skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they did vote for it just to spite the BBC, it was at least partially off the back of the BBC giving a huge amount of time to those nonsense arguments.
> I can see why people overlook the obvious when the complicated solutions seem more sophisticated, which is easy to mistake for "better".

Replacing a known solution with known limitations with a new, unknown solution which has no known limitations!

(... which means that there are limitations, you just don't know where they are.)
While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don't have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools.

'Modern' hiring practises cause a lot of problems.
The Fedex takes the packing resposibility for a fee in this scenario...
I understand that the impact of COVID-19 plays an important role. Shouldn't we be pointing out on other systemic issues that impact the global economic system? Is it as robust as it could get?
An audit would only prove that the current code is secure.
Your story is completely opposite from my experience: reposurgeon resolved my cvs-git import problem without needing much babysitting, if any.
Swings and roundabouts. There is also benefit in using the PV as the roofing material, and also in pick one of {reduced transmission losses; minimising the land use of those solar farms} — land near a city is almost always at a relative premium.
>by someone more competent than ESR.

And yet your own HN profile advises:
"Please do not be disrespectful toward others."
A zero-sum game is a zero-sum game is a zero-sum game. If it spreads, it's likely to do so to other MidEast countries and Africa. And while, in an ideal world, the US would like to be friends with everybody, they are cozying up to China. If that happens, the old adage goes: We had to destroy the village in order to save it.
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Very wise words,but in this case you can just go to the website (https://reviewmeta.com/)
> All it's doing is introducing false epistemology and complicated nomenclature for concepts that are obvious.

How else are pseudo-intellectuals supposed to make their money these days? /s

I enjoyed the Meadows book about it and although I didn't read it with a critical eye, I didn't find it misleading or obfuscatory. It's written in plain language.

If anything, it's got quite an ecological feel to it (and boils down to something like "testing inputs to a system willy-nilly is really stupid without a broad idea of the interactions between things").
That is true. But given how much interest there is to find vulnerabilities in the Signal app, I would be very surprised if anyone would succeed in putting up a compromised Signal app on the App store and also be able to fly under the radar.
"Runs on very little money" is the key. The UK have comparable outcomes to other western european countries, with far less spending.

Health Spending per person

UK: $4070

Belgium: $4944

France: $4965

Switzerland: $7317

That decreased budget of course dates back decades. Increase NHS budget by 25%, and in 40 years compare France and UK systems.
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Ah the cookie cutter rubbish commercial radio stations.

And the GMG is no friend to the BBC and has been know to run hit pieces
One time I had a shipment that was a few million JPY and just out of habit I put the currency in as USD, fortunately, the system said "hey dummy, that duty sure seems high" at which point I noticed the mistake and was like ahhhhhhh that could have been really bad. I was paranoid for like a week after that.

I can't imagine being part of an error like this or that one Mars mission, oof.
> The reason for these regulations is that the BBC can produce and offer things free at the point of use

But this wouldn't have been "free":

As the director of technology and new media at the BBC, Highfield had just overseen the launch of the iPlayer – BBC's online catch-up service. Now he wanted to try and build a commercial equivalent that would earn more.

You'd have paid for the service on top of, the now included with license fee, broadcast/iPlayer.

Now sure the BBC may have had some advantage over nascent offerings at the time (2007), but let's face these realistically didn't exist in the UK. What we have now is the market controlled by two US companies (and Sky to an extent) that exploit tax loopholes and don't treat their employee's terribly well (certainly in the case of Amazon).
> Everyone who had history in high school has historical information about this

I don't recall any such information.

There's people on this site of all different ages, who grew up in all sorts of different places. How do you know what their high-school history covered?

In my school, history was mandatory in the first year of high-school, and I think it might have been in the second year as well. Hardly anyone did it as a subject for
the remainder of their high-school years.

Needless to say, the content taught in those first 1-2 years barely even scratched the surface of historical topics.
It's in the nature of the technology. If you can figure out how to do it once, doing it 1000x or 1000000x isn't going to cost you that much more. Quantity is easy, quality is hard. So we've created a selection force for "business" models that benefit from the nearly free ability to scale in quantity while ignoring quality. Ie, all sorts of spamming.

