skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/masks_cdc.png

Seems pretty consistent with my point - if masks weren't believed to be effective they would not be recommended "if unavoidable" , a use / don't use recommendation is not the same as a scientific finding of efficacy - it almost always factors in an implicit cost-benefit analysis of exactly the kind SSC advocates for. Case in point - all countries are now recommending (and in some places legally requiring) masks and not because a bunch of RCTs were conducted in the last two months.
Doordash Is Down
I'm surprised no one mentioned openstack. I never deployed it, but by mere reading its deployment docs, its going to be a mess in production and its not doable by a solo dev. Anybody care to correct me?
> You want me to be fastidious in my representation of his tweets

I want you to be honest in addressing what you disagree with. That's it.

> this guy who is literally arguing literally just about headlines of articles.

That's just not true. He's dug into the contents of the articles both in podcasts and threads like this one (very near what I just shared): https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228447960008183808
Those photos don't look much different to me than any other photos I've seen of airplane assembly lines.

What in particular would you have expected to see?
Probably a better description is that Erlang's raison d'etre is -fault tolerant- applications. Concurrency and distribution are just natural results of prioritizing that (because to isolate faults you need strong concurrency primitives, lest some number of bad behaving processes prevent others from being able to succeed, and you also need distribution, lest hardware faults lead to system failure). But, yeah, there are lots of good links attached.

For what it means for concurrency, it's not intended to be a high performant number crunching system, but rather one built to to make concurrency safe (which ends up being extremely performant for I/O bound workloads, and extremely predictable for CPU bound ones) - M:N threading model, immutable data, shared almost nothing, achieved via the actor model.
I was like, "Why Dracula when everyone else calls it Darcula?"

Then I saw that it was for sale. Oh.
It's a "for security purposes" way of describing something.

What's sensitive about it? Does it show ineptitude? Negligence? Crime? Does it protect monopolistic power that's working against the public interest? Is it just SSN numbers? I dunno, we don't know.

This is the time for an open society, not to hide behind security theater.
I think, as others have alluded, this particular market might be tough with mountains being closed down. I have an aerial photograph of Burke above my workstation and a few other maps on my walls -- I always purchased them shortly after forming a connection to a place. That's just my anecdotal experience of course!

For marketing, are you also placing them on location? If so, I can likely help with placement in Burke Mountain Hotel. Edit: my email is in profile
It’s equal temperament scale (each note’s frequency is 2^1/12 above the lower one) with 12 notes per octave, have a look at user guide for more details. Many people asked for open sourced version of the algo. I want to do it. Just need to think a little about how to do it properly, so that I can still build something on tops of it to “monetise” what I’ve been doing for a year now... (Everyone wants to do smth enjoyable in their life.) I’ll try to do it soon! Subscribe to email list, I’ll let everyone know.
Have you ever looked at the comments section on a news website?
Rethinking Human Ecology in the Age of Covid-19: Lessons from a Fish Market
We're talking about a country too arrogant to adopt the metric system, meters are just too much for them.

Sorry, can't hear you from all the way up here on the moon.
Martin Odersky followed the same logic with Scala and he has since expressed some regret, especially as more and more people become familiar with Python, which is more succinct:

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/2491
The apps may be convenient to the user, but they cause direct harm to restaurants. They have become a tax. These apps may have value in a world full of cloud kitchens, but until then, they are a parasite and represent a bad equilibrium.
Show HN: Online Cards Against Humanity with webcam and microphone support
It's a great start - I see a lot of potential in how it has "dumbed down" the topic of consumer privacy.

