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One of my enlightening experiences has been to visit the Einstein's house in Bern and walk on the same path that he did every day to get to the patent office. The question in my mind had always been how Einstein suddenly started thinking about synchronizing clocks using light signals out of nowhere? My walk had the answer:

In Bern, you see clocks everywhere! Towers after towers, buildings after buildings have clocks of varying sizes and shapes and artwork. The city of Bern is crazy about having giant clocks all over. In 1905, all these clocks must be manually synchronized and people may have often noticed slight differences as they walked and you cannot not think about synchronization every day!

Inventors in Bern were working on how to synchronize them automatically. One of those patents landed on Einstein's desk which started his thought process on synchronizing clocks using the fastest signals possible, i.e., light. But then things got weird when you think about light signal taking time to arrive. What if the clock is on the railway station and we need to synchronize the clock on the train? Now the train is moving away and the light signal is taking longer and longer. And so the relativity begins... It is very likely that these ideas would not have born if Einstein wasn't in Bern and working in that damn patent office!
Q: how accurate are the covid19 reported deaths? My guess is that they measure immune cells from blood (cytokine storm), but they can't know for sure if covid19 was they cause of death. It means we have an upper bound of deaths.
If you're looking for positive coronavirus stories this is a good place to start
> Normally yes, but criminals are just as vulnerable to viral infection as anyone else.

They are also vulnerable to bullets.

It doesn't make any difference.

They keep doing criminal stuff.
maybe i'm missing something here, but I see 2 fails here.

1. i'm using firefox and the select dropdown isn't styled so it looks like the plain old unstyled select.

2. i don't see anywhere on the page where it shows all of the elements and what they will look like as an example, like bootstrap does. that example form at the bottom doesn't cut it as far as i'm concerned.
A dedicated tool will never reach the level of training and routine that media like Facebook have built up through all that "brightest minds of a generation" dopamine engineering. The participating doctors are basically weaponizing, against the virus, skills and habits acquired on cat pictures and farmville or whatever guilty social media pleasure they usually enjoy.

I'm not saying that dedicated tools should not exist, I'm saying that there's both room and reason to exist for both.
Unless you really really need obscure platforms, just forget about it. Make the jump, don't look back.

After you get a taste of a modern toolchain (with cross-compilation, dependency management, but withou not-quite-portable build files to endlessly fiddle with, without outdated compilers to work around), you will not want to have to compile a C file again.

Languages like Zig and Rust are easy to install. Mostly it's just a tarball, so it's less of an inconvenience than getting the right version of autotools.
> Although neither the webpage nor README explains how it works, I'm guessing it misses a vital Time Machine feature, which is FSLogger.

I don't know what FSLogger is, and you don't describe the functionality, and you say that you guess that this new free software suite doesn't provide it.

Is it something like inotify on GNU/Linux?

I do constant backups of 500GB of data via syncthing from my main machines (desktop, laptop) into my archiver, which then uses borgbackup to run an archive / snapshot periodically. Syncthing takes at most a minute to pick up on changes via inotify.

Is this the kind of OSX-only killer feature that you're hinting at?
On my own open-source projects, there are hundreds or thousands of issues I'd solve in half a day if I got $300/ea. That'd keep me fully employed for months or years! And I actually have the users that would donate 6 figures / year cumulatively to make that a reality. But orchestrating the money would be a nightmare without a service that is simple to use from the users' perspective. BountySource is alright, but I'm not impressed. It's still a bit difficult to use and navigate compared to the average checkout system, or Kickstarter itself.
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The words of the article say that OneMap3D is better but, to me, the images clearly convey that Google Maps 3D is better. Yes it loses some fine but they are clearly actual images of the real buildings. In contrast, OneMap3D seems to have computer-rendered models of what the buildings ought to look like.

As you look around it will presumably feel like you're playing a 3D game (one with poor lighting and texturing at that!), whereas looking around in Google Maps feels like you're actually exploring the city from above.
Also : cheap

Manufacturers have the world by the balls in a crisis like this, and throwing money at them as they increase their costs is not something a government can do forever.

I'm glad scientists are taking over the means of production here.
This post by Peter Woit, a string theory skeptic, may be relevant:

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11675
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Wow, those graphs are mind-blowing!

But it sounds like what should really be written is a fast, hardware-backed, low-latency but limited-feature graphics library.

Then have your terminal use that. I still say that direct awareness of the hardware is _way_ too much coupling.
> YouTube streams over QUIC, which measures and mitigates buffer delays.

