skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2179/120 means each one has to cover about 18 miles. Assuming they average 36 mph, assuming each trunk road is 2 lanes in both directions (assuming one pass per lane and not including time to clean up the shoulder/median), and assuming they spend 50% of their time gritting/plowing new roads rather than filling up/changing drivers/driving on plowed roads to get to or from their target road, that's one pass every four hours. Seems quite reasonable (if a bit undersized) to me as a Michigander.

We're having unseasonably warm weather here - it's 45 and sunny instead of a typical 25 and overcast - so all the snow has melted in Southwest Michigan and our state plow tracking map is basically blank today:

https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map

We have about 800 snowplows to cover 12,000 miles of state/trunk roads (15 miles per vehicle). It requires about 2,000 operators to keep those 800 plow trucks running 24x7 when it's really snowing.
Are you comparing covid-19 cases against the sum of ALL cases of *regular flu(H_N_ influenza( A B C D) virus)?

For perspective, how many country will actually restrict travel or even undergone state wide lock down for an outbreak of regular flu??
Why stop at 10x or 20x? Why not 1,000x? What's the science behind that?
Thanks. I'll check them out. I'm in NY, where the tech industry is sort of like Logan's Run. There's very few folks over thirty-five.
The policy of the company I worked for was only to dupe to closed issues if those issues were Resolved -- if the duplicate issue was already closed Informational or N/A, we just closed the new one with the same status. This has advantages in avoiding researcher confusion, as illustrated here.

But that was a company policy, not an H1 policy. It's perfectly possible to dupe to a closed issue. (And of course, it's also possible that you get duped to an open issue which is later closed N/A, though that's pretty awkward. You kind of hope for N/A issues to be closed right away, not to stay open for long periods.)

And not duping to closed issues causes other issues -- it meant always having to leave an internal comment citing the other issue that this one was secretly a duplicate of.
We’ll likely see many more tech-enabled consumer (and some B2B) startups fail. Meanwhile, B2B tech companies with good unit economics will continue to grow, hire, raise more capital and IPO/exit.

They may not be as sexy as the PR-laden BS that we’ve seen in the last few years, but there are many more solid companies with real businesses than there are Caspers, WeWorks, scooter companies etc
It's interesting the cases in Iran are so high. Lots of movement between China and Iran I assume.
Dutch media reported yesterday that this person (who had been in China and had dinner with the 38 year old "patient 1") still tested negative on a second test, so the search for the real patient zero continued.
Great suggestion, I saw a week ago or so here some open-source stuff from trevor.io (I think?) for doing a simple walkthrough gif. Might work on adding something like that.
Is this what passes for journalism nowadays?
Agree. You can’t even do a literal search with symbols.

I think there were better solutions on the early 2000’s.
The even wider context is that the current government doesn't like media contradicting them.
You realize there are other diseases right? There is a world of difference between thinking it's a big deal and "reassigning all labs equipments and experts from whatever they are doing to finding a vaccine or cure". This would stall progress on so many other important stuff that it would cause much more damage than it's trying to prevent.

As an example, there is currently the worst epidemic of dengue in South America's history right now. (3 million infected and 1500+ deaths in 2019). https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-51496280
The phone number deregister flow is such a dark pattern it's incredible. Not something a chat app should ever do to be reputable.
> If PayPal’s PCI-DSS compliance certification isn’t revoked then PCI-DSS is a farce.

This comment chain has convinced me that PCI-DSS is a farce.
Stop Chasing
> You can use a different contacts app, you don't have to give all your information to Google

As far as I know OWS does not mention this anywhere on their site nor on their program -- aren't the issues with usability of other programs and lack of sane defaults (such as with gpg) often given as an argument by signal supporters on why you should prefer it?

That being said, is that even possible? I admit that I am not too familiar with how Android phones work. Signal requires the google play services in order to work, right? Is this not enough for google to see your information?
You know what's serious? If the entire population is scared shitless and runs to the next hospital and overwhelms the system. This is a lot scarier than the actual infections.

I know nothing about the CDC, but of course any health care organization prepares for "something very serious" that comes on top of the existing flu cases, because hospitals are already at close to maximum capacity.
The author might as well have sold the exploits for the best offer.

If a company advertises a bug bounty problem but fails to follow through, such company kinda deserves to be hacked. I mean, you are wasting people's time and still getting critical bug reports, probably along with a detailed write-up.

Also, we might also discuss about the fact that for a company that moves (and earns) so much money as PayPal, 30 kUSD is probably very little when compared to the possible outcomes of being hacked.
RHEL8 doesn't let you install a different desktop environment?

