skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been no more reactionary than most other nations in the world. There is absolutely long-term planning by the majority of states. To the extent that states are frantically changing their strategies, it's because we're learning more about the virus and how it spreads, and shifting our strategies.

Take New York, for example. Its high death rate can be largely attributed to Governor Cuomo's disastrous decision to force nursing homes to accept COVID patients from hospitals. He has since walked back that strategy, and New York continues to maintain a phased lockdown strategy with a structured re-opening plan with measurable criteria[1].

Governers Inslee, Newsom, and Kate Brown have been receiving (well deserved) praise by the media for their structured approach to handling the outbreak[2].

Governor DeSantis deliberately focused Florida's COVID strategy on nursing homes, deploying the National Guard to the nursing homes, and prioritizing testing resources in LTC facilities[3]. To this date, Florida has among the lowest deaths per capita in the Union, and lower deaths per capita than most of the EU[4]. As a result of this, even despite a recent increase in cases, their death rate remains mostly flat — especially relative to the same metrics in most other States[5].

Between March 16-23 (at the outset of the outbreak), every single US state ordered a state of emergency, 11 had stay-at-home orders, 30 activated the state national guard, and 48 closed their schools[6]. By as early as March 9th, the States were doing the VAST majority of COVID testing[7]

As of right now, 36 out of 50 US States have a lower per capita death rate[8] than France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Ireland[9]. 15 States have a lower per capita death rate than Germany and Denmark, who have seen the best COVID outcomes in the EU. The US, to date, has administered more tests per capita[8] than Belgium, Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Norway, and Sweden (to name a handful).

It would take the most uncharitable reading of the situation to conclude that the US member states have been any more "reactionary" than typical peer nation-states.

[1] https://forward.ny.gov/metrics-guide-reopening-new-york

[2] https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...

[3] https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-ro...

[4] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[5] https://twitter.com/paulnovosad/status/1279967210224705542

[6] https://twitter.com/COVID2019action/status/12421349564632268...

[7] https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1238574921346732032/photo...

[8] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[9] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Spain had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe AFTER doing almost nothing to stop spreading the virus for a long time. They only reacted when there was no alternative.

It is not just bigger than Sweden, official deaths in Spain are 27.000, the real number (taking seasonal death rate) is way over 43.000, making it the biggest per million deaths rate in the (Western) world, as Belgium (the one with the biggest number) did consider the seasonal rate.

By the way, in Spain the gobertment "resurrected" over a thousand people, going from 28.750 to 26.830 overnight.

Remember that Spain did nothing because the socialist-communist government did not want to cancel the women's day march the 8th of March and waited until 9th for starting to do something. They announced that and waited another week before implementing what they had announced.

While doing nothing, they minimized the problem, and told the people not to worry, they were in charge, only a couple of cases were expected. TVs joked about coronavirus and denounced other countries attitude against Spaniards, putting them on quarantine for staying in infected countries.

So Spain has the most deaths of the Western world because they waited almost 2 weeks letting more than a million people(100.000 positive PCRs test) get infected before doing something.

The lockdown made that million people only infect from 5 to 6 other million people(it could infect more than 40 million). If was extremely painful for the economy and made the country temporarily a dictatorship of the socialist-communist that put them in that position in the first place.
If there's an active call, which allows recording while in the background there's always a red bar at the top of the screen while the phone is recording.

If there's not, the app looses access to the camera while the app is backgrounded/the phone is locked.
That's strange, we got $10k in DO, and $20k in GCP. Both lasted 1 year. The only one I really used was GCP, which expires for me in August.

I'm not sure if I regret it or not. I was able to learn a lot and work with technologies I probably wouldn't have but for the credits, but now I'm stuck trying to figure out how bring down our $500/mo spend a few months after we already launched.
Err... See there's an issue with that. Did you not see the NDA^3 that you signed before signing you NDA NDA? It specifically states that you may not NDA your NDA.

Oh no... I D'd my own NDA.
Aqua Tracker – log your water intake to Fitbit using Alexa
There are hundreds of millions of people who want to come into the US each year. It's inevitably going to be a difficult process.
There's definitely plenty of "poor-mans induction" in tech today. Or worse, purposefully feeding your proof of concept the type of data it handles well.
FYI also, using CDC data the number of US excess deaths (all causes) nearly exactly matches the number of COVID fatalities (excluding periods where "excess deaths" turned out to be negative).

