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Monopoly Deal is great. Back in school we used to play it so much we ended up extending the rules to make it last longer. I think our record was 8 shuffles of the deck. If you want to extend your game, you can tweak the number of sets required to win. E.g. make it 2 sets of 2 and 3 sets of 3 or 4 - that should last at least 30 minutes.
Pretty sure crows don’t cause worldwide chaos. Anyone able to fix the typo in the title?
Nah, he just needs to update it from time to time.
Yes the author praises GitHub flavored markdown. The criticisms presented are on gaps in the original markdown design, not implementations.
> Do you have an example query?

I mean, just about any geospatial query? E.g. finding all polygons in a table that overlap with one specified in a query. https://postgis.net/docs/ST_Overlaps.html

> If you're not using geospatial features,

Why are you talking about not using geospatial features? I was just responding to your

> Even if they didn't, there are plenty of algorithms based on lat/lon which uses numeric/float data types with simple indexes.

statement. Which I still think is not a meaningful alternative. And then subsequently to your statement about vectorized columnstores.

I'm not all saying that only postgres has geospatial indexing support (although postgis is pretty good) - that would be ridiculous.

> then what indexes does PG offer that the others can't match (either directly with indexes or with better scan/query performance)?

I do think that postgres' indexing support (gist, gin in particular) makes it easier to add support for indexing types of data that are harder to index in many other databases. But it's nothing that can't be beat.
Viruses aren't anything like indoor air pollution. A partial reduction in air pollution is useful, but it's useless for preventing viral infection. You only need a few hundred viral particles to get sick (if that).

Viruses are still infective after being captured in the mask. Touched the outside of your mask? Go wash your hands. Mess with the mask? Go wash your hands. Does the mask make you touch your face more? That's a huge risk. Does it unseal a little when you talk or move your mouth? Air will go in that way, and virus will come with it.

Moreover, if you are like most people I see on the street, and you push the mask down below your nose or mouth to talk, you are literally putting a super-concentrated source of virus right in front of your face. Most people, most of the time aren't exposed to enough virus to get sick. Breathe through a mask all day long, and then yank it down below your nose, and you're creating a problem. You have to be careful about how you put it on and take it off, especially if you're re-using a mask.

None of this is rocket science, but almost nobody gets it right without training. Even then, it's hard. Half of the reason medical staff wear face shields is to prevent them from screwing with their masks or touching their face. It isn't trivial.
can confirm. found multiple issues around SDRAM interface in STM32f429, only some are in the errata doc
We used BlueJeans at my previous job and it was reliably awful. So many issues with it.

I'm using Jitsi now and am quite happy with it.
It's easier to believe we live in a just world than to think critically about the societies we live in.
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This sort of confuses me. How can a game with the opposite principles of Monopoly be the true originator? It seems totally debatable which is why they had to go through a law suit twice over this.
AMD also has another interests beyond open source.

Wondering when Vulkan will get mesh shaders.
This is such a cool story. Thank you, Mike!
Bad hints can always be dropped.

Every system is prone to abuse, I don't think hints are too out there in this aspect
[author here] wow I didn't expect this to shoot up so quickly! Obviously I love Markdown and use it every day. But like with everything you live with every day, you notice the little things.

I @'ed John Gruber on my original tweet and readers might enjoy his response: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1240888155307495426
Don't we want the search space larger? That way it is harder to wardial? YouTube has 11 characters composed of [a-Z] and [0-9]. (26*2+10)^11 is a pretty big number. There's no reason it couldn't be longer.
I agree with you. That image makes me distrust the tutorial like maybe it's not actually using ray tracing. That image certainly does not look ray traced. There is no radiance what so ever. It looks forward rendered with standard phong shading and shadow maps.
About three miles from the bridge here, never heard anything other than “narrows bridge” (or just “the bridge”) either. Crazy seeing something so close to home on HN!
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Sure, but my point wasn't that the SIR Model is correct (elsewhere I wrote 'that's a highly simplified model, might not be true, etc., etc'), it was to show that dkarl's model - flattening the curve doesn't change the overall number of infected people - isn't necessarily correct.
Seems like User Interface design issue.

