skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average high for the flu is 650,000 fatalities a year.[0] COVID-19 has so far caused 540,000 fatalities,[1][2] and the year is far from over. Quick napkin math would suggest at least 1 million will have died from COVID-19 at year's end, globally.

That's far higher than all regular flu seasons, although nowhere near as bad as previous flu pandemics.

[0] http://jogh.org/documents/issue201902/jogh-09-020421.pdf

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
If that was a strawman, it was unintentional.

But, to your actual point (I hope): I'm inclined to agree with your definition of immigrants. And yet, if we didn't accept the parents, we wouldn't have the children either.

The problem with that argument is, where do you draw the line? One generation? Two? A few decades? A few centuries? If you follow that argument too far, only businesses founded by Native Americans weren't founded by families of immigrants.

I think that categorizing people as immigrants, (first generation) children of immigrants, and non-immigrants makes sense for this discussion. And if "founded by families of immigrants" means first-generation children, that's still to some degree an argument that we want immigrants because of the effect they have on the economy. Not as direct an argument as if they were founded by immigrants, but still something of an argument.
In Defence of J.K. Rowling
Thank you! I have yet to use the Cloud GSheets API; there's a much simpler approach, but it requires the user to publish their sheet on the web. I'm definitely working on GSheets API integration so users would not have to publish their sheet though.
Outage Management
I've never played dune 2, but I played Warcraft then c&c, c&c felt like such a huge improvement over the first Warcraft. You could select far larger groups, the pace was faster and building was much more free. It wasn't really until Warcraft 2 and StarCraft that it really caught up to the command and conquer series.
If you want to contact me, I'm shell@alterednarrative.net on email and XMPP. I'll try and find whether I still have the design notes, but doubt it; I've been through a couple of laptops since and lost a lot.

One of my goals was that the flow could start from a service provider - you type in the domain name you want the service to be bound to on the service provider's website, and it goes from there. If you were to use OAuth2 at this point, there's no existing client ID/password, and allowing public dynamic client registration leads to DoS potential as someone could easily register a practically infinite amount of clients and fill up disk space. So you want a custom flow which winds up, at the end, with the consent of the domain owner, returning OAuth2 credentials to the service provider. This flow is fairly complex to spec out in a way that doesn't have subtle security issues (e.g. this initial flow can't trust much info from the service provider which could be something akin to a phishing scam, returning to the service provider on error has to be done carefully because of risk of being used in an open redirect chain, etc).

After that it's mostly a case of supplying auth keys for RFC2136 so the service can manage its delegated domain, handling credential rotation, and properly handling edge cases like either the service provider or the domain management system losing track of state, or the domain being lost/transferred to another entity.

Honestly I'd like to build something like this for my own projects, and might do so as a weekend project soon, esp since it's just been validated as something useful. :D
A very large percentage of US deaths are also from the same type of residents - care homes, elderly communities and such. I read that it was as much as 40%. I need to find source.
I think a bunch of websites try to access the camera's metadata as a part of a fingerprinting mechanism. That's probably what you're seeing.
That's what a lot of us have been saying in industry for awhile now but tech media has been pretty relentless in implications without clarification of the underlying difficulty (the pipeline we have to work with). It's good to highlight the hypocrisy.
This may be a just factor of culture and attitude.

In Germany, single use plastic bags have not been allowed in supermarkets for several years now and it has worked quite well IMO.

Yes you can buy thicker re-usable bags (sometimes made out of textiles or a mixture of textiles and plastic) but by far many people bring their own bags, or just load the stuff into shopping trollies and take it to their cars (unfortunately the petrol/diesel car culture is still going strong :( ).

Also, in places like Lidl and Aldi, it's quite normal to just look for an empty box of some product on the shelf(e.g. a box that had some canned goods) and use that as your 'basket', stuff your items there, pay, go home and dispose of the box in the paper recycle bin.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention, as an example of culture/attitude: plastic bags are still available for fruit & vegetables but even then, people do make their own choice to just take the produce without a bag, and place it 'loose' at the cashier for them to weigh.
From link in video description https://pyq.ravindrababuravula.com/subject/
Norway: ‘Lockdown was not necessary to tame Covid-19’

According to Camilla Stoltenberg, the Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet), similar results would have been achieved in her country without a lockdown. She bases that statement on a study by her institution.

The study collected data on confirmed cases of coronavirus registered in Norway, the number of hospital admissions, the reproduction rate, etc. At the beginning of March it was feared that one person infected with the virus would infect four others. Only strict lockdown rules could bring that figure down. This hypothesis came from the Imperial College in London and gave forecasts for a number of European countries, including Norway.

