skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article explains this. Think of it as an MLM scam or compound interest. The lethality rate just gives you a scalar increase on all the events that would have occurred. Lethality can go to infinity for all we care if transmission goes to zero. But even at low fatality rates, if everyone on earth gets it, that is a huge number of dead.

Think of two kinds of fires burning at different levels of a forest. The lethality could even go down, transmission rates could go up and still kill more people.
It's actually just changing the hash.
All throughout Australia lockdowns worked because they were enforced.

Large fines, arrests publicised on television and a strong police presence across the cities ensured that people weren't given the choice about to whether to comply or not. Now does it introduce questions about whether people's civil liberties were infringed ? Absolutely. But it works.
Maybe. At the same time the UK strain was initially also estimated at 70% and the later detailed studies have corrected this number down. Might be the same case with the SA one
The biggest issue with these strategies is that they're somewhat easier to execute in island nations.

I don't see how most of the EU countries can follow this strategy. Germany für example has porous borders with Denmark, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech republic, Poland. If they don't in turn all follow this strategy we'd have to militarily secure all these borders and stop anybody from going through. This would cause an enormous hit to the economies and cost a lot of money in military gear and personnel to execute.

Now for the next scenario, say the whole EU + Switzerland + UK decide to follow zero Covid. Then we still have a boatable connection to Africa and a pretty large land border with Asia to defend. Despite the never before seen political coordination this would need, this would create very harsh humanitarian situations along those borders, even worse than what we've seen in recent years.

So all in all I don't think it's that easy to use island nation strategies for mostly land locked nations.
The only value add of the "Connect with Facebook" button is identity provision.

I mean, surely there's a decent XMPP web client out there you could use with OAuth.
December 26th, in order to not get in the way of Christmas celebrations. Since our numbers dropped by half, they're looking to reopen on the 8th.
Or just use Pd or Supercollider to generate the MIDI and send it to your DAW via loopback (e.g. LoopMidi on Windows)
The three servers are federated with each other and the one of them is federated to the broader matrix.org network.

I've found that loading the larger rooms from the matrix.org network can cause a bit of lag for the few dozen or so users on my servers but once the rooms have synced up that issue goes away.

I don't administer the servers personally so I don't know exactly what the issue is but I have a feeling it's due to the limited ram that is provisioned to the VMs running the instances of synapse as there are many other VMs running on that same laptop.

If the instances of Synapse were the only things running on the laptop and they had 12gb of ram each (1/3 the total 32gb limit of the laptop) I would imagine that this issue would go away.
The Røde Wireless Go microphone (see http://www.rode.com/wireless/wirelessgo ) has been highly regarded by audio professionals that I respect.
Climate instability would unlock changes that one by one cause feedback to worsen the situation irreversibly. The bio diversity that prevents this, we actively destroy every day.
It's possible to close borders without being on an island. I (in NZ) don't think the the island factor is essential. The USA has more active military personnel than almost any other country, enough to make closing borders pretty easy compared with many other places.
Geez, I thought the whole idea is that 'government is the problem. We need to let the private sector handle all these things.'

Making the CDC look bad appears to have been part of that program last year. Shame the price has been so high.
>> Yes. If it means I can actually go to the gym and workout, meet my friends, etc.

It doesn't. No amount of hiding temporarily solves the problem. Authoritarian rules would be in effect until immunity rates are above herd thresholds at a minimum. There is no "one month" shutdown in the US or a connected EU country that solves the problem permanently unless you ban international travelers / force them to quarantine for 14 days in a hotel.
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> "Signal brings encryption and privacy to meet people where they’re at, not the other way around. People don’t have to choose a server, it can automatically recognize contacts that use Signal, it has emojis, attachments, secure voice and video calling, and (aside from the Musk incident), it all just works. It feels like, and is, a polished, modern experience with the bells and whistles people are used to."

Quicksy offer EXACTLY the same functionalities but it's federated and standardized, based on XMPP : you can discuss with people that are not using Quicksy and its services, people outside Quicksy even can link their address to their phone to make it automatically recognize as contacts using quicksy/XMPP : https://quicksy.im/#get-listed

And instead of Matrix, Quicksy IT IS THERE YET :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...
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i just seem to miss why its favorable to curtail millions (incl. children) of their lives and stomp the economy for the benefit of thousands. shouldn't we have banned alcohol, tabacco, ice-cars, firearms, gambling ... first if this was so important?
Arguably it's consumption that is the most important metric. Not everyone earns income, but everyone consumes, from a trust-fund baby to a subsidence farmer.
There doesn’t seem to be a primary source for that, just the author’s statement that that is what happened.

