skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely that cloth masks reduce transmission in situations like trains (by stopping infectious people from blowing droplets everywhere).

Contact tracing works by pulling sick people out of circulation. So when you stop a sick person from getting on the train, you eliminate the potential infections that would have come with their journey.
She's a senator, so gerrymandering is not the problem. It's a statewide election without districts.

The problem is that she has a (D) after her name in CA and that's all it takes to get elected. She did some good things in the 80s, apparently, and has been riding on that since then because my entire adult life she's been on the wrong side of just about every big vote.
The platonic universe of the entirety of math sounds (this week at least) like Wolfram’s “Universe of Computational reality” of which the physical reality is just a subset.
Where? Outside of NYC, hospitals are laying off doctors and nurses because they cancelled all their elective work and have nearly no cases at all.

I think there have been eight cases in my entire county, which has three hospitals.
Interesting indeed, perhaps by reducing the quantity of virus we give more time to our body to prepare for the "invasion"?
Can you get an EU subsidiary or something like a TransferWise account where you can receive any currency? Not sure how well it interacts with Stripe but it should work.
Techmoan needs to do a report on this. It's right up his alley. For those that don't know he's a youtuber with some very interesting technical factoids. Mostly about audio/video.
Jarad Kushner is a fraud who's father is a criminal.
Isn't this the report of the case study that was discussed with much controversy in German media, in particular because the researchers hired a high-profile marketing agency for promotion and held a press conference together with the prime minister of the federal state (NRW) before subjecting the findings to the scrutiny of the scientific community?

Edit: link to newspaper article (German): https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/heinsberg-studie-coro...
Note that Gangelt is a municipality in the Heinsberg district, so the article and the report refer to the same study by different names.
There's actually three lessons to be drawn from this incident:

1. Don't use JWT, it's too easy to mess up.

2. If you're trying to fence off some sort of format or API, whitelist things, don't blacklist them.

3. This narrative that "you should use a third-party authentication provider because they're security experts and are much less likely to get it wrong"... well... I think you can see where I'm going with this.
Paper is short so worth reading, but some key points:

* They had an outbreak in this village as a result of a festival event in mid-February

* A random sample of 1000 from a population of 12,000 were sampled afterwards

* The immunity within the population as a whole was at about 15%.

* The fatality rate was 0.37%

It's got this statement:

> By adhering to strict hygiene measures it is to be expected that the virus concentration of an infected individual can be reduced to the point that the illness manifests more mildly, with simultaneous development of an immunity.

But it seems like the that statement is just an assertion, not something specifically supported by the data they gathered in this study, because it goes on to say:

> These
favourable conditions are not present in a superspreading event (e.g. Karneval
meeting, apres-ski bar in Ischgl, Austria).
If gp said people are being counted just for showing symptoms regardless of cause of death, then that would definitely be over counting. Same if just showing symptoms without a test. It's a way to count, but it'd artificially high.
“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story; others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.”
In Sandinavia we see a lot of covid-19 related deaths at elderly care homes. These are older people, often with a lot of underlying deceases in addition to their old age. Very seldom these patients are moved to a hospital, so they die at the home with only palliative care. I guess in many cases they are not in any position to decline or accept ICU at all due to dementia.
Okay now please use your skills around AI and Virtual Webcams to Create a script that just generates a Picture of me that nods at the right moments during a zoom call ;)
Not sure I agree with your numbers but I agree with your point, we are very likely quite far from herd immunity.

Which means another 18 months in lockdown if we want to stay well within the current ICU capacity until a vaccine is mass produced. Which means an economic downturn not only worse than 2008 (it will be worse already assuming we leave lockdown in a few weeks), but many times worse.

Or we can swallow this thing. It will mean more deaths. Trump says 10 times more. What I am saying is that I don’t understand how he gets there. If it is “only” two times more, then we need to have an adult conversation on how many lives are worth saving vs our society going through something akin to the great depression.
They're currently mostly empty so it matches.
I think it is based on the idea that staying as close as possible to the infectious dose leads to a better outcome/less severe progression. The infectious dose being "the average number of viral particles needed to establish an infection"[1].

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238819-does-a-high-vir...
Mathematics has not been static throughout history. It has evolved at the same pace our science and discoveries have evolved, and as such it has incorporated all necessary elements to help describe new phenomena. To the point that now is able to describe never observed phenomena.

