skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With you 100% that in relative terms we're not facing anything close to the black death. Everything past this point is just me enjoying my day off by learning about random things, and wanting to know what the actual answer is.

My original number was from a search for "How many people died from the black plague.". The first result was a National Geographic article which stated the 25 million number occurring over a century. [1]

The linked Wikipedia article states 75 to 125 million, so the two disagree by a factor of 3 to 5.

The Wikipedia article cites an Australian Broadcasting Corporation news article for the 75 million number[2], and thus cites 'Anomalies and Curiosities in Medicine' page 617 for the other number. The edition of AaCiM available online -published in 1906- actually has the information on page 893. [3] The information there doesn't match the Wikipedia article. The largest number stated there is 75 million, and cites 'Le Moyen Age Médical', which appears to have been published in 1896. [4] I found an English translation, and the only number I saw was 25 million over 4 years. [5] It's not clear if the author is referring only to Europe, but it seems likely. At this point, I really need to take my dog out, but it seems to me that the vague answer is that tens of millions of people died, many in a specific four year period. Which, goes back to the idea that, in relative terms we're not dealing with anything like the black plague, and that how you measure things is important.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-...

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/01/29/2149185.ht...

[3] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anomalies_and_Curiositi...

[4] https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-54930290R...

[5] https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/bookviewer?PID=nlm:nlmuid-54...
$1.1T CISA Center of Internet Security code exposed causing damage to US
Yes, but there's the PC link option for the Quest, so if you have the link do you get the same experience as a Rift including being able to pull all your Windows desktop windows individually into VR?
Newseum appears to still have the daily front page of a ton of newspapers. (A bit surprised since they closed their physical building)

https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
Just before I get into discussing this idea, I'm curious how sure you are about it. The way you describe it it's pretty much a simple solution that just needs implementing.

How do you know exactly what the outcome would be?
I think it's absolutely crazy and irresponsible to do a press conference on a paper that you haven't even released a preprint of. I really hope that there aren't any issues with the actual publication, because if there are, they're going to cause a great amount of damage to scientific credibility, which so incredibly important right now.
This argument has been debunked 20 times already.
Might. Or might not.

If we're going to be back to normal in a year, and if stock prices were not overvalued a month ago, then prices now are too low, and it's a great time to buy.

If.
They can, but as explained in one of the article (by Cloudflare, "On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling") SIMD in a multithreaded environment can cause performance problems due to CPU throttling.

So generally SIMD are used for single thread algorithms.
I could show you an ubuntu root password dialog and you would type your password into it > 0% of the time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642804
I'm glad I'm not the only one who bothered reading these links. I can only assume earlier posters are blinded by partisanship. Anything even tangentially related to politics requires a good degree of skepticism in the face of bias that's evident throughout this entire thread.
man that is as horrible as the firefox update dialogs.

they keep on moving them around so you can't disable updates.

I have a machine on a private network and I CANNOT get rid of the "firefox can't update to the latest version" nag no matter what setting I play with.

user-hostile "features"
Are you just igoring news that fly in the face of what you're stating here? Have you looked at the current state of NYC?
I am wondering whether there is a management issue at Hex-Rays. The newly released company website features a page which appears to advertise against the product [1], because it entirely misses who their audience is.

The core point made regarding why IDA is a superior product despite license unfairness is vendor support. However, the authors seem to miss that the target audience of IDA are tinkerers, who would be fine with fixing their own tools as long as the issues are only on the surface.

Hex-Rays is not Oracle, who can afford to live from license unfairness because their product is embedded deeply into the livelihood of so many large companies. Hex-Rays provides just a tool, which I have already replaced by Cutter with Radare2 and Ghidra's decompiler in my workflow.

I would not use IDA Home even if it was free due to its limitations and lack of Hex-Rays' Decompiler.

[1] https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/compelling-reasons-to-...
Two comments down, he says to only use that if you know exactly what you're doing, as that set is not secure for most people.
> Market is pricing in a V-shaped recovery which isn’t out of the question if we can open up in May.

If we try to open up generally in May, without some massive improvement in testing and contact tracing (and the federal government withdrawing support for testing makes that less likely) the shape is going to be more like a left-right reversal of an italic N than a V, due to the devastating and probably higher second peak and the necessary response the run up to that peak will provoke.
It's interesting to note that gold has significantly outperformed S&P500 over the last 5 years (and so has Bitcoin and many other 0-yield assets).

If we were to redraw stock charts using gold as the x axis (instead of $ USD), we would realize that company stocks have in fact all been dropping for the last 5 years.

