skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the point of peatmoss's comment is that Linux doesn't lack components or even tools, they lack a cohesive ecosystem. The parts like GOjbect, or KParts, or D-Bus are present but lack cohesion and coordination. The paid teams at Cannonical, IBM/Red Hat, etc all seem to be more concerned with rewriting the core desktop shell's every other release than making a cohesive ecosystem on their chosen tools.

For example, take high DPI. You have two primary competing toolkits between GTK/QT. It took a while but QT/KDE finally added HiDPI. Great, so I could get Hi-DPI setup on KDE! Then I open Firefox and it all falls apart because GTK. Extrapolate to any other number of issues. Unfortunately, Windows 10 isn't much better wrt to HiDPI (at least a couple years back when I last used it). I think there are more different UI toolkits on Windows than Linux has. Counterpoint: MacOS has one global toolkit with message passing based objects, it was almost trivial for Apple to add HiDPI and then dark modes. GNUStep/ObjectiveC would've provided similar basis on Linux, but it never took off. Now macOS is slowly loosing cohesion, instead of ObjectiveC 3.0, they made Swift which from my perspective appears to only be good at adding bugs to the terminal app while trying to avoiding message passing (no more user hot-loadable, un-sactioned third party plugins for any program on macOS :/ ).

At this point, I vaguely dream that HaikuOS will take off or someone makes a WebOS DE for Linux that has a complete suite of tools... but like peatmoss, I'd settle for a Rust/winRT on Linux.
One problem with comparing excess deaths is that automotive traffic deaths are down, and automotive traffic deaths are a very large slice of the pie in many countries (including the USA).
Regarding 3) - should they quarantine regardless or just if the get ill?
I have a friend who works in a stroke unit and he says almost nobody is coming in for strokes. Instead some people are just suffering or dying at home. Of strokes. Not every single one of them, but some alarming and as yet unknown number.

All that sounds unrelated to Covid-19. But the reason they are not going to the hospital is because they fear going into a medical facility, for fear of Corona virus. Should these deaths be counted as Covid-19 deaths? As shelter in place deaths? Or just as strokes? I'm not sure. It's complicated to sort this stuff out.
You can do parallel computing in Node and the browser using workers. Also what features do you mean that "envy Java"?
The tax loopholes only help if you're profitable.
Right - this is just a way of helping to prioritizing who gets tested. Given that testing kits will always be a limited resource (you can't simply test everyone, everyday) it makes a lot of sense to find sub-populations who are more likely to be positive. That doesn't mean you don't test anyone else (eg. those with symptoms, those in sensitive jobs) - it just lets you use a certain percentage of your testing capacity one those people who have been in proximity with confirmed cases.

As you say, it's not a silver bullet but in combination with a slew of other approaches can help reduce the rate of transmission rate.
If you like them, you should also consider Ray Wylie Hubbard. Slightly different style, but in the same vein of truth.
Another element to insurance I haven’t seen covered here is that they have their own micro cycles somewhat independent from the macro environment, called hard/soft markets.

What happens is at some point new entrants or firms that want too grow will offer lower rates and/or loosen underwriting criteria. This forces incumbents to do the same to some extent to stay competitive (soft market).

Over time, risk and eventually losses, accumulate. This stops the loose underwriting practices as firms can no longer sustain additional losses. This allows incumbents to raise their rates (hard market).

These cycles vary by insurance product but can cause huge revenue swings year to year.
> The difference is that flu does not always cause pneumonia

Did not think I implied it did. But no, you’re right, it’s why the flu is more dangerous old people.

My understanding of fungus introduced to the lungs is that it’s also carrying bacteria. But yes, there are lots of things you can introduce the lungs cause light to severe pneumonia.

If you want to pro tip, stirring your protein powder well, if you don’t and inhale as powder it on your first sip you can have a bad couple weeks.
This means that download logs are useless for tracking.

Depends what sort of tracking you mean. Google still only proxies the image download if you open the mail, so it can be used to track opens (which Gmail likes because they want people to auto delete non-engaging subscribers). You can't track the end user's location or IP though, which may be enough for most.
Seeing this reminds me that, in 2000, the IEEE put together a list of what they considered the 10 most important algorithms of the 20th century [1]. The fast multipole method was one of them, along with the obvious heavy-hitters of FFT, quicksort, Metropolis-Hastings, and simplex.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=814...
Chicago's lockdown may not be very effective. For instance, per https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility/, there's a way smaller decrease in movement than, say, London or Paris.
The commenter you are responding to is positing the hidden mandate of the Fed is to inflate asset prices on behalf of the already wealthy. So to say the feds stated mandate is contrary to that is to say nothing.
* masks! Not balls. lol
SARS-CoV-2 is spread by droplets, which fall to the ground rapidly. Masks catch a lot of these, and slow down the rest. When coupled with six foot distancing, that has a major impact.

