skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually cut them slack unless they're jerks about it. A lot haven't even got a passport. That's usually fine as well: The USA is a big place. Not even talking just actual size. There are a lot of people with diverse ways of living and circumstances. But the place is so physically huge you could spend your entire life exploring it and still not run out of places to find new things and people to see and meet.

If it helps, think of every US state as if it was a european country. You might lazily think they are all the same but scratch the surface and there's a lot of difference.

So yeah, its fine for someone to say they're from California. You already know they're from the land of High Fructose Corn Syrup so why be nasty about it?
I've dabbled with that approach but it's really miserable having a 1-2 day migraine every few days.
Negotiation. Open with something ludicrous. Scale it back in exchange for concessions.

Also known as bullying when round one is “end all end to end communications” but round two is “ok we’ll drop that if you pay more tax”.

Taxing FAANG is the perennial government concern about big tech over which they slather the most. How can they get their hands on more profits! (At least, that’s the case outside the US, for the US corporations.)
Thanks for the awesome review and for your continued support!
I heard the University of Washington (WA state) has done that too.

Edit: Citation:

https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/03/06/press-conference-...
Well, seems you’ve done it already!
China is the first to handle it, had no idea about how deadly this virus is, and might have freaked out due to its SARS experience.

Korea is next door to China, so it's alerted early on.

Tiny countries like Singapore cannot survive a quarantine. So containment is not an option, they have to work out an effective mitigation plan.

Different countries also have different demographics, population density, and confidence about their healthcare system.
For those who don't see the value in pair coding, there is an alternative with less overhead - code review.

Just emphasize to everybody to keep it friendly, and make an effort to +1 ASAP every time.
Enterprises have infrastructure teams because they have applications that need to solve business logic that cannot be solved by static sites alone. Even the simplest businesses invest in data processing pipelines to extract value from their data. When the scale of data processing becomes very large, they need to rearchitect their systems in different ways to better handle that kind of traffic.

So it helps to have in house infrastructure teams that can somewhat consolidate and invest in long term planning and architecture for computer systems and services required by these enterprises.
What's needed is for the NIH to get in to the drug manufacturing business, start making generics and vaccines itself.

A huge amount of their research already is directly responsible for private industry profits; they can be happy with that freebie. But for things like vaccines in emergencies and insulin, if this be socialism; let's make the most of it.
Hopefully they enforce the action worldwide. I guess the ebay listings don't only include resale masks, but also stolen goods.

Berlin's Charite Clinic just had an incident where a shipment of up to 60.000 masks was stolen from the delivery truck (news in german):

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/mitte/charite-wurde-komplett...

Edit: it was stolen from an intermediate storage room, not the truck.
What made you leave gh pages?
With the CDC director saying that this thing is going to be a regular seasonal visitor[1], it makes me wonder what long-term impact this is going to have on society.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/health/coronavirus-cdc-robert...
Once upon a time Linux solved the "syscalls are slow" problem by making syscalls fast, rather than introducing convoluted APIs as a workaround, like other operating systems did.

Perhaps one day we can get back to that model, or maybe now that Linux has gone corporate those days are gone. Even when you can make something faster with a simple, straight-forward solution, there's always that one corporate sponsor who doesn't benefit. Before Linux would just tell them sod-off.
Consumer hand sanitizer is almost always ethyl alcohol not isopropanol.
Could you give an example of what makes complex biologics difficult, is it the actual process or just the fact that IP is not shared easily and the hurdles to get licensing in place.
I think you are right in the sense that at room temperature, thermal fluctuations dominate.

Better stated, my point is that if the entire assembly is at absolute zero, the quantum fluctuations in the final gear are much greater than the deterministic motion associated with one revolution of the first gear.
Yes, I think UW cancelled on-site classes Friday morning when a staff member tested positive. [1]

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/university-of-wash...
> the circumstances were highly unusual

Compared to what? Murdering the mother of your children and dumping her body in a shallow grave? Totally normal thing to do. But lets focus on the important issues like how highly unusual is was for the victim to try to escape from an obvious psychopath with her children before she was murdered.
No, it won't. Look at inulin prices. Or pharma-bro's Daraprim.

That's what capitalism does to generics.
Agree, do we know those 14 deaths age and medical history?
It's... interesting... that Amazon offers reasonably priced bandwidth on Lightsail, but it's against the TOS to use it in connection with other services.
University of Washington at least had a single positive COVID case in an employee. Stanford seems to have canceled two weeks of classes and quarter-finals without even a single presumptive case on campus?

