skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t need to replace fb or google, only the functions it uses and provide an extensible set of tech for locals to develop solutions as needed. Still a massive undertaking but more reasonable.
Was gonna say exactly this. Doing something small and actually accomplishing makes a huge difference because it tells your brain I am capable of doing things. From there it becomes easier to slowly raise the bar of what your brain thinks is doable and thus things that you'll psychologically be able to go ahead and do.

It's really important also to make sure you don't aim for things that are too hard and fail too often. A bit of failure is okay but if your ratio of failure to success too low you'll lose self confidence and it becomes harder to get into a sort of "flow" of progress.
> As for the other stuff, if I cut those out I get miserable and more easily bored.

In my experience this is temporary. It takes about 1-2 weeks for my brain to adjust to the "new normal" of not playing video games or binging youtube. These 1-2 weeks are quite boring, but after that I am able to find things I would normally be bored by interesting. It's as if there is a "boredness set point", and once you cut out the most stimulating activities, less stimulating things like coding or reading will become more interesting to you.

That said, I like video games and youtube videos, so I often go for a middle-ground approach like you.
Business leaders were opposed to the mask ordinance because they thought it would reduce the people shopping in the stores.

Wearing the masks was seen as uncomfortable and so people didn’t want to do it.
> The US intelligence community was watching mid-November.

What? The US intelligence community was watching before the first person was infected? Man, they've gotten a little too good.
Well, you'd still only be maintaining one, since Apple maintains webkit for you.
It's not about "decorum". Complaints about downvotes make for shitty reading.
Sure, money influences politics, but the politicians are still elected by voters, and if voters didn't incentivize short-term planning by re-electing politicians with short-term policies, we'd see more long-term policies.

I think there are at least three partial solutions that need to be pushed simultaneously:

* Reduce the amount of money in politics
* Mechanisms to reduce the impact of the money that remains
* Mechanisms to help voters see through short-term promises
Probably not many songbirds in Bern
Haha, well... we’re still just a bunch of Homo Sapiens.

This is a great reminder of the inevitable tragedy of knowledge lost across generations. Could we as a species do better?
Indeed, we are building a web app now to replace an existing GUI. In our group, in at least two companies we have people with color blindness, so we decided to incorporate WCAG design practices from the beginning.

It's quite hard for us, as we relay on browser extensions to test and tell us whether we are doing accessibility right or not, before we send the app to be tested by our co-workers/users.

These tools lack somewhat, they are not easy to integrate in the build process, and instead developers have to remember to run them, and check different things (e.g. there are multiple types of color-blindness, EU vs. USA regulations for accessibility, ARIA roles/labels where possible for screen readers etc).

So you could definitely start working on something in that area. Maybe more tools, more information, services for testing, consultancy.
It’s not in the US either. Health care is intensely regulated.
Have you ever used a conventional GUI screen reader? Something like NVDA for Windows, VoiceOver for Mac or iOS, Talkback for Android, or Orca for GNOME? Reading a web page or an HTML email with one of those might give you a different perspective on what's possible, and specifically, how much better the experience of reading a hypertext document with a screen reader can be, compared to something like BRLTTY.
Your facts have zero bearing on the decision to use from.
Again, the current worldwide figure is 7%, with two thirds of the known cases still pending.

Even if absolutely 0 of the pending cases turn into deaths, and the true percentage of cases that are undetected is the full 50% that has been mentioned recently, that still puts us well above 3%.

Arithmetic: 7 in 100 right now. Add 0 to deaths, resolve all open cases and discover double the known case count: 7 in 200, 3.5%

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For the surveys you mentioned. The Roosevelt still has active cases. The Princess likewise did at the time that article was written. You're citing that 0.5% figure incorrectly: that's a projection from the Diamond Princess onto China. I found a different source for the German survey -- that link isn't working for some reason. The same applies there.

Most importantly, these surveys are not representative of the global population. See above.

The recent results that have shown 50% asymptomatic cases are not conclusive yet, because it's too soon to say that all of those people will never have symptoms.

I would be ecstatic if I was wrong; I would love it if the upper estimate for asymptomatic cases was correct, and we had far fewer deaths than anyone's expecting. But it's just not in the numbers right now.
You could call it something like "Because I Want You To Grade My Essay Again" (BIWYGMEA) and just pay people who submit to it.
"Something ought to be done" sure is a sinister "we're coming for you" warning as any. As other commenters have pointed out, this is a shill article, on par with "Hairdresser with PHD wants cutting your hair at home to be regulated or banned".
As a side note, weechat runs beautifully in Docker. I access it with Glowingbear but though a terminal it would also be trivial.
True. Bad writing on my part.
The average time horizon for anyone with young kids is 80+ years.
I argue after the initial learning curve every Joe would find it easier to avoid bugs in Haskell.

https://www.simplehaskell.org/

Then if you use simple Haskell for a year and want more type safety, you can fearlessly refactor to get that.
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
A man traveled around China and made an interactive GuideBook App
> Short of that, Fauci says skip the masks unless you are contagious,

I think since February we’ve learned more and more that people without symptoms are contagious. The only way to follow Fauci’s advice in that case is to wear a mask because we don’t know if we have the virus or not.

