skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People were dying pretty quickly from SARS. People of all age ranges.

Data from China is limited, but outside of China, it seems like only the elderly (as in around 80 and up) are dying. I've seen one report of a 40-something dying. While reports are easily well over a thousand outside of China, deaths are still quite low. Recovery numbers are still low, so it's too early to say for sure, but it seems like the biggest problem now is insufficient medical facilities and unprepared staff.
Tmux could be seen as an example of "terminal middleware" but I mean a more general solution.

Imagine you had a framework that lets you write scripts to intercept and modify I/O from programs running in a shell. You could have password managers that automatically (or semi-automatically) answer sudo prompts. Or filters that censor certain strings (if you're live streaming coding sessions this could be very useful) before they appear on screen.

Another useful "terminal middleware" layer could be pre-processing commands before (or after) the shell parses them. You could wrap every command in a `script -c` invocation in order to capture the output so that you can later re-use it without having to redo the processing. (This is probably my biggest pet peeve with Un*x since it really adds up over time.)
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Also China could have prevented people leaving, but by allowing infected people to leave they ensure that China does not need to fight it in isolation, and is not impacted more than other countries, ie. crab mentality
This is a great piece and resonates with me a lot. I was an early employee at a climate tech startup ~3 years ago. I moved into climate tech intentionally from local gov contracting, it’s a great field for someone like a Data Engineer or Data Science kind of role, lots of opportunity to work on many different things.

I agree with the post that the utility scale space is a hard slog but I honestly believe the only way to scale renewables is to make it economically attractive for investment and any tech that can reduce operational cost of these assets to increase margins and attract more investment into utility scale renewable generation. A carbon price would be a huge boost to this space, things are still progressing without it but I think it would seriously accelerate our energy transition as well as spur innovation for non energy related carbon intensive industries. The current state of low interest rates world wide and funds having a harder time finding good returns means a lot of groups building solar utility scale assets are banks/funds with little knowledge/interest in energy generation, pulling together those with the how to knowledge to materialize their return on investment.

I highly recommend working in this space, its technically challenging and I think it has a bright future. It’s not as big and flashy as a lot of software startup worlds but small teams can still have a big impact. I also sure prefer working on these problems than working on platforms trying to sell more ads.
> Most western countries have proper regulation regarding waste disposal.

> wont be solved while big economies decide to export their waste

Western countries do not have proper regulations if one of the possible outcome for waste is to be exported where those regulations do not exist.
I also use PiHole at home, and lets be honest, if we know how to setup a PiHole, deactivating Firefox DoH is not going to be a problem for us.

DoH is not meant for us, it is meant for the average people who have no tech background. Just because it will cost us a few minutes to configure, we shouldn't deny the overall benefit it will bring to most.
It's gallows humor. It is based on the latest mortality rate I saw, but made the assumption of 100% infection rate among trolls. This is likely not true as they are often found indoors on their computers.

With the 1918 influenza, 1.7% of the world population died, many of them young people. This was still very traumatic to society, despite the fact that Europe had done its level best to kill young men for the previous four years in the trenches.

Right now, influenza has killed more than COVID-19, but people tend not to worry about that. Not new enough. About 300000 people a year die from influenza in a quiet year. Take your flu shots every year, people.
I love the idea of Firebase but the thing keeping me off it is the pricing. It's like regular cloud pricing on steroids. Comparing Firebase pricing to say a $5 droplet from DigitalOcean:

- Bandwidth egress uses Google's standard pricing, which is hilariously uncompetitive (~0.12$/GB vs. ~0.01$/GB) and totally inappropriate for anything bandwidth-intensive like image hosting.

- $5/month will get you 2.7M writes, 8.3M reads or 25M deletes on Firebase while Postgres running on a DigitalOcean droplet should be able to handle at least ~500 transactions a second, or ~1.3B per month.

- A GB-month of RAM costs $6.48 on Firebase and is included as part of the $5 droplet from DO.

- A month of CPU time costs $25.92 on Firebase and is included as part of the $5 droplet from DO.

So a $5 DO droplet will give you 1GB-month, 1 CPU-month, 1.3B write transactions and 1TB of bandwidth.

For those same resources you'd pay $6.48 for RAM, $25.92 for CPU time, $2332 for 1.3B writes, and $120 for bandwidth, for a total of $2484.40, or 497x more. Even if you just look at the CPU and RAM, it's 6x more expensive.

I can imagine this being great for a pet project where you might only use a few minutes of CPU time each month but for any kind of scale, the resource costs just seem crazy.
I think this is absolutely right. I've heard people on this website wondering why climate change and plastic soup are seen as the same problem. This is it. We live in an economy based on burning through huge amounts of resources and generating tons of waste. Climate change, plastic soup, and I dare say almost any other environmental problem are all consequences of this mentality. The economic cost of waste is way too low. This is really the fundamental problem.
> We would need a way of incentivising re-use, and of incentivising companies to make things re-usable.

