skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it brought up quite a bit on HN, and yet... very rarely with much rigor.

It is often of this sort of "I feel that the economic costs will be worse than the human life costs" without any hard backing to explain that. Challenging the opinions of the people getting airtime is fine, but only if you've got the material to back you up.

Otherwise it sounds just like wishful thinking.
That is already happening. Both New York Times and the Washington Post use paywalls, whereas Fox News is totally free.
That is odd. I know that during the war in the Pacific the Japanese were extremely careful to avoid having the vastly superior longlance torpedoes fall into the hands of the Allies. They would go to great lengths to search for and recover lost, unexploded torpedos that were in shallow water. It seems like a command-detonation options would be very useful in this regard.
This is kind of what the SPUs of the PS3 were like, except with way way less RAM.
The reasons why society decided to re-root itself on top of internet are to be investigated. Capitalism logic caught in a loop looking for virginial spaces to re-grow with even less constraints ?
> other countries haven't locked down hard and aren't seeing a big spread

Let’s be precise. Some other countries haven’t locked down hard and aren’t seeing a big spread yet.

You mentioned Sweden. Here was Time a few days ago:

> A head doctor at a major hospital in Sweden says the current approach will “probably end in a historical massacre.” He says healthcare workers at his hospital who have tested positive for the virus but are asymptomatic have been advised to continue working. He asked to remain anonymous because “it is frowned upon to speak of the epidemic or to go against the official vision” but said he felt a need to speak out from an “ethical and medical point of view.”
Nice work mate! It's exciting turning your side projects into reality. Hopefully there will be thousands of subscribers in a year and you could make some good money out of it.

p.s. you can replace Google's captcha with hCaptcha ;) https://dev.to/stanbright/cloudflare-replaced-recaptcha-with...
If the rumors that Apple is moving their Mac line to AMD is true, then it would be a homerun
Is a time of Rust and Golang, how is C still relevant? (Sincere question)
This doesn't matter. Low quality news sources are a dime a dozen, and the good news costs money. You have to be sophisticated enough to be able to differentiate news sources. For instance, as a WSJ subscriber, I'm not going to read the editorials. They're complete garbage in terms of factual content. The business page is gold.

And this is very good. All the freeloaders who block ads and only use low-quality news will get poorer information and they will be out-competed. That's a good thing. Humanity will move forward. So block your ads on your ad-supported sources, grumble about "inequity of information", and exclaim in horror that you can't access good information because of a paywall. This is it. The future is here: ads are disappearing (temporarily, I think) and you're seeing what happens when your desired world comes to be.

There's no schadenfreude here. Many of you were just sawing on a branch you sat on, with the natural consequence. The LA Times railed against targeted advertising. Well, they got what they wanted. And now they're subject to the razor's edge that is the market.
Sweden has the highest death rate per capita of all developed nations.
I don't really think you fully appreciate what how your "real plan" or your accompanying nitpicks would be received by the average citizen. The biggest pitfall, as has already been pointed out by another reply, is that it creates concrete expectations that the government will be held accountable for.

Secondly, most of your nitpicks are great if you want to nerd out over the details of the epidemic, but most people are not going to find small details like static versus dynamic surge capacity or suppression versus mitigation useful at all or relevant to them at all.

A sprinkling of Dunning-Kruger here..
> - Dense city? Quarantine. - Moderately dense? High risk individuals quarantine, everyone else social distances, but works. - etc. Across the board, if your business is the sort that can WFH (such as software companies), then you do work from home. If not, then you're open, but with precautions. Restaurants are open, but pickup only, etc.

How is this _that_ much different from what's being done now?
Hmm I'm not as sure, and I'm not sure why other people are so sure. People seem to generally respond 'of course not' and get offended that I've suggested it. I'm not really sure why.
Is it dishonest to call incentives bribery ?
Yes, and one of the interesting questions would be *why is our government so much more effective at propping up "the stocks" while everyone loses their job? There's miles of room for argument over the economic policy response.

But instead what we get is "the economic effects aren't worth it" where none of the assumptions are quantified.
What would be the suggested way to automate resources creation?

I use various home made Ansible roles and I find the Keycloak API to be inconsistent.

Eg: Various GET methods that doesn't return complete payload and some endpoints that doesn't save on POST but they do when updating.

That said, it's very hard to keep an idempotency with the actual state of the API.

I haven't yet tested the keycloak-operator [1].

[1]: https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-operator
Successful companies are quite lucky, and YouTube is a fine example. But there was never any question that some company would achieve dominance in the market.

