skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO this is a classic case of loss aversion. Enforcers of law are put in a position to make subjective decisions that impact them personally. They don’t want to make a decision. They want someone else to make a decision. Decision stew until they can be disassociated with any person or group. This takes time. Usually the decision is tempered to absolve all parties and thus be convoluted and misinterpreted. Rinse and repeat.
>>so that we may come out break even or even ahead compared to covid deaths. Just trying to find the silver lining here.

Everything you said above are really down in North Korea, and have been so for decades. I doubt they're doing OK
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Yeah, I didn't intend to beat around the bush - I agree this is an example of the ACLU being driven by progressive activism rather than civil rights.
Marc makes a lot of sense but his thoughts come out a bit too simplistic. Yes we deffo need to build (in a sustainable way). But what’s holding us back isn’t our technical capability. It’s the fact that we need creative destruction.

To build those fast trains, we may need to do it over people’s houses. To build safe nuclear plants, some may need to fail. Like SpaceX failures before they get it right.

We have a refactoring problem. To see the results, it could take decades. The demand is there but the power isn’t even in the hands of government. It’s by the people who own corporations and lobbyists, it’s by the private equity folks and the bankers who are over leveraged. They are very happy with current system of seeking rent from their monopolies.

Also we aren’t as organized. China can get shit done. I’m willing to make a bet that by 2030, China will have a higher GDP than US. China knows how to build.
Nothing could be more opposite in the world we live in. This title is indeed a puff piece, intended on showing a "bright" side to the shut down. Its incumbent on the educated reader to see that. Unfortunately, it seems not many people critically think anymore.

Edit: Just because its data, doesn't mean its important. I can't wait to see Cal DOT's surplus after this.
Does anyone know why there's tape on the button?
> reducing violent crime

There are fears it will increase domestic abuse.
I wonder if we'll see a big drop in flu deaths as overwhelmingly only the old and sick die of COVID, and those folks are at large risk from the flu also.
NLRB Looking into Claims Amazon Violated Employees' Rights During Covid Pandemic
How not to write shitty code: Intentional Conditions
This is stupid. Put out your money to make it happen not empty words.
>California is saving $40M per day from reduction in car crashes due to COVID19

I go to Vegas. Lose $100K in poker but win $190 at slot machines. How did I do?
Original title was too long. It was:

The NLRB Is Looking Into Claims That Amazon Violated Employees' Rights During The Coronavirus Pandemic

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/13-CA-256021

Case Number: 13-CA-256021

Date Filed: 02/07/2020

Status: Open

Location: Chicago, IL

Region Assigned: Region 13, Chi

Allegations

8(a)(1) Coercive Actions (Surveillance, etc)

8(a)(1) Interrogation (including Polling)

via DCH1 Amazonians United Facebook page

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=894793817609060&id...

I hesitated to post that last link. I don’t have any stake in this. Please don’t start flamewars on Facebook. I only post for the sake of transparency of my own original reporting. What is it with sites these days not linking to their sources?
Takes 21 days to form a new habit, so there's every chance they'll continue!
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This reminds me of Joe English's definitions of XML Namespace sanity http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/sanity.txt
I doubt Andreesen wrote all this with straight face. This part is especially egregious:

>The problem is desire. We need to want these things. The problem is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things. The problem is regulatory capture. We need to want new companies to build these things, even if incumbents don’t like it, even if only to force the incumbents to build these things. And the problem is will. We need to build these things.

No Mark the problem is that American labor is overvalued and the Government does not subsidize it like it does for Agriculture. Why, you ask? Because manufacturing does not get you swing states.

American Manufacturing can rise again if there are no expectations of profit. Which is only possible with Government money. Or if you are Elon Musk, and can convince private investors to lose money for no reason.
A quick Google turns up this [1]. Haven't verified it works though.

1. https://github.com/thenewwazoo/bash-history-sqlite
Default function arguments are the devil
Those kafkaesque bureaucracies come about when oligopolies ladder pull by writing their own regulating legislation. It's not bureaucratic overreach, it's corruption. Facebook recently tried the same thing.
My wife had a similar experience. Her issue is probably not major, but it could also be a serious cancer and who knows when they'll start taking clients again, much less catch up to her.

Making a rough guess of two months of shutdown, we've lost 1/6 of our annual non-emergency medical capacity for 2020. It'd be impossible to put a number on the cost in lives that means, but I think we can probably say with certainty that there are a non-insignificant number of people who will die or experience permanent medical issues because diagnosis and/or treatment was delayed.

Perhaps I've missed it, but I'm honestly shocked this isn't priority number one for a partial reopening in regions with low infection rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

About 35k people die from car crashes in the U.S. each year (or at least they did). That has always served as my personal benchmark for risks: if I'm more likely to die in a car crash, I don't worry about it.

