skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not open source and also not exactly free (2 of the 48 styles are freely available). Still, pretty reasonably priced as far as fonts go: https://www.fontfabric.com/fonts/averta/
Coronavirus: 'Switch from building cars to ventilators'
Can someone explain the implications of this for performance, or what we can do now that we couldn’t do before?
Yes, it can help you to issue shares to a certain extent. (I am currently waiting for my signed forms to be processed so have only read, not done that part.) You May be interested in this guide [0]. It discusses some of the considerations that go into the default vesting plan.

[0] https://stripe.com/files/atlas/orrick-legal-guide.pdf
> No, that's just mutation, or something.

Mutation is how one gets cancer. If only they knew how to detect mutated cells! They might just cure cancer!
Also: http://archive.is/ukq7b
It's difficult to imagine how any team of 1,700 could work on a new website whose spec isn't even fleshed out.

I read the project got 1,700 volunteer applications, not actual commitments.
The feds mandate is to maximize employment, stabilize prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.

A big part of that is trying to avoid the 'bust' part of a boom-bust cycle.

As evidenced by your post, the fed should not be accountable to the public because the public cannot be expected to spend anytime trying to understand what they do and their methods of action.
This is correct, the financial system is actually fine. Banks are well capitalised and stable. The problems are cash flow for businesses, incomes for low income and hourly wage earners, and health care for huge swathes of Americans.

The fed has an important role to play of course, but they’re really a sideshow this time around.
The government can simply ban shorts, much like 2008, and what other European stock markets have done already. That would kill the shorts dead in its tracks. Then the stock market would stabilize, in time for businesses to stabilize and hopefully by summer everything will be recovery focused.
I don't see email 2.0 being a paid service. Competition to something like Slack or Microsoft Teams, sure.
I quote from the article: "US President Trump is attempting to entice a German lab to develop a vaccine exclusively for the US, a German newspaper reported."

You are sharing the conspiracy theory that the Trump administration did not in fact try to secure exclusive access to the vaccine.
I wonder if anyone has done a comparison of damage done by the economy grinding to a halt vs quarantine. I don't mean this in a snarky way. I just imagine a world where truck drivers stop making deliveries. At what point do more people die from lack of resources than the current pandemic?
I feel like whether you see that behavior from a president as clever or stupid is a litmus test for how you view this president/presidency.
Hope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
I hugely agree on a lot of your points.

I'll also add that once I'm on a traditional network, ripping through active directory is generally not difficult - my first ever live pentest went from privileged non-AD asset to domain admin within about 4 hours. My average time to compromise has come down significantly since then, too.

There's lots of bad/scam security focusing on logging and monitoring, weird antivirus products and securing the wrong things. The last network I compromised dropped an obscene amount of money on a SIEM product that couldn't detect nmap or PtH attacks, I achieved complete compromise with the same chain of attack as my first ever pentest because nobody had looked at the fundamentals of implementation/configuration security.

If I could list things that would actually secure traditional networks:

- Application Whitelisting (Binary executables, strong macro group policies, browser plugin whitelisting).

- Active Directory Hardening (See: ADSecurity, Microsoft AD Hardening Guidelines, ACSC Windows 10 Hardening Guidelines)

- Regular Patching and reliance on Microsoft Products (they're actually pretty good!)

Dunno if you'd consider these 'zero trust', but unless you've covered the fundamentals nobody is going to waste time figuring out how to abuse your network with speculative execution or drop a huge amount of budget to develop a perimeter breaching RCE 0day. Especially when in most cases sending shitware.docx.exe to a sales staff member (who is almost always going to run whatever you send them if there's a bonus incentive) will suffice.
No one should be accepting anything online as medical advice. It's like high finance, if you base every purchase on what you read on Yahoo finance you are going to lose your shirt. If you take health advice online you might die. Nobody is giving advice here. We are having a discussion.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

- Bacon
Unless forced to close, the bars, restaurants, and businesses will stay open. Very few will voluntarily do the right thing.
Very cool.

We built a structural editor for an OCaml-like language (Darklang). Our first version was very AST-based, with all movement using the AST. The feedback we got was that AST-based editing is hard to grok and that you need line-based editing too. So we re-implemented and now we have both (although we broke and are re-adding a bunch of the editor refactorings).
Obviously there's not a 1:1 relationship. And I never made such claim. I am saying that the people who read detailed journalism tend to have a higher reading level, e.g. they work in a job where reading and analysis is a daily part of their work, this would be considered white collar.

Please don't put words in my mouth when I never said there was a 1:1 relationship.
NYC Department of Education closes schools until April 20th
It's indefinite and it applies to everyone.

