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As a keen NixOS user/contributor, if your only needs are i3 and Firefox, then I do not recommend NixOS to you. ~Any distribution can meet your needs.

NixOS is great for:

* shortening the divide between the user and upstream: not just release lag, but also the ability to contribute to upstream. NixOS makes it trivial to write a patch and deploy it your system, something I wouldn't usually bother with Debian, for example, because the same process was so frictionful.

* configuring services

* packaging ad-hoc code/scripts
> iOS at least lets you install content blockers that work with Safari as well as any embedded web browsers within apps.

Only if the app uses SFSafariViewController.
Only for domestic flights, I suppose? For me, double the price on an intercontinental flight (where leg space really matters) only gets me to premium economy. First class is closer to 3x-3.5x the price.
Since the hospitalization and mortality rates vary so much with age, it would be surprising if the rate of asymptomatic cases didn't. Since prisons skew young we would expect a much higher proportion of asymptomatics to be found there than in the general population.
Coronavirus pandemic inspires demand for UV airplane cleaner
>my solution to the letter O is just to never, ever use them in math

That seems reasonable. My solution was to slash my zeros, to the point that it takes conscious effort not to.
Isn't the distance completely irrelevant in an airplane anyway, seeing as everyone is in a closed, pressurised environment with recirculated air?
Michael Crichton's novel references a British train robbery from Victorian times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery

The 1903 movie referenced is a separate dramatisation of a US robbery:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_...
> I really wish there were laws mandating a very obvious " this scene was sponsored by X" overlay.

I'd want that too.

I'd love to get my hands on even one list of all product placements in a given show; it would be trivial to make a userscript that overlays such data over a Netflix stream, as an artistic project. I suspect there's a strong point to be driven there.
Yes and no. It depends who's paying. For the most part leisure travelers aren't going to pay for anything other that basic economy. The basic economy experiment bears out that thesis: legacy airlines wanted passengers to pay more than LCC fares they had to compete with -- so they created an ostensibly painful and unattractive product in BE to encourage people to pay a tiny amount more for anything. Ultimately nobody did, and they felt they had to remove those restrictions -- and indeed most basic economy restrictions have been since lifted. The whole experiment ultimately cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.

Flight aggregators actually switched to providing more of this comfort information (especially Google Flights) specifically because of BE but it wasn't enough to save BE.

Business is paid for by businesses, and premium economy is paid for by, uh, cheap businesses. I think PE was brought in so in times of austerity businesses could avoid negative press associated with buying business-class airfare but still wanted to provide their employees a modicum of comfort so they could hit the ground running off the back of their flights.

LCCs are interesting, because I would argue they support my case: people won't pay more than the bare minimum fare for a flight. They may pay small amounts for comfort upgrades but the butt in seat is a commodity. Hence, legacy carriers who try and cover their costs of 50% less density in coach are going to get their lunch eaten by LCCs who don't as the pricing disparity grows larger.
This generation has fully internalized consumer capitalism. Music is about success, not dropping out.

Edit: See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22985678 in this thread.
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About Singapore I wouldn’t be sk sure
As many others have stated, geocities/angelfire/tripod and those raw, personal and ugly websites. But also www.insidetheweb.com , one of the more popular forum (they were called "message boards" back in the day) hosts of the late 90's. It was my first exposure to active, online communities and the peculiarities of Internet community culture (flame wars, online "e-relationships," memes before they were called memes), and I'll remember them and many of the usernames forever. They were all shut down abruptly around the turn of the millennium. Every now and then I wonder what happened to all those people and how they're doing.
Loan deferments are already a common practice. Even if you came up with a different accommodation, the point is that mortgages are significantly simpler to address compared to rent.
Are there differences in vaccination in the affected population?
A noteable difference is the age group of high risk group is ~65 in Italy and ~80 in Sweden. (Citation needed, I only found secondary sources). These ages correspond to changes in vaccine regimen in the affected countries. Might the younger inmates have been vaccinated differently?
>ensuring we have masks on hand, unconsciously observing social distancing, being wary around crowded spaces like airplanes and airports

Wow it only took 3 months of brainwashing to permanently change your subconcious behaviour and make you paranoid of other people and the outside world? I sure hope most of humanity is at least slightly stronger willed then that and doesn't now live like a scared rabbit.
Is the material here different to the Crypto 1 Coursera course offered by Dan Boneh?
For my first encounter with lowercase xi, I was sure the professor was taking advantage of his tenure and trying to pass off a scribble as a variable, and that was with my having made a point to familiarize myself with the Greek alphabet the previous semester. Somehow I don't remember him bothering to pronounce it!

