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> I'll admit I bought a flip phone for the purposes of avoiding any virus apps that may be required in future should that happen. I just want to stay off the radar and I have a right to do so.

iOS 13.7+ can track your location for Covid contact tracing, even if there is no "virus app" installed. There should be an opt-out setting.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/tech/apple-google-contact-tra...
> English is not my first language but I think it was the host who introduced that term?

It was not.

Relevant portion of the transcript:

WALLACE: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups…”

TRUMP: “Sure…”

WALLACE: “And to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland”

TRUMP: “Sure, I’m prepared to do it, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace…”

WALLACE: “Then do it, sir.”

BIDEN: “Do it, say it.”

TRUMP: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name.”

WALLACE: “White supremacists and right-wing militias”

BIDEN: “Proud Boys”

Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.”
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Well, in fairness, if someone's religion had reliable, study backed evidence that the world was going to face a catastrophic climate based future, I'd probably be fine with them proselytizing in the workplace.

I don't begrudge the dislike of workplace politics—again, I'd love to not talk about this. But for some groups, i.e. black Americans, it may not seem like a choice of whether they can be political. Indeed I'm a little surprised more Asians in tech aren't concerned at the president's rhetoric about the "China virus". Remember, it's within living memory that the US government rounded up Asian Americans and put them into internment camps.
This is only a problem because we live in a world where political issues are strongly affiliated with political ideologies in a binary fashion - i.e. identity politics. Even so much as people interpret a company's intention to remain politically neutral and avoid making any political statements as "a lurch to the right". Why can't we think of it more as a "return to the centerground"?

I think the inclusive apolitical approach will win out in the long term. I don't believe for a second that "not saying something is a statement in and of itself", and by subscribing to this idea you're bringing forward a style of authoritarianism the world is better off without.

Given that identity politics is so rife in 2020, don't you think it's a wise move to divorce company decision making from the clutches of any specific political ideology? The people that say no are almost certainly the authoritarians.

So much of this conversation seems stuck on the binary opposites (zero politics vs 100% politics), just like the way our politics is functioning in a binary fashion today. Obviously a company cannot be truly apolitical unless it hires no one and does absolutely nothing in the world, but we can at least minimize the surface area and allow topics less relevant to company objectives to the individuals outside of the workplace.

It's a popular idea that institutions with power have a duty to wield it, which is a completely ridiculous and dangerous idea. Simply put, we shouldn't be co-opting the influence of our companies to satisfy our personal political agendas or resort to cancel-culture tactics in order to force them into speaking. In a landscape where this is regularly happening, the neutral position is better and safer for all of us and healthy political discourse.
Perhaps consider that you're not the audience for it.
looks like they got rid of the face unlock, and want back to fingerprint across the board.
It's a upper mid-range phone.
I don't know if a peer-to-peer resource trading market and currency are necessary here; the device owner with spare capacity and the business proprietor may be one and the same person, which would simplify the situation a great deal.

You have a cafe/small business owner who already owns a smartphone: that device has a decent chunk of data plan allowance, CPU and memory.

They'd like a small site to promote their business online; so they install the web server app and it allows them to add, edit and publish basic content - a few images, some blog posts, etc.

Self-hosting like this means they don't have to sign up for a monthly subscription, their users aren't subject to any tracking (assuming there's none embedded in the content generated by the app), and service provision scales until they need to upgrade to a dedicated host.

The questions about radio and battery usage are totally valid, so perhaps those need more consideration (user superkuh has some suggestions there).

In short: the resources and capacity already exist and we've already paid for them. The question is whether we can re-use those rather than being sold more of the same.
I haven't heard of this, does anyone have any articles that go into detail about the magnitude of the overwhelment?
Am I wrong if I say that they are so valuable (in monetary terms) just because they are the only (or one of the few) non-free database management systems (or whatever they are)?
MS outsourced/bought a lot of stuff so they may not have a clear line of release it without a bunch of legal work. Something like that can be done I am sure. But the cost would be decently high.

Also some interesting portions of the OS are under a 'view but do not touch' license already. Such as MFC, ATL, and the CRT and others. Depending on which SDK or Visual C++ you grab you can get whole examples of interesting bits of the code. I know for example one of the fun ones is the pipes screen saver code is an example in one of the Visual C++ disks (5.0 I think). I recompiled it years ago to make every joint a teapot and the hard one to find was the bend.
It is pretty clearly #2 and I don't know why people are acting confused. He got a huge loan at roughly 0% and the main risk to mitigate is a currency risk. Investing in stable Japanese companies heavily reduces that risk and growth/dividends is basically free money.
The cost of diking every susceptible mile of seashore has been calculated before and it is a rounding error in terms of global GNP. The Netherlands was doing it in the 12th century with 12th century technology, and I don't think there is any nation today with average living standards below 12th century europe.
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Right. There are problems with the C919, but making airliners is a national priority for China. It's one of the areas in the China 2025 Plan. So money will be spent until it succeeds.