And it seems a pretty common sense preventative measure since a 14 day quarantine isn't too onerous.
Great project. My only nitpick is that their content is not permissively licenced. This is fine for the short-term, because the Bach Society has to earn its keep somehow, but it would be nice if there was some kind of licensing planned for the many decades between short and mid-term monetization and the eventual expiry of copyright on these recordings.
In my opinion it shouldn't be about the absolute number, but rather about having relatively few but long-lasting items. Obviously individual needs vary, because of hobby activities, weather and such.

So I have 8 pairs of shoes, but I still consider it relatively minimal, because each serves a distinct purpose, such as my safety boots.

I also have multiple pairs of leather boots (military surplus), because leather boots/shoes really should be aired out for a day after you wear them, especially if you've been doing anything strenous. By having a couple of pairs, each pair will last significantly longer than if I just wore the same pair every day.

Minimalism can easily go way too far and become counterproductive.
How I Start: Rust
> Dutch proverb: "If you don't shoot you will certainly miss".

Huh. The idea is certainly around in the US, but I'm kind of surprised I can't think of a matching proverb.

We have a very close match, but it's considered a witty quote from a particular person (no consensus on who) -- "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".

There's also something along the lines of "you can't get what you don't ask for". There's also an individually attributed version of this: "if you don't ask, you don't get". I had to look this up. There is no really common version.

And of course, there's "ninety percent of success is showing up". Again this is attributed -- quote trackers seem to agree that it should be "80%", not "90%". But this one is common enough that I could see it becoming a proverb eventually. On the other hand, this has gone somewhat afield from "if you don't shoot, you won't hit".
More in this vein, it genuinely floors me that UML-like diagrams (used very loosely and without strictness) aren't more of a thing.

There are so many walls of text out there going over a system's flow that could be expressed in just a couple paragraphs and a companion sequence diagram.
This looks similar to Topicbox (https://www.topicbox.com/) that Fastmail is building.

Overall I think the current paradigm of mail clients is not the correct one: a MUA today is still a glorified view of individual emails, as if it was "just" a maildir viewer. I would rather have a HN- or Reddit-like view, where focus is put on the conversation rather than on the people. This will be more useful than focusing on folders (What's the use of a "Sent" folder ?)
It'll continue to be a band-aid, of course. Band-aids are useful.

It's the Japanification of the US economy, including a similar Federal debt problem (which is the single biggest reason the Fed can never raise rates back to a normal level again).

Japan still has a highly functioning country and functioning economy (one of the wealthiest and most productive on earth), even though their central bank policies and debt situation are an enormous mess.

The US has a lot of household wealth (~$100-$110 trillion) that the Fed can debase on a perpetual basis, as a never-ending band-aid. Then there is all the other dollar based wealth around the world. They can run a never-ending $80 billion per month QE program and it'll barely scratch the massive US asset base (which over time, averaged, may well outgrow a trillion dollar per year debasement). Ideally you want to see the US Government bring its irresponsible fiscal situation under control, sooner than later, so that approach doesn't have to go on for 30 or 50 years (but nobody is going to hold their breath for that). The counter is to point out that foreign actors will pull their confidence in the USD during this process (increasing the real cost for the Fed to keep doing it), whether after 10, 20, 50 years - and that may well happen, but it's impossible to forecast when. This is especially true given the currency competitors are all a mess as well, with China overloaded with debt, Japan in far worse shape than the US, and the Eurozone with no growth and their own miscellaneous debt & economic problems.
China's strategy is largely what is being adopted in Europe and Australia/NZ.

And as we've seen in Italy it's absolutely possible to have everyone self-isolate. You just police it.
i'll clarify: the effort in question is to stop being a potential carrier of a novel disease for which nobody is immune for and thus has potential to put great many people in a hospital for weeks at a time putting strain onto a system which is hardly idle. you might catch the virus and probably won't be able to tell the difference from common cold or flu. somebody you meet might end up intubated and anesthesiologically paralyzed for a week. or dead.

so don't go if you don't want to be that person.
A vaccine will take at least 18 months to develop.

You can argue that a vaccine would take 18 months to test and deploy, but candidates already exist and are under trial. Moderna (MA, USA) shipped theirs three weeks ago, for one.
> Single universal protocol, eliminating all redundant functionality...

This concept is dead on arrival.
Indeed, it would require congressional approval. That's likely the only reason it hasn't happened yet.

FWIW, there is precedent for this. The Bank of Japan owns something like 70% of all stocks in Japan via ETFs.
Netanyahu's rival Gantz secures 61 majority to form government
The article attempts to argue that we should hold other industries, including airport management to the same extremely high safety standards that airlines have to face.

