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Ask HN: How do you find the best contributors to help in a Git codebase?
I've been thinking recently about how to find the "experts" in a given git repository, in the form of this project: https://github.com/augmentable-dev/gitpert which has had some okay outputs in codebases I'm familiar with.

I'm wondering what others think of the underlying question (and the project too!)

Say you're new to a codebase but have identified an area you want to change, is there a way to use git history to figure out who's best to ask about it? Does the question matter all that much?

GitHub uses git-blame to figure out "suggested reviewers" for Pull Requests, which is a pretty awesome feature, and basically what I'm going for. I wonder if more detail/resolution is at all useful.
The ‘baker’s method’ post above suggests is reversible. As for libido, if you’re roasting your ‘nads enough that they stop producing gametes then it seems reasonable that they might temporarily do producing other things too, so maybe?
>IFR is more like 0.02->0.05%, so even taking NYC numbers at face value COVID looks 10-50x more fatal than flu.

Exactly, my only point in mentioning approximate flu IFR was to demonstrate that it's significantly lower than flu CFR. And so the NY COVID-19 serological study suggests a CFR well above 1%.
The CFAA doesn't protect "content", though. It protects "protected computers".

In this case, Amazon fully owns, possesses, and operates the "protected computer".

You'd have to successfully argue that Amazon fraudulently accessed their own computer. It might be possible, but I'm guessing it'd be a first.

The difference in Aaron's case is huge: he didn't own the computers that hosted JSTOR.
It took me the longest to come to the realization that was exactly what I was doing every time I signed one of those financial responsibility forms unaltered/unquantified.
That is what Shipt does, membership fee + flat fee. I interviewed with them and while I can't share a lot of what I learned out of respect, the engineering team really seemed to drill into me that Shipt is not a shady service. I ended up accepting a position local to me but when I enter the job market again I plan on reaching out to the recruiter I was working with last time.
Couldn't agree more. This is obviously a shameless plug but we built a product (getcensus.com) specifically focused on this problem of getting data to/from Salesforce & data warehouses (not just Redshift).

Heroku Connect is pretty powerful but not only is it super expensive as you point out but also forces you into creating an extra layer in the stack by creating a Heroku Postgres DB. The secret advantage of Connect is that since it's owned by Salesforce it bypasses Salesforce API quotas but that's a whole other can of worms :-)
The problem is not primarily when you make bad decisions and suffer harm from it. It's when you make bad decisions and others suffer harm from it. You even bring up drunk driving, yet your argument remains exclusively about damage to yourself.

Your freedom ends where the freedom of the next person begins. So not only is it "not free", it's also "not boundless". You don't get to kill people intentionally. You also don't get away with it if you do it by gross negligence (such as drunk driving).

Inciting violence is an offence in most parts of the world. Not because governments love to be oppressive but because society figured out that it's the point where you cross how much personal freedom you can have without infringing on everyone else's.

Where is this point for COVID-19 misinformation? It's a difficult question, and it's unclear what is appropriate and what is overbearing. What is clear is that harm is actively being cause by people propagating this nonsense. Whether an ideal rational adult could cut through it is entirely immaterial to this question, it doesn't stop the harm.
In English, "you only need to" is completely different from "you need to only".
That law is not contradicting the WHO, it’s just setting a stricter standard. It would be contradicting if the WHO said masks made things worse and the governments forced people to wear them anyway, endangering public health against the advice of the WHO. That’s not the case.
Also, protecting the vulnerable sounds simple, but is incredibly difficult in practice.
What you really want is a security first web browser, not something that must prioritize feature completeness to achieve commercial success. I would love a spin-off of the Tor browser sans Tor.
On my recent order, about half a dozen interactions while she picked the order, because many items were out of stock and she made substitutions.
Excellent summary. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
"absolute BS" various.
Or if you just want more diversity.
Leveraging AI to Battle This Pandemic – and the Next One
Or a market solution will be decisive if it gets to that point.

The courts broke up Microsoft, and it's not like that hurt them at all.
> claims that covid does not spread from human to human after it was abundantly clear that it does

There's evidence that human to human transmission was documented on January 14? That would be the first time I hear about it. Do you have a source?
I've always like the MMM but there is also an undercurrent of this being a re-telling of xeno's paradox, and its important to remember the rabbit actually does win.

So, adding new bodies does incur cost, but the belief that always adding new bodies always adds more cost than adds impetus to the outcome is not always true.

