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> Can you comment on what measures have brought down the infection numbers?

Working from home, banning large gatherings, remote education for universities and secondary schools, reminders to keep the distance, table service only at restaurants and more space between tables.

> the infection numbers?

Sweden, like pretty much every other country, has no idea how large the number of unknown infections were back in March and April. The only certain numbers we have are ICU patients and deaths, and those have been declining constantly since mid-April. Presumably, actual cases follow the same curve.

> Why were they so high in the beginning

Exponential growth before any measures were taken.

> why are they falling so quickly now?

They're not falling quickly now, deaths and ICU patients have been falling linearly since mid-April. Death curve here: https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/

As to why, my best guess is that this virus simply wasn't much different from any other flu virus. A bit more deadly, but whatever measures people in Sweden took was enough to curb it. Also, herd immunity is probably much easier to achieve than earlier models suggest.

Also, note that the death curves for Sweden and the UK are pretty much identical despite wildly different amount of restrictions implemented: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

> After implementing measures it can take a few weeks to show results

Yes, and actual analysis of mobility shows that people voluntarily took a lot of measures before actual recommendations were put into place. Same as everywhere else. Most EU countries implemented their lockdowns weeks after the peak.

> Also speaking of measures, to my knowledge, the government did not take hard measures but rather suggested a lot of the same things that other countries put into law and the Swedish population is very compliant.

Yes. That said, mobility dropped less in Sweden compared to neighbour countries who had stronger recommendations and rules in place. You can compare the mobility curves between countries at the bottom of this page: https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden

> I'm not IN Sweden, so I only have the media image.

I'm sorry, the media image is absolutely bananas. I have never seen such blatant bias to skew everything to make Sweden look like a zombie apocalypse to drum up support for lockdowns. But it looks like lockdowns are much less effective than people think. And it looks like a small amount of meaningful measures pushed the effects of this down to less than a regular flu season.

Unmitigated, it would have been worse, but it's been mitigated everywhere, and here we are.
Fauci said exactly that. He told the general public a lie because he was concerned that the health sector would not have enough masks.

He could have told everyone to wear bandanas or other homebrew mouth coverings but he did not.
Most pentesters / offensive security professionals have to operate with their hands tied behind their backs. Management generally has no interest in a real report of what happens if someone actually tried to break in. Generally speaking pentests are often so limited in scope and what is allowed to be engaged that you might have a group of people perfectly capable of robbing you unable to show you how because the company doesn’t want to know the truth.
I mean, in the United States, 149,324 deaths is a systemic failure. Another 834 today, and the day isn't over. Do you not think that constitutes a massive crisis?
> A mandate that nobody respects and can't really be enforced has no value at all.

A mandate is essentially unenforceable, yes, but it's valuable regardless. It's about setting social norms and expectations. If public figures had put forward a consistent message regarding masks from the beginning, we'd have seen better compliance and fewer people would be dead now.
A lot of people start in customer support at a software company, become experts in the product, and eventually switch departments
If your not present in America and viewing things on the ground why don't you keep your opinion to yourself. I say this because whatever you've been told isn't true.
Which is weird because Carlsbad's latest report said they were at 7% and their goal was 12%.
I thought it was an Anton LaVey reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey
Conversely the a singular anecdote also doesn't mean it doesn't work either. I strongly suspect that when you have a largish body of people are using something without issue and one person is constantly experiencing problems there might be a reason why.

- Maybe you are constantly trying it on the same distro that constantly has problems with its build for some reason or other. Consistent bad experience for the smaller number of users who conclude incorrectly that digikam is broken. For example suppose it uses out of date libraries that the software depends on.

- Maybe your configuration is unusual in some fashion and because of this consistently hits the same bug. If nobody reports it then it never gets fixed if it doesn't also effect a developers machine.

Neither of these is an indication that the projects low level architectural direction is problematic.
Show HN: EASY-TO-USE personal website HTML template
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,

To puff and look important and to say: –

"Though we know we should defeat you,

we have not the time to meet you.

We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

But we've proved it again and again,

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

You never get rid of the Dane.

