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I think you might want to qualify that by specific fields. For example if the paper you're reading is math or theoretical physics, then you actually do have all of the same capabilities as the author to verify it. As for publication bias, some studies are pre-registered.

>Scientists who are in a position where they have the resources to _reproduce_ the articles should and do read them.

It is typical for a scientist to read hundreds and hundreds of papers every year, or sometimes even every month. Are you suggesting that they reproduce every one of them? You may be dismayed to find out that typically, they would reproduce none of them, and when the system is working its best they might reproduce one of them. Under usual circumstances, you and they have exactly the same replication ability: the ability to search the literature for a replication.
even in normal times, I don't think lenders are lining up around the block to give people with no income a mortgage for a house they intend to rent out. there are a lot of landlords with mortgages on several rental properties. if they have enough viable properties, it doesn't usually look super risky to give them another mortgage, since they can smooth the cashflow from the other properties in the case of a small number of vacancies / delinquent tenants. there are also landlords who have enough income from work to cover the mortgages if all the tenants stop paying at once. in a correlated event like this, even the "safest" borrowers might be unable to pay. it's hard for a lender to protect against the possibility of entire industries shutting down overnight.
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Incandescent bulbs produce a lot of heat, melting the snow. LEDs run fairly cool.
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In the scenario proposed the VPS is the VPN endpoint. It's an alternative to commercial VPN services or hosting something on your own systems.

Whether that fits your security scenario is up to you.

If your primary goal is to get from an untrusted network (say public wifi) to a trusted network then a VPS with a provider you trust is great.
Then why does it never make it to the top 120 university ranking of the guardian?, I never understood why.
Not in the USA. The government is still telling people masks don't do anything.
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The truth is, the leaders who advocate for this approach aren’t doing this analysis. They’re just being lazy and hoping the problem goes away on its own. That works with a lot of “human” scale problems - however you can’t ignore exponential growth.
Why would you think that people couldn't get reinfected ?

The virus won't just bounce off your skin after one has got into you. If it is present everywhere in the environment then you will keep getting infected, maybe faster than your immune system can deal with it.

The end point to aim for in terms of immunity is that your immune system can deal with any level of viral load in the future without you becoming ill. Maybe combined with prophylactic drugs that help prevent the virus reproducing as fast within you.
Seems like they would, based on their recent track record.
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>If you are exposed to rosin smoke, you need good ventilation, not switch to leaded solder which is what you're implying here

That's not what I'm trying to imply. I'm saying that you should buy a vent before you switch to lead-free because even though you need a vent or a mask for any kind of solder, your need increases when you switch. If you switch and don't buy a vent your total health might actually go down.
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no instance of such a landing has ever been recorded, nor has it been attempted

It has in a simulator.
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It's okay to eat fish, 'cause they don't have any feelings.

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The term you are looking for is "moral hazard".

They won't deliberately cause crashes, because those are not profitable, but they will deliberately make risky bets that benefit them if things go well, and get bailed out if they fail (riskier bets have more upside for the kleptocrats looking out for Number One).

Given the odds, crashes are nearly inevitable. This is undistinguishable from deliberate crashes.

The policies enacted after the 2008 crisis have actually made the banking sector even more concentrated and increased the likelihood of another such crash caused by moral hazard in the Too Big to Fail financial institutions. The procedures to fight against that, like "living wills", will likely have the same effectiveness as bulletproof vests made of wet toilet paper.
Daily:

- Look at calendar (see if/when I have meetings)

- Make a To Do list and attach it to my monitor (it's quite gratifying to check something off, and that fact's helped me a lot)

- Find out if I have anything due that day, and if so to make that a priority

- Make sure my Git branches are up-to-date

Monday/week start:

- Find out if I have any deadlines, and if so when
Major personal use cases:

- SS during conf demo calls

- SS competitor products (UI designers, game and product designers to convey flow / features)

- SS images that don't allow download on sites (memes, fb, insta)

- SS chats to convey conversation (TG, Whatsapp, etc.)

Feedback w/o trying app:

- Would be great if it could classify app / tag app names if it recognizes the client as I may not remember the content initially but would remember whether it was chrome or whats app

- Would be great to classify and extract conversations

- Would be great to group same app SS within same time period (last hr) into the same folder

- Support video screen cap though I do this less

- Save the URL of SS if in browser

- JPEG compression

Its funny because this is an activity most people in the information work space do almost certainly weekly and there has been no innovation on this. You have plenty of room to 10x the user experience here and make a must-have app. Good luck and pls share v2 on HN!
For anyone running OpenWRT, you can install the adblock package to accomplish roughly the same thing as Pi-hole does. I don't believe it supports some advanced features like DoH/DoT or DNS resolution (e.g. a1b2c3.example.com -> ad-server-that-should-be-blocked.com), but it does the basics - custom host file sources, additional blacklist rules, whitelisting, and quick enable/disable for troubleshooting.

