skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://gotocon.com/berlin-2013/speaker/Richard+P.+Gabriel

Biography: Richard P. Gabriel

Dr Richard P. “Dick” Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp/OOP community, known for his book “Innovation Happens Elsewhere”, his essay “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big”, and the "Gabriel” Lisp benchmarks that became a standard way of benchmarking Lisp implementations. Dr Gabriel is also the recipient of the recipient of Association for Computing Machinery's 1998 Fellows Award, and the 2004 Allen Newell Award.

With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998, Dr Gabriel was described in the Alan Newell Award as stretching “the imagination of computer scientists with ideas and innovations from other fields” and he combines these into presentations to technology audiences that he describes as being “audacious set-piece guerilla performances”.

Dick has been a researcher at Stanford University, company president and Chief Technical Officer at Lucid, Inc., vice president of development at ParcPlace-Digitalk, a management consultant for several startups and Sun Microsystems, and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Presentation: I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips

http://gotocon.com/berlin-2013/presentation/I%20Throw%20Itch...

http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-berlin-2013/slides/RichardP.Gabri...
That the advice of an official is unfounded doesn't mean there wasn't official advice which was what was in question not its veracity.
With such an infectious disease you're going to get it sooner or later; that's the UK's point.

I believe it's mistake to claim that the disease will inevitably become endemic in the fashion of the flu. It certainly reach that level but costs would be massively catastrophic in a multitude of fashions. Oppositely, that of the different nations who've contained the infection show that is possible to eliminate it from a region and so a world-wide effort could eliminate it world wide as well.

One factor is that the disease is much more deadly than the early commentators (notably in the Atlantic) believed and aside from making "everyone get infected, OK?" horrific, this gives a strong marker for the disease and a strong incentive to act.
Digital Cinema Security Compromise (2014) [pdf]
One thing I really don't like about minimalists is they boast too much about the numbers of different items they own. Not all wears are made by the fast fashion industry as a result of consumerism. I have bike wear, climbing wear and running wears but I use them interchangeably and try to buy less because I'm relatively poor. IMO minimalists should expand their hobbies (which are rarely low-cost so they will try to optimize their spendings) rather than confine themselves in the established social norms.
Hospitals are already stretched, it takes hours of waiting to treat normal injuries such as broken legs. Waiting list for some operations is years long.

How many people are going to die from other causes, if we shutdown entire country for 6 months? How many of those will be children and young people?

It may sound harsh, but as a younger person I prefer this plan.
I spoke with one doctor neighbor from England who now lives in the US. He said he felt much more optimistic about the UK plan because the government was doing a better job of consulting experts. He seems to think the US plan is "satire." But let's not get too political.
3.4%
Argeed; I don't see evidence that anyone recently "cancelled" has been Fahrenheit 451'ed.

Hell, the ones who aren't in prison mostly seem to be getting their careers back.
I had a pair of Levi's jeans, my weight is pretty stable, so they were good on me for a decade. Someone else above also mentioned having Levi's for a decade. Treat them well and they tend to last a long time.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/15/the-rise-of-worse-is-bet...

In 2000 an OOPSLA panel was convened to debate the question of whether worse was still better. Gabriel wrote a position paper arguing for the-right-thing. A month later, he wrote a second position paper arguing for worse-is-better!

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/WorseIsBetterPositionPaper....

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/ProWorseIsBetterPosition.pd...
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This is something I've been considering for a while, but now the pandemic is pushing it forward as I may be having a gap in my income coming. I'm looking for some paid work with a startup or fellow entrepreneur.

I'm a mechanical engineering technologist and project manager turned tech entrepreneur. I don't code, but have been slowly learning, and also trying out no-code tools. I have extensive experience in manufacturing and construction from my original career, and had a profitable consulting business in legal services that I pivoted to a tech company, releasing one web app in 2017. But this is all history now and I can't generate income from that in the near term. You can find more info about it in my IH profile.

I realize that there will be many talented people unfortunately entering the job market soon, many of them being specialists - engineers, marketers, designers... I believe I have something different to offer as a generalist that has filled many different roles and has very diverse experience.

If any of this resonates with you and you want some more info, I'm open to chat about any opportunity. Thanks so much for reading, and best of luck during this challenging time!

blake@emigro.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-sieders/
https://www.indiehackers.com/Blake_Emigro
Obligatory listening gals and guys: https://open.spotify.com/track/1CmUZGtH29Kx36C1Hleqlz?si=Jbm...
A quick search on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ITyifcYy8
The difficulties with CPI are well known to economists and anyone interested in historical finance.

But its flaws are insignificant compared to using the price of gold as a measuring stick - given how volatile its price is.

