skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cliches are boring if you’re writing fiction, but often in professional communication it’s okay to be boring if it makes your communication more concise and accurate.
I mean Superhuman has built a kickass company on top of just gmail...
I use a stateless password manager with over 110 passwords. What I do is keep an Google Sheets document with the site, how it was generated (i.e. weird password rules), and a password version in case I ever need to change my master password. It has worked pretty well for me so far even when I have had to update passwords due to sites being comppromised/password update policies.

Changing master password is a pain in the ass which I did once since my original master wasn’t very strong but is doable. Plus, a master password should really be changed rarely IMO.
Let's be positive. Though it's a long shot and probably unlikely usable in the developed nation context, there are 7 billion people on planet earth many of whom might be stricken in the coming months (and years), if someone can put together a solid, reliable, simple piece of gear that works, it's not unfeasible that 'someone' could pay for rapid manufacture (this is definitely possible) and distribution in far-flung places wherein 'basic' might just be a lot of help. Or maybe not, but it's maybe worth trying.

It 'starts somewhere', so I hope it works.
When I was in Jersey City during Sandy, a gun would have been very handy: there were roving gangs of thugs roaming the blacked out streets breaking into homes and looting. Police response was vastly overloaded and the flood waters made mobility a problem. It’s prudent to be able to defend oneself in times of unrest. Just hoping for the “authorities” to do it is naïve. The US military has roughly a million troops, 250,000 cops and 380,000,000 million people spread out over a massive land area.
Civil society leaders call for nuclear representation at COP26
A lot of milk alternatives aren't great nutritionally. They tend to have added sugar and less protein, maybe more sodium than you'd like.
It is a Novela virus. By definition you don't know anything about it until it is proven.

If you don't know the source (which is still unknown) then you cannot verify that it has spread human to human. (They should have assumed that it did)

Researches outside of China said there was no evidence of human to human transmission.

The first 2 weeks of January were handled rather poorly. But lack of information since then isn't really one of them.

What could China have done that would have made you personally happy?

People automatically distrust anything they say. What other information could they have provided?
Free domain name and DNS records security
I just keep a Google Sheets as a primary backup for the meta information. Plus, you just build in aggressive local caching for saving config options about sites.
> Far fewer have given up milk, probably out of long-standing habits of milk consumption with cereal/coffee.

I've given up milk except for coffee for what is purely vanity - casein in milk binds to tannins in coffee and reduces tooth staining.

(Though I've kicked my daily coffee habit too - I mostly just get decaf lattes if I'm meeting someone socially for coffee, or the like.)
Most instructive would be to identify how reality turned out to be so different from the breathless ideal presented, and how to recognize when the next breathless ideal turns out to be similarly unable to be realized.
The situation is urgent. Action is warranted.

But snarkily saying "well obviously you understand excel here just type in some numbers" is not productive, specifically when somebody is asking for information from experts. The experts exist. They've done the research. Let's point people to them rather than signal boosting blogs written by engineers.

Obviously it takes more than just "this is how exponentials work" to distinguish between different outcomes and decide on the appropriate action plans.
> [...] antibodies might make subsequent reinfections easier. That happened with some previous coronavirus.

I never read about this, can you point me to a source, please?
Looking at https://blog.lesspass.com/lesspass-how-it-works-dde742dd18a4... - its implemented using PBKDF2 w/ 100,000 iterations with SHA-256. 100,000 iterations is nice as that is on the higher side for what I understand the normal number of iterations of PBKDF2 to be. However, PBKDF2 with SHA-256 is an ideal algorithm to brute force on a GPU. More modern password hashing schemes such as bcrypt, scrypt, or Argon2 impose a much more significant memory penalty which makes them much harder to brute force. But since its impossible to change how F() works without changing every users's password, this scheme will forever be stuck using PBKDF2 with SHA-256 and each year as new, more powerful hardware comes out, this scheme will continue to get weaker.
Yoghurt is pretty big in India as well.
Or maybe the president should be relaying reliable information during a fucking pandemic.

But yeah, fake news or something.
Well, it's the real number in places that took this virus seriously and have enough case history to develop accurate numbers: China outside of Hubei; South Korea. Likely other east Asian countries that are showing slow growth rates will have similarly low death rates due to not overflowing their hospitals: Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore.

You're completely correct that the rate is more like 3-5% in Iran, Italy, and probably the US at this rate.
Do the inverse of the posted project: transmit an entire band, for example all ~110 channels of the AM broadcast band. Use an old AM radio to tune to around, and hey every station is playing songs you like :-) It would be nice if this was a UNIX command with paths to ~110 folders of MP3s or something like that.

What is the limit for something like this? I mean with a given DAC of N bits, what resolution do you get with M channels without overflowing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajaj_Qute
No, Chinese markets generally don't sell bat meat or eat bats.

