skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's spot on. Equity risk is for people who want risk. Even risks they hadn't thought of like a virus shutting down the economy.

Corporate bankruptcy is a reasonable way to redistribute claims, and we should use it. Not even every business in trouble will go under, a lot will simply be bought by someone wanting to take over the risk at a sensible price. No jobs need to be lost.

I'm all in favour of bailing out real people though.
Who are you?

Q: "What's the most important part of a message?"

A: "The name of the messenger."
AFAIK it remains unknown how many viruses are required and where in the human body to get an infection. So 'quantities large enough to be infectious' is probably false.
GitHub Suspends Repository for Space Station 13 fork /tg/Station 13
> So for this to pay off as a business over being done inhouse, does make you wonder and try to work out why that is.

"inhouse" is probably still a no-bid buddy contract with a large defense corporation, so his rate probably doesn't even need to be very low at all
I would think that for contact tracing, you need more than Uber/Lyft/Verizon-level GPS/WiFi triangulation/cell tower triangulation accuracy inside cities. With contact tracing, a proximity of 1 or 20 meters probably makes a large difference. Hence these apps will also have to use Bluetooth Low Energy continuously.

https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/imec-sets-new-benchmark...
OK wrapping is factually a huge maintenance improvement 0(n) edits which become 0(1)

I wonder what are the differences with checked exceptions in java which are self documenting in the signature and must be checked.

To me the ideal exception system would be normal exceptions as a basis,
+ autogenerated exceptions types in the method signature (I wonder if intellij idea can do that) and ability to have checked exception on-demand

It's ridiculous that Java force checked exceptions and that other languages do not allow them.
Every language should at least allow them optionally, it would be a net improvement.
That's too defeatist: these contact tracing tools will be gathering data that isn't available any other way - otherwise, they'd just be going straight to Verizon etc for what they need.

Presumably the bluetooth recording will give much better fidelity/precision about who is close to who, in all conditions (in buildings, in the subway, etc), where simple phone triangulation or GPS won't be accurate enough.

That's far more data than the phone companies have on us right now, so it is a good thing that people are considering the privacy issues. Just saying "we've already lost" only makes things worse.
This works against people who are on a visa. The visa rules prohibit income from multiple sources (except perhaps investment income).

IANAL, so some of my phrasing may be wrong.
> The biggest miss in the post in my view is not looking more at using Custom Elements for the internationalization needs

? This wasn't really a technical blog post so I don't think this was a "miss", the points being shared around i18n efforts were meant to support the primary message of the article.
If you listened to every expert, you'd be living in an underground bunker 99.9% of the time. We're on the precipice of nuclear winter; the market is always about to collapse. Bad things are always about to happen. There is always data and models that point to inevitable collapses. Sometimes these models are good, sometimes they aren't. Models are complex and have many variables. You have to pick and choose which are credible or probable. The models for COVID impact still vary widely. FiveThirtyEight discusses why it's so hard to model. [0]

It's okay to be critical. But it's unrealistic to expect administrations to always get it right. The costs would be far too high to address every risk at the earliest potential signals. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Can we be reactively responding to this with more testing, more PPE, etc.? Absolutely.

[0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/why-forecasting-covid-19-...
Apple and Google are launching a joint Covid-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android
If they can secure their storage, they can sell slowly at high prices. Assuming a capitalist society, profits are one reason not to crash the price, at least until there is competition in asteroid mining, at which point see OPEC.
We haven't gotten rid of it, it still exists. It just isn't being used right now. Getting rid of it would be to abolish it entirely, and instead require people to voluntarily consent in the future. (And if you can't get people to agree to it, perhaps that should tell you something.) "needed" isn't even a factor here.

An involuntary mechanism for contact or location tracing that's accessible to governmental authorities without the consent of the user is a civil rights violation, whether it's being actively used at the moment or not.
Do you have an example of a situation where it does not in fact matter, and do you have a benchmark of the speedup?
Do you know what's even worse for the hospital's ability to treat patients? If the city continues to operate normally until the number of cases is so large that it's obvious the outbreak is unmanageable even without testing.

Randomized tests would have told policy makes exactly how fast this spreads, even in Western cities. Lockdowns would have happened earlier. The total number of infected would be 1-2 orders of magnitude lower. Hospitals would have been better off.

>Would you want one of your loved ones in that position?