Then there are the German algebraists who developed ring theory, for whom Greek letters were not sufficient -- they reached for their Fraktur. The correspondences for certain letters -- like A and S -- can be inscrutable to neophytes.

While I get why notation shouldn't matter, I do find it to be more tiring to read new notation where I don't already have an internal pronunciation.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m most definitely not advocating it. But keep in mind there’s folks considering shooting up bleach because Podium Dementor mused about it ‘sarcastically’. People’s cognitive processes surprise, sometimes.
The most adult teenagers I know all have seen shit and just skipped being teenagers. It sadly catches up with them.
Side question:

The very first comparison of covid-19 and seasonal flu I read (before covid-19 was called covid-19) said that covid-19 would have a mortality rate of 1.5% and seasonal flu of 3%, therefore covid-19 would be less deadly. In recent months I often read the same statement turned around, which is already confusing. Now here we talk about a tenth of the same numbers turned around.

I mean, either it's not standardized what "mortality rate" means or the numbers are all over the place and one can't really say which is more deadly.

Could someone with more knowledge in this area summarize the current status and maybe where the confusions might come from?
>I have a hunch that once the severity of the pandemic eases, we may see an increase in car journeys for holidays, particularly for continental Europe.
>But people can only tolerate a certain amount of time in the car and so this may affect where people travel.

As an American, I would routinely drive 3+ hours to visit family in the same state, or 6+ hours across several states from my childhood home to university. Growing up in the Midwest, I got used to measuring distance in hours of highway travel time. I wouldn't make those trips every week or every month, but 5-6 times in a year would not have been unusual. I know many people who drove cross-country when moving from East to West Coast (a multi-day road trip), or vice-versa. Road trips in general are firmly rooted in the American experience, as captured in films such as 'National Lampoon's Vacation' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.'

Perhaps post-pandemic Europe will see its own road trip renaissance, complete with motels, minivans, and roadside attractions?
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> Business is paid for by businesses, and premium economy is paid for by, uh, cheap businesses.

I think this is probably wrong, but admit I don’t have the numbers to back it up. Last few years I’ve flown ~100 sectors in J and ~20 in PE, mostly intercontinental, and my impression is that there’s a strong showing of leisure travellers, based on the large number of couples and families. Could be expats with decent packages tho.
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As others have noted, “not confirmed” does not mean that we have to take all that we know about viruses and immunology and trash it (yet). In all likelihood in due course it shall be confirmed. There’s no reason to believe this virus is fundamentally different from any other.
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A lot of people wear their shoes on their bed and don’t wash their hands after using the restroom. Sadly, I think your assumption is off the mark :(
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I'm right with you -- I used to only wash my hands when I felt like I could've touched something gross, or when using the bathroom. And before cooking for other people. It wasn't something I really thought of too often.

Now, anytime I do anything, I wash my hands. Feels weird not to. Don't know if that is ever going away since I'm doing it instinctually already now
This could possible be gamed/abused. Make great discovery - get grants and tenure - only to retract the finding - and keep the money.
How quickly does Netflix get those shows? I believe Hulu gets them the day after broadcast. Maybe the network licensing term are different depending on the delay between broadcast and streaming?
> Given the vast number of surveillance cameras I saw last time in London, I doubt this would add significantly to their capabilities either.

The majority of CCTV is privately owned. The vast majority of CCTV is not proactively monitored. Tracking someone using London CCTV is someone staring at a screen for a number of hours trying to follow them on playback.

I’ve had the joy of recreating someone’s movements in a nightclub from CCTV. A 6 hour night out took me days to reconstruct, and that’s using a small number of cameras in a well defined area.

CCTV as a mass surveillance tool just doesn’t work.
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager.

Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation, extreme polarization, and resulting anxiety.

I've personally witnessed the effect on reasonably well educated adults in my life; I can only imagine how much worse it must be for those with less general experience and knowledge.
I'm not sure, honestly; there used to be a really long forum thread with random hacks that helped some (but not all) people and there were apparently a lot of conflated bugs that confused the whole thing, so I stopped trying to follow it and gave up.
> It's better to first introduce ads into the current subscription plan, and then introduce ad-free subscription levels at a higher price.

The moment you introduce ads to your service you invite a disease that will rot your service to the core.

