skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure why you are getting so much heat for this. There are several countries, including some with land borders, that have successfully reduced new cases to a trickle. There's ample evidence that severe restrictions can basically eliminate Covid-19 spread.
If there ends up being a NZ-AU bubble, as is being talked about, that is likely to allow some tourism. That might grow to include other Asia Pacific counties with good virus stats.
>This was avoidable. Tens of thousands of deaths were avoidable. Multiple countries totally avoided catastrophe, and the U.S. did not.

Wait until 2022 and the economic fallout before you praise anyone too highly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888

30 million people dead from hunger so we could keep a bunch of old rich people alive for another few years.
New Zealand is as close to "contained" as is possible to get without a vaccine. Pop the cork, for goodness sake. There's not a lot of good news to go around.
Why would he have spent the month of February doing nothing except holding rallies and golfing if he didn't think it was a hoax?
ha! I forgot about how big a deal the priuses were back then. Remember the whale-tail license plates? https://www.sgvtribune.com/2017/09/22/after-20-years-califor... If you sat on a busy suburban corner, you'd find 1 in 5 cars to be a particular-color prius with a whale tail. :)

I also totally agree that it's mostly the newcomers' barefaced pursuit of wealth and becoming "elite", that's driving this shift. People used to want to move to the bay because that's where UNIX geeks and internet enthusiasts went to find like-minded individuals (after Bell's decline) and get funding. Now it's where the aspiring class goes to join the top 10%, and the goods and services cater to it.

Last time I went back (immediately before the whole COVID situation), my SO and I did a road trip from LA to Sacramento, staying mostly with family along the way. We found San Luis Obispo and the various towns between it and Santa Barbara to be varied and delightful (Los Osos, Solvang, Avila & Shell Beach). Cambria also seemed nice, but we blazed through it. The little communities west a north of Santa Cruz, in the mountains also have a special place in my heart. Next time we're back, I'll try to visit SD.

However, I can't help but notice that all of these towns are smaller and much less of a mixing pot than the greater San Jose area, though. I thought one of the coolest parts of my early life was how it was extremely normal to be surrounded by people of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds (I went to a public school), and also how normal it was to dream big (social mobility was all around you). Maybe it's a time and place thing, and it doesn't come together very often.
Curiously, you do not need memory virtualization if all you want is memory protection and process isolation: this can be achieved by a simpler piece of hardware that just ensures that a range of the upper bits of the memory address used by the process matches a certain pattern, or tag. This effectively partitions the physical RAM.
Also was below the fold for me, below a medium advertisement. ;-p
Give Azure NetApp Files a test drive. World of difference.
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It's wouldn't be too hard to build. Clash types are already required to derive Generic. You could take all those definition and use the Haskell Generic API to generate a device tree.
I thought in this system we have, companies did what consumers wanted?
New Zealanders will be able to patronize their own tourist industry, as a start. Then there is talk of allowing travel between Australia and New Zealand, because Australia also has low case numbers. Other countries also are getting to low case numbers, so those could also be added to the list in time.

Maybe even tourists "from anywhere" could be allowed to visit if they just agree to isolate upon entry for N days first. Private hotels and resorts could offer isolation packages. For many tourists, travelling to New Zealand is already expensive so they usually come for longer because it's a once-in-a-lifetime trip... adding N days of isolation to the start of the trip might not be so bad, especially if there are good deals to be had.

For me, the biggest question is whether visitors will be able to get travel / health insurance to cover them in New Zealand. I suppose the New Zealand government could sell such insurance, or they could back a private insurer.
You ... are not ... Instagram.

Okay. Get over it.

Python is fine. Threads are fine. Go is fine. Clojure is fine. Java is fine. PHP is ... okay I won't go that far. :)

You fix the problem when the cost required to fix the problem is finally less than the opportunity cost of fixing something else.
yeah. to be fair those are websockets which are sort of the same thing but not really (and performance optimization can be made more easily since the server [mostly] decides when to push stuff)
New Zealand didn't "avoid it" either. We closed down our border, went in to physical isolation for a long enough period to get things under control, and implemented both a testing regime and contact tracing. None of these have been cheap or easy.
You forgot "I personally built it from source using a compiler I personally built from source with a micro-compiler that I handcoded in assembly on a computer that I assembled from transistors myself."
A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering.

