skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it, too, has "flattened the curve" of infections.

It‘s sad that the article uses the term in such a sloppy way. NZ was aiming for containment and eradication from the beginning.

There are three common strategies to fight the Corona virus:

„Herd immunity“ - Naturally letting it run out of steam. The problem is that your health system might get overwhelmed. Therefore „flatten the curve“. Advantages: new infections imported from abroad don’t matter; cost of the counter measures to society is minimized.
Disadvantage: virus damage is maximized.
Sweden is the classic example. GB, NYC probably.

„Dancing“ - try to keep the numbers low but live with fact that you cannot eradicate the virus. If necessary bring the cases down by using the „hammer“ first. Advantage: imported cases can be contained; possibly time will bring better treatment/vaccination. Disadvantage: expensive measures for indefinite time.
JP, HK

Eradication - Advantage: back to normal if achieved. Disadvantage: not robust against imported cases. Possibly very expensive/unachievable.
NZ

As one can imagine, changing from one strategy to another at first gives you the disadvantages without the advantages.
I would imagine Reddit, being a forum of threaded posts, has far, far, far more conversational interactions than Facebook where everything is basically one-shot, no threading. You want to train a convo bot on conversations.

I doubt there's much more to it.
5.2 MB is for the whole set, if you are using this font in a project, you will most likely set on one type of font format (.eof, etc.) and one weight (extra-thin, bold.)

The font file ranges from 18Kb to ~600kb, with most in the ~50kb, which is reasonable for the simplicity.
Have you intentionally exposed yourself to your previous triggers (assuming you had them)?

How long has it been since you had the zoster vaccine?

Were you of an on-label age for the zoster vaccine at receipt or was it off-label usage? Put another way did you receive Varivax or Zostavax dosing and were you in the on-label group (1-50 for Varivax and 50+ for Zostavax)?

The data isn't great but there's a fair bit of anecdata as you report and in your link that suggests there might be some protection against HSV from the VZV vaccines, possibly based on genetics or age of recipients.

Also your link was broken for me but the below might work.

https://proceedings.med.ucla.edu/index.php/2016/03/10/varice...
Interesting, reading this I was thinking that I would have indeed set different goals. I would have strived to create a good app for me first, and to make sure that people can use it and that they find it useful too. That would have been my goal. Not a 50$/month customer.
I like the 24/7 Youtube Podcast to learn Japanese. They introduce the basics and even go through everyday activities in a video, such as ordering a bus ticket.

https://youtu.be/wU_OSPWe5sU
Hi Don. :)
They're long gone.
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sohbet odalarına bağlantı kurarak parasız sohbet etmeye hemen başlayabilirsin. Tüm kızlar burada sohbet ediyor peki sen neredesin.
Around a month too late for me. I discovered the open source FreeOTP+ which had this feature when I needed it.
hah, not only are they copying Instacart's business model, they also copied the naming (https://www.instacart.com/store/express)
The fastest S/370 (pre-S/390) machine in the line was, I think, the 3090; these were multiprocessors, but a single processor had a 69 MhZ clock rate. Even if you assume it retired one instruction per cycle (and I'm not at all sure it did), it wouldn't be a shock for Hercules on an RPi to manage that.
If recent British PM history is any indication, Johnson won't hold the position for too long.
> If your answer is "the entire world is stupid,"

I have never say that and it's not correct to suggest it. Lots of people are abusing other people with tracking and they have a financial interest to say that the law is bad and to act in bad faith. And they are doing it.
The new LG Gram laptops are also 16:10, and are a fraction of the weight of the XPS laptops.
You can't implement carts, persistent or otherwise, without cookies (localstorage et al is a type of cookie), because clicking on a link would throw away the cart data. If people click "add to cart" then of course they want you to track the cart contents; that doesn't give you right to track anything else.
Not sure how this is going to work, even the standard service is completely booked until next week at my local Walmart, unless they'll reserve some drivers for the 2-hour service.
Sounds similar to this:

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

"The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes."
I can confirm that uBlock Origin blocks the notification dropdown on Firefox. Does the dropdown get served by the ads server?
My thoughts:

* Some teams do this already with git data...but if it's free as part of a team's development platform then maybe the less sophisticated managers who don't know how to interpret the data will misuse it?

* If the editor is heavily instrumented then even more granular "productivity" metrics could be extracted, like time spent with the tab active, etc. which aren't available with a vanilla install of other editors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hopefully once the FFI bindings happen in Rust, yeah! We had someone produce a Go library right when the project started 3 years ago, but it's SUPER dated now and wasn't really supported much.

https://github.com/funjack/golibbuttplug
Even in countries hit hard by it, those will not develop herd immunity because there are enough people able to work from home.

