skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He fought dinosaurs, body snatchers and aliens. Now I trust him to deal with the virus., https://i.imgur.com/ofKsRhI.jpg

The best thing about the reaction here in Germany (beside 'things working out fine so far') is how unexcitedly things are happening. Nobody is showing off in biohazard suits, no 'fearless' politicians shaking hands in hospitals, just 'There is a problem and we will deal with it'.

After the pandemic (and I hope it will come to an end one day because distancing sucks), we should communicate that the climate crisis shares a lot of properties with the pandemic. It is getting worse the longer we keep doing what we are doing, the consquences are delayed and dire and the efforts required to bring about change are massive. I still think we can deal with this problem as well if we want to, especially now since the 'official future' (basically the assumption that the world will look like it used to) is dead [0] and a lot of things that were accepted until now are questioned.

(To make life easier for future Internet historians: it is Jeff Goldblum in images 1 to 3 (from top-left to bottom-right) and virologist Christian Drosten in the bottom right image.)

[0] Related: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/10/30/official-fu...
I often need a small script/program as a sample to go under automation/orchestration/ci or some other monstrosity of similar provenance.

It will be fun to replace "sleep 5 && echo ok" with an automated version of such writeup :)
Sure, but mostly people settle for just not sending the gated content in the first place. The reason for sending people data they can't use is somewhat unclear...
That's not what excess mortality means. They don't say "this many extra people died, I guess it must be covid" -- they're not fucking idiots.

When cancer patients die because their cancer treatment was cancelled they die of a cancer related cause, and that's how their death will be recorded, and that's how their death will be reported.

> And we've never even made a serious effort to track the cause of death of the elderly.

It's hard to understand your "we" here. Which country doesn't try to track cause of death for elderly people?

> Meaning we don't know how many people die each year from the flu,

But we can count the deaths the same way. We can look at deaths of people confirmed to have the disease, we can look at death certificates, we can look at excess mortality combined with community surveillance. The errors for all three are going to be similar for flu and covid-19.
I wouldn't try and cool down a garage or try and maintain a temperature in it to be honest, they're usually very poorly insulated so it'd be a huge waste of energy.
> as influenza isn't usually attributed as the main cause of death but coronavirus is.

What makes you say this?
I take the editorial stance that we should only use "believe" in a religious context, so that we tag the thought as something subjective and unprovable in the mathematical sense.

Instead put a Figure of Merit against the idea.

I 30% buy off that covid-19 is a nasty virus that one Does Not Want, and that precautions are in order to protect those with compromised immune systems (my wife).

I 70% think that a variety of leaders on all levels and parties are not "letting a crisis go to waste" here, and purging the backlog of items that they don't care to discuss in detail.
For patents, part of the deal was also that the inventor should clearly describe how the invention works. Modern patents, however, are drafted to be so obtuse that they’re basically impossible to learn from.
Snapcraft is about Canonical control over devices, the sandbox is just a mean to an end. Snapcraft leaves you with no control over which code runs on your device.
The tail risk angle is pretty interesting. We have a pretty good idea of the upper bound of mortality of the virus, and we also know that with some basic precautions the worst case scenario can be avoided. It's worse than the flu, but not 10 times worse. On the other hand we have no clue what the end result will be of mass unemployment and food insecurity for millions who used to be middle class, on top of unprecedented central bank policy. It's pretty reckless to shut down the world economy and hope it will turn out OK.
but the long division algorithm never terminates.

why would it terminate at countable infinity?
I don't understand. One of them takes hours the other one produces hot water as soon as you open the tap.
> In the book "The Everything Store," Jeff Bezos mentions that the public tends to hate companies as they get bigger and that managing the company's image is very important.

I meant "from a book citing Bezos".
Yeah, it makes sense if the whole foundation of mathematics is laid out in such way that the above has to be true (kinda circular, but still), and this would mean that what I'm talking about is actually not mathematics but something else :).
It doesn't "kill the virus". It reduces the half life of the virus, thereby reducing the time it has to spread from surfaces. This means the virus is less transmissible.

