skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tom Britton's research is used to base the policy of the Swedish health organization on, but he doesn't speak for them. In Johan Giesecke's case it's more difficult since he charges them for some of his interviews, so I lean more towards yes.
You don't have to watch the entire video, you can just read the summary below the video.

In Sweden the policy is to mostly let people do what they want (at least when compared to other countries), unless they're in a risk group then they should take some additional measures. You expose people that don't have a big risk of getting seriously ill to a disease, they become immune and the risk group can reduce their additional measures. I would say that's pretty similar to herd immunity even without it being explicitly called that. Right now I think that's an acceptable strategy[0], when this started there maybe were too many unknowns to go down this route?

[0] There are some unstated assumptions here such as how long people would be immune against it, how many people have serious complications afterwards but don't die and so on, so it's definitely debatable.
What Vietnam has done is pretty well documented (1). As a single example, schools were closed in early February.

It would be nice to have 1 fact or even a made-up-fact that the numbers are screwed aside from _they have to be_. But even if we decided that it was impossible for Vietnam to have handled this properly, you'd still be left with the relatively minuscule death rates from Singapore, South Korea and New Zealand.

I grew up in Canada but have lived in Vietnam. There was no doubt in my mind who'd handle this better.

(1) https://theconversation.com/vietnam-has-reported-no-coronavi...
You haven't found a measure of inequality, you have identified that you can't afford an expensive car.

It demonstrates that someone can afford an expensive car and someone else can't. That's not a measure of the extent of the inequality (the car owner could be a millionaire or a billionaire), but it's certainly a signal that inequality exists. I know that the inequality is at least someone having enough to spend 30 times what I earn on a car, and could possibly be thousands of times larger than that. That is a measure of inequality insofar as it clearly shows inequality exists. It's just not a very specific one that tells us the extent.
Why were Jammu and Kashmir included in their chart? I thought that's not part of India but a part their Hindu party is trying to forcibly take over.
There were a lot of early assumptions about the virus. Some turned out to be true, others turned out to be false. For example, they were also saying that the virus would only spread if you had symptoms; that turned out to be totally false, and a big reason why it spread so much faster than everybody expected.

I think erring on the side of caution was absolutely warranted. But I also think it's good that kids are going to school again. Compared to many other countries, I'm pretty happy with how the Dutch government is handling this.
I don’t think an all or nothing approach is necessary.

I was too stressed out at one point and what worked for me was just making myself unavailable for certain periods of the day and handling emails, voice messages, phone calls, etc. in batch mode at scheduled periods of the day.

The details of how exactly you go about doing this will depend on your situation, but it’s quite doable.
this is a good point, but a lot of what the cdc is/has prepared for in these kind of situations is related to human psychology, and trying to factor that in to their plans.
Came here more or less to say this. I really think a pre-Internet, pre-highly connected brain is different from one where the Internet is ubiquitous. I am not saying it is better, but it is different. The idea that to look something up you have to remember it or note it down by your family's telephone on a slip of paper, go to the library, find a reference book you can't even take home with you, research it in that and maybe two other books, and so on... Yeah, 1980 was a very different time in terms of looking into topics of interest, especially for children.
Also Japan at all of 900 deaths despite an early start. Articles have been written about government responses and cultural behaviours, but it feels like there's something with a stronger effect out there waiting to be discovered.

A genetic quirk, perhaps? Or maybe a strain of another coronavirus (a kind that gives 'common cold' type symptoms) that has already swept the region and confers some immunity? Presumably people with the right expertise are looking into this sort of question already, but it seems like a lot of media reports are going off half-cocked. I'm not trying to apologise for European or US governments' handling of the crisis, but countries have all reacted differently and it doesn't look like that strong a correlation between their responses and the outcomes.
Also the definition of a covid 19 death in the UK is extremely, err, innacurate
Oh so you have a "remit" option then - cool

So how do the electorate hold the executive to account if they say the will do x instead of y but actually do nothing or something else entirely?

