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Java release cycle was changed. Now, it's being released every 6 months.

Windows 7 and Python 2 are officially dead now :)
Phone users have a reason to cheer ACCC's black eye
Well, for me - having an nice supply of lucozade and other foods that can consume whilst having bad flu based upon experience of a few bad flu's in my life (50 yrs+).

So basic foods - soups (non dairy based ones btw as always find anything diary for me turns instantly into mucus and soon builds up on my lungs). Biscuits and other dry foods that palatable. Kinda things you stock for a just in case period anyhow.

Oh and tissues and toilet rolls, never want to be short of those.

In general, common sense and what works for you when you're ill.
Heavyweight media creation applications; eg. Blender/ZBrush, Substance Designer/Painter, Avid MC, ProTools, Adobe Premier/AfterEffects, UE4 Editor.

I always get a chuckle out of web programmers who think that because they can do their entire job out of a few web apps, that everyone else can too.
S3 is flexible and scalable, but it is not cheap. I'd be hard pressed to run the numbers now, but at some point it's cheaper to just do storage yourself.

But to be fair, you'll go on-premise due to the computing or bandwidth costs first. And you'll likely move data to the same datacenter to avoid expensive transfer costs.

I've also had to work in places where you simply could not put your data in the cloud due to regulatory reasons.
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> you don't really know what you want and are waiting for A Vision that will inspire you

I think this is true, to an extent.

I want to become an expert at SOMETHING in programming but I have a hard time committing to one domain. Constantly plagued by FOMO. For example, if I were to deep dive into machine learning, I'd feel FOMO that I am not a robotics engineer, and couldn't code firmware well. Or If I became an expert at mobile development, I'd feel FOMO that I stumble to create a beautiful web app, etc. So yes, I don't really know what I want, and I'm waiting for a vision to inspire me.... Just as you put it.

> waiting for the right wave to pick you up and sweep you into the future isn't really satisfying and so you're starting to feel burnout

true.

> your anxiety is rooted in uncertainty about where you're going and the feeling of futility that accompanies just swimming along with the current and never arriving anywhere in particular.

There's a ton of truth in this statement. No doubt, it's the source of or a major contributor to, my angst.
For those that don’t know, Royal Caribbean charges approx. $20/device/day for their all-out streaming package. They claim it’s faster than normal land based Ethernet but I’d say that’s a BIG LIE. It’s more like having an ISDN...aka 4x faster than a standard dialup modem. Such a sham!
Certainly required in the description of the accuracy of many of them.
So you dont use automation like sonarcube / qualys and other tools ?

Our corp requires this at a minimum to even be deployed to development. Let alone staging / prod
A word of warning: ultrasonic humidifiers used with tap water create high levels of indoor air pollution: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51859262_Indoor_par...

Disclaimer: I work for a company that makes low-cost air pollution sensors.
During my DIY days I had a 10+ year old BMW in a winter climate with an aluminum heat shield on the exhaust. When I swapped out the muffler, the heat shield was barely even recognizable as aluminum and basically crumbled to dust in places.
Structural timber is an innocent casualty of ungrounded fears over fire safety
I found the Real Analysis course to the really really hard back in university. I thought it was like the CS information analysis when looking at the course title. It was nothing like that at all. It didn't help that the professor teaching it was pretty bad. I remember he used to jog into the class carrying a tennis racket and in tennis sporty dress with headband, seemingly just coming back from a tennis practice and acting to be cool. People just rolled their eyes. The teaching was just reading off the book. Darn, it was one of the top schools. How did this clown get in?
Serverless is starting to become less of a buzzword and more of an actual movement. I see more and more new projects start with serverless as a sane default before going the containers route. Yeah I know, serverless is not server less, it’s a marketing term, the cloud is just someone’s else computer. But I see more and more preferring someone else to manage auto scaling, load balancing, networking, have much smaller attack surface and not having to have a PhD in k8s to launch a web app.
Looks like it here.

Monero is much harder to purchase in US
Yes, you should be prepared for things like pandemics, because it is not that difficult to have a small amount of preparation. But if you are not in China, you have no reason to prepare for coronavirus specifically. Saying things like "the flu is more dangerous" seems like a perfectly reasonable line of thinking - if you are in North America you should not be preparing for coronavirus any more than you already do for things like the flu. If you do not feel prepared for a coronavirus outbreak, it just means your preparation for the far more serious existing threats was lacking.
Pronounce it in Greek though and add it to your resume.
I agree that we passed productive conversation a while ago. And no, I don't agree about the context; that's the whole point. If you want to have a productive discussion, you'd stop acting like this.
Here's a quote from this article [1]:

> A group of 27 prominent public health scientists from outside China is pushing back against a steady stream of stories and even a scientific paper suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan, China, may be the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19. “The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins,” the scientists, from nine countries, write in a statement published online by The Lancet yesterday.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/scientists-strongly-...
When you say "15% hospitalization" are you suggesting that 15% of the population will be hospitalized?
Couldn't whiteboard a solution without the temp variable.
Aluminum gets pretty gnarly where in contact with steel, especially when you add salt water. I'd be surprised if Tesla's fasteners and sub-assemblies were all aluminum.

