skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is anecdata. Homeless in the USA is far, far worse.

NY has 1 in 125 homeless, 70k. Montreal has 3.1k. (1 in 1000).

Yes Montreal can do better, but as per my original point, where the poster complained about the ease of registering a new business, making your province into a great place to register a business is not the path to a great society.

https://www.bowery.org/homelessness/

https://www.homelesshub.ca/community-profile/montreal

Progress and Poverty, the top selling book behind The Bible in the 1890s has more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
This reminds me a little bit of the idea of 'Single System Image'[1] computing.

The idea, in abstract, is that you login to an environment where you can list running processes, perform filesystem I/O, list and create network connections, etc -- and any and all of these are in fact running across a cluster of distributed machines.

(in a trivial case that cluster might be a single machine, in which case it's essentially no different to logging in to a standalone server)

The wikipedia page referenced has a good description and a list of implementations; sadly the set of {has-recent-release && is-open-source && supports-process-migration} seems empty.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image
Another question, though, is whether any lives would have been saved in the long run.

A vaccine showing up before we have to relax controls is not a given. If we have to rely on population immunity, a certain number of people need to get sick for us to attain it. Of course, we want the least vulnerable people to do that, and for it to happen at a rate that doesn't cause healthcare overload and excess mortality (which NYC came perilously close to).
What makes you believe campaign managers would continue advertising on FB if targeting options were removed? They might explore other advertising mediums that are more effective ROI due to targeting.
That video is two years old, and the comments make it clear that dude didn't RTFM, so... YMMV.
And the iceberg scraped the side, dragging several thousand into the icey depths.
The credit card rules converting the free trials to paid got a bit more strict recently, e.g. notifying the users before it starts https://blog.recurly.com/visas-new-free-trial-mandate-what-y...
Assyrians: “3k Years of History, yet the Internet Is Our Only Home”
If you read the referenced forensic investigation, you'll note the obvious incompetence of the forensic investigator involved. The whole thing is a clueless "I ran some forensics tools" job.

This tool is a response to that - that that statement by the forensic investigator is nonsense, because if you have full access to the device (as they did), you can easily extract the decryption key for media files present on the device.

The quote isn't out of context, the quote is just nonsense and wrong. They had the key.
You should have gone with:

Willy Wonka, Chocolate Factory, B30 1JR
BTC moved has nothing to do with exchange trade volume. When BTC is traded on an exchange, there are no blockchain transactions involved. It's all "internal" to the exchange because the exchanges are centralized.

Trading on decentralized exchanges would result in blockchain transactions, but such exchanges have not yet caught on and make up only a tiny fraction (< 0.01%?) of trade volume. Maybe someone else has the exact numbers.
You're assuming that if all states had taken the same approach, they would have all taken the best approach. You're correct that one hypothetical outcome is that 5500-8800 more people died. However, another outcome is that the entire nation could have responded in a way similar to New York in which case there would have been many more deaths.
Why do you need this? I disable all email notifications and just don't check it.
>> - Intelligence peaked among those who were born in 70's and has been in slight decline last 18 years. Similar results can be seen in other developed countries.

I always wonder when people post these numbers about IQ going up and down over time, what scales are we talking about here? like is it a difference of like 2 IQ points or is it like a difference of 20? Cause if it's 5 or less I can't imagine it would make any real functional difference to the country.
EconTalk and The Fifth Column.
My co-op in midtown has an old US postal pneumatic system.
ebaumsworld - hours of wonderful entertainment and time wasted
I would be interested to know what teen film people consider most representative of their experience. I love “Dazed and Confused” because it seems like the archetypical US high school experience. I was shocked that the director intended it to convey the boredom of that lifestyle because it seemed approx 1000 times more exciting that my teenager lifestyle in the 00s. American Pie was popular at that time but faaar from reality.

I wonder what films teenagers these days relate to.
It's not that the chipsets are bad. The chipsets are fine. But that used to be how motherboards differentiated themselves. When the standard was two USB ports, one company would offer six. Not all boards had audio support and of the ones that did, some were better than others.

All that is integrated now so every board with a given chipset is basically the same. Then they have to compete more aggressively on price, and the way they get the price down is by using cheaper heatsinks and spending less time developing firmware and things like that.

