skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brit here:

I'm not a fan of Dominic's government, but the response seems to be well motivated by a series of reasonable arguments. As I understand it:

1. 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.

2. The counterfactual/needless damage done will be deaths due to NHS capacity saturation, which is a function of (maximum simultaneously infected) - (nhs capacity at that time).

3. Most controversially, they argue that people are going to be shit at implementing isolation policies of the needed severity, in the particular sense that the effectiveness of isolation measures will drop over time. That seems quite likely to me, having met some humans before. Hard to tell / interested in studies if anyone can point to some.

4. 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.

Or, put another way, they are going to do everything the US is doing but in about 7-14 days, as opposed to now, because the limited period of effective social isolation will hit a more high-growth period, and more young people will be sitting it out and becoming immune.

This doesn't sound super-obviously wrongheaded to me. It's unclear what the plan in the US is. Lockdown for ever? Lockdown-till-cure? Lockdown till herd immunity is pretty equivalent to the UK strategy, and seems likely to be the outcome. But herd immunity takes longer to achieve the earlier you start measures.
Modern C++ is enjoyable and fast. Building and dependency management is fragmented and broken. I hope this takes off!
Dan Ariely made extensive use of humor in his lectures and it made a great difference
The fact that dc does (or at least tries to) guarantee error bounds on the result is news to me.

And if that does indeed work, that's pretty cool.
Potential interventions for novel coronavirus in China: A systematic review
Rupert Beale Wash Your Hands
Similarly there is getvau.lt which also has a command line version.
This may be intended to solve/work around the problem of Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics - i.e. if you as much as touch a small part of a problem, you're now considered responsible for solving the whole thing.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
My not so linear healthy lifestyle[How I screw it up and get back]
The government has changed from "containment phase" and is now in their "delay phase", and that means they think millions of people will become infected.

Patrick Vallence:

> ‘So our aim is to tray and reduce their peak – broaden the peak – not to suppress it completely. Also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity as well.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/13/millions-brits-get-coronaviru...

Herd immunity is a direct aim of the current phase of the government plan -- it has to be, because they think that covid-19 will become a seasonal illness.

https://www.ft.com/content/0475f450-654f-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...

> The prime minister and his scientific advisers hope to manage the epidemic by “flattening the curve” of infection and delaying the peak until the summer, when the National Health Service will face less seasonal pressure.

> Then — or so the theory goes — enough people will have acquired resistance to Covid-19 to avoid a second wave of disease next autumn or winter. Downing Street believes that other countries that have taken draconian action now will be vulnerable later in the year.

> Mr Johnson’s strategy depends on building up the so-called herd immunity. If a high enough proportion has become resistant through Covid-19 infection, the virus will not have enough new people to catch and the epidemic will not be able to sustain itself. It will burn out.
I've observed more of the opposite pressure - people without commercial pressures want to focus on their particular interests, but instead are constantly pressured to generalize and monetize.
Maybe to put a more positive spin on it: the sooner you act the more leeway you have. Better that you realize now that someone has to come in and install a remote power switch on some server. In a week it might be a bit harder to ask someone to shoot over to BestBuy and pick it up. The same goes for your workers: they might appreciate some time to set up their home office.

Exponential growth means employee expectations will go from "completely safe at work" to "don't leave home except for food" pretty fast. You don't want to be that guy who asks employees to violate the (possibly government imposed) lock down to keep the lights on.
On my street the local council has recently cut down 5 trees and replaced them with 2 tiny saplings. One is doing well. And the other is currently being used by some guy to hang his electric car charging cable!? I despair for humanity some times.

I bought this house 4 years ago and have since planted 5 trees on my property alone. And have convinced two neighbours to plant at least one.
It's a gamble of whether this virus will persist like flu, in an era of mobility, pandemics are almost inevitable.
I can't understand your reading of what is being said. Here is the 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.”'
> Medium has paywalled me. Any non-paywall links?

The link works here in Firefox with NoScript, also in Dillo (no JS support).
I dont understand why you would let a malicious actor access this in the first place.
I've done ten channels of broadcast FM with GNU Radio. The limiting factor is processing power. Here's a spectrum with all channels sending the same audio.

http://www.w6rz.net/fm10.png
As you say, the UK government's strategy is to isolate those most vulnerable first, exactly as is the main point of this letter. It's just a mater of timing. The letter isn't asking them to do anything they haven't already committed to doing.

