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>Ruby is no longer a "Default supported" language in many projects.

Well it has always been like that. Amazon and Google has always had a thing about Ruby, and it is a minority market so I am not surprised and it doesn't make sense from Business perspective. But Github is a heavy Ruby users so I would have thought Ruby would be a first class citizen. I wonder if it has something to do with the language complexity.

Edit: From Github.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23094160

We (GitHub) absolutely plan to expand the list of languages CodeQL supports, and Ruby is a language we'd love to add (we're heavy users of it internally). In the meantime, because code scanning is extensible you can plug in third party analysis engines to scan the languages that CodeQL doesn't support.
I wonder about this hope for a vaccine, and if it is a reasonable thing to base policy on. There is still no vaccine for HIV, after several decades of trying and many billions spent. None for SARS1, Mers, the commom cold. There are influenza vaccines, but still no effective ones in terms of preventing a significant number of deaths every year.
Beware the man of one idea.
Check out The Long Now Foundation (site: https://longnow.org/ wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation). They are a foundation that has spent some time thinking about that problem and several adjacent problems; see especially the "Manual for Civilization" library project at the Interval bar in SF.
If I know my history,* the first programmable classical computer was made in 1941; we had the D-Wave One programmable quantum computer in 2011. So... the 50s?

* I don't, so I read a Wikipedia article or two
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In the early summer, the CDC published a study estimating that the confirmed cases were 6-24 times lower than the actual cases. With testing continuing to ramp up, I suspect the gap has narrowed, but some significant multiple is still likely the case here and an order of magnitude is not outside the realm of possibility.
Agreed. Bad code is slower, news at 11.
As many have said. Working remotely is all fun and games until your company gets tired of tax shenanigans and localizes your pay.

What’s a dev go for in Guatemala these days anyways?
Trying to change peoples mind on something so fundamental as wanting the best for their children is almost as futile as trying to change the laws of physics. If you look at history one of the solution of social problems in communism was to change peoples mind (create the new men) mostly through methods like criticism and selfcriticism and education from early age on. While I believe this changed the character of the people to a certain extends it didnt really work. What my takeaway is, you shouldnt work against (or shouldnt rely on changing) human nature if you want to achieve solutions.

(Not picking specifically on communism here, was looking for examples. What works of course is raising peoples awareness about things they didnt know and support change, like palm oil or recycling)
The point of hotel chains, and chains in general, is the consistency of the mass-produced experience. I can walk into a DoubleTree hotel anywhere in the world and get the same welcome cookie. It's a positive, not a negative; people often enjoy knowing what they're going to get. If you prefer a more unique experience, which is perfectly understandable, then simply avoid chains perhaps?
From last year: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20908128/smart-tv-survei... but my source was a long time Roku employee who eventually quit after the monetization started getting "out of hand" (his words, not mine).
I have a map (from all public FCC earth station filing data) of the almost two dozen starlink earth stations so far licensed in the 48 states.

Many of them are in medium sized cities surrounded by rural areas, or already in fairly sparsely populated areas colocated with long haul fiber ILAs and well positioned to serve very rural areas.

For instance there's one in Idaho that's adjacent to some intercity fiber (from where they're almost certainly buying a transport circuit to get to Seattle) which will have simultaneous visibility of satellites serving a vast area that has no WISPs and is presently dependent on consumer grade geostationary VSAT stuff.

The problem right now is sufficient density of satellites for seamless handover coverage to a CPE (make-before-break). Which would be the same problem if you were trying to serve a suburb of Seattle or a very rural area in Montana.

I rate it as highly unlikely that at the point in time when an ordinary consumer with a visa card can sign up for starlink service, they only offer it in major metro areas. The siting choices for the earth stations say otherwise.

Technological and economic limitations in Starlink, at least with the first/second generation of stuff mean that it's not competition for the sort of wireline services you can get in the suburb of a major metro area. If I were in Kirkland, WA and could get 500 to 1000 Mbps Comcast service, or gigabit GPON from Centurylink(Lumen), I'd certainly sign up for that before Starlink. You'd be looking at something that may top out at max speeds of 150-200Mbps down and 40-80 Mbps upstream (Starlink) vs a copper coaxial or fiber last mile setup that can do 800 down, and 300-600 Mbps up.
The mayor sued to ensure the police could still deploy indiscriminate chemical weapons.
Herbivore Men
That's not how CFR works. CFR is fatalities from known cases. If you're thinking about infection rate, you need to look at IFR, not CFR. If you want to compare one disease to another, you need to compare CFR to CFR, and IFR to IFR.
I hear your point. we can be happy without many of these things. Happiness doesn't depend strictly on material conditions.

