skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an exponentially increasing epidemic, there are 2 factors at work. One, like you say, is that there is an unknown number of undetected cases. The other is that there is a lag time between detection and resolution of up to 6 weeks. Comparing the known cases today to the resolved fatalities from several weeks ago doesn't work.

The undetected case issue can be addressed by intensively studying smaller populations and extrapolating to the general population. The Diamond Princess or other cases where every person in a defined population was tested and monitored would be a good place to start. The exponential growth issue can be solved with cohort analysis, group people by the date of their onset of symptoms and track the resolution for each group.

With a few more weeks of data we should start to see these studies, then we'll know just how serious this is.
This depends a lot on the individual. I would suggest it to anyone who often has post-meal slumps, for example - its likely to work wonders for them.
I recently switched to DDG after giving it a shot 2 years ago and finding it wanting.

Good, bad, or indifferent, I land on the same 5-10 platforms (or did Google only promote those platforms??) for 95% of my searches. This makes DuckDuckGo's !bang commands more efficient than a Google search.

Google wins for completely agnostic default searches and rich map functionality. For everything else, I am very satisfied with DDG.
> As if Dart doesn't ship a runtime into all the platforms it runs on.
> A quite big one actually.

yeah, whole 4,5 mb....
Or use git diff to calc the changeset and match filename globs to builds.

No need for another SaaS expense to solve this problem
The major flaw in this article is that it does not defined what constitutes "asshole" behavior.

There is a difference, for example, between being vindictive towards others, and simply pushing people out of their comfort zone.

The term "asshole" is so vague that it borders on useless.
It turns out government institutions shrivel and die when you try to strangle them. Who'd a thunk?
Other than "code quality was higher", I don't see anything else directly related to pair programming in your observations. Seems more about team culture and organization.
He did a few things when he did it which made it clear it wasn't a mistake. He had to sort of go out of his way to do it.
Would-be monopolists don't particularly enjoy playing by the rules of the game. To crib a quote, it becomes the art of saying "good free market" while you look for a stick.

If there's a state, it's natural to try to corrupt it to use its political power. If there is no state or that option looks unappealing, the alternative is to get some political power of the sort that grows out of the barrel of a gun, i.e. to be organized crime.

The implication of the question, that the state is necessary to produce a monopoly, fails to give the full picture. It's not as much that the state is necessary, that economic power can eventually be translated into enough force to subvert the rules. In the absence of a state, that force just takes the shape of an authoritarian proto-state, itself.
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Why did you give up? How we your energy levels? Did you drop weight easily?
"Do not fear! This is a cyclical phenomenon!"

This is caused by coronavirus. This has nothing to do with market patterns.
What happened after?

FWIW My wife and I were negotiating a commercial lease and we always did a diff between what they send back and what we sent them in case they pulled something like that. It may not be malicious (i.e. they updated a wrong version). They had integrity and they didn't do pull any stunts.
> I think many of your examples are illusions of choice. Most brands in the super market roll up to a handful of players, the "choice" for many items ultimately lines the same pockets.

So don't buy the big brands. Buy local.

Are you telling me that there is no possible way that you can go to a farmers market and buy food? That the only choice you have is one of Conagra's food brands?

That you can't go one the one of probably hundreds of grocery stores and restaurants that are probably within driving distance of your house?

This is what I mean by 'Open Your Eyes'. Like just go outside and look around! If you live is in a developed western country and you are complaining about lack of choices it's very likely that the problem is you and your own choices.

> Housing choices? Is that the choice to buy / rent vs live on the street?

Since when in human history has people never had to work for housing?

There is only a thin band of habitat in the earth that humans can survive and thrive without housing and technology and work. Too hot and we die. Too cold and we die. Not wet enough and we starve. Not dry enough and we starve.

To spread across the rest of the planet we had to work our asses off.

If you think life is harder for a 20-something having to deal with the indignity of living in a un-hip part of town because they can't afford a nicer place... then it is for a frontier family that has to grow their own food and build their own house from supplies they had to drag behind mules from hundreds of miles away? If so, I have some bad news for you.

"Having to work" is not evidence that capitalism is terrible. You are going to work no matter what. Whether it's socialism or capitalism or if you live in some monastery somewhere. It's not optional. It's never going to be optional.
Regardless of that specific example, government does this all the time. It is much easier for them to lose money that isn't theirs.

If you're at disbelief at that, wait until you take a look as the US national debt
> Nowadays it might be reasonable, but it still takes almost 4 seconds on this laptop, which I find to be a painfully long wait for opening a file.