Airborne transmission means the virus hangs out in the air for an extended period of time. SARS-CoV-2 does not do this. Stuff like measles does.
Not normal for the majority of readers of this article.
I don't understand why there needs to be a design effort.

Other countries simply took existing designs for ventilators and shifted manufacturing capacity e.g.:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iai-defense-ministry-inovytec-...

So overall I don't see why the "design" was ever the bottleneck.
The Java implementations are typically better than their counter parts. See Kotlins when vs switch expressions in Java.
Arm's competitive edge will whither, since other companies are frantically working on RISC-V implementations!
That’s still private money, no? Well, I guess in this case it was a public uni. It in many cases it is not.
Last project activity: 5 years ago ...

Sad, because it looked promising.

However, this part seems weak:

> If the OFF-internal search function is used, search terms are untraceable to its originator, because the search request is forwarded to the next node and its results back to that node instead of directly to the originator. It is thus not possible to decide whether a node is the originating node or a node doing a search request on behalf of another node.

Being an accomplice in a crime is also a crime.
> These numbers undermine the notion that many people who have died from the virus may soon have died anyway. In Paris, more than twice the usual number of people have died each day, far more than the peak of a bad flu season. In New York City, the number has spiked to six times the normal amount.

I'm betting that in the next few years the death rate will drastically fall because the only people left will be really healthy.
Universa tail fund returned 3,600% in March
> Listen to your favorite music for free on any device.

Do you plan on adding a paywall when a listener has heard a song a certain amount? I’m a huge fan of Bandcamp, and I love that I hit a paywall when I’ve heard an album a certain number of times. Reminds me that there’s an artist behind the music and that I obviously like the album enough to buy it. Often I’ll buy the album on Bandcamp but then find it on my streaming service and listen to it there (easier for adding to playlists, etc).
If I may ask, what references would you recommend to someone interested in something like Lisp, but who has never touched a functional language before?
Schneier is correct in that the proposed method is almost worthless for effective contact tracing. However, he does not offer a viable alternative.

There have been large-scale ground-truthing experiments run in cities like Manhattan for similar types of data models where population coverage was similar to the most optimistic projections for the proposed contact tracing method. We have a lot more data on the effectiveness of this type of tracing than most proponents and bystanders know, and it provides plenty of reason to believe the bluetooth proposal is an exercise in futility. Methods that would likely produce an effective data model exist but they are much more difficult to navigate as there is no legal framework for it, though technically possible.

Discussion of contact tracing has been taken over by armchair experts who have a naive understanding of the complexities of the problem, particularly when a disease is already endemic. Technical implementations that would have broad efficacy in a country like the US are at least a year away, and several governments are aware of this. Some governments are rolling out contact tracing programs they know have low efficacy for the sake of appearances.
I loved my boss. He was openly himself and the circumstance was one such that any money he didn't pay me went to his pocket.

I understood this and had absolutely no hard feelings towards him and his honesty was one reason why I continue to respect him and vice versa.

So he tried many times to find reason to pay me less than I wanted, this was one.
>inline comments/reviews

>CI/CD integration

>merging from web interface

All of this is possible and planned for or already working on SourceHut. Remember, SourceHut is an alpha - don't write it off just yet because it's not entirely complete.

>Difficulties around git-send-email and git-am. git-send-email.io only covers half of the equation and coverage isn't complete

I intend to follow-up with git-am.io at some point, for what it's worth. And I disagree that it's incomplete: it just encourages a workflow which doesn't use In-Reply-To. It covers follow-up patches without it.

>you'll have a hard time convincing most people to give up their preferred mail client just because it's not git-friendly

My response to this is (1) you can use multiple email clients for different reasons, you don't need to give up your current one; and (2) you don't need a special email client to apply patches from lists.sr.ht, every patchset page has a little CLI command you can copy+run to fetch the patch with curl and feed it to git am.

>Rejecting a popular and arguably superior (for many if not most git users) workflow means leaving a lot of potential users on the table

Popular, yes. Superior, definitely not. But leaving that aside: I am okay with leaving potential users on the table. I'm not maximizing the possible userbase of SourceHut. I'm building a platform that embodies my development principles, for people who find those principles worthwhile.
For people getting hung up on the apples to oranges analogy: imagine you're a farmer. You're hearing reports that there's a huge surplus of oranges and everyone is cutting production. You have a lot of orange trees, so you're understandably upset by this and decide to look into it. Some journalists, politicians, and your uncle Jimmy say it's all overblown—there are about as many apples as there are oranges on the market this year. No surplus, no need to cut production.

Then Agricultural American puts out an article showing that data on oranges is being reported by farmers as oranges are picked, whereas data on apples is being estimated based on much fewer reports. The conclusion is that the apples-to-oranges comparison should be taken with a grain of salt.

