skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age is a larger predictor of political party affiliation than location[1], and the CFR of covid-19 against age[2] means the deaths will disproportionately be republicans. Every elderly persons life is also worth more, on average, in terms of number of votes because the elderly vote more than the young[3].

An early end of self-isolation would be an unmitigated political disaster for the Republican party. These are statistics so simple that even politicians should be able to understand them.

Edit: I would also like to add that it is very early days for covid-19. A significant percentage of the population will be infected at some point before November. How high of a percentage is inversely related to how long people self-isolate. The states that are barely hit at all today will the "worst hit states" tomorrow.

1. https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-af...

2. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/07/coronaviru...

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_...
A few thoughts:

1) Extrapolating from the infection rates of very specific groups (for example, evacuees) to the entire population without taking into account transmission dynamics and the time between infection and detection does not make very much sense. The authors naively multiply the infection rate among evacuees by the population of Wuhan to conclude that Wuhan must have had 178,000 infections at the end of January. By comparison, epidemiological models have estimated there were around ~20,000 infections at that time [1][2][3]. What conclusion should we draw here? If you use sloppy, back of the napkin math to over-inflate the infection count by 10x then you can correspondingly deflate the mortality rate?

2) Speculating about the mortality rate of Covid-19 based on several gigantic assumptions ("If our surmise of six million cases is accurate, that’s a mortality rate of 0.01%") seems borderline irresponsible. Numerous researchers have been modeling this virus and have generally arrived at numbers in the range of 0.5% to 1.6% [4][5][6][7][8][9]. The authors don't present any compelling reason why we should doubt those numbers.

3) Ultimately the mortality rate is not as important a number as the hospitalization rate. The authors would have you believe this virus is no worse than the flu, but this is not congruent with the number of reports coming out of places like Italy and New York saying they're about to run out of ICU beds, or China rushing to build temporary hospitals to house all of the patients that need critical care. What the mortality rate might be under ideal circumstances where every patient receives adequate medical care might be significantly different compared to a scenario where you've run out of ICU beds and have to start rationing ventilators.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/419/htm

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v...

[3] https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/523/htm

[4] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

[5] https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...

[6] https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/severity/diamond_crui...

[7] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031104v...

[8] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033357v...

[9] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7
You won't know about their ego or professionalism until you work with them. Posting on a mailing list and making a blog post about it is not proof of either of these, it's brand marketing. They're trumpeting their engineering talent to build good will/nerd rep so people will love their company, spend money there, and apply for jobs. (But what it does show is that they're good at marketing, because it's working)
I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows. Is there a bounty on that?
Those are all good points, and we do love our learners and teachers in Europe.

Thanks!
This is not accidental complexity.
Webkit's website says:
"[..] deleting all of a website’s script-writable storage after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site."

It is not clear that a user coming to your website before the 7 days, even offline, is exempt of it.
The mention of Graphs does point to a weakness/difficulty in Rust - any cyclical references are very difficult to manage.
And it only took them 2 years to act on it. Wow.
Are we absolutely sure they don't just mean the localstorage containers that aren't part of the current domain? In the same way they are clearing cookies from a different domain, and not the ones that belong to the current domain.

EDIT: Clarification from a Webkit dev https://twitter.com/alexcroox/status/1242559843354972161
Hoping it is not as loud as their vacuum cleaners, hand dryers ;)
No way that's happening on iOS as long as Apple takes 30% off the top
FYI you can configure mouse wheel (or in my case just trackpad) scrolling in tmux [1], I've had this configured for years and it's worked really well for me.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180821055830/http://www.joehan...
I've never used Sketch Runner, but you can search assets in Figma which appears to be 90% of what you're looking for.

1 minute of searching also reveals a plugin called "Figma Walker" which, as the name implies, is an attempt to copy the exact functionality of Sketch Runner.
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Is there a GUI to just get the previous version of a file without the fancy z-axis scrolling
> Why is this one team not more secretive about their recipe to success?

It's not a secret. Many other organizations (not in F1, by your description) operate this way. It's well understood, but...

> Why aren't more teams copying this?

... everyone on the team needs to buy in to this approach. One selfish team member can slowly ruin the whole thing.

