skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few solutions worth evaluating, especially w/ what is going on right now with the increased demand to securely support remote work:

1. Zscaler ZPA - closed source but from a market leader

2. Palo Alto - subjective if true zero trust but if you already have PA...

3. Akamai - based on a SDP acquisition which had good tech - not sure what Akamai has done with it

4. NetFoundry - both open source and SaaS options

5. Nebula - strengths for east-west microservices. Open source from Slack.

6. Tailscale - listed above. New but open source.

7. Appgate - closed source but nice implementation of the use cases it targets.

8. Illumio - a more mature version of Nebula; also targeted at east-west.

9. Centrify - closed source but solid option for IAM focused use cases.

10. Perimeter81 - not familiar with it but is well regarded.

11. Cloudflare - relatively new solution but leverages their network nicely

12. Duo - certainly was a nice solution - not sure what Cisco has done with it.

13. ZeroTier - not familiar but adding per comments below

* Edits - added 11-13 per comments below in attempt to make this a more comprehensive list.
Common sense is long dead in an anonymous grave.
A strong master password is what makes brute-forcing impractical.
I've read (unconfirmed, citation needed) that Italy has been pathologically testing all fatalities for covid, and other countries don't. That may significantly skew the numbers.
this is an avenue right up HN's crowds' alley. lets brainstorm in the open on this.
Yeah, especially as it looks pretty slick!
I'd rather they said it a week or two ago.
Current death toll in Italy is under 2000 nationwide (2020-03-15). Nationwide road fatalities are around 3,000pa.

Italy is an example of the worst case scenario of poor management and susceptible population.
So 49 people in a small room is okay? Like a classroom? WTF

Same CDC that refused the working tests from WHO, then made their own tests incorrectly, then produced so few tests that we have no idea who is infecting hundreds of others for days, weeks.

The post-analysis of this is going to be jaw-dropping. Like worse than "determined to fly airplanes into buildings" report that was ignored before 9/11
Herd immunity won’t make a significant difference until half the population have had it, and a vaccine could be a year away (if ever).
Death rate was under 1% outside of Wuhan and in South Korea. It's over 5% within Wuhan and in Italy.

The way I interpreted that discrepancy is that in the presence of full testing and good ICU care, the death rate from COVID-19 is about 0.7-1%. When the hospitals get overloaded, as they've been in Wuhan and Italy, the death rate skyrockets to 5-10%. This also squares roughly with the number of people who need ICU care in places where the death rate is low. If you need ICU care and don't get it, presumably you'll be dead.
Food delivery Rappi sends SQL statement instead of mass marketing email
The federal government can claim it affects "interstate commerce".
The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.
> You know when you hear about Japan being this futuristic society? You go and visit and you feel like they are "ahead" and have things figured out?

Was there for a couple weeks in dec '18… kyoto, fujisan, hiroshima, tokyo… I didn't think this at all unless the "ahead" was meant in jest

> Their economy is what our economy is going to look like. A short-medium term down and then long drawn out sideways market. Who knows when a recovery will be.

So people can look forward to a 30 year bear flag? lol

> Good time to refinance.

Yeah, if you aren't already underwater facing no bids when trying to get liquid.
> People would make fun of those with the virus

I take humour over funerals any day.
I'm hoping in all seriousness that it will become a firing offense for cashiers to lick their fingers or wipe their faces before bagging your stuff or giving you change, etc.

I've wished this for a long time because I have a compromised immune system. But I'm desperately hoping that a silver lining of the cornoavirus pandemic will be that the world becomes a less crappy experience for me personally because, good god, people are gross on a regular basis and act like I'm crazy and a bitch if I ask them "Please don't do that. I get sick real easily."

I can't condone murder for coughing, though I have my days when I would very much like to. But I absolutely will sign the petition to pass the law making it a firing offense for cashiers to share their diseases so freely.
Don't think I'd ever use this, but this was new to me:

>To dynamically access function's first free variable use '<function>.__closure__[0].cell_contents'.
"For instance autotools is largely a relic of back in the days where C++ was C with classes..."

