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> eBPF is turning Linux into a microkernel like drinking Gatorade is turning me into a Super Bowl quarterback.

To be fair, you probably aren't any better or worse than Dilfer with or without the gatorade.

> (I tried to localise this for a predominantly US audience.)

localize.
Been quite happy with my Razer blade 15, it's not a ridiculously thick laptop, but thanks to extra tall rubber feet, beefy fans and a couple other tricks it's able to run a gtx 1060 and a hexacore cpu just fine under load.
I've been using Ubuntu and variants for a long time now. I find lubuntu is ok and small in terms of size. As for older computers, I must have some really slow ass hardware, because even lubuntu is kind of slow on some of my hardware. I stick to standard ubuntu on my desktop just to see what it's like, but prefer xubuntu because I prefer the DE over the gnome crap. I'm used to the more standard keystrokes and shortcuts that you see on windows and the IBM standard which gnome wants to ignore. It's also tough to customize gnome to how I like to do things.
> Currently looking at bastion/jit solutions to move away from ssh keys.

You lost me. How does bastion get you away from ssh keys?
Yeah, so how would YouTube help when the WHO release things like:
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

Buy all means add a disclaimer advert akin to the old DVD FBI or other pirate warnings you couldn't skip, but to dismiss debate for people who are able to make their own mind up is only going to curtail facts. That in itself curtails advice the WHO may in itself give out.

Will youtube be expanding this to anything health wise?

Will there be an appeal process for false positives?

I feel there is more that can go wrong with this, than right.
Per https://covidtracking.com/data#state-ny there have been 57103 hospitalizations in the state (not city, so not quite the same population), of which 15021 are still hospitalized. So that's 42082 cases that have left the hospital, of which 15740 died, or 37%.

Obviously there's some apples/oranges here, both due to the population being different from the city and the fact that some of those deaths were outside of hospitals. But it's close.

It's been covered in the past that NYC's total fatality rate has been good but its ICU survival rate has been anomalously bad.
You can't measure CFR or IFR this quickly in an isolated environment like the Roosevelt due to mortality lag.

Also, the CFR for Diamond Princess is now up to 1.83%.
I am wondering if D, Nim and Zig would be able to just leverage C++ version of Cap'n proto library directly ?
(I think D has built-in C++ API support across compilers, not sure about the others)
Really good post - "making it hard to do the wrong thing" is more or less my entire design ethos when it comes to software, particularly developer tools.

Somewhat on-topic, instead of re-inventing the wheel on this one, I've recently been using Flagger (https://flagger.app/) and have been exceptionally happy with it. Automated rollback on error rates, metrics or integration tests. It's so nice to finally be able to stop writing this code at every company I work for!
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This is how all news media operated before the internet created mouthpieces for non-professionals. In addition to suppressing some inconvenient truths they filtered out crackpot ideas that have become a plague in modern times.
Could you give specific examples of where the WHO failed to give the best advice possible at the time?

Or even any cases where they were wilfully blind?
It is what it is. I’d rather be overly cautious than the potential alternative.

My concern is neither racist or irrational, based on my particular racial mix and phenotype.
Sure, you could do that. You'd need to write a little shim to bind separate input stream and output stream FDs into a single AsyncIoStream but that shouldn't be hard.
Past convos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287
This is like the third or fourth spot I've seen on this very site where people are postulating that covid deaths would have really died in "months" anyway. Why is this so weirdly consistent?

To be clear: there is absolutely no evidence for a number like that, none at all. Typical at-risk patients with comorbidity like advanced age or obesity are routinely expected to live for decades. Actual conditions with a death-in-months prognosis are extremely rare, and tend to require hospital care already. Think advanced heart failure or stage 5 cancer.
I've been working on this over the years, since I noticed a tendency to just go along to make the uncomfortable situation go away. Just having a mental flag helps a lot: "this is probably BS, don't agree to anything."
Unpopular tidbit, for some reason: there's 8+ strains.
After the meat shortage starts we'll all come out of this with a BMI of 20. It won't be because those remaining all lost weight.
Fakes: Are you sure you haven't received a fake item? If you don't have a reference point, you might not be able to tell unless/until something goes wrong with it.

Clones: If you shop through referral links (e.g. click through from The Wirecutter) or seek out a specific model number from a major brand you won't experience the clone problem.

But how confident do you feel starting your search at Amazon for items like Bluetooth Headphones? There are 20 pages of results that look identical. Or how about a search for Bike Tail Light?
> Also he probably didn't start out thinking "Alright I'm gonna become an artist and make tons of money with my art!", he probably started doing it for his own personal pleasure, and it just took off. If someone were to start out with the goal of making money as artist, a graffiti artist would be the last on his mind. He was probably either financially independent already, or had a real job and was doing graffiti as a "side project" when he started out.

