skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy is never just about keeping things secrets, it is just as much (or more) about protecting against bad outcomes. A typical example is that we can share the most intimate information to a doctor, but would feel a great sense of privacy loss if they in turn shared the information to someone else.

Small villages and towns has a lot of norm enforcement. A member of the group can't talk about anything just because everyone know everyone's business. There are a lot of complex rules about what information can be used when, where and how.

In sociology, gossip is commonly referred as the practice of norm enforcement. The information that get shared is not random. The stuff that get inferred, the anonymity that cities provide but small towns don't, is context dependent on what norms exist. The surveillance state however do not care about that context. It will take anything and use it anyhow it want, and that scares both people in the small town as well as people in the cities.
This presupposes rational action on behalf of those in power, which I don't think is a correct premise.
Or just save it to your home screen ...?
Free time in large chunks, was the revelation for me.

I took a serious "staycation" back in December, and wrote about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fgvbsv/staythe...

During those few weeks, I made what seems like a year worth of progress on several projects. Being able to dive in and focus, for hours at a time without worrying that I had other stuff I should be doing, made all the difference in the world.

Rearranging your week to have one "no-chores no-email" evening, when you just use a single large block of time to immerse yourself in a leisure activity, is worth a try.
Yes I did. I rarely abandon books, and I like Stephensons work generally, I kept hoping it would get better.
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TLDR: It's cheapest to let old people die, so that the young can continue working.

A very cruel view on humanity, but I would be surprised if these thoughts hadn't crossed our politicians minds.

Also, many initiatives by young people (e.g. limiting climate change, re-structuring society to be more equal-opportunity) are being blocked by old people who wish to preserve the status quo. So there is a general dislike by young people - those mostly unaffected by Covid - against the elderly - those most likely to die from Covid.

And for many years, there have been heated discussions about whether it is fair to force an ever smaller number of young people to pay for an ever growing number of old people, even if those old people directly undermine the young people's livelihood, for example by driving up rental prices or by voting to stop free education (which they themselves benefited from, when young).

So you could probably even win some young votes with a platform of "let's sacrifice the unneeded grumpy grandmas for the greater good".
BTW, a little easter egg that the creators built in: try Ctrl-[ and ] at console.
What was the original title, please?
> When Rust calls into C code it completely loses almost all of its safety guarantees.

Not really, it means that if there is a memory safety bug it must be either in an unsafe block or foreign C code (which also must be called in an unsafe block). While technically any C code could completely invalidate Rust's memory model, in practice that is almost always a C bug which you can debug more easily if much less of your codebase is in C (or equivalently, unsafe Rust).

> Having a codebase which is half C and half Rust sounds worse to read and reason about than all either.

I think that really depends how it's structured. You would probably want to avoid something like Rust calling C calling Rust calling C (calling Rust calling ... etc), but if the codebase is already separated into modules or even separate libraries you could rewrite a library or module while maintaining the same C API (and that Rust or C module can be read independently from the rest of the codebase).
You can actually open a Merge Request to fix it! (or raise awareness)
AR can't do black, and will be incredibly worse resolution than monitors, but I didn't specify that.

So yep, 2.
That's probably not the decision-making strategy of most governments, but it's a compelling POV for looking at the situation. Let it spread fast, wreak havoc and disrupt the social order, or control it within the capacity of health systems, or try to minimise the infections with constant awareness of the society for a prolonged period of time, affecting the economy in the long run.
> Today even Messenger moved back to Native code from React.

Nope.

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1234801507805138945
Anything east of the Ural mountains is also west of the Ural mountains if you travel far enough. :)
Ultimately that is enough to nullify terrorism charge unless they happen to somehow show this person wanted to commit acts of terror.

They can still be liable for unlicensed handling of explosives and controlled chemicals.
And 1 requires much less effort and coordination than 4a.
>employee-employer relationship

This seems a bit difficult to define to begin with (look at the cases with countries deciding differently for gig workers at places like Uber), and it doesn't seem to have been a qualified exception to the universal that the original comment called out.

It also achieves much the same effect as the very original article in that it allows a sort of propaganda by being able to say no countries in Europe have universal sick leave. And being able to technically make such statements, be their reasoning extremely tedious or not, is the topic at hand.
Hasn't that been acceptable since the dawn of the web?

Lots of people log errors to some sort of monitoring system. I can't remember seeing any localisation/translation API that would log an error rather than just silently serve English. I infer from this that just serving English is universally accepted and considering it an error is so rare that I've yet to see an API that caters to it.
> In the Netherlands, seasonal influenza has ~1% mortality rate

Yikes! If true, do you know why that is?
It also depends on the country's government.

