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McKinsey Covid-19 Briefing: Global Health and Crisis Response (March 16)
Welcome back and important updates for working parents
That's not true. Most of the iron smelting cultures in Africa dissolved on their own without European interference.
(That's not the new generations, which are not released yet, and there's no price info yet)
Don‘t. If you want macOS just bite the bullet and buy yourself a pretty carefree experience. If you don‘t care about the OS obviously get any of the countless affordable PC configurations.
OK, that solves the problem. The issue with unbound methods in Python is that they don’t yet have a value for `this`, but they do have a fixed value for `super`.
I like to think of scientific theories as having a certain "resolution", à la photos. Over time, our collective resolution over some domain increases.

For example, Newton's Principia isn't wrong. Newton's gravity is just a lower-resolution photo than Einstein's; a first-order approximation to Einstein's second-order.

And the day will come (or so Brian Greene et al. hope) when Einstein's general theory of relativity will be "falsified", and so on, because any human interpretation of reality is necessarily that: an interpretation.

Theories just get more "granular" in the depth of their answers.
That might be the case, but they are certainly not older than 80.
It's remarkable that the same parties who denounce any government participation in markets will be using that government to decide which companies to prop up. No doubt with lobbyist's advice.

The irony is there is a way to do this _and_ use a little market force: dump the money on to consumers and let them rather than lobbyists decide what is worth keeping afloat. I imagine in that case, cruise lines would be lower priority.
> if you want to any real work

Here we go again with this 'real work' nonsense.

What counts as 'real work' to you? A friend of a mine is a barrister and uses an iPad pro to take and use notes. He's definitely doing 'real work' just fine on his iPad.
Google pauses Chrome and Chrome OS releases due to coronavirus outbreak
> Having owned a Surface Book, I can easily say that the tablet mode is not workable with the software ecosystem that exists.

Many Surface devices can run Linux+GNOME natively, and that software UX is at least as workable on a tablet as iPadOS, probably more so. Proprietary apps are lacking, of course (not always a bad thing) but some are available via Flatpak or (in a pinch) Snap.
I’d wager that much of your incredulity regarding the suitability of iPads to doing “real work” hinges very sensitively upon what your conception of “real work” is, and that your judgement of utility follows suit.

I’ve been using a succession of iPads as my main computing platforms since the first iteration was released ten years ago. Initial releases were a bit of a compromise, but the arrival of multitasking, multi-view, and filesystem access (latterly with iPadOS) have come a long way towards ensuring that I have nothing to miss. The addition of native support for an in-built trackpad further accentuates this trend.

Sure, I cannot develop or compile natively on the iPad, but that is something I do very rarely.

[EDIT: Spelling error corrected in ‘arrival’.]
Must be for their app only, the web version is still the same
Also a very worthwhile Github Project here for the John Hopkins Map. 400+ issues at the moment

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues
Socially Acceptable Early Death
> nobody produces higher resolution sensors that can fit into such a slim form factor

That seems like a very flimsy excuse. These seem to be the exact same cameras they've been shipping since 2011 and nobody would excuse them for using 2011 era cameras in their phones (I remember being disappointed in the quality back in 2011). Apple has added bigger and multiple camera bumps to their phones to accommodate space. That seems like it would work even better in a laptop since it doesn't have to lay flat on a table.

> Dell XPS 13 2020 also seems to still use 720p camera

It's not the resolution, the quality and low-light performance hasn't changed in Mac laptops at all. I don't think the XPS is a great comparison since they've had the camera below the screen for years (I think they moved it in 2020). Having the camera positioned so low you literally see fingers on the keyboard and get a very unflattering angle. So in my search it was eliminated very early.

I'm guessing it's just not a high priority for most purchasers even as remote working increases. The Dell XPS 13 reviews barely mention the camera and I couldn't easily find a sample from the camera. I've been working remotely, so it has been a huge priority for me. I've also been FaceTiming and find using a laptop is easier than holding a phone.
The escape key is back on the new 16 inch, but even on older Touch Bar Macs you can tap anywhere on the left side of the Touch Bar (doesn't have to just be the escape button area) and it will still work.

Different strokes for different folks, but I've never liked using the function keys for debugging. I just click the buttons on the screen. I'm a little surprised they don't have a way to set the Touch Bar buttons up to do that in Xcode though.
> The time to take drastic measures was a month ago, when the spread from Italy could have been contained.

IMO, I don't think it could have even been contained then. Once this thing left China, the genie was out of the bottle. Now, the rest of the world is just trying to manage the spread best they can by 'flattening the curve.' Which, as you mention, is really going to end up with the plan the Brits said out loud.

