skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose Rust does require a value shared across threads to be reference-counted

It does not require it; that is one of many possible strategies, depending on what you're doing.
I wish the article had gone more into this as it's an interesting topic I had never heard of. Even the wikipedia article [0] gives only passing mention to France, but according to other sources [1], the Channel Island cow breeds which are raised in France produce mainly the A2 protein, whereas the Holstein-Frisian varieties cultivated elsewhere in Europe and in North America produce both A1 and A2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_milk

[1] https://www.ericksonliving.com/tribune/articles/2017/08/what...
> I'm curious which ones you think are ineffective and counterproductive.

These ones:

>> Clean your home.

>> Clean your car.

>> Get rid of your giant pile of junk cluttering up your closets and going unused and rotting in place.
Google Communications says here that "Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information."

https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497
> Trump rejects the framework of communicating in correct facts, relying on emotional platitudes instead.

Yes, he uses words that people understands. No non-tech, non-finance person would know what alphabet is. Regular americans do not know that Google, Inc (a publicly traded company) decided to change its name to Alphabet Inc (still traded under GOOG though, because apparently this snafu is good enough for the NYSE) and create a new subsidiary named Google, and another called Google Life Sciences which is now known as Verily. Most Americans would simply say 'Google'. There is nothing wrong with a POTUS using words that literally everyone understands. If you understand this, you will understand why Trump won.
I used to have a deep revulsion for cliches in general, so I definitely get where this guy is coming from. The thing is, cliches work when they encode concepts in ways that everyone understands. I don't remember the specific example, but I remember one conversation where I was tediously trying to explain and apply a concept that there was already a 3-4 word cliche for, and the person I was talking to impatiently just blurted out the cliche at me. I was annoyed because I was trying to avoid invoking cliches, but I later realized that invoking cliches can actually be an efficient form of communication.
Yeah,

When Coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, I tended to the opinion that it would self-limiting in one fashion or another or that is would not be worse than the flu. Only people arguing with me and me investigating the facts changed that. And, yeah, changing your opinion is hard and imagining a force that will upend the world is hard so it's easy to imagine how people stay in their positions.

That said, we have a representative government with the aim of electing people who will think ahead and protect from purely reflex based views. And clearly that control has failed.
There is nothing new under the sun. This was done 15 years ago by http://passwordmaker.org and the older site http://passwordmaker.sourceforge.net/

LessPass even stole the "one password to rule them all" phrase and the idea of "profiles"

There are still many active ports of ports of PasswordMaker:

https://www.google.com/search?q=github+passwordmaker&oq=gith...

Heres the original web version:

https://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html
Why Use Emojis?
"That's a great question" is a filler phrase that lets you stall while you're figuring out how to answer the question. It also flatters the asker of the question, so you can kill two birds with one stone.
I think working from home is amazing but it does take some adjustment. Good internet, exercise and Slack/Mattermost "visibility" (Participating in non-work related channels) is really important to have a good experience. Just another opinion.
Verily is an Alphabet subsidiary. To the majority of Americans, 'Alphabet' is Google, because Alphabet is the successor organization to Google the company. All these ridiculous technicalities are nuts. No one cares that Alphabet decided to reorganize to maximize shareholder value. Alphabet is literally Google, and still trades under that ticker (GOOG). When people talk about Google the company, they mean Alphabet, and you know that.

Like, most people on HN talk about how 'Google Fiber' is part of Google, but really it's not, it's part of Alphabet, which owns the trademark Google. Or again, when GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) invests in a company, people say 'Google invested in <blah> company', because GV is alphabet, which is Google because... Google the company means Alphabet in common parlance. Stop nitpicking.
That's exactly what you want to do in a pandemic. Stand in line close to a dozen other people so you can buy a gun and shoot the virus. People's stupidity never ceases to amaze.
Not related in spirit to the post, but I really dislike reading the phrase "That being said" and "Having said that" I see it more and more as time passes; news articles, blogs, reddit posts, hacker news replies.
This is super time consuming. You’re looking at 5 minutes just to log in. Something like 1Password is much easier
I would say concur is worse for submitters and Expensify is worse for admins
This is a pure logistics thing.

It is much much more prudent to close for two weeks, monitor the situation, and adapt accordingly. It is pretty painless to extend a closure if you need, but it is basically impossible to un-cancel the semester once you have cancelled it.
They might if they were the kids of people working at the nursing home. I am not sure if this strategy will work either but I get it -- every infected and recovered individual is another control rod pushed into the out-of-control atomic pile.
That may explain but certainly not excuse. We submit our individual freedoms to governments we vote for to be able to act better than our ingrained short term reflexes. Best and brightest and all.

