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>> I'm in favor of strong individual privacy laws

I support such laws too, but I wouldn't expect them to really change this. I think what we're seeing is more of a monopoly problem than anything else, even if violating privacy is a part of how they pull it off.

It's very hard to prove that a company that does, in theory, have access to data is not storing it or looking at it. Even accidentally. I just finished explaining all this to someone who freaked out about a Facebook post they saw about how Facebook was starting to collect information about everything you do off-Facebook. I had them show me what they meant, and it appears to just be every app that integrates with Facebook comments or allows Facebook sign-in as an option, etc.

The problem is one Facebook naturally got because of it's success: everyone has good reasons to want to work within their ecosystem. So they get tons of data on everyone. You can inconvenience yourself and refuse to ever visit a service that might share data with Facebook. But honestly: who's going to find that practical and do it? And if Facebook ignores the setting and "accidentally" captures all this data, and I suspect they're misusing it, how do I really get an investigation and more than a slap on the wrist for them?

It's messy to be a platform that provides a service and a consumer of that service that competes with your other consumers. At a previous job of mine we made a conscious decision not to do that for fear it would hurt our core business to ruin relationships with our customers. The problem here is Amazon just doesn't fear that. And I can't say they should. But the root problem seems to me to be more of a monopoly problem than a privacy problem.
Sounds like this head of IT isn't very good at his job if he can't explain the difference between EC2 access, databases, and web requests over TLS

There are ways that you can use AWS that Amazon would have no way to access any of your data even if they wanted to.
I wonder if this will reduce their traffic in any way. At least personally I know I'll never make an account, so I kind of like that this keeps me from procrastinating and browsing the site. The UI is so clunky anyways that I would love to see a better app take over.
If this study is accurate, and is not just working on garbage data, and if these antibodies actually mean long-term immunity, this means one of two things:

1. If the lockdown is lifted, we will see another ~60,000 to 100,000 deaths in NYC, before it will hit herd immunity.

2. Or, the lockdown will continue.

The accuracy of antibody studies has been called into doubt, and as far as I know, nobody has ever followed up on whether or not people with study-detected antibodies can catch the virus. The data for the latter is unlikely to be available until the second wave hits.
It will be interesting checking back in 2-3 years and evaluating the efficacy of approaches by different countries. As referenced in the interview, each country has to eventually reach herd immunity. For the majority of the world this will be when 60-80% of the population has antibodies through the natural spread of the virus.

Assuming healthcare systems are not at overcapacity, our resources will best be spent protecting at risk groups. These are mainly old people, given that the average life expectancy of those who have died is just over a decade.

I'm confused why so many people are extraordinarily emotional and passionate about shelter-in-place. We should be focused on increasing healthcare capacity, and more importantly securing the safety of at-risk populations which are primarily composed of old people.

This is where honest and effective communication over the objective risks for different groups is essential. If you are under 30 with no pre-existing conditions, the odds of dying are < 1/100,000. The numbers are commensurately promising for those without underlying health conditions in their 30s, 40s, and even 50s.

It is silly to prioritize shelter-in-place going forward, across most of the developed and developing world. The costs are tremendously high, as we actually want most relatively young and healthy people to be exposed to the virus to protect at-risk populations.

There was even a recent study published that revealed if we intentionally infected young and healthy people, death rates from C-19 would nearly halve. A solution could turn out to be staggering payments to very low risk groups to get infected, taking into account people's various living situations. Unfortunately, I think most governments would prefer 2x,3x,4x, etc. death rates over paying people to infect themselves.

I believe many people will look back and admire the Swedish model for their practical and effective approach. Excessive shelter-in-place has tremendous costs, with minimal benefits once healthcare systems are stabilized. Hopefully nations around the world accept this reality and act accordingly.
Note, instagram is pretty trivial to scrape. I’m guessing that is the real target of these changes: removing unauthorized apis.
> Now, with all this in place, isn't the best we can do to alert people after they have already been exposed to the virus?

The goal isn't to "alert" infectious cases, it's to quarantine them so they don't create new infections. Even baring a legal order, someone who knows they are covid-positive is much more likely to stay home and away from others. That reduces the rate of spread, which is ultimate goal.

> but ... as the individual

It's not an individual level solution. There are no individual level solutions (except complete and total isolation I guess). Outbreaks are community events.
> I'm not sure that's true: rep movs is pretty fast these days.

That's only true if you target skylake and newer. If you target generic x86_64 then compilers will only emit rep mov for long copies due to some CPUs having a high baseline cost for it. There's some linker magic that might get you some optimized version when you callq memcpy, but that doesn't help with inlined copies.
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There is a very large number of people who would not be able to do this properly and would completely bone up the process at some point.
This could fall under Unlawful Access to Computers.
Roughly 1/1000 New Yorkers have died of coronavirus. At a 1% IFR, that suggests at least 10% of the state has gotten the virus. Probably more, because deaths are undercounted and many people who will die of the virus already have it but haven't died yet.