The uncomfortable reality of these cultures is that when someone in the culture is not truly committed, or is putting their self-interest ahead of the team, they need to be removed. A lot of leaders are not strong enough to recognize that and take action.
Duplicity works by making a full backup and then series of incremental backups based on it. Eventually you can make another full backup and new series, but you cannot delete full or incremental backup without rendering whole series corrupt. In Time Machine (and - I presume - this software), if you delete a backup checkpoint for a specific date you lose only file changes captured by that checkpoint, but state of the backup at the checkpoints before and after remain intact.
Yea, we actually don't use safari at all in our app. So this might not have an effect but it's pretty vague.
There's no balance. You just let the user set any permission and make the prompts unobtrusive.
That is a fantastic point and one we will seek to address in a follow up post. We did take a look at this when we conducted the initial analysis, and given that the vast majority of Spring Breakers return to their origination towns after they travel, the final image looks more or less the same. We sought to get this message out quickly, as we believe that it's tremendously important for people to understand the potential impacts of this type of gathering!
The argument would be stronger if the post got into what privacy protection in Safari isn’t available in the Apple News app. Instead there’s a seemingly random plug for a content blocker app I’ve never heard about, which upon further inspection happens to be sold by the author.
Why not let users give access to that one site use data older than 7 days? So data stays but its only being deleted if you click that it can access (first time only - next time it remembers)
I tend to use the CTRL+Shift+U shortcut with the codes memorized or looked up from https://unicode.org/charts/ (https://odoepner.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/enter-unicode-char... goes through how to use it) instead, so I can use them all over (IRC + Slack + Browser + Terminal).

Good to know though, so thanks for the reply.
I live in Zurich since 5 years and am German. I never experienced anything like that. The Swiss are very polite and if you follow the rules, you will be fine.

What people miss is that Zurich has more foreigners than London or Berlin. 40% have no Swiss passport. It is actually the most international city in Europe.
I see. For someone using tmux, seems that would be a non-feature. Thanks for the reply!
They do not "change from one week to another". They have changed, what, twice ever?
One of the useful things added is that the language can now define a default <=> operator for your own classes, for example if you had struct Foo {int a; int b;} previously you'd have had to define your own comparison operators such as:

bool operator<(const Foo& foo) const
{
if (a < foo.a) return true;
if (a > foo.a) return false;
if (b < foo.b) return true;
if (b > foo.b) return false;
return false;
}

.. and all the other comparison operators that you needed.

But now, you can just say:

auto operator<=>(const Foo&) const = default;

and the compiler will automatically generate all the operators for you.
You can use Figma + Zeplin. Maybe have your designer export a design to Zeplin and see if you have the same issues inspecting elements there as well.

It's most likely that your designer just has a messy file. I've never had an issue with the Figma inspector.
YT doesn't pay for bandwidth Google trades bandwidth on their global fiber network.
Safari already was lagging behind Chrome, Chrome forks and Firefox in a lot of feature adoption. This will only make it more of a "new Internet Explorer", a browser that sites recommend you NOT to use.
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> The problem is that the users are so brainwashed from decades of Marketing.

Is there any other device or ecosystem of devices where my parents can fix their problems by turning it off and on? The fact that I have 80 years old grandparents who can’t read English using iPads and iPhones is not just marketing, that’s “not having to google and download malware bytes and ccleaner and go into regedit” to maybe fix issues.
> I'd like the audio input to be able to pick up desktop sounds on MacOS the way it works on Windows.

Even paid apps like Wirecast are having a hard time figuring out a workaround for that. I ended up using Loopback from Rogue Amoeba ($99), and it does the job absolutely beautifully. You configure your Mac's audio output to point to Loopback (which shows up as an audio output device), and then you use your broadcasting tools to use Loopback (which also shows up as an audio input device). You can do mixing, too.
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Classics right there! We've got a long linage of this kinda stuff now from browser resets to full stylesheets to well specified content just for testing any of the above on. I love it! Simple. Consistent. And now more powerful than ever with the help of variables.

Might be fun to take all the w3 core styles rebuild them with modern CSS features. Maybe add some HTML5 elements to the test docs as well.
> Does a racist caricature exist? Yes

> Does racism itself exist? Yes

> What does it look like?

Stupid, unfunny, monochromatic and afraid to normalize the appearance of interracial couples, or to show black, jew, indian, or hispane characters in positive roles, or to depict different cultures and religions living together.

Therefore, totally the opposite to this comics.

If comics for you, mean only US schools and Steamboat Willy cartoons, then this is just a tunnel vision problem. Can be treated by exposition to different schools of cartoonists. In Europe there are some really big: Uderzo and collaborators, Hergé (Questionable first history, corrected later), Franquin, Peyo or Ibañez among other. Ibañez is undoubtely the wildest one; If you think Asterix it's politically incorrect you're going to freak out with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERFdmt6NOGw

And yes, is for kids.
With 300 for a half-day, it would be 600 for a full day and 12000 for 20 days of work.

