skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your model is missing one big variable and that is latency, the time difference between when people are most contagious and when they are symptomatic.

SARS-1 had low latency, and so people tended to become contagious and symptomatic at around the same time, reducing transmission. Whereas SARS-2 has a high latency which helps it to spread while people are unaware they even have it. This also insulates SARS-2 from selective pressure to reduce its virulence.
If I had a dollar every time this Williams Group study is brought up... I'd have no trouble making my descendants permanently rich!

Funnily enough, that consultancy offers the service of fixing that problem, so I guess de authors of the study won't have any issues with that either.
So a rudder?
For discoverability I love using helm with M-x (or SPC-SPC). I just think of a function I might like to call, like "git fetch" or "sort lines" or "render latex inline" or anything else, and pretty quickly I can figure out what it's called and what its shortcut is for next time. I take for granted that it exists.
It's a reference to Bored Ape Yacht Club a popular - at least with Crypto people - series of NFTs. If you use Twitter and follow any Crypto people/VCs you might have seen them as profile pictures. One of these sold for $200k. It's a JPEG :)
Covered a few months ago:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374523
I knew a lot of farmers who managed to get rid of problem hedges during the height of the pandemic because local planning didn't respond within 42days when we had the first major lockdown.
Names looking similar to the one of this variant have been mentioned on the news already, so it might not be completely surprising for some people that this is about SARS-Cov2.

The nomenclature is called PANGO by the way. It is named after the software tool "Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak Lineages" (PANGOLIN) which is used to classify lineages of SARS-Cov2.

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

https://cov-lineages.org/
PHP bigwigs just announced the PHP Foundation to secure PHP’s future.

Announcement

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundati...

PHP Foundation

https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation

Accepts donations to help the development of PHP.
SoniControl firewall on android will either confirm or disabuse your conception of how common this sort of thing is.

with no media playing it never shows anything, but bring up some youtube or television and it squawks every so often.
I don't think we even know that it's "fast spreading" yet. It's just different enough to have set off various scientist's personal danger detectors.

The thing is that mutations probably occur all the time, most don't provide any evolutionary advantage and probably never get passed on, the fact that something with this many mutations being viable is a bit worrying - equally I think that the evolutionary pressure that vaccines represent is going to result in mutations that work better in vaccinated people - and as a result we'll make better vaccines - one of the great things about mRNA vaccines is that we can knock out new ones really quickly
Vaccine efficacy decays with time. If you've had a 3rd vaccine recently, it will be much more than 60% effective.
Keep in mind that imperfect vaccination shifts this triad in the direction of higher sustainable lethality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek's_disease

In both the natural and leaky-vaccine scenarios, the virus evolves towards an ecological equilibrium, but in the leaky-vaccine scenario, that equilibrium is shifted in the direction of greater lethality. See the linked article: as a direct consequence of mass vaccination of chickens, Marek's diseased evolved from a minor illness into a highly-virulent, highly-transmissible disease that causes 100% lethal cancer in chickens unless the chicks are vaccinated before they hatch from their eggs.
There are scammer epidemiologists. Dr. Eric Fiegl-Ding is one of them who also has a Twitter profile.

A good write up on him is here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-alarmist-eric-feig...
With a proper type system you don’t need to run your code 50 times a minute.
"His concern about what he calls “market fundamentalism” derives from the way those markets are failing American families."

Free-market extremists provably ruined more lives than all terrorists combined
Perhaps someone could give me some advice?

I work alongside a small team maintaining quite a lot of machines on AWS. They're struggling (IMHO) to manually apply all of the security patches their scanning tool identifies. My theory is that Amazon Linux gets patched frequently, and so they'd be better off spending time normalizing our EC2 infra so that every instance is running Amazon Linux, and then work on an easy rollout mechanism to deploy the latest version.

Has anyone got any thoughts on this? It wouldn't obviate the need for patching completely, but I feel like AWS is already doing some of this work for us, so we should take advantage.
Hedging (1942)
https://youtu.be/WoprVhpOKIk
I mostly agree with you.

That all said, it would still be quite nice if it was somehow more accessable. A lot of papers containing material that's probably actually quite standardizable remain opaque to me, and the notation invariably falls by the wayside if there's a code or language description available.

Many times, math notatons have been thought to be minimal, or most clear possibly, only to fall by the wayside

Whereas this notation serves domain specialists well, it still leaves people like me somewhat confused

A cheat sheet - even to the practical norms - would go a long way
This have been a joke for a few years here in Brazil, we call the day "Black Fraud" (sounds a little better in Portuguese)

The relevant point is that Black Friday is an "artificial" event here: we do not celebrate Thanksgiving Day so there is no need for a the stores to get rid of unsold inventory. It started just ~10 years ago when marketers began advertising it as a sales day.
Making no judgments as to the accuracy of the source or the underlying data, I believe this[1] is what’s being referred to. A fivefold increase in sudden cardiac deaths among FIFA athletes is pretty weird if it’s true. Presumably these athletes have pretty good cardiovascular health as well as proactive medical care relative to the general population.