-- Albert Einstein
> In reality, a multi-millionaire might not qualify as the top 1% in household income due to their reliance on capital growth instead of straight income. One might see a million dollar increase in net worth, while paying no taxes on it, and then using that million dollar as collateral to help finance more and more growth. The only tax you might end up paying might be capital gains tax of 20%, or even 15%, eventually, while if it was household income you would pay 45% in taxes. The shift of income from dividends to capital gains for the wealthiest is not reflected in your statistics, and so I don't think they can be used to answer my earlier comment.

Except this was true during WW2, also. You have to do an apples-to-apples comparison of what the top 1% of income earners paid then vs now. The shift in income to capital gains tax doesn't matter since the capital gains tax is the same, and the shift would have simply happened quicker with income taxed the way it was.

Also, collateralized loans don't change anything besides simply delaying when the tax is paid. One needs to realize some gain somewhere to be able to pay back the loan eventually.

> The data in your source indeed does not seem to consider capital gains tax, as they seem to reflect the top tax bracket on average for different states and locales, whereas if capital gains were considered in relation to the state in which they are realized, it would certainly be much lower.

Yes, but capital gains taxes have been the same, so in effect this source undercounts the intensity of this effect. It doesn't matter if there are more multi-millionaires today that do not qualify as the "top 1% of income earners", because they would pay the same capital gains tax then vs now.
Wow, it's the Court of Chancery all over again.
> What's the end-game here, assuming the disease goes endemic in the rest of the world (as seems likely)

Test and trace. With cases near zero, it's very feasible to test every inbound flight (or require test results from the passengers) and every potential contact of every new case. When the likelihood of an infected person going undetected goes down far enough, R0 goes from >1 to <1 and outbreaks shrink over time instead of spreading.

This works. It's not cheap, but it's a lot better than trying to ration hospital resources in a pandemic outbreak.
My god, that is brilliant!
I have used emacs for decades so I do not see the need for a big restart, but your question does remind me of something RMS said years ago. I cannot find the exact quote, but the essence of it was that any editor that offered the programmability of emacs was worthy of the name regardless of its keybindings, etc. In that sense I do not believe there would be any problem with emacs following the model of Fortran; it can look and behave quite different, but at its core it has to be open and accessible for the user to extend and adapt.
What shocks me is how unusable search engines are becoming.

Maybe we need to bring back human-curated directories and webrings.

And extensions that fix unusable web sites like Medium.
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IDK but the mod_wsgi, although there seems to be a ton of documentation... It's way harder to install than a virtual environment, python and django. I love doing backend stuff in python and jinja but I fucking hate setting up wsgi on apache. It really makes me love php again.
> Matrix is federated and individual servers can be run by volunteers/individuals for whom EARN IT would not apply.

It would apply to them if they were or served US citizens, which would mean that nobody in the US could get encryption, which is exactly what might happen with Signal.
Good points, but usually when we talk about testing in the realm of engineering, it's a means of verifying something is within the bounds it was designed for... not just to see what happens.

We don't run test suites on our software to see what it does. We run test suites to validate it operates as it is supposed to.

I think the way you described testing is more in line with tinkering and research rather than engineering. It's experimentation, not testing.

When the outcome is unknown and unreliably unpredictable, it's research (tinkering). When it's predictable and has a known, repeatable outcome, it's engineering.
Not only did NZ get a lot of tourists, we also had a large diaspora who ran for home when the pandemic hit. In fact it's mostly the latter who imported COVID19 into NZ.
One nit-pick.

Per Wikipedia, "member stations derived 6% of their revenue from federal, state and local government funding, 10% of their revenue from CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities"

NPR is most certainly not 'free'.
Also check Zoom while you are at it.
CalendarServer [1] is good.

[1] https://www.calendarserver.org/
I don't trust the privacy of any of those services, but there is a huge difference between "the government can subpoena information, or do targeted sniffing if you dont encrypt anything" and "we have a cron job set up that send everything directly to a government server for the express purpose of suppressing speech"

To be clear, those services are lame for being as untrustworthy as I believe they are, but let's not equate the two.
> The underlying rules are not simple either.

They are. By the principle of equivalence, it is just mapping the Lorentz frame onto curved spacetime.

pg. 386, "Gravitation", Misner

> actors in the market simply do not act as one can accept in any way

If other actors are acting irrationally, others can make money off of them. There are always smart people looking to make money off of irrational people, to the latters' detriment. Hence it is self-correcting.