I wouldn't want one of my loved ones to die because my civilization was so short-sighted that it let a disease run rampant. Your appeal to emotion is garbage, and it doesn't even make sense, since all of our chances would be better if we'd known what was going on.
I'm not a security expert. However, this part looks worrying:

> alice can also hide messages from times she wants to keep private

If there's a need for this, doesn't that imply that the scheme does not actually keep Alice's privacy in all situations?

Furthermore:

> the random messages give the hospital NO INFO on where Alice was

This seems to assume that the hospital (or anyone with access to the data, such as governments) didn't capture the broadcast messages together with their location. With enough Bluetooth receptors in busy areas, a government could easily find out where Alice had been by looking up each of her messages in their list of message/location pairs?

Experts can probably come up with nastier and/or easier exploits...
Title differs from source. Original title: "Fed should pay every American more, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out,’ says Social Capital CEO"
As a point of interest, you can even use SIMD (and other hardware intrinsics) in dotnet core, since 3.0, e.g. https://medium.com/@alexyakunin/geting-4x-speedup-with-net-c...
Interensting Just a Test
Here's how it would look in python:

from functools import reduce

def min2(a, b):
if a < b:
return a
return b

def min(list):
return reduce(min2, list, None)
I downvoted you because this is false. This is enhanced individual tracing and will only get worse over time. We should fight tooth and nail against all new anti-privacy schemes like this.
Were virtually all businesses shut down for weeks or months during the 1918 flu pandemic? All I can find is reports of localized shutdowns in certain cities.

If not, I don't think you can say it's comparable.
99% of people who use web browsers don't use shortcuts like ctrl-L, they just use the mouse to click.

It's kind of like asking why people don't just run irssi on ec2 if they don't want to be disconnected from IRC when they close their laptop: it just fixes it for a few nerds, not for anyone else.
It would obliterate my country's (Brazil) air force.
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This is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Worthy of its own submission IMHO

Having said that, I really wish this was available as a library rather than just a website and a desktop app, but I suppose the best things in life aren't free
I agree with you on the original premise of "Why would you use Mongo over Postgres?", managing two DBs is terrible. But if you replace Mongo with something like DynamoDB, I think it gets more complicated. You don't really "manage" DynamoDB as much as just define what you're trying to do, as it's a managed service. I quite enjoyed using DynamoDB for some specific tasks at work, much more than I've enjoyed PostgreSQL's JSON columns.
I never did step foot on a cruise ship. The cost/value net-positive was just never there for me.
See https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance... for why this is really important
Well yes, because of ADE the normal antibodies released by the immune response immediately increase the replication rate so you have a far more severe reaction upon infection than you would otherwise.

That's why I'm waiting for confirmation of immunity. So far I've only seen increasing numbers of reports of reinfection but that may just be faulty testing.
A couple of reasons.

1. Because it takes over a decade for an amazing, clean, cheap, new power-generating technology to reach 3% of overall energy production. Look at how slow the absolute uptake (Or lack thereof) of wind and solar has been. They've been incredibly cost-efficient for a very long time, but actual real-world adoption has been slow. It's taken them two decades to reach a few percentage points.

2. We don't have an amazing, clean, cheap, working version of fusion.

3. We don't even have a working version of fusion, actually.

4. Even if ITER, or some other research group demonstrates commercially viable above-break-even-for-cost energy generation tomorrow, it's still going to be at least a decade of engineering efforts to build out the supply chains that will cheaply be able to manufacture all the esoteric components that go into building fusion reactors.

5. Neither ITER, nor any other group is currently even close to making such an announcement. (See #3)

6. And the reason for that is that there's still hundreds of hard engineering and materials problems to solve in this field. Not solve cost-efficiently - just solve.

7. And then, after we solve them, we'll need to solve them again, but this time in a cost-efficient manner. (See #2)

So, there is no way on heaven or Earth that in twenty years, fusion power generation will exceed 3% of overall energy production, regardless of access to He-3. I will take fifty-to-one odds on this.

In fifty years? I don't think it's likely, but it is possible.
That combination Apple-Google logogram is scary! It’s like an image from some corporate future dystopian sci-fi.
Sort of, but not really: both of their apps were unable to track in the background due to privacy restrictions. This partnership enables that at the OS level, and will remove the need to download an additional app
It says this is opt-in - is this just the sending of covid information, or is it the entire contact-tracing key-exchange enterprise?
> only a fool would disable security mitigations in a situation where it mattered.

Are we reading the same HN threads on this page? I'm seeing people who I don't consider to be stupid, who obviously have some Linux knowledge, still advocating that user accounts are a waste of time for most desktops.

