skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As I read [0] it is not, in fact, a blanket declaration about transmissibility.

It's still misinformation, and it's specifically misinformation that makes the WHO complicit in 187,420 deaths and counting. There had been plenty of indications by that point that - even if human-to-human transmission had not yet been confirmed - it was still evidently spreading beyond people at ground zero.

That is, I ain't sure how you're able to read it as anything but a blanket declaration. The WHO outright said that there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission; this is an outright lie, given that the sheer number of people by that point who were hospitalized with the virus without ever having visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market would be, I would argue, evidence.

> When read [2] it's clear that it is not a blanket declaration not to wear masks.

No, but it's advice that - if followed - would make any asymptomatic carrier dangerous. The point of wearing masks is not to prevent yourself from being infected (no mask is sufficient for that), but rather to minimize the risk of you spreading SARS-CoV-2 to other people by breathing on them.

The WHO seems to have a chronic pattern of being one or more weeks behind the curve on its assessment of COVID-19 and the mitigation thereof. Needless to say, I trust them about as far as I can throw them (which is 0 meters, given the impossibility of throwing an entire organization), and that YouTube is putting them on any kind of authoritative pedestal despite these blatant missteps is ignorant of that behavioral pattern.
I don't hear that for the first time. But question i always ask is: are the ventilators only for the worst of the worst cases? (because there arent enough) so you end giving them to people who probably die anyway.

BUT:we know there are long term effects on your organs and lungs from corona. Would giving ventilators to not critical or semi critical people reduce the long term effects and damage?

So, a hospital at, lets say 70 percent might still be netter longterm for infected people than close to the edge. (not to mention heart strokes etc)
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I guess it depends. As a solo entrepreneur, I do it all the time, because I care about my customers.

Working at Instagram, probably not, since it wouldn't be my job to handle support.
> A better equivalence would be the question, how should your hypothetical army be equipped and trained.

Agreed. And if standard training takes 12 months and you're being invaded now, what do you do?
Thanks for the recipe, will try that this weekend!
Google cuts marketing budget, hiring freezes taking place
> With now over 30,000 posts in the SQLITE database, my static file generator is still absolutely fast.

Don't you then miss out on human readable Git diffs when posts are changed? And now you can't edit posts with a standard editor or e.g. the GitHub web UI?

Also, what language are you using? Shouldn't reading in 30,000 posts and building some stats/relationships/lookups on them be pretty fast?
Couldn't agree more.

It's really interesting to see a new generation of vertical specific, large scale CMSs emerge (like from publishing with Chorus from Vox[0] or Arc from the Washington Post[1]).

My problem with 'Enterprise CMSs' was always that they tried to sell one hammer for every single type of nail, and actually, use cases for content management are so varied (and often specific to verticals) that you buy a big generalist CMS and end up having to customise and mess about with it so much you're always left in the situation you described.

[0]: https://getchorus.voxmedia.com
[1]: https://www.arcpublishing.com
They sell one brand of standard kraft-like box of it in some stores here in Norway. I buy it from time to time - I absolutely love cheap plain macaroni and cheese. One of the Norwegian companies have been selling a bag of it as well. While I didn't necessarily appreciate it, I'm guessing some people do.

Sidenote: The mac and cheese here all boasts how it is an American food. The box (that is like Kraft) has flags and stuff on it. Of course, they'll also sell an "American" ketchup next to a couple shelves of Heinz.
Saying "you can't lock down for one to two years" is an absurd strawman as nobody would ever advocate for that

Having a gradient of social distancing and having it be enforced by government officials is the only sane way to avoid mass needless death which is what is happening in Sweden right about now
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While I tend to agree that some mechanics like you describe them are tedious, at the same time I can't help but feel like you play it to min/max it, to get as much done as fast as possible. But there's space for games that are all about just taking your time.

I mean I spent a lot of time in Runescape, hours upon hours spent clicking on the water to fish, or running between the same five rocks together with some other players to mine and slowly watch that mining level number go up.

Then there's MMO's that if you look at it for a minute it can be really intense and visually interesting, but when you zoom out it turns I've run this same dungeon dozens of times already just to get a hundred or so tokens, of which I need 800-or-so to buy a piece of equipment that raises my stats by a few points.
Can you provide a source for that? I'm having trouble finding any support for the use of "matron" in the way you describe.
Maybe they wrote it really badly so someone will take offence and rewrite it for them!