Virus never spread as fast as was feared

In their report, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health now comes to a completely different conclusion: the virus never spread as quickly as was feared and was already on its way back when the lockdown was announced.

‘Our conclusion now is that we could have achieved a similar effect without lockdown. By staying open and taking a series of precautions to prevent the spread. It’s important that we admit that. Because should the number of infections rise again in winter or should there be a second wave, we have to be honest in our analysis whether such a lockdown has proven to be effective’.

According to Stoltenberg, who is herself a doctor and the sister of former Norwegian Prime Minister and current NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, such draconian measures should only be announced in the future if there is an academic basis for them. And that was missing now, according to Stoltenberg.

https://businessam.be/noorwegen-lockdown-was-niet-nodig-om-c...
You can also use a "here document"

help() {
cat <<'EOH'
my-script — does one thing well

Usage:
my-script <input> <output>

Options:
<input> Input file to read.
<output> Output file to write. Use '-' for stdout.
-h Show this message.
EOH
}

If the indentation bugs you, you can use a simpler sed trick to remove leading space so that you can indent it as desired:

help() {
sed -e 's/ //' <<'EOH'
my-script — does one thing well

Usage:
my-script <input> <output>

Options:
<input> Input file to read.
<output> Output file to write. Use '-' for stdout.
-h Show this message.
EOH
}
US Secret Service reports an increase in hacked managed service providers (MSPs)
> These all take an hour max each day.

um, what? If this is based on personal experience I would love to understand how.

In my experience, Setting up a totally new development environment in an unfamiliar toolset generally takes waaaay more than an hour.
Take a look at the Google Titan chip slides for an idea of how to implement this: https://www.hotchips.org/hc30/1conf/1.14_Google_Titan_Google...
Video: https://youtu.be/ve_64dbM4YI?t=3089

Specifially, slides 35-40. You burn a feature fuse to unlock manufacturing test features. The device is personalized with a serial number + told to generate private key + record stored in database. Then, the key is locked in by burning a second feature fuse that disables any future writing to those segments.
Sure some may want this behavior, but I think most will not: it's unexpected.
Most valuable developer Linux notebooks in 2020
Data's all sorts of messed up in this. My friend's company is in this and 3 columns are flat out wrong and different from what he submitted. There's only 7 applicant submitted columns!

But remember where it came from: thousands of lenders hand keying this stuff in with minimal guidance.
> I do think that that the worst strategy is to have no strategy, seemingly like the USA

The USA does not have "no strategy", it just depends from State to State[1]. Every state has had some form of lockdown and school closure.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-ma...
I often wonder is it really pessimism though?

I think they are more like "realism"? Not everything that is Anti optimism has to be pessimism. And it seems in modern world ( or in America ) both realism and pessimism are lumped together.
Yes, that's a good point about needing to create a welcoming workplace, so maybe this discussion is more of a spectrum where we need to decide where the line is?

Guidance would help instead of everybody guessing or corps randomly scrubbing things until the bad PR goes away.
That's really cool. I might have to play around with this. Do you have any docs on what you do to deploy a model? Something I've been doing at work is dealing with the output of some ML code we have. We end up with ~150GB of data that needs to be synced to a file share in prod. I'm assuming DVC can be used for this.

After the run, output files, upload as a data set in DVC or something?

Documenting this full workflow would save a lot of confused devopsy people (like myself) survive in the world of ML. Thanks for this hard work you've all put into this!
The sheet is retrieved client-side, so yes, you should see the new updates when you refresh the webpage.
That's an API choice. There's no technical reason at all why you couldn't return some kind of error AND read data if you wanted, you'd just have to make your Error type a product type.
Over 700 thousand download Covid-19 tracking app on launch day in Ireland
If it's not designed to be paid back, is it a loan?

noun: loan; plural noun: loans

a thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.

Is it just called a loan because that sounds better than just calling it a subsidy?
Cognitive electronic warfare could transform how US wages war with radio waves
Custom admin-defined URLs in Django
As someone who has been a customer once and a near-customer another time (both times on fixed line and wireless network tech), Nokia has fantastic, properly brilliant hardware, and middling software (though moving in the right direction - they're moving to open interfaces, NETCONF on hardware rather than just NBIs on big opaque NMSes they charge a fortune for, etc), and an utterly useless and highly expensive services division they could do well to lose.

