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I am happy the Govt has imposed strict lock down starting today, but its too little too late, we should have hunkered down in beginning of March. We saw things well in advance with data of progression in China and Italy.

This govt was callous in its approach.

I pray the medical infrastructure is able to handle the upcoming deluge. Peak infection rates are known 14 days after a complete lock down, IF THERE IS COMPREHENSIVE TESTING alongside the lock down. Our testing is woefully inadequate at the moment.
It was easier to make a PDF and publish than create into a website ... also, I used a font size that makes it easy to read.
Sorry, but opposing racism is not merely a political stance—and obviously (or at least obviously to us non-racists) is in no way “pushing an agenda”.
India has also just approved the use of Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure with a doctor's prescription.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/bio...
1) Due to natural inertia there exists to leave things alone that aren’t overtly broken, I doubt there would be a lot of cases in which people would feel so inclined to convert to a different format

2) If people do need to convert it, at least it’s a simple enough spec that conversion shouldn’t require a Herculean amount of effort (I bet there already exist converters that others have written)
No.

1. States have some level of independence in India, and that is quite messy to handle. It would be a bigger mess if it were nation-states. Think EU.

2. People won't accept - it may have been a possibility 20 years back. They have seen the consequences of allowing to create first version Pakistan. And if they were forced to chose sides - the smaller nations would be at war and civil war.

And the ungovernable part comes from the mediocrity and complexity mindset. That is more prevalent in the government. The newer generation is different and we might see sudden improvements to India overall after the next 15-20 years, as the older folks fade away
A lot abuse went on through.
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You could have, and in fact would have, said the same of Europe before 1945.
It irritates me when people say this isn't a scam because the invoice discloses (in fine print) that it is a solicitation not a bill.

The fact is, most scams operate this way. There are generally subtle signs that it's a scam if you look hard enough AND know what to look for, but they are effective because they are misleading and rely on some realities of human nature, such as the fact that many people trust that when they receive something that looks like a bill, it's actually a bill, and they will often pay it without looking it over with a fine-toothed comb.

Claiming that it's not a scam, even though it's clearly deceptive, just because an astute person might be able to identify it as a scam by reading the fine print, is unfair to those who are taken in. It's like trying to pass off counterfeit bills and then claiming you weren't engaging in fraud because the money had "Not legal tender" written in small print and the store clerk would have realized that if they'd only inspected every individual bill closely enough.

This scam is also not a "stupid tax." Its victims do not deserve to be defrauded simply because they failed to exercise the same caution that a more savvy person might have. It is an immoral, legally gray activity that hurts others and tends to prey on vulnerable people, like the elderly and those for whom English is not a first language.
If TV manufacturers actually cared about the consumers well being they would add one simple feature: A Mute Timeout button that also dimmed the screen expecting high contrast flashing ads, each press extends another 20 seconds or so - that would solve most of the ad issue. Too loud? tap tap tap... 1 min later it eases the audio-visual back up to normal.

This is 1950s tech yet we've never seen it, so much for competition spawning better innovation.
"If hidden files didn't exist" doesn't matter because they do exist...

I actually also prefer putting config files in HOME. I don't feel strongly enough to argue about it, I just prefer it.
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Thanks for your work! I'm currently using rclone to backup my camera photos. It's lovely software

Also thanks for implementing sync to different storage providers. It's probably tempting to just implement the big players, like S3, but little ol' people like me appreciate the rest :)
> rst is great because there are tools to handle it installed already on many Linux distributions

By that logic I’d recommend writing your documentation in groff or mandoc.
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Louisiana is not slouching in number of infected cases so that should put paid to warm weather hypothesis
All of this is carried out in a classical framework though. You may be right that you need quantum at those scales, but that's not what this article is about. It's just talking about our ability to calculate the trajectories of classical bodies with precision. That, and chaos.
I'm no physicist but shouldn't QM be not time reversible or even not repeatable?

