skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

This chart in particular:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-deaths-covid-19?cou...

It's showing a doubling of daily confirmed deaths since last week. This is a lagging statistic, of course, but it's one of the more firm ones.

The total confirmed deaths can be seen here:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-deaths-covid-19?cou...

To put this into perspective, we're about halfway to the 23,000 flu deaths in the US for the entire flu season this year. At the current rate, though, we'll be past that by next week.

For more perspective, the 1957 Asian Flu killed about 70,000 people in the US (1 - 2 million worldwide), and our population at that time was 177 million (about half of today).

According to this chart:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-confirmed-daily-dea...

we may be just at the start of bending the curve.

We're a much larger country than some of the others shown in our group (add Italy, France, UK, Spain, and Germany, and we still have more people).

EDIT:

According to: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemi...

The number of deaths for the 1957 Asian Flu in the US was 116,000, at a time when we had half the population of today.
> a way that matches the "spirit" of the law or rules,

Rather, I'd say the spirit of some of the laws and rules.

Most laws and rules are worthy, in that if everyone respects them, everyone is better off. They are positive sum. Those need to be followed.

But arbitrary, explicitly defined games might be gamed at the same time.
Lesson: don't contribute to proprietary products unless you're being compensated for your efforts.
Toss it in the trash! Simple response, very defendable.
> I'm wondering, why the news are not full of videos about what is happing in the hospitals

Funny you mentioned that. The reason most EU citizens are okay with the lockdown is a video from Lombardi showing doctors removing an old man from a respirator (basically killing him) to save a younger man.
See also https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/qa/what-is...
> I end up with the distinct impression that the spectrum of reported condition is more a function of our inability to convey and compare the inner experience, than of variation in the inner experience itself.

Interesting idea—which do you think is the universal inner experience, then: do you think that everybody can visualize images, just some people don't realize it, or that nobody can visualize images, and just some people are confused into thinking they can?
That’s not it. You develop a protocol to avoid as much as possible exposing those who are susceptible to the disease if that can be determined.

If we know that one part of the population can withstand the disease well and another is susceptible to it we can develop ways to navigate that.
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I can draw anything somewhere but can't really close my eyes and visualize be it stock photos or manipulated.

I think there is a fine line between "picture yourself in X,Y,Z" vs "close your eyes and visualize a simple thing that you know well". Don't know if there is a standard test to find out if you indeed(medically) have it or not.
why on earth would you, and the article writer for that matter, use a column named first_name for storing the middle names as well?

just call it name!

as I said above, the article goes to length about normal form, and skimps on the important part: the data model is a representation of the real world, and a first_name column with middle names inside is basically a straight up lie of what the column models and what data it contains.

there's not one way to represent names, there are application specific domain where generalities need to be more or less detailed, but the core aspect of it all is that the data model shouldn't lie about what it is that it's modelling.
Assuming good intent only works if you trust the top decision makers to foster that kind of organizational culture. Unfortunately, in the US, we have a president who has burned most of his bridges, and has lost a lot of “benefit of the doubt”.

And remember is not a dual choice between malice and good. The administration could simply be incompetent, obsessed with control, and afraid to look weak by having states take decisions on their own.
XDTML 2.0 you mean? XDTML 1.0 is merely a serialisation of DTML. With
XDTML 2.0 in place, the real fun can start!
I bought an Elgato CamLink instead... hooked it up to a DSLR I already owned, and it makes for a stunningly crisp and clear, high quality, webcam.

Of course, using a 42.4 Megapixel sensor and a Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens it would.

https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k

Turns a HDMI input into a USB web cam.
This one really sets me at ease. Very calming, to pretend to live on board a starship in a utopian future.
10 Valuable Things You Can Do During Home Quarantine
Yes. Even among those who hope someday to make music their living, many will opt to forgo immediate profit for experience and exposure alone.

My personal attitude (in general, I haven't contributed to this site) is that it's incredibly difficult and even soul-sucking to try and earn a decent living in music performance, let alone composition, so I don't even try. Instead, I have a day job - I work in IT for my alma mater - and in return for reduced time available for music, I get complete freedom to pursue the musical projects I want at my own pace. This way I can be sort of my own patron. Sure, getting paid for music would be nice, but I'm not going to insist on it for a given project unless that was the only way to make said project worthwhile to me, in which case I probably wouldn't undertake it in the first place. I suspect there are a good many freelance musicians nowadays who also take this approach.
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We have so many tables with is_active and active_col in the same table...
I don't think so, because as lazy as people are, they still want their words read, and they excise the irrelevant quoted material to set off their own words better. From experience of the old days, other than a handful of strange people no-one had a problem interleaving context and commentary. It was just the way things work.

