skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of discussion about a "submerged iceberg" population of asymptomatic or lightly symptomatic infections that haven't been picked up by testing, but IMO this doesn't pass the sniff test when considering populations like Australia / NZ / South Korea. Any such population should cause a steady stream of serious cases popping up that can't be traced back to known sources, along with random community testing seeing an unexpectedly high positive rate. We're seeing no such thing.

The few studies where a large population was tested and shown to be widely infected but largely asymptomatic seem to fall into one of two camps: They used immunological tests (which are now under serious suspicion don't seem reliable) or they tested a newly infected population after the first cases were found (before the majority of infections had time to manifest symptoms.) They've also been reported misleadingly (eg. the aircraft carrier case where it was reported "80% of the crew were infected but asymptomatic" when actually 80% of the crew who tested positive were asymptomatic.)
A single case of suspected swine flu was reported so fast across whatsapp and social media. People don't understand how prevalent social media is in India and think people are just dying at homes. The BBC definitely is anti-India.
Tailscale is open source, it should be possible to set up your own server.

The hosted Tailscale product is meant for GSuite customers who want an peer-to-peer VPN with corporate SSO. Yes, you have to trust them - SSO login is inherently centralized. My company uses it, it works great.
Exactly! Instead of hoarding wealth and occasionally setting up a foundation to cure all disease or whatever, these people actually invested in their areas and built things. I feel like tech wealthy just doesn't get it. Or maybe it's cultural. It could be due to their wealth being incubated in the tech bubble too, and just not having any real appreciation for the culture beyond the narrow confines of the tech world. VCs on twitter would bear this out. They all think of themselves as paragons of knowledge, and then spend all day demonstrating how little they know.
... that should be "NHSX/Palantir" I think ...
If the US evicts its 6 million unemployed, then treats them as it does its pre-existing homeless, there will be riots.
I cut down on my coffee consumption drastically. I used to drink sometimes 6 cups a day as a student, and well into the night. Now I have two cups a day: one in the morning and one at lunch time. I find that my sleep is good because I'm off caffeine by ~23:00 when I go to sleep.

I have completely stopped alcohol, though. That was far, far more detrimental to me health than caffeine and I would encourage others to look at that first before looking at caffeine. There are many benefits of caffeine. There are none for alcohol.

I was never dependent on either drug, though. I often go without coffee when I'm travelling and it's not practical; I don't notice it. The only drug I've had withdrawal symptoms from is cannabis.
The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis, is about Jim Clark and the companies he founded at the time. It's a good read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_New_Thing
This is what's concerning all over the world.

We know that death rates with the disease vary a lot due to attribution.

We really can't get a good comparison as influenza isn't usually attributed as the main cause of death but coronavirus is.

We can only look at all cause mortality rates which is quite the lagging indicator.

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

The best we have.
Are you sure there are false positives with the serological tests they're using? As far as I've read, there are tests with only false negatives, and if I don't misremember they were the ones used for the Swedish statistical study released (and retracted) last week.
Yeah this doesn't actually connect to devices so the limit of 7 doesn't apply. Your phone just broadcasts an advertising beacon (exactly the same as iBeacon or Eddystone) and other phones listen for it.

It's easy to do on Android (though somewhat unreliable because the Android Bluetooth stack is utter shite).

On iOS it is more tricky, but as I recall it is possible if your app has a widget on the home screen. This is what Chrome has to do for the physical web:

https://google.github.io/physical-web/try-physical-web#ios
Interview with UK senior software engineer Adriana Vasiu
I thought it was the same people until I realized every thread has new commenters beside few regulars with same arguments.
And then summer ends and fall begins and we start all over again. Only longer, this time.
> I love how so many people love volunteering other peoples work for free or propose they jump through hoop in some byzantine system to make money in a way that is acceptable to you.

Yes, that's called democracy. Copyright must be a system that is acceptable to most of us. In fact, copyright itself is more "byzantine" than just having the State issue a stipend to anyone who produces a work of art - yet must we be OK with such a solution?

Similarly, Joseph Galambos considered that people who coined words were due a royalty when they were used. Is is unfair that we decide to use that work for free instead?
I read the link. They need some help with the English translation.