One of the reasons ML worries me is because it can sprinkle just enough of something that vaguely resembles quality into the pot to take the quantity (spam) scaling to a whole new level.
wire.com moved HQ to US and “Individual consumers are no longer part of Wire’s strategy.”
Asymptomatic Wuhan woman shows why outbreak will be hard to stop
The dashboard for monitoring the virus:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Good for you, but as someone who felt the same way in university, and hasn't really worked on any 'hard problem' since (a few years), I sorely miss academia/studying/learning/challenge, keep thinking about going back for a PhD, wish I'd done it straight at the time (I did want to even then, just thought a break first would do me good), and would relish working on hard problems.
Quantum Communication will be possible in next decade, Huawei exec says
From a quick glance through UpToDate:

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=32053470

Not allowed to do this and not sure how long this will be up; the entire UpToDate reprint on the latest we know about COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/448592904/COVID-19

Edit: adding the SCRIBD to the main post. It's free. All 18 pages if anyone is interested.
> nice write up and lots of nice details, but is this not just fractals ?

Nope. Cellular automata are another beast.

> Nature itself is very much represented through fractals,

Not really. There are some fractal-ish processes, but they're not as common as some media assert they are.
Judging by the last paragraph, he positions himself below ESR' competency :)
They're also richer and travel more than they did during SARS. Travelers do a lot to help spread the virus.
You can vote for people who set the budget. If the issue (let's say defunding a local opera house you don't attend) is important enough, you can form a voting bloc and get your way. You might need to spend some time and money on raising awareness among local voters. And you will definitely face some opposition, but it's doable.
There's a flu going around in The Netherlands right now, it progresses like this:

- Day 1: Fever, fatigue and muscle pain with a dry itchy cough.

- Day 2+: Nausea and diarrhea can be experienced as well as the first day symptoms.

It takes about a week for the worst of the symptoms to die down however the stomach ache, cough and light tiredness last weeks.

My entire family and most of my son's class at school has had it and they're all still recovering. My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time and breastfeeding.

This is what makes the Corona-virus hard: at the start the symptoms are extremely similar to existing flu. Unless the case is extremely severe most people won't see a doctor let alone a hospital.

I don't see how it can be stopped.
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But this is exactly why Rails did so well. The developer experience was good, right off the bat, in a way that a 15 minute video could portray so that developers could instantly see the benefits. There was no "manually educate" step taking months.
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I have uploaded the entire 18 page document available to UpToDate subscribers for free on SCRIBD for as long as they will allow it as well.

Good source you mention as well.
Thats why it should be done like darpa, choosing the best in the end.
Having worked at a company in public procurement I would say that matches my experience. I would say we were relatively honest compared to some of our competitors, but there were almost no incentives for us developers to do a good job other than our personal morals and everyone including us were more or less gaming the system.

I hated working there because I felt like a parasite just making the world worse. The in-hosue IT of our customer would probably have done a better job if they had just been allowed to hire some guys instead of having to go through an easily gameable procurement procedure. Not because they would have been more competent, but because they would have not have had perverse incentives.
Why wouldn't EU bureaucrats want to use their phone numbers as the identity?
As someone who has probably wasted more time than optimal agonizing over performance (I used to be a game dev for console and PC), what you say is absolutely true, but I think engineers have a tendency to think about Facebook scale before they have triple-digits of users. That is usually a mistake.
Speaking for myself, as an absolute novice, OOPs in Nim is not great. it feels shoehorned in, rather than being a primary citizen of the language design.
There is too much fiddling with methods vs procs, pragmas and such involved for the most basic stuff.

I am tinkering on a small 2d game using Nim. I was planning on using OOPs for most of my game objects. Now I am debating if I should make the effort to actually learn OOPs the Nim way or just do it procedurally.

Considering that my project is tiny, I might go for the latter and skip OOPs altogether.
So for me right now Nim is a better C, with nicer syntax, simple build system and a package manager.
If Amazon had direct liability for selling counterfeit products, for example, if the Ove Glove company (first in the original article) could sue Amazon and recover all the revenue that went to the counterfeiters plus a penalty - I believe in this case Amazon would find a solution to ensure supplier verification.

The problem is that currently it's profitable for Amazon to host goods from fraudsters; if (when) any get discovered, they kick them off but keep the proceeds. Society and law should ensure that Amazon loses money when hosting goods from fraudsters, so that the motivation is properly aligned.
That's a pretty selfish view. On the other hand such a serious backer means political clout and attention in case there are attempts to compromise it. E.g. Whispers Systems could quickly relocate to Estonia or Germany if US law becomes untenable.
>What exactly worries you about mass hysteria and panic? Why would that be worse than what is likely to happen as Covid-19 spreads outside of China?

Because then in addition to the damage caused by the outbreak, we will also have the additional often useless and counterproductive damage caused by hysteria and panic.
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I have been confused about this 2-3% figure since they started using it... I mean they are not factoring in the lag-time.

