skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He notes that a more infectious virus is more dangerous than a more lethal one, “because every new case will infect more people, and each of them will infect more people, such that the number of cases will grow exponentially.”"

Oh my god, that sounds horrible - except, that's how EVERY infectious disease works. We have been living with that kind of diseases forever.

Also, no, they don't grow exponentially. The population saturates.
and even with large swaths having resistances and a new flu vaccine each year? thousands still died "normally" every flu seasons.

Which is my point... it was normal. Colds, flu, etc.

COVID? not going anywhere... its out and mutating... we'll eventually get used to it.
Right now? Houses sure, but I tried to get them in my last apartment, and the answer was “no” even though I owned my own flat. (Owning a flat != owning the building the flat is in).

But this is about what I expect soon-ish, and “soon-ish” both continues the cost decline of PV (including thin flexible panels that would make them suitable for more than just the Cybertruck), and also makes it likely that every roof suitable for PV will already have it (because exponential growth).
Why single out Sweden? UK, who have/had more stringent lockdown rules than Sweden, are facing 1,540 deaths per million. Sweden is at 1,120 and roughly equal to France, Switzerland. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
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The New Zealand borders are open and accepting citizen and essential arrivals into quarantine with a long waiting list.
So what's wrong with saying that you should consider the consequences of your actions? That's elementary morality IMO
There was some hubbub in Sweden a while back about the armed forces putting up a _really_ specific job ad, like it was tailored to one person.

Well, it turned out it was, because the person posting the add forgot to take out the phrase “Make sure Björn meets these requirements” in the middle of the ad.
I'd very much support this. Somehow America thought this was fine for decades when somebody might be smoking a joint, but now it's fascism when it actually has a material purpose. Pretend like the people with covid actually have drugs and 10 days in jail sounds absurdly progressive when viewed in terms of very recent history. Covid is a gateway drug to full respiratory failure, and it takes very little peer pressure to spread it.

edit: also, I thought our pretense for harassing prostitutes was to stop the spread of disease. If we don't actually care about disease we should stop harassing them so they can have have a few years of freedom from interference before a strain of covid mutates into the death rate of MERS and civilization falls because we can't live like the awful Chinese.
The NZ border is unlikely to be open to non-citizens this year. We'll wait until we've vaccinated ~everyone, and since we have no community transmission, we're sitting back in the queue a bit.
You can host VST plugins in Pd and Supercollider with the following extension: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin. Possibilities are almost unlimited.
> Morally, raising mink for fur is equal to eating meat or consuming dairy products.

Meat and dairy products feed humans, which is a necessity (that, in our day and age, may or may not be achieved by other means while still maintaining a healthy diet), while fur is a luxury product - by no means necessary. It isn't even a byproduct, the fur is the sole reasons the minks are killed.

I can't even fathom how you can see these two things in the same light, morally.
That really hit close to home, thanks.
These laws will eventually reduce the hold of middlemen a lot. Most of the law is sane and progressive, but middlemen are fomenting unrest as the farmer can sell his produce in the open market with these new laws.
It's not that difficult for most European countries.

People are going to be crossing borders at relatively few and well understood locations.

And they could've simply imposed large fines for anyone who tried to sneak through.
You are exactly right. The Dutch response has been and still is a shitshow.

We are up for election mid-March, the ruling party and PM will be re-elected.

The populace will not 'take chances' during crises.
This is a great question that I often ask myself (I've also been railing against it for years), but its in my blood.

A Labour voter, I could vote against the left, but (unless it was to keep extremist left or right wing parties out) I don't think I could ever vote for the Tories.
Here on the ground in Portugal I'd say the government's response is apparently competent but it's just not effective. Although the country is simply following what others are doing, the population is taking this very seriously. Mask wearing outside is pretty universal except if you're exercising, everybody is working from home where possible and the schools are closed (finally). But it's not enough. The problem is that family ties are very strong here. Relaxing the rules for 36 hours at Christmas and 24 hours at New Year was absolutely the wrong thing to do and that is why the death toll has doubled in the five weeks since then.
I guess I'm so far to the left that I have a hard time believing in "cancel culture" as anything meaningful.

Take the example of Steven Pinker, given in article.

Those students explicitly said that they were not trying to cancel Pinker, and the goal was not to expel him from the association, but only to have the association withdraw special privileges that Picker was granted.

How is that "cancel"?

Now compare it to the calls to get Cheney out of office in WY. How is that not cancel culture? Or when Milo Yiannopoulos was de-platformed from the Republican convention - again, why isn't that called "cancel culture"?

My conclusion is that "cancel culture" is a made-up term used to minimize the negative influence of criticism from the left, even when valid.

