skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"98% of people who contract corona virus recover just fine"

I don't know where you get that number from, but there's still not nearly enough testing to know what percentage of infected people recover, and not enough tracking of recovered individuals to know if they're doing "just fine" afterward, suffer debilitating health issues, or something in between.

"lockdown is unnecessary. The original reason for it was to not run out of ventilators"

This is not true either. There are multiple reasons for the lockdown.

One of the primary reasons is to buy us more time to develop treatments and vaccines, and for more testing to be rolled out.

Another major reason is not to overwhelm the health care system. This has failed to some degree, but it would be way, way, way worse if there was no lcokdown at all and exponentially more people got sick all at once.

Yet another reason is to buy those people who haven't yet gotten sick more time and more life. If these people could hold out for a year or two, or even some months, that could mean more months or years of life for them. The importance of this can not be understated, and even if they do get infected eventually there'll hopefully be treatments available by then, and they'll stand more of a chance of survival.

Yet another benefit of a lockdown is to keep the disease from spreading further. The outbreak can be managed if we test enough people and quarantine them as infected people are detected. This is the main hope that increased testing give us, and that testing just wasn't even available in the US a month ago, and even now we're just beginning to get that capacity, though we still need way more tests.

"ventilators have a mortality rate of 66% to 90%"

According to Daniel Griffin of the infectious disease department at Columbia University, and chief of infectious disease at ProHealth Care Associates (the largest physician-owned multi-specialty practice in the country, with about 1000 physicians and 3 million patients in the Tri-State Area, with 240 practices, 24 urgent care centers) and on the COVID-19 response team and his boots on the ground in NY hospitals, the survival rate for people on ventilators is about 50%.[1]

"We should let corona run its course like every other flu year."

This is an invitation to let millions of people die.

COVID-19 is not "like every other flu". First, it's not a flu at all. Second, we don't know what the mortality rate of it is as there's not enough testing, and also many deaths from it seem to be happening but not being counted as COVID-19 deaths due to lack of testing and an overwhelmed health care system. Even morgues are getting overwhelmed. Gigantic convention centers and Central Park in NY are being converted in to makeshift hospitals. I've also read that death from COVID-19 is the leading cause of death now in the US.

This does not happen with "every other flu".

[1] - From about 13 minutes in to episode 595 of This Week in Virology: http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV595.mp3
Suppose a vending machine gives 20 soda for 20$. If someone walks up and inserts 1$ and can get 0 soda, but if they insert an extra 19$ they get 20 soda.

If that’s true then for some amount between 1$ and 20$ inserting an extra 1$ must let you get more than 1 soda in order for it to be handing out 20 soda at 20$.

PS: Back to cancer, if it’s 19 cancer at 20x then you can keep a 1:1 relationship at 2+x and 0 cancer at 1x. Then again if you can’t tell if it’s 19 cancer or 20 cancer then it might just be 21 cancer.
IMHO, this is the ONLY way to get Ticketmaster to revert its policy. Refusing refunds on postponements was likely a stopgap measure as the ticket sales were likely forwarded on to the venues/promoters on a rolling basis and Ticketmaster is holding insufficient funds to immediately issue blanket refunds.

I also suspect Ticketmaster does not have the manpower, nor the contractual ability to pass along a tsunami of chargeback losses on to the venues so it will raise the alarm bells very quickly if there are 100k new chargebacks this month. Not only will that freeze millions of dollars in revenues it will also cost a couple million dollars in chargeback fees.

Bonus! It also has the potential to mess with their CC processor discounts as they can get in big trouble for high chargeback numbers.
That’s because you are running it on hardware implementing IEEE 754 floating point.
Unless they're using an alternate exact representation for floats by default, that's just rounding them when printing.
That's the advantage of Nix's top-down approach. You declare everything on as high level as you want/can/wish. You specify the package plus your customization for it.

It's not that much different than a one-liner that installs the package plus uses echo to write your config file. The magic is the "forced" reproducibility by default.
It's accounts that were found by testing user/passwords that were found in other hacks to see if people had used same password on zoom. It's nothing zoom did wrong. And, it's something that happens to basically every company.
If the President has no legal authority to shutdown the states, he has no legal authority to restrain opening them up either.
The idea that share price is based on the next 20 years is truly laughable. The company themselves don't plan anything concrete more than 12 months out and anything further than that is guesswork. To think that you can project revenue even 3 years out is simply fictional (Source: my wife is in finance exec at a public tech company and one of her fields of expertise is FP&A).

That said, analysts will make guesses based on financial projections and then give multiples to things like revenue or earnings, depending on the company. If a quarter of Google's revenues is impacted, it will have immediate effects. Of course, that's assuming that it's only a single quarter's revenue which in this case would be wrong. You're talking months of high unemployment globally.
Maybe this is their PR firms gearing up for a cash for clunkers deal.
This post and the comments here show what a poor UI the command line is (by default).
AND it's an amplifying effect. Lower ad spend + more impressions available = double amplified lower CPMs
What happens if user has disabled iMessage, does your API notify your enterprise customers with an error?