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm

parenthetically, this is equally true of toddler-geld.
It doesn't have to lead to quarantine. Many people are running around acting as though the virus is gone. Some are staying indoors with a cold thinking they might have the virus. If they could self-test and make their own decision about the risk of changing their behavior, it would help immensely.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison
Always amazed on how dancing and music can lift ones mood :)
I would like to strongly second your recommendations regarding accounting. Double entry accounting is the root of all finance. If you understand it well enough to keep accurate accounts of your personal finances (credit cards, 401k, salary, pre/post-tax expenses, etc), you understand it well enough to fumble through a financial statement. I’d plug GNU Ledger, but really any double entry accounting software is good to get started.
What to Do with Acrylic Pouring?
I got a very similar email last year. This isn't new and I think they're just blindly sending emails to anyone with a custom domain name. Got one from Katy last year thanking me and saying:

"You may not be aware, but many of your colleagues are also using Dropbox for their work. It’s great to see this high level of engagement!"

I'm the only person using my domain name, haha.
Quantum tunnelling composite materials (Wiki)
The expert on teaching Corporate Finance and Valuation is Aswath Damodaran at NYU. And he also happens to offer all his lectures, class notes, and exams for FREE at his website: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
Sounds like they need to bring apprenticeships to the field.
Doing front-end well involves being able to do a lot reasoning about how human beings will interact with the system, graphic design, and similar sort of skills. It's not just the work of making something responsive or organizing SASS/CSS. You're trying to make a coherent experience for a user.

I'd expect senior folks to be able to not get confused by an HTML tag, of course, and to be able to build a good end-to-end system, but the really good front-end devs I've worked with think through really subtle details of interaction design -- how long a slider slides, subtle changes to colors during mouse-overs and other actions, and just thousands of details that make a world of difference in how the product feels.

Conversely, anyone who's coded for more than a few years should be able to do a database query. But a really senior back-end dev will be able to think through how to, for example, make an architecture capable of streaming through thousands of events per second with 100ms latency, how to shard a system to work in data centers around the world to maintain data coherence while minimizing user latency, or hundreds of similar complex algorithmic tasks.

There are plenty of full stack people who can make an app responsive, have a coherent SASS/CSS framework, and efficiently organize a typical database (I can do all of that too, for that matter), but doing either side well takes many years of experience on its own.

There are times to go with a generalist. And there are times to go with a specialist.
Co2? You must have a gas stove.

Note that this effect doesn’t apply to stoves that don’t involve directly burning carbon. Normal cooking produces pm 2.5 but not co2.
This will not get resolved because both major parties have decided America isn’t worth saving (because the other party exists).
Step 4, in the US at least, is to lobby for more H1B bodies.

While they may or may not have the skills that are actually needed, the H1B system makes feudal servants bound to the corporation.
I interpreted your comment as an allusion to the probablistic fact that, given an infinite bankroll, you can exceed any profit, in time, betting on coin flips.

I tried to point out that LTCM had a very reliable and profitable trade on the basis anomalies they identified, which, combined with their imprimatur and aggressiveness, enabled the leverage that enabled them to dig their own grave (they ended up with nearly the same leverage as Lehman).

I worked on a team with OG LTCM and Lehman MBS quants, and they had some very interesting stories parallel to the standard narratives you hear about these events.
What are the two variations? One looks like a regular image, is the 2nd an IR band?
1. I am now decaying slowly underground in the dark.

2. I died.
To be picky, and for those reading, Dart no longer uses the same "threading" approaches. Dart 1 used Isolates for the vm and web. Dart 2 uses Isolates for vm, aot, but web workers for the web. Of course with Dart 1 it compiled to web workers, but had the same Isolate abstraction.

Unfortunately, the Dart web worker implementation isn't very convenient and I think some work could be done there to make it nicer to use. It's a very important use case for today's devices.
Japan, Britain to protect encryption keys in trade pact
Founding+treaties+-+EUR-Lex
1. Now I am decaying slowly underground in the dark.

2. I died.
This has to be one of the worst sites I've been on this year.

- Extremely clickbaity title (it's actually just very basic usage monitoring)

- Advertisements every 3 (!) lines

- Flashy animation at the bottom

- You can't even copy lines!

I've tried to quote a piece of the article and it resulted in this:

"The API doesn't obtain any information about in-app activit ..

Read more at:
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/google-reporte...

And endless scrolling to another 3 line 1 advertisement article is included, of course.
Competence fluctuates around the country
Yea, that makes sense. Ironically, in my anecdotal experience, working at more of a mid tier company, I find people with better credentials to often be less motivated than those with weaker credentials.

One theory is that the more motivated and to some extent talented individuals seek out more prestigious companies. In which case, the credentials become a much weaker signal if you aren't one of those places.
some of these companies, need to start suing microsoft. since it's usually windows affected by these malware attacks. if microsoft wants to keep serving the majority of the corp world, they need to have an os, based on user space system. i.e each program runs in it's own sandbox. and any data passed is via message passing.
Clearly, the reporter didn't really want the question answered because three points come to mind, immediately.