If anyone is smart enough and knows enough about Spectre/Meltdown to understand the risks they're taking, they are also smart enough to search online how to disable the kernel protections. The commands aren't hard to find.

If anyone is not smart enough find that information online for themselves, they also don't have enough knowledge to make an informed decision about whether or not it's safe for them to run.

In both cases, there is value in forcing users to display a modicum of knowledge about even just the fact that Spectre/Meltdown exist before we give them a command to run that turns off an important security setting. Anyone who knows anything about Spectre/Meltdown already knows that the mitigations affect performance. They should already know what to search for online without the aid of no-context commands being pasted at the top of HN.
The relevant privacy details:

https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

"Privacy Considerations

• The key schedule is fixed and defined by operating system components, preventing applications
from including static or predictable information that could be used for tracking.

• A user’s Rolling Proximity Identifiers cannot be correlated without having the Daily Tracing Key. This
reduces the risk of privacy loss from advertising them.

• A server operator implementing this protocol does not learn who users have been in proximity with
or users’ location unless it also has the unlikely capability to scan advertisements from users who
recently reported Diagnosis Keys.

• Without the release of the Daily Tracing Keys, it is not computationally feasible for an attacker to
find a collision on a Rolling Proximity Identifier. This prevents a wide-range of replay and
impersonation attacks.

• When reporting Diagnosis Keys, the correlation of Rolling Proximity Identifiers by others is limited to
24h periods due to the use of Daily Tracing Keys. The server must not retain metadata from clients
uploading Diagnosis Keys after including them into the aggregated list of Diagnosis Keys per day."

It doesn't look bad, at least, at the first sight.

A detail: I hope the "day begin" for the "Daily Tracing Key" is the same for all users? I.e. not a local day but e.g. GMT+0 day or something.
I used to read manga on an OLED tablet and it was wonderful with the true blacks. I've tried reading it on my Kindle and it's overall quite pleasant as well, but really makes you wish the display was bigger.
Wishful thinking, IMHO. Just because the CCP is Very Bad, doesn't mean they will actually fall. After all, Orange Man is Very Bad, and he hasn't fallen yet, even given repeat opportunities.
Agreed. But you make a forecast in which you calculate an "expected outcome".
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/NGry8

But in any case, the article so far is just two paragraphs:

Apple Inc. and Google are teaming up to build software into smartphones that would alert people recently in contact with someone infected with the coronavirus, an unprecedented collaboration between the makers of the operating systems behind billions of smartphones world-wide.

The tech giants said the solution, which will be released over the coming months, will use Bluetooth technology on phones to allow users who opt-in to tap into an ecosystem of apps from health authorities that track the virus. The concept, known as “contact tracing,” would make it easier to contain future outbreaks as people return to work and the drumbeat of daily life.
I don't agree with any of your characterizations.
>we are one or two weeks away from a death wave like nothing else

As of now in many countries the average death rate hasn't even gone up at all. Risk is not additive, many people die with covid-19, not of covid-19.

So for a realistic estimate of the disease burden one has to compare the total increase in fatalities across some time all other factors held equal. This will be higher in some regions struck particularly hard like Italy, but not by as much as the plain number suggests.
The number of variables doesn't matter, as long as they are the same type is the part that matters.

<T, E> can be thought of as a pair, tuple, cartesian product. Likewise you can expand it to as many values as you want.

If type C is just (T, E) then it is really just Result<C> at that point.

The first T can vary but as long as everything after that is fixed to the same type, you can have as many variables/types as you want and it will still be monadic.
I agree with googling stuff but this gives me anxiety, even though I can create relational databases, use ORM/stored procedures/queries, write web apps, deploy to IIS/Docker. I still worry about looking for the next gig. I did write a complete mission critical solution for a mid-size business, used by 100+ employees but then I am asked about algorithms and I could answer 3 years ago but now I would get stuck on it.

Also, when I interviewed a year ago I was asked to find if something is a palindrome. This is programming 101 and it caught me off-guard. I got so used to all the methods available in C#, that going back to pen/paper and writing a simple for loop felt odd.
The strong reason to change the default is that only one of them is supported on macOS and it's the one that's not default.

Not to mention the fact that Firefox already uses the native fullscreen functionality. It just doesn't use it fully and consistently.

And what's with the quotes around native?
> Power: Bluetooth on all the time - battery drain?

I doubt this is an issue anymore for modern devices. Things like smartwatches connect via Bluetooth but still manage to keep the phone’s almost-all-day battery life.
About time, we need it now!
Apple, Google debut major contact tracing effort for coronavirus
Antibiotics are useful for fighting secondary bacterial infections that occur as a result of a viral infection.
...I didn't say it was controversial.

