skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you're an epidemiological or virology expert, you probably are too ignorant to make sound decisions to save lives and prevent damage on a state/national scale for COVID-19. That's not a knock against you, it's just that most of us don't know the details of the many fields of science that go into our daily lives. I have no idea when/if to do mass vehicle recalls in the automotive industry, where to deploy military units for maximum safety like a commanding officer, or how to navigate law with respect to police department enforcing the law in the legal system.

The key difference that didn't settle in with people quickly enough is that they could cause damage with little or no symptoms by just being near other people. Because of how this particular virus works, that meant changing behavior by the time it affected you directly was too late. Many field-ignorant people only change their behavior when it directly affects them.
GA seems to be getting more popular, but I still see vector algebra used in areas such as robotics where GA is clearly superior. In that application the small performance difference between GA and vector algebra is irrelevant, but the advantages of GA are huge.

In game engines the vector algebra method is slightly faster, so the elegant programming model is often sacrificed in the name of performance.

That, I can understand.

Why physicists use at least 4 separate formulations of the EM equations I can't understand, especially considering the vector version is the worst yet the most popular.
Hmm, does that anonymous ID change? If not, it is not going to stay anonymous for very long as patterns will remain largely unchanged. People do tend to be creatures of habit.

I mentioned location data and if there is one thing we have learned over the past decade or so, it is that location is not gathered just from GPS ( which is the argument I assume you were making ).

edit: As for the claim, no data is sent over the internet.. I just plainly do not believe that statement. I do not understand how anyone would.
Unless you know pigs. I can assure you they don't actually like it. They prefer clean water but go with mud because it's usually available. Wrestling with them in anything makes them unhappy (they're prey animals and it's instinctual). The only way to get a pig to do something like that and MAYBE be OK with it is food. I usually fill a kiddie pool with fresh water and Cheerios, to bathe them. The trick it to bathe them faster than they can gobble the Cheerios.

And today you learned something. You're welcome. Hopefully that was a good momentary distraction and you didn't have to thing about all the idiots who think covid isn't really all that bad for a couple seconds. :)
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Why it’s so hard to make a good Covid-19 model
Mosh is awesome! The biggest issue I ran into was it being UDP based - lots of places lock down UDP even over VPNs - and if your client dies there is no way to reconnect. However as long as the client is active it is pretty bulletproof. Hopefully http/3 will cause people to loosen up UDP rules a bit.
As Covid-19 Upends Life, Internet Apps Struggle with Load
> ...to talk confidently about things they don't understand.

Oh, the irony!
Going outside is fine and recommended.

Compliance, at least here, has been petty good. Imperfect, sure, but everyone I see out walking is keeping a safe distance.
> The unadjusted incidence density for all-cause mortality was 76.7 per 1000 person-years for the 655 individuals who took less than 4000 steps per day; 21.4 per 1000 person-years for the 1727 individuals who took 4000 to 7999 steps per day; 6.9 per 1000 person-years for the 1539 individuals who took 8000 to 11 999 steps per day; and 4.8 per 1000 person-years for the 919 individuals who took at least 12 000 steps per day.
There is an entire group of people who believe that "something" needs to be done. They do not know what that "something" is, but it has to be done. And the government representatives happily oblige with additional power grab.
One of Modest Maxwell's hobbies was color photography. I wouldn't want to rob you of the joys of discovering the rest.
This is essentially a cult. Sounds about right.
But why include all the cruft fist place? You could just save this information (in normalized form):

FIRSTNAME: Fyodor
LASTNAME: Mikhailovich
PATRONYMIC: Dostoyevsky
No Trading Floor? No Problem. A Financial Firm Quarantines at the Four Seasons
The US shouldn't waste time on that CCP loyalist. Trump should simply stop funding WHO as well as all other international organizations.
Stop taxing American middle class to pay those bums.

About this article: why didn't they warn us in January that the guy is totally incompetent and possibly corrupt? Lives could have been saved!
I'll tell you why: this warning is coming from his parasitic buddies in other government organizations. They don't want people to star paying attention to useless government and international bureaucracy.
It's a good question but in this case, I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of the usage don't fallthrough.
Yeah, I guess it really depends on your use case and your overall system too. Our system connects to multiple vendor API's, so having one field for the rest of the address text would be very difficult -- we'd have to try and automatically split it into constituent parts depending on the requirements of vendors. Some of our data then goes to credit check API's too, so an incorrect address can result in an (incorrectly) lost order for us.

