skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But to get from 7% (hospitalized to confirmed) to 1 in 500 is a factor of 35.

This is broadly in the range implied by a number of measures across the entire population. 20x for randomized population sampling (Iceland), 20-80x from serology studies, etc.

In this analysis, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.18.20070821v... 35x is actually the exact factor that cases are estimated to be under-reported by in California. :P

> I don't think anyone enjoys lockdown. At a minimum we need sufficient testing, sufficient ppes, sufficient surge capacity and training for standard supportive care.

Here in the SF Bay Area, ICU usage peaked 3 weeks ago, and controls have been tightening. We're well below seasonal norms for ICU usage at this point. Surely the original controls that caused the original trend down in disease would be good enough now, and could even be loosened slightly further to have more parity with other jurisdictions that are successful.
Yes. Especially when most of the physical books I do order from Amazon are hardcover photography coffee table books. Probably at least half get sent back for obvious damage, and I could go more if I was even more picky.
> less well known

I don't know if I would call Stardew Valley "less well known", as it's sold over 10 million copies. It's incredibly popular, one of the biggest indie game success stories ever.

I would also say Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley (and Harvest Moon, for that matter) and very different types of games (despite surface level similarities), so it's pretty hard to compare them directly like that.
> I think the point still stands unless you think we are identifying a lower proportion of infections

I do. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d... indicates many areas of NYC are seeing more than 57% positive results; that likely indicates we're not even scratching the surface. We're simply not that good at identifying who to test.
Cool. As an American you should be well versed in how companies work, as well as contracts, and the fact that you can absolutely be "censored" on a private platform.
The pregnancy testing has been tested on livestock (opposite result, pregnancy inhibits growth)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280624411_Germinati...

http://www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol.3/March/Seed%20Germinatio...

The Magician and Leech by Warren R Dawson doesn't seem to be online. Which makes it seem like a pretty cool book.

I see no proof their was an ancient Egyptian pregnancy test, all articles seem to revolve around the one story. Seems like a back history story.

Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob is online (page 11 onwards for the gynaecological scrolls, it's interesting)-

http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15145.pdf
Yeah, right. The people who know this can apparently be counted on one hand when I look at the advertised publication and the discussion in this forum.
Is that why I hate plastic bottle soda? I've always chalked it up to some sort of either: (a) Taste taint from the container, where whatever they line cans with is better than the PET of the bottle, or (b) The warmer container temperature due to plastic not conducting heat as well as aluminum, causing me to think that the drink inside is warmer. (In other words, psychological issues while drinking from the plastic bottle)

When I was a kid, the absolute best was those 16oz. glass bottles with the polystyrene labels[0]. Somehow that Pepsi was colder than ice and more refreshing than any other version.

[0] old.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/42ky57/
That is how it works in the physical goods world, at least. A corporate owned store "buys" it's inventory from the corporation. I'm not sure exactly how taxes intersect with those transactions, but they establish a much clearer picture of how money moves within the organization. Opportunity costs become a lot clearer when it's not "we could have made X amount from ads here" but instead "we spent X on advertising."
It's interesting how New Horizons adds many quality-of-life features to streamline gameplay...but still deliberately keeps some of the monotony present in the game design two decades ago on the GameCube.

Adding a "weight" to repetitive actions has been a controversial game design principle. It implicitly makes good/efficient actions more rewarding, but there has to be a balance.
My company uses Dell PowerEdge R340s for our onsite server needs, and while they're certainly louder than a modern desktop, they're pretty bearable.

For contrast, I've got a Sun Fire T2000 at home that's louder than the airliners flying overhead (my current and previous apartment both happen to be under airport flight paths, for SFO and RNO, respectively). For obvious reasons (at least until I can figure out how to get a reliable network connection to my garage) that one gets run pretty sparingly, lol
It is a rather poor game all things considered. Stardew valley is far better. On the whole, the one thing they needed to nail is co-op, and that is probably the thing they did the worst on.

The game features are limited, villager interaction is inane, the items are repetitive, the goals non-existent. I understand the simple joy of a no-pressure game, but without a meaningful reward loop of any kind, the whole thing starts boring and gets only more so.
So in other words you don't have an argument for not blocking specific instances of harmful content.
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Same, Seattle, CPU, RAM and MB I ordered came a day early (last week). Was surprised, it was a day before the scheduled arrival I got when order was placed. Maybe just lucky.
Taiwan emailed WHO in December warning about China lying about the human-to-human transmission not happening and WHO refused to acknowledge Taiwan's reports. Then on January 14th, WHO tweeted saying human to human transmission was not possible. Then when it came out that they were wrong, they claimed Taiwan never emailed them. Taiwan brought receipts with the emails.