Also in my experience `std::deque` is almost always slower than `std::vector`. In theory it shouldn't be, but copying contiguous data is so fast on modern CPUs that the reallocation of `std::vector` (or occasional front-insertion) is very cheap.
They tested everyone that was in contact with a reported case, I never claimed that they tested the whole population. How do you explain that they are showing only a single digit increase of new cases per day if, as you assert, there is a huge number of unaccounted cases?
Ask HN: Where is the best place to find an account manager for our SaaS product?
We're a B2B SaaS startup that has recently done a funding round. We are looking to hire a Senior Account Manager role for our business based in the US (Ideally west coast).

Are there any good startup based job boards? We aren't a YC company so can't list on here.

We have been through a recruiter and paid around $20k for a candidate who didn't work out after 3 months. We have a warranty period and they are now looking for a replacement, but I don't necessarily feel that they are coming up with great candidates.

General job boards seem to attract stacks of candidates who haven't actually read the job requirements.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Long live XFCE!
The Acute respiratory distress syndrome presentation of Covid-19 in some cases did not behave like a classical disease,This has prompted some doctors to reconsider and re-evaluate the current exisiting ventilator protocols.
References:
1) Is Protocol-Driven COVID-19 Ventilation Doing More Harm Than Good?https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928236
2)Do COVID-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look?
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/928156
Using AWS CodeBuild to execute administrative tasks
Let’s say I create a progressive web app. What are the options to monetize it? I see that this PWA store specifies that a progressive Web app is free. For the concept to go beyond hobbyists, shouldn’t we sell a different story, like one where indie developers can make a living by creating and selling their applications? Mobile app stores have a lot of issues but you can develop a sustainable business there.

I have multiple progressive web application that I’m currently working on and I’m struggling a bit with that point.
> The system starts off with a selection of 100 algorithms made by randomly combining simple mathematical operations. A sophisticated trial-and-error process then identifies the best performers, which are retained - with some tweaks - for another round of trials. In other words, the neural network is mutating as it goes.

This approach sounds quite similar to this neuroevolution paper [0] but perhaps that this sort of works if you have a system that has a large amount of memory that can handle simultaneously evolving these neural networks. Thus, the hardware requirements would unsurprisingly be demanding; at least for Google they'd just use their own infrastructure and training it on their TPU hardware.

This is the only use-case that makes sense to apply neuroevolution to search for the optimal network, unless you're Google or on their GCP infrastructure that is.

[0] http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing they don't test much, so the numbers are far from accurate.
Hello Matt here, a friend of mine and myself built this website to make it easy for developers and designers to find colors for your projects. It's built with React and Ruby on Rails, hosted on Heroku. You can download palettes in CSS, Sass, and SVG.

I was frustrated with current solutions so we built PaletteList.com. I also built https://materialpalette.com/ for Material Design colors. I hope you like it.
Is It Worth It to Buy a Used Tanker and Fill It with Cheap Oil? An Investigation
Apple market is: creatives, iOS developers, some other developers and MAC enthusiasts.

Enterprise is Windows territory, most businesses are Windows territory, education is Windows territory, most home users / small businesses are also Windows territory.

So if Adobe apps will have an ARM build, that will satisfy a huge part of their user base. The rest would use Apple tools which will get ARM builds and open source tools which already have or will have ARM builds.
Sorry I think I might be misunderstanding the specifics (since you work at crossplane) of the difference, but at this point I would assume that Google can dedicate engineers to taking any approach Crossplane takes. Basically the answer to how any of this will work is CRDs and Operators -- it becomes a grind of ensuring good ergonomics, good integration and marketing after that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Crossplane introduces CRDs that paper over the differences between the provider (ex. `OmniDatabase`), rather than just offering CRDs that correspond to a platform's offering (ex. `RDSDatabase`) though I assume you can access those too, and I don't see why Google won't do both. That's the thing about being a monopoly player in the space -- unless a smaller player is doing something so next level that you can't copy it, you can just offer underpriced mediocrity until they fold (forgive the cynicism and hyperbole).

Crossplane has a huge head start and probably the least buggy implementation of this concept, and was one of the first to innovate in this field (I saw a few talks from previous kubecons) so wishing you good luck in the future!
How many jobs lost per lives saved is worth it to you? 100? 1000? And how long are the lives saved being prolonged?

In California it looks like more than 200 jobs could have been lost per life saved and that's a lot of human suffering. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/ca...
"We only hire the smartest people ..."
My partner is taking part in the trial in Oxford. So far there was a bit of an anomaly on her blood work so they're bringing in her in for another round of tests but I'm happy to ask her to share (or allow me to share by proxy) her experience. Obviously she has no idea whether she is in the control group or not.
Which laptop is that?