As such I’m skeptical...
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- Make tests free (fully subsidized)

- Shut down the highway off-ramps into towns with some sort of inter-state quarantine scheme (make this legal)

- Institute financial support for all non-essential businesses, then force them to close (cease in person trading) during lock-down

- Educate the populace on Covid details

It's not just about strong walls or deep oceans. We're not talking about a zombie apocalypse here. Stop making excuses.
>> Canada can still close her borders

This was already done and the infection rates are still sky high.
The two-party system is bad, but I do believe Labour are responsible for making themselves unelectable. The last general election they were running some of the most disliked front-benchers in politics: McDonnell, Corbyn and Abbott, as well as making it very clear they were anti-Brexit.

(I'm from the North, this is the general sentiment in my local community. More stringent lockdown policy is also incredibly unpopular here.)
Using tools and services is the easiest way to profit off the work of other people (stand on the shoulders of giants), and choosing the right tools for your use case can save you SO MUCH work.

With side projects, maybe there is a certain thing I want to get out of it - eg I want to focus on design more. With the myriad of tools out there, I can then choose something that makes development less involved, and lets me focus on design. Or vice versa - if I only care about the dev side, I can import eg tailwind or buy a web components lib and call it a day.
>> The New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list.

This effectively reads "closed."
Ok, then you should be given an option on your phone which says "do not jail break my phone".

And you should be free to keep the "don't jailbreak my phone" option on, and other people, who know the risks, should be free to switch that off.

Put a scary warning on it if you like. Problem solved.

Everyone gets what they want.
Docker is better off as a deployment tool, rather than a development environment.
I agree.

But also, having lived in both countries for more than 20 years each (including being in Melbourne now and throughout the lockdowns), I can’t imagine a country like the US ever engaging in a lockdown, or it working if they tried. It just doesn’t match their national role models of how people are supposed to act and what they’re supposed to care about.

The whole defining ideal here in Australia is “mateship”. As you’re growing up, the revered role model that you’re told you should emulate is the “good mate”; being compassionate, taking people as they are, taking care of each other. That’s what they tell each other it means to be Australian.

The equivalent mythic figure at the center of US society is the cowboy. It’s all about rugged individualism over there. And sure you take pains to protect your own family, but certainly not anybody else’s. Anything which requires one to take an ounce of inconvenience to help the society as a whole, that’s just not what Americans are generally raised to value. Those other folks ought to be taking care of their own families, after all. So you’ve got a whole society of people where the majority say “I’m not going to wear a mask if it mostly protects you.” And you’re certainly not going to convince a large enough percentage of people to obey a mandate as inconvenient as a requirement to stay inside their house for months at a time for it to be effective. They just won’t do it.

I don’t know what realistic options they have in the US. I hope they find one. It’s indisputable that lockdowns do work if followed.. but it’s also true that the US will never be able to make the majority of their population comply with one. It just doesn’t fit the country’s stories about themselves.

EDIT: In the above, I make a bunch of sweeping generalisations about huge populations of people, and I’m obviously not saying that everyone in those populations think those ways. I’m just pointing out the difference in what America says being American is about, and what Australia says being Australian is about.
that definition seems like a bit of a stretch: decentralized does not mean anything more than not being centralized.
Federation implies decentralization.
It's not clear that it is possible. The obvious point of comparison is China, which has continually had to fight off new waves of infections despite strong lockdowns and strong border restrictions. (A lockdown started just 2 weeks ago covering about as many people as the total population of Australia.)
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1. 71% of Australians live in a handful of cities each of which has very high density relative to the rest of the world.

2. Lockdowns occurred during winter.

3. Australia has effectively eliminated COVID-19 and by having so few cases it allows for targeted lockdowns to work over the long-term e.g. Perth just had 1 case today and is having a short 5-day lockdown - their first in 10 months.
IMO, any Bluetooth-based technology will be a failure for any real quality audio. There’s just way too much latency added and dropouts.

I like to look at the audio systems that professionals use in broadcast television, and then loo around in that space for creative solutions. The Røde Wireless Go microphone is one such solution (see http://www.rode.com/wireless/wirelessgo ), but that only handles the microphone side. I still have yet to find a good professional grade audio solution for headphones.
I just don’t think many messages come out at all (considering bans on inbound travel and recent crackdowns on documentary uses of social media), and especially from outside of larger cities.
>> I (in NZ) don't think the the island factor is essential.

