skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
There's no meaningful preparations for avoiding what is essentially a really dangerous variant of the common cold at an individual level.

Right, but you can prepare for potential societal disruption(s) caused by the disease. Even if you don't get sick yourself, you could be impacted.
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Here is a great collection of maps you might want to add.

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

License there is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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But we can't trust tech companies. I trust my government much much more they answer to me and awsgooglebook doesn't
> It doesn't seem to be an airborn virus, but it does survive on surfaces.

I just read this last night, and from this I had the impression that it is an airborne virus, and that surface spreading is not the main vector:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...
The US is not the UK.
Each of those people would have to do some sort of authentication. Each of those mechanisms is just as subject to accidental disclosure, hacking, etc as any other.

Make a door, it won't stay secret. And you can't assure that there won't be bad actors involved in any number of parties that have to agree.

The whole backdoor system, once it exists, is open to subversion and/or misuse. The only way to not have the problem is not create the door in the first place.
I'd agree, 2.8m showing up in accounts will always trigger flags; there's just no way to avoid someone asking questions at that level.

Saying Crypto isn't enough which is why he tried to say it was a 'family member gift' which he couldn't prove. Probably all he could show was that his currency came in from a mixer which is going to raise questions.

I'm surprised he didn't simply hold tether (if he wanted stable) and then drip it into his accounts.
But it works.
Clearview AI Has Entire Client List Stolen
We actually did have a dedicated Googler who oversaw our move from AWS to GCP. I asked him about it but never got a reply.

Anyway, yes. It caused us problems. Attempts to connect to machines outside of GCP would fail repeatedly due to the NA dropping the SYN. This would mean our connect() call would timeout repeatedly. There was an ICMP response I could see with tcpdump:

ICMP host aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd unreachable - admin prohibited filter, length 68
The costs associated with this policy seem much more likely to be based on decreased sales if folks buy a game, play it as much as they want (within 30 days), and return for a full refund.

Less that they spend bandwidth/compute costs they can't recoup with the return.
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The time to short airline stocks was 2 weeks ago.
Here's a ~5ft wide house in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-casa-estrecha
Yes getting $1M to $2M raised because of demo day is reasonable. Yet closing $2M on demo day without subsequent follow up meetings would be very impressive!
Maybe I'm being petty, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the ssl certificate on their website isn't even configured properly (valid for uberspace.de domain).

To clarify: seems their main site is on apache.org. But, their www.couchdb.org site (hosted on uberspace.de) doesn't have a correct cert.
I'm really surprised at the negativity in these comments. I'm drooling over how good this looks and can't wait to use it in my projects. $249 is nothing for the craftsmanship you're getting (and future components!). I've been following this project for a while and have seen some of the live-coding sessions--a ton of work went into picking the correct styles and fine-tuning each component.
lol. Slow day at work?
> France .. produce 5GT of CO2 per person.

5 GT (5 000 000 T) is unfathomably large. They produce about 5T = 5000 kg CO₂ / person / year, which is 5 · 12 / (12+2·16) = 1.4 ton of carbon / coal or 1.7 m³ = 1700 l of diesel.

Going by Wikipedia 2017 list[1], they are about 5% above average per-capita CO₂ emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I think infrastructure, in general, is at some risk. The people who maintain infrastructure are going to be as motivated to stay home as everyone else.
first past the post and score are both good options.
Yeah, the entire ads industry exists because of information asymmetry, but what is new is how bad actors are using technology in these imperfect markets to abuse it.
Are the yellow vests looting?
Once we all agree that should be a key the government then focuses on just getting the "ease" of obtaining the key. You gotta fight them at every step with an irrational zeal to prevent this slippery slope.

Example: None of us case about midget porn. If we all agree that banning midget porn will not have an impact on anyone, government then quickly moves on to octopus porn. Now, on a matter of principle you will find your position weaker and weaker.
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I'm doing this with BigQuery for Logflare (logflare.app).
Given the ads in Windows [1] showing a very similar thing, but targeted against Firefox, I’d say it’s inevitable.

[1]: https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-10-gets-cheeky-with-a...
General advice for any bug that transfers trough fecal-oral route, not just for COVID-19:

1. Dot's store your toothbrush in the bathroom (at least during the times when you suspect that some family member might get infected). There are fecal matter particles in the bathroom air. You can get the ass-to-mouth transfer in the same household from toothbrushes stored in the bathroom.