Source: In a former life I worked as a mechanic in the rust belt.
There is no evidence to date that anti-retrovirals are successful at treating this infection.
Was that because of road salt, or steel parts nearby? Steel parts nearby are usually the actual issue.
In my experience, that's easy to solve from an operations point of view and it just take a couple of easy to teach tricks to avoid it.

However, the scaling limitations of traditional RDBMS are insurmountable when trying to do things like data science, for instance.
People stuck on the same ship 24/7 is not very representative of actual daily life.
Funny, today's when I finally decided to start learning Nim. I do C++ with CUDA and Python on top for work. Having looked at the Arraymancer lib, I became interested in the language. Between its outstanding meta programming features and its ability to be compiled to C++, I think it is perfect for the scientific computing domain.
Yep, standard LaTeX with the book class.

The preview linked is a little outdated so it shows the old figures, but the latest version has all the figures done in TikZ (a vector drawing package using LaTeX syntax, see https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/TikZ_package for examples).

There is no "tooling" per se for the book production (just run pdflatex to get the PDF, then upload to lulu.com and amazon.com, and they take care of the printing). I do have some scripts to enforce naming and notation conventions though, and there is some advanced git-rebase kung fu going on that allows me to reuse the high school prerequisites from Chapter 1 of the MATH & PHYS book for the LINEAR ALGEBRA book as well (basically when I fix typo in the master branch, I have to rebase the LA branch).

One thing that has been tremendously useful and I highly recommend for any authoring task, is using text-to-speech for proofreading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...
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Let's see people still can't write SQL. Most data related issues can we done in SQL. But we hit with a pandas data frame hammer and cry that it hurts instead.

Everyone is data scientist. Load Excel into python? Data science. Divide x by y, and run some algo, data science and ML.
> Is anyone aware any similar product that also pays back game developers and modders for how many people download their games or how many times people used an asset they created?

It's called a video game engine. You make and market a game, then people buy it, and depending on how many people buy it you get paid.
I don't think the "why" is implicit in this case. I agree generally with the principle that policy should prevent harm and preserve rights. But I don't see how forcing arbitrary rules on ISPs telling them how to operate their own infrastructure does either of those. It harms the ISPs and doesn't do anything to preserve any customer's rights.

> "Hmm, he has a point, it is just like spectrum and we treat people who interfere there as the 'bad guys', why should it be ok here?"

I don't think the RF analogy works here. ATT is not allowed to cut up Verizon's fiber. That's what your wifi jamming analogy would map to. Instead of spending so much time and words to offer an obscure analogy, why not just plainly state "why nn must be imposed on ISPs"?

> I don't necessarily agree that "why" would be ranked as most important.

Spamming FCC with opinions not backed by reason will not do anything to bring about the change you want to see. The "why" is of supreme importance here, because this is not an election. And I've yet to see a reasoned argument for nn that actually makes sense from the perspective of someone who wishes to protect rights.
How many people you know ever got Sars? Now how many people you know ever got the flu? That is literally the major difference betweena killer that makes headlines and a silent killer that no one notices.
If the original commenter here is suggesting that 15% of Italy's population will be hospitalized...that is its own counter-argument. That's pretty clearly not going to happen.
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>>Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy,

Amazon used to be that brand for me, I trusted that I'd get a real product vetted by real reviewers and by Amazon. Adios
This appears to be an expanded description of a long-known technique, described by the author on HN years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18431524

It's also mentioned in the source code of UTM, a virtual machine app for iOS: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/blob/ac89c106ecf9c765ea47bfe04...
I'm not understanding your conclusion at all. In an environment not taking precautions above normal flu season, the r0 for covid-19 is significantly higher than flu (2.6 vs 1.6) - in part because we have partially working flu vaccines. If it can't be contained, it'll be far worse.

Now I suppose measures China style will drop its transmission rate below flu, but at the minimum that's a heavy economic cost to be concerned with.
This article makes a very interesting point that I hadn't heard before. When the Australian government banned Huawei equipment from phone networks, it shut down the only serious proposal to build a new network, handing a lot of Australia's money to the oligopoly that owns the three existing ones.

