skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of Monday there were 18 confirmed cases in WA [0]. So even the lower bound of that confidence interval supports the claim that the number of actual cases is significantly higher than the number of confirmed cases (though "only" 4-5 times higher, rather than 10-30 times).

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/02/coronavirus-...
The current figure provided by the WHO is 3.4%, typical figures for seasonal influenza being about 0.1.

3.4 / 0.1 = 34.
- Beer virus is about to eat Seattle and SF Bay Area. If it does... then it will eat all the US eventually. Hospitals overrun etc. People won't be working. Most disruptive event since WW2.

- Supply chains run dry mid April. Huge supply shock... and will be arriving right as the beer virus starts to crush the west coast.

No one has a risk model that can price those things. It's entirely possible large institutions will go insolvent in the chaos.
> China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week

China, for all of their faults, is showing what a omnipowerful central government can do in an emergency. Forced quarantines (welding of apartment doors closed), emergency food distribution, hospitals built in 7 days, and instant ramp-up production of tests and drugs
Yes, those of us in Coos Bay and the nearby region refer to this tiny little area as the "Bay Area". Growing up, I didn't realize SF was the "real" Bay Area. ;)
The Expected value would be exactly 3.5 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Finite_case ). But isn't the question malformed since for a single role only one of the discrete values can come up?
HN itself is fast, but the comparison I'm making is with readers that use the HN API. See how getting each comment requires an additional API request: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/22481199.json?pri...

It's more about the consistency of operating on data local to the user. For example, see this comment referencing how HN paginates threads at 250 comments for performance reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231055 A local database does not have that issue.
You live in the pool house and rent out the mansion to college kids.
It does not follow that " a purely bioelectrical system at least is able to reproduce an entity that believes itself to be conscious" simply because you believe yourself to be conscious. A human simply being purely bioelectrical is the very thing in question. Further, a belief, as somethign abstract, is not something that a bioelectrical system could in principle capture, and that we do know, in such a scenario there is no 'you' to be 'pleased' any more than a rock could be.

"thought = :triangularity"

That is simply some LCD pixels on my screen. What you define it to be has absolutely no bearing on the physical implementation of the pixels. You could likewise define it to be a partial sentence on 3d polygonal mesh generation from a math phd thesis or any number of other interpretations. Any interpretation you make is IN YOUR HEAD. Not in the physical instantiation (the LCD pixels or memory the transistors of the RAM).

The problem here is that you don't understand the point.
Oh yes. You gotta get the animals fed and let out when they get up, 7 days a week. And they get up when the sun gets up.

And that's why I built an esp8266-based automated chicken door.
Or it is their lucky day and full of N95 masks and hand sanitizer bottles!
not nihilism, materalistic eliminativism - just happens to have nihilism as a consequence.
Taiwan Used Big Data, Transparency, and a Central Command to Fight Coronavirus
The author claims that "rebasing does away with the merge commit."

It's true that if you rebase you won't need a merge commit, but rebasing is compatible with the idea of having a point of reference between where branches come together, and you can accomplish that by introducing a merge commit with "git merge --no-ff" so the rebased branch doesn't fast forward on top of the target branch.
If you have modules in your module path that don't declare their exports in the manifest, PowerShell has to inspect everything to find all the cmds. This is often what is going on when you have terrible startup times.
So was my comment.
In Ganges delta they were present:

Reintroduction of the cheetah in India involves the re-establishment of a population of cheetahs into areas where they had previously existed but were hunted into extinction during and after the Mughal Period, largely by Rajput and Maratha Indian royalty and later by British colonialists, until the early 20th century when only several thousand remained. The Mughal emperor Akbar kept Cheetahs for hunting gazelle and blackbucks. Trapping of large numbers of adult Indian cheetahs, who had already learned hunting skills from wild mothers, for assisting in royal hunts is said to be another major cause of the species rapid decline in India as they never bred in captivity with only one record of a litter ever
He's cashed in on this theft to the tune of "$50m-$100m" what would it take to constitute mallace?

Sure, he's not building war weapons or anything like that, but he stole the IP and he made an F* ton of money from it, specifically selling it to competitors. That seems like about the only malicious thing you could do with that IP, if you ask me. Being not malicious would be if it did that for free.

What are the odds that he ends up living kind of normal after this? Like living in the suburbs in a 2500sqft house and commuting to some job that pays $130k? I think close to nil.
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As I understand it, these are the major Seattle company offices that are directing their HQ/office employees to work from home: Nordstrom, Microsoft, REI, Expedia, and now Facebooks stadium offices

Edit: Specified Facebook office closure limited to stadium offices based on article, it also appears Google offices in Kirkland are also encouraging WFH
The difference is that entangled particles cannot be modelled using a local hidden-variable theory of quantum mechanics (that's what the Bell inequalities and experimental evidence have shown). The reason why this is the case is a more involved question which I tried my best to explain in [1].