So no, our world is not unreal because it can be described with maths. Maths have evolved to describe it. Same as human language has evolved to support our close environment and our human interactions.
Australia and New Zealand are well ahead on an exit path and following different strategies (NZ - eradication & Aus some form of containment) so expect the US and UK to be watching closely.

The data from the Roosevelt will probably put a damper on the idea of eradication in Australia and testing even 10% of the population in a small time frame is just not possible.
There's no mis-interpretation. All those procedures were cancelled because of a belief that hospitals would be overflowing and every bed would be needed. Clearly those predictions were well wide of the mark.
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That sounds ridiculous. I can totally buy that CAs don't want to vote for a republican, but don't other democrats exist?

EDIT: Looks like she's still what Californians want.

> De León's 12% was the lowest ever recorded for a candidate who advanced to the general election since California instituted its jungle primary rules in 2016. In July, De León won the endorsement of California Democratic Party at their executive board meeting in Oakland.

> On November 6, 2018, Feinstein defeated De León 54.2% to 45.8%.
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> Sure, you'd want to make sure you don't over-promise, and of course the buyer would realize they're buying from a startup (and presumably getting a discount as an early adopter). Anyway, my point is just that this sort of matching service could work out in some circumstances, and it is in some ways easier than trying to match founders who are sharing equity.

The point of parent of this thread is that developers tend to receive very unreasonable requests from people wanting to start companies and are not developers, and I am demonstrating that there are other professions that receive the same treatment from the developers.
It was six years ago. It was retracted. The person responsible was fired and blacklisted from the industry.

What did people like you want to happen?

Because EVERY news source has at least one skeleton like this in their closet.
That's a theory I've heard before. I don't remember where, unfortunately. Does anyone have a source?

The basic theory is that if you catch the virus, you want to have it in your nose first so your body has time to start a response before it reaches your lungs.

If you get a large dose into your lungs at the start (perhaps because you work at a hospital with insufficient PPE) it's less likely to be mild.
Yes. And RAID10 is the best backup strategy because 10 is bigger than 5 or 6.
> You make it sound like the iphone 8 came out ages ago.

The design features relevant for this discussion (bezels, physical button) didn't come out with the iPhone 8. I'm counting the age of the design since it was first introduced, not since last use. It is an old, successful design which leads to a cheaper phone.

> It doesn't save money to do it this way.

Of course it does. Any new design and part made for this phone implies extra expenses - new tooling, assembly lines, supply chains, etc. This drives up the cost and price of the phone. And you can't save money by sharing/reusing too much of what you have in place for your flagship line because for every $400 phone you make you took capacity away from a $1000 phone. So old stuff gets reused. You get a much cheaper phone by slightly upgrading the $300 iPhone 8 than the $800 iPhone 11. Works like this in every industry.
I'd like to offer a less binary perspective...

I tried to switch and ended up using both, I use duckduckgo not for privacy but practical reasons: recently google has become extremely irritating for technical searches that are not popular, even for the ones it can find it now autocorrects them by default to "what it thinks you meant", which for technical things like parameter names, command names, APIs etc are always wrong, even though the whole search phrase is extremely descriptive and matchable.

I found that DDG is good for these types of searches (esoteric technical search that might be clobbered by googles dumb "AI" autocorrect or SEO optimization / I cant tell if it's an ad anymore BS that slows you right down), for these you get the result immediately and with one click... but DDG is worse for popular things where the search phrase is less descriptive and more associative.

So now - I use both, DDG by default because it's faster to get to the result with less shit in the way; then back to google for the few popular things...

I think this isn't too bad of a deal for privacy either, everyone assumes you must completely switch a service, but if you only search popular things on google, then you will look just like everyone else, you starve them of specificity.
For how much % less of throughput tough?
Yes that conclusion also struck me, there is nothing in the text that seems to support this. But maybe there are observations pointing to this?

If true, would it be possible to infect yourself with a tiny concentration of the virus, then isolate, and expect mild illness followed by immunity?
I always write the specificity in the same order as the cascade. Could probably write a tool that compares the specificity vs the cascade to find errors!

There is however a small problem if you want to use many CSS files - that you need to link them in the correct order.

edit: Also I don't use ID's in CSS.
I've heard that as well. Basically, the spread of the virus inside your body is exponential too, whereas the immune system's response time will be fairly static. So if you're exposed to a little, the immune system has time to respond before the infection gets out of control; if you're exposed to a large amount, by the time the immune system starts to respond, the virus is already widespread in your system.
Isn't better way just limit possible amount of power needed(downclock CPU or something) instead of just refusing to give user anything?
I think there is work to get static typing in Erlang.

