skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicides is certainly the most obvious and explicit way to measure loss of life from the 2008 recession, but it's certainly not the whole story. Overdose deaths (70,000+ in 2018 in the US), and other addiction-related deaths are probably significantly exasperated by economic crisis.

I'm not arguing that the deaths from the virus won't outnumber deaths related to the quarantine, but they will be significant. They will also be much more likely to involve younger people whereas the virus is mostly killing people who are within a 10 years of reaching the average life expectancy for their country or above.
But how do they remain in business? I'm interested in knowing how say, Jitsi, earns money off of it.
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The important claim in the article is that Germany started testing early and on a large scale. That can happen either top down or when disparate authorities agree to coordinate their response.

It's also worth noting that in the 5 days since that article, the number of deaths in Germany appears to have quadrupled. There's also:

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-to-centralize-supp...
It’s an amazing product.

I cannot afford the price tag. I wonder how many more people would buy it if it was just a little bit cheaper.
Big Omniplan fan.
We've been down this road before, quite a few times. Once the crisis ends, everyone quickly returns to their old ways. I'm not that hopeful for a permanent shift away from disposable everything.
If you don't stop that right now, so help me, I'm going to turn this car around...
> There's just no plausible way that a recession following this pandemic will kill more folks than the pandemic itself will, not even close.

You're unfortunately very far off in that claim about risk as it pertains to economy. Suicides are a small component of economic risk factors.

For example, if you miscalculate what you're doing in India in managing people and the functioning of the economy through this, you could cause famine and kill millions of people.

A story from Bloomberg covering the food supply deprivation beginning in India:

> ‘We Will Starve Here’: India’s Poor Flee Cities in Mass Exodus

http://archive.is/rusMy
I think Omni Group's locked down to Apple is a mistake. As a iPad Pro/iPhone user I wish to buy their products but as a Windows/Linux desktop user the lack of cross-platform support is a huge dealbreaker.
I doubt this.

"After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline."

It seems to have been a problem for some time.
> Auto-dial systems will route the call to a person when they get a "live" response. I don't know the criteria but I'm pretty sure it's them detecting noise on the call (which could be voicemail).

I work with phone systems. It's usually determined by how long they hear a continuous sound at the start of a call. If it's relatively short (and it can be adjusted by settings), it assumes it's a live voice (like someone saying "Hello?" is usually pretty short). If it's continuous for a certain period of time, it assumes it's a voicemail.

For our speech applications we have different behaviors depending on which call disposition is detected (that's the term for this, also determines things like invalid phone numbers).

Sometimes when testing speech applications I'll pick up and scratch the receiver continuously or speak without taking a pause until the voicemail disposition is triggered so I can test a voicemail message without having to check voicemail.

We make these calls on behalf of health insurance companies for health reminders and surveys, so our calls are more legitimate than most, but we do use an autodialer to reduce the load on our live agents.
FWIW, a quick Google tells me that the obesity rate in Germany is higher than it is in the US.

I didn't down-vote you, though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Germany

I suppose it's possible that the WHO and the CDC use different BMI thresholds, though.
I read this and my first question was "Why?"

He has a previous post titled "Thinking psycopg3" that shed some light on the issue: https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/03/06/thinking-psycopg3/

- Query parameters adaption

- Context managers and transactions

- Optional C module (i.e. reduce requirements)

- Async from the ground up

- Resolve other outstanding issues

Reading that post first went a long way toward giving me some context to understand this one.
this is mostly due online anonymity. or being confident you will remain so. a person who displays these traits in real life has bigger issues.
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Or you can bring in highly educated and highly motivated immigrants at almost $0 cost to your taxpayers. It's just the cost of vetting and processing applications. You also have the benefit of only getting the good eggs with few to none of the bad eggs. It's almost certain that H1Bs and other skill-based visas have a much much higher rate of return.
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> Croatia is ranked number one by Oxford for government responses to the epidemic: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-c....

It's ranked as number one in stringency of response - they explicitly say it's not to be interpreted as a rating of the appropriateness or effectiveness of a country's response.
This has been some of the most interesting data to look at in this whole season. I'm not sure whether I'm right in feeling bolstered by what it's saying but it seems that in most areas, the "measured fever" population is on par or lower than expected -for totally normal situations?- since "social distancing" has been encouraged.

Even if I'm way off in interpreting that trend line, it sure takes the edge off to see someone point the trend line down-and-to-the-right for once
Sometimes it's best to stick to what you do well and do it really well. The market for their product is very different on the Windows side.
OmniWeb was my favorite browser when it was around.
The combination of the batteries in my phone and my laptop is clearly more capacious than the battery in the laptop alone.
The "free market" response would be something like "when there's a shortage of them".

