skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The death rates so far have been dropping considerably once further testing becomes available. Right now, most tests are being performed in response to patients presenting symptoms. This creates artificially high results. The majority of COVID-19 infections do not result in symptoms, and these people would likely never be reported. Nor would a significant portion of people who did present flu-like symptoms but did not need medical care.

Italy and Denmark have initiated random testing have revised death rates to be far lower, less than once percent. Random testings substantially increases the denominator, since it captures the vast majority of people who did not have serious symptoms. The infected cruise ship had a death rate of 0.7%, which is even more surprising giving the older average age of cruise passengers. The fact that places are reporting higher death rates than a population disproportionately older should have raised eyebrows. Again, the data itself is not suspect it's failing to account for the selection bias it imposes. But this does result in some very skewed conclusions on your end:

> The US population, with 40% infected and 1% of those dead, leaves us with about 1.3M deaths, times your $190M per life is $25T, or about 15 months of US GDP. Is that really the claim here? The equivalent of bringing GDP to 0 for 15 straight months?

1.3 million deaths is an order of magnitude more than what is being projected. Earlier this month, the range given was 100,000 - 240,000. Now this projection has been lowered first to 80,000 and now to 60,000:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/health/us-coronavirus-wednesd...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/0...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/fauci-say...
WTF? Mind blown. And I've been hacking the web for nearly 20 years now.
> So, if the "stack" is a, say, finite resource, then the programmer should know in the code how much of that resource is being used and act accordingly.

And this is true, but IIRC statically determining stack bounds for arbitrary programs is not an easy problem to solve, especially if you call into opaque third-party libraries.

> For a preprocessor for C++, I IIRC at one point the definition of C++ was in terms of a preprocessor

I wouldn't know about defining C++ in terms of transformations to C, and searching for that is more difficult. I would guess that the abandonment of the preprocessor approach to compilation would also have meant the abandonment of defining C++ in terms of C, especially once C++ really started picking up features.

> The issue is that at least at one time it seemed difficult to be precise about C++ semantics, that is, what the code would do and how it would do it. Maybe now C++ is beautifully documented.

C++ has had a formal specification since 1998, which might count as documentation for you.
no one has mentioned that it is $399.
Honest question: every time I must debug my mother or a friend on an Apple device, I have to go through a Windows-Vista amount of confirmations of multiple-FA steps and it never seems to stop or remember my agreement to this or that feature.

I've been using Apple devices exclusively for 10 years until 2016 or so but I reckon it's become incredibly bloated UX on iOS devices, at least from my very anecdotal perspective.

Meanwhile Android seems much more 'sane' for me as a user, but more so software developer aware of the cost of bad UX.

So I'm wondering, in making this choice to go for SE rather than 4a, I'm assuming you're familiar with both OS, how do you think they compare?

I really like what I hear about the iPhone SE but immediately I remember how dreadful my experience is every time I have to use an iOS device, they're just so unnatural to me, just so weird UI/UX choices. I feel like they're maybe great for seniors but as a 37 nerd/geek I feel lost with iOS. It's just not doing what I want it to. Like Windows 10. Like Gnome. I tolerate KDE because it's great but it's not without big issues yet.

Am I too demanding? Have I been spoiled by the best products during 30 years of computing, such that 'average' in 2020 doesn't cut it for me, or did UI/UX really get worse as I suspect?

Please, someone, in this highly popular thread, help me make sense of this perception, and see where I fit in a large 'nerdy' crowd.
Privacy advocates testify on preventing Covid-19 data from being exploited
Merchants have no interest in allowing you spend you loyalty bucks with other retailers. Or they'd just give them to you in cash.

As always, cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to this scenario.
I just bought this game for the family.

When I was younger, there was a game called Animal Crossing Wild World for the Nintendo DS that is still one of my favorite games of all time. For all of the things that Nintendo gets wrong, Animal Crossing Wild World was very advanced for a game that came out in 2005.

You mentioned extracting save data from Animal Crossing for Switch and a smirk ran across my face. I have a very intimate and detailed history about the online community surrounding this game, script kiddies, Action Replay, and damaged game carts.

Does anyone remember Carlos and Nintendo-Play.com?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=acww+brick+seed
Great. They deserve each other.
“Books? For kids, yes. But dildos? No!”

