skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Randomly locking up or segregating society based on perceived psychological conditions is a dangerous path...there are high functioning sociopaths, even those that never show "symptoms" or act on a lack of empathy.

There are lots of dangerous people groups. Are you going to include any veteran with PTSD? Or brilliant MBAs because they might learn to game the system or start a trading scam?

It's estimated that 46% of adults have a severe psychological condition at some point in their lifetime.

We have to be careful as a society of locking people up because of what they could do, not because of what they've done.
You still need to explain why some whales live hundreds of years, and some trees live thousands.

If you believe that telomere shortening is the issue, we should be investigating therapies to encourage telomere lengthening.

We have access to powerful technologies (e.g. CRISPR), and we can develop technologies that are more powerful still.
One of the more... interesting things about Covid-19 is that the countries everyone thinks are stuck with indiscriminate lockdown as their only tool due to lack of testing capacity actually have the most testing capacity, and the one everyone points to as a mass testing success story has about an order of magnitude less in per capita terms and is likely severely limited in their ability to actually detect cases as a result. It's the result of cached facts from like 6 months ago that have never been refeshed because the media have carefully avoided drawing attention to the new information in order to preserve their narrative, whilst using language that leads people to think it's still true.
> I honestly dont understand their strategy.

But you do. See you got it here:

> Only option I can see is to maintain isolation until a vaccine is available

What puzzles me is why you don't see this as the only good strategy for any country that has the capacity to attempt it. It's the strategy that saves most lives.

There are currently 10 countries in the Pacific, including NZ, that have no COVID cases. They could form a bubble and allow travel between them.

Yesterday kiwis were allowed to fly to Australia and enter the general population without quarantine.
I think your question depends on whose perspective. From the perspective of a company whose core business model is not software, there is little value in writing code. A CEO sees danger in every major software implementation: they're expensive, takes forever, often fail, expensive to maintain and may get him fired. A CEO wants to customize a little as possible, so he can upgrade and maintain his very expensive capital expense.

On the other hand, from the perspective of consulting company or large software vendor, the consultant wants to lock-in his customer to a long term contract as long as possible. This means he wants to implement a be-spoke customized solution with infinite levels of complexity that will make it easier for his customer to move mountains than switch to a different vendor.

If you are trying to determine which data technology you should specialize in, personally, I take great interest in the stock market valuation of those companies. It's not foolproof but I would argue is a better indicator than most. For example, recently the Dow Jones industrial average replaced Exxon with Salesforce. Salesforce is more than a CRM; it really is cloud platform that many business base their IT strategy on. Similarly, Snowflake's recent IPO of $3 billion was reported to be the largest ever for a software company.
The US has always been different than other countries. It's the reason we have more gun deaths than other countries and it will be the reason we will always lead in pandemic deaths if they somehow reach our shores.

You will never get 20 million Americans per week to line up for testing unless it's the same 20 million over and over. You will never get Americans to sign up for voluntary contact tracing or vaccines. You can barely get half of us to wear masks all the time.

Furthermore, the federal government is limited in what it can enforce. It is up to the states individually to enforce these rules. The populace in many places have no desire to continue a locked-down, mask-mandated existence, regardless of the cost.

If COVID-19 had the same symptoms as Ebola all these things would change dramatically.

I say all this because the Election is marked on this timeline as if it's going to have a major impact on the pandemic in the U.S. I don't believe it will. We may see an impact but I think it will just be a result of having the pandemic fizzling out due to herd immunity etc.
If you know you have the flu (or COVID-19), surely you know you are likely contagious and can spread it to more vulnerable people. Yes, it is your fault and you deserve blame if you knowingly spread it to others through negligence. Stay home if you're sick.
Maybe I'm just inept but the only way I could get WireGuard running on a Debian Buster server was with easy-wg-quick. And it works (almost) perfectly.

The only issue I've had is adding a 3rd client. My windows desktop just will not connect. Another Windows laptop, and an Android work perfectly.
You can do something like

// Or replace with something like a Strong Type; https://www.fluentcpp.com/2017/05/05/news-strong-types-are-free/
using NodeHandle = int;

struct OptFloat { float Value; bool bInitialized = false; };

NodeHandle CreateNode(NodeHandle* Children, int NumChildren, OptFloat Value);
void DestroyNode(NodeHandle ToDestroy);

void SetValue(NodeHandle ToSet, OptFloat NewValue);

Aside from that, you do raise a good point. If you implemented your C api over your implementation of node, you would be in for a bad time as the owning std::vector<node> won't keep valid your pointers valid.. This isn't suposed to be ragging on your code, it's really to point out the pitfalls of manual APIs.

