skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we can get a vaccine in under 6 years it would be unprecedented. 2 years would be astonishing. Most take 8-10 to go from lab work to peoples arms.

Waiting for a vaccine is not a good long term strategy. If a country can lock down long enough to kill its own spread it can re-open its economy safely so long as international borders remain closed.
>The herd immunity strategy is working, antibody testing shows around 30% of Stockholm is already immune

This isn't true (or, at least, isn't supported by studies). There was indeed a report [1] published that claimed that 30% of Stockholm has been infected, but it was a mathematical model and not antibody testing.

A study was recently published that showed that 11% of people in Stockholm had antibodies, but that was retracted [2] (only have Swedish sources for this, sorry) because the researchers didn't think that it was good enough.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.15.20066050v...
[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/nya-antikroppstestet-base...
Where is this "high interest" savings account of which you speak?
You price in the pollution and let the market decide.
Quitting a paying job without a followup already, will cost your salary anywhere from 15 to 30% hit.

That said, I have done the same twice. The first time I really just needed a break. I was classic burn out which is what yours sounds like. I recommend trying for a break, like 2 months non pay. You can work on your pet project, and after 2 months if you still want to quit, do so.
I feel like having repeat anecdotes in this area kind of undermines them.
A lot of early settlers in America emigrated from northern Europe as indentured servants. I'd call that prior art.
That sir, is a great story, and great advice.
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Due to their youth and inexperience, we generally try to shield teenagers from the most serious consequences of their actions. Unfortunately, we can't do this with the biological consequences of pregnancy. That's why it's natural to put more effort into preventing daughters from having sex.
Woah, amazing attention to detail there. I love that they include this image in the README [0], buttons were the first thing that hooked me into building this.

[0] https://github.com/Baddaboo/ClassicKit/raw/master/Images/pix...
>Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, runs nearly entirely on AWS, including its worldwide game-server fleet, backend services, databases, websites, and analytics pipeline and processing systems.

Granted, this is from 2018, but Chris is talking about how much they doing everything, and talking about how they like AWS' elasticity for their game servers because their load is pretty dynamic, and that they're running games in 26 availability zones.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/EPICGames/
Who have the choice themselves on whether to isolate or otherwise
Cases are a poor metric because they're a function of per-capita testing, which is variable across nations. You have to go by deaths. In that case you can see that they're much worse than their neighbors Norway and Finland, and that they're closer to regions with catastrophic death rates like Switzerland.

The earlier lockdown measures are imposed, the greater the impact, hence the comparatively excellent numbers from Finland. Sweden has long held denial of asymptomatic transmission (especially by Tegnell, even in this article), which we've learned is categorically wrong. The IHME model has been considered notoriously optimistic, as the US number of deaths has been rising but the US peak is reported as 1 week ago. The IHME model assumes a full lockdown in the US until August, which has already been violated by a number of US states this week.
Everyone in England also has to know logarithms and derivatives. There's much less flexibility for maths.

For history, the government requires that they:

• develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in local, British, and wider world history; and of the wide diversity of human experience

• engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers

• develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context

• develop an awareness of why people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them

• organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions

The topics should be:

• from three eras: Medieval (500-1500), Early Modern (1450-1750) and Modern (1700-present day)

• on three time scales: short (depth study), medium (period study) and long (thematic study)

• on three geographical contexts: a locality (the historic environment); British; and European and / or wider world settings

and "British history must form a minimum of 40% of the assessed content over the full course."

Beyond that, it's up to the people making the exams.

I think this is great -- everyone should learn the techniques ("to investigate issues critically" etc) but the school, teacher and student have some flexibility in their learning. At university or in life, it hardly matters whether I focussed on Roman Britain or European WWII history to achieve this.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Please provide a citation backing this assertion.
Basically what COVID-19 does is bind to receptors in the delicate tissue of your lung’s air sacs. This prevents oxygen from crossing the barrier into the bloodstream.

What makes it worse is that your own immune response, which comes to try and fight the virus, ends up causing more blockages.

What these articles are unclear about is why this is “permanent”. But a guess is that it’s like fibrosis where the tissue is permanently hardening — like layers and layers of hardening paint on the interior walls of your house.

The aggressiveness of your immune response might be a variable that explains why some people get this worse than others — just a guess.

