skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you are assuming a much larger asymptomatic rate than what has been published. Because population fatality rate without healthcare would probably be in the 3-7% range, and true asymptomatic cases are only around 20% (at least based on Diamond Princess data). There are around 1.2 billion people in Africa, yielding a death toll on that continent around 36M souls at the low end. Four years of childhood poverty-related deaths.

Even without any public health intervention, a death toll like this would spark a major recession most folks withdrew from economic activity out of fear. Even if you ignored it at the governmental level, it would quickly be impossible to ignore at the social level. Pretending that we can just push through that many deaths is a fantasy.

I doubt your prediction of a doubling of extreme poverty would come to pass. The folks we're talking about are already in many cases living at a subsistence level. They are not depending on an export economy to keep their households fed. But even supposing it does, it would take four years of that to make up for the losses due to unchecked COVID-19, and that's assuming that such a scenario caused no economic setbacks, which is just not plausible.

Anyway, none of that is going to happen. No political regime would survive sitting idly by as 2-3% of the population expires. So lockdown and public health intervention will ultimately be the order of the day everywhere. The theory that any other approach would do better will not be tested.
Completely off-topic, but thank you for your work on AwesomeWM, together with all other contributors! It is a fantastic piece of software and I always use it on all my Linux installs.

About maintaining wikis, that is indeed a problem. In addition, most wiki software I used has extremely clunky administrative tools which make moderation way more challenging than needed.

I used to maintain a tiny private wiki for a previous job, and even in a very small operation (10s of users), it was a disproportionately large maintenance burden.
Good for Honda. Frankly, some of these touch screen features were getting out of hand - no pun intended. I miss the tactile experience of touching a knob, a dial, flip a switch.
How do they work?
Here's an interesting legal question:

If you use the public internet to go to a public website's landing page, by doing that, do you automatically accept a website's Terms Of Service (contract)?

I would argue no, because the social custom is that public-facing websites are intended to be accessed by the public, and until and unless they explicitly accept a contract (such as a Terms Of Service agreement), there is no contract...

Now... I could be wrong.

In fact, lawyers could argue that there is a social contract, an implied contract (they do this with Negligence claims) even before there is a written contract...

So, I'd be interested in arguments, both for and against, with respect to the presence or absence of a contract, either express or implied...

(We can all agree that if a website creates a pop-up or page which says "By using this site, you accept the terms of service", and if you click "Agree", you agreed (well, unless you do not have the capacity to do so, or other factors apply... <g>)... that's not what I'm soliciting arguments for here...)
I know from italy for ex. if you are tested positive on Corona, no matter how you die (a tank drove over you twice) you will end up in the "death with Corona" spreadsheet.
I don't know about other countrys does this handle.
Also normaly, if very old people get sick (like my grandma died) they don't go to the emergency hospital. They might go to a hospital, but usually they don't try to save lives at all costs.
My quest to sync up Heroku Postgres to local Postgres on Gitpod Cloud IDE
Yeah, I'm sort of surprised that there isn't a semi-popular "web grep" tool for people who would rather use regex, some understandable ranking algorithm with knobs to tweak, etc.

Of course, you'd have to read a manual to use it and it would have a ton of spam, but some people just want lower-level control - they still sell stick-shift cars.
This is pretty cool but isn't the jump from artificial lung to the real thing pretty big?
I believe Chief Technology Offices will be reformed as Chief Security Offices since so many features are built-in that automated common sense is what sells.
and this might cut you down to 40 or 50 pages to go through to maybe find what you want.

At least those search engines gave you that many results to go through... now Google gives you less than that, full of spam (despite the index probably containing far more), and you'll be in CAPTCHA hellban if you try harder to get to the rest.
This is an especially good idea for any politician who hates the idea of being re-elected.
Doesn't matter, the fuel gives a much longer loiter time over targets.
Which would be discovered in court...

I think your confused. OP isn't suggesting that Amazon is guilty, but that there is enough evidence to warrant investigating what happened.
> Weather Timeline used to be awesome, but it used Dark Sky APIs and got shut down during this whole Apple acquisition thing.

What? Was it shut down by the ‘acquisition thing’ that was announced today, or the API that Apple will be supporting for the next 18 months?

I think you’re drawing conclusions not supported by anything.
Zoom works in the browser
Why? Where is the money in providing high quality information to the general public? The public wants cheap candy.