This guy has really weird standards for what qualifies as essential.
1) I subscribed to 1-Password which allows you to create a shared vault with another family user. 1-Password family plan solves this issue.
The strobe was a nice touch!
That’s not what’s happening though. This is a negotiation tactic. They want you to think that compliance demands of the court has made are unreasonable. If that is so, what other shipping companies or other large essential firms are also having these problems?
This is pretty interesting. I think it may be slightly overconfident in the sense that the data is still not super granular and there aren't too many other data points of comparison (geographic restaurant data, work data, etc.). However, so much data reports viruses being more likely to spread indoors and in close quarters so the subway makes perfect sense.

It is also very scary. I currently live in a fairly remote town of 3000 people. There have been a couple Covid cases here, but it is pretty easy to see how even with the most loose social distancing policies the R0 here would be lower than a fairly stringent policy in NYC. I used to live in Manhattan and the number of people I would be a few feet from just walking out of my apartment, walking one block to a grocery store, and coming back up is more people than I am within a few feet of here every week even when restaurants are open. I'm not sure how big cities solve this.
Show HN: PiSign – open-source Digital Signage
So can someone help me with my understanding I read the paper and feel I have a grasp of it but there is still one thing I don't understand he says

>Buridan’s Principle. A discrete decision based upon an input having a continuous range of values cannot be made within a bounded length of time.

Shouldn't it instead read

> Buridan’s Principle. For a discrete decision based upon an input having a continuous range of values, there exists some values such that a discrete decision cannot be made within a bounded length of time.

Because clearly there are many instances that a discrete decision is made in a bounded length of time, as shown by the car does stop or goes for many values of x even though there is a bounded length of time; however there is certain values of x that result in the train running over the car, but not all.

Ergo, only some values of x will result in a decision being made impossible in a bounded period of time.

Can someone help me understand the flaws in my thinking or understanding?
It's not throughput if the 240 refreshes per second are evenly-spaced apart in time. It's a polling rate and it absolutely effects responsiveness.
Purchase future cash flow to get wealthy- stop buying more stuff
I purposely delayed my interview despite recruiter encouragement to get it over with, but I interviewed on March 20th, I was hired on the 30th (I think, it was in the week after the interview, I team matched by the end of the week), and I will onboard (unless something bad happens) next Monday. I’ve found Google to be much faster than I thought.
Everything kills viruses in vitro.
Power Becomes Bigger Concern for Embedded Processors
With hindsight you are able to claim this but it was highly controversial to even criticize Theranos back in the day. The book outlines how hard and how long it took to open the can of worms.
Yeah, the TODO list example probably isn't a good example for a complicated scenario when avoiding server side templating makes sense.
Why are there function definitions in header files? Really the only reason to do this is if you are distributing a "header-only" library.
Okay, but with all this flour, where is the yeast? I've actually been lucky to find plenty of flour at the local Mexican or Asian markets. Yet, no where I look have I been able to find even a tiny package of yeast. It's out all over the place.
I mean it's worse than just slowing down hiring (according to Blind).
Are you aware that GitHub users still can't sort their repositories into folders?

Because that's definitely one reason why some developers still don't use GitHub.

Take a look at this request which has been open for years and remains unfulfilled:

https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/74

Is there a reason that such incredibly basic functionality doesn't exist on GitHub but does on all your competitors' offerings?
Thanks for the touchingly poignant homage to creative problem solving. Even if we appreciate the effectiveness of such a solution, the sheer artistry in it is highly under-appreciated. Most people sadly walk around with so many blinders that they cannot really _see_. _"[...] pause. Then, pause. Then pause again."_ indeed.
I’ve made similar arguments. I have a term for them, “economic reasoning.” The argument is basically that economic forces, from greed and survival to the basic underlying technical capabilities available would have ALREADY caused a proposition to succeed or fail. This is a powerful principle, and in my experience, does not mediate against innovation. That reviewer was using his version of it. Secondarily, Buridan’s principle fails. An important lesson in growing up is, sometimes you just have to choose, and if you waste enough time, the urgency of choice exceeds the urgency to be right. In technology, binary switches have an avalanche mechanism, and if properly designed, have built in hysteresis. Noise then makes the decision, and the hysteresis prevents “waffling” by turning off the ability to redecide. Read (older) data sheets on comparators. That a person could write a scholarly paper and not mention that indecision has been thought about, and workarounds have been assiduously developed IS probably cause for rejection.
CalPERS’ Untimely Tail-Hedge Unwind
I guess that means perfect blue skies these days haha
>What does this change from the perspective of the person who is trying to comply with the law? You don't know what the law makes illegal but if you do something the government doesn't like then the government will decide whether it's illegal after the fact and punish you for doing it even though they never made it clear that it was actually illegal.

