skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok this is interesting. Any discussion of Sweden on here and certain other sites seemed to get a bit politicised - I think because its become a Dem/Rep battle topic in the USA.

But up to a few weeks ago, it seemed that Sweden's policy of not introducing any measures that weren't long-term sustainable had worked kindof ok. It certainly hadn't been a complete disaster. People will point out that Sweden did worse than its immediate neighbours who locked down more. But Sweden also did better than places like the UK and USA who locked down more. There are probably many factors to that (e.g. Sweden has a high proportion of people who live on their own etc).

But the Sweden data (until a few weeks ago) did point to the idea that some sort of herd immunity might be achievable, perhaps due to latent T-cell immunity from other coronaviruses. Not conclusively, but it was an interesting data point to discuss if anyone was able to keep an open mind about it.

(Side note : and here's the important point for people involved in the Dem/Rep battle over Sweden - if Sweden was having success with their covid policy, that success could only have been understood in the context of Sweden’s highly developed welfare state and social system: universal healthcare, paid sick leave, paid leave to care for sick kids, subsidized daycare & pre/after-school care. The USA barely has any of those things.)

Anyway if you read the linked article, there's a graph halfway down showing a massive second wave in Sweden, much bigger than the first, and so now they are having to lock down more.

But hopefully its all moot now anyway becasue we have multiple vaccine candidates on the way.

edit: yes of course vaccine distribution is going to take some time
> You don't need to trust him personally.

You do, though. You need to trust that he's not omitting critical information, either via ignorance or deliberate malice.

Information like this:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/tech_notes.htm

> It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods.
>Had we gotten it over and done with your freedom would have been materially improved over the subsequent months would it not?

No, because we don't even need the lockdown in the first place. I'm not saying nothing should be done to about this virus, but if the answer of 'doing something about it' is lockdown then I can't support because the harm is just immense (compared to the risk of this virus).

Yes, I am upset at the government reaction to this virus.
> Is there proof getting covid grants lifetime immunity?

No, and there never will be since medicine is not mathematics. But nor is there any reason to believe our immune systems can't deal with this virus like they deal with any other virus.

> Are you ok with 250k deaths a year from covid every year going forward?

250k/7.8 billions = 0.003%. Yes, I'm fine with that.

> Why risk the lives of tens of thousands of people when we can just all wear a mask and get vaccinated?

That's a hypothetical question considering we don't have a vaccine yet and masks are hardly the only restrictions.
It decouples the thorny part of yt-dl from the mainline and reduces risk of complaints in the future.

I do care if this part gets deleted, that's why I think it should be hosted somewhere more reliable than GitHub. There are other options which aren't as polished, but may be better for hosting risky code like this, including self hosting.

This code needs to be underground.
The first few tens of millions of people vaccinated will be people who are at high risk and would be turbo-fucked if they got Covid-19. That changes the risk calculus a lot.
"if [conditions], cautious people will be accommodated systemically."

Yes, assumed.
Near as I can tell people have been told to be angry at "big tech" often enough by vested interests that they believe it. Now "big tech" is a bogeyman and every action interpretted as a crime agaist humanity for not meeting their lofty standards which they apply only to foes.

That and a whole bunch of other stupid memes like "If it is something I cannot understand it must be bad!" and tribal provincialism.
Witcher 3 told me what to do: buy flowers for the receptionist and then have a fist fight with the bank’s proprietor.
>If not, how do we know that they're generally safe after only a few months of testing?

Afair mRNA and DNA based vaccines are being studied since about 1999 without ever finding side effects that stem from the method itself.

The way it works is actually safer than "traditional" vaccination via dead pathogens, mostly because only a tiny and harmless part of the actual pathogen is used.

The testing is done mainly to make sure that it actually works and the "harmless" bit is actually harmless...

So while a Phase 3 trial is still sensible to make sure that all assumptuions hold, I would argue that the expected side effects of these kind of vaccines are close to zero.

And honestly, even traditional vaccines have very little side effects... Neutering pathogens so that they stay neutered is a pretty well understood technique, and these new techniques basically do that on a genetic level by removing the neutered parts altogether.
You have poor reading comprehension if you think thats what I said.
No. It's old but it's a decent Win 7 machine, that's why I still use it. My Linux boxes are even more up to date.
There are certain problems that, if you solve, you earn a PhD as a byproduct.
Yes, I'm not disagreeing with you. Non-repudiability should be an explicit design point in protocols that need it.
> the part of my mind that thinks it is going to starve to death.

