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Re-paste from my comments below, because I believe people should share their experiences:

I currently have coronavirus. I'm a young male in my 20s (don't want to divulge too much info), 6'1", 170 lbs, non-smoker, rarely drink, pretty healthy. Waiting on test results.

Started off about 2 weeks ago, rash on my chest, lots of night sweats and chills. Didn't think it was covid at first. given the weird symptoms. I did not feel too sick, in general. Slight fever, slight cough and sore throat. For most of the time, it felt mild. Still have the rash, night sweats, and sore throat at the moment.

However, 4 days ago I started having issues breathing. I felt out of breath multiple times throughout the day, and at times it was hard to even suck in air (like my diaphragm was calcified or something). I woke up a few times at night, trying to suck in air. Today was better but the difficulty breathing is still there. I realized today, that even though it's not as bad as the worst flu I've had, it involved a symptom (difficulty breathing in air) that I have never experienced. Not with strep, not with the flu. This is something to note for everyone, in my opinion.

I think it's both milder AND worse than people think it is - I'm a healthy young male who exercises and eats well, and yet I'm having trouble breathing. This is a symptom that has continued for multiple days, and while it hasn't gotten worse, it's not getting much better. The rash is still there, my throat's still sore. If you are part of the obese/overweight American population (35% of us, including my family), and are a chronic smoker/drinker, and have chronic conditions (diabetes, hypertension, mental health conditions), I think you should still be careful.

Unless you have a respirator, there isn't anything you can take to resolve "difficulty breathing". It's not like fever/sweats/nausea - where you can just take a Nyquil and it's all gone. Not to mention, we have antibiotics and antivirals to attack the flu/cold/strep infections as well. Covid's a bit different - difficulty breathing can only currently be helped by equipment that's located in hospitals. There isn't some magic pill that will get your diaphragm pumping up and down again. This is something to note, in my opinion.

I'm not sure how much longer my symptoms will continue. The initial symptoms started 2 weeks ago, but the breathing related ones only started recently. I hope it gets resolved soon - I may provide a comment as an update.

Please wash your hands, avoid touching your face/eyes with your hands, socially distance if you can, and wear a mask when in public. Having trouble breathing is no joke.
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I think the point was that their real goal was to kill youtube-dl entirely, and the tests just happened to give them something to complain about to do so.
>No one I know from this space thought a 2020 vaccine was ever in the cards.

Normally vaccines take longer to develop because years of studies must be done to confirm the absence of longer-term side effects, not always because the actual vaccine development itself takes years. This requirement seems to have been bypassed for potential covid19 vaccines, allowing the vaccine to be released faster, at the expense of not having time to test for the absence of any long-term side effects (e.g. if a side effect takes 2-3 years to manifest, it's impossible to detect this with a trial that only lasts 6-12 months).
There's plenty of people out there who simply do X for financial payout Y.

As a matter of fact, the financial services sector thrives with such people
Obese people avoiding fruit is one of the biggest eye roll on offer. I had a fat roommate who measured out the raw almonds he ate because they were calorie dense the same day he’d eat two whole pizzas for dinner.

Meanwhile, almonds and bananas aren’t the things making people fat. Looking at my own fat friends, some tasty fruit is the only fiber they even get.

And vegetables aren’t even on the menu of most fat people I’ve lived with. Don’t discourage the only healthy habits people do have.

Look at the the actual diet of an obese / fatty liver / type2 person and you’ll see how silly this advice is. It ain’t the fruit.
Hi there. Of course you can make money using it. The main restriction is to not run redpanda as a service. Otherwise have fun.

Its the same as cockroachdb in that regard
> Everyone thinks they're saving the world. I'm sure the RIAA sleeps soundly knowing they're defending the rights of creative individuals to make a living and holding the line against the scourge of amoral nihilistic pirates.

Amoral Nihilistic Pirates would be a great name for a band.

Just sayin'.
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For groups like African Americans the numbers are far more harrowing. We ignore autonation as less people work the ones who remain have skyrocketing productivity however all the gains go to largely untaxed owners.
I guess my claim of "high chance that the individual will end up shot by the police" is hyperbolic.

But then my next question is, what does a police officer bring to the table other than a gun? What unique skill and tools does a police officer have that could help resolve such a scenario peacefully, that wouldn't also be available to someone specially trained in dealing with mental health issues?
Windows updates break things all the time. A common headline in my google feed around Feature Upgrade season is "Reminder: disable Windows Update to avoid problems". Microsoft has made updating windows a liability.
It's hosted on gitlab.com:

$ curl -sS -D- -o/dev/null \
https://youtube-dl.org/downloads\
/latest/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:04:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads\
/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
Content-Length: 3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

$ curl -sS -D- -o/dev/null \
https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/\
2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:05:03 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://gitlab.com/dstftw/\
youtube-dl/uploads/99d745f22ca3c2a8e9a2\
3def5446289a/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
Content-Length: 3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Turn off your adblock for a few hours. You'll suddenly remember of some very specific thing you brought once a long while ago or some site you used to look at.
> Does copyright law end with HEAD on master?