They eat lots of animals but bats are not one of them. (I'm sure there is a village in China where they do eat bats. It is a big country.)

The photos you see online of Chinese people eating bats are Tourist in the Pacific.
Yeah, I stopped buying dairy milk, but I never drink non-dairy milk on its own, I exclusively use it in muesli, oatmeal, smoothies, etc. The taste and mouthfeel is just not very good as a drink.
Almond milk turns out to be not good for the environment as well. The problem is that Almond trees are water intensive but we grow in the desert.
Toilet paper isn't an essential (as a lot of us are now finding out). Also nobody really needs to hoard like 50 packages of toilet paper, and if prices were allowed to increase to reflect demand then people would be less incentivized to hoard. The same goes for real essentials like food and medicine: letting prices rise keeps people from hoarding needlessly, and it incentivizes producers to increase supply. I'm not saying we should let people starve, but price ceilings are just going to cause shortages of essentials anyway.
You'll certainly have to get creative with the set design.
I created Togethr.TV in 2013 (https://togethr.tv). People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features. It never took off much unfortunately.
I didn't touch the code since some time already but it is still working fine, the site is currently having about 15k monthly users.
so you mean what happened before JAN/20, now is MAR/14.
May I ask why? If you have to maintain state with a Google Sheet, syncing is necessary. What benefit is there to this approach?
I was going off an expert estimate that had a half percent fatality rate

South Korea has dealt the infection extraordinarily well and they have a %1 fatality rate. But even halving my figures, you get an insane result, an overwhelmed health system and so-forth.

The closer you get to affecting the entire population, the less exponential your curve becomes.

True but that STILL bunches up the deaths a lot, until are at a significant fraction of the population, the growth will exponential (and another point of realism, it's city by city also but health care is also city-by-city). The parabola shaped curves in the "don't flatten the curve" articles are bullshit (but the "don't flatten the curves" actions still should be done. It's just the idea that these will be enough that is untenable).

Edit: And I know well there are experts putting forward these arguments. As far as I tell, this an expression of sleep walking, cognitive dissonance or similar phenomena where people don't notice that their mental tools lead them to untenable approaches since they have relied on these tools for quite a while.

Edit2: I think the standard approach of health departments is "when you go past containment, you go to mitigation" and that's what they have been taught. The thing here is nations quickly discover that the situation cannot be mitigated and they have to go to containment on a region or nation wide basis - the situation in Italy, what the situation is becoming in Spain, what literally the situation should be throughout the entire world.
Almond Milk is really egregious in this regard. It's either unsweetened in which case it tastes like a thin earthy mud, or its sweetened more than cotton candy. I've never found one that has a good balance, and maybe a good balance is impossible since the base product is borderline unpalatable.
You can now take up to 12 ounces of hand sanitizer through airport security
Trevor Bedford had a tweet that indicated a 25% reduction in social contacts results in a 50% reduction in cases after 1 month:

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1237934525281259521

I think it's very likely that Wuhan or Italy style lockdowns will bring r0 under 1, based on the experience in Wuhan and Italy. That means the disease eventually dies out. Because it's endemic elsewhere in the world, it'll eventually be reintroduced and we get multiple waves, until eventually enough people have had it to generate herd immunity. But each wave starts back at the "containment" phase, with contact tracing and individual isolation, so combining lockdown + those measures + travel restrictions could probably buy enough time for a vaccine.
That word very quickly became nonsensical filler for "it's bad" or "I don't like it" or "I disagree".

At one point it was useful for some specific cases (like all such words) but the nature of it being vague meant you could throw it around aimlessly ... and it lost meaning quickly.

It happens with a lot of new phrases and words that seem to carry with them some depth and such and they are quickly abused to the point of losing all meaning and context.
Stronger alcohol than hand sanitiser - and tastes better ... only just.
As Coronavirus Disrupts Factories, India Curbs Exports of Key Drugs
Turns out airport security theatre is an utter scam, who knew?
I for one misread it as "LastPass" the first time I saw the title.
Assuming one's memorized a table of squares already.

