skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh please. The only thing that you could pretend was "met with calls of racism and xenophobia" was closing the boarder to China, which was done in such an egregiously non-closing way (basically only barring Chinese nationals, while allowing tens of thousands of others to come from China every day) that it may as well not have happened. He then did barely anything else for a month except state that the US had nothing to worry about.
How about Fauci stating in March that masks are not necessary, for what was clearly a respiratory virus...

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-dr-fauci-say-no-mask...
The CDC has always been politicized. This was obvious even back in the 80s with the AIDS crisis.

The idea that any powerful government agency can even be non-political is very naive.
The social cost of leaded gasoline (2019) [pdf]
This paper estimates the social cost of air pollution due to lead in gasoline at a whopping $1,100/g Pb. The authors do not study the 1986 US ban on leaded gasoline, whose breadth creates too many confounding variables, but instead they look at the intense and geographically localized use of lead fuel at NASCAR races prior to the ban in 2006, which allows for more focused analysis. They conclude that elderly people in racetrack counties experienced 1.7% higher all-cause mortality, and that the externality of the continued use of leaded aviation fuel is massively underpriced.

Summary by the authors here:
https://hollina.github.io/hollingsworth_rudik_social_cost_of...
I'm an epidemiologist, though not an infectious disease (ID) epidemiologist. I'm nowhere near the top of my field, and still fairly young, but I have good credentials and some idea of what I'm talking about (everyone is trained in ID epi in graduate school, regardless of what you go on to specialize in).

I don't have much to contribute here except to say that where I was once very proud of my profession and American public health more generally, the pandemic has left me deeply embarrassed, so much so that I often wish these days I had something else to say when people ask me what I do for a living. The stuff Lewis (who I don't particularly love, by the way) talks about is barely scratching the surface on how bad things are behind the curtain in US public health.

There are huge structural factors that are "not our fault" (e.g. the 70-year project to gut "government" at all levels in this country), but there are others that very much are, from scientific rigor to public communication to what happens when normally pretty powerless people are suddenly given some power, and what they do with it.

HN readers will not like to read this, and I fully expect plenty of downvotes on this burner account, but the fact that a man like Anthony Fauci was (a) chosen to be our Covid guardian angel and intelligent-technocrat foil to Donald Trump at all after his abhorrent behavior during the AIDS crisis in the 80s [1], and (b) allowed to remain in this position throughout the past year, as hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans have died of Covid, is ghastly. Even if the deaths are "not his fault" somehow, or that he's been trying his best in a bad system -- I'm sorry, but the buck stops at the top. If you're presiding over a disaster of this scale, you need to be replaced.

That a country like Vietnam - poor and rural - could embarrass the US in handling this is deeply sad.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whitewashing-aids-history_b_4...
UK has 66-million people with 128k COVID19 deaths, or 0.2% of its population.

North Dakota has 762k people with 1.5k COVID19 deaths, or 0.2% of its population.

Except... I bet you that North Dakota is far more rural than UK on the average. North Dakota was supposed to have huge COVID19 advantages: its extremely rural. Its got a very car-centered independent culture. For North Dakota to have similar death rates as European centers (or urban US centers, like NYC), is a failure upon North Dakota. It squandered its advantage.
As many nerds as there are who grew up on AOL, I'm surprised they haven't yet gotten together GameStop-style and bought AOL for themselves, to put into a nice retirement home. :)
That’s a politician, not a health official.
I think people have higher expectations for the US. I certainly do.
Exactly, secular trends are hard to spot when you know the details. Tech people look at the alternate present where your revenue is 30% better without the internet, but that's "imaginary" in some sense, it really was the manager who put the store under
I added the link to my comment. Just Google it, there dozens of better sources.
Remove as much apps as possible.

Turn off _all_ notifications.

It helped me.
Similar things said of Drupal.
needs (2019) in title, original discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800076
One of my strongest socioeconomic stances is that the nuclear family was a mistake.
"Here lies a fallen civilization. They were admirably principled instead of pragmatic."
Wonderful and very well written, thanks!

I too experimented with a p2p golang webchat setup. All the jargon was confusing and very hard to look up. This post has already given me much more clarity!!
Read the full article for the quote by Dr. Henry Chen.
The only numbers I have ever seen published are Whereby's[0] they saw 17% used TURN.