That's what happened pre 50s. My mother still uses the sewing machine my grandma was using and it was made in my country, not in buttfuck nowhere SE asia.

As it turns out making long lasting products isn't the most profitable thing so we shifted to producing to the least reliable standards people would still accept
MRIs are harmful for patients without symptoms.

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(13)00967-4/pdf

http://www.lessismoremedicine.com/blog/video-do-more-screeni...

(There are lots of posts about over testing on the Less is More site: http://www.lessismoremedicine.com/blog/tag/overtesting )

Take a patient who has smokes about five cigarettes every day. Should we MRI their lungs to see if they have lung cancer?

The patient has the MRI, and doctors see some small spots in the lungs. Is this cancer? Or is it something that is completely harmless, such as scarring from childhood disease? To find out a needle biopsy is used. This is low risk, but it isn't no risk. The biopsy comes back clear. Does that mean that these spots are harmless, or does it mean that the person doing the biopsy missed them? At each stage we're perhaps causing fear and alarm and distress, and not really getting any useful information.

But we do know that this person smokes, and we do know that their health would be improved if we could help them stop smoking, and we know that nicotine replacement and support is an effective way to stop smoking for many people. It's probably a better way to spend the money.
I retrieved my files off of old PDP-11 8" floppies by contacting a friend of mine at cheshireeng.com who had an old 11 in a closet. He didn't know if it still worked, but it did (yay for DEC quality!), and was able to transfer the disk contents out via serial line. He was able to retrieve files and images from all my disks, didn't lose a bit (yay for DEC floppy quality!). This was after 30 years of sitting in a box.

Anyhow, I was able to retrieve my original 11 version of Empire this way:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11

DEC made good machines. Not one of my machines from the 80s or 90s would power up, though I stored them in working condition in warm and dry places. But the 30 year old DEC worked great.
JavaScript library for DNS over HTTPS queries from within your website
Contra: First-Sale Doctrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

See also, "The Right to Read":

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Also: please look at my first comment, from 13 hours ago - it should shed some light on the "why" part.
Barcelona cancelled the Mobile World Congress right away a few days ago. So yes, it is ready to do that.
Except reducing emissions seems much more doable, safe and simple. It's just politically difficult. I have little hope that technology will be able to capture co2 in a manner that will be sufficient.

I don't like those sorts of techs because people will brandish them as a solution, while it's highly unlikely they will help at all.
I was a night owl until about 30, and I enjoyed it too. I didn't plan to become a morning person.

When I had to wake at 4:30 for work, I hated it. Now that I don't have to go to work so early, I love getting up early, because those first couple of hours are my most productive. There are zero distractions and my mind is fresh from a good sleep. I'd rather have these most productive hours for myself, whereas when I was getting up and going straight to work, I'd only have the evening hours where I was already exhausted after working 13 hours.

I'm almost certain I couldn't do it without the proper diet and exercise though. If I let go with the diet or stopped going to the gym, I reckon I'd probably slip back to becoming a night owl, and become more lazy too.
I tend to disagree but would be open to agreeing with better data.

What about the cars that aren't purchased, upgraded or discarded? The land that isn't given over to parking? The waiting areas that aren't required at public transit stops? The dynamic pricing that encourages people to commute out of popular hours therefore smoothing traffic for everyone? This study is too simplistic to take at face value.

PS. If it were easier to get halfway decent bikes around in most cities I would just cycle everywhere. The last bike shop I went in to in Sydney wanted AUD$3-10K (USD$3-7K) for a road bike: before extras.
I have done 10-day fasts pretty easily.
However, the difference is that when you are doing a voluntary fast, it is just that - voluntary. I imagine not knowing when your fast will end (if ever), will change your attitude and behavior a great deal.
If only bitcoin worked in reverse...
What's to stop ISPs from simply setting the canary and turning off DoH?
> I hope drawing a clear boundary like that reduces some of the entitled nonsense that can happen around open-source projects.

Case in point: Rust's actix web

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_fram...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/epoloy/comment/feksq2...

Regardless of where you are on the soundness telenovela, the fact that a lot of the FLOSS project consumers felt entitled to demand access to a well maintained project for free and complained that even forking a project is not a valid option because they expect someone else to spend their personal time to benefit them personally is an attitude that boggles the mind.
> The term has been weirdly adopted by the dev community in a way that kinda makes sense if you squint a little but has always created a dissonance in my brain due to my maths background.

I don't really have a 'math background' (engineering graduate, but I don't think that counts, a mathematician certainly wouldn't) but I know (enough, roughly, layman's definition) what it means in mathematics, and work in software engineering.

