skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I read this right this isn't based on any data, just a hypothesis because there is some similarity between the viruses. That's... a very low level of evidence. It's a vague hypothesis, and one that is probably hard to test.

Other than that: Absolutely get an MMR vaccine if you don't have one. I wouldn't cound on it helping against Covid-19, but it helps against the Measles, which is a good enough reason to get it anyway.
if you like Ubuntu and stability go debian. edit: the downvotes are fascinating. if you do LIVE performances and even remotely care about stability Arch is the last distro you should use. its a great distro but its bleeding edge by design. part of the fun of arch. contrarian views should be expressed with words if possible because id like to know what universe some of you are from..
I had zero problems with Linux’s dns client until about 3 years ago. The systemd one and whatever it replaced took 5 seconds to resolve anything remotely last time I checked. (It did cache after that, fwiw).

This was on some Ubuntu LTS. 18.04, maybe? I paved the machine, installed a distro that doesn’t chase the new shiny every six months, and moved on.
What are your clients?
I was just reflecting on the rate before you posted and realized OPs rates are around what I made in base salary, plus I get the benefit of things like health insurance, equity, etc. I think I would consider freelance for $500/hr, but $150-200/hr seems low for all the risk, for me personally. But I could see doing it depending on whether I really just enjoyed the freelance lifestyle and didn't have to live in an expensive locale.
Chances are the house will be worth ten millions, but those ten millions won't be much after the global corona compensation money printing spree and the 1.x million the borrower pays will be worth nothing. The borrower being forced to walk away would be a best case outcome for the bank in a high inflation scenario.
Maybe the speed mentioned here - ~5000 mph - is the speed of detonation wave, not the speed of exhaust gases? Theoretically the latter should surpass the Shuttle's Isp.
Yeah, the switch thing is a mindboggle, but the associated pep makes it very clear that/why the problem is quite unsolvable.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/

It's quite frustrating as there are a lot of situations where a simple switch would be so nice...
There were some utterly ridiculous loan products available in the early-mid 2000s. The crash came because people who wanted to refinance out of those loans couldn't.

Edit: Of course, they were dumb for signing up for those loans in the first place. But the brokers who sold people those loans were straight up loan sharks.
Wow, that's seriously impressive if true.

As many others I haven't liked vanilla Ubuntu since they swapped Gnome 2 for a (what I think is a) clone of the Mac OS interface, but my desktop still uses the Ubuntu 18.04 base system under the hood so this might come in handy for a number of people like me.
Just wow.

We have a bunch of guys knowingly playing with fire. Then out of nowhere a major inferno starts within spitting distance from their playground. And the US tax payers have the moral duty to fund foreign nationals to enact this charade in a foreign country?
(The actual title doesn’t phrase it as a question.)
In before anti-vaxxers save the world from the Coronavirus by providing a natural experiment control group to test this theory.
As a developer you can use a theme for your initial version.

There are lots of reasonably priced frontend/backend themes out there that you can build on top of for your initial version.

Find a theme built on bootstrap or tailwind css both reliable frameworks.

Then you can focus on the app and ux to make a better solution.

You'll want to spend some time validating your idea, try to talk to existing users of the app.

Good luck.
Banks generally don't extend HELOCs beyond a borrower's equity in the house, which is the fractional value of the house the borrower truly owns.

They are basically a flexible cash-out second mortgage.

> In the extreme, a home buyer borrows a million dollars to buy an expensive house, the economy tanks before the first payment, the borrower walks away, and the bank gets a house worth $400K.

You've just described ordinary mortgage risk, in no-recourse states. In recourse states, the bank can go after the borrower for the remaining balance of the loan ($600k). Generally if a bank was willing to lend $1 million to someone, they had reasonably high credit and cash flow at origination time (debt-to-income ratio, non-conventional jumbo loan). They may not get their $600k back, and in no-recourse states they will get $0 back, but that is priced in to the interest rate of the loan.
Great Film, an absolute must watch for any CEO, CTO, CHO, etc.

I wonder who the Roman or Byzantine McNamaras are? Surely our foolishness extents deep into the past.
Just because it's not reported in the Times, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

It actually can happen quite frequently. Trial protocols can pre-specify early stopping criteria: if we see drug A is better than drug B by a factor of X at time T, then we can declare superiority with given statistical confidence.
That boat sailed long ago. Windows has a pretty decent linux subsystem now. Even devs that were hardcore linux enthusiasts moved to windows.

The benefit of linux is that it doesn't force stuff on you that you can't disable compared to windows. If you take that away, there are very little reasons for any normal user to move.
Oh my gosh - I'd never considered living inside a Venutian blimp before. Of course! Why not?