So entangled particles give you fundamentally different properties to a seed to an RNG (or any other arbitrary local hidden-variable setup you can come up with).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490693
They do not hold concepts, they are simply physical items behaving in accord with physical principles. You as a human interpret them (wrongly) to hold concepts. You can as well interpret them to be something else. None of your interpretations change the physics and the physics have no mention of abstract concepts and can be interpreted to be any number of things. None of the interpretations make that particular interpretation a concrete implementation of it.
I didn't downvote, but this question came immediately to my mind: why no source link from WHO itself?
Anecdotally, this happened to me today
The interesting thing is that one idea behind the copyright change in the EU is to alleviate this point. I don't think it'll work, but that's what the politicians touted it as.
And similar means to justify our distaste for some actions, as evidenced in this thread.
A kubectl plugin to exec into multiple pods at the same time using Tmux
I'm not aware of any rolling deploy functionality with terraform or docker.

Docker swarm does, but they are primarily using swarm with kubernetes these days.
A lot of people seem to be in a mood of passivity, either thinking the world is inevitably going to end or that nothing needs to be done because it's just a flu.

Neither is the right approach. Through good policy as modeled by Singapore and Taiwan, transmission of COVID-19 can be halted or limited to manageable levels.
Umm, I don't think so and those aren't mutually exclusive. Sit in a silent class trying to listen to someone who has no tonal changes in their voice for 1 to 3 straight hours multiple times a week and your interest will die hard and fast.
I'm not convinced it's effective considering people across the globe are still being infected. This is just Chinese government dealing with problems in the only way they know how: through inhumane brute force, flailing until the rest of the world solves it for them.
A raspberry pi, in being turing complete, has the ability to simulate the fastest supercomputer ever built (just give it a big enough harddrive to capture the RAM). More speed does not give you any extra ability in causing a computer to be able to thing. If that was possible (it isnt) then it would be the software doing all the job, not the speed of the hardware.
>Pop density was _very_ low. So I can’t think they exhausted foodsources and it can’t be that they hunted favorite pray to local extinction and were forced to follow

Population density increased with farming and acquiring/plundering/storing grain like millets/barley/corn
What's wrong with pointing a camera up the barrel? As long as nobody's behind it, the worst case scenario is you break your camera (and given the video quality, I'd say that'd be a good motivator to upgrade, haha).
1) He did not own 100% of that company. 2) There were 4 cofounders and 90 employees.
3) He got paid mostly in Uber shares that vested over time and he left before they vested.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/ieee-analysis-shows-uber-pai...
It’s a good point. However, I doubt anyone will be transporting high value items in autonomous vehicles for quite a while, as insurance will be expensive initially.
People find this stuff exciting because most of our industry works on systems that are at least ten years behind the state of the art. A good example is HDFS, an extremely bad likeness of GFS which itself wasn't great and died ten years ago. If you describe Colossus/D in detail many people in our industry will think it's really amazing, but of course that's more than ten years old now. Many people will choose HDFS for new systems in new designs, today. You can spend your whole career without getting so much as a whiff of the state of the art.
I would of loved to see the unexposed statics, some of these just look two photos super imposed. But I guess they literally are!
Yes. Each PA probably has no more that 10 mW (assuming CMOS), but coherently added will yield over 100 mW EIRP. For RX the signal coherently adds, but the LNA for each channel has uncorrelated noise, so the RX SNR is not as good as a passive array (assuming zero feed loss). Probably other circuitry to keep all the channels calibrated.

No, not in that chip. It has differential I & Q baseband I/O which are split and converted using a LO coherent to all the channels, then amplitude and phase shifted.

No, that would require phase and amplitude weighting to be done at digital baseband. There are some other ICs with 4 channels to drive 4 element sub-arrays. These large MIMO arrays will have sub-arrays with RF amplitude and phase weighting, then each sub-array is fed with I & Q baseband with separate weighting.
I knew a team of devs whose workflow with git was to have a clone of the repo per branch they worked on.

Needless to say, this caused a bunch of issues that made them think git was bad. When I asked "why don't you just checkout the branch you want to work on?" The answer I got was "I don't like working that way... Now fix my horrible mess of esoteric git features that I misapplied"
It's also because US law requires companies to excessively defend their trademarks in order to enforce them as a rightholder otherwise they lose it. So really US law has just been interpreted in a way that is absurdly annoying for everyone. Companies have no choice but to defend and actively seek out even minor things because it can all be used against them in court eventually one day. As long as they actively suppress that stuff, it proves to a judge they are protecting their IP. It's really a precedent set by the US government to force companies to waste this time and annoy us.
That absolutely does not make sense even on it's own. What is "the sun's natural time" supposed to mean? That seems to suggest that anyone not waking up at whatever Dr. Roenneberg considers the correct time is "misaligned." Not only does he not consider variance within times zones, he doesn't consider variance within schedules.