2. Close the toilet lid before you flush and leave it closed. It does not solve the issue but it helps.
I think that you might be disappointed with the response.
Postcards are a thing for example.
Given that everyone brings this up every time Electron is mentioned, and Electron apps keep proliferating, I expect a future version of Windows and macOS to have Chromium bundled with the OS. There will be some platform independent open standard that Electron will use under the covers.

Native desktop apps are never coming back. It will either be Electron or mobile apps emulated on desktops.
Oh, it looks like Talon is finally available for Windows!

I've been waiting to try Talon for ages - glad I can give it a try now.
For me I get a valid Let's Encrypt certificate that has blog.couchdb.org in its SAN list.
This is almost certainly a niche issue, at best.
Definitely good to be prepared, but AFAIK there is no such thing as being "statistically overdue" for an earthquake.
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Asking about a nuanced subject in broad and blunt terms can be pedagogically useful because you hear what people really think, unfiltered ... and maybe they hear it too, priming them to realize that they've been underthinking the topic. From there you can get into nuance, which is easier when you know where you currently stand.

I have no idea what tack this prof took with the question, but I think you've drawn a hasty conclusion here.
Tokyo local government has a good english guide, tho it's meant for earthquakes mostly the preparation list is really good

https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/guide/bosai/index.html
> Still waiting for a use case of blockchain outside cryptocurrency also.

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2017-04-27-Lockheed-Martin-C...

https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2014/9/ericsson-a...

https://nortal.com/blog/blockchain-healthcare-estonia/

etc.
Unauthorized Bread – a tale of jailbreaking refugees versus IoT appliances
Refill your medication(s), that's the biggest one. India produces a lot of drugs and if they get infected, we will see shortage. China also produces a lot of the base chemicals used in medication, so this is worry some. If you have chronic conditions, you really don't want to be without.

Soap and sanitizer. Mostly soap. Soap is equally effective as sanitizer in washing hands, etc. Soap is also much cheaper and more available. If the local region goes into lock down, you're not going out much so soap will work well.

Get one to two weeks of food and supplies in case. There isn't going to be a global shortage, but we may see short term runs on supplies. Include stuff like tooth brush, mouth wash, and etc. For my wife I also stocked up on a larger supplies of feminine hygiene products.

Masks. I got 20 per family member in our local area. For when you need to go out and restock food. Also learn how to properly use the mask.
Come on man, there's no where near enough volume there to move anything but the most low volume of stocks. All they trade in is meme stocks like TSLA, NFLX, MSFT, AAPL etc., and a few 100k on calls here or there won't budge the price in the slightest.

On top of that, it's not even a P&D group, people there are just trading against each other, you have both bears and bulls and thetas. There's never been a concerted effort to pump SPCE for instance.
Dangerous analogy to offer in an argument. The easy reply: "The Government can get a warrant to read my mail today. All I'm asking is for the same capability online, so they can get warrants to read pedophile and terrorist messages"
It's not, but that's the one big problem (IMHO) with GDPR: that it doesn't allow individuals to sue.

If I want to force them to either fall in line with the GDPR or get out of Europe, I need to find my local responsible agency, send them an email, and pray that they have the will and resources to act on it.
I think that could backfire in some ways. If someone buys a $3 game, enjoys it, and beats it in 20 days, they may feel justified in returning it for a partial refund since they're still paying $1 for it.

Kinda like the study where a daycare added a fee for parents who were late picking their kids up, then found that this led to MORE late pickups. Most likely because when parents were paying the service fee they felt less guilty about being late.
Thanks zapstar! I love your website too and the purpose behind it! I notice you are using a static site generator. Did you create an api to pull price from amazon? Would love to know more. Thanks!

And yes I am looking to get into more specific niches but want a balance with enough search volume. Have you had any luck with keyword research and finding traffic to your site?

If you like to reach out, I can be reached at jeff@luxegift.co
There is also wealth destruction when mortgaging the properties, which means the total wealth in the game can go down.
You nailed it. Stick with priority and the right stuff will get fixed. Severity just encourages more debate about what needs to be fixed vs. deferred. Inevitably you will end up with a list of defects which will never be fixed.
I think it's a common theme of how fraudsters get caught, they get greedy.
I feel like there are better games than Catan these days, but it was great when people were only thinking about relatively bad games like Monopoly or Risk as their Friday night hangout game.
I’m stocking up on soylent type powder. That plus water can probably keep me alive for a fair amount of time
I don't know what country you are from, but mine (USA) has lost its ability to set its mind to anything. It can't even be said to have a rational mind any longer.
Given that a comedian was able to bring a back of Swastika-themed golf balls within metres of Donald Trump (and threw some at him), despite the area being under lockdown for days, using (in total) about £300 spent on Hotel tickets and a jumper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_F5_JPQA0), there's only so much they can do.
Thanks for the information. The slated bureaucracy is eye-opening.
Could you try that again? More smaller sentences please.
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Attending my first academic conference in a couple weeks as an observer. I'm excited about many of the talks. What are some takeaways from your conference experiences?
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Before I started Submotion, I did a fairly thorough analysis of what kind of startup I wanted to create.

