skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your numbers don’t disagree with the article.

The data in the article tell us that most of those 446 deaths in which C19 played a part would have happened in the next few years anyway.

So we would expect fewer people to die in Bergamo next year, because they died this year instead. And then fewer than normal expected the year after, and so on, although it gets increasingly noisy with time.

We’re measuring the impact of COVID in deaths, by and large. A more useful unit for some purposes is quality-adjusted-life-years (QALYs).

For people who die, the QALY impact of C19 would have been how many years of full health the person had left, if they had not died after catching the virus.

But similarly, for people who don’t die shortly after contracting it, C19 can still have a QALY impact, and we’re not reporting or even measuring that much. Patients often have reduced lunch function even after “recovering”; there will be patients in whom C19 triggers post viral fatigue, which can last years; in the worst cases patients will be stuck with ME/CFS or similar for the rest of their lives.

Very little about the philosophy, economics, politics or science of dealing with C19 is simple. Although clearly some things are: if I don’t go near people with the virus, I won’t catch it; if we flatten the curve, fewer patients will die; the old and the infirm are more at risk. But those few simple parts don’t necessarily make the whole simple.
Hey there! This looks fantastic, just wanted to let you know someone's now hunted this on Product Hunt, you may want to mark yourself as the maker there!
The Curious Case of Python's Contextmanagers
Actually, my point was not to draw a metaphor between the two scenarios I described, although that's a nice little gotcha I walked into.

My point was that equating quarantines with totalitarianism is the kind of superficial and querulous comparison that a child might make about timeouts.
It is, but at least people are free to question it.
Even testing 100 people would still be informative and give you an upper and lower bounds on the number infected. You don't need an exact number to form policy.
Seems funny that the symbol for a happy face is a happy face emoji.
Nice idea! Bonus points for the 24h toggle.

Note: It doesn't work in Edge. I select places and times and nothing happens.
You might consider checking whether what you have fills any gaps in the Internet Archive's collection. You would still be able to keep / sell the disks – they only need a copy of the bits.
Claws is what I've been using for ages. Works great. Infinitely configurable and scriptable, too.
exactly this.
i understand that it's necessary to have raw/unsafe/whatever-is-the-name code when you interact with the outside world, or to implement building blocks of the language. that's not my problem.
my problem is when you look at something innocent-looking third-party library like a http-header-parsing library, and it contains unsafe-blocks. again, i understand it will give it a boost of performance. it's just not the tradeoff i would take personally.

[EDIT]: clarified that i mean third-party libraries.
You will end up with code like this:

https://github.com/elonafoobar/elonafoobar/blob/develop/src/...

A lot of those variables could have been grouped into a struct. Like all those key_<action> variables. Even if you think global state is fine you would only have one way of accessing it. It would be closer to this:

game_instance.key_mapping.charainfo

but I never see things like that. All I ever get to see is projects with almost thousands of global variables.
> I think it's best analyzed as a fixed phrase.

And how did that phrase come to be? Noun ellipsis in "the poor people" (or "the poor ones" to be more general).
My home and my office are not on different continents, so I'm not sure why this is handy of WFH specifically. :)
This has got to be a dead cat bounce.

Normally, when a company lays off workers, the market cheers, and the stock price goes up. Investors get to keep more of their money, and no longer have to pay out in expensive labor.

But this situation is quite different, in that the economy just came to a stop, for practically everyone. At some point, this has got to trickle up, and affect the larger corporations. People won’t fly, so airlines go bankrupt. Hotels go bankrupt. Travel Agencies go bankrupt. And on and on.

But of course, maybe Wall Street is expecting a bailout of the airlines, and other big businesses, so maybe that explains the optimism.
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An imo really nice but lengthy explanation of this is given by Robert Martin here: https://cleancoders.com/video-details/clean-code-episode-0

He calls this restriction by paradigms.
It is, in Europe with the GDPR.
Why did nearly a million king penguins vanish without a trace?
What does "Keep the Bouells open" mean?
But it's not worse than how co-founders operate in bootstrapped startups. Initially, they're not getting paid.

The difference in this case is that there is a lot more fluidity in terms of who can benefit from and participate in the project's growth. Also, claims of ownership are backed by a cryptographically-secure financial instrument instead of promises and paper contracts. We know what happens to employees who work for options contracts - In our case, at least their earnings are not going to 'expire worthless'. All directors hold the same type of tokens as employees so there is a shared incentive.

This week we had hundreds of people coming out of nowhere and offering to help us with our marketing in return for a small amount of token.

