skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't assume bad faith, they are accurate depictions of what Schultz wanted to do. I mean, would he even disagree with that? The original proposal was for a license that'd allow anyone except US ICE to use the software, for example. That's ideological. It's pretty clearly different from the non-discrimination policies open source licenses normally have, that's why he had to propose the license to start with. And he wanted to use the OSI to endorse his new license as being open source, whilst it didn't meet the original criteria.

In some issues there's no way to helpfully resolve them. What sort of meet-in-the-middle do you propose here, exactly? Either open source licenses as determined by the OSI don't discriminate against particular users, or they can, and that's a values based decision. There's no real way to be 'helpful' about it: no is no.
Not every applications uses dotfiles to store settings...

And then you have dotfiles which store a unique id so anyone you share it with has to dig into it and tweak things...
Isn't this something where X11 can shine:

An X11 shortcut application could intercept all keystrokes and map shortcuts to the expected keystrokes from the application that has the focus.
The spread is not being stopped. It is being slowed down. Huge difference. Slowed down is still very good and a very good goal for us, but the opportunity to "stop" COVID-19 has passed in the U.S. and EU.
This feels like a knee jerk reaction formulated from a privileged perspective that believes that all beings’ lives are the same- or have the potential to be the same- as your own.

Do you owe it to the immunocompromised? As such an individual, I do not believe I am owed anything of any stripe by anybody.

However, as a human being and good citizen, I do believe I owe it to those in my community to do my best to ensure we have a safe, healthy, and thriving community. Rampantly- or willingly to use less charged verbiage- spreading a novel virus that is extremely deadly to certain segments or demographics of my community seems antithetical to that.

As a contra argument, I am capable of reliably and safely operating a vehicle at 95 mph- why should I be expected to observe speed limit laws that are intended to protect those that cannot? Does that make the law abiding drivers narcissistic?

Lastly, have you considered the impact on community services that widespread disablement of the workforce due to illness could have?

It may very well touch your life in a big way.

Edit: grammar.
So, Fedora Spin ?
Masayoshi Son promised 1M coronavirus tests, then backpedalled
The dude on Joe Rogan's podcast made it sound like the covid spread is mostly just a matter of breathing the same air.
I guess that forms the core of the issue, it's inherently exponential (or factorial?).
What's the value in tabulating the negative tests?
The price differences were much, much larger 5-10 years ago, but they have been rapidly shrinking as the wages for China workers have grown.
If you argue like that nothing counts anymore and everything can be justified – maybe it turns out the puppy you shot would have mauled the kid that would have invented the cure to cancer – who knows. If you warm a perfectly inhabitable planet up very quickly, there will be friction.

What too little people really grasp is the fact that global warming is a highly non-linear process. It takes the same energy to melt 1kg of ice (at 0°C) to 1kg of water (at 0°C) as it takes to heat water from 0°C to 80°C. Currently we are melting ice – once that is gone things will go at a very different pace and this will be practically irreversible.

I don't think I am clever enough to judge alone if this is really a safe route to go, which is why I trust the experts on this one. And they all say: get your fuckign shit together and do something drastic right now.
Yup, our HR dept posted a remote role on LinkedIn and Indeed and got inundated with resumes. I posted the same job here on the Who is Hiring thread[1] and received a handful of candidates that are all qualified. IMO, when it comes to recruiting it's the old adage it's about quality, not quantity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467200
Neither of those were things that affected the vast majority of people in a perceptible way. A quarantine would be totally different.
China now reports that they've already closed 14 temporary hospitals in Wuhan due to decreasing case numbers, and a few more are scheduled to be closed in the next few days: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/09/c_138859119.htm

That does not look like the kind of news you'd fake, or would risk doing purely for propaganda reasons.
Well I’m sorry that happened. Hopefully one terrible experience won’t prevent you from getting sober.
I mean he did say it was not serious that it was just the flu and that it will soon be gone, just disappear. He also said he would have a press conference yesterday to announce major financial moves to help the economy which did not happen. He is also still insisting via his new budget that funding for the cdc be cut by 15%. He also fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.

You are right though, he did not directly call it a hoax.
You can (almost fully) solve this by using a rack of low-power computers, each running a single task, instead of a one faster one.
This is awesome! The design / branding itself is pleasantly unique and fun!

@kickscondor feature idea: it would be awesome if users could share their feed sources as a community shared feed that one could switch to.

Edit: I see now that ccktlmazeltov said the same 2 hours ago
For December time frame, this is the correct interpretation. We would already see a suspicious spike in 1st-2nd week Jan pneumonia death rates if COVID-19 were spreading in the US in December. Average time to death for those who do die is I believe 17 days from onset of symptoms.
Israeli Research Center to Announce It Developed Coronavirus Vaccine (Sources)
Because one issue doesn't mean hurry we need to switch language. Especially not on the OS side where unsafe will be used and has not yet to be proven that is safer than C/C++ with various tools.

