skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government made its first public announcements pretty much at the same time that information on the patients leaked online, on 30 December 2019. It was even on the national news that evening.

China's low death count is exactly what you'd expect for a country that had a severe lockdown early on, and which has not had significant community transmission since.

Beginning in late January 2020, there was a strict lockdown throughout China. In Hubei, people were essentially told not to leave their homes, food was delivered door-to-door, local volunteers went around checking people's temperatures at home and sending sick people to hospital or quarantine, in order to prevent even family members from infecting one another. The virus was starved of hosts and driven to near extinction in the country.

When China opened up again, there were sporadic cases in some cities, which were finally dealt with through mass testing campaigns. In Wuhan, for example, the government tested nearly all residents (about 10 million people) over the course of a few days in June 2020.

There have been a few outbreaks since. China has very strict quarantine rules, but the virus somehow finds a way in every few months. Most recently, someone who was infected walked over the border from Myanmar, without being tested or sent into quarantine. When these outbreaks occur, the government tests nearly every person in the affected region (the newest twist is now that there are vaccines, the government is vaccinating every person in the affected border town - in previous outbreaks, they would have just done PCR tests on everyone). When you have the resources of a massive country to throw at a small, localized outbreak, you can actually contain it.

So the basic situation is that China had one major outbreak in Hubei province early on, but that the virus has been nearly completely absent from the country for more than a year now. China's death toll is exactly what you'd expect for an outbreak in one province that infected <5% of the population of that province before it was stamped out.
Affinity Photo is probably the best option right now.
Can you please argue a little more respectfully? Comments like this and leading with "Wrong" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26762908) have sharp elbows and evoke worse from others. There's good information in your comments, but curious conversation (which is the goal here) also depends on how people conduct themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This is the way.

Many games package in outright spyware that siphon all kinds of data off your machine including browsing history. Kerbal Space Program was infamous for this (they removed the spyware at some point but I haven't checked recently if it was ever added back in).
I have never heard of adding 'ies' onto the end of numbers to mean 'ms'. I'm (probably) not alone, fyi!

What industry is that lexicon from?
Lightroom CC is unmatched in terms of non-destructive editing and library management. Support for RAW files in numerous formats, easy cloud syncing, smart previews that take up significantly less size on your mobile devices, and serve as a proxy for small tweaks, easy sharing, etc.

People give it a lot of crap for being a cloud subscription, but I was already paying a bunch of money for cloud photo storage. Now I pay the same fee, except I get there very good desktop and iPad apps to go with it.
Ah yeah it does say that here: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/ada-primer-small-business

Good to know
Yes, and they continue producing them regardless of whether or not they get paid.
this seems like taking on a pretty huge risk for a minor convenience. the difference between those two queries can mean the difference between protecting someone's PII
Bit of a tangent, but is this how refills work? I thought you called your doctor, and they call or transmit the refill authorization to your pharmacy. I don't take any prescription meds that ever need refills so maybe I'm wrong on this? Seems weird that I would be able to just go to the Winn-Dixie website and say "I need a refill on my OxyContin"
Please don't respond with swipes, even if another comment was provocative or you feel it was. There's good information in your comments, but curious conversation (which is the goal here) also depends on how people conduct themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"all the health records were proprietary" is, as I understand it, the description of the broad status quo. There's no standard format, and many functionally-ok versions running at thousands of different hospitals, so it's apparently nigh impossible to solve the problem. See the other comments about everyone trying this and failing...

It's honestly the sort of thing where you should have a standard created by an independent group designing a standard, which is then implemented by the government (handling storage and release of records to local providers).
It also takes time to turn a big ship, and by the time one realizes one needs to make the turn it may be too late.

To extend this to non-tech examples, failing big companies, like Sears, do not disappear overnight; the decline was in full view for over a decade but ultimately the ship could not be turned. With tech the problem may be even worse; Uber still has not turned a net profit, but with tech investors like to throw money at losing businesses. Some turn around, but that's not guaranteed.
But that's exactly what we're talking about and going towards! No one is saying they're king and I say so so it must be. We're having a discussion so that these thing can move towards court!
A system that depends on a functioning proprietary API to resolve coordinates is idiotic. That’s so unreliable that it can’t be used for anything more than an ephemeral exchange. At that point you might as well have a 3 word url shortened link.
Guessing YeGoblynQueenne got the memo about capitalization, given how they spell “Twitter”.
Monkey MindPong, a Neuralink Demo
I used to play fetch the ball with our cat, somehow I had managed to teach him to bring the ball back. And about 4 months ago we got a border collie and the cat now best best likes to watch how the bc fetches the ball, it's like he's watching a TV show.
> "Why would you assume they would work slower?"

