skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that that the argument you made - i.e. that lower transmissibility aka. "flatten the curve" lowers total mortality in the SIR model - doesn't hold unless you assume that you can keep transmissibility down forever (and unless a vaccine or treatment comes out fast enough). That is, I'm not presenting a new argument, merely refuting your argument, over the SIR model you used, adding the assumption that transmissibility can't be kept down indefinitely - which I believe is very reasonable given what we are observing.

I believe it's the burden of the proof is on you to present a new, more rigorous model if you want to argue that slowing down transmission significantly lowers overall mortality - as the null hypothesis is that they are not associated.

On the last point, I am aware that under the SIR model, there's the possibility of overshoot, i.e. exceeding the minimum herd immunity threshold. My understanding is that this isn't a significant effect unless you have uncontrolled, explosive expansion, so that most people get infected simultaneously before others develop immunity and can therefore act as a barrier for herd immunity. I don't believe this is the situation right now given the numbers we are seeing.

That said, I believe that the more realistic future is that a vaccine or an effective treatment will be developed in the next months, and that will be the thing that will have made temporarily lowering transmissibility worth it. What I don't believe, because I haven't found any evidence for it that holds basic scrutiny, is that if no vaccine or effective treatment can be developed in a reasonable timeframe, then keeping the measures to slow down transmission as long as possible will have any significant effect on lower overall mortality.

EDIT: To make it clear so people do not misunderstand me, what I believe has no evidence is that without a timely vaccine or effective treatment, slowing down transmission beyond what is necessary to keep the health system from overloading is associated with lower overall mortality.
Any real reason you can't google it other than being worried about the big G knowing what you looked up?

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/corrupt-silk-road-investigator...
> From simple things, like pinching to zoom, with the fonts getting all blurry.

This is an aside to your conversation, but just wanted say we're currently rolling out webrender to more devices in the new version of Firefox for android, and it fixes the blurriness when zooming.
I follow Assange hearing on Craig's blog for a while and whole trial is really a clown show. No media has the balls to report on it.
Even the Amnesty International monitors are not able to observe the hearings.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/why-are-amnes...
"That leak is already turning up some interesting stuff, like the NetMeeting user certificate root signing keys." -- https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/1309366364537266177
But does it work in the cloud?

https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.3619789
When all else fails, there is always a Bullet for My Valentine, luckily it was February, if it was Novembers Doom you would have been in for a Life of Agony with the only way out being a Five Finger Death Punch inside A Perfect Circle. That would have been the Story Of The Year.
Lot of negativity here.

I would just like to thank the author and people who help him for their work.

Calibre is one of the few general public facing open source application that is best in class.
It's also not maintained by a huge corporation, but mostly love of one man, and a few helpers.

It also has great user support for end users.
> I don't think the antidote to consumption is necessarily production.

I agree. It's play. Dance more, tell stories more, jump the cracks in the sidewalk more, hang out with people you like more.

Those hippies were on to something back in the 1960s.
No way! I like good comments that are not offending even if they are challenging ;). They can only make things better. In any case, continue like this :)!
I wasn't clear, sorry. What I meant to say is that most people use Laravel and Symfony, which are nowhere near the top performing PHP frameworks on the benchmark.
don't be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6UR_3ZieE4
> should not be allowed to mess with systems that can literally end their life by exploding in their pockets!

This is non-sense fearmongering.

Giving people the ability to install fortnite, on an official fortnite app store, is not going to cause people to die from phone explosion

It is just not going to happen. Fortnite is not going to blow you up.

The reason why I know this to be the case, is that half the US smartphone market, allows people to side load APKs, and install fortnite that way, and people aren't being blown up because they had fortnite on their phone.
A buddy slashed his CI build times by using a RAM disk. But yeah, usually faster to avoid compiling things.
I'm a happy user of AlReader.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neverland....
The bigger issue, I think, I really having to restart just to update minor things i.e. what linux distro needs to restart just to update (the equivalent of) visual studio
It’s still sandboxed. What evil thing would it be doing?
You’d have to choose to do business with a competitor. And that won’t happen more than once.
Trauma is best to forget
WRK is available on GitHub for years:

- https://github.com/9176324/WRK
- https://github.com/ntkernel/wrk-v1.2

Strange that nobody noticed and sent strike to that repos
And often that other skill, the one they have less of, is about dealing with people.
I can't confirm that. I've just looked at it with Firefox+uBlock Origin on Linux and it renders fine. of course, I don't know if its supposed to look like that, but the content is there.
Yes, that is true.

