skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about what's being presumed, but what the effects are, out there in the real world. The CoC's that people are finding highly problematic in practice (such as the so-called "Contributor's Covenant", a misnomer if there ever was one) are not being advocated as generic statements that "everyone [should] feel safe and welcome"; they're supposed to act as bright-line rulesets that everyone, both contributors and maintainers, should ultimately be bound by and actively enforce. For such a ruleset to be so transparently vulnerable to abuse as a "tool to censor and expell people" is a critical weakness, no matter if that abuse was originally predicted or not; no matter if it was intended or not.

Having NO "bright-line" CoC whatsoever is preferable by far to having one which makes a project utterly unmanageable in the face of bad actors. This is not rocket surgery; it's simply astounding to me that some people can simply fail to see these problems when they are so clearly apparent to everyone else.
In absolute numbers yes. More 30d-ish of you account for difference in population size. Not sure which parameter is more useful since the spread doesn't occur with equal density
I don't think your point should be downvoted because even if it's not correct, it's a valid contribution to the discussion.

Personally I don't think the difference is just about timeframe (although certainly the immediacy of the threat contributes), but also about permanence. People assume that when COVID-19 has passed, things will go back to normal. If scientists said we could ban personal cars for a month and fix global warming, I suspect it'd get done. Similarly if they said for instance that we could never go to large public gatherings again, ever, there'd be a great outcry.

This is also an interesting study in momentum though. When countries start taking drastic measures on COVID-19 it makes others look bad if they don't follow along. I've never really bought the argument when the US says they can't do x or y for climate change because others aren't doing it, and so they'll be behind economically. The US is a leader - act like one. When America makes policy, others follow.
At some point, the people who suspect COVID-19 infection are going to be people who have full-on pneumonia. They would need to go to ER under normal circumstance but indeed, that will have a bad result.

Basically, we desperately need a special COVID-19 program, not simply a person's regular physician giving instructions. How many physicians are going to be getting calls soon and how much time does that take important activity on their part? Etc.

Note that Korea has ER wards set-up with pre-entry tents allowing COVID patients to be routed elsewhere. Some multi-track system like this is going to be necessary or more desirable than Italy, which has shut down the part of its health care system not treating COVID patients and is still mostly watching them die.
Been remote working for years. My top three tips for working from home:

- Semi-formal dress up, specially shoes, tricks the mind into 'professionalism'

- Workout, even 15 minutes of exercises have a positive effect

- Take breaks, away from work desk, for lunch or casual phone call

https://twitter.com/VoidMonk/status/1237542707980976130
How is this supposed to work? Most people have carved their webcams out of their laptop and put tape over the hole :)
have you studied the most recent balance sheet of FCA? [0]

How come you think the firm is in a bad financial position?

[0] https://www.fcagroup.com/en-US/investors/financial_regulator...

FCA will merge with PSA towards the end of this year!
This scenario does not shut down grocery stores, and allows you out of the home in scheduled slots solely for the purposes of going to a grocery store or pharmacy/doctor/hospital. All other trips are banned. This is what China and Italy are doing.

There is no country on Earth that is gonna lock up all its citizens indoors and starve them to death. Governments aren't that stupid.
It isn't intentionally designed, just a side effect of the system as it exists today. There are two ways to bring healthcare costs down in America:

1. Insure everyone — no exceptions (by the government or through private insurance)

2. Let hospitals (and ERs) deny care to those that can't pay

Since neither of them is happening anytime soon, Advil is going to keep costing $50.
At IEX, we use kdb.

Here’s a blog post from a former employee at a new startup comparing kdb against some alternative databases for common operations on financial data:
https://medium.com/prooftrading/selecting-a-database-for-an-...
This is very cool, congrats on launching!

I’ve built something not too dissimilar, but focused on slowing down too, so instead of a feed with changes you get a daily digest of the new things that happened.

It also allows you to view the regular formatting, etc.

If you’re curious, it’s https://focusd.co and I’d love to hear about what you learned with “figuring out” if there’s an RSS Feed for a given URL.
Irrelevant, but it’s telling that you have to go back so far to pick something that seems to be universally beneficial.

Are you seriously trying to suggest everyone benefits from Amazon’s innovations?
You can bypass hard HSTS errors in Chrome by typing in "thisisunsafe". There is no textbox to type it into, you have the press the letters on your keyboard blindly.
Stop making me defend Trump, you guys are ignorant, or willfully misrepresenting the context.

In NYT, they featured this "opinion" piece:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-trump...

tldr; If you're sick with Corona virus, the blame lies entirely with Trump, not China for hiding it early on, not the WHO for recommending countries continue as normal and tried to downplay it, Trump, and we should call it the Trump virus (the new "thanks Obama" I guess).

