skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an interesting issue to me with the idea that access to public education becoming gated upon whether or not you agree to a legal contract with a third party (Google’s TOS).

What if you don’t want to waive your civil rights in agreeing to the Google TOS and associated surveillance? You simply don’t get the tax-funded education to which you are entitled?

This is also an issue with universities switching to Zoom. Entering into an abusive, rights-waiving contract with a third party to be permitted to graduate is a terrible state of affairs.

It worries me that “just click AGREE without reading it like everybody else did” is becoming the widespread, state-demanded default throughout society.
I think that in hindsight Sweden's approach will look reasonable. The data we have now, imperfect as it is, shows that the elderly are the main risk group and therefore the ones needing special protection. The South Koreans have very good data and publish it daily. Their recent CFR numbers by age group are:

80+ 17.51%

70-79 6.77%

60-69 1.74%

50-59 0.56%

40-49 0.08%

30-39 0.10%

0-29 0%

The data from other countries matches this distribution. Keep in mind that the CFR is what we have but not the number we want. The one we want is the infection fatality rate (IFR). This is the number of deaths divided the total number of cases (not just the reported ones). The IFR numbers are likely to be lower due to the fact that widespread testing is not in place in many countries.
That assumes that this virus doesn't mutate quickly, mitigating the effectiveness of herd immunity and vaccination.
Drowning Russia in cheap oil is an old trick.
Normally I use less emphatic language. However, I looked at the submission history for the site. Of 11 articles posted to HN, every one was a copy. They've copied from NYT, bgr.com, Polygon, FT, and Fast Company. That's a lot of "licensing".

True, they were nice enough to link to the originals, but for some reason the vast majority of blogspam sites do that. Only the very bottomest of the barrel do not. I assume there's a reason for this other than invariable last-minute scruples, but who knows? Maybe an HN user knows that business and can explain.

The paywall question is a separate one, and decided here as follows: if there's a workaround, it's ok; if there's not a workaround, we bury the submission. Users usually post workarounds in the threads. The result is that more or less everyone can read more or less every submission that makes HN's front page, just with varying degrees of annoyance. I think that's the right tradeoff. The annoyance is real, but HN would be worse without links to these publications. Paywalls suck (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but this is the best we can do until the publication industry sorts itself out the way music eventually did.

All publications are biased. We're not going to ban the NYT.
> It’s not uncommon for companies to use leverage to fuel growth.

Seems true.

> High yield venture debt is often tied to growth metrics.

Seems true.

> It’s not a mistake to operate a company using venture debt.

Is this true, or might it be more accurate that particular people, depending on their situation, would like to have us believe it is true?

If a company is operating using venture debt, or operating in any arbitrary fashion for that matter, and then a disruptive incident occurs and the company's finances are insufficient to sustain itself and must shut down (in turn losing at least a significant portion of the initial investment), is it accurate to say that "no mistakes have been made"?

If the business in question then goes hat in hand to the public (whose constituents are often lectured to "save money for a rainy day", and who also have serious financial issues of their own), asking for a bailout with this story as a justification of sorts, does this not seem a little bit absurd?

Am I looking at this the wrong way, because it kind of seems counter-intuitive to me?

> In a highly competitive market, if you don’t lever up, your competitors will eat your market.

Seems true.
Third Generation Web APIs – Bridging the Gap Between REST and Linked Data [pdf]
California is about 8% of US production. Which accounts for close to half the states consumption. 197 vs 424 million barrels.

Thought of mine is as the number of electric cars increases California's oil imports will drop eventually to near zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoqHJxf8hWQ

I don't think this is the talk I was looking for, but this covers all the points in the one I was thinking about. It's kind of possible to get the DNA sequence of a lethal bacteria, and then pay some DNA synthesis company to make that DNA for you and package that into a living bacteria.

Obviously doing that will immediately trigger automated detection systems and the FBI will be scheduling a surprise birthday party for you.... but who knows how secure that system is.
Thanks for the recommendations! That's how I like to learn as well, and kind of why I started learning C in the first place. Tinkering with electronics is super fun (I think).

I actually have built the clock module from Ben Eater with the intent of building the 6502 computer project at some point in the future. I really like his stuff.
https://archive.is/ZA6zW
When comparing countries, I believe we need to compare them per capita: https://twitter.com/javierluraschi/status/124434855239588659...
Space Fence surveillance radar site declared operational
You answered your own question in the last sentence.
It feels so satisfying to be able to finally name these colors.
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I would think you could augment with other personnel - interns, students, volunteers - who are trained and who's only job is to watch the ventilator and monitor a patient. They do not try and treat a patient but call for help if the patient's condition takes a downturn or equipment shows a problem they have not been trained to address.

This is not general purpose training - but very bounded / specific notes.