I'm legally blind and I work slower, in some regards, particularly when working with text produced by other people. Most of the colleagues I knew who are legally blind also had similar limitations. The other poster's assumption is not unjustified.
You don't see the value of studying what happened in a space where the owners of the sites finally agreed it was required?

For sure, there was a burst of activity and change on the part of the airlines when this happened.
Absolutely every online pizza ordering system I've ever used has been more complicated and taken longer than the tried-and-true phone call system. Online menus are great. Online ordering is awful.
The Affinity suite is quite decent, among them Affinity Photo would be the Photoshop replacement. It‘s fast, easy to understand, a pleasant UI and has all the features you need.
Cryptocurrency is NOT a crime (PETITION)
'The Command of the Ocean, "when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin", sounds like exactly the kind of thing I am looking for.
Gameboy is really slow when compared to modern hardware. One ECDSA signature that takes around 100ms on Trezor (32-bit CPU @ 120 MHz) would take around a minute on GameBoy (8-bit CPU @ ~4 MHz.

If we're talking about GameBoy Advance (32-bit CPU @ 25 MHz) - this more plausible but still 5 times slower than Trezor.
> because I caught one of these guys trying to rewrite history to claim credit for my commit.

Great. It's one thing not to do anything (and get penalized for it accordingly) but trying to claim ownership is a whole new level.

There's an expensive way of protecting one's work: have an individual oral quiz on the code that was written.
I tried it not long ago. It's ok, took me some time to overcome some issues but got it to work, then, when I started actually working I met the same issues regarding screenshots, remote control/screen sharing and decided to stay with i3 while I can.
What is Toxic Positivity?
Does anyone have any good resources for practicing SQL queries? I recently had an interview where I did well on a project and the programming portions, but fumbled on the more SQL queries that were above basic joins. I didn't realize how much I need to learn and practice. I don't know if my lack of knowledge was enough to cost me the position or not yet, but I'd like to prepare for the future either way.

I've seen a few websites, but I don't know which ones to use. Or maybe there is a dataset with practice question I could download?

Edit: I found https://pgexercises.com and it's been fantastic so far. Much more responsive than other sites, clear questions, and free.
My favourite walking dead character and comic idol is King Ezekiel, because "embrace the contradiction."

Since we can't avoid thinking in generalizations, and they're usually false, the only option is to accept contingent thinking. Sometimes, respecting "the way things are" is the right way. Sometimes, rejecting the way things are is the right way. It's often how things get better. There isn't a true "way" you can live by in all circumstances.

There are hints though. If you're using disrespect/challenge to write a good essay (like this author) or to try and change something.... rejecting "the way things are" might be good. If you're just whining, probably not.

Humility good. Complacency bad. These are definitions, not value statements. They're not necessarily contradictory, if you care about such things... but they can have a Hillel/Shamai^ dynamic to them. Sometimes, an adversarial discussion like "Kubernetes" vs "Learn Tow to Sysadmin, You Moron" is enlightening. Sometimes it's no-it-all asholery. I don't think there are universal rules governing the distinction.

In any case, I don't think this author is being "terrible." He does recognize that scaling is a problem that he doesn't fully understand and meanders through a lot of possible reasons. None of it is mean. The title is a little click-bait, but I don't think it's a foul. He's quite respectful, in fact.

^Like political left/right, but more bearded.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I can see this being a problem when you have cross-team dependencies and your roll-back requires coordination.

Even then it's manageable if your production deployments are version pinned, it only becomes a problem if schemas in your database or messaging have had non compatible changes and data has been written (i.e you have binary and data dependencies in a release)

All this being said with the assumption that the CI/CD pipeline has been designed to best practices.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If other comments are mistaken, the thing to do is respectfully provide correct information, so we all learn. Putting others down, posing superciliously, and so on only adds noise and evokes worse from others.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Open Source C# Standardization
So the one that excludes several races and is the name of an extremist organization is blocked and the other not surprised pikachu
That just means 30-39. Probably would be clearer if written 30's. The ms is implied, due to the context.
Mozilla is competing with the world's biggest advertisement company who can advertise their competition 24/7 and is also competing with the biggest phone company in America who has banned their product and forced their customers to use the phone company's product.

This all might have something to do with it.
Node is great for shell scripts. Async programming is a breeze in JavaScript. I wrote a quick wrapper function around child_process.exec to promisify it, and this allows me to use features like async / await and Promise.all in my scripts.
Advantages of Using PgBackRest for PostgreSQL
Maybe because nobody trusts any of them.

