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Software freedom isn't about every user being capable of evaluating and modifying software they run by themselves. It may have started this way, back in the times where end users were also competent at working with computers. The point is that end users can delegate trust on their own.

It's the same idea as with Right to Repair - the movement isn't expecting everyone to learn how to use a soldering iron and a chip programmer; is to allow local communities to have their own specialists capable of repairing hardware. Similarly, with free software, my mother isn't going to look or modify the code herself, but she may ask me to help with it. Or a different neighbourhood tech whiz, who may even take payment for the service.

Software freedom is in part enabling local markets to work.
Exporting photos from GPhotos is quite a pain.

A takeout request can take "a few weeks", during which you just can't download them.

Google has also had too many cases of banning accounts with no recourse. I'd be scared for it to be my only backup of something so treasured.
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Recurrent infection is rare, but you cannot make that jump from the rarity to say 100%.

1) Reinfection rarity decreases with time and we are barely 6 months into this mess--that's much less than a "cold season" which is known to reinfect. You are betting against a known Bayesian prior (other coronavirii families reinfect with a small but not irrelevant percentage) with no evidence to support your statement.

2) "Confirmed reinfection" has to pass an incredibly high bar. You have to have two symptomatic infection events, AND both infections have to have been sequenced AND the sequences have to be sufficiently different to differentiate from never having cleared the virus. Reinfection would normally be with a virus that is almost exactly the same.

So, reinfection being rare could be that it's amazingly rare. OR it could be that it's only somewhat uncommon but we don't have enough events with sequencing data to confirm.

The low Bayesian prior of rareness means we shouldn't panic about reinfection, but it doesn't imply that we can just ignore it, either.
And someone uploaded it to the p2p zeronet as well

Git: http://127.0.0.1:43110/1CXohM8XBz3mUGUR8w9CYXqdYt5JzfoPfi/yo...

Zip: http://127.0.0.1:43110/1uPLoaDwKzP6MCGoVzw48r4pxawRBdmQc/dat...
> The first point is completely nonsensical. Of course more people are infected when you allow more people to be infected.

Sadly it is not nonsense to state the fact that Sweden's approach caused more deaths than what would otherwise have happened. The reason is quite simple: some people somehow believe the opposite. There's a crackpot section of society that somehow and unexplainedly believe that lockdowns and wearing masks and any change to their personal routine causes more harm than a disease that already killed over a million patients.

Then there are the inconvenient facts that:

a) patients do get reinfected,

b) allowing an epidemic to run wild creates conditions for it to mutate and change in unpredictable ways, including becoming more deadly and damaging than what it is right now.
Cat makes this fun and games, and its totally cool. Still, they clearly they see the writing on the wall.

In 15 years jobsites will be run by machine operators remotely from (lower wage area?) control centers.

When everything is moved offshore to lower costs, what will we do all day?
The federal tax kicks in at $11.5 million (although that is scheduled to sunset in a few years). If you happen to die in the wrong state the rate can be as high as 60%
this looks promising - but of course you cannot use it with a mac :(
I'd be interested how the iPhone 12 LiDAR compares to these now, especially in low light
I'm the author of pandoc's org-mode parser. Can you drop me a mail (listed on my GitHub profile <https://github.com/tarleb>) or post to the pandoc-discuss mailing list?
For several reasons. One is that the best way to protect vulnerable populations is to make sure the virus isn't spreading out of control in the non-vulnerable population.

Second, there isn't really a non-vulnerable population. The risk of dying if you're relatively young is low, but it's not zero.

Third, the death statistics don't really cover the long-haulers; there are people who have serious complications for months at least. Damage to heart, lungs, and neurological problems may be permanent.

Fourth, if you overwhelm the capacity of the local health care system to care for sick people, a lot more of them are likely to die or suffer worse complications.

Fifth, we don't know how long immunity lasts. Having a cycle where all the healthy people get Covid-19 once a year isn't sustainable.

Sixth, if it some point one were to decide (like Sweden did) that herd immunity is a bad idea, your country is now in a much worse position to try to eradicate the virus by social distancing and masks. For instance, the United States reduced new infections by about a half between mid July to mid September; that's about two months. If that's the best we can do, it means that every time we increase the number of cases 2x (like we've just about managed to do in October), it means we've added 2 more months at least until the pandemic is over, if herd immunity doesn't work and a vaccine isn't forthcoming.
Sweden have experienced the same “reining in” of infection and death rates without lockdown.

Perhaps lockdowns are required elsewhere due to cultural differences.

This is also partly an explanation for Swedens relatively high death rates - our completely botched integration of immigrants over the years.

