skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US doesn't have a hundred times less old people than Italy. The whole "don't worry about old people dying" attitude of those eager to "reopen the economy" is kind of despicable.

It's totally despicable, and it's not my position.

I propose we do what the UK proposed, and what Sweden is doing: keep all vulnerable folks inside, provide them with services such as groceries and any healthcare they may need on-site, and release the low risk to build a protective barrier of herd immunity around them. That should have been evident when I said "old people were hundreds of times worse off."

That's totally orthogonal to my point, which is that you can't project the mortality rate of a population that's overwhelmingly disproportionately affected, scale it linearly onto the world population and assume that'll be at all representative of the reality on the ground.

And yes, Florida may be affected very badly, and the plan may need to be adjusted accordingly.
Stay positive: "solid shirts" works just fine.
"Better" depends on your agenda. If it's to shove the next major version down users' throats, maybe it's easier to swallow small bites (bytes?) than one giant cow. If it's to provide a predictable and pleasant user experience, I'm less confident this is the right approach.
I've owned/used lots of laptops (both my own & from work).

When I tried windows laptops in recent times I searched for the best ones in my size range - both times they were dells (last one is a 2015 XPS 13) & in both I've paid close to apple-level prices (the xps was €2400 IIRC) and yet I had to have both repaired within about a year of buying. With the xps it was just after the 1 year mark which meant I had to pay several €100s for a screen replacement.

This never happened to me with a MacBook pro despite having used a lot more of these than I have PC laptops (which were supposed to be high-end laptops).

For what it's worth I don't care about OS - my main computer is an iMac I duelboot Mac & Win via boot camp.
Well, in the O.C. people are out on the beach... and social distancing is not as strictly observed as one would expect.
Well when I do engineering for fun I’m learning skills that directly apply to my jobs. So I gain experience with PCB design, CAD and 3D printing, or software. Perhaps Factorio flexes general cognitive skills like problem solving and algorithmic thinking, but it’s not going to help you get better at learning KiCAD for example.
Quite coincidentally I am currently living in Malta, and have for about nine months now. The place is... quixotic. The whole economy depends on tourism, internet gambling, offshore companies, and real estate (driven by the first directly and the second two indirectly).

This journalist’s death occurred well before I arrived but one does not need to look hard to the marks she left: there’s graffiti and stickers mentioning ‘Daphne’ all over the place. The prime minister Joseph Muscat was eventually forced to resign in January of this year over her death.

And yet, there’s a general sense that this case will never be satisfactorily closed, that the full story will never come to the surface, that the truth will never be known.
Nuclear fusion on the desktop Mini-reactor yields neutrons (2005)
That's pretty cool with regards to the headphones. Do you have a link to your project?

I agree that it's really enjoyable to build physical things. I have one 3D part that I've been meaning to print for a while, but without a 3D printer at home it's a bit trickier to get it done. I wish I had a home workshop, but Silicon Valley prices make that a rather expensive proposition. There's no more TechShop either. :-(
Wikipedia gets it wrong too:
Try “men without hats”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Without_Hats
Follow the money?

Alex Jones for example sets himself up to profit from the conspiracy theories he pushes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/08/16/alex-jones-...
You're the one in the wrong place. That's reddiquette etc.

Behold, Word of God: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

> pg: I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness.
The Covid spike: deaths/week vs. flu, car crashes, heart disease, 1957 pandemic
A meeting that has a component of "go around the room and get everyone's input" is harder in Zoom. In a physical room, you go clockwise or counterclockwise. But on Zoom, when someone finishes talking, who knows who's supposed to go next?
Rather the opposite. There is NO demand for oil right now. All the storage facilities are full.
Fascinating. I had no idea this process was so formalized, but it makes a lot of sense in retrospect.
Yeah, I know.

But seriously, we are talking about 50 domain names and cheap websites.

