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When will the daily Covid fear stories on Hacker News end?

What is there to discuss here? Is there anything to discuss?

What good will come of this submission?

Why does Hacker News continue to have Covid fear stories on the front page every day?
What am I supposed to think about the intent of the other side when they're trying to get a legitimate election result overturned to support their preferred presidential candidate? Who isn't living in reality here? This is not a far left position, and it's not the left that is driving FUD about US election integrity.
I suppose you missed the 3-year period where Trump was supposedly a Russian agent who stole the election?

That's just the tenor of American politics right now in general.
>Hate to break it to you, in the United States we're screwed two ways over. Both the left and the >right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys). Both the left and the right in the US have >enemies lists, and have effective propaganda wings that eviscerate opponents and call basic and >decent democratic norms into question (free speech, elections). Both sides use identity and >demographics to sow division and resentment between groups.

bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe!!!!!111

No, they're not. And I know I'll get downvoted for this.

Trying to equate the Proud Boys, which is definite example of an organized right wing paramilitary group with antifa which is a loosely defined movement is a false equivalency.

The "left" is not trying question voting. Rather, we've tried to make voting more accessible to all and ensure all votes are counted. Eviscerating free speech? Is that the made up "cancel culture"? You mean driving hateful and intolerant messages off social media? Alex Jones et. al made have been deplatformed, but as far as I know, he still has a media presence on Fox News, OAN, etc. Identity politics? You mean BLM? Or maybe the desire to make it so our politicians are more diverse as opposed to overwhelming represent a single demographic?

Both side are the same, calls for centrism, etc. are nothing more than an attempt to absolve oneself of your responsibility to stay informed and be active in civic life. It's an attempt to excuse yourself from voting, etc. No, both sides are demonstrably not the same.
It would take some reengineering but you could probably convert the nukes to directed-energy rockets, harnessing the full power of the blast & using part of the moon itself as reaction mass.

The problem though is still the amount of energy needed: In short, too much. Ball park estimate place it at about 410^28 joules, and a large nuker only puts out about 410^15.

The theory is still sound though, and could be modified: Drill down a hundred miles or so and put 90% of the nukes down the hole to blow a crater out. Take the largest chunks and the remaining 10% of the nukes and proceed as originally planned, but on a smaller scale. Bonus: The debris should also make its way to LEO and trigger a cascade of collisions that take out everything in orbit.
The English Wikipedia page uses the past tense so I assumed that wasn't the case.

But reading the French version of Wikipedia (I happen to be French) and the conclusion is much more tenuous. So I guess I'm wrong!
Flowers are (1) much cheaper and (2) more sustainable. Also, to my mind, flowers are more beautiful in many cases.

Diamonds of very moderate sizes can still make good jewellery, e.g. in earrings. The biggest problem with the diamond engagement rings is that they are collecting dust after the wedding. Long-term diamond jewellery may be more cost-effective than flowers :)
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On Debian one must install "bluetooth" and "pulseaudio-module-bluetooth" that for some reason are not installed by default. After that it's a matter of synchronizing things on the bluetooth GUI and if you don't want the obvious setup, deciding where the sound goes to on the mixer GUI.

But well, when I brought my current earplugs the mic didn't look like it was working on my (Android) phone and searched the web for it, I discovered that many lines of JBL plugs aren't supported on Windows by default. There are devices that only fail to work on Teams, or Skype, some only work on those applications, some reproduce anything except audio from videos (all issues confirmed by the manufacturer).
I wonder if we could implement some sort of cap and trade system to make everyone happy?

Everyone could be rationed a certain number of gatherings per month and then each person would be free to choose how to use them. They could use one to see family during the holidays, they could go to a protest, go to a wedding, celebrate in the street, go to a movie, etc.

We could even track them as discrete tokens, or "social credits" using blockchain technology. This would allow contact tracing software to be able to determine the "cost" of an event based on how many people were exposed and then withdraw the appropriate number of credits from the participants.

In a system like this, people who don't go anywhere or see anyone would be able to redeem their excess social credits for things XBoxes or VR headsets.
The only way you can see Tulsi as the "middle" is because the overton window has slammed so far right. In a rational society, Biden and Obama would be considered middle and AOC/Bernie left.
> Being able to shift locations even if just temporarily is still great. Perhaps the solution is to have a beefy desktop and a tiny but weak laptop with good battery, and just remote in to a desktop when on the move.

This is what I do - my 'main' general purpose computer is a Linux-Chromebook and most of my 'work' is processed on the server stack at home.
> Every company buys stuff from Staples/Costco/Wallmart, one-off parts and supplies.