It would be really interesting to know how much of that money was donated back to the political party that banned Huawei.

(I've used the title from the paywalled newspaper column. The link is to the author's blog, where the title has a typo that reverses its meaning.)
Yes. You turn acceleration setting onto chill mode.
Yes. But more than that and you run into space issues. FWIW, Mormons are experts at having enough for a full year for a family that might be 12 members, but they have special things they get like gallon sized cans of unground wheatberries, for making flour by grinding it.

US Government is currently recommending citizens have enough food and water for 2 weeks for every member: https://www.ready.gov/pandemic

This isn't a new page it's their advice for being prepared in general for a pandemic.

Here's a similar page put together by the CDC: https://cchealth.org/pandemic-flu/pdf/individuals_and_famili...
As someone who mostly works on the JVM, I think this is exactly right. Docker-based JVM development environments add annoying layers of indirection and complexity for close to zero benefit.

All the times I can think of when we've run into "works in dev, not in prod" issues that weren't pilot error, it has been down to stuff like firewall configuration or the fact that production is distributed across more nodes than people can realistically simulate on a single dev machine. Never once that I can remember have we had a single production problem caused by the JVM working differently in dev environments.

It is pretty telling that if you're looking online for tutorials about how to effectively use Docker in a development workflow, you will find essentially none that involve running a compiler.
It actually does. Thank you!

As I mentioned in a sibling comment, last time I seriously attempted getting more into OCaml has been at least half a year ago. I either didn't find some of those materials or they have been improved in the meantime.

Whatever the case, I can see clearly now that I was wrong about the poor quality of the dune and opam teaching material.

I apologise for that. And I'll be making a comeback to OCaml. I mean, it still has roadblocks but they are easier to overcome when tooling is handled (minus the lack of the multicore support but fingers crossed that that's coming soon).
I'm in the same boat, and also love Svelte and wish it success.

Svelte's reactivity was also something we had in Splash, the Microsoft-internal UI framework that was used to build the Zune desktop app and Windows Phone 7/8. I haven't enjoyed building UI since then, but with Svelte I can finally enjoy frontend development again.
One silver lining is they send pretty generous coupons (like 40% off) for UnderArmour once or twice a year -- even if you don't use the apps.

So if you like the brand, from a financial planning perspective, being a MFP member (which is free) isn't a bad deal.

For calorie/meal tracking, I hear cronometer is superior.
Continual small improvements is exactly what Tesla does. That's why so many of the small issues listed in the article have since been fixed (as the article points out).
I do like the idea, but I can't seem to import my LinkedIn profile. That for me is an essential feature. Forcing me to fill out a lot of data without an immediate return seems to be a bit of a big hurdle. Also in the advanced training page the user can enter custom questions. I feel like this page could be improved with sample questions, otherwise it is hard to deduct what to write there.
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Fascinating article. I'm especially concerned about the browser passwords being vulnerable - how serious is this, really? I would have hoped in 2020 that Mozilla, et al would have something better than plaintext for passwords.

Also the article never really identified how the "patient zero" machine was infected in the first place. RDP brute force?
I might be the middle you are referring to. I see it as a potential issue that may or may not become a larger issue.

I am buying extra case of water, ramen during weekly grocery runs. But I did not go into full prep mode.

I initially completely dismissed it as media induced panic though.
You are forgetting that highly aggressive measures are put in place to fight SARS.

If you did what China is doing now to deal with flu, you'd drastically cut transmission rates.
Amazon is mixing counterfeits into their inventory. Linking to the official seller doesn't matter if Amazon treats the product as a fungible commodity behind the scenes like it does.

Do you have any evidence at all that this is the case? It's the opposite of what is said in the article - all the examples given are for non-official sellers.

Notably the article say "encountered a few instances in which a _seller_ switched in an authentic product but from a discontinued or lesser-quality line" and "The authentic ‘Ove’ Glove is available for purchase through a page indicating that it is sold and shipped by Amazon.com or sold by Joseph Ent, the Amazon storefront for Joseph Enterprises."

Also none of the sellers in the article that the Wirecutter contacted made this claim which would be surprising if it was the case!
Robert Griesemer, from the Thompson/Pike/Griesemer triumvirate that created Go, did his PhD under Wirth.
Regarding the NHS: what do you base that global legendary status on? I don't have any data, myself, but I would say its status probably applies to the anglosphere (as legendary) and probably only as middling (as compared to other European countries')
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Yes, you are exactly right.