Depending on schedule, location, and plain personal preference, any number of time schemes could be "the best" for any given person. Ultimately it doesn't matter whose on what time as long as we are standardized to reasonable large areas, and pick something that's within a few hours of most people's ideal.
Are they also sending supplies and medical help to people they've forcibly welded inside their homes? Seems like that could kill just as many as COVID-19.
This is a subject that's very near and dear to my heart.

At its core, it's the alignment between customer experience and product. Support as the customer facing representatives need to be empowered to convey the shortcomings of the product as it impacts customer experience. The product team in turn should then digest that information and relay it to the people building the product, the engineers in this case.

Good alignment/synergy etc. between those teams leads to good customer experience.

My support team calls it "support deflection" (in terms of how it impacts support). "Upstream solution" (from the article) is roughly equivalent, from a different perspective.

The challenge that we face as support professionals becomes existential, once we've mastered deflection. As the article points out, it is very hard to measure that type of success.

The less reliance customers have on support, the less important support is to the company's success. The less important support is to the company's success, the less support is valued.

If fewer support requests come in for an extended period, then the support team will be downsized.

If a company is around long enough, surely undervaluing support services will likely catch up with them as new features and eventually new products are rolled out, and support professionals can only hope that executives are far-sighted enough to recognize that.

The problem that I've been stuck on for a while is how to align company interests with the support team's best interests, long term. Solving customer problems "upstream" is essentially fighting against ourselves.
Then have the retweet keep the "version" of the tweet that they retweeted, maybe with a flag to say "this tweet has since been changed"?
Structural Typing is being used, but unlike the wikipedia article being linked to by mbell, I don't think the distinction between duck typing and structural typing is that significant. It boils down to does the method parameter, which is an interface, describe the subset of the struct that you require or not? That is it. It is duck typing, but it simply requires explicit definitions (interfaces).

To use a popular quote "if it acts like a duck-type it is a duck-type".
Even if it did spread outside, it gave days and weeks for the rest of the world to prepare to deal with it

Until a western/free government handles an equally bad crisis (on week/month zero), one has to believe what Chinese did is as good as it gets
I still remember this standup I once had. 8 people, under 2 minutes. It was a dream.
Taxi drivers are very similar. They don’t have a say on price, just yes or no. And they were never considered employees, if they own their cars and work whenever they want.
Ignoring search warrants, pulling strings: How Tesla avoided an OSHA inspection
The theory is that there was no Aral Sea until the Holocene; the Amu Darya flowed directly into the Caspian, and the Syr Darya flowed into a large lake Southeast of the Aral.
Why Taiwan Has Just 42 Coronavirus Cases While Neighbors Report Thousands
Cases outside China are, indeed, growing at an exponential rate.

Cases inside China are growing at a sublinear rate.

As far as I can tell, it's the rest of the world (sans a couple countries like Singapore and Taiwan) that are flailing.
Uber already paid $245 million to Google.
Basically every historical map of Rome which includes Britannia also depicts the Netherlands as having its current coastline.
> Nothing will stop stalkers from crawling stories with archive.is or even just taking screenshots.

What stops this is not being interesting at the time you post. So if you're some random high school kid in 2020 who posts something stupid, nobody is going to obsessively catalog what you say in case you become an NFL quarterback or a congressperson in 2030.
If China did not hide their numbers, the rest of the world would have taken it seriously earlier?
Time is relative, and "noon" is irrelevant. UTC everywhere is optimal and ideal.
This(this(x)doesnotexist)doesnotexist=x
Typically you have to hold assets for a year for them to be taxed as capital gains. Otherwise it's just normal income, which caps out at 37%. Capital gains maximum rate is 20%.
If we’re assuming these vehicles are FULLY autonomous, a simple fix for this is to add a manual override that allows the driver to drive for themselves. Then the heist is basically as effective as it’d be today. (To be honest, I’d be surprised if such a feature isn’t required by law).

Though off-topic, the conversation of vehicle-feature-defect-related heists reminds me of Jaime Zapata, a US agent killed in Mexico after his SUV doors automatically unlocked when parked. (Though it’s unclear if locks would have made any difference in the outcome).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Zapata
In my experience, the actual policy has been to ensure there's just one entrance, in and out of an apartment complex, at which point guards take your temperature and alert authorities if it's elevated.

It's easy to go out and buy groceries, and if you do show symptoms of coronavirus you can rest assured you'll get... help.
I can't believe he made that much as an individual contributor at Google. #goals.
> these folks have trouble with even basic questions, like, "is this the change you intended to make on this branch?" when shown a diff.

