jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A good synopsis of current understanding (as of last Friday) was a UCSF Medicine Grand Rounds broadcast. I've bookmarked the most relevant slide to our discussion in particular:
https://youtu.be/bt-BzEve46Y?t=2349

Significant lung and myocardial injury and papers have honed in on ARDS as a real problem.
I love how it says 'if you're not a household name explain what your business does', and you go on to explain Khan Academy.

haha everyone knows y'all! You guys are legends. Thanks for the kind and generous work you do over there!
I'm not sure where you're at in particular, but as my workplace works with a lot of freelancers and contractors, this has been passed around recently (ours tend to be writers or designers, though):

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/here-s-where-canadian-artists-and-fr...
I'm sorry but using the editor did not really allow me to do any of the things advertised on the front page... It was just a very basic 2D editor, it seemed...
But if financial assets are crashing in cash-terms, and cash itself is crashing in purchasing-power terms, financial assets are extra crashing.
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Very true, Soviet (and now Russian) doctrine has long prioritized a lower weight and size. The Soviets were (I believe) the first to use an automatic loader for the gun to reduce the crew size from 4 to 3, and thus reduce the tank's size and weight. Soviet tanks are consistently in the 45 ton range as a result, while Western tanks tend to be over 60 tons, and tend to lack autoloaders (a notable exception is the French Leclerc). Soviet doctrine called for tanks to be smaller to present a smaller target, and provide better operational mobility. For example, there were many bridges in Warsaw pact countries designed so that a T-72 tank could cross, but a heavier Western tank would cause the bridge to collapse. Western doctrine, on the other hand, tends to eschew the idea of an autoloader for a variety of reasons. Historically, the problems with an autoloader are reduced survivability (having all the tank rounds together in a carousel or conveyor system means if the tank is penetrated all the rounds could cook off and kill everyone) and I believe earlier autoloaders offered worse performance than a skilled human loaders. Autoloaders have since improved in performance and survivability, but the other reason Western doctrine has discouraged the idea of using an autoloader is the reduced situational awareness from losing a crew member. Whenever the loader isn't actually loading, they are an extra pair of eyes that can be looking for targets or potential threats. There's a decent explanation of all this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0x-8NheU1E

I think that will be the biggest challenge with unmanned armored vehicles, the reduced situational awareness. You can put all the cameras you want on the tops of the tank, a remote operator will have to deal with the limited bandwidth (can't have full 60fps 4K resolution in 360 degrees simultaneously on a satellite link) and increased latency. At first this can be helped by using it as a fire support vehicle for infantry, where the infantry can be their eyes and ears. Eventually there can be enhanced automation to help reduce the workload of remote operators (not automatically firing, but having the system continuously scan around it and tracking the movement of all visible people and vehicles so the operator doesn't have to) and fusing that data with that of other tanks and even UAVs overhead.
Shadow systems are prevalent in large MNC's where systems are decided centrally without being able to take into consideration local needs.

Local parts of the MNC's end up using the centrally required system, as well as their own local shadow system.
[Charles Murray] in particular has some very sophisticated theories about class and culture. But he shares my skepticism that the 55 year old Kentucky trucker can be taught to code, and I don’t think he’s too sanguine about the trucker’s kids either. His solution is a basic income guarantee, and I guess that’s mine too.

.. in SSC becomes ...

In one post, he aligned himself with Charles Murray, who proposed a link between race and I.Q. in “The Bell Curve.” In another, he pointed out that Mr. Murray believes Black people “are genetically less intelligent than white people.”

..in the NYT article. That was spicing it up a little much. Looks like a hit piece.
If the marketing is misleading, couldn't students just go back to their old schools?
People do this in my company even despite us having SharePoint which has decent enough support for collaborative capabilities and should in theory get rid of any need for different document versions, but that escapes many people.
Now do one for Stradivarius violins.
As an Indian, I'd say this kind of "SJW" rhetoric serves no purpose other than causing a reactionary change -- of more normal people favoring extreme right wing instead, and leaving a bad impression about the total social justice thing.
Pseudonymity is essentially the default state of the internet. The "right" to it just exists by the nature of it.

If you want to remove that right you need to argue why it shouldn't exist
Reportedly it doesn't work anymore: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64273530/webm-vp9-suppor... .

