skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not front running. You can only front run and order if you're handling the order for a third party.

Being faster than someone else isn't "front running" them nor is spotting patterns in other participant's behaviour and exploiting those patterns. The definition of "front running" is reasonably specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
Differs on a country by country basis, but generally it's pretty bad in Western Europe anyway. See https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ for excess mortality data.

By the way, most countries' local COVID peak is either in April or still to come; it's not really winter deaths.

One caveat; in many countries, death reporting is pretty slow and data from the last couple of weeks shouldn't be considered particularly reliable.
When discussing the paper I linked this article says "That sounds hard. The good news is that, done well, this measure alone could stop the epidemic. But even if you don’t do it well, it contributes." and correctly calls for combination with other measures. That's my main point, even if it's not as good as manual contact tracing the allegation that this is "tracing app" vs. anything else is just a pointless debate that Schneiers post seems to further. Like the article you posted seems to say, we should improve manual tracing and testing as well but I haven't seen anything in there that would support the Schneier viewpoint on first glance. Looks like an interesting read for later though, thanks for sharing!
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I'd love to know the answer on this question too. The only theory I have is that it's being spread through key workers. So those caring for other like hospitals and care homes.
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There are countries that are under lockdown with relatively small exposure to covid which can be used as control.

Even within a country, lockdown rules are often homogeneous, while the spread of the virus can be quite patchy, allowing for some form of control.
Nice! I took a look at your blog, looks like we have a pretty similar background -- I was an astrophysics PhD before my DS life; happy to connect!
I would probably err on the side of making it opt-out and not mandatory. You’ve got a valid and interesting question, but my comment was in response to Schneier’s claim that contract tracking apps are “useless”.

> What use would a tracing app have if anyone could ignore alerts at will, because s/he has no symptoms and is afraid of job loss if quarantining?

I think this is another example where things are a bit too binary. If anyone could ignore the alert, then some probably will and the rest won’t. The fact that the rest are taking this seriously still helps to avoid some number of transmissions.
dang, while I appreciate trying to foster a good discussion, I like the HN 'no editorializing' rule and if we break it here, anyone can justify breaking it for their own posts, no? And also, it didn't really convert this thread into OCaml discussion anyway. Most people ended up talking about Go/Rust/etc.
> Does this mean ppl aren't following the guidelines properly ?

Yes, most likely. Folks still have to go out for groceries. Essential workers spread it to their families. The city had to close down various beaches and trails because people weren't staying far enough apart. etc. etc. etc.
Or lockdowns are not significantly slowing down the virus to be statically visible. The thing is airborne, can spread to animals, and into the pipes. Lockdowns don’t affect those at all.
I think it's the right move. It worked really well in academia in its hay days (1950-1990):

1. High bar to get a job.

2. Modest, but livable salary.

3. Long-term job stability.

This guarantees you don't really need to worry about money (unless you're super-greedy), but at the same time, no one was in it for the money. It broke when elite university compensation went astronomical ($1 million plus at the top-end), and job stability went away (no reasonable paths to tenure, and lots of adjunct / postdoc / research scientists / etc. positions).

With competition, the easiest way to land a tenured job is to lie and cheat. With high compensation, there are all the wrong reasons to do it. As a result, several elite schools are now cesspools of corruptions, academic misconduct, and (most legal but unethical) embezzlement.

We should go back to where:

* Jobs are stable

* Salaries are modest, but cover food+housing+basic essentials

* Benefits are strong

I'd say something similar is true for other not-for-profits. There are tons of exceptionally smart, competent, caring people who want jobs which provide meaning and have a positive impact on the world. To take them, they want to be able to feed their families. To stay there, you don't need to guarantee high income, so much as high stability.
> Would you be interested if I write a blog post? How peer to peer architecture became obsolete and why no software is using it.

Ya, I'd be interested in reading that! Could you address why it wouldn't work with NAT the same way bittorrent deals with it? I'm probably missing something, but I don't see why bittorrent can work so easily but video conferencing cannot. thanks

Edit: Does bittorrent require you to port forward? I didn't think it did, but I haven't seen it configured in years so maybe I am forgetting that step
As someone who is far removed from the hardware and instruction set relationship, when would one need a new processor and instruction set? How do you know you're at that point?
Fortunately you can look at mortality rates and you can see that in Europe it's even worse than the official statistics. Excess mortality is twice higher than recorded COVID deaths in the Netherlands for example.[1]

Even though there is a harvesting effect and you can expect mortality to be lower than average in the next few months (the famous "people that would have died anyway"), the data is not exactly substantiating conspiracy theories such as yours.

