skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Containment was already impossible when news first broke in the west in late January. At that point the virus had already escaped not just Wuhan, but China. With airborne spread, r0 of 3-5, asymptomatic carriers, and ~2 weeks between infection and when it becomes severe enough to warrant medical treatment, it's virtually impossible to trace all infections. All it takes is one getting through screening and you have a massive epidemic - that seems to be what happened in Italy. Epidemiologists have estimated that it's been circulating in the Seattle area since at least mid-January - that was about 10 days before any news of it hit Western media.

For some reason people tend not to react well when told "You will get it. Guaranteed. There's nothing you can do about it. If you're young and healthy you have about a 1 in 500 chance of dying from it; if you're old and sick it could be as much as 1 in 4." It may not be that your doctor thinks it's OK when old people die, just that it's inevitable, and it's not worth worrying about inevitable things.
Except that in the US, the problem is not a lack of funding. In California, one of the places in the US with the worst homeless problem, there are about 150,000 homeless people[1]. Over the last two years california has spent $2.7 billion dollars. That's approximately $18,000 per homeless person. Which is literally enough to pay their rent, even in a major metropolitan city like Los Angeles.

The issue isn't funding. It's how the funds are being spent.

1. https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-c...

2. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-news/lawmak...
What are the major iSP's incentives for not peering?

I am starting to think may be Government should run a minimal Ix every x km2 and force all ISP to connect with it.
They also used to say you needed to do this if you "exclusively" used third party sign on. Now it's if you use third party sign on at all.
Wait, what are you advocating? Return to keys without an immobiliser??? You do realise that that's the feature that has single-handedly destroyed car theft that was so rampant by the 90s? That is what made cars so difficult to steal, but also what makes keys cost what they do and require an approved dealer to code the keys. Return to the old keys where you only had the key and nothing else would be......crazy, really.
I think this is disingenuous - I doubt anyone who proposed letting homeless people use the restroom at Starbucks thought it was a "win win." And I doubt they represented it that way. I'm not familiar with the discourse on the subject, so I could be wrong.
Sadly, "prevalent" represents a range degrees. From "universal" to "widespread" to "frequent" to "common". I'm not sure I would normally consider all of these to be reference the same word. My usual interpretation of prevalent would be common or frequent, and in this case I interpreted it as "it's still pretty common, but with less public downsides".

The thing about small towns is the people are generally really nice to you, but not so much when referring to a group that includes you. One data point: a man who loved talking to people regardless of color or persuasion. But, he'd talk about a group of them with much negativity. Blame it all on FOX News?

reference: Apple's integration with Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus
Totally agree, I also enjoy her posts quite a bit!
The risk is that you'll be the one who infects a new community.
> preserving the "right" of the homeless to keep doing what they're doing

Seriously? Does anyone want to live that way - there was a guy who said he liked living that way many years ago I remember, he was the local homeless guy, he'd make the papers now and then and even saw an interview with him now and then. He said he had money and just liked living that way, I'm fairly sure he was the exception. This just seems to be more "framing" to me.
Complete Corona lock down of Milano and greater areas in “red zone”
Huge Parts of Italy are locked down due to the Corona outbreak in a new "red zone". Nobody is allowed to enter or leave without special reason. Source: https://www.open.online/2020/03/07/coronavirus-ultime-notizie-7-marzo/
There is a lot of literature on the subject if you want more pragmatic notes. You read Rachel’s blog not only for the tech experience, but for her storytelling skills.
I particularly enjoy her blog.
So much fun and so little substance. Fun should be sprinkled here and there with a healthy 95% dose of substance.

Everything Rachel writes is a convoluted mess that’s impossible to follow.
When I was playing the game we cross licensed with banks, credit agencies, and etc. I couldn't evade my own nets because I have a drivers license, property, and bank accounts.