The classic example is "the hump" which was the cost in fuel terms to ship fuel to China, to be able to fly from China to bomb Japan. Economically ruinous, people forget that missions were nonetheless successfully conducted: it was ruinous but the outcome was achieved within limits.

So the MMM does not say "never add a body" it says "know what your incurring in overhead, choosing to add a body"
Is this really a phase I? 800 people seems absolutely massive if it is—and I don’t think they’d bother with a placebo arm for safety.

Edit: Found the registration. It’s a weird combined Phase I and II: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04324606
No one is talking about anything else than consenting, fully informed adults participating.
Home button iPads get some of the X gestures— they get swipe up for home and multitasking, but not the right/left gestures on the home bar (because it’s not there). The loss of those isn’t that big of a deal, though, since iPads have the four-finger multitasking gestures as well.
Yes, how else could you know its efficacy?
> I would really like to see a postmortem for the recent outages. While I doubt it's all the same root cause, it would be nice for some messaging around improving resiliency.

They recently posted a "post-incident analysis" [0] about several "service disruptions" in February that were all a result of database issues.

Obviously, I have no idea if today's outage is related.

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[0]: https://github.blog/2020-03-26-february-service-disruptions-...
Yeah! It's a really fascinating thing.
That article told me nothing useful.

Honestly it seems like a clone of docker selling the slight advantage of root less.

Which docker already does.

I don't understand why I should care that it's a Daemon. In fact that blog post says that they won't go into why it's bad. Just that they do things different.

In fact it seems like it's a "Not invented here" implementation from Red Hat.

Searching Hacker news there's not many posts on it. Seems like it'd be as silly as using Mir to run this in production.

Also on my doubling down, I misquoted you saying they're doubling down on X11.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence of this. I wasted time googling it and it looks like they decided not to use Wayland by default in 20.04 because of certain bugs they didn't deep acceptable.

But it comes with Wayland out of the box, and you select it on the login screen.
The latex isn't rendering for me. Pasting it into https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/ask is one online solution.

In the example, membership in a language already implies existence, doesn't it? So why is the (crucial) existential quantifier needed?

What does "moded" mean (as in "well-moded")?
No, I don't believe "a lot" of people will throw hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt on their back and forego almost all of their time with friends, family, and significant others in their 20s to work grueling 24 hour and overnight shifts in hospitals just to heal people who are sick. It's not just a financial decision, you are sacrificing a good portion of your young life, delaying family planning, etc.

There is no reason they need to be run through that gauntlet, other than to restrict supply and make them go through a hazing of sorts. Why can't they have work life balance? Why do they need so many years of schooling when other countries don't? Why are they paid minimum wage (if calculated per hour) during their residency years?

Other countries show that none of this is necessary to heal people who are sick.
The Amazon employee accessing the data would be "exceeding authorized access".

> The difference in Aaron's case is huge: he didn't own the computers that hosted JSTOR.

His access was authorized, though. They still threw CFAA at him.
This is why I've done my damnedest to avoid jobs that require additional on-call time. It invites abuse where everything has to be a crisis. I worked in e-commerce ONCE. Grandma can't buy shoes at 2am because part of the site isn't working? This is not an urgent situation.

Unless it's the Joint Chiefs calling me up from the war room to stop a meteor from destroying the planet, I'd rather go back to sleep. Even then I still might: they can fire me in the morning if there is one.
Going off a tangent here but just wanted to comment how powerful the nocebo effect can be.

I'm familiar with it in the context of strength sports, where "tweaking" your back, knees, etc. is relatively common.

If you tweak something and immediately go "oh no no no I'm gonna be out for weeks now", it does happen. The pain only seems to get worse for days, you can't move, if it's your lower back sometimes you can barely get out of bed.

When you learn to distinguish between "I'm hurt" (something felt a little funny and it hurt a bit, but you're still functional) vs "I'm injured" (something actually went really wrong, like a major muscle strain, or blunt trauma), and learn to keep a positive attitude in the face of pain, you're back in a couple days.

There's a group called Barbell Medicine that completely changed my mindset when it comes to nocebo. They teach people to accept pain is part of life, and to assess it instead of immediately worrying or panicking about it and going into what they call "movement avoidance".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/21/behind-pro...
Speaking from experience in California - if you are fired but not for misconduct, you may still collect unemployment.