Technically you can get fields with p^n elements, too; but they are constructed in a more complicated way than just taking a modulo.
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Injection Grammars and Project Variables
People also generate more and more data.
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> Let's say we have it every day at 9:30 and I get stuck at 11:00. Does anyone really expect me to wait almost a whole day to get help, or should I just go talk to someone about it right away like a normal adult would?

The standup would be the safety net when people don't see that they're stuck, know what to do and are afraid to ask / hands down in smth they just don't see the obvious.

Uncovering this in a standup should prevent them from "wasting time" even longer.

I have rarely seen this in my experience so far; either people aren't as dumb as people believe or they know what to report to not fall into this "let me take over here, you seem to have messed up" category.
Jeff Bezos is opening a tuition-free preschool for underserved children
>"ships mediocrity"

Name me one VM that is remotely as advance as GraalVM.

I dont like Oracle as a business. People hate them for suing Google on open source / Copyright and API. But one Google is not without its fault in the case and two, whether you like or hate a company has nothing to do with its technical capability.

It seems in the tech industry, some company can do no wrong, and some company can do no right.
Due to how C and C++ are defined in their standards.

The reason behind that is so that the compiler is allowed to assume that expressions like (x + 1 > x) are true, and thus can optimise more.
Obfuscated like NSAKEY?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
This thread is about C++.
Here is a video of pigeons playing "sokoban", "talking" and playing "ping pong": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSvu3mj-14&feature=youtu.be

The main problem mentioned in the video is that pigeons don't come with a repertoire that allows them to do those tasks naturally. So, the researchers have to teach them each of the behaviors independently. The pigeons then manage to put the behaviors together, in what is arguably a display of creativity.
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson
But you experience the same when you login to GMail and it has a new interface or your Phone looks different in the morning because of iOS/Android updates.

Users are so used to be annoyed that updates disrupt UX, Microsoft isn't an especially bad actor here. In the end, users tend to disable updates as a response which is bad for security and makes vendors force them to update.

Maybe not "improving" UX with every release would be a solution but there are very few companies that stick with their UX for many years, redesigns are way too easy to sell as a new feature.
It could be possible to transfer data through gravitational waves (2018)
I had floating point implemented like that in Nokolisp. If the item contains anything except number characters, it is a symbol. Stupid, but very transparent eventually, because modified arithmetic operators test if a symbol can be interpreted as a floating point number.
More like 9 to 10 devs
Don't forget Windows 2003 Server in that list. That, to me, was the ultimate Windows. Had the XP stuff, but with the ugly theme disabled by default. Was super stable even compared to Windows 2000. Was lightweight. Only annoying thing was it came with sound disabled, but a few clicks in the Control Panel after installing, and you were golden.
Same here. During lockdown, my sleep schedule actually drifted a full circle around the clock.
It seems to me you have just awoken from 20 year of coma.

Welcome to 2020. A lot has changed. People still use phones to access Internet but not exactly the same way (you may want to get updated on this in the closest Apple store. No, not a store with apples either). Oh, and please, were a mask.
Apart from the interpreter part, the GraalVM project also has a focus on creating native images, basically compiling directly to the assembly of the architecture. That's what the native results are from.

Ever seen a java Spring project start in 0.015s, or a java rest service living in 16-32mb of ram? With graal these things are now possible.
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After all that mumbo-jumbo I now see your point (not that you're still reading...). I was reading it literally but it was just very badly written. It can be fixed up like this to have the meaning you suggested:

> In some programming languages, like Swift, an overflow will result in the program aborting its execution.
Throw away code
"Attacks like Stuxnet, the computer worm deployed against an Iranian nuclear facility a decade ago, shattered the myth that air-gapped systems are impenetrable fortresses."

source: https://www.cyberscoop.com/duo-labs-air-gap-radio-mikhail-da...

Links to:
https://duo.com/labs/research/finding-radio-sidechannels
Yes. I understand what "publisher" means in the context of the web. But it prepending "Brave Browser" that makes the word hard to comprehend for me in this case.
"Police reform" means very different things to different people. To some, it means replacing cops with social workers, to others, it means giving them enough manpower and training budgets to be more efficient. Both are reforms, but very different ones.
More than one vendor has become rather upset when I've demanded that they handle those situations appropriately. But much of what I do involves automation so I don't want any surprises or in this situation, two known exceptional cases that need to be accounted for. Also I find this to be a code smell, like brown M&Ms in a contract rider.