I'm sure that you've done better.
≥https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yK7kRwIVE

Looks pretty helpful to me, or are you one of the types who feels like Israel should just rollover because they don't belong there?
The price tag also likely also a factor.
This. Or maybe you need a dependency that is not available in your main language.
The whole discipline Rachel writes about is clearly intended for mature, scaled operations where outages and inefficiencies are legitimately worth much more than the systems wizards to stop them. There’s a time and a place for “move fast and break things” and if that’s where you are, it’s probably not for you.
Loggerhead turtle's journey tracked 37,000km from Cape Town to Australia
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's not free. Every employee busy kicking out homeless people is an employee not busy with his direct duties. Starbucks already carries the burden of providing free shitters to bums, now they also have to pay for hygiene code enforcement?
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Key insurance is a thing if this is a legitimate issue for you.
If the US cannot mobilize sufficient labor to provide testing, this is a heinous failure of American leadership. And indeed, maybe the US cannot do this but if a country with a huge state and military sector cannot effectively "draft" people to engage in the fairly simple processes that would be involved in just poking a needles or whatever into people, our inability to survive whatever the next crisis is seems pretty guaranteed.
Wow. Incredibly cool. Would love to see your projects. Got a GitHub link ?
Phone as key is the future. I was skeptical at first given the general unreliability of Bluetooth but Tesla managed to do it. It's been flawless for me. Key card as backup makes perfect sense although I believe upcoming NFC standards will make even this unnecessary with the ability to have the phone act as a passive NFC tag even when the battery is dead.

The key fob is still available if you want it. Tesla even allows adding and removing keys at home. It's an underrated part of the Model 3. Phone key could have been a disaster but they nailed it.
> "learn programming well enough and you'll know if some piece of code works as expected without running it."

That is 100% true.

Obviously the code needs to be self-contained (not calling into other unknown code) but so do mathematical proofs.
For anyone interested, here is a letter from 27 scientists asserting that the virus originated in wildlife: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30418-9
This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life?
Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.
It’s for a conference that’s in June.
From the paper

> We observe that the canonical study in the influential hot hand fallacy literature [2],Gilovich, Vallone, and Tversky(1985), along with replications, have mistakenly employed a biased selection procedure that is analogous to Jack’s. Upon conducting a de-biased analysis, we find that the longstanding conclusions of the canonical study are reversed.

> [2] The hot hand fallacy has been given considerable weight as a candidate explanation for various puzzles and behavioral anomalies identified in the domains of financial markets, sports wagering, casino gambling,and lotteries (Arkes(2011),Avery and Chevalier(1999),Barberis and Thaler(2003),Brown and Sauer(1993),Camerer(1989),Croson and Sundali(2005),De Bondt(1993),Long et al.(1991),Durham, Hertzel, and Martin(2005),Galbo-Jørgensen, Suetens, and Tyran(2016),Guryan and Kearney(2008),Kahneman andRiepe(1998),Lee and Smith(2002),Loh and Warachka(2012),Malkiel(2011),Narayanan and Manchanda(2012),Paul and Weinbach(2005),Rabin and Vayanos(2010),Sinkey and Logan(2013),Smith, Levere, and Kurtzman(2009),Sundali and Croson(2006),Xu and Harvey(2014),Yuan, Sun, and Siu(2014))

Their claim is that people do apply "arbitrary preconditions" in the analysis of various situations.
> Serious question- how do you classify Israel as an ally?

Number of reasons:

1) History. Us Germans tried to exterminate all Jews (and thank God we failed), while the USA and Great Britain, the colonial power of Palestine, fought against Germany. It made sense that after WW2, Israel was founded as a "safe haven" for Jewish life, backed by USA/UK.

2) Israel is the only real democracy in the entire region. Yes, Netanyahu has attacked democratic institution and basic democratic decency, but still: Israel is and likely will remain a democracy, a democracy allied to the US right in the region where the biggest oil reserves are.

