skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's compare apples to apples and stick to the US for a minute, which is what I believe the WSJ was doing. The winter of 2017-2018 was a bad flu year, and there were about 61,000 deaths from it in the US (uncertainty interval: 46K to 95K) [0]. According to the worldometers site, there are 785 deaths so far in the US from corona virus [1].

It's probably a poor estimate, but if we could extrapolate from the US population to the world population, 1.28 million died from the flu that year (61e3*7.8e9/372e6).

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

EDIT: I found another link with a better estimate for world deaths from the flu. According to the World Health Organization, between 290,000 and 650,000 die from the flu each year [2]. So my estimate above was off by a factor of two.

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...
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I can confirm, they broke scrolling with CSS setting overflow-x in #main-body which for me also shows two scrollbars.
No country's numbers of confirmed cases should really be treated as a definitive and accurate view of total number of cases. UK was estimating theirs was off by a factor of 10-20 not long ago. The lack of testing has resulted in very incomplete data around the world, whether or not there's a political motive behind that.
> I do not really understand this. Which cryptographic algorithms can't be used?

CBC - which is one the most common stream cipher algorithm.

It's not clear me whether GCM would work or not.
This "feature" also invalidates the use case for WebCrypto API, since a user's keys would be stored in IndexDB, which now means keys cannot be safely persisted.
The R0 number they tout isn't supported by data from Italy or NY. R0 is density dependent.
It could also be exactly what they say it is: a way to prevent the abuse of local storage for tracking.
> You are talking about a FOSS project

I'm talking about the operating system that's pretty much a major component of the backbone of the world's entire IT infrastructure, whether its directly or indirectly through downstream distros that extend Debian, such as Ubuntu. Collectively they are reported to serve over 20% of the world's websites,and consequently they are the providers and maintainers of OpenSSL that's used by them.

If we look at containers, docker hub lists that Debian container images have been downloaded over 100M times, and ubuntu container images have been downloaded over 1B times. These statistics don't track how many times derived images are downloaded.
I'm sure apple catch all privacy violations of their so developers.
There's every indication that a strict, extensive test and quarantine process can work to limit the spread of the virus, and China's been doing exactly that.

I'd expect pockets to crop up here and there, but they know how to shut them down once detected, and have the oppressive infrastructure in place to do so.
Thanks for the feedback! When you say incorrect, I guess you mean that it's basically wrong to have the big block of graphic as it goes against sound web design/layout principles, making it harder to navigate et c? I can see what you mean and I agree that we probably should emphasize the browse by topic links more than we currently do. I'll send this on to the rest of the team. Please note that it might take some time before we use all the feedback we're getting because we all have day jobs (I'm gonna have to compensate later for today hehe), but we greatly appreciate it :)
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I hope so, but good luck if your infrastructure is on AWS, GCP or Azure. By the time the guys there find you on their resources doing things they don't want you to, everything in your account is finished.

More companies are hosting their infrastructure based on large FAAMNG company resources and they have control over them and reserve the right to shutdown your service without notice if they want.

Some of them like Facebook and Google are already ICAAN members and are entrenched on the internet can never be avoided or even taken down and Google issues out domains for websites which they can choose to censor or take down if they want to. This is equivalent to having admin rights to the internet or parts of it.

Although very unlikely, if any one of them had bought a significant TLD like .org, .io or even .net or .com, then this mission would have failed.
> I’m guessing that Apple will start hindering web apps because the new mouse support in iPadOS is going to be such a boon to web apps.

As a web developer, I've never believed Apple has hindered web development on their platform, purposefully or not. They just don't spend their resources adding in WebBluetooth or whatever new API-of-the-day Google has decided to come up with.

As I see it, their focus is on the user, which is why they've been slow to adopt APIs that are privacy concerns, or drain battery, or have other negative implications.
Hi there! I'm the founder of Agones, so wanted to give some additional perspective.

GCGS provides a lot of functionality over the top of Agones. The big win here is that while Agones works great within a single Kubernetes cluster, it requires a lot of manual work to orchestrate across multiple clusters.

This is what Google Cloud Game Servers brings to the table - flexible ways to orchestrate and manage multiple Agones clusters around the world, and the Fleets of warm Game Servers on them.

We also work really hard so that is it's easy to move from open source Agones -> GCGS, but also move back out of you no longer want our management layer.

