skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree. PID1 is a single point of failure for the entire system. If it crashes, the kernel will immediately panic. Try it out yourself and see. A good design would move every last bit of complexity out of PID1, leaving PID1 doing the absolute bare minimum required.

There is no need for the vast majority of systemd's functionality and complexity to be physically present in the PID1 image. They could fork off another process to do that. I've always found that aspect of its design to be utterly bizarre. Jamming additional complexity into PID1 is fundamentally wrong, it's obviously a poor engineering choice, and there are plenty of better ways of architecting the system.
Not if it doesn't provide immunity. Remember that lasting immunity through exposure to covid-19 is still an open question.
That's not as ridiculous as you think.
> You can buy catalytic converters for wood stoves.

This is kind of like saying you can buy a catalytic converter for your car in 1950. It costs money and much of the benefit goes to people who aren't you so most people don't buy them unless required by law. Also, they're not 100% efficient so although they are an improvement they don't fully eliminate the problem.

> Also, as long as you have some draft, you can add wood without releasing much indoor smoke.

Indoor smoke is really bad, like catastrophically bad, but outdoor smoke is no fun either. It accumulates in the area and ends up back inside. This can be really bad whenever it isn't windy.
Ah the beauty of being dyslexic. Occasionally I substitute the wrong spelling of words, especially when replying on a phone for some reason.

Well at least you understood the point I was trying to convey.
I recently bought an iPhone SE after entertaining the thought of maybe waiting for the new Pixel phone. For reasons already mentioned by others here, I feel like I'm done with Google hardware. The iPhone is by no means perfect and sure, it restricts me in what software I can download and use, but at least it works. I don't want to run obscure adb commands, follow online tutorials or try other roms from xda-developers anymore for basic functionality to work because my device software is badly done, abandoned or both. I'm too old for that, and the SE is decently priced too for what you get.
Wildberger is great. His lectures that he teaches at UNSW (i think) are interesting, and he usually keeps a clear dividing line between std math and his own predilections. It threads the line between being a kook and legitimate published mathematician very finely.

I actually have some sympathies with his contention that real numbers (limit points of infinite series) are somehow a different animal than rational numbers. But it might be easier for me to go there because practically all numbers on computers that we work with are rational, floating point values. On the other hand, it seems like a philosophical distinction in the end because you can fully order them both on a number line.
Right, obviously when I say money, I don't mean "paper", I mean the equivalent value that we represent by using money. We're generating a lot less value today, while spending as if we didn't. Suggestions for the state to pay people their usual salary while locked down for the next months/years do require some idea of how to pay for it (again: with value, not with paper). Magic aside, how will that happen?
> Source?

The reality of physics and human capability?

> I think Linus Torvalds and Norman Borlaug both easily did this.

They had a part in it, but it's the people/ecosystem that creates the wealth, not an individual. Linus didn't create all the distros. He didn't install it on all the servers around the world.

> Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates certainly might be up there.

They themselves didn't create $140 billion of anything. It took the efforts of hundreds of thousands/millions of people, along with highly favorable laws and the society in which they lived in. Also, Bezos and Gates destroyed a lot of businesses as well with their monopolistic practices. As a matter of fact, when it comes to gates/microsoft, I'd say it's an overall net negative as microsoft set back computing/computer literacy more than anything.

I thought the fallacy/myth of the "great man" nonsense died with Jobs. There were plenty of people who thought Apple was over when Jobs died. But I guess it's alive and well today.

What's the right wealth level for people? I don't know. Personally, I think the best way combat wealth inequality is to create laws to foster competition so that one company doesn't become a monopoly. But instead, we are in an era of mergers, monopolies and consolidation. So wealth inequality will inevitably continue to grow.
I meant on this specific site...
But you absolutely can evaluate that limit as N goes to infinity and correctly conclude that 1/3 does equal 0.333 repeating.
There's also one big area where photos have noticeable artifacts even viewed on the phone: portrait mode. Almost all portrait mode photos will have areas that are blurred when they shouldn't be, or in focus when they shouldn't be. Part of an ear or piece of hair that's blurred out. Or the background between your fingers is in focus.
> In my opinion, we stay locked down until healthcare workers have what they need even if a gigantic wave hits.

Do you think that's practical? This virus has a hospitalisation rate of somewhere between 10% and 20% and an ICU rate of 4-10%, and people who are hospitalised need to be in there for 2-4 weeks. If a 'gigantic wave' is even 10% of your population (which realistically it would far exceed, given how contagious the virus is) you need 10-20 free hospital beds per 1000 population of which 4-10 are ICU beds.

The United States has 800k hospital beds of which ~100k are ICU beds, for a population of 330 million (source: https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals) That's 2.4 hospital beds per 1000 population, of which 0.3 are ICU beds.

