skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. So take a peek at the most active discussions and the "best" (most upvoted) lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

There's a lot of CDC/Cornoavirus in the /active list, and almost none (so far) in the /best list. And I suppose this is begging the question a little, but it doesn't seem out of place for coronavirus to be a big topic in /active. The first community transmission was just reported in the Bay Area, which means there will be a potential imminent impact to the daily lives of HN's biggest audience. Nevermind the already existing impact of travel and tech events being cancelled worldwide.
So a temperature is a number only as long as it's expressed in kelvins?
Learning to Detect Spyware Using End User License Agreements
Honestly, not many. It's a marketplace problem. There is always demand somewhere for a product that fits X taxonomy (eg. not perfect or at a lower cost due to market flucutations).

The issue is that the market is so gummed up with middlemen that exposing the supply and demand marketwide in real-time is difficult. That's what I've been working to reverse engineer.

One of the biggest improvements has come from on-site freeze packaging and the general improvements in cold storage tech.

You can either increase the speed of info in the market or decrease the "cost" of lagging info in the form of increasing shelf life. Both reduce waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU points out "PragerU was founded in 2009 by conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager and radio producer and screenwriter Allen Estrin,[7] in order to present conservative views and to offset what Prager regards as the undermining of college education by the left." ... "Vanity Fair said PragerU "packages right-wing social concepts into slick videos" and that PragerU was "one of the most effective conversion tools for young conservatives."[30]"

Their home page includes "Join PragerFORCE, our student ambassador program — the fastest-growing conservative digital army, fighting the war of ideas online and on campus." Their press releases include "PragerU’s Day in Court: Ninth Circuit Court to Hear PragerU’s Appeal August 27 as Censorship of Conservative Free Speech Continues".

So I think both general society and PragerU regard PragerU as "conservative."
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we're trying for a bit better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> 28,841 Total Restores

That puts it a little more into perspective. That's a much, much smaller number.

Now, how many "Backblaze lost my files", or 'I couldn't restore my data" stories are there? Hundreds of those (I'm speculating) would be bad, statistically.
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You have to balance that cost against the cost of not containing this outbreak, which is likely to be far, far more than that, not just in money but in lives.

It's also critically important to act quickly, as it's at the early stages when this outbreak has a chance to be stopped. If we keep waiting until it's obvious that there's a large outbreak in the US it may be way too late.

You don't have to test everyone in the US, or even anyone who has a cough, but everyone with severe symptoms of the disease should have been tested, regardless of whether they've recently been to China or had contacts with people who had.
> CVSS doesn't work, for the reasons I gave

You didn't give any reasons. If you want to have a civil discourse, at least try to justify your opinions.
This is hardly the first time that Mozilla has done this to its users (re: what happened to Firefox on the desktop).

Breaking people's experiences and worfklows in an extreme way is demonstrably not high on their list of concerns.
If I can use Perl, I can do it in one line of bash.
So it's like quuu.co, but it won't let me automate the sharing?

Are you planning that feature?
The scraping part is probably not the complicated portion of the endeavor.
For my own education, what is "Data Lake" ? Data wharejouse is "has-been" and that's the new hype way to call it ?
By far the worst food delivery as a service platform provider.
Could you allow the viewer to select the color of the case indicator? Or maybe just add a contrasting outline on the circles? I'm a not-at-all-uncommon type of colorblind, and I find it very, very difficult to make out red dots on green satellite image.
It's almost there </sarcasm>:

origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
rpi https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git

$ git diff --shortstat origin/linux-4.19.y..rpi/rpi-4.19.y
911 files changed, 321070 insertions(+), 5576 deletions(-)

$ git diff --shortstat origin/linux-5.4.y..rpi/rpi-5.4.y
810 files changed, 309964 insertions(+), 2518 deletions(-)

$ git diff --shortstat origin/linux-5.5.y..rpi/rpi-5.5.y
820 files changed, 308669 insertions(+), 2420 deletions(-)
The Evolution of a Norman Rockwell Cover (2018)
In the past, other remedies have been found. For some time, there was a status called "common carrier". Firms that were considered common carriers certainly were compelled to behave in certain ways. Now they've paid lobbyists and lawyers lots of money so that doesn't exist anymore. Still, it isn't inconceivable that legislators who really valued the public good could create a "common online service" status to cover this and similar situations.
"In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure." isn't covered by your response...
The explanation would be the desire to sell GIS products in a particular region.
Apparently enough of us care about it to make it to the front page... go figure
Unity8 Becomes Lomiri, the Linux Environment for Ubuntu Touch
How I made our cloud software self-hostable in a single Docker container
You assume recovered data is correct? Maybe it takes longer to be counted as recovered than it takes on average to die. This could change the rate
I mean, sure, but if you turn on the TV the ads are for erectile disfunction drugs — that’s where the money is. When it comes to funding a vaccine that needs to go out to a few billion people who can’t afford it, I’d put my lot in with the government.
A big shout-out to both Anki and Ankidroid. I wish there was a way to donate to them.
It seems like you are complaining about graphics in the article, but I'm not sure. If you read the article, it specifically talks about why those are not good visualizations and gives pointers on developing good ones.