But how many and harsh lockdown can a population endure?
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What I'd do is make the vaccines currently in late stage trials available to the most vulnerable to Covid death, such as people over 80. Make sure they understand the trade-offs, and let them make the choice.
That, and the pandemic is ongoing. Even if they had the highest deaths per capita in the world and everyone in had coronavirus it would still not be certain that they were executing a bad strategy. If coronavirus becomes endemic (eg, like the flu) then eventually everyone is going to get it and hindsight the lockdowns will have been sort-of pointless.
I honestly don’t know. I asked my executive about it, and he seemed equally alarmed, but resigned to it? If that makes sense?
Are you saying FB is trying to target ads based on 3D mapping of homes/bodies while the headset is lying around unused? Or what exactly is the theory here?
Too bad it would probably get deplatforned.
I clearly failed with the post (by not elaborating) on this point - I never meant forcing fake data where it's not possible. I'd still rather have this conversation:

A: We should definitely do X!

B: Why? Why not Y?

A: Because I'm the authority in the room

B: Well we talked to sales and customers and Y clearly has Z impact, on the other hand we saw no evidence of customers needing X.

than

A: We should definitely do X!

B: Why? Why not Y?

A: Because I'm the authority in the room

B: Whelp, ok I guess
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More importantly GitHub could lose the status of safe haven and could be held liable for all repositories.
I would have thought this was an asshole comment before I had kids.

Young ones take SO much time. I don’t regret kids at all but I regret not doing even more with my time previously!
I agree in principle, but a much easier fix would be to host such code on a tor hidden service. That way the physical server can be located more or less wherever.

Then we just have to normalize the use of Tor so that banning it becomes unthinkable ...
Definitely looks more user friendly than Anki. Could you talk a little about your SRS algorithm? Are you using SM2?
Curious as to why you left our Apple and Amazon.
I wrote my MSc in markdown with Pandoc. Loved it.
The only possible explanation to your comment is that you replied to the wrong thread.
You failed to make any point about the reason why stating the fact that covid19 kills is nonsense.

In fact, the way you chose to frame the consequences of allowing an epidemic to spread as "point out all the great stuff one could [do otherwise] in the short term" makes it quite clear that your point, focused on your own personal convenience alone, is absurd to begin with.
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How do you expect to program it? Have you found any English documentation anywhere?
Every vaccine I've taken comes with a page of horrific (but very rare) possible side effects I have to acknowledge. I take the vaccine anyway because the risk of the disease is worse.
You touch upon two great points that I failed to point out:

1. These are behaviors in certain situation, not necessarily personality traits

2. I should have been explicit about that the article is not (only) about developers. In fact I've mostly seen these behaviors from product managers and VPs.
What value of “older” do you have in mind?

As the parent of a 3 year old, I know that it’s at least older than 3 XD
I had an inkling about your question, and now I can articulate it:

You don't have to be able to explain how you got the answer, but you do have to be able to explain *a* way to get the answer.

Minsky said "You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

In proving theorems in mathematics, there's often an intuition that it's true, and even why it's true, but still it needs to be put into a formal proof.

But it's very hard to arrive at a proof, by thinking in formal terms, because the search space grows exponentially. Intuition is a shortcut. But you still need to go back and work out the formal proof, to show you're right - to yourself and also to communicate it to others.

And, once you know the answer, and have an idea of why it's true, this guidance makes it much easier to find your way.

To come back to your question: you can learn another way to get the answer by watching videos, where they explain what they are doing as they go. So, this won't explain how you do it, but you can learn another way of doing it that you can explain.

BTW IMHO the most insidious difficulty in learning mathematics is gaps - an incomplete or subtly incorrect understanding. It's insidious because the gap is not apparent at later material, because it assumed, so you won't know what you're missing, and therefore can't diagnose or fix it. You need either an excellent teacher/tutor/mentor/coach to pick it up (but they often don't), or to methodically go through all the previous work. The sooner you do it, the easier the easier it is.
I think part of the issue is that there’s less variety of video ad content out there than static ads. There may not be very many ad dollars out there producing and buying time for video ads you find interesting.
Same problem applies to legal software as well if you're not building from source. And even if building from source, do you usually review it?
Because the strategy is herd immunity by every definition except official labeling. That is not a media characterisation, it is the standard understanding in medical communities. Eg ". “They did not want to put it bluntly, but seeking herd immunity was always inherent in the Swedish strategy,” says Anders Bjorkman, a professor of infectious diseases at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm."
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2376
Yes, grammars can be used for both string matching and string generation. You could generate strings from an ungrammar, but you would need a way to generate valid tokens too.
Could you talk a little about your SRS algorithm as it is now?
Probably progress every day.
> Another "inconvenient truth", thanks to good welfare, there is not "come to work sick" heroism in Sweden. You are basically paid to keep your kids and yourself at home, for as little as a running nose.