Yeah, for things that are not readily apparent, you might need a lawyer to help you understand if your conduct is illegal. Have you looked up the statutory definitions for what a work is in copyright? For like 99% of people and businesses it is clear. What do you propose as an alternative? This is a pretty absurd conversation because you seem to not acknowledge the reasons for WHY the law functions this way and just posit a world that doesn't have the problems the real world does.

>This is still not an argument for purposeful ambiguity. The fact that absolute perfection is impossible is a lame excuse for not even trying.

Feel free to describe a better system. It's gotta be real though, you can't just say "a system where everything is already prescribed"... that's just fantasy
Also, different genetics, different climate, different culture, different population density, different connectedness to China, and a 2 orders of magnitude difference in population size. As a rule of thumb, whenever you want to compare Iceland to another country, you probably shouldn't.
Sorry, I don’t buy into pole riding / hero worship, nor do I believe that theoretical-you on the theoretical-“other side” wouldn’t have an equal but opposing argument.

It’s all game, do you really not see that? ... If you’ve been following this topic, shouldn’t you be able to make the steelman argument for it?
Doesn't Blu-ray still have better quality than most streaming services?
You could claim the same about Tesla, it has a lot of expert criticizing their financials but it is still up in the air if they are right or wrong. I guess if it does fail people will claim that it was obvious all along...
There is the way people are, and the way you wish them to be. I'm only pointing out the way they are. I suspect you're in for a lot of disappointment.
January 2018 US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab
Comparing Chinese tech companies with Google here feels like comparing apples and oranges and also "Chinese tech companies" is too big a entity to be compared with a single company.
But scenes at Yahoo/Reddit/Baidu and other smaller ads-driven companies aren't pretty
Oh, I knew the UK was doomed when triple-lock pensions were made real. I live in America! I think the most common reason large groups of people gather to express emotion is sports. And it is so joyful. And it's a nice substitute for war[0]

0: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Again, people keep talking about millions of people dying. The current US death projection is 60,000. Let me put this in context for you: 600,000 people die each year due to cancer. ~30,000 due to car crashes. Additional mortality amounting to one tenth as many people dying from cancer is not going to crash an economy. Both you and the other respondent are multiple orders of magnitude off in terms of your projected death rates for this virus.

The idea that the economy would collapse due to the amount of people dying of coronavirus does not hold water. Even if widespread infection did occur, the mortality rate among working age people is well below 1%.
I wasn’t able to achieve the same performance with RedShift aggregates, I tried that first before I decided to migrate from RedShift to Druid back in 2014. We deal with dozens of dimensions per event and no combination of distribution keys in Redshift was able to give up the same performance over arbitrary scans+ aggregations.

Druid is not only fast because it pre-aggregates, but the memory structure is designed for scans over hundreds of dimensions.

Materializing views in BigQuery is just one DAG task. Unless you don’t have something like Airflow on your stack, I don’t see how it is worth mentioning. We are talking about denormalized data, time series data.

I am speaking from experience with each one of these products. Perhaps I did it all wrong, but we certainly achieved the objectives we were after.
I have no hard evidence that they are actually actively seeking a buyout/IPO, but they did complete a Series E last year[0] led by Goldman Sachs and IONIQ Capital. Presumably their numerous investors will be looking for a solid return, either through an acquisition or IPO.

WRT how they might exploit users, it's not really so much that there are specific ways I worry they will exploit users--well, I guess I am specifically worried they will once again hold private repos for ransom until you agree to some abusive new terms. It's perhaps best summarized with an infamous quote about user tracking from GitLab CFO Paul Machle:

> I don’t understand. This should not be an opt in or an opt out. It is a condition of using our product. There is an acceptance of terms and the use of this data should be included in that.

In other words, "Fuck the users, it's our product. Hold their repos for ransom until they agree." Which they in fact did for a short time until the PR blowback became unbearable. This was supposed to apply to self-hosted GitLab EE, too, BTW.

The fact that Paul survived that very public middle finger to users and the security of the product and remains CFO shows that Sytse agrees with his philosophy, even if he isn't as brazen about it. The kind of money Sytse presumably has made and especially stands to make in a successful exit tends to have a peculiar effect on people, so perhaps it's not surprising...

If you continue to use GitLab, be prepared: Make sure you have a replica of all the content (including issues etc.) you might need in the future. You just don't know how or when they're going to screw you over next, but you can be sure it'll happen.

