skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, nothing that he says is very clear. The things he labels hoaxes do not correspond to what other people would call a hoax in subtle but significant ways. It doesn't seem that he understands what the word actually means.
We should help and learn from eachother, as a collective mind.
Borders can both hinder long-term progress, but is essential to stop the virus now in short-term.
The screenshots look great. Given that Slack began as a game development company, I'm surprised that they haven't already integrated such a visual experience in Slack.
Yes they are centralised. You cannot have a truly decentralised price data
Tell HN: Paid News Websites Should Become Free for Coronavirus Updates
Just a thought, but I think NYTimes, Washington Post, WSJ, Medium, etc. should be freely accessible to everyone, esp. if they're covering a piece on COVID-19 updates, precautions, tips, etc.
We are overpopulated but that's not changing any time soon so we all need to find ways reduce our ecological footprint now. Cutting way back on or eliminating animal products from your diet is one of the best and easiest ways to do this.
I am not seeing much social distancing. People are talking about it, but I don't think people are really doing it. I see pictures of other countries where people are visibly standing 3-6 feet apart, everywhere. Here people are standing in groups in the supermarket telling jokes as they're stocking up, as if they're involved in a light-hearted roleplay of a pandemic.
Volkswagen admits to Tesla’s 10-year headstart in the electric car race
Fascinating - and just to show how utterly hopeless I am, I think that will be a great piece of evergreen SEO for their site.

As I read the conclusion I could not help think of the Red Dsarf episode where they travel back to 33AD :

"Bags! What did people do before they invented the bag then?"

"Drop things mostly sir"
> However hardware decoder is mostly absent, which blocks adoption in mobile apps.

But HEVC is already in silicon, and that's the only thing that would matter in long run.

Vendors kinda don't get why they need to waste silicon on AV1, and for whose money.
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Nice! Everyone make sure you get your coronavirus response papers ready! Wouldnt want to be the only person on the planet not talking about how they're handling it!
Apple’s committed donations to the global COVID-19 response — both to help treat those who are sick and to help lessen the economic and community impacts of the pandemic — today reached $15 million worldwide.

Not that it's Apple's job to fix COVID-19, but this is the equivalent of an average US houshold income family crowing about donating $1.80 of their yearly $63k income. Using Apple's annual profit, not revenue. [Edit: correction $18]
I started "Big Debt Crises" by Ray Dalio a while ago and so far it's proving to be a very good introduction on what you're looking for.
They charged you for the person who gave instructions and for the apprentice?

I feel like they took advantage of you. Having a company push the costs of training someone to you is unfair. If the professional did the work himself it would have been done quickier and with more quality. Instead you paided. Surprised they didn't send a team of 5 to help.
In this situation I would ask everybody to write it down, collect all the notes, stick them on the wall and discuss them one by one.
For a company that literally owns a significant chunk of all the money available in the world, this response seems tepid at best.
How much did China lose due to this outbreak?

$1 trillion at least.

You think they can't do something to reduce the risk of this calamity from happening again?

Cultures can change. Ancient practices that had limited risks when everybody lived in remote villages must change to adopt to the modern society. There is a lot of people in China that want to ban these markets. I'm not sure about Southeast Asia.
For the specific use of sharing on Slack, one simple way on a Mac is Command-Control-Shift-4, which saves the screenshot image to the clipboard. You can then paste that into Slack.
Thank you! (Still processing this excellent site)
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0

I don't agree entirely but good signal-to-noise ratio on this content
They're not.

One of the ways Tor users are being identified is by snooping on their pasteboards from collaborating apps.
No more batfish soup for you!
For understanding how money works, I’d recommend Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber.
I started with Visual Basic 3 which I loved.
Other programming I was doing at the time was with PIC micros.
Never really got into VB6, got into Linux and used PHP, Ruby, Java, C/C++ and Python.
Drifted in and out of electronics, chemistry and software.
What a time to be alive.
Any good pointers to some of their technical blogs about this?