See this email from a government doctor on Feb 23: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-r...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/11/us/politics/11dc-...
Ask HN: Why don't more people use Pelican over Jekyll?
I've been working on relaunching my personal site with a static site generator. I tried Jekyll--yikes. The theming steps seem awkward and not easy to maintain (especially if customized). Set up seems somewhat painful and unintuitive.

Then I tried Pelican. It seems much more sane, user-friendly, and easy to build, launch, and customize. And Jinja templating seems...better.

Am I missing something about Jekyll's popularity? I'm open to either one, but so far, Pelican feels far more mature and usable.
Anybody feels that ADHD or similar issues are often a sign that you're not doing things that you need to to be happy ? Like running after something for the wrong reasons ?

Kinda like Bukowski "don't try" ?

ps: to explain more, there were times where

a) I was slowly but surely inspired by a topic and would just keep wondering and thinking about it, 'hard' or not, it was similar to walking a mental park

b) I was motivated by desires (greatness, potential financial gains, social status, some faith that the outcome would make me feel happy) but now my feelings about them have changed so it feels pointless. I feel a lot better when doing things that have no real goal but actually procure a lightweight joy.

For instance, I used to equate more study to more possibilities and capacity to 1) create more (joy) 2) get a good job. But my experience was that these efforts weren't useful in reality. Even though I got some FP moocs, solved problems alone, I'm still stuck too often, and recruiters don't give a damn. It all erodes your happiness/ROI center.
Yeah that was a bit silly, even saying something as basic as PowerPoint or Excel would have been better.
Qubes OS is the only solution that I know of that solves these issues right now.

It's a pity that using it forces you to not use your GPU, which is a blocker for many use-cases. I'm a huge fan of Qubes OS but I still don't use it on my main workstation at home for that reason (I do use it at work).
OK Thanos
Singapore and Hong Kong have both had to go into lockdowns. Their death toll is lower because they reacted earlier, and everyone agrees the West should have reacted earlier, but they don't reveal fundamental flaws in western strategies if they have to do the same kinds of things.

Taiwan reacted incredibly early - their response started on 31 December, reportedly because some CDC official was trawling a web forum and happened to come across a screenshot of a Wuhan doctor's group chat. They've certainly done a lot of other things right, but I think it's fair to say that's a multiple week head start beyond what anyone else could reasonably have gotten. Heck, it was 2 weeks before the WHO famously declared there was no person-to-person transmission.
As I was reading OP's article, another article (pay walled) showed up in the side feed detailing how my town back in SoCal is having, what apparently is becoming ubiquitous in the country, anti-quarantine protests today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmDeqdRdLk

I'm so glad I moved out for good this time, its sadly a pro military and Trump part of Southern Orange County that happens to have some of the most beautiful coast lines and best surfing on the mainland... I just looked into to it and it seems its also happening in Colorado Springs, which is also deeply pro Military and is dependent on its economy.

Which is odd, because in the Northern part we have people calling the police to tell them about the influx of out of state plates that been seen recently.
Find something you care about.

It's hard to push through tough problems to achieve a goal that you don't care about achieving. The pressure you grew up in now needs to come from yourself, or more reasonably, the situations you put yourself in. For example: take the life's savings of every family member and friend you have, and go try to make more money with it. The pressure will surely arrive.

An alternative possibility: It may be that your career is not high on your priority list, and you'd rather make some money so that you can fund a passion, travel the world, raise a family, or do something else. If those are the things that you are passionate about, a promotion will not fill the hole where they are missing (for long)
> CRDTs usually work as last-write-wins

Um.
I have used Orca, and I can't stand it. The main advantage is a global place to route text for speech synthesis, but I simply hate using screenreaders to use applications which are not designed with accessibility in mind. There are few better solutions for browsing the web, though. I've been meaning to try lynx with brltty.
Here is the referenced paper by Bartholet [0] and its abstract [1]

FWIW, I find the premise to be rather outrageous. However I submitted it to HN in the hopes of a lively discussion. She does actually make some valid points, although her suggestions seem to be a prime example of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”

[0] https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf

[1] https://arizonalawreview.org/homeschooling-parent-rights-abs...
Patient-derived mutations impact pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2
Hospital capacity doesn't really help the most severely impacted:

https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d

It's also not the case that reducing government mandated restrictions will just snap the economy back. Plenty of people are going to avoid sitting in restaurants and the like, regardless of what the government says.

