skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but it’s a world of difference from the 10% fatality rates being tossed around elsewhere in this thread.

I agree.

I misspoke when I said very little. I was taking issue with the OPs assertion that 0.5% was a best case mortality rate. I should have said it's closer to an upper bound assuming ideal treatment, since it looks like this is much worse for the elderly.
I can only imagine that there is a large amount of requests for COVID-19 tests from hospitals across the country right now. Without some kind of guidelines, the request for tests would overwhelm the current capacity and the most likely subjects would not be identified as soon. There has to be priorities.

I expect the CDC will update their testing criteria when it makes sense.
I don't have any horse in the race but other than the "it is made in Node" everything else applies to Hasura (except the VC thing obviously).

Do you have any other point to sustain this comment of yours?

> my conclusion is that PostGraphile is way ahead of all this
The 1 GB model is still selling for $35.

EDIT:

From the original announcement

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-price-raspberry-pi-4-2g...

What about the 1GB product?

In line with our commitment to long-term support, the 1GB product will remain available to industrial and commercial customers, at a list price of $35. As there is no price advantage over the 2GB product, we expect most users to opt for the larger-memory variant.
Stop being dishonest. Comparing the flu to the Corona virus is comparing apples to oranges. They don't even share transmission rates.
Most renewables aren't viable for base load power. Nuclear is viable only for base load power. Realistically they are competing for different parts of the power utilization and shouldn't be infighting at all. You want nuclear for the amount of power that's always on the grid. You want renewables to be able to handle spiking. The hard part of renewables now is the unpredictable output from varying winds and levels of sunlight. The cost problem is solved. If someone could come up with a way to make renewables very consistent in power output they'd blow nuclear out of the water. One of the reasons hydroelectric is so effective is the amount of water going over a suitable waterfall has a viable minimum (it might sometimes increase after rains but even in dry periods it has a predictable power level).
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upa6IEwnTTo

Here's another one from yesterday - RSA Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOGuXcLdOA
Microsoft GitHub is currently part of core Microsoft software development infrastructure. Windows source code resides on GitHub even.
>It's like there is this thirst for disaster or some global drama everywhere, and this is not something that I would expect from Hackernews.

Being somewhat of a cynic, it doesn't surprise me to see it here. HackerNews posters apparently love thinking about global catastophes and societal discontinuities. Read the breathless posts warning of dire consequences arising from the tariffs on in China 24 months or so ago. The flurry of horrific predictions arising as a result of Brexit. The neverending hysteria about CO2, ocean warming, ocean acidification, the mass-extinction insects, etc....

Most posts to hackernews come from workers who are bored... they turn to HackerNews to read interesting articles. And, there is nothing more interesting than fantasizing about some event that would give them a reason not to go work the next day. It's a normal thing to do... back in my day, it was nuclear strikes and Soviet invasions ( "wolverines!!"). Nowadays it's viruses and CO2... (a poor substitute, in my opinion, for the much cooler angst about nuclear winter and the like... but, to each their own.)

And, whatever the cause celebre may be at the time, you can always count on posters getting really ticked off at skeptics and responding along the lines of, "You just don't get it! The science is clear! This time it's different!"
Stats[1] indicate about 1.5-1.7 [2] websites exist.

This would mean letsencrypt certificates make up more 2/3 of the internet!

[1] https://www.websitehostingrating.com/internet-statistics-fac...

[2] https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

Edit: Sounds like these include renewals from the thread, but it’s still over 10pct of the internet!
Exactly what came to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

Having done plenty of interfaces between systems these are words to live by.
Hacker News or Political Garbage?
WTF? What does the Corona virus or Climate Change nonsense have anything to do with tech? There are other sites for political topics.
Well, it's not a hard concept if you believe in rule of law and have read a few Wikipedia pages. But a surprisingly large number of people seem to start from the position, "My actions should never have consequences I don't like," and then backfill from there.
Sadly, the 2-in1 version only has Intel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The ancient Greeks beat this in terms of slow delivery:

"In 499 BC, he shaved the head of his most trusted slave, tattooed a message on his head, and then waited for his hair to grow back. The slave was then sent to Aristagoras, who was instructed to shave the slave's head again and read the message, which told him to revolt against the Persians"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histiaeus
Same here.

They obviously don't have beacons on the client side, I wonder if it's based on statistics, at this time of the day on a Tuesday we should be getting x requests but are getting only x/n.
Actor Steven Seagal Charged with Unlawfully Touting Digital Asset Offering
HPE will probably tell you that you need to use their drives. We have been putting in non-HPE hard drives so far without issue. More on that in the full test.
Clickbait.

