skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably worse than that though as there are quite a few US cities with a bit of light rail plus buses that are at least as good as SF. There's reasonable transport into and out of SF via Caltrain and BART but the transit within the city is pretty limited.
One of my classmates in an IT course was named Aragorn.

I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.
Wow, I hadn’t heard of this before, even after reading other replies to this post! Looks pretty nice, hits just about every point on my personal wishlist. I’m going to use this.
Of course, this is Google.
Everything overlaps with something can get shut down after a promo cycle.
The most extensive writeup with references that I have seen so far is at https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/ . Not sure if this is an original summary, or ripped off from some other site though.
Cherry Red Roadster*

* Rocket not included. Your millage is guaranteed unlimited after the first 30 minutes. Prone to rapid unscheduled disassembly.
> The lack of testing will maybe turn out to be one of the biggest scandals of my lifetime.

If I had to choose one thing that should change right now, it is this. Aggressive testing of everyone, starting with contact persons, persons travelling from high risk areas and then basically everyone. Would allow a much better understanding of the situation and make any measures way more effective.

Other than that, the measures taken seem reasonable based on the situation when they ware taken (for expectations, refer to testing).
Eh? The ML One is ~$2-3k. Or are you talking about something else?
Link is just an image. As far as I can see from the JS part, redirection is failing.

var language = window.navigator.language;

if(language == 'en-US')
{
window.location.href = 'https://www.atlantica-app.com/en/home'
}

else if(language == 'pt' || language == 'pt-BR'){
window.location.href = 'https://www.atlantica-app.com/pt/home'
}
Note that I wrote "worst likely scenario" not "worst possible scenario."

Worst possible scenario is not really useful for short to mid term planning in an unconstrained event space (gamma ray burst or massive meteor hits Earth, etc.).
Why does that technology, with attendant attack surface, need to be in consumer chips on consumer motherboards?

Besides, we already had a solution for this. It can be provided with add-in cards.
> "Internet-of-Things attestation" ?? A poor attempt to stick a refreshing buzzword in front of a fundamentally unwanted user-betraying open-society-undermining technology.

While I agree with you at a consumer level, at the industrial level this is a thing. Like, imagine a vertical farm that is controlled by a thousand, networked on-prem robots. An "attestation" mechanism makes setting this up easier and less-error prone.
I've heard plenty of people say it was a fraud, but I've not met any who believes that strongly. A gentle correction has always resulted in a shrug and "yeah I guess you're right, that makes sense." So while Y2K skepticism is real and widespread, I don't think it's really something to worry about. It doesn't seem to be a matter people are passionately wrong about. It's not like antivaxxers where corrections are met with insults and accusations of conspiracy.
Gzip isn't going to compress as well as a binary format would. SVG is XML and while it has text components that can be compressed, it will reach limits. Plus, if you compress the binary, it could be reduced even further.

Using a byte encoding for element types and numeric values over strings would likely dramatically reduce sizes. For example:

<z:rect x="0" y="0" width="10" height="10"/>

Could be binary encoded as something like:

00 00000000 00000000 00000110 00000110

(shape, x, y, width, height)

Total size of compress XML is probably 30-40 bytes. Final binary size is 16-18 bytes.
i'll add it prevents runs on the bank which, in turn, prevents the market from bottoming out. But even then, if banks lose access to cash and money stops moving there is no market. There's nothing.

I think many people in this thread don't understand the gravity of money ceasing to move around the global economy.
The comment I replied to was saying that the lack of testing was indeed a political issue with one side at fault.
I am always amused by headlines like this. I do not understand why the people expect earth to react to keep humans alive. Earth does what it does. We do what we do and should be willing to face the consequences.
Ok so it’s like... third in the country with those qualifiers.
Yes, but you get to partake of the pollution no matter whether you personally operate a car or not. So, drive away!

Externalities are a hell of a drug.
The list of similarities is long. Coronavirus is also a global threat facing all of humanity. Similar to climate change deniers, there is tons of misinformation on the question in the internet. The poorest will suffer most in both instances.
USA has a habit of using medical personal as spies so understandable if countries don't trust them. WHO had already provided testing kits but US didn't accept wanted to build it own bungled it the first time and is waiting for private companies to build the tests. CDC was not allowing hospitals and labs to do their own testing so I think you guys should stop blaming China and start looking inwards. Had US done everything perfectly then balmed China then it would be understandable so far they have bungled all the steps now blaming China for it. South Korea, Singapore the rest of Chinese neighbors didn't need to go to China to be on the ball. But oh China didn't allow usa inside China.
You're right about superstitions but I think it's disingenuous to take a statement about engineering practices and expand it to include all statements ever made about how to do anything.
Now here's a crisis we can deal with. I hope COVID's rapid and haphazard response will teach us drastic changes are not so terrible and not so scarey when implemented slowly.
South Korea has been running 10k tests per day since February.