I worry about Covid-19.
Obviously Lisp, Scheme, and Smalltalk are not melancholy languages because you are only melancholy about them when you are not using them.

They are perhaps narcissistic languages, or obsessional.
I'm expecting knock-on mental health effects to be pretty bad.
Medicare Part D coverage of prescription drugs. Seniors now have subsidized coverage for not a lot of money and the program costs less than the forecast.
the main thing about the accidental release theory to me is it neglects the intermediary animal aspect most scientists seem to agree on.

An accidental transmission from bats to humans in the lab: yes I could believe that. An accidental lab transmission from bats to pangolins to humans (currently thought likely) is much harder to believe. It doesn't follow the rule of simple explanations.

The lab-transmission theory is also dangerous because it's currently baseless in terms of hard evidence, yet is immensely satisfying for millions of people who are scared, bored, sick, pissed off, etc due to the virus. Like more traditional conspiracy theories, the lab transmission theory uses circumstantial evidence to provide a simple explanation in the face of chaos, the unknown, the void, the reality that the virus can really mess with us all this badly. "It's from a chinese lab accident" is not the pseudo explanation we all need right now, with so many different types of tension nearing breaking point.

Yes, it could be true, but I hope you'll join me in really hoping it isn't and in pushing back on it til we see proper hard evidence. Because I unironically think that if it turns out to be true it could cause a war.
Funny you should mention that. You have approximately a 1% lifetime risk of dying from a car crash in the US [1], and your risk of dying from a COVID infection is 0.37% per the latest study from Germany (and it overwhelmingly only kills the old and sick). Given you develop immunity after (no evidence you don't yet), that represents a lifetime risk too. Which means, your lifetime risk of dying in a car accident remains about 3X higher than from dying of a COVID infection.

Lifetime risk is a better way of comparing the two because (a) both of them represent lifetime risks and (b) COVID is front-loaded, spreading furiously through the population so your daily risk today is higher than your daily risk of a dying in a car crash, but your lifetime risk remains much lower.

It's also worth calling out the flu has killed 2X as many people as COVID has to date this flu season. A bad flu season in the US kills about 60K people each year.

[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...
Right, the way the government regulated airlines is by creating monopolies.
It's not over by a long shot. Hard to say if "modern civilization" will ever be the same...
I feel your cynicism. Some of us have seen this a few times.

But you know what? I think some people, particularly younger people are really enthused and inspired by this framing. People are energized when they think they are creating something heady thing of 'matrix-like' proportions.

I view it as a false kind of Koolaid, that derives real value out of its very existence. The Koolaid has value if it works!

But we need to be realistic as well.

Since 'blockchain' is losing its luster, and 'AI' isn't quite as shiny, we need a fancy new word to get the animal spirits flowing!

So watch out for a host of new 'metaverse' startups!
I don't mean just power buttons. When I said almost every button not on a PC keyboard I meant it. On the washing machine every single button has to be held almost half a second or it won't do anything. It's super frustrating. But of course it's possible to mess this up the other way too - one of my devices reacts quick to button presses, but you have to wait about half a second until it will react to the next press.
I can't say its the best way, but I found learning Clojure as my first was really helpful for me. Like you, I prefer working on real projects as well. Given how easy it is to use both Java and JS libraries (Clojurescript) there's a bunch of real-world project ideas I could execute on (web apps, CLI tools, cloud-related tooling)
The more interesting question is: Will we come ahead in lives saved without the covid measurements.

Because it tells a very interesting story how many lives we're willing to accept to be lost in normal circumstances.

Cars, air pollution, avoidable infections, ... - there's a lot of harm society could avoid and doesn't.
Zinc supplements such as ZMA have this effect as well. I usually see no dreams at all (or at least don't remember them at all), but when taking ZMA I see dreams often.
> The issue is that there's no spatial component to WeChat. For whatever reason, it feels different when you have an avatar in a world with some freedom to move around.

I completely agree. My experience in Online Town was vastly different from my experience in Zoom.
> LetsEncrypt is free and issues certificates to everyone

When using free providers, you will notice that the issued to -> organization field will be empty. Free providers do not compete with company validating trust authorities. They are just developer tools.
Looking at the ~40k US deaths and the $6T spent, we’ve spent $150 million in stimulus per death.

Looking at the non-spending costs of lost productivity, opportunity costs, etc., it’s a staggering number.
Based on context, I kind of assume it's to avoid finger print data being collected.
What features of lisp are you looking forward to? If you just want to learn new concepts you want to keep things simple so could just stick with mit-scheme. You didn’t ask, but I would also learn SML (or Haskell) after you have learned some scheme because you will see the diff between type systems and get a lot of practice.
Could have be someone coming back infected from Southern China shopping at the market. That guy could have suffered mild disease and as a result we will never find him.
No, it is widely believed around the world, and it's coming from research around child development, mostly done in the east (European nordic and former communist states).
>> If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you, and we need to get you into a position, an occupation, a career where you can contribute to building.