Seeing this, I have no doubt that cryptocurrency will be the future of startup financing.
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Valve should team-up with Epic and a couple other software companies and release their own phone.
Also worth noting is that in windows 10 you can add two additional clocks to the main one.

Very helpful when you are usually focused on just a few timezones in particular.
> Rust developers just seem to use more "unsafe" than what i am comfortable with.

And that's a good thing! In most other languages, what would require an "unsafe" in Rust can be done without any visible marker. The Rust language shines a spotlight in these places, which allowed you to notice them.

> the question is, what are the priorities of the rust ecosystem? i mean, can i find libraries that go with as-safe-as-possible or are most libraries as-fast-as-possible?

From what I've seen, the priorities of the Rust ecosystem tends to be "as-fast-as-possible wrapped into an as-safe-as-possible abstraction". That is, presenting a safe interface around a fast core, which can be audited separately; users of the safe interface do not have to worry about unsafety in the implementation.
Feature request: support for multiple cities, could be handy for scheduling group calls in distributed teams.
Coronavirus: NHS unveils 'data platform' to track beds, staff and ventilators
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Not all? I'd find it scary to use a tool that makes its own things not relying on Git
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Joachim Klement has an interesting piece on this: https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/individualism-kill...
Any way to just input GMT/UTC timezones directly? Seems more practical that way.
You will end up with code like this:

https://github.com/elonafoobar/elonafoobar/blob/develop/src/...

A lot of those variables could have been grouped into a struct [0]. Like all those key_<action> variables. Even if you think global state is fine you would only have one way of accessing it. It would be closer to this:

game_instance.key_mapping.charainfo

but I never see things like that. All I ever get to see is projects with almost thousands of global variables and not even 1% of them were necessary.

Honestly, not even game_instance needs to be global. You can just define it in your main() function on the stack and you're done.
Oh my god. And I suppose my flatulence contributes to global warming, therefore I am ultimately responsible for killing the entire human race.

Is this honestly what passes for reasonable debate on this forum?
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The race to develop a coronavirus vaccine
Voluntary isolation and support system for at-risk people (and possibly denial of care to those who choose not to isolate). Something along the lines of what the UK had been planning to do.
The World That Refuses to Stop, a Planet That Moves Forever
Thank you!

I was more wondering how time leaks and laziness relates to denotational vs operational semantics? I couldn't find anything about either in the links (they seem to be general descriptions of haskell and laziness..?).
It's possible for you both to be right.

The Professor is correct that his study essentially recommended (and caused) the nationwide house arrest now implemented, and that this is why he's now estimating far fewer deaths.

At the same time I wouldn't pick that study as a hill to die on. It has flaws that are severe and obvious to any layman and probably more that aren't, e.g.

• The assumption of mass deaths was based on constant NHS capacity for a year. That assumption is obviously false, the NHS managed to double ICU capacity within a week or so just by converting wards and now they're building emergency hospitals, China style.

• They used hospitalisation and fatality rates calculated from Italy, although the problems with biased sampling there are well discussed.

• They applied no discount rate learned from prior SARS outbreaks, where the final CFR turned out to be far lower than initial estimates, even though it's clear that the same will happen this time.

• When people asked for their source code the good professor announced it was of such low quality he couldn't release it until Microsoft had rewritten it for him.

• It mixes up excess mortality with incidental mortality. The UK has the same problem as Italy, where deaths that involve COVID-19 are being reported and counted as caused by it (because it's on the 'notifiable diseases' list). A shift in distributions is being reported as deaths that would never have happened otherwise, which isn't the case. And the ICL team know this because the professor blithely stated that of the 20,000 predicted deaths, probably 2/3rds would have happened anyway. Why was this rate not applied in the study given that excess mortality is obviously what people care about?

Right now it's really hard to feel confidence in any epidemiological output. This field feels more like psychology or economics than physics or microbiology.
This would be a massive help for healthcare. I can't see how it would work for the general population though, are you going to split society into two, one group who are allowed out and another that have to lock themselves away.
This brings back some great memories from 2002. My daughter had just been born and when I was up doing the night feeds I used my PlayStation 2 with its optical out to transfer my CDs onto my MiniDisc player. It was a slow process (real time) but it was so great to have all the track details automatically included rather than having to manually name the tracks on the player.

This was before Sony's NetMD software and I couldn't afford a HiFi MiniDisc unit at the time which would have made life simpler. Also many, many hours playing Final Fantasy X on the same PS2. Great times!