> knowledge from every actor is imperfect

Imperfect knowledge is a common reason given for free markets not working. This is not true at all - another word for "imperfect knowledge" is "risk", and risk is certainly priced in everywhere.

> not perfectly fungible

Another word for this is "friction" and it is priced in to supply & demand, it is not separate from it.

> no matter which definition of supply and demand

I prefer not to make up my own definitions of terms in order to win an argument. I'll stick with the standard one.

> the laws of supply and demand aren't being followed

Your preconditions are incorrect, and hence your conclusion isn't, either.
I'd say a better alternative would be to allow people who don't care about cookie tracking to opt out entirely from the consent popups. It wouldn't change anything for you but it would be a big improvement for people like me who don't mind tracking and are just annoyed by the popups. Too bad that it's now illegal...
I mean, the pizza and beer offer also presumably includes spending time hanging out with your friend, the value of which cannot be equated with money.
Or it could be Rambox with all of those!
That is if you allow backups, and considering 99.9% of messages are unimportant faff, there's not much reason to.

I changed phones a while ago. Lost hundreds of thousands of messages. Didn't inconvenience me in the least. Anything important is on less ephemeral services like email or backed up manually.
GitHub has an offering you can run on your own servers: GitHub Enterprise Server
increasing efficiency isn't going to help wildfires in Australia, reduce the amount of plastic in the pacific or save any glaciers but wow, congrats on getting shoes for $11 instead of $16
New Zealand had over 250,000 foreign visitors(excluding Oceania) in Jan 2020, and over 2.1 million in the Year ending December.
How does this compare with the countries that didn't avoid mass deaths?

Here is a list of places visitor came from:

Asia
China, People's Republic of
Hong Kong (SAR)
Indonesia
India
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Taiwan
Viet Nam
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Switzerland
Germany
Denmark
Spain
France
United Kingdom
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Sweden
Americas
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
Chile
United States of America
Africa and the Middle East
United Arab Emirates
Israel
South Africa

I see this said a lot "New Zealand is a small island nation far from the world, so what works there is not applicable to other places" I never see anyone giving any evidence to this claim that there was not much travel to New Zealand. As far as I can see there was a lot of international visitors.
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/international...

https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/?filters=Tour...
I'm a little disappointed we haven't collectively stolen 'mis-en-place' from professional chefs.

Working in chaos is just masochism. There will be enough chaos you can't control, don't add accidental chaos to the system.
It's probably exactly your concern about the ability for apps with network access to upload user data that led the Android team to introduce the locations permissions for BLE identifier scanning.

Without a location requirement, an app could claim to use only Wi-Fi and BLE permissions, yet it could combine beacon scanning and data access to de-anonymize user locations.

This permission requirement was introduced in Android 6.0 (see the release notes[1]) in October 2015, so it's been around for a while.

If you have some suggestions around how to improve the tracking of permission usage (static analysis? run-time requests (preferably avoiding times when users are under duress and likely to click 'OK' by default)?) then you may wish to file some requests with them and/or contribute to other projects that you feel are taking a better approach.

Your concerns around trust in app developers -- regardless of whether they are a government or any other entity -- are best handled by two means:

- Open sourcing the code (which NHSX have done)

- Enabling reproducible builds[2] so that users can confirm they have an authentic binary build of the source code

[1] - https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...

[2] - https://reproducible-builds.org/
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Economics has become the tool of political ideology. It's modus operandi is language that's impenetrable to the non-economist.

My problem is primarily with politics as opposed to pure economics. Politicians use arguments provided for them by pet economists that allow them to hide behind the economy as a reason to avoid making hard decisions. Lo and behold, the status quo is best path forward ad infinitum.

Political economic decisions are often historically provably wrong and have the opposite effect to that which was the stated intent (whether or not it was the actual intent). Australia and the US recent re-implementations of trickle-down economics, by 30 years of experience, is not effective at doing what the politicians say it will. More subjectively: climate economics.

It's a complex argument but you're right to call me out on hyperbole. It's politics staining whatever it touches.

Semi-related interesting article about economics relationship with politics: https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/july/1435672800/ric...
Better Zuckerberg than Xi. Zuckerberg has no power to have a bag put over anyone's head and have them carried away to the river.
Self censoring is exactly what the authoritarian regime wants you to do.
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I consider the article a bit absurd. Emacs is only less popular relative to the set of editors one can pick today. Emacs has never been more popular or alive. melpa, emacsrocks, famous magit/org, even emacs confs and emacs talks at lisp confs..

