skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd reckon it's "doable" but not "easy", putting it in the realm of professional epidemiology. People are also dying less in car crashes, pollution-induced asthma, etc. There's quite a bit that may need to be accounted for. I suspect analyses will have decent error bars a year or so from now, but it's unlikely we'll get precise realtime estimates from this methodology. Would love to be proved wrong.
Yeah, this explanation was messed up. Also, if you look at the graphic associated with this, it seems like people both upstream and downstream of the individual were infected and it is not clear if some of them had the infection simultaneously or were actually infected by the first person. Lots of questions here.
The software corollary would be that Apple can no longer host GarageBand and Keynote on the App Store, and Google can no longer host GMail or Google Docs on the Play Store.
I gave up on Linux desktop when Lubuntu file manager removed its tree view. A few months ago I read somewhere that it was restored. These news sound promising so I've taken a look and... it turns out that lxde is gone. Out of luck.
Another point is that when installing Snap packages from the command-line, the verification tick only appears after the install has finished, by which point it is already too late.

You can view package info prior to installing, but if we're talking about a typosquatting issue here, that doesn't really help.
Actually, that's a feature too. Feeling cold? Charge on the left. Feeling warm? Charge on the right.
One of those mitigations is increasing hospital surge capacity.
I've been super happy with Gentoo in production for at least a decade. I don't see the issue? I have Gentoo on my desktop+laptop too. But, I also run loads of Debian server systems too. My worst upgrade experience has been Ubuntu systems
> It would process Snapchat's dog filters in femtoseconds, firing up and tearing down millions of kubernetes clusters every frame (because it would be easier to write it that way).

No, it wouldn't. Those tasks would just become less efficient with time as developers stopped caring to optimize them, as has happened with the overwhelming majority of consumer software for the past several decades.
You could try stripping the Google Play signatures... and just doing a hash check against an existing version you build yourself.
I've had this problem too for a while now with my MBP 2017. The left ports can't be used for charging at all. The moment I plug in the charger, the fans start running at full speed.

I 'm having issues even on one of the right side port. I can't use it for anything. If I plug in my monitor, It shows me "USB Accessories Disabled" error. If I plug in my HDD, it just doesn't work. I've tried resetting the SMC and PRAM. Anyone had similar experience ?
Wouldn't brightness have a cube root relationship to energy, because it radiates into space?

No. The light actually expands in a 2-D wave. So it falls off as the square of distance.

But if we consider 2 sources near each other, they both spread out the same amount by the time they get to us. Therefore there is a linear relationship between energy and apparent brightness. (On top of the inverse square relationship to distance.)

Hopefully this helps!
I understand your idea, but I still think they are and should be defined as marketplaces, with a scrutiny any marketplace should get.

The first reason is, Amazon isn't doing much curation (if any), due to their size they can't do proper curation, and bots are terrible at it (either based on keywords or reporting). This is proven by counterfeit items being sold, listings being stolen/manipulated, biased report systems.

Then Amazon claims they aren't liable for the products sold - the customer belongs to Amazon (you can't even have access to their names anymore), the listings belong to Amazon, everything except what arrives at the door.

At last, Sellers pay for the product advertising Amazon does, it's called a Referral Fee (ranges from 8% to 15%). In fact, the Seller pays for everything (and they should, yet the amounts are up for discussion).

So they have all the symptoms of a marketplace, yet Amazon plays what ever role is more suitable for them.

I only think they should be enforced the rules of a market place in any developed place in the world.

No real private marketplace would be open if they were selling counterfeits. Even if they sold legit products as well, until they purged everything counterfeit they would not be open, and they'd pay fines for it.

I bet if any public Health/Goods inspection force would be deployed on ANY amazon warehouse, they'd find shady shit. But such public organizations don't have the tools/protocols to do what they do in the real world.

I agree with you when you say, this isn't limited to Amazon.

For example, why can't we get the full data from the customer that purchases from us? Why can't they be our customer on Amazon? Amazon hoards everything, and we get the scraps.
I think it means that they resolved any found vulnerabilities before the audit was published. Therefore none of the found vulnerabilities were _outstanding_ when they published it. In this case _outstanding_ means that the auditors have not yet verified a fix.
We will never have enough testing capacity if this is not the policy objective. Right now no government leadership is working towards a goal of millions of tests per day. That is what this article is trying to change.
I suggest aws (probably elasticbeanstalk, maybe a raw box) simply because it's a very well trodden path. Lots of helpdocs, tutorials, instructions, etc etc etc.

Assuming you're a professional in the US / west europe, etc, the diff between $20 or $30/mo and $5 or $0 per month is negligible, while the time savings just from staying on a standard path can be huge.

