skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the contact tracing, etc, that you are describing (which is a bit beyond the article's scope, since it is talking about medical therapies): the West's failure is a political one. The experts in the West know and agree with everything you're saying.
Yeah close doesn't mean neighbors

I'm from Rome, Italy, and Stockholm is farther away from it than Cairo in Egypt
Ant societies point to radical possibilities for humans
What Belmarsh taught me about lockdown
The "secure video stream" would probably need to be baked into the hardware, like Apple's Secure Enclave https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-over...
I agree with this. I've found that students who struggle with the borrow checker also write code that tends to segfault in C. Rust is nice in that once you get it to compile it pretty much works. It's not going to segfault. I've also found that when students master the borrow checker in Rust, they write better C code.
Top of my head, here are some books on specific histories I enjoyed. All old, but there are timeless nuggets in them.

Soul of a new machine, previously mentioned. Where I first learned about mushroom management.

Just for Fun: the story of an accidental revolutionary [0] was fun bio on Torvalds from 2001

The Mythical Man Month [1] offers some insight into the management and thinking that went into OS/360

Masters of Doom [2]: offers an enjoyable history of the shareware years and the rise of id software

The multicians site [3]: is a collaborative history of Multics, one the most influential operating systems.

The Mother of All Demos [4]: even better than Steve Jobs keynotes

Steve Jobs iPhone introduction [5]: I’m not a huge fan of Mr Jobs, but this is one of the best presentations ever. It’s not history, per se, but very interesting through our eyes.

0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160171.Just_for_Fun

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_M...

2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom

3: https://multicians.org/

4: https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

5: https://youtu.be/vN4U5FqrOdQ
Funny you mention the GIL - this is being done as part of PEP 554 which was slated to release in python 3.9 (in alpha).

And it's showing great promise ...while it could be delayed.

https://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg108063...

2021 is probable going to be the "Gone Gil" moment !
You can - with a targeted warrant. The part where it requires a sign-off from a judge is literally the moment where you justify looking at someone's Twitter DM.

(In rare (non-existing?) cases when warrant-based workflow is too slow, when you need access right fucking now, I think it would make sense to have self-issued warrants available as an option to federal officers, on the provision that self-issuing a warrant means you also lose your job by default, and have to apply in front of a court to ever be able to work in public services again; and abuse of that options are punished with jail time.)
From my understanding, halving will reduce the mining reward per block, which in turn can make it unprofitable for some miners, causing them to leave the network. Is the Bitcoin miner pool heterogeneous enough that centralization is not a risk?
So at that rate, if we had no containment efforts, and half the US got infected, there’d only be between a half-million to a million deaths.
These statements are both false.
It would really be best if the drive properly identified itself, so the host os/filesystem could adapt to the drive parameters.

That said, you would want to use a log structured filesystem, with a compaction feature. You want to avoid read-modify-write on the shingled areas, it's time intesive and competes with other I/O.
Maybe if we stopped voting with single issues in mind we could see that we have been funding terrorists with every new congressional budget bill for a long ass time, and the real way to stop terrorism is to defund our government sponsored terrorists who we know commit crimes every day, instead of worrying about terrorists we don't know about yet but need to find because our local terrorists tell us we need to. Just saying.
I don’t understand why everything thinks they have to be on video for every single meeting. I never turn on my webcam. It makes no difference to the outcome of the call.
The period between wake-up-from-sleep and getting a usable desktop has been a UX nightmare for a long time. There are so many awful things and question marks that happen in the flow:

1. What do you need to do to invoke a wakeup? Press a key? Are there any keys that don't wake the machine? Move the mouse? Click a mouse button?

2. Multiple monitors: During the wakeup sequence, you first have one display turn on, then you think you can log in but surprise! Another display turns on, and the main display briefly flickers off. For some reason, after 25+ years, display driver writers still can't figure out how to turn a second display on without blanking and horsing around with the first display.

3. Once the displays are on, some systems require some kind of extra input to actually get a login prompt to display. Is it a mouse click? A drag? Keyboard action? Who knows?

4. Some systems allow you to type your password as soon as the computer wakes. But there is some random delay between when you invoke wakeup and when it can accept input. What this usually means is I start typing my password, the computer only recognizes the last N characters and rejects it, I wait, then type it again.