You say that, but Ludo is a well known artist who took to street art to enhance his profile and has had large commissions in public places, magazines and concerts and live events.

http://thisisludo.com/category/news/

I don't think Banksy's model is the only way, but it has worked well for him given his approach for social critiques and the mystique is just his form of branding to create exclusivity to his work(s). He even admits to Blek Le Rat's work being comprable, if not better, to his own in the quote above.
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So we never get the cheaper product that similar product hasn't released as flagship or mainstream. I hope Apple releases a modern iPhone with lightweight and fingerprint auth.
Arch looks like it's got a lot going for it, and I sometimes find myself looking at their documentation when I'm trying to shoehorn a package into ubuntu. Even though I used Gentoo linux for a long time, very similar to Arch in lots of ways, I haven't been able to install and configure Arch successfully on my computers. I'm sure if I spend a lot more time on it, I'll be able to do it, but I just don't have that much time to spare, so I stick to ubuntu and variants. But I really do like what I see on Arch.
Right but my point is, as soon as it happened the fed went into a panic and printed trillions of dollars and started buying junk bonds, giving the impression that they will do whatever it takes to make the market not drop. No matter the cost. And the market shot back up even though there are 26 million people who just lost their jobs. But you know, this is still an unfolding story so who knows, maybe all the free loans in the world won’t help. We’ll find out.
> If you see a product on a Safeway shelf, the company that makes that product already got paid--by Safeway.

This is not necessarily true. It's typical to not be paid for anywhere between 30 and 90 days. Additionally, some deals are more complex and depend on actual purchase volume.
Cynical curiosity: did the services they poached from have such abysmal UX/DX or is that an Amazon touch?
If there is reason to believe it presents a material risk to their health and well-being. Yes.
> recognize Taiwan as a sevreign nation

This statement shows the power of western media. Yes the WHO doesn't. Neither does any other political entity in the world.

Neither the US, nor the 14 of 193 UN members that has diplomatic relations with the ROC, nor does "Taiwan" itself recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation.

Even the most pro-US pro-independence party in Taiwan, the DPP, does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation. According to Taiwan, Taiwan is a province of the ROC which includes the mainland and the present country of Mongolia.

And you would want the health agency of the UN to be the first in the world to spearhead tectonic geopolitical changes because the corporate media tells you so?
Would you please not use allcaps for emphasis? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
They missed the boat on mobile, though, by focusing too much on Windows
They are neither fully independent nor fully dependent. It falls somewhere in the middle. The same will apply, just in a slightly less dramatic effect.
> Six years later, John Kindervag coined the term Zero Trust during his tenure as Analyst and VP at Forrester Research.

Or do you mean this should've come sooner?
The flu mutates. The common cold isn't a single virus, but one of hundreds lumped together, that also mutate. So there's no long term herd immunity for either.
And also your data
> making it hard to do the wrong thing" is more or less my entire design ethos when it comes to software, particularly developer tools.

See also poka-yoke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke
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Probably not without some work, but I think it'd be possible to get there, and I've definitely been considering that as a way forward. I worry that getting the code footprint down to the point of being reasonable for a web app might be tricky but we'll see.
Plus the size of the military has been even higher within living memory.
Yes Dr. Li contracted the virus on January 8 when he returned to the hospital in Wuhan where the first patients were identified in December 2019.

Dr. Li made social media posts about the virus which Chinese authorities forced him to take down and sign a written confession and promise not to do it again.

Now the question is do you have a source that shows the exact steps, if any, the WHO took to verify the “preliminary investigation” as reported by the Chinese authorities? Because from the sound of it, Chinese authorities reported these claims to WHO and WHO turned around and published the Chinese claims without performing any independent investigation (they certainly didn’t know about Dr. Li at the time).
That is a well-polished turd of an argument you are trying to sell there. Not recommending travel restrictions due to "promoting international collaboration", really?

I don't need to be an expert in medicine to understand that if an epidemic breaks out in an area, the first thing authorities should do is to avoid getting more people in that area. Even more so when the cause/methods of transmission and speed of transmission is unknown.
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People aren't going to hurt themselves wearing face masks.

People could hurt themselves taking random drugs (or taking excessive amounts of over-the-counter drugs).

YouTube should focus on a "harm reduction to users" strategy.
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I used to have one of those. Sure it can run all that hardware, but it sounds like a jet engine when it's running. Completely ridiculous design that would never be released by Apple.