It seems like they just are taking all the new patients, and not calculating it correctly. I expect this number to grow.
Found svelte 3 after Rich's talk and managed to complete a production app using it. Found it not only a lot easier, but almost flawless.
I have edited my last statement to say, let us not spread false information. Maybe that is better worded.
> but you rely on a society that educates children, as employees, as people making goods, providing services etc

The whole "educating people in order to become good wageslaves" thing, yes. Anyway, these that directly benefit from their education (their parents? the companies that they will work on?) could as well fund their education. Using my hard earned money however to inefficiently fund some low-quality education for someone else's child (who might not even be interested in it) under the threat of violence when I did not have the same luck as them is at the very least unfair.

> You want to live in a civilised society, you pay the membership club. You want to live in your Randian distopia, go and make one.

Ah yes, the native Americans in the trail of tears were also expelled in the name of civilization. Don't you think it is time to stop expelling people from the clay that they were born on in order to bring an abstract concept such as "civilization" (as defined by you ofc) to the lands?

Also, I love it how you focused on the most sensationalist part of the story, that is, the education of the children. But failed to mention how everyone being forced to fund -for example- opera houses from their labour is an integral part of society. Or how when the UK joined the war against iraq under false pretences and their taxes were funding war crimes helped our civilization prosper - "You want to live in a civilised society, you pay the membership club", including war crimes.

Honestly, it feels like the entire argument is basically "pay your taxes even if it funds things you don't like, because those are things I like". BBC these days with the rise of the internet only benefits the few who watch TV, forcing everyone to fund it is basically thief.
Add to this Conway's principle and Greenspun's tenth rule and you have an environment where the culture ends up somewhere between animal farm and Brazil and the only ones benefitting are spies from former and current communist dictatorships
I always wonder how these projects can be so expensive. Heck, they are so expensive you could just order two companies to deliver a product and pit them against each other so that there is a strong incentive to deliver a working product.
I am logged in, and I can't read it.
This entire product should just be a rails/laravel/django app with a mysql db hosted on a single server
The day 1 in this case is the day symptoms begin.

The 14 day figure is more of a recommendation for the duration of quarantine, intended to cover incubation period in excess.

As a sample of a timeline that actually happened, you can check out the short paper about German cases reported in January[0].

It appears to have taken 3–6 days from infection until symptoms started, and subsequently 2–4 days until patients felt healthy again (no symptoms anymore, virus still detected in saliva).

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2001468
Next you're going to start assigning story points to bugs and have a velocity of dozens of points per sprint while delivering zero usable features
I've read it requires a phone number so that it does not need to collect or store any (other) data on users.
Why are you letting your wife work, when she is not in good condition. You take up the work and let her take rest, and also make sure that she eats and sleeps well.

Give some good fruits and cook proper vegetarian dish.
I'm always amazed when people come up with these ideas, somehow thinking that colonising Mars or deploying something half the size of earth in space to shade us from the sun would be easier than just not fucking up the planet in the first place. Technology really is a new deity, it seems like if you believe in it hard enough you don't need to care about real life, logic or even common sense.

It's "we'll have flying cars by 2000" level bullshit.
(IANAD)

I don't think it is possible to derive any reliable facts from the data right now. Even if the patients who recovered from COVID-19 still find that there is something wrong with them, that could still go away in a week or a month or a year.

However, here is a tiny bit of information on the long-term effects of the 2003 SARS outbreak:

https://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-l...

> A small percentage of patients had long-term effects from their illness, including depression or anxiety, cough, shortness of breath, chronic lung disease or kidney disease. However, most patients fully recovered.
In "The Design of Everyday Things" Don Norman describes this distinction as knowledge encoded in the head versus knowledge encoded in the world.

For professional tools knowledge encoded in the head supported by appropriately encoded knowledge in the world absolutely is a viable approach, provided there's appropriate feedback and conceptual mapping corresponds to the mental model a user has about how that tool works, i.e. actions and reactions should be consistent.

With modal design patterns such as the ones used by vi, for example, this can become a problem.
This story is fascinating, do you know where I can read more about public procurement?
Take, for example, Tcl brutforce, Clojure and Wolfram which is written to only solve an example with words.
Implementation in D does not seem to be right: they just define a function that takes list of lists and a function, which is not exactly what is required in problem statement.
Nice read, thanks for this.
A Brief Visit to Disk Geometry Hell
World-o-meter isn't the definitive source for that information. Does the big counter at the top include the large number of people who contracted the disease, but never progressed past a mild stage, and so never reported it to their doctor?

