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>>shouldn't my doctor morally and by default be suggesting the best treatment for what I have?

>Shouldn't programmers by default be suggesting the best algorithm/programming language/design patterns for the problem at hand?

Are you implying non technical users would somehow be able to make a crucial technical design decision because they saw an ad somewhere? That seems quite absurd.

In my professional experience, every time a non technical stakeholder has tried to force a specific technology to solve a complex problem, it has been disastrous.
Covid-19 has blown apart the myth of Silicon Valley innovation
This is a helpful post technically, but the English could use some work. I'm guessing the author is eastern European and not a native English speaker. It would be a good idea to run the body text through spell check ("service" instead of "ervice", &c) and edit accordingly.

The first time you run the above command, it can take a bit as Docker needs to download

"It can take a bit of time as Docker needs to download" is proper English. Also, in the title, you need an apostrophe after "Beginners."
How do you visually differentiate nulls from zeroes? That's what stopped me from slashing my zeroes, I've considered dotting them, but it's not relevant for me anymore. I slash my 7s though, and form my 1 like that character, I don't miss off the up-tick.

Primarily nowadays I'm writing on a tablet and need to be very precise to make it readable.
Condor, a distributed computing environment, has done IO remoting (where all calls to IO on the target machine get sent back to the source) for several decades. The origin of Linux Containers was process migration.

I believe people have found other ways to do this, personally I think the ECS model (like k8s, but the cloud provider hosts the k8s environment) where the user packages up all the dependencies and clearly specifies the IO mechanisms through late biniding, makes a lot more sense for distributed computing.
I had never thought of it in those terms but come to think of it... (dons economist hat) yes... this is likely one of the few scenarios in which a higher price might actually drive up utility (and not the other way around, where market conditions of low competition combined with high utility get exploited by monopolists to drive up price). Very interesting, thank you for that insight. The higher price would make it more exclusive and thus drain the cesspool.
The show itself makes a big deal of the 'suicide mission' nature of the task. I'm not sure many viewers bothered watching the epilogue.
...and my kinds go to overcrowded 'secondaire' (with very questionable teaching quality all across the QC, yes I seen articles praising how good is QC in math)

...and I often stuck on overcrowded orange line (last year was was the worst in delays)

...had to travel for the medical reasons abroad, wait times in QC are really bad if you are not dying right now

...I also don't specifically avoid homeless people, but sometimes it hard to take cash on Sainte-Catherine - people doing drugs near indoor ATMs in the winter because they are heated

...and my kids also like BAnQ library, yet ~about a year ago all soft chairs/sofas were replaced by plastic, because BAnQ is partially a homeless shelter

But hey, enjoy your Quebec, Montreal specifically, as I see. ...and I will try to overcome my issues, in my Quebec.
Teens typically look up to pop culture produced by people who are about ten years their senior.

For current teens, that consists of vapid millennials.

No music, no cool behavior, no new anything.

The only cool stuff teens can find is from their grandparents' generation or older.

So then all they can do is go to YouTube and post a comment under some 80's video "Sigh, I was born at the wrong time" and then go back to behaving nicely.
First off, if you extrapolate the 0.5% estimate to the general population that could get the disease (let's just say 60% before herd immunity kicks in) that is one million people in America. I'm not sure if another reason is needed other than not having one-million people die in a very short amount of time.

- Survival from the disease is likely to be dependent on hospital capacity. It is reasonable to think that outcomes would be better if hospitals were not overworked. The only place in the United States were hospitals were truly overcrowding (and it is still not nearly as bad as it could have been without flattening) was New York. You can see how many people died at home (either due to unrelated health conditions that they couldn't get treated for or having covid but not being able to go to the hospital). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona.... Read stories or talk to nurses/doctors in your life about triage care.

- Treatments could improve significantly over time. For example, ventilators may not even be the recommended course of action for many cases. It is not likely we will have a miracle cure, but some treatments could help. https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disea...
> Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply that the fringe group numbers are not published

"they disagree with me so they must be fringe"

> Ramsar, Iran has ~200 mSv/year background

from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar%2C_Mazandaran "Record levels were found in a house where the effective radiation dose due to external radiation was 131 mSv/a, and the committed dose from radon was 72 mSv/a.[8] This unique case..." Note the word unique.

So your claim for that area is in fact higher than the highest single location they found (one house), as I read it.

> See recommendation 1e

I would if I could find it. "1e" doesn't appear in that document. Could you quote it for us? Thanks.

> The UNSCEAR team also stopped saying...

Specifically, where?
> - there were no forced labor neither for miner nor soldiers;

Yes, I remember that it was a call for volunteers across institutions and there were surprisingly many of them even among people who knew what exactly this will cost.

