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I own my home, but I'm not allowed to pour oil on the ground even though it would only destroy my own grass. I own my car, but I'm not allowed to remove the headlights and drive at night.

Exactly where we place the limits is up for debate, but I think I conclusively proved to everybody reading this that there need to be limits the only question is where.
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We're talking about Europe, iPhone is the minority here. Most phones are Androids, so no battery issue of iPhone is much relevant, same with Apple Stores.

Any phone (including iPhone) can be taken to nearly any service shop and it will probably be repaired within a day for an affordable price (if they have all parts, which they can order no problem; tools are not a problem a tall).

They also don't want the latest and greatest because that costs them way too much, most phones are mid market here, and the capabilities of these phones don't change much (same hardware for a number of years is not an exception) - but the design does. And no, the display notch is a very distinct status symbol that made the upgrade very much needed, same with multiple cameras on the back.

The few people who are buying Apple can choose between Apple stores, official Apple resellers and also a huge selection of unofficial (called "post-warranty") service shops. Not sure if it's OK with Apple, but it's definitely legal here, and it doesn't seem like these people have any problems with getting parts, getting tools or repairing the phones, but I agree that there should be an official way of doing so.

It's true that some phones became unusable with and because of software updates - that is wrong, but also an unrelated issue.
I wish the myth that C is simple would die. It has all sorts of complex nooks and crannies. Even some basic things like specifying types are quite insane (e.g. for function pointers).
My older sister had end-stage renal failure (from IgA nephropathy [0]) and was on dialysis, so I donated my kidney to her. If you want to make an incredible difference in someone's life, I can't recommend it enough!

There are cool computer science problems involved: imagine person A1 wants to donate their kidney to their partner A2 but they aren't a match. Now imagine many such pairs exist (B1/B2, C1/C2, D1/D2 etc.) and you start noticing that while A1 can't donate to A2, they can donate to B2, and B1 can donate to C2, and so on! Thus the kidney chain is born. You get everyone together and have them agree that if their partner gets a kidney donation, they'll pass on the favor to someone else. All that's needed is a single purely-altruistic donor to start the fire. The longest such chain has reached over 100 people! [1]

Anyway, the surgery is laparoscopic and has an extremely low fatality rate: around 1/10,000, which is an order of magnitude lower than the all-cause mortality rate for living a single year of your 20s. The kidney is a fairly isolated organ, basically only attached to you via the renal artery/vein, the ureter (which carries urine to your bladder), and some fascia (internal connective tissue). You can see a full video of the surgery at [2] (if you're into that kind of thing). I was walking within hours of the surgery, discharged within two days, and back in the gym within 5 weeks. My life is not any different than pre-donation, and if anything goes wrong with my remaining kidney I go to the top of the donation wait-list! If you're interested, you can see more info at [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IgA_nephropathy

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/nation-s-longe...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-YhyYrMsc

[3] https://www.kidneyfund.org/kidney-disease/kidney-donation.ht...
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Honestly it is an interesting thing but the extent to which it's being pushed here on a daily basis at the moment feels "inauthentic" and somewhat tiresome.

Try posting something else? The front page is populated with links that others find interesting. I started posting on HN mainly because I thought the front page was declining; it's worked out for me, really, APL is on the front page every day now. If you have any good links hanging around, people would be glad to see them, and it will probably tilt the front page into things you like a little more.

There are also 29 other spots on the front page, and some of those spots contain interesting links too! No one has time to read all of the comments on HN every day, so only reading the comments on posts you find interesting will probably be more enjoyable than reading the ones you find tiresome.
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I bought a new WiFi router: tp-link AC4000. The old router is a Netgear R6900. What would you do with the extra router?
That’s good to hear. I work in security currently
>Why isn't the German government making a government funded car to ruin Volkswagen or Mercedes?

I guess that's just the same question again.
Does society benefit enough from everyone having access to free cars, outweigh the harm done by businesses risking bancrupcy because their product is now something that should be free? And also that other businesses start to wonder if it's their product that will be "should be free" in the future?

I wouldn't consider it inconsequent to say "yes" on the first question but "no" on the other...
> If the details of any experiment depend significantly\* on the state of the entire universe, until we can account for the entire universe in our measurements, we might as well stop measuring.