In most parts of the world, that's an extremely high level salary and could easily fund most peoples month, granted they live outside of Silicon Valley.

I'm sure many people would be more than happy to receive 300 or much less for half a day of work.
I think it is worth noting that you can really say "Apple" is doing this or "Apple" is doing that with decisions at this level.

The company is just too big and not working in unison.

The Apple Safari Team is killing/hurting offline apps. The author asks why they don't take the same approach in Apple News - as if it is the same team that is in charge. Different team with different priorities and likely not talking to each-other.

I think the larger point is valid - but it better to understand that this isn't some cohesive cross-company strategy at play. Its size-able teams working on their own priorities within a larger roadmap (presumably).
There is no such thing as an "unobtrusive" prompt.
Please don't perpetuate the web cancer which is AMP.
Good points. I've edited my comment.
> I'm still not sure why more vendors don't make iOS PWAs to get around the App Store payment rules.

Because users won't use them. For users that don't have a technical background: if it isn't in the app store then it essentially isn't an app. For techie users: lots of us don't want web apps because of the power, memory, and bandwidth usage is often higher than a well written native app. The fact that there's a gatekeeper who has some control over what shows up in the app store is usually a feature and not a bug.

If there were big parts of the app ecosystem that didn't have native apps, then eventually users would find web apps. But that isn't the case. Think of anything and search for it in the app store and there's an app for it (including 2048).
In an instance like this I wonder if it’s actually more valid to show origination location before Spring Break, as opposed to where everyone ended up afterwards. Given that source locations (NYC) are extremely important to the story.
> plugged the HDMI output into an Elgato Camlink, which made it show up as a Webcam

I love this solution too, but just making a note for folks who use GoToWebinar: the max webcam output resolution is still just a miserable 720p, so this approach doesn't work as well for sharing apps & desktops there.

You can have a higher-resolution webcam (like this trick), but GoToWebinar still only sends your webcam stream out at 720p, so it looks terrible on the other end.
I don't understand the argument. (I didn't vote on your comment)
Couldn't that be handled my modifying the oxygen mixture per patient? My concern would be contamination between patients on the same system. People are ventilators are typically immune compromised. The positive pressure helps avoid this, but I'm not sure it's enough pressure.
> ...using a Windows 10 machine.

Case closed.
webkit is open source - can't this be changed (be it by fork, or a commit proposal?)
Blackhole[1] is a better, newer and free solution for these kinds of internal OSX audio routing issues.

[1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
Is this really that big of a problem? You had to be expecting that local storage is deleted without any notice anyway, in every web app.
When you search the web, the search engine has already indexed the web (and is doing so constantly). Your results come from hits in that index.

If you want fast results searching your large local disk, you need to periodically index your disk in the background.

I used such an indexer back around 2000. It was a Java program. I can't remember the name at all.

There are probably more such indexers today.
> Apple restricts tracking by limiting browser storage

But the argument that this will protect privacy in the first place seems really weak.

Before this change in Apple's policy, an app could store my config data on my PC.

After this change, they'd need to have me log in and send the config data to their servers.

That seems like I've lost privacy, not gained it.
For non-F1-followers like me: I spent 5 minutes on Wikipedia so you don't have to, and "they" is Mercedes, who re-entered Formula 1 in 2010 after a 55 year hiatus, and won every year since 2014. Pretty spectacular!
Oops, sorry!

https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/nacional/2020/03/24/madrid-d...

N.B. all was said without comment. I make no comment on the quality of Heraldo's/EFE's journalism.
Yes because think of all the money Apple gets from taking 30% all of the free apps that would be free web apps....
It is related only to WebKit (Safari). So I think people will just switch to other browsers.
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If you don't use Safari you can patch webkit to change the policy, right? Change 7 to 10000000
Just saw that data used for biometric purposes is under special protection beyond typical pii. That seems to be the basis for current investigations.
Can someone explain to me why Time Machine is so great? I've used it, but I've just never found it worthwhile in comparison. For me it was very slow (but worked in the background which was nice), only mimiced my drive based off of whats currently on it and if I deleted it in the past.

I guess because I have several backups that I rotate, that essentially is my time machine that only goes as far back as my last backup for that drive.
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If you have a thermometer you can turn the oven off manually as it approaches your target temperature. I do this for warming bread dough. Once you know how long it takes you don't need the thermometer.
> For users that don't have a technical background: if it isn't in the app store then it essentially isn't an app

I'm not convinced of this. If it has an icon like proper apps, and feels like an app, I don't think users are going to mind if it came from the App Store.

