skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This [1] is a good youtube explanation of how a hybrid between Starlink and ground stations could still improve connectivity:

[1] https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY
If r0 is kept below one after the lockdown, the absolute number of cases will be kept inferior to a full-blown epidemic as long as you quarantine external cases.

We've seen "normal" social distancing (w/o lockdown) keep r0 between .8 and 1.

Look at German, French and netherland numbers and their evolution since the reopening and before the reopening.

even if we had an average r0 of one, the time needed to reach 60% infected in the nation is superior to 100 000 days (i'm taking a population of 60M to exclude kids and a high average of 300case/day when official numbers put this average closer to 50). We have no idea if natural immunity run that long, and i think everybody hope a vaccine will be found before that. So it's not just flattening the curve, its also preventing infections (unless no vaccine are found and the immunity last forever. But those two should be exclusive)
But isn't it still relatively very low bandwidth? I think they tested a v2 with ~700Mbps. In terms of normal everyday consumers, what are the implication of Starlink outside of Rural area?

PS: Thanks for the summary and NO Starlink phone. I have gotten sick and tired of people jumping to conclusion suggesting Starlink taking over ISP and Mobile Network. And that is even on HN.
What strikes me as odd is why SQLite is committing changes just to make an unreleased compiler happy...
At this rate, Sweden will take years until they "have gone through its population".

"Assuming we'll all contract COVID-19 anyway, eventually" is not a reasonable assumption - it was the worst case scenario that the world has avoided and (as it seems) will continue to avoid. It's reasonable to expect that if we solve this issue through a vaccine in 2021, then by that time perhaps 10% of the world's population will have contracted COVID-19 and almost everyone else will not. And the expected difference between Sweden and France is going to be that by the time that we have a solution, one of them will have burned through more of their population for no good reason.
Writing notes is nice, but typing on a laptop is too convenient with all the editing tools. Great for class and meetings, but for project notes and other things where I will actually have to reference the material pretty repeatedly, can't beat rewriting your notes into a running text file and grep.
Though I understand what you're saying, I don't see the false infallibility in other careers. I doubt any programmer has ever thought they shipped a bug free product.
why do you think it is that those that are in dire need of oppertunities blow them with the lack of work ethics while those in first world countries are willing to work long hours to get even richer? Is it really greed and/or keeping up with the joneses? At the expense of free time?
Since your service is essentially chatroulette, did you do something special to keep the penises out?
> Landlords simply buy/own those places.

Thus landlords are the one to actually finance those buildings.

> A landlord provides about as much value to a consumer as a stockholder does to a public company.

Which is a significant value, for a company (even if I would like more companies to be privately owned). In this model a landlord is how people can get access to housing without huge initial capital and/or long term commitment.

A rent-based housing economy causes huge problems for those that want to buy an house (somilarly to how Airbnb/short stays cause problems for rent seekers) but this is not about one sector being parasites, it is about an imbalance in the market.

the situation would not be better if landlords did not exist.
Apple warns U.S..protestors who looted iPhones that it will track them
But Sweden isn't trying to stop the infection with herd immunity.
New laser system provides 3D reconstructions of living deep-sea animals
This seems to be true. Massive income inequality will in turn cause more civil unrest.
J came along particularly to fix the ASCII problem, but it took some design decisions for things that were bugging Ken Iverson from years of APL work, that var[4] style indexing is really a function application, that all functions should have configurable “rank”, that tacit programming with trains of functions should be a focus, among other things.

Many of those choices have been added to Dyalog APL since then, SQUAD indexing function, trains, rank adjustment operator.

Dyalog APL has traditional APL functions and keywords which looks a lot more procedural than the golfed symbols mostly shown - for loops, if statements, etc. which GNU APL has not, IIRC; and has an object system :Class and a bridge to the .Net framework and C# interop both ways, GUI support possible through that (Windows Forms I think).
How do you at Repl.it feel about VS Code integrating with Github?
In defense of whoever was involved in the C89 process, I think they had an impossible task. At the same time they wanted to standardize the "portable macro-assembler" as well as allowing optimizations. With such constraints they could not but fail.

