skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, all of the data which is shown in the DWD app, and third-party apps, is available free of charge since 2019.

You can look at the price list here: https://www.dwd.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/allgemein/preisli...

All the important stuff is free.

So one would just have to develop a free app to process and display this data ;)
I personally prefer to standardize everything as a function. It also leaves some breathing room in case I decide to include parameters as part of a future API augmentation.
I can understand how it is more susceptible to death but I don't see the connection with spreading. Old people tend to move about much less and none of the references support that older people are in any way more responsible for spreading the virus.

I think much better explanation would be that Italy has a lot of tourism, it is basically a tourism hub for northern and eastern Europe. Tourism == a lot of people moving about, very frequently, then leaving the country. Almost all initial cases here in Poland seem to be connected with somebody coming back from vacation in Italy.
Most of the data is free and access costs no money. Some of it is even free across all of Europe due to open governmental data regulations.

Some detailed or highly localised data would probably only be available commercially. But satellite data for example can be downloaded realtime by anyone.
Here's a thought experiment, similar to the one-electron universe thought experiment: there exists one particle, the "consciousness particle," which randomly jumps around throughout 4D space. Whenever it appears at a 4D position, consciousness is experienced as computed by integrated information theory (or a similar model) [1].

When you experience a moment of consciousness at a specific 4D position, you experience all the memories of the "past" that are in your brain. Thus, the consciousness particle interpretation of consciousness is compatible with your direct perception of living a 3D life along a time dimension.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
This is such bullshit. Prove to me that NOAA/ECMWF/JMA/BOM/UKMet Office are bad at forecast innovation. I'll wait.
Also after it's observed
https://www.weather.gov/ does have a mobile site that is functional, but it could be better.
> PC VR is a dead end for anything outside of creative tools, very few adults want tower PCs in their homes anymore. When I demoed my Rift to friends they were completely blown away and the first question was "Can I use it with my MacBook?" and that was that.

Get out of your bubble. Among non-casual gamers, tower PCs are very common.
You clearly did not learn to develop with an IDE, especially not Visual Studio.
That statement is terrible for sure in its entireity but since when are “orientals” even thought of as bad with computers? I thought the stereotype was asians==really smart?
> If you want to panic

Can you please explain where I said that? I'm pretty sure I said "We shouldn't panic" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22559590).

I'll say it again. We shouldn't panic. It is counterproductive. But so is passiveness, inaction, and complacency (such as saying "it's not a big deal" as you did). Facing up to a problem, and dealing with it calmly and resolutely isn't panicking.

> There's no point arguing with people that don't want to discuss the science side of things

I'm not certain what "science" you're talking about here. What "lab-like" conditions? Are you saying containment efforts are unnecessary or unhelpful? I seriously have no idea.
Yeah I'm curious myself. It seems like no specific policy can clearly explain the results. IIRC Japan is one of the later countries to restrict travel from China back when cases were high there and in general did limited testing on their population.
Maybe the public hygiene practice and culture of wearing masks really helped, or maybe the infection is still developing there.
And then you give a bad review and those places lose their listing?

Not sure what you want to do? Pay more so that Airbnb reviews them for you? Are you really up for paying old hotel prices again?
Oh, I understand what you are saying now. I think the issue is that government officials aren't comfortable defining an endpoint right now. There are a lot of unknowns as to what could stop the spread at this point.
Significant risk. Stay home and wash your hands regularly.
During my initial arrest they politely asked me once for the passwords, which I declined. Around 9 months later they asked my legal counsel for the passwords, which was declined.

I found a subsequent court case where my same prosecutor tried via the court system to get a different defendant to reveal their passwords and they failed. Oh well.

Reading their internal emails regarding encryption and their general tech capabilities was enlightening.

AMAA if you'd like.
I'm the opposite, as well. We recently visited the US for a month - our travel agent booked hotels in Anaheim and San Diego for us, and we used Airbnb for the rest. The first hotel was fine, but barely. The second was horrendous - it stank, the carpets were wet and so dirty our socks turned black. We bailed and booked an Airbnb. All the Airbnbs that we booked were at least as good as we expected them to be, usually better.

It's the same story at home in Australia.

The caveat, perhaps, is that as a family of 6 we have trouble finding hotel rooms. We also usually book out full places, and want no interaction with the host unless things go wrong.
Re: runtypes. Not sure how I missed this, it looks like an excellent tool.

No support for recursive types (which I personally want/need for my project).

I really like their API for constraint checking...might have to steal that...

[UPDATE] runtypes does support recursive types! My bad!
The best advantage of a hotel, from my point of view, is that you know they won't cancel on you last minute.
Is this code shared across platforms?
The original idea was great, but people have gamed it so hard that it's falling apart because of lack of trust (in my opinion).
> Are we really worried about rogue employees putting rootkits on said robots, and to what end?

