skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where you got that impression about the NZ cases.

A bit over half of New Zealand's early confirmed cases were directly linked to recent overseas travel. Although the data [1] is a bit awkward to analyze, in weeks #12-14 (15 March .. 4 April) 451 cases out of the 883 total (51%) were classified as "overseas travel".

The data only includes the country of origin of the final leg of their international flight. Since there aren't any direct Europe-NZ flights, some of the cases with origins in Australia/USA/Asia could be due to passengers returning from Europe via an intermediate airport.

[1] https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
Units error and fact error.

Min wage in Montana is $8.50/hr .

And it's probably not healthy to be on your phone 8hrs a day.

But if you are, then a $1000 phone is only 25cents/hr over 2 years, when you can resell your phone for half price.
That was an influenza virus, this is a coronavirus they are completely different. But to your point, there have been numerous flu pandemics since 1918
> The only way the all-cause mortality numbers can be significantly wrong is if you suddenly find piles of corpses and skeletons around

Or if someone types a number incorrectly; or the reporting deadline changes for a month causing a few offices miss it and get counted in the wrong month; or if the Times writers didn't understand the specific categories being reported and missed some data...

Again, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying you're hanging your entire argument on one outlier number. And, statistically (see what I did there?) that doesn't tend to work out for you.
Really? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries says you are full of it if you don't think the virus is serious.
I don't need pork, a friend sent me some canned spam!

But seriously, it's never going to be a binary thing. 100 years ago, people ate far less meat, because it was relatively more expensive and scarcer. While avoiding shopping, I've not been eating meat on a daily basis. Once a week or so is fine.
Bashtop
Of course, this raises the question-- what's an unacceptable level of risk?

We obviously don't shut everything down because of 1 in 1,000,000 risks. We don't shut everything down for 250 in 1M risks (the flu).

Here we have what's likely to be a 1,800 in 1M risk, based on the latest infection fatality rate numbers and the estimate of how many people would be infected before herd immunity. It's 7x worse than the flu. It's also not a risk that it's clear we'll be able to avoid. So here it gets hard to reason about what's right to do.

And, of course, we obviously can't act to protect people at a level that will result in worse outcomes, like starvation or famine or collapse of public order.
> so he lives and dies with the company email

While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail account. You just have to choose "Use my current email address instead" on the signup page[1].

[1] https://accounts.google.com/signup/
> I'm not certain whether FreeBSD defaults to UFS or ZFS; of course ZFS also checksums everything.

There isn't really a default; the installer makes you pick UFS/ZFS.
Lists of corporate assets
It’s the spring in the northern hemisphere, it’s not cold anywhere in the US or Europe. I don’t see how your conclusion is relevant
Yeah, on second thought, that would mean TLS is broken: if many people connect to a static web site and receive the same content, they would be at risk of revealing key material. However, they are not at risk of any such thing. Never mind. :-)
I just noticed, your number one point boils down to who cares about the old folks, they are going to die soon anyway. Tells us a lot about you.
There's a lot of interesting stuff happening in crypto community that is like what you're talking about, especially DAOs which are being used to democratically power everything from decentralized finance to non-profit fundraising platforms.
>But seriously, it's never going to be a binary thing

the person i responded to is portraying it as a necessary dichotomy i.e. some sort of catastrophic disruption to the food supply chain. the article in particular discusses pork, not even chicken or beef.
The Oklahoma Surgery Center isone such place.

https://surgerycenterok.com/about/
> SPARC lives on only in radiation-hardened form for the European space agency.

Worth noting that POWER similarly lives on in radiation-hardened form for NASA; the RAD750 (and its predecessor, the RAD3000) both have a long history of interplanetary use.

MIPS also sees some use here, too; for example, the MIPS-based Mongoose-V is what New Horizons uses, and the KOMDIV-32 ostensibly is designed for Russian spacecraft use (but I don't know of any specific examples).
So what does "Google Cloud's fully managed Anthos" do in non-marketing speak? I'm not exactly sure what a "multi-cloud and hybrid application platform" providing "agility and flexibility" is supposed to do for me as a "born-in-the-cloud digital native or a traditional enterprise."
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I want augmented reality for communication and for board gaming please. Someone focus on having cool Augment Reality chat where I can walk with a friend or family member and see them right next to me.

I also would like to play board games with my friends who no longer live close. Also if I was playing a game and they could be virtually sitting next to me so that we could communicate better that would also be great.
What can you do with a packet capture on a modern high security network besides go, "yup, that's TLS"?

May DoD turns off the forward secrecy stuff and escrows keys?
This might be a stupid question, but with a container format such as HEIF could you simply store multiple identical copies of an image inside the container? If one image gets corrupted you have the other to fall back on.

