skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of ridiculous pedantic response I'm referring to. Are you claiming that the growth in new cases would be the same without a substantial decrease in social interaction from the lockdown? The cases you're seeing today were initially infected as long as 2 weeks prior. The claim you're making in that case is much more extreme than mine, because you have to make the argument this isn't something that has a high rate of human transmission.

Folks, we're all data-oriented people I get it. But it strains credulity that we're suspending our logical faculties for how viruses actually work.
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/healthmedicine/china-reports-...

Or

http://archive.is/Z1U6p
It is worth noting that difficulties in recognising emotions in faces are by no means unique to ASD; they also occur in ADHD [1], anxiety disorders [2], schizophrenia [3], and probably other psychiatric/neurodevelopmental disorders as well. So, if this technology has value, its value would be a lot broader than only ASD.

(As an aside, a lot of people tend to have this narrow focus on just ASD to the exclusion of other psychiatric/neurodevelopmental disorders, despite the fact that all these disorders have lots of overlap and rather fuzzily defined boundaries. None of the symptoms of ASD are unique to ASD; they all occur in other conditions also; given that all treatments for ASD are treating symptoms rather than the unknown underlying causes, any therapy for any ASD symptom is very likely to also work for other disorders in which the same symptom is expressed.)

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Da_Fonseca/public...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Monk2/publi...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...
And may be trading away our ability of choice in the future and being stuck with a monopoly.

Nobody talks about regulated industries with duopoly or monopolies that everyone has to deal with. Tech industry is exotic ain't?

Big companies will still find a way to track you. That won't change. You can pull up a list of all the privacy focused laws released recently and you can still see Facebook and all their products working fine but you never hear about someone who wanted to bootstrap an idea and couldn't invest much upfront to deal with slow expensive law system.

We don't need more regulations. We need more selective punishments proportional to the damage and presence. Not a lame fine that is not proportional to what companies are profiting from . And if you know anything, Facebook is the one lobbying for privacy these days. They are pushing for some of the requirements they are already compliant with to be put into law .
yeah, that works. I'm trying to figure out how to make disk1.dsk be the default disk that the app starts up with. Is that possible?
Having curiously perused the source for one of Tarn's earlier games, Liberal Crime Squad [0], and running away in horror, I'm really curious what the source for DF looks like... especially considering for how long they've plugged away at it.

Looking at LCS source was a lesson in how unimportant good programming can be when it comes to making a fun game. But I still can't bring myself to shed all my hygienic programming practices whenever I sit down to hack on a toy. It's really kind of frustrating, since it does add significant time to the development process from waffling about good names and clean abstractions.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcsgame/
The problem with that is that do you really believe the developer? It needs to be a 3rd party. Ideally the store itself, but there’s no incentive for the big stores to do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_xenophobi...

This might provide a better look as it's specifically about incidents after the Coronavirus pandemic. Asian mothers everywhere are probably warning their children to be careful when they walk outside, lest some thug mistakes them for a Chinese person and assaults them.
Yeah, I just didn't want to type it out :P
Neat - our business is the only one that apparently uses Square gift cards in the entire town :) https://giveandgetlocal.com/?address=Carrabassett%20Valley%2...
A Brooklyn Hospital
Unfortunately, Intel based.

A non-starter.
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Netguard proved to me that, despite never having a FB account, I surely had dozens upon dozens of shadow accounts. Pretty much any new hardware that had vanilla Play Store apps were ratting me out the entire time.
The day before we got the offical WFH order, I dragged my workstation and setup home and plonked it on the dining room table.

In normal times i have a laptop at home and connect to my workstation with a VPN, mosh+tmux and/or local emacs + TRAMP.
A discussion of how regulatory structures contributed to problems in the US (lack of tests, number and variety of providers and services, and so forth).
You mean that lockdown that started 17 days ago, and didn't become full until 5 days ago?

I wonder with every expert around claiming that it takes at least 15 days for an action to cause an effect, why is it that the growth in the number of cases only started to slow down a couple of days ago?
Does this account for age? If not, it’s more than a 4x risk multiplier since few health care workers are 80+.
It really doesn't. An experienced dev could recreate the core features in a web app within two weeks or less.

The more difficult part:

- Understanding the work that goes into making and releasing a podcast

- Figuring out that a step in the process is not being done efficiently

- Determining a balanced set of features whose delivery and maintenance cost is low enough that people in industry will benefit from paying for them

- Marketing your software to potential customers

- Convincing them that they will benefit from purchasing your software

- Maintaining the software to satisfy your customer base

- Exploring and releasing new features to stay ahead of your inevitable competition if the product is successful

- Taking the initial risk to start development

But everybody here knows that already.
Coppershade[0] also very good.

