skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That analysis is a perfectly good 'model', but it makes a few interesting/weird choices and assumptions of its own.

"The true burden of the epidemic can be calculated by applying an factor of around
0.15 to the number of account for life years lost. 500 deaths becomes, 75 on an
adjusted basis, and can be compared with the 350 lives lost on the roads each year"
- He means, of course, the true economic burden, which is a specifically different thing.

Putting that aside (although it clearly reflects his economic bias), actually implementing his model assumes that we can request the public to maintain a variety of distinct contact levels accurately, Im not convinced that we could expect the public to do that effectively over time.

His model is also extremely dependent on accurate testing and contact tracing, which grows exponentially harder as we increase the level of allowable contact.

His model is fine as far as models go, but it definitely makes the assumption that things like level of contact and contact tracing are as easy to adjust and manipulate as his normal treasury numbers, and I personally believe that is a fallacy.
You can also play video games that teach you things which are marginally useful in your life e.g. Paradox Grand Strategy titles (History) or games like Factorio (Systems design / "Programming") or even TIS-100 (actual programming)

Funny enough, I spent a few weeks binging on a somewhat realistic civil war sim called "Ultimate General: Civil War" which I think teaches (civil war era) military tactics and military history quite effectively. I now know all of the famous civil war battles pretty well.
You might enjoy this proposal https://www.stjornarradid.is/media/forsaetisraduneyti-media/...

It’s not directly about UBI but rather money as such. But the analysis do touch on some of your ideas
This is a great example of "there is nothing new under the sun".

People may feel we live in unique times, but yet again, not much has changed since 1919.
This looks great, looking forward to reading it.
Does the stylesheet works now?

Do you mind documenting this question in an issue?

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues
No. We assume immunity which is not guaranteed and may be transient. We need to break transmission chains by physical distancing.
Contrast this comment with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920105
I can observe my own mental states, and I work to bring them into better alignment with my observations - more ordered. When I think it helpful to others, I use language to represent them. Because other's mental states are not directly obervable, I use a null hypothesis that they also use language to indicate their mental state.

When I use a regular expression, I have an intent to model an understanding. Some people may not have that vocabulary at all - my spouse, for instance. Some may be far more fluent than I. The point is: I have observed my understanding to be disordered or incomplete. I further observe that is the default state until I apply a degree of attention.

"Stigma" is an inaccurate model for when we don't have the resources to align another's goals with our own - goals which must include a baseline of wellbeing for every other. Persons suffering harmful hallucinations - or other harmful mental states - should be treated for them, but "stigma" is a blunt indicator to avoid conferring responsibility on those persons - I hold it an error to involve hatred or indifference. Our deficiencies in understanding are pervasive. I would not ask my spouse to develop a regular expression. They would not ask me to perform a phrase from a Mozart sonata.
> In modern globalized economics the only things that really inflate uncontrollably are things those supply is constrained by forces beyond production scalability. IE patents, copyrights, or things of extremely finite supply like land.

It's felt to me like we've gone from

Pre 1800: A world where material inputs were very expensive. Complex manufactured goods ditto. And labor cheap.

1800-1980: Where where materials were cheap but complex manufactured goods were still expensive and labor not cheap.

Post 2000: Where materials are moderately expensive but complex manufacturing is dirt dirt cheap. AKA this is a micro controller with a million transistors. And this is a power transistor. The latter costs more because it requires more metal, silicon and packaging.
You interview the identified case to determine who they’ve been in close contact with for the last several days, get their contact info, and then test them. Repeat for any new positive contacts.

If they were in any public areas you can pull purchase records for any one who also was in the area at the same time.
Jury is still out on Apple, advertising isn't their primary source of revenue and they have a much better track record on privacy than Google.

Verdict is definitely in on Google though. Anyone willing to give this level of power and data to Google is like sending your children to a daycare run by pedophiles. Sure, you might make it work and earn a paycheck but you're coming back home to a mess that probably can't be undone.
Interesting that no one has mentioned the real reason. It's because you need butts in seats. In an office. A real office. Preferably within a half hour drive of Sand Hill Road or Silicon Alley. Then you have visual and social proof for future investment. Moreover, FTEs are assets. Salable assets. Not one by one, but as a collective. Assets for an exit.
Can this be used as a web front end for say a raspberry pi camera ?
I beg to differ. You still need an absolutely massive amount of raw material for batteries. This is it’s own environmental problem unrelated to climate change. Fuel cell cars can easily have 500km+ ranges and upwards of 900hp if you really wanted that much power. Not sure how you can argue this point at all.
As of about 3 years ago, with a flight ticket that costs roughly 700 dollars (close to average), an airline made 3 dollars of profit per seat.

