skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Droplets don't travel farther just because they have this coronavirus in them.

Droplet transmission is in fact possible over distances far greater than 6 feet, it just becomes extremely unlikely. Similarly, droplet transmission is less likely at 6 feet than at 3 feet. But even 3 feet reduces the chances substantially, which is why it is the default recommendation for avoiding droplet transmission.

https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t...
Should we be wary that an unintended consequence of this is increased public land selloff?
Yes, but that doesn't have much to do with hobbyist or student licensing, does it. If you are an energy company you probably have some sub-sub-sub budget line somewhere for 'computer license' stuff.
> It's official policy that scientists cannot question government decisions. The party in power has "had enough of experts"

Can you provide a reference for either or both of these?

Regarding the first, the scientists lead the government to making decisions. As you read in the article:

> Until March 12, the risk level, set by the government’s top medical advisers on the recommendation of the scientists, remained at “moderate,” suggesting only the possibility of a wider outbreak.

I you're suggesting the government is ignoring the scientists, this is incorrect given the evidence we've seen so far.

I believe "had enough of experts" was a Michael Gove quote related to Brexit, not related to the pandemic, and you've cut it short:

“I think the people in this country have had enough of experts... from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."

Michael Gove, Sky News, 3 June 2016

https://fullfact.org/blog/2016/sep/has-public-really-had-eno...
most assumed things are wrong.

That sounds suspiciously like an assumed thing. Compared to Maxwell's equations, at a minimum.
No paywall: https://archive.is/sOwVx
You do need the SSN to match up with the name and other personal information like age, gender, address, etc. In that way, it's a bit like authenticating with a common username and a password that is publicly available with the username obfuscated (except in the case of data leaks).
Sure it does, because absent AirBnB those rooms might be let out to long-term lodgers.
I thought Slack has video rooms?
Just add

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com

to your /etc/hosts if you want a comprehensive opt-out.
Would you say the 7 you already knew are similar to the 3 you entered?
> But though Sundays were holidays once again, they came at a different cost: For ordinary workers, quitting one’s job, missing a day’s work or being over 20 minutes late became criminal offenses, with mandatory prison sentences.

Damn. Recently, talking with folks down at a resort in Mexico, the workers all reported 1 day off per week, and it was staggered. Seems similar to what was described in the article. Painful.

For me, it would be ideal if everyone worked 3-4 days. A day for rest, a day for errands, and a day for fun means three day weekends are ideal from a worker perspective. And it is important that those days can overlap with others - what good is a day of fun if you can't do it with friends and family?
A few questions on serum therapy:

1. Do you need the same blood type as the donor?

2. Can other infectious diseases spread via an infusion from an infected donor, ie. hiv, hepatitis?
To be fair though we are in an industry that loves to take words and redefine them. Just look at a package manifest for a typical project - Rails, cucumber, express, capybara, express, puppeteer, electron, etc. You could probably “npm/gem install (random noun)” and it’ll work.
I'm also working on an analytics & A/B testing tool (https://splitbee.io). The big difference is that it needs to pin unique users for A/B testing.
It is a mix out of mixpanel & google analytics & optimizely!
Why dont they just title this "why we made plausible.io?" Make it clear up front that this is content marketing. It would still be a worthwhile read but it wouldn't be nearly as sleazy feeling as disguising an ad as a blog post type thing. I think a lot of people on this forum would enjoy reading about how the founders approached the problem and what they see as the solution, either out of curiosity about new tech being developed or to evaluate the product by reading about what the founders were trying to fix with competing solutions. This just doesnt read as an honest marketing attempt.
Are the Breitmans letting go of Tezos?
I cracked "root" on ours as an undergrad, so going to claim that the security wasn't all that, at least lacking a perfect operator. (And didn't they distribute it with vendor backdoors for a long time?)

Beyond that, AFAIK it didn't have pipes, which was a real limitation for creating, well, pipelines to stream process data far larger than available RAM.

I miss the days, but not the OS.
But it's what GP asked for.

I'm also unclear on whether "opting out of tracking" under the definition you're implying is possible. Any entity tracking you needs to track that you've opted out of tracking, which requires tracking you. Whoops.
Really? I had a giant banner on the home screen. Right side, taking up about 1/3 of the TV.
C level executives of these companies buyback stock to unlock stock performance bonuses early....they will borrow money to do it if interest rates are low and if they know they will get bailed out during bad times....

All this "we are doing it for shareholders" tripe is nonsense. Buying back stock at all time highs is the most idiotic thing a company can do because it says the business has no better use for said money, which imo is one of the dumbest conclusions a company can come to if growth is the goal (is your R&D department so useless that giving the money back to shareholders is the best allocation choice? Silly)....I'm including companies with a huge war chest like Apple, they are not an exception to this truth.