Most people do absolutely nothing useful, despite skill and desire, and they know it. We all know we’re much better at creating value on our own, but much worse at capturing that value. Something seems really unproductive about this system; must be a better way.
You might notice that, but very few other people do.
> your risk of dying from a COVID infection is 0.37%

I'm 55 so I'm pretty sure my risk is higher than that. Also, the covid risk is highly front-loaded. If I'm gong to die from covid, I'm likely to do so now whereas if I'm going to die in a car crash that might happen now or it might happen later. I don't really care about dying per se. Sooner or later it's going to happen. What I care about is dying sooner and more painfully than I have to. Drowning on my own bodily fluids doesn't sound like a pleasant way to go.
Living Systems Theory
Once a read key becomes public, it's always public right? I appreciate that arguably that's always the case.
https://youtu.be/vL00KEB1H50 - Freeman Dyson's theory of the origin of life, as explained by him.
https://www.newsweek.com/military-general-says-intelligence-...

Basing on the article which suggest the focus was on a 'created' 'bio-weapon' virus. Rather than just the simpler scenario of a gain-of-function experiment gone bad.
It’s Time to Think.

This is a complex question, and the answer is not “we are a weak and lazy civilisation, if only we’d build build build instead”.

We’ve put the world’s mask factories where it made the most economic sense, and anyone willing to go out on a limb and move production to where it makes the least economic sense will be crushed by fellow capitalists.

I sometimes wonder if nerds are subconsciously benchmarking our technological and economic progress against science fiction staples, which are great for firing the imagination but are a monumentally poor benchmark of actual progress. It’s very easy to utter the words “let’s colonise the galaxy”, but the logistical and technical barriers are formidable: in reality this undertaking is impossible for our civilisation, because we lack the knowledge that might allow us to do it (assuming that it is possible).

Commercial innovation is a very thin crust on top of a large body of fundamental research, which is required to make things like economic supersonic flight a reality for millions. So before we can “build build build”, we must invest in fundamental research.
Sure, but is immutability more important in law or in code? Updating a smart contract seems to be as tedious as changing a law.
What nonsense. Extended validation schemes are snake oil peddled by CAs to make more money.
Maybe like many things the OPs post is an indirect consequence of 2008 bailouts and QE.

Zombies were propped up so the only thing entrepreneurs could go after was CRUD apps and adtech.

If banks, airlines, manufacturing were forced to face that reset then entrepreneurs and startups could have a go at genuinely reinventing those industries.
This looked ugly and so much out of place...

> Or, as Pearson puts it:

> From this it will be more than ever evident how little chance had to do with the results of the Monte Carlo roulette in July 1892.

> (Not sure why his academic paper suddenly becomes so specific; maybe he had a gambling problem on top of being a well-known racist.)
All of those are great but COVID has done that in weeks.

38,000 people die every year in crashes on US roads. COVID deaths are at 39k and the first COVID-19 death was on Feb. 29. 50 days ago.
> It's scary to me that our country is being manipulated.

That's because the political system is very dysfunctional and national political leaders are no longer used to coherent action.
Radiopaedia.org, the wiki-based collaborative Radiology resource
Perhaps relevant: What makes a good subscription billing system? https://dev.to/shoplytics/what-makes-a-good-subscription-bil...
IC = intelligence community (I assume)
Yes, and that would be entirely consistent with the scenario discussed in my comment. Did you read it? You seem to be responding to some other comment about an engineered virus, which no one here is even discussing.

I get the feeling people just skim a few words, and then respond based on their...feelings? intuition? politics?
Sort of related, I like to put this snippet in my PROMPT_COMMAND variable:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(HISTTIMEFORMAT= history 1)" >> ~/.logs/bash/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log'

I forget where I learned this. What it does is write the bash history to a log file, with the date/time, directory of the command, and the command. Occasionally it has helped me find where a file is that I was working on :)
Cognizant confirms Maze ransomware attack, says customers face disruption
Try learning Common Lisp. There are many book resources and it’s way more fun.

Don’t know what you mean you mean by patterns. Meta programming is way easier with Lisps. Python would not normally be classified as functional btw.
Other than the obvious drop in drivers due to unemployment, I don't see a plausible way that happens.

Taking public transit is probably one of the riskiest activities the average person might undertake in their day as far as contracting a virus. Whether or not that will cause people to take their cars instead is unknown, but I can't imagine it will increase ridership in the near term.

Additionally we may see a slowing down or even slight reversal in the trends of populations becoming more urban and more dense. Living in a 400sqft apartment is doable for some people when they're spending most of their free time at bars, parks, restaurants, etc., but after enduring months of those places inaccessible the idea of living in a less-dense suburb may be appealing to people.
> The Walther PP series was a good future focused “fashionista” choice for Bond in film.