Plus maybe "more is less" is adequate when it comes to emacs. Too many people may create friction or waste. Let it be low and slow, it's fine, emacs has stopped sprinting, it's in a nice hike.
How are they sacrificial? They can walk away from their job if they think it's too dangerous. There are plenty medical jobs out there that don't require front line covid treatment
Uncute. It's like POC in Production.
What a depressing topic. Since one is responsible for his own debt and just forgiving it is unfair to those pulling their own weight perhaps the small amounts the article talks about should play part in setting the height of an initial basic income. If the income is guaranteed it can at least pay the interest over debt. It could become more interesting to get payments rather than sell peoples property and ruin their lives (and potentially their income) with all the burdens on society it brings.
Awesome. Y'all do great work. I have a couple of questions if you are checking this thread:

1. Do y'all do security analysis on extensions? Static analysis etc? Specifically, I am talking about detecting potential source exfiltration type stuff.

2. Any chance you'll develop the ability to customize the editor via some personal scripts vs a plugin? I'd like to implement a command to do a specific thing (toggle between test and implementation in a rails project) but I don't want to go through the process of creating a plugin... I just want to map a shortcut to a TypeScript function. I know there is a couple of extensions that try to enable this but it would be nice to have an official path to doing these kinds of personal customizations.
Does Facebook run a team of secret police that can put a bag over your head and have you disappeared?
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>> WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted so the service providers themselves can't read the message content, yes, definitely. Although, technically the security guarantees are nil unless you verify safety numbers which I can guarantee almost nobody actually does.

Except that there is no way to prove this. There is no way to prove that it isn't also sending a copy from the client back to the server. Whatsapp could deploy individualized specific clients to target users, perhaps at the behest of governments. The only full answer is totally open-source software with users able to cryptographically verify that they are downloading and running the same software as everyone else.
This narrative of false equivalency is dangerous, IMO.

WeChat has been proven to be a heavily monitored and censored network. Whatever security failings iMessage and WhatsApp have, they pale in comparison to what's in place for WeChat.
The point of generalities is to be able to reason about things too complicated to fully describe. Whether or not you think a specific generalization, framing, or model is a good or useful one is completely up for debate. Denouncing the idea of generalities doesn't give any room to reason about anything complicated.

Saying something is too complicated and varied to reason about is an indictment against all of science. Reality is fractally complicated yet we still manage. Physics is an approximation of reality. Chemisty is an approximation of physics. Biology is an approximation of chemistry. No model is perfect.

In my opinion, understanding government as a monopoly in the business of violence provides a useful framework.

1. It's generalizable. Monopolizing violence over its citizens is the common factor between every government. From North Korea to China to the US to Norway, all governments maintain the absolute and unrivaled power to exert violence over their citizens. I cannot personally find any counterexample.

2. We can apply existing research. Modeling governments as businesses in a specific industry enables to use research about how markets and businesses work. This whole post is essentially an argument to change macroeconomic modeling. Instead of treating the government as some separate special entity, we can simply existing macroeconomics models by treating the government as yet another business.

3. It's simple.
Sniffing by the US government isn't that targeted. And the US does harass people who say stuff they don't like, and has a long history of doing this. Were just not executing/jailing that many of them right now.
"Disagree and Commit" in a vacuum is just an authoritarian kludge.

The Amazon principle is "Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit". Most leadership principles in Amazon are in conflict with each other, creating a sort of checks-and-balances situation. But "Disagree and Commit" is so powerful that it needs a check in itself. It doesn't work without "Have Backbone" - but most senior leaders I see who love it never mention that part. They always spell it out as a "follow the orders once they're made" sort of thing.
It's impossible for most people in America to lockdown for more than 2 or 3 months and not make income. People are living a pipe-dream if they think America will just stay inside for a couple of years while a vaccine is developed, if there is ever one developed. Even other countries with extensive social networks have to eventually fail because they don't have unlimited resources in an economy that produces nothing.
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Most Americans who want health insurance have it. Insurance pays the the bulk of a huge bill. The individual pays a small fraction of a huge bill through deductibles, co-payments and co-insurance (depends on the policy.) This fraction can be paid from the savings a FIRE retiree would have accumulated without significantly affecting their investment income.

The individual pays a larger fraction of smaller medical bills, but because the bills are small, this is also affordable to someone with savings. The majority of medical events are inexpensive.
China is 80% of the way there with this guy already.