[1] https://stephenc.substack.com/p/5-fold-increase-in-sudden-ca...
> then I realized it was about vegetative matter

Manipulating vegetative matter into homogeneous shapes. Not entirely dissimilar then?

On topic... While we still have a lot, we have also lost a lot of our hedgerows to commercial farming practices. So Britain aren't exactly great examples either. These are supposedly insect habitats - insects which have all but vanished in recent years which will no doubt have a large ecological impact.
Comment from Taiwan:

The China racket of world sports
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2021/11...
Yeah. I thought Britian bought a lot of BTC to hedge against inflation.
Community college is a good way, low commitment as well.
I believe Normandy, France, if not a lot of western France, also has hedgerows “bocage”.
I've seen similar hedges in northern france, particularly Brittany
> they should have switched to Pokemon names

The slogan "Gotta catch 'em all!" makes that idea even less viable than it first seems.
I have long thought that a doc centric view could unite apps and web much better.

Obviously docs we use every day are doc centric. Although the holy grail of easily embedding and linking docs has not been achieved.

Games and other "session" type interaction should simply be docs. You create a new game session, you could have several. You pick up each session by opening it. You can back up sessions yourself if the app doesn't let you, or you just prefer to do so. You are in "control" of you own data, i.e. game state. (Identity management can allow transferred/leg-up games to be easily differentiated from true one person game accomplishment.)

Accounts are just docs. A doc shared by two owners with data and state that gets appended as it is used. Much easier to have two accounts with your financial exchange or bank, or anyone else if you like, without special custom support for that kind of thing.

Apps, web or native, take a back seat. They can be auto dowloaded as needed. App folders become just caches as docs know what apps or app classes they need.

Most doc creation is simply a duplication of a template with no parameters, or perhaps a simple configuration of creator/viewer/owner/capability parameters. (i.e. an energy utility account.)

Because everything is a doc, users can organize them, back them up, etc. Own their own data.

A lot more thought could go into this. But there is no reason why the code behind different doc types would matter much - native, web, etc. once the limitations of those platforms for this simpler model were ironed out. Why should the user ever have to care or be aware of platform choices?
For reference, it's 5 hours later now and it's still online.
You're not likely to need a complete set: they can be replaced individually.

Mine is from about 1987, and I got it about 10 years ago on eBay. I've replaced one element card, as a result of a previous owner's dodgy repair causing arcing that eventually burned out a connector. The others look very old and are still fully functional.

Having said that, I understand the clockwork timers also fail from time to time, and they aren't especially cheap. And the toast, while very good and continuously adjustable in hue, isn't quite magnificent.
For A/V stuff, I went looking for an understanding of how color works in video systems, and ran across this gem from Captain Disillusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTKP0Y9MVus

His whole channel is great, though there's not a ton there, it makes sense given the staggering amount of work that goes into the visualizations of each one.
If you can and aren't already, maybe consider organising with less privileged workers for things like striking in unison. Or getting politically active to grow economy and society so it will be kinder and allow a slip up.

One of the many reasons I would never move to the US is that in Europe I don't feel like a minor slip up or bad luck will send me into financial ruin. I'll need surgery on my shoulder soon and hopefully it should be fully covered by my health insurance, no added charges. It's an example that comes up again and again and I'm sure people in your position worry less about it, but it's something I keep seeing play a role with my acquaintances and online
Sadly this is why I (and many others) keep begrudgingly choosing Nvidia cards instead.

Once the developers are familiar with CUDA, what are the chances you'd choose ROCm for deployment? Yeah, not great.

Consumer cards' ROCm support is strategic.
True, not sure why you were downvoted, but after reading your comment I saw that the Zenfone 8 is considerably bigger than the iPhone Mini. It is as compact as a Galaxy S21 or regular iPhone 11/12/13 as you can see in this comparison [0].

[0] https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-13-mini,...
Does nature.com have a track record of danger porn?
In RedHat or CentOS it was enabled by default as well for a long while. The problem was that if you installed custom software (not packaged by the distro) you had two options:

- create and install SELinux rules for it

- disable SELinux

Unfortunately most did not bother to learn how to do the first option so they go with the 2nd.
I've had Samsung on "boycott and complain" list, anytime someone asks me for a recommendation and samsung is an option i say "avoid samsung"; I started boycotting them after they told me to pound sand when i had an issue with my $800 4k monitor a couple months after i bought it. I had also bought a new samsung refrigerator around that time as well, and among other issues, it leaked water from the ice machine starting about 1 year after i bought it. I've had to replace the mainboard in it, as well.

