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It is surely not anecdotal and telling about "people I know" but the top comment of this thread for Lubuntu 20.04 LTS:

"the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."

Note that 18.04 was also LTS, so whoever tries to upgrade from one LTS to another, will probably be able to start the process (like before) but at the end will with huge probability be better off just biting the bullet... and fresh install.

If the "people you know" upgrade faster then LTS to LTS they won't see a problem this time.

But being able to upgrade from one LTS to the next LTS is completely reasonable user expectation. I don't even want to try to prove that it will be broken this time.
Good call, I'll add some kind of About component
Nearly all Covid-19 patients put on ventilators die in New York clinic
I've said it before, but if I were allowed to make one rule in the current healthcare landscape it would be "consistent pricing". No charging different prices depending on who is paying.
How is a random fraudster going to suddenly get the top Google result for "Bank of America phone number"?

I'm sure it's possible, but it strikes me as a pretty large hurdle. And even if they manage to pull it off, they also need no one from the bank to notice and report it.
How hard is a policy stating maximum of n-levels depth of nested ownership allowed and any kind of cyclical ownership causes loss of control in both ways?
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60-85%

1-1/R0

Most commonly the R0 of is assumed to be 2.5-3.0, but estimates range up to 6.5.

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/27/2/taaa021/5735319
> I recently read that the CCP only accepts the top students

My understanding is that's not really true. They do ask a few high-achieving students to join, but those people tend to not be very active in the Party. They accept a lot more based on personal connections (first) and bribery (second).
We'll be working remote for another 6 months. Time for a 1:1 tune-up
What's interesting is if you look at the rest of NY numbers (-NYC,LI,Westchester). That has infection at 3.6%. Santa Clara was estimated to be 3% and LA county 4%. So it's in strong agreement with those areas.
> I would like to hear from you how does a unconscious person decide. The family decides for them, no?

I'm not sure why you think this is a rebuttal to anything I said--you're the person who said: "The point is that you can't decide for others". Is your grandmother not an other you're deciding for?

Ideally, the way an unconscious person decides is by deciding before they're unconscious and writing it down in a living will. Since you've said, "I know she wishes to at least try", ostensibly your grandmother has at least told you her what she wants verbally.

But absent that, I don't believe that "you can't decide for others" because de facto many families are put in the position where they do decide for others--their loved ones who didn't leave any indication of what they wanted in these sorts of situations.

My objection isn't to you bringing up grandmothers. My objection is to you framing it in a one-sided way, like, "So, if that was your grandmother and you had a choice of giving her a 10% chance, you wouldn't?" That doesn't acknowledge the fact that there are lots of very good reasons why one might consider not giving their grandmother an extra 10% chance of living in a difficult situation.
I vaguely remember a phone e experience where if the other person didn't hang up I was stuck with that connection.

Glitchy landline behavior from the 90s?
Mac text rendering is blurrier than Windows text rendering (and I have learned of no way of changing that despite my having used a Mac for 10 years).

Worse, if for some reason you want to change the size of the elements on the display, the only way I know how to do that on a Mac (namely, to use System Preferences :: Displays to change the "resolution" to some value other than "default for display") makes the text much blurrier. I don't have a Retina display on my Mac, but someone who does claims that even on Retina, he prefers Windows because of the blurriness of the Mac

In contrast, if you can be somewhat picky about which apps you use, text on Windows is just as sharp no matter how big or small you configure the elements on the screen relative to the default size.

(In most Mac apps, it is easy to adjust the size of the text in the main pane, but all the other text and all the other non-textual elements, e.g., icons, stay at the default size.)

>Apple has done a great job with their window manager and support for varying DPI between displays.

That might be true, but the Mac does a poor job accommodating sub-par or non-standard human visual systems (and I would guess that people who cannot easily control how far their eyes are from the screen -- e.g., people living in a small van -- would find a Mac frustrating as well relative to Windows).
The two aren’t really related tough. If you took the current MacBook and made it twice as thick, but kept all the same internal components, it might weigh an ounce more from the extra case metal. The rest would be air.
I agree with everything you are saying. This does look like good news.

However, we should remember that this is probably a mild overestimate, as the study population was assembled from those who were out and about (shopping at the grocery store, etc). People who are more strictly staying home -- and thus less likely to have been infected -- wouldn't be included in the survey.
an alternative exists. If you have a significant web presence you should definitely explore the ActivityPub ecosystem. Pay attention to established web standards.
They invested to get the market to 50b at the expensive of other products that could have been grown. The 2b figure just helps keep the edges from fraying.
This was in the UK so not very humid. Interesting that everyone's experience is so different. I just dried my hand and holding it flat with my XS placed on top, I can tilt it to about 15-20 degrees off vertical before it starts slipping off!
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https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20190518-Translatin...

