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I'm on a different angle, I think.

My specific point is that people need to stop looking at a single IFR/CFR stat. It does no good. We look to be getting safer numbers there by simply increasing testing. (Of note, NYC has a strict lower bound on its numbers with how many in its population has died. But, do note they have more people over sixty than most cities do people. Such that most places will not be comparable.)

And that is the problem. The virus has not gotten safer as we get more data. Our understanding is just not focusing on helping the elderly. We seem to be taking a crap shot that everyone can stay home and we can out sit the virus.

I would wager we could have setup hotels and strict access controls on supplies into and out of at risk communities cheaper than what we have done. Certainly if you count on all of the job loss.
outside of the strip las vegas is pretty sprawled out with a suburban feel. I don't think the virus really is easily transmitted in that environment. indoors isn't that claustrophobic either outside of nightclubs. casinos have a pretty good amount of space. not like a nyc subway.
Abuse of power is important to curtail. If public officials are falsifying public comments, that matters. And to many American citizens, the truth still matters.

As for your actual premise, ‘the comments didn’t matter’, the rest of your comment invalidates your premise. Because if the comments did not matter, then the FCC would feel no need to fake the result.

What you mean to say is, ‘the comments would not effect the outcome of the FCC’s decision.’ And we can have a proper opinionated debate as to whether that is true. But the comments clearly ‘matter’.
Lol - old graybeard ... it was Bill freakin' Atkinson. Author of HyperCard and one of my heroes!

This story came up often when I said I read the commits daily. I would just roll my eyes and say "I read code, I don't look at arbitrary LOC".

If the story is true it shows incompetence with the managers to pick such an arbitrary metric to measure with. Plus, when you start policing people like this you can damn-near guarantee motivation goes in the trashcan because now it's a "me vs. you" thing... and eww who wants to come to work with THAT?!
One obvious question: if this was already spreading in France by late December 2019, what about all the countries with even more travel to and from China, such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc?
I'm bored of tech, apps, gadgets and all, despite the coollness factor. I was fascinated by technology when I was growing up, but I feel like the world's pressing needs and problems are not addressed because there's no "good money" to be made by solving them, which is absurd.

I wish beauty, wisdom and optimization would be better valued so we could find pleasure in designing things and cities with beautiful architectures with minimal negative impact on the environment. I wish we could redefine our position in the world as member of an ecosystem we should care for, instead of being merely consumers and "eyeballs" for advertisers.
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What drug did you take? I got malaria and a friend mixed up a white powder with bottled water and I injected it in my leg. I was better in 24 hours and don’t recall any side effects.

My guess is the drug was chloroquine, but not sure. Based on other’s experiences, I am glad I was young and dumb enough to opt for a questionably sterile injection.

I was fortunate to have made a friend that worked in oil services in Nigeria, and he had “malaria training” from Schlumberger, and the bottled water injection sounds crazy, but was the recommended treatment.
Interesting venue to post this on. But as it's the afternoon in the US workday, it's a fair chance that many responses will come from US tech workers who are slacking off or taking a break from their job and were enticed in by the headline.

Given the culture of HN comments I reckon you'll get grooming tips and pointless anecdotes, condescending advice, or unhelpful peptalks.

What I'll say is that you probably are disillusioned with it because you saw how illusory most of it is. The best stuff is always produced by very small, tightly-knit teams, in an environment where creativity is allowed to flourish. In a monoculture like tech giant / unicorn startup, you're living in the Silicon Valley series bro and that's all there is to it.

There are lots of engineers out here on the internet doing fun things. We just don't spam github shit or write fancy landing pages to shamelessly promote ourselves. Join us.
It's possible to store your paper somewhere that's not the case. It's not possible to do the same with crypto. There is no workaround for crypto -- intentionally so. Not to mention, mediums of exchange aren't supposed to fluctuate 10% in value in minutes, for reasons that should be immediately obvious, and it certainly shouldn't be priced in USDT / Tether Funbux.
Regardless of how incompetent they are. Incompetence should not be the benchmark for which terms like "Reasonable Burden" are applied against.
So... we should be able to reproduce the phenomenon?
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That's only considering the boost clock though. The thermal package on the MacBook Air is __horrid__. The MBP can sustain longer periods of boost, albeit with fans spinning up. The new MBA will literally throttle in minutes on medium/high loads due to the dysfunctional semi-passive cooling design.
Many of us engineers fancy ourselves as artisans who get to avoid working that 2nd job to pay for our art.

But the reality is that we pay the bill inside the companies we work for. Our art has to meet certain deadlines and specifications decided by others. We have to spend time in meetings about nothingness. Whether we get funded still comes down to dollars for value, with the exception that instead of the grants artists get, we call it salary.

