skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Here in Norway the recommendation has been to keep supplies for 3 days, including water, power supplies (battery banks), a radio with full batteries, heating and cooking possibilities and so on.
There is no trade-off. Exponential functions are pretty binary. We contain this (R0<1) or we let this kill 3.6% of the population, and likely permanently harm the lungs of many more.

A core problem is that we're not looking at how to mitigate damage to the economy. We can handle a month or two of the economy shutting down, no problem. You'll get your new car 2 months later.

Most of the damage is auxiliary: businesses going bankrupt, people defaulting on mortgages, etc. All of that can be mitigated with the right measures.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...

The economic harm of losing 2 months of production -- or even a year of production -- is much smaller than the economic harm of supporting people disabled by coronavirus for the rest of their lives. That is assuming we mitigate the economic fall.
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> goes on to recommend Preact over React

The author isn't recommending Preact over React. He's recommending Preact over Svelte.

If one is already looking at Svelte because it's small (and a lot of people are), then Preact makes a lot of sense.

React is fine if size is not a constraint, of course.
This is outdated. Library closure was announced yesterday.
It's a massive, huge, enormous thing.

It will seem daunting at first. Especially if you have to learn Emacs as you go.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org4beginners.html

That tutorial seems pretty good, it starts from the absolute beginning.
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> I grew up in Hungary during the Cold War, and I can tell you that this is complete hogwash.

Growing up in Hungary does not give you some magic insight into the views of the Soviet leadership; it's simply irrelevant to the question.

We know from the actual people involved that the Soviet leadership believed a US first strike was not just possible, but likely, and that they had no intentions of being the ones to start a war but were intent to finish it. Just like we know Reagan and many other Western leaders genuinely feared a Soviet first strike and had no intentions of being the ones to start a war but were intent to finish it. Just like we know that people like Reagan were shocked when they realized that the other side was thinking exactly the same way as they were, because both sides - unsurprisingly - were the heroes in their own stories rather than the cartoon villains they both saw the other side as.

This is well documented. It took two years of rapprochement between Reagan and Gorbachev before they started trusting that the other side was not just looking for an upper hand to allow them to attack. Even then Reagan held back on going as far in arms reduction as Gorbachev (who motivated more strongly by the economic devastation trying to keep up militarily with the US caused) was prepared to. It took that much because both sides thought they were doing what was necessary to defend themselves, rather than prepare to attack.

> The Soviet Union and the U.S. did engage each other in a series of proxy wars. This is not all that surprising: the economic systems of their respective empires were incompatible with that of the other, and in ways that thr existence of one inherently made the other unstable.

It's not surprising, and not relevant to the question of whether or not either side was prepared to fight an open war over Europe. The proxy wars were about establishing buffers and alliances out of fear of the other side attacking; exactly out of a fear of open war with the other side. Unfortunately for everyone, both sides saw the other side engaging in this and saw it as evidence of expansionism rather than of fear.

> The educated population of the Eastern block understood, and we fully expected the Warsaw Pact to be the one to strike first.

And yet that expectation shows that the population equally failed to understand the Soviet leaderships motivations.

Up until the early years of Stalin, the idea of Soviet expansionism might have held some validity; even perhaps a decade or so after "Socialism in One Country" became policy in 1925 there might have been reason to fear that it was a temporary change to regroup. But not beyond that. Even Soviet involvement in Eastern Europe was about creating a buffer to account for Soviet fear of the West.

You're accounting for it by seeing yourself as part of an expansionist empire. But you were not. You were outsiders; convenient pawns creating a buffer for a terrified leadership with a bunker mentality that saw the Soviet Union itself as what mattered.
>You could say the same thing about airlines, but no one is arguing about whether airlines are a necessary component of the economy.

I don't understand - do you mean that airlines are not necessary components of the economy or that they are. And do you mean that cruise ships are or are not necessary components of the economy.

