skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not be surprised if fatalities overall remain flat due to lowered activity. That doesn't mean they would not explode without them. Germany is an outlier, not the norm as basically all statistics we have at this point indicate. I agree that Germany needs a different course of action than other countries, but I don't think that is widely applicable.

Milan was not overwhelmed by influenza, that is just an Italian title, which is full of energy/exaggeration as usual. The article talks of 48 cases, which is a far cry from the 40,000+ they have in that region now.

Frankly, anybody peddling that a crushing blow to the world economy is conspiracy to get a little more funding for one sector should be discredited whoever they are. That is ludicrous. There is far to much avarice in too many competing sectors, just for starters. And scientists are not that cutthroat as a group.

I think you misinterpret the last link you posted. He does not advocate for doing nothing, but for quickly gathering data and changing our tactics as new information comes in, since there are risks both in quarantine and in not quarantining. I think everyone agrees with this and it is actually what all countries are doing. Even Italy is reevaluating their quarantine measures weekly, etc.

I do agree with you that the economic risk is enormous, and I am unconvinced that my business will exist when I can work again. But at the same time there is nothing to say what we did in the face of illness before this quarantine was human or correct. I think we are too callous about "normal" annual deaths from other causes and if anything comes from this massive effort, I hope it is an awareness of these other causes of death and funding and concrete action going towards them. It's no conspiracy to recognize that investing in better health of the population by effective, concrete steps to guarantee and promote diet, exercise, etc would be a worthwhile item to invest far more resources to than we currently do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-gates-heres-how... would be the better link, no?
A Deepness in the Sky
Could it be that as you become richer, regulations and centralized actions tend to disproportionally benefit you more?
I can't seem to download it ;P
1. Lawyers are not just about legality, they are trained negotiators and thinking in contract laws.

2. The manager potentially has/can get negotiation training, you have to pay out of your own pocket for yours.

3. The power dynamic is usually not in your favor, as long as unemployment is above zero in your specific field, it can never be in your favor.
I have my doubts about (accusations of) plagiarism being an issue, and even more so w.r.t. copyright. The first usually involves copying of "larger" features, such as storylines. If the model manages to do that, it would actually be quite impressive. The latter would involve wholesale copying of paragraphs, something that I haven't seen happening with any models.

But I'd be careful about the danger of something like this reproducing stereotypes–especially those that might have become less acceptable over the last two decades or so but may linger in training texts older than that.

It isn't far from the owl/wizard example to every banker being "Mr. Rosenberg", for example.
I understand full well what it means, but if you have no limits on how these stores operate and everyone congregating at them, you’re undercutting a lot of your response. See also how businesses are skirting the limits and lobbying behind the scenes about essential vs non-essential work.
It is the same here in many states, though I don't think a occupation limit has been imposed federally
I mean, he's probably also capable of living in indefinite isolation at Xanadu 2, protected with his family from the virus. I'm content to take his counsel at face value on this one.

The real issue is that the US doesn't have a safety net for either scenario— whether dying of poverty or plague, you and your indiegogo page are pretty much on your own. Perhaps other countries have found it easier to stomach national shutdowns because they understood that it would be hard, but the people would ultimately be taken care of.
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I agree with your general point. We don't value time savings enough. However, I'd offer a few observations.

A lathe does what a lathe does every time. Even if the company goes out of business, there will be parts available for it for a while. No one at the lathe company can decide that it will stop performing feature X because it isn't popular or make enough money.

This leads into the second point. Companies (and individuals) have become fearful of external dependencies. So they push for FOSS so that they can avoid lock-in. Or they adopt an "invent here" mentality. Look at how many technology projects Google has cancelled despite the fact that they have infinite money.
Adult content - is this

* Just porn
* Erotic content (eg lingerie shops)
* Any sexual content (eg Wikipedia article on anal sex)
* Or also e.g. medically relevant (sex ed, abortion provider sites, ...)
* Gore, violence, videos of people dying ...
* Information on or shops for drugs
* Content on terrorism, weapons, manuals to build bombs
* Content on Al Qaeda, Scientology and other extreme/dangerous religious stuff
* ...

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Abuse can come with gaslighting and control of communication, so the abused may not trust that the alternative is better, or have the ability to get help quickly enough and permanently enough to avoid retaliation.
It fails to capture the exponential nature of the possible disease spread, and while disgusting, pee in the pool isn't actually dangerous, but it does get the idea across that you can't confine things where you don't have walls to confine them, which is the main point. As metaphors go, it's not terrible, since we're short on metaphors that do capture the exponential nature.
why the hell is this guy even talking? who cares about bill gates and his opinion.

leave us alone bill.
Khan Academy has some good personal finance videos. I really appreciated the videos on the US income tax system, as it explains very well how the system is progressive.
He’s also old and if 2mn Americans die he could easily be one of them
I won't rule it out completely. AI works by training on a large corpus of data, so some of that will be reflected in generated text.

