skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My web archival group (nonprofit) has international trending data for the same period. I've been meaning to get around to analysis for a while. This article is a good point of reference.
Stay home if feeling sick is the strongest message and is also presented as the direct and better replacement for masks in public.
Ask HN: How everyone is staying sane during Covid-19?
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I made this to be constantly and unobtrusively reminded of things I have to do, as I rather have things on my screen than on my mind.
He co-authored this great paper on the mathematics of juggling http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/papers/94_01a_juggling.pdf
> remove bias from data, not introduce it

The problem is in finding the bias, since it's a quantity inferred ex post by checking the discrepancy between reality and expectations. And since we have come to ideologically reject the very idea that there might be reasons for the discrepancy, then it must be all up to bias.

Which I personally think it's stupid and counterproductive, since when you have actual reasons you can act upon them to improve the situation, while "bias" is only useful to play a power game in which anyone who disagrees with you can be called racist and forced to repent and apologize for his/ her "bias".
This dog has been trained to press the Eat button to get food. It has not been trained to form sentences?
Process behind Coral Cities and Craig Taylor's other 3D spatial visualisations
Just think how pissed you'd be if you just dropped 6k on a new Mac Pro that will be obsoleted in 3 years. Not speaking from experience, no sir.
Thank you for the last paragraph.

I feel that a lot of people have this assumption, unconscious or not, that the world is entirely objective. That everything can be measured, and what isn't measurable doesn't exist. I think this belief (which essentially elevates the scientific method to a religion) is causing a huge amount of grief in the world.
I think prjeddie's concerns are extremely relevant. However he's not the only one working on things like this, thus it's unlikely that research and development will stop, although I certainly think such development is ethically questionable. In some ways this thing seems similar to the ethical problems facing the scientists working on the nuclear bomb. I just hope to God that this tech will be used for good rather than bad, but the way things are going with political censorship (government sponsored or otherwise) and people of opposing camps doing their best to dox political opponents–let's just say I'm not too optimistic...
Geography is part of it too. Some countries are densely populated, and some aren't.

And echoing the comment about behaviour, the difference between the culture of say, Norway and Britain, is vast in some respects.

Or even the likes of Germany and Italy, which are neighbours.
> use color buttons

Even though dogs are colourblind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That has more to do with Nvidia policy than cloud but I completely agree. For someone who can just plop 4 Geforce GPUs into their PC it's a much better deal than AWS.
Never bet on the church to defend your rights should be a long acquired wisdom by now.
It’s worth market “utility”, but not value. That is the point.
It is great, I used it in a web application that I wrote at work that shows and let the user edit a graph of building electric, gas and water meters. A button lets you calculate the relationships between meters. For example one meter may be split into two, the sum of the flows thru the two must equal the flow thru the first. So basically I set up a system of equations based on the graph that the user created , solved it using sympy, then show the user the flows thru some nodes (the unknowns) in terms of others. Very uselful indeed.
Newsflash: the world isn't steady state. What we think is 'normal' today can change, and by adapting to change we ensure our continued success and survival as a species. Entitlement as to what you feel your life should be like is a good way to be frustrated and rather than to see that a generation of kids lost a year of schooling (which isn't actually the case, most countries had only a few months interruption the bulk of which got caught by remote schooling) think about it this way: we don't get all that worked up about those countries where there are very few or poor levels of school to start with and even in the rich West 200 years ago (an eyeblink on the scale of human history) there was hardly any schooling to begin with.

The big difference this time around is that the rich West is confronted with some of their organizational and political failures.

Grinding up your parents if that's what it took for your son to thrive is a false choice, your son will thrive regardless of whether or not your grind up your parents because it isn't the end of the world to lose a year of schooling. Just work a bit harder the next year and you'll be fine.
> Apart from clear differences in how people act in public spaces when sick, and countries "count" differently.

The only solid metric for COVID-19 deaths is excess mortality, that is, the actual number of deaths - the statistically expected number of deaths (e.g. extrapolating from the last 2-5 years).

This metric is independent of testing capacity and malicious actors like politicians just outright lying to the public to try to save face. You can "hide" dead people, but doing so is much harder than hiding COVID-19 related deaths.

You can't conclude from this metric what the source of all these extra deaths are, but if they are not caused by COVID-19, every alternative explanation I can think of is even worse than a global pandemic.

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking...

https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
I can re-allocate time resources, although I am also unsure as to what to charge - normally consulting I am charging 2X what I get paid full-time (a rule of thumb), but now I would also be doing stuff on top of just programming, and maybe should bring in other people so I wonder what my offer should be (I would like a good rule of thumb for that situation, like charge 25% more for person you're paying to cover cost of management)
Reminds me of trying to opt out of DAA ads[1]

I have never had much luck using it. I just tried now to see if it's different I managed to successfully opt out of 10 / 123. Clearly intentional or all these billion dollar ad companies are running their servers on broken raspberry pis.

