skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very important thing is that % is concentrated among old and people with preexisting health conditions.

Not every death is the same - a 80 year old with weak immune system could have lived 5 years longer without corona, but a healthy 20 year-old dying from cytokine storm caused by influenza has lost potentially 60 years of healthy life - the loss is much worse.
See my reply to GP.
What happens when a new device joins the network?
It's just a gag based off Monty Python. I don't think it's meant to be anything more.
I think next time, when you need to do breaking changes, give it a new name, so the new thing gets to be hot and new, rather than a problem.

Or do what javascript did: stay compatible with the stupid old way, but build a brand new language on top of it.
Want to make a bet they won't develop symptoms? Or at least please help me understand how can you compare these two populations with wildly different average ages, preexisting conditions, etc...
Totally agree. The difference being a high false negative rate may be more dangerous because it may mean asymptomatic false negative carriers are still spreading the virus. The downside of a false positive is that people are self quarantining needlessly.

For a patient, a high false negative rate is usually worse. For an insurer, a high false positive rate is usually worse. The perspective matters.
browsersync syncs up everything, so I'm sort of failing to see the difference between this and a few tiled windows side by side (what I currently do) with browsersync sync'ing scrolling and clicking. You're likely already using it as part of your webpack dev flow anyways.
Every shebang should say python2 or python3. Whatever you want, "python" is not a reliable way to get it.
There is nothing in the article to suggest they're reducing service. There's also nothing in your comment to suggest you read the article, so I don't think you're aware of what's planned.

> the floors of metro cars and buses will be marked out with circles showing passengers the right level of distance to maintain. If the system looks like it will exceed the passenger numbers that makes this level of distancing possible, station entrances will be temporarily closed until congestion eases.

+ school times changed, shops open later, etc.
https://html5zombo.com
So far I haven’t encountered any article that didn’t work. There’s an extension in the share menu to open articles from safari in Apple News. That’s how I bypass the WSJ paywall on articles I discover outside of Apple News.

Edit: I’m talking about Apple News+. I looked it up - it seems like News+ includes only the last 3 days of articles but other than that there doesn’t seem to be any other restriction. I could be wrong though.
Is this the new narrative/talking point to continue shutdowns? Because pretty sure the average time to symptoms was reported to be much (10X) lower
The virus affects young and healthy folks without co-morbidities dramatically less than it does old folks at a nursing home. Based on New York City data, people without co-morbidities account for something like 6% of hospitalizations [1]. Old folks on a cruise ship full of old people, about 20% showed no symptoms. Is it a big stretch to think that scales to prisoners as shown? They're pretty young (only 2.8% of prisoners are over 65 [2]), and therefore pretty unlikely to show symptoms let alone require medical care. Age is unquestionably the biggest factor in outcomes for COVID [3].

"Asymptomatic" is kind of a sliding scale. Are you sick? No. Do you have a stuffy nose? Kinda.

[1] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nearly-all-nyc-ar...

[2] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm
An ad hoc (fallacy) dismissal would be one that doesn't actually address the central question or finds an excuse that is not generalizable to similar circumstance without supporting evidence for the exception. Even if you think the GP's reasoning was wrong, the GP comment did provide specific reasons for their argument, which was itself an argument generalized to medical practice & research. Not ad hoc.

Further, if the GP had prior assumptions about these possible treatments being wrong, you commit the same error in the opposite direction with your casual assumption that your approach is right, that the FDA will not only approve the thing, but that the objections will also lose all validity. Even if approved, the objections may still have merit. The objection need not be completely wrong in order for the FDA to decide the balance of risk weighed in favor of approval.

Finally, the idea of using nebulized ethyl alcohol is interesting! I hope it works. It is, however, extremely easy to find information on the dangers of inhaling alcohol fumes. If it is a viable treatment path, patients are likely to be extremely sensitive to dosing levels. Recipients would also, by definition, be high-risk, making the safety issues more uncertain. It is not, on it's face, unduly obstructionist to be highly skeptical of such a treatment without a decent amount of evidence.

Edit: I even partly agree with your sentiment that this is a time when some (very careful) risks may need to be taken that ordinarily wouldn't be. But your comment conveys a strong sense of arrogance, of unassailable certitude. I hope I am wrong in that assessment: Someone looking to take these sorts of risk right now should be approaching them with the utmost humility. This makes your tone very disturbing.
> The movement to the cloud is more energy efficient than companies running everything on-premises.

For private users, how is downloading a song or movie again each time I want to watch it more energy efficient that having it on my hard drive?

For corporate users, "Cloud software" is to a large part replacing traditional desktop software. As such, the comparison is only partially with in-house data centers - it's also with software running exclusively on users' actual work PCs - which they would shut down after they have finished working.

