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It does spread faster than the flu, but the CFR is not that much different than the flu like you said. I'm not afraid of the flu and most people I know are not. How about instead of shutting down the entire economy and destroying many people's lives, we say to the people that are afraid of it to isolate? The government could have paid for them to receive their groceries through an app. It probably would have been cheaper than the massive amount of money spent trying to get the economy to recover after destroying it. Most of the deaths are in nursing homes so we should have quarantined nursing homes also instead of destroying the entire economy. That probably would have cut the deaths by at least 50%. The average healthy person has nothing to fear from COVID.

I've been to many large parties, I went to 3 Stop the Steal protests (and came into contact with probably 10,000 people easily), I never wear a mask, I take no precautions and I'm fine.
Meh, $150 is pretty steep. I think it's all good in the long run, but I'm going to sit this one out.

I'm still waiting for my dream machine: something like a hybrid between a microcontroller and a SBC. It should have all the simplicity of programming of an MCU with a lot of the goodies (but not necessarily all) we come to expect from an SBC.

I'd hope to see FreeRTOS run on it. Linux is a nice-to-have, but I view it as to complicated for anyone wanting to really get down to the metal.
> did you look at the financials of Dropbox?

You are aware that this discussion is about an announcement that they're cutting 11% of their workforce, aren't you? Anything can happen when companies get in this position.
How devastating? I expect few if any would starve; we grow more than enough grain to keep people alive. Potatoes farmers would be put in a hard financial situation, but they'd probably get bailed out and could replant with other varieties for the next season.
Could not agree more, and my bold prediction is that we will see a major migration of desktop apps that run on WASM at near native performance. The benefit of being in the browser is clear to both developers and end users, especially if the performance gap isn't big. What's really exciting to me is the disruption of incumbents in various industries, the only real one we've seen so far is Figma's webapp eating away market share of Sketch/Adobe's native clients.
A 3 week shutdown is politically not feasible, a high percentage of people would just ignore it, with plenty of them yelling and screaming on Parl... Twitter.

Somehow it's easier to do in a police state like China. Or maybe a country where there's still a high degree of solidarity (don't quote me, I'm not an expert on exactly why) like New Zealand.
5 mile diameter ~ 20 mi^2.

SF is proverbially 7x7 = 49 mi^2.
Huh. I guessed “potato famine”
okay, can see that; what if your job is enjoyable like play, and you get lost doing it, and thus don't have mental and physical effects?
I don't think that's an environment in which Ubiquiti gear makes sense. It's much more useful for the people who have a 3-story house and have to have a separate downstairs and upstairs Wi-Fi network to get decent coverage.
> China overthrew its monarchy in 1911. Hundreds of thousands died.

So you say every time there is a revolt and one government is replaced with another it means a fundamentally different way of governing people, different political system?

The reality is that nothing really changed and China and, again, I will invoke "On Origins of Political Order" because it is very well explained there.

Just because a monarchy has been replaced with Mao (de facto monarch) and then with single party doesn't mean people gained any rights.

While people in western world were slowly getting more rights (shifting from a absolute monarch to rule of law to concept of human rights) nothing of that sort happened in China.

Think of communist party as a collection of princes that band together to govern a huge mass of people but not for the good of the people, but rather for the good of the party (collection of princes).

Where those goals coincide this results in goals for the good of the people but where they do not, this will result in killings, mass incarcerations, etc.
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I would love for that to be available in undergrad programs, and in more majors than just CS.

Follow-up question: How hard is it to get into? Are there restrictions on how many students can take each class?
The point is if Netflix creates media that people want to consume, they have to go to Netflix to get it (legally).

If Dropbox creates software that performs a task, it can be copied (to a sufficient degree) by Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon and people can get it there.
I would be happy if they just released a instruction-level simulator to play around with.

It would also be super-nice if they released at least a Copper or Tin core (low-end) that can be synthesized to an FPGA for people to try out.
> Using data from flu monitoring programs in prior years, the CDC models project that 70 MILLION Americans have already gotten sick with symptomatic Covid, but decided to just write it off as a bad cold and never got tested. I am not making this up.

In Bangladesh, a well-regarded study found that 45% of people in Dhaka, one of the most densely populated regions in the world, had antibodies. This study was conducted between April 18 and July 5. I'm sure the number is much higher now. And most people around me seem to agree with this- our total deaths so far is 1/50 of USA, despite having 1/2 population. Even if we multiply our total deaths by 5 to account for maybe government cover-up, our death rate/infection rate still seems too low. Widespread immunity appears to be the only explanation for this disparity.

