skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing the fatality rate requires knowing the number of people infected: we all know the figures we currently have are mostly a low estimate for a number of reasons already discussed at length.

We must also know the number of fatalities, and this will only be known after the epidemic once we calculate the over-mortality compared to a normal year. So the current numbers are a low estimate too.

In the end we can tell nothing about the fatality rate which is the ratio of those values.

Hence governments make a guess and act accordingly. Only those who test large scale and isolate only positive people act rationally.
Spanish is one of these languages where absolutely every single word in the language is a profanity in some dialect, variant, or region.
Everywhere that you said "Design" on the website maybe you should say "Style"
Supporting multiple distributions would really be so much easier if your product was open-source, BTW. :-))
AFAICT "panic buying toilet paper" is mostly constructed bullcrap arising from the facts that:

* Essentially everyone needs toilet paper
* Places don't stock that much so it sells out quickly when people pull forward their next week or two of purchases
* toilet paper is extremely bulky so it makes for good pictures of loaded people (even when they just have one jumbo multipack) and empty aisles

In most of the pictures I've seen claiming to show "panic buying toilet paper" showed each party with similar or less toilet paper than I purchase at ordinary times (e.g. the big costco pack) for almost everyone in the frame.

Worse, the net effect of circulating these sorts of things shames people for taking the actions they need to take to avoid continually going out.
Yes I know, but most of the time it shows it wrong, it adds some artificial space or it just does not detect the element under the mouse cursor.
Does Figma have an equivalent to Sketch Runner?

It's kind of like Alfred for sketch. If there is a symbol or icon I need I can start typing it's name and I insert it without having to go through our design system's file tree. It has been a godsend for speed and I don't think it would be possible for me to work without it.

https://sketchrunner.com/
If it were running constantly, it could use inotify. Since this only runs periodically, using rsync to do the scanning is probably the best choice.
Who pays for the pizza? Relationships between doctors and drug companies (2003)
Corporate/gov news lies to cover itself. So take the opposite of what they say to be true. Example news says Monsanto isnt an evil company so that means it is an evil company.
Correspondingly, the response they received reflects just as strongly on the community itself.
It wouldn't be that difficult to build a JS-free version of the same nag. If global JS support somehow goes down, the nags will just adapt.
Urbandictionary says it's Argentinian slang.
According to his math, there should be 100million cases instead of the 0.5m currently confirmed. That's x200 more than what we were able to detect.

I think the answer lies in between, which is the reason for the unraveling of this panic.
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Name one such sequence of "useful reals" that is Cauchy but doesn't converge to a "useful real". You can't, can you? "Useful" Cauchy sequences of "useful reals" (i.e. those you can define) all converge to a "useful real".
Don't agree, the political risk for dems is much lower. The deaths will still be substantial even if "tolerable".
These old EROS/E sites are archived now, but others have pointed out that these folks are still hard at work at https://agoric.com
OneMap3D's approach won't handle natural landscapes, e.g. trees and rocks.

Ok, it's not really useful but fascinating to explore https://earth.app.goo.gl/Ld1b8R
> But it's a bit of a shame not to see it actually merging back up stream

What's a shame is people publicly complaining about how volunteers don't take on more work. Please don't do that next time. Thanks.

> It would be nice to see more of them become easy to be the "default" tool to use. And forks make that harder.

This fork has about zero relevance to whether ripgrep can be used as a replacement for other tools like GNU grep. The fork is serving an important but niche use case.
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And that is not the only place knowledge gets locked behind:

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...
This. It's currently impossible, AFAICT, to use OBS to composite/produce a stream that is fed into video chat software like Zoom, Hangouts, Bluejeans, etc.
If Allen (the videographer) was an employee of the salvage company, sure. He was almost certainly an independent contractor though and who knows what the terms of his contract were (or, for that matter, what the terms were of the contract between the salvage company and the government).
There is actually a shortage of masks though. Companies that didn't even make masks before are now producing masks. That's not happening with toilet paper because everyone knows that toilet paper use has not actually gone up and demand will crash quickly.
My bff’s store stopped paying rent. We were surprised when her landlord said that she can pay when taxes are due.
That depends on the publisher and the specific license.

Since ebooks are licensed, and not transferable, ebook publishers set arbitrary license requirements and prices depending on whom they're selling to and for what purpose.

Some publishers will sell libraries the same book, under multiple license options/restrictions, charging different prices for different options.