That's got to be better than exhausting more vital personnel.
Hilarious! A good friend is a color designer (selects palettes for major product lines) and she will love this.
Am intrigued by the mention of "re-watches" for Arcadia. Is there some filmed production of the play which is available on video? Have never been able to find one ...
I don't know what Amazon actually does, but what I think of as normal is the customer calls the help desk and they reverse the charge. This seems simpler than worrying about how to code algorithms that will deal with all possibilities.

People make mistakes with transferring money in the millions of dollars all the time, and it's not uncommon for people to be just like "oops, back that out". It's obviously going to be in the news when that doesn't happen though.
For both Windows and Linux, you'll need to run Stubby (https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Daemon+-+...) or some other similar proxy which runs a local DNS server and proxies requests over TLS or alternative.

Android 9 and later natively supports "Private DNS" which is DNS over TLS.

All work fine with NextDNS and I have multiple profiles for each hardware I use it on. Eg, I use more block lists on my phone than my other devices.
Really? They spend 8 years learning how to operate a ventilator?

Medical professionals learn how to do their entire job in a similar time frame. Ventilator operation is surely a small part of that. I'd be astonished if it would take someone more than a week or two to learn the basic mechanics of how to use a ventilator. None of the theory or nuances, but a course that says "hook it up like this, do X, Y and Z and come get me if this or that happens".
Yeah, Greg Egan had a huge influence on me, too.
Based on what we've seen so far, electrical engineering and cardiology are significantly more rigorous than epidemiology, which appears to be more like economics or social psychology in terms of the robustness of its methods and quality of its work.
Italy has ~8000 deaths per year due to flu. For the last few days it had ~1000 deaths per day due to COVID-19. Make it what you want.
Every enterprise-friendly messaging system offers configurable retention policies. Messages involving certain roles or keywords may need to be retained for years to comply with regulations, while others can be deleted after a few days to minimize risk.
Yes it was: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ready-to...
Someone had mentioned recently that one of HN's biggest problems was overly pedantic responses get better upvotes rather than actual content. This has a caused HN to devolve into a fact correctness engine rather than a content engine. To be fair, this is something I've done in that past too.

Yes, I did use a rhetorical phrase to make a point, but one that's pretty prevalent in modern culture and especially when it comes to triage. Perhaps google phrases like "Doctors forced to play God", etc. Ironically, the first hit that comes up is this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163641/NHS-doctor-...

I really recommend that you go watch episodes of MASH from the 1980's. Particularly the episodes where the doctors have to triage cases that might be savable if they weren't in a field hospital. If the US president says we're in a war, we should all refresh ourselves up on what meatball surgery is during an actual war.
That's mostly because politicians are stupid.

This exact scenario has happened before, with masks (I think during SARS? there was an article on HN recently) - companies were ordered to produce more, then the crisis fizzled out and the orders were cancelled, making some companies almost go out of business.

Instead, politicians should simply commit to buying said quantities of widgets, and then respect those commitments regardless of the outcomes (widgets are needed or not at all). It's unfair (and sets a bad precedent) to expect companies to take the loss for public good.
Rumors were that from the first days of OS X, there was a skunk works level group at Apple ensuring Darwin compiled on Intel chips with an eye on being able to make the switch. I wouldn't place bets against the same thing being in place with ARM chips especially with Apple's ownership in the chips.
Wrong. Flattening the curve merely delays infections and does not prevent them.
It doesn't seem to work well either. It has been good for a 0.5 R-0 drop which points to other primary vectors instead of aerosols. Also it turns out if you need a ventilator you have a 95% death rate, so if the hospitals get overwhelmed the overall death toll won't be too different. If the death toll is anywhere near 100k total we trashed the economy over a bad flu. It would take 6+ months of isolation to beat the virus with quarantine measures, more than long enough to cause a wave of economic related deaths way higher than the virus. People have to get back to work.
The most commonly used epidemiological models are exponential in early phases of an outbreak, because they assume roughly constant infectiousness, up until the point where some non-negligible portion of the population has recovered and gained immunity. If the nth infected person produces as many new infections as the 1st, you get exponential growth. For example, to take a very simple version of that model: if each infected person infects R other people over some time period, and you have 1 infection at t=0, then you have R^t new infections at time step t.
I'm definitely not solving problems. I'm just writing code. And copying and pasting. And merging.
Is it though? Can't you train people on the basics of a single device as a sort of Tier-1 support with the ability to escalate to Tier-2 immediately? Governor Cuomo said in at least one briefing that they were considering training national guard troops to do exactly that.
Yes, and "consider the URL and how you got there before typing in your password or credit card" is a lot more realistic than "don't click links." Still, clicking the link fails the phishing test all by itself.
Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
Self was a project that David Unger, the author of the above cited thesis, did first at Xerox PARC, then at Stanford and then Sun Microsystems.