Note: I didn't say the web itself is highly optimal. Just that for a web browser, Chrome is pretty thoroughly optimised.
lol, something horribly ironic about that.
They called your number, but you need to prove it's you. But obviously, they are who they claim to be.
There are few hills I'm prepared to die on, but one of them is macaroni cheese. It should have two main ingredients: macaroni and cheese. No milk, no flour. It's called macaroni cheese after all, not macaroni in a cheesy white sauce :)

When it comes to flavourings I'm a liberal. Chorizo, freshly ground pepper or just worcestershire sauce are all favourites. Capers work as well. Pickle (chutneys) too.
Could someone help me understand the all ages excess mortality graph? Naively it looks like

a) there were way more deaths in 2018 and 2019 than were expected, and

b) despite Covid-19, the excess mortality still hasn't caught up with 2018 levels

What am I missing here?
Derrida and Foucault are far worse than Kant. At least Kant has substance ;)
RE: 'YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice'

WHO advice is the standard being proposed. Adults should be capable of consuming and evaluating information. The solution is not to regard everyone as a child who needs to be coddled.

>'So .. we should give up on all informational hygiene standards and just let people tell their followers to inject bleach or whatever'

Let individual consumers determine their own standards. It is absurd to suggest that there would be no standards without platforms or supranational organizations determining them. When you choose to take a politically charged interpretation of a presser as your own standard, you establish this.

Individuals can disagree. We can't make the world safe for everyone. If based upon your informational standards you think that the president told someone to inject bleach, that's fine. Reasonable people can disagree.
No, that was someone here on HN who couldn't read the data from the NYT article correctly. Sweden is absolutely experiencing excess deaths right now.

What the article said is that a bunch of countries have fewer covid-19 deaths than excess deaths for a certain time period, while Sweden has more covid-19 deaths than excess deaths for the same time period.

The conclusion of that article is that most countries are probably severely undercounting covid-19 deaths, while Sweden probably isn't.

(This isn't necessarily true, another plausible explanation is that a lot more people than normal are dying of heart problems because they're too afraid to seek medical care since hospitals are pretty busy with all the covid-19 patients.)
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Thanks very much for replying and clearing up my misunderstanding. This makes a lot more sense now and I understand exactly where Packeto sits.
I got into cookie clicker and such incremental games only last year or so, but it's made me incredibly cynical about a lot of games now, lol.

While I agree in principle, the rewards in a lot of games isn't only the satisfaction in watching numbers go up (= progress, I guess?), but also an enjoyable game loop (I experienced that with Diablo 3 in which you play through the same content over and over again, but the speed of which you eventually blow through thousands of enemies is gratifying) and an unfolding storyline. I had that best with the old Final Fantasy games, where progress was frequently rewarded with cutscenes and the whole game is mostly a storyline you can follow.

On that note the FFVII Remake is a great game to get into.
Well, if you need to run diverse software, macOS isn't the best choice.

The best bet is Windows since it would happily run software made 25 years ago in Windows 95 time.

To use macOS, you have to be satisfied by using the apps which run on macOS: Adobe apps, Apple apps, Microsoft Word and open source software.
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The vast majority of laypeople (inclusive of people who would be getting their information from the WHO's Twitter account) would readily interpret "no evidence of X" to be equivalent to "we shouldn't be worried about X". To pretend otherwise betrays a misunderstanding of how laypeople think.

If the WHO had a more nuanced stance, they should've made that clear - e.g. "We don't have evidence yet that the #coronavirus spreads human-to-human, but it's possible".
While rather more dense, I find Gwern's article/list[1] a bit more extensive (although missing a few from this list), while also having some interesting commentary on security implications.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
Exactly. Banks need to be aware that data protection goes both ways, and they should teach their customers to check the identity of any bank employee calling them. Training users to give out personal details to people calling them is exactly the wrong thing.
If you're large enough and can negotiate appropriate contracts, it's not problem to be locked in with one vendor. Then you typically also get prices way below what's typically quoted and in line with home built.

A huge problem however for smaller companies that have little power if the vendor raises prices, discontinues products or throws them off the platform. Going all in with AWS as a small company is not only expensive but can be a risky bet.
No problem, apologies for my misunderstanding of where Cloud Foundry was in the space, had no idea it was involved so much in the initial buildpacks breakout & standardization.

I understand very well where packeto fits in the buildpack space now, and how it integrates with `pack` itself.
I will try to find a source, but AFAIK (and checked with a doctor) only patients that need intubation currently get ICU treatment in Sweden.
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Really interesting!

The small studios (or one-man armies) are the ones using custom stuff because they have to do it all anyways, no biggie having to do a little leg work to import stuff.

When you're a bigger studio, having to coordinate and support multiple teams with different workflows, the engine and the tools it provides play a much bigger role. The studios with such scale either build something that works for them, or use some existing one provided by others.
I'm Swedish and this is not true at all, please stop spreading misinformation
It's more important to identify the root of the problem and actually solve it.