Ebooks sold to libraries can be much more expensive than the same ebook sold on amazon or kobo.

The license criteria can also state that the book can only be lent out X times before the book must be re-purchased or re-licensed.

The argument is that physical books degrade and are not infinitely lendable, so these measures are intended to level the playing field.

That is an issue, but it exposes the flawed underpinnings of the capitalist copyright system as it interacts with the socialist library system.

Specifically, the result is that which books you have access to through libraries depends on where you live, whether you have access to a good university's libraries or whether you're in NYC or Seattle or Los Angeles. Sometimes it's completely random and some obscure library has stocked an ebook, it's just a matter of where someone's requested it and where that request has gotten to the top of the list somehow. This is absurd in the 21st century.

So, libraries are dying as a source of books. A lot of people who are into books have migrated to pirate ebook sites, or have ebook clubs or friends who share books among themselves. Libraries stock all the major popular fiction and nonfiction books, at least as ebooks, but they tend to have ridiculous wait lists. They can't buy enough copies initially, and then if the popularity ever dies down that's a sign that it's not worth reading anyway. Only popular books destined to become classics eventually stabilize at a point where they're worth reading and the waitlist isn't too bad... if you wait the months or years for it to get to that point. I don't know why anyone would put up with it except for pure entertainment reading (for instance, unless you're reading it for a book club, it doesn't matter if you wait for a year or two before you read the latest Oprah book club recommendation). And that's a small portion of a library's holdings; the vast majority are obscure books that aren't really that great, whether fiction or non-fiction. They just have them because of random requests. Popular books and unpopular fillers both crowd out obscure but potentially valuable books.
Thank you for the kind words! :D
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If you care about protecting people, indeed; along with fighting to counter regulatory capture by bad actors and industries being a necessary counterbalance vs. allowing a wild west scenario.
Simple:

- make a backup,

- have your Mac serviced; it will be returned wiped,

- try to restore from your backup - and it fails. It won't tell you why it failed, only that it failed.

The end.
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That’s not so much due to Facebook as it is to the internet.
Another option that's a little higher end is to use a dedicated video production rig, and feed that into your computer (or use the rig's direct integrations). Something like a Tricaster (https://www.newtek.com/tricaster/), which is very popular for live event video production.

The more complex the setup, though, the more likely you'd need additional people working the controls. (But also, the more flexibility and conveniences you get).
US government is in talks about tracking citizens' location during coronavirus
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It doesn’t. Overall its plugins are very limited compared to sketch.

I was forced to switch to it and I miss all of my plugins, but I have to say the sharing and commenting features are so much more useful/seamless than the Sketch/Zeplin combo I used to use. So even though it’s a worse design tool, my productivity is better because of the seamless collaboration.
Ages ago I benchmarked truecrypt overhead on my machine at the time (2006, I think?) and it was about 3%; I assumed that's a reasonable and still applicable number, also do dm-crypt and modern VeraCrypt. Guess I was get gradually more wrong through those years, according to the git archeology....
This is some eye opening stuff!
It's a more subtle argument, but a lot of people (me included) think that `<Stack>...</Stack>` is better than `<div class="stack">...</div>`. More readable, more reusable, that's the sort of thing Flutter went with (not a Flutter user personally).

There's no reason it would add unnecessary DOM nodes. You can add styling on top of any component if needed (styled-components is one way but not the only one). Having a `columnGap="small"` is perfectly acceptable for me (`columnGap={3}` too if 3 refers to some scaling, `columnGap="10px"` is bad).

It's similar to the Tailwind approach: have ready-made pieces of UI you can compose. But I also get why you wouldn't like it, and I think any of these approaches work fine enough if you they're used diligently
Maybe, but that might not be hot enough.
> We've been trying to educate people about phishing for 17+ years. :)

Well that is 17 years Riot could've charged your company $199
per month. Similar to dating websites, not achieving the customer's goal is good for Riot's business.
Has anyone already tried to compile the kernel with these patches for their desktop/laptop with encrypted drive?
https://github.com/cloudflare/linux/tree/master/patches
Facebook has, in fairness, made this sort of collaboration far easier than it would have been in the days of the pre-Facebook Internet.
OK. I have done that, several times [x], and didn't run into any problems.

