skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People think that a low percentage of an outcome means it won't happen. They are wrong.

And exactly as you say: if there is a large population of infected people, the absolute number of people who fit in these small percentage tragedies is actually large.
UK coronavirus mass home testing to be made available 'within days'
All this article highlights is that you can't run the government as a business.

The GOP has convinced their voters that running the government as a business is a great idea, it's not. The GOP have convinced scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people that all the government does is waste their hard earned money paying benefits to poor, non-working, non-white, non-Christian, non-citizen, LGBTQ's.

I ran Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for a very large Financial Institution.

I would say we were world class in our preparedness, but there is NO WAY that a business could be prepared for a real disaster. I had to fight tooth and nail for every penny I got, and every time I heard the same line from all the board members, "This is a waste of resources, for something that will probably never happen in our lifetime, if ever."

A Business can't stockpile, cash, products, buildings, capacity, extra remote employees, etc. in order to sustain an event lasting 6-12 months, that MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN.

Yes, we all knew this could happen, but there was no way to predict when it would happen.

Only a government can and should be preparing for really bad things that might never happen.

Frankly running DR & BC wrecked my career at that firm because I was seen as Don Quixote, "Tilting at Windmills." I was assigned the job and did my best, assuming it was a stepping stone, and it was, but they expected me to just put on a show. Instead I took the job seriously, and it eroded their confidence in me, they expected that I should have recognized it as a fluff job, used only to get me exposure to the BOD, justifying the next step up in my career, instead I was "sent down" and had no choice but to leave.
I'd also be interested if the required motherboard area is larger, and if the TDP is higher, too. Both of those could decrease battery life.
> everyone would be using Chrome.

I'd be amazed if there were more than a tiny fraction of iOS/iPadOS users (of which there are hundreds of millions) who weren't perfectly ok with Mobile Safari for their everyday usage.

[I'm probably the "target market" for Chrome (backend, occasionally frontend developer) and there's no way I'd have it on my phone. I only suffer the GMail app because they've made IMAP usage of gmail unreliable.]
> criminals breaking into the datacenter, powering servers off and stealing disks?

Yes, exactly. A company I worked for had a hard drive pulled from a running server in a (third party) data center that contained their game server binaries. Shortly afterwards as pirate company setup a business running “gray shards”, with - no surprise - lower prices.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569457
How come a website so obviously devoted to visual perception doesn't have a mobile version of it?
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Why Did Hundreds of CEOs Resign Just Before the World Started Going Crazy?
Indonesia's health system on the brink as coronavirus surge looms
This is what I mean: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/1123
That's what the above software is for.
Then data will stored online on servers, i cant see how this is better for privacy.
On a scale from "individual" to "collective", both blame and success can be attributed to either extreme (or middle) on a case by case basis. I don't believe it can be possible to claim a universal generalization for all cases.
I've been thinking along the same lines, that our lack of public preparedness for this is reflected in concentration of returns to capital at the top of the wealth distribution.

But that said, there are things the US stockpiles: corn, petroleum, and weapons.
Have they paid any of it? FCC has fined robodialers in the hundreds of millions but only managed to collect a fraction of a percent.
It opens on an iPad, and with yesterday’a release of iOS 13.4 and proper mouse support its almost completely usable. I had issues with the viewport, but managed to create a simple UI flow with interactions and run a prototype.
Overwork at the very minimum, I'd imagine.

We can wonder all day about any number of things. Does it help, though? Does it make you less likely to contract COVID-19, or more likely
to have a mild case if you do get it?

Your odds of that are pretty good, by the way; based on what apparently reputable information I've found, assuming no risk factors like advanced age or comorbidity, it's about 85% likely you have an uncomplicated disease course, with no serious symptoms and requiring no medical support to resolve.

What beneficial influence on those already good chances do you expect to see by worrying yourself halfway into a panic, about something over which you have no control in any case?
Ah thanks for the personal reply, appreciate it
That's an odd nit to pick and I don't think it's accurate. In case you haven't heard the term sous-chef[0]:

> Sous-chefs are in charge of making sure all kitchen equipment is in working order. [...] Under the oversight of the sous-chef, downtime should be used for prepping, cleaning and other kitchen duties.