Even if these people suck at coding and are still committing code without someone else double-checking their work, they're not the real problem.
Does anyone know what was going on in 2017 (winter 2016/2017) that caused the spike in excess mortality?
Are Covid-19 lockdowns distorting inflation?
Note that Apple, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t officialy support any other iOS version than the latest. So your employer might still block your phone.
The two big ones in machine learning at least are Google's Gin:

https://github.com/google/gin-config

and Facebook's Hydra:

https://hydra.cc/
Happens in the developed world as well I worked for a UK telco and they had internal security people dedicated to this sort of crime - its also a problem for railways.
It's not so much about poverty per se but about inequality - and there definitely is a correlation between blue collar crime and inequality: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star...
I would go as far as to argue that Factorio is my Animal Crossing. For your average, casual player, Animal Crossing provides rote tasks that engages you with the game world without the added complexity. Factorio, SdV, and AC all ultimately provide 'relaxation.'

I love AC, but I have other itches that need scratches.
PWA are websites. So you should look for monetization concepts people are using on websites (ads, subscriptions, donation buttons).
> Why naive datetimes should be fine? How are they fine? What do they represent?

They represent the date/time wherever the user is (location-independent). If I want to take a pill every Monday and Thursday at 10am, I don't want to get a notification at 5am just because I moved from the UK to NY.
Ask HN: Facebook cancelled my summer internship. How to spend my summer?
Hello everyone!

I am third year student who was excitedly looking forward to join Facebook for a summer internship, as a software engineer. I choose them from a few offers and now, I just received an email telling me that they are cancelling my internship.

This was probably my last chance of having an internship (I am in my penultimate year). What can I do to make the best of my summer (meet people, learn a lot, prepare myself to join the industry)?

I think one thing I will miss the most is the chance of working with other people, with far more experience than me.
So much interesting data and no idea what it means... why the visible bumps for SOME countries in December 2016 or January 2018? Why Spain has that higher mortality in winter? Why why why...
Anyone who doesn't like YouTube's policies are welcome to post their content on Facebook to share with their friends, on Twitter, stream it live on Twitch, or, host it themselves on their own servers

You mean the Facebook that just banned WhatsApp message forwarding, despite their service supposedly being end-to-end encrypted? It didn't take long for that little sham to collapse did it? Sure, go self publish and watch as the self appointed guardians of the galaxy do everything in their power to stop you speaking.

We're not debating Google here. Not really. We're debating the whole ethos of Silicon Valley liberals which has become, "we're smarter than you and will ensure you think what we want you to think". Except they're not smarter. Having worked there for years I can confidently say that whilst there might have been some merit to that argument a long time ago within the scope of computer science, but years of endless hiring has now made them distinctly average groups of people with no edge over the rest of the world. Yet they continue to believe merely being a part of a particular organisation allows them to instantaneously decide the correctness of any argument.
Upgrading PostgreSQL from version 11 to 12 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
I'm with HSBC too and they seem to be a bit too cautious with their debit card fraud. I get my card blocked a couple times a year.

Whenever they've phoned me and I've told them I don't want to give out my info they just tell me to call the number on the back of my card. Never had anyone act annoyed towards me. Maybe it's because I never act annoyed or accusatory towards them, so they don't act the same towards me. I just tell them that I'd rather not give my info out to someone who's phoned me
Not sure what you mean by "diverse". There is a lot of legit macOS software, which is 32 bit only and no longer updated - for example because the company went out of business or couldn't justify the effort for a port. Cutting support off for these programs is a harsh step. While I can understand that Apple doesn't want infinite backwards compatibility, it hits a lot of users. One reason for this might be the preparation for the bigger switch to a new cpu architecture.
Borders are considered to be rather important in this particular health crisis!
With all the news I keep hearing from the US, I can't say I blame you. It's sad, though. I want to live in a society where people can knock on each other's door, and open the door trusting it's a legitimate friendly talk or person in need, and not a threat or someone looking to take advantage of me.
I mean to add to your comment, the biggest thievery happens at the very top. A lot of countries' populations would be a lot more well-off if it wasn't for the massive tax evasion schemes employed by companies. Hundreds of billions of tax income - which can be spent on socialist policies like health care, housing, benefits, etc - is carted off to tax havens and just sits there. Bernie Madoff scammed people for nearly $65 billion. The US government pumped trillions into the military, which in the end did not have much return on investment. They spent all that money while their own country's people work three underpaid jobs and go bankrupt over student debt and medical bills.

I mean I wouldn't even mind so much if the rich just kept buying ridiculous fancy cars, because at least that way the money moves around.