skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The warm climate probably helps the R numbers. That said, I don't think the number is that low given the population density etc..
Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh (incl. Gilgit Baltistan) - is what was known as a J&K.

Post independence in 1947, Nehru was propped up by the British as the first Prime minister of India, he was a pacifist. He was incidentally also a Kashmiri himself.

Pakistan invaded and occupied large parts of the Kingdom. Pakistan then had inherited a disproportionately large army, after their separated from India. And yes they became an Islamic state, and during whose creation between 1920s to 1947 waves of genocide against non-muslims changed the demography from 70% muslim to 97% muslim in Pakistan (claimed number).

China on the other hand invaded and occupied parts of Ladakh known as Aksai Chin after they had invaded Tibet in 1962. This is the place where there is a current standoff, the Chinese threatening to invade more territory.

Technically and historically Kashmir has always been part of India. Radicalisation of the muslim majority population in Kashmir in the 1990, resulted in the ethnic cleansing of half a million Hindus in a matter of 2 weeks. The muslim demography in the valley changed from 76% to 99.9% muslim in those 2 weeks.

This was mostly possible because Pakistan was until then an indespensible allay of the west in their fight against Soviets in Afghanistan.
Looks like you can download it here now: http://300m.us/docs/computing/
I really don't think six year olds need their own phone yet...
What did Australia do? I can't help it but feel that my country is doing everything absolutely wrong.

"As of 12:00 am June 3, 2020, Chile has 113,628 confirmed cases of COVID-19 within its borders. Chile remains in Phase 4 of the outbreak, i.e., uncontrolled and widespread community transmission."
503 anyone?
I second this. If you can look past the "Goenka dogma", these 10-day retreats offered around the world are a great way to experience life raw and without distraction of technology or otherwise, in meditation.
I wonder can we do overlay encryption like this: some software encrypts audio and video stream from your camera, then apps like zoom transfer encrypted stream with some noise, and end user software tries to decrypt those streams. This way you can use any middleware app as long as both users have encryption software overlay. Just a crazy idea
> But getting iMessage is an economic barrier for many

economic barrier to buy ~$100 used iphone on ebay?
Agree. Solving the problem is first and foremost. Looking pretty, being extensible, well commented, etc come secondary- especially when teaching.
I have never read this. I always think of radar as a flashlight, because it's essentially what it is, except with electrons instead of photons.

When you have car coming from the opposite direction, with its high beams on, you can see it really, really well, even if you keep your lights off (passive HARM).
If Zoom Is Wrong, So Is Apple
I have a theory that smalltalk functions like a proof-of-work for social relationships. It's not strictly achieving anything directly, but it's proving a certain amount of effort.

I hate it too but I'm trying to learn to be okay with it and get good at it - it's never going away.
It’s not just social status. It works much much better than SMS, it’s a superior experience and interacting with green bubble folk ruins it. I’m not particularly young or concerned at all with social status, but I urge people in my circles to just get iPhones because of iMessage and FaceTime. Both vastly superior experiences to any alternatives available.
But 100% code coverage isn't necessarily a useful thing in this context, as different code (and different options) mean different interactions between passes. And you're never going to cover all the different paths through the compiler.

Back when I worked on a commercial compiler, we had a smoke test which we ran before committing. It would take ~30 minutes to run. We had a longer, roughly eight hour, set of tests which we ran daily. And we had machines running tests 24/7, which managed to clock up roughly 20 million distinct test cases (combinations of code and options) over the course of a year.

