skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But how does a modern, complex and non-homogeneous society aribiter cases without turning "poisonous" or odious to some members?

There is no perfect society in this regard. Just because it's hard doesn't mean that such societies shouldn't strive to reduce the odiousness, and maximize the fairness in the administration of justice, regardless of the subgroup that the contending parties may belong to. Fair and equal treatment under the eyes of the law is a cornerstone of human rights.

> To my knowledge much of Europe, M.E., Asia and even S. America are composed of largely homogeneous populaces with a smattering of outsiders at best.

You've listed regions that contain some of the most heterogenous countries on earth in ethnicity, language, and culture, like the UK, France, China, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Indonesia, Brazil.

Some of these countries have multiple, sometimes contradictory legal systems, some sanctioned by the state, others by religious power structures.

The country that is often referred to as among the most homogeneous societies in the world, Japan, has a pretty well acknowledged dual justice system for citizens versus visitors. All societies fail at this, but if anything, the very homogeneous societies fail the most at offering equal justice.
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American social support payments: SSI = "Supplemental Security Income", SSDI = "Social Security Disability Insurance".
Sometimes it's better to trust the developers, not the packagers. Example is the Debian SSH vulnerability from 2008: https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576

This was a bug introduced in packaging. See https://lwn.net/Articles/281436/ for more details.
HashiCorp :)
Agree. The story is good but this source is absolute trash.

This is why people use devices like PiHoles and adblock.
Again.. I am blown away.

> well known phenomena regarding peripheral nerves.

This for starters has my mind blown, but I was curious if they were using techniques that were enhancing that.

> new nerves grow down the channel, at a rate of about an inch a month

Again, amazing! I guess I just never appreciated how amazing the body really is. I always take it for granted of course, but the nervous system for me was always like a webbing, that if broken could never grow back.

Insane, thank you for the info! And again, credit to her and her physicians, nurses and donor. Amazing!
Mobile app protocols for privacy-sensitive epidemic contact tracing
Yes, but if you enforce that the program be decidable, as part of a dynamic kernel API, then you are no longer offering a Turing-complete language. Are there so many use cases that would benefit from this nonetheless, that it wouldn't be better to just hard-code them?
> [China] has the best available data set

No they don't. They have large biases from the fact that mild and asymptomatic cases are underrepresented. To avoid that you want to look at data sets where they tested 100% of people whether they had symptoms or not.

As far as I know that is the cruise ship and the South Korean church. And they show a lower death rate.
I think GM gets some leeway here for having the bolt, being an established car manufacturer, etc. Yeah, there's always a chance it ends up not materializing, but that chance is far lower than the chance that one of those random new car companies that show up as CES every year don't materialize. I think that from the perspective of a customer looking to buy a new vehicle in the next 2-5 years, this is serious enough to consider maybe holding off on getting a model 3 after getting a raise or something and keeping that beater for a year or two longer in case GM comes out with something compelling, or the threat of it gets tesla to up their game even more.
Sudo shutdown -h corona.vir
You are going to get a 4U server that takes 60 disks and populate it with SAS cards driving them using SAS-2-SATA cables.
To the extent this is accurate, it has to lead to misunderstandings and accidents.

In your examples, it sounds plausible, but if you are suspicious (and surely everybody reading such a thing is) you could interpret any statement as expressing something negative in a positive way. Ultimately it's more like a Rorschach test for the reader.
Looks like it's in progress: https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/slides/Kernel%20TLS%20and%20TLS%...
Nope. That's what actually kills you on Amazon - network costs.
Sure, there are saturation parameters in the differential equations that prevent that result.

There are smart epidemiologists who project those claims >https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vac...

The CDC/WHO are still trying to push for containment, so I'm unaware of any concrete predictions they are taking with regards to the final infection rate.

More generally, the more I've been binge studying epidemiology (not claiming to be an authority), the more I'm learning that, as a field, it has difficulty with long-run predictions. That's not super surprising, I work in the statsy/ML forecasting world, and these types of unstable, unknown processes are very hard to forecast accurately.

What we do know though is that there is good reason to believe it's parameters governing infection (e.g. secondary infection distribution) are more infectious that diseases such as H1N1, which went on to infect ~20% of the world. We do know that the mortality is 1-3%, depending on ICU saturation. There are reasonable base rate scenarios to view this as a likely outcome.

We need to do our best to contain this and keep it as a slow burn, or we will be dealing with hundreds of thousands of Americans dead, and millions hospitalized.

To be a little more specific, the deaths given a functioning health system are less concerning to me. It's the fact that this has a very high hospitalization rate of 5-20%. That's why we need to keep spread slow, so the hospitals can manage.
What moral argument is there if it's ineffective?
Those are just results of its purpose and of human nature. It’s not a very compelling list.