That alone cannot explain why deaths / infections ratio is low in India compared to the west. There are many hypothesis:
- Higher testing in India
- BCG vaccine immunity.
None of these have been scientifically validated yet.
I don't see tests as you describe in dynamic languages much. E.G this is how you would test Rails controllers https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/spec/cont... . I don't think its that different than java world.
Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories
Agreed re. Boris (but not about the BBC). Boris made easy decisions, not the right ones. He is expedient rather than well-judging, and he was too willing to treat politics as a game of 2 sides rather than trying to unify. Maybe he can learn from this.
> Aside from the fact that the price of oil was 4-5x in Europe compared to the US.

Gas prices have always been high in Europe due to heavy taxes. And as I remarked before, when Reagan repealed the controls the price of gas didn't go up at all.

> to secure oil fields?

Saddam set them all on fire. It took almost a year to put them all out if I recall correctly. Don't forget the Iran/Iraq war, which lasted 8 years and devastated both countries, including devastating oil production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#Economic...

But no gas lines.

> That was the whole point.

I'm glad you understand that point. But you may not realize that what the person received in price controlled gas was more than made up for in many hours waiting in line to fill up. Having people pay in time waiting in line instead of pay in dollars is a terrible way to run an economy.

Another silly thing the government did was institute odd/even days based on your license plate. Instead of decreasing the lines, it increased the lines, because people would top off their tanks on Tuesday, just in case, because it was illegal for them to buy on Wednesday. Lots of people would wait for hours in line and buy a half gallon.

Reagan really did the country a great service by getting rid of that nonsense.
Yes. You can often run Gigabit ethernet successfully over short runs of 4 pairs too, even if it's not Cat 5e.
Most sites aren't very clear with what is gated content until after you click, so most visitors will get an encrypted payload they can't use and then bounce because they didn't want to pay in the first place. Thanks Google.
As far as I know they have an even broader definition of corona deaths in Sweden.

My point is more that statistics is hard. You tried to debunk someones "dodgy" statistics with your own numbers that can be twisted to be even more off than the person you tried dismiss.
I'm afraid nobody and everybody will be right after this is over. People will always find statistics to prove their points and that they where right and the other people where wrong.
Whilst working on Ios, I started work on a theoretical result which became known as Flexible Paxos[1]. Unfortunately, I never had time to go back to working on Ios. Maybe someday.

[1] https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7094/pdf/LIPIc...
I think we all understand the usefulness of a road-warrior-style VPN. But it doesn't seem so clear what k8s is adding here?

Anyway, on the topic of scalable UDP services, does anyone have any experience of load balancing a UDP service? Because UDP is connectionless there's no obvious way to make UDP packets "sticky". Are there any established practices that could help scale this k8s Wireguard service to 2 or more containers?
Thanks -- will get started on writing another post to add these in!
So, the conclusion of the article is “we know that we don't know”? One has to wonder, what is the point of publishing something useless like this, unless the author is trying to imply something completely different in the subtext.
This is exactly what we're building vvvv for, please have a look: http://visualprogramming.net/
It made me so sad when I found out CS61A was being taught in Python. I love Python, but I also know that I would have missed out on so much wonderful information if I hadn't learned Scheme.

It was truly mind blowing when they had us implement a Scheme interpreter in Scheme, and then add infix operators.

I think the original SICP was perfect for an intro course.

It was also the great leveler, because even if you entered college with programming experience, almost no one knew Scheme. So you were all on equal footing when it came to the language.
>> My data says that perf of malloc/free in actual programs (not fake ass shit calling malloc in a loop) is never affected by the call overhead.

