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A related item that's been languishing in HN's submissions queue: "Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly"

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/product/mapping/ma...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22427334

This looks at the geographic distribution of COVID-19, and ways of accurately (and non-emotionally) conveying that information. Existing infographics have tended to hide information as much as they reveal it.
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Turning vs Code (Or Any Text Editor) into a DIY Notes App
Yes, git is.

The issues, comments, PRs, wikis etc... that we all came to depend on aren't.
I'm pretty sure the criteria has since changed, the story was talking about a request from Feb 19.
Can’t you see the word “reported” next to the stats? Most flu hospitalizations and deaths aren’t reported.

I encourage you to read U.S. CDC’s explanations on how they estimate flu hospitalizations and deaths. Only a small percentage is ever reported even in the U.S.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm
oh yeah, I forgot about media queries. Which is impossible inline, but also adds to the verbosity
That's completely wrong. That label has nothing to do with flame retardants. Almost all UK furniture contains FRs but there is no law at the moment that requires manufacturers to list them or even say if they use them at all.
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Because of falling RAM prices, but no price cut for the one with even more RAM?
How to Configure Grafana as Code
That is neat. It only goes to show that it is often not just about tools, but about the artist behind them.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially declined to test a California patient for coronavirus because of narrow testing criteria, delaying the identification of a new possibly pivotal case, according to officials at the hospital treating the patient.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

There are limited resources for doing the Corona virus test. If the CDC tested everyone who got a fever, they'd have a massive backlog.

The risk is reasonable if any suspected case is quarantined.
I am also interested in this. If you find information on this, please post it here.
And the US isn't a two party state with a ripe history (and present) of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship?

Your view of China is almost entirely defined by US media, owned by capitalists. Perhaps consider they have an incentive to lie.
Didn't they talk about distributing Docker containers for their developers?

I mean, they have many devs, but that's still a few magnitudes below their number of viewers.
Kelly Slater plans to build world's largest artificial wave in California desert
In other news, the sky is blue and grass is green.
No, it can't. But it can prevent getting both at the same time.
Stability of Twitter Metrics: Unavailable Twitter Mentions of Scientific Pubs
Yes, UK furniture almost always contains flame retardants but it isn't law that they have to use them. The Furniture Regs set performance requirements but don't stipulate how you meet them. It's just that using FRs is the cheapest route to compliance for manufacturers.
Agreed. Statements in contexts like this should be evaluated as either correct or incorrect. Worrying about sensitivities in science is typically counterproductive.
Yeah... that's a Rails callback, not an SQL constraint, and can't be relied upon in the face of multiple simultaneous requests. Which kind of demonstrates my point. With a custom API, you have to understand your system, it's requirements, and it's limitations. You can't just read a blog post on "securing your webapp" and assume it's good.

Couch is no different. You have to understand Couch, you have to understand it's features and limitations, and build your system within those constraints.

You seem to be asserting because Couch is designed to be internet connected it can't be secure. If that's true, then I guess every customer on IBM Cloudant (Couch as a service), Realm (another database designed for mobile sync), and Firebase (Google database as a service) are all in trouble and just don't know it yet.

Security for all systems is non trivial. Thinking it is assures your system is not secure.
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If you're a programmer, and this interests you, then I urge you to check out the game Factorio[1] which is all about hyper optimization and layouts.

Stardew valley is a great game too, and much more peaceful.

[1]https://factorio.com/
This is exactly backwards. 230 does not say "you are safe if you moderate nothing but expose yourself to trouble if you moderate". It says "if you moderate, but not perfectly consistently, you are still protected from garbage on your platform".
FWIW, I'm only interested in building businesses that could potentially be very large.

VCs do indeed place massive emphasis on vanity because they live and die by reputation and perception. Twitter sentiment matters a lot when you're a VC. Additionally, markets care a lot about perception of success rather than 'real' success (though you could argue they're one in the same). There are plenty of examples of companies who raise massive amounts of investor capital strictly based on hype, without necessarily having the economics to support it. The early investors can win bigly merely by cashing out before the laggards jump on the bandwagon.
+4000 tests within a couple of hours in which they identified another 70 cases: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1231972534612119557

US total tests so far: 445 (source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html)
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> There's no reason he can't ask for a raise too. [...]. But some people find that too confrontational - getting a better offer is easier, in that case.

Wait what? That's an interesting take because I think the exact opposite. I find that showing up at your manager's desk with an offer in hand is way more confrontational than just asking for a raise. Asking for a raise is cheap, it takes 15 minutes. If it's denied you can start a conversation around goals, how to get there, etc.