But in fact, it's misleading to call them "contractors". Back in the day, they would have been called "temps".
Or even youtube. The site gives you zero ability to manage your subscriptions in a reasonable fashion so you're best off just watching whatever it thinks you should watch. I've resorted to bookmarks over subscriptions because it's a better user interface than what the site gives me.
I assume that 30 years of research has taught them that they won't get double the customers at half of the price.
What exactly.... are you trying to say here? Jeeze.
Why are they quarantining people because they may have been in contact with the virus but did not quarantine people they know were in contact with the virus?
Those people can search it up, rather than being told about "Apple's proprietary MacOS [sic] operating system".
What if the to the company is unprofitable, as many companies choose to be while growing? No one is allowed to be sick?
Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum est.' That's it for that poem but he wrote more.
@leifdreizler on twitter! LinkedIn is also fine but I don't check it as regularly
Seems like a great opportunity to build a Windows alternative. Omni software is deeply Mac, using Mac UX/UI components that don't exist elsewhere. If they GTK/QT/JSed it, it wouldn't be Omni and it wouldn't be worth $50-$250 a pop.
Isn't /usr/local/bin first on $PATH?
With a creative dialplan design one could do this with a private Asterisk installation (asterisk is behind so many of these cheap disposable phone number/voip providers anyway), though I suppose if one wanted to use someone else’s platform and infrastructure it’d be probably less effort with twilio or plivo
> There is no coming back from a major across-the-board paycut

What do you mean?
Tried Japanese eggplants but didn't enjoy them. Don't love eggplants in general either. I might try okra though. We have kids so anything that gets past them is favoured; they eat a lot of spinach and spring onions at least. Potatoes are obviously trivial, but they're so cheap to buy I figure it's barely worth tying up a garden bed for them.

Currently growing beans, tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce, spinach, coriander, garlic, carrots, spring onions, rocket/arugula, chilli, chives, strawberries, basil, oregano, snow peas, sugar snaps, etc.
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My mom she has a Honda Jazz and the UI is one oft the most terrible from all cars I have seen so far.
A few things at least like Audio volume, some radio channels and temperature should have hardware knobs or buttons, so I easy can change it without looking on the screen.
Then also should be a place under the screen where i can rest my hand (like has something, at least in a new car I drove recently), so I can touch the screen with a single finger multiple times on the same spot without looking on the screen.
This article is a good summary of the various factors:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11755264/why-is-gas-so-expensive-i...
This is the time to fill every strategic petroleum reserve in the world [0] to the top. And then double capacity and fill again. I'm sure there are some unintended consequences to doing this, anyone care to weigh in on pros and cons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_strategic_petroleum_res...
>So it favors popularity over accuracy. So what?

As the defacto front page to the internet, it is aeguably in society's best interest for search results to return more than SEO spam and ads.

I think the modern state of Google is a huge disservice to civilization, compared to what it was and could be. By prioritizing popularity it reduces the majority of search queries to the lowest common denominator and encourages shallow, non-technical culture.

I think what we're seeing in the refinement algorithm is a regression to the layman's mean, so to speak, as they tune (train?) The algorithm to work better for the majority of their users, who happen to be non-technical.

But when you excessively dumb down technology you reduce incentive for people to learn anything and, more importantly here, the dumbing down means showing entertainment and SEO results over possibly more technical content.

Personally I find it disheartening when I search for technical words and the only results are celebrities or media.
I know it's relative but I don't think their product is expensive since it's a one time fee. I think I paid $99 once but don't recall exactly. Especially if you intend to use it regularly. I think most updates you get for free. But maybe for major updates you need to pay extra. Not sure.
Apparently they are working on the web version of OmniFocus.
> I strongly recommend looking up the word "bias" in the dictionary.

From the fist Google result [1], "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair." Representation is not mentioned at all.

> Systemic and institutional bias in tech hiring isn't disproven by of the existence of female-dominated fields. Yes, some fields are female dominated while others are male-dominated. (Such a revelation!)

The point is, do you think it's valid to say that female dominated fields are biased against men with no evidence for bias aside from the disparity in representation? This is what it seems like you're claiming when you write that underrepresentation relative to the population is the same thing as bias.

> It sounds like you're angling for the "male nurses are oppressed by the matriarchy!" trope, or some kind of gender essentialist nonsense.

I agree, concluding that male nurses are subject to bias just because they're substantially outnumbered by female nurses is incorrect. But you wrote "underrepresentation of the population is literally the definition of bias." Well, male nurses are substantially underrepresented. If underrepresentation relative to the population is "literally the definition of bias" then it's hard to argue that male nurses aren't subject to bias when they are unambiguously underrepresented.

