skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the endorsement antics during the Democratic primaries exposes that, but I'm making a less partisan point: our healthcare system simultaneously includes incomplete or bad private insurance plans, yet U.S. spends a larger amount per citizen for health care than most other developed nations. It's an unholy mess of inefficient bureaucracy and failed private-public relations, rent-seeking, crony capitalism, unhelpful regulations, outdated systems, and scaling issues leading to bloated organizations that pleases nobody.
Ran into the "paywall", but yeah, sadly, forgery has grown into a very large problem in the archaeological world. Lots of debate and controversy over how best to address it. We can't simply disregard all unprovenanced finds, as some seem to propose. Many of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made are unprovenanced.
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Sounds like it could be for facial recognition? I'd imagine the blinking was to ensure they have variations of your normal facial features in different states for comparison. This idea also applies to why they asked you to do it 3 times. Why a mobile carrier would require this, I have no idea. I suppose it also depends on government overreach where you are located.
I don't know how you'd replace decades worth of strike warchest funding and long-term relationships with legislators.
This museum in particular seems especially prone to buying stolen or faked items, though.
Interesting, but over-sensationalized. To quote the article, "Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes."

The headline uses the word "all", but is talking about 0.0002 of the dead sea scrolls. "at the Museum of the Bible" is a bigger qualification that it initially appears.
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As several people quoted in the article mention, it is wonderful to see a museum being so upfront and truthful about their artifacts. It seems to be a much better situation because of it, especially when compared with something like the "Jesus' Wife" fragment. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unb...
Major U.S. internet firms agree not to cancel service over next 60 days: FCC
Parent meant the government has a credible policy of not printing away obligations like that, not that the government doesn't have the authority to do so.
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Israel are real. The ones in one museum in America were forges.
Brains are bonkers at adapting. This upside-down glasses experiment is a good vision-based example:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable...
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Coronavirus: Denmark closes border at 12 noon tomorrow
You're probably confusing Glitch (the company that used to be Fog Creek) with Glitch (the video game that led to the creation of Slack). Different company, different industry.
Object Storage, Kubernetes and Why You Can't Containerize a Storage Appliance
This reminds me of those old carpenter tools and worn workbenches. Deceptively simple and specific but its really a complex multitool full of subtleties embedded mostly in how you use it rather than in another GUI or command line option.

In assembly language and targeting windows as well. Novelty++.
> An individual consumer who purchases a poorly protected network device is unlikely to suffer any meaningful individual harm, like having their computer ransomwared.

The number of stories I've read of poorly secured connected devices aimed at children. Stories of flaws so basic that it would be trivially easy for an attacker to get the child's location and send them messages posing as a parent.

Individual consumers will be very concerned about devices that could potentially allow their child to be lured to some random location and attacked.
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The game industry treats people horribly and there is obvious collusion to keep wages suppressed I would expect attempts to form unions there.

I'm still however not sold on the idea that tech in general needs unions, but am open to the idea that it may be a variable need company to company for certain groups of people.

Just don't make me have to join one, because I am fairly convinced it's not in my best personal interest and same for a lot of other tech workers like me.
Which is very unfortunate. Thankfully they are upfront about the research they do and its results. Hopefully they can continue to exist as we need more institutions with that integrity.
https://blog.sonatype.com/nexus-intelligence-insights-whats-...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/addressing-ghostcat-on-a...
Like this?
https://nextstrain.org/ncov?fbclid=IwAR3Ow79gwwS4SD7kgJwwcfQ...
They were harder to do well, and less visually compelling on the whole though. It seems like technology should have at least some of the answer.
HTTP desync attacks: request smuggling reborn
China's numbers don't pass any sort of "smell test." China is an absolutely massive country with a massive population. It's not possible to "totally lock down" a country this big and with so many towns and cities out in the boondocks. If you don't agree with me there I suggested you visit China and travel around and see the enormity of even their "provincial" cities.

How does it make any sense at all that in the place where this started, a place with 1.4B people, that over the last few days, only handfuls of people have tested positive? Fewer people than tested positive in Iceland? A country of 300k in the middle of the Atlantic...

One of my close friends is Chinese and her family live in the outskirts of Wuhan. I asked can her parents leave her house and so on and she told me they were never locked down so they couldn't leave home. So if people near Wuhan weren't "totally" locked down, how was the whole of China SO locked down that basically nobody got this virus in the past few days?