In contrast, there is no world in which WeWork would ever work as it was sold, and their failure does not open the way for somebody else to win. In theory, they weren't just going to rent desks to people; they were going to transform the very nature of work through technology and culture. In some hazy way that would allow them to gain the kind of pricing power that lets the FAANGs mint money. That didn't and couldn't happen; there's no natural monopoly to be had in offices, and their technology was nothing more than spray-on glitter.

WeWork was always, in the Frankfurt sense [1], bullshit. I don't know Masa actually fell for it or just spotted something that he could bullshit other people about. But again, I don't think it matters, especially at that scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Sweden has more deaths per capita from coronavirus than the US, has an exponentially increasing death rate (i.e. they haven't turned the corner yet), and a very high case fatality rate of 9.4% indicating that they're severely under-testing. This is not what a successful disease prevention strategy looks like.
>I think what puts most people off is the default requirement to go all-in and create an SPA with global state management and client-side managed routing, but this isn't actually necessary.

There's also the benefit of being able to lean on Django patterns for sessions.
Minor Nitpick, it was the General Belgrano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano
All the freeloaders who block ads and only use low-quality news will get poorer information and they will be out-competed

And they will go vote for the candidates who is best at grabbing them by their poorly-informed emotions.
Do you want to be a millionaire?
Does it mean that a single user can be bound to more then one User Federation/Identity Provider?

Can you provide more detail on how you've done this?
> as if BSDs weren't heavily dependent on the wider FLOSS community, which is mostly Linux-based

They existed before Linux, and an awful lot of network and systems infrastructure is running BSD derivatives.

Tech is a rich ecosystem not a pissing contest, nor is it a dependency hierarchy, and even if it were I can tell you that Linux is not the fundamental substrate.

This slandering of a community is a baseless and poorly informed rant, and particularly misrepresents the original article through a narrow and dogmatic lens.
Thanks, anyway I have changed all the password since that time.
New York was only a few days behind California. Density matters so much that it's going to take a long time to arrive at good answers for how much lockdowns affected this, and there will be very strong pressure for a long time not to arrive at any conclusion other than "it worked", regardless of whether that's the truth. Which, obviously, it might well be!
3900X is a fantastic developer desktop processor, great value.

Just get some nice fast DDR4-3600 CL16 RAM to go with it.

I recently built a gaming/developer PC, here is my part list (prices are NZD if you don’t want to have a heart attack):

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2x4kb8

Handles any game I throw at it, and I can do 4K gaming for quite a few, though with 60Hz monitors you can see I’m not a hardcore gamer.
DecadeS-old tech. From design and prototyping to testing to actual deployment takes 2-3 decades...
I would be leery of saying we're doing anything other than feeding the beast at the moment. Yes common citizens may have seen some improvement in QoL, but the regime is more powerful than ever.
You should lobby your government to ban ads then.
So, things need to be comprehensible by the humans that work with them. A 10x reduction in LoC / 10x increase in expressibility may or may not be a good thing, but if it captures intent better and with less ceremony and cruft, then it most decidedly is a FANTASTIC thing. Whereas a 10x LoC improvement that makes it harder to glean intent would be DISASTROUS.

Then again, code has to be run in order to analyze its output -- that or code has to be data you can analyze (like a Lisp), but that can be very difficult to reason about.

So my preference would be to have libraries for constructing configuration data. Then you can execute a program to generate the configuration, and that you can use without further ado. The output may not be easy for a human to understand, though it should be possible to write code to analyze it.
Interesting, inertiajs looks similar to turbolinks/stimulus but instead of using html it uses js components. With nextjs you will have to manage another routing layer though?
>This in Houston. They already have some of the most lax zoning in the country.

Houston has zoning, they just don't call it zoning, and it's a mess. https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...

The parent was talking about the government getting out of the way and letting people build denser neighborhoods. Japan has a good zoning model, based on population density and flexible land use.

In the U.S. zoning is used to restrict the supply of housing. Building codes exist for safety. What is the reason for zoning? To protect to investment of current homeowners and screw everyone else?
I think the "Not in CA" sentence fragment is intended to be expanded to "I am not in California".
Sweden: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19estimates/#/d...

Greece: https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/covid19estimates/#/d...

Where would you rather be?
I don't think there are two camps "luck not skill" and "skill not luck". Most smart people realise it takes both. To become Bill Gates level of success you need luck.

You could argue that middle class to millionaire path could be described as mostly skill and focus, with the luck of not getting wiped out by a disease, jail, lack of motivation or whatever.
I suppose I worded it wrong. What I meant was, you might not be New York now, but you could be.

New York didn’t think they’d top Wuhan.
Lots of commenters have pointed out a pattern of increasing failures and shortcoming by the WHO, which I wasn't aware of, but I still have to think: don't we need a centralized touchstone for these kinds of crises? Even if the WHO needs to be dismantled and rebuilt, isn't a dysfunctional one better than nothing at all?
> Your proposal replaces my use of an array with two things, a pointer (as before) and a length. This is not too helpful, because I already could have done that if I'd wanted to.