By your method of calculating equivalent amounts, the $5 a day was worth $300 in 2020 but only $200 in 2016 - or $380 in 2012 or $50 in 2002.
By the rate of mortality, it kills way more people than H1N1 or the 2014 flu. By the rate of infection, it infects more people than SARS or MERS and already has done so. None of these diseases managed to overwhelm the healthcare system of a developed nation like Italy. Clearly, the potential danger is therefore far greater than any of those "closed cases".

Furthermore, the "deadliest" viruses in terms of rate and velocity of death are not as dangerous to the population as a whole, because most of the infected people fall over dead before infecting anyone else.

> We're at 167,543 with a total of 76,590 recoveries as of this comment.

We're also doubling the number of cases every 2.5 days in those countries that haven't managed to contain the spread. In Italy, that number (~20,000) has exceeded the capacity of the healthcare system.
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>>we're not going to let 15-20 million people die to a virus in this modern age of technology and healthcare.

well, you have to take measures weeks and months ahead, or else it doesn't matter...lungs need oxygen.
Quote:

In another interview with the BBC, Sir Patrick said: “If you suppress something very, very hard, when you release those measures it bounces back and it bounces back at the wrong time.”

He added: “Our aim is to try to reduce the peak, broaden the peak, not suppress it completely; also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some kind of herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease and we reduce the transmission, at the same time we protect those who are most vulnerable to it.”

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/38a81588-6508-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea6...
He can publish on Minecraft.
I doubt this plan will be long lived. Once the bodies start piling-up there will be a riot.
I wonder if this is in fact working - Not so much to protect oneself from getting it, but preventing the no-symptom/mild symptom carriers from spreading to others.
The disparity of death rates among countries has more to do with infrastructure than the virus. Germany and Switzerland are proving this is just a flu, albeit a pretty bad one (0.1-0.5% death rate). More testing will prove this out by increasing the denominator by 10x.
Denim doesn't last anymore, last pair of jeans I bought blew out at the ass at work after about six months. They weren't cheap or ill fitting either.

Plus denim isn't acceptable attire at many workplaces.
What is next though? It seems to me that, after you end the lockdown, the disease will just be brought back there from other infected regions.
In my personal experience, I've found KDE to be technically more interesting than Gnome, but Gnome to be better designed in terms of user experience.

I wish Gnome could match the power/performance of KDE, or KDE could match the user friendliness and visual consistency of Gnome...
No one really knows how the number will turn out. There are factors that could push it down: lack of testing, lots of mild cases; and factors that could push it up: the disease takes a long time to either recover or succumb to, so many of those who will end up dying from it haven't died yet.

Resiliency of healthcare systems also clearly has a major impact. It might be well under 1% in a "first world" country where hospitals can keep up, and well over 10% in a "third world" country where they can't.

While a 7% mortality rate certainly isn't some kind of objective fact, it's unfortunately not out of the realm of possibility for us in a worst-case scenario where the healthcare system is completely inundated. It's better to face up to that possibility than downplay it even if it scares people, because we urgently need people to act so it doesn't get that bad. While I agree that people shouldn't fear-monger, it's far more irresponsible at this point to downplay the risk than to (arguably) overstate it.
What counts as selfish? If someone is developing a drug for it but can't make the money back they spent on it because they don't have patent protection, they're not going to do it in the first place. A startup will fundamentally need to have profitability to be worth developing the drug. The government is a different story, and of course there's a chance the vaccines come out of the NIH etc. But if it comes out of a startup in particular, the people behind it we're only driven to create it for profit (why are they founding a startup instead of working through academia, or doing it as a startup/funding a startup instead of as a nonprofit?) And if that profit motive was required to make this work, then profit was the tool used to fight Covid, not the other way around, no?
Bitcoin could soon be in the museum of illusions: ex Director-General ECB
An Update from the South Bay Trenches (Covid-19)
Do you really think social distancing will prevent getting to the 60% needed for herd immunity?

I dont think any of our measures are strong enough to actually stop the disease without getting to herd immunity.
Pretty much any poor country. In all of South Asia all enforcement officers (of any level of enforcement on any thing) above a certain seniority will be wealthy well beyond their income.
Thank you, this is the first time I've seen anybody mention the specific server. The article oddly avoids specifying the Minecraft server, instead linking to the offsite map.
It's not unreasonable to expect Forbes' editorial control to extend to everything they host on their domain.
We are launching a initiative to showcase tech projects to fight the covid-19 virus. Fell free to submit your projects https://taikai.network/taikai/challenges/covid-19
I'm not sure there is a consensus against it. I've seen a few articles like this (which is worrying) but articles in favour of the status quo tend to not get so much prominence.