Would be cool to tally this up for all countries, to see who's lying about their COVID numbers.

Source of data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
> I think it's a bad idea to have people with little understanding of economics, but a high sense of moral superiority, fix the problems they create through their incompetence.

Not sure who you're referring to here.

> Freeze evictions? Landlords go bust. Freeze mortgages? Mortgage servicers go bust.

Corporations are legal fictions that do not have a right to life. Let them go bust and save the individuals working for those corporations. Once the crisis passes, they will re-create the legal fictions and continue their work.

> Mortgages when created are aggregated into securities with guaranteed contractual payments.

This should probably not have been allowed to happen in the first place.

In general valid replies to your comments are easily available. Your condescension is, however, tiresome, so I will not pursue this thread any further.
That would make it more flexible, but in my mind the whole point of this thing existing is to take the pain out of having a custom domain, and making the process accessible to more people. Part of that would include handling registration and hiding all the DNS nonsense unless you really want to fiddle with it.
Huh? That says that only 11.8% are lawful.

Obviously this is all pending enforcement actions actually taking place, but it's not obvious that will never happen.
uh no,

I would most certainly trade the past six months for a normal life even if it meant that I would die six months sooner.

wouldn't you?
How about Cesium.js?

You can drop files onto the globe.

https://cesium.com/cesiumjs/cesium-viewer/
Utilities propose West Coast charging stations for electric trucks
But in that case, cities that shut down earlier recovered more quickly. http://news.mit.edu/2020/pandemic-health-response-economic-r...
It requires more cognitive load to interpret new syntactic constructs. See brundolf's comment herein.
(Edited to reflect the response's article link)

One can hardly compare a $93-$105 per employee head tax to a much higher income tax.
When it comes to Mozilla, HN will always have an explanation. If this happened with evil Google then this would be very different.
Think it depends entirely on the person. I know someone who went through one of those 6 years ago. He worked a grunt job for a while for experience, and has traded up to a very nice gig today. He also worked pretty hard on the side, teaching himself.

I can't speak for the longevity of the training, but he's doing fine.

For that matter, other than a terrible 101 class, I have no formal programming training and have been doing this professionally for over 20 years so far. But I'm a bit of a broken record when it comes to degrees-as-gatekeepers - the vast majority of programming jobs do not require a college diploma to competently perform. Very, very few people are writing blank-page Paxos implementations or researching "ai" - they're gluing APIs together and writing business logic. Moderate competence, the ability to do basic research and the patience to get past the WTF stage with a compiler are what you need, not a four year degree.
You can advocate for electric cars and still consider that making good use of an old gasoline car might be less carbon intensive than buying a brand new electric one.

Once the budget for the loan program was fixed, taking the loan wasn't going to cost us all any more money.
Was mostly referencing back to this on general systems stuff, not a specific metrics system that works. https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-inte...
> so you simply can't forget to handle an error.

This is such an important point, and I know people may think its outrageous that this could happen, but I work with a bunch of talented programmers, and still we've had the occasional bug crop up in our Golang codebase where we have a `val, err = doSomething()` without an ensuing `if err != nil { }` check which was missed by the programmer and by the reviewer. Or even better, we've had `val, _ = doSomething()` occur, the result of debugging to get around the unused variable compilation error.

It's 2020. Just like nil-pointers, this is an issue that is for the most part _solved_ and shouldn't exist in modern languages. Our programming languages should be constructed with the fact that we're fallible humans in mind.
The broader point is that, by and large, her ideological stepchildren (even if we can't call them "adherents" per se; you know, the "get the government off the backs of the people" crowd) -- are, when push comes to shove, more than happy to dip their hand at the public till when it serves their self-interest.

So it's not like they are "forced" to temper down their principled stand against socialist interventionism (and only in exceptional circumstances, we are led to believe). It's more like that principle stand just doesn't exist, and never did exist. It's just a matter of who gets to benefit from it.

BTW, it's not like any support is needed for this observation - but just a tasty morsel from the recent news:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/07/fossil-f...
Defenestration?
> This would be a one-shot thing and clicking "no" would trigger a spam signal. Too many of these and the web site loses its "ask for cookies" permission.

Don't be too rough on them. You should look for a viable and sustainable solution, not a radical GtFO doomed to end here.

> Cookies for anything not trusted have a lifetime of "until the tab is closed".