Can you have a reference back on a subsequent referendum to a motion that was remitted in a previous referendum - that's technically the democratic way to do it.
Same here. Happy POP user for decades. How do you deal with accessing mail from multiple devices and when away from your main machine tho?
I'm glad you posted this because when I saw the headline to this article my first reaction was, "Wait, this isn't news to me, I fired a ton of these things in that video game". Then I thought, "No, probably a false memory."
> this last point is not part of miss-categorization point I was replying to

Yes, you're right, and I realized that just as I made the post. But I still don't think that normal rates of death automatically equal coronavirus didn't kill anyone.
I'm still holding out hope for ballistic delivery from UP/Ex launchers, as envisioned by Vernor Vinge in Rainbow's End. A solid fling and a guided parachute might actually work. Major airspace sharing concerns, of course.
Yeah, or maybe someone could implement a feature to somehow distort, or "blur" the faces if you will.
It's like the trolley problem, but Sweden pulled the lever that sends the trolley over lots of people rather than just a few.

I think you used the right ethical analysis tool, but I think you got the ethical analysis wrong.
My job is programming, so it's hard to divorce yourself too much. However, I went something like 4 years without a cellphone plan (I had a phone, but used it as a mobile computing device). I've never really done social media (a couple of years on Facebook until I figured out what it was). Probably HN (and before it Slashdot) was the extend. But I've gone many years without anything.

In terms of communications, I think the biggest problem is other people's expectations. "Why do you have a cell phone if I can't call you?" They ask. People want to be able to demand your time almost instantly and they have no patience for other methods. If your timeframe for being contacted is a day or two, they just won't contact you.

So, if you do it, be prepared to be the one that needs to contact them. You're the odd person out. Nobody will follow your (to them) weird rules. It can be lonely if you aren't proactive.

Apart from that, I find that social media (especially HN these days, unfortunately) is just depressing. Someone has a bad day. They go on to whatever platform and release their stress by being crappy to someone else. People are depressed, they get some catharsis by unloading their depression on others.

I have to limit my time on HN. Strangely, I hang out on Reddit these days, but only on /r/cheesemaking, which is full of wonderful and cheerful people. For me, this is the key. It's not technology, it's people. The technology brings a lot of disparate people together and often pits you against them for the viewing entertainment of the crowd. Best not to go there, but it's not really technology itself.

In terms of stress levels for communications, I think setting limits for yourself is good. I'm actually very comfortable with being contacted with work. If you send me 100 emails an hour, I'm totally fine with it. Bury me on Slack, and it's OK. I have work habits that allow me to jump back and forth between my work and communication (took me 30 years to get good at it, mind you...) But others sink and I often see it. Communicate your limits and stick to it. If you only check your email once an hour, tell people and just do it. It will (usually) be fine, but you have to be consistent about it.

Again, IMHO, it's not about technology. It's about people. Choose to hang around people you enjoy and who give you energy. Draw defined boundaries for interactions that you can't handle and be consistent. This will give you the best benefit, I think.
Cool !
Now stop with the forced contact discovery.
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In the UK, April 2020 was the sunniest April on record (224 hours of bright sunshine), and May 2020 was the sunniest month on record (626 hours).

Now, how much time UK citizens spent in the sun compared to those in other countries is a different question, but "less sun" doesn't appear to be the answer at face value.

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
[2] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
That's because of entryism by far right activists - the sensible Republicans need to talk to Tony Blair and Gordan Brown about that.
Yes, makes sense. Jake VanderPlas (who is the author of the post that you linked to) is the main developer of altair and currently works at Google on Google Colab. He also has a good introductory book on Python for data science and his conference talks have a very nice style to them - the guy is just a great teacher.
6 months while travelling in India in 2003. I had brought my Mac, but on the 9th day some mysterious force blew the "daughterboard" and bricked it. So I had to devote myself to meditation and occasional slow internet cafes.

