skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I hear "isolation," I think patient isolation, not travel restrictions.

From very early on, the WHO recommended patient isolation as a precaution against possible human-to-human transmission.

The WHO is required by the international treaty that governs it to advise against travel restrictions, unless there is strong evidence that they will be effective. Since the research prior to this pandemic has tended to show that travel restrictions are ineffective for highly contagious respiratory viruses, the WHO advises against travel restrictions. Most people don't understand this, which makes the WHO an easy target for criticism. If countries want the WHO to recommend travel restrictions, they should amend the International Health Regulations.

The WHO did, however, recommend extensive testing, which worked well for South Korea (without travel bans, I think).
Reminds me of this onramp to I-376 in Pittsburgh, where you have a stop sign (!) at the bottom of the onramp (!!), which then dumps you into an exit-only lane with a few hundred feet to merge left (!!!):

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4287854,-79.9328641,3a,75y,6...

I only took this ramp a handful of times before I learned to detour several miles to avoid it...
What's he talking about with the re:invent oil and gas thing? Is there something specific that I can look at that he's referring to?
Timestamp-based ID is missing the point of Zettelkasten IMHO, here's an opinionated approach to a digital Zettelkasten: https://www.tevinzhang.com/digital-zettelkasten/
I agree with this statement 100%
open source => paid hosting model makes sense when the tech is heavy and not easily portable anyway. For example, confluence develops kafka and makes money with kafka cloud. Mongodb develops mongodb and makes money with their cloud, etc.

None of these are portable systems.

On the other hand, the whole reason for static site generators is its lightweightness. So by design it's hard for these vendors to have lockin....unless, they deliberately create lockins. Which is why i think this model is not really a good model. They created something that's valuable exactly because it frees people from getting locked in, but they will probably need to make money by trying their best to lock in users.

The only endgame I can see from this is these people using up all the VC money to give out freebies to attract as many users as possible, and then selling to Microsoft.
> Try not to use a purely visual representation of information, such as an icon: these should always be paired with text.

Curious and purely technical question: are screen readers not using the alt text of an <img ... /> tag? Does something like this not cause the "foo bar baz" text to be read out twice in a row?

<div><img src=... alt="Foo bar baz" />Foo bar baz</div>
Ever since one of the astronauts got sick on one of the Gemini missions the astronauts have undergone quarantines for a period before going up into space.
Yeah, I think that's why so many choose to go Bezos Bald™. Hides the makes-you-look-old balding hairline and _also_ mirrors the look of so many executives.
The freedom to not have China dictate it's laws.
Are you and your team generally aware of the concerns about AMP? What does the AMP team think about how negatively pretty much the entire world views it?
I don't know how standardized layout is within a chain, but at my local Walmart superstore the area immediately to the right of the entrance closest to the grocery section is produce, baked goods, and deli. Just past that is the meat section.

Immediately to the left of that entrance is check out, starting with a bunch of self-checkout stations.

This makes it quite reasonable to do a quick extraction mission for produce and meat that has you in the store for only a few minutes, with good avoidance of other people. The interior of that section is just short low aisles that you can easily see over, and square tables of baked goods, so even if there are a few other people there it is usually easy to keep track of them and arrange to have an obstacle between you and them.

My current approach is to get most of my groceries by their free contactless pickup service, and get produce and meat via in-store quick raids. If while on a produce raid I see that there aren't many people shopping and they are doing a good job with masks and distancing I might expand the mission to grab other things while I'm there.
What decision can't wait for a RCT?
C19 will be with us for decades to come and there is no shortage of patients. An RCT does not stop development of other solutions.
Four Minneapolis officers are fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of
What's wrong with Safari?
I can never forget that one of Baldrick's uncles was a stunt-codpiece:

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/687873
Homemade Homopolar Engine
Raising Series E during Covid-19: Biggest differences/lessons we learned
Show HN: Turn Notion pages into lightweight static websites
Philips Hue, and the original warm-light bulbs that Philips had a long time ago (the ones with the yellow plastic). Also a few cheap-o ones from the electric company (CREE I think?). None have failed
Direct anchor link to the NYT source data table: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-w...
He said exactly what I was thinking: Initiate ludicrous mode on the way to the launch site.
Maybe we need to have a discussion about what kinds of trolling and spam should be legal. And if you have a problem with that stuff, why doesn’t the current state of YouTube comments bother you just as much as this idea?

> I don't understand what worldview leads to the conclusion that any moderation of a private platform by a private entity is equivalent to government censorship.

I didn’t say “government censorship”.
Well given that the US had from the beginning only a very weak/broken form of democracy you can't really blame it on that aspect.

