skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The R0 value impacts herd immunity %. So if NYC is already at 50%, then it means R0 is much higher than we thought, which means herd immunity would probably be as high as +90%. With numbers like that, not shutting down would result in the entire population getting infected in the span of a month or two.

The point I was trying to make, was that for the 'open back up' crowd, they are arguing that the IFR is similar to the flu, and only vulnerable populations are really impacted. So they say we should open up and just keep vulnerable population in lockdown. But they are ignoring the implications of the R0 value in their argument. i.e. if the IFR is really as low as they think (and consequently, the infected population is as high as they think), then nothing short of a total lockdown (or very aggressive testing and contract tracing) would stop vulnerable populations from getting infected.
I meant what I said.

> since 2010, Facebook (the product, not the engineering team) has delivered little value to society

That requires a different rebuttal than 'to a user.'

If we rewound to ~2010, froze Facebook at its then-current feature set, and had Instagram (2012), WhatsApp (2014), Oculus (2014), and the myriad of other aquhires still in existence as independent companies, society would be a better place.
> The pessimistic takeaway is that even the hardest hit areas are nowhere near herd immunity levels and that we are either going to be isolating until a vaccine is created or we can expect to see a lot more death once nonessential people are forced back to work.

The third option is, when you take into account that it's approximately as bad as the flu for folks under 40, we let out the young and keep the older folks and the vulnerable inside. This will boost our progress towards herd immunity without materially increasing the death counts.
This is Mattia from Lambda Store.
We started with the most used commands, and we are planning to add missing features gradually.
I've wondered before if Japan's love for hot, daily baths has played some part in its low birthrate.
Two weeks after that the WHO released a widely cited report claiming a fatality rate of 3.4%.

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...
What is false about this tweet? [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
>. In such periods of time, you'll be more likely to pick up that unknown number calling in, because maybe it's one of the vendors calling with an issue that can either be resolved in 30 seconds on the phone, or 2 days via e-mail.

I haven't picked up an unsolicited phone call or answered the door in 25 years and I never had a problem with it.
I wonder why rights holders don’t issue takedowns to Pinterest for their google results. Usually the image only supports Pinterest as a way to try to get someone to sign up. There are no links through to the creator

Edit: takedowns to google for Pinterest google results.
When shills from an aggressor nation in a highly politicized international conflict intentionally inject ambiguity into the names used by the states on either side of the conflict, you should strive to be as articulate as possible to avoid misunderstandings.
That’s totally true, but I don’t think it should be controversial to say that the WHO lied by omission, and that their statement was intentionally intended to convince countries _not_ to lock down.
Sure, another seller could take their spot and they are potentially losing that ad money, but with their strategy, they can price out anyone since they don't pay seller commissions either.
The non-spreaders are the people who are self isolating.

I think they're saying that people who go out and spread the disease will quickly catch it, recover, and be unable to catch it and spread it. That relatively small group of people who are refusing to self isolate, will gain herd immunity, causing the virus to die out in that group of people, preventing them from giving it to the non-spreaders that have been at home the whole time.

Whether or not it will work out that way, I don't know.
>I'm not, but the fact that there's the potential for junk to exist on the store in the first place is the problem, especially when there isn't adequate protection against typosquatting like I mentioned originally.

If you are that concerned about typing the wrong thing then use a software center. I have never even seen one and I have been using snaps since their inception. I am using 38 snaps and I have never once installed something i didn't intend to do. I also tend not to run sudo commands without knowing what i am doing.

It's not like launchpad, or universe isn't full of junk software too. I think you can download an open source rootkit via apt as if that matters.

> For example, the `home` interface is enough to compromise an average personal computer and probably gain persistence, as everything of value is usually within the home directory. (I do like the fact that `home` disallows access to hidden files though.)

You can't gain 'persistence' just from the home interface. In fact the only way of getting 'persistence' AFAIK, is through creating a systemd snap like ufw. Again, I am fairly certain that stuff requires manual vetting before being published to teh snap store.

X11 vulnerability applies to everything, and will apply to everything until wayland is usable. Connecting it automatically means that users actually have a functioning browser. That is a sane policy because users shouldn't have to mess with configuration files to get their programs to work (unlike firejail profiles).

All you are describing are permissions which are generally needed to actually run useful programs. Yes, programs automatically connect them. I do suggest reviewing software permissions before executing it, and you can do that with snap.

