skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day.

If most people had this symptom, you wouldn't see the current movie, gaming, and music sales. Also, sex work would not be a lucrative job, and neither would the leisure industry (except perhaps casinos).

> A slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movement (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down).

If an overwhelming majority of people had this symptom, the world would have crawled to a stop by now. One look out the window on a busy street shows that most people are walking around normally, often at a brisk pace.

> Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
> Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day.

These ones I could grant are extremely common, especially among the working class, and are often encouraged by moder work and management practices.

> Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day.

If this were true of the vast majority of the population, you wouldn't have any kind of political life outside the elites, you wouldn't have any real amount of productive work, and you wouldn't see any art or creativity from the working class, which is obviously not true.

Overall your claim that ~97% of the population suffers from all of these symptoms is simply obviously false.

> I'd say most of the lower class has this issue.

The lower class is not "in significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning because they have depression-like symptoms. It is the other way around: a lot of them have horrible jobs where they are treated poorly, and that is causing depression-like symptoms (especially fatigue and feelings of guilt). It is not the fatigue that keeps them from living a better life, it is the life they are forced to live by our current economic and societal model that is causing their fatigue.

Depression manifests very differently, especially if you are close enough to the depressed person to get a good glimpse into their life. Diminished pleasure or interest does not manifest by being slightly bored while watching TV or listening to soul-less pop. It manifests by sitting alone in the dark, sleep-less, for hours on end. It manifests by simply not feeling powerful enough to get out of bed, regardless of how hungry you are, or of how important your job is for your livelihood. It manifests by crippling guilt and long bouts of crying, regardless of how important for your future it is to greet customers with a smile at Walmart. People with clinical depression rarely hold down jobs, especially if they are untreated. They rarely hold down relationships of any kind.

The symptoms described above sound vague, but they are actually very recognizable. Sure, you could say that 97% of the population has something that vaguely looks like these symptoms. But remember that this is a guide for trained psychiatrists, it is not meant for the general public to diagnose others.
So, "they were going to die anyway." This just in: we're all going to die anyway.

When you're lying on your deathbed drowning in the effluvia of necrotic lung tissue at least you can rest easy in the knowledge that your humanity didn't count and you're just a statistic, but at least you helped a wealthy person avoid not making as much money as he could have.
Media Coverage Doesn’t Determine Public Opinion on the Economy
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If all the API calls create a mailbox on demand, and never return a "mailbox doesn't exist" error, then the GET doesn't make any observable changes - it's as if the mailbox has always existed.
> We count flu deaths in the same way, so the data is equally skewed.

We actually don't, because flu is not routinely tested for the way that COVID-19 currently is among suspected cases.
But then we would never be able to treat text as a stream. All of your one pass algorithms would become two pass.
Spain rolls out social security 2.0.

Fools.
I'd say Wikipedia is generally less dry than the average technical book.

It's less whimsical than some blog posts, sure, but Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopaedia (roughly speaking).
This is the crux of the issue. It's very easy for "emergency" powers leveraged by the government to become permanent powers. Look no further than the Patriot Act. The public should be following the public recommendations/guidelines as much as they possibly can, but they should also keep a close eye on the government and what powers it grants itself.
The same, in fact my life would be very different if a random guy from (I think Kansas, given I'm from the UK) on a forum bought me a domain and gave me a slice of his dedicated hosting when I was mid-teens.

I've always wanted to pay it forward in the same way, but lots of things on the web seem overly complicated now that'd make that hard to do, and I've lost attachment to most communities.
This makes me wonder if there will be “covid19 deniers” in the future just like there have been holocaust deniers ever since the war, claiming that it never happened and is a conspiracy.

It’s really depressing these theories, anti vaccine, and anti science ideas are gaining so much momentum in recent years. And then the world governments pull something like they just did, saying masks don’t work when in fact they help... how can you ever convince anti science people to trust, well, science and governments when this happens??

I suspect this will become a bigger and bigger problem, with more and more people dying of illnesses we have vaccines for. Very sad.
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Shkreli wants to buy chloroquine stockpiles.

So he can raise the price 20,000%.
Also: “when you argue with an idiot, nobody can tell who is the idiot”.
UK doctor shares a breathing technique for helping Covid-19 ill persons [video]
For some reason scrollback mouse integration works well till one disconnects and reconnects, and then suddenly it's broken.
i didn't mean rust didn't have dynamic sized arrays, i even mentionned Vec in my comment.