3) While Israel does have their own weapons program, they are a good customer of US arms. Some of their budget is actually paid by US Congress, but well, as long as the end result is that Israel uses US weapons and the people employed in the districts of the Congressmen approving these deals keep their jobs, there is no real problem.

4) Intelligence service cooperation. The Mossad is one of the best intelligence services there is, rivaled IMO only by NSA/CIA.
I like that and I'd probably support some version of such a plan. But there are issues, especially where I live.

Population density is quite thin out here in the desert. Also, since we don't offer a social net like in Holland, you'd need to police it against people literally sleeping in them or simply destroying them. Not to mention using them for nefarious activities. I'm not being alarmist, just saying there's a real cost to dealing with such aspects when people are spread out as thin as they are here. Maybe once we know what the cost is we'd find that the funds would be better spent setting up more shelters WITH bathrooms? Not saying this is the case. But that's exactly my original point: all these solutions are nuanced and need to be seen for what they are; addressing deep rooted social issues, with no solution being perfect and tons of choices that need to be made. Even if someone knew the perfect solution, finding how to bring it about is what matters. And that's bound to be imperfect, since that is what we live in.
More complete path (for Android 10 at least):

Google Settings -> Privacy -> Advanced -> Ads -> Opt out of Ads Personalization
Not having the key scratch your smartphone, for one. For another, it just reduces the steps to get you from point A to point B. All these little things add up.
Oh ok, we have a crime and misconduct commission to investigate this stuff. Currently there are three local councils in my local surrounds where the mayor is on charges or in jail and the councils are "under administration" for doing this stuff. Our federal government is fighting tooth and nail to not have one - one can only wonder why.
Indeed, I know a couple of very talented, intelligent sensitive people (one being a family member) who've let their life and careers suffer because of alcoholism. I wish you all the best for your recovery.
This is called microtransactions and it’s been a dream for a long time. The fact that it wasn’t baked into the web from the outset probably means it’s less likely to ever happen, and even if it did, you’d still have the same clickbait business models so aside from the advertising itself, it wouldn’t improve matters. In fact there wouldn’t be any reason for websites not to double down and have ads anyway!

Brave, ironically, is one of the few attempts to solve the microtransaction problem.
I’m not sure I agree. We are a young nation. I remember visiting some people in Switzerland and their home was older than our US history. We think 200 years is a very long time, but I don’t think Europeans and Asians have that same view.
It's hard to tell from the article what's really going on here. It's interesting that the Marines were able to make use of it after what sounds like a time boxed effort, but the Army was claiming it was impossible.
Those types of systems like tile work in public as well, they use a network of other users that will inevitably walk by the lost item.
Certainly. Also, the Gripen is so much more economical to operate, just by the way it's designed...that it's stupid.

(Basically, it's designed with that as a top goal. Be simple/cheap to work on.)

Traditionally, I think the primary reason to buy US fighter jets at very high prices compared to the non-US competition has been that you also expect to get some amount of military protection back from the US worth much more (like 5-10x more) than that investment. Trump has turned this scheme upside down. We thank him for this.

(I also happen to think it may end up being a good thing for the US. It's cutting off a lot of the money supply to the US military complex. Isn't that a good thing?)
Check my HN handle. I have links to everything there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChrisMarshallNY

The Core Bluetooth thing is still very much a WIP. If you want to peek at it before it's ready, drop me an email.
Coworker of mine is in a similar situation. He said tickets were 2x before. I joked he's making up for the other person who cancelled.
Because only Europeans are that lazy. Most countrys with the ability to do so prefer to handle their own defense since an ally might not handle it the same way you would or with the same priorities.
I was specifically referring to amplify console. it's still terrible UX compared to netlify.
I felt the same, coming from JavaScript and Python. Then I realised "verbosity" is actually "the language demanding you be crystal clear about what you're asking and that every code path is covered."