In the body of a document titled "Mise en Place Writing," I do believe the author meant exactly that chefs[1] are the ones making sure all forms of preparation are completed, even if it means working the prep station.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say I'm certain this particular author checked a resource like a list of culinary terms or restaurant terminology[2] during a "pre-writing" phase like "Research" before using those words at all.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous-chef

[1]: "A chef is a trained professional cook and tradesman who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation" emphasis added by me, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_restaurant_terminology
I find localStorage a bad crutch, when storage accessible to any browser or computer would be better. I'm totally cool with this because magical storage in your browser is just a bad idea, especially when it requires developer tools to find and see what it is doing.
Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes
Your argument is based in functionality.

You are willing to trade security for functionality.

My argument is based in security.

I am willing to trade functionality for security.

You are correct, what I have suggested is not a viable replacement, if functionality is desired.

But I am also correct, what I have suggested is a viable replacement, if security is desired.

Also, I would suggest that the challenge is on YOU - to live with all of the future security and privacy ramifications of the position you take, because by choosing functionality over security, you equal-and-oppositely UNCHOOSE security...

You cannot have both, and if you believe you can, if you want to persuade me, then the burden of proof is upon you to rigorously and mathematically prove it.

Until then, I remain unconvinced...
Feels like Apple is just continually making the Safari browser worse.

I think they just want to push people towards native apps so they have full control. Apple always wants control.

First they prevented plugins like uBlock, made it very expensive to create your own plugins, and now they're messing up LocalStorage.
Something I found useful and related was George Polya's book series "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" [1]. It goes into how we make "good" guesses in mathematics and how to improve the way we recognize patterns. If you are curious about this subject and want to improve your "mathematical intuition", this series helped me tremendously.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Plausible-Reasoning-Two-V...
Maybe they care more about your life than their own.
>Occam's razor: what you've heard is simply incorrect.

Haha, isn't this the perfect razor to validate our own tightly-held beliefs and reject all evidence to the contrary.
If you look at entire known Human history, pandemics, epidemics, wars, famines, droughts and troubled economic times feature throughout and have occurred in all parts of the World. Besides economic strife and war, things are not always in the hands of Human (e.g. natural disasters).

What Countries around the World need to do going forward is to have a basic level of economic self-reliance. Things like face mask, clothing, basic medical equipment, basic things like plastic cutlery, etc. should be made in all countries of the World and import of such items should be strictly forbidden.

Only then can each Country have semblance of hope when disaster such as COVID-19 strikes.

I don't know, maybe I am rambling but I feel all countries from Afghanistan to United States to South Sudan to Zimbabwe need to enabled and forced to produce necessities of life and such basic items instead of relying on China, Germany, India, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
This is webkit, which is open source. Apple took an existing HTML/CSS/DOM engine, rewrote it, renamed it, and opensourced its version, too.

It's compiled using LLVM, which also contains thousands of lines of open source code by Apple.

Of course you might argue that these examples don't prove your sweeping statement false, but please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman before arguing.
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What's the Difference Between Monitoring Webhooks and Background Jobs
Usually I'd agree that focusing on pre-existing conditions is victim-blaming, but in this case there's a nasty braid of fear:

* Some young people believe they're immune and don't care if they spread the disease. Spring break in Florida.

* Some old people are envious of this and looking for reasons it isn't true.

* Other old people are scared for their offspring and ready for their fears to be confirmed.

* Health officials are selling the story that young people are in more danger than we thought to try to convince them to stay home. Again, spring break in Florida.

* Media outlets focus on the rare youth deaths because the above factors drive clicks.

The data from China is pretty clear. Young people rarely notice having COVID, and that even among symptomatic cases the level of death is incredibly low. I know we're all skeptical of Chinese government numbers but their total lockdown and testing regime gives them the unequaled opportunity to say "everybody in this town was exposed, absolutely every person, and here's how things came out." They're the only country in a position to definitively comment on asymptomatic cases.

It's hard to see why they'd fake a risk curve that increases very slowly through young years and then swoops upward in middle age. Something about the Chinese respect for elders? I can't see it.

Here in the West, you get a half-dozen articles about one 21-year-old who died and appears to have had no pre-existing conditions, a similar number about some doctor who died or priest who refused a ventilator, and no articles detailing each of the thousands of older people who are dying.

Our culture is trying to believe that young people are vulnerable. We "want" a more even risk curve.

So... is this ok? We have a weird circumstance where the usual bad science is serving a public health purpose by propagating a probable untruth. Meanwhile, the "everything's fine, it's just the flu" side is working as hard as possible to spread a different untruth that is very dangerous to public health.

Is it morally defensible to tell people on the internet that young people are almost all going to be fine? Not immune, but probably fine?

This is where many of you who are convinced that young people are in significantly more danger start speaking up. "Some young people do, this young person did, no pre-existing conditions, this article says half the deaths are under 50..."