YouTube itself largely mitigates buffer delays, it uses BBR with TCP and QUIC with UDP, good news for YouTube and its users, but what happens when there's an interaction between bufferbloat-aware flows and other applications? For example, under congestion, my observation is that TCP BBR usually "wins" the game against TCP Cubic/Reno, and is able to utilize a large portion of bandwidth that others couldn't. A 10x increase of throughput is not unseen before, the bandwidth share won't be "fair" until everyone has upgraded. I'm not sure if it's the case for YouTube, but I guess it's a possibility.
well-engineered vs oversubscribed is a false dichotomy. A well-engineered network is an oversubscribed one.
> I stopped worrying about best practices and just do it.

I do this to some degree - I pick and choose my best practises because, quite frankly, some "best practices" are actually bad IMHO ("anti-patterns").

This is sometimes very context-dependent, but I'm now more sceptical of adopting a common practise that I personally haven't seen the benefit of.

e.g. YAGNI:

Maybe the problem isn't YAGNI, but that you keep building useless shit. Rather than assume things aren't needed in general, maybe work on why your predictions on what YGN are so poor.

Sometimes, the stuff I predict I'll need Are needed after all, and I was glad I started early. Projects can live and die on the how perceptive wrt future changes its devs are; this is just a developed skill, no maxims needed.
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In Figma if you select an element and then hold the `option` key when you hover other elements it will show you the distances between them.
I bet the wafflers are making a disaster plan for pandemics and they will be ready to come back soon.
Because the general public doesn't care enough to raise a stink? Back when Snowden story broke, I tried explaining its significance to a handful of my friends - all I got was a yawn. These are not dumb people, they are smart professionals (non-IT). Even then, I failed to get the point across to them.

It would require some serious education before the public wakes up to the dangers of private companies running amok with their data. Sad thing is, it is already too late. It is going to be very difficult to put a lid on this. This is a company that we (now) know about - how many are there silently working in the shadows that we don't know about?
> Looking at the police report, I do wonder what the punishment would be in other countries.

In the U.K. 1-2 years it seems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causing_death_by_dangerous_d...

Having read the facts appeal case you linked to it does not seem unreasonable (colliding with pedestrians on a marked and signed road crossing, travelling at >30mph). In the U.K. there is definitely an expectation that you slow down before a crossing.

In this case the court applied the minimum sentence and appeal rejected the victims’s side request for a harsher sentence.

The facts in the appeal case list many factors, some of which are not in favour of the driver (one pedestrian was trying to pick up the other so they were unlikely to have been lying down on the road and oncoming vehicles were flashing lights as a warning).
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Dangerous and it degrades them.
And which home internet is that? - or have your co-workers brought from one of the cheaper providers.

That is assuming the bottle neck is not caused by wifi - if there are others using the wifi spectrum kids partner, neighbours etc - that could explain it
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Here there is the Google Translated version:

https://translate.google.es/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%...

I hope it can help :)
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Investigations are on the way. Heise online writes (translated): "Hamburg data protection officer takes action against Clearview. Following a complaint, data protection officer Johannes Caspar is investigating the US company Clearview AI, which specialises in automated facial recognition. [...]"

Source (in german): https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Gesichtserkennung-Ha...
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It's ok if implementation of such money printing exercise is more surgical than broad based. But I don't think this is the time to bring undue complexity of debating which business model deserves to be propped. This will misdirect lot of debate/energy.

My view is that tail end concerns here are largely theoretical.
we fall in the trap of such argumentation, when reality needs immediate response.

> if we haven't seen the worst that's to come with the coronavirus

If humanity can't come up with working measure/vaccine in next 1-1.5 yr time frame, global economy is the least of concern.

> Throw even more money at the problem? While we are at it, why don't we just print money forever and pay everyone's salary - where do we draw the line?

This is an unwarranted extrapolation of opening premise. Who argued forever?
Very interesting real time look at the nationwide footprint of one irresponsible gathering!
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UVC is safest actually. Short wavelength is absorbed by dead skin cells. Never gets to live.
> Equifax is the best / most recent example about something like this

Equifax’s credit-data provenance is enshrined in law. Their mistake was in improperly distributing legally-owned data.

Clearview does not have legal claim to individuals’ or Facebook‘s copyrights. Its mistake is more fundamental than Equifax’s.
There are two extra years of classes for med students, at which point they begin doing rotations through all the different specialties. During rotations, they are essentially “reserved for paperwork and unskilled labor which is also checked.”

This process continues in intern year and residency, during which time they gradually build competency and trust.