It also has an option to force all DNS traffic (port 53, so again it won't catch DoH/DoT) to go through the router. Occasionally I forget I've done this and tried `dig foo.bar @1.1.1.1` and gotten confused until I remember that my router is forcing that DNS lookup to go through it first, and then through the router's configured DNS resolver.
Ah, didn't think of that, thanks.
He has a quote from somewhere that I can't locate at the moment which is (paraphrased) "any new reactor design is always safer and more efficient than existing designs, until they get built, which is when they become expensive and less safe".

I always have to refrain from trotting that out whenever the pro-nuclear fans trot out how wonderful Gen-IV, or MSR, or whatever lights up their fantasies will be.
LED light does not produce enough heat to melt snow like old light bulbs.
You didn't dream it, it was in Forbes.

The US did a disaster prep simulation for virulent flu, that involved a shortage of ventilator scenarios. They took people with something approximating medical backgrounds, including nurses, other kinds of docs and vetinarians, and gave them training in how to use a ventilator. After two days they were given a test and the vets had the best score.
This could be tried if there were enough masks. China prevented western N95 manufacturers from exporting masks out of their China facilities in February, so they will get first dibs on attempting this strategy. One of the unforeseen risks of globalization.
Not quite, but it's certainly been confusing advice, if you can call it advice at all: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/11/whos-confusing-guidance...
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The last paragraph is key and should be emphasized.
As long as companies are free to choose their accountants, there is an intrinsic conflict of interest. It gets even worse when the accountancies offer other professional services like IT consulting.
>I don't know what it is about science fiction and fantasy authors in particular - maybe it happens in other fiction genres too and I'm just not aware because I don't read them as much, but a lot of them seem to succumb to extremist (usually right-wing authoritarian) politics

i don't know about fantasy but for sci-fi i think it's obvious: it's because a technocracy inevitably becomes a fascist dictatorship. that's why the nazis were heavy on industry and eugenics ("science" is the ultimate moral authority and all that). it's also for example why the mcguffin in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is so plausible (it was hydra whose aim was to use an ai to a-priori adjudicate who was guilty etc).

why writers in particular? not sure. probably having something to do with feeling confident in their ability to create fictional worlds and translating that into some kind of presumption of ability to govern real worlds.

Edit: lol no responses only downvotes. Don't point out flaws in technology ideology or else people will get bad. Lol
It was mostly an effort to prevent panic buying like what happened with toilet paper. There are not enough masks produced even in a year to solve this, so they. Need to focus on medical workers having access.
I didn’t think they said masks don’t work, but rather:

a. Masks mostly help people who are infected to not spread it widely (by catching their respiratory droplets, presumably).

b. There’s a global shortage and doctors and nurses really need them.

All I’ve been hearing locally is of course they help - hence the medical professionals need them - but that they don’t make as big of a difference if you’re a healthy person out in the world of mostly uninflected individuals, so please don’t buy any and let the doctors and nurses have them instead.
What is the current state of NN in the context of AI state of the art?
The idea will probably lodge itself in our minds, but in practice there are no masks to buy, so we can't even start getting used to it.
Because bureaucracies often accidently transform "not 100% guaranteed certainty" into "doesn't work"
You may already do this, but bugs like these are the reason I usually recommend having two kernels. The "oh crap did the latest release break X" is a lot easier to test if you can just reboot into the LTS kernel.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Taiwans CDC and South Korea recommend masks. That is good enough for me.
I have been asking myself the same question. I think it comes down to two reasons:

1. Masks are in short supply and they believed they could save them for healthcare workers by convincing the general population they don't work.

2. If you are measuring efficacy, the general population won't reach the same level as a healthcare worker because they have not been professionally fitted and trained in on/off procedures. So instead of reducing risk by 95% the average person would see something like a 70% reduction, and they decided "perfect is better than good enough".
I'm acquainted with the creator of a similar tool that I think is awesome and might provide some inspiration: https://screenotate.com/
I think very basic face masks would be ok, as the idea is to limit people who are infected, from spreading the viruses so that other people get infected. The 2 m distance rule is about how far viruses are spread when speaking or coughing.
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Since lead is a stabilizing agent for tin whiskers has that been dealt with yet by solder manufacturers or have we just decided that early failure is acceptable?
Which also has the nice property that the water in the pipes is always warm. You get a hot shower almost instantly.
Original WSJ article from March 28: https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-tracking-how-people-...