This article appears to successfully statically translate arm64 binary into an x86_64 binary using bitcode.
Im still not convinced that Instagram hasnt figured out a way to identify you and your friends, and has decided theyve used up their trial images.

But maybe you are right, maybe you are part of some kind of A/B test to see if an immediate loginwall, with no trial or sample, increases or decreases sign ups.
>Like there was a problem with some float casts being UB (but should not have been).

And one of those is just about to get fixed, it looks like =]

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/71269
This should also be a lesson about having $9k in an account tied to a debit card and not following up on suspicious transactions. If the thieves had done an ATM balance check and seen a combined balance of a number of hundreds of dollars that could be counted on one hand they likely would have settled for withdrawing that and wouldn't have bothered hitting Mitch with the advanced scam to gain the bank info needed for a wire transfer. If Mitch had noticed the test withdrawals he could have called his bank and stopped the fraud there.

For how often you need that kind of cash readily accessible it's simply not worth the risk for the overwhelming majority of people.

This was a really sophisticated attack and fooled even a security conscious person but defense in depth (not having the big bucks accessible from your general use card and/or following up on unknown transactions) would have stymied it. With a good security protocol breaking one rule (not hanging up and calling back) shouldn't screw you.
Just yesterday there was an article on HN about a guy who was called by someone from the NSA who gave him detailed instructions on how to get back to him through publically availible information like 411
More contagious OR began community spread and became endemic much earlier.

r0 is part of the formula for total infected at X/Y/Z date but so is date of initial infection and size of initial infected population.
Keep in mind that if 21% of NYC residence have been infected this probably implies R0 in that population was higher than in most prior estimates of R0, which increases the threshold of immune people before R0 falls below 1.
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Exaggerated in that the California study predicted a flu like IFR (Ioannidis, one of the authors, has been pushing that as his pet theory for over a month). This shows it is more likely several times that.
I went into the private sector over the public sector solely due to pay. If you do well in the private sector in your first couple of years, your compensation will shoot up. In the public sector your compensation is tied to years of experience so when I wanted to work for the gov, they required me to take a demotion and take only 40% of what I got in the private sector.
I haven't read Ezra Klein's book, but as far as I can tell Ben Thompson's articles are mostly just-so stories[1]. His model seems to be able to predict everything that happens in tech, and when your model predicts everything that usually means it isn't very powerful at all.

Here's a thought experiment: can you use aggregation theory to make sufficiently powerful predictions to beat the stock market in the tech sector? Can Ben? My strong guess is that the answer is to both questions is no.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
If vetos are the reason, then enough people don't want to build what the author is suggesting. It's not a failure to simply not do what he (and not a clear majority) thinks is good.
I just had this experience from pnc bank. I don’t even bank with them, but a member of my household does.

The incoming message was automated, asking for (person who lives here) with a visa debit card that has fraudulent transactions. The caller id was a number not listed on the back of the card.

Pressing “1” puts you into the next phase, which asks you to “verify” your identity by - guess what - typing in your full 16 digit debit card number!

At this point I am convinced this is a scam. You google the phone number and you see tons of links saying it’s a scam.

The person calls their regular number on the back of her card and they claim no fraudulent activity.

A few days later I still get these calls so I decide to investigate. Pressing zero a bunch and asking for an agent finally gets me to a live individual. He claims they’re from pnc and they are a different section not connected to the “main” number. He’s able to recite details about the account that only pnc would know, so now I’m not sure.

I email abuse@pnc.com asking them to please either say the calls are fraudulent or acknowledge that the phone number associated with these calls is legitimate (it doesn’t appear anywhere on pnc’s web site)

I did get a response - good! But they didn’t actually change the site ... so I suppose in this case anyone who receives notification of fraud on their pnc debit card should email abuse@pnc.com to validate the calls are legitimate?
Not highest volume.

Highest gross profit (volume * margin).

And how would you ever know either of these two (volume, margin) if you were an arbitrary 3rd party?

Amazon doesn't need to branch out into every single long tail product to cause severe disruption to a retail sector that is often predicated on low single digit margins.
High risk for mortality, yes. But are they higher risk for actually catching the bug when exposed? I don't think anyone knows that.

