skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Consider that many governments with professional public health departments, including those of the richest countries in the world, downplayed the unfolding disaster, completely blew it on containment as a result

Governments are ultimately run on a day to day basis by politicians. Proactive measures to prevent a crisis are a much tougher action to justify, especially if they negatively affect people in a way more direct than just spending their tax dollars, than reacting to a crisis. If anything I think this crisis should teach us something about how governments make choices.
Anyone an expert on VFDs? LCDs became popular by the time I was into electronics. I've only seen calculator-sized or radio-sized VFDs. Is it possible to make one larger, like the size of a monitor? Is it an expensive process? I've got an idea for a hobby project but have no idea if it's feasible.
I might be missing the nuance here but how is WeWork "too big to fail"?

While many were against the 2008-09 bailouts, you could at least see the logic of why the cost of the wake left behind from a company like General Motors radically reorganizing or dissolving would be worse than the cost of bailing them out.

What happens if WeWork dissolves? Softbank and its investors lose a couple billion. They'll survive. WeWork owns some real estate and would leave behind office space that's already built out for short-term leasing.

They'd be leaving behind something that can be mostly done turn-key by the next owner, hopefully on a smaller scale, with less ambitious growth expectations. They wouldn't be leaving behind an entire supply chain that extends well beyond themselves.
Hangman is a weird game [19:29]
That seems to be a point frequently cited in the media, but it seems quite random to compare Sweden to two selected countries, and it makes it look like you are trying to twist facts to prove a point.

Besides, the circumstances of the deaths are vastly different: deaths at retirement homes vs deaths in general population. Indeed, merely locking down Swedish retirement homes would have made your pro-lockdown argument meaningless.
That was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and during a time when the UK also had direct and indirect control of exploitable colonies, I don't think the debt to GDP figures of the time are particularly relevant to modern nation states.

Japan has avoided financial collapse with a giant debt to GDP ratio for years now, I think the advent of QE and owning your own debt via central banks has made the whole thing seem a bit silly.
Plus staying indoors isn't helping either
Or, according to UN gap report [0], the globe needs to cut emissions by 7.6% per year to stay below +1.5C.

So, it's a Coronavirus every 1 year.

[0] https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release...
...under the assumption that wind energy is greener than nuclear.
Charging money has been a factor in commercial use in caselaw I've read, but it's not the only factor and isn't solely persuasive. Offering something for free can be commercial as it effects the market, reducing demand for commercial offerings.

Showing ads alongside content is absolutely commercial use for copyright purposes.
The user decides if an app has access to his location.
A portion of that space is being occupied by a human, but it's not all being used by the human. We both know you know this.
Just disable JavaScript in your browser.

The question is how a significant number of people can be made to use that.
My friends and I have used this convention for IM apps since 2003. I haven't seen anyone do it for SMS, though.
> which is actively and continuously defended against by browser makers

... except the dominant one (at least for their own web properties), who just happen to be the adversary in this particular discussion.
does that mean that China was right to try to ignore the issue for a few days at the beginning?
This is great, did they list the financial commitments they made to keeping this product running for a minimum of 10 years? Because I don't see why anyone would migrate to a Google product. If you start using Zoom today, you've got a fair expectation that it will be around for a while. If you start using Microsoft Teams you can be extremely confident it'll be around for heat death of the universe. If you start using Google Meet today, I'd advise you to have a backup plan.
Northern Italy's health system also collapsed in 2018 (and probably other years, too) from the flu:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3...
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Remdesivir has never had a single commercial application. It is a drug that has failed at everything.

The one high quality RCT published in the Lancet found likelihood of no effect on recovery. All the hype you see now is based on a press release with no substantive information about the study, its methodolody, statistical analysis, or secondary outcomes.

It could end up actually useful. But don't let the drugmaker bamboozle you into thinking it's so without good data.
"Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly or indirectly; blockchains invert this power relationship, putting the code in charge"

Really hits the crux of this futile effort. Trust cannot be formally defined. Trust is an ever-changing subjective belief done in an unknown world.

The stereotype of a libertarian crypto advocate who is really into bayesian inference is not a coincidence. They are micro-fascists: given time and information supposedly everyone would converge on the same indisputable truth (which I happen to currently hold) and act in the same optimal rational way.

The irony is that you don't even need to bring the human condition into the argument. The mathematics they so revere practically scream that there are fundamentally inherent limits. Solomonoff induction is incomputable. There is no free lunch. Why continue this march of madness?
The South Korea ‘reinfection’ story turned out to be based on false positives.
Duo is also available on iOS and web.
> Are we really going to isolate or quarantine 4 out of 10 US adults and imagine the economy can get back on track?

