skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur it was hand-wavy. I'd hope there was some acceptable measure you could get through the courts here in the name of health.

Such a barrier is only really essential when different states have different rules. If you could get all states to agree on a lock-down it would go a long way. You might be able to set up quarantine barriers as you exit the interstate? I don't know.

Personally, I think it is terms like "libertarian paradise" which lead to down-votes. Talk about the issues, not some made up catch all names like "libertarian"
well i put it out there, but it was (apparently) very personal. I use zowie mice at 800 dpi and setting gui settings to 0.1 sensitivity (or 1 etc,c whatever is lowest) would result in several desktops worth of movement per mousepad (22 inches), really bad over all. i just wanted a single left-right corresponding with monitor edges which was never a problem across any os until recently which oddly started treating low dpi at 1000 hz really weird

i still got the patches somewhere and will post them soon. it basically let you set mouse speed scaling on a larger scale
This post was going around a while ago, I don't think anything has really changed for the better since then: https://who-t.blogspot.com/2019/10/libinputs-bus-factor-is-1...
Reddit and Robinhood gamified the stock market, and it’s going to end badly
There is a Discord for HTMX and Intercooler (another one-developer-show)

https://htmx.org/discord
It was winter in Australia when they locked down in August, and the outbreak’s epicenter was Melbourne, which is a large city.
As much as this contract will certainly be a barrel full of pork, and Deloitte can go eat a bag of hammers, I feel this take is a little naive.

A commercial service is optimised for profit, not broadest accessibility. For example Eventbrite won't spend money developing special features for very specific niche user cohorts because of diminishing returns.

Government websites can't work that way, they have to be accessible and usable by all citizens. Think of people with different learning abilities or language proficiency, the likely environments the users might be in, and their general technical abilities.

Here in the UK there are strict rules about use of clear language, well thought out user flows, how to ask for certain types of information etc that has all been backed by years of research. We have a whole government department that covers this and will audit your new service to make sure it is good enough.

Having done this as a web developer for our Government, it was a massive eye opener to have a copywriter pick through the language I used in a form flow, and point out how confusing it could be to some groups of people. Or indicate that the method by which I was asking for an address made no sense for certain remote locations, and it needed to.

A few specific things to point out on Eventbrite in particular. It seems to me that you are likely have a whole bunch of other requirements too. Off the top of my head you'd need more powerful management tools to control: simply setting up so many locations and dates, who can book when (patient cohorts, priority groups), the logistics of vaccines and vaccinators, tracking vaccine batches used for each person.
Looking at the case numbers, that looks pretty similar to the numbers here in Victoria. You're down from a peak of 3000/day on Jan 9, (as predicted, a couple weeks after your brought your lockdowns into effect) down to 1600/day.

Looks like the policy is working and you'll hit 0 if you keep it up for a few more months. Why are you stopping?
> what seems like such a simpler, happier time

I am regularly watching historic news footage (1950s and 1960s) from the archives of my local TV station. While the people are indeed friendlier than today (and much more eloquent), they don't seem happier. They don't seem less stressed. The general problems are the same. I watched a bit from 1961 about the growing problem of extreme weather events (they discussed whether the atomic bomb was responsible). Another bit from 1962 reported youth crime at an all time high and blamed alcohol, sex and movies. They showed 15 years old tricking themselves into student clubs in Heidelberg to consume alcohol and drugs. A few weeks ago, I watched a bit about the Hong Kong flu pandemic in 1969 (40.000 deaths in Germany alone) where they discussed countermeasures like quarantine and closing schools.

Also, a national TV station here shows "News from 20 years ago", where they just show the entire evening news from exactly 20 years ago. I have been watching this for years now, often while I am walking around the room. Just from the audio, it is often very hard to decide whether the news is from today or from the 90ies. The topics are often the same: politicians accusing each other of X, party Y announcing they now do X, violent conflicts in X, latest election polls, fear of war in Y.

When I watch these bits, I often think of these lines from the Joan Baez song "Hello in There" [0]:

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
All the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41y5Pd5NU0
As an aside, I found the analyst's reference to "Quemoy and Matsu, Pratas, and Kinmen Islands" strange -- after all, Quemoy and Kinmen are two names for the same place.
The people in charge certainly seem to think that our lives can be put on hold indefinitely.

For me the most annoying thing is the idea that lockdown is somehow "saving" lives. People who are dying from COVID would have died from something else 2-3 years from now. These are old, sick people, whose lives are (mostly) behind them.

If I was an 80 yo and my grand-kids were put in prison to allow me to live a couple more years, I would be even more angry than I am right now.
Decoupling the images.

