skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that it's possible to opt out now. It wasn't always so both due to the effort (moving to a large city was much harder when you had to walk with your stuff for several dozen or hundred miles) and to the laws (serfs didn't get to opt out of anything).
Its a bad logic anywaz:

old people are the base voters for many populist ruling party in Europe
I like it. It is a nice idea for the hypervisor to be a system service, that way applications that need it can just hook on to it. (e.g. an android emulator like Bluestacks, Docker, ...)

As it is, many virtualization tools that don't use Hyper-V can't be run when you have Hyper-V enabled so you have to make a decision that you are going to use it or not use it.

I remember having a hard time setting it up to use constant IP addresses on the the internal ethernet with the GUI (say you want to put the IP address in your ssh config) but when I used Powershell to set it up it was easy.
1 second = 9192631770 unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transitions of cesium-133 atom (preferably outside of solar system gravitation well)

Calendars are silly. "Neat" ones even more so.
I wish these reports would contain total administered tests.

The initial papers coming out of China indicate that the infection is asymptomatic or mild in a lot of patients.

We can assume a very significant amounts of undiagnosed patients everywhere.

Wikipedia has a good collection of reported numbers [1].

Norway seems to indeed be one of the most aggressive in testing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
Contagion’s Screenwriter on Watching His Movie Go Viral
It's rational. UK epidemic is not yet out of control. If you look at the region breakdown in UK the cases are very well geographically distributed, the highest concentration as of yesterday is Hertfordshire with only 13 cases, or London with 100 cases if you consider that one administrative unit. Some epidemics in Schengen are highly focused on specific areas which means the growth rate can be expected to be higher. It makes sense to consider Schengen as one unit as it has open borders. It would make little sense to ban travel from individual countries in Schengen.
> That diseases aren't exponential, who cares when exponential curves fit so nicely early on.

Shouting this point does more bad than good. Outbreaks are exponential in their initial stage, to an extremely good level of approximation. Sure, they're ultimately s-shaped, but we're far from the bend point. That the growth starts to deviate from the exponent a tiny bit when half of your country is sick isn't a useful observation right now.
I'd prefer if anti-CV makeup and accessories became more popular as a style. Clothing that covers your face (ex. a ski mask) tends to make people pretty uncomfortable, but makeup and small add-ons have a better chance of appearing trendy while serving the same function.
> Treating you in emergency now might involve kicking someone else off respiratory support.

This has been my standard reply to the "It's just a flu" concept for some time now.

Aside from all this, it's incredible how difficult it is for people to think about this using all the info available (long onset of symptoms, asymptomatic spread, high % of hospitalizations / intensive care, etc) plus thinking in the long term.

I know the generalized idea is no face masks if you don't have symptoms, but if we all used them it might have a good effect on curving the spread.

Unfortunately, western cultures associate face mask with sickness, and are frowned upon.
>The rechargable battery for one of these is literally $10 on eBay, and I can't believe there wasn't anyone around you willing to fit it. I can believe larger chains refusing it, but come on, a small jeweler or watch repair shop would have done it I'm sure.

I went to a Macy's watch repair department, a well-known jewelry store, and two small watch repair shops (the "old man in a tiny office in an office building" type) highly ranked on Yelp. All refused.
*has
The groin is the sea defence you can see in the foreground. It stops long shore drift (but there is some debate about if they just shift the problem elsewhere)
Again.. optimization ( done well )
> And now we got this fragments ecosystem of classic bare metal "Win32" apps, WinForms, WPF, UWP, and obviously a handful of 3rd party GUI libraries so vendors can completely redesign their UI so it is a special snowflake.

What do you know, Microsoft really did embrace Linux, including its design mentality.
One thing that I constantly think of when I read this article is just how recent in history electromagnetic broadcasts are. What if there's another planet in our neighborhood, but its society is just a mere 1000 years behind us? 1000 years is almost nothing when looking at just how old the universe is, and just how long our planet has had life.

But, what if we develop some other means to communicate in the next 100, 200, or 300 years? It means the window of time that intelligent life uses electromagnetic communication is very, vey short.
it does tank already, no? (sorry for the german link, just literally what I have open in the next tab)

https://www.onvista.de/etf/VANGUARD-FTSE-ALL-WORLD-UCITS-ETF...
How Britain stole $45T from India And lied about it
The industry is getting more transparent! Cool
I live in Algiers, Algeria. We have about 20 declared cases in the country.

As a company, we didn't want to take a risk, especially that we don't know much about this so we're working from home.. We send employees home if they're tired or have the flu, or a headache and we're not going to be reckless with this, especially that some employees take the train/bus/subway.

