skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been making many posts arguing against the efficacy of lockdowns (and been getting shat on by points I find mostly naive). I think something like this is probably the best approach because it minimizes economic harm while also trying to minimize hospitalization rates among the elderly.

But even if we pretend we could implement a perfect bubble for everyone over 50, they're not especially safe when the lockdown is lifted for them. The virus will still exist, and people over 50 tend to spend time with people over 50 (see: homophily). Once it enters the social network, herd immunity doesn't exist because your local community of old people are both super vulnerable to acquiring the disease and few of them have immunity from past exposure because of the lockdown.

Locking down the country until the virus is eradicated is not a realistic option and its incorrect to think Wuhan has "done" this
This is David, co-founder/CEO here. Cool to be on Hacker News. We spent 5+ years developing this tech. Happy to answer any questions
I think I'll try to get back into running again.
I sometimes used to browse my friend's instagram feeds just to see what they have been up to, as I don't use instagram due to privacy concerns and personalized feeds being a time-eater. The desktop experience has been degrading for the past year or so, for example you were unable to scroll past maybe 20 photos on someones profile without logging in. That's ridiculous, and I hope that Instagram and Facebook die someday.
Yes, in Switzerland nearly _everything_ is left to its states (Cantons). The Federal government is responsible for the army, currency, immigration/asylum, foreign relations, and customs. Everything else is the responsibility of the Cantons [1].

The net result is an "economic race to the bottom" that has now resulted in one of the lowest income taxes in the developed world, coupled with one of the highest standards of living.

The Swiss government is largely influenced by 19th century American federalism.

In fact, even naturalization is a Cantonal responsibility:

"The State Secretariat for Migration examines whether applicants are integrated in the Swiss way of life, are familiar with Swiss customs and traditions, comply with the Swiss rule of law, and do not endanger Switzerland's internal or external security.

The State Secretariat for Migration will then “green light” an applicant’s request to begin the naturalisation process but that does not mean citizenship is certain. Rather, cantons and municipalities have their own requirements that must be met."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland#Constit...

[2] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/becoming-a-citizen/29288376
> I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.

Something always seems to break for me on macOS updates. Often it's related to third-party software, but it still feels like a regression for me.

For Catalina:

* I use Karabiner-Elements for keyboard customization. Since Catalina, hitting capslock will randomly stop the keyboard from working until the OS is rebooted. My solution has been to remove my capslock key to avoid inadvertent presses.

* Since iTunes was removed, Apple Music no longer works with Firefly Media Server. This means that any NAS device with iTunes library support can no longer serve that library to macOS. My solution has been to give up playing music on macOS, since I can't find any software for the relatively simple use case of "play my pre-organized folder from this artist in chronological order by album".
From what I have gathered at various user group meetings Scraping online web prices is pretty much done by everyone in the industry to provide for competitive pricing. It looks like Amazon took this up a notch.

On the other hand at least for Amazon's first party products you don't have to worry about them being counterfeit and I haven't had a bad experience with what I have bought from them (HDMI cords).
Their software seems to be mostly just allocating lots of memory. It seems like they are comparing language speed if you don't know the first thing about optimizing ( which is to not allocate memory nonstop)
Where in the world do you still have to pay based on usage of phone minutes?
If any decryption of your data occurs on AWS hardware (i.e. if your software in AWS has access to your unencrypted data), then wouldn't AWS also have access to it if they wanted? Even with encrypted volumes, etc, the decrypted data is present in memory, AWS controls the box with the memory in it.
This was the standard conservative argument for a long time: HSAs and non-comprehensive insurance. It’s just what conservatives have been saying for the last 60 years (only give benefits that have meaning to those who already have money), and not even they are trying that tactic anymore.

I would be interested if any country has a system that reflects the ideas outlined by the writer, and if so what the results were. All the successful healthcare systems I am aware of our nationalize either at the hospital level, administration and financial level or some combination of the both.
>If you want to be a professional, you need to learn the tools of your trade.

The tools of the trade has constantly been expanding. It's not set in stone as you imply.

It's like me telling a carpenter that they now also must become an electrician, window installer, insulation installer, HVAC installer, steelworker, concrete worker, brick layer, and security system installer.

Your new job title is "Fullstack Building Developer" instead of "Carpenter". We can't afford to have 10 specialists that all do a great job, we can only afford 1 person doing a poor/mediocre job in 10 things.
Overtime pay. There was a story about a BART janitor who made $250K or so in a year with overtime.
Isn't that because they're sold out of the essential items and don't expect to get enough to satisfy your order for 3+ weeks? Or in other words, they've gotten too many orders.
I'm quarantined with two Italians (father-in-law and his mother) from Northern Italy and had been planning on making pizza from scratch to surprise them but always thought I would make a huge mess in the kitchen... from the video, it looks totally manageable! The hardest part is having to wait 11 hours to eat it!
'the best experience' among what options?

