skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own experience, the virus lingers after you beat it, waiting to return.

For example, if I have a few drinks or don’t get enough vitamins it starts to come back mildly until I reverse course.
What is an independent judge? The government selects the judge and all proceedings are in camera and you cannot event tell anyone that you ever got the NSL.

There is a lot of theatre to look like judicial independence, but at the end the US government also just says "give me the data".

You, presumable a citizen or resident, have absolutely no idea what data has been asked for and given by the FISA court.
For NYC the answer is “no”.

4,500 ≈ average deaths per month in 2017 [1]

6,125 = confirmed COVID-19 deaths from 2020-04-01 through 2020-04-15 [2]

[1]: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/2017/t...

[2]: https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/master/ca...

Note that 6,125 doesn’t include COVID-19 deaths or non COVID-19 deaths, and is for the first half of April only.
I recognized the name because of some video games I played in the past.
I love the idea of building, but we also shouldn't lose sight of earth's limited resources.

We don't have unlimited land, and we need much of that for agriculture to sustain the billions of people living here.

When we use energy, we must make sure it comes from renewable sources.

When we build, we must take care that we don't destroy existing ecosystems. And so on.

And since we cannot rely on everybody being responsible on their own, we need regulations. They should be as efficient and frictionless as possible, but let's not dismiss them all together in a frenzy to build, build, build.
That's not how anything works. You would be right if one person owned the entire city. But that isn't the case. The equilibrium of independent competing actors is for them to build. Yes, if they all colluded together and agreed not to build, they might be able to extract more money (actually they wouldn't in the medium and long term, maybe in the short term). But you'd have to be a complete fool to think that sort of collusion is possible at the scale that would be required.

What you do have are developers pressuring regulators to restrict competition. That is a real thing, and it's called regulatory capture. But that is exactly what I said needs to be fixed.
Or maybe some software that can watch for unusual behavior and throw up an alert.
The point of a warrant is the independent audit. As long as that's enforced, it being at least partially in retrospect shouldn't be a problem; the issue being how you would give that teeth in a way that's both not absurdly disproportionate yet still sufficiently discouraging. In any case, you'd at a bare minimum want a one sided notification a priori.

I'd be more worried about whether judges really are independent and trying to critically reject warrants, rather than exactly when they do so. And another weakness in our current system: warrants are a pretty voluntary form of oversight. There are no reliable checks against warrant-less actions that should have required a warrant. Unless it's really egregious, police will not be held liable, defense attorneys may not be informed, and they may even be able to use the ill-gotten information for personal/legal gain, because finding a parallel construction once you know what you're looking for is obviously much, much easier.

So I'd say that the problems are more one of a too-weak audit, and the moment at which that happens is not critical, even if it is relevant.
You are not taking at all into account the likelihood of suffering permanent life-long damage to lungs, hearth, kidneys and brain[0] which makes you predisposed to develop other painful (and sometimes fatal) conditions.

Also there is not enough evidence to believe COVID happens only once per person[1]

South Korea, the country with the best testing so far has reported 116 people re-infected[2], so there IS evidence about it happening.

[0] https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/04/17/organ-dam...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/17/no-evidence-peop...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/200413110301074.html
Understanding Free Cultural Works
"researchers from Hong Kong, China and Australia have found that genetic sequences of the novel coronavirus in pangolins are 85.5% to 92.4% identical to the coronavirus currently infecting hundreds of thousands people."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2169-0

trade in pangolins just seems to offer the virus more attack vectors than accidental human exposure to... what? bat blood in a lab? direct exposure to the virus? it seems highly unlikely vs the possibility of someone catching it from a pangolin they were buying/selling/doing whatever people do with them.
Were you talking about SARS or COVID19 with the 99% comment?

>If it was caused by a wet market, why have Chinese authorities started allowing them to operate again? That seems really risky, no?

No, because most wet markets are just normal markets that sell seafood, meat, veggies etc. They're pretty important community-wise.

finally I don't think trump, much less which intelligence agencies "dislike" him, has any place in this discussion.
You may have heard there's a real bad economic thing happening right now. Vox the website even explains what's going on [1] (notably they're reporting record readership).

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/8/21212928/voxs-audience-support-...
I see your concern is focused on polling case (e.g a chat room). As goes with the McDonalds example, a single cashier can reply the question "is my order ready?" rapidly. While it takes seconds in real world, a client polling request would take milliseconds to complete, so it can still serve hundreds of clients in a given second. If you'd need more for that part, there can be more cashiers/apps to make "asking" part scale indefinitely (even you'd have 1 worker only).
>your risk of dying from a COVID infection is 0.37% per the latest study from Germany

1.: Study is not complete yet and is of 500 people in the hardest hit area in Germany[1]

2.: Why do you compare deadly car accidents in the US with COVID-19 mortality rate in Germany?