That is one of the use cases for emacsclient/Emacs server.
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Yeah on the GPU you need to get your threads to ideally load consecutive memory locations for each thread to utilize the memory bandwidth properly. Random-indexing blows this out of the water. I guess that you could pre-process on the CPU though to pack the sparse stuff for better GPU efficiency..
Personally I don't think so. All the selling so far is first order obvious things... Airlines, travel...

The knock on effects are less predictable and will come later in the crisis. A lot of lower income workers are going to be hit hard as service sector takes a big hit. Those workers tend to spend all their income, so every dollar lost there translates to another dollar the broader economy loses.

That's where the Minsky moment will happen IMO.
I'll throw out Bayer, Volkswagen, Ford, and GM as companies with Nazi ties worth reading into.
6 out of the top 15 American billionaires inherited their wealth, that is the secret to wealth, have rich parents.
I wonder if the Varsity Brand's hold on the cheerleading industry satisfies this? Like all big corporations they use legal means as leverage to suppress competition but other than that it seems like a classic case of one business using dirty tactics to completely take over.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-democracy-i...
When you order food at a sit-down restaurant, you pay after you've eaten. In theory, that means such restaurants must accept cash.
Right, but both were being managed by a single group of developers - that's just inefficient and prone to cause bugs.
And if you're sure, did you report this to the relevant disciplinary body?
Jesus! Chloroquine has side effects like hearing damage, damage to the eye, irregular heart rhythm.

It’s a terribly dirty drug.

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This medicine may cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), which may be life-threatening. Low blood sugar must be treated before it causes you to pass out (unconsciousness). People feel different symptoms of low blood sugar. It is important that you learn which symptoms you usually have so you can treat it quickly. Talk to your doctor about the best way to treat low blood sugar.

Chloroquine may cause vision problems. It may also make you dizzy or lightheaded. Do not drive or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how this medicine affects you. . If these reactions are especially bothersome, check with your doctor.

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Ego Depletion is junk science which hasn't reproduced in serious experiments.
Can you take vitamins like B complex with electrolytes and sugar free, no carb protein shakes with caffeine to get some energy back?
egcs and gcc "merged" in that the modern gcc is the descendant of the egcs codebase.

Rick Moen wrote a good essay titled "Fear of Forking"

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html

It's a defense of forking, but it contains a few capsule histories of important forks of the past (from the perspective of when it was written) which are interesting.
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On a side note, I really enjoy the taste of coffee. I try not to drink more than one cup a day, but I wonder now about what would happen if I stopped cold turkey.

Maybe a couple days reset wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
> This has nothing to do with market patterns.

The market was priced for perfection. A pebble could have derailed it but instead of a pebble we have a bolder.
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When I hear “fleet” the first thing I think of is a bunch of warships. Up until today, the President sending a “fleet” to another country’s leader would be considered an escalation of conflict or act of war.

A temporary tweet? Why not just call it a chirp? Stick with the bird sounds theme. Are they calling it a fleet because it’s fleeting?

Well, what’s in a name, anyway
At the moment, from various advertising agency surveys, it seems that small/local businesses are still "dipping their toes" into digital ads and not really trying to track their audience at all beyond simple geographic segmentation.

The bigger agencies are building their own databases, but they haven't been able to link ad spend and customer purchases effectively, so that's the main focus at present. In particular they need to know ROI to effectively budget ad spend. Obviously, they have estimates of these numbers, but not an accurate per-ad-buy prediction. Google/Facebook are full of clickbots and there seems to be minimal incentive on their part to remove the bots. They've made some efforts with pay-per-conversion but it seems like marketing theater rather than a business model shift.

So until the fraud problem is solved, I don't think they care about microtargeting too much, except for its anti-fraud properties (attractive ad profiles are hard to fake).
My React Native experience is very limited, but RN lacks of widgets. With Flutter you get complete package of material and apple widgets to create UI. Also RN is quite laggy on Android
Curious about your food choices. I've been experimenting with IF. More specifically I'd call it more like timed eating because the bulk of my fasting hours and during sleep. I'm down 20 lbs with solid numbers. As a side note I have some genetic factors as well and trying to counter those.
I guess I never assumed it did. For me, the experience of caffeine is more or less that it just wakes up my brain. Whatever type of thinking I was already capable of or inclined toward when my brain is engaged, it just enables me to actually do it.