The US dollar is not so different from the Venezuelan bolivar, it's also inflating and making the stock market appear to grow... But it's not the value of the stock which is growing, it's the value of the dollar which is shrinking (and so are all other fiat currencies which are pegged to it).
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Right, this is just a dead cat bounce. A lot of people are trying to time the bottom. All of FAANG will be in even better shape post crisis. Additionally, the money has to go somewhere, and people are chasing returns at any cost.
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Tell that to the 6 yr old using Scratch. "Hey! Stop that fun stuff with shapes and animation an games and go study math for X years. When you're done maybe I'll let you program".
Right but the culpability is 99.9999% with the virus. I don't blame Obama I don't blame Trump. I don't blame Congress. I don't blame Italy. I blame a virus. Our response to it, so far as it deviated from a hypothetical perfect 10, is not relevant.

It's a virus.
Really cool, thanks for sharing. Didn't know I even had a need for Kubernetes IDE until I saw the site.
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Interview: How Germany is gearing up for virus tracing app
Right. Recent news say ~6.6 million, but that was new cases filed for last week. Around 1 in 10 Americans are jobless, and nearly 1 in 3 renters in the U.S. failed to pay April rent at the beginning of the month.
Apple and Google Team Up to ‘Contact Trace’ the Coronavirus
Maybe. The text hints that they also maintain their own adversary fleet in addition to hiring contracting firms like the one in the article.

> These Israeli-designed pods are pretty much the world standard in modular self-protection jamming systems and are used on the Pentagon's own aggressor fleet...
Yes, and it's a recurring theme. In Portuguese we have a word "esmero", which is very applicable. It means something made with extreme care and craftsmanship.

For example, I once needed to take a very precise crop off a screenshot, and thought "it would be nice if there was a way of fine tuning the mouse position". My first thought was somehow using the arrow keys, I pressed one of them and voila! The mouse moved a single pixel in that direction.

It's hard to pinpoint in specific features, but the best description is that ShareX is a very well laid out workshop, with everything within reach and nothing in the way.
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It was long-winded. However, the intersection of raw technology, consumer product manufacturing and distribution, show business, and government regulation makes for a complicated story.

I can't think of anything in the modern era as kludgy as mechanical sequential color TV systems making it into 'production'.
Aww, that's what I feared after the reviews always just raved about the art mode. If it doesn't even work so well for imported images, even worse.

Well, that's one expensive toy expense saved I guess.
Do you have links to shipping examples of these other methods short of making your app open source?
This should really be titled “A comparison of aggregates”.
By that logic gig economy apps are good, yet they are heavily criticized and in some cases sued.
That's an outcome/result of decades of policy, not the source of the policy (which I'm trying to understand)
What is the point of the word literally then? What information does it convey if not to say that it is actually, without exaggeration?
There's an interesting art to knowing when neato or twopi are better choices than dot for layout rendering. Graphviz is interesting because there are multiple layout renderers and "non-ugly" is a graph-by-graph art form between the different renderers and different renderer hints in the graph file (spring constants and what-have-you).

I've had some successes and a lot of failures over the years.
I won't say that they offer perfect security, but these are military contractors, not part-timers from a temp agency. They are mostly ex-military (you can't get trained Hornet drivers anywhere else except for a few civilian test pilots), still have to maintain their security clearances, and are subject to security audits.

They probably have vulnerabilities but I don't think a training contractor is as juicy of a target as you might think. They only maintain information on the capabilities of the enemies they are supposed to simulate- aggressor units don't have information on the blue air capabilities. It not useless information, but it mostly doesn't make sense for Russia/China to spend their effort finding out what the US thinks Russia/China is capable of. They already have a pretty good idea.
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PostgreSQL has the JSONB data type which is essentially the same as the BSON type except slightly better optimized for reading partial documents. And PostgreSQL also provides good indexing support for them, and did so before MongoDB.
A lot of people wouldn't read the source code anyway.
I'd rather take a chance on the Frame's automatic backlight adjustment to match the ambient light level maybe working, than on e-ink which guarantees poor reproduction.

It's just super odd to me
to think about wanting to
go to all the trouble of displaying an image at that size and scale, and also being willing to accept it looking as lousy as e-ink's awful contrast will necessarily make it. Sure, it's a lot easier to change the displayed image than it is with a paper print, but what's the benefit of that when they're all going to look equally bad?

Granted I'm a photographer and I want my own work to look good, but it's not as if I had to develop that interest to want whatever I did put on my walls to look good...
I've been looking for a chat application similar to the original slack (prettified / integrated irc, no need for the various integration and all) but free and self hosted or for a fixed sum rather than a sum per user per month, but I have been disappointed in what I found.