Very little in life can be extracted from the fact that we must provide value to others and often on their terms, even if that value is doing little but filling up their meeting so they look very in charge.

I solve this by having a good book on my phone for when I am in meetings and ensuring that there are always many things I am doing beyond my job. There is plenty of opportunity for the purely fun "let's build something cool" type of engineering outside of work that can still contribute to your career.
Each story was impactful, either at a local, national or global level. Congratulations to the winners. We need more courageous and thoughtful journalism.
the landing page almost looked too slick and polished! i thought it was a for sale program instead of an open source one at first. neat tool... thanks for sharing it
I don't think Amazon is going to have any trouble at all filling open headcount with talented people on account of maintaining a politics-free workplace.

It's become fashionable in tech among a certain crowd to bombard coworkers with divisive messaging about controversial social issues, to leak confidential information to sympathetic external press, and to demonize anyone who objects. This practice must end, and I admire Bezos for having the guts to end it. Companies have every right to ask employees to focus on work at work.

If being one of these "reputable people" you mention requires me to be a cheerleader for this kind of strident and obnoxious internal activism, I don't want to be "reputable".
Fair enough. I could get on board with your way of delineating it.

The way I see it is that modern day "hacking" and "espionage" form a venn diagram, and that particular distinction isn't important anymore when it comes to attacking and protecting businesses in digital space. Espionage based tactics for digital intrusion, including getting physical access to the digital assets, are usually fair game for pentesting and are often within the scope of the blue team.
Perhaps not but would be useful for planning and prep for wave 2 onwards.
You seem to be conflating blameworthiness and predictability. True story: I know a guy who's a real scumbag, just constantly taking advantage of people who don't know better and abusing those who do know better. I fully expect this person to do a lot of contemptible things. My ability to anticipate his behavior doesn't make me like him any more for it. And the fact that the law doesn't punish a particular misbehavior doesn't shift the blame for his behavior onto the law.

In short: It is not ethical to do whatever you can get away with. You can choose to ignore questions of ethics, but if that's how you choose to live your life, expect to have a lot of people hate your guts. People treating you like a monster is a predictable consequence of living like a monster. This doesn't stop being true just because the choices are being made by multiple people under the banner of a corporation.
Palantir involvement?

Yup ... I'll take the coronavirus, please.
You wouldn’t be implying that ex-Verizon-Corporate-Lawyer Ajit Pai might have a conflict of interest when serving the public, would you?
You don't think the 5 eyes don't get handed out mobile data location directly from the cariers? I am more concerned about a database that will inevitably be accessed by lots of researchers, and of course one will think it's a good idea to store a copy on a USB key or a public s3 bucket, etc. It the same story happening again and again and again...
This seems like an important result, but one that we might need to approach with measured confidence.

Of 14 samples, from 124 patients in Dec/Jan, one tested positive for COV by PCR. How well can we bound our uncertainty about false positive in such circumstances?
They are also dead-simple to install. It's like IKEA furniture levels of complication.

At my old job, we devised a way to make an "office door" out of a section of cube wall that was only attached on one side with a rubber sheath used to hide the seams. It actually worked out pretty well.
Both/and, not either/or. We should be angry at the president's violent rhetoric toward the press, and we should be angry at the press's bias and spin.
This is no better than Libra or Fortnite VBucks: if you have to trust someone or some group, it's not a cryptocoin, it's just entries on someone else's ledger.
Thanks, just looked it up as well. But to the GP’s point, I do hope Google/Apple start banning apps (especially released by governments) even if they don’t use the contact tracing API.
I don't think that's what they're doing. Intersection of people who care about privacy and people who wouldn't see through that tactic is tiny.

They are using the NHS brand to get high adoption.

Plus the UK govt slogan right now is literally "protect the NHS", the existing Conservative party opposition to the NHS is basically gone now, hopefully for good.
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does anyone know if POP is still working?
It's written in Go, so right out the gate you get stronger memory safety guarantees than other servers written in C, which results in more secure software on your edge.

Caddy's HTTPS/TLS implementation is among the most robust in the industry - powered by Go's performant and fairly bulletproof TLS stack, and combined with CertMagic's advanced TLS automation logic, your sites can stay online through situations that are problematic for other setups.

Fewer moving parts means less that can go wrong. Caddy will make you more productive and lower your costs.

An on-line config API is nice if you are automating anything.