For the 3D one specifically, right under the graphic, the article says:
"3D has a time and a place. It can be a really useful way to encode thematic data on the z-axis and make something useful. But extruding Hubei compared to the rest of the areas just doesn’t work. It’s gratuitous and adds nothing. It’s really hard to make any sense of relative amounts and that’s before we even deal with foreshortening and occlusion."
Map visualizations are the worst. The xkcd in how they are typically just population maps...
Trump cut CDC last year, I wouldn't look at it as an independent institution at this point. Trump is making the decisions.
Doing a mushy, sad fried rice at home is easy. But I think op was referring to the difficult of making -good- fried rice.

It's not the ingredients or prep that is hard, it's that you need a carbon steel wok and enough BTUs to keep that wok around 500F even while dropping cold ingredients into it.

Without a carbon steel or cast iron pan and enough constant temp, you won't get the "wok hei" which really affects flavor and texture.

J Kenji Lopez has a great write up on the difficulties of good fried rice at home. https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/06/the-food-lab-for-the-bes...
The only non sea creature derived animal product to make the list is Pork fat.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180126-the-100-most-nut...
Data bought from 23AndMe ?
> the process of turning data into coherent structures is input sanitization.

No, that is parsing.

> sanitization or validation or conformation - you can argue how to call it and where to use it

Sanitization is "change to make acceptable", validation is "check for conformance and reject what is non-conforming". The first one is practiced by tons of developers and it's a terrible idea, the latter is what you should do. But also, the latter is never about "dangerous" input, it's only about meaningless input.
Sounds like Gnome. They know better than users.

To make such changes, commercial products I've worked on did these steps:

1. test with some users in 1:1 sessions

2. incorporate the feedback (or consider dropping the alternative, if most all feedback was negative)

3. implement metrics

4. launch to 0.5 - 1% of users. See metrics AND feedback.

5. incorporate feedback

6. gradually launch to more

7. at some point, remove the old way

I agree it's hard to do these with volunteer work. That's how some hard issues are never solved, but Gnome gets new apps or rewrites on existing apps with almost every release -- that's the fun work. It's volunteered, so take it, or leave it, or DYI, or pay somebody.

PS: I've reached out to a few Mozilla staff via LinkedIn with a proposal for a new commercial product, but nobody replied. Anyone has a contact there?
Proposal: A Google Suite alternative for businesses, provided by Mozilla both as a cloud service and on-premise. Dual licensing, AGPL and Enterprise:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17czxzh20c8ouhrX-iZPS2BH8...
Not op but Google has been known to ban accounts, even well established ones, for either stupid reasons(like an expired payment method) or unknown reasons, and there's very little you can do about it - other then make a HN post and hope some Google engineers can talk to the right people.
Backblaze looks great, but I really don’t understand their encryption model, and why they made the choices they did. They’re so close to being properly end to end encrypted, but when you do a restore, the decryption is done on the server side. Why? Why not just bake that into the client?

Other systems like restic manage to do this correctly, why not the biggest player in the backup space?
> If I contract the corona virus, it'd be probably no different than contracting the flu, because I'm young, healthy, and I have easy access to healthcare (since I'm working).

That depends. The virus doesn't really care that you're young, healthy and have easy access to healthcare.

Yes, age is a factor, but you being young doesn't stop you from spreading it to those you love who may not be young, healthy and have easy access to healthcare.

That easy access to healthcare is predicated on a system that is not yet overloaded with cases in the 'critical' and 'serious' category.

It's all bell curves. So your personal perspective can (and will) shift as this thing develops.
I mean, so you pay teachers more. Government jobs weren’t always vilified, nor heavily underfunded. The shift happened with Milton Friedman in the 60s and 70s.
https://dev.to/dzello/meet-these-open-source-alternatives-to...
I think you and I are optimizing for different values. I don't know about yours, but I have two (among others):

1. Restructure society to become carbon neutral.

2. Restructure society to end throwaway culture.

I understand that to some people 2 is a secondary value derived from 1. For me, both are independent primary values, not derived from any other deeper value, or from each other.

