skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't want to make it sound like you are promoting a conspiracy, sorry, it's just that everyone treats the numbers as somehow manipulated. My point is that the current numbers are all that we have - we are mostly technical people here - looking at them, there is no obvious statistical anomaly to say that yes, China is hiding something from us. Maybe the numbers are not fully accurate, and it's too early to tell, but these are the stats that we have, there is no reason for jumping on the bandwagon and questioning everything now. You can't really hide things at this global scale, no government wants to bomb its economy and cause an epidemic by hiding the infections, I just think that people/countries handling this are overwhelmed and not prepared, there is no malice. It would be good for people to be rational about this and help others be properly informed, and right now it looks more like a desire in a lot of places for something big or bad to happen, I don't see some worried, more like hungry for bad news.
What level of expected infections and deaths would justify their panic, and how much do your estimates differ from those numbers?
No, escape means keep, in HTML for instance Ø would become &#216; escaped, but it is still there visible, same as every other character.
Clearview AI's Entire Client List Was Stolen
Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter
Very interesting point, although this population should be very small (people with transplants or treating rheumatic deseases with biologicals).
I really don't understand why there is a big hype towards IPFS which is still in development stage although, there are other options which are already out and working like Sia - Skynet which is not even getting a fraction of attention IPFS is getting.
Please stop comparing COVID-19 to the flu.

The flu infects 50 million people in the US every year and kills 0.1% of them.

COVID-19 appears to have higher mortality by at least 20x.

It also appears to be more contagious.

But if it can't be contained before a vaccine is ready, and assuming it only infects the same number of people as the flu, a million could die.
Agreed. Hypothetically, there was a quarantine going on, but it was pretty half assed.
From WikiPedia

"Any software is source available software as long its source code is distributed along with it, even if the user has no legal rights to use, share, modify or even compile it."

If you are telling me that we are closer to a source-available license (e.g. which doesn't even allow its users to compile the code) than an open-source license, that is being unfair.

Yes, that preserves the "sanctity of open-source" but does it help the community in the long run? The world will only have vendor locked in SaaS like Segment and volunteer-run open-source products (which no doubt has produced great products but at a much much smaller scale).

We are not trying to mislead our users. We make our license very clear and that's why I am trying to defend it on this thread too. I could have not replied on the top thread and stayed silent - would have saved some karma points from all the downvotes :)

We are engineers, not a licensing expert nor do we have the money to pay for attorneys so whatever we are saying is self-learnt. SSPL may not be the right license but we need to find a solution. But just kicking us out saying we are not open-source by the book will not help the movement.
In the US, you can get the flu shot at Wall-Greens. No doctor visit necessary. Insurance usually covers the entire cost, but I think it’s pretty cheap otherwise.
That video towards the bottom is awesome. I've never been in a CEO meeting but I don't think many dev leads are presenting data like that.
Do a search on HN for "Github down". It happened a lot before the Microsoft acquisition in mid-2018. Perhaps what you're saying is true, but your comment is entirely not relevant to this outage.
Strongly disagree with this attitude, enough to think you may be trolling or playing devil's adovcate - please explain if not.

> Your coworker can and should ask for a raise. Your boss may say no, but no one gets fired for asking for a raise.

H1B visa abuse does result in people getting fired and their visas dropped for asking for a raise. No one will say that outright, but other reasons can be found after someone disturbs a stable situation.

> Either way, you should limit your helpfulness here. I understand how you feel, but your coworker's pay and your boss's desire to pay him are not your responsibility.

People should absolutely work together to help each other. If someone is being harmed because they lack protections or abilities that you possess, and you have the ability to remove or reduce that harm, I feel strongly that you have a moral responsibility to help.

> You will work with many underpaid and overpaid people in your career. Underpaid people will teach your kids and pick up your garbage.

Don't confuse the way the world is with the way the world ought to be.

> If you want to help your coworker, put the energy into systemic change (donations, political activity, voting) rather than trying to take the steering wheel of his career. It may be less welcome than you assume (or he lets on).

Do both. It's true that this local situation is the result of larger systemic factors, but and individual has little power to make systemic change and great power to make local changes. You can't "Take the steering wheel of his career" but you can assume your coworker is being honest if he's asked for your help and be intentional to publicly compliment the good work he's done with the goal of being his advocate where he cannot do that.
Incentives. If a system is designed to convict (prosecutors are measured on conviction rates, not "justice" or "the truth"), it will bias towards tools that enable meeting those metrics. You get what you measure.