This is especially true in affluent tech hub areas like Silicon Valley and Seattle. So even if the country hits the 0.7 infection rate threshold (or whatever), it's still unlikely to be able to open completely.
You're starting with a false premise.

The basis of your argument is: All data collection is bad.

Therefore, in your model of the world, an evil conspiracy of bad actors are looking to strategically undermine the law with various dastardly convoluted schemes. I understand why you're arguing that, given the premise you're starting with.

However, the majority of business on the internet are not doing evil things with your data. They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers, allow for you to keep items in a shopping cart, etc. If they are providing better services to their customers, they make more money and the customers are happier. It's a win win for everybody involved.

Could it simply be that, most businesses put cookie popups on their sites because they don't want to get fined? Not because they are embroiled in an elaborate scheme to undermine the law?

Could it be that the EU should have created a smarter law that would actually help people be more aware of data tracking? Instead of stupid popups?
MS constructing a path between different levels of the development stack. They're integrating languages they control with their super popular IDE with their insanely popular source code repository with their cloud provider.

My bet is they won't stop you from going off the path (e.g. using VS Code to push to Bitbucket and deploy to AWS), but they will make the MS path the easiest and the default.

VS Code in GitHub is a perfect example of this. Every integration makes it easier and more appealing to your CTO to Just Use Microsoft TM.
The downvotes are no doubt because you've violated the site guidelines with name-calling and flamebait. The damage that does is more important than the value of the information you're adding, so downvotes and flags are correct. It's too bad, because there's the kernel of a good comment there too.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended? It's not hard if you want to, and you're a good user otherwise. We've had to ask you this many times.
the US is the lawless West, where anything on a clickthru is legal and binding for in perpetuity

Clickthrough agreements being enforceable is an abuse of copyright law, exactly the opposite of "lawless".
how do you decide to pivot on a feature/goal if you focus only on the daily improvements? how do you connect the daily improvements to something bigger?
It's not like I did any market research, but I recall people liking the Windows 8 interface on phones and tablets. My personal impression from playing with Windows phones in stores was very good. Opinions were (predictably, IMO) less positive for the same interface on desktops and laptops.
I do not like headlines that say 'scientists show link between x and y'. It sounds too causal. Rather, journalists should try to write 'scientists observed x correlates with y'
Toxic JavaScript Bundler Community Exposed
May I also suggest ButtFace?
If you can figure out a way to get a 3 year old to care about what utensils they use or who's cake they finish, you're probably on track to solve even bigger problems than this!
It's up to you if you want to stick unnecessary notices on your website. If your lawyers tell you to do this then do it, or get better lawyers.

Some lawyers make restaurants get waivers from customers before they order steak that's not fully cooked. It doesn't mean it's necessary (and I would definitely not eat at one).
Enabling GPU acceleration in Firefox 76 under Ubuntu 20.04 with Wayland
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless. A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil.

From Ecclesiastes, one of the few parts of the Christian scriptures that still interests me.
I agree with you about convenience of ordering. This was often the case when I was in the US. But in canada it's nice that all stores I frequent accept credit cards, and all of them work with apple pay, so no fumbling with cash.

Probably I'm not like most app users are. If I know a few different types of restaurants in the area, and I know specific items I like there, I'll just order the same thing again and again until I move elsewhere.

If I wanted a new place, new dish every time, probably Delivery apps would be a good way to discover
express isn't a particularly novel brand term.
Oh no, I don't mean to diminish the achievement on display here. It's very impressive how many of these could pass for original, hand-drawn artwork, and in such a wide variety of styles too.
I've been coding for a bit more than two years, then I decided to finally learn vim.
I honestly don't know how I did before, it's just so satisfying!
It's not even as hard as they say.
+1 for vim adventure, definitely great learning ressources!
A recent example of a steel rocket is Astra.

I don't know why you think that cost saving measures are different from measures that "make sense".
Javascript controlling something you put inside yourself or your partner. What could possibly go wrong?
For the 4 months before COVID-19 shelter in place, I was working on a paper about remote intimacy and proxemics, as a lot of the work I'm doing on Buttplug has really interesting implications in digital proxemics.

Shelter in place started a week after I turned the paper in for publication. Now I feel like I was just staring at the sun for months, and am trying to figure out how to deal with what I thought were projections being realities.

It's pretty fucked up.
Agile and Intelligent Locomotion via Deep Reinforcement Learning
I had a good laugh yesterday at their store. They have finally put one-way stickers on the floor to indicate aisle directions. The only people I saw going the wrong way were wal-mart order pickers.
Discouraging isn't something that affects next quarter's earnings. Reducing the cost of water-related repairs, warranty replacements etc., though.
You can't prevent 100% of infections. We could do a whole lot better than we're doing now. Getting rid of the moniker "cold sore" would be a great start.
And strangely enough, Microsoft is currently the only big three Cloud Vendor which you likely wont be competing against.

