skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many aspects humans are more capable, but not all.

Humans don't have to look at an animal for a few days to figure out if it's a mouse or a fox.

But for people infected with the Coronavirus we are not more capable: the first 2-14 days a person is infected with the Coronavirus we cannot see it. Only medical tests can, and we can't test everybody around us.

So the smartest might be to run away 100 times to avoid the single person who is infected.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba...
This reminds me of the spite house located in Alexandria, VA. It was build in the 1800s in order to prevent loiterers and wagons from passing through.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.htm...
0 Fatalities 0-9 years old so far.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
That's not really the idea - ancient graffiti is of vastly more value that the mere fact that someone wrote it. Ancient graffiti gives us insight into language and pronunciation (misspelling is very useful in reconstructing pronunciation), aspects of life considered taboo or otherwise unworthy of educated record (sex, usually), the lives of the comparatively poor and unimportant. It tells us about who was where, when, and doing what, in a way official records (if they exist) often don't.

Many of the things we've learned from graffiti can't be learned elsewhere. Things really would be lost to future historians if we managed to stamp out modern graffiti. Thankfully, we won't, so the question is moot.
The only "morally questionable" things he's done (that I'm aware of) are his personal beliefs, which have nothing to do with product development.
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I've been building a browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you're on a checkout page for a website and redirects you to a screen that shows you how long you had to work to earn the purchase you're about to make. The idea is to get people to more consciously consume and reduce their consumption.

It still needs work, and I'm hoping to find a way to approximate the CO2 impact of their purchases.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curb-your-consumer...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/curb-your-con...

More info: https://www.curbyourconsumerism.app/#faq
I've never seen a publicly-trusted certificate with a 12-hour validity period before.
What if it's like two days in advance? Probably better than the thing going down. Your monitoring should have caught it by then.
The disease has spread in places like Singapore and Thailand, which are warmer in February than most Northern Hemisphere cities are in summer. The notion that everything will just die down come Spring is blindingly optimistic.
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> I don't see the benefit in having severity and priority as 2 distinct dimensions

Working directly with PO's both "Technical POs" and "Product POs" I've found that creating a strong distinction between the two as well as what the two dimensions define has a significant impact on the quality of the product over time.

In the original post we see that both Priority and Severity are two different dimensions each representing a scale. This is what I think is causing a lot of the discussion in this thread.

Because both of these values are a scale we are creating a foundation over which we can get confused and we find ourselves needing to differentiate these two in some way. This comment is a good example of the confused conversations I would often see. All of variations on the same flavour:

> If the goal is to better communicate what "type" of bug it is, using an enum classification (eg, cosmetic vs crash vs data-corruption) would be more appropriate than a numeric scale.

To get around this in Agile contracts I've always advocated the following:

"Severity" scale. Severity of the issue on the user from 1-5. (For Jira users imagine this as your 'Priority' field renamed to severity.

1: The user is unable to complete the journey or part of the journey

2: The user is unable to perform an action, but can complete the journey

3: The user is able to perform an action but...

4: The user is able to perform an action but...

5: The user is able to perform an action but...

Of course, you can put in your own definitions. The important thing being that this is defined from the 'users' point of view rather than attempting to define the nature of the issue (crash, freeze, etc...). The nature of the issue can be discussed within the ticket itself.

The second dimension 'Priority' instead being thought of as 'Ranking' and is not a field which is added to the ticket. This defines the order in which the issues must be dealt with. Thus allowing a PO to appreciate the severity of an issue and also negotiate with the team it's relative important through ranking.
Given they beat all these big players their valuation should be extremely high
Why would you weigh the technical "severity" ("what happened?") against the actual severity ("business needs")? The severity, by hypothesis, has no influence on whether you're going to work on the bug or not. You want to weigh the business needs against how easy the bug is to fix, not against what happened as a result of the bug. "What happened as a result of the bug" is purely within the domain of business needs.
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Because severity is usually a general measure (eg, to use an example from application security: XSS is usually a sev:med), but priority can be subject to a bunch of forces not known to the person who found the bug. You might find eg an exploitable dangerouslySetInnerHTML, but if that’s on a separate domain (in the authn and the origin sense), in some back-office page somewhere, it may not be particularly exploitable, the impact of exploitation may not be particularly high, and so may justify a lower priority. Meanwhile, lack of CSRF protection on an endpoint that half the internet is engaged with may be a higher priority, even though CSRF is typically lower sev.