Even if you compare client/server software, you leaving out the energy expended by routing the data over the internet. Even if the cloud service itself can use energy more efficiently inside their data center, routing uses energy that you wouldn't need for a server in the basement.

> How much these efficiencies will be canceled out by the mass movement to digital transformation will be obvious in ten years from now.

Which is probably too late.
I agree with your comment broadly, but I think I disagree with respect to audio - have you had time to check out audio ray tracing?
I’ve looked at this before, but it seems to require you use remote forms. And when you use remote forms there’s no out of the box solution for displaying errors. Am I missing something here? Were you able to successfully build a Turbolinks app off a Rails app?
PiHole does a great job of blocking in-app ads.
It's "very left" to an Austrian.

To pretty much everyone else it's uncontroversial.
Or countries with hard lock down could look worse. Locking young people with the sick and old could be killing more people than it saved, but I doubt we'd release that study
In that case, I admire (from the outside looking in) RIT's program because my own college conflated CS and SWE together. We did get into theory, but it was largely rooted in writing code and SWE.
Prisoners in America are not in great health. Many untreated conditions, often inadequate health care since birth.
warehouse23.com/basement and its higher levels was a great timesink... SJgames put a minimal version back online recently, but it no longer allows new box submissions and seems to have lost a lot of the old content.
> I negotiate all the time, and often even get companies to use my contract or at least incorporate many of my terms

With what size companies? I am also self-employed, and also negotiate all the time, and also frequently get companies to use my contracts or agree to my terms. It just stops working at a certain company size, unless you are really providing something rare or unique.

The discussion was not whether clients will negotiate- many will- but whether you can get Salesforce or Warner Brothers to negotiate their standard contract. At that company size, no, I don't believe that they do
25 years is one thing. 1 year is another. There has to be a middle ground. 10 years doesn’t seem too bad. And Python 2.7 has shown that to be remarkably reasonable.
Looks like PEP 492 introduced `async` as a contextual keyword in 3.5, and it became a proper keyword in 3.7.
تحميل برنامج انستقرام للكمبيوتر 2020 لجميع انواع الويندوز
Cyclones can get pretty crazy. This one deposited 6m worth of water over an island over the course of a few days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Hyacinthe
> You misunderstand what all cause mortality means.

It seems I actually missed the mention of "all-cause" while reading the comment.
Great Debate (astronomy)
in any other language it would be something like if (x-1) != 0
I saw it just now. My apologies.
EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD
At this point only thing I can ask is, forget the shutdowns, when we'll we recognize the most viral thing about COVID was the histeria? Having lived closely through the swine flu, it was quite a bit worse, affected people under 60 which tend to be more socially active and no shutdowns were required. In fact one of the learnings/facts of that crisis were that masks are mostly useless to prevent contagion.
Only if you develop a severe case in the first place, which you would know about within 2 weeks average. Incubation on average is 3-5 days, severe symptoms then start in the second week.

After you're hospitalized, yes you might or might not then have a month long battle for survival.
Similar thing happened with me starting around the same time (Python 3k I think they were calling it in 2007/2008). Every few years I’d look to Python again and the same split was happening in the ecosystem. It always put me off.

Definitely changed the course of my programming career.
You're right. I paid $19.99 for it about two months ago. It looks like time has run out for me to edit my original answer.
I don’t think we’ve reached the limits of audio yet, we have yet to figure out a (scalable) way to measure personalized HRTFs for truly immersive spatial audio
> antibody surveys were supposed to be the definitive proof that we were responsibly waiting for.

Simple question: Why?

For most coronaviruses, antibodies reflect only a temporary immunity, that is usual gone in 6-24 months, due to the nature of these viruses.

All an antibody survey shows is that antibodies can be created, not that they are effective long term. Showing a longer term immunity takes statistical analysis, usually after that temporary window has ended.

In fact, antibody surveys may not even show an effective temporary immunity, if the wrong kinds of antibodies are being screened for.

Knowing this, why was the antibody surveys supposed to be some golden bullet? The advice from the medical community was "this is being actively studied, wait and see."

The surveys provide the medical community with important data, but they don't really provide us with policy making data, and they certainly don't predict the future for the general population when exposed to the virus.
> What persuades front-end developers

Probably their managers
> I'd trade in my JavaScript for J2EE about as fast as I'd quit tech and move up into the mountains.

I think the snark is obscuring the point of this comment.
I totally agree that the confirmed case counts are way too low, because even most people who were symptomatic weren't able to get tested (e.g. me), let alone random people who were asymptomatic.