>sandboxes such as Firejail

You are talking about leakyness and mention Firejail? Firejail has historically had the most severe CVE vulnerabilities partly because of how usernamespaces/network namespaces work. It was basically a setuid binary and proved a easy mechanism to get root.

Snap is built using the same tech as namespaces, but doesn't act as a setuid binary (I think because it uses mounted namespaces rather than creating a usernamespace). It uses the same seccompf, and same browser sandboxing. The bonus of snap is that it actually comes with working apparmor profiles unlike firejail.
If you're writing a router, or high speed trading system where you want to respond to packets on the wire with lower latency.

The point of a safely programmable kernel is that the user gets to inject third party code into their kernel without needing to know if it's safe, because the kernel will take care of it.
> What about any number of other things that can go wrong? They say something rude to you or are in some other way unprofessional?

This should be fairly unusual.

If someone's dropping tips on every order, they should lose the ability to do so.
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I still wonder if there are durable brands for laptops, since I'm not sure the new thinkpads are so good. I guess dell makes good "pro" laptops, Toshiba maybe?

It doesn't seem there really are brands that can be considered as reliable anymore. Of course Asia has such a big market share on computer parts, it's not surprising that no laptop can work well after 5 years.
You can derive that from better data. From https://covidtracking.com/ we can see that 57k people have been hospitalized in New York State so far, with 15k still in the hospital. Of the 42k who aren't, 16k died[1], so we'd expect that about 5k of the people currently in the hospital won't be coming home (some of these statistics are pretty depressing).

So two methods give us similar counts, matching up very closely with the separately measured CFR from way back in the original outbreak. That's pretty good back-of-the-envelope work.

[1] this isn't quite right as not every fatality was a hospitalized case.
The response (rather effectively) refuted your claim that "Apple is all about marketing."
Microsoft was trying to do this and it led to antitrust cases. The browser wars ended with windows forced open to multiple default browsers.
This was released today: "WireGuard is included in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and will be backported to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to support widespread enterprise adoption."
3840x2160, tired brain said "4K", ah 4096 and then 3084 for some reason, also maybe I sub-consciously want a 4:3 back :D.
> parroted China’s line about no human-to-human transmission

This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.
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Yes, it's disappointing that that the conversation has shifted to extreme examples. The actual policy seems reasonable and has room for discretion.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9803260

> Fact check your work. Use reputable sources from organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and National Health Service to inform your content. For official resources relevant to your country/region, check here.
Not sure about hardware VPNs, but I've seen people begging for Wireguard support in Private Internet Access for at least a year. I can imagine the ipfire guy getting similar requests a lot.
Yes, absolutely, I agree.

That's why I find the article so frustrating.

"Here's a list of all the organisations that can get a warrant to get your metadata" would be a good, interesting story and we (us in the UK) need to have that discussion and hold politicians to account.

That job - holding MPs to account - is made harder by stories like this, because people write letters saying "stop reading my emails" and they get a reply saying "we never were reading your emails".
I mean obviously you could be right about that. In the case I linked though basically the exact same thing happened, the speaker ordered some coffee and received that plus a free nespresso machine!

It’s possible that the credit card wasn’t stolen but was opened using a stolen identity, so any alerts could go straight to the fraudster.

The other problem is that there are not many incentives for the platform to do anything about this, proving fraud is hard because this thing can happen through legitimate mistakes. Both the vendor and platform got paid, and the buyer got what they paid for plus some. In the case above the fraud was reported but no one did anything.

The advantage for the fraudster would be hopefully repeat business / positive reviews that generate more business. Admittedly this makes less sense for SSDs compared to coffee.
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Hold up one second. Is this something that they're actually open to doing? Surely part of their ToS isn't about stealing data on their physical infrastructure to enable other aspects of their business. Right? Has any data centre ever done this?
You are projecting that citizens are willing to throw their rights out the window. A more neutral perspective would be that people are willing to make sacrifices when they feel it's worth it. Also, people aren't "throwing their rights out the window" -- it's more like people are chilling them in the fridge for a small window of time. To prevent their friends, families, and countrymen from death.

(Also, it's not clear that America is all that compliant.)
We often choose to avoid learning information that could benefit us
>95%...of the use of interstates in a city are for private vehicles belonging to city residents

This is probably nowhere close to true. People living in cities have less reason to use it. Interstates near and through cities benefit the broader region economically through commuters.