Maybe the page with the bad bug is getting shut down next month anyway and we’re just accelerating that instead. Doesn’t make the bug any less bad: definitely makes fixing it less of a priority.

(In hindsight I should have used SSRF or SQLi or RCE as examples of the former style bug and XSS as the lower severity of the two to emphasize the difference.)
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Running the Vault secret injection webhook alongside Istio
I wish there was a union operator for typing as well to replace `Union[str, int]` with just `[str|int]`.
Is it typical for the US to jail Australian journalists or publishers in another country in a supermax prison in solitary confinement for almost a year on trumped-up charges to seek extradition for doing their job? You're conflating different entirely situations. The US MSM won't cover it because the powers that be won't let them and the MSM doesn't want to outrage people how publishing and reporting facts has been perverted into a "crime" because it doesn't suit those in power. If you're Jesse Ventura, Cenk Uygur or Phil Donahue, that's off the top of my head who just MSNBC has tried to silence. Chris Hedges - NY Times is another. Please get a clue rather than oversimplifying or rationalizing your lack of big-picture understanding and desensitized lack of empathy.
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We switched to P1, P2, P3. Why? A company that bought us used P1, P2, and P3, and they just couldn't comprehend that most of our "P1" bugs were really P2 bugs under their system.
Log formatting is a different problem than string formatting. With log formatting you pass the formatting arguments as function parameters, which is completely different from any other way you format strings.
What should we/they do?

Even in real-life, you're never sure, when someone recommends a product, be it a salesman in a brick and mortar store ("this one here is a lot better then that one there", even at the same price, could mean different profits). With platforms like youtube, you have atleast minimal trust in a few youtubers you follow regularly (and this literally means "a few"), but doing a random search means 80% chance the reviewer got sponsoder or atleast received the product for free in exchange for a good review. Star systems on sellers pages have their own sets of issues... usually people don't write reviews at all if the product is good, and complain only after it breaks (unless they're 'paid' for the review).
While endurance helps it isn't so straightforward as /just/ increasing endurance. Efficency gains can more than pay for the cost of additional manufacturing for one. It is something which calls for doing math on a case by case basis essentially.

Going from Incandescents to LEDs and similiar caused the energy usage to go down in spite of increased always on electronic device usage. Replacing a hummer with a Prius or Yaris wins out quickly.
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The community has been slowly moving to the term "Universal JS" for that concept, though. Probably partly due to the mathematical ambiguity, but mostly because "universal" is a bit more approachable term.
Right, sometimes we have frameworks which are not MECE (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive), making them imperfect, but still useful.
I the 21st century we should be able to do better then speculate and have a clear idea of what the proper response is to a virus like this or any other.
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Yeah exactly. It's one thing to board up the windows for a day or two, a completely different story to do it for a month+. People get restless and impatient. They start working each other up about perceived ineffectiveness of the lockdown.
The UK does have some experience with that gang aft agley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
If Google is only trying to stop the evil Microsoft empire why are they also trying to gently smother Firefox?
It seems clear that Google wants to own the platform, which is perfectly understandable but doesn't fit in with the narrative of Google fighting to maintain the open standards of the Web.
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That's not how I see it. Mathematics is not science, even though science has found practical uses for certain types of math. Pure math does not require observation of the real world for proof, only consistency with itself. As a system of symbols independent of the messy real world I see it closer to mysticism than hard science. I am not saying this as a bad thing, only something we need to be honest about.
PSA: if you are not already using it, and you care about the future of humanity, then give Firefox a(nother) go. Its actually quite good these days.
You’re projecting a lot more certainty than the experts have about that: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/what-happ...

Additionally, even if there is seasonality, it may be that this has already spread too far to die out completely and cases will rise again in the northern hemisphere toward the end of 2020.
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There was derision in the phrase "intangible, undefinable, nebulous quality". Because it doesn't really exist. Fun exists in many forms.