But MDN says it only works on Firefox with hardware support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V... .

Caniuse suggests https://caniuse.com/?search=vp9 it's fine on FF and works on Safari if you install the VP9 codec at OS level.
Profit-driven schools don't cater to gifted kids. They cater to kids with rich and highly educated parents. The goal is to do less, to extract more profit.
I think the point is that if you're already going to the trouble of checking into places on FourSquare, you may as well get some additional value from it.
"Performance is number one and so is usability."

How dilbertian.
The cellular/mobile phone industry in the US is probably THE worst when it comes to treating customers like customers, instead of assets. When you actually value customers through a four letter acronym (look it up/do the research if you're unfamiliar with ARPU), it's not entirely unlikely that there are things in motion behind the scenes to drive up demand artificially, while on the books companies like AT&T and Verizon (the latter of which has a well documented history of locking built-in features out of phones in order to extract a premium fee from their use by customers-see below) look squeaky clean.

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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Verizon-Wireles...

http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/verizon-locks-ou...

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161019/verizon...

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/want-droid-work-e-mail-i...

http://www.pencomputing.com/wireless/motorolav710.html
Good point, but I imagine that a better way forward would be to go to a dynamic language that can be optimized really well. Lua or Javascript would be fantastic choices. Ruby is a great language, and one of my favourite to program in, but it just isn't performant enough for low level work.
DotNetNuke, also known as DNN, is the ideal platform for building professional websites with dynamic content and interactive features.

This made me laugh. My coworkers that have worked with DNN have many horror stories. I've never heard from a developer that used DNN and liked it. Given the superficiality of the descriptions, I assume all the info was copy/pasted from the marketing material for each project.
Try to use tests to save time? A good compromise might be that if something doesn't work the first time you try it, you can write a test to make debugging faster. If it turns out you made a bad design decision down the road, you can always delete irrelevant tests and reapply the rule about testing to save time.

Unfortunately, inexperience is going to make it take longer to write tests. That probably won't be what kills your startup though. Most companies die when they try to scale due to a variety of organizational issues, and having a few tests kicking around when you start bringing new developers in will probably help you a bit in this respect.
I desperately wish they’d just adopt an “it was fine” and a “something wrong or exceptional” button.
Processed by the bio-refinery, and turned into (mostly) energy.

These systems already exist; they're expensive, and not really modular, but for ~100 people it should be doable without too many problems. Harder and more expensive to do for a single family home.
>>and that code was only shared with those who agreed with their rules.

This is the point of contention though. In EU courts have ruled over and over and over again that you cannot be bound by terms set AFTER the purchase of any software. As a result, EULAs are pretty much worthless, because they are presentented post-purchase.

If you went to a store and bought a copy of this game then that's it, you haven't agreed to anything, and you own a copy of it and you can do almost whatever you wish with it. You cannot make further copies and sell those because that's governed by copyright law, but modifying the binaries to do what you want them to do? Absolutely fine.

It's like with cars - obviously someone put a huge amount of work into making them, they contain a huge amount of software in them, yet the idea that the manufacturer tells you what you can or cannot do with it after purchase is ridiculous(and yes, I know some companies like Tesla are already trying).
The official communication here was that it was unclear whether masks increased or decreased spread.

The fear was two fold. That people would be sloppier with social distancing when wearing masks. That handling masks wrongly would increase the mask wearers risk of getting infected.

So it was not perceived as a zero-cost intervention here at least.
Not necessarily stuff you can work on, but stuff that doesn't come with vendor lock. If the manufacturer is the only one who can fix the product, you've got yourself a subscription.
What country to you live in?

Because in the UK, taking an item that has very clearly been donated is regarded as theft and can be prosecuted as such (particularity for such a valuable item donated to a library). The fact that it was poorly secured is neither here-nor-there and would be considered victim blaming.

I'm surprised somebody would openly admit to such a thing on HN. Perhaps cultural differences are at play.
Sorry, this fell out of my head for a few days.

It was a ~1000-person national level game in a fantasyish setting, and one of the game elements was that you were explorers and colonists in a strange new land, and you could send messages to your supporting factions "back home" to request support or supplies or whatever. Those messages had to be carried by a ship belonging to a trade house, and any supplies that your supporters sent you had to come back by the same method, and all the trade houses were represented by player groups on the field...