Inflammation, like with so many things, seems to be a big factor. This might be what’s happening with all the heart problems, but again no one is sure about anything at this stage.
If all of their "forever" music dated back to middle school you might have a point but they say the list has grown over time.
How do the Reddit and Imgur apps get away with distributing porn and serving ads against it on the App Store? Maybe it was just a different time in the Tumblr era?
This is a great step-up for companies using AWS here in SA.

On a personal note, my latency for my personal site will drop from ~170ms (eu-west-2) to ~3ms!
Probably, but the core issue (at least in the US) is that a large fraction of informed citizens have moved to coastal cities, leaving the less informed citizens with more voting power. This means that misinformed citizens are gaining more influence over time, not less.
How does an IP address (in a world with VPN) or a phone number (which is likely to be mobile and could be located anywhere in the world) "prove that the customer is located in NZ"?
The cofounder says that the data they're collecting is part of the algorithm that has reduced their fraud numbers, and gives concrete data. Either they do need the data, or he's just outright lying, over and over, all across this thread.
Any plans for spaced repetition functionality?
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You may have asked him at the worst possible time for him personally. Whyever he didn't explain it at the time, I'm sure it's nothing to do with his love for you.
>I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative

This kind of comment is discussed in the second from the last paragraph here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a surprise. Apparently, it got unbanned
Same I want in
The ball bearings have lubricant that can shift over time due to gravity. And the metal parts might weld to each other over time if they are not moved.
Your comment reminds me of the that Swedish "If crisis or war comes" pamphlet sent to all Swedish households in 2018. Right on the second page is a warning about "false information":

https://www.dinsakerhet.se/siteassets/dinsakerhet.se/broschy...

Maybe a "mental herd immunity" against viral propaganda is a necessary first step to develop a biological herd immunity ;)
All flashcard you create are tested with SM-2 Spaced repetition, so we already have that :)
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"Compared to the French general population, the Covid-19 population exhibited a significantly weaker current daily smoker rate by 80.3 % for outpatients and by 75.4 % for inpatients. Thus, current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2. Although the chemistry of tobacco smoke is complex, these data are consistent with the hypothesis that its protective role takes place through direct action on various types of nAChRs expressed in neurons, immune cells (including macrophages), cardiac tissue, lungs, and blood vessels."

Edit: here's another paper.

"The current study examined for the first time the prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in China. An unusually low prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized COVID-19 cases in China was observed when considering the population smoking prevalence. The pooled prevalence observed in the 13 studies analyzed was approximately 1/4th the population prevalence. Consistently low prevalence of current smoking was observed in all studies."

https://www.qeios.com/read/article/561
NASA and Chandrayaan discovered water on the Moon
I think this is accurate. Fears of medical systems being overrun are generally overstated. The threat to doctors is already maximal, and by extending the length of the epidemic we're just extending the time they're at maximal risk. There's an argument towards buying time for more PPE availability but I think that's a bad bet. Lockdowns lifted before something like herd immunity is reached isn't going to help. If less than 10% of the population is immune, then you're in the same boat when the lockdown is lifted and you've achieved basically nothing but buying time. I don't think anybody would say we can endure a lockdown FOREVER. I think it's naive to think we can endure a lockdown for even one year without economic devastation causing far more harm than the virus, let alone the ambiguous timeline towards a vaccine.

A lot of people are going to die. More people will die if the lockdown is lifted, and many of those who would have died anyway will die sooner. But famine, crime, war, and authoritarianism will cost more. On a global scale I have no doubt that disease is less harmful than poverty in terms of happiness or lives lost. The same for any given country as a whole. For wealthy communities perhaps not.

It is frustrating to me that saying such things comes off as right wing or anti-science. I feel the calls to keep the lockdown going are a thing of entitlement from those who can afford to do so. There's a middleground where you lockdown those at risk, reduce travel, and encourage sanitation practices but open things up.
Metadata is incredibly useful in its own right, and spy agencies regularly record huge amounts of data in the hope that they can decrypt it in the future.
Dvorak vs. Colemak (2010)
That's largely what R is. For java-like syntax over Common Lisp, see Dylan.
List of oldest continuously inhabited cities
In countries where smoking is more prevalent, non-smokers are also more likely those people who quit smoking because of other health problems.
If you want cheap you want optic fiber to the last 250ft, then ethernet, then wifi. The phone company says the fiber is expensive, but it lasts for decades, they can't depreciate it as fast as 5G base stations that will be trashed when 6G gets here, if not before.