You're gonna need at least 10x as many additional beds as you currently have. At least. And that's for only 10% of your population getting sick.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that lockdowns are pointless. I'm saying that they need to be longer and more thorough to get to the point where the virus is entirely eliminated, or they need to remain at current levels indefinitely until an effective vaccine or other treatment is available.
I don't feel like this applies to UX. The third or fourth pass in this area can often make a huge difference.
I think I have one super admin and four regular users, but everyone is disabled.
It's much more intuitive that 100.9999...=9.9999... than that 20.9999...=1.9999...
How do you jump from

x = 0.999...

to

2x = 1.999..
base 12? Them are fighting words...I call WAR!
regarding the downvotes I can share an opinion based on similar experiences: in my case it often was about not being thoughtful in choosing what to say.

Or in another perspective think about whether your comment is what you feel like saying or whether it is something that contributes to the discussion.
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Nice to see a few different proofs/intuitions here. Not being a big fan of symbol manipulation, I always felt partial to the proof/intuition that you couldn't find another number between the two :-)
It's the lead that becomes loose not the port with USB-C so you can change the cable you use to connect to your monitor and it will be like new again.
It's a question of scale, and balance. Yes, I think it is ridiculous to ask for donations to keep unwanted dogs alive when there are people on the same island who are suffering.
Yes, that is the problem I had with your original comment.

But the jurisdiction is also important, not just the terms of the lease.
I'm glad someone else remembers this. To this day, whenever I see 0.999... = 1, I think of the Battle.net forums inexplicably flooded with threads about it for what felt like ages.
The money shouldn't come from increasing product prices. It should come from giving less to executives, shareholders, etc.
Most countries currently get loans for about zero or actual negative interest - while inflation is above zero. States can essentially borrow for more than free: Get loans for a billion, wait 10 years at 2% inflation and it's only 800M worth. Meanwhile the state used the loan to keep up demand and thus state income, commercial infrastructure and so on. This is almost guaranteed to be the least expensive way to go for every OECD country.
Philosophically you are right.

Mathematically you are wrong.

It is indeed true that if there was an entity that could reason beyond infinity 1-0.999... would be greater than 0.
> Then I got the plugin tmux-plugins/tmux-yank which adds "y" command to copy the text

tmux-yank copies whatever you selected to the system clipboard (xclip, clip.exe, etc.)
Donated. Is there a way to make that link followable from IG?
I don’t know, I don’t recall students having much trouble accepting that 1 = 1.0 = 1.000.
If you’re ever in the Bay, the California Academy of Sciences has one (although it’s probably one of the more boring exhibits there).
Regarding point 2 - it is more likely that mutations would actually cause sars-cov-2 to be less pathogenic. Futher if you judge merits of approach solely by looking at death counts you miss the bigger picture: what is the total cost of the approach when you include economy and other indirect impacts, eg. mental issues caused by more severe isolation.
Exactly that. We don't need to replace every car or plane out there. If we're able to build a renewable electricity grid and shift heating to using that clean electricity instead of gas or oil, we can save much more than by using electric transportation. But for that we'd need more clean electricity supply which isn't intermittent or can work as storage.
Let's hope Microsoft can refrain from the same dirty tactics they used back in the nineties.

I was a junior sysadmin/desktop support back then. Every single software update for the Microsoft Netware Client (which I think sucked on purpose) always caused problems for the Novell one! It was a real cat and mouse release cycle.
This also happens to be the test for whether your calculator is any good.
We haven't even started the Pi Tau argument yet
Boycotts seem to have some effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boycotts
Indeed it has but reviewing this reporter’s ‘Top Stories’ on Buzzfeed News suggests he is not focused on winning Pulitzer Prizes. Amongst his top 5:

- British GQ Put China's President And Thailand's King On Its "Worst Dressed" List, Then Removed Them Online So As Not To Cause Offence
- Here's The Audio Of Peta Credlin Admitting The Last Seven Years Of Politics Is Based On Total Crap. I am shook.
- Australia Has An Alt-Right Movement And It's Called #DingoTwitter

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano
But at which position that "5" is? Tell the number please.
I am always quite confused about these comparisons, as value is not money and it is unclear to me what is even bring talked about
Yes, not unlike Apple and Microsoft but for business users of Google suite, this makes the need to sign up to any Microsoft cloud services less of a necessity.

It seems the direction Google, Apple and Microsoft are all heading in is to own authentication and control access to our computers both at work and home.

Third party authentication technology has been around on Windows in one form or another for decades, but this is interesting because it's cloud based authentication that doesn't rely on corporate infrastructure.

It would be really nice if Google releasing this is a catalyst for an Open Source project doing something similar.

