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Social distancing seems without alternative, but there is one thing I don't understand. Maybe it is a stupid question, but why don't we massively, massively expand testing. Then put up checkpoints everywhere, and don't allow anybody to pass without a current test (say older than 36 hours). If you have any symptoms, you are restricted to your house (I have a cough right now, and I find it insane that I'm allowed to go shopping or to work - nobody can be sure that it's not Corona). And if there's a confirmed case in your area, there is a curfew and extra testing. Apart from that, there would not be many restrictions.

I guess this might be difficult in some countries, but here in Europe this seems like the best option - and a variant was successfully implemented in South Korea and Singapore. Why don't we go this route? Is there just not enough testing infrastructure available, or is there another argument against it?
... and Safari still holding out on web push - this lack is a reason many native apps get written.
There's a bad taste left by Machinarium developers.

It was originally sold for Android here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.net.machin...

That is now abandoned and left to bitrot. I don't know, whether they were expecting that people will purchase it again, but for me the effect was, that I won't touch anything made by them again.
Yes, it's such an obscure feature that many of the people who enable it don't even realize it... Ever since I added dark mode to gwern.net, I've been getting or seeing complaints about how my website is broken or 'defaults to black-on-white' (it doesn't). :(
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It would be really nice if the uncertainty of fatality and severity information we have right now could be incorporated and visualized. Current reports by the CDC and info from France and Spain suggests that the age distribution of severe/critical cases might look very different than data from China made us believe. On the other hand, we don't know enough about the prevalence of asymptomatic cases, which have huge impacts on spread and severity, potentially.

It would be really nice to model the probability distributions for each of these and see the resulting probabilities of simulation outcomes.
Not only that, but pwsh support for objects doesn't stop on passing objects around and mapping to properties to parameters. There are number of mehanisms in place. All nix variants solve just 1 of those mechanisms.

IMO, powershell should be added to ALL mainstream distros as first order citizen. There is no downside to that given that MS is now legit FOSS player and that anybody can fork in case something goes wrong along the way...
What? Ps3 and ps4s used 2.5 in form factor drives. They didn't need to be proprietary.
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The other day the cops in my town were chasing somebody who was suspected of shoplifting at Wal-Mart and they found that he abandoned a small suitcase that contained a mini meth lab.
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Interesting and all the more reason why this shouldn't be a problem politicians need to get involved in.
I’m not sure why I read this in a negative tone, this is fantastic.
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One of my big coups was fixing the reflow on our multicolumn layout. The page I fixed it on was survivable as it was, but a whole third of our UI would not have worked at all without it.

The first time I got to use flexbox in production (different project) I was happy as a pig in shit.
Except the market has very short memory. In the next couple of years, the more robust companies that survive this pandemic will get outcompeted by less robust companies, or forced to become less robust themselves.
ChromeOS can do that because it has already booted a Linux-kernel and the container is also a Linux-distro, so it’s essentially just a chroot. I.e. computationally really cheap.

An iPad boots a (modified?) XNU kernel and can’t just “chroot” into a Linux-distro because the right kernel won’t be there to support the Linux userspace.
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Quote from the movie The Big Short: "Every 1 percent unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?". That is probably an exaggeration, but I really hope people in power know what they are doing at the moment.
when companies decided it was too hard to run data driven marketing programs?
On a tangent from the sibling comments (which are spot on), colocation does exist. They handle the network drops, power, security, cooling, and you just have to ship them servers. Before AWS, this is how most businesses ran (including Amazon).

Few businesses ever get to the point where they need to run their own datacenter. And when they do, the costs would be roughly even or lower to AWS due AWS' markup (for handling those DC-related things for you, plus profit).
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> For a discussion forum like HN I'd say that emojis are generally harmful to making sure that the conversations last longer than the moment they were written in case it becomes useful tomorrow.

I just had a horrible nightmare vision of having to debug a code repository entirely commented with emojis...

<shakes away>

But I agree with you, words work fine and, especially as full sentences, are less ambiguous than cutesy symbols.
At the level of people like Tim Armstrong, interviews are just a formality. Their track record is so self-evident that the best candidate out of an already excellent set of candidates might be obvious. Even if the best candidate isn't obvious, any of the other pre-filtered candidates is almost as likely to excel. This is not all too different from unstructured interviews at lower levels. Pre-filtering based on high-value signals is what really matters at the end of the day. It's a waste of time to pretend that unstructured interviews or "playing the game" and networking creates more value than it destroys (on average).
What is your proposed solution?
How does that compare with Radix sort? Isn't Radix O(kn)? I guess Skyline would be better if the number of unique elements are low?
I am convinced a low tariff of ~3% on all goods and services to every country is a good idea. But that’s never what happens, you get a huge mix of zero to insanity based on which industries have political power. As such a blanket ban on tariffs became a rallying cry.

