skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when they were stopping and harassing people who were wearing hoodies and sunglasses around town, because of that silly and totally inaccurate Wanted poster.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-...

You'd think he'd be smart enough not to go out strolling the city streets wearing the same exact hoodie and sunglasses as the "Unibom Law Enforcement Task Force" put on his wanted poster.
From K5 to K6
I've done assessment work for utilities, exchanges, large health providers and similarly regulated/sensitive organizations.

The risk decisions (implied or explicit) being made here are sensible. These organizations simply aren't set up to operate in anything like a "BeyondCorp" all-remote model.

The middle of a national crisis is the absolute worst time at which to try to make sweeping changes to facilitate new models of work. In a very plausible worst case, you end up with IT disasters that not only force people to work on site, but force everyone to come in and work extra hours using paper and ad hoc spreadsheet processes, while essential services are compromised for customers.

The concern that "opening up" these organizations would pose security threats isn't just sensible, it's obvious: most large enterprises are set up in the same perimeterized model we used in the 1990s, line-of-business internal applications are almost never hardened against attacks, and most internal segmentation is handwaving; internal site-wide pentests never fail against big companies.
Peak seasonal flu in a bad season might infect 5% of a population at once. Most people don't get any single flu strain due to pre-existing immunities and the resulting slow spread of the virus. COVID-19 can be vastly higher, no one has any immunity.

The only real hope here is to prevent infections via quarantine measures, there is absolutely no way to build out the kind of health care capacity that would be needed in a pessimal outbreak.
That 'whistleblower doctor' was reprimanded, not arrested. The Chinese supreme court later judged in his favor, saying that the police shouldn't have reprimanded him. Even CGTN, a state media, admitted that the treatment of the doctor was wrong.
> If anything, you're more likely to lose access to a site by forgetting what your super secret email for it was than from someone hacking it.

With a full-featured password manager it's only a matter of backups and remembering your master password. You don't worry about forgetting anything after that's covered.

I think there were also a bunch of social engineering things going on at the time. Things like calling up support and not knowing the password but combining info from different sites and username and email were enough to talk support into doing dumb things. Some of the dumps include things like "First pet's name" and all the common insecurity questions.
Create fun things for people to do online from home so that they stay home and reduce spread
Interestingly, if you have a heat pipe with a bend in the middle (most laptop heat pipes have a bend), then if you orient the laptop so the bent bit is down, you can make a 'liquid lock' so vapor can't flow from one end of the pipe to the other. If that happens, the heat pipe pretty much stops conducting heat, and you'll see far worse thermal performance.
The key thing is to avoid counting cases. Those are affected by the number of test kits and the test kits are just now becoming available. Of course the "cases" will soar.

It's more important to look at ICU bodies and deaths. Those aren't as affected by supply issues.
Does anyone have insight into how moderate/voluntary vs. strict social distancing impacts the rate of spread? Anecdotally, the streets in the SF Richmond District feel a lot emptier than usual when I go out for walks/runs (pretty much the only reason I'm going out anymore). Seems like it could be up to a 50% reduction.

That should already be helping, but I wonder if spreading might follow a power law pattern where "super-spreaders" account for a vastly disproportionate share of transmissions. If that's the case, it might require a strict lockdown to meaningfully reduce the exponent?
I will make a bet with you for whatever amount of money that you want that every single prediction you just made is false. On a per capita basis, the US will have a better time than Italy. The US will lose nowhere near 5% of its population. Not even 1%.

Happy to formalize it and bet for real, if you'd like.
I am not so sure they get to pick, but in any case, labor to scrub metal boxes is extremely cheap compared to the contents/freight charges.
No, I mean this one: https://phabricator.kde.org/T10530
I’m not sure if we ever actually wrote up anything specific about our architecture (CTF people tend to hate write-ups), but I did find that we did a post when we disqualified LC/BC for a DDoS attack against another team, which we detected using network logs: https://ictf.cs.ucsb.edu/pages/the-2016-2017-ictf-ddos.html
I'd suggest that the K-5 crowd needs more help than 6-12. My older children already did some of their work online, and when the schools shut down, the teachers emailed the students to let them know that they'd be using their existing tools... just expanding the content.

But my younger kids have never even used the online tools. They need more help, and the teachers need more help transitioning their curriculum to remote classrooms.
The problem with employee schedules where employees work in shifts is communication. At one place it was done using Excel as I'm sure it's still done today in many organizations.

You always have two people trading shifts but never telling anyone. Then the one who was supposed to work doesn't show up they forgot they traded shifts.