I have thought the same for a long time until I ran some benchmarks on some of our 3D modeling code that uses Open CASCADE, and found out that in some cases allocation overhead was over 20% of total time spent in the CAD kernel...
Just curious, isn't gab that extremist right wing site?
I’m not being perfectly precise in my terminology, and you’re spitting out a compiler error in response.

Landlords/PMCs are overpaid because tenants pay rent not only for the services provided by the landlords/PMCs, but also for access to the land which they own. This happens because the property owners have a monopoly on that piece of land. The rent will increase in accordance with the contributions of the people using the land, and yet the money will be paid instead to the people owning the land.

The Wealth of Nations is on Gutenberg. Skip to Chapter XI in Book 1. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-0.txt

> The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take, but to what the farmer can afford to give.
The citation does not refute or pertain to my statement. Yes, very specific mutations/indels can attenuate strains -- welcome to biology -- but the broad claim that the general observation of mutations/indels is somehow indicative of attenuated strains circulating in the wild is entirely unsupported and facially ridiculous.
>>> Europe that can cost over 10 cents per SMS

Not my knowledge.

SMS prices in Europe varies from country to country, but I would say that they are, on average, around 3-4 cents. You have cheap countries like Portugal (1-2 cent), intermediate countries like Spain (2-3 cents) and France (3 cents) and expensive countries like Germany (6 cents) or Belgium (6 cents).

From the top of me head, Azerbaijan is the most expensive country in the world, at 10 cents per SMS.

Source: Running a SMS hub in Europe for the last 15 years.
Use Visual Studio Code and Live Share: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
The UK budget watchdog estimates that 6 months of lockdown will lead to national debt increase of about 25% GDP [1] - an unthinkably huge number in a world where 5% GDP debt increase is a huge amount, in normal times. UK's current debt-to-GDP ratio is something like 80%.

Assuming an optimistic "vaccine" scenario of 1 year of lockdown, universal vaccine, then immediate bounce-back, and extrapolating the debt figures, that's 50% GDP new debt; and in reality, I expect that the longer the lockdown, the more expensive it is. I can well imagine the casualties of such a scenario to be worse than the pessimistic Coronavirus numbers. Public health funding collapsing, God knows what about schools, social spending etc., and yes, perhaps even societal collapse.

I'd love to be proved wrong, but the UK government at least doesn't see it as necessary to even share its thinking of the financial consequences of lockdown, or even acknowledge that there is a trade-off.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52393472
Geothermal heating is pretty standard nowadays in North Europe. Heating the house + hot water is totally doable w/o using an auxiliary resistive heater even when the temperature outside is -20C. Geothermal heat pumps would feature the extra heater (like 9kW) just in case but mine has been turned on only when it overheats the water (60C+ once per week) to reduce fauna build up.
>Why aren't there integrated systems for heating/cooling

Geothermal heat pumps do that.
Yes, I know. I think a number of them just pause for quarters you’re absent and then resume once you come back, provided you don’t lose student status or whatever.
Which iPhone is better if I want a good camera, but I don't want to go with the PRO model?

I stopped following iPhone models a while ago and have no idea about the differences between 11, XR, and XS.

I need a simple phone with a good camera and swapping SE1 for SE2 does not sound like a good option.
Plenty of warm areas are being hit hard, but a lot of warm countries have "reporting issues" (look at the excess deaths in Jakarta for an example). Heat might lower R0 by some amount but it's still way above 1 without measures
I am confused. Why is modi relevant here?
The main problem I find is mixed language projects are not well supported like they are in Intellij. For example I'm working on projects using gradle and mixing Groovy and Java. In the past I was working on Scala/Java projects with sbt. None of these combinations are well supported by an LSP server. I think we need a polygot JVM LSP server that can support multiple languages and build tools seamlessly (just like IntelliJ can...).
https://github.com/SICPDistilled/website - last commit 2 years ago. But I'm sure contributions are still welcome.
I realise I'm falling into the exact discource you're perfectly parodying here but considering the new SE is iPhone 8 size, this

> Too old. Want new small phone. Had iPhone 8. Pinnacle of small beauty.

needs to read "old iPhone SE" or even better, "iPhone 4S".
Thanks. Interesting read. I have cut down my coffee consumption but I still drink it regularly (and I mean that; I drink at at the exact same times every day). Reading about your experiences shows me that I'm really not dependent on the drug. I don't use it a crutch like you did.

