skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best. Countries without authoritarian governments likely don't have the means to effectively quarantine major cities and shut down massive portions of their economy immediately without major problems arising. Given a couple weeks, sure, but by then it will be too late.

It may well seem that way in retrospect. When it does, just remember that those same authoritarian governments are the ones who played down the threat, lied, covered up to save face, imprisoned whistleblowers, and refused to let international experts in.
Other co-founder here.

Our philosophy on this:

- For smaller apps, we think a lot of the difficulty in getting them working in the cloud is making many different tools play nice together. By bundling basic versions of everything and making them very compatible we think we can make this process smoother.

- For larger apps, we think it makes sense to have a lot of tools that are very customizable, because the time spent up front pays itself back over the course of the project.
Thanks, Qualcomm: Mandatory 5G means phones now ship with disabled 5G modems
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The EU itself has no power to do that. Each country has to temporarily re-introduce border control. They often do!

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/border...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Below_1%
I've gone 7 days without food, multiple times in a row and 3 days without water. I felt great towards the end of the food fasts. I felt pretty lethargic on the dry fast. Body fat stores a significant amount of energy. I burned about 45 lbs of it this way.
Seasonal flu kills hundreds of thousands of people every year and we barely talk about that.
It's the same as with Hackernews. You should never trust unsourced claims but it can be a great source to find more articles and opinions on the matter.
At my current company, we are Hippos. :)
Kroeber was ultimately wrong in the sense that culture is in fact intimately tied to evolution.

Natural selection happens at the biological level and at the macro level. Have you ever thought why ecological systems are so in equilibrium with the environment? Because any system that wasn't in equilibrium was ultimately destroyed by natural selection.

Macro level systems with reproductive qualities like culture or ecology are subject to evolution.
Know of any good ones? I as all set to buy the nest protect. But turns out they are stupid and require cloud connectivity for any interoperation all all. No public API, no SDK, and basically useless.

Sad, the nest protect has a microphone, multiple networks, speaker, light, presence detection, alarm, smoke detector, etc.

I'd love to get the same hardware with a sane stack that will interoperate with my home not just today, but in 10 years as well.
Woah and it works from a mobile browser too! Albeit the ui is a bit clunky on mobile - but it's running!
Different pitchers have different hit patterns — there are ground ball pitchers, etc. Excessively watering the dirt and closing the dome aren’t really cheating, just standard gamesmanship.
One cup of milk per day may increase rate of breast cancer up to 50%
They kinda need to be right every time?
How are you measuring this other than the hours-spent-at-desk metric? Quality and quantity of what output?
I've always been of the opinion that GUI tests are the best, except for the expensiveness of running the tests means you can't cover as many cases as you can with unit tests.

At any rate there are of course issues that can be caught in GUI tests that cannot be caught in unit tests.
Check out vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
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Reddit is mostly links to other sources, though. If you're reading self-posts on reddit, obviously be aware that they're not intended to be even seen as 'reporting', but rather discussion topics. /r/covid19 and /r/coronavirus are both well-moderated to remove rumors and rubbish.
> Coronaviruses are more stable, genetically speaking, than the flu.

By more stable you mean less likely to mutate?

Would that mean a vaccine would be more effective in protecting against covid19 than a regular seasonaly changing flu?
Sourcing high quality vegetables is very difficult in Germany. Even with local farmers it is very hard to come by. It is quite easy to find sources for organic food but most of it tastes equally bad compared to non-organic, sometimes even worse.
> Warnings by Harvard epidemiologists ? No.

Actually .... https://twitter.com/mlipsitch
I've only ever used them for flu shots and a tetanus shot once. They're a perfect supplier of those kinds of services in my experience. I think if I were actually ill or something I'd try to bump up to the next tier and at least go to an urgent care if I can't get into my primary care physician.
> You’d use energy from “green” sources…

This isn’t something you can just assert as if by magic.

By using this kind of technology, you increase the total power requirements of our civilization. That power has to come from somewhere. If you earmark green energy sources for it, something else will need to use a dirty energy source.

This remains true as long as green energy production falls short of planetary demand (modulo carbon taxes/credits/caps which change the math here a bit depending on specifics). The leftover slack will be met by burning fossil fuels.
Susan E. Arnold (executive of The Carlyle Group), Mary T. Barra (GM CEO), Safra A. Catz (CEO of Oracle), Francis A. deSouza (CEO of Illumina), Michael Froman (Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth at Mastercard), Maria Elena Lagomasino (CEO of WE Family Offices), Mark G. Parker (CEO of Nike), Derica W. Rice (Executive Vice President of CVS Health).