So yeah, a group of players would write to their "sponsors", and my group (as one of the trade houses) would open their letter, see what they were requesting and then forward the letter to the game organisers. The organisers would play the part of the remote sponsor, and send a letter back, which we'd open and read to see what orders the players were being given and what support they could expect (then we'd reseal the letter and deliver it). This positioned us super well to sell them exactly what they needed to achieve those goals, at an only slightly elevated "rush" price.

We didn't open every letter, and we didn't scam everyone - we made most of our money legitimately. But it was a fun side-game.
It sounds like most of the MIQ slots will not be released. (But apparently MIQ demand is dropping, perhaps because we're heading into winter, and/or because vaccination is going well in some countries.)
I’m not sure you can count the probability this way. Each touch is a separate event, and for each touch you have 1 in 10000 chance of infection. So, it’s 1 * 720 / 10000 * 720.
It was me that originally shared he had a Signal account. But I didn't send him a message, because frankly - I had nothing to say to him.

I am curious, what did send to him? Also, do you often send messages to people you don't know via chat apps linked to phone numbers?
I just remember moving to word from clarisworks and thinking omg this software is so much more capable.
We've had mixed experience with Databricks, to be honest. The quality and responsiveness of support we were getting was not worth the amount of issues we were seeing + the considerable cost, so we decided to use "exit strategy to DIY Spark" (using the original post's terms) instead and we're pretty happy so far.
I'm curious about this too, if anyone has tried both.
Not using or deleting social media was a big one. I’m a little out of the loop since I’m not on Facebook but I hear about everything important via word-of-mouth now, which feels more intimate.

Not using my phone at night. I try not to use it when we’re watching something at night and never in bed.

Only checking email and Slack every hour or two when in work mode. The less the better. More responses to messages from me means more messages to me.
There is also the issue that big companies are usually watched more and have regulatory teams making sure they follow rules. I believe in the UK that small businesses are far worse for minimum wage violations.
Feit Electric appears to be still in business. What do you mean "they went bust?"
Maybe you can rewrite his statement as "your code is not idiomatic to Rust"?
But doesn't getting caught poisoning customers result in destitution too?
Are you implying I'm British? (I'm American.)

I don't really get your comment. It sounds important, could you say it again another way?
didn't stross also work as a programmer at digicash, which admittedly entirely failed as a digital currency, so there's that...?
As others have said, the key not being easy to clone is a feature.

While I understand why this is and which threat models this addresses, I still think that this shouldn't be an all or nothing proposition.

In the general case, meaning not for people with access to "secure systems" (corporate) or who are high-profile enough to have reason to believe that they themselves may be a target, I think that having "less secure" keys which can be cloned by "non-techies" might still be an improvement to the overall security of the internet.

I didn't do any research, but according to the linked Kickstarter page:

Solo V2 greatly reduces the risk of security breaches, as over 80% of all breaches are caused by passwords compromised through phishing email attacks.

So physically stealing credentials isn't as widespread a risk as phishing, which doesn't really surprise me. Therefore I think Webauthn with "cloneable" keys would be a net positive for "regular people".

This wouldn't preclude "techies" from using more secure, unclonable keys like the Yubikey & friends. But my grandma could also use a "less secure" one without the risk of having to go through resetting 100 different sites and would be able to setup a new key just by having me walk her through the process of restoring a key from a backup. I'm a "techie" and even I would like such a key for use on random "must absolutely register" websites.

Of course there's the issue that if the key is lost you can't easily revoke it. But even with the proposed system of having a backup key registered or going through the recover account process, as long as you don't actively go unregister the lost key it's still registered and working. So if the authentication is based on some sort of counter, the process of effectively disabling the lost token shouldn't be any harder in this configuration.
How about no sound? It scared me when Apple brought back the macOS startup sound lol.
As a reluctant PGP user who has backed Solo Keys v2 for 4+ for personal use, and who has written Rust code in the pursuit of using PIV over OpenPGP, this answer is disappointing.

Age isn't there. It does NOT have good (read, right now, really, any) support for hardware tokens. I'm skeptical of what I've seen. And age still punts on authentication. And PIV still doesn't have decent keys at decent sizes standardized and thus is awkward to use in practice.

