skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is curious, it's now officially in NYC.

Someone came off a plane from Iran. She was officially tested but since she wasn't dying the hospital sent her home for self-quarantine.

Feel free to Google it to read it on whatever site you prefer, but here's a snippet from the Weather channel's site (I saw it when checking the weather today):

> A woman in her late 30s contracted the virus while traveling in Iran, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office said on Sunday. She is currently self-quarantined in her Manhattan home. The woman has respiratory symptoms “but is not in serious condition and has been in a controlled situation since arriving in New York," the governor's office said. The statement didn't say when the woman returned to the city after her travels, though a statement from Mayor Bill de Blasio said the travel was recent.
You've more or less posted my entire Youtube subscriptions list there!

Applied Science (Ben Krasnow) is one of my favourites. Cody's fantastic too, for the backyard-science angle. I find Hydraulic Press a bit too "let's break stuff and laugh", but it's fun to watch and switch off for a few spare minutes. Same for Backyard Scientist ;)

Post-Apocalyptic Inventor is good for my scrapyard-challenge-but-real fix.

My real hook at the moment is How To Make Everything. He starts with Stone-age technology and shows the progression from there. It's fascinating to see how we got from "there" to "here" with a series of successive discoveries and refinements.

BosnianBill's Locklab, Locknoob and Lockpicking Lawyer are other favourites (but then, I've always found security tech interesting).

I've got an interest in retrocomputing so LGR, Modern Vintage Gamer, Adrian's Digital Basement and CuriousMarc are on there too.

I do mean the Royal Institution's official Youtube channel, yes. I started watching for Andrew Szydlo's chemistry demos and stayed for the other content!

I've heard of MIT OCW (since the original announcement popping up on Slashdot), but never really looked into what was available. Perhaps I should!
For those who want constant updates about the international situation, this is the best source I found so far: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

By the way , I'm wondering how much the high cost of the test in the US is responsible for a number which looks (to me at least) suspiciously low.
The body can produce up to 25000 IU/day in very sunny places on very pale skin. 10000IU/day is considered the safe upper limit. Whether or not that's a good idea long term is a different matter.
Then stay at home. If you're sick, refusing to get tested and continue to live like everything is fine you're actively and willingly spreading a deadly virus.
Have you ever actually tried to work with a VR headset?

VR tech is nauseating at best and normal screens can be tiresome for the eyes alone...

There is absolutely no upside of using a VR headset for work. Please grow up.
Yeah, this is more serious than the flu, but not as serious as MERS or SARS. Like the seasonal flu, the main worry is older people and/or people who are already respiratory compromised. I don't want to catch this much like I don't want to catch the flu, but my main worry is for my parents and grandparents.
From the parent comment:

> who cares whether there's a chemical mechanism? It works!

There probably even is a chemical mechanism that improves your health. Mental conditions like fear increase your heartbeat, respiration and muscle tonus, being relaxed does the opposite. Stress is a factor we know is contraproductive for the immune system and general health.

The effects have severe limitations of course and I don't think you can take anything to "trigger" the placebo effect. You need the healthy self deception part for it to work.
I'm not sure why the author started with bloom filters instead of a hash table, to be honest. The workload seems ideal for a hash table. Interesting to see how big the performance gap was though, I wouldn't have expected such a difference. It probably comes down to the fact that the bloom filter has to spread its data across many locations so if the set is particularly large it's always going to lose to a hash table due to hitting main memory more times (in scenarios where you can use either one, at least).

I suppose they started with a bloom filter because they intended to use one when consuming the data, i.e. checking incoming requests against a 'malicious IP' set?
This still happens in GC'd languages, for example, iterating over a collection while modifying it. In Java you may get a ConcurrentModifiedException. In Ruby and JS you get strange behavior. In Rust you get a compile error.
> Firefox sync is the meat of the deal.

Firefox sync really is neat, but be aware that for the last several years it has had a security flaw, one which the Firefox team has no interest in fixing (in fact, they consider it a feature!): your passwords and other private data are encrypted with your Firefox Account password. That would be fine so long as a) your Firefox Account password is truly secure and b) Mozilla can never see it. Unfortunately, they can: they serve an HTML page to log in to your Firefox account, which loads JavaScript from their servers. At any point they can start serving JavaScript which sends all passwords to their servers.

What is so very, truly disappointing is that they used to have a great, easy-to-use Sync security system which was immune to this sort of attack, but they removed it.

Anyway, I cannot advise using Firefox Sync for private information anymore.
This is a good answer that works in reddit, but if you change the user agent, it will work in almost any website with support for ie.

