skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canonical is at a disadvantage here because Red Hat directly employs or has significant established relationships with many of the people who make kernel release decisions. Plus, RHEL is the de facto standard enterprise distribution, which means any decision the kernel community makes regarding what they believe "enterprise" requires will often be a reflection of Red Hat's plans.

But what benefits Red Hat in the enterprise world is to their detriment in the consumer world. There's a reason the Debian/Ubuntu package ecosystem is richer and more featureful than RPM, and this is why Ubuntu dominates in the container space--because almost any piece of software that one could expect to have been packaged has been packaged as a .deb and already exists in the default package archives. I can't count the number of times I couldn't find an RPM--certainly not in the default repositories (RHEL, CentOS, or even Fedora), but not even in the third-party community repositories. And those that do exist are of lesser quality than the comparable .deb, for various reasons. (That is, the long-tail of packages is of higher quality for Debian.)

By pushing Snap, Canonical is definitely going astray. Ubuntu's competitive advantage is the Debian package ecosystem. Both Canonical and Red Hat seem to underestimate the role and importance of their respective packaging ecosystems. How many projects to revolutionize or replace RPM/Yum/whatever at Red Hat have crashed and burned? Many, though it's hard to count because half-way through they often realize what they're trying to do is functionally or even technically impossible (as with their aborted 2017 plans for RPM package streams), and scale things back to iterative improvements.

Containers are a security nightmare, and pretty much the only reason to pay Canonical and Red Hat licensing fees is for security and bug fix maintenance of their package archives. On our large Kubernetes clusters at work there are thousands of open CVEs for the containers that are being run, and we'll have to boil the oceans to get them all updated, let alone keep them updated. But updating packages is as simple as an apt-get/yum upgrade[1], and rarely do you have to worry about anything breaking, especially relative to the pain that updating containers regularly brings.

[1] If the container uses Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc you can sometimes just rebuild the container to get the newer packages. But that assumes you control the container image. Most containers come from third-party, decentralized sources (that's the point!). But Docker Hub doesn't cajole and coordinate container owners to update their crappy images. It's no substitute for the orchestration of people that are traditional package repositories.
It's not from 2018 -- Thu Apr 18 17:13:49 2019 -- the 18 may have tripped you up, it's the day of month. It's still a year old, though.

It's a cherry-pick (a copy of a commit from related code base, essentially) of this commit, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/337bd4.... The bug has a different impact in Android 10 (DOS instead of RCE), which was relased in Septemer 2019. So maybe they sort of fixed it in Android 10 and somehow forgot the backport? I'm speculating.
I recommend Debian too, but potential switchers should be aware that it has a very particular update model. You get (non-security!) software updates once every two years, and that is the version you will be on for the next two years. There are sometimes workarounds (namely backports), but they're less well tested and sometimes break.

I think this model is underrated, for all that it can sometimes be annoying. Consistency is valuable. Constant change is not good, even when the changes themselves are positive. But it does mean you'll sometimes be left with out-of-date software.

Edit: Oh, I should mention that you can also use Debian testing to get frequent updates. Primary issue here there is Debian Testing actually gets security updates later than Debian Stable.
Gov Cuomo should call up Gov Pritzger. Illinois recognized the challenge of testing supplies and asked the state universities to solve the problem. They have. Illinois is reporting a lot more positive cases in the past week because they keep increasing the number of daily tests. I believe that today was well over 12000 tests in Illinois. Anyone who feels like getting tested is now allowed to get a test.
Tests are R&D in Norway that could test entire population in 2-3 weeks. It's developed to scale, so may improve. It's coming and soon, though there will be a ramp-up.
But how can they set goals without any visibility into what a team can typically accomplish in a given time period? How can they identify better performers and worse performers?

I'm not saying agile is the right solution, (it probably isn't), but expecting higher-ups to fund a black-box team is kind of naive.
Perhaps you should contact these medical residents to remind them that they'll be "just fine": https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/terrifying-privilege-resi...

I also see a fair number of younger people on this list: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927976
How far along is development?
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Thanks for your reply! Makes sense with regards to the specificity and sensitivity. Are those more scalable supply chains ones that expose you to risk with international suppliers? My understanding, at least from what we've been hearing from our governor's press conferences (so take it with a big political grain of salt obviously), is that while we have high throughput machines capable of large numbers of tests, the reagent supply chains all go back to china leaving domestic companires reliant on international trade negotiations to be able to get the inputs they need to scale. Is that a valid type of concern and are there concerns that even if it's technologically easily scalable, the political and operational logistics of relying on third parties with different incentives could negate that advantage? I don't knwo how valid a concern that is, but that's the narrative we keep hearing here.
You: "w-works on my machine"

Ok bro cope however you want. Your defeatist attitude and worthless comment really make a strong case for using ubuntu.
Sure, but don't just compare to people who are also underpaid. Also compare to management. In many companies, managers get paid a lot more than software developers. That's not necessarily fair.
My apologies on the mortgage calculation- you’re right on that.