The issue is that the Triffin Dilemma really only applied pre-Bretton Woods. It has been vogue again because of China and Europe bleating about people using the dollar but the reality is that central banks are very happy to hold gold, and dollars have been in ample supply. That is it. There are technical issues with Triffin too but the most important point is that doesn't represent reality today.

I am not going into the history of this but one thing that economists today assume is that Bretton Woods broke up because of the Triffin Dilemma/lack of gold...this isn't wholly accurate and Triffin expected that BW ending would cause deflation...it didn't, it caused massive inflation.
We changed the URL from https://www.freerdp.com/ to the home page since this project doesn't seem to have been discussed on HN before.
Traditional TV isn't. But more and more TV is consumed via various types of CTV platforms- these are transacted programmatically, mostly through private deals but a growing share via open programmatic.
Previous pandemics?!?
Thanks for the feedback. While there are likely be a few people behind VPNs and people who misreport symptoms, statistically they are insignificant. For location, you would expect multiple reports in a central hub's location - there are not. Why is there is an extremely high correlation with the CDC confirmed cases map, which is available by hitting the right arrow on the legend?
Because lots of people are still using it. In Q1 2020 they 89m in revenue, up from 50m in Q1 2019. Just because something is bad technically doesn't mean people will immediately abandon it. See: php.
I wouldn't be shocked if some businesses - movie theaters, malls, etc. - asked people to show their contract tracing status for entry.
Of course you can use Bluetooth in the background. You just have to enable Background Location Access permission as a user.
Mozilla, every release: hey how do you like the new cosmetics/bells and whistles

Me: hey how's that html5 compatibility coming

Mozilla: ...

Mozilla: hey how do you like the new cosmetics/bells and whistles

Me, after years: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I first learned about Bernays from attending a live episode of "Stuff You Should Know" in Los Angeles. The full show was about Edward Bernays. Hair nets and Bananas both owe their popularity to Bernays. The "Stuff You Should Know" podcast that eventually posted nicely covers all the points but I couldn't find it on their website since iHeart Radio bought them and removed their website.
500 hundred years ago people fed up with the system went to North America to start new.

What is the solution now? Find a new planet to start fresh? Away from government and Apple and Microsoft?

Are there people on this planet who oppose such measures and looking to be voted?
What part? Deriving location from contact tracing is trivial. The fact that its being discussed as opt-in? If participating in society requires that you "opt-in" then what about it is really opt-in?
No thanks. This is nuts and will be used for more than just "covid" tracing.
Having lived through, intimately observed, and now in reflecting on the 2008 situation - Id's say your assessment is fair. That same effect/outcome multiplied this time around, seems to be inline.

While the recovery may miraculously end up more evenly distributed (with Sanders out I don't see enough pressure/leverage) under current administration and potentially four more years, nothing is off limits and this one may in fact become much more concentrated than 2008.
I agree with the first point regarding a low impact of risk aversion in younger demographics.

Your point on the consequences for the CCP, not so much. They have an iron grip on their people and information flows. COVID provides them with validation to tighten that grip. I think what will topple them will the be long run consequences of resource misallocation rather than anything their citizens can do. Their 'cost-to-control' is too low for civil unrest to be an issue, in my opinion.
"The phone warns Bob to self-quarantine". So the app knows, and the crisis will indoctrinate people to trust such apps.

Once the crisis is over, they'll continue to use such "safe" apps, for other purposes ...
Hm, I think I tried it once and it just crashed immediately on a simple binary. Is this r2's debugger or gdb/lldb?
And now it will be up to the carriers to push out the Android update to the end users. And we all know how well that's going to go.
Aren't there already multiple forks that move slower than Firefox and resist change? Presumably the people who call minor feature changes "abominations that need to die" (seen in these HN comments) don't actually care enough to use those forks, so I'm not very convinced that there's any market in being a niche.

All the HNers who pile on modern browsers couldn't even agree on the features their ideal browser should have, yet these same users are quite hostile in comments sections. Talk about a thankless niche.

The top comment thread so far are people seemingly emotional because the new URL bar expands a few pixels when selected and selects all its text upon focus like Chrome's and Safari's UX teams have already decided is most useful to most people (including myself).
Apple, Google Bring Covid-19 Contact-Tracing to 3B People
Just for the record, every single time I make a post even mildly criticizing China in any thread, it gets downvoted almost immediately.