The next step after ad-free subscription levels at a higher price is... ad-full subscription, because why leave money on the table, when you can get people to subscribe and then show them ads anyway (maybe different ads, maybe less of them, but still).
I've spent years learning and practicing good software engineering practices. Whenever I read about quality issues in scientific code, I wonder: how are they expected to learn these things?
> LCCs are interesting, because I would argue they support my case

I think they bolster equally well the hypothesis that people will pay more, but they are guided to the cheapest option by Google Flights and so on, and then don’t price compare add-ons. Hard to know without hard data.
Unfortunately it took a couple of generations! At a macro level, everything will be fine eventually, you're right. But short term pain regardless.
This didn’t work for me. It said something was blocking my face. This was with a black mask, not a bandana.
> It's also bullshit to call financial aid from the government, that's needed because of government action, a bail out.

No it’s not bullshit and it’s because of a pandemic mostly, very little because of government action. The government will make it legal again soon to open your business but many will still need aid for time to come because there will be less demand.

Will we be subsidising empty restaurants, hotels and airplanes for an entire year or more because it is not ‘their fault’?
I'd love to know for sure too, I'll report back if I can find anything conclusive!
This is hands down the best book on applied crypto, especially for people who want to self-learn crypto. I started reading it since version 0.1, but every time I pick it up I learn something new.The fun application section in each chapter is pure gold. The exercises are challenging but super rewarding. I can't do many of them, but reading the problem statements is usually enough to make me realize I don't understand something.

When I started learning crypto, I spent a lot of time reading A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra [1] another free, high-quality book by Shoup. I did a lot of exercises, even corrected some results in the book, and at one point thought that I wanted to publish a solution manual. I emailed professor Shoup, but he said it may not be a good idea because people would copy my solutions for their homework. It turns out he's right. The blog posts that I published still get hit from time to time, and the search keyword is always solutions for NTB [2] =).

Later on, I took CS255 [3] from Boneh. I had to pay for it myself. IIRC it was $4,000 or something. It was a huge amount of money where I'm from. I took an overdraft from my bank to pay for it, the best money I ever spent! I still remember in one of the classes when Boneh was talking about the Diffie-Hellman protocol he paused to ask us, "Do you know where this was invented?" Nobody knows, then he pointed to his left and said, "In a room a few yards from here". I felt like I was part of this amazing history. There's a stream of knowledge flowing through me and maybe one day I'd discover something cool.

Boneh is simply the best teacher. He knows everything. I like it when he poses an open problem, and ends with "if you can solve this, I'll be a friend forever". He doesn't just love teaching, but also knows how to inspire and apparently can't stop explaining things.

[1] https://www.shoup.net/ntb/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS851US851&ei=z0...

[3] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cs255/
This wasn't a big problem due to a package being suddenly upgraded in existing code. It's because a scaffolding tool (Create React App) used to set up new projects would set those projects up with the latest (presumably patch, maybe minor) version of the dependencies. In other words, because those projects did not exist yet, there was nothing to pin.

Unless you mean Create React App should pin all of their (transitive) dependencies and release new versions multiple times a day with one of those dependencies updated.
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And if you know don't want a command in your history, prefix it with a space.
As someone not on Twitter, I do see an awful lot of good content on the platform. By not engaging with it directly I can usually skip out on or ignore the worst parts of it.
Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if the next “superspreader” event after this first set of lockdowns is caused by someone who deliberately infected themselves.
> The future is unikernels

I agree somewhat, but I wonder if serverless will ultimately eat unikernel's lunch. Well, if the price comes down. :)
Note that in this case the dependencies also include compilers (for several languages, because front-end projects use multiple languages, have to be compatible with varying levels of support for those languages, and there's some leeway for the consumer of the scaffolding tool as well to choose which toolchain they use - but the other options get installed as well). Do you also review the code of your compilers and runtimes? Test frameworks? Static analysers?
You can't verify the OS, you can't verify the network connection between your apps, you can't account for poor business requirements that result in formally verified hackable code, etc...
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Of course not, because if you write say a sorting algorithm the standard tool for that is structured programming primitives. It would be explained as text in a textbook, with ifs, whiles and variables assignations, not CFG / DFG prilitives.

In contrast for instance in music, patchs were already the main interaction and creation mean even before computers existed - see e.g. music studio patchbays, modular synths or even guitarist pedalboards. So people in that field already have the mental model of a signal flow and bricks connected together. Both models can mix - a lot of people use small snippets of code in Max/MSP for instance. In the software I develop, https://ossia.io it's super common that people will rely on a JS script embedded in a timeline for one small part of their score. Etc etc..
Yet it's still unwatchable with so many commercials.
Ah wonderful, needed this for so so many of my projects
SouthWest would certainly agree with you, which is why they de-listed themselves from all the major OTAs a few years ago. That was before the UI updates for basic economy, though, so it's hard to say if that changed anything -- but of course they haven't been back.
> Yet it is hard to believe scientists would be the ones who only ship flawless software.

