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You're correct. Debian and Ubuntu are technically different operating-systems. Due to the similarity of 'operating-systems' built around the Linux kernel they're typically referred to as 'Linux distributions'.

In the context of software development, if you tell someone you're developing a new operating-system you're probably going to conjure up images of writing a new kernel. If you tell people you're developing a new Linux distro, this is closer to what they'll imagine.
This thread may be of some usefulness

https://twitter.com/jeff_weinstein/status/123474490458191052...
Many parents can’t take time off if we close school. Children aren’t at risk here, reason why still unknown. That’s a terrible idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Aviation_Security

Thanks! Never knew that this role was sometimes contracted out.
I am from Indonesia. And I do think authentication is crucial for Indonesian market.

As you mentioned, scam is a big issue with SMS-based authentication. People do use sophisticated social engineering to capitalize on the lack of digital literacy from Indonesian people (digital transformation is just happening and education level is poor). And sometimes, their social-engineering skills are sophisticated enough to trap even the highly-educated people (the top 10%).

Hope you guys can bring innovation that matters to help Indonesian economy achieve its full potential!
Most car purchas are a fundamentally non-rational decisions in the current climate crisis, if you have humane values and place some weight in the common good.
Remote work isn't for everyone. I couldn't ever dream of returning to an office - I've been remote for 10 years now.

The first year was a struggle but after that I've been solid.
I am slowly coming to the realization that a quarter to a half of a percent of people who are alive on Earth today may not be in one year.

Please send the following links to your employers, especially if you work with the public:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronaviru...

The only way we will avoid swamping the healthcare system
in the US is by enacting widespread measures before it seems necessary/imminent. NOW is the time to act, not later.
Agree completely, WFH generally drops impromptu collaboration and productivity in every office I've worked in.
> Which example?

First paragraph: "Examples of effect sizes include the correlation between two variables,[2] the regression coefficient in a regression, the mean difference, or the ..."

> Who would consider the same expected difference to mean the same effect size when the population distributions are narrow and when they're wide?

For the case where the unit of measurement has a sensible, relevant interpretation (e.g. if a study measured dollar value of two interventions), and attempts to capture uncertainty via CI or another means, I would consider it one meausure of effect size.

The key to understanding effect size is that its most common focus is around making measures over arbitrary scales become scale invariant. But scales are not always arbitrary.

Daniel Lakens has a great article on ES and puts the motivation for calculating them well..

> First, they allow researchers to present the magnitude of the reported effects in a standardized metric which can be understood regardless of the scale that was used to measure the dependent variable. Such standardized effect sizes allow researchers to communicate the practical significance of their results (what are the practical consequences of the findings for daily life), instead of only reporting the statistical significance (how likely is the pattern of results observed in an experiment, given the assumption that there is no effect in the population).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.0086...

To the degree that the thing measured has an inherently meaningful scale to the researchers (eg sometimes dollars, time), then it is already an effect size measure.

There is some nuance here, since the level on which you might want to interpret something (eg the spread could be part of the value, especially to an individual who will have 1 and not many codebases).

You might also want to render it comparable to other studies that measure something else, and it's unclear how to convert it to your scale, so you use standardized ES measures (eg many meta analyses).

But an important point is that whether something qualifies is really a question of the scale. (What the best ES is for your specific question is another important issue!)
Time is critical. Vaccine research, time for hospital infrastructure to scale and establish procedure, research on novel mitigation methods (is there a particular wavelength of UV that is effective? Can we scale that to millions of handheld devices?), time for orgs working with vulnerable populations to change operations, time to train up additional staff, more spare capacity of areas less impacted to help out situations like Iran instead of worrying so much about their own, will summer give us a tailwind? etc etc. Essentially everyone who is already specialized in this area is getting slammed right now and alleviating their problems will be measured in lives saved.
A useful number is that the deaths today represent the disease burden 3 weeks ago. Propagating that multiplier forward, the deaths today represent 500-1000 infected individuals today. So the US has 16 deaths. You're looking at 8000-16000 infected individuals in the US today.
I think there's a case to be made that there's nothing novel in an API itself (emphasis on the interface). The novelty comes from the implementation, whereby competition actually kicks in (novel algorithms, data structures, storage techniques, etc.). But maybe I'm missing something? I come from a distributed systems background, so my bias is likely titled.
Robots? We are constantly bathed in robot killing the world fiction where Isaac Asimov attempted to lay down laws of robotics, the terminator evolved into not killing civilians. The military and industrial sector have been discussing automated equipment for years before it arrived.

We have done the same with self driving cars, though it depends on where you draw the line on implemented.