Don't know if they've fixed it but when I had a Fitbit, they never was able to get these DST change over events handled correctly. What's worse is that their website and their app both handled the change over in different ways, both wrong.
Does anyone with experience with this sort if thing know what kind of deal this is? It seems quite cheap.
I hope the Kobo utilities get ported soon, otherwise I might be stuck with Calibre 4 for a while.
However, maybe having someone external to the project look into, and understand those undocumented functions or system calls, and explaining them to the people which will actually implement them could work.
Can they recognize person? I highly doubt it because even humans, we are very good recognizing faces, still not very good recognizing faces from another race. I know birds can recognize themselves, from feather patterns and so on. I would think the way they see us would be similar to the way we see them, they probably look the same to us.
This isn't some conspiracy of the MSN even though we in HN are interested in it and passionate about this. Remember, the News reports things that are new, different, unique.

We are not the audience of the MSN. We are not their users.

Here's a way to put it into perspective: If you read any newspaper, or watch the TV news, or listen to the radio news, try to remember the last time you heard about a trial every day it was going on, about evidence for the defence and prosecution, about items of law and interviews with witnesses.

The vast majority of court reporting gets reported on when it ends - when the jury makes their decision or the Judge passes the sentences. A smaller number gets reports when the court case starts (and items of fact are established) and a similar number may have an occasional report in the middle when some juicy or salacious or sensational piece of evidence is revealed. A tiny number will get reported on every day and then maybe once every 5 years or so.

News is about what is new even when it's of great interest to a small number of people. Day 17 of a hearing is not news to almost all news organisations.

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Edits: I think Craig is doing amazing stuff, his blog is great and necessary to cover this hearing for us and other interested people. It's also worrying about the entire set up and exclusion of most of public and for observers like Amnesty. I caution about falling into the trap of "MSN is bad", the news just be doing news stuff. You can expect them to report on it when it ends.
> 15 hours on a tired BA plane departing evening, arriving the next evening

I mean there's a number of other airlines you could fly on - Singapore Air, or Qantas (I'm pretty sure they offered that as a fifth freedom flight)
There might be some little bit salty and spicy drinks, but certainly there is no strong salty candies from where I come from. GP mentioned it might be beneficial in colder climate, which is probably why the culture around here never develops that kind of candies because there is no real need for it. Instead, we have no shortage of sour and spicy traditional candies and snack though.
Bad for the individual but probably good for the country? They get US developers and don't lose their Dutch employees to higher paid SV jobs.

Brain drain in tech is a big issue in Europe due to salaries paid in SV, not everything bad for the individual is actually a bad deal for the country.
That's nothing like the OP. The OP actually tries to teach you how git works. Your link gives people crappy recipes to copy and paste which teaches you nothing and only serves to reinforce the idea that git is "hard" and that you can't possibly understand it.
On this note, does anyone know where to legally obtain windows xp, hopefully for cheap ? I should note that I've tried at multiple places and none seemed fine so kindly speak from experience. (Or sell me your own, I'd trust anyone here).
Yes, that was what I was going for.

For what it's worth, https://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/09/01/the-yoneda-lemma/ does a pretty good job of explaining the Yoneda lemma in a programming context. Look for the section "Yoneda in Haskell".

As I also tried to say earlier, in practice I suggest learning programming first, and then using the likes of category theory to organise your understanding.
That’s why I brought it up. Our internet services are worse than most industrialized countries. It’s both slower and more expensive. To my knowledge only Canada’s internet services are worse
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Strongly agree. I arrive first one in the office because I also want to leave early, it takes me a while to get warmed up and productive.

When I'm peaking it's stand up time because it's the earliest time when everybody is available.

The best standups I had were at a previous job, after lunch:

1. A major interruption already happened.

2. Your "mind cache" is fresh and you know what blocks you, compared to remembering what you were doing the day before. People systematically forget stuff during early morning stand up then come interrupt you for questions hours later.
Blacklisting may be an appropriate solution for malware but doesn't help with privacy issues because apps distributed outside the App Store by definition won't be subject to the App Store privacy rules.