Why are the countries consistently being cited for doing good jobs in this thread seem to be island nations? Exclude AUS and NZ from the analysis and there are very few landlocked countries doing a good job without very authoritarian measures that are unlikely to be legal in the countries doing poorly.
Indeed, Russell Coker even has a public demo machine (I don't know if it still works) where anyone can log in as root/uid 0, and still can't do much useful due to the SELinux policies on the machine:

https://www.coker.com.au/selinux/play.html
The short answer is that it does not adversely affect that large of a population. Approximately 80% of the farmers in India are not at all affected by these laws. And this is reflected in these "protests". There have been no large countrywide protests in India. All of the protests have been centred around Delhi. And most of the protesters are Sikh farmers from Punjab.

And even if the general populace had a feeling about this, it mostly turned negative after the shameful happenings on 26th January (India's Republic Day, the day the constitution of independent India was applied). These "protesters" carried out a raid similar to the US Capitol attack. And with that, any public support evaporated exactly like in the US
That's is so not what he says though. He says Matrix is not there yet, nowhere he says to give up.
Did your abuse team email the site that you removed from your home page, explaining your policies and telling them exactly why it was removed?

Did the VP offer any explanation as to why you had not received any communcation from Google?
Indeed. And then the "consumers" are free to head straight back out to enjoy society and participate in the economy again once it's safe.

It isn't a choice of Health vs Economy, it's Health for Economy
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OP here, thanks!

It is fun to learn, but it sucks to yak-shave [1] all the time.

The simplicity of the stack lets me walk away for days (or years) at a time, come back, and easily ship changes. No need to remember esoteric commands, configs, or get bitten by strange infrastructure upgrades.

I'm lazy, and I'm just looking for ways to be lazier. :-)
Because the APMC has to pay the cess and they supply India's PDS and various important things? Or would you have them do away with those too?
From a high enough level they are architecturally similar. But these x86 cores don't scale _down_ to 500-1000 logic elements per core.

This is an architectural level, not a microarchitectual level design (yet).
Obfuscating the code and deliberately adding technical debt is not "the bare minimum", but it is shipping a planned obsolete product.
>> Shut down the highway off-ramps into towns with some sort of inter-state quarantine scheme (make this legal)

"Make this legal" is a pretty hand-wavy way to say that it isn't legal and isn't likely to become legal. Restricting interstate travel is going to be very difficult to both achieve and to survive federal court challenges.

Some toolkits are not available to some countries. The United States is unlikely to be able to effectively use the authoritarian measures other countries have used.

Pointing this out gets mass downvotes on HN which is a typical libertarian paradise, but when it comes to COVID, is all about authoritarian measures to get it done. I'd be fine with them too if they were at all practical in this country, but they aren't.
thanks bythckr for your detailed answer. I got a better understanding of the very fragmented nature of politics in India; Wishing you all the best, and I really hope that eventually the Indian model of governance will be regarded as superior over the Chinese model (which, unfortunately, has been gathering a lot of fans recently) I think that in a way both India and China are leading the way for the rest of us, because your countries have to cope with a very large number of people and very complex societies.
What is Privacy Pro substitute for Android?
It's still REALLY EASY to make websites that look and feel exactly how you want, just like it was back then. Server space is dirt cheap. Anyone can register a domain, dirt cheap. HTML and CSS* still work without any JS whatsoever. And if you feel the need to use JS, it is absolutely not necessary to get sucked into the world of "modern" web development that suddenly requires 1000s of dependencies and a complex build process.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Get creative. Tell your friends.

* to be fair, CSS is possibly where the rot started to set in... some poorly thought-out design choices from 20 years ago are still haunting us. But stick to the basics and focus on the content instead, it still gets the job done.
My father spent the last few years of his career running the finance department of a college. He was a free market economist, and taught finance from that perspective.

Naturally, the rest of the academic staff were leftists. One day, they decided to invite him to a debate on the merits of free markets vs socialism. They figured they'd wipe the floor with him.

Well, they badly underestimated him. He was an experienced debater, and had an encyclopedic knowledge of history and economics. He trounced them pretty good.

But the important thing is the whole thing was very friendly and collegial, and they congratulated him on his performance. Several even thanked him for explaining things in ways they hadn't heard of before. A couple told him they weren't aware there was even a case for free markets.

A far cry from today.
For your next laptop, car, etc. try doing what you think the government ought to do here. Write down the requirements, give them to a neutral third party who doesn’t doesn’t use computers/drive, and ask them to figure out the cheapest thing that meets the requirements. Commit yourself to buying only that. See how it goes for you.
You're right that the two forms of ossification are distinct, but I'm quite certain that both were driving factors here. Rolling out new TCP options is a decade-long process, and if anything goes wrong with the initial design, once it is shipping you're basically never fixing it. Applications are much easier to update than operating systems, auto-update for the vast majority of users, and for the <1% who don't update the app can always fall back to TCP.

(E.g. the rationale for TOU, now-dead Facebook's UDP-based transport explicitly stated userspace-only deployability as requirement. They needed a solution for all their other requirements to be deployed in 2015, not with a consensus design approved in 2020 and in wide deployement in 2025.)