To make it more realistic, let’s assume that you use an exotic pg extension. Some morning you read about a huge security issue in django. You see the patch comes with library upgrades that are incompatible with your exotic extension. So what do you do?
With two separate containers, you can patch one and leave the other one untouched. Saying that the extension shouldn’t be so brittle is true but doesn’t solve the issue because without it you wouldn’t have the job.

(For a real scenario look at the python 2 deprecated thread and arcgis)
Doing one thing once is easy.

Do it ten times. That’s harder.

Do it ten times each for ten people at once. That’s a lot harder.

Do it ten times each for ten people each across ten different cities in ten different states in ten different countries. That’s much, much harder.

It’s the “Wheat and Chessboard” problem all over again (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem ).

The fundamental problem here is one of scale.
Sounds like one should split the system into small parts, order each one as a separate contract and basically micromanage the contractor into delivering the actual thing.
Ear plugs help with noise, but they are painful for me after a while
Probably because our (NZ) governments are simpler. The entire New Zealand government is probably more similar to a state legislature than it is to the US govt.

The UK could have also succeeded but the government didn't have the will to even try early on. Now they are only willing to take half measures.

Also, we DID (NZ, AUZ) have a small advantage since we had less inbound infected for a few weeks early on due to distance. But then again, other nations (US, UK, ...) didn't even try to pursue an elimination strategy.
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> Genocides arent an internal matter anymore. Sensible world governments usually put pressure on deviant administrations elsewhere.

I am tired of seeing these prof-less posts of genocide (and Jio/Ambani) being posted in every India related thread on HN. If you claim that there is a genocide going on, then please post proofs of the genocide. If a genocide in the remotest region of China can have proofs, then surely the ones in India do too?
With docker, I can move or upgrade the host server without worrying about compatibility of my apps. Before using docker, every time I migrate to a new version of os or database (which I do every 3-4 years per host), I would often run into small problems in some old apps that must be fixed, which took time because I had to dig into the app again and re-learn the context before I can patch the small issue. After moving everything to docker, it's no longer a problem. As long as the host can run docker (be it docker compose or kubernetes) my apps would run on it.
Ah, that's one of the batch ones - I'm looking load (ideally several) VSTs and send them MIDI events in real time, so I'm writing code to play virtual MIDI keyboards.

A workflow that looks a lot like Overtone (which is a Clojure library for connecting to SuperCollider over a REPL), or Sonic Pi (same idea and creator but with Ruby).

I realize in hindsight it wasn't terribly clear what I was asking for, in part because I'm not really familiar with the options available in the space and the correct terminology (as you pointed out).
You do know that EU countries implemented border controls last year blocking off Schengen travel ?

They could've easily continued that and added mandatory hotel quarantine.

Just like now with Macron they instead prefer to choose populism instead of tough, early, decisive action.
If I were to pull an explanation out of my behind:
I’d say this is a complicated enough exercise to keep you focused on it and not drift to other topics, yet so utterly boring as to not keep you awake in anticipation of what happens next.

Then perhaps after using this technique for a few days your brain might start to recognize these neuron patterns as the shutdown sequence.
Does it make sense to buy some shares on Monday? The plan is to hold way longer right?
I don't think it is comparable. In my opinion it would be comparable to if e-mail required you to be on the same server as your friends or you couldn't e-mail them OR to have compatible servers that could communicate across different protocols, which is a run to the bottom just as in e-mail where adding new security and removing legacy is near impossible.
Amen. Despite being 25 years old the average JS stack is janky as hell. I regularly do all kinds of nonsense to get JS to work properly.

With Java the code, dependency management, and build tools just work. It's very pleasant to maintain.

Maintaining a JS project over more than a few years is a nightmare. Forced rewrites as libraries, build tools, linters, frameworks, and the language itself are constantly being reinvented. It's a huge pointless drain on resources.

And JS is awful cross-platform. You have to check and polyfill every feature if you want to work outside latest Chrome and Firefox. And transpile the code down to ES5.

With Java it runs exactly the same on every platform. We develop on Macs and run on Linux and it doesn't even matter.
85% of American millionaires are self-made (didn't inherit it).

See the book "The Millionaire Next Door".
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The fact that you do not seem to believe that ads may be able to affect your behavior beyond your analytical research is the thing that is contradictory with you not trusting yourself. Or at least that is something I can't trust myself, even if I also happen to think I am beyond ads. But based on my observations in the society and other people, ads are way, way too powerful for me to trust my non-lizard brain here. So I just try to not give my lizard brain the ad exposure at all.
>> I'd hope there was some acceptable measure you could get through the courts here in the name of health.