There is a little more nuance then just paternalistic networks though. In same cases like NAT Mapping exhaustion you just can't give an individual user multiple long lived mappings. Address Dependendent filtering/mapping also makes sense in some cases. It makes P2P harder, but does give you the ability to provide your users more sessions at least!

https://medium.com/the-making-of-whereby/what-kind-of-turn-s...
I'm not convinced that perfect transparency is a general fix. People will be more reserved when communications move onto a more transparent medium, and the real decisions will be discussed and made somewhere else.
You can style the container via CSS. There is actually a huge pile of examples in the repo: https://github.com/thoughtspile/grafar/tree/master/examples
Some of them are for older versions and need to be updated, and I just couldn't find a quick way to slap a gallery into the docs, but I might get to it someday.
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I don't really get your point. To travel to the US now (or at least recently) from various countries you are expected to be tested and quarantine. Sure - we don't imprison you but it is technically required.

What Lewis is describing of the CDC policy is not requiring this.
Ask HN: Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?
It looks like about half of the submissions on /newest are about Bill and Melinda Gates divorcing. All of the submissions are flagged/dead. Why is this? I'm not looking to discuss the substance of the articles in this post — just trying to understand how the divorce of one of the biggest names in tech is not allowed on HN.

By contrast, there are many non-flagged/dead articles about Jeff Bezos' divorce.
What is an ornament?
> These people simply didn’t know how dangerous the Coronavirus was.

I'd be forgiving on that as we've had several pandemic scares before that panned out to nothing in the US.
The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks
Those who think the CDC has done way too much because the virus was overly-exaggerated are simply wrong. I have my quibbles with the CDC, especially early reactions and subsequent messaging. I don't think people who say it exaggerated the threat have any evidence in their column. For data, I'd say look around, see India, see 500,000+ dead Americans, and the latter in the context of at least some efforts to contain the virus.

The headline is fine, those who are enraged at the CDC probably should be, it failed us in so many ways, though probably gets a little too much of the blame. Those who are enraged because it did too much? Those people don't deserve consideration at this stage given the fairly obvious science.
> And it turns out celebrating in the streets is basically completely safe.

You wouldn't know it walking around the well-to-do section of the liberal city I live in.
Just looked it up.

16% of UK citizens use mass transit daily or every few days.
> I don't write code that requires Glib, but last I remember, there are explicit (lesser-known) flags that give complete static independence :P

Glib != glibc
Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing
Yeah I don't get this. There have been medical requirements to travel to and from some international destinations for decades. I can understand why you may or may not be in favor of that for Covid - but it is completely within legal (and I'd say ethical) ground to do mandatory test, require vaccinations, require quarantines, etc.
It’s worse with clustered indexes — all of the data experiences this issue, not just the index.
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Bill and Melinda Gates splitting-up after 27 years
They're looking at the deaths per capita, not the case-fatality ratio.
To which quote are you referring?

“ When people play off stereotypes, it distracts from the real risks and can lead to misperception and misinformation about the source of the virus. We are grateful to stand with the mayor, city elected officials and community leaders to ensure we eliminate any stigma with the virus, continue public outreach efforts, and educate the public of the real risks,” Chen said.
I think it does. I appreciate LinkedIn is a bit like Facebook nowadays with people posting corporate lunch pictures and how their grandmother started a bakery while bombs were dropping and etc. That's noise and it does exist in every social platform. There are a lot of people on LinkedIn that have decision making power to hire, start projects, etc. There are lots of business owners too. I had some most amazing discussion with people I'd have no chance meeting on daily basis. Just last week I was talking to a potential vendor. A few min into the conversation and he says that their tech guy is well aware of me.How? Because of some things I posted about their competitors, where everyone from newly hired secretary all the way to the CEO liked it and kept It going for free PR.

I think for LinkedIn to be useful you simply need to know what you want from it. Is it jobs, clients, some specialist knowledge, new friends,etc. All of it is possible but requires slightly different approaches.
Hmm, I might have read the numbers incorrectly.

I probably need to read up a bit more...
here's an interview w/lewis from 60 minutes yesterday (5/2/21): https://www.cbsnews.com/video/michael-lewis-premonition-covi...
The context of the discussion is one where the difference between SoA and AoS is significant. It’s not always true in general that your program won’t be as efficient as possible, but it’s true in the context we’re discussing, where you have a lot of things (entities or whatever) and you’re iterating through them, which is what is being discussed.

I was writing a direct answer to the question of “how can it be true that C++ isn’t built for modern machines even though modern games with good performance on modern machines use C++”. I think the answer is entirely correct in context.
I dropped into the Tesla dealer here in Austin a little before the Wuhan panic hit, and the reps there confirmed that a trip to South Florida would take several DAYS longer in a Tesla than in a regular car.

