skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study is here [1]. The relevant passage is:

"Of those who reported having experienced symptoms of COVID-19 in the last seven days,

only 18.2% (95% CI 16.4 to 19.9) said they had not left home since developing symptoms."

There's a big difference between complete noncompliance (not isolating at all), or incomplete compliance (reducing social contact but not strictly complying with the guidelines).

They don't seem to try to measure the extent of the behavioural change amongst the 82% who left the house.

[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/effective-test-trace-and-isolate-...
Are you saying you'd like to have specific int32, int64, float32, float64 types?
By accessible you mean how can you sell more to them?
I think the same aggressive marketing structure also applies. Put a lot of money, take a lot of money.
> So Atlassian is doing it because they know there is no competitor that would jump in. Because everyone else also goes that direction.

New Confluence licenses will no longer be available in 2021 and support ends in 2024 (though it seems the Data Centre version will still be available, but it's expensive). That's potentially 3-4 years lead time to get something going. Either totally on-prem or an either-or option (à lab GitLab).
I don't mean a hard separation in terms of roles, but I agree with your general sentiment. The reality, in my experience with startups, is that an MVP is built by an engineer or a couple of engineers and it's launched as quickly as possible to get market validation. The thought is usually along the lines of "we'll launch it, get feedback from customers, and then quickly iterate." The reality is usually that the MVP is launched and the company is stuck supporting that MVP and the company is afraid to make changes because they got a customer to give them money (enough perceived validation) and they're stuck supporting the MVP they've just launched instead of iterating. I've seen it so many times that I refer to it as "the MVP trap".

Also, User research can be done in a way to account for the fact that users will say they love something, but actually never use it. I've done it many times.

All of these things that you've mentioned should be done in tandem, but in practice, that's pretty rare. The good thing is that it creates market opportunities for other companies. Amazon is a more extreme example, but it's basically the business model of AWS. Another example is Terraform. HashiCorp has done a poor job of keeping up with user needs so there are add-ons or straight up replacements coming out of the woodwork to fill the feature and experience gaps that have been around in TF for years and years. You will see more competitors to TF and other HC products coming up for exactly this reason. They aren't even the close to the most glaring example, but just the first thing that came to mind.
You could split the difference and go C# or Java and use one of their web stacks.
My credit card has a limit of just shy of £30k (insanity, I know). In the UK (and I'd bet in Europe) there's a 14 day cooling off period on all financing. You could take out a £30k car loan, drive it for a week, and cancel the loan?
Hmm, https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org is probably a better retro experience than their proxy. Still cool though.
A large fraction of disease transmissions are occurring in private homes. UK homes tend to be smaller than in other developed countries which makes it difficult to effectively isolate an infected person.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8201900.stm
C++20 introduced concepts, and now it's possible to specify type constraints, like integral, in a way similar to Haskell typeclasses.

What it doesn't solve that by default the compiler tries to find an appropriate implicit conversion. Sometimes it's convenient, sometimes it's harder to see what the code actually does.
AMOP - The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

AIMA - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Q&A: Danielle Siarri on the Latest in Nursing Informatics
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212555v...
You should take a look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
If I were to use the "It didn't happen to me so it must not be happening anywhere else" logic I would say something sily like:
- "We tested positive(including at blood tests for the exact strain) and none of us had any simptoms so nobody is dead or even sick. It's all a lie."
I've found other car manufacturer-specific subreddits to be significantly less crazy/religious/cultist than r/teslamotors. I don't think there's a real need for that.
This LA Times article says it was a law enforcement aircraft: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-16/is-someo...
I literally have no ads I deal with on win10? I don’t use windows store or xbox store or whatever.

On the other hand, my Ubuntu mountain lion desktop so far:

1. Died because somehow kernel upgrade failed and I had to manually roll back

2. Had a weird interaction with vscode causing a system freeze where I had to figure out what to manually modify in config.

3. Occasionally dies when browsing some js heavy pages on chrome

I definitely prefer Linux as a dev environment and want my backend apps deployed on Linux servers, but the desktop experience is just not smooth. I can’t imagine my elderly dad dealing with the Linux issues I’ve had so far.
My dad was a plant manager at a heat treating plant and worked there over 30 years. I remember he had me open up a huge furnace just to let all the super hot air blast over me, was pretty cool for a teenager. Not a fun place to work at in the summer though...
That happens with Spanish. Most of the time is WYSIWYS (What you see is what you say).
How well does the quality of a videoconference scale with the number of call participants?
Speaking of, where is it possible these days to actually see (buy, stream, whatever) all the old 90's Moomin shows? All I can find (in Norwegian at least) are some VHS-ripped Youtube uploads :-/
It's definitely working from home that did it and not the stress of a very difficult pandemic.
1990s Festival Poster Generator
Is your blood type o-negative? Any time mosquitos are out i get bit more than anyone else by a margin.
This sounds really interesting. How would you define what Sales engineering is?
If it was a physical product it would be considered dumping and be illegal.