10^2 = 100

11^2 + 13^2 = 121 + 169 = 290

12^2 + 14^2 = 144 + 196 = 340

100 + 290 + 340 = 730

730 / 365 = 2
I don't know what to do. I am in LA for school, but my family is in NYC. They want me to come back, but it seems like the last place I should be going right now. Being with family is important, but the idea of traveling and adding another person to the population of NYC seems counterproductive to fighting the virus.
Definition of problematic (via Merriam-Webster)

(Entry 1 of 2)

1a : posing a problem

It seems pretty simple to me.
Fukushima brewers look to push sake globally
If you're not familiar with the kernel you will probably try to use some specific thing from the C standard library only to find out that it doesn't work or isn't defined. You're looking at kmalloc() as the kernel equivalent for malloc(), though I think normally for something like a device driver you'd allocate pages of memory (via one of the __alloc_pages related calls) and manage it yourself from there. The best way is to use the source, look at other examples and search the code. But there is an API, and most common things have not really changed for decades now
BBC on 882 KHz.. also on 198 KHz (no long wave in the US) it's interesting what you get on AM broadcast from the Netherlands..
S/he truly toed the line between genius and insanity. A monumental loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjl6V6wC28
But also a lot of people wouldn't be able to access supplies. In both cases a lot of people get screwed. In the "floating price" case it just isn't highly paid software engineers on HN.
Well, those asymptom case can also infect others. In all likeliness they will infect others, multiple others. So if epidemiological root trauce is done right, we would find those asymptom carrier.
Go for it! Sorry I didn't see this reply sooner.
Everyone who's not a fool is afraid right now. We're facing something terrible for the first time in living memory, and the systems with whose promises of safety we grew up are also the systems which it seems have largely failed to act effectively in our defense. And the nature of the threat is such that it feels like there's not much we can do to look out for ourselves or each other.

We can try to be kind. I think that's what the comment you're replying to is about. Sucks at it, for sure; "this, too, shall pass" can only ever be cold comfort at best. But the motivation is honorable, however incompetent the attempt.
Not with variable duration. Hyundai is the only car company doing that now.
Strangely enough, controlled fusion of light elements is overwhelmingly easier than constructing nuclei to order, which itself is overwhelmingly easier than creating atoms from pure energy. In any case, you need the energy.

So, copious supplies of frozen light elements will be useful for much longer than one might imagine.

Electronic intelligences living in a virtual world will depend on a reliable supply of both energy and computing substrate. There again, extreme low temperatures are beneficial to reduce signal noise and spontaneous decoherence.
Ask HN: What is the best no-nonsense textbook of viral pneumonia threathment?
No 1000 pages long "java biblyies" or other made for print-only piles of narcissistic bullshit (like Straustrup's volumes). Thank you.
> 95% of type 2 cases are caused by life style decisions

Do you have a source for that claim? My understanding is that genetics is the primary risk factor for diabetes.
Still the wave? More like the endless summer: IMS remains an IBM program product, as it has been since 1969, though the license fee has gone up a bit.

There have been, and will continue to be, many ways to store and retrieve data without row-column relations or SQL. As others have noted, the key is to understand the application requirements, and to use the right tool for the job.
This post is a fake analysis. Assuming the master password is very strong, let’s say 128 bits of entropy, it doesn’t matter if a site stores a generated password in plain text since finding the master password is equivalent to cracking PBKDF2 with 100k iterations. Another comment said this is doable, but if someone is using a very strong master password you are not going to crack it.
I have been experimenting with ES6 and Chrome Browser. Having DevTools Console open and directly manipulating the environment entirely through the console. It works. What it lacks is the
nice tooling of Smalltalk, but that could be implemented through a series of bootstrapping steps.

I have also played with Amber and SqueakJS. Interesting possibilities.
I figured it was only a matter of time before all the WFH "advice" articles would start. This guys's been doing it for 2 weeks and he's already an expert dispensing advice. I've been WFH for 8 years, so reading this is a bunch of LOL.

Regarding headphones, this is not an issue once you move into a dedicated office space in your house. One thing I use to hate is taking headphones on/off every time there's a call. Regarding set hours, that's totally a preference. I work late at night sometimes because I feel like it. WFH means flexibility and not commuting means sometimes I get a jolt of inspiration to work off hours. I don't mind because the trade-off is I get to take time off during the day to attend school events for my kids.

Remote work is a lifestyle change for sure. More loneliness, more discipline, less water-cooler gossip. It requires the right mindset and personality that some of you don't have, and I'm sure you're itching to get back to the office.
I think it is most common for an employee to try to talk their employer to accept remote work. Other way around is more rare and there is not that much talk if the employer decides to decide against it.
Italy has more hospital beds per person than the US, 3.18 (2017) vs 2.77 (2016 ... no Wiki data for 2017).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...
Has it even been ruled out that this pandemic has not been engineered?

Is there any way to even check if a virus has been artificially created/modified?

What prevents an organization inspired by current events from engineering something even more "effective"?

