skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The serology results around the world (and forthcoming in Britain) don’t necessarily reveal the percentage of people who have had the disease

> He estimates 25-30% of the UK population has had Covid-19, and higher in the group that is most susceptible

Here's the Office for National Statistics household survey results. This is only people living in households. (It doesn't include hospital patients, or people living in care or nursing homes).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

> Our latest estimates indicate that at any given time during the two weeks from 4 May to 17 May 2020, an average of 137,000 people in England had the coronavirus (COVID-19) (95% confidence interval: 85,000 to 208,000). This equates to 0.25% (95% confidence interval: 0.16% to 0.38%) of the population in England. This estimate is based on tests performed on 14,599 people in 7,054 households.

Frustratingly they haven't said yet how many people in total they think have ever had covid-19, but it's not going to be anywhere near 15million people in the UK.
> Select a random portion of your userbase and ask them.

This sounds great in theory - harder to do in practice. Often what ends up happening is the only people who will share their time with you are the ones who want something specifically changed for them. Thus my point, it's effective, but it's not a silver bullet.

> I've built and supported software with 80k end users and did that effectively single-handedly.

And plenty of businesses have used Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc. combined with the aforementioned technique.

TL;DR - The two strategies are not mutually exclusive.
Cartoon humans in advertising is a big turn off for me. Are you serious or just playing around?
my research I've learned how expensive and inefficient heating oil is

Test and measure.

The most common (in the US) type of home heating systems are forced-air. Fans pull cooler air into the system, past a heating element, and then out into the space to be heated. The heated air eventually warms the occupants by convection.

The less common (in the US) approach is radiant heating. Heat up a surface and warm the contents of the space (including people) by infra-red radiation. This is how most of the heat in the universe moves (e.g. the sun's heat across the vacuum of space to the earth).

Hydronic heating via baseboards has several potential efficiency advantages. It is radiant. Radiant heat heats people not air. The transfer mechanism is liquid not air. Water conducts heat more efficiently than air. This is why fiberglass insulation is fluffy full of airspaces and why it loses effectiveness when wet. Finally, radiant baseboard provide heat along the building perimiter, low-near the floor, and without creating drafts (moving air).

Fuel-oil prices tend to fluctuate more than electricity or natural gas because it is less subject to regulation. It is less subject to regulation because natural gas and electricity run infrastructure in the public right of way.

Finally, expensive is relative. That's why test and measure. Fuel oil can be twice as expensive as natural gas. But that might mean $600/month versus $300/month or $150/month versus $75/month. Those are economically divergent against the cost of changing the system.

Ok, the real "finally." If it ain't broke don't fix it. Having a warm house is 98% of what's important. There are lots of other places to spend money that will significantly improve livability. Many of them are going to be easier to accomplish because swapping out heat systems involves lots and lots and lots of tradeoffs, vetting contractors, and living with disruption of significant construction...and of course, swapping out heating systems doesn't make your house better. The fact that the system is still in use is evidence that it is good enough. Good luck.
1. Yes we have.

2. YES! Very much so!

3. A 1 hour meeting every other week! If you want to have weekly 1-on-1s, you can have a 30-45 minute meeting.

A few tips:

- Focus of 1-on-1s should be on supporting your direct reports. How they feel at work, how they can achieve more, what should they do for their career developments, etc.

- Active listening is very important! It's a meeting about our direct reports goals, so most of the time we should listen to what they have to say.

- I found this guide by Lighthouse helpful, but there are lots of other good guides:

https://getlighthouse.com/blog/one-on-one-meetings-template-...
It's cheating but not as much. It's setting the "motion vector" aka setting the speed at current instant. It's just skipping the controls which are normally setting the "motion vector". For the orientation it's totally cheating though using camera.lookat(target).
It can ask user explicitly like it asks for microphone. It is not common for a website page to need access to the local network services as it is to record microphone or request location data. So it's browser fault IMO.
i disagree. it is that simple. the community consists of the people that contribute to the discussion. the fact that this community is using reddit as their tool to communicate is secondary. if they as a group were unhappy with how things are done they could move. stackexchange, discord, whatever.

moderators should be volunteers from that community either way, not paid outsiders.
I can't think of a world where I would trust such a system (or trust anyone to create/run such a system). Is this just for websites? Or does it encompass all use of the Internet?

At least as far as websites or individual platforms go, this is exactly what accounts, moderation, and "banning" already attempt to do. We've seen how difficult and expensive this is to scale when your site gets as big as Facebook or Reddit. I can't fathom a sufficiently "benevolent dictator" that I would trust to act as a gatekeeper for the entire Internet at large.
You have a lot more faith in markets than I do. I don't believe that we've been particularly well served by the housing or health care markets. It's been demonstrated, again and again, that 'more supply will come in' just isn't working for housing.