Many companies (run by idiots) have concluded that financial engineering is more useful than R&D, these badly managed companies should be left right in front of the "market firing squad" when the market turns against them inevitably... No bailouts.
A recruiter supporting one group probably won’t know a whole lot about other groups. I’m sure they can recite how all customers are supposed to be treated from the employee handbook, but I think you’re looking for something juicer.
Thank you so much for writing this book and making this topic accessible to novices like myself.
Dude, Amazon is going to have this candidate sit through hours of phone screens, and faang level interviews, it’s not like they lower their standards.

Sure, it’s a tad pretentious (honestly it’s the most pretentious thing I’ve read all day lol) on her part, but whatever, no one is perfect. It’s all part of the game.
Thanks for this Alex! Will definitely check this out. DynamoDBGuide.com was a huge help to me when I was learning serverless last year to build wanderium.com. There's definitely a learning curve for DynamoDB but the performance is really good.

Do you talk about the best way to do aggregations in your book? That's one of the more annoying downsides of DynamoDB that I've kind of had to hack my way around. (I combine DynamoDB streams with a Lambda function to increment/decrement a count)
> IMO, vertically-with-rotation is fine, probably even ideal, for reading the romanized text given the rest of the design, which presumably is appropriate for the main target audience.

I'm soso with the rotated text but the font choice just compounds the readability issue. the lines are so thin that, when rotated, they just become overly antialiased.

That being said, if you look around you'll basically _never_ see characters from horizontal languages on ANY public billboards that are rotated. They're always vertically oriented letters. While it may work for you personally, graphic designers learned a long time ago that this doesn't work for the general populace.
It's basically what a lot of consumer goods companies are now. All the products are made and mostly designed in China, and then the US HQ does all the sales, marketing, and funneling product requirements back to China.
Huawei will have its own credit card
BBB has kind of become the Lena of video testing, but I've always been more partial to Sintel myself.

https://durian.blender.org/download/
This is not true, the whole conference performs significantly worse at much higher bandwidth usage if there is a Firefox client, due to implementation limitations.
Two of my work places did. Others just had a layout where the people who typed were kept away from other employees, like small set of typing cubicles in the open area surrounded by offices or cubicles at the far end of the open area with an open space between typists and others.

One of my workplaces was a mainframe shop, some of the older devs still programmed their cobol/fortran iv code on sheets and took it to the data entry pool in another wing for input.
Their documentations and many other places state that Firefox uses roughly 2x the amount of resources, so I think it's worth pointing that to the user if they are having resource issues.
I hear you, but to me it was a good mix of nature vs. city. I actually lived in Woodside (off of 280 so closer to the woods area, not to RWC) and it was amazing.

On the hikes, I'd recommend Windy hill and Russian ridge if you haven't tried them. The former especially really takes you deep into the woods.
It will be interesting to see what impact this will have on housing prices in cities where AirBnB was primarily paying the mortgage.
>the chancellor of the exchequer, traditionally the second most powerful person in the country is was given the job because he is loyal, he has no previous ministerial experience

The current Chancellor of the Exchequer is Rishi Sunak, he was previously Chief Secretary to the Treasury. That is the third most senior ministerial title in the Treasury. To say he has no Ministerial experience is more than a little misleading.
you can install AirServer that will basically make appletv from your Mac, and then stream from phone over airplay.
I can't quite figure out what's going on with this thread. It seems to have an eerie amount of posts about support for Zoom, perhaps by paid trolls ("wumaos")?
Instead of a unique ID like a SSN, we should be using an identity provider to support such use cases. Imagine instead that you would authenticate with https://login.gov (ideally with your credentials and a hardware 2FA device), which would then attest to whatever service you were logging in to that you are you.

You can't rotate a social security number with reasonable effort, and we can longer treat it as a secret, because it isn't one. It's time to move past it as an identifier.
For those interested, my own solution to this was to use AWStats with an anonymization script [1].

It provides high-level analytics such as unique visitors, referring sites and most viewed pages, without having to store any personal data such as IP addresses, and it's 100% server-side.

IP addresses are compared against a Bloom filter in order to count unique visitors, without actually permanently storing them.

[1] https://gitlab.com/jamieweb/web-server-log-anonymizer-bloom-...
I think there's a much less niche thing it might be referencing.
Yeah, I should break down my methodology for arriving at the "hellban" conclusion.