IE6 User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

This can be done with Selenium too.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...
The Pin type is a mess IMHO. It's the most C++-like corner of Rust. Its guarantees are shallow, so non-trivial uses are still unsafe. It ended up having complex interactions with other language features, creating a soundness hole. I'd rather bury it as a necessary evil that was required to ship async/await syntax, and nothing more.
Make it less complex. CSS 4 maybe.
Awesome to see ‘Jim’ on the BBC! If you like this, there’s a lot more on his YouTube channel. His more adversial videos are justice porn.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw
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Pocket too
Plenty of people use cars, buses and railways in Peru today. The wheel is definitely useful in that territory, it just wasn't advantageous enough to over existing tech, so it needed to wait until complementary technologies had been invented in other cultures.
Eh, one had traveled to Italy recently, the other is UNK. I've been surprised Florida didn't come up sooner, given all of the tourism here (and winter is tourist season).
If this spreads in the US, dark days are ahead. Many people refuse to go to the doctor because they cannot afford it. A valuable lesson may soon be learned that when everyone has healthcare we are better as a whole. But, COMMUNISM IS BAD, YOu SoCIalIst. /s :|
Facebook is a good example of the damage that can be done by the self imposed jail of binary thinking.

The proposed binary thinking option is users will be detrimentally manipulated and exploited as an advertising product where the manipulation is sometimes intense enough to exacerbate mental illnesses, whereas the binary alternative of deleting everything and going Unibomber will result in extreme social and job related ostracism because obviously "he's trying to hide something".

There are analog middle options that are just as valid as the polarizing binary extremes. I have a perfectly good FB account with plenty of connections, but I only log in every couple months. A little awkward when someone wishes me happy birthday and I don't see it until four months later, but whatever. Most of the time stuff that was posted six months ago is irrelevant today, and likewise I feel pretty safe ignoring most of what was posted today. I find that on FB, as with any other online media, that there's at least 10 to 100 times as much lurking as posting, so there's really not that much to read anyway. For example my best old work friend is about as much of a lurker as I am, so there's really nothing to see.

Or to summarize, the negative effects of deleting your account have nothing to do with the result of "stop using facebook", if you simply stop using it and do not delete your account.
iTerm2 has (had? I stopped using it a while ago) the tendency to drop data from a large paste. No problems with the built-in Terminal.app so I just went back to that.
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Can you give an example search that doesn't work for you?
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Furthermore, if I understand the position, the patent office would not agree to the OP's definition either .. as long as the original maker of the "prototype" could describe the mechanism well enough. The inventor of the "practical" version would have to articulate what it took above and beyond the prototype and even then only be able to patent that part and not including the invention covered by the proto.
This is collected clinical data on 1100 patients from various areas in China during the early stage of the outbreak, before the disease was well-understood (so a variety of therapies were attempted) and before the medical facilities at the center of the outbreak were overwhelmed with patients. As such it's useful information for what we could expect to see in the initial stages of outbreaks outside China.

Key takeaways:

0.9% of patients were 14 or younger

5% of patients ended up in intensive care, 1.4% of patients died

the most common symptoms were fever and cough

median incubation period was 4 days (interquartile range was 2-7 days, so the >10 day incubation periods used as basis for quarantine are extreme outliers)

Link to usable PDF: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM...
Had the some doubts for our first hire - he wanted to work 4 days a week. He seemed committed and enthusiastic about our mission, so we went ahead.

Best choice we ever made: any doubt about commitment, passion, etc were blown away after a few weeks. He is now a cornerstone of our team. He still works 4 days a week. Now several key team members work 2.5 to 4 days a week, and we're doing great.

Looking back: I should have asked myself: what is better, working 1 day a week more or passion and a good technical fit?
EDIT:

Updated my bad currency exchange math. Thanks, mprev.

In the US, you have to go to a doctor or hospital, hope your insurances covers it, or else you’re out $3000 (£2300).
seems like it would be worth comparing to the old "awk '!a[$0] { a[$0]=1; print }'". I would assume that such arrays are implemented internally using hash tables. probably not as efficient as a C implementation, but the used parts of the interpreter should fit in I-cache, so it should be within a few times as fast.
> Ownership-based memory management is statically elided reference counting.