It is nice to have a more scientific basis to back that up, though.
Actually the article in this post provides exactly that. https://www.bitlog.com/2020/03/06/duckduckgo-is-good-enough-... Look for the bit about Harry Potter.
While it's easy to through around words like anecdata and poke at this article for not having hard data, I simply don't think you'll be satisfied because measuring productivity and value delivered are incredibly hard to quantify. I think this article is wholly reasonable in it's approach as attempting to show with some back-of-the-envelope math and some hand wavy explanation that it is, in fact, possible for the economics of pair programming to work. Having another person try and explain the many complicating factors is exactly what I need someone to have if I want to convince my organization that it is perfectly reasonable to try and no you're productivity won't be cut in half.

I did pair programming at two different companies full-time, one was over 200 people and that was one of the most productive companies I've ever worked at, hands down. That is also highly anecdotal, but I know it's true because I did it for 5 years and also have seen what it looks like without it for at least as many. It doesn't work for everyone. Some organizations just attract better people and that is a confounding factor. Remote pairing is hard. All these things are true, but if I want to try it at my next company, as I'm doing right now, I need articles like this to prove I'm not crazy, and yes, it's worth trying if you have problems with communication, or want to train young developers, or learn something new, or reduce bug rework from poor code reviews. It's a very useful method of developing software and I'm happy this guy made an attempt to quantify it, however poorly, because software is just a hard thing to quantify.
My 0.2$, a previous comment of mine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180163

"Some chat apps (like Viber and others) have Facebook SDK integrated in them, without any direct Facebook functionality people would use. Discovered after using NetgGuard, and seeing who is calling home, and not only home. (Why viber is making requests to graph.facebook.com anyway?)

Duolingo is a nice app for learning new languages, yet it might be using the same sdk, since it likes to call facebook.com domain.

Netflix is a good streaming service, but it has some option somewhere, which allows them to share data with others, and enabled by default. And yes, it's present in fb activity.

The list can go on...

There are developers who integrate dozens of SDKs, without any specific purpose for users, and not knowing what is happening. We need something like PrivacyBadger/ublockorigin for phones/laptops/routers/homes/cars. It's getting more than creepy.

And why would Facebook allow third-parties/businesses upload into FB info they have on their customers...

PS: analysis of how a simple menstrual tracking app is leaking data about the owner https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10693-no_body_s_business_but_min... "
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anecdotally - maybe. Fewer people are eating out, travel plans are on hold, behavior is changing very fast.
It's the first wiki. Made by Ward Cunningham who was one the original agile people.
Coronavirus-induced supply-shock is just what it took to break a fragile system out of equilibrium.
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There is a construction site in front of my office. When I walk close by, I always see a guy working and another one standing next to him apparently checking if he is doing correctly the job. Wondering if this is the equivalent of pair programming in the construction industry.

Anyway, I've done some pair programming when I was younger, and I like helping some new folks with a 1-hour pair programming sometimes, but I don't think I could stand having someone pairing with me all day. Furthermore, there are other ways to keep code quality high (code reviews, tests and so on).
Or maybe the "core" version won't be free much longer?
Yep. But you're probably better off cooking with something like coconut oil, and just pouring the olive oil on your food.
Thanks for the reply. This will make for a great weekend project.

I have some knowledge of creating an OCR program using deep learning from the last online course I took, but this looks like a very different beast and so it would be great fun to learn
You'd be surprised. I live in a country with only a couple brands per product (talking groceries here) and it is abysmal.

Even if they make all the different kinds of, say, cheese (and they don't), the quality is terrible, because they don't have those 99 competitors.
The term asshole is very subjective; some people will perceive being candid and telling it how it is as being mean while others love the straightforwardness. Bosses have to put emotions aside to think more logically and that comes off as unsympathetic when talking to employees or partners. Steve Jobs was known to not have been the nicest guy yet he’s praised all the time.
I used to work for a company that offered brand-protection services. The customer would grant my old employer power of attorney to send C&D letters and file takedown lawsuits on their behalf, and we would do all the monitoring and brand-defense work, then send a report to the customer justifying the exorbitant fees.

Maintaining a trademark costs time and money. You can save money by doing the work yourself, or by using backchannels, as you mentioned. You can save time by hiring someone to do the tedious work for you. Even a single-partner specialist law firm should have boilerplate templates on hand for taking down an infringing website fast, using regular channels. I imagine that most of the cases result in no answer from the main defendant and default judgment that orders the registrar to transfer the domain to the plaintiff, who can then blackhole it or redirect to the genuine site.