Also the WHO spokesman went on an interview with Hong Kong media and refused to even answer a question about Taiwan, then hung up the call after pretending to not hear the question.

This is not corporate media telling me so (don't even know why you would claim that). This is plain facts on video and email available for everyone to see.
I'm curious when Apple had anticipated this switch. Why deprecate 32-bit in Catalina? Do their 64-bit APIs help them emulate x86 apps more easily?
its obvious and pervasive to anyone paying atention. id make a more subatantive response, but people who speak actual truth get downvoted or shadowbanned on here (as I have), so I'll settlw dor telling you to take your smug pseuodo intellectual dismissal and shovw it.
Multiple comments are commenting that even with a try/catch, the error still crashes the app.

From https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154855417#comment39

> This happens even with a MapView.onCreate call for me, even when encased in a try / catch error. So beyond the fact that Google Maps isn't working, the Google Maps library isn't handling the error throwing properly and is bypassing the app's ability to catch errors.

From https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/154855417#comment86

> instead of crashing the app even though try/catch is used and this cryptic message cited above.
Behavior under social pressure: Empty Italian stadiums and referee bias
Should also point out that the lead on the DEC StrongARM (which became Intel XScale) was Dan Dobberpuhl, who founded PASemi, which Apple bought to help their own chip development work. In between he also co-founded SiByte which made some of the best MIPS chips ever made.
Ah I think I misread the announcement to mean you were using the OS buffer level information. But if I understand correctly you're just using the buffer size as a heuristic for the window size, then doing all the logic at the application level?

If that's the case, then implementation-wise these approaches are probably very similar, and window/ACK is the normal way of doing this, and also the pragmatic approach in your case.
Not both parties, the caller. And there's a timeout which these days is set to about 2 seconds. Here's the BT Openreach (the last mile provider and thus de facto the supplier of landline telephone service to almost all of the UK) write-up for when it was reduced to 10 seconds in 2014.

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/down...
>I’d be more interested in how this affects sauna cultures.

Sauna works differently than hot bath. In sauna you sweat profusely in order to maintain your body temperature, and your blood vessels expand, and the heart works hard actively pumping the blood thus avoiding local overheat of any specific body part. Plus you take a cold shower or jump into cold water right out of sauna :)

>to sleep in a sauna (jimjilbang) for a couple hours

nobody can sleep in sauna for a couple of hours :) The best i saw some few guys did in the local Korean sauna is about 30-40 minutes at 180F. In Korean jimjilbang there is also usually something like a room with warmed floor where you do go for a nice relaxed sleep after/between sauna room visits. Damn that coronavirus lockdown, i haven't been for the sauna for like 6 weeks already...
It's not international diplomacy when WHO ignored Taiwan's warning emails from December and went with China's lies instead.
The TAIPEI Act doesn't change the US's position on recognition as a country.

It specifically says "the US should advocate for Taiwan’s membership in all international organisations in which statehood is not a requirement"

Note the statehood is not a requirement thing.

I think it would be great if Taiwan had observer status at WHO, and I think the TAIPEI Act should help towards this. But the point remains: Taiwan is an unusual entity, and WHO is far from alone in having trouble with this.
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It's taking a long time to load for me. The latest Archive link loads much faster:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200424011530/https://www.james...

They're interesting challenges, but I thought the idea of a challenge was to be challenging, ie. Can you figure out how to do it? The challenges give away the sollution straight away.
It's kind of funny that they titled the article this way considering the fact that Animal Crossing is currently banned in China because people have been using it as a platform to stage the Hong Kong protests online [1]. I suppose it gives 'quiet revolution' a doubly apt connotation.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52269671
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"Some people would like freedom to discuss the coronavirus without being oppressed. They can't on YouTube if this policy takes hold." so find another platform. YouTube has no obligation whatsoever to continue to disseminate disinformation, or theories. They've had a hard enough time banning and preventing the spread of chlorine dioxide-based "protocol" information, let alone the flimflam that's being discussed right now.
The 1-1/R0 is the point that the virus starts to burn out but there is still a long tail of infections. The total population that is infected will be higher than 1 - 1/R0. Also if the estimates of IFR were too high than the estimates of R0 were too low.
You might if you can demonstrate that the employer had a hazardous work environment. Given reports of conditions in some Amazon centers, a person could probably make a strong case, especially if they are someone or know someone who falls into a vulnerable category.
I thought the story was poignant as well.
> Saying that that is the WHO making that claim is incorrect, a kind of logical fallacy.

WHO is in fact making that claim at the behest of China. The are not reporting like a newspaper as you claim, because a newspaper would have a duty to investigate the claims, the WHO just took China at their word and republished it.