As for "in denial", I am reminded of Phil Ochs' commentary in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me,_I%27m_a_Liberal :

> In every American community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

and of MLK's grave disappointment with white moderates.
do you also use encryption with "regular folks" and verify each others devices?
Nobody grows wheat on nullah irrigated land in his sane mind. That is reserved for much more expensive crops.
Something must be said: It is too late.

The New Zealand or Taiwan model works because you don't let the virus enter in the first place.

Also New Zealand and Australia are in Summer right now. Just 30 seconds of Australia sun radiation now will kill(inactivate) any virus on any surface. Temperature will dry the membrane of any COVID virus that remains on the shadow. People immune system is much stronger in Summer, and people go out, do not live that close together as in Winter.

Once you let it enter like the UK, Spain, Italy or US did, it is too late.

It took three months for the Spain going "from 1 to 0", and it was the biggest catastrophe for the economy and democracy itself in decades, because it takes time for the spread to halve. And it did not get a real 0 after all the pain. Spanish' Spring and Summer had probably the biggest effect after all.

It is not that catastrophic by the way. Once people get infected, they do not get infected away, and just protecting people over 65 years old with vaccine will stop most deads.

In fact just going for people over 80 years old have a significant effect on deads.

In the US, 15% of the population is over 65 years old and 9% already got the first dose. Next month most of them will be immune.
No that is not obvious at all. It doesn't depend on the transmission rate, just on how many people get infected. Higher transmission rate just means it spreads faster, not that it infects more people in the end.
I'm pretty sure OP is implying that lockdowns which are properly enforced do work, obviously. A lockdown is anything but if people can just move about and ignore the rules defeating the whole purpose of a lockdown.
Montreal is following the same rules, down to the silly curfew, but, we're at 600 cases a day still and rising. Obviously people aren't following it, but... It doesn't seem to be enough.
The libraries cover a similar ground, but there are some fundamental differences. With Turbo, by default all your links/forms will use XHR to fetch new pages which do a full body swap (unless you want to use frames/streams or opt out entirely), whereas with htmx you have to be specific which links/forms and targets you want - there is an hx-boost attribute that does something similar but it lacks a corresponding data-turbo-permanent attribute (at least in the current production version) when you want to exempt certain elements. Both are valid approaches but it depends on what suits your requirements better.
Yeah I don't think lockdowns have worked universally. Even stringent ones like those in India where cases picked up quickly after they opened up.

What seems to have worked in Wuhan was, in addition to lockdowns, rigorous contact tracing and isolation of symptomatic patients and their close contacts in centralized quarantine facilities.

Once all of this is done, I hope we learn more about how China actually contained this. But the answer is likely authoritarian measures that no democracy can legally or politically afford.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-f...

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

https://fullfact.org/health/evidence-shows-masks-do-offer-pr...

Please stop perpetuating this myth that masks don't work all because you just don't like wearing one.
Those Mink were already dead at birth, whether they die today en masse or tomorrow one at at a time makes no difference. The ethical choice is to not conceive them in the first place.
I don't know about mobile. Perhaps it's possible to do the following on mobile, I usually use my laptop.

Safari browser.

Clear history.

Develop / Empty caches.

Preferences / Security / uncheck Enable JavaScript

I get the full article.

I don't know if all that is truly necessary. I instead generally browse in Firefox with NoScript and with preference "Clear history when Firefox closes".

That also results in the full article.

Most of these sites rely on either JavaScript and/or cookies. Both of which are trivially bypassed with a few seconds of effort. That also includes sites like NY Times and Bloomberg, which are also linked on HN frequently.

Hard firewalls like WSJ and FT are more difficult to get around. But almost invariably someone will post a link to archive.(some-random-tld).
Ask HN: Is it safe to invest more in dogecoin?
had to ask this out before doing it
> if we keep inventing excuses

The article brings valid points that are not invented.
While it's true they have a reason to misrepresent, I think it would be fairly obvious if hospitals were overrun with patients. The great firewall is not so high that that message wouldn't come out. They had good reason to keep the prison camps in Xinjiang secret too, but that came out, and there's a lot fewer of those than hospitals.
The reason Wall Street is terrified of the GME situation
TIL that I said something I never said...

(Hint: I never said Obama ended racism... in fact, I wouldn't say that because his policies and his party have made racism WORSE with their identity politics and making everything about race.)
It's still a pretty staggering statistic. You really gotta ask, how wealthy does an individual have to be? It appears there is no limit, even beyond the wealth most people can even imagine.

Also these individuals' wealth did not derive from income.
I feel that's pretty disingenuous. Like you noticed the server-side code is active, and changing server address would be a niche-of-a-niche activity. Also, what would be the point of going after Signal's servers? Even if a/the government got a hold of all the data in there, it's encrypted with client keys. I mean sure, if they took over secretly and became a malicious MITM that's different, but it's still only for any future messages, not history. Not to mention I'd be inclined to believe they'd get the word out.