I wonder how long it will take everyone else to catch on that the Brits plan is happening regardless?
The rear facing camera seems to have a nice upgrade. However, apart from AR applications, I found it weird to hold a 12 inch tablet in the air to take pictures while everyone could see my screen.
If we weren't talking about the kind of authoritarian government that probably would have been able to stop this outbreak in it's infancy if it didn't have local officials prioritizing suppress news about it reaching higher levels of government... maybe I'd be more charitable to these claims.

I can tell you personally, factories I was in contact with about totally non-pandemic related industries, with capacity that I highly doubt can be repurposed for supplies, are still talking about extensive delays for any sort of order.
Yes, I lived in NYC for many years, and actually made hologram portraits in the basement of the old Museum of Holography off Canal Street.

One of our big pushes for the 3D Hologram Printer is to put this kind of technology into the hands of anyone.

Kind of like Makerbot did for 3D printing. We want to be the Makerbot of holograms!
> Tesla is different because all their cars are ordered by someone and so shutting down impacts customers.

Eh? Who cares? Other manufacturers also have a downstream.
We've started FeedADoc.com and posted it on helpwithcovid (https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/53). 10 volunteers from HN folks so far, thank you!
> I'm anti-humans-running-nuclear-for-profit.

Chernobyl wasn't run for profit.
Intel’s new neuromorphic Pohoiki Springs system sports 100M artificial neurons
A much better and more comprehensive read on this topic would be the book "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" by John Lakos.
For years top level replies to the POTUS have had fake Elon bots promoting bitcoin scams and Twitter has been unwilling or unable to get rid of them. I still don’t understand it. Here is an example from yesterday: https://mobile.twitter.com/Compazy/status/124015528812213452... and https://mobile.twitter.com/binubangulsm/status/1240073805206...

You can see the bot changed its name and profile pic to match the OP so it isn’t clear to casual Twitter users that the scam is from a different account.
Probably because developers and system operators, while a large majority here on Hacker News, actually represent a tiny minority of actual users. Developers’ workflows are essentially outliers.
Could you imagine "macOS" mode in iPad OS? It's simple: app screens in iPad OS turn into windows on macOS and vice versa in a easy to understand way. It remembers the window positioning and screen ordering as you switch between modes. The mouse automatically is added and removed when you switch between modes.

It would not ruin the iPad, it would ruin Apple's bottom line.
Deepkit released – the first AI experiment/model management tool as desktop app
That has little to do with pollution and just that there are no boats churning up the bottom.
Such numbers are purely notional. Governments are not judged based on profit or loss, particularly the US government because of the special status of the dollar (in times of crisis people want USD or USD bonds). Governments are judged based on the strength of their economy which requires a holistic approach. "Making a profit" does absolutely nothing for any of the economic indicators that governments are judged on, such as employment, GDP PPP, etc
May I ask how you manage to get into tablet mode unintentionally? I've never experienced this issue and it was my understanding that this is only possible to switch over by opening the action center and turning it on...both very deliberate actions that seem hard to do by accident. I'm not being sarcastic either, though. I work in a repair shop and one of the most common things people bring their devices in for is they accidentally put their device in tablet mode and have no idea what they're doing.
That's exactly what I want to.

Is there a Mini Pc that would be similar to this now?
American attitudes make virus response a hard sell
I would think this current crisis would make people even more leery of public transport and cutting car use is not impossible but that it will take a governmental forced lock down and martial law. Maybe we should think about ways of reducing the downsides of individualized transport instead of promoting 19th century solutions (large crowded subways). Electrification, reduction in size, tunnels, etc.
I miss the reply that used to be here, and it said this was the worst of both worlds when it comes to privatization.
Can someone who has read this carefully summarize its main points?
Sure, there's no need to mention information in this example to explain the observed behavior. But it's important to understand information as "merely" another kind of description of a system that may be revelatory depending on the context, rather than a new ontology that is competing to displace our old ontology.

So saying the receptor has mutual information with the shape of the androgen is just another description of the system that abstracts over some details and highlights others. Going further with the biology example, the concept of mutual information helps to clarify why some sequence of DNA nucleotides are instructions to create proteins that have a particular shape to interact with this molecule or enzyme or whatever. Without the concept of information, we would need to speak of long causal chains and the evolutionary history of this region of DNA with respect to various environmental influences and so on. The concept of information serves to clarify this connection in a much more direct manner.
The nucleus of the atom turned out to be made by other particles, it was believed to be atomic, but it wasn't

In the same way in the future we might discover that what we know about DNA is wrong

Or maybe not

We'll never know for sure

We only know that we approximated our knowledge of it at the best of our current understanding of it
I did a lot of VB6 around the time C# took hold. I initially thought that switching to VB.NET was the move, but with the .NET framework the whole paradigm shifted anyway so I figured I would go the way of the curly bracket. I was also tinkering with C/C++ at the time doing DSP/VST plugin development so while VB was a great RAD/Line of business platform it quickly ended up feeling verbose(most of the time, but sometimes not) and clunky. I soon could parse curly bracket languages much more quickly as well. Be it nostalgia or stubbornness I don't see a problem with sticking with VB if that is your jam, but you cant expect the world to not move on either...
General news? Most things that actually impact my life, people (colleagues, friends, family) will tell me about it; the rest mostly passes me by. Some comes from HN, and when there is a big story I'll sometimes browse to nos.nl, but that's about it.