We used to have regular business meetings in Paris, and we stopped that, too.
Google's Android TV Terms Hurt Amazon's Fire TV Efforts
You will want to move while you can. I got caught out due to the 9/11 flight ban and that really wrecked my life for a while.
They don't need to do that either, they could just let more people die.

That's what you're proposing, if you don't realize it. If you get the growth rate below 1, you can wipe out the disease, instead of merely delaying it.
>Three important lessons have emerged. The first is that integration of services in the health system and across other sectors amplifies the ability to absorb and adapt to shock.2 The second is that the spread of fake news and misinformation constitutes a major unresolved challenge. Finally, the trust of patients, health-care professionals, and society as a whole in government is of paramount importance for meeting health crises.

The US is screwed.
It's not ideal but I wouldn't go the conspiracy path.

Just looks like typical issues with devolved services and responsibilities vs. centralisation. Knowing how this crap usually goes, each org demands they remain the sole source of truth for their nation. No doubt the PHE digital team is much larger than the others and probably sits in the same office as the UK digital team. One of them suggests integrating the data and they get it done in an hour. Request goes out to the other nations but they don't have the resources to respond or you go down a rabbit hole argument about how the data is collated because of different criteria and announcement times skewing comparisons. 80% solutions suck when you are in the 20%.
Even VirtualBox-OSE?
Great. I assume you shorted them at IPO and reaped a fortune. Otherwise, my point stands :)
Just my opinion, but based on running remote and semi-remote teams since 2008 ... fully or mostly remote engineering teams are a competitive advantage, so, by definition, organizations that choose not to adapt to this reality will have a hard time competing.

Organizations can have a personal preference for co-located work, but, I think the marketplace will select those organizations out. I think this will unfold over single digit number of years.

From what I have observed, most of the resistance to remote work is really driven from the top; by less adaptable leaders.
Charlie Stross: “UK Policy is to use Covid-19 a solution to prison overcrowding”
The video is impressive. I liked seeing the speed it spins at, and I liked the demo of how an AGV can explore and build a map of its surroundings.
What? This has nothing to do with the slippery slope fallacy. . It's not because we're aren't there yet that saying that it could happen is a fallacy. With that logic any type of planning or forecast about the virus is just a slippery slope since we aren't there. And If you agree that forecasts about the virus are okay, I dont see why forecasts about the economy depending on what policy is enforced (full isolation that would ruin the economy or allow people to get infected to keep it going) are worst?
Actually my comment was explicitly referring to both physical and virtual worlds, especially since OP's comment was mostly about the real world. I didn't mean specifically that you are inside the house when using the internet, rather that you lost your privacy no matter which channel you use.

The fact that you have to choose between not using internet or mobile phone (both relatively critical in this day and age), or implicitly give a private company the right to use your (meta)data in any way they see fit is basically an admission that privacy is not enforced, it's taken away from you. In the past nobody logged all of your physical visits around the city, and certainly not at any substantial scale, so the topic never made sense even if you were crossing public space. You can't judge the present by the laws made for the past. You don't just have the right to bear a musket because that's what existed when the Constitution was written. So privacy should refer to the principle, not the actual mechanism and implementation.

Drone related, things are more nuanced. The drone may be in my back yard but filming in yours no matter how tall your fence. And unlike a real person hovering around your house, a drone operator is anonymous for all intents and purposes. Unlike a real person, a drone or (hidden) cameras throughout a city can be out of sight but "remembering" everything. You don't have to get away with it for long. The fact that you can get away with it once is enough of an open door. Once here, once there, and pretty soon your phone collecting every piece of private information about you and sending it out is perfectly acceptable.
I put in "only" 40 hours of refreshing on data structures and algorithms, and doing some practice coding problems, in the weeks leading up to my interview. And I got the job.

Frankly, it's been the best hourly return on investment of anything I've done in my life up to this point, by far. Assuming I wouldn't have gotten the job otherwise (which seems reasonable), each of those hours spent studying has proven to be worth several tens of thousands of dollars. I'm not exaggerating; I just did the math.

Maybe the interviewing process is broken or sub-optimal or whatever, but it is what it is, and if you can get through it by doing some additional studying, then it's absolutely worth it. Google is a good place to work on designing big systems, so if that's your interest, consider just putting in the work.
Experimenting with Marketing on Fiverr (Case Study)
No one should be surprised by this, especially not enough to claim it as "fake news". Its entirely consistent with the administration's approach to the role of government. Unfortunately it took a crisis like this to make clear a good reason why we need large government for some things.
I wish it had GPS. All of the Garmin devices have basically the same hardware, but the Forerunner 245, 745, 945, and Fenix have a price difference of a factor of 4 - not to mention the 35/25 on the used/refurbished market. Within the Fenix lineup, product segmentation is exactly the "printer with the speed inhibitor turned off" [1].

