skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> That states are having to implement their own policies and plans of attack for this virus is a total travesty.

Blame the constitution. In the US system of government health is largely a state matter. Setting aside trump, the federal agencies just aren't setup to lead. They can issue statements and guidelines but lack any actual authority on the ground. State governors have the power, but even then they cannot boss corporations around (hospitals/insurance companies). They cannot even divert masks from one hospital to another, let alone demand that a patient be moved.

Now in other countries, the ones with government-provided healthcare, the national government has real authority. They can directly order policy changes. They can close individual hospitals and/or move patients. They can control the flow of equipment because they are the ones paying for that equipment. Canada just deployed soldiers into some care homes. It took less than 24 hours without any new legislation needed. A US state governor might be able to use the local national guard, but deploying the army within the US? Into a privately-run care home? That is a power trump doesn't have.
That wasn't my point though.
America Isn’t Doing So Badly Against Coronavirus
Sorry but you're coming across as telling people what to do - it's somewhat patronising.

There's a key principle here - no application with such scope should be closed source.

It is in no-ones interest that it be closed source.

In fact the software becomes more secure when many eyes are on it.

And, once the government has it out there - with the blessing of people like you - then they will have no urgency to make it open source.

Now is exactly the right time to say "we'll use this BUT only if it's open source."
Niskanen and budget maximizing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget-maximizing_model
Old School political science

I have more faith in bureau shaping, which is almost the same.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau-shaping_mode

My it dep is mostly run by an Oss linux geek. This is super cool
And here's what the SQLite manual says about keywords:

The SQL standard specifies a large number of keywords which may not be used as the names of tables, indices, columns, databases, user-defined functions, collations, virtual table modules, or any other named object. The list of keywords is so long that few people can remember them all. For most SQL code, your safest bet is to never use any English language word as the name of a user-defined object.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html
Intensive Animal Farming
The Australian approach has been fairly good but this virus is persistent.

Once the lockdowns kicked in the doubling rate dropped dramatically and new case numbers went from a peak of around 500 a day to 10-20 day for a population 1/10 the US.

From /r/coronavirusdownunder linking the stats with the lock-down measures gives a good idea of the timeframe involved.

date cases growth doubling

2020-03-21 1071 1.22 3.1

2020-03-22 1352 1.26 3.3 <== 10 days ago, Tom Hanks

2020-03-23 1716 1.27 3.5

2020-03-24 2146 1.25 3.8

2020-03-25 2431 1.13 4.0 <== 10 days ago, overseas self-isolate 14 days

2020-03-26 2805 1.15 4.5 <== 10 days ago, Vic declare State of Emergency

2020-03-27 3179 1.13 5.3

2020-03-28 3639 1.14 6.4

2020-03-29 3985 1.1 7.0 <== 10 days ago, TAS self-isolation 14 days

2020-03-30 4250 1.07 8.0 <== 10 days ago, closing borders to all

2020-03-31 4560 1.07 9.3 <== 10 days ago, rule of 4 square metres

2020-04-01 4864 1.07 11.5

2020-04-02 5136 1.06 13.6 <== 10 days ago, no social gathering

2020-04-03 5358 1.04 15.6 <== 10 days ago, WA,SA closing border

2020-04-04 5552 1.04 18.7

2020-04-05 5687 1.02 22.9

2020-04-06 5795 1.02 28.1

2020-04-07 5908 1.02 33.1

2020-04-08 6013 1.02 38.8 <== 10 days ago, mandatory hotel quarantine

2020-04-09 6103 1.01 46.5

2020-04-10 6203 1.02 52.2

2020-04-11 6292 1.01 60.7

2020-04-12 6313 1.003 69.6

2020-04-13 6359 1.007 83.5 <== 10 days ago, QLD closing border

2020-04-14 6400 1.006 96.5

2020-04-15 6447 1.007 114.2

2020-04-16 6468 1.003 106.9

2020-04-17 6523 1.009 121.1

2020-04-18 6565 1.006 129.2

2020-04-19 6606 1.006 157.3

2020-04-20 6619 1.002 165.0 <== 10 days ago, Good Friday

2020-04-21 6645 1.004 210.6

2020-04-22 6649 1.001 247.4

2020-04-23 6661 1.002 307.7

2020-04-24 6675 1.002 301.3

2020-04-25 6695 1.003 350.7

2020-04-26 6711 1.002 298.7
Since we are in the context of Postgresql, there is 'IS (NOT) DISTINCT FROM' for those who believe NULL's behaviour is reversed in (in)equality comparisons.
This is an extremely good point. The potential for misuse through ignorance and misinformation is high. How many "ATO" phone calls have we all received? This service could be genuinely anonymous, although of course under existing laws the government may already have created a back door, and as long as we're using authenticated app stores, nothing is truly untraceable.