Tech news I keep up with at Tweakers.net, where I have a subscription. Well, and HN again of course, but a lot of that is personal blogs, show/ask HN posts, and a minority of what I click is research/tech news which then breaks down further into many different outlets.

I also use Reddit but the closest sub I have to news is r/globaltalk, so that's mostly people talking about what's going on near them and not journalists that need to be paid.
Fascinating idea. I’d like gently to suggest that you make this your elevator pitch, since I don’t care about who you are. It’s pretty much what you said, but up at the top:

“fly.io is really a way to run Docker images on servers in different cities and a global router to connect users to the nearest available instance. We convert your Docker image into a root filesystem, boot tiny VMs using an Amazon project called Firecracker, and then proxy connections to it. As your app gets more traffic, we add VMs in the most popular locations.”

Exciting stuff! My best to you!
Depends on your currency!

IF you are an American, it's an okay hedge.

If you are European or Asian, it's pretty good.

Problem is, you are thinking about your gold against dollars. Against yen, euro, rmb, it a natural hedge for your implicit short dollars.
ISA == Income Share Agreement.

via https://lambdaschool.com/isa
OK, let's explore this concept a bit more: Could a future experiment disprove the existence of Mount Everest?
For days like todays, it would have saved them $60B, you don't get cheap oil so easily
That's the whole premise of the Mac Mini.

It's the only non-Pro designated Mac that has four Thunderbolt 3 ports. I don't think you'd find this level of I/O in any other machine in this price range.

That incredibly powerful I/O makes for tons of expansion possibilities. Storage, GPU, etc.

(Edited to say "non-Pro designated")
You can do that! but referencing history, it's a rare thing to happen.

Regis McKenna made a point at 4:30 "The span from the first transistor to the first microprocessor is going to about a third" he was discussing product innovation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z13NI0SuyA&t=2912s

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“There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high % of people or businesses. But it’s hard to predict those. I don’t believe anyone can” -Marc Andreessn
And how is that different from thousands of small businesses who went under with nary a peep? Of all of the others who put their eggs in one flimsy rotten basket?

The way I see it too big to fail is always just special pleading furiously rationalizing from being spoiled by status. There is no logical reason to give them special treatment in spite of all of the stupid human hierarchy tricks. I see it no different than demanding that a rich kid who killed someone driving drunk be treated as "making a mistake" and anyone else as "proven an irredemable waste of human life".

The only sane and just thing is equal treatment. Either everyone can get bailouts or nobody can. The favor for a few approach doesn't work morally or practically - just producing more spoiled nitwits who can and should be replaced. There are no redeeming circumstances or grand sacrifices on their part to justify special treatment.
I'm all for letting companies have a limited monopoly on innovations, but this just seems short-sighted. It's the kind of behavior that gets nations to pass something like "medical necessity" legislation allowing them to infringe patents under certain circumstances, or impose profiteering and price gouging statutes, or re-thing all of their health care systems' compensation levels for equipment & procedures. It's the sort of thing that can raise public ire against the entire medical device industry.
How do I run on a bank when the banks are closed? Why would I run on a bank when my deposit is insured by the federal government?

Even in China at the height of the crisis, the grocery stores were still stocked. Credit & ATM cards still worked. Life went on.

Is the economy fucked? Yes. Will this cause very real, crippling harm to many people? Absolutely. But there's a very real difference between a crisis and a collapse. We're not there, and we won't get there.
I'd hate to state the obvious but why Github? It's quite a big barrier to entry for the average person (especially in places with low literacy) to write in MD, make a pull request etc. Why not just use a public Google doc or something?

Don't get me wrong. I get where you are coming from but I have gone down the Github route on a few similar projects and regretted it.
> They are cooperating to destroy US efforts at self-sufficiency.

This is completely shocking to me.

I remember complaining about gas when it went above $2 and my grandfather sat me down and related several stories about the 1970's oil crash, Jimmy Carter saying we needed to be energy independent, and other fascinating stories about OPEC.

To honestly see a day where OPEC and the Russians see the US oil production as a threat is pretty incredible when you think about it.
I guess. I mean but at this point, why not just by a macbook?
Spend the money by buying services.
Sevice workers are having a hard time since people are staying home.

Donating it sounds good but by spending it on a small business it will help save a job and a business which will help greatly.