On timing, the longer people are in isolation, the harder it is to maintain it. Vulnerable people might need to remain isolated for 3 to 4 months. Many of them will inevitably end up compromising their isolation during that time, so it's vital that the isolation period does not start earlier than it needs to. It's trading increased exposure risk now when the virus has a very low prevalence, for better isolation later when the virus is everywhere.
In work and learning I keep getting back to an analogy with a trainer and an athlete. People have been training for a long time. The goal is to excel, constantly improve and ideally become the best. The job of the trainer is to monitor if the athlete is working hard enough to improve while not overdoing it. If recovery takes to long the gains will be smaller. One might even get injured. Every type of training has clear goals one of which is the duration of the challenge. A work day is usually 8 hours not a 30 min race to the end. It seems to me a huge challenge to do this remotely. It seems the camera shouldn't be pointed at the teacher but at the student.
I mean, that heavily depends on the kind of tree. London’s plane trees should have a very long lifespan, but at the moment the oldest will be around 300 years old, and most nowhere near that. For things like silver birch, the life expectancy is firmly under 100 years.
Depends if paying the license fee means much for Apple or not but if they're doing their own streaming, perhaps it does.
Python isn't elegant. It's just more pragmatic and to the point with little waste. Lisp is definitely more elegant, but no one knew (and still don't know) how to tame the beast. We know it's a powerful language, but don't know what school of thought can utilize it safely. That's why Lisp has many horrible messes.
Interestingly, the second demo with the “fixed” layout behavior actually has digits cut off as I move the slider around in my browser; I’m not sure why. More on topic, though, I’m somewhat disappointed that MathML doesn’t seem to have taken off as much as it could have: it would be really nice to be able to send some code embedded in HTML and have it render on the client without any JavaScript at all. I wonder if the delay in implementation has anything to do with the abundance of use of MathJax, making working on it low-priority.
I solved this problem in my deterministic password manager: passwords are generated from a keyfile, which is encrypted with your master password. This means that if someone gains access to your master password, they can't do anything without the keyfile, and likewise if someone gets access to the keyfile without the master password. Also, changing the master password becomes a simple operation (the keyfile is simply re-encrypted, no need to change site passwords). Since passwords are generated deterministically, the keyfile needs to be synced only once to all devices, after that you have syncless operation. https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/baopass
And the cars.
This is probably the one you were thinking of regarding the relays: https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
Notes on a Zoom Class
So you're arbitrarily suggesting that being the first western country is special. China's economy was already affected at that point. In our global world, why doesn't that count? By your logic, I could also say the US doesn't do enough for obvious reasons: They're the first western non-European country affected. They don't want to be the only ones (after China and Italy) paying the economic price.
I find that my power poses are less intimidating over video.
> I have good blood markers after 6 years on this diet. LDL of 52. BP of 101/74. So for me this diet is way healthier than the omnivorous diet that I had before.

Perhaps, but we're talking about nutritional deficiencies, have you tested for all of those? A vitamin deficiency can take up to a decade to manifest in symptoms.

> If you want to believe that animals are essential for human health, go on.

I don't want to believe that, I would prefer not to have to believe that. On the other hand, many people want to believe that animals are not necessary, for ethical reasons. That causes distortion and misrepresentation, because it would be inconvenient if a plant-based diet was not entirely healthy and nutritionally complete.

> Your thoughts on bioavailability are also outdated.

Those aren't "my thoughts", that is scientific data. Show me yours.

> It has been shown for protein, iron and some vitamins that bioavailability in practice is very good for plant sources. E.g. iron is converted as good as heme iron when combined with vitamin C. And it‘s hard to avoid C on a plant based diet.

Source?

> May I ask where you get your information from?

I get it from all available sources. If Doctor So-and-so claims this-and-that, I look at the scientific publications supporting that.

On top of that, I try to look at what's plausible from an evolutionary history perspective. A plant-based diet doesn't seem plausible. That doesn't mean it's not good, of course - especially compared to a junk food diet. However, there's a lot of "ethical incentive" to misrepresent it as better than it is. You gotta watch out for that.
That train departed a few weeks ago.
Kabinenroller is a sort of a precursor to microcars of the 70s when afaik more models started appearing, instead of straight-up cabs-on-scooters of the 40s/50s. Notably, ‘Kabinenroller’ means precisely ‘scooter with cabin’.

It was also featured as Sam Lowry's car in ‘Brazil’: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iTYUPuZGbes
I think people believe that a vaccine is 18 mths away. Certainly it seems implausible that 100's of millions of doses of a new vaccine can be manufactured within a few months. The models and history that I have seen (ie. the 1918 flu) indicate that there will be another bump of infection after quarantine. I expect compliance with social distancing will be reduced in the next wave because people will be under economic pressure and also will have lost focus on the issue. In some places there may be events that mitigate against distancing - for example the presidential elections in the USA. I think that producing a plan that is predicated on something (production of a vaccine to any scale in less that 6mths) that is very unlikely to happen is not the best approach.