If you are doing anything on the Web, you are competing against Google ( and Facebook ). If you are doing Retail, e-commerce, you are competing against Amazon.

Microsoft is trying to turn the Cloud into its new OS before Amazon does it. But from the way things stand this will likely never happen.

So as far as I can tell I have no problem with that strategy at all.
There's an open source version of https://commento.io/ for self-hosting a comment system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210697 lists several others like https://github.com/posativ/isso
It seems to me that they will use some of the extra money to pay more drivers.
At one point, I was helping a great speaker build her first conference, which was a smashing success. When we turned on the ticketing platform on, orders started pouring in

In parallel, I was building my first side project, or more precisely I was starting to add pricing for the first time to a side project

As a result I had, at the same time, a stream of several thousands of euros, and MY FIRST 19€ from something I BUILT MYSELF

I was incredibly more proud of the latter. There is a sense of pride, of accomplishment, in thinking that you've built something useful enough for someone to open their wallet for you

Good job on your part and keep sailing!
That's my point. If your end goal is to have zero cases and not just a small manageable number, that will require severe ongoing restrictions - for example, probably no travelers from Europe or the US for years. It won't be just a matter of having good coronavirus infrastructure in place.
This HBR article "Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies", while not entirely about metrics, has some great recommendations for how leaders can avoid these pitfalls:

https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-...

Their top recommendations are: A) Communicate the logic behind what you are trying to achieve; B) Make strategy execution a two-way process, not top-down; C) Let selection happen organically, through systems that cause strong initiatives to rise up to to the top; D) Find ways to make change the default, to help move beyond the status quo and existing habits
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Police Convicting People in Secret Courts in the U.K
So there's actually a startup behind Buttplug! Mostly consulting focused at the moment. I hope one day to be able to add job postings. :D
fair. the psychology is interesting though. people almost never want food 30 minutes from now. we want food now, when we think of it.

but "now" is contextual. empty time between desire and fulfillment is dreadful, to be avoided. waiting for delivery still burns background brain cycles keeping tabs on it (not to mention how much harder it is to decide and order via an app) and therefore isn't a pancea in itself. this is especially true when you want to put those otherwise wasted cycles to work on something more important.

if you go to pick it up, you're making progress toward the goal, and "now" stretches out along that task. it feels somewhat like you're getting food "now", even 30 minutes later. you don't feel that same sense of waste. but if you're already wasting time (like watching tv), then the strain of waiting isn't nearly as consequential or burdensome.

in any case, if i lived in a more suburban area, i'd still likely rather drive and pick up the food (as we did growing up) than get it delivered. it's still often faster, fresher, and cheaper than delivery apps, and you don't have the parking issues that can make pickup harder in urban areas.
Google tells employees they can’t expense food when working from home
If only there were tablets of 15" Surface Book size or larger . I don't need laptop, but I'd be happy to have larger ipad or Surface Book
Trump admin’s botched pandemic response detailed in whistleblower complaint
Right, and now you get sued by a group claiming that you don't need carts for non-logged in customers. Do you need to provide carts for non-logged in customers? No, says the lawyer, you selfishly used cookies to track people without consent in order to improve your sales. Or you can just throw up a cookie disclaimer to cover your ass.

Sure, the cart is perhaps a trivial case. But persistent tracking is also used to prevent abusive behavior, and other things that aren't strictly necessary. The risk that someone might try to claim that these are unnecessary far outweighs the cost of throwing up a cookie disclaimer. Thus, cookie disclaimers become pointless through their ubiquity.

Reply to your comment, since HN is rate limiting my work VPN:

> That's not it works. Someone complains to the Information Comissioners Office (ICO). ICO determine if the complaint is valid and will get in touch with the site owner to help them come into compliance.

And then they get sued if they don't come into compliance. This is just elaborating extra steps.

> There is no such thing.

> You have to make unecessary data collection and tracking opt in. You can't have a notice that says "we might do x unecessary data collection and/or tracking" and make the user click it or go away. You need to be compliant, or you need to not serve the European market.

Right, and websites don't display content unless this supposedly unnecessary data collection is opted into. Because nobody wants to risk being on the wrong side of ambiguous restrictions on necessary and unnecessary tracking. You insist that websites have to display content regardless. Reality demonstrates otherwise - this is a practice sites do all the time.

