skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I would not trust anything coming out of WHO at this point. Even Germany called it a pandemic, yet they are not willing to call it such (perhaps due to political influence/pressure, or just incompetence). This looks more like a 'panic containment' type of statement than the truth.

2. The R0 of seasonal flu, is about 1.5, Covid-19 has a R0 between 2.6 and 3.5*. (yet to be determined), which is much more contagious than normal flu. This article has no mention of it, hence has no credibility. By any account of any data, Covid-19 looks to be 2x more efficient to spread as the normal flu.

3. The major cases from the Diamond Princess, the cult in South Korea, and the Eldery Care facility in Seatle, are an indication that the virus is very easily spread in close quarters. That's not a normal flu type of virality, it is much worse.

4. We have many cases where people still tested positive even after 14 days of quarantine, hence it is not going to be easy to contain. But we don't know yet if a person is still contagious after testing positive after 14 days. No mention to this as well.

TLDR: Don't panic, yet 3.4% of people are going to die, or 10-15% of your parents/grandparents will perish earlier due to this virus.

I am sorry, but that's war-zone like statistics.... and this should be treat as such. (it needs a true war like mobilization to be combated, and talks like this to minimize the impact are just irresponsible).
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To me it seems WHO was downplaying it the whole time. First lie is China will be able to contain it and now they don't even call it a pandemic. Also R0 is much higher then for flu.

I really hope the new idea about transmissability is true but if it is I don't get why China treats it as they do. Wuhan is locked for 40+ days.

I can't trust WHO now related to Covid-19, especially after what happened to stock. Of course they have to lie more if that avoids "panic". Truth is underrated in our civilization at the moment.
Atlassian suspends its annual Summit conference
Structural engineers built a bridge using an unfolding, umbrella-like technique
> I suspect that a lot of anxiety comes from too actively predicting future negative outcomes along with too much uncertainty, as you get more comfortable with things anxiety tends to go down

Well put. I've found this applies to most things in life: relationships, moving cities, switching jobs. I feel over the past year or so I've gotten better at identifying that thought spiral and stopping it before it consumes me (usually). Therapy and journaling have been most helpful here.
Bypassing airport temperature tests is an incredibly low bar because it rarely catches other diseases.

Anecdotally, I've travelled multiple times with people who have had fevers and entered countries with routine temperature screening and haven't been stopped.

Human body temperature is also so variable that a small fever is masked by the margin of error.
In my opinion this is one of those "pick the right tool for the job" problems. If you have a constraint that forces you to have multiple versions in development and maintenance simultaneously then Gitflow works well. This is especially true for things with long QA cycles. If you have a SaaS business and pushed code can go straight to production after automated tests, then don't bother with the management overhead of the versions.

In personal experience... We use Gitflow for our software that ships on our IoT device where we do monthly releases and multiple weeks of QA/reliability testing. Of course, this is coupled with a slow rolling canary release process -- nobody wants customers to be forced return a device due to a bug that can't be fixed over the air.

We also use it on our mobile app and it works well. Again, this is a situation where we have to have multiple versions in development simultaneously. One in "release mode" doing critical bug fixes only as it goes through QA and internal in-home acceptance testing and one for "v-next".

Some 20 years ago we used to do roughly this same process for releasing software on CD's. But, no git back then so no "Gitflow"...

We don't use it for various services and internal tools that can get by without such rigor around versioning. Just simple branch -> PR -> automated test -> merge to master from PR -> automated test -> deploy.

Use the tool/process with the least overhead that manages what you need managed.
Proof, were it necessary, that not all change is progress.
On the contrary, cheetahs likely evolved in North America, and all modern African cheetahs are descended from the small number that made that migration. There is still a small population of them in Iran too, a remnant from that journey.
Politically motivated trash just like the garbage bill in CA. Luddites and corruption will always attack and destroy innovation.
What rings truer to me is that it's crazy how often building a tool or process, etc, eventually turns into people being able to make careers of just that thing because of all the spins and metaprocesses people will throw on top of or into it.

Git springs to mind for one, but (capital A) Agile definitely wins the championship.
And how does that make "this is my work" the least true option?
That is not an engineering problem, its a social/political problem.
This feels like a relatively rare scenario masquerading as a common occurrence, which is part of the point.

Of people with wrenches, how many use them on engines or high-end bicycles?

And so it's relatively easy for tool companies to convince people "You know what? You may only have thought about working on an engine a few times, and have no idea where the valve cover is, but by god you're a mechanic. Not like those weekend warrior types. You deserve the good stuff. A full set of Snap-On!"
The confusing thing is that the Diamond Princess data points in the other direction: more asymptomatic cases, and a significantly lower case fatality rate, than the WHO numbers.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/coronavirus-mortality-r...