[1] https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020/10/12/45-percent-of-dha...
Might also be people with mild symptoms delaying to go get a test because they're on break, not necessarily the labs being backed up.
This concept might be of interest or inspiring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_purchasing_organization

I am - or rather my business is a paying Google customer and I would welcome this.
>> ...the CDC models project that 70 MILLION Americans have already gotten sick with symptomatic Covid, but decided to just write it off as a bad cold and never got tested...

> Why is this hard to believe?

I don't agree with the article more broadly, but it does make the point that 70 million prior infections isn't consistent with hospitalization numbers over the summer vs now. The only way I can reconcile those numbers is by adding two assumptions: first, that severity depends on initial viral dose; second, various social and weather patterns associated with summer drive lower initial viral doses. I don't think these are implausible assumptions--in fact, I'd guess they're true--but I would need significantly more evidence to make me think they account for many tens of millions of missed COVID cases.
So by dropping support for old CPUs, the Linux kernel burns a bridge. That conversation makes more sense now.
There really is no convincing evidence in the public domain that new variants have caused the increase in cases, and there is a very convincing alternative explanation that opening up the shops three weeks before Christmas then relaxing the rules over the holidays (the u turn coming too late) would cause it.

If the new variant caused a big increase in R then I doubt the lockdown would have brought R under 1 in the U.K., which it clearly has, surprisingly from just about after Christmas.

I started out healthily sceptical that the new variant was significantly more infectious, and now I’m extremely suspicious.
> I find it cheap for something that works perfectly, across any device/OS and never fails, never breaks, and is extremely fast (insanely fast).

That doesn't help if your target customers believe they can get the exact same thing at a much lower price. (And many of them get those services from their employers for free.)
Counterpoint, it's almost the reverse in my experience. I worked for two years for a medium-sized Seattle-based tech company in their London office, and the last 12 months in a British tech company. The American company had way more bureaucracy and rules around stuff than the UK company. The UK company paid way better, had a barista on-staff, much more up-to-date tech, and less work hours to boot.
$VMW down 6.5%, $INTC up 7.5%, sounds like the market liked him at least
I hope Typescript will support Export Maps soon: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33079
To me, they seem to serve different markets. The various BeagleBoards have more industrial specs like a wider operating temperature range, on-board EMMC, etc. Also, the pair of PRU's make them useful for things where more precise timing is important.
Most supply chains today are measured in days not weeks

The average Grocery will run out of stock in 2-4 days (most being closer to 2 days)

The supply chain network is not setup for allow for a 3 week shutdown, nor can it be easily adapted to allow for it.

Most people, espically in urban centers, would not have enough supplies to last more than a couple of days as well.

Given that most people also can not budget for a $100 emergency they would be hard pressed to walk into a store and buy 3 weeks of food even if we could stock the stores to supply it (which we can not)

That is with out getting into the needs of Power, Water, Gas, Sewer, Public Safety, etc etc etc

you can not shut down a nation for 3 weeks, it is simply not possible
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I was hoping it involved Guinness myself, or better yet Smithwick's. I'd be okay with multiple events like that.
When I was ~25 in the late 90s (now in my late 40s) I spent 3 months with a 'custom' guy. He was going in and re-writing our software stored procedures. They had to work a particular way or the whole harry ball came flying apart. 2 level one techs, 3 level two techs, 3 on site rebuilds with 3 installers and 4 senior engineers. 3 months of work. All because 1 dude decided to change things out and did not follow our extensive docs and use the people we dedicated to help him. All because he wanted a feature but did not want to pay for it but did not want to admit he broke the multi million dollar system they bought. It was like an hour of work for me and 1 line of code. But he jerked us around for months and cost us thousands of dollars of time and work and would scream at us for hours on end that nothing worked because he broke it.

BTW The dudes who worked the .COM boom/bust stuff are hitting their 50s. When you are on your 15th uber framework sometimes you just wing it and dig in only if you have to. Or as I say to my fellow devs 'what useless tech skill am I going to learn today that I did not want to know about'. For my first couple of stacks I can tell you everything you want to know for hours on end. For current ones that passion is mostly gone. Crunched out of me with endless meetings and forms to fill out.
To be fair, the study you linked suggests 45m have had COVID, and the CDC model assumes 100m have had Covid, of whom 70m were symptomatic. So it actually appears to undermine CDC and support the article.
That title is an abomination.

Also a 20 minute commute across this thing is ridiculous - that wouldn't just require you to go 317 mph, it would require you to average 317 mph. With everything along the same path, your high speed rail needs to stop at every city node. If the video is accurate to scale, these nodes are only a half mile apart, so you're talking over 200 stops along your journey. Even if you had a train that could teleport instantaneously between stations, that would leave only 6 seconds at each station for embarking/disembarking. With everyone travelling on the same path, you can't skip stops even if you know for a fact no one on your train is getting on or off there without risking a collision with another train that does have a stop.