Again, cart's aren't actually necessary. They make it easier for users to buy multiple items, but you can make cart-less checkouts by having customers select all items on a single page. Thus, by adding cookies to implement a cart without consent you have violated user privacy for reasons unnecessary to provide your service.
To be fair, that churn also means the system you get when you install Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu is almost entirely Gtk3 or something built with Gtk3 in mind. You don't get this weird combobulation of utilities built with different UI toolkits with different kinds of scrollbars (and different levels of support for high dpi, touch screens and scroll events) because the old stuff "works" and we lost the event viewer source code ten years ago.

I guess the other chunk of this is the development model seems to prevent that sort of fragmentation within these larger products. The broader app ecosystem is a separate story, and I realize that's most of what you're bothered by, but having that core system be consistently modern is a big thing on its own. And to get there it seems like you kind of have to sacrifice one for the other.
What I've always wanted was to be able to easily browse code on Github:

* a file tree (do-able via the octotree browser plugin)

* clickable functions (Github is doing this on some projects in some languages I've noticed)

* caller tree. Xcode is one of the only navigator doing this, you can see the whole hierarchy of callers and go through them easily.

What we're getting is something really cool, but it does not bring the caller tree function. It looks like this:

https://holko.pl/public/images/xcode-search/call-hierarchy.p...
Yup, patent expired in August 2018 (I did a lot of research and consulting work on that, it's a huge story in and of itself). Of course, these days the landscape is death by a million tinier patents.
You can't blame Walmart for that, that's case everywhere, from local supermarkets to Whole Foods delivery. All deliveries are out at least a week due to everyone avoiding going out because of covid.
I would like to echo WhatsApp groups as a news source. I don't own a TV, don't do twitter and keep Facebook for the odd monthly visit. WhatsApp groups keep informed. The best group is my the one made up of people who went to same boarding school. What's great about this group is you get both sides of the story without anyone leaving in huff. Somewhere down the middle is the real news. I find you can't have similarly discussions out in the open.
I assume people bought this with the assumption of device lifetime support.
Right, and the easiest way to fix it is to throw up a cookie disclaimer and forget about it. So disclaimers become ubiquitous.

Are you familiar with Proposition 65 in California? Any product of business location that has any detectible amount of carcinogens needs to disclaim that it potentially contains carcinogens. Among other things, gas stoves and roasted coffee both contain trace amounts of carcinogens. So most restaurants and coffee shops display Proposition 65 warnings. Said warnings have become so ubiquitous that nobody cares about them. The same scenario is playing out with cookie disclaimers.

> Except there's no such thing as a cookie disclaimer as I said in another comment. Extra tracking/data processing has to be opt in, and you have to provide the service to the user even if they don't opt in, so you can't just throw up a notice that says you might not be compliant because you still need to be compliant.

Yeah, they do exist. And you can find them on plenty of sites that block content unless the disclaimer is accepted. You may be of the mind that this is not complaint with the legislation, but reality demonstrates otherwise.

> Prop 65 is different. The cookie law is like saying "if you sprinkle extra carcinogens in your product then you need to disclose it".

This is making the same error as the washing hands analogy. This ignores the fact that cookies are necessary to power user-facing features.
Most of those comments are so human/Redditor that I'm now convinced at least 25% of Reddit comments come from bots. Plenty of these stupid interactions are at least as lucid/lame as standard Redditor banter/arguing.
You quarantine for that long. NZ is easily isolated, and self sufficient. As long as the deaths keep mounting elsewhere in the world NZ populous might be happy to have no international flights for 24 months.
Here are examples from IE3 and Netscape 3: https://twitter.com/uygarr/status/1003784413644316672
I would love to have this stuff in theory but in practice, it hasn't worked for me.

I'm responsible for about 15 different Rails apps. These apps were built over the last 8 years and many have some nasty dependencies that make setting up a dev environment for them a pain. Or running tests a pain or whatever.

So many no one has touched in years but then some bug needs to be addressed in them. Today I have to get the app running again on my machine and there's always some silly timesink that makes the trivial change take too long.

For me ideally, I'd have two docker style images, one production, one test/development that just adds the dev resources to the production image. And then I could jump into any editor and see the changes live online without even installing docker on my machine.

Having a full dev system online means I can make changes from my phone, or really any internet connected device.

At this point, I don't have any interest in using such a system for my day to day work. But for my oddball stuff a well designed one would be great.
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Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Currently Experiences Issues with Google? (May 6th 2020)
I am having an issue with all google URLs. Is anyone else? Also how do you think this will result in moving things back to more local rather than outsourcing everything to google fonts, or other 3rd parties?
AI Summarizes Scientific Papers
One more thing that stands out about the Go... This falls under Windows being a mess, but I want to second what someone else in the thread called out: the software keyboard is just frickin' terrible. "No one on the team must actually use this at home" bad.
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They offer paid support and hosting.