I soon moved onto an iRiver CD-MP3 player which was much easier to work with thanks to being able to burn my own CDs. Audio quality wasn't as good as the MiniDisc but considering I was listening to it in an office with ear buds that wasn't a big deal. Then onto an iRiver HDD based MP3 player and finally I got an iPod.

There is still something so cool about MiniDisc though. Feels so CyberPunk, even today it is like living in the near future when you hold one in your hands.
And many Covid infections went undetected.

So it doesn't disprove the hypothesis that the average person who gets it has a 1 % chance of dying.
Thank you, I've updated the link. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about the security features and I can get Kyle (security) and Jeremiah (PureOS) to jump into this thread.
How to Secure Your Smart Contracts – Under and Overflow
AI for changing selfie to Anime image
And driving.
I'm absolutely not aspie. I sometimes get accused of being such. It's always because I'm saying "The emperor has no clothes!" and people don't like it and want to shut me up and pretend I have no social skills whatsoever (to try to create plausible deniability for their crap).

I spent a lot of time in therapy. I've learned to keep more quiet about things that seem obvious to me because I do at times miss the fact that what is obvious to me is something someone else thinks they are very cleverly hiding or some crap. Like anyone, I have something of a tendency to assume that what is obvious to me is obvious to others.

An awful lot of so-called social skill appears to be knowing what polite lies you are supposed to collude with to make the people around you comfortable. This is actually the root cause of the persistence of a lot of social ills.

If you can't tell someone "Yeah, that's racist/classist/sexist baloney, give me a break" because that's too rude to tolerate, don't be all shocked when the world is overrun with racism, classism, sexism, etc.

Abusive people also count on normalizing their ugly behaviors and on people around them not saying "No, dude, that's not funny at all. Stop that." We have movie scenes where some child is hiding from a visiting aunt and her icky slobbery kisses and tendency to pinch his cheeks hard and the parents giggle about the behavior of the child rather than tell the aunt "Bitch, keep your hands to yourself. No, you don't have a right to do this to my child. They don't like it, so don't do it."

And then we are all mystified at how to stop child molesters. But you can't tell people "Um, yeah. You are actively colluding with child molesters when you do stuff like that."

Because that would be rude. Or something.
Small addendum: What was used was just digitalocean+wordpress, with some custom code for the posting / upvoting system
(but of course gregsadetsky - see comment above - had already figured out that it was digitalocean)

(also to all posters in the thread, thanks again for all the great feedback! I'd expected people to be harsh here, but I feel very welcomed to HN)
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O petiti piska meden giganti sakun.
Exactly. The difference between private (capital what you make money off) and personal (what make physical use in life) property is interesting. I propose to make the threshold between these two very crisp, expressed in a currency amount, say 20 million US.

Also the folk against the eternal protection of priv prop is not all authoritarian commies. You find them a lot on the left, all the way to the democratic socialists (not to be mistaken for socdems).
Yes, the author of that is a conspiracy but that wants to think they are smarter than everyone else..."The world is suffering from a massive delusion". The only delusion is the fantasy world the author lives in.
Coupling. If any part of the program can touch a global variable, then the only way to understand how that global is used and when and why it changes is by understanding the entire program. Limiting the variable’s scope (e.g. to a module or class) makes it easier to reason about, as there’s less to learn and mentally model all at once.

Have you got Steve McConnell’s Code Complete? Read the chapter on coupling and cohesion. If not, you should. (You can nab a first edition off eBay for a few bucks.) Good for the “Why”s of software construction.
Thanks for the article! Very useful tips considering the current situation
I'm a Perl fan, and I'll be the first to admit that something about Perl makes it easier to write idiosyncratic code that the writer understands, but the maintainer may not. The almost fanatical adherence to an official idiom one sees in Python is almost wholly lacking in Perl.
it's correlated with passion. I've never seen an activist who was la-di-da about their work. have you?
Wall St flees coronavirus and glimpses its mortality
Show HN: Unwind – A distraction-free mindful breathing companion
De-paywalled: http://archive.md/mJ1MR
Show HN: My dad designed and built a ventilator prototype with a bicycle pump
Another free tool for setting weekly goals with your remote team: https://teamsuccess.io/
Apple iCloud storage unsubscription (dark patterns)
My mum mailed me to see if I could help her unsubscribe from a recurring payment she keeps getting for additional icloud storage. She no longer owns an Ipad and doesn't know how to disable it.

I thought I would do it for her: https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT207594

Is this even legal, from what I can see there is no web based way to do this. I am forced to either own an apple device or download icloud for windows.
Might be "keep the bowels open"? A very medical greeting, so would be fitting here...
My company seems to block this website so now I'll never know when to chat.
A Blow on Telegram: Is Court Prohibition Loss to SEC for Pavel Durov’s Project?
Harder to tell. You might assume that people who need oxygen or respirator won't get them and die.
India is a big country with different weather in different parts so depends where you are.