[0]: http://coppershade.org
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The situation is not great, to be sure. Check out covidtracking.com, which is aggregating data from state health department sites. I think that's the best going at the moment.
Superhuman looks nice.

>I'm increasingly aware that I've been doing everything wrong.

Any theme to this?
Tooling for me is fine as I'm a simple web dev and often worked from home anyway.

The downside is my wife is struggling to work from home too...and the kids are all home.

I get up at 4 or 5 am just to get some uninterrupted / quiet time...
I thought THINK Pascal was better than THINK C.
Maybe. But if it wasn't deemed valuable than it wouldn't matter how much it costs to mine.

Oil in some regions of the world literally seeps out of the ground (known as petroleum seep) and until the 19th century it wasn't really deemed to be something of value.
I would have liked to have seen more examples of what different languages shepherd you to do.

Python, in my experience, shepherds you to import a lot of modules rather than writing your own. There's so many helpful ones available and that's kind of a reality shock if you switch to some other languages.
A billionaire doesn't care when the price of a loaf of bread increases by 10% and, in any case, the money will eventually trickle up to the billionaire.
It appears Square is doing many things to help sellers, including refunding all subscription fees for march. https://www.instagram.com/p/B94ie84p-_b/?igshid=6zegvcfdithd
Nah, see my comment above. Those links only tell us that we did not find evidence of the use modern gene-editing technology in the virus. It's misdirection with a straw man.

The lab was breeding viruses the old-fashioned way long before modern gene-editing technology was invented. Bat coronaviruses would be mixed with other viruses and repeatedly passed through human cells. That leaves no evidence in the genome. It looks just like natural selection.

The virus labs in China have had several other dangerous accidents that let viruses get out. Those previous accidents were gotten under control. With this one, we weren't so lucky. I think the lesson is clear: don't screw around making deadly viruses when your biohazard containment is substandard. Maybe just don't attempt it under any conditions.
Don't bother, use something else like Matrix for text chat. Mumble is primarily designed for voice chat.

For reference, there is an open feature request for this, but nobody is working on it at the moment. https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2560
Yes, there is demand for these, see auction sites.

Definitely check trapdoor expansion for RTC battery and remove if present. If you're lucky, there is still no damage.
But this also covers bookings made in January, for example. While I agree with what you are saying the new policy does not exclude bookings made months ago to occur this summer.
That's not true, e.g, Equifax.
This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Yelp’s entire business model is high-jacking small business’ reputation and holding it hostage to extract money from the business. This is just more of the same. Steal a piece of the relationship between the customer and the business, then sell it back.

Yelp is a hardship on all small businesses they interact with. They can’t go away fast enough.

I mostly ignore them, but they’ve somehow inserted themselves into Apple Maps. It’s the only reason I refuse to use them over Google Maps and I hate it. Fuck Yelp.

/rant
I never used computer cards, although I did write an implementation of Knuth's MIX, and an assembler for it, but I wrote it in 2017 for running on PC DOS. Nevertheless, I did include an option in the assembler to punch a zero in the first column of each card other than the first and last cards. You can then line up and use a hook to easily find the first and last card, and it is easy to see which is which; other than the first and last card, the others can be in arbitrary order and it will still work. (These are the cards of the compiled deck, which does not use the same format described in TAOCP, but it should still be compatible with all MIX computers which use the loading mechanism described in TAOCP; my own implementation uses a single card bootstrap rather than two card bootstrap.) (Note that all of this describes the compiled deck, and not the source deck. There is no source deck in this modern implementation.)

(I have also tried to figure out how to make it work if all cards including the first and last card are shuffled (in order for this to work, it would require bootstrap code on every card, and it would probably need to know ahead of time how many cards there are), although I have been unable to do so; maybe it is not possible.)
I'm glad to see Mastodon is gaining commercial acceptance.
The point is that contango is like a slow trickle that decays your value. That doesn't mean it can't go up due to larger fluctuating factors. But over time is does go down while in that state, so it's not a buy and hold play.

Basically you need the virus situation to abate, along with OPEC price wars to end. And it needs to happen very soon (check the spread between front month and next month oil futures).
Make a starter now for a baking while working session tomorrow
If you want to give baking a go, I made a ciabatta recipe video that lets you work while tending to the dough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6vqqHHulw
Many, e.g.
http://www.sea-ccc.org/2019/03/14/march-13-2019-seattle-comm...
Never say we didn't warn you.
"most teens only dated people in the same school, church or other social institutions"

'Ethnic group' is the primary criterion. That would correlate race, religion, language, culture all into one.
> they pack them cluefully

Yeah, that's why amazon is a hard no for hard drive buys for me. I don't mind when a lot of things are bouncing around in an oversized shipping box with insufficient padding, or in a box with cat litter, but a hard drive should be shipped responsibly, and I can't reasonably expect that from amazon.
>This led to much cheaper and quieter air travel. This is a huge benefit - just not quite as spectacularly "space age" as the sci fi authors of the 1950s envisioned.