High quality data exists, but it's not much of the ad supported web and not much of what users what to read.
You can add `--force` and zap will also work on non-brew installs. The paths are community-contributed, so watch out (you can print the paths with `brew cask cat <name>`).
Human locomotion activity is still tiny in those regards. A much bigger effect is the amount of water we pump and move which is very heavy and can directly induce earthquakes.
a) Not the death rate. It's just 'deaths/tested' which is something else.

b) I don't see how the decentralized system entails more testing. Canada is decentralized and has more testing by the US, but it's because the respective authorities 'just did it'. The logic of 'some labs blocking others' makes no sense. If S. Korea wanted to do 'the most testing' it might be in their self-interest to 'centrally plan' thereby ensuring that it's also pointed in the right direction.

c) Canada has 1/3 the per-capita cases of Germany.
A fun JavaScript particle animation framework
According to CNBC, in some parts of the U.S. oil is selling for $4 a barrel. That's 4! This is crazy.
Putin is out to monopolize the oil market, and since Rosneft is a state company, he can weather the long term pain of cheap oil versus our private fracking businesses that need to make a profit.
Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders
Avoid Design by Committee: Generate Apart, Evaluate Together (2018)
Amazing to see the CDC and NYT apparently waking up to the reality of asymptomatic transmission at this late hour.
I haven’t had that many conversations with founders, but I’ve had a few, and I suspect that like a lot of thing there’s a fiction that the hopeful believe and the entrenched have absolutely no incentive to correct. Not as bad as record labels for new bands, but not a whole lot better.

That fiction, if I have it right, is that selling your company is a merger. That you are a lesser peer and that you will still have a great deal of influence in the resulting company. And there are people who manage that, but most do not. And not only that, your payout is delayed and contingent on you keeping your former employees from getting too surly. Sometimes for several years.

And since your story was supposed to be about how much you sacrificed and how hard you worked to sell your company and became successful, are you really going to be frank and honest with yourself and those who ask, or are you going put on a brave face?

I wonder how many of the “money doesn’t buy happiness” nouveau-riche mean something like the problems listed above when they say that. “I reached my goal and it wasn’t what I wanted.”
Let's be clear: I don't think this article has created any confusion. It's manipulative, like a lot of headlines that hit the front page - you click on it expecting one thing, and find another. It's not misleading in the way poor naming in technical contexts is misleading, so I think you're somewhat guilty of conflating different concepts yourself.

The substitution is a rhetorical device to deliberately draw comparison between different ways of approaching the same goal, i.e. being more effective as a programmer.

The author, I expect, would justify the sleight of hand by saying: the audience that believes most wholeheartedly in 10x programmers is precisely the audience that needs to hear how to benefit from low-hanging fruit that will make teams more effective. Really it's an old saw, "the brilliant jerk vs. collaborative team".

You're welcome to disagree with that assessment, but I'd suggest that responding to the particular contentions in the article is more worthwhile that overinvesting in a rhetorical dichotomy which has been used for effect only.
PageRank is not how Google tanks pages now. It's not the reason Google serves so much junk.
And that oil isn't necessarily burnt.
If you're willing to, you can get a DSLR or mirrorless camera and use UVC as a webcam.
Bill Gates: Here's how to make up for lost time on Covid-19
>I would say it's a much higher bar to be hired in as a remote worker vs an existing employee moving to being remote because you already whether the employee is productive

I have to disagree - this is a common premise that you have to see that someone is productive "in person" first.

But seriously, it doesn't matter if someone is remote or in-person, you won't know how productive they actually will be until after they have been hired.

FWIW, I am an engineering manager at a fully remote org and we have had great success with hiring people and getting them productive from day 1.
The article doesn't explicitly make the point, I think a lot of the relevance of this potential undercounting is how it relates to assessing preventative measures. Many people have argued (correctly) that "confirmed cases" should be ignored, as the numbers produced are so dependent on non-random sampling. But they often followup by arguing that we should focus on COVID deaths, because those are (usually) too hard to hide. Potential undercounts of this sort call that conclusion into question.

Perhaps paradoxically, going up another level and looking at "all deaths regardless of cause" doesn't necessarily improve the quality of the decision making. If anti-COVID measures also serve to decrease flu deaths and traffic accidents, it's possible that the total numbers might show a drop even if those same measures are inadequate for reducing COVID deaths. It's hard to get anything right!
At minimum I think most people would agree that the "default ToS" probably would cover malicious actions and unintended access in both directions.
Kodachrome might have arguably been the most NON-instant film you could use.

It was possible to develop Polaroid in a few seconds.

The next easiest was black-and-white film, which you could do in your own home.

It was also possible to do normal color film (like c-41) in your own home (with difficulty), but you could also drop it by a local lab and pick it up the next day (or a few days).

But Kodachrome - that required a tech tree. It had to be sent off to a special facility. There were only a few of them, which required the ability (and certification and chemicals) to develop it.
The people going to the parks and crowding the piers obviously disagree. What gives you the right to tell them what to do? Their body, their choice, no?
Howard Marks: Which Way Now? [pdf]
It's a hopeful sign that needs confirmation. When you want something to be true this badly, one must be careful and judicious.
I couldn't agree more. I research a lot of history and get junk... so much junk on Google. I also research technical info for our website and get junk. What do you use? What do you recommend?
it can be. If you can operate a thermodynamic engine at a single 'operational point' meaning fuel/air flow in and energy out then you can heavily optimize its efficiency in terms of thermal efficiency and noise produced at that specific point...or at least a few points.

