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I have been following the situation in Sweden closely.

As far as I can see, calling Tegnell a scientist is incorrect. He may have a Ph.D but does decisively not behave scientifically. Instead he should should be called a bureaucrat, which much better describes his behavior.

The catastrophe that is swedish covid-19 strategy, probably started as something like this:
http://www.openias.org/swedens-covid19-strategy

They believed Covid-19 was much more infectious and much fewer people were seriously affected, than we now believe.

This was understandable at the time, since it's known that early on in an epidemic only serious cases are noted, and so infectiousness is underestimated and mortality usually overestimated. However, towards march it became definitely clear for most everybody else that covid-19 was fairly serious for many people and the Chinese mortality numbers were not vastly exaggerated.

Because of his belief in an exaggerated infectiousness, Tegnell believed herd immunity would be reached fairly fast. Most of april Tegnell spent on justifying his faulty assumptions, believing herd immunity was to be had in Stockholm in may. To justify this, they used highly dubious modelling and wishful thinking:
https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/125408476749626163...

Sweden currently is now sitting in a horrible quagmire. The infection is still uncontrolled and mortality, though below its peak, is still significant. Testing infrastructure has still not been built out, and is still not done on all symptomatic cases. Likely because the infection was seen as having a similar severity to flu, and therefore it was presumed better to just stay home for a few days, than to go and get tested.

Tegnell can not admit having been wrong, because of bureaucratic honor. The population which are, like in all other countries, generally not very scientifically literate or interested, have not quite fully grasped the situation. But judging by the latest polls of confidence in the government, many are starting to suspect something is not quite right.

I fully support a very open debate, and believe all opinions have a right to be heard. But the Swedish situation should not be confused with science. It saddens me to say, that only very few countries have been more passive, bureaucratic and unscientific handling this crisis. And that seems to have cost quite many lives and much suffering for swedes.
Also wouldn't recommend. I switched to Colemak back in the day. Switched all my phone keyboard and everything. I was a typing god.

Started a new job where I ended up having to switch to qwerty for pairing sessions, typing like I was using a computer keyboard for the first time, never mind interviews where one might need to live code on a foreign machine. Having to explain "oh hai, yeah I actually use a different keyboard layout because my fingers move less but it hamstrings me whenever I sit at _anyone elses_ keyboard" just doesn't cut it. If you've got issues that'd be helped by better typing ergonomics and really need to switch then go for it.

Otherwise, don't waste your time, just get better at typing qwerty, trust me.
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That is a very interesting point, and I'm with you on the extra facilities (typefaces, colours, highlighting, sizes, effects etc) that are possible and useful. I'll chew this over tonight. It's a good point.
As a thought experiment (don't try this at home) it's actually feasible to cut all the trees on earth down, burn them without releasing that CO2 into the air and use that energy to scrub the atmosphere. This is a horrible idea, of course, but the illustrates the point above. All organic life either creates (via photosynthesis) or consumes hydrocarbons, so we have a lot of it to burn – the trick is not to let the gases into the air, which is what we never should have done in the first place.
Testing compiler outputs by testing popular libraries an apps generated with it is a fine and common approach.

Expecting a compiler (and the hardware it runs on) to be perfect is a mistake.
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The plan is basically that the tourism sector takes a beating and nobody is allowed to come to NZ without a 2 week quarantine. Possibly for years.

Under the theory that NZ citizens can’t go anywhere else, supposedly if all the people who would have gone overseas instead travel internally then it should recover up to 60%. If Australia can get thier shit together then it’s apparently 95%.

I guess it’s just a question of priorities. Most of the NZ population is feeling pretty good about life being normal and are willing to pitch the tourism sector into the fire to that end.
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Erlang / Elixir.
Is this part of the second half of the course ? I don't remember implementing an assembler, but I only did the 1st half ;)
This is peak hacker news.

I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding your concern as I don't see anything in the feature list about how they handle "pure documents". My assumption is that they expect you to use markdown for such submissions (a valid choice for programming-based learning) and you're suggesting this should be more widespread and used for teaching other subjects?

> At what age do kids embrace Markdown as the single source of truth for their documents?

I love markdown. I _want_ it to be used everywhere. But I know of adults who are barely interested in or capable of using Word/Google Docs correctly.

You want _kids_ to use _markdown_!? That is one of the more absurd things I've seen on hacker news. Up there with that guy who suggested Dropbox wasn't necessary because surely the average person can figure out how to use rsync to an external hard drive.

A sibling comment managed to take this even further by suggesting LaTeX?! You want kids, in grade school, to learn how to use LaTeX? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Are you all being serious? What's next, all assignments need to be submitted using JSON so teachers can program their own essay viewers?

