toolset, the Redistributable version must be at least as new as the latest toolset used by any app component." This allowed us to add VCRUNTIME140_1.dll as part of the "FrameHandler4" work that the compiler back-end team did. This decreases the size of exception handling info on x64 for compiled programs, sometimes significantly.

(I work on the Visual C++ team, on the STL. We regularly build Dolphin with our development toolset to prevent shipping compiler/library regressions, and to provide advance notice of source-breaking changes. I've had to report a couple of breaking changes to Dolphin and have been astounded at their prompt fixes - they are a wonderful team!)
https://vorpus.org/blog

I was particularly influenced by this post.

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
Interesting stuff. Surprised to see such tech literacy on the White House’s website.
TRUE old school nerds remember setting their watches by tuning to WWV/WWVH :)
Okay, increasing the sensitivity definitely helped with the slowness, but I'm still overshooting a lot. Maybe one day I'll get there. :)
https://i.redd.it/88osl54prjf41.png

What are your thoughts on this?
I know I can log the shoes I'm wearing, and when I look at other peoples activities I can see what shoes they used if they logged it, but where can I see the aggregated data and trending lists?
It seems like pretty much all sports have rules that limit how much technology can improve performance. I have always though it would be fun to do a mythbusters-style show that tried to see just how much faster/farther/longer people could go with no limits on mechanical aids (as long as there weren't motors). So how far could you hit a golf ball if there were no rules on how the club or the ball were made, how fast could someone swim if there were no rules on what you could wear, etc.
> Childrens TV shows were always about selling toys, that was always the bread and butter.

As the article points out this simply isn't true. They weren't always like that. It was the direct result of a change in law during the Reagan presidency. All of your examples come after that.

Look at kid's shows from before the change in law. Say, the 1960s. Underdog, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Gilligan's Island, Flipper, Green Acres, Captain Kangaroo, etc.
The windows NTP client is notoriously terrible. It causes issues for the amateur radio mode FT8, for example. The authors suggest installing Meinburg NTP instead.
The hardest part has always been plugging in the annoying little speaker, light, power, reset, etc. cables into the right spots on the motherboard.
Tesla factory to resume production on Feb 10
After reading the story, I feel the main point is not about immigration enforcement. The main point here is that the government agencies bought anonymized marketing data and used them for law enforcement purpose.

On the one hand I do feel the danger here. On the other hand, it seems there's no legal barrier to prevent government agencies from purchasing data available for regular corporations.
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Some of the "repatriates" flown to Travis AFB in California, near SF, have been admitted to the hospital now, showing symptoms... This is being reported in local news as of this evening.
Yeah, it could be patents. The efficient hardware implementation of these instructions was patented by the Princeton researchers that developed it, and this work was sponsored by Intel (and the Department of Defense).

One could reasonably assume that the sponsor of the work would have access to the patent on very favorable terms. Some details at [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/trav_downs/status/1202863930210734080
Looks great on mobile.
Not to mention that the UK is "extremely friendly" to Israel. Johnson after winning the elections gave a ministry to Priti Patel, who had been removed from a previous May government for having secret meetings with Israeli officials during her tenure. One of Johnson's first acts was to propose a law to ban BDS, the movement promoting boycotting and sanctioning Israel.
"Authorities in the district where Tesla’s factory is based will give full assistance to key manufacturers like Tesla as they resume work and help them to start production as soon as possible, he added."
Good points. Just want to point out that comparing with a basic "sum" function measures the performance of the test runner and leaves out the time it takes to run the application code. Baretest has little overhead so it is good for testing the actively developed code with the `only` function.

With Baretest all the custom things you do like transpiling TS or rendering React is done outside the test runner. This way it can test cases of any complexity.
Hi!

Yes, you are correct. In fact, this has been something I have gone back on forth on myself.

I do actually have an “on board computer” That sits between what the player tried to do and what the ship actually does.

For example, the on board computer will only allow the pilot to fire the rotational thrusters to a certain max angular momentum.

I’ve also experimented with having the on board computer automatically stop rotation by firing the opposite rotational thruster for the pilot automatically.

The thing is, it was a pain because whatever we that degree turn was was never just right.

So, when you tried to fire at another ship you would often rotate a little too much or a little not enough.

Having it the way it is now we’re the pilot has to manually control angular velocity gives the. More precise control.

So that is why that is the way it currently is. But, many people have had the same feedback...