[1] - https://optout.aboutads.info
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> I think the problem is that historically when people have done this they've made a total mess of it, and inevitably it doesn't support all options so the GUI always plays catch up (and no one is interested in keeping the GUI up to date).

> I think the example for this was the wget gui.

Yeah, that's true, but I think it'll be easier than binding GUI to the CLI.

The reason CLIs could get this usefulness was because it mixes up user interaction with it's programming interface (which is ironically what people most hate). If you want to make a CLI program, you almost need to spit out useful information to stdout, which means I can extract info from sed. GUIs are much harsher to extracting information and there are some solutions like AppleScript, but it doesn't fly.

Which means, exposing the CLI's capabilities to GUIs are much easier than exposing the GUI's capabilities to CLIs. While Fig isn't taking this route, one could write an man-page parser (like how fish does for it's completion) and expose CLI functionality automatically and increase it's usefulness with human annotations.

> My take on this is that for beginners this is really useful. It can also help show you new options that you might not have been aware of. (Have you read the full man page?)

Yeah, agreed.
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I remember that at some point it was possible to open a Youtube video in Firefox for Android, lock the screen, and it kept on playing. It was great for some podcast-like / talking channels.

Then either Firefox changed or Youtube cracked down on this.
Is the cross compiling flow of C# as transparent as GO?
My procrastination model looks a bit different
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Putting a price on human life is a slippery slope. The clear path is to reduce as much harm as possible, the key obstacle to perfect policy is the people who are supposed to follow it. We’ve already scene a second wave caused by early reopening, further prolonging human exposure to COVID and once again leaving business in a lurch.
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Learning the bowline, trucker's hitch, and double half-hitches will get you the most value for your time in my opinion. They're all I've ever needed for moving or camping.
>Winning a democratic election necessarily "imposes" upon the losers some decisions of the winners, eg. higher taxes. That's not authoritarianism, that's just politics.

This doesn't change that it's the majority imposing its will on the minority by force.
This was already the case long before COVID, different problem, requiring an entirely different solution. Look to fix political systems in order to address these issues.
> Obvious choice #1 is near extended family. What else motivates people to move?

Anecdotally, I am aware of folks who were highly motivated to move away from their extended family.
Approval of managers should, IMO, be the main way employee performance is measured.

If it’s damaging then you’ve got a bad manager. Either his manager or HR training is at fault. Both can be prevented with the right systems in place.
It definitely has been trained to form sentences. Haven’t you watched the other videos? There are several instances of the dog refusing food unless its owner acknowledges what it has to say first.
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Natively parallel? From https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/multi-threading/ : "Julia is not yet fully thread-safe. In particular segfaults seem to occur during I/O operations and task switching."

One solution for numerical code at least is to use Numba to JIT-compile (with LLVM, as Julia does) code that can be run without using the GIL, which can be run in parallel on top of Python's threading mechanisms (threading.Thread, concurrent.futures), or with Numba's other options (parallel-for, CUDA kernels, CPU or GPU vectorized Ufuncs/GUfuncs, stencil kernels).
You can argue that if you have access to the excess death figures for your country and then subtract back out the COVID-19 related deaths.
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> If it isn't a goal (or a subgoal) then why measure it?

Often the goals are hard to measure, so you measure a proxy. This can work well if people are actively focused on the goal, and check the measure to see how they're doing. It stops working if people forget that the measure isn't the goal, and work to increase the measure.
You can use ArchUnit[1] or similar frameworks to impose the constraints.

[1]: https://www.archunit.org/
My partner (American w/ Chinese parents) strongly believes a major difference is the sense of collective responsibility in Asia. A kind of deferral of individuality to benefit society.
Depends on the use case... I was going to write something in Go the other day since I hadn't in a while, but instead it was easier to write a bash script.
Yep. Even without accounting for the lagging death metric, the present mortality rate in FL, all ages, is around 1.7% (3.8k deaths/213.8k confirmed)[1].

.. side note, 20452 confirmed cases per million residents of Miami-Dade. 2% of the population, geez.

[1] https://covid-19.direct/county/FL/
I never saw a lawbook that stated that murdering an 82 year old was punished lighter than murdering a 20 year old.
Any coherent explanation of this pandemic is also going to need to wait until the pandemic is finished. It is totally possible that there will be no vaccine and COVID-19 is just an ongoing thing for the next 70 years.