This tweet thread was where I stumbled into it: https://mobile.twitter.com/slashdotdash/status/1238513622189...
Microsoft Is Hibernating Its SMB Efforts Because of Covid-19
Arithmetic existed long before its axiomatization. Arithmetic was useful and no one stumbled upon contradictions in it. So it was natural to suppose that it can be described by some axiomatic system. Peano found it.
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Just want to say I've had the opposite experience.

Stripe has blocked multiple fraudulent transactions for me. PayPal has let multiple through which are clearly fraudulent just from me looking from my end. I recently had a case where a customer tried to pay with a stolen card on Stripe, got blocked with maximum risk score, so they created a PayPal account and used that. The payment went through, got hit with a chargeback and a fee a few weeks later. Product was automatically given - digital goods. PayPal refused to cover the costs and passed it through.

I've never had a dispute raised on Stripe. I've had multiple on PayPal.
But it will benefit the US. What's the point of this article?
The Outlook for Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In a Good Way
>It lost because Trump hates Jeff Bezos for some reason.

Bezos is a Democrat and owner of the Washington Post, a paper which has been openly critical of Trump's administration.
The profitable manufacture of fear and justification of government overreach has been a reliable product and goal of sensationalist journalism for a very long time. The Spanish-American War is a prime example.

If anything, this crisis has drawn visible lines between those with unwavering trust in mass media and those without. Those who have good reasons to distrust authority have been the least likely to comply with orders and recommendations from both government agencies and mass media outlets. On the other hand, those who benefit from the current power structure have taken to their advice with great enthusiasm.

Between these groups are those like yourself who try to sift through the sensationalism for good information. Even then, international authorities like WHO have revealed clear political bias in regards to issues like Taiwanese independence. Who can we trust?
I wouldn't be surprised that companies like Stripe arrive at a point where they want fewer investors controlling their company.

When you are Stripe big, what does YC do for you that you can't do with your own money printing machine? Aside from cash, there must be other advantages to having investors.
Strong type checking should be able to detect this kind of overflow statically. Probably not practical in the kinds of software involved though.
If icann is broken, which it seemingly is given this catastrophe handling of .org, then the solution is pretty obvious. Remake icann with a strong and clear purpose and goal of making the internet infrastructure more stable and safer. Selling off all the different part of icann to for-profit companies will have the usually effect when the goal become to farm taxes on commons.
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> I can't see it being worth their effort to make and sell this product at 1/10th the current price.

I absolutely can. Imagine how much bigger the audience would be.
Rationale: According to the data provided by the memo, Microsoft expects up to 25 percent of its SMB customers to not survive the pandemic, while those that will survive will experience negative year-over-year growth.
Aren't most SQL engines computational engines?

So even with tightly controlled accesses, one ill intentioned client might be able to produce a statement that would take a lot of resources. Even with a tight timeout the database might not be able to handle a sustained amount of computationally hard requests. I think SQL makes the attack surface much broader than a regular REST client. This wouldn't be a problem when the machines facing the client are stateless and able to check the request before accessing the data, whereas databases are traditionally single points of failures and hard(er) to scale.

Now, I'm comparing it with a REST client because I don't know graphQL enough, but it might be possible to do the same attack on a graphQL server?

I still chuckled to the idea, which I think was the primary intention so that was worth it anyway.
> becomes non exponential at some point

From some simple calculus, becomes the (a) logistic curve.
I suppose it's the blatantly openly html table based layout on the page they shared.
> We can look outside of our windows now and see the solution. It's doing less, it's working less, it's not polluting the world, it's consuming less and producing less. Radically so.

And this requires revolution because our whole economy is built around constantly working (and thus producing and consuming, if not rent-seeking, but we can't all be rent-seekers), even if all our basic needs were already met.
Can I ask how do you win those? I've lost many of these via PayPal. Customer can claim goods not working all the way to "not my card, my kid bought it without my consent".

I asked PayPal for their advice, and on that advice I keep email confirmation, IPs and timestamps of download, login, registration and payment IPs, billing address, etc. -- doesn't seem to help when I submit it all as evidence.
And they define it as:

1. tasteless; insipid
2. sour; bitter

So providing three contradictory definitions in just four words. What do you mean by it when you use it?
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Right, e.g., follows the (a) logistic curve.
Neat! How does this compare with Turbolinks?
Writing standards for conspiracy theories are on the rise, huh?