Source: Worked at a travel company

Airline companies operate at the edge.
Very good advice, additionally, I would build habits that help you get things accomplished.

For example, get up early every day, get ready and go directly to an area where the only thing you do is work on your tasks and you force yourself to accomplish at least a task while you are there. It's amazing how your point of view changes once you don't have to think about what you will do next and when you will do it.

“Eighty percent of success is showing up,” is absolutely true. Especially, if you don't have to think about it.
She’s been run out of her job for political reasons using the excuse she used the term “assassinate” instead of “fire” to describe getting rid of somebody. It’s childish and the school should be liable for slander at this point
Mac ResEdit and Resource Forks (2016)
Similar experience for when I taught myself the Dvorak layout years ago. My fingers learned the common motion for whole words first. Actually, I'm not sure I could draw the layout of the qwerty keyboard I'm typing on right now from memory either.
My guess is a lot of the assumptions and conclusions are wrong but that the high-level takeaway is correct: we should be looking for solutions to safely (yes, safely, don't ignore that word please if you're going to reply and disagree) reopen the economy, rather than just do the "social distancing until we have a vaccine" thing.

edit to try and preempt the downvotes: I am supportive of social distancing and I'm observing it pretty strictly. But I also know a lot of people who are going to be in a lot of trouble if we're in this state for too long. We should be aggressively trying to get data that helps us get back to as normal a life as we can, safely.
> I didn’t know you could make that much on up work.

Our contractors range from $20/hr for something like content migration to $150/hr for someone who has built multiple products from scratch, been the CTO of startups, and has years of experience in coding, team management, architecture/system design, and infrastructure.

I've observed other people under-paying someone hourly and ending up spending a lot more in the long run. The most cost-effective strategy is to find the right person and pay them what they're worth. If you don't have the money to do that, you don't have the money to be in business.

> Do you monitor his screen though?

No. That's an insane practice, and it's shameful that Upwork promotes it. Anyone who needs to do that is incompetent at assessing talent and/or managing it.

> I heard up work makes you install something like that?

It does not force you, as far as I know. Our contractors log their time manually, and we trust them.

I prefer fixed-fee, but the way we run hourly work is similar in practice. We guarantee a minimum number of hours, and we expect a certain amount to get done.

As long as it gets done, what do I care if they finished it 2 hours faster? Whatever money I recovered by micromanaging, I'd end up losing again because micromanaging takes up my time (and drives talent away).
> The next generations' youth will make arguments about the 'inhumanity' of such and such. They may have a point, but we will be the 'old timers' thinking they are mostly ridiculous and actually voting.

For one, we are likely to hit post-scarcity singularity on our current technological trajectory before generations of UBI queens can cripple capitalism with washing machine demands.

For two, there is no real "wrong" amount of UBI. Not in an objective sense. 100% GDP UBI would simply imply all wealth transfers are 100% taxed by the government and then universally redistributed evenly by said government. It totally breaks capitalism and removes the profit incentive from everything, but that is basically libertarian communism. Someone would probably argue for it. Likewise, where we are now with 0 redistribution we see the fruits of innovation disproportionately benefiting the rich economically for decades. The consequences of that transfer from the poor to the rich encompass a loss of political and economic influence by the poor and an upward trend in poor health and mental illness.

In the same way people will argue how much free speech, or guns rights, or monopolism, etc is "enough" or "right" is subjective and ideologically polarizing, the "right" amount of UBI will have to be decided by the socities that adopt it. If you have a functioning democracy you should be fine. Though for many nations of the Earth that might be an important first step to consider today.
Google has office space and server farms in Australia. Also Australia has treaties with the us that allow the Australian government to fine US corporations.
Bitbucket is trash.

I recently lost access to all of my repositories because when I tried to sign in, it corralled me to create a new "Bitbucket Cloud" account instead of letting me use my regular one. Except it didn't "upgrade" my account, it created a totally new one with the same email address. So now there's no email address associated with my original one.
> If there's no problem spending upwards of an hour with many other people in a small enclosed space, then the entire concept of social distancing is useless

This is an extreme conclusion. Subway equipment is sanitised more frequently than private cars’ interiors, for instance.
Thank you!

My impression is that my use of Flutter has been successful (especially in an iOS build) because of my heavy use of custom-designed components. There are packages built by the Flutter team to mimic native behavior, but they aren't good enough in my opinion. I'd go with react native if you want something that feels (at least on iOS) native.

The biggest plus for Flutter in my opinion is its great animation system. It's difficult to learn, but it makes things that would have been near-impossible in react native relatively straightforward.