The Microsoft Surface Books also have a 1060 inside, but they are whisper quiet.
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Check out our open core version as well: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/

(I work at Gravitational)
Right, but for those same reasons, a Phase I trial is usually much smaller and has “safety and tolerability” as an endpoint rather than disease-related outcomes (as this one does). I don’t think those usually have randomized control groups; see the example below.

In this case, it looks like the Oxford group had previously used the same ChAdOx platform to make a MERS vaccine, and they’re leveraging that data (here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...) to move more quickly into a combined Phase I and II trial.
Right. So what makes the WHO the unquestionable authority then?
Facebook and Instagram do have their own checkout and are testing it
Ignoring the terrible C++, why would they bother to write the same program in three languages. I feel like spending 3x time on just one of them would have produced the best outcome.
As an Japanese who often wearing a face mask in winter, I really hope Apple to stop adopting FaceID since they released iPhone X.
And now, people all over the world start wearing face masks.
Even Apple advertises that iPhone SE supports TouchID.
I hope Apple changes the decision for next model.
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I think what YouTube is doing is with the best intentions - but I hate it. Silencing speech you don't agree with is a dangerous road littered with totalitarian regimes. Doing so at YouTube's scale underlines how much unchecked power corporations have in our society. I think they should not have the power to decide what voice deserves a platform and what does not. They should be regulated as a utility given their market share. You should be able to challenge YouTube in court with the first amendment. This currently isn't possible with private companies.
From right after what you quoted:

> (though in order to be general a small amount of additional work is needed)

Not also that there are two methods of cycle detection for a reference counted GC that are not just a backup tracing-GC

1. Trial deletion (known since at least the mid 80s)

2. Various tracing systems that exploit extra information known to reference-counted systems e.g. Levanoni/Petrank[1] which actually implemented a reference counted GC for Java.

1: https://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/refcount.pdf
They do this in some places. But still allow in customers. Checking tempature seems like a good way to avoid spreading other illnesses. Win-win.
Austrian economics? Scientific method?
Re-read the first sentence -- very carefully -- of the comment you replied to.
I'm holding judgement on Sweden since their numbers don't look as good as people are claiming, and the pandemic is still young.
Guns are effectively at killing both chimps and humans.
Agreed. I would say 2x the heap size is table-stakes for high-performance tracing GC, and the more you give it the better performance you can get.
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Does anybody outside of the US eat this? I've never run across this anywhere else.
> Whether I run my Python or C# or Java on ARM or Intel doesn't matter too much to me

I think you make a key point here. A whole lot of code now runs inside one runtime or another, and even outside of that, cross-architeture toolchains have gotten a lot better partly thanks to LLVM.

The instruction set just doesn't matter even to most programmers these days.
It was a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu, far and away the most recommended distro/hardware combination. Everything else seems to be less supported.

If someone doesn't know how to dig into terminal commands and google stuff on your phone to troubleshoot, you shouldn't even attempt linux on a desktop.
You're assuming the economy wouldn't have collapsed in the faced of the pandemic.
HR is exactly the worst approach to deal with organizational and process problems like this. What do you do? Fire the entire dev team involved with the decision? Fire their managers who failed to set the right expectations? Fire the product team for setting deadlines that were too aggressive? Fire the CEO because hey, ultimately they are the one responsible for everything?

Even if you do all that, you're not going to go back in time and fix things for your customers, and you're definitely not going to prevent the replacement developers from making the exact same mistakes.

It takes really good leadership to build an engineering culture where good practices are valued and people learn from mistakes, which is why filling those positions is so hard and expensive. A company whose solution for every outage is to fire people isn't going to last very long.
I loved the original Animal Crossing, but honestly I think the less well known indie game Stardew Valley is far better.
This is despicable act.
Good time to reread Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible
It does, but the point of getting to herd immunity is that we don't want to do any of that other stuff.
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Trump's entire presidency is one long gish gallop.
In Detroit thieves stripped all the wire and plumbing from abandoned houses, even furnaces were carted off. When the supply of houses ran thin they started stripping factories.

When the freeways of Detroit flooded they found the pumping stations that were supposed to get rid of the excess water had been stripped.

https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/copper-theft-a-possi...

Finally several hapless guys tried to get at the copper wiring in a power substation and were electrocuted.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/men-electrocuted-with-24k-v...
It's about fact, not truth. There's a difference.
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Windows, of course. It would probably be an awful experience on Linux. You want the "happy path" of NVIDIA Windows drivers, etc. Of course, Windows has first-class support for Linux so you can have the best of both worlds.
Hospitals and clinics are full of patients who did not arrive by ambulance. All you need to do is look at the packed parking lot.