I think Self >> Java means that Self was better, more important, more interesting, more something than Java.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

http://www.selflanguage.org/
NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, which has won a hugo for every book in the trilogy.

Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon and Who Fears Death are also excellent books.

I also highly recommend Jeff Vandermeer's Sourthern Reach trilogy, of which the first book Annihilation was adapted into a movie.
There's no "free market" in healthcare; it's one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the economy. It's a known side-effect of regulation that big and politically-connected firms are advantaged over smaller and leaner ones, market power tends to increase in lockstep with the regulatory burden, and a lot of price gouging becomes feasible that wouldn't occur in a more contestable environment.
TLDR

"Every state and society faces serious challenges. The difference lies in whether the underlying structures are healthy enough to effectively respond to those challenges. Successful states and societies are resilient when faced with even serious challenges. Falling empires are not."

"All empires think they’re special, but all empires eventually come to an end. The United States won’t be an exception.

The popular story version of this particular falling empire might focus on a twice-divorced serial philanderer and bullshit artist and make him the villain, rendering his downfall or ultimate triumph the climax of the narrative. But it’s far more likely that the real meat of the issue will be found in a tax code full of sweetheart deals for the ultra-wealthy, the slashed budgets of county public health offices, the lead-contaminated water supplies. And that’s to say nothing of the decades of pointless, self-perpetuating, and almost undiscussed imperial wars that produce no victories but plenty of expenditures in blood and treasure, and a great deal of justified ill will."
Per the Details page:

"You can connect with any satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO) operating in X-band and S-band frequencies, including: S-band uplink and downlink, X-band narrowband and wideband downlink."
Ask any doc if they want 4th year medical students to help in the ICU with COVID-19 patients and they will say “No, they would most likely be a hindrance rather than help”. If a 4th year medical student can’t help, then why do you suppose somebody with zero training would?
No. It all depends on mass testing.

If mass testing is adopted, it would surface the asymptomatic carriers.

In addition, it would allow the creation of "clean" zones (.e.g on flights/buses) where you would need to prove that you are clean.

So, once the virus cannot "hide", and R0 is bought down to below 1, you would actually see the rate of infection crash to zero (I.e. the exponential rate works both ways).

To sum up, as long as there is no vaccine, it all depend on mass testing.
Zorba the Greek - this book is an enjoyable, seemingly light read but a beautiful contrast of intellectual understanding, and wisdom that's made manifest through living. Thought vs action.

The author is a "philosopher" who finds the company of Zorba and sees in this simple man the result of the philosophy in everyday living.

Zorba is uneducated and is unable to explain the why in meta physical arguments but to the author he seems to be effortlessly living the truth that the author is an "expert" in but unable to emulate.

It affected me because I identified with being a "seeker" and a "philosopher" and this made me realize that understanding something intellectually is very different than being able to use/live it. That I wasn't somehow "superior" because of the thoughts in my head.
Show HN: Heatflask Animated Movement Geo-Viz app
The news portion of NYT does not have a severe political bias, and they obviously don't license their content to dynuz.com.
Hi HN people, what's up. I'm new here and this is my first post!

I've been working on an app for a while and I think it's ready for
you all to check out. It started out as a way to learn web-dev but it's developed into a nice little project that could become a product.
https://www.heatflask.com

In basic terms it is a visualization app for movement data that presents a new way to look at Strava users' recorded runs/cycling/etc. It demonstrates what I call a semi-static representation of an entity's location function. Sort of a spacetime heatmap or something.

Suppose you could observe several versions of yourself: Yourself now, 1 minute ago, one minute before that, and so on, all at the same time, so that there are multiple copies of yourself, each one minute apart -- all existing in parallel. Then your entire recorded location history could be represented as a one minute loop. My app gives a glimpse into that representation, and you can even make a little gif to share on social media.

I am working to add more features and have some ideas about where I want it to go. As of now I have a few thousand users, mostly in Japan for some reason. Check it out and let me know what you think!
> Control for monetary expansion, and the US Government's portion of the economy has been steadily shrinking.

What? No it hasn't. It has kept pace with GDP since the end of WWII (prior to WWII it was much smaller), and the rate of GDP growth is higher than the rate of inflation. The size of government in the US has been growing continuously in real terms since before Eisenhower.
In another interview, the Scientist Ron Fouchier, said: "that GOF experiments are the only way to learn crucial information on what makes a flu virus a pandemic candidate.", I would like to know if he was able to predict COVID-19 and how he is really using his gained knowledge on H5N1 to fight COVID-19?
Covid – Donate to Egypt to manufacture ventilators
It has nowhere near a 50% mortality rate, luckily.
All of the above, Life and Fate is essential, but also add
Middlemarch: George Eliot - grown up problems, don't lie, be careful around money
Bleak House: Charles Dickens - avoid lawyers, don't let money get to you