I see all the flaws you're talking about, but the one thing I was looking for, and this simple delivered, is to relay the message

"Ring and Nest are bad, like really bad"
Use shortcuts to create new Google Docs and more from the URL bar
2020 iPhone SE
Given that there was a disaster (in the sense of failed containment) in the hospital of Alzano Lombardo early on (which is in the area), I wonder if that meant that more vulnerable segments of the population were exposed to the virus.
The .fur domain is ... interesting
I think it's safe to ignore both of these factors at this scale. 1) The effects of gravity is bounded and negligible on the surface of the Earth. 2) (I suspect) the wideness of the launch angle and hoop size are probably directly proportional, so you could shape the back board based on a direct impact to get a point to center the hoop on. The hoop can only get so big and still be considered reasonable.
I think you gotta take the radius of the ball into account - that's the only bit he messed up on. (And if we can just have any-old assumptions, then it seems like the optimal solution is to make the entire backboard a hoop!)
2 full bags of food will reliably last me 2 weeks.

Even for a family of 4, this should last at least 3-4 days of comfortable living.

Those people there were buying that much food daily. I do remember their faces.
I hate going to drive.google.com to create a new doc and was about to build a shortcut for myself, but it turns out that Chrome already has these built in!

docs.new
sheets.new
slides.new
forms.new
And yes, it’s in C++ (can use from Objective-C, no problem).
Well sure, while you're at it let's take .tv away from the Government of Tuvalu. It's just two letters right, nobody else associates it with that island nation either.

Funnily enough, the same legal reasoning that claims BIOT should not exist (dividing a colony before granting independence) could also be applied to Tuvalu if you wanted to argue that it has no legal right to be a separate state independent of Kiribati. The only difference is, Tuvalu's separation was in accord with the wishes of its indigenous people whereas the Chagos Islanders were shipped elsewhere. But then, nobody bothered asking the indigenous peoples of the USA how they felt about a new nation being founded on their land, and we all seem to tolerate the existence of that somewhat irritating country.
BBC Pidgin
Are you saying they mostly report on conspiracy theories?
That is an extremely simple architecture design. Reverse proxy to load balance two instances. Two instances with a cache talking to RDS and an EFS volume to ensure uploads and files stay consistent.

The networking is the bit that most people don't care about or see, but it's there, and that's it.
It’s a shame, too, because they have the great opportunity to be a news organization that actually delivers the source material in a more complete manner. Vox is incredibly disappointing and all their messaging sets you up for a complete letdown.
NOTE: #0 is PRIVACY!
I'm tired of using a search engine to find e.g. This +That
When some results WILL contain both parameters BUT many of others listed contain only This OR That!

Here's my favourites, some of these actually use Google:
https://www.qwant.com/
https://www.startpage.com/
https://www.ecosia.org/
Well it is happening [0,1,2], just not at the scale I would expect when you consider the fact that a large portion of our economy is at a standstill. You would think it would be all hands on deck when there are trillions of dollars on the line. And like the GP pointed out, we've achieved things that are magnitudes more difficult when it comes to quickly repurposing our industry when the situation calls for it.

[0]: https://news.nike.com/news/nike-ppe-face-shields-covid-19-su...
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211028
[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21222219/general-motors-v...
You think security fixes are a sign that software was built 'wrong'?

Of course. If it needs a fix, it was built wrong. We've become too accepting of low-security software. There's no excuse for this in embedded devices that don't do much.
> Because "move fast" means someone else gets a bonus, and "break things" means I have to fix the bugs over the weekend.

This is a great quote, I'm going to steal this from you!
> What more can I even do as a developer?

Switch to MATE: https://mate-desktop.org/
I just started a new job and they use Gmail for the email, it has been probably well over a year since I logged into gmail on web.