The job of a scientist is really not to ship software, that's what a team of engineers would do.
I became a young father with 19, after way too much party starting from 15. So naturally I was concerned that my son would behave like me at that age. Or even just 50%.

So I was kinda dissapaointed how well behaved he is now with 22. Mostly interested in E-Sports, Tinder and his CRM job.

Said that, becoming a father at 19 was a great career move. Got a job making websites in the dot-com area as I needed money and was very motivated.

So when the first education programms in Europe started ad websites, webprogramming.I had already 7 years experience. There is value in a non standard CV.
sharing this because I thought it was very interesting that firefighters in CA affected the legislation to prevent cell towers from being installed on fire department facilities.

>> (3) The small cell is not located on a fire department facility. [0]

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Hmm. That makes more sense now.
Do you think these are counted differently? TV viewers statistics often use average number of people in a household, iirc. I would guess the HBO number is just the actual number of plays, no matter how many people viewed on that screen.
"Free stuff sells well!"

-- I can't remember where I've read it.
Maybe loose terminology so ending up getting case fatality rate confused with mortality rate?
This aligns with my experience with https://eloquentjavascript.net, except that I put it online before publishing on paper, and my hunch is that it wouldn't have reached anywhere near the level of fame (and thus sales) it did if it hadn't been available online.
On that note: every company I've been at struggles with even just KPIs (yet they all have google analytics).

I love tools like Mixpanel/Amplitude/Indicative which give you great statistic, an easy query UI and nice plotting. I believe you can use it ethically by logging sessions only and removing any sensitive data if there is any: Most product interactions are quite boring and if you buy sex toys I need to record that order anyways and could only hide it from the 3rd party tool.

What really surprised me is that there is no open source self hosted alternative to these tools, nothing comes even close.
Yes, there was a golden period. After slashdot. Before ... well, nothing. Maybe reddit?
You can still uninstall apps, even without root access:

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...
So maybe FRAM will finally have it's day.
It's the difference between IFR and CFR. The IFR is the infection fatality rate meaning everyone in the population who has been infected. The CFR is the case fatality rate, those who are sick enough to show up at a hospital, or well, get tested and confirmed positive. Which nowadays is essentially the same and a small fraction of total cases.

We see here that flu seems to have an overall IFR rate of 0.002%. Many orders of magnitude smaller than COVID19.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/flu.htm
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There is no empirical evidence for the US lockdowns
Maybe living with the knowledge that the sea lurks to drown you gives them fortitude ;)

I live in northern Germany, we've got plenty of bad weather and always have, and you can see lots of cycling when spring blesses us with a sunny and warm day, but it drops when it rains.

Maybe it's intention ("I want to ride my bike to work because reasons") vs opportunity ("I can take the bike, it's so nice outside") that helps create all-season bikers.
Yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972658
+1

When I'm learning a new language, I often use Cryptopals as a good source of exercises.
Probably because it still earns them money over not showing you anything!

I have come to believe that over a period of time producers and consumers both will realise that the middleman cares more about it’s own cut over either of them.

Less cynical thoughts;

1. I don’t know if and what kind of controls/flexibility YouTube allows on demand side, but it could be a “foot meet gun” story. ie advertiser is new to platform and messed up targeting and/or is over-bidding.

2. Advertiser might think 1 cent CPM is worth it, no one else bothers to bid on your data (based on your description) - still kinda ties into cynical view.
They get paid for displaying the ads to you, so that's what they do :-) It's really that simple. And they will continue to do that while advertisers get a return on their ads (it isn't clear if they do, sometimes it can take a while for the market to realize that a certain fad strategy simply does not work). But I'm guessing it does work.
Any increase in price leads to some people deciding to skip the flight entirely. You might only need to raise prices by 30% percent or so to have a half-empty plane, if your customers are highly price-sensitive.

I would probably take fewer short holiday trips during the year - switch to 1-2 long holidays instead of 6-7 weekend trips. That way the cost of flying takes up a lower percentage of the overall holiday budget.

If people get used to higher prices, I also expect airlines to try and maintain them even after the seating restrictions are lifted, same as adding carry-on bag fees but not lowering the base price to compensate.