At the same time, consider infant mortality. people are happy their children can grow up safely.
Don't agree at all - your own data disproves your argument.

"It was already very clear in February that this disease rarely killed anyone under 60,"

CFR 0.5% for 40-49

You do realize that 40 is not that old? And that 0.5% CFR is really quite high?

Are you maybe one of those '22 and feeling indestructible' people? How could someone possibly talk about 0.4 CFR and greater CFR for an age-diverse population and not realize how extremely dangerous that is?

And it's 'quite serious' for probably 8-14% of those - and that they may get life-long consequences?

And the CFR jumps quite high when there is a lack of medical facilities?

And the R0/transmissibility is really quite high, not like some 'rare disorder' - it's something that without suppression almost all of us will contract. The 'young and partied' are now becoming walking Death Adders, it's a 'systematic issue' and not very helpful to point out that 'some are less likely to die' just as they are the 'root cause of spread'.

Even if was just to 'protect the elderly' a the shut down was easily warranted.

There are 200 000 deaths from COVID more than US Combat Deaths in Iraq, Vietnam, Korean wars combined - in just a few months.

This is the most devastating and deadly thing to happen to America in at least a century, the lock-down was reasonable, there were probably even other measures we should have been taking.

Social distancing on an interpersonal social level is 'economically inexpensive' for god sakes, we're more resilient than to have to be able to 'party' every week or few.

We have to be smart about this but all things considered we have no choice.

What we 'could have done differently' was probably a) react sooner b) move more aggressively in elderly care c) wore masks and d) had a plan for this ready beforehand instead of making it up as we go along.

Edit: Please do the calculation given: 1) your stated CFR rates 2) the 'herd immunity threshold' of 60-80% of population infected 3) an aggressive R0 meaning that this would happen quite quickly 4) adjustment to CFR given overflowing hospitals and lack of available staff - and the numbers are excessively bad, at very least millions dead, which is a monumental risk.
> single 3 GB archive

The nt5src.7z src file can also be found on anonfiles and 4chan which was the actual source. It's around 7ish GB unpacked.
When I used to do RT-PCR for research, 40 cycles would mean (to me) that I had nothing in my solution and I had to redo the experiment.

The precautionary principle (anti-scientific, because it assumes the worst even without evidence of such) is what drives such decisions, even if, according to Oxford's CEBM, there is little to no correlation between a PCR positive sample at 37+ cycles and actual presence of an infectious virus.

That is why antigen testing, although less sensitive, is important. A PCR test without symptoms does not tell if you have the virus you had the virus, and if you are infectious (assembled virus present in the respiratory tract) or not. Also, RNA in the throat can degrade slowly, and be present for a long time (this is not unique to this virus).

An antigen test will identify the virus proteins, and as such, a higher probability that a positive test detects an infectious virus.
Very baffled second language speaker here. Terminologies regarding nutrients confuse me to no end.

Isn't carb an abbreviation of carbohydrate, which in turn is a synonym of saccharide?

How come fructose is a monosaccharide but not functionally a "carb"?
>The issue isn't malware authors acquiring it the source, the issue is that other people would then build said source and run it (XP) or worse, build products on it as XP was very stable. Those systems would then get infected and become botnets.

I don't follow where you're going with this. Why would they build the source or build products on it if they were not interested in deploying security fixes? There is no other developer interest there and no company would ship a white-labeled "XP 2020 Edition" to developers if it was instantly vulnerable to malware.

>Sympathy doesn't matter in the business world, costs do. No normal company is going to undertake a legal review of an unsupported product; it simply isn't worth it.

Right, that's why I don't buy these lines about how they can't afford it. If it becomes a serious security issue that causes them problems then it is worth it.
>The virus seems to be able to have long lasting effects in otherwise healthy people who survive, albeit I find it hard to find a legitimate study about the prevalence of this rather than popular "news".

There isn't a study showing a significantly higher prevalence of adverse long-term effects compared to other respiratory viruses among healthy infectees.
Its about legal definitions. In Germany a lemondaid is getting banned (not allowed to be called lemonaid) because of too low sugar. These were introduced a long time ago to protect the consumer.
I agree, but I actually do appreciate the titles, since the videos actually deliver (unlike many Youtubers).

That one did cover the changes in her brain and behavior until the point of death, and the intensity of the delivery adds a lot of drama to what is otherwise a clinically dry recitation of symptoms and effects.

