skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We never have been here before in almost everyone’s lifetime; there are a few over 100 year old people who did ofcourse, but that is it.

As with wars on your own soil, people forget fast. In Asia my HK colleagues got stressed in january as they did see this before and they (the people without the gov) already automatically took more care.

If this occurs ‘soonish’, I think a lot of people and countries will act differently; I know I will. I was still travelling as, silly me, trusted my gov to warn me; big mistake. I would have wanted to self isolate a month earlier to make sure; next time that will happen. I hope there will not be a next time.

Obviously the issue is, as with everything that relates to the effectiveness of education on most people, how to teach future generations to not be so lax. I am not sure how that would work. It does not work generally or with a massive delay; exactly like the parent trying to save the child from making the same mistakes as she did but the child having the need not to listen (old people, what do they know he, world changed and such!) and experience all the crap themselves instead.

I think, even with a far worse virus, if all countries would’ve shut all borders with china and self quarantined immediately begin january, nothing would happen. Just everyone, every gov and person, thinks and many keep thinking it is all blah and nothing will happen to them. Apparently only the firsthand experience of ‘something bad’ (like Boris Johnson) will actually give them perspective. I think this prepared us well for a worse virus for the coming 20 years; however I think after that, it is will drop off and you will be right; most people will be screwed.
But the WHO is super careful to offer no advice, other than wash your hands.
If you want to get into the details. The United Nations does not recognize Taiwan entirely because it is in the interest of China, China's strategic funding of the United Nations, and their institutional power they have as a security council member with Veto power. No other country has an interest in China claiming Taiwan isn't a country. Which it is by all means, they have their own government, land, culture, etc. They are not a part of China, it is just used a source of legitimacy for the commonly threatened and strategic takeover the CCP talks about.

So the UN does not recognize Taiwan because of China.

It is naive to say that China does not influence these international organizations for political gain. In fact anyone who studies international politics academically would acknowledge that every country who participates in these international organization uses them to gain political influence. I would argue that they exist primarily for political influence, instead of their intended goal; I mean the UN did leave a country right when a genocide started so they didn't have to deal pay to deal with it, among countless examples of it being used for international legitimacy at any cost.
Today I caught up with my cousin who moved to Washington state and I hadn’t talked to in probably five years. Her and I commiserated about our grandfather who passed away, talked about our lives while we toured a virtual museum in my virtual village, and chatted about our kids. We talked about how lonely and crazy the lockdown is making everyone.

That conversation would have never happened without Animal Crossing. I’d consider that a pretty meaningful “reward loop” for me.
> Especially when you consider code generation.

That's a very good point you are making here.

However, as I said elsewhere, I don't see the use of being able to either write

typedef int ...

or

int typedef ...

and I don't think that proper code generation would require it.
What all of this shows is that education and economy are really not very related. This book makes the case:

> The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

What happens is that companies just hire people who have proven that they are not dumb enough to drop out of school and just did what they had to to move on with their lives.

In the end the Western countries are richer, not because the students are great, but because they have great opportunity and learn what they need to, so they can get that opportunity.

The Soviet Union really was great at showing this, lots of super smart people, good schools, lots of government investment in high tech, more effective intellectual property theft then China now, cheap natural resources, cheap oil and so on. Jet they couldn't really make a competitive economy.

Teach people the basics as efficiently as possible, show them where they can learn more if they want to, give them some resources to do so if they want to and let them find their way in a market economy.
You keep saying I am moving the goalpost but I am not. My original comment was in reply to the last statement where you said:

> "spearhead tectonic geopolitical changes because the corporate media tells you so"

and I was merely pointing out that the HK media is the one which pointed out how WHO ignored Taiwan's warning. Then you went around stating I "don't bother with primary sources or critical thinking" which is just a silly ad hom attack and not worthy on HN. I almost always read the primary source and that's exactly what I had done with the Taiwan vs WHO thing. I don't just watch the media and believe everything they say, I have seen too many examples of them not reporting the facts. Also I haven't even seen much coverage of the Taiwan situation in the western media so I have no idea how you are making that conclusion. Most of the western media is too busy defending China anyway.

> then I suppose there aren't really anything anyone can say that'll be of interest to you

Considering you think the Taiwan's email wasn't enough to justify a different statement from WHO than parroting China's talking points, why do you think WHO lied about them never receiving any correspondence from Taiwan warning about human-to-human transmission?

Also maybe calling people names and thinking you are somehow better than the person you are interacting with is a tactic you wish to employ though I don't think it's suited for HN discussions. Let's not resort to that.
It's very much luck and you should really start to believe it.