(A democratic system which enforces a two party system over time is a somewhat broken democratic system, combine this with the even more broken version of representative democracy through electors and some other slightly less democratic aspects about their law system and you have a problem sooner or later.)
hunter2 is one of the best: http://bash.org/?244321
Piracy in 2020 is more polished than first party streaming platforms.
Something like 70% of Boeing revenue is commercial jets
I used the term “lesbian” in a comment on Facebook this week in a respectful and topical manner.

I received a notice that the comment was removed for violating community standards against “hate speech” and was told that’s my one warning for the next 12 months and any subsequent infringements would lead to a 24 hour ban. I used their process to disagree with the finding and they replied in a few minutes that they rejected my appeal.
Physicist's perspective. Logically an undergraduate degree is 3 years: the first year is catch up and baseline, everyone gets to the same standard. The second year is actually learning the bulk of the core material. The third year is specialisation and a dissertation project. This also allows for people to fail and resit years as major milestones.

Many technical courses overlap. Mathematicians in particular are generally allowed to do anything. I think in the US it's even greater with the minor/major system, so courses like calculus/linear algebra are enormous because everyone from engineering to chemistry might sit in.

The majority of undergraduate degrees in the UK are 3 years, 4 if you do a Masters on top. You could probably do the material faster; probably 2 years? But... Physics had one of the highest course loads of all the degrees, 25 hours a week in second year. That's just lecture time, you're expected to do that time again outside. We had almost no free time in the first year due to the amount of compulsory coursework (the crap stuff which requires an expensive 99th edition textbook with a code in it). In later years there was less compulsory homework so less pressure, but then you struggle if you skip it.

Exams.. well they had to schedule four years' worth of exams with fairly little overlap, plus time in the summer term for extra modules that wouldn't fit in the second semester. So that takes a couple of months. I guess if you had the capacity you could also optimise that into a big two week block for all students, but that would be challenging.

We had 10 week terms/semesters (Oxbridge have 8 officially, but really it's 10) and the rest is effectively vacation. In my day (hah), internships weren't really a big thing. I did a research placement at my university and a few people got industry jobs, but not many. Most of us just enjoyed a month of vacation over Christmas, we revised over Easter and we took the summer off. It wasn't like CS today when people try and get a different FAANG job every summer.

The dissertation was budgeted at I think 2 days a week for two semsesters (though you were expected to work more than that).

If you cut down holidays then, you could probably squeeze the program into 2 years. That would be an unpleasant experience.

I believe in some countries like Austria, you can get a degree by sitting the requisite courses on your own schedule.
no. has to have 20 years of understanding algorithms and breaking up a solution into its sum to explain it. React or other current fad has nothing to do with it, nor will come in interviews at beginning. You live or die by your whiteboard skills.
The Cold War was mostly a spy game and it kept the peace for decades. There was no gigantic WW3, no nuclear holocaust, and kept the regional conflicts limited to that specific region.

Everyone plays the great game, even allies vs other allies (e.g. the French spying on US businesses, and the US NSA spying on Europeans during negotiations).
This has already been around when I was a kid. Which was like fifteen years ago.

Oh, timelessness.
I was just a fledgling in the late days of the BBSs, so I didn't spend too much time there!

Fair points about the trouble of finding the right expert. I also wasn't on any of the math-related Usenet groups back in the day (I was more of a comp.lang.* lurker), but I wonder if there was a good mingling of experts and novices in those groups. These days, you can (e.g.) visit /r/math or /r/mathematics on Reddit, and you'll occasionally see interesting novice questions being picked up by PhDs across various math fields -- sometimes with surprisingly deep responses. It's rare that a novice question merits such attention, but the fact that it can can happen -- that such a forum exists -- is delightful.

You've also reminded me of something, vaguely -- one of the major US universities used to have a phone number that you could call and ask them about nearly anything. They would research the question and get back to you with an answer if they could. I wish I could remember which university it was, maybe the number still exists?
Some of those stats could use better context. At least for what I am curious about. Just for example, the years of experience of developers who visit SO.

It would be interesting if we knew that in the larger world, equal number of programmers were in each experience bracket. So then we could see which experience group visits SO the most often. But we already know there are far more programmers with 5 to 9 years experience than there are programmers with 35 to 39 years experience. So are those stats showing anything other than the natural bell curve of experience distribution of all programmers in the world?

If we had the experience distribution over all programmers whether or not they visit SO that we could compare with, it would be interesting to see any differences. My guess is that there isn't. I bet highly experienced programmers visit SO just as often as those with 5 to 9 years experience.