I didn’t include HOA - depends on the community, some are as low as $100/mo, others are north of $400 but often those include amenities such as lawn mowing or internet/tv or golf/social club memberships

Disney is expensive - especially if you’re taking kids (kind of the whole point isn’t it?). The costs really do skyrocket once you add little people, which I never understood until I was knee deep in it :)
I think you may not be factoring in the extra $600/week, which I mention in my comments. Even if you are, the following points still apply:

#1: That may depend on state. Where I'm at, you only get to keep half of any income you earn while unemployment, and even that caps out at $200. So gig work worth $400/week will earn you $200. Is that worth the risk of Covid exposure? States like NY & NJ, the hardest hit for unemployment as well, are having mini outbreaks at grocery stores.

#2. What you were making before you got fired isn't relevant in this discussion: This is about which is the better choice, unemployment vs. gig work (instacart) . What matters is whether you can earn more from gig work than unemployment + $600. And again, add in the extra Covid exposure risk to the gig-work equation

Regarding NY unemployment caps: Again, doesn't matter if gig work is paying less than unemployment + $600. And as always, covid exposure risk. To expand on that topic, if you or someone you live with is in a high-risk group, nothing else really matters: food shopping gig work is a very dangerous option.

Regarding health insurance: Compared to instacart, you're better off with cobra: Instacart gives access to Stride health plans. I just got a quote: $1200/month for an extremely high deductible plan ($7k) , $1450/month for a merely high deductible plan ($4k).

Regarding rent: If unemployment + $600 is the same or more than you were making, you're no worse off than when you had a job.

So the questions remains: Why would you choose a gig worker job that is unstable, lacks benefits, and exposes you to extra covid risk if you can make about the same collecting unemployment? If I were in that position, I'd stick with unemployment. If I had the opportunity for a stable job with halfway decent benefits, even if it paid less than unemployment + $600 then I'd take it. If unemployment benefits ran out, I'd be screwed: I'm in a high risk group for Covid-19, as is my wife-- gig work that gives me a high risk for exposure is a really bad option. The only reasonable option for me would be to strip down expenses to the bare minimums, ask the bank to defer mortgage payments, and hope things are better in 6 months.
> The latest on the COVID-19 R0 is a median of 5.7

Pet peeve of mine: R0 is not a property of a virus; it's a property of a virus in a certain environment. 5.7 is the estimate for covid-19 in Wuhan, a dense environment. It is nowhere close to that in the vast majority of the United States -- estimates are <3 in say Seattle or Norcal.

> Antibody testing appears to be showing infection rates are a lot higher than previously thought as well.
> 2) "it might not be as dangerous as we thought".

The more reliable ones are about what we did think on both points, at least for those who rely on Imperial College's models (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...)

> "there's no way to stop it"

Contact tracing is enough to keep r < 1. If we keep this thing at under 20 cases/million/day for the next few years until there's a vaccine, I think we can go about our lives.
You can't just ignore people who don't travel by car. The hardest hit place in the country in New York City. Most New Yorkers don't own cars and many go months at a time without entering one. And even outside of cities, it is still classist to only allow people with cars to reenter society.

The system also becomes much more complex and requires a bigger infrastructure if you aren't literally testing people at the door. How do you verify someone has had a test today? In your bar code idea, can the bar code be faked? Is there some centralized database behind the system that tracks who tests positive? Is that database politically feasible? Some comments here are already objecting to that idea.
I've heard of similar quality issues with other RPC libraries (either Thrift or Avro, I can't remember which). In my cross-language work, everything becomes very functional and non-idiomatic due to the overhead.
Yes, but what is the text?
Again, I suggest you look at the data instead of responding emotionally. We need to allow the data to guide us.

I'm skeptical of the Medscape list, since it appears to be the product of a Google form. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I chose not to use it as my primary source because unlike the government data I provided, it's unclear how or if it's being verified.
Other rich people, (Million|Billion)aires, it's a status thing.
Test positive. Wait 14 days. Now you're positive clean.
That makes no sense. The “collision that would have happened at a slower speed” wouldn’t happen at a slower speed because you’d see it coming in time to react and avoid it.
> but MS Office is simply a necessity in most business environments.