A jailbreak on the Garmin devices that enabled Fenix Pro features on the entry-level models would also eat the market.

I actually played with the TI 430-Chronos smartwatch development platform [2] a few years ago, but all the interesting features to me are tied to GPS.

Note: I currently am coveting the Fenix 6 Pro for my hobbies and covering it for hitting the right point in the Casio-F91 to smartphone-on-my-wrist continuum. I just wish some of its software features were available cheaper.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

[2]: https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos
For Java and JavaScript there's also codota.com
If three people have 1/3rd of the knowledge needed to solve the problem (for example, a front end designer, a back-end designer from team 1, and a back-end designer from team 2), the total time expended is shorter if the three people research their part for 2 hours and then get together for an hour than one person writing based on faulty assumptions and having to go back to the drawing board anyway.

The larger the organization, the less one person can hold the entirety of the solution in their head.
You mean a watch you can't use to see the time as frequently as a normal mechanical watch or the battery would die?
The actual mechanism your User Agent tells the server which languages you are interested in is even more robust [0] ! It is a weighted list of preferences.

The reasons I've heard from web developers on why they don't use this is because they believe that the user probably never set that up right, and that multiple people could be using the web browser so they need to be able to do the right thing.

What I typically do is select the best matching language from the Accept-Language HTTP header, and then override it with a session-specific value IF one is supplied. Example:

1. https://rkeene.org/projects/6to4/

2. https://rkeene.org/projects/6to4/?lang=fr

You can see PART of the problem here from the web developers perspective. This isn't a negotiation so you have no way to know which languages the server supports. If your preferences aren't totally inclusive you'll get something "wrong". This can be solved by exposing that information (as not done above) and allowing the user to override it (as above).

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
> The rest is reporting crap written every time a new case was found somewhere.

This is the problem. Not that our institutions are failing to deal with the problem, but that our media has vastly overblown the whole situation in order to scare everyone witless so they'll keep clicking on news updates and watch those ads.

With the secondary effect, of course, that all searches for information end up at a media outlet trying to scare people, and not the appropriate primary source of suitable information.

And the tertiary effect that an institution presenting non-sensationalist data based on research is dismissed as an "inadequate response" if it doesn't match the hyperbolic media frenzy.

We should be shutting down newspapers, not schools.
“Americans pay as much as $20k for last-minute flights to US”
Not really, clip art is nothing new. Copyright doesn't mean you can't share stuff. It just means the owner of the copyright decides if you can.
Could be, think of Homeland Security and those new(er) airport scanners. Mike Chertoff, formerly Secretary of Homeland Security, was instrumental in making them happen. He also happened to own a huge stake in the company that made them, since acquired by BAE Systems (who later made him a Chairman).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
NBC could just give me 500M and I could probably just do a lazy-three portfolio and out perform anything else they're considering.
Apple isn't hyping their goggles, so vaporware isn't really a fair label.
Oh man, imagine that. What a time to be alive if that had to happen. 2020 has been just about everything.
The Analog Computer Museum
Anything You Want: 40 lessons for new kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
Title is a misquote, propagating a conspiracy theory.
No need to wait for a pandemic to donate all superfluous earnings to life-saving causes. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of them.
Surprising numbers behind startup survival rates – Chicago Booth Review
Except that neither of which were invented by Apple?
You and OP are both right. No one will let you (as a US citizen) board an aircraft back to the US without a passport (so you'll have to head over to a local embassy to get a replacement if you don't have one on your person), but CBP must (not shall, must) allow you re-admittance at a land border without a passport (at which point they will verify your citizenship through a tedious process).
The post in question mostly presents observations about the base line models and data taken from reputable and cited sources. It didn't make up simplistic models on the fly. I would say it is breathless journalism.

I also would wish for better explanations from the scientists actively working on it. My first go to is RKI.
What I see is that the impetus to action starts from below and works up.

New York City declared a state of emergency first, then the state. I guess the U.S. is in a state of emergency because it is shutting down flights. For a while people were accusing WHO of inaction, finally WHO declares a pandemic and they start accusing other people of inaction.