They probably believe it is the best experience within the set of options they considered, and where that set excludes the current user experience.
Not too late. One of my childhood friend's dads started a company in his 70s, though he had a previous exit in his 50s. But it gets more complicated. Some questions to ask yourself:

1. Can you afford to go without income for at least 2 years and possibly indefinitely?

2. Do you have kids? What age range? Starting a software company with kids in the 0-5 range is very, very difficult, particularly if you have multiples. The only time I've seen it succeed is if you started the company before having kids, and the product is already built and has some measure of traction before the kids are born.

3. Have you built up a large amount of domain expertise in a particular industry before starting the company, and is the company related to that domain? Older founders rely more on experience: they don't have the same raw energy and the same tap into the cultural zeitgeist that younger founders do, but they should know how a particular industry operates and what the key problems within it are.

4. Do you have a network to draw on, both for potential co-founders and employees and for potential customers?
Not even mentioning they are playing a dangerous censorhip game, it's very weird that they pick the WHO over the CDC after all the WHO controversies. (Taiwan, slow COVID-19 response, alignment with China lines, head of WHO was part of the corrupt Ethiopian government, $200M in business class travel, and probably more scandals.)

CDC has also a way bigger budget than the WHO. $11.1B vs $4.2B.

Ref:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_an...
> Localism is rarely the answer. The housing crisis is the primary example of this.

I think you could argue that the housing crisis is caused in large part by the fact that states cannot limit immigration from other states. Which would suggest that, perhaps, localism would be a solution to the housing crisis.
Awesome app, quite surprised by my footprint size.
No support for Yahoo?
The argument is that the electorate can't vote on policy unless they can see those policies in action. Voters can rest on the dogmatic idea that private markets solve everything without ever having to experience the effects of privatized social security.

Elected officials can rely on dogma too, styling themselves like sports teams, knowing that because actually accomplishing something is off the table for both parties, they have to appeal to voters almost entirely by signaling their virtues.

Yes, it would mean rapid fluctuations in policy, but the idea is that we need to inject some volatility so we can see what works and what doesn't. Obviously, this can lead to problems, like a majority party implementing policies which restrict the electorate or affect populations that can't form a strong voting coalition, but I'm not sure this is worse than what we have already.

Further, I'm not really sure how we're supposed to reevaluate "we." That's a neat soundbite, but what does that mean? What are you suggesting we actually do? Alter the electorate? Split the union?
these comparisons to the flu usually don't seem to factor in transmissibility. seems you cant leave that out of the equation and only look at death rate
No Rust smh
Because I want my profile to be viewed by anyone, including non instagram users, or at least keep the capability to do it.

Also, if they do this, it's highly probable that they do other user-hostile things. AFAIK, you can't upload photos from the desktop web version.
16 inch i7

Runs freaking hot when driving a 4k monitor through thunderbolt. The secondary GPU seems to be the problem.

I didn’t have this issue with my 15 inch retina Macbook pro through mini Displaport.

Crazy.
Cuomo made the caveat during the press conference that these samples were collected in grocery stores etc, so might be higher than people at home etc

edit: and also potentially lower than in the essential worker populations. So some caveats to keep in mind
> if you own an iPhone like half the USA

It's interesting that people go on the Internet, by nature a global medium, and then assume that their audience is American. iOS currently has a worldwide market share of about 27% (source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide).
At 21% it would be time to end the shutdown.

EDIT: Read the comments below.
> What resources and knowledge does the federal government have that the states don't?

The problem is democracy. Local governments are more democratic in the sense of being directly responsive to community interests, especially since the 1960s-era reforms. But more democracy is not always better, especially when the community makes contradictory demands. Often you end up trading away administrative efficiency.

So what does the federal government have to offer? A dispassionate, distant, and non-responsive administrative apparatus. At least in the current political context. Whether it could be effectively utilized is another question as there are also other pathologies at play, such as ideological sentiments that the federal government shouldn't be involved, period.
>If that happens then I have no choice but to assume a full system compromise and nuke my machine. It's not a risk I'm willing to take, as there's essentially no way to definitively prove that that's all the malicious Snap was doing.

You can be rest assured that the problematic snaps were tackled and addressed within 3 days, there are no cryptominers on the store anymore. That and it was actively searched for.

Why are you downloading random crap from teh snap store to begin with?

People always take extreme perspectives over this and I find it weird. No you probably shouldn't be installing hello-world snap from Davind1923232. I wouldn't expect you to do that on Android or any other manufacturer. It probably is safe, in that it has had as much vetting as any other store owner.