It's a challenging area all round.
... and New Yoerk has shown that such methods aren't always sufficient. Contract tracing and testing clearly have a place. Doing so in a way that maintain civil liberties is clearly important.
No language is optimal in every dimension. Choosing a language is choosing (subjectively as well as objectively) which dimensions you care about.
Does the keepalive functionality in ssh help here? Like:

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=5 -o ServerAliveCountMax=1 $HOST
You can run other OSs on that hardware, but VMS is an alien artifact that still has things to learn from and widen our scope. For example, I/O redirection: https://saf.bio.caltech.edu/vms_beginners_faq.html#PROC077
Jack Dorsey Pledges $1B to Charity, Including Coronavirus Relief
People are skeptical of the numbers, and rightly so. Unfortunately, this crisis has gotten to the point where you can't criticize any part of the response without being lumped into the "denier" category. For instance, I am not convinced that masks are more helpful to healthy people than they are harmful, and that is really my only criticism thus far, but whenever I mention that in an online forum, I'm dismissed as a complete denier.
I don’t expect it’s the activities themselves being likely to spread covid or not that is the issue here. By driving people are taking the risk of a fender bender or other situation like running out of gas where you may require help in the form of contact with others. It’s risk aversion. Not sure I agree with the shutdown but I get it.
I’m speculating here, but it’s probably a data broker that gets location data from apps that share it as part of an advertising SDK. Users still need to enable location sharing. So the data ends selects for a cohort of people that installs sketchy apps and grants location permission. Ironically, this is probably the group of people least likely to follow social distancing guidelines.
I'm not sure why we should care. The private lives of Freud, Jung, and perhaps Russell may be of interest because their work was bound up in telling others how to live. Einstein did a certain amount of that--though I think more in the large than in the small--but he did not achieve fame for his thoughts on peace, socialism, etc. Rather his thoughts on matters of conduct became interesting because of the fame earned through physics.
Yeah -- when I saw a redesigned website at freevms.net, my heart skipped a beat, I thought FreeVMS might still be alive. I couldn't track jkb's original tree anymore and figured I'd link to that Github project instead, as it had a few additional commits and, thus, a higher chance of running on more recent emulators.
A) In many cases you don't, but if you store data about authors in a bibliographic database then you probably do. And it's just a part of the package: for example, Donald Knuth went as far as to print people names in their native language in addition to English in his books' indices :)
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How about WireGuard over DNSSEC and call it a day?
Your main database should always be 100% normalized. You can add a separate database for lookups later that can be as denormalized as you want.
This is normal for me too.

I do whatever gives my wife peace of mind during this stressful time.

These steps are probably a good idea though to protect your family and minimize a chance of infection during/near the peak.

We are also trying to order everything for delivery to minimize trips out. But I still follow all your steps even when picking up a grocery delivery outside.

1. A mask is a good idea. I think covid spreads more through the air than surface to surface.
https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Dozens-of-choir-members-sic...

2. Gloves
I wear them, then wipe them down with a clorox wipe when I get back to the car. Some say gloves can collect the virus and spread it more, but if you wash your gloved hands or wipe them down I don't think it's going to increase the spread.

3. I strip down in the garage too, have a bin for outside clothes or they go straight in the washer.

4. outside shoes 'crocs' stay in the garage and are washed down outside later when I'm outside.

5. I wash hands twice, then take a shower.

6. fresh clothes

We're also wiping down/sanitizing items that are delivered or picked up, non-perishible items we will even put in bins and let them sit for 5-7 days, then wipe them down before they are brought in.

I would say caution and being overly cautious is ok right now.

They are still figuring out how this spreads. I'm leaning toward it's more airborne spread than they know or are letting on.

Granted most people will have minor symptoms but if you're a family of 4 the odds go up that someone might have a more serious bout of it.

And since it sounds like you have grandparents in the house I would do all these steps for them.

So this isn't unreasonable.

It's a pandemic out there, lots of unknown variables and people are dying and being hospitalized for weeks. You don't want to play it loose and end up in the hospital during the peak.