One difference I'd want to highlight here, which sometimes trips people up: Taking a reference to a Rust object has no effect on where that object's destructor runs. It can make the program fail to compile, if the reference lasts too long. But if the program keeps compiling, then the object's destructor is always running at the same place it was before.
It's funny to me that anyone cares either way. It makes zero difference to the story unless you take LOTR so seriously that it may be unhealthy.
I believe Google Photos was separated from Google+, which in itself was a reaction to Facebook being possibly a direct threat to Google.
I'm not sure the author on zdnet understand the security implications for "Device surfing". That is conceptually convenient, but really a terrible idea! A new token should be generated for each separate device, but not all token providers support multiple floating tokens.

It's always a battle of convinience versus security, and I get it... people think that because some services have lowered security to allow device surfing, yet without knowing the implications, that it's then just some kind of abstract non-issue taken care of by magical security things not understood. In other words it takes a big leap of faith, that was improper.
It's funny how they credit "Jim Browning", but are careful not to mention he's youtuber doing scam baiting videos.
That's a horrible UX.

A better practice would be to avoid infinite scroll and better yet to think carefully before using a full-blown SPA for a standard UI. If it's a web page as opposed to a web app, there are certain UX features that every browser supports out of the box and many, many users with keyboards will expect.
> I'm not sure what the best-practice for a webapp designer is here? Perhaps intercepting Ctrl+F

Oh god no, the solution is simple stop reimplementing the browser in the browser.
I think if you are running 5.8, you have other problems than Go. Right now, 6.6 and 6.5 are the only versions getting patches. If you intend to run OpenBSD then you need to keep up at least to -0.1 release. The tools to do that have improved amazingly well over the last year.
Right. The reality lies in the middle between both of your incorrect assertions.
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It's not just the CDC, Hollywood movies are modern US propaganda. Soldiers and cops are cool, wars are fun and epic, CDC is omnipotent and omniscient, Eastern European/Asians are always the bad guys, &c.
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Seems like social distancing and a recommendation from the CDC of cancelling mass gatherings of > 5000 would be a great measure to slow the waves of infection that are likely to hit and overwhelm healthcare systems if such measures are not taken.

HIMSS 2020, a conference of ~45000 attendees from 90+ countries is still scheduled to go forward at Orange County Convention Center Orlando March 9-13 - even as major participants withdraw from the event and Florida declares a state emergency. It's very telling of the motives in the health tech industry.
“Updated February 29, 2020”

It’s March 2nd already why this is still not yet updated again? This has to be updated frequently...
Maybe it's just you who gets nausea? Not everyone gets motion sickness so stop extrapolating your issues onto others. Also YOU please grow up and stop being lazy, it takes all of two seconds to see how wrong your lazy opinion is on Google and how many places are actively developing workplace and training and simulation vr, ar, xr solutions
Is it wrong, though? If you spend all day doing nothing but reading books, you're not using the time to apply anything that you have read in a book
Exactly. Why are you even paying taxes?
I personally like the CNN new feed for keeping up on new developments:

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-0...

I also like the wikipedia articles because of the nice data tabulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_t...
Arguably, framing someone's life behavior as functions of usefulness is antithetical to the need to engage in recreation. The following of TV is useful if your social sphere is amongst other people who watch TV. It builds a canon in which to socialize, discuss, invite people for watching parties, etc.

(I myself do not watch tv but I also have no desire to presume anything of people who do. I at least personally acutely feel a loss of culture because TV and movie watching is very common in socialization rituals and I am unable to engage in them.)
Just want to drop this story from Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor...
I like how Ofcom will use AI to drive content moderation, given how there has been news regarding the mental health of workers doing this. Since there is still a human aspect, my hope is that effort is still put in to ensure human moderators are looked after.
I'll go out on a limb here and defend TV: I think this is a somewhat-outdated view of television.

Modern television isn't just The Big Bang Theory anymore. The line between cinema and television is quickly blurring, with television shows like Chernobyl that are essentially very long films. Even "regular television" can be incredibly enlightening, with shows like Planet Earth exposing us to parts of our own world we might never see otherwise and our imagination might not even do justice!

And much like cinema, sure the experience itself is somewhat isolating in that you're trying to pay attention to it and not converse with those around you. But what's beneficial about some television shows are the emotions they inspire, the conversation they generate after, the fantastical thoughts that come later while you process what you saw.

Sure, garbage exists on television in the same way that pulp fiction (i.e. low-quality literature) never really died out. But I don't think it's fair to dismiss the medium any more than it's fair to dismiss film or literature.
I open dev tools (or dev proxy) to see all the connections the site makes, grab the url to the "page" AJAX call. Put ' (single quote) into the URL which then returns a SQL error. Then I make a SQL injection to make the page return everything. And search that.
Unfortunately, you treat the quote as a joke, and you have no ability to apply the quote at all.
Joe running in Slack is indeed a way to simplify and speed-up SQL optimization workflow for developers, as it takes seconds to get initial query execution plans and optimization recommendations.