I'm really not convinced, and I really want to be. I wrote a bunch of forward-looking Rust, and then permanently backburner-ed it because age/yubikey just isn't there yet.

Using FIDO2 for SSH, when you're used to the portability and versatility of OpenPGP, stinks. I can use my Yubikey perfectly to do SSH and GPG in Windows. I can forward SSH agent and GPG from Windows to Linux such that it is identical in functionality to me sitting in front of my actual Linux box with my Yubikey plugged in. I have never seen that done with PIV.

I have this extreme fear that I'm going to wind up with four solokeysv2 that just sit in a drawer.
This is of interest because Newfoundland had a zero local covid policy up until now. So 100% of their outbreak is of the UK variant, first jurisdiction in the world. They have about 300 cases currently after a few days of detection.

As the variant looks set to overtake north america around the end of march this outbreak is a small window into the future.

I avoided editorializing the title but wanted to clarify why this article is notable.
Haha, if there were no problems to solve, you wouldn't need to spend time solving problems:P

This theoretical world would need code monkeys and not engineers
Understanding that these are valuable engineering tasks makes you a good manager. Doing them makes you a good engineer
I agree with a few of the points, but it lost me at Tesla. I like my Tesla a lot because it’s a really well designed product, not because of some Elon Musk story.
I assume the solokey generates its master key on-device. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard for it to perform Diffie Hellman key exchange with another device to get a shared secret (at first setup) then they could be a cloned pair.
I keep one of my keys in a fireproof safe at home, and the other on my keychain as my daily driver. If a site allows me to enroll multiple U2F keys, I just bring the backup to work (my home office, currently) with me the next day and enroll it then. For sites that only allow a single key (looking at you, AWS), I will usually enroll the key I have on me, and then when I have both, I write the same TOTP seed to both keys (usually by scanning the QR code with each key plugged into my phone before entering the one-time code used to verify and finalize TOTP enrollment) and use that instead so that there's effectively a TOTP duplicate.

This gives me a pretty convenient list of sites I've set up the Yubikey with (at least for TOTP), since Yubico's OTP app lists all the sites I've used it for.

If a site only allows a single U2F key to be registered, I'd rather have a backup with TOTP over the better security of a single U2F key, so this arrangement works reasonably well for me.
> They are anatomically more distant from modern Humans, than any group of modern Humans from each other.

This makes them different subspecies, which humanity no longer has.
Alternatively the X is a very old assembly notation for "pair". 8-bit registers on 8080 processors could be paired together to work as a single register. Operations performed on these register pairs used the letter X.

You can look here at the original 8080 reference manual:

https://altairclone.com/downloads/manuals/8080%20Programmers...

For example page 4 lists the name of instructions, INR is "increment register" while INX is "increment register pair", similar notation is used for several other instructions where the X is the register paired version of an instruction.

In the case of the AX register, it likely just refers to the pair of AH and AL registers.

At any rate, it's really interesting glancing over the various 8086 reference manuals. Gives me a deep sense of appreciation for how far things have come and how things have managed to build upon what are otherwise some very simple and fundamental building blocks.
This is the classic logical fallacy “affirming the consequent”. Look it up.
If the virus is mainly spread by coughing and sneezing, wouldn’t mandating absolutely everyone to wear a regular mask that covers their own cough be enough? Better than all these quarantine measures?

If you are caught without a mask you get fined.

How else can people get the virus? Perhaps people shed the virus through their skin? Or touch their face and get it on their hands? So people can wash their hands before touching their face. Also people can get it in their private homes. But those groups don’t mix all the time.

So I am just wondering... N95 masks are for the person who doesn’t want to get the virus. But what about everyone else?

I understand that you could wear the mask crooked and there are problems with application. But mass producing N95 masks and giving them out and MANDATING everyone wearing them like women in Saudi Arabia seems like a better policy.
> It is almost like authorities didn't want anyone to start asking why the public couldn't get masks, as they can in say Taiwan.

It appeared to be very common for citizens to wear masks in eastern Asia long before this pandemic. I'm not the least bit surprised they were more prepared to scale up production.
Archive.is is inaccessible via Cloudlfare DNS, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
It cannot communicate at faster than light speed. That is probably the limitation you are thinking of.