"until the tab is closed" policy isn't convenient even for the user. I tried it and reverted to "until the browser is closed" quickly.
Security is a big concern of mine. Real security, not fake stuff where an employee can initiate a breach by posting something to slack.

If I can screw up and post company financials, ssns, whatever sensitive stuff to Slack, then that is a big security risk. And Slack isn’t my company’s problem. The problem is training, and digital loss prevention, and access controls.

If company IT approved solutions don’t meet business needs, then I think that’s a bit security risk. To prevent people from posting inappropriate material, we need effective tools.

Should the partner not have given his presentation?

The solution, I think, is to identify docs with SSNs wherever they may be on network and major cloud vendors and redact them, or remove the files when they are uploaded.

In the partner’s case there was no sensitive data in the presentation. IT should know that and help users. If the solution is to ban cloud docs in 2009 with no solution then I think that creates more risk because rather than trying to adapt to using google drive and training users how to use it, there’s a lot of shadow functions.

There is risk in these tools, my point isn’t that we must allow everything. I think we have to support common use cases and banning functionality needed by users, and used by competitors, is actually riskier than supporting enough so that users can do their jobs.
> What is “the overall message?” Is it just the plain meaning of the words? Is the idea that we need to reform the police so they stop murdering Black people?

The overall message (the theme, if you prefer) of Sarah Downey's article that Carmack linked to was a defense of freedom of speech. I thought the stuff she wrote about racism was flawed enough - to be charitable, perhaps it was flawed because it wasn't the main topic of the piece and it wasn't getting sufficient space - that it took away from a potentially strong defense of freedom of speech.

> The far left, in characteristic fashion, has taken something most people could agree on, and pushed it further and further until normal people are forced to push back to keep society from crumbling beneath their feet.

That is a humorous image and it is an accurate summary of some people's thinking, but I don't know quite what to say about it without giving it more credence than I believe it deserves. If we side with the Marxists in opposing the murder of innocent people we will be living in a Communist state by Thursday is not a train of thought I would have a lot of sympathy for, even if Marxism were a force in American politics.
Microsoft has a solution they call Action Pack [1] where you pay ~$400/yr and get $100 in Azure credits each month. So basically $400 gets you $1200 worth of credits.

[1] https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/membership/action-pack
How did you solve the pattern of not having generics in the language?
(I work at Stripe.)

Here's the story on partner credits: A thing we do at Stripe Atlas is go to companies in the ecosystem whose services we like and ask them to bid on the opportunity to support a large cohort of Internet businesses. They then do so and communicate this to us on, essentially, a handshake: we act as a channel for them and in return they give our customers (and not us) some benefit.

Partners occasionally change their mind about internal thresholds for marketing promotions, which sometimes moves their operational processes about the deal that Stripe Atlas users will get going forward. They do not always communicate this to us in real time.

As we've learned more about this over the years, we've tried to update our language to convey that these sort of credits are up to the partners. (We have seen customers get $5k or other amounts and, ultimately, that is at Amazon's discretion.) I'll check later today to make sure we're using the newer "up to" language throughout our docs.

We hope this strikes the right balance of predictability for new Stripe Atlas users and getting the best support from the ecosystem for your new endeavors.
Crazy I know: why not just link them to the sheet? If the goal is for one person to convey information to another, why do we need to “decorate” it?

I kind of like some of the Brutalism takes on web design. Just throw away all decoration and live with the ugly world, “ugly” being subjective. I think excel sheets are actually quite beautiful.

Challenge the status quo :-) at the expense of coolness, dignity and comfort.
Because of a miscommunication youtube once deleted some of our D conference videos. Fortunately, we had a backup of them.

Moral: don't rely on the cloud as the only copy of your data. If you don't control it, it can disappear at any moment for any reason.
This statement ignores the dynamic pricing of markets.

The gas station is full today, but the marginal electrical care affects the supply/demand curve for gas today and in the future. If the current point of the supply/demand curve drops too low, supply will start to shut off.

Hence, electric cars are only "pointless" in the past before they were invented.
Correct, an audit that can cost somewhere between $10-70k (you pay, not Google)...like I said in my first post.
This is what happens is democratic societies with a demographic pyramid that's upside down: lots of old and relatively few young. Politicians want to get re-elected and cater to the largest, most influential voter group (old people) and disregard younger voters agendas.
Economists and medical ethicists calculate that exchange rate as the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) metric. It was originally designed to provide guidance on medical interventions but the same calculation can be applied to public health measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
> The kitsch is intentional.

