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There are some people who say that they can't do math when they never tried just because it is a meme, but many people did actually try hard and still failed. After enough tries and failures they gave up and said "I am just not good at math". There is no point for such people to try harder at math, there are others for which the subject is a breeze so them trying is just a waste of time and effort for humanity. Not everyone needs to be good at it, humans can cooperate and cover for each others weaknesses.

And I am 100% sure that mathematical talent is a thing. I learned all concepts below college level the instant I saw them, and I completed a masters degree in math with just going to lessons and not studying at home, there is no way math is that easy for most people. A person like me will never feel they just aren't good at math, and people comparing themselves to me will rightfully acknowledge that they lack the kind of talent I have.

Now the situation is a lot less stark between most people, but I am pretty sure that the difference in talent is still there.
Chelsea Manning is not a whistleblower, she's a person who felt (for good cause, I do not deny) mistreated by the military and indiscriminately leaked classified information in response. Her actions were neither motivated by nor tailored to revealing specific wrongdoing, nor were they either directed through the channels designed for reporting wrongdoing, nor did they avoid such channels because proper channels for reporting specific wrongdoing had been tried and failed, nor did they avoid proper channels because of specific grounded belief that reporting wrongdoing through those channels would be counterproductive.

I understand the desire for a simple narrative where desirable results only come from morally pure actions and where in a conflict there is one side that is virtuous and one that is villainous, but in the Manning case I don't think any such simple narrative is possible without grossly distorting the facts.

Manning was at best unduly stressed by active bigotry and most likely specifically mistreated prior to th leaks, and possibly psychologically unsuited for wartime military service even if the service itself wasn't actively bigoted.

Manning did then indiscriminately leak sensitive defense information with the intent and reason to believe that it would cause harm to the US war effort. This did, however, include (but was by no means focussed on) information related to actual and apparent wrongdoing, especially actual and apparent war crimes, by US forces.

Manning was subsequently, while in military custody, subjected to gross violations of her human rights and basic dignity not attached to any lawful conditions of pre-trial incarceration or post-conviction punishment.
My state, Georgia, has only one testing center and it can only process 100 tests per day.

https://www.wabe.org/georgias-coronavirus-testing-capacity-t...
Cool idea guys, congrats on the launch especially given it was mid-batch.

I'm not in the market for something like this but it resonates with me since a few times now we've run into the need to jury-rig some scripts to pull data from a MySQL DB to populate a Google Sheet, which then does some simple calc/re-packaging for display on a dashboard or other simple BI use-case. But to do it you end up maintaining basically a simple "app", even if it's just a cron job hitting a python script hourly or something.

I also like the idea of connecting the world's most powerful / most adopted BI tool (spreadsheets) and the more proper data stores one finds in DBs.
I think the hope is to lower the infection rate over a longer period of time so hospitals aren't overwhelmed
This seems starkly different from what we're hearing from other infectious disease experts like Michael Osterholm, who is saying we probably won't see large volumes of cases in the US until the beginning of April and continuing into May.

Osterholm has talked about how very few children have been hospitalized, and it might be a case similar to Hepatitis A where it rarely makes children sick, but they're still carries (so an outbreak at a daycare might spread to all workers and kids parents, even though most of the kids themselves are fine).

In addition SARS-Cov2 seems to be communicable for 7 to 10 days before any signs of illness show. Doctors have found heavy viral loads in peoples' throats.
I would assume everyone here has replaced their CC provided modem with a better one they own.
The courts are run by people in the same unpopular political establishment as the rest of the country. Yes, they absolutely are a political instrument, although some people like to pretend otherwise when they get their policies undemocratically rammed into law through the courts.

All legal systems make utilitarian considerations. Furthermore, legal systems like Germany's are even more respectful of common sense than ones based on English common law.
Perhaps people will go back to reading books.
I'm unfamiliar with the Google Apps Add-On API and how Add-Ons are installed/hosted/executed. What machine is connecting to the database? The user's, your server or Google's server? I'm asking because if the database is required to be publicly accessible over the internet that seems like a deal breaker.
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Yup. Writing a good language server is a big task.

It needs to do everything a compiler frontend does, and most languages don't have compilers that are written with this use case in mind.

Even if parts of compilers can be used as a library, they are very rarely written in a IDE compatible way, where you need fast, incremental and very resilient parsing and type checking.

Typescript was written with IDEs in mind from the start, which is a big reason it excels here. C# has a dedicated IDE toolchain called Roslyn.

