skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would anyone even remotely skilled in math consider a viral spread exponential rather than logistic or Weibull?

The former stems from communication theory and the observation that few people can be sick forever or more than once. There are also constant factor communication "costs" to the virus expressed as likelihoods of infection due to minimum effective viral load, countermeasures, severity and immunity.

Latter if fomites are a major factor in final spread. (overlapping point scatter gets you Raleigh - you have to be unlucky to be near the source)

Potentially a combination of both. They all look sigmoid.

The stronger the countermeasures, the lower the total maximum.
I think that’s more of a matter that human lifespan is finite while the halting problem proof for Turing machines is across every single program.

(Which is to say... humans aren’t more powerful — it’s that we’re so limited, we will never reach the domain for which the halting problem is relevant.)
from this page:

> GNOME: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop

"Currently only remote passwordless unencrypted VNC access to an existing session is supported."

i guess that is technically a solution, but not a good one.
> The ... program was scrapped by Ontario's ... government in July. ... minister Lisa MacLeod, said the decision was made because the program was failing to help people become "independent contributors to the economy."

Basic income is supposed to help people cover their basic needs, not to make them "independent contributors to the economy".

This is doubly the case when we remember that doing volunteer work, social/community organizing, (non-commercialized) art - is not even counted as part of "the economy".

Also, if you're an employee - becoming an employee or continuing to be one - you're not an "independent contributor to the economy". But the vast majority of"contributors to the economy" are wage workers, not independent tradespeople.
It's the mass of the empty tank that's relevant here, because non-propellant mass is what you want to minimize in order to increase deltaV.
It's impossible to argue that there wasn't a misstep here. They test kits were recalled, and they simultaneously banned states from developing their own local tests - something multiple other countries were able to do with ease.

A PCR test is one of the simplest tests a lab can perform, and while there's some value in centralizing tests - it's ridiculous to tie the hands of local labs while simultaneously stalling the central test kits.

Whenever possible, in massive nation-wide problems like this, we need multiple teams working in parallel. We cannot afford single points of failure like this.

The same is true for vaccine development.
It doesn't, but the question is about whether or not one wants to live in a location - which is only one of many market forces at play in determining rent prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
You can't start from "scratch" on Mars with respect to mining or industry. Cavemen wearing mammoth pelts won't work on Mars. In order to simply survive people would need high levels of technology. Even the most basic living on Mars would need steel and glass and equipment to machine both.

Making a steel or glass plate requires a lot of industrial capability and a capable supply chain to say nothing of raw materials. Both are cheap on Earth because we've built that infrastructure over the past two hundred years. That infrastructure was relatively easy to construct because the workers could wear overalls and hard hats rather than space suits. Taking a lunch break doesn't mean disrobing and piling into a pressure vessel.

Go camping for a weekend in the desert or in the snow sometime. Consider all the crap you need to take with you to not die of exposure or thirst. In those environments where you've got air for free and usually water if you know where to look, you've still got a fair bit of equipment. If you forget anything or lose it you could end up seriously injured or even dead. That's somewhere that's lousy with breathable atmosphere, protection from most ionizing solar radiation, and an average temperature high enough your lungs won't freeze.

Surviving inhospitable environments on Earth requires effort and technology. Surviving outside of Earth is several orders of magnitude more difficult. Thriving outside of Earth is more orders of magnitude beyond mere survival.
You also have to factor in that not only are older generations further into their lives than us (I'm generalizing) younger people, with possible wisdom gained, but they are also of a different generation, raised in a different environment and with different values. That's a bigger issue to me than the fact that they're older. Of course the older generation will always be more conservative in some respects (or at least has been in recent history). Part of that is the effects of becoming older ("wisdom"), part of it is survivorship bias, and part is just that society changes, and young people now are more liberal/left-wing/"woke"/etc on average than somebody who became an adult in the 70s or 80s.
I created a spaced repetition app that combines aspects of Pocket and Instapaper with a spaced repetition learning model. It’s helped me get more value of the content I consume online.

https://retaino.com
Kind of, but I do think it's accurate to say that a large contingent is trying to extinguish Python 2 as a language. They wouldn't even deny it.
Don't coach people on criminal behaviour??
Or he doesn't care about burnout. Because of the branding of how cool space is, and robotic missions that actually advance the science not being as sexy, he has a fresh supply of excited people (rant about the science vs the sensation). Knowing former SpaceX employees informs that.
first I’ve heard the abbreviation TFA, which apparently means “this fine article.”