This is in addition to reports that show orange yields are likely underreported based on overall measures of fruit on the market[1], as well as anecdotal reports of fruit storage being overwhelmed by oranges[2].

Ok I think we can go ahead and report this analogy as another COVID-19-related death.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[2]https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-body-bags-begin-to-fi...
The amount of times I've heard "Well, it's just analytics data, it's public anyways" from people just drives me up the wall. No, it's not public, it's still PII, you still have to guard it correctly!
WSJ editorial board carried water for the ridiculous Bush government before that. It's been the print equivalent to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity for quite some time.
> The point he is making is that the Democratic party elite have decided after the election of Donald Trump ... that we have too much democracy.

At its core, is this not fundamentally true? Not that this makes for a justification, but it is an explanation.

AFAICT, every single President of the past four decades would have handled COVID-19 better. They still would have been full of warm air, but at the very least they would have deferred to advisers. This one has been actively undermining any reasoned approach, including intelligent debate about how some of the current measures go too far, by drowning it out with cheap bullheaded ignorance.

Leaders drawn from an ordained political class get us status quo sustained corruption, but also create predictability when responding to a shared crisis. From a systematic perspective, whereby we all rely on having things administered adequately, there does appear to have been too much democracy.
Ten Years of Open Source Hardware
They didn't low ball 10%, it was more like 25%.
For whatever reason, my brother decided to adopt a really working class accent when he was about 17 - and at the time, I thought it was ridiculous. After fifteen years, I can see that it's not really just a silly affectation. It's actually him engaging with the culture he likes, and the people he likes, being who he wants to be. I don't really see anything wrong with that.
As interesting as this article is... you absolutely can compare Covid-19 deaths to Flu Deaths. It's a far better comparison than, say, the people who note that we are having a 9/11 Terrorist Attack every day. I think the fear is that people will look at the death toll alone -- but if you include timespan as a point of comparison, it becomes very helpful to developing an understanding.

But as long as we're suddenly concerned about understanding the statistics about deaths... the 40,000 people that die annually to "gun violence", over half are suicides.
I second this. Few books have affected me the way The Righteous Mind did. I read it once in 2011 and thought it was cool. On the second reading I became troubled and found myself disagreeing with much of what he said. It wasn't until the 5th reading that I understood how huge his discoveries were.
> Everybody does what they want.

As opposed to what? Everyone having their own personal sort of projects or splitting up in groups of two and three is natural in the academia research groups I’ve been in to.

What is wrong with that?
Not requiring external libraries is by large a good thing.
I am not sure if I agree with other parts, though. Personally, I consider ES6 a huge improvement when it comes to code clarity and readability. It makes it easier to write, and less error-prone. Right now it is supported by major browsers, desktop and mobile: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/.
I like TypeScript and stuff (https://p.migdal.pl/2020/03/02/types-tests-typescript.html), but I appreciate the no-Node philosophy (especially in the case of no dependencies).

If you want to continue developing it, I can connect you with Unitary Fund and Quantum Open Software Foundation.

...

Side note: I really appreciate the music notes analogy.
All the speculators saying Amazon should be making big from covid might be feeling a little low today.
I'm dubious about that claim. There are laws that require capital-cash requirements to cover claims. Maybe they put their premiums into "almost-cash" securities, but I doubt they are gambling with the money.

It's possible they are buying other derivatives to reduce their risk - or maybe other types of CDO's, etc... But if you're suggesting they are stock-picking with premiums - I find that very very hard to believe. ...and it's likely illegal.
I have to wonder whether you read the article. Your comment is technically correct but doesn't address the point that it is making: that we are not counting the apples and oranges in comparable ways.
Reverse Engineering a Japanese Sentence
The pilot repeatedly described the objects as moving erratically. This has been the hallmark description of the objects. Here is another source
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/us/pilot-david-fravor-ufo-jim...

Additionally when I saw the objects, they were moving erratically.

It’s not at all surprising that the community your talking about would come to this conclusion although wrong.
>Thinking "its not accurate enough" should not EVER be a reason to decide not to try something that could potentually help in this unprecedented situation. It may well not work well enough but we won't know unless we try!

You do know you're using this line reasoning against the guy who literally invented the phrase "security theater," right?
That depends on how busy it is. I've had to sit and wait at a cable office for 30+ min just to do a simple modem exchange.
Ok.Will definately do that...

I haven't thought about the XML actually, good catch.

Well, robots.txt should be fine though or you mean I should be changing because I removed the .html extension.

Thank you for helping out.
SoundCloud has a great discover feature and I used to use it a lot. However, recently as a listener I find it unusable with all the constant audio advertisement I get. On SoundRat there are no advertisement.