I'm not even sure how you could come up with numbers on how much viral exposure is needed to infect someone, short of controlled experiments with volunteers. The odds of killing a few volunteers seems pretty damn high, especially if you are testing with more vulnerable folks to establish a differential estimate. That's not a study I'd want to be involved in on either side of the clipboard.
What's the state of hackintoshes currently? Maybe that would be a good compromise?
Huh, WTF?! Your FBI used to railroad random kiddies for messing around with poorly programmed dynamic pages and now you’re arguing there’s nothing wrong if a hosting provider trespasses and mines your private property?!
In Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord has a method called pluck that returns the result set as an array of strings or as an array of array of strings. I've totally done this in areas that need performance. In my experience, if you are concerned with just showing some data you should specify the columns instead of doing a *. ActiveRecord also supports that.

So, for the bulk case. ORM is safer than straight SQL and allows for more easily testable business logic. It does not block doing the things you suggest even if it is not the most common approach.
Thamks for the call out! I'm excited by the new env var and need to consider its impact on `assert_cmd`.
Is this antibody test specific for covid-19 or would it be positive on other coronaviruses? That's a real concern since the other 4 coronaviruses are endemic.
It’s not. I’ve had a similar experience, and I walked away.

Instagram is everything poisonous about Facebook’s values and platform and practices, distilled. They get nothing from me except a temporary email address, a proxy IP, and a false user-agent string.
Thank you very much for that link. Do the variants all use the same file format?

It looks like the sidecar file doesn't contain the ECC information, only checksums that allow you to know if the file is corrupted or not.
> I believe no other country has that feature.

I'm sure there are other European landline phone systems which behave the same. I don't know about the U.S.
Right. I agree.
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> isn't meant to exclude essential workers

But is specifically says

> and therefore not essential workers

It doesn’t say ‘not only’ - it says ‘not’.
Search for the Game Development Policy for an example. You cannot develop games in your spare time with friends.
> unparalleled retina support on macOS

What are you referring to? Windows has hires, wide gamut support.

If you are talking about the icon mess that Windows is nowadays, then I agree. But I hardly care about icons in the operating system.

If you want a powerful system, an 8-core 16-thread Zen2 Ryzen with an RTX 2080 Super is a beast for the same kind of prices you get a Macbook Pro.
Sure, but a person who goes to the store 7 times a week is ~7 times as likely to have been sampled compared to someone who goes only once a week. They are also ~7 times as likely to have contracted covid-19 at the grocery store. It's likely that they are also, in general, isolating less than the other.

This sampling would have a (possibly slight, but still unknown) bias towards people who are isolating less (who you would expect to then have a higher than average percent positive for antibodies, assuming isolating is helpful).

I don't think anyone knows whether or not this is a more representative sample than the stanford study.
Bryan's amazing talk on this nails it for me https://vimeo.com/230142234
Not sure how it works, I haven't tested it but assume in the UK at least on landlines that both parties must hang up to break the connection.

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2009/09/19/phone_di...
I don't like arguing semantics but I don't really think any of what Geekbench does is a "micro" benchmark. At least for me that typically refers to running a small snippet of code, like calculating a dot product or something. Geekbench tests whole program performance.

It's not aida64 but it is a pretty decent metric, and consistent.
The most vulnerable population to fall for scams is seniors. Also the most likely population to still be using land lines.
As a photographer, I want security and assurances that my work remains my work and is not easily stolen nor transferable without consent.

As a user, I want simplicity and way to view work based on a number of options that I choose. Not based on an algorithm or AI. My choices, my mood, my desires.

Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app. Its a platform for self promotion. Not much different than Twitter, LinkedIn or FB in that regard. I guess all social media dissolves into a self promotion circle jerk... Avoid their fate if at all possible.
The web is an ever growing rube goldberg machine of security vunlerabilities. The web is impossible to secure and the web will never be secure. Only browse sites that you trust, with JavaScript disabled and adblocking enabled, and hope that they haven't been compromised. This is the best you can do in the face of the reckless behavior of browser vendors.
What if you copy paste code that is under a viral license ?
I don't think I buy the thesis here. There are plenty of western countries without the "vetocracy" structure of the US's republic. And yet they still haven't built much infrastructure or accomplished much in public works for the last 30-40 years.

The reason is simple -- there's no money. No public money.
There's more private wealth than there's ever been, but public sector investment is a fraction of it. The state has lost the ability to collect reasonable tax revenues from private entities, and it's lost the ability to efficiently spend it.

And in large part this is because of a protracted ideological war that one side has effectively lost and another side has effectively won.

Excessive partisanship is a symptom of this ideological divide, not the cause.
Banks do this themselves too I think. I seem to have the recent memory where I called Chase, then they called me back. For the life of me I can't remember what I as calling about though
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Honestly, I think I prefer not having access to something like Pinterest[1] which lets you have some access for a bit and then as soon as you try to interact with the site in any meaningful way (usually to leave it) they insist you sign in.