But the 21% study is seriously flawed because it didn't do a random sampling of the population. We need that at a minimum to know with any certainty what the actual exposure rate is. The figures that are coming back from studies using random samples in other places have been much lower.
> my Face ID has stopped working because I’m wearing a mask

I have started thinking pretty strongly about buying an SE (2020) and trading back my 11 Pro Max based solely on Touch ID. I've missed having Touch ID for a while but I like the much better screen and cameras on my 11...but considering masks in public are very likely to be a thing in North America for a while, it's worth my considering.

My hope is that Apple figures out how to do multiple faces on Face ID, like fingerprints on Touch ID, so I can tell it "this is me" and "this is me with a mask."
When I went there were two tracks. CS or CE. CE was taught out of the engineering department and was more focused on people who were going to write device drivers or FPGAs. It overlapped considerably with EE.

CS was quite math heavy. In fact you only needed 1 extra elective to get a math minor. That said there was a fair bit of practical developer classes as well, like Networking and Graphics (this was before GPUs so the graphics class was mostly about matrix math).
Steve Gibson’s Security Now. grc.com/sn.
> The difference being a high false negative rate may be more dangerous

At an individual level, false negative seems more dangerous. But at a macro level, a high false positive rate could lead to taking dramatically policy decisions
Modern language standards are explicit about what the operations do and modern architectures all have two variants of right shift (arithmetic and logical, in x86 parlance) to handle the difference. This isn't a problem in practice for compilers in the modern world, though it remains a good warning for developers writing their own optimizations.

Really it's a note from a world we've forgotten, where "all" computer operations were unsigned and 2's complement math was a clever trick deployed only occasionally.
Who besides "government" and related spin-offs such as DoD contractors use COBOL?

Does "subsidized zombification" count for a programming language being otherwise dead?

Side Note: 20 years ago a SciFi book introduced me to the idea of "Software Archaeology". These days, such a term is slowly gaining traction as a job description. I've had to professionally dabble into this myself from time to time.
I'm curious if these specific diseases actually make them more susceptible to COVID or not but this is fact.

- Over half of state prisoners and up to 90% of jail detainees suffer from drug dependence.

- Hepatitis C is nine to 10 times more prevalent in correctional facilities than in communities.

- Chronic health conditions, such as asthma and hypertension, and mental health disorders also affect prisoner populations at rates that far exceed their prevalence in the general population.

- About 40% of all inmates are estimated to have at least one chronic health condition. With a few exceptions, nearly all chronic health conditions are more prevalent among inmates than in the general population. [1]

With that said, the average age is much younger than the general population [2]. Age is by far the biggest factor in outcomes, followed by co-morbidities.

[1] https://issues.org/correctional-health-is-community-health/

[2] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_age.j...
80,000 Hours.
iOS Mail Vulnerability
In case you're wondering, this appears to be a hobby project made with Haxe (which the author seems to be a fan of). However it's not open source.

https://community.haxe.org/t/webliero-a-game-made-with-haxe/...
I totally agree, but that isn't responsive to my comment.
How about not using Cold War era divisions.

Kazakhstan is in Eastern Europe. It's 2000 km away from Poland.

France is in Western Europe. It's 800 km away from Poland.

With the EU money and regulations pouring in, the Central Europe begins to feel much more Western-ish and quite disconnected with Eastern Europe.
> There are a lot of people who just need the initial push to plunge head first into programming. i.e Learning Git. Using the right editor. Learning basic concepts. They just need the right amount of help to get them done with a basic first project.

I'd disagree that learning Git or using the "right editor" are prerequisites to learning how to program, or learning the basic concepts of programming. You can learn a lot of useful things about Python (or another language) without getting bogged down with this stuff. You really don't need Git or a fancy editor to write your first 50 programs that have 10 or 200 lines of code. It's just a lot of extra stuff to keep in your head while grappling with programming concepts that may already be new or difficult for you.

If you decide you like programming and want to get a job doing it, sure, learn Git. But learning how to program is more fundamental.

> If you charge just $250 per student. If you take 25 students per cohort and you take in 4 cohorts every 2 months, you make 4 * 6 * 25 * 250 = $150,000 for less than 10 hours of work.

If it's really 10 hours of work (only about a half hour per student), then you're clearly not offering any significant personalized instruction. Would that really add $250 of value over just watching free tutorials on Khan Academy or YouTube?
I found some interesting information available for free in a link from the museum's website. Check the "english publications" section at the bottom, the second link in particular is quite interesting:

https://www.bstu.de/en/education/publications/
I can't believe you're seriously trying to argue that we "don't know" what would've happened had these measures been put in place, when in fact we do know: A lot more people would have died. This is not humanity's first rodeo with pandemics, or social distancing measures.
Yahoo in the mid to late 90s. I've wondered if there might not be a renewed niche for a curated site directory, preferably as a non profit and with no comments.