1) Testing of corpses and blood samples thereof. The CDC recently changed its guidelines for cause of death determination to be "if it looks like COVID, just mark it down as COVID." Being able to test corpses, who are in no rush, could help more accurately pin down mortality rates.

2) Knowing that you are not likely to catch it again, or, alternately, are still at risk. Yes, I know there's some debate as to whether or not you can catch it again due to declining antibodies. I am not believing that at current.

3) Being able to use antibodies cultivated from patients who have recovered in those who are currently quite ill. That's a common enough concept, cheaper than cultivating monoclonal antibodies.

Boom, three right there. How hard was that?
For me, setting myself up to be productive and have focus is more impactful than anything I try to do in the moment of trying to be productive. Running or biking a few miles, eating food that makes me feel healthy, not drinking alcohol, and getting good, quality sleep.

Being physically healthy is exponentially more effective than any anti-procrastination tools or techniques I have very tried.
> It is becoming clear to me that much of the perceived difference of opinion here is just because of terminology. I was thinking of "development" as meaning specifically the programming side of things. This is quite distinct from the other skills you mentioned like responsive design or database design.

I don't think you can break things up like this. Good developers can work one, sometimes two layers in each direction. A back-end developer who can't design a database is a lousy back-end developer. A front-end developer who implements user interfaces handed over from a designer is a lousy front-end developer.

Pigeonholing people isn't helpful, but it is helpful to

(1) Recognize that there are distinct, deep skill sets

(2) Known when and how to organize teams and software. Some benefit from vertical splits, and some from horizontal. There aren't universals here.
America is objectively doing terribly with covid-19. Massive business disruption combined with massive cases. The view from outside america is of widespread mismanagement and systemic failure. It is a death blow to America’s perception as a competent world power to be relied upon.

In this context, negative headlines are hardly surprising.
Bonds?
> Instead you [the bank] go to an anonymous arb firm, for $1m in bonds, and you say, "okay we're going to sell you the bond that is actually ours, you will sell it back to us, here is your fee, now we can sell this bond back to the client and wash the fact that it is ours."

How does the bank make money doing this? Routing the sale of this bond through the "anonymous arb firm" doesn't do anything to the price. If the bank's competitor is selling their bond at 1.00, the bank could directly offer their bond at 0.99 without getting "anonymous arb firm" involved. If the bank routes the trade through the "anonymous arb firm"... what difference does that make? If it shows up on the market at 1.01, the bank still has to give the client the 1.00 bond first, and if it shows up on the market at 0.99, the bank could have just done that itself.
(for those following the thread, I replied on Twitter: Yes, that’d be great! I want to spend some more time working with authors before formalizing as a spec, but certainly will reach out when things feel less molten. https://twitter.com/nileshtrivedi/status/1287150574480134145)
Even in a place like Oregon which seems fairly well managed, we have major test shortages. It just seems to me that the first benchmark should be if we have enough test availability (some combo of more tests and less infections) to be able to get results with 24 hours of symptoms, so we can effectively contact trace. If we don't have that, then all this Phase1 Phase2 stuff just means that you're increasing the epidemic. But here in Oregon, all the counties are in Phase1 or Phase2, none of them are in the "Baseline" lockdown phase. Shouldn't we all be in the Baseline phase until we have enough test availability?

I'm betting there's a good answer, like maybe the amount of test availability Oregon has is dependent on the rest of the nation. Like, if our epidemic goes down 90%, maybe our test availability will go down 90% anyway because other states will get further prioritized.

But anyway, it seems like that should be the basic standard nationwide. Lock it down until you can get test results within 24 hours, and then only slowly open it up while proving you can keep that test availability - if you can't, freeze or go back.
> It's the most well designed scripting language out there

You misspelled Kotlin.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-thorp...
Certain folk dances are quite a lot of exercise. Some likely descend from a ritualized exercise / demonstration, like the Ukrainian "gopak". Just estimate the level of physical fitness which allows to dance like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvD21OntHgI
I am rhythm challenged, so for me martial arts have been mentally stimulating like improv jazz on a Go board. In sparring you can follow muscle memory to build a dynamic procedure based on your opponents' actions or reactions. You quickly learn the "dance" and when to change tempo because the alternative is pain or discomfort.
Beating the odds: An interview with Ed Thorp (2017)
Most companies outright lie and try to trick paying customers into thinking the mails they send is personal and not mass mail? I'm glad I have never met any of these "most companies".
>But doesn't it seem reasonable to use TypeScript for flutter now?