Almost half of the board is a CEO of another company, you think they care about P&L of Disney? The board is mandated with 3 committees which are the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee. None of the committees deal with P&L or stock price. The executive team deals with the day to day operations of the company, the CFO should be the one asking about P&L and not the board. The Disney board met 7 times in 2019. I doubt they spoke about the Star Wars or any film during that meeting.
It seems it's possible to catch over and over, the body stops producing antibodies fairly shortly after infection has been fought off.

There isn't data about mutation yet.
I agree. That's why I listed the 3 different subs with different moderation criteria. I would much prefer to hear from someone like Dr. Cole than a random anonymous tweet: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f9dbeq/covid19_wha...

> Dr Jennifer Cole is an Associate Fellow at RUSI. She was previously Senior Research Fellow, Resilience and Emergency Management from 2007-2017. Her research interests focus on international threats from emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the UK’s emergency preparedness and response capabilities, with particular regard to CBRN(E), pandemics, flood management, cyber security, resilient communications and the role of training and exercising in resilience.

> https://rusi.org/people/cole
> But I really think we need to do things like bring back SROs and Missing Middle housing. Some things really can't be fixed while you are still unhoused.

I thought about that as I wrote my comment. I can live out of a backpack for weeks, no showers, no change of clothes, scrounging for food. But I've only been able to do that while suitably "housed", whether couch surfing or in short term rentals. If I had to do that on the street, I'm confident everything would quickly go to shit.

I'm a big fan of housing-first in general, as long as it's supported with mental health care, and properly policed to keep units from becoming drug dens.

I read all your stuff btw.
DOM changes should break the test (although you can write the tests not to be some tightly bound to the DOM), just like API changes should break tests of the API.
Amy: Quarantine and pull the vaccine out of the heads of children in midwest states

Biden: Fund CDC and NIH. Fund government! Fund!

Sanders: Something else

Really not addressing it.
sdan:

> But to be honest they haven't done anything too notable within the last year

Per the article:

> The company was the first to complete a fully unmanned truck trip on a 9.4-mile stretch of public highway and claims to have set a speed record for an unmanned truck, reaching 55 mph, in June 2019.

I'll admit that their telepresence human driver isn't ideal for self-driving vehicles. Its strategic merits, and product merits are very arguable. But it does follow a familiar model in automation progression, and I'd imagine that quite a few investors would have been interested. Likely just came down to timing and potentially valuation or other details. Can really hurt when an investor pulls back at the last minute.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013700 for a take on that from baremetrics founder.
It's poorly phrased such that it sounds disconnected from the GP (about the lack of care in the US leading to both the needy and scammers on the street), but your quote leaves off the key word:

> we know that a normal citizen would never need

In other words, when you can trust your society to take care of its residents, you can be almost certain the beggars are scam artists.
There is a learning curve. Your devs need to learn how to make things easier for the testers and with experience the testers can work around most of the issues you are describing.
The old ideas can't be fully discounted.

If genetics segregates the way people look across races, then what black magic makes it so that the mind from a cultural standpoint does not operate at some level within the same racial boundaries?

The answer is there is no black magic and that among different races there must be some aspect of culture that is biologically transmitted. Likely it is immeasurable but the purely logical conclusion is inescapable. If genetics determine some physical racial characteristics of human beings than they must determine some cultural characteristics of human beings as well.
Antartica is -56C right now. Another 23C should be manageable. This doesn’t have to be done in the tropics.
well I can tell you we probably don't have many 30 degree days left in the parts of Australia where most people live. tomorrow in Sydney it will be a top of 23 probably. we are heading towards Autumn quickly and I'm already seeing people sniffling on the train.
13% of failures being silently lost writes is a bit worrisome. A real reason for ZFS or similar.
COVID-19 is unlike anything before (in modern times).

Especially HIV. You don't catch HIV by boarding the subway, eating in a restaurant, or running a marathon. For most people, avoiding unsafe sex is enough to avoid HIV. But if COVID-19 spreads to their country, people's daily lives will be significantly disrupted.

SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika are a little more like COVID-19, except they never propagate that far.
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I can understand your point, but I think that is not going to be the case. As I understood, these viruses like mild climates. All souther countries are safer, in a way that virus can't survive for too long. And soon when the summer heat will reach China, the virus will whither there also.