C doesn't have a reasonable way of doing that. I know my proposal works, because we've been using it in D for 20 years.
don't ventilators use intubation? how would this help in that case?
The data I have seen does not corroborate this — in fact exactly the opposite.

According to [0] Sweden has 11,445 cases and 1,033 deaths (CFR: 9%) as of 6pm PT 4/14. For a population of 10.3 million [1], this is a confirmed infection rate of 0.11%.

According to [2] California has 23,338 cases and 758 deaths (CFR: 3.2%) as of 6pm PT 4/14. For a population of 39.5 million [3], this is a confirmed infection rate of 0.06%.

By all accounts, Sweden is being hit far harder by this virus than California or Sweden’s own neighbors are, and based on this evidence it is reasonable to infer that the distancing measures or lack thereof have an effect on transmission.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

[2] https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
Some quick research

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23192?fbclid=IwAR15UAkVuakNeQrl...

100,000 more drug overdoeses per 1% unemployment

Also
https://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20110414/suicides-go-u...
Well, ad revenue is gonna be off a cliff in the next quarterly earnings, but I don't think that's going to be a surprise. Good thing they have so much cash saved up.
You're measuring wealth in only the dimension of financial capital. What if participation in a community land trust enables an increase of social capital?

(see http://www.appleseedpermaculture.com/8-forms-of-capital/ )
...And which also might be better in the long run for everyone. It aligns the incentives better I think.
the dotted line is what we would expect if the intervention is removed as of today. the red dots are actual hospitalizations as of right now. the blue line was the predicted line for hospitalizations... she mentions that we are doing better than the prediction as of right now. it was not altogether that clear but in the context of the press briefing it's more clear.
That sounds like a foolish use of my time when I can simply watch other people do it for me. And I want a greater difference between me and them. I want them to be wrong and for me to be right. This only helps.
It was a proof by contradiction, I think. One example is sufficient to make the point that success is not impossible.
New York on lockdown is also busier then Seattle on a regular day.

Have you seen any of the photos of the packed subway trains, a week and a half into the lockdown? Seattle doesn't see that sort of thing even in rush hour.

Likewise, if you live in a highrise in New York, you're going to be taking the elevator to go get groceries. Usually with other people...
> density seems to have the biggest impact on the spread of this thing

Pick two random people Jo and Chris. If Jo wants to pass a letter from hand to hand via intermediary carriers so it gets to Chris, what’s the shortest time for it to get to Chris?

Ways to slow down the letter passing are to prevent long distance connections (close airports), slow down connections (only go to supermarket once a week), remove connections (close pubs).

To avoid any carriers passing a letter to you, you want to avoid: highly connected social people; gatherings of connected people; reduce number of meetings.

Density is one aspect, but perhaps not the most important.
> But we already had way too many possibilities using ordinary mathematics! We need to narrow down on specifics, not muddy the waters by making things even more general.

Building a more general tool can sometimes solve a specific problem than trying to tackle the specific problem directly.

I also think you're missing the forest for the trees here. There are many general relationships in physics that are spontaneously appearing in the structure of Wolfram's hypergraphs. That's interesting enough on its own to be worth further research.

In one sense, this shared structure shouldn't be surprising, because it's often harder to not make something Turing complete, so in a way I expect a lot of shared structure between physics and various general computational models. On the other hand, it's getting harder to squeeze more progress out of traditional approaches, so shrinking a computational model to exactly match physics on long timescales is a unique attack vector worth exploring.
Podcasts and talk radio are mostly emotional porn.
Other people's predictability is opportunity. This is not an undesirable outcome.
Airbnb Raises Another $1bn
Six-junction III–V solar cells with 47.1% conversion efficiency under 143 Suns
Keycloak links federated identities to its own user accounts, users can do this manually from the account management UI or it can automatically link them by email when a user signs in with a new IdP.

No configuration beyond setting up the federated provider required.
A Forbes headline from today reads "Sweden: 22 Scientists Say Coronavirus Strategy Has Failed As Deaths Top 1,000"
Her genetic test revealed a microscopic problem - and a jumbo price tag
It is. The ongoing data already show it. And in another month or two it's going to be really obvious how much worse they were hit by countries that locked down sooner (I say sooner because at this rate it seems inevitable that Sweden will be forced into some form of lockdown too, just tragically too late to save many tens of thousands of lives). Let's regroup in a couple months and see precisely how poorly their strategy turned out.
Ok, I understand your reasoning. The use of the specific term "fake news" rubbed me the wrong way. That term is linked with malicious propaganda so your initial comment called to mind dystopian ideas of having an underclass that the rest of society agrees to keep in their place through lies and deceit.