I still have fantasies about Venus being somehow a more likely [very] long-term prospect for terraforming, despite the planet's rotational problems. Seems like a thick atmosphere filled with (admittedly lethal) useful gases and potentially-organic compounds offers a much better resource than Mars' practical lack of a one.
> I like to upgrade on my own schedule. I use my computer for work, and I cannot have things break in the middle of the day or in the morning, just as I get started with work.

You can arrange snapd to update on your preferred schedule. What you cannot do is defer updates forever.
Maybe these sites:

https://canadiancouchpotato.com/

https://www.bogleheads.org/

(Unfortunately the best resources I know of are in my mother tongue, but the links above might be good starting points.)
The Snow Cruiser-Antarctica's Abandoned Behemoth
I wouldn’t be surprised if some markets were in bubbles and others weren’t.

I think there is a lot of speculation about the Bay Area and SF being in a bubble due to high prices. The demand is still there though and it’s actually grown quite a bit in recent weeks ( SF specifically ).

Cities with a lot of service and factory workers will see a larger correction.
Just filled up outside of Boston, Massachusetts. $1.89/gallon "regular" ($0.50/liter) and $2.37 "premium" ($0.63/liter). I have a friend with a Costco card paying $1.63, which I haven't seen since the 1990s.
The real concern for the banks is that HELOCs are second lien mortgages, so the risk is considerably higher if there's a default.

First lien mortgages get the house. Second lien gets whatever's left over, and guaranteed that the process is painful.

Chase did the same thing a while back, for the same reasons.
I still don't understand though. I run on btrfs with compression turned on and have noticed 0 performance issues. Only with snaps as mentioned.
Harvard professor placed on leave after report details his connection to Epstein
Out of curiosity, what size were the two companies, respectively?
I just came here to say: Major credit to standards like HL7 (and other projects for ontologies like LOINC and SNOMED)

HL7 and FHIR are a major step in interoperability for health, and they should not be taken for granted.

I've worked with integration projects with EHR (Electronic health record) Systems, and a lot of hospitals still have proprietary formats for exchanging data with limited documentation.

If you ever work on any health related system, consider starting from those standards!
Best way is to backup your home directory and re-install. trying to do anything else is going to cause you far more headaches than anything could be worth.

You may also want to keep some places like /var/lib/ if you have databases going, etc. I'd just do a complete backup and restore pieces as you find you need them.
Not sure why the negativity here. This is actually a great post that sets up a high level framework for thinking about the problem. Regardless of your personal experiences with Segment its good advice.
Spaceship You
I meant that "live streaming" doesn't have a different meaning in the web world.

So now we have two terms referring to exactly the same thing, which doesn't resolve the term conflation problem I initially wrote about. The "web world" context isn't that different from the larger software engineering world that they should repurpose engineering terms.

> Saying context doesn't matter is just ignoring how everyone else uses language and saying that your view of it is right.

I am saying that web programmers do tend to use professional language wrong, that it's unfortunate, and that we should try to correct it when it happens. I don't think the first part is controversial, but apparently trying to insist on precise engineering terminology when talking about engineering systems is controversial.
The 5 best high schools in Illinois are CPS schools [1]. The grade schools are hit and miss by neighborhood. There are great public magnet options if you can test-in or win a lottery.

That’s not to say the system is great, but there is a lot more nuance than just declaring them “terrible”. Unless me or my spouse is a trained educator, I will trust the experts. Just like I do when I need medical, electrical or plumbing work done.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/illinois
Americans overwhelmingly support pandemic containment measures
No.

It's not like it's easy to verify that binaries from Linux distributions correspond to sources without back doors, although https://reproducible-builds.org/ is working on that problem. I am not aware of any similar effort for open hardware.
Some of them, very much. Go have a look in academia where there are hordes of tech-illiterates working on linux just because of reasons like some obscure piece of software working only properly on linux, because the postdoc did it that way, because it's cheaper, because they think it has to be done like that, ... Last lab I was in it was just painful to see how much time was completely lost on trying to get things working by people not understanding computers or OS. So if auto-update can alleviate some of those problems, why not. If it breaks things, well that's something else :)
Sardines and anchovies eat mostly plankton so there is no toxic metals there.
The other customers, impacted when one customer is out of date and their machine turns into part of a massive DDoS Botnet, are also customers. Say that with me. It's a distributed problem that you can't fix or meaningfully reason about just by imagining each user on their own in a vacuum.
Usually the best ideas will present themselves to you. Either during your job or consulting.

You'll see a problem or a pattern that a new business could provide value to customers to solve.

Definitely check out the microconf videos, linked to in another reply.