The point is not that male nurses are oppressed - the point is that they aren't oppressed and thus your definition is wrong. Underrepresentation is not bias. An institution can exactly representative of the general population but also immensely biased - like a tech company that threw out 3/4th of male applicants to make tech roles 50% women - and it can be not at all representative of the population and not biased at all - like a hospital that hires 90% female nurses because nurses are 90% women. Prejudice in favor or against one group can occur or not occur regardless of representation relative to the population.

1. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/bias
I have noticed that adept software developer's can be more patient with tools that require fiddling, especially if the fiddling feels like challenging but rewarding puzzle solving in a sea of powerful options.

Unproductivity that feels viscerally very productive.

Alternatively, command line tools tend to be created and increase the productivity of the more technically inclined, but are opaque to the less technical.

Which effect is the GibbonsRCool's Law? Or both? GibbonsRCool's Laws of Skill Drag and Acceleration?
Our shop is probably ~700 devs. I lead one little team as a dev.

Here’s what the late projects look like:

No project kickoff with the business and architecture. High visibility. Deadlines coming from people outside my hierarchy, with no explanation around who did it or why. Massive, massive scope increases. Estimates turned into “commitments” by my manager. Stress and pressure put down onto to team. The c-levels peering in. The team stressing out about the pressure. Managers creating more stress while I’m trying to promote can-do comrade and keep the morale up, even though I stress-drink at night.

We missed our deadline today too. The business is in an arm wrestle to operate more like them, which we would call waterfall.

But like my therapist said, who used to work in IT: “A deadline is missed. A cloud passes by. A squirrel climbes up a tree.”

I need to keep with my chill self, know for myself personally that I bust ass, and gladly accept that corporate compensation.
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> Perhaps more. It’s a matter of comparing all users of Dark Sky, including via the API and on Android, against the user base of iOS.

Not disagreeing with the following paragraph, but GP specifically asked about "access", and all of these iOS users already had access to Dark Sky; this strictly decreases access, even if more people end up using it.
Yes that is the joke.
The first and best microwave I ever had simply had a dial, a cook button, and an open button: that's it. The more you turned the dial, the longer your food would cook, and the hotter it would get. That's all you needed to know or do. And you could even turn it back or forth while it is microwaving, to change the time after you start, or finish cooking immediately. But it's almost impossible to find one with a dial, now.

Microwaves with digital keypads are terrible, even with those "convenient" +10 sec / +1 min / hot dog / peep buttons, you still have to hit a little target you can't feel, instead to twisting a big knob you can.

Entering time by touching digital buttons isn't a rapid, reversible, and incremental action with continuous feedback -- i.e. "direct manipulation", like turning a dial is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_manipulation_interface
I'm willing to bet the name "Great Horned Owl" was purposeful for a vehicle where quiet is a priority. Owls have feathers which make them essentially silent in flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJyfA
Trump Encourages Makeshift Masks. But that didn't work in 1918 San Francisco.
Thanks for this comment - it sent me down an interesting rabbit hole.

Sure enough - oil is approximately 85% carbon by mass. A barrel of oil weighs around 140kg, and so contains about 120kg of carbon. Carbon dioxide is 27% carbon by mass, so that barrel of oil, when oxidized, will end up as 440kg of CO2. So 1 tonne of CO2 is 2.3 barrels of oil, which would cost you.... under $30

For comparison, to sequester it after burning would cost probably closer to $100 [1]

I guess this is a long winded way to say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[1] https://energypost.eu/10-carbon-capture-methods-compared-cos...
The Amazon app lets me register for push messages when products become available. Why wouldn't I just use that?
I feel you are splitting hairs here. Lie detection is necessarily a part of interrogation. The references say they can do this, and have been interested in doing it, so why wouldn't they be using it? The nature of intelligence agencies demands a certain degree of secrecy/anonymity and conjecture. One author of the fourth paper, though never directly researching military or government applications, moved from the U.S. to Canada in large part due to the appropriation and funding from the military for his research.

If you allow an argument from authority of the practical use in counter terrorism interrogation, see the works of bioethicist Jonathan Marks https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MpKuUlkAAAAJ&hl=en who in his 2007 paper cites "Correspondence between a[n anonymous] U.S. counterintelligence liaison officer and Jean Maria Arrigo" (2002-2005) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Maria_Arrigo :

> Brain scan by MRI/CAT scan with contrast along with EEG tests by doctors now used to screen terrorists like I suggested a long time back. Massive brain electrical activity if key words are spoken during scans. The use of the word SEMTEX provided massive brain disturbance. Process developed by NeuroPsychologists at London’s University College and Mossad. Great results. That way we only apply intensive interrogation techniques to the ones that show reactions to key words given both in English and in their own language.