You could do a little better with parallel rail lines - for example an express line connecting every 15th node and a local line servicing the nearest 15 nodes so in the worst case scenario you only have 30 stops, but that's still only 40 seconds between stops on average and that has to include switching trains. Best case is 5 parallel lines which gets you down to a worst case commute of 15 stops over 159 total miles. Assuming a minute at each stop on average (which note includes 4 different transfers), your train only needs to go 1908 mph (not including accelerating or decelerating) to get you home in 20 minutes (not including any walk to or from stations).

God forbid one of these lines requires maintenance.

If we assume a high speed train that can average 200 mph not including time at stops, your commute time across the city is about an hour. Not bad when you consider that this is the equivalent of traversing every street in a city, but abysmal when you consider that if this city was a solid circle you could get to your destination in half the time on a bike at a leisurely pace.
My workflow's been to temporary disable that, do the stuff I need, then re-enable it. It's a bit clunky, but I don't install stuff outside a virtualenv frequently enough for it to be a major pain in the neck.
>> The neural net outputs the moves that are most likely to be strong moves, and Stockfish will only consider those moves.

I don't think this is correct. According to the article, they are only using the neural network for evaluating the value (strength) of the positions. The search is still the same.

I believe Leela works in the manner you described.
I would contest that. If you dig more into it, you'll find the obesity crisis started around the late 70s with a change in dietary guidelines and medical guidelines saying basically 'fat & meat bad' and 'carbs good' along with the widespread introduction of vegetable oils, leading to too much insulin and other hormonal effects slowly increasing diabetes & obesity in our population.

Read "The Obesity Code" if you want a more detailed description with a lot of links to papers and studies for more info.
But it's not just Trump being banned. It includes many others and has been going on for awhile now. It goes against the liberal tradition of open and free dialogue. No matter your opinion, it should be deeply concerning to everyone.
They would be old, which is a perfect time to come forwards.

Anyways, I'm not saying I can identify which natural phenomenon it is, I'm just using the process of elimination.

Because let's assume this was a sentient thing, at least sentient enough to know that these aircraft posed a danger to it.

Well that's where the paradox starts because this thing apparently has the ability to disable the instrumentation of a fighter jet with such precision that it does not damage the aircraft, it does not damage the aviators and it can be restored after leaving its sphere of influence.

So one must ask, why would an object with such power be afraid of these aircraft?

So you might say, "it's merely an effect of being near the object, not a deployed capability against these aircraft".

Ok fine but that's a very specific non-conscious effect to be flying around inside Iranian airspace with. If this particular object has that effect then why don't all UFOs disable all instrumentation in a sphere around them all the time?

How come only these particular planes that were heading towards it, like in a movie or a novel.
> I get how it might be done in theory but real life is complicated. Has anyone attempted to do this?

This is mentioned elsewhere, but the answer is: reproducible builds.

You can take the Signal client source (which is available on Github), build an APK or whatnot yourself, then get the SHA256 hash or whatever and compare that to the artifact downloaded from the app store and validate that it's the same.

Has anyone done it? No idea!
This must be the most unflattering congratulations I have ever read. Sounds to me like Elixir should feel guilty of being successful despite not being Erlang.
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You misunderstand the point of the M1 out of Apple, and for that matter the graviton2 instances out of AWS. What was demonstrated in the marketplace is that the biggest tech companies are now able to develop in-house processors that are more cost efficient and more performant. These processors are based on ARM and have minimal overhead licensing costs, as compared to buying Intel or AMD chips for their vast fleets / products.

If AWS and Apple can do it, soon other very large companies will, but in a few years, even OEMs will be able to develop their own chips. The market for high end gaming is unlikely to be touched, but the vast consumer market is going to be eaten by custom made ARM-based chips.

So in a world where processor design becomes a commodity, what does that mean for Intel and AMD? And what does that mean for the overall datacenter, consumer markets?
If your computational gates are reversible [1], then in principle, energy is not converted to heat during the computational process, only interconverted between other forms. So, in principle, when you reverse the computation, you recover the entire energy you input into the system.

However, in order to read out the output of computation, or to clear your register to prepare for new computation, you do generate heat energy and that is Landauer's principle.

In other words, you can run a reversible computer back and forth and do as many computations as you want (imagine a perfect ball bouncing in a frictionless environment), as long as you don't read out the results of your computation.

[1] NOT gate is reversible, and you can create reversible versions of AND and OR by adding some wires to store the input.
> More than three times the number of known Covid cases?