>... With a Slack interface, so you don't need to bother with connection, provisioning, credentials and decommissioning.

It's worth noticing that Joe is a use case of Database Lab (https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab) and it's still possible to use Database Lab features like thin-clones provisioning of production-sized databases and fast data state reset with Database Lab client CLI (https://postgres.ai/docs/database-lab/6_cli_reference) for purposes of SQL optimization without Slack integration. If a user has sufficient access to the data they can provision thin-clone with Database Lab client CLI and use psql to work with the clone.

Also, we have plans to add support of recommendations and statistics in CLI and REST API to the support of various messaging platforms in the future.
A blocked bloom filter works on cache blocks <https://www.tutorialspoint.com/blocked-bloom-filter>. It takes more memory but far fewer hits to RAM, so much better caching behaviour. It should solve your problem.

Edit: it will use more RAM than cuckoo filters.
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Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing
.. Trump didn’t succeed in slashing the budget, however.

> Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.

https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
One of the first things I do on a new Firefox install is add a user-agent switcher and set it up to tell sites I am using chrome for exactly this reason.

Somehow we have gone back to the dark ages of web where sites complain unless you are using one specific browser.

It was the more technical minded people who spread the word and mindshare of browser choice back then to get us out of that mess, and now the same group has gotten us back into it worse than ever.

I'll never understand how this happened.
There's a model floating around out there now [0]. I think the main point of it is the transmission efficacy. The Gates article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine states the average person infected will go on to infect two to three additional [1].

I'm of the opinion that, while China appears to be the root cause, the advantage they have is a very authoritarian control on the response. People were literally welded into their apartments [2]. In the US, for example, there are many people that will blindly ignore all requests by politicians, local, state and national government. Many Chinese don't have that option for fear of strong repercussions. While I'm not condoning that use of force - I'm just stating as an observation. Beyond that the US seems to be in an odd spot given the upcoming election and divisive divide along party lines.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bS6S4oNRuMHD4ezh177QSf3UU6a...

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818
One thing you can be sure. This will be a political football played aggressively by both or multiple sides trying to get an edge...

And the news of course will amplify things —they have since it emerged in China where they vacillated on whether it’s an overreaction or whether its a economy destroying pandemic.
As there has been community transmission and aren't actively testing symptomatic people (unless in known direct contact with someone who has traveled to an affected area, or traveled there themselves), it's questionable if they have a sufficient grasp on "what is happening now".
"Memory Safety" doesn't refer to leakage, it refers to read-after-free, buffer overflows, and other memory-access related bugs. Garbage collection runtimes keep track of memory access to avoid these issues, rust does it through lifetimes/ownership.
Here is some data from 1100 early cases in China. Median incubation period is 4 days, interquartile is 2-7 days. 14 days is a very distant outlier, and it's possible there was an intermediate carrier or two in those cases.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
Original SID chips are often semi-broken as well. I had a few when they were cheaper and I was building a midibox SID. Most had weird VCA issues or oscillators leaking to the output always. Stuff like that. If you end up with a half decent one the oddities just become part of the charm.
Java doesn’t prevent memory leaks either. Java will happily allocate up until an OOM. If an object is live, it will not be garbage collected.

In fact Java will leak memory over FFI boundaries as well. Rust is memory safe, but like many languages it is not leak safe. It is possible in Rust to tell it to leak memory, but that’s for special cases.

To state this another way, memory leaks are different from memory safety.
Not just security people. Easy way of avoiding it if the gate staff want to tag your carry on bag and put it on the hold: be very willing,take their receipt that points out there shouldn't be batteries in there,then very apologetically point out you have devices with batteries in there.

So far it's worked every time - not once have they asked if I could take them out; probably not so much that they're clueless as that they're just looking for the easiest way of getting their assigned task done.
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see in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiojxdy_QtM
French people told to stop kissing each other on the cheek to stop coronavirus
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't they including built-in tracker blocking with a 'strict' list that can be chosen, plus they are working on site-level isolation that is behind a config flag for now (1st party isolation) and as far as I know, they're the only browser that has multiple anti-fingerprinting measures that can be toggled by the resistFingerprinting config flag? If they default disabled web fonts, geolocation etc., they'd lose whatever little market share they have as those have become important web tech already. You can still disable all of them either by means of about:config toggles or through simple extensions like uMatrix. Not sure if Chrome even allows disabling any/all of them.