Much of medicine in the US is delivered by nurses, who have a training regime even more similar to what you suggest.
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And the tolerance stackup is what makes it both expensive and reliable.

A whole lot of people are going to get a simple introduction into why some things are expensive.
"Our design is optimized to permit large sale production in short time and at a limited cost, relying on off-the-shelf components, readily available worldwide from hardware suppliers."

Those shelves, I'm afraid, are going to be empty. Manufacturing is optimized for "just-in-time" production, not "just-in-case" stockpiling. Perhaps I'm the wrong person to consult, but I wouldn't know how to procure ample amounts of "Medical Care Flow Meters" or "Spirometers".

Somebody figure out a way to solve the problem with plastic bags, PET bottles, outdated smartphones and old PC fans. I've got a strategic stockpile of those to give away, just like every other nerd on the planet.
Yes, I plan to use mine outside.
How much research did you do about other companies who might have tried this in the past?

Are you aware this is like the 100th company to try this and fail?
One I think people forget about is ASLR. What symbols are you going to shuffle? At least with dynamic linked dependencies the linker can just shove different shared objects into different regions without much hassle.

Other have mentioned the other points: runtime loading (plugins), CoW deduplication and thus less memory and storage.
I believe that we should always be on the move to adapt to changing environment and foster multi-skilling. I am actually in the same frame of mind!
I think this platform has great potential to track people from Spring Break onwards, but right now the analysis done in the tweet is a bit dishonest - after the Spring Breakers are selected in the Spider Query, the time scale on the bottom indicates that it then draws records from before the people visited the beach, too.

So, the map at the end is not really of where people traveled to after Spring Break, but where people traveled to before, during, and after the total time interval collected.

Still - cool platform and cool idea, and I'd love to see the analysis re-run, drawing on dates only after the people visit the beach.
US military is actually extra-ordinarily inefficient. It's a vast graveyard of massive projects that were either failed or went as much as 10X over budget and/or ran 10X late. In a book called Skunkworks there is some great stories of how these inefficiencies gets enforced on to even those projects that military started with startup model in mind.
I always thought the point of fire drills was to inure people to them so that in case of an emergency they would just blasély treat it like a drill instead of panicking: you want them to treat a real positive like a false positive.

Injecting false positives generally can impair quality and whether or not quality will be impaired or improved with false positives is really context dependent. Indeed, low false positive rates are often used as a measure of quality, so in generally you don't want to increase them carelessly.

In the case of things like phishing training, I imagine (but I could be wrong) that the injection of false positives just causes the people who recognize phishing emails to ignore them instead of reporting them: there is too much noise and too little signal. The people who don't recognize them will continue to fall victim. In that case, inuring the knowledgeable seems detrimental since you lose the likelihood of receiving a report.

I follow inbox zero practices and routinely delete all my email. Since forwarding a phishing email to security is a lot more complicated then hitting the delete key (like I probably just did for another email) I'm personally most likely to delete phishing emails unless I am getting them very rarely or it seems especially pernicious. Indeed, most of the phishing emails I receive lack a certain phishy feeling (like lacking a DKIM signature or other weird mail header shenanigans). I generally just assume they are these sorts of false positives.
> Studying ethics doesn't make you ethical

You're correct, but you misinterpret the motivation of these schools offering ethics classes in the first place.

For students who are already "ethical" (which we can assume is shorthand for pro-social in this context), the class helps them consider the consequences of their decisions. This makes their behavior more ethical, not their intentions.

For students who are not ethical, many of these classes also teach "enlightened self-interest": the idea that doing something that appears altruistic is often selfish. A good example would be creating a "sustainable, organic" product that is profitable, but only creating it for the profit.

There's also some evidence that seeing the consequences of unethical behavior can make someone's intentions more ethical.
That's moving the bar though. Only in the past decade or so has it become reasonable ("reasonable") to include entire runtimes together with an application. Java started in 1995, Python started in 1991. This was an era when one of Java's main targets was SIM cards and other highly minimal devices, so not only would the target already have a JVM, but it would be wholly impractical to ship your own. Even on desktops, downloading just a fraction of Java for each program would be a massive waste of limited bandwidth and disk space.

For that reason, Java and Python didn't start out with fully self-contained bundles as a design goal. It just wasn't practical in the 90s. Obviously, yes, if they had managed to correctly predict and plan for three decades of technological improvement, then sure, we'd be working in a very different technological landscape. But they couldn't possibly have, and solutions built on the old languages are always fraught with disagreement. So, we use new languages, like Go and Rust, which are developed with modern needs in mind.
This looks impressive. Cross-compilation is sorely underserved. I will definitely be checking this out.
Simplifies testing: just take everyone who stood in line more than two hours and give them a slip of paper that says "Positive".