Electric has some benefits, but overall, gas engines have more. IMO, the series hybrid, a la the old Chevy Volt, is the best approach - use electric where you can, but with the confidence that you've got a gasoline engine/range extender that can get you there.
I want humanity to love forever simply because I don’t want anyone to have to experience their parents dying, and everyone older than them slowly fading and passing away in pain.

It’s a shame that so many people think about death in a personal way, forgetting that before you die, you will have to watch the last generation whom you know and love go to the grave.
> e.g. the 70-year project to gut "government" at all levels in this country

And yet the government continues to expand in money, scope, and power at an incredible rate.
What can America’s Police and Circuit Courts do with a $100 fine?
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Bill Gates divorces wife after 27 years of marriage
But finds/creates Mary Sue heroes in every book and casts everyone that ever gets in her way as a cackling villain or blithering idiot. It’s entertaining but it isn’t how the world actually works.
I think it could be this article by Tim Cochran?

https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.ht...

EDIT: It appears that the author is Tim Cochran, not Martin Fowler as I initially wrote.
Large Asteroid Impact Simulation – What Happens If an Asteroid Hit the Earth
You're looking at the case-fatality ratio, your parent is looking at the deaths per 100k population.

Looking at these two numbers suggests to me that while the US did very well at treating cases, we allowed far too many people to become infected.
This is the true spirit of UX. Thinking about how best you can improve the user's experience. Like many things, the meaning of the term has been diluted over time, but in this sense it's truly a beautiful thing.
Definitely not the craziest think I've heard (vitamin B17 is). I'll check it out.
Happy to be wrong on this.

I've never experienced a bank that hasn't silently gouged on forex, and this is the first I've even heard of one that didn't.

Definitely good to continue to be vigilant about such claims.

As for BTC, I wouldn't use it for anything other than a store of value - there are far better crypto options for transferring value. Some cost fractions of cent and take seconds.

Others cost single-digit dollars, but are fiat-pegged so there's no volatility risk at all.
There's a whistle that scares all dogs.
Im not sure about UDP hole punching and how it relates to WebRTC, i don't see it being talked about much. In general hole punching is a rare thing to hear, I cannot find much resources about it.

And uPNP (Universal Plug and Play) sounds like its for device discovery in the same local network, so again, it doesn't sound related to webRTC, we can connect directly with each other on the same local network anyway.
> One runs `tmux` and the other `tmux a`.

Here's how to do this with screen instead of tmux.

Terminal 1:

screen -mS hello # create screen named "hello"

Terminal 2:

screen -x hello # attach to shared screen
A few tenuous ones it seems not mentioned yet.

The title "UNIX MAGIC" is arguably on a banner(1).

The wall(1) visible through the window. (On NetBSD there was also a window(1) utility.)

The peak visible through the window in the distance could be mount(1) ________.

And of course, there is a man(1) visible through the window.

The prominent display of the wizard's fingers, as in finger(1), in the foreground is probably intentional.

Having so many things hanging is probably not a coincidence.

Nor is the fact that the shell has an overflow.

The streams flowing from the tubes and from a head(1).

The object in the tar bucket appears to be composed of segments.

Arguably awk is written on what appears to be a block, as in badblocks(1).

The ring on top(1) of diff with the string/line, as in strings(1), must have some significance.

From the wizard's hat hangs something with various initials, maybe a tape, a tail(1) or a strip(1).

Perhaps the crack in "B" is supposed to mean something.

Also, there must be some significance to the question mark/ankh shaped hook on the stirrer in the shell. Maybe a it is a broken link(1).

This just shows another great thing about UNIX. They took names from common things. None of the silly names we see today, especially the ones people choose for "tech" companies.

The artist should have had the wizard pouring some buffer solution. Then the overflow would be even better.

The "lid" on the oregano, whether intentional or not, is a nice touch. https://www.etymonline.com/word/lid
What about barbecues?
I keep thinking about ways that healthcare professionals and authorities undermined their own credibility from the very beginning

Saying “ah young people are affected” but “young” meaning people in their 50s means that all of society is going to stop listening. The one time that their job was to inform the public but they stuck with industry specific colloquialisms. People wanted to know if it would debilitate “young people” like the 1918 flu.

Just one example of the messaging being wrong and losing crucial support.
Personally, I consider that politicians should be overt about this.