What I am thinking about doing is having a control on the HUD where pilots can choose manual versus automatic and also set the amount of predefined degree of rotation they want when in automatic.

I think that might be the best of all worlds?
I spend much of my time in Florida wetlands, aka swamp. The mosquitoes are perennially surreal on all but the coolest nights and simply bellicose throughout the summer. One can bathe in repellant, but must then wear earplugs to mute the bloodletting frenzy. Imagine exceedingly libidinous and hyper fecund GMO California raisins with fangs, ...on bathsalts and antigravity. Then give them 2-stroke weedwackers and encephalitis. Against my better judgement, I often pray that some rogue scientist will destroy them, earth be damned.

In the meantime, I use picaridin. Picaridin, in contrast to DEET, does not destroy plastics, isn't greasy, and is more effective at preventing the bastards from actually making contact. DEET, is more effective at preventing bites - but not contact. I prefer to remain less molested while incurring a few bites rather than function as a mosquito stadium. Other than deet and picaridin, nothing works. Ultrasound, lights, oils, permethrin, gasses - they are useless for me. My type comprises a potential gold mine for anyone who discovers an eco-friendly, dry, more effective solution. Please do!
Unproven and likely wrong but I saw a speculation that MMR vaccine and rubella boosters may provide partial protection explaining why so few children and young women are amongst the casualties. (from https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/26/2019-ncov-china-epidemi...)
They're not going to stop; they actually think they're doing good for the oppressed.

What's needed to stop them is for the people of the groups they're purportedly standing up for to repudiate them, loudly, publically, and en masse.
Pretty important to note that it's "insertion order". I immediately thought, ordered by what comparator function?
I like your line of thinking, except now you would need to introduce two independent clean water sources, label things appropriately, retrofit all existing plumbing, etc. also, the salt in the water would be corrosive and require totally different infrastructure.

In the end, I’m not sure if it wouldn’t just be easier to make sure that all the water is potable.
Not specific to Iran vs. USA, but just for the reading audience ...

Ideological differences historically have not been reconciled without war.

WW2, Korea, Vietnam were all unavoidable ideological wars.

An additional factor is that the US Whitehouse, across parties, doesn't believe in self-determination of foreign countries, and proudly admits that.
> with 200 more deathly rate than flu.

Source? I've not seen any published number higher than 5%.
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Can't this be solved by using IP addresses for hostnames? This can be a part of bootstrap script(which ASG/Launch Configuration already supports via UserData[1])

What I can't understand is -

If your logs are in ELK and metrics in prometheus/grafana - why do you need SSH access? Sounds like thats a good problem to solve

[1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-dat...
Jeeze dude. There are millions of Americans who weather cancer and heart surgery just fine without ruining their finances.
You can easily upgrade the bash to 4+ on mac. Just have to do it yourself.
Can you grab and translate and share some of these please?

Also, do you have any opinion on this:

https://i.redd.it/88osl54prjf41.png
Do you have a source for this? Either English or Chinese can will do. Thanks.
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If you’re connecting over http(s) to set the time of a system, you’re doing it wrong. That’s what the NTP servers are for (which don’t require encryption) - https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
I searched for my own name, and in addition to the usual top hits (like LinkedIn), it provided a link to a popular article I have published few days back as the sixth result.

In contrast, Google primarily links to "scammy" sites claiming to have my phone number and email address, after the usual hits. If I search with the title of the article above, the only link which appears is that from the R Bloggers aggregator (in fact, it appears to me for some Google does not index the articles in my site at all).
It's a shame that the bullet train in California has not become a reality. It would have given many people the option to work outside the big cities and it would have given small towns an economic boost. And you a bunch of options.
Anyhow, my advice is to keep your options open by trying different cities.

I would try Austin, San Diego and Portland. Los Angeles is nice but the cost of living is always rising and it's crowded. The reason is simply because it's a nice place to live. The weather is mostly great and there's so much to enjoy outside work.

But you could have said the same of San Francisco 20 years ago. Now there are lots of people who are trying to get out.

I think people in LA are beginning to question whether they should go somewhere else too for the same reasons San Franciscans are asking if they need to go elsewhere. I suspect that LA is not the best choice.
Thank you for viewing - do you have a screenshot of the issue? I can easily log a bug report and get it fixed
There seems to be at least 2 undercurrents

- (a) righteousness of the process to go about internal activism that's critical of company's business partners, company's internal policies, company's hiring and firing practices. And Company's response.

