skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't mean those cases are "asymptomatic". Most people who get the disease fare about as they would with a flu. I'd also venture to guess that most people do not go to the hospital unless things are really bad (e.g. they can't breathe on their own). Furthermore, because not everyone at the hospital gets tested, I'd also guess that there's a number of cases where deaths are misattributed to plain old flu, too, since it's the flu season still, and some of those who are dying "of coronavirus" would have died regardless.
Machine Learning and the Novel Coronavirus – Lessons from China
Folks should know that this approach will not accommodate upcoming changes to Chrome extensions, which will disallow all remotely-hosted code: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte.... More up-to-date guide here https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/migrating_to_manifes..., with a timeline of 2020. I understand why

> one thing we wanted to prevent was developers including the stock SDK directly in the extension

(and I feel for Streak, having worked on a Gmail extension (Mixmax) until recently), but this seems to be exactly what manifest v3 will require. Curious if you have another strategy, @alooPotato.
What makes it amazing is that it does not happen at all.
I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it
Sweden, like the UK and possibly the Netherlands has chosen to let the disease spread among the population to achieve what they call "herd immunity" [1 - Swedish]. There might be some truth to the herd immunity thought, the problem is they don't have any control over the speed at which the infection will spread through society. Eventually everyone who can be infected will get infected no matter what is done so that herd immunity will also occur in a situation where the spread is limited by isolation as is done in most other countries. In other words, herd immunity is a given outcome of all approaches and as such does not need to be stated as a goal. The goal should be to limit the load on the health care system so as to limit the number of people who will die in the wake of reverse triage in an overloaded system.

In short, the stated goal will always be achieved so it is a variable which can be struck from the equation. Having this as a goal is the equivalent of not having any goal at all.

[1] https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/strategin-lat-manga-smittas...
With the small difference that the code written in CL runs blazing fast versus pure Python.
"we've built the entire internet and banking systems around it"

Yes, but in those scenarios we use keys that are truly random. Deriving a symmetric key from a password and encrypting another password with it is simply never going to be as secure. You're better off storing it locally.
I have found the opposite. Having come from managing front line retail and routine office jobs, I know that routines and schedules become a mindless stifling prison. It's remarkably oppressive to mark out every cent of your life, every action you can take for the next year of your life onto an excel spreadsheet, knowing it's your responsibility to adhere to an endless grind and make sure everyone under you adheres to the same grind.

The option to pursue an exciting and highly rewarding goal for a few days without having to think about what the Joneses think about the particularities of my dressing habits or adherence to a schedule can be a great gain.
> I then tried to use Gmail.js for a while, but it seems not that stable

Unlike InboxSDK, Gmail.js is open source. You actually do have the power to fix things if you like.

I think that’s an important difference. I’ve fixed things in Gmail.js when I needed them fixed.

Have you?
the tech community (i.e. us) celebrated the mobile "revolution" and simple (i.e. dumbed down) UIs for more than a decade. You reap what you sow though, you have kids growing up not knowing what a file is. This is no testament to the success of the mobile and dumb-down revolution either: people use their phones more, but the only action they know is scroll and like, so it s not like the UX empowered people, it just steered all their energy to consuming. There is less and less features everywhere, and we are now celebrating new emojis. We are essentially creating a new inequality with the "dumbit down" revolution which pushes people to walled gardens and single-function apps to avoid the pain of learning elementary configuration.

In more concrete terms, Apple is probably the first preacher of hiding complexity behind a mask, and then almost everyone followed, even those that shouldnt (e.g. linux, windows). Gone are the logical, consistent , hierarchical UIs like windows 95, now windows doesnt even have a start menu and you need a search bar to navigate the control panel. Of course people will never learn about a directory tree if they never see one, but those concepts are key and undestanding them simplifies the understanding of just about anything.
Do not buy fake Instagram followers. Make them yourself and grow
> The full danger was unknown in the initial stages.

The danger was sufficiently known, sufficiently early.

Those sounding the alarm were silenced.
Amazon removes anime figures from storefront for “promoting child exploitation”
If you want to see your life ruined, watch this deep dive into Mesa/Cedar environment. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

One of the first workstation OSes written in a memory safe systems programming languages, early 80's at Xerox PARC.
I would highly recommend Fellow Creatures by Christine Korsgaard. There was a good review in the NYRB, if you have access: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/21/christine-korsga...

