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Anybody who doesn't use a dev VM these days is asking for trouble. It's too easy for attackers to run malicious code on your machine with techniques like this.

I love Grant Sanderson's YT channel. His video on Fourier transforms is amazing.

sudoaza, do you think its a coincidence that the virus outbreak began about 1/2 a mile from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

Your argument is that Dr. Montagnier must be wrong because he believes in some crazy stuff, and you must be right because you became a virus expert about 2 months ago. I looked through your old posts and you mostly post about political stuff, so you obviously don't work in medicine, but hey I guess you know more than Dr. Montagnier, right?

This is the guy who discovered the AIDS virus, also won a Nobel prize for medicine.

Is this appropriate for HN? This seems like a purely political story, probably not the right place for it.

I was wondering why it took so long for a simple random sample study to be done, but finally it has been done, and the result is pretty much as I expected - millions are carrying the virus, making the true mortality rate tiny.

This looks like a reliable study since its testing for antibodies, rather than the more common swab tests.

The actual study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v...

You're absolutely right. 10X for point 1. Millions of people are carrying this virus by now. Most (probably 99.99% of "contacts" do not result in transmission), and the virus is airborne ffs, it could easily blow down wind and somebody could catch it. Are these apps accounting for this too?

Honestly how accurate do they expect these apps to be?

Absolute waste of time. Nerds with too much time on their hands.

This is absolutely dumb. You can't solve every problem with an app.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge, usually when something like this happens there's some bad blood.

If these people are reasonably good at what they do I doubt this will affect their chances of getting hired. They also don't need to put it on their CV.

Sample size is far too small.

If anything this study shows (albeit with small numbers) that HCQ doesn't make things worse.

But I have a feeling HCQ will be found to be effective. Big pharma have a lot of $$$ to make from their vaccine though.

I did the exact same. I used to be a Godaddy customer and had a bunch of domains with them. One day I cancelled some of them, but when I did this it didn't auto-cancel the associated services, as I expected, so they continued to charge me for whois guard, and some other services for domains I no longer owned after they expired.

Godaddy are thieves. I'll never use them again.

Me too, I'm also a Namecheap customer and have nothing but good thinks to say about them. This makes me like them even more.

If only FB were as professional with their customer's data as Namecheap...

Getting data from https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

My gut feeling is that far more people have this virus than the Johns Hopkins app says.

The biggest outbreak outside of China seems to be Iran, with 2,922 confirmed cases, 92 deaths and 552 recovered. This does sound bad since that is technically a 3% death rate, but my gut feeling is far more Iranians actually have it, but are not checking themselves into hospital because they don't want to be put in quarantine and would rather just stay home.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness, Corona virus still is something you don't want to get, but it probably won't kill you if you're a reasonably healthy person.

Unfortunately it will probably sweep the world before a cure is found, so we'll all be exposed to it eventually.

Get yourself a 4-color pen, or 4 separate pens, some highlighters, and in your own time (not in class), read the material from several sources - Wikipedia, text book, your professor's notes, understand the topic, then write your notes in your own words, using diagrams whenever possible.

Never copy things verbatim especially if you don't fully understand them. Understand the topic first, then write your notes.

If its taking you a long time to understand the topic, or it requires some back-tracking or further reading, do that, then return to the topic.

Taking down notes in lectures is often a waste of time because often the lecturer is just reading from his/her notes, which you have access to, however it depends on the Lecturer.

Final piece of advice is not to take them down in a text file. Use a pen and paper. I find hand-writing the notes is less distracting and forces me to think about them. However this may not be true for everyone.

Active Desktop was the first thing I disabled whenever I installed Win98 on a new machine.

I'm sure Google has the edge in terms of technical know-how but launching a successful game streaming service is about so much more than getting pixels on a screen fast.

I think Stadia has come about 20 years too early. Cloud gaming makes sense, but the infrastructure isn't there yet.

If Google want to get into gaming, they should have released a high-spec console with android OS, which could play existing android games, but also compete with PS4 and the upcoming PS5.

If they did that, they could offer cloud gaming as a niche service on that platform, to test the waters, meanwhile they are building up a solid user base.

Instead they decided to go all-in on unproven technology, launched with barely any games available and no clear path forward.

I knew Stadia would fail when I first heard about the project. It's a gaming product built by people who clearly have no idea about gaming or typical domestic internet connections.

If they had done some basic market research they could have saved themselves a ton of money.

I have a Ps4 and recently tried out the PS4 now streaming service, and while it was nice to try, I would not subscribe because of one reason: to much lag. And I have a very good internet connection and ethernet connection. I also live in a city where there are datacenters which host service.

Even then the lag was unaccceptable to me and I wouldn't even call myself an avid gamer. I'm just a moderate gamer.

There's only a certain type of game that is feasible over a streaming service and that is slow-paced strategy type games, or adventure games. Anything that requires fast reactions who's work. Kids won't like it. Kids will demand a PS4 or PS5 from their parents.

Putting games like Doom on Stadia is pure idiocy. These are the wrong type of game to put on it.

In any case, it will certainly fail and be shut down pretty soon.

Solo people working on projects aren't too bad so long as they communicate the work they're doing and document it well.

Some people just work better on their own.

IMO, what's worse are "knowledge hoarders". Usually they've been in the company for a long time and they maintain their position by being as stingy as possible with their knowledge. You usually find these people in big orgs, and they can be quite toxic.

They also don't write good documentation.

I hereby copyright every combination of ones and zeros of length one to infinity, now you cannot sue me .

It will be more interesting to see who is no. 1. (it may not be AWS)

I think if this happens, decentralized social networks will really take off.

The "small sites" you refer to , which I'm assuming are typical forum type sites, have been dying a slow death for the past few years anyway, since FB ate their lunch.

Barr doesn't care about the "implications" for the tech companies or their employees. And he's not trying to "change technology" as you put it.

He's just trying to stop these companies from playing dirty, as they have been for a long time.

He's concerned with making services such as Youtube, FB and Reddit face up to the fact that they are publishers, and not really forums because they're so riddled with AI and fishy algorithms.

Larger cache = faster performance and less load on the database.

I only glossed over the article but the problem they had with Go seems to be the GC incurred from having a large cache. Their cache eviction algorithm was efficient, but every 2 minutes there was a GC run which slowed things down. Re-implementing this algorithm in Rust gave them better performance because the memory was freed right after the cache eviction.

Splitting it across more processes will result in more cache misses and more DB calls.

I don't think that was the original intended use.

I believe the intention of this status code was to allow the application to negotiate payment using some not-yet-invented payment technology.

The browser would presumably shell out to some kind of local wallet or bank website to authorize the payment, all in a split second without the user noticing.

What you're describing is the typical paywall type page where a user is asked for payment.