skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Bergen County. There is a lack of panic - although I'm on the north side, opposite of the most infected parts.

I went grocery shopping earlier today, there were a few people with masks but no one was really trying to keep a distance from others. Plenty of people there, perhaps a few less than usual. At times there are so many people that they have to restrict entry into the store and create a line outside (possibly to help with social distancing, but there are still too many people in the store for that to matter). It's the opposite of social distancing.

The disaster in NYC, and the counties immediately north/east of Bergen (Westchester, Rockland) is going to spill over. We're not going to be able to handle it and we don't have the clout of NY to push for more resources.

In a recent video, 3Blue1Brown wrote "The only thing to fear is a lack of fear itself." This is what worries me. My parents are at risk as long-time smokers and if Valley runs out of ventilators and PPE, our major/usual option is out.

(excellent video by the way)
https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg
The content of the matches the headline.

What they do is to increase the accuracy so much that physical perturbations at the quantum level dominate, not numerical accuracy. Irreversible up to the Planck length means fundamentally unpredictable.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04029
The US had a pandemic response team, who's job it would have been to be on guard duty. They were "let go" in 2018 to reduce wasteful government spending.
Never heard of sigv2, but looks like it's currently on its way out?

I like the UUID idea. Especially since you can always move the file under a new UUID to revoke previous access. Not sure if there's a way to generate a new link with GDrive.
Yes, and contact tracing involves testing people regardless of whether they have symptoms, and quarantining them if they test positive.
With my privileged position in having the freedom to sit at home and work without interruptions, I can only try to be empathetic and imagine the hardships hundreds of millions of people will face.

There is no compulsion that I know of, but most of these businesses have associations and lobbies that will be dealing with the government and trying to keep things open. I have no doubt there will be disruptions all over the country. There are no precedents of such situations, nor would I expect any kind of Standard Operating Procedures to be in place.

It's gonna be chaotic - but hopefully not deadly. And that is the important thing.

Last few days, I have been thinking how disastrous a widespread infection would be in India. I shudder thinking about the numbers if this goes out of hand. A small percentage of 1.4 billion is a huge number. To avoid that, frankly, I'd accept temporary draconian measures.

I have been preaching "Stay at home" to everyone in my circles who would listen. Hope you do the same. :pray:
They only need to flatten it until a vaccine is ready
The handling of Covid-19 in Iran is a great counterexample.
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As usual with physics links, the layperson's blurb sounds kind of silly and is easy to criticize. But the actual paper is linked and you can look at it: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/3/3932/5...

General HN comment: I think our discussion on physics topics will really be improved if we comment on the physics papers (start with the abstracts) themselves.

The (completely understandable) trend right now is to focus on the press release or science journalism that accompanies the link to the physics. Unfortunately that normally leads away from the basics of what's actually happening in the physics.

(Metaphor here: If you're a programmer, imagine reading about some CS topic in Wired magazine, then looking at 200 comments from people who agree or disagree with the pop sci writeup.)
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"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value"

From the Moral Mazes blog series featured on HN a couple months ago https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha... ; the first segment is https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/28/moloch-hasnt-won/
Belief in punishment after death is not logically connected to belief or non-belief in deities. Where such connections exist, they too are matters of faith. There are for example atheists that believe in reincarnation and karma/vipaka.
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The anti-Muslim sentiment may have prevailed over time, but Muslims still prosper and grow in India. Do know that mainstream anti Muslim sentiment was a consequence of the Muslim League asking for a separate nationhood for Muslims. It may have been a fringe belief but not as mainstream to ask for a separate country until this. Said differently, if the Muslim league hadn't existed and the countries were united, we may not have seen these divisions fester the way they have with the seeds sown back in the early-mid 1900s
Hassling the USPS by making them dispose of a brick seems like suitable enough punishment for them delivering junk mail in the first place.
That sounds like Firebase on Android.
> parasite

Well now I don’t want to look.
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"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

The parent comment had one foot on each iceberg, but this is completely unmoored.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, infected individuals are infected individuals. We are talking about asymptomatic spread. It can be difficult to tell whether you have symptoms or it's just a particularly bad pollen day. For this reason quarantining known-infected individuals is a good idea, rather than having them mill around until the very second they get a sore throat.
HTTP is filtered? No problem, let's transfer ads through websockets or webrtc!
We need some mechanism by which to encourage people with good ideas to make those ideas available to the world rather than keeping it to themselves. Intellectual Property laws are our current mechanism for rewarding such behavior and thereby encouraging people to add value to the system.

