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Thanks for links to the primary sources!

There are scammers who will buy the item, open the shrink wrap and remove the item before rewrapping it to make it look like they never opened it. This becomes more difficult if there are security seals.

See: https://lawyerrant.wordpress.com/favorite-scams/the-empty-bo...

Garmin also has them on several devices: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=SK2Y9a9aBp5D6n4sXmPBG7

The other story about this fellow where his contract was accidentally terminated or not renewed (linked to from this article) is just about as Kafkaesque as you can get:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44561838

Thank you! I was not aware of permutation tests and this was a very accessible explanation with great visuals.

Seems like too many people are trying to access this sheet at the same time:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2494822#share_with_ma...

Another vote for fish. I would say another benefit is that it has a reasonably great out of the box experience with little customization needed to get a lot of its benefits, eg awesome autocomplete.

The downsides have been mentioned, namely the lack of compatibility with shell scripts not written for it. In the same vein, until somewhat recently, operators like && did not work for it.

It’s still my daily shell, and I really only use something like bash when having to remote into a production server.

For some some reason, this really reminded me of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: https://www.gog.com/game/zak_mckracken_and_the_alien_mindben...

They really did well with the graphical style!

Great explanation. This is an example of the curse of dimensionality. An intuitive way to think about this is that each dimension you add is another “chance” for one of them to fall outside of the range.

Another way to think about it is the often-cited unit n-dimensional sphere. If you were to uniformly sample points from within this n-dimensional sphere, as n increased, the proportion of points lying near the surface of the sphere would increase.

Nitpick: if 50% was the new 100% then the supercharge option would be to 200%, which sounds even better :)

There may be more page views ("supply") right now, especially on certain types of social media, but I suspect that advertising demand has taken a huge hit.

Lots of companies out there, especially retail, are taking huge hits and I would suspect that an advertising budget is one of the first things to be reduced.

I found this rather disconcerting:

"A month earlier, someone in Bird's IT department had been tasked by his superiors to write a script that would allow the company to instantly shut down all of a user's accounts – computer, email, Slack – with the click of a single button, according to an employee. He was told the script would be used for general off-boarding rather than the mass layoff that he ended up being included in. Last Friday, the script seems to have been activated early."

Thanks for all the references. I also couldn't find any explicit guidance around "outdoor exercise" that was as clear as the SF order.

I do also agree that the video you reference implies that the CA-wide order allows the same sorts of things (Newsom references "walking your dog") but hopefully there is more explicit guidance.

Aside: this paper demonstrates an interesting use of Bayesian regression to get the full posterior distribution over plausible decay rates rather than just a single point estimate. See the last few pages.

Is this pretty normal in these sorts of papers?

Thanks for the explanations everyone. I was confused because the title at [0] says "Kurt DelBene’s March 4 guidance to King County employees", but Bay Area is only mentioned in one of the headings. Thanks for the clarifications.

0. https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/04/kurt-delbenes-march-4-...

Where does it say CA employees? Does Bay Area in the context of Puget Sound mean SF Bay Area?

It’s a colloquialism, like Moore’s law.

I understand the reasons behind wanting to shorten certificate validity periods, but CA or root certificates often have expiration periods far into the future. What’s the argument for this? Ease of use? Historical reasons?

There was also Adventure Construction Set, released back in 1984 for the C64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set

Probably cannot induce the local machine to connect, but if you enabled agent forwarding, and then connected to a machine, someone who compromised that machine may be able to use your credentials to connect to other SSH servers.

Source: https://heipei.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-considered...

If it is you can expect it to show here in a few days: https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...

The thing is, if they bench too many workers, they will also be ridiculed: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2920903/google-really-k...

In fact, this action is probably part of a conscious effort to move away from "benching".

This is correct. In many jurisdictions, when a certain number of employees are laid off in a given amount of time, they are required to disclose this to the government.

For example, California has the WARN act: https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/warn-act.html

You seem to be under the impression that a study like this gives a hard "yes/no" answer as to whether some hypothesis is true. That is not the case, nor is it ever the case with most studies like these. Instead, you need to do some sort of statistical hypothesis test.

As other comments have pointed out, once you start testing multiple hypothesis on the same dataset, you cannot apply the same significance threshold that you would if you had just begun with a single hypothesis before observing the data. Instead, you need to apply some sort of correction that takes into account the number of hypothesis being tested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family-wise_error_rate#Control...

Does anyone know if there is any evidence that big tech salaries started going significantly up after this illegal agreement was ended? Intuitively it makes sense, but I am just wondering if there are any data or studies out there to prove or disprove this.

A similar problem with Azure happened way back in 2013: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2495453/microsoft-s-az...

More recently, it happened with Ericsson: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/7/18130323/ericsson-softwar...

This article has some information about how Let's Encrypt enabled an "automated process that handles renewals": https://duo.com/decipher/proposal-to-make-https-certificate-...

I wonder if such a process should be made an industry standard? Does anyone know if there are any proposals for it?

Rekated: Dan Luu's article on branch prediction is pretty good: https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/

Isn't this the paper? It was linked to at the bottom of the article: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9318

nm is the new GHz/MHz.

Also from the article: "It's best to floss before brushing your teeth."