They have vendor relationships with them. The amount of stuff they're putting on the credit card is a rounding error.
We operate in the wedding niche and we have seen a drastic decline in not only the number of weddings but also the size of weddings. The impact has been significant.
This is based on information from BlueLeaks, which you're free to call fake spin, and I am free to disagree with you on.
It's a little hugged to death at the moment, but https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ is a useful tool to show relatives who are thinking about social gatherings for the holidays.
> showing up to peaceful protests with weapons to kill protesters.

In Portland, an anti-fascist protestor shot a man (rightly or wrongly). Anti-fascists can and do show up with weapons. It is not a false equivalence to say so.
The moment you decide that everyone else is crazy and you are the rational guy in the middle, it's time to take a step back.
The difference is this -- let's say your delivery company pays the driver $1 per hour plus "100% of the tips" but guarantees them at least $15 per hour.

The reality is that $1 + tips almost never makes it to $15, so they always pay them $15 an hour.

If you tip $5, they get $1 + $5 (from you) + $9 (from the company).

If you tip $0, they get $1 + $14 (from the company).

This is a shitty system designed to get you to offset company expenses.

In a well-designed system they should not pay them $1 + 100% of the tips, they should pay them $15 + 100% of the tips and where tips are truly optional.
It's not exactly the same thing because, for example, there is no subtyping or inheritance. In Ocaml you don't say that "type T1 is an Orderable".

However, it does serve a similar purpose. For example, if you want to create a datatype for an OrderedList then you'd create a higher-order-module (functor) that receives as an argument another module containing all the necessary comparison functions for the list elements. For example, if you apply the OrderedList functor to the IntOrdering module the result would be an OrderedListOfInt module that provides an abstract data type implementing an ordered list of integers.

In the Ocaml standard library the names would be different but that's the basic idea.
Antifa have committed numerous enough acts of violence to be labeled a domestic terrorist group and instead of plots you have actual congressmen (Steve Scalise) being shot by a leftist. HN is a place for avoiding our biases not doubling down on them.
I really lament that HackerNews has become just another outlet for political propaganda and manipulation. It didn't used to be this bad, but now there's large scale brigading of the top comment sections just like at reddit. I don't know what the solution is, but the reddit/HackerNews model of discussion definitely has its downsides in the face of malicious actors.
Are you trying to say the authors don’t exist because some troll entered a fake name on their website?

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.
Yeah, I know, but the point is Saturn V is shown as carrying to LEO 140 tons - and 140 tons was actual translunar payload (Apollo CSM + LEM, ~45 tons) plus dry 3rd stage (~15 tons) plus unspent fuel in the 3rd stage (about 2/3 of initial load of 105 tons of fuel). At the same time Space Shuttle doesn't show the empty mass (a lot) and unspent fuel (very little) of Space Shuttle "second stage", which is Orbiter, and mentions only payload in the bay of that Orbiter.

We could arbitrarily say Energia brings 0 tons on orbit - because it's, strictly speaking, a suborbital rocket, the payload needs to add some ~100 m/s of velocity to get to orbit, this was done to avoid getting empty stage to orbit (so no littering, no necessary maneuver to deorbit). Or, alternatively, we could say Energia brings 170 (!) tons to LEO - indeed, if one pays no attention to factual suborbital speed and adds mass of empty 2nd stage of Energia, which is 78-86 tons (http://buran.ru/htm/rocket.htm), one gets this number.

So it's important to carefully compare similar things. 140 tons for Saturn V is too different from 27 tons of Space Shuttle by method, not by result.
data point: i've been in a zoe on a highway and it didn't have any issue getting to 140km/h (~86mph).
No one made that claim except right wing media. They said, and this was proven, there was collusion among members of his campaign to influence the election.
You're right.

Perhaps my gripe was with that particular statement, it just seemed like unhelpful attitude.

If you start from "I subscribe to a philosophy" and from there reach the conclusion "hence people are entitled to xyz", that's quite different than starting from "I'm entitled to xyz".
I don't feel it's dismissive at all. Yeah "rules of thumb" and correlational studies are imperfect, but I think they are better than nothing.

It's usually easier to break out of a feedback loop once you recognize that you are in one.
You made the mistake of questioning the purity of the "Left".

It angers the hive-mind.
What are HNers planning to do for the holidays? We’re seriously considering not seeing anyone, not even parents, even though my SO has had COVID already (she works at a hospital and contracted it from COVID patients).