I do wonder, though, what kind of integrity checks do Time Machine backups have. I've always treated TM as the first line of defence and, as such, it has worked well for me. However, in addition to TM, I have other offsite backups in the cloud for disaster recovery.

x) I haven't had my macs serviced several times, but I have restored from backups a handful of times due to, ahem, accidentally rendering the system unbootable a couple of times.
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As the article explains, Offline Web App is being used to mean Progressive Web Application (the standard terminology).

(edit Turns out that's not quite right, see diggan's reply.)

From the article:

> You’d almost think they had an App Store to promote or something.

There's certainly a tension here. I'm still not sure why more vendors don't make iOS PWAs to get around the App Store payment rules.

Perhaps related: Very roughly a year ago, something changed in iOS that broke the 2048 PWA. Its swipe-detection no longer works. A pity.
Kitty has a very nice way to search and insert unicode characters (shift+control+u).
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Better title: Apple restricts tracking by limiting browser storage, which hurts my particular app.

Browsers need to be severely limited due to them running arbitrary code from the web. Doesn't matter if it's an offline web app. If you want more access, make a native app (with or without web technologies).
I really appreciate this link. I would have never seen this otherwise. It's kind of a disappointment for us on the enterprise side. Our main offering is an offline app where people are disconnected from the internet for weeks and we use localStorage to validate who they are. It's a bit vague about how this affects apps that don't use safari. Nevertheless, we might have to start to really think about the user experience here now that this update is out.
This is about having OBS' output appear as a video source on the operating system.

You're solving the wrong problem. :-)
Thank you for this advice, luckily I am not German :-)
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Making provision in the application, to take back the data - will go long way.
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European Commission tells carriers to hand over mobile data in coronavirus fight
I would be OK with 7 days being the default with a permission model where I can grant a website longer storage time.

Actually, I'd be even happier if any form of offline storage required explicit user permission anyway.
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This would be very undesirable for some people. People for example who get construction permit for one thing (with bribes) but build a bit different things. "A bit different" could be additional floor, or apartments instead of office space. And yes this is happening in some places. I think reality is far better source of truth than architectural drawings. So i'm voting for google approach. And heres example of my city in 3D constructed with google approach, but higher resolution.

https://3d.vilnius.lt/scenos/realaus-vaizdo-3d-modelis
Tabs are probably the biggest thing.
Categorically false for modern medical school. My daughter started rotations almost immediately, alternating with classes every couple of months throughout. She rarely did 'paperwork' (computers), had close patient contact immediately and was doing procedures almost from the start, under close supervision. Her final rotations had her in the operating room, handling her own patients from triage to discharge, doing night shifts etc along with a resident.

Things have changed rapidly in medical education. At least some places.
I have an app which isn't offline, but I wanted to make use of IndexedDB and LocalStorage to make things faster for users. Now I wonder if it's worth the effort to even try. I think this pretty much kills the utility of all local storage initiatives.

My app is an inventory control system used by businesses that build electronics (https://partsbox.com/). Deleting client-side data after 7 days is ridiculous. You can't assume that people will always log in every week, in small businesses or design/manufacturing companies there are times when 2-3 weeks can pass without building new hardware or touching inventory.
This is terrible...

I have a copy of my “DAT Shopping List” demo I last opened about 6 months ago saved to my iPhone home screen... I opened it, and the data was still there. I’ll be really sad when I open it again after iOS autoupdates and the data will be nuked.

https://github.com/jimpick/dat-shopping-list-tokyo
>deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days

Evil company. How do we fix this? Shame users?

The problem is that the users are so brainwashed from decades of Marketing.
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> If you want more access

which is somewhat ironic, because the goal of a web app is to break free of the walled garden and become OS-independant.
The military may be popular for various reasons, but that doesn't mean it's efficient.

Also, lots of militaries around the world - including the US military - are contracting out to PMCs.

Military equipment is usually procured from private companies.

Also, most militaries are sitting there idle most of the time, so they're only competing on paper.
thank you for this comment :) very interesting indeed
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I'm a really novice practitioner of ML. Is using a monotonic model over a classification model kind of like adding ultimatums or rules to the classification?
It's thoughts like these that I think: we don't have free will. Fortunately, we do have free choice.
Interesting, I'd have assumed that it's much cheaper because of the insane salaries in the US, compared to even salaries in UK or Germany.

Anyway, I know so many people in Europe who absolutely love Khan Academy. Keep that in mind when thinking about expanding your talent pool :).

Also keep in mind that if you can hire in one EU country, you get access to the talent pool of the whole EU, since I can just show up in any EU country and start working.

