skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a false equivalence and you and everyone else who keeps making it know it. It makes zero sense to say that the current number of deaths is less than deaths from climate change or cars because those deaths aren't (at the moment) rapidly increasing exponentially. Do you think the deaths will just magically stop? What people apparently forget is that mortality rates jump (for everything) when your healthcare system collapses, as it did in Northern Italy, as it is about to in New York, and as it will everywhere else in a week or two because of flippant attitudes like yours.
Even better idea: Make the font server a new local CPU with write access to the graphics buffer. But no read access at all.

Very expensive idea though.
Just like Mitch Hedberg's joke about escalators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHopAo_Ohy0

>I like an escalator, man, because an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs.

>There would never be an "Escalator Temporarily Out of Order" sign. Only "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry For The Convenience."
I want you to personally visit the families of every dead person after this and say this to them.
Machine Learning/AI on macOS Catalina with Metal GPU Support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
I link to a few helpful sources in the “references” part of the project readme: https://github.com/brettcvz/upnext/blob/master/README.md#ref...

Hope that helps!
That reminds me. This would never work since everyone has different sized asses.
The Problem of Data Persistence
For the record, in March 2018, 58 000 people died in Italy. We will see how many died this March 2020 :

http://demo.istat.it/index_e.html (see green section on the right, By Month)

Also the following study from August 2019 (before covid19) shows that Italy has more deaths due to influenza every year than any other EU country :

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
I’m really worried about India. So far it’s not a huge outbreak there yet, but they are hitting the beginning stages of the steep curve.
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Spanish flu and swine flu, you mean. H1N1 is the agent responsible for both.
I meant: "Most people had a stressful, shitty time of it."

As measured by lives lived in quiet fear and desparation over a long time.

As measured by how we treat the worst off in society.

As measured by the quality of safety nets, and whether it's applied to people by dint of inalienable fundamental rights and dignity, or if safety is kept only for a subset of people we approve of / we decide are lucky.

As hinted at by life expectancies reducing in some developed countries.

As hinted at by increasing poverty and child poverty in some developed countries.

As hinted at by the housing crises, and increasing numbers of precarious economic situations of huge numbers of people in many developed countries.

As hinted at by an enormous class of people with second-class status in many developed countries.

I'm not going to say it is worse than 20, 50, 100, 200 years prior.

It appears to be better; it looks better than ever on many metrics.

And the economy has obviously produced a great deal of wealth and benefit. Shared unevenly (see especially USA healthcare right now, and healthcare for irregular immigrants everwhere), but benefits are there. We certainly should not stop doing the good things we've been doing.

But I still think the economy we have (or had, perhaps) has been "shit" for most people compared to what it could and should be.

(I don't mean it in the more mundane way people say "shit economy" to mean "worse than usual", "in a downturn" etc.)
It eats tons and tons of cpu though
I don't necessary disagree with the rest of your comment, but to me the last sentence falls on the "pro" side to let them fail.

If shareholders like that are wiped out then maybe next time they won't punish companies for having a cash reserve!
I printed these https://budmen.com/ until I ran out of PLA. I don't honestly have any knowledge about their effectiveness, but while my city is under shelter-in-place it seemed as good a way as any to pass the time.

I saw a few different designs for 3D printed PPE out there - I went for this one because the materials were all things I could source and they were one of the only places I saw that would help coordinate matching you up with medical professionals that want what you've printed.
If a bird shat on your arm would you just use tissue to wipe it away or would you wash the arm with water, and soap if available?

In most parts of Asia, people use water, in combination with TP. Western hygiene standards seem to be lacking in this area.
Then you'll just love Brazil!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teufz17PqoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSDdJIcmHU
Setting up Git identities
> Accordingly, world leaders are being judged based on their ability to contain the spread rather than prevent economic devastation.

Actually I am judging countries by their ability to face facts, act proactively Over the last few months, act responsibly by making sensible decisions that are effective in controlling their outbreaks, while keeping their economy functioning.

A++ for Taiwan (they started acting on Dec 31st, and they had preplanned what to do if faced with a virus outbreak). Very few infections, under control, economy working at 100%.

A+ for South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan and South Korea. Fast actions, effective tracing, economies running.

D- for US: little pro-activity, rampant community transmission, head of state in the sand, focusing on not spooking economy while ignoring downside risks to same, extremely poor planning with poor medical stocks. Health system of many states likely to fail. Now headless chickening, with every state left to act for itself (except for some negative interference from GOP). Meanwhile democrats dropped ball on opportunity of a lifetime to act well and help before the shit hit the fan.