Even if you're not an expert on stocks, that Tesla rose within a few weeks from 300 to 1000, then went back to 400 and currently stands at 700 - so halving and doubling value within a few weeks - has absolutely nothing to do with fundamentals or things anyone understands, want 100% with speculation.

I've made some money on the market, including with Tesla, but I'd never put this down to anything other than luck. The forces that shape the market are much bigger than any of us normal humans can even begin to grasp, much less 'understand'.
Some basic research goes a long way to augmenting what you might or might not believe about the world - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_theft
Could you elaborate on that? Performance of what exactly?
"I swear, I wish I didn't love macOS so much (or wasn't so heavily invested in it), or I'd happily ditch it for a really powerful thermally cooled desktop and use that as my machine."

I was you at this time about two years ago. Exact same thing. Fed up with Apple hardware bullshit, and with their pricing. With Apple in general. I had a sick iMac (as sick as an iMac can be, I mean). Loved and was invested in OSX. But something tipped the scales. Can't remember what specifically, but I said "fuck it" and put the machine on Craigslist. Got a buyer immediately, and lost very little money on a three year old machine. Took the cash, plus a little more, and built a PC. A liquid cooled PC. An egregious, so-ugly-it's-kinda-neat monster with tubes and a radiator and fans and the whole deal. I run Windows 10 Pro and Ubuntu. Neither is perfect for me. Windows especially can be maddening. My personal pet peeve is the lack of powerful device search -- in OSX, I could use Spotlight or better yet Alfred to look inside PDFs, for example. SOL on that in W10.

But it was worth it. My AMD-powered PC smokes anything in my Zip code, I'm pretty sure, and it's more than enough for my work needs (and my work does actually put the thing through its paces.)

I miss OSX, but not enough to go back.
You and I are often in disagreement on here, but not on this!
I kinda think this is a decent idea, given the whole ClearviewAI scraping thing. Not that it puts up a massive gate, but definitely a solution.
Hey, I use PowerShell on Windows a lot. Some advice that I hope helps for installing posh-got specifically is to “git clone” the posh-git repo. Then in your $Profile.CurrentUserAllHosts do an Import-Module for the PSM.

I know all this is personal and subjective. I think using git to manage this is pretty easy and safe. If and when I want to update it’s as simple as doing a git pull in my local repo of posh-git and reloading the shell.

If the new version is broken (has never happened yet but ya know.. in case) just checkout the previous one.

I have found using git, the powershell user profile and modifying my user path when necessary is the best way of managing dev dependencies on Windows.

I also understand why people want this all abstracted away from them in a package manager.
We, Fivetran, have an SFTP connector. You can be sync'ing data with 10 minutes of effort. Our value is in (nearly) zero configuration, automatic schema migration, and automatic failure recovery. We take the pain out of Extract-Load, and push Transformation into the warehouse. https://fivetran.com/docs/files/sftp
Mechwarrior 5 just came out a few months ago.
Not saying that this is what's happening here, but it's just so amusing to me how much this sounds like the response to the original dropbox post on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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I've watched criticism of that tweet since the day they posted it. Luckily Taiwan and HK ignored the WHO. And alot of people in Singapore also ignored and have been wearing masks since Jan.
IMHO it is better to start from a point of humility and recognize that we all have our own particular blind spots. Technocratic management and epistemology would be prime examples in this case.

Who cares if people consume incorrect information? Who decides what is correct?

The WHO has been wrong throughout this pandemic. Accusations of misconduct and a pro-CCP bias are still playing out. The establishment sources have similarly been wrong. At the end of the day, man is still fallible and 'fact-check' is a deceptive misnomer.
The Apps I've tried don't seem to work offline on iOS after saving to home screen.

Does iOS support offline use of PWAs? (Or perhaps this is an issue with my phone... anyone able to reproduce, or find an App that does work offline?)

Steps: Open App, enable airplane mode, go to iPhone home screen, open the App again, App is unresponsive.

Apps I tried: https://progressiveapp.store/pwa/219 and https://progressiveapp.store/pwa/87

EDIT: Might be a bug: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/8889
I guess it was used as to mean "without value", which is not exactly what it means.

The prefix "in" of "invaluable" does mean negation but it means negation in the way that the value of the object is such that it doesn't exist. It's so valuable that you cannot even quantify it, it transcends the notion of value.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invaluable#note-1
I more-or-less don't disagree, except I do. I think the entire UN has lost its way: Look at the membership of the Human Rights Council. What a joke.

It barely worked in the first place, and is all sorts of corrupted now; I believe they should burn it to the ground.