Big, national telcos don't need "services" divisions like that and the few I know of who are tied into Nokia are desperately trying to get away from the services arm and that usually involves losing the software/hardware too. They're so heavily tied into the sales pitch that it's nigh-impossible to just buy a box now. If the services arm were competent they'd have a chance but stuff like their network design and project management services are just flat-out incompetent.

Compare that to a lot of smaller players (e.g. Edge-Core, IP Infusion) who will ship hardware with open interfaces, may provide NMSes and element management systems etc but generally with open interfaces, and provide as much support as you want to pay for, and for most small and large telcos that's the way to go towards.

If I were running Nokia right now I'd be ditching the bulk of the services arm and taking what's good in there into support and engineering, pivoting as quickly as possible to adopt open standards and interfaces, and getting involved with things like the Telecoms Infrastructure Project, CORD, et. al.

Their hardware is fantastic but their software sabotages it. This isn't an uncommon pattern in telecoms per se; one might go so far as to call it the default position, especially these days where software is the key part of most fixed/cabled networks, given photonics is broadly standardised below and even at 400G outside of long-haul coherent stuff. Nokia however seem to manage to suffer much more from this than other vendors of kit.

Compare with companies like Adtran who have okay hardware, okay software, and are just dominating the entire EU XGS-PON market despite Nokia's desperate attempts to claim it; mostly this is down to TCO for the Nokia stack being a bit higher, and the whole services/support/software arm being so huge and unwieldy. You can buy a $20k line terminal but need $50k of software just to turn the damn thing on.
False regarding mask wearing; wearing a mask has always been and is still strongly discouraged, instead one should only "stay home if feeling sick".
But is that actually happening? Is this a legitimate fear for regular people or just celebrities?[1] If you lose friends for expressing your beliefs, were they actually your friends? (Or alternately - maybe they are actually good people who have finally tired of your toxic behavior, and you should reconsider your beliefs if your friends are abandoning you for them?) Are people actually being fired for expressing reasonable opinions, or is most of the firing happening when people express truly hateful and dangerous things?[2]

I honestly have no idea. I'm not on Twitter or Reddit and I religiously avoid confrontation on Facebook so maybe I'm just out of touch. My anecdotal experience suggests that apart from a few outliers the impact of cancel-culture on regular people is overblown. I don't know what statistics I'd look at to determine if that's broadly true. It seems like every time I hear someone say something like "Now I'm not even allowed to express opinions or state facts anymore!" what they actually mean is "Now when I say kind of horrible things online in a deliberate attempt to be confrontational people yell at me on Twitter!" I see a lot of what I would consider radical-right and sometimes downright hateful opinions expressed on Facebook, and the people expressing them aren't getting cancelled, fired, or even called out. Mostly they're just being congratulated by their filter bubble.

I have definitely scratched my head at some of the high-profile 'cancellations' for things that seem pretty innocuous. It seems like this mostly only happens to celebrities who have positioned themselves as liberal thinkers, though. Definitely a problem for them, and I don't envy the PC pitfalls they have to navigate. But to be fair it happens on both sides of the political spectrum - recently I've seen a number of right-leaning folks on my Facebook feed "cancelling" the NFL for the national anthem thing, or for considering renaming teams with culturally insensitive names, etc.

[1] Not that things that are only problems for celebrities aren't real problems, but I think it changes the discussion a bit.

[2] A recent example I saw of something I would consider dangerous and hateful was a screenshot of a Facebook post with a picture of a noose and a caption about teaching criminals and looters to fear the law again or something equally horrible. The profile picture was an older white woman and indicated she worked at a school. Two things stood out to me here: 1) It could easily have been faked, in part or in whole. She should have an opportunity to defend herself (the whole point of the legal system) assuming she's a real person and the profile itself wasn't entirely fabricated as outrage porn. 2) If it was real I would definitely not want my kids attending a school that would keep her on staff.
You realize that just because some companies in a space go out of fashion doesn't mean the market is shrinking? MySpace also went away and Facebook seems to just fine instead.

There's a lot more messengers than ever before. Signal, Matrix, iMessage, FB Messenger,...
To follow up on [4], here's Ain terries with Glenn Loury in Vox from 2016: https://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12915036/race-criminal-justice....

Also an interview done with him a few weeks ago: https://www.city-journal.org/racism-is-an-empty-thesis
Just so you all know, Twitter's going crazy with the apparent rampant inaccuracy of the database.
Accidentally bumping the power button shouldn't kill a video I'm taking or a video conference I'm in.