B for China: first to have to act, zero pre warning. China acted and seem to have done better than many other countries that had plenty more warning (yes, China did downplay, but that seems to have been internal and not aimed at other countries. Either way, other countries had enough information from the 31st December or at latest mid-January but didn’t act).

C- for New Zealand: some late actions, tried to protect tourism industry and now the whole economy is paying price with shutdown. Extremely poor communication with population (trying not to worry everyone?). Mostly wasted months with inactivity, lack of planning (from my POV watching what info was given to a nurse), lack of emergency medical equipment. However expect that we’ll now respond well given shock treatment of shutdown of whole country,
> but they still need to provide notice when they change the terms. Providing notice seems to be something fundamental in our legal system.

Maybe so, but the "notice" probably could be something that's practically meaningless, like updating the terms on their website, or something.

Alternatively, their return policy may have language forbidding some kind of ill-defined "abuse" of the policy, which can be interpreted to forbid anything they'd want to forbid.

In any case, Costco has lawyers that unilaterally write this stuff in its favor, so I highly doubt it violated any of its own contracts.
At least some of WA's lower numbers recently were due to fewer tests performed.
> By John’s numbers (0.3% die and 1% of population) Italy should get a total of 1800 deaths. Yet Italy is at 6000 and rapidly rising - using real numbers his assumptions are already wrong for a first world country that is a few weeks ahead of the rest of the world.

Just highlighting this bit of the parent’s post. If you want hard evidence that COVID-19 is quantitatively and qualitatively different from other coronaviruses that, as John puts it in his article, “actually infect millions of people every year”… Italy is it.
Agreed. Ansible works, but it works so very slowly because it zips and transfers scripts/binaries over to the remote host without caching.

I hacked up a simple system, in golang, which uses and SSH connection to run commands and transfer files. Of course I simplified the problem to only really uploading files, running commands, and simple template expansion. For a lot of services where you just need to download a binary and configure a config-file it works well but it's nowhere near as useful as Ansible's module system:

https://github.com/skx/deployr/
Actually South Korea is a perfect place to look for a nation which kept it under control.

Germany just lost control last week, so I expect a lot more death starting next week.

Hopefully Germany's plan of isolation will reduce the spread enough, but we will see...
Or sell it at the price they paid and break even.
>So far, the mortality rate of those testing positive, asymptomatic and symtomatic, published by the CDC today, is 0.0119 compared to the DP's 0.013.

This is completely meaningless. Fatalities lag the start of cases by several weeks. Many people from the existing set of active cases will die in the next few weeks. You really should not use this number to draw any conclusions.
As an addendum, some of those features are also possible on Pascal/Modula variants, although not as expressive as Ada.
Ah yes, the United States, where our incidence of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are so low.
We used it for a couple of month but we had 3 main issues

1) for whatever reason the stability dropped significantly during that period. The first 1-2 month, all was fine. After that, we constantly lost people (we are in NZ, EU, America's, Asia). Maybe the demand grew but they didn't scale the servers

2) sometimes we want to quickly share our editor/screen. Sadly the compression makes it impossible to read text (zoom correctly shows text)

3) we are often in countries with heavy censorship (UAE, China). Only zoom really works. Not even meet, slack-video, Skype works
Ask HN: For an e-commerce+blog, which Django CMS and e-commerce package to use?
Hello All,

I have practiced Python and Django, made a post-submission basic blog with multi-user login and post submission features.

I wish to make e-commerce, blogging and user login capability. I am confused among Django-cms and Wagtail. And also which e-commerce package to use: Oscar, Saleor or Django-shop.

A. Features needed for e-commerce:

1. Multi-lingual

2. Location-based automatic currency detection

3. Product variations choice (I have products with size and color options)

4. Automated invoices

5. Product bundling

6. Videos and photos on the product page

7. Create discount coupons

B. Feature needed for the marketing of products:

1. Create a referral marketing page where each user is given a referral link and provided a dashboard to monitor his/her earned points and rewards claimed.

C. Features needed for blogging:

1. Medium.com type blogging with commenting/voting feature.

2. Get subscribers via email forms or via mailchimp.

I loved the wagtail's streamfield and formfield features. I don't know Django-cms has the analog of the same.

I am willing to spend time to climb the learning curve. I wish to make a solid final scalable and fast website. Please guide me on choosing the CMS (Django-cms or wagtail) and on the package (Oscar, Saleor or Django-shop).