And for dynamic languages the task is even more complicated, since you need to implement type inference and static analysis.
Does it work better than: https://github.com/pgourlain/vscode_erlang ?
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On another note, having listened to James Whittaker talk while at Microsoft, he was a phenomenal storyteller and speaker.
> if you think you have it you got it!

Most people who think they have it actually have a cold or flu.
To be completely honest, I am bored of the deity of Marx and his disciples. It's something for mediocre middle class people to amuse themselves with. An insipid embarrassment. What formulation of polysyllabic words shall we agree to disagree on this decade?

The meekness of academics creeping around humanities departments. Those spineless creatures, their desperate choice of victim; alone, naive, vain, unconfident. A child detached from their family and friends for the first time.

Boring bankrupt ponzi pretentiousness.
Did they add a death bit and a test?
Extensive testing is very useful at the beginning. It becomes less useful as the pandemic progresses.

A danger is that so much outrage has built up over the US’s failure to test that lobbying for testing will result in too many resources devoted to testing long after it’s still useful.
There is nothing phone-camera specific about this idea, the (lay) article just uses that as an example of "conventional camera".

Visual impairments is pretty broad, and this approach is using collimated light so not general purpose - but things in this direction could plausibly have applications in the area.
Where is the sticky header? Scrolling down the page I don't see anything sticking to the top.

Also I didn't even know where to look to find the page. I guess I relied far more on checking my email and seeing notifications for things there and then bouncing over to Github to look at changes. Definitely going to spend a little more time trying out the notifications.
This thread is interesting because it shows different ways people value their work.

This is reasonable if you look at it as "just another job" -- you're being paid to build Good Software, so just another day at work. Or you're doing a Good Thing by helping a lot of people not get pwned.

This is unreasonable if you look at is as value-creation: "how much is this worth on the black market" or "what is this worth to Slack as a company".

Other people can get into the socioeconomic or means-of-production or entrepreneuring implications of all this, but I just think whether you downvoted or upvoted this provides a useful mirror into how one values one's own professional work.
Isn't dropping out also a bit sad? (Or sometimes very sad?)
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> I did not expect for this finding to go from submit to fix/bounty in a matter of 24 hours.

I didn't expect that either. I am very pleasantly surprised. I hope my own company would do as well as Slack did here, but I am not certain whether we would.
> Rust is a complex language. It wants to replace C++, not C, and gladly adopts features™ and the complexity that comes with that.

This is a good point. I wonder if the trend of saying C/C++ is to blame; that is, people see C, think C/C++, and then are incapable of realizing that C is, in fact, its own language, and not merely "C++ Jr." or C++ with some features removed.

There's a hole in the modern language world, from what I can see: We lack a simple, mid-level language which incorporates modern knowledge about language design, where by mid-level I mean that all resources (other than stack, perhaps) are managed by hand but it's reasonably simple to write cross-platform code.
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I saw the post in question. The person claimed that the mountain view office was a hotbed of infection and multiple people had already been infected from having to go to work.

In reality the office has 0 infections.
What is Soviet SF like?
Gaming the metrics to convince the public of something never ends well.
I posted this maybe 6 months ago, but it has changed a ton since then, and I'd really like some feedback, so I'm trying again.

I've built a large graph of album recommendations (mostly from music critics, but also from musicians and interesting lists I've found on the web) and made it navigable as a website. It's ultimately a big random sampler, but structured as a graph that can be explored in a lot of different ways. You can just sample from a particular music critic, for example, or from a music critic's jazz recommendations, or blues music from the 30's, new wave music from the 80's, just albums on the Warp label, just death metal, etc. I've basically tried to connect the albums in every way they could be connected (recorded year, people who recommended it, genre, label) and make it easy to just browse and explore. Most are linked to a streaming location, Spotify/Apple Music/Bandcamp etc so you can just try something out quickly. I built it in the first place just because I wanted something like it, but it really works better than I had anticipated and I think other people could get into it so I hope a few of you try it out. Any kind of feedback would be highly appreciated.
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If these get in phones they'll help people with visual impairments way more and at a much lower cost.
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It's a free market. Don't like the payout? Don't submit the bug. Someone else probably will anyway
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I'd say it's fine to modify it to be able to do that, as long as you don't actually turn it on and make it disrupt other people. For example, a car is very capable of crashing into people, but even though it can do that we expect people not to use cars in that way. Even though cars can be dangerous if used irresponsibility, there are legitimate reasons to have cars. Similarly, there are legitimate reasons to modify radios, and we should just expect people to use them responsibly the same way we expect car owners to use their cars responsibly.
My understanding that a number of things contribute to this difficulty:

- What are the number of critical care beds in the hospital?