It's also not necessarily an indictment of democracy- Taiwan clearly has been on the ball here. But it is absolutely an indictment of our current state of affairs in many western countries.
Exercises and frequent quizzes. Passive learning is not learning.
I’ve used this too, and for quite a long time. Very happy with it. State can be synchronized, which makes it easy to use across multiple devices.

I switched to this from my own algorithm which I mentioned here about a decade ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431480
Thank you for sharing. Your comment has highlighted the importance of making sure my household is prepared
That's what I'm struggling to understand. They open by describing the magic that comes from just computing the passwords every time you need them. As they say, "It does not need to sync your devices". And then they explain that they had to build a "connected" version, because¸ as far as I can tell, their core approach doesn't work in practice.
I don't know about a few weeks, but if it spreads quickly the peak could be here sooner than we might think.

I don't think anyone can predict the future, in any direction.
All epidemiologists agree with this. All of them. They've been making public statements to that effect and signing letters reiterating the urgency of the situation.

So what are you saying exactly? I don't understand what your point is!

I'm agreeing with the epidemiologists. Their maths checks out. It's the same maths as my maths. It's the same maths as everyone's maths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

The only people I hear disagreements from are people who don't know how to use a calculator, Or they do, but haven't bothered. Nonetheless, they seem to have lots of time argue online, dismissing logical, coherent, and factual arguments without making any defensible statements of their own.
Thank you :) fair point. I'll add filtering by domain, and then maybe by hash tags. Though it might be tricky to identify the category across different sites.
That's cause you're smart, and read hN!
It's not just democracy, it includes all forms of human organization, whether it be democratic or dictatorial. I believe it will only change once we genetically engineer people to be less self serving. Barring that, I don't see how one can solve this problem.
"Thanks in advance" is kind of like the no-smoking signs that they changed to say "thank you for not smoking". Normally you thank someone after they do something, but by thanking them "in advance", you're passive-aggressively pressuring them to do the thing. After all, you've already thanked them, so they owe it to you.
There's really not a 1:1 relationship between "college" and "white collar", and "curiosity".

Plenty of people with their fancy college degree are incurious, and plenty of people that barely made it out of high school are curious.

It's an appealing shorthand, but it's not a great one.
>uh, except... the one we all just watched be successfully implemented in Wuhan?

China have successfully paused the epidemic, but they haven't stopped it. Unless we fully eradicate the disease globally (highly unlikely given the presence of asymptomatic carriers and the spread of the disease to low-income countries), they'll be back to the beginning of the exponential curve as soon as the lockdown is lifted. That's better than nothing, but it's a million miles from a solution.
...why would this require apps? It's a static website.
Isn't "Thanks in advance" precisely a way of saying "I am thanking you now for something I am expecting will be done only in the (near) future"?
agreed. i teach yoga a lot and that's all i've been dealing with. "out of an abundance of caution we'll be limiting class size to x" (which number does not allow for even four feet of space between students). they're coming around but the phrase is like an eye roll in these cases. it could be asterisk'd with "people get sick, grow the f up"
Who is saying quarantine isn't effective?
Not empty at all, maybe a shipment came in, though.
People use Gmail. They don't care about portability as long as it just works.
Please kindly explain to me how on earth a dirty car and a dirty home is better. I'm having a lot of trouble taking this reply seriously, but I'm trying to follow HN guidelines.
You mean you've been making new, unpredictable passwords by tracking only the usernames and counters? You must be good at hashing ;) Seriously though: this is going to be relatively secure only if each counter increase gives you entirely random password.
Police favorite: "high rate of speed"
Because Walmart already has the infrastructure to (a) set up drive-through testing sites, (b) employees to perform the tests, and (c) the distribution network to get this test to the majority of America very quickly. Your local hospital, not being part of a larger chain or system, does not.

These tests are all drive through, that is why you don't need PPE to go in, because you don't need to go in.

I don't understand the HN hivemind that American companies wanting to help out Americans is a bad thing.
One time I was asked a question while explaining something to a professor. I thought it was a really impressive and insightful question, so I said "that's a great question." I was briefly bewildered when he didn't register my complement, but then I realized...
The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card
It's so unfortunate that Western society also seems to be losing trust in experts. As the world gets more complicated one would expect that trust in experts would be more important.
Most vaccines take 1.5 to 2 years to develop. By then most of the population will have been infected by it and will develop a natural immunity or resistance to it.
Oh my! You really do this? Most sites these days ask Security questions and it is no longer a single click from email.