Every single compiler bug we'd ever seen was present (in a reduced form) in the conformance tests we'd run before release. That took about a week.
Startups and Remote-First Culture
It's not that simple. Population density numbers don't tell us anything useful at the national level. Most Swedes are clustered into a few urban areas.
Let's be real for 2 seconds here, this is pure nonsense. No court of law would do anything about "hey we arrested that guy because he has 2 eyes, a mouth and the same tshirt as that other guy who was protesting yesterday", if it comes to this you wouldn't even need a picture of blurred faces, just arrest whoever you want and provide forged evidences (or none) because that's exactly the same thing

And even then law enforcement are already filming them (cctv + from the air) and tracking their phones, the last thing you have to worry about is a 100% blurred face that no amount of technical power would be able to process or match back to you.
I'd love to see the agreement that allows a movie to be shot in space. If they were to pay for the seats directly, it would be too much of the movie's budget.

Regardless, love to see it happen.
I think HN sometimes push random posts to the bottom of the front page, no?

How about giving less posted sites on HN with more than 2-3 votes priority in that and maybe make it happen more often?

I see you answered that.

I like this suggestion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21869599

Maybe HN needs a new /random or /individual filtering bigger companies and popular paywalls.
That's just.. not what inflation is.
Norway is right next door, and did a lockdown, but has opened up and will open up more shortly.

It will be very interesting to see how things go in Norway compared to Sweden in the next weeks and months.
> revolutionary policies of universal home arrest

Quarantine is an age-old method of disease prevention. There is nothing revolutionary about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#History
I've used MailStore Home[1] for a few years and I really like it. It allows me to search across all of my mailboxes, even ones that have since been shutdown, for emails that I only remember a partial subject for.

[1]: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
For those using Protonmail: I did a little writeup on using offlineimap to keep a local backup.

https://github.com/peterrus/protonmail-export-linux
Ask HN: What password manager do you use?
Pointing out an observation in relation biology and vitamin d production, even if totally incorrect, does not mean it's racist. If anything, if someone with darker skin living in Sweden would get their vitamin d levels checked and correct it because the comment above, it would help them.
We are talking about teaching. You guys wonder why students graduate who can't code- professors who passed them because their shit that doesn't work looked nice.
They are not viable strategies, which is why the analogous strategies in modern-day languages are heavily discouraged and wouldn't pass a code review.
Doctoral students are trained to read systematically
I'm currently teaching git to a group of about 10 content designers in the department where I work. They are enjoying it and looking forward to work more closely with developers and other designers.

This would be ideal and would definitely make my job a bit easier.
The fact that I've started using signal might not be an information I wish to share with other people who are also using signal and have my contact.
385 reported cases. How many people have they tested?
Same. I ended up rate limiting my connection to 256kbps and it stayed stable.
FWIW this was updated before release to also scale down the image before blurring it. We cut the size in half, or cap it to 300x300, whichever is smaller. This was to ensure that the effectiveness of the blur isn't reduced on higher-resolution images.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/app/...
Early random sampling in Sweden indicated a IFR around 0.2%, but the more recent antibody test points to 1.1%, putting the expected final death toll up an order of magnitude
+1 for IMAPSync, used it a few times to migrate business and personal email, including into G Suite. It enabled me to offer a very smooth transition for people, entirely hiding from them the complexities of what "move my email" really entails!
Mine goes to 11.
I think if Foucault had waited until he could demonstrate everything he said with proofs and experiments he would have failed to the same extent as a physicist who makes provocative claims without any evidence.

There are endeavors that call for lots of rigor and little creativity and others that call for the opposite. Not everyone has those two qualities at the same time so there has to be some division of labor.
Just DeepFake Nicolas Cage onto everyone.
A simple approach would be to add a short "New" section at the bottom of the frontpage, which shows about 5 semi-randomly chosen submissions from the last few hours that haven't seen much engagement yet.

That would encourage more curation without much effort, but also without too much distraction for users only interested in the top.

Add a toggle to hide the section persistently and everyone should be happy.
I'm going to lean towards everything being nothing, with everything together being a giant illusion.

But, well, I'm having one of those days. :(
At some points, when losing/breaking a phone, I have just refrained from buying a new one for a few weeks / a month. It felt pretty nice, actually.