That’s side hamburger button throws me for a loop every. Single. Times. For some reason I keep thinking it’ll bring up the other gsuite apps, but instead the whole page shifts awkwardly aha then the sidebar disappears, “that was not what I was expecting” is my reaction every time.
The German town of Gangelt is the study case that the OP was referring to, which thanks to a small population and a well-attended carnival party with many infected attendees and a legion of subsequent linked cases had acquired the reputation that everyone must have been exposed, i.e. a place that would have established something like herd immunity. So to discover that only one in seven inhabitants had detectable antibodies was indeed dismaying: either the infection pattern or the immune response wasn't as expected. Or both.
Yup. None of the other people's earlier submissions made it up to the front page, so I submitted it.
Seattle’s corporate giants banded together to flatten the curve
U.K. Paid $20M for New Coronavirus Tests from China. They Didn’t Work
Since no one has mentioned it so far, I'll go ahead and link a very insightful paper that the creator of Erlang actually wrote about how fault tolerance from the actor model make concurrent programming a breeze:

https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
> Logging in on desktop now requires "swiping up" with the mouse to get the password box. The "swiping" thing is to avoid problems with unwanted activation when the device is in your pocket. It's totally inappropriate to desktops.

Anecdote: The first time this happened, I had no idea why it wasn't working and naturally started clicking on things and pressing buttons to try to get it to do the thing. I thereby discovered that you can get the password prompt by pressing Enter.

Having used it this way for two years now, your description of this behavior is the first time I'm learning that it is also possible to do it by dragging the mouse upwards. The discoverability of this behavior apparently does not exist -- I assume if pressing Enter hadn't worked I would have had to use a different device to look it up on the internet.
Thanks for sharing this - not a conversation anyone wants to have, but there's a surprising lack of "good example" resources for those who have done this well.
Ubuntu got worse because of GNOME
The whole "desktop metaphor", as usually implemented, is trash. I'm a happy user of i3 window manager (a tiling window manager). It's not the first and probably not the last, but it's the first time I can quickly and efficently arrange application windows on my screen. I think this will become the default eventually, tiling WM are the way. The way it uses the screen is beyond anything. They will just make it more intuitive and comfortable for first-time users. i3 requires you to memorize, but preferably define your own hotkeys.

Meanwhile applications like skype, other instant messengers, slack, music players have grown and now are fullscreen by default. Non-blog websites are usually large and can't be displayed in a simple window. People are complaining about 80 character rule for code, and go to 120 characters and beyond - which again means you can fit fewer windows on a screen. I think web browsers and websites are largely to blame. Because that's like most users interact with computers today, that's what they expect and don't know it can be any other way.

Every single application wants to be THE fullscreen application. I think it's an admission of defeat! Over the decades, they've tried - and failed - to make smaller application windows that people consider useful. And it's not the fault of application makers - it's the broken "desktop metaphor" where you're supposed to move windows like physical objects. It works on a desk because you have two hands and 10 fingers. Imagine working at a desk (no computer) using only 1 finger! That's how it feels using mouse. The default window managers are crap at actually managing windows and arranging them usefully. Dragging corners, window borders, moving windows feels miserable in the long run, and when you close one of your windows you need to repeat it when you want another app window to fit into your layout. So many people just don't bother, get a bunch of fullscreen windows and alt-tab through them.

And applications with tabs are a symptom of the disease, too. Web browsers, the blue Microsoft Word, IDEs, and so on. It's alt-tab fullscreen windows in sheep's clothing. Nothing particularly wrong with alt-tab method, but it doesn't scale to a large number of windows we have nowadays.
What I hate about these delivery apps is the hidden markups. If I order the food and it says the price is X and the fee is Y, I'd like to be able to trust that. But if I look online and find out that the price of the dish I just ordered is jacked up by $2, that's turned me off from using them.
Are they delivering? No? Then sorry, I won’t delete it.

For a point of comparison, of the places I use Door Dash for, none of them deliver food. And perhaps rightly so, since there’s a pretty hefty cost associated with hiring delivery drivers.

The delivery service is just worth that much to me.
Not sure where his 500k years figure comes from. A cursory search gives 521 years:

https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.1...

Chemical decay tends to follow Arrhenius equation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation#Equation

so indeed a difference of maybe 40C should lead to a difference in half life of about 20-30%. I think about 30 half lives (~10^-9 degradation factor) should be the limit of recoverability, so perhaps 521x30 = 15k years in normal conditions up to 521x30x1.25 = 20k years in low temperature.