Edit - some kind of source -
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/hot-climate-...
It is Winter in parts of the world.
Not all polluters are equal, some make huge gains while doing it.
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I recently discovered the Rust webview crate (library/framework). It makes use of libwebkit to render HTML strings and you can get your Rust app notified of clicks (or events in general?) in the DOM. This might be a cool idea for cross plattform GUI on desktop development, which follows some standard of HTML and CSS and probably JS.
For the doctors in Wuhan in their late 20s and early 30s who died from the virus, overwork compromising their immune system might have been a factor.
Which ones would that be? I know of many which have a tax on various forms of energy consumption. And even then, industrial consumers are exempt or have a reduced rate.
Or they own a dozen vehicles.
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...because they're scumbags. Just to complete the thought.
The strong expectation for free untracked movement is no different between eu countries and us states - though I think our geographical distribution of population is indeed different.

I'm from Spain, and as soon as I saw people tested positive in Italy I knew we were going to fall too. Sure enough, we quickly had some cases in the canary islands and now it's already in the mainland, in my city (Madrid). The differences in intra city transportation are gonna be a big difference too, compared to an American city: everyone in the center uses the subway and buses, which are packed at rush hour. It's going to spread like wildfire.
The virus is spreading just fine in warmer climates like Singapore. You can't make that assumption.
And you can shed the virus without symptoms. Who will take limited sick days for a 14+ day incubation before they're symptomatic? Who eats the cost of being out sick for multiple weeks? Business can legally fire people for not show up for work, even if they're sick. Essentially no one has wage insurance, and median savings $1200 per the Federal Reserve won't go far.
Good luck convincing China to impose a carbon tax.
A functioning bullshit detector filters most of the crazies on either side, so far I've been struggling more with working out which legitimate news sources are actually legitimate. With many of the sources being Asian and I don't know which ones are reputable and which are the tabloids/fox news equivalents.
There have been several infants in China having contracted COVID-19. But no deaths yet.
Do you really think getting HIV is even slightly comparable to having HIV though?

Sure you can catch COVID-19 more easily, but it seems like having HIV is a far worse outcome.
Because they are too incompetent to be trusted to handle anything more complicated than shoes and canned food. As a former employee I could tell you stories.
I guess it defines on what you mean by getting it right. If you mean correctly predicting the specific disease that becomes a pandemic, then sure. If you mean being alive at the end of it, then I don't think it's so bad to have a high false positive rate as long as your false negative rate is low given how enormously asymmetric the costs of a false negative are relative to a false positive.
Wow this is awesome. A real throwback for me in some ways, and super in line with my current interests as well! Though it does occur to me how inexpensive you're pricing it at, you sure the pricing model is what's best for you financially? If not, it's well within the community etiquette to reshare this tomorrow and solicit pricing tier feedback. If so, I'm happy for your success and thanks for sharing this!
I think they mean that if a serious outbreak does occur, people will treat it more seriously next time (not that 20% of the population is going to die from Covid-19).
It’s a different calculation Matt is doing. You are calculating the probability of that run happening now. Matt is calculating the expected length of the longest run in 1 million tosses.
The tank was empty introducing it. I don’t think removing it reflects poorly.
> it's been a fun distraction, in part because I have friends in Wuhan

Wonder if my friends are gonna die, what a blast!

Must be nice to be so cavalier...you must have a lot of friends.
From "The Big DNS Privacy Debate" [1]:

DoH shares the benefits and downsides of HTTPS. It sends out more trackable data than regular DNS, simply because HTTP supports things like headers and cookies. TLS session resumption functions as another tracking mechanism.

There’s a draft RFC [2] to address these and other privacy issues that weren't specified in the original RFC for DoH.

[1]: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/bert_hubert/the-big-dns-privac...

[2]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-dickinson-doh-dohpe-00...
Ah, thanks! I haven't seen this before. Will look into it.
> to preserve as much energy as possible

Aren't there plenty of places where energy is so plentiful that you don't need to care that much?
What do you mean "search history turned off"?
I'm not sure I understand.
Also, I'm not a UI/UX expert, but Google suite has "Account Settings" where I would have expected to be able to see/change my address, but the option is not there. I use a limited subset of Google products (GMail, Calendar, Youtube, Google Docs, Maps etc...) but the possibility of changing the address was in the only product I haven't used since 2014 (I checked it because someone else, on a forum, pointed me to it).
Now the address is updated, but I have no idea to check if my Data Controller will remain the same or it will be Google LLC.
They should give us an explicit option to check/set what Data Controller we have, not infer it from a single product (which in my case wasn't used anymore).
Tell Bloomberg to stop doxing me
I think it would be better to postpone it to a cooler time of the year also.