Food is often used as the counter example, but IMO domestic production is less valuable than a multi year stockpile.
#2 Well chess isn't quite balanced, with white having a big advantage. If it was a modern game, people would complain in the forums and the developers would try to help out black, maybe with an extra pawn. Even if that was a good idea, it would take something away from the game.

#4 Just as we get older, it's no longer about computer games, the playground, or sports where we need to prove ourselves? Don't mind me if that's not actually a thing, psychologically.
I clicked the Web Credentials link, and was disappointed to be redirected to google's docs :P

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_...
And I just finished setting up gitea(https://gitea.io/en-us/) on my server and mirrored all my repos. An elegant piece of software, setup was straightforward and took less than an hour.
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It’s a lot better than it wa on the PS3. In both cases I suspect the problem is that the store app is a webview wrapper for a “webapp”. Though in the PS4 I also suspect they’ve stuck webtech stuff all over the main menu and it only remains tolerably quick because the machine’s a beast.
For context about OOUI and OOjs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI/Using_OOUI_in_MediaWiki, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs

A deeper dive presentation into the move into OOUI (which started meaningfully plotting and happening ca. 2013) from storing state in DOM elements, and challenges implementing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CUN2o4faw
The tough part being: our teachers are already vastly underpaid.
It's not going to be 80 year olds dying if the hospitals are overwhelmed. 40% of people in ICU in italy are 19-40, basically, those who make up the majority of the workforce.
In practice, RISC-V emulation would likely show better performance than either x86 or ARM. Though Alpine support for that architecture is not there yet, so I can see why ISH isn't using it at this time.
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Those are valid points,

Have you seen or heard of any alternatives? I mean, software getting more and more complicated, maybe even more complicated than necessary, however running apps natively has its own pitfalls (we've all been there). It's like choosing necessary evil and if there is a better way of doing things we should evaluate it and talk louder about it
Except those companies have already folded because they couldn't compete during "normal" times.
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The EU has GDPR which has a provision against making automated decisions, which has been outlined by the UK as such: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Can you give me an example of a repo program in this context - would that be something like Dropbox? So you'd have our app installed, it outputs to Files periodically, which in turn is syncing with Dropbox or some other service with file history functionality?
I'm not so sure myself. I think we've already adapted to social distancing before COVID. For example, the phenomenon of streaming and watching streams.
> notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee

Emacs + Org Mode

You can be sure Emacs will still be around in 20 years and Org Mode stores notes in text format.
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It might apply if P=NP or the Riemann hypothesis were remotely the same thing. An open mathematical conjecture has uncertainty about whether effort into cracking it will produce fruit. That's entirely different from a physical theory where it certainly cannot be tested.
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That makes sense! I didn't consider that Netflix would actively scale down quality in that way (i.e., backing off to achieve less than 1/n proportional bandwidth share), but ISPs probably ask for something like that quite regularly.
This article is misleading. The entire point is to not move data out of the cloud. Instead bring your computing (analysis, visualization) to the data and pay for compute cycles on AWS. If your workflows are short/bursty, you will come out ahead. Moreover, you will be able to do big data-style computations that you cannot do in a local computing environment. This is bad journalism, IMO.
Do you have issues or complaints about that setup? Would you do it the other way if you could?
Does it mean they’ll pay me back for the 4K package?
Right, but in the example linked from the official docs, the css/style is in the component. So you need to change all your comp, rather than the body font style?

(obviously you can mix and match, it just seems that the official documentation/sentiment is towards self contained components that don't support page/application level theming/styling)
Yeah, if you look at how lightweight VMs are being used, they're being used to run containers, not unikernels.
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How would this have been resolved if the post on Twitter/other social media didn't get enough traction? Is this just a terrible mistake because it has much more visibility than all of the other terrible mistakes?
Thank you very much for this, it's really great work.