More left field - Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend - consistency is over-rated; any Houllebecq - keep thinking; Quartered safe out here - George McDonald Fraser - generation close to ours, but war-time experience like soldiers for the last 2000 years.
I thought this was an April fools joke once I clicked on the link. The bandwidth they are operation on (54 MHz) is ridiculous though! Truly sci-fi-ish stuff going on here. Also, did Amazon build this from scratch or did they acquire a company that had the basic infra for this kind of stuff?
Developing countries won't want to wait to access verified Covid-19 therapies
I worked at a company that with a fleet of microsatellites that also built and managed our own network of groundstations. The costs of groundstations can definitely add up. Scouting for locations with good RF properties takes a lot of long flights, weird dealings with customs (RF equipment is questioned heavily). Then you have to find a site to host it, maybe ask them to beef up their security, construction to support your hardware once it gets above a certain size (dishes and radomes for S and X band comms), network connections and redundant network connections, and a team of people to manage and coordinate all of it. It's certainly its own undertaking and could easily be outsourced to a service with the right specs. Whether AWS's offering here will rise to meet that is yet to be seen.
There's a lot of better stuff out there than Red Rising. It's very stilted, the characters are flat, and the story is predictable.
I actually don't think deep analyses comparing covid to flu are outright bs, even if I'm skeptical covid could have such a low death rate. Reading a lot, I've generally come to the conclusion that IFR of covid-19 is under an order of magnitude higher than flu, even if likely considerably higher (my guess above is 7x, could be as low as 5x). Regardless, the pandemics speed is a huge problem which can overwhelm hospitals.

The only data broad enough to predict true cases is Diamond Princess or perhaps Iceland where you've had enormous testing. Even on Diamond Princess, you have 10/712 infections resulting in death which is worse than flu (for this population), but not 10x as bad. Iceland has 2 deaths and 25 hospitalized against 500+ cases 1.5w ago, suggestive of a sub 1% CFR.

Additionally, flu CFR is reduced by targetted vaccination of the most vulnerable people (demographics of who get infected are more likely to survive than general population).
A person might aspire to be responsible for a bill like that, but that doesn't make it ethical or good business for Amazon to refuse to waive or reduce it.

Familiar with The Merchant of Venice?
I hope that we some day have competent, completely arms length people perform a proper systems analysis and produce competent, evidence-based recommendations, and then we implement those (because done correctly, these recommendations should be as close to the gold standard as humanity is currently capable of), plus, and extra say 0.5% skim off the top that goes into a kitty for a rainy day.

Why this seems like too much to ask (or even consider!) is another one of those things that I "just don't get".
heard about EVE online? Not sure about currency itself but markets are really players driven
DonHopkins says >"There would never be an "Escalator Temporarily Out of Order" sign. Only "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry For The Convenience."<

I've encountered such a sign!

Problem is that stopped escalators cause certain cognitive problems: some unconscious part of the brain anticipates that the escalator _will_ work and attempts to compensate appropriately as you put your foot onto the step. It is not uncommon for someone to stumble or even fall when they take their first step onto a stopped escalator.

A similar sensation can occur as you're scrolling while browsing, when the page hits an upper/lower limit and ceases to scroll. The brain anticipates that the text will continue to scroll but it doesn't, and that causes an "upset" sensation, a dissonance, if you will, that actually hurts somewhat! It feels as if your eyes are crossing!
Search for Scanimate on YT, that's the name of the machine used to produce most TV logos in the 70s and early 80s, it's an analog synth for graphics basically.
> NextDNS is also further away, meaning there will be much more latency for all your DNS queries. It is usually best to run your own resolver, or have a local DNS server in your network.

But your local PI resolver would likely have to pass on your request to an upstream DNS server if it isn't cached. Although its negligible, this extra hop would add latency. This is assuming the result isn't in the OS or browser DNS cache.
Because you won't be able to break out Covid-19 caused deaths from the aggregate.
That's great to hear! I've been a long time user and never had a single issue with it. Autofill would be great!

Do you know why the Play Store description says that it is no longer maintained? Is the app being published somewhere else?
I read all three of these in college and I know Demian and Glass Bead Game meant a lot to me. You should check out Siddhartha.
I think the question is: "What CAN he buy with that amount of cash?"
Anything by Vonnegut is worth a look
I loved The Dispossessed, as a teenager. Had a huge influence on me.
I don't know about that. If I'm making breakfast and can see a screen, both narration and visuals are useful. I think that's why Google and Amazon came out with device assistants that have screens
5 and 6 are bizarre; not only do they read like action thrillers, they almost seem to contradict the whole message behind the Golden Path. The series should absolutely have ended with God Emperor (my personal favorite, followed by the original)
The Remote Freelancer: A list of remote work resources
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493240