You might even be able to use your existing nginx config to begin your transition: https://github.com/caddyserver/nginx-adapter
Do you know where to find out more about this? I like that the fan practically never spins up on my 2017 MBP, but of course the keyboard is garbage. I'm not a dev so perhaps I could get by with a lesser processor, but I wouldn't want to go to the trouble of swapping to get something that is actually slower than my current machine.
Yeah, in this case, I think it's clear that if GPS data was attached, user adoption would be ruined.

The most important thing is to get absolutely as many people possible using the technology.

Besides, for their own selfish reasons, neither Google or Apple want to be so blatantly attached to something that could be so easily abused.
That would be a similar workstation that I have, just as a iMac instead of a tower. For portability, ease, and ability to switch between a "dock" mode and a tablet mode I'm all-in with the ipad now.
As someone in predominantly blue state, I make a point to vote 3rd party. 15% of the popular votes means they get to be in the debates. At least it's something....
I want to read more on this topic. Have you written about this anywhere, or do you have a pointer/suggestion?
This was more or less the original UK strategy: isolate the elderly and go full-bore for herd immunity. They scrapped that plan after they updated the model to account for ventilator shortages.

There is lots of commentary on that strategy if you want to go back and read it. Even if you were gonna do this, you’d have to figure out how to isolate high-risk populations as thoroughly as possible, to the point of locking caretakers in with them and whatnot. If you lock everyone down, you have a lot more latitude to half-ass things as long as you keep R below 1. Isolating high-risk populations and deliberately pursuing herd immunity means operating consistently under the assumption that virtually everyone else will, as opposed to may, be contagious.
And Apple.
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It's no different than bearer bonds [1]. "Utterly worthless" is a little strong; while for 99% of users, it's arguably inferior to a banking authority than can restore your assets in the event of fraud, there are those that would consider this a feature rather than a bug, since it also means that a government or bank can't seize your assets either (given sufficient precautions, etc). It's a tradeoff, like so many things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond
It seems they were not close at all, as the bug was found in prototype testing and then fixed immediately, but that doesn't get clicks.
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What hard data do you need? The petition is public, and the number of people who signed it is as hard as you're going to get!
There is burnout, then there is just being "done." If you're out of software and happy, then great. I think we reach a point where the draw of money + realization that software is horrible kind of collide and end up shaking you, making you realize life is short and limited and that there must be something more meaningful. Is that a bad thing? Only if you don't do something about it. you have an incredible opportunity to do good somewhere somehow. You'll need to fix your "charged emotional responses" and "reactivity" by learning to be with em instead of running and grasping, but there-after, you are freed of the animal-instinct burden. It' s a hard path to find and harder still to walk, but it's there. No words can capture it or give it, no thinking will show you the way out.
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Sunlight and heat maybe?
It’s only absurd when you assume that access implies blanket authorization.

Apple Maps is allowed to use my location for the purpose of providing me directions. Sure privacy policies are usually overly broad but for sure “to allow Mark in accounting to track his ex’s” aren’t part of it.

I don’t see a contradiction in two large players refusing to cooperate with governments that want to slurp up people’s location data. They might lose the court case and be forced to allow it but I see no absurdity in the fight.
> It's arguably inferior to a banking authority than can restore your assets in the event of fraud, there are those that would consider this a feature rather than a bug, since it also means that a government or bank can't seize your assets either (given sufficient precautions, etc).

And they would be wrong, since all crypto is priced in USDT which is a fiction brought to you by the Bitfinex team.

Obviously the government should be able to seize funds, because you know, crimes. Somehow they seem to actually manage to seize bitcoin from time to time, too. So I'm not really even sure that's an argument. I guess if you lose it there's nothing to seize, like 20% of BTC so far.
Being "ultra skeptical" for some non-scientific reasons is also a very dangerous way of thinking. Keeping in mind several factors, such as China being a developing country (and likely having lower standards of biosecurity than say US or Germany), poor conditions in that particular lab (cited by US observers), proximity of the lab etc. at least suggests that there is some non-negligible probability it came from that lab.
The reliable media often back up the claims with resources, motivations and you have the history to verify.

If a person makes a blanket statement like "press is biased" or "is a spin-doctor" for X, we need to ignore that move past it.

We tend to identify reliable sources over time, and there are plenty of reputed, reliable journalists and newspapers in the world. Just like reliable politicians. Kudos to them.
Does anyone know if the original statements from Apple and/or Google are available online?
Most people stay in Vegas only for a short time, the casino floors are constantly being cleaned, slot machines are constantly cleaned and inspected, cards and dice are constantly discarded and rotated.

Sure no masks and what may appear crowded is not really that, high ceilings, powerful HVAC heat exchange systems which bring air from the outside and overall low population density in the urban areas make Vegas seem actually a pretty safe place compared to say packed motels during Gra or Spring Break.

