skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car purchase includes a huge amount of 'non rational actor' decision making. I like old jaguars. Walnut burr, doors that go "thunk" -in every sense (fuel economy, NCAP, reliability) they are irrational purchase: I still love them. And the Citroen DS19.

EVs are in a segment with high discretionary spend. Choices in discretionary spending are notoriously bound up in non-rational choices: I could invest in diamonds, or snort it as coke, or fly to the bahamas in a helicopter is totally different lifestyle choices to "I need to get to Walmart at 3am for diapers, and I cannot afford to pay for more than basic AirConditioning"

When EVs are in the segment of rational-decision bound purchases, when they are "boring" I will deem them to have succeeded.

As long as the competition is Fiskar, not VW, and Not the Ioniq, or other Japanese low-end EV, its not baked yet.

The low-end EV have to get about 50% more efficiency and drop price about 30%. There really is a sweet spot in most people's disposable income and on-road costs and range anxiety (also a highly irrational place btw) which is just around the corner:

under $20,000 in any local economy
over 300km range in real-life
chargeable for usable amounts (10%? 20%?) in under 15min
As said elsewhere: A key part of being a Politician is meeting tons and tons of different people while travelling around. This makes them prime target for such a virus. Independently from political views and parties.
Maybe time travel? We've beat that horse well past death in fiction, and it probably will never arrive.
Unless you nuke the whole country, for country like US it is almost impossible.

Yet virus can reach to everybody, and destroy people's sense of security
SGX (and competitors) assume the CPU is working correctly. If you can violate that assumption, you get CLKSCREW-style attacks:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
The point probably is that your statement of "treated as she should be" implies acceptance of the protocol and the whole situation as something that's acceptable instead of treating it as an example of a horrifically broken system that must be changed, and circumvented until it's changed.

Passing that protocol was negligent, reckless and harmful to human lives, but that's not the main case here.

But following that protocol was also negligent, reckless and harmful to human lives. The people on site should have acknowledged that this protocol is broken and should be ignored, and that people like her should be tested even if someone else has made a mistake.

And also endorsing following that protocol is also negligent, reckless and harmful to human lives. If some institution denies testing like this, then it's immoral to accept their actions as valid and reasonable and acceptable. It's a moral imperative to point this out, and shame them for following the (broken) system instead of doing the right thing, and remind them that "just following the orders" is not an excuse if the orders are immoral; that blindly following broken protocols is simply not okay in an epidemic emergency.

A few days delay in spreading the outbreak make a large difference in the total number of deaths. I recall an epidemiologic paper on the Wuhan case which modeled various containment scenarios, and the conclusion was that enforcing Wuhan lockdown 10 days (if I recall correctly) earlier would have reduced the number of cases and deaths threefold, and delaying Wuhan lockdown by two weeks would have increased the number of cases and deaths threefold.
Healthcare load-balancing.
Isn't one characteristic that gets better before it gets worse than the first time ?
Nissan Leaf? Have fun in that pile of garbage on wheels. You get what you pay for.
I agree, that is a perfectly valid example. You've perturbed the system (raised prices) and there is the "expected" input and the "input that arises from the perturbation."
Height differences can also be quite annoying when walking, especially when there are more than two people (eg two taller ones and one shorter).
Triage is a common medical practice, "death panels" were made up by Sara Palin[1][2].

[1]https://www.politifact.com/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-li...
[2]https://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/whoppers-of-2009/
> Do you reject the statement made by TFA, 'US Labor and Healthcare Policies are a Perfect Storm for Pandemics'?

I have not disagreed with any of the stated facts and I don't disagree with that claim, I'm claiming that the facts have been carefully selected to promote a political agenda.
I haven't had the same experience I guess. Keeping binary readers and writers maintained was a very small portion of the time I spent on the applications which used those writers and readers.
Necessary and solvable (if we've decided cars as a transportation method are here to stay, which appears to be the case in most countries). Lithium is evaporated in ponds, transport of which can move to electric. Lithium batteries can be recycled. All heavy vehicles (including for road infra work) can be electrified. Electricity is ubiquitous, and batteries will only decline in cost. This is not my opinion, these are facts.

As long as we keep ramping battery and renewables production, we'll get ahead of the emissions. To reduce emissions, you must displace combustion in all its forms, and destroy demand for fossil fuels. Renewables push out coal and natural gas on the grid, utility scale batteries push out natural gas due to price volatility (hat tip to Saudi Arabia on their current efforts to destroy the US fracking industry through pumping at full capacity, utilities desperately require stable prices for their fuels which is unlikely to happen if shale production declines due to low oil prices, which will prompt more rapid battery uptake), cheap/clean energy drives demand for EVs due to lower cost per mile than internal combustion (EVs are roughly half the cost per mile to operate as an internal combustion vehicle).
I would much rather pay $5k/year guaranteed maximum then 50% cois if I had a chronic illness.
I also don't understand that chart, but perhaps the huge range must mean there are some underlying different assumptions, calculations, or methodologies.

