skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of the cases are so mild that people never even knew they were sick

These studies don't add up, and there have been numerous criticisms of them referenced elsewhere in this discussion.

Just in your post, you're suggesting that 1 in 8 of infections are asymptomatic /and/ that 1 in 2 are asymptomatic. Those are very different figures.

Anecdotally, friends and acquaintances of mine who have had the disease are reporting that contact between people is very likely to result in a symptomatic infection.

Take the UK cabinet as a "public anecdote": the UK PM got the disease (and required intensive care), the PM's fiancee had to isolate with symptoms, so did the UK health minister, and the chief medical officer who shared the PM's press conferences, and the PM's chief advisor.

I don't know how many people Boris Johnson was in close contact with, but that outcome feels consistent with the 40-50% asymptomatic cases assumed by e.g. the Imperial study. It could easily be a bit outside that range, but it doesn't feel consistent with the idea that vastly more people are asymptomatic than not.

Of course, we need good data rather than anecdotes, and hopefully we'll get them soon. My money is on less than 50% asymptomatic though.
He got lots of things wrong though: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/fnl0o1/why_playstati...
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I find I'm saying this more and more on HN these days - you're being downvoted but you're right. Living in Czech Republic, Sweden has been my benchmark since the population is nearly identical[0] and the responses have been markedly different - Sweden: open, Czech: closed.

Sweden has more than twice the number of confirmed cases Czech Republic has (~14700 vs ~6900). This is a hard thing to compare, this could be attributed to differences in testing, doesn't include asymptomatic cases and some suggest there's a bit of clever accounting going on so let's look at something else ...

Sweden currently has eight times the number of deaths the Czech Republic has (1580 vs 196). This is an absolutely incredible incredible difference! The Anglosphere has for a while had a really unhealthy obsession with the Nordic countries, Sweden in particular (I have my own theories on why). When it was apparent they were pursuing a more relaxed approach to Covid 19 many in the media and the public seemed desperate to latch on to them as How it Should Be Done. However it seems that in this case they should really have looked East for inspiration, rather than North.

[0] = https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+sweden+v... ... and in fact given how large it is and how distant it is from other early hotspots, the Sweden/Czech comparison should be an unfair comparison in Sweden's favour.
This is anecdotal. The last macbook I bought the GPU stopped working and it black screened after 2 years or so. It was also ran hot due to apple's weird indexers constantly using 100% cpus in the background and it being a closed system meant you couldn't really figure out wtf it was doing that or fix it.

However my 2012 era thinkpad is a complete tank, and even better any issues are easily user serviceable.
It’s interesting to see daily variation in play delay; is this just related to less network congestion during certain hours?
I love the idea of Nix, but it is pragmatically unusable in practice. I installed it on my work laptop running OS X, and doing anything with it would often lead to searching through obscure gitlab or forum posts. The core commands are unintuitive. Try to get ‘cargo install’ to work for common Rust tools dragged on for weeks of on and off incidental work on the side. When something pulled in the Network Foundation SDK, I couldn’t figure out how to specify it with nix-shell. After multiple attempts asking in chat, nor, did it seem, anyone else knew either. Eventually I found the package I was trying to compile in nix and just gave up on getting packages with HTTPS dependencies to work with ‘cargo install’.

When it got to the point of reinstalling docker, I just gave up and used brew.

My personal box runs Arch Linux, which uses pacman. It’s fast, and the commands are based on combining a common set of letters.

To me, nix is the epitome of the problem with OSS. A brilliant idea crippled by abysmal UX because enough emphasis isn’t put on what’s necessary for people to use it if it isn’t the center of their life. If I were working on nix daily and focusing on it constantly, I’m sure I’d feel the commands are obvious because I’d incidentally memorize them all. But when using it as just one of many critical tools, it simply demands too much attention for someone to be productive.

That isn’t to say it’s worthless. It’s still an impressive achievement and I’m glad someone did it. What will hopefully happen is that someone will write a new ’nix’ frontend tool to make it simple and intuitive.
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Wow! In your case moving to JAMstack is a great decision. I am seeing that Zeit also did that burying some of their core features - I am not so happy with that.

We have a gatsby blog on blog.graphqleditor.com. Will GraphCMS work well as a markdown editor for documents with extra props as fields or have you shifted in totally different direction?
It really buggers me that Go had no modules for such a long time.

The first commercial project in our company was done with the stupid old gopath system. Builds broke all the time due to version problems.

It was atrocious and made me never consider Go again. However the module system came along shortly after and while being kind of crappy, compared to systems like the one in Rust, it gets the job done.

We have no Go projects without modules now. This was just a bad experience and i have no idea why a module system was not included in the beginning.