People were carrying pieces of undeveloped film to determine cumulative level of radiation after trips there. All sorts of things, it was really tough there but moral was quite high.
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If you're at the hypervisor level you can also use Intel PML, seems it's made for this. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09991

I'm guessing @gamozolabs (twitter) is going to use it some day soon to be fuzz billions of cases per second, with snapshot fuzzing...
> a hypothetical alternative firmware couldn't just magically bypass the encryption

No, but it could presumably brute force the pin (unless the rate limiting is hardware controlled?) or wait until the user enters it, then decrypt everything.
Now that is just doubletalk. He said it. The media is mocking it.

If folks are doing stupid stuff to spite 'the media', then that's just Darwin at work.
Overall, when accounting for all platforms and delayed viewing throughout the week, the final season of Game of Thrones averaged more than 44 million viewers per episode [1]

Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere was pirated almost 55 million times in the first 24 hours [2].

And this is when people have 100 times more choices every day.

[1] https://observer.com/2019/05/game-of-thrones-finale-ratings-...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18412159/game-of-thrones-...
So laws and parents are stopping teenagers from drinking and having sex? When did that happen?
I didn't say it requires kernel patches, just that it requires a build flag and new enough versions. It does happen that most distros do enable that build flag though.

There is a patch set for write protection support in userfaultfd that was just merged recently and I'm not sure if it's made it into any actual releases yet.
Imagine that a craftsman value of his manufacture is the time and the necessary skill applied.
I've been wondering what counts as touching your face for purposes of virus transmission.

In the paper they highlight people whose fingers are under or in their noses but I wonder if something like grazing your cheek or forehead would count. Is there some mechanism the virus would use to migrate from the forehead/cheek into the eyes/nose or is the "don't touch your face" advice really shorthand for "don't pick your nose or rub your eyes"?
> If our goal is to flatten the curve to slightly below hospital capacity, current policy has flattened the curve way too much.

Our goal is to simply avoid hospitals becoming inundated. How would it be possible to flatten the curve to "slightly below hospital capacity"? To do that we would need to know exact numbers on hospitalization rates from infections, have a testing capability that is far beyond what we currently can do, and then we would need to have fine-tuned control on peoples' behaviors and also never be wrong. We have too much ignorance about too many things to do this in a way that you would deem optimal. This is a disease that takes a median of 5 days to incubate, so as soon as we get something wrong (hint: we will get it wrong), it festers for 5 entire days before we know it, and then we're stuck with the consequences. The only rational choice is to take severe action and hope it's enough. It wasn't enough in Italy, it wasn't enough in NYC.

If you're saying that social distancing/lockdown policies are an "overreaction" because we still have ICU beds and ventilators, I think that's a pretty good sign. The entire point is to do something drastic now, and gradually ease distancing measures as it becomes safe to do so without causing additional large-scale outbreaks. As soon as we have the ability to contact-trace all new infections and can successfully contain outbreaks, we can start letting up.
When everything lines up AMD integrated graphics are very very pleasant on Linux. But you will also find random Kernel versions with obnoxious regressions and bugs you have to hunt down and fix or work around.
The word(s) for your 3d application is photogrammetry and/or videogrammetry.
Do the vendors of these languages, design patterns and frameworks have billions of dollars riding on your choice? If so, you'd better believe your non-technical customers would be seeing ads pushing them to advocate for one over another. The more non-technical the better, because technical deficiencies become less of a barrier. You already see this today with products pitched at the bosses rather than the underlings that are getting the work done.
Zeta takes some practice to make legible. Michael Covington's sheet on how to write Greek letters, while oriented towards linguists and language learners, is very clear and aesthetically appealing:
http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/pens/#GREEK
Fellow pedant! It should be apostrophized thusly: "Beginners'"
I wonder whether the effort by the syzkaller people (@dyukov) could help with the actual description of all the syscalls (that the author says people gave up on for now, because too complex), since they need them to be able to fuzz efficiently...
Completely agree with the sentiment and view of the situation.

One nitpick, there are two types of bankruptcy for businesses, chapter 7 and chapter 11.

Chapter 11 is for restructuring the business and keep it running, but it's very expensive (around $100k in legal fees in California), and it only really makes sense for businesses that have a decent outlook for the future, so it's mostly an option for mid/big-size businesses.

Chapter 7 implies shutting down a business for good. Assets are liquidated and the business completely terminated. There are also big legal risks for the company owners/officials of starting the same or similar business again after bankruptcy, as they can be accused of fraud (basically mis-using chapter 7 to avoid debt liability to then continue pursuing the same business).

Usually chapter 7 is the only real alternative to small businesses, and given the legal risks, it's unlikely they can come back to life afterwards.