Having said that, this might very well help us in the right against the virus.

I'm quite willing to wait for the source code before installing.
What is the advantage over using `git subtree`?
What did France do to the elderly?
This is one of the thing which made my really sad about been a human - our lifespan is poorly short.

See, if my lifespan is 4.5 billion years, then I can just sit here and wait until Andromeda become a daily light show when it finally got close enough.

Look through a live telescope yourself will give you a very VERY different feeling when compare to look at a picture on NASA website.

I have an amateur telescope, 130EQ. I still remember the feeling it give to me when the first time it brought Saturn into my view, and then again for Jupiter, stars and clusters ...

For me, the best way to get over all the unhappiness, anger and depressions, is to sit down in the pitch dark of the night, setup the telescope and hunting for the stars.

Sadly I managed to broke it's tripod few years back :(
The Time a New York Governor Disobeyed the Federal Government
Thanks for the reminder that I spend too much time on Hacker News ;)
Publer: Create, schedule, and analyze all your social media posts
The advice on how to deal with people completely ignores existence of abusers, bullies and narcissists.

If applied to abusive or potentially abusive relationship, it would go right into the abusive cycle. It is opposite of what you need to do to set boundaries and opposite of what you need to do to recognize first issues as they appear.
I think you under by 50%.

Also 266,900 earth orbits away
> If the studies showing the number of people that had it and built immunity without ever showing symptoms are correct

They're not.

The NY study is the only one measuring a positive rate much higher than the false positive rates of the tests, and it is consistent with about a 1% infection fatality rate.
This is a completely undiscoverable feature. It isn’t mentioned anywhere I saw and isn’t part of the normal config screen. I’m happy it’s there, but now I’m curious what else I was missing...

Thanks!!
At the risk of getting downvoted I just gotta say: I think you're talking to the wrong people...
Wow, thanks. That's such strange dynamics... their separation seems to follow a square wave more than a sine wave! Any idea why?
Which epidemiologist do you believe – Giesecke or Ferguson?
> But when nobody knows what they're actually getting because it doesn't exist in a legal framework, then it muddies the whole experience.

Trust (knowing the chemist directly, indirectly, ...) in specific individuals > a largely unknown (but known to be imperfect) system, for many people anyways. Obviously this isn't practical for the not well connected, but it's all we got for now.

But as for your question, I've seen little to suggest it's anything more than war on drugs propaganda and hearsay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
Is there an actual problem here? Canadians benefit a lot from US Defense spending. This is not an unreasonable ask.
Maybe he's just brushing up his past knowledge. Or maybe he's got the photomemory ability like gifted people. Who knows
We live in a bubble, I feel so out of touch with how people live in many of the other places in the world. Last October I visited Pakistan and what I saw there really made me think about the scale of globally inequality that’s just allowed to “exist”. Not just in food, but so many other places in our lives we take for granted.
Human counsciousness.
You know that thing, where people die because the food runs out? That's called "famine"

And just like Ireland was decimated intentionally by the potato famine, America is about to be destroyed intentionally by the coronavirus famine.

Those who would have absolute rule never really change their methods.
Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services
Thanks for the link!!

Luckily it's not the only path for growth... As I mentioned we're a hardware company so it's more like we want to wind up as a Dell (or in a worse scenario, IBM, which isn't too shabby)
No doubt. American homes don't use floor space very efficiently.
Thing is in the previous discussion it was already mentioned by experts that this "No" would be likely and that the result would be an App that would not be tightly integrated with the OS and thus less useful (and less used). But its now really easy for the politicians to point the finger at Apple instead of admitting ones fault.

How large the influence of the CCC actually has been is of course uncertain but their comments have played a big part in public discussion of the last days. Most articles that I have read mentioned the criticism. And in German media quoting the CCC is often synonymous with "the nerds who actually understand computer say" (in good but also bad ways).
Show HN: Browse and select package.json scripts from the command line
An open offer to work at the NSA?
Anyone nearer to the “virus less bad” side of an argument should consider signing up for this (if you’re healthy, of course). It’s a win-win because you get to gamble on quicker immunity.
These two things have nothing to do with each other.

I feel when people do this it devalues both issues.

It just adds a fog that costs lives.
I’ve heard, I think many years ago, this fact there is not much risk or star collisions when galaxies collide. But I wonder, given more recent knowledge of how common exoplanets are, if there is a more significant risk of disruptions to the planetary systems that surround the stars. These planetary systems are much larger than the stars themselves.
Not a native English speaker, bit I think got (Br) vs. gotten (Am)?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gotten
I've been watching this and I'm quite impressed at the lengths he has gone through to make this work. Designing and creating a custom alternator is definitely one of the more impressive things I've seen in engineering videos on YouTube.
Me and my friends have been playing WebLiero for three weeks now (around 4 hours per week).