I'd look into switching to Fedora. I use the XFCE spin and it is stable.
Given that it can take N weeks to die, wouldn't it make sense to calculate the mortality rate at a given time t as the number of deaths at time t divided by the number of reported infected people at time t-Nweeks ? (I am using N =3 for my back-of-the-envelope calculations).
“SATISFY COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Meet pentest requirements for PCI DSS, SOC2 Type II, and HITRUST compliance certifications.” [1]

[1] https://www.hackerone.com/product/pentest
https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...

Looks like they're using Open Compute Project inspired designs, looking at those high-visibility green screws.
>Why is the WHO concerned about the economy?

What do you mean why?

Wasn't there recently some news about a US official threatening some UN high figure?
Introduction to Python SQL Libraries
The person who knows you best is yourself. By that token, your manager will have less insight into you than you do. So defaulting to their judgement for everything will lead to decisions that are sub-optimal or upset you.
So Italy having an arguably uncontained cluster is probably the most troubling part. The EU has extremely porous borders. The chances of this spreading to the other EU members (and the UK) got a lot higher.

At least in the US you largely have to come in by air. Yes of course there are land borders. Canada is one but fits the same description of most cross-border travel (apart from to the US) is by air. The border with Mexico is... probably more of an issue.

Anyway, the benefit of this is that it gives you a central screening point. Given that carriers can be asymptomatic it's not impossible someone will slip through but it's more difficult for someone to convince themselves they just have a cold and they need to go home, to work or otherwise move across a border and spread the infection.

The Northern hemisphere summer really can't come soon enough.
> Why does the regulatory body get to approve who and what can scan implementations of their security scheme?

Because it's a scanner for PCI-DSS compliance, not a scan for security issues.

They do not fear that unapproved scanners will be more strict than approved scanners, they fear they will be less strict.
That is a hilarious random fact. Thanks for the info.
Imagine a static website that provides crucial information, for instance, some regulation you have to follow. Your enemy MITM attacks that website and sends you a different page, which gets you in trouble.

The certificate guarantees that the information you are getting is from the entity who actually has access to the server serving the website.
My suspicion is that Paypal is now "too big to fail" and will suffer very little consequences if none at all.
That's a pretty cavalier attitude even if we take your assumptions to be true.

If it's a virulent flu, the last time we had a pandemic with comparable stats was 1918, when we had much less global travel but much worse medical infrastructure. The 1918 Spanish flu infected potentially 1/4 of the world (500 million people at the time) and killed around 2% (variable depending on sources) of the global population - ~40 million.

It's on a different level than SARS/MARS, because this seems to incubate without symptoms in the young and healthy (for now) and then kill when it breaks out in populations of the old and sick. It's spreading faster and being reported differently than anything before.

Some basic advice that everyone should apply during every global outbreak they don't really understand:

- don't travel if you don't absolutely have to

- don't go to hospital unless you absolutely have to

- try to stop touching your face

- wash your hands and face frequently

It's a pandemic, definitely (source - me, I'm working on coronavirus). Don't panic but don't be complacent. Just look after yourself and your family and avoid exposure to potentially high risk.
> Your engineering state association decides.

Why should they get to do that? What do they know that I don’t?

I have a Master of Engineering degree but I’m not chartered - I’m still going to call myself an engineer no matter what anyone else thinks about it.

> You don't call yourself admiral right?

Because I’m not commanding a fleet. If I ever came to command a fleet I’d start calling myself admiral and as long as I’m actually doing that it’d be fine. If you’re doing engineering then you’re an engineer. Some of the best software engineers in the world have no professional qualification.
> So now there's a notion of "believable" and "unbelievable" changing of men into women? That kind of completely brings down this entire house of cards now doesn't it?

How so?

> Think of it from another way. If there's an earthquake and a man pretending to be a woman dies in the rubble, and they discover his remains 50 years from now, do you honestly think that they'll classify him as female? His skeletal structure is masculine, and no amount of pretending or hormones or surgery is going to change it.

You're too hung up on the 'essence' of someone. It's not relevant in any practical way. If someone told you your spouse had a different set of chromosomes would you suddenly stop loving them?
Grand Duchy is Luxembourg (head of state is a grant duke).
How A Hot $100M Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight
The virus is not airborne, it propagates via aerosol so it is very short lived "in the air" and over surfaces.
After 2 years, couple sells tiny home without ever living in it
Clearly defined hierarchies are underrated, at least in this space. I really do not want to have seven bosses, or to be responsible for being part of some amorphous Valve-like leadership blob.

Setting up a clear chain of command, and, most essentially, following it, would perhaps stifle a few, but it works, and it works well, and it is a considerably less anxious and stress-inducing arrangement for everyone involved.
? I wonder if the modern genetic composition of Dutch society impacts that statistic. The massive growth in length is something that happened to the indigenous Dutch population, but the effect won't be present in the Dutch who hail from immigrant stock.

> Basically, when you are the tallest people in the world, any immigration will tend to shorten the average length.