It's quite astounding that architectures their size are implemented with the "slowest language around". It would be very interesting to read in-depth how they manage to sidestep the performance problems (that are brought up almost always when someone mentions Python).
Well another one is case insensitivity. If you have a property and a function in C# which name only differs by casing, will be a problem to consume in VB. Not that it is good design in the first place.
Ultrasound has a ton of untapped utility and is a fantastic medical imaging modality. Like you said, the equipment is cheap and portable (can be pocket sized, even!). It’s near instantaneous, allowing you to image in real time. You can even measure blood flow velocity and see other physiology. (I could go on!)

But its great advantage over x-ray and CT, which is that it doesn’t use ionizing radiation, is also its greatest weakness. Ultrasound uses sound waves, of course, which unfortunately simply cannot travel very far in the body, and (critically) do not travel well across certain interfaces. One such interface is with air. Sound waves travel through your chest wall fine but on arriving at the lung... they just sort of fizzle out. Very little sound continues, and even less comes back to the transducer as meaningful signal.

So ultrasound is unfortunately very poor at seeing lung tissue. (It can show us some secondary findings of pulmonary disease in the lungs, such as fluid collecting in the thoracic cavity [a pleural effusion], but that’s yet another non-specific finding.)
I worked on a research project at Toyota in Toyota City. We were trying to improve the dynamic control of the rotational speed of their paint bells. There is a great deal of information about electrostatic paint bell systems on the internet. The overall process was very similar to the one described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_bell_painting

During the last 20 years, the quality of Toyota's paint application has never been equalled, and they know it. I am not familiar with this new process, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were primarily based on small improvements to existing methods. After many years of working with Toyota, I can tell you that the superiority of their products is seldom due to new technology, but rather their dedication to perfection.
The difference is that those social practices don't introduce novel viruses to humans, whereas the handling of wild animals does. There are popular beliefs in China that consuming certain animal parts will bring health and well-being: tiger heart for courage, bear paw as an aphrodisiac, etc.

While unhygienic social practices are common around the world, and will cause further spreading of the disease, the mythology around food and more importantly the very unsanitary ways wild game is prepared and sold in China is what causes outbreaks of this kind.

I don't believe any sort of retribution towards China because of this is necessary, but they need to be pressured into banning these cultural customs and educating their people.
Cite, please. The FDA and CDC bureaucracies are the groups hewing to the Business As Usual rule following. No need for the WH to reject WHO tests, the FDA is happy to fill that role.

The WH is ultimately responsible for the FDA/CDC, but if the Cabinet level needs to intervene to get the massive Federal government acting with urgency to this sort of threat, we should eliminate Civil Service protections and give Agency heads a bigger stick pour encourager les autres.
It doesn't have anything to do with the planet carrying capacity. This is only about the speed of viruses to spread, which is higher in dense and connected areas (and the quantity of meat we eat since diseases often come from meat).
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Are you suggesting Sweden had zero labs with PCR machines couple of weeks ago? Is that official propaganda in media right now?
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Oh no, how are we going to track IP addresses now?
The article states:

>"In HTTP/2, the single connection carries hundreds of streams. In this case, when we lose one packet, "one hundred streams are waiting for that one single packet"

Could someone elaborate on how this is worse if all of those streams are part of the some client request? Am I missing something really obvious.
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I have a basic working knowledge of Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Apache Kafka, and ElasticSearch

I also maintain a blog where I write on a variety of different interesting topics; from ETL development to DNA Sequence Analysis.

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So close but deeply wrong. The Spectrum was the path of goodness and light and the C64 was the route to beige coloured damnation.
Wouldn't it be more like $15? Apple's operating income in 2019 was 63k M, so if you remove the M's you get $15.
> Are you suggesting that if the backend server was setup as an HTTP proxy, you could get the backend server to proxy the merged request somewhere else?

I'm suggesting that since the back-end server may see the requests as a single request with the second request as part of teh payload of your crafted request, the question then becomes one of "In what ways can I get this site to show one of my params". That's similar to a CSRF, but simpler in that that you don't care that it's unescaped, you just care that it's in the source in some way, since it's what should be displayed back to you for your request.

My form example is straightforward. Imagine you are requesting http://slack.com/help/search. If you reorder the params slightly, such that the "query" param is last, you might get a good chunk of the next request to be sent to the back-end as your query param, which slack will helpfully display for you both on the page and in in the search input on the resulting page. It will clean our newlines, and likely some other characters, but that hardly seems a problem.