At least with this I know the expectation up front, rather than having it sprung on me by surprise.

[1] I've avoided Pinterest for awhile that this may not be the way they attempt to capture accounts any more.
Typically one postgres extension would have only one plugin library. So, the idea is that one crate would produce one plugin. I guess it's possible to have more than one plugin per extension, but it never occurred to me and I haven't seen that before.

Having the location of the plugin might also allow "cargo install" to work.
Can you link to the post?
Its my understanding a some of the large bricks and mortar retailers also stray away from hosting on AWS for these same reasons.
90 or 100 seems small in comparison to the number of tech workers in SF making that kind of cash
I'm not following your final point. What does it matter if Vulkan gives you more runtime checks than you were expecting?
And? Every supermarket chain does this... First they look for good-selling brand products in their assortment, then they launch a very similar product under their own house brand following the "80% of the quality for 50% of the price" principle
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You can use the Ubuntu minimal installation to keep it's footprint small.
This speaks only that you are so used to MSOffice that you don't want to study different app, not that it is really better.

When I switched to OpenOffice.org in 2006 it took me some time to switch, and you know what? I have found that OOo was way more stable, predictable and logical in how things are done. It was also really free as in freedom, and I could run it on any OS of my choice. Now, I know LibreOffice like the back of my hand and it's wonderful.

People who used MS Office all their life usually do this: launch LibreOffice,see different interface, and like "nah... I don't want any changes, I'd rather keep myself and the world vendorlocked into proprietary software".
I've noticed the battery life too! And I've always been running mainline kernels ahead of what the ubuntu repos provide.
Probably in the 80-90% range depending on the reproduction number. It would be 1-1/R0 from my understanding.
There is no reason why an all or none approach is necessary here, is there?

By my count, 10,120/15,740 of deaths have been folks over 70. If you kept people over 70 locked down (including their caretakers), you could significantly reduce the number of deaths while increasing the percentage that have had it.

In fact, only 9% of New York's population is over 70. So theoretically (though clearly not practically), you could get over the percentage required for herd immunity while reducing the deaths by 66%
that's crazy to me, what are the demographics of NYC? Is the population more susceptible to dying of Covid19 somehow? I still can't get my head around why NY has suffered so disproportionately.
The MacBook Pro 16-inch is definitely not light. It's weird because I'm used to being able to hold a laptop in one hand.
Same thing happened to me, and I tried to email them about a clear bug that occurs. They wanted the same photo verification. I was very nice in the correspondence until they requested photo verification a second time, and I was so confused why they were being so incompetent about it. It's a 0 follower account that I never had access to in the first place because it instantly got disabled, why would I care? Just fix the bug...

Basically, if you try to change the username before completing the sign up workflow the app doesn’t continue to the next page and the account gets disabled. Judging by your experience they seemingly haven't fixed it still. I emailed them in October 2019 about it, pretty sad.

Their final message to me was "We can’t give you access to this account or continue to process your request because we haven’t received an acceptable image to verify account ownership." Thanks for nothing, Facebook.
I have forever been leery of hitting the F4-F8 buttons because of the 2007 Core 2 Duo model. I used it for a couple years and remember at least 3-4 times when I decided to rest a finger up there and ended up getting scorched.
> If you only look at home rentals, yes corporations make up less than 10% of ownership. But even the small percentage of ownerships really affect things, in Chicago we can see it has repeatedly taken just a few new luxury high rises to blow up cost of living in entire neighborhoods - it has a follow-on gentrifying effect where stores rush in to serve the new monied residents and the people living there can no longer afford to participate in their local micro-economy.

You are confusing cause and effect. The luxury high rises are the result of rising demand and rising prices, not the cause. If you could magically cause prices to increase by building luxury apartments, you would see luxury apartments sprouting up all over the impoverished parts of the South side. But you don't, because the demand is not there. If you stop luxury apartments from being built in desirable neighborhoods and desirable cities, people will just bid up the prices of crappy older housing stock and drive poorer people out anyway (see: San Francisco).

Building new housing decreases the price of existing housing by expanding supply. It does not increase it. People who have a vested interest in seeing housing costs go up (landlords, existing homeowners) understand that fact, which is why NIMBYs keep voting against development. Unfortunately many people who do not want housing costs to go up do not understand the basic economic fundamentals and are motivated by reflexive hate of wealthy developers, so they sabotage their own interests by voting against new housing to the delight of their landlords.
I am not sure that I agree with outlawing political parties but removing the monetary influence companies have would help. Large companies take huge risks that if they pan out for the company they keep the profit. If something happens that destroys the company they get a bail out from society.