That's obviously hyperbole, but rich text, Word or Google Docs are very clearly the best option for essay style assignments. Those options have their flaws from a technical perspective but you seriously need to look outside the hacker news echo chamber if you think this is a good idea. Many of these people are going to go into careers where if they submitted their work as a plaintext markdown document their boss is going to say "what the fuck am I supposed to do with this?"

Again, this is such a strange suggestion to me that I feel like I'm misinterpreting it. If that's the case I apologise.
One thing you can do is explicitly revoke permissions. This allows you to start the program with more permissions and then give them up as the tasks that required them are done, e.g. allowing environment variable access at the beginning and then revoking it before you start a server: https://deno.land/manual/examples/permissions

It's not as fine-grained as allowing libraries specific permissions, but it gets you part of the way there.
You need to keep essential production and distribution active of course. Food is absolutely essential. Anything that's essential for its distribution is also essential to keep functioning. Health care is essential, of course. As is garbage disposal, emergency services, and anything that stops society from falling apart.

Anything that's not essential can still be done if it can be done from home or with other serious restrictions that minimize the risk of spreading the disease.

Anything that involves a lot of people getting together should really be prevented. Luxuries are not essential. Festivals will need to be cancelled.

It's not an all-or-nothing thing; you need to look at what's essential, and what poses too great a risk.
> It is hard to quantify such things as there is no significant statistics, but lockdowns contribute to deaths, too.

There are systematic statistics on overall excess deaths which will include people whose deaths are a short term response to lockdown, so we can pretty conclusively say that lockdowns reduced short term excess deaths. They don't account for future excess deaths due to situations like cancelled operations you mentioned or different responses to a second wave, but they don't account for future deaths of COVID survivors where cardiac and lung damage caused by the disease is a comorbidity either.
I'm not convinced by that. I use thumb clusters now, but on a normal keyboard I would always move my whole hand and hit backspace with my right ring finger. Similarly with modifiers I would either karate chop or move my hand. Using pinky should be avoided if possible. Similarly the common recommendation to bind caps lock to control is the worst possible thing for RSI.
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Nothing wrong with being an outlier but if you can explain, I'd like to know why you prefer it (when you can, that is).

I'm not mad on going mad with colours and effects, something that happens too much, but even some minimal visual feedback can be disproportionately helpful I feel.
Contrary to popular belief (and to dismay of some users downvoting my comment for merely putting the historical facts straight), it's not just "Hitler times".

Eugenics went on for considerably longer. Eg. compulsory sterilization, sterilization without consent, persisted well until 1970s.

It was similar with lobotomy (carried out until mid- or late 1960s, I think).

See https://www.umu.se/en/news/swedish-big-brother-behind-loboto... for an interesting take on the Swedish case:

> Sweden was more accepting than the US in its attitude toward lobotomy in the 1940s and 1950s. A possible explanation for this may be the strength of paternalism in Sweden, that is, a greater tendency to make decisions on behalf of the patient in Swedish medical culture than in its American counterpart. This is according to Kenneth Ögren from Umeå University in Sweden.

Whether a legitimate parallel can be drawn with their approach regarding the pandemics, is another matter I'm not really commenting on here.
To be honest every single death in Sweden is probably counted so the stats are rocksolid. Other countries might have a lower quality of stats (unaccounted death, paperless/undocumented people, missdiagnosed, etc)..
A more efficient economy may also be more vulnerable. Food produced closer to home, with decentralised supply chains, may be more expensive, but are harder to disrupt on a large scale in the face of disaster.
If you are not even compiling a change, then why would you submit it?

The bot will catch it, yes, but you are still filling the queue of maintainers.
That is not a "practical" time scale though. Sure, if we wait long enough, GDP might flatten out, but on human time scales so far it has grown exponentially. A similar analogy can be made for AGI.
With SMS you're forced to think about "where's that person live" and "can I send photos/videos and how many" to avoid crazy bills.

imessage/whatsapp just does the job without stupid questions.
> and they're still changing and adapting

Saw them for the first time in maybe 2014 or so. I hadn't followed much about them except listening to their music, so I was expecting them to be playing with a full setup of vintage 70's gear, mainly because there are a lot of other groups formed in the 70s who are still big and are doing that.

I was really excited to see them mostly using iPads and microsoft Surfaces hooked up to several keyboards and other MIDI controllers. I think they just always want to be trying out the newest musical tech.
I doubt anyone will argue that it’s easier to find exploits in closed-source code, but it’s really not that much more difficult. Like, maybe an order of magnitude harder at most. To a nation-state, does it really matter that a zero day chain costs $100,000 rather than $1,000,000?
This is exactly the kind of whataboutism that people have rightly come to expect from the tech world, but it never ceases to disappoint
> The Swedes are actually poor at counting deaths, as they lag in their reporting, and often report 0 deaths in the weekend and hollidays.