I've always thought it interesting to ask if air-travel is too safe. Have we over-optimized it and could we allocate those resources to areas where they would provide a larger impact? For example if we did not require a fire-station at each airport, would we have budget to increase hospital/clinic funding?
Do I remember correctly that “jot” was also the name of a gui text editor on unix systems as well (different from the program referred to in the parent comment)? I think I used it in the early 90s on an SGI workstation running sun solaris OS.
When you say treat them well, does that mean air drying?
The biggest uncertainty is how many people would die if the virus spreads unchecked. 20,000 Americans? 2 million Americans? Both are possible, but with two orders of magnitude difference in effect, it is nearly impossible to estimate things like net economic impact of doing nothing.
> Lots of epidemiological papers about the Wuhan epidemic use data from phone carriers (not the government) to track the spread and make predictions, and they were generally pretty good with their forecasts. The numbers reported by the government are consistent with the forecasts from scientists.

Please provide a source for this. I have not seen any of this data used. The data I see used is from the CCP's official data.

> You can't lie about the numbers because every other country would detect an anomalous number of imported cases.

This is absolutely false. Because flights have been suspended from China to most countries, and China itself has been on lockdown, the number of imported cases to other countries does not reflect the growth of the virus inside of China.

> The absolute numbers don't even matter that much - what matters is the trend and the number of new cases going to zero. Look at epidemiology paper - they always assume only like 10% of infected cases are tested and confirmed. The epidemic really is coming to a close in China

Please provide proof that is not coming from CCP.

No offense, but there's no reason to believe you on this without providing sources. Most of what you have said smells like BS.
There is a screenshot burired in the source. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lensapp/lens/master/images...

A desktop app really needs a screenshot in the readme.
I'd strongly argue a minister tweeting, even when it is the health minister, isn't official advice in the sense of national guidelines.

I actually think he was incredibly stupid for tweeting that - he should know better than to write what would obviously cause a media stir based on an open non-reviewed letter.
If you think logic is so powerful, why don't you use it to cure alcoholism instead if spending it in HN comments? :) The use of surrender is to admit you don't know how things work. At least not to the point to actually cure yourself of addiction.
At Google scale, million-to-one chances happen all the time.?!
"This virus should be a wake-up call to the millions of Americans who think life around the world is anything like the relative freedom and comfort that we enjoy here."

I wonder if this section is a large part of what gets you down voted. You are off course right that we need to protect our freedom. Your statement can easily be understood add too broad though. There is also many countries that make policy tradeoffs that might be more attractive and arguably better to many. This holds easily for many European and Asian countries (of course the opposite cases you are aiming it are also easily found)
It hints at a sense of American exceptionalism that is frequently uninformed and ugly to many. I acknowledge that this easily is a misinterpretation of your statement. Given the current political climate and how everyone uses terms like "socialism" to mean different things and then fight over it, this wouldn't be a unusual interpretation. You frequently see statements that could be paraphrased as "we cannot have Medicaid for all because then we'll lose all freedom and become like China or Venezuela" which is off course nonsense and this easily can get mixed up in.
What 20€ shoe will last for 10 years of hiking and trail walking?
He was actually the person that discovered radioactivity. He did so when studying phosphorescence, and discovered that uranium salts (that are phosphorescent too), also exposed a photographic plate even when they not had been exposed to light, and even through black paper. You can clearly argue about the share of the price, and he was also clearly doing the discovery by luck.

The Curies, and especially Marie Curie was the ones that sorted out the nature of radioactivity and discovered two new elements in the process, but the discovery of radioactivity itself was quite important, so that he received the Nobel prize was not really undeserved.
Each bit could be flipped, but that's not going to put interesting pixels in the browser.

Seems like there are still plenty of latency-based attacks to turn things "upside down." For example, websites could load lightning fast but streaming could be a drip, drip, drip.

Or perhaps everything except pornhub stream lightning fast. :)
It is like saying that USSR didn't have TV/radio because foreign stations weren't rebroadcasted and were jammed.

Technical infrastructure and censorship are 2 different things, and effective censorship in highly technical society emphasizes and illustrates the scale and capabilities of the authoritative power oppressing the population.
Famines can he and were caused by goverment (whether local or occupying) taking away resources (for war or other place) or mishandling storage of resources.
Why can't they just spin up an LLC that would buy stocks/ETFs and just write loans to it?

Why would that need congressional approval? Seems like exactly what they've done with Maiden Lane LLC
Seattle hospitals are having to ration care
Fed cut interest rates to near 0, how can I capitalize on this?
Amidst all of the COVID-19 fears, the fed has dropped the interest rates to help prop up the US economy. My question is how can I best benefit from this?

Two thoughts that have been on my mind:

1. Is now the time to get a small business loan for me to test out an idea I've had for a while? This idea requires capital upfront and is outside of the tech industry. I'll need physical space and need to purchase equipment upfront.