I think we fundamentally disagree, though, which is ok. I see rent control as one mechanism to attempt to decommodify housing (which I'm strongly in favor of). I'm not sure we're going to find much common ground via internet forum.
"We changed our proprietary code, thank you people working on Free Software btw"

OK?
Deleting Few Lines of Code Can Yield Significant Power Savings on Linux Systems
Good time to do it since everyone is focused on covid.
Google Drive blocks personal copy of Plandemic at request of Washington Post
That's an interesting app, thanks! I'm actually looking for tools for generating properly-sized vector human figures, or even doing skeletal animation on vector graphics.

Speaking of art style of human figures on the web, my favourite one is https://undraw.co/illustrations. These are the kind of images I'd like to see more on the web, instead of Humaaans lookalikes.
True, but safe to say the frequency is way up as a result of emptier streets.
Show HN: Another AWS OKTA Assume Role CLI
I've got two thoughts after reading this. One is that trauma isn't a binary thing, and it can accumulate over time. Some of these mods are dealing with serious events, like the user who was given advice which lead to his wife killing their children. Others got doxxed and receive death threats.

Two, if someone feels upset from getting messages like "you're a piece of shit", I wouldn't say they're an immature child or a weakling. I'd say they could be sensitive, perhaps also very considerate, and in that moment they may worry that another human being is upset and they're responsible for it. They might hurt from the pressure to moderate something that's important to them. Maybe they struggle with social interaction, even if it's online, and experiences like this can be very hurtful.

I don't care why something hurts someone, I care more that they are hurt. Chronic exposure to these things, even if they do seem benign or minor from the outside, absolutely can lead to trauma.

Trauma is a result of exposure to acute or chronic damage to your physical or mental well being. This can occur in a staggering number of ways from person to person. How each of us handles that will vary, but if it leads to a lasting impact, it's trauma.

I'm sorry you experienced what you did. It's arguably worse than what the moderators are describing, but it isn't exclusive to those experiences. It's also not a contest.
This is the quote from Wikipedia:

"Sikora told The Guardian that he did not know he would be used in the ad campaign, and that he agreed with Obama about the American health care system. In the attack ad, Sikora was referred to as professor of oncology at Imperial College. This led Imperial to seek legal advice to stop Sikora from claiming to be a professor of cancer medicine at Imperial; a claim that he was understood to have made repeatedly over the previous five years."

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Here is The Guardian source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/22/karol-sikora...

"Although the US advert did not state a link to Imperial, at the end of piece written by Sikora on the day it was first aired, 12 May, for UnionLeader.com, he was described as professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College school of medicine, London.

...

"I'm very careful not to involve either my NHS contract with Hammersmith or Imperial in anything that's political," he said. "I'm a consultant at Hammersmith hospital, nobody would dispute that. It's true I can't call myself professor of cancer medicine at Imperial, but I can at Buckingham. The trouble is when I get quoted somewhere, they just use the old stuff."

However, on 29 January, Sikora gave evidence to the Commons health select committee. Introducing himself, he said: "I am Karol Sikora, professor of oncology at Imperial College for 22 years.""

.

I believe it is possible the advertisement made this association without his consent; however I agree it is problematic if he represented to the Commons health select committee that he is a professor at Imperial. Personally, I don't find this damning evidence enough to eradicate his credibility.
The roads have been extra fun for those of us who enjoy them responsibly. I have seen only a few cases of unusual/dangerous things. I feel like only those with extreme experinces are reporting because of the interest effect. While cities are less busy, many rural areas seem as busy as ever, partly due to increased traffic from people looking to 'get out', is my only interesting observation..
Same with MassTransit[0] and .NET. We have several distributed .NET Core services running in our data center, services running on employee PCs, etc all communicating via RMQ with MassTransit and it's great. The primary maintainer is very active (streams every Thursday evening) and the documentation has gone from "pretty bad" to really good in the last few months.

[0] https://masstransit-project.com/
Honestly, PHP is a decent scripting language. It's pretty fast with text processing and you can choose to play fast-and-loose or go in a more type-checked direction.

It's basically my least favorite language for "real" programs, but I think it could find a niche for scripting in the middle of the spectrum between (ba)sh and python.
Simple things that used to work fine. Start menu search, for one. The start menu used to be blazing fast and search was consistent. Nowadays the start menu can be sluggish in certain cases and search might not return local results seemingly at random.

The calculator used to be fast and load instantly, now it's one of those UWP monsters that even asks you to rate it in the Microsoft store...

