skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your Asia versus West comparison doesn't hold up, because these the countries in those groups are not doing the same things.

For example "Asia": Taiwan? or Thailand? Both have very different approaches.

"West": the US? Or Italy? Same again.
I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8 and in my mind the Chief Scientist is a political and not an academic figure anymore.
> (no 2FA)

What do you mean? Does this tool prevent you from setting up 2FA on a service?

> and less convenient (changing a master password is a pain)

Changing passwords on many servieces is always as pain. But why should you change the masterpassword?

> than a password manager is getting so much attention (2000+ stars on Github, WTF!?).

Because it's pracmatic and secure enough. It's not secure enough if you are aome high value-target, but surprise, most people are just casual, which random malware and hackers being the worst level of attackers. Against thse this is plentiful, and better than what people use otherwise.

You don';t need to strive for perfection, when a 90%-solution works fast enough.
Chime, A tool for Covid-19 capacity planning
She said “go out to the mall.”
Ask HN: Case management plaform for community response to sars-cov-2
I'm in the UK. Organizations are forming networks of support groups for local areas within the UK. These groups will have organizers and volunteers who will identify people in isolation and provide them with simple needs: Shopping, Emotional support, Small errands etc.

I've familiar with some case management platforms that might help facilitate this process but I wanted to reach out to the HN community to see if anyone knew of any open source case management platforms which might fit the above use case?

Org page: https://www.facebook.com/CovidAidUK
Dam one day we will have an improvement to imap.... not today it looks like :(
Absolutely! From my experience I only use with listings from the same source with the same sort tool (mostly unix sort).
There's a massive difference between an ephemeral accelerating (unmodified and within regulations) sports car and actual crime.
I’m in Yangon. I’m sure these measures are less prevalent in much of the country due to lack of development (around half the population lacks electricity, to give you an idea). But that just calls more attention to how apathetic the US and UK response are considering they are very developed with vastly more resources and expertise.
If they did what you suggest, the PR and goodwill would be enormous.
Multiple dispatch and hierarchical data types in Julia (2018)
Does Attenborough have any credibility when it comes to triaging climate change?
It's not just about the West vs Asia, the same urgent measures are being taken in Eastern and at least parts of Central Europe as well (slightly later, but IN Romania where I live, they started when we were at 25 confirmed cases, and the story is similar in nearby countries).

I think several rich countries keep believing that they are somehow exceptional and that they can get away with not doing something which will impact their economies. I would be amazed if we don't see another few Italies, unfortunately...
The biggest changes to my wardrobe and what require me to buy things most often are external factors. For instance I went from a business casual office environment to working form home, I lost a lot of weight, I took up a new sport, I have a new injury requiring different sorts of footwear.

I’m not sure how to work around some of these issues without buying more clothes. My main rule is that if I buy a piece another piece has to get donated. This keeps the size of the collection in check but wouldn’t put a brake on new purchases in and of itself.
I use pandoc to convert notes in markdown+latex to html+mathml. Firefox renders it. Chrome doesn't. I use Firefox.
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Interesting. Which city are you in? I used to spend a lot of time in Yangon in Myanmar, my wife's family are Burmese doctors who emigrated to the UK decades ago. We live in London at the moment. They also find the difference in approach between Asia and the UK puzzling.

I think the stark reality is, given how easily the virus spreads, you can play whack-a-mole with closures for potentially a very long time, but the virus will eventually spread and overwhelm the healthcare system.

I don't know how many ICU beds there are in Myanmar but I'm afraid it won't be nearly enough, just like everywhere else. I've been to a public hospital in Yangon once, and it was full to the brim with very long waiting times. Ended up just leaving before I come out with something worse I went in with. This was during a time without any pandemic.
I've been using KaTeX [1] for browser-based scientific logbook software since it loads and renders much more quickly than MathJax and doesn't make the page text move around while it renders. It doesn't support the complete TeX instruction set (yet) but it gets pretty close.

EDIT: looks like MathJax 3 is a lot quicker to render than older versions [2] - interesting.

[1] https://katex.org/

[2] https://www.intmath.com/cg5/katex-mathjax-comparison.php
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A good iterative approach taken by many hourly jobs is to have some scheduling horizon, say 1 week in advance.

You run the scheduler software, then send each employee a text message saying "We're offering you a shift Monday at 9am for 8 hours. Accept?". After 24 hours, rerun the scheduler with accepted/denied shifts as constraints, and repeat till all shifts are filled.

Obviously you may not end up with optimal schedules when people start denying shifts, but you get pretty close.

When a particular shift gets denied by more than ~3 people, they normally give a ~30% pay boost for that shift to get it filled.
> So if we posit that those animals are sentient and feel suffering, and far out number the number of bovine slaughtered, would we not cause more suffering haversting a field.

