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> ... the French and the Spanish and Italians and the UK all had disastrous outbreaks as well, but as Eastern Europe and other places have shown, it didn't need to be that way.

The outbreak is likely most defined by how large the initial/seed outbreak is, which depends on how early it happened (how ready people was and how much they had changed behavior already).

Some cities and countries had lots of travel in Week 9 (Week of feb 24) because of holidays. This is e.g. All of Belgium, and the Stockholm region in Sweden.

In Sweden its striking how much better regions that had the holiday just one week later fared (e.g. Sweden's second and third largest cities).

Obviously an initial/seed outbreak of 5000 infected people in a city, compared to an initial outbreak of 50 people will be very different.

It's like commentators on this particular subject assume this diseases was distributed evenly across all countries and the outcomes after that depends on the mitigations
applied...

It's also peculiar how some routes didn't incur a lot of spread but others did. E.g. compare the travel from the Italian alps to Scandinavia - tons of people infected. But packed high speed trains between Lombardy and Rome left several times per day during the time when lots were infected but no lockdowns were in place, yet Rome managed with a lot less disease. No one can really explain that yet. Is it something about how the virus spreads that makes planes worse than trains? Is it something about the particular population in Rome having had a Coronavirus cold last season that Lombardy didn't? Who knows.
Then maybe the fact that the riots have been caused by the police in the first place should be considered too.
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On normal keyboard layout you press so many keys with your pinky. I think it's ridiculous.

I design my 40% keyboard (vortex core) layout[0] according to 3 principles:

1. do not assign pinky to any key need you press and hold (ctrl, shift, alt, etc.)

2. do not assign pinky to any key you press frequently

3. try to assign these keys to you thumb or bottom part of the palm (hypothenar?)

So I assign space to the left palm, ctrl to the right palm, alt, cmd and shift to the left thumb, pn (modifier to enter numbers/symbols) to the right thumb.

Enter is assigned to pn+n, esc is assigend to right pinky because I'm not a vim user.

[0]: https://imgz.org/ih6XktnR/
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People try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation, study finds
What's cool about it anyway? I can see nothing special immediately, please explain.
Thank you. There's sooooo much "I think like this therefore I will find two variables out of 10000 and link them" going around. The easy with which one could argue the exact opposite using some two other variables seems to go unnoticed by the original makes of the claim, whatever it was.
They may be counted eventually, but as of writing, the numbers are lagging, with delays from various areas in Sweden.

There is no evidence that the quality of data from Sweden, should be better then anywhere else. Sweden actually has a testing problem, so by design, missdiagnosed could be higher in Sweden. There are very very vey few undocumented people in Scandinavia.
Effort to reward I think sometimes is measured as upward mobility. I agree that this is an important aspect, which needs to be measured. I think they call this equality of opportunity and education. So not everyone gets equal outcome, but all should have equal footing at making it up the ladder.

That said, I think some of the issues are just that we're not even meeting the fundamental human rights. If you read over the UN declaration of human rights here: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ you can see we don't even meet them all.
This is the most inhuman thing I have read on Hacker news. Life is life and every life is important. Many skilled people are irreplacable, there is no economy without customers.
I see several references in this thread to "a bug in Clang that is already fixed", but I can't see anywhere where anyone references this bug.

Can anyone point to the bug report (and/or fix) in Clang?
I've seen ISP routers massively increasing latency in conjunction with packet loss -- had a problem with one provider recently where packet loss would increase every evening, and so would the rtt. Suggests large buffers on the congested part. The reverse DNS of the given IP suggested it was a gig-e connection (my side of the hop, which was also into LINX, is 100G)

Of course you can hide a router by not decrementing the TTL as it passes through your network at layer 3, you can hide the IP by not responding with ICMP expired messages

An ICMP could well return on a different path to the direction it was sent, with a path like this

Host -> R1 -> R2 -> R3 // R3 -> R4 -> R5 -> R1 -> Host

Traceroute will only show the outbound route, so you should traceroute from both ends

The latency will also be affected by ICMP generation on the router, which could be delayed, rate limited, dropping, etc.

Doing a quick traceroute to a host of mine in Sydney, from London, shows

5ms to i-91.ulco-core02.telstraglobal.net 202.40.148.33
82ms to i-10104.unse-core01.telstraglobal.net 202.84.141.145
132ms to i-10601.1wlt-core02.telstraglobal.net 202.40.148.106
277ms to i-10406.sydo-core04.telstraglobal.net 202.84.141.226

sydo will be sydney

To get the exact map I could talk to Telstra (in this case I peer with telstra directly in London)

Or I could look at telstra's map, which ddg helpfully tells me is at

https://www.telstraglobal.com/network-infrastructure-map/

Sadly the map doesn't work very well, more form over function

ddging 1wlt-core02.telstraglobal.net returns this though

https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/home-broadband/bad-ro...