I can see this useful if the following is possible:

send iMessage, if fail then send text via twilio

But otherwise couldn't see the use case (at least for reliable delivery rate)
I use zsh's function copy-prev-shell-word. You can bind it to some key, e.g. alt-m with `bindkey "^[m" copy-prev-shell-word`. Use ctrl-v shortcut for another key.

For instance, adding a suffix to a file name: mv myfile alt-m.suffix
If you use docker (which uses overlay2) for every application you can easily track these changes. I don't think even Nix can/does track anything on this level.

That said, yes, something like that would be great. Using overlay + namespaces/cgroups could get us close to that. Then we'd have to detect which packages are completely passive (read only, shared dependency of many others) which are shared but have their own state, which are shared but their state is a mix of per-dependant states (so if multiple packages/apps depend on a DB service then the schemas/tables ought to be isolated), and so on.
Learn LISP/Scheme and lots of fundamental concepts you probably have a feel for, but in a far more profound way:

1. First watch the SICP series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...)

2. Then work through the book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...)

If you really do the exercises (an hour here and an hour there), you can feel you brain getting wrapped around many core notions in very illuminating ways.
I encouraged someone I knew who ran a Web hosting company to buy a big spot (the "FREE HOSTING" banner in the top half) once I saw the initial PR blowing up and this was why they made the order. Different times nowadays! This is a neat project, but I'm not sure I could see something like this sweeping across mass media like MDH did.
Huh? It's not like Zoom offers an SSO solution. The value of the accounts is two-fold:

1) Looking for Zoom premium accounts, there is actually a pretty good trade in stolen accounts on the dark web. Folks will pay a dollar for example for one of these accounts.

2) This is the more likely one—looking for people who use one shared password across multiple valuable logins.
Seeing how an enterprise software chooses to articulate and differentiate itself in product and sales from the internal perspective is super interesting.

Are there other examples of "we chose to go to market like this (x, y, z reasons) and here's why"?
Implement Scheme.
Bill Gates on Finding a Vaccine for Covid-19 [video]
Onivim 2: Vim-style modal editing with aesthetics and features of modern editors
In theory maybe it could be used for industrial espionage if certain stars aligned.
I don't think it's so much a matter of getting it right as much as it is about preferring the performance gain and ease of use of hardware-accelerated constant-space floating-point numbers. At least, that was probably the case when programming in something like C/C++. I don't imagine there's much point to it in ruby or python for example, other than that floating-point is standard by now.
Care to explain how this is "their" issue?
Doesn't much of youtube's revenue come from music these days? Whether a patreon-style model competes or not depends on the kind of content. Individual channels making videos on youtube act like patreon is a much larger income stream for them than ad revenue.
I have been using Onivim as a daily driver since several weeks and am really enjoying the experience so far. Highly recommended.
So it's true: when he's not killing people, the original Terminator processes New Jersey unemployment insurance applications.
> For example performers/venues could use a non-ticketmaster intermediary,

It's not so easy. Doing so can lock them out of business with ticketmaster.
If you realise you're now locked into the Apple ecosystem don't you want to do anything about it? It's very risky, it is your point of weakness.
Was very surprised to see the number of anti-vaxxers in the comments.
Can service providers not realize that someone is trying millions of different accounts with patterns of passwords and throttle or block them?
They won't be "too poor to be worth a lawsuit" if they have all the proceeds of the ticket sales, and haven't had to pay the artists.
It's still surprising how little relatively to the level of perceived performance have IPC count improved since seventies.
Sweden is not doing too much testing either. I am not sure if the UK is a good comparison as they are not really in lockdown at the moment. I think the better comparison is to Norway and Denmark.
I did. To me programming is like reading a book because you want it to (your choice of genre, no point except to read it and enjoy) vs reading a book because it is in your syllabus and you're gonna be graded on it at the end.

I think work related programming is the second kind (even if you're working for yourself) and working on projects which you make only for yourself is the first kind.

For me the trick is to not have any expectations (including any secret ones like getting github stars, upvotes, money or any deadlines). Also one thing that took the joy away before was not really programming related (which was always enjoyable) but the regret I felt sinking my time into it not doing anything"productive". Once I let go of the feeling it started becoming fun again.
This assumes that people have good monitoring over the login pages/endpoints.
I appreciate the attempt at reconciling these this contradiction but I don't think it holds up.

For one, if you accept that advertising can sell "cheap junk" or "snake oil" then you've accepted that advertising can sell something. That could just as easily be a useful product no one has heard of so the issue isn't the advertising, it's what's being sold and advertising is effective (which invalidates (2)).