That doesn't make them poor at counting death, so long as those deaths do eventually get counted. Everyone knows there are lags in reporting and counting, and everyone should take those lags into account when using the data.

Compare that to Spain, which has recently changed their count method and ended up with a confusing and misleading set of data. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1268450736398098433?...
A few years ago I took the plunge and started learning Colemak after extensive typing left me with pain in my hands. I haven't had any typing related issues since so personally I can recommend learning an alternative keyboard layout (whether that be Workman, Dvorak, Colemak, or other).

Using qwerty on other people's computers has never been an issue since I use my own machine most of the time. I do have to look at the keyboard when typing qwerty but it's quick enough so I don't really mind.

If you're curious what it feels like to type Colemak, I wrote a small app a few years ago which simulates Colemak for someone on a qwerty keyboard:

http://mmlkrx.github.io/colemak-typing-simulator/
Perhaps, but only one. Popularity is a much more important factor.
I think it's funny that people are so focused in correcting him about Australia that they miss the point of his argument.
Well I'm not sure. The doc says:

Access to security sensitive areas or functions requires the use of permissions to be granted to a deno process on the command line. [1]

The only other mention of permissions in documentation is that a program may query or revoke permissions.

[1] https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/permissions
[2] https://deno.land/manual/examples/permissions

EDIT: formatting
Generic OTC allergy meds are cheap when you don't buy boutique retail. I pay less than $11/year for daily generic Claritin (365 doses) at Costco. Allegra is a touch more.
> What helped we is switch from C++ to Ruby

This is a great point. Some languages have terrible ergonomics - those which rely heavily on brackets which are poorly placed on a keyboard. Ergodox layouts tend to map brackets to the second layer on ER,DF,CV keys to mitigate this. But it's better for languages to not require braces at all.
The absolute deal breaker for WhatsApp for me is that it is owned by Facebook. There is zero chance I would consider using it for anything, ever, because of that fact.
People used to have gardens in the first place, yes. In high density urban environments that's quite the luxury. It's hard work, not very efficient, and highly seasonal. And if you're in the overtime-earning class you're not buying a Maserati.

Lots of places in America mandate that your visible garden be grass. Even if the climate is really unsuitable.
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oh, absolutely.

Im fascinated to see how it plays out myself.

The plan for the next couple of months at least seems to be to require a 2-3 week quarantine for people coming into the country, which is definitely going to cause continued harm to the tourism sector.

I think the hope from the govt right now is that a vaccine becomes an option sooner rather than later...there is no guarantee of that even being possible of course, but its looking more hopeful as the data comes in.

OTOH within the country itself, as of right now, we are one of the least-shutdown economies in the world and have lost only 21 people to covid, which is a pretty solid place to be.

The longer we can keep covid out, the better the virus is understood and the more effective the treatments that are available, even without a vaccine.

It seems likely to be true that eventually we will need to shrug and let the virus have its way with our people, with or without a vaccine, but everyone with vulnerable dependents is grateful to have had more time with them, and already the treatment outcomes for covid have improved from 6 weeks ago.

Lives sacrificed by opening up too soon (or never closing) would be lost forever, while the economy is driven by people, and people are endlessly resilient, so the economy will recover.

Was it worth it for the lives saved? Clearly opinions are going to vary, but Im comfortable with the choices our govt has made so far.
That is because the buying process is an artificially inflated burden that reinforces the current system.
Removing landlords would also remove the need for them to exist.
Recommend IMAPSync: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

Have used it at pretty massive scale and it handles a hell of a lot of different options.
Isn’t YC this too? Anyone can apply. I don’t get the impression it’s about who you know.
This is awesome. I ignored all the questions. Just make it a clean chatroulette to have a coffee with random developers. Secure it with a programming question.
Interesting (but probably not too surprising) to see that DTN research is alive and kicking!

I wrote a short seminar paper on DTN protocols as an undergrad in '09, so thanks for the trip down memory lane!
It’s because it takes time to coordinate the collection of deaths from nursing hones and so forth. A large number of countries are not even collecting these statistics, so I think it’s unfair to say that Sweden is poor at it. According to the latest report, 79% of excess deaths were accounted for in official statistics.