Flutter started as an experiment from chrome team, so their first language was JavaScript, when they move to dart they decided to write the whole framework layer in dart, the engine is in C/C++, so it seems there is no going back to a JS world.

https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/technical-overview#layer-...

With the Dart, they got a VM, GC and other tools and a language team that could grow Dart to suit flutter.
They also got stateful hotreload, a Dart idea, which was something that the Flutter team didn't know they wanted.
Not me, but I know I read something once lamenting that almost any place in the world, you can be lost in the wilderness but will still see the occasional plane or at least contrail, and thus can't avoid civilization.
At one point, a few years ago, I was in your place. Really bored and completely miserable. I got tired of huge companies (one in particular) and went to a "goldilocks zone" startup.

By this I mean the ones were they have enough money to pay you well and a reasonable product/business with a high chance of success, but they're still small enough for you to have an impact in the organization (we were under a 100 people when I jumped in). Really smart people and a culture that fits my personal beliefs.

The first year was tricky, switching from the slowness of the large company to the constant change and challenges of the startup.

Once you get your bearing and feel that you're pulling your own weight is fantastic, been there for the past 8 years or so.

My point is, there may not be a need to change careers completely, maybe just find the right group of people to work with.
> You have to design a system where even a rogue IT admin with full access to everything can’t screw you.

OK, brilliant — this is a nice articulation of a fundamental principle.

Do you know of any books that describe how to design such systems?

Guaranteeing that offline backups exist is a great start, but if the backups contain backdoors, restoring could be extremely laborious and yet unsuccessful.
Just having a decent and reasonable way to nuke and pave machines goes a long way. Most organizations don't have a good way to shoot a machine in the face and have it back up and serving in 2 minutes. Most organizations are absolutely married to "stateful services" like SQL databases with local storage, that are hard to kill, hard to restore, and give attackers a place to hang out.

If you can take all your hosts down and bring them all back up quickly, that gives you at least one tool for disrupting the attackers.
What a great graph! That is very enlightening, thank you for sharing.
A Yale graduate going for a job of packing snack just to be near a rich and powerful because that is how one climbs to the top...
So what I never got about how this works is that while it makes sense to me that there would be less energy usage (due to reduced heat dissipation) from avoiding any information loss through a calculation, at the end of the calculation the "answer" you get back is going to be much larger, particularly for increasingly large and compounded workloads (as it has to include all of the information required to reverse all of the states)... clearly you don't want all of that information, so someone has to destroy all of that information and incur the heat cost of eating all that electricity used to store it, right? If this isn't quite right, and at the end I'm allowed to just pool all those circuits together to get some energy to run the next computation (which seems to be implied by some of these descriptions), why isn't that the case for other destructive computations? Like, every time I have an AND gate, I take the waste electricity from 3 of the 4 cases and store it to power subsequent NOT gates (which, half the time, need electricity). <- FWIW, I'd be willing to believe this is equivalent to "reversible computing", as that waste electricity is very similar to the information I need to do the reversal--it would require another wire as input as a pure source of power and a separate answer wire to be directly analogous, but the principle is the same: I'm just combining some of the steps, both figuratively and literally--it is just that this is never how it is described in any of the articles I ever find on the subject, which seem to want to maintain the reversibility for large sequences of gates and even entire computations as opposed to merely as a hyper-optimization of individual gates in what is otherwise pretty much a classic architecture. It just seems like if I'm going to do some kind of energy storage (I've seen analogies in these articles talking about springs and flywheels) I can just do that to all my waste electricity and then tap it for all/any of my later electricity needs, and then all I have to do is bound the maximum amount of power I need for a particular circuit (such as a single instruction on a von Neumann CPU) that is accidentally entirely deficit (due to the input being "just right" to cause like, maximal numbers of on circuits being passed through NOT gates and internal buffers) so I know how much I need to to pre-charge the capacitor before I go through each cycle; and then I only have to truly dissipate electricity if the input for the calculation is itself expressed as a large amount of energy and my battery is already full, and I can do all of this without needing to actually care about how to do "logical operations" using "reversible operators" (but again, to be clear: this is a question from me about what I'm not understanding and what isn't being expressed in these articles I keep reading, not me asserting that this is how it should work and that everyone is dumb: this is my mental model, and I'd love it if anywhere were willing to take the time to explain to me why I'm dumb ;P).