Does it make more sense that there was some sort of perfect miracle lockdown where all 1.4B people in China were "locked down" and didnt infect anyone, OR that China realizes that there is little attention on them right now and are playing down their numbers OR simply not testing people and letting everyone gawk at Italy and South Korea? China is using this as a propaganda exercise to demonstrate the superiority of their top down authoritarian way of government, so Western media is now praising a dictatorship which also happens to have concentration camps for muslims and silences political dissenters brutally.
Joseph Campbell's work The Hero with a Thousand Faces dives deep into the mythology of heros across many groups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

We've been doing this for thousands of years. Movie fiction is just one facet of how humans are compelled to hero worship at all scales of communities whether political, fictional, sports, or careers.
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1-3% case fatality rate? 70% of the population expected to be infected.

That's ~1 out of every 100 people. This isn't just a media frenzy, by the end of this you WILL know someone who died as a result of (complications of) Coronavirus.
I think that's a good idea in most cases.
The various processing and encoding pathways in our brains have developed over millions of years of natural selection. You could think of human behavior as a "program" where each generation is an iteration on that program. Plasticity is part of that program: ancestors with neural plasticity that benefited them passed on those genes and thus "conserved" learning as part of the program.
But the healthcare system is overwhelmed almost immediately. Wouldn't it take both these hard measures and a lot of time just to get it in reach of healthcare capacity?
This is a log output message. The problem with logs is that they are first and primarily written for the developer. I'm writing the alert for the condition I need to know about. It's only as an afterthought that they are revised to be read by not-developer and bear some semblance of communicating an event or status. This is why most logs, especially the debug kinds, are inscrutable. Devs may eventually put in logs for other people, but unless thought is put into who will consume the log and what the expected actions would be, the original logging text remains.

The human who wrote the automated text was probably coding toward identifying vacancy. Aha! Vacancy detected! What's more natural than coding that into the alert message? That person is probably not thinking about the death of a student, a less frequent event than graduating, moving, whatever.

I get what the author is trying for, there are actually heartless automatic messages involving actual death or traumatic events. This is not those. I'm not thinking about how to not inadvertently hurt someone's feelings when I'm writing logs, it's first written in a very confined objective for me.
This is a really good article. Here’s the money quote, the rest of the article explains how the author investigated the problem and their best guess as to what the numbers really were.

> Both newspapers and scientific journals frequently state three facts about the Spanish flu: It infected 500 million people (nearly one-third of the world population at the time); it killed between 50 and 100 million people; and it had a case fatality rate of 2.5 percent. This is not mathematically possible. ... If the Spanish flu infected 500 million and killed 50 to 100 million, the global CFR was 10 to 20 percent. If the fatality rate was in fact 2.5 percent, and if 500 million were infected, then the death toll was 12.5 million. There were 1.8 billion people in 1918. To make 50 million deaths compatible with a 2.5 percent CFR would require at least two billion infections—more than the number of people that existed at the time.
Coronavirus the World Comes to a Standstill
According to a more recent (2020-03-03) blog post[0] by Google, they'll be rolling out free access to Hangouts Meet for GSuite and GSuite Education users.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-busin...
Title loans on cars and second mortgages do just that, yet the people borrowing never get bailed out the same way by the fed.

And guess what, medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, insurance companies are refusing to guarantee coverage for Coronavirus treatment, and the Trump administration just blocked states expanding Medicaid to do the same.

Might need to think about systemic risk a little differently.
10 or 15 years ago it would have been a giganticover-engineered distributed XML-based chat protocol that would have been proposed...

Instead we have a down-to-earth simple subscription to a centralized list of email addresses and an automatic pairing service. For 5$. What have become of our dreams...

Just kidding. I wish you success but I personally won't pay 5$ for this, even if it's my first time working from home too.
An AWS Elasticsearch Post-Mortem
zoom works on multiple systems. facetime is apple only. Remember they are a hardware company not software, they use the software ecosystem to force you to buy their hardware
This tool upgrades #metoo for the remote workforce era.
It says you should prepare for the debate with sources and that the next round will start in 1.5 hours... but no topic is given and when I click guest access I get a message saying that dinner is already over. The last tweet is from a few weeks ago, no topic announced there either to gauge whether I'm interested in the first place. Not sure how I should get involved other than showing up unprepared and seeing if anything is going on.
Not really. Once enough companies switch to hiring contractors through staffing agencies because of the huge savings (as is happening more and more), all the choice that will be left is between two equally stingy staffing agencies with no benefits.
Just wanted to say, the nethack and unnethack android ports have probably the best controls and interface you could have for a roguelike as complex as them. They're smooth and easy to play, well as far as nethack goes and honestly probably my preferred way to play them these days.