There's more stuff on top of that, but I hope that helps clear things up
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I worked in a proprietary trading firm in the London, UK. The project I was working on was cancelled in order to cut down on costs from our vendors and data providers.
It's different if there is a technical limitation (disk full - computer tend to barely function in this state anyway), or the user has opted in to ephemeral storage. But to not give users the choice to store things permanently is quite a severe restriction.
Apple requires that all code-related assets for an app should be included into the app. So the app cannot just be a launcher that show a browser with a website.
Yes, the Solon were a subtribe of what were later called "Manchu". It is quite notable that while most tribes started to fall under the Manchu identity at some point, the Solon were often mentioned separately.

They first resisted Qing empire-building fiercely, but once subjugated made some of the best warriors of the Qing. They were even feared still in the 1860s by the Taipings, in a time when most of the Qing army had become a caricature of itself.

By the time the Qing fell, all Solon, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Mongolian, Hui and Manchu Bannermen were classified as "Manchu" and by now they are probably truly sinicized.
Men's average sperm-count levels go down about 3% a year, and have been consistently for over 30 years. No cause is known, but pollutants are the best hypothesis.

I'd love to know if we see any sort of "rebound" in the quarantine period.
I would argue Congress’ power is weak compared to the career civil servants who decide whether policy should actually be implemented or not. Popular politics serves as a complete distraction while unelected bureaucrats make most of the decisions behind the scenes.
Some quick things, the R0 doesn't specify the time it takes to spread, just the number of people that get infected per already infected person on average. A disease that has an R0 of 3 but that takes a month to become infectious would spread slower (to begin with) than one with an R0 of 2 but infectious after day 1.

A lower fatality rate in a higher population can cause more deaths. 10% of 1000 is smaller than 5% of 1000000.

But more importantly, something that is more obvious and more quickly restricted will spread less. SARS had an R0 of 2-4 but with control measures in place that dropped to 0.4 (figures from Wikipedia).
Gitcoin does this.

It's a tool where users post bounties for features. Usually the owner of an open source project would set up a bounty and say "$xxx to fix this" and open source developers can apply to work on the problem, once its approved they get the funds.

But, if community members really value the project they can chip in more funding to the issue.

Currently the system is set up to use Ethereum and DAI (an ethereum USD stablecoin) to handle transactions, and Gitcoin's smart contract acts as the escrow account for the work.
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Does anyone have a good source for spanish flu CFR? I found many estimates ranging from 2%-10%...
Posts like these are much more convincing when they simply make a case for some allowance or some functionality, or point out the downsides. The moment they go into whataboutism or grander claims of conspiracies or ill intentions they fall apart.

Rational readers click back and move on. You end up just preaching to the choir.

This particular complaint is paradoxical because Apple birthed web apps, and has done more than anyone to make them a reality. Unfortunately they remain a very rare beast -- extraordinarily rare -- and are dwarfed by the privacy concerns of people using iOS just to browse. So the team dealt with that. Seems a fairly obvious pros and cons analysis.

Maybe they'll add an exception for installed to desktop webapps.
People who want to track users will always find a way to do so, it's a endless cat-and-mouse game. Now they will just use cookies instead... The only way to win this is to legislate away the freedom to track users by using privacy-invasive methods. That's the only way that will work long-term. But that'll make half of the internet industry disappear, along with it's shareholders, so it's unlikely to happen.
for ~ the same price:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/space-gray-1....

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/Surface-Lapt...

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...
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They originally did it all with vacuum tubes no less.
It’s the same as how you win in Plague Inc — you want a virus that isn’t very lethal, has a long incubation period, and causes mild symptoms in most people.

That gives your virus time and opportunity to spread.

Fast lethality means the host dies before you spread. Strong symptoms means the host stays home and you don’t spread.

Covid19 hit the sweet spot. Asymptomatic for many days, barely noticeable symptoms in 70%+ of the population, then suddenly very deadly in the few percent that get bad enough.
What specific violation do you have in mind? Google has been fined $5B for various non-GDPR violations.
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thinking of sgx. DRM needs it. it won't go away.
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They implemented very harsh measures that are currently unthinkable in western countries.
Genuine question: what makes native ad frameworks different here? They execute with the same privilege of their containing app so surely they’re open to similar privacy concerns. Shouldn’t native apps have their storage cleared?
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Our company has started shaming iOS. We tell users that because of a commercial policy aiming to increase their revenue from their App Store, iPhones and Ipads "do not support the Web 2.0 technology enabling powerful experiences for web sites and web applications, while Android and Windows devices have been supporting this technology since 201x". We briefly explain in one sentence that it would not be the best use of our resources to try to bypass Apple's technological decisions but that they should contact Apple for further information.

We then link them to a $30-$50 Android device that they can buy on Amazon and use as a second device to use our services "if they are interested in a more powerful web experience". We provide a basic version to all users, but put a shamewall for advanced features. Best use of our time and resources.