Like, I'm not involved, but if I decided that I thought it was important, I could personally create a protest website for each of the 50 states. $8/year per .com domain name, and $10/month for enough shared hosting for all 50 sites for now (or be fancy and spend $50/month for virtual private hosting and know you'll have room to grow). A few hundred bucks will buy you the stock images and other assets you need to have each site be real.

This doesn't require some big nefarious "elite evils" to fund. I mean, maybe some big right-wing group is sponsoring it, but at least so far we haven't seen more than literally a grand or so could buy you.

Plenty of folks could afford to donate that to make a cause they believe in be real.
State lawmakers want “retroactive” insurance policy changes to cover pandemics
This makes me wonder if we would benefit from forcing children to occasionally train their brains via partial sensory deprivation. Maybe there are aspects of the human brain that go unexercised because we strive to constantly and always use all of our senses for everything simultaneously as much as we possibly can.
Yes, the game is a tailored experience you can pick up and quickly become engaged in. I suppose engineering for fun takes more self direction. Your idea for a wiki sounds interesting, though there’s enthusiast communities on reddit and elsewhere that may already have answered “how to get started” questions. So in a way, the resource you mention exists as data on the internet. For much of what you want to learn, you’ll find out how to get started with some time at the search terminal.
I’ve tried several times but it just repels me.

It has the worst tutorial I’ve ever seen and all the inventory management is just super awkward with weird UI.

That’s coming from someone with hundreds of hours in OpenTTD and the like
This recent Swedish study was done in (what seems) to be a way that's much less prone to bias than soliciting people via Facebook posts.

It was also based on tests collected from blood donor samples, so none of the specific bias of the Stanford study (which to me also seems like a huge flaw even if other sources of evidence are pointing to similar IFR numbers and undercounting)

In any case, the Swedish findings cited for Stockholm in the analysis linked to in this COVID19 subreddit post indicate a similarly low overall IFR of far below 1%.

It is worth noting that blood donors would probable tend more towards youth and general good health, which could skew its demographic profile. Also, depending on donors' motives for donating (maybe they thought it would include a COVID test) could skew results in different and unpredictable ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4znbg/at_least_11...
> What is a 'shirt without stripes' anyway

It is a shirt with anything except stripes.
GoDaddy to Remove Public Whois Information
so it's a hard topic nobody wants to think about genuinely but isn't there truth to it? the nursigng homes that are being ravaged the most -- people are there for end of life care. by definition. they are generally under a policy of do not recussitate. thats very different than any hn readers experience (nobody here is commenting as a nursing home patient). this is not to say their lives dont matter but the context does
I think the parent was suggesting that they would be used for storage.
> Singapore's resurgence is pretty unavoidable, there's simply nowhere else for these foreign workers to go. Despite the case numbers deaths are remarkably low, basically all of these dorms are getting tested leading to resurgence in case numbers, it's tens of thousands of people.

> So despite all the socio-political criticisms in your post how about addressing the quoted comment?

> They are far lower death rates, it's undeniable. Singapore has had 11 deaths. Malaysia 90. South Korea and Japan ~230.

The deaths lag behind the newly-identified infections. Singapore's resurgence now won't translate into more deaths for a 5-15 days. Japan's probably in the same situation - aging population and all. The article I linked to, warning of a "collapse" in Japan's healthcare system, doesn't inspire a lot of hope for the immediate future.

I didn't say anything about South Korea or Malaysia, seems like they've done a good job so far. I'm not saying all his examples are wrong, just that he's cherry-picking.