I know it's popular in Holland to blame the immigration on everything, including destroying the average height, but since a significant part of the population comes from Balkans, those immigrants are actually "improving" the average.
Can someone explain to me why coronavirus is getting so much coverage? According to Wikipedia, Coronavirus has killed about 2000 people. Each year smoking kills 480,000 people in the US. In two days smoking will have killed more people in the US than coronavirus has worldwide.

Shouldn't we have headlines about this every day? Or any of the other far more deadly things (traffic accidents, heart disease, suicide, etc.)?

(I'm not trolling, I honestly don't understand why this is different.)
One of the consistent knocks people had on TempleOS was that it lacked pretty much all of the security mechanisms modern operating systems provide -- no user accounts, everything runs in ring 0, etc. Davis' consistent answer to these complaints was that TempleOS didn't need all that stuff, because it had no way to connect to a network. A TempleOS machine was secure in the same way a Commodore 64 in your basement had been secure.

ZenithOS includes a networking stack, though. How do you take a TempleOS-like system onto the global network safely? Is this something the ZenithOS developer(s) are actively thinking about?
A couple of excellent sources for COVID19:

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus... (most up-to-date counter and news aggregator which includes a source for each reported number)

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/ (strictly moderated, lots of links to scientific reports and papers, no hoaxes and fake news)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z7VQ5xlf3BaTx_LBBbls... (spreadsheets with interesting charts)
Yeah, but the fix should be using Matrix, not Signal. IMHO
With an extra layer of logistics that will have failed because the delivery drivers or pickers are sick.
> A lot of people live in either a city or a suburban area and most apartments and houses aren't air tight. Wouldn't your breath get circulated out of your apartment, mixed in with the outside air and drift over to your neighbor -- or is the virus not that susceptible to spreading?

Not an expert, but if I understand correctly the virus would be unlikely to survive that long outside the body. Even in the cruise ship which was docked in Japan, which would be a bit of a "worst-case" scenario for the transmission you describe, most people didn't get sick.
Cyphar, two years ago you posted:

"Well, there is a port of glibc to UEFI, so one could very easily "boot into Emacs". Strangely I've not seen anyone do this."

Can you hook me up with that link :)
Cheers.
Read a paper: Effect of self-efficacy, motivation on early programming education
I think of most UX designers as children: they want everything to conform to the latest trends and are always in search of the new shiny thing to play with.
I will address your post and your question once you address mine. It is rude to ask others questions if you are not willing to reply to the questions that they ask you. (That being said, I will assume in good faith that you simply forgot about it, which happens sometimes)

> > There are many things which I disagree with in this comment and some things that I don't think are relevant at all

> Such as?
Data Engineer and Information Architect terms have both been watered down and bastardized so they are ambiguous in meaning. I hate putting them on a CV anymore.

Next topic "HTML Programmer".
It is.

We called this new engine “SNEL” as an acronym for “SQL Native Execution for LLVM”. Well, that’s the excuse, actually we chose Snel because that means “fast” in Dutch and the name seemed right to us. from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09449.pdf#page=6
You achieve that compliance by paying HackerOne, as a company, to perform a compliance scan. This does not mean any swinging dick that reports a vulnerability through HackerOne is causing PayPal to fall out of compliance. These scans are planned well in advance and are part of a normal audit cycle. (edit: typo)

On top of that, there's not really any legal issues for being non-compliant, as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread.
Yes, mechanical ventilators and in most cases, supplemental oxygen for roughly 18% of patients.

We can expect CFR in the US to be fairly low (approx 2%) as long as the availability of these resources permits treatment for all who need it. After saturation, however, the CFR will move asymptotically toward approx 15%.

Medical system saturation is believed to be the main reason the CFR in Hubei is much worse than other provinces.

The US has about 62k mechanical ventilators, about half of which are already occupied at any given time, and half of the available ones are purpose-built for infants in NICUs. So let's assume we begin to have a real problem above (62k/4)/0.18 == 86k simultaneous US cases.

I'd assume oxygen supplies should be easy to scale up. No idea about scaling up the manufacture of ventilators, or if the (much more numerous, and cheaper) CPAP machines in the US could be used as stand-ins. Perhaps someone more familiar with these devices can chime in.
MERS has a considerably higher mortality rate.
Just a little bit of feedback, while the visuals are quite nice I think this page could be helpful if treated like a landing page, what's the problem/why is this helpful compared to what I currently/normally do. I might not be the target audience though, since I don't understand what it does/why it helps quite quickly through scanning
China also has a relatively old population, due to their one child policy. And age is a risk factor for covid-19. Italy on the other hand... Oh, nevermind.
If you are concerned about this you can PIN lock Signal. It will prompt you periodically to confirm you still remember your PIN. When you get a new phone (or somebody tries to SIM-jack you) the new phone needs the PIN which you clearly remember because you kept entering it before.