However, the algorithm does not copy stuff verbatim from the corpus, but uses its "learning" (in the Machine Learning" sense.

So, generally one should be safe. Doing a quick check is recommended if you are using substantial portions as is.

Using a proper noun is completely fine though.
He has the credibility of keeping himself informed and of acting on that information using his own money.
Yes. The pint is that all creatures build and maintain things. It is human bias that leads us to believe a skyscraper is unnatural and a beaver dam or reef natural
I was assuming the station already paid for the gas...I think it depends on whether that's true or not.
> photon-based internet like network

If propagation delay is the concern (talking about high frequency) then electrons over copper do a better job than photons over fiber. (grain of salt, future dedicated photonic interconnect may have better performance).

> Our brain is much more powerful than current processor

Again, if we're talking about frequency (30GHz, 1THz) the brain is faster due to the way it's organized not because it operates at high frequencies.

> Even 1THz is possible with modern tech [...] super fast single-atom processors

Not in any meaningful way and we certainly aren't anywhere near "single-atom processors".

Perhaps your comment meant to say that sometime in the future we won't need high frequency because we'll change the way we design processors, not that we can build 1THz CPUs because our brain is more powerful then them.

It's possible to do a lot with "modern technologies", even cure cancer or solve world hunger etc., we just either haven't actually found a way to do some of those things, or at least not a feasible, useful way. This renders the statement a bit meaningless. We've had THz transistors for a decade now. There are dozens of reasons you don't see them in general purpose CPUs though.
> "Private companies can’t take that kind of risk, but the federal government can. It’s a great sign that the administration made deals this week with at least two companies to prepare for vaccine manufacturing. I hope more deals will follow," he added.

I assume this is Gates trying to bait Trump and his handlers into making this all a 'Greatest deal in the world!' ego massage for the one person both legally capable yet emotionally incapable of acting.
I don't think that professionals are likely to loan their tools to friends nor do I think they consider that option when they decide if they will buy a tool. It's tools that make their jobs easier or possible.
I use OBS to record training videos for our engineers. I used QuickTime for a while, but jumped ship when QuickTime crashed and ate an hour-long session, with no recoverable backup.
I tried to understand what IPFS is - it looks like that distributed file storage project from pre-bitcoin era but with added blockchain on top. So my question is - can you delete a file from this system?
he's spent years fighting with polio. i'd say he's way more qualified to say that than you're qualified to say he isn't.
> My response to picking up a number is to answer the call and say nothing. 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 do the same thing. I moved and my old number is forwarded through google voice. Everytime i get a call from my old area code I know it is a neighbor spam call as no one calls me from that area code anymore.

It's gotten so bad i let my calls go to voicemail now.
I use whereby too. It's great.
Because the officials have done such a great job so far?

Bill Gates has literally been warning us about this for years.
What kind of camera are you using?
Just wanted to let you know that Google Translate is really funny sometimes.

The /de/ page translates "fork away" with "weggabeln" which is really not what you meant (although it is really really funny).

A better translation would be "erstellen Sie Ihren eigenen Fork".
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a shutdown will help with initial prevention of transmission, once that has been achieved you can end the shutdown but you will still need people to wear masks to prevent a secondary flare up. in places such as Korea, wearing a mask is common anyway so changing that behaviour is not necessary. you try getting America to adopt facemasks overnight and it will likely fail, it will take weeks before you see any fall in infections relying solely on the adoption of face masks.
1.1.1.2 is no more confusing than 1.1.1.1 to someone who has no idea what dns is. Both are completely meaningless.
He totally saw this coming from a mile away and actively tried to warn the world about it. Years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI
I suppose it's to be expected that disdain for the well-being of the economy at large is much higher among people who are comfortable. The people who go online to post memes about how "I'm not going to die to save the Dow Jones Industrial Average!" are generally less likely to be among the 3 million who applied for unemployment benefits last week, and a lockdown is much more fun from the grounds one of your sprawling mansions than from a tiny ill-maintained NYCHA apartment with restless kids.
I'd love to hear the pros/cons of filtering adult content at the DNS resolver level. I'm assuming the (current) lack of whitelists, along with a black-box algorithm to decide what constitutes adult content, reduces the usefulness.
Sadly, the trend for browsers to bypass system-level DNS resolution in favor of DNS-over-HTTPS means this kind of filtering is quickly becoming obsolete.
The Zoom client has had multiple problems, here's another article about it:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/

I now see senators in my country holding meetings over Zoom and it's horrifying.