I've seen people like this too, when reviewing PRs, I often see unwanted code being committed, and I just don't understand why this keeps happening. One of my defaults when committing code is to run "git status", then run "git diff" on each file I'm committing. I thought this was a pretty well used flow, but apparently it's not.
Process creation on Windows has always been significantly slower than Unix. That is why PowerShell is skewed towards "built-ins" vs launched applications. The ramification of that is slower startup times.

Interesting note - it is also the reason why PowerShell was able to adopt the more natural Verb-Noun model for cmd naming. In Unix, this would produce a huge # of files OR and you couldn't do "VERB NOUN" because then you would have to multiplex on the VERB. Unix's "NOUN VERB" is the result.

BTW - VMS DCL stepped on all these rakes which is why it is have VERB/NOUN and half NOUN/VERB. A complete mess.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
So, do the famous test kits show positive for either strain or just one?

If either, does it distinguish between the two for independent reporting?
Back in my day we bought our morality in books that we'd have to hand-transcribe into our moral compasses. One typo, and whoops, now you're a sociopath.
However, trademark is not copyright.
People are working in China right now, but boy is this getting off topic
13:00:00.00Z means the same moment wherever you are on (or off) the planet.

Does that help it make sense?
Running on Kubernetes this is easy, it's one of the first issues you hit.

Every DNS request for external domains turns into 10 if you don't explicitly configure FQDNs (dot at the end). This is because in the default configuration the resolver runs with ndots 5 to search all the possible internal Kubernetes and cloud-provider names. Then you have lookups for IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel. So for every external name you look up, you storm the upstream DNS with 10 requests for non existing domains.

Furthermore, the current default DNS service in Kubernetes doesn't have any kind of caching for these kinds of lookups (especially not NXDOMAIN) enabled.

But like I said, this is one of the first issues you hit running Kubernetes on Amazon. It is widely known and can easily be fixed by scaling up some more instances, changing ndots settings, using FQDNs or configuring caching. There is no way that this was the issue, it is plastered all over the internet, the logs are clear and the fixes can be implemented in minutes.

It also doesn't go down completely, the rate-limiter is packets/s on the interface.
Yeah that's a super charitable description. Stealing bitcoin private keys and then using them to kickstart your own venture? "Improper secrets management"
A couple of interesting articles I read concerning early arrival in Australia recently:

http://theconversation.com/when-did-aboriginal-people-first-...

https://www.sciencealert.com/50-000-years-ago-hundreds-of-an...

The theories contained in those articles include the ideas that they arrived initially in relatively large numbers in a somewhat organized fashion, and migrated around the Australian coastline in both directions.
Look who's here! Everybody Jeff is the chief architect of Powershell and someone pretty high up Microsoft right now.

Jeff hello, if it's alright i wanted to discuss the target audience of Powershell.

As I understand Microsoft is currently targeting azure users and enterprise sysadmins. I would like to propose that You add features to it that bash and zsh power users take for granted and target the linux community so that it gets more cred and in the open source hackers community and consequently more usage by regular people. Basically the developers developers developers thing from your old boss...

To be honest, right now I can recall anything I'm missing, fzf works, so does z. I will look at the startup time issue (my biggest one right now, I literally had PS1 as my login shell briefly ) ...
For a few reasons:

- On Linux you have to learn bash anyway, because in the normal course of work you run across bash scripts everywhere.

- Everything on Linux is designed around the Unix philosophy and Unix tools, so PowerShell will feel out of place, and it'll be harder to find examples online. Also, Linux stuff is all configured via text files anyway, so PowerShell's object model is much less enticing.

- The shell's programming environment isn't that important because your scripts shouldn't be that long -- beyond 100 lines or so, you'd be way more productive using an actual programming language like Python instead.

I used PowerShell on Windows for 4-5 years professionally and it was great (finally ditching command.com was a revelation). Now, I've been using Linux, bash and stuff for about 3 years, and it's great. I guess I prefer the Linux environment because it feels tighter and faster.
https://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5970767/case-against-time-zones
US law requires companies to excessively defend their trademarks in order to enforce them as a rightholder otherwise they lose it

Copyright and trademarks are different intellectual property concerns with different maintenance, declaration, and enforcement rules.
> And before anyone mistakes that for complexity on git's side… often, these folks have trouble with even basic questions, like, "is this the change you intended to make on this branch?" when shown a diff.

And yet I don't run into such behavior from people using SVN or mercurial.
Marketing Your Business for Generation Z in 2020
For robust configuration yes. However one can certainly collapse/shrink if having multiple clusters is going to be a burden cost-wise and operation-wise. This best practices was modeled based on the most robust architecture.
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but also should know better than to try.
I don’t claim exclusive rights but that photo should be a part of my takeout.