We all will most likely be exposed at some point, but stay safe and give them time to develop treatments, learn more about it, and eventually a vaccine.

So happily take some extra steps to prevent the spread, keep your family safe and your wife happy.
Johnson listened to scientists on coronavirus – they were slow to sound alarm
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Almost no one dies "of" diabetes. It's a stroke, a heart attack, or an infection that kills you. But the stroke, heart attack or infection would never have happened if you hadn't had diabetes.

This is the difference between proximate and ultimate causes.
EU carbon-trading market has reduced emissions despite low carbon prices
My friend, take the number of people who end up dying after herd immunity and compare it to the population that it infected. If it’s more than a drop in the proverbial bucket, then please excuse me.
This is an interesting article talking about the UK response to covid-19 pandemic and it explains some of the reason for the UK taking the actions it has.

The full title (which is too long for HN) is: "Johnson listened to his scientists about coronavirus - but they were slow to sound the alarm"
It’s not a simple request for people living paycheck to paycheck. We could’ve shut down international travel, implemented UBI or expanded Medicare instead of trillions in corporate bailouts. It’s laughable to blame idiot citizens for the scale of the devastation, but a convenient scapegoat to shift the focus away from the ones in power who could’ve made the most difference.
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Big numerator / bigger denominator doesn't make the numerator go away.

Are you going to atoms in the universe next?

So following this logic lets shut down all hospitals and stop treating all illnesses?
I should add that programmers have the crucial albeit boring role of creating CRUD front ends (forms) for data input.

That is a akin to a sensor input, and one that is surprisingly important. Without a good CRUD form, data either doesn’t get entered at all, or is entered in crude, unvalidated ways like as loose Excel files with formatting that is all over the place.
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Gee, I can reach back 14 centuries and name an Sassanid Shah that took refuge with Rome during a period of crisis and division in the Sassanid Empire. No one has ever accused Khosrow II of being a "puppet of Rome".

A sub-set of Iranian society (including military, and clergy) were on the side of the counter-coup that removed Dr. Mossadegh. These Iranians had a shared interest with the US and UK. That is it. And the main military players in the 50s were in fact purged by the 60s, when Shah started his White Revolution after assuming actual power in Iran.
screen brings its own set of pros and cons. I've used it for years but I'm not prepared to add that layer of complexity for every ssh session I open.
> Why do we need to implement a surveillance state on top of that?

Most contact tracing comes up as part re-opening businesses (and schools, though in the US that will probably be in the fall), not as much for the current complete shutdown.

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/national-corona... has a good explanation of why contact tracing is an important part of re-opening. The gist is that any amount of re-opening is likely to bring R0 much closer to 1 than it is during the current complete shutdown. The question then becomes how (well, how else) to minimize spread when new cases do occur.

Think of contact tracing as one way to replace the impact that’s currently provided by shutting everything down.
So is it not the governments choise to have stupid idiots? I mean who's responsibility is to educate them?

I am pretty sure that you had no problem that an IT consultant or a lawyer is making more money than a nurse or a teacher?

I am also sure you had no problem that government is spending more on defence that Healthcare.

So please, before you start blaming anything on "stupid people", how about you try to hold your government responsible for these oversights before you start giving up 'our' freedoms.
A few other implementations of "DNS as database":

DNS-FS: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...

DNS as a config management database: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/whit...

"A globally-distributed, eventually-consistent, 100% available key-value store ;)" (I haven't actually tried running this code personally): https://github.com/craftyphotons/ten34
Can we keep these reddit-tier comments out of HN please.
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That would definitely work for my burrito place, though I can see it from my front door, so a t-shirt cannon might suffice.
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Medical spends literally billions of dollars to regulate out competition. Then they can't handle demand. Blame them and corrupt politicians.

Also pandemics mean either 70 percent of people will catch it, or we need a vaccine. Why even quarentine?

Flatten the curve so we can die on ventilators instead?
The apple tv remote is a complete abomination.
GeoDefense! Oh hell yes. I played so much of that. I still have a 4 and a 4s somewhere. Might try it out!
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> what are the odds average person gets sufficiently annoyed by gvmt mandated apps and installs lineage?