It is time to push back, stop making Apple's problems your problems. Educate people without ranting and offer them solutions, developers have the bad habit of trying to cover up this kind of non-sense and taking the blame while really Apple are the ones who should be ashamed. If people love your product/service getting a $30 phone to be power users and make their life easier and their experience richer will not be a big deal for them. It's all about educating them the right way.
OR maybe it's apple's responsibility to figure out how that usecase can exist without security flaws?

As a customer, I'm tired of devices functionality being limited coz "security risks". Functionality that is arguably superior to native apps apart from the security risk.
Ditto. HN is going to be highly irregular in that regard -- a lot of programmers and engineers (and similar desk worker types) who can work from home and still pick up full paychecks. The rest of the world ain't like that.
i remember somewhat recently efforts to parallelize the work of dm-crypt where applicable had been merged. However, i guess having multiple separate encryption parameters and states (read: disks) leaves more opportunity for parallelization of the work especially if disk access patterns are not spread wide enough.
It's literally on a pubicly viewable URL. Do you delete your local copy of any photo view on Facebook?
I would say that's the difference between making something work. And Making at work in an elegant way.
How would static "single-page" apps (HTML/JS/CSS) that store session tokens in localStorage avoid 7-day auto-logout?

Perhaps using something like this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_...

Anyone know of other Web APIs that could be used?
So, silly question: why the basic reproduction number R0 doesn't take this into account?
> Which cryptographic algorithms can't be used?

You can't use any algorithm that requires O(n) IVs (e.g. a separate IV per disk sector), because there's nowhere to store the IVs. (Another consequence of this is that you can't store checksums anywhere, so you can't provide integrity checks.)

You can't use CTR mode either, because you'll end up reusing counter values. What do you do when you need to overwrite a block with new data?

XTS mode solves this, at least partially. It's like CTR mode, but with an extra "tweak" that essentially hashes the block's content into the encryption key. So if you overwrite a block with new data, you get a new encryption key.

This isn't perfect, though, because it's still deterministic. If an attacker can see multiple states of the disk, they can tell when you revert a block to a previous state. But it's much better than other modes, especially since the main threat you want to protect against is your laptop getting stolen (in which case the attacker only sees a single state).
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I don't know why you are so obsessed with testing? In the US, if you have a medical problem, you go to the doctor. The doctor may order tests. If you are not sick, or the doctor doesn't think you need certain tests, they don't order the tests.

It was never possible to ramp up test kits for 350M people and it's not going to help anyways. You test negative one day, then...what? You can still catch the virus! It's a false sense of security.

Japan is handling the crisis the best of any nation so far--calmly, without idiots posting on web forums about their non-expertise and not giving in to who can yell the loudest.
That’s a very rosy way of looking at it. iOS has had bugs with its “add to home screen” webapps that kicked around literally for years. If they were being “user first” they’d support it fully or not support it at all. Instead they implemented then neglected it.
Web apps brings nothing in revenue to Apple.
I expect the numbers are all just propaganda.

A week ago there were videos released of the makeshift hospital in Wuhan, where all beds were empty and the doctors were standing in front of the empty hospital taking off their face masks, smiling.
Soon after, videos were uploaded by locals showing a very different situation.

Disclaimer: This is my own opinion. The only sources I have for this are the same as yours: social media. So, take stuff with a grain of salt, do your own research and make your own conclusion.
"Straight man" still has that meaning today, just like "deadpan" and "foil". It's not a generational thing. It was probably a contextual thing; my guess is that nobody expected terms of comedy and theater at the workplace. But don't blame it on youth...
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Amazon workers test positive for Covid-19 at six U.S. warehouses
Doesn't that mean the effective R0 value for COVID-19 should be higher then?
or footage of tragic events being played after some overly enthusiastic video ad. thank god for ublock origin on Firefox everywhere.
I think you are talking about the first publisher who tried to insert controversial elements into Asterix. He was somewhat of a nationalist. His license got pulled and the comics got re-released in the normal format. Those were two different things.
What technologies does Safari not support that you need?

That’s a genuine question by the way. I’ve been frustrated by Apple’s reluctance in the past but since they implemented Service Workers things have gotten better. I still really wish they had Web Push but I do understand at least conceptually why they’d be hesitant.
No, it's not tied to a specific device. You can of course log back in, and keys are not "destroyed". We ask users to store a 12-word seed phrase, from which all other keys are derived from.
Awful, but not surprising. I live in Seoul and women are genuinely concerned about using public restrooms for fear of cameras under the seat. I got roofied at a Gangnam club in January. And then there is this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48702763
It's likely to cost you a few million dollars in hardware and multiple months to run your an off-the-shelf web scraper and a pretrained facial recognizer on a very, very large number of images. There are a lot of images on the internet, bandwidth and compute are not free.
Fatality rate is 2%, so why should the 98% suffer lockdown for sake of 2%?
Number of cases is unreliable because of how few tests are being done even in a place like China.