My experience says otherwise. Most businesses can replace it with alternatives without too many difficulties. Definitely 95% of SMB can, I have led many transition projects myself, where companies moved 90% of their computers to Ubuntu and 100% of their computers to OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice
I know its's not thier intent but the promo video comes across as snarky, in my opinion the spirit of of the show was a true comedy in a sort or zen way with a flash of synchronicity, laughing in the face of tragedy and how rediculous everything is. Possibly just the voice actor that adds the odd vibe, but it seems to miss the underlying spirit of the show, its not just about Jerry's snarkiness.
> The arithmetic on that is ~1 million early deaths in the US.

Sorry that's baseless histeria. We can easily think through how healthy people go back to normal (exponentially lower fatality rate than elderly/sick), while vulnerable take more precaution, how then getting to 60% of population gives us herd immunity which grinds R0 to a halt. Then a vaccine arrives in 18 months. Not to mention heat/humidity/summer is being shown to slow the disease from recent studies.
Their twitter feed has some pictures. Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I have a soft spot for "institutional" food prep/service... no matter how bad a rep they get. I appreciate feeding a large group of people in a safe and "good" manner (yes, including food served at 35k).

https://twitter.com/OpenKitchenMCR/status/125376734709088256...
Thanks... I just know quite a few developments came out of Google's efforts.. and wasn't sure if any of the game studios were using wine to package their games on Stadia, which would still be Linux and Vulkan.
I think the ubiquitous testing is the right approach, but I don't think we need a new test. Any test that requires a machine is going to be a severe bottleneck in testing.

Far better to use one of the antibody test strips. Prick your finger to get blood, or spit some saliva on a strip and you know in 5 minutes if you have antibodies.

Just keep testing everyone on a regular basis, and once they test positive, they are quarantined for 14 days. After that, they are assumed to be immune.
> How do artists actually collect this kind of cash these days, now that no one buys CDs?

For big artists it’s mainly going on tour.
Doing a tour tends to generate more money for an artist than the album itself and it’s been this way for years now.

Ed Sheeran’s tour grossed almost a billion dollars ($776.200.000) .. that’s 1 tour. He did 2 before that.
Whenever I have to ask a semi-complicated question my brain does a mad scramble to assemble what I already know, what I think I know, what the other person knows, what I've already tried, my assumptions, why I want to know it...
Those two don't contradict, he probably thinks that people who can't afford sneakers shouldn't buy them whereas those who can should buy his.
New York has done more tests and more tests per capita than any other state per latest numbers - the reason for more tests isn't just to test people who want it, it's to run large random tests, require tests before visiting nursing homes, get an accurate picture of the infection rate, etc. We're testing more per capita than most countries in the world and it's still not enough. We've tested approximately 4 times as many people with only about a 50% higher population than Illinois and it's still not enough.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi...
And just like writing software, when specifications of the agile process are not clear, almost founded on a “chose your own implementation” scheme, the result is a big-ridden over-designed and terribly unclear (and endlessly debated) process. implemented differently at each and every company. Just grand.

Just like the very process of software design this was meant to aid, they failed to understand the importance of clarity, brevity, and providing exacting specifications or instructions.

Fuck you, agile. This is not how engineering should be done in any profession. Thousands of hours of my career has been wasted clarifying this unclear process to swarms of people who have no single resource to learn from. And each new company brings a new “we do agile, but....” exception to adapt to, and damned be if anyone ever writes a single fucking rule of this process down, so we get to endlessly debate what is this “agile” thing at each and every opportunity.
Pandemic Airlines: “Damn it, we’re going to crash This can’t be happening ”
These are part of worst case scenarios that are not published openly. We need more data, and until then the responsible actions are taken by almost all govs.
Perhaps it's marketing. Observable reality !== reality
@dang there is a reply here with blatant anti-semitism. Can we remove it?
This paper found more than half of the asymptomatic patients had lung damage [1].

1. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryct.2020200110
> antibody assays; this does not allow the screener to differentiate between "has COVID-19" and "had COVID-19"

It does if it's an IgM test - IgM is only around during the illness. However, it takes a while to come up, so it can't tell you if someone is presymptomatic, at which point they are highly infectious.
Show HN: Help Me Decide Please
It's always interesting seeing a comment go up as high as a three and as low as -1, back and forth.

Oh no! He said something not negative about Trump... downvote now!
>>If I make an off-by-one error, where, other than me, did it come from?

> Could have come from confusing documentation on the appropriate bounds...

If you are blindly following direction to that level of detail, are you a programmer or a typist? Maybe there will be corner cases like this, but they do not invalidate my point.

> Tyson Gay is only behind Usain Bolt in the 100 meter world record by 0.11 seconds.

This is not a comparable situation. For one thing, off-by-one errors are not off-by-0.11 errors, though the difference is more significant than that.

> If it's about responsibility, then there should be a process for understanding why engineers end up writing bad code.

