skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it all depends what you're tuned in and listening for.

Seems like the majority of comments I've read are basically of the "go into quarantine lock down" variety.

The current sell-off is because people are scared of the uncertainty. It could turn into something more and get even worse, but we have to wait and see for that.

I don't know that it's so much "willful ignorance" as it is the perpetual feeling that we're "at the end of history." I.e. the opinion that bad things happened in the past and bad things can't happen now because we're beyond it.

Something catastrophic is absolutely going to happen world-wide eventually, but at this point I can't say one way or another whether this is it.

Right now we're at a point of probably peak uncertainty. We know enough to be nervous, but it isn't real until it's real.
This seems clearly unrelated to the point being made.
There was a point in time where a single city could have made that difference. Then there was a point in time where single province could have made that difference. Then a country. Now none of this matters anymore but it is still an interesting question: was the virus known and detected at a point in time where it could have been contained?

From the long incubation time my gut feeling is that it probably couldn't have been. International airtravel speeds things up, it also didn't make a difference in 1918 when intercontinental traffic was by boat. Lindbergh didn't make his flight until 1927.
This doesn't prove he actually believes in it, even the attendees could be said to have only attended for the spectacle.
Note that UTF-8 hadn't actually been invented at the time UCS-2 was implemented in Windows: https://unascribed.com/b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html
To be fair you can use AES to produce repeating patterns as well. Just look up Tux encrypted with any modern block cipher using ECB: https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/
The hype is hype. The reactions to the hype are certainly real, and obviously extremely overblown. It will be easier to see this by April 1 than it is to foresee it on March 1.

In the moment, when reactions are snowballing, it's hard to be the one who doesn't cancel an event. And then of course there will be the people who claim next month that all the economic fallout was worth it because a pandemic never materialized.

Personally, I think it's not terrible to have a good solid Stress Test for "Disease X", but it's also very much nothing to worry about. Hopefully the over-reaction this time doesn't lead to an under-reaction if it's ever truly needed.
That's been a VERY big problem in the construction industry.
from your CDC link

>Can someone spread the virus without being sick?
People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest).
Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this occurring with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
That's certainly true if you're an ordinary person.

If you're the person who writes press releases for an organization which regulates both human and animal drugs, then you have a reason to be specific.
Nitpick: You can as long as you only use each bit on the OTP once.
Or they won't do it. Which will degrade homes and infrastructure.
Allies detected in WWII when the same pad was mistakenly used multiple times.

Depends how motivated your enemy is
RSA happened this past week At Moscow’s center in SF. Some observations :
- Hand sanitizer stations
- Workers cleaning door handles
- only a few wore face masks
I watched that video, and it is stunning. The older guy getting beaten was hard to watch. That he learned nothing from it was even harder
Awful take. I usually appreciate dark humor, but, this is way off the mark.
> the general conversation here on HN has been much more doom and gloom than some other places

many people have pointed out that covid-19 threads gets burried alot quicker here on HN
just as one factoid to add, in addition to Freeman Dyson being extremely notable, his daughter, Esther, has been a well-known tech industry persona for a long time, and is probably acquainted with most everybody who is anybody out there, so... personal connection?
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Tech Lead Back end to scale mobility data infra
I live in Oregon, work in Washington County. One of my coworkers has been WFH all week with flu like symptoms. Another one was out today. I'm officially spooked.
I'd wager most travel insurance doesn't cover half as much as people would expect it to.

A few years ago I was travelling abroad, and someone broke into my rental car and stole my suitcase which had my passport inside. Both my travel insurance through my bank, and car rental insurance wouldn't cover any of it (they shimmed the lock open, so there was no damage to the vehicle).

Since then I've just opted for the lowest cover which will cover emergency medical costs, and kept the rest in a rainy day fund.
February Service Disruptions
$100k in stock at vest time valuation is an huge amount.

If your are an employee with a quite large 0.05% equity grant per year, that's a $2Billion unicorn already that is ready to IPO or buy back shares from employees.