> I.e. you're suggesting basically using this as a CSRF attack to post part of the victims request (including secret cookie) somewhere public to retrieve later?

Yep.

> I think this would work in certain situations but would be difficult to pull off. Its a bit more complicated because if the site was using csrf tokens...

I just found one and used it in an example above. Took me less than 5 minutes (I tried a different form that did have a csrf token first).

> The bigger issue is the request body would be kind of malformed.

That's a problem for if you want it to look legit to someone else. If you just have to note that it has the equivalent of /\sCookie:\s(\S+)\s/ in it... well that's not too bad. Removing the newlines makes it all one string, but in the example above they helpfully replace them with spaces. Even if they didn't, it's probably not hard to see where the next header begins.

> I guess the biggest issue is if ; is considered a form field separator (since user-agent usually has ; in it).

Depends on how you do it. My example above uses GET, so any ampersand (which is probably likely to exist in many queries) will throw it off. A POST might offer more options. Even with the GET, you might be able to run it enough times to find a post as the included second request, and that's less likely to have an ampersand in the URL, and you would probably scoop up all the headers at least. If you post with multipart mime, depending on how lenient it is on a final terminator, you might not have any problem at all if you find the right page to post to.

I did just confirm that that same search page doesn't seem to honor params passed in a POST, so that's good (for Slack).

I think the bottom line is that once you can make part or all of someone else's HTTP request show as part of your request's payload, it's a drastically lower bar for exploiting, as there are many possible ways to exfiltrate the data at that point, and they only have to screw up by allowing one of them to work.
The vast majority of infections are mild. Roughly 15% require medical intervention (beyond self-quarantine), and of that, less than 1 in 3 require ICU care. 100K infections is roughly 15K medical intervention, with 5K in the ICU.
well, it sure seems that crises-within-crises is the new normal so your wish could be granted...
Don’t be crazy! All the bus drivers are at home with covid-19 symptoms....
This really is an underrated comment.

In the last 24 hours I've received more than a dozen emails from random businesses that have my email address - many of which I have not interacted with in years - letting me know that my health and safety is their top priority. It's like someone in the marketing department realized "hey, here's an opportunity to send some spam without looking sleazy".

It's opportunistic and gross.
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I wonder which companies will benefit from this pandemic, long-term. If there’s a surge in remote working, for example, seems like that could be good for FAANG, bad for transport companies, commercial real estate, public events. Is there any analysis out there about this?
The common rate for my mom's student loans are nearly 7%.

So are mine (edit: mine are 6.5%), but she has something like 140k in student loans, and I only had about 30k... so I've nearly paid mine off, she will never probably pay hers off.
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The problem is probably that they lumped you up with all the doomsday predictors.

I have a certain friend who, for years, have been trying to tell everyone that normal food is bad and imported "superfoods" are the way to go.

Same goes for scaremongering of every other kind. I feel for everyone who warned about the corona virus in January there are 5 or 10 who warned about everything else which turns out to be a significantly smaller problem.
Gates can still code. Larry and Sergei can still code. Zuckerberg can still code. Being to do this is still relevant for a tech company ceo or leader.
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I believe the right thing to do is to parse the response “into” an error and pass it to the error-handling branch that your compiler required when the handler was written.

Or at least, that’s how it works in the statically typed language Elm, which guarantees that your compiled code will not throw any runtime errors.
Perhaps their support teams are receiving a lot of questions, and they decided to cover them in an email. On the scale of sleazy things companies do, this is on the low end for me.
I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.
On the other side the reason VB.net broke backward compatibility was to correct things that were obviously bad design decisions in VB6. Like parameters being byref by default, having to use the Set keyword for objects, inconsistent 0 or 1 based collection structures, etc.