It's a good start. Also "encourage" is different from "enforce".
Can someone from the gaia team change the default cookie validity period down by 20 minutes (ie. from 30 days to 29 days, 23 hours, 40 minutes) to resolve this issue?
>Those Zoom links aren't obsolete the moment you add a Meet link.

You should edit them out though, otherwise you are going to have people click the link they always used to click.
It's easier to measure the volume of exhaled air and extrapolate calories from that, via CO2 expelled.
It depends on their risk assessment based on all sorts of stuff (perhaps like your IP, browser info, mouse movements etc.). If you're suspicious (VPN, Tor, heuristics etc.), they require the phone confirmation.
What would it take to drop it by say 50%? How is the drop not higher?
Embeddable Common-Lisp 20.4.24 release
Thank you for listing an ecosystem of services that, from my point of view, seem to be overlapping quite a bit.

I hope they can prune or merge some of it, because it sounds exhausting: do I as a GSuite user talk with an external person (say, for a job interview) over a Meet or a Duo or a Hangout Classic... and what are the privacy policy implications of such a choice? Too exhausting!
Yes, but Brussels is not Antwerp.
DanBC's comment contains useful information. The EU issued a Copyright Directive, thus all member states were told to implement compatible laws.

As pertains to Latvia specifically (I apologise if my Github <-> HN username assumption is inaccurate), then the relevant laws are implemented under "Copyright Law, Chapter XI, Section 68".

We also still have laws in Australia that permit reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability. This is what I meant above where I wrote:

> To clarify, none of the reverse engineering stuff is the issue.

The problem is these laws are superseded when circumvention of technological measures pertaining to copy protection is involved.
> In a way that doesn't involve A16Z cynically mis-representing blockchain as some people's champion.

That's precisely the game for these funds to keep that illusion up. They buy up a bunch of tokens in a presale discount, pump the price, and then dump it to a bunch of foreign retail investors based on inside information before the inevitable failure of the "product". A16z's crypto fund has made a killing doing just this and it's entirely legal. The SEC is only going to go after the founders and a16z will have long exited their position by the time of the lawsuit.
if you have not seen this before: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

and it's companion https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/from-1-to-1000000.html are pretty cool.
When you have enough people throwing guesses around, inevitably some are bound to get it right.
Same.

And it's improving pretty much weekly lately.

And you can host it yourself very very easily.

I'm a _big_ Jitsi fan.

(They've got an experimental P2P E2E encrypted trial running too, which will be pretty cool when it's rolled out across all browsers and mobile...)
I never had strong feelings about systemd, and the first time I used it I did prefer the service files to sysvinit scripts.

The real wow moment came when discovering socket activation which allowed systemd to take care of zero downtime deployments of web applications - for me that was reason enough to support the project.

Nowadays I'll use a container orchestrator to achieve the same thing, bit it was a good couple of years whilst it lasted.
Thank you for the time and effort in the write up as well as your engagement, it is what we need.

2 points: while I sort of get your "order of magnitude lik a flu" point I think it undermines your argument because you get lumped in with crazies. In your comments you also seem to conflate pandemic flu with seasonal flu, so I would suggest using "seasonal flu" if that is what you mean to avoid confusion. I think there are compelling arguments for ending the lockdown while still believing it is 10x worse than the flu. I don't like conflating the points myself, and rather prefer to just look at the actual IFR/R0 numbers.

I don't know if this warrants a section, but I will say that I believe that the issue you discuss in this article is the lockdown, which is a political discussion. You have a lot of people on here asking for your credentials, or asking if you are an epidemiologist or virologist. While scientists can help inform us as a society on things like the IFR and R0, at the end of the day the core item under discussion here is a societal choice. In the US as a society appear to make a decision that infectious disease deaths up to about 70,000 people annually (a bad seasonal flu) do not warrant any official lockdown measures. The question of the threshold for various political responses is in fact a political question, not a question for virologists, therefore is the domain of all citizens. The author is as much an expert on this particular question as really anyone else.