Two HEIF or AVIF images should be about the same size as a single JPEG too.
Too early, jitsi needs lot of work to get good basic features first. Their "videobridge" just a pieces of software without docs, arch description, has not possibility to run as pure SFU without any other jitsi parts like Colibry XMPP. And etc.
"InsertableStreams" scheduled for Chrome only and future 84 version, still experimental and if it's a after codec processing then useless.
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Yes, very sadly, we are. And I'd say that it's more than some. But unless you get inside the filter bubbles, you might not be aware just how many there are.

For example, given my anarchistic tendencies and love of the lulz, Trump's election was not at all a surprise to me. All my mainstream liberal friends were saying "no way", at least partly based on the polling. But I knew that many hard-core supporters would ignore the "damn libtard media" pollsters.

Justa sayin' ;)
Deflation isn't horrible unless you have a lot of debt, it rewards savers. It's probably less efficient for central banks to try to 'hack' inflation than just deploy fiscal policy.

And we're almost definitely seeing inflation in the finanical markets. It's not great that valuations are so divorced from fundamentals.
Is this product open source?
I can't trust Google products since they end it up at any time. https://gcemetery.co/
From a follow-up article [0]:

> As it happens, I was mistaken about some aspects of the situation with chown.

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[0]: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChownSymli...
Qualcomm forces obsolence to keep chips expensive with short lifespans of compatibility with OS upgrades, driving up TCO and killing resale value.

Eventually Google will stand up to them or else lose the phone war in
wealthy developed nations.
I'll say Elixir isn't perfect. There are a few annoying bits that won't be changed due to backwards compatibility, that 98% of people won't run into. For example:

a = [foo: "bar", foo: "baz"]
Keyword.get(a, :foo) #==> gives you "bar"
a[:foo] #==> gives you "bar"
my_struct = struct(SomeStructWithFoo, a)
my_struct.foo #==> gives you "baz"

But really, this minor, minor inconsistency is near the top of my list of complaints, so... Take that into consideration.

Also, if you start coding in Elixir a lot, you will write better Javascript by importing good practices in from Elixir.
You better not Google car fires if you want to hang onto that belief in the safety of ICE cars.
“It may even provide an evolutionary clue about why kids eat dirt,” said Davis. “The pre-existing immune memory of dangerous pathogens our immune systems have never seen before might stem from our constant exposure to ubiquitous, mostly harmless micro-organisms in soil and food and on our skin, our doorknobs, our telephones and our iPod earbuds.”

Have there been studies on the effects of being too clean? Will short term fear (e.g., Covid-19) hurt us in the long term?
A family-owned Nebraska bank became a leader on coronavirus loans
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Data Labeling Tools for Machine Learning Projects
As an alternative option: zzuf[0] is meant to be a fuzzer, but its take on that is "randomly change random bytes in a file" (it can be run as a wrapper around a victim process like your image viewer, but it's happy to run on bare files).

[0] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf
He didn't say the virus is not serious
There are multiple vaccines in first round human safety trials.

Like, they've injected people with them.
Does anyone know of a good estimate for how much energy and emissions a typical Google search requires?
Oh, this seems like HTML-aware stuff, so has it's niche.

For others that want to supercharge screenshotting capabilities, look at Greenshot (https://getgreenshot.org/) You can mask whatever you want right away. Torn edges. Highlight. Conveniently set numbers, add text, upload to web and get URL in your clipboard. Or save locally and have File path in your clipboard.

By default, When I press print screen, I get the crosshair to crop some region of my screen. Super fast, super convenient. What a time saver. Just a happy user.
The main point of the documentary is that the EROEI of the "green economy" turns out to cost more than using fossil fuels directly. In short, the green economy didn't give common people an alternative, it simply gave business people a new tool to mask their intentions while idealistic politicians genuflect to the lie. The lies trickle down through the career pipe line and people go along with unquestioned assumptions out of fear of losing their jobs.

I personally think the documentary doesn't go far enough about the cultural aspect. I'm speaking specifically of the social norms of conformity, sociopathy and narcissism in the decision making classes. We have fucked future generations for short term gains and the only hope the tech community can come up with is to pretend that we will build rockets to go to Mars. When the kids of the billionaires pushing this horseshit get preventable cancers or tangled up in a class war - maybe then things will change (albeit I doubt it). Until then, it's all bean bags, idiocy, shiny tech toys and fluff. Enjoy it while it last. The magic bullet of nuclear fusion doesn't seem to be likely and the social organization to leverage what we have in a responsible manner doesn't either. We will keep doing what we are doing until nature bitch slaps us and we have to change. Hopefully I'm wrong. I want to be.
But today everyone knows about Zeus huge sex drive.
The products you're referring to started out more expensive; why do you think they will become relatively cheaper? And why would people who prefer meat not just eat smaller quantities? If butter becomes more expensive, I'm not going to substitute margarine.
If someone names their CLI JDahmer which then requires me to use it jdahmer <command> <options>, it is going to cringe me out.