These are some irritating bugs that affect everyone who uses a PC every time they log in. Yet OS vendors choose to spend their development time making more hamburger menus and adding Angry Birds to the Start menu.
> Maybe in America
I'd say maybe outside America. Our cell service is pretty terrible if you leave major metropolitan areas, or if you try to actually use your "unlimited" data.
I would say they are impractical if you have perfect physical security. Assuming your initial condition is that the air-gapped system is 100% clean to start with, you would need physical access at least one time to kick off the show for all of these crazy schemes.
1990s Java swing clunky UI... would rather use CLI IMHO.
Yeah, I don't think the hatred for AirBnB would be anywhere near the levels it is if it was just people renting out parts of their house to guests. It's the fact people are buying up (or building properties) that were/would be long-term without AirBnB that's upsetting people. This is what's pushing the price up everywhere, as rentiers realize that can make more money from short-term lets.
What if you lose your job and can't afford to keep paying the monthly fees, or there is corruption in your backup? You won't know until you perform a disaster recovery.
I use omnisharp-roslyn, it's not as good as the rust-analyzer integration to lsp.

It helps that rust has incredible documentation.
Ultimately you can just compare the total deaths to the averages from previous years, which works regardless of how they are counted (as long as the deaths are recorded at all, which I think is something that can generally be relied upon).
Our Noble, Essential Decency
Dogs can kill humans and since they can they do, especially babies
This is also why Windows Phone and Windows 8 were dead before they arrived, there is no discoverability besides randomly clicking and swiping to see if something happens. And if nothing happens, you still don't know if there simply is nothing more, or if you haven't used the magic swipe/click yet.

It seems that many 'new' interfaces try to do their own thing, and try to go for looks rather than functionality. If you have no consistency and no known functionality, the UI is basically worthless.

There are some ways to get a 'better' UI without breaking so much, like the macOS menu bar that is context-dependant. You save some space in each window, yet because you can only click one menu at a time anyway you don't lose any functionality or consistency. The downside is the extra step of first getting focus on the application you wanted to use (but in most window managers you had to focus the window first before using the window-embedded menu bar).

It's not that a UI can't be made better, it's just that it's hard to sell to people with no knowledge or affinity with basic HIG principles. Such disconnect between reality and 'design' could be found a while ago where feature phones and some laptops came with either round trackpads or round screens. That's a neat artistic thing, but completely useless in a reality where everything is rectangular, including the things you interact with in the world as well as digital content.

Same with the touch-centric UI components getting ported to desktop operating systems that assume lots of swiping and touching where there is none. While possible to execute it reasonably well (I think there is a 'touch mode' in recent windows versions vs. touch-integrated so you can just switch between them instead of having a mess of both worlds in one). Same with Apple's idea where your input device they ship with the computer has the input capabilities matched with the OS and the first-use explanation of the UI when you power up for the first time. And if you don't use it, you're not losing anything, because the traditional buttons and menus are still there, visible, and not in some hidden swipeable area.
I live in Spain. It's about one month and 7 days of lockdown and the official data isn't realistic. Although we are having lower numbers, it will take many months of lockdown to stop having deaths. I don't think this strategy of full lockdown will help, to be honest, we should lockdown risk factor people.
From the original article[0]:

> The script itself is rather simple. First, it creates a new VBScript Sle with the main malicious loop at the “%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft Essentials\Software Essentials.vbs” path. As its persistence mechanism, it then creates a new autorun registry key “HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Microsoft Software Essentials.” With this, the malware ensures that it is run every time the system is started or rebooted.

Good to see that the methods from 15 years ago are still valid.

[0]: https://blog.reversinglabs.com/blog/mining-for-malicious-rub...
In Erlang, lists are linked lists. The fact that tuples are stored in memory sequentially is a major difference from lists.
We're most definitely interested in broadening the market and expanding our locations.

Near term plans include Cascade Volcanoes in the west and Mt. Washington in the east.
Excerpts:

"I assert this confidently because my training ground for today’s Covid-19 isolation was a single cell in HMP Belmarsh, 21 years ago. Those conditions were tougher than they are now.

As I was confined in a far smaller space for 18 hours a day (23 hours a day at weekends) with no modern distractions — no mobile phone, no internet or TV — I had to be resourceful. Nevertheless, the basic ground rules for surviving isolation are surprisingly similar then as now.

The preparations are all in the mind. Your world has been compulsorily changed. If you resent or rail against the restrictions, your mental health will suffer. The trick is to attempt, no matter how hard it seems, to train your mind to accept confinement calmly, to ask the question: “How can I make the best of it?”

[...]

"The first priority is to create a schedule and find the self-discipline to stick to it. In prison, I pinned my hour-by-hour timetable on the bars of my cell and rarely deviated. It was no draconian schoolmaster’s regime. My schedule now, as then, was a patchwork quilt of colourful commitments and curiosities.

I was, for example, receiving around 50 letters a day from well-wishers. Remembering that Lord Curzon, while Viceroy of India had dispatched over a hundred letters a day written in his own hand, I somehow tackled my correspondence with punctual diligence and no laptop.