And hopefully businesses will keep lots of people working from home, so that we can limit the spread as much as possible while working towards better treatments and a vaccine.
then don't read them? at least that's what i'm constantly chided with when i bring up that there 50 billion other hn tropes that are just as grating to read. i had a list on one of my alts. it went something like

1. mobile site is broken

2. didn't read past because

3. etc.

so how do you pick which tropes get a pass and which don't? but shouldn't it be all or none? the fact it isn't uniformly all or none proves it is in fact about decorum.
Arthur Worsley on techniques for learning how to learn
Only if you assume people never change. I’m willing to bet people would respond differently today - in times where a record will severely impact your career potential.
everything has been reduced to numbers we mindlessly argue when we are talking about deaths that could have been avoided

What is mindless is refusing to consider any action that might conceivably increase the number of deaths without considering tradeoffs. Or should we shut down the country during every flu season and universally limit cars to 20mph?

this isn't a cold, it does -damage-

Lockdowns also do damage; not just economic and psychological but also medical. We've stopped "elective" procedures like cancer screenings, which is guaranteed to result in worse outcomes for some patients. I agree that as of right now it's best to maintain the lockdown, but in order to make that determination we really do have to use numbers.
Ask yourself “Do I want homeschooling to look more like public school, or do I want public schools to look more like home schooling?”
I wasn't at this specific presentation, but I've seen other presentations by the author, and had basically the same takeaway. Snake oil.
The left has been in control of the public sector in California for approximately forever.
Butter quality varies widely around the world and within countries. The distance from very good to very poor quality butter in terms of the eating experience is incredibly large. Very good butter is unreasonably delicious and addictive, it is a completely different food product compared to the poor quality equivalent. I wouldn't pay an order of magnitude more for the world's best butter, because great butter doesn't need to cost that much, but I would definitely pay an integer factor more for excellent butter versus terrible butter.

That said, I've been able to find great butter in most ethnically European countries. It requires a bit of effort in some locales but it is usually available if you know where to look.
Back when Chrome was based on WebKit, my recollection is that WebKit was vaguely half the code. The other half was all the stuff that browsers do that's easy to overlook -- the network stack, process management, 2d graphics engine, cookie management, the URL bar, v8, extensions, etc. And these pieces are the very things that Chrome differentiated and succeeded based on.

(WebKit on Mac includes more of these things, but many of them rely on Mac-specific implementations, which weren't as useful for a browser that is primarily used on Windows.)
What’s the Most Difficult Leadership Skill?
> Which is why I am not a big fan of comparing 'effectiveness' at this early stage.

The state broadcaster in Australia (ABC) broadcast an hour-long episode of their program "Foreign Correspondent" in which the Singaporean government were granted a platform to explain how their approach was far more civilised and liberal, with better results and more freedoms than the efforts of Australia. They prated on and on about the benefits of their system of both disease control and government trust and how low their disease numbers and civilian discontent was.

The disease control aspect has not aged well.
> To prevent poverty and stress, it seems much safer and effective to just pause debt (not furlough) for a few months

Yes, because debt is the only thing that causes stress.

Being cooped in a tiny apartment away from friends and family can be very difficult for those with severe depression and anxiety. In some cases it will and has lead to suicide.

> than force everyone back into the mix and risk a new outbreak

Just because a lockdown is lifted doesn't mean anyone is forced back into leaving home.

The problem with the lockdown is it forces the same solution on to every individual. Individuals have different needs, risk factors, priorities, and appetite for risk. People should be able to these make decisions for themselves.
Death rates change based on how well the healthcare system can keep up. The Diamond Princess was best case in that sense, so the floor of the death rate is about 0.5% if your somewhere with great medical care and f cases. As for the German study:

> About 1,000 people participated in the study by way of questionnaires, throat swabs, and blood tests to detect the presence of COVID-19 antibodies. These interim results are based on data from about 500 people.

So only a sample size of 500 plus not accounting for other local factors there, like being a small village.
I went to MIT, and I can confidently say it's no better than many schools a tier or two down. What you describe is a difference in personality, more than in tier. There are party ivies, and there are some really awesome 2nd or 3rd tier tech schools. Some of the lower-tier tech schools are just like MIT in virtually all respect, except brand.

That said, brand matters.

MIT now invests incredibly heavily in brand development, compromising integrity, research quality, and teaching-and-learning. For grads, that's paid off. My degree has gone up in value a lot over the years.
Ah, sorry, yes I stepped on a rake and whacked myself in the face here.