This study looks at ICU/Critical Care beds, and finds also a large range but quite different ranking as above:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/

Number of ICU/Critical care beds per 100,000 people:

US: 20-31.7

Canada: 13.5

Japan: 7.9

UK: 3.5-7.4

China: 2.8-4.6
Tesla Has Built Its Millionth Car
That's a semantic error, not a grammar error!
> the disease is severely underdiagnosed

That's one possibility; the other is what is happening in Italy right now, i.e. initial 2 weeks of infections are done and now the severe cases remain and pass away. Like in South Korea 98% cases are in progress, so the outcome is not known yet and making any stats out of those is premature (i.e. too optimistic). I'd say nobody is going to shut down whole megalopolis cities if it was just a more severe flu...
So the most profitable companies of all time will zillions of intelligent workers have thus far been unable to grasp a simple and easy way to jump their profitability substantially? Hmm ...
How many tests for Covid-19 are being performed around the world?
Is it though? Google's a big company, but most others are plugging along as normal. A few events have been canceled, but isn't that true for Europe also? Of course, that's ignoring Italy, which has been severely burned.
There are still good reasons:

1password requires more than just a password to access. You need the encryption key. It acts nicely for that purpose.

2fa is unnecessary if you're generating 20 character passwords uniquely for every site.

The best security is like the best camera. There is no better camera than the one you actually use. This is why cell phone cameras are the best. This is why 1password is the best, because it is security you always use and always keep safe.
Any recommendations for someone trying to help a depressed friend get their work and health on track? I make a lot of attempts to help but many seem futile.
Honestly, I think they need to create new categories for the protocols used for the traditional Internet and divide it into Local Area Protocals (LAPs) and Wide Area Protocols (TCP/IP is the defacto WAP) as well as adding a gateway (like AppleTalk to IP gateways of yore) so that there is more than an airgap (its a different language/protocol as well) separating your network from from the worlds biggest venerable network.

Or, as compute power, storage and hardware get less expensive, running two cryptoledgers for inbound and outbound communications would make it easier to sanitize every bit that enters a network.

I like squid and other products, but I think dropping TCP/IP from the LAN or tranfering all packets in amber (bitledger) would correct a lot of the present shortcomings with security, privacy and unfixable manufacturer defects.
Because while the U.S. may be "advanced" in a few areas, healthcare sure is not one of them. So, the powers-that-be in the U.S. are afraid that the rest of our American population will (finally) realize how bad healthcare is here. ;-)
The NHS's approach to testing definitely isn't perfect, but it seems to be fairly well thought out and relatively aggressive. They don't want people going to hospitals or GP surgeries because that can spread the infection to more vulnerable people.

Also, if I'm understanding the news coverage correctly, all the cases of Covid-19 exported to Vietnam from the UK are related. More specifically, they're tied to one traveller who'd recently visited Lombardy in Italy, either by flying on the same plane as her back to Vietnam whilst she had symptoms or in the case of patient 32 by having met up with her in London. Having symptoms and having met someone confirmed to have the virus would definitely qualify for testing here or most places.
I want some anti-facial recognition clothing just for the aesthetic. It fits a certain futuristic functional clothing vibe.
How do you guarantee that you've read the entire buffer without trying to read more and blocking?
I wonder whether Tesla will survive the current global economic contagion. They are essentially a luxury novelty vehicle manufacturer that relies heavily on subsidies and virtue signaling consumers of which there are a finite amount.
They are the WeWork of the car industry and have interesting financials.
Despite all this they have been a terrific r&d and mvp creator for potential future electric vehicle production, although there is much work to be done scaling electrical grids and vehicle recycling IMO
What's the best way to learn how to code?
No need. HN has a practice of updating links when appropriate and an upvote system to determine which articles should (or shouldn't) make it to the front page. Banning a source outright because of how some people experience it or feel about its content doesn't seem appropriate (and I say that as someone who _does_ skip TechCrunch articles).

A better idea may be to make a Request HN to use the best possible links rather than easy-to-find links and to encourage that behavior going forward.

And if a TechCrunch article makes it to the front page, then enough people upvoted it to imply it is worth checking despite its origin. Sometimes it's better to have an article from a less-favorable website than one from a site that is more informative but lacks the visibility to reach HN in the first place.
Got it, this is quite interesting, I've just read through some of the explanations on SQRL a bit, we're actually following a slightly different protocol, the FIDO protocol https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/ instead of SQRL.

I can see that they're pretty similar, but please correct me if I'm wrong or not answering your question.