The OS should block new uses of the camera if it's locked (sort of - face unlock obviously needs an exception), but killing existing ones seems rather aggressive and would create a new form of user hostility in relatively common situations.
It‘s sad that a GoPro Hero5 Session camera can not stream video via USB.
The game was developed by Philip Ulrich, already behind the Ark of Captain Blood. The guy is a genius. This [1] is a short video of him explaining how the game was developed, alas in French only.

[1] https://youtu.be/5nHX_74mjss
An even bigger source of stress is asking questions to try to understand what is expected of you and being told that your leader is confident that you understand what is expected of you.
I have a Datasette running of this here: https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/fo...

You can run your own SQL queries against it. Here's a query I wrote that shows the most common NAICS codes (industry categorization from the census):

https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus?sq...

You can click through from there to get faceted search of e.g. every loan made to a dentist:

https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/fo...

I have full notes about how I built this here: https://github.com/simonw/sba-loans-covid-19-datasette
They had lockdowns after country systems were completely overwhelmed. Up to inability to handle dead people in some places.

Their situations was strong argument for other countries to lock down much sooner.
The U.S. is withdrawing from the World Health Organization
Ping Pong on Task Manager
However, if the leader stopped when he got in weapons range the rest of the units would just sit back there and watch him fight. Westwood learned some lessons from Dune 2 that made Command and Conquer much better to play.

I'm a bit surprised there isn't a remake of Dune 2 out there that fixes the UI quibbles and updates the graphics. There was a lot of neat stuff in the game (it was surprisingly feature rich for being basically the first of its genre) but few people these days remember it. Maybe someone will get the rights for a remake when the new movie comes out? Sadly Westwood is buried out back in the EA studio graveyard.
> Belgium seems to be way worse (9774 on 11,460,000 people, ~0.1% is getting truly uncomfortable)

Belgium counts all suspected deaths as well, including those that have not been tested for COVID-19. Which means Belgium is the country closest matching their excess death with COVID-19 fatalities. The Netherlands, for example, leaves about 50% unexplained due to their counting.[0]

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-the-challenge-of...
This is empirically false. It's at least 25% worse than the 2018 flu season, which was the worst flu season in decades, and that's with unprecedented mitigation measures in place.

https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland
Disclaimer: I am a co-founder of a similar News API service https://newscatcherapi.com/

No news API solution returns the full body text of the article (including us). The reason is - copyright infringement in US and EU.

You can return only chunk of it

At least, that's what all lawyers I spoke to told me
I am the UI engineer for lbry.tv/lbry desktop app.

This is a really hard problem and we've taken an incremental approach too (mostly because our team is so small). We sorta have an opt-in system since you can use lbry.tv or the app without owning any LBC.

I'm planning to spend some more time really digging into our onboarding flows over the next couple of months to make this crypto knowledge dump a lot easier for new users to understand.
Yes it works and the NDI apps were (are?) free in April
Simple question: aren’t you basically not allowed to make chips because of patents? Not literally forbidden, but aren’t there so many patents that you can’t really work without violating one, even if you have never heard of it or the technique before? It just sounds so hazardous
Like it or not, it's the reality we're in. It's not going away anytime soon, but we can always achieve incremental improvements towards that ideal through HTML standardizations. React and GraphQL (both great products from fb) really make that possible.
One thing that might help is reading; so you know more words (eg synonyms for words I you can't retrieve).
You also can try to imagine how word is written and then I "read" it from visual memory - it could take longer but should do the trick.

I read that that kind of problems can be connected with communication between broca and wernicke areas in brain.

Good luck:)
Awesome. Pretty much the only book I partially read on systems thinking was introduction to cybernetics by Ross Ashby.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
> The moderation isn't baffling,it just can't keep up....

> There are so many topics, so many videos,so many people actively trying to skirt the rules that it's just infeasible to moderate purely by scale. According to [1], there are 30k hours of content uploaded to YT every hour. How do you suggest they moderate even just the new content, never mind the backlog of content.

That's really an argument that they have to reduce their scale until it matches their moderation ability (or increase their moderation ability until it matches their scale). We wouldn't accept a car company failing to recall and fix defective cars that they sold because their repair shops lack the capacity to do so.
The big requirements for enterprise use are: single-sign on, compliance with regulations (e.g. a multinational company needs to know that you are in compliance with the laws around data retention, data locale, etc. for their own data, in every country that it operates in), and API support for eDiscovery.