The newly added support button on SoundCloud is just a PayPal button as far as I know and does not integrate within the platform. I want to integrate the support feature as a core part of SoundRat and let supporters stand out as loyal fans. Lastly, I have been working on this before SoundCloud announced their support button ;)
Like in Pulp Fiction?
Dude. Great tips.

I'm now angry I went so long without Polyphia. My life has been a lie. I'm not worthy.

Looking forward to exploring the others.

If you need me, I'll be just over there, head banging with the other graybeards.
That's pretty cool not an expert so can't know how truly portable it is, or is it like "Visual Java" ;-)
Amazon extends work from home status until Oct. 2 for eligible employees
Pop songs were written by OpenAI’s deep-learning algorithm
One of my takeaways from his article is it sounds like he never actually tests his mortally ill patients to see if they have influenza.

Sounds like he is misleading everyone as bad as the CDC.

I had a bad "flu-like" illness in February and they diagnosed me over the phone and never tested me.

Could have been Covid, could have been the flu, could have been neither.

Even if we're not testing everyone for Covid-19 they're clearly taking it more seriously than flu.
Outside of bio/medical academia, I think the GP is very true to my experiences as well.
We already gave an inch and the government took a mile. Closing down state parks and playgrounds. Making it illegal to play with the kids next door.

I was probably pro tracking app a month or two ago, but the draconian measures taken by some governments (Michigan, Wisconsin) has changed my mind. Its going to lead to abuse abuse abuse abuse.
Definitely. My takeaway is we should be skeptical of any comparison between COVID and flu statistics.
You also have this effect where this year diagnosed cases of heart attacks and appendicitis are lower than last year. Can't blame people for not showing up at the hospital because that's where the plague is. This kind of excess death where people with serious conditions avoid hospital because of fear of disease isn't coronavirus but clearly caused by coronavirus.
Winged liquidators remaining in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
At a time when leadership is rare, Bill Gates stands tall on Covid-19
I'll be doing a series on AI and National Security
The metaphor can apply to some things, but there's no good reason as far as I can tell for us to not compare COVID-19 to influenza. Experts desperately want to be right, so they're going to publish articles like this, which are effectively saying "Hey! Look at my shiny penny!"
France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lockdown ends
They should quarantine regardless, since asymptomatic people are also spreaders. Ill people sre anyways getting quarantined even without any tracing.
In the UK we call it Mockney, Jamie Oliver being a prime representative of the phenomenon
I agree there's cases that humans will handle better, but there's also cases where the apps will do better too, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a wash (soon hopefully we'll have some actual research on this!).

For example, in most situations where you're near an anonymous stranger, manual tracing is going to have a lot of trouble. That's a _lot_ of cases. You're almost certainly not going to be able to hunt down the person you sat next to on the metro for half an hour, or a stranger who came into your shop to ask some questions yesterday. Apps plausibly could trace them.

That's before you start thinking about simple forgetfulness. Who did you sit next to in the company meeting a week ago?

Assuming people actually use contact tracing apps (TBC...), then many of those otherwise untraceable contacts can be picked up.
Recovering the password means also that someone who doesn't know it can steal it and log in to the system without the real admin noticing. Resetting the password means the admin will notice it immediately as they won't be able to use their old password. That's just one of the many practical differences between these two different terms.
Maybe, but the article is doing the exact same thing with the flu, except probably even worse because we're not systematically testing people for the flu in the same way that we are Covid-19.
The fish skin patterns looks unique, but I would rather not find anymore uses for animal products in clothing. I would prefer that humanity invest time in synthetic leathers, canvas, etc. If synthetic leather is not as "good" as the real thing, we should work on improving the technology. It is 2020 we need to move forward.
I think the story is that he's a government official, presumably operating on inside information. Thus it's a conflict of interest.

If I'm an official charged with managing public health, and I use my early/special awareness of a virus to stockpile medical supplies, I see that a basically insider trading.

You're also glossing over the fact that his job was head-of-procument. So there's no way that privately procuring PPE didn't conflict with his job of professionally procuring PPE for the government. The fact that he chooses to lie about it presumably shows he knows it's wrong.

Not sure how you could see this as non-firable, potentially criminal.
Why some people sleep better during the pandemic
HomelabOS
This was posted here recently: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

It only covers Europe but effects of Covid-19 are easy to see. For example during the peak, about 85,000 Europeans were dying per week as opposed to the normal range of 50-55K.

I don't know of a source for non-European countries unfortunately.

Until there is an international cooperation to standardize how Covid19 deaths are counted, these type of numbers are all we have for international and historic comparison.
I have this book too and I like just sitting down to read it because it's filled with cooking info. His section on beef stew emboldened me to try mixing umami ingredients in other dishes to great effect. He also has an interesting take on how to slice onions for the type of dish you're making.
Me too man. Tired of this partisan bickering. Parent obviously doesn't like the GOP, fine, but call a spade a spade.