I have, however, completely cut out alcohol so I sympathise with the bit about social situations. This was odd for me at first too. At certain evening events you are expected to have a drink at all times. I don't know why, but it's awkward if you don't have one. Water doesn't cut it. It has to be sparkling or brightly coloured or something. I discovered that I can ask for a lime soda pretty much anywhere and it's not too sweet and seems to completely satisfy the need for a drink. It's also cheap. I don't miss alcohol one bit.

As for the laxative effect of coffee, this is something I enjoy. I really hate the feeling I get when my bowels are not regular. The best times of my life are ones where I can set my watch by my bowel movements. It makes a huge difference to my life! So I'm glad if coffee helps me stay regular.
> Any middle school student can calculate 1/3 to be 0.33333... using long division, ...

...the same way That Chuck Norris can count to infinity... twice!
No, the science doesn't "support shelter-in-place", because science in itself doesn't support any particular policy. Instead, the science is simply predicting a certain number of deaths or burden on the healthcare system, and certain public-health officials are recommending policy to minimize number of deaths, because their sole priority is to save human lives. However, someone else could look at that same science predicting a certain number of deaths, and say that such a number of deaths is an acceptable sacrifice and a policy of reopening the economy can be pursued.
Yeah. And yet...

- The statistics indicate the contagion is diminished.

- No one knows why.

- Someone posits a plausible explanation of an effect seen in some (but not all) similar viruses.

- Explanation is dismissed without consideration, and the working theory us that the statistics are wrong.
An AI Engineer and a Kaggle Grandmaster: Interview with Darragh Hanley
I remember in the early days of Google, it was a big no-no for sites to serve different content to Google than to actual users. Sites caught doing this would be banned from Google, so SEO advice quickly became widespread: don't do this, it will hurt you.

But results like this seem to be commonplace now, with Google doing nothing about it. This article seems to be overt confirmation that Google no longer has an issue with this. Sad to see, though of course Google jumped the shark a long time ago.
How some of surveillance tools can access or extract the key just by installing a SPY APP? I thought IOS creates a sandbox for each APP.
I looked into aggregating DSL connections in the past, a few years ago I think you had to get your own router for that as well as a VPS. OVH launched a service "over the box" that goes just that, they provide a router and a VPS where a VPN runs. They claimed you'd get a total bandwidth equals to the sum of all connections and I think it's not required for the connections to be similar in bandwidth.
Diego wrote a great summary of the differences between Viewstamped Replication[1,2] and Raft on the Raft mailing list a few years ago[3].

[1] http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr.pdf
[2] http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf
[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raft-dev/cBNLTZT2q8o
iPhone 11 has the same cameras as iPhone 11 Pro, except for the telephoto lens.
K-Dramas to watch for some ‘money matters’
tmux has no direct access to the X clipboard itself. Reading the clipboard with OSC 52 is possible but it is unfortunately not widely supported by terminal emulators (you can do it with `refresh-client -l` if the terminal emulator supports it).

Or you could read it with `xclip`, `xsel` or `pbpaste`, something like:

bind -n MouseDown2Pane run "pbpaste|tmux loadb -" \; pasteb

From tmux 3.2, middle click will paste the top tmux paste buffer by default.
Did you take 300ug before?

Sorry for the questions, we can talk about it somewhere else, just add an email or protonmail account to your hackernews account I'll mail you there
I've been sticking with the XS and it has pretty good cameras.

This is the first time I've skipped an iPhone since the 5, because I regretted upgrading to the XS from the X.