But the bulk of the miles of the interstate system are the boring stretches through Wyoming or wherever, and those stretches tie the nation together economically. Half of all big truck miles are on the Interstate, according to some totally random website I found.
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That doesn’t really imply that you cannot or should not. The “only” there means they aren’t necessarily recommending you to do so but it is not forbidden.

So requiring you to wear masks in other situations does not contradict, because otherwise “doctors should wear masks at all times in hospital” would also contradict that (assuming the doctor isn’t taking care of just Covid-19 patients).
Wouldn't patenting a performance optimization just work to prevent all browsers from adopting it?
Yet we all knew you meant Rhode Island by saying Newport.
I don't think this a binary outcome. Getting closer to herd immunity also makes things better. Take NYC. Now 1 out of 5 people you see can't infect you (assuming having antibodies means immunity). The closer we get, the better it is. Having 21% "immune" leads to far different outcomes than .1%.
The promise of homomorphic encryption is to allow cloud computing without giving your data away.
Yes, I remember reading it was meant to be closer to Pepsi, but have never heard it verified.
> MS Office document format support is simply not good enough on any alternative

This is a key fault in your logic. You SHOULD NOT judge the alternative by how it supports the document format that is specifically created in such a way to block competition from effectively supporting it. The company that did it also corrupted the international standards organization to get it an official 'standard' status.

But the truth is, you don't really need MS Office document format support at all. The company I've founded in 2007 never ever sent out any document in MS Office format, never owned any copy of MS Office, and we survived since then just fine.

If you want an electronic spreadsheet, use an open, documented and well supported standard - OpenDocument, and get on with it. Oh, and it is supported just fine on Ubunut 20.04 that we discuss here, as is on a Mac and Windows. The only thing it lacks is a proper online collaborative editor, that's true.
Depends where you are. The Bay Area is contact tracing every case and as a result is at a really low new case count (Santa Clara County is at 11 per million/day over the last week, significantly lower than successful country's peaks (NZ/SK), while still having tighter restrictions.
Are you seriously saying that the government is on purpose making their strategy kill old people?

Because that is some grade-a conspiracy paranoia.
> It's not like that kind of public opinion is uniform among the entire population of a state. Plenty of people in a state you might think of as not trusting the federal government, e.g. most states in the American south, have sizable minority populations that historically have depended heavily on the federal government's power for protection of their constitutional rights.

Yes, and like most other nation-states, minorities lose out to the majority. The question is: at what level is that acceptable? At a broad enough level, a tyranny of the majority is unacceptable, because there are no alternatives. At a low enough level, a tyranny of the majority is acceptable because it's more feasible for one to shop around. This is one of the reasons large corporate monopolies are considered bad.

> Not to mention, the most meaningful political differences in the United States today are between rural and and urban areas.

If you look at Treemaps of the US election in 2016 (weighted by population to accurately capture rural counties), there are some states where rural voters are largely on the same page as urban voters[1][2][3][4], and some where most of the state embraces a rural way of life, and hence its internal policy is better suited to that culture [5][6][7][8]. For states that are internally polarized[9][10], applying subsidiarity yet another time might be the prudent solution, but that's up to them.

Also, somewhat paradoxically, in Alaska, the urban centers typically vote like rural voters in the rest of the Union, and Alaska's rural voters vote like urban voters in the rest of the Union[11].

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[7] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presid...

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...
IIRC supermarkets typically don't manufacture their own, they offer a re-branding partnership with an existing product.
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I was going to suggest this. The Romans for example took a lot of medical interest in urine.
I don't quite agree. I think they're about reducing the size of your kernel, and moving the complexity of operating system service details into separate processes, where they can crash, restart, be upgraded, etc. in isolation, in their own terms.

The analogy is like microservices vs monolith, but with kernels, not big applications.
I don't know where you live, but that is not the experience of the 32 people I have furloughed (across a handful of states), except for my one guy in MA. He is the only one I know of who is getting the $600 kicker, and the only one who is getting a meaningful percentage of his base salary. Most of my people are in GA where they max out at some $365/wk and no extra $600.

So probably at some point - even if some benefit is supposed to be coming, with no particular timeframe - you want to pay your rent or get hungry, and Instacart doesn't look so bad.
Mattia from Lambda Store here.