Maybe to a recruiter or for someone paying for job adverts, those numbers are interesting on their own.
The leds are generally ok as components, but badly designed power electronics are the failing portion. However, strand LEDs designed for bulbs w/ no power electronics are on a completely different reliability basis.
You are misconstruing Hanson. He's not saying that we should mass-variolate tomorrow. He just wants it to be legal for such experiments to be tried (including experiments with unproven vaccines). There are doctors and domain experts who are willing to try this approach, and there are volunteers who are willing to be infected. The problem is that our institutions have made such trials illegal.

It looks like at least half the population will contract this disease over the next couple of years. Around 0.5% of those will die. If we wait until an extremely safe vaccine is mass produced, far more lives will be lost than if we use methods that the authorities consider unsafe. The main issue seems to be that people attribute COVID-19 deaths to nature, while they blame any experimental immunity deaths on the researchers. It's the same logic that anti-vaxxers use. Yes, some vaccines do have side-effects and every once in a while, someone does die from them. But that's a far better outcome than the disease itself, so we accept the tradeoff.

As I said, in this emergency, around 0.5% of people infected will die. That means that a treatment with a 0.1% mortality rate would reduce overall deaths by 4x! That's a far more effective intervention than say... ventilators (which only reduce mortality by around 20%). Yet no government will allow volunteers to get a treatment with such a high mortality rate, so we're all stuck with "natural" infection and its 0.5% mortality. This is peacetime thinking in the middle of a war.

It should be clear by now that our institutions have failed us. The CDC & FDA forbade researchers from testing for a month. It's only because some researchers decided to break the law that we discovered community spread when we did.[1] The Surgeon General repeatedly told the public that masks don't work.[2][3] The WHO said the same thing.[4][5]

If we judged these institutions by the same standard that people in this thread are using for Robin Hanson, we'd want to drastically curtail their power and allow for more experiments. That's exactly what Hanson is proposing.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

2. https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

3. https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12456974534138511...

4. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234095938555260929

5. https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024
Keeping Customers Streaming – Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
I guess I use words pretty liberally, but I don't see much of a distinction -- especially when you look at the etymology: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrear

It comes from "to the rear". So, in a competition (against Airbus), it means you're behind the person in first. On a payment schedule, it means you're behind the schedule.
Gatsby's really fun to use developing small apps, and their docs make it easy to get started with Gatsby, React AND front-end in general. They've created a good overall experience for beginners, which could create a decent user base.

That being said, the path to monetization seems hairy (competitive market with many free options, the previously mentioned fact that Gatsby's overall goal is to generate portable files). Is there any way that this is some bizarre VC effort to fund open source or do something nice? Or is that excessively wishful thinking?
Oops, will fix! Good catch!
Similar offline versus online privacy thing for music recognition.

My Pixel is sat here charging. Billie Eilish is singing in the background, by the time she sings "I should have known..." it has recognised the music and passively displayed "No Time To Die by Billie Eilish" on the lock screen.

Google's team were building an ML model for music recognition and they realised oh - the smallest model fits on a phone. We don't need to spin this up as a cloud service we can just deliver it to the phones of people who want it as a feature. "Now your phone can tell you what that music is".

Of course down the road this awareness of context allows even cleverer agent interaction. "Which Bond was that?" you ask as Adele sings "Skyfall". "In the movie Skyfall, James Bond was played by Daniel Craig".
Previously, Hong Kong had a status that let it trade with the US under terms very different from those mainland China is subject to.

Clear consequences have not, as near as I can tell, be spelled out yet. The gist is that US trade policy will stop privileging HK. US/HK trade seems to be something like $66 Billion a year, so this is potentially a major thing.
This post is from a NYTimes story from about a month ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/upshot/five-w...

Those very few limited rural cities that were ahead of NYC at the time had things like prisons and meat packing plants.

The NY Times has a bunch of stats here they keep updated, including current Per Capita numbers:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...
Agreed. Furthermore, traveling is overrated - yes I said that. Traveling to other places IMP is not as fun as going to national parks and exploring nature right here at home. Just my personal take on it - I’ve travelled extensively and I don’t enjoy it anymore.
Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment
WordPress seems to have worked out well. If the company (wordpress.com) goes under, the platform (wordpress.org) will stay alive and well. The companies that relied on wordpress.com can just migrate to any other premium WP service, such as WP Engine.

For Gatsby.js users the alternatives in a Gatsby-the-company-goes-under scenario would be limited to just Netlify and DIY (and maybe Vercel?). If the demand for managed-Gatsby grows then so will the supply, thus giving people more options in a worst-case scenario.
Google has major investments in China. Looking at "Youtube" in a bubble doesn't tell the whole story.

I don't think "conspiracy theory" is correct - it's simply a private business doing what's best for itself financially.

