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Saxony wants to block quarantine refusers in psychiatric hospitals

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article207198029/Cor...

Conspiracy or Normal Intervention by the Aargau Authorities?

https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/aargau-solothurn/festnahme-...

Ah, good old info wars.
I don't think Sapir-Whorf (in a weak form) is just a case of inverted causality. Sure, matters of perception shape the language we speak; this happens all the time. But the key point is that the reverse direction happens too. Language is a perfect medium to transport preconceived notions and because we don't think so much about it (indeed, we think lots of things are natural, when they're actually particular features of a single language) it's particularly subtle. Examples of this include gender/classifier systems, colour perception, evidentiality markers, or one of my favourites, spacial recognition: one famous experiment shows that members of a particular Australian aboriginal tribe (Guugu Yimitthir) think in terms of absolute cardinal direction even in everyday situations instead of left and right; in fact they don't even have words for left and right. Of course, the reason for this development is originally due to the landscape around them, but now the language which lacks such terms serves to reinforce this worldview.

My only qualm with Sapir-Whorf is that it only credits language with this cultural transmission. But there are a lot of other things that can do this (arts, rituals, customs), even if language is a big part of it.

Well that and that the original version ("the Hopi don't know the concept of time") is a bit ridiculous.
Are the 8TB-14TB drives actually fully cleared? I assume this is all about the official Red (EFAX) line - I own a WD100EMAZ drive (10TB, obtained from an Elements Desktop case) the performance of which has been a little disappointing - I suspect it might be shingled as well.
The problem with that Point of view is discoverability. It's the same issue I have with tweaking Vim to slowly provide some better ergonomics for my projecting, and has honestly been a consistent hurdle even when I was first learning computer suites like Word Processors and other office stuff.

I've never done well at navigating the initial humps of learning plugin/package ecosystems. Especially when I can't phrase what it is I'm looking for correctly, and I've grown reluctant to spend excessive amounts of time trying to dedup toolsets because it leads to pristine garage syndrome.

You have a system gleaming clean and ready to do things, but you're so exhausted getting things just so, you don't do anything with it.

It has nothing to do with the fact I like to blow away and remake systems on a regular basis, I swear. :P
At least in a couple of months we'll know the result of trials for some repurposed drugs (there's quite a bunch slated to end in June). I don't expect miracles or super effectiveness, but some of these might be beneficial enough to take some load off the hospital system.
It's very hard to compare the US with Sweden. In Sweden people are able to stay at home without losing much income due to a strong welfare state - which has also been made event stronger due to the virus. In the I assume that a lot of people would be economically forced to disregard "personal responsibility".
Yes, many people under 70 have died. Hundreds, perhaps a thousand, all of which are tragedies. People also die from a variety of other diseases, accidents, and other things on a regular basis in numbers that dwarf the coronavirus. Yet, we don't shut down society over it.

> How many of your family, friends, and acquaintances are you willing to put up for the experiment?

This kind of snarky comment is precisely the problem. I'm not "willing to put up my friends" for experiment, because this isn't some zero sum game with simple answers. As I have said a dozen times now: it is a complicated situation and this "but people are dying, so we have to be as draconian as possible" take is extremely shortsighted.

There are millions of people that will now have serious problems because of the total shutdown. Here's a number for you:

> 45,000 – or one in five – suicides a year worldwide to unemployment, with a further 5,000 deaths caused by the economic crisis.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/02/the-link-between-unem...

45,000 people a year kill themselves because of unemployment. And that's just after 2008. We are apparently headed for a far worse crisis.

Have you considered the possibility that completely shutting down everything for months on end will result in more chaos and death than the virus itself? Even worse, this is entirely unpredictable?
That's a very good point. Finding a balance is so hard. There are some people who tell me a job is a job and as long as they pay you well then that's all that matters. Then there are people who tell me that they couldn't imagine working 8 hours a day in something that doesn't engage them. It's so confusing.
That’s because you don’t understand what you are talking about. You have waded into a debate where people are informed and you are not, yet when faced with an informed opinion you dismiss it as it doesn’t make sense. This is type of argumentation is a disease, ruining our ability to learn things and expose ourselves to other opinions on HN
Mass-producible open-source Covid-19 ventilator released on GitHub
One of the conditions of the relief money the airlines took was to maintain reasonable service to their existing US destinations. Another was to protect jobs through the end of September.

So yes, the planes are empty, but September is the timeframe to watch.
While my understanding of economics and QE is basic. Printing money won’t make up for lost opportunity and produce which will come out of this. Does “unlimited QE really work ?”

In my view governments are way too focused on the economy as it is / was rather than innovative solutions and investment into transitioning into something new and more resilient.

