skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but let's ignore the recognition of Taiwan for a second.

China censoring social media chat about the virus[0], tons of talk among experts that China faked their numbers and dates[1], meanwhile the WHO praises 'Chinese Transparency'[2][3], while hinting that the actions of censorship and moderate reporting were the right idea to avoid widespread panic.[4]

I'm not anti-WHO, but it's getting harder to believe that they are working objectively. China did a lot wrong in regards to response, but the WHO seems to want to heap on the praise. It makes one wonder. The weird non-response and hangup regarding Taiwan was just the topping on the cake, and it was entirely irresponsible on the WHOs part.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/05/chinese-social...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/08/8037667...

[2]: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-01-2020-who-china-le...

[3]: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcr...

[4]: https://apnews.com/16cd6173232a01ec04780db3eea4de79?fbclid=I...
I find it interesting that the fact so many comments mention config flags mean not many here are actually using the same Firefox, and not even close to the default one used by the 99% of its users.
I know it's common for Americans to assume everything their government does is a false-flag pretext for a fascist power grab, but to assume the government never has a good reason for drastic measures even in the midst of a global pandemic seems more cynical than necessary.

That's the kind of thinking that leads people to believe in FEMA death camps.
Sorry but this is nonsense. US wants higher prices because US shale producers can only profit with higher oil prices. The US only recently even legally allowed export of oil. You are linking a state that has only existed for the past few years with a 50+ year old foreign policy.

US needs to control oil because it is the ultimate power lever.

> is in the interest of US consumers who never use a drop.

What is in the interest and what the actions of US government vs interest of US consumers are very often diametrically opposed.
Commodore still exists. Rear Admiral is one rank below, and that's indeed what Grace Hopper was.
I think the bigger issue is whether your production database platform supports PostGIS. If you don't have C extension privileges over your production database, you're going to have to start convincing some admins to do you a favour.

(These days, it's actually quite a common request though and it's generally one of the first extensions most e.g. cloud offerings support)
> I've done over 400 technical interviews in the last year alone

Have you gotten any actual work done in the last year?

> in the hiring space.

Oh wait. This is your job.
Well in America atleast you can protect yourself with guns

See I am in India, if it runs out of food supplies, people will raid our farms and take whatever they can find and we'll not even have guns to defend our food supply.

Imagine having a farm and having several towers with snippers guarding farm during crisis.
> Quarantine and testing is the way to fight the virus and be able to return to the normal as soon as possible.

What you are describing is a way to handle flare ups and it only works in police states. At the current time the only way to fight viruses is with vaccines. It is extremely unfortunate that even during this pandemic our experts keep avoiding repeating this.
I’ve been in the industry for 20 years and have worked for a lot of companies, some very big names, and have been in a hiring position for the last 10 years or so. I’ve never once noticed or cared about an applicant’s university, nor has anyone I worked with. So, anecdotes be anecdotal.
ADE is more a problem for the vaccine approaches. It is one reason we may never have a vaccine for this disease.

Hard to rule out worst case scenarios, we just have to work with what we have and make hard choices.
Privacy preserving contact tracing: the comic
Unfolded Protein Response
oh yes that makes it okay to use
1. You have to restart the browser for changes of those prefs to take effect.

2. `browser.urlbar.update1` is going away (is already gone in nightly builds -- see my other comment elsewhere for details.)
How do Chromebooks fare on this? I would naively assume Google forces some quality and conformance testing for Chromebook vendors, so they should at least have a basic GPU stack working.
I realize this might be a joke but is that even possible to do considering the eink display they used has a NDA on it and they couldn’t even discuss the code? Also the $1500 price tag on top of the NDA was absolutely shocking to me.
Why Covid-19 Is a Big Opportunity for Digital Product Designers
If you've never had a screen with a broken backlight it might not be obvious, but without the light a normal TFT display is basically unreadable except in very specific orientations due to the way the layers are sandwiched. You're probably looking for what's referred to as "transparent LCD", which I think still are not very nice to look at (Google has plenty of example pictures).
The Importance of Bidirectional Trust in the Workplace
we'll work on this today.
Just bought the book Elm in Action. If people are so frustrated about the leadership, but still say it is a great language, it definitely is worth checking it out.
2 years? People here are planning to resume life as normal on May 1st.
> I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail

Yeah, it's decidedly weird turn of phrase since it is (a) open source and (b) they don't try to monetise it.

> will they pull Signal from an app store?

I don't really see what the app store has to do with Signal - it's just a way of distributing it. It's not like you need the app store to avoid compiling it - there are other avenues.