I don't have any background in philosophy or ethics, but I found it relatively accessible and well-argued; it helped to crystallize a lot of my thoughts on the topic.
If browsers started doing that now, passwords that used to work would stop working.
However, the rent on your offices, the interest on your mortgage, and your school fees will not.
Whole milk. I tried the heavier dairy products but they slowed things to a crawl.

The feeding tube is actually very narrow. I tried blending spinach and other assorted vegetables and it clogged it.

You have to do a intro with a person before they install it. They showed me a example of what the tube would be. He showed me what was essentially a half inch vinyl tube with one of those locking clamps you have to squeeze down to close.

It was huge and I was terrified. I just didn't understand how I would be able to sleep with it in. I thought I could blitz a steak and put it in the tube.

But the tube is tiny. After a few weeks you barely notice it. The entire concept of it is terrifying. I couldn't look at mine for a week. That isn't a joke. The concept just flipped me out.

But I thought it was weird that every doctor through my path mentioned that they could take it out in seconds if I didn't like it. Not a big deal, we just pop it out and put on a band-aid. No big deal. ENT person, Nutritionist, Radiologist, Oncologist, Oral Surgeon. It was almost scripted. Everyone said the same thing.

Now I understand. I would have died without it. The Radiologist said as much the first time I met him. "25% of the people with what you have don't get the tube, most of those people are dead now"... I thought that was hyperbole. It wasn't.

I think I had the worst schedule ever. My first treatment of radiation was at 8am. Surgery to put in the feeding tube at 9:30. First chemo at 1PM. It is hard to top that Monday. But I went in for the feeding tube and was completely knocked out. When I woke up they said they couldn't do it. So plan B was needed. From what I gather my stomach rides high so they ended up needing to push my stomach down and then stitching my stomach lower to hold it in place. This was incredibly painful. I did learn that OXY is actually a fairly weak narcotic compared to what they can give you. This dude got high.

Well fuck, I typed a lot but answered your query in the first sentence. I think I am just trying to get my story out before I turn to dust.
I had/have mouth neck cancer. The mouth part was at the very base of my tongue where it enters the throat. The hole they dug via robotic surgery on my tongue is 1x1x.5 I was told half of all people who undergo this end up with a permanent feeding tube so I should try my best to keep eating. Started radiation 2 weeks after surgery while I still couldn't swallow my spit. I ended up mostly surviving on the softest and most calorie dense concoction I could think of - yogurt with both caramel ice cream sauce and maple syrup mixed in. After 6 months I had learned both what pain really was and what morphine withdrawal meant in real terms. I've had 3 clean PET scans since but I sometimes lie awake wondering if I can force myself to go through it again if the test comes back positive. The 24/7 pain of that 6 month stretch will change the way you look at things in your life.
Hardly,

"Allen: Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue....

Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels?

Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C. A. R. Hoare, Turing award lecture in 1981,
I thought this was going to help me with Project Euler 261 [0], but it's not exactly the same, so no luck so far. Cool article anyway; linking geometry and algebra is always satisfactory.

[0] https://projecteuler.net/problem=261
As Singapore, and Hong Kong are so small do the lessons learnt there actually apply in larger more connected countries?
The capture of Normandy didn't take a single day - it took over a month with ~120,000 Allied casualties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy
Flattening the curve is what everyone is trying to do and it obviously helps.

The issue is that for example the UK have said that they want to flatten the curve to protect the health services while also wanting to build herd immunity rapidly, perhaps by the end of the year.

These are mutually exclusive.

Either drastic measures are taken to flatten the curve a lot, or the health services will collapse and many people in serious condition won't receive any treatment at all.
I am k8s dev, but also I think Helm is antipattern. Still thanks for sharing your experience, who knows, maybe worth to look again on Pulumi. (:
Ask HN: Where to find specifications for pressure for an Iron Lung
The Pandemic Ventilator project aims to build a positive airflow ventilator. It occurs to me that it might be much easier to do a modern DIY iron lung. Modern implying digital control. As I assess feasibility, the range of air pressure required has so far eluded my Googling. Pointers? Ideas? Thoughts?
i wonder if it's really true that "few people" have it. We do observe a huge amount of people going to the hospital in italy, but that could very well be because we reached the peak of the epidemie, where almost all of the population have been infected and remain asymptomatic.
in this hypothesis, you implement a lockdown and see number drops over two week but what you're really seing is a population reaching herd immunity.
I couldn’t find any evidence in the link about new cases in a city exceeding that for a province. Do you have any source for that? Or any other evidence that numbers may be misleading in China? Given their past record it does seem likely, but I suspect their social distancing measures have been at least partly successful.
Especially for the color-blind; specifically, those with tritanopia would find it difficult to distinguish the violet recovered balls from the brown sick balls.
> And the fact that your passwords are deterministic means that somebody who has one of your passwords can learn the master from it and pwn you everywhere.