Based purely on the fact that events happen randomly within some constraint then if you go forward, backward or repeat nothing can ever be the same even when initial conditions are exactly identical?
I hiked across Isle Royale back in 1976. I remember getting a kick from looking down at the largest island in the largest lake in the largest island in the largest lake in the world. I had no idea at the time that it actually had a name, it must not have been included in our maps. There was no hint of another pond in the middle of it.
Not yet. Aleast in Pune.
There is something immensely wrong with it because unfortunately people don't see a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese people.

This is going to greenlight those who are looking for reasons to lash out with their hate and puts those who are or could be confused as Chinese in danger from these idiots.

There is also a need to be above petty name calling. It is fine to take a scientific and fact based stance on where the virus originated from and what went wrong... however naming it based on country of origin out of spite seems like a bad idea.

A joke of maybe poor taste says that your mom was conceived in the back seat of a Buick but we still call her Janice.
who would get to keep the nukes?
It is remarkable how quickly the arguments bifurcate around any subject matter now-a-days. The solution needs to be a balance of public health policy and economic policy. The layoffs will only get worse now through Q2; perhaps the zeitgeist will shift when SV and tech is impacted more severely.
We'll never know, but it's worth pointing out that the slow and disorganized response by many western countries like the US and UK seemed to be less influenced by where the disease originated and more heavily influenced by a localized desire to pretend everything was normal.

I have a hard time seeing a different outcome if a virus of similar potency came out of Africa or somewhere else, based solely on how poorly leaders from around the world have responded to it.
Use Twitter; Japan's PM has an account.

> @AbeShinzo, it ain't yer fault bro #tokyo2021 - @thieving_magpie
What is it, then?
two video cameras and two cheap projectors should be enough to both track and capture a whiteboard marker and project the remote drawings. If you skimp and just do an overhead camera and projector, it still easily subtract your hand and dynamically draw the path for the remote viewer (with a slight 2-5 second lag).
Well, yes, but the general prediction is trivial. There's going to be another bad virus after this one, too!
When scale confounds our perceptions, stories can clarify them (2015)
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I have a solar panel that can charge a phone. They're not hard to find.
I was not suggesting that Italian doctors might be withholding treatment "just because of age." Clearly, as you state, there will always be a strong correlation between age and overall health.

I was trying to point out that some people using the statistics about age and mortality from Italy are trying to use them as justification for doing less to combat the disease's spread, and that might be a dangerously misleading gambit.
Reading this and thinking of the dozen .md documents in my repo that are sooo badly out of date they're actually misleading.

I apologise to anyone who ever has to read my documentation. I'm really, truly, sorry. I have excuses but no reasons.
I am just getting into concurrency. Is there any point to use threads or forkjoinpool in Java anymore? Should you always just use CompletableFutures and Suppliers?
In reality though the law can't really touch them. I think the fines are quite small amounts like 4$ dollars for violating containment etc, and its bailable too, so legally police don't have a strong imperative to do anything much except chalk a fine.

That too could be challenged, I doubt if all those quarantined, isolated etc in India has been given formal quarantine orders, considering the chaos at airports.

And additionally at this juncture government wouldn't want to overcrowd the prisons at this point of time.
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Good question. Who will deliver? And drones or drone delivery is mostly banned in India
Population density is a factor to be sure, but the government response was a bigger factor in failing to contain it in my opinion.

The CCP’s culture of fear and retribution pushed municipal officials to suppress reports of a novel outbreak, and pushed authorities to retaliate against medical professionals sounding the alarm.

A culture of transparency and non-retribution may have enabled China to contain this, and could have provided earlier warnings to the world to prepare for an epidemic or pandemic that might not have even happened.
No one paid attention. After the H1N1 crisis, the US burned through its reserves of N95 masks and other pandemic supplies, and never refilled them.

We aren't even learning now, even after it was obvious Italy needed to lock down more, the US still wasn't taking it seriously. I listened last night to my city council argue that it was still no big deal. Two members, a doctor and scientist said we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses and it wasn't that big a deal to anyone but the elderly.