I don't recall hearing about updates bricking machines or causing data loss at scale back in the Windows 7 days but it seems like that is now a relatively common occurrence, amplified by the fact that you can no longer hide/defer updates on consumer versions of Windows. I think the firing of their QA team and delegating the work to unpaid "insiders" and telemetry might have something to do with this.

The new Settings UI is absolutely disgusting both in looks and information density and is a clear downgrade from the previous version.

I can go on and on. I would sympathize if they were pushing the boundaries of software engineering but what we're talking about isn't groundbreaking - these are problems that were mostly solved a decade ago and Microsoft intentionally backtracked on their progress by the looks of it.
No, greenfield
I've been running RabbitMQ on pretty small VMs for a long time. RabbitMQ doesn't need a lot of resources per message, even with very small VMs (512MB RAM, single CPU) I've seen it handle peaks of many thousands of messages a second without running into problems. Give it a bit of beefy hardware and it'll probably handle whatever load you were thinking, unless you're saturating 10gig links with messages or something.

RabbitMQ and Kafka are very different struggles when thinking of scaling and performance. Kafka is almost a database itself of messages which have routed through the system. In many configurations clients can come back and demand to replay the message stream from almost any point in time. This means you need to handle _a lot_ of disk and memory access. With RabbitMQ, messages are traditionally very ephemeral. Once a message has been ack'd, its gone. Poof. Not in memory. Not on disk. Nobody is going to come back asking for that message. This leads to a lot more efficiency in handling things per message, but at the cost of not being able to remember the messages that went through the system a few milliseconds ago.
People give feedback on Windows. The web is full of Q&A forum posts with people struggling with all sorts of issues, including in forums run by Microsoft.

Some problems get reported for years without any fix in sight.

Like, stop the telemetry nonsense and read the darned forums, starting with your own?
JavaScript framework and IDE that generates app actions while typing HTML?
Here is Southern California, I’ve seen a lot more crazy driving on the freeways. Since there are far less cars, I’ve seen a lot of people driving 90+ mph during the work week. It’s nuts. However the last two weeks here has seen an uptick in traffic, meaning more crowded roads and less of the speeding.
RabbitMQ is not suitable for event sourcing. Kafka is. In general, RabbitMQ is a “river” and Kafka is a “lake”.

RabbitMQ has excellent support for complex message flow topologies. Kafka out of the box does not provide these features.
I suggest everyone read this fellow's Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora
Who is next? Taiwan?
Isn’t this clearly an explanation of a patch contributed upstream? Don’t think the connector is proprietary.
Why is that subreddit so similar to Jerry Springer? How did it become so trashy?
Marketing tech startups is (almost) an official purpose for Hacker News. I don't mind, as long as it's still largely community driven.
What do you do with all the coal miners? What happened to all the telegraph operators and town criers?

I'm sure we'd work something out in terms of retraining and government support for new businesses.
You have to find something that you genuinely enjoy doing, there's no other way.
But what is the title??
> You’ve got to tempt unwitting users to visit your site, and to stay on it while they’re developing JS code

So, something like evil counterparts to HN, reddit, StackOverflow, or latestcatvideos.com.
#1 only applies to aggregate distributions "containing programs from several different sources". As such it clearly would not apply to distributing a single program. One program by itself is not an aggregate as the term is commonly used and certainly does not contain programs from several different sources.

#6 is titled "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavour" and explicitly refers to commercial use as a field of endeavour. The annotated version[1] says:

> Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.

Restricting commercial distribution of modified versions would discriminate against commercial users. I argue that the word "use" in this context is referring not only to running the program but to the exercise of any of the freedoms outlined in the Open Source Definition.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
This things happen all the time on Twitter. Does Twitter actually do anything? They seem to careless about this sort of stuff. Bots overrun anything remotely controversial.
> If Gallowboob and friends are just helpful innocent people, why were were the calling-out comments, dozens upon dozens of them, deleted, and the people posting them banned?

Because personal witchhunts are against Reddit's rules as a form of targeted harassment, and mods are de-modded by Reddit for not enforcing Reddit's rules -- or worse, subreddits that consistently see significant Anti-Evil Ops (effectively Reddit's on-payroll God-Mods) action may be quarantined.
We've used RabbitMQ since 2010 in KAZOO. I would argue, save one or two instances in the intervening 10 years, that RabbitMQ is the most stable piece of the infrastructure. I think it might be the only open-source project we build on that we haven't committed upstream to because we haven't encountered any issues in our usage.
So the Linus Torvalds quote about compiler masturbation is a no-go then.