I think it's funny, that for 5 guys with beefed up computers and Steam-accounts, nothing beats WebLiero.

The combination of nearly 100% destructible environments, ninja rope and weapons that actually works differently is just such a wonderful combination.

Oh someone dug a hole and is shooting player-controlled missiles from it? Well then we know the user wont be moving, so lets use a laser to destroy the environment next to him from a whole screen away. BAM!

I can't understate just how destructible environments is a underutilized game changer.

This is the only game we found that was actually fun and I wouldn't change a thing.

Thank you Mario C!
Same, I go even more ruthless. Any unread email over a week old gets marked read, any read email over a week old gets archived.
All Updates, Social, Promotion emails get marked read on arrival.
All Primary inbox emails get intercepted on arrival and batched back into inbox on a schedule (usually twice a day).

I sit at zero most of the time, and ive only ever missed emails a bare handful of times, so seems to work.
In my experience a business analyst talks to a business manager and they come up with a simple 'sunny day' as-if story. This gets handed of to a developer who notices information gaps and inconsistencies. After some initial back and forthing the dev is told to go talk directly to the people actually doing the work and inevitably discovers the management is completely clueless about how their business is actually operating.

At this point one of two things happen. Management on both sides double down and a system is build that on the very first contact with the users is shot down into a never ending dead spiral of change requests and extensions before it is eventually abandoned and replaced by a next clean slate attempt . Or, more rarely, the as-if document gets ditched and the system is reconsidered and the project gets amended to actually deliver something that can support the real business operations.
Grover's algorithm lets you search an unsorted list of four elements with just one "is this thing in the list?" query. Classically, of course, it requires four queries.

More precisely, given f: 2^n -> {0,1} which is guaranteed to hit 1 exactly once, Grover finds the one input which hits 1, and it does so using about 2^{n/2} queries of f; but the constants happen to line up so that when n=2, exactly one query is required.
I dunno, that's what happens in a global shortage sometimes. Remember that the governor of Maryland isn't exactly a small-time official - Maryland's economy is about as large as Iran or Norway.
My $150 Chromebook has twice that; most computers these days tend to ship with more than than I think.
I don't get it. If they had enough employees, then these processing plants wouldn't kill 2M chickens?

I think these birds were doomed. A more accurate title might be "Processors throw away 2M Pounds of chicken meat due to lack of employees."
Haha, cool, I didn't know you did that! I enjoyed the back and forth between design and stress. I worked with a lot of really good people in both departments. On one program we were told to target 11% MS, only reason I could figure it wasn't written down was so that when revised loads inevitably knocked the margins down a bit, we wouldn't have to constantly be changing the fudge factor in the reports to avoid showing a negative margin that was effectively positive.

Humor me with a tangent: I think we should go back to design doing the stress work, for the most part, with some graybeards in stress and their anointed apprentices providing guidance and verification. AFAIK we really don't have the tech tools to do that efficiently, though, and nobody wants to invest the time. Design software needs access to all of the loads, temps, material properties from mil handbook, knockdowns, everything needs to be versioned and traceable, it needs to let you choose from a large catalog of analysis methods with good FEA as a fallback, show you the updated MS and critical load cases in realtime, always move your analysis nodes with the model as you edit it, export 3D models into the stress reports that remain live when the part/loads change so it changes in the next version of the report, etc. You mentioned git elsewhere. It would be so much better to validate stress report updates by viewing a diff. I could go on. Plenty to disrupt in this market, but the incentives aren't there for more than slow incremental change. I think only somebody who's willing to sink the money and open source the result has a chance at creating a revolution in how we design airplanes.
Thanks for the recs! Domain driven design is exactly the topic I was looking for. Any other recommendations on that subject but for javascript?
How much did this article cost Huawei to have Forbes write. Nothing in this map app is by huawei. Crapvertising in print form.
I also remember the first time I managed to see Saturn through my own telescope.

It took forever to get it in frame, and I wasn't even sure what I was looking for until I finally centered it. I knew it was brighter than the other stars and that it was probably a planet but not sure which one it was.

Finally got it in frame and focused, saw the rings and jumped up and down exclaiming "it's Saturn, it's Saturn!". I was super excited and kept having to readjust the telescope because of Earth's rotation as it moved out of frame.

It was great night with my family and they still remember it to this day.
How much math are you comfortable with? Codecs are about packing the most information into the smallest energy, which is a bit of a task.
I think this is because people lost sight. Right now parties are often associated with peoples' identities. So being critical to a member of a party is seen as being critical to the identity of that person. We forgot that no single representative can ever capture our beliefs 100%. Which I don't understand, because it would be insane to believe that any other human being understands you perfectly. I don't care if you've been married for 50 years.

But forgetting this is a tactic of divide and rule. My team vs your team. I can tell you as someone that is pretty vocal about my distaste for parties that I am still frequently lumped into the opposing team of whoever I'm talking to as soon as I disagree.