If you think that's possible why no-one is actually doing it?
40 million Americans don't have healthcare[1], and another 38 million have "inadequate" health care[2]. Together that's more than the entire population of the UK.

It's not so impressive that if you only treat the richest with the best jobs who can afford the best treatments, you get better outcomes than systems which treat everyone.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/16/americans-without-health-ins...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html
The national guard is currently deployed to New Rochelle in New York to ensure that large gatherings don't take place and order is maintained.

Anything is possible.
Similarly you can show that gcd and lcm are associative, once you know their universal properties (for gcd, being the one common divisor that every common divisor divides; for lcm, the corresponding dual property). Similarly the associativity (up to unique diagram-fitting isomorphism) of products (or even fibered products) in any category (when they exist).

The really high horse here is called "Yoneda embedding", but there is not much gained from going that high.
As I've grown to expect, Scotland seems to be doing it right wrt healthcare. The gov.uk page says (or said) "UK figures" then gave only English regions. At that time the gov.wales page referred people to the gov.uk page ... where there are no figures.

There are updates saying "X new cases" for Wales, but still no page with where, details of numbers of tests, details of infections and treatment as there are for other places.

Newspapers have details (but not of numbers tested).

It's very poor, IMO.
I wish there was a way to follow someone's posts on, say, Twitter, but not re-posts. Is there an easy way to do that?
Dotfiles aren't enough to fully describe a system configuration, though. I'll regularly use both CentOS to Ubuntu, and both the available configuration tools and default services (along with other differences like SELinux vs AppArmor) trip me up more than I'd like to admit.
Right, here are two things I wrote about that on days when there was time to write about that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732
At scale the price and density would be correlated so it might be more like 10x.
WHO does rely in large part on donations. See http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA72/A72_35-en.pdf page 82. It could certainly be argued that they have an interest in convincing China to boost the voluntary portion of its contribution to match that of some of the other nations on that list.
In line with ‘never waste a crisis’ policy maybe some of them will be swayed to a more community-oriented mindset.
The site had not been updated when the patent issued, sorry about that. Patent # RU 2559714. Exchanging GPS data is just a part of the device, btw.
Ubuntu is a server OS.

It only has a limited set of old software. To get new software, you have to mess with weird (possible expired) PPAs sourced from StackOverflow posts. Eventually, you have to reinstall the OS to get new software packages or DE features.

This is fine for servers which need super-stable, tested packages.

But does that sound like a typical end-user OS, like Windows? No. That's why a better candidate are nerfed rolling releases like Manjaro. c: New stuff all the time, indefinitely. Nerfed rolling, so less bleeding edge breakage risk. No reinstalls. No PPAs; the AUR has everything. Great forum to boot. Also Arch Wiki compatible.
Which still leaves the toilet paper problem unsolved, all the rice needs to go somewhere!

But in all seriousness, general guidelines are already that, even without stuff like Corona or not.

One advice from the supply chain perspective, so. If you have to stock up, do so in small quantities across multiple stores. reducing the number of stock-outs at the point-of-sale has an unbelievable efeect in stabilizing supply chains. and the last thing we want is unstable supply chains right now. As rediculous as it is, if something like th toilet paper scare happens to more life-ciritical stuff things turn a lot less funny rather quickly.
I’m afraid it’s very much true.

South Korea have a lot of early stage cases in those numbers (haven’t died, haven’t recovered), and a very young population on the whole. An undetermined number of those cases will die rather than recover.

Multiple sources have looked for these large majorities of asymptomatic cases and did not find them. There is no evidence other than our collective hunches that these cases exist in significant numbers.

Taking Johns Hopkins numbers (at time of me writing this):

125,108 confirmed cases
4594 deaths
66,682 recoveries
71,276 outcomes

4,594 / 71,276 = 6.45% have died
(deaths / outcomes)
It would have to, in order to be useable.
This really scratches and itch for me. I've felt similarly about RSS readers, they kind of work but as you point out most news feeds privilege the most voluminous posters at everyone else's expense. Love it.
Sometimes in life you actually do have to prioritize. The alternative is maybe doing a half measure and being far less effective. So the rational course is often to prioritize.

However, no politician/official necessarily wants to be on record as making this kind of priority decision.

So if you insist on radical transparency in these situations, you're insisting on people being less effective.
We use SAS Enterprise Guide in my org it has a visual SQL generator similar to what is previewed it is quite good for simple queries but I find it falls down when you introduce complexities.