> struct mylib_node { char storage[sizeof c++ struct that was computed manually)]; };

You can do;

// IN C api, fill this in manually
#define mylib_storagsize = ?

struct mylib_node {char storage[MYLIB_STORAGESIZE]; };
// or;
struct mylib_node {void* storage; }
// in node.cpp - the underlying C++ abstraction;
static_assert(sizeof(mylib::node) == MYLIB_STORAGESIZE);

It's only _slightly_ better..
I bought the 13 inch 2in1 earlier this year. Had I not been bound to keep it due to lockdown (this being the only production-ready machine in the house at the time) I would have sent it back. Now I'm thinking to just buy a ryzen machine and ceremonially burn this one.

Pro tip: don't confuse "XPS 13" (amazing linux support) with "XPS 13 2in1" (horrible linux support, with issues ranging from bootup/shutdown to webcam simply not working, and it likely never will)

ahem... </rant>
You wait till there's a good vaccine, then get everyone vaccinated and reopen.
Possibly dumb question: since SARS-CoV-2 came from bats originally, are bats not an animal reservoir for it?
I wish these reviews were even slightly representative of what I normally use a laptop for, like running chrome/v8, crunching tons of geojson files with python, etc. Are all you out there with trivially parallel workloads all day long?
I wanted that. I actually ordered it in August, then I have cancelled it recently as the shipping date kept shifting (last info was November). T14s AMD looked very good compared to the 9300 in August, but it doesn't look _that_ good in December.
> Zamenhof’s optimism isn’t as universally admired as you suggest.

Where did I say say his optimism was universally admired? I think I made it clear that I admire his optimism, and think it worthy of admiration :-)

> some of Zamenhof’s views can be shocking today.

That's fine, having admiration for his work and those views of his that I feel have merit don't mean I need to accept absolutely everything the man believed.

> Those super-idealistic Esperantists who praised Zamenhof and banged on about world peace, were seen as weirdos and a target of mockery.

That may well be true, but this feels like an ad-hominem argument: "the cool kids are so over Esperanto and world peace. You want to be cool, don't you?"

You have critiques of Esperanto and maybe even the idealism that I find endearing. That's fine. Those critiques are valid. I still maintain Zamenhof added more to the world than the critics.
NZ is already reopened (internally, not to foreign travel) without masks or social distancing. They also reopened travel with most states of Australia.

The population got on board with the lockdown so it was short and effective. The US efforts in that regard are ineffectual so the half-assed lockdown and mask wearing will need to continue indefinitely until there is a vaccine, which is the only hope left.
> He’s supposed to have a lawyer review tweets.

Incredible how the world has changed during the last years :)
Thanks for mentioning DALY. It seems like this would be a much better metric than counting deaths. I've been looking for regularly updated charts using YLL (years of life lost), but DALY seems even better. It's disappointing that DALY isn't the most commonly shared/referenced chart. I need to find COVID DALY numbers compared to other causes of death to better understand this.
> Then you open up again (just like we did here in Iceland)

That was the stupid part, and predictable.

> It's not magic, it's just hiding in a cave.

Exactly! Great strategy, so simple to implement and saves the most lives.
"Employees don't determine the policies or agenda of a company"

There are some interesting exceptions.

Thousands of employees had objected to Google's involvement with Project Maven. Project got cancelled.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
> They blocked an article which contained PII, and info derived from a hack (by the articles own admissions), at least for Twitter I believe that was just policy.

So wikileaks? Any other articles that happen to have a person's personal info are blocked? Do they block tabloids as well? Was it cool how they unilaterally blocked people from mentioning that said article exists... sans URL and without PII?

There's a lot of mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance required to believe this was "just policy".

Likewise, why is it such a burden for Twitter to monitor illegal content but not legal content? Is there just so very much illegal content on Twitter relative to legal that they can't manage? But, yeah, they're all over this legal content like a hawk, just coincidentally. (Despite them talking about them implementing restrictions like this for years). It's politically targeted. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it.
BTW I’m on mobile so didn’t re read that study but when I read the myocarditis study a month ago it turned out that the base rate of myocarditis was really no different than the COVID-19 rate and thus the whole scare was more or leas unfounded.

For studyi these supposed long-term effects I like to look at SARS-1 studies since we’ve had almost two decades. What we find is a few months of raidological ling abnormalities that heal, and mild cognitive deficits that linger for up to a year before disappearing completely. SARS-1 is miles worse than SARS-2 so the idea that young asymptomatic COVID-19 cases will end up with long term health problems is just completely farcical.