I'd use Flutter again for sure. I'd rate it like an 8/10?
I found "Surround yourself, people, you want to emulate " works very well for me, especially if I surround my self with people that I aspire to.
Except almost all fast charging stations on various Bergen-Oslo roads in Norway are not at the gas-stations. They are at the back of motels, souvenir shops, sometimes literally in the middle of nowhere with no shops or any other facilities to spend money- just a small parking place near mountain road.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give. This whole experience has further disillusioned me to the news media and the idea they contribute value in any way whatsoever. At this point, I trust Twitter more.
That's the heart of the matter here, or at least where my interest lies. Protection of the independence of "The Australian Media" has been chipped away at for a long time, with the media ownership laws being watered down more and more, allowing for greater concentration of ownership.

What makes me suspicious is that protectionist action such as this is only coming now, at a time where the already-concentrated landscape is threatened, and because it's already concentrated there are a lot of powerful people with their fingers in the pie - much more-so than when it was less concentrated (almost by definition).

Therefore, my take on this is that it's protectionist for News Corp / Rupert Murdoch more-so than any reasons of the "social good". Very much a case a of "when elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled".
Buying soundproof server cabinets is relatively cheap these days (quick search shows an 18RU cabinet with ~15dB reduction is ~$2500 AUD, there are probably better deals out there though). These are relatively simple, but you need slightly outsised cabinets to begin with to have space for accoustic foam, door seals, and I believe they use non-standard forced air cooling at the roof and floor of the cabinet (an array 300+mm "super quiet" fans).

The real challenge is if you are ever tasked with finding a secure cabinet (as in, meeting whatever government standards for holding classified information systems)that is also soundproofed. No one makes these as standard and I only found one place even willing to try modding a standard secure cabinet, with no gaurantees about sound reduction - since it's secure (less holes, holes that exist have baffles etc. that complicate airflow, limited in the modifications you can do without losing your security rating) and has soundproof foam acting as insulation the thermal management becomes a real problem.
People may not love them but many people still use them. Sad but true.

Like how I promote telegram to my friends but I'm "forced" to use WhatsApp for some "niche majority"
Agreed, for purely selfish reasons. If we are going to do social distancing until we have a vaccine there's a big chance I will kill myself before we get there, and I really don't want to.
Out of curiosity, what's the percentage?

I do something like this approach too - Friday mornings I try to start with devops / tech debt / hacking instead of product priorities.
And the employers are a slave to how modern money is made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
Comparing the SF health officer from 1918-1919 to Dr. Fauci is a bit rough since Dr. Fauci was anti-mask and also said the risk of coronavirus was miniscule in mid-February.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-di...
Hello! Thanks for maintaining an open source project. I am excited to see IPFS take off.

Some basic questions, as I am still struggling to see the use case of this project.

* How did this project get started? What problem is it trying to solve?

* Are there any real world examples of where this project is used?
Also, to add a possible answer to the final question above, on why would they cover it up?

Well, if the Hubei provincial government covered the whole accidental release up, and if the Xi Jinping wasn't aware of it, I think he would probably want to keep that under wraps since it would make him look weak if it were to be revealed he wasn't even aware of the situation on the ground for multiple weeks.
I’d say you just aren’t paying attention to the gains being made in fuel cell technology. A lot of people on this website are really oblivious to this, so you’re not alone.

The 2021 Mirai using only 10 grams of platinum. Although they haven’t spoken much about pricing, it’s pretty obvious this is going to be a cost effective car to manufacture. Certainly, it’s going to be a lot cheaper to produce than a car with 600kg of batteries.

The upcoming BMW X5 Hydrogen is going to have 370 hp. I’d say that’s plenty.
Nice to meet you. I sent you an email. Let me know how I can help.
I'm curious; how much experience do you have in founding, managing or running an airline? You speak as if you have first-hand knowledge.
YouTube Spars with Auditor over Transparency of Advertising Risks
I think politicians act the way they do because that's the way the populace incentivizes them to act.

If anyone has good ideas for encouraging the types of societal/cultural changes necessary to (eventually) properly incentivize politicians, I'm all ears.
> Depends on the quality of the school. If it's a top school then transferring can be difficult, you lose on networking opportunities (with students and professors)

Where I grew up a 2 year degree allowed you to transfer as a 3rd year student at any university in that state. The other option was to take specific credits at a CC and credit them to university (I believe degree focused classes were excluded from transferring in). At least looking at my program, none of your degree focused classes started until the 3rd year. All of the gen-ed classes were massive at the university. So a lot of opportunities for networking are minimized (unless it was around an extra-curricular activity).

My path was going to a university for a couple years. I ignored CC classes because I was a bit too arrogant, but left that university because of the BS. Much of that could have been avoided by taking some classes at the local CC. I ended up moving states to pursue a career and planned to get a degree if I hadn't started a career by the time I qualified for in-state tuition--but I never made it back to school.