With hindsight, maybe K&R should have consulted with PL experts and researchers and designed a "proper" language with a better emphasis on soundness and safety. I'm not saying they could have invented something like Rust back in the 1970'ies, but even then the state of the art was far ahead of K&R C.
when I needed a place to stay for a year in a new country I am sure that the bureaucracy around buying an house was not what convinced me to rent.
Profitable home delivery of groceries really does seem to be impossible in America, for some reason!
Remote debugging tool like weinre, using the latest Chrome devtools front end
Learning and Facing Challenges as a Webdev
> Together with the Kernel adopting git,

Uhm, git was created by the people who were working on the kernel because they needed a better VCS.
Almost all of the protests in Seattle have been peaceful, until the cops started spaying made and throwing flash grenades into the crowd.
Yes there has been some looting, generally away from the protestors, because the police are busy.
I like Zizek's take on postmodernism and how it relates to authority.

> Instead of bringing freedom, the fall of the oppressive authority thus gives rise to new and more severe prohibitions. How are we to account for this paradox? Think of the situation known to most of us from our youth: the unfortunate child who, on Sunday afternoon, has to visit his grandmother instead of being allowed to play with friends. The old-fashioned authoritarian father’s message to the reluctant boy would have been: “I don’t care how you feel. Just do your duty, go to grandmother and behave there properly!” In this case, the child’s predicament is not bad at all: although forced to do something he clearly doesn’t want to, he will retain his inner freedom and the ability to (later) rebel against the paternal authority. Much more tricky would have been the message of a “postmodern” non-authoritarian father: “You know how much your grandmother loves you! But, nonetheless, I do not want to force you to visit her – go there only if you really want to!” Every child who is not stupid (and as a rule they are definitely not stupid) will immediately recognize the trap of this permissive attitude: beneath the appearance of a free choice there is an even more oppressive demand than the one formulated by the traditional authoritarian father, namely an implicit injunction not only to visit the grandmother, but to do it voluntarily, out of the child’s own free will. Such a false free choice is the obscene superego injunction: it deprives the child even of his inner freedom, ordering him not only what to do, but what to want to do.
Stealing bikes and breaking into cars, or worse, to buy drugs, is when it becomes a criminal issue.
Anecdata vs statistics? Some people did die. Some do know them. If no people you know died, does it makes it a media hoax?
I had a wonderful opportunity to talk with some established Youtubers, who create development-related content (Web Dev Simplified, Program With Erik, James Q Quick).

We discuss topics like how they got into web development, how do they face challenges, how to stop comparing yourself to others, and how to make learning fun.

An entertaining and educational listening to both beginner and more experienced devs, I believe.
Would you consider posting the individual blog posts in your rss feed? Use the original text, link through the original url, and maybe add a header or footer with HN link.

This way you don't have to leave your rss reader if you just want to read the article/post, which is kind of the point of the rss reader.
> If their budget is reduced, the police will choose where to cut services in such a way as to inflict maximum fear in the population, to cause their budget to be restored.

Sounds like they're a protection racket, no different from the Mafia.

The issue here clearly isn't funding. The issue is control. Police in the U.S. have been allowed to become an autocratic state in their own right, and it is this state which needs to be dismantled.
> What is tap/hold?

Tap a key, get a symbol. Hold the key, get something else (perhaps a modifier).
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/senaste-nytt-...
I have nowhere near the number of contacts you do but something that helped was having a section in my notes app dedicated to them where I write as many details as possible, like if they are a friend, relatives, coworker, how we met, their birthday, favourite color/food/drink, eye color, etc. Think of it as a personal CMS or a CRM. Your phone's contacts app might not be a good fit for such a system, for example I'm using orgzly for this, and I sync it to my laptop for backup and easier editing. Also, the contacts app and orgzly are not connected/syncronized in any automatic way, from time to time I take a look in both and see which contacts are still relevant or not and adjust. For example there is probably no reason to keep around the phone number and notes of the Airbnb host from my vacation 6 months ago so I remove that.

As advice for how you can manage your 2k+ contacts I suggest you use a similar app (in case you don't want orgzly for some reason) and just type in their name, contact info (phone, email, social media) and a one sentence fact about them. Let's say do 5 a day, and group them by relationship type: family, friends, coworkers, teachers, etc. Then try to remember as much about them as possible, even follow up with some you don't remember and ask some questions, like "Hello, I have you in my contacts list but I don't remember how we met, sorry about this, but can you refresh my memory? Should we still keep in touch?". Feel free to customize that as much as you want. In the end you'll probably end up with just a few hundred that you really want to keep around.
Similar experience here, and in fact I use a floating typing style more akin to playing a piano instead of sitting on the home row. I actually did end up with bad RSI for a year, however, caused by typing on a laptop, but I now realise that was due to the extension of my arms.

For a while I used Workman on an Ergodox keyboard, and it was very nice. But I learnt that I actually love QWERTY when I type in my floating style, and ultimately moved back to it and a Topre keyboard instead (which is a nice mid-point between non-mechanical and mechanical boards).

