skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would make, buy a box of face masks and some hand sanitiser

I've been looking for these this past week in Arizona, but the shelves have been empty. I started going to all the stores I usually shop at multiple times per day to find something; its a drain on my time and probably increases my risk of getting stuff just by being outside.
Happy to have the chat!
Well, but the things an individual citizen can do can affect that individual citizens life, right? Have your elderly family taken care of try to prevent them from getting the disease, practicing good hygiene, staying at home if possible, having a proper stock of food and any medicine that anyone in your family needs, all these things can individually help you and your family, even if the rest of the country is not doing anything.
Ask HN: Is your company responding rationally to the Corona Virus threat?
My wife's company, based in SF, has their President based in Dallas, Texas. He's saying that he doesn't want to shut the office in SF down until there are 1,000 cases being reported in SF. I think this is a huge mistake due to the fact that many in SF must take public transportation (BART ewww), and it scares me given I'm a bit older than the rest of you. What do y'all think?
You can go the classic route that id, raven et al followed: open source the executable but keep the data closed.
I'll definitely give this a try soon, Crystal is lovely and I want to give Svelte a try, thanks.
Generally speaking, all vaccines are low dosage. Everyone having the vaccine would be better, starting with those most at risk. If we had a vaccine, we would give it to 80 year olds first, then go down the chain.
It’s definitely not illegal if both parties consent to it, which is probably the case in a work meeting
> Just because we couldn't isolate it doesn't mean it's not there (or wasn't there in the past).

As I said, the God-of-the-gaps argument.

> Also, Pygmies and Northern Europeans are very niche populations with little extant diversity compared to the rest of mankind.

How is this in any way relevant to what I said? I brought these two just as examples. I could bring you examples like these all day long, despite Saini confidently stating these don't exist.

> It's literally my job to work in this kind of stuff. As in, I get paid for working in this, I clock in, have coffee with, have lunch with, clock out and sometimes binge drink with people who get paid for doing this as well. Feel free not to believe me but at this point it's just useless to fling "no you're the one who's wrong" one more time.

I find it funny that you're claiming institutional authority from an anonymous throwaway account. That's not quite how authority works. You cannot just say that you have it, you need to credibly signal it in a non-falsifiable way.

> Common conception of race isn't well-defined and changes depending on culture and whatever the researcher had in mind when they wrote their paper

Same argument is true for dog breeds, and yet people have no difficulty distinguishing a chihuahua from a greyhound. Just like Saini, you keep saying things that are true, but irrelevant, hoping to deflect the attention from the core argument without having to actually address it.

> Models have evolved a little bit since the 19th century.

There were no real models of population genetics in 19th century to speak of. It was basically pioneered by Ronald Fisher in the 1920s. The Price equation I mention was published in 1970s. You'd have known that if you were the expert you claim you are, but as it turns out, you can't even be bothered to consult Wikipedia.

> Also the fact that you're bringing up Gould and Lewontin for no apparent reason, just to trash them

I'm bringing up Lewontin, because Saini brings up Lewontin. I'm also bringing up Gould, because the duo is a famous pair of agenda-pushers in this very field in the name of science.

> as well as the useless snark when pretending to not know, not even google the term HBD

I'm still waiting for you to explain the wrongthink I'm accused of.

> leads me to think you just want to rehash the old wars of the 1990s and aren't in fact debating in good faith.

It's Saini that wants that, of course. By the way, this is another contentless attack designed to deflect attention. I can't help but notice that in the whole thread, you haven't cited a single scientific finding, not a single one indeed. You just keep deflecting, attacking my perceived lack of credentials, while claiming institutional authority from an anonymous throwaway account, accusing me of some wrongthink you cannot even be bother to describe, asking me to consult google what I'm guilty of instead, and at the very end you have the gall of accusing me of not debating in good faith.
Probably a sentiment he borrowed from Schopenhauer.

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.“
Intel continues to get beaten up by their decision to defer access checks in speculation. Meltdown, L1TF, and now LVI-stale-data are all rooted in one mistake. Fortunately, the silicon fix for Meltdown appears to mitigate these issues ("RDCL_NO"). But it also introduces LVI-NULL (which is admittedly more restricted, but still problematic).

The Intel deep dive [0] is a pretty solid addition to the original paper [1].

It looks like Ice Lake processors are going to be the first ones that are not affected [2]. Based on the deep dive, it sounds like these still aren't perfect (they don't completely avoid forwarding values to dependent instructions from faulting loads). They instead exhibit some behavior they call "zero-at-ret", which Intel says is not expoitable in practice.