We just don't learn.
News has reports of people getting beat up by police too.
The people I know from Pakistan are plenty happy with it, given the anti-Muslim sentiment in the Indian government these days. India itself is a relatively thriving nation, for all its faults. I don't think partition was a failure.
Eventual consistency is my biggest annoyance from S3.
Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero
Go get you one of the cheap Arduino clones (or several!) and a starter kit with sensors and lights to play with. The Arduino Mega clones at $15 or less are worth keeping a few in stock; and you'll never worry about burning one out or leaving a thing assembled for a while to blink its light because its fun.

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The seasonal lake is the one on Ryan island. Siskiwit Lake is quite large and I'm sure it's not seasonal.
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Hello HN!

I was the co-founder and CEO of Screenhero, and after its acquisition
by Slack in 2015, I led the team that built Slack Calls (voice, video
and screen sharing in Slack), and left Slack in 2018.

Today, we (myself and another engineer) are launching Screen, which is in
many ways a successor to Screenhero. Our goal is to help you work with
others like you’re in the same room.

Like Screenhero, it supports low-latency screen sharing with
multi-mouse control. How low? It has the lowest screen sharing latency
of any product we’ve tested: 30-50ms best-case end-to-end latency
between screen capture and render, vs. 100ms-150ms in regular WebRTC.
This means it’s great for remote pair programming, which was
Screenhero’s biggest use case.

We have voice, video, multiplayer drawing and control, and ephemeral
messaging, and we integrate with GCal and Slack.

We have native apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux (Screenhero’s
top-requested feature was Linux support). We use custom native code to
make multiplayer control work, and a heavily-modified custom fork of
Electron to minimize latency. It's WebRTC-compliant, so you can share
meeting links that anyone can join with a WebRTC-compliant desktop or
mobile browser — no download required. Daily.co is our primary
WebRTC-infrastructure provider (they’ve been amazing to work with!).

We're hoping Screen will be useful for engineers (pair programming,
live debugging), designers (review with stakeholders - they can draw
on your screen to give feedback), students and teachers, and anyone
collaborating remotely.

You can view a 1-minute demo video by clicking the
play button at https://screen.so, and there's a longer article
at https://screen.so/about, if anyone's interested.

I’ll be around to answer questions and welcome any feedback.
I hope you'll find Screen useful, especially during these times!
Unix philosophy for services encourages the user to model their problem rather than their architecture. Edge computing is a brewing shitstorm at companies which are not trending in this direction.
What I believe is that warmer regions would slow it down because it travels through water droplets which won't stay longer in the air in summer.

The virus they have to alive to be killed by sun rays(Yeah UV rays can destroy virus but in that case, we already be having skin cancer by now.)
I'm speculating, but there are a lot of normal, asymptomatic ways in which a virus may be spread.

1. Mucus. Cold weather can trigger a brief runny nose, which in turn is easy to wipe on sleeves, arms, or the back of the hand without much/any thought.

2. Saliva. Spittle from speaking is just about impossible to stop.
The service is based on the WebRTC protocol, which provides AES encryption of all data.
Attempts to brute force the link to access the agent are immediately blocked by IP.
On a side note, I remember the first time I tried an isolation tank; how I fell into a deep sleep that was different from all previous ones. Felt like my consciousness was halved but not quite gone (the way it usually is when you fall asleep).

It was very pleasant. Like an idle dream. An hour went by in a few minutes. I’ve tried replicating it a few times but never had the same success as the first time I went.

I’d be curious to know what other states of consciousness exist (and how to consistently trigger them).

I’d pay good money for some experiences I can do in the comfort of my home.
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This makes no sense to me.

The clear answer is that is unfair for our system to pay critical employees so poorly.

The federal sector can't compete with the private sector on value fulfillment - and that is a major problem, not a feature.
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As an Indian, here's a more cautious perspective:

1. I am going with the assumption that community transmission might have started at some location; but with that assumption this 21-day lockdown becomes an imperative and excellent step.

2. Will people obey the lockdown? (This is not a curfew, as essential services would be open.) Many people, sadly, would not. That is where the sometimes-criticized high-handed approach of police and other agencies would be useful.

3. I am optimistic about this period. At the end of it, if nothing else, we would have more data points to make thoughtful decisions about how to proceed and what other measures need to be taken.

4. Testing is being ramped up, and I hope it is an exponential ramp-up. Local test kits are also approved and beginning production today.