The middle-box driven ossification happened by making things harder. The OS upgrade driven ossification happened by reducing/delaying the payoff.
Give Docker a go on a project and you'll see its utility:

1. If you're doing this, then you're likely using docker incorrectly. Your container should be run from images that are automatically deployed. If there's an issue, fix local and deploy image.

2. I agree, that sounds dreadful. We use pyenv and poetry for local development and docker for deployments. That would address your issue. We of course do not use pyenv or poetry inside the docker image. Hopefully that helps clarify potential real world use.

3. Your should not be debugging a live deployment. Debugging local container is straight forward in VSCode.

4. This shouldn't be an issue. Prune weekly, and aim for smallest images where possible, e.g., 60MB for python microservice.

The value is in the simplicity of deployment. Need to host a well-known software? Can be up or down no time.
Don't you know Python isn't Web Scale™?
I can't find it right now, of course, but somebody -- I think it was Tom Scott -- had a decent video early on in the pandemic that said, "as a pandemic gets bigger, it gets more weird."

Coronaviruses mutate, and every single infected human becomes a petri dish for new mutations. The rest is straightforward natural selection: the most efficient covid-19 variants will win. We might get lucky; the most efficient variant might accidentally mutate away all the things that makes it deadly to humans. There might even be some selection pressure for that.

But it could also stay about as deadly while changing enough about its spike protein to defeat antibodies in previously infected individuals and get more infectious in the process, and that would be a really bad scenario.

I've been stunned for the last 12 months at the volume of the people that are totally okay with this, since we have no way of knowing right now how this might turn out over the next few years.
On the flip side, my buddy and I got hooked on bubble tea in school. A year after graduation, we rented a house along with my buddy's brother and my buddy's elementary school buddy. We were always drinking bubble tea from a kiosk in a mall within walking distance, so the brother one day decides to see what the fuss is about. He mentioned "Hey, I tried that bubble tea you guys are always drinking. It's pretty good, except for the chunks."
Maybe they will have to rename all the schools for Jesus? That would be full circle :D
>The UK variant which will be the dominant strain in the USA in a couple months is more deadly,

That's not what is in the article. It says "“there is a realistic possibility that infection with” the country’s dominant Covid-19 variant “is associated with an increased risk of death compared to infection with” other strains of the coronavirus."

What they are saying is basically "we do not know".
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Nearly everybody I've seen seems to completely dismiss the amount of closed-sourced Java that is floating around in enterprises. There is code outside of GitHub, you know.
More seriously though. I think this is a symptom of people who has nothing meaningful to do.
> Latency is the most important thing. There's a reason high refresh monitors are loved by serious gamers.
The biggest improvement with 144Hz is motion clarity, but you can cheese it with tricks like strobing or Black Frame Insertation (BFI). I keep a CRT around for this reason.

> I cannot play a game with noticeable input lag whatsoever, even if it was at 4k HDR 144hz.
People are surprisingly tolerant of different latencies.
Many Vsync implementations end up with 4-5 frames of latency, which ends up around 75ms, and consoles that run at 30FPS (or 20 FPS like some N64 classics!) can be in excess of 100ms. If the game is designed around it, people will adapt (just like people adapt to 24fps movies).

I agree though, if you want games to feel like your is physically connected, 10-20ms is what most folks in the VR industry are targeting.
Yep. Life in NZ has been almost completely normal for ~10 of the last 12 months (one hard ~6 week lockdown, one short mostly-region-specific one followed by a couple of weeks of mask-wearing).
It is actually possible because Signal is

1. Open source.
2. Has verifiable builds (just being open source isn't enough).
3. Uses end to end encryption.

You need all three of those to get what you want. Also you need to spend a ton of time building Signal from source and auditing it, which I doubt you're going to bother with but at least in theory it is possible.
We cannot indefinitely implement totalitarian lockdowns based on the fact that something "might" happen. No joke, that is how dictatorships start.
We're smoothing onboarding (e.g. choose a server) with things like easy invitations: https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/

Support for creating invitations from within the app was recently added to Conversations (sponsored by the Snikket project). I'm hoping to see more servers deploy this functionality in the coming year, and more clients implement support.

Snikket is built around the idea of invite-first for onboarding onto self-hosted servers. As the dev I may be biased, but I've onboarded many people seamlessly this way.
I think only a licensed financial advisor can give you an answer.
Three reasons:

- it gets your mind off from the problems it would work on instead of sleeping

- it is boring, so it will eventually escape the boredom by falling asleep

- the time it takes to fall asleep gets shorter and shorter as it becomes a routine