[0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/gitlab-com-series-e...
I am curious what proportion of compromised packages fall under the umbrella of scenarios you have outlined.
I was rejected by an SVP at Google. Recruiter was surprised but said it happens. Said I did a good job and could pick a different role (wasn’t for SWE), got the offer the second time around but had to start all over and got passed to a new recruiter.
Wow, it's like my worst nightmare. Very sad.
Google depends on advertisers to make money, and the writing is on the wall for these advertisers.
Yup, a Novation Cat. I still have it, not that it's useful other than as a conversation piece.
Each advertiser is trying to optimize ROI for the search ads it spends on. They do that by tracing clicks to subsequent purchases. This tells them how profitable/unprofitable the ad purchase was.

The advertising system is self balancing on cost per click if each advertiser optimizes it’s spend based on portfolio theory and because of the reverse Dutch auction that Google runs.

With the virus, some advertisers just don’t have anything they can sell right now (cruises, concerts, sporting events). They won’t even be bidding. Others will have things to sell that are in far less demand (cars, restaurants). The decreased demand will drive down cost per click (or adworth as you call it).

I have noticed many companies dive into emails to previous customers. They are also offering deals. This is cheaper than ads.
COVID-19 edition! can't tell you how many times I'm annoyed by having to tap in passwords like it's goddamn 2012! (coz i'm wearing a mask)
People will get it or they won’t, the HN crowd is probably a fairly small demographic compared to who Apple is trying to gear this towards: people who want an affordable, new iPhone.

For my part (SE user of 2 years, and before that a 5s user), this fits my needs pretty well, and it’s got the latest hardware. The lack of a headphone jack was always going to happen, that’s just the way of the world and nothing will change it - and realistically, carrying around a dongle really isn’t a big deal if you’re going to be carrying around your phone and earphones anyway, it’s just another small piece to keep attached to your earphones on a semi-permanent basis. The 5s form factor would have been cool too, but that was also never going to happen, because the SE is released in no small part because there is a surplus of X device (previously 5s, now 8) and they need to move old stock.

I’ll hang onto my SE until iOS 14 comes out, then I’ll get a refurbished SE 2. I might be able to get away with getting an almost-new iPhone released this year for around AU$600, that would be cool.
I made one of these recently too. Mine allows you to simulate many different kinds of 2D cellular automata, but Conway's Game of Life is the default.

[link redacted]
Obviously yes, Google is scanning your Gmail emails and doing telemetry on every document you put into their services. That gets a decent amount of attention but it's no where near the amount of information Microsoft gets from you if you happen to be a Windows user. Google's search history on you would pale in comparison in terms of profiling, etc.
Why would Amazon go through with sloppy compliance if they think they will be fined more than they can make?

Not providing an enumerated list of essential goods makes it extremely likely that no matter what Amazon stops shipping, something Amazon thought was essential is deemed non-essential and results in fines.

Deciding you can’t win isn’t throwing a temper tantrum; it’s a business decision based on likely outcomes and the profit/revenue of those outcomes.
When you select for capacity for discipline, and then train for discipline, you tend to get discipline.

When you don't select or train, getting discipline is sometimes a smidge more challenging.
I play Go.

Tsumego Pro is a nice app for quick, short-term life and death problems with a range of difficulty.

If you are new to go, check out http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ -- it's a solid introduction to the game.
Could be too strong. I couldn't find the email, post or discourse discussion where I got that impression
Some companies are using the virus as cover to do layoffs they needed to do before, but couldn't do without hurting their reps with the VCs.

A certain Boston based data science startup comes to mind.
> Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code

I don't get it, if Microsoft Word uses a third party program with the GNU license, then why isn't Word's source code open source?

> You may obtain a copy of the corresponding GPL or LGPL source code from Microsoft for a period of three years after our last release of this Microsoft Offering, if and as required under the GPL or LGPL, by sending a money order or check for $5.00 to: The Source Code Compliance Team...

So, I can buy the license in print? or the source code for the program? What the hell is with this wording? Only after 3 years of release?
The insane thing is supporting writes on the host side (are they?) which change the contents of the VFAT right under the guest OS. Writes in the other direction are a lot simpler because the guest is in control of the VFAT state.

Come on, any sort of caching scheme will wreak havoc with underhanded updates to the image.
If you notice an issue please report. :D
I think we're on the same page. When I wrote "unable to turn" I meant "unable to turn in a stable manner". It would exhibit what in a car we'd call "oversteer". The pilot would have to be very gentle and careful in turns, which means death in air combat.
I read their response as more of a "yes, and" versus a "no but".
Excerpt:

"Supports...

DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.

What's curl used for?

curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily."

Source Code:

https://github.com/curl/curl