Minor point: autotools is a relic of the days when there were multiple, only somewhat compatible implementation of Unix in common use. Now that the world is a Linux monoculture and most software is installed by end users in the form of pre-built binary packages, the form of portability provided by autotools is no longer needed.
> There's probably still room for an open source, confederated IM client with proper workspaces, history management, and ubiquitous clients.

Matrix?
Apparently you need highly trained technicians to operate the ventilators. So my proposal is to develop the automation, machine learning, remote monitoring, etc so we can scale the ventilator operation. We are really good at scaling things up. Imagine that the ventilator are delivered to homes and a single trained ventilator operator monitors 100 ventilators remotely.
The most fascinating part of this article to me is the choice to represent dollar amounts like $9,250,000 as "$9 1/4 million".

I don't think I've seen a non-decimal format used for currency outside of history books talking about pre-decimal currencies.
Extensive testing needs the appropriate lab infrastructure and governance decisions to properly utilize them. Germany is another example of how to do that [0]

[0] https://apnews.com/ad9a6af47c3b55fd83080c9168afaaf4
I typically don't shill around here, but why isn't ZeroTier on that list? I suppose we don't have a giant marketing budget (yet). We do have a product used by hundreds of thousands for years and it has microsegmentation and other nifty stuff like multicast.

https://www.zerotier.com/

Also not everything on that list is the same. Some of those are app-level gateways, IAM infrastructure, etc. That's a bag of stuff for different use cases.

Some of that stuff is also cloud proxy based, not mesh based. Maybe some people don't care but I'm heavily biased toward peer-to-peer mesh. I find it offensively stupid for packets to travel 1000 miles to reach a system next to me or in the same city. Of course I guess everything has a use case. I might opt for a cloud proxy if the bandwidth were low, the users and/or customer were non-technical, and it was all web stuff.
Maybe in some sense this would be admitting that capitalism failed, but not in some bad sense. Any monetary policy at all is acknowledging that we want a closed-loop to keep the economy stable; this closed loop is an acknowledgement that anarcho-capitalism (without any feedback loop) is not stable.

Helicopter money seems reasonable to me. Depending on how it's delivered, it could act like a temporary UBI.
The purpose of these restrictions are to keep spread of the virus within communities and to avoid inter community infection. This helps significantly flatten the curve.
In a just society this would be grounds for negligence.
Read up on the electoral college. Clinton got more votes...It doesn't work.
No actually my comment was glib, i'd delete it if I could. This is a fine resource, I was grousing about semantics, it was unwarranted.
It's not that saving pays less than investing; it's that it's paying almost nothing right now. Savings account interest rates are terrible, which is very frustrating if you want to have some cash reserves.

I'm not going to put my 6 month emergency fund or the downpayment for my future house into stocks and ETFs; they're too risky. It hurts to keep it in a savings account paying less than 1% though, which is the alternative.
Did you know your lifestyle is now known as "Greta effect" :p
Sunday morning TV show, Fox News, Devin Nunes.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-a-great-time-to-go-out...
Do you work for banks or something?
Re/ 1. I think the conclusions are false. If anything there is more open collaboration; china released sequences of the virus very early and ppl around the world are working openly. Trump’s brainfart about the vaccine aside , distrust doesn’t seem to have caused issues (china is even sending aid to Italy).

The EU border crossing is not real sign of distrust, it’s prudent and to be expected, its simply an extension of domestic containment measures (esp. in Shengen countries which dont have any border controls). Also, there isn't a european health Organization because frankly it hasn’t been needed , and is not needed now either.
No reliable source at all, saw various people refer to larger numbers and thought that would be conservative. If the false positive rate is actually way lower, then this whole point is totally wrong and I would be happy to just delete this comment rather than misinform someone or discourage someone from getting tested if they should.