3.: COVID-19 Mortality rate in the US is 5.3%[2]

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/regional/nordrheinwestfalen/corona...

[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Which comes back to people having good phones most probably will have better internet and people habing cheap phones will have less good internet.

So you‘ll lose time either on transfer or decoding.
I used to live in north beach on grant and Union, and these cars were driving by constantly. I knew right away that they would show it there.

I forgot how annoying it was.
> 75% of all incremental new generation will come from renewable/sustainable energy in the U.S.

> Predictor: Jigar Shah.

> Prediction Duration: 16 years (02004–02020).

> Did the Prediction Come True? Yes — 76%, in fact.

> In January, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said it expected 76% of new electric generating capacity to come from wind and solar in 02020.

What‽ You can't confirm a prediction has come true by citing another prediction!
This just leads to longer laws, you need to restrict number (and range, eg only stuff in the dictionary) of words.
Good points.

I think the regulatory equivalent of TCP/IP is probably some form federalism. There are many regional examples of this, to varying degrees. You want the minimum set of laws to provide the conditions for local human flourishing everywhere.

“If Australia has a different wifi standard than America, it doesn’t mean they can’t connect.” This would be great IRL! All digital protocols could be reduced to one; but then IRL is also made of physics, so I guess you’d need one physical standard too (USB-C is our obvious candidate), and one harmonised set of radio frequencies etc. It’s those physical properties that are hard to reduce to a virtualised layer.

Kind of impossible when it comes to driving on the wrong side of the road, unless you abstracted the interface in some kind of VR (so everyone is apparently driving however they please, while confirming to one physical standard).
I started on Emacs with elisp. Then picked up Clojure afterwards. It’s a nice way to reason about programs, esp closures, so highly recommend it.
> I did not have internet or tv as kid and I have learned a lot from books.

Growing up in a TV-free household as a kid was and still is an advantage to develop learning skills, independence, and imagination.

> Now I have internet, and I spend far more time on social media and watching shows than I spend on learning things

That may be, but you have the choice.

The main difference is that you can find way more information than in books, even if you lived in a library. The main problem on top of the continuous distraction is curation.
I would recommend learning Clojure because you can immediately build useful and fun programs with it (e.g. websites with Clojurescript/Reagent).
This is really cool!

But the approach seems a little flawed, as edits are attributed based on IP address. If I understand correctly that means it:

- doesn't capture edits made using Wikipedia accounts

- doesn't distinguish personal activity of individuals from those of the organization

- relies on a couple of third-party IP databases which aren't authoritative and may be out of date (one of them hasn't been updated in 6 years)

- can be circumvented by organizations using "unlisted" IP's or a VPN

Of course, the landing page is fairly transparent about these limitations. It doesn't mean the results are uninteresting, but when I looked at the most active month for the Government of Canada, it was clearly just an individual that happened to work there who's interested in TV and music (particularly The Robonic Stooges and Madonna).

https://wikiwho.ailef.tech/organization/46a20a0820d609f90314...
What I have learned from Hacker News – RadOnc Notes
Yeah, I guess what I envisage would be a very minimal federal government, rather than a central point of failure for decisions about every aspect of people’s lives. Very hard to get agreement at that scale though, as you say.
People interested in bitslices should also look at the 74181, sort of the original generic, used in PDP11s, VAX 11/780, Alto, Perq, Nova etc etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181
Ubër has also built a service that I, for one, strongly prefer to traditional transportation services. Customer experience is far superior.
I have the same issues. Each new version of Bluetooth it's supposedly fixed but still lacks.
> They are just developer tools

A CA is a CA. A developer tool would be you signing certificates with your own private CA. LetsEncrypt is often better as they support must-staple, CT timestamps in certificates themselves, and ECDSA leaf certificates support.

The snakeoil pitch would have worked 3-4 years back when browsers shows a big yellow label in address bar, but as of now, they all look the same regardless if its a DV, OV, or EV certificate unless you click your way through the certificate information.
employees are billed by the hour. that's how employment is defined in most countries. it's a payment for about 40 hours of work per week.

one of the key points of employment is that i get s reliable salary regardless of my performance. sure, if my performance is continuously very bad then my employer may want to make an adjustment (or let me go) and likewise if my performance is good i may expect a raise.

in general that stability of income is more important than the ability to go home earlier. because the latter means that i have to work more if things don't go well because deliverables are often hard to define. in IT at least. what do you count? lines of code? number of issues closed?

one week i may close a dozen issues, the next week a single task may have stumped me, requiring me to do days of research.

deliverables reslly only work on a large scale: "finish this project" or for a sysadmin: "keep the servers running". my customer or employer doesn't care how many hours i spend on that. if there are no problems then i am free, or i may get a bonus for closing a project early.
Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics [video]
> Saving State $40 Million Per Day During Shelter-In-Place

!!!!
I have this in my "~/.inputrc":

".,d": "\C-adate; \C-e; date\n"

Whenever I want a command dated like in your suggestion, instead of pressing Enter to execute the command, I press the key-sequence ".,d" and the command gets wrapped in 'date' calls.
He... nor Dr. Gattanoni are asserting that it doesn't meet the criteria for ARDS, but rather that it's not typical ARDS.