Cheers!
Software is never write once and done. You may get to the market faster in the first iteration, but the follow up iterations can come to a grinding halt because modifying, extending and patching the existing code now becomes an enormous challenge.
TL;DR: use Twilio.
I wish there was more experimentation in the front end landscape. Right now every major framework mixes state, logic and view. It doesn't matter if your state and logic is extracted into hooks, at the end of the day you're still mixing things by importing modules that directly add state and logic to components. I'd love to see a non-trivial app written __without using a single useXXX or class component__. The only thing your view layer is allowed to do is dispatch an action, or call an effect, which is interpreted outside that view layer. Of course this raises all sorts of questions, such as what about 100 instances of the same dropdown component which now all need to store their state somewhere. But I'd still like to see what working with that would feel like. I think The Elm Architecture would be pretty close to that (or exactly that, I don't know).

(I'm not saying the above would be better than what we have, just that it seems like it should be properly explored)
offline web apps are different than PWA. A PWA doesn't necessarily work offline, but more is independent from the connection / loading of it. I do think most PWAs do work offline, but doesn't mean it's a requirement to call it a PWA.

Similarly, an offline capable web app is not necessarily a PWA, as PWA carries a lot of features to it besides being offline capable.
But browsers are severely sandboxed already. What the article is talking about is:

> deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days

which I can see how it might help privacy (since you could be tracked via local storage too) but also how it might break any potential web app that might need data to last more than 7 days.

> If you want more access, make a native app

But then, everybody will complain about yet another Electron app, right? Not to mention that you have to fork over $99 and go through the signing / notarization hoops that change from one week to the other.

I think in the name of privacy and security only Apple and some select few corporations will be allowed to make software in the future. macOS / iOS and Windows 10 are evolutionary dead ends in many ways.
The kicker is that this isn't really news for anyone who works in the realm of open science, information dissemination, digital archiving and so on.

If you think salvaging information from social media is a challenge, consider how much gets lost in e-mail or byzantine folder structures on shared drives, or legacy document management systems, usb drives or personal laptops.

The value of information isn't just determined by it's relevancy or "usefulness" in a particular context, but also by it's level of accessibility and discoverability.

Moreover, let's not forget that a huge amount of that information is noise and only a fraction of that will converge in peer reviewed science down the line. And that's how human communication and sharing of information usually works.

Not everything needs to be kept or archived on the spot "just in case". That's just not feasible.
personal experience.

intermittent fasting has indeed put me in more relaxed, calculating, and calm states. it's like your body forces you to think about every action you take so you don't waste the little energy you have.

but that was then. my body has since adjusted to them and now i have to fast longer to reach these mental states.

difficult because i now have hobbies (playing instruments) that prevent me from doing so.
There's certainly a balance to achieve there. Too few permissions prompt and you lose control, and too many and you get desensitized or even worse annoyed at them.
Some of it probably has to do with the file itself not being clearly organized, some of it is probably how Figma selects groups.

Where I work, we started to mark the spaces with spacer elements, which look like boxes that have the number of pixels on them. It felt like a waste of time after using Zeplin, but it’s just much easier to see the measurements at a glance and doesn’t require the engineers to measure everything themselves. As a designer, it saves me time because I don’t have to answer as many questions or spend as much time on the design QA feedback loop.
Ask HN: Why can't we still search local disk the way we search online?
I am looking for some old content which I know exists in a 2TB backup drive using a Windows 10 machine. Despite using a modern machine, it has taken over 25 minutes and still is looking for it. Searching a nvme SSD doesn't significantly reduce the search time either.

I am wondering why can't we search our local contents and get almost instantaneous (or reasonable) results the same way we get from online search engines. How are these latest machines any better than machines a decade ago in improving user experience (other than entangling settings and silly visual stunts)?

Is there any tool or setup that may provide significantly better search experience in local machines (windows or linux)?
Can you please link directly to the article you're referring to?
As predicted - RIP PWAs - https://ar.al/2020/03/25/apple-just-killed-offline-web-apps-...
yes that's the key thing.

it doesn't matter what the IFR (infection fatality rate, usually impossible to know exactly) is. what really matters is how many people will end up in hospitals at the same time in absolute terms. after the first wave passes, it is important to know how many people are now immune to plan lockdowns and health care capacity for the second and future waves - but this again isn't related to fatality rates, but hospitalization rates and true R0 (maybe there were much more people infected who didn't even know they had it than we think).