Good tooling should be a first class citizen in every good programming language and library management is part of that.
The European Union would be a proof of the contrary.
It's based on my personal experience. Very subjective.

I feel that CJK user experience or other features that the core maintainers don't use isn't taken as importantly as simple code in a lot of open source software, especially the ones that wants to be 'suckless'. I would truly be immensely grateful for this author if this is not the case and every feature of TrueType gets implemented - especially if with more simple & lightweight code.
Mongo does not provide durability by default
Unless you are arguing that taxation per se is unjust (which I'd disagree with), I don't see how you can argue that a UBI is wrong in principle, seeing that taxation of work is not the only way to finance a UBI.

Private property takes wealth out of the commons.
You know what would help against such tactics? A union!
Not op. I am not a lawyer and I’ve not studied constitutional law. What I recall from high school is that anything not expressly stated as illegal is legal for citizens and any power not expressly given to a state or federal government is unavailable to them.

A law has to exist that gives states and the federal government the ability to do what they are doing and that law needs to not violate special protections built into the Bill of Rights.

With a state of emergency declared, some things can temporarily be enacted that under normal circumstances would not be legal.

I don’t know if all the lock down rules are legal, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that governments have overstepped their bounds.
at least on the initial play through, i think that would ruin the game for me. i personally would prefer to discover the patterns on my own, or at least to the best of my ability. it's tempting, but i've become aware that reaching for the strategy guide tends to be a huge spoiler.

I picked up Pillars of Eternity a while back and couldn't get past the character creation screen without looking up strategies for character building. I couldn't get through the "it doesn't matter just pick something that sounds good" block. Bad experience for me, ended up dropping the game very quickly even though it has great ratings.
By following trend tags etc you are trying to copy what the big players ARE doing. What you should be doing instead is what they WERE doing when they weren't big.

Focus on SOMEone before going for EVERYone.

If you are small and try to reach everyone, you're spreading yourself too thin to reach anybody at all. And reaching a small group already gives you a tiny playing field to accidentally go viral one day.
Just searched same on google and first non-plain shirt was in the second hundred. Duckduckgo was similar. Considering that they classify images according to surrounding text, it seems like pretty good result.
Great to see this company growing :)
The Universa figure is extremely misleading, and it's either some appalling marketing job or appalling journalism.

Universa is not a traditional fund, it is a so called "premium spend" structure. With a traditional fund, you give them money, and they try to make some profits. At a later time, you can retrieve the profits and original investment.

With Universa, you give them money as you would to an insurer, that is, you cannot back that original investment back, you only get the profits they make on it. It is literally insurance premium.

This is a very important distinction because when returns are traditionally quoted, they are not based on the premium the fund spent buying financial instrument, but the total capital invested. In the case of Universa, their assumption is that you'll spend 3% of your capital with them as insurance premium. It is therefore much more clear to quote the returns based on the capital insured, which results in a much more modest (although still great) 120%
What do you expect, 18yo gets hired as director of product security?
So how would that friend feel if someone forwards Screenshots of the trolling to his wife, children and possibly employer, that would be funny wouldn't it?
I wonder if he would have made more money by finding vulnerabilities during that period…
In my country we don't just let people drive however they like on public roads. You have to be above a certain age, have passed a test, not be drunk or stoned, be driving a roadworthy vehicle, and follow many other rules. Your risk to other people's lives is carefully managed.
> Stanford reports doing a 30-person validation test with pre-COVID-19 hip surgery patients (100% negative)

Hmm - I guess I should now go to the source - but from the other link: " test validation included a total of 30+371 pre-covid blood tests, and only 399 of them came back negative." https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... - I think I trust it more
My point was that the number of people currenlty infected is surely lower than 30%, given that only 2% of the population is already confirmed and testing a suspected case today will return a negative 70% of the time.

But as another commenter said, it's not impossible that there are many other people who had infection which is not currently active.

Using the overall test rate doesn't really help, I think.
How about 3rd party storage through the users own dropbox, gdrive, 1drive. Then it's still sort of self hosted

Also easy to use same data across devices.

Not sure on the syncing strategy/performance
I had a LianLi, and it was the best case I've ever had.
> you have a "no" or "without" in the sentence, but you don't know where it belongs

Well, one could argue, that it belongs exactly where anyone entering the query put it. Before "stripes".

The problem is often, that search engines try to be too clever, while not offering any kind of switch "exactly those words in this order" and that is just a bad user interface.
Something I've been wondering for a while is how long Facebook et al would let conspiracy stuff run wild once it came close to damaging their own interests. It's one thing to look at a forest fire from a distance and say "it's people's right to play with matches", quite another thing when it reaches your own office. Neither Facebook staff nor management are immune to the consequences of a pandemic.

