skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now only Australian citizens and permanent residents are allowed to enter Australia. As soon as they land they are driven to a local hotel where they are forced into quarantine for two weeks.

The government is not messing around because many previous arrivals who were told to self isolate at home turned out not be self isolating, and most of the infections to date have been traced to overseas arrivals vs local "community transmissions".

Most states have also shut their borders, the only exceptions being NSW and Victoria. E.g., anyone entering South Australia or Tasmania from interstate has to spend the first two weeks in self isolation.

I can see the domestic travel restrictions being eased in a few months, but think the Australian government will be very reluctant to relax international travel restrictions until there is a vaccine.
Yes, for some reason reading/looking at this made me super nostalgic as well! Just want to sit in a couch in the mid 90's and listen to CD's and watch Beavis and Butthead and read stuff in magazines instead of on the internet.

Very strong melancholic feeling.
With portfolios it's perfectly ok to take existing ideas. Especially for learning purposes there is no way around duplication.
The big fear with these smaller remote-ish places is that their tiny hospitals will be swamped - Byron Bay hospital is pretty small, the next large hospital would be an hour's drive to Gold Coast. Other local holiday destinations in Australia have larger distances (Perth - Busselton 2 1/2 hours).

Holidaying sick people will quickly swamp the local small infrastructure as they can't easily be moved away!
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Some people in the UK kept their early Tivos going for a while after Sky shut down the service. I think they found a way to supply the programme guide.
That's a bit of a contradiction. If something is not in the realm of possibility, then it is impossible, and thus cannot (in a strict, logical sense) happen. If we were to define a black swan event as something "not in the realm of possibility" then there would literally never be a black swan event, ever... because things that are not in the realm of possibility do not happen, full stop.

So yes, as you say, a black swan event is allowed to be something that is in the realm of possibility. But it has to be improbable. And it has to be something unforeseeable by people knowledgeable in the field. COVID-19 does not pass either of those tests; it definitely is not a black swan event.
I agree on the Little Printer. I didn't get one, now I'm also on the lookout for something to fill that role.
well, this is very reassuring! Weird that the face would print every time -- what a waste.

I had thermal printer for a while for another purpose and loved it. It was so handy to have --- but ultimately, thermal paper isn't great for the ol' environment.

Do you still use the thermal printer for lists and stuff?
Its actually part of the problem. They make it harder for US students to get a proper education. Universities are acting like the housing market in big cities. Only the elite from the test world can afford going there and then they often go back contributing trump the US. I hope this will stop that practice. We should want foreign students but not based on the current criteria and structure.
Ah, sorry. I focused too much on the "seriously considering moving back to Markdown-folder backed by Dropbox". Joplin does support note linking (https://joplinapp.org/markdown/#links-to-other-notes), but it is quite clunky, to be honest. However, it does look like it's being addressed soon (https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/syntax-to-link-notes/5264/...).
I agree with your overall point, but I also think there's a bit of conflation going on with the term "DevOps". It means different things to different people.

What I think is as close as we get to a canonical meaning is the meaning in which it is used by The State of DevOps reports, based on very good science and research by Nicole Forsgren et al.

They characterise "DevOps" as a transition into faster deployments, shorter feedback cycles, less warehousing of unexecuted code, and having developers have generally more insight into what's going on in the production environment.

This, of course, can (and arguably should) be done in cooperation with proper system administrators, network engineers, etc.

In other words, DevOps is not in opposition of having the right people people operate the systems.

In particular, it has nothing to do with cloudifying things. You can run a product with a DevOps approach right onto bare metal servers – in fact, there are a lot of companies doing that, for simple economical and reliability reasons.

I'm all for ranting against the cloud and the little experience people have when trying to operate systems, but blaming "DevOps" for it seems like a mischaracterisation. There's a lot of value to be had by getting more feedback from production, whether production means bare metal or virtualised environments.
Rights so the Chinese pay hundreds of thousands of do,Lara so they can get F1 jobs (restricted largely to on campus or has to be study related, so it doesn’t pay), OPT jobs (capped at 1 year) or H1B jobs (needs to be renewed every year, at least by the Chinese who rarely get more than a 1 year extension), so they can get permanent residency after 10-15 years of being on an H1 based on current figures.

Right, that makes complete sense.
>I would like to make my own gravity experimentation. Is this something I could do at home?