Since then I've had the opportunity to interview college grads. That process has made me question the quality of many top school's education.

I don't think one path is better than another. I just wanted to let people know the 4-year university path isn't the only option. I wish I had finished a degree. I've poured over friend's class notes from college and grad school and wish I had the opportunity to take those classes.
I have a hard time finding such personality tests helpful. What job would a trained SWE do if he discovers his high openness? Switch from Java to Javascript?
Which doesn't happen in the real world because of the way fuel tanks are constructed. Meanwhile, anhydrous ammonia is one of those things that give experienced hazmat workers nightmares.
Thanks for catching that! Fixed it up.
> As for your final paragraph, it is wholly unreasonable to imply that covid (which is killing thousands of Americans per day despite a massive distancing effort) is less serious than the flu (which has persisted over a much longer period of time and which was not subject to special responses).

I didn't say or imply that. It's worse than the flu, probably 5-10X worse. Not bad, not great.

I'm suggesting that people are freaking out because there's "bodies on the street" and we're all in serious danger (we're overwhelmingly just not) when the death toll to date is about half of what we paid zero attention to whatsoever over the same time period.

My argument is that we shouldn't be nearly as freaked out about COVID as we are, and we should be more freaked out about the flu.

There's reason to take precautions, especially if you're in a risk category, but not at all to the extent of the panic we've seen to date.

In fact Sweden's plan of literally just that is going great, they've not shut anything down, and told people to stay home if they're sick (shocking, I know) and the serious-case infection growth rate has flattened out by itself. [1, 2]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-sa...

[2] https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?location=Canada&location=Sw...
Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs
> show mass testing success

And public masks, good contact tracking, and they say gloves but hand PPE, like alcohol, also I assume a good isolation system that doesn't scare people but seen no reports on this.

Investing on making testing to be cheap and quick has however been something people missed, compared to pie in the sky things like vaccines.

Also compared to masks which are obvious but have been religiously attacked in the West.
For the same reason that Elizabeth Warren says "Latinx" despite a tiny fraction of Latino citizens identifying with the term: many of them are running for what's been described as "President of Twitter", where Twitter is a metonymy for old-economy institutional elites, lashing out pathetically at the democratizing forces weakening their hold on power. I assume the reason politicians do this is partially drinking the Kool-Aid from their bubble, and partly intentional pandering to journalists who are also in that bubble.
Inevitably, whatever happens, you keep on trucking

It's a circular but effective way to coupe
Many tech companies have a toxic machismo culture around knowledge and skills. But there are lots that aren't that way; I'd say, try and find one of those.
As someone who actually DOES read the manual for everything, your objection about accomplishing nothing is BS. It's a bit of an upfront investment, but you long term efficiency is dramatically higher. You have time to post comments on HN, you have time to read the damn manual.

But as someone who also designs UX, I never design anything that requires instructions. There are plenty of good ways to make things self-explanatory. It's just harder.

However, command line UX is different. You can make the basics self explanatory, but you're so limited in your options that exposing the advanced stuff intuitively muddies everything else. So there's a trade-off you have to live with.
This appears to use the MediaStream Recording API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaStream...) to produce a WebM H.264 stream, which can be sent to the WebSocket. The server then transmuxes this to a FLV H.264 stream for RTMP output.
Haskell is not for every Joe working on ERP projects
I'm interested in hearing more about that as well.
Agree, as I agreed with frank2's comment upthread too.
Hydrogen is anything but “single-use.” We will need it for long-haul trucking, large ships, trains, airplanes, construction and work equipment, farm equipment, etc. Not to mention solving grid intermittency, making steel, concrete, ammonia, providing industrial heat, etc.

If you think the problem through, the hydrogen infrastructure we need is going to dwarf the battery and electricity infrastructure. This is all before we consider hydrogen powered cars.
It's coming soon! Blocked by me getting my hands on an android device to test with.

Sorry for the trouble if you were hoping to try it out. If you're interested, you can join the subreddit for updates [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gentleapp/
As a software engineer who also plays plenty of video games,
I would say that it largely depends on the kind of game you play as well as HOW you play it.

I find games that require lots of exploring, solving puzzles helps improve my focus. In most FPS games, this only works if you strategize your approach in gaming. E.g considering the next X moves ahead, scoping vantage points etc.

Also, when I just need to clear my head, I personally find that there's nothing like games (besides exercise).

Fun anecdote, when I met my SO, she was in incredibly into exercise and I was not. But I was very much into games. We ended up influencing each other. Now we game & exercise together..

I think overall it's a net positive if done in moderation.