Do you have a sense, or any benchmarks, for where the current responses across the world lie along the weak - strong mitigation scale? Or is that something we'll need to estimate using the model as the situation evolves more?
One of the major pain points is disk i/o on the PS4, however the PS5 seems to have some special magic in the disk controller that allows kraken decoding (to a max theoretical decompression rate of 22GB/s!!). They put the storage controller on the motherboard, but if that wasn’t possible then I can say sincerely that this has value for the consumer.
GitLab CEO here, thanks Nat for doing everything you can do to keep open source accessible around the world. We have to comply with the same restrictions and respect greatly that GitHub is taking the broadest possible interpretation of US sanctions law to help users.
Having a JWT or whatever authn is irrelevant. The problem is an insufficient authz model.

Exposing databases through APIs is not the problem. Exposing relations without authorization is.

Under these frameworks, you can add an innocuous relationship between two models that entirely compromises security without even touching the API code. Not only that, but the graph of relations and their associated ACLs is complex. Every time you add a relation, you need to create a graph of your data model and ensure that it's safe. There are far, far more surface area to make a critical error, allowing attackers to exfiltrate large volumes of your data.

I've written these bugs in similar modeled systems (there were GQL like systems before GQL). I've fixed these bugs. I've caught these bugs in code review.

These bugs are orders of magnitude less likely to happen with a simpler authz model where you don't need to lock down every relation, just the table itself. This is why the GraphQL creators themselves encourage users to put authz at the business layer.

2 out of three examples above literally have no framework authz support. Postgraphile requires setting up row level security policies, meaning you have no control over what layer of code you want authz policies to live; they must be in the database. Even if you are ok with that sacrifice, you still have to find ways to manage this in version control and test, for which there is scarce tooling.

Hasura seems to do the right thing here, provided you opt into it. It's not clear if it allows you to easily version control or test your ACLs.

> And that's all assuming the GraphQL server has a public IP, which is far from a certainty (just like REST).

Security doesn't stop at your VPN. At several hundred engineers, organizations begin implementing internal controls.

In fact, my example was an employee comp manager :|.
The United States is not necessarily headed down the direction of "not enough beds"* that seems to be fashionable thinking today. There is advance warning and precedent far more information already at hand.

* https://www.niskanencenter.org/is-u-s-health-care-well-equip...
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We’re not giving away cash money. If you are successful, we will make a payment directly to a product or service provider that you have specified – or an alternative that we suggest – that you need for your side project to grow.
I always feel forgetting the equations and algorithms, and I think this thing would help.
I highly doubt that number. Do you have a reliable source for that?
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It doesn't seem off-putting to me. The form is there for a reason. Filling it out is literally easier than explaining everything to a support person on Twitter point-by-point. If you want help, you can spend 60 seconds and fill out a damn web form.
> it seems to me that the real reason you are having a hard time finding a "job" is because you have a history of leaving jobs after a short tenure.

Brevity is to be expected in contract jobs. But I don't know if you are purposely trying to discourage me from finding salaried work which is my main goal.

I actually don't like freelancing at all, I prefer lower risk than freelance, and it is not paying me well anyways. No exact numbers but I made under 5 figures last year. Not really great for a US freelancer. I only do this to make some ends meet while I'm searching for a FT job.
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>705 were aged 20 to 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 15% and 20% eventually ended up in the hospital, including as many as 4% who needed intensive care.

That's not a shocking number to you? 15% - 20% of people aged 20-44 ended up hospitalized? Even if no deaths were involved, that many young people ending up in the hospital is concerning.
I don’t know because most of those materials you linked to from the CDC are from 2005.

I see more recent docs from HHS.

So, what has the CDC been doing the last 15 years?
Ah. Well at least some of them go to MDN...
Check out Kentucky Route Zero. It has all the visual styling and storytelling of an adventure game, but no way to be defeated by opaque puzzles.
Except they can work from home, and now that they’re actually required to their commute cost is way cheaper.
It looks like they were aware of Bit torrent as recent as Oct 2011

https://web.archive.org/web/20111024223108/https://visibleea...
That's not a fair argument. You're demanding that GitHub prove the absence of any other mistakes. All they can do is fix bugs when they find them, the same as anyone else. If there's a systemic problem with the way they do sanction flagging, that needs evidence.
1) as it implies you only have to worry if you have symptoms.
Alright, Elon.
So Iran could sponsor programmers to contribute to as many repos as possible? Then they can win a propaganda war of why Iran is progressive and good and the US is bad?
I appreciate the difficult position you're in, wanting to provide and advocate access while also forced hard by government regulations which are heavy handed and often over-reaching.