If that is the case, how much can the lockdowns really help? I'm on board with slowing the disease down and giving the medical community 6 months to get their bearings. But it has now been 6 months and the question is "what is going to change going forward?".

We know we can't make vaccines on demand - we still don't have one for herpes afaik.
I am leaning towards the lock down skepticism. It's not that I think that Covid is not worse than a flu, it is worse, but there response is unparalleled. We have had a strict lockdown and lots of deaths anyway. The initial predictions about the virus turned out to be way off, it seems to be more infectious and less dangerous than we were initially told

Initially lockdown was to "flatten the curve", stop the hospitals an in particular the ICU beds from getting overwhelmed. That worked, and while it got close to breaking point here in Spain we made it through.

I noticed as new data emerged from Sweden - they hadn't spiralled out of control as many, including myself, predicted. Flatten the curve seemed to be forgotten about, and it turned into a pointless competition of who has the least cases, least excess deaths - pointless because this is far from over.

Or maybe we are past the worst of it already - the Diamond Princess cruise ship showed only 20% of the passengers infected - so maybe covid only affects 20% of the population.
> it's unlikely that research and development will stop

I know you didn't make this argument here, but I still want to point out that that's ethically irrelevant for his decision.

Or the other way around: "Someone else would have done it" is not a defense when you've built something that was clearly gonna be used for Bad Things(TM).
But not colorblind as in b/w:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/200810...
Ha, I thought that must be true at the time. It convinced me not to persevere. Good to hear I was right.
You can't classify faces if you haven't found them. Building the face detector enables the face classifier.
I can’t think of a single person who has worked in academia who would have any sympathy with your position. Maybe academia is an outlier.
You might want to investigate the Movidius Neural Compute stick (which you can use with a RPi), or the Nvidia Jetson Nano, which has a lot more oomph.
Testing for equality/equivalence is a huge challenge in a language like go. It's bitten me enough times (especially with recursive data) to write a library to tackle the complexity: https://github.com/kstenerud/go-equivalence
> The trouble is that the balls go where you throw them. 'It's just you.

Ditto for computer programs: they always do exactly what you tell them to do, which is rarely what you really want.
Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
When searched within India, Google's Blogspot points to username.blogspot.in as opposed to username.blogspot.com (also in search engines). Most permalinks users use to share are country specific which also reflect on Google Search.

Looks like blogspot.in was picked up by a non Google entity.

Domain Name: blogspot.in
Registry Domain ID: DE2DC9C0E8E694C28ADEF0F444F121B45-IN
Registrar WHOIS Server:
Registrar URL: www.domainming.com
Updated Date: 2020-06-29T20:00:06Z
Creation Date: 2020-06-24T20:00:05Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-06-24T20:00:05Z
Domain Status: inactive http://www.icann.org/epp#inactive

There is a ceritificate for the blogspot.in along with other blogspot.* domains. Would they end up revoking all the certificates if challenged?

https://crt.sh/?q=blogspot.in
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I'm not fully up to date on the US situation but haven't they effectively shut down all borders as well, or at least have had their borders closed on them?
And that's the case with Sweden too. What many foreigners, incl media abroad, does not realize is that Swedens reaction was not that different to other European countries in terms of goal. Flatten the curve. In terms of means it differed, it uses recommendations. But people trust government much more than other countries, so in practice the life of many Swedes was restricted very similar to other countries.

It's just wrong to say they are being "lax" here. If any other country would have tried the same means, it would hve failed utterly. Just as you say -- two countries doing the same policy could get very different outcomes.
Like all other multinationals, thirsty enough for access to the Chinese market it’s willing to look the other way

Edit: ya know, this is probably an excellent idea for the church. Every extra Chinese Catholic is someone who will likely ultimately accept the Pope’s authority over the CCP’s, regardless of if there are CCP friendly bishops. Get a big enough beachhead amongst poor Chinese, and bide their time, and they’re probably on to something.
Your software is usually running on a Linux server, and it's more natural (there's less friction) to develop it in the same environment in which it will eventually end up running. Same is true for gamedev, but there that common environment is Windows.
Oh my gawd! Now vee vill be burried under heapz of dogpoop!

No, really. What about the dogpoo-bags?

It's mandatory to pack the shit of your dogs into bags, and drop them into some trashbin in most places here.