> The statistics for malware on iOS vs Android could be problematic if you don't compare equal user groups, Like a rich kid will buy the games from Steam or Apple store, some poor kid will try to get some free games so IMO we should compare similar population.

Even within the Android platform Google has reported an 8x difference in malware between devices that use side-loading compared to devices that use only the Google Play Store (https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_S...). In other words, it is specifically side-loading and third-party app stores that cause the biggest problem.

We've already seen this same story play out on Windows. Why would we expect it to be any different here?
Not sure why this wasn't marked a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577881 which was submitted ~10 hours earlier and I think was briefly on the front page.
There was a conspiracy against Trump in form of security agencies trying to frame innocents. That severely undermines democracy. What would need to happen so that such a thing never happens again?
Virtually every third party theme came with instructions on how to patch uxtheme.dll to disable the signature check. It was not a big problem in practice, and I don't remember ever having to do the procedure more than once on a single XP install (unlike Windows 10).
As I am currently struggling with time zones on Java, I want to mention the implementation by the unicode organization: https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/released/icu4j...

I found it very useful.
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Content is not there in Firefox 81 for Mac, uBlock Origin and tracking protection disabled.
As someone who doesn't know Swift, is there a reason it doesn't handle these errors by throwing exceptions? That approach works well for Java and .Net.
> You don't have to deploy traefik with docker.

Sure but in my case that was the whole idea.

> If you want traefik to monitor new docker containers to add routes for them, of course traefik needs to talk to the docker api to do so.

Yes, but it wouldn't be necessary for the network-facing part of Traefik to talk to the Docker API. There could be a second container (w/o network access) whose only task it is to talk to the Docker socket and generate a config and write that config to a shared volume.

> However, there's no real vulnerability.

In the present situation Traefik (with Docker integration) is effectively running as root. I don't think it's up for debate that this is much worse than just running Traefik as a normal user (outside Docker). Besides, most users expect applications running in Docker containers to be more secure – not less secure – than running them on the bare system.

> This would be like saying "traefik uses the linux kernel api to open files, but the linux kernel requires traefik validate what goes into that api or else it could allow file path traversal"... But traefik does validate filepaths and so no one makes that complaint.

No. This would be like saying "Traefik has full access to the kernel and the entire OS and the only thing preventing a hacker from exploiting this is Traefik validating incoming network requests."

Do you also run your other web servers as root?

> Similarly, traefik does validate that only safe docker api calls are made

This is completely irrelevant. Once a hacker is inside the Traefik process (i.e. can execute code under Traefik's PID), he can access the Docker socket and therefore the entire system as she/he pleases.
Oh, the non-tech people hate it too, but what can they do? They have literally zero choice in the matter.

That's the thing with tech, and that's why I consider all arguments that "people voted with their wallets" to be bullshit in this space. Most users don't understand how computers work. They don't have mental models to recognize how things should work. They have no choice but to accept whatever they're being given.

Devices around them getting less ergonomic, slower, and more flashy UIs? "There are smart people building this magic, they must know what they're doing!". Their computers slowing down to the point of uselessness in the span of a year? "It must be these viruses!". Techies complain because techies understand it's all greed and laziness, and that same technology is capable of being much better than it is.

I mean, ask your parents whether they like their operating system. I'll bet their answer will be a resounding "no", and you may get an earful about their general frustrations with technology.

One notable moment where the dissatisfaction of masses was voiced in unison was the forced Windows 8 to Windows 10 upgrade. You didn't have to have any sophisticated mental model there to recognize you're being made to do something bad for you against your will.
This actually looks pretty good. I've not seen it before. As someone who has always been the "git guy" at every place I've worked, I can't stress enough that the way to learn git is to learn how the DAG works and understand that git is fundamentally an append-only data store. If you can grok those two concepts then learning the commands is simply a matter of understanding what they are doing to the DAG. You'll also learn to trust git. No longer will you to do caveman shit like delete and reclone your repository.
Very good software was written before people that think like you were taken seriously. Clearly it is not necessary.
Well, if RCT is your only standard of evidence, then you need multiple people almost by definition.

But it's not the only standard of evidence used. Famously, there has never been an RCT for parachutes. (Until recently that is, see https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/02/breakthrough-resea... )
fftw3 is extremely fast and vectorized well. Why write your own FFT implementation?

Did you test against pulseeffects cpu usage?
Cool! Have you posted about your experience anywhere?