FPR: 1%
P(covid|+) = 2.3%

FPR: 0.1%
P(covid|+) = 23%

FPR: 0.01%
P(covid|+) = 75%

FPR: 0.001%
P(covid|+) = 97%
> The thing I miss most when writing ocaml is paredit

Have you tried smartparens?

https://smartparens.readthedocs.io/
If you consider a simplistic economic model then there should be no public pensions or healthcare at all. The moment that somebody's direct economic output falls below a defined threshold, be it due to retirement, illness, lack of retraining in a changing job market, then they represent a liability to be efficiently removed.

Fortunately more sophisticated approaches are generally followed, since in practice humans aren't simply worker ants or feedstock for Solyent Green.
Google and Verily clarify their roles in the US coronavirus response
Right but the point of the game is still to kill a lot of people and that’s not something that viruses care about.
How have I been googling ASCII codes for two decades with this right under my fingertips?!? Thank you!
I mean, what if it's like a hundred people gathering in one place just to hang out? Or do you mean they should just make some baseless argument and let someone who cares sue later?
We did learn things and it caused us to develop a national health care infrastructure. Things have started to decay on that front over the last couple decades though, at least in places like the US which haven't had a SARS outbreak. It's almost like we have to relearn lessons every 4 generations or so, as the older generation dies off and we forget their experiences. Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, here might be our Crisis...
The Democratic National Committee needs to postpone the primaries scheduled for this Tuesday.
I think it's a mixture of both. Underreporting of deaths and relatively strict lockdowns in known outbreak areas (basically municipial governments can call for that in Germany - so think the S...-County in Washington going on total lockdown by some local politicians authority). Looking at the Italian data this thing really seems to ravage through the elderly and although it's very sad that they now won't get ICU and co. my personal, subjective opinion (samplesize n=3) is that in this age-group hospitalisation for non-chronic, dire stuff basically just is a death-sentence anyway. People go through rehab, home-care to the hospital again where they succumb to some resisant bacteria in coma... It's sad they'll now die fast from pneumonia but ultimately that's life and judging from the n=3 samples, I'd much prefer a relatively fast, morphine-assisted death by suffocating (not sure how bad it feels with morphine) at this age to the comatose, 15-meds a day mushing up your brain-situation, which is typical.

Disclaimer: I'm aware, Italy is not doing palliative care anymore (which is really bad!) and also that this is not just a flu and also younger people die, but hopefully the rates here are closer to the real flu (which, talking from family experience again...) can kill a 20-something as well.
Hi. Once you're ready to transition to solids, try making (or asking someone to make you!) junket. In short, it's a milk-based dessert that used to be consumed as baby food. It's basically sweet curd with (fragrant) spices.

Here's a quick recipe:

http://oldrecipebook.com/junketrennetrecipes.shtml

Here's one with rather more detail:

https://theelliotthomestead.com/2016/04/junket/

And here's one in video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9bjLhq2k4

I hope you get to repay your woodworking debt in good time :)
Thanks for elaborating!

The war angle worries me. In particular, there's one thing I expect to happen that you didn't cover: to the extent Chinese numbers are accurate - and I don't have a reason to doubt the rough accuracy - it seems to me that after all this, China will emerge as the dominant global power. The US is about to get economically devastated by it, and if the UK plan fails, they'll be in deep trouble too. Meanwhile, China seems to be already recovering and they're scoring points with Europe by sending aid. Then, there's Russia, which is a great unknown to me - they fell off the media cycle pretty much immediately as the pandemic started. With the balance between these three powers upset, the tensions may grow significantly.

RE supply chains, I've recently discovered this little-known subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/supplychain/. Its daily updates on COVID-19 give tons of insight on how supply chains are affected by the pandemic.
I can confirm: Since France’s president has closed bars, the psychosis became widespread, people now take real measures. Before that, everyone was keeping business as usual awaiting instructions, which is the worst way to let the epidemic grow, and they were even mocking those who took precautions as either racists, or weaklings. Ensuring the population is in « concerned » state is the first step, and only closing bars allowed people to visualize the emergency.