The self hosted version of tools that offer a subscription service like mattermost are very limited in search and archiving, the ones integrated in hardware appliance like synology chat are very limited in admistration capabilities (moderation, permissions,...).

Did I miss an offering somewhere or is this a still open area?

Main needs 1-1 chats, channels, permission per user per channel, full logs and search, administrative view and archiving over all exchange
Stock is a bet on the company until the end of time, and 30 years from now, nobody will remember the Great Pandemic of 2020. Even if we imagine a worst case worse than the predictions, things will probably be fine for the economy. If 10% of the human race dies tomorrow, that just means everyone else needs to do 10% more work; a 40 hour workweek becomes a 44 hour workweek.

(Obviously if sucks if you or your loved ones die. But the economy doesn't care.)
This chart is why https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
I've been using the new Flatpak in beta for a month or so. I really like it on Fedora since it means I don't have to enable any 3rd party repos to get DRM working.
I don't see how that code exploits anything?
I read it all and while it's great that he has a legitimate reason to own these, it doesn't change the fact that he owns a private air force, heavy weapons and state-of-the-art countermeasures. It's a terrifying legal precedent and he's opened the door for a new market niche that less savory people can sneak into.

The US already has ludicrously expansive personal rights to weapons ownership for any reason. We have a guy buying up a private air force. We have several guys building space vehicles. If Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos wanted a nuclear-armed ICBM could we actually stop them? Or, maybe more likely, some QAnon nutjob getting his hands on an armored vehicle and driving it through a shopping mall in Atlanta?
The choir members did not stand next to each other. They didn't hug or shake hands and maintained at least 6 feet between each other.
Not sure if you're aware, so I apologise if you are:

1) X11 is already a network aware display system, so it wouldn't take too much work to run remote.

2) SSH has built-in X11 forwarding with `ssh -X <host>`, when you run commands they will be rendered locally. On OSX this needs an X11 server (XQuartz) to work properly.

3) There are "better" remote desktop solutions like "parsec"[0] which run on Windows and Linux. They offer much lower latency and higher bit-depth. They're designed for games. (obviously this comes at the price of bandwidth).

[0]: https://parsecgaming.com/features/
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> You're seeing what's wrong with centralized planning of things that don't need to be centralized

Procuring masks on the market sure seemed to work out great for states in the earlier days of this incident:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2020/03/30/i-spent...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245501506205421570.html

We started out with decentralization and now we've switched to something in between. Neither have worked.
So Don't Make America Great Again?
It's a special type of horse that won't run out unless aliens from another galaxy throw space hay at the door.
Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19
Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing: Apple and Google draft specification
CS academics definitely use Java.
have you tried using the postgres json data type? it's a joke.
As someone who learnt to program in Scheme, this was true for me, did so much Scheme that when doing some C or JS I had to pause for moment and think harder when writing imperative loops.
I don't see it. We might be able to sanction China but we cannot do much more than that, and any incredibly rigid sanctions might be seen as an act of war and _nobody_ wants to fight a war with nuclear power China. Maybe it'll be a cold war, but that could take 30 or 40 years to peter out and the CCP does seem a bit more sophisticated than the Soviet's.

Not all bars and restaurants cater to "the reckless youth" segment, heck, not even most, because there simply isn't enough money in that segment to keep the industry afloat.

We'll see though, fun times ahead!
Sure, we also have bulletin boards, we just don't pin entire newspapers to them (anymore?).
The subhead gives the entire answer:

Investors are betting that powerful interventions from Washington will protect the long-term profitability of major companies.

Which means that the market is 100% detached from the overall economy, economic outlooks, and company earnings.. again.
Coronavirus: Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19
While I agree with some of your points re: online companies doing well, I don't see how you can take anecdata about local grocery stores and extrapolate it to the rest of the economy. Also, don't forget that 16 million (that's 5%!) Americans are unemployed right now. Can you imagine the damage that's going to do to businesses across the country?

If that isn't a sign that a recession is coming, I don't know what is.
So given than 80 bits is much bigger than 30-40 bits, if I know someone's hash I can very easily narrow down their phone number to one or sometimes two candidates.
That's why you have to pick your battles.

Look for the 20% of effort that will get you 80% of the results.
I'd imagine if you switch to a company that asks less of you, you will get promoted more slowly. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Still though, you can probably understand now why it's not the default.
Can someone who is using MongoDB and a RDBMS at the same time tell me the exact use cases where MongoDB is fitter? Structured logs? Caching? Sessions? And why MongoDB does it better?
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Yeah as long as you're admin: https://slack.com/intl/en-fi/help/articles/360001502048-Mana...
None of those cases tested positive, but what kind of test did they have? PCR only identifies an active infection. Need antibody testing if not currently infected.
If we open up in May, we will likely experience an even worse second peak.
> that regime is slated for death

Care to put a date to your prediction?
Google announcement: https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
I'd encourage freerd.com to be more descriptive on the landing page - the blurb says "RDP Implementation", but it's not clear if it's client, server, or both. As a client, this is only useful to people accessing Windows.
A statement I'm sure many of their product managers have made about many "features" that have whittled away at their power userbase.