Note that MySQL Workbench does a good job of printing a schema diagram, even better with FKs.
That's the Pareto principle [0]: 80% of the effects come from roughly 20% of the causes (or effort, in this case).

Very hand-wavy but I think that's also the reason things like expertise exhibit a power law distribution - if as you progress each "unit" of improvement requires 4x the effort of the previous "unit", it makes sense that only about 1/4th of people will make it through. Of course that's very oversimplified but I think you get the gist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
This would fall on the opposite end of the first principles vs practical knowledge continuum of learning.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
The lockdowns were sold on “flatten the curve” — which they have done, dramatically so, if we take ex ante predictions as accurate. They were not supposed to be the new normal.
An interesting aspect is that the authority where the Swedish State Epidemologist works is the "public health agency". That is: the agency responsible for the health of the whole population. That's not irrelevant here.
Their mission is always the long term health of the population. They are not in a position to recommend actions that they belive will reduce deaths from Covid if they simultaneously believe that e.g the economic effects on the healthcare system will mean it is a net negative for the public health long term.

Meanwhile in other countries perhaps some authorities are working from shorter term ethical guidelines.

Using different views and optimizing for different goals isn't necessarily wrong. There is no "right" here. Everyone realizes that thousands will die in the coming years from things we can afford to treat today, but that we won't be able to afford if we have 15% unemployment. Whether that's part of the equation or not varies between countries and experts. In many places these decisions aren't even left to relevant expert authorities but rather to politicians who have an additional set of concerns (such as popularity) to deal with.

Note: Johan Giesecke is no longer working as State Epidemologist but his views are rather consistent with those of the current authority and the current State Epidemologist Dr Tegnell, so his views are probably shaped in this framework.
It's not a wash for her, though, which may change her decisions to actually produce the work.
> But why would anyone convert all their wealth into cash?

How would you setup a malaria fund of 10 billion, otherwise ?
Even worse, many use incompatible sockets. (As a CHAdeMO car owner, it’d be nice if Tesla switched from CCS…)
Thanks for clarifying that your attribution of this strategy to Giesecke is entirely your own invention.
I am plenty sure they did, as I started using C++ for GUI code around 1992, 4 years before Java was born.

As for the MFC, not only do CString, CArray, CDocumentView and everything CSomething depend on the heap, all the COM related classes only exist on the heap.

Nowadays even more so, given the role that COM has taken as main way for all new APIs after Vista, by building the Longhorn ideas with COM instead of .NET.

Even if it looks stack allocated, it is actually an handle to a COM/UWP instance.
Oh wow, and I can actually scroll through this one at more than 1FPS and easily see the content!
Working with API’s for low-code dummies
The poor woman played a secondary character in the 8th of 23 Pokemon movies.

She deserves better than this. Okae hosted a morning show on a major network for 18 years and it gets a passing mention.
From the article: "Yet others talk about the possibilities of the presence of a less virulent strain of the virus in India, along with the possibility that its hot weather was diminishing the contagion. Both these claims are not backed by any evidence."
Oh definitely, once the number of infectious carriers is properly under control, lockdowns can be relaxed. I just meant we can't "go back to normal" until the virus is all but eradicated and no new unexplained cases are seen for at least a couple of weeks.
Gta 5 money generator (WORKING 2020)
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India started lockdown when confirmed Covid deaths was at about 200 or 300 total. Its now at ~900 and doubling every ~10 days.
Kinda agree.

But then they failed to make the "One account all of Google" true of Gmail and Gsuite accounts (there's a long list of things you can do with one account that you cannot do with the other, and this is with Google products and features).

So it doesn't feel suprising that Google lacked the organisational-wide impetus to get this working fully for Windows and Microsoft products and features.

These kinds of projects need to be driven with very strong vision from above. It makes me think of the Yegge rant about platforms at Google, and the mentioning of the Bezos mandate on APIs https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

His Big Mandate went something along these lines:

1. All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

2. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

3. There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

4. It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.

5. All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

6. Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.