The WHO says they haven't found many asymptomatic cases (despite looking), but apparently lots of the cruise ship cases were. The WHO estimates a mortality rate over 3%, but much less 3% of the Diamond Princess infected died.

I don't know how to reconcile these other than to suppose the virus has mutated (possible) or the asymptomatic cases were false positives (maybe?) or some demographic factor on the cruise ship was different.
Corellium releases tool to run Android on an iPhone: Sandcastle
Thank you. You seem to get the itch nearly completely. However you are missing one thing where Uber and Lyft have gone overnoard to the greedy side:

At least in California, driver pay, and what the customer paid are decoupled. There is no more "surge" per say, it's just a dynamic price for the user, which might be completely different than the one the driver has.
You nailed it. I mean, my first thought on looking at the output was it's shit.

But I'm pretty sure that with some meaningless verbiage generated from a corpus of art criticism (thisartcommentarydoesnotexist?) as a caption, it wouldn't look out of place in some modern art galleries and some collector would lap it up.
Every time this is mentioned, people say "shut up shut up shut up, nobody wants hierarchies". Obviously it's dogma. But if you have to keep saying it...

I am probably not a "regular user", but I got a job about a year ago defined by and intended for regular users, and one of the major parts of it was managing emails in a departmental account, using (you guessed it) hierarchical folders, and another was managing project documents in SharePoint, using (what appear to be) hierarchical folders.

I'm aware that people will tell you not to do the latter in SharePoint, that it's not really designed to be used like a filesystem, just use lists, etc. But purely from an anthropological viewpoint, I see how people shove everything on a shared drive, and then they try to move it to something like SharePoint and recreate a folder structure.

So, you know, it's not about what I want, but it's an objective fact people do want hierarchies, even when other people don't want them to. Google is pervasive, but it's not all of computing.
> The market price changes all the time in response to supply and demand

The 'market price' changes as Uber decides it should. There is no actual market where agents can set their prices present.
This really helped me short circuit the negative feedback loop in my brain: https://thework.com/instruction-the-work-byron-katie/#
What's the cost of a customer switching platforms?
I am using Nextcloud for precisely thw usecase OP outlined and I am quite pleased with it I must say.
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What a strange example. Nobody forced kids to work in mines.

Full-time driving jobs already exist. Anyone who wants one can already get one. Why take away their freedom to choose flexibility if they want it?
I don’t get it. I manage multiple teams that are doing web apps. Many of those use Gitflow like life cycles and none of them has issues based on their lifecycle. Some of them do release branches, some not. Some do ff-only other don’t. Doesn’t really matter as long as it is efficient (simple) enough. Of course we are also not only deploying the long lived branches but actually every push results in some sort of ephemeral environment being spun up tested and spun down again (or stick around in car of failures) so Feedback on what is happening is quite direct but any way. If you help teams find a pragmatic lifecycle for them you can avoid all the perceived issues of any cv lifecycle.

One exception might be the occasional group of optimists trying their hand at micro repos. These are just bound to blow up :-D unnecessary conplexity and all...
61-61.5GHz is an ISM band, so it's unlicensed pretty much everwhere. This frequency range is heavily attenuated by oxygen, so it has inherently limited range and low risk of interference even at high emission levels.
You definitely own the copyright of your own recording and playing of a tune in the puplic domain. It's not fair use at all. You own the copyright a recording of a classical composition, even if it contains non-copyrighted elements. Fair use implies you're using a copyrighted work in a manner that is protected by the first amendment.
Thanks. I misinterpreted that to put emphasis on the "reported" part. Your explanation of how they arrived at it would definitely reduce the possible size of unsurveyed carriers.

The other replies to parent do a much better job explaining how "just looking at the data" is misleading.
Right on :)

But I guess what I’m getting at is, this isn’t anything new. The media has always been an effective social engineering tool, whether or not the social engineers at the time were aware of it. And the last few instances where faster feedback loops via more effective media helped one company get ahead didn’t spark the end of the world. Not unless newspapers were the beginning of the end. And then radio. And then video. And then TV. And then netflix and social media. And then the screens that we’ll put on behind our eyelids so that we can watch our favorite shows without opening our eyes, or whatever facebook is cooking up.
Yes. Changing the itinerary as well.
Someone already mentioned that public endpoints aren't good benchmarks.

But there are many performant SPARQL-enabled databases (back when I wrote my Master's in 2014, that even included Oracle), and they are indeed quite performant - though there are details like batch/realtime materialization and the like.