The StartUpsForTheRestOfUs podcast is a great resource as well. Rob and Mike run MicroConf. Lots of great advice in their archives.
"A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is good and takes it back when it rains."
It's known that about 90% of new drug candidates fail somewhere along the clinical trial process. While a successful drug by itself might cost a few 100 millions of dollars, the failures means that the amortized cost is about $1 billion.
Takuo Aoyagi, an inventor of the pulse oximeter, dies at 84
Well, the article states the targeted use-case is in the upper stages of a rocket i.e. in cases where peak power is less of a concern than efficiency.
How did you find that person at a major company that did cool stuff? Was it through your network or their blog or ?
Pandoc to Orgmode with Babel
Well then there is a lot of work to do besides snapping and updates.

For a normal user, the INSTANT something goes wrong in Linux, you step from “something kinda like Windows” to “100% Voodoo you are expected to know”
> Given an option regular users will never update their computers

This does not reflect the hundreds of regular users that I have serviced over the years. Perhaps fewer than five would postpone updates beyond a few days for convenience / uncertainty, the rest would always install Windows updates within a day or two of being prompted.
Ask HN: Advantages of Using ZFS on Ubuntu?
So the new Ubuntu is out (version 20) and I was wondering if I should experiment with ZFS[0]. I read about ZFS online and I'm impressed by its ability to be resilient and survive power outages and still keep your files intact.

But what's the main unique selling point of ZFS and why would this USP compel someone to use it over say, ext3/4?

Also, how does one go about encrypting files with ZFS? I thought LUKS works just fine. Is the crypto in ZFS even vetted and peer reviewed and audited and can I trust it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
Here’s a remote exploit for the systemd DNS client: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/linux.debian.user/2KyNDWMj...

Here’s one for systemd DHCP:
https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/10/systemd-is-bad-parsing-an...

Firewalls wouldn’t help with either of these, in fairness.
So I just wrote one for personal use. I was looking for a duplicate file/photo finder and read some reviews about losing data so I said why would I trust a third party for my data and wrote a dupe finder. Use a hash (md5) to make a match (it is not perfect but it works) and then sort and print to show me the dupes. The first version was 45 lines of code although I could have reduced lines if I tried. You don't need awk strictly but I used it to prettify my output and add some filters. Current code with lots more bells and whistles is less than 150 lines (including white space) of bash and awk. And it works for me and I trust it.

I could set up a database, write multiple layers of code ... but really?
Most Lisps (incl. clojure), Scala, and probably others also allow placed or numbered "holes", so something like:

42 |> f 3

would be the same as
42 |> f 3 _

but you could do:

42 |> f _ 3
to get at the first arg.

or even to swap args:

42,43 ||> f %1 %0

which would essentially get expanded to:

42,43 |> fun a b -> f b a

(Of course, in this case the closure should get erased by the optimizer to simply "f 43 42".)

I really miss not having this in F# (and C# for that matter)
Agreed. I like MW a lot, it's just far from usable for normal people at this point.

On the downside, I don't see any path for such privacy centric projects getting any regulatory support whatsoever, and sadly I think this is needed to become a mainstream thing. I still think MW has immense value, it just may be relegated to niche usage.
They forgot to mention Windows and MacOS.
While there are Snaps for server software, Snaps are marketed as a way to publish applications "for desktop, cloud, and Internet of Things" "across Linux on any distribution or version" - and users expect Snap applications to work properly on all Linux distributions, not just Ubuntu. Otherwise, developers could just publish a .deb package for Ubuntu like they did before.

https://snapcraft.io

Yes, Flatpak is targeted to desktop applications while Snap has a broader scope, but it's questionable whether Snap's mandatory automatic updates are desirable in a server environment.
I'm sure you're getting downvoted because people think this is immoral, but this is absolutely the smart move. Rich people and corporations have done a great job leveraging the natural tendency of people to feel guilty about abandoning their debt obligations, but rich people and corporations do this constantly as a matter of course.

If you're ever deep in over your head financially, the smartest thing to do is to walk away. A mere year or two after filing bankruptcy, you can easily repair your credit to the point that you can get a mortgage or auto loan at a reasonable rate. Within seven years, bankruptcy or not, abandoned debt is off your credit history. Why suffer for a decade treading water paying down interest and penalties with no hope of ever getting rid of the principal if you can just hit reset?

I'm not saying it's right to rack up enormous debt on purpose and walk away when you have the means to pay, but people literally kill themselves from stress and suicide when they can just stop paying. If you tried to do the right thing and through no fault of your own (illness, injury, massive global disruption in the economy) you find yourself in an insurmountable position, don't feel bad. Just say no.
Disagree. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford. Customer is mostly right. Not always. Use your best judgement as a business owner. Innovate where necessary and stick to customer feedback where you think it makes sense.
They got cash while it was easy and certain. Accumulating it slowly would be as uncertain as their employment and expenses, and the option of borrowing later when they really need it may not be available. I can see how it might have been a logical choice for them.
>subject matter expert

I think you're overestimating the amount of background knowledge the average tech worker might need to make up to teach elementary and high school subjects from text books.