What do you feed the cows with? The same things that humans instead could eat. So, not only are you hurting the cow, but you are also hurting the critters in the process of feeding the cow.

> Also: mono cultures of plants a can destroy landscapes

Okay, rotate the plants and have off-periods to not over harvest.
I like local support networks would be a better place to manage this. There could be a place for software which helps those groups manage the local people they are helping (and those helping them).
Please share what you did. You can preface it with it's an old wife's tale but you have anecdotal evidence of its working. This information could be invaluable to others. Anyone mocking you at that point is an asshole.
We either get herd immunity via infection or cure/end every case of the virus in the world. They discard the latter as impossible given the infection rate and forecast time-to-vaccine.

These aren't all the possible outcomes (as South Korea) shows. It's quite possible to slow the spread by intervening hard early.

As a consequence of these things, the goal is to pass severe measures later than now (but perhaps at a relative point in time similar to italy's) such that during the period of these measures many young people will be sitting out the infection without passing it on, and the infection rate will fall to avoid saturating the NHS.

The issue is that without vast testing it's really difficult to see how deep into the pandemic you are.

And this theory is going to require getting the timing exactly right. Too late and it's really really bad.

Too early, and it gets hard to keep people isolated later, maybe.

This doesn't sound super-obviously wrongheaded to me.

Well, it means a bunch more people will get sick quicker, there won't be enough hospital beds and ventilators so lots will die.
Great find, thank you. I ended up playing with the tools they provide. I always loved solving optimization problems and this page ia a gem, I did not know it existed.
What if it gives the survivors the strength to resist or fight back something else? If we think about it, human (and not human) very ancient history must be full of these interactions, and our evolution is a consequence also of this kind of thing. Only recently we know how to "protect" ourselves. But if we are in the what-if domain... what if letting it go make us a biologically better being? What if it by chance will give us the protection against some kind of tumor? What if its overall effect, not counting the deaths, is positive and not negative like making us infertile?
What if....
We can't know. But we'll see one side of the coin when we'll have defeated this threat. (Which is not an existential threat, anyway, i.e. it won't make us go extinct)
He hasn't worked in real estate for 30 years. Not since Trump Taj Mahal went down in flames. He does hotel management and branding. His other ventures have also all gone down in flames with a few resulting in fraud lawsuits.

All that being said, when in the last 5 years has he displayed more than a facile understanding of anything besides women's bodies? He again suggested this week that the US could refinance it's debt like a mortgage. He has previously declared that vaccines cause autism, climate change is a hoax, health insurance costs $12 a year, you need an ID to buy groceries. He's also said a website costs $2. A lot of people claim it's his persona and not his real self but I haven't seen any evidence at all to the contrary.
I just noticed that the simulation does not have a field for the total size of the population. The initial state is 5 sick people in a population of 5000.

The initial grow is exponential until the logistic part of the curve kicks in. The current grow is something like 25% daily, so a x10 in the population is a delay of the peak of 3 days or something like that. It would be more days if we flatten the curve. (With the initial values in your simulation, the peak is at 60 days. For a big city with 1 million people, the delay is like 2 weeks.)

It's clear that this is a very simplified model, but they are useful to get a feeling of how the parameters affect the epidemy.
Trump trying to keep possible Covid-19 vaccine exclusive to US
Keep your heads up, AMD and Intel vulns, good Operators, NTP in K8s, and more
Show HN: A GitHub App that helps you split pull requests
> You can get the foundation with 2x 1hr visits to a local club. They absolutely don’t want you to do this, they really want you to join but it’s possible.

I know it's silly but it's exactly the prospect of this awkward situation which is stopping me doing it. I can't bring myself to be saying to some old timer: I'm interested in this hobby, you're clearly interested, very knowledgeable and keen to share, but actually I just want to do the test and do my own thing thanks.

Not to mention I suspect every single member of my nearest club is about to be subject to an over 70s isolation policy.
"The already-low price of milk, which is set by the federal government, is projected to drop even further this year."

Interesting, and worthy of more prominence in the article IMHO.
"Another kind of snake", you mean!
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"Established in 2000, the website contains more than 1,500 pages and 1,200 images."

From https://www.theoi.com/contact.php
I always assumed that was from the pressure of leaning against things like countertops or being pressed between a belt and a car’s seatbelt.
When I wrote this I was thinking of China, Singapore, South Korea, Myanmar vs. USA, UK, Netherlands since those are places where I have contacts. A few weeks ago I was told that flying into Amsterdam there were no temperature checks. Same with flying today around US. Singapore was doing that months ago...
I have used the or-tools VRP (vehicle routing problem) solver to optimize the drawing order of a pen plotter [1]. The Python API is a bit ugly but once I got past that, I found it had enough flexibility (e.g. asymmetric costs, disjoint routes) to represent the problem neatly.

