skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it is complicated by the reality that this disease is widespread.

I was rejected because I had cancer (years ago but they don't need any extra factors) but this is mostly like a normal Phase I in that the primary question is: Do humans tolerate this vaccine? Roughly half those recruited (at random) get a different vaccine, an irrelevant one, that protects against Meningitus but we've no reason to think would make any difference to a coronavirus - and half get the new one. You can't tell what it was they stuck in your arm, so they can compare the two groups to see if any side effects were significantly more common for the new vaccine.

Because this coronavirus is widespread in the community they will also unavoidably get to collect information that would usually be the purpose of Phase II/III trials - did the group who got the "real" vaccine get COVID-19 symptoms less often that the other group? Or if they did, were they less severe?

You normally don't do this, and if you tried an ethics committee would stop you - it's unethical to expose patients to a novel risk when you haven't even figured out if the treatment you're trying is safe first. But in this case the risk is already there, for absolutely everyone, so you aren't making anything worse by just measuring if your treatment helped.
It almost certainly has been pooped on by insects and birds.
For me operation vacation is the interesting point of the presentation apart from the regular ML stuff. That's something which we need to integrated in our regular development workflow.
Congrats on the remission.

Financial freedom is a tough goal to explain for a number of reason. Most notably because it is different for each person. Myself I have a family and I consider us rich. Never missed a rent payment, always enough for cloths, food etc. How is that not rich?

That said, most people struggle with bills because outgo often exceeds income. The root of which is a failure to distinguish between need and want. So changing your question to how to I improve my money such that outgo is less than income - you use the most common method for fixing any habit - Write it down - everything - every penny. When you go shopping, you go with a list - not on the list - do not buy - oh you forgot to write down Milk? Write it now - do home - do you still need milk? Then go back and buy it. Yes a tedious exercise, but you might decide the impulse to buy milk is not worth the trip, or you will learn to write better lists. So yeah 10 beers at the pub i probably not on the list - so you would have to cut down on that.

Then it is time to invest, I recommend mutual funds. At your age, go for growth. Growth goes up and down more than anything else, but all the downs are typically fixed in 2 years, outside 5 years. Side corollary when you know you will need the money, about 5 years out, pull it from growth. But only if the market is good, if it is recovering, set a quantitative goal (like PE of 20), then pull it, as that should easily occur within the 5 years.

Avoid gambling and the lottery, those are just a tax on people who do not understand math.

If you can do a startup, on the side, sweet! Does your wife work?
Good point. I was mistaken.

I think the point still stands unless you think we are identifying a lower proportion of infections
Currently looking at bastion/jit solutions to move away from ssh keys. Two options we’ve looked at were PrivX from ssh.com and ScaleFT (now owned by Okta). Both offer role based access to servers. PrivX seems better because it allows ssh session recordings with metadata playback search. Perfect to find out who ran the wrong command and what happened before and afterwards. They also keep a copy of any files transferred in/out over the ssh session. ScaleFT is good it’s very expensive compared to PrivX.

But we are looking at using a service like this as we move to zero trust.
I’d say give it a try. My experience has always diverged from the stated norms on battery life in all devices and contexts, but maybe my usage patterns are abnormal.

If you’re using simpler programs (Firefox, terminal), your battery life should be great. I usually get four hours of heavy vim use with WiFi etc all on, on a battery that’s 75% capacity. YMMV.

It’s not a mbp level, but I imagine it’s fairly similar to what windows would draw. Maybe better.
Op. Mockingbird sings, even today.
Maybe. One distinction I want to argue is placement: Amazon always places the Amazon Choice options at the top of the search and product listings. They also always include them in the "Popular, Editor's Picks, Highest Rated, etc." box that appears in the middle of most pages on the site. This would be like you walking into Safeway for a bag of sugar, and as soon as you turn down the aisle, there's an employee telling you everyone buys the Safeway brand Sugar or an advertisement with three boxes showing Safeway's as the Most Popular option, and two others next to it.

Where this gets real distinct is in delivery: Amazon is currently purging its warehouses of stock from thousands of vendors so it can keep stock of Amazon-brand and big box brand alternatives to those same products. (See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/amazon-is...) So, the Safeway equivalent of this would be you going down the sugar aisle and finding exactly 1 or 2 bags of competing brands with a note that says, "Hurry! Almost out!", and each bag has 10lb. anchor attached to it. But there's 100 bags of Safeway sugar, and there's a line of employees offering to carry it through the store for you do you don't hurt your terribly sore shoulders...

How would you feel if a Safeway associate slapped a tracking device on you when you walked in the door, and then didn't tell you they were recording everything you thought while you were working your way through the store? That's how Amazon.com works. Oh, and if Safeway could just look at your other recent thoughts and know you fapped about 20 minutes before you walked in the door? That's also Amazon.
Sure. The question I am alluding to is: can someone defraud their own computer?