I hate to say it (because it makes me groan) but I really think a trustless blockchain based solution would work best where medical professionals/researchers require active consent before pulling your records, a trustless form of anonymization/pseudonymization is built into the platform and an immutable record of every query made and why is held forever.
Your reasoning for why one shouldn't want to test with screen readers seems more like reasoning one should want to. The more divergence from standards the more you want to validate it works as desired not the other way around.
ISPReview have a good article on this. It's more than I expect. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/03/electricity-co...
> The op is calling it a donation when in actually it is a tip.

Er, unless I'm missing something, that's the same thing.
I don’t think it is easier to build a safe bridge, we just make the effort to do it.
Push notifications seem like something a browser would want -- is it a thing on any platform?

I tried searching, but I suspect there are a lot of subtleties to the technologies involved (with similar names and such) that I don't know how to connect whether this fills a gap.
Add rustc flag to disable mutable no-aliasing optimizations?
Many ran. The modern-day Marathon event commemorates one such message delivery.

The King's Highway of Asia Minor spanned ~1,000 km and featured expedited horseback messengers reminiscent of the US Pony Express (1860--61), and represented a roughly 1,500 year plateau in physical message delivery rates. The prime period of the King's Highway somewhat post-dates peak Rome, though earlier trade routes offered at least roughly similar capabilities.

Ships were required for overseas communications (e.g., across the Mediterranian), and excelled at bulk cargo. Horseback (or even a swift runner) was still faster for messages, in general.

There were some remote signalling methods, though these were typically capable only of transmitting a set of pre-arranged messages. Typically with flags or fire, with ranges limited to a few km, and relays required for greater distances.

(One such visual relay system did run along the King's Highway IIRC.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of...

https://youtu.be/ovfw6BJ3OLM
Thanks. The relevant section is here:

> In the exclusive economic zone, all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy, subject to the relevant provisions of this Convention, the freedoms referred to in article 87 of navigation and overflight and of the laying of submarine cables and pipelines, and other internationally lawful uses of the sea related to these freedoms, such as those associated with the operation of ships, aircraft and submarine cables and pipelines, and compatible with the other provisions of this Convention.

https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unc...

It is just baffling to me that a reporter could write this article and not mention this, or ask an Indian official how their assertions are compatible with it.
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There isn't a true "way" you can live by in all circumstances.

It's like applying principles like DRY. If you push that principle to the extreme, your code will be shit. DRY is a good principle, but not a rule to follow blindly.
To add some detail, Inform 7 compiles to reasonably well-documented portable binary formats that have been standardized for decades, with the earliest versions dating back to Infocom days. There are a variety of emulators, including web-based. This is why games uploaded to ifarchive many years ago still work. Even if an old game’s source were available, they were sometimes written in obscure genre-specific programming languages that nobody uses anymore.

The binary formats are specific to the genre, which is pretty niche. Casual users are unlikely to have downloaded an emulator even if it’s easy to do, so a game will be bundled with one when it’s published to an app store.

But as formats go, it seems like a pretty remarkable success story for the long-term preservation of games, and it would be neat if there were a similar file format that were more general-purpose and more popular, much like we have for images, music, and video.
The appropriate level of sentimentality or depth of emotional gratification are of course subjective. I don’t think Maya Angelou’s fans appreciate her work ironically.
I botched the password input the first time I tried to log into the Disney+ app. It apparently stored that password to use for subsequent runs, as I was prompted for the password every time I ran it. Resetting the app data fixed the problem, so that's where the assumption about storing the wrong password is from.

(I'm saying, don't necessarily blame only the hardware)
Ask HN: Who are your favourite indie hackers?
curious to know other peoples favourite indie hackers. mine include:
- Dan Rowden: https://twitter.com/dr
- Traf: https://twitter.com/traf

who are yours?
Show HN: Stratospheric – From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS
I agree it's still not going to win the cost-benefit tradeoff in most markets. OTOH - I imagine making your software support more OSs is much more expensive than designing your website to be more accessible, at most $1M/year. If you've got billions in annual revenue that's pennies in the bucket.

In my view, it's about trying to provide more 'equal opportunity' in this world where it's financially feasible. This seems like a case where it is more often that not. Again, for medium+ businesses.
Isn't that the approach? I'm not much in front-end work these days. I thought it was:

1. Build a simple HTML/Forms implementation that works (but obviously is not feature-rich).

2. Enhance (1) with JavaScript/CSS to add all your fancy UI cosmetics. If there's no JavaScript or CSS, then you get the unenhanced version by default.