Also don't overlook the social distance protocol which ultimately will be the saviour if we all follow it.
This is one of the few cases where the raw data is so systematically flawed - many younger people are completely asymptomatic or not being tested because they don't need hospitalization - the anecdata might give you a better picture of the relative risk.

The youngest of the UK's >100 confirmed COVID-19 fatalities was in his forties and already terminally ill.
Young people aren't totally safe and should certainly avoid contracting it if possible with a view to protecting the people they come into contact with and not taking up a hospital bed if they're at the unlucky end of the spectrum, but relatively speaking they're a tiny fraction of the overall casualties, and probably have more exposure to the virus than the elderly due to more active social/work lives.
I personally would prefer something like Burrito or Ossobuco

/s
Are there good tips for doing this safely? Should I wipe down all the items? Ideally they could do so themselves.
SoftBank May Bail on $3B of Its WeWork Bailout
What would a rational harm reduction strategy for coronavirus look like?
> we don't require Readability.

I assume from capitalisation and context that Readability is some very specific and very strict set of rules? I’m curious what would be there that would be so offputting...
> The rollout starts today and will continue over the next several weeks
It's more usable to use jump desktop and vnc into your desktop computer to use vs code.
I can't wait to be ranked #1 most stressed in US servers
We are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases
not sure about others but i live in the city because i can't drive due to some personal health reasons.

I've tried to live out in the burbs but it was really hard for me without a car.
Ask HN: When has a bankruptcy threat been used to force a bailout?
California Edison bailout in 2001 [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-16-mn-12864-story.html
Ask HN: Detect Coronavirus Fever via Webcam?
I have an idea for creating an open-source zero marginal cost, digital thermometer to detect coronavirus. Can you help?

Here's the idea:

1. Heart rate can be estimated via (webcam) video of someone’s face with high accuracy (even with poor video quality).[1],[2]

2. This heart rate can then be used to estimate core temperature with high accuracy.[3],[4]

3. Fever (body temperature ≥38°C) [5] is the most typical symptom of C19 - in 88% of confirmed cases.[6] (Though some C19 transmission might be asymptomatic[7] and presymptomatic.[8],[9])

4. Can we start an open-source project to create a digital fever thermometer? This could be used as a smartphone app or on the web (ala donottouchyourface.com). A webcam could continuously monitor people’s temperature and alert them to it if they have a fever.

‘Thermometer Guns’ have drawbacks: they’re more expensive, you need to get close to someone’s head to take temperature, they are not very accurate, they don’t provide continuous measurement- yet it is still used for coronavirus containment.[10]

I feel if this would work, it might be a very cost-effective intervention to diagnose coronavirus.

[1] "Detecting Pulse from Head Motions in Video - People.csail.mit ...." http://people.csail.mit.edu/balakg/pulsefromheadmotion.html

[2] "Heart rate estimation using facial video: A review " https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1746809417301362

[3] "Estimating Resting Core Temperature Using Heart Rate" https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jmpb/1/2/article-p79.xml

[4] "Real-time core body temperature estimation from heart ... - NCBI." 13 May. 2015, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25967760

[5] "Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of ... - NEJM." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316

All other citations here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4nhDux-ncnsZjXJrmXkZiK7LJjH_tyxWkVJR3fOOJ0/edit?usp=sharing
Show HN: Over 300 free MIT-licensed SVG icons based on 2px stroke
Free Webinar “Deepfakes – A Technical Peek Behind the Curtain”
What? Native apps crashes stopped bringing down the machine decades ago. Sure there's the occasional bug in the OS (= kernel and system services), but browsers have bugs too.
If the airlines and hotel industries are bailed out, do all existing shareholders get hosed (value go to nil)?
Python Scope and the LEGB Rule: Resolving Names in Your Code
for:

https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McG...

https://tim.blog/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/

against:

https://mental.jmir.org/2019/6/e13717/
They're not worth the money they save.
LWN: Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door
If you can't afford the price, there's no difference.
There is an option 2b. We develop a vaccine and roll it out without as much testing, at least to some people.

It has higher risks of something being wrong with the vaccine, but at the same time our existing process only tests the vaccine for a relatively short period of time relative to human lifespan, and one can say it is already a risky move. In this case the risk of reducing testing and starting to roll out the vaccine sooner may be justified.
While this is true - with enough testing capacity, you could stamp out a new hot spot through a combination of local testing and local restrictions, and get it done before the healthcare system is overcome. Especially if we implement something like china did where you have to "check in" at businesses with your phone.

At least in less-dense areas of the country if people stay somewhat social distanced

i.e., if one case shows up in my town of 25,000 people - we could test everyone that possibly had any contact with that person and likely require a couple hundred tests. If those measures fail, you implement a more local lock-down much sooner, test more aggressively, and then ease up again locally.