Presumably all these kids are still living in dorms together and eating together in dining halls...
Life isn't a textbook example. People like you are so intellectually boring, like you don't have the curiosity to have figured out the mankiw isn't reality. You have an answer for everything and understand nothing.
In California we have a declaration of emergency. This declaration makes price gouging illegal for essential needs.
$250,000 for an elite education and one virus has sunken Stanford to University of Phoenix lows. Totally slumming it.
How to quickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff
One of the cases posited is `ps` or `top` which (on linux) read /proc/[0-9]+/stat and /proc/[0-9]+/cmdline, and in these cases it knows the the max it will want to read (which is pretty small, maybe 512 bytes at most). So this can make `ps` or `top` 3x faster / more efficient.
It's very hard to incorporate events like this into a financial model. With chronic disease like diabetes or cancer they can get a pretty good forecast of demand, so it's translates into a clearer understanding of ROI with higher confidence: more they invest the more they get plus some error, but even the error won't offset the forecast by much. With epidemics, not only you need to predict when, but also what kind of virus it's gonna be. The reward is great, but so is the risk. Would you invest $100 to almost surely get back ($130 +/- $5), or $1000 with a potential outcome of $10000, but very low confidence that it is going to happen at all before you run out of money.

Similar to financial crisis, if the next one could be predicted, it wouldn't happen.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve worked with the FDA. In my experience they’re pretty reasonable and motivated by mission. I suspect it’s simply really hard and risky to come up with new therapeutics and make sure they work in a reasonable amount of time. Diminishing returns.

I don’t know anything about the generic drug marketplace. I’d guess the issues are more complicated than what you describe. The FDA’s mandate is safety, not anticompetitive practices.

One surprising takeaway from working with our regulatory consultants is that apparently many actors try to game the crap out of the FDA’s processes. The FDA is really the only wall between shenanigans and consumers.
Not even software exists in only a vacuum, it's influenced by real world events. There are lots of people who see some of these changes as a threat to the existence of the software they use and want to secure it themselves
I care about true privacy and transparency...so I use the Epic Privacy Browser and their ad-free and transparent EpicSearch.in.

The claim in the blog post and by DuckDuckGo "They do not collect or share personal information" can not be true depending on how you define personal information since search ads are localized on DuckDuckGo. Incidentally, DuckDuckGo refuses to disclose what data they send to Bing/Yahoo to retrieve search ads (forget about open source, they're not even transparent). This claim is further in question as their search ads link directly to Yahoo/Bing so they direct your IP and personal information directly to them -- while one can see those links while hovering on the links, it's not plainly disclosed (especially for non-technical users). Fundamentally their business is built on sending your personal information to Bing.

The results in EpicSearch aren't as good as Bing/Yahoo/DuckDuckGo nor as Google...but they are quite close to any intuitive idea of being private and are as good or better at times at least 80% of the time...so from there I'll click on to Bing or Google if I need more results.
Smokers found to emit hazardous compounds in cinema, long after stubbing out
Antibiotics don't affect viruses.
>The first guy in the store buys fifty when he only needed one because he wanted to be sure to have enough, but then the store runs out before everyone has one and there are fifty unused masks in the one guy's basement.

Maybe he won't give anything up because price might keep going up and whenever he needs the masks they will be so costly he cannot afford them.
Or maybe the price rise will give some party an incentive to stockpile masks because making money is a clear incentive instead of a more nebulous "avoid a health crisis".
Italy is there at the top with Japan in terms of median population age.
This might play a role in the statistics.
There are well over 3000 deaths worldwide. The point is to stop the death toll from getting worse. For example, the death toll from smoking is very low in a population of people that don't smoke. The number of dead people killed by coronavirus is also low in the US because most people don't have it yet. The whole point is to keep it that way. And given the enormous amount of investment we as a society put into mitigating deaths from car accidents and the flu (safety features and testing, vaccinations, etc), cancelling classes to stop the spread of a disease more deadly than the flu without a vaccine is not an overreaction.

We have a major testing kit shortage right now. China and Iran have been covering up how bad the case was and suppressed information about it's spread early on. We haven't been reacting enough. What we need right now is a clear eyed understanding of the risks this causes for the health of the populace (just because it's only so far proving a particularly dangerous concern in the elderly and people with pre-existing conditions doesn't mean those deaths count any less and that reactions should be any less strong). We're already seeing the economic impacts as work and exports grind to a halt as people are staying in quarantine if they are sick to avoid putting the vulnerable in danger. And these testing shortages mean we don't know the full extent of the disease spread.

So no, we aren't overreacting. If the response is successful, then we'll max out at a couple dozen dead. That doesn't mean the disease wasn't a big deal, that means that the reaction worked to contain it.
This is just dark fiction, not science.