> around here it’s barely a living wage

I dare you to say that to your janitor or receptionist.
Is the Internet Resilient Enough to Withstand Coronavirus?
Uh, not so much. Hogan’s situation was worse, to be sure.
But Thiel’s PROFILE PICTURE on a couple of sites was him, shirtless, on gay cruises. Saying that “he wanted that private, not public” flies in the face of pure common sense.

Apropos of that, courts have long held that billionaires have reduced rights to privacy due to their “overwhelming influence on public affairs and events”.

That’s why Thiel backed Hogan’s lawsuit (and to my mind, interfered unfairly), and was not able to sue Gawker.
Your contempt leads you to falsehoods and further confusion. Put it away before it gets you hurt.

There is no comparison between flu and Corona. Deaths of non-immune compromised flu sufferers in the US are tiny (1 in my state, NYS, this whole season).

Corona appears to be at least 100 times as deadly as the flu for non-immune compromised, probably more, and there are so many unknowns (eg repeat sufferers).

There is no universe in which "POTUS has down played things" is anywhere near a rational distillation of the behavior of this administration.

Take the glasses off. Put away the contempt. Use your brain. Don't be a fool.
It wasn't meant in a humoristic way at all but as a reminder to those that plan to attend that they are gambling with their lives. My sense of humor has taken an unscheduled leave of absence without any kind of indication when it will return. If ever.
Fortunately most books don't have an opinion about who is reading them.
#!/usr/bin/python
from random import choice
c=["Miss Scarlet","Mr. Green","Colonel Mustard","Professor Plum","Mrs. Peacock","Mrs. White"]
w=["candlestick","dagger","lead pipe","revolver","rope","wrench"]
r=["kitchen","ballroom","conservatory","dining room","cellar","billiard room","library","lounge","hall","study"]
print("%s did it with the %s in the %s."%(choice(c),choice(w),choice(r)))
I repeat: Joe doesn't know he's sick. His mask is worth wearing if he knows he's sick. If he just suspects he's sick then a low grade hospital mask will contain sneezes and sniffles enough to reduce his fomite impact, although gloves might do more.

Most Joes are wearing masks and wasting masks in a false belief they confer protection.
It might be more accurate to say that ideas are plentiful.
I live in Oregon as well (in Clackamas county) and work in downtown Portland. One of my coworkers has been out all week with flu like symptoms and they live in Washington county.

I am doing my very best not to panic at this point in time. My biggest concern is that I am asthmatic, but I also bounce back from colds and the flu relatively quickly, so I’m hoping even if I do get it I’ll recover somewhat easily...
Thank you! Corrected.
Note, that illustration (Tux_ECB) is demonstrating a different problem—ECB cyphers may expose patterns across blocks—rather than reused one-time pads. One-time pads will always produce random images as their output.
I'm confused, this and a blog post linked somewhere else in this topic, describes the OTP has XORing data with key.

I've always assumed it was just adding the key-value to the data-value, as is described in the Wikipedia article[0].

And those two can't be the same, e.g. with both data and key value 'a' (0x5c), I'd get 0x0 with XOR and 0xb8 with addition.

EDIT: Ah, damnit, second paragraph, it says: "On July 22, 1919, U.S. Patent 1,310,719 was issued to Gilbert Vernam for the XOR operation used for the encryption of a one-time pad."

Everything I've posted in this thread about OTP was under the assumption of an additive cipher. My bad.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Atleast Japan has proper hospitals not morgue waiting rooms
Why use s3 and cache? Why not just cache the output of the lambda directly? Suspicious.
Letting strangers sleep in your empty rooms?

I grew up in a high-crime city in the US which shaped my perception of the world, thus AirBnB sounded like madness to me when I first heard of it.
Although sometimes war can help spread diseases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Depends on how long the Document is...

If its smallish like a sign where there is more art than text I'd image it (jpg, 150dpi) Small, prints OK and is quickly viewable. Maybe include the text copy along for indexing/ADA purposes.