Human nature is half the problem.
Aw man, you're ruining all the fun...

hehe... fedgov just distributed millions of tests... even being administered in drive-through settings.

Just wait till the numbers come back. ;)
> 7% mortality rate

Please don't use such misleading figures. Spreading fear is dangerous. This number is known as a "naive case fatality rate", with the emphasis on naive. And you're even quoting just for one country - cherry-picking.

The UK CMO has said the mortality rate for COVID-19 is likely 1% or less.

Please, act responsibly. The situation is serious and difficult enough.
people who play minecraft, how do you actually add a document to a map? and how do players read it? i.e. what is the physical experience of doing this, from both the upload and the reading end.
The guy was a terrorist and serial killer. Though very intelligent, you can hardly expect his conclusions to be rational ones - he clearly fell off a cliff mentally and never recovered.
Ask HN: For SaaS founders, how do you implement Drip Campaigns
Hey people! I have a SaaS startup and right now we are trying to create a Drip email campaign. We want this campaign to be event based, meaning that if a user use our product with a specific action, we want to trigger different templates.

So far the only way I found is with Intercom's Smart campaigns. Do you have any cheaper alternatives?
The people who claim that pay is based solely on supply and demand don't have a fully-developed conception of pay dynamics, historically or otherwise. Who you are - or rather, who is likely to be doing your job - absolutely helps determine pay rates. I have no doubt that the consternation regarding that "$70k for all employees" company extends to decision-makers, nor do I have trouble believing that the race/gender income gaps are not solely about job choice or negotiation skills or any of that. Whether its systemic or personal, there is definitely a decision being made as to how much this or that person "is worth."
Why would young and healthy patients be taking "massive amounts of NSAIDs" if they didn't have co-morbidities? This doesn't really make any sense.

Normally when you see young people taking large doses of NSAIDs, it's because they're either elite athletes or have an autoimmune disease or something.
Instant messaging is synchronous two-way communication like voice and video. I'm not sure what you mean by "fluid" conversation, though. Voice is good for people who aren't good at typing or expressing themselves via text. However, I don't see what additional conversationally-useful information is conveyed by video of people's faces.

Maybe I just spend too much time listening to the radio and podcasts? Maybe it was growing up in an era where voice phone conversations were more common than texting and facetime?
His sentiment is correct. The source for what I’m saying is a veteran virologist with 40 years of experience dealing with these exact kinds of things. A two hour interview was linked from a previous HN thread.

Despite what ceejayoz might try to tell you, corona viruses do not mutate in the way that influenza does. Influenza mutates in a way that evades the immune system but retains other qualities. This is why new vaccines for the flu are always being developed. Despite the fact that corona virus family viruses are responsible for a very small amount of “common cold,” they do not exhibit this behavior. They do mutate though, which is why we are seeing two “versions” of covid-19. The ultimate meaning of all this is that once a population gains collective immunity, the virus will basically disappear. In layman's terms, the virus will go away probably between 3 to 6 months from now in the United States. If anyone tries to refute this, post actual evidence or expert testimony showing that covid-19 mutates in a similar way to influenza.

Like Elon musk points out, only those with immune system problems are at risk. This includes some people of advanced age, some people with diabetes and various other people.

The virus appears to kill people like many other similar illnesses: if the infection spreads to deeply within the lungs, gas transfer is interrupted and secondary bacterial infection sets in, commonly known as pneumonia. The treatment for which is antibiotics and an oxygen line. This is why you see Italy asking specifically for more oxygen equipment, in my non expert opinion. Both these treatments are widely available and do not require special skill to acquire or administer. Patients who do not benefit from these would require mechanical ventilation.

The fatality rate is massively skewed toward severity because of the lack of testing. If all the benign cases were taken into account, the facility rate would be much smaller although still high enough to take seriously.

Remote administration of oxygen and antibiotics, washing hands, and light self-quarantine, all very easy to do, will blunt the impact on hospitals significantly.

Overall, the threat that this virus poses to most people and society in general has been overblown by the for-profit media.

I would like to apologize for being so impolite in addressing this topic previously.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089684112...

https://youtu.be/WWNuDT4t-TM
But "herd immunity" is not the plan, that's just what people on social media are saying.
I don't like this, I get what the state is saying but my problem is did he make it clear the claim was not based on scientific process or testing? If that was ambiguous then he should have made it clear. But if the viewers clearly knew his claims are based on faith or religious belief the state is clearly violating the rights of the seller and consumer to hold a religious belief. It comes down to this, did he decieve anyone? If not there was no fraud. It's a right because clearly claims like this cause a large amount of people to be against these beliefs.