Of course, and there is no shame in that. Part of answering that question, and in becoming a better programmer, comes from acknowledging and understanding the mistakes we make (this is an important part of aviation safety, and the last thing an instructor wants to see is a student who has a tendentious excuse for every lapse.)

And no-one is responsible for things they cannot control, unless they set them in motion themselves, or ignored the likelehood that they could happen.

>> We should all aspire to do better.

> I agree!

Yes! this is the most imprtant point - and there is no shame simply from falling short.
"Just fine" is really misleading.

The 45 - 64 age group accounts for 23% of deaths currently [1]. There are widespread reports of high hospitalization rates for people under the age of 50 [2][3][4][5]. Unfortunately, most of the statistics being collected are focusing on official mortality rates, which leads people to see much higher numbers for "old" people and assume there's no impact for younger groups, which isn't true. ICU hospitalization is still a serious health care event, even if the probable outcome is much better.

Finally, please stop referring to what's going on as "panic". All things considered, most people have been remarkably calm. The only ones panicking seem to be the crazy attention-seekers blocking traffic.

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fj1owh/over_ha...

[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fip9t9/france_...

[4]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fipavk/more_th...

[5]: https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-coronavirus-ca...
Consider a food service worker in Facebook's cafeteria. In an hour, perhaps they make 30 lunches, which in the best case delight 60 people for an hour: 60 person-hours of delight for an hour of work.

Now contrast a Facebook programmer, who in one hour might be able to fix a bug that has been annoying 0.1% of Facebook's 2.5 billion users, causing them to be frustrated rather than delighted for, say, two minutes a day, for the next three years before the feature gets rewritten. Maybe that sounds trivial, but if so, shut up and multiply: 2.5 million hours of delight per month for 36 months gives you 90 million hours of delight, for the same hour of work.

So, at a rough estimate, then, the gourmet hacker is 1.5 million times as productive as the gourmet chef. Maybe if I've been overoptimistic it's only a factor of 100,000 or 10,000, but it's huge. And that's how Facebook can be profitable at all despite all the shitty and stupid things they do: capturing even a tiny fraction of the value they produce makes them wildly profitable, as long as they can successfully externalize the harm they do. Some software companies don't even need to externalize their damages.

And that's why software is eating the world.

That isn't the only reason hackers get paid more than foodservice workers. No business is going to pay more for its inputs than it is forced to; that reduces its profits. Hackers also enjoy a dramatically better bargaining position than most foodservice workers, because a hacker with US$3000 has a better BATNA than a cook with $3000: the cook is going to be trying to sell $3 burritos out of an Igloo ice chest outside of concerts while the hacker can buy a laptop, bring up a couple of VPSes on AWS, and spend a few weeks putting together a useful web service, maybe get a few dozen to a few thousand users, but at any rate can easily scale to hundreds of thousands of users. The cook is dependent on someone investing a few hundred thousand dollars (in the US) to have top-quality tools and a good location. Difficult to do yourself unless your family is rich or you graduated from the Cordon Bleu.

This is purely factual reasoning, so it cannot answer normative questions like whether it would be ethically better to pay hackers more or less. It only purports to explain the chains of cause and effect in the world that give rise to that situation, and illuminate the other possibilities inherent in the current state of affairs, and how they might change.
I want to like this but the part that seems missing is the writing. They have somebody who can make games and who can make pixel art, but do they have somebody who can write seinfeld jokes?
Kanye has long had quite extreme ambitions. A few years ago he Tweeted an org chart for a company he called "Donda." It ranges from what you would reasonably expect ("Music Production", "Merchandising," "Web Music Store") to the absurd ("Cancer Research," "Hovercrafts", "Luxury Cloud Service")

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/v1/articles/2016/...
The article proposes daily broad testing. I thought that is what governments were shooting for?
Turnover is very high. It's a shit job.
The Diamond Princess averaged (mean age, 62 years ± 16, range 25-93) years old. That's not the demographic we're discussing. We know they're way, way worse off than younger folks. I was also informed that the "73% asymptomatic" rate they quote in this article dwindled down to below 18%.

Your study also appears to indicate that the amount of damage is correlated to severity of the disease ("The CT severity score was higher in symptomatic cases than asymptomatic cases, particularly in the lower lobes"), which is demonstrably much lower in children.

It's also not clear this damage won't go away.
> consistently underpaid for the value delivered.

this is not how prices are set. If you don't like how they are set then you don't like capitalism, where capitalists pay labour, and labour have to work because they need to live.

That's all fine, but let's be clear on how the price of wages are set. It is not "value created - some 'fair value'" for capitalists.

If people could refuse to work because they didn't have to pay rent and had access to the commons to get food or work for themselves, we might see capitalists having to share the spoils more.

But we have full enclosure.