A higher-service firm will also proactively scour the Internet for threats to your brand--at a higher price, of course.

I would not recommend my former employer for this, as they got bought out, and the new owner arbitrarily fired the entire development team.
it doesn't correlate across sites by default -- the reasonable definition of a 3rd party tracker. by your definition, everything not complete self-hosted is a 3rd-party tracker. eg, netlify, which uses server logs to "self"-analyze would be a 3rd party tracker. it is not self-hosted and the data is stored elsewhere.

some might add: for the purpose of resale of the data, but I don't think that's a requirement to be classified as 3rd party tracker. the mere act of correlation, no matter what you then do with the data, makes you a 3rd party tracker. in case you think that's just semantics, this is important for GDPR and the new california law.

you can turn on the "doubleclick" option, which does do said correlation and tracks you. but that's up to the site to decide. GA doesn't do it by default.
"You are so right. People forget that the cell companies know who you are and where you are 100% of the time."

My mobile phone company has no idea who I am. It was trivially easy to purchase an iphone, at the Apple store, with cash and then purchase a Verizon MVNO SIM from US Mobile (which I prefer over StraightTalk because they allow tethering).

Neither Apple nor my MVNO nor Verizon knows who I am.

I, personally, am not a customer of any mobile provider.

Certainly my mobile provider could find out if they dug deeply enough - specifically, they could (somehow) check the Visa card I use for payment and see the corporation that that Visa card was issued to and then look up the corporate records and then ... they would know that somebody at X Corp is their customer. Possibly me.

Remember: neither Visa nor Mastercard verifies purchaser name. Only AMEX does this. You can purchase online with your personal or corp Visa/MC and put in "Mickey Mouse" as the name - it will always work unless they are a very, very rare merchant (usually European) that has put the "Verified by Visa" component into their workflow.
> in protein rich diets your body will convert the protein to glucose which will continue to be the primary fuel for the cells in the brain/body.

This is completely incorrect. Gluconeogenesis is stimulated by the pancreas releasing glucagon in response to low blood sugar. GNG happens in everyone regardless of diet when blood sugar is too low. It has nothing at all to do with the amount of dietary protein you consume.

GNG happens in people in ketosis pretty constantly without stopping ketosis.
You don't have to do that. you can write everything in one file if you want. But when you introduce some architecture you always have some verbosity
>Also most people are in ketosis before eating breakfast in the morning, because the liver's glycogen is partially depleted overnight

This is true...but it gets to my point, just because your body begins breaking down fat and producing ketones (as shown in your tests) does not mean your cells have adapted to using ketones as fuel, that requires the body to adapt.

Based on your numbers you were clearly breaking down fat and making ketones, but based on your not feeling any different I'd say your cells never adapted to ketones as the primary fuel source. This is the same for people depleting their glucose stores over night, yes they are in "ketosis", meaning they are breaking down fat and producing ketones, but that does not mean their cells are efficiently running on ketones.

My guess with you, not knowing more, is you are pretty inactive. At least I would be surprised to learn you engage in lets say an hour of cardio 4-5 times a week. I am not saying keto is the end all be all, or that everyone prefers it, but I have not met anyone who does aerobic cardio and experimented with Ketosis and not experienced a different (again good or bad). On the other hand I have met many people who tried Keto and never noticed any difference, like you describe, and the commonality seems to be they were inactive.
I made comments about being logical about corona virus and I got down voted into oblivion.

This disease has never been about lethality, but about panic.

I am not sure if it's just good for the mass media to have a panic to discuss, or if it was a concerted effort by some to make it a panic.
>This is empirically false, there are many ways a large business can lock down a market/resource, or very nearly so, and prevent competition from smaller upstarts. Look no further than two-billion-dollar-a-day-revenue Walmart, whose signature practice is running competitors out of town by undercutting them and sustaining the losses until they close.

A better way to word this is this: consumers chose Walmart over its competitors because they believe they get better deals there than the alternatives.
Well, I don't think they reported it, but back in 2000 a lot of my friends were running SETI@home, today I don't know a single person that does it. Frankly I thought it was shutdown much earlier.

As for Amazon, Google, Microsoft donating, the same thing applies, it is no longer free unused power, it actually cost money to do it. It's weird to think they would just let use their resources that way when they also work on optimizing their power usage to the point of having system that automatically shuts down idle computers.

If they want to donate to a cause, it's more efficient for them to give them money, or at very least provide service with some discounts. But IMO if they were doing it, they would not do it quietly, so I doubt public cloud providers contribute anything to SETI.
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