Two days later in reaction to this, Trump called this kind of talk in the media and on Twitter by DNC pundits (who take their talking points from NYT) a hoax. Everyone at the rally he was talking to had seen that article, cause it was shared and mocked, talked about on Fox News, everyone there had the same context, its your lack of awareness that causes the context shift, and when the media reported on it they also conveniently left out that context, because they're lazy at best, trying to steer the narrative at worse. People see the misrepresentation and they believe the media even less. They realize the bias is both ways, the people who claim to be factual ignore facts that aren't convenient.

It is only word salad to you because you walked in half way into the conversation, and are happy to assume the worst (that he said the virus itself was a hoax) without doing some background on it.

Criticize, but do so with full understanding.
It is not always obvious (e.g. strep throat is similar, but one or the other sicknesses may or may not need medicine) and doing things on a hunch is not how scientific fields should do things when there are simple tests.

Testing also provides safety for doctors against medical malpractice lawsuits.
In my experience, some meetings don't care much about that. Others have told me if I'm not into the whole Christian God thing that I'm not welcome.
If not being poor was as simple as washing your hands and avoiding necessary travel then that might have more merit.

It's quite possible for both "the systemic response is inadequate" and "we should not take personal actions that cause unnecessary risk for others when possible" to both be true and fit in one's head at the same time. One does not negate the other.
This brings up something I've often wondered about: we can basically guarantee that a very short snippet of code (say, a few lines) is secure, right? However, there is no real way to guarantee that full programs are secure. Can we not truly guarantee that some portion of code is secure, or is it simply the amount of code that makes it impractical (and financially infeasible)? If the latter, what is the practical boundary?
Resource that collects all sorts of info about COVID-19 ("coronavirus"), using sources like the WHO, CDC, NHS, and ECDC. Uses a chatbot to help you find answers to your COVID-19 questions
Yeah, we're going to get a lot of interesting natural experimental data on pandemics and the responses to them from the differing actions of countries to this outbreak.
The experience varies from group to group, and even between different meeting times at the same group. They all have their own interpretations and subcultures.
There seems to be a real cottage industry of how-to-write-interpreters/compilers at the moment - Writing an Interpreter/Compiler in Go, Crafting Interpreters, this, etc.
Congrats, you've made the least annoying one so far!

A simple beep is all we need, people. Also it seems more accurate than the others few linked here it seems, the face part is more narrowly detected, the other two went off whenever my hand was in the frame at all for some reason. This one only beeps when I actually put my hand on my face. (Not to be super critical of toy projects)
Yeah, it's a story of failed censorship and the truth coming out anyway, not successful censorship hiding the scale of the problem. That's impossible so long as China is on the Internet.
There's an SCP article somewhere in this...
Something really nasty swept through my office (in the US) at the end of January, and one employee actually died. Some of us were speculating that it could have been early cases of COVID-19, but symptoms only lasted for about 5 days for most of us. From what I can find online, COVID symptoms tend to last about 10-14 days.
I'm not terribly big on the ideas of "civic duty" or "moral duty"... especially as they are usually meant. And as you couch it, I would somewhat agree with your take if it didn't go any farther than that. However, I think it does. Assuming an egoist version of morality, where the goal of morality is the happiest life you can live over the whole of life... I still think there are good reasons to adopt many of the more precautionary steps that are being publicly urged, even if you are in a low risk group.

For example. Am I better off, ultimately, living in a sicker community or not? True, I might be low risk and might not get seriously ill, but the impacts from those that do get seriously ill won't just be limited to them... economics, public expenditure, etc. all go down this path of being a net negative to my larger quality of life personally, even though I can wash my hands, etc. Add to this the likelihood that I will miss something in my precautions either through lack of knowledge or diligence, and not doing the most obvious sorts of things you might do if you were in a relatively high risk group can still lead to you becoming a vector in your own self-harm. This isn't even mentioning the fact that, while I'm not high risk, I know and live with people, people that I value, who are in high risk groups for serious complications to an infection.

Finally, while I don't have the right to other people's behavior in general, I do have the right to self-defense and so do others; and this right is largely delegated to government. Governments rightfully, if not legally perhaps, can demand some of these things in that context.... that's not to say they'd get it right... or even try to get it right... but that aspect is important.

So sitting here from my egoist perspective, it's in my better interest to minimize outside contact almost as much as if I were in a high risk group.
You sound like a reasonable person and I have every reason to believe you’re acting in good faith. Your website suggests a patent pending in Russia. I am completely unfamiliar with Russian IP law which might be the source of my misunderstanding. Having said that, is there a reason you won’t provide the specific patent(s) in question? I would presume they are a matter of public record when they were issued.
I suppose but as an existentialist/atheist there are dice rolls that govern my entire life and most are not under my control. Using that belief as a tool to cleave apart guilt, shame, and blame is handy.