I noticed how much the screen alters perception. It's a bizarre 2d world. Completely unreal. We evolved to live in our bodies interacting with objects, but instead we end up glued to pathetic little screens, addicted to "information".
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That is comparable to the fee the Google Display Network is charging [1], so that is not abnormal in that kind of business.

However, compared to Flattr and Brave it is still kind of high, which are charging around 10% [2].

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en

[2] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/flattr-vs-brave-fees.html
I am not sure librarians are the ones who decide that a particular subject is socially or technologically dangerous.

The point still stands, the information that libraries provide is organised to an open standard defined by information science, not an opaque algorithm that is subject to the whims of its creators.
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Germany has traditionally had a political culture that was debt-averse, mainly because where in other countries the parliamentary left was Keynesian, the SPD favoured Ordoliberalism [1]. This resulted in the infamous constitutional amendment that governments had to balance every budget.

I think, though, that this is now beginning to be seen as a mistake and the attitude to debt is thawing. The requirement to balance public spending was suspended for the Covid measures: I think this would not have happened before the Eurozone crisis.

I'm talking about 'elite' opinion, where you are talking about public and business opinion, but I am guessing that the changes will spread if the Covid measures are seen as a success, which if the comparison is made to the US they are very likely to be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism
A link to one of your responses would be spiffy.
The "labour" party in Australia is not really a "workers" party
Hard sciences, I think, are based on the correspondence theory of truth – their statements are tested by whether or not they correspond to what's observed in what's believed to be reality. I realise that for some sciences, such as physics, it's becoming increasingly difficult, with such proposals as string theory or many-world theory. I don't know how much of a reality, apart from physical artifacts, there is in historical science.
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Just got a snap from a friend of mine. First pub beer of the season yesterday. 15 days with no new cases in my hometown. City of 300,000, West Norway.

Testing capacity of >1000 per week locally. No way it can sneak up on us without a large external influx.

Tourism is dead, music festivals are off and the oil industry is in a shambles, but otherwise things are close to normal.

Plenty of routines to limit contagion, lots of care and social distancing, but life goes on with no disease for now.
It's the idea that you can opt out, but the process is not simple or advertised. It will probably involve a notary, registered post and a fax of your government-issued ID.
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That’s not the problem though is it. I said I accept my lapse, but such easy access into a world of video sharing should have at least cursory controls for children.

My lapse isn’t in question, it’s the many other children around the world who will be shoved in front of a device and forgotten about, and how this site does nothing to protect them.

We’re in lockdown, myself and my wife work full time and then some. My daughter wanted to paint minecraft skins while I was sat with her. Within two minutes she was on this site somehow and sharing video with someone from the states.

That’s not cricket.
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Do you see authors writing in a committee ? Do you not see solo musicians ? Do we not celebrate individual strategists in the case of war or business ? The same applies to engineers, inventors, programmers and in some cases business people. There are plenty of individual contributors whose solo works stand on their own. Their work is usually a result of working problems that they find challenging with or without collaboration.

Not everything is a group project. In plenty of sports, the epitome of group projects you still see individual contributions outlasting the team's contributions. What is sad though is that in teams usually there are multiple individual contributors, but the credit is usually stolen by some sorta figurehead. The mythological figurehead is more problematic than celebrating individual geniuses, because we live in an individualist society after all.
I don't know the actual situation on the ground, but here in Europe TV were showing massive crowds of people leaving cities, etc. when the lockdown started in India.

Based on that it seemed unlikely that things were under control...
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I had a very frustrating experience in an operating systems class, the first assignment was a few very basic C programs (pointer use, C strings, etc.). I used some C99 features that didn't compile without a flag in the version of GCC the grader used, so I just got a zero even though the programs were correct.
If even the CIA is worried you’re going too far, that says a lot.
It looks like a simple tagging system with extra steps. Pretty much all modern blogs and social networks have tags/hashtags. You can also refer to other posts with links.

Here the same idea is applied to notes, and I'm pretty sure it's already been explored before (e.g. Bear app).