There are other options beyond just ad supported and tax payer supported. You can make news reporting a requirement of other government deals like what happened with over the air TV. You can do some sort of patronage model. That can range anywhere from a single source like people expected Bezos to handle WaPo, to the NPR model over numerous patrons, to the early internet model of still selling subscriptions but not putting the news behind a paywall. I'm sure there are plenty of other models out there too.
> I think Governor Cuomo said something very interesting the other day, to paraphrase, when he was asked whether he should've started stay at home earlier and if that would've saved lives. Of course it would have, but the interviewer is not taking into account compliance and public sentiment.

I'm living on the West Coast, but the way I remember the news from NY was that De Blasio wouldn't shutdown the city because he said he lacked the authority; he passed the buck to Cuomo to issue shutdown orders. Cuomo said that it was the Federal governments responsibility to organize and order shutdowns, passing the buck to Trump while implicitly admitting it was something that needed to be done. Trump in turn said that it was the states' responsibility. Importantly, De Blasio and Cuomo knew the stance of the person they were passing the buck, which means they knew nothing would be done. Equally as importantly, they both ended up later ordering measures they previously refused, and otherwise contradicting their earlier selves.

Meanwhile, over here on the West Coast, we saw real leadership--making hard decisions in a moment of public paralysis.[1] Cuomo and De Blasio seem to be smart administrators, at least smart enough to recognize and follow expert, consensus opinion smacking them in the face. But they clearly suck as leaders.

I'm still astonished how quick we all are to retcon recent history. (And I don't mean to imply that you are doing that, though I am responding to a sentiment that seems to defend Cuomo.) Similar revisionism happened after 9/11 and the Great Recession, where people ended up judging people and events according to narratives and sentiment that arose weeks and even days subsequent, despite obvious contradictions with then recently reported facts.

[1] Not just politicians. Noteworthy (and apropos HN) is how Seattle Flu Study researchers stuck their necks out and bent the law rather than twiddle their thumbs while the CDC fumbled.
A Possible New Back End for Rust
You have completely missed the author's point. The issue is not "how can we help students learn to code" the issue is "how can we help students understand the systems that they are coding on since that affects how they code"

Knowing Java runs in a VM very much affects how you have to code. Sure, when you are learning in a 100/200 level class it doesn't, but by the time you graduate if you don't understand the implications, that is bad. Why not make a very simple change early on that gives context for students later on? We shouldn't be teaching students that Java runs in a virtual machine in a 200/300 level class, by that time we should have moved on to why that matters.

Forcing students to continually use java/javac will make them start learning the concepts on how a computer actually processes their program. It makes them think a bit more about it and the concepts are not foreign when they learn it in a full class. The IDE just turns the whole process into a single button with little context.
Michigan has banned selling seeds.

Governors are forcing businesses closed or no seating allowed.

Those guidelines are good ones to maintain for perpetuity. Would decrease the thousands of flu deaths we see each year too but today's situation is closer to a nationwide lockdown than a PSA about washing hands
Just want to say that I've met the lead developer of Gluu randomly at a gitlab hackathon / party in portland. It seems like they've got a really nice product and he was extremely knowledgeable along with very likable.

I've never used it, but if I needed to do something like the GP asked, I'd definitely give it a look.
I feel like a lot of countries should extend the lockdown considering the number of cases that are spiking up daily. Once the enhance community quarantine is over more people will be infected which will result to more deaths everywhere. A cure/medicine will be the best solution to kill the virus and heal the patients.
You can't "disprove" overreacting, but you can disprove saving the country. Case in point, Italy was not saved. What would overreaction look like? Shutting an entire country down back in December? If your definition of "overreacting" is "shutting down a country before there's a single case", you can definitely prove or disprove that.
> However, perhaps there is room in analog computing hardware to more closely model specific types of optimization problems & then shove a bunch of electrons through it (shouldn’t the electrons follow the path of least resistance?).

Congratulations, you've rediscovered quantum annealing!
Not really one example:

N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count
The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...
NYC too, to the point that the mayor tweeted encouraging "New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus", which did not age well even by 2020 standards.
On the off chance that you're saying this in good faith? Generally speaking it's because Just Asking Questions comes with motives that suck. Maybe you're the one whose don't and you are tragically caught up amidst the sewage flow of "screw 'em" types, but playing the percentages on bad-faith argumentation is pretty safe. Trolls and other turds make a point of wasting people's reserves of good faith as a tactic to dominate discourse--there's no reason to let them do so. Flat dismissal is the milder form of "block and move on".