You can also muffle it if your optimization point is not just thermal efficiency but overall system efficiency.

It's really difficult to muffle a turbjoet or turbofan...the exhaust flow is the energy source.
indeed. gas buddy shows my local (Portland) stations at $2.29 minimum (Costco) and $2.95 in the top 10 cheapest (Chevron).
A wonderful thought indeed. Maybe in addition, if we take some of the handwashing seriously every flu season, we can reduce death rates from many diseases.
So there are two general approaches people take to booms. Your income suddenly balloons and you have a choice.

Some people will expand their living standards to match their increased income. Others won't and will simply reap the extra rewards later. Some will know that winter is coming. Others just will know what they need and are not controlled by unconstrained wants.

Whenever the boom inevitable ends the first group is always the group that's in trouble.

In the 2000s in Australia was a massive construction boom. Tradesmen made huge money. Some bought expensive cars and houses and holidays. Post-GFC those days were over. Suddenly living on the big country estate was a problem because the $300/week you were spending on petrol was suddenly an issue.

Bringing this back to oil, on the one hand we have Norway who used their resource riches to create a sovereign wealth fund that last I heard was around $1T. On the other you have Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia, where huge profits were pocketed by oligarchs, monarchs and kleptocrats.

At the same time, they needed the oil revenue to placate their people. Breakeven was once $10/barrel, then $20, then $30, then $50. Higher prices of course encouraged companies to invest in more expensive oil fields where the cost of extraction might well be $60+/barrel.

Saudi Arabia once tried to manipulate the market to wipe out the frackers (as the US became a huge net oil exporter). That was never going to work. They'd simply re-emerge when prices inevitable returned.

But now in a market where demand has fallen off a cliff, Saudi Arabia need to sell oil, pretty much at any price, to survive. A protracted price war does not bode well for either country but that's the predicament they're in.

This is another example of the delusion some people are in regarding this pandemic. When it's under control (or, more likely, run its course killing potentially millions), the world won't suddenly go back to the way it was. Capacity might be there but demand will take a long time to recover. You'll see this through the travel industry (particular cruises) and, with things like this, the oil and gas industry too. There's no containing it either.
I had a d6000 and had to update the firmware (with a borrowed windows machine) before it would charge my mbp.
That shit has been down there for literal ages. If you're talking about crude, it is toxic as is the brine that comes with it, hence the need for processing.
Please name one Amazon Warehouse stock picker or forklift operator who is making 6 figures please. Also, where are all these tech workers making 6 figures at? BLS OES Job wage data shows about 80% of tech workers don't make 6 figures. The ones that do are in cities where $90k is the poverty line ffs.

Management can choose to share profit fairly in a keep what you catch manner so everyone's interests are aligned, and report accounting fairly, to the whole company.

Or Management can choose to do what Bezos did and ruin the retail market by selling at a loss for 2 decades while playing guile and psyop games with the public; he owns washington post BTW. Amazon is terrified of unions because that means they can't be profitable. Agriculture, Warehousing and logistics are major employers of illegal alien labor; the way Bezos makes money is by undercutting brick and morter retailers' supply chain costs because he doesn't have to hire anyone to run a store.

The reason unions form is management gets abusive; this pandemic is one such instance.
Can anyone suggest alternative search engines, please? I research the following two areas (1) history and (2) website maintenance and SEO info. Thanks in advance.
Coronavirus patient’s mild but long illness may point to ‘chronic’ mutation
I was saying the same thing earlier today. Most of their products are $100-200. I like OmniGraffle but I only need to make graphics a few times a year, and free alternatives like draw.io or even Keynote often suffice.
The only other "security risk" I can imagine such a read-only wiki could present is if it documents something that could be considered "risky" from a security perspective.
That would make this more of a censorship situation.
You may be coming from a very diff place than most startups

In general for startups and if you can afford, max(2mo, 1mo per year). If you are in a slow industry like finance backoffice, good chance many people are 5-15yr and saved vacations, diff ballgame and HN is irrelevant ;-) Collapse is part of the choice of going for startups.

But this is all nonsense right now: super hard for many people to get new jobs right now when not an easy FANG fit. So low severance layoffs right now are pretty career impacting FUs. Can't take the COVID SBA loans and apply it to severance, so not easy. Startups are risks anyways, so maybe time to instead take advantage of the chaos and grow instead!
Hackernews is shutting down in 45 seconds. Please save the pages of any bookmarks now
That's true. But there's still a lot that we don't know about this
I think 17% of that 2 trillion is going to directly to state and local governments. And a much of the rest of it will be indirectly taxed by state and local governments in various ways. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trilli...
Oil is dying. Fossil fuels are dying. Not in a hopeful environmental sense, but in an economic sense.