I've been avoiding most things Google, but these days I don't have a problem with colleagues using Google's Meet, because honestly I trust Google more than Zoom. Skype is another popular option.

This is a wasted opportunity for a solution like Signal.org to provide support for e2e group video calls. I'm guessing it's not easy to implement.
Did he do more in that effort than play the role of the big wallet?
This is ignorant. The country is the size of a continent. Each subregion should be managed based on current and developing conditions, density of population, weather conditions, etc. Some states have zero deaths, presently and only a few dozen cases. Even China didn't shut down the whole country. Masks and fever checks along with testing should be enough to slow the spread without triggering Great Depression 2.
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https://imagine27.com/error-handling-or-the-emporors-old-clo...
There are lists of such domains, like in Adblock
The comment I replied to was "isolate and self-quarantine". You're talking about self-quarantine, but isolate sounds more like a preventative step.
The leader of the free world is still coming to terms with the economic damage on the horizon, not to mention there will be nothing left of his personal brand once / if he does the right thing.

As with climate change, the solution has been broadsided by petty politics.
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He is the second-richest person in the world and has virtually nothing to lose from a nationwide shutdown or the unpredictable cascading effects that will come from it. The other 327 million people have a lot to lose.
What has the world come to if this mess is considered easier than writing some nested html tags? (Perhaps I'm not plugged into the SPA scene well enough to appreciate this project. I hope it is useful to some.) In fact, reading the examples made me check to see if the first commit to this project was today, April Fools...
Error Handling or the Emperor's Old Clothes
Yeah, module signing but not turned on by any distro. I can't even imagine not having driver signing on windows in 2020. There is IMA in Linux too. Even package signing barely started catching up in the last few years on most non-mainstream distros. It's practically unthinkable to have script signing too.
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maybe your question should be why the media broadcasting his opinion? you are directing your hatred at him but he didn't put his opinion in front of you, he didn't ask you to care about it. stop letting the media push you about.
He runs the largest private foundation in the world. A part of their work is combating infectious diseases. Disregarding his informed opinion because of his wealth is petty.
1) Bill Gates doesn't have any governmental power - he's stating his opinion and hoping it will be heeded.
2) Bill Gates probably knows better than most medical doctors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
Maybe... hell of a due diligence though. These guys are digging deep into the fine print.
One of the characteristics of an exponential spread is that you will be either behind or ahead. If it seems like nobody is at "just right", it's because "just right" is an exponentially small target.

I would suggest cutting people some slack in both directions.

(It wasn't that long ago when our government was being criticized as moving too fast and xenophobically shutting the borders before it was justified. Moving back and forth between "too far ahead" and "too far behind" is also a thing that will continue to happen.)
Why would someone call “InPrivate” browsing mode a “new feature of edge” when it’s built in to chromium?
I think many people will misunderstand the U.S. effort, since it's something like looking at the whole EU (but with less population density).

They look at the central government and they're like "this is not enough!", when often the things they're asking for are deployed to some reasonable degree in every state.
That's funny, I just read the article you linked from a month. It mostly says that it'll take a ton of investment and immediate action because COVID-19 will become a pandemic. That all seems correct in hindsight.

And why do you think Bill Gates should be talking about facemasks?
Conflating neoliberalism and neomarxism together is textbook dog whistling. I don't know of anyone on earth who even identifies as a "neomarxist" but we all know what using those terms interchangeably means for ones held political ideology...
Oh no! It has been flagged! It was nice while it lasted, thank you for the nice comments, hope you guys have a great day!
I agree. Free the telcos to strictly requiring authenticated calls, so i can freely choose to ignore some calls.
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If you're asking if he has domain expertise in fighting rapidly spreading diseases, then yes, he has domain expertise in fighting rapidly spreading diseases.
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And yet the UK is testing at a rate 1/2 that of the US per capita (with a max capacity of only 12,750 per day) [1]. Two weeks ago they were barely testing at all.

This is in fact going on across all of Europe, very few nations are doing anything right including on the testing front. That includes supposedly good outcome nations such as Sweden, which has made a terrible mistake of not properly quarantining, and even bragging about this fact [2]; meanwhile their case numbers are surging by the day, tripling in roughly 10-12 days.

It's just that people ignorantly like to target the US with abuse because it feels good, while pretending everything is going swimmingly elsewhere (it's not). They count on Americans not following the news of the disaster that's still unfolding across Europe.

There are a handful of nations doing kinda-sorta well in Europe and that's it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britai...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-27/corona...