7. Thank you; have a nice day!

When it comes to making the experience right for Google accounts (of any type, anywhere)... this is what it takes. But this is precisely Yegge's rant, Google lack this.
Same repeated rehashed arguments are done for tribal recruitment. By making others more familiar and pushing agenda on unfamiliar people to be in your group.

I guess, it feels good to be acknowledged that you are correct and lead many others to the correct path.
On a related note: 2019, "Dope on Wax" was 1st in the PC 64k section.

There is a breakdown of this demo on youtube, it's roughly ~2 hours. They explained how they made this demo. Really interesting to watch.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqT0DhV9yE

Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFIyj5Yv440
What's their estimate of the period of time required to do this?
Although the system still feels far from perfect: requiring a VHS-sized control box, a lack of full simulation of natural touch and movement; it's definitely an amazing achievement. I wonder how feasible production of these would be in the future and how costly they would be. It seems like specialized tech that could run a patient thousands of dollars.
The intuition is right, and the mathematical definition relies on the intuition. It's just that people haven't been exposed to the actual definition when it comes to real numbers.

Mathematically, mathematicians prove that there is a unique number that this process goes to, (and not, say, two distinct numbers), and define the notation to represent this unique number.
> I could understand if you don't like tmux for other reasons

I love tmux and I'm primarily a keyboard user. But sometimes I like to copy a short string from one window to another. Does tmux-yank allow you to middle-click paste on a tmux window? does it allow to select to copy?
It's terrible on chrome too
You are building a passenger airliner optimized to don't crash and burn, don't worry about the cargo :)
Much of that stems from the days when Microsoft used to threaten OEMs that offered an alternative to Windows.

I don't want to use Windows. That's not because Windows is bad it's because I like Linux and want to have good Linux experience. That Microsoft has previously used try to stop that leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
The amount of unemployment benefit scales with income, and $450/wk (plus $600 from the stimulus) is the maximum, to be clear. A full time worker paid $15/hour would receive $300+1000 per week.

UI benefits table https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de1101bt5.pdf
Just read their TOS. Check this shit out:

"We do not claim ownership of your User Generated Content; however, you grant us a non-exclusive, sublicensable, irrevocable and royalty-free worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights for the full duration of those rights to use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, publicly display, exhibit, distribute, redistribute, copy, index, comment on, modify, transform, adapt, translate, create derivative works based upon, publicly perform, publicly communicate, make available, and otherwise exploit such User Generated Content, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Disney Products and on third-party websites, services, applications, and/or platforms), in any number of copies and without limit as to time, manner and frequency of use, without further notice to you, without attribution (to the extent this is not contrary to mandatory provisions of applicable law), and without the requirement of permission from or payment to you or any other person or entity."

So, @disneyPlus is a platform for The Disney Products. So if someone tweets some fanart with that handle, Disney is free to monetize on it?
So in the era of containers and kubernetes and devops “if you have to ssh in you’re doing something wrong” does learning tmux still have high value?
> But with all that, Giesecke's approach is more like getting the whole thing over with quickly,

Wait are we saying that Giesecke is arguing for an (even) more relaxed approach than is currently happening?

I assumed he was arguing for the status quo in Sweden, because hospitals are effectively at capacity now, and have been stable there for a while. A significant increase in new infections would be pretty bad so I don't think he's arguing for "business as usual".

If I understand him correctly then what he's saying is that it's not good to minimize the number of infected, but rather one should only ensure hospitals aren't overwhelmed. A good outcome is if hospitals are never overwhelmed and a significant portion (enough to make a difference) have immunity. A poor outcome would be one where either people die from lack of available care or one where the outbreak is contained through means that aren't sustainable until a vaccine is available.

Obviously if there are long term effects on the health care system from the situation where hospitals are not overwhelmed but just overworked so they quit or are burned out (e.g. many countries won't be able to give healthcare workers summer holiday this year) then that needs to be taken into account as well of course.
What about parody? South park made fun of Mickey mouse a few times and they didn't change his name. Say I make a cartoon crackhead mickey where he's on the pipe and bangs hookers. Then I want to release a toy of my parody. Im joking but I don't think anyone has ever released toys of parody. Parody is under fair us,would that also extend to merchandise stemming from the parody?
I didn't know about that one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy

Only knew about this proof for Wyoming:

https://imgur.com/gallery/oV9wo
Avoid & protest!