2. I have some lingering private student loans, is now a good time to take out a personal loan from the bank (assuming lower interest rates) and transfer my private student loans to a private loan?

3. Ignore this all, hunker down and just keep saving as normal?
Message from Sal on Khan Academy and school closures
Any tinkerers want to help these low tech versions https://www.notechmagazine.com/2020/03/open-source-breathing...

Helping create versions 3d printable or mass manufacturable could save countless lives.
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/honeywell/multics/AN5...
AnkiWeb[0], made by or at least affiliated with Anki creator, allows accessing and studying any of the decks you sync in your Anki app.

It also features a database of user-contributed decks[1] on various topics.

That said, I don’t know whether AnkiWeb could be used completely without the accompanying desktop or mobile app.

[0] https://ankiweb.net/

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/
You can definitely argue that stopping all deliveries in the US could have a more drastic effect. No one is self sustaining any more. No one has a farm. If the grocery stores are empty, more will die. I'm sure of it.
Yes, I remember a jot being the “notepad” of SGI workstations. Didn’t take me long to move on to nedit instead.
Italy is _way_ not out of the woods yet. Their case growth remains exponential. It's too early to tell if their strategy is working at all. Germany is already planning for herd immunity scenario (as per Merkel - she expects 60-70% of Germany's population will be infected, and hundreds of thousands will die). In fact I don't see any difference in the rate of doubling between Italy (which is imposing hardcore containment measures) and the UK where the measures are much less severe. Although I'm sure Italians feel like they're "doing something" and "in control" of the situation, so it should be psychologically easier. But that's not the reality I see in the graphs.
Email 2.0:

* Centrally controlled by a single company.

* Closed protocols (so it seems - didn't see evidence to the contrary).

* Encourages you to "Upgrade your conversations" with emojis.

I'm definitely willing to pay! ... for this not to be anywhere near me.
Lots of things that should "never" happen start to happen with frightening regularity once you have enough machines.

Few of them are worth paging someone.
The next national election is in 5 years time...
Ask HN: Why Do We Fight Fevers?
Fevers are supposed to help us to fight infections. However, we normally take medications to reduce or remove the fevers when able.

If somebody catches Covid-19, why or why not attempt to reduce fevers?
In Belgium some even held lockdown parties before the ban went into effect.

Some people crossed borders to go shopping this weekend because only pharmacies and super markets were open.

Those who aren't taking it seriously yet are really visible.

My manager's manager changed her Facebook's profile pic with a #stayhome slogan but she expects us to come tomorrow monday morning.

So, yes, we need a strong government in those trying times.
I honestly don't see how the default mouse pointer in KDE is hideous or distracting.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Kubuntu_...

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12/kdeconnect.png
I would be a bit more sympathetic here. The people who are running these business are also thinking about their employees and others. It's a hard pill to swallow, it's not purely motivated out of greed.

You lose your health insurance if you get fired. You can't pay rent. I do think you're right though the only way this will work in the US is by forced Order.
Physics cannot address the question of free will at all, as all our experiences tell that at least globally universe is 100% deterministic. So one need to go beyond physics to address that.

This is similar with the notion of time. A typical perception is that only now exists. Yet according to physics there is no now. All our physical models based on experience imply that the universe is 4-dimensional static something. There is no now and all points across the time dimension have same properties just as points across space.

One needs metaphysics to try to explain this discrepancy between perception and very successful physical models.
Hydroxychloroquine in vitro against SARS-CoV-2 [abstract]
I feel like I'm missing something obvious — why do we need to analyze what happens when truck drivers stop making deliveries, if no one is talking about banning those deliveries?
I went to every grocery store in town yesterday just to get the basics, and still came up short.

It was massive crowds of elderly people.
So instead of "the first domain name was registered", maybe it would be more accurate to say "the first registration of a domain name with a registry took place"?
Anything is possible, but unless this batch has been scientifically engineered for maximum impact, killing 3 times more people than the spanish flu seems unlikely. My 2c.
I see no "free" on that page. The only thing, which is free, is the first month. Then it costs EUR 16.90/month.
If 2% of people default per year you can't go below 2%.
I try to only buy good quality clothes that are made to last, then I wear them until they develop holes. I repair them and wear them again until they don't really look presentable anymore. At that point they become home/work/workout/concert clothes. When they can no longer be repaired, they become cleaning rags.

I did not know that this was something to be applauded for.
Yet they close NCAAA and NBA games while an airport like JFK still passes 2 million passengers a month, let alone transit centers such as Amtrak, greyhound, or local subway stations.

Even at a 2 - 4% mortality rate, the sheer panic over this is nonsense
Never blame anything on maliciousness that can easily be explained by stupidity.