And I never said fun didn't count. I said people find fun in different ways and trying to police how other people have fun is a bad look. So please, if you want to argue against me. Do it against what I actually said and not just what you wish I said.
How much CO2, on scale, let's say, 10 years, planting 1000 trees a month would remove? I have https://teamtrees.org/ in mind, they claim to plant one tree for each dollar.
>So they switched the framing from "rapist" to "right wing".

I don't know who is "they" but the shift in perception didn't need any prompting from anyone. It was Assange that started acting as Russia's stooge.
How do those place fare with regular flu? Parents optimism comes from the notion that in colder climates, there is almost no flu during warm months.
If you're ever wondering how much data Chrome sucks out of you, the amount of effort Google goes through to try to keep people from using even Chrome-Edge, let alone Firefox, should give you a rough idea.

Microsoft probably won't be much better though in the long run...
Uptime robot (https://uptimerobot.com/) can be set up to alert you about any upcoming cert expiries. It has saved our necks a few times.
I don't get why you're being downvoted. They're just out-microsofting Microsoft :-)
Maybe it is different where I am but in my experience, it is always an MD on staff.
aren't the US Gov claiming people died due to his hacking?
That’s a good use case for monitoring tools. There’s a Munin plugin that will measure days until expiration for SSL certs. I use that with an alert threshold just shorter than when Let’s Encrypt auto renews so that I get an email alert in case the auto renew fails for some reason.
I don’t know how reputable that website is, the company that owns that website has less than 10 employees and was founded in 2016. I’d rather get the info from CDC/WHO/other reputable organizations for info.

Lots of grand claims on this website too, makes it seem sketchy:

https://dadax.cn/en/about-dadax/
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Thank you so much for the reference and especially the link. I tried it last night before going to sleep and it felt great. You can bet this is going into my daily wind down routine. :)
The old URL for this is a 404 now, so I submitted the archived version (thanks to the Internet Archive for preserving it in any case). However, I have found there is a new, valid URL for this article:

https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-03-28-solving-the-w...

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451202
You seem to imply that, because there were dramatic consequences from the release, then he was guilty from the release. Again, it seems that the problematic leak (uncensored names) comes from a 3rd party, so your implication is like a sophism.
A "fun distraction"? That's some of the most psycopathic shit I've seen on this site, ngl.
A ban on paper facilitates a black market.
I agree. We need to move to more renewables like solar but that is just for the future, burning less CO2 in 30 years from now. The warming will continue to happen, technology can't stop it. The population will grow to 9B but the global growth rate keeps dropping. This planet can't support that many people, no matter how clean we use energy. Look at all the water resources and food resources we are burning and the biodiversity we are killing so people can eat and make a living. It feels like 4B is about as much as we can sustain. The population will continue to drop and the places where the birth rate is high, we need education and empowerment of women to drive the birth rate down to more western rates. This is where we should be spending money, not a machine to pull CO2 out of the air. Nature already knows how to do that quite efficiently but it will take time. We'll have a few hundred years of consequences but it will eventually fix itself.
How is the default ad blocking on Edge? I imagine that's the leverage Google fears.
Yep. This is because of the vicious circle of money capturing power through greater wealth, greater corruption, and greater power. As Chris Hedges calls it: inverted totalitarianism. Autocratic plutocracy by force by other means. It's like how many Americans are chained to their jobs by healthcare and other benefits, but let's not call it slavery or indentured servitude (student loans) because anarcho-capitalism with "no government, no regulations and more greed will solve everything! It will just work itself out magically!"
James Garfield begged people not to nominate him, and they did. He then spent most of the Presidential campaign at home, and won.

And then proceeded to upset the spoils system of appointing political donors and supporters to jobs, and got shot for his trouble.

Surprisingly fascinating: https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-Pre...
>people think much more critically in the West.

From what I've seen, the majority of the people anywhere don't think very critically.
Then you are back classifying it by impact x probability... What is a different set of dimensions and make much more sense to use basically because filling those 2 dimensions tends to be easier than filling a severity dimension.

