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This must be something asked of RedHat support quite a bit because it was covered thoroughly in their UNIX sysadmin training material for Redhat 7 and there's a published solution on their site from years ago. [1]

Redhat documentation is pretty decent and access is free via their developer program [2]. The program gives one free bare metal license for a system with up to 8 sockets that can host unlimited VMs. [3]

I realize HN is all about open source and free software but for people looking to work in a corporate environment that uses RHEL, Redhat does try to make entry at least possible for those who can self study.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1192
[2] https://developers.redhat.com/
[3] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
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Hell, Aussie pollies have been doing this for donkeys ages (also comedians.. wildlife park owners).

But I always found it funny that the broadest Aussie accents I've heard outside NT have been in urban Melbourne or Sydney.
We can, but at the same time it would be different than a comparison of say a granny smith and a gala apple.

Oranges share fundamental properties with apples - they are ”fruits” and ”pip” ones at that, and can be compared as such - but there’s a clear distiction and a reason for the grouping of ”apples” and ”oranges”.
every now and then I am reminded that there are in fact lots of different metrics that can be used to compare Apples and Oranges.
The point was comparing reported COVID deaths to statistically extrapolated flu deaths is apples to oranges. What you quoted was a comparison of reported deaths to reported deaths.
Why the downvotes for this guy? The article makes the specific claim that the flu death numbers are allowed to be inflated through lax CDC reporting rules so that people are encouraged to get vaccinated and practice good hygiene.

Shouldn't that make us skeptical?
This is a nice feature to have, no doubt, but won't make much difference for an IntelliJ user. What I am most eagerly waiting for is Loom, that will bring fibers to the JVM, and make the arguments in favour of server side JVM even more stronger.
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From the article:

> The CDC should immediately change how it reports flu deaths. While in the past it was justifiable to err on the side of substantially overestimating flu deaths, in order to encourage vaccination and good hygiene

Doctors, scientists, and the CDC, basically everyone we've been told to always trust when it comes to these matters, are and have been 'substantially' inflating flu death numbers to manipulate public behavior (e.g. to get more people to be vaccinated).

As well intentioned as that may be it is exactly why some people are skeptical about the flu vaccine. They sense manipulation and run from it. This patronizing behavior from the scientific and political class is destructive.
The author disagrees with you on both points, he asserts rpi's are way slower than "old" pc's and laptops and that MicroK8S is preferable over K3S. He actually provides arguments & benchmarks to back up those opinions. Could you do the same for yours?
Out here in the real world, people will not 100% avoid visiting the elderly for 12-24 months.
One of the loom developers is in this thread. Let's hope he answers.
After this is all settled we can compare all-cause mortality. It may be complicated by lockdown side-effects though, so we might never know.
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More likely from Kotlin. The only difference is % instead of $.
They also grabbed Kotlin's data classes (records in java).

Lots of cross pollination.
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This is a big win, but do not forget Google is in the board of ICANN.
Looooong after the other languages have done it, Java comes around to doing it. Seriously, the best thing about Java is the JVM where you can choose a better language than Java to program with it and get all the benefits of the JVM.
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on Clojure ?

Also have you heard of Janet* ? what are your thoughts on such an approach ?

* https://janet-lang.org
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Minor nit: the PM/24 toggle seems to only be for the output text, and doesn't affect the timeline selection scale.
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> I'm not against a tracing app, but lots of unsolved questions aren't even discussed openly.

Weird, I see the points you made brought up in many discussions that are tad more professional than a Twitter argument.

Your first point is addressed by the fact that these apps are developed in tandem with health authorities. You don't just get locked away for two weeks because your phone popped up a notification. Just like there's stages for isolation there's ways to make this more compatible with regular life and still maintaining an impact on hindering the spread of this pandemic, e.g. getting you tested quickly instead of automatic isolation. Of course from an epidemiological standpoint one might argue that immediate isolation would be advisable but I doubt that would go over well in most democracies. The job loss argument seems like the economic impact argument brought up a lot over the last few weeks. On a population scale, an asymptomatic superspreader is likely far more expensive than somebody not going to work for a few days until they got tested so it could/should be addressed by policy makers. If your politicians can't figure out how to make mandatory sick leave happen during an active pandemic I'm not convinced a contact tracing app is the problem.

The debate on voluntary or mandatory usage will surely be interesting, though I don't see how making it mandatory would not lead to people actively avoiding it's use and thus lessening the efficacy.
The actual problem is that the oversight roles didn’t immediately dismiss the executive when they pulled these tricks.
There isn't a dichotomy. We can use all these techniques.