Joins between tables are one of the big pain points for me. I am not sure how the demoed product does joins but in SAS EG you join tables by click and dragging a line between the two columns you want to join together and then it gives you a pop up to select Inner, Outer, Left, Right etc. (although it uses plain English. I.e rather than saying "left join" it says something like "All Rows from Table 1 and matching Rows from Table 2) it also gives you a visual Venn diagram type preview. This is frustrating for a few reasons: if table is large i.e several hundred columns you have to scroll for an eternity to find the columns you want to join against which is frustrating (a drop down box you can use keyboard shortcuts to jump to column name would be much better UI IMO). It is difficult to do complex joins "Where A.Col1 Between B.Col1 and B.Col2" for example. Maybe just my org but this is common feature of our data we have a lot of Event driven stuff with Start and End date and then Raw time series data you need to aggregate between the event frames. SAS's Timeseries stuff is very good but SQL side not so much...

It is also very easy for unsuspecting users to join on unindexed columns which leads to very poor database performance. In general there are a lot of performance footguns with generated SQL user can have working query then change something in the GUI and suddenly query that ran in subsecond takes several minutes. I have developed the habit that for complex I use GUI to generate SQL then hand edit it before running it to make sure it will be performant. Or I just hand write it to begin with.

Pattern matching and filtering is another pain point the query editor lets you use "LIKE" but does a poor job explaining to user how it works people who only use the GUI are surprised when I explain you use "%" and "_" to do character expansion a lot of people blindly assume "*" is used and then complain their query isn't working

Microsoft Power BI also has a query editor I've used this program a little bit but do not have as much experience from what I experienced using it I found it to be a bit less flexible it seemed easier to do the data extract and transformation first then load it into Power BI.
Yes, but PHW were referring people to the "UK figures" on the gov.uk pages (PHE figures), which still don't give details except for England (and Italy, Vietnam, ...).
It has been 2 days. Now, all businesses except grocers are closed, and grocers are mostly out of food.

Roads are closed.

People are going to be very, very hungry very, very soon.

Hunger will create desperation, which will create violence, which will quickly dwarf the few thousands of people that covid will kill
I can choose to drive at 100mph in the wrong lane of traffic. This is not impinging on anyone else's free will. They are free to not use that lane, to drive around me, or to join me in going 100mph.

Photography in public is not a public health or safety issue and does not overwhelm hospitals with its effects.
While I have not had experience with using these products for classes, you do have a few options that I can think of that are available for free.

- Discord Go Live streams were just increased from 10 to 50 participants. I don’t know if there is any way to record those.

- Twitch. One-way streams with chat. Note that stream recording must be turned on in your account settings, and I believe that recordings are only kept for seven days in most cases, but can be exported to a YouTube channel.

- Skype. These can be recorded.

- YouTube live streams may also be useful for one-way streaming with chat. Streams can easily be hosted from the YouTube mobile app (phone number verification might be required).

Good luck with your classes!
She thinks she's a warrior fighting on the side of the angels, it's what gives her life meaning and structure. To be a warrior-for-good requires there to be evil people to fight. If there are evil people then they must be denied access to anything good. If open source is good, then evil people must be denied access to it, which can only be done via the licenses, which would make them not open source anymore, which open source projects will obviously reject. The only remaining solution is to try and manipulate people by manipulating the definition of open source.

The problem for people like Ehmke is there aren't really many evil people in society, and those who do exist tend to get handled by the justice system. So she just ends up picking fights with random people. She's bad news and anywhere she shows up is best recommended to evict her post-haste.
You still have to report some cause of death.
Sorry for not being clear. The point I'm making is exactly that people have been complacent due to the low numbers, primarily sure to inadequate testing.
Exactly, as https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ puts it, it's all about reducing the load on the healthcare infrastructure:

"Far and away, the most important thing to do is flatten the curve of the epidemic so that our health systems can cope and to give time for the scientists to research vaccines and treatments."
There's some suspicion that there are two strains of COVID and one is nastier than the other.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scientists-identified-strains-...

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr...

And, see my other post, but some researchers suspect that COVID was circulating in Washington (likely elsewhere as well) since about mid-january, so very possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551360
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As this is being downvoted, the math I’m using is below.

Taking Johns Hopkins numbers (at time of me writing this):
125,108 confirmed cases 4594 deaths 66,682 recoveries 71,276 outcomes
4,594 / 71,276 = 6.45% have died (deaths / outcomes)
Full unedited 360º interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYeDqmV_W1k
Webster's says the definition of classy is "having or reflecting high standards of personal behavior".
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This guy from the CDC claims this. Can't remember the source. I think it was a study from germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFhjMQrVts
I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff at a structural level, mostly due to an intense if idle curiosity about it. I don't claim to have all the answers (or the right ones) but I have some ideas. They stem from the perspective that this is fundamentally a question of how you design an organization that can endure for 100 years, and the observation that "business" problems tend to (perhaps only) kill companies which are not structured to anticipate them and deal with them when they arise.