The Intel boards have no immunity from that. The ratings there are just as bad. The older Intel boards were better but so were the older AMD boards.
I don't think that's actually true. On the 17th de Blasio announced that it might happen and he'd release the decision within 48 hours. Cuomo smacked that down but then issued a shelter in place order on the 20th. So there's up to three days variance there. Realistically it's one day. But the point in the article is that both politicians should have been considering shelter in place ten days before.
DSU is a physical state school that offers some online programs. I would not recommend a school that is only virtual and has no physical campus. It depends on the accreditation too. I think the some of the online-only schools gave virtual education a bad wrap. Although that may change due to the current pandemic.

I guess the point that I didn't bring up is that for any degree, the public opinion of the institution matters - community college vs state school vs private vs ivy league, etc. Personally, I don't like the group-think stereotyping that goes on in those comparisons.
[...] For three days, dozens of that man’s family members had sat at his bedside in the hospital [...] The next day, the man with all the family visitors died. [...]

So I am not easily impressed, but this freaked me out for a second. Just to be clear - one man had died on that day, not dozens of people. Sheesh.

I suppose there's some valuable comma somewhere in that sentence, or absence thereof, that should have kept me on the even keel? Or did they just did that on purpose?

I would have written it off as just another error, but I am having hard time accepting that The New Yorker would let that slip through by accident.
Should Dropbox Build a Cloud Business?
News articles from around April 10 indicate that mass testing hadn't begun, or was just beginning (1 example here [0])

Reporting on 96% without symptoms is misleading without mentioning this: It gives the impression that the # of coronavirus infections could be up to 24x higher than the known positives cases. But symptoms can take 2-14 days to develop, meaning it is entirely too soon to tell if these are all asymptomatic cases, or merely pre-symptomatic.

[0] https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200410/coronavirus-in-marion...
And the 5 above it are the same metro area.
You can answer your questions by looking at the OP, which will take you to https://twitter.com/mcannonbrookes/status/125437688433222860..., which will take you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cannon-Brookes.

Given the timestamp on your comment I'm guessing that you're not in Australia. I'm not either, so it took some time to piece together the context. Given that the thread was mostly during Australian hours, most commenters probably already had it in cache.
I'm the same, but we're a consultancy and we have clients all around the world who can create a 24/7 cycle of emails and demands. It's generated a fair bit of stress in the past, so this struck me as a good means to control that.
Dunning-Kruger has the best science.
I think it is disingenuous to imply that the only people on public transit right now are those working there and those ignorant people treating it all as a hoax and taking the transit anyway.

You would be surprised to find out how many of essential workers rely on public transport to get to their jobs.
I escaped New York a couple of years ago, and never particularly cared for Cuomo. Right now I think he's benefiting from the "wartime bump" Trump was hoping for, and basking in the comparison between him and the POTUS.

Trump has been such a complete failure, and demonstrated such complete ignorance, that any kind of competency shines in contrast.

We're at the point in American politics where "believing science" and "accurately quoting statistics" is a heroic stand, and people are jumping on the Cuomo train because he's a comparative light in the darkness.

I hope this means that people are motivated to vote in November and take their government back, and I hope that the US is prepared to vote in a safe and secure manner. Unfortunately, McConnell and the GOP are blocking any such efforts.
I agree about the bias and numerous inaccuracies and simplification but...

> evacuation was swift and well organized;

This could be argued.

It was not swift:
It took 36 hours for Prypiat to be evacuated, with people sunbathing and attending (dry) wedding parties in the mean time... The most elementary instructions (stay home, shut the windows) were not given for fear of appearing as "too alarmist".

And it was not that well organized:
For instance, the buses used for the evacuation came from Kiev and were used immediately after on their normal routes without prior decontamination.

I'm not even going to talk about the handling of the May 1st, Workers day celebration, unnecessarily maintained despite alarming contamination levels in the atmosphere.

Source: Serhii Plokhy's book "Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy" (2018)

> Miners were enthusiastic and well compensated

I think it's difficult to convey now the level of patriotism in the mind of the miners and soldiers. Maybe courage has declined so much that our societies can't comprehend it anymore. I've read that soldiers were promised big compensations but didn't receive anything though (or maybe inflation ate it up).