A moral here: align tech predictions w/ what most people want, don't assuming a kind of linear progression in advancement?
At HEB they had a few seemingly unrelated items up front, where they just dropped off a full pallet.
It is a funny choice of examples. I configure Emacs with script. And, while I certainly have some bitrot in my config, it is still way more manageable than any other config I have had to deal with.
Here is a humorous piece on how to get a refund:

“From a friend, a few days ago:

We were supposed to be in Vienna today for a short vacation, but the city is at high risk and we would have had to be quarantined on the way back.

The hotel refused to refund the payment. I called and asked to extend from 3 nights to 10 nights. When they asked the reason, I replied that I just got back from Italy and am looking for a place to stay until the 14-day quarantine period is over. “I want to stay in one place and not move around,” I told them.

They canceled my reservation immediately.”

From:

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/03/16/how-to-get-your...

And the thread on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22600819
systemd nspawn containers.
but you have choices.
lxc/d, nspawn, docker...
I've also used qemu with virsh but haven't recently had the time to set this up in my current abode.
my needs are likely different than yours. I'm a security engineer/developer so I'm building a lot of tools in house ... deployment and distribution isn't as much of a concern. I don't really deal with SQL backends in the same way you might. So I can get away with building a local db or feed data into an ELK stack over VPN + SSH.
I'm using openvpn btw.
Currently work for a regional health services provider and generally deal with a lot of different environments.
As you can imagine right now is hectic and being able to
to handle dependencies for all the different tools and libraries helps stay ahead of the curveballs. Having containers and virtual environments (venv) mostly planned out keeps me from throwing my workstation out the window as well.

Now is the time to awaken your inner DevOps guru.
Next.js Security Vulnerability
Comparing this to the flu is a non-starter for participating an an intelligent discussion about this.
Having tried both I would disagree. Shelf stable UHT milk doesn't taste sweet to me at all. That is likely because lactose free milk is made by adding a lactase and then using UHT pasteurization to stop the chemical reaction (and extend the shelf life). This means the lactose is already pre-converted into glucose (and galactose) in this milk. Shelf-stable UHT milk doesn't have lactase added and isn't sweeter than normal milk. At least in my experience.
Quite reasonable. I've edited the footer section with a callout to these recommendations and appropriate links.
One-click monitoring setup for Linux via SNMP
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> I am more likely to trust sources that appear to think critically

Information-warfare specialists know exactly how to exploit that attitude. Sowing distrust of mainstream media is core to their strategy, so that people will be "skeptical" about anything they say and turn to alternative outlets. How is it done? Easy: create the appearance of greater balance or depth without its substance. Create strawman versions of objections only to knock them down, include data points that appear to make the analysis more inclusive but don't change its outcome, toss in a few dubious factoids or citations, etc. It's not even that hard. Before long you'll have plenty of people who are "inspired" to poke holes in the mainstream narrative (but not their preferred one) and "question" mainstream advice (ditto) to carry on the fight for you.

OTOH, having registered a mere two hours ago and only ever commented on this article, I suspect that you're well aware of those tactics.
In a world where people's identities have become hopelessly conflated with their occupation, preventing them from working for a prolonged period would seem like a pretty major change to their lives. I'm talking about working-class folks here, not the ultra-rich.

Life isn't just about having money to buy food.
We know, from published scientific research in well-respected journals, that "guided evolution in a Wuhan lab somewhere" has been happening for many years.

We also know that China has previously had several terrifying biocontainment failures with virus labs. Things got out, including coronaviruses, but were stopped before spreading far and wide.

By the way, the very original conspiracy theory was eventually proven correct. Calling it a conspiracy theory was a great way to mock people who were pointing out the truth.
The United States and a Resurgent Asia
This completely misses the point of the lockdown - the goal is solely to show the rate of infection.

Once the rate of infection is slower there is the possibility a vaccine will be developed fast enough to make a difference in the current pandemic, but that’s unlikely.

What is likely is that peak concurrent hospitalizations is lowered - once the hospitals are saturated you get an increase in fatalities for everything. Survival rates for many diseases are strongly tied to availability of treatment - even in the cases of diseases like Ebola.

It also provides time for improved treatment modes, reducing the amount of time in hospitals and the fatality rates for those there.

The core thing that people need to internalize is that these lockdowns are not designed to reduce the total number of cases.