Maybe they aren't optimal. Maybe there's a better solution.

But doing away with them without first coming up with a superior method for making sure those ideas get shared at all is a great way to strangle the supply of better ideas and new inventions. Counting on people to give that stuff away for free out of the goodness of their hearts so everyone else can benefit while the brilliance of the originator gets treated abusively like slave labor is an excellent way for the world to cut its own throat.

Brilliant people can choose to turn their brilliance towards a "Fuck you, got mine!" personal policy if the world wishes to habitually and by policy fuck them over. Encouraging them to behave that way is an excellent way to actively foster a dystopian future.
You are talking with certainty about things which are completely unprecedented right now. The fact is you don't know for what is and isn't possible, and you don't know what should be done - nobody really does.
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This is a very inflammatory comment. Many of the Pakistanis and Indian Muslims I know are proud of their South Asian heritage and actually turn their noses up at the Arabicization of their culture. Not all obviously - but enough that I know that your broadstroke painting of Indian Muslims is an extremely unfair characterization.

Indian Muslims and Pakistans and Bangladeshis are no less natives of the subcontinent than the Hindus or the Buddhists or the Jains are - they just happen to practice a different religion.
I wish Shopify would hire more engineering related workers in EU. Support for European payment methods in Shopify API is horrible and I would love to put it work to get more EU payment method support in the Checkout API.
The reality is that rich countries are the only ones doing mass testing.
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Any advantages over a hosts file?
It's self-published.

You can self-publish a book for Amazon.com here: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
> Resilience doesn't sell out your privacy with "acceptable ads". Resilience won't be blocked by your web browser's developers.

Excellent. I'm glad to see uBlock Origin getting some much needed competition, and a good take on Chrome's adblocking downgrade.

>Transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Not so great. Getting HTTP/1 right is hard, getting SSL right is hard, integration is quite hard just as well. And then there's HTTP/2, and WebSockets and other protocols. Possible results of failure: connection reset, encryption downgrade attack, malicious script injection, credentials stealing, browsing history stealing, XSS, SSL spoofing, IDN homograph attack. Sadly Chrome seems to leave no better option at this point.

OTOH, in the longer run it makes sense for ad blockers & similar tools to be ran as a wholly separate process, offering one more layer of separation.
The short answer is, we don't know. There just isn't data to tell.

That being said, not that much testing has been made. The culture doesn't promote not downplaying or hiding your symptoms. Past couple of weeks, people have been relaxing. Cherry trees are in full bloom and so are the park gatherings. At the airport there are fingerprint scanners at the passport control - no way to sanitize your hands until after luggage unless you brought hand sanitizer. I could go on.

Tokyo's governor just mentioned the possibility of a Europe/China style lockdown: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tokyo-...

Tokyo just picked up the rate significantly: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10900000/000612031.pdf

CDC just raised Japan's alert rate: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/coronavirus-jap...

Internally, there are recommendations, and not much more. Bars and clubs are still going. Many offices are business as usual, apart from not demanding everyone in at 8:40 sharp to spread out commutes a bit more. Many of those expect to be able to return to that by April. (Just anecdata, my girlfriend happens to work at one such company)

Golden Week is coming up. For those who don't know, generally in Japan people only have around 10 holidays - but on the other hand there are a lot of holidays. It just so happens that in may several of those fall together and it's the one week every year where everyone goes traveling (there is also New Year's which is more focused on family).

I am not optimistic.
What all the western countries have done. A half arsed lockdown, not like China's, without testing-and-tracing, not like South Korea's. There's still no evidence that a half arsed lockdown is unsuccessful and good reason to believe they generally aren't.
Ask HN: Are there any tools to calibrate a display without a colour profile?
In the case where you have a monitor which you use with multiple inputs and you want to ensure that from any input signal the display will be as close to correct as possible without applying a profile.