I would also spend two or three hours every day learning Greek. Oxford had offered me a post-prison place to read a degree in Theology. But to pass my prelims, I had to take a paper in Greek, the subject I had lazily skipped at school. I knuckled down to learning it with a single text book, Wenham’s New Testament Greek. To master the 900 word vocab, I would take out little postcards with me on the wing whenever we were allowed out of our cells for meals."

And from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Aitken

"Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is an Irish-born British former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (1974–97), and a former Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. Aitken was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. After becoming a Christian, he later became the president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide and was ordained in the Church of England."
Air gapping only means lack of network interfaces, so sneakernet is used to transmit data.

And sneakernet (floppies back then) was the primary delivery medium for computer viruses before it was common for personal computers to have internet access.
The title was truncated ("predators" to "pred").
Thanks for the offer. I shot you a note.
I highly recommend Secret history of Silicon Valley series by Steve Blank:

https://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%e2%80%99d-...

Steve has written in detail about how early signal intelligence came to be, how eventually they shaped the Silicon valley and modern tech.

Other posts on Steve's blog are interesting too.
At any given moment, the appropriate way to look at a fast spreading infectious disease is to consider the more likely range of potential outcomes, work for the best one and plan for the worst one.

When the work pays off with a better outcome, it's foolish to look back and criticize the planning for worse outcomes, especially when the tools to manage the infection are pretty limited (social distance works well, but it's a brutal tool, so you want to use it only as necessary).
That literally the name of the animal
Thank goodness at least someone with credentials is saying what is obvious. The lockdown approach is not sustainable for much longer out of basic economic concerns and the virus will absoluteley start spreading again when the masses break and go back to work. Protecting the most vulnerable while the rest of the society works to support them is the only sensible approach and should have been the plan all along. I'm personally very sad that so many will sustain great economic damage on top of this reality, but this is what happens when people run scared. I just hope this reality is recognized and accepted before even more damage is done.
Been using this for a 8 months now, I really enjoy it. It's polished, and has a format sql query feature that is useful for that final step once you have your query down to what you want it. Very nice stuff.
What Is Code: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
The tech is dated, but the story, timeless.
Edit: read the parent wrong, but leaving my comment here so it doesn’t look like backtracking some offensive content.

> wonder if one is giving up a lot of power.

That’s an irrational concern. GUI tools also come with SQL consoles where you can do anything that’s possible in the CLI. With the added benefit of results being presented in a nicer way.
Why can’t you trust Brave?
It's a really nice app. The best of the bunch on the Mac IMO.
Oh, so just like everyone else.

I remember suggesting here and elsewhere that lockdowns should be announced on the spot, and quarantines should be applied retroactively. I.e. if at 18:00 the president/prime minister gets on air and announces a lockdown, that lockdown should be active from 18:00, and everyone coming into the country in the 14 days before the announcement should be quarantined.

I remember being shouted down as suggesting something extremely undemocratic. After all, the law isn't supposed to work backwards (all the cases where it does notwithstanding).
Domestic cats have a natural habitat in households. Owners who keep their cats indoors or on leash outside don't impact wildlife. Cultural education of not letting cats roam is likely to have more progress than arguing for banning pets. Besides, staying indoors is healthier for cats anyways
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I like TablePlus and have bought licenses for my work computers. It’s got a lot features, but is still rough around the edges in some spots: Mongo is technically supported but the viewing and editing experience isn’t great for nested object. The SSH support seems wonky: I can’t get it to work with my ssh config which uses proxyjunp to connect. I have to setup the tunnel using -L in my terminal and use the local port in TP. I know it’s supposed to be able to use the proxy jump configs but it has just never worked for me.
I agree with you. Our timing wasn't great. My own experience lines up with yours.

And thanks for the offer re: Burke. I'll hit you up for the connection!
It's a native GUI on the Mac.
> Perhaps all the data you care is on the cloud, but HDDs are still important for backups.

Or any bulk data storage, really.
the whole point of the argument is that it does not matter what you do everyone will end up in the same situation
Cool! Made a "light" attempt at this when I was a kid, hooking up a matrix printer to my MSX computer [0], and learning BASIC's PEEK and POKE from my dad, to make a kind of typewriter: type a character, it prints at the curpos and advances the printhead; backspace moved the head one place back; return advances the page one line. Lots of fun :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
After watching this video [i] it seems like there's an opportunity here to completely rethink/redesign of the related equipment. I.e. instead of a normal bed, one that allows for a device to temporarily enclose the patient (like a tanning bed) inflate like a blood pressure cuff, rotate/turn the patient, then deflate and be removed for use on the next bed (i.e. the bed and rotating machines are co-operative, but separate).