If you stop answering the PIN confirmations eventually it expires and somebody with that number can sign up (and if they want, set a new PIN).

Regardless of whether you use PIN locks your contacts will be shown that something about the other party in the conversation changed, if they use in-person confirmations of identity they'll be invited to perform that over again.
Neither of them. Both have plenty of motive to lie.
Apple employees probably go skiing more often than most Americans, since it’s pretty easy to drive to Tahoe from Cupertino.
I wonder when these issues will be far behind us... I can’t imagine it’s very near.
NeurIPS 2020 CfP requires a statement about the impact of author's work
New Python Django PostgreSQL vulnerability
well because people are used to those figures and it won't grab people's eyeball anymore. While coronavirus can potentially kill a lot more people if it becomes a global break out.
Croatia - Hrvatska is another... BTW people in the Netherlands will say Holland as well... when the Dutch team play soccer, hup Holland (come on/let's go Holland) is a common chant (there are even songs with that name)
As a counterargument, we're taking only a tiny amount of land that's feasible to develop, and even less of total area of Earth. Scarcity is caused by concentration of jobs in cities. Where there are jobs and education, there become cities.
There's more than enough water to go around, but not energy to desalinate in drier places like China and India.
There is a surplus of food in many areas, and most of lacking ones are limited by water.

You cannot speak of an optimum without having decided a target. It's optimum everyone having their own private jet?
Bubble or Opportunity for Private Equity Investors?
Maximum likelihood is equivalent to Bayesian maximum a-posteriori (MAP) given a uniform prior and the right choice of parameters. However, decision theory tells us, that MAP estimation is rarely, if ever, a good point estimator. The mean or the median of the posterior distribution is usually better, but the optimal choice may be something entirely different.

(Why even consider MAP when it's dumb? Only because it's computationally cheaper than anything else.)
Because smoking has been in the headlines, but it's not news anymore that it's killing so many. The editor of that newspaper would get fired for making that a headline everyday.

It is news that there's a new flu-like virus emerging, spreading, and having a relatively high rate of mortality.
That’s a real problem. I feel that me and my team have done serious damage to our resumes by solving the last few projects in a simple and straightforward way. Instead we should have done cloud, containers, React and whatever even if it made the solution very complex. This became really clear a few months ago when management two layers up gave one of our projects to another company who will move it to AWS. There were already plans for the transition and we said we could do it easily but the director decided that we have no experience and can’t do it.

My advice now is to always jump on the latest trend. It may make no sense for the business but it makes total sense for the devs. In many companies doing what’s right for the business will impede your career.
Coronavirus is possible to transmit via aerosol but not airborne. They differ in the transmission distance, among other things. Virus are infectious only when you receive a certain amount (Viral load). It is possible the virus loaded aerosol drift far away, but the density would become lower the further they drift.
Exponential Growth
Stripe Alternatives
I have been looking for some payment processing / merchant service alternatives.

While I love the Stripe API like many others, we certainly do pay a high premium for it. The recent policy changes for older users like myself make the service much less palatable.

What other options are there besides the most popular Braintree/Paypal, Square, etc?

I'm researching in terms of:

* Low Cost (% and Per Transaction Flat Fee)
* API quality
* Possibility of commission/referral fee kickback
* Trust / Reliability / Longevity

Am I missing anything? What would you recommend?
There is no definition of a Pandemic. Even the WHO states they don't have it. I quote the article:

The World Health Organization no longer uses the classification pandemic, but the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak remains an international emergency that is likely to spread further, a spokesman said on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says...
So it’s pretty far fetched that they would be purposely delaying reports so they could steal the rewards.
How is this the top comment on the thread? Do people really believe that failing to respond to a self-XSS report on HackerOne to the satisfaction of the reporter would cause someone to lose their PCI certification?
What kind of backwardish 3rd world country are you from that you never heard in school terms like 'black death', 'spanish flu'?

Even if you didn't, I've noticed it in practically all possible media hundreds of times in all possible topics.
This seems like a BS answer to me.
Tall people in all societies have always had an advantage in terms of status in society and therefore wealth and health.
But unless tall people were reproducing at an extraordinary rate relative to small people there just hasn't been enough time elapsed to explain the change on a society wide basis.
English people were small by modern standards at the time of Napoleonic wars as evidenced by e.g. the dimensions of the living areas on board the ships of the time.
OTOH Irish soldiers in the service of various European countries in the 17th and 18th centuries were noted as being tall for the time. They were mainly of rural stock and would have been relatively well nourished in childhood compared to urban reared children. Whereas today Irish people would be of just average height or maybe even lower than average height by European standards.
I suspect that the reason for the Dutch being small then was poverty and that the relative rapid growth in the meantime is due to improved nutrition which has allowed them to grow to their genetic potential.