I guess the idea is that we make an SDK so developers don't need to do much to implement FIDO. They can just call one function from our SDK to perform authentication. (They don't need to implement the cryptographic keys generation, storage, signature verification, they don't even have to store the public keys, all handled in Cotter's server).
C# 9 Records and Discriminated Unions
I worked on a similar project for Motorola and it had limited commercial success.

Very dense topologies need to aggressively handle broadcast storms such as ARP storms. Very fragmented topologies need to handle delay tolerant networking.

In any event, search for "Mobile Ad-hoc Networks" will show work that has been done previously.
yes, this is targeted at hikers etc... so typical max mesh size of about 20 and I bet it would dying by the time a channel had 100 people.
They might push out your start date.

I've been on mandatory WFH (not Google, but Bay Area) starting last week and start dates have been pushed out for now.

This might change though if things go on for months, I think people are reevaluating on a weekly basis as we learn more.
TBH, cancellers, who pull this kind of "cancel" drama, are no better than their cancellees. They are actually worse, because they are turning a personal drama into an organizational drama, rather abruptly. Not to mention that this process mostly involves ad-hominem, cherry-picking, and non-public decisions. I mean, these people create a bigger political mess while trying to "clean" a tiny irrelevant mess. Lame. Unproductive.
I found this so baffling that the best I can say is I don't know, and I've found no explanation satisfactory. "Denial" doesn't cut it, it's mass delusion. The first Chinese quarantine was a giant red flag that nearly everyone ignored.
Depends on your state. A lot of health plans got burned by the 'unlimited healthcare' clause of ObamaCare and the only way to drop an expensive individual was to drop the entire state. This in turn reduced competition, giving the last survivor in a market where they could charge whatever they want because it was the only choice, sending prices through the roof. We just had two new players enter, but they aren't offering HSAs.
Microsoft takes down Necurs botnet
Situations like this is how people go crazy enough they start intentionally spitting on elevator buttons and door handles.

Society treats people inhumanely and some as a result decide to fulfill that prophecy and act inhumanely.

When I saw the videos of Chinese people spitting out their windows and licking doorknobs I thought they were evil people. Now I realize they were driven insane by uncaring sterile hypocritical dead bureaucracy. I no longer judge them as I understand what led to their madness.
They can just slow it down and prevent hospital systems from becoming overwhelmed. A lot of people will get immunity to it, which should confer some herd immunity that will protect older people.

They’re eventually going to lift quarantines after it burns out in different areas.
I'd say that's also a valid way of making the bed. Flip the bedding open, shake up the pillows a little, let it breathe.

Then again, sleeping in fresh sheets after a shower is supremely satisfying and might also count.
When I was in university I took psychology modules out of interest and crashed lectures out of curiosity. Im inclined to agree with you. Coming from a pure mathematics background, I felt that their methodology of studying sonething as complex as the human mind and the underlying assumptions rather unqualified, lacks attention to details and a sense of rigour. This opinion and (the OP's remarks) aren't going to be popular here, but this was my observation as I was sitting down in lecture theatres listening to psychologists and their models and how they arrived at them and how they applied them.

Fields like neuroscience and behavioural economics are far better in their approach to understanding how we think. I'm glad you found some measure of comfort in meditation and that you recovered. It takes immense strength to fight an enemy within.
Literally the definition of censorship.
International students are gonna be in a very tough spot, especially those from china.
One was a distributed messaging system (imagine geographically partitioned real-time clusters for investment banking and their transacted operations), another was a web app for creatives from a top company utilizing bleeding-edge tech and we created some innovative things competitors lack till this day. I don't think we would if we all were stuffed in some open-plan office somewhere as it required individual creativity and surprising solutions one could figure out in solitude only and only then discuss with the others... Both companies extremely well-known and darlings of developers world-wide (producing tech almost everybody used).
To add a trusted device, the new device will generate a QR Code, which then have to be scanned by a trusted device. So all logins and adding new trusted devices will still have to be approved by a trusted device. (Similar to how you login to WhatsApp desktop/web, you scan the QR code from your phone)
To be fair, 1, 2 and 4 are all just ISO.
That would be wonderful. One of the reasons I liked recent UBI proposals is because it jury are nonwage replacing but would do a lot to balance out the understood value of low-training-&-skilled-physical jobs.
This does look great compared to previos efforts like Sails. Is there support SSR out of the box?
Boston has had confirmed cases for quite some time; about 70 of them came from the same conference meeting. The area's "patient zero" event happened like a week ago.
thanks! yes, we are very delay tolerant and a typical text message (or flooded location update) takes a few seconds to get across our likely max # of hops (which is only three, due to our uhttps://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-esp32/blob/master/d...)

We initially used the RadioHead mesh router (which seems to be a variant of DSR), but we are switching to something else soon. Misc notes here: https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-esp32/blob/master/d...
UC Irvine as well!

Not excited to install a rootkit on my computer to take finals, but oh well.
I think it's just more private sector reaction than government reaction, which reflects differences between the regions in general.