For about a year, I used the Firefox developer phone with Boot 2 Gecko. It was kind of usable as a phone, but it really made me not use basically any apps apart from some lighter web use. It was surprisingly OK, for me, but sometimes a hassle.

Ever since, I have mostly gone without logging in to my social media accounts. Still am a HN junkie, though.

Lately, I have gone without a personal computer for uite some time; the last nine months or so, instead using my phone exclusively. Originally, I was hoping to be able to use Linux on DeX (with a bluetooth keyboard and a pretty decent 15" USB-C screen from Asus). It worked surprisingly well, but it was not 100% there so unfortunately, I can't quite recommend it. The point is moot, anyway, since Samsung cancelled the beta and removed the Linux on DeX functionality. I do use Termux, which is OK for a lot of things, and tried to use Andronix and similar offerings, but it's just too cumbersome. It's a bummer, because I'm pretty sure the hardware would be OK for the type of usage I need.

Another issue with the setup is that the screen charges over USB-C, so will quickly drain the phone battery. I use a qi wireless charger, which kind of works, but is kind of finicky. I still haven't found an adapter which takes USB PD and "feeds" it into the USB-C cable, ideally charging the phone and powering the screen at the same time. If anyone can give me pointers to that, I would be very grateful.
High Court declares lockdown unconstitutional and invalid (South Africa)
France just lifted its quarantine now it's doing exactly what Sweden is doing as every country in the world.

It couldnt feed its citizens without an economy.

Also note there's no exponential explosion in the rate of infection in Sweden or anywhere else that is opened its economy like the model for quarantine predicted to flatten the curve.

It's reached a steady-state in all of these places.
> There is nothing criminal or embarrassing about being in public or participating in a peaceful protest.

Then why are they beat up, gassed and arrested ?
The low skilled workers are going to get paid very little because we choose to pay them very little.

We as a society have decided that rather than increase the wealth of the very poor at the bottom of society, instead we want to increase the wealth of the ultra wealthy.

Why does a person need tens of billions of dollars? Because they worked very hard or had a great idea? Why isn't $500 million enough instead of $50 billion when we have kids in this country and around the world who don't know where their next meal is coming from?

Much of Western Europe decided on a much different route than the US took and they have much more egalitarian societies.

The problem is that in the US we decided that the ultra wealthy are our betters and deserve as much capital as they can accumulate and the parasites at the bottom are inferior and deserve to toil for Bezos' pocket lint.
Different Deployment Types of AWS Elastic Beanstalk
It's easy to hide the number of deaths too. How often does an average person actually see a dead person? Almost never.

Whoever controls the narrative, decides on what numbers to report.
There are a number of variations on this play. The simple ones are:

1. Stealth (F-35/F-22) squadron keeps taking turns "illuminating" using radar and spot for each other, toggling radar on and off.

2. AWACS / ground-based radar / MIG-31M provides targets and stealth comes in close to take them out.

3. There is a concept that flips #2 - stealth comes in and looks for targets, a large transport aircraft is converted into a "missile truck" and ripple fires on target from a distance, WITHOUT having to illuminate - there are missiles called AWACS killers which are pretty dangerous to #2. Note that ripple fires implies missiles with multiple means of targeting.

4. Drones can play the role of finding targets and recon-by-fire too.
> Even better, 25 lbs from 60' up lol

Oddly terrifying. Could be a trailer to a new horror film - The Drone Chainsaw Massacres.
NetApp to Acquire Spot
So how do you make people be nicer to each other?
There's a deep problem of all these comparisons of economies with public health policies:

Markets and money are vehicles for making agreements. They are all about negotiation. They are imminently and manifold fungible. They are contrivances. A deadly virus is not.

Let's also not forget for every death from C19 there are a handful-dozen people who survive to lifelong health problems from the episode. That has a cost, too.
> The Flight Software team is about 35 people.