Won't happen to any meaningful degree. IMO if technologists fail to sensitize public discourse against the emerging dangers of surveillance tech now contemporary western democracies are probably about to be "disrupted".
At least they cancelled the Fallas just in time or the disaster would have been much bigger.
The main trouble with using screen for scrollback is it introduces latency when I need to scroll, and that's exactly the problem I was trying to solve when using mosh in the first place! Maybe I could completely change the way I work, but for now I'll continue to put up with typing latency and other problems with ssh.
I should crack open a can of tuna at 10am and leave it at the end of the desk! (Yes, this happens on the desk next to me at work)
That is cool! Thanks for the info, this is why HN is awesome. COVID topic, and all of a sudden you learn every children book is wrong!
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I work on the Starship Enterprise, but the pandemic is forcing me to work from home.

This helps a lot: https://youtu.be/UKBvaOLDem0
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I know there are places that still offer support for MPE/ix so I am sure people are relying on it. HP EOL'd in 2006 and stopped all support in 2010. System was around for about 40 years and I spent about 4 years in the mid-90's working on a few of them at a manufacturing company. I was working on a pair of HP-3000 that were bought in the last 70's. I got invited to the last powering off in 2002.

Nice unique little systems. If I remember right, by the mid 80's the CPU was emulated on a PA-RISC chip. Also, at some point the HP-3000 ran MPE XL and the HP-9000 ran HP/UX using the same hardware. SPL (system programming language .. cr native name there) was .. interesting. I still have some of the OS manuals lying around attic.
So unfortunately it makes less sense for one-liners. Case in point: to use the masquerade action in a postrouting/nat chain, you also have to register a (possibly empty) prerouting/nat chain.

You don't have to do that since Linux 4.18: https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Performing...
final note regarding your "defending the honor of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi":

You should recognize that you denigrate the honor of an entire generation of thoughtful, intelligent, progressive Iranian men and women in industry and academy that very much believed in the Shah's program for Iran.

In fact, what is one saying about a nation when their king is declared a puppet?
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I see there's no use in arguing, as the same pointless statement gets parroted back each time.

This disease is now the #1 cause of death in America. Nothing like a trifling total; nothing like a drop; nothing like an ignorable fraction. Very, very significant.
This is beyond out of touch. Most people truly have never seen a bonus, or if they have it was a $20 McDonald's gift card. Until working in tech I never received a bonus, even as a 'necessary' HVAC service technician making decent money.

Either way it's hard to reconcile C level bonuses with a free turkey every Thanksgiving.

Truly we need to scrap all their bonuses a d parachutes. The entire C level compensation model seems made for Moral Hazard.
That's pretty neat!I have to check it out
To those saying "its a real urgent emergency" you might be too young to remember the immediate response after 9/11, but you might be old enough to remember the fall out, Manning, Snowden etc which continues almost twenty years later.

This time around shouldn't we aim for a better response and no fall out that will last decades on our responses?
Its in bad taste, but I don't get the downvotes in this thread. Are people eager to hold an ego measuring contest against our ancestors?

The only things I know from my own experience: people resort to violence more quickly when stressed, and when its easier to hide. This doesn't really seem to have changed over the years. Its just easier to suppress yourself and others with the abundance of toys, media and tools available today, and its easier for people to find out you're mistreating others. Heck, if the current crisis is showing anything, its how tons of families can't stand being together for a long time, from complaining about kids to complaining having to share your room with your spouse. Culture has changed, but we're still the same animals we were 100 years ago.

Similarly, when it comes to emotions and social skills, what made a good spouse back then still makes a good spouse today. Treating each other like people, being supportive, allowing the other to excel instead of setting them up for failure, stimulating joy instead of frustration and sadness. The same goes for being a good parent, in supporting your children and stimulating positive reinforcement instead of negative reinforcement. Sure, our understanding on an academic level has increased, but that doesn't explain the similarities between then and now.

And frankly, I don't need a comparison between "the worst then" and "the worst now" to realize you should do your best for someone you share your life with a majority of the time. That 'best' has barely changed.
Nice! You should check out this repo https://github.com/SolaceLabs/jhu-covid19-stream-processors
Check out Zilent switches, too. Quiet and tactile.

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This diagram made it easier for me to see what they meant by "comb structure"...

https://cdn.hswstatic.com/gif/owls-silent-flight.jpg
We are going to add a new type in the future to support nanos! Sorry for the confusion.
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