Of course, other factors such as humidity could contribute as well to the half-life, and reactivity is a lot more complicated than the Arrhenius model in reality. But even then I would be surprised such a vast difference in reactivity outside of true cryogenic conditions (maybe even shielding from radiation?).

edit: your second edit is interesting :) is that curve polynomial or exponential?
John Conway had a lecture where he discusses this (among other things):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63uFjlgNds
This whole thing kinda makes me nervous for using a .in and not being from India.
How can you possibly know that, without details of restaurant books?

What if they are more than making up for the loss on individual orders by having much greater volume of orders, directly made possible by the convenience of all-food-one-app?
Just that the limit is 80 chars. There's almost always some fatty bit to cut - either the baity lede, or the half the details after the inevitable colon.
Perhaps they could form a coöp which allowed members to use the app for a nominal not for profit fee that keeps the lights on. ‘Course easier said than done.
Computers can do this.
I read Vox and listen to Ezra Klein's podcast as well as The Weeds. They have been covering Covid-19 since before it had that name. They are a part of my regular media diet, and I consumed their coverage before the US had its first case. I knew this was seriously partially because of their coverage. I am baffled by this narrative that Vox is somehow specially to blame.

Ezra Klein has a list of early stories when someone else accused them of the same: https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1241202132604162050
I feel for this guy. I have never used a delivery app.

But during a lockdown, restaurants ought to meet customers in the middle. Demand is down significantly, not a surprise when the product is sub-par (no service, semi-warm food, often missing condiments, clean up yourself, no refills, etc). In my experience, very few restaurants* are discounting or lowering prices in an attempt to boost the volume of business, or even passing along a part of the Grubhub fee to customers willing to pick up their own food.

I guess that's why they are restaurateurs and not economists.

*excluding fast-food
> Surgical masks are still useless.

Not according to the research I've been reading: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1249698787666399235
That’s the restaurant jacking up the price for the food delivery services. Covers their tips and stuff.
The *PNG is there just to show the results produced by the CNN, if you watch the linked video they do exactly what you are suggesting and then compare both results.
But the restaurants don’t do delivery.

If they did, then I wouldn’t need to use DoorDash or GrubHub, or whatever.
These metaphors are so insulting I had to quit halfway through, and I was really trying to absorb the marketing.
Excellent writeup of a useful technique. I'm going to have to learn how to do this myself one day. Of course, if you're not inside Microsoft it may be very hard to fix any of it.

It really does show how the CPU gains of the past decades have been immediately wasted by badly organised processes doing work inefficiently which is then immediately discarded, while simultaneously blocking more important work.
You're coming at this from a "hedging" perspective-- Instead, think in terms of what the bond gives him-- a lot of Yen. That's opportunities to invest. The increased "risk" in this sense is miniscule-- since the cost of the oppurtunity is less than 1% Yen a year, even a 200% rise in Yen/USD only actually costs Berkshire 2%.

And, my bet is Buffett knows of some companies he could deploy that Yen in right now to cover the interest anyway. He's just lying in wait for better oppurtunities.

Now, there could be some other thing going on-- but taxes-wise in general U.S. companies issue US-denominated bonds to repatriate funds so I'm sure where you're going with that. My bet would be if it's not just for the opportunity, it may for their re-insurance reserves.
That's fine, but you should be paying those hefty delivery fees and not the restaurant. And these fees will only go up now that venture capital is less likely to subsidize losses.
Sorry, I don't value your response with brash thuggish belligerency as a social good. I think it's actually destructive and creates a hostile dysfunctional unhappy society of depressed people who turn to pain medicine and isolation because they can no longer turn to their neighbor.
Except local restaurants get around that by having continuous x% off coupons that only apply to orders direct to them. Now it's the same menu price, but consumers see the actual cost difference on the whole bill and can decide. Bonus, you can throw the initial coupon in the bag GrubHub delivers for you.
I work with fortune 100 companies that do shit like this. It's maddening.
Hola HN, author here!