I have absolutely no idea why this project is called 'isomorphic', it doesn't make any sense to me however much I squint, and doesn't seem to be explained anywhere.

I'd guess it's just an arbitrary name and isn't supposed to have meaning? Though it's a library for `git`, why not just call it `git`? shrugs
People shifted to buying the cheapest products available.
Net negative emissions must be a global goal within 5 years because this is a climate change emergency. It doesn't mean no emissions, it means deeply net negative. Even going crazy to get to zero emissions, it doesn't change the inconvenient fact that an excess of GHGs are already in the air. Sequestration (CCS) and solar shades (SRM) are the primary, big-$tretch approaches that are most readily-apparent to moderating insolation. CCS seems much more doable than sending a giant blackout curtain into space or spraying tons of SO2 into the air to return as acid rain.

Here's the thing about CCS: direct air capture is like a junior engineer's naive, brute-force solution because it's way too expensive and not scalable for the several teratons that need to be sequestered.

Bio CCS remediation approaches are superior because they use biology to do more of the work for less resources. Kelp, phytoplankton (including ferrous seeding) and other ocean-based CC are the natural solutions to lock-up carbon. There's a massive kelp forest right now off the Yucatan in Mexico stretching nearly to Africa. Harvesting, expanding and fertilizing such an ecosystem with an army of specialized ships seems like a better plan for tackling it. Such a plan would still require assuring the Sequestration in CCS such that biomass sinks to deep ocean trenches OR harvesting, compacting and pumping underground. If we can manage and offset GHGs down to a sane level at some point in the future, then it should be an immutable prime-directive that GHGs cannot be emitted without first purchasing or accomplishing an equivalent assured CCS.

PS: As luck would have it, I happen to subscribe to several climatology and related academics on various video platforms, including Paul Beckwith, who does a good job of summarizing the latest research and underscoring events and trends. EDIT: https://paulbeckwith.net
Just as the majority of people who catch the flu don't get tested for it, only the serious cases do.

So we know covid19 spreads much easier than the flu and is orders of magnitude deadlier than the flu for those that get tested/confirmed compared to those that get tested/confirmed with the flu.
Oh I remember we were scared as hell about HIV back in the 80s.
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This may have been mentioned elsewhere, but Python already has a syntactic way of merging dictionaries:

d = {**d1, **d2}

which arguably has all the visual benefits argued for.
But why? Aren't your users gonna be far better off if you used native git?

Sorry, I know this comes off as a bit dickish, but I'm interested to know the circumstances that lead to this point of view :)
What would economics aimed at a sustainable planet look like? I guess this is quite an interesting question, are there any elegant solutions to penalising climate change in the same way a land-value tax penalises passively holding on to land? We definitely need to wean ourselves off unbridled consumption at any rate, even if it wasn't an ecological nightmare it's terrible for people's mental health. Existing to consume like chickens in a human battery farm is no way for a sentient species to live.

Any country attempting to combat climate change using economic means would absolutely have to use "green tariffs" I think, otherwise businesses would simply export their emissions to the developing world on an even greater scale than they do today.
> Do they? I've seen polls where he beats trump.

If you recall the last election, almost every poll said Clinton would beat Trump.

I wouldn't put much faith in the polls, especially this far out.
The claimed advantage is not that wasm-compiled modules are more resilient to bugs or exploits, but that those exploit are easier to contain.

Nobody is surprised that an exploit in the authentication module can be used to log in as admin. It is different if an exploit in the font rendering module lets you log in as admin.

They are just two (equally important but) orthogonal facets of security
because Csound is not for that. Think about Csound opcodes as about electric parts - you got some oscillators, VCAs etc and it's up to you to build synth.

See this collection for examples http://iainmccurdy.org/csound.html or check out Cabbage (https://cabbageaudio.com/) which allows you to develop VST plugins with it.
Maybe I'm just looking for comfort, but this passage (from your first link) seems like a big logical leap to me:

> The fact that patients not displaying symptoms are able to transmit the coronavirus indicates something alarming. As typically such respiratory viruses are normally transmitted thru the mouth via coughing in which minute droplets are exposed or thru the nose when the nasal fluids are released through sneezing or blowing of the nose.

> If a person is not showing any symptoms, then the only possible means is through the exhaled air of the infected individual, which implies that the virus is an extremely potent airborne pathogen.

People who aren't sick still cough/sneeze/blow their nose sometimes. (Especially so in the case of people with allergies, but everyone does it a bit.)

And surely people could transmit the disease through saliva (or other fluids) spread via their hands. People touch their face, pick their teeth, eat with their hands, pick their nose, bite their nails, etc. etc.

Then there is the possibility of transmission through shared meals, or even inadequately washed cutlery etc.