This seems to be a common conspiracy theory with the person on the street. I've actually seen people suggesting that the U.S. infected China.
Streak is 100% built on top of this (source: I work at Streak), so maintaining this is essential to staying in business.
Intel-Funded Study Finds AMD Procs Incl. Ryzen Vulnerable to Side-Channel Hack
is it just me or is this just off-loading the same password use on many sites on to an algorithm. After all, your username is quasi-public info and the site can not even be called quasi. It is fully public. Few options will not make it unique enough that it can notbe broken. After all, the only thing that the nefarious person needs is your master password and knowing your mom/dad/grandma, it is written somewhere under the mouse pad or in a file on the computer call MyMasterPassword, waiting to be stolen.
It's lazy writing, it sounds like means something, but it's just a generalized disagreement of the subject in most cases.
Yay! Another platform Google can abandon after I invest a bunch if work into it!
Barnacle Ventures
Somebody called me on this last week. The thing is, I really do think it's a good question if I can't immediately answer it!
>Arguments about whether cows are "alive" or "feel pain" the same way humans do inevitably conclude with an acknowledgement that they probably do in all likelihood

Strawman; they logically are not “alive” in the same way humans are and cannot “feel pain” the same way humans do.
I think it's pretty clear why you are insisting on calling this disease wuhanvurus and have no major complaint about H1N1. It is pathetically transparent and not a great look.
We[1] have been using inboxsdk to build integrations of products within gmail. Initially we had our own system to keep check of changes in gmail DOM structure and it was expensive to maintain such SDK. Streak has been doing great job of maintaining it. In 2017 gmail changed complete UI and inboxsdk seamlessly supported it with minor glitches. There are some tiny glitches on some days but those are fixed within few hours.
Other open source option is gmail.js which is also a good alternative. However you have to write some automation test cases to keep check on breaking changes in gmail Dom

[1] https://www.vshsolutions.com/
I wouldn't put any stock in the wild reports of long-term sequelae. I've heard everything from failure of breathing reflex to male sterility, and none of it's worth the paper it's (not) printed on. None of it makes any sense, and besides, people make shit up at times like this, and what survives is what's most startling. (I mean, who'd even be looking at sperm motility right now?) The truth will out in the end.

Still scary, I know. I'm sorry. I wish I had something more reassuring to say. Hang in there.
Both you and smallnamespace are using the same strawman. Who cares about the marginal impact of an individual's actions?

The situation in practice is dead simple: widespread hoarding is creating ongoing shortages of various products, and some of these hoarders are using that temporary scarcity to profit from other peoples' desperation. This is entirely predictable and uncomplicated, and it's both ridiculous and irrelevant to quibble over whether the profiteers are "trying to drive" the artificial scarcity to which they're contributing. I honestly don't even know what you're arguing about.
Correct, Chinese markets generally don't sell such things. I know, I'm Chinese ;)

But this particular part of China does. It's more a subculture derived from one of the minority groups in that province, but it's there.
Yes, I've had some neighbors ask me why I didn't tell them that we had been preparing for this to potentially happen when we started about 3 weeks. I told them "because you would have thought we were crazy if I told you to do it 3 weeks ago".
I'm not supporting or opposing short selling, just pointing out that:

- It was happening

- The White House probably was aware of the extent of it

- They wanted to get credit for the rise in stocks when their actions actually didn't have any effect (or perhaps even had a negative effect)
Hands-on, practical examples. If a class only includes video explanations and some quizzes on what was said in the lectures, I usually forget the subject matter quickly. The best MOOCs that I've taken are the ones that have periodic "lab" assignments which ask me to think and apply the subject matter in ways that the lectures may not have explained in precise detail.

Without naming names, here are two examples:

I once took a MOOC about "bare-metal" microcontroller programming which didn't include any microcontroller coding. Useless.

I once took a MOOC about digital circuit design which used an in-browser circuit simulator for problem sets and labs. Extremely helpful.

I feel sort of cheated when I work through an online course, only to find out that it would have worked just as well if it were a series of YouTube videos.

For college-level data structures, maybe you could ask students to implement their favorite DS from a set of tricky ones? You could write automated tests to verify them so grading is easier for you and development is easier for them.
Canadian government set to declare plastics as toxic substance
Okay, show your proof.
When I was towards the end of mouth/neck radiation I wasn't able to swallow anything, even water, for about a month.

So I was just using TwoCal® HN in my feeding tube. I was using six cans a day which is about 3K calories. I still lost 35 pounds. I ended up under 100 pounds. I am 6' tall. I was never a big guy. But I got bad.. I have a picture.

https://i.imgur.com/UQVgJIP.jpg

I don't get out in the sun much. That brown around my neck is burns from the radiation. It has been a year and that burn is still there. If anyone wants to know what it is like to have a sunburn inside your mouth feel free to ask.

But I hit a point where every joint in my legs and fingers ached and I didn't want to get out of bed because it hurt so much. I hate milk, I never put it in my mouth. But I started putting the fattiest milk as possible the feeding tube. In a week my aches went away.
2 weeks? He writes he hasn't worked in an office for 20 years.

And yeah, not everyone might have a dedicated to office area in there apartment, and this still would not prevent any typing noise.