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/globalassets/statistik-u...
In my experience when I was uninsured, Costco's uninsured rates for prescription drugs beat everybody.
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A lot of investors aren't actually interested in profitable products. Companies get over funded to the point where it is impossible to make a return by simply offering a product.
Since you are trying to make things personal... I'm personally not inconvenienced, I love WFH and having a good reason not to meet people.

So once again is that choice also appropriate if 7+ bln people have to spend 3 months working in order to save your dad? Obviously a lot of other people die because if they have to work 3 months saving your father it means the doctors are not saving other people, we won't have food etc.

I'm trying to show that there must be a line drawn somewhere and it can't be binary.
> Is supporting IE11 financially justified?

Server logs can tell you that.

> Which articles generate the most income, and why?

Your affiliate partner will tell you which links bring what income assuming you're using unique links.

Otherwise the server logs will give you a good page view count. Sure, it'll include bots, but bots that have no interest in the content would tend to be randomly distributed across all articles and thus not skew the results too much.

> Which components are useful, and which are just noise?

Not sure what you mean by components? If you're talking about different links or forms (like a newsletter) then the forms would also generate log entries on the server and can be counted there.

> Where are my visitors from?

Server logs and GeoIP.

I see nothing here that justifies ratting out your users to Google just to save a tiny bit of effort.
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You're going to have to implement a value system into the AGI if it is a fully general AGI. Otherwise, it will just use its exceptional intelligence to defeat its own sensors, take control of its objective function, and essentially wirehead itself.

So an AGI without a value system is (mostly) harmless. If the AGI has a defined value system, it's a lot clearer what that value system is. No "whoops gonna destroy the world to make paperclips" will happen.

(A not-fully general AGI might not be smart enough to defeat its own sensors, yet still be smart enough to do lots of harm. The typical example is grey goo, which isn't smart at all, yet plenty harmful.)
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It's fairly impossible to say "Sweden should hav ebeen more careful with its elderly" - The measures put in place by Sweden were designed with that in mind.

That's why elderly care facilities were the first, if not only ones, to face quarantine.

However, when you have years of poor management of elderly care, and elderly care companies that refuse to heed the recommendations, there's not much "Sweden" can do in the moment wihtout severe effort.
I just assumed traders were irrational out of lack of education.
Expect to see stuff like this become more and more "normal" in the future, thanks to access to space becoming drastically cheaper. Falcon 9/Dragon seats are now available for civilian purchase, as well as license to stay on the ISS.

Some examples: Axiom Space [1] plans to send three private passengers to the ISS on 2021, as well as adding their own commercial modules to the ISS. Tom Cruise seems pretty set on filming his next movie in space too [2].

Furthermore, if the Starship [3] project is successful, space is going to become _cheap_, perhaps even to the point that anyone in the upper middle class might be able to purchase a ride.

Exciting times.

[1] https://www.axiomspace.com/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248460/nasa-tom-cruise-m...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
I had issues with just taking "current spam data, not trained on that particular data":

- It allows trainers to hard-code future rules based on their experience of what has passed through past filters, even if their model isn't technically trained on this dataset

- You might get similar emails sent to different mailboxes and the instances not included would still be allowed (and I don't really want to go down the rabbithole of defining a similarity metric between emails)

- I think I want to allow spammers to evolve their capabilities at least using current techniques, which we all presumably agree is "less than AGI". After all, intelligence implies adapting to a dynamic environment. It's not really going to feel like AGI (and certainly not going to make me worry) if it looks like AGI is trivial to outsmart by humans or less-than-AGI techniques.
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I don't know what's your number reference from. I watched several videos from cali and i counted +50 people looting all kinds of stores.
Cool idea. "Database" is sadly still a primarily left-handed word, but I understand that's because the goal is not to change anything about querty that doesn't need to be changed. I think moving the 'e' to the right is a good idea.
It's definitely an interesting thought. Max Krieger also explores this at some length in "Chatting with Glue": https://a9.io/glue-comic/
It's mind blowing how the media spinned his defense, with headlines like "Sweden admits they were wrong and should have locked down", whereas he said exactly the opposite.

He said: we should have had more labs, locked down retirement homes, but we shouldn't have asked students to stay home.
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What’s so difficult about it?

On Windows you just install an extra MSI for Colemak, add it to the standard desktop build and you’re off (you use win-spacebar to switch to the new keyboard quickly when sitting at the keyboard).

On Mac you just switch to that layout (cannot remember the hotkey but there is one), no install required.

Linux likely has 15 different ways to do it and you just have to pick the easiest one for you.

You just need to have a chat with your boss. He’ll probably be happy to allow something that requires zero budget and ticks an extra “ergonomics” checkbox.
One solution could be to create a github organisation to use with this feature, and grant the permissions for that org instead of your personal account.