Here are some things I would consider absolutely essential:

1) A fundamentally simple governance structure. It could ultimately be huge or many-layered or whatever in practice but it has to be structurally simple enough that you can reason about how it is intended to handle any given thing. The worst kinds of cracks are liable to form if it encounters something unknown and has no mechanism either for handling it or deciding how to handle it.

2) The governance framework must be backed by a living document codifying policies which a) Are affirmative; b) Are as unambiguous as possible; c) Theoretically conflict with each other as little as possible; d) Include mechanisms for adjudicating policy conflicts; and e) Articulate their rationale. The company has to be willing to shut down rather than violate the most important of these policies. I like to call this approach "values nationalism."

3) The organization must evolve its formal policies as it makes decisions. Otherwise you're going to end up with common law. Reasonable minds can disagree about whether common law is a good idea in government but I'll venture to say it's always a bad idea in business.

4) The organization must be vigilant about predicting, monitoring, and mitigating internal threats to its integrity which arise out of perverse incentive structures. It must be willing to sacrifice short term money in order to eliminate perverse incentives.

5) The organization must have mechanisms in place which allow it radically reorganize itself in response to external threats (recession, regulatory capture, takeovers, etc.).

I may have left one or more important things out. But the vast majority of individual "business" issues are going to fall under one of these categories.
It's not just no longer exponential. The number of active cases is China is in decline. How long they can keep that going is debatable. But as of right now they are effectively stopping it.
Unfortunately all humans are born with weak immune systems, and sadly babies aren't fully vaccinated until they are ~2 years old. We protect them, because they eventually become our society. That pesky "future generations" concept.

You see, our immune system is built up over time with exposure to viruses, and inoculations. Then as we age, as our health decreases, our immune system gets worse again.

Personally, as I make my way through middle age, I hope that when I do reach my golden years I'm met with a little bit more compassion than "who cares about you, you're old and useless."
You easily give medication or draw blood via the head. Air locks and captive gloves (like a glove box) are also workable.

If you were to be the patient, I think you would say iron lungs are "superior". The alternative is tubes jammed down your throat, which is horrible torture. I had a relative who literally chose death over the tubes. He would fight to rip them out, despite knowing that he needed them. Finally the hospital gave in, and now he's dead.
Before praising countries for declaring martial law and harassing people, check their stats in terms of how the disease actually spreads there.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I think it's pretty obvious from the numbers that South Korea is the one with the right ideas about how to tackle this with 21st century methods:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/03/09/South-Kor...
Coronavirus forces Italy to tighten lockdown
I found SMART recovery, which is very welcome to atheists and based on CBT. That group helped me quite a bit in my recovery.
https://archive.md/3wBuC
I was recently coaxed into clicking on a fake company's web site that was clearly just designed to collect data on feasibility of flying taxis. Under several monikers, I very much exaggerated my willingness to take them at very high prices in hopes that I would help bring this industry one step closer to reality. I apologize to whatever VC now thinks I will pay $150 each way for a Fresno-SF air taxi.

As an economist, I will reiterate: never trust surveys. Even disguised ones.
WRT 2FA, my problem is more in using it than managing the available options. As I mentioned, mine is constantly misbehaving and, without any action on my part, hasn't requested any of my configured 2FA options in, now, multiple days. I'm guessing I must have somehow changed the "don't ask me in" dropdown without meaning to.

WRT sharing, I can agree with that. LastPass's sharing isn't as robust, though I don't recall ever using share links. I don't like that Keeper doesn't tell you what record you just received, though. I already have many dozens of records and it can be difficult for me to find new ones that have been shared with me.

I've never had an issue with data replication on LastPass and haven't needed it with Keeper (I only have it on one machine, anyways).

I can't speak to the Admin UI's of either, though. I've never used them in an org setting. The closest I've come to that is the family account I manage via LastPass, which I imagine isn't the same as what you'd get with a full enterprise account.

All that aside, I'm glad that it's been working well for you and your org. I'm sure Keeper is fine (particularly on Windows or Mac) and that my experience is atypical, but it's still my experience with the thing. Unfortunately, I hate it.
My impression was they were very clear, said (to my recollection) that they considered a pandemic to be significant growing endemic transfer on all continents, then appear to have called that when it happened. They don't appear to have hidden numbers, and seem to have helped with knowledge sharing and expertise.