Example: For the few hours after announcing, the « McDonnalds » hashtag was trending. Which says a lot.
“Kubernetes is too complex” // proceeds to macgyver half of kubernetes in her own opinionated way...
A bitcoin is a bitcoin is a bitcoin. People aren't concerned about whether or not a dollar is still a dollar. They are concerned about whether a dollar (more specifically their savings) can still buy the same amount of goods and services.
Well now I want to spend a few hours using it to solve the peaceable queens problem: https://youtu.be/IN1fPtY9jYg
Technically it means minimum 3000 cases, probably more .
Researchers find that there are people who have not bought any clothes in a decade. Then attribute it to "Greta effect" which is, what less than a year old? We would have been so lost without Greta.
The electoral college exists precisely so that population alone isn't the determiner. So it actually does what it is, in fact, intended to do.

It's designed that way so that bigger states with more people don't have cart blanche and smaller states with fewer people don't get just trampled underfoot.

You can debate if it's really a good thing that we have a system in place to try to balance out such things, but asserting that the electoral college doesn't work because Trump won with fewer votes basically says "I don't actually understand the thing."

It works exactly as it was designed to work.
Literally several Republicans today. The Governor of Oklahoma tweeted a pic of himself at a busy restaurant last night (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETHs_hQUcAAu3Ep?format=jpg).

Sheriff David Clarke, who has nearly a million followers on Twitter just said this a few hours ago and got thousands of retweets and favorites:

> It is now evident that this is an orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM. First sports, then schools and finally commercial businesses. Time to RISE UP and push back. Bars and restaurants should defy the order. Let people decide if they want to go out.

> GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW! If government doesn’t stop this foolishness...STAY IN THE STREETS.
END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/1239324440934133760

These people are psychotic and should be expelled from polite society.
If you 'take' the book it gives you a copy.
Outside of Hubei, most people are back to work in some form or another now.

Throughout February white collar workers worked from home. Since March we've been allowed back to the office, although there are draconian restrictions (must not sit at same table, must wear mask, must report temperature etc). Schools are still closed so many parents continue to work from home.

Blue collars have been going back to work for several weeks, although I imagine they are facing similar or even harsher restrictions than white collars.

I think pink collars have suffered the most of everybody. Many restaurants have reopened, but in my neighborhood it's only this week that some barbershops reopened, and there are still no bars open, no movie theaters, no events venues etc.

My guess would be the country is about 60-70% back to work now, but those who are back are definitely not operating at maximum efficiency due to the ongoing travel restrictions, testing restrictions and closed up schools.

I would urge people in the west look at other countries in East Asia that handled this without a massive lockdown. China is not really a great example to follow.
A company can come back from the dead. Humans cannot.
Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves
That’s not her middle name. It’s her maiden name.
I worry about this too. I can’t believe you’re being downvoted.

I hate to say it but this whole thread gives me the vibe of democracy dying to thunderous applause.
We need to raise prices to stop hoarding
Agreed, Clinton started the "third way" part of the Democratic Party; now known as the neoliberals.
> Most rackmount switches are not really designed to be used in datacenter rack as they do not have front-to-back airflow

It's my understanding that switchable fans are standard on cisco, arista, and mellanox switches (have no idea about juniper) and besides, front-to-back or back-to-front depends on whether you mount in the back or in the front (both are valid) AND even if you go the "wrong way" patch panels are pretty easy to find and are cheap (at the expense of 1U)
There aren’t large numbers of random people testing positive for it where they’ve done wide spread testing. Korea in particular probably has close to an accurate count, and their mortality rate is still close to 1%
The burden isn't on me to list every company that won't be affected by this. The burden is on the person making claim to provide evidence for their claim.
Read up on the National Emergencies Act.

The federal government can do so, once the President has declared a state of emergency (which, he has).
Grandparent comment is almost certainly referring to the Case Fatality Rate. South Korea is a better example, due to widespread testing (there was a lot of self-selection on cruise populations).