If the population in general had the death rate that we've seen among young people this virus wouldn't be a big deal. That's what matters. Some young people will get sick and die but not in sufficient quantities to overwhelm the hospital and mortuary systems. The deaths of the middle-aged and old are what will paralyze our countries.

You probably won't know a young person who dies. You probably will know an old person who does.
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Considering he's sitting in prison, I'm sure he has much more pertinent things to be worrying about.

Add to that the fact that when he reached out to the community he worked hard (for free) to support, and they told him to basically FO, I doubt he's going to spend even a microsecond trying to be helpful in this situation.
Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited?
There are two goals here: a) determine whether the mask is damaged by the sterilization technique and b) determine whether that technique actually sterilizes.

The E. Coli experiment is for the latter goal. FWIW, E. coli are a pretty standard way for checking sterilization efficacy. They're easy to culture, fairly hardy, and non-pathogenic. Doing a first pass with live SARS-Cov2 would be incredibly foolhardy (what if the sterilization doesn't work?!)
Why software written in C++ Qt are more energy efficient?
I have been using software written in Qt [0] across different OS. Many of them were written specifically to be used in GNU/Linux, such as Okular [1] and QBittorren [2]. Others, such as VLC [3], were later shipped to other OS. In the case of VLC, only the GUI was written in Qt.

I have noticed that Okular and Qbittorrent were very energy efficient in GNU/Linux. But I didn't expect it to be the case in other OS such as MacOS.

Recently, I used Homebrew to install Okular on MacOS, and I compared it to other PDF readers such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and Skim. Okular was superior in terms of energy consumption.

RESULTS: Energy impact for 12h:

Adobe Acrobat Reader = 0.9

Okular = 0.4

QUESTIONs: Is this always true? Do Qt software always perform good in terms of energy consumption, across OS? Why is that?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okular

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBittorrent

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player
We’ve certainly stigmatized the outbreak. Initially it was straight up racism against Asians, but now we’ve shifted to ‘well you must be an asshole’. It’s pretty standard modern day mutation of American ‘exceptionalism’.
Probably not tangential. From your Wikipedia link:

South Korea is one of the few countries that explicitly prohibit any form of pornography.

Studies show that availability of porn reduces incidence of rape. It's not something most people want to hear. They want to believe all rapists are evil monsters, not that at least some are men with no socially acceptable means to meet their needs.
A couple thoughts: Xiaomi probably builds an order of magnitude more phones than LG and Google. So there's volume discounting at play. Also, Xiaomi's affordable phones are missing important NA bands. I wonder how this omission influences the cost of the SOC.
No kidding? I've been remembering it as COrona Virus Infectious Disease 2019. I haven't seen a source on this though- just made sense since CoV was established early in the timeline as corona virus.
Pouring one out for the end of O’Reilly’s in-person conferences
Machine Learning Inference with GitHub Actions
I don't think I did. Please re-read the HN guidelines on comment etiquette, and then explain what you think I missed.

To expand on my own comment: when a private business (a ski resort, for example) decides to cover up the outbreak of a disease in a more-free country like Taiwan or the U.S., there are ways for the rest of society to route around this. When it's the government engaging in this cover-up, especially an authoritarian government with near-total information control, it's much harder to route around that kind of information suppression.
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So Apple can't really care about privacy because:

- They have a News app

- They haven't rejected apps from Google and Facebook

Can you imagine what would happen if Apple rejected apps from Google and Facebook? Can you even fathom the outcry?

Apple News uses differential privacy and doesn't track user history, but yes, they do provide personalized News I guess? They must not care about privacy at all then!

If you're upset about a seven-day limit on local storage, okay. I get it. It sucks. But to claim Apple's reasons for this are invalid because they allow Facebook apps to exist, that's... weird.
Does every country allows filming everything outside? I could imagine that some laws won't allow that or won't allow such a recording to be used as an evidence in court.
"Those who think blogs are irrelevant today — usually Gen-Xers or older — typically underestimate the degree to which real power has evacuated traditional institutions such as academia and New York publishing houses. "

I don't know that I've seen anyone say blogging is irrelevant. Maybe I just missed that. It's not the "new hotness" now, but it still gets the job done. There's no shortage of people burned out on Twitter/Facebook/etc doing some form of blogs now (I guess the new hotness is static sites again?) or blogging at something like Medium. Though I honestly have no idea how popular Medium really is. I never see it outside of HN, but I certainly don't have eyes everywhere.