For example "The science is telling us that schools are a principle path of transmission for flu-like diseases, but we want to keep schools open to keep people in work and maintain our economic system". Rather than pretending that it was a big surprise that schools were a principle route of transmission, as one example.

Of course people will vote for politicians who do insane things as long as those politicians don't tell people about it, or manipulate the news cycle to hide their idiocy, so ...
And for some reason people are dead-set on dropping conventional wisdom despite in most countries the experts having disastrously failed.
> That a country like Vietnam - poor and rural - could embarrass the US

They do have experience.
Me neither, until relatively recently I found documentation for romwack. It lives in the "Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec"[0] book.

My pyamigadebug[1] is backed by this debugger and the newer SAD that replaces it in AmigaOS 3.x.

Making function calls and uploading code to the Amiga and running it is made trivial by pyamigadebug. My AmigaXfer[2] is built on this.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/amiga-rom-kernel-reference-manua...

[1]: https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/

[2]: http://aminet.net/package/comm/misc/amigaXfer_win32
[2]: https://github.com/rvalles/pyamigadebug/releases
He works for a private health care network. He’s not a health official.
>I bet you that North Dakota is far more rural than UK on the average.

That appears to be pretty true. The UK is roughly as urban as Arizona.
In ww2, Britain suffered nightly bombing. Navigation was problematic, and bombs weren’t accurate. the Luftwaffe could target cities by looking at the lights shining from houses.

Thus blackout blinds were mandated and people employed to ensure gay no light was created - even lighting a cigarette was bad.

This was an example of a temporary restriction neccersary to ensure liberty. Do you argue against that?
I've read most of Lewis' books. I like his style and he does a pretty good job at explaining the problem. Usually he does it as a hero's journey that makes the story interesting. He also picks a villain. I have not read this book but the CDC seems to be the bad guy here. If not bad, incompetent.

I'm no fan of big governmental agencies but I hate it when so many outstanding members of an organization get painted with a thick brush of incompetents'.

I have no doubt that the agency will go through a period of reform and in a few years it will be billed as the best CDC ever. But at any time bad leadership can taint its abilities.

The failure was really a failure of leadership. Incompetent people were picked to lead the agency. I think we need to keep in mind that leaders matter and we have to make sure that the best ones are selected and not be swayed by politics.
I'm starting to wonder what's actually going on here. So many posts about the same subject from almost every mainstream source imaginable. But they're all getting flagged and killed. I understand why all of those submissions are getting this treatment, but why are so many accounts still trying to post this news? Do they not see the new queue? Are they bots?
I was travelling in western and central Europe for a few weeks prior to a bit before the middle of February. Everything was 100% normal. I'm sure there would have been as little appetite for widespread shutdowns in Europe as there would have been in the US.

I'm pretty much as little a fan of Trump and his administration as many people are but the idea that widespread restrictions in mid-February in western democracies was remotely an option on the table is delusional.
> if the US was so bad, why is the death rate in the US inline with other large countries?

Because the US is not uniquely bad. Those other large countries had severe failures.
Indeed. I find myself in sort of holding patterns. My natural rhythm puts me going to bed later and my wife is usually in bed minutes after we've put the kid to bed, but he'll sometimes pop out and need something, so I've conditioned myself to just sort of have that in the back of my mind for about an hour or two after his official bedtime.

Also, I'm an active participant in the play. I have voices to do, commentary to make, activities to perform. There's a whole universe of characters in his room engaged in various competitions. Ignoring him isn't really an option.

Sometimes it really feels like I'm just switching between wife, kid, work, and friends.
I have an air quality monitoring device and I live in a place with clean air, so I just open a window. A PM2.5 of 2.318 (ug/m3) inside my room at the moment.
But most children don't. So why not let children who don't live with anyone high-risk go back to a normal life?
Houston also let a lot of people build on areas that were almost sure to flood later, without any accompanying regulation around insurance or meaningful notification on subsequent sale. So some of that more liberal policy didn't work out well.
And if you have a Chromebook, that might be able to run the Android app.
It still fascinates me as to how things look from the outside. I'm turning 40 this year, and have no kids of my own, but I have a 5-year-old nephew and 1.5-year-old niece. Unfortunately I haven't seen the niece in person since before the pandemic, when she was only a couple months old.

But as for my nephew, I keep forgetting that he's still so young. It feels like he should be much older, and much more capable and independent, just based on how long it feels since I spent a few weeks at my sister's house when he was a month old. But if you ask my sister, she'll of course agree that time has passed so quickly.

Relative feelings about the passage of time is just such a weird topic.