If I get a bunch of failures in a row, I'll first try the refresh button built into the captcha, and then re-solve a number of times. Then I'll try re-loading the page and re-solving, then I'll try in a different browser with cleared state and re-solving, then I'll try a different device and re-solving, and finally I'll try a different connection, device, and cleared browser state and re-solving.

I'll consider something a hellban if I get persistent failures across several different challenge types but switching to a clean connection+device+state results in immediate success with the captcha.

Look, I get it, they can't be too explicit with the errors or they tip their hand to the botters and effectively give them a "to-do" list. Still, the gaslighting is persistent enough that there's just no way it's marginally beneficial all the way through. At some point, everyone figures it out: bots, techies, and normies. My guess is that they figure it out in this order, from quickest to slowest: smart bots, techies, normies, dumb bots. I'm not calling normies dumb here, they just don't have much background knowledge about the inner workings of captchas, so it takes longer. By that point, they're so far past the typical number of captcha attempts that only the very dumbest of bots, those without heuristics to detect this sort of thing, are going to be fooled along with them. Surely having the captcha tip its hand at this point -- which only gives an advantage to the dumbest of bots, because the smart bots figured it out long ago -- is the right thing to do.

Re:CAPTCHA has no mercy on the normies, and I really think they could do a lot better.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600698 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606823 document the performance issues. Mozilla is working on the issue, but its not yet resolved.
Watchsmith
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22808230)
Whataboutism! Lovely
How to display hidden data on canada.ca about Covid-19
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Enforcement by what means? By law? If so, then I would advise against that, given price controls lead to shortages[1][2] and is generally not accepted by economists[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls#Criticism
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Opposition_to_la...
[3]: https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/34439/27218
“Anyone can learn to write code. Very few can write good code.” -Former Tech Lead

Strive to write good software via intelligent design and collaboration with your peers and you will continue to make great money.
How SoftBank-backed GetYourGuide plans to survive Covid-19
Kushner’s team seeks national US coronavirus surveillance system
It’s from Amazon. It’s in their interest to promote themselves.
There's not much info out there publicly. Here's what I found:

https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/stop-os

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400
Analytics: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics-o...

Ads: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iba-opt-out-by-goo...
There are known issues with Firefox clients causing deteriorated quality for all users. They're working on it, but current workarounds are use Chromium, a chromium based browser, or the desktop app.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
In other words, your experience might be good with Firefox, but it's worse for the others.
In practice of course the only people who benefit from this “commons” are the ones who own lots of cows. It seems like it would be far more fair to charge a higher price and distribute that money equally to citizens.
Thank you! Glad you found DynamoDBGuide.com helpful :)

Yep, I do talk about aggregations in the book. One strategy that I've discussed is available in a blog post here[0] and involves using DynamoDB Transactions to handle aggregates.

If you're looking for large-scale aggregates for analytics (e.g. "What are my top-selling items last month?"), I have an Analytics supplement in the Plus package that includes notes on different patterns for analytics w/ DynamoDB.

Let me know if that helps!

[0] - https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-transactions/#hand...
I've worked for a couple of companies where capacity planning was way out of whack with the sales side.

The worst case of this was when a manager came and told me we had just landed a big customer and my response was, 'Oh, fuck me'.

When your product isn't built for scale, you can sell the hell out of it to small and medium sized customers, or sit back and let organic growth bring you people by word of mouth, and they will all be happy. Invite yourself to the Big Show before your systems are ready and you're gonna have a bad time.

In this case, there is probably nothing Zoom could have done to avoid this level of scrutiny at this time. Handle that scrutiny better? Sure. But it was going to happen either way.
> people in the English speaking world forget that not everything is optimized for them.

people everywhere forget that not only are there people who process things differently than them, but that on the web we have the technology to accommodate most of those needs.

In this case the whole thing could be rotated one way for folks with their browsers set to a language that is traditionally vertical and another way for folks where their browsers are left-to-right languages, and rotated and flipped for folks with right-to-left languages.
I helped a friend out with his Amazon application. I had never applied for a position there before. I thought I was a competent engineer, but their questions were crazy and made me realize that there's a lot I still have to learn.

I don't see anything wrong with the title. It's a harder interview than most.
Can it export and import?
WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7
All but 1 and 2 are unreasonable unless you guys are at high risk in which case you should get a friend or family member to deliver you groceries.

The vast majority of transmissions are person -> person. Very little of the transmission is person -> object -> person.
How is TCP/IP relevant to his opinions on Privacy?
I'd agree as something I'd "want".