For me the biggest problem was the usual naive way scientists and science are presented in movies. The know it all, all rational super human hand-bound by obscurantist authorities.
Is this your env or you? Chances are you are a Silicon Valley native, and you have at least 4-5x the reaources and advantages of kids on average in the us. Many don’t or can’t go to college, not because they wouldn’t if they were you, but because they can’t because they aren’t you.
Midgard still gets new driver versions with bugfixes despite being more than five years old.
Personally, if I use an application and it doesn't quite work properly (for me), I'll submit fixes to the author. Depending on time/effort required of course. :)

If it turns out a GPL app doesn't have the source available, then it's kind of a moot point. No fix can be made, and I probably wouldn't keep it installed either. ;)
> You're assuming that if all states had taken the same approach, they would have all taken the best approach.

I'm really not. It makes sense that different states should try different things, and I imagine that if all politicians listened to the scientists there would have been different answers proposed for different states.
This makes me think about Urbit[0] OS — Urbit OS represents the entire OS state in a simple tree, this would be very simple to implement.

[0]: https://urbit.org/
I think mandatory military service is the only way to get sufficient people interested in participating and educating themselves about current issues to have a functional democracy.
Here's the link to the survey results:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-67XBXHYX7/

It's a shame that they did not record/release data on the number of children the respondents have, as this is likely to be a major input to the decision about whether someone would give up work. There are exceptions scenarios but broadly it seems reasonable to expect more children would make it more worthwhile to give up.

There are some other quirks in he results: differing age distributions of men and women - you could imagine that if people were asked in person that traditionally some women may be more reticent to give the true answer but responding inaccurately online seems a little odd.
It's also instructive that about 5% of respondents had considered quitting but hadn't told their partner.
Interpreting legislation without any common law / precedence is difficult. However as a general rule, if there are two laws that are conflicting (such as previous anti-privacy laws vs the proposed safeguards) the most recent enacted law applies, especially if it is specific. So while I’m by no means a fan of the erosion of privacy that this government has done previously, the proposed safeguards would be effective and not just empty words (at least legally speaking). Also I’m being pedantic, but you repeal Acts, not bills. A Bill is proposed legislation that isn’t law yet
This is a rosy take to fit the narrative, although the article is correct that New York made some big mistakes. Seattle leaders have also taken missteps. For example they closed all the parks on Easter weekend, an unnecessarily drastic step that probably just resulted in people grouping elsewhere in smaller, more crowded spaces. The parking lots at most parks remain closed, making it much harder for people needing a mental break to deal with all this. More broadly, Washington state also has restrictions other states don’t - for instance fishing is banned, which makes no sense given that it is a pastime that naturally requires distancing. Same with golfing. Private construction is banned but public construction is not. State parks and national forest lands are closed, despite most being desolate and full of space. Cycling and jogging on Seattle’s popular citywide trails however, are not banned, despite it being a much more likely vector for spreading via aerosol particles (note, some other areas like France have banned cycling for this reason).

There is an inconsistency and inequality in how these restrictions were selected. The arbitrary nature makes me think it is simply was what was politically expedient, rather some principled design. As for an example of political expediency, right now the city’s socialist council is trying to pass an “Amazon tax” under the auspices of the mayor’s emergency proclamation, which due to a technicality would make it immune to subsequent referendum even after the emergency expires (https://sccinsight.com/2020/04/08/the-amazon-tax-bill-is-des...).

If Seattle or Washington were truly responsible, they should’ve shut port traffic (at airports) early and aggressively. Even if that wouldn’t have stopped the coronavirus from arriving ultimately, it would have at least delayed it and provided more time to prepare. I think they should also have taken steps to make their shelter orders more nuanced, rather than the blunt weapon one size fits all approach.
No it would just mean that if they looked at their email, there'd be nothing there. Personally I use SaneBox and that now has a good DND feature, but its basically a filter to move your mail into a DND folder so it skips your inbox. But I'm curious about whether it could be applied at a company-wide level, such that no emails are received during the DND hours.
A lot of developers are confused about the loopback address (aka localhost). This product name/description seems to build on it and so seems a little cynical?
branch in git are not really heavyweight, look at for example at mercurial ones and why the pypy team prefer them [0]

moreover I think this approach could be at least "scriptable", if not aliasable

.. [0]: https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#why-doesn-t-pypy-use...
Is Work from Home the Most Trending Thing Now and Factors Affecting?
The long term ramifications scare me. Even if you use rolling ID's as suggested, someone with enough data points could infer identity from the patterns.