In my experience, AllegroGraph was pretty fast enough (apparently someone even uses it now to translate between HL7 schemas of multiple providers in USA)
They tested everyone on the Diamond Princess and seemed to find a lot of asymptomatic cases. I don't know how to reconcile this, but there it is. The mortality rate was worse than seasonal flu but not 3%, either.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/coronavirus-mortality-r...
I feel the opposite. They are so dedicated to making math sizzly that their articles are full of hype paragraphs of "mathiness" to get you excited without learning much. The clickbait headline, the intricate animation of the clickbait headline(!), the paragraphs of "human interest" goop. The worst part is that I know they bury a nugget of actual math in there, but I get exchausted trying to find it.
Right. You can see that here: [1] The "Deaths" line and the "Recovered" line add up to maybe 60% of the "Confirmed" line. The difference is the people who are sick, but alive.

[1] https://hgis.uw.edu/virus/
Good luck.
Will you add other login methods?
That ability to search is helpful, but it's particularly helpful because the organization is terrible...and maybe searchability eliminates the incentive to fix the organization. In theory, it should allow rearranging things with less friction.
Did they really say China would be able to contain it?
himinlomax was claiming that reputable sources reported a 20% lethality rate, which is absurd (about as high as SARS).
In my experience, code documentation is painful because people often try to maintain perfectly comprehensive formal docs and the expectation is too high. Aiming for perfection instead of iterative improvements can feel intimidating and painful.

I recently wrote this blog post on how you can use lightweight daily habits in git and https://bytebase.io (I'm one of the creators) to avoid the dreaded "Docs Overhaul" that seems to happen every couple of months.

Blog Post: https://medium.com/better-programming/daily-habits-to-turn-y...

The main idea is to capture small chunks of context as part of your regular coding routine. This can be in a git commit message if it closely relates to code or in an external knowledge sharing tool if it is higher level context.
Maybe Apple does it? They are good at building apple-esque usability models and are business aligned to sell metal.
Does anyone have any opinions on alternative stacks to GKE within GCP? My side project is all dockerized. We love that aspect. Google Cloud Run looks promising, but it's not available in Sydney, which rules it out for us unfortunately.
In the same way I accept that I can eat some leaves, but not rocks, that mercury is a liquid at room temperature while steel is a solid, and that the latter can be configured into a car I can drive around in, I accept that some collections of atoms may posess the property of awareness without necessitating that all do.
I've heard it said that you have an almost 50% of catching something if you go on a cruise.
"I sincerely hope someday a disruptor kills everyone else with awesome UX (just like Apple did in the 2000s)"

You mean like Apple did in the 1980s? They regressed in the 2000s.
I think folks think 80+ drivers are bad, is they drive conservatively and carefully. Its annoying to 20-something drivers who want to race around and take chances.

{not an 80+ driver}
> It's a potential arms race

but it's currently solved by one guy sitting in a truck, so it's not really a potential arms race that can escalate too far before you fall back to the one guy sitting in a truck.

worst case scenario, you replace a driver with an actual security guard who is trained as a security guard and can focus on security instead of driving.
Full-time employment will mean people work when and where Uber decides they do, with a flat-rate and no bonuses or surge pricing.
> I just don't agree with the criteria of the court in this case.

Well it isn't a personal opinion is it? The court presumably knows what the legal criteria for self-employment are. Unfortunately, the single page lay summary presented as TFA doesn't go into detail as to chapter and verse of the definition, but as it is the high court I think it's safe to assume they have it right.

EDIT: more detail https://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/notes_explica...

To wit:

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The criterion of the link of subordination breaks down into three elements:

- the power to give instructions

- the power to control the execution

- the power to sanction non-compliance with the instructions given.

As for self-employment, it is characterized by the following elements: the possibility of building one's own clientele, the freedom to set prices, the freedom to set the conditions for the performance of the service.

====

By these definitions, it does seem clear that the Uber-driver relationship is one of employment.
Wait until people realize gcp might not exist after 2022 if it’s not profitable. Better pay for it than have your platform yanked out from under you.
Are universities not gathering empirical data when they study the results of others’ efforts at scale? Study being the key word in that scenario, it’s more than just copying what they see, but understanding why it’s effective, and if it would be for them.

And it may be quicker and more reliable with less risk than A/B testing in their setting. The most highly trafficked web tech companies can gather statistically significant feedback data about a change in moments. A/B testing a curriculum or educational practice could take a semester or more, and then the risks are higher — it would be a two-sided hypothesis test where the B group could not only do better, but could also do much worse, and it would reflect poorly on the institution if so. People are paying tens of thousands of dollars per seat per year for the best education they can get. Seeing how many items are in the shopping cart right on the “checkout” button doesn’t really reflect poorly on Amazon, but it could help Amazon increase conversion rates by .03%, which could mean millions of dollars at their scale, and they could also complete the test fairly quickly given their volume (in a day or so?) at a 99.7% confidence interval.