A couple pages (brochure content), then I'd try to do a mobile web version and also offer the PDF if the style is something that adds to the content.

Long format (booklet, paper, guide, long story, magazine), where the audience is going to be reading it for a while PDF makes sense: you can style it, able to read off-line easier, and its no big to the user that they are breaking from the web to read. Been enjoying old magazines and comic books in the internet archive, can either use their on-line reader or download PDF. Either are OK, if I expect to travel, will DL some PDfs.
WebAssembly allows allocation of memory and exposes a huge threat surface. We can't even protect the current APIs and these are being exploited by sovereign nations to oppress people like the Uyghurs. How about we focus on making the sandboxes stronger instead of building out things like WebGL and WebAssembly.
Look at an ASCII table. Each byte could be any value, but if you’re sending text data the 8th bit is very likely to be 0. That means if your sending say 10 different messages the same pattern is going to show up 10 different times making it clear something is going on.

That ASCII example is rather extreme, but all messages have patterns as long as you’re given enough of them you can break a reused OTP.
From what I can tell though, that was more of an oversight team at the NSC level though, not the actual CDC folks or HHS folks that would really be dealing with this stuff. Again, I'm not saying that isn't bad, but it's not the same as saying the "pandemic response unit" was disbanded, which doesn't seem to be the official name of any actual unit, and it's a phrase that seems to imply that all of our pandemic response capabilities were dismantled. They weren't.
[removed due to state change]
Working with the dates and times is a major pain in the ass. It's also a solved problem. Introducing a new system isn't going to help anyone.

So now every January 1st is a Monday. So what? Also, why Monday? Make it Sunday so NYE/NYD fall on a weekend. Christians would also be happy about Christmas being on a Sunday. Why put the extra week in December? Who the hell--in the northern hemisphere--wants an extra week at the worst time of the year? At least compromise and stick it in April or October. Or maybe we can trade back and forth between hemispheres.

This is just replacing calendar complexity. Instead of some [already written] logic around leap days, we've now got to deal with new logic around a leap week "every five to six years" (and how is that determined?). Any logic dealing with historical dates also has to handle computation between both systems. It's bad enough transitioning between Julian and Gregorian, but we're not still managing mortgages from the Renaissance.
I am not, but the paper I was referencing was written by people who are: https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/162/5/479/82647 My interesting the question arose out of my experience with non-epidemiological process estimation.

I spoken with a professional epidemiologist and they also agreed.

If CDC were saying that they considered this case and concluded that d/c is a more reliable estimator, I'd be happy to hear it. Instead, it appears d/c -- which is a good estimator for viruses in steady state-- is being used because it's just the default and the only research I can find which has actually evaluated this question found that d/c underestimates in a rapidly spreading infection.
Not to mention a large amount of the artifacts involved to play those games aren’t necessarily documented or accessible. The Nintendo 64’s CIC chip was only reverse engineered quite recently and required a serious reverse-engineering effort. [1]

[1] https://recon.cx/2015/slides/recon2015-19-mike-ryan-john-mcm...
I'm reaching the limits of my stats knowledge, but you may be able to figure out, even from just those two ciphertexts, something about the input plaintexts. It's obviously harder with shorter inputs.

I guess one thing to note is that, if what you were transmitting was just random noise to begin with, OTP re-use may not matter/be evident. But essentially all data that people care about transmitting isn't random noise, it has some structure, and that structure comes through with OTP re-use (more and more the more you re-use and the more data you re-use with).

AIUI, the Enigma machine (not quite an OTP but I think similar) was broken in part because of just a few key re-uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Op...
Analysis of Entropy Usage in Random Number Generators (PDF, 2017)
Is Culture currently profitable? If not, how do you plan to be? When biotech companies fail, a lot of institutional knowledge tend to be lost so it is a great tragedy when one does.