My default suggestion would be:

Elastic Load Balancer, to talk to the internet and terminate SSL;

Elastic Beanstalk or something similar to host a box;

Certificate Manager for your SSL cert;

Route53 to serve your DNS.

All of the above should be cheap and, again, a very well trodden path with tons of help docs and people familiar with configuration.
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> "Can i expense my lunch at home?"

You're getting downvoted, but that sadly does reflect the mindset of some clueless entitled participation-trophy-winning employees I know.
there is a terminal emulator called terminator. It has a lot of nice features, including split screen keyboard broadcasting. very useful if you have many machines with the same configuration. https://terminator-gtk3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Should I upgrade to the new MacBook Air?
I've been using my 2014 Air and have never had a better laptop. I've been skeptical about upgrading given price, keyboard issues, and because my air has just kept chugging along. Should I get the new Air or should I be looking at a different laptop altogether (I'm mainly doing basic stuff - emails, browsing, excel, streaming)
Without taxpayer funded healthcare, the consumer is at a disadvantage against healthcare providers as they are completely unknowledgeable about what they are buying, and have low ability to shop around.

If everyone was forced to use healthcare.gov to purchase health insurance, then we could have a viable market similar to auto or home insurance, where consumers reward the insurance companies that negotiate lower healthcare costs by signing up for their lower premiums.

It is the obfuscation of costs by way of the tax advantage given to employers subsidizing healthcare that greatly reduces the insurability of the people on healthcare.gov since many healthy people are silo’d out into lower risk employer pools, and therefore reduces the amount of insurers that can exist and compete for business.
Same time frame for me. I'd heard of the Internet (by way of "The Cuckoo's Egg" and coverage of the Morris worm) but being out in the boondocks with no college close by there wasn't any chance of getting Internet access at that time. The X.25 networks, and just the idea of always-on networked computers, were breathtaking to me.
John Conway's Lesser-Known Results
My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
FTA:

>The new rules could wipe out nearly half the products on Amazon.in, said Satish Meena, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. “It’s likely to disrupt availability for customers,” he said.

>The biggest beneficiary from the tightened rules could be Reliance, which is India’s largest private company and owns the country’s biggest brick and mortar retail chain.

In theory India standing up to giant foreign corporations. In practice, a huge giveaway to another giant corporation at the expense of Indian consumers and a big warning to other companies hoping to expand to or invest in India.
I run Arch Linux for work even though we're a Debian shop, and it has a great many efficiency advantages. I think in hours they are more than worth the three hours of productivity loss it would take me to repair my machine in case something bad happens. Indeed, AUR and the extreme adaptability of Arch probably saves me 2-3 hours a week.
It doesn't have to be built in SV, SV just wants to make the money. They're happy to put offices in Hyderabad, Singapore, Hong Kong (maybe), wherever works, staff the offices up and build there.
Similarly how Microsoft launching Internet Explorer to beat Netscape and eat another Market was technically more competition (for a while, until they've established another monopoly and all competition ceases).
fwiw, i run debian unstable in production for 6+ years, updating every few weeks, with 0 issues.

i would assume that testing should be rock solid.
> the city i'm targeting has imposed ban on billboards

If people were so fed up with billboards to the point of banning them, why would you do something similar even though it's hated by enough people to pass a city-wide ban on it? And why do you think the city can't ban your solution just like they did with billboards?
Isn't it considerably more likely that the flu they all had from CES was... well... the flu? Given January is the tail-end of flu season?
This post does not offer evidence that could either support or contradict your question.
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How about subuser, then?
Yes, we are going to add additional privacy regulations such as PIPEDA (Canada), LGPD (Brazil), OAIC (Australia), DPDA (Singapore), and basically to follow each geography that will legislate similar regulations.
> I feel Apple is now run by business people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
This isn't JS to Vulkan. You are talking about the Obsidian proposal [1] that was not accepted or implemented.

WebGPU is higher level. High enough to hide the most nasty aspects of Vulkan, yet low enough to still extract the performance benefits of a proper API.

Implementing validation and proper input sanitation is undoubtedly a big challenge. Each browser engine(!) vendor is going to be tackling that separately. We are ready to learn on Vulkan mistakes and drive this story of validation and CTS to be better. One of the things that make a difference in comparison to Vulkan is that validation is not an afterthought, not a side developer assistance tooling. Validation is in the core of WebGPU, it's mandatory and always enabled, so chances are it will be more polished.

[1] https://github.com/kvark/WebGLNext-Proposals/blob/obsidian/O...
I'm curious as to how it gets usernames as I never input that anywhere.
I'm pretty sure GP means actual quarantine. We are not quarantining hundreds of millions. We are advising hundreds of millions to practice social distancing.
No, the point of this paper is that masks are not completely, absolutely, perfectly, 100% effective and foolproof, and therefore we shouldn't use them at all.