I really hope the government knows what it's doing. They have promised to publish their models, so hopefully that will give some more confidence.
This is a talk by Javier Burroni & Gerardo Richarte. More Information is available at
http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2010/Talks/Jit-Jit

In 2011 they gave a talk about garbage collection at the same conference also on YouTube http://esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talk...
They ave also been involved with Squeak
I have GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease) along with mild asthma, and NSAIDs are a big no-no for me. When I was in the Army, the docs handed out bottles of 800mg Ibuprofen tablets like candy for virtually any complaint - I took them because I was young and invincible back then.

These days, I rarely take anything for headaches. If it's bad enough, I'll take the occasional Tylenol (usually after my wife orders me to take something because the pain is making me cranky). Body aches get ice and/or bengay.
If it's at forbes.com, and has Forbes logo at the top, it's Forbes. If they don't like the brand damage this is creating, tough luck: they can't have their cake and eat it too.
I was trying to make this argument yesterday and got piles of comments responding exactly this way: "oh, that's only 300 signatures from UK scientists in opposition", "oh, but some of the people who agree with you don't have enough credentials".
Which is itself the leading cause of acute liver failure in the US. The active dose is very close to the lethal dose, much more so than naproxen or ibuprofen.
Video not the same as in person. If it is for you then maybe you don’t appreciate some aspects of in person communication.
Quarantine Enforcement using GPS with Symptom Tracking
https://www.proveneapp.com

Video: https://vimeo.com/395294573
Deck: https://www.dropbox.com/s/128ef7cmu62yv9i/Provene%20Quaranti...

It's a monitoring platform - Used for jail diversion, recidivism, drug treatment, etc...Lots of great use cases around quarantine and tracking.
And people generally agree that HBO is within their rights to limit their programming to their subscriber base.
Ace inhibitors as a potential risk factor for fatal Covid-19
Covid19: Some Baseline Information
Not my first rodeo in Tokyo in an Airbnb dude, and I’m not conflating shit. I’ve had good experiences in Tokyo Airbnb as well as in Hong Kong and Taipei where space is just as limited. My frustration is with the host where we clearly asked up front before booking whether this would be a good place for my family. And the pics were definitely not representative of the actual space.
that might be true in c# but it's not true in C++ iirc. the library declares its "global" namespace which dicates what global symbol will be generated for the linker. "using" creates an alias for that symbol in consumers of the library but nothing you can do short of changing the source of the library will fix the issue of 2 libraries using the same namespace. This is not true for JS

Update : Verified the same issue exists in c#.
He was a subject of unethical human experiments while at Harvard for one. That may have influenced his opinion. His crusade against academic scientists may have been more personal than even he consciously realized.
It's already happening in Canada. Look at our last election [0]. A clear divide between Toronto and Western Canada. It was a very sad day for me to see my country completely torn in two with both sides cementing themselves in place.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Canadian_federal_election
No one is getting out with a death rate that low. SK is nearing 1%.

The numbers are only so low in Germany/Switzerland because its a) growing fast and b) they are testing aggressively. More precisely (and morbidly), the death rate is low because not enough time has passed yet.
Indeed, you realy want the bulk of those who will not have complications to catch it early and leaving schools open, enables that. Over making every parent stay at home to look after their child!

Coz you need to balance out infections and with that manage them, so you will see periodic lockdowns in some parts to throttle back infection and also those most at risk will see themselves issolating for months and however you do things, you want to be doing that anyhow.

So infect, isolating those who high risk and letting others carry on and manage infection rate with hospital numbers as you will get risk people getting infected anyhow, so focusing on managing infection in those you can and getting it out the way, has logic behind it. yes people will die, they are not flowing that up, but equally, they are planning for those longterm to be lower than falling victim to the seasonal waves ala spanish flu and how that went.

Yes it does seem harsh, but as an older person it is the best plan for the whole and I'm high risk.
Somewhere after, or around, thee 5 minute mark:

"true exponentials are basically non-existent in real life"
That's false, all recorded deaths do far were reported to have preexisting conditions.
Alternative Egyptology and scientific archaeology were born on the Giza
All concrete gets stronger over time!
https://www.concrete.org/tools/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx...
edit: [adding more detail, removing all caps]
Contracts will often specify a 7day or 28day strength because the concrete will keep getting stronger over time. Separate cylinders are poured for independent testing of the strength

Here’s a good textbook on concrete:
Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials
Textbook by Paulo J. M. Monteiro and Povindar Kumar Mehta
>I don't think many other package managers do this