But that says nothing about why one would want 2 unrelated priority dimensions.
Specifically in this context it means that the same JS code can be run in the server and in the browser.
(1) Use the unsubscribe link if an email has it; (2) block the email address in your email program. Probably they will respect (1), but maybe they won't, so always use the 1-2 punch.
Um, More like Google embraced extended exstinguished the original gangster! Microsoft would have been much better off being Mozilla's patron than capitulating to Google.
Remember when Google deprecated an API used by uBlock Origin in Chrome, does anybody know if this same API is deprecated in the new Chromium based Edge as well?

If it isn't, I'd actually choose Edge over Chrome on Windows as my daily driver.
> He released evidence

Allegedly, my friend. Allegedly. He has not been convicted of this. He's a suspect.
These are different teams within Google, and it's kinda not fair to say that Google is not truly behind open web standards.

Their whole web developer advocate team is behind open web standards, and pushes it forward everyday.
The engineering team actually working on Chrome is behind those standards, and pushes it forward. They work closely with other browser vendors. and try to make everything work everywhere.

Then there is the Chrome marketing team which has to goal (OKR) to increase the reach of Chrome. They might still support the open web, but their goal is to get more users using chrome.
Influenza is a totally different virus though. That said, other corona viruses do tend to display seasonality but experts are uncertain about this latest one:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/what-happ...
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“Less than 100,000 have been translated”

Can’t that be addressed with deep learning and crowdsourcing?
She seems better than others but I am also not German, so I don't know. When Trudeau and Macron came along, they seemed better - until they too turned out to be disappointments. It is very disappointing and depressing that out of 7+ billion people, we can't produce a few dozen sensible leaders. The business world doesn't seem better either, even in the tech industry which was supposed to attract better people.

Then again, how is one supposed to take on a billionaire who casually throws half a billion (!!!!) dollars of his own money just at the beginning of a primary race?

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/808163144/bloomberg-has-alrea...
It's anti competitive for the same reason auditing companies are not allowed to have consulting arms or if they do, they should not both work for the same customer at the same time. Channel 1 (auditing) vs channel 2 (consulting). At least in theory.

There's a conflict of interest at the heart of the issue.

Google offers a service which is supposed to be neutral (search) and then on top of that it also sells another (ads) which is at odds with search. Good search results should bring the best result but ads are a way to bypass that with cash.

Microsoft had the same problem with Windows (level playing field) + Microsoft made apps on top of Windows (which didn't want a level playing field).
Agreed, though equally interesting how social media seem to not be picking up upon it either - at least going by Twitter trends in the UK: https://trends24.in/united-kingdom/

Though given those trends, kinda glad the front page is not composed around those trends as a whole and with that, we should be thankful as the news would be a far sadder place if that was the case.

[EDIT ADD] the BBC article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51633303 seems like it could and should traction and if enough people click the link - it would actually make the front page given how the BBC has the top 10 articles being viewed listed upon its front page. So there is some people power input upon this that you can exercise.
> We don't have that lever.

As far as I understand we have a red button that will induce a nuclear winter
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So isn't it useless to make it a cardinal? You are basically throwing information away from a field intended to inform a decision.
Techcrunch is a hot mess lately.

Most TC links get uBlocked completely now with adtech run amok.
Renewables have already made a significant difference in CO2 emissions. It’s rather shocking how much wind + solar are dominating new generation simple due to cost savings.
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Honestly, I've found that testers are poor judges of priority. They get emotionally involved in their bug and don't really make a good judgement of the priority to the business.

That's why the split between priority and severity exists: The tester is telling you the subjective view of the bug as if a user encountered it; and the triage process is all about judging the priority of fixing the bug in this particular release cycle.
I deliver more results, get assigned more important and complex work, and work more hours.

It's a project with a fixed span, and the barrier to entry is very high (government clearance and certain skills) so many people who gain entry exploit the situation because they know we're short on people and won't fire anybody unless they have a negative impact on the business. So the bar is high to get in, but the bar is very low to not be kicked out (have some positive impact). So we'll keep people that only do 1-2 tasks per week because it's better than 0, but don't reward the folks who can do 10 tasks per week.