Have you ever tried the magic words when you make an appointment:

1. how much will this cost?

2. that sounds high - can you discount it?

Don't say that's impossible until you try it a few times. I do, and it usually results in an immediate discount of 10-30%, with the condition that I pay in advance.

It's the same when I take my car in for service, book hotel rooms, or even when buying furniture.

I have a friend who regularly needs surgery for kidney stones. He calls hospitals one by one, utters the magic words, gets discounts, then picks a hospital. Sometimes, he gets the sucker bill anyway, then reminds them that they'd agreed to the lower price.

Don't knock it till ya try it.
You are quite welcome. :D
I made a tool to train a deep learning text classifier within Zapier
On one hand this comparison sucks because their C++ is quite non idiomatic, in the other hand it reflects something about C++. Why is it so easy to write non idiomatic C++? And so much so that it's much slower than a garbage collected language.
Creating secure strings isn't exactly fixed; the type exists but they aren't encrypted in memory on Linux because it doesn't have the DPAPI (Data Protection API) from Windows:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/9199
If I buy my spouse a phone, and secretly bug it, I'm still violating wiretap laws, even if it's technically mine.

If I'm renting an apartment, my landlord can't install a camera in the bathroom, even if they're the owner of the building.

Ownership doesn't change the fact that the law says "exceeds authorized access". Amazon agrees to only access the computer I'm renting from them in very specific scenarios. If they violate that, it looks like a pretty clear CFAA violation.
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The problem is that it violates the principle of least surprise. Thankfully this sort of thing is not rampant in Elixir, and I discovered the example only after something like 50k lines of very joyful code.
A Dell XPS 13 developer edition with ubuntu preinstalled hasn't worked "out of the box" for simple multi monitor usecases for me. Invariably something requires an update for support that invalidates some assumption and then whoops the only guide that describes your problem has a solution that involves pulling and compiling X.org in a terminal and dealing with tarballs.

And someone can go gosh, you must be doing it wrong, and they're almost certainly correct! However I'm a pretty big power user and can actually get things to work and dig into forums, so I realize that the average user has absolutely no chance.
Truth and fact are two different things.
> Ironically, this has only become an issue of interest in recent years because it has started to cause economic stress to the middle class - i.e. many who post to this board - due to rising healthcare costs coupled with wage growth not keeping pace with life's major costs (housing, education, and of course, healthcare). Poorer segments of the population have been facing this situation for much longer, but they don't have the same voice.

That's only partially true. Yes, rising healthcare costs. No, it hits the poorest the most, well not exactly. Medicaid isn't horrible, but you really need to be at the bottom of the income stream. Once you hit a certain age you get Medicare, which itself covers quite a bit. The people most shafted are minimum wage workers and people who work retail jobs that don't provide healthcare. The working poor. And part of this is regional, too, it should be said. For example, this debt collector stuff where they can directly deduct from your paycheck or place liens or whatnot - that's not legal in all states. Where I live, a very large city, even a homeless person can go to a hospital and get healthcare. This is a law - you cannot be refused.

The middle class have for a long time been the ones to be shafted in the U.S. They don't have enough capital or income to avoid financial insecurity (one hospital bill, one accident away from tragedy). They don't have the right jobs where they can deduct huge amounts from their income (unlike self-employed / business owners), and they don't make their income through capital investments where they can pay a lower income tax (cap gains instead of ordinary income). They're trapped in their employer's healthcare choices, and if they lose their employer their only choice are a watered-down state-managed set of healthcare options that our executive branch helped drown.

I'm not rich, but perhaps upper-income, and still a wage slave; the way I've dealt with the healthcare question is to live in the shadows of the rich (working in tech in financial services).
Sources/references?
We've been enjoying this on and off. It takes a while to understand and the controls aren't intuitive... And i think we've thrown away a sword or fishing rod but accident... Unclear
This is not acceptable. It is like saying we should not try to catch serial killers because people can just stay at home.
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The Sten was a beautiful accomplishment. Being cheap, simple, optimized for quick mass production, and just good enough to get the job done is a perfectly legitimate set of requirements. It’s like the IKEA LACK.
You’re being downvoted for utterly missing the point.
Thread closed.
Do you have a source? I can’t think of any other virus that works like that (except hiv which attacks the immune system)
It seems like the system for sending out packages should've been designed to be unless this is being sent out as a critical security patch (and signed off by a security manager or something in the log), the package is deployed to 5% of the fleet per day (unless someone opts in to get it early for some reason on a package-by-package basis). In a big fleet, anything else would still be chaos if someone clicked the wrong button.