In general Tropics are showing a much smaller number of cases (no idea why - could be weather/travel link density etc). This is just rough guess work - temperature above Tropic of Cancer in most of the big cities reporting cases is 10-15C with low humidity levels (below 55%).

So defaults should be fine 25-27C, humidity 60-70%. Make sure filters are regularly cleaned/maintained.
I'll see if I can list the specs.
Given that assumption I mentioned above about the epidemiological model (this would be the Imperial College London study that resulted in the UK changing its mind about going for herd immunity), how do you feel about your policy proposal resulting in 510k deaths in the UK and 2.2m deaths in the US? Just curious to know your thought process for the ethical issues in a policy decision like that.
Could you give an example of how such a bigger transaction would look like?
I found Kitty underwhelming. Used it for a while because iTerm was too slow/heavy/I used tmux anyway, but no global hotkey + terrible scrolling made me switch anyway.
Copyright does not deserve voluntary submission anyways. It is an unjust and ever stricter becoming legal framework to give life support to an industry that is unwilling to adjust to new technological realities.
Unless it's something specific between them, perhaps it means to keep the heart open, to stay in kindness and compassion. Which would be a traditional, positive thing to say to a dear friend at the end of a letter. Or a physician joke between them, alternatively.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bowel
100% market share of your own market doesn't really count.
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That's not quite true. Asian countries have used mobile phone data in some cases but so have western countries.

South Korea got somewhat lucky (so far) due to the weird way it got into the country, via a cult that was already in effect socially distancing themselves and that was filled with young people. But now their cases seem to be growing again.

Also what do you think happens to mobile phone tracking the moment someone walks into a subway system? Orwellian surveillance isn't a magical panacea.
Kind of like if you don't want to think too hard in case you might break a sweat. If you don't understand something, assume it's the other person's failing.

Murica 2020
Depending on the group taste, these suggestions might help!

- Drawful 2. Free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/442070/Drawful_2/

- Pictionary clones. I like https://sketchful.io/

- Local coop games via Steam Remote Play. https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

- Virtual scape rooms.
Nice idea, but it's buggy! If you try more than one pair of cities (with different time differences), the table below the displayed time zone difference will not update.
Board Games – 2020
Huawei releases long term support version of openEuler 20.03
If one side behaves stupidly and the other has power and motivation to stop it, then parent-child dynamics is unavoidable.

And government will never be your humble servants no matter how much literature you will produce on the subject. They have tanks, you do not. Shepard is never a servant of the sheep. Even though he feeds them and keeps them safe and healthy.

The best government is the one that harms the citizens as little as possible in the process of taking value from them to give it to the people that sit on all the weaponry, so they don't take whatever they want with that weaponry. Everything else is a sideshow aimed at improving the stability of this setup.
I saw someone make an interesting comparison on this.

In the West, when they think of efficiency, they think of using robots and automation to remove human labor. Labor costs go down, quality goes up, profits go up. Get rid of pesky factory workers and their need for benefits.

The goal in the West, is to maximize profit, above all else.

Whereas with China, when they think of efficiency, they think of production output ratio in mass production. Meaning, how many people can they employ, along with automation and mechanization, in order to massively increase production output.

Humans are more adaptable than robots, and can be repurposed to operate another machine. Quality is not as high, but it may be acceptable. The gain is in mass market share, at a lower cost. And at some point, their higher end manufacturers will automate and compete on par with their western peers.

The goal in China, is to maximize output. Massive profits can come later.
Where did 15 days come from?

The last figures people were given in the UK was you can incubate for 7 days then get sick for 7 days, which is why people were told to self-isolate for 14 days if someone in their household got sick.

If that's true then you'd expect to see a drop in case numbers just one week after a full lockdown.
I am working on a photo editor https://www.Photopea.com and I added the GIF capability some time ago :)

Simply put, each layer, whose name starts with "_a_", defines a frame. Layers with other names are visible in all frames.

An example: go here http://photopea.com#iL9sRwekM and press File - Export As - GIF :)
What support system do you suggest, I was supposed to have surgery yesterday. Today I will receive news that my larger surgery will be indefinitely delayed. Where and who should I seek out for a "support system"

People are whining about volunteer isolation after a couple days. I've been living it for roughly 6 months. And my self quarantine reduces my individual risk while a disease spreads fast. This is just the beginning for normally healthy people.