With regards to copyright law and "distribution", there's no distinction. The tests are still being "distributed", just from a different URL. If youtube-dl was in violation before, they still are now.

This is a confusing result. I would not expect any copyright litigant to sacrifice legal advantage for the sake of an adversary's convenience in maintaining complete version control history.

Could there possibly have been a miscommunication over what "remove the tests" meant? Or an offer of compromise outside of legal necessity? Or a bad-faith fulfillment of a promise to "remove the tests"?
Fun with Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Browsers of the Internet of Old Things
Covid-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time
The cost to manufacture is cheap as chips - governments pay $3-$10 per shot when they buy millions. Transporting and administering increases the price but not significantly.

Of course a country that could pay $1bn half a year ago in advance on the chance that the vaccine works will be ahead in the production queue in front of a poor country that only now puts in orders.
This was how I played AoE and StarCraft as a kid! I think the vast majority of players play them this way, actually. If you're in the competitive multiplayer scene, it's easy to forget there are millions or tens of millions of single player / campaign-only players.
I've seen quite a few uses of the issues page as a discussion forum too. I certainly wouldn't consider any of it "abuse", however.

I wonder if anyone has made this observation before in regards to such things: "Anything that can be used to store arbitrary data, will be used to store arbitrary data."
ToughSF has a look at starships propelled by photon drives, and why they have been relegated to a relic of the 1950s.
While I could understand it in the spring, I would think by fall semester any competent professor would switch over to open-book exams. Honestly, the argument for closed book exams which encourage wrote memorization, cramming and cheating instead of developing a useful understanding of the material was on shaky ground even before the pandemic.
You for real? That guy has caused the outbreak to skyrocket by politicizing science. The research for the vaccine would have been driving intensely fast without his efforts given the scale of the problem and the opportunity to help one of the more acute problems humanity has faced before.

Additionally if you cause/exacerbated the problem you can't be credited for fixing it.
But railroads were not a monopoly -- there were other modes of transportation. /s
I happened to read it here recently: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/02/how-goo...
No, that's not a scholarly article.
I’ve been aware of Cory’s argument since he first began writing about it. It still hasn’t come to pass. I can still run a C compiler on my Mac and write whatever software I want to write. I can still install any other compiler or interpreter I like and write whatever code I want for it. I can still install any open source software I want.

Cory’s arguments ultimately boil down to a slippery slope argument. Apple says it is locking things down in order to protect people against malware. Cory says this will lead to a lockdown against general purpose computing (ability to run any software you want). This hasn’t yet come to pass, so it’s a matter of waiting at this point.

I don’t think climate change is an appropriate analogy. Climate change is a physical process which we can model and predict via the scientific method. It’s pretty clear at this point that if we maintain the status quo and don’t change our behaviour then catastrophe will ensue.

You can’t say the same thing about Apple. They’re a company full of people and you can’t predict what they’re going to do next. Plenty of people try, of course, but they’re wrong every year.
Sure, but I would also like to consider the prep time + starting and landing. So lets assume, you call an helicopter pilot and a lambo driver at night up out of their bed, both lets say 20 km far away, in the middle of the night. For this distance I would bet that the lambo driver would be faster.
Negative time I'd say; as in, it has already been mentioned what feels like a million times. Maybe just open an issue on the github repo?
An mRNA vaccine slips into your cells via some lipid nano particles, a ribosome binds to it manufacturing and releasing COVID spike proteins. This provokes an immune response. Does not enter the nucleus, or touch your DNA.
JPEG XL looks impressive, but it's still under heavy development. It might eventually take over, but AVIF is already starting to have browser support: https://caniuse.com/avif
Your "simplistic" view is perfectly valid, thanks for sharing.

I agree that it is a bit amusing at times.
Researchers fear that vaccines might not be as effective in people who are obese
except only reason many if not most of the people keep using google photos is free unlimited photo backup, let's see how many people keep using it when they run out of those 15GB

you can have redundancy with two drives for price which will pay itself within less than two years and you will have significatntly bigger backup capacity for connecting external harddrive directly to your phone through USB OTG and pressing one button, I find that extremely convenient, after all automatic google backup was pretty fucked up and freezing and unstable for years

what is the most important is you have your data backed up and it does not matter whether you have to connect drive and press one button or it us supposedly done automatically
d = √(x² + y² + z² - c²t²)

Note that if the space intervals are all zero and the time interval is unit time or 1, the spacetime displacement is equal to C. Thus when at rest physically we progress though the time dimension at the speed of light. Conversely if two points are separated by an interval equal to C, their distance in the time dimension is zero.