Chromebooks, Windows S (and RT before it), notarization of apps on MacOs could be helpful in an Enterprise environment to prevent malware, this is at the expense of freedom of choice.

I worry that the PC era is ending and we're drifting towards a future market more like consoles and mainframes where you never really own the platform that you paid for.
Why not 0.000...2?
What you're describing is consistent with the nextdoor group thinking there is a 4.7% IFR.
Your “we” is likely unrepresentative even now. Reading or telling stories to children every night is not a universal pastime. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s below 50% though it’s quite common.

Children got less attention because there were more of them and people were busy but they weren’t feral. When it’s dark and cold outside they were mostly inside. There’s always work but if you spend a lot of time in cramped quarters with no tv, radio or books people’s people want entertainment apart from gossip. That means music, song or story telling. You’re not going to get a five year old to sit still for half an hour to listen to a recitation of a book of the Iliad or Odyssey but ten minutes is an unremarkable attention span.

Total agreement on reading. Be like Finland, leave it til primary school, which starts at 7 years old.
>best of all, no more awful coffee poops disrupting my day

I don't know man, I really like the coffee poop breaks.

Having to get up the chair every now and then and take my mind off work for a couple of minutes in silence followed by the sweet post poop satisfaction.

Nothing like it.
The bastards on the AMP strategy really do want to embrace and extend the web; watch out next for a currency that competes with Libra and is even less free. You can pay per click on the web with Google getting 30%+ and for advertising they will be the only game in town.
Limits would break, which might break or at least cause problems with calculus and other branches of math.
Sorry for my naivety, but why one couldn't prove by induction that adding 9s never close the gap, or let's say, that by definition the operation is such, that it never closes the gap. If you can always halve the pie, then you can continue eating forever.
To me it would be much easier to accept that (1/3)*3 is not 1.
> The point is that in elementary school arithmetic, you define addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, decimals, and equality, but you never define "...". Until you've defined "...", it's just a meaningless sequence of marks on paper. You can't prove anything about it using arithmetic, or otherwise.

Sure, but the point of "elementary school" arithmetic is not "elementary" arithmetic, as a mathematician would define it :-)

The goal is to teach people to reason by matching patterns. Deductive/Inductive reasoning can slowly proceed from that, as they try to frame their intuition for patterns into increasingly more general abstractions.
This is a great point. In order to get statistical significance, you need to subject the same number of people to the virus. In a non-challenge trial, we feel better about ourselves because the challenge is "natural", the subjects would have been exposed to it anyhow. In a challenge trial, you deliberately expose them. Either way, roughly the same number of people will be exposed to the virus.

Meanwhile, maybe 1,000,000 people a day are catching COVID. The bottleneck that stops that from continuing every single day involves some risk (if the vaccine doesn't work), of a few hundred people, who are in the most favorable position if they catch it, who volunteered.

"Better 1,000,000 people die from COVID than one person die that tried to stop it."
As someone who suffers from depression due to previous drug abuse I can't even begin to imagine what you mean by just get on with being happy, I have a loving wife, good job and I guess what most people would call a happy life but I'm never more than two steps away from just opting out, I have been through therapy and various anti-depressants but they leave me feeling the emptiness even more profoundly.

My brain chemistry is irreversibly fucked for lack of a better word, a little strategising might just give me a little hope, although false, hope is better than the clear and obvious solution to my woes.
I believe any country knows the system of signing power. And that can usually be proven by documents. They need to publish guidelines for every country but the system stands that a company can delegate signing of any contracts to some employees.
It is mainly with a sense of relief (rather than disbelief) that I watch the progression of numbers daily. The lockdown was early and quite stringent and has definitely made a difference. The most stringent lockdown has little chance of being executed effectively in India and there are innumerable cases of people cheerfully ignoring or doing so in desperation. Regardless, the awareness of COVID-19 is extremely high, probably more than any other single critical disease that afflicts us. This should have made a significant difference in influencing the behaviour of the majority. Tests are for the most part only for the symptomatic or with known contact, if asymptomatic. Almost certainly infection cases will be much, much higher. But fatalities are tough to ignore. In today's environment even a death unrelated to COVID causes consternation amongst neighbours and gets known widely. I take that to mean that the fatalities are probably close enough to reality. And that's unbelievably good and I can only hope that it doesn't get bad in the near future.
The crux of the matter is that you have to define what things like "0.3333..." mean in the first place. Any reasonable definition of it as a representation of a real number is going to lead to it being equal to 1/3.

If you want to redefine it explicitly as not a real number, you can do that, and maybe even get to some amusing math that way, but you're no longer talking the same language as the rest of the world.
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The lack of effort here seems like such a strategic mistake for Google...