Testing is great of course, but given that you can't test everybody every day, testing is more effective when you can test the right people. If we can trace contacts, we can prioritize testing of people who've had a possible contact recently, and thereby find and quarantine infectious people faster.
Is there any reason policies have to be universal? It seems odd that a one-size-fits-all approach should be entertained at all.
question: if not k8s, what everyone has been using to orchestrate containers at home? Ideally, I just want something easy to setup, low maintenance cost and easy to backup and restore if sth went wrong.

i've been using k8s at work for over 4 years but for home usage, it's just too much.
But how...

Isn't bank cards designed to be non-cloneable (with crypto chips)?
Seconding Hyndman. Thanks for the link to Brockwell and Davis, which I wasn't familiar with.
You may be misunderstanding the purpose of contact tracing?

It's not to guess whether a patient you have is infected. It is to find the people that patient has infected before those infect more people.

If things are being run properly:

1. Someone shows up with the disease. (Tests positive, or clinical.)

2. You find their contacts, either by app or interview or both.

3. You tell those contacts to quarantine, hopefully before they've become infectious, breaking onward spread.

4. If they test negative and don't display symptoms, they stop quarantine.

Unless you mean to test everyone every day? Sounds good, but then you need way more tests than countries have been able to make so far, and they have to be very sensitive and specific too, even before someone is infectious.
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>Somehow it feels like back in the Pentium 4 days again.

Than maybe they'll come up with a core design again.
Oh yeah, I agree. I’m really interested to see if this approach would work better than build.rs for some other projects too.
Yeah I was in primary school in the 1970s
I know, I can take a stab at it but I don't know if it is correct so I would not want to steer anyone wrong on it but it was basically: "que esta tehe mehanies" the last two words are what I am not sure of, that is how they would sound but I am not sure if it is correct in written form.
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+1, also good the Soda Stream for Christmas and the amount of plastic/glass waste has been reduced quite a lot. On top of the CO2 transport impact of carrying hundreds of liters of water around every year.
I think this has been there for a very long time, but my mind could be playing tricks on me.
I think that we won't go back to normal (like pre-COVID normal) for a long time. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet yet, and we should prepare to live without one for a while; in the meanwhile we will adopt a number of means to keep the virus diffusion low, and the lockdown away.

A contact tracing app (like a mask or washing hands) is among those things. If it is not privacy intrusive and it has some effectiveness, it's OK for me. I'm happy to reduce the infection rate, even if it's just a few decimal points.

I really don't understand all these discussions about something that might save lives. IMO the real discussion should be whether these app are privacy preserving enough. Are there (realistic) attacks on these apps? How can we mitigate them?
Wow, that's a good one. Yeah, I'm actually blown away by so many of these, there are a ton of completely impressive original melodies, harmonies and phrases—especially with the vocal lines—that go beyond a predictable 4/4 verse chorus. The comments on this thread are so ridiculous, they're completely missing how insane this research is. You could take half of these and write new original music based on them and it'd be incredibly solid. As it is, I'm really tempted to just gank some of these for myself.
Article critiques data set and gives zero details on the CDC calculation methodology, and provides zero relevance to any new or interesting data analysis, but it surely mentioned Trump a few times.

A simple Google search will provide you with actual data sets, nationally, state wide, and even globally, by very competent scientists, some of whom have studied this specifically for decades.

There are various places you can research for example: FluView, FluMomo, Virologic Surveillance, Journal of Infectious Diseases, etc.

I recently read, Influenza-attributable deaths, Canada 1990–1999 Published online by Cambridge University Press , so this MD's Scientific American blog post comes across as pure garbage.
This thing of misleading people on the details so that they make the Correct Decision in the short term seems very dangerous.

I know in tech there's a tendency to do something similar when faced with clueless management, feeding just the information you know they need to hear to get them to make the right choice and think they came up with it themselves. Really don't like this applied on a society level though.
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Their editorial page has always been a bit of a joke (or eccentric, depending on who you ask). Their political reporting has been pro-business (no surprise), though people often confuse pro-business with pro-market. Their business reporting is mostly top-notch as is their investigative work (it was a WSJ reporter who exposed Theranos, despite Rupert Murdoch having a hundred million invested in it).
You put me through a real emotional roller coastal :-)

"Oh cool, I always love some OCaml appreciation!"

Click thru.

"Oh no! More Go bitching?!"

But then ended happily, as actually article was interesting.
I'm sure there's lots of inconsistent rules, for various accidental and historical reasons, like any other complex system. I have to get a background check to perform at the my local children's museum, but not at public schools in the same city.
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but docker swarm is kind of dead, isn't it? i need to orchestrate on multiple hosts.
Hosted k8s has changed my life. Let me focus on my business and not my infra.
The lyrics are generated by a separate model, but they're "co-written" (cherry-picked) by the authors.
>That was easy wasn't it.

