skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, labeling it as “panic” is just dismissive. What constitutes panic vs. what is responding rapidly and vigorously to a critical emergency is in the eye of the beholder.

It can be both. The actions of individual citizens in Singapore, HK and other countries with a small number of cases certainly seem to be panic: buying more instant noodles than they could eat in a year, buying every toilet paper roll available, buying so many face masks that rations are introduced, and so on. Some government actions also appear to be going beyond what is necessary to respond; for example banning travel from country A to country B, when country A has fewer cases than country B itself.

> Secondly, it’s possible to trust the experts and also think that the proper measures are not being taken. The experts are the epidemiologists, virologists, doctors, public health officials, etc. who are working on this outbreak, and they seem pretty damn concerned. I’ve read very few statements that suggest this is likely to blow over, and many more that show a widespread opinion among the experts that containment is unlikely and that this is very serious. But the experts don’t run the world, politicians and bureaucrats and business leaders do. And they have different interests and incentives. There are also likely discussions behind the scenes that we don’t know about. The WHO could be urging countries to shut down all air travel but leaders are reluctant to do so for fear of the political backlash.

The WHO, in fact, has mostly suggested a more measured approach to air travel restrictions than what many governments have decided to take. Most of the expert opinions I've read have presented a number of different paths this could take, and suggested a lot of uncertainty as to the likelihood of each. This is sensible. Meanwhile, most of the forum posts and comments that I've read have strongly emphasised the worst possible cases, and continued to do so as the worst path that previously could have happened (which they were implying was a virtual certainty), didn't.

> All you have to do is look at how China treated the doctors who reported on this back in December to see how “trust the people in charge” is not the same as “trust the experts”.

I'd be the last person to suggest trusting China's leadership, but neither am I inclined to assume that the measures taken by other governments in response to this are entirely based on expert advice or even entirely for health-related reasons.

> If China had clamped down on this six weeks earlier than they did, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Maybe.
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I'd continue using the Walmart app to pay in their stores even if they did start supporting Apple Pay on their terminals.

That's because those sales show up as being in the "online shopping" category for my credit card despite actually taking place in store, and I've got a card with very good cash back rewards for online shopping.
Not even close.

The banking startups are collecting account holder information so they can turn around and upsell you on credit cards and other products.

But it gets better ...

There is no such thing as a startup bank in the US because the government doesn't grant bank charters anymore. All those new companies aren't banks at all. They piggyback on top of an existing bank or the ACH network.

That's why none of them say FDIC-approved, since they can't be part of FDIC.
wasn't the original version of git mostly entirely shell scripts?
People requesting FISA warrants are in agencies like the NSA. They’re not in the White House determining international policy. Hell, with this president, most of what they say is ignored!

What prison forever without a trial? Are you talking about the few captured during war in Guantanamo? Again, this is not the judges running secret courts that ok FISA requests.

If you’ve ever worked in a large company, you’ll see the diversity of opinions, dominions, political battles, and generally chaos. And yet the public sees the output as unified, when the input was anything but. Now just imagine the government, far bigger in size, full of people that came from all kinds of backgrounds and ways — thru elections, normal job applications, the military, etc... from a variety of political backgrounds and moral standards.

I encourage you not to paint with such broad brushstrokes.
Count me in! I am first initial (which you can see in my username) followed by "beland" on google's email service.
The primary means of getting around in Singapore is public transportation (bus, train).
Today the cdc had a press conference announcing the quarantine release of 195 people who flew into the US from Wuhan, based on the assumption that being asymptomatic for 14 days is good enough [0]. Last I heard, WHO is calling the upper limit on incubation 24 days. This release is being done without any actual testing.

Edit: seems all I can find from WHO is 14 days, the 24 day estimate was from this paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v... (thanks to u/pmorici below)

[0] https://youtu.be/JW1ntWFiZNI
> The "good guys" (telco/law enforcement) have strict criterias to access it, like court order.

The good guys have a non-transparent approval mechanism for permission which no one can audit. In reality, you have no basis for claiming it's an effective overall control mechanism because none of us can see most of the data. Further, there have been numerous documented cases of abuse like intelligence officials spying on their significant others, parallel reconstruction on cases where secret data shouldn't have been used, etc.