So... you're agreeing with me?
Vegetarian since 2004 here. Not Vegan yet, but maybe one day. Never once ate meat on purpose since then.

I never loved meat, and I never felt the desire to eat it after I switched (actually, I only declared myself vegetarian after I realized I had no desire to eat meat anymore).

I used to live in a place where pretty much everything had meat on it, even the salad. Although vegans existed there, switching to vegan would add a lot of extra trouble to my life. Over the years the veg(etari)an population increased a lot, and so did my options. Now I moved to a city where pretty much every restaurant has a vegetarian option, and that's great.

Health-wise, I can't say it improved or got worse. It's just that you have a different set of problems to avoid. Before I had to worry about cholesterol and fat and salt and all these other "common" problems. Now I have to worry about B12, too much carb, lack of Iron and Calcium. Every diet has pitfalls to avoid.

I had one major problem with B12 back in the day. Now I get regularly tested for B12 levels and correct it before it completely destroys my life. Never had problems with proteins or iron. I love beans.

I eat a lot of carb, and I have a prominent belly to prove it. I never had a problem building muscle or getting stronger because of the vegetarian diet: I can easily get stronger every time I go back to lifting weights, and I also build cardio just fine when I exercise.

Got heavily bullied with "vegetarian jokes". I always hit them back with jokes about their defects.

The "less educated" part of my family got very confused when they found out I (male) had a girlfriend. After all, I was vegetarian. To them, it was an obvious tell that I'm gay. I'm still with her, even had some kids. Neither wife or kids are vegetarian.
Generally it's better to avoid doing this, because you're unlikely to get a even split of the ingredients in each packet.
I love seeing comments like this surface on HN, because they serve to show how some people can think of themselves as rational while being so oblivious about their ignorance. It can go on silently for years, because they think it's just politically incorrect to say it, but that the "facts" are true.

This is why, despite what you may believe, "race" issues are still of actuality in SV. You would be amazed at what some of the supposedly smart and powerful people in these circles believe when it comes to this stuff.
New user submitting a post about a product nobody knows and it goes straight to the frontpage. I guess spam is now a necessary evil in HN.
Because there is a study showing that some bags needs to be reused 50,000 times, degradable plastic bags which are then reused as rubbish bags or put into recycling are a better option than the trendy cloth bags that have a pretty substantial environmental impact and not the beneficial kind.

I don’t know about you but even if a bag lasts for years I don’t think it will be reused more than 1000 times.
Question, are the studies telling us IQ is heritable or telling us a dumb person can't have smart kids?
It seems like your 'practical concern' results in a ratchet against those in favor of simpler systems (of taxation, regulation, and welfare). The advocates of complexity can always renege, while the advocates for simplicity must always suffer.
You'd need to start with the main Atlas homepage :

> Receive discounts from our partners, including $5,000 in free credits from Amazon Web Services

https://stripe.com/atlas
> The bad characters are part of the gag.

This is why I like the movie. This is also why I call it a "bad movie" too. It can be bad and good. I'm learning that a lot of HN users don't know what the bad movie genre is. See https://www.reddit.com/r/badMovies/
Honest question: what the fuck is TERF? I opened wikipedia, and I'm none the wiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF

> an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Coined in 2008,[1] the term was originally applied to a minority of feminists espousing sentiments that other feminists consider transphobic, such as the rejection of the assertion that trans women are women, the exclusion of trans women from women's spaces, and opposition to transgender rights legislation. The meaning has since expanded to refer more broadly to people with trans-exclusive views who may have no involvement with radical feminism

So is it just women who hate trans folks, or?
Mozilla does not have the negative motivations to enact user-unfriendly and/or privacy compromising features on purpose nor for profit. They have a lot more goodwill stocked-up (not infinite, though) than Google when it comes to the users' interests, as well. Lastly, Mozilla is the traditional underdog.

For these reasons and I'm sure many more, it should not be surprising that the geek-, security-, and privacy-oriented HN crowd has more positive assumptions about Mozilla than Google.
Likely to do with the number of students taking the test. As N, number of students taking the test, grows - it just makes more sense to use a form which is easy to automatically grade.

I'm not how sure how many students are taking these test, but given that it's in India, we're probably talking about tens to hundreds of thousand students.
I've seen similar large errors in statistics on infant mortality. Different countries define it very differently, for example a different line between a miscarriage and infant mortality.