I was wondering if there's a tool where a calibration tool can be used to allow you to move the monitor to a more correct calibration before working on making a profile?

My monitor has options for custom Gain, Offset, Hue and Saturation built in in addition to brightness and contrast. (Dell UP2718Q) So I'm sure there's a lot that can be done beforehand.

Are there specific colourimeters available for this or separate software?
Yes, I think we debated the whole concept of GDI being in the kernel as well.

The Vista experience shows you it was and still is necessary for perf.
> you can still use = and - for headers

You can't make section headers with ##, no?

More importantly in RST you can't easily manage several levels of headings. You're limited to 2 or 3, and have to remember which underline character you used for that level.
Edited to include BPL as definition of poor.
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India: Total Lockdown from Midnight, Stay at Home for 21 Days
Depends on the place. My Jewel (in Chicago) was good on tissues and out of toilet paper up until yesterday when it was out of both.
I take it you've never been to India. In many parts criminal punishment is still dealt out by a mob literally beating the guilty party.
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You are not restricted to a per-host filter, but can filter by URL
That's not my experience with Windows. Typical update takes seconds and does not shuts down without my control.
> Resilience is an ad blocker for your computer that works with any browser on any operating system.

This might be a bit difficult on some of the mobile platforms, at least with the code that's currently in the repository :P
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IMO because they make better strategic than tactical weapons.

I don't see much value in that article - it's basically just Colin Powell quoted as saying that he doesn't think nuclear weapons are useful and that they should be eliminated. But he's just one person, at one time, and he doesn't say anything about how. That's far, far away from a broad agreement among the entire US military and government. It's more like political propaganda than a reasoned analysis.

An actual modern military force in the field should be significantly less vulnerable. You'd have to be quite close to the detonation to damage armored vehicles and troops in good cover. Actually targeting it well is likely to be hard too. It would be nasty to soft vehicles and buildings and anybody outside of cover, but 5 minutes warning could cut that down pretty well.

But they would be quite effective indeed against more strategic targets, from military bases and logistic areas all the way back to factories and cities.
Yes, being narrow minded is sufficient in removing the complexities necessary to host a static website.

It's a non-sequitur to say since I don't endorse using other servers in this instance, I must lack knowledge of them. It's not about me or you, it's about the lowest common denominator of technical person necessary to maintain a static website.

Following your path, the complexity becomes contemplating why one should use lesser known web servers instead of what one is more likely to be familiar with.
There's no way to know that there is community spread without comprehensive testing.

In order to stop transmission, infected people need to be quarantined. If you have no idea which individuals are infected...the (incredibly painful, yes) alternative is everyone.
This is indeed quite possible and I won't dispute it. My point still stands though - the current Indian government has given plenty of current-generation Pakistanis (ie. those born three generations after Partition) to rediscover an appreciation for having a separate country. (My sources are Pakistani Americans, so take that how you will)
I guess the OP meant this hook sword

https://www.mandarinmansion.com/item/chinese-hook-sword

It does have a strange shape, and indeed I don't think I saw anything similar in other cultures.
In Germany, if you register a company, your accountant will warn you that you'll get scam invoices. The notary that does the legal stuff will warn you. And finally the official court registry will send you a letter warning you that you'll get scam invoices (their letter arrives after the first scam invoices, though).

It's ridiculous. Everybody knows it's a scam, they even give themselves official-sounding names to pretend that they are the official registry, and yet the government just folds and says "I guess we can't do anything". It's a joke.
Nah, that’s basically also what Kierkegaard said.
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I think op was referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_sword

https://www.mandarinmansion.com/item/chinese-hook-sword

There's a fun fight with it in Crouching Tiger.
Containment is technically restricted to passengers who arrived in India after 2/15. There is no such restriction for the rest of the population... Of course, with India, there is the legal theory and its 'practice'. I imagine the police will make a killing with all the bribes in the coming weeks.
Fair point.

Does WHO reference any studies that prove asymptomatic folks don't infect others?

If you happen to know, what explains the higher R0 and higher rate of infection world-wide?

> ...for example people having their temperature checked outside public buildings.