I've had a blog since the 90s and I still find my feedreader the best way to keep up with the news that matters to me. It's not all blogs, but it's mostly, and the writing being done on blogs is just as good and relevant now as it was 15-20 years ago.
What if someone accidentally erases everything because that’s what they’re told when something doesn’t work right? Answer: it’s volatile storage in the first place, and a tiny one at that. Heck some browsers can be configured to erase everything when closed (when operating in non-incognito/private mode).
STEVEN KING.
Do you have any temporary or long term remote work opportunities for people with Linux System Admins expertise?
People haven't been hammered with it because it's background cultural knowledge that's never really questioned. I've never met anyone below the age of 60 who acted even a tiny bit scared of the flu, except for a few people who've personally had a severe case before and parents with very young children.
hang in there friend, we are all in this Together.
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Keep in mind that Linux 5.6 is imminent, and I haven't found time to investigate it beyond some short reporting in LWN, let alone update the article.

But it's still my intention to do that, with some restructuring along the way.

The more changes Linux makes (for the better!) and the more time passes and later versions are in common use, the less the format "tell everyone how bad it is and then backpeddle with sections about every improvement made" works, and the less the title itself stays relevant.

I don't have a good answer for that structural problem, yet, so I'm kind of procrastinating.
Maybe she already knows that but needs to justify the harsh measures to her voters and uses the salami tactic intentionally.
> If you want more access, make a native app

...and give apple their cut. Why not add permissions to webapps? Like location, or push notification... oh that's another feature that happens to be missing only in safari.

Just accepting these moves from apple as "in the interest of users" is naïve. Apple has a huge vesting in their appstore, and every webapp is a potential appstore-app that is some lost revenue.

I mean, maybe apple is right, and the web should go back to a readonly document-like format, like in the old days. Articles and links. Apps for everything else. But let's not kid ourselves that they do it purely in the user's interest.
Biased as an immunologist, but this sounds like HLA type differences. The cells chop the virus proteins and stick them out using MHC1 to notify the immune system. This response is partly determined by genetics (HLA TYPE) and if we cluster outcomes vs HLA types we could learn a model to predict who’s gonna have worse outcomes. Could help with triage if it were a decision tree model
Check out Avocode. It is designed to do just that and is cross platform (electron). It works with PSD, AI, sketch, and figma files.
What? You know when you take out a loan to buy a car or a house you are buying on margin right?

It's just a tool to be used. Sure it can be harmful if you don't understand it.
There are a lot of things swimming in our oceans that we don't know about.

So I'm hopeful that something very old, and very strange is still down there, since so little of the ocean has been explored I can still dream.
I think the original post is oversimplifying the new behaviour a little. If you look at the other blog post on ITP 2.3 [1] it says:

> ITP 2.3 caps the lifetime of all script-writeable website data after a navigation with link decoration from a classified domain.

i.e. the 7 day timeout for local storage only kicks in if you've been redirected from a domain that ITP has classified as one that tracks users. So, for example, web apps that users navigate to directly will be unaffected.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/9521/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
As the parent of adult children currently living at home... one of ours keeps going out to be with friends. I understand she needs to get out of the house sometimes, but it's unnerving, knowing the points of contact (she often goes to her boyfriend's house, with his five currently-unemployed roommates).

Then again, she works in a children's health clinic. I know what vector is probably going to bring COVID into our house.
> About 256 bits of entropy are enough to get computationally secure numbers for a long, long time.

This isn't quite false, but it's deeply wrong; 256 bits is enough to produce 256-bit secure random numbers literally forever - the "long, long time" is precisely however long it takes a attacker to brute-force or otherwise recover a 256-bit RNG seed (aka private key).

> Look, I don't claim that injecting entropy is bad.

Note that injecting entropy less than 256 bits[0] at a time is bad, in that it wastes the entropy. If a attacker knows your RNG state (either due to compromise or because you just booted), injecting 128 bits, generating (≥128 bits of) output, and injecting another 128 bits, only gets you 128-bit security. If you inject in smaller chunks, say 32 bits (generating ≥32 bits of output in between), you might as well not be adding entropy at all.

Note, apropos of the above, that /dev/urandom must block during early boot (before X bits of entropy have been collected). If it doesn't, you have no entropy, because a attacker can repeatedly brute force your (say) <32-bit RNG state based on /dev/urandom outputs.

0: or whatever security level you're aiming at
Seems relevant (from 2017): https://people.com/health/20-year-old-mother-dies-after-flu-...