I am fairly certain that, while local moves towards the two values sometimes seem in conflict, I think on the global scale, they are roughly in the same direction. So yes, I will buy cotton bags every half decade or so, so I don't use and throw away a minuscule volume of plastic bags, that are a symbol of the throwaway culture.
If that is the case and you are willing to brave another potential spoiler... this movie is setup in a way this iPhone spoiler is a much smaller reveal than it would be in most other whodunits. I can't say more without serious potential spoilers, but you would know what I mean if you see the movie. I wouldn't let this iPhone detail decrease your desire to see the movie.
Since you can't control the display there, but you can control how it's interpreted, you make it a non-issue by mapping them to the same thing in whatever is consuming the input.

Or just try all combinations, unless they entered o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 you're probably only going to have to try a small handful.
I think Cocoa is pretty noticeable.
Not healthy, but likely healthier than many vegetable oils or other unholy substitutes.
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Ross Ulbricht's Inrecredibly Lucrative Silk Road
I was the NCOIC of Knowledge Management for a US Army Sustainment Command many years ago. In order for any knowledge sharing program to be effective it must be supported (strongly) by senior leadership. This is the single most important consideration to your knowledge management proposal.

In order to have a mediocre knowledge management program there must be a knowledge sharing policy, some level of enforcement, and some form of centralization. Enforcement could be as indirect as a criteria of employee annual review. The knowledge products must also be centralized, or in uniform locations, or both. They are worthless if nobody knows where they are.

An excellent knowledge management program is an essential part of the organization's culture. I really believe the only difference between a novice developer and an expert developer comes down to: writing and data structure. There is no better way to improve planning and technical writing than practice writing good documentation. Practice writing good documentation also changes how you think about code, organization, and planning.

In order to achieve an excellent knowledge management program employees should be empowered and rewarded for putting things in writing and producing excellent technical documents. Knowledge sharing must be an essential part of the organization's culture and business process. Culture comes from strong leadership at the top.

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I feel your pain. My current employer also has poor knowledge discipline. Almost nothing is in writing. The documentation is old and all over the place. It leaves you with the feeling that nobody knows that is going on. The biggest problem in this instance is that the employer is operationally focused in a very extreme way and that is the cultural quality that is most rewarded. This, in practice, means you are more rewarded for your level of involvement than for what you produce or for what you document. As a result employees strive for visibility and want to be seen as in a hurry and nothing is in writing.
Mitigate: Local repos.
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This virus is not a threat to long term survival of the human species by any stretch of imagination. Meanwhile the collapse of our biosphere is an existential threat. What's more, we know that we have a very short window to make any meaningful changes to prevent the worst outcomes including our extinction. Yet, we're still completely reliant on fossil fuels, and the industry is actually being subsidized right now.

Thinking that this is more of a threat because it's happening now as opposed to a few decades in the future is sheer idiocy.
I would expect a dismissal of a website as inaccurate garbage to be supported by a better counter-argument than a "completely off the cuff, uneducated guess."
Well, truly private biotech might. Some billionaire who wants to do it 'for science' might have the motive and ability.
John...wow. Thank you.

Responses like this, from people like you, who have been in similarly difficult positions are what make the HN community so powerful.

I'm sorry to hear that your first marriage didn't work out, but if it's any consolation, sharing this message and your story has the power to do a tremendous amount of good for people. It already has for me.

In my opinion, I don't think there is enough discourse on this topic amongst the startup community. Just as mental health was 10 years ago, I think this difficulty in balancing personal relationships vs startups is something that bubbles very close the surface for many founders, but is seldom talked about outside of closed circles (if at all).

Regarding your comments specifically, basically everything you said hit home for me. In particular, your point about including her in decision making and treating her like a partner is really excellent. I think that that is a big part of what I have been missing up to this point. I tell her she is my partner and try to treat her us such, but then make business decisions independently of her, which I thought was the right thing to do, but in fact it likely actually undermines and corrodes her feelings of partnership.

Thanks again. I think what you just shared with me above would make for a great essay that many others could benefit from. I worry the wisdom you've shared here will be lost to the depth of HN, never to be seen by those (like me) who need it.

- Alan
One hypothetical way that can happen is if Google is prototyping something that impacts search ordering (a lot of their prototyping starts gated US-only because the team working on a feature hasn't done the hard work of l10n for the feature yet).
Replacing Google
Part of the problem is that inputs don't necessarily reflect the specific intent behind the use of certain symbols. For 99% of people using US keyboards when they input a dash in a credit card number they are using the exact same key as one would use for the minus when inputting a negative number. If you asked them to verbalize their inputs they would probably use different words for the same symbol, signifying that the meaning or intent isn't the same but even that isn't entirely reliable.