There’s certainly a fine line between being bad at your job and actual misconduct, so if someone were so inclined they could probably just be a bad worker long enough to get fired without any specific alleged misconduct. Personally, I’d just quit if that pathway were on my mind, but I understand how people could decided to do this.
Yes and no. It's primarily focused on centralizing data into a data warehouse / data lake rather than sending data out to other apps. Segment also pushes events into a warehouse but most of its functionality is about forwarding events to 3rd party apps. That said, you can use tools like getcensus.com to move data/events from an AWS-populated data warehouse back to other apps (disclosure: I'm one of the founders of this service).
The CDC guidelines you’ve linked to continue to say surgical masks should be for medical personnel.

This is ridiculous!! A mask is a cloth on a string. We are how many months into this thing... why hasn’t our private industry created enough cloths on strings???? What is the shortage? Is it the cloth?

It’s because the politicians were reactionary and behind on the most basic things every step of the way. Why not order American companies to produce a billion masks and mail them to every building in bulk?? Save trillions of dollars later.
> Anyone who doesn't like YouTube's policies are welcome to

...criticize them on HackerNews.
I've actually read Klein's work and Andressen's work and evaluating both against my own understanding. That's the basis on which I gave the recommendation to seek Klein's answers.

I'm not just trusting a "vox writer" over a "VC".
Remember there would be a control group.
It’s good idea to accept that the risk analysis of someone making 6 figures here is absolutely different than that of someone who is living paycheck to paycheck. This is why it’s been so frustrating to see “YOU’RE TRYING TO MURDER PEOPLE” from one side and “muh freedom” from the other. There is nuance of course.

I think it’s super interesting how differently this all looks to different people.

But I can’t think even during Spanish Flu that First Amendment rights were so heavily infringed - good reasons or not. Best I could find on the topic was the heavy fines for spitting in public in 1918.
I’m not sure what a trivial existential quantifier is, but an existential quantifier is the statement ‘there exists’, usually written ∃.
The ban is meant for 4chan-based messages like "drink bleach/rubbing alcohol/methanol to cure yourself now!", which have killed plenty of people.
>including claims that covid does not spread from human to human.

That's how you interpret 'no clear evidence from preliminary investigations' is it?

Why bother attempting to twist the WHO's words? What does it get you?
Vox did a piece on this[1]. Basically, if you're young, the risk of death is about equal to a kidney donation, which is a procedure we allow.

Participating in a trial like this could save many more lives than donating a kidney. And, if you live in e.g. NYC, there's a decent chance you're going to get COVID anyway, trial or no.

Separately from that... y'know, there are currently lots of health care workers taking care of COVID patients—frequently without proper PPE—and getting sick from it. If we as a society have agreed this is worth the risk, why not a challenge trial to develop a vaccine?

I'm honestly a little surprised there's even a debate about this. The choice seems pretty clear to me.

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[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/9/21209593/coronav...
>(Particularly this hammering that these are contrived examples is bordering on the ridiculous: we know this is true!)

I'm just going to note you agree that these examples are contrived yet nevertheless want to debate them, apparently to performatively exhibit your appreciation for the values open-mindedness and free speech.

That's a not a constructive use of anybody's time. It's a frivolous distraction. Youtube is doing what they can to save lives by stopping misinformation in the face of a global pandemic. If you're more interested in turning this into a navel gazing exercise, I'd say you're suffering from a serious lack of perspective.
Good news. Herd-immunity is growing.

Also, this means that the death-rate is far lower than reported. And this is nice too. Maybe we can save people by starting the society again.

In other news, we see that hydroxychloroquine is actually working according to doctors.
But there was a very bad study that claimed that it caused 2x as many deaths. It should have said instead that it was mainly used on patients that were close to death.
Here is a good analysis of that study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLSYRqcg0wo&feature=youtu.be...
Bad studies like this wide published one show that science is not
immune to political agendas.
I didn’t say healthcare workers.

I said that there’s plenty of incidental exposure already: healthcare workers, yes, but also nearly everyone who’s leaving the home too. It is literally a pandemic!

This point is actually made in the article itself: they want to get it done while and where there’s community transmission to avoid the ethical fraught ness of a challenge trial.

For similar reasons, challenge trials also weren’t done for AIDS PrEP, since there were groups with enough lifestyle exposure to power a study.
But you won't, the opposite will happen; you'll proportionally encounter way more daily shoppers than infrequent shoppers, for the simple tautological reason that the daily shoppers are going more often.

This is a sampling bias, and it's the exact same problem as if you ran a survey trying to ascertain how many people have landlines ... by calling random phone numbers.
This would actually be an interesting test of that decision and the law of Business Judgement, which normally shields corporate directors from micromagement via lawsuit.