The same “dice roller” in the sky that brought me trauma also brought me a high affinity with math and science, some pathway to a great tech career so acknowledging a higher power is really about saying “shits gonna happen, good and bad”
I wonder how often “proof of concept” or “rapid prototype” scientific papers get “pushed into production” before they’re finished by managers?

I wonder if papers written this way suffer from “second system syndrome”, where the rewrite stage totally changes the underlying arguments and conclusions “in response to feedback from stakeholders”?

<grin>
What to do when the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf]
US travel restrictions to Europe are 'under discussion'
For me, GlobalSign lack of / failing to get GlobalSign intermediate certs pops up surprisingly often.
Video: Rethinking the Enterprise Perimeter (InfoSec)
On the other hand, https://www.salon.com/2018/03/05/americans-still-have-to-go-...
Exactly. It is already clear that it will not go away by itself. The more drastic measures, the sooner, the faster it can be managed.

I live in Poland. It seems most cases are connected with somebody who recently came from abroad. Closing borders may seem like a drastic measure but much less drastic that waiting couple of days and doing it anyway + much more.

My point of view is it is a bit foolish to slowly, gradually escalate measures. It would be probably wise cause of action with a completely new disease which we don't know yet, but it is not a new disease now. We saw what happened to China. We know it is difficult to control and if people are allowed to move it is neigh impossible to prevent from spreading.
Users post workarounds in the threads. There's one in this thread. I realize finding it is a chore when there are a ton of comments, but that's a small price to pay for a significantly better article.
"Can't" is too strong a word. Depending on what your numbers represent, I'd think you could do one or more of:

* have a shorter exponent and/or mantissa to make each number shorter and the overall series more repetitive. (maybe even skip the mantissa if you only care about order of magnitude! call it the opposite of fixed-point, or just storing the logarithm of the value, whatever terminology works for you...)

* skip the sign bit for a non-negative series (e.g., deltas of a non-decreasing series),

* use a variable-width bitstream encoding like exp-Golomb to represent the exponent and/or mantissa,

* use run-length encoding if it's repetitive (after delta-encoding),

* etc.

One byte per value (or less!) is surely possible in some cases. But I've never done it myself and agree fixed-point sounds much more pleasant. One of my projects represents deltas of durations in units of 90,000ths of a second, varint-encoded. I much prefer that to dealing with float seconds.
Definitely interesting. The article references an "HP Color Recovery Technology, HP publication Number 5962-9835E" but google can't seem to find it. I'd be interested in what the "minor adjustments required to optimize image quality" is glossing over.
After 15yrs of a-abuse, 4 bottles of alcover (sodium oxibate? i believe available - prescription only - only in one country) cured me. I bought 2 cases of xtra-strong beer 'just in case', have had 2 cans on my desk for months now. 0 interest in drinking.
Doesn’t seem logical. Why protect someone with such a weak immune system so they can pass it on to the next generation? That makes society weaker.
Also, wash your hands.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-10/how-south-east-asia-i...
“Why do you have to bring cats into this?”

Sincerely,
Angela from The Office
And I got downvoted here for saying that I would require a LOT higher salary to move from Sweden to the US. Your example is why.
I noticed you didn't address either of the two concerns I raised.

1) Whether or not it would be a good idea for Trump to have monopoly power over healthcare.

2) How good of a job the relevant government authorities are doing in response to this issue.

Suggesting that people will accept a new norm after some time is irrelevant.
>This is not about cuisine.

How can you even remotely suggest this when the proximity between humans and lifestock animals in horrible conditions is a primary driver of a) transmission of disease, as well as b) increasing resistance to antibiotics due to how much of them we pump into the animals, and then consume ourselves?

It absolutely _is_ about cuisine choices and the sooner we stop eating animals and animal products, the better.
I think what you are asking for is Common Criteria.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria
I lost one of my best friends to alcoholism about a month ago. My friend was 54 years old.

AA is good. It does help, but it's not an absolute cure. It does seem better than most (all?) of the other methods.

The very best way forward is simply to not take the first drink, ever. (This is what I am hypocritically telling my children. I drank to excess in my younger days, but I've been dry for about 20 years.) I hope they listen. Booze works for many people, but it's absolutely disastrous for some.
Covid-19 Startup Needs Help
We are working to fast-track a number of hardware-based solutions we feel could contribute towards the global fight against COVID-19.

We need immediate access to funding.

We have been canvasing contacts and LinkedIn for help. Frankly, it is incredibly frustrating...I am not sure how many people check their LinkedIn accounts any more.

We have interest from various potential customer sectors. We are working hard to have prototypes within a couple of weeks and actually deliver product fast, within a few weeks.

I know posting this here might be on the edge of being lame, but we want to focus on engineering and find a partner or partners who understand our goals and vision and are willing to support us both financially and with operations, networking, deployment, etc.

How much do we need to raise? It's likely in the range of $1MM to $5MM. Details to be discussed.