1. https://nb.paulbutler.org/optimizing-plots-with-tsp-solver/
Also worth noting that in his previous role in DFID Whitty coauthored papers advising the UK government funding isolation centres in Sierra Leone for Ebola, so it's unlikely that he has any particular radical bias against the efficacy of isolation as a disease prevention method.
I'm always interested in learning what works for others. People need to understand we're all different so what works for one group of people may not work for other groups of people. Modern medicine has only recently begun to realize there may be several things for which a one cure fits all approach doesn't exist.
Here is a question I would genuinely like answered. Isn't there a major tension between the environmental point of view and animal rights point of view?

The environmental viewpoint seems clear and reasonable; keeping large animals alive is expensive in terms of resources and waste. So get rid of them. Reduce the population of cows from a billion to a million.

But this seems to go against the idea of animal rights. After all, to make an environmental improvement, we would need to eliminate most of the cattle, i.e., kill them and not replace them. If you care about the conditions of a cow's life, is it moral to solve the problem by eliminating that life?

How are these two viewpoints allies?
Well, that's how these graphs tend to look like for a while for infectious diseases. All we can do at this point is reduce the growth factor so that doctors don't have to choose who gets to use lifesaving machinery and who dies like in Italy.
Is anyone building with stainless steel reinforcement bars for buildings they want to last 2000 years?

EDIT: Looks like they are: http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...
> There are almost no drawback to the health system by introducing strict measures sooner rather than later. Studies supporting stuff like lockdown or containment fatigue is also sorely lacking. Basing our epidemic response on this is completely bonkers.

Anecdote: I'm in Singapore, which was one of the first countries hit by the virus. People are getting complacent from how well our government seems to be handling the virus.

I wouldn't say that places are as crowded as before (since we've been introducing gradual travel restrictions), but our public areas are still pretty packed, and people are still going out and mingling despite government advice on social distancing.

The government knows this, and has announced that they will introduce measures over a staggered period to slow down transmission [1].

[1] https://www.gov.sg/article/pm-lee-hsien-loong-on-the-covid-1... — "They will be extra 'brakes', to be implemented when we see a spike in cases. The extra brakes will slow down transmission of the virus, prevent our healthcare system from being overwhelmed, and help bring the numbers back down."
If you need micromanagement, you have other problems.

Perhaps you are reinforcing poor behaviors that make people feel dependent on micromanagement.
Interesting stuff. Have you succeeded in getting paying customers for such a service? I've seen some similar free alternatives online, i.e. resoomer, smmry
Counter and username is low-security information you can shove in Google Drive.

I'm still not sure that this system is a good idea, but I think "where do I store the non-password bits" isnt a big concern.
Academics make an empirical case against stakeholderism
Not sure I agree with your assessment.

Germany is doing pretty well at just 9 deaths on 4.5k cases. The WHO is not the only or the best source of recommendations, nor is this over in China. I'd be very surprised if they don't see another outbreak there now that this is a pandemic it will spread to Africa for example, which has a huge no of Chinese working there who will bring it back.
So typical - let's deep dive into how much royal families cost while ignoring how much the government costs (orders of magnitude more)
Having taken a number of MOOCs, I would say, for the videos:

- the speaker must be standing

- the tone should be light, not necessarily funny, but definitely not always the same

- there should be illustrations

- anecdotes, personal notes, interviews: maybe not at every video but at least one per chapter.

- videos should last less than 15min.

The talk must not aim to be exhaustive. Students will master the material through provided readings, exercises or quizzes. Some may only watch the videos, others will do the full course.

You will probably not have the time to prepare quality videos before the COVID-19 outbreak, so you may limit yourself to an introductory video for every chapter. You may also provide the solution for a couple of exercises in a video on the model of Kahn academy.

You should watch the making-of at the end of "Mindshift" on Coursera, by Barbara Oakley.

Note that "Introduction to logic" on Coursera has no videos but provides great tools and both funny and serious exercises.

Bad videos may spoil the course by making your students bored before they even start learning. So insist on quality, not quantity.
Most of my clothes are that old, especially clothes I wear at home. Why would I buy new ones for that? The only reason is if the old ones are too broken/worn.
I would guess the most useful part of that is that would allow parsing to proceed further.

I used an Algol compiler that had messages such as:

Semicolon missing after end (inserted)

Undeclared identifier ‘foo’ (assumed integer)

Both of these hugely improved the compiler output, as far fewer utterly useless error messages would be produced (yes, I know I didn’t declare ‘foo’. You told me so the previous 12 times I used it)

Parsing valid programs is easy, so are bailing out or going into the woods when encountering invalid syntax. Producing meaningful error messages for line 100 after having seen errors on lines 13, 42 and 78 can be fairly hard.
As Director of the organization that released the report, I believe he does.

https://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FFI_2...