Unless I am missing something, "go mod vendor", and "mvn package" will work in the same manner. They will download all deps of the app itself PLUS all transitive dependencies. No system libraries needed (or touched)
The government has somewhat changed the message and they are now saying that their priority is to save lives, which does sound like contradicting their previous message of rapid herd immunity.
As a reminder, some Samsung phones have a pulsoxymeter built in and you can measure yourself in seconds.
This does not make any sense. North Italy health care is at least as good as the one in Germany and surely better than the one in Switzerland. Probably these countries are sampling a lot the general population finding many people with mild or no symptoms. In Italy because of the size of the problem the ones getting sampled are now almost solely severe cases.
UK will survive, UK's economy will survive, they are consciously sacrificing many of their elders and weaker people - who are in most part a mere cost for the society - in favour of young and productive individuals. They are rationally addressing the consequencies of Brexit by doing so, taking an advantage over EU, who is likely to fall into recession. UK traded their moral for their economy.
No paywall: https://outline.com/GjXK6r

An interesting read, thank you. Interesting points are made- but very little attention paid to questions of checks & balances. In other words, I'm curious how they see their ideal systems remaining resilient when faced with bad faith actors in positions of authority. I may have to read those books and see if they talk about it more.
Bodies piling up is a lagging indicator. I think there’s some consensus that once the bodies start piling up it might be too late to do anything
He could easily self publish. It's not like the government is forbidding him from writing; it's that other people don't want to be associated with it.
That's not censorship.
What are you trying to say? Are you saying that the commercial Unix licenses (to Sun et al) were only for a nominal price? Or are you saying that they were not for a nominal price, hence the BSD suit?

I agree that "the context changed" - IIRC, when the AT&T consent decree expired. That was 1982. Sun Microsystems was also founded in 1982. It was based on BSD, which had to go through the lawsuit to be proclaimed, essentially, a cleanroom Unix.

When Sun licensed from AT&T, (early 90s?) it was (I presume) at market price.

All that detail doesn't change my point: People cloned Unix because they wanted Unix. There wasn't a Berkeley VMS, not just because VMS was expensive, but because nobody wanted VMS that badly. (Why clone the thing you're getting for close to free, anyway? Doesn't it make more economic sense to clone the thing that you can't afford (VMS or OS/360), and pay the nominal price for the almost-free thing?)

People cared about Unix in a way that nobody cared about VMS or OS/360. Perhaps the ability to see the source code was part of that. But the story you're telling seems far too simplistic.
Machines. Just like on the market.
All in the service of making human s a multiplanetary species. Did people think that would happen without some sacrifices along the way? Look at those astronauts. Their bone marrow is being zapped by ionizing radiation? Man-up, and keep building those rockets!
Ask HN: Why can the rest of the world not copy S.Korea's Covid-19 approach?
Plus, everyone who got at the beginning, and went through it, will be immune for a certain time. So these interactions have to be taken into account as well. Plus everyone being immune from the beginning. So no, no exponential function. But as the math guy said, "indistinguishable from an exponential in the beginning".

Edit: The math guy being 3Blue1Brown in his video linked elsewhere in this thread.
It would be more useful to me if the authors of articles would provide the tl;dr themselves.
Us millenials aren't the new generation anymore, we're old now.

Now we get to complain about all these damn Gen Zeds (everyone 95 and after).

Also you must not be Canadian because our govt had a huge hardon for Corel even post MS Office. Lots of WordPerfect installs on school PCs when I was growing up (I'm 93).
The article states a lot of things that don't make any sense and should certainly be ignored. In a time of instant electronic communication, in which the primary way scientific findings are broadcast are PDFs of journal pre-prints, why would travel restrictions be ending cooperation between countries and sharing of knowledge? That's something the author wants to be true because they're a leftist globalist, but when we do a quick reality check it sounds completely wrong. We're not sending couriers with letters anymore.

Marxist catastrophism is a very specific thing. It's not a fancy placeholder for "anything that's not neoliberalism" (a term which is arguably itself poorly defined).

Marx is famously known for a few slogans, but he spent his entire life writing. Marxist catastrophism refers to his written vision of the future in which, roughly speaking, capitalism would collapse into catastrophic anarchism due to its internal contradictions (as he saw it) and eventually be replaced with socialism. Interestingly this vision of his came to him as a young man, before most of his other ideas were well formed, and stayed with him his entire life. There's a good description of it in this biography of his life (starting page 52):

https://www.academia.edu/12009844/Intellectuals_From_Marx_an...

Johnson argues that his vision was primarily a poetic vision, that is, he saw the poetic vision of a society in flames and then worked backwards from that to derive his political ideas, which is one reason why they don't hold water and why he had to rely on various kinds of intellectual fraud to support them (like manufacturing quotes, using very obsolete sources, etc).

When you argue that "market capitalism isn't resilient or robust. Our engine must always run on red and sooner or later it's going to brake down." you are, whether you know it or not, walking a well trodden intellectual path. It's all been heard before but kind of like peak oil, didn't actually happen. Capitalism proved very robust, at least compared to the proposed alternatives. There have been quite a few collapse of communist regimes, but no collapse of any capitalist country. Even blowups like the GFC were over within two years and back to business as usual.