I am indeed a beginner in rust, and i was surprised by the completely different syntax & types for arrays and Vec... I read about it afterward and get the reason for it, but that's the first time i encountered that peculiarity in a language..
Does mosh play well with MacOS?
Someone did an analysis on the app and posted on reddit[1]. Turns out they included a gov analytics tracker[2] in the app

1: https://splira.com/2020-03-28/

2: https://wogaa.sg/home/index.html#/
New Covid-19 project will use the power of smartphones to search for treatments
Try SU(3) Yang Mills!
Yeah plenty of time for workplaces to do that for you. I can count on my hand the number of times something has been a hard deadline. This teacher taught a valuable lesson usable for the rest of the student's carreers and "the most students shouldn't fail mentality" has led to professors I know personally questioning the caliber of student they are receiving and this is a top 30 program I'm referring to. More people should fail, maybe they'd start treating things seriously and the problem of underqualified technical applicants would resolve itself.
As someone who tends to have a skeptical approach to most things, including this: you could consider not lumping into the same box every person who doesn't agree with every aspect of the prevailing viewpoint on something.
That final tally of bodies is a drop in the bucket of 7 billion, as I have already pointed out.
Sorry if the title is not accurate, I roughly translated it from French.

My wife is Covid-19 ill actually and it helped her sleeping so if it can help...
I would bet this number is an underestimate, not at overestimate.

There are probably more people dying in their homes of covid-19 without ever having received a test (and thus not being counted) than people with a severe covid-19 reaction (since its still very hard to get tested if you have mild symptoms) but dying from something else.
So something else is causing a huge spike in mortality rates?
IANAO but I do voluntary work at a Raptor conservancy.

Owl silent-hunter stealth mode has one significant penalty not mentioned in the article: in some species (e.g. Barn Owls) the feathers are not waterproof because they lack preen oil [0]. Consequently Barn Owl mortality increases in extended periods of wet weather (they get wet and then cold), forcing them to hunt in the day in some cases.

Edit: IANAO = ... Ornithologist, not ...Owl, in case anyone was wondering.

[0] https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife...
When PHP came out it was a big hit because of deployability. Cheap web hosts could install it and hack out quick scripts, or more important, install WordPress.

There were a few subtle points in how it was built that meant you could write bad scripts and not crash the server. There were commercial alternatives, some pretty spiffy, but they were expensive and risky (you could test PHP for yourself or you go up the chain of command to pay $5000 for a Cold Fusion license then be stuck with it if you don't like it.)

Other communities working on blub languages thought that the good properties of PHP were not important. They might have been minimal but they were not viable.
Show HN: No-code Browser Automation. RPA so non-coders can automate work
Hi all,

We built a no-code way to automate work in your browser.

It’s in beta, and we’ve just made it public today:

https://axiom.ai/

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/axiom-browser-automation

What?

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a way to automate using the user-interface of applications, rather than APIs.

It’s been really popular in the enterprise for automating big processes.

We think RPA has great potential as a no-code paradigm for smaller processes.

Why?

Not everything has an API and not everybody knows how to code.

But everybody knows how to point, click and type. Everybody understands data visualised in a UI.

We see axiom as a novel way to introduce the principles of programming to non-coders, to automate more day-to-day tasks.

Why would you not use APIs? This is a waste of CPU cycles!

Most of our beta-users are non-technical, in roles like sales or e-commerce administration.

They have repetitive extract, transform, load (ETL) tasks primarily, and this gives them the opportunity to automate, where they could not before.

CPU cycles are still far cheaper than their time.

Use-cases?

The primary use-case now is now ETL workflows in sales, e-commerce and customer support, but it’s a general tool.

Axiom’s beta is not for large-scale data-scraping or automated testing.

Why should I trust you with my data?

We don’t touch your data. All data-processing and execution occurs client-side, on your machine.

We only store the code for execution. For data-storage, we use your Google drive/sheets account.

Other browsers?

We currently only support chrome.

Feedback

We’re interested in discovering new niches.

This is still a beta product. If you come across bugs, our support on https://axiom.ai is responsive.

Thanks!
Well, sure, but that only pushes the question back one step further: who told you which action to pick? Why pick R and not R^2, for GR, for example?

[ Just to avoid someone spending too much time on an explanation IAAPhysicist; yes I understand effective field theory and the preference for Lagrangians built from relevant/marginal operators. ]
Because they’re anticipating rather than reacting, and working largely based on muscle memory?
Sinclair had an amazing economy of words. He could describe a scene so well in so few words, and simply.
Dr's are not going to say that person who was asymptomatic but was infected with covid-19 died of it if there was something else. However they are going to record that the person was infected because that information is useful for later medical/epidemiological research.