You’ll often here Trump saying “reopen the economy”. “The economy” he knew is gone. It’s changed forever, time to evolve.

I’m going to say that what contributed to getting us out of the Great Depression was (amongst other things) was that humans better adapted to that environment.
I've been using WSL1 for a long time now and I am very happy with it.

The way I use it is to have all my files and project on windows FS and I code using windows software (VSCode, Eclipse) but when I build and test, I use WSL1, and I didn't feel that the performance was that bad since I have an SSD and I don't mind waiting for few more minutes to rebuild a project.

But the most important thing for me was that I didn't care about managing another file system. All my files are still on windows where I used to keep them, file sync and backups are working as expected, and I easily browse and edit these files on the Windows side.

For docker, I installed docker on Windows and hooked Docker CLI on WSL1 to it using some configurations. and I was happy with it.

The question is, for the way I use WSL1, will WSL2 be an improvement or a drawback for me? and should someone like me switch to WSL2?
> Why has no one developed a news subscription service yet?

Isn't that what products like Apple News are?
> Police mostly just follow orders

And in this case, the law. If the locals don’t like this, they should carve exceptions into their law.

Not pass “a City Council resolution encouraging the mayor to consider relaxing crackdowns” and a CDC encouragement “not to clear homeless camps unless they can move those living there into housing” [1].

[1] https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/police-...
Some of the activity lost in the months of lockdown is just deferred, and so is projected to take place when restrictions are lifted again.
Vodafone chief speaks out after hospital-serving phone mast torched
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> as part of the criminal investigation

Here's the statement about taking her into the clinic: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/4571057

Please be more careful with the label fake.
The economy is basically a big network of relationships; employee relationships, business relationships, etc. Unfortunately such relationships tend to break quickly and in a self reinforcing cascade but can only be rebuilt slowly as businesses find that there is enough profit margin and demand to bring new people in, one at a time. That’s why recessions happen quickly and recovery time is proportional to how many people lose their jobs. You look at unemployment data for the last 50 years and the pattern is very simple: a rapid increase in unemployment and a steady recovery. The higher the spike, the longer the recovery. That being the case I would guess that the recovery from this shock will take a decade or more.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/April-...

Now I’m not saying it’s impossible for everyone to just get hired back but this would be the first time. You can’t put a broken egg back together; entropy doesn’t go in reverse. The old jobs don’t come back, new ones are created, that’s just the way it works.
I've been on a pilot track in my former life, but got out due to bad eyesight, which made it risky to invest more. Now I've been a software developer for 20 years, but it doesn't make me happy. It's an ok job and provides food and shelter for my familiy, but I wish I could get back into aviation...
To your point, think the email should at least have major technical indicators / events. e.g. S&P fell below 50 MDA, withing friday, etc.
I hate reading justified text, so I guess I know why it exists. Some people like it, good to know.
I've observed exactly this behaviour on TB volumes on AWS instances, is it known if they use this sort of drive?
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"Confinement of whistleblowers in psychiatric institutions, an old Soviet technique," yeah... great, credible reporting right there. /s

This person seems about as credible as any Reichsbürger, the German equivalent of sovereign citizens. She continued to spew her hoax crap since day 1 of her reasonable temporary detention because they gave her phone to her, and she's free again. If you're looking for erosion of democracy, this isn't it. It's, besides the usual minor shortcomings, a system of health care and authority working as intended.
What is your take, all these specific differences will make it better or worse?
Thanks! I will look into those types of jobs.
My blog is also like this - https://paul.copplest.one

Basically it’s a wiki of things that I stumble upon and want to learn later (mostly from HN).

It’s not so interesting for general reading, but the cheat sheets and code snippets get a lot of use from my friends in tech (and from google it seems).

I figure at the end of my life it will be a fairly complete knowledge base of everything I’ve ever learned
The whole point of the Vision fund is to take large longer term risks. Whether WeWork belongs in that category is a matter of opinion (I think not). But you can't judge the fund on one investment or one quarter. People here complain about short termism usually don't they?
Which of the linked tools?

The original commenter called magicpak a 'cool alternative to nix', to which I replied that nix is an industrial-strength, tested and very through solution, while magicpak is more like a dirty hack. (We used to have an internal tool much like magicpak before nix came along.)
Does anyone have a good suggestion for ergonomic and functional ticket systems you can self host? Preferably with some board management? This is personally my key take away from this.
Doreen, I usually read your comments with great interest because they are always insightful.

I think in this case you're mistaken though, your personal experience notwithstanding. Are you from the US? The police in many countries is inherently incapable of treating the defenseless well. This sometimes has to do with the local political leadership, but often times it's simply intrinsic to the force. I live in Argentina and the political leadership is desperately trying to get the cops to enforce the lockdown in a gentle manner, yet there are cases everywhere of them simply abusing people in poverty-stricken areas. The police over here prey on the weak because it makes them feel powerful (and yes, usually because there are little consequences -- and that's political). But the point here is that the police and the politicians are at odds in this case.