Not to mention Uber and Lift don't pay for the roads their businesses depend on. And then Uber and Lift have dramatically increased congestion in a lot of cities. Which negatively impacts people that live in those cities. Finally both Uber and Lift are applying political pressure to eliminate mass transit.
The movie would probably be rated R in the US due to that scene where the robbers are sent out for spring cleaning =P
Well, advancing in these companies isn't just about brain juice and how good a programmer you are. Remember you're talking about google so everyone else is smart too, they're great programmers too. At those upper levels things get extremely political.
Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs
Yup. I was warned, not even in fine print, that it was almost assured that the mortgage would be sold one or more times. I'm on my 2nd, currently.
Prednisone as well. Donny was right about them, they really do make you feel 20 years younger.

Shame about the liver and kidneys though.
Perhaps it's time to regulate the profiling categories. Companies should submit their profile lists and regulators can veto them.
What are some of the things they’re useful for?
> "updates" to reflect the shifts in pronunciation,

Which pronunciation will you choose? If you are a prescriptive linguist from Newcastle you will presumably expect everyone to use a short a in 'castle' but someone from the south would use a long a. And which language do you have in mind when you imply that there are languages that are pronounced in the same way by all of its speakers?

Anyway, there is no Academy in charge of English so if you want to get started on spelling reform just go to it. Promote your revised spelling amongst your friends and colleagues. Or should that be: 'Promoat yor rivized speling amongst yor frends and koleegs.'?
Shavian sends its regards:

𐑓𐑲𐑯𐑩𐑤𐑦, 𐑢𐑧𐑯, 𐑨𐑓𐑑𐑼 𐑕𐑳𐑥 20 𐑘𐑱𐑮𐑟 𐑝 𐑹𐑔𐑩𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑓𐑦𐑒 𐑤𐑦𐑓𐑹𐑥, 𐑢𐑰 𐑢𐑫𐑛 𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑩 𐑤𐑪𐑡𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤, 𐑒𐑴𐑣𐑽𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤𐑦𐑙 𐑦𐑯 𐑿𐑕 𐑔𐑮𐑵𐑬𐑑 𐑞 𐑦𐑙𐑤𐑦𐑖-𐑕𐑐𐑰𐑒𐑦𐑙 𐑢𐑻𐑤𐑛.
Same folks from 10 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw
I work in Business Intelligence (BI) and the joke is that Excel is the best BI tool. My job starts after the new platform has delivered 33% of the functionality required. The rest of the functionality is in the Cobol system. Standard practice in BI is for business users to export spreadsheets/CSV from the different systems then use Excel to create the reports they want. No new BI software is going to magically solve the issues with data.
> Just seconds ago I searched for "kerbtab" and this is one of the first things that came up ...

It's one of the first things for me, too. In fact, it's one of the only results that Google returns for that search term, almost certainly because usage of it is practically non-existent (except for your "mis-usages").

A search for "keytab" -- the proper term -- produces the expected results.

I'm not even going to bother responding to your other arguments -- neither the flawed ones nor the one or two that are actually almost borderline legitimate.

When you continue to insist on blaming Linux for the inability to flawlessly integrate and co-exist with a closed-source, proprietary system designed by a company who -- at the time it was actively designing and creating that system -- considered Linux a "cancer" which need to be eradicated and wiped out, well, I get the feeling there's really no point.

Since Microsoft now "loves Linux" so much perhaps they'll be motivated to someday publish the technical details of all of their proprietary "extensions" to the standards that everyone else uses.

Until then, I'll just leave it at "Linux is obviously not for you" and move on.
> Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

So in other words, Twitter and Facebook censored content (and even references to the URL of that content) despite having no obligation to do so.

And they censored content that not only they did not create, but was put forward by a traditional newspaper on their "series of tubes." As the content is not prohibited by law, how is that _not_ functioning in an editorial capacity?

If Comcast or Cloudflare blocked this exact same content via ipfilters or URL rules, where would the Net "Neutrality" crowd be on this issue?

Outside the legal arguments put forward, there is a huge moral hypocrisy here. Net Neutrality advocates have argued that content should not be allowed to be blocked via certain providers (ISPs), while endorsing censorship on others (CDNs, social communication platforms). In the case of Thomas, he's argued against Net Neutrality not on content grounds--but on technical arguments around resource utilization and distribution.

Thomas' view is at least consistent as it preserves the idea of _not_ limiting speech, which is more than can be said for the Net "Neutrality" crowd.
It's a noble sentiment, but poetry means different things to different people. Personally, I get a much bigger kick out of a well written snippet of Lisp code than I do from your typical sonnet.