An administrative policy control where application of the control is handled by the people holding the data with 0 auditing by anyone outside the system is not a strict control. Do I trust American intelligence more than the Chinese government or Huawei? Definitely, but that does not let American intelligence off the hook or justify what they are doing with mass data collection.
Should all new vehicles need the latest safety equipment that increase their insurance cost and put them outside the budget of the poor? It’s always possible to err on the side of zero percent risk at infinite cost.
Thanks. I do understand where you're coming from - your original claim makes sense in that context :-)
You can't deny the drop in women entering the field. The touchy feely "oh it's man's field, something something society" explanation isn't really supported by data (or by other similar fields). I'd say the shift in education is the biggest factor in why we see so few women in CS today. For sure a myriad of other shifts were pushing women out 5 decades ago, but it's telling how absolute the demographic shift has been despite not seeing the same shift in other white collar professions.
The phone tells you the sequence every time. You double-press the button, it shows the FaceID prompt. You authenticate with FaceID, it tells you to hold it near the reader.
For purposes of discussion, I think they consider 102 years outside the range of “modern times”
>My understanding is that masks offer only minor protection against getting it, but help a lot against spreading it. They don’t stop a virus but they catch the snots.

Correct.
Westlaw page numbers and Lexis citations. Carl Malamud has been involved in a number of struggles in the US. Mostly since Feist things have gone in the direction of intellectual freedom in the US and intellectual privatization in the EU.
Notice of DMCA Removal for TwoBitHistory from Google
books by this author: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~dosreist/

Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java , Course Technology, 2004

Compiler Construction Using Java, JavaCC, and Yacc, IEEE/Wiley, 2012
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The subsidize with money, but not blood. The poor red states send their young off to die in wars for the blue states. If you add some value to the death of the young, it evens out.
Spotting Logical Fallacies
That's kind of what I was trying to describe there.
We, at some point, had a Knowledge Sharing event every week. The goal was just go round the table and every developer would share something they learned that week. As I was the senior developer at the time I would usually bring something that I learned or from CS, like a nifty algorithm or how Hashmaps are implemented in C#. Other people would share some bugs or unexpected behaviour. I liked it a lot and I felt that the team did as well. Sadly we stopped doing it, as there was a reorganisation that impacted our ability to do it.
I always felt like the relational model, SQL, and the extensions and add-ons like PL/SQL come from people with totally different worldviews and make quite a mess together. I couldn't design something better than PL/SQL, but it just seems so, so wrong to me.

On the other hand, the purists* who rant about nulls, I think have missed something as well.

But on the whole, I would like to see something related to SQL, that tries to improve it without grafting things on, that has an overall vision and an approach of simplifying and making it more coherent. Not being committed to the syntax, and wanting to close the loop more between manipulating data and manipulating the language itself.

I don't know, if you say SQL is a functional programming language, ok, and you take some common functional language that has nice syntax and make it consistent with the relational model, what do you get?

*Of which my impression was formed by (IIRC):
"Relational Database Writings, 1989-1991 by C. J. Date"
(which Amazon seems to want over $1,000 for right now, in paperback)
What does this trending start ups list ...mean?
If copyright law didn't favor megacorps more than the rest of us, they would have lobbied copyright law out of existence years ago.
I am no expert, but the wiki mentions the biography and that he disputes the claim made there. You are right it is inconsequential either way.
This is essentially adding a blob inside .git/objects by taking a sha1 hash of the data after appending a header "blog <length>\00<data>". Then the first two characters of the hash are created as a directory and the remaining 38 acts as the file name inside which the zlib compressed data is stored. Nice project for learning the git internals.
US scam: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-ho...

UK scam: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
I call it the Wuhan Bat Plague and the sickness it causes the Wuhan Bat Plague Sickness.
If the state is as unethical and as shady as claimed, why bother with FISA and warrants? Why not just do whatever you feel like, because as you say, anything goes?
Have you got a link for the 24 days? The best I could find is that we're totally guessing things at this point. CDC says:

> CDC believes at this time that symptoms of 2019-nCoV may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 after exposure. This is based on what has been seen previously as the incubation period of MERS viruses.
lol. It was a complete system with accounts, billing, 'tui' screens, all glued together by scripts, kron jobs, and awk text processing. It definitely embodied The Unix Way™ of everything is a file and small tools you can pipe in/out to to build larger systems. They did.
This is an over-simplification. The "fitting in cache" is quite complicated, and as a good rule of thumb exceptions make cache locality less optimal even if you rarely call them. There is little that is "branch-free" about exception code, it literally implies branching.

For performance-sensitive code, I've yet to find a real-world case where exceptions out-perform exception-free code. Nor have I seen much in the way of contrary evidence among people that care about performance.
I can promise that they'll be saying this a decade from now too, without much changing.
What exactly are you implying?
The Unix Operating System (1982)
A software solution would be that graffiti Android keyboard, a hardware solution would be the FXTech pro 1, which is among the first landscape Android slider smartphones to come out in years.
agee was a mere case officer and knew about minerva, wrote about it in the book he published in the 70s.

Agee was higher up in the intelligence hierarchy than Snowden and the MINERVA secret, while a fairly big deal, is not nearly as big of a deal as 'NSA can break some kinds of modern crypto' would be.