I decided that I wanted to create something that

- was B2B. Consumers are fickle, things can explode but they can also go out of style just as fast. It's more sexy and makes for better smalltalk but my assessment is that they are much more difficult to grow predictably.

- targets SME's. I am somewhat extroverted for a developer, but I will never be the type who goes golfing with CEO's to close deals. Million-dollar deals is not my game, I will go for higher numbers of small ones.

- targets tech-savy businesses. Because I speak their language, I understand their needs and I stay in the loop of their world out of curiosity, not because I need to keep up with my industry.

The problem is neither hard nor easy, by the definitions of this article. It's deterministic; there's just a bunch of work to be done. I'm doing it. It's slowly evolving. This is definitely a reflection of me being 40 when I started it, it's somewhat boring but that suits me perfectly :-)
Same with Washington Post :( But at least they picked up my call and was able to cancel. The online chat rep couldn't do it either. There's a rule by Visa that states that if someone is able to subscribe to something online with their card, they should be able to cancel, apparently the Post or Times are not clued in? There's a class action lawsuit waiting, I will gladly join.
Is this really a minority view? I got the sense that most people in tech feel this way
All I’ve ever said, in response to your numerous citation-free rebuttals, is that healthy young people are not at great risk (fact), and they should not panic. So I’m glad we agree.

I’ve never said “don’t be concerned.”

Your other arguments are made up. Wuhan has built a number of facilities, but currently appears to have the epidemic at hand. No other areas have been “overwhelmed”, even within China. Representing medical facilities as “overwhelmed”, at the current time, requires citation from a reputable source.

Maybe in some theoretical future world it’s possible that medical facilities around the world will be overrun with sick patients. This is nowhere near the current reality.

Overlapping of error bars on fatality rates is irrelevant to my arguments; the absolute risk is much, much lower than the flu, for most people, in most places.

Everything you’re arguing here is a scare tactic, twisting kernels of truth to panicked ends.
good fun!
I get his point, but it’s not expressed well. It’s not “easier to succeed.” The chart effort/time has a different shape. Upfront effort is tremendous, and if you can get past that then it gets easier.
I this this is a good move. I stopped buying games on sales long time ago. I only buy something when I want to play it right now, regardless of how much it costs.

So, you can't entice me with sales. However, a return policy makes me much more like to try something on a whim, because I know I will not get stuck with expensive crap.

There are only 2 games in my GOG library that I would have returned.
There is something very wrong with this mindset, as it causes all sorts of negative externalities that impact those of us without that mindset.
The 27 days incubation is the maximum observed time. The median time is about 8 days.
You are one of those privacy warrior tinfoil hat idiots aren't you?
The ideas of Henry George [0] address this, without resorting to "Tragedy of the Commons" solutions of collective ownership. The short answer is a Land Value Tax [1], based only on "ground rent" (the usage value combined with the value of proximity to community), as opposed to taxing improvements, as most property taxes do currently.

The rough theory is that the tax should be proportional to the unearned "rent-seeking" profits that derive indirectly from the surrounding community; moreover, a higher tax on ground rent disincentivizes pure speculation [2], while removing the disincentive of value-creation/development baked into our property taxes now. And unlike communist policies, this system would preserve the distributed intelligence of markets; there are some libertarian economists who favor the idea, the most notable of whom was Milton Friedman, who called LVT "the least worst tax".

In some sense, it could be seen as closer to a voluntarist system that most forms of government: one essentially pays the surrounding community to compensate them for their violent exclusion from a portion of nature. This video articulates the idea fairly well in plain language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yltJHY6g5I

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[1] http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Everybody_works_but_...
I joke with coworkers that I want to get it on my own terms. Since the death rate is relatively low, I'd rather get it first when the medical infrastructure is not overwhelmed and that I'm 100% healthy. I can even scheduled ahead and finish some projects to work around the virus.
> For example, a crash that nobody cares about is not severe.

