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Hi HN. I built this over the weekend to visualize the spread of COVID-19 infections in my home state of Washington.

I was frustrated that the DOH data and SeattleTimes maps only showed the current point in time, which made it difficult to answer the question "is social distancing working?". So I scraped previous days' published tables from the Internet Archive, set up a script to scrape new data from the DOH website as soon as it's published, and built a visualization that lets you scrub back and forth along the timeline to see the extent of the outbreak.

Code is available in the page (it's an Observable notebook) and data is available on GitHub [0]. Let me know if you're interested in using the data and I'll be happy to help you get started; there are other data tables in the archived HTML pages that I haven't scraped and converted to CSV yet, but in theory they too could be extracted and visualized.

[0]: https://github.com/jake-low/covid-19-wa-data
> So even if we had a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, would it lose its' potency after a year, and people need annual booster shots? Or would the virus mutate so that the specific vaccine no longer works?

The answer is probably yes to both questions.

RNA viruses, like influenza, HIV or coronaviruses do mutate a lot. This is what makes them hard to eradicate, plus in the case of influenza at least we've got an endless reservoir from wild animals.

But a lot of people are already vaccinated for influenza every season and the availability of a vaccine that works for 6 months would make this very manageable, even for people that forget or refuse to vaccinate, due to herd immunity.
Right, because who cares if it's broken crap as long as it's generating revenue.
How the tables have turned.
With their history with their APIs and developer support, who in their right mind would trust Facebook for their cloud storage/computing?
Hi, thanks a lot for ZeroTier! I use it every day and it changed how I interact with my network of personal computers.
I don't think Jordan's accomplishments have anything to do with his being an asshole, or his license to be an asshole. This isn't even about Jordan at all.

I just think everyone should be free to speak their mind with as much brutal honesty as they wish, without that being taken as license to dismiss everything they say and to wish harm upon them.
The lineage for Colbert and Oliver is a direct line back to Stewart. They can effect change today because Jon jumped in the pit with the Spinzone (or whatever that show was called) and beat the pundits at their own game.

The big take away from The Daily Show should be Stewart declaring he was just an entertainer because the talking heads on the "real" news shows couldn't. Characters, tropes, archetypes, cliches, people with a job to deliver an audience for advertisers using a dynamic personality. The same job description for talent hired at Comedy Central as Cable News Network.

EDIT: Took me a bit of googling to remember but the show was called Crossfire. Specific clip: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE)
I'd like to express my hatred of websites that deliver content via javascript, requiring me to turf through 20 different scrips to figure out which one I have to enable to scroll the page.

HTML is fine people.
"I haven't driven a car that does this, but my guess is that it's noticeably simulated."

According to the article, BMW does this, and I can say from first-hand experience in a newer model that it's not noticeably simulated.
For some context, read BlackBerry COO Marty Beard's blog post[1] from a few weeks ago. I don't think Chen or anyone else at BlackBerry thinks the government should compel anyone to write apps for their specific platform, in fact that's the very mindset they're criticizing. What they're getting at is that services should leverage open technologies so that nobody's platform gets shut out, which I believe is also a core value of Mozilla and Firefox OS, for example. It's not just a matter of BlackBerry vs. the world; how many apps are iOS-first or iOS-exclusive, despite the market domination of Android? I think Chen and Beard are advocating for the tearing down of the "walled garden" world of mobile platforms.

I use a BlackBerry Passport as my daily driver, and although I have both native apps and sideloaded Android apps via Amazon App Store and Snap, a lot of my most regularly used items are mobile websites. Many companies have excellent mobile sites, you can save them as bookmarks to your homescreen, they pull in the favicon and look just like apps. You don't have to install updates for them or worry that they'll stop supporting your OS version or particular hardware, and a lot of times they're a better experience than the corresponding native (or sideloaded) apps.

[1] http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/surprising-winner-of-htm...
So I'll put it to you this way, through highschool and university the best teachers or professors I ever had were comedians. Maybe "entertainers" is a better word.

One of them even specifically told us about his strategy before he started his series of lectures. Basically, when people get bored they stop absorbing. Once in a while he will "trick your mind" (i.e. confuse it), and you will pay attention again. To be honest, its why I know as much about operating systems, locks and threads, as I do.

To make this story relevant. Humor is just that, a trick someone plays on your mind.
This. No debate necessary, just add the dates.
>Another alternative is to just send "update your password" emails to everyone framing it as an improvement to your site's security.