Beyond that, we'll probably need to hire a few people right away. However, this, right now, is purely about funding. Please don't reach out about jobs yet.

Temporary email:

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Please do not contact us if you can't help with funding. We are quite busy and need to reserve clock cycles for that which is important.

Thank you!
Yeah, and the first thing I did this morning is to reenable it in order to access 5-year old cable modem. The "on-for-all" or off-for-all" feels kind of dangerous, it should be something I can enable for 192.168.. for example, and not for the whole world. As a matter of fact, for the local network it should be a default "on". IMHO, YMMV
> we can basically guarantee that a very short snippet of code (say, a few lines) is secure, right?

That's the problem, we can't do that. Between hardware flaws like rowhammer, meltdown, spectre, etc. it's not possible to say that a piece of code isn't going to trigger something intentionally or not.

You can say that something very very likely doesn't trigger any known vulnerability, but only while also specifying the exact hardware to run it on and probably other external variables.
i think that is the main point. it would be good to just let everyone get the virus and then get back to normal, but there aren't enough medical resources for everyone at once.
I think most frequently the society restricts the freewilled acts _upon_ another person. I'm not sure I agree that going out in public is an act upon another person. They are free to touch door knobs or not. They are free to associate or not in public places.

Obviously I shouldnt be allowed to sneeze on someone (how this is defined is unclear) or to enter their private space w/o permission...

This is a bit analogous to the right to photograph/film in public.
I hate how chemistry can land people in legal hot water due to overzealous government policies. While this example is not in the UK. It's illegal to own certain glassware without a permit in Texas for instance. The glassware is considered a drug precursor, like freaking glassware. Oh also federally the DEA treats Phosphorus as a type 1 precursor to meth. That's a freaking element! An element is illegal/regulated like that is just insane to me.

Anyways a low amount of explosives with no intent to hurt anyone should not be a problem. Even a large amount in a remote area that is away from other people and property should be fine.
> It's funny how the only global crisis deemed worth shutting down society over is the one that impacts 65+ year olds

Many young people have grandparents whose lives they value. I am sure our son would be very distraught if one of his grandparents died, even though as a six year old he is at basically zero direct risk from this disease himself.

(And yes, he will inevitably have to deal with that distraught eventually... but much better at 16 or 26 than at 6.)
Shouldn’t dispatch triage if you need an ambulance or not?
The debunking you're quoting has presumably been superseded by the much higher-quality randomized studies reported on in the article. At least, if that's not the case, then the researchers who've published the new meta-analysis lack even basic competence, which seems unlikely.
I've muted so many people on Twitter due to their output being much larger than most of the other accounts I followed, drowning the rest. At the very least there should be some rate limiting feature, showing the X most popular posts in a given timeframe only.
Italy also has a demographic curve skewed heavily older than most other nations. Italy is the 2nd oldest country on earth after Japan.
You know, I've gone to these meetings with a number of people (my mother, who unfortunately lost her battles with it, and other family members/friends). I'll note that I've done this worldwide, to some degree - Japan, USA (east and west coast). I'm saying this to point out that I'm in there as an observer for these people attempting recovery, so this experience is cultivated from multiple viewpoints/locales/etc.

I have witnessed _exactly_ what you're saying, and I've seen people feel so unwelcome that it hurts them more than helps them. It blows my mind the stranglehold that AA has on this industry, given how demeaning it can be to people who are looking for help.

I've seen more success with people going to SMART recovery meetings, which focus on providing a space to talk and seek help without the judgement level associated with AA.
Thank you for sharing. Good luck on your continued journey-- wishing you all the best.
Exactly!

This scenario is playing out today in a family member's office on the East Coast.

A 30-something in the office, despite the fact that Washington state is a major COVID-19 hotspot with community spread and multiple deaths, nevertheless decided to book tickets to see a grunge band concert in Seattle, along with multiple parties.

Returning last night sent emails from the plane marveling at how empty it was. Clearly missed the memo or DGAF.

Moreover, in the office where he works, the senior partners are over 70, so in a major risk group.

This is now a big issue of how long to keep the guy home.

So, yes, everyone (young and old) needs to get smart, take precautions, and stop risking killing people.

You're 30 and want to take the risk? Fine. Just stay the F away from everyone else who didn't sign up for your risks.

And to the GP's point, no one is being 'ageist' about this.
The HDHP works out in years in which you need no medical treatment beyond the covered annual physical. Once you start needing anything, it ends up being a worse option. I discovered this a few years ago when I broke my ankle.

The big upfront deductible seems like exactly the wrong way to structure a healthcare plan, as it disincentives getting treatment until things get really bad.
It's worth pointing out that he seems to have missed the update on 2020-03-09 where the total was set to 90. But yeah it's pretty worrying. Especially since it almost doubled again today.