The latter result isn't really a surprise, we all know time doesn't pass if you're traveling at light speed, but IMHO it's interesting to see how it arises from the geometry.
I've always wondered about copyright and HEAD.

For example, you can find a LOT of copyrighted font files that were committed somewhere in GitHub, and then removed in a later commit once they realized they'd accidentally uploaded a copyrighted file.

But they're still always there in the history, effortless to download.

I'm not really sure what to make of that. I don't think it would really count as removal in court... but it seems rare and complex enough that it's not worth bringing up?
It might be that the Surface laptops legitimately "just work." I am using a bleeding-edge MSI gaming laptop and its drivers are very bad. Bluetooth is just the easiest problem to identify and point at in a single word.
I don't have an answer, but the normal timeline should depend on the size of the population that you intend to vaccinate.

Testing a vaccine for 6 months and then deploying to hundreds of millions... seems short.
I think we fundamentally agree, but I am also thinking about the greater system in which advertising exists. Ads drive consumerism, and we have an economy that is driven by consumerism. Technological advancement, economic stability and growth, it is paid for by the creation of economic value driven by consumerism. Societies with unstable economic systems do not stay stable themselves for very long unless the economic issues are addressed.

So we cannot remove or drastically reduce advertising without it causing far-reaching second-order consequences that in turn have their own consequences. Less ads, people buy less stuff. Places that make stuff make less of it, or go out of business, and not as many people are needed to make that stuff. Businesses that supported those businesses suffer the same problem. Countries whose economies rely on us buying their stuff or having our stuff made in those countries suffer major economic losses.

Lets take the consumer electronics industry. Lets say we just got rid of advertising for things to the point where everyone was willing to keep their stuff twice as long and buy less stuff they don't really need. That industry is about $1 Trillion/year. Let's say the second-order economic effects from support industries that depend on that are another $500 Billion. Still doesn't seem like a lot in the scheme of things, a little under 1% of the world GDP. But it's also not evenly distributed. Some countries are hit much harder. The economies of South Korea & China are hit particularly hard. And a part of China's stability is driven economic growth that supports propaganda promising increased quality of life. War may not break out, but small cracks start to appear. Do that same for the automobile industry, and that's about another $2.5 trillion out of the economy.

So we cannot remove from this system a part we don't like and still have that system function the same way. I guess we can go into it eyes-open and say "it's worth the consequences" and go ahead with it. Or, and this is my preference, we can try to understand the system well enough to figure out how we can change the parts we don't like smoothly enough to avoid the worse of those consequences.

None of this means we shouldn't complain about ads, and want them to go away. But if we're being practical about it, we don't just need a way to get rid of ads, we also need a way to patch that hole in the system.
If you want a base-10 scale, I think you only need to calculate the logarithms of 1/5 and 1/2 by hand, and the rest can be done by scaling those ratios (not to scale):

| 10 | => divide by log10(1/2) : 1
| 5 | 5 | => divide by log10(1/5) : 1
|1| 4 |1| 4 | => divide by log10(1/2) : 1
|1| 2 | 2 |1| 2 | 2 | => divide by log10(1/2) : 1
|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|
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I just looked at the data for Sweden today. Looks like a seasonal outbreak starting mid-September (infection date).
Parameters of the curve look like the first wave (Gompertz-Exponent ~0,06) with less force.

Start is hidden under other smaller outbreaks, so it's not so easy to measure it exactly. But soon it should peak (if it hasn't already...).

If they don't do any nonsense that changes the mathematics of COVID-19 completely Sweden will be fine. The curve has normal size of a seasonal flu. Other countries in Europe are doing a lot worse.
Well, like I said, the people I know are familiar with both vaccine development and have experience with FDA acceleration in times of crisis and they still thought 2021 was the earliest we would see a vaccine.
> That’s the main problem I have with libertarians

If they’re with Republicans on reducing regulation, and with Republicans on social issues, they’re just called Republicans.
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> Also interesting to note: so we can develop and approve vaccines for new diseases within months? It doesn't have to take 10 years if we really want to eradicate a disease badly enough? My conclusion: we're under-funding research in microbiology. "We" as in: the entire world. In general.

Given the harm caused by this vaccine, we consider a higher cost of development to be acceptable. That includes monetary cost, the cost of redirecting many other research resources to this research, and the potential cost of rushing development with less testing than normal.

This is all sane to do, because corona also has a really high cost. Other diseases have a much lower cost, and hence investing less in them makes sense.