- What are the number of negative pressure rooms in the critical care unit? Negative pressure rooms help keep a contagion contained.

- Critical care rooms typically have a ventilator, but they require a critical care physician to determine the correct parameters for the vent and a respiratory therapist (RT) to set and monitor the vent

- Does the critical care physician have the appropriate personal protective clothing (PPC)? I believe the norm is some kind of suit along with an N95 mask. I'm not sure if this disease has something extra required.

Mostly, I mention this because the equation of what is necessary is complex and breakdowns in this can cause problems. For example, if there's not enough PPC, then the RT and physician can become ill, which means they can't treat patients. At least in the U.S., critical care is a fellowship on top of a residency, so you can't exactly replace them quickly. If there are not enough negative pressure rooms, then the disease can spread more easily in the hospital.

Now, that said, I don't know enough about Italy and their system to fully explain what happened there. I do know that it's not as simple as number of hospital beds, which is why I replied in the first place. This makes a direct comparison to the U.S. at best difficult.

Anyway, there's a lot of dramatically incorrect information being thrown around. There's a lot of people claiming to be physicians and saying some really hyperbolic things. I'm not happy about that, so my small contribution is to at least provide a better reference for something concrete, which is number of ICU beds in the U.S. and elsewhere within the last decade.
what's the point of this effort? if their criteria is 40 guesses or less, when it's an automated attack does it matter whether it's 40 guesses or 9999? if you have access to repeatedly guess for up to 40 times without locking out the device you could keep it going on a loop to any other number.

either 4 digit pins are all bad, or they're not. do not pre-define some subset. all this is going to do, if someone was to take this seriously, is make it an extremely user hostile experience by some app. i already hate how some bank apps instead of morphing over to face ID or other secure methods of verification, or even Authy, will harass me to no end to modify the password to some gibberish that they've pre-determined to be 'safe'.

also, if you're building a brute force code breaker are you really going to program the 40 most probable pins upfront and then have a loop? i'd think that you just create n+1 loop starting at 0000 and that's it.
The GP is very explicitly saying that the rules are being used to delete the discussion because it is inconvenient:

> anti-misinformation rules being used to delete inconvenient discussion

But we don't actually know if that's why it was deleted. It's a presumption on whatshisface's part.
This is what Illinois seems to be doing anyway. It makes sense to me. We don't have enough tests or medical staff to test everyone. Easier to just make everyone stay home.
"If you are sick and have respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath, stay home unless you need medical attention"
http://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/diseases-and-conditi...
Yes, the problem is, people learning optometrist, and then end up working in retail.
Speculative Non fiction?
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It depends on the vendor who the contractor works for. Fb can only provide guidance to those companies, not demand anything
How is Nethack like the Grand Prix? Anyone who says they won without a spoiler is a liar.
In September I changed my diet and lifestyle...

Decreased extreme workouts that raise creatine, stopped/will not take any form of meds or pills, started drinking 3 liters of water daily and started cooking all my meals At home. My diet was horrible before ..no water, chic fil grilled chicken each morning and outback/bar food almost nightly. Though it wasn't fried bar food I cut that out long ago but food prepared by you is always going to be healthier then eating out.

So far my plant based renal doc and I are seeing positive results. Further I no longer have fluid build up when sitting for long periods.
TFS was never really that good and I won't defend it, but Winforms and WPF are more RAD tools not really appropriate to projects like Office. They are excellent for the tasks they were designed for.

Re the Office libraries you probably wouldn't want to use them anyways. They were designed for maximum flexibility and performance not with ease of use or fast development velocity.
That assumes the death rate is actually 1%. In the hypothetical where 40%+ have been infected, I think it’s be safe to assume the death rate might be lower than we suspect it is.
Yep, we're still apes, with ape brains. If it goes boom and kills a lot of people we're scared (nuclear, viruses). If it kills more but is spread over centuries we don't care nearly as much (global warming, air pollution, water pollution, obesity epidemic)
This is a question that is asked by everyone, up to and including politicians who will have to tackle any future such crises.

Pre-Y2K I worked to fix loan systems that would have failed had their Y2K bugs not been fixed. Not getting a loan isn't accidentally launching a nuclear missile, but it affects your credit score and stops you buying a car.