De-paywalled WSJ article: https://archive.is/A8ngi
Why is it shocking, you don't have the luxury to pick and choose...eat all you can, including your own kind, if needed.
The specific businesses in scope of this post are these that use free cash flow to enrich shareholders and not plan for rainy days. So yes, they are at fault here for not using their cash wisely and being myopic.
Sub 1ms incremental GCs did exist, but they weren't common in production languages. They typically optimised for throughput rather than latency.
It's been broken for a while

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1863769

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1864188

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bugs?field.searc...
You left out the word "lied"
I've been hacking on the OCaml multicore GC recently and am happy to answer questions anyone has.
The data is available e.g. on the offical czech ministry of health https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 (can be easily translated with google)

And here is the list of measures https://www.vlada.cz/en/media-centrum/aktualne/measures-adop...
There are two quite different usages:

1. Diminish the number of viruses that travel out of your mouth and land on the surroundings, there to be picked up by some passer-by.

2. Prevent viruses in your surroundings from reaching you.

AIUI the WHO and others have said quite loudly that masks don't work reliably for the second case.
if you look up "does wearing a mask" on google, you'll find dozens of articles discussing the mixed messaging, how some countries encourage it while others discourage it, etc. so there's tons of back and forth with reasons/studies cited on both sides.

I've yet to see a definitive answer but essentially, one of the big arguments is that if you don't know that you have COVID-19 and since it's asymptomatic when you're already infectious, wearing a mask in public may help prevent the spread to others.
The article states that they're using homemade masks -- even t-shirts wrapped around their face.

It's not about filtering... there's something else happening here... I'd guess that the mask is a constant reminder to keep your hands off your face.
so you think propagandist literature has no effect on its reader?
It should feel rewarding. You've contributed to and improved one of the most important pieces of software in the world!
They also make executives' stock options more valuable, and in most cases the grants don't have clauses to reprice their options to account for that. In other words, a form of embezzlement.
Not by me, though. I think that comment could have used a bit more explanation beyond calling it "nazi apologia" with a link. Like a bit more explanation of what exactly makes it nazi apologia.
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I don't know, people in the US seem to be pretty stubborn. I think people feel that being asked to wear a mask is somehow "un-American"
> Affinity products are quite close.

They aren't. Just look in this thread for many many examples. One thing I didn't see mentioned was scripts.

If they were, Adobe would be scrambling.

There isn't this grey line where one tool can do the same things but in some different way. There is a sharp line where the cheap tool can't do it at all. You're comparing excel to google sheets.

UX enrages aside, the only thing not to like about illustrator is the cost. I also hate that you can't get a nice car for under $50k. That doesn't make the $50k and up cars an object of hate.
What if the government just pays them instead and lets the company fail?
it's already being done. In today's (very disturbing) article about New York health workers:

A nurse on her unit has already contracted the virus and one doctor is so scared he affixes an N95 mask to his face with tape at the beginning of each shift.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-d...
Monaco (and I'm the last guy in earth to be labelled an apple fan) is my favourite font. Its damn readable. There are a lot of other readable mono fonts.

Also code inherently has a structure whose readability is increased by monospace fonts.
How prevalent was mask wearing in Asian cultures before SARS?
This sounds like interesting reading; I've read Challenges to Apollo, which mostly covers post-WW2 Russian/Soviet history; I'm not as familiar with the earlier events.
WHO doesn't only say things they are absolutely certain about - e.g. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Also, not the most reliable source, but I've heard claims that initial viral load may determine the serverity - a mask could help here too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8166867/How-large-v...
There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.
The site does not work at all (white screen) if the Stripe requests are blocked, eg with uMatrix.

> "TypeError: window.Stripe is not a function"
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We could improvise them though. I know in Hong Kong they have asked people to improvise using layered paper towels and tissues because those are readily available nonwoven fabrics.

It isn't as good as the real thing, but done at the population level I expect it would lower the reproductive value of the virus and thus help flatten the curve.
The evidence is not clear yet, it will take ~ two weeks from implementation.

Graph -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...

But you will also need lots of testing and contact tracing.