A lot of these ethical questions get tied up in institutional processes that are not public.
So the brand's advertising has compromised rationality, which is of course the goal of all advertising.

I don't see that it's useful being emotional about it. They're car companies selling cars. You're better off being realistic.
> Copyright is not some innate right. Interfaces should not be copyrightable just because they require some level of competence to design.

The purpose of copyright, according to the constitution is "[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts". So generally, things should be copyrightable if granting the copyright results in more and higher quality work. If APIs are indeed protected, there it is plausible argument that we will have more of them and they will be of higher quality.
The US seems like it's pretty screwed at this point. All the recent cases here in Australia have been people returning from the US.

Just look at the exponential growth on this plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_t...

That's not a trend that's going to reverse quickly.
> and decided to release it for the benefit of the community

I don't understand. You're saying “for the benefit of the community”, but then only speak about companies as negative examples. (1) Are companies inherently incapable of being members of the community to you? (2) Are people whose software is more liberally licensed (and may wish to incorporate parts of yours) not part of the community to you?
> I'm afraid I feel my level of sympathy would be 100% correlated with how mandatory the heels are for your friend :-/

that's a rather sexist position. someone's wardrobe, if in the entirely reasonable range in which high heels are, should not be dictated by someone else's preferences, particular a boss.
I don’t know... I pessimistically have doubts that employees “won’t return to the office again” - as some headlines or hot takes have alluded - as a result of WFH.

IMO, it’s a real estate thing more than a productivity thing.

If we’re talking about weeks-months of WFH, then going from Office->WFH->Office seems like the more likely plan. Like how experiencing a blizzard may mean not going to the office for 1-2 weeks, but at some point a return will happen.

Companies that own/rent nice, expensive buildings to contain hundreds/thousands of employees are not going to write it off and stop using them for full-remote all of a sudden. The physiological value of WFH is not as quantifiable to bean count as property asset value.
Question for any Amazon folks here that may know. Is this akin to something like Atomic or CoreOS that is used within Openshift as the Master or Worker node OS or is this more like the UBI (Universal Base Image) that can be used as the base image of a container via "FROM" within a dockerfile?
> The project for some compilers courses is implementing a compiler for a subset for Java. Would the current ruling mean that doing the project is copyright infringement?

Fair use would probably protect you because you're doing it for non-commercial educational purposes. But further, this lawsuit is not over the Java language, but it's libraries.
They can't force you to close the position - they "Don't Know" (DK) the position. ie there is a dispute with you for whatever reason that you actually have that position and nothing can be done either way until this is clarified.

If they are right, making you put on a trade to close the position they don't think you have will actually put you into a position of equal size in the other direction.

eg:

You are my pb and I think I'm long 20 S&P e-mini futures. You don't know that trade so think I'm flat. If you make me "close" my position and you're right then I'm actually now short 20 futures.

This type of situation can happen a lot more easily than you might think especially in markets where there are multiple trading channels (eg voice and electronic) and settlement instructions etc can go wrong.

One place I worked we had a trade be DKd because the instructions were sent by fax and needed to be confirmed by voice. The pos Solaris printer driver used to leak memory so one day it leaked so much memory that it just fell over and died and one of the trade confirms wasn't printed out, therefore the human who had the shitty job of picking them up off the printer and calling the other side to confirm the trade didn't confirm. 5m dollars right there.
> What does seem to be a major source of anxiety is battery lifetime and serviceability/cost.

Battery lifetime is way more of a concern for cars with small batteries.

For an original leaf with a 20kwh battery pack, you have to charge it to higher levels and discharge to lower levels just to get your daily range. For a tesla model 3 you can charge for battery health and still have convenience and longevity.

Basically, to predict car lifetime calculate battery cycles * range for one cycle.

If a battery will survive 2000 cycles, a leaf @ 50 miles range will get 100k miles, a tesla model 3 @250 miles range will get 500k.

And service seems to be working out to significantly less than gasoline cars.

I do dislike that teslas are not "open" cars, tesla carefully hoarding service procedures unless the law requires it.
I've known about Bette since I was a kid in the `60s. Can't say I know anymore than what was given in the Twitter thread but my mother and grandmother used to talk about her with their friends.

I didn't know Mike Nesmith is her son. That was a surprise.
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If Tesla went bankrupt, would all the other manufacturers just stop producing / developing electric cars? Are they doing it now just out of fear of losing the market to Tesla?