If VB was meant to survive and move the XXI century, these things had to be fixed.
Mortality rates for Covid-19 may be up to 15.2% outside China
Well. At the same time Apple will continue to pay. Other companies use the moment to fire people.
Great article, thanks. Just today I happened to see an Alt-Svc header from a LiteSpeed server and was wondering what it was. I’ve (finally) signed up for an LWN subscription.
Naomi Klein wrote a major book about this years ago called The Shock Doctrine.
This is one reason why KeepAss (at least on linux) can use xdotool for writing passwords. You can of course use the clipboard too but the app warns that it is not safe.
Ask HN: Does Covid-19 spread in a bacteria culture?
Currently published mode of transmission is still officially via contact with infected or getting the virus into airways and face.

There are now reports that there could be faecal transmission too, does this mean that COVID-19 spreads via bacteria?

Anyone have research links? (I have searched for hours now, yielding nothing much).
No, not at this point but I was planning to open source the Golang serverless functions...
Most nations have follow the WHO advice and have all dropped the requirement for airborne precautions/isolation rooms and we now use droplet precautions as we do with every other influenza and Coronaviruses. It is my understanding that the CDC has done so as well, partially due to supply chain issues but also largely given the lack of evidence of airborne transmission.

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/up...

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331215/WHO-...
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Streaming sites like Netflix, maybe?
Bragging about unrelated topics in the first paragraph, and touting a $15M donation while sitting on $200B in cash. So magnanimous. By the way, get back to work.
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I’m skeptical at the method of using video images to create what is essentially an orthomosaic. Either this technology is BS or this article was written by someone who is decidedly non-technical.
Microsoft pretty much built it (would allow any .net language to behave like VBA, with an integrated IDE and ability to save code inside the document). Then they killed it. I think that was a huge mistake from a productivity point of view, and also to get a fighting chance to retire VB6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Tools_for_Applic...
I don't believe the gov't when officials say don't panic and it's just a cold. Then they or somebody close to them got it along with the wakeup call.
A good first step is reducing meat consumption. Americans eat about 100kg of meat per year. Europeans eat 30% less. Indians eat only 5kg per year.
> We are overpopulated but that's not changing any time soon so

Not to be too grim, but that may well be changing right now...
This is a really tiny bit of convenience in return for allowing every app to read whatever is on your clipboard whenever they like it.
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I am very skeptical about claims that heavy alcoholics can ever moderately drink over a significant period of time again. There are a lot of studies showing successful moderate drinking over the short term, but the studies are always short-term studies using self-reporting data.

Active alcoholics are downright dishonest about how bad their alcoholic drinking is; they will claim it is moderate drinking to anyone who asks them (including scientists making a study) and lie about the amount of alcohol they actually consume.

The most famous study refuting the claims that alcoholics can moderately drink again is probably Pendery 1982, which showed that people who were reported as successfully moderately drinking in an early 1970s study were, a decade later, either not drinking at all, engaging in out of control drinking, or dead from alcohol-related complications.

Some more discussion about it is here:

https://elplatt.com/return-moderate-drinking-still-lie
This already exists, OBD2 is a standard diagnostics interface mandated by law. I would guess most of the tools you are referring to are using this.
"Viruses live on a delicate balance, don’t they? They have to be able to thrive without killing their host.

Right. The ones that kill off their host quickly will disappear. With the SARS virus, it’s no surprise that killing 10 percent of its host, it wasn’t able to establish itself as a pandemic virus on this planet."
Are we researching other potential global cataclysms to look forward to?
They're all between the same client and the same server, but they're not necessarily the same request. If there's only a single request it's no different from HTTP/1.
Same in the UK. You won't be tested any longer if you show symptoms. I called NHS 111 yesterday because my son has high fever and a cough. 2 hour wait time to speak to someone on the phone, which gives an indication of how many people are calling in with symptoms.

They said the symptoms sound like coronavirus, but it's not being tested anymore (it was still being tested at drive-throughs 2 days ago) as the government has moved from "contain" phase to "delay" phase - advised to stay at home for 7 days and call back if it gets worse.

I asked if his brother can continue going to school, given he is probably exposed - the advise was yes, as long as he isn't showing any symptoms.

They have given up trying to contain this and it's difficult to see how you can trust reported case numbers going forward since testing has stopped.
Microsoft pretty much annonced the would treat VB.net as legacy 2/3 years ago. This is just Thurott realising it now.