People TA entire college classes with the same amount (0) of experience.
Bringing N + 1 CPUs out of reset is generally no harder than bringing N CPUs out of reset, when N > 1.

Fast, efficient scheduling across that many CPUs is difficult, but that isn't even considered in the article. Perhaps I missed something, but why is this news?
It's perfectly fine to propose topics for further study. Just don't go taking every vitamin and supplement that is in the news unless you are aware of the potential risks.
And to add, a clinical trial can be thought of as just one step to establish evidence for efficacy and safety.

Because if you really want to prove that it works and is safe, you have to give it to a lot of people, all of whom have different health conditions. To establish that, you would ideally give it to everyone with the disease of interest. But you can't test a drug on the entire world, so.... you only find so much in a clinical trial.
The timeline is 100% accurate, anyone that follows international trade/news was aware of the dangers by the end of January.(I personally remember reading the papers about the virus's genome mid-January)

It seems we are in a period where most of our politicians would rather not take responsibility for dropping the ball and are trying to lie about observable and well catalogued recent history.
Yes, but the Linux kernel’s not replacing a few thousand lines of shell script.
Filesystem compression is a completely different animal than this. It has to deal with your ability to modify the file at any time. It doesn't compress the whole file together, it does it in blocks. When you launch a binary (and the system mmaps it) it doesn't have to decompress the entire file before you can start using it, only the first compression block.

Compression also typically makes it faster to launch applications from spinning rust, because the bottleneck is the drive and reading 50MB and decompressing it is faster than reading 100MB uncompressed. This would be true of SSDs as well except that most of them already do this internally.

But snap isn't reading e.g. 64kB and then giving you 128kB on demand (and then prefetching the next block) like the filesystem does, it has to read and decompress the entire 100+MB package before you can even open it. That is very silly and adds a perceptible amount of latency.
They exist as described (family owned/operated restaurants; owner is the cook; relatively small building with small dining area). I personally know a family which owns/operates one in my hometown, and also know of a few here in Wisconsin's capital. They don't seem to be too hard to find if you look.

It's probably location dependent, so I don't know about major urban centers like SFC. But it's definitely not fair to say that NA doesn't have these; there's a lot to NA outside of major urban centers.
Very cool! I’ve done visualizations on similar size datasets by mapping tsne output to fake latitude/longitude coordinates and rendering it with mapbox gl. It feels like a hack, but then you get all of the panning/zooming interaction, styling, and rendering labels with collision avoidance for free. For smaller datasets I pass in geojson directly, but for larger ones I precompute vector tiles so you can lazy-load more of the data when you zoom in. There are a lot of things built for mapping that are relevant for other domains, I wish that there was a common base that could be extracted that mapping libraries adapt to geographic data but data visualizations could adapt to non-geographic data.

I’ll have to play around with your technique more, encouraging to see you get good performance eagerly loading a million data points!
If you don't feel like you can be a professional security researcher, why not settle for being a hobbyist?

It sounds like you still enjoy the subject matter and it sounds like you know a lot more about this than the average developer. I've considered a senior developer and I've never done what you were describing.

I've suffered from impostor syndrome in the past - and I still do to an extent - but I've never found another hobbyist to be hostile about my knowledge or lack thereof.
Unfortunately this is an attitude I do not agree with. Especially having worked in the service sector, far too many people use this as an excuse to be rude and unreasonable.

I believe in mutual respect
What's the reasoning behind this incredibly strong statement: "Most epidemiologists expect a vaccine in 1 to 2 years." ?
Yes, I can. This is my computer, and if snap does not obey my wishes, it‘s getting removed.
Linux subsystem is there on windows. You don't have to use linux for majority of cases. Conda is pretty decent.

But I want to know what specific things they use that can't work on linux subsystem?

Maybe there are some and I don't know about them.
I tried going this route and the desktop experience was rough. Debian doesn't seem to have reasonable defaults for fonts so I spent way too much time learning and configuring all the font systems. So literally just the font configuration was enough for me to switch back to Ubuntu and just only install the stuff I like (no snap, gnome).
No — a bubble is "a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future."[1]

Home value increases have not been particularly steady. And to the extent there is a sustained effect, it is in part due to long-standing government priority of individual home ownership, implemented in a policy of subsidizing home ownership, and in part due to concentration of jobs and people in cities as part of a labor shift.

Edit: almost_unusual makes a good remark that some locales are probably in bubbles and others not; it's something specific to any given region rather than some sweeping statement about the national market.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
Ubuntu security updates do not cover the universe repository, which contains the largest number of packages. The universe repo is 'community-supported', which means that a lot of CVEs are not fixed in practice.

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/universe.h...

So, Ubuntu's LTS support is only relevant security-wise if you mostly stick to the main repository.