Didn't read all of it, but I'm not sure what a GPG key is doing there.
Haven't read much yet. But the first point already doesn't inspire much confidence. "This market is less than 9 miles away from The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 9 miles away means that it's at the opposite of the city.

I mean, that text is trying to make it seem like they are close to each other when actually it just means that both are in the same city. 9 miles is not a small distance in a big city like wuhan.

It's like saying that Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty.
Makes me wonder if it might be possible to deliberately infect body regions where the virus has a low chance of reaching the lung. Could the virus populate (until sufficient immune reaction) the lower intestine if put there, and not spread elsewhere due to the unambiguously directed flow down there (as opposed to bidirectional flow in the respiratory system) or would it be transmitted elsewhere nonetheless through the blood stream? Is this something that can and is checked with animal models?
When China was building the special modular hospitals in 10 days, I thought why didn’t they just choose to convert old shipping containers instead?

Since it could be mass manufactured offsite, and trucked in. Then they’d just have to assemble it onsite.

Then, they could ship it all over the world, to hotspots that needs emergency field help.

But it turned out, ocean transport time is horrendous. It takes 21 days to transport from China to Los Angeles. Then, the time to load the ship, and unload the ship, and transport by land to the actual hotspot, would add another week. Then the time to actually assemble it onsite would add a few more days. So now, you’re looking at over 30 days to build that emergency hospital. By which time, you’d already have a bunch of dead people, just because it took you too long to transport it.

So in retrospect, it was probably better that they built it modularly onsite instead. At least this way, you can still fly the components to your hotspot.
Through, at minimum German military leaders and related politicians did predicted longer war. They did not predicted how exactly long and how exactly bad it will be, but they knew it will be long and will not be over by Christmas. (Source: I got this from Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War book which seems to be praised by historians)

"Experts and those in charge" and "public journalists and propaganda" are two distinct categories of people.
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we had same thing in yugoslavia.
Cool. Like a poor man's vaccine. Nature is amazing.
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Why wouldn't it be the other way around? If the virus replicates very fast, people with minimum infectious doses have a couple replication generations of extra time.

If the virus replicates more slowly, a large infectious dose would have the same impact as multiple replication generations.

I'm not asserting the above is what happens, I'm asking the question.
A UK company costs < £100/yr to maintain

Accounting included ?
The DOD made a big mistake here. They should have let several cloud contracts, or a contract that enables use of diverse cloud providers.

Instead, they made a contract that is too big to lose.
This is the sort of thing I think of when I hear the term "fake news". Sentences that get buried, sentences that get purposefully constructed in order to obscure/misdirect, etc. Personally, I don't care for an article or piece to be "artistic" in any way, they just need to give us facts and explanations, along with all the things they tried to ask, what they investigated, what info they weren't able to find, etc. Journalism shouldn't be an art, it should be a form of fact condensation and transference, aimed at a broad audience.
I haven’t seen them, but I expect them to be similar to the records they used to give away as marketing gimmicks: so thin that they weren’t rigid under their own weight. You could roll them up.

If you decrease their diameter, weight would go down even further.

Edit: these are called Flexi Disc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc). you can even make records out of plastic-coated carton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_record
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How does RDS Postgres beat GCP hosted Postgres? Genuinely curious as we're running on GCP and I'm wondering what we're missing out on.
Charles Stross. I like some of his SciFi books, but his blog posts are getting more and more political and ranting. This is far from the first global collapse he predicts.

His blogging style combined with outright deleting the comments from people he disagrees with, or those who don't share his political beliefs makes it increasingly less likely I will read his next published book.
Yes, in many respects this is a non event. It is as expected based on what we have previously observed and tested. It is still worth looking at, however, as it would have been very interesting if the result were different.
IIRC paywalled sites without workaround are not allowed on HN. The link should be changed to an alternative source. Here is one:

https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/amazon-wants-customers-to-buy-...

Regarding the content: Wouldn't it make more sense for Amazon to simply show products that are fulfilled by the seller directly? This way they could still make their cut but do not have to do the delivery.
Maybe I'm being pedantic but isn't it your job to be concerned about risks like this? It sounds like your answer is "we don't need a plan because the volcano won't erupt." I'm seeing people responding with a list of volcanos that erupted without warning.

Approached more technically, I'd ask, do you have future plans to stratify what back ends your product will work on, particularly if zoom stops being an option?
I wonder if the name is a reflection of the PR strategy to claim special merit on exactly the point where you're actually most lacking.