I just can't go back. Typescript gives me most of this. But Python feels just awful to me now. It's like an entire kind of cognitive load is being eliminated from my day.
>Retards?

What was the original message? Seems to be flagged.
Today’s it’s mostly smart keys. Tomorrow it will all be driven from your phone. I can’t wait when I never have to carry a key again. This is a stepping stone.
For sci-fi readers, I recommend Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" and the sequel "Darwin's Children".
It's not. Was an internal meeting and around 2008 Siemens also sold its entire Automotive division. Also they are the original inventors of Immobilizer feature back in late 80's, and their code "stood" the test of time. You have no idea how much opposition you get to touch even a line of code in Automotive industry when codebase is a decade old, not to mention an entire feature. So I am not surprised this is now all over the place in all auto-makers.
A practical implementation of this could be to choose N people at random and send them a letter or text message instructing them to pick e.g. the (modulo) 5th person from their contacts list whose name begins with R.

I'm sorry but in modern America, you can count on the average person screaming bloody murder when confronted with a scheme like that. No one likes to be part of someone else's mathematical model but a random electrician or hairdresser is toss that away or maybe put out an angry tweet that will get more leverage than this idea.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
What’s the story here?

Conference papers are typically published by the conference months after the conference so that they’re vetted, reviewed, and cleaned up.
The situation you describe and the terminology you use to describe it make your society sound broken.
I didn’t know about this. Any idea how typical premiums run? I may have to start the quote process to find that out.
People who make industry and society shifting products. Getting bought out by someone who takes your service to scale isn't the same.
> a bad flu season

It's not though, that's the point. A bad flu season never even reaches a 1% case-fatality ratio (CFR). Even the 1968 flu pandemic had a CFR below 0.5%. COVID-19 has a CFR of 2–3%.
This is a great review of what is going on "behind the scenes."

As the maintainer of about 5 little services with this structure I have vowed never to write another one. The memory overhead alone is a source of eternal irritation ("Surely there must be a better way....").

Echoing other commenters here, the real cost isn't actually discussed. Namely that there is a solution to some of these problems (re long running tasks?), but it carries with it a major increase in complexity. Its name is Celery and oh boy have fun with the ops overhead that that is going to induce.

A while back I did some unscientific benchmarking of the various worker classes for python3.6 and pypy3 (7.0 at the time I think?). Quoting my summary notes:
1. "pypy3 with sync worker has roughly the same performance, gevent is monstrously slow gthread is about 20 rps slower than sync (1s over 1k requests), sync can get up to ~150rps"
2. "pypy3 clearly faster with tornado than anything running 3.6"
3. "pypy3 is also about 4x faster when dumping nt straight from the database, peaking at about 80MBps to disk on the same computer while python3.6 hits ~20MBps"

I won't mention the workload because it was the same for both implementations and would only confuse the point, which is that there are better solutions out there in python land if you are stuck with one of these systems.

One thing I would love to hear from others is how other runtimes do this in a sane and performant way. What is the better solution left implicit in this post?
I was able to fix it by find all 'ï' and replace with '\U000000EF' in glyph.inl
Ad networks have been a key enabler of decentralized publishing. Anyone can sign up to an ad network and start getting paid for clicks. No traditional gatekeepers there. So I'm not sure where you get this idea that what I'm saying is in any way contradictory to what you said.
Your statement isn't true in the US. The wealthiest in this country don't really do any work.

In fact, the wealthier you are, the less you actually have to work.

The people who are working for a wage are the ones who are working to live, and the wealthiest don't have to do that. Often, people who work the hardest make the least.