The US has run less than 10k in total. That is a colossal failure.
>Ahh, the old cowardly downvote without comment because you don't like the reality of the situation that there is one party that's very much to blame

People are probably downvoting silently this time because explaining to you that you're obliviously consuming propaganda is one step deeper into flamewar territory which is unpopular on HN (and against the rules).

Case in point? Media reports that bill forcing employers to provide sick leave failed to pass because of evil Republicans. What you won't see on the news is the nuance that such a bill can't be passed without possibly bankrupting small businesses.

That's just one example. The administration shut down the border early on and was enthusiastically rewarded with accusations of sinophobia.

All politicians play this game. The US government institution has been rotting for decades, and yes, it really is a "both sides" issue when one side is so blinded by hatred that they refuse to acknowledge positive decisions.

There are literally almost as many people on the Republican side blindly dismissing everything Democrats do. Remember, Trump only lost the popular vote by 3%. Now is not the time for partisan idiocy.
Oh for sure, I don't expect it to have any significant impact.

Interesting point regarding HVAC usage, I am curious to see the density required for it to become a net positive.
> Bitcoin would work similarly, but with far less trust in centralized institutions.

And far more trust in anonymous, unaccountable actors, largely foreign from the perspective of any given trusting party.

Those centralized actors have, in the case of major states, have well established trust and accountability systems that maintain that trust. Bitcoin not only doesn't have that, it is fundamentally premised on preventing it.

There is a certain ideological phyle to which this is appealing, but I'm not convinced that generally it hard an advantage over centralized institutions in establishing user confidence.
Seems like something like these start to make sense again if you can live with the limitations:

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/result.php?model[]=973&... should be under 100$
Perhaps a bit too dire -- much work, and play, can be redirected for lower proximity, as has already begun. We'll be seeing a lot of tennis and golf on TV this summer, I would wager.

Ruinous nevertheless for elective healthcare, health clubs, barbers, and sit-down restaurants.
That's an inane take. Even in the absolute worst case scenario of 3% global mortality, how would that possibly result in a 50% global decrease in economic output?
This sounds like a dangerous mindset. "I don't ever want to even hear about it if what I'm doing is ridiculous". I am not attacking you or saying that what you're doing is wrong, I'm just curious/cautious about the motives behind not wanting to know if there are better/more productive ways of doing things that you just might not know about? Collaboration is usually a very good thing, in spite of the small % of terrible teammates you occasionally get.
We're around and it gained a bit more attention during a recent system wide change to many, more mainstream, distros that I'm sure most people here on HN don't really want to talk about (again).

I like it because it leans more closely to traditional BSD systems than System V variants like Red Hat.
I think civil unrest, like what happened when the French government raised fuel taxes, is the most likely outcome of a low carbon world.

People are willing to suffer short-term privations, especially when they are afraid of getting the coronavirus. People are not willing to suffer for years to reduce their carbon footprints.

It's also notable that the burdens of reducing carbon emissions fall disproportionately on the poor. The fuel taxes in France are a perfect example.
Coronavirus Funding for Your Startup
Freedom Controller: web-based digital archiver
Yeah, it's still not up at F1.com. But if the teams won't compete, there won't be a race, whether it's officially canceled or not.
Yes, it was a real potential crisis, and it was only ameliorated because lots of companies spent tons of money testing and reviewing their systems, and fixing bugs that they found.

Airplanes were probably never going to fall out of the sky at the stroke of midnight, but I personally fixed tons of bugs that had potential impacts in the dozens of millions of dollars.
I misread an thought it said Google Open Sources Code Search, hoping they open sourced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
So tell your Senator to pass the bill, then.

Any negative aspect here is entirely on the heads of the Republican senate majority for being worse than useless about any kind of public relief. They could easily get ahead of this thing by passing a lesser bill that provides some or temporary benefits, but that would mean helping people instead of corporations.
>Any time anything security relevant incident happens, you could make a private Slack channel named for the incident.

This might be a good start, but it makes me a little uncomfortable. In a true incident, there is a metric ton of stuff that I would not want to be discoverable. I like to set aside an area with locked-down access to keep the truly toxic material found during a serious incident.

And for startups or other small companies reading this--the things mentioned here should not be a big deal or take enormous time to do. The earlier you do what is recommended in the post, the happier everyone will be.

I'm reminded of my Dad's saying: Tires are like insurance: When you need it, it is too late.

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My understanding is that Rudy Gobert (who felt he was well enough to play) was in the team hotel, not at the arena.