However there is also a good chance that even if covid-19 isn't the only contributor to a person's death. For example a person with heart disease can extract enough O2 from the air to live but because of there disease they are below the normal human amount. Then comes along covid-19 with futher reduces their body's effectiveness and the person doesn't have enought air to live.
> anyone under 50 has a 95% of being out of action for a week or two then getting back up unaided.

Now consider a home with four people under 50. The chance of someone in that home getting unlucky is then around 1 in 5. There is only a 81% chance of all four "being out of action for a week or two then getting back up unaided".
For any musicians that contribute to this, what is the motive at play here? The joy of creating > need for profit? Getting your name in the title?
> You're literally arguing that you get to reinterpret the rules, in spite of the fact that the rules have already been interpreted for you by the authorities as recommending that you not go on road trips, because it makes you feel more comfortable. This is selfish. Moreover, it is not a "reasonable excuse". You did not have to travel. It did not contain any likelihood of making you safer, and indeed it endangered you and those around you. You chose to do this, and would like for us to excuse you because it would avoid you having to shoulder your civic responsibility.

What do you know about my situation that you can declare that moving away did not make me or my cohabitants safer ? I explicitly described how moving from a place to place (which is hardly a road trip and is not done either for leisure or tourism) can be done without endangering anyone beyond the unavoidable risks you take venturing out for groceries etc.
Going to a hospital when sick is also extremely selfish, you can just stay at home and cope it out.

> Fuck, as a Yankee, this kind of shit is why I'm glad we're not a part of the Commonwealth. You'd rather language-lawyer than acknowledge that you live in a society and that you rely on other people. Y'know what we're doing in Oregon? We're staying home, and we got a cut in half in projected deaths from last week. Work together, smarter, not harder. Imagining you wasting boxes of gloves and masks just to get out to your rustic countryside retreat is making me sick; Oregon is currently loaning our extra medical equipment to other states where the demand is greatest, and meanwhile you're busily computing how many pairs of gloves you can get to the litre of petrol.

That's because Oregon and most of US already is a rustic countryside retreat in comparison to half of the world in terms of population density and personal space and you should probably put your imagination towards trying to understand people who live in different circumstances than yourself. A few couples of gloves and one mask is all it takes - you're not supposed to wear them all the time in your own car, only when you venture out.

Also you seems to have a strange unfamiliarity with both your own and the commonwealth countries if you think the commonwealth people are more prone to self-interested interpretation of the rules than Americans.
The only reason I mentioned UK is because that's what the original submission was about, pretty sure the rules in Oregon are essentially the same.

> I roundly count 9 people, including myself, in this thread, including people that I've politically disagreed with in the past. This is quite literally 9 out of 10 dentists agreeing that one ought to brush their teeth; why are you the holdout? If you're going to be the rebellious Angry Man, then you ought at least to have evidence that supports your position; again, evidence seems to support the idea that you would be risking spreading the virus.

I'm not sure how any of this is political and it really sounds like it is you who are looking for reasons to feel angry and morally superior to people whose circumstances you are entirely ignorant of.
> and couple it with an experiment.

Only a handful of special cases that have obvious "paradoxes" that cannot be explained with Maxwell's equations.

It's not even a fully general set of equations classically, it can only handle a certain constrained motions at low velocities, short distances, and generally without accelerations.

I mean sure, a map is simple to understand and is fine for navigating a city, but let's not pretend the Earth is flat and then only introduce its spherical geometry in 2nd year studies. That's not the right pedagogical approach.
That's mentioned in the article
There are some silent, tactile switches, but I think they're a bit more obscure.

I made my ergonomic, split keyboards from a kit[1], and chose Aliaz Silent switches [2]. It's around the same noisiness as everyone else's keyboard (Apple, cheap Dell one etc).

(There are almost certainly other options — the choice was a bit overwhelming when I decided to buy a DIY keyboard — but I'm not in the hobby of collecting many different keyboards. Various Reddit groups can advise.)

[1] https://github.com/omkbd/ErgoDash

[2] https://kbdfans.com/products/pre-orderaliaz-silent-switch-ta...
> At the ACLU, we have always recognized that, during a disease outbreak, individual rights must sometimes give way to the greater good. After all, when it comes to disease, we are not just individuals but also one big bio-mass. That is why people can sometimes be deprived of their liberty through quarantine, for example. And this is as it should be, provided — and this is a crucial and sometimes violated condition — that the science supports the effectiveness and proportionality of measures such as quarantine. And even if a quarantine is imposed, people do not lose their due process rights, which at a minimum require that they be able to challenge their quarantine.