[1] https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/excess-mortality-caused-by-novel...
To put it gently, the science behind lockdown limiting the spread of a virus in a urban environment is...limited. But they felt they had to do something. It's kind of like making the medicine taste bad so you'll believe that it is doing something.
Is your argument that every tech business has a free dev/test tier?

I don't see an issue with Arm giving free stuff (I think) to startups, but if they started paying (bribing) startups to use ARM designs instead of something else, even RISCV, then there should be huge repercussions.

ARM will have to eventually support RISC-V before they succumb. If they innovators dilemma now, they might save themselves, but they would need to figure out what they are to become. The moat is no longer around the ISA, they should be doing design engineering and delivering systems, and selling systems and components.

If ARM doesn't transform, they will die like all the other Unix vendors did when Linux took their lunch.
It's possible to get infected even if you're following the guidelines. For example, essential workers may get infected by a carrier performing essential activities.
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Original title too long. It was:

Workers from Amazon, Instacart, and others are calling in sick to protest poor virus protections
Nonsense. Money isn't getting into people's pockets because the political will isn't there. If it was an influential Bloc screaming for assistance, they would get it, and the details would be worked out later. Where there's a will there's a way, and where there's no will there are a bunch of phony excuses.
Boy, the comments on this thread are ridiculous. SO many people saying "bleh, this is terrible, music is obviously out of the reach of ANNs, etc etc etc." If you've been following this space, this research is nothing short of fucking mind-blowing. Can you use these outputs as final radio-ready songs? No, they're heavily bandpassed, and the overall composition either feels 'unfinished' or nonexistent. But criticizing it on those grounds completely misses the point.

There are so many people here saying "music can never be generated by AI because, I don't know, creativity requires magic and only human souls have magic". Really? I kind of wonder how many of these people have actually done something creative. Creativity is such an amazing example of a large, densely connected neural net in action, when you let it start making unusual associations via what is sometimes called "lateral thinking."

I feel like people have already lost sight of how utterly incredible it is that we can generate anything like this, or Deep Dream, at all. They are incredibly creative.
Would love to get off JIRA but the leverage jira has over alternatives is that there are integrations for _everything_. Slack, PagerDuty, Freshdesk, etc. I wonder how long it will take Tara to get up to speed
Can you give more detail?
Has the growth in daily deaths been exponential in the last few weeks, or linear, or sublinear?
As the article says, they examined lots of languages, not just Kotlin (it would be arbitrary to confine their research to JVM languages..)

>> While Java could not adopt the Swift approach wholesale because of existing language constraints, the Java approach took as much inspiration from the good work that the Swift community did as we could -- and left room to take more in the future.
Same here, there’s something about the schtick that I can’t really warm to, ultimately it’s an insincere adaptation of bogan culture. To me bogan culture was always about letting an object rip and basking in its glory, not making self aware cooking shows.

But I’m okay with that, I’m not the target audience and if they’re getting something out of it then I’m fine with that. I’ll stick to my happy middle class serious eats and bon appetit cooking videos.
I think this “YouTube style” started as a way to work around having only one camera, and often no-one behind it, even, but also not being good enough to get compelling long, static shots with no cuts needed in the edit (which is quite difficult)
Pop_OS Dev here.

> Does Pop inherit Ubuntus snapification with 20.04?

Not out of the box. You can manually install snapd and use snaps on Pop, but all of the software we ship is Apt packaged, and Flatpak/Flathub are supported out of the box. Additionally, some apt packages which install snaps in Ubuntu (like Chromium) install the apt version of the application in Pop.

> Do they release newer kernels for the LTS releases like Canonical does with Ubuntu LTS?

Yes, we track the latest Ubuntu kernel and ensure that the newest one available is installed. Our kernel is usually a bit newer than Ubuntu's (due to our focus on System76 hardware which, being new, often requires a newer kernel for all hardware features to work correctly). Obviously the newer kernels also have benefit beyond just S76 hardware, and Pop is in no way restricted from running on non-System76 machines.

> Do they pack ZFS in the kernel like Ubuntu?