Not about rogue employees, but adversary states, just think of Stuxnet. Messing up a nation's food supply can induce everything from mild unrest to full scale civil war and mass migration. For now (!) we have the lucky advantage that most farm labor is still manual / the machines that exist can either be trivially replaced with older non-smart machines or by manual labor... but imagine 20, 30 years in the future?
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For those who don't know, these custom arcade machines were made by Tim Hunkin, a mechanical genius who co-created the show "A Secret Life of Machines" in the 80s and 90s. Most of them up are on Youtube, go check them out: [0].

Also, I absolutely love that website, as well as Tim Hunkin's personal website[1]. It has a charm about it that few websites have these days.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLByTa5duIolYRtq45Cz_G...

[1] http://timhunkin.com/control/o_about_the_site.htm. Take a look at the "about the site" page!
> The private Bonn-based firm considered the DWD app anti-competitive as it put commercial providers at a disadvantage since they could not provide the information for free.

Is the official data not free? Maybe the solution should rather be to make the data free, rather than make the official app non-free?
Taking current data into account, it doesn't make sense.

You don't get to 100k in a day. Even in Hubei, where they didn't know about the virus was a thing. Even in South Korea, where people actively tried to spread the infection. It took more than a week to reach thousands. During that time, there have been symptoms you couldn't miss, like deaths.

As for asymptomatic carriers, the idea seems to be that there are not that many. Certainly not thousands times more than confirmed cases. Even when taking into account incubations time, which is around 5 days (quarantine is 14 days to account for outliers).

It is a prediction for the future, does it include every type of coronavirus (not just SARS-CoV-2), or is it bullshit?
You build up a rather imposing strawman! Do you really think there are authorities planting evidence on phones?
Based on the title, I thought the notes would be more something like this:
"Internet Book of Critical Care (IBCC): COVID-19"
https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/
You’re gonna have to give a source for that, that sounds like complete doomer bullshit, I’ve been following this since early January and the only reports of permanent lung scarring are being mostly attributed to the need for mechanical intubation or absolute critical cases. Like anything else, it would be worse the older you are.
Note that this is the status quo since 2017, when the DWD lost in court the first time.

At that time they began to charge 1,99€ and have done so ever since.

I've happily paid that, as in my opinion it is one of the most reliable weather forecasts for Germany, not only for the general audience, but also for prosumers. For example, they provide high quality precipitation radar images, I regularly can determine the onset of rain with minute accuracy.
Here is a very practical example.

We chose Rust for the current project because our Python program took more than 1TB of RAM. Rust program carefully manually laying out memory takes 75G. Other choices in this case are C/C++, but after you get a hang of Rust, it's actually easier because you don't spend days inspecting core dumps in gdb: once it compiles it actually works.
A whole byte for a year? What a waste in 1995 when you've got just 640KB for DOS, your code and your data.

I looked up my old code. Shave off a bit of the year and:

struct Date {
unsigned day : 5;
unsigned month : 4;
unsigned year : 7;
};

a full date in 16 bits. (well, in borland C++ 5 at least)

and as it was an accounting application, working with the bitfields was so much nicer than ordinal days you would use nowadays.

month and years was all you really cared about anyway when summarising data. in finance all months have 30 days anyway.
Until today, European airlines were flying empty “ghost” planes because they had no passengers, but they wanted to keep their landing slots.

Yesterday I talked to a colleague who relayed the story of a transatlantic flight this week, where only 6 seats were filled, out of 36 in the section.

I don’t think there’s much remaining travel left to be banned. The resulting economic impact therefore can’t be that big.
It's also about facilities. Having a full kitchen and separate rooms makes a world of difference when you're traveling with kids.
One could argue that its merely lost to another government faction. Ala intra-aristocratic strife.
I'm not sure where you're going with this?
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It could also be because our perception of risk is biased. What I mean is, we think they are being fearless, when in reality, they just have a more accurate perception of the actual risk than we do -- possibly because they are choosing their battles carefully.
Court doesn't outlaw anything. They interpret laws. Lawmakers should change these laws.
In New Zealand we got rid of software patents
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That's very cool. Interestingly, some believe the Bible also predicted a war in Iraq (Babylon) over oil.

I had a few email conversations with Titor back in the day. Cryptic responses, kind of useless. Didn't convince me he was a time traveler.

Your wife's contact sounds more credible, such as it is.
I found one study where they had mice inhaling cigarette smoke extract (not even vape juice, and worse) five hours a day for a few months, and it caused some discoloration on their uvulas or something.

Here's something to take 12 seconds to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151...
I worked for Hyder, the Welsh Water and Gas authority, on their Y2K project, from March 1998 to November 1998.