That's a bad example, something not severe is not severe... can't argue with that. A crash nobody cares about can be quite severe though, there's quite a bit of crash that has been used to make some of the most important security vulnerabilities. When I tried to reproduce the Dirty CoW vulnerability over a VM in a school setting made the teacher VM crash multiple time, he didn't care about the crash either ;), yet that single vulnerability allowed me to skip 90% of the vulnerabilities he wanted us to try to find.

I think your comment point something important that you miss too, different client may have different priority, and you too may. I think severity is closer to YOUR own priority. The severity is the impact this MAY have on your business if it wasn't fixed. Like you said, a small "cosmetic" slip up may be important for our brand, thus severe for us. That "cosmetic" slip up could still not be important for all of our client, like over a one page made to sell, yet still be on top in both priority and severity, because it matters for the next client or the sale team, which does matter to you.

> So I agree with the GP here; why do we need to have a definition of severity that does not align with the things that we care about when it comes to actually fixing things?

You could say that about many information in a ticket. It is still informative though, maybe it's no longer needed, but at one point it did was relevant and in many case, still is.

A ticket with an higher severity is something that you need to put more time on to decide whether it deserve an higher priority. I'll go back to your crash example, why would you works on a crash that nobody care about, why would you see "crash" in the ticket with so many steps to reproduce and believe that this deserve an high priority when it never going to happen? In an ideal world sure you would know 100% of the system and know 100% of the tickets and can understands 100% of the impact of this kind of crash and be able to fit it well in the priority, but let be honest, that ideal world doesn't exist. You have a limited time that you can put on each ticket to decide their priority, you have a limited capacity to understands the impact and everything, you have hundreds of tickets to go through, but something that you can do is see that the high severity set by the developer means that you may need to put more time on that ticket to choose its right priority.

Sure once the priority has been set, does the severity matter? That's a much bigger question that I won't try to answer, probably not, but did it matter at one point? It did. Would you remove any information from a ticket because it no longer matter? I sure hope not.
>How can they have all the warnings they needed if China didn't give them the right info from the start

So what country gave China info from the start? Japan and SK had a lot more info with regard to the disease (human to human transmission, asymptotic transmission, 14 days incubation period, hell even the RNA sequence was done on the virus) than what China had at the beginning.
I agree with this, except we decided on closing CEO deals, we sucked at SEO by comparison.
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Their blog is hosted on Wordpress.com which seems to be using Let's Encrypt to generate one certificate for multiple different, unrelated custom domain names.

Maybe you encountered a bug where it served the wrong cert for a different batch of custom domains.
>It is zero sum, because no intentional action can increase wealth

It's a probability game. The action of buying a property increases wealth proportionate to the risk of someone landing on it, hence that intentional action increases wealth as a function.

That doesn't make the game zero sum, especially when you add in the variable income bits of passing go or mortgaging properties.
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> Yes, it’s serious (in response to your handle). I don’t think it’s necessary to create a throwaway to respond and is also against hn policy.

Not a throwaway. I'm a lurker who was stunned into commenting.

As for E2E2EE, this doesn't solve the bad actors problem.

Here is exactly why this wont work: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/technology/twitter-saudi-...
This is basically what happens when law enforcement uses a search warrant to get access to user data from a tech company.

While this process does have weaknesses, it is still the difference between a legal process overseen by the courts and one based on espionage where agents do whatever they want without oversight.

Note that strong network encryption is essential for ensuring that they have to get a warrant.

I don't think anyone has come up with a better system than judicial oversight that still allows law enforcement to do their job?
It's notorious. If you call that phone number you will talk to a pushy salesperson who will offer you a discounted subscription for a limited time. It's like the way cable companies would send you to a "retention specialist" a few years ago.

When the tide changes in Washington, look for a crackdown on subscription services.
How is severity supposed to inform the decision of how to set priority? That decision is determined by business needs, not "severity".
I had an issue on Steam during their Lunar New Year sale, where I accidentally purchased the wrong "bundle" (there were two, one was missing one or two items).

Unfortunately, I couldn't refund the bundle; I had to go through the process of submitting for a refund of every item in the bundle (I think eight or ten items), with an explanation of "oops, wrong bundle").

Unfortunately, while both bundles were on sale, the items missing from the bundle I'd purchased were more expensive to buy individually than the entire bundle cost, and there was no 'upgrade" from one bundle to the next with discount for already purchased items.

I get that this is all a complicated dance between Steam, users, and publishers, but it seems as though this kind of situation is worse for everyone involved, and discourages spending more on that $30 DLC, when the bundle that it comes in is $5 more than the bundle you purchased.