COMAC is still learning. Probably the airliner after this one will be good. It took Airbus 21 years to get a good airliner out the door.
Health is a deeply personal thing to many people. It's not surprising why people want to keep it secret, and I don't feel right asking them to give that up because there might be other benefits. Health privacy is something the world won't suffer much for having.

And health care analytics don't need any more data. There's already a ton. It's held by hospital systems, insurers, and governments. But the data sucks for analytics because it's chosen, coded, and siloed for payments.
The Netflix offer is difficult to ignore if you already have the Netflix standard plan, it essentially makes this device cost only $12.05 ($12.99 * 6 = 77.94 - $89.99).

That kind of offer isn't itself surprising, but it being available to existing Netflix subscribers is unusual.
Comsider the situation if they removed the bathrooms. What’s the plan when inevitably somebody didn’t plan ahead or gets sick? A very unpleasant ride / the whole cabin watching their fellow flyer urinate (or worse) in the aisle? Seems like a complete nonstarter.
Here's how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031

You can disagree with how it's implemented, but it's not subjective.

dang does a way better job of addressing moderation issues as they're happening than anything you'll see on Reddit (besides perhaps tiny, niche subreddits.) And at least he's not surreptitiously changing people's comments. (https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...)
To some degree. It's very possible for employees to have polite discussions over the lunch table about political topics, and to the extent Coinbase is trying to prohibit those discussions I'm against it.

Is there a way to have employees say e.g. "the company needs to endorse suchandsuch political slogan" or "the company needs to oppose suchandsuch candidate" without yelling? I don't think so.
People are excited about Snowflake because it can completely disrupt the traditional data-warehouse market.

The legacy players like Teradata and Exadata (from Oracle) really don't scale. Teradata has ~2B in revenue, Exadata is probably in the same range. That's all up for grabs but that's only scratching the surface.

Historically, only transactional data was dumped into the warehouse. Snowflake is selling storage at S3 price (plus you get compression so often ends up cheaper) while they are making money of compute/query. If they can provide all the right query abstractions (SQL, full-text search), in theory all data can be thrown in Snowflake. Yes, tech savy bay area companies can setup their own stack using Presto etc but rest of the world is not like that.
It's amazing how quickly people forget about Dunning-Kruger effect and how often people widely acclaimed for their academic prowess will reveal themselves ignorant when trying to act as an authority outside their field.d
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I expect a lot companies and capital, given the COVID nudge, will accelerate moving to other locations and hiring remote, because they want to pay their employees to the their work, and not to go on moral crusades on company's time.
It looks good in a conference room, and that's what the incentives of the designers optimize for.

You and I aren't the real customers of the artists that built this page, the people paying their consulting fees are.
Well, a few reasons. One is that their death rates per capita were better than several major western European countries, such as Spain, Belgium, Italy, and the U.K., that did a lot more lockdown, and this suggests that the "if you don't lock down you get more deaths" idea cannot be right.

The other is that, for example, Denmark opened up their elementary schools again in late April, and Finland in early May. So even the comparison to other Scandinavian countries is missing a lot of nuance. Plus, I am led to believe that Sweden DID close their high schools and colleges, since it was easier for older kids to do distance learning.

The nasty secret that neither most news articles, nor this one, admits to is that, if you take all available evidence, national policy doesn't seem to have mattered much one way or the other. Sweden is in the middle of the pack among western Europe. Belarus is in the middle of the pack among Eastern Europe. Japan is in the middle of the pack (or better) in east Asia. If national policy were important, they all should be either the best or the worst.

I think maybe we just did stuff, pretending it would matter, while the virus went about its normal pandemic business, and nothing we did really mattered that much.
Or both, which I suspected.
How might one go about knowing such a thing?
Good question.

OTOH, did anyone ever consider the average pollution of the banking system? 10.000th of banks, 200+ central banks, BIS, IMF, ECB, etc, etc. Millions of employees, millions of desktops & servers, day-in-day out. Anyone with a link to a guestimate?
I was like 'wtf is this garbage' I thought this was about a phone. Don't care enough about a smartphone enough to play tricks with my browser. Apparently they don't want my money.
I do. You do realise that a key argument of UBI is that it is argued to be net overall economically beneficial, right?