Here is a discussion including expert comments : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/when-will-a-co...
> Maybe nobody there can figure out how to set up a web server?

Huh? It's their business for sake.
IIRC, most small children (toddlers and infants especially) are not lactose intolerant. In general, giving a breast milk substitute is a good thing if breast milk isn't available. In fact, at a young enough age, milk is vital to survival in most cases.

But as folks grow older, they can stop making the enzymes that break down milk. This happens less often if milk is kept in the diet and more often if you have genes that increase your chances of intolerance. This usually happens more often where milk isn't a staple food source for the population.

Edit: Forgot a sentence.
Last time shit like that was required in a job i had i always ended it with "and i spent the last hour of the day writing my daily report".

If your manager can't evaluate your performance based on what you do not what you say, it may be better to change the manager.
A thought experiment... which probably doesn't change the big picture... but it's interesting...

Suppose the initial implementation chose an ill-suited/fast/cheap hash (like MD5). The developer facepalms appropriately, changes course, and updates the implementation to support an expanded list of 4 hashes (1 old/weak/cheap hash and 3 new/strong/expensive hashes) - and you track the hash in the same way as the counter.

Fast-forward a bit. Mallory eavesdrops, learns an example password, and starts a brute-force attack for the master password. He doesn't know which hash to use, so he has to try all of them. On the surface, the choice of hash is just 1 or 2 bits of entropy... but the resource impact on Mallory is driven by the (in)efficiency of the new hash(es), so it has an outsized impact.

In anticipation of upcoming hardware, the developer issues annual updates with another (slower) hashing option (PBKDF2 w/100k iterations => 150k iterations => 200k iterations). This muddies the waters for new brute-force attacks. It's kind of a neat notion that the mere existence of a newer convention could retroactively raise the cost of a brute-force.

Alas, it's not real. Because we're not just concerned that Mallory is an eavesdroper listening to a random password - we're concerned that Mallory is a website-operator who takes user-registrations. In that case, he can simply log the time when the user or password was created -- and thereby rule-out future hashing conventinos.
I have a setup with syncthing to transfer it between all my devices without going to devices I do not control. Previously I used Dropbox, which while putting your encrypted vault on a third party service, is easily accessible to non-techies
There was a paper that discussed a L and an S strain the former of which is thought to be more deadly and was more dominate in Wuhan. In other areas the two are more equally distributed but the more deadly strain is still a large percentage of cases.

https://youtu.be/7YI2tOoVVpk?t=141
https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036
Fun fact, the first version of bc was just a frontend to dc. It converted the structured input to dc's stack-based form and let dc do the math.
These are not mutually exclusive.

I can have friends outside of work and still feel lonely WFH all day. If you have a family, it can be the exact opposite (too many distractions).

It is not selfish to need some degree of separation between work and life.
It's interesting that you lead by saying "as a physicist".

As a physicist I'm used to thinking about orders of magnitude and whether something grows like log(N) or N!. I'm pretty sure all the data points to this being O(a big problem) but I'd leave it to the epidemiologists to say anything with confidence.
First time I hear of typo ... it's not on my standard Linux install ... where can I find the source code?
Website Idea to Battle Coronavirus
It's just a posting site for people who need help with grocery (elderly or people with corona infected are not supposed to go to grocery stores).

They can just post their address, phone number & items needed. Whoever can help, contact via phone/text and make an arrangement.

I wanted to make one myself but I have a fever
Btw, if you look up ‘microcar’ and browse one of the dedicated websites, plenty of fun is to be had. (Image search seems to be occupied by newer models.)
I don't know why you were downvoted. I'm the same; I still wear the clothes I got as swags when I was in college a decade ago. I've maybe bought a pair jeans since then, when my older ones didn't fit anymore.
They're afraid that this will become the norm and their office chit-chat times will be over for good.

Or worse: they don't like being at their own home, so the thought of staying there is terrifying.

That's at least what I've gathered from those I talked with.

I mean, if someone is saying that a 40min commute in high traffic still doesn't tip the balance in favour of remote work, then they apparently either really like being in the office, or really dislike staying home. Parents come to mind for the latter, but most of the people I've known who have 4+ children work remotely, so this doesn't add up.
Dumb JSON API for Coronavirus Data
> there was no space left to copy tons of its Python code.