Interesting opinion given that the PP dates from 1929! And of course the simplified PPK was a favourite of the Gestapo.
Anyone know how to expose the activity log?
It is meant seriously. I myself am more to the anarchist side of things, but the answer wasn't about that.

I think the government has most or all information it could possibly need - from my employer, school, doctor. I don't recall filling any form that was necessary, everything I've ever done with the government was a waste of time, because everything has already been in their system; thus my answer was mostly about making a proper computer system that does most if not all things automatically, asking for my time only when absolutely necessary.
I noticed their issue tracker is on GitHub: https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus

In case they're not watching this thread, I think they would appreciate your feedback.
Surely the important number is per lives saved rather than per lives lost?
Woah, took me some time to digest this -- "contextualize liberties" must be the most Orwellian phrase in existence, only thing that might come close is another phrase you used, "civil rights absolutism."
Over 400,000 Americans died in 2019 because they are too fat and we didn’t do anything. Weird.
The US was especially unprepared. Compare NYC to anywhere else. We had months to build a testing infrastructure like South Korea, we did practically nothing, and now thousands have died. Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, etc., all did better than we did with worse situations. Government competency matters.
Those are unfortunately baked into our accounting, much like “killed by bandits” was accounted for in medieval trade until states started being able and willing to provide meaningful security.
Not really actually! In your age category 50-59 your case fatality rate is 1.3% [1] and given the way it affects the older end of the band more significantly than yourself in the middle of the band, it wouldn't be at all unlikely that your case fatality rate is right around 1%.

Further, we have been seeing anywhere from 30-80% of cases are asymptomatic or result in mild flulike symptoms and therefore not accounted for in case fatality rates. Indeed the Gangelt study put the overall infection fatality rate at 0.37% when Germany's case fatality rate is around 2%. It wouldn't surprise me at all if your risk was about 7X lower than the stated 1.3%, as low as 0.25%

I also wouldn't be so quick to assume car crashes are a pleasant way to go.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
They did act in January.

SF’s emergency operations center was active and running. The CDC was still making it illegal for anyone to test outside some unreliable and faulty test kits.

The fact that our federal government was obstructing anyone’s ability to build up a testing apparatus is very much the responsibility of the incompetent management of this crisis by the federal government.
I'm assuming they're taking about character encoding, as in utf-8.
> The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x.

Those are probably largely people that probably did just as much activity somewhere other than their home neighborhood (physical-but-nonessential labor, gym, athletic hobbies that rely on now-closed businesses, etc.)
The main things about Lisp:

1. The syntax: It's just parens/brackets, where the first item dictates the meaning of the rest, all separated by whitespace. That's the whole syntax of Lisps. If you have a good IDE (e.g. Emacs + CIDER), this can make you slightly faster at editing code than normal.

2. Functional programming: Many lisps traditionally use recursion. It's not necessarily a core part of Lisp nor is it super great (I avoid it whenever possible). Most of the FP you get from Lisp you can also get from JavaScript and a good FP library (e.g. lodash).

3. Immutability: This isn't traditionally part of Lisps either, mostly just Clojure, and it can be done with libraries in JS. But people often mix these up and think it's a Lisp thing so I listed it here.

4. Macros: Many other languages have good macros now (Elixir, Rust, etc). It can be useful in certain situations, especially how it's used in Rust's stdlib and third party libs, but it's not a panacea as commonly thought.

5. Homoiconicity: This is one of the biggest touted features of Lisps and I just really don't think it's that great. It's mostly useful in writing macros, but other languages have macro systems that don't really suffer from not having this.

6. Bootstrapping: The original idea of Lisp being a language that can bootstrap an interpreter of itself using only a tiny set of special-cased evaluation rules ("special forms") is intellectually neat but not practically useful.

7. Common Lisp: This is its own thing. It's super complex and some people really love it and swear by it. It's kind of like a C++ competitor. It honestly shouldn't even be categorized with the rest of the Lisp family. That's like saying Europe is part of Italy.
Mu-Haskell, Easy Micro-Service Using Type Level
Experts are working on Universal Vaccine https://archive.vn/0skBn
It's a little more obvious if you compare places with equal exposure (numbers of European and Asian travelers) and density.
I do this on iTerm
CMD + Shift + E

Is it the same or something different?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4186
In South Africa at least, violent crime has dropped by 75%.
It still blows my mind that a human that lived 100,000 years ago was anatomically modern. I take that to mean that we could've taken one at birth and raised it in a modern home and it could've grown up to receive a physics PhD. In other words, a human 100,000+ years ago was 100% capable of understanding general relativity, or how to design and construct the Saturn V rocket, or any other modern STEM topic. What were we doing for all those years banging bones with round rocks? There must've been a lot of intellectually frustrated people.