If airlines are necessary and cruise ships are not then it might follow that you should bail out one without bailing out the other.
Capacity from China and nearby countries to the USA is hard to get and very expensive right now. We are talking about cargo flights, not passenger ones.

Domestic demand in China doesn't affect chartered flights that only fly internationally.

I know what I'm talking about, I run a logistics in SE Asia - check out my profile :)

I have also been shipping hundreds of thousands of masks for the last 6 weeks to Universities, Government agencies, and other businesses and have seen the capacity change since America realized this was serious.
Training the postal service to be able to take nasal swabs could scale this though you would need to robocall all those on the postal route what time to present themselves at the edge of their property. Starting with geographic locations where there have been clusters, then individual cases, then the general population. Also when an antibody test is available have them delivered by the postal service with instructions and URL for a video on how to administer it.
Mr. Men and Little Miss books are great. 80+ books and my 3 year old loves them.
How much is cost of streaming from stdout?
Settlers of Catan also have a 1vs1 card game spin-off that I like very much. The game was ported online https://catanuniverse.com/en/rivals-for-catan/
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I agree with you. People have been hating so much on hoarders, while not acknowledging that the real problem is that people are way too reliant on a just-in-time supply chain. It's really not that difficult, expensive, or space-consuming to have a buffer of at least one month for scenarios like this. Yet, most people don't build up this buffer over time, out of laziness, and then they go around blaming others for the shortages during a crisis (or they go panic-hoarding themselves).
The British Army wasn't using horses in 1940 so didn't leave them at Dunkirk.
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There simply would’ve been no place to put bulk toilet paper in my 600/700 sq foot one bedroom in Seattle. Lots of people live in even smaller spaces.
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Whether or not you have a purpose built pantry is mostly just a reflection of the age of the building you live in.

A lot of bottom dollar apartments wind up having unintentional pantries because they wind up dividing a floor of an existing building in such a way that you wind up with a closet in the kitchen.
Completely agreed!
Imagine this. Your driving down the freeway at 60 mph, accelerating at 30%. The car in front of you puts on the breaks. Before you react, you first gather your speed gun, check the deceleration rate of the car in front, then calculate based on your speed when you should put your breaks on. I'm all for the scientific approach, but in this particular instance, our survival instincts need to take precedence. Please, we need to stop peddling evidence based approaches for an exponential situation.
That's a pretty good battle cry. Was that meant to be a jab?
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Or jump in the shower.
Having been paid with public funds, shouldn't the work be in public domain?
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As someone who has bought a OneMix 2s specifically for coding, I'd recommend against it - there are difficulties using it for typing, much less programming. I use it in an emergency for SSH'ing onto a server to fix something, or debug a live issue, as it fits in an inside coat pocket and I can set up an encrypted linux partition on it (with some difficulty, but it is doable) but unless you have excellent eyes and tiny tiny fingers, you'll never be as productive as you would be with an 11 inch laptop.

(also, the Q key is where I would want the tab key to be. It's a little thing, but one I use a lot.)

That said, it does have uses. 10 years ago, when I used to travel on the train a lot, it would have been ideal. The model I have is also impressively performant.
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Not every toddler will stick watching that long. And when they do, there is price to pay in terms of behavior after. Meaning, you get him hyper, nervous and hard to control after two hours of watching.
This conversation is about a hypothetical where we have a trillion dollar loan with no interest. In that situation, taking on the lowest risk for the lowest return, or "bank checking account" would still make you rich. You wouldn't need an amazing knowledge of investments.

In actuality, trying to invest that much independently would probably damage the economy, and it's difficult to have any clue what would happen.
Why don’t you just buy a subscription?
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Broadly I agree with you, though my personal opinion is that Svelte is also more pleasant to use, so it really only loses out to React in ecosystem. I've also used React for years and have used it much more than Svelte, so I may be biased from seeing all the warts of React.

Being small & fast enables real business use-cases that just weren't possible before, eg https://artemdemo.com/static/2f8acbe19c0ba4ec4d98e06e6b8fd85....