I really have to wonder if the people pushing this have some kind of agenda.
iOS Safari and desktop Safari aren't identical.
And it happened gradually. "Ingredients: ... Sugar and/or High Fructose Corn Syrup ..." appeared on the label for the longest time.
Swapped Lubuntu 18.10 on an old dell book w xp and was really impressed by everything. Well, everything except the boot time ( and bootloader ) for that matter.
>>" People aren't interested in MMT because it is a neat model; but because if we use that model then it becomes very hard to explain that policies are wasteful uses of time and stuff. It is very easy to make a taxpayer understand why government waste is bad. Quite hard to make people take an interest when nobody knows if they are net givers or takers"

> So, basically, what you are saying is "let's lie to people" so we can have a smaller government.

That is not at all what roenxi is saying. That is what roenxi is saying MMT is saying, except for the "smaller government" part.

It also is you putting (incorrect) words in someone else's mouth, which is very much not cool.

It is also coming somewhat close to a personal attack (since many of us consider lying to be immoral), which is against site guidelines.
It's a problem of limited resource allocation. The _point_ is that we have limited tests, so given limited supply why are we wasting the tests on those we think are sick. The limited supply could still be directed towards asymptomatic carriers. Wouldn't be testing everyone we want, but it's still more valuable than the allocation of tests right now.
How do we get rid of all this layer of inneficiency? Must be possible but nobody is talking about getting rid of this but "fixing" it. Fixing may not be possible or too expensive. As consumers we should avoid paying as few middle man as possible. Today I just found out my health insurance is,of course, going up.
Sorry who should we compare them to?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90494347/american-billionaires-h...

People at the top are profiting while people at the bottom are either sacrificing or outright dying.
From my estimate, they produce plastic resin in pellet form. Imagine a material that is like coarse plastic sand.

If you are making a respirator mask, another factory will take these pellets, heat it to melting, and basically spray the hot plastic to form a sheet with very fine plastic fibers. Because the fibers need very specific properties, they probably use a custom plastic resin, not a regular commodity resin.

If you are making protective clothing, a different factory will take the pellets, heat it to melting, and slowly extrude it through a nozzle. Once you get a sheet, you cut it to size, and maybe glue some different pieces together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6V0w-ajtN8
Somewhat, though there are some missing features:

https://docs.lambda.store/docs/overall/rediscompatibility/

From a customer's perspective, "serverless" means consumption-based pricing as opposed to reservation-based, regardless of the actual technology being used.
Check out the "Quick actions" screen that supports multiple actions at once.
I use both protonmail and gmail, with protonmail used for things that I feel require more privacy, such as banking. One thing that I really do miss, and I understand the reasoning, is being able to effectively search for an email. Since the content is encrypted you can only search for what is in the headers.
Our technology also continued to evolve throughout the war, updated fighters, better engines, even whole new designs. The Germans as far as mass produced designs went were effectively frozen in 1939. A lot of this was the complete inefficiency of the Reich Air Ministry at project management, as well as the political supremacy of the Heer over the Luftwaffe. In addition to the political whims of a dictatorship (Technological choices were often driven by ideology, and perception, much more than in the other dictatorship at the time (the Soviet Union, where for the most part, the technocrat reigned supreme))

All this said, from purely a material point of view the war in europe was won by the allies in 1941 when the US joined the conflict, but the Axis could have dragged the conflict out much longer had they had an effective strategic bombing program, and more modern fighters.
Right, but a type system is as good as it is used.

And Java having a good one is no protection against the development cultures of large (consulting or non-tech) companies where the main metric is not the performance of the software neither the frugality of the hardware it runs on.
I bought a few for old times sake during the last limited release in 2016 (edit:err, 2018 I guess, [1]). They didn't keep for very long and tasted a bit off to me or maybe my palette has evolved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi
I remember working in the "server room" of one of the early ISPs. There were about 100 individual phone lines coming off the wall, each going into a modem. It was like a river of phone cable. Each modem also had its own serial cable and power brick, too, of course. The bricks were pretty large, so there were power strips chained 3 layers deep. It felt about 100 degrees in there (no AC or cooling of any kind.) Thinking about it now, I'm surprised the whole place didn't melt down.
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If they aggregate data from individuals, they're using the individual's data. They didn't get off on a technicality, they're simply lying.
To explain the cavalier attitude expressed by people with symptoms: the “CES Flu” is a real thing. I’ve gone 11 years in a row now, and either me or my brother usually catches it every year. Something about thousands of international visitors in the same space, touching all the same things I guess.

Interestingly, I took a really proactive approach this year with liberal hand sanitizer usage and neither of us got sick!
> Non-covid diseases still require the use of PPE.