Best EVER definition of an optimist.
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Throwing opponents from helicopters is about the most extravagant means of execution short of keeping them on death row for decades. (But look which the US prefers.)
Many of them go back
I used the expression to correct for bias, which is a collocation coming out of, I would guess, statistics (see for example: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/142875/what-does-to-... ).

What I meant was that if you're aware that The Economist has a clear ideological lens through which it sees the world you can take that into account and take its comments with a grain of salt. Initially I was not aware of their clear ideological stance and I took it to be an objective publication.

This being said it's probably not possible to have an objective publication, so it's better to read one that is written competently and subsequently correct for its bias.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/leaders/2003/...

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2003/07/17/the-case-for-wa...
Im sure that’s exactly what will happen.

/s
B&H is run and staffed by Hasidic Jews. They have strict definitions of work that are forbidden on the Sabbath and they may not always be intuitive to outsiders, for example, for many religious Jews, pressing the elevator button is forbidden, but riding in an elevator that is programmed to just stop on every floor is fine.

Your mind is free to boggle, but Jews are entitled to close their businesses on the Sabbath just the same as Christians. In the county I grew up in, everything but supermarkets is closed on Sunday, for example.
I think the magazine actually apologized later. They said they were wrong about Iraq.

But many others too, including me, genuinely believed that Saddam Hussein was going to continue using poison gas, and was trying to create a nuclear weapon. I actually believe that the CIA and US were genuinely believing so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance
https://medium.com/@matthagy

Assorted blog posts on software engineering, data science, and introductory computational chemical physics

A curation of the best posts can be found at https://matthagy.com
It's what frustrates me whenever I read an Economist piece. Their absolute certainty in declaring what should be done about any particular topic is jarring. The 'pretend you are God' line in the article is exactly the problem.
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/degrees-of-deception-promo/6...
Hi All, Glad to share my blog here.

What is my blog ?

Name of my blog is Techno Paradigms (https://gansai.blogspot.com)

Why should I read it?

I share what I learn. ( Very rarely, I have written my perspectives on software paradigms - like how things are evolving etc -- but I like to write more on this )

I try to focus on few topics like: Java, Cloud, Architecture etc.

Why is it awesome?

I am not sure whether my blog is awesome.

I guess people interested in backend & distributed systems can visit my blog.

( Nowadays I am trying to appreciate role of products like: Kafka, Debezium, Hazelcast etc )

(Probably I wrote more than a short intro )
RCX dev here.

I also have this RAID idea, because the free offers are a marketing tool, and providers have no problem shutting off rclone access even for paying customers (happened with Amazon Cloud Drive, Yandex Disk).

There is currently a beta of new remote type "multiwrite union" (RAID-1 style). But for RAID-5, storage is just too cheap - some providers are as low as $5/TB-month.
RCX developer here.

I've thought about including Cryptomator support in the app by reusing the java libaries, but licensing issues make that hard. Support in rclone itself would be really great.

BTW: RCX exposes serve as well, and will get Storage Access Framework (SAF) support in the near future. When it works, SAF seems like magic.[1]

* [1] https://imgur.com/a/cppw03f
I had the opposite experience. I read an article I know a lot about once and, although factually correct, the whole thing was wrong because of what they left out and because of the smug 1st world conclusions they drew as a result. I don't know if they left out those facts because it didn't fit with the tone of the magazine of if they failed to do their research properly. I came to the conclusion that it was the former and from that point on I just couldn't trust anything I read from that magazine. They have this way of making the reader feel smug about the knowledge that they are picking up from the magazine without ever challenging the reader's core beliefs. What I am saying is that the magazine is never disagreeable for the reader. It's like only having friends who share your world view. How much are you missing out by not extending your reach?
What's worse is that almost no one prunes the quoted emails, so you end up with extraordinarily long emails with a bunch of useless quoted text, most of which are signatures and legal disclaimers, repeated endlessly.

I've given up on fighting the top posting fight and instead try to lead by example by pruning the quoted text so only relevant text is quoted.
Less cool word for it: conspiracy.

I guess it's a particular kind of conspiracy, so maybe it's useful to have a word for that? But I don't think it describes the political scene well. Politicians from opposite parties aren't rehearsing debates with their opponents and choosing who wins before the debate starts.