Thank you.
It kinda proves the point that covid19 alone is less deadly than many other causes
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it says serviceworker not supported in this browser. I am on latest firefox
That's not an argument for letting this disease burn through our entire population. That's an argument for the government to step up and assist people during this time.

Edit: and who gives a shit about your retirement account.
Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships
Serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861.
> Google's behavior toward an entirely different group of users.

That’s also a wrong assumption. Android devs may very well be paid GCP customers if they had a great experience with the Android platform.

I am not talking about only full stack solo developers, I am also talking about companies with mobile apps with backend needs.
Does it fully work on Linux Wayland?
cause it sucks for both sides, like really suck. So they took them out and fight with the rest of arsenal
Well, for starters, there's kerning [1], hinting [2] and subpixel rendering [3] so that your text stays legible, even at small sizes.

Then, if you want to support a variety of languages, you need to handle diacritics, ligatures, contextual shaping, and bidirectional text [4]. A character's appearance can very based on what comes before and after it. Or the base character can change appearance depending on the diacritics that are added to it. Some languages have complex rules about how you combine things, for example Thai [5].

If you want to support Emoji (and of course you do), then there's things like skin tone modifiers [6] and the zero-width joiner [7] that lets you make all kinds of crazy combinations.

Modern text rendering is, for better or worse, very complex.

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

[4] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&ite...

[5] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18216-thai-order.pdf

[6] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-16.html#Emoji_Modif...

[7] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-16.html#Emoji_ZWJ_S...
I probably don't have all the facts but it's always bugged by that MTG has patented (or some rights) on similar card games and has effectively strong armed any similar and popular game into paying them a license. My understanding is that game mechanics can't be copyright protected so I don't get what they are suing over and how they have been so successful in getting fees
Also, if 1% of the population becomes infected, and you continue economic activity, then 67% will be infected in a matter of months... This is a virus with R0 around 3 people. Suppression is the only strategy.
Ok so that's one other example. But we risk getting into anecdotes.

Basically rations are an income transfer when they are used to distribute scarce products. It can result in bartering like you describe, yes, but it's not obvious that this negates the advantages. Does the bartering have to be forbidden for rationing to work? Maybe not?
Can’t speak for China and Singapore, but it’s most definitely not taboo to yalk about this in Taiwan. There is not much compiled information in English (for various reasons I’m not getting into, but ultimately most are just not interested), but you can piece together the picture by following local news. I found taiwannews.com.tw a pretty good source in English.
Thank you. Powerful
CQ (and HCQ, etc) have multiple potential mechanisms of action. I don't believe we know how it works in this particular case yet, or if it even works at all. It is indeed a zinc ionophore, [1] and those are known to impair the replication of a number of RNA viruses. [2] However, there are a number of other mechanisms at play here as well. [3]

> Both CQ and HCQ are weak bases that are known to elevate the pH of acidic intracellular organelles, such as endosomes/lysosomes, essential for membrane fusion5. In addition, CQ could inhibit SARS-CoV entry through changing the glycosylation of ACE2 receptor and spike protein6. Time-of-addition experiment confirmed that HCQ effectively inhibited the entry step, as well as the post-entry stages of SARS-CoV-2, which was also found upon CQ treatment (Supplementary Fig. S2).

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0
Pascal:

type
Quantity = 1 .. 240;
Colors = (Red, Green, Blue);
Pixels = array [1..1024, 1..768, Colors] of Byte;

Just a small example how its type system already so much better than C, although not as good as Ada.
> So the situation is either that Italy is vastly underestimating cases, or Germany and South Korea have lost a magnitude of corpses somewhere.

There is a third possibility. False positive tests: Germany and South Korea may have less cases than they think they do.
Yes, font downloading is privacy invading - You can make a "totally unique" font like "timesoldroman-adfssdg" and then track everyone who's downloaded it, for each webpage you want to track. It's just like any other tracking cookie, except a font.
FYI: In case you're not a pilot, I was being a little ironic about weight and balance.

Since people are heavier today, and carrying unweighed baggage into the cabin, weight and balance are actually not being met.

They're blocking off the last 2 rows on the A320neo because of this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherfarmbrough/2019/09/19/wh...

I'm a commercially-rated airplane pilot. I tolerate the pedantic HN comments, but please realize that I know what I'm talking about, and if you're not a pilot, you don't.
Even before he was president, his calls for infrastructure were praised by democrats. And many on the left praised his calls for tariffs.