Electric cars are here, not in some far off hopeful environment with a few for rich people and nerds but here. Countries have mandated electric only in the near future. Coal mines are going broke. Renewable energy is often cheaper than fossil fuel energy.

This whole price crash is because two countries whose economies rely very heavily on oil profits can't really survive on $50 once they got used to $100 oil. Oil is $22 today because the monopoly was broken with North American oilsands kinds of production and enormous in ground capacity puts a price cap on oil.

We're watching two countries fight over the scraps of the oil market. Now this is on the scale of decades, but it's not just far off thinking but near-term risk of oil demand plummeting ... the current world economic shutdown is just a little extra nudge.

If we filled and doubled all of those strategic petroleum reserves, there would be serious doubt if they would ever – ever be used.

We are in the early stages of exponential growth of batteries replacing fossil fuels. After a generation, internal combustion will seem quaint.
Selling Personal Browsing History
Are you developing a product / service targeting software engineers and a corresponding strategy on getting their attention?

I am selling my March 2020 browsing history along with my demographic profile. Comment your email if you are interested in purchasing and I will reach out directly. Thanks.
Anecdotally, the bay area seems to have had rather unstable weather the past couple of weeks.

If the west to east winds were stronger than usual, could that affect the observed pollutants?
I tryed to search an article / press release, I saw about Corona in january. But it seems I can't search for "just from january" there is now so much news about Corona out there, there is no chance to find this article. And much worse, even I know some key words, Google does present most of the search results by totaly ignoring the half of my keywords.
Should You Listen to Podcasts?
I have a 2019 civic. even with the non touch screen option, a weird glitch in bluetooth freezes the entire media center. I have to pull over and park the car and turn the engine off to reset.

Hitting the power button does not solve this. So in some sense having hardware buttons does not solve everything.
Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage [pdf]
> I think if you look at the level of care in Germany that you get even in remote towns (corona virus aside), there is a lot to be said for the decentralised model.

Is it better? I really don’t know, all I heard about this are the complaints about rural areas being underserved by doctors, especially GPs
Most Americans have never had a month off work in their lives. It will probably help mental health for for them at least.
In Canada take out places are adding grocery boxes, wine and beer to their take out menu's. Seems like this may not even need to involve grocery stores. Why not get some essentials if you are already getting delivery.
Yes. It is unfortunate. I’ve bought a couple of their products and recommended them to others. However, the price means that people (if their employers aren’t paying for it) have to plan it, and most won’t spend that amount on software.
That doesn't actually follow. If the station across the street is selling at a loss, you can either keep prices high and make zero revenue, or sell at a loss and make some revenue.

Of course you'll go out of business after a while below that floor so this situation wouldn't be sustainable, but it's consistent with economics that it could happen. (edit: I guess saudi arabia et al. are pretty much in this position now)
> We still have the data, and as mentioned above, we will work to migrate the top content into various official resources. In the meantime, we’re investigating how we can make this content available, even in a rudimentary way.

This indicates otherwise.
Abstract

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, a significant proportion of cases shed SARS-Coronavirus2 (SARS-CoV-2) with their faeces. To determine if SARS-CoV-2 is present in sewage during the
emergence of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, sewage samples of 7 cities and the airport were
tested using RT-PCR against three fragments of the nucleocapsid protein gene (N1-3) and
one fragment of the envelope protein gene (E). No SARS-CoV-2 was detected in samples of
February 6, three weeks before the first case was reported in the Netherlands on February
27. On March 5, the N1 fragment was detected in sewage of five sites. On March 15/16, the
N1 fragment was detected in sewage of six sites, and the N3 and E fragment were detected
at 5 and 4 sites respectively. This is the first report of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage.

The detection of the virus in sewage, even when the COVID-19 prevalence is low, indicates
that sewage surveillance could be a sensitive tool to monitor the circulation of the virus in the population.
> The government just needs to make it law

That's exactly what I said.
Are you saying using mac components alone gives it the $50-$100 a pop value, if so thats some quality brainwashing going on.
That also may be case of better testing and by that, more widespread. Many countries playing catch up, well they all are and may well be case that many countries with high death rates also have many untested people who had what they thought was mild cold and in some countries those mild cold's would of been tested.

So it is one of those things when we won't be able to compare until down the line, and able to compare like for like.
How fast do you think America or the world will transition away from gas cars? Be realistic. Is there any way you see that happening in less than 25 years?
I lost track of which analogy is in favor of what and which is against.