But from your own example, it is completely unfeasible for the resort, and myriad other businesses where there is no "productivity booster" - you just need bodies in slots :/
Right, record keeping. But when it's not your data, things get complicated. Imagine trying to understand how another firm's data systems work. You can talk with managers, who know how the business uses data. But they have no clue how the data are stored or managed. And you can talk with IT people, who know how data are stored or managed. But they have no clue how the data are used.

And yes, speed. Aggregating hundreds of gigabytes was nontrivial to do quickly. I started with Access, and then learned to manage and use SQL Server. And eventually a multi-Xeon server with lots of RAM and SAS-attached storage.
A Repetitive Hate for Statistics
That doesn't work for the US, because any constraints on use are politically unpalatable. Any capability that the government creates thus turns into a security vulnerability to be exploited by business.

For example, even just assigning everybody unique identifiers (social security number, drivers' license number) has allowed businesses to demand these identifiers to track customers in privately-held surveillance databases. This system has already grown out of control with little sign of stopping.

A "secure" e-signature token would lead to even more businesses demanding your "identity". Imagine having to pay twice as much for groceries for wanting to keep your purchases personal!

I'd much rather suffer the small work of (print, sign, scan, cache, burn) until I see some reigning in of private surveillance databases.
Biden wont make a dent in the Trump base if you have seen a Trump rally. Normalcy is going to take a long time to restore.

We have to just wait for a politician who can connect and build trust with that base. And hope the size of that base doesn't grow as all kinds of frustrations mount.
How do those countries handle taxes, public services, and credit?
Dr. Peter Hotez has been proposing clinical trials of convalescent serum therapy for several weeks now. If it works it could potentially be used both to treat infected patients, and reduce the risk of infection for healthcare workers.

https://twitter.com/peterhotez/status/1239387184681177090?la...
I find providing official titles for things including words such as "legacy", "modern", and "classic" is a little folly since whatever you call "modern" becomes legacy or classic sooner than you might imagine.
And a bit more deeply than just differential forms and the exterior derivative: connections on vector bundles and their curvature. Deeper still: connections on a principal bundle and the induced connections on associated bundles.
>freedom to accept outside connections from anywhere

Without NAT from home gateways (like consumer routers) preventing inbound connections from the internet, security would be far more of a nightmare than it is today. Requiring that people manually forward specific ports is the best way to handle it. We would be seeing news about Blaster-like worms pretty much every week of the past 20 years, otherwise.

Also, even if it were a good idea, this still wouldn't solve the problem at all. The NAT-traversing capability of Zoom and other products is like 0.01% of the value they provide. You still need good software.
More than AST manipulation (which is probably not a key element in Zygote), the most important aspect is Julia's multi-stage JIT compilation (which is actually an aggressive mixture of JIT and AoT). A Julia program has access to it's own compiler at runtime, which you can call to compile any program down to Julia's Intermediate Representation, which happens to be a Julia structure that you can freely manipulate just like the AST and Static Single Assignment making it already similar to an execution graph. Then the Zygote library traverses the structure systematically writing the backward pass as if it was part of the code in the first place (plus applying any kind of optimization), and finally compiles everything together down to machine code through the LLVM.

Since Python is not compiled like Julia, the approach usually involves using custom types that store a separate intermediate representation from python (a custom one or the MLIR for example) and overloading functions (and perhaps other more sophisticated ways of metaprogramming) to map all the required operations while interpreting the Python code before compiling. That's why Zygote says it works on Zygote unaware libraries, as it doesn't store the graph within any of the types or directly overload any of the methods (it does need to know how to reverse them though), and also why it can directly operate on control structures since they are part of the full IR even when you can't overload them.

And while Zygote aims to fully support the Julia language, they'll certainly work on getting the most important operations working well enough before focusing on the more complicated stuff like mutation.
Agree with him, we need to evolve and adapt. Relying on privacy is not feasible going forward. Instead of privacy we need to strive to minimize the damage due the information being online.
Yeah but you’re not a true artisan bread maker unless your starter descended from the first bread makers in ancient Mesopotamia.
Get some cheap clippers, use the ~#2 guard, and deforest that shit.

Crack hair is useful for a lot of things, keeping skin from rubbing, fart silencing, sweat management, etc. But you only need a bit of hair for that to work. 80% of the length can be removed with no ill effect, but dramatic improvement in general cleanliness and comfort.
That's lacking in critical thought. A denier isn't necessarily a denier because they contest common wisdom. They may easily be deniers simply because they have other authorities they adhere to more.
It is as much or more about saving power by reducing costly traffic to the external RAM. For the pathological cases where you don't compress you simple don't save power, on average you do.
I'm not sure logic had anything to do with it. Rather, a hefty amount of arrogance and narcissism.
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