Don’t use a trivial master password then… if you only need to remember one password, it may as well be one that can’t be cracked with a single fast hash, let alone PBKDF2x100000.
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You are arguing based on your anecdata vs actual longitudinal/ in depth analysis. Sure you and most of the people you immediately knew treated your animals well (my extended family was the same) - that does not negate the reality of factory farms in general.
Why can't people use keepass in local environment, or store the database in sftp? Why do people try so hard to use "cloud" based clearly unsecure solutions?
A quite black-and-white view to take when it's shown pretty well in this letter how the containment strategy they adopted apparently cut down the transmission a lot and potentially prevented many deaths. Would an alternative government that you propose do better in China? Very debatable. The world is not a good vs. evil story you know.
Most of the big events seem to have decided to shutdown on their own, I'm not sure a ban would make a huge difference now.
As I said: These people should be educated and motivated. They have to learn about the consequences of these decisions. Only if that does not work I would restrict EBT to healthier foods.

On a personal note: I agree with you. It‘s hilarious what people buy even when they are on a tight budget.
Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering
Props to @travmatt for this find (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401990)
I didn't make any claim about whether it'd work or not- I stated that so far, it has only been proven in vitro.

Afraid that means I'll have to subtract 100 points from your tally and add a demerit for shoddy work during a crisis.
As far as I am aware it is incredibly unlikely to have been engineered. The virus is very similar to those in animals already, and there are no tell tale signs of CRISPR being used (off site effects where unintentional areas are also targeted). While it is possible it could have been perfectly engineered from a very similar virus in a way to avoid leaving signs of engineering (which I think is pretty unlikely), there is no motivation. If you wanted to do this, surely you would immunise your own people against it first to reduce local damage? And for saying the USA planted it in China.... it’s just stupid. I mean, the USA is managing this terribly. If they had planned it surely they would have stockpiled enough masks or medication to make this work.
That's so incredibly selfish. Why not get friends outside of work?
I crosposted to LinkedIn in case you want to avoid the Medium paywall https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machine-learning-novel-corona...
I would argue that your father's actions are brutally rational: get the virus now, so he still has a shot at a ventilator before the system is swamped. He could be recovered and immune when the rest of you are figthing over the ICU.

Not exactly neighbourly though.
Related video that I liked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
The distribution of age of corona patients on the ICU is NOT the same as the age distribution of all corona patients vs. disease severity. It could be and quite possibly is the case that many people below the age of 50 are infected but never reach an ICU. Most get better without severe symptoms, so looking at ICU admission stats is misleading if you extrapolate the data to the whole population.

I hate that this fact is spreading in the Netherlands without a proper explanation.
Singapore and HK are ultraconnected city states. If they can do it larger sparser countries should be able to do it.

Both of them have more than 5 million people so they aren't tiny either.
I would say it depends on the routine, but if it's something you can do every day, it breaks up the day in several pieces, and you get to do different things per any given day instead of just one activity.

In my case, when I was in college, there would be days on end where I wouldn't leave my dorm. I'd hang around in pjs doing pretty much the same thing all day long: get in front of the computer, do whatever, eat in front of the computer, continue doing whatever, get the laptop in bed, fall asleep. Repeat the next day. After a while I really had the impression of "doing nothing" or of "always doing the same thing".

Nowadays, when I work from home, I get up, make the bed, put my workout clothes on, do my workout routine, take a shower, eat a protein shake, get dressed "for work" (ie put on a clean tshirt so as to be presentable on a video call), get in front of the computer, start up Teams and get to work. I try to take a break every hour or so to move around a bit (do some push-ups / pull-ups), drink a glass of water, look out the window, then get back to work. Around 6 PM, when the office hours are done, I finish up whatever I'm doing then quit Teams, quit the mail program, and I'm done for the day.