P.S. on an anecdotal note about 6-7 years ago after BH USA I’ve personally witnessed a person that was all sweaty and coughing like they are about to die being escorted by security of the floor after about 15-20min of being around the tables.

While I don’t have any sources on to confirm this policy, it really wouldn’t surprise me if casino security monitors people who seem to be ill if nothing else than to avoid the optics of having medics on the casino floor.
We have seen significant numbers of deaths in populations outside nursing homes. Why didn't those deaths show up when the disease started spreading?
I can't speak for Google, but I know that Apple goes out of their way not to have any clue where your are. For example, when you do mapping directions, you get issues multiple single-use codes, that are refreshed during the trip, so not only does Apple not know what directions you asked for, they can't even associate the trip with a single entity.

When you say, "Apple has the data in-house" - what are you referring to?
The thing about those paranoid old fools is that some of them are right. But where they are stuck at the level of trying to convince others to just "look with your eyes, see the truth right in front of you!" those with actual experience with praxis know it's much more fruitful to put your efforts toward political campaigns. Grassroots is a thing but it's always some weird combination of coercion and rhetoric about morals and ethics, because most people don't care so you have to make them care before the movement picks up steam.
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Still, I recommend just going into v2 with a blank slate and just discover it anew. :)
I work in semiconductor manufacturing and I'm in the same boat as OP.

I'm not enjoying the work anymore...working from home has helped somewhat with the burnout but the social isolation is getting to me too. At least I don't have to see my coworkers and boss who have stopped caring a long time ago.

Not sure what I am going to do if I just outright quit. My wife is supportive but I can't just sit at home doing hobbies.
If you actually look at how the software work it's clear they're not doing that - they are just having the passport encrypt a nonce. Then they decrypt it with the passport's public key to confirm that the passport is authentic.
The issue isn’t that there’s a difficulty in creating gender-equality laws, but that the opposite is true: it’s just as straightforward for a legislature somewhere to enact misogynistic laws. A constitutional amendment to recognise gender equality would mean US laws like these could be struck-down or never get enacted in the first place: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/sexist-laws-in-the-...
Are the spikes in prior year Q4 from the flu? And if so was this year’s flu much more mild? It seems prior to coronavirus the number of excess deaths was quite low compared to past years.
Everything in the Cumulus distribution except switchd is opensource (According to sales people anyways, and seems true so far, been browsing some python source on our switches), switchd is using information in the Linux kernel to program/configure Broadcom and Mellanox ASICs. Their contributions to the Linux kernel and the FRR routing package is not insignificant.

I hope Nvidia is going to keep allowing Cumulus to support Broadcom ASICs and keep upstreaming their development efforts.

Disclamier: The company is work for is a small but happy Cumulus customer.
I have new MBP16 2019 upgraded from MBP13 2015, avoided whole butterfly keyboard, I have got it with touch bar... few problem:
- sometimes I do not realize I have touched something on touch bar --- maybe it should have click sound?
- I had to remove back button (for browser apps) because I kept messing with it
- sometimes I click, I see feedback of click, yet nothing happen

that said, touch bar is awesome, I'm currently typing this and it is correcting or completing my sentence, emoji as well
I recently switched my site from using Amazon Linux 1 + Apache + manual setup to Amazon Linux 2 + Caddy 2 + automated Ansible setup. The documentation for Caddy 2 wasn't quite 100% at the time, but it looks like it's in much better shape now. But Caddy 2 just worked, and gave me SSL seamlessly out of the box, zero config. Love it! My entire Caddyfile looks like this:

giftyweddings.com {
encode gzip
reverse_proxy localhost:8080 # Go web server
}

www.giftyweddings.com {
redir https://giftyweddings.com{uri} permanent
}

Also, mholt's "Caddy saves money" quip on the homepage was true in my case. After the switch I was able to downsize my instance to a very small size and save about 50% on my AWS bill, down to less than $10 per month. Not entirely sure it was due to Caddy, but I "blame" it on that anyway. :-)
I don't see how you could cram all of S3's functionality into sftp? How would you configure a lifecycle policy for a file for example? Or generate a signed URL?

It seems to me you would only get a very narrow subset of the functionality.
Completely agree. If I get an MBP with a touchbar I have to completely rework my muscle memory for "step over", "step in", "step out", and "run" that I've been using for over 20 years. Put little OLED displays on the keycaps if you want to do something gratuitously dynamic, but leave me the damn keycaps.
Apple logs location history? Other than the wifi location log from ios4 and the significant locations feature (opt in, device only), I don't know how apple is logging locations.