I guarantee everyone with a decent spamfilter will miss those e-mails - that looks exactly like a standard phishing attempt.
(Vimrc) This is pretty broken without the .vim/ folder as well, but here goes:
https://github.com/sethwoodworth/dotfiles/raw/master/.vimrc
"but Quien"

as a British guy living in Spain I can relate to this spanglish :)
Invoking the "every visitor/download/viewer represents a lost sale" argument? Seriously? Isn't that like Godwinning a legal exchange these days?
Also, when you're asking a question like this, you should prefix it by "Ask HN:"
> Does anyone ever go back and track the people who were rejected what happened to them?

Almost never, in my experience. Several times I came second in the running and never heard from them again. Contacting them myself didn't work either. Typical shop would rather look thru another hundred randos than revisit one decent candidate.
Consider that the scope of discussion here is that a WHO scientist received a summary of 174 covid cases rather than a full version of the data, and himself "couldn't comment. Whether it's political or time or it's difficult... But whether there are any other reasons why the data isn't available, I don't know. One would only speculate."

Yet the comment I sacrificed Karma to inform of "potentially unconscious bias of language" was willing to offer nothing more than postulation that a political party is responsible for "hiding the data", and the repetition of the CCP identification.
Nicely done. I've seen a couple of these sites, but I quite like the output of yours.

Is there any logic as to what order the questions and replies are displayed on the page? It doesn't seem to be either of reddit's 'top' or 'best' sorting. Perhaps whatever order they landed in within the JSON?
Very nice and succinct exposing of misuse of statistics. Thanks.
At 14 you are still finding yourself. Even if your current interests are technological, this may not be the case in a few years. Further, non technological issues are critical in making decisions about technology. Some different things to include in the mix

- Common Sense
- On Liberty, Mill
- Connections. the book or the video, Burke
- The Day the universe Changed, Burke, I think this is only video
- If into history, The Federalist Papers. Amazing how often you hear someone say "the founding fathers..." then something that contradicts what they actually said and wrote.
- The People Shall Judge, Collected historical writings, The University of Chicago Press
> I like C# since it provides both values and objects

I don't think the distinction is so clear cut. An immutable List is a value, because it is clearly defined by its structure, yet you need heap-allocated values in C# (so objects) because you need pointers. An immutable List would also implement various interfaces, like Iterable, so polymorphism is useful as well.

I also forgot to say that the polymorphism that we get with OOP is NOT enough. Static languages also need generics and all languages also need type-classes or something similar. Type-classes are different and useful for different use-cases than OOP, because the dictionary is global per class and not per instance. And if it is solved at compile time, like in Haskell or Scala, it also has some performance benefits.

Clojure's protocols for example are pretty neat and get pretty close to type-classes.
>The key take away I think is NOT that recently OS X has some bugs, rather that the seemingly increasing in occurrence of bugs that more advanced users are experiencing is perceived as a sign on discarding their Test Everything Well Before Shipping culture that important to these people.

Apple products are clearly becoming less stable and usable, in ways that are very basic and obvious. Extreme computing skills are not required. I can think of the following bugs without trying too hard:

iCloud Notes fail to sync between my Mac, iPad and iPhone. (I've tried everything I can to fix this. Nothing worked.)

iPhoto makes two copies of all my photos when I download them from them my iPhone/iPad.

Windows/OS X networked file sharing seems deliberately broken, possibly at the Apple end. (You have to install the previous version of Samba to get it to kind-of work some of the time.)

I can't use FaceTime on my Mac because some weird sample rate issue makes everyone sound like a chipmunk.

Incoming FaceTime calls don't always ring on all devices, and some are simply ignored on all devices. (This is particularly unhelpful, especially for business calls.)

iTunes is an outstanding example of terrible software design. (Why is it still impossible to access app content directories from iTunes in any useful way? Why is the app icon layout editor so crufty and clumsy? And so on...)

All these features Just Don't Work[tm]. And it's not as a result of god-mode tweaking. They've simply never worked.

tl:dr; - Apple really needs to improve its software game.

I think the actual problem is complacency and a culture that favours style-over-substance marketing over solid UX engineering.

There's a lot of interest in trivia like flat icons, but clearly no one in or near the C-Suite cares about more basic usability issues.
Hang on - your data is only 8GB? And only 500MB inside Postgres? That's not even "medium data". That's test data on a developer laptop.
Well, exactly what you would think happens. A perfectly good product gets ruined. Cashiers are trained to pay attention, and I imagine if they forget then they have to pay for the destroyed item.
They don't seem to be dead for me.
I discovered programming on the TI-83, bored in English Lit class.
TI Basic on my TI-83+ in high school math class at around age 15 or so. Didn't get to real programming until college.
They should have been, since that's one of the best 'current benefits' of the names. (Were I writing the post now, I'd include that argument too.)
I'd call it my primary professional news source, along with Twitter. HN gives me a lot of useful information about trends in the startup world, in (mostly web) technology, and so on. And it's interesting seeing what people here think about the world news that makes it through.