WHO is the UNs international health organization and they are supposed to be independent. The onus is on the WHO to publish this alleged “preliminary investigation” referenced by the Chinese Authorities (hint: it does not exist). Once they admit there was no actual written report of the “preliminary investigation” or data provided by the Chinese Authorities, then they can identify the actual Chinese Authority who made the representations to the WHO, and we can continue to peal back the layers.
I don't think starting programming as a sophomore in college even puts you close to being a late bloomer. There are many many developers out there who have been working with the same 2-3 year knowledge for like 15-20 years. Keep learning something everyday, tax your brain so that you can really feel it, and i guarantee that you will be caught up in no time.
It’s not OS dependent. It’s just that doing it on Mac let’s me focus on the problem I want to solve vs non value add stuff like just getting things configured.

I’m relatively fast using zshell, vim, iTerm, tab space to quickly search and open a file or program, adding things to my .zsh rc file, quickly installing packages, etc. In Windows, everything is slower, and I generally feel disoriented.

Something as simple as running docker wouldn’t work on windows. Apparently I need Windows 10 Pro edition... and I had the license too but upgrading would fail and rollback. It’s things like this that add up.
Could you tell me a bit more about your experience of Linux with a high res display? Are you using the built-in screen of a laptop? Would you mind sharing the model, or do you have any recommendations/advice regarding laptops with high resolution displays that can work well with Linux? Basically, is there any hope of emulating the experience of a macbook Retina screen under modern Linux? Do you know if there are any groups / momentum in the linux development community working on this?
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amazon is a hellhole because of this. makes their search totally broken.

and the funny thing is, amazon itself screws brands that have the same price restriction that they push on their sellers. Thats the reason behind those "see price in cart" shenanigans (which amazon can do, but sellers cant)
My understanding is that the prices are set by Instacart, based on estimates on what they've seen the store charge in the past, plus some markup for price change risk, and probably some amount of profit/cost of maintaining the pricing data and product catalog.
There are plenty of gooey cheese and noddle dishes around the world. Check it:

https://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/14-ways-people-make-mac-...

As much as I enjoy eating and cooking US Mac and cheese, I love me some Käsespäzle. Oh so good. After we are allowed to travel again, I’m off the Germany for more.
The problem is when the distance between the team writing the package manager and random team trying to work on some feature is high. That entire team might not be aware of the team that wants them to deploy gradually and in a specific way. To them, maybe even it's a lot of noise and useless complaining and they don't see it as at all connected to getting their feature done.

A common large company problem. People who should be talking are not. New hires are also hired into the "local" subculture of their team and something very, very important elsewhere in the company is not on their radar.
Even people from Fremantle wouldn't expect to say "South Beach" and have people outside Perth know where that is.
That is unlikely to happen in PowerShell because the structured data is .Net objects. If you are writing a C# cmdlet, it runs in the PowerShell executable process. That is, the output is not structured text it's live state, open file handles, methods, in-memory structures, whatever you want. You aren't going to do that from a native command running in a separate process returning data through stdout without serializing it - and then you're back to convertfrom-json as far as it matters.

> For these structured shells(like Powershell, elvish, Nushell) to succeed, they should...

For PowerShell to succeed, Microsoft should rewrite all the GNU coreutils? Did you see the months of outcry when Microsoft used the four characters "curl" in PowerShell? You reckon anyone is going to want unilaterally rewritten coreutils? From Microsoft?

Microsoft should stop on their development of a completely new tool and hobble themselves to the constraints of the stuff they're trying to replace, controlled by people they're in competition with? Unlikely fantasy world.
same in Australia.
Large-scale deploy systems for a distributed environment are ridiculously hard to build. We had to set one up quickly and on a budget, so in lieu of fancy engineering we set up three rules:

- Any change, whether it's a one-line config update or an entirely new backend, can only go out to a maximum of x% of hosts at a time

- Hosts are taken fully out of rotation before getting an update

- Every change has to be backwards compatible, and there can be no side-effects of random rollbacks, sometimes even across several versions

The first two are easy to enforce programmatically, and the third one relies on the team. While the trade-off is that it's harder to make relatively simple changes, it has served us well so far.
I’m sorry if I wasn’t more clear: the Cantonal citizenship rules are meant to demonstrate the degree of decentralization.

Swiss citizens (and immigrants) are free to move and reside through Cantons as they please, just like the US. In this regard, the US Constitution creates a structure of government virtually identical to that of Switzerland. If we enshrined, say, sanctuary laws in States, there would essentially be no structural difference.

Once you become a naturalized Swiss citizen in Zurich, you’re free to move to Zug, or Jura, or wherever else you please.
No, it's an argument that social programs are smart, and prevent pain in the future. Long-term benefits are not extortion.