That said, I totally respect the project's decision to name it so. I'm sorry if it comes off as an outrage or an unnecessary rant. I understand it takes away the energy which is otherwise better spent on a constructive discussion of this excellent project, which is also surprisingly well-maintained. But, I hope you realise why the name is controversial, especially since everyone that has to use the project has to get used to seeing/reading/using/typing Moloch everywhere from the docs, to the CLI, to the FAQ pages, and what-not.

May be the project can explain their rationale in a separate webpage (if they want to) and that might help?
As if Zoom or any pro company doesn’t actually know. Bragging about knowing what it means actually make them sound amateurish.
But why are phones that expensive to begin with? The actual hardware costs are magnitudes less than the retail price. For the price of a the cheapest iPhone X you can get a high end laptop. It doesn't make sense to me why other mass consumer electronics like PC's continuously get faster, better and cheaper but smartphones continuously get more expensive for only modest and incremental improvements.
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Py-strftime: Python strftime format generator
> Spain went into lockdown a week before the UK, and still did worse? Germany later than the UK, and is doing better?

Not relative to number of cases: Germany locked down later than UK, but a week earlier on the exponential growth curve.

I'll post this link again, because it's the best articulation of this point that I've found: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

Timing, with respect to where a country/region is on the exponential growth curve, is critical. In almost every place you see the same outcome, it's crazy.
I've only used the quest for a short demo, but I have a hard time seeing what full AR gets you that a quest in camera augmented setup mode can't.

What's the point of crappy half dim see-through display when you can just pipe the camera output to a normal VR screen?
> In business as in life, change is constant and unpredictable. When building the platforms to power your organization, you can’t be limited by yesterday’s technology decisions. Nor can the systems you create today constrain your ability to act tomorrow.

was expecting 1st paragraph to be 'anthos is a'

But I like this too, it's like the philosophy cult ads on the subway

the first customer they quote is a 200 yr old bank. 'in my day kubernetes was a lunch place on stone st'
I notice this HN habit of reading something until you find something disagreeable and then presumably stop reading (which is the most generous assumption) and then post a negative comment.

The writer could have done better in the ordering of the article to avoid this reaction in general, but at least HN should give it a fair chance by reading to the end. Otherwise its like taking a sentence out of context.

He also said:

> Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.

> The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions.
I suspect the headline seems a tad click baitey...but the content is interesting.
I was under the impression what MIPS was open sourced, in which case "owner" company should be irrelevant?
Deflation punishes investing in anything. Deflation rewards hoarding cash.
If there isn’t ground beef and flour being made, the price will go up.
Article on fec’s and storage, seems Ceph utilizes FEC: https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/putting-erasur...
Does Irrationality Fuel Innovation?
Over time I find my Elixir is more and more "statically typed". Since you get access to basically the full language at compile time, with a bit of hand-coding you can opt-in to features that statically type critical sections of your code at compile time. Critically important things can be guarded by relatively advanced checking, if you want to get really clever you can yank those checks for performance in prod deployments. I have been doing this with configurations, so that configs are checked at compile time instead of at deploy time, and I'm pretty happy with it.
I suppose people blindly following suggestions on the Internet will eventually learn a hard lesson -- don't.

Corollary: Learn to RTFM.

Unless you've went out of your way to avoiding installing the documentation (man pages, etc.), all the answers you need (well, most of them) are right there on your own system.
An interesting observation about that map is that there is a high correlation between countries that stopped BCG vaccinations and high fatality rate from Covid-19. However, Australia is one of the countries that stopped doing BCG vaccinations but it does not have the high fatality rate of western European countries. What's going on there?
VR is becoming mainstream with Covid19 lockdowns. Oculus Quest keeps going out of stock and there's a long waiting list for Valve's Index.
I.e. https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild...
Janus [1] is a much more capable webrtc gateway that's pluggable to do anything you want. Jitsi is like a Wowza type server. Stay away.

[1] https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway
Similar is true of human births: natural vs C-section.

https://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/pre...

https://sciencenordic.com/birth-c-section-children/giant-stu...
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> a good chunk of the way to herd immunity

Herd immunity isn't a solution if your immunity only lasts 6 months. This is NOT a flu virus--this is a Coronavirus--immunity is generally limited for Coronaviruses(virii?).

If it's under 12 months, every flu season will likely also be Covid-19 season.