In the Bay Area, almost no one has died of coronavirus so the infection rate should be next to nil.
Why don't you say the same about CPU or RAM? In the end it's just resources that are abstracted away to the user, used with the purpose of performing tasks in the most efficient way possible.
15,000 deaths (So far) in NYC. 8.4 million people. If 20% of the population has had it, the death rate is 1%... Assuming that none of the currently infected die. Which is an unreasonable assumption (As the mean time to death from the point of infection seems to be ~2 weeks, and infections have doubled over the past 2 weeks.)
How much time and money is lost to this kind of scam?

We need verified identity for phone numbers and email, with consequences attached to bad behaviour.
You know, at some point people will discover that "online market" is something important enough for governments to regulate.
It seems that the performance was dominated by memory management, so the comparison is not between the languages per se, but between their current garbage collectors, and respectively the reference counting implementation for C++.
But we already know the actual infection rate is higher in NYC than CA. The main point that the antibody tests help uncover is death rate.
I think they said that
I don't understand - essential workers still going to work also have to eat, and so go to grocery shops like other people.
Take a look at December 2018. There was no pandemic. The Fed tried to very slowly reduce its balance sheet. The stock market threw a major tantrum (by dropping 20% or so) and voila, the Fed reversed its course.

The same in 2016, and other times

How can you say they are not focused on the stock market? They are primarily focused on propping up the markets.
I think the logic is less “Give money so the pitchfork folks won’t come after you personally” and more “Give money so there’s no need for a revolution”
In short, author thinks US should build more liberal institutions
My dad had the same problems trying to create an Instagram account recently, seeming to fail for various reasons and then later the account might appear to have been created and instantly disabled. He tried a number of perfectly normal email addresses, on different domains including gmail, on different IPs (home, work), different browsers including without extensions and such.
Also depends on ambient temperature. I never have trouble in winter, but summer is hell
> extremely far ahead Apple seems to be in terms of CPU power and efficiency

RISC finally coming into is own.

For the longest time, Intel was able to fend off much better architectures simply by being a fab generation or two ahead, more clock speed, more transistors, more brute force.

Not to belittle the engineers wringing out seemingly impossible performance from the venerable architecture, but the the architectural limitations always mean extra work and extra constraints that have to be worked around.

And now that Dennard scaling is dead, Moore's law wheezing and not helping all that much for our mostly serial workloads, they just can't compensate for the architecture any longer, at least not agains a determined, well-funded and technically competent competitor that's not beholden to Wintel.

I remember when the Archimedes came out and just offered incredibly better performance than the then prevalent code-museums, 386 and 68K variants, at incredibly lower transistor counts. The 486 and 68040 were able to compete again, but with vastly larger transistor budgets (and presumably power budgets as well, but we didn't look at that back then).

Oh, and can we have our Tansputers now? Pretty please, Xmos?
NYC and standord are markably different scenarios. But in each case the percentage of baseline infection to deaths is similarish, even though the percent compared to total pop is quite different.
0.5% comes from Cuomo’s presentation [1].

Also your 50% seems very high to me. My understanding is that 50% is about the death rate of covid patients requiring ventilation, so the overall death rate of people hospitalised for covid must be well below that.

Also if you factor this timing impact, you have the same timing impact on the denominator, i.e. people who are infected but haven't developped antibodies yet.

[1] https://youtu.be/TisDYYWJgBA?t=967

[edit] in fact for the 50%, we have an idea from Cuomo's presentation charts. The gross daily hostpitalisation rate as of 10-15 days ago was about 2000-2500 per day, and the number of death now is about 500 per day, so that suggests roughly a 20-25% death rate for hospitalised people (I am sure there must be some more precise figures somewhere).
Marketing move. They've been on a downfall due to relations to Tesonet. Now started open sourcing their apps to restore reputation.
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I think the argument is not to curry favor with the mob, it is to take preventive measures to ensure the mob never forms by investing in society.
I get that, and the comment I was replying to was specifically refuting the "ballistic droplets" theory in favor of a "confounding variable" of them just happening to be in the same social circles.
It’s less about the language and its expressiveness. PHP has a shared nothing concurrency model. For the typical Web 1.0 requires response processing it’s quite convenient.
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I am finding it a bit tough to explain concisely, maybe go check out https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68129/ and it might help?
Agreed on the hardware. Part of it is perception - people expect crappy windows laptops to be crappy and break down. Apple is "supposed" to be perfect, and any problems are instantly literal front-page news.

MacOS has had a bad run, though. It is substantially buggier than it used to be - I see far more weird silent failures than I have in a long time (pre-Snow Leopard), bad performance in some cases, etc.