For another, you use the example of a product "everyone has already heard of". You could point to something like Coca-Cola here. But this argument has two problems:

1. There are variations companies make to keep their product "fresh". Think Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke, Coke Zero (or whatever the current form is) and so on. By virtue of them being new, potential customers won't have heard of them and advertising solves that problem; and

2. A lot of advertising isn't about direct customer conversion but "brand lift". Now companies have dreamed of the ability to accurately measure the brand lift of advertising spend but it hasn't materialized yet.

This is also why common comments here like "I don't ever click on an ad" don't really mean anything. Now you can argue that the ability to make you desire something you don't need is "evil", which is a reasonable argument to have. I think there are cases where this is true, such as advertising to children, and these should be restricted as some countries have done.
According to NIST's memorized secret (aka password) guidelines [1]:

> When processing requests to establish and change memorized secrets, verifiers SHALL compare the prospective secrets against a list that contains values known to be commonly-used, expected, or compromised.

If Zoom had enforced that passwords can't be from a list of already compromised passwords as this guidance suggests, this attack wouldn't have been nearly as successful. This is just what happens when you don't have a decent security policy, and everyone that doesn't follow basic security best-practices should be called out for it.

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
Splunk is incredibly powerful though, and almost all of that power is available at query time. Replicating the functionality in ELK often means indexing changes, and so when you have a question that isn't answered by the index, you'll forgo the answer unless you really really need it. A very simple example is the 'transaction' command in Splunk, which I absolutely could not live without and often surprise myself with the keys I end up using to research a particular topic.
Feynman described his run-in with burnout, you may find his experience interesting. I quoted a piece below, but the book is more persuasive with more intricacies of his situation.

Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. [...] So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

[0] Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character.
Haven't watched the video, so no idea if this got mentioned, but I've also heard about research that showed that some very season-dependent farmers in India, who were quite rich part of the year, but for some reason quite poor the other part of the year, actually had their IQ fluctuate measurably between the rich and poor periods.

So poor people do make bad choices, but they make those bad choices because of their poverty. Not only does a lack of money mean you don't have the means to invest in the future, the stress caused by poverty actually hurts your ability to plan ahead.

So removing that poverty (through basic income or some other measure) could end up solving a lot of societal ills.
I'm highly skeptical that this implementation will be anywhere as effective. Time will tell.
Hey appreciate the interest!

1. The alternative is manually adjusting stock levels on your other sales channels as things sell. For small shops, this is not too bad. It's usually the owner or some assistant who handles this but it can be a huge timesink. For high volume stores, this is a sisyphean task. Or you can just set stock high enough and not worry about it while emailing customers if you're actually out of stock and can't fulfill. Not a good idea though since you can get banned on marketplaces for overselling + it's a bad customer experience. Sometimes the sales channels themselves have their own integrations (e.g. Shopify integrates with eBay) but they have lots of issues

2. The "source of truth" before using Trunk is typically either Shopify/Squarespace or Square POS (for brick & mortar). So initially, Trunk can sync your most accurate sales channel to others that are out of sync. Once using Trunk, the inventory within Trunk essentially becomes the source of truth but it doesn't necessarily need to be managed there. For example, you are free to adjust stock levels within Etsy and Trunk will pick up on those changes automatically and sync them to Shopify, just as you'd expect. So it's flexible in that sense and gets out of your way/adapts to your workflow

I hope that info helped :)
It's amazing to me that there's 1000s of 'more useable Jira' variants out there, but IME every team that tries to use one inevitably ends up back using Jira.
Offshore oil and gas platforms release more methane than previously estimated
Competitors to Zoom, for example, WebEx, have even more vulnerabilities than Zoom. Count the CVEs on cve.mitre.org. The small players haven't been poked as hard.
Covid19 deaths vs. other Epidemics from Day 1 of death to Day 100
Sega wasn't the only one to use a CPU with embedded crypto, as this set of detailed articles from the same site shows:

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2014/11/capcom-kabuki-cpu-i...
Well, people who have capital at all are certainly better at it than people who have none.
I just searched this page for “lifetime” to find any mention of “lifetime customer value”.

I was surprised not to find any, since lifetime customer value creates an upper bound for marketing and ad spending. So when there’s less overall economic activity, the lifetime customer value may very well also be going down - at least for discretionary spending - meaning the upper bound for ad spending is also coming down.

I wouldn’t be surprised in shifts of lifetime customer value in many industries in at least the medium term. And therefore in ad spending for those sectors of the economy.
Several distros unfortunately include 'mv' and 'cp' aliases by default. To get predictable behavior on the command line, always use '\mv' and '\cp'. (for bash)
There are lots of things we don’t know right now. This is not a reason for not acting.