Saying people have to accept and adjust their beliefs around modern science is the equivalent of banning all religions or beliefs. People have a basic human right to believe whatever they want without suffering harm for it,regarsless of how unusual or ridiculous it might be, so long as they don't cause harm to others. So what if some gullible older or vulnerable person bought into a belief society considers silly and threw away all their possessions to be cured of death or something, then they excercised their belief. The person that sold them the belief can be accuser of fraud or deception only if it can be proven that his claims were made with an intent to deceive ,in other words the accuser needs to prove their belief was falsely held in a court.

Either the people who bought the cure must have thought his claims were made on a scientific basis or it must be proven that he does not truly hold the belief he claims to believe and he professed that belief for a financial gain.
Containers can’t hold liquids/powders/flowing things. They are only strong on the frame, not the side panels. This is also why you can’t bury them.

You could load pallet-sized tubs and fill a container that way, but the overhead would be killer. I imagine for bulk it’s much faster/easier to treat it as an effective liquid/particulate than trying to containerize it. Plus, you’d increase the cleaning surface area exponentially if you had to clean each pallet-tub, plus transport all the tubs and sidewalls for no revenue.
Anti-vaxxers are a thing. If you vaccinate then due to herd immunity the anti-vaxxers don't get exposed to chickpenpox nearly as much and then end up getting shingles.

Also then anti-vaxxer children get chickenpox much later in life when it can be more serious.

If you don't vaccinate everybody gets exposed to chickenpox much more and the proportion of shingles cases ends up being smaller, not only that but anti-vaxxer children don't need to worry about getting their first case of chickenpox at age 30.
I agree in general for US vs. EU, here far more travel is done via automobiles.

But the Bay Area does have MUNI and BART, it's not a no public transportation situation.
Awesome. You should write some sci-fi stuff
Why would they (not only Mozilla) support this?
You can create paper, books, and signposts with the crafting table.

Books contain text that can be viewed and edited.

Edit: FWIW, MC books display a tiny amount of text at a time, and it's pretty laborious to read even a couple sentences. This really isn't an effort to provide access to censored content as much as it is a beautiful MC build.
I don't know what those people have written, but I agree. It's important to save the work of authors we disagree with, just as much the work of authors we approve of.

Otherwise we are just as guilty of censorship. And recall, a moral justification for censorship is still censorship. I'm reminded of the apocryphal quote of Voltaire, "I may not agree with what you say, but I with defend to the death your right to say it."
Keybase Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/gtmadureira; my proof: https://keybase.io/gtmadureira/sigs/DN4mdNJ1M-Aib0g91QPlI-zXcz6eG368WIMl48ouQPk ]
You need to have available funds to do this though - for those fully invested, they will have to wait for their paychecks/contributions, which could be peanuts compared to their current exposure
Finally! I have been almost killed for calling this out. It's like some people believe epidemiologists haven't figured that out yet. And it does make a huge difference, whether the underlying function has a natural peak or not.
Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming
I believe they are all still easily readable both on the internet and at physical libraries, no? My local library has many copies of every Woody Allen book, for instance.
> Besides, if testing and tracing stops, it means there won't be information about the progression of the epidemic in the UK;

Yes, there will. It will be inferred from hospital stats.

Testing and tracing (apparently; I'm no expert, parroting what I've read from experts) is only useful in the contain phase. After that, you're better focusing on slowing the spread in the delay phase.

That said, Singapore and China have shown success with testing, tracing, and extreme measures. The assumption of the UK Government, however, is that in the long-term these measures will fail and kill more people than following a delay phase strategy.
I also enjoy sped up videos, especially for lectures, but if you preprocess videos to speed them up, make sure to also include the original videos. Students that don't speak your language natively, for example, may be handicapped by fast videos.
I’m anxiously waiting for the news that we will block travel from the UK to my country. If they are deliberately making their people into pathogen spreaders, we can’t let them visit us
99% sure you are referring to a bike but 1% curious if it’s a horse.
The US does have the ability to set up large quarantine hospitals on the fly, but they are in tents. These are the same type of military tents that were/are used for migrant internment on the border.

I'm struggling to find a name for the group that I participated in an exercise with, but in my volunteer Search and Rescue days I was a 'victim' for a practice exercise of deploying a tent hospital for a combined human and animal pandemic.

The ability to set up these hospitals is there, what isn't there is the skilled nursing staff for ICU patients, or ventilators for patients who needed them. I'm really not sure how China handled that portion of caring for those that fell ill.
Which means that, once a treatment or vaccine is available, the vendor can charge essentially whatever they please.