Was it?

I don’t get it. I found that there so far have been covid 234,133 deaths [0] and season flu can cause up to 646,000 deaths [1].

So I’m not seeing 9x to 44x by any reasonable metric or projection. What am I missing?

If 9 to 44x is possible, there need to be models that would show that. Does anyone have a model that shows we aren’t even remotely near peak deaths?

Even if the article is right and seasonal flu was vastly over reported by the CDC as a “for your own good” tactic, I’m STILL not seeing 9x to 44x.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1087466/covid19-cases-re...

[1] https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2...

EDIT: Article uses worst week covid compared to worst week flu... talk about Apples to Oranges!?
"Comparing reported COVID deaths to statistically extrapolated flu deaths is apples to oranges"

I suppose this would be a better title of the article.
Tara looks great, trying it out. Also, I love the clarity of the landing page. I apologize if it is off-topic: what product/tool did you use for creating the main video in landing page? Thank you!
Um hm. And its not unusual for Universities to have become commercial juggernauts run by for-profit administrators with 7-figure salaries, at the expense of faculty and students.
No offense to Bruce Schneier but he seems to be making an argument based on the apps' epidemiological value, an area that is outside his expertise.

Surely all contact tracing methods have false positives and false negatives. Do they all have "no value"?

Technologists have a duty to explain the limitations of the technology, but I don't think they should be drawing conclusions and making public health recommendations.
And if you tell an investor a story with a little too much bs, expect their detector to go off.
People who don't call you on your bs are not that good at investing to start off with.
I'd like an answer to that if anybody would care to ;)

1) The problem. Maps well to macros
2) The solution. Maps well to prolog
3) The transition. Maps well to imperative

What basis can I use for choosing between those goals??

-- The given mappings are examples
I agree with all of this and it's worth pointing out that unlike "ref" which some posters are claiming is too obscure, "pull request" is not even a term within git itself.

As someone who was quite familiar with git before using GitHub, GH's use of that term was the only confusing thing. (It is only not a request for others to `pull` your branch to inspect the changes, it's also a request to merge it into some other branch.)

A term like "ref" is at least part of the standard git terminology, and used in important commands that everyone should know like "reflog".
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Having an "effectively infinite" list of crime isn't the result of a lack of funding, but the size of the set of things that technically constitute "crimes". Quadrupling their funding would still leave them with an effectively infinite amount of crime they could deal with. (This being another place where "unbounded" is probably a better word than "infinite"... there isn't literally an infinite amount of crime, but it is the case that pretty much no matter what they do, when they reach for another crime to prosecute, there will always be one there.)

One of the subtle checks & balances in our system is that we don't even want prosecution to literally go after every crime... we want them to choose the things that are actually important. There's a lot of things labeled "crimes" today where the cost of enforcement greatly exceeds any value to society of that enforcement.

(Expanding on that, one of the biggest problems, if not the biggest problem, with automated crime enforcement is that it removes this check & balance that almost nobody has even realized exists yet.)
If this person thinks we are currently closer to a police state than ever before in American history then they aren't a great student of American history.

Many times during war the country has been much closer to being a police state. The civil war and world war 2 are two examples. Even during the 1918 pandemic many localities enforced greater restrictions than during this current one.

Generally the result has been greater restrictions on governmental power following rather than the temporary restrictions or powers becoming engrained.
It would be interesting if someone would take an Intel CPU and an AMD CPU and calculate the electricity bill difference someone would pay in a year considering 40 hours / week run time.
Agreed. Although "professional" pop production does tend to be somewhat involved, it doesn't have to be, and total time spent could vary so radically as to have essentially no correlation to anything else.
So if you do not use preinstalled Xiaomi software, you are mostly OK? (until they start stealing Firefox browsing history)

Having a Xiaomi phone myself there's a trade-off between using the official ROM, that provides full device encryption and SE Linux enforcement, but tracks what you do in settings, and unofficial LineageOS (PHH GSI), that does not encrypt the device data and has SE Linux off on most Xiaomi phones, I ended up sticking with MIUI.
> I wonder if it is illegal under GDPR to include spying apps on phones without telling the user.

It is illegal but it is not enforced.
Especially when you have no particular knowledge or citations as to what an appropriate standard for "enough" might be.
And all those tricks either worked for you (your endpoint), or they didn't. No middle ground.