Showing up with an offer means that you already spent hours finding a new job and you're basically coming to the table with an ultimatum.
YouTube is really silly to ban PragerU. Although I disagree with maybe 70% of PragerU's content (I listen to their podcast), I find it very informative of the conservative POV. It also exposes me to ideas that makes me do my own further research. I listen to them regularly; there is much worse content on other places in YouTube.
Not saying you're wrong but

1. 4/700 is only the initial figure. Likely more people will die from cruise ship, COVID-19 takes about 2 weeks to develop severe pneumonia.

2. Since these patients are now not categorized as Diamond Princess, instead they're categorized under their countries' stats, likely we will never hear from them again in such an isolated fashion.
> If you're patient zero here, you get a comfy private room, your own bed, 5 doctors, 10 nurses, whole research teams, respirators, priority with all the tests, examinations, etc. Same for patient 1, 2, 3.

I read a similar comment from someone on another forum. If you're certain this will end up a pandemic, with almost everyone eventually catching it, your best move is to catch the virus as soon as possible, ensuring you'll get the best care.

Though this assumes you can't get it a second time, after the antibodies are generated. This appears not to be the case with this virus, possibly.
Interesting, would like some detail on the cost of this ETL setup on AWS, unfortunately I can't see anything on this from the project page.
It was so amazing when XMLHttpRequest was a somewhat obscure thing, and they had fully interactive maps while the rest of the world was Mapquest, and "click" "new page" "click" "new page" to be able to scroll and have new images load. I think google jumping on the AJAX train and trailblazing is under credited in the history of their rise.

Thank you Microsoft and OWA teams for inventing XMLHttpRequest. Anyone coming into web/development now missed the evolutionary leap from HTML to DHTML/AJAX. Google owes the OWA team a thank you for sneaking that feature in under the radar.
Because that's not a requirement of the law as written.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180412/23230639618/ted-c...

It would have even less chance of flying in court than the first amendment claim, which at least has some precedent due to lawsuits about protests in malls.
Git is, but the APIs and all the services they provide around it aren't.

That said, I think it's a bit weird that they don't store the data of the services around the code itself in git, like they do with e.g. sites. That way you'd have an `issues` branch that you could still access if github is down.

But that would probably pave the way for easy migrations away from Github.
Well, there is a different way of looking at it.

As real flesh and bones individuals, the first amendment protections should apply.

For companies (aka: fictitious entities), are granted corporate charters by the government. They are extensions of the government allowing a bubble of state/federal government of what we call a company.

Freedom of speech makes sense when its my body - but who's body does the speech come out of with a corporation?

In that light, companies should have a requirement to uphold the bill of rights. They are created legal entities, not at all like a person.

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The glaring problem with not applying 1FA to a company means the mega-companies that wish to deplatform you leads you to no recourse. Do you have a right to use a monopolistic service?

The issue with that course of actions is that the rules to the megacorps (FAANG) also apply to the small companies with 1 or more. More regulation does tend to kill tiny companies.
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The 1918 flu killed ~0.01% of Philadelphia in one winter.

The Liberty Loan Parade on September 28th was a major event in the pandemic. Health officials knew that the flu was in Philadelphia and had warned City Officials about it in very clear terms. The parade continued on and 3 days later, people started showing up to hospitals, just as predicted. The morgue was rated for 36 bodies. Hundreds came in every day that winter. They had priests operating backhoes to bury the dead, as the workers were too sick to do so. The entire city was quarantined.

Still, newspapers published day after day that everything was fine, despite the obituaries becoming an ever thickening section. People knew and it wasn't hard to guess.

The Soviets did it with Chernobyl, the Chinese are doing it right now, and the US did it nearly 100 years ago.

These are human things, not specific to any country.
Some people really go overboard with this sort of validation, however. I've had to argue with vendors who didn't believe email addresses can end in something other than ".com" or ".org".
I agree most of this is just a feel good campaign.

Banning plastic straws infuriates me. Paper straws are trash. I carry my own plastic ones and use them as needed.
It's Google's platform, they're not the stewards of reality and are free to censor whatever they want.
Haha well that explains that then. Thanks.
Depending on what part of the system is down, how do you know you even got a request to mark as failed?
But what do they offer if they don't meet it? I mean a discount on your monthly bill somehow doesn't sound like it would cover a potential loss.
It’s amazing how this is accepted in the software world. Move fast and break things, such a different philosophy to other areas.
I think in a few years time we will look back and think

"Waa, that was so archaic the way we used to do things!"
Which makes it more or less identical to flu.