Afaik in Germany the country's government can't force schools to close or public events to be cancelled. These decisions have to be taken locally (at state/city or even district level). All the health ministry can do is tell people "you shouldn't do A B C and you should do X Y Z"
We do have a government though (quite a few of them even, but the federal government is the one that matters here) with all the power needed to do whatever it deems necessary.

And the federal government has said that indoor meetings with more than 1000 persons are "not recommended". The Brussels government has cancelled those, the Walloon cities don't have events of more than 1000 persons planned in the near future, and the Antwerp government seems to be using the whole thing as an opportunity to criticize and reject any responsibility on the federal government without taking any decision (as far as I know, the Simple Minds concert hasn't been cancelled yet, and is supposed to have a lot more than 1000 people).

There are actually a lot of governments which each have the power to do things. I personally think that the only reason they don't do anything useful is pure incompetence, irresponsibility and political calculations.
The actions taken during February in Wuhan and neighboring provinces seem to have stopped the spread there, so effective actions can be taken.

Thing is, it appears that there's little overlap between actions that seem reasonable and actions that are effective. If you wait until drastic actions seem justifiable, then by that time it's too late to be effective (i.e. the Italy lockdown which would have helped Italy if it was done 2-3 weeks earlier); and if you take effective actions, then most people and media will wonder why you're so authorative and unreasonable (e.g. the reaction to early Wuhan containment measure enforcement).
In most disaster scenarios, programmers are not welcome because they're dead weight.

Unless, of course, they can write a fat check.

So if you want to actually help, donate money.
It’s more the other direction. What evidence do we have that this will be sorted by August?

There has been no evidence that Cov-2 is anywhere as heat sensitive as influenza. This isn’t “the flu”. It doesn’t have to conform to flu patterns.

Right now the only countries getting this under control are ones that have started social distancing early and left many measures in place.
> The point is, you find a power greater than yourself that you can surrender your will to.

So, you think that a candy bar is a power, in any way whatsoever?

> A lot of people let them selves get hung up on the higher power bit because they can't abstract the idea of surrendering to a non quantifiable or tangible thing

Because it's nonsense?

> (hence the Zagnut bar for those who can't surrender to the idea of love or the ideas of forces of nature)

Which makes it only more nonsensical?

> Believe me, I was one of those people for a long time. But my suffering got so great that I eventually had to admit to myself that I cannot do it on my own and I need to find something I hold sacred and dear.

... and then you did it yourself, thus demonstrating that you were simply wrong about not being able to do it yourself.

> It's better to believe a Zagnut bar could restore me to sanity, then to continue to kill myself with alcohol and drugs.

Only if that actually "restores you to sanity". And if it does, it was still you who "restored yourself to sanity".

> Again, the point is surrender. I am in no way saying the Zagnut bar is doing anything but inspiring hope in the alcoholic

Yes, you are. You are saying it's "a higher power". It's not. It's a candy bar. Possibly a candy bar that is inspiring hope in an alcoholic.

> And you are 100% correct that the work comes from inside, not a candy bar.

So, why all this dishonest mumbo-jumbo about a "higher power"? Mind you, this is not a therapeutic setting, this is a discussion about scientific evidence of efficacy.
But all their experts have been telling them that (1) cannot happen, for quite some time.

Another explanation is that government don't realize how much their words and actions have an effect on people's behavior, or they only focus on the worst possible effects ("what if people don't understand or react badly?"). In which case, they downplay the danger only to delay their decision. Because they're afraid of themselves (and can't have trust in the population).
Thanks for the argument-less down vote but it still is a legitimate question. I did not see the stackstrace. But then again, the site seeming relatively static/read-only from an outsider perspective, the environment variable might not contain any secret or password.

Did someone see actual secrets ?
Russia shutdown its borders pretty much straight away and IIRC they have hardly any cases.
Rather easy. How many people were arrested due to this law as a whole?

I suspect not too many. These charges should not be thrown around willy nilly.
France population: 66.99 million.

Denmark population: 5.6 million.

Doesn't seem like an accurate comparison.
I find it super interesting - but it's beyond my capability to contribute so I keep quiet for the moment. I imagine many people would be doing the same.
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While they're at it they can fold UK's numbers into France and New Zealand's cases into Australia. Cyprus's numbers can be divided equally and assigned to Turkey and Greece.
It's both. The problem is that 1. people want to make flashy, user-hostile crap and 2. Javascript etc. exist so they can. Getting rid of Javascript is hard but not as hard as convincing everyone to cooperate and therefore must happen.
While it's true our federal government hasn't issued orders but only advice the local and provincial authorities have the power to prevent some things from happening. And they are using it: some classes or schools are getting shut down, some away trips are being cancelled.