That's not your mind, it's your expanded stomach, and the extra space sends a signal that you're not full. If you allow your stomach to contract, you will feel full from less food. Some people accomplish this by mechanically shrinking their stomach (gastric bypass surgery) but it is a natural process.

Basically, eat enough food to provide the energy you need. Nothing more. It's far less than you think, especially with fat reserves. Your stomach will adjust.

Competitive eaters do the opposite: They deliberately expand their stomachs to fit more (of course), and so that they don't feel full when competing.

Downvoter person, read more about stomach elasticity if you don't believe me.
Google uses them for scheduling workloads based on electrical carbon intensity [1] [2]. Can you source a citation demonstrating "Nobody who is involved with the energy sector thinks ElectricityMap has any credibility."? If not, please don't libel them in public with unsubstantiated claims.

People shilling for nuclear is an entirely distinct issue, regardless of the data sources they're using to make their claims.

[1] https://www.tmrow.com/blog/announcing-our-partnership-with-g...

[2] https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-center...
Thanks for this.

I am always confused how an investor should approach investing in the biotech space without any medical knowledge. Any thoughts you can share?
My surname has two common spellings, and I've learned that it's easier to just accept the misspellings, as I have valid govt id with both spellings on it (my drivers license says one, my passport says the other). I've tried to fix it repeatedly but never managed to...
This is nonsense, computing power has nothing to do with it switching out phone numbers.
Fun ideas without any possibility of a viable business model is what I am struggling with too. Ideas take away a lot of your time when you are chasing them and only once the prototyping is done or sometimes when the initial product is out you realise that there is no chance of making any money.
Cryptographers don't have some sort of monopoly on what is right or what makes sense. Deniability is actually a good example of this. The idea of deniability as some sort of desirable feature in messaging came out of nowhere. It wasn't anything that anyone asked for or worried about before the OTR proposal suggested it. It is a cool idea but it has little practical value. That is particularly true when it depends on falsely claiming some sort of forgery when you know you actually said something embarrassing.
> This proof showed that “1 + 1”, does indeed equal “2”. It took 2 volumes to get here.

I know this seems logical to mathematicians, but it feels to me like having to take 2 volumes to prove something than any child knows intuitively is... I don't know what word I am looking for... obsessive?
Some people can't get vaccinated due to health reasons or they don't mount a proper immune response. They need you to do your part to establish herd immunity.
>I'll be at home in bed, infecting nobody.

If that were possible, the flu would be eradicated already. You only develop symptoms for most transmissible respiratory infections after you've already been contagious for a day or so.
There is no free lunch. That goes double for proof of work algorithms.
During covid time local clinic did drive through flu vaccination. It's as distanced as you can realistically expect. And with prebooking you're not overwhelmed.
$20 per dose is one hour of work at the median hourly wage. That is several order of magnitude cheaper than the cost so far.
A curated list of open source healthcare software, tools and resources
> Figma doesn’t even support working offline.

This must have changed from the last time you looked into it. It's not fully-featured when offline, but "If you continue working [offline], Figma will store any changes you make in your browser, and sync then when you're back online."

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040328553-Can-I-...
Not paradoxical, but it does suggest that the future is as taped as that football match.
> politically weaponized

If a political leader's response to a quarter million deaths is denial, that's not weaponization, that's democracy working.
Do you mean the Thacher's listing? If so that one's about an 18m equivalent. It's in really nice shape with the original box. I've got the same one, but not as pretty as that one is.
They don’t happen on every other update, or even every tenth update. You’re hearing from a small self-selected population of users who had undiagnosed hardware issues, dodgy power, hacked up system config, etc. and generalizing it to the vast majority of users who clicked install and resumed working 20 minutes later.
4.) Give up and move on <-------- There's your problem
That's assuming I get infected. The positivity rate around here is under 5%, so factor that in.
Nothing is going to guarantee free elections, certainly not any technology. Democracy is a human, social phenomenon. While it does pose technical challenges, it stands or falls with how humans behave, not how well the technology performs.
That is true, the founder did have an alpha version working by the time they did the Show HN, but still, if he had made the video without having anything technically made (but just by visual effects), would it still have been less effective? I doubt it, people know what they want and don't want when watching the video, and it would have been clear to the founder that people wanted it and he could've started building it after people expressed their demand. So in the end, even if he hadn't made the full product, Dropbox would still be where it is today.
Well this vaccine isn't approved yet, and there are still more testing phases left to go. So they "might be" wrong is more appropriate than "were" wrong.