I reject your premise that that people will have a reduced quality of life. These taxes will go to public services and increase the quality of life for the masses instead of for the few.
And they may awaken as well.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532710-700-ancient-...
I got my first computer in 2000 and used floppies all the time in 2000-2002 to share files with my best friend. My next PC in 2004 also had a floppy drive, though I used them less and less often (I used CD-Rs in 2005, and then USB sticks starting in 2006). Only in 2008 I had a PC (laptop) with no floppy drive.
Yeah, that would have been a good call. Though as noted below, we don’t always know generally where they were lost. I’ll take a look at the peer-to-per discovery.
Colloquially, to say you completely relate to someone typically means you share an experience in common with them that grants you a deeper understanding of what they’re experiencing by virtue of having experienced it yourself. For example, as a white male, I’d never say I completely relate to the lived experiences of minority populations in the US. I can be sympathetic, empathetic, compassionate, etc. But I cannot relate to their experience in any sort of equal form.

By the way, I don’t doubt your sincerity in any way—I’ve never met anyone who volunteered their time to the homeless who didn’t deeply care for them and their struggles.

However, I still think it’s worth pointing out to ourselves the many small ways in which we avoid the homeless—and I’m equally guilty of it. I’ve found that helping the homeless is something it feels far easier to do in volunteer settings—when it’s in a specific place set aside for the homeless, at a specific time, and we can just leave the homeless behind when we’re done. Those of us who are not homeless feel good about helping, but feel annoyed when they come into “our space”—spaces like Starbucks. This is where we have the privilege and luxury to pay for our presence, and find our metaphorical feathers ruffled when someone inconveniences us—which we somewhat loudly underscore when we complain about the greater inconvenience we are willing to endure just so we can avoid the inconvenience of encountering the homeless.
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Can't you just send out test kits to 10000 random Italians and then use that to calculate the number of infected people? If its really common then you'd find 100-1000 infected people and then you can calculate the real mortality rate simply by monitoring them and recording how many of them have died. Of course it is possible that proper medical care results in a much lower than usual mortality rate compared to untreated people but that sounds more like good news than bad news.
Tbf, my parents have been to the US in the 90s, and they keep saying that the most bizarre part of that trip was that they were stopped by a random police officer and questioned who they were and what they were doing because they "looked suspicious".

So not, it's not normal by any measure. It's just America.
It's nice to have ptrace once in a while.
Even if you manage to preload everything you need, Python's reference counting mechanism will cause everything to be copied anyway.

Every time you access an object, its reference count is mutated, which will the memory page to be copied.

There are workarounds if you're willing to mess with the Python interpreter: https://instagram-engineering.com/copy-on-write-friendly-pyt...
Still seems a bit crazy. Dictating that apps have to have Apple login.

Seems no real justification other than Apple can use its power.
I don't know, but I was actually discussing time when the thread is performing pure CPU operations and not doing any IO. In this case the JS code does not yield to the event loop, so any other requests waiting will stall.

This is actually an important property of JavaScript that allows it to work without locks (as long as you do not await, your code runs completely synchronously and will not be interrupted). It's not a flaw, but definitely requires awareness.

Gevent code that doesn't spawn more than one native thread (the one that runs the event loop) also has this property - you don't need locks as long as you do not perform IO. In Python's case it can be more tricky, as you might end up yielding to the event loop by indirectly performing IO when logging or something similar.

In JavaScript, the only case, AFAIK, where this can happen is when you await. Nothing else will cause you to yield to the event loop.
Yes, but do they need even more of short ends of sticks?
Uber Prepares to Pay U.S. Drivers Exposed to Coronavirus
> If you're using a standard framework like Django or Flask then this works really well and without much effort.

I dug into it ~year ago, Django loads almost everything lazily, so simple --preload did next to nothing. I had to write code to load app for real at import time, exact thing article and common wisdom tells us not to do.
Film at 11?
I love the idea of a Matrix emacs client, but it doesn't support E2EE and probably won't ever, so it's a non-starter for me.
No, it's not. This is something that is easily proven and could be a cause for disbarment. No big corporate lawyer is risking their career over this. Maybe something like this can happen by mistake or with some idiot with an office in a strip mall, but the idea that this is a normal stunt is silly.