Maybe it is possible, but the consequences to answering 'yes' to this is pretty scary.
I think parent wanted to write the following:

int main() {
printf("choo");
fork();
}

Here, "choo" can be printed twice, even though we fork after printing. This is a result from line buffering when the flush happens after the process is forked. Essentially, the output buffer is copied when forking and therefore duplicated.
> Automate data back ups

This has always killed me about SaaS-es that don't provide any decent method for backups (and less so: restores), especially for data modifications (eg, accidental deletions) that there's no ability to rollback.
The NLP Papers to Read Before ICLR 2020
Sometimes you can learn a lot from the metadata without actually looking into the actual data stream. For example, if B&H was hosted on AWS, Amazon could deduce the effectiveness of their holiday sale tactics by looking at the overall page traffic, DB writes, etc. These metrics are already recorded by Amazon for billing purposes and someone stealing a glance at them would likely leave zero evidence.
Not affiliated but have used it: Stitch Data.
FWIW ublock origin blocks the signup overlay and you can continue browsing like normal.
> From an organizational perspective, the United States is uniquely well setup to emulate this model. There's no need for systemic changes or amendments to the US Constitution.

Cantons (and, IIRC, municipalities) have their own citizenship rules. This is totally antithetical to the US constitution.

There's plenty that they do that we could also do, yes, although it's useful to be specific.
Losing money on the two-day shipping in order to make money on the volume of sales is just like saying “we will lose money on leasing planes but make it up on the product sale”. That announcement was certainly divergent e-commerce strategy at the time, but Amazon intends to cover its basis on the overall transaction.

In today’s plight, it’s the sheer scale of money Amazon might lose fulfilling its backlog of orders, and potentially why its delaying shipping with the “essential items” reasoning, that’s of particular interest.
No, a better equivalence would be how long you let the invading army plunder before you start handing out spears and shields, because if you wait another month the shields might work better.
> It's that YouTube is making it so that the WHO can never be wrong

No, it isn't. The title does not match the policy.
Thank you for the sheer amount of detail and effort you've put into this response. These are all great resources.

The PP's from search engines are great, although perhaps a bit easier when the service doesn't require any personal info like most online products (email + credit card). Still, it's inspiring the lack of data collection they are committing to.

Thank you for these links @open-source-ux. Also a question on your name - do you contribute to OSS with UX suggestions/improvements?
What's the evidence for your theory?

Federal government spending as a percentage of GDP has been relatively stable for decades. Excepting a six year period during world war 2, government spending as percentage of GDP is basically as high as its ever been.
The military is one of the few governmental organizations where reality is ruthless enough that they are forced to adapt to it, rather than distorting reality to fit their agenda.
Have you looked at the iOS App Store lately? There are tens of thousands of games there. Apple Arcade has a small (100+) but well-curated selection of good games that run on both iOS and MacOS.

Oh, you meant PC games? Sure, the Mac only has a small percentage of (for example) Steam games, but that percentage is steadily rising - it's now over 25%. Switching architecture is unlikely to present a major problem for most developers, especially given that they're probably using Unity or Unreal Engine.
I've been through Shenzhen a few times and saw rolls and rolls of tamper proof hologram stickers (for Nokia and Microsoft and Sony and so on ...).

I did not see fake UL stickers ... however, I don't doubt that they are there.

Know this: a fake UL sticker is a criminally negligent act. Setting aside the appallingly negative morality of anyone that would deploy one, Amazon needs to be brought to regulatory action in the US and the EU for each and every single counterfeit UL device they ship.

This is a life and death issue. People should not pay, with their lives, for the refusal of Amazon to regulate this behavior.
Sweden hasn't done a government mandated lockdown, but has a lot of social distancing occurring. Also, I wouldn't use Sweden as an example of herd immunity since antibody tests are only coming on line, and many are unreliable. Besides look at Sweden's CFR. Not something I'd like to see in a modern country.
Food insecurity already happens in many places around the world, even rich countries. However, in those places it is an social-economical issue, not a lack of labor/resources to produce the food needed for the population.

There may be images of long lines of unemployed people that have to get from the government or food banks, but the food is still there. Farmers are still producing, distribution networks are still working, essential services operating. That part of the economy is still going.
I'm not disagreeing with your logic. The risk would be reasonably low if the subjects are young and healthy.

However, you can still get similar information by just dropping the control arm in this trial. Give a bunch of people the vaccine and exposed them to the virus. Sure it's not as good as having an untreated control arm, but you're also reducing the risk of someone in the control group dying.
This sounds a like an argument that social programs are extortion, which everyone should support. I don't think that's a good argument to make in favor of any government program.
NixOS already did this at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/74516
I agree with the idea of a canon for software engineering, probably more as a living, shifting document than as something set in stone (except, maybe, MMM, which seems perennial.)