But my real primary news source is probably my RSS reader. There's a LOT of news out there that I care about which doesn't make it onto HN. A lot of national and world news doesn't make it here, and I like being generally informed about what's going on. I also keep up with local news, and the current events in various scientific subfields which are relevant to my interests, but not the web startup crowd here.
Try the main site: http://universalsubtitles.org/
I agree that the whole "try before you buy" thing seems like bullshit, but let me confirm. The "new rule" I posted about above is referring to a case in which the application is a paid application that is cracked, but the application detects the crack and instead of limiting its functions or ceasing to work, it self-instills a "timed trial". Definitely would be annoying for developers to implement, but it will also make you kind of "untouchable" to the pirate/cracker community, since you as a developer are satisfying the "try before you buy" rule that they like to say they follow.

Angry Birds is different. Their "rule" and way of thinking applies to fully featured trials. Angry Birds offers not a timed trial, but I believe it instead only allows you to play the first level before paying. Not saying I fully agree with this technicality, but that is the way that the crackers are seeing it.

Hope this clears some things up.
I began programming when I've got my first computer, an Atari 600XL (what a pos for 1992). I learnt BASIC from a collection of science magazines from the 80s that my older brothers had and from an Atari BASIC manual.

Unfortunately I never had a diskette drive nor some assembler books :(

Edit: I was 8.
Yeah that would be better, people should be able to know in advance what they're not allowed to do. I was just pointing out that they've done it before.
Congress' opinion didn't matter in this case, Twitters did, and since its their TOS they said he violated, they were free to kick him off their website.
The responsibility starts to fuzz when you try to follow that thread.

It's clearly with the company executing the decision to remove someone from their platform, but trying to decipher whether or not what they're doing is a financial or moral decision (despite their claims, that's part of the financial choice) becomes fairly pointless.

If you want to rail against a changing society, that seems like a waste of time. If you want to rail against a specific set of companies who have acted in a specific way, I think that's more productive and addressable.
It’s an interesting alternate universe. Microsoft building a graphical shell and easy to use object oriented development tools on top of Unix underpinnings to compete with the Mac.
> Shilling sketchy cryptocurrencies is indicative of loose morals, which makes me think I was wrong to trust them in the past.

Who decided it was sketchy?

The "I don't like change so I'm going to piss all over you" attitude is what sinks a lot good things.

How does Signal benefit from being a shill for this coin? Are they being paid by MOB or do they get a % of the cut?

So far all I've read are people screaming their heads off that MOB eats babies and how dare Signal stoop so low as to even fart in their general direction, but I have yet to see anyone explain why MOB is bad or how Signal is bad for giving MOB a platform.
I was re-reading pg's essay and it convinced me to move to the Valley (today's Florence), but now I hear that there could be a bubble and I could be too late. Any advice? (Currently living in Beijing, which is said by some to be China's Silicon Valley, but hey, I don't smell any sign of real innovation here.)
Yep and He also was a one man reverse engineering army during the lisp machine war.
His programming skills are really good.
His personality is another thing.
Yes, while we are at it, let's write C like it was Fortran.
It's akin to asking if someone with only basic musical knowledge can become a concert pianist in 6 months.
Car might consume more energy, but it also has more room to put the batteries. 60 miles on a scooter is a fair bit since they can't go on a highway.
Rumours are this will be folded rather than pressed...

Is there a source for this? I'd press parts if I were designing it - unless you want welds showing at the corners!
I know no good math teachers. Most math teachers pre-college don't know the material themselves

I’m hoping to change this, not for all high school students, but for those I meet. I’m majoring in pure mathematics with a teaching option right now. My current plan is to teach high school algebra and calculus, as well as physics.

The other comments are right about terminology. I have no idea where the word coefficient comes from, yet I use them every day and understand them pretty well. At the moment, I’m studying ring theory, ideals, quotient rings, and ring homomorphisms and isomorphisms. Trying to figure out where these abstract terms come from may be interesting but it doesn’t help me in my proofs at all.

If you want to understand anything in math, the best approach is to read the definition, read some basic theorems, look at a few examples, and then start playing around with these things to get a feel for them. Try to prove some of the basic properties of the object you’re working with in terms of the axioms. Keep going, proving larger and more complicated theorems, and try some exercises that apply this knowledge to solve counting problems or measurement problems. If you’re learning about isomorphisms then look at some examples and try to understand how classes of object relate to one another, for example by having the same structure in their operations.

If you’re not able to understand 3blue1brown’s videos then you might benefit from using Khan academy to build up your understanding of the fundamentals. It has material stretching from grade 1 to college. Solving problems feels like playing a game, so it can be fun to sit there for hours just doing the problem sets.