Non-citizens of a country are workers, wealth generators and tax payers too, if you hadn't noticed. The myth that non-citizens are just "takers" needs to die.
Also curious, I love my Roku. The fact the remote has navigation buttons and has a headphone jack when others are sleeping is amazing.
Google is also very bad at making its different divisions work together.

Which is pretty neat when you work on a competing product (and way better than having them use their dominant position to help prop up a new product).

I worked on a music streaming service for a long time. We had a stellar relationship with Google.

It felt a bit weird that they did not push Play Music more .. in my opinion it was at one time a great music service. Still, we did not complain.

Apple on the other end sees everything iTunes related as mission critical and working with them was a nightmare.

So, not surprised to see AndroidTV (which afaik has no relationship with youtube people) partnering with netflix.
Which countries did you plug in?

I gave one very big counter example: the US is social distancing at a rate roughly double that of Sweden and is getting worse results. It's also had multiple waves of deaths.

Canada isn't getting worse results, but is also roughly socially distancing twice as much as the Swedes.

The UK went down even further, down to -70% mobility.

Leaving the Anglosphere (what I'm most familiar with, sorry), Germany is now closer to Sweden, but was also below ~50% mobility. France was down to -84%!

And the Scandinavian countries: both Denmark and Norway was down to around -60%, and Finland was at around -50%.

All of these countries also rebounded from their social distancing "peak" much more slowly than Sweden.

At least among Western countries, I think a fair characterization is that while Swedes may have socially distanced on their own, based on mobility data, they did so less and for a shorter time.
Yeah, that one works.
For me, the thing that stood out where the 24 footnotes. The rest looked more like a normal smartphone. Wow, it can create a hotspot, but wait: it also supports wireless charging...

I am a bit confused that those features are being promoted in 2020 when my S3 from 2012 also has those abilities. Maybe it's just the promotion, but it doesn't really feel like a phone that I must buy.
Religious groups did this forever, it's thinkable other serious people watched the resulting loyalty and borrowed the tools. Peer pressure is literally how indoctrination worked since prehistoric time, it's simply generalized to any idea now.
I'm not scared or spiteful. I stay in because it seems logical to minimize exposure. So I reject your crappy generalization.
> We are way beyond the point where hospitals are horribly overwhelmed

This doesn't seem to be universally and objectively true. The nation overall has about 30 ICU beds and 20 ventilators per 100,000 people. In states were the disease outbreak is out of control, such as N. and S. Dakota, they are reporting 300-400 new cases per 100k people per day, 5-10 new deaths per 100k people per day, and hospital occupancy of 25 per 100k for COVID-19 alone, and rapidly increasing.
I don't agree. In all the places I've worked, even the most apolitical ones, someone would be viewed quite negatively if they walked into the break room and tried to break up a private political discussion.
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> The goals have fundamentally drifted on covid. In the beginning it was flatten the curve so that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed. The goal wasn’t to eradicate covid but to slow the growth to an acceptable level.

It's kinda unreasonable to expect strict adherence to an initial strategy formed in such an uncertain and chaotic period. When more effective containment strategies become known (or discovered to be achievable), they should be pursued.

My recollection was that the "flatten the curve" slogan appeared immediately after it became clear that the hope of stopping covid at the border had failed. The main message of the slogan was to maintain optimism because there was still value in social distancing, etc. even though the initial containment had failed. That was also before masks had been widely recommended. Now it seems like masks plus diligent adherence to some social distancing measures can do better than "flatten the curve," but unfortunately too many people aren't interested in doing either, so we have a bigger mess.
Hi, please take a look at my FOS library. I tried to do exactly what the article describes a web component should do - extends HTML providing new elements that can be used without any further "programming".

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos
I had tingling pain with a fitbit and I have solved it. Loosen it fully at night and the tingling stops.
A lot of stuff is based or observing the Windows functionality in a debugger, or Microsoft's API documentation.
Interesting to see Rust beat out C++ very slightly.
I didn't say it was a good solution or one I would ever offer myself, but I think a lot of the young-white-male-to-alt-right pipeline falls in to this when nobody else seems willing to hear them out except to tell them which ethnic group to blame.
The designers of this page must be using iPhones, because my Pixel 4XL stutters and crawls through the scrolljacked animations.