Anyway the article has nothing really to do with South Korea or Singapore or Malaysia - Malaysia is not even mentioned! He could have mentioned them, if they're doing well and the article was actually about Asian leadership in the crisis and it's after effects, and not just more speculation about China's possible political intentions.
OS/2 was not tied to the PS/2 hardware. Unless there was some specific version of it. It was reasonably compatible with a fairly wide range of hardware. (Roughly comparable to Linux desktop at various times)
If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option
Compressed sensing to detect Covid [pdf]
Very interesting. Friendly heads up: seeing full phone numbers posted here feels quite uncomfortable. If you’re sure there’s no potential for getting it wrong that’s cool but it’s risky if you’re not 100% sure it’s harm-free. Maybe redact them?
I am so sorry for you. I immigrated to the U.S. when I was a boy, but certainly, remember all the challenges of having my parents and a brother still overseas. And this is your spouse. But again, how does this help us fight the pandemic? It doesn't.
My guess is a lower barrier to entry and lack of enforced building standards.
I'd rather have 1440p since I can't normally see the difference. In exchange for less density, can I get a wider color gamut like DCI-P3 or AdobeRGB?
Yeah, I tend to hyperfocus so I don't miss a question too. But I figure that kinda should be the point of a meeting, so it's understandable, even if it's tiring. If everyone else is making it bad by multitasking, they need to get a handle on that. Zoom could add a bunch of features to help people run better meetings (a way to pass a ball around to select who's speaking, hand raising emoji, dynamic topic queues with votes), but it's just lousy software tbh.
Not if you are trying to figure out the best decision for a specific city/state
That's unfortunate! If you would have read on, you would have found that I described the other side of a debate as simply having a different set of values, having legitimate views, and that everyone should be respected.

I view the term the same way I view "pro-choice" and "pro-life." Both terms frame the sides in favorable light, are how people self-identify, and so I use both of them (even the one that's in a category I don't fall into).
The flu probably wouldn't be dramatically worse if we didn't have a vaccine. The vaccine isn't particularly effective all things considered, ranging from 10% to 60% depending on the year and how well scientists were able to guess which strain would be predominant.

The flu as-is causes 45,000,000 sicknesses every year in the US alone.
(UPDATED April 20) The Spread of Coronavirus by Country, by 3D bar race
You'll have to excuse my skepticism. My government has a pretty poor history when it comes to the interests of its people, having sent yet another generation of its children to war on the other side of the planet based on false statements...I'm jaded, I'm biased and I'm most likely ignorant-as-fuck.

Please, forgive my doubt. It's seeded in deep levels of trauma. I even bought into the whole "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" meme, thinking I was clever.

> measures are not broad

I would call trillions of dollars of stimulus injections and virtual lockdowns quite broad. However my point is more that while a panicked, fearful public is distracted with the News of the Day, governmental agencies, lobbyists and others will play. "You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste."

To be fair there are many on the 'net who are die-hard and staunchly rooted in the anti-governmental camp. I'm rational and seeking discourse to expand my knowledge and evolve a complex, multi-faceted worldview; many others are not.
Wait why are their lives more valuable than others?
The early versions of Citrix were based on OS/2, we used it to run a FoxPro based DOS app over our WAN for quite a few years. For the time it was a pretty innovative/ performant way to run apps over low bandwidth.
We don't have an IFR, we have a CFR, which would be affected. Remember, all we know thus far is the numerator and a low-confidence denominator.
Electronic signage is one of the most popular use cases for PCs with such a small form factor. Those customers are willing to pay more of a premium than the typical home desktop user who simply wants a smaller footprint. But right now, AMD's focus with these chips is almost exclusively on getting them into laptops, not SFF PCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACBDe1obhkM
Why you feel entitled to an expedited US residency for relative of your wife?
Technical debt, risk, maintainability, and long-term resilience are all elements that don't get fully accounted for.

This joins a few related concepts: "manifestation" (or: cognizability, perceptibility, tangibility), risk (effectively a measure of probabalistic fiture cost), and resilience, which often contrasts strongly with efficiency.

Sociologist Robert K. Merton pioneered many. of the concepts around manifest vs. covert functions, usually of social institutions or behaviours.
> these types of games drain you and leave you unfulfilled and unsatisfied and like we should have spent our time in a less tedious and wearisome recreation.