Downloading firefox, vscode, intellij, vlc, nodejs, spotify and all of these other first party snaps is perfectly fine.

>Snap sandboxing is rarely utilised in a meaningful way, and the permissions for a particular app are controlled by the author by default. In most cases there's nothing explicitly preventing a malicious Snap from gaining persistence even after it is removed.

Snap permissions aren't controlled just by the author. I have disconnected plenty of plugs that don't magically reappear. Especially for sandboxing internet facing programs from my home directory.

Snaps can't magically persist that is a load of FUD. The files needed are stored on squashfs, home config and configuration in it's own isolated directory. On removal, the squashfs is removed and that is gone.

>In other words, Snap sandboxing is in no way comparable to a 'proper' solution like a well-configured Firejail or a VM.

Why do you comment on things you really don't seem to understand. This is the entire point of snap plugs/connections which are enforced permissions based model.
There is going to be a coordinated attack on Amazon ahead of the US presidential election and it will have valid information and misinformation. The WSJ will no doubt be involved.

Question why and when old news is being dredged up. For example, is Amazon any worse than Wal-mart or Oracle or any other number of companies out there? If something is not contemporaneous news, then why is being being used at the point in time you are reading it? What is the motivation of the group pushing that information? Sometimes that is the even bigger story.
Hard to compare directly against the Spanish Flu as medicine has had 100 years of progress, but assuming you are talking about overall impact, agreed.
70% is 20% better than random, don't buy that crib yet.
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Free speech (well, most freedoms, really) will die the day we decide "saving lives" is worth _any_ cost.

Heck, we already decided trashing the economy is worth "saving lives" (how many?), I imagine some people would be overjoyed to remove the 1st amendment in order to lower disease spread, lower the suicide rate of those vulnerable to hate speech, etc. And why stop there? Remove 2nd amendment and you can save even more lives! Too much freedom just seems to lead to people dying, because people make bad choices that affect others.
Walmart at least has a filter you can enabled for "Retailer: Walmart" to remove the third-party stuff from search results.
> and in blind taste tests people overwhelmingly preferred the sweeter drink.

I remember those taste test booths Pepsi would set up in shopping malls and such. Here's how they went for me:

1. They'd hand me two unmarked cups, one with Pepsi and one with Coke.

2. I'd take a sip from each, they'd ask me which I preferred.

3. I always knew which was the Coke, and would point to it.

4. They'd look away and say "Next!"

I've always preferred Coke. I prefer less sugared drinks because the sugar tends to overwhelm the flavor of the drink. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to find lightly sugared drinks today, they all taste like syrup. I drink coffee black, and just buy plain soda water and add a bit of OJ to it.
In all the articles about ubuntu 20 that I saw today one of the main improvements mentioned was HiDPI diplay support, maybe this solves your problem.

Meanwhile, the MS Surface I'm typing this on has a blurry Task Manager and unreadable notifications because 75% of them fall off my Full HD screen.
> I've said it before, but if I were allowed to make one rule in the current healthcare landscape it would be "consistent pricing". No charging different prices depending on who is paying.

Along these lines, POST THE DAMN PRICES ON A MENU FOR EVERYONE TO LOOK AT AND MAKE CHOICES!
Charity isn't an efficient use of funds. If we want our resources used more effectively, that money needs to go to the government and we need to elect leaders who use it for the things we actually need.
first you say 0.1% is the CFR for flu then, in the same sentence you claim that it is probably closer to 0.01% because people don't go to doctors with the flu.

Are you arguing that after all this time we still don't know what the actual CFR for flu is? And that the reported CFR is a gross overestimation? - I find that hard to believe.

To me, this feels that once this disease hits the reported flu numbers people start arguing that oh wait, the flu is actually even less dangerous ...
For me it's not at a similar level.

For one, banks are far more regulated than Amazon is. If governments funded departments with 10s or 100s of thousands of employees monitoring and regulating cloud computing services, then it might be similar.

But the most significant difference is that if the bank seizes my money, I'll know about it pretty quickly and can respond. If Amazon sniffs through my commercial data, I'm unlikely to ever know. Most people are far more tempted to do wrong if they know if the chances of getting caught are miniscule.
Wow! I am really excited for this technology. I just hope the reliability, especially with thick clouds will be somewhat tolerable... Because if somebody cannot work due to the weather, this will be no replacement for traditional fiber or copper wires.
Hasn't the latest MacBook Pro 16 inches evolved in the cooling design? I thought it was much better.
We're looking at per capita rates though so doesn't matter if they have more of something in absolute terms.
It's been over 30 years since I spent much time in a darkroom but just starting to read that article and my smell-memory conjured up that very distinctive developer/darkroom chemical smell and all of the associated memories - for me too it was always evocative of magic.
Previously, Lubuntu used LXDE, a deprecated and dying DE that's like Xfce (lightweight and janky and buggy) but moreso.