And then there is all the Catalina security-related breakage. Maybe that will work out for the bulk of users, but it broke the platform for me. That's the reason I don't see myself paying for another.
A favourite trick in the UK is for scammers to stay on the line when you hang up, and play simulated noises for a dial tone and connection, then pretend to be your bank when you call the number on your card.
Applies to 13 inch only, 15 inch has always had full bandwidth on all ports
The math seems to point more to there being another factor to what makes it severe, in my eye.

Going by the news we have seen, elementary schools could have 80%+ infection rates and fewer deaths that NY has seen. Similarly, are there other factors besides age? (Age feels way more like a proxy.)
Tbh I found OpenSSL to be its own world of pain. And that was from using it in C. ;)
I guess it depends who you trust more. Some people will trust vox writer, some will trust a VC
Dude, get a Dell.
Considering how 2020 has gone so far...
> Because we're talking about remote desktop over low bandwidth connections.

I'm presuming this implies there's already a non-theoretical solution for remote desktop over high bandwidth connections ( say over 10Gbit/sec ) that would allow me to run a spinning cube at 30 frames per second at 4k without frame drops? What is it? I have been looking for one for years!

> Of course the more elegant solution then is to use some virtio based graphics pass-through driver doing all that, without running MIT-SHM screen grabber X11 clients shoving around frames. I want less kludges, not more.

That would be Looking Glass, but its author's position is (paraphrasing) "Stuff like this already exists for Linux so there's no support for a Linux guest". Alas, no one can point to it.
Yeah, further down in the article they track down the gap between cpp and Go/Java to the ref-counting deallocation work. I'm not a cpp expert, but it seems surprising to me that GC would beat ref-counting in any scenario.
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I'm on a Dell XPS now, and formerly a MBP 2015, so I haven't had a physical ethernet port in a really long time. I still miss it— I work at a robotics company, and a lot of my job revolves around the installer workflow (pxe, kexec, that kind of stuff), driver development (lasers, PLCs, and other devices that all speak Profinet and similar ethernet-based protocols), not to mention general fault investigation for when a robot "falls off the network" but can still be accessed over a wired last-ditch rescue interface.

So yes, I have dongles at my desk and there are stashes of them around the office, but it's still a source of frustration when they go missing, don't work, etc. I know I'm a bit of a special case, but I would definitely still appreciate a computer that was 50% thicker with a proper ethernet port.
Sure, but what's stopping any other car manufacturer from buying and using the same sensor kits?

Nothing, though I'm guessing they will be far behind for a year or so even after they deploy. (Unless that team is super competent, and they have absolute management backing.)

Look, I get that you can't get the same data with a 3rd-party kit but if you're an insurance company you're gonna be working with car manufacturers anyway.

It completely changes the dynamic of the business. One won't be able to compete, except as a manufacturer partner, and not all manufacturers will be equal. It will limit choices to consumers, and very strongly drive consolidation. I'm not saying only Tesla will be able to do it. What I'm saying, is that the nature of the business will change massively, in a way where customers will wind up with fewer coices.
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Price's law is of questionable empirical validity, it's more like a useful guideline/urban legend. On the other hand, there is substantial economic research demonstrating the harms of monopolies, including vertical ones.

I'm a bit confused. Are you claiming that because of Price's law, Amazon doesn't actually benefit from it's monopoly position?
If somebody with a blue check mark on Twitter commits a crime, is Twitter responsible?
This post on HN yesterday fixed my problems of the last 5-7 days. I use a TB 2 Hub hooked up to a 2018 MBP to 2 4k monitors, a USB mic, etc.

And I've noticed the hub got really unstable whenever the CPU fans would go wild. Looks like it was the controller overheating due to the shitty thermals that Jony Ive's Apple seems to keep pushing out. (Still the Apple of today).

Now that I've switched my ports in a different config, so far I've had no crashes in the last 2 days.

I swear, I wish I didn't love macOS so much (or wasn't so heavily invested in it), or I'd happily ditch it for a really powerful thermally cooled desktop and use that as my machine. WSL makes this more palatable, but the unparalleled retina support on macOS, my 15 years of using it, and just habits built up, keeps me from leaving. (I felt the same way when I first moved from windows to macOS, but it was in my early 20s and I had lots of time to play with the OS)
Ok, you're now vmception.
I think this is misunderstanding the purpose of the Litterae Ignotae -- it wasn't just a substitution cipher for encrypting text for security reasons, but a writing system for an artificial language called the Lingua Ignota. It's not entirely clear what the purpose of this language was, but it may have had some mystical significance to herself and her followers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Ignota
As against all the other companies capturing the vast majority of the profits in the phone, laptop, high end desktop, tablet and wearables markets.