Math is a deep, deep subject but it doesn’t require memorization. It just requires lots of effort and struggle in order to develop mastery.
Not really, considering Venice itself is being impacted by rising sea levels.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/venice-council...

> Veneto’s regional council rejected a plan to combat climate change minutes before its offices on the Grand Canal, in Venice, were flooded, it has emerged as the city continues to battle high water levels.
The tent attachment really drives the point home:

https://i.redd.it/0x2qva4ge6041.jpg
I own two Chevy 2500's, a '99 and a '00. They both have the 6 liter engine, very hot roddy. Bought them both for less than $3k used. One is 4WD and the other is 2WD. I used them to haul sheds that I manufacture and they are the first pickup that hasn't disintegrated under this abuse. My shed trailer and heaviest building weigh 7500 lbs together, and there is significant wind resistance towing buildings.

While I've never considered purchasing a new pickup, I'd sure like to have one of the cybertrucks to haul with.
> Have you been in an argument recently about whether women deserve the right to own property?

I have been in plenty of arguments about abortion rights, rights of asylum seekers, rights of minorities, etc. The list goes on. A point being partisan doesn't mean it is untrue or necessarily biased to bend the truth.

>The way partisans exaggerate the crimes of the other team while ignoring those perpetrated by their own is not so far from the way people talk about sports teams.

It is your untrue assessment that anyone criticizing a party like the US Republican party automatically would not criticize their opposition. This assertion - without any context whatsoever here - is pretty tribal in itself.
> This is also ignoring the fact that most luxury pickups and SUVs are also impractical gas guzzlers

But your statement also ignores the fact that many people buy luxury pickups and SUVs in part because they are impractical gas guzzlers. When you look at one of those, the first thing through your head is "there goes someone with a lot of money to blow."

Which is kinda the point.
Thanks for looking into it. I have Windows but don't use it a whole lot.

Strictly speaking DNS is a protocol and not an API. Applications aren't required to perform name lookups by using any particular software, it's just common to use what the OS supplies.
From what I've heard about it, seems as simple as the big organizations got so powerful they can afford to be open & blatant.

Why they are able to become so powerful is an interesting question, and seems to tie in to Japan's culture and the conduct of the yakuza.
So we can't claim it's impossible to square a circle now?
The problem isn't that regulators cannot be proactive.

The problem is that no one wants to be regulated. Just look at crypto, people love the lack of regulation. However, once there is a crash or enough people get scammed, there will be demand for regulations to prevent that from happening again.
"doing well in the technical aspects of a student drawing course is not even close to demonstrating that one is "great" on the same level as, say, Caravaggio or Rembrandt"

I'm not sure the original poster meant "great" in the sense of Caravaggio or Rembrandt.

To a lot of people being technically proficient is all it takes to be a "great" artist, so by that standard Picasso would qualify.
Nah, I can totally understand why they decided to stay away from this can of worms. First, what max line width do you choose? Second, where do you break a line if it's too long? I think gofmt gets the balance exactly right: makes source code easier to read by providing a unified formatting style, but doesn't get in your way more than necessary.
For a dedicated server? Or a VPS?
Yes. He advocates for third party VPNs, but PIA was acquired by a shady company, so not them anymore, because there’s now a reason to distrust them specifically.

It seemed pretty clear to me.
Docker with the TCP proxy absolutely destroys network performance (unless you use the host network). Just beware. Hot-reloading is really neat! Good work.
That's a good point. I've never really gotten to play with parabolic antennas though, how much would being at the wrong angle affect reception?
You make a strong claim without anything to back it up. I don’t understand why it’s become trendy to deny that consciousness exists; to me it’s isomorphic to saying “We don’t actually exist at all. Prove me wrong.” It’s a vacuous statement, meant to sound evocative, but difficult to respond to in any meaningful way.

If I made a list of everything in order of how certain I am that the item on the list exists, consciousness would be at the top by far. Everything else could just be a nice illusion.
You've misinterpreted the target of shame. It's a shame that we, the public, have no accessible, legitimate recourse against a corporation the size of Sony. It is not a shame that Sony is receiving a kidney punch.
Thankyou for Iconfinder!
This is the most interesting article ever posted to hacker news, ever.
I don't think the OP was saying he doesn't know what "job" means, he was saying that they use two terms "task" and "job" that mean the same thing, so he doesn't know what the difference between the trackers are.
This sounds like a good opportunity for private enterprise.

How might regulation help spur growth in this area?
How does it benefit regular folks who aren't part of the boss class? :-|
Well, I appreciate the kind words about Xooglers 1.0. I'll admit that I'm rehashing some old posts and that I saved a lot of the best bits for my book (http://amzn.to/gVwlNz), but I'll see if I can't throw some meat into the stew in the coming weeks. Now that I know people actually care.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=arithmetic+encoding