Edit: or maybe “the featured article”, either way derived from “RTFA”, “the fucking article”, which I assume derived from RTFM, of which many more I’m sure are familiar.
Universal healthcare is a prerequisite for UBI. How could you ever rely on it if you have the threat of a six figure hospital bill whenever you get sick or have an accident? Affordable housing is also a prerequisite or the UBI money will go straight into the pockets of landlords (I often suspect this is the secret plan of billionaires who propose UBI).
>modern pressurized airliner cabins

It's a good reference point, even if there are some key differences worth mentioning.

First up, an airliner fuselage is specced for tens of thousands of pressure cycles; needs to sustain the wear & tear, accumulated stress, and distortion. The rocket needs to handle maybe a dozen pressure cycles at most, and it is feasible to only handle one cycle for first few experimental vehicles.

Secondly, the airliner fuselage has much more complex shape, due to conflicting needs for aerodynamics, attachment of wings & control surfaces, etc.. This, together with varying materials and large openings concentrates stresses in key points. The rocket tank is as close to a big dumb uniform pipe as you can get. Even better, a rocket may rely on internal pressure for structural rigidity, while airliner needs to handle depressurization.

Lastly, the Starship is designed to survive re-entry, thus heat resistance is a major concern there; not anymore for an airliner ever since the Concorde SSTO got retired.
That's a bargain really, still less than rent.
Towards Interactive Weak Supervision with FlyingSquid
Time for a "manage your SaaS subscriptions" SaaS.

(I'm fairly sure this exists, actually.)
This is great news! Undermining remote attestation is a win for the open web and free society. And perhaps it means we can get Libreboot on something newer than Ivy Bridge.
What is work? With a large portion of labor subject to automation in and economy that doesn't need much of work anymore, people can rediscover their own form of work that brings value to the us as humans: caregiving, volunteering, arts, creativity, music, journalism, teaching, and revitalize local communities where all our main street stores are shuttering and local newspapers die in the thousands.
Yes, the quality of these varies, pick the one that is right for you. X11 forwarding is not without issues either. With VNC you'll probably also want to tunnel the connection over SSH to secure it rather than rely on server authentication anyway.
This looks really neat. Do you have any plans to make it available on Android or a web app?
I don't disagree that SpaceX has been successful. I just disagree that this trial and error methodology is some radical new thinking from Musk—it's not.
Personal anecdote, but there's some optima for information retention at low intensity exercise. This is around moderate to vigorous walking pace or a very slow jog.

Increase intensity beyond that point and your brain's information processing ability drops below baseline.

I've found this consistently true. At lower intensity cardio for example, I can watch educational youtube videos or follow along a movie. At high intensity, I can't even watch an action movie and follow the plot. I have to switch to music and/or a sports action video (no meaningful dialog).
The president has his emails printed out to read them. Like the CEO of the fortune 500 that we laughed at back in the late 90s.
Intel claims they were already aware of this vulnerability in CVE-2019-0090. ptsecurity believes there is more work to do here though.

To me it sounds like Intel is not thrilled with ptsecurity's work, and may not be awarding ptsecurity a bounty or recognition for this. But that's just my two cents.

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We should point out that when our specialists contacted Intel PSIRT to report the vulnerability, Intel said the company was already aware of it (CVE-2019-0090). Intel understands they cannot fix the vulnerability in the ROM of existing hardware. So they are trying to block all possible exploitation vectors. The patch for CVE-2019-0090 addresses only one potential attack vector, involving the Integrated Sensors Hub (ISH). We think there might be many ways to exploit this vulnerability in ROM. Some of them might require local access; others need physical access.

As a sneak peek, here are a few words about the vulnerability itself:

1. The vulnerability is present in both hardware and the firmware of the boot ROM. Most of the IOMMU mechanisms of MISA (Minute IA System Agent) providing access to SRAM (static memory) of Intel CSME for external DMA agents are disabled by default. We discovered this mistake by simply reading the documentation, as unimpressive as that may sound.

2. Intel CSME firmware in the boot ROM first initializes the page directory and starts page translation. IOMMU activates only later. Therefore, there is a period when SRAM is susceptible to external DMA writes (from DMA to CSME, not to the processor main memory), and initialized page tables for Intel CSME are already in the SRAM.

3. MISA IOMMU parameters are reset when Intel CSME is reset. After Intel CSME is reset, it again starts execution with the boot ROM.

Therefore, any platform device capable of performing DMA to Intel CSME static memory and resetting Intel CSME (or simply waiting for Intel CSME to come out of sleep mode) can modify system tables for Intel CSME pages, thereby seizing execution flow.

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400 Starlink satellites per Starship launch costing $2M is $5,000 per satellite per launch. Basically nothing compared to the eventual mass-produced cost to make each satellite which might be $100,000.

https://youtu.be/Exd1IO52exs?t=361
Source code: https://github.com/corellium/projectsandcastle/

The backstory is also incredibly interesting: https://projectsandcastle.org/history
I work for Microsoft and I quite like OpenShift (although we have AKS as the default, "vanilla" managed k8s service, you can also run OpenShift on Azure).