Which tells me 1wlt is LA. unse will thus be east coast U.S. I'd have expected routing via Singapore.

There's no way to know which way the traffic is actually going without asking Telstra.

I have 2 ethernet circuits from the UK to Washington DC, to me it looks like two layer 2 1500MTU circuit. Only by talking to the provier can I work out which circuits it actually travels on trans atlanticly. It's supposed to be separate, but latency changed by 2ms a few days ago. Asked them about it, and there was a failure in their network, they rerouted in a few hundered milliseconds (which isn't good as now both diverse circuits run via the same equipment, thus any issues like another 100ms outage will cause an impact)
>> But I know of adults who are barely interested in or capable of using Word/Google Docs correctly.

I think markdown would work precisely because of this. Word is too hard to use and too easy to create documents that are impossible to edit by a second person.

For context. I've just watched my wife trying for 20 minutes to add one item to a bullet list, with the proper indentation and numbering of course. Mission impossible.

That problem wouldn't exist in Markdown. There is no way to accidentally do an unmodifiable list of list in a table indented by spaces.

Of course any user adoption would require a decent editor software with live preview and export to PDF.
I don't think so. The postmodernists haven't yet been succeeded by anything, so in that sense they're still the leading edge, despite the obvious problems with postmodernism.

The postmodernists and the pragmatists have a lot in common actually.
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It gained traction because it was supported and funded by the Ford Foundation and other US agencies - possibly because it undermined traditional Marxism and replaced hardcore street-fighting leftism with a soup of politically and economically impotent pseudo-profound nonsense garnished by divisive identity politics.

It was also enthusiastically imported into US academia, where it became the new normal - a good way to keep intellectuals distracted while not being a real threat to established power. Unlike traditional Marxism and its offspring, which it successfully replaced.
That was such a lovely reply, I already agree with your viewpoint but this has given me a new way of looking at things. Thank you.
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Very interesting. I just checked my logfiles and as expected most traffic seems to originate from search crawlers, feeds and bots running through all kinds of exploit urls. Hard to tell, but a wild guess is that more than 75% of hits and visitors are bot-related.

I learned that it is possible to exclude bots through browsers.list [1] and in goaccess.conf you can exlude ip ranges. Unfortunately updating those entries is very time consuming and probably not worth it.

[1] https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/issues/560#issuecomment...
I think it’s a code improvement, too. It now computes the new flags in one place.

Just looking at these lines, I don’t understand the code, though. Apparently, sqlite3VdbeMemRelease can change pMem->flags, but that change can be ignored. I can’t think of a simple explanation for that.

Also, the function name sqlite3VdbeMemRelease seems to indicate memory gets released, but pMem->flags = MEM_Str|MEM_Term…, to me, indicates it contains a string.
I think you underestimate children. I'd guess that, on average, they'd pick up markdown more easily than adults, who are already set in their ways.
When such a large study is published in a big Journal, claiming that a drug might have a negative impact on lives of people in the trials, the authorities will be considered stupid not to pay attention to it at all and continue the trials. That is exactly what they did: They paused their trials temporarily to look at the evidence of this study, examined it and found that it was indeed controversial and lacked solid data. Now they have resumed the trials again.
The media sells it as a clickbait story "All trials STOPPED because of a flawed study" implying they were stopped PERMANENTLY to excite the general audience. For them it is entirely something that brings them huge revenue from ads when they write such "emotinally driven" stories, they do not care about the effects it has on the public in the long term by reducing faith in world health organizations.
The death of the author became a fashionable trope but it wasn't the central idea—more a corollary.

The postmodernists worshipped Nietzsche; he was their lodestar. (There are many textual links, but I'm a long way out of grad school—someone else will have to provide them). If you think of Foucault's concentration on the topic of power, that's entirely in the Nietzschean line. The postmodernists were mostly following through on the explosion that Nietzsche and Freud wrought on Western ideas of rationality and objectivity.

I started writing a comment about this when I saw the thread, but could feel it starting to turn into more of an essay, and that's not a good thing at 3am. I remember going to see Derrida when he came to Stanford shortly after 9/11. It was impossible to understand a single thing he was saying—I have a funny story about that for another time. (Edit: turns out I posted it years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341350)

And yet...for all the obscurantism and bullshit, the Sokal hoax and everything else—I came to the conclusion that the postmodernists touched something deeper than their critics, something which we have yet to reckon with.