In addition, certain sites log you out after the change-password action and require you to explicitly login right after.

Explicitly not storing the password sounds.. brave? stupid?
The name is a bit unfortunate / harmful. LastPass exists. They can be more creative.
> These types of organized "corona parties"

What if we gave a corona party and nobody came? Seriously, I don't think forcing people to be infected is ethical in any way whatsoever, unless you are a truly brutal trolley-pushing utilitarian, and very confident that your strategy will work....
Reassuring - thank you!
On Facebook I saw Paul Buchheit sharing Tomas Pueyo's medium post. I was stunned that PB would share models created by someone who clearly has so little knowledge of epidemiology.

I was unable to comment and call Paul out on this, due to Paul Buchheit's privacy settings allowing only his Facebook friends to comment, not any arbitrary Facebook followers. It's very frustrating to not have an outlet to comment on and critique what is clear misinformation.
Yeah this basically reads to me as UK doesn’t give a shit about it’s seniors since death is inevitable.

Once a vaccine that works is out I’m sure most of the world will get it. The lockdown is all about preventing (early) deaths.
I'm not familiar with the term 'submarine' in this context, does that refer to some sort of stealth advertising?
We have relevant training data for a number of languages.
I know a conservative/right-wing kind of guy who thinks all the people trying to prep for disaster right now are dumb media sheep for falling for the coronavirus craze or whatever that means. I'm paraphrasing. I know he's not the only one who thinks this way, because there have been a bunch of instances even on HN where common people genuinely worried about their and their family's safety and wellbeing are mocked like this. This attitude is not uncommon here in the U.S. I said this earlier today too, these same asshole people are the same ones who will ask "Oh, well why didn't you prepare?" when disaster does happen. I think it's because these people have money or something that gives them such a huge sense of security, they believe that even if something bad could happen, they would still come out okay.
Thanks. Oof. Well, at least it wasn't _completely_ out of thin air =/
> Shkreli was charged in federal court, then convicted on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiring to commit securities fraud. In 2018, Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and up to $7.4 million in fines.
The leaders all have math literate advisors. They ignore them for a variety of reasons.
https://www.livescience.com/46123-many-americans-creationist...

This has nothing to do with the politicians.
This is a false dichotomy. There is no particular reason to believe that China’s approach is the only correct path, other than it’s the one they used.
Is what you're talking about equivalent to Frutarianism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism

I certainly respect people doing that. But my perspective is that until we can photosynthesize, we're dependent on exploiting other forms of life to survive. Even modern fruit trees have been vastly changed from their natural equivalents, and farming of course creates major ecosystem changes that we're still morally responsible for, even if we're not directly killing plants.

Can we eventually get to some sort of technological plateau where we go right from inanimate objects to survival? Eventually, I'm sure. But until then, there's no morally pure way to survive, so I'm going to carry on being an omnivore and aim for reasonable harm reduction instead of purity.
There are enough honest, intelligent scientifically-minded people who want to be government leaders. They don't get elected. Current political system favors demagogues.
That apparently makes very little difference. I listened to an interview with a Yale professor who cited stories that showed minimal impact. The supposed reason is that by the time you know a country has an outbreak, it's already to late and people from there will have travelled to your country. What apparently had been shown to be very effective is preemptive school closures. Unfortunately that's a tough call because we can't have a well functioning social system liked other developed countries.

Interview: https://samharris.org/podcasts/190-respond-coronavirus
And how useful the whole dietary probiotic thing is is fairly controversial, anyway.
About those hundreds of academics: about 90% seem to be mathematicians. I checked two at random and none of their top publications were about epidemiology. You can be a scientist, yet know effectively nothing on a specific topic.
(I didn’t downvote you). I actually think this is the one time the media’s criticism isn’t hyperbolic (Trump always merits criticism, but somehow the media takes it to ridiculous extremes). I don’t think Trump is the frothing racist he’s made out to be (although I’m sure he has all sorts of subconscious biases), but he is an idiot narcissist with a national crisis on his hands and he seems to be handling it miserably.

Why didn’t we have testing in place sooner? Even if you pin the blame on the CDC, why weren’t there remediation plans announced publicly/immediately? Why is there still no word about how we will manage the crisis when it hits? What of ordering more ventilators and other necessary equipment or scaling up hospital capacity? What of containment measures to slow the spread? How are we going to ramp up testing (I’m grateful for the Roche test deal but who knows if Trump was even aware of or involved in it)? This isn’t leadership even by the crudest standard, and people will die as a consequence.