Not sure if you've visited Tokyo in summer, but it's a ridiculous time to be having it.
I didn't read past your first paragraph because it is patently false. Hillary won with our without the superdelegates, received more than 3 million more votes than Sanders, and the race was never close past New Hampshire.
I've been trying to find mortality rates for the very young. Infants and toddlers. I haven't been finding much information. Is this being reported? Having twins under a year at home has somehow managed to become an even more stressful event...
and it's not just china. many other asian countries, such as vietnam, consume illegal animal parts for traditional medicine and enable the trade of such things in china. couple all of that with socioeconomic struggles in africa that creates a willingness and incentive to supply, and you have a problem that won't disappear until the animals disappear.

in half a century, poaching, human encroachment on habitats, and climate change will see many animals (rhinos, tigers, polar pears, certain orca populations, etc.) disappear. humans are not organized enough to stop this.
Is there any reason to continue using process-level sandboxing if this approach is available? It sounds like WASI adds an extra layer of security even beyond process-level sandboxing by being able to limit access to system resources. Or is access to system resources really not the concern here / can you do that just as easily with process-level sandboxing?

And you can pass callback functions to sandboxes, which IDK if you can do with separate processes. Does process-level sandboxing provide any advantages WASI doesn't?
And this blurb is misleading (or more to the point, the article is misleading).

They didn’t determine how much the customer was willing to pay, they modelled how much they could change the renewing price and still retain the customer.

In general insurance, there is a large cliff for rate change, where if you change the price higher or lower by more than a certain percentage (different in each case, and for different products) you are much less likely to retain the policy.

Actuarially you have a ‘technical price’ which is the real cost of insurance, and this includes things like acquisition cost and other operating costs, in addition to the risk costs.

When you update your risk model you often have policies that jump in price (if rated as ‘new business’, on technical price) so modelling the retention of the entire portfolio is extremely important. Your price elasticity is in part based on what percentage of the renewing policies you expect to retain with your new rates.

Implementing a ‘capping and cupping’ strategy to limit the amount of rate change delivered in a single year is extremely common, and allows this estimate of retention to be more accurate.

You need policies to eventually get to the technical price (which for large policies, like a fleet of cars, is literally based on prior claims experience) but you also need to sell and retain policies. Capping the amount of rate change applied in one year is a compromise between the two.
Straits time is reliable. It's very close to the government and a bit of a mouthpiece of it but it's not a tabloid.
Ask HN: Thought experiment: What is the best city/country to hide from COVID-19?
I'm a remote worker, who can work from anywhere in the world. I also have a weak immune system. That makes me wonder:

Which country / city would you choose to hide from COVID-19 - assuming that it becomes a global pandemic? And why?

What we are looking for is probably the sweet spot between 'likeliness to spread there' and 'availability of high-quality medical support'.

My picks so far:
Singapore
Australia
New Zealand
Hawaii

Any thoughts?
Is this a recommendation for Mercury? :D
BNO? Last update they have is one week old...
Understood, we can't even have humorous conjecture about why sex boxes might be related to hackers. _You_ can post about sex boxes, and let material like that pass, but any similarly baudy comments to it: oh no!

I'm not interested in sticking within the personal tastes and pearl clutching limits of what 'dang' thinks people should talk about. What they should say. What is 'proper' for them to type according to dang's orthodoxy. My mind and mouth ain't your property, cunt.

Dang is a typical pathetic tinpot modictator piece of shit. Probably some otherwise profoundly unrespected, weak, unfuckable and ugly individual who's enjoying their little fief where "you have to do what I say now!".

I couldn't give the slightest flying fuck what dang thinks is OK speech. Dang can go and fuck him or her self, in a sex box or otherwise. Dang's thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and opinion are worthless dogshit, with as much authority or credibility of that of a common street bum.

You Californian tech elite think you're going to get away establishing a 1st amendment free public square in which you unilaterally control what everyone can say, according to your personal whims and tastes. I submit you're all one day going to find yourselves severely mistaken in a _very ugly way_.

Go fuck yourself, maggot. Do me the favour of deleting my account now thanks so I don't get tempted to come back and waste more time mocking you for being a tinpot piece of shit.

Please do!
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I think the CCP did enough stupid things to balance out any benefit of swift and decisive action (taken way later than it should have been).

Part of the reason China has to weld people into their apartment buildings is that there is no trust, and no compliance in the society: every rule can be broken, even ones that should be obvious to any educated person.

The country's failed post-Mao culture, and worthless self-serving government organs, have conspired to make the infection dramatically more deadly than should have been necessary.

I think probably a lot of people will come away with the same impression that you did, but I think they'll be mistaken to think that China's authoritarianism has somehow saved them; after all, the government was sponsoring massive public shared-dish banquets in mid January within three km of the epicentre of the infection, televising crowds of people having religious experiences, wailing to the camera that they don't need masks, and that the government will take care of them.