The real problem with the postmodernists is not that their texts are full of ornate bullshit (look up the story about Searle asking Foucault why he can't just write straightforwardly, and Foucault saying no one in Paris would take him seriously if he did). The real problem is that their program is only negative. Unless I missed it, they never point to anything new.

After deconstructing all the self-contradictory things that humans call knowledge, they have no recommendation for what anybody should actually do. They reach the limits of the human, at which point the only answer is spiritual—but having rejected any possibility of spirit, they end up with nothing. Or, to put it in a different way: deconstruction is fine, but what are you adding? Or another way: criticism, even consummate criticism, isn't enough. (Edit: I found another old comment about this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713432)

p.s. I didn't answer your question about examples. It's not so easy to give clear examples, because the postmodern analysis isn't definitive on isolated data points—it's more a preponderance-of-the-evidence thing. Also, it's been a large and unspecified number of years since I worked with this material.
> After four years of touch type I'm still fairly crap.

Define "fairly crap". I do 50wpm on Colemak, which is better than most non-IT people but nowhere near the best. It's good enough for me, feels much faster than my previous "bad habits" (a mix of hunt & peck and muscle memory accumulated on long emails in my misspent youth), it's getting better the more I practice, and comfort is on another scale (no more wrist pain!).

I only started touchtyping seriously in my late 30s, had I done it earlier I'd probably be in the 80wpm+ by now. .

> If I try to speed up i commonly get the letter order wrong

You likely need more practice, sadly that's the only advice I can give you. Don't focus on speed, focus on precision. Speed will come naturally once your muscle memory sets in properly. Try to practice with text you are actually likely to encounter in real usage - there is little point training to type Dickens if your life is spent between angle brackets and special characters.

> Would it be a major job moving to Dvorak

Dvorak is a waste of time - it's already obsolete and never really delivered on its promises. If you make the jump, consider something more recent like Colemak, Workman, or other stuff like this, based on actual research and statistical analysis that were not possible at the time Dvorak appeared.

This said, changing layout is easy but frustrating. It takes time and practice. It's like learning an instrument - is it easy to play the guitar? Yes it is, conceptually; but it still takes years of regular practice to play well.

> Also is it better for the keys programmers use that others don't use so much like +=

The answer is a resounding "no" for the most common alternative layouts. For that, you have to try the more obscure ones like Neo. TBH I'm starting to think the only practical solution to this problem is a programmable keyboard or equivalent big hack.
I'm glad he came out against that Bloomberg article it was a obvious misquote. You could tell. not only did they not attached the audio. He literally has interviews about a week or 2 before talking about how well it was going.

Regardless about how you feel about Sweden's strategy Bloomberg's obvious manipulation is garbage.
> how much do face masks, school closures, or climate differences affect the virus spread

Shows how hard this is to actually find out. We have an enormous set of natural experiments and still each result is giving rise to more questions than answers. Are smokers better off? Does malaria drug X really help? How much do masks help? Do kids spread it a lot? Why are men more affected? We have no clue. We probably never will either, for many of the questions!
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What about the privacy implications for your students? Do you have a way you handle that? Aren't you giving microsoft tons of your students' info ( including grades ) without the students' permission or even awareness?
In order to access Starlink you'll need a phased-array antenna, so yes, they will know exactly where you are.
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We did that in my country; it did not have the effect people hoped for, just made them another class of privileged employees milking the system. I have 2 former cops in my family, they retired young for nice pensions, money never made them any better cops. One was similar to a police captain with a masters degree, one was a seargent.
To the main question, I think the answer is yes, although that's only something I've recently come around to.

To strike a metaphor, is ignoring or not participating in religion a 'religious stance'? It depends on your frame of reference. To someone who is religious, yes. To someone unaware or ignorant of religion, no.

So, why is ignoring or not participating in politics a political stance? Because unlike with religion, we have no choice to live outside of the systems which politics govern. You are affected by the politics of your country and your community even if you are unaware or ignorant of them, therefore the frame of reference is within a political system and a lack of politics is a political stance. Purely IMHO, of course.
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In doing so it often does things that customers wouldn't like if they knew about them.

For example child labour, slave labour, destroying environment, causing cancer, etc.
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Do you have a personal policy with meetings? For example, declining them if there is no agenda or never being dragged into a meeting lasting more than 45min.

I feel like most meeting problems are voiced by participants - the problem is never your meetings, always others.

What about a tool that act as a gate-keeper to potential meetings?
For example, upon receiving a meeting invitation, the tool:
- automatically declines meeting invites based on your settings (eg. longer than 1hour, past 6pm).
- automatically request an agenda when there is none.
- 1-click request why you're needed in this meeting.
Does this exist already?
Even when it's not majority, I agree with sgt that initially the experience was much, much better than with other apps, especially for the older people in my family.