People assault for sport too. And people would make all kinds of illegal things for craftsmanship if they could.

Store of value seems particularly like a stretch.

They are tools for killing. To what extent is it correct to regulate them is the question.
Sure, if you are inverting the gear ratios half way through...
Depends on whether one is a consequentialist, and the good outweighs the bad.
Flexport is hiring software engineers in Amsterdam (EU visa included)
Similar arguments existed for making tobacco products available worldwide. The increased mortality affected primarily the old and killed them quickly - reducing net Social Security and Medicare costs in the USA.

However, the elderly deserve reasonable measures to keep them alive as a foundation of the multi-generational contract between productive young and consuming old people.

True that Sanstelli's short sightedness highlights an aspect of capitalism, but his proposition could not actually occur because capitalism puts capital into the hands of its best custodians - the old for the most part. And these custodians would correctly spend capital on themselves to preserve their health.

The markets of course will eventually recover to new highs, and the common sense hygiene practices will serve to save the lives of perhaps tens of thousands from influenza mortality.
Thousands of Netgear routers are at risk of getting hacked: What to do
If you bring back the Dashboard I will throw money at you.
>Even if I never used DDG search it would still be valuable to use DDG with bangs for wikipedia, google, youtube, etc.

I love this about ddg. I watch to a lot of YouTube videos, and being able to just type “!yt search terms” is just too useful.
What's your goal exactly?

Yes you can make their ad targetting somewhat less accurate in some circumstances.
So much for freedom of speech, I guess. That sounds awful.
Nope. Even if your physics engine could deal with the rotation of the first gear in one "unit", and batch the rotation of that gear a million times in a "super unit", then calculate a million "super units" each second, it would still take longer than the universe has been around, by 10^70 times, to complete one rotation of the final gear.
I'm asking what best meets the requirements, which may be a balance of cost and performance.
Congratulations Ivan for the launch! Best of luck!
If you don't paint it, you have to polish it periodically, which is more expensive. A pre-pitted surface probably more so.
Your arm is poorly engineered for this particular problem, so you are correct.
System administration has been going the route that network administration went a few years prior: Automate and turn everything into a process, so you can hire the cheapest possible people that are capable of following a process and using some pre-made tools. Software development seems to be heading that direction too. As someone who spent the first third of their career in LAN/WAN networking, the second third in Solaris and Linux administration, and the last 10 years or so in the embedded and RTOS areas, it's been painful to watch it happen.
Women are required to meet a higher bar in part because it's assumed that two men meeting for coffee are meeting for business, but it's less clear what is going on if a man and a woman are meeting for coffee.

The relationship between trust and a character trait of trustworthiness is not necessarily straight forward. If people think you simply aren't in a strong position to hurt them, they expect less of you.

Women are often in a position to inadvertently harm a man without meaning to do so. Important men often want no appearance of impropriety. This makes it unclear how a woman can even establish a trusting relationship to a man.

Sometimes, husband-and-wife teams work as an effective in for the woman. Her relationship to him helps establish intent for everyone. It helps prevent muddy Waters in that regard.

If a meeting over coffee reads as a date if it's mixed gender, it may not matter how trustworthy she is. It may only matter that he doesn't want there to be talk, so he won't meet with her.

I attended GIS school in my late thirties. It's a two-thirds make field. I have a strong math background and argued with one of my professors that his math on the board was wrong.

He said "I bet you lunch." right before realizing I was right and saying "I feel a lunch coming on."

He was probably around 50 years old. He didn't really want to be seen buying lunch for a relatively pretty, young female student. After class, he quietly thanked me for standing my ground and correcting him and he slipped me a twenty dollar bill to cover lunch.

If I had been male and we had actually gone to lunch together, this would have been an incredible networking opportunity. But we never did have lunch together because he didn't want any appearance of impropriety, even though he respected my mind and appreciated my class contribution. It wasn't enough to overcome the question of "What will other people think?"

Of course, that story and conclusion involves a lot of inference and assumption on my part. Maybe he would have slipped a twenty to male student as well and not actually eaten lunch with them.

And that's part of what makes it so intractable. If I accused him if excluding me based on my gender, it would only deepen the rift, not bridge it and I can't actually prove it's a gendered thing, which makes women look histrionic when they complain about things like that.

And, yet, we continue to be subtly shut out. And I think this is a major way in which doors just never open for us.