But! Opinions vary! :-) And I am often wrong in matters outside my particular domains of experience.
Indeed. I always think to myself: if it’s worth coming to my door or cold-calling me there must be a pretty margin. And then they claim it’ll be so much cheaper than my well-researched current contract. Yeah, right.

The only thing that will sometimes peak my interest enough to listen to the pitch, is if they offer non-monetary upside.
Any fun theories on how we ended up replicating the same issue of consolidated TV broadcasters and traditional media companies with internet media platforms and content outlets?

We’ve had such a long time between the passage of things like the Fairness Doctrine and now to turn the boat (not to mention countless critiques of the consolidation of local news and syndicated television networks for examples), maybe learn a few lessons along the way that I wonder if this isn’t an emergent outcome and is in reality an inherent one.

Is this an extreme terminus of network effects?
I agree with both of you actually, app is great but I don't don't like Material when I see it usually unless it's skinned well enough to not instantly tell it's Material. Something about that default theme...
As with bizarrely restrictive FDA regulations on, e.g., face masks, the famous conservatism of IRB committees is another thing that the COVID19 story should motivate us to re-examine.
So use unordered_map with an allocator that returns nodes from a small local memory?
Social network, should really be owned by USERS instead of founders/investors. It should be decentralized and it should be governed based on democratic Principles. I once thought that blockchain can do the job but it proved to be untrue.
There's a detailed analysis of Trump's suggestions here on Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-sunlight-....

("detailed" as in "zero".)
The title of the article says it all. I mean what do you expect? This is just business.
That's the reason to choose PWA over other web technologies, not native.
Sorry IFR, infected fatality rate instead of case fatality rate (which is usually confirmed cases)
CRT is postmodernism, witch is basically what depressed Communists came up with to continue to hope they get communism. The amount of inroads stuff like this has made, specially in universities is beyond sad.
You think Op. Mockingbird is through with?
You make some cash but you're not a billionaire. There is a structural difference where some gain money even when everyone else is losing (not after everyone else has lost like in your case!).

There's no issue with some people being richer than others, but having some with hundreds of billions in the bank (constantly growing) while the companies they own fire people and pay poverty wages to those that they do employ is pretty insane. We're not in the middle ages where a lord treats their serfs as they like and if some starve that's fine.

There is a process where the rich constantly scratch the profits off the economy. When it goes well they profit. When it goes badly they profit and ask the government (aka tax payers, aka middle and lower class and small companies that don't register in the Bahamas to avoid taxes) to bail out the struggling companies out of which they have drawn billions in the previous years.

It is absurd and obscene.
We totally did the same in Russia!

People would also risk their lives dismantling live cables and would often die in the process.

Sad reminder about the value of life under communism.
People with limited mouse dexterity. People who hate mice. If you don't browse with the keyboard you don't see the focus state move anyway, so leave it on for people who need it.
> Who browses with a keyboard? only him.

Many accessibility systems work by emulating keyboard movements.
Imagine this is something you know to be true about yourself, or is an attitude necessary/useful to fuel innovation: “What matters most to me is doing something daring that plausibly benefits others”.

I suspect many people have deep drives of this nature, featuring multiple values - in this case, being daring (a matter of character) and benefitting others (a matter of welfare).

It would be irrational in such case to pursue a project:
(1) that isn’t daring,
(2) without regard to whether it’s daring,
(3) with exclusive regard to whether it’s daring,
(4) that doesn’t plausibly benefit others,
(5) without regard to whether it plausibly benefits others, or
(6) with exclusive regard to whether it plausibly benefits others.

3 and 5, and 2 and 6, are corollaries.

Is irrationality necessary or helpful to fuel innovation? Of course depends on what we mean by "rationality" and what value(s) rationality is meant to serve. My answer would be "no".
Running 18.04 on a Threadripper 3970x. My GPU is an older Radeon RX550.

I have no issues except for a driver issue for the audio chip on my mobo (Gigabyte Aorus Master TRX40) that seems to only affect optical audio out.

Cooling solution, RAM, and monitors aren't things that will have OS compatibility issues.
Definitely the best flavour.
You guys help me resuscitate tons of old laptops for frustrated ex Windows users, which are very happy with now with their new OS.
Great work!
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> The lest said about the online play the better.

Heh, Nintendo is simply incapable or unwilling to produce a quality online experience. I don't know why.

They created a masterpiece with Smash Ultimate but then did a huge disservice to themselves and the game by slapping on a really shitty online mode. Obviously it doesn't impact sales and that's likely what drives their decisions, but it's still so disappointing.
No way are they more performant than native apps. Their big advantages are write once run anywhere, no vendor lock in, easier install, and more control, privacy and sandboxing since they are web apps.
That assumes that universities matter for the economy. And that is not really all that clear.