You can attempt to infer intent or meaning based on the context of the input field but often the least-problematic method is to provide instruction/hints with the field, examples of correctness, and real-time validation with specific syntax errors when invalid or unexpected data is provided. I'd argue that it would also be worthwhile to request clarity from the user when an input hits a filtering rule so that they can make clear their intent... e.g. if you assume that they're using "-" as a symbol for separation rather than simply follow that assumption, ask if that's the case and list other optional valid contexts for that symbol so they can be explicit. If they choose None of the Above or a context that is inappropriate for the field, inform them of that.

The 4-box credit card form, while pretty terrible in many ways, at least made explicit the expectations. Often we now hide the expectations and either auto-reformat what was put in the field (which can be surprising to the user or worse can modify their input to mean something other than what they intended) or do hidden filtering, which can have the same problems but doesn't even bother to inform the user of the changes.
Of course in the general case Amdahl's law is inescapable, but some tasks on modern systems can show > ×N speedup over single-threaded performance if, for example, a single thread can only exploit at maximum some fraction of the total memory bandwidth or some level of the cache hierarchy.
To me the question doesn't depend so much on whether Knuth was "framed".

The meaningful criticism leveled at Knuth's code was that it was monolithic. It's true that it was long because he wrote it from scratch, but that's not enough to force you to be tightly coupled.

Did Knuth try to make his code reusable? Was it reusable? I think those are the key questions.
I can see why people might be mislead, but absolute value is a very understandable metric.

If you start moving to things like per-capita, i actually think that has the potential to be more confusing for more numbers of people.

so yes, absolute values will be highly correlated with population, but again it just depends on what you really want to highlight and communicate

Maybe you really do want the absolute value.
I agree, but aside from a couple edge cases (again avoiding spoilers) I'm not sure I'd categorize any of them as particularly villainous. That show does a good job of showing broken humans as the complex messes they really are. And yes, Apple gear is everywhere in seemingly every frame of it.
None of this is surprising, right? Unless your system has fewer threads than cores (which it probably doesn't even without your program) there will always be some context-switching overhead. It's worth keeping in mind I guess - especially the fact that numpy parallelizes transparently - but generally these results are to be expected.

The title is also misleading; it suggests that the wall clock time might be longer for parallel code in certain cases. While not impossible, that isn't what the article covers.
When you sneeze or cough any mucus or other fluids are projected forward and into the inside of the mask. When you exhale, the air pressure in the mask increases and air is forced out the sides.

No, these masks are not bio-safety level 4, but they're probably better than nothing. At worst they prevent a portion of your sneeze and cough ejecta from landing on surfaces around you.
It does but only on whole document. Problem that by default it allows everything, people are lazy to find how it works and setup it right. Also you need to open every third party separatelly which could work bad for ads. If there will be a sandbox, you can allow only what you need for a particular part. I understand that this conception looks complex and more like iframe. Basically right now a lot of ads content rendered in iframes without src which are kind of sandboxes in this case.
This feels like ground we've already covered ITT. Sure, the current interpretation of current laws allows Alphabet to do basically anything they want. We can still talk about what they should do, and better serving users and making more money are both criteria that can inform that discussion. I thought you had suggested these criteria above.
The way the data is sliced and diced is not necessarily meaningful. Looks at the mortality rates based on those simple categories can paint a misleading picture.
And how would you do that? You haven’t said anything of substance to refute GP’s statements.
Way over exaggerating.
> But this is a throw-away account.

Oh the irony. What are you hiding?
The solution: don't try to reproduce input exactly. That's a weird thing to want in general anyhow - what exactly are reproducing so exactly? Text? Including Markup? How about some animation thrown in? Maybe Interactivity? Hey, let's just reproduce arbitrary executable code accurately?

The whole point of sane sanitization is that you don't need to reproduce all that stuff exactly. Pick a small domain, and reproduce that. Often, it's OK to reproduce approximately; e.g. not worrying about things like retaining multiple consecutive whitespaces, or perhaps leading/trailing whitespace, or whatever.

The point of sanitization is to make it easier not to make a dangerous mistake accidentally. If you have an input that needs to support layout, that's a pain. But if you can live with just text - so much the better. If you do need to support markup; then I don't see the wisdom in sanitizing it late; that's just asking for bugs to lead to security issues.

Frankly the whole tradeoff is nonsensical. These aren't mutually exclusive alternatives, and don't even really address the same issues. Yes, you should sanitize (and validate) your input. And you also need to escape output as appropriate.

If the point is that it's not wise to skip escaping because you "know" the input is safe due to sanitization - then sure, while theoretically sometimes sound, that's pratically a nasty bug waiting to happen. Don't do that, sure.
Obviously we should take action against all kinds of threats. My point is that the reaction to this virus is completely disproportional to the level of the threat. Meanwhile, lack of reaction to an actual existential threat we're facing in the near future is utterly terrifying.