Google wants it's own version of the Internet.... a paywalled modern AOL.
Exactly. The estimated $25 billion dollars a day the lockdown is costing the economy is real economic output not a balance in a ledger.
People also forget that India has a lot of experience in handling epidemics. Nipha virus(2016?) was quickly reported and the spread was drastically reduced.

However, I still am afraid that India might top the list of infections overtime. Its harder for a developing country to maintain a balance between economy and lockdown.
I love B-trees. Probably my favourite data structure. But do yourself a favour and read Knuth's treatment of them.
Ask HN: Why are so few developers with ML background interested in trading?
As someone who has briefly worked in HFT, I am curious why so few people coming from am software development (and especially AI/ML) background seem to be interested in trading. I found it to be a really interesting and intellectually challenging problem.

Recent ML techniques are being applied to a lot of fields, but I rarely come across someone working on trading. When I compare beating pros in Starcraft or Dota 2 from Deepmind/OpenAI to the complexity you are dealing with in trading, I think there some relatively long-hanging fruit to be picked up in the latter, all while working on an interesting real-world problem.

Is it because there is a cultural gap? Do developers believe finance is bad and want to "make the world a better place" instead? Any other reasons?
Good luck to them.
On the desktop?
Optimizing a system for the 1% of 1% of 1% is not the greatest good.
I am in Germany and am lucky working remote for my local company.

I talked to my neighbor on Sunday. She is a cleaner working for a subcontractor cleaning schools. She wasn't able to work for 9 weeks (first there were holidays, then Corona stay at home rules). She isn't being paid and her boss does not go through the official process of getting government subsidiaries for her. She is just being left hanging.

Yeah her boss is an ale. It would cost a little bit of time and get all his employees 60% of their net income. He just isn't doing it.

Her sons earn okayish - so they help her out. And we do neighborly community help. Non the less. People left and right are being left behind. Even with government interventions in place.
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Hope this will be helpful...
> After he doubled the company profits during his tenure.

That's what somebody in his position would claim. A more objective statement would be: "The company profits doubled during his tenure".

Besides, we have no idea what would have happened if a Pichai-style leader professing love for open source and sound understanding of the role of the Internet appeared instead.
I personally wouldn't say that example fits the "getting in the way" part of the definition.

As a user, I've been using SQL for many years and it's never been in the way. It's really just a syntactic alias, so I can't imagine it really impedes the work of the folks maintaining RDBMS's under the hood.

But, I wouldn't argue either. Like you say... I suppose that, however tiny, the burden is non-zero! =)
Gorgeous, thank you! Would recommend people check it out.
> In an experiment, we are carrying out a repeatable recipe in order to try to falsify a hypothesis. We are not merely theory-crafting, working to explain what we see, but we are trying to disprove what we have theorized.

Actually, no. Not sure where you got the idea that an experiment has to falsify a hypothesis.
What percentage of the 'working population' do you estimate is involved in necessities as opposed to conspicuous consumption, superfluous intermediating, red queen standoffs, speculation, empire building and active or collateral sabotage?
Indeed. But NZ, unlike most places on the planet, could probably live with travel restrictions for 18 months without too much problems. A big rescue program for the tourism industry would be needed, but apart from that it seems doable. If Australia could manage the same thing, then they could have a common travel area (which would also help with the tourism somewhat). People flying in from elsewhere would need a long quarantine.

Unless they believe that's sustainable for 18 months, their whole strategy of eradication wouldn't be feasible, so one would have to assume this is the plan.
Then it could react to a middle-click inside a pane by pasting the text of the clipboard.
> Swedish statistical study released (and retracted) last week

I don't know any details about that specific study, or why it was retracted etc, so any links to more info appreciated!

I was writing about the general problems existing when there are little actual positives, and also about the known or maybe somewhere less mentioned issues.
It's because the rigorous mathematical definition is more subtle. It's defined as the smallest real number such that repeating this process (putting more 9's in the end) can't result in a number that's greater than it. So as long as you have a number that's smaller than 1, there's a gap there, and repeating the process of adding 9's will eventually give you a number that lies in that gap.