If my proposal works we don’t need to worry about immunity persisting because the dangerous strains will be driven to extinction.
Why would a corporation do that? These jobs are "essential" and are also extremely easy to replace. That's why we don't see wages going up and likely will see the opposite in the coming few months.

Supply is FAR larger than demand right now. Have you seen the unemployment rate right now?
It really is starting to feel like there's an anti-Zoom pres s campaign right now.

Who would benefit the most? Skype, Google Voice, Facebook Mesenger ?
mv myfile{,.suffix} seems easier and more general, and doesn't need zsh.
Ha! They'll be lucky if they get a postcard!

For years I've been getting emails, unsolicited, that have links ("Click here") that point at the likes of "www.The-XYZ-Company-class-action-settlement-for-real.com".

Are these legitimate? I have no way of knowing, since I'm not dumb enough to click them, and wouldn't trust what randos in forums say about those links. And the $4.44 settlement promises [0] do nothing to mitigate the possible ramifications of clicking through a possible phishing attempt.

[0] These settlements are always so worthless.
that is a really terrible anecdote to hear; I tried jitsi, love it, and want to support 8x8, but I don't want to fight with customer service when/if I decide to cancel.
Advertising to kids. Is there any good data on this? I've been wondering if it was truly an effective revenue stream beyond all the anecdotal evidence I hear quite often.
Another great tool is Hammerspoon [1] for Mac. It has a lot of plugin and allowed me to get rid of a lot of small tools. It’s free and open source. It allows me to set key shortcut for my app, windows manager, timer “à la pomodoro”, caféine (screen does not go to sleep), etc... cannot live without it!

[1] https://www.hammerspoon.org
Something like this? https://imgur.com/a/tEkyAXt
If Youtube can't make money from you why would they host your content?
Not everyone can do that.
You can also refuse to watch Youtube videos. It seems like you just want to keep your cake and eat it too.
Not surprisingly, the starting position really does turn into a glider...
Higher end of equity - yes.
Vesting - yes, but 4 years.

Also, not a lawyer, but I believe there is a minimum wage thing in California. I think It's mentioned in this startup School lesson (~9 minutes in):

- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBC16jhiwak&feature=emb_titl...
- Transcript: https://jotengine.com/transcriptions/NDLakO9K0GVmyY6d8B1uAQ
So you think that rather than see that list grow, they should all reimplement their own (drawing examples from my own project):

* font rendering
* audio file I/O
* resampling
* websocket support
* OSC support
* i18n
* XML parsing
* ....

? In our case, 89 libraries. 2GB of compiled libraries.

Surely you can't be serious. Unless you just don't believe in "big, complex software" ?
I most certainly have not assumed it will work, in fact I say there is a pretty good chance it won’t. What I do think it could work and that the cost in minor compared to the payoff if it does work.
Nice! Your ISP is good, too. Mine bounces me at least 4 or 5 times before actually going towards the destination.
> The Senate is irreparably broken. There is no conceivable way that it can become more fairly representative of the people without a breakup of the United States.

This is untrue. We could simply add more Senators by admitting more states into the Union. Kinda like we did with Alaska and Hawaii.

Millions of citizens in DC are without Senatorial representation not to mention Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Guam or many other "protectorates".

It can be done without dissolution of the US. It requires a simple majority vote in the Senate and House and Presidential approval.
actix got new maintainers, it hasn't imploded at all.

I just heard of a company using Surf in production.

There's still a bunch. No clear winner yet. Heard lots of good stuff about Warp.
My bet is that there's a powerful short selling interest group
Trevor Noah Foundation Partners with Microsoft to Help Youth in South Africa
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]
I think you're right: company I'm with has been using Office 365 since I joined back in 2017. In many ways it's decent but Outlook is just full of small irritations that really start to add up when you find yourself having to spend a lot of time in it.
> What does that even mean? That is junk maths,

It's a consequence of the Mean Value Theorem. Suppose a differentiable function f has f(0) = 0 and f(1) = 1. Then, either f is linear (f(x) = x), or there is some point y for which f(y) != y. If f(y) > y, then by the MVT there must be some point z betwenn 0 and y for which f'(z) >= f(y)/y > 1. If f(y) < y, then again by the MVT there is some point z between y and 1 for which f'(z) > (1 - f(y))/(1 - y) > 1.
To be honest typing and remembering %d %f %c %s etc. seems like more hassle than typing {} and typing it for every case.

I think the real gotchas are that { is escaped as {{ and } as }} instead of \{ and \} (though it does follow from the old %%) and you must either include , .{} or rewrite the function call to something significantly different to do unformatted print.
Open-Sourced Covid Heroes
> Maybe it's something to do with whoever runs your Exchange..?

Well it's 365 so that, unfortunately, is Microsoft.
It also assumes malicious request have same or similar signature attributes (ex: IP addr, http hdrs), which is not always the case.