There is a legitimate place for cost-benefit analysis. There isn't for "5G causes coronavirus" or "it's a myth being put about by the new world order". Those kind of memes are also a kind of virality that needs to be quarantined.

(Let's not pretend there's a censorship rubicon; Facebook will remove anything vaguely "adult" or related to copyright infringement very aggressively.)
He's is basicaly telling you to have a niche.

Once you have that, you can now use a trickle down process that exposes you to the audience via local celebrities of the niche.

That's how things "blow up".
> We notice you're using an Ad blocker

No, I'm using a Javascript blocker.
I believe the future of AI, as showcased by this simple usecase, is not one central AI such as Google search engine recognizing the context, but rather each of us having a "smart assistant" with a personalized, trained understanding of the contexts that we mean.

And it's only that smart assistant that automates coping with the deficiencies of a one-size-fits-all central solution, finding me shirts with no stripes by using a rather dumb search engine. (Or "a pizza I would like", etc.)
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> Several countries have not decided to do a stay-at-home-lockdown including Sweden

The Swedish approach is based on the idea that people who have any symptoms at all are able to stay home from work.
I really doubt that that approach would work in countries like the US where workers' rights are much weaker.

And although Sweden is not in a mandatory stay-at-home lockdown pretty much anyone who is able to work from home is doing so and the streets are much emptier than usual.
Well, all the antibody studies around the globe have several things in common:

* relatively small numbers of participants (< 5000 and therefore only dozens of partifipants with postive results)

* focusing on relatively small geographical areas

* working with antibody test with a high uncertainty regarding
the specifity

One argument that strongly contradicts the narrative that a huge number of people already are/were SARS-COV-2-positive is the of positive PCR tests in Germany. Germany performs hundreds of thousands of PCR tests per week but still mainly tests people with some symptoms. If SARS-COV-2 were that prevalent, you would expect a large proportion of the tested to be positive but its only 4% by late March [1]. Every expert I heard admits that there is a significant number of undiagnosed cases. But 30x-60x seems to be quite unrealistic if even only 4% of people with symptoms are positive.

[1] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/coronatests-de...
I'm curious what you are trying to get out of gatekeeping what a game is? Would you not consider children pretending to be someone else to be playing a game? What bout LARP [0]?

However Gone Home would even satisfy a definition of a "game" that requires there to be challenges. Much of the information is hidden throughout the house, requiring the player to find it and reconstruct the whole story. There are even locked off areas that you need to find keys for.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
> >Businesses rushed to apply for the loans, which the government said would be forgiven...

> Forgiven? Then its not a loan anymore is it? Its a bailout. Was the intention to give a handout of cash to small businesses free of charge?

The intent was indeed to just hand out the cash. The weird mechanism was to try to do it quickly through infrastructure that already exists (SBA program implemented through banks already working with small businesses) with a little bit of control on how spent (if you don’t spend 75% of it on payroll or a few other things like rent then it remains a loan). The people writing the law knew it was a kludge but wanted to get the money flowing quickly,

I don’t want to defend the implementation nor especially a scumbag like Rubio, but he didn’t kill those businesses as much as fail to rescue them. Those megacorps got their lawyers to start working on angles while the legislation was being written; the small shops only started honking about it once the law came into effect.
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When will people realise that "progressive" companies like Whole Foods aren't really progressive?

They're just good at exploiting whilst distracting customers with flashy themes like organic, sustainable, environmental, community-minded.

In any business, there is someone or something that is getting squeezed; whether its the environment, producers, manufacturers, suppliers, distributors workers or the customers.

This isn't an argument against capitalism, it's just the reality.
Florida guy's phone number is registered in Jacksonville, FL (same with WHOIS records) [0]. Brian probably made a mistake, happens to everyone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931919
The rest of engineering isn't immune to this, but it's most prevalent in software because of it being soft. Just about everything you can imagine can be done.

This tends to pile requirements on, and you end up in a bad place.

You don't often get "I want a building just like that one" becoming "except make it out of glass", then "actually add a floor or two".

But I've come across exactly this in software. Someone I know asked a friend to make a copy of a well known auction site. Then he had to change the whole backend and add a load of features. Needless to say, it ended badly.
I started with factorio, bought satisfactory as soon as I could......really enjoyed, but then I fizzled on it. I actually go back and play factorio way more often. I mostly just try to speedrun to robots.
If life didn’t turn out how you’d like, then it might feel good to see it not go well for another.