Stories like this are the main reason. Even if no one at the party gets very ill, the chance of further spreading it to others seriously scares me.
The username is cartoonishly transparent...I guess they offer internships at the Internet Research Agency.

User's comment history lines up with my expectations.
Mainly email/whatsapp/iMessage
How quickly we forget the heavily-armed antifa militia that occupied 3 city blocks in downtown Seattle, whose assault rifle-wielding “security team” assaulted journalists, intimidated residents, and murdered an unarmed black teenager.

Residents and businesses owners are currently suing the city for abandoning the neighborhood’s police station, providing porta-potties to the armed occupiers, and ceding control of this area to the violent mob for roughly a month.

edit: Downvoted for relevant, if uncomfortable factual statements on HN? I thought we were better than this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/07/seattle-times-rep...
Yep: custom domain, iframe security policies. Communicate with the iframe via postMessage only, be strict about message origins, and have limited trust in those messages, too. Strict CSP policies and use the 'sandbox' iframe attribute.

iframes are cruddy, but they are designed for this - the long era of iframe-based embedded advertisements caused vendors to double-down on those security policies.

Observable doesn't use WebWorkers, duktape, or a custom JavaScript interpreter. If you had sandboxed JavaScript that didn't need access to the DOM, those might be options, but if you want people to write JavaScript like usually, they don't do any good.
Elderly people die of flu symptoms all the time. It is normal but we are being lied to and told it is not.

My own father passed of pneumonia and although sad it also was normal.
100% abstaining from any family gatherings. It's the only morally right choice right now.
I see that I am downvoted and I guess it is because my comment has been very simplistic and not explained well.

I will try (in a perspective here from Germany):

In general nothing here is really bad, nobody is killed or deported. So of course a comparison to the linked article is an exaggeration. But nonetheless since April the general mood in the country is be-surprised-and-accept driven: Businesses are closed on short term (last time on a friday end of september it was decided that on monday all restaurants, sport centers etc) must close (*takaway only). Because covid is propagated as this extreme dangerous risk nobody can complain. The whole public is only waiting what next rule is announced from week to week or month to month. People who refuse to wear a mask (for various reasons in various situations) are losing their jobs - either because the employer wants to get rid of them anyway and uses the not-mask-wearing as excuse or because their is real hate and fear between people in different groups. Their is no real philosophically based discussion about risk realted tradeoffs - only dictated policy.

And in the background basic laws are rewritten/adjusted to reduce the overall freedom. For example here in Germany a basic right of privacy at home so except with an order of a judge the police is not allowed to enter. But it is tried (or even succeeded? I do not know) to allow police to enter homes in general in order to check if more than X people are inside. Or it is argued that people who violate a quarantine order should be locked into a psychiatry. Some (few) people fight back but in genral changes are just announced and accepted.

It's a really slow process so many do not or want not to notice it but since april there are a lot of long term changes on the way that will alter the whole system to be more tolitarian/less free and which for sure will persist even after covid - all with covid as excuse.
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> does not attempt to dispute the outcomes of elections

You may not be old enough to remember, but Al Gore (democrat) did _exactly_ this 20 years ago.
Don’t trust me. Consider listening to these people:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.
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Could we all stop eating animals please?

The amount of torture we subject these sentient creatures to is absurd. Selective breeding causes chickens to grow faster than their limbs can handle. Confining pigs to pens where they can't turn around for the duration of their lives.

If anyone did this to a dog, they would be in jail.
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> I discovered that despite having done a lot of research when trying to buy the right insurance with a rideshare rider and which was compatible with Lyft's own insurance, I wasn't covered. I had to eat the bill.

So the problem was the insurance company, not the gig economy itself.
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I don't know anything more about this than the two links you just posted, but the article in the Independent and the Politifact Fact Check certainly do not come to the conclusion that this "declaration" is fake.

The Independent piece is talking about some of the 150,000+ names signed by the public. Of course people on the Internet are going to add fake names to the list. That doesn't make the declaration fake.

The Politifact piece explicitly notes that the official signatories are real. It then goes into an explanation of why their heterodox opinion is wrong, which maybe it is. But that doesn't make it fake.
I can cook quite well but honestly living in NYC and going to the grocery store to serve my partner and I ~2 meals a day every day of the week is nearly impossible with our work schedule. If I wanted to do nothing else with my day but work and cook, that might be fine, but Doordash et al. are making life a whole lot better. When we were launching our company, we joked that it was often just a stream of delivery drivers bringing us stuff to sustain ourselves.
could these be done on-device, esp since they built in all that Secure Enclave crytographic stuff, vs in the cloud? At least partially?