It degraded a bit, however, with the time. Adding features is not to the benefit of the less young, whereas young tolerate UI getting more complex and less intuitive.
Many years ago I too had pain in my wrists while doing lots of programming work. For me the game changer was using Vim and mapping ESC to jj in both the editor and the shell (via .inputrc). In fact I mostly use Vim because of the provided ergonomics, the fast editing capabilities are just the cherry on the cake.

In my opinion the main culprit are modifier keys (e.g. by default the shell uses emacs bindings and you do a lot of ^A, ^E, ^R, etc.), but using jj mostly solves the issue as you just have to reach for Ctrl when you require SIGINT or copy/pasting in different environments that do not support vi keys. There are also people that remap it to Caps-Lock, but I just don't like to use my pinky that often.

Of course, everybody is different, but it makes sense to think about a setup that suits you and your health.
Super dense coding and quantum teleportation only offers a constant bandwidth increase over the regular kind and is very hard, so probably not. Quantum key distribution is believed unbreakable, so... some day, maybe, depending on some various Things.

How about software that doesn't need explodingly faster hardware to just barely even work?

Microsoft has software that uses ML to make it look like your eyeballs are looking at the camera in a video chat, apparently accelerated by chip.

Maybe a camera dongle that sits inside your mid-size portable computer and can be positioned away from the screen, though that could predispose people to exposing their keyboard and typing a password in view.

Within a week the big players will find some way to use their scale to shut down the small players, like promoting hit pieces about zoom's security woes, and the future will be exactly the same as today. R&D and innovation rarely have the best ROI, especially the consumer-facing kind.
I've seen it said that blurs can relatively easily be reversed. I wouldn't expect that to be unknown to the Signal team, so I wonder if anyone knows how they dealt with that. A different blur method that is not reversible?
Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?
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It depends on what android version your phone had. You cannot flash TWRP on phones that came with 10 by default (there might be few workarounds). Mine came with 8.0 and I flashed it later.
In a sense I am exactly in your son position (even if quite older already) I don't really have to blame my parents, but sure as hell I did everything I could to avoid learning any discipline and now I am paying for it in predictable ways.

As often happen Scott Alexander has written a nice article on the topic; in this case it is a review of a Chinese-American mother that lives the Chinese education system through a western lens and comes to like some of the differences.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/22/book-review-review-lit...
“This system of helping people does not help all people who need help, therefore it is bad.”

No. This comment is similar to responding to “black lives matter” with “all lives matter”.

Helping a subset of those who need help is acceptable too.

Put aside your hardwired, human-as-social-animal unfairness alert criticism, and recognize that this is a good thing, and it is better that this exists than the case where it does not.

Affirmative action isn’t fair either, but it is still a good thing that it exists.

Once everyone in society is treated equally and has equal opportunities, then and only then can we start criticizing equality improvement efforts on fairness.

There is no requirement that helping people who need help be done so fairly or evenly. Abandon that concept.
The argument that the right race is better than competency is overused. People pointing at race are one of the reasons racism exists, asking for diversity is using divide et impera the races, not helping anyone.
One point that was not mentioned: Deno is distributed as a single binary. Combined with the security options, I think it's a great feature for small scripts in an enterprise context.
I've always hated matplotlib, even though it gets the job done. The graphs are ugly by default, and the API would be unusable if it weren't for StackOverflow. Maybe I just need to sit down and learn it really well.

Anyway, this seems cool.
I got it set up with Luke Smith's muttwizard [0]. The actual integration feels a bit clunky (the UI closes when entering a query, but then results are returned to the UI) but it does work quite well. I think the interesting corollary one finds is that a normal filter (I think it's called 'Limit' in mutt?) often does the job most of the time and one doesn't have to think about how the Inverted index is going to treat the query.

[0] https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
> Sweden has one of the highest death rates in the EU. So they were wrong about their strategy.

Of course not having full lockdowns will give a higher Covid death rate (at least initially) than lockdowns.

If you measure that data point and use it to determine "success" then you are saying that a strategy known to be a failure was chosen, and it failed...

> the belief that getting the disease grants immunity, which, according to WHO, there is currently no evidence of.

That was a poor wording from the WHO. The reality is that scientists were always so sure that clearing an infection gives some (at least short term) immunity that it was never in question. It still isn't in question. Any policy can easily take that into consideration.
What was (and still is) questioned is how long this immunity works, and how strong the immunity is for those with no or very mild symptoms. Luckily, signs are saying that even that looks positive.