Sure it's opinionated, but at this point, which flavor of k8s isn't? Even k3s (which I play around with on https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster) has its quirks.

Everyone who's targeting the enterprise market has a "value-added" brew of k8s at this point, so kudos to RH for the engineering effort :)
Respectfully, I am not designing a full architecture here in HN comments and have not presented a full HA solution for you to pick apart. Your leading questions seemed basic, you received basic answers - going down the rabbit hole like this is just out of left field for this comment thread.
> This thing looks like it has been made by the CEOs daugther in Powerpoint.

I love this. I know only a bit about graphic design, but this new logo just looks...cheap. My first thought was a high school student made it with whatever free software he could find while he was bored during class, and gave up after 30 minutes because class was over.

I'm not a big fan of the new flat VW logo either, although it's much better than this.

https://www.motor1.com/news/369756/volkswagen-new-logo-unvei...
I don't understand your example, why would

(1 + 2.060) - 2.060 == 0

while

1 + (2.060 - 2.060) == 1?

Am I just misunderstanding what you wrote?
Or could put them out of business forever because they are less keen to work hard than those not living on UBI (for different reasons, it doesn't really make a difference)

I think UBI is a good redistribution strategy if it's truly universal and with not requirements, but work wise I doubt it will change much...
Intel x86 Root of Trust: loss of trust
Do a simple lower bound calculation, and you see that Elon is talking out of his ass.
I want people to figure out that materialism doesn't actually make them happy. And to stop cutting down forests while they haven't figured it out.

I don't want poor people to have nothing. I want the middle class to look elsewhere for status besides carbon footprint.
There are 40yrs old people who are not fit to run their own lives and there are 80+yrs old people who are razor sharp.

How do you propose we filter out people unfit for office?
Rich people have other reasons to learn skills.

And I think the hope with UBI is that people in general will find enough reasons that they continue to learn skills, and not just live off society as purposeful freeloaders.

I used to think that there are some types of people that would freeload whenever they possibly could.

Then a young family member proved that they will basically do whatever they can to avoid even finishing school, let alone getting a job and keeping it.

I would like to think that people would learn hobbies and create art and science for the sheer joy of it if they didn't have to put food on the table... But the truth seems to be that there are many people who would just consume the massive amount of entertainment that we now produce and no contribute anything of their own, ever.
Donating 26/month to Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders) is almost certainly going to have more of an impact than a small computation donation to FAH.
To live with such kind of drive implies sacrifices not everyone is ready to make. Being all-in also means that you'll miss on other aspects of life.
YC CEO: “Not Drowning in Demand? You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit” (2017)
UBI proponents would say that having welfare taper is bad for work incentive, since you get less welfare money if you work.
Many of us grew up with no top down surveillance in the 80s and 90s. In that world, no top down surveillance is easy to imagine.

In a world where network connected cameras are so cheap they're disposable, no top down surveillance becomes harder to imagine. At some point, information gathering systems become so cheap and ubiquitous that telling organizations not to use them for surveillance is like telling people not to look up at the sky.

Banks used to ask your mother's maiden name as a security question because someone trying to impersonate you would have a hard time finding that information. Now it's a Facebook search away, and many entities still want to use personal identifiable information as security questions.

As a society we need to reevaluate what personal information is private and what is public.
My theory is that people realize that older candidates are more likely to have sensibilities that have not been contaminated by critical theory. For example, whether you're an old school liberal or a conservative like myself, you respect the principle of free speech. A lot of the younger people are adopting viewpoints, on the other hand, which can only be described as insane.
Let me know what you think!

The app is a (very heavily) dressed-up RSS reader. I maintain a list of reading sources and add them so long as they're not going to have overly sensitive material (eg someone suggested an anonymous blog with short and colorful posts from contributors reflecting on their lives, but some of the posts talk about self-harm) or be too niche. I'm most interested in feeds that get regularly updated with new content, or where they have a trove of existing content. Also always looking out for content that's good for absolute beginners.

Some RSS feeds require additional work in the app to transform their content to make them work nicely with the reader mode, so I also take that into account.
First we couldn't tell the difference between git and github. Now we can't tell the difference between browsers and github.
Well good for you that your SPAs work every time, and you never broke production with kubernetes. Here's a cookie.

Now for the rest of us who work with engineers across all skill ranges and experience levels, we actually do need to care about such factors.