The elephant in the room is that cell phone coverage is a joke in the us. They say they support 300 m pops but I find that very hard to believe based on going to one.
Since this is controlled via a kernel parameter, can root just unset the kernel parameter and reboot? Or are there systems where kernel parameters are also 'locked down' by some other mechanism?

(these are genuine questions - I don't know much about linux security and am seeking to understand).
He's also written about AWS infrastructure (and electricity infrastructure in general) on his blog. Fascinating stuff.

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-cent...

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/12/when-you-cant-affo...

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/at-scale-rare-even...

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2018/11/1227/

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2019/02/aws-nitro-system/
Ironically, if all other borders are closed around you, then yours are effectively closed too.
Hard drives should not be left unattended for even a few years with any expectation that they will still function when plugged back in. Sure, many will, but it's a crap shoot: Under ideal conditions an unused hard drive can be expected to retain data for 9 to 20 years. [0]

[0] https://blog.macsales.com/43702-we-bet-you-didnt-know-that-y...
1) Keeping up with an ever growing and changing tech environment.

2) Dreading visiting my parents, because you always hear:'Oh good, come here and look at this problem I have'. My wife even volunteers me to fix other peoples stuff, which is real annoying.
Linux housekeeping: Virtual machine storage sprawl
If I has signed a non-compete, that limits my income potential, meaning they have me in a bad position if I quit. That means I'm more likely to just go along with their orders rather than wait out a non-compete on savings or an alternative industry.
You can try to find a new job first.

I just got a job at a bank (cloud architecture) and some companies are still hiring.

The job market is going to be weird for a while. Accepting that, you could still see if landing the next job is possible first, and take a little time between gigs to sort yourself out.
>Nicotine has been shown to be a dangerous chemical all on its own

Excluding overdose I've never come across a study which showed nicotine (not tobacco) was inherently harmful.

>but that's also true of almost any drug taken without medical regulation or supervision

The vast majority of prescription and over the counter drugs are safe for the vast majority of the population, regardless of supervision.

But I agree with your comment regarding demographic surveys.
Perhaps development work has reached complexity where it demands full-time attention?

Perhaps there is a reason why DBA, SRE, Devops and Architects are separate roles?
A neighbor in Washington, DC, sent her son for tutoring at the so-named Russian School of Mathematics here.
iPhone may be vulnerable to sophisticated email hack
AFAIK WebAssembly still cannot talk to the DOM. Which makes it pointless, IMO.
https://archive.is/ZOQyv
Most of the useful science comes from people imigrating to rich countries from poor countries :)

They have the basics, motivation, and opportunities.

Those that stay in poor countries don't have opportunities nor motivation. Those that come from rich countries don't have the basics nor motivation.

It's a generalization, of course.
There is a basic web UI and command line client. But mainly what it has is an API that many third-party clients support. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
archive.org is a different beast because it deals with publicly available data. This is why the museum endowment analogy may make more sense with archive.org. There will always be people who want to help the "greater good".

But when it comes to private data hosting, for each repository there is exactly one person who wants it to stay alive.

Lastly, archive.org never started out asking people for money promising something the impossible. These guys will hide behind the word "promise" when they want to exit scam or just give up after a couple of months after taking people's money. "Hey we only gave you a promise, we never said we will guarantee and even pay back money if we can't keep the promise", this is what they will say.
Why would you normalize by population in the early stages of an epidemic? If you assume a large and small country both have similar growth rate and number of initial cases, then their absolute case growth will be similar in the early stages. But the large country will appear "better" once you normalize for population. This is exactly the pattern I see when you compare Sweden to its smaller neighbors.
I think people can’t wait to forget.
I think most of the intermediate to hard concepts, best practices, etc. are usually learned on the job as you run into problems and solve them. I would also guess that more of the advanced things tend to be on the backend. A todo list application front end built from a tutorial will likely scale for one user or thousands of concurrent users.

The other aspect of advanced is how to maintain an application and write it so its easier to maintain. Once something is live, how you get changes in, fix bugs, monitor, etc. is not really talked about online because it is boring. It is a combo of process, tooling and some tech.
How could a technology itself make prescriptions about the ways that the manufacturer lets you configure it?
Determining when something is done, because you always feel like you can improve on it.
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Good point.

- What if the disks are stolen?

- Or hidden in a wall and forgotten only to be found by the next owner? Weirder things have happened.