The question is whether the unfamiliar 'installation' process is too fiddly for non-technical users. I don't think it is. I figure a 10 second How to install our app animation would do the job.
Technically local data is more private than contacting a remote server to download it again. I don't see that being a controversial stance.
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CouchDB and Amplify Datastore do delta syncs, should this get around the problem?

If you put data in IDB, it will stay there for 7 days and then if it gets deleted the delta sync would just download it again.
Yeah, as far as I understand, cookies is the only storage method that will be left to use for long-term storage of user data. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.

Edit: getting downvoted without any reasoning provided, so I assume I'm incorrect, there are more/less ways of storing data in the future for Safari users?
> decided to really stress-test Figma by working on the beach.

"Alright guys, I think we should double check Figma on a poor connection"

"Oh yea, that's smart. Chrome can easily let you simulate that using devtools."

"We could do that, or..." puts on shades and grabs beachball
Good luck with telling people not to use Safari (or more accurately WebKit) on iOS....
Thanks, this is worth debating. Is this QE surgical rather than broad based, I can't see how it's precise and not broad? We can avoid the debate of which businesses need propped up by not propping any up. Yes an immediate response is required, but some consideration should be given to down-stream impacts. Agreed on the vaccine, but the worst to come could happen in the next 1.5 years, and if we've deployed trillions into the economy already, what's our next move? The extrapolation is my argument, if central banks can print money and pay wages now, why stop?
Which in a current situation is running a risk to fall into Google's walled garden. It is not there yet but Google's working hard on subverting the Internet.
Control freak companies that don't trust their employees to work remotely or don't have any empathy for employees during this pandemic aren't going to change their ways if someone alters a word or two in a document.

Face-to-face communication is possible using many different services these days. You could even do those planning exercises remotely, post-its on a white board with a webcam if your company doesn't have a system/service they are using to track and plan work.
It's easy enough to test whether someone is an INTP with an online personality test. Basically INTPs will look like autists. They don't talk unless asked and dislike the company of other people.
On the Mac, Telestream Wirecast ($599) [1] does this.

Not saying Wirecast is better or worse than OBS - although for me, on the Mac platform, Wirecast was way better. I can capture a desktop or app window, overlay my webcam on top of it in the bottom corner, use chroma key to remove my background, and then I float on top of apps. That video feed can be outputted as a webcam stream that works with GoToWebinar, Skype, Hangouts, etc.

You can see examples of what it looks like to attendees via my blog: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2020/03/free-fundamentals-...

One drawback is that some webcasting apps (GoToWebinar in particular) have a max webcam output resolution, like in GoToWebinar's case, 720p. That means you have to be really careful about which apps/screens you try to share as a webcam.

[1]: https://www.telestream.net/wirecast/
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Android?

I've had to aid my parents using Apple devices just as much as Android (father likes iPhone, mother prefers Samsung Galaxy).

edit: so much for anecdotes...
Thanks, yes I agree with your point on competition eroding margins. But I think it is nuanced, not all successful business have slim margins, many are awash with cash, Apple for example.
It's not super clear but, if I'm reading it correctly, the 7 days are 7 days of use. So if you don't open the site for 3 days, the counter is still at 0.
Doing `export TERM=xterm` has worked consistently for me
User not coming to website 7 days can't be invalid use-case. Losing important data simply because someone went on vacation is unacceptable.
The significant reduction in emissions worldwide is an opportunity to gather some interesting data that would have been difficult to estimate at other times. What other interesting science could be done now that might bring some positive from the pandemic?
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GDPR request for deletion might work better

Dumb question - how can anyone be sure that companies actually delete the data? What about the backups, what happens to the data there? How do these govt enforcers verify this? Also, what about Clearview's employees abusing the data? what stops them from snooping on someone they are interested in?
I know this is ad hominem, but your comment just sounds like "I make big money with native apps and don't want web apps to catch up!"
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Congrats! Small note, your custom icon font is not loading for me, making all icon images look like squares (it's the unicode character used by the font, actually). See: https://imgur.com/a/708lUBr (they're now loading again)

To support more traffic, you could look into dedicated hosting / a CDN (such as cloudflare) for your static files. As you're using Digital Ocean & WordPress, you could use Digital Ocean's CDN offer like this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-spee...

Another option would be to use dedicated wordpress hosting (wpengine.com or any other well known one) which offers caching and a CDN service -- that could remove some of the hosting / growing concerns.
Will this affect all browsers that in iOS are forced to use same engine?
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Stuff like this makes me wonder. How strong was the culture really, if it didn’t know how to handle having one errant member among its ranks? That is going to happen eventually, on a long enough timeline.
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