Intel does not explicitly say Ice Lake is zero-at-ret, but reading between the lines this seems to be the case ("parts generally exhibiting Zero-at-ret behavior... will be documented as 'not affected'.") Only Ice Lake is listed as not affected, so they likely would not put this caveat in there if this did not apply to Ice Lake.

[0] https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...
[1] https://lviattack.eu/lvi.pdf
[2] https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...
On the first sequence without triple in arithmetic progression
For anyone who is working remotely or managing a remote team for the first time: find a friend or ex-coworker who has done it and thrived. Ask them to be your sounding board - ideally daily given the situation.

Whether it's amazing or terrible depends on execution (and obviously other things), and transitioning in a week makes it even harder. Lean on someone experienced.
For a lot of people, heels in the office isn’t a choice. Usually that’s not the case in the tech industry, but it still is in many other fields.
You’ll have better luck emailing:

mailto:hn@ycombinator.com
Well yeah, but most people don't have home offices and never will. My girlfriend and I live in a one bedroom apartment that costs $3,800 per month. We're sure as hell not gonna pay the extra thousands per month to get a three bedroom apartment so we can each have a home office. Having extra rooms in your dwelling dedicated for work is a huge luxury. Having companies provide an office space for you to work in (that they pay for) is quite nice.

There is an interesting idea here for companies to subsidize employees' home offices with all the money they're saving on not renting office buildings of their own, but that would make the housing crisis substantially worse and further increase hatred of tech. Imagine how badly rents would be driven up on apartments typically desired by families if you've got lots of single workers using work subsidies to get larger apartments than they actually needed.
I don't have a coffee machine (we have pour over) but I will by tonight. Also as of today doubling our recipes to make leftovers for lunches, and we have sandwich fixins for lunch as well. I'm expecting this to last for a good little while so it's important to figure out ways to be efficient. The biggest hit to productivity is when the nanny brings the kids home in the afternoon, but it's manageable. I'll continue to perform.

This is just part of being an adult. You can manage! You can get used to anything.
It's not silly. Though I'd be interested in the comparison of under-30 without any health issues to over-50 without any health issues.
And now Massachusetts has several buildings ready to serve as makeshift hospitals should the need arise.
> The armor against false accusations is very similar: don't be a jerk to people with whom you have a skewed power dynamic, as you may find your word against that of your accuser, and you may find yourself reliant on your accuser's peers to come to your defense.

This puts too much blame on the falsely accused.
I stand by tranny fluid + acetone. That and the old heat it and beat it
The current goal is to create any vaccine that is safe and effective.

If you have that, you give it to everybody you can.

I guess deciding what safe enough is can be a problem (for many people the bar will be "getting the vaccine has better odds for a good outcome than getting the infection", but that is sort of a minimum).
The MongoDB license they are picking on barely differs from the AGPL.
How much would you charge to buy this machine, rent a space to put it in, pay for the utilities and rent related to it, set it up, and consequently maintain it for half a decade? In addition to the principal of purchasing the hardware?
Again, the current CFR as calculated by the WHO is a mathematical artifact. I trust that they're accurately reporting the numbers they measured, and agree that dividing their death count by their case count yields 3.4%, but I don't agree (and don't think they said) that this is an accurate estimate of how deadly the virus is likely to be.
The requirement was financial success, not money pit.
And how much is a replacement battery pack? - ICE don't have those
The stats came from yesterday’s European daily status report, which were the most current as of the time I posted (and where all of these other trackers get their numbers).

I see that the numbers on the same link have now updated to today’s stats, and there have been 2 deaths and 1139 cases in Germany. It doesn’t change the point I was making in the slightest, which is that Germany has a death rate far, far below 1%.

Did you even bother to click the link?
What does it matter when advertising revenue has more than doubled in that short time period? If you're good at one insanely profitable thing and you're making money out the wazoo with it, who cares?
I wonder what will happen in Japan. Toyota is still pushing hydrogen fuel cells as the future and hybrids as the present.
Man I would absolutely LOVE to see IBM suing the pants off of Oracle and sending those muppets into insolvency. I don't think there is a single company in the software industry more widely hated than Oracle today, it seems to me they have devolved into mere patent trolls because they couldn't figure out a way to adapt their business model.
Seriously? What kind of school did you attend where violence between roommates was common?
I think his point is that he hasn't needed a satisfactory coffee setup at home before and thus hasn't done it. If WFH is temporary, then the issues he's facing make sense.

I always work from home and I can see where his issues come from. I'm sure he'd do things differently if this were a permanent state for him.
The idea that so much existing infrastructure would infringe on this new kind of copyright is tough to accept, but at least it's very straightforward in a way, with brutal direct consequences.