Top-posting is pure (albeit minor) evil, a tragedy of the commons and a wastage of space. It's also an unforced error: no-one was clamouring for it, but Outlook and Gmail and Notes foisted it upon the world.
Death rates are at 0.5%, and it was worth shutting down the economy.

Car accident death rates are at 1%. Wait until people hear about that.

The bigger shock is when people realize that you can't stop the spread of a pandemic. You can flatten the curve to help hospitals. But soon we will find hospitals are more dangerous than staying at home due to infections and that respirators barely improve your chance of survival.

I hope medical loses their credibility big time. Their rejection of math and science in favor of tradition is horrifying.
Sidenote but navigation on this site feels incredibly snappy and user friendly. Wondering what the tech stack is. Anyone know if this site is server-side rendered or full on static?
Wearing a mask as a standard, non-healthcare working, citizen is about protecting everyone else.

You are right though, you should protect yourself too, as much as possible.
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. There was a news report today of YouTube taking down a video of a conspiracy theorist who spoke for two hours on how 5g triggered the Corona virus.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/907411/youtube-bans-coronavir...
> Mathematics is the language that nature speaks.

Nature seems to speak in forces and had been doing so long before we arrived and started honing our math skills.

Nature made an imprint on our math. Newton came up with new math to make more accurate physical predictions.

There is a good reason to be an adherent to the mathematical descriptions. We might want the photon to go through only one slit, To help make nature more classical and understandable, but that’s not the nature we know and observe. So we keep to the math and let it speak to us, lest our work-a-day understandings of the world lead us astray.
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Nah I don't think all people are mean or that we're doomed to failure, I believe we just often focus on short-term interests/gains and can be comically bad at thinking through long term consequences on a global scale (see: pollution, government interference in nation states, surveillance, anti-vax movements, all those who intentionally create and share misinformation, etc.)

I don't think we're fundamentally good/bad/anything. We have just have a set of learned/programmed biases and ways of thinking that can lead us to poor decision and the social programming takes several generations to change globally
I'll just add that mosh is excellent. I started using it on a trip to the other side of the world. The ssh latency was terrible, and mosh saved the day.
The excess deaths caused by the lockdown are likely to be spread out over years. They will be deaths of despair from suicide, substance abuse, and chronic diseases (including depression). The epidemiologists and public health officials don't appear to be factoring those deaths into their models.
Why bother? Just tell them you hate flu, especially kinds easy to catch and prone to result in severe symptoms. I believe that's sufficient and easy enough to understand. Ok, we've got a particularly infective and nasty kind of flu here, let's do our best to avoid it.
True.

Exercise is good for your immune system. But I think the public health experts probably meant for us to exercise alone. You still see lots of groups of 4 or 5 or more people out there in my area. And based on what people are saying, this must happen in other areas as well. Or my favorite are the groups of bicyclists exercising and keeping 6 ft away from each other. Think about it, one cyclist towards the front of the pack coughs and what's gonna happen?

I don't think the government needs for us to stay at home per sé, but they do need for us to stay away from each other. Some cooperation on our part would go a long way towards helping. Having conceded that, not sure that tracking everyone is gonna stop the kinds of stupidity I was just outlining. You'll still see the groups out there walking or running up the street together or bicycling. I'm just not sure those guys get it? And the government tracking them probably won't make them get it.
I prefer to think of it as a cached query result. Normalization is not compromised since there is no way to introduce inconsistencies.
Alex Stamos: Working on Security and Safety with Zoom
Mailinator does this (you can get a private SMS to API)
You’re right, there are more people outside walking in areas than need to be. Walking in areas where there would be less people or none. People sitting on sidewalks, grass areas etc.

TV news says our city streets are empty — but there’s actually babies, old people, lots of people exercising etc etc everywhere. Farmers markets with huge crowds. Non-essential construction workers all over.

Yet there are a lot of people outside because they have no choice. They are working or surviving. And then yesterday at the grocery store, there are people working there without gloves and without masks. And they’re jovial, walking around carefree.

I seen people preparing food and drinks without gloves and touching lids etc.

I don’t think wealthy people walking around is particularly bad but I understand your sentiment. The worse problem is we just have stupid people everywhere and sadly many are in our government, agencies and so-called elite. And some are critical workers.
Not only is the answer "Yes, a Turing machine can be constructed out of GoL, demonstrating that GoF is universal," but given that GoL is itself a computation, the reverse is true: You can build GoL out of a Turing machine.

I took a stab at it a few years ago. My strategy was to start with a very basic Turing Machine, and then write a compiler that compiled a more sophisticated Turing Machine out of a simpler Turing Machine.

For example, when I wanted cells to have a value and a tag, I wrote a compiler that translated every possible combination of symbol and tag into a single flat space of symbols.