You don't forget it too quickly, and you take extra precautions with all forms of toxic compounds (even if you hopefully are not dealing with dimethylmercury!)
no, npr has not been balanced at all. the scientists and doctors they choose for their shows have been carefully curated to amplify the dangers and fear. they mention masks incessantly, even when it's completely irrelevant ("here is carrot farmer, don majors, sowing his fields. not wearing a mask, i might add!")

they don't even pretend to be balanced any more, especially anything related to politics, and the covid response is squarely political at this point. npr no longer holds any esteem regarding science reporting or balance.
The different strategies are interesting, but I don't understand the bit flags. Why would you want your ID to include a record of how it was generated? Some use cases go out of their way to obfuscate that information, and one selling point of UUID over auto increment is that you can't infer missing items or how many are being created by watching PKs.

It's cool that I can make deterministic UUIDs, but it seems silly that the spec should require me to expose the fact that it's deterministic. It's not like my deterministic UUID is any more likely to collide with someone else's random one than two deterministic or two random are to collide with each other.
Holding open source hostage to a $100,000 goal doesn't sound like "real" open source to me either. And you're still going to offer it under either GPL or paid commercial licenses. Chromium is released under a BSD license which is a lot more permissive.

It's totally fine to make money but when people have valid critiques you shouldn't turn around and try shaming competitors about something that you're not even doing.
Google Cloud Infrastructure Components Incident #20010
What was the beauty score for that? Number wise. The scale is huge!
After a lot of scrolling through marketing hyperbole... What is it?
Excluding so many "tasty beverages" must be why German beer has such a terrible reputation.
The obvious solution would be to have the company call you, instead of you waiting forever on the phone.

But no, companies dont do that.
For some states the population infection rates are 20-30%, so it's not an unreasonable number (https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563/rr-5)
No, you underestimate that. Being prepared is increasing your chances. There's one thing to be lucky as "1 in a billion" chance, and there's another to be lucky as "1 in 100"; the odds are always stacked against you, but with preparation & many attempts, your odds start looking better, and "luck" starts happening. (or not; some people are indeed unlucky, despite doing everything right. But that's less common than the other extreme - people that get lucky despite not doing anything rights).
Then the government should compensate those who are staying at home because they are at risk.

Maybe, but it's wishful thinking, never going to happen. Think of the outcry against the $600 unemployment supplement where some people received more than they were making previously, not to mention arguments that it incentivized staying unemployed.
> Here's what killed web components

Wait, what? Web browsers have only recently implemented standards underlying Web Components, such as Shadow DOM. Microsoft has only recently announced the end-of-life of IE11, which doesn't support Web Components. Web Components have only just gotten started!

> lack of native databinding on the web ... it's going to bring in a framework anyway

Here's a lib for data binding Web Components using JSX: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
This is a 200-line lib, hardly a "framework".
For those not familiar with the 3270 terminals they're actually kind of interesting and very different from more familiar character-cell terminals. I found this out doing the "master the mainframe" contest years back - it's like a whole other world. Each screen has a set of editable regions (with formatting) and the terminal provides a line editor for those regions, and a way to submit the whole screen's edits to the mainframe. That way a user can fill out a whole form without the computer receiving any interrupts at all.
Quantum can be still be faster/more powerful per dollar than classical without achieving supremacy, right?

There are a lot of big problems that are tractable on classical, but if they become orders of magnitude cheaper on quantum, that's still a great win.
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It is tricky. I would say the perfect tool still needs to be developed.
And I agree with you. Tools need to get better in detecting dependencies. However, it can be helpful to know at least that you rely on vulnerable code even if it does not get deployed to prod.
To be automated, security scans are like unit tests. Just because a unit test is green does not mean your app is working and vice versa.
So security scans are more like test levels: unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. Different scans, different results, and it takes us, humans, still to put it in perspective.
Pass from me, given the published pricing is:

> Contact Sales to learn more
They'd have to open and read the bad requests to filter them out and find the good requests.
Are you very much against calling them cake or any other way than bread?