If any of this were true, China would already be totally overrun. Instead they are reported fewer than 150 new cases per day and closing their temporary hospitals.

My prediction is that we will see the same thing happening in Italy and South Korea in two/three weeks time.
Strikes me that a lot of the comments, not to mention the article itself, seem to approaching the problem from the perspective of what other people should think and how they should behave. As if certain choices automatically make you and superior human.

I think perhaps avalys could have expressed it more politely, but at least he was succinct. That article is very judgemental. I'm sure I could invent lots and lots of ways anybody could be potentially annoying or impacting me and my family. I'm not going to use that as an excuse to claim some assumed moral high ground. People absolutely have the right to buy and drive what they want. The overwhelming popularity and price of pickups, even at a large size, is testament that it is working for them and is well worth it to a lot of people.

I'd prefer to read the comments pro or con that talk about one's personal experience with their automotive choices, rather than finger-waging at and judging those they don't agree with.
I crosschecked that with https://www.darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#7/51.283/22.7... so there should be some pretty good nightskies enjoyable with a large binocular, or even a 5 inch Maksutov. How do you remember the weather to be on average for the time (June) you suggested? Cloudy, hazy, or clear? With clear i mean, could you when you camped somewhere in the forest, the campfire out, your eyes used to the dark, see the milky way or some other faint smudges of nebula with the bare eye?
“He strives to complete his tasks to our satisfaction”
Isn't that mostly a database problem? I have loved knowledge graphs for a while until I realized they were just a way to obfuscate complex problems, not solving them.

Here, what part of your problem wouldn't be solved by a DB with a table of vulnerabilities, a table of branches and divisions, and a table of people?

A query can fetch the images and apps used by a division, then use that to query the vuln database.

I mean, I understand the problem is not super simple, but I fail to see what knowledge graphs bring to it?
Carbs is not the only fuel. Fats can be used as well. Proteins too, in case of emergency.

The rule of thumb is proteins and fats are essential, carbs are not. How much of each is still up for debate.
This while "not that many people have died stop overreacting" stuff makes no sense to me. The whole point is to stop it before more people die. We have testing shortages and world leaders such as in China and Iran buried need about the disease, which has led to thousands of deaths. If we wait for 1-3% of the world population to die before deciding it meets some statistical threshold to start reacting - then that just makes no sense. We're trying to stop people from dying - we can't bring people back after they're gone.
That's not right. You've just based your assertion with a faulty assumption that a bulb has to be smart - sure the analogy breaks down. But, the parent is making an analogy about a "dumb" bulb - both hammer and bulb are tools. Hammer is used to hit nails and a bulb is used to illuminate dark spaces.

A manufacturer of "dumb" bulbs doesn't have to continually expend resources to keep your bulb operating, secure, and compatible with other devices - simply by the virtue that the bulb isn't a smart bulb.

To fail your analogy criteria, the bulb just have to be a "dumb" one or the hammer can be a smart-hammer (you can concieve that for the sake of a thought exercise).
I just don't understand why the schools haven't cancelled classes in the Bay area..
The downside mentioned in the blog post is worth calling out:

> No technology is magical, every transition comes with disadvantages. An Isolate-based system can’t run arbitrary compiled code. Process-level isolation allows your Lambda to spin up any binary it might need. In an Isolate universe you have to either write your code in Javascript (we use a lot of TypeScript), or a language which targets WebAssembly like Go or Rust.

It’s also worth noting that for JavaScript the Workers Runtime environment [1] is more similar to the browser than to Node.js. Thus you cannot include NPM packages directly, e.g. you could not simply:

const express = require('express')

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/apis/sta... "Workers Runtime APIs"
It's a fair assumption that a lot of people on HN have SF viewpoint or views at least that partially align with them. Even those of us on the other side of the planet.

As for your downvoters: plenty of people believe they should downvote when they simply disagree. Others believe that downvoting without a comment is fine. These two groups make HN less interesting.

I actually want to know the reason why. Too many people hide behind a downvote and contribute nothing. Meanwhile they are making interesting posts disappear for no good reason. And other comments that are blatantly rubbish are not touched at all.
Nobody is overreacting drinking or driving causes death through the year, while covid19 is like a DDOS to the health system. Expect to be neglected if you get caught by a huge outbreak, thus the fear.

Not to mention if the outbreak escalated it will become Spanish-flu V2 then we are talking about 10 of millions people dying, and hundreds of thousands dying in US alone.