Unfortunately reading these studies requires a very critical lens. You showed that in your above comments but, for example, the person alleging these unproven and speculative long term impacts appears not to take that critical approach.
Did Apple build MagSafe so that cases can “stick” to the new iPhones?
What does it mean for the RISC/CISC thing to be dead? The distinction between them is more blurred than it used to be?
I don't want to buy an expensive laptop with only 16G RAM.
>No other industry has employees playing activists at their jobs than technology.

I take it you're unaware of the existence of unions or feminists or people of color or the disabled, then, because plenty of industries have had their share of politically active employees.
SiFive will announce their new board in a couple of weeks, on Oct 29th: https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-to-introduce-new-risc-v-... https://linleygroup.com/events/at_a_glance.php?num=49 https://linleygroup.com/events/agenda.php?num=49&day=6
“Thought It Was an Alien”: Iron Man Balloon Triggers Panic in Up Town
How can we go back to a world where the normal flu causes so much damage now that we know how easy those deaths are to prevent?

We need to find a way to have an economy and maintain social distance.

It might mean wearing a mask all the time and staying away from work when you have any symptoms at all!
You're a liar arguing from a bad faith position if you think Heller was decided wrongly.

Leftism is really a religion.
Toning down my outrage? We are talking about human lives.

Opening up the economy more broadly WILL equate to more deaths in all age groups.

The western world had an opportunity to contain and eradicate the disease. We failed. The weak and infirm should not have to pay the price for our thick headedness.
https://www.altpress.com/news/monkeon-website-90s-festival-g...
English is stupidly complicated to speak perfectly, but it's stupidly easy to speak badly and still be understood because it's analytic rather than inflectional and relies so much on word order.

It's an easy language to do business in, but a very hard language to sound perfect in. It's also a hard language to read and write.
Because waiting for a new invention as part of policy is idiotic. Science does not work a on schedule. A vaccine is not 12 months away, it can be invented tomorrow, or it can never be invented because it never becomes more than 5% effective.
Awesome stuff. I'd like to see entirely non-chemical pest control for agriculture.
Add to the fact the US wasn't in the war for four years as claimed but sent troops in 1917.

Add the Civil War (~620,000), Spanish Flu (~675,000) and WWII (405,399) to the chart too.
> No variable-length instructions

AESE / AESMC (AES Encode, AES Mix-columns) are an instruction pair in modern ARM chips in which the pair runs as a singular fused macro-op.

That is to say, a modern ARM chip will see "AESE / AESMC", and then fuse the two instructions and execute them simultaneously for performance reasons. Almost every "AESE" encode instruction must be followed up with AESMC (mix columns), so this leads to a significant performance increase for ARM AES instructions.
> I kind of hate shopping

Have you considered ordering online and let them deliver it at your doorstep?
It's a great strategy! The internal economy is open because people aren't afraid to be out and about, shopping and going to sporting events, etc. Even in US states with absolutely no restrictions on indoor dining etc. there was a huge drop in activity from, well, people having normal self-preservation instincts.

A strong vaccine candidate within the next 6 months is a strong likelihood, along with antibody-based therapeutics. So the plan is to hold out, keep the internal domestic economy moving forward - the tourism hit was going to happen anyway, so might as well have everything else as operational as possible.

Herd immunity is not a strategy, it's just what used to happen before we understood that we could actually reduce the impact of disease on our lives.
I can only speak for myself here, but COVID-19 has increased my awareness of the impact of flu season and I will endeavor to mitigate the risk of infecting others in the future. In the past, I hardly gave it a second thought—it never occurred to me that I could kill or harm someone by being careless (e.g. riding the metro to/from the climbing gym during flu season and indiscriminately spreading germs). Masks, giving people space, combining shopping trips, biking or driving, etc.—all are super easy ways to reduce potential harm to myself or others, so I’m more than happy to do these things as necessary going forward. There is no sense of fear or guilt, since I know I’ve done what I can reasonably do.

In that sense, I think comparing COVID-19 to the flu is helpful.
You're acting like this isn't part of most companies business model already. Amazon's return policy? Costed into every purchase - nobody legislated that they had to do that, it just turns out a generous return policy encourages you to buy more.
They are, they are also a reservoir of many other unknown diseases yet to come. But people don't get into close contact with bats as often (unfortunately this time it probably happened from the unsanitary Chinese wet markets).
[A]n English person aged 55–64 years who gets
infected with SARS-CoV-2 faces a fatality risk that is more than 200 times higher than the
annual risk of dying in a fatal car accident.

Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Public Policy Implications https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
We actually don’t have this evidence. If anything we have strong evidence of the opposite.

SARS-2 radiological abnormalities resolve in months and this is for hospitalized cases which are by definition more severe than your usual cases.

There is really no evidence of what you claim.

We’re now 7 months into the major part of this pandemic and people are still stuck citing the fears we all had in April.
>Exactly! Great strategy, so simple to implement and saves the most lives.

The stone age population is a fair bit lower than the one we have now.
Wars kill old people too? Specifically care home people end up dying from lack of nutrition, inability to escape. Old handle hardship of being refuge badly.

WWII had higher civilian casualties then soldiers.

That is not to remove suffering of soldiers, but people here tend to talk about wars as if it did not affected everyone living there.
Diffie-Hellman in 2 lines of perl:
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/rsa/perl-dh.html
an the T-shirt:
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html
Could they run a new census? Is there a rule that limits how often it is done?
FYI, NZ is multiple islands the size of the UK with a population 15x that of Iceland.
I'm not sure why would you mention Ayn Rand in this context. Since you proposed some studying, here are a few books on the subject that I'd suggest to you:

Lysander Spooner, No Treason The Constitution of No Authority
https://oll-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/titles/2194/Spooner_1...

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44800

Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
https://mises.org/library/ethics-liberty
Exactly, in fact it doesn't even matter what comes out of it there is simply no alternative to Free Speech that could work. Free Speech at least can work that's more than any other concept has to offer.
I've done this successfully for a while but not extensively, and I've watched colleagues and friends try it with mixed results, so for what its worth I've seen a few common failure modes. Roughly in order of impact.

#1 - to be a consultant you need a consulting business. If you aren't working for someone else, you need to create it. The two things technical people often totally underestimate is the sales aspect (25%+ of your time), and the time spent on other non-billable work. Unless you are pretty niche and already well known, you are likely going to have to find the (right) work more than it finds you, at least at first.

#2 Taking on too much and/or the wrong kind of work just because you can get it. If you establish yourself as a generalist, you're going to end up only competing with service companies and other generalists for lowest cost. Also, once an organization has hired you as "an X", it is harder for them to consider you as "a Y". If you do a basic programming contract with them because you need the work, you may never be seriously considered for anything else (by them). I probably said no to more than 1/2 the contracts I was offered when I started out, and it was a good choice even when I did have some down time.

#3 charging too little. You want to be doing impactful, high value work. Or else you are probably really a freelancer looking for long term contracts and work/life balance you control (not that this is a bad thing, but it's not the same)

#4 charging too much (for the work you are doing). In order to make the balance sheet work you are pricing yourself at the top of a niche and not getting enough work. Instead you should be doing something higher value. I've seen people oscillate for years on a 2 months of work, 3 months of no work, etc. cycle this way. For me this is a sign you are going after the wrong kind of work.

#5 focusing on the work you enjoy, rather than the impact you can make - this is also a viable route for a lifestyle adjustment but it's only efficient if you are lucky.

Some other thoughts:

I think there are natural sizes for this sort of business and it has implications for the types of work you compete on.

You can use sub-contractors (e.g. consultant/freelancer colleagues) to manage bandwidth a little but but there is overhead. I suspect it's a lot easier to keep 6 employees fed than 2, if you go that way.

It's sort of a restatement of #1 - but network is critical.
Thats how almost all news are like. It only sounds stupid because we have a deep understanding of the terms eg. what HTML is.
My only remaining grandfather is 89 years old. He still skies during the winter, his cognition is still good, that is to say he still has a full life.

I would kill him without thinking too hard if it meant saving my nephew, aged 10, from dying. My grandfather lived a full life and I'm sure if he had the choice to trade his life for his great grandchild he'd sacrifice what he has remaining in order to gift the chance at that same full life to his progeny.

On a societal scale we think the same way, an 80 year old dying is less bad than a 10 year old dying, its less tragic both emotionally and from society's perspective, economically. Losing a grandparent is tough, losing a sibling in the prime of their life is terrible, and losing a child is devastating. I can't comment on OP's feelings on the subject, they could have aid it in a callous and inhumane way, I don't know their inner thoughts, but the essence is true even if it is painful.
Someone once explained it like “not a reduced set, but a set of reduced instructions”. Not r(is)c, but (ri)sc.

Pretty much what you say, I just liked the way of describing it.