I also have a lot of safety concerns about something developed this quickly.
Currently what I do is I look resturants up on Yelp, due to my food allergy mentioned above, then I go to google for the phone number. Problem is, Yelp delists companies that do not pay them.
Cf. Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas:

> In March of 1977, I met the great AI pioneer Marvin Minsky for the first time. It was an unforgettable experience. One of the most memorable remarks he made to me was this one: "Gödel should just have thought up Lisp; it would have made the proof of his theorem much easier." I knew exactly what Minsky meant by that, I could see a grain of truth in it, and moreover I knew it had been made with tongue semi in cheek. Still, something about this remark drove me crazy. It made me itch to say a million things at once, and thus left me practically speechless. Finally today, after my seven-year itch, I will say some of the things I would have loved to say then.

> [4 pages of detailed discussion of relationship between Gödel's methods and Lisp elided]

> It was for all these reasons that Minsky's pseudo-joke struck my intellectual funnybone. One answer I wanted to make was: "I disagree: Gödel shouldn't have and couldn't have invented Lisp, because his work was a necessary precursor to the invention of Lisp, and anyway, he was out to destroy PM, not Lisp." Another answer was: "Your innuendo is wrong, because any type of reference has to be grounded in a code, and Gödel's way of doing it involved no more coding machinery grounding its referential capacity than any other efficient way would have." The final answer I badly wanted to blurt out was: "No, no, no—Gödel did invent Lisp!" You see why I was tongue-tied?
that is effectively a possibility, forcing player to choose between 'non obvious' choice, will probably try :)
Spookrijder translates literally into ghostrider, which is a lot nicer than wrong-way driver.

The joke here goes that on the radio there is an all-bands emergency announcement about a ghostrider on A2, the main artery of the country, between Amsterdam and Utrecht.

In one of the vehicles on that road someone mutters 'A ghostrider? Bloody idiots, there's thousands of them!'.
I used that phrase a bit-in jest.

That being said, Windows updates have a bunch of minor issues, but rarely result in these machine breaking issues that OSX has.
This is an editorial by the Executive Editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal.
> But then those questions are for undergrads.

The blog post title is misleading - these are some of the toughest questions/challenges currently known, they're not geared towards undergrads.
You can imagine "1 + 1 = 2" not as an important question in this context, but rather a proof of concept for the system they devised. It's a bit like the story about a "black triangle" [0]: a rather useless model passed through a rendering pipeline to produce a result any OpenGL novice can scramble in a couple dozen lines, but showing that the whole pipeline does, indeed, actually work as intended.

[0] https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
This is also true for your computer hardware, the software you run, the medicines you take, the food you eat, the water you drink...

I guess my point is that that human trust is so pervasive and fundamental that there are diminishing returns to eliminating it.

What will always remain in style I think is accountability. So trust, but have supply chain integrity such that you know who it is that you're trusting and who is responsible when things go wrong.
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> (this might be a cold storage faultily and manufacturing elsewhere - I'm not sure)

COLD is the stock symbol and company that own temperature control storage facilities. They're international too and a REIT.

Do note I own this stock.
So the website the tweet used as it's source aggregates info directly from the relevant state governments, speeding up reporting compared to going through NCHS. How much, I'm not sure.

This is the website they cite as their source for South Dakota: https://doh.sd.gov/news/Coronavirus.aspx I don't seem to be able to access it - not sure if that's geoblocking (I'm in Canada) or it's down at the moment.
Damn fine write up. Favorited this one, good job!
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/swedens-covid-...

> However, email exchanges obtained by Swedish journalists under freedom of information laws show Tegnell discussing herd immunity as an objective in mid-March, days after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic.
Biden Campaign Director Arrested for Electoral Fraud
Thanks for great write-up, fun to read! I only notices one tiny typo: "when apples are a fruit, then bananas or applies implies bananas or fruits" - "applies" should be "apples" I guess.
Thanks! Just switched to this for a project I'm working on.
Update on Copyrighting the Law
"The public still retains the expectations of the mechanical honesty era, and is an easy mark."

Is this statement suggesting that the "work" of the businesses exploiting these unrealistic expectations is "easy".