More importantly, I think you're misreading what the new writeups on this story say about Agee's knowledge. He doesn't mention MINERVA and didn't know anything about the BND-CIA joint infiltration of the company. Here's what he writes in Inside the Company:

The National Security Agency cannot break this code system mathematically but they can do so if sensitive recordings can be obtained of the vibrations of the encrypting machine when the discs clack to a stop. The recordings are processed through an oscilloscope and other machines which reveal the disc settings. Knowing the settings, NSA can put the encoded messages, which are intercepted through the commercial companies, into their own identical machines with identical settings, and the clear text message comes out. Although the Swiss manufacturer when selling the machine emphasizes the need to use it inside a sound-proof room on a table isolated by foam rubber, we hope this particular code clerk is careless. If we can discover the settings on this machine in Montevideo, NSA will be able to read the encrypted UAR messages on the entire circuit to which their Montevideo Embassy pertains.
1920 was literally one hundred years ago.
Compiling everything, code audits, pen testing.
30% profit margin, why change anything?
The dreaded generic object table* is something I think people have put in SQL databases forever and will continue to do so, so it seems superficially logical to me to say "why not just use an object store of some sort?"

*I have experience with a system, not designed by me, that had one, and we were always going to redo/split it but never did.
Like OpenNIC?
Maps and charts have been statutorily subject to copyright in the US since the Constitution was ratified. Facts, on the contrary, have been protected from copyright.
Or maybe it just means that someone spent 10% of their time at Google trying to make something cool and it's not a serious project.
If I wound up on a host in /rescue mode awk would be my go-to to fix up 'convert this to that' changes, maybe even grobble into the piped inputs of other commands to get debug data marshalled up. If you have a bigger system, there are better tools. If you have to live in the small state of a /rescue, knowing how to use sed/ed/grep/awk is data-saving.

Sometimes people observe I'm using three tools with pipes to do one job, and I freely admit grep <pat> file | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/this/that/g' is probably stupid, but I do think of these atoms as tools for the job. Grep aside, sed and awk should be fully interchangeable for many pipe jobs, and when not BEGIN{} ... END{} you could do the whole thing in awk or sed simply. If it has pre- and post- states, Awk is ideal. But.. the mind does what the fingers remember.

Pipes are cheap.
Intangible Assets: A Hidden but Crucial Driver of Company Value
The big change between 1980 and now is before that the FTC considered market concentration when deciding to allow a merger or not. Now they only consider whether the merger is likely to raise prices for consumers. Which just boils down to the company pinky swearing not to gouge the public 'too much'
> these telecom equipment come with advanced diagnostic capabilities that are not accessible by anyone other then their own RND department.

In these days of Meltdown and Spectre and TSX Speculative Attacks, I'm not too sure anymore.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/magazin...
usgs.gov

merriam-webster.com

They are in good company.
Primary account number, the 16 digit card number.
As a teen, I used to go see movies for a buck. The movies were months old by the time they got to the dollar theater. I always wondered how they made their money. Eventually, I found out that they paid very little to the distributor but they were able to make a big profit from the snack so it was worth it for them to do it.
Interestingly enough, Ars Technica is reporting today that NASA pegged the cost of meeting this timeline at $35B (https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/nasa-puts-a-price-on...) so your estimate of the cost of a Manhattan Project and my suggestion that it was that order of magnitude seem to both be correct!
It's the hidden camera that broadcasts over the Internet thing that kills Airbnb for most people.

I could never in good conscience book an Airbnb for any friend or family member.
Well, it also includes creating tree and commit objects, and reading and writing the git index.
Public transit in SG is heavily air conditioned.
It's pretty clear that they do. Read about SOD, for example.

Or official policy on StingRays and stuff. Basically, telling investigators to lie to prosecutors and judges.
Von Neumann was a friend and colleague of Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory (mathematical theory of communication). Back then, it was a really small world of scientists working in this field. Von Neumann, Turing, and Shannon spent a lot of time complimenting each other's work. Shannon eventually discovered that information encoding/decoding is optimally done as a collection of bits (the name was later coined by John Archibald Wheeler "it from bit"). At some point Shannon recommended to Turing that his machine could be whittled down to only two states. Von Neumann was inspired by Turing's work, which led him to create the Von Neumann architecture. Von Neumann was brilliant but he relied heavily on Shannon and Turing, and vice versa. And to answer your question... Shannon wrote a paper on that very subject out of deep admiration of his friend Von Neumann. https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.bams/1183522...
ok, so 20k * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days * 3 years = 31,536,000,000 rows. You are querying 31.5 billion rows on a machine with 4 cores and 8gb ram? Are queries that return in 5-10 seconds running over the entire table? or small portions of it?
Useless aside: I used to do phone support for retail stores and when the EFTPOS went down I had to guide them through the process of using the counterfoil machine.