At the minimum they could show anonymized email id: ab<..hidden..>gh@univname.com
Capitalism didn't give people an appetite for bat.
Lol that you dodged the direct question. It's obvious to everyone.
Clues to Covid-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from antibody against SARS
I love that they hate eating their own dog food. Remember when FaceTime was promised to be open because it was just SIP? Remember when iMessage let you connect to every service under the sun? Remember when MacOS had awesome remote access built in? Remember when the mail client didn’t wait an hour to tell you that a new email arrived? Remember when they built a server? They deserve to suffer a little here.
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1. https://www.schloerconsulting.com/quantum-computer-q-lisp-pr...

2. https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/senior-software-en...

Neither of them is Rigetti.
And yet there are 40 million slaves in the world today, about the population of the whole Roman Empire. So it’s not exactly rare, either, at 0.5%, or 1 in 200 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
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> Literally all the data agrees with me here.

I just quoted several data points that did not agree with "all the data".

If they can succeed, why can't you?

I also know a Microsoft executive who didn't attend college, and I'm not sure even graduated from high school. His father owned a hole-in-the-wall store. Fortunately for him, he didn't listen to "it's all luck".

Most of the people I know don't fit into your "it's all luck" data.

For all the people who think it's all luck being a CEO, how many have even read a book on how to run a business?
Air flow viz shows effectiveness of face mask for preventing spread of particles
I believe this is a social phenomenon.

It's like a friend invited you to a party at Zoom's house, and you go because of your friend. And then you invite a friend to the next party, and your kids are having parties there.

Until you find out that Zoom's been taking advantage of you and all your friends. And Zoom has been going through your coat in the coat closet, and unlocking your car with your car keys.

You started because of your friend, but now you feel used.
The myth of privacy and end-to-end encryption in Zoom
It's easier to make excuses than learn what needs to be done, make a plan, and execute it.
Wow, that's terrible the path that he chose but aside from that, I am glad to see legal precedence laid out for this because I know damn well others are trying to be bad actors about this.

People I trust to know these things have always said the USDA-certified Organic label is pretty legit.
What was even the motivation in the first place to not respect newlines?
About the header slugs: I don't think the content of the header should be the anchor ID. Readers will link to it, the author will fix a spelling issue or whatever, and the link will break and other readers will arrive at the top of the page when the browser doesn't find the old ID.

My solution that works with most Markdown variants is to use inline HTML to define an anchor directly before (or after) the header.

<a id="stuff"></a>
### Things about stuff

But of course this isn't much cleaner than just using inline HTML for the header itself.

<h3 id="stuff">Things about stuff</h3>
I'll give you that it isn't necessarily correct, but I don't know if it's sufficiently incorrect either :-)
Houseparty isn't end-to-end encrypted, and never claims to be. That's why we (I'm one of the SREs on it) don't get taken to task for it.

Nonetheless, we got hit with weird privacy claims; See Monday's firestorm of "Houseparty hacked my {bank|email|spotify}!"
Well, the airlines are being destroyed at the moment.
For me, it’s the reduction in acid in cold brew that I’m going for. Hot brewed coffee has so much acid in it that I can barely drink any of it, regardless of what temperature it is served at.

So, for me, cold brew it is.
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particle. A world its own and within it multiple smaller
worlds; the cardiovascular world, the auricular world
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Resume of the decade!
I got rid of fixed line and set iPhone to 'ignore calls from numbers not in my contact list'.
> but hospitals are going to be overrun either way

Only if COVID patients are prioritised.

What's the point of assigning an ICU bed to a 79yo with two potential comorbidities who will be dead within the week regardless of how much treatment is given? Compared to a 30yo who has been in a car crash and has a chance of survival.
Unfortunately many people have a poor understanding of statistics and cherry pick examples to fit their agenda.
One could go even shorter term than that.

But life is a long game.
I think this shows it best:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Worlds_a...
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Nim is older than Kotlin, so your question is kinda backwards. But also:

1. no JVM (Kotlin Native isn’t considered a stable thing, or is it?),

2. subjectively nicer language,

3. An optional non-GC runtime upcoming (already in there as beta), which is interesting for low-memory applications... which in the time of the Cloud is potentially any application. The more (AWS) lambda time you can get for free, the better, right?

4. Writing command line tools. Practically nobody is writing them on Kotlin. Everybody’s writing them on Rust, though, for some reason...

Disclaimer, full disclosure: I’ve only read about Kotlin, of course, not written a single line. It seems like an excellent language, and if I had to do JVM work, I’d have it as a top3 candidate for sure.
Diverting an already purchased good while it is passing through a third country is not "out-bidding".
I was able to donate my masks through a local healthcare worker. They can still use it. The thing to remember is that mask reuse is possible and a damned good idea.