Gattanoni states:

However, the patients with Covid-19 pneumonia, fulfilling the Berlin criteria of ARDS, present an atypical form of the syndrome. Indeed, the primary characteristics we are observing (confirmed by colleagues in other hospitals), is the dissociation between their relatively well preserved lung mechanics and the severity of hypoxemia.
My favorite part of the article was this:

> “Everybody is looking at the Metaverse as something to experiment with and be in, but they never talk about the creation,” said Descamps, the former general manager for Zynga, the company best known for its viral Facebook hit game, FarmVille. “Even in [the film] ‘Ready, Player, One,’ who actually made the Metaverse there? ...”

Unless I'm misunderstanding the quote, did Descamps miss the entire premise for the movie?? That would be so deliciously poetic in context of the film and the article that it deserves an emphatic chef's kiss.

I digress... more on topic to the point at hand, one of my children spends quite a bit of time playing Fortnite and I realized several months back that much of that was in the game's "Creative" mode (largely with school friends) participating in things that might best described as "schoolyard-like"? Say, akin to four square or (loosely-organized) soccer. There's a fair amount of good-natured ribbing (which has escalated to unhealthy levels on a couple occasions with actual friends, not unlike what may occur during those aforementioned IRL examples), camaraderie-building teamwork/competition, and most of the other social dynamics that are exercised among young adolescents. Of course this is all minus such aspects as actual exercise or body language.

And that was long before the whole coronavirus situation disconnected them physically. Now it's effectively the de facto substitute casual social gathering for his circle of friends, for better or worse (plenty of both, best I can assess at this stage.)

However, all that said, there's absolutely nothing that suggests to me that Fortnite is—or ever could become—the (a?) metaverse. My view for now is that it is, frankly, very much a fad.

That isn't to say it won't leave lasting cultural effects. Just look at AOL: their reign of dominance was deep, wide, and surprisingly (if ultimately anticlimactically) long-tailed. They were The Internet to a vast number of Americans. But now? And I only pose that with the slightest dash of cynicism on top of a heaping serving of bland "time will tell"...

edit(s): minor grammar/clarity
Having one example and phrasing it to sound like multiple is misleading, imo.
Frankly, everybody speaks so highly of it, but I'm not getting it. "the joy of Clojure" by Fogus is a good introduction.
With so much money earmarked for the military, how absurd would it be to create a "health force" alongside the Space Force?
One of the unfortunate side-effects of having a few things on the "bucket list" ticked off is the conservative pushback gets targeted at the most vulnerable.

At present, that is frequently trans people. Often trans kids.
If you are using Ada, you might know of Richard Rhiele. That Ada is a bondage and discipline language is a joke that I got from him back in 1993ish.
I went running the other day for the first time in over a year, just as a way of getting fresh air. And before that I'd already lost 8 pounds since quarantine started, just because I haven't been eating restaurant-portions.
The case that was reversed was not about shouting fire in a crowded theater, the fire quote was just a rhetorical device. If a judge uses 2+2=4 as a rhetorical device in a decision, then the decision is later overturned, that doesn't mean 2+2!=4. So the fire quote could still remain true.
I always take this as Python's way of strongly discouraging deeply nested and overly long functions... ( I realise this might be Stockholm syndrome...)
I believe this flawed approach is the only possible approach.

As far as the individual interested in music the edits that are just individual edits on government time or IP address are a different problem than the other three. I guess could have some sort of analyzer to rank how likely the edits are to be of organizational interest and not just individual interest. But that would probably also require enough work to need to be monetizable for someone to put in that work.
> Were you talking about SARS or COVID19 with the 99% comment?

SARS and Civet coronaviruses. The closest match of any host or vector coronavirus to human Covid-19 has been a 96% match in _Rhinolophus affinis_ (a bat). That's also the major bat species that was used for live animal research in both Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan CDC, according to peer-reviewed research published in international scientific journals.

> No, because most wet markets are just normal markets that sell seafood, meat, veggies etc.

To be more specific, I mean wet markets dealing in exotic, non-domestic source of meat, ones that are scientifically known to pose a threat of spreading novel infectious organisms. You believe they should continue to operate as before?

> finally I don't think trump, much less which intelligence agencies "dislike" him, has any place in this discussion.

OK, then war doesn't have any place in this heretofore scientific discussion, either...
> .. but why has so much manufacturing been offshored to places with cheaper manual labor? We know how to build highly automated factories.