The Y2K overshadowed the bubble for biotech companies, but similarly a lot of companies were hyped up but in the end achieved nothing. Not on the Theranos Level of failure but basically flops. A lot of basic research lead to dead ends, so funding and finances are pretty important.
It's not bad* for people who aren't young, old or have diabetes/lung conditions.
My son attends that school. We literally got the call while hosting an evening party for him and several friends. Gonna be a rough week.
How have the mods left this sitting here for 3 hours? Rumors like this cause panics and get people killed. So fucking irresponsible.
Molecule Attention Transformer
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08264

Explanation video: https://youtu.be/9qSEFFqdXdA

Molecule attention transformer (MAT) is an interesting application of the transformer architecture on chemistry domain. MAT shows the very promising and intriguing results on the several molecule property prediction tasks and also paves the way for more adaptation of deep learning approaches in chemistry research.
Thanks for the reply - makes perfect sense in your case.
It sounds like you're trying a lot of out there ideas (volunteering at cafe, open source donations, helping out at hackerspaces, etc).

My advice is to try to halt all of that and dedicate 100% energy towards traditional ways of finding a job over the next month.

Out of curiosity, what about family?
Clearly HIMSS attendees should be prepared with proper contagion defenses, like excellent hand washing and masks for airborne pathogens :).
The Washington Post says it has been confirmed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/28/coronavirus-...
No, it's confirmed.

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/DISEASESCONDITIONS/DISEASESAZ/...
London and spelling would have only narrowed it down to London, England and London, Ontario.
That kind of public dressing-down makes me feel uncomfortable. If I take pleasure in reading such a thing, I feel ugly afterward.
Mmm, does that mean that now your iCloud password unlocks all your 2FAs?

It isn't that bad, it still a 2nd factor, but it's worth considering it.
This sadly isn’t true. Nearly all trip cancellation insurance excludes epidemics and pandemics. You need instead “cancel for any reason” insurance, which you can only acquire about 2-3 weeks after your first purchase.

Now, if the event is cancelled, you might get your refund that way, but maybe not.
That's just saying the same thing.
And, at the present time:

76 under monitoring (people who may have been exposed)

2 under investigation (similar symptoms but unconfirmed)
Eh, it's sort of the same? You can imagine each pixel as its own message: the point is that repeatedly transforming things in a consistent but "random" way isn't actually random. The ciphertext of each pixel is "random", but the pattern when looking at all the pixels is clear.
Sorry to hear that and hope it’s not too stressful!
Both are one-time pads, there isn't one exact algorithm that's "the one-time pad". And XOR is really the same as addition, just done per-bit instead of per-byte/per-character. But as far as I know, XOR is the most commonly referenced example.
Most cases will be like a cold. As many as 8% may require ICU care to survive. Unless protocols improve, at least a quarter of those will die. We need a lot more ventilators, immediately. And aggressive use of existing antivirals, protease inhibitors, with thorough data collection.
Excerpt:

"After the source code analysis CScout can

o perform accurate cross project identifier renames,

o process sophisticated queries on identifiers, files, and functions,

o locate unused or wrongly-scoped identifiers,

o identify header files that don't need to be included, and

o create call graphs spanning both C functions and function-like macros."
Ironically the Punch cards will probably Outlast literally everything else that's digital.
I share your concern. Perhaps it is because of heightened awareness, but I don't recall any previous winter where so many people were sneezing and coughing at the office as there were this past week. No hacking rib crackers, just lots of muffled throat clearing.
Are we the slowly boiling frogs?
I: 9780127450407

II: 9780201895025
I think pretty much anyone that’s not living in an isolated part of the us should assume that it’s spreading near where you are.

The only reason we haven’t found cases in the us is that we haven’t been testing. There’s probably 100 people for every person that they’ve tested positive at this point, maybe more.
The Wikipedia article is using modular addition as it's more accessible to the layperson than a binary XOR, but they're functionally equivalent for the purposes of cryptanalysis. XOR is just modulo arithmetic on single bits instead of larger numbers.