If that were the case, for the sake of humanity and the environment, we should be obliged to support Tesla exclusively, otherwise we will never free ourselves from diesel / gas based pollution machines.
You don't both need a private office, there is no reason you can't have one office room with 2 desks. Companies should probably pay extra with the savings from not having to rent an office. Combined with the savings from not having to transport yourself to an office, it should be affordable.
> Copying a functional spec - like for SQL - is fine. But copying implementation code is not (unless that's the only way it can be implemented).

Why are specs fundamentally different than implementations?
The name sounds like "pretentious", which is not how most speakers want to come across.
> Around 15% of the people who get COVID-19 need ICU

I'm usually the doomssayer, but that's 15% of people who are diagnosed. Usually people who are asymptomatic or nearly asymptomatic don't get diagnosed.

Only a few countries have testing programs widespread enough to start estimating case vs infection rates... and certainly not the US, where there are plenty of people who have been obviously infected who are still not included in the official counts because of god-knows-what-the-CDC-is-doing.

What is clear enough is that whatever the rate of serious cases are, it's more than high enough to overload the hospitals-- just as is happening now in Italy. So I fully agree with your point, I just don't want to see if lost in the noise because some people will notice the 15% claim is almost certainly an overestimate.
Haha, what a first world solution to the problem.

Though I must ask: if you're going to petition the government to regulate carriers so that you can see government censorship, why not just ask the government to tell you when they're censoring you. Surely they will be just as helpful.
>> doesn’t YC strongly encourage investors, to the point of punishing those who violate, to wait until Demo Day? That way they get to build good market conditions for raising.

I’m not sure what’s your source because the first paragraph contradicts what you are saying “Over the last few days, a large number of investors have accelerated their outreach to our current batch of founders. They are moving quickly to make investment decisions, and we’re going to match their pace and accelerate our schedule by one week. YC W20 online Demo Day will now be on March 16.”
Spike in demand of remotely working tools due to CoVid19 pandemic
Yeah, it's not the total number of hospital beds, it's the number of intensive care hosptal beds with associated equipment like ventilators and intubation equipment, chest x-ray capacity, and the number of doctors and nurses familiar with that type of equipment.

In my country we have ~12 000 hospital beds total, but only ~400 intensive care beds. Reportedly our capacity for immediately stretching that number is that we can muster ~1 200 intensive care beds. If the need goes beyond that (and everyone is seriously hoping it will not) then we will be overwhelmed like Italy.
This is completely unwarranted fatalism. Taiwan and Singapore bent the curve, and Korea is doing it now as well. Learn from them and implement! Really don't understand this logic at all - containment is possible.
The issue with schools is that they're daily large gatherings where the virus can be transmitted. Children can be carriers with schools providing the network effect for spreading covid-19.
Interesting. I wonder how well it would work in practice though. They assume uniform randomly distributed nodes, whereas people don't tend to distribute themselves randomly. They don't address practical concerns either, like how narrow the MIMO beamwidths need to be and how easy that is to achieve. Still a nice theoretical result.
That's equivalent to replacing an ICE engine/transmission, how often does that happen, and how much does that cost? It's a moot point, ICE cars lose that one by default.

Secondly, it's not just the pure monetary value. We have four cars in a family of six, and despite my brother being good with the wrench, ICE manufacturers have made it incredibly time consuming and difficult to do even the most basic maintenance work outside of maybe oil changes and brake pads. HUGE dealership service costs are practically unavoidable with modern ICE cars despite improvements in reliability to previous eras. The peace of mind and reliability gained from having fewer mechanical problems is invaluable. I'm gladly willing to pay MORE for electric cars in their current state to not have to deal with dealerships and mechanics. They're only going to get better.

Thirdly, I've been in the market for a new car for the past year. Driving assistance on motorways and London like traffic where you spend hours daily are a huge help. Virtually every viable option right now is a baby compared to Tesla's autopilot. Although this could be improved upon, I have no trust in ICE manufacturers to make any meaningful strides to catch up anytime soon. They're still figuring out android auto (which is a must because their proprietary tech is equivalent to a kick in the balls). The new kid on the block is just doing it better.

Lastly, a decade-ish old company/tech here warrants serious discussion in its CURRENT state compared to giants that are decades old, and they have no answer so far. ICE Vs electric is a forgone conclusion at this point, but I wish other manufacturers catch up to the trend sooner rather than later because that's ultimately better for us consumers. I'm not a fan of Tesla's Apple like views on product ownership in regards to repairs etc. But sadly, their current offering is far better than competition so we have no choice.
I'm definitely not trying to make any greater point, only that the 25 vs 50/10k is not a meaningful measure of healthcare quality or capacity.
You need to prefix "applications" with "web" or "cloud."
Some would argue that as long as you are able to communicate effectively, your grammar is not wrong.