Google isn't some government institution. ...or is it?
How much of employer comfort with this has to do with the stimulus checks? Say your pay was cut by 10% and you make the median personal income of $30,000 a year? If May was when your pay was cut, you are still making the same for the year.
Why is that? Bailing out Boeing every now and then is almost certainly cheaper than bailing out a rail operator to the tune of tens of billions of dollars every year, and still having them teeter on the verge of insolvency: https://skift.com/2018/03/05/frances-rail-system-is-falling-...

> Underused stations on expensive tracks are one of the many reasons France’s vaunted rail system is insolvent, subsisting on life support from the state. Rail operator SNCF runs an annual deficit of 3 billion euros despite receiving 14 billion euros of public subsidies annually—just under half the defense budget. Its debt, at 45 billion euros, equals the national debt of New Zealand.
Simplicity is difficult.

I use a comparison that I call "Nakamichi vs. Adcom."

Those of us...of a "certain age"...will remember these as top-shelf stereo brands. They used to cost a bundle.

Nakamichi amps tended to be...engineer-friendly: https://audio-database.com/NAKAMICHI/amp/amplifier2.JPG

Adcom amps tended to be a bit simpler: https://www.hifiengine.com/images/model/adcom_gfa-585_power_...

Both were pretty awesome, but they definitely "spoke to" different crowds.

I think that the debates over which is better would never be resolved.

I like to take the tack of "Make it simple, but no simpler than absolutely necessary to get the principal task done."

This is really important in both usability and accessibility.

There's a famous quote from Josef Albers: "In design, sometimes one plus one equals three."

Every element that we add to a design; whether functional or ornamental, can have a combinatorial impact on complexity.
The page results will be a tightly restricted iframe-esque window inside of google results (This is what the Chome "Portals" proposal is about).

There will be no obvious distinction between a search result and google's own website, even though the "portals" will be showing cryptographically signed content (which will almost certainly be in a super restricted AMP-esque format that denies sites much control besides what the text says)

If google swaps one result for another, 95% of users wont even notice.
Does it behave different in different countries?

Will Google allow for example, Taiwan content in mainland China?

Is it like VPN/Proxy or has more knobs?
I'm over 50, and I tend to agree - the perception of ageism seems to far outstrip anything I've seen. I'm also not sure how much of 'ageism' is really 'hire cheap college grads'.

An interesting note: Since I no longer have to raise kids, I actually have a lot more time and a lot less 'drama' then I used to. Makes it easier to keep up on new tech...
Yup, even Evangelion was like that for many years, and so too a lot of British dramas. Even recent hits like Deutschland 83 and Utopia were missing from American market for years.
The redundant computers were only one part of it. The Space Shuttle software engineering capability was on another level.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
This is a common misconception.
Https also prevents bad actors from injecting content into the page.
Some are, though I haven't tried to track the correlation.

Also, I'm lumping in compact fluorescent bulbs, which perhaps account for most of the failures.

An additional annoying detail is that one or two of my fixtures dim in one way or another. I put "dimmable" bulbs in them, but I'm somewhat dubious as to their actual capability in that application.
People are now seriously arguing that jokes should be censored, and by algorithms no less? This is an extreme position.

Why not put them in jail as well, at least until the danger is passed? I mean, they're killing innocent people with their misinformation and this is the worst global health crisis in 100 years.
I want high speed trains as much as the next person, but they don’t work for the United States in the same way that flying does.

High speed rail would work on the coasts and in specific intercity regions. There most definitely should be high speed rail between nearby large cities - Texas, the Midwest, and California could really use high speed rail systems.

But the lack of these routes aren’t necessarily a disaster at present, especially when Americans generally need a car at their destination anyway (thanks to irreversible city planning from the past).

What high speed rail can never compete with are flights across the huge country.

The world’s largest high speed rail network in China doesn’t have to deal with United States sized distances. All Chinese cities are relatively close to the eastern coast.

And all Chinese cities are easy to traverse and live in without owning a car. The whole concept of the automobile-based single family home detached suburb doesn’t exist there.

Even with these advantages, a high speed train from Beijing to Shanghai (about 5 hours) barely competes with a flight on a low cost airline. It’s slower and not even very much cheaper.

Beijing to Shanghai is about 640 miles by plane. That distance wouldn’t even get you from New York to Chicago. Now imagine trying to get from New York to Orlando (940 miles) or Denver (1600 miles).

A high speed train simply can’t go fast enough to compete on price nor time (remember: more time in transit means more salaries paid to crew).
Sure.
But I was responding to the initial comment suggesting that the overwhelming spread in their community represented a failure of governance on their part in comparison to national governments like Vietnam
And if the government decides Youtube has to censor anti CCP comments, you'd be fine with that?