We need tooling to better understand when people have been wrongfully convicted using inaccurate forensics sciences so they can more quickly get their case re-evaluated (and speed exoneration if warranted). If someone from Code For America sees this, consider such a tool (similar to what has been built to rapidly expunge marijuana convictions in states that have legalized it).
I thought part of this is about something like all parents of a household work and there isn’t spare money. So how is the child staying at home taken care of. A general curfew would I assume mean you still go to work. Or did you mean a Curfew of you can’t leave your house unless you have permission at all, 24/7?
As a founder of an SF tech company that now makes tens of millions of dollars a year, our revenue was never enough (or made fast enough) for the investors we talked to when we were raising our early rounds. Sometimes, if we made $X in 6 months, the VC's "no" was "We would have liked to see you make that in 3 months". It's why I have a tough time watching Silicon Valley -- it's too accurate and painful to watch.
Yes. It's the word "sanitize" itself that misleads people. It creates the mindset that input from users is dirty and must be made clean, and "clean" is "safe" to use in any context.

(I've seen the line of thought taken one step further: taking the realization that it's impractical to make strings universally safe for any context—even if you HTML entity-encode it twice, what if a recipient decodes it three times?—and concluding that security is hard and we can only approach it asymptotically, so shrugs XSS-like bugs are normal and unavoidable given finite time & budget.)

If the mindset is more like converting units, it becomes clearer. You can't concatenate HTML with a general Unicode string without converting the string to HTML first, any more than you can add inches and centimeters directly. "Cleaning" the centimeters would make no sense.
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All this talk about the meta game on war games makes me remember the Ender's Game book, which was heavily based on how Ender was able to adapt quicker than his opponents to new rules and war scenarios.

I kind of remember reading that the book was even recommended in the military.
Yes, you're right. It's "featured".
Is OP is asking for help with their own situation? "I have a friend who..." is a common way to do that.

It also brings light to a hard situation that many people may be ignorant of.
> 1. Iran has more young people.

Just wondering if that's true. It does look like that's the case:

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$entities$show$geo$/$...
EDIT:

--- As the replies to my comment indicate I have totally misunderstood the paper. And there IS in fact evidence that the temperature changes the transmission. Sorry my bad. leaving the rest as is ---

> I'm hoping Spring ends up curtailing the pandemic; letting warmer temperatures do their work requires slowing down the virus' spread as much as possible, and that requires significant disruptions to people's everyday lives.

from this paper "Temperature significant change COVID-19 Transmission in 429 cities":
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.22.20025791v...

> There is no evidence supporting that temperature changes COVID-19 transmission. Methods: We collected the cumulative number of confirmed cases of all cities and regions affected by COVID-19 in the world from January 20 to February 4, 2020, and calculated the daily means of the average, minimum and maximum temperatures in January. ....

EDIT: I'm also very worried about this point you mention:

> the PRC is putting the entire country on what amounts to wartime footing (in a way that's unimaginable to most HN readers),

the effect of isolation/quarantine can have massive psychological damage and after-effects (especially on kids), such as PTSD, depression, ... years after the virus is gone:

"The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Very much underrated. There isn't enough dialogue right now with the public about what they are likely to expect.
Lol, I feel ya! I’d love to chat more if you’re interested (e-mail on my HN profile)
AI comes to the Edge with SolidRun and Gyrfalcon's AI inference server
The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM
Rome has a logo of an ancient Greek spartan helmet. It's not very relevant since it's not Roman, but it looks cooler than a Galea.

“Galea” links to the much cooler Roman helmet, disproving this statement. Also given that this is a build environment, perhaps an icon incorporating, I dunno, a Roman building might be appropriate?
"Selling" is what I was getting at. When looking at the tail end of the funnel every other vendor is giving away drugs to hook kids when they're young. Tail distribution dealers can't afford to do this in contrast.

Another tell is that the ways to "prove" start-up status under most of the big providers' terms for cloud credit align more around "did you get VC funding?" than "are you small?" due to the longer lead time nature of bootstrapped start-ups. Most don't give you credits if you've been around 2+ years and soured on another provider. Maybe I just sucked at it but I was bootstrapping before and had trouble getting decent credit then.
#2 is a great idea for them - lets them dodge the UberEats/Foodora/etc fees I guess.

A shawarma place near my last job did the same with Ritual orders, whenever the owner noticed a regular he would ask them to just call the restaurant instead of ordering on the app.
> It is, however, quite clear that this virus is not as serious as SARS or especially MERS.