Western consumers have been voting with their wallets for decades - they want lots of cheap products.

If you want to get a new product produced today you'll likely be able to produce it much cheaper abroad, where there's a more efficient supply chain and cheap labour and with much less initial overhead.

Make your product more expensive you'll likely be out of business before the next global pandemic.
Only if you want to maintain a private copy in perpetuity. It's always more constructive to work with an upstream.

Though in the case of GNOME, that's rarely productive. I had one of my contributions sit around (with tested patch ready to apply) for 10 years! Despite comments saying it was good to apply. That entire component ended up dying through lack of maintenance even when people were happy to contribute effort.

GNOME's problems like squarely with its terrible choices.
Well my anecdotal observation was that the population themselves knew the drill.

The second they heard "SARS" they didn't need government permission to social distance or wear masks.

My in-laws stayed put and didn't see relatives over CNY. That is madness, imagine trying to cancel Christmas in Europe.

There were rule breakers and people who found lockdown difficult and in those instances the CCP tool kit was more adapted to crushing those types of responses:

Roads leaving Wuhan were literally dug up, the govt had a surveillance network already operational, and non Wuhan people were encouraged/happy to snitch on people who left Wuhan during the lockdown and its run up and get them sent back.

Meanwhile outside of Wuhan, everyone also knew the drill. Before there were even double digit case numbers (detected) in other places, everyone knew to stay in. In policy setting, I'm told a single man is effectively calling the shots wrt the epidemiological response: Zhong Nanshan who is accepted in Asia as being the granddaddy of SARS

This is markedly different from my observations of how it progressed in the "Western" world. It has been surreal to see Italy, France, Spain, UK, US and now possibly NZ + AUS follow similar progressions one by one after each other.

In the UK, most people have been waiting for authority to tell them what to do, but the government themselves are indecisive and keep trying to place their faith in "evidence based" science - common sense be damned. Having watched this all play out being right but late is almost useless and this debate over mask usage is ridiculous.

Meanwhile the NHS is covered in so much red tape that PPE and testing can't reach the frontline staff even when companies are trying to put them in their hands.
> Why aren’t we building Elon Musk’s “alien dreadnoughts” — giant, gleaming, state of the art factories producing every conceivable kind of product, at the highest possible quality and lowest possible cost — all throughout our country?

> Where are the supersonic aircraft?

From an interview[1] with Sarah Lacy in 2018, Marc Andreessen already had the answers:

Q: Is there a way Andreessen Horowitz could stop backing more apps and throw some of the money towards the next SpaceX?

Andreessen:

The capital efficiency of having a small group of software programmers that build amazing software, who then go in and do something in an industry that’s 100 billion or trillion-dollar industry, existing venture capital structure and framework is very good at doing that.

It works very well when it works, and I think that’s very valuable. I always accuse Peter of dismissing all that stuff out of hand, which is probably an overstatement.

The part that I struggle with, and I’m on the verge of agreeing with, it’s SpaceX, it’s Tesla. The trenchant critique comes from Larry Page, Elon, and Peter. It’s like, “OK, software. Got it. What about electric cars? What about the Hyperloop? What about the SpaceX private rocketry?”

What about these bigger, more transformational things? In particular, what about the things that operate more in the real world? What about the things that are really going to affect natural resources, pollution, livability of cities, and all the things that are outside of whatever’s running on the screen?

I think that there’s a validity. Google is doing the self-driving car. The self-driving car is going to work. By the time it works, it will have cost hundreds of millions, and possibly billions of dollars to make work. The self-driving car is not a lean startup. Not in any way.

SpaceX and Tesla were not lean startups. They were very big, ambitious. They raised a lot of money. The big question, the question I’m noodling around, is what about the efforts where you have to say, “This thing is going to take $300 million?” It just is. There’s no shortcut and there’s no minimum viable product. It is going to take $300 million, and that $300 million has to be reserved ahead of time.

Those companies have to be run completely differently because the stakes are so much higher.

What kind of entrepreneur can do that? Elon has proven he can do it. There are not a lot of other people in the Valley today who have done things at that level of scale.

There’s a different kind of entrepreneur. There’s a different kind of idea. There’s a different kind of financing method. I think we’ll all collectively figure it out, but we don’t actually have it today.

What you get is you have a very special entrepreneur like Elon, and then he can do it. What I always say is, “OK, who is the next Elon? And then we’ll talk.”

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We need more VCs to bet on these ambitious ideas. No more Tiktok, please.

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[1]Original source: https://www.startups.com/library/expert-advice/marc-andreess...

[1]Snippet: https://allenleein.github.io/2020/03/11/pmarca-flying-car.ht...
To protect the privacy of the users you want the organization to be as transparent as possible about everything not involving user data. If the organization is hiding something, that something could be user-hostile.