In any case, that's moot, as Donovan Mitchell, who also tested positive, was at the arena and ready to play.
Show HN: I am creating a campaign to mitigate Covid-19 crisis in Spain
I have been thinking a lot why there is such a huge difference between mortality in Germany and Italy and I may have figured it out.

This understanding could be possibly applied in Spain to avoid or at least mitigate similar level crisis that is currently taking place in Italy.

I created a GitHub Pages based website http://www.savespain.eu/ for the campaign. My main motivation for this choice is to promote transparency and collaboration. The GitHub page is located here https://github.com/savespain-covid19/Save-Spain

The main takeaway is that the main difference is most likely in the family structure - many Italians live together with their extended family while Germans do not (or they have by some other means that I am not aware of kept their elderly not infected by the corona virus).

If you think that this thinking is plausible then please support this campaign by either contributing or by sharing. It is especially important to reach Spanish people. I do not know any unfortunately at the moment yet.

The time is running out fast. There are only few days left to act. Lets push this together and save Spain!
OpenSCAD is one of my favorite tools for building 3D printable things. I never could wrap my head around Blender or Solidworks, but OpenSCAD makes sense to me. It will be very interesting to see what it's like to work with it in a more familiar language.

Here's my most complex creation to date, a NASA spotlight/generator trailer to light up my LEGO Saturn V: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2758119
I suspect we will see a surge in food delivery business. Most people still don't like to cook.
it's backed by "the full faith and credit of the United States" but as more money gets created out of thin air the value of existing money goes down and the credit of the United States goes down.

That's the balance between deflation, healthy inflation, and over/hyper inflation. Managing that balance is 1/2 of the Federal Reserve's job.
You can't expect to put a cocktail dress on a horse and sell it as an exotic unicorn.
They had (have) some advantages that American car companies don't.

Those companies are good investments, if you are interested in holding stock for a long time, and have the patience to wait out what is a cyclical market.

One of the reasons why GM & Chrysler had to go to the gov't for loans in 2009 was that they literally hadn't enough money on hand to fund operations until normal lending from banks resumed...Ford didn't need a bailout (initially), b/c Mullaly had negotiated for a huge line of credit before the crisis, and Toyota didn't, b/c they were sitting on $50 billion in cash and could pay for operations with that.

Wall St. routinely loses its shit when a publicly-traded company accumulates cash like that...that money should go to buying back stock to drive up the price, or returned to the shareholders. Long term contingency planning...not so much.

Japanese, OTOH...

Likewise, as exporters into the US market, they can depend on a favorable monetary policy at home to make their products look more affordable, and they haven't the sort of labor-management dynamic that has been foisted on the US mfg. industry since the 1930s, either.
Word 'round the campire is that Faraday is shutting down. Is that still true?
Right, until we run out of labs, and/or the labs run out of materials.
> My understanding of it is that in times of high volatility, options go up. If OP expects ^VIX to go up in the future, which I think is very safe to assume at this point, then won't the value of a diversified option go up?

Only if it's not already priced in. The price of options should reflect the market's expectation of what the VIX will do in the future. If everybody else thinks that things are going to get more volatile in the near future, then prices for options go up now, they don't wait for things to actually get more volatile. So when you're deciding whether buying options is a good deal, you not only have to decide whether or not you think that things will be more volatile in the future, you also have to decide whether other people already know that things will be more volatile in the future.

It's pretty dangerous to do this unless you're a statistician with an algorithm that can take all emotion out of the decision. As a (non-sociopathic) human, your natural impulses will be subconsciously influenced by the emotions of the people around you, so when you have a gut feeling that things are gonna get rocky in the near future, it's probably because everyone else already had a gut feeling that things are gonna get rocky in the near future.
Reminds me of a story where it turned out that the entire Passover crowd where Pontius Pilate asks who should be pardoned are time travellers that have been told to do what everyone else does.
Ask HN: What protection is there to ensure DNA privacy when mass Corona testing?
Should I worry what other things the government will do with my test sample?

Should I trust the government when history shows they tend to abuse citizen trust if given to opportunity?
historically iphones have been better in terms of security. but the landscape has shifted since recent releases. Android security has come a long way. The problem is still that Android can't be compared with iphones due to fragmentation. The fragmentation has an unintended positive side-effect to offsec which is your Android exploits don't scale as well as for iphones due to monoculture.

this is a very good thread by thegrugq on ios vs android: https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1168981940462149644

edit: another thing that rubs me the wrong way about Apple recently is their stubborn stance against any outsider who might offer iOS introspection capabilities. this raises the bar for security researchers but is counterproductive to iOS security.
Thanks, for the compliment and for the links. I wasn't aware of him until now. I've little experience with the X# family, other than some Mono hacking on an OpenSim clone. Sounds interesting and will definitely read at least the Domain Modeling one, possibly the F#s too (never too late to add a piece of kit to your toolbox).
I honestly feel the same way. The pixel 3a is the Android device for me.
In comparison, Mike Bloomberg totally failed to take over a US presidential primary, and he spent almost half a billion dollars.
what if we add: "with one's feet firmly on the ground and legs bent at knee at more or less right angle?"
I don’t know what the right solution to the string problem should have been. Python 2’a string handling was bad, and programs used it inconsistently and nonsensically.