There's some level of "cover your ass" and "don't annoy too many people" that makes accountability almost impossible, but kayfabe isn't the right analogy IMHO. It's not intentional cooperative theatrical performances, it's just an effect of incentives being what they are.
https://giuseppegurgone.com/blog/

It is minimal and easy to digest.
How's that working out with ventilators and masks? Not so peachy.
It's only boarding schools. Many, if not most, independent schools do not offer boarding and thus don't have foreign pupils at all.

Boarding schools have always been for a minority and this hasn't changed because of foreign pupils.

Now, boarding schools are often keen on foreign pupils (esp. Chinese nowadays) because it IS actually good for their reputation: The Chinese education system is such that these pupils tend to ace maths and science subjects in exams and so the school can then market their outstanding GCSE and A levels results.

As for taxes: People who send their children to independent schools fund the public sector through their taxes in the same way as everyone else but do not use public sector resources at all. I think it is fair that they are not taxed twice on top of that.
Jamulus is nice: http://llcon.sourceforge.net/

Yes, there is latency over the internet, but IMO you can get used to it.
Agree. If you would like you can read an article where I propose how such system could be implemented: https://medium.com/@TautviIas/it-is-time-to-create-a-decentr...
I think it often can, but I've seen plenty of teams where things were split into microservices despite only having 4-5 developers in relatively close collaboration, mostly due to trend-following and it being the "right" way to architect software.
The unpredictable schedule of a personal project means that you can't have unfinished work over long periods of time. You have 2 hours today. Get the smallest thing done to satisfy your goals for today no matter what it takes. You can always do it better in the future because there is no boss that interrupts you and tells you to work on feature X.
Maybe you'd like to look into Jamulus:
http://llcon.sourceforge.net/
It's because, on mailing lists, I find those kinds of conversations can often have a low signal/noise ratio. Not always, but sometimes you end up with massive threads that go on for weeks, with increasingly huge messages.

That's not to say that always happens of course.
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Interesting. Because I've several times come by articles in the Economist on subjects that I know, which argue a divisive point based on certain facts. But more often than not, the "facts" presented are deliberately one-sided and distorted by the act of omission.
http://cushychicken.github.io/

Lots of recent posts about designing an open source function generator, and all of the related electronics/embedded systems development.

Also serves as a dumping ground for my work thoughts - short meditations on topics and situations I experience at work.
You can have it too https://github.com/giuseppeg/giuseppeg.github.com
All properties owned by Verizon Media (formerly Oath) redirect through the domain "advertising.com" (which is one of the domains they own) for their GDPR consent popup (shared consent cookie set on one central origin across all properties owned by that company).

This is a really bizarre decision tbh as "advertising.com" is not a well-known brand and not something their users would implicitly recognise or trust.

For other users saying it doesn't happen to them, I'm fairly sure the redirect is region-targeted to Europe.

I'm in Europe but I don't get this redirect when using a VPN.
This article has all the qualities of a first year degree takedown.

Interrogative opening sentence, desperate latching on to Historical precedent(vis a vi Germany and China, use of the word Bromide and or idolatory and conflating Government policies and political movements by dint of shared temporal space.

The economist is broad magazine, the book was written about the editorial the leaders, and the review is an attack of convserative led liberal thinking.

In my expert opinion (of nothing), this article is yucky.
How to get your engineering team to suddenly “go remote”
I had the opposite experience. The Economist is the least credible repporting source for me.
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I use feedly (the free version for now) :)
Everytime I find a blog I like I just add it there and it tracks the posts...
Thanks for this. I'm curious: I live in Germany. Is YC/HN's arbitration clause enforceable against me? Can I take them to court in Germany?
Agreed, but that's where judicious blocking and muting become essential, possibly on a discussion-by-discussion basis.

That will always be the case in a free-for-all such as mailing lists or forums, rather than a discussion between colleagues/friends.
I have been doing the Wim Hof method (cold showers, breathing exercise) for two weeks and it surprisingly effective in alleviating anxiety and depression. I also feel more awake.

For context, supposedly there have been done a couple of studies [1] that show benefits for strengthening the immune system.

[1] https://www.wimhofmethod.com/science
You mean people are going to stop paying me six figures to write HTML. Oh no.
Thanks. Glad to know you found it useful.
As opposed to Derek Lowe's "considered plan of treatment"?
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https://www.stephendibart.com/blog

I write about finance, technology and design. Recently, I wrote about my experience as an adjunct cyber teacher. So far, the topics have been fairly wide-ranging.