I know that the 'severity' of the virus often refers to how severe it is once you have it, but in the context of new viruses and pandemics, IMO 'severity' should refer to overall potential impact. Covid-19 blows SARS/MERS out of the water on that front given its different transmission profile and already-established footholds.
When we migrated to k8s we stuck with haproxy instead of using ingress for some of the reasons others have outlined already -- we've been running haproxy for a decade. Our configurations are tuned for our applications, we know the cpu usage and failure modes, and haproxy 1.9/2x support for srv records made it really easy. Bring able to trust k8s and our health checks and drop our previous 3 vm + vrrp setup was a no brainer!
I once registered for a forum to ask a question, but they had it configured so new users couldn't submit URLs, probably to deal with spam. Their solution was to reject posts that contained what looked like URLs which means any time you don't put a space after a period, it's probably a URL. Like "That is fine.Pizza is good." -> http://fine.pizza detected, post rejected

But it gets worse. I had a code block in my post and it was also detecting URLs in my code.

`console.log` -> URL detected!
In fewer words, be careful you’re not paving the road to hell with good intentions. It’s pleasant to believe America is the land of financial mobility and endless opportunity, that software developers are “special” and universally receive hundreds of job offers each with superb salary - but that is not the case for everyone.

In my sad experience deserving developers the world over are screwed over each and every day, particularly developers from India and Asia.
New Black Face: Neuland and Lithos as Stereotypography
Thanks for these pointers.

> https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/LangRef/#blocks

From the example there it's clear that the same value can have copies with different names, which would allow one to associate extra infos with the value used under certain names. In ^bb4 the same value can be accessed as %c, %d, or %e. In addition, this example really cannot be represented in the SSA flavor used by LLVM because LLVM does not have a copy instruction.

> Block Arguments vs PHI nodes: https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Rationale/#block-arguments-vs-phi....

That contradicts itself: "This choice is representationally identical (the same constructs can be represented in either form) [...] LLVM has no way to represent values that are available only in one successor but not the other".

I'm still not convinced that these are just different syntaxes for the same thing.
Let’s reflect on Amazon’s 99.999999999% (literally their number) durability on S3.
I can’t comment about the Chinese, but if you trust WHO, given who runs it, I also have a bridge to sell you.
Could you please talk more about your experience of moving back especially after 6 years of tech in US?
I really love the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT, connected to all GPIO Pins, with seperate USB cable! :D
Indeed I was.

The point I was trying to make, was that from productivity point of view, there are more relevant stuff to fix in C++ than algorithm complexity of STL implementations.

Like catching up with what Java 5 standard library offers for networking and parallel/concurrent programming.
TL;DR: the "wear" pattern are those light/dark marks on both sides of pants, along the seam, that would be "unique" to each jeans isn't enough to give a "true positive" identification keeping the "false positives" low enough.
You can’t get this upset when you haven’t posted any sources for your claims. I believe what you’re saying, but not everyone will give you the benefit of the doubt.
I've been at several places where this happened.

I was at a large web dev company where an employee put in his two week notice, then was able to access several of the companies servers and exfiltrate nearly every app or web site they had built in the last two years.

Rumor had it he was using the code to start a dev company on his own and this was the "seed" code that would help him get up and running much faster. AFAIK nothing ever happened to him legally.
To be clear, the "There is no evidence supporting that temperature changes COVID-19 transmission" is part of the background statement of the paper. The paper establishes evidence that temperatures do significantly effect transmission rates.
There is a very full worldwide calendar of lower-tier events that take place in the other 3.75 out of four years when the Olympics aren’t happening, some of which would have to be canceled to accommodate. There’s also the issue of clearing all of the massive hotel room blocks needed, and re-working the schedules of all of the Olympic venues.

It could probably be done, but it will be very painful.
30 minutes is easily 90% of a meal, even at city traffic speeds and minimum wage.

57.5 IRS mileage rate * 20 mph average over 30 minutes = $ 5.75

30 minutes US minimum wage = $3.625

Total: $9.375

This would be 90% of a $10.42 meal.
#2 is a great way to get kicked off those platforms as that's almost certainly against the rules of the platform.
> Intentions are meaningless

Are you a robot? Have some humanity...
While I agree with the overall sentiment, in the context of a novel pandemic, downplaying the risks is far worse than overplaying them IMO.
I trade them as digital commodities, which obliterates the stock-like value argument.

Oil was 23 cents a barrel once and people were worried about it crashing to 10 cents. The utility of oil had not expanded and it was a viscous substance without any intrinsic value, yet.

Oil doesn’t need to be physical to retain that reality.

Most commodities, including the largest cryptos, have options on them.

> really fall short on commodities trading, credit trading, crypto trading, amongst other markets.