[Military interrogation takes two forms, Tactical Questioning or Detailed Interviewing. Tactical Questioning is the initial screening of detainees, Detailed Interviewing is the more advanced questioning of subjects.]

Note that I did not even make the stronger claim of decades of applied usage -- that you are making me defend and invalidate my references with -- just that it was decades underway. But above quote should satisfy even that.
Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, created a CAD system for microelectronics with a tiny fraction of code that mainstream products required.

With our bloated stacks, the most used CPU instructions that our binaries use are the ones moving data. We are not using the computers to compute, but just to move data around. That just feels wrong. K, APL, Forth and the likes are living proofs that there are other ways to solve complex problems.
I think the benefit here is to be able to build and fly an electric drone without going knee deep into battery issues.
According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die per day due to poverty. That's over 8 million per year. And that's just children while poverty has been the lowest it has ever been. What do you think is going to happen in developing countries in the next few years? Absolute mortality will likely be around 1% or less once you take into account all those that are asymptomatic and much of this 1% would die in the next decade due to old age and co-morbidities.

If poverty doubles (very probable) and the number of children dying dies as a result, it will take 9.5 years just to reach the death toll in children alone. Once you factor adults as well, I wouldn't be surprised if the economic fallout causes more deaths than this flu in less than 5 years.

These countries will also never catch up to where they otherwise would have been, so the additional incremental deaths due to the economic fallout will persist in perpetuity.
Thanks Don for that mention of the old paper, which is still on the right track. My new paper appeared on line Friday and will be temporarily freely accessible:

> Shneiderman, Ben (2020). Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Reliable, Safe & Trustworthy, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction,36, 6 (Published Online March 27, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1741118

I have spent a year developing these ideas, but the evolution was dramatic, based on thoughtful feedback from the 25+ people mentioned in the Acknowledgements. Speaking at U-W, Stanford, UBC, NSF & ONR and elsewhere helped repeatedly reshape my arguments. All that commentary added to the journal editors’ confidence that this was an important paper, so they fast tracked reviews & production and gave it priority in the publication queue. Please send this link around to your colleagues, where appropriate.

Feedback welcome... Stay healthy... Ben
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They are doing well enough that they confidently use their excess ICU capacity to help other countries.
Some discussion on Reddit about this - https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/fsgj3x/an_upcoming_...
Why don't you use something else?

Because, most (all?) of those other languages fall into one of three traps, they also have a lot of undefined behaviors, they define the behaviors in ways that don't reduce actual programming bugs (javascript!), or they have so rigorously defined the language with underlying assumptions (say a really strong memory model, signaling NaN, overflow exceptions, etc) that the performance is sub-optimal on any platform that doesn't exactly fit the expected machine description.

Really, C isn't hard if you burn your copy of K&R and stop trying to be so damn clever. It also turns out to be a lot more readable, if a bit more verbose, if one ignores a lot of its "features" and pretends its pascal with a single statement, without side effects per line. That includes using pointers in any kind of arithmetic (or type casting), instead using them only as though they were C++ references. (and a few other basic rules).

So, while I don't think rust is a particularly good language, I'm also starting to think that everyone should be forced to use it early in their career so they are forced to consider object ownership and lifetime in a rigorous way. Then when they move to C/C++/etc they wont be foot-gunning themselves at every turn.
It’s out and has been for a while, but it’s not a standalone product.[1] You need to set up your database in one of the apps, and some functionality is not implemented (yet).

[1]: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/web
See also: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/worl...

Put together the suicides (which could be worse this time with so many people trapped at home), domestic abuse, drug addiction, and worldwide starvation, and it adds up to a lot of lives. That’s just what I’m halfway confident about so far.
Also if there is ever a doomsday scenario where we lose our capacity to manufacture solar cells and other renewable generators, extra oil could be really useful for jump starting manufacturing.
Great advice, just a few weeks too late for me. Looking at the available mid to high end usb webcams in stock now shows everything out of stock and backordered. Looks like I'll have to make do with a built-in laptop camera and a headset microphone if/when I get that YC interview.

Thesr work at home directives really depleted all existing stock of good webcams...

Over 50% markup for nice webcams on eBay, yeesh.
Presumably the rear-facing LiDAR sensor in the new iPads as well, and I suspect those are basically a developer preview for the iPhone 12 Pro hardware so that improved ARKit apps can be ready for the fall