What I meant, since LWW is nomenclature for an alternative to CRDTs, is that the last writer by _logical clock_ in a CRDT, not by _wall clock_ time, will "win" the key.
The person took the time to mention their ability to listen and comprehend two times faster than presumably the average. They didn't not mention the original poster in any sense of compassion, ignoring them.

What is the strongest possible interpretation of what this person said? That which is not a fair understanding of the criticism of my post?
> Ask HN: Systems for supporting Evidence-Based Policy?

> What tools and services would you recommend for evidence-based policy tasks like meta-analysis, solution criteria development, and planned evaluations according to the given criteria?

> Are they open source? Do they work with linked open data?

I suppose I should clarify that citizens, consumers, voters, and journalists are not acceptable answers
I'm basing this of San Francisco (I haven't been anywhere else). Presuming that SF is representative for the US, then IMO: tap water, milk, butter, bread and cheese in the US isn't that great. For me those things are what I basically live off every morning. The US has other things that are up to par or better than stuff in European countries, but those 5 things aren't that great unfortunately.

US people have complained about a lot of things where I lived when it comes to food, but not those five.
Back in India milk used to be delivered by milkmen everyday.
It was unpasteurized, so my mom would boil it and let it cool before consumption, which left a thick slice of cream on top of it.

It was collected, and after several weeks worth had accumulated, yogurt was used to ferment it for a few days and then churned to make white homemade butter.
It tasted divine with a little salt and pepper on bread.

Of course, a lot of that butter was used to make Ghee, whose delicious smell permeated the whole home.

And the brown leftover,after making ghee, milk solids tasted amazing with a little sugar.

Ah, the memories...
Indeed. Communist societies build less, and somehow also pollute more.
It’s been between 15% and 30%. Some of that is just the treadmill of internal platform migrations though. 15% for local team’s own needs.
Blink is a WebKit fork, so I could see a reasonable person clumping them together when complaining about monoculture. I suppose it really depends on the degree to which they've diverged; I personally suspect that being led by Google vs Apple does actually make a difference, especially around privacy and anti-tracking issues.
> not much has changed since 1919.

The 1919 SF Chronicle was easier to read.
Although I think it's worth noting that this blunts the analogy; they thought it would reduce the people shopping in the stores, because the stores were open and not shut by mandate.
For some cats, this is cruel. Other cats tolerate a 100% indoor life with no complaint. I will provide my family's two cats as an example of both - both were raised by us from kittens, both raised to be indoors. They were both spayed, and my mother insisted on declawing them while they were under, just to prevent the scratching of furniture (which was very cruel. I was a child, so I had no input).

One cat (no discernible breed, long black hair) would attempt to jump out the door every opportunity that it got. Finally it escaped, and would periodically escape through pushing out the screen on any window someone would forget to close. Eventually, she disappeared entirely - likely she died, since with no claws she could not protect herself from the wild of this Rocky Mountain state. This is a painful reminder that declawing is a bad idea.

The other cat lives still (a Birman and/or Ragdoll variety, famously docile breed). It was always terrified of the outdoors and continues to have no interest in them.

How would you feel if you were forced to live in a cage all your life when you yearned to be free? For some cats, this is cruelty. Keep those inside that you can, and some of the damage you mention will be minimized.
Can still post them. We have Google translate.
Agreed - South Korea was wearing masks long before the CDC's announcement that masks could be useful in stopping the spread.

Also, from the post it says that masks were useful in stopping the Spanish Flu. It's amazing that we didn't learn that in 100 years.
The US produces some truly fabulous butter but you may not have had it. Industrial economy grade butter in the US can be quite poor, I don't like that either.
This was my biggest concern. I'm so relieved to hear this and have very high hopes for you!
I thought I was going crazy because people kept linking to documentation that didn't look thorough at all. Protip for those on mobile: On the top left corner, there's a gray button (really hard to see over the gray background!). If you hit it, a sidebar containing what you actually want to read will show up.
> I think since February we’ve learned more and more that people without symptoms are contagious.

Here's an article from January[1]:

> "There's no doubt after reading this paper that asymptomatic transmission is occurring," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "This study lays the question to rest."

I've noticed a lot of excuses for poor decisions, as well as rewriting of history that's only a couple of months old. I doubt we're going to see much accountability for the way the pandemic was mishandled.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/31/health/coronavirus-asymptomat...
I don’t agree with your response.

>> Do you also think that an alcoholic should just "do it" (i.e. stop drinking) or a depressed person should just "get over it"?

False equivalence.

Not doing work is neither depression nor alcoholism.

If you find you get to a point in life where essentially you have fallen into lazy habits then you fix it by taking action.
Well, I imagine you'll be happy to know that some of us have begun IPFS implementation in Rust: https://github.com/ipfs-rust/rust-ipfs