Clearly for some things (e.g. Maps) that are inherently visual this isn't possible, but for the typical customer/business transactions we are talking about here, seems to me it should work.
I already trust Google with my email, search, and location history. Health records feel like a very small addition to that. I would trust a health records service from Google far more than I would from any insurance agency or health care provider I can think of.
Um how do you expect Starlink to treat you once it’s GA?
I personally would open up my calendar, flip six months later, and then pick a convenient time, since there is wiggle room on getting something like that done. I'd probably add it for a weekend and add a notification to go off a few days prior.

In Google Calendar, it would less than a minute, based on a quick test I just did.
Affinity’s iPad UI is quite nice and relatively full-featured as well.
This article nudge me to google "SQL optimization tool". I found one that says: "Predict performance bottlenecks and optimize SQL queries, using AI". Basically, it gives you suggestions on how to improve your queries.

I wonder what the results would be if I ran the queries from this article through that tool.
What does a privacy regulation have to do with an image file format???
I don't know if you looked at the article linked but it's from 2021.
You have repeatedly been an asshole in this thread. That's seriously not cool, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are.

Attacking users for being new is particularly bad. Do we want HN to be a smug, insular community or welcoming to newcomers? Obviously the latter. Please don't poison it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Scale is not a justification, it's an excuse for bad behavior. We should punish companies whose focus on scale hurts individuals.
The circumstantial evidence exists though and I’m not making a claim to be a court of law, I’m claiming that these are how I view the probabilities, as a layman, and that anyone who doesn’t work on these things for a living that suggests they are more confident in one of these probabilities than another probably has some biases they need to check.
Depending on the official, the CCP also seems to be maintaining that SARS-CoV-2 didn't originate naturally in China either, thus their (entirely unsupported) frozen food theory and push for sampling in other SE Asian countries. So I again see plenty of reason to dislike the CCP, but little specific to actual lab vs. non-lab origin.

I'm absolutely not saying the origin doesn't matter for anything--if 2.9M people died due to a particular class of research, then that absolutely should affect our judgment as to whether that research should be funded or permitted (though that cost/benefit tradeoff seems grossly unfavorable to me regardless). The link between that question and China's perceived culpability just seems bizarrely overstated to me, divorced from the reality that the USA was entirely supportive of that research pre-pandemic.
Photoshop and Apple are just very much connected in peoples minds and there is little competition for PS on iOS.
They cannot block IP address, screen res, battery level, time zone, just to name a few.
I’m an ardent defender of the rights of the disabled, but I think this is a broad stretch. This feels more like greedy lawyers than an actual problem.
actually, I'd say the best is “column aliases are like full identifiers that name what the entity is in the context of the query”.

In simple cases that may be just the singular of the table name, e.g.:

SELECT
book.title,
author.last_name,
author.first_name
FROM books AS book
LEFT JOIN authors AS author ON
book.author_id = author.id

But in other cases, it will be different, e.g.:

SELECT
manager.last_name || ', ' || manager.first_name AS manager_name,
coalesce(employee.title, 'All Titles') AS staff_title,
count(employee.id) AS count
FROM employees AS manager
LEFT JOIN employees AS employee ON
manager.id = employee.manager_id
GROUP BY manager.id, ROLLUP(employee.title)
HAVING employee.title IS NOT NULL
OR GROUPING(employee.title)=1
Figma (which is web-based) is a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator (at least for UI design).

Is there something web-based that's a good equivalent for Photoshop?

I tried https://pixlr.com/ the other day. Is that the best one one in this genre?
Have you considered the possibility that the boss’ bosses have a point?

It's the organization that shapes the individual, not the other way around. Changing a cog in an existing gear system only works if the cog is of a particular shape, and it will get chafed and dented if not sufficiently so. If the cog is too different, it will break and be replaced again.

Occam's razor says that if many different people fail within the same organizational structure, the problem is not with those people.
Google Health was a disaster and there weren’t very many hospitals that adopted it in the end. Medical information record databases are notoriously siloed. Not to mention I have a difficult time trusting the longevity of many of googles projects
I’m using Lightroom Classic CC

To clarify, is Lightroom CC superior?

The same cloud subscription applies
National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2040 [pdf]
A whole lot better than the quotas and caps enforced on consumer grade geostationary satellite stuff right now (hughesnet, viasat) that is available in the same price tier of $85-130/month. And also better than 90% of WISPs.
Bicycles are great for moving people, but not for moving large amounts of stuff. And the need to move people might have required developments in economics, such as factory work and the ability for an enterprise to manage a larger workforce, with specialized workers, etc.

In an agrarian society, everybody lives at their workplace, and only needs to travel when they need to transport stuff. Even in a city, an artisan or clerk might have lived at, or very close to, their workplace. In an industrial society, you need to transport yourself to a centralized workplace that might be a couple miles away. A bike is perfect for that.