It's "you can now get the 2gb version for $35, which was/is the price point for the 1gb version", not "raspberry pi now has double the RAM".
There aren't any meaningful criteria. The symptoms look exactly like those of the regular flu, they just have a worse distribution of outcomes which manifest long into the infection.

Just like China, the rest of the world does not have the capacity to test anywhere close to every suspected case. This is also why even good-faith stats are guaranteed to be underestimates. There are no easy answers here, individuals should look after their own wellbeing.
John Carmack talks about “antifragile” idea generation (2015) [video]
Pretty spot on, a hospital in Hokkaido has to stop taking in new patients due to nurses having to take leave to care for their children.

Source (jap): https://www3.nhk.or.jp/sapporo-news/20200227/7000018387.html
Spot on. Medical facilities are not up to support in times of widespread epidemics. Which means most people would not get any treatment and you should expect mortality rate to increase over time as it becomes more widespread.
Kids staying at home with grandparents means far smaller groups of people though.

When my daughter started preschool... boy did she ever bring home every type of disease known to science. We ended up pulling her out and just having her grandparents look after her, which worked out really well, because I kept getting sick and missing work myself.
Unfortunately a lot of these measures, it seems, are brought up because they’re “photogenic”, they lend themselves to inculcation of kids (like banning straws).

But, in the end it has very minimal impact on the effects we’re trying to suppress but on the other hand is very good at getting people used to doing things without thinking through issues independently. It primes kids for ready-made ideology.
>And that's still going to be a lower bound since they'll all be getting medical care from often before they're even diagnosed.

It's not a lower bound because cruise ships skew much older than the general population. All 4 who have died so far have been in their 80s.
>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward.

Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows!

If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?
> If I'm reading you right

No - I was saying the same thing you are: the items of the bundle CANNOT be mapped individually, which is why GOG has this policy. The poster I was replying to was saying they didn't understand why a bundle was treated differently, and I was trying to say why. (apparently, poorly)
What do you mean? All modern enterprise analytics/monitoring solutions are going to be able to give you some kind of top-level "request success rate" metric. I assume they mostly just lean into whatever monitoring tooling they have set up. What kind of "calculation" are you imagining here? Like a very specific SRE formula for availability windows or something?
For those of you curious about the state of COVID-19 in Japan, I created an open source tracker that has gained a lot of momentum.

Source Code: https://github.com/reustle/covid19japan/

Tracker Itself: https://covid19japan.com

Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/reustle/status/1229313493808992257

(copied from another thread)
I don't understand why takeaways very rarely publish an email address. If they can receive orders from Uber (or whoever) they can receive an email.
Assuming that you can access them diagonally -- not 100% if this is so - that layout should work.
I have an RPi4 as a home server now. It's not a supercomputer, but it has plenty of oomph to host my IMAP email and other related stuff. The onboard storage is super-slow, though, so you'd definitely want some faster external stores (I use NFS to my Synology).
Super interesting. Surely there are some business cases of how someone could use this data for good (?)

For example someone could show the disparity between a New York times bestseller and the book getting the most amount of activity on GoodReads (added to most shelves for example)
I think the criteria right now involves recent travel to China or being exposed to someone who was.

> CDC initially declined because the patient, who had not recently traveled to countries with outbreaks or been in contact with someone with the virus, did not meet the testing criteria.
At this point it might be easier to talk about who's still going. Are any big players left?
Why is their capacity in the hundreds and not in the thousands
A Trip Through New York City in 1911 (upscaled to 4K, 60fps)
Undiscoverable UI Madness
Complex society is more fragile than you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
People’s mistrust of China data stems from the known manipulation of economic indicators by Chinese authorities. The running assumption is that this behavior would apply to virus outbreak data, but this is unproven.
Reasons why school was canceled in places I have lived: snow, hurricanes, floods, wildfire (smoke and danger of burning down), and weather related power outages.
It sounds like a billion certificates includes renewals, so not anywhere close to 2/3rds.
More American Pedestrians Dying Than in Past 30 Years
I've done exactly that with a sample food delivery project. Same frontend, but two different backends (one with Hasura, one with Postgraphile).

Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/sastraxi/great-bear
> You should do both.

You should really do all three:

1) Sanitize input on the server.

2) Use a CSP to prevent your browser from rendering any asset unless specifically whitelisted.

3) Use your front end framework to sanitize text being displayed.
It would have made sense weeks ago. They are either dangerously incompetent or intentionally pushing this under the rug to forestall panic and buy themselves time to secure PPE and supply lines for critical medical infrastructure. I tend towards the latter explanation. Having a travel requirement to Wuhan or China to obtain testing was clearly insufficient weeks ago and they've done nothing to change that.
There is no way to offset carbon currently, the programmes that try to handle carbon recapture are in infancy or snake oil or just do not work.