There has been a troubling severe censorship going on across platforms, including YouTube which would presumably not allow you to post this as a speech as it contradicts WHO guidelines, and our own "Hacker news" which ironically celebrates the culture of people building things of their own merit, not tied to past credentials, yet for a while has flagged this open and reasonable attempt to understand a political question.
Camberwell church continuing to sell fake Covid-19 cure
Softbank walked away from the planned bailout of Neumann, so that $1Bn golden parachute for Neumann is long gone. Now he has to sue softbank to try and get it back but there's just no way it's ever going to happen.
I think you accuse people of fascism a little too easily.
WeWork's lawsuit against softbank only succeeds if it lives long enough to get to a court decision, and Softbank are in quite a strong position to stop that happening.
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They're selling them for £91 ($113 USD, €104 Euro) per kit, and they claim to have sold nearly 2000 kits.
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1980s stereos used them a lot. IMO they’re the best looking of the older display technology. As the article mentions they’re power hungry and complex-ish for displaying multiple words. Ends up being done as a 9 segment style or preformatted(custom made) words. Noritake still makes these. I would say, however that oled can look very similar and in most aspects is superior.
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The screenshots are dated 2017. Why are you posting this now? Has there been a major release?
How many people outside tech do you know with a personal website? Why are the obvious entry barriers so funny to you?

Does your girlfriend know how to make website without your help?
Crash Cows
yaml's are sometimes difficult to write.
I'm not really excited that every meeting participant will be able to see my facial flaws in 4k HDR with dynamic surround.

The tech is not interesting, the UX is less interesting than Zoom or webex. The first hangout version was far more exciting than Google Meet, Duo or Latest-Hangouts.

Like every other industry, Google lost its ability to push boundaries forward and act as a beacon for innovation. "Higher resolution" is definitively not innovation.
> “There was something of Newton about him,” Strachey continued. “The ease and majesty of the thought—the gentleness of the temperament.”

Wasn't he a pretty ruthless and competitive guy?
No, I only use Facebook and WhatsApp at the moment. I used to downloads lots of malware from porn sites back when I was much younger though.
It's NOT about the codec. It's about all the post-processing happening to do noise cancellation, echo removal or auto gain.

Those features are usually configurable in major video conferencing apps.

FYI, I saw some artist play on Zoom not so long ago, and the music was muted by their client. And they didn't know it happened or how to fix it. No software is immune from misconfiguration.
Making a Pentagonal Tiling Puzzle
I have used it privately in small groups and it had a few issues. People dropping out, constant sound issues and duplicate people entering. I have no experience with 80-300 people (interactive events mostly, sometimes division-wide meetings/webinars...).

I would definitely put it right behind Zoom though and really love what they are doing.
Getting a custom VFD made would be a very expensive process indeed.

If you need a very small number of segments then Dalibor Farny can make a custom Nixie tube, which is similar technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nHkhJ52iA4
Also a good introduction to how they are made (making a VFD would be similar but more difficult): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA&t=32s

Otherwise Noritake itron still make VFD monitors for industrial applications (seems they have high temp advantages over LCDs): https://www.noritake-itron.com/site2017/index.php?option=com...
Yup. The way I understood it, PADDs weren't owned - they were just passed around, and circulated around the ship. I don't think it was ever shown, but I imagine that e.g. at the end of the day, the captain would wipe the 20-ish PADDs with reports accumulated over the day, and someone would later pick them up and carry somewhere others could pick them up again.

All of this could theoretically work better with our current technology - Internet, digital documents, file exchange systems; no need to pass around physical devices. Except somehow, it doesn't.
Is it just me or is the MacOS security often not fully thought through.

I mean this isn't the first vulnerabilities of it's kind.
If you're talking about this CDC website, it does track CFR [1]. And as I said, the CFR rate is higher than the IFR rate. Several years the seasonal flu has a CFR above 0.13%.

Measuring IFR is inherently speculative, unless 100% of the population is administered a test with no risk of false negative or positives. In order to compare the IFR of COVID-19 to the seasonal flu, we'd need to use the same estimation techniques. I've only found a few experts that have done comparisons of IFR rates of the flu and of COVID-19. The most reputable source on this reported an estimated IFR for the flu of 0.04%, but also an estimated IFR for COVID-19 of 0.2-0.3% [2]. This is "many times deadlier" if by "many" you mean 5 to 8 times deadlier. This is nowhere near the multiple orders of magnitude deadlier that was reported initially (IFR rates of 2-3% and above).

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-24/is-cor...
If there's one thing sorely lacking from the public discussion about what you mentioned, it's a balanced and thorough evaluation including reliable estimates for the effects.

The federal debt has had no observable effect whatsoever for decades, the dollar is as strong and internationally valued as ever. Climate change has not made anything measurably worse in the 3 decades people have been screaming about it. The bit about shareholder value is too unspecific.
> why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit

The complete lack of evidence is a good start.
This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt.

Terms of service had wording that made mining all data in your Facebook account sound like the intent.
Not completely, clearly people would have changed their behaviour without any lockdown.
Just trying to read a mathematical paper is like RE. You could take the approach that you try to follow every step and pause until you have the full specification, but that would take months. And more importantly, it's unlikely that you are willing or able to just do that one paper over the course of 6 months.