This might be more palatable if it were approached in an "old school" fashion. Start by clarifying your customer is not any public health authority; it's individual users. I could walk around with a notebook and keep track of everyone I interact with - even if some strangers aren't recorded by name (e.g. Cashier working aisle 6 at 3pm on Thursday). Design the app to mimic that task and make it easier for me.

I keep sovereignty over my records. If some agency wants them, they have to request them through me. Bake in meaningful, plausible deniability so I can simply say "sorry, I don't have any" if I don't like the name of the agency.

Better yet, use encryption such that both parties need to consent before any particular contact link can be inferred.

Make it so secure that you could broadcast the scrambled bits on a blockchain which any user can view through the lens of their private keys to check if they might have had contact. In a sense, this problem shares some characteristics with zero-knowledge proofs or anonymized financial transactions (all I need to know is I might have been exposed; not any details of how Covid found its way to me). Consider lessons learned hardening against crypto tracing efforts.

If people feel it's safe, effective and anonymous, enough may even opt-in organically of their own accord.
Theoretically no, but if you're going the opposite direction the approach velocity is vastly higher and thus you need a (1) very massive planet and (2) much lower periapsis to have meaningful gravitational slingshot effect. In practice, between atmospheres (the big planets being Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune), and (for non-gaseous planets) planets not being perfectly smooth spheres, that probably decreases the tolerances below any acceptable level in this solar system.
I was only using the MBTA as an example of essential workers. There is a large segment of the public that is fucked right now because we need them to work, and have no way to protect them. The fact that there is a large segment of the population that is happy to spread this virus only exacerbates the issue.
chipsets arent even electrically connected to memory in modern computers, so umm?
Found a new technical white paper and they launched a new site that seems to mostly work better but with weird responsive layout zoom issues.

http://global.bsnbase.com

https://global.bsnbase.com/sys/file/downLoadTechnicalWhite?t...
It's a few hours prior to your post, sorry closed the tab.

It's on Arxiv in the last few days
I think that many large corporations announced March 6th, that their workforce stay home until at least end of month helped raise awareness throughout the Seattle area, and made people become a lot more conscious.

The government did not act as fast on the West Coast either.
Show HN: First time I got interested in game probability, the Monty Hall problem
What would you have had New York do differently without the support of the federal government?

Can the state government close airports and prevent flights from Europe landing in NYC?
Yeah, but the truth is in what you don't say. The top 8 density areas were all NYC metro area, all of them small small population cities (<70k) except for NYC at #6 with over 8,000,000 population!
Yes, any ranking on subjective criteria is nebulous. But it's definitely not uncommon to rank school performance. State testing is the easiest data to use because it's typically public information.
People usually bring up the population density and travel point to say why NY and NYC in particular is doing so bad but it is a lot to do with attitude of the leaders. This[1] is a tweet from March 2 from the city's mayor. I know it hadn't gotten bad anywhere except China and Iran at this point. But Italy's case growth curve had a sharp uptick by this point with total cases reaching about 2k. Lockdown was unnecessary but encouraging people to go out in crowded places was just silly.

[1] https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229
> I would be happy with any random 1000x improvement or two you've encountered over the years

I already provided two examples. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980487

"Two which I have personally worked in are autonomous spacecraft control and chip design."

> I don't really buy the regular 10x improvement either though (as in something achieved by other means than different form of formatting).

Why exclude a "different form of formatting"? That phrase is sufficiently vague that it could potentially refer to just about anything.

> something you can only express concisely in lisp (because of prefix notation? macros? I don't know) and it is bound to be 10x verbose mess in a c-like lang.

You are still fundamentally misunderstanding the claim. It is not that there is anything that can be done in Lisp that could not in principle be done in a c-like language with a comparable number of keystrokes. The history of c-like languages is one of continual refinement and adding features that do precisely this.

The difference is that in Lisp if you need a feature that isn't already there you don't need to wait 30 years for standards committees and compiler writers to catch up. All you need to do is take ten minutes to write a macro.
wow maybe they should start including this problem as part of their technical interviews
> Throw a bunch of teenagers or young adults in support groups together with the subtext that they all have the same sexual orientation with no chance of being shamed for making advances for what's effectively the first time in most of their lives, and it doesn't take a fortune teller to figure out what's probably going to be happening in greater rates for those kids.

Honestly, I think the bigger reason is that there's no chance of pregnancy in gay relationships, so one big barrier is just gone.