If you can't even have coffee in public with someone for fear of what others will think, how on Earth do you even begin to network and get known well enough to establish a name, get referrals for work, etc?
Only if you're okay with some sort of extreme fast-forward mechanism (which seems like cheating), since even if you turned the first gear once per CPU cycle you'd still be spending about 10^90 seconds to turn the last gear once. There's otherwise no problem with representing the state of the simulation itself; a googol only takes 333 bits to represent.
I don't think it matters one bit. I never liked math until I already had a successful programming career. To me, programming is much more about language skills than math.
Lots of misinformation in this thread. I host economical listings on airbnb and have had over 300 stays in the last 2 years and get plenty of bad reviews. Half of my guests are repeats who are just there for work and don't bother to review. The other half will leave 2, 3, 4 stars largely because they're not used to being around hispanics and blacks, which triggers airbnb to threaten me with being delisted, which would screw over my returning guests who are happy with the value. I price my listing at the bottom 25% median and clearly state that the neighborhood is multiculturally and socioeconomically diverse. It is a tremendous value for the area but there will always be guests with 5 star tastes and 1 star budget.
Oh wow, that's disappointing. I was hoping once summer got here, it'd go away and people would forget about it. Sorta like Swine Flu, Zika and Ebola was supposed to kill us all but now we never hear about it.
I hear what you're saying, but I live in the EU, where at least we have some more protections by way of privacy. (Not perfect by any means)

To speak to your point on Barr, and I'll try to be neutral here, his motivations might very well be positive to protect the US people but the method is really panning out to be damaging long term.
>No, not having guns at worst would deprive minorities of the ability to protect themselves.

Are we talking about America? Where those same minorities are shot for holding toy guns?
How much better would the world be if more people put effort into recognising their biases and improving their reactions to things?
So everyone knows that aluminum develops a chemically stable oxidation layer that prevents ionization, or something like that.

In reality though, that layer shows zero mechanical strength. You don’t see that with aluminum products but only because they are always anodized. Without anodization or just left in the wild, aluminum develops white salt like corrosion on its skin.

I have anecdotal experience of this with a PowerMac G5. It was a school computer, I got to see inside, and years later I found fingerprints of my younger self permanently engraved on it.
Your comment makes a laughably wrong assumption, and is also low value.
So I've heard... the DeLorean came to mind, because AFAIK, it's the only mass-produced car ever(?) to have a stainless steel chassis, theoretically making it thus immune to corrosion.
I have always felt that most of proposed benefits of the keto diet are largely just a result of "giving a shit." People go through lives eating garbage all the time, laying around feeling bloated and crappy. Then jump onto <insert any miracle diet> and after a few weeks feel amazing. The secret is they swapped from shoveling garbage into themselves with becoming relatively picky about what they're willing to put in their bodies. Suddenly they look better and feel better, and want to double down on looking and feeling better.

I myself did the keto diet and found success with it, but then I transitioned to just more of a selective generalized diet and experienced identical effects. Keto was just the first time I'd ever had a set of rules to apply to the food I ate, which was ultimately the actual training I needed.
That might be a factor, but this work is specifically on B cells in the gastrointestinal tract. There are definitely interactions with the gut biome and B cells though, see eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31462512
> Without containment, nearly everyone will get the disease

You might be right in your claims. But can you provide me with any reputable sources to verify your claim?
Guns aren't "killing for self defense". They're killing machines which lie around for a long time, and may have many effects one of which is self defense.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would disagree with you, just as one example.
You’re right for creating. But many people read spreadsheets that are created by someone who needs those functions. If only 1% of spreadsheets use that function, the entire organization needs it. Training users how to double click icons is surprisingly hard. Trying to train them how to open some spreadsheets in Sheets and some Excel is a support nightmare.

Maybe I could see an argument for localc, but sheets is actually pretty costly at $50-150/year.

I think it’s fine for non-business people to just use the free sheets, but an org would have to not care about excel to use sheets for everyone.

With 365, it’s sort of a no-brainer as while it’s not as good as sheets for accessibility, if I’m going to pay $100/year/user then it’s easier to plan for 365, than sheets, I think.
I wonder what it would take to build a frontend for this that uses other people’s exposed S3 buckets for storage.
It's live right now though, the community has deployed the infrastructure [1] and the pricing is approximately what they claim [2].

1. https://siastats.info/hosts_network

2. https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
Fyi TillerHQ does this.
In an imperfect build like this, it would simply bind with any attempt to turn it the other way.
Well. I reacted to the charting, where the basis of each chart was designed to maximize the separation of of the two groups, and the color red was used make somewhat mild differences look more causal than they really are. And, yeah, there are probably other data points that were not included because they muddied the story line. But I can't agree with you that the tone was anti-capitalist. That people suffer when they feel trapped by their circumstances doesn't seem like a huge reach to me.
Awesome! Competition improves everybody's game.

On to the next step!
Ok, so then where did the stats come from? What is your reputable source of information if you think the CDC and WHO aren't reputable.