Now, it's been forked and resurrected as LXQt, which uses the Qt framework (KDE faction) as opposed to GTK (GNOME et al faction).

It was a DE for when your 2003 laptop is so weak or when your neurotic minimalism is so hellbent that even Xfce feels too heavy.

Now, I guess it can also be a Qt-flavored Xfce.
Yes I hate it, but I did not have the time and willpower to find another solution so I bought the eGPU.
Eh, different fields can have different definitions for the same word, and that's okay. If I tell a chemist that carbon is a metal, I would get a funny look. If I tell an astrophysicist that carbon is a metal, it is perfectly reasonable. Within the field of astronomy, metals are any element other than hydrogen and helium. There may be a similar difference in definitions here
Pinterest is the worst thing on the web. I do not understand why google puts pinterest links as the top search results constantly, even though it is a completely shallow and pointless page that merely obfuscates the content I would actually want to see from some other site. Why would i want to see what is effectively a notice of someone saying they like a webpage, rather than the webpage? And considering google claimed they would penalize sites for giving one set of content to googlebot and something else completely to users, pinterest shouldn't be in search results at all.
Right now, today, while half the world is lockdown in their own homes, WHO is still advocating for unrestricted international travel.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

Telling people to not fly across the world is bannable misinormation acording to Wojcicki's definition. Of course, it wouldn't be banned, because the actual rule is a much more subjective "whatever makes YT look bad to advertisers and PR"
It seems reasonable that lipid encapsulated viruses are fairly stable in a variety of temperature ranges, no?

On the other hand, I can see the additional environmental UV saturation and vitamin D having a noticeable effect.

Even a small decrease in environmental persistence should help, given its infectiousness.
What time frame was this?
You can apply this thinking to the entire world, then. We ought to all be a part of one global country, and London's increased output helps us all!

If only cooperation and decision-making were so simple.
Refactored extension/add-on with lots of new sites, bug-fixes, add custom sites and update-notification.
https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-firefox-...
https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-chrome-c... (no google analytics)
Nothing of value was lost. It doesn't matter if you hold WHO in poor regard; pay for your own hosting if you want to publish content that YouTube doesn't want to host. I'll never understand the twisted mental gymnastics that lead people to believe they should be entitled to free HD video hosting from a private corporation.
I'm not sure I would call 'using your entire CPU to do trivially small heap allocations' a pattern unless you mean that it's a pattern you see when people wonder why their software is so slow.
I keep hearing this, but governments in extremely Democrat-dominated areas don't seem less dysfunctional. I live in San Francisco, for example: Republicans have approximately zero power here, the government is too big to drown in the Bay, let alone a bathtub... and the government here seems less competent than usual.
Fair. My entry to this thread should have begun with a question mark. I thought the point of different transmission methods, as frames, was referring to potential differences in viral load.
The title is scary. I hope this won't happen. Reading the actual article now too.
From the article:

5. Designing a Platform is Designing an Organization

An ex­-colleague of mine taught me the phrase “you ship your org chart”, meaning that the structure of your system in Production usually matches the structure of your organization. In my experience this is true.

Also known as Conway's law, this was the single biggest lesson at my last job (just before it ended). I've come to believe that nearly all code problems are actually people problems.

So for example, we aren't really web developers, we're coders who work around the numerous problems introduced by decades of design by committee. We aren't game developers, we're coders who make forward progress despite a level of wheel reinvention not seen in any other industry. And so on and so forth.

Me? I've decided to take a break from programming for a while to let the churn die down. I'm still listening for possible gigs, but for the most part I'll be working on the other areas in life that I've neglected over the last ~20 years. Maybe get back into art, blog a little, invent something. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of a large savings account or investments, so I'm doing this on faith and relying on the evolution of humanity in these times.
It's a shame right-angle Thunderbolt cables aren't really a thing. I'm using a right-angle USB-C cable for my docked 12" MB which really cleans up the desk space.
The complete disregard for scientific recommendations, ignoring recommendations from other agencies, dragging feet and not doing anything for at least a month after the severity was clear, not even doing the bare minimum of preparation when alerts first started coming out before the full severity was understood, not collaborating with states or other agencies, providing conflicting information, refusing to take any responsibility, spreading well known misinformation, lauding unproven treatments.....the list can literally go on and on.
It's also lower than the 3% that was predicted that people used to justify the shutdown and closer inline with the swine flu or rotovirus.