I think the causes for police misbehavior are multiple and indeed systemic: giving guns and power to people unqualified for it and who get a kick out of having power over people; police forces with undemocratic traditions (as in Chile and Argentina, where the force was shaped by our dictatorships; this doesn't apply to the US) don't understand how to behave in a democracy; over here the police often comes from the same low-wage background as the people they harass, and harassment becomes a form of differentiation ("I'm not like them, they dress funny, and are dumb and violent"); discrimination based on perceived skin tone of course, and this is probably a lot like in the US.

Not sure if in the US it's exactly the same, but from what I read, in many cases it's pretty similar.
Not OP, but the assumption is that these are all things that can make recovery more efficient and fast.
I left it before I really got started, and looking back at it now, I don't regret it. In my mid-twenties I decided I'd rather be an electrician. I don't sit on my ass all day. I get to meet new people, and see new places all the time. Some places that few ever get to see. Power plants, clock towers, police stations, homeless shelters, church attics. All sorts of stuff. Not all of it equally exciting, but a lot of it interesting. I get to build physical things that people will use for many many years into the future.

I get to play with lots of tech still, except it's more of the layer 1 stuff. Doing fiberoptical backhaul work, or installing DSL in peoples homes.

I'm still interested in both hardware and software. I run Gentoo Linux on my machines at home, and I have a DO VPS for "cloud things", but I'm glad it's not my job, because software issues can piss me off like no other thing is capable of.
Well said! Personally, I'd rather see growth in non-polluting technologies, mental health, education, and other aspects of our society. I don't care about overall economic growth and GDP.
Most of your differences involve just creating money out of thin air more. I don’t see how that will fix it.

What it reminds me of most are things like assignats before the French Revolution. But at least those were said to be based on something (seized church land). We make our money up based on nothing right now. It’s absurd and after it all falls it will seem so obviously stupid to historians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignat#France
Who do you work for? Or if you cannot be that specific what type of work do you do?
Are the chances of these people dying from COVID greater than other risks we take every single day, yet don't shut down society and curtail freedoms over?

That is really the only question that matters.
> shows the Economy has nothing or very little to do with the stock market.

I disagree. Stock ownership is not universal and fiscal stimulus and unlimited QE, low intrest rates is very good for people who own majorority of stock shares.

If you have access to credit and some political clout you can expect getting richer with no effort over next few years.

It is the other story for the rest.
But is he happy? That's the big question (I used to be a fixed wing flight instructor, poor but happy).
TLDR "if you stare at these weird screensavers long enough, it kinda looks like physics. if you are rich enough to hire a PR team to push the idea; lots of credulous people might agree with you."

For an example of similar quackery from quantitative finance, Espen Haug's ideas are funner:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Espen_Haug
The issue is you're looking at the value from journalism wrong. If you were to actually pay the cost of producing 1 article, it would be significantly more than you would be willing to pay to read it.

What you are paying for when you pay for journalism is not the value you perceive from reading the individual articles, but of supporting the entire organization's on-going production of journalism. You are a patron more than a customer.

Pick the one you want to subscribe to and stick with it. I would recommend subscribing to your local newspaper if you're only going to pick one.
> Nobody reads posts in chronological order.

No, people don't. Google however, does. Good SEO tells you to put a date based path in the URL (and in the page metadata). This helps Google work out how fresh your content is. If someone asks Google 'xyz' and you have a recent post about 'xyz' you will be ranked higher than many other 'xyz' posts.
Maybe they refreshed their 2-6TB line recently and not the 8-14TB and it'll come later?

Maybe the market for 8-14TB is different enough that it warrants CMS? For instance maybe the 2-6TB is for hobbyists/small companies who might not realize the drives behave differently while the larger and more expensive drives are more often use in large companies with dedicated IT who would realize something is off?

Given that TFA mainly mentions 2-6TB several times I doubt they got it wrong.
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The issue is, the people who run the show now don’t understand that hyperconnected world and all it’s marvellous possibilities.

They’re busy throwing “unlimited QE” trying to restore a world they know and remember that is now gone for good.

Trying to restore oil, and bail out legacy companies. It would be wise to invest in the future instead.
> Please be more careful with the label fake.