However, number of deaths is likely more accurate. Some places like Vietnam, and even Washington state have somehow managed to have a very slow growing number of deaths despite likely having community spread before Italy did.
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Oxford study suggests millions may have already built up coronavirus immunity
All correct. Also, Snowflakes think the country can run all shut down, but not if you want food on your table. We have to get back going, take our hits, and survive. The alternative is worse.
borg is nice, easy to configure and also has encryption very well integrated.
It is not whether you can but whether you have a safe and sterile procedure to do so. Wearing mask is symbolic and protect both sides a bit. But as said it is also meant if you touch the germ on the mask etc. you still can be infected. Now how are you going to protect yourselves if you reuse your mask and what procedure involved, if it can be recycled.
It's pretty easy to check whether or not they are still selling a profile of John Q Deleted to customers, since anyone be a customer.
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Wouldn't making it first party only cover it? I don't see how this has anything to do with privacy/tracking. webpages can still leave long term cookies. The only way this is a privacy issues is if 3rd party iframes can use localstorage but just like 3rd party resources have their cookies blocked so to could localstorage.

Otherwise this has absolutely nothing to do with privacy or tracking.
These kind of 'keyword' based ads can backfire quick. Every forum where people seek support for miscariages will have all the keywords expected for sites visited by expecting or new parents. There are thousands of quite opposite cases where humans would judge the subjects very different than a bot counting keywords.

It's really hard to get this right.
More likely that apple and the other corporations are also evolutionary dead end and this is a temporary hiccup
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It's because you haven't shown a dollar value of damages.
Toronto is gathering cellphone location data to find people congregating
A lot of web developers have been put off Apple due to macOS and Mac hardware issues, and simultaneously attracted to Windows due to WSL. Figma gives them an option to switch.
This. It is basically a rigged system and a no-win game of feudals and peasantry. What happened to responsibility and equal opportunity? Are the 99% of population who are not involved in this scam even considered human beings?
Cookies expire in the same way.
I think Ebola killed people too fast, so it didn't have time to spread as far.
Yes, it feels somewhat natural to craft this kind of style sheet. As I've just found out [1], there is even more of those than I'd expect.

[1] @dohliam's excellent "Drop-in Minimal CSS" collection mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683281
As a developer consuming their designs on Linux, I care. Most platforms don't check that box.
Your code is probably a nightmare for the next person to maintain. Have you ever worked on the same project with your own code for more than a year or two?

Though I'll agree with you on two points - boring old technologies and searching Stack Overflow.

Optimizing code is something you don't need to worry about a lot of the time. Having understandable code is a lot more important in my opinion, but you don't seem to care about that.

In saying that there are plenty of jobs where code doesn't need to be maintained. Most bioinformatics research just need to produce a graph or heatmap and gets used once, so maintainability isn't so important.
not all landlords are rich and/or have rent as their entire income in normal times. my friend is a "landlord", in the sense that she rents out the spare room in her house to help pay the mortgage. now her entire industry is shut down and her tenant isn't getting paid either. no matter how responsibly they manage their finances, most people can't handle suddenly having multiple sources of cashflow go to zero.
> Even the remote teams I know are struggling to get work done in the middle of this 24-hour news cycle of virus news and political battles about how to address it.

+1 for this. I'm 100% remote, as are many members of my org, and we're struggling to deal with the big changes happening. Webex and Zoom occasionally drop audio or just straight up drop people.

Also can't underestimate the kids thing. For example, my boss has 8 year olds who LOVE to sing as loudly as possible -- ask me how I know :)
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I think apple DOES want this. Core markets cleanly segmented are probably a better value prop to apple than everything working everywhere and users being able to freely migrate between platforms
How many users even know or care about that feature?
Someone on reddit said that we don’t really understand the seasonal changes in infectious diseases so it’s possible we’re actually making it worse by forcing people to stay indoors.

I’m not saying it’s true. But for me it underscores the idea that we need evidence based policy making now more than ever.
>> "without idiots posting on web forums about their non-expertise and not giving in to who can yell the loudest."

What are your credentials?
Obviously I have no idea what your product is but if I got that message I'd just likely go to one of your competitors (assuming they exist). I wouldn't go and buy another device unless it was for an absolutely critical application.
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