Btw, as usual there's more misinformation as to what masks healthcare workers will find useful.

People will tell you that you can't share those because they're contaminated - wrong! I already did so in a fully informed manner.

People will tell you that you can't reuse - wrong! You absolutely can reuse. Keep eight. Keep them separate. Do not allow contact of anything with the inside. Keep them face up in an isolated area. One every day of the week.

In fact, I'm just a random person. Don't trust me. Don't trust the agencies. Follow the actions people are taking that are working. Follow the evidence.
No. This is more propaganda. Research studies on SARS show that wearing an N95 mask reduces your chances of contracting SARS by 91%.

In March, 1 of every 1000 Americans had a confirmed case of COVID. In April, it might be 1 out of 40. For confirmed cases, given that testing is mostly restricted to people appearing at the hospital, I estimate the fatality rate is 7%. That means that in April, you may have a 0.2% chance of dying from COVID. If you wear a mask consistently, that goes down to 0.02%. If you assume you have 40 years left to live, if you're maskless, COVID will reduce your life expectancy by 1 month. If you have an N95 mask that you wear consistently, COVID will reduce your life expectancy by 3 days. Wearing an N95 mask in April increases your life expectancy by 27 days.

By contrast, wearing a seatbelt over the next month, statistically increases your life expectancy by about 0.2 days. Over the next month, wearing an N95 mask is about 130x more important than wearing a seatbelt.

All of this discounts the massive other benefits from not being infected: No long-term lung damage. All of the people you don't infect because you didn't get infected. No infecting healthcare workers. No contributing to the overload of the healthcare system. Plus, wearing a mask, even if you do get infected, you're much less likely to infect other people, which has a cascading effect.

The point is: If you have access to a mask, it's vitally important that you start wearing it if you go out. Still, don't go out unless absolutely necessary! Minimize contact! Especially for essential workers though like grocery store employees, delivery workers, etc, wear a mask!
The 'best database' article recently linked here, says

"PostgreSQL picks a method of concurrency control that works best for high INSERT and SELECT workloads. [...] tracking overhead for UPDATE and DELETE."

This one says "INSERT and UPDATE operations create new copies (or “row versions”) of any modified rows, leaving the old versions on disk until they can be cleaned up."

I do think this one is wrong, but this is my wild guess as I am no expert in any way. INSERT should be fine. Or how would INSERT "create new copies"?

[Edit] See authors comment.
no it works (flip the switch and the USB device disappears). but on and off should be labeled.
People have been worried sick since the end of January, after infectious disease experts briefed the health ministry. The ruling party prohibited everyone to talk about it prior to March 17th. Because they thought if social distancing would be in effect, no one will gather in their celebration that has been in preparation for months. Yes! you heard that right. They they censored all media/news platforms in the country, so more people would show up in a birthday celebration.

There are only 300 ICU units (in the government hospitals which are permitted to treat infectious diseases) in the country of 165.6 million, roughly 1 for every 600k on a good day. alarming number of people are dying from pneumonia of "unknown cause" everyday, while the government is insisting that there is nothing going on in the country, against 900k phone calls to the helplines, approximately 1100 CORVID19 tests were conducted in total. I am not sure how this will lead to profit when people can't get treatment even with all the money they have.
I gave you a direct answer: it's pretty easy to ensure that I don't touch things with my hands.

I'm still waiting for you to provide some proof that the t-shirt stretched over your face blocks anything at all.
The point is that without geospatial features, you can still use other strategies like lat/long or geohash and they will all have the same performance.

The logic (built-in geospatial or hand-written sql) is irrelevant to the performance comparison and GP's post that Postgres was the only one that could query quickly.

Do you disagree with that? If not then I'm not sure what your argument is.
> The only way to become rich was through a share of ticket sales.

Did no body gamble on these races?
Prefer Asciidoc over Markdown. Easier to remember syntax, richer set of controls and more importantly - better tables. Tables in Markdown are a nightmare. Asiidoc is a lifesaver for tables. For big tables, columns can be specified as rows leading to sane reading.
Research studies on SARS show that wearing an N95 mask reduces your chances of contracting SARS by 91%.

OK, cite it.
To be fair, they were simulating an airtight room with zero movement.

Even just people walking around would create some airflow -- an HVAC would create both airflow and temperature gradient.