Ie Germany has banned mass gatherings in most states, which the US has not done.

The situation is very fast moving though, I would expect similar reaction in Europe shortly.
> I'm usually wrong.

That's either insightful, or sad... and I can relate.
Googler here.

Yes, orientation week is nice and you do get to meet a lot of people from offices around the world. You'd sit through a lot of training that introduces you to Google culture. You get to be in a room of a whole bunch of people that are experiencing the same impostor syndrome as you are.

So, yes, missing it will be a bummer.

You will, however, have plenty of other chances. There's still plenty of opportunity to learn, and your team will give you lots of guidance. It'll feel like you are lost, but believe me, most people will feel like that during their first few months at Google anyway.

Take your time, and invest in yourself. Ask for help when you need it. Have a plan for feeling like you are not contributing. You will be; it just takes time.

The best thing you can do as a Noogler now is stay home unless asked. The fewer people who are on main campus makes it safer for the people that do really need to be there. I'll be at home also.

Or, as Sundar tweeted: "Contributing to social distancing if you are able to, helps the overall community spread and most importantly, will help offset the peak loads through critical healthcare systems and also saves it for people in need."
I would hope most tech firms would not notice or would encourage employees to go for a walk from 1-3pm if it helps solve a problem they’ve been working on for weeks!
It's claimed that she's self-quarantining now.

However, shouldn't everyone she had contact with be self-quarantining for 14 days now, to verify if they caught it from her or not? Is NHS recommending that? Are all her recent contacts (including these MPs) being traced and tested or quarantined?
tell me about it. I have a box of 5 I ordered before CNY. Still sitting in china.
You could have a look at Reactive Java, node, golang, even nginx + openresty.

Basically anything with an event loop and good non blocking IO support for client requests and you will get loads of traffic through without too much hassle.

Of course a lot of this really depends on what your app needs to do over and above handle HTTP requests and what sort of library support you get from language / framework X.

Java, for example, has some great reactive libraries, but any JDBC driver blocks (as it has to, enforced by the JDBC spec). There's a couple of non JDBC drivers that support non blocking IO, but they are still evolving.

It's a similar story with other languages, there's always something necessary that isn't quite there yet.

That said you can still squeeze vast performance out of the blocking IO things with a solid engineering base (Tomcat, IIS if you can stomach windows) you just hit the thread limits earlier and harder than with the non blocking stuff.
Off-topic, but does anyone know if HN's dupe detector changed recently? I submitted this about an hour ago (mainly to check whether it was already submitted) but it spawned a new thread instead of upvoting this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22541423

It's not so hard to click on "past" and then click on a recent thread and upvote it myself, but it was a nice feature. Using the HN bookmarklet to check "was this recently submitted?" was a nice shortcut to get to recent active threads directly from a URL that you're pretty sure will be on HN.
cool! please ping us on the devchat when you try it out.
Similar action was taken by Johns Hopkins University a couple hours ago.
https://hub.jhu.edu/assets/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/jhu_covid...
Which ones are? I believe last week they quarantined their Seattle offices & this week they've done Bay Area (& it sounds like Google is taking this even further). I'm sure the reason it's "slow" is that it's logistically challenging to figure out policies for this as its totally unprecedented (policies here include figuring out how to handle all the special/unique cases they didn't think through originally because it's so rushed).
Will this work with Cloudflare Workers?
If the developers of this website are reading this thread:

1. I’d rather visit this site after a few days or weeks and read the answers since the UX of this site isn’t conducive to reading right now. I hate those pop ups on newer answers and questions that hide a big portion of the screen on mobile. Why would I switch to viewing another answer or question while I’m busy reading one already (considering many answers are a bit long)?

2. The other part of this page I didn’t like is that answers are all expanded by default, which makes getting to the next question and answer cumbersome when the one that’s in view isn’t of interest.

I’ll bookmark this and come back much later after (almost) everyone has asked enough questions and Patrick has had a chance to answer the ones he can or wants to.
Golang? The go standard library is very good for writing network servers. It is effortless to write a service speaking HTTP with good enough performance. Doing the right thing is also easy. For example, using io.Copy uses splice or sendfile if possible to transfer the data. This makes writing good enough performance servers very easy
Sure, agreed. Another problem is that cars are quite deadly, and EVs don't improve on that any. Then there's the whole issue of tire/brake dust (it's the majority of local pollution even for gasoline-powered cars).

E-bikes are a much better environmentally friendly solution for most trips. The problem is the road infrastructure isn't there for them to be safe enough yet; we only build roads for cars, and anyone else (pedestrian or cyclist) is at high risk.
What worked 10 years ago before their IPOs might not work now. Plenty of talented people won't even consider non-remote work these days and those are often the most driven ones that don't want to be stuck in offices/traffic all day long but have some life as well.