Critique is a keystone to democracy, but it isn't the only one. Unity is as well. But unity doesn't mean we have to agree. Unity means that we recognize that we're on the same team and trying to make our country better, even if we disagree with the methods. It is recognizing that we can't hold all the answers, we're human after all, and that to get closer to the objective reality we need to consider many positions. But that's divide and rule's bread and butter.
I was just a lurker.
Truthfully, this is a puff piece for increased government spending. Let the money printers work overtime, devaluing the currency until it’s worth less than the paper it’s printed on. The government is incompetent at everything, why not let the private sector figure it out?

All the nations he mentions are creditor nations that have savings to undertake huge public works projects in order to surveil those who might be infected. That’s why we can’t do similar programs in the US, we’re heavily indebted and collectively broke. Same story with the PIGS, if the EU dissolves these areas will succumb to hyperinflation too, and also why they can not implement similar programs.
Thanks for a detailed writeup, which seems for the most part in agreement with my understanding technically. But then you kinda tried to summarize janeways in a few paragraphs, and that means no one who doesn't already know immunology is going to find it helpful. In fact, Janeway itself tries to summarize their book in the first chapter and that chapter goes on for 50 pages iirc.

Some fundamental concepts that might fly over someone without a biology degree might include the absolutely fundamental requirement of protein binding for any biological process (akin to a transistors function for a computing device).

I'm thinking that step one of communicating the entire immune systems complexity is probably omission, of anything that's not absolutely required for comprehension of the basic concept. In that regard I'm not convinced there's any need for bringing up the innate system first (there's a reason we discovered it quite recently, perhaps?). Other details can also be similarly "omitted" for simplicity perhaps. What are your thoughts?
Korea (KCDCD) basically says that covid19 will be seasonal.
You can try ish.app [1], which has support for a wide variety of tools (including git). I use it on iPad to work on a small C app that I use a lot. [2]

[1] https://ish.app/
[2] https://github.com/terhechte/gitsi
The only reason sports gambling isn't as big (or bigger) in the US is due to a historical aversion to gambling (thinly veiled piety in government), and because Major league sports orgs are still figuring out how to get the most money out of it.
Only German sources at the moment, the head of the Bundeskanzleramt issued a joint statement with health minister Spahn over the weekend.

https://twitter.com/HBraun/status/1254317591897804801?s=19
> there is the other side as well, PM : build me a bike. Dev: here is a spaceship. PM: but i wanted a bike. Dev: bike make no sense if u can travel using a spaceship.

At the risk of being overly nitpicky (because I understand and agree with the general point you're getting at):

That spaceship _is_ super awesome and far superior to a bike if you need a solution that'll get you a far distance in a short amount of time.

But what if the need is something that's safe, cheap, and doesn't require complicated infrastructure to support? A bike might be a better solution.

Blame the PM if they're not making those priorities and needs clear, though.
Distinction Between Data Engineer and Data Scientist
Don't forget censusfail and robodebt. This government does not have a good history with tech.

I will say that this determination from the Health Minister was a breath of fresh air, but it needs to be made law when Parliament sits:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480
Hackers Target Two Cryptocurrency Platforms to Steal $25M Worth of Crypto Assets
It isn't surprising that the surest way to get attacked these days is to provide.any evidence for the claim "we actually aren't all gonna die"

That upsets too many plans.
this. is. awesome. SO glad this book is being kept up to date
probably this
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211291/U-S-governm...
REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated
The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak
The institute experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus
They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan
Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats to Yunnan's caves
The U.S. government funded research on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decade

And

https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/04/20/coronavirus-created-i...
Never attribute to malice what can be just as easily attributed to stupidity. While there are clear bad actors, I do believe that many do think what they are doing is for the best. Few people are actually evil, most are just stupid. I'd consider that a win considering that we're chimps that are barely able to communicate with one another even when we speak the same language.
Elixir is pretty cool. You get all the power of Erlang wrapped up in a much more developer friendly language.
I just came here because "The Intervention of the Sabine Women" is one of my favorite paintings.
Responded.
I assume you mean WWI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax#Timeline_of_introdu...

If we're talking Australia. If the US, well... Civil War.

But to the sentiment of the comment, I completely agree. That is explicitly why we need the "burn the system down" type of people that I mentioned. they bring to light these kinds of topics and considerations.
My response to "it's free" is "Here's a turd. SHUT UP IT'S FREE"

It's not an argument. It's freeness is a completely irrelevant property.
PyTorch Distributed Training
I read a paper about that. It said that 98% of the energy emitted at that frequency is absorbed by oxygen, and this was touted as a benefit, because it effectively “insulated” the towers, so they would not interfere with each other. But I am still surprised that any engineer would design a system that is only 2 percent efficient.