Or, like people do in RE, you fall back to things you know (OP knew hex, decimal and binary before he encountered the reflected codes he talks about) and you try to force the paper through your personal veil. I guess when people reverse engineer hardware you follow the routes you took (maybe taking months) the first time you took something apart.

Usually, it makes sense to do so because the reason why you read the paper in the first place is because you think that it has some connection with your own work.

In Quantum Mechanics circles, many authors have different mathematical backgrounds, so just translating what they are doing and thinking is already RE. A good example of this is logical semantics: There are countless flavours of how to write logic down, each with their own symbols and motivations. I would prefer if any logic that you end up with is the internal logic of a category, but analogously this would be like Apple forcing everyone to use their hardware connector pins.

A paper usually does have a path that is chosen by the author, but the RE component is inevitable if you want the paper to be in context with your own reasearch. Otherwise I guess it would be more like a class or university module, where you are following along, but you don't really have an intention of building on the subject matter in your own time. Science also has the disadvantage to newcomers that you don't know how much has already been done, and hence you are forced to have endless lectures to just bring you up to speed.
This is new/experimental/not-ready-for-prime-time-yet, but publicly available and works:

https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/
Seems like a good deal. I don't currently have a use for it but I can see others liking it.

Hopefully it'll also drop the price on the old cameras. Those are more interesting for AI related things because you don't really have the horsepower to process 4k on that anyway
It can go both ways; here in Portugal the government closed stuff like schools despite the National Public Health Council saying that was disproportionate.
Each director gets a vote on a company board. Being a majority shareholder gets you to control who sits on the board, but you don't control board votes directly. A company officer still has a duty towards the company as a whole and all the shareholders, even if they also control the majority of votes. Facebook is a public company, which creates additional safeguards to protect the interests of all shareholders.
don't the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Systemtap work? i'm not asking sarcastically, i haven't tried the instructions but i think i will try it in the future.
A "low code" or "no code" office would never hire me in the first place, so I'm not really scared of this. My talent lies in making hard things possible, not in the low-hanging fruit that can be done with "low code".

That said, as senior developer I've been very happy lately to get the company to use more off-the-shelf libraries (like Material UI for React) rather than coding our own stuff, lessening our development and maintenance time and letting us work on more stuff that matters instead. Of course, we can also create custom components instead if we have to.
Where are those servers?
Still... my thinking is, I'd rather a crappy baby monitor than a badly-secured device connected to wifi, and by extension, the whole world.

We do actually have a spare camera we sometimes take away, that works on Wi-Fi. I accidentally left it once at my parent's place, then travelled back home overseas. I got a notification of my baby crying desolately as I got off the plane. Turns out it was my family arguing something in the room where my daughter was staying, and the camera somehow switched itself back on. It was freaky!
"Are we really going to isolate or quarantine 4 out of 10 US adults and imagine the economy can get back on track?"

Better than everyone pulling their hair out at home. Plus, why not have people choose themselves whether they're healthy enough to take chances and go out to work?
On the other hand, I've recently had the opposite problem in Swedish. The autocorrect on my android treats å, ä, and ö not as proper letters but as a or o with diacritics. For many words with an o or a it seems to prefer words spelled the same but with å, ä, or ö in it. Even when I keep correcting it back again and again.

For some common words it doesn't do it, but for most it does. One common and consistent example is mot (towards, against) which becomes möt (imperative form of meet)
Papers on trading models that show feature importance (rather than backtest results) are more valuable.
There are a lot of major emissions sources not very affected (or even negatively affected) by people staying home, such as fossil fuel power plants, cargo ships and trucks, cattle farming, certain industries, etc.
> And presumably someone who scores 250 on an IQ test is likely to be more intelligent^ than someone who scores 200 on the same test.

Unless the former has taken the same test or some subset of the questions before. Which isn't unusual...
I like linux myself a lot. But you can't build your opinion on the software based on their linux version.
Please get the virus, and then spread it to your mom, dad and elder siblongs. Once that has happened come back to us and let us know how similar to the flu you think it is.

I had it. Its o way similar to the flu.
The UK did not shut down very hard nor early, New Zealands recently "relaxed" lockdown is basically the same has what the UK has been under
Brussels is run by a socialist/green coalition and has been doing great things for sustainable mobility.

Antwerp is run by a populist extreme right neoliberal party.
How does that not read as saying that they weren't involved in contracting?

I don't know why it doesn't look like it to you, but I see lawyer speak, not layman speak.
Lol, wrong site. You might get an answer but try stack overflow or something similar. Hope that helps..