Exhibit A
Honeybee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains
That got us on k8s faster and gave us time to evaluate if we /really/ needed a service mesh or not (we don't, but the tracing is nice so we might still add istio yet). We may move to ingress based solutions eventually but our ecosystem is big and there's a lot more bigger fish to fry for now!
This is comparing apples to oranges, and you know it.
Specifically, the US imposes/threatens to impose secondary sanctions ie anyone who does business with Iran is also supposed to be subject to sanctions by the US, even if they are not US companies/US parent companies. So those companies can't then themselves do business with US companies or in the US.
Durability isn't uptime.
Suggesting this model is short-lived is ignoring history. Grubhub has been running this model in the US since 1999 (originally as Seamless in NYC) [1]. It's very unlikely that its going anywhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grubhub
You seem to have missed the point entirely or not familiar with this group of publications. This hook is used to entice it's target pearl clutching readership, in order to maintain it's flailing subscriber base ─ even giving it away for free with a bottle of water! I am enclosing yet another facetious quote from the article, of which there are many, and have no relevance or bearing to the grave matter at hand.

At the end of January, Brexit had just been completed without incident.

Here is another dated example of a running theme, amongst many recent ones. I will let you look for them at your leisure. If you agree with it, good luck, you are a Tory.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-w...
They last indefintely, i.e. change the filter when it becomes clogged, which will be approximately never if you're not actually using it in a dusty environment. But check the manufacturer's instructions.
Yeah, this is just the poor UI of their provider, Atlassian Statuspage.
Yes. I don't deny anything you wrote, and there are other really helpful replies regarding strategies the colleague can use to work with his visa and employer status.

But given so many unknowns, it's quite irresponsible to give any actionable advice to the specific end of getting a raise at the current employer. Without knowing all the cards (a lot of which the friend has), worst thing that could happen is that the friends contract is terminated, without him having a secured another position.

If the intent was to increase the friends salary, then finding another employer would be the safest way to do it (without any other information).
when a user logs in, it's consent

when a user sends a http request to a remote server with a client that saves cookies on their behalf, it's not consent?

not arguing with you, per se, I just don't understand how sending a request to someone else has somehow become "involuntary" under the law. the server didn't come looking for you, your program asked it to send you the cookie.
Agreed. Maybe if the company wasn't doing the things they were doing they wouldn't have been targeted. I have about as much sympathy for them as I do for Hacking Team, FinFisher, et al after their respective breaches.
According to this map, Georgia doesn't even exist
Has anyone done Vaporwave Bart yet? ;)
From what I understand its API is overspecified to the point that it basically forces a "traditional" array-of-linked-buckets implementation, which can be horribly slow on modern processors due to the need to chase pointers. This means a lot of the potential performance improvements of allowing map elements to be unordered are lost.
"Don't contact us when your hangry, please wait until you've finished your cold meal".
If Github is down, the software developing world comes to a standstill. So people either get a coffee, take a shit or go to YCNews.
Conversely, if Hacker News was down GitHub would suddenly see a spike in traffic :)
Isn’t that being pedantic? Would any one think a pretty minor private company is forcing some one to do something by setting out rules beforehand?

No company forces bad work conditions on their employees either any more. Since you’re always free to leave. I’d think you can use force in cases like that though (IE at least previously some of Amazon warehouse worker issues)
Although a modern day Supreme Court judge is automatically referred to as Lord/ Lady, the peerage that would otherwise grant that title and forbids them from voting is not automatic. The Supreme Court are no longer Lords in fact as they were when they had the title "Lords of Appeal in Ordinary" and worked across the road in the House of Lords.

All current Supreme Court justices have a peerage, but in principle a disapproving Government could just tell Liz not to give them a peerage and they wouldn't get one. Whereas all the elected Government can do about a choice of new Justice itself is say "No" and ask the committee to pick again, the committee isn't obliged to do anything except pick the same person again - which would be a very pointed rebuke. So far of course no government has done that but the UK Supreme Court is young and these are interesting times.
Wish there was a non-insane costing 12 bay Thunderbolt array but because the market mostly consists of video professionals the math in cost and noise works out better to build a more traditional server anyway. 8+ drives won't be quiet. I've got my 8 drive array right behind me and the drives are the issue really.
>For example, in ideal conditions a tree might accumulate 20kg of CO2 in 40 years.

Are you sure it is not 20kg of CO2 every year for 40 years?
After all, dry wood is half carbon approximately.
"but at the same time a bit condescending to think that you can assist him by some techniques picked up at an internet forum"

I don't think it's condescending to show empathy for, and attempt to learn how to help a colleague.

At worst, it's naive, because OP may not understand what a complex circumstance it can be - but I've worked with a number of Americans who do not understand work visas at all and have no intention of learning more. It's good to see OP asking; this industry could use more people looking out for each other.
git is distributed...
As per the article, Hasura is focused on PostgreSQL now. They want to provide a similar experience for other databases also So that they can tap into multiple enterprise customers. Also, I think they are working on features to expose different REST APIs via unified GraphQL API.

It's a big enough problem space I think and it has lot of scope for innovation. Enterprise Integration is also quite a big market, so there is definitely an opportunity to create a profitable company there.