- Or uploaded to the public internet by accident. Warning: (hopefully)[0] wild hyperbole ahead. While I don't have much to hide (today) who knows about the future. I'd rather not want to see my photoalbum indexed to death by clearview and results sold to a future Nazi/Communist/Peta regime who'll use the face database to track down my grandchildren to punish them because their grandfather hated Nazis/wasn't exactly too fond of Communism either/ate meat and owned a rabbit.

- also for anything in the second category I guess the correct solution is an online server + encrypted backups with passwords available for everyone. Or just use backblaze or something and hope I don't become unavailable until some of my kids or their kids are old enough to become sysadmins ;-)

[0]: but who would have thought 100 years ago that lists of people's faith would be used 20 years later to systematically track down people not based on what crimes they had done but rather based on heritage only to round them up and kill them?
Here's the cite:
http://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf

"once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the machine, or rather, an automatic system of machinery (system of machinery: the automatic one is merely its most complete, most adequate form, and alone transforms machinery into a system), set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages"
An alternative is using TUI application like vim in conjunction with tools like recountdiff and git apply to handle staging and unstaging parts of files.

You get more context because you can see other parts of the diff in the editor, unlike when using the -p switch with the git add or reset commands.
Nice, thanks...now I have some bedtime reading.

The papers are:

1. On Diversity (1992) - M. Weitzman
2. The Noah's Ark Problem (1998) - M. Weitzman
3. An approach to the optimal allocation of conservation funds tominimize loss of genetic diversity between livestock breeds (2003) - H. Simianer
4G already gives you ~30ms latency which is comparable to a DSL connection and just ~15ms above cable/DOCSIS. All of the things you mention are already possible with 4G if it wasn't for data caps.
This reminds me of damage to lungs from smoking. We don't yet have enough research to claim that lungs will or will not recover from coronavirus. However, I would speculate that recovery is possible and in 5 or 10 years, just like with smoking, partial or near full recovery is possible.
I love new music but I'm also at the point where I'm overwhelmed by it. There's so much interesting music out there I could never keep up.

I hate to say it but the fact that great music is not that unique, and that we can easily consume it, makes it seem less meaningful. Maybe it's overconsumption and not breadth of music that does it.
well when I look at Sweden https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries it has 16,004 total cases, 13,517 active cases, 550 total recovered, 515 serious/critical, total deaths 1,937

and Denmark has 7,912 total cases, 2,441 active cases,
5,087 recovered, 80 serious critical, total death 384

So what does that tell me?

1. They have slightly over 12% death rate currently and Denmark has slightly over 4%.

2. They have very many active cases and no recovered cases yet so this makes me think like all these people that have it right have just barely gotten it. So it is a little bit early to talk about how successful it is (otherwise it is time to talk about why is it taking so long to recover in Sweden if they have had it a long time)

If indeed my supposition that they have just barely gotten all these cases and have not had the time to let anyone recover so that means they don't know how many of the people they have right now will actually recover or how many will get critical and have life long complications or die and they are already at a 12% death rate with another 3.2% currently critical === HOLY HELL WTF!!

on edit: of course percentage death rate only for symptomatic cases we know have it, there should be much larger portion of population that has it.
I would have expected they open up one in Lagos.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. We will fix that asap.
> The scala job market is good and only getting better

Do you think the market will still be favorable while the covid pandemic lasts?

The OP said he has 10 months runway, and in normal times that would be more than sufficient to quit an unsatisfying job, but with the global economy tanking it's worth double checking it.
> If a country can lock down long enough to kill its own spread it can re-open its economy safely so long as international borders remain closed.

I really feel you're understating how impossibly difficult this would be for a large country
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Going to 2.5G seems like a wasted opportunity to go "big" without causing disruptions repeatedly or have "too much" extra cost. From the user perspective at least there's pretty much no difference between 2.5G and 5G in terms of cost and inconvenience of upgrading all the hardware).

But for the manufacturers and ISPs I imagine at that large scale the relatively small cost savings add up. And why waste a good opportunity to sell an intermediary tech. They'll be able to sell 5G/10G in a few years.
Even if you assume 100% of the population will eventually be infected, the final percentage will have a much easier time and chance of recovery than the first ones because of what we've learned as time goes on, even without a vaccine. In fact, they're already learning better ways to treat the disease.

The stupidity of saying, "We really can't do much right now, so fuck it" is unbelievably irresponsible. If you knew you were definitely going to get the virus, when would you rather it happen, right now or a year from now? Sweden is essentially saying it doesn't matter.
if these people actually cared about people owning their own data, they would have released a toolkit or an application that lets each individual do what you've just described. Instead of asking for money.