Don't get me wrong, asymptomatic spread is scary, and it probably provides some evidence in favour of airborne transmission. But I don't see how they can make such an absolute statement, when there seem to be other available explanations.
COVID-19 is not going to collapse anything, although it may disrupt the economy.

The CFR is currently estimated at 2-3% of KNOWN cases with an enormous number of unreported cases due to often mild symptoms. While it has and will spread very wide, the vast majority of people will not even experience significant complications.

We ARE experiencing a pandemic with significant impact on global economy but it's not a collapse scenario.
3blue1brown himself has told in his videos that they are not substitute for books and working out the exercise and he recommends reading from books and his videos are for inspiration and as a supplement.
Of course it is,

But usually doctors are very busy people, who may look it up in the compendium, but don't necessarily have time to dig into the details.

I don't fault him and that's exactly where the pharmacist comes in.
The alternative to reducing emissions etc. is called "Geoengineering" and there are dozens of proposed methods. [1] In fact some have even been tested in the field, like growing algae. Unfortunately most solutions have unlikely but quite extreme risk scenarios. Although some surface reflection techniques seem actually reasonable [2]

The article seems to ignore scientific research from the field that actually started decades ago, so it's difficult to take that very seriously. To me most of these methods look more like emergency measures when sh* literally hits the fan...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_surfaces_(climate_e...
> We need to stop consuming like there is no tomorrow. This is driven by advertisement convincing consumers they should buy products they may not need.

I think it’s at least partly driven by people’s desire to status signal, if not their desire to consume anyway to occupy their time.
Do you have examples of real world code you had to write with BigInteger? just for amusements sake
Modern Allegory of the Cave
I think you accidentally pasted a link to wasm-git instead of the Isogit issue link.
Firebase is great but the web sdk bundle sizes are just outrageous. They must sort this or it goes against everything google wants from “web speed”.
We'd need to increase the price of materials compared to labor.

Correct taxation of negative externalities would work towards this.

I (like everyone else in my neighborhood) have super cheap, barely servicable tools in my shed that I have used once or twice. There's no way that's a reasonable allocation of resources in comparison to neighbor sharing, renting high quality tools or hiring a pro who owns such, but price and convenience heavily push me towards owning disposable crap, and I have to consciously fight it.
The lack of informed knowledge on a place like HN is pretty baffling at times.
This appears to be very similar to Capybara in Ruby, which I've used extensively. I was under the impression that implementations of Selenium were as high-level as this every language.
How to Fix Boring Business Meetings
I don't know about you but I'm bombarded every year with campaigns to get people immunised, and the meetings I go to talk about availability of the vaccine for the public, and for healthcare professionals, and how many professionals have been vaccinated so far and how we can ethically increase that number, and on top of that every year for the past however long in the English NHS there's been a lot of talk about winter pressure.
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What's "fair capitalism"?
Surely European Football Championships this summer is under threat too?
What lesson did she learn?
By now we know much more about the virus and the threat is evident so the situation is not really comparable to the start of the outbreak.

I guess a lot of "what if it started in another country" scenarios can be debated, ranging from "another government wouldn't cover up the real situation so the virus would be quickly contained" to "western governments wouldn't have the balls to quickly enact proper quarantine measures so the virus would spread much more quickly" but is it really productive? At this point these debates are pure speculation.
> Give them some true classics like Spartacus or Orson Welles and they are more intrigued.

I don't think your proof works as well as you expect. Counterpoint: pick a random person, tell them to watch Citizen Kane, and tell them that it's "the greatest film ever made". I think they will have... opinions about that title. On a quick search, "A new hope" has higher audience ratings that "Citizen Kane" in IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic.

The original trilogy is not perfect, but it definitely is a true classic under any definition of the term.
Future Apple Watch could respond to hand movements and gestures for interaction
One way I recall from college is “producer responsibility”. If you produce it, you’re on the hook for its safe disposal. You can bake disposal deposits or some other such mechanism into the price. Such a mechanism would help deter cheap plastic junk (Chucky Cheese prizes).
What is your suggestion? It is far better than Chrome from a privacy point of view, while still being useable.
Ethereum Smart Contract Ponzi Schemes – Part 2
You could try here: https://iiif.io/community/#participating-institutions

Everyone releasing large collections tends to use the protocol. You'll find all the biggest in that list plus many more.
If only "openly hostile" was true. "open hostilities" generally means outright war or pretty close to it. Clearly something that has not been very close to happening.
Hopefully there’s a green light for games televised from empty stadiums.
So the treasure is a light bulb? Pretty boring.
> Particularly in the period during which they solicited funds to "help support" blogs and pages by people who had not signed up

IANAL but this sounds like straight up fraud, not just "overstepping the line a little bit".