Are you saying we should wait until we know the adverse effects of basically strip mining the ocean floor and how releasing millions of tons of tailings back into the sea might impact the ecosystem, thermal or carbon cycles that operate there?
Would also be interested in a compare and contrast with open source optaplanner https://www.optaplanner.org/learn/useCases/employeeRostering...
Vallance is a medical doctor with quarter of a century in academic medicine and private sector drug research and two years as Chief Scientific Advisor. Chris Whitty, who's identified even more closely with the development of the current strategy, is an epidemiologist.
And trees on the sidewalk = urinal for dogs
Ask HN: Best way to prevent macOS applications from launching?
There's a macOS app called Focus (https://heyfocus.com) that stops websites and apps from being accessed/launching for a period of time. I currently use Self Control (http://selfcontrolapp.com) which is an open source/free tool. However, because it only blocks website usage, I was wondering what a HN solution would be. It seems overkill to shell $19-$39 to get access to basically half a feature.
I'd say any app that will do any kind of (more than simple) data manipulation. If you plan to support more and more data formats, things will get exponentially worse.

One domain where I'd go with Lisp/Clojure/Scheme any day are banking/financial switches - software used to communicate between banks, card providers, POS devices, even ATMs. These programs usually has to support tons of weird binary protocols (among other things), designed in 70-ties and 80-ties. To make matter worse, bigger banks adds own "juice" to those protocols, making hybrid monstrosities. And usually, you can't find documentation about those protocols, unless you are deeply in banking business.
Seems like something one could easily look up on their own..
This is one of those “makes sense to me” kind of things, that the modelling shows is wrong.

Not “kind of makes sense, but needs a set of specific assumptions, so kind of true but risky.”

Wrong.

If you wait, you get a different infection rate curve.

That’s it. Flat out, it means more people get infected more quickly and more people die.

Long term, maybe the results are less clear, but given the best experts in the field are openly questioning the approach, you can be... pretty sure, your gut feel about it is wrong.
> Some Victorian houses don’t have foundations, but this is not the norm

University of West England seems to disagree:
https://fet.uwe.ac.uk/conweb/house_ages/elements/print.htm

> Many local authorities were slow in adopting Model Bye-laws; even where they did, building control was fairly lax. This meant that the nature and quality of foundations varied considerably. The graphics below show typical foundations at the end of the 1800s. The depths varied according to circumstances but generally they were shallower than their modern counterparts.

This means, they are shallower than other parts of the world of the same era.

Also: https://newmanbuildingsolutions.com/bowing-walls/residential...

> The Victorians often didn’t use this method of construction for foundations and instead used to build shallow footings out of a course of 5-6 bricks in a ‘pyramid’ shape spreading the load across the ground and in some cases the footings are no more than 200mm’s deep.

> [...] The problems with the shallow foundations arise due to the shrinkage and heave of the clay soils that are found across London and the South East

So the roots. Energy-wise the lack of insulation on the foundation is also an issue. Heat can escape downwards as well. (And slugs, rats, spiders up, but that's an other story.)
> Every minute is exceptionally important as it means saving lives. Don’t waste it!

The fact that the US Senate did not speed up the emergency measure by staying is loosing 2 days. At that time the measures are in place the problem is twice as large. In normal times this is just a business day delay but in these times calendar days are the measure and weekends are counted too. We really need to start thinking and acting differently.
Trying to use Keepass on my phone is the exact reason I had to find another solution.

I've switched to Bitwarden a few months ago, and I couldn't be happier.
Foot traffic has fallen sharply in cities with big coronavirus outbreaks
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Glad you like it! :)

In the beginning I wanted to make it as close to being an Infinite Jest fanfic as possible. In hindsight - adding more of DFW works wouldn't have hurt. I might get round to it.
stats? SSD most often simply vanish from the system without any warnings, no promised RO mode, no errors, drop of IO. Almost zero problem in enterprise, hard freeze on personal OSes and immediate loss of data.
Pascal grammar is sufficiently different from C-alikes, so it might explain why for Pascal source code these messages are more meaningful.
I grew up listening to them and the Industrial music, art noise, intellectual punk sounds of the 80's. I met Genesis at a dinner party, but he was not really there there, being on some multi-day trip and just sat zoned in the corner. So, no, I did not meet him beyond his eyes glancing my way when my name was stated. Ah, those were the daze...
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That money wasn’t given, it is lent overnight. What is a US household going to do with a collateral-backed $11718 loan made today that they have to repay tomorrow morning?