The risk for them is they or their servers come under some pressure from the US Law Enforcement Agencies. Given their programmers and servers are based in the US, that seems like it could be a real risk. Withdrawing from that would involve moving themselves and presumably families out of the US. It sounds like an almost impossible ask.
I can think of people with all those credentials, and more, who are well known for having no technical chops. (And there are others for which you can make the inference based on the content of their books, problems with their popular but flawed Github projects, and employment outcomes.) Hirers could look at your actual Github code, but that can obscure how fast you write it, whether it is plagiarized, etc.
You can go back a bit further too as Firefox was called Phoenix before being called Firebird and Phoenix Technologies was not happy: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=83507
Various issues that have been open for quite a long time [1].

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...
I am not sure how I will use it,
I will need to edit my markdown docs for this to make sense,
BUT it is just beautiful!

Thank you!!
If you have sufficient reserves to last it out, then a year or two with no margins or negative margins should not mean a huge decrease in company valuation. If you lose 20% of your next 10 year profit because you lose 2 of 10 years, then that that justifies a 20% drop in share price but not a 50% collapse.
It's not just the tab bar. I use Tree Style Tab and so have tabs down the left side of my window and the horizontal tab bar hidden. However, my bookmarks toolbar is right under the URL and search boxes, and that toolbar is probably my most frequently used interface to the browser, with the search bar not far off. The URL bar is a distant third, but now a slight misclick opens the ohmygoditshuge URL bar area and then the bookmark toolbar I was probably aiming for is mostly obscured. Not only that, but clicking in the area above the URL bar then has different results depending on exactly where you click, but they range from not closing anything to closing the drop-down but still leaving the oversize URL bar partially hiding the bookmarks. None of them just closes the whole thing again, the way you would expect an expandable control to do when you move the focus elsewhere.

"Infuriating" is not an adequate description for this change in something I use hundreds if not thousands of times per day. It really is as annoying as when MS Office switched to the ribbon UI.
Sounds like that’s a complete facade though. Plenty of people are overly polite because it inflates their ego to be perceived as polite.

And the article isn’t talking about politeness so much as openness. Which, the Elm team seems very very closed off.
No matter 4G or 5G,your hotspot waste battery to a large degree, It advertised 43 days only to standby mode.
The austrian number says currently active cases are probably 2.5 times as much as official numbers.

German study says in a community linked to an outbreak, there are 14% immune and 2% to be shedding viral DNA.

Austrian study didn't include antibody test (yet).
Nintendo’s Animal Crossing Becomes New Hong Kong Protest Ground
I'm really struggling for reasons to care about what happens on Wayland... because I have yet to find any decent desktop environments or window managers for Wayland. Sway is a close contender, but the one major problem I have with it is the fact that on high-DPI displays XWayland applications appear blurry.

Do you have any recommendations for Wayland desktop environments or window managers?
Wish I knew this before – Handling JWT securely on your client
> You can and should wisely decide just how much risk you are willing to take

That requires informed consent. But we can see that people are not well informed: many don't realize that a web broswer or an attacker accessible network stack are attack vectors.

I've been using these options for a while (well, mitigations=off is new to me)... on dedicated rendering computers that are on a port isolated network inaccessible to the internet and without the ability to make outgoing connections at all.

That's probably (I hope?) a reasonable usecase for these settings... but not exactly a super common one.
The founder of Vox, the editor of a Vox subsidiary, and two law blogs that have become devoted almost entirely to trying to impeach Trump. That sure is a diverse group of perspectives you’re exposing yourself to. You can be glad you don’t exist in some sort of echo chamber.
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Statistically a disease reaches herd immunity if everyone except 1 / R0 are infected.

For a disease with R0 of 3 (such as covid) this would be 66%. To explain: If two out of three are immune then a disease which usually infects three people will run out of steam.
If you cant do a "restart kernel and run all cells" without errors, your notebook is not in a good state. But somehow people dont seem to do this regularly and then complain that notebooks are terrible, when its their own process that is shooting them in the foot.
I’ve seen this, too, at a number of places I’ve worked. Pointing it out always gets you downvoted (or whatever the real life equivalent is).
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I don’t think it’s the author. I think it’s medium itself which sometimes forces that login popup. I get it too but I get rid of it by going to incognito.
0.1% would be great. That's the mortality of the regular flu and we have ramped up the hospitals to cope already so the 0.1% severe cases would be better handled. That would be much better than we manage the flu. It would also make it actually possible to take risk groups and isolate only those for a longer time without crashing the economy. It would be the opposite of the flu where vaccination is focused on risk groups.
Never knew that. Today I learned something!
Yeh having read a bit more detail on their site you might be right. I think there is nothing more frustrating then companies that make it hard for you to give them your money.
Perhaps even more nuanced than the comment you made immediately preceding this one.
What is better, a hammer or a screw driver?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...
> it highlights the entire text by default, without putting it in the selection buffer