What I have more of a problem with is that we have no clear precedents for how API copyright will work in practice if it is suddenly foisted upon the real world. What does it mean for an API to be licensed under the GPLv2, or any other copyright license that was written with source code and object code in mind but not APIs? How will we determine which license agreements executed long ago should be retroactively considered to include or exclude the APIs? How many industry standards will have to be assessed for whether the relevant APIs are available under FRAND licensing terms as the relevant patents usually are? Is there a distinction between providing vs using an API, for the purposes of determining copyright infringement?
As mentioned last time, The modern Python async frameworks like Starlette would have no trouble handling this amount of traffic.

https://www.starlette.io/
Many thanks to everyone for their thoughts. It will take me some time to digest it all.
If they aren’t already “boring” after 1 million sold, when do you think they will be?

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-production-1-million-electri...
> you might be able to get coffee delivered

Is this a joke??? Just buy a coffee machine like a normal person.
If this is the most privileged comment that you've read on the internet, I don't think you've read much. I'm not even sure that the OP was complaining about it.
You were prescribed SSRIs with a Bipolar diagnosis!?
What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system?
> There really is a sweet spot in most people's disposable income [..] which is just around the corner:

I interpret it totally different. I the parent like they think we are close to it.
This is one of the best put-together economic development campaigns I have seen. Kudos to people behind this, it's a compelling case!
Thanks for the feedback. I think this project is a little bit different, we are focusing for now on making a nice end-user friendly consumer product using hardware that is already shipping from various aliexpress vendors. our tag line is "An opensource hiking, pilot, skiing, Signal-App-extending GPS mesh communicator for $30" We are currently using RadioHead mesh library, but we might shift to a common implementation with the disaster radio geeks.

btw: Back when I was writing Andropilot I also wrote a fair portion of the code that is in those RFD900 radios (or at least was, I haven't checked in a while). I'm super glad you are using them!
It's mostly a question of how common they are. Both uuid and ISBN can be represented as URI. However, I'm still on the fence regarding uuids, because they tend to get a lot of use in general... I may add it after all.

The idea is to make a format for the 80% case, so things like ISBN are definitely out.
If the mob is acting to achieve an ends I perceive as immoral, I am very quick to see a mob.

If the mob is acting to achieve an ends I perceive as righteous, I might never see the mob for what they really are.

I've found many people do even less well than I do, at this.
>without any other health issue

I think people are underestimating what an over-capacity, health care system looks like and the increase in risk of other infections can have.
Going to regret writing this article in light of evidence on entire basis of the topic including 1. Viral illness and 2. Working from home and creativity.
Chrome doesn't run on Mavericks, but Firefox does. I can't say how long that will last, but I can look at what's available on even older versions of OS X as a guide:

Mountain Lion and Lion can run Firefox Legacy, which is just a lightly edited branch of mainline Firefox: https://parrotgeek.com/fxlegacy.html

Snow Leopard can run ArcticFox: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox

And Tiger and Leopard can run TenFourFox: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

ArcticFox and TenFourFox don't quite have 100% compatibility, so they wouldn't be ideal, but they're still very usable.

So while browser support is definitely my biggest concern, I suspect there will continue to be options. It's also worth mentioning that the reason Firefox hard can't run on Snow Leopard or below is because Rust doesn't work below 10.7. Yet another possibility is running Google Chrome in Wineskin.

For Adobe, I'm stuck on CS6 anyway because I'm never paying for Creative Cloud. And I'm increasingly eying the Serif suite, which supports Mavericks.
I didn’t read the article because it’s behind a paywall but going off the title, I 100% agree. I work at a FANG company and have been told to stay home. I get so damn stir crazy sitting at home all day. Not to mention I have zero dedicated space to actually work. I can’t wait for my office to open back up.
At a 10% hospitalization rate, all hospital beds in the U.S. will be filled by about May 10. And with many patients requiring weeks of care, turnover will slow to a crawl as beds fill with Covid-19 patients.