I worked 8 years in this environment (collaboration tools) and it was our holy grail to get p2p connections. We tried all those tricks and more. It worked a fraction of the time (at that time, 8 years ago).
> What am I missing?

It's right there in your comment:

> so far

(Also, the rest of the paragraph that 9-44x number comes from:)

> To do this, we have to compare counted deaths to counted deaths, not counted deaths to wildly inflated statistical estimates. If we compare, for instance, the number of people who died in the United States from COVID-19 in the second full week of April to the number of people who died from influenza during the worst week of the past seven flu seasons (as reported to the CDC), we find that the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu.
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Traditionally, the two tools were rate adjustments and setting the reserve ratio.

Traditionally, the RR was never touched. The last adjustment was in in 1992, when it was lowered from 12 to 10%.

Nowadays, QE has become an even more important tool than rate setting, which is mind boggling to me. I worked at the Fed when Greenspan passed the baton to Bernanke, and while I understood that Bernanke was an expert at what to do when rates approach zero, I'm still stunned by the rapid shift.
You're missing how many people have gotten infected and where. If a region has not yet had substantial transmission of the coronavirus, then it won't have many deaths. This would also be like saying in August, "the flu has only killed 100 people, I guess the flu won't be very deadly this year."

Approximately 0.25% of NYC's entire population has died of COVID, which is significantly more than die of the seasonal flu.
It's about comparison of individuals.

Only when two individuals belong to the same specifies does it make sense to compare them.

For example, "is Fred taller than John?" is much better defined than "is Fred taller than [some porpoise]?"

It's certainly possible to compare species themselves, e.g. how does the typical orange differ from the typical apple. But the idea behind the popular saying concerns individual comparison, not species comparison
> The CDC should immediately change how it reports flu deaths. While in the past it was justifiable to err on the side of substantially overestimating flu deaths, in order to encourage vaccination and good hygiene

Yeah... except this is exactly what they are doing for COVID deaths, read the below.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-how-to-do-testing...

This article argue why it's not very likely to be good, compared to manual contact tracing. I don't agree with all the points, but it is a valuable read. There is a lot of other good things there as well.
Not OP, but I've looked into AWS Transcribe [1] and at least their solution would begin to rack up quite a bit of a bill. From what I've seen, there isn't a great open source SST solution yet, although there do seem to be quite a few promising ones [2]. STT is one of the technologies I'm looking forward to most in the open source realm.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=3
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
You’re ignoring information that you disagree with. Yep, of the multiple errors in your calculation, one of them lowers the estimate. But, I never said anything about a 100% shutdown just that single digit comment.

Going in the other direction, picking the earliest possible starting date underestimates the impact as does ignoring panic buying. Layoffs where also not instantaneous, and people’s final paychecks are delayed etc. All of this is going to show up in Q2 numbers even if many states are scaling back their shutdowns.

As to being a meaningless calculation, you’re describing a reversible calculation not a useful one. I can type a message in ROT13 and the result contains the same content, that does not make me doing the ROT13 useful.
If you want to use any language, what makes the JVM important? Just use whatever that tech stack uses. Node uses v8, for example.
Great suggestion! (and an obvious oversight on my end). I've just added this in today - thanks
> The former [COVID] are actual numbers; the latter [Flu] are inflated statistical estimates

With doctors being instructed by the CDC to count every death that could have potentially been COVID as a COVID death, in the face of near total lack of testing, saying that the numbers are not inflated is a bold faced lie.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/07/covid19-death-certi...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
>without ubiquitous, cheap, fast, and accurate testing

No one is arguing to do more contact tracing and stop building testing capacity. You need both. False positives are a big issue and should be reduced. but I don't see how having a better idea of which asymptomatic people to test would be a net negative on the whole?
I guess I don’t have this problem because I don’t work on CRUD apps.
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Seen this in Scala too.
"Don't these arguments apply equally well for manual contact tracing?"

No. They mostly apply to manual contact tracing, certainly, but they do not apply equally well.

A human being doing it is much smarter. They do take into account the fact that someone was on the other side of a wall. They are not limited by whether or not someone installed the app. They can use their brain to solve little local issues that the app can't even perceive which cumulatively add up to a huge difference.

The app has a few advantages over the human, too, but I don't think it's that surprising at all that when it's all summed up and accounted for it ends up heavily Advantage: Dedicated Human. The modest advantages are trashed by the massive disadvantages.
Flu or not, it's possible to compare all-cause mortality this year against previous years. That's about as hard data as it gets. How does Covid compare to "seasonal all-cause-winter-deaths"? That's what people are interested in - how unprecedented is the death rate?
Also the Reddit hug of death