But I agree, everything's fine in Belgium :D. The virus is likely to have taken a detour to avoid Belgium, like the Chernobyl cloud did.
If you do that in the US you'd lose 60% of politicians and 90% of presidential candidates.
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I'd recommend everyone use this one over the parent articles.

1. This one is supposedly maintained by John Hopkins. I'd expect at least some level of quality control.

2. The parent link seems to be a copy of JHU's dashboard.

3. The parent link does not break out smaller regions (mainly the US).
Hence mathematicians will "hate it" and replace it with something more complicated and less clear

This proof works for any totally ordered set (hence a <= operation is defined on it)
That's now how game theory works, the pandemic is not another player who is 2nd guessing the government or vice versa.

Instead governments are weighing the probabilities (think a probability tree, according to your scenarios) you kind of point to this in your conclusion.
No I don't. It's possible to belive in free software principles and also care about the AGPL for reasons not spelled out in its preamble.
Do you honestly think that a country would close down the government if it was "just another flu"? Really?

The population has immunization to the flu, it doesn't spread that quickly. (It spreads quickly, but not -that- quickly)

The flu is deadly, but not as deadly as corona

We already HAVE the flu season going on, so this is on top of the flu

Everyone will get sick no matter what, but how many people are sick at the same time makes an insane difference.

Given what is happening right now in Italy, I can't believe anyone would still go "it's just the flu"
> We do have a government though (quite a few of them even, but the federal government is the one that matters here) with all the power needed to do whatever it deems necessary.

Really? Because I seem to have read that budget deficit is getting out of hand because there is no federal government to fix it.

Also, yeah, fair enough. There are a handful of other governments that technically could take a decision, but as you said: it's easy to say: "well, this is a federal decision, so we won't do anything".
Greece’s "Black Site" for Migrants
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwage/china-is-now-sendi...
> But all their experts have been telling them that (1) cannot happen, for quite some time.

No, the experts are subject to the same game-theoretic play... e.g. WHO declared it a pandemic only yesterday. The only ones who suggested the correct action (ban all flights from China already during Chinese New Year) are the ones with no skin in the game / no decision-making power / no relevance, who are therefore not subject to the game.
It's worse than that. The article is loaded in full and then is truncated via js.

You'd guess that's EXACTLY the kind of shitty behavior that google claims to flag/penalize the website.. but.. here's a google-golf hit for the article:

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+search+for+extraterrestr...

Surely.. only the "excerpt" is served to google right?
Nope... click though the cached copy. The article is indexed in full.

Right.

I have nothing against linking paywalled resources, but that's scummy behavior.

Skipped.
A better tool would be something like mxGraph, which allows for UML/Architecture diagramming in an easier way. (https://jgraph.github.io/mxgraph/)

Hackerrank (I work here) has included this in the remote/pair programming service. You can run it by going to https://www.hackerrank.com/products/codepair and clicking "Start session", and sharing with the ther user.
I also think NBC/Universal’s investment in quibi may have something to do with this.

There is some overlap between it and Snapchat for short-form media.
I find it hard to believe there's a significant number of people who would cheer the deaths of their own parents and grandparents?
The type of Apps I make can't even be done in a browser in the first place.
I second this. Because of this I don't understand why the German government is not acting more drastically in terms of isolating old people. Especially the current CDU/CSU/SPD leadership was largely voted by the elderly.

Sources:

https://www.bpb.de/nachschlagen/zahlen-und-fakten/bundestags... (Zweitstimmenergebnis)

https://www.bpb.de/politik/grundfragen/parteien-in-deutschla...
I'd prefer a graph that shows exactly how many tests are done by each country per day. All other extrapolation hinges on that. If the data is not available in a country (e.g. US), then everything for that country should come with a warning that says "we have no clue what is happening because we don't test"
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Of course if they had known it would have fallen to $5, they would have waited. Anyone would have. But nobody has the fortune to invest with 20/20 hindsight
but... that excerpt you quoted is saying what you wrote?

author went from small town where everybody knows you and everything to the (supposedly big?) city where you can merge in. and author finds it great.

most people are decrying mass surveillance. not small scale overseeing. many people i know are not concerned that neighbors are looking after each other...
Potentially, yes. But, only if by being infected, it would mean you were now immune, which isn't the case with covid-19. Reinfections have happened.
Isn't it because app installs bypass browser privacy sandboxing? That and some marketing guy thinking that app users are "sticky" and browser visitors aren't.
How is this hacker news? When incel clickbait like this gets promoted you know a community is over :/.
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Fellow German here. It's not that the authorities don't care. They're just putting "avoid panic" as their #1 priority above "contain the outbreak". Large events and gatherings are getting shut down, just not as vigorously as would be prudent.
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The point of Game Theory is to analyze the situation according to the actual payoff function for each player, not according to the socially (Pareto) optimal outcome.