Billions of people around the world are coming online in recent years, and they're using budget $100, underpowered android phones. Every little difference in performance is magnified for them.
WTH is Google Duo? They have a third video conferencing solution besides Hangouts and Meet?

Madness.
I never got it but I also never went on a cruise ship. But, for the life of me, I can't figure out the attraction of the cruise ship. You are siting in this big hotel complex, you are not enjoying much of the scenery, cities, or anything. You are just in a hotel and they even have pools? What's the point of being in the ocean anyway if you are staying inside?
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While I like the concept, doesn't the fact that the site isn't using https defeat the purpose?
Regardless of the server you set Apple mail still sends the email as from the account you hit reply on.

However some servers will rewrite the mail serverside to match the authentication user to prevent spam. The main service I know that does this is gmail (and probably any of the “big” mail providers). If you send through a more basic typical Linux server it will send as the “correct” address.

Although these days it’s mostly a bad idea to do that because you’ll hit issues with SPF, DKIM, etc.

The main actual issue you have here is if you manually hit “new message” then you need to think about which sender to choose if you’re coming from a unified inbox view instead of the specific inbox for the account you want to send from.
>Jack Hitt, a journalist from Wired magazine, visited Persinger's lab in 1999 and expressed confusion over Persinger's post-stimulation debriefing ("One question: Did the red bulb on the wall grow larger or smaller? There was a red bulb on the wall? I hadn't noticed.") and reported: "Many other questions suggest that there were other experiences I should have had, but to be honest, I didn't. "

What a joke. Why is this in HN? There are better examples of suggestibility out there.
The speed at which that cargo was moving makes me question whether this could ever be scaled up enough to generate a non-negligible amount of power, let alone enough to solve any particular power requirements we currently have.
>>You should research products that interest you, rather than being manipulating into choosing something that you otherwise might not.

I don't believe this is feasible:

1. For all people

2. In all circumstances

3. For all products - especially new ones, or radically changed/improved ones. I may simply be unaware something exists. And reviewers need to find out about it somehow. And to the point, how will ANYbody find out about ANY product if we "ban advertising"?

Believe it not, most people out there in the wide world are not fellow geeks who get bodily joy out of researching products that interest them :-)
Yes, retirement home. The idea is problematic (wishful thinking actually) because you can't guarantee that people providing care there aren't infected. They might be asymptomatic or incubating. You can test them, but I don't think you can do that every day and then that such testing equals perfect filtering. Once it's inside isolation simply doesn't work.
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GitHub definitely supports it. I've been using an Ed25519 key for about a year now.
This company is comprised entirely of Jews.
It used to work like magic.

It also used to show exactly the email address that received the message, not just the account and certainly not just the name. The Catalina rewrite seems to have brought the oversimplification of the iOS UI to desktop along with the data loss bugs.
I really wish there was something modern like the ThinkPad 701c[0], which had a really ingenuous folding keyboard:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj3aCfqzOM
I love my pumped-up T495, can only recommend. And it's 1.5 Kg - not the lightest compared to HP Spectre and the likes but much more computing power.
We use the Pamela Reif instruction videos. We got lucky: our gym rented out equipment on the last day they were open, we got some kettlebells, jumping ropes. (No money exchanged, they keep charging the monthly gym cost).

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A notebook is typically 100 grams, and fits into your pocket.

Edit: I exagerated. Should have been more clear. A notebook that you would carry 12 hours or more with you is not a A4 notebook that weighs 1.3kg. It is something like this: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-NH130210120V-R-Classic-N... - 8" and 350g
Many of my "nerdy" friends have iPhones. I am a nerd, but I don't have this problem.
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I carry a 12" in this role and it's great. Surprisingly long battery life, weighs nothing and, assuming you spend most of your time in an editor, fast enough.

Downsides are (a) butterfly keyboard and (b) tiny screen. If you do anything that requires compilation, get something with a CPU fan like the new 13" Air.