This crisis will be truly devastating for a lot of businesses.
Sounds interesting. Can you tell us more about it?
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Used NixOS for a short bit, it was easy to get going with and most things works good out of the box with a pretty simple config. Didn't want to replace my linux knowledge with something this different though so moved back to something more normal for my desktop. Thinking about using NisOS on my home server though, already have the configuration.nix to get it up and running very fast which is nice obviously.
https://fortune.com/2019/04/17/game-of-thrones-season-8-pira...

> Data from piracy monitoring firm MUSO indicates the show was pirated 54 million times in the first 24 hours. That’s a steep increase from the season seven premiere, which set piracy records of its own, with 90 million illegal viewings in 72 hours.
You can because (presumably) the backup is encrypted with a key that is derived from your iThing credentials not with the phone hardware encryption key which is derived among other things from the screen lock passcode.

But if you lose the passcode to your screen-locked or unpowered device any way of getting data (that has not been backed up) out of it, while it's locked or turned off implies a security flaw even if done via a firmware signed by Apple.
The ultra wealthy in that time never looked after a family as kids or adults. They had servants who did. That was not and is not "normal", it's a weird edge case.
You can absolutely use NixOS without understanding what the article goes through. For example, I use NixOS and I don't know any of this (but I'm looking forward to learning it).

For example, on other *Nixes, you install and uninstall packages, maybe configure them, but you're not BUILDING packages. All of the complexity of this article is in the superset of what you'd normally do.

For the most part, just add things to systemPackages in configuration and `nix-rebuild switch` or install via `nix-env -i` if you want user scoped installs.
Yes its a sad thing that as anything matures, the technical terms get washed out by the tide of amateurs entering the field. The wrong error codes get used; the wrong names get put on things (e.g. Chrome is an operating system instead of a desktop). We old geezers try to stand against the waves, but get washed away.
They do the same on eBay, too. I've had to warn friends that finding the cheapest seller for a given item on eBay may still be substantially more expensive than buying the same item directly from Ikea.

(Sometimes it does make sense to buy from the eBay or Amazon marketplace reseller, if it's a small item where their markup + shipping is less than Ikea's per-order delivery charge.)
This is still sadly as relevant now as it was then. I checked out the examples and they still fail.
Man, this is just begging for parallelization.
I think the "end-to-end" statement is also misleading as you don't really know whether the communication is indeed encrypted end to end.
If you want true end to end ecryption you can grab a tool that will generate public and private key pair, send public key to your contact and ask them for their public key. Then use tool to encrypt your following messages with your private key and received messages with your contact's public key.
Then it doesn't matter whether underlying transport is encrypted or not. Things like Whatsapp give false sense of security. I am pretty sure the messaging can be accessed but nobody will ever admit it.
You can make it less obvious that you are sending encrypted messages by using two way binary to English text transcoder, so your messages will appear like an English conversation (although easy to pick as gibberish by a censor)
wow i just added https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956082 a few days ago, on point no?
If you were happy with it and need to do it again? If there were small gotchas you aren't eager to rediscover?
Probably off topic, but just want to say cargo does the same things on the Rust side, and it has been annoying me to hell.

And it's even worse in cargo, because specifying "1.2.1" means the same thing as "^1.2.1".
A long fascinating article–or is it a fascinating long article? (2014)
The irony here is that the miniseries was itself propaganda denouncing lies. The underlying point rings true, but I kept seeing people watch it and feel somehow superior to those backwards soviets whilst seeing such a stacked narrative. As someone who used to work with radiation this really annoyed me.

The other thing I will add is that the miniseries drew heavily from Svetlana Alexievich’s master work ‘Voices of Chernobyl’, which I cannot recommend enough. Perhaps what really annoyed me is that the miniseries did a second rate job retelling people’s stories, while the book was so rich.
I'm not knowledgeable on the subject, but reading the related wikipedia page [1], and in particular the section about liquidator mortality, leaves me skeptic about the <100 numbers.
And there are also deaths which are more loosely related, but still related. See for example the abortions: "an estimated excess of about 150,000 elective abortions may have been performed on otherwise healthy pregnancies out of fears of radiation from Chernobyl" [3]. Even if you consider most if not all of these ill-advised, these are nonetheless lives lost due to the disaster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Abortions
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Per https://hop.perl.plover.com/book/ he used a modified version of the "POD" markup associated with Perl.
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I like to tell people that Perl is like shell scripting but with actual package management, proper data structures and flow control, easy testing, and a thoughtful and supportive community.