- (b) the actual position of an individual(s) on the above topics.

Would we have a problem with Google's actions if Bruce Hahne, (hypothetically) advocate bad things (eg polygamy, forced organ donations, child labor and so on) ?...

We would not have problem with Google STFU message to him and his supporters, in that hypothetical case ( a ), right?

Therefore, we should not really have problem with Google's action, if we accept that Bruce Hahne's positions ( b ) are not that good (and not shared by tens of millions of people that live in the country where Alphabet is headquartered), in the first place

About ( b ). Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence. This is not really presented in his writing.
Eg.
>"... I see far too many similarities to what we experienced in the PCUSA twenty years ago ..."

Is not an extraordinary evidence..

Therefore, I find that this type of high-volume, low-evidence activism is overall bad. They should be told STFU while on company's time, and get out of the company if they do not like it.
Does it need a lot of explaining? Presumably the workers are in it because they need the money. If a customer hits your rating they're threatening your ability to make the money you need, so there's no reason not to ding their rating in retaliation if they ding yours. And the other workers don't have a reason to care, you're making their clients more nervous to hand out imperfect scores too.
There are very little details on how the bodies are being disposed of. Does the virus become dormant at a certain temperature ranges? How does it fare with irradiation? These are the kinds of experiments that need to be run.
> That's how we have less cases than Japan, Korea and Hong Kong now.

There could be other reasons for this, no? I mean, specifically in Japan's case, a huge cluster of that is from cruise ships. That seems more like a [bad] luck thing rather than the result of proactive action.

Also, I think we should make the distinction between "cases" and "confirmed cases". I'm in Singapore and one of the reasons given why Singapore has so many confirmed cases (3rd most) is that the Government is relentless about tracking infections.

Maybe that's just a positive spin. Either way, I think there's a lot of reasons to take these early numbers with a grain of salt.
They publish it at the end of every year. I remember seeing it on DC Rainmaker's site a month ago: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/12/fascinating-stravas-2019...
You are paying for apple stores, and instant access to support and replacement.

You are paying for 5 years of updates.

And a superior phone.
>on Airbnb is that everyone just rates everyone high to either avoid rating retaliation

I thought this is a non-issue because airbnb withholds reviews until both parties have written a review?

>or to avoiding seeming like a dick / hard customer. I suspect it's the latter -- there really is no upside to being an honest critic.

I personally don't understand this. If a place is legitimately bad, it's not being a "dick / hard customer", it's telling the truth. The upside is that you added slightly more information to the market.
Yes, they do now. They didn't then.
eBay and eBay. Developing for your own device is free.
True. However, according to "The State of JavaScript" [1] Jest is the most popular option these days and it is chosen because it is simple, lightweight, fast, and easy [2] — all of which are the reasons one would choose Baretest.

[1]: https://2019.stateofjs.com/testing/

[2]: https://2018.stateofjs.com/testing/jest/
Here's where things get rather stupid. The store I was in doesn't pay on commission.
>most of these services require to register with a phone number creating a pretty high barrier to create additional accounts for the common folk

getting a prepaid sim is a "high barrier"?
I use DVDs for backups. All of my files (when compressed in tape archives) fit on three DVDs (one for /home, one for /var, and one for all other files; this includes all system files too).

However, you might have more files than I have, so DVDs might not be suitable for you. See how many files you have so that you can see how many DVDs you would need, and then you can see if it is suitable for you or not.
I'm not a process engineer of course, but my feeling is that abundant free energy changes these equations. It simply does not matter what the efficiency is when the energy input is free. Also you wouldn't burn the fuel for electricity, you'd burn it for direct heat. A lot of petroleum refinery equipment is heated by burning things that have just been made in the refinery itself. That doesn't seem very different.
Did you compare on the same device, or a device with very similar storage usage and both with new batteries?

The batteries issue is obvious (as per this thread).

The Flash memory slows down over time with usage. For example the Nexus 7 slowed to a crawl because the flash in that device was especially prone to slowing down. It happens eventually to all flash (although I presume that Apple uses high quality flash that stays fast for longer).

> shooting blurry pictures

That's a very strange symptom.
Yeah, should definitely be done with a XHR/Fetch call. Honestly, I would love if it updated through a websocket considering it's lower latency and can update far more often without the need for expensive HTTPS calls or a reliance on internal clocks.