I mean having it phone home to the authentication server every time seems laborious vs. say, downloading a set of definitions every night that gets checked against some hash in the Secure Enclave or something.
Yes, bad assumptions led to a bad result. Some of those bad assumptions made sense 10 years ago. Some of them didn't. I was far too generous to Congress by only talking about the former and not mentioning the latter. Multi-launch for large beyond-Earth missions made much more sense 10 years ago than a big rocket. Heck, multi-launch probably made more sense in the 60's than Apollo, if it wouldn't have been for that 1969 hard deadline.
Ask HN: Is there a list of countries where AWS based services are not available?
"Both the left and the right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys)." I'm not sure I would consider Antifa "paramilitary". Antifa doesn't have a military style chain of command, nor an organized use of firearms. While the proud boys have more of a hierarchical command structure, it's still a bit of a stretch to call them "paramilitary", there does however seem to be some shared membership with right wing paramilitary militia.
That man never got a trial, he was killed extrajudicially: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/michael-reinoehl-antif....
>wash-n-fold laundry or taxi service

Which the vast bulk of people don't use either. I'm sure there's some market and I've seen market research that suggests grocery delivery is something that will hang around at higher levels post-COVID. (Though the same report also highlighted home cooking, not food delivery.)

I admittedly don't have great food delivery options where I live. But getting most prepared food delivered isn't something I find very interesting at all.
For comparison with the 55 person gathering in August, here's a 10,000 person gathering in June, which was apparently perfectly OK from a coronavirus standpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0J40Gn574

Double standards like these are why most people don't trust the mainstream media anymore.
Interesting responses. I just find it convoluted. I typically don't know where to look for the information/data that I want. Often, the data I want is very basic (eg. traffic on a specific path over a period; time on site; bounce rates), but I guess given the nature of data and analytics, it's tough for them to organize everything into a simple UI/Ux
>The alternative is that only billionaires that control media empires get to pick what messages you hear.

That outcome is one alternative, it is not the only alternative. We can put laws in place to regulate how the media talks about political issues. We used to have the fairness doctrine for example. I wouldn't necessarily want that reintroduced exactly how it existed, but something along those lines would help the US political system.

>More importantly, the CU ruling was that groups of non-billionaires (ex: a union or PAC) could pool their resources together in order to amplify their combined message.

So what? These organizations are free to advise their people how to voice their opinion and they can even facilitate doing so through internal programs such as voter registration drives or petition drives. We don't have to allow them to pool money to voice their opinion to the general public.

>It sounds like you just want to silence voices that may be louder than your own.

"When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression." I want voices to be equal. The people who have the loudest voices will probably feel like I want them silenced.

>If I spend my time making and selling widgets but feel strongly about a political issue or candidate, why can I not spend the money I earned (and paid taxes on!) to promote that issue or candidate? Must I purchase a TV network or a newspaper in order to push my agenda? That's what CU addresses.

You can still promote your issue or candidate. I just want the medium of exchange to be your time and not your money. That would help even out the balance of power. Why should the people with more money be able to spread their message further than people without it?
If one event is cancelled because they saw this posting, then lives were potentially saved. If this is a good reminder for us to talk to our loved ones to cancel their events, then it almost certainly saved lives.

It's a low cost way to remind people that we definitely shouldn't be having Thanksgiving, Christmas, or other holiday gatherings.
Do you tip based on the value of your meal rather than the volume/size, anticipated inconvenience for the dasher, or some other combination of factors? Or is it always flat regardless of what you order?
One of the major drivers is app developers. You can't build an iOS app without buying a mac, and if you're buying a mac.

It's kinda abusive how you need to pay the hardware tax, the yearly $100 USD rent, and 30% percent of your sales to have the privilege of developing for their platform.
"My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there."

This article is absurd. Why would a business meeting be held in a squalid flop full of empty beer cans? What a laugh.
I prefer to use non tax advantaged savings (aka emergency fund amounts) as a more accurate metric for being able to afford luxuries. If you’re living close to paycheck to paycheck , I would say you can’t afford to pay $25 per person per meal, regardless if you earn $100k or $50k.

My overarching point being that if people can barely afford the current VC subsidized food delivery prices, what is the possible market size for non VC subsidized food delivery?

Edit: I don’t see a source for 42M Americans having incomes over $100k per year. This source says 15.5% of US households had incomes over $100k, and at 128M households, that is 20M households with incomes over $100k.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/p60/270...
According to the article, the result was 177 infections and 7 deaths. That's almost %4 death rate, way over the official US death rate.

Any idea why would that be?