Enough of this kind of failures would have had a severe effect on the economy, up to and including causing an economic crisis.
We should go out and (re) read the books. They are fantastic, some of my favourites of all time since they were published. They are similar but are also importantly different, especially season two. The books are more focused on character and setting development and less on grand interconnected plots and action (season two is loosely based on book 3, with parts of book 2 remixed and reinterpreted into it. The book revolves around Kovachs mental health instead of what happened in the show)

(Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
That's debatable. Literally. It's part of the civil vs common law debate.
This is what gets you a bunch of unemployable theorists.
Can this be used off label now? Or do we have to wait for our incompetent bureaucracy again, like with the testing, while ignoring tools that work?
There is no "Democrat media," with a few exceptions (and granting the existence of "Republican media" like Fox News, of course.) Contrary to popular right-wing belief, there is no secret cabal of globalists, leftists and Democratic Party operatives controlling the world's media platforms and conspiring to manipulate and distort their coverage of Donald Trump to make him look bad. There is no Donald Trump the master tactician deftly playing four dimensional chess with the world, erudite scholar of law, or golden-tongued orator being hidden from public view behind a curtain of liberal "fake news." There is no way to cover what Donald Trump actually says and does which doesn't make him look petty, narcissistic, venal, and incompetent because that is actually who he is and how he behaves.
I am in Denmark. There was a time where that might have made sense, but when they shut down the country late Wednesday, that stopped being an option.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else either.
This is a good point to remind citizens to keep an eye on the Government consultations that come out from time to time - at least in the UK, we all have the opportunity to contribute to this type of regulation through responding to the relevant consultations.

https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations?or...
Ideally you choose a database carefully based on requirements, known and reasonably foreseeable. You should carefully consider what you gain and what you give up by choosing a non-relational database, because that probably sits at the core of the application. Don't just follow fads or worry about what seems popular at the moment.
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Why do banks get these sweetheart loans instead of civilians?
This is finally happening, the real life gathering is so deprecated, only a few could attend while many millions of developers were interested in the subjects discussed. The lottery system was a sign of last breath, now the event can go on and be enjoyed by the large community.
> With that even at 1% 6-8 million would have died.

That number assumes a homogeneous distribution. As deaths are observed mostly in the elderly and China's demographics tapers off rapidly beyond 60yo, the incidence would be far lower than 1% of the total population.

https://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/china-...
I had tried the beta/preview, and it was terrible.

It was as though they had created a mailbox, and I was looking at a long, small-font, mailbox message list.

I'm not a design expert, but I felt annoyed and, somehow, a bit confused (?) ...

I don't understand why they would do this. Kind of reminds me of the supreme folly that is Microsoft's Metro designs.
How does this compare to SuperMetrics?
>I don't understand unsolicited complaining for other people.

If you observe someone getting paid a much lower-than-market amount for something you can complain that the company is being cheap and likely driving away a lot of potential sellers (security researchers in this case) regardless of how happy the one person is.
I’m unsure that it has impacted hiring yet. Or said differently, I haven’t seen a change or slowdown, yet.
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, all host annual developer-focused conference. Among them Apple is the only one that doesn't have a livestream platform.

But to be fair though the rest are not all streaming their own event on their own platform.
Compatibilism is defining free will differently than how most people think of free will. Free will is an illusion in the traditional sense and thinking of compatibilism changes everything but doesn't give free will in the traditional sense.

The agent cannot make decisions free of what the system has influenced. So, it still is nonsensical to think a person has free will in the traditional sense. People are not making their own decisions when they couldn't have been different from the result of the system they reside in. I do consider Schopenhauer a great philosopher but what most people think of free will isn't a possibility. Compatibilism isn't even worthwhile because it doesn't make determinism & free will compatible but instead just redefines free will to delude people into thinking traditional free will is a real thing.
Some places have humid summers and dry winters, and others have more humid winters and dry summers, like the west coast of the US.

Flu always seems to be during the winter though.
Some implementations use reference counting. So in your example, for + the output requires as much memory as the inputs, and if at least b or c have a ref count of 1, then you can reuse one of the inputs for the output. Otherwise you have to allocate memory to hold the sum of b and c. But that intermediate sum has a ref count of 1 and can be reused for the final output.

The key is to code your primitives in such a way that you can reuse one of the inputs as the output.

You can also do clever tricks that describe the array transformations rather than perform them. It’s similar to what happens during stream fusion in Haskell. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506789 for more details.
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> And for dynamic languages the task is even more complicated, since you need to implement type inference and static analysis.

For dynamic languages the static analysis and type inference would end up looking a lot like in TypeScript.

I wish we could retool TypeScript language server for other dynamic languages, that would make things interesting.