And as far as mobile games go, can't think of any others that offer so much depth, gameplay and replayability without iap's and bullshit for free.

Sorry if this sounds like an ad, but I love nethack and getting to carry it around in my pocket and have it play well is just fucking awesome.
I thought 'Nah that'd never work' because I was thinking of the lenses stacked. But you're talking iPhone 11 Pro style. Depending on the properties of the glass that could actually work quite well -- though It may require a standard 4th lens for other optical properties these aren't suited to. White balance for instance, may be hard in this case, I'm not sure.

Up until a few years ago I would have said 'No way. The software isn't there yet, and it'd be prohibitive from a cost/processing power standpoint in mobile form factor.' But... see previous comment on iPhone 11 Pro.
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I’m not sure that’s a valid way to do the calculation. A net benefit is not a cost. A net benefit is a benefit.

A proper analysis looks at costs and benefits together and calculates the net result.

There are inherent damages (externalities) to the way that we do things, but the correct analysis is to examine the substitute ways to do things and what their relative (increased) costs are in exchange for decreases damages.

So you can say we can reduce A amount of pollution, which is expected to save B lives, at an increased cost of C, which drives D amount of people into unemployment or poverty.

Looking at one thing without examining the overall effect on the whole system is pretty pointless, even inhumane to a point.
Makes sense. Private/smaller collectors are probably much more likely to end up with fake items. Having said that, large, institutional museums do end up with fake items occasionally as well, sometimes displaying them for years before determining that they are fakes and removing them.
The hospital cases come like two weeks after the infections.
These are the same people who imported looted Iraqi tablets.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/05/535698988...
People want to work on computer games for non financial reasons so they'll take lower pay and accept worse conditions. Similar examples are the film or music industries.
Did the Greek pray to Herakles?
Yes I agree, ImmutableDictionary has GetValueOrDefault, GetOrAdd is nice on ConcurrentDictionary and FirstOrDefault is nice in Linq.
I'm also curious about how many were due to a cytokine storm and multiple organ failure.
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> I was expecting some kind of computational holography wizardry

Is this the type of tech the Lytro camera was based on? I thought that was an interesting concept. Imagine you'd be able to do something similar with this type of lens.
and to go a step further, it provides something to believe in (different from just a religion replacement) with simple morals and clear, elevated pro-/an-tagonists, something that's rare in the real world.

it's the modern version of aesop's fables--a way to share morals across a society through stories.

american westerns and chinese wuxia/xianxia are similar, simple morality tales wrapped up in different situations with heroes who rise out of the ordinary to do the extraordinary.

it's the simplest cultural glue.
You'd presumably be making a trade off for a more efficient/responsive/differently-cultured union. This may be worth it if there is otherwise a large mismatch between who the union currently serves and you. (Or a conflict of interest; are you putting out of business one of the union's large employers?)
"Agreed about all of these except for gods. In NetHack you can't easily choose your god during the game (though you can sometimes not-easily choose your god during the game) and the difference in behavior from one god to the next is minimal. In Crawl, you can usually choose your god and thereby get different abilities, status effects, and effectively mini-conduct challenges based on what each god disapproves of. I think that's more interesting than the NetHack religion stuff, although it's true that NetHack has a slightly more complex model of gods' feelings toward you."

In Nethack you can do a ton of different things at altars. In Crawl altars are useless except for converting to that god's religion. After your conversion you can pretty much safely ignore altars in Crawl unless you want to change your religion. The options are much greater in Nethack.
Couldn't agree more... Transparency almost always helps and in this case it definitely does.
Website is up now
This sounds handwavey. I read The Brain that Changes Itself and it essentially gave the opposite impression of what you are saying: the whole point of the brain is plasticity. People can see, balance or hear through nerves wired to their tongues, for example.
Not sure if this helps:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/f88efh/is_this...
As the founder of FusionAuth (https://fusionauth.io), let me relay 5 years of experience in building our platform in bullet points (not exhaustive by any means, but a rough overview). Also note that these aren't all authentication related, but once you build your own authentication, most everything else has to be done by hand as well:

- OAuth 2 IdP and SP federation plus theming

- SAML v2 IdP and SP federation

- Nested federation (i.e. OAuth to SAML to OAuth to another OAuth)