Signal's research and protocol is already used in, well, basically each and every discussion/video platform. WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Messages, Duo... so it's hard to see Signal becoming more ubiquitous. Seeing the app more will probably happen naturally when events happen (like the WhatsApp privacy change) to drive people towards more secure platforms, but honestly I don't really see a major shift anytime soon.
Why do you need Docker to monitor it? I would think it will only recognize a problem if the process dies. But you need to monitor your db and application for other types of failures anyhow, right? I cannot remember the last time I had a problem with the DB process dying.
it is ,to an extent

the more teslas there are ,the more supercharging stations you can afford to deploy,making teslas even more valuable

the more there are,the more miles you collect for your FSD AI

the more there are,the bigger the scale of battery production,thus the batteries are cheaper (and i imagine the rest of supply chain gets cheaper with scale too)
I am just referring to facts here. I am sorry if you don’t like them. There is no western country not being an island that has zero COVID. It’s a fact don’t you agree? If you agree we can now discuss if this is just a coincidence or if it has something to do with political realities
>Microsoft Exchange is one of the best database servers you'll ever use. You can make offline changes on multiple devices, and it will handle things automatically. It just works.

-- Me : 2012 Source: http://mikewarot.blogspot.com/2012/01/

I stand by that assessment. To me the online/offline capabilities of the Exchange/Outlook pair was Microsoft's best product.
I was in a Vietnamese quarantine in March as a foreigner. It's definitely not a prison. There are two types of quarantine: before and after the test. The second one is pretty good and you can even live in a special hotel.
A lot of things COULD happen. For example, a meteor could hit the earth and wipe out all life. Therefore we should pour ALL resources into space exploration, not medicine.
As a citizen of New Zealand I believe a short, sharp lock-down combined with test & contact trace is the only route to zero.

I think that this option is far far better than being in "half measures" restrictions for very long periods of time.

When a country announces their lock-down measures I feel excited for their populace that they might finally be heading to zero.

Then I read the holes in the measures:

- Resturants open, even if only for takeout.

- People mixing bubbles with friends

- Working from an office when WFH is possible

- Anything beyond food, health and utilities being considered "essential" and allowed

- Lack of financial support so it is not financially feasible to take public health measures (stay home, feed family, get tested, get healthcare).

I can't wait for other countries to simply copy the New Zealand quarantine rules and institute an Alert level 4 lockdown, not some half-hearted level 3 / 2 ripoff.

Ask for level 4: https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/tables/COVID-19-ale...

When all the citizens are in this together, when they all see the shared sacrifice and they have the means to actually take a lock-down together ... it's a huge weight off. It would only take 6 weeks of true level 4 to transform the infection rate of any nation - the virus dies out if it cannot spread.
Atomoxetine (strattera) is a non-stimulant ADHD medication that might be tolerated better. Additionally, I noticed that stimulants don't upset my stomach nearly as much if you take it with a substantial meal.
Use a proper indexer and search engine. Like xapian.

git grep works only for primitive results, but for all the metadata you need proper indices and an ui.
Eg. exclude forks, rank headers higher than source. Rank titles or headers higher than bodies.
Verbatim vs regex vs parsed search queries.

Xapian can all do that. And is very efficient on that scale. Unlike elasticsearch or Google code search.
Schools are a huge transmission vector for every communicable disease. Gathering a bunch of people from different households causes diseases to jump between households. It doesn't matter if the kids aren't harmed, it's communicating the disease through the population.
The arguments I've heard from European students are pretty much textbook translated from things I've read years before from Americans, the irony being that these are the descendants of French Theory, only a much more radical and, if you ask me, idiotic treatment of it.

The French Theory ended in great disillusionment over here, I don't have my hopes high for this one.
The article leads with B117 but B.1.351, the South African variant, is approximately 50% more contagious. Probably just a minor mix-up on the author's part.
Australia did "let" it enter, and had worse per capita infection rates than the UK for a while, and still got control of it and eliminated it. I don't think it's too late, but I (in NZ) think other countries have done pretty soft and ineffective "lockdowns".
I would think the database data does not live in the database container but is mounted into it?

If you update you database version, you do not ship the database data to production either.
Doing something for 20 years does not necessarily make someone better at it than someone who’s done it for 5 years. Arguably doing something for that long could even make you worse.
You obviously don’t live in mainland Europe. I can easily cross borders in a small village, on a field, through a forest. There are no fences. Sometimes you don’t even have a line.