I'm going to try an experiment, posting five books I'd put on the list, one per comment. Downvote, upvote, add your own if you like the idea.
I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man-Month so he could read it twice as fast.
>The only way this ends is either a depression the scales of which we've never seen in history before (which would liquidate and clear out bad businesses), or a hyperinflationary collapse of the U.S. dollar whereby more and more money is injected to prop everything up. I'm betting on the latter as the former is too politically inconvenient.

Or, like last time, a global war.

Also, I cannot emphasize more fervently your accurate correction here:

>Future generations pay this back not through taxes but through inflation.

It's a form of theft, really. Increasing the velocity of money is important to Keynesians and the faster that stuff degrades in value the faster those who are paying attention want to get rid of it in tangible or better-performing assets rather than, say, saving it long-term for something like capitalizing a small business.

And, whether an individual or organization, taking out loan after loan and not worrying so much about bankruptcy is easier to tolerate since sooner or later the gambling will pay off and it'll be easier to pay off in the future with easy money. When a dozen eggs cost 50$, 100,000$ in student loans will be easier to pay off.

I read something today about how China is gambling on the dollar collapsing and have been hoarding lots of gold in anticipation of some kind of at least partially gold-backed currency that's likely to be digital.
'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks
I don't know what your native language is, but in English "pester" means to annoy. A negative connotation no matter what.

I don't get the hate on Bash though. It's a natural extension of the command line, and works quite nicely to get a lot done without the overhead. Deployment is a lot easier in my environment (web hosting) because all of the servers are homogenous, and I don't need to worry about any dependencies because I rely mostly on coreutils + grep and awk.
Hey thanks for this, nushell looks really interesting! I really like the idea of an objective shell but don't like the verbosity of PowerShell inputs. I think if you go through my post history I actually describe wanting something like Nushell, not knowing it existed!
'Becoming A Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg
I feel like you’re assuming that I will have total control over every device that wants to connect which just isn’t realistic.

I mean the baseline case of a VPN that your employees use by both their work computers, personal computers, and phones. I can’t forcibly update all of those and politically I can’t cut people off because the truth is that being able to get work done is more important to the business.

Then I have to deal with vendor provided devices that are slow to receive updates or possibly will never receive updates ever. Again, I can’t just turn them off much as I would like to. No room in the budget to buy replacements. The old one is working fiiiine.

And then I have to deal with partners and oh boy I can’t even pretend to understand why they’re using an out of warranty Cisco box from 5 years ago but we make too much money through them to raise a fuss.

So that’s what I got. Everything I own gets migrated immediately. The help desk goes after everyone who doesn’t know how to update their apps. And we make special exceptions for random junk that can’t ever upgrade but is too valuable to turn off.

So yeah, you pretty much have to wait months for the stragglers but everyone who can upgrade does so immediately.

I’m sure lots of people here can tell lots of horror stories about turning off TLS 1.1.
I hope you'll consider changing your media diet, because your current selection is filling you with irrational racist fear. That's not how the real world is. Consider lolc's comment below:

"I once got lost in typical U.S. suburbia and the first door I knocked the guy wouldn't tell me the direction I needed to go but insisted on driving me there.

I was conscious of being percieved as a potential threat in that situation. But me being percieved as a likely nuisance to be ignored didn't cross my mind."
Using that logic, who else should be on the hook for fraud, identity theft, etc. - that they could have prevented:

- governments

- credit card companies

- social media sites

- email providers

- search engines

- long, long list, since basically, any system currently that allows fraud could be prevented if counter measures were invasive enough and were legally required. Problem is no one would agree to such a system and would rather just pay for the fraud either directly or indirectly.
Censorship is the naive and ineffective non-solution to the problem of coordinated misinformation campaigns.

It’s sort of like torture: even if it worked for the problem it is trying to solve, it would debase us as human beings to try to use it. To top that off, it doesn’t work.
Arrogance and hypocrisy I think are the biggest signs. SF, SV, CA generally I think, lecture the world on morality and politics. They push their innovations on the rest of the world for an enormous profit, and use their innovations to push their own ideological agendas. And I would say a very small amount of those profits are used for the betterment of man-kind.

The arrogance is clearly seen in the "we are always right" air that tech companies have. Their press releases talk down to people. Their pontificating on world events - as if being the first to come up with yet another CRUD app and receive $1b in VC money for it, suddenly makes you a moral authority - is sickening.

They lament the state of the homeless, while living in mansions. They lament the plight of refugees, while taking in none. They lament the plight of minorities, while thinking the problem is solved by just hiring more of them. They wage war on authoritarian governments, while implementing authoritarian rules over their own platforms. They argue for fairness, while evading taxes. They argue for privacy of their own affairs, while violating the privacy of yours.