I'm shocked the discussion is about UI tech and not that there was only 35 people on the team that built the software to land Falcon 9.

Surely it's changed in the last 7 years. Anyone know the size now?
While I agree with this framing of the problem, it feels like another expression of dysfunction in development increasing as direct interaction with clients and users decreases.
While writing my thesis I found matplotlib to be quite beautiful with adjustments only on the text (use LaTeX rendering to fit in with the thesis doc itself) and colour schemes; that is literally three lines of code at most. It's not ugly by default either, it produces very crisp graphics easily.
Yeah, there's actually tons of alternatives. Everyone and their cousin has a chat app, and video conferencing is a basic feature.
No, this is not what the person who mentioned ON ERROR RESUME NEXT is arguing. They are arguing in some cases it's better if the program plods along and produces any output, even wrong output, rather than crashing.

I think the post above explains why this isn't the case in mission critical software. I'd argue the lesson from software engineering is that it's not advisable in most situations, not just for nuclear reactors. The error was raised by a reason, after all. I'd say it's the opposite: there are some limited cases where you absolutely know the exception is not relevant, and in those cases you can knowingly swallow the exception.
Exactly. Life and death of thouands of people should not be decided based on someone's charisma alone. Even if something is done in the name of a scientific experiment - like Tegnell's unique policy - it is outregeously unethical if this causes avoidable mass death to innocent civilians.

Sadly Sweden is no stranger to application of questionable and unethical scientific experiments to the masses. The country had an extensive Nazi-inspired eugenics programme from 1930s all the way up to the late 1970s:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates

The very existence of this programme was a secret until the early 2000s, and to this day continues to be a taboo in Sweden.
Three Ways Lockdowns Paved the Way for These Riots – Mises Wire
You can just put that command in a cron job, though. Or (and I assume the above command is just a layer on top of this) just write a short getmail config file and set cron to run the simple command

getmail

once in a while.
This is great, already, looking through a few days, I have found more interesting things than the top stuff right now.

Subscribed through RSS
Well lets take a few issues.

For example by and large I agree with the current actions of the Republicans and Trump in the realm of Foreign / trade Policy. While I am not a huge fans of tariff's our trade agreements have been lopsided not in the favor of the US for many decades now. It was not in anyway a fair or "free" trade, they here gifts to large multinational corporate looking to lower labor costs and avoid environmental regulations that their smaller competitors could not

I am also 100% anti-intervention so Trump pulling the military out of many nations I am 100% in agreement with, something the Democrats just a few years ago also agreed with but modern democrats can not be seen sharing any position with the Orange Man at all, ever.

Now on the domestic Front. I am largely in-favor of the Corporate Tax Cuts, Largely in favor of most of the Deregulation that has occurred. I have largely agreed with Trumps Supreme Court Nominees.

Immigration and Law Enforcement is the 2 area's I disagree with the GOP on, with immigration however democrats have gone off the deep in wanting to open up all Social Welfare programs to anyone that want to come here from anywhere. I 100% oppose that as it is economically unfeasible. I support the idea of open immigration as long as spending on Social welfare programs is controlled. I also oppose the creation of a new Universal Healthcare entitlement which is a cornerstone of the Democrat party platform

When it comes to domestic law Enforcement I oppose the GOP almost completely.
I am against a total lockdown once the cases are low, and those numbers strengthen my opinion!

I was not clear, i was speaking against the idea that lockdown did not save lives. Here is my case:

P1: We seems to be able to keep R0 around one (a bit under actually) when everyone is following social distancing.

C1: Following P1 if a country have 50 case a day, it will stay at 50 case until a vaccine is found as long as those social distancing rules are followed.

C1': Following P1 if a country have around 3000 case a day, it will stay at 3000 cases a day until a vaccine is found as long as those social distancing rules are followed.