IMO if they want to be slightly different Chrome, they should just take a full leap and cut out the functionality not used by or confusing to the users they're trying to target. Drop the pretense of control or customization. They're only hurting themselves in the long run by trying to slowly drag one userbase into the other and satisfying both poorly as a result.
what makes you think that a new tool will help your self discipline?

Let go or be dragged.
I honestly doubt this, the virus triggered some events that will ripple through the economy and companies with WFH tools like Zoom and Slack won't be able to make up for the losses.
There's plenty of big companies I know that need to cut costs, spend less on ads (which is bad for Google & Facebook), lay off people who then won't be able to consume as much and this will get worse in the coming months
https://github.com/mermaid-js
- Faster development speed
- Unknown content of the object that should be stored (and run indexes on this content)
It is a lot for a hobbyist especially since it seems to be all upfront.
Can you list some reasons?
Has anyone ever seen a linear-time algorithm to do a histogram without mutation? I mean like `Counter` from python. https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/collections.html#collect...
Sweden said it didn't need a lockdown because people could be trusted
My wife's close friend works at Stanford. Her sister was recently contacted by Stanford, because she donated blood a few weeks back, and they detected antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 in her blood. The levels of antibodies were high enough that they requested that she donate plasma to help with other patients.

She has zero symptoms. So the case that the infection rate could be much higher than expected is definitely plausible.
Actually the display he used was a color eInk display but he chose to use it in greyscale mode as an aesthetic decision.
Wow, this is an amazing tool. Great, succinct docs as well.

(It seems like 'Mind Map' referred to by the OP is just the Horizontal Tree Layout of this tool.)
Heads up, with adblockers turned on in iOS Safari, every product image on your site is missing.
Pretty good illustration of how private and secure contact tracing can work here: https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/

Not sure whether that's what this implementation would look like.
At first glance I thought the title next to your link was sort of "Free as in Kittens" but it was slightly different and a good article.
i noticed this too! it was probably my most common pain point of firefox. i actually questioned whether it really happened and would happen again on the next restart.
I wasn't aware!
Added it.

Thank you very much for all your work. Your CLI tools are really making a positive impact on the world of development.
So, lack of a larger test suite that can detect ripple effects across the overall system, and not just a component?

Or are test suites just a nice fantasy for a real distributed system?
it is just shockingly important that we come out of this _without_ a dystopian nightmare of a surveillance state.

That apple's involved in this is hopeful -- their earlier work on anonymizing Maps.app directions is well worth thinking about here. tl;dr your route is broken up into n chunks, each chunk gets a uuid that isn't tied to your handset, and so serverside nobody knows where Bob's Iphone just asked to go. [0]

Doing this kind of "differential privacy" or whatever we want to call it today properly is very hard, but it is also very, very important to get right.

[0] https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigati...
There are variants of Spectre that do not require a high resolution timer. Here's some thoughts on working around browser mitigations: https://alephsecurity.com/2018/06/26/spectre-browser-query-c...
Isn't RDP more akin to VNC than X11? You can connected and reconnect to existing sessions, something you cannot do with X11 (but can with VNC).

I have never heard of Parsec before but it's not immediately obvious that it's an alternative to RDP (Desktop usage)
It's almost the same as where it was Jan 2019. Business is nowhere near as good as it was in Jan 2019, so clearly there is a discrepancy.
Postgres can also be made to shard any table to multiple hosts via the PARTITION BY RANGE/PARTITION OF feature, combined with the FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER (FDW) core extension.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwvZql6RToE
Wow, "regression to the mean".

Creating something motivates most of the people on this planet, and without going into specifics, I would claim that Gateses and Jobses of this world are not all that rare as far as their abilities are concerned. Situation and, well, luck, are a big part of where life takes people. And having been provided for will discourage most from being as driven to "succeed" (in either financial or tech/scientific sense, two most common accepted ways to success on HN).

Which is to say: don't judge according to your standards of "success".

And raising kids is anything but science, unless you have such a large number of them that statistics applies (though even then, you'd probably be breaking a bunch of laws if you tried to be scientific :)).

As such, addiction to screens is usually, imo, an addiction to specific type of content, or rather interaction (or lack thereof) type.