As a nation with 4X the population of the USA, and 1/3rd the area, the population density in India and particularly in the urban areas is off the charts. Hence, the approach suggested in some other countries, like carrying on with walks, exercises and other outdoor activities while practicing 'social distancing', gets much more difficult.

It is nearly impossible to be outdoors in urban areas and not have people nearby. As such, measures have to be very strict. I imagine the situation was similar in Wuhan in China, and they had to impose a complete lockdown as well.
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My personal take on open source contribution: If this is related to your work, you are getting paid for working on the contribution by your employer, then your employer should get the credit, thus you should use your work email/id. Otherwise, treat it as your personal hobby project and don't use employer resource to work on it.
As others have said... if you have extra time to optimize how you write documentation, fine, but just get something written. Actually... if you have extra time, take the time to write your documentation well - make it clear, consider who the audience is, spend some time thinking about how to organize the information, and so on. If you still have extra time, then it's time to worry about latex vs. xml vs. html vs. plain text vs. Word vs. Wiki vs. RTF.

The company I work for has a wiki that most teams use for documentation, and that generally works pretty well - for most uses, you can use the WYSIWYG editor, and if you need something more precise you can use the wiki text editor.
Things like responding to a pandemic are precisely where authoritarian regimes excel.

Authoritarian structures generally excel when you need a lot of people to do a lot of the same thing: responding to disasters in simple but effective ways, high volume manufacturing, grunt and infantry level military operations, and large infrastructure projects.

These are the areas where China leads the world. With the possible exception of the military, America and other Western democracies are downright horrible at these things. We can't build infrastructure, have lost much of our high volume manufacturing, and react to disasters with delay and bickering and population non-compliance.

Where they don't excel is creativity, invention, innovation, culture creation, and maximizing individual well being in peacetime. They're also more politically brittle because there is no graceful mechanism for non-violent political change.
As much as Jobs didn't like Microsoft and Windows, he must've realized that without a Windows client iTunes would neithter have enough mass nor appeal for the music publishers. So in the end he got what he wanted - iTunes on Windows without him saying OK to this blasphemy. Had a cake and ate it too.
If you broke India down, and with it the Hindu vs Muslim farce, there would be no reason for antagonism with Pakistan.
You don't seem to have an understanding of Indian society. There's a lot of unemployed/non-working youth who usually just roam around aimlessly. If this lockdown is not strictly enforced such people will make the whole effort fruitless. Indian cities are very densily populated. It is virtually impossible to loiter around without getting in close proximity to another person.

Edit: and most of the people who loiter around do it in groups, everybody from a different household.

Edit2: source: I used to be one of those at some point in my life. Thankfully there was no pandemic at that time.
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Thank you, we'll think about it.
July is after the NBA and NHL finals. It is before the NFL preseason. MLB is at the midpoint of their long season when it is late enough that the excitement of the new year has warn off and it is too early for the playoff race to reinvigorate fans. July is generally the slowest sports month in the US.

Meanwhile in October, the NBA and NHL both start their seasons. The NFL and college football are both going strong. MLB is in the middle of their playoffs. It is one of the busier sports months.

This is also just the sports calendar. Other aspects like the school schedule and traditional TV calendars also point to July as an ideal month.
It's possible someone got confused somewhere in the telling (e.g. they got lost on a hike unrelated to canoeing out to Ryan Island) but it doesn't really make sense as written.
What does it mean that time can never be observed or measured to be reversible?

Does the above mean the exact same thing as saying that the laws of physics are not time invariant period?
false sense of security - gives the person the impression they are protected and allows them to lower their guard in other area's that they might now if they weren't wearing it.

edit

To put it in tech terms ... someone poorly implementing a security / encryption method may be more dangerous than someone who didn't because the person who didn't may take additional steps that the person who falsely thinks they are protected wouldn't.
How about MDX (Markdown + JSX)?

https://mdxjs.com

https://github.com/mdx-js/mdx
Diversity sure is. I imagine the culture in Mumbai is very different from Chennai... whereas LA and NYC are way more similar. Of course, I do not know for sure, please feel free to correct me.