> “I’m deeply concerned,” virology professor Fredrik Elgh told state broadcaster SVT. Epidemiologist Joacim Rocklov told the FT it was “a huge experiment” that could go “crazily” wrong. Mathematician Marcus Carlsson, less politely, said it amounted to “Russian roulette.”
He has a point. People in shutdown states/cities try to "escape" to other places that don't have a shutdown yet. States with very few cases might feel safe but it's shown already that acting early is best.
I haven't read the third book, but I have read the Wikipedia synopsis. My understanding is that in the third book there's a new swordholder who the Trisolarans think won't go through with MAD, so they call Earth's bluff and turn out to be correct.

However, the swordholder doesn't need to be certain of the consequences in order for the scheme to work. All that's required is that the Trisolarans are certain of the consequences, and they believe that the swordholder will push the proverbial button.

If Luo Ji said, "Look, I'm like 60% sure that if I broadcast our location we'll all be killed, but I will do it if you continue." What could the Trisolarans do? Call his bluff? Then he'd say, "Okay then. I'm actually more likely to do this while I'm unsure, since there's a 40% chance nothing will happen. My being unsure has only made it more likely I'll press the button. Here we go..."

The Trisolarans would need to respect the threat regardless, which would confirm Luo Ji's theory without the need to wait a century to get results.
Anyone who's used a lawn mower should know what it is
It's obviously not vacation, nor is it prison. But the weight of the American rat race is undoubtedly crushing to many.
Your analytics are probably blocked by anyone who has JS off so your traffic numbers are skewed.
His part was paying experts who know how to deal with infectious diseases to eradicate polio. Don't get me wrong, he's an awesome person, and we should all be thankful to him for helping. But I agree with GP that we need more democratic engagement and less opinions from billionaires.

It just so happens that we think Bill Gates is a good person and listening to him due to his billions ends up being good. This is clearly not always the case, so taking someone's opinion just because they're immensely rich is a slippery slope.

EDIT: As a disclaimer, I agree with him on this, we need a national shut down.
The MacGyver bias and attraction of homemade devices in healthcare
This is just not true. Norway quaranteed people coming from infected areas, and brought up understandable restrictions by a unified front across ministries, sparrowheaded by the Prime Minister. Curve of infected and deaths seem almost linear, and the Gov is considering opening up low-hanging restrictions after Easter.

The clue was right responses at right time, correct nation-wide communication, coordination and leadership. With earlier response, maybe this could've been stopped at borders. But effectiveness is doubtful, since most countries have dismantled pandemic and crisis capabilities.
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Last Friday a very senior elected US official in charge of agencies like the CDC, FDA & HHS said COVID was just the “flu”? A month or two ago this same official described it as a “hoax.”

Other more junior officials spent weeks saying masks were ineffective. Suddenly those same officials are now calling for certain workers to be protected with masks, and are mulling recommending all Americans wear masks.

At this point why should we trust expert or official opinion over any other crank?
There is a canary domain in Firefox to prevent it from switching to DoH: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
A lot of people don’t understand the touch screen isn’t really needed while driving, except for glancing at the speed maybe.

And since you ask, you get that 10k or more back in gas savings. On top of that there are other benefits, some of them objective and monetary such as resale value ($), safety ($$$), environmental responsibility, longevity of the car ($$), fun, and speed. So, yes. You should test drive one and see what it feels like.

And that’s just comparing to gas cars. Comparing to competing electric cars would be a different list of benefits.
Totally agree. I've always found it easier to work with someone who was unskilled but eager over someone who had the skills but was deliberately dragging things down through resentment.
The Interminable Body Count
what are you talking about the users a vast proportions as well to try and change and fix the world, yes you could lobby for changes in the United States but on the grand scale of things US citizens are not that badly off even with your privatised healthcare system, so he tries to help less-developed Nations and their citizens and you're complaining that she hasn't done enough for you.
I'm ok with a little financial uncertainty if it prevents people from dying.
Do you pay for cable tv or Netflix?
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I'm tired of the "shutdown everything" acting like the underpants gnomes. Gates argues for a 10 week or more shutdown and then says we are ~18 months from a vaccine. If we are 18 months from the definitive solution shutting down for 10 weeks doesn't solve much.

Sure, it might knock the infection load back down to what it was in late January. But then 2-3 months later we will be right back where we are now. What's the plan then? Another 10+ week shut down?

Covid-19 is with us for the foreseeable future and we have to figure out how to live a normal life with it. The effort should be focused on getting us to that place. Ubiquitous masks, temperature checks at public places like work, stores, etc. and a culture shift to stay home when you're sick.