I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff.
If they're old drives they probably don't use SMR.
I go back and forth on my feeling about terseness, abbreviations and 3 letter acronyms. 3LA are almost always annoying, specially since they overlap so much.

In source code sometimes a longer name really helps, but then some people take it to the extreme and make everything look pretty ugly and tedious to work with.

In this case, I guess it would not had been that bad to name the files `.bash.runcommands`. `.bourne-again-shell.run-commands`: maybe too much :-)
I live in Tokyo and I can assure you that living car-free is lovely.

I used to love driving, then moved here and stopped caring altogether when I realized that public transport here is significantly faster (and cheaper) than using your car to go from point A to point B.
Is it really admirable though? If you remove the tether of software engineering, then CS is just math.

I think what I like most in CS is when theory comes in support of SWE. Having something that is elegant and practically useful.

(And I don't know about RIT, but overwhelming, schools don't teach pure CS theory, but rather CS/SWE.)
Settings -> Face ID —> Set Up an Alternative Appearance
You’re correct - there is room for improvement. The “npx” tool is a easy place to start! And absolutely agreed dropping dependencies is extreme and vendoring not so much - but in my experience vendoring often means “don’t ever touch again until a bad security shows up”. I was being a little bit too snarky in my comment tho, absolutely :)
Is Passphrase the Same as Password?
I'm not sure calling them a malicious institution is too much. The WHO pushed hard on the idea that there definitely were no asymptomatic cases and China had confirmed this for sure using arguments that seemed utterly nonsensical - like, they were essentially arguing that asymptomatic cases didn't exist because testing of people with symptoms didn't find them. They had a whole campaign of interviews with US publications to spread this, as part of a broader regurgitation of dubious Chinese propaganda about things like how exactly they contained their own outbreak.
Probably because of Debian 9. Now new Debian 10 means there'll be staying at 3.7 for a long time.
In addition, concentrated and extended exposure to the virus, like what you see in prisons where it is impossible to maintain distance between yourself and other inmates during meals and in bed, is known to affect people of all ages. Look at the effects the virus has had on medical professionals who do not have access to PPE—eg Usama Riaz.
No, you want the poker face; you don't want your opponents to be able to discern anything, and if it seems to a judge that you might be communicating information based on your reactions to certain plays then you could be disqualifed.

So you need the poker face, and you need a surreptitious system to exchange information out of band.
I took night/weekend college classes in CS, often alongside teenagers. For our computer graphics class, one kid was excited, anticipating he was going to find out how to point and click his way to make a dragon appear in a video game and that sort of thing. In class, we learned things like the Phong reflection model to calculate the illumination of a surface point. Or matrix addition, multiplication and transposition to reorient the points of an object in three dimensional space.

Even for myself, we spent a semester learning graph theory, and I had no idea why we were doing so. I understood the next semester as we worked with tree and graph data structures like heaps, DAWGs, Dijkstra's algorithm etc.
Sorry, I was editing my comment to add that very perspective just as you replied it seems.

I agree with the caveat that false negative rate is much more relevant for society when a disease is very contagious. Take measles, with an R0 in the teens. A high false negative rate can cause explosive growth in the numbers of people catching the disease, which I think is what makes it relevant to the COVID-19 scenario
The dead-reckoning algorithm seems to do well when moving in a straight line but my impression is that it does worse if there are curves because it veers ourside the path that mouse actually traced. For example, when moving the mouse in a circle the predicted squaretrace appears to move in a circle with a larger radius.

What kind of algorithm could be used to improve the accuracy for curves?
> It was not immediately clear if the ban would apply to clothing and cars owned by Marines when they are off base and off duty. The Marine Corps did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

Ha. The one thing I was curious about that wasn't in the title, and the article doesn't have an answer.

Edit: Now that I'm at multiple downvotes, I'm kind of confused, anyone want to explain? I'm quoting a useful part of the article and making a comment directly about its content and the quality of the journalism, so what's so bad?
The false negative rate isn't that relevant on this context, and has no obvious relation to the false positive rate.

Besides, the article you pointed down in a reply is about a different kind of test.
> This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand.

Well. Relevant quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

"Trying to cure traffic congestion by adding more capacity is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt."
Interesting in that video the new iPhone SE was 50Mb/s faster due to wifi chip/antenna differences. Could've explained a lot of the faster page loads with pinterest/twitter/amazon/ebay.

It's incredibly how performant the old iPhone SE still seems to be.
Or because the people making the rules stand to lose a lot of their net worth if the stocks they hold tank.
what do you use for water leak monitoring? which spots do you monitor leak?
Arundhati Roy: The pandemic is a portal