I, too, have given up eating, and sleeping, and joy.
Sure thing! I had a blast when it hit the HN front page and it still sticks with me.
Not at all

EVEN IF the rate is 0.1% this virus spreads much faster than the flu due to having no symptoms. We still need to flatten the curve to prevent overwhelming the hospitals.
Grid-layout is a layout engine which implements grid, can use in canvas
Just being silly here but the same issue happens if you do the search in Spanish :)

https://www.google.cl/search?q=polera+sin+rayas
Ok. I must agree with that.
That brings back unpleasant memories of the 'Drip-Dry' nylon shirts of the early 1960s.

They were clammy, hot in warm weather, and you "lived" (more likely: died!) in a death-trap if you happened to get too close to a flame.
A couple of my systems have resolvers that can't resolve .local names (OpenBSD, OpenWrt/musl)
Best Kickass Torrents and Alternatives
Here the answer coming from an idiot (me):

I've lost far more data to password or key loss or bugs in an encryption software than I've had someone try to our succeed to access/steal/...

So encryption for something that is on your local machine from my perspective wouldn't need to be a priority.
> This is completely inaccurate, and nowhere in the linked document is there supporting evidence to your claim that the flu has a higher fatality rate for under 35, nor the same for 35-44.

Here's some more data. What I'm saying (that it's approximately the same as the flu for the young, with some early evidence pointing to it being better) isn't particularly controversial and well supported by evidence [1] (also older, April 14th). CDC as of late March "... no ICU admissions or deaths were reported among persons aged ≤19 years. Similar to reports from other countries, this finding suggests that the risk for serious disease and death from COVID-19 is higher in older age groups." [2] In Italy nobody under 30 died, and only 5 people between 30 and 39, as of April 19th -- yes in spite of a CFR of what, 13.22%? [3, 4]

More data as of April 20th from Oxford [4]. Scroll through all the data the world has to offer, I'm not wrong on this. I repeat, the facts you're arguing with me over, without citing data to support your case are not controversial. Surprising maybe, but not controvercial.

Especially when you consider (an albeit bad flu): the overall case fatality rate as of 16 July 2009 (10 weeks after the first international alert) with pandemic H1N1 influenza varied from 0.1% to 5.1% depending on the country. [4] The flu can absolutely be very bad is the take away there. And yeah this is worse than the flu, by around 3X on both ends of that range. Not bad, not great.

> It lists the current total report as around 15k, when we're close to 3x.

They actually address that critique, that it takes a few weeks for case data to be finalized and reported upwards, so the CDC data can be up to a few weeks behind. It's not divergent, it's delayed. This is a live list updated and maintained by the CDC. Make of that what you will.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

[4] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...
I work for a company that provides cybersecurity to medical practices.

Now is not the time to have ransomeware attack!
Also inevitably the same 3 or 4 people join all the Zooms with their camera off, and mic off, which creates a disconnect. This is akin to showing up to an in-person meeting under a giant blanket, only the sound quality of someone talking from underneath a blanket is significantly better than Zoom.
> but it uses the GPL license, and I've as a motto to avoid reading GPL'ed source code

So, don't? Just pretend that it's a proprietary application with no source that just drops from the sky as a binary or docker image. Can you not get what you want as just a "normal" user?
Seems that doesn’t mean Trump won’t bash em and call them fake news:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492084-trump-sla...
I always wonder if in those situations where you find yourself rechecking it is related to this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
Murphy says it cost him 4K, and he wants to recoup his costs.

"“I realized all these fringe guys are gonna get a hold of these websites, So I went out and bought ‘em up that night,” he told me. The financial burden of thwarting fringe-right groups? “It cost me about four grand,” Murphy said. “I don’t have the money quite frankly. I was just trying to do something good. I’m in massive credit debt to do this.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate...
Akerloff's work is a special case of Gresham's Law.