No one would know what I was talking about unless I referred to it as the "click-clack" machine.

Now I can only think of them using that name.
Modern desktop operating systems don’t limit the number of processes actually running. iOS limits the type of apps that can run in the background and will kill a process that uses to much cpu or RAM.

iOS is optimized to consume as little power and memory as possible.
Don’t understand the gun paragraph
What do you mean without actual testing? Those people have been under observation for two weeks.
Never heard of this 24 day incubation period. Every country is using 14 as a guideline.

Sounds like fear mongering to me.
New Hampshire town's voting system is 130 years old
>More and more gas stations are upgrading their pump POS pads so i can refuel my bike without digging under my armour for my wallet.

This is literally the first time I've heard a use case that would actually make me care about contactless versus a swipe/insert. Grabbing my phone off the RAM mount would be considerably easier pulling my gloves off and trying to fish out my wallet.

In the past, I've always been incredibly apathetic toward the "convenience" factor of contactless, but that's a real -- if niche -- win.
Apologies, I'm not sure if I misremembered, misattributed, or if that was an actual previous estimate from WHO. Everything I can find now seems to be around 14 days, with the Japanese govt using 16 as a lower bound for the cruise ship. I swear WHO was publishing 24 in a sitrep last week, maybe I just haven't found it yet.

From the WHO Q&A page,

> Current estimates of the incubation period range from 1-12.5 days with median estimates of 5-6 days. These estimates will be refined as more data become available. Based on information from other coronavirus diseases, such as MERS and SARS, the incubation period of 2019-nCoV could be up to 14 days. WHO recommends that the follow-up of contacts of confirmed cases is 14 days.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
Perl was 10x faster in benchmarks I did than awk. When Yahoo benchmarked scripting languages, mod_perl won but they chose PHP anyway.

Also Perl has better support for programming-in-the-large than awk, with modules, lexical scoping and CPAN.

Booking.com, IMDB and I believe the Amazon frontend are all written in Perl.
The 24 days reference is from this paper

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
None of which can tell you that the hardware isn’t doing something different, for sure. Code audits don’t mean much if the code you’re given isn’t what you’re running.
Source for Kushner phone call claim?
HTML Imports are not standard and have been removed from Chrome. <script type="module" src="my-component.js"> is indeed the single accepted standard.
Delivery being costly is a myth propagated by Big Cloud®. Any dollar store VPS that isn't DO will have more than enough for streaming video all day every day.

That's irrelevant, though, given the person's question was about storage and archival.
Plausible deniability most likely. They can give a private key to someone or leave a default login somewhere and claim ignorance.
They were at a US military base.. Surely the US military has better information than the WHO...
Their Azure platform is very closed.
Just today this happened to me! I ordered a 6 pack of batteries and got a box of 6 packs of batteries. Now I’ve got enough for the rest of my life!

I had already read this thread, and first thing I check is the barcodes. The box of packs of batteries has the same barcode as the package of batteries itself.

https://twitter.com/blaines/status/1227430981134516224?s=20
Really? Early modern Britain is roughly the 16th to 18th century. Postmodernism and Other Essays was published in 1926. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_era is 1500 CE and later. If they intended to refer to such a nonstandard definition, don't you think they'd have been explicit about it rather than leaving readers to argue about it? Either they meant specifically that pandemic or they were just bullshitting with no concern for the truth-value of their utterance.

Note that the mortality figures they're bandying about do intersect with the 1918 flu pandemic mortality rates at the high end.
Plus they make others feel better since they don’t know anything about if I’m sick or not.
Your flow misses a critical point. You can have a long pause after FaceID, but before tapping. This means that you can, say, authenticate while the grocer is ringing up each item, sit there until they finish, and only then tap.

Pull phone out → double-click wallet button → Authenticate face → Pause for a long time → Hold next to reader → done.
Do Economists Have Too Much Power?
Thanks! For the record, the actual quote is:

> The median incubation period was 3.0 days (range, 0 to 24.0 days)
Can you ELI5 both? I don't get it.
Sounds about right! Here's another: https://benhoyt.com/writings/learning-go/ ... I ported a medium-sized web backend in Python to Go.

"Due to Go’s static typing and because I was using fewer libraries, I expected that the code would end up being more than twice as many lines of code. However, it was only 1900 lines of Go (about 50% more than the 1300 lines of Python)."

"The porting effort was very smooth, and a lot of the business logic was almost mechanical, line-for-line porting of the original Python. I was surprised how well many Python concepts translate to Go, right down to the things[:20] slice notation."