Wouldn't detecting 1/3 and missing 2/3 be pretty expected, especially since a lot of the cases were early on? Count backwards from the estimated IFR of e.g. 0.2..1.0% and you get a number of million infections from the ~400k dead. You need to go pretty low in that IFR to get to 1/3 of the population though.
I'm referring to the average American populace and not to the average HN poster. For example, I knew the details of the Tokyo Sarin Gas attacks and know that it was caused by a "new religion" cult but an average person outside Japan wouldn't really remember that as clearly as I am (unless you are somehow in Western Australia since a farm area there was refurbished to produce sarin). It is like 9/11 outside America: an average person knows it enough to remember whatever inconvenience they encountered that day but not the whole details.
My startup also uses Paper (and we love/have loved it) but are migrating more and more to Confluence recently. I still use Paper for quick brainstorming/organizing for smaller groups and projects, though. The collaborative editing and always-on edit mode make it great for documents in rapid flux, whereas Confluence is better for long-lived strategy and documentation related items.
How? The Red Hat developers have to follow the same review process as everyone else. If your argument is that contributors with more experience and clout are more likely to get their patches merged, how is that different from any other project? Does it really matter what company they work for? And should we be penalizing Red Hat just because they happened to be in the Linux business for a long time?
All apparent exponential growth is actually sigmoid growth. It's just that the difference doesn't matter until you are on the right-hand side of the curve.

The author of TFA clearly understands this because if 70M people have undaignosed covid, that shifts us to the right of the curve.
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Honestly, I was thinking on "better" as in "more developer-friendly", especially regarding the phrase I quoted... i.e. Microsoft Windows.

As for myself, I work on Linux systems, so my preferred platform would be a beefy PC with some Linux distro.

Yes, Apple makes good hardware. Or, at least lets say they worked hard on creating a distinctive perception about their quality on the consumer's minds. On the other hand, for some reason people tend to avoid spending similar amounts of money in the other ecosystems (or that's what I feel in my circles). I mean, try spending the same money that you would pay for the latest iPhone or Macbook, and you will get a fabulously spec'd Android phone or laptop.
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And yet, there's plenty of hate and violence on Twitter, but they're not getting 24h notices before being deplatformed from the Apple app store. Take some key phrases from the Parler screenshots and paste them into a Twitter search.. it's pretty eye-opening.
OT, but that's a pretty cool desk arrangement
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Unfortunately there are a lot of filenames it can't handle, and can't always explain. It supports only Windows filenames, while I use my Mac as a unix machine and create all sorts of filenames.

That spooked me.
The average person doesn't just consume 200g of white sugar + water and go for a long ride, run, swim, or row. It's a cheap and unsatiating 774 calorie (per a google search) product which is then combined with a calorie rich food (not beverage) to eventually sate the appetite. The food itself is often extra salty (if fast food) which entices the person to consume more of the calorie rich, unsatiating drink. And if the food is similarly high in sugar it is also unsatiating (compared to high fat or high protein food stuffs), which leaves the person eating even more calories. If someone consumed 5 beverages of that sort a week, that would be an extra 3500+ calories (approximately enough to gain one pound) on top of whatever their food calories were.
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In the future, I don't see why there's anything holding us back from splitting a bunch of atoms and having tons of cheap energy.
I'll take your word for it, but it sounds like a very different use-case than most use the pis for though.

When you spend that much time with your device cost isn't a factor (imho). But the pi is cheap enough that I can gift one if I know the end result will work well. And it is quite nice to just have one lying around for when you get an itch.

Using netboot I have never had an issue with the pi. All reliability problems I've experienced can be tracked down bad power and SD-cards (note: I have not used any IO other than USB). Both are annoying enough to look for alternatives but both are also fixable (netbooting likely disqualifies it for many usecases though).

Minimizing reads on the sd card usually means that they work at least several years untouched (in my experience, obviously limited sample size), which is likely good enough for many (a true read-only system might work even better). But when the audio streamer in the vacation cabin dies when you aren't around to fix it is still frustrating. So I'm in the moment of figuring out how to move the last of them to be netbooted. Which has some very nice side-effects as well, such as trivial remote system backup+restores.

It also comes down to time. I know the pi and the pitfalls. Researching an alternative would take many hours and I'd still have to experience some of them. If the goal of the project isn't to learn a new sbc then that alone is a dealbreaker.

That said, PocketBeagle seems to support wifi netboot (which neither the pi and pi zero w do). Might be able to find a project for that!
What is suspicious about the number 36? (The upvote count at this moment.)

Just because you dislike the product (and it's clear you do) does not prevent others from liking it, or at least finding their articles interesting.