Every experiment does depend on the entire state of the universe, even in QM, but those influences are typically small due to symmetries. At the quantum level, many of these symmetries no longer apply.
But the point still stands - older phones are perfectly capable (and these phones are very repairable, too), just not beautiful enough. Some people having drawers of them signifies that even though these phones work, there is no demand for them.
Software can fill in many of the gaps required for photography.
I appreciate all the answers that point out Bayes's theorem. One thing to add is that in contrast to the usual classroom Bayes the "occurrence in the general population" is very much a variable rather than a constant. For example, Germany's low death rate can be a side effect of the false positive issue in the paper.

In fact, the stark difference between Italy and Germany would provide support to the paper's conclusion.
The article is a little bit light on the details. While I don't agree with the situation, the decision is based on the law for the DWD[1]. According to §4 (1) Nr. 3 DWDG, the only public information is for weather warnings. While in reality, most other information is free, providing it for free is not the tax-payed task of the DWD. According to §4 (1) DWDG, it may only provide free information for the public if it's due to their legal obligation.

[1]: https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
Yes, many of the GCP products that were launched in the past six months were not shutdown.
Anyone with actual knowledge know the state of ACE2 inhibitor and chloroquinine efficacy?
Probably you mean kenopsia[0]?

[0] https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/27720773573/...
For a longer and more detailed treatment of the Duga antenna and its connection to Cherbobyl, I can recommend the documentary "The Russian Woodpecker":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Woodpecker
I've worked at some companies with recognizable names, and I'd say this just isn't the case in my experience. Sure, there are some companies that prioritize mentorship, but they are very few and far between.
> From what I've heard, a number of IT departments used it as justification to dump legacy systems.

> In reality, they probably could have updated the mainframe systems to be Y2K-compliant.

Legacy systems weren't always mainframe systems and, in any case a “legacy system” is precisely one you are no longer confident you can safely update for changing business requirements.

A change in a pervasive assumption touching many parts of a system (like “all dates are always in the 20th century”) is precisely the kind of thing that is high risk with a legacy systems.
I think you are being needlessly antagonistic here. I think they were simply stating that we, collectively, would benefit from prioritizing vaccine development more than we currently do. Perhaps they felt stating that would in some way convince others that this is true and maybe more people would vote for it.

May I suggest you be more charitable in interpreting people here? I think you'll find conversations more productive.
We don't have to accept it, people aka the power of majority does the rules. I see no benefits or the people shilling it are doing a bad job. Either way it's for us to accept it or make the concepts.
This is a very misleading headline. They're Boeing planes that were never delivered to the Russian airline that originally ordered them.
Really I think you're just describing awe, which as traditionally defined [0] always included (or at least, certainly did not preclude) an element of fear. This seems completely natural to me, but I grew up with a sort of old-fashioned understanding of certain English words. The use of the adjective 'awesome' in recent decades has perhaps helped people to forget its negative connotations.

[0] "an emotion variously combining dread, veneration and wonder" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/awe
That's good to hear!

I have seen it work for 1000s in the Facebook group Natural Kidney Journey and across the Internet. Many success stories daily seen on that group match my positive results like your relative's same results.

Not sure why there is such downvoting going on about suggesting becoming more healthy to better your life and or at least try it to see if it works. Those who are highly negative are you saying a kidney patient who goes vegetarian or vegan is hurting themselves? Love to hear your thoughts!
A surprising amount of medicines have this incredibly foul taste. I was forced to take oseltamivir during the H1N1 epidemic, and I had to share a pill once (two of my siblings needed a half dose). It tasted so incredibly bitter and just mouth-wrenching
Click bait. Airforce One 747 is being replaced by aa American plane.

"According to FlightGlobal, the aircraft were originally built for a Russian airline by the name of Transaero. However, the airline filed for bankruptcy in 2015 before it could take delivery of the jumbo jets."

"Transaero never received the 747-8s, going bankrupt before delivery."
The same would be true of things like the Flu then too. Which means the true mortality rate of Flu is much lower, so even if COVID-19 is lower than current estimates for the same reason, it is still an order of magnitude higher than something like the Flu.
Wait, are you saying this guy _wasn't_ a time traveler?
Of course, but note that in both of your examples those limits are in place to make sure you don't inflict significant costs or damages on the rest of humankind. The limits you mention prevent you from making roads unsafe for everyone else at night and from poisoning the ground on which everyone else lives.
Chloroquine is relatively easy to make. I think if prophylactic usage is recommended thousands of tons of the stuff will be produced in very short order.
Can you start working remotely on your own? Do you need permission? If not, starting that. The virus is probably already in London.
this is mantra too for news, I refuse to get news from any narrated source that presents me information in a linear non-skippable format set by their own priorities. plus these days its full of clickbaits & bs anyways.