Interstate commerce clause is going to be nearly impossible to subvert in courts, much less state autonomy, and non-cooperating governors (primarily Republican, I'm sure, but Gov. Polis likely wouldn't go for it either).

>> Talk about the issues, not some made up catch all names like "libertarian"

My comment was downvoted -3 before I even mentioned the word "libertarian." COVID has a way of bringing out the authoritarians in HN.

I am not either. I see the value in authoritarian measures, I really do. I also realize they won't work in the US because of both compliance and lack of legal purchase.
Have a look at Vietnam then, they have handled this really well. Or for ans even better comparison to the US, China. There’s a lot to criticise about the CCP including their initial response and transparency, but it seems pretty clear they are now on top of it using similar tactics.
> It has been adopted by the French civil service, several German states, and the German armed forces. In a previous post I saw someone saying that American Airlines was looking at adopting Matrix for their employees.

Do you really think "but enterprise organizations don't mind running it" is a great argument? By that measure, JIRA is also perfect software :D

I know plenty of places running their own Matrix servers, and while it's certainly not unusable (proven by the fact that they keep running it), it's a common refrain among their admins that Synapse is one of the more annoying pieces of software they run in their infrastructure. That's not "bikeshedding", but operational experience, which has an impact on if it's recommended or not. See also the ... varying ... quality of matrix's bridges to other ecosystems, even the ones that are provided officially by the Matrix project. So yes, there are actual issues with Synapse performance - "rewrite it in Rust!!111" is of course not necessarily the correct response :D
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New Zealand had it very easy with its geography. Same for other relatively small islands. Place like EU with its own national, often competing goals can't be effectively 100% locked out. That's what happens when you have a federation with strong independent parts.

Not that I disagree with your points, they should be the baseline for any serious covid response. Lockdown measures have so far always been watered down by politicians due to pressures from business. Business is this time acting staggeringly idiotically, prolonging the situation due to fear of complete shutdown. At the end, they get hurt much more.

Some local info - Swiss are faring quite well, while not having that many things closed, ie ski resorts work (since its outdoor activity). Not restricting traveling within country. France on the other hand is going again mental (liberté has long abandoned the place of revolution, but that's happen when you go extreme left in real world). Closing many basic things, but ie annual sales in shopping centres were going very strong till today.

I mean how fucking stupid you can be, close outdoor business giving salaries to significant part of population, and on the other side allowing large indoor gatherings of people so they can buy cheap clothes and stores can clean their stock. Even now they only close those > 20,000m2 surface.

Outdoor activities also keep many people sane and in good health, which at this point is becoming significant negative side effect of this whole situation. Most people I know, including myself, the fitness level declined in last year. That is tightly coupled with mental health. At least spring will fix things up a bit (looking forward to run in the park again, more sun, less rain).
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Do you think you're different than someone who would rather vote for the extreme right than vote for the moderate left?
If you're, say, playing a competitive FPS with a team (e.g. Counter Strike), you will obsess about game mechanics and latency and input lag, because after 10 hours proficiency you'll be able to notice if you're getting packet loss, if your spouse is using all the bandwidth and your crappy router with bufferbloat adds additional latency.
This might be a bit low-level, but the Wikipedia page [1] has a pretty good blow-by-blow description of events.

I recommend looking at the Victoria section of that page, as Victoria had by far the largest outbreak to cope with.

For a more high-level overview, I like the BBC’s article, which talks about their opinions on the most important steps taken by the government, as well as the most critical mistakes. Note that it dates to October of last year and so doesn’t include mention of the three cases which induced a brief tightening of lockdown for a few weeks after the article was published.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Australia

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54654646
Any population of Chinese speakers in the west is going to know someone there on Wechat. I've talked to friends there as well, there's no major problem now. By contrast when things were bad in Wuhan people were reporting it.

On top of that there's plenty of foreign reporters there, and plenty of foreign diplomats who would also notice.
These big contracting companies ganged up in the UK and persuaded the government to change the law so that small independent contractors are no longer competitive (for example they essentially cannot deduct any business costs and have to draw entire contract revenue as salary, that means no funding of other business avenues) and at the current rates such contractors have to pay over 50% in tax, whereas companies like Deloitte not only don't have such costs, they can also hire such contractors as employees without rights. It's a scandal that is going to blow up later this year when the law goes live in April. Similar measures were already introduced in public sector, which caused mass exodus of small firms.
Looks like I've been vote- or flag-banned or both, not much sense in sticking around.
Apparently the Atlantic's editors don't want to piss off the "cancel culture doesn't exist" crowd: the article's title has been changed to "Academics Are Worried About Their Freedom", although they forgot to update the <title> tag.