That selection buffer inaction is desired behaviour IMHO. Changing the selection buffer should only happen with explicit user selecting. GTK screws this up and constantly clobbers my selection buffer, which is a real pain. That's one reason I stick with KDE and Qt applications whenever possible.
1997 was the time when my brother installed ICQ and it was the beginning of Internet service for consumers in France.
I can’t believe people are still flying on commercial airliners; over the poles no less!
To argue devil's advocate, the scientific literature commenting on this says that existing studies are in too short a timeframe to draw long-term conclusions. I haven't dived into this other than a search on PubMed so it's a question of faith either way.
Predicting DRAM’s Future
You are underestimating the economic shock from Covid-19
You're doing God's work. That site is hilarious.
BugsEverywhere failed because github killed the distributed aspect of DVCS. The majority of github users do not understand the problem of lock-in.

BugsEverywhere is much more lightweight and more mature than git-bug and does not encourage integration with closed-source forges.
> maybe there's a way to solve this without eliminating civil liberties

Maybe, but I've yet to see any plausible proposals. Do you have one?
All that is saying is that shutting borders is not by itself an effective method of limiting the virus. We also needed extensive testing/tracking, early aggressive self-isolation, adequate protective gear and other medical equipment, consistent messaging on how to limit exposure. Along with universal screening of returning travelers. All things that we failed at.
Cringeworthy statement from the manufacturer:

(I) THE PRODUCTS ARE NOT CONSUMER PRODUCTS INTENDED FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES; AND
(II) PURCHASER IS PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND/OR IN A BUSINESS CAPACITY. ORDERS PLACED BY CONSUMERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Those willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither.
Right-click in empty space next to the URL bar

Then "Customise..."

Then at the bottom of the screen will be a "Density" drop down, with an option for "Compact"
You should try a ReMarkable. I love mine for reading and marking PDFs, especially work related and note taking. It's one of the few things I backed as a KickStarter that has come along massively since it first began. The 2nd version looks great also.
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Only USA and Turkey Have More Than 90% of the Coronavirus Cases Active in Top
Only USA And Turkey Have More Than 90% Of The Coronavirus Cases Active In Top 10 Countries With Most Cases

Data can be manipulative. If we just look at the numbers, sometimes they don't show the clear picture.

I was going through all those data and wondered what these developed countries are doing to control the spread? But the numbers are just kept adding up.

So, I went ahead and added the percentages to my data as well and the picture is really interesting.

Check this out: COVID-19 Global Tracker

https://www.yogeshchauhan.com/Projects/COVID-19/coronavirus-global-live-tracker-by-yogesh-chauhan.php

Spain and Germany are in the top 4 (and more cases are adding up). But they have been good enough to recover more people (along with China who recovered-94.56% people)-- way more than USA.

Of course, we can argue that, in Spain and Italy, there are more deaths. But so in USA.

There are tons of interesting data I am working on right now and some of the percentages are horrifying as well.

Can you guess which country has the highest percentage of people dying? Most of them are poor African countries along with UK, Italy and France in Top 25.

Let me know what do you think of the analysis. Stay safe!
There's also

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

which limits the number of sites shown in the dropdown, and which can be set to 0. This fixes my biggest complaint about the new URL bar.
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At what probability of bricking during update would you stay on the old vulnerable version?
A pox party would work. Given the strain will be infectious like the dangerous strains it is not going to be too hard to spread it around.

You can look at it from the other perspective - once identified it would be impossible to stop people spreading it around on their own. Let’s say one of you friends got infected with this “safe” strain you would quickly head over to their home for a cup of tea and a good chat.
Agreed, really disliking all of these new behaviours. I too subscribe to that theory, in that developers keep looking for ways to "make it better" and end up layering so many useless UI items on top of each other software becomes messy over time.
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I've done a little J in the past and have been playing with APL a lot lately.

It is definitely a different way to think. My programs are taking a long time to write as I train my brain to think in this domain, but the code is very concise and generally not hard to follow afterwards. Everything is so interactive it's a joy.