I've just taken the piano back up after 18 years, and so far don't seem to be overly straining myself, so I'm hopefully on the right track with my technique. Years of playing diatonic accordion have hopefully used many of the same muscles!
https://spectator.org/lancetgate-pulling-a-fast-one-on-propo...

https://news.yahoo.com/lancet-casts-doubt-over-hydroxychloro...
They were in “quarantine”.

Tegnell didn’t believe in the existence of asymptomatic carriers so younger care workers were allowed to visit them freely as long as they didn’t show symptoms.

He made a huge mistake but is simply unwilling to admit it.
Reminded of JMJ colab in 1986 and was supposed to play a concert with a Ron playing saxophone up in space. Sadly tragedy curtailed that endeavour.

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/05/us/challenger-astronaut-a...
Haha, I don’t know who else besides me who knew about this. I just happened to discover it the other day... night... month ;-) HN is the first platform that I shared this discovery with.

I figured that the ideas are free, the important part is the execution. I hope I didn’t accidentally open the Pandora’s box for the spammers and such. My thought is that programmatically sending iMessages is already doable just needs a lot of mucking around. This just makes it much more convenient.
In the Netherlands the police's motto is "waakzaam en dienstbaar" meaning something like "vigilant and at your service". I like it, it means they are servants you can ask things and they are there to help. They are trained to always de-escalate. Tbh they sometimes get a lot of foul language addressed to them by certain individuals, yet they usually remain calm. I have a lot of respect for them.
Metasurface Opens World of Polarization
Well, that explains everything...
Don't they basically get given that stuff second-hand by the military?
Link to paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/23/eaba3367
>>> who would do business with a commercial bank that can't access the worlds wealthiest market?

How about every regional and national banks? You realize thousands of banks provide their local markets and have little dealings with the US? The fact that HSBC only does 10% revenues in the US shows how negligible that market is to them.

US stock is mostly an investment hold by US pension funds. If the company is ruined or kicked out of the stock exchange, it's by far and large the US population who will take the hit. I doubt the US government would attempt that because it's a self defeating move and they've repeatedly shown they want to bail pensions not destroy them.
If your personal experience doesn't match statistics, are statistics wrong?
Just Curious. Have you been using zettelkasten, org-roam or similar tool to take notes whenever you came across this topic and publishing now as the compiled version ?
> loses none of the meaning

It absolutely looses some meaning and important information conveying, and most importantly some impact factor.

Communicating by pretending you are in a neutral state of mind when you feel very strongly about a subject put everybody at risk of not understanding the perceived importance of it.

The rewritten email looks like corporate bullshit and is the kind of thing you risk to immediately forget. It looks like The PowerPoint slide that crashed a space shuttle https://medium.com/@JoachimLasoen/the-powerpoint-slide-that-...

It would have been way less distributed and discussed if originally written this way.

Now the original is maybe too much and, while a few repetitions are ok, it contains probably way too many. But there is probably a middle ground to be found between the original email and the rewritten one. For example, "AND STANDARD" in caps is perfectly fine if you want such strong emphasis on that point. Likewise for "documented" for emphasis but somehow less than caps. That makes no sense to pretend that such emphasis is a meaningless expression of anger; those are key point of the mail, called early on. I agree you probably want to avoid "f*ckin moron" and "braindamage", however there is no point in removing "piece of garbage" about this point in the C standard, and the precise point being talked about is contextually clear in the mail.
There have now been several articles documenting the attacks that have been the consequence of questioning Tegnell's decisions in public. This is one example (in Swedish)

https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/kJr5b6/jag-anklagar-er-f...

But in DN (behind a paywall) there have been other articles where those that questioned Sweden's policy have even been personally threatened.

Tegnell has been wrong about pretty much everything - from saying that the pandemic had reached its "peak" in Sweden when we had 137 cases[1] to being consistently wrong about how far we've supposedly come with 'herd immunity' - which was supposed to be around 50% by the beginning of June, but which has shown itself to be only around 7-10% in the worst-affected areas in Stockholm.

There is also a lot of finger-pointing in articles and comments by Swedes, accusing other Nordic countries of purposely under-estimating their covid figures - whereas the actual statistics[2] show that Sweden itself is the only Nordic country with massively under-estimated deaths.