So no phones, appliances, laptops, TVs, memory sticks, SD cards, and whatever else they make. Even if they magically got a better reputation for customer service, the shenanigans with the smart TVs is enough to keep the boycott up.
...to eat at a restaurant. You can shop at a supermarket and eat at home. The thing is that yes, during the pandemic (and only then) for reasons of public health and safety, society has deemed this small violation of privacy necessary.
For deaths is actually 3 potential out of hundreds of millions of doses. Number 3 is a 17 year old woman in WA state who before receiving her vaccine had just gotten over symptomatic covid meaning her heart damage was likely pre existing from the disease not the vaccine.
There are barely any useful public reviews for this kind of stuff*, if you’re looking for something at a similar price point you will need a good luxury travel agent to work with.

I would suggest that you avoid the big ones like Black Tomato or Mr&Mrs Smith, you will have a much better experience working with a boutique where you can know all the staff, and more importantly the staff will know you.

* FWIW this is something I intend to solve next year.
> I still find myself reaching for Vim when I want to just write a simple script. Emacs, VS Code, etc. can just be too much sometimes.

I used to do this too. What stopped me was that I often use emacs as a terminal multiplexer with vterm, and it becomes super difficult to control vim if you have evil-mode capturing those same inputs. In the end oh-my-zsh (more crappy bloat like spacemacs which I love to bits) has an alias called "e" which will open a file for editing in your current emacs.

(If only it worked through docker! Or maybe it does and I just don't understand TRAMP well enough yet.)
remapping caps lock to control helped me with emacs chords
Well sure but we could easily wait a week until scientists know more. What would you do now that you’re not doing already?
Just invoke your scripts with sh or bash
If the goal is "eighteen miles away" (even if its rough mountainous terrain) Why cant you just walk there in a matter of hours?
The time for open source chips is now.

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This reminds me of what happened on the first few weeks of trying out Jamulus. Every musician tries to match the tempo of other musicians. This results in the song gradually slowing down as you described. The next thing we realize is that we are playing songs at 50% speed.

So in the end we designated some instruments to drive the song. Usually its the drums. The person who drives the song must not wait for other instruments and keep their own tempo, and everyone else try to time their instruments to be in-sync with the drums. It works quite well for us.
just two more boosters we'll get it this time
> We reuse variable names in different scopes

This example works against you. Scope shadowing is nearly universally considered bad practice, to the point that essentially every linter is pre-configured to warn about it, as are many languages themselves (eg prolog, erlang, c#, etc)

To a programmer, you're saying "see, we do it just like the things you're taught to never ever do"

.

> You may still not like math, or the notation,

The notation is probably fine

What I personally don't like is mathematicians' refusal to provide easy reference material

Programmers want mathematicians to make one of these: https://matela.com.br/pub/cheat-sheets/haskell-cs-1.1.pdf

It doesn't have to be perfect. We don't need every possibility of what y-hat or vertical double bars means. An 85% job would be huge.
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In August I did database related consulting for a client which is building a large CRUD'ish application in Laravel. I was intrigued with their decision and they said the tech stack was chosen based on speed of iteration and developer availability.
Same problem! I bake a lot of my own bread and often end up with odd-shaped lumps of loaf-ends which fall between the wires.

Also I wish I could get a narrow-slot toaster. I never toast bagels, and I feel like a the ubiquitous wide-slot designs waste energy and take longer because there's so much unnecessary room for air to convection-cool the bread.
Configuring your webserver/reverse proxy to talk HTTP/2 to backend appservers is a good improvement against request smuggling. (If they support it, sadly not guaranteed). The binary format is much less ambiguous.

There is a talk by James Kettle about request smuggling with HTTP/2, but it is largely about attacks when the frontend talks HTTP/2 and then converts to HTTP/1.1 to talk to backend servers [1]. That said, it does also highlight some HTTP/2-only quirks, so it’s not completely perfect, but it’s so much better than HTTP/1.1.

[1]: https://portswigger.net/kb/papers/rfekn2Uv/HTTP2whitepaper.p...
It should be noted that for Sars-Cov-2 specifically (i.e. given a virus that has the properties of Sars-Cov-2 already) lethality will likely be a neutral factor for the evolution going forward. The reason being that viral titres peak around day 2 in a window of 1-5 days, whereas it takes at lot longer to die from Covid. In other words there is same sort of cap where lethality prevents transmission, but Sars-Cov-2 is nowhere near it.
On Thanksgiving I'm especially thankful I'm not a Native American living a few centuries or decades or even seconds ago.
When this came up before, I was reminded of this video:

https://youtu.be/vMed1qceJ_Q

I love using a bike to get around and do all of my daily activities. But I hate just riding around in circles for no purpose other than exercise or getting out of the house.
> it appears that there are very few cases confirmed (10 so far). If all those people isolate and don’t contaminate anyone, that could be the end of it.