All these should decrease R0 and allow society to function.
Thank you, going to double-check and apply fixes.
We are already working on the fresh release.
I'm glad you found it handy.
Let me know if anything is missing in the toolbox.
I agree that there are things one can do (and I do get out in the park as often as convenient, but social distancing there is hard), but are there things one will do? I'm in reasonably good shape from indoor climbing, but that only works because I like doing it so much that I don't notice I'm exercising. So far, the inertia of having to set up a body-weight routine (rather than continue with my existing climbing-gym routine) has kept me constantly attending to other things first, so barely active. And that's someone with a habit of physical activity who really dislikes having to skip the routines—so what about those people without such a habit?
True, but my thought was that since AES decryption is mostly limited by RAM bandwidth anyways, the transfer from the SSD to the CPU, then from the CPU to the T2 chip, then from the T2 chip to the CPU won't be much faster than transferring from the SSD into the RAM, then decryption, then it being read back into the RAM.
It's simple:

Spitting virus phlegm at people while coughing = BAD
They should shut down Amazon facilities for at least three days after the first case is confirmed, inform employees when that occurs, and if necessary provide paid leave until the facility is cleaned and inspected.

Their incentives are currently perverse, and encourage employees to show up sick - work and take on an unknown risk of being infected in exchange for a $2 raise and double overtime, stay home without pay, or get infected and get paid leave.
The difficulty in achieving a proper face seal is apparently why the US Army doesn't allow most soldiers to have beards.

"Actually, when I went to Israel I went and … talked about beards and challenges and issues, and had a lot of long discussions about it, and bottom line is, it poses a threat to our soldiers on the battlefield. There’s … data to prove it’s very difficult for the seal on a protective mask."

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-daniel-dailey-tattoos-b...
This reminds me of Philip Larkin - Vers de Société where he opines that, now, "All virtue is social." He had no idea...
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Probably is just a config issue: for some reason this morning the wrong mic was selected as default and the update may have played a role since I don't remember changing it myself, but a quick look at pavucontrol solved the problem. PS: I'm using Arch Linux on a Lenovo too, but not a thinkpad.
Why don't they just make a welding mask that uses goggles with a video feed so you don't have to be exposed to any UV?
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They’re both bad.
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Let me know if you missing something in its toolbox.
I wonder if there is a smaller (in terms of cell size) way to implement this.
Thanks for your comments in this thread. Some people seem to have an axe to grind concerning the hubris of software hackers and are pushing that debate rather than addressing the question.
That's fine, so long as the article lets you know that up-front. Title it "Why we don't know yet whether you can get Corona a second time."
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If the CLI is more your thing: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter
Microsoft stock is up more than 4% today after this news. It's almost foolish to claim anything is priced in because the stock market is a Keynesian contest. Claiming it's priced in means you know how every other portfolio and hedge fund manager is going to react to news. Some might be slow to react, some might overreact, etc. Nobody can read minds. Thus it's almost impossible to claim anything is priced in.
I imagine that just like my grandparents who lived through the Depression hoarded ketchup packets despite being financially secure, as soon as N95 masks are freely available I will keep a stash handy for the rest of my life, regardless of whether I ever face another pandemic, or official organizations advise against it.
Even the most basic face masks would have some obvious consequences:

- preventing infected from spreading the virus via droplets

- preventing touching mouth and nose with your hands

For that to be effective, for a while anyone would need to wear a mask, as the virus is usually spread by people who don't feel sick yet. Wearing masks would add another barrier to spreading the virus, especially everywhere where you can't quite keep 2 meters of distance, e.g. shops, public transport and could be vital for reopening factories.
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Not necessarily. A lot of Bailouts are interest free loans or just outright gifts. I wouldn't oppose them nearly as much if it was the government buying shares at a reasonable price with voting powers, but it's seldom the case.
No, it just shows lack of expertise in this particular domain and they have to rediscover a lot of things because of that [1], but it's not that different from software engineering anywhere else. This is pretty much what software engineering is: making a lot of assumptions, mostly wrong, trying them out in production, learning what was wrong, redesigning with a lot of new assumptions and repeating the cycle again and again.

[1] for example, strong eventual consistency approaches can solve pretty much all of their problems with fast reliable replication, but that requires engineers to be familiar with CRDT implementations and research on the subject in a pretty time consuming distributed systems field
I love Terraform and ASGs but that still doesn't solve the fact that their SRE overprovisioned. They might have even used both things!
Covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 ? The article says the first.
I read a paper on this last week but I can't find it at the moment. However I recall them polling people on mask usage, and pre-SARS it was single digits percentage, post-SARS it was 85-90%.
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