To his credit, he’s working with “Google” to make the website and that’s not nothing, but there’s still a lot to be done and he gives no impression of proactivity or even merely reacting to what is already happening in other countries. I don’t want to be in the middle of the crisis hearing him shift the blame onto the Obama administration when there’s plenty he could have done or plenty he could be doing to mitigate.
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I used to use another one, https://chriszarate.github.io/supergenpass/
I see black. Maybe the OP wasnt clear?

This is a joke btw, if you see it as anything else, go see a counsellor when this corona thing is over.
Humanity won't die out. That's supposed to be comforting when I might or my family might? What a bunch of bullshit.
I usually try to stay out of downvote discussions -- the HN guidelines ask us to not engage in such -- but I'm going to suggest that you are going to see a lot more trigger-happy downvotes because there's a pandemic on and it satisfies some psychological desire to shut something -- anything! -- down with a vengeance and post haste.

I would be inclined to assume that voting on all forums will be less rational, less calm, cool and collected and yadda for some weeks to come.

And when people are actually sick and running a fever, that will amplify the problem. I live with chronic health issues and other stressors. No amount of provisos is ever enough to get other people to not have knee jerk stupid reactions to me failing to be perfectly calm, cool and collected.

I imagine you are going to see a whole lot of upset and unwell people bouncing off each other and escalating tension instead of calming it down and this will go on for the duration of the crisis. As a wild ass guess.
I have been telling a lot of my friends this, but many are scheduled to work on Monday (most in public-interacting roles) and if they don't go to work, they lose their job and can't make rent next month.

This is a real issue, and I have no solutions. The only thing I've been saying to them is that all bars and restaurants will be closed here in 2-3 weeks and that their bosses will understand then. They are understandably worried that in the aftermath of all of this, there will be so many unemployed servers/bartenders/cooks/drivers that it will be difficult or impossible to get their job, or any other job, back, with no way to pay rent in April or perhaps May either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572033
> The question is when will this virus go away? (if ever).

Probably never. It seems fairly likely there’ll be a vaccine in the next couple of years.
> There aren’t any in theory, but there absolutely is a limit in practice. Beyond a certain point if you’re caught you will be arrested and surely convicted for reckless endangerment.

Any "limit in practice" is not a prescribed limit. The whole point of posted, visible speed limits is that everyone knows what they are ahead of time. They're not a substitute for using your brain.

(Also in practice if you go too fast you'll run up against physics and literally burn up due to atmospheric drag.)

> And how do you plan to get up to that speed?

OP's example is a world-class track sprinter. Usain Bolt just runs fast (for 100-400m).

In my state, non-motorized bicycles may use the sidewalk freely. When riding on the sidewalk, cyclists are considered pedestrians. They (like all other pedestrians) must be courteous to other pedestrians, but there is no speed limit.

In theory, on a long enough sidewalk without ramps, alleys, obstructions, etc, a cyclist could plausibly exceed 30 mph without being discourteous to anyone or endangering others. There are some sidewalks like this in the industrial parts of my town, although I'm certainly not suggesting anyone try it.
Reminds me of "Tropes are not bad": https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TropesA...
We can’t build small homes anymore
The majority of spread is from small groups/gatherings, not stadiums and such. Restaurants, cafes, offices, homes, et c.
Depends how high they fly.
I was addressing the general pattern of why "these same people would literally be upset".

In service of converging on the nuanced truth, I do agree that the specific of conflating Google and associated entities isn't a particularly big deal.

The suspect bit here is the claim of "1700 people working on it", which doesn't add up no matter how you try to slice it. It obviously doesn't take that many people to make a website. It doesn't even take that many people to scale a website, given the modern options available. I think the most plausible explanation is trying to claim entire departments responsible for the infrastructure that will be used, but they're still not "working" on it. Regardless of how the figure could possibly be justified, it doesn't have any purpose in the speech besides conveying a feeling of big/strong/powerful - ie an emotional platitude.

I do understand why Trump won. I personally have been quite tolerant of Trump, chalking most of the outrage up to differences in taste, and trying to explain this to others. That is, tolerant up until now when we're three weeks behind with our society's coronavirus response, and he's still spouting ineffectual bullshit.
Parent presumably means no regular people. I had a similar experience: a month ago I suddenly realized we may need to be isolated at home for up to 2 months. I live in a place where that's actually fairly practical. Except our generator was broken. So I left work, drove to town immediately with the idea that I might be able to get the last generator as they sold out given that everyone else surely would be also buying a generator. Then over the next month I watched as Costco stacked a huge pile of generators near the entrance, eventually hand sanitizer sold out, flu medication, Isopropyl alcohol, and finally TP. I think you can still get a generator though.