I doubt it would pass the threshold of "grossly negligent" that you'd typically need to sue a CEO as a shareholder, but it's certainly different from an otherwise positive action that simply uses company resources - like raising salaries or making charitable donations.
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Any chance we could get the link changed to something that doesn't have a Google loginwall? I'm not going to sign in to a Google account to read a bug report.
I'd say it's mostly the other way around, experience can't substitute for high natural cognitive ability. Of course a person still needs experience, but people with high cognitive ability don't need nearly as much, and people with less cognitive ability will hit thresholds of capability much more quickly. A lot of people live in a bubble of people with similar ability so they don't grasp the true importance of ability. And fakers who learn nothing year over year but have "years of experience", extremely common in this industry, don't like being told there are 14 year olds way more capable than them at their own jobs.
There were a lot more recommendations and warnings from organizations other than the WHO.
There's an endless flood of these bad comments. I'm just going through them (a new one posted every 2 minutes) and making the same rebuttal. People are stupid -- especially people who think they're smart contrarians.
"exceeding authorized access" is not enough to violate the CFAA.

You have to "exceed authorized access to a protected computer"

The CFAA is not a data protection law. It is a computer protection law.
After they submit their code to the F-Droid.org team that audits and readies it for their build server queue.
that's the problem... the same handful of companies have dominated the space for the past decade and mostly monopolized the attention. we need more competitors.
I think there is a (small, mostly hidden) option to set any tip amount. They just removed the 0% preset.
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I would add that WHO requires nations to inform them of the measures they are intending to take so that WHO can do some coordination, and nations don’t tell them and WHO has to do catch up by reading the newspapers.
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You can't assume that. I know plenty of people who haven't left their apartments in a month plus, because they're having groceries ordered in.

And you completely missed the point that people who are going outside a lot more often are both (a) more likely to have been exposed to COVID-19, and (b) more likely to be encountered by your survey. If there are e.g. 700 daily shoppers and 700 weekly shoppers going to a given store, then if you go on one day and sample every shopper you're not going to get half and half by population as you'd need to for a true random sample; instead, you're going to get 700 daily shoppers and only 100 weekly shoppers! This is a hugely biased sample!
Our AWS monthly spend is deep 7 figures over the last 10 years our colo projects had better uptime than AWS US East. You keep living in the marketing bubble for AWS.
The air is a great machine if you don't need performance, until you suddenly do. I have a user with the top of the line air from like 2 years ago, and it won't run Zoom virtual desktops. Zoom just says the cpu is too slow. So people can think things are okay, but when they aren't, you're stuck.
It is absolutely unacceptable, that's why 2/3 answers to this comment so far use martial metaphors. It violates not the liberty of young men, who have every right to be reckless and volunteer, but integrity of the scientific community.

If the Oxford researchers made trials on Syrian kids in a refugee camp, in exchange for $100, I suppose more people would see a problem here.
In git's case, by cryptographic agility I was imagining a Gitv2 which would produce SHA-256 hashes by default on new commits, and was able to still understand SHA-1 hashes on old commits so it could continue to read data produced by Gitv1 clients or Gitv2 clients in SHA-1 mode without needing an upfront convert-the-whole-repo step. Definitely less preferable than the alternative of just supporting SHA-256 from the very start though. May be less preferable to making git auto-convert repos forward to a new SHA-256-only version.
That you are exposed while there is no known working treatment yet.
Many attempts are in the works out even trials, but nothing proven.
In the near foreseeable future, there might be one.

One reason to have the lockdowns.
Maybe some aws bash?
Every "GitHub is down [again]" post leads to the same discussion. With the number of recent GitHub "service disruptions", it starts to get a bit old.
Several years ago someone stole copper from outside a local food bank; the impact was tens of thousands of dollars of spoiled food when they broke the refrigeration.

https://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/8842842.html
IWR and ConvertFrom-Json are what got me hooked on powershell. No more learning complex switches for curl or crazy JQ syntax. It's all built in and makes sense.
Evaluating Adversarial Robustness for Deep Neural Network Interpretability
No offense to the author--

These are not pro-tips.

More like newbie-tips.
Is that quantifiably true? There are the same number of deaths in Shanghai and Beijing as Taiwan and the population is about the same size while Shanghai and Beijing have much less "travel restriction" from Taiwan. Why should the WHO, an agency of the UN, make an extremely aggressive political and undemocratic move and special case Taiwan when only 14 of the 193 members of the UN have diplomatic relations with Taiwan and when it performed average vis a vis other Chinese provinces.
I was thinking Rust, but in reality it's probably all of them :)
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