The best we could do is to scrape the car and go high efficiency electric. And switch to public transport where applicable, bulk deliveries rather than couriers for transport. Local products to limit total transport too.

Ultimately, we will have to devise a plan for food production and water availability to continue on hotter planet, and making the conditions comfortable without contributing to the problem. (passive air conditioning, building design etc.)
That's a poor heuristic which has already been contradicted by a number of cases outside of china aka local spread aka the criterion which transitions this from an epidemic to a pandemic.
Only if we define it as “what the OSI approves of”. Otherwise, SSPL doesn’t prohibit commercial use, it’s just a somewhat-aggressive copyleft license.
Yeah, but people are lazy and GitHub has a user-friendly UI with big green "Merge" buttons.
Cars and vehicles are going to be produced anyway. There are also vehicles smaller than cars (electric bikes and scooters) and buses (China has already made huge progress with electric buses).

Cheaper batteries also mean emergency gas generators for peak energy usage can be phased out.
This is most probably for those who need exactly the same configuration they already use in production.
A more interesting case would be the federal government pressuring YouTube to remove some videos, similar to the Wiki leaks payment blockade a few years back.
A Floating Courtroom Brings Justice to the Jungle
More importantly, it also comes with a USB-C fix!

https://betanews.com/2020/02/27/raspberry-pi-4-double-ram-us...
It never ceases to amaze me how many people cry, "BUT MA FREEDOMS OF SPEECH" and actually have no concept of what that means.
The difference is where it's done. "Sanitizing the input" implies that it happens when the value is read, so that all uses of the value are stuck with a single result. "Escaping the output", in your example, would happen in the database or its driver, for parameterized queries. HTML output of the same value in the same request would be escaped differently within a function that builds HTML output.
Is it not ostensibly the same company, just with a new owner...?
South Korea tested more people for COVID-19 in one day than all the testing the CDC has done to date.
The 1GB model is $30 on Adafruit right now, and $35 for the 2 GB model.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4292
Github is part of MS, but as I understand it, is run separately from the rest of Microsoft.
The Coronavirus Threat Just Got Real in Europe
This is shockingly comprehensive and valuable; thank you. One minor suggestion is to generate a single-page or PDF version. I manually created one although of course this will go stale:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jKepii1hL9e-gkAsz906nRtgssz...
Don't be so condescending. Care to explain your point instead?

Genuinely interested but not getting anything of what you said.
I can't believe they would have problems reengineering molds for old parts.

The host of chinese high-quality knockoffs show this is possible, economical, and probably not even difficult.

I've heard the monorail space sets are so expensive because of the "lost mold" problem. I'd understand if the parts only existed in old video footage, but there literally are thousands to tens of thousands of examples of this, available on the open market for a pittance to a large multinational multimedia company.

I've heard there are people that invest in Lego, but who cares about these people? And if you really care about them, just release sets with small variations from the original.

I think they should go the upscale route, just release massive all-in-one sets of all the sets from a year, like 1979 classic space or the explorien.
Please don't try to scare them. That tactic is very often counterproductive.

Educating them in a factual way that doesn't appeal to their emotions is a better tactic, in my opinion. Perhaps a research project where they actively find all the publicly available data on themselves that they can, combined with lessons about the impact of data leakage on regular people would be sufficient? I don't know.

In the end, teenagers (like everyone else) will make their own decisions about these things. Even if they make decisions that you and I consider foolish, they have the right to decide for themselves. You job is just to ensure that they have the information and understanding they need to make informed decisions, not to evangelize a particular stance.
> Saving Netflix's bandwith costs by sacrificing your privacy.

> IPFS and bittorrent don't do anything to protect the data you are uploading and your IP address.

And Netflix are using it across AWS for distributing container images, not touching client devices, unless you know something more than what the article says.

This doesn't have anything to do with customer's privacy.
I think that's talking about status update cadence, not software updates.
I still don't think that would be a First Amendment issue.
SMS Doorbell with MicroPython and Twilio
I come from São Paulo, a bigger, poorer, and more chaotic city than LA. The bus system there was much more reliable than in LA. And I am talking here about 5 or 6 buses at any given time on a circular route that's probably less than 5 miles total.

Of course, I am reliving my frustration on these times that I have to wait more time at a bus stop than I spend inside the bus, so it is a harsh critique. But I do think it's fair and justified.
This is correct. We currently serve about 195 million websites, where website is defined as a unique Fully Qualified Domain Name.
I assume this means they're going to stop producing the 1GB version? Or is there some reason to opt for it still? Lower power consumption maybe? Still, it seems like 99% of users are going to opt for the one that has double the memory at the same price.
G.Sachs led $55M funding round in South African fintech startup Jumo
Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults: United States (42.4%)
You honestly believe that a company the size of GitHub has had their software update practices appreciably change since the acquisition? Relax, GitHub had update issues before and they will have them again.
Could be, but if you provide value, early adopters won't care.