COVID19 is probably the most disastrous disease in our lives, assuming most of us haven’t been through Spanish flu. It almost felt like this virus is tailored to live with us.

I will take no chance and do the protections from my part as careful as possible
Yes, instead of adapting and living with the reality of flu-like illnesses roaming around we will declare a war on nature itself and will tank our economy and with it society. Because, flu-like symptoms. The worst imaginable experience is now here. Flu.
The argument against backdoors by law enforcement is a very clear and understandable one - “misplace” and now everyone has access. Also if they can use it for getting data from an individual under warrant, there would be nothing stopping them from getting all data from everyone in aggregate when none is looking “to protect the children” and the like. And lastly even if those two are not the case, there’s also foreign governments.

OK so this stems mostly of the fact that real warrants are bound by locality- if you get one warrant it’s physically impossible to just use it for everyone. Thus reducing the risk of wrongly given one of affecting everyone else on the planet.

The question is - is there a way to effectively replicate something like that with encryption / maths? I mean obviously not with public / private key encryption, but we do have more complex ones already in the form of cryptocurrencies. Maybe there’s a way to make reading a backdoor very expensive and public operation so everyone knew a backdoor was used, it would be expensive to employ (as in money and resources) and could only be used once per backdoor use?

I’m genuinely curios though I’d wager the answer would be that even if it could be made it would be too expensive and impractical...
This assumption comes up again and again: that criminals are somehow motivated and competent enough to use encryption even when the easiest way to do it are no longer available.

There’s no reason to believe that. Criminals are just as lazy and stupid as everyone else. If e2e requires an extra step, fewer will use it. If it comes with their phones’ built-in messenger, more will use it.

Every unencrypted E-mail, SMS, ICQ chat among criminals of the past is evidence here: they could have all used PGP, or one-time pads. But they didn’t. For the same reason nobody in this thread has ever used a custom one-time pad implementation for any real communication: it’s fun to imagine when you’re in the shower planning your evil empire, but it sucks in reality.

Note that I agree that this law is a particularly stupid idea, and that e2e encryption should be considered a universal right. It’s just this argument I don’t buy.
As opposed to... where exactly?

I'm sure I can point at legal systems across the globe that have examples of completely terrible injustice.

Which legal system are you referring to that is significantly not "poisonous"? And why?
Fine. Search for "full prison" instead.

Worse yet, search for "middle school".

Hell, searching for "cat" results in "Cat Porn Videos"!

Searching for "zebra" results in "Zebra Porn Videos"!

Searching for "dolphin" results in "Dolphin Porn Videos"!

"ballet" gives porn!
Stick it in a mutual fund or index fund. If that's too adventurous and risky, get a CD[1] or buy government issued bonds

[1] https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/accounts_prod...
Why would you buy a new car?

I bought a new car when I got a corporate job. The first 90 days were training. Missing any of the training -- even just being late -- could get you booted.

I had been a homemaker for about two decades. I was like 41 years old and it was my first full-time job. I have a bunch of college, but had job hunted a long time before finally getting a job offer. My POS older car was not reliable and was potentially going to cost me the job.

This was kind of "my big break" and I was sharing a single room with my teenager sons while living at a relative's house and going through a divorce.

People often spend money trying to make sure they can adequately qualify for a good job and it may not pan out. This is also essentially the TLDR behind a lot of crushing student debt in the US.

I will note: I'm pretty tired of the "poor people just need to stop drinking Starbucks coffee" trope, and have spoken about that previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19585270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19585789
IncrediMail shutting down on March 20
It resembles an open source annotation tool that has existed for years. https://brat.nlplab.org/

It doesn't include a ML assistant though.

We have built a semi-automated annotation tool for our internal use too. ML models help classify documents and extract named entities by making suggestions. Sometimes I'm thinking of spinning it off as a standalone product but not sure how big the market would be.
Not that high. After all it kills best old people with comorbidities. So it competes with the flu and heart attacks.

While a lot of people will die from corona complications I don't expect total mortality to increase that much. You can die only once ..
That entirely depends on whether society decides to have the current panic wave every year, or deals with it in a more reasonable manner. Hopefully after people see how much they overreacted this time, they won't be inclined to next season.
> How do we reconcile it with another popular argument...

I don't think I've heard this argument, and I haven't observed programmer behavior in the wild :)

I'm happy working solo 1 day a week or so, to do things maybe only I care about, or explore/learn things.

Pair programming certainly isn't for everyone, but don't knock it until you've done it for a few weeks, hopefully with some good pros!

I've never learned so much about programming as during my first ~6 months working together with people and learning their wisdom and tricks.

You're right that the restricted schedules are a downside.