[1] https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/RRpj0A/statsepidemiolog...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Well, we are now talking about the entire US government instead of just US police. Certainly a state has a greater pool of resources to draw upon for war if it chooses to do so, but comparing a state with groups of mercenaries or vigilantes is impossible because of the myriad of different forms they could take. One would be comparing a single large casualty number vs. many much smaller numbers. The Iraq war is estimated to have had 150,000 to over 600,000 civilian casualties in the first three to four years of conflict, although I believe that is total, not just casualties attributed to the US. The US had a population of just under 300,000,000 at the time. Revolutionary Catalonia is the best large example of a large-scale anarchical society I can find, and in 1936 is estimated to have had 8,350 killings for a population of under 3,000,000 [0]. Of course those two examples are more on the extreme side, and there are infinite nuances, such as the fact that not all civilians in the civil war were innocent, the same with Revolutionary Catalonia. They both were extremely different times as well.

I'd say it's a toss-up if I absolutely had to guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia
Without small talk how am i supposed to get to know "the basics" about someone?
If i don't know what he does, has he studied, his hobbies and what his interests are, i can't seem to start a deeper conversation. Yes, i can start a generic "what's the meaning of life" conversation, but wouldn't it be better for everyone if i asked specific questions related to that person?
Amazing, I got chills watching this.
Living in a place the landlord has a strong emotional connection to can also be difficult (e.g. their previous family home).
True but to some extent those problems could be alleviated if you could get to the actual source, which wouldn't have either of the problems I mentioned. Assuming I diagnosed things correctly, which is a bit tricky. The image has definitely been processed though, as evidenced by the ringing.
So far, everyone who has said that cops reacted this way for absolutely no reason has been misinformed or lying when I go investigate. It’s actually quite surprising how frequently these blatantly wrong claims keep coming up.

Often there is an assumption that because they didn’t see what started it, it must have been nothing. You might think they didn’t have a good enough reason, but I have yet to see police in any city deploy OC for no reason at all.
It failed in terms of their own goals.

The actual spread of the virus is a fraction of what Tegnell predicted. They were predicting close to 60% by the end of May. It was in the low teens with about a week to go in May in Stockholm.

Their primary goal was to protect the vulnerable ie the elderly. But Tegnell did not believe in the existence of asymptomatic carriers (well after other countries had locked down because of them) so care workers who were infected but not showing symptoms were in constant contact with the elderly since his guidance required them to avoid going in to work only if they showed symptoms.

Both of these were the primary stated goals. Neither were achieved.
Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities
Pretty interesting! Where is this quote from? I'd like to read the surrounding text as well if it contains the same level of insight.
Some random comments:
- good to see native TS support

- Would be nice to see a builtin maven/gradle-like standard build system, which IMHO not having it in node.js was a major let down for me.
Sure, you have gulp/grunt, but having to write repetitive code (which can be buggy!) for running a compiler/test/packager? With another set of plugins? just give me some standard tool and let me call the equivalent of "mvn package", which will compile/test/package my application with sane defaults.

- the dependencies-as-URL is going to be hit hard as soon as some big fish corporation wants to use Deno for some in-house projects. What if those corps disallow calling https://deno.land/my/dep and pretend to use internal repo? now all 3rd party dependencies won't work unless manually modified to use the internal corp repo.

- I predict that the --allow-this --allow-that will evolve in a SecurityManager-like complexity, that only the early enthusiasts will understand, and the rest will simply put the equivalent of "--allow-all" and let the ops deal with security issues
> Can you name an android phone that will be stable and up-to-date 5 years after it was released?

Any that can be rooted
LLVM follows an open model for commits. Therefore, their trunk being broken early in the release schedule is not a surprise. They are months away from a release.

Whether that development model is good or not is another question, but it is what it is.
From 1 minute before liftoff, the computers in the Falcon 9 take control of the whole process. From then on those computers monitor all relevant sensors to decide go vs no go, and control the ignition etc.
> No.

But you said "Yes" two lines above.

> They are common carriers.

These common carriers are private companies, not public companies. They aren't owned by the government. They are owned by private shareholders. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc are private companies or non government entities.

> Twitter and the vast majority of other companies are not.

I never claimed twitter and the vast majority of companies are. I only responded to the assertion that all "non government entities" can censor. I was providing proof that some non government entities cannot censor.
They weren't under any effective quarantine. That was the big problem. I think that the biggest problem in Sweden has been that FHM (the public health agency) went out and said very clearly that the elderly were very vulnerable and needed protection. FHM thought that would be enough action from them. Unfortunately the care givers didn't take that seriously enough, so a lot of temporary workers came and went in the nursing homes without proper routines or equipment.