Edit for your edit: All of this discussion applies the same for additive OTP as it does for XOR OTP; once you have depths you can start applying the OTP (however it's done) “in reverse” as it were to begin extracting patterns in the data.
Here's a video of three flat-Earthers discussing (arguing) about it with three round-Earthers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yvvq-9ytE. They appear genuine, and remind me quite a bit of the anti-evolutionists I sometimes argue with (and who are definitely genuine).

And then there's "Mad" Mike Hughes, who just managed to kill himself in a rocket he was hoping to fly high enough to see that the Earth wasn't curved... or something. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51602655
> How many times can you copy digital media before it degrades beyond error correction?

The idea is to act as a repeater, or like dynamically refreshed RAM, detecting and amplifying the signal at each copy before it degrades too far. You still have the error rate of reading and writing each time, but it's often cheaper to get the same error rate by refreshing cheap media than by using a more permanent medium.

Interleaved error correction (such as on a CD) kind of works as you describe, spreading out the error from a single physical point across the logical data so that it can be corrected by intact data elsewhere. This works because it's designed to recover from burst errors, corresponding to a localized scratch across the track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed%E2%80%9...
Misty
It could be allergies. Whatever it is, it's fairly regular. I have a once a day spike in symptoms, only at night so far, where I feel like I'm about the catch the flu (runny nose, scratchy throat, a bit of coughing, and generally feeling poor), but the symptoms fade after an hour or two. Besides that I just feel tired, and at the start of whatever this is I had a day of loose BMs. DW and I's family also started feeling crummy a few days after we did, which could admittedly just be a coincidence.

On the flip side, it's also fairly common to think the flu is just a cold virus or allergies because most people don't display much in the way of symptoms.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/03/17/2908789...

Odds are this is just some random virus (>90% chance), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was COVID-19 either (<10% chance).

Edit - I also have a cousin living in LA that developed pneumonia, which again could just be coincidental.
Alfred North Whitehead’s Awe-Inspiring Focus
That psychological tricks like this are necessary to make people see that 1+1=2 makes me feel hopeless that humanity can ever reach the level of Star Trek without some kind of genetic engineering or letting AI take over. The vast majority of people are like this, incapable of reasoning through anything, only defending the views they grew up with or that they ascribe to their "tribe" by any means possible, never taking a Planck unit of time to self-reflect. There's some respite on select internet corners but even those have their pockets of crazies.

I recently had to regrettably leave a fandom Discord server because a sizable portion of the populace including the admin devolved into screeching banshees with no capacity for rational thought at some /slightly different/ view than they preferred being posted in their politics channel, and I could no longer justify expending any energy trying to engage in a reasonable fashion with these people or supporting a server with such a rotten administration I'd lost all respect for. I wonder if those of us who can consider ideas without throwing ourselves on the floor in a tantrum over the fact someone disagreed with us should just move to another planet then come back and conquer Earth in the five years it would take us to develop the capacity to do so without such people in our way.
How much would you spend (or spend to convince the government to spend) to keep your billions-of-dollars-worth-of-real-estate viable?

Building sea walls is a trivial cost compared to moving (and giving up the real estate to the sea). Ask the Netherlands - 26% of the country is below sea level - up to (or down to) 6.7m below.
Excerpt :)

"Working Style
- Analyze a task before spending time on it.

- Write your analysis in a structured manner to helps communicate your thoughts clearly and lucidly.

- Use a tool like Hackmd to scratch your thoughts and share it with fellow developers."
Interestingly these same sorts of visual patterns can be found when generating samples using poor pseudo random numbers like C rand() function. When using C++ mersenne twister algorithm the obvious coherency patterns go away.
Oh that sucks. I'm so sorry to hear that. Every day I drop one of my children off at school and I feel like I'm playing a very macabre form of lottery. But it's illegal here to keep your children out of school and of course there will have to be some disaster first before they will close the schools.