CFR of 3% - 5% for unprepared areas is not unreasonable. 0.6% is closer to the South Korean experience. https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/covid-19
Amazon, shipping, streaming games/media, ebooks, healthcare, internet-based medical services will be fine.

Many people are about to have enormous amounts of idle time to dedicate towards home-based hobbies, creative projects or entertainment, especially elderly told to self-isolate for several months.

Domestic healthcare product manufacturing will be high-incentivized for a decade or so.

Disposable income industries, especially travel and tourism, will be in free fall for months to a year. Luxury goods tend to also mostly dry up.

New ventures should focus on much improved (and defensible) essentials and better delivery of essentials that aren't as painless as ordering from Amazon.
Exactly! The "lock it all down" attitude has a heavy streak of unthinking authoritarianism to it that makes me very uncomfortable.

Reasonable precautions? Of course. Going nuts and disrupting everyone's lives and businesses like that? I'd rather not.
I feel more like Lil' Wayne than Steve Jobs
> When you have enough machines, 10 of them are always running hot.

Sure, but isn't there rack-level toplogy information that should warn when all of the elements in a rack are complaining? That should statistically be a pretty rare occurrence, except over short periods, say, < 5-10 hours.
In the very early days (from RFC 3):

DISTRIBUTION

One copy only will be sent from the author's site to"

1. Bob Kahn, BB&N
2. Larry Roberts, ARPA
3. Steve Carr, UCLA
4. Jeff Rulifson, UTAH
5. Ron Stoughton, UCSB
6. Steve Crocker, UCLA

Reproduction if desired may be handled locally.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3.html
What do you realistically estimate numbers to be in 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and 4 weeks? When will we see exponential case growth taper off?
Wow, what a ride. 7-zip is awesome. For anything involving (suspected) data loss or "data disappearance", I usually try Testdisk/photorec from https://www.cgsecurity.org/
Saving is for the proles, investing is for the oligarchs.
He’s comparing mortality rates per capita.

Consider that cars are an endemic condition with a vast amount of time and money spent keeping people safe while using them or being near them. If similar resources are deployed to protect people from C19, there will be far fewer deaths from that than cars.

At work the simple precautions are to wash your hands, hold meetings by phone, by email or not at all, and avoid socialising with people you are not directly working with. Wash your hands, wash your work surfaces.

They key here is limiting the spread of the disease while the health system ramps up support. There is no need to go into wild-eyed panic and insist that we shut cities down. Doing so would cause far more problems (and fatalities) than COVID-19 ever will.
Freedom of assembly is our first amendment right. I’m not saying a ban doesn’t make sense but it needs to be by the book.
I've been thinking this is a good test run to see how much authoritarianism the Western governments can get away with. If this turns into part of the yearly flu (which I've been hearing is getting more likely), then the 'war on viruses' could very well be a thing.
Larry King has such little regard for Dave Rubin, he took a private call while being live streamed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/daverubin/comments/ez6rxi/larry_kin...
The office Trump's administration disbanded was formed after the 2014 Ebola outbreak handling was botched, precisely to address the shortcomings you're bringing up.

Edit:

It's being reported on currently:

https://www.newsweek.com/former-head-white-house-pandemic-of...
This made me go look up when Musk bought x.com, turns out only 1999, thought it was older
Why? I would rather hold cash that gives me 0% return (or -2.3%) rather than something that is going to return less than 30% a year.
I don't think a political party has that authority. It is up to state and possibly federal government (for most of it at least, not the caucuses).
I agree they are not.

But what are you going to do when you or your loved one is assessed as likely to die without ventilation but denied because there isn't one available (or in the USA maybe they prioritise giving it to an insured patient instead).

There you/they are, sent home and told you/they are likely to die unless lucky.

Are you not going to try the cobbled together 3D printed option, even if it probably won't help?

Does that opinion still hold if you try it anyway and start to feel like breathing is better?
I’d tend to agree but it could set a very dangerous precedent. I think that’s one of the few things that’s worth not postponing.