That’s been the case with Covid - but before March Swedish workers were basically docked one day’s entire pay for the first day of their sick-leave (so-called ‘karensdag’).

It’s obviously been essential to limit the spread of covid that this penalty has been temporarily suspended, but let’s not pretend that Sweden has been some sort of specially enlightened welfare haven for the sick. That situation ended a long time ago.
> So, reinfection being rare could be that it's amazingly rare. OR it could be that it's only somewhat uncommon but we don't have enough events with sequencing data to confirm.

I can agree that 6 months of data says nothing about what immunity would be like after a year or two. But still, it's hard to imagine how some tidal wave of reinfection remains currently undetected.

But let's postulate that reinfection immunity only lasts 6 months. Ironically, that means that lockdowns and isolation will prevent herd immunity. To stop the disease, everyone would need to get infected within that 6 month window.
For one I’d like there to be some punishment for repeated abuse of DMCA. GitHub policies state that repeat offenders can get their accounts suspended/deleted. Why can’t repeat offenders (RIAA) get banned from the system at least? Some increasing back off after a rejected claim was posted? Anything that would make it un-economical to just spam the system with notices wherever you like it because there is no downside to it.
Not just the foreign press but Swedish scientists have agreed that the "CDC" is attempting to achieve herd immunity but unwilling to say so. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2376
Hosting the git repository on ipfs might be a solution.
Interestingly, my country (Turkey) did ban github (along with google drive, microsoft onedrive etc.) back in 2016. However they reopened it within hours (18 hours to be exact), because systems all over the country were failing. One of the driving reasons was that ATMs stopped working. Appearently they were downloading some updates from github to function.

Stupidity has no limits.

For more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub
For MS Word Pandoc is a blessing: I configured a master file and now pandoc does all the tedious formatting!
Great point, and the post never intended to talk about this topic. I think there's great merit to 'gut feeling' from field experts, even if they cannot support it with data at the moment, maybe because the nature of the thing is exploratory at that certain stage or it's simply too chaotic. Experience and intuition coming from experts tenured in relevant areas is priceless - but it doesn't have to come with hierarchy or power based authority. When people naturally respect someone they will listen. No need to force it.
Maybe what you’re encountering is cross-promotion on a network of podcasts? They want to sell ad spots, but they also want you to spend more time listening to their podcasts so they can sell more ad spots.

Cross-promotion also exists in just about every other media format (books, TV, movies...).
The first conception of a entity that is legally bound to continue growing in perpetuity, beyond the point of of prudence or reason, was, in retrospect, the final straw that put capitalism beyond redemption. It is quite literally a cancer on society, growing until it starves out the host.
I think they're just inverted on x86 because it provides hardware acceleration for SHA-1 and SHA-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/sha/as...
Are you only able to come up with personal blogs? Media where any crackpot can post is hardly a reputable source for public health discussions.
I'm not a mathematician and not good at it either, but something that I see a lot is that mathematics in general are very keen on sharing the conclusions in concise, if not cryptic, forms.

A lot of metamathematics are lost in the process.. but I think that people that are really good in math like this way of life. But it kinda hides a part of what doing mathematics is. It should be written as books preludes.
Ask HN: Which general programming language is good for learning/exploring math?
Which general purpose programming language is good for learning and exploring math?

Here is what I am looking for from the programming language:

* Good standard library that helps in exploring math concepts. Python fits this bill. Python's standard library has functions like math.comb(), math.gcd(), math.factorial(), etc. They make it easy to write down many closed-form expressions without reinventing the wheel.

* Speed. If I am exploring a new concept and I want to test a conjecture for large numbers, such iterate-and-test loops in Python run 30 times slower than equivalent loops in C++. Here C/C++ fits the bill and Python does not.

* Expressibility. While I am exploring mathematics, it should not feel like I am fighting the syntax of the language. Python and Java fit the bill due to their simplicity. C++ is manageable. Rust feels like too much work for quick and dirty hacks to test conjectures.

* Longevity. The language should be stable and not prone to too many breaking changes. Some code I write now should run without modifications ten years later. C, C++, Go fit the bill. Python does not.

* Open source implementations. The language must have popular free and open source implementations. I don't want to be paying large sums of money for something like MATLAB or Mathematica. Most languages popular here on Hacker News like Python, Go, Rust, etc. fit the bill.

Now if there is no language that do not meet all the requirements above, that is fine. Something that comes to close to supporting most of the features above is going to be okay.
You can disconnect your FB account on Spotify and just login with fb user id and password
Your multiplayer argument was valid if VR gaming - or any VR, or perhaps any gaming - was multiplayer only. Or if VR was not available for any other activity than gaming! With the same effort you could argue not to use computers or your phone without logging into Facebook since those are for communication and collaboration! Multiplayer is one of the features not some exclusive condition to turn on your devise for god's sake! Even then mere sync certain(!) data from(!) a chosen(!) account was sufficient. Multiplayer works without Facebook, as we see with 'some' products.