- JWTs (issuing, validation, introspect, user_info, numerous certificate and key-pair concerns, reconciliation, introspection)

- Refresh tokens (managing, revoking, exchanging, securing, and more)

- Lambdas to handle claim mapping and JWT population plus all the security around sandboxing JavaScript so it isn't an attack vector

- Key management

- Certificate management

- User indexing and searching (when you have 100+ million users, this isn't easy)

- Password rules (HIPAA, PCI, SOC, ISO, NIST)

- Breached password detection (Have I been Pwnd style)

- Password hashing (making it configurable, changeable, upgradeable, etc)

- Devices (trust, OAuth Device Grant, MFA, passwordless)

- Threat modeling and detection

- Brute force prevention

- Account locking

- Event management (login, account creation, deletion, etc)

- CORS

- CSRF

- XSS

- Injection attacks (JS, SQL, etc)

- Privilege escalation attacks (tunnels, backdoors, script injection, etc)

- Replay attacks

- JWT header attacks

- Click-jacking attacks

- IFraming

- CVE management (libraries, OS, database, frameworks, APIs, etc)

- MFA (authentication apps and SMS)

- TOTP

- MITM and spoofing

- HSTS

- Passwordless logins

- Network management (firewalls, public and private access, intrusion detection, logging, auditing)

- Pen tests (i.e. these aren't cheap)

- Compliance (also not cheap and very time consuming)

- Family management (multiple parents, divorces, multiple kids, roles, ages, consents)

- Consent modeling (CCPA, GDPR, and many more are coming)

- Group management

- Roles and permissions

- All the email things (forgot password, passwordless, email verification, templates, localization)

- Reporting (DAU, MAU, etc)

Every line of code, every API, every HTML page, every button click, every form submit, every layer, every network hop, every operating system, every third-party tool, every library, and every browser must be secured and tested. If you have a big team and a lot of free time, you can probably get something workable that is secure in a year or two.

Of course, YMMV. ;)

Or like other folks have said, you can always use FusionAuth, Keycloak and others. They are all free and do all of this already. Though, I'd be suspicious with some projects. The compliance, auditing and testing pieces are expensive and probably not something they do much of.

And who knows what is going on with IBM and RedHat. I'd run screaming from that disaster if I were you. :)
That doesn't sound like him :)

Do you have a reference/quote for that, out of interest?

In the past it seems like he's been skeptical[0] of providing user data to third-party services.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.com...
I haven't used it, so I've no idea.
My comment seems to strike people with the wrong intention. I'm not making a negative judgement on politically astute developers. Being politically astute is a necessity in most high-tech places.

A politically astute developer can take an idea and build a movement around it, whether or not it is their own idea for career advancement. This struck me as one of those things.

I was a politically astute developer at one point, I built movements. But they were not intended for career advancement and thus had the backing of technical people more than non-technical people. Quite often I came across less technically strong, but more politically astute developers than I who were able to take weak ideas and sell them to non-technical people in decision making positions purely as a career advancement move.

So politically astute is a neutral term.
website is not down. Just the link from this post to the website is broken. I could access it fine at https://printmycity.com/
I'm interested!

Just created a brand new empty one, i'm setting it up, join whenever whoever

https://discord.gg/CVgKmaZ
https://lwn.net/Articles/776435/
I should have said CGI got good enough to make them into really popular movies. Or more specifically, that they were able to recreate the same images that you have in comic books in live action movies. The superhero movies of the 60s and 70s didn't pull that off.
ProtonMail may reroute connections through Google to circumvent censorship
Yes, my bad, error from oyestartups part
Zoom is owned indirectly by the Chinese government, not sure what that means to your company but FYI.
The irony :-/
Tiny Amazon seller’s hand sanitizer went viral. Then the trouble began
No it wont. Sure they might waive fees for a 60 days or so but to think that these corporations would give up their free money piggy bank is untethered from reality. If anything they will use it to try and get people to upgrade to a higher tier.
I looked around and found naturally occurring zinc ionophores: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf5014633
Quercetin is present in Red Onions and Epigallocatechin-gallate in green tea. Don't know if they are as effective etc but there's got to be alternatives to Chloroquine....
Why is this puff piece even on HN? I literally rolled my eyes when I read

> “They told me they’d connect with my team, and I said, ‘no, I’ll do that for you,’” said Yuan, reached by Zoom at the San Jose, California-area home that is now his office for the foreseeable future. “I did it manually myself.”
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