In particular, I enjoy how the poster broke the code down as I can only understand some of C code. It's cool to think I could create my own little J interpreter this quick.
I'd probably find the name Natural Seitan misleading (i.e. mistakenly buy it thinking it was vegan), but calling it "Animal Seitan" would be perfectly acceptable/clear to me .
She appeared on Late Night with David Letterman shortly after her retirement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_ywhx6_K0 (interview start at 0:30)
Think of it like this instead: if more applications support wayland, then more people can switch to it, some of those will be developers who are then more willing to build/port DEs and WMs for it.
I haven't tried Wayfire yet, but it looks fun enough that it might get me to install Wayland: https://wayfire.org/

No idea how practical it is, but I miss Compiz Fusion with the windows wobbling and burning up, and if it will bring some joy to my desktop in these trying times, that's all I ask.
http://nandgame.com/
You‘re welcome.
Yes, but that train has left the station in most other countries.
Do other newspapers publish scans of their print editions? From the article, nytimes:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/10/nytfrontpage/scan...
After posting my comment yesterday, I read some of your other comments and I don't think we actually disagree.

The problem is probably the definition of "real".

I'm not arguing that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe when I say it is real. The jury is still out but that's not what interests me the most. When I say "real" I'm talking about my subjective experience. It is real in the sense that it is something that I know I experience, regardless of the mechanisms involved.

Ultimately, what I'm interested in is finding out how it arises. Explaining it. Reducing it to its "third-party objective facts" if possible. Being able to look at a machine that mimics us and tell if that machine is experiencing something comparable to what we experience.
gnome-shell has worked for years with HiDPI and Wayland. XWayland applications are not blurry, GNOME configures them to use to use the GNOME scaling setting and they look as sharp as native Wayland applications.
First time I hear about Dynalist. I'll add that to the ever growing note-taking apps I'm trying out.
That's easy. Hospital administrators were more interested in selling Tylenol pills available $5.00 retail for $500.00.
I really like it. But why not keep Tensorflow in python? What is the reason for using node?
This relese installs a system telemetry service that constantly sends to Mozilla your default browser.
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That is, Commodore is one rank below Rear Admiral where it's in use. In the USN, it has been replaced by Rear Admiral (Lower Half) (RDML). If you compare it to land ranks, a Commodore or Rear Admiral (Lower Half) would be a Brigadier General (one star in the States), and Rear Admiral would be a Major General (two stars).
Did this get artificially pushed down the HN list? Lots of other items with lower scores and earlier posting times are on the first page while this is on the third....
Pooling could be used to more rapidly test the asymptomatic population:

https://github.com/EFavDB/pooling
Vaccines might not work. There are four at this point being studied in humans (everything else is preclinical), with three of them just in phase 1, that means testing safety, and not yet efficacy. We don't yet know whether they will work, or if the immunity will last long enough.

We need drugs before vaccines, to be able to treat the disease and/or its sympthoms and hopefully make sure patients don't end up in ICUs.
“It only killed as many as the flu” is a weird talking point.

It killed that many with an unprecedented shutdown of the entire global economy to mitigate it.
What sort of maturity sign would you like to see?
There actually has been quite a lot of pandemics over the past 100 or so years. Covid-19 has yet to eclipse at least 3 of them. (1918, 1957, 1968)
But it is also completely impossible to discover countermeasure methods that are highly efficient in "effect per loss of freedom" if every single change to the status quo is indiscriminately rejected as a slippery slope towards police state.
I was responding to this from your blog post:

> This data suggests a simple and testable hypothesis – there are natural strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the world that have mutated to be non-pathogenic (asymptomatic), but are still infective and will provide immunity to the more pathogenic (deadly) strains.

From the structure of the post it sounded like "this data" referred to Iceland plus the Wuhan study.

If you only meant the Wuhan study then apologies for misunderstanding.
Both the right of assembly and the right to bear arms have been repeatedly infringed.

For example in CA: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-24/l-a-coun...
Have you written down some kind of instructions for how you do it? What tasks to select, preparations for both sides etc.

Also, do you give them tasks on your actual code base? If yes, you are likely biased towards people already familiar with your tech stack (getting really productive with an unfamiliar tech stack takes more than a week, but short enough to make hiring somebody from a different background still worthwhile).

Any thoughts on this? (I realize that some amount of bias in the process is OK)
That was my thought as well - basically, how do you know if the strain doesn't kill if you don't check for severe and lethal cases linked to the same strain? I understand the part about looking for specific mutations, and assuming they would indicate the "usual" complications with the deadlier strains would not be present, but mutations are not exactly predictable, right? If they don't cause the sympthoms of the current deadly strain - they may be causing something else completely, which could be as deadly a little bit later down the line - isn't this a reasonble concern, @danieltillett?