There are around 400,000 deaths from flu globally, every year. (The numbers vary by quite a bit.) And that's after vaccination efforts.

So far I'm seeing no evidence to persuade me this is significantly deadlier. Everything that has been said about COVID-19 - the stress on healthcare, and so on - has already been happening during flu waves. For decades.

The real difference is the scale of the response. Flu's effect on the economy is a little more than a rounding error, but not by much.

Because of the measures taken, this is likely to have very significant negative economic and social effects which will last far longer than the danger of infection.
This complete internet stranger just wants to say he's happy to hear you're doing well and prospering, and wishes you the best in the circumstances you're in!
While I agree with the ruling, we could use some new laws governing fairness on the Facebook and Google monopolies.

These two companies have tremendous political power and I don’t think ignoring that and hoping for the best is a great option for an open society.

The other solution could be to break up FB/Instagram/WhatsApp and Google/YouTube to inject some competition back into these markets.
Freedom to censor being a legal right?
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What a strange twist for a site that seems to imply / support that there should be no restrictions on what folks can say.

Although I suppose in reality like most sites / people who would seem to support free speech, they really just mean their own speech.
IPNS is a system that runs on top of IPFS. You do not need IPNS to use IPFS.
I'm in Georgia. Anything that results in ice on the roads is treated as extreme. Sometimes they just push back the start time of the school day but if they think ice will be on the road throughout the day, they'll do a remote learning day. I think they're more likely to err on the side of caution now that remote learning is an option. Flooding also has been cause for remote learning days. I've never received a good answer to the question of how they handle students without the appropriate equipment at home for the remote learning days. It's an affluent county with many tech workers so maybe it's not much of an issue.
It must be awesome to be able to file away big, direct threats to the lives of huge numbers of people (including everyone who reads HN) as "just politics."
I’m not involved in any of the Reddit communities... but... I can see past my own nose on this. It’s seems many people can’t.
I work in this field and I agree. In my province, we had someone call into our health advisory line and request testing as they had been "at a party with an Asian looking person that was coughing." We have to draw the line somewhere.
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When people take the square root of a number during working with real numbers, they almost always mean the non-negative root. It's a convention. Only when they start considering complex numbers, this convention breaks, and the square root ceases to be a function - even according to the modern definition -, because "non-negative" still doesn't narrow it down to a single number in the general case.
that is amazing
> I think most people are blowing it out of proportion. It's just a bad flu

It isn’t just conveying information, its downplaying the severity of the situation.
No, that's clearly input. That data shouldn't be sanitized, but it should be passed to the database via parameterized query.
> If there is any 'plus' to this situation, its that Coronavirus will rapidly de-age many Western countries.

Jeez this is cold
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Children grouping together for school is a massive transmission vector no? I don't think this is necessarily about protecting specifically kids and rather reducing transmission.
I had a release date, and I could tell you how many days I had until then on any day.

The people with life sentences usually have done things to get them.
How robust are supply chains?
Putting on my tinfoil hat on for a bit, I think PragerU did this lawsuit largely for marketing value, knowing full-well it wouldn't win, since their actual argument was bizarre and had implications that literally no one would get behind.

It puts the right-wing entity "PragerU" into the public consciousness, and they get to wear some badge of "We're the real defenders of free speech!" I'm sure that Dennis Prager and his ilk will go on Fox News and use this to talk about how the evil leftist court systems don't believe in open discourse, and it'll probably end up with more people watching the videos overall.
Thanks, but I already know what IPNS is. My points were that (a) it's not needed for this use-case, and (b) it's a distinct system from IPFS. I think you agreed in your TLDR.
It uses many of the built-in PG features.
Has YC come out with any guides on how companies can make employee equity more reasonable?

Things like allowing 10 years to exercise options, not allowing founders to own preferred shares, informing employees if any following rounds include liquidation preferences or guaranteed returns.

Right now I have a hard time trusting employee equity and I'd love to see someone create a checklist companies can either say they follow or specify where they don't.
NodePort is a bad practice for a such case, you are right. You get additional unnecessary routing on CNI level between the cluster nodes just to get traffic into the Ingress controller pod, for example. The solution here is to use hostNetwork mode with the pool of workers solely dedicated to scheduling Ingress controllers. Traffic directly hits NGINX/Envoy/HAProxy/Traefik/whatever and gets into the cluster without additional intermediates. You need a load balancing solution for this pool of Ingress controllers, that's right, but as I said before, this setup gives you the flexibility to cook load balancing as you desire.