I mean, that's like saying C is good for embedded devices, true but definitely not the whole story. But it's been enough to get a few people to try it.
Didn't you know? Everyone living more than 40 years ago is a racist, sexist, homophobic, neanderthal.
And curiously no mention of the time a girlfriend faked a pregnancy, got the abortion money from him, and bought some furniture.

These folks are so selective in what they present, and the slant never changes.
Isn't Pi-hole unethical?
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Well, above 'sparking water' was written, but 'mineral water' was meant. Sold in bottles and in restaurants and commonly purchased is indeed mineral water. What you can easily do at home is carbonize the water and make it sparkling, without, of course, the (real or imagined) health benefits and different taste of mineral water.
Greek letters have simpler vocalisations than "c4" or whatever, though?!

This relates to internal vocalisation, a subject on HN a couple of times recently, as I don't really do that (particularly for equations) then it was never an issue for me. Though at 15 I learnt the Greek alphabet as I was into physics, that probably helped.

People who need to vocalise to read, and don't bother learning (or coming up with) a vocalisation are going to find it very difficult.
CRIU does work on mainline kernels and has for several years. However, it is still being actively developed (userfaultfd is the example the article uses -- a mainline feature which is still seeing lots of development).

It doesn't usually require additional patches to work, though they do have a fairly big job (every new kernel feature needs to be added to CRIU so it can both checkpoint and restore it -- and not all features are trivial to checkpoint). It's entirely possible that programs using very new kernel features may struggle to get CRIU to work.
To me an even bigger nightmare is your entire project or product depending on some external resource you don't control.
Here's a quote from the article you linked. Can you specify what part of it is inaccurate? Or dig around, of course you don't have to use the quote I picked. (The quote below may be unsympathetic to the President, but I'm asking where it is inaccurate.)

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Did the president recommend that Americans inject themselves with bleach as a COVID-19 cure or prophylactic? Strictly speaking, no. As McEnany emphasized, he said "you're going to have to use medical doctors" for that sort of thing. But he did idly speculate that, since disinfectants kill the COVID-19 virus on surfaces, it was worth investigating whether they might work as a treatment, and he specifically mentioned "injection," which was not only scientifically naive but reckless given the prevalence of quack remedies and wacky ideas about how to ward off the disease.
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Yeah, that was unfortunate. An engineer really did say that at a similar meeting but they were very wrong and everybody quickly realized they were wrong.
Its worse than that. Flattening the curve benefits investors in hospitals NOT the hospitals themselves or patients. Day one every city with 1/2 million people needed to build another hospital. Investors didn't want to do this as it would have been a massive investment and loss.

The ONLY thing we are doing by flattening the curve is to avoid the actual need of more hospital space which would have been unprofitable to build.
Denmark has a long term plan, which requires a sharp lockdown at first to make sure hospitals weren’t overrun, and to buy time to get our own production of protection gear and testing kits going.

We’re currently entering stage two of the plan which involves mass testing, quarantine for positives and a gradual opening of society while social gatherings of 10+ remain “illegal”. This stage will last until there is a vaccine.

I think most European countries aside from the UK has had pretty decent plans and responses because Italy showed everyone it was necessary. At the same time those plans are incredibly adoptive and agile because new information is made available all the time.

It’s hard to say though, I have access to the crisis group in the municipality where I work, and things coming from the top has been extremely coordinated throughout the whole thing, but at the same time, no one really knows what goes on inside the command bunker as we’re all just receiving instructions and sending data back.
I think this is what Thiel would call peak “indeterminate optimism”.

You don’t seem to be afflicted by the indeterminate side, which is good, but it also means this dissonance is not going away anytime soon: the majority of most of the institutions (read: 75% of <school>) that you’re trying to get in to are equally as determinate and character-forming as the one you find yourself in now.

They won’t challenge you to commit or reward you for vertical growth. Their communities will encourage you to seek out internships that will not challenge you or make you rounded, but are rather designed to “keep your options open”. When postsecondary graduation comes around, they will encourage you to pick a career path that matches those internships. It is very hard to escape those social pressures.

You have a good head on your shoulders and you should feel proud of that. Don’t let others’ anxieties be your own.
Could there not be a tie-in with law enforcement as a deterrent? Unlike electric scooters, a delivery drone has a known route it is following (and no one is picking it up to be recharged), the moment it is disturbed/picked up a nearby police officer can be notified.

Also perhaps it could use pepper spray or be equipped with a paint charge to mark the attackers, could possess a sonic weapon... or maybe it can have a self-defeat routine that essentially destroys its contents/electronics to make it useless.

As with most deterrents, the most sophisticated attackers will be able to get around them. It's just that inflection point where it becomes a problem economically, that probably can be overcome.
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It's pretty common in physics to use subscripts to label variables, like m-sub-e for mass of an electron, say.