You could just wait a few months and get the next one that's supposedly coming out with LIDAR or whatever.
Interesting to note is that the portrait mode that comes with iOS and Android are radically different, built on completely different technology. So you will see different artifacts on each.
I hope the reason is that Indians are intrinsically resistant to SARS-CoV-2, that would be a big relief.
Yeh that's for IT to roll out for you with MDT, group policy, Azure or a myriad of other MDM solutions. It's not an end user product.

Missing windows hello, so I presume other smart logins like cards is going to make this a non-starter for a lot of orgs.
When New York went in to lockdown, it had ~7000 cases (20th March) [1]

When UK went in to lockdown, it had 6700 cases. (23rd March) [2]

When India went in to lockdown, it had 657 cases. (25th March) [2]

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workfor...
[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
I think 15 years would be more than enough, certainly in most fields of copyrightable endeavor. Whether there are fields where that wouldn't be long enough, I'm not sure.

The copyright on the first Harry Potter book should have expired by now. Copyright expiration should not be merely a distant possibility that we rarely think about, as it is today.
I'm not sure people's behavior will stay changed, but that aside - that presumed "better testing and tracing" is exactly what we are waiting for before opening up. It doesn't exist yet. Reducing restrictions while we still have up to a two week lag on tracking infections means that we won't know if it's going OK.
> "Both these claims are not backed by any evidence"

There is evidence for the weather claim, but it's complicated by other factors.

Multiple studies [1] have observed a correlation between weather/UV and severity of outbreak.

Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, Qom, UK, Korea and Northern USA have all fit a comparable weather profile during their outbreaks.

The problem is that this virus seems to be more durable/resilient than other seasonal viruses (flu, common cold), and even in hot climates, many people still spend a lot of time congregated in air conditioned office/residential buildings, shopping centres, public transportation systems, etc.

So it's true that hot weather alone is not enough to end an outbreak.

But it can reduce the extent/severity, and the observed evidence seems to bear that out.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c8ed3692-6db3-11ea-9bca-bf503995c...
> Also, they're not 100% efficient so although they are an improvement they don't fully eliminate the problem.

True, but they're up near 90%, I think. And they also increase heat recovery efficiency, so you'll need less wood.
Perhaps you should consider the arguments and disregard a superficial comparative analysis of our credentials.
It was actually the PaPoC workshop[1] that asked me to record a short talk and posted on YouTube. They did a wonderful job!

[1] https://papoc-workshop.github.io/2020/
silly though ! and which wikipedia would be in English while the other pages are in American English (or in British English). I mean, neither side would accept their language name to be prefixed ; they are already infighting about what's the correct way to speak English.
Is a condensing gas tank water heater what we in the UK would call a condensing boiler?

If so, in the UK, it's been legally required that all new boilers are of this type since 2005. I'm a little bit surprised they aren't better known in the US.
I flew from India to the US in early February (2nd week).

Indian airports were doing thermal checks on passengers (using tech that had been installed during the Zika virus scare a few years back, I believe). The newspapers also had info about how anyone found with elevated temperatures were being asked to self quarantine, and the police was also following up.

The US had, absolutely nothing. Nada. Before the flight I was afraid that entering the US would be difficult, but it was clear (and it remained this way for over a month), that if anything, entering India, if not difficult, would actually involve checks, something that was non existent in US ports.

Further, and I don’t know if this is mentioned, the flight into India involved the cabin crew spraying some sort of pest control spray in the cabins before we landed. They mentioned it was due to regulations. Considering SARS-COV-2 has been found to have been easily killed (within minutes) of exposure to common disinfectants, could this spray have greatly minimized the virus entering the country, on baggage’s and clothing, etc?
"instead of actually deleting it, they simply appended '1000' to both the username and the email address. anyone could thus create an email address with that suffix and request a password request to access my info."
If this were about personal safety, it'd be an entirely different scenario. The problem is that people's actions here are significantly affecting the safety of other people.