I stacked compiler on top of compiler until I had a Langdon's Ant with various programming conveniences, and I wrote a 9-cell GoL using my Langdon's Ant.

The whole thing compiled to a very simple TM with millions of states, but it worked. I did not make it practical enough to ever manage a GoL big enough to emulate a Turing machine, but I feel that I did enough to get some practical experience with something that is straightforward in theory.

---

Turing Machine in GoL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My8AsV7bA94
one of the chair noises is clearly a fart covered up by the person readjusting as a cover up, 10/10 most realistic simulation
"So, what's your hobby?"

"I collect 10 character long strings."
Show HN: Ilograph – Interactive System Diagrams
You don't blame governments for anything. You think that government is the solution too all problems.
Can confirm this is a global thing too, in Germany webcams sold out in online stores exactly three weeks ago. The few items left doubled or tripled their prices overnight.
> It’s too bad that people can’t follow simple requests. Governments are forced to choose between allowing idiot citizens to destroy society or to implement draconian policies.

That was Bolshevick's motto.

> The rest of us are being asked to just stay the fuck home for a few weeks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/41-percent-of-americans-woul...

10M have not had a paycheck for 2 weeks.
Same in the US. I had 3 flights scheduled for this week and they were offering me the shitty vouchers if i cancelled myself but lo and behold, a week before each one they informed me they were cancelled or rescheduled and I can get an actual cash refund.
This bit got my attention:

"...scientific committees that advised Johnson didn’t study, until mid-March, the option of the kind of stringent lockdown adopted early on in China [...] The scientists’ reasoning: Britons, many of them assumed, simply wouldn’t accept such restrictions."

In order words, the scientists self-censored themselves on the basis of a political judgement about what the population would or wouldn't accept. But they weren't political experts, and weren't employed to be.

This seems like a big problem for basing policy on expert opinion. Most people are inexpert on most subjects. How do you ensure expert advice and decisions aren't contaminated by the expert's natural biases, and without it coming over as "stay in your lane" hectoring?
> There's also a windows driver

Is the driver signed? If not, you have to enable "test mode" and windows will drop a God-awful watermark in the bottom right of your desktop letting you know "test mode" is on. It's one of the seemingly-small things that bugs me the most about it.
Yes. I run a small Ultima Online custom server and it runs on a Debian box in a datacenter. My primary development machine is my macbook, and mosh-ing to my server is flawless, even from congested coffee shop wifi. The best part is I can use juicessh to mosh in from my phone if I need/want to as well!
How can it be faster considering that they are equivalent?
I think part of the problem is the level of uncertainty. We do not know:

- The true number of people who are infected.

- The death rate, which would require that we know how many people are or have been infected.

- The number of people who have tested positive and then died of COVID-19, rather than a pre-existing condition.

- The number of people who have already had COVID-19. Data from various sources show that up to 75 percent of people may be asymptomatic.

Some people--not all--look at the degree of uncertainty in the data and conclude that "experts" can't possibly know what they claim to know. It just isn't possible.

The "cure" for such people will be widespread testing or at least randomized testing.
What if you don't have a home or your home is unsafe or abusive environment. Adversity is a given, rights are not for good and peaceful times only. FYI,the US is still under emergency from 9/11, patriot act is still a thing.
This is the 17th submission. Submitting the same multiple times per day is too much.
New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted to Paying Customers for 12 Months
What do you consider a "denier" exactly? This is obviously the worst public health crisis in our lifetimes. But on an individual level, the majority of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 won't experience symptoms any worse than a bad flu. So I can understand why some people aren't concerned.
"It's exactly the kind of intensely-dynamic application that seems inconceivable to build statically"

Statically is to some degree how these things used to work. Before hosting with databases was widely available, internet forum software (such as UBB) used to work by regenerating all the affected pages when posting new threads and replies. They relied on simple files as the data source. They worked really well to a point, until each update took so long as to be intolerable. The practice was then to prune older content to fix the performance issues.

The biggest problem area for SSGs is sites with user-specific content where dynamic "pop-in" after load isn't a tolerable solution, or where there's a combinatorial explosion of pages. The ecommerce example is interesting because it's not the 50m product pages that's the problem, it's all the faceted navigation/search pages where it _may_ be desirable to support search indexing, the number of unique pages here may as well be considered unlimited. All of these problems are solvable with SSGs to some degree, but there's always going to be a tipping point where the amount of engineering contortion you're having to perform just to avoid using servers isn't worth it. Especially when we have a little thing called cache headers which work really well if you set them up correctly.
Mosh doesn't have to do the hard part.

The difficulty is key agreement and authentication, but both those happen in SSH itself. So by the time Mosh is invoked you're definitely an authorised user and you and the server share a secret, so Mosh is just moving encrypted packets.