IMO the best source for news is when you pay for it and read it yourself. also multiple sources.
Thank you! I've been giving up on Nethack for over 20 years because I can't figure out how to play this stupid game. After all this time it wasn't me.
My bad, I misread the relevant portion of this article: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814717480/sanders-offers-bide...
Even if you take the analogy literally, the distinction between peacetime and wartime has itself blurred as a result of nonlinear warfare and "forever" wars. I think it's clear that Ben Horowitz has not been an operator in far too long and anyone who takes this advice seriously deserves the failure that's coming to them. If we're going to match thinkpiece VCs against other thinkpiece VCs, Peter Thiel is probably much more sanguine and closer to reality than he is.

Thiel argues that the opposite of the competition emerges (which is a monopoly), and that these monopolies tend to operate much more ruthlessly and efficiently in the present day and are much harder, if not impossible, to dismantle. I disagree with him on whether that's a good thing or not, but I think his understanding of corporate mechanisms is much closer to reality than Ben Horowitz. The truth is that war theater is expensive -- too expensive these days for anyone to afford. Those characteristics of the "wartime CEO" he demonstrates (as well as some of the "Peacetime CEO") -- besides more focus on the present than the future, how many of them truly are proactively solving the crisis rather than reactively panicking?
It sounds like kind of a cross between a light-field and a fresnel lens. It uses the shape of the surface to make patterns on the chip, and which then has to be decoded with a lot of processing. Instead of microlenses on the chip you put microlens-replacements in the flat surface.
Many of the bigger SV tech companies have an internal kernel/os team.
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It's sad to live in a world where people are impressed when someone does the right thing.
It's not really that heavily optimized. It's just really small.
Corona is the beer brand. Coronavirus is the disease. Different things.
We're hiring. :) Email me (address in bio) if you have experience doing kernel development, reverse engineering, debuggers, emulators, compilers, etc. We do cool stuff.
Physical version of proof of work. It helps avoid spam by making it costlier.
It’s not the size of the pool but the novelty of the configuration of people. Every time an infected individual meets a healthy one that’s a new chance to spread the infection. But you can only spread it once to each person, so if you meet the same people over and over that’s okay. When you ask people to change their routines, you also encourage new “lateral” disease spread.

I don’t think hospitals have “emergency daycare” available generally speaking. If it does come down to quarantine, I’m sure efforts will be made. It is still a cost and a negative outcome of the quarantine so my point remains: when the benefit is very small, the costs easily outweigh the benefits.
yes but a random url that you get is private (only people you share it with would have access) and you can change/invalidate it anytime.
Worst-case coronavirus scenario: 214M Americans infected,1.7M dead
On a car most electronics are locked to the one VIN and it is difficult or impossible to change the part to a new VIN latter.

This is done to ensure that "strippers" will not steal a car for the parts since the most valuable parts can't be sold.
I guess they drained the swamp :(
A common opinion among software engineers, but less common among serious photographers. "Portrait mode" looks like a cheap instagram filter. To be fair, it does let a much larger population experiment with effects that otherwise take a bit of specialized gear and knowledge.
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So then you'd want to know if the cause of a false positive is random, or specific to the individual, right? If it's random, then how much would a retest change your certainty that an initial positive was a true positive?

ie, if someone was a false positive the first time would they still have a 1% chance of getting another false positive, or is it possible there's something about that individual that will always give them a positive result?
That's not a counter-example. They just (correctly) assert that math is harder to become good at, not that they could never be good at it. They don't want to put in the time, and find it dry.
In China, asymptomatic with a positive test result still put you in their make-shift hospital facilities.
Yes, it’s a special case of Bayes’ Theorem.
Congress did that and an appeals court decided they didn't want to get involved [0]. The checks and balances are clearly no longer functioning. It's unclear to me what we're supposed to do about that.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/mcgahn-testimony-rul...
Inputing the last image manually took me 5 good minutes but it was really worth it.
There's always a silver lining.
We built an open source platform (qbix.com/platform) to power social apps and security was a major consideration. By default we encourage a user to type a pass phrase and give them suggestions based on {{possessivePronoun}} {{noun}} {{very}} {{possessivePronoun}} {{noun}}

But they can also attach another source, such as inputting an api key to NewsAPI and then to generate each suggestion we take a random news article and take three consecutive words from that article.
I'm sure the narrative will be that he doesn't have Covid-19, he's the victim of an assassination plot by the medical establishment for speaking out against them.
Our main value prop is more powerful event detection capabilities that what anyone else is offering (and at a lower price.)
Seems very similar to Camio (https://camio.com/) but targeted at the consumer space. I like the clever wrapping of object recognition and motion detection into real world actions- "dog getting on couch". I think this can do well in the consumer space.