All in all, the entire area reeks of arrogance and hypocrisy. Babylon, Greece, Rome, England, America (more broadly in the 20th century) - they were all the same at their height. The reign of the technocracy in CA has reached its zenith and will soon be in decline. COVID has popped the bubble. And we will all be the better for it.
Difficulties Everywhere: Can Kierkegaard tell us how to live?
This comment was what made this article make sense to me.

Just to add to add to the mathematical intuition here (please correct me if I'm wrong): if you're thinking of it as a unit line/square/cube then total n-dim area is 1^n, and the portion in the 50% range is (1/2)^n, where n = number of dimensions. So that should simplify to 2^(-n).

Note this works out to 10th dimension as 0.09765% or 0.1 person per 1000.

ETA: As one of the comments below points out, you can also model it as a binomial distribution.

Probability of getting all heads, given p=0.5 is (n!)/((n-k)!k!) / 2^n. Since n=k since we're looking to get all heads at all times, this also simplifies to 2^(-n).
From my experience, Anker make good products. I specifically look for them when I'm buying charging hardware, and they've never failed me. I think it's possible you're dismissing perfectly fine products unfairly.
What about the idea that we should build up herd immunity in the summer so we’re not dealing with corona and flu in the fall? I guess we’d want healthy people to be out together if so.

I heard that somewhere. Not sure if it makes sense.
'The Pragmatic Programmer', Hunt and Thomas
Which is exactly the point!

Taiwan is a unique proposition, and eviscerating the WHO for having trouble with it without acknowledging that everywhere else has the same problem makes it look like the person is either ignorant or has some agenda.
How would you know otherwise?
'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun
The difference is that in software, if you add a body and as in most organizations, that body has to appear useful, they will tramp about in the soup, making a big mess and harming progress.

Unlike in war, the marginal curve of adding an extra body goes negative in software. And right quick unless circumstances are favorable.

(If you doubt this, imagine a thousand Arthurs charged with implementing a CRUD app.)
A copy in function arguments often is not expressed by the compiler and often allows more optimizations.
Was Universal Paperclips supposed to be fun? I kind of got the impression it was meant to scare you into donating to MIRI or whatever.
Google to make online shopping service free to merchants
This is only true if each dimension is independent and identically distributed random variables, which is doubtfully true for humans. That said, the overall intuition is probably more correct than incorrect...
> What about the idea that we should build up herd immunity in the summer so we’re not dealing with corona and flu in the fall?

Nobody currently knows whether or not getting COVID-19 makes you immune to getting it again.
'Code Complete', Steve McConnell
>The harder problem is that there isn't currently a JavaScript implementation of capnp RPC... :/

Does capnproto (C++ or Rust implementation) compile against wasm?
Refugee kids can't give informed consent.
“Just Like at Madrid, Comrades”
Are you describing the actual study or the study as you're imagining it? Because I imagine the statisticians have thought of these concerns and attempted to correct for them.

I find it interesting that this study corresponds to an IFR around 0.5%, similar to the IFR arrived at by other studies using very different methods. Perhaps the statisticians who conduct these studies actually know what they're doing better than Hacker News commenters.

And perhaps it's time to accept the politically inconvenient scientific truth these studies are revealing.
Free Pascal actually does have hashmap. Check this for reference: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Data_Structures,_Containers,_Col...
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> ... his past employer came to know about it, sued him... and he became almost unemployable in the valley.

You might have a family to protect. A home to maintain, etc. I understand. It's scary. But the world doesn't and cannot change for the better if we let corporations bully us into silence. The world will and does change when brave individuals, with the support of society, stand up and blow the whistle.
zso your saying its closer inline with the seasonal flu. With a 0.1% death rate.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-deadly-is-the-cor...

The point still stands is that enough to warrant the current strategy compared with countries like Korean or TW.
decent enough introduction. i do disagree with how you introduce zero trust without mentioning Forrester.
I enjoyed it a lot, but I also have a weird affinity for clickers. I was very unproductive at work for about a week when I first discovered it.
Needing to have Amazon Prime is a decent disadvantage for Amazon Fresh.
Shameless plug: if you like the idea of processing structured data in a shell, you might also like Elvish (https://elv.sh/).
> But Google isn't some paragon of freedom from bias, far from it.

Not my claim that Google is bias free. I am not denying what you have claimed, it is just that I have not come across such incidents and if you are a qualified person it is extremely unlikely that I will not judge you performance properly because of your gender, race or ethnicity.

There is no doubt that Google has gone lala SJW route in last few years but then many of us put conscious efforts in fixing those problems.
The Rodney King Riots: A Personal Remembrance
It looks like a reasonable position. It would still be far from enough distance in such a small space. So not flying at all is a reasonable solution.