Get the 16GB model either way.
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What's with this conspiracy theory? The average person can pull this shit off, why do you have to "believe" that it's something "funded institutions" (do you not even dare write "state sponsored"?)? What world view do you have that you'd rather have it be a state rather than shitty people? So you can think "$ENEMY_STATE is so fucking evil"?

Maybe it's 1 person, maybe it's organized criminals, do they count as "funded institutions"? Maybe it's a state... but well if you have beliefs, you gotta have the evidence!
> ...legally beholden to maximize profits.

This is a myth. The business judgement rule gives corporate directors extremely wide latitude on how they run their business.

Point taken regarding "pollution," though. I will note that all the links quoted in this thread clearly state SOx or particulates, not specifically "pollution," so that misstatement falls on me in this case.

With respect to CO2, they are still pretty bad; one voyage is roughly equivalent to transporting the same number of passengers on a flight from Tokyo to London [0].

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[0]: https://www.tourismdashboard.org/explore-the-data/cruise-shi...
Running C# Snake inside UEFI
No, the AppContainer sandbox this advisory refers to is around fontdrvhost.exe. In Windows 10, this is a sandboxed user mode process running the ATMFD code, it's created by winlogon.exe.

Before then, this ATMFD code was only in the kernel, making it a useful vector for privilege escalation.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=13... (description of an old ATMFD bug) explains it:

"Windows 10 has a sandboxed user-mode font driver (fontdrvhost.exe) that doesn't have access to any sensitive information and will cleanly restart upon crashing."

https://census-labs.com/media/windows_10_rs2_rs3_exploitatio... has some more detail on how this process is further hardened with syscall filtering, if I recall correctly this was introduced in Windows 10 1709:

"Privilege escalation exploits are on the rise, because of sandboxes. The Win32k component, a provider of system calls, has introduced win32kfilter, a filtering mechanism that cuts down the number of system calls available to sandboxed processes (thus reducing the kernel's attack surface). FontDrvHost.exe, which is the font parser, uses the 3rd
level of win32kfilter."
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Old-school cotton masks help a lot too. We don't know exactly how much, but they do. They reduce viral loads by at least 30% and more likely by something like 70%.

Cover your mouths.
I have recently bought an app for macOS that helped me handling tables in markdown: https://tableflipapp.com/

It does one thing and it does it well.
Nice work, some good resources here.
I have an old 11” MacBook Air that I sometimes use for development on the go.

It’s a bit weak on vertical screen resolution but perfectly capable of building and running small web apps.

It weighs almost nothing and the keyboard is comfortable.
problems with hanging on firefox should be fixed now.
tell me if you still have trouble on other platforms/OS/etc.
I disagree that 300 computers was simply not enough data to be useful benchmark. But, you can find studies using more RAM if you go looking.

Supercomputers of that era had far more than 300 nodes, and you can find studies of their memory error rates. The Roadrunner supercomputer for example had 19,440 compute nodes with 4GB of ram each.

PS: The architecture was odd with 6,480 Opteron processors and 12,960 Cell processors + 216 System x3755 I/O nodes, but it’s still using commodity RAM.
Yes, but it has forked so much that it bears very little resemblance to the public OSS version.
>That's also what makes it so dangerous. During the early outbreaks people were constantly joking about how people with COVID-19 felt up to taking intercontinental flights, going to megachurch services, going to the gym, visiting Disneyland

What if the virus caused this? raise the threshold for people to feel anything, so they go out and spread it while seeking sensation?
> Like a saying, don't bail out corporations so shareholders learn.

I agree with you for self-inflicted problems (such as the financial crisis, or a lack of general funds).

Requiring all corporations to hold enough cash for 6 months of runway with 0 income however? That's an extreme requirement on which most if not all companies would fail.
This study comes from China, which lies about everything, so the results cannot be trusted. Chinese gov't likely strong-armed the results as part of their misinformation campaign. They have lied about literally every other stat - why would they tell the truth about this?