Example: https://www.hamburg.de/saubere-stadt/7174714/gassibeutel/

https://www.hamburg.de/behoerdenfinder/hamburg/11260865/

https://www.hamburg.de/hundegesetz/
The government didn’t pick winners and losers. They made industry wide assistance to all competitors.
By doing nothing, and enjoying the time with my family.
Remove this man from the comment section, he's in shock!
This dog and its button pushing communication system have come up a few times here on HN. It really does seem incredible. I trained my dog to ring a bell to go in and out of the back door whenever he wants, but this is on a whole other level. How do we know this isn’t just a sophisticated version of the “The Clever Hans Effect”? [1] I’d love to believe this is what it looks like, but my skeptical radar is tingling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Well the picture might be totally different in the Netherlands. In the US, CPAP is the most common treatment, even though so many people can't use them (including me).

I've talked to several people who have a CPAP, and they don't even know of the existence of the mandibular advancement device. Their doctors and dentists apparently don't tell them about it!

I'm puzzled why that is the case. I think it has something to do with insurance. If that's true, it's not surprising that other countries don't have the same problem!
You may find this analysis interesting as it looks at that exact question: https://unherd.com/2020/06/karl-friston-up-to-80-not-even-su...
This move is very sad.

And it is also a very slippery slope. Let's not forget that the split between a free and a "commercial" version of OpenOffice by Oracle was one of the root causes of the uprising leading to the creation of the TDF.

And it is even worse not
to communicate publicly but to reply that people should have followed the relevant mailing list.

We can only be grateful to Collabora and it's employees for the work they do/did on libre office. But somehow, I think that it is a betrayal to all the other individual contributors and the community that supported and advertised the project for years.
> Sweden is somewhere in the middle -- they are being criticized, yet other countries in Europe which locked down have ended up with a higher per capita death rate.

According to this [0], Sweden is 5th in Europe but given that you have Italy (first outbreak in europe), closely followed by the second, Spain and the incompetent response of the UK Government, this only leaves Belgium, which seems to count pretty much all deaths.

In other words, not a great showing at all

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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The comment are somehow not as terrible as they used to be. I used to use a browser extension to block comments, so that I would never be tempted to look at them. Now they seem not so bad. (Though this could be a function of the kinds of videos I put on, which are music videos and jokey movie videos like Honest Trailers.)
What are TPUs and quantum computers made of? ;)
Wow "Mills' Mess" is one juggling move that is a real pain to learn. but some beautiful to do once you have mastered it. It goes into muscle memory.

At that point you have reached the zen of juggling.
If this is really so, then the reason would be that Google intervenes on the basis of illegality: animal cruelty is illegal, whereas pest control is not.

This discrepancy between how we pretend to protect animals but still do plain "pest control" is weird (this is a weak word), but this is a quirk of our "modern" society.

The law is made democratically, so that just means that a majority of the citizens think that it is not ok to hurt animals, but that it is ok to use mousetraps. Blame on the lack of awareness of the society.

But then, in turn, this means that not a lot of people flag the video, if the majority of them still think that pest control should be legal. If not, then now should be the right time to change the law of the country where you/me live.
Wouldn't be surprised if the phrase originated from https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
> It's completely reasonable to assume that without lockdowns we would have had millions of deaths already.

I agree that it's a reasonable assumption. Ivor Cummings dives into some statistics a bit more, and it isn't so clear that the lockdown had the effect, rather that it might be do to with seasonality and the way the virus spreads. I am interested if anyone has any decent criticism of the numbers he bring up in that video, as they seemed reasonable to me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLW0_XlWl4
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The future is coming, and the tech that can enable authoritarian behavior will come no matter what we do as they're just tools. It's been here and around us in ever-increasing forms for decades and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state.

What we should be worrying is actual usages of grand scale citizen-control and monitoring projects that are enabled by technology. Think China, not UK or US.
The issue is that with very young children, you ALWAYS have to be supervising them (if they aren’t sleeping)... you can do other things a bit, but you always have to keep one eye on them. It is impossible to do real focus work.

With two kids (or more), you can watch them both at the same time. It isn’t like you are always actively doing something for the kids, it is just you are always watching.
What enables the face detector? Where does it end?
I don't see why they can't be made out of paper.
Based on the ideology of the lockdowns, Sweden ought to be the worst in Europe, but it’s not. If Italy waited too long, then Sweden waited even longer! Where is the apocalypse that was predicted? Sweden being in the middle of the pack, despite not locking down when others did, is hard to explain.
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They must be some kind of genius. I don't see how are they going to be able to extract personal information out of here.
1upper: I went all in on Apple stock shortly after the iPhone debuted in 2007, and I mean all in ... I was that sure. At one point I controlled 1700 pre-split shares. For a while it looked like I'd struck gold.

Well, guess who lost everything on a margin call in 2009. Wall Street found a way to !@$#^ me. Just looked, current price four and a half million. :-/
Ok then make a sturdy and reusable plastic bag.