The question is -- you hire a guy off craigslist to run your site, and every minute of downtime costs $1,000. Are you going to want him to use Kubernetes or a braindead simple hosted solution?
Author of Huginn here. I'm so glad it's working well for you, that's exactly what I use it for as well.
Thanks for the feedback. The concern is that the contribution ratio will reduce. Every data point helps paint the bigger picture. Is the concern about privacy? If so, how can I better demonstrate that the data is 100% anonymous?
> As a friend of mine once said: "progress when you're going the wrong direction, is turning around".

I disagree strongly.

Progress in the wrong direction still teaches you things, and it means you're moving and you've overcome the inertia of doing nothing, which is half the battle.

Failure isn't trying and not reaching your goal. Failure is never trying.
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I have ~62 apps (that's applications, not instances) deployed on kubernetes right now, for single client.

It started out on 2 VMs with I think 2-4 cpus, already running kubernetes. The actual containers inside ran lighttpd and served static files while we fixed up the sites that we have mirrored as static to run in containers.

If we had to run one, or maybe few of those sites, it would have been easy to run a single Apache + mod_php + vhost. We would have some annoying work to do on monitoring and logging side.

But we have 62. Some of them are mutually incompatible to run on "standard" distro, as they have mutually exclusive dependencies (for example, PHP versions). This meant we ended up with containers to manage this in somewhat doable way (we are two people). We can't expend manpower to do a complete redo of the apps, though we have ideas on that (to go to single common CMS system for all of them).

K8s saved our sanity. Because those "simple apps" altogether made for hard to manage setup, and the client doesn't like when they are not available, so we brought up HA as well.

Doing this as separate VMs would be hard and expensive. Doing it on Heroku is expensive - I made a calculation, and our original setup would result in somewhere around ~1800 USD a month.

Our 2016-2017 spend on GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, a VM to host Gitlab + network traffic and DNS) was around 1000/month.
I really don't like using employment as the only valid measure of success. See also David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" essay.

Government could always create jobs, directly or indirectly, and force the unemployed into them, producing something for which there isn't really a demand.

Why were those people quitting their jobs? What were they doing instead? Were they better off? How much did it cost to get those improvements, compared to other ways to get them?
I see what you're you're saying, but it's not like UBI is going to eliminate these bullshit jobs.
Hopefully you're already worried about that.
The point where the snake eats its own tail is when you have a lot of relatively younger people in charge of deciding which old person is the wisest.

It probably doesn't do to think too hard about things like this. You'll just hurt yourself and upset your friends.
They can be files on the disk. They can also be used as variables that get interpolated into CLI args. What they really are is an unstructured document stored in etcd that can be consumed in a variety of ways.

As the other user said, they can also be multiple files. I.e. if I run Redis inside my pod, I can bundle my app config and the Redis config into a single ConfigMap. Or if you're doing TLS inside your pod, you can put both the cert and key inside a single Secret.

The semantics of using it correctly are different, somewhat. But you can also use a naive approach and put one file per secret/ConfigMap; that is allowed.
I don't think I understand your objection. You can model a lot of human and animal preferences fairly simply, based on axiomatic preferences like "wanting to survive and propagate your genes". Unwitting parental investment in a gene pool you don't share runs counter to this fairly basic and well-founded definition of utility, and it's under this premise that words like "exploit" are used.

Just upthread, "rape" is used in the animal context too. You could similarly apply your argument to that behavior, claiming that the term has moral baggage that's uniquely human, but I think it'd be just as wrong-headed.
Environments from Half-Life: Alyx have been unveiled
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As a slightly different kind of counter-example, see this recent post about "hard problems": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425745

IMO, UBI can actually encourage innovation and productive work, on "hard problems" that are not economically viable in a short-enough time-frame or lucrative enough for VCs, but for which society would certainly benefit from.
The notion of property rights is not created by the law, but a law of nature, a concept intuitively understood by human beings. The same goes for theft. The law only adopted these concepts, but it created taxes. It is not intuitively obvious that some entity is entitled to a percentage of the money you're earning.

You can change the law any way you want, but you're not changing the underlying laws of nature, and they allow you to make a case that taxes are theft. Whether that's actually true is then of course debatable and depends on a lot of variables, but saying that someone else's property should arbitrarily be yours immediately contradicts those fundamental laws.
Very debatable. Depends on the model. That may be true for the X models, but if you want that is real wheel drive, practical and fun around corners, you don't have many options.

It's worth saying that due to taxing in USA they are a worse deal than in Europe.
And then you end up with things like Teams or Slacks which needs a tool like Things and Notes to keep track of things discussed/agreed. I find Teams and Slacks flaky and hard to search
Comprehending orders of magnitude is the problem of humans not groking exponentials.
This has little to do with seti.
There are tons of such services.
Not a bad idea, but good luck getting a constitutional amendment past the AARP's lobbyists.
Through open and free elections where the candidates debate the issues prior to the election? Seems to have worked so far.