I think the federal government should buy or acquire by fiat the rights to produce remdesivir and contract, immediately, with multiple vendors to start mass production. If the trial pan out, the US alone may need enough to treat a few million people. If the trials don’t pan out, some money is lost.

(I’m not saying Gilead shouldn’t be fairly compensated. By all means, pay them a few billion dollars. But don’t allow them to extract $50k per case. And don’t allow them to delay widespread availability while negotiating.)

FWIW, China appears to be doing this right now. A Chinese company is manufacturing the drug now and is essentially ignoring the patent.
Shameless plug, but thank you, this looks cool!

If your logo wasn't a "scary skull" I would be showing this to my kid in our "where clothes come from" lesson (we do everything ranging from pottery to NASA space missions)(buy scary skulls are a no-no)(let them figure it out when they discover my Iron Maiden albums - many years from now!)
I think the problem is that the virus is so mild. You can't spot a lot of cases, so e.g. someone gets on a plane and is not showing symptoms and a few days later in Italy they get sick or infect others without realising they're ill.
Is there any thought put into considering if this type of service is actually beneficial?

Of course on it's face it seems nice that it saves us time. But it's no secret that the reduction of complicated topics into simplified one-liners leads to less understanding and more misinformation spread.

In my opinion, this just makes that problem worse. There is often a reason that texts aren't already shorter. If the author didn't intend for you to read the details of something and instead wanted you to just read bullet points, they would have just made the bullet points themselves.
Oh no. Not everyone. He can't even get a publisher for his newest.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/woody-allen-gets-cance...
if you study him you'll find he makes many references to Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society (La Technique). It's a very deep read. If you follow what he read it all makes a lot more sense. Ted radicalized himself in isolation as he tried to escape modern society, and was unable to get away (they built a highway through where he lived which he viewed as destruction of the habitat. he ended up having to avoid hikers and tourists).

Another great book that also touch on that is James C Scott The Art of Not Being Governed[2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

[2] https://libcom.org/files/Art.pdf
> the lens of... unwanted immigration. Seriously?

That is not the lens I am seeing it through.

Rather, where I live NO ONE could care less about your world leadership or whether you are or ever were the teachers, blah, blah, blah.

All of us out here will bitch and moan about the USA, but give anyone of us a ticket to the USA (especially if our family can come along) and we'll take it in a heartbeat.

You aren't our teachers, you are the bank.

Seriously.
Medicare for All is the only meaningful proposal with mass support inside the Overton Window of American politics right now. I’d prefer a robust national healthcare service, but that’s not on the table.

Watsi is more akin to GoFundMe for care in the developing world, which, while admirable, has little to do with creating a universal healthcare system anywhere.
I suspect that the big thing there is negotiation and social skills. It is not just about making schedule, it is also about talking with people, making them compromise, making them happy despite not gaining everything they wanted, explaining them that what they wanted they wont like actually, making them understand others too.
Because of normalcy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

"Normalcy bias can cause people to drastically underestimate the effects of the disaster. Therefore, people think that they will be safe even though information from the radio, television, or neighbors gives them reasons to believe there is a risk."

People just don't want to believe a disaster is about to happen. They will grasp at straws to explain why everything is going to be fine.

That's usually not a problem because disasters are rare, but it will catch us under-prepped when an actual disaster happens.
>How do you do it? Some seeds spawn the next year.

depends, some you have to pop into the freezer for a bit to kick them into earlier cycle, indeed, many need a frost to kick their biological clock into action. But yes, takes time, grow inside window ledge, repot, as they grow and after few years get to put into larger pot outside and climatise them for a year or two and then plant out when good size. It's a slow process and can't do huge amount, but every little helps and local seeds so used to conditions and by that, soil types and climate. I tend to focus on nut trees, ideally want to get some walnuts, but few hazelnuts, apples easy, same with cherry. Trees that also produce food and add to rummaging experience on walks.

But utter lack of walnut trees around my area, as all over the decades got turned into wood for use/abuse. Actually, lots of acorns/Oaks but few hazelnuts and the like, fair few apple and some pear tree's about, but general lack of all those really.

I also like to plant out sunflowers, chives, other herbs randomly here and there, though not done any mint, probably be irresponsible with that as the way it spreads, though i'd take mint of nettles and who wouldn't.
People on social media ... and the Prime Minister!
Go talk to them, listen to them, sympathize with them, you know, be a compassionate human instead insinuating their stupidity by outright calling someone they support stupid.
I havent seen that narrative.
Starting a few days ago, almost no one is going out, except to do their big shopping. so how can the virus still spread?

I think this is a very localized view of behavior. There are many large regions, pockets, demographic slices of the country where life is going on roughly as it was a few weeks ago.