Here's a poem I wrote back in high school in reaction to the famous quote, "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads", which I was taught was by Emily Dickinson but turns out to actually be by Marianne Moore. In any case...

A poem is a thought that tried
In vain, just once, before it died
To reach the page's
Right hand side

;-)
> Some times your customers don't realize they need what you're building until they see it and use it.

This.

That's one big part of testing the hypothesis that I feel a lot of people (including mentoring organizations) really don't get.

In an ideal scenario you've clearly identified a problem and can accurately gauge the validity of your solution by just talking about it with prospects, as they can easily relate. I'll label this approach the "Let's-imagine" validation.

In other situations though, target customers aren't even aware that they have a problem (maybe the problem is not immediately apparent) and it can be difficult for them to understand your value proposition, since they've "very successfully been using Excel for that for the past 20 years". You still need to somehow relay that there's a reality where things are significantly better than in the status quo. In some such circles, relying on simple conversations or mock-ups can at best prove very difficult (people won't give you time to wander in fuzzy hypotheticals), or at worst be plain misleading (they will dismiss your idea as irrelevant). In situations where you can't rely on your prospects' imagination, you need to bring proof and the mvp plays a more important role. I'll label this the "Show-me" validation.

"Let's-imagine" and "show-me" are not absolutes. They're on a spectrum, but it seems that the advice to validate by talking to customers is being taken to some dogmatic extremes sometimes. It's something for founders to be aware of when they receive canned advice. Regarding your own solution, you need to be smart to identify where on the above range you fall.
Given that the instruction set already has a float to integer conversion it seems likely that the overhead of implementing this would be small and so given the performance (and presumably energy) win quoted elsewhere seems like a good move.

It would be interesting to know the back story on this: how did the idea feed back from JS implementation teams to ARM. Webkit via Apple or V8 via Google?
I would take this claim with a giant grain of salt. Assange was in an European city not on a farm in a middle eastern country. Ethics aside, this would be very difficult to operationalize even if it was seriously considered.
As an aside, be sure not to charge "just enough" but instead charge "a lot". I have a similar years of experience to you (35yrs). I charge $150-200 hour in the New England area. You never want to compete on price.
I agree with this and it's definitely true for me. The downside is usually that once you have working code, it's just too tempting to launch it as-is. Why wouldn't you if it's working or even close to working and you can launch it and start making money off of it?
The best part of a Figma prototype is that you can't launch it and nothing about it is permanent. Really you don't even need Figma, you could use MS Paint or Whimsical or Miro or whatever.
The point is that it helps to remove the temptation and incentive to "validate" and ship asap.
Circles – A Basic Income on the Blockchain
Just to note, they are referring to this John Snow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow, not the George RR Martin character.
You're awesome too Brian! Didn't mean to be exclusive, I know just know Jens better from SIGCSE.
TrustArc Is Violating GDPR
If you want to go down the rabbit hole, you need to ask who gets paid for the clean-up instead of who gets to pay.

But yeah -- it does indeed seem far-fetched.
I have the same problem with my mortgage bank. Not to mention the emails and physical mail I get from them, which I don't even consider until my mortgage agent confirms they're legit.

Hilariously, the best online credit payment I've used has been Synchrony. I got their card when my wife had laser eye surgery because it came with a nice deal. Then I got another card for a deal at the auto mechanic's. It was so simple to go to their website, log in, make payments or change autopay, see my balance, anything. It took barely any time to tweak uMatrix so it worked. And I've never been surprised by them.

I swear I'm not being paid for saying this.
I was watching a video about how there are thousands of ships (6300) sunk from the past which did not have oil leached from their tanks.

These have been converted to basically ticking time bombs as the metal and fuel tanks corrode.

The amount of oil in these sunk ships is difficult to estimate, but even on a light estimate resulted in a wide-spread ecological disaster.

As usual the response from 95% of governments out there is simply to bury their heads to the problem.

Source from DW Documentaries (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0U62oiBlM)
The replication crisis does not mean all science is false and the title of that paper is itself false.
And the point of a job?
There isn't one. English is not imposed by an authority, it is pulled and pushed from all directions by schools, corporations, governments, history, fashion, misunderstanding, other languages, bloody mindedness, and more.
He uses Twitter to call people paedophiles:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/19/17588574/elon-musk-twitte...

Is that good PR or bad PR?
Growth of the social graph in the last 24 hours has been massive:

https://dashboard.circles.garden/
Judicial activism is the judicial branch believing they are the legislative branch and expanding/changing the scope of laws. A judge seeing what he believes is unconstitutional/unlawful behavior and saying he wishes he could try that case is not activism, it is merely a judge interested in his trade.
You shouldn't worry about votes. Those are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

On another note, this is one of the places where things are still ok. Some media platforms I gave up on to keep my sanity.
Insurance usually pays out for the loss of cargo to the owner of the cargo.