The structure is that an outbreak creates a crisis in one spot even though others are currently unaffected.
Yes, but extrapolating the early exponential phase is, plain and simple, mathematically wrong. No idea why data scientists aren't going the first mile and look up the relevant functions before spitting data out. Total fail on their part, IMHO.
The estimate of how many deaths might be undiagnosed might be speculation, but it has already happened in Seattle that COVID deaths were misattributed to seasonal flu. In both cases, the death and symptoms will look identical the difference being in the underlying virus causing the issues.

"In fact, officials would later discover through testing, the virus had already contributed to the deaths of two people, and it would go on to kill 20 more in the Seattle region over the following days."

The US has failed to do any significant level of testing given its population, so it's understandable why many people are not confident in the official figures, especially when it becomes apparent infections have been running unchecked for weeks before testing started.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
I know this sounds like a lame joke, but it is not.
The true reason why Belgium is not doing anything, is because they can't form a government, let alone take these kind of coordinated measures.
Aye, just got back from walking there. Pretty essential to doing IT for several hours, though, IMO.

But OPs point stands -- unless you're working from home and never going out to eat / get groceries / not go crazy from cabin fever you have to travel somewhere
I think we're out of N95 masks in the U.S. and we have to wait a month or so to get them from China.
"High battery consumption and no way to control background services"

- Doesn't apply to iOS apps and background services are controllable and automatically shutdown unless there is specific purpose such as streaming music. Apps abusing these rules will be rejected and removed from app store.

"- 100% access to local user data"

- Completely false. No access whatsoever unless explicitly granted by the user.

"Fast and unsafe languages such as C and C++ (yes they also come in the SDK tooling)"

True, but marginally used and personally I'll take fast and unsafe rather than slow and unsafe.

"Fast with WebGL 2.0, and proper use of hardware accelerated CSS"

"WebAssembly"

- Valid points. These really are positive developments in terms of web dev. AFAIK WebGL would only give benefits in games and then you would be limited by connection and the process resources of the browser app. WebAssembly is cool, yet 99.999% of cases are basic React apps that don't get any benefits from either of these.

"Limited access is actually a positive"

- Not being able to make the app that you want to make as an web app can be seen as positive I suppose. In native apps there is not direct access to almost anything, but once permissions are given, apps can fully utilize the OS/Hardware features.
given outline.com, seems like that's a viable option for balancing the needs of HN and publishers who hurt-themselves by not allowing new users to see selected popular articles.

(i.e. fool's errand to think anyone will subscribe for a single article, but many publishers aren't setup with sophisticated-enough ways to make selected content free, without exposing themselves to cheats e.g. readers simply using incognito mode or second browsers...)
Google announces mobile first indexing for the whole web
Without any outside input of energy we probably can't really escape the Sun's gravity well.

Oddly enough it's pretty tricky to steer the Earth into the sun as well, but we should be losing minute amounts of energy that will eventually put the Earth closer to the Sun. This probably won't happen before the Sun explodes though.
Many of the people here on HN probably work at much larger corporations than I, so my take might be different. But what I have noticed is a severe lack of interest in hiring UI/UX people. Earlier in my career I had access to at least one UX person I could team up with before starting a new app.

There are some great ui libraries you can leverage these days, and they seem to fool some management into thinking pretty equals well designed. Eventually I end up in a series of meetings where we decide the aesthetics by committee. They don't seem to appreciate that a dedicated person could do it faster and better. But they always ignore my request for such a role.
Hey, at least it's not a perpetual contract.
> - High battery consumption and no way to control background services

Are you drunk? Native apps are orders of magnitude more efficient than browser rendered pages.

Also, wtf are you talking about, on Android your application will be literally killed if you don't post a foreground notification and do something in background without user's notice.

> - 100% access to local user data

Hello SAF and scoped storage, the future is here.

> - Fast and unsafe languages such as C and C++ (yes they also come in the SDK tooling)

?
If you feel you're being paid unfairly in contrast to others, move to a high tax, high income country like any in Scandinavia where everyone makes a decent income and everything is more expensive that your software engineer salary won't seem so high anymore.

But be careful what you wish for as now you'll be able to afford much less. Nice house in a family friendly neighborhood like back in Poland? Forget about it!
"Wherever I'm going, I'll be there to apply the formula. I'll keep the secret intact.
It's simple arithmetic.
It's a story problem.
If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 50 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall."
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It's also an extremely complicated machine. Its deployment plan involves many moving, origami, mechanical parts including solar panels, the primary and secondary mirrors, and a sunshade. Plus it's all being done far away at L2 without repair access.

Cross all digits, pray to all deities, burn sage, and best hopes it all works.
That is not true at all. You are regurgitating half baked theories of HNers who are just salty at Google (some balk at their success , some didn't get in etc .). Google's going to keep changing the world. HN is going to keep complaining.