Soviet Union had great schools, doesn't mean their economy was doing well.

The US is still doing well even when its school system and even university system have not really been that great overall.
What other technologies?
Just some numbers:

In Sweden, which only has a voluntary lockdown, over 30% of covid19 dead come from elderly homes[0]. Swedish elderly care is highly focused on keeping the elderly independent (at home) as long as possible, so the people in elderly homes are the ones in the worst state - 20% don't even survive one month from arrival[1] (I saw another statistic that 40% don't survive 6 months, but I can't find that source, google search results are now overwhelmed with covid19 news)

That may point to an upper bound of 30% on the people dying from this that would have died "within months/a year anyway"

[0] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/kan-finnas-morkertal-over...

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/val2014/allt-farre-far-plats-pa-a...
Free money is never enough. People in Russia stole copper wires not because they were starving but to get money for drinks and entertainment.
Agreed: been working from home a long time (25+ years) and I just never do video chat; I say high with video on and then switch off. It makes all the difference. I always take the call on my phone, so I do not see others either (if they insist on doing video).
Nope, because they're all designed to skew higher. People who are out shopping, people who will go out of their way on a weekend to be tested, healthcare workers... all of them are likely skewed high. One might as well conclude (with as much evidence) that the purpose of the tests is to show higher infection rates. Still, nobody doubts that we're under testing by a factor of 3-5x to catch a majority of cases.

What's disturbing is that if you take the estimated statewide data of 2.7M infected (out of ~20M) at face value and only the current 21k dead you still get 0.7-0.8% fatality rate.
Of course he'd be stupid to sell all in one go and there's no reason why he'd sell big chunks at once. But of course he can (and probably is) constantly sell small amounts and take cash out.
I wholeheartedly agree.

Check out the IndieWeb when you have cycles for it. I think it lines up quite well with what you’ve expressed.

https://indieweb.org/principles
Yeah people here are dumping on it for being non-performance-optimal while ignoring that higher performing versions have restrictions and design limitations. unordered_map is fast enough for probably 98% of uses, and the other 2% may be better off finding a specialized version best for their particular case.
I'm genuinely curious why Gladwell is a negative control. The name sounds familiar but I don't know much about him
There is no reason PWAs couldn't run as well as native in most cases. The issue is that there are orders of magnitude more developers and money behind native apps, and giant corporations making their access super simple through app stores. If we saw the same amount of resources going into PWAs, they would be as good.
Somehow rich elites are fertile grounds for socialist message no less than the discontented starving people.
Reminded me of the fact that D templates are not Turning Complete.
In addition: not having to install at all to be able to try it out.
Most people go to the grocery store.
There seems to be this attitude on HN of immediately dismissing research. No human research is ever perfect, flaws and limitations will always be present, and in the present case, study designs are being expedited in order to be timely. Each study is a piece, and together can provide convergent evidence.
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That's household income, which includes multiple people's income for households in which multiple people work. Median income for individuals was $33,706 in 2018, the last year for which data is available. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Well, if what you're saying is that for a decision (say, to pursue a certain path which leads to innovation) you need to have both rationality and values, then you're already admitting that rationality is not enough, and therefore you need (at least a little bit of) irrationality.

But I think the paradox is deeper, and it ultimately means that we cannot really define "rationality", it is contradictory. And I think that's what economists are trying to do (and what they teach MBAs), to make a theory of how to make the best decision, regardless of values. The paradox seems to be that you cannot follow any theory like that blindly.

Perhaps it is cliched, I don't know. I wish Yanis would write a popular book about the paradox (he is certainly fond of it, see his book Economic Indeterminacy).
Makes total sense. The black and white thing always seemed so weird. It's a false dichotomy.

Even if censorship is good in the particular context (which seems to be the case here), but bad in general and bad in principle, it seems that the real issue is that there should be one unaccountable entity who gets to make that decision. Why is Youtube big enough to have such an impact without being accountable in any way to the public?
I remember my dad telling me about a farmer he knew, who said to him once, (pointing at his lane), "Any time Jim, I see a f*er driving in that road I know he's not doing it for my benefit"
I got the game because a friend invited me to a virtual wedding party because she had to cancel the one in real life due to SIP. My goal was to get a nice virtual gift for my friend so I grinded hard to make Bells and learn DIYs but wound up enjoying the whole process not because I was living a fantasy life like in the article but because it gave me a bit of purpose beyond checking mortality stats every five minutes and feeling guilty for not developing a new skill during this "privileged downtime". Everyone plays for different reasons. I feel lucky this game came out during this uncertain time.
But the WHO is very careful not to offer any advice other than wash your hands. Who is going to contradict that?