It uses authenticated encryption, and I don't know much about the specific mode it apparently uses, OCB3, but in general there's just not that much to go wrong over and above all the work still happening in SSH.
If the objective is to put the risk in perspective, then comparing to normal times makes more sense. Our perceived risk of dying in a car crash is based on the times we are actually normally driving and not when we are quarantined at home.
Yes, we need experts to deal with the pandemic. I'm certainly not opposed to expert opinions influencing policy decisions. But still, a system of mass-surveillance isn't something that should be rushed, even in the face of an emergency. It has far-reaching consequences that is most certainly going to outlast this pandemic, and would likely do more harm than good in the long term. Such things would need full informed consent from the public at the very least, though I'd personally prefer that it wouldn't be considered in the first place given its great potential for abuse.
Yeah, this thinking pattern is already well-practiced with climate change: "if we acknowledge there's a problem, doing something about it will hurt us financially, so it's better to simply deny there is a problem in the first place"...
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OpenVMS has real asynchronous I/O supported directly by the kernel. Under Linux, all I/O is synchronous but possibly nonblocking, and all disk I/O is blocking. OpenVMS also has a comprehensive, fine-grained security model involving a database of subjects, actions, and objects, giving administrators fine control over who may do what to what. In short, ACLs built into the OS from the ground up. In Linux, ACLs are a bag on the side; their inclusion in BSDs varies. OpenVMS also automatically logs all events, providing an audit trail for security incidents. OpenVMS clusters easily (called a VAXcluster in the VAX days); support for failover and load balancing is built into the OS. OpenVMS's command line interface is designed around a mistake-prone operator who hasn't had their coffee. It doesn't have, say, the 'rm -rf /' problem. Unix's CLI assumes a perfect operator who gets everything right the first time. "Fat fingering" a command could have disastrous consequences; in most cases on VMS, the command interpreter will raise a syntax error. OpenVMS also has file versioning built into the file system; again, this is a bag on the side (formerly: SCCS/RCS, today: git) in Unix.

Oh, and OpenVMS doesn't crash. Like, ever.

Windows Server has some of these features. The NT kernel has the same designer as VMS -- Dave Cutler, a man whose contempt for the Unix design philosophy is well documented.
For a self hosted Yahoo Pipes alternative I’d recommend checking out Huginn - it’s been featured on HN a couple of times and the creator is tectonic@HN

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
IIRC, the modern formulation of Maxwell's equations is due to Oliver Heaviside. He formulated the laws concisely using vector calculus. We probably need to look at Heaviside as well to get the full historical picture.
People aren't concerned if hundreds of thousands end up dying?

The majority of people weren't in WTC either...
there is nothing wrong with going for a walk in a non dense area.
I love the fact people are attacking 5G anyway. Although the claims of a connection between 5G and the virus sound nonsensical, 5G still is a privacy catastrophe ought to be stopped.
It is difficult to challenge the quarantine if the court functions are severely restricted.
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But if you're running tmux then the "never get disconnected or lose terminal sessions" of mosh goes from major feature to minor feature.
Or do anything with the DOM.

To put anything on the screen in an accessible fashion, you will still need JS with your WASM.

You can draw to a canvas with minimal JS, but lose text search, highlighting text, copy/paste and screen reader compatibility, to name a few.
I am willing to disagree. If the app becomes annoying ( and it may very be ) people may adapt rather quickly. My example is that of SIM locking in the old country. It was a somewhat technical process, but people quickly adapted to it and learned how to remove it. The perception was that removal of SIM lock was beneficial.

Naturally, I could be wrong ( and has been about cellphones for a while now ). And then, my mom could barely handle switch from Whatsapp to Signal.

edit: coffee didn't kick in yet. added barely before handle
What about interns outside of US/Canada?
To be honest, if you dynamically generate a site and include the relevant headers, a web cache in front of the site will do all the "compilation" without any of the headache of a specific ahead-of-time process.

If you get a really large site (= in terms of pages), it's often easier to invalidate an entire cache and allow it to rebuild lazily than go through and linearly reprocess every page, and you don't get any examples of pages having both "old" and "new" content as you browse the site while republishing is taking place (although you can also accomplish this with content-switching once the full rebuild was done).
This one lacks ordering. It's not a problem for Russian names as the rules are fixed, but may be a problem for other ones.

And how would it scale? E.g. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and George Herbert Walker Bush have two middle names, while full name of García Márquez is Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez. Markup handles this uniformly creating only as few metadata records as necessary, but a field-based model will need fields for all of this that will stay empty most of the time and likely some meta fields to set additional quirky flags.
"Anything from outside can be stupidly ignored."

Fixed your last sentence.
Has no one cracked the license scheme yet?