Since we are not using OSS Redis code, it would be very difficult to adapt it to the serverless model, we cannot support Redis modules directly. But after completing missing Redis commands, we can work on modules support too.
Please don't let the bad-faith "China bad" idiocy leak here from Reddit.
Coke learned that in blind taste tests, consumers overwhelmingly preferred Pepsi to Coke, by a wide margin and repeatable across a wide range of tests

Pepsi was also running television commercials ("The Pepsi Challenge") showing consumers doing exactly this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghMYzo0rgrw

It was a popular campaign that certainly put pressure on Coca-Cola to act.
"The ipfire guy" is not in the situation described upthread.
The problem is that many 1-star reviews that are meaningful are being drowned in the inane. ("I bought seeds, but they don't sprout if I don't add soil and water" kind of inane).

There's either a massive influx of stupidity, or this is deliberately useless one-stars to drown out useful ones.
Screenshot: https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1245689629178650624

The ambiguity between their various statements at that time, taken together, just furthers my point that those statements should not be immune from dialog, criticism, verification/falsification, and discussion of those results.

YouTube has banned that.
CFR will be higher than IFR due to undercounting infections.
So according to In The Pipeline[1] they essentially modified their existing MERS vaccine so that it worked for SARS-COV-2. Their original vaccine had already gone through phase 1 trials and had shown efficacy and no harmful side effects.

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-...
I am not only not dreaming I've being running workloads like that for a long time. Both in cloud and colo. If it's my money sanity or ass on the line colo is my strong pref. I def. do not want to replicate developer experience of AWS in Colo as AWS has s ton more moving pieces which are black boxes and have arbitrary limits. Scaling is a disingenuous point for most e-commerce apps as you generally have RDBMS that do not scale horizontally so cloud or no cloud your bottleneck is the same. The price point at which say Spanner would outperform a cluster of RDBMS on high end boxes is way south of 100K/month and no of the shelf e-commerce software would support it anyway.
It is not behind all the time: it just follows a different (and more flexible) schedule. [1]

For instance, the current debian stable release entered freeze on 2019-01-12 and was finally released on 2019-07-06. [2]. This means that most software in stable is currently at the latest versions as of the end of 2018. Hence, up until the release announced today, debian stable had more recent (by around 1 year) software than Ubuntu LTS (18.04).

Now and until the next debian stable release (which should happen around summer next year) Ubuntu LTS (20.04) will have newer software than debian stable.

There are a few software packages that do have newer versions in Ubuntu because they are developed by canonical themselves. I can only remember LXC/LXD as examples of these.

I personally run Debian on my personal Desktop, and have no complaints about it at all.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

[2] https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html
> -should of closed borders, its too late now

The WHO is completely consistent: they have never advocated for closing borders. (After all, the W in WHO stands for World.) They still don't want closed borders.
TIL that “Exclamation point” is region specific. Other people call it exclamation marks.
I have used a lot of distros.

In order of stability from most to least.

LTS -> Bleeding Edge -> 6 month release cycle distros

Stuff like Ubuntu non LTS seems to break as much as bleeding edge but take longer to fix it. It's the worst of both worlds.
Which is about 1/2 of what die in a normal year. The real question is how much do those circles overlap.

Are we saving lives, or are people now dying in June that would have died in November anyway?
Yeah, it's often mentioned too (and mentioned in the article) that people will have very different preferences for "a few sips" and "I'm going to drink a whole can of this in one sitting".

New Coke is almost a poster child of how blind taste tests sometimes can be very blind in ignoring what should be important context information in people's preferences, exactly like "how much am I drinking of this?" and "what am I pairing it with?".
TIL that “exclamation point” is region specific. Exclamation mark sounds subtly wrong to my ear.
Well, the code is down and the bot doesn't work anymore. Are there any other bots out there? Perhaps some that haven't received this much press and still work?
> ? "I got you to make the statement" ?

That's quite the signal of bad faith debate. I don't think it's my own aggrandizement in play here. Quite the reverse. c.f. remarks passim re. hubris. So there the conversation must end.
It also says you should wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing, which contradicts the "only" wording of the previous statement.
Does anyone know if coal or nat gas power plants can burn hydrogen too? Or be retrofitted to burn it? Then you could store excess solar or wind energy generated during the day as hydrogen and burn it at night.