(posting from a throwaway to test your theory)
Interesting that a vendor is securing access to Z80 assembler in 2020.
Is there any way if I can find out why my submission is flagged? The last thing I submitted was also flagged (and then unflagged), but I have tried to abide by the submission guidelines.
MassTransit is great, the maintainer is very active on Discord, and since quarantine has been streaming every Thursday night (for my UTC-5 anyway). Documentation quality has increased greatly the last few months as well.
especially when you pass --purge
Indeed I'm a bit confused. I remembered about having to find a workaround because I couldn't use retained messages. It's actually not working only for subscribers with wildcards : https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-mqtt/issues/154
Currently, I use Google Sheets for tracking expenses and investments. There are two files, one for tracking expenses and the other is for investments.

I track my daily expenses in a sheet. A sheet is indicated the month and the year. Once I spend the money I input the expense soon to prevent from forgetting. It's simple. A table with a category expense, detail expense, and the amount. This is something that I want to do because this habit can make me understand how I spend my money. I mean do I appreciate the money?

For investments, a sheet is indicated a category of investments. Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, for example. I also use a simple table to track what I buy or sell. By the way, Google Sheets has a GOOGLEFINANCE formula [0] that is very usefull for getting the price of a stock.

[0]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281?hl=fr
We must be talking past each other, as I understand it quite well.

My point (which I understand is controversial) is there's no requirement for billions of dollars and thousands of scientists to make the next big breakthrough. There's still low hanging fruit. Less than there used to be, but it's still there.

The LHC and big $$ funding is _one_ way to do it. So far its been unable to solve the biggest problems we have in physics (agreed that it's helped disprove some).

We're at a point now that is similar to what people were saying in 1900. Some people say "we've almost dusted this physics thing off and figured it all out". I'm fairly confident something is going to come along from some small corner of physics that will knock all our socks off the same way Quantum Mech and Relativity did... it may arrive this year or it may arrive in 120 years more to get there though.

The big problems in science can be solved by much smaller teams is my point. Sure it will take an army to completely work out the implications of the breakthrough. But the breakthrough "aha" can still come from an individual or small team.
> Disputing the consensus should not by itself be forbidden, even when the consensus is accurate and important.

I have a facebook page for sharing my take on non-monopoly medicine. I wrote a blog post for one of my websites commenting on a Spectator.co.uk article about how the Germans were doing much better with their SARS-CoV-2 patients than the Italians. The interviewed German doctor attributed their success to their making every effort to not ventilate their COVID-19 patients.

Facebook scanned my website and decided that it violated their "community standards", or some such claptrap. But the facebook robots let me directly link the same Spectator article to my facebook page. Facebook's algorithms must have changed between March and April, as they previously allowed my early-March post calling SARS-CoV-2 a 'weakling virus'. [I stand by that statement: the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mostly killed nursing home residents, ventilated patients, and other vulnerable populations (vitamin-D deficiency), and is entirely survivable for young/otherwise healthy people.]

Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell broke rank with consensus to share the experience of doctors on the front lines actually treating SARS-CoV-2 patients, by posting a few videos expressing his frustration at the standards his ICU was implementing while treating SARS-CoV-2 [0]. He single handedly changed the COVID-19 standard of care in the United States by objecting to the consensus policy of ventilating fully-coherent people, thereby preventing untold number of patients from being harmed with ventilation. A later Spectator.co.uk article was written by a Canadian M.D. who traced the abandonment of ventilation for SARS-CoV-2 patients to Dr. Kyle-Sidell's efforts. The Canadian opined that Kyle-Sidell really just tapped in to the mass of front-line workers' observations that aggressive ventilation was not helping.

Conventional medicine is founded on quicksand (mercury/blister agents/bloodletting/etc), got captured by the pharmaceutical industry in the early 1900's (over-reliance on asprin, heroin, etc), made some progress in the early 20th century anyways (antibiotics, imaging, lab tests, science), then was led astray by drug reps promoting new patent-medicines when the old patent medicines lost their protection.

A solid case can be made that the former consensus on SARS-CoV-2 was wrong, and that BY DEFERRING TO THE CONSENSUS OF THE MEDICAL MONOPOLISTS the platforms are promoting modern bloodletting.

[0] https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1246765252307533825 / https://twitter.com/cameronks/status/1246762772400148480 - These two tweets from April 5th announced the Doctor's uploading his video to Vimeo and YouTube. Dr. Kyle-Sidell's video seem to have been the catalyst for the abandonment of the former consensus of proactively ventilating SARS-CoV-2 patients. [483]
I wrote an autopilot[0] for the simulator in JS, which sends key events to the game.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/ForestKatsch/01069f29e8316df11774025...
How is that different than someone selling products on eBay or Amazon that were purchased with stolen cards?