For this to work, it has to be single click, it has to be slick, it has to 'just work', it has to integrate with otp's, security keys, SMS 2 factor, etc.

It should be for both work accounts and home accounts, and Google should have come up with a strategic set of default options. Those options should have included "just log me in with a low privilege account which can browse the web like chromeOS, but still syncs everything like chromeOS".

I put the failure of realising this vision mostly due to lack of inter-department communication within Google. This is a direct (yet years late) response to active directory logins for GSuite, when it should additionally have been shipped for home users and marketed as a "do anything from anywhere any time" thing.
> A large anti body study was supposed to be released yesterday, and I'm waiting to see what it says.

Also be aware that there are false positives, especially significant with these antibody tests, so with the low numbers of positives it's extremely important to evaluate if the claimed values are more than noise artifacts of the tests themselves. It is also important to be aware of the scenarios for which the use of the apparent test results is not reasonable.

Moreover, here's what happened in the UK a few weeks ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-...

"None of 3.5m home tests ordered have so far been accurate enough to detect coronavirus immunity"

UK got 3.5 million(!) unusable antibody tests.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1449

"John Newton, Public Health England’s director of health improvement, said:"

"A number of companies were offering us these quick antibody tests, and we were hoping that they’d be fit for purpose, but when they got to test, they all worked but were just not good enough to rely on.

“The judgment was made [that] it’s worth taking the time to develop a better antibody test before rolling it out, and that is what the current plan is.”"

"Newton told the committee that the tests trialled so far had lacked sufficient sensitivity to identify people who had been infected. “We set a clear target for tests to achieve, and none of them frankly were close.”"
> If so, I didn't catch that!

The reasoning for including the picture is in the actual _text_ of the article. I do not wish to antagonize people who have trouble reading, but I also think they shouldn't be surprised when they miss out on material information.
New findings suggest laws of nature 'downright weird,' and not constant
Not only does a universal constant seem annoyingly inconstant at the outer fringes of the cosmos, it occurs in only one direction, which is downright weird.
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There are two possibilities.

1. You underestimate my understanding.

2. You underestimate my experience.

I am sure you know this: both are comparable as a shared log abstraction. Once you have that, the state machine part is trivial. For the replicated shared log abstraction, you need to do the same kind of things in both the Paxos and Raft worlds. The latter is simpler to implement because the paper is written close to an engineer's understanding. i have written several versions of both, in production.
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I had the same thought, having first viewed it on Desktop (FF 75).

On mobile it's much smoother (Oneplus 7T Pro), however, it doesn't come close to how in awe I was at the smoothness of the Mavic Mini mini-site on mobile: https://www.dji.com/uk/mavic-mini
And it's an important legal distinction. If I sign a contract with a company and it's signed by someone with signing power, I can assume that this will have the company's backing (unless I was aware of fraud). I don't have to care if the employee got the right approval for that, the company will have to fulfill their obligations. That cannot be said for any decisions made by anyone in the company.
While the reported deaths may be low, the 'they are hiding something' attitude is not helpful. India cannot do the level of testing that western countries do due to the humongous population. I can very well assure you in India you cannot hide mass deaths like China. A distant relative died of cardiac arrest and the measures were so strict that in a highly social society where paying respects to a deceased is considered a basic duty, only 5 close people were allowed. The body was directly cremated by specially appointed staff at the hospital.

While i am worried about the fact that social distancing is difficult to implement in India what has helped so far are the following measures:

1. Extremely strict lockdown - i have not gotten out of my home in more than a month, thankfully essential workers keep the essential supplies running.
2. I think BCG vaccination especially amongst young folks makes a difference and i think the immunity is higher amongst Indians (hypothesis)
3. Summer heat (hypothesis)
4. India had very early measures towards screening people coming from other countries since Jan which helped.

The cases and deaths will undoubtedly increase, however the question i have a reasonable answer to is : Do you think the best and timely measures were taken given the constraints ? Undoubtedly yes.

Ever since the outbreak happened the usual suspects have been churning out article after article about the low numbers and it seems like some of the vested interests were expecting us to lead the world in deaths instead of EU and US.

For a second the folks need to commend the work done and what was done correctly. The sacrifice of millions of Indians who are following the lockdown diligently.

As a country with limited infrastructure we cannot work without social distancing, yet somehow we have survived through this period, which is undoubtedly a miracle. This has flattened the curve and the overworked healthcare professionals have a difficult year or 2 ahead of them to ensure the no of actively infected remains manageable.
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I drink 3+ cups of coffee because I enjoy the taste and the centuries of history behind the ritual.

This constant drive to be some sort of scientific Puritan, to the exclusion of anything else, is really tiresome.
It's not really about judging or comparing unfairly, it's more about india's population density in the case of a contagious disease.