They are there purely to try and reduce the total death toll.
Your experience very closely mirrors mine but then I was also born in 89 and lived in the Midlands.
The problem is that typically you buy a house attached to a piece of property. So if the house is 20 years into a 25 year life, you have an issue of trying to 1) dispose of the house at the 25 year mark, and 2) finding a place to live for several months while the house is demolished and rebuilt. The only way this would work is with manufactured homes. Even then, I haven't heard of anyone having their existing home hauled away while a new one is wheeled in place the same day (except on the lower end, with park model campers).
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Coronavirus could flood our hospital ICUs with patients, do we have enough beds?
> Im in Japan right now

Japan is doing better than every single country who has had more than 10 deaths this far into Japan’s outbreak.

In fact, when you look at all nations with at least 10 deaths, regardless of when their outbreak started, only Canada has fewer deaths than Japan. And Canada’s death count is on track to surpass Japan’s in just a few days. So frankly whatever the Japanese are doing, they’re doing it better than anyone else with an outbreak, and that includes the GROSS sum of all of the behaviors you have described.

Of course I must list the countries who have had coronavirus in their country for a while now but still have fewer than 10 deaths: Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong

One thing these countries have in common with Japan? Face masks.
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Because a significant portion of the population and political establishment refuses to face the reality of the situation, and by doing so has created incredibly fertile conditions for spread of the virus.
> This also can change over time. For example, 15 years ago PHP shepherded you to include every file you were using explicitly, making it hard to reason about a given project if you weren’t the creator.

Huh, that seems backwards to me? Wouldn't the explicit approach make it more obvious what scripts were relevant?
All the Coronavirus Statistics Are Flawed
Covid Germany Anomaly, Why?
Why does Germany have such a low number of serious/critical covid patients? The last number I saw was 23 which is nuts compared to a country such as Spain with a similar case count. Water, beer, schnitzel? What’s the magic there?
I imagine that there are nuances to facial expression that might be difficult to extract from an image or video, depending on the parameters to your ML model.

For example, if someone looks into my eyes, furrows their brows, and shakes their head slowly back and forth, this could mean that they are intensely sympathetic with me (when I am talking), or it could mean that they are disgusted with what I have said (when I have stopped talking), or many other things. If you add sound input to your model then maybe it can figure out how to incorporate that dimension into its results.

Very cool though. Maybe you could have something like this to help colorblind people see colors, deaf people see sounds, the possibilities are exciting.
The corollary for language and API designers: whatever you make easiest is what people will do.

If there is a 'right' way to do something, make that the default or the simplest calling pattern. If there is a new 'right' way, don't route the new way directly through the old way. People will think they're cutting out the middleman by keeping the old calling convention as long as possible.
It really does feel delightfully modern to use. I've been having a great deal of fun playing with it lately. Excellent work!
> This is around safe parallel access

I'm not sold that this semantic game is usually worth playing, but here it is pointless. Concurrent access on the same threads or different threads isn't going to break.

> It forces all data that has to be consistent across thread boundaries to be in this one map

Why would it force that? There is no single technique for concurrency or parallelism and that silver bullet line of thinking is a dead end.

Concurrent data structures are an important part of the puzzle, especially maps and queues. Fork join, data flow, message passing, copying, swapping buffers, read only data, etc. the list goes on. If it was simple it wouldn't be a problem.
I also believe that some vendors choose not to do anything different such as Amazon.

The barrier to entry of re-education outside of SMS for a lot users is more expensive than the security itself.

Not trying to justify their actions, merely show that profits can explain some of these.
>Can we just stop sending data everywhere? If you don't need it, don't gather it.

We're not gonna get there with asking nicely. We need legislation, with teeth (read, fines worth 6 months or 1 year global turnover)
> kaoD says 'I don't think most native speakers realize "poor" is an adjective here

That's because...it is not an adjective there. It is a mass noun.
> especially spreading N <--> S hemispheres with the seasons

Temperature seems to have no impact on transmission rate in Brazil.
Yeah, people don't get this fundamental aspect of governments vs. companies.

China is a company who's CEO is Xi Jingpin and it has 1.4 billion employees.

US Government (and all other democratic governments) have to show and to convince the rest of the Congress that we need to shut America down. Not saying that US gov did stellar in this pandemic, but its harder than it seems. It is also unfair to compare governments to private companies with 5-10 magnitude of order difference in every aspect from finances to number of people.
Never gonna happen. You want the house of cards to come tumbling down?
https://labs.integrity.pt/articles/the-curious-case-of-apple...

That's a post from April 2019 showing a very similar issue with IKEv2 VPNs leaking traffic on iOS. I wonder if the two issues are related. Back then, Apple was made aware under responsible disclosure but apparently nothing was done about it.
Or just don't touch it until it's been untouched for four days.