Is eating healthy and exercising extortion? Is investing in education to get a better job extortion? Is saving money to take advantage of compound interest extortion? No, it's all just long-term decision making.
If they want to get started with ML, I recommend Hands On Machine Learning with Scikit Learn and Tensorflow.
I was told by a telco engineer that commissioning new services in rural economies sometimes included paying somebody to cycle the run, finding somebody who will take a small ground-rent to defend the 1km stretch so that you have local guardians. I pointed out that once the model was understood you had just invited a protection racket into the room. he shrugged.
C++: It is permissible for an implementation to allocate every local variable on the heap.

Going back to my original point, you are suggesting a complete rearchitecture of their allocation system. That does not require switching languages to C++. If we are talking about working with 100s of GB of data, that's probably even the correct approach!

TFA does not, however, claim that they have a working set of 100s of GB of data. The data is 100s of GB at rest, but can be processed in chunks with a single pass. That, by itself, does not scream "mmap" to me. On top of that, the data is compressed at rest, so copying is inevitable.
I'm in the East Bay and was quarantining for almost a month before my symptoms showed. I also assume I got it at the grocery store since that was my only outing.
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How does this keep them from taking both sets of pennies?
It’s a money laundering thing too.

There was a story in my area a few years ago where people had some sort of scheme to convert Amazon gift cards into cash via EBay.
I've used both and they are different services.

Grocerygateway you select like white bread and hope that yoir brand and brown bread doesn't come. You select apples and they are out and will give you pears.

InstantCart felt modern. You select the exact brand size. When the morning comes you will see the items the person found in real time on the app. The useful part was when an item is not found the delivery person will select a replacement that you see in real time and you can reject or replace with other items. For those that want a more interactive shopping experience I recommend, feels like I'm on the phone with someone as they shop.
Hugo is a great flat-file CMS, although it doesn't come with an admin interface or editor built in. Would love to see something as fast as Hugo that I can just point at a directory of Markdown files with front-matter/data that can edit/commit files from a UI using Git that runs locally.
> I'm sure there were many poor practices with other languages 20+ years ago.

I agree with most of what you wrote, but not this. Code written in PHP from the 5 and before era was bad in a unique way. Before it came bad VB and now there is a deluge of bad React. That’s what happens when a language is popular with inexperienced programmers. But bad PHP was bad and insecure by default, which led to a ton of security bugs. The only thing comparable is C, which has had tons of buffer overflow security bugs—but those were written by pros. ;-) I can’t think of anything else web facing with so many problems with SQL injection and string escaping. The problem was that making a webpage by naive string interpolation is a bad idea, but it seemed like a good idea and it’s what PHP did best and why it was so popular. PHP was lucky to be the wrong paradigm at the right time to take off like a rocket.

Modern PHP is MVC-ish like everything else, but without the simplicity of stupid string interpolation, it can’t attract users like bad PHP used to.
While you are technically correct, and it's true this is a real issue in PRC/ROC politics it's a strange hill to die on here.

I'd note that you linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Armed_Forces to support your argument.

But the very first sentence of that page is "The Republic of China Armed Forces, commonly known as the Taiwanese Armed Forces..."
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> and expect it to be possible when Powershell 7 comes out (I’m using Powershell 6 while writing this).

PowerShell 7 was released in early March a month and a half ago: https://github.com/powershell/powershell/releases
Decisions are being made in light of the data. We'll know more in May than we did in March. As they say: in the best case, if we execute perfectly, it'll look like we never should have done anything. Your lips to God's ears! Meanwhile, the discussion here is about the Constitutionality of lockdown orders. From what I can tell, there's no serious argument about the lawfulness of orders that have actually occurred; the "debate", such as it is, is about hypothetical future orders that don't appear to be on the table anywhere.
Yep, oxygen through nasal cannulas or some sort of oxygen injected into a CPAP / BiPAP system.
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"The Design of Everyday Things", I would consider the digital versions to be

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

http://codev2.cc/

and

Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

https://shop.fsf.org/books-docs/free-software-free-society-s...
From what I recall, it talks about 3 somewhat related things.

First is that adding people slows things down in the short term.

The second is that due to overhead, adding people won't give linear speed up in completion time.

And third, adding people won't help a project that is linear in nature. The common example is using 9 women to get a baby in 1 month.
firefox should be fixing their privacy settings and adding all those new tech in the settings screen instead.

but no, we get experiment addons installed, canvas fingerprinting even though i have less use for canvas then i did for flash, etc, ect.

trying to play catch up with google crapping features on chrome is one thing, but also copying their irresponsability on hidding/not giving control to the end user is not what an open source company should do.