I wonder though, as cool as it is that the CEO of Github posts here, maybe you shouldn't be making this comment. Now a bunch of commentators have raised similar issues and you are now obligated to some degree to contact your legal and engineering teams to look into it - this may result in you having to take down MORE content which was clearly nobody's intention. Rock meet hard place.
How does one know anything's "fine"? Your senses & accumulated evidence.

Let's say it's the Zombie Uprising of 2040, and I open a well-stored, individually-wrapped N95 mask from 20 years ago.

It's got no expiration date on it (as per the ones I bought last year), & it looks good, & doesn't give off any dust, & it smells the same as I recall new masks smelling. I'll figure that's "fine" – unless & until someone has specifically shared some study demonstrating their dangerous-yet-imperceptible degradation.

Is there such a study, or is this just "there be dragons" fear-of-the-unknown?
Sure, but LinkedIn doesn't always show you the true applicant-to-job ratio. For many great jobs at large companies, especially at lower levels, there are many "seats." LinkedIn doesn't tell you how many Software Engineer I's Google is hiring.

Moreover, I think LinkedIn could do a better job of presenting other statistics to job candidates and reducing noise on the platform. They have done little to mitigate the feeling that your resume is most likely to disappear into a black hole. When I apply to a job, I want a good approximation of how likely it is that I even get a response. As it stands, companies have zero incentive not to waste your time, and that is actually bad for the both of you. There is more discussion on this below.
This is a great list some of these APIs look pretty interesting and didn't know about them this is a great list.

Push notifications are becoming an irritation mainly because of their overuse. The number of sites where you go to them to have a look at one piece of information and you have to tell them no to push notifications is becoming quite an annoyance.
Huh... It's weird to me that someone who has that enabled on their OS (even if they didn't realize it) would be upset about it on a website.
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You're right, I had doubts while writing that.

Aside from pre/postinstall scripts, I imagine the SVG and/or CSS files gets copied into a folder of static assets.

Depending on how that's done - manual import or part of a build step; specifying file extensions or not; how assets are served, etc. - that could be "vulnerable to code coming downstream".
Large queues without AQM is indeed problematic but the industry is far more aware of this nowadays than it used to be.

If the EU really wanted to save the Internet they should have done something about that, only it's 20 years too late.
Also, the huge uncertainty regarding the ratio of symptomless/unreported cases should be visualized. Guesses are in the range from 30 to 90%.
An interesting note from Mark Cerny's talk, a lot of games have multiple copies of data installed to keep locality when loading up say a region of the game world, with the way SSD reads work they won't have to do that anymore which should cut down sizes, though how much I don't know if they have figured out yet.
This is the most commonly used format in the world an funnily enough it is not listed as discouraged in the xkcd :-)
I disagree; it is a fair argument. This is the Tweet:

> I woke up this morning and you shut off the Aurelia site, archived tons of our repos, and I can no longer access admin settings. You sited US trade sanctions and sent me a non-descriptive email with no remediation information. What is going on? This is devastating for us!

"No remediation information," to me sounds like Twitter outrage was the remedy.

A follow up reply is this:

> The project has been public for 5yrs+, managed by a US company, whose owner is even a GitHub Insider and long time open source leader (15+ yrs).

Okay, there's the terrible mistake. It targeted someone with credentials, not a nobody.
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They picked a fixed thermal budget based on realistic usage scenarios, and then translated that into a fixed power budget. They balance the power budget between CPU and GPU using SmartShift (https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/smartshift), which is their marketing name for the power management on the control plane of their fabric.
All North Korean internet traffic originates from 175.45.176.0/22. They have no reason to hide (except for the massive amount of cyber crime they originate, where VPNs are used)
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How exactly does a ntdll/vdso approach make it easier to preserve binary compatibility? It obviously moves the place at which binary compatibility needs to be preserved, but I'm not seeing how that move makes maintenance easier, unless you're implying that the userspace portion would not be the responsibility of the kernel developers.
The tone of this article is very condescending, it contains a lot of absolute statements and most of its reasoning is done by linking somewhere else.

This reads like a marketing piece ("CEO at NanoVMs") by someone who is betting on the frustration of Developers and Operators with the pace at which "DevOps tech" is moving.

Maybe MicroVMs are the future (whatever that means) but this is not the way to push it.
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