To be distinctive they need to be different and that carries risks, but mostly they pay off very well.
I always set anything twitter to untrust in noscript, and just ignore/close anything that comes up linking to them like most common vermin ad/tracking services. Not sure why anyone would link to them as "news", pictures or other.
If the mean time between infection and death is 2 weeks (Mostly true), and the virus has doubled every two weeks (True in NYC), then assuming that not a single new infection takes place starting today (Obviously not true, but this is a hypothetical), then in two weeks, you would expect to have twice the deaths that you do right now.
So many comments about, "doesn't everyone know they do this?", and "everyone does this!"

I say there should be an explicit difference between "running a platform", and "selling on a platform", and never should the two meet. By "platform" here, and in the context of selling stuff online or IRL, I mainly mean that the store should never compete with their suppliers ... it's madness and unethical. If everyone can get a piece of the pie, it makes for a healthier ecosystem. We should want the rising tide to lift more than one boat.

And yes, I believe this should be regulated at the policy level.

This of course has implications for other forms of "platforms", such as operating systems, APIs, and clouds; but I'll leave those discussions for another time ;)
I was astonished by your 1/1000 figure and had to look it up... If anything, its too low. 15k deaths (proven+probable) in 8M people is almost 2/1000.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
I think you have a wrong view of things here.

Lubuntu isn't really a "different distribution". The different "flavors" of Ubuntu are all the same distribution, they just differ in their default install and settings.

If you remove lxqt from lubuntu, install kde you can morph it into kubuntu.
> Why are you against the idea of people being able to live without having to constantly struggle for basic needs and comforts?

I love the idea! You are welcome to support them with whatever means you have available. I won't, though.

> Do you want the "bottom rung" to just die off during every crunch and crisis like this?

No.
I think those are good implementation concerns. Maintaining two separate websites isn't really an option under the supposed regulation, that's still one company being a platform and a manufacturer. The second option seems alot more likely to be allowed -- but now, at least you've created a market for that information and it's not just Amazon that has access to the data. Not sure I understand why it would treat the those products preferentially though -- unless you're bundling selling that information with product placement fees, which doesn't seem to be related (or necessary). I would assume product placement would be another revenue stream for the platform, like it is now for brick and mortar retailers like walmart
I don't see it as a çatastropic regression. We're already seeing instances of software gatekeepers like the Apple Appstore requiring users to upload bitcode that can be specialized to different processors. This is strictly better for consumers because they get more efficient software. Developers don't have to do much work; they just need to pick a compiler that supports the bitcode output. Hopefully, we'll settle on a bitcode format that works across multiple clouds and storefronts. LLVM bitcode or WASM are the best candidates right now. The clouds/storefronts can perform additional optimizations (perhaps even run a superoptimizer per hardware SKU), and additional privacy/security checks.

With Moore's Law ending, these are the tricks we need to get up to to improve user experience, reduce power draw, and make hardware go further.
Good comparison, except in this case it would be like, "Hey we've been delivering USB chargers to all of your neighbors, why not get one from the van here, same quality, lower price and you get it right now? How about it?"
It's not clear what you have in mind here, but I think you're referring to using a CPU-based virtual GPU to power the browser's WebGPU engine, to avoid GPU-related security issues.

A CPU-based fake GPU is guaranteed to have performance so poor that it isn't worth doing. This is the reason modern graphics APIs don't make provisions for CPU-based implementations.

If we aren't confident in the security of the WebGPU implementation (and we're agreed that we aren't), the solution is simply to disable support for WebGPU in the browser. The browser can still offer facilities like the Canvas API.
Most (all?) of this "dang we need to brake something because we made some stupid design mistake wrt. soundness" kind of braking changes should be done by now I think.

So I think that when in 2024 someone build a code base from 2020 this shouldn't be a problem.

Also sadly currently rust has not yet completely escaped from the C/C++ UB optimization hell ;-). There are some bugs caused by the interaction of Rust and LLVM UB optimizations. Like there was a problem with some float casts being UB (but should not have been).

But we are getting there.
They did this for a while before, I actually mentioned it to a friend that worked there and two days later I followed an IG link and it showed me the content. My hunch was that it was blocking Firefox users, my friend never said anything about it...but he wouldn't. I've stayed off IG, probably a mistake socially but I felt so pressured to join yet another social network.
We are the subject. Product is the data extracted out of us.
Even worse than SEO, fraudsters edited Google Maps bank information directly http://archive.vn/PPJYW
I bet if you take a look at the motherboard for the year and model this happens on the CPU is closer to the left side than the right. That would explain the kernel task being configured to force idleness when left side is hot, but not the right side.
Use a IG front-end just like how you use nitter for Twitter links:

https://bibliogram.snopyta.org/ is one instance.