What makes you think that a set of mutations like this can evolve only once? Even if this particular lineage of COVID goes extinct, its existence demonstrates that the virus is responding to selection pressure in the way you'd expect any organism to respond under conditions of natural selection. If evolution can pull of B.1.1.529 once, it can do so again and again.
I have seen a number of things in the last decade or so in that department that I’d prefer not to. Laws became suggestions at some point, not sure why.
On first read, I thought someone had revived the B programming language (predecessor to C), and started their pre-2.0 versioning at 1.1.

FWIW.
As far as physical security goes, the eastern members rely on NATO, which in practice means the USA. All the threatened countries (Baltics, Poland, Romania) rely on American deterrence as a last resort.

Within the EU, the German army is in no condition to fight, the British is, but UK left the club, and France is entangled in Africa.
Yeah, I agree that PowerShell is great for scripting. I don't do that much scripting on my personal Linux systems that really calls for PowerShell, but I like using PowerShell for hitting HTTP APIs or processing structured data at work.

> Also... the script will then run only on my machine as most Linux systems don't have powershell and most Windows don't have the Unix commands I still use all the time.

Hahahaha! Oof.

It's more work, but when I use PowerShell, I try to use pure PowerShell, both for aesthetic reasons (cleanliness, ‘portability’) and just in order to practice and learn more PowerShell APIs along the way.
Depending on who you listen to, well, you might need boosters every few months for the rest of your life. There's concern in some circles that because the vaccine trains your body to respond strongly to one specific version of one specific part of COVID, it permanently reduces your body's ability to learn how to counter different parts of other versions of COVID --- meaning that once you start taking boosters, you'll need them forever. It's unclear how much of a point this camp has.
> I don't think we even know that it's "fast spreading" yet.

We do know:

> A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. “Over the last four or five days, there has been more of an exponential rise,” he said, adding that the new variant appears to be driving the spike in cases. “We can see that the variant is potentially spreading very fast. We do expect to start seeing pressure in the healthcare system in the next few days and weeks.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/south-african-scient...
No.

Leave math notation whatever it is

Just do a better job of documenting it
Run around screaming, of course!

Have to get rid of the holiday-calories _somehow_.
Probably https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/ (more info at https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bayc-bored...)
Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley Book Review
TIL Swaziland got renamed Eswatini in 2018
> (a) just JS things and (b) not putting any effort into the design

This feels a bit self-contradictory, since one might argue a properly designed extension API must include process isolation, so naively-written extensions can't mess up the main loop. VS Code extensions are also in JS.

This is the same problem that, say, preemptive multitasking solves, and why Windows 3.1 crashed much more than '95 and XP.
> One possible interpretation of the main point of the post is that it was venting about Zhao having left her and played with her feelings.

Why would she put herself and her family in danger to do that? She's basically at the age of retirement in her career. What do you think she'll do after she retires, with the CCP denying her further career prospects?
List of startups that recently raised and are on a hiring spree
Tomorrow is the sale, they've raised the price in preparation for the sale
Worth watching the short video embedded in the article to get an idea of what these hegerows look like in practice. The illustration makes them look like standard manicured garden hedges rather than the reality of impenetrable intertwined masses of different species. [edited to fix a typo]
> alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!

Alcohol in the medical field is critical in doing good. A lot of harm has been prevented by alcohol.
Yes, actually one of the biggest outliers is the importance of "faith" in the US.
10’s of milliamps can kill you, and powerboard RCDs are set at 30mA trip. The extra insulation is mostly to protect you from shock.

I suspect the risk of fire very thin wires and AC voltage is fairly low - the wires will burn out before there is much of a fire risk.
Have seen this on everty single TV deal on Amazon at camelcamelcamel price history. Doesn't look like a good to buy a TV
I've used Pushover[1] from command line for years for the one-time cost of the iOS app. Very happy customer.

Example:
sleep 100; push "done!"

Where push is my wrapper around curl to their API with the proper keys.

1: https://pushover.net/
I Am Rich App (Wikipedia)
So you can say there's a Black Friday sale, which is the premise behind why the prices went up in the first place: so they could be lowered for a sale.
90% of new infections being this new variant should be quite alarming
My understanding is that parent was not joking. It's a great thought experiment though, and let's not forget that humanity did eradicate a number of diseases.
Iranian companies are now advertising Black Friday sales. Even though in Iran we do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we do not celebrate Christmas (except for Christians of course), and even our new year starts at spring equinox in late March. Black Friday is literally a random day in fall which has no significance. Yet there are Black Friday sales now.