There are other cases where uncertainty my be general amongst both or all actors, rather than asymmetric as Akerlof discusses.
There is a T495 review on notebookcheck, but it's based on previous gen CPU and it lacks Linux coverage. Possibly the Ryzen 4000 model will be called T14/T14s instead of T495? No review of those either though.
Could some of the discrepancy in regional death rates be explained by a mutation in the virus?
Even more baffling is that NONE of these new laptops are 13in with high pixel density displays.
Felicia the Ferret Cleans the Particle Accelerators of Ferilab (1971)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-news-12-year-old-gi...

Tell this to her parents.

The distribution of case fatalities from SARS-CoV-2 is still very much up for debate. But it sure as hell isn't as simple as 'they were about to die anyway'.

Also something that mainstream news coverage mostly ignores is that 1: about 20% of all patients regardless of age require supplementary oxygen to survive the infection and it'll be straight up the worst experience of their life. And 2: those who develop pneumonia (again no corr to age) run a pretty high risk of suffering permanent lung damage.

If you want to inflict this on yourself, go ahead. But you absolutely don't have the right to take actions that put others at risk of these outcomes. You don't even have the right to ask for a hospital bed if you end up being one of those 20% that needs oxygen if you recklessly infected yourself. That hospital bed belongs to an actual victim.
The remote machine might have packages installed that are required to run, debug and code-completion.
Just kicked the tires on Causal, it's pretty great! I really like the fact that there's auto completion for variable names, it makes it pretty straightforward to build formulas.

The only thing I couldn't figure out is how to rename a scenario.
you know, i'm pretty tired of people hiding behind "constitutional rights" in support of domestic terrorism.

i'm the least fan of corporations, but you know what also can't stand for long? a president executing authoritarian power and promoting domestic terrorism that then "true americans" lap up and execute.
Thanks! I did see this before. Didn't realize it was the same dev. They don't address that Desktop OSes don't do sound for most things and also, I'm not really sure I see sound used a lot in mobile apps, but maybe that's just the apps I use? I think I would personally want more research and discussion on this before I ventured down this path, but it is an interesting idea.
But what is cause and what is effect?
As this is a respiratory illness, I bought one 5 weeks ago. I assumed the worst (complete overwhelming of medical system, with home self-care) and hoped for the best. Although I have obstructive sleep apnea and terrible circulation (often require blood draw from my hands), my waking SpO2 ranges 91 to 99 percent.

https://amzn.com/B06Y2FFQB9
Great find Isiebert.

>Almost all of the hate was coming from liberals, many of them egged on by presuming posts from amateur Twitter sleuths [...] None of the hate was from conservatives angry at him for keeping them from using the domains themselves.

This is consistent with the GOP astroturfing the registrations. The Left's response is obviously organic, if vitriolic.
Oh yes, when it works it doesn't need any configuration:) (Well, aside initial setup, but that was years ago on Arch so it might be easier now...) But my personal experience was that it didn't always work, and then it was "fun" to troubleshoot. But seriously, do take this with a grain of salt; I abandoned it years ago, so it might "just work" now.
How the New York Stock Exchange Works (2009)
Kind of a zapier thing, but aimed at developers ( so different power vs ease of use tradeoff). Will be at apimate.com when I launch it.

Interestingly zapier are a remote company.
Was reminded of this by a friend recently and thought HN could use some more cheery news.
I'm okay, for now, still 2+ years on my work visa, but I have to say that my stress levels are already super high and this is not helping :( I'm in the middle of a green card process and I guess that's down the toilet for the foreseeable future as well. Oh well...
Being an Oregon transplant, I’m happy to hear this little legacy of Oregon’s racist past is buried.
That makes total sense, most people don't make a habit of looking at themselves unless it's for the purposes of evaluating or adjusting something about their presentation. I tend to just make sure it's setup right when it starts, then use the option to hide the self-view to avoid that distraction. I don't care if I might look silly later, since constantly readjusting is a silliness of it's own. And someone will ping me if the camera messes up.
Lol. Bet you're old af.
You can donate to RIP medical debt, and they’ll do this for you.
Clinical Significance