What can anything do without any space left?
If part of the seed has sufficient entropy, it doesn't matter if the attacker knows (or can guess) another part of the seed. Assuming the software uses a decent cryptographic hash function properly.
The military industrial complex jumpstarted Silicon Valley
In every conceivable aspect? Maybe after 20 years one learns to adapt.
>The government isn't governing. They aren't doing shit. Some state governments are trying, but absent federal leadership and due to all the red tape, they are faltering.

Americans didn't want a functioning government, they believe the government that governs least governs best, that government can only be grossly incompetent at best, and malicious at worst. They were bored of the status quo and wanted a brick thrown through the window of the establishment so they could watch the system burn.

When your primary standard for elected officials is their entertainment value, government inevitably devolves into a circus. Are Americans no longer entertained?
More MIS information? Text forces you to think before you type.

Perhaps you don't like having a record? :)
Always a good idea. But the entire company culture needs to adapt for it to work. The conundrum as to why anyone in office would care isn't that hard to figure out.

Personally I would look for another job.

I love being able to work from home, when I'm recovering from being ill or if it somehow makes life easier on a particular day. Will probably come in handy during this crisis as well - so I'm very thankful of it.

But 363 times out of 365 I much prefer to work in office. And that is with the assumption that I won't be alone...
One thing not addressed in other comments: Please do not write logs to standard output, as implied by this article. Write them to standard error. In C++, one even has an explicit std::clog stream.

Of the service management frameworks that handle service logging for you, some do not by default collect what is written to standard output, but they will all collect what is written to standard error. This is also the Unix convention of long-standing for diagnostic messages, going back to the very reason that standard error was invented in the first place.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/daemontools-family.html#Logging
weird, how everybody has a negative sentiment, but also doesn't consider not using the fields as the labels indicate... and ALSO thinks this 8s an "online" thingy for some reason...(it just has a javascript version, just like it has a python version)

you don't need a full username or email at the "user" field, can just use gmail@alice or JohnDoe-bank.com and whatnot, similarly with the "site" field...
can also cut them all off, say, skip the first, or last character...

you don't need the same master password... but more than that, you don't need to start at counter ONE...
you might start at counter len(domain) or len(name), for example...

IF you have 1000+ passwords, by all means, use a traditional manager... but this is perfect for people with less passwords, no sync needed if you don't want to, your passwords file cannot get lost or stolen, etc...
As I said in a sibling comment, these aren't mutually exclusive.

We spend the majority of our lives at work -- spending that alone in my spare room/coffee shop/wherever just sounds like a nightmare long-term.

I think as long as humans are social animals, remote working will stay niche and optional at best.
Ah I didn't realise it was something people exercised choice over and needed cajoling in to.
Have you measured it in the blood? Even if your B6 is fine, what about B12? That has even worse bioavailability from plants or supplements. Again, you need to measure it, furthermore B12 takes years to deplete.
It’s not quite the original, but Rob Pike wrote an implementation in Go: https://github.com/robpike/typo
Personally I think the PAIP code is very well written. The AIMA code probably slightly less. These are pedagogical programs.

Actual production code may look different, sometimes very different.
Bloody useless, because there is absolutely nothing to listen to. In olden times every country has their own shortwave radio. And in many languages too, you could heard Finnish from BBC, Radio Moscow, Soviet Estonia, Soviet Karelia, Sweden and Voice of America. Sources were conflicting hugely, like with "minor gas leak" from Chernobyl and "hooligans causing disturbances" in Czechoslovakia.
All runtime differences are quite neglectable if you use typescript, at least in my experience.
You never accidentally use unassigned variables in typescript.
Also, `{ x: undefined }` and `{}` are distinguishable.

Undefined plays well together with optional fields in typescript, null does not and requries normalization!
`undefined` in a JSON array is a problem though.
well, Spain is still a monarchy (and has been since the caliphate was pushed back), had a Civil war, where fascists won and then ruled for 40 years... Then the king declared that he would like democracy more than autoritarian rule (without him). So much to a strong tradition of democracy...
I had never heard of eqn and was surprised to find that the binary is still there on my Linux box.

With regard to roff in general, when I got into Linux-based typesetting around the turn of the millennium, that was already seen as antiquated tech, superseded by LaTeX which was undergoing a frenzy of development and improvement around that time. So, anyone under the age of 30 will probably be hearing of such *roff stuff for the first time (and sadly even familiarity with LaTeX has waned).
Interesting. Could you give a bit more details?
Churchill was very much in favour of making callous tradeoffs if he believed it had long term benefits, e.g. the Bengal famine. Churchill incidentally happens to be one of Boris Johnsons great heroes.
The bits that are concerning are that we don't know if people will develop immunity after having covid-19; and any involvement from Cummings because he's employed literal eugenicists.