With that being said, I’m sure that smaller scale or faster turnaround time A/B tests are being ran at Uni’s.
I use namespaces to isolate names. So I can have a service called memcached in namespace A and also one in namespace B.
What a funny example to pick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer.

Apple got sued for basically exactly that because another company already had that trademark!
I can only speak for teams of attorneys, and my experience is mostly working with litigators rather than transactional lawyers, but among other things:

1) It's shockingly rare to see use of project management tools, even simple stuff like Basecamp or Notion. When multiple people need to, say, review a draft of a filing in sequence, they're typically either keeping track of it in their heads or in a spreadsheet. "Excel is totally adequate for this" is wrong for a variety of important reasons.

2) Infrequent use of file indexing, even Windows' built in. I see firms using document management software running old versions of SQL with totally the wrong kinds of indexes and which usually take forever to find anything or crash in the process.

3) If they exist I haven't seen them in use, but a lot of teams would benefit from some middle ground between nothing and e-discovery software for searching across relatively large but not enormous collections of documents. A rudimentary on-prem or local CRUD app that could ingest a variety of shit, OCR it if necessary, dump it into Elastic, and let you FTS it would probably sell like hotcakes to small and mid-sized firms.
I may be at a place where this would be useful, so I signed up! That being said...

At this point, one-click (or one command or one PR open) pre-production environments are almost table stakes for PaaS offerings. This kind of functionality was the primary reason we moved from self-hosted to PaaS (Pantheon) back in 2012/13 at a prior gig. Heroku (as mentioned in other comments) offers similar functionality these days.

Given you probably won't have much traction with teams who are happy on PaaS offerings like the aforementioned, am I right in thinking your market is either people doing completely bespoke docker stuff (how many of those are there), or people whose apps don't neatly fit (either due to size or complexity) into an existing PaaS offering?

If that's the case, I wonder if docker is the wrong abstraction-point. Perhaps it'd be better to be a glue layer between a VCS and something like a Terraform configuration or a Pulumi project.

I also wonder an open source model could be a winner here, too.
How does that work when no Silicon runs at 60ghz? What can process the signal?
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pandemic-bon...

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The [class a] bonds default if pandemic-related deaths reach 2,500 in a single nation with an additional 20 or more deaths confirmed in an overseas country, according to the bank's prospectus.

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The [class b] bonds pay 11.5% annually, but reach default after 250 deaths. The bonds' payout rate scales with the number of additional countries that experience than 20 confirmed deaths.

Well? Why are they dragging their feet? Even the official numbers have seen more than 2.5k die in China and more than 20 in Iran. The only question now is whether this is incompetence or maliciousness.
For the statistics - won't matter very much. For the person affected - yes.

These percentages are for survival of infected people. You already know the person is infected, and you count how many died before they fight off infection.
From Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512
Yes, and the US (at least) is far behind on testing sick people, let alone people who are only showing mild symptoms.
I am with you on this. Its been years since I had an issue with git, and branching strategies are not that hard. In smaller teams most solution that show up are also usable. I would argue git is actually a fantastic tool that gives immense value year after year for no cost compared to any other alternative. There is a learning curve though.
Does that include those still not fully recovered?
Both Prolog and SPARQL/RDF/Semantic Web are used at scale and pretty extensively. Unfortunately often behind closed doors, but there are very performant systems involved.

URIs and RDF in general don't need to use public HTTP links or anything like that, meanwhile the layered systems like OWL and RDFS provide some impressive features for implementing complex systems, especially when you actually want to use a semantic graph instead of loosely-schemed bag of nodes and vertices common in non-RDF graph databases.
What makes you think no one is considering how to address spoofing? It seems likely to me that many of these companies have considered these cases in far more depth than you or I have.
Exactly, so we agree on the point - there are no 'uber drivers' per se, they are just contractors driving a car and intermittently using services to find clientele.

Uber provides some insurance in _most_ countries they operate in, but it's quite often the case that this is not enough and that other insurance (usually specific for their classification e.g. Taxi Driver insurance, or VTC insurance) is required. So your point on insurance is quite moot.

What's actually interesting is that some of Uber's competitors do have a street-hailing functionality, where the app essentially works as a virtual card terminal for hand-hailed rides. Cool!
> I can't trust WHO now related to Covid-19, especially after what happened to stock.

The stock market is an indicator of investor confidence. How investors feel about a particular event is not necessarily accurate, and has basically no direct relation to the WHO.