I mentioned it further down, but my team and I are having preliminary success by integrating with VSCode's "Remote: Docker" extension. They've got it rigged so that all language support can run as remote servers inside the container. They give you a special .json file to control how you'd like to start the image, and you can supply a project-specific dockerfile that takes any additional IDE-specific steps that you want to add in as layers when opening up the project's dev container.

It still has some rough edges - for some reason, you can't supply Build-time arguments to the devcontainer Dockerfile I mentioned above, which makes it hard to get permissions to be non-annoying if you're worried your users will have odd UIDs. And there are a couple other random ticky tack things. But it's by far the closest to actually "developing out of a container" as you and I are imagining it, with all of the attendant benefits. When you want a new dev to start working on the project, they basically do this:

1. git clone newproject
2. Open that project in vscode
3. Respond to a pop-up that yes, I do want to open this in a container
4. <wait for the dev-specific layers to be built>
5. Do a normal project build
6. Enjoy full intellisense, syntax highlighting, import resolution, etc. in exactly the environment that's going to run.

In addition, by including the Dockerfile that builds the base image (the one that the dev container FROM's) into the source, developers can now change library versions and dependencies as a git commit, and then coerce other developers into automatically updating their environments by pushing a new image with a new tag to your gitlab / w/e, and then updating the tag mentioned in the FROM in your .devcontainer/Dockerfile. It's like how you would expect development to feel in 2020.
> But if you are not in China, you have no reason to prepare for coronavirus specifically.

Tell that to people in Italy or South Korea.
I think it's great that people are posting book links like this, however, what I've found most helpful is actually having someone to help guide you.

I realize how lucky I was that I found a Discord server ran by a math PhD graduate who is willing to help us guide our learning. From this, I've started learning Algebra and Analysis (just starting with the latter). It's nice to have someone to discuss problems with when you get stuck and to guide you. Likewise, he can suggest exactly which problems I should do for a give chapter, that way I don't spend my time doing ones that just repeat the same simple things over and over and can focus on nice, conceptual ones. So, if you can, please try to find someone to help guide you, or be that guide for someone else! Having it has made me seriously consider going back for a mathematics masters (and maybe PhD), switching from my physics background.
the end result of the public option is employer-based plans offloading their least valuable (and most vulnerable) customers onto the public option, leading to much higher costs for everyone. the abolition of private insurance is necessary for the efficiency and bargaining power of a maximalist medicare-for-all system.
Nope. One can start easily with Airflow+Spark(ERM)+Presto+S3 and get about 80% what'd get from your run of the mill Oracle database. At a fraction of the price, without half the headache in procurement, licensing or performance tweaking. And better scalability.

You'd be looking at $M in licenses for anything half-serious based in Oracle tech. Becoming good at replacing Oracle stuff probably has been one of the best paying jobs for a while.
There kind of is. The Chevrolet Express/GMC Savannah vans have remained largely the same since the late 1990s. The design of the headlights and grill have changed a few times, and there are several different versions of the engines, but stuff like brake systems, heater controls and fans, seats, instrument panel, etc. are more or less the same.

I don't think GM makes passenger versions anymore, but the cargo vans are still super common in my area (southern Ontario).
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Visual design is about messaging. You can have a page look messy, professional, punk, clean, etc. You can accomplish that all with templates, no need for ai.

The grid was a content manager at its core, with prebuilt templates. It basically just lost to squarespace.
Actually what the data says is the older you get the more deadly it is and below certain ages it's less than 2.

There are actually 5 episodes on "this week in virology". These people are virology professors in the US.

This episode an interesting look at the percentages.

http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-588/

EDIT: two other interesting aspects, over 80% of the cases were mild and over 50% of chinese males smoke.
This Winter in Boston has felt more like early Spring, most of the time.
Ha - I actually suggested the exact same thing before seeing your post. It's definitely much better to have a group. Since I've found this group I'm currently in, I've also been much more motivated, but also able to get feedback from more advanced people, and pare the problem numbers down to only the ones that are useful and will help me build concepts, limiting how many "calculation" problems I have to repeat.
Calling it a "Year without a Summer" is pretty hyperbolic. The temperature changes we're talking about here are 2-3C changes.
The investment / checking side sounds very much like a normal sweep-account setup: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sweep_account

Commonly available where you have business or high-net-worth accounts.

The credit side is basically an overdraft, and having overdraft protection today does the moving of funds around that he alludes to.
> it always ends up being a straw man or a very fair critique of somebody not correctly applying or interpreting an application of Bayes’ theorem.

I can't tell from your comment if you're aware that Andrew is the first author of the leading textbook on Bayesian methods. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/