Now YMMV, but I find that the days when I go straight to work and just do the work part, sometimes still in my pjs as in college, I really get the feeling that I've accomplished less. I find that for me, breaking up the day with some activities helps to not perceive it as being monotonous, just doing one thing all day long. At least for me it's important for whatever breaks I take to not just be in front of the computer, like browsing hn or whatever. That's why I like moving around a bit and looking out the window.

This is something that I'm not as likely to do in the office. There are more distractions, even though I'm not in a proper open space, so it takes me more time to "get in the zone" and I'm also less inclined to break it whenever I'm in it cause I never now when I'll be able to get back. Also, I enjoy calm during my breaks, so people on the phone or talking to each other and other random noises are more likely than not to stop me from walking around outside the office.
I actually very much do need to seriously face that possibility. And I still think complete isolation is too extreme.
Where did you read that people were "dying in the hallways of hospitals"?
On the other hand the next election is nearly five years away, by then most of them will have fallen off their perch anyway.
Could you cite these sources please?
Not sure if this is a parody or not. So in your logic anything good being said about CCP is surely their propaganda, and they can do nothing else but being evil and destroying the world? Well I have bad news for you: the world is probably not as black-and-white, good vs. evil as you think. They do some stuffs wrong or at least controversial, and also some others right, or effective, just like every other political entity. Otherwise China would definitely not be where it is today, economically. Even the WHO recommended a lot the actions by China. Memeing them like Kim Jong-Un doesn't get you anywhere.
This is why I love soy milk without additives. It fills all of these criteria plus my additional criteria of being infinitely more ethical to sentient beings.
Unless you mess up the webcam’s angle, you don’t really need to wear pants (aka Donald Duck’s outfit).
> from seeds partially known to the attacker

That’s heavily misleading, like complaining encryption is performed using a key partially known to the attacker because a nonce/IV is involved. The site name and username are there to derive different keys, not provide security.
Publishing multiple event types to a topic
You can do this for free with the open source Jitsi project, use https://meet.jit.si or install your own.
> we're sure to discover some pretty incredible geological wonders

This is a wonder from a certain perspective, but I'm not sure "the world where you immediately burst into flame and die painfully" can ever really achieve mass appeal.
> the original thought was that you would not be able to afford to store all the bytes of every packet

I would phrase that differently. The idea was that you can explicitly capture shorter packets, because often you're interested in the flow/metadata only. That means you can still capture all the protocol and application headers/commands without storing the whole 1.5KB packet.

This is very handy when you capture on a non-dedicated hardware for ad-hoc analysis. Especially if you only have a vanilla kernel and capture using tcpdump.
Text is one way. You cannot have a fluid conversation via text. Voice and voice+video are faster, plus they carry more information, prevent misunderstandings etc.
Also, I think European houses and apartment buildings are built from brick, stone and concrete, while in US most of "homes" are wood and drywall, which doesn't isolate as well.
Have you though about joining your country’s naval reserve?
> Why can't people use keepass in local environment

How do I use it on my phone then?

> or store the database in sftp

SFTP where? The "cloud"?

> Why do people try so hard to use "cloud" based clearly unsecure solutions?

Because it is the easiest and most convenient and most useful.
Why are these two the alternatives? In the wild, these animals wouldn't exist. They were born into a life of forced slavery, rape, and murder but that life otherwise wouldn't exist.
> The choice to store two lengths in the packet header means that you can record both the actual wire length--the number of bytes that came in--and a bigger number that says where the next record starts, and any metadata you like in the gap.

> There is a very complicated "NG" pcap format, but nobody uses it.

This is the reason that pcapng was created - to formalize the structure of this metadata. pcapng "Pcap Next Generation" (2006) is an update to the pcap format (which originated with libpcap/tcpdump in the 90s). It's used in the networking industry as it's the default output file of wireshark, tshark, and tcpdump to capture traffic. If you use these tools, chances are that you have pcapng files.

The biggest reason to use it over pcap (in networking) is that you can save packets from multiple network interfaces. If you have a wireless access point and want to capture both ethernet and 802.11 traffic in the same capture, pcapng would be necessary.