But after leading chants to lock up political rivals and repeatedly calling the free press the "enemy of the people"[1], there is indeed nothing any politician from any party with any agenda could ever do to become normalized by democratically minded people.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people#Marxist%E2...
Very nice! It would be really cool if you can do some simple math too, like =sum(...), and have it update the markdown for you. I like it!
> but sometimes you have to make decisions without enough data and change your game

How orgs mess up handling complex problems, which they are not prepared for, or have the capacities, or time to handle has been studied ever since the second world war scientifically.

And science comes up with the concept of Bounded Rationality.

Which says if an org doesnt have the mental capacities, time, resources or the problem falls in a certain class of complex problems then whatever solution the org comes up with will be half baked.

And half baked solutions create their own issues and the cycle repeats creating a cascade.

Secondly when orgs Choose or are Forced to do something about problems above their capacities and naturally fail, they get blamed, they get defensive and react causing counter reactions which again produce a cascade of issues.

What gets lost in that blame game trap is everyone forgets that no one can solve the problem.

Bounded Rationality and more modern iterations of such theories suggest a simple solution - Pick simpler problems.
If you were looking for a "secure OS", why did you ever consider Windows in the first place?
It is a good time for exploit (even the ones that can be patched) as people work from home and can't access enterprise WSUS servers to fetch updates
The rational way to behave is to not live roll to roll, so to speak. A well stocked pantry won't have trouble in a scare because... well it will have stock.

Few things suck so much time away as having to go out for X because you've run out.

In other news I've got fourteen pounds of beans if anybody wants any.
Go check South Korea's numbers again. As their cases have resolved, death rate has steadily increased, and it's now at 1.33%. It will continue to rise. Same with Germany, it just takes time to die. South Korea had already found majority of their current cases 2-3 weeks ago, but deaths are only now picking up.

Edit: now 1.37%, up again since I checked a couple hours ago.

The same rise in death rate was observed way back when SARS happened. At first people estimated death rate at 2-3%, and it was continually revised upwards as cases resolved.
I don't see how you've come to that conclusion.
It seems to me that the point is to have targeted ads.
Not positive if it's still an issue or not but they had a Geopoint type in Firestore but I incorrectly assumed you'd be able to do geo searches because of that. Their proposed solution was to pipe the Firestore docs to Algolia indexes and use their service. I did that and I love Algolia but don't assume anything because it's Google.
This is to prevent further hoarding which will exacerbate losses.
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> Bounded Rationality and more modern iterations of such theories suggest a simple solution - Pick simpler problems.

Reality and emergent behaviour throws us complex problemS (like a novel virus), so how does that advice help?
amazing1.com comes to mind.
I have tried lots of sushi in Japan and it's just as good in LA.
> They were well armed and experienced

1. Quite the opposite. Look for the accounts of some of tank battalions being sent to the field without food, ammo, and fuel, and only being deployed at the very last moment in a hurry. I am not talking about their reserves here, but their main force.

They also had new officers up to a colonel rank simply having no real military training.

Both of these has been quite usual for the Iraqi army. I has been the case since Iran-Iraq war.

2. Saddam was regularly purging his own armed forces.

Though, I heard that he gave amnesty to officers he purged a day before the invasion, and ordered them back into ranks, but you can imagine how that panic move went.

3. Saddam was sitting still for nearly a year, while US was building up more, and more forces in Saudi Arabia. His officers knew they will loose, and they saw Saddam being paralysed with fear all that time, and getting crazier by the day.

That greatly demoralised his few remaining competent officers, some of whom cashed out his treasury, and flew to places like London.

> The gun on the T55 tank used by the Iraqis couldn't penetrate the armour of a M1 Abrams.

Certainly, nothing at the time could've penetrated M1 front armour, but skirts and side armour even of the latest tanks are vulnerable to WW2 era weapons.

It would've been a universally correct decision for a tank force commander to push for flanking attacks, envelopments, and close up skirmishes, rather than allowing a superior force engage them in a frontal attack from outside of their return fire range.

Iraqi army did few lacklustre offensive attempts, with January 29 attack by their 5th Iraqi mechanised being the most serious one, but still botched. From then on, their morale collapsed, and it was a turkey shoot.

I was saying that if US were to attack a force with WW2 era level of preparedness, experience, and tactics, they could've taken more losses.
North Koreans Put Out of Work by Covid-19 Resort to Drug Trafficking