- https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/can-we-trust-the...
React Contexts Are Dynamic Scope
The Swiss Post currently has a stamp-by-SMS service for normal letters where upon sending an SMS to an automated system, you are charged the normal stamp price using the premium SMS system, and you receive a sequence (8-10 characters long IIRC) which you write where a stamp would normally go at the top-right of the envelope. It's far more convenient than having to remember to buy stamps in advance or typically going out of your way to a post office just to mail a letter as mail boxes, by contrast, exist seemingly all over the place.
The economics of delivery services are fascinating. Density is king.

Let's say Big Delivery Company pays Joe and Bill to deliver 200 packages each, splitting a region of the city between them. They drive and deliver for 10 hours each, probably covering 50-100km each on the road- drive to the next stop, drop package off, repeat.

But now let's say BDC adds 200 pickups of packages as well in the same region, and also adds Kate as a driver, splitting the region 3 ways. Now, each driver still has 200 stops (some drop offs, some pickups), but the average distance between stops decreases since it's the same area overall region with more stops to make. That means each driver is driving less, taking less time, becoming more efficient.

As density of stops increases, variable cost decreases. Those pick ups are also additional business- tomorrow, density will be higher somewhere else. Given that, BDC could be doing those deliveries at cost, and still come out making money because of all the efficiency gains elsewhere.

And yes, this does make presumptions that pick ups are as easy as drop offs, etc, etc. Lots of those to go around. But the principle is the same: density is money, and any company doing deliveries wants more density.
EDIT: just stating the obvious. if your post is dripping with condescension, then I can only imagine what your conversations are like. Take a deep breath, present your case, and keep what's important (your relationship with who you're talking with) at the forefront.

Here's a nice talking point:

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

In the US, the number of deaths has doubled since last week. That site has many other interesting charts.
That freestanding workspace sitting in the middle of an open room evokes a lone cubicle.
I'm not arguing about storing serialized format; instead I suggest to parse it and end up with something like that:

NAME ( 1, "Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky" )
TAG ( FIRSTNAME, 1, 0, 5 )
TAG ( LASTNAME, 1, 20, 30 )
TAG ( PATRONYMIC, 1, 7, 18 )

I'm not saying it's efficient (UPD: speedy), but it's sufficient to get the required details and can be mechanically transformed into a more efficient form. UPD: And it's very flexible and easy to extend. I believe it can handle just about any kind of naming from "Falsehoods about names".
San Francisco has demonstrated that just asking people to social distance and observe some shelter in place rules works for the most part.

Why do we need to implement a surveillance state on top of that?
You're comparing millions of death in the US to the world population. It would be more fair to either use the expected number of deaths worldwide if we just continued our business, or compare it to the total population of the US.
sure we can write 10 page bioethics essays, but when contact tracing is implemented it won't even be an app, governments will access data directly from carriers. and people will be ok because they re scared
"Requested"? It is painfully obvious that this narrative will climax with highly reduced rights - such as freedom of movement; employment; any sort of "assembly" -- for individuals who elect not to use mandatory surveillance products. Pressure to conform will be enormous and applied from top and bottom (from hysterical/concerned bottom dwellers).

This drip drip of 'steps to take' by authorities and media is quite disingenuous: there have been multiple simulations into pandemics in the past 30 years and all these steps have been spelled out in various papers.

Here is one: www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/Dark%20Winter%20Script.pdf

(Grep for "freedom")
I'm an SEO. I build links all the time.

SEOs like me don't give a rat's patoot if some guy throws a hissyfit about other SEOs contacting him for backlinks.

Whenever I do outreach, people reply with a quote on how much it costs. This is business, and I'm willing to pay.

I agree with him that those wanting a backlink for free are parasite moochers.

But the reality of the situation is that you can build great content and nobody will ever visit it if you don't build at least a few backlinks to yourself.

Build it and they will come?

Show me where, because it's certainly not in SEO.

I still gotta eat. So paid backlinks it is.

Troy can execute his evil plan. It'll fail. You think you're gonna get rankings & traffic from just including a few terms on an otherwise unrelated blogpost?

It isn't 2005 in SEO anymore.

If only it were!
Not yet :) But I may just for the sake of it.
Anecdotally I have found it is the older half (latter middle age) that are less likely to take it seriously ironically and likely to complain about inconveniences or that they are "overreacting". I blame Fox News for it, they are outright the world's largest elder abuse network.

Personally I suspect the abysmal leadership and the utterly corrupt fuck ups in preparations who spent more time insider trading than stocking up on medical supplies back when there was fully functioning industrty undermines the legitimacy greatly. How can they ask others to take them seriously when they didn't? The tracking is just plain Reichstagging at this point.

And the worst part is that the threat is real and the leadership being corrupt morons doesn't change that.