What you posted does not contradict that conclusion. Police thought medical advice was in order since she was acting paranoid, she attacked the officers. Hardly the dream conspiracy theory she makes it out to be. German police does not determine if somebody belongs in a psychiatric clinic, they merely presented her in front of somebody to assess if she is a harm to herself or others in that case.
> and she's free again

source?
How do you know that? Seatmap are not a reliable indicator - I made this mistake once to board a full flight to India (idea was to save on assigned seat) - many people booking will not be assigned a seat until checkin. The information your OTA or bespoke corporate travel agent has is no different to expertflyer, seatmap bad indicator and for availability you'll only see a max of 9 in each bucket..
Not for nothing, but have there BEEN many submarine engagements since WWII?

Is current doctrine that, say, fast attack subs would shoot at opposing boomers from underwater? I mean, it seems likely, right?
Less of the insults please.

As for "one of the most creative dudes of this century", I am puzzled as to how you reach this conclusion.

He certainly seems to be a very bright and capable person, and deserves recognition as the publisher of Mathematica, but that was released last century; what has he created since then that places him so high in your estimation?
Can any recent airline passengers comment on whether airports are using the reduced volume to enforce social distancing in customs, boarding, and TSA lineups?

I flew back from Mexico mid-March and going through the sweaty scrum unmasked felt a bit like being in Brunner's _The Sheep Look Up_.
Amazing. It’s like one day in 2002 they just got up, left the store, and never came back.

I wonder how the store isn’t more derelict from water leaks no one spotted or how none of the windows (The physical ones, Microsoft’s has been broken for a looooong time) are broken.
For a brand: P(problem | brand A) is the question. If Brand A has one product that's garbage, then selecting Brand A is now more risky.
The site was always up for me but yeah maybe someone did intervene. Often those are the hosters themselves. I don't think our government is competent enough to close websites this fast even if they wanted.

These cases of unvoluntarily hospitalizations are always difficult and deserve to be watched. I just wanted to put the case into context for non-Germans from what I could gather. And at the very least she's shown some very odd behaviour, which supports the police version.
Sounds like the same problem SSDs have, only really slow and shitty.
"unzipping tarbars could see a 20 times performance increase"

Took me several reads to figure out that "tarbars" was a typo for "tarballs". Thought I'd missed some new archive format.
https://a16z.com/2020/02/16/the-new-business-of-ai-and-how-i... a very good take.

Most AI startups are struggling to scale because models are hard to scale and generalize compared to SaaS. There'll be some fortunes made for sure, but we're still very early in building out these businesses and mostly these seem to be VC's who are (were?) desperate for "deep-tech" portfolio items to make them sound "bleeding-edge" at CogX, Davos, that thing in Aspen, etc.
> Ignorance of matters for which one is responsible is a curable condition, not an excuse.

We can't be experts on every issue a council is currently responsible for. That's why we have a council in the first place, so they can be, or hire, the experts.

> Putting trust in the particular politicians voters have chosen to put their trust in is exactly why blaming voters is not an unfair shift of blame.

Yet every year we have just a handful of candidates, we pick the ones who advocate for our particular interests, and hope for the best on all the issues, because there is no way of knowing how the specifics are going to play out. We hope for good journalism to let us know of the particularly heinous issues, and then we do our best to vote correctly again next year.
> there would have to be some wrongdoing to be proven

Are you claiming the extensive evidence brought in numerous cases across the country against Purdue and the Sackler family, accepted in many cases by juries and judges, has not done that?
But with "background app refresh disabled", other apps (except maybe the ones from Apple) shouldn't be able to make any requests?
I (on second read probably mis-)read the post as denying she was taken into custody at all. It's more helpful to spend a sentence clarifying what the difference is that's pointed out than saying "fake".
> Interestingly enough the local US-US flight seems to still have a lot of passengers on it (50ish%)

That's probably a mix of people with critical jobs needing to travel, people having to move for a variety of reasons, and people listening to the ignorant and ignoring the advice to social distance.
You are right, we have at least 20-30% productivity in lockdowns. But most large economies are in lockdown and China is just 15-16% of world economy. It is export oriented and only essentials have demand and functional supply chains in these lockdowns. Even with all the best case scenarios, that 3% number does not feel right
But they actually did contact tracing for the spring breakers using whatever method they have now. So either they have another method, or triangulation was good enough for the contact tracing they wanted to do.
That is probably more relates to IOPS credits I would think.
March Retail Sales Plunged 8.7% as Coronavirus Shutdowns Took Hold
The value of most of these stocks has decreased while the price has gone up. What we're witnessing is inflation. Any currency that adds trillions of new units overnight will be worth less per unit the next day. If a dollar is worth less, it takes more of them to buy something, making it appear as though stocks are going up. In reality, the price of everything is about to go up, with the exception of wages due to historic unemployment.
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When I read greatest recession since 1929, I don’t read it is going to be like 1929, I read it is going to be worse than 2008, where are the tools you mention were already there.