Another critique might simply be that while it is certainly useful to understand rules of grammar, it isn't worth derailing a conversation over.
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Are they wearing masks at the airports yet? I am still surprised at the lack of deployment of temperature sensors and masks in the US.
Last reports I saw had us 11 days behind Italy based on known cases. We are probably even closer with unknown cases. I think tomorrow is the day to ensure you have a couple weeks of food and incidental supplies in your home if you haven't done so already. I don't think there is any hope of us slowing things down as successfully as they have in South Korea with their widespread testing.
There were no good guys in that one. There was a bad guy who was wrong, and a bad guy who was initially right but then tried playing the exact same game on the other guy.
> These next generation systems, on the other hand, don't pretend that you can build a host OS in any shape or form you want (hence very few base packages) but rather that you build "just enough of Linux to run containerd" -- the rest of what you would typically put into your baseOS goes into various containers. This is a very different approach to constructing the bootable system, but subtly so -- which I don't think a lot of people on either side of this debate appreciate.

This is a valid approach if you want to build something that can only run containers, but IMO is somewhat orthogonal to the Yocto and Buildroot goal of building distros for embedded platforms.

It's awesome that people are making new tools to do similar things to Yocto and Buildroot in this post-container world, but I don't think it's really fair to say that bottlerocket is a direct competitor to Yocto/Buildroot. It's probably fairer to say that bottlerocket makes it easier to do things that Yocto/Buildroot aren't really designed to do. Hopefully both live on, serving their own niche! I'm all for specialised tools rather than generic 'do it all' tools.
This is all nice post hoc rationalization, and they may well be factors. But the reality is that North American coastal tech companies are far more progressive when it comes to letting employees manage their own health than most others, especially European companies.

In my current Bay Area employment, if I am sick I stay home. If I feel well enough to work I do, otherwise I don't. No questions/justifications asked besides giving my teammates a heads up over text.

When I worked for a French company, being sick meant having to go to the doctor (writing a 23 euro check out of pocket that was reimbursed a month or two later) to get an official sick note to justify my absence from work, otherwise I would get penalized.

I don't disagree with your hypothesis, but also European paternalism is real.
As far as I know Tesla is not so nice if you ever need parts to repair something. I agree that car dealership suck but I wouldn’t call Tesla the good guys.
A bold prediction, given that around 2% of people die every year.
exactly, and slowing the spread is the difference between Japan, Italy, and something far worse...

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/

Or if you want more math, here's why putting into place extreme measures even one or two days later can make outcomes significantly worse

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
Thanks. Reinstalling the extension fixed it.
Slowing the spread is entirely the point; the slower it spreads, the lower the peak of acute cases, which means less burden on healthcare resources.
From what I‘ve read, issues arise because the personnel cannot be treated with vaccines. So even if you have 37k beds, that‘s pointless if you don‘t have the people to treat them.

Also, the flu is currently active in europe, which also filled up some of the beds already.
You're missing distributions/concentrations.

37k beds are available across the entire country. However, the outbreaks are currently relatively concentrated. Some areas might still have capacity while others are overflowing.
Google's standard issue monitors are standard density. FAANG employees aren't used to fancy monitors, and can certainly get by without them.

Edited to remove a claim that I haven't seen 4k monitors, since I just realized the big displays we can get must be 4k. We can only have one of those though and they're not as fancy as you're claiming.
Turkey confirms first case of Covid-19
Because react killed it and by the time meteor switched to react from blaze lot of people had moved on.
There are many more people who I am interested in hearing from than I adore. I suspect that is true for most of us. Patrick is usually worth listening to, has a style which appeals to many, and is well-known on HN. That's sufficient for a story like this to make the front page.
Frankly, we need both.

Look at Hong Kong, which spontaneously cleared the streets to fight the virus. With the protest movements, the government couldn't clear the streets. The trust in the authorities is minimal. But people chose to stay in. I have seen it suggested that this response is simply because HK remembers SARS.

Quarantines are hard to enforce with brute force. Consent of the governed will make this all way, way easier.
Your best case scenario is that hardly anyone attempts to follow in the footsteps of a resounding Oracle success, and that everyone in the industry is saddled with huge potential liabilities until a massive multi-year relicensing project can be completed to confirm who is committed to never trying Oracle's tactics when they fall on hard times. That is a doom and gloom scenario for anyone who takes legal threats seriously and doesn't have an IBM-class mutually assured destruction IP portfolio. It's postulating a series of events that leaves us with most of the software industry intact, but for the most part would still be a scenario where the only true winners are the lawyers.
Fair enough. Have a good one.