Blowing the droplets away is effective, but also blowing them in to either each other or a surface is also effective.

Evaporation also occurs -- the smallest droplets likely would evaporate long before this model shows them hitting the ground or dissipating.

To your final point, I direct you to the hygiene hypothesis -- you definitely want to periodically encounter low levels of non-lethal pathogens.

Yeah, people should take reasonable precautions when they are sick, and you should wash your hands whenever they're dirty or before you eat/stick your fingers in your nose (or at least 5x per day just on general principle), but we shouldn't stop having human social contact, and you shouldn't live in a Cleanroom.
I enjoyed this review and its discussion of existential risks facing humanity. I’ve always found the statement “a single death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic” to be absurd. It is often misused in a somewhat prescriptive manner, as if we should resign to our immutably corrupt psychology and care more about the death of a single person with an identifiable story rather than the unrelatable “cacophony” of thousands or millions of people. It is closely related to our obsession with stories, and again, our prescriptive admonition to make a story out of everything. The problem is that stories lead you away from first principle thinking and towards thinking by analogy with binary, unnuanced logic.

It is time for first principles thinking to spread through the general public. In some ways, The Enlightenment never reached the public. The more exclusive first principles thinking is, the more power and wealth goes to the privileged few who exercise it in relatively high proportions. Ironically, they can use their elite status to manipulate their findings, knowing that they’ll be trusted anyway. This doesn’t have to be intentional. Renowned epidemiologists shut down an early whistle blower on the potential magnitude of Coronavirus back in January, in the name of “reason,” when they were in fact just paternalistically posturing. The “hyperventilating, panicking” whistleblower was right. They wouldn’t have been dismissed if journalists and the public provided a platform for experts on both sides of an issue, and had the analytical, evidence-based mindset to assess the merits of their arguments.

Side note: Can you change the title to “Book Review: “The Precipice” in Existential Risks” or something a bit more descriptive? I think that would give this excellent write-up more exposure.
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My plumber has written a ton of VBA in Excel to automate his business.
Connecting people to goods and services they may want or need in a targeted way that tries to make them more relevant seems positive if anything to me.
Kinda on-topic (50/50): I'm looking for a flavor of something-like-markdown, but it would have semantic tagging and some abilities to add my own attributes to an element/tag (like for links, I want to be able to specify some to open in another tab, but others to open in the same tab, I'm willing to do that with raw attributes if I can add them on) for conversion to HTML in a static generator, is there something like that anyone knows about? (I prefer not to "roll my own" if I can use a standards-based language)

For instance, I'd want to do the example in the GitHub flavored markdown with tags like <article> or <aside> around markdown-like syntax. Markdown is so easy compared to HTML, so I want that ease in my article-writing workflow.

I was considering using HTML directly in a templating language, but I want it to be a more human-friendly text format, like Markdown.
That's measuring the monetary value while ignoring actual utility. No amount of money could have bought a polio vaccine or advanced cancer treatments or genetic testing or microelectronics in 1933 but these are common things across the world now. Purchasing power doesn't just grow in quantity, it grows in technological sophistication that make any comparison between now and even the early 20th century more than useless - they're actively misleading. The biggest growth is in industrial production and distribution of goods and it isn't really quantifiable.
> has their shit together to the extent that they run a media relations team.

Any company that drops cool research (ATM / Automotive hacking / SCADA etc) use PR firms to drum up their work (which is fair IMHO for SEO/showcasing your new capabilities and service offerings). I did it and I know loads of boutique firms in the UK who do it. I also know of education companies working closely with PR firms to publish articles about "cybersecurity skills gap" or "cybersecurity shortage" to manufacture and invent demand and they are pretty effective too.

So it's not that outlandish to think that security companies aren't tactical enough to have PR companies write such articles either. My suspicion about this specific article was given its timing.

> Who among them don't have revenue streams from triage consulting?

Trigale Consulting is good money but it's mostly getting crumbs from the master's table. BB's are at the apex of this pyramid and will continue to do so. Sharp boutique firms that specialize in stuff will obviously always thrive but that's a diff topic

>It's a bad article. CSO publishes a lot of bad articles.

Agree

> But there's no way this is a paid piece.

Maybe but I'm still doubtful.

> The people quoted in this article believe what they're saying.

Fair point.
“The greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent. They handle the immediate problem and still make sure to secure the future.”

The media is incentivized to distract you. Turn off your computer, read a book, and don’t forget to live.
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