P2: If natural immunity is achievable, then a vaccine will be found (this is a weak point, i have no argument for that, it is my poor understanding of immunobiology that tell me this as a correct premise, but my confidence index is barely 60%)

P2 corollary: If we can't find any vaccine, then no long-term natural immunity exist

P3: 50 cases a day is better than 3000 cases a day

C2: C1 + P2 Corollary + P3: In any case, having less cases when taking "normal" (aka no-lockdown) social distancing mesure will save lives. This number of cases is arbitrary and will change depending on the population and density of a country.

I'm not deciding policies here. I'm just saying that initial lockdown make sense before appropriate measure that will keep R0 low are taken (case tracking, quarantining, social distancing), and that "flatten the curve" is a good slogan but is not only to help the NHS, it will also decrease the number of total cases.
Texas is an even more dramatic example.

29 million people with only 1,734 deaths, and 4 of the 11 largest US cities.

If you scale Norway to Texas on population, you would get 1,000 deaths.

If you scale Finland to Texas, you would get 1,700 deaths.

Texas did as well as Finland with five times the population, with barely any lockdown.

It's the climate. The same reason Greece did so well. The same reason Rome didn't get hit like Milan (when it should have been hit far worse).

It's why all of San Diego County only has 283 deaths with a population of 3.3 million.

And it's why formerly hard hit locations are starting to open up: their temperatures have climbed enough to slow the virus. NYC will be fully open this Summer and yet the virus won't be ravaging the city like it previously did, and this is why.

The Italian doctor - Alberto Zangrillo - that recently made headlines by saying the virus was fading in potency? That's the higher temperatures reducing the potential of the virus to transmit, it's reducing the viral loads they're seeing. We already knew to expect this, that's why numerous experts were predicting the virus would fade as the seasons changed and temps climbed.
It was specifically the NHS advice I was questioning, I'm aware of the basic cause. Thanks.
To be fair to those who worked their way out of minimum wage.
Karl Friston: up to 80% not even susceptible to Covid-19
> Server logs can tell you that.

They can't tell me how much money those users actually bring me. 70% of my content is not monetised.

> Your affiliate partner will tell you which links bring what income

My affiliate partners go from Amazon to people who fax things around. Their data is not always accurate or complete, if they gather it at all. I used Google Analytics to spot many such problems in the past.

> the forms would also generate log entries

That would just confirm that a form was submitted. It won't tell me on which pages it performs poorly. It won't tell me that people opened a collapsible, but didn't like its contents.

> Server logs and GeoIP

The point isn't just to know where users come from, but how to better serve them. Server logs won't answer questions like "are there enough non-EU, Spanish-speaking visitors to warrant translating this page?"

> I see nothing here

It might have something to do with myopia. Your judgements are based on inaccurate preconceptions of how websites operate.
Many more people ride bikes than drive electric vehicles.
Reminds me of the CIA and their bemoaning the decline of its US manufacturing base (also on WaPo)
— while true, it’s not encompassing enough to show the resilience of global market (even during COVID-19 crises).

This article is also based on scant socio-political vector data so it needs more parallels to reach that causation level. For now, it’s a bare correlation and merely coincidence.
Look at how similar products were sold...

OSS combined with cloud offerings seem to be an established approach
> "and is secure by default"

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
As part of the slightly older generation, the last time I was seriously "out of contact" was Inter-railing in the late 90s. We had one guidebook and the Thomas Cook International Rail Timetable: that was essentially all of our planning. We would routinely arrive in another country knowing only a fragment of the language and having no accomodation, and somehow this all worked out fine.

The downside is that I have zero photos of this time and only fragments in a diary. These days I would have several thousand selfies in front of the major monuments of Europe, like everyone else. The correct number is probably somewhere between those two.

I had basically no news either. Occasionally we would spot a headline in Le Monde or the SdZ. But it was the late 90s, so hardly anything was happening anyway. I think that would be my main reason to isolate from the internet today.
Motionia.js – On-demand lightweight animation library