Cornavirus immunity seems to top out at about 24-36 months--if you're lucky. SARS seems to be 24, IIRC.
It's not commonly known but Vegetables, Grains and Beans are extremely excellent sources of protein. Most of them have between 10-20% or more of their calories from protein. if you want exact numbers, check out this: https://kale.world/c

And, if people reduce their meat consumption form these shortages, it could have excellent results on people's health. The last time a country went completely without meat or dairy was in durring the world war, when the Nazis took all the dairy and meat from Sweden. Their rate of heart disease went down dramatically for many years. As soon as the war ended and meat returned, the rate of heart disease sky rocketed back to the original numbers. (source: Forks over knives, a netflix documentary).
I still think this is unfairly discounting the native populations, because this thread is talking about Australia and Polynesia. Australia had been settled for 10s of thousands of years, and Polynesia for thousands of years, perhaps down to 1000 for the last islands to be settled.

I do think the concept of "continuously inhabited city" is interesting, but ultimately distorting in several ways, especially in the Americas. Adding the loaded word "civilization" just further muddies the waters.

However, if you consider that Antarctica was finally sighted in 1820, your figure of 200 years is very accurate.

That said, I think it is interesting that there are probably islands on which no human has ever set foot. At least I think that's the case, I don't have proof. Large swaths of ice as well, but islands are easier to think about.
There is no doubt that there are shortages of some consumables; namely the swab. But every single? That is utter nonsense. The lysis reagents, extraction reagents, nucleotides, enzymes, primers probes etc. are available today by the metric tonne. The swab shortage could be designed around, but they don't. No one wants to go out on a limb and glue a Q-tip to the end of a thin flexible coffee stirrer, but i bet you it would work. Something thinner in all dimensions and one-piece would be better. Are we really ready to believe that this marvel of swab technology can't be produced at scale in a minimal amount of time from scratch? That we really are screwed because they are largely made in Northern Italy?
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The 2020 iPhone SE
You won't see it until it's too late. Inflation is a backward looking measure. Expected inflation can be inferred by nominal interest rates. If you look at the corporate debt market those rates are already quite high.

What happened in the oil market could easily happen in the gold market, but in reverse. Nobody wanted to take delivery on oil, but a lot of people are going to want to take delivery on gold, because there's a shortage of it. At what point does COMEX go bankrupt when nobody is honoring their word to deliver gold upon expiry?

A high gold price would be very bad for dollars, because gold is an alternative reserve currency to dollars. Instead of buying a tbill, someone can just buy gold, hold it, and sell a small portion when they need to buy dollar denominated assets, mainly crude. And crude prices are at historic lows, so you don't need to buy as many dollars as you did before.
From my understanding it's a managed Istio service.
Not GP, but: You can't use trivially use [] dereferencing notation with structs, or, for that matter get_in or put_in, without first making it access protocol compliant (which maybe you shouldn't do? I haven't figured that out for myself yet). A common use case for me is initializing a GenServer with a kwl, which is nice for your code prettiness, but you'd like to also support maps, because that fits with how the internal state of the GenServer looks. Then when you go to refactor your GenServer to use a struct because you prefer a more solid typesystem, you can run into a minor stumbling block and slightly uglier code. Not insurmountable though, and you're writing tests right? Once those tests pass you've got nothing to worry about.
This is my experience especially with ORMs. It's really hard to optimize when your "top query time" list is just a list of your most frequently called methods, where there's no single obvious pathological case, but lots of little inefficiencies.
Obviously you got to distinguish between problems that are going to get better over time and those that are going to get worse. It seems like people are just randomly assigning things to those categories. I mean, switching products from B2B to B2C (toilet paper, milk, flour, etc) is obviously something that can't happen instantly, but must be taking place as fast as humanly possible, right? So if you're writing an article about impending doom in the coming weeks and months, surely you need to pick a different topic, I would think.
Show HN: Psych Game Clone Using Zeit/Vercel and Svelte
The Psych party game (https://www.munkyfun.com/psych) has had trouble keeping up with demand, so I took an opportunity to learn some new tech and build an open source alternative to use with friends.

Back-end: https://github.com/fordaaronj/psych-server

Front-end: https://github.com/fordaaronj/psych-client

Live Demo: https://psych.aaronjford.com/

Back-end tech:

- Node, running "serverless" on Zeit/Vercel (https://vercel.com/)

- Passwordless logins

- Knex (http://knexjs.org/)

Front-end tech:

- Svelte (https://svelte.dev/)

- Skeloton CSS (http://getskeleton.com/)

You can start and join any number of rooms and customize the questions that are asked.

Runs for free on Vercel + AWS's free tier.
Do you really want to go down /dev and /proc and /mnt mounts with find /?
Many years ago I've read some chapters from Itzik Ben-Gan's "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Querying." It's an excellent book to anyone who wants to know how things work under the hood. While the title is in fact about SQL Server there so many things explained out there that apply to almost any SQL engine that is a worth the purchase.
Can you point to some sources?