Writing this blog, if nothing else, helps me organize my thoughts on certain topics. It's cool to go back and track the evolution of your writing too.
Very interesting, in that it is falsifiable, it makes testable predictions, and it appears to fit a number of observations.

So is this just quackery or could there be something there?
I briefly worked as a field service engineer before becoming a programmer. The job that I worked was non-union but many (all?) of the electricians where in the local union.

Do you know how that works with the idea that by joining a union you are giving up your right to work non-union jobs?

I'm not trying to say that you are wrong, I just don't know enough to know if that was a special case or if there are certain circumstances where a union worker can or cannot work a non-union job.
I can highly recommend a book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, which has more information on this specific incident as well as other spy submarine stories from the Cold War
Why should tuition be refunded anyway? People are still getting credits and can graduate.

Housing and meal plans should be refunded for the unused portion of the semester, yes.
I feel I should top post on principle :)

I've added my email to my user -- I actually always assumed the email address I put in the email box was public, and had just never chacked.

Thinking about my reply, I feel top-posting encourages giving an over-all answer to an email, rather than point by point. Also, while one inline reply like you gave, feels natural, if I was to now make another point-by-point inline reply, we would start that thing I personally dislike, where it is "as if" we were having 5 or 6 parallel mini-conversations.
can you, or someone who understands this, explain to the layperson what this means.

the last sentence in particular, what does reinfection have to do with error correction (what is error correction (assuming it has to do with the genome)?)

why is that an advantage over influenza?
MIT researchers use AI to turn the coronavirus into a haunting melody
I wonder how much performance can be gained by using posits in place of ieee.
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Excerpt from Markus Buehler's Q&A with MIT News:

Q: What did you learn?

A: The virus has an uncanny ability to deceive and exploit the host for its own multiplication. Its genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses.

As you listen, you may be surprised by the pleasant, even relaxing, tone of the music. But it tricks our ear in the same way the virus tricks our cells. It’s an invader disguised as a friendly visitor.

Through music, we can see the SARS-CoV-2 spike from a new angle, and appreciate the urgent need to learn the language of proteins.
This probably has something to do with human nature. People want to be useful to others and feel like they are a necessary part of society. This is a pretty common argument against UBI. A lot of people actually want to work at their current job.
But without protecting these politicians here - over here in Europe we were more strict and did not play it down as much.
What I have missed from the medical and country leaders is 1-a median age of deaths 2-death statistic that showed symptoms according to corona.
Just stating infection number doesn’t mean anything.

For me the homework is not only on the political side but also to the medical side to present the right statistics - even if it might be ethically borderline. Because only when the threat is defined to economy, healthcare system and danger for specific groups then you can do a clear data-driven decision.
The primary difference between this spyware site and others that HN users don't object to is that it doesn't take your consent to be tracked as implicit.

As in: others are doing the same, just in a more subtle, UX-friendly way that doesn't bother people as blatantly.
Glad to know! Not sure how long it’s going to keep working though because I think all the staff was laid off recently.
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I use a hosts file that blocks these sorts of domains so I can't even read the article.
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Cool, I wasn't even aware that "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build" is a Sokoban-style game when I bought the Humble Conquer Covid-19 Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/conquer-covid19-bundle) a few hours ago (thanks for the opportunity to plug this, normally I don't do this kind of thing, but hey, it's for charity!) - guess this is one of the games I'll install first...
I was socialized in the early days of the Internet, were TOFU posting was nearly on the same level as a cardinal sin.

I didn't think much of it when I started doing correspondence with the corporate world: More than once when distilling emails and do inline quoting I've been accused of distorting the correspondence and should follow "proper" ettiquete.

People never questioned TOFU, they just took the default mode of a certain email client as gospel, as a law written in stone, the ultimate authority.

I've long given up. Text compresses well and all those redundant quotes are made short work of by even by the most naive Huffman tree coder.
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Cool idea!

http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/

Nowdays I largely write high-effort polished stuff about AI or life, with the occasional small fun thing thrown in.

Not sure if it counts, but I also run https://www.skynettoday.com/ which is a blog where many actual human beings with appropriate education/experience write polished articles to combat AI misinformation/hype in the media and more broadly get across what's going on with AI in an accessible way
(yes I know the name is a bit ironic, we like it anyway as a bit of a joke).
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