That isn't bullet-proof, tbh. India saw instances of people popping paracetamols to work around temperature checks.
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Fair point, we've actually been thinking along the same lines. What if the bottle just lit up for 20s? And had the proper steps on the label?
A spartan themed logo?

More seriously, it does automatic updates, so presumably the maintenance burden on the end users is lower.
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> The people found violating curfew could just be educated on why restriction is necessary and what their rights are in present situation, whom they can appeal to if they are not satisfied with the explanation.

Unfortunately, that's not likely to work in all parts of India. We cannot expect all first-world practices to work in developing countries.
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Interesting but is the project even alive anymore? Last commit was 9 months ago.

Combined with it saying it's early early alpha, no instructions and no builds means it doesn't look to be in a good state to use.
Touche - you are right, the human cost was immense. In that sense, partition was a failure. I guess I meant my comment in the sense of how satisfied people are right now with the status quo.
How Do We Solve This Without Knowing Who Is Already Immune?
In my opinion, it's rational (which surprises me that it would be "populist" since populist thinking is rarely rational).

The Olympics really are a terrible waste of effort and resources for the host nation, and the host nation rarely, if ever, gets a positive return on it. Mostly, it seems only to serve to increase the prestige of some head-of-state, nothing more. In reality, it costs an enormous amount of money to build facilities that are only used once and then go to waste. The world would be better off designating two separate, permanent Olympics facilities, one for summer and one for winter, and just reusing those every 4 years.
Also, the physical controls never change, so it's much less mental effort if you do glance at them.
>Example: V1 of a playbook installs htop. V2 doesn't. Now, a machine that went through V1 then V2 has a different state than a machine that just went through V2.

This has nothing to do with idempotence. Idempotence means you can apply the same action more than once, and all applications after the first are no-ops. In Ansible's case, that applies to its tasks; eg if you run a task that starts a service but the service is already started, the task simply succeeds without any other effect, as opposed to failing or some other behavior.
Try immersed. https://immersedvr.com/#features_tag

It's literally just a 2D whiteboard though. You don't get more features than a physical whiteboard.
I don't know if that's true. Surgical masks are pretty good at stopping droplets but they only stop 80% of virus sized particles and that's really not good enough for most medical use cases. It's a lot easier to teach new doctors and nurses "surgical masks don't protect you" than go into details. I expect health officials are just repeating the received wisdom which is close enough to true in their circumstances rather than deliberately being deceptive.

People round off quantitative information to qualitative judgements all the time. Nate Silver still has people being angry at him for "Predicting Hillary would win" when he said at there was a 2/3 chance of that happening. It's such a pervasive phenomenon I don't see any reason to think it couldn't be happening here.
I don't know, to me not allowing people to qualify the virus using the place of origin (as was the convention before) is an insult to those people -- you are assuming malice, that these people must be racists.

I'm saying this as an ethnic Chinese myself.
I want to use the machines that are built for high volume testing, and not try to ramp up production of a cost-inefficient cartridge thing for the bulk of testing that we could never get enough tests from in a reasonable time. (Takes a week+ to make tooling for injection molding even on an expedited basis and I guarantee you they cannot produce enough of these fancy plastic cartridges to test everyone with present tooling).

Of course, I also want to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the cartridge based system where they're most useful.

This is mostly because I'm not stupid. Neither is South Korea; they're getting fine just by with traditional, cost-efficient RT-PCR practices.
You mean kill efficient businesses on a random basis? I don't see how that benefits anybody. To be clear I don't care about cruise lines particularly, but I'm not sure I agree with the general point that businesses hit by freak events should in general just be allowed to die.
I don't disagree it would be a fatal mistake, but the logic I am trying to calm my self with is: it has been 3 weeks, if an outbreak was to happen, it would have drowned our medical infrastructure already
I appreciate the details.
One of the goals is to eliminate boilerplate. If I'm remembering my C++ correctly,!=, <=, >, and >= can be easily defined in terms of < and ==, but programmers were required to spell out the definitions for all the operators manually. With operator<=>, one definition would allow the compiler to generate all 6 operators.

There are some correctness and efficiency concerns operator<=> addresses, too, but I'm not confident I can explain those well.

You can read more in P0515R0 [0], which sort of "rolls up" previous papers discussing comparisons.

[0]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p051...