I wanted to build a free, online version of a favorite party game I used to play with friends, in person... so we could continue being social, at a distance!

The first version was created and tested in ~3 weeks. Check out the source here: https://github.com/avimoondra/fishbowl. It's built with Typescript, React, Material UI, Apollo GraphQL, Hasura, Express, and Postgres. And it's deployed on Render.

Thanks to a bunch of folks! The amazing Hasura community on Discord, friends for consultation on some React and deployment options, and even more friends (and friends of friends) for alpha and beta testing! More features to come soon :)

Would love any feedback or to discuss anything about the game or tech. Stay safe, and sane!
This is a media outlet that spreads misinformation and shamelessly covers their tracks[1]. Their readers deserve better.

1. https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912
Yes, which is presumably what the X% service fee goes towards. Every order made on the platform assesses a fee ("Taxes and Fees" line item) to the consumer that goes to DoorDash (not your delivery driver), on top of charging the restaurant a 30% fee.

I'm looking now, and I'm being charged a 5% service fee for an order on DoorDash. So DoorDash is charging 35% in fees on that order, assuming the 30% restaurant fee is correct.
Not just chrome, going to the above links from any browser will open a new doc. :))
Fascinating analysis! Thank you. I have noticed this effect is especially prominent on corporate laptops configured with monitoring features. I notice a similar effect on entering standby. Wonder if it’s related to another Rank 2 demotion of a critical process.
The fact that MacOS shows the menu at the top of the display all the time used to bother me but I've long since come around. As more and more cross platform Electron apps take over the desktop, I'm even more thankful that it's there, keeping a lot of this nonsense at bay.

Microsoft has been going downhill for a loooong time, the stupid Ribbon Bar drove me off of MS Office 15+ years ago. The control panel in Windows XP was a mess and it's only gotten worse as far as I can tell.
what about the infamous iOS keyboard states? is white active or inactive?
The first 10 seconds pretty much covers the subject.

It's not the hoop, it's the shape of the backboard, which is a reflector formed to focus the ball on the target.

Now, the really cool thing would to build a flat backboard with controlled bounce properties. Interesting 3D printing problem. That would look like an ordinary backboard but still focus bounces.
If the US is so bad at everything, then why did they become power number 1? Just by military force? Well, even if you think so, military requires collaboration, too.

I mean, you could write big books about things, they do bad, no doubt (and people do). But ... I could write books about what goes wrong here in germany as well. And as for china: well, they are about to implement a social karma system, because in the great socialist country, corruption(aka selfishness) is very, very common. And for some mysterious reasons, also the leaders of the party have all become very rich. So I am curious, if they will implement the karma system (which says, whether you get a job, university, tax deduction ...) for themself in an equal manner.
Is it specifically to demonstrate that they can make a quiet aircraft then?

I think I'm curious specifically whether this is more about internal R&D and building systems, or if it's meant to demonstrate they have the capability to to create a performant supersonic aircraft, which they can take to potential investors.
Our "toy" up there is marvel of global technological cooperation, the subject of an international treaty only a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union, maintained by engineers, scientists, and spacefarers from fifteen different countries. It's a beacon of non-violent collaboration and humanist hope, and a continued platform for science that helps us understand not just how to continue to explore, but also the nature of our own planet and our own biology. And its total $150B cost, between all those fifteen nations since the start of its component developments thirty five years ago, is about 40% of the sum total of SBA loans our government doled out in the last four weeks. Once you pack the tremendous cost of our bailouts to large corporations and financial institutions plus the personal checks being disbursed now, it's less than eight percent the size of the $2T stimulus package the US just passed. I think your perspective needs some adjustment.