Yes.
Technically no, in addition to bacterial pneumonia (which is often caused by opportunistic infection after a virual invection), there is straight viral pneumonia without any bacterial infection. Even fungi by themselves can cause pneumonia.

The difference is that flu does not always cause pneumonia.
Agreed, not to mention the beating your body and (depending on the sport) brain take.
SARS-CoV-2 is not airborne. https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t...

> In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.

Some animals can get it, but don't appear to be a major source of transmission to humans.

The pipes thing is unconfirmed and that's in one special case of broken plumbing. https://cph.temple.edu/about/news-events/news/can-coronaviru...
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If the growth is not exponential anymore, the effect of lockdown is already very much statistically significant.
The ecosystem of supporting libraries for Java is bigger than any other ecosystem. There's a mature library for every concept in existence. The Node ecosystem has a lot, but for server-side libs it still doesn't reach the coverage of Java.

Apache, for example, supports a ton of Java libraries for which there's little competition, certainly not well distributed across language ecosystems. PDFBox, Lucene, etc.

When you're in the nitty gritty of automating business processes, that sort of thing is invaluable. For CRUD-style web services, any language will do the trick.

(I say this as not a big fan of Java the language)

Python also has a similarly wide ecosystem, and does better specifically in some regions than any other language, like ML, but a different set of focus areas. It's probably the other top contender for business-process automation, but big enterprises prefer OOP/static typing for typical work.

C# probably comes close in many areas, but there's still a split between the .net core and not-core ecosystems for the long tail of libraries, and no open-source powerhouse quite like Apache in the mix.

(C/C++ might fall here somewhere too, but I don't know nearly enough about those language ecosystems to comment)
Thanks, especially the second paragraph. I'll probably update the post based on that (I've made several updates already).

On 1, I'm wondering if there's some confusion, especially as I don't see what difference Volta makes here. I accept that the Vulkan spec makes no guarantees about thread scheduling fairness, and that one could write an adversarial but spec-compliant implementation which schedules the atomic bump of the first workgroup to claim the first partition, then context switches to the second workgroup and attempts to run it to completion, which will deadlock.

But I think it is reasonable to make the assumption, for an extremely wide range of hardware, that when the atomic bump is scheduled, the code to compute the partition aggregate will make forward progress at least to the point where it writes that aggregate, which is all that is required for completion. Note that this all of this is about a workgroup depending on the progress of another workgroup. Obviously if invocations within a workgroup were depending on the progress of other invocations within the same workgroup, that would be a problem, but of course there are control barriers for that.

I don't see how it is any more technically safe to run this on Volta than any other hardware. If there is a document that guarantees stronger forward progress than mandated by the spec, I'm unaware of it.

From my reading of the spec, there is no way to write a one-pass prefix sum that is technically guaranteed deadlock-free. I'd argue that this is a defect of the spec, as there's a gap between useful guarantees that can safely be made by all real hardware and what the spec provides. I'll allow that fixing this defect is not easy. Until then, I think a good strategy is to ignore the defect.

On 3, while I hope to avoid code duplication, so far our track record has been pretty rough. For piet-metal, I tried writing the kernel in subgroup size adaptive way, but had problems with size 64 subgroups, as that requires dealing with 64 bit ballot values, and I never got that to work (I don't have 64 bit hardware in front of me, so had to iterate by asking other people to test). Also, for Brian's work on 32x32 boolean matrix transpose, we tried a hybrid approach using both subgroups and thread local storage, and performance was really disappointing. But, armed with this experience, perhaps we can do better going forward.
Many people think that this is an issue that needs to be solved before self-driving vehicles are deployed at scale. We need to wake up and realize the degree to which the vehicles we drive TODAY are vulnerable to remote exploitation. If the vehicle has an internet connection, there's likely a vulnerability somewhere. An attacker may not be able to drive it to a specific location to crash, but they can disable critical safety systems and crash it all the same.
If your data model is too slow to work for your use cases, your data model is wrong. If your data model can't be indexed by your data store, your data model or your data store is wrong. If you're storing large amounts of performance sensitive normalized key-value data in a column based SQL database, again something has gone terrible wrong.
Here's the 2 numbers that matter:

- Covid w/o a shutdown

- Overall deaths from lockdown w/o Covid

Neither number can ever do more than guess at and fight at which statistical model lies less.
Slightly off topic - While I broadly understand cpu architecture and instruction sets, I've often wondered how advanced CPU / GPU chips are actually developed and manufactured? And why are there so few major foundries, like Intel and TSMC (the only 2 I know)?
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Thanks for sharing, If you include scale then the situation might be tricky, you may need to have different DBs and endpoints there will be a limit on how much vertically you can scale, with that thing in mind this problem is not avoidable, but the distributed transaction is still avoidable using eventual inconsistency or a batch proces.
How does this differ from SoundCloud's newly added feature to support artists directly?
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It should be said, there's all kinds of situations where it makes sense to compare apples and oranges. You could compare their nutrition, to see which you should eat. You could compare their price, to see which you should buy. As long as you're aware that you're comparing two things that aren't identical (and you always are), it's often perfectly valid to compare apples and oranges. Just don't claim they're both apples.

I don't think anyone comparing Covid-19 and influenza, is unaware that they are different viruses. But, as when we compare gun violence to drug overdoses to traffic fatalities, it is often a useful and justifiable thing to do, to compare different dangers. Should I take the risk of flying (e.g. after 9/11), or drive 500 miles? Well driving and flying are very different, but it can make sense to compare them.
>Up until now, it’s seemed like the privacy community has been almost excited about the idea of these tracking apps. Maybe because it’s a cool academic problem? I don’t know.

It's because 90% of the computer privacy community is people from the computer security community that like to LARP as if they didn't sell out the privacy ideals they used to hold.

Computer security people were always more interested in playing with the tech than more-ethereal concepts like privacy and trust and their roles in society. Add in the fact you can make a lot more money bolting encryption to a data exfiltration vector than leading a principled stand against the surveillance system that uses it. Stir for 20 years, and you have a bunch of people who need to admit to themselves that they're today's authoritarian boomers that love faux-rebellious rhetoric.
Plain old systemd unit files work great. If you really need containers for some reason and love UID and GID mapping then podman in systemd is great.

The only reason I’ve found to run k8s at home is if your full time job is operating k8s at work.
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Why would you decide ahead of time the demographic of people you want to hire? Isn’t that restricting your hiring pool? Why not let anyone apply and hire the most qualified candidates who are the best fit for your needs at the time?

Is anyone not hiring “over 35s?”
He did ask for that, at the end of his post:

> It has nothing to do with privacy concerns. The idea that contact tracing can be done with an app, and not human health professionals, is just plain dumb.

Human health professionals doing contact tracing means exactly that.
"If I were to read these in a corporate environment, in an office environment, I would be dragged into EO," an equal opportunity complaint proceeding, Hart said.

I'd like to know what company is patrolling what books people read...
Can you post a short, high-level overview of how you use Nomad? What does it do for you exactly?
It's usually more effective to have specialized interests, since it's very rare to have agreement on multiple issues across a large population (this should be intuitive to the HN crowd, where every issue you add doubles the number of potential positions, even though they're not random).

Find an organization that already exists and get involved in it. If one doesn't exist, create one.

For packaging, you'd have a few potential avenues:
1. Work to build support politically. Even small groups of 30-40 people (or smaller) are very attractive for local politicians to meet and speak with.
2. Reach out to companies directly.
3. Get earned media (possibly in conjunction with 1 or 2).

If you have small, achievable, reasonable goals, then it may even be a win-win scenario for all of the above, which makes it easier to make progress. For example, you could have a campaign goal of reducing x% of packaging to reduce y tons of waste.

It could be positive media attention for a company to say they've worked with a group like yours (or a small local company!) to reduce packaging and help save the environment (and it may even save the company money).

Finding ways for everyone to win and creating a big tent (as opposed to trying to influence by vilifying) tends to be more successful, in my experience.
There's plenty of contexts where the extra indentation doesn't matter, though. And C#'s verbatim strings, at least when it comes to multiple lines, have the benefit of being extremely predictable in what ends up in the string (everything, including whitespace). They also have other uses that Java doesn't even address, like not interpreting escape sequences inside the string.

I'm not sure you can really compare them. They're two different features with fairly different uses, it's just that one or two of those uses somewhat overlap.
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As a community Im surprised there arent more open source configurations to do this type of thing. We should probably be assembling distibutions containing best practices or at least highly opinionated tools with well documented trade offs.

The entire “heres a parts bin go bananas” thing cant be the final state of devops. Simultaneously building profitable businesses on top of the three is a terrifying prospect.
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So what's the point of wearing masks then?