It's relatively easy to change a company name, so I'd ask users and make a call with more data.
How much it costs to run a bootstrapped SaaS making $18K/month
Same here. After Intel's decision to not release microcode updates for the Intel processors I was using (earlier core i7 models) - rendering them useless - I'm never buying Intel again.
Saw that these dudes out of philly make them https://www.oatfoundry.com/
WebGL2 does NOT work in Safari. All it does is enable GLSL 3.0 ES shaders. No work has been done on WebGL2 in Safari 4 years. See the source

http://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/h...

Search for "NOT IMPLEMENTED". You'll see 80+ WebGL2 apis are not implemented.
https://itslearning.com/us/
I've read it as "we'll stop posting silly updates to this incident until we actually know something", not "we'll stop rolling out updates to our services".

I'd wage that Microsoft practices had nothing to do with this, but I'll wait for RCA.
There's a difference between "my honest prediction is that this is legitimately going to get way worse, because of X, Y, and Z", and "I feel a psychological need to pretend that this small problem is much bigger than the information makes it seem, because I like drama".

I've been watching Canada's medical system's near-total non-reaction to this situation. Basically the measures they have taken are to caution people not to worry to much or discriminate against Chinese people. Based on that, our throughput of travellers, and the fact that asking people if they've been in Wuhan in the last two weeks is no longer good enough to rule out cases, it's obvious that it's just a matter of time before Canada has a serious outbreak.

When I crossed the US border recently, all they asked me was whether or not I've been to China.

I think it's just realistic to acknowledge that at some point we lose the containment game, and that's very likely happened already. Maybe the long term consequence is a flu season that is twice as lethal. Or maybe there will be a very effective vaccine that eraducates the virus next year. Who knows.
And node!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they make token concessions and pretend you win."
The Virus Is Coming
ohh, a Joker *slow clap
That's also the importance of consistent patterns. Bluegrass and bop music, both extremely high-speed improvisational forms, have a couple of key things in common. First, time signature... they are strictly 4/4, which makes "chunking" a lot easier. Second, they are built on really common harmonic structures (I/IV/V chords in bluegrass, ii/V/I cycles in bop). Third, they have standard repertoires, and all musicians beyond beginner level are expected to know a lot of standards by heart.

So the complexity of certain parts of the music are tightly constrained, which frees the performers to tackle other forms of complexity (like improvisation) much more aggressively.
The actual server was broken for me:

$ git push
Enumerating objects: 26, done.
Counting objects: 100% (26/26), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (15/15), done.
Writing objects: 100% (15/15), 1.49 KiB | 1.49 MiB/s, done.
Total 15 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), completed with 10 local objects.
remote: Internal Server Error
To git+ssh://github.com/<redacted>/<redacted>
! [remote failure] wip -> wip (remote failed to report status)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git+ssh://git@github.com/<redacted>/<redacted>'
I was amazed that that long list of charges only results in a 20-year maximum.
> A more interesting test case is Google removing footage of elected officials speaking in a congressional session...

Why is that any more interesting? Is google compelled to host and preserve any and all content?
Not if you need to use the PCIe for adding any kind of decent networking though. :(

Still, USB 3.2 probably means some kind of decently reliable USB stick would probably work instead.
I was thinking more that a large proportion of the pollution in the Heathrow area would come from the traffic on the M25.
What was the biggest hurdle you ended up facing that ended up being the dealbreaker for your team?

I think for us, the biggest issue so far has been figuring out some of the more involved Velocity templates as the documentation is fairly sparse and testing them can be a pain. Thankfully this project isn't too business logic heavy but due to time constraints, we ended up writing Lambdas for templates we could not figure out quickly.
Founder of 8chan Faces Arrest on ‘Cyberlibel’ Charge
I appreciate the way they keep everyone informed in the downtime. It tells a lot about the company
I wonder, why did they use a First Amendment claim rather than something to do with safe harbour considerations (Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

My understanding in this area is thin, but from what I understand the big tech media companies often claim limited or no liability for user generated content because of the above legal considerations. If so, and they then go on curate content, that would seem to be allowing them to accept the upside of being a publisher (a curated experience they can sell to customers and other stakeholders) without accepting the downside (liability for copyright infringement, slander and libel, etc.).

I'm not sure why PragerU's legal team didn't push in this area rather than the admittedly dodgy First Amendment claim.

edit: grammar.