The WHO number is based on more than just the known cases vs deaths tally.
> I wish the UK would just scrap it as an independent license, and just include it as part of the government budget.

This would mean the funding of the BBC would be under direct control of the ruling government, which creates a conflict of interest (no positive coverage -> no money next year).

> Like Norway did last year. Now they have it as part of your income tax.

Norway TV isn't funded by government budget, they just streamlined the calculation and payment process into your income tax procedure.
The budget is still dedicated to TV licensing and owned by the broadcaster.

That's a big big BIG difference.
In one case only the financial process is optimized, in the other case you turn the broadcaster into a "national propaganda station".

As a citizen, keep an eye on this distinction on every proposal that is made, and speak up against every step the government takes to gain more control over the budget.
Yea nowadays he would've been pulled into a 1:1 and dressed down before being let go three months later
Not so much necessary as it was a driving force. A bit like evolution, whatever caused our ancestors to develop eyes wasn't s necessary precursor,it was just something that was reacted too. There resulting solution being good enough to survive. There were many implementations of bicycles that never made it, those branches of development died off. However unlike evolution we can pick those up again and improve on them if we thought we could produce a better bicycle
Could you provide the direct links for the books used in: MST123, MST124, MST125? I could not find them in your links.
> Same thing happened everywhere else with a suddenly-noticed largeish outbreak.

I’ve been paying pretty close attention since early on and nowhere else with a suddenly-noticed largish outbreak had a temporary death rate remotely close to 20%. Not even in Wuhan. In fact 12 deaths currently ranks #3 on the global death count chart when each Chinese province is counted as a separate entity, and any comparable entity has an order of magnitude more cases at least.

Also, it was 8 deaths out of 43 yesterday, so 61 isn’t growing faster than 12.

Without more info, I blame this on shitty medical treatment. 20% roughly matches the percentage of severe cases elsewhere.
Simmons? WOW! He's a serious mathematician, e.g., as in his

George F. Simmons,
Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis.

I studied it one summer in an NSF program at Vanderbilt. Then I concluded that he is one heck of a good math writer.
> There has been tremendous growth in the field of UX/UI. Without a doubt, today's applications are much more user-friendly than those from 30 years ago. Back then, users were given features, interface be damned.

That 30 year time frame takes us back to 1990 and back then the user experience was limited by the technology of the time.

However a decade later we had Windows XP.

I would say that 20 year old Windows XP might in fact be a much better user experience than the modern UX/UI we have to live with today.

The much less powered CPUs of that time felt much more responsive than the modern day CPUs/OS that we have to today.
Is it unusual for a VM not to have a string (or at least a bytes) type? I have little experience in the space, but it seems clunky. Curious why WASM went this direction.
I agree. Most of my colleagues think I am quite a decent JavaScript programmer, but because I haven't got much commercial experience with React or Angular it is quite difficult to find a JavaScript role.
The preview is a "special build" of the book that removes most of the content and leaves only the section formulas and headings --- this way to ensure the internal navigation works, but it's confusing since it looks like chunks are missing. Previously I would cut only selected pages but then the links didn't work. Sorry for the confusion. You can check the preview on amazon for the real page numbers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001005/noBSmathphys
> If you only use your TV(s) [...] to watch recorded content or streaming content over the Internet, you don't need to pay it.

If it is recorded, you are correct, but if you are streaming live TV via any online service (not just iPlayer) you still require a license.
I'd like some of what you're on.

EDIT: I love how this is the top post on this article, despite being basically a word salad.
> doesn't store data, not even metadata

Isn't that just a promise? Also, even then, it is based on your contacts, which are seen by google.
Decentralization would proof a lot more.
What's the alternative? Private closed-source apps like Threema?

This also is not for official communication , it's just for any case where staff would currently use WhatsApp or similar spyware.
Im pretty sure, you will get some dishonest replies, like "dont roll your own crypto" was.
That is just understood as the hypothesis and the framing of the question. What is the nature of the useless and counterproductive damage caused by hysteria and panic? (I could speculate that it changes economic flows that upsets long term planning and so on, but I would like to hear the opinion of experts on the matter anyway).
The funding isn't controlled by the government but it may aswell be given how the BBC board is selected and their approval of the non-executives and the director of the BBC. The Queen (i.e. Ministers on her behalf) appoints all of them.

Those appointed from outside the BBC tend not to have any background in NGO or non-profits. Bit strange for a not for profit public broadcaster.

It's a very hairy arrangement and I don't think most of the public are aware of it.
Officials Scramble to Contain Coronavirus Outbreaks in South Korea, Iran, Italy