It’s a bit like saying New York should close its borders with Pennsylvania
Not the author but for monitoring I just pay for datadog now. It’s expensive but requires almost zero effort to support.
> More often than not, books I search for default to kindle, and I have actually been tricked into buying a kindle version before.

This can't really be something Amazon is intentionally trying to trick you into doing. There's no way for you not to notice that it happened, and you can just return the kindle book.
But not a major transit hub, miles from anywhere, low density population
>> I can't wait for other countries to simply copy the New Zealand quarantine rules

When the United States of America can relocate to an island and near-permanently ban travel into the country like NZ has, we'll do that, I guess.

EDIT: Ah yes, HN the libertarian paradise unless it's about COVID, then the recommendations are non-practical authoritarian measures and citing island nation success and hurling downvotes. Keep them coming.
made up words like "systemic racism" doesn't make those terms real.

Nor does a party voting for Biden and Harris - creators of "systemically racist" laws and corrupt DAs that used those laws to jail innocent black men - have any moral position to talk about such made up words and expect to be taken seriously.
> Similar can be said from everything like Scuttlebutt to GNU Jami; any service that operates on a P2P basis will likely reveal your IP, and tie your identity to it (and your IP address history). In some cases, as with Jami, this would be limited to friends you add; in others, as with Scuttlebutt and IPFS, it could be revealed to anyone.

Regarding Scuttlebutt (SSB), this isn't quite true. While IPFS requires a DHT, SSB's primary mode of updating content is via servers such as pubs and rooms, the DHT in SSB is optional and not the most common mode of updating content. In SSB you can and should choose the servers which you're connecting to, so in that sense it's closer to the federated model.

It's not entirely fair that the article equates "P2P" to "DHT", there are many ways you can do P2P connections, a DHT is only used for discovery. IP leakage is a problem in all these models (centralized, P2P, federated, etc): some computer somewhere will see your IP address, and you have to trust them not to do bad stuff with it.

For a comprehensive overview of privacy in DHTs and P2P, watch this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCCkwU4JPcY
Yes, the holes in the "lockdowns" elsewhere are kind of unbelievable. If the lockdown is hard enough, and the financial support is there for those who need it, then it can be short and effective.
The premise of TFA is that "scale is not an issue".
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we don't have a monopoly on such practices, only couldn't remember if I ever read about Western procedures and misconducts with these contests. Dunno even what they're properly called—it's a ‘tender’ here.

However, I'm familiar with the term ‘kickback’...
Surely it's illegal to organise like this? It's probably true that Wall Street firms sometimes collude to manipulate the market, but I assume they'd be in trouble if they got caught...
Steinberg discontinued and took down the VST2 SDK, but many if not most existing VST plugins are VST2 only (and many are too old to ever see an upgrade). The VST3 SDK is definitely not easy to work with and not backwards compatible with the VST2 SDK.
When did you start?

Because of the incubation period, covid numbers are effectively delayed 2 weeks. That is to say, there's a 2 week delay between the time your government changes policies and when you see the effect of those policies on covid case numbers. It took us awhile too - after they brought the lockdown into effect our numbers kept going up for awhile - which was terrifying. But the numbers trended down eventually.
Being a transit hub is irrelevant if the people in transit do not mix with those out of transit.

Keep the (potentially) sick people on the "air side" of the airport terminal and then directly into quarantines on arrive at the final destination.

Those who bridge this gap (air crews, terminal staff) need to follow very strict measures (PPE, cleaning, regular testing) to make that work.

Perhaps more places need to decide they don't want to be a major transit hub during this pandemic? You know, restrict non-essential traffic a bit to make the essential traffic and local populace safer?
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Use your energy to heal your body!
Are we going to ignore the fact AUS and NZ are island nations who have nearly permanently banned international arrivals unless there's a 14 day quarantine upon entering, and sometimes that's not even allowed?

The United States can't stop illegal immigration and cross-border state travel with or without a pandemic. The laws and expectations are significantly different in connected regions like the US and EU compared to a singular island nation.
Australia is big and sparely populated compared to other countries that implemented full lockdowns. Also, it's summer down there, with heat waves, etc. All of this diminishes virus' ability to spread. It's very situational. Australia is not doing anything more special than other countries. You gotta look into the meaning of these numbers and just the value.

Lockdowns do work, technically speaking, but not in the long-run. Virus doesn't care and will operate as usual, albeit at slower rate. Persistent things those viruses are.

Lockdowns make sense only at the beginning of a pandemic and their only sane purpose is to give the health care segment to prepare itself for the hit. Beyond that it's a lost cause. You're not saving thousands of lives, you're just extending the inevitable further down in the future, while your economy is sinking, which will create even more problems down the road.

So even if you stay inside the cave forever, the bear will still come.