Their billing and management system was written in COBOL, and contained numerous Y2K bugs. If we did nothing, then the entire billing system would have collapsed. That would mean Welsh people either receiving no bills, or bills for >100 years of gas/water supply, depending on the bug that got triggered. Very quickly (within days) the system would have collapsed, and water/gas would have stopped flowing to Welsh homes.

Each field that had a date in it had to be examined, and every single piece of logic that referenced that field had to be updated to deal with 4 digits instead of 2.

I wasn't dealing with the actual COBOL, I managed an Access-based change management system that catalogued each field and each reference that needed to be changed, and tracked whether it had been changed or not, and whether the change had been tested and deployed. This was vital, and used hourly by the 200+ devs who were actually changing the code.

We finished making all the changes by about December 1998, at which point it was just mopping up and I wasn't needed any more. I bought a house with the money I made from that contract (well, paid the deposit at least).

The cost was staggering. The lowest-paid COBOL devs were on GBP100+ per hour. The highest-paid person I met was on GBP500 per hour, enticed out of retirement. They were paid that much for 6-month contracts, at least. Hyder paid multiple millions of pounds in contract fees to fix Y2K, knowing that the entire business would fail if they didn't.

Still less than the cost to rewrite all that COBOL. The original project was justified by sacking hundreds of accounts clerks, replaced by the COBOL system and hardware. By 1998 the hardware was out of date, and the software was buggy, but the cost-benefit of a rewrite made no sense at all. As far as I'm aware Hyder is still running on that COBOL code.
Password Manager with Google Apps Script and Google Sheets
I made the mistake of being a rational adult and not hoarding essentials. I haven’t been able to find toilet paper, hand sanitiser or facial tissues in the past 10 days. I live in a rented apartment and don’t really have space to store stuff, so usually stocked only for two weeks.

I’ve had to order certain essentials online at a considerable premium as stock just isn’t available at local stores.

I will not put my faith in the human species going forward.
That’s called privilege

A currency we have in fluctuating quantities
C/C++ compile some weird default of neither debug nor optimized, basically the least helpful thing anyone could want (no performance optimizations, no debug symbols, and maybe-maybe-not asserts depending on if the standard library you’re using or the libraries you’re depending on used #if NDEBUG or #if DEBUG to gate the assertion checks. And not optimized for size either, if that’s what you were wondering).
I think commenting on a politician's character or personality is 'political flamebait' whatever quote from the article it's placed under.
> everybody already understands that the dollar is subject to long term inflation which is why people put their money into stocks or pension funds and don't put cash under the mattress for 80 years. The predictable change in the value of the dollar is priced in and desirable for many macro-economic reasons and irrelevant to consumers.

Understanding and accepting are different things. I might know that the dollar is going to inflate by 1-2% every year, but I don't agree that this should be the case. There exists no avenue for me to opt-out of this either, because it is the policy of both parties, but not the policy of either party - it is instituted by an unelected chamber by which I have no say as to who makes the decisions. Hence, an unjust tax - it is taxation without representation.

This unjust tax also benefits the early receivers of newly printed money at the expense of the later receivers who bear the additional costs. (The Cantillon Effect).

The predictable rate of inflation is also only predictable during periods of economic success. If the economy begins to tank, we can see that the inflation becomes very unpredictable. There are countless cases of hyperinflation in the last century alone which we can take as evidence that centrally controlled supply of money isn't particularly stable.

The dollar is perhaps an exception due to it being the global reserve, but this also means it is potentially of much greater risk if this MMT experiment turns out to be a massive failure, which to me appears inevitable, and is more of a question of when than if.

> As far as the dollar value is concerned you care if the milk and the orange juice cost roughly as much this month as they do next month, there is this weird crypto and gold obsession with long sterm steady value that's not relevant at all for fiat currency.

You're making the implicit assumption that the price of milk and orange juice won't change by much month to month, but this is absolutely not the case in places where hyperinflation has hit. The price can change week to week, day to day, but you can be almost certain that your wage isn't going to follow the price hikes. It isn't a "weird obsession" to consider that the dollar may face the same fate as dozens of other currencies. In fact, the historical evidence of currencies not hyper-inflating is the one we should bring into question - and the dollar as we know it has been around for less than half a century. It is no less of an experiment than Bitcoin.
It makes you less likely to give it to other people. Which makes people less likely to go to the hospital. Which makes the hospital less likely to run out of beds and equipment. Which makes the people with serious cases less likely to die. Which might even be... you in a few more days if you have a case that develops complications!
This just in: people flock to cities, which then have the tax base to justify additional bond sales to fund further construction. Also, positive feedback loops exist. In other news, bread is now available pre-sliced.
In Europe this is totally not true. I use Airbnb almost twice month when I travel to some tango event anywhere in Europe.