Sad.
More importantly is if they are necessary to model a brain. Because then we are effectively created by them. And any psychadelic experience will therefore be inherently numerical :-)
I’ve never been able to use rq with redis without problems. For one: restarting the app requires wiping the related redis data because rq will refuse to launch because there’s still entries for the workers, which it apparently doesn’t clean up correctly.
Yeah the street drug often contains amphetamines or other stimulants. MDMA might be one ingredient, but often isn't.
Nothing. TFA just says that if you want to say that, and you use the (fully appropriate) word "consequentialism", there's a high probability it'll derail the conversation into debate about philosophy.
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Last spring, we were flattening the curve. Last summer, we were waiting for a vaccine. Last fall, we were solving the logistical challenges for production. Now I'm starting to see headlines that "just because there's a vaccine, doesn't mean it's over"?

I'm 25. I've spent the last year in a small apartment alone with my dog. If the problem is that we didn't lock down well enough the first time, why should I believe a better job will be done this time?

If the CDC says it, I'll do it. But I'm tired of reading "science writers" constantly shitting on the situation. Really makes me wonder why I bothered in the first place.

I thought "American science has given us a Lamborghini when what the world needs is a Toyota" was a particular gem in this piece. I could swear six months to a year ago I was reading people like this guy saying we shouldn't expect a vaccine to be discovered soon, if ever.
If the game is unpleasant to play because of input lag and the player cannot react to what is happening on screen because their response arrives half a second ir more too late, they'll have trouble appreciating all the other stuff.
I'm not sure which part of Asia you're in. Respected, perhaps. Not nearly on the same level as a doctor /lawyer /engineer, social status wise, but not horrible. Revered? I don't think I've seen this where I am.

Do note that I'm fitting this to pre university, though the constraints are relaxed a bit once you bring in the higher statused tenured profs.
There would be nowhere enough troops to patrol the streets in Canada. They could supply extra reinforcement to ports/borders.

A closure order + heavy fines/penalties + economic support would work, along with clear messaging around goals and exit criteria.
This is it. Even if the feature set fits perfectly, a private organisation will optimise for profit or growth, not broadest usage.

The user that needs help finding a button isn't worth the development cost. Gov services cannot operate that way.
I love articles like these, taking a deep dive into achieving the absolute best on neglected metrics like IO. I am trying to get very high resolution (~ 2 * 10^6 samples/s) voltage and current measurements of a sensor for a control system. Has anyone tried that? Should it be done through PCIe?
Are you saying this isn't an example of "government is the problem?"
Vietnam banned international inbound travel without a 14-day quarantine and extinguished local transmission via test and trace. These are both very good ideas and both impractical for the United States.

The former is a logistical nightmare in a collection of states that basically is not possible to carry out due to our incompetent government and the scale of international travel in the US being several orders of magnitude higher than Vietnam's per capita (and gross rates of course) and the latter won't work (and hasn't worked when we tried it) because our population is inherently distrustful of our government(s) and generally have the right to be that way.

Again, not all tools smaller countries have are available to larger ones, and vice versa (America/EU/etc have better access to vaccines as a plus, for example).
There's nothing better after a 14 hour flight to Incheon than to finish going past security, up the escalator, and immediately into the Gong Cha on the left. Well, going outside into Seoul instead of just transiting there would probably be better.

I like how the author used bubble tea as a backdrop to bring up a bunch of different topics. I find representation to be interesting (well, when they mentioned Crazy Rich Asians), because while I do care about having a proportionate amount of people from central and south america* in decision making roles, I've never cared about it in Hollywood. Maybe this means that it's already been achieved here.

<tangent>Maybe equal representation in Hollywood can be spun as a conspiracy to create complacency, because it distracts people from how most genetic studies that use public dollars disproportionately use white participants which does not proportionately benefit the participants of the countries that are funding it. </tangent>

On the other hand, when I was studying abroad in East Asia I loved seeing a foreigner having a speaking role in a movie. Had I previously been decensitized to representation? Was I taking representation for granted?

*and from other backgrounds of course
In case anyone is wondering if this signals a shift away from Go in container infrastructure, I don't think so. Docker, Kubernetes, Buildah and Podman are mostly Go code and I don't think there's much intent to change that.

I suspect the conclusion (that Go is not ideal for this kind of low level component) is accurate. OTOH, I wish it could be a memory-safe language instead of C. I can only assume there is some decent reason why Rust isn't used here, though personally I wouldn't know.
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