Also, the ventilator and assoc. monitors need to be redesigned such that rotating the patient easily/automatically repositions the equipment with the rotation.

[i] https://youtu.be/E_6jT9R7WJs?t=65
> there isn't a hard theorem why they should sit at +/-3σ

There is Vysochanskij-Petunin inequality [1]. 95% of observations should fall within +/-3σ away from the mean, assuming unimodal distribution and finite variance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vysochanskij%E2%80%93Petunin_i...
I am not talking about emotional intelligence becoming mainstream. In that, I agree with you.

Instead, I am talking about how the methods to work through emotional debt becoming mainstream.

I am speaking as a long-time meditator. I have worked through a number of really intense issues. The most recent relating to my wife's miscarriage a couple months ago. I was fortunate in that my manager gave me some space with that ... but believe me, the guilt from not being able to keep up with the team would come up.

The methods I have used are certainly not mainstream, and draws from a wide variety of traditions. From where I look, a lot of people are just rediscovering those methods, but are still scratching the surface.

While people know there is something off -- it leaks into a search for "work life balance", or a growing realization of the overwork culture in the name of productivity -- actually employing the therapeutic methods is not really mainstream.

The reaction to the pandemic is a great example. I see a lot of people getting caught by their existential anguish, what the Hindu and Buddhists call dukkha. I see this not just from people inside tech, but also the people outside of tech. I sensed it and saw it in the first few days when people were panick buying things at the grocery store. Making runs to buy up all the chickens they can. I see it in the reports as parents have to homeschool their kids for the first time. I see it in folks as the boredom settles in with the confinement.

I don't just see it in the mainstream. The folks who dabble in the alternative spirituality got caught up in this too.

It is clear to me that this author has faced his own dukkha. That's a journey that is ... no backyard picnic. There is an deep-seated aversion to this work. That is at the root of carrying the emotional traumas.

What is brilliant about the author is that, he is speaking about this as a leader. He is turning these methods our modern society have abandoned, and reintroducing them.

So yeah, he talks about "emotional debt". That isn't what I was talking about becoming mainstream. It is facing existential crises and the dukkha that he is slipping in there. Once you start on this kind of work, it goes into the rabbit hole, and surfaces up a lot of things.
Yes, you can use multiple processes to get the parallelism. But that's quite limiting compared with goroutines. Passing data back and forth is hard, and you can petty much forget about shared data structures. Memory usage is also much higher.
Until there are large scale accurate antibody tests, it will be hard to say if the hospitalization rate for covid is that high or not.
indeed. here and elsewhere in the blagosphere people have taken this opportunity to opine at length on everything from epidemiology to virology to welfare economics. it's been the case for a long time that people online have had very little sense of humility about their opinions but somehow experiencing a pandemic has given them even less pause to consider what they're ignorant of.
In regard to your 2nd question, there are a few ways I'm aware of:

1. USB devices. If you need to move software from outside the air gap to inside, it's pretty easy to imagine somebody copying malicious software unintentionally through that. You might think that typical AV could detect it, but that could either be worked around, disabled by the operators of those systems, or simply not up-to-date because they're in the air gap.

2. Sometimes, air-gapped systems still have some kind of tunnel that allows an exceptional connection between a system outside the air gap. If you knew how to access that tunnel, you could effectively compromise the air gapped network.

I'm sure there are more ways too. But those are a few I know off-hand.
Looks like almost the same feature set as SQLPal:
http://www.pebblereports.com/sqlpal/

However, SQLPal only supports Oracle.
Author seems to confuse terminology.

Infection fatality rate (IFR) - proportion of deaths among all the infected individuals.

Case Fatality Rate (CFR) - number of dead among the number of diagnosed cases.

Estimates in Europe and elsewhere put IFR around 0.1 - 0.6%.
Where is the government that has a history free of bribery and corruption?
These seem like made-up statistics:

1. "The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%"

2. "At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available"
Deflecting Adversarial Attacks
A lot of ovens have a delayed bake feature that uses the time. I’ve never seen a microwave with that feature, though, and it’s also the less essential device.
It is most important in calls with 6+ participants. It gives folks a chance to signal that they have something to say when many times a call may be dominated by one or two individuals.

Perhaps there are other approaches for that particular case such as a button to 'raise your hand', however, many people have friendly relationships with their colleagues and simply enjoy seeing them when conversing.
Yes, and the spectral nature of autism makes it an easy mistake to make if it turns out that Asperger's is actually separate from autism.

It's not like we know anything with certainty here. AFAIK there is known cause for either condition. Plenty of speculation.