Paying for clean-up is fairly murky, as most of the time it is high seas, and the laws are different. Also the company which runs or owns ship will usually will be asset light and just declare bankruptcy. Look at the case in Lebanon, many countries are not equipped to handle this kind of problem.

It may not be deliberate intent to sink the ship, but the systems we have in place does not provide a lot incentive for the operators to act fast or act at all.
My reading of Esperanto wasn’t to make everyone have to speak it as their first and only language (though I’m sure some have suggested that), but to make it a simpler more convenient halfway house language that would put everyone at the same disadvantage, if you will. you show willingness to be friendly and negotiate by stepping away from your native language and learning another, but you don’t have to step into another’s native language and accept being at a huge disadvantage, and you don’t have to learn the union of every language of everyone you want to talk with.

It’s an idea that can only really succeed from a combined goodwill not conquering oppression.

All over Europe there isn’t room to put up road signs and menus and instructions in the union of all possible languages visitors could speak. It’s easy to say all visitors must learn the local language, but there’s often some concession to putting up signs in some other languages, Esperanto fits there. All road signs seconded in Esperanto isn’t as good for locals as all visitors learning the local language, it isn’t as good for visitors as signs being in their native language, but it isn’t as bad for locals as one group of visitors expecting signs in their language and it isn’t as bad for visitors as signs being in multiple native languages but not theirs.

Expecting to go anywhere and speak English is rude. Expecting everyone to learn English is unlikely and going to trigger a lot of anger. Also supporting French shows some openness but privileges France in a national way. If you could get language away from nationalism, tourist information in Esperanto doesn’t privilege any one nation.
This is my 103 lines python version: https://github.com/cristiandima/scribe. I wrote it about four years ago for my own blog and I still use it to this day.

It does however depend on a few libs and comes with separate html template files for a theme so I am not exactly sure where I stand on the golf course.
> I used to make sortation devices, and the total codebase for a single sortation device would often reach 1GB of C source code. Around 750MB was "common code", but the last 250MB would be customer customization.

This sounds completely bonkers, aren't you including a bunch of static assets like images or whatever else?
The lower bound on a made-somewhere-in-the-US is 0% additional for states with no sales tax.
60M gal / 42 gal/bbl x $40 / bbl = $76,000,000
> that is still 1/4th the death toll of the virus itself.

That is the wrong comparison. We all die.

One better comparison could be expected years of life. The number I read was that Covid causes an expected decrease of 10 years in lifetime. What was the expected decrease in lifetime for those cancer patients because they missed out on treatment? I know you are only calculating a ballpark figure, but I suspect your ballpark is too inaccurate to be useful.

A sibling comment mentions quality-of-life-adjusted years.
With reduced instruction sets, though, the idea is to provide common subparts and make them fast rather than dedicated instructions. While it's not odd to see dedicated instructions in CPUs in general, it's jarring to see if you're familiar with ARM chips from back when they had 25 instructions total.
We (GitLab) have strong planning features but are missing workflow enforcement. GitLab also has a wiki but it is less user friendly than Confluence.
>But I do think one day (might take a while) JS will no longer be the obvious choice for front-end browser development.

I think that day might be sooner than anyone thinks- Chromium is dominant enough now that their including Dart as a first-class language (or more likely, a successor to Dart) will likely be a viable strategy soon.

Of course, the wildcard is Apple, but ultimately Dart can compile down to JS- being able to write in a far superior language that natively runs on 80% of the market and transpiles to the rest is suddenly much more of a winning proposition.
To be fair, I have noticed that r/teslamotors has transformed a little bit in the past year or so. Obvious quality control issues are no longer always systemetically downvoted. Like roofs flying off when driving home from the pickup place.
Makes me want to build an ML system to rate ratings. Of course that could escalate into an arms race.
So true.
I am rather shortsighted, but my body compensated by developing quite good hearing sense.
The noise pollution all around is serious.
Why the “...” ? It seemed like a decent enough answer.
It's generally illegal, outside of narrow circumstances, to fire guns in populated areas largely because stray bullets will kill people.

Stray respiratory droplets exhaled by people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will also kill people.

Presumably you're OK with rules that prevent people from firing guns in public. Why are you not OK with rules that are intended to reduce the risk of people unnecessarily spreading fatal infectious droplets in public?

Your right to shoot firearms ends at my body. Why should your right to spread a fatal disease extend into my lungs?

And, before you say that I should take some 'personal responsibility' to protect myself against infection, should that premise extend to wearing type IV body armor in public just so others can shoot guns in populated areas?