These folks are hurting.
I spend a lot of time focusing on throughput of data pipelines, so Factorio feels a lot like work to me :D
Just great to see how this company grows and produces awesome developer tools, frameworks and platforms to improve the developer and user experience.
You'll need apps for each platform; testing is much more expensive; discoverability is a challenge; people (myself included) trust websites much more than native apps; you'll need a browser version anyway.
just get mods and don't feel guilty, or use sandbox mode and play
I see a lot of people forgetting Microsoft's illegal "white box tax" as the years go on. Anticompetitive practices meant many small businesses and home users were seldom going to use anything that cost them money on top of the DOS or Windows they already had to pay for just to own a computer.
you mustn't be talking about used cars which are perfect example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons where if it is impossible to tell what quality a particular good has the price goes down to the lowest common denominator so to say.
Interns contribute a lot of value - they don't run around making coffee. Being an intern makes it much more likely to get an FTE role too which is more than most 18 year olds.

Source: Also a 19 y/o Googler.
In any business, there is someone or something that is getting squeezed; whether its the environment, producers, manufacturers, suppliers, distributors workers or the customers.

This is not a serious claim with strong evidence -- "someone must get shafted" ('squeezed' as you put it) sounds more like an ideological statement than a factual one.

I'm the first to agree with you that there can be big problems with how certain companies are run. But you can make the same claim about any organisation of people, whether it is governmental, for-profit, non-profit, or even your weekly men's drinking group.
Agreed.

I remember you were more likely to spot a VIA processor in a laptop then spot an AMD processor before the Athlon 64 mobile processors arrived as Turion.

This is new.

Intel really did accelerate into the laptop mobile space with Centrino. It seemed like no one could match them on a combination of performance, aggressive power saving and battery life, consistently good WiFi and good GPU solutions (Nvidia optimus integration)

It looked up until now like Intel had some secret sauce in it's drivers or elsewhere as well, to get such (relatively) good battery life out of the pig that Windows running non-UWP apps can be. I wonder how much is AMD getting better at software/drivers and optimization, and how much is AMD just getting such a lead in power usage and performance that they can compensate their software.
I have the exact same feeling with games as you now that I have a job and kids. I used to enjoy games like factorio (SimCity, Civilization, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc) but they do feel like work now!

What I enjoy now instead is actually watching gameplay on YouTube. It gives me a quick fix of the fun without a big investment in time. Also many of the videos can be funny!
I think I signed up for a trial licence and got 6.7 u3, but I can’t seem to find a link. It’s been running a while so it isn’t a 60 day one.

VMWares website is utterly impenetrable and it’s like a form of hell trying to get out of the loops you end up in with licence agreements and download options.
Congrats Guillermo and team!
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My experience has been that most ads that "follow me around" peddle the exact same thing I purchased most recently. No, I will not buy a second electric kettle again, let alone the exact make and model that I now own. I'd rather have generic ads, so I might discover some new product that I could (at least in theory) actually buy.
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Hopefully they release T15/T14 soon. Slated for second quarter of 2020.
Wow I never thought about the latency of landlines vs mobile but thats really interesting
Libschrift is about 1000 lines of code. Freetype is about 200,000. I'm pretty sure these projects have different aims. It is possible that refactoring Freetype to make it meet the aims of Libschrift would be harder than starting again.
You cannot be "good" at social media in the abstract. You have to be providing the kind of entertainment people want. Yes, hate is a kind of entertainment, although an extremely unsavoury one.

Trying to piggy-back a top trend when you're unrelated is also doomed. It's just spam. As you've noticed, trying to get people who don't care to sign up to something that you evidently don't care about either is futile and demoralising.

You have to have a niche. You have to be relevant to people, not topics. Oh, and the advice is radically different depending on platform; I'm mostly HN/Twitter. Few of us is pretty enough for Instagram.
Whenever I start Dropbox (boot my laptop) it takes ~30min of maxed out single-core work to "catch-up" since the "last-update". It's just really annoying as it makes my laptop quite loud.

Why is that? Google Drive doesn't seem to need to struggle that much.
I quite enjoyed Banished[1] and Surviving Mars[2] for city builders with no needless fighting.

[1]:https://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/Banished/

[2]:https://store.steampowered.com/app/464920/Surviving_Mars/
I get a feeling that was the plan all along.

With AMD processors in the next Xbox, they'd have pretty good visibility already on the AMD offerings coming.

I think ARM based Surface RT was a similar plan, getting in early on ARM to be ready for when their performance matched Intel. It's a shame of course that Qualcomm never got there, and it was only Apple that kept ramping ARM processor performance.
I'm not sure I understand this. Can you not continue writing code while moving to another bank? Did itnfor a no profit last year. Wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.