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I've done everything from lead developer to VPE to Engineering manager to architect. Working for a little medical company now, but our work is not on the critical path to pandemic fighting so we probably won't last.
I believe that both approaches make sense at appropriate app layers, but the key is the ability to handle data structure evolution.

Being able to change data schema with little overhead allows to operate on a less normalized structure and adjust it more frequently. Meanwhile, designing a highly normalized schema and implementing complicated queries takes time and still doesn’t make it entirely proof against the future.

Nitpick: UI-agnostic data schema example is what conventionally is referred to as normalized—closer to a theoretical canonical form, independent of query convenience at runtime. The other example, where tasks are child nodes of a project, would be the denormalized one.
>Being desperate we decided to seek support from the Internet and posted our findings to the dm-crypt mailing list

When I see a company such as CloudFlare being so transparent about their difficulties, and trying to find an answer using their community members, it makes me love them even more.

No ego, pure Professionalism
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Given that the recommended distance is 2 metres, I thought it might be fun to provide everyone with a metre stick, and if you can only just touch sticks then you're the right distance away. + it gives an alternative to the handshake!
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Works created by the federal government and their employees are public domain, but works created by a contractor are still copyrighted. The government typically gets the copyright assigned to them – or at least an unlimited license to use the work – as part of the contract (this is negotiable, and I've seen the government get screwed over a few times), but that doesn't make it public domain.
Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but the outcome of quarantining measures is not only monetary. If the economy suffers more to solve the current crisis, more people will die because of secondary effects. I guess that is included in the calculations.
Do you really find it all that worrying, more so than the virus itself? I'm not a FB apologist but the fact that they have this network affect and that doctors can use it for free is outstanding. This would not have happened 20 years ago.
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Sure, I imagine any kind of HDMI capture solution would work! I was just amused that this gadget I had which is marketed for capturing camera output—for which it frankly doesn’t do a stellar job—worked so well for this specific purpose
Weren't the passengers strictly quarantined soon after the first cases occurred?
My first thoughts: Option 4 is preferred.
(I will add businesses to it as well, as option 1-3 don't appear to do so direct enough).

Avoids the chances of these getting pocketed by high flyers.

just in case it's not obvious, [1] pdf remind readers, to distinguish between government treasury and central banks.
Boris could just say they are not going to enforce copyright etc during the crisis.
> If inspiration pressure set screw is not mechanically fixed and fails open, you will irrevocably damage the individuals lungs and likely kill them. Similarly, exhalation pressure drop could collapse alveoli and suffocate them

Seems like a worthwhile risk to take on a patient that is going to die within minutes of going off a ventilator that is needed for a patient with a better chance of survival.

Unfortunately, that's a common scenario playing out in Italy right now.
> I'm not at all surprised that this one team is the team that has consistently won the last 6 years in a row.

They also have a budget of close to $500 million, which can't hurt. Ferrari and Red Bull are the only teams that come close to that.

Fourth largest budget is Renault at almost $200 million less.

We'll see if they continue to stack up with the $175 million budget cap that's coming in 2021.
You mean fascist censorship.
Well I've thought of using something like "stainless steel steamer". Usually if properly distanced, it is heated uniformly.

In asian area it's not common to have oven but steamer usually available
For modern buildings, the 3D models actually already exist in an architecture firm's computers. Imagine if the city/country mandates that building plans also be submitted digitally, and the architect has to allow it to be licensed for 3D maps...
Interesting, I was not aware of that!

Shall amend my scripts immediately.
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Every single company that I used to work for had an internal version of Linux that they approved for production. Internal release cycles are disconnected from external release cycles. On the top of that, some of these companies were not using system-wide packages at all, you had to reference a version of packages (like OpenSSL) during your build process. We had to do emergency patching for CVEs and bump the versions in every service. This way you can have 100% confidence what a particular service is running with a particular version of OpenSSL. This process do not depend on Debian's (or other FOSS vendor's) release cycles and the dependencies are explicit, therefore the vulnerability assessment is simpler (as opposed to go to every server and check which version is installed). Don't you think?
how does option 1-3, eventually help households, large and small businesses anyways?
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Ask HN: Can hunger release a psychotic experience?
I wonder if there has been any studies or scientific work related to the mood swings or mental state which hunger can lead to?