Sure, the world could probably focus all its attention on fixing a disease, and make meaningful process. But what would the world have to give up in order to do that? Would that trade-off be worth it. With Corona, it becomes worth it a lot sooner than with something else.
YouTube-Dl Is Back
> The drums of the 24 m analog calculators are of course not 24 m long.

I was disappointed
Maybe it's not about a few percentage points but about it being a legit alternative. A few days ago it looked like Pfizer is in position to milk the market and now there is competition.
If the commands are well organized in the menu, any fool can find them. But remembering dozens of shortcuts clearly signals you know more than those who do not remember them. How would people recognize true experts if we all switched to less arcane versions of Notepad?
Last time I checked, HumbleBundle was mostly selling Steam keys anyway, so you're still stuck with a licence to play a game.
Maybe this is used? US (and Canada?) only though...

https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/standalonecontro...
There simply doesn't seem to be a culture of usability in Linux environments. "But, it's not that bad, I set up a Google/LibreOffice laptop for my mom!"– yes, it is! I hit a rage-wall any time I try to actually use a Linux distro as an 8+ hours a day working environment. Unless you almost exclusively work in command lines, it's no replacement for macOS (or even Windows, for that matter). And macOS does command lines just fine.

(btw, I admit that some of this has to do with a general lack of support for Linux by software and hardware companies, but there's only one side of this Linux distros can work on and that is making it a more pleasant environment for end users and most Linux users seem to sneer at that thought)
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Much more recently, actually-- I peaked last year, in 2019. The game is alive and well in the Definitive Edition on steam, and players are still pushing the skill envelope. The meta has changed a lot with all the new civs they've added (they've doubled the number of civs overall).
Thanks for sharing. These accounts are always very interesting to read. Good luck and speedy recovery.
OK, thanks! so it can be like a firewall except dynamically updated by subscribing to some kind of service? This would work even for encrypted traffic.
Little Snitch & co are part of a defense in depth strategy against malware and other threats.

Will it catch everything? No, obviously. Will it catch enough things to make it worth running? I guess that depends on your threat model, but many think it's worth it.
Coming up with multiple vaccine candidates was fast (it took days to weeks in this case). That's partly because some approaches are straightforward (like growing virus and then inactivating it), partly because there are ready-to-go platforms for vaccine development (e.g., adenovirus-vector and mRNA platforms), and partly because there's been work on closely-related coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-1 and MERS, from which people already knew how to genetically modify the spike protein to remain in its pre-fusion state).

In short, there were several vaccine candidates within days to weeks of the genome being decoded.

What takes time is testing the vaccine candidates for safety and effectiveness. Companies normally go step-by-step. They run a phase-I trial, then evaluate the results and decide whether to go on to a phase-II trial. If they run a phase-II trial, they again wait until the results are in and have been evaluated before moving on to a phase-III trial. That reduces financial risk. In this case, companies began preparing phase-III trials before the phase-II trials were even completed. You can begin enrolling people into the trials and producing the necessary doses before you even know whether the phase-II results are any good. One of the reasons they could do that was because the government was taking on the financial risk.

Technically, Moderna's phase-I trial is not even complete yet: [1]. It runs until November 2021. But Moderna moved forward onto the next phase as soon as it had enough data from the phase-I trial to justify doing so (I assume this meant some combination of safety and efficacy data).

1. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04283461
Do you think that image (or video since a lot of tech overlaps) formats move so slowly that over 30 years there is no innovation worth considering?
Does having a comorbidity mean they deserve it?
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I have compiled a list of places to post your side project. Hope you find this useful

Original list by Xavier Coiffard
That would have been a great way to go about it. "This part infringes our copyright, here's a patch to fix that". But we all know they don't want to fix anything, they want only to destroy and prop up the corpse as a big bad wolf so the actual content creators get scared and keep paying them.
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Very nice and sleek UI! I agree that it is unlikely to comprehend all javascript operators at once, especially for someone starting out. Will definitely keep this in mind whenever I need a quick brush up.
If you have a full-time job, family, friends, exercise, and have a hobby or two already - I'm not sure where you come up with two hours of free time per day after that.

Are you literally scheduling everything you do? Are you sleeping less than 6 hours? Obviously, there's probably 2 hours per day in small intervals where I'm not maximizing my day.

Because of this, I recently picked up guitar, and this is nice for the random periods I'm free, because I feel like picking it up 4 or 5 times a day for 5-10 minutes still allows me to make a lot of progress, be creative, and learn a lot about (and appreciate) music.

Chess is also something you could do this with, but I feel like at that time scale it would be harder and less rewarding, and this is still about 1/4th of the two hours mentioned.

Edit:

I probably spend 30 minutes on HN per day, which is mostly a waste. But this is also in small intervals.