If I’m wrong by a factor of two regarding the fraction of severe cases, that only changes the timeline of bed saturation by six days (one doubling time) in either direction. If 20% of cases require hospitalization, we run out of beds by about May 4. If only 5% of cases require it, we can make it until about May 16, and a 2.5% rate gets us to May 22.
Are they different from the consumer's perspective? It seems like adding a small amount of information to a blank page and removing a large amount of information from a full page can have the same result. In programming terms:

( 0xFF & 0x01 ) == ( 0x00 | 0x01 )

People still see the same thing, regardless of how the decision to show it is reached.
Google Cloud has $10b / year of revenue and hardly existed five years ago.
pay more.
Unfortunately, you're right, it's not. It's pretty disturbing, though.
This is exactly what I liked about consumer finance. The problems were absolutely fascinating, and when dealing with transactional data it was at a near real-time scale that you don't see anywhere else.
I'm a college student in Massachusetts (but not Cambridge). We don't have a normal lease because we're in a "boarding house". This means that the school has the right to kick us out if we cease to be a student (e.g. expelled) which is useful when roommates need to be relocated if there's any violent incidents.
Why shouldn't more people have enjoyable cars? If they can afford an enjoyable house, and they drive regularly, they should treat themselves to an enjoyable car too.

The idea of buying a nice car fell into some disrepute starting in the late 70s, when the major manufacturers stopped making actual nice cars and just added some extra plastic to their economy cars to sell as the premium brand. So people buying Cadillacs in the 90s seemed like, well, chumps. But that shouldn't be a permanent indictment of nice cars! The nice cars of a former era sucked, but now we have nice cars that are actually pretty sweet.

As more people realize that well-designed cars can actually make you and your family happier while driving, there'll be a lot of demand for those cars even at high price points.
When they don't cost $AU70,000 or more. its likely a Tesla will always be "cool" but so was a VW beetle.

In truth, no car is boring. they're amazing machines. But something which takes more than the median wage ($AU50,000) to acquire, when substitutable vehicles are $AU30,000 or less (excluding luxe from the equation) puts them into a different category than a boring car.
My apologies if it sounded like I was implying that you hated them. I was just speaking in general. Particularly on r/wallstreetbets there are a lot of people who shame others who use robinhood and make jokes that don't reflect reality. Some of that is the 'bets sense of humor too of course.
I know about archive.org etc, but it’s really striking to see public health reporting behind a paywall.
Should be as easy as copy/paste.

https://vault.bitwarden.com/#/
I actually think it could backfire. Remote work that is thoughtfully implemented can definitely be a productivity boost, but thrown together last minute stuff like this is going to make people more wary of remote, not less.
Fair. The related developing country stuff I did involved a major credit card's competitor for mPesa and other sms minutes payment schemes in Africa, with tokenization for payments. These are not unsophisticated markets.

The people who pay for this will be the people who are protected by it, so the main use case could be around reducing support costs of password resets or something similar. End users don't reliably care enough as a group, and Relying Parties only see costs. The developing country angle invites scrutiny, as it's not a source of unsophisticated users, in fact if you want amazing hackers, go somewhere small hacks pay off massively because of currency differences.

So the user story needs fleshing out. A good example might be, an app for women in developing countries to prevent their husbands from stealing their phone minutes and/or wages, which has some horrific failure modes, but this is what we're into. The developing'ness piece needs a deeper story than "the poor."

So who steals the SMS OTP in these countries? Arguably if it's social engineering (or just threats) a duress key that mitigated the harm someone could do with the stolen OTP would be a better solution. What is the SMS OTP protecting? Is it bank accounts, what else?

For a security product, you need a) something worth protecting, b) a specific person who cares about it because they literally risk starvation without it, c) an adversary who wants it for a specific reason, and d) a set of controls that make that adversary find a cheaper thing to want.

What's your a-d? Is it compelling? (If your a. is a password, it's not.)

I'm asking because this is really interesting, and I also have a tool for generating these a-d models because they are called threat/risk assessments, which are basically inverted/sad-path business models where things go wrong, but it also generates criteria for security solutions. Nothing the a-d questions don't answer though.

Enterprise customers will ask you dumb versions of these questions that will waste a lot of time. You don't need to answer these here, but consider the exercise.
Honestly, reading the glossary gives me Urbit [1] vibes :(

> bork: A setting generator called by sundog to generate the random seed for updog, determining where the host falls in the update order.

[1]: https://urbit.org/docs/glossary/
That's so true and honestly it kind of gives me a pit in my stomach just thinking about all the C++ programs in particular that use STL and end up being so much slower than they could be. Hopefully Rust and Zig won't end up making this kind of mistake
Thanks for this, it was really helpful, when looking at it this way it's clear to see how inspiring this story is!
> These folks probably just have the flu.

An update, ten days later: 26 people (nearly a quarter of the 120 residents of this facility) have died in the past three weeks. Most of those who died have already positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Post-mortem tests are still pending for a handful of the earlier cases.

More than half of the surviving residents have also tested positive for coronavirus so far. Most of them are serious cases and are currently hospitalized. More than a third of the staff have COVID-19 symptoms and are awaiting test results.