IMO the real problem is the near complete lack of static checking that you fixed it with. Sure, modern Python + mypy can do a credible job finding wrong-string-type bugs, but legacy Python 2 codebases don’t have the right annotations.

I do wish I could tell Python 3 to error out if I accidentally put a str and a bytes in the same dictionary as keys.
Part of why transit within SF is better than average is simply that SF is very dense by American standards, so even when buses are running slowly for raw speed, the effective distance traveled in terms of possible points of interest is still pretty good. This is important, because it means the number of things reachable within a 10 or 20 or 30 minute "transitshed" is high.

Anyway, the data doesn't lie: transit usage within SF is among the highest in the country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_hig...

> 5. San Francisco, California – 33.1%

Now, things are skewed a bit by SF being an unusually small principal city relative to its metro population. That pumps up its numbers compared to if the city boundaries included 1.5m or 2m of the metro pop, rather than ~900k.

Still though, 33% puts it near the top, and I can think of no single better metric of how useful transit is than how many people actually use transit to get around.
And, like others have pointed out, teams started working on fixes well in advance of the changeover (~4-5 years with the systems that I was familiar with), but even with the extra money and the extra time, there were systems that were not remediated until shortly before the changeover.
I think your definition is fair. I based mine on the dictionary.com definition which is pleasant, agreeable.

I don't feel that these traits overlap with honesty, respect, and decency.

There are positive traits that are easy and cheap and ones that are expensive and hard. Compliments are cheap and easy so I don't trust when people use them in the course of a sales conversation. Trust and respect are hard and expensive.
Thanks :) we are definitely trying not to re-invent the wheel. We have been using various open source tools that are available and have been building on top of those... if you know of something that you think would be particularly useful for us to look into, I would love to know about it.
It's also a great demonstration that it's really hard to get people to believe that something they can't see is real.

Coronavirus cases have been growing stably and predictably for weeks. Epidemiologists (and not only they) saw it coming. No panic would have been necessary if calm, decisive action had been taken early on. But somehow the panic seems to be necessary. Normalcy bias is real.

These past weeks have been really instructive about collective human behavior, and have me really worried about our ability as a species to address climate change.
Different perspectives help you grow. I can't imagine not getting feedback. We aren't ridiculed about code structure but given feedback that you can take, or not, with a discussion. It seems pretty problematic that getting feedback would make you "go nuts". Obviously this depends on the organization but, most of the time, I'm not talking about superficial stuff, like tabs over space, but legitimate changes that can improve my code. No one writes nothing but perfect code and having someone double check you can be immensely valuable.
The Framers also actively supported and participated in the slavery trade, believing it was perfectly reasonable and rational to own people as property.
I recall reading something about how stopping emissions outright would have a pretty dramatic adverse effect on global temperatures, because while the greenhouse effect is of course real, the emissions also act as reflection for incoming solar energy. This makes me wonder if we can fix this problem without real innovation, not just global production collapse (which is bad for other reasons, obviously).

If anyone can remind me about what I'm thinking of here, that would be awesome... or prove me wrong.

I'm by no means saying we shouldn't be planning and building more sustainable solutions (both policy and products), since that's EXACTLY what we need to be doing. I'm just also saying that to make this all work, I think we need to do more.
I think the main assumption is the remaining 97% of people are working with reduced output if they are working at all. Just because you didn't die doesn't mean you went to work and put in 100% of normal effort.
I hate to be the bearer of bad hot takes, but the burdens falling disproportionately on the poor is not a reason to avoid catastrophic global collapse.

Even though it's unfair, if the choice is "the burdens fall on the poor" and "the burdens fall on everyone (including the poor, who will be hit harder because they have fewer resources in reserve to survive unplanned catastrophe)", the first option is better.

(... it's also a false forced choice; there are other options. But the question of poverty runs somewhat separate to the question of saving humanity from climate change).
It's "only" a big loan, so the money will be reeled back in. It would only cause inflation if it sloshed around the system long enough for McDonalds workers to get some and use it to compete for consumer goods. As long as none of it makes it outside of "the system" we're fine.
They're literally blocking COVID emergency budget bills getting passed in the Senate

This is time to fall in line or be thrown out of your job.