Also tracking of individuals was NOT there for decades but for a population! Learn the difference. And still it was not all right at all if there was, there are laws made decades ago against unwarranted tracking and tracing! (so it is knowingly unwelcome, not being a nice things, especially for children, whatever loophole some make for themselves to do anyway!)

Also the complaint was not about others do more ad but that very few does real product development for the sake of good products instead of ad maximizing tricks and honeypots.

Get your thoughts in order please!....
I kind of had a similar reaction watching Devs after having read that short story many years ago. But now that I’ve re-read the short story, I have to say, it’s pretty weak compared to Devs. I’m not sure this is the right forum to discuss specifics, so I’ll leave it at that.

Though I was very much hoping that Alex Garland’s work on reinterpreting Annihilation would’ve given him the courage to lean into the totally inexplicable in Devs.
The Pokémon Company recently released a tooth brushing game.
#2 works but i dont think people go to twitter to find hotties. And it's not gonna be a useful crowd
Zeronet [0] has implemented a decentralized website model, a Github alternative on there could be more resilient, though it does require additional client software to run. I believe the site owner can update their decentralized website with their cryptographic keys.

Perhaps WebTorrent [1] can be the basis for an in-browser implementation, along with service workers to stay cached and self-update without requiring a running host. Talk about serverless :^)

[0] https://zeronet.io/
[1] https://webtorrent.io/
A/B testing is but one way of gathering data. Also, it usually comes after the decision to actually invest in building _something_ out (even if it's only a prototype/MVP). There are other types of data such as sizing the opportunity based on market research, competitor analysis or simply asking your customers - among many other. This shouldn't be trusted blindly either, sure. Never said that.
what we had was a vision of the future. The World fair, the Jetsons, world music etc, the visions of the future we had was the Flintstones or the suburb on Mars including a robot maid, and the Fallout videogame franchise did a very good job of pointing out of much of a boring, contemporary version of the world that was, just relocated into space.

Today we have many visions of the future, we just don't have one vision of the future. On the frontpage of HN right now is a great article about Solarpunk, emerging out of cyberpunk. Which I never considered to be 'dystopian' in a negative sense of the term, but in contrast to the World Fair GM aesthetic, genuinely transgressive, rather than utopian or corporate.

And in the real world we have countless of futures too. From change in China that is so rapid you can physically see it every two or three years, to a wholesale restructuring towards renewables, kids in rural India getting access to social media and changing how we communicate, agriculture incorporating technologies in diverse ways all over the world, autonomous cities, virtual reality, and so on.

What we indeed don't have is the science fiction world as imagined by guys in the 60s in America, nobody's forcing you to hang onto it or not to go look somewhere else for a vision of the future though. When people make this take about the lack of futuristic visions almost exclusively what they seem to be looking for is a sort of retro-futurism and nostalgia.
Having multiple login systems is an integrity/spam disaster waiting to happen. You have to reimplement whatever detectors and filters twice and hope that nothing messes up and lets Jim the perv who was kicked from messenger move onto courting Billy on the quest.
> ... it's not only OP's fault that he didn't get the right answer yet.

With respect, people should be looking at facts and coming to their own answers/conclusions. That strategy is more immune (sorry) from search-algorithm errors.
the work environment sounds toxic AF.

Also, the judge ruled on title VII.

Here is what should have been considered: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla

It's 12 weeks unpaid under FMLA.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/77b-fmla-protec...

The question is: did he attempt to take FMLA?
And so then the question at hand is whether it was a legal contract due to constraints on what Apple is allowed to do as a market actor in their position.
Yes, it does mean that.
And yet a tons of SF companies never make a dime.

Tells a lot about the system right?

I recently discovered New Relic has yet to make any profit.
Private psychotherapy clinic was hacked, the attacker asks Bitcoin for ransom
If you’re in London I’d thoroughly recommend a drink in the Jamaica Wine House - it’s a pub in the square mile that used to be a coffee house from 1652. It’s an amazing place to see - you can really feel the age and history of the place. https://londonspubswherehistoryreallyhappened.wordpress.com/...
I am currently seeing a therapist and psychiatrist. I'm also not looking for general help or a diagnosis from anyone, which people tend to do inappropriately sometimes on the internet. That's why I've been somewhat vague. I'm just looking for other people's experiences specific to either starting a company or being a programmer. That's not something I can really get from my therapist.
They lay about lock down to be effective. Let’s compare death rates in Spain, Italy and others most restrictive countries with Swedes. No difference or even more deaths in lockdowned population.
I’m a bit surprised that none of the panelists are coming from SWIFT (or Ripple) while they have the CEO of Stellar.