When a country's most successful companies are "middlemen" built upon a foundation of easily exploiting misplaced trust (misplaced belief in mechanical honesty) and governments actively seek to encourage more such "entrepreneurship", what does that mean for the future.
Top500 Supercomputer Results In: Japan's Fugaku, GPU Computing Reign
I think there needs to be a much greater expectation that the answer to "did you read?" is "no" when the article is actually a video. I very rarely will click on a video link and I think it should be incumbent upon people posting them to provide a tl;dr.
An alternative approach to the who is going to buy the damn thing problem is to focus on the marketing to engineering ratio. If you build it customers will only come and buy if they know what it is and how it might work for them.
>it makes us all more vulnerable to extortion and blackmail

This is true with the added proviso that, by "us", he means "the guilty". The rest are protected, on the contrary, to this very particular form of these crimes.
On a clean install you’ll get one notification. If you ignore that, you won’t see anything outside of the software update panel and automatic updates for everything else will continue to be installed.
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Ask HN: For engineers working with support reps, what tools have built for them?
I'm doing market research on building lightweight customer support tools. I've seen a few companies teach their CS team how to use Postman, and I'm thinking of building a simple form (like Typeform) to call APIs. Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!
Which results in way more deaths.
You think what is technically legal is irrelevant, and that I should stop using the word ‘lockdown’.

I think what is technically legal is quite relevant.

Making things illegal is not the only tool for getting people to adopt behaviors. Often it is counterproductive.

A key point about Sweden is it appears they had a lot of people behaving responsibly despite not using the force of law.

Contrast that with the UK which had strongly enforced legal lockdowns, but notably poor results.

If you don’t think we should consider whether the mechanisms we are using to get people to behave responsibly are effective, then you don’t have to participate in such considerations.
> DDD likes to model things in terms of interacting entities, (...)

Not quite, DDD is based on the idea that the domain model is the one driving the design of an application. The domain model is just a data structure that reflects functional requirements, and the application is just a bunch of code that directly or indirectly operates over that data structure.

> DDD likes to model things in terms of interacting entities, but I think a more functional, ETL-ish approach is closer to what our information systems are doing.

DDD is the embodiment of the ETL-ish approach. You get all those and values from services, operate over then, send the transformed data to services, rinse and repeat.
If you simply accept those who hammer wedges, they can be more successful at it. It's called the Paradox of Tolerance:

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

It's far from clear how to unravel the paradox, but it's certainly not as simple as "let's just all coexist in peace". It's asymmetric: it only takes one person to break the peace.
Hey folks, the previous post [Can the Law by Copyrighted?](https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/can-the-law-be-copyrighted...) a year and half ago seemed popular, so wanted to posted about the decision in that case that asserted:

> "A private party cannot exercise its copyrights to restrict the public’s access to the law."

Disclaimer and AMA: I'm one of the UpCodes cofounders.
I've been on here for 10 years. When did hacker news loose all resemblance to hacker culture? And i'm not a truther (thanks for making me use a word like that btw), maybe a rationalist is a better word. Let's all wake up an be afraid of asteroids too.
Doubly lucky because if not for that continent he likely wouldn't have made it all the way, a trip about four times further!
The change is TSMC, and they specifically cited the existing size of the semiconductor industry in Phoenix as a reason.
The Evidence
The restaurants we typically order from (all 3-5 of them), the first hit on google is an organic search result for that restaurant. No ads even. In some cases, it's the first two organic results (a main website, and then a direct link to their menu on that same website, which for some reason shows up as two different organic search results - I don't even mean sitelinks or the new indented stuff, I mean full on bona fide second organic search result for the same domain).

The only one that I usually order from for which this isn't the case doesn't actually have their own website.

So in some cases this is working.

What doesn't work for me is searching for the type of food - that's all aggregator sites.
>The solution to the Andromeda Paradox that I am proposing is to say that there is one universal ordering of events

Proposing this is fine, but proving it is quite a matter altogether - you have to replace special relativity. Special relativity pretty much explicitly states this isn't the case, making an exception for events that are causally connected, but there's been a slew of experiments over the past several decades that call into question even that exception at long distances, and more recently, even ones for local observers, e.g. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw9832

Personally, I'm in the Rovelli and loop quantum gravity camp - time probably isn't actually a real thing on its own, and what we perceive as time is just an emergent property of thermodynamics.
This is really exciting to me for a lot of reasons. So much of the web runs WordPress and giving another modern tool on top of it makes it feel like WordPress won't become an artifact of a bygone era—especially as more and more companies adopt headless WP.