That and the 3 popups makes me wonder, who is this built for??
Cheaper to buy a new laptop than to replace an SSD? Come on, man. I feel like you've never owned an Apple laptop and you're getting your opinions on the genius bar from Louis Rossman. What you're describing is probably 0.001% of genius bar encounters.
I can't even get mine to work or install at my work machine...
Given his record with airline companies there's a chance he's wrong, hey hey!
Docker on Windows can run on WSL2 backend as well. So I assume this would also apply to Docker traffic too.

Other interesting note, Docker Windows does some funky stuff with firewalls too. It puts and any/any exception in the firewall when you install it [1]. So may also be important to know with VPN stuff.

[1] https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1270766764356366336
From the very initial scroll through things, I'm not impressed.

Now I'm not a habitual phone upgrader, I tend to replace my phone when the old one wears down or breaks. I bought the Pixel 4 after my Pixel 1 died and was fairly unimpressed overall. Their headlining market points for the Pixel 5 just... aren't that interesting.

- 5G: Doesn't really matter to me. 4G is plenty fast for everyday use and I wouldn't try heavy enough streaming off data to even need to increase

- Wireless charging: not new

- Photos in the dark: not new

- Google Assistant: not new... and honestly, kinda crap. I turned off a lot of permissions on my phone and the assistant is virtually useless now. I can't give it commands from the lock screen or do even basic things with it unlocked while driving. At this point I'll probably root and just put a custom ROM on there because nothing google packaged with the phone is all that useful.

The battery is nice, but its also not worth a $800 price tag.

I think Google needs to stop chasing the iPhone and go back to the Nexus style of simple+good+affordable. Even the 4a seems like a stronger value proposition imo.

EDIT: I just noticed that they brought back the fingerpint unlock on the back? Okay, that is a huge plus; the face unlock is a generally shitty feature usability wise. I was kinda upset when I gave up wireless charging for the Pixel 1 but fell in love with the fingerprint unlock on the back. When I went to Pixel 4 and lost the fingerprint in exchange for Wireless charging I kinda felt like I made a poor choice. Now that they finally combined the two I'll give them credit.
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I don’t think so in this case. The substance of the article isn’t as straightforward as the title would suggest, but the premise that we should be focusing on different parameters (specifically ‘k’ but only in context) is reinforced throughout. The wording of the title might be a joke even, because even once you realise that the influenza approach isn’t wholly appropriate it’s yet not as straightforward as “this simple trick”
Your interpretation of the world is fascinating.
Europe is a pretty diverse legal landscape, but it looks like quite a few countries there have had affirmative action for over a decade. Is California extreme or is it somewhat more progressive? Because I consider Stalin, Mao, etc. to be the extreme left and California to be extremely conservative by comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
Back in the day, IBM published technical documentation (and assembly source? It's been a while) on the 5150 Personal Computer BIOS. The first PC clone BIOSes were created by having a team re-document how the BIOS worked from IBM's docs, and then having an entirely separate team create new code from that documentation.

How useful would this technique be to the ReactOS and Wine teams? Are there things that they don't know how to make work correctly that this source leak could help them with?
It's about government transparency and the precedent that's being set. You may not care about parking enforcement (neither do I, really), but in 10 years time this won't be the last thing ML is being used for.

We're replacing systems that are readily obvious to anyone (uniformed human parking attendants) with algorithmic enforcement.

The government has decided that we don't need to know how it works (source code and models) or what the flaws and externalities are (anonymized data on how it's used). Thus something we're paying for whose function was pretty obvious to anyone becomes a black box.

This lack of transparency will become the norm unless it's opposed, and eventually you or your group will become the disproportionate target of some overzealous algorithm.
For on-disk storage (in memory largely is different, although the on-disk format is used in a few places too), variable length datums are stored as 'varlenas'. Basically there's a 'varlena header' indicating the length of in-line stored data (1 byte for short contents up to 126 bytes long, 4 byte header after that). For data longer than 126 bytes the data can be compressed inline. Besides being storing the actual data, compressed or uncompressed, inline, the inline data may also just be a pointer to data stored outside the main table ("TOAST"). Where data again can be compressed or uncompressed depending on settings and compressability.

We do utilize pointers-into-the-buffer-pool in some places, to point to variable length columns in the buffer pool (obviously only while we have pinned the respective page(s)). That's never used for by-value data types.

Hopes that answers your question?
Perhaps we should also be looking at population density:

Stockholm: 11,802/sqm

Oslo: 4,268/sqm

Helsinki: 3,670/sqm