It's hard to bring this technology to enterprise because there are already large companies offering similar video analytics capabilities combined with complete video management solutions. See Axis, Briefcam, Milestone, Gorilla, Agent Vi. And a lot of the VMS first companies have integrations with a spread of analytics companies. You really don't want to spend your dev time creating yet another VMS. Work on being able to integrate easily with others.

One huge advantage I see with you guys is that you can do everything in the cloud. Most of the industry analytics companies require dedicated hardware or servers with GPUs. But, these companies are targeting large installations- 100s-1000s of cameras across multiple sites. Your technology might work great for 1-2 residential cameras, but I'm not sure how much it can scale to industry.

Best of luck, anyways! I like the concept.
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Good point, I'd also like to add that just because an analogy doesn't apply 100% when you try to push it as far as you can, doesn't mean it's not a useful analogy. If you could push an analogy all the way and still have it apply 100%, then it wouldn't be an analogy, it would just be the thing.
And I immediately went and bought this DWD app for 2€, even if I get the same sources and visualization from the free Windy app. The DWD app is just better, and has a nice widget.
Well established some Londoners do have the virus, and the risk of transmission in typical London transport or offices is non-zero. But if he does need permission, the challenge might be that the UK government's stance is to pointedly not instruct offices or schools to close yet.
I wasn't implying that 80% of all tests were false positives. I'm talking about P(You don't have coronavirus | You test positive). 80% is far beyond what would be normal for these types of medical diagnostic tests. I would expect something like 1% or less for a really good test, and around 10% for a bad one, but I don't know if the test the Chinese were using is really bad in some way, which is why I'm asking for clarification there.
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Useful given history.com responded to my request with an empty document
Recommendation for interesting hobbies while sitting for a few weeks at home?
Actually, no.

The therapeutic index of chloroquine in the treatment of covid-19 is relatively high. Some people take chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine at about half the acute dosage used for covid-19 (autoimmune disorders) for literal years.

Given the half life as you mentioned, once or twice a week with enough lead time would be a sufficient dosage against covid-19 too. It's just that if you want to reach the concentration of chloroquine that you would have to take it over a long time otherwise, you need very high doses. And since you're already infected and have a ton of the virus, you also need higher concentrations than for prophylaxis.
The thing is, if all these measures stop the spread, even if they were all justified, the outcomes are pretty much indistinguishable from an over reaction: both accurate response and over reaction have similar outcomes.
He met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. This might escalate very rapidly.
Thanks, that was the point to be made, but the amateurs got stuck on the phone/email comment and the need to use the best new shiny tool...
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
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iPhones and most other devices are limited. After a few tries, you will start down an increasing lock-out time for the next guesses. The back out does not apply to changing the PIN of an unlocked phone to see if that PIN gives a warning.

TL;DR: You can find the blacklist this way but not unlock a phone.
Honestly, I didn't do a pin on my phone for years. I'm just not that worried about these kinds of things, because anything important has another password in the app.

At this point, the only reason I use a pin is to I can use the touch sensor to open my phone, and to "keep the honest people honest." I really only care about keeping my kids out of my phone.

IMO, what's more important than a secure PIN? I'd like to be able to lock down applications within Android / iOS instead of relying on the application to implement its own password.
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ssh nethack@hardfought.org . Multiple variants available.
I think you're thinking of the movie "Divergent"
It would be more accurately stated:

I am allowed to remove my headlights, but I'm not allowed to drive on the roads if I have removed my headlights. The restriction is on roads.
You're completely right. The distinction is that it's not the firm building your house forbidding you from pouring oil on the grass. It's government regulation. The same approach should be towards people, as an example, modifying the radio in their phones.
You are allowed to remove the headlights, you just can't drive it on public roads
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Well, if you remain a CEO at the same company but keep making new products, that's good. I'm talking more about CEO's like Zuckerberg, who've been sitting on their throne for years without any fresh input into the creative field. Much as I dislike the guy, surely he has some ideas to try.
I understand what you are saying, but pouring oil into the ground or driving without headlights is against the common interests of most people.

Being able to repair things is very different, it is _in_ the common interest and likely against the interests of the manufacturers.