I always choose Airbnb because it is cheaper than an ok hotel but almost always better, never worse.

Outliers: gut feeling says less than 5% over 6 years.
You're basically conflating different expectations in living conditions to being dishonest reviews.

Your example of Tokyo feels absolutely tone deaf to me as someone who has been there multiple times. That's just the reality of the Tokyo rent market. The places are tiny and that's how the culture is there.
That’s not how it works Michael.

You don’t “avoid” fines by declaring bankruptcy. You can go through a bankruptcy process and as the debtor you may be forgiven from certain things that the other side will clearly never receive money from, but this isn’t a clean slate trick you just do and walk away from.

You basically convert your obligation into distrust. And can “refinance” some debts including judgments against you.

So, could Manning go through bankruptcy and have the court never receive their money, yes. But I wouldn’t say this is “avoiding the fine”, just changing it.
Here are two reports that would indicate that the standard of care has been substantially reduced

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h... "Doctors and nurses are unable to tend to everybody. They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air."

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https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-italy-doctor... "Another nurse working in Lombardy, the Italian region the worst hit by COVID-19, told Euronews the situation was "dire" and far worse than it is being portrayed in the media.

Speaking to Euronews on the condition of anonymity, she said: "We have hundreds of cases in our hospital. Half of our operating block has been dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The situation is dire. Anesthetists – despite them playing it down a little bit on the media – have to choose who they attach to the machine for ventilation, and who they won’t attach to the machines"

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A first person report from Seattle ICU doctor https://www.facebook.com/marie.e.will/posts/1016307125424515... "Remdesivir might work, some hosps have seen improvement with it quite rapidly, marked improvement in 1-3 days. ARDS trajectory is impressive with it, pts improve much more rapidly than expected in usual ARDS. Recommended course is 10d, but due to scarcity all hosps have stopped it when pt clinically out of the woods - none have continued >5d.

I decode this as they have half the amount of Remdesivir they need, only treating for 5 days when recommended course is 10.

The other thing that appears to be going on, and it's also hinted at in report from Seattle, is that old patients are being moved to hospice or "comfort care" who would not have been three months ago because of lack of supplies/personnel/equipment.
> BART is fairly effective

It only runs through one corner of the city!
> This is why we need competent administrators running things

The GOP has a conflict of interest here. They don't want to give evidence that government can work. Their goal is to break government and then go "see, government doesn't work!" It's a splendid position to take, because anything that comes up you simply shrug and wipe your hands clean. You're not responsible for anything.

While we all sit and ponder whether we're all going to die and if the economy will disappear overnight, let's all just remember the travesty that is Puerto Rico. If that's not enough, then kids in concentration camps. Oh? People care now because it impacts their little world?

"No time for politics" says the people actively breaking the world.
I think it's because it cuts of blood flow to the extremities. And blood flow helps healing. But I'm not a doctor.
I've actually settled on an approach that feels just like writing Cocoa/AppKit/UIKit. It effectively exposes wrapper types that loop in delegates, so you wind up with a feeling like you're writing classes - you just can't subclass. I've tried to keep the conventions (entry points, lifecycles, method naming) very similar so knowledge transfer is there.

I have a repo for it but the example is pretty out of date. Can see about updating it when I've got the next push ready.
Honestly, this misses a huge point and does more harm than good. Having some of these things in place is fine of course, but it don't really help you much, nor is most of it required.

SOC2 does not require: SSO, MDM, or almost anything specifically (And what's with the JAMF pro recommendation? MDM is more than iPhones). What it does require are controls. It does not specify what those controls are. You need to create them yourself, and they need to be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Trust Services Criteria. And to have controls, you need to know what you are controlling and why.

This brings me to my point: To succeed in SOC2 you actually have to have a plan. You have to have written, reviewed, implemented, and audited policies. THAT is the single biggest hurdle for most companies.

You also need to know how to do a risk assessment on your organization. This is not terribly hard, but it is essential to SOC2.

And finally, you need buy-in from the governing bodies of your organization.

None of these things I mentioned are products. You can't buy them. They take work. A hell of a lot of work. I will guarantee that most companies doing this for the first time do not have half of the processes in place that SOC2 requires. I doubt that 20% have internal audit procedures, for example, or sufficient end-user training.

And one more thing that will take nearly anyone who had done security by surprise if they don't know it's there. The COSO Principles. These were added to SOC2 in the wake of the Lehman Bros/Enron scandal. They extend SOC2 to the entire governance structure of your organization, and include controls on financial reporting, hiring practices, employee review processes, etc. This is a major PITA, because it lies far outside the bailiwick of most CISOs or equivalent, and, again, it requires extensive cooperation from the rest of senior management.

As you can probably tell, I've done this before.