BTW, community NGINX Ingress controller is able to ingress L3 (TCP) traffic into the cluster.
I simply don't believe that closet racists are coming out of the closet. It seems to me that open racists are just saying "haha coronavirus" instead of whatever they were saying before.

Governments don't block travel due to the seasonal flu only because they know the seasonal flu is unstoppable. If the seasonal flu could be kept out of your country by closing borders for a month or two, I think a lot of governments would do it.
True, but the same claims are made about the other things you mention also.

Boy who cried wolf story comes to mind.
They’ve recently shifted their pricing scheme to be more on-demand; before that, you needed to do multi-tenant at very small scale, or buy dedicated clusters.

We have dedicated clusters on Cloudant and they’ve run quite smoothly for many years. Someday we might switch to the on-demand IBM Cloud pricing, but haven’t done it yet.
5% above average in emissions, while being more than 100% above the average GDP per capita. ($38,000 vs $17,300 world )

I'd say that's a pretty good track record for creating prosperity.

And yes, thank you for the correction, GT was the wrong unit.
IPFS/libp2p is meant to be modular in this regard. It's certainly possible to use Tor with IPFS to protect your IP address but this is WIP.
https://github.com/hashmatter/libp2p-onion-routing
Openbazaar, which uses IPFS can run as a hidden service
https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/blob/master/docs...
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Given 0.2% chance to die I see no reason to care, I probably have higher chances to die in a car accident on any given day. Even if I were 80 years old I still would see no reason to worry about the 14.8% chance to die as I would probably have comparable chances to get a hear attack and die on any given day anyway.
> Freedom of speech makes sense when its my body - but who's body does the speech come out of with a corporation?

PragerU is a corporation as well, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here. But this decision is absolutely consistent with applying the First Amendment to corporations.

Compulsory speech is not free speech. Why should YouTube be forced to spend their time and money to disseminate PragerU's content on their platform — i.e. to "speak" against their will?
The volume of traffic doesn't really matter that much. Developer productivity is just as important as the service you're actually selling when you're the size of Netflix. If your N thousand engineers are suddenly unable to work, or slowed down by X%, that's a huge problem. Large companies treat (or should treat) developer tooling issues as seriously as application outages.

If Netflix is using IPFS for anything worth mentioning, it's almost certainly substantive enough to be considered an endorsement.
Beyond just data replication/archival purposes, it seems you can use the this to run analysis against Goodreads entire public dataset. This is much more efficient than using their API alone.
There's an asymmetry to the process of how judges allow evidence.

If one judge somewhere allows a prosecutor to present junk science as evidence, that becomes precedent that other prosecutors can point to in order to convince other judges to allow it, too.

Once precedent is established, it takes the decision of a higher court to stop use of that junk science. It takes time for cases to work their way up.
Is every commercial content platform free to censor the content however they want? Can Verizon censor the CNN and Fox News that is delivered by cable? Can my cell phone carrier censor whatever conversations I have that they don't like? Can Google skew and eliminate searches they don't agree with?

The former cases seem unlikely, so what is the difference with YouTube?
If YouTube had to survive independently of Google/Alphabet it would look vastly different. Not sure if that is good or bad.
Why is the CDC only managing to do orders of magnitude less testing than South Korea?

Also, let's remember that Trump recently tried to get the CDC's budget cut nearly in half.

Think about this for a second.

The US has not been taking this outbreak nearly seriously enough.
The First Amendment is not the same thing as Freedom of Speech. Freedom of Speech is an ideal from Ancient Greece and obviously predates the US Constitution. It’s also much broader in scope.

So, yes, people can have their freedom of speech infringed by a private company or employer, even if it’s not protected by the First Amendment.
In the example given there, use json_encode($name)

That will encode any data structure properly for output into JavaScript.
We saw the Iranian response to the airliner being shot down recently. It’ll be just as you say.
What an awful thing to say. You have any older people in your family? Think about them before you throw this kind of callous crap around.
Every project i have been on where we built for availability and resilience has inevitably had at least one single point of failure. Usually it is something deemed non critical, but somehow can still bring the infrastructure down (A single DNS server at one of our production sites did this, we have 2 more accessible via a VPN tunnel, it was deemed if the production DNS went down the other two were still reachable, to bad the day it happened the tunnel was down too).

Also you have to deal with sysadmin error, i know us sysadmins are practically perfect in every way, but occasionally we make mistakes....big mistakes. ;)

So redirecting might not always be possible.....
> Compiler here probably means transpiler.

A transpiler is a type of compiler, so it's fine to just call it a "compiler".