The 2 players here are the government, and the voters. The socially optimal scenario is action REGARDLESS of whether it's a pandemic or not (in a hyper-globalized world it would hurt a bit, but only the first time, after that the tourists, supply chains, etc. would adapt) but the voters penalize that outcome (they see action with no pandemic as overreaction not as successful prevention) so governments avoid it.
Consider that you did suggest it was their own fault because they did something bad and you have all the reason you need for their "hostile" response. You've been fairly unpleasant about something that was obviously a big thing in their life and that yields you responses like this. Turning that around and (again) blaming them and suggesting their negative response is entirely their fault goes beyond that into the fairly toxic. That's not a healthy way to communicate with other people.
I think this theory gives way too much credit to governmental competence. I think Yes Minister's Four Stage Strategy is a much more accurate assessment:

Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis:

In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.

Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.

In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.

Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.

https://youtu.be/nSXIetP5iak
Has there every been a time when, "Country X can't do what country Y can, because X is too [big/small] while Y is [small/big]" has not been a useless comment?

Is there a generic term for this sort of fallacy, where someone brings up a random difference between [cities/states/countries] as an excuse for why one can't do what the other has already done, without ever bothering to explain why the difference matters?
Also in the case of 4a it's hard to define "it works."

Because it's hard to know to what degree any actions taken mitigated the severity of the pandemic.
Worst campaign ever pissing off your largest demographic by emphatically proving you don't care about them.
Corporates to rely on Remote Technology during Covid-19 crisis
I don't know, but I live in the Netherlands (as an expat) and their approach to healthcare is legendary for its sloppiness. The most common joke is about doctors responding to any health complaint by handing some paracetamol and saying "come back in two weeks if you don't feel better".

Three days ago the government held a special meeting about the coronavirus, in which they deliberated that people should stop shaking hands. That's all. They tell people who have come back from a high risk area and have flu symptoms NOT to call their gp and just stay home.
Olympics is about world too.
And bootlicking certainly puts you at hazard of obtaining the coronavírus.

Sorry, I know jokes are frowned upon here.
posts from health professionals can be even worse. this one was not too bad at explaining the thinking of ruling elites (who think they can fine-tune an epidemic)
There are mainstream efforts to do the legwork to allow Linux kernel modules to be written in Rust and a fair few core system libraries (the most obvious example being librsvg) and applications have undergone Rust rewrites. And of course there's Redox OS which a full OS entirely written in Rust, and it only contains a few hundred lines of unsafe code (which, given how Rust works is the only really key code that needs to be audited for memory safety).

The reason that more things aren't yet written in Rust is because these things take time, and there is lots of inertia to switching languages for established projects (one big roadblock to such rewrites is that maintainers need to be familiar enough with Rust).
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That was my immediate thought upon seeing the name. "Wait, is this a GSC reference?"

You've obliterated Bulbagarden's ranking for the term
But there is obviously a pandemic. I mean the WHO just called it a pandemic. How is 1) even an option? Do they just pretend it doesn't exist? Do they hope it doesn't kill too many people? People wont buy it, that's for sure.
Why did they hold this person for 22 months though, is the investigation so overloaded they cannot handle it quicker?

This should have ended in a few months tops, expedited, and with a fine for breaking explosives handling licenses.

If whoever is in charge thinks long jail time will deter a terrorist, they should get their head checked.
Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
How is it a useless comment? If you want to compare the actions of Denmark to France, it's more relevant to compare it to a particular region. Grand Est, for example has a similar population as Denmark.

This is almost common sense in the business world. No one thinks BigCo and LittleStartup are capable of the same things or that one's ability or inability to do something is equivalent.
The location factor applies to anyone living within commutable distance or 1.75hours / 1hr 45 mins. So someone living in central Brighton would be in the London location factor.
I'll bet the 3 apps that people spend most of their time in are all social media.
The outcome may sound dystopian. But once you put monetary value on a life - I think insurances do around a few million per person - then the economic damage will be worth several lives anyway no matter which scenario you choose. And that kind of calculation does make sense because at some point economic damage starts to translate directly to deaths, at the latest when your food and medical supply collapses, probably sooner than that. So you end up trading some deaths for other deaths.

Of course I'm not saying that anyone has done those tradeoffs optimally, especially considering that those relations probably are non-linear in practice.