The PPE required for some COVID-19 symptoms in the absence of clear indication of a droplet/airborne transmissible condition are different than for COVID-19. You don't usually use droplet, much less airborne, protections for every patient presenting with a fever, or GI symptoms, or several of the other ways COVID-19 can present, but you must with the prevalence of COVID-19 until you can rule it out.

And it's even more critical to identify COVID-19 or it's absence in sick patients when part of your containment strategy involves segregating ftreatment facilities (part of the capacity surge has been in establishing either new COVID-19 specific facilities or new facilities to handle non-COVID-19 cases while existing capacity is dedicated to COVID-19.)
I have the same stand and it does absorb a good amount of heat when the Mac is running at full power (the angle helps there too), albeit not a true "heat sink". The rubber has negligible displacement.
My theory is that this will un-block Apple from making an OS that runs the same apps on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. If they start to sell Macs with custom ARM processors, they could eliminate the feature gap between MacBooks and iPads, invest more into software quality and testing, and less into the "legacy" macOS 10.

The iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard is already basically a laptop, just with a crippled OS. It's not difficult to imagine incremental software updates that bring the OS closer to what you get on macOS.
Maximum power saving mode on a modern Samsung will last a week and still have more features than those old phones.
Controlling a pandemic is certainly a compelling interest, but as far as I know no government has attempted to show that a general closure of businesses and churches is the least restrictive means that will achieve it. Many acknowledge that there are less restrictive means, and have a medium-term plan to move to those lesser restrictions, but say we shouldn't explore them right now because it's too dangerous.
Right now, there are no names but auto generated ids.

The goal is to eventually let you choose a name and display who edited which pieces on the text.
I am summarizing what science states.

I have read numerous scientific papers on both SARS, MERS and
COVID-19. It is pretty clear that the diseases are not similar at all. (SARS - MERS yes, SARS - COVID no). Are seriously claiming that scientist consider the diseases similar? They don't.

On the CDC statements I don't get what your point is. These are statements by the CDC to the population.

In the first they want people to tighten the lockdown. In the second they predict that tighter regulations will lead to more deaths in the winter.

There is no interpretation there, this is what they announced to the public. The two statements together make no sense. Notably you say "I could spend forever on back and forth" but you don't offer anything - and perhaps the CDC statements should not be like that. The statements are so because as I said along, the CDC are also confused and unsure what to right course of action is.
This is a totally solid clever / dumb idea.
How the pandemic changed traffic from 400M visitors on 172 Stack Exchange sites
On the off chance you haven't seen this particular xkcd yet: https://xkcd.com/1172/

It's a little scary just how often xkcd is relevant.
Might-have-beens have no relevance to the ethics of the choices we make now. We are in the middle of a vast medico-economic experiment. It is bizarre to consider the ethics of only the medical side of the experiment, not the experiment as a whole.
Also, 2016/17 MBPs have half bandwidth on the right-side ports, this was fixed in the 2018 refresh.

tl;dr: charge on the right, monitors on the left.
That's certainly a person choice, but given the nature of the disease, if you get to that point, you're going to pass uncomfortable and unable to communicate with your loved ones. It's the nature of this particular beast. I don't want a doc not ventilating me just for a more comfortable end of life, because it won't be. At least on a ventilator I'll be in a coma.
Retrospective antibody testing should be viewed carefully, given the relatively low specificity (i.e., high rate of false positives).

If there’s a high clinical suspicion (could be relevant in this case, though it may also represent the normal flu), the utility of the testing improves.
Yes, as you can see in the code, the loop executes once for each bit to the right of the leftmost set bit or equivalently ⌊log₂(n)⌋ times. Naively this suggest a runtime of O(log(n)) but the numbers become huge pretty quickly and then all the arithmetic operations are far from O(1). The actual runtime is probably more like O(n²) or O(n² log(n)) after one accounts for the runtime of the big integer operations.
So what? iPhone making a ton of money isn't a good excuse for why my laptop made by one of the richest companies in the world is a worse experience than my old MacBook Pro.
Vulkan itself is what it is now: an abstraction of (reasonably) modern GPUs on a very low level. It is certainly very useful in that it allows applications to use GPUs in ways that are very efficient and simply impossible with older APIs, especially OpenGL. The flipside is that this flexibility and the intentional thinness of the abstraction makes it hard and actually undesirable to check the validity of the API usage in actual production use. That's why the debug layer is an optional layer and not part if the Vulkan loader.

I need to check out a few things, but if WebGPU prevents access to a few hairy bits of Vulkan like explicit synchronization and memory management (the Vulkan app has to provide that), it might be securable. There are still some benefits over OpenGL left like the entire pipeline state being expressed in pipeline objects.

I don't know about DX12 or Metal in practice, so I will not comment on that.