I'm open to learning, maybe you can teach me.
This is testssl.sh. Good stuff. Highly recommended.
Ahh yes, the mythical four nines.

https://medium.com/@guisebule/the-sla-is-a-lie-babd16d629d2
> It's odd, the safer our societies become, the more fearful people get. I used to live in a 2nd world country and it seems people were less fearful there, even if they had more to fear. It's like we collectively somehow miss having real things to worry about.

maybe it’s akin to allergic reactions... where certain people who grow up unaccustomed to certain allergens end up with their immune system overreacting... maybe in our society, in everyday life we aren’t accustomed to certain stimuli and even relatively (to other countries) small shocks can lead to overreaction... just an idea...
It didn't end up being a problem. I washed my feet when I could, used thick wool socks, let my feet air out at camp, and that was enough.
Check out their storage box if using their cloud instances. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box?country=ot

€10 for 2TB and unlimited transfer within same datacenter (or 10TB if accessing from outside). You will get a 1Gbps or more transfer speed and many options for mounting the storage (SCP, webdav, etc). I used to use them as a intermediate backup location when I used their cloud instances and dedi servers.
It's pretty simple: for each pair of gears that mesh with each other, one has ten times as many teeth as the other, which gives a ten to one reduction.

If you chain 100 such reductions, you get 10^100 to one reduction.
As of today in King County, people are already being directed to ICUs in other counties south of it [1]. It does not help that the first major outbreak is in a long-term care facility filled with elderly and vulnerable people.

[1] https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article240963446.h...
a11y is hard. I like to let axe ( extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe-web-accessibil... ) do all the hard work for me.
Improving on the design of Exceptional Access systems isn't just about math, nor about considering the problems of key escrow. Rather, it's about considering how to reduce the risks for the issues you've raised.

Fighting on principle is fine, but if the laws are changed to require exceptional access for these systems, it would behoove everyone to work towards a better compromise. Otherwise, your concerns will remain.
I disagree as both a python and rdbms user. Excel is great for millions of one off use cases by users who don’t know how to program and don’t know sql and/or have access to rdbms infrastructure. And I think that’s ok.

If I want to create a reproducible data process then I’ll build it in python and maybe some data share or database.

But tons of work can be done in excel that isn’t worth the cost to build in something else.

I don’t include Macros, if I’m programming in Excel, I should probably do that in something that is better designed.
Woops accidentally solved fermi's paradox and the mystery of what created the big bang, in one shot.
THC boosts creativity but not problem-solving ability, stoner indicates.
Probably not, Slack is even more obnoxious than that, I installed the app on my phone, but didn't want my phone buzzing all the time, so I snoozed notifications on it. Guess what it did? It snoozed notifications on the desktop client too...
This comment is not helpful at all, you might consider deleting it to not waste others time and awareness.
That's not how I (generously) read GP's suggestion. It could be worthwhile to implement heuristics that can be used to prove certain classes safe; and those could be lifted to a "new syscall". If the heuristics give a non-result, gracefully fall back to not pulling userspace crap into the kernel.

Not saying I'd be interested in doing this work, but there's a vast middle ground between "the halting problem is undecideable" and "we can never know if while(1); will halt"
Correct. The death rate doesn’t really matter. What matters is no herd immunity, high r0 and the percent of cases that are severe. I’d also add that human error and the inexplicable need to not sound alarmist and to conform to peer pressure is another huge factor. Nobody wants to take responsibility.
I think we should change the word to -ffect and it will automatically be the correct form in all usages.
> I've mentioned this before, but I'd like to write a children's book that teaches one-time-pads. The book ends with little Jimmy getting hauled away by the feds for doing illegal math. Fun for children and parents!

I absolutely love this. Animal Farm comes to mind.

Please write this, our descendants need those echoes from the past.
It's important to be able to reason in a math-like way. The actual math? As reatornator said, it depends on the domain. More: Which math is important depends on the domain.
I've always been an indie hacker, more adept at building applications/front ends than infrastructure and devops, so things like Netlify, Zeit Now, Firebase etc make a lot of sense to me because they abstract those parts away.

I've recently started at my first enterprise contract (10+ years into my career) in the cloud team (as a front-end engineer building the interface to a cloud console) and am amazed at the level of resources poured into infrastructure and devops.

I'm obviously new to enterprise - and there are probably reasons I'm not aware of that prevent them from going all in on things like static site hosts and managed infrastructure - but I do feel that there's a lot of room for enterprise to shift in this direction.
Sure, but you have to configure it to do that. There are bangs for pretty much everything, and I can usually guess them easily enough. !wayback is a favourite of mine.
Yeah, live an even more miserable life so that you can save a little. You save your whole life what others make in a minute/hour/day
The point isn't that there may be an argument that it's moral even if it's ineffective, but rather that, even were it effective there's no moral argument to be made for it.
DDG does use ip address to locate you.