I'd like to know if the thing that I'm going to buy will taste sweet or not and I treat, it having name 'bread', as a good indicator that it will taste rather salty than sweet.
Could you elaborate? I'm reading this on wikipedia:

> Under one percent of ingested fructose is directly converted to plasma triglyceride.[2] 29% - 54% of fructose is converted in liver to glucose, and about a quarter of fructose is converted to lactate. 15% - 18% is converted to glycogen.[3] Glucose and lactate are then used normally as energy to fuel cells all over the body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructolysis
Is this a feature that's coming to Azure DevOps?
It will be very interesting to see how this pans out. In my opinion, it is inevitable that a third-party App Store alternative will emerge in India in a few years, that caters to the local users and developers, better than the Google-controlled App Store. However, who controls it is what I'm a bit concerned with. Rather, I would like it to be an industry-wide initiative than one controlled by any one entity like, say Jio.
I would call it the Oracle-API-Scan. ;)
A thing can be good and also not bread (or beer or whatever). You can even eat a thing with cheese and it may still not be bread – shocking, I know. Crackers are not bread. Coffee is good too and it’s not bread. It would be strange to insist that it should be considered bread on the basis that it’s a perfectly good food product. Or that it’s also made from a seed. Or any other arbitrary similarity it might have. The word “bread” still has a specific meaning.
I can't stand Japanese bread, mainly for the sweetness. No thanks... Give me a nice crispy and freshly baked French baguette any time. I'd even eat it without any toppings as the main meal!
Not OP, but I think by "(not) functionally a carb" OP means "(not) processed as carb by your body".

Functionally => how it functions, how it interacts with something else, c.f. "functional testing" :)
Unsure if this is nutritional terminology or just HN-reader terminology.
Because your body processes fructose through a different potentially more damaging pathway than glucose. It’s a carb if you like but it’s the worst carb for you by a huge margin, especially when eaten without fibre.
For a data point my wife and I live in a 1 bedroom apartment 4 and 8 minutes from 2 train lines by foot respectively, around 10 minutes from Shinjuku (central Tokyo) for about $650 - part of the trick is that unlike any place I’ve seen in US cities, my apartment is only 25m2, a size I’m perfectly OK with but would probably be impossible to find in most US cities. The density of my neighborhood is probably like 10x of my old neighborhood in SF and yet all the buildings are 1-3 stories and aside from the large number of pedestrians and proximity to several city centers, it feels smaller town than anywhere in SF.

Housing here isn’t built for the super long term, this is true - but it is built to much stricter codes than the US with respect to earthquake safety, and I wouldn’t say the typical modern American home is built to stand the test of time either.

Here they just build a lot more smaller units in much closer proximity here, and roads are much smaller which in itself probably doubles the buildable land in the city. They also have a strong transit network which means the available land to reasonably commute from is vast; you can get considerably cheaper than my rent or live in a bigger home if you lived say a 15 min walk from a train station a bit further from the center instead (similar properties to mine that are say a 45min-1hr commute to central Tokyo via bus/cycle + train can go for $350 or so, and you’d literally be living in proximity to farms (Tokyo contains a significant amount of rural countryside contrary to most people’s imagination).

I really think the American built environment is totally dysfunctional and prioritizes land speculators and motor vehicles over the people who actually live there. People here actually intend to live in their homes instead of being investment vehicles, to be a part of their neighborhoods, and to not risk their lives every time they enter public spaces. That makes it possible for working class people to afford to buy a home and for children to walk to school on their own.
There are a number of tribes using federal subsidies and their own local economic base to build terrestrial, microwave, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint WISP networks.

For instance: https://www.ynnetworks.com/

https://www.cdatribe-nsn.gov/

One of my personal pet peeves with the FCC and the federal government's methods of subsidizing rural Internet, is that it's a horribly moribund process. The USF (universal service fund) was created a long time ago to put a tiny tax on every wireline dialtone phone service in the USA and apply it as a subsidy to last-mile copper phone operators mandated to serve very rural areas. Something like that could be applied to greatly increased rural broadband subsidies in general, which would benefit not just tribal areas but everywhere with a low density of people per square km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund
Just describe your problem to Google AI and it would ask all relevant information by itself.
Typical HN comment. Being pedantic versus arguing the point.
Looks like many people were desperately trying for the post to trend which it din't until this one, not sure if this is breaking any HN guidelines, maybe moderator can chime in.
>Their arguments are very similar to those of flat earthers honestly, precluding any notion of a grounded debate on what measures are sensible in order to keep the health system in working order and shield those that are vulnerable.

From the opposite perspective, the people who keep insisting that measures like that are necessary to "keep the health system working" in spite of Sweden providing a strong counter-example (no lockdowns or masks, but deaths have steadily trended downards, there wasn't a second wave, and it isn't even in the top ten deaths-per-capita countries now) seem anti-science.
I must be new here - I thought this site was intended to discuss tech entrepreneurship, not Irish bread tax.
The reason might be that there is nothing new to invent or explore so they wallow endlessly in old dried-up shit. Forth is particularly useless, because it only truly made sense in fixed-width computers, where one word was equal one symbol and list of symbols was on separate paper tape. It was so sweet compared to Fortran that I still have cavities in my brain.