I feel like someone is trying to give a fancy name to an ordinary thing, so it would look like a fancy, innovative thing.
Gambling regulation is individual for each country, it's a loophole used by e.g. Maltese web casinos advertising to German consumers.
As a dark-skinned developer, I used to feel terrible when I was in Germany/US for over 2 months - to the point of being suicidal. It was like my body and mind was breaking down. Colds, migraines, illness, body aches, joint pain. Only later was I diagnosed with acute vitamin-D deficiency.

Vitamin-D supplements turned around my life like a miracle. Nowadays I pop myself with every single vitamin-<anything> tablet in the market.

I tried Sunlight, but Sunlight in northern latitudes is a joke.
It would be going back to the period of 1995-2005.

IoT devices are often evil, and I would no longer be surprised if anyone took the above business "idea" as a manual and went ahead with it.

It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago, and those were better times in that respect (and many others).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-neutral_fuel

https://static.berkeleyearth.org/memos/fugitive-methane-and-...
The business model is interesting. They may be able to build a network where the marginal cost of adding a new customer is very low (just the cost of the base station). And the amount of demand and ability to pay could vary hugely across the globe. What do you charge a school in Botswana, or an arctic research station, or an oil rig, or a traffic monitoring camera in Iowa? It makes sense to have as many customers as possible within reason, regardless of what they can pay. But only if the same bandwidth can't be sold to someone else for more.
This is exactly the point of the article, and yet I ask myself... should I care? The existence of zillionaires does not per se harm anyone, and if they decide to improve the plight of the masses in order to save themselves from violent backlash, does it actually matter, so long as the masses are helped?
Your privilege is showing. If you check up a little on the news, it's actually the other way around. Any death (even accidental) is treated as if it was due to covid.

Any infections discovered are treated they way they should be: a public health emergency.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/bmc-issues-r...
Ask any India or Vietnam people if they believe the number... don’t be so naive those countries have every things to lose as well
It doesn't look like they are open source, does it? https://threema.ch/en/faq/source_code
I mapped all the programming keys to the alphabetic keys accessible via a third shift state. That buys me 24 symbol keys. Been using it for more than 10 years, works a treat.
>I will give the same answer I have given 1000 times.

If I'm just meeting you, it's new information to me, regardless of how many times you've said it! And that opens the door to more interesting conversation. Maybe I do something very related, or are interested something about that job, or whatever. Or maybe it leads nowhere. But that's how smalltalk goes, you dance around until you find a mutually interesting topic.
Please stop using "virtue signaling" for "moral posturing". The first term is wrong: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/stop-saying-virtue-signalling
Somehow his ideas appear too commonplace for attribution.
I think that's not quite correct. Sweden didn't pull any lever at all. They advised their citizens but left them individually free to choose their own path, or pull their own lever. I would argue that's a different ethical choice than what most other countries made.
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Fair enough. Kind of a data geek, hence the ask.
Yep, works very well for me, too.
Apple itself sells the phone with 0% interest if you were going to buy AppleCare.
I believe it's way too early to make conclusions about which approach would have been the best from a scientific/public health perspective.

The reason I think Sweden's approach is wrong is that other countries are much more hesitant to work with them now. An example being Denmark opening the borders to Norway and Germany but not Sweden.
I live in LA in a house I rent. My morning walks take me by houses that cost up to $5 million, a short drive less than 5 miles I can see homes that are $20 million.

In addition to the houses and the cars discussed--I'm a pilot. I see private airplanes routinely that are capable of taking their owners to Paris non-stop and cost $12 to $60 million.

The trappings of wealth are merely a drop in the bucket.
It's not a problem on Android at all and just a limitation of the Apple platforms.

When I try to use a "share" action for example, I get my contacts from the phone and Whatsapp at the same level. My list of contacts actually has a merged view of all my contacts stored on my phone, Whatsapp and other services. Contacts on multiple services are merged appropriately.

It works just fine.