skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Therefore, given that there is 24x more bandwidth in the downstream direction compared to upstream, it would make sense to offer 20:1 or higher ratios of DS:US speed to customers.

And yet 200/6 is >33:1, much less 1000/6 at 167:1.

Moreover, to even get to 24x you're using the full theoretical allocation for downstream but not for upstream, which would be 40MHz from 5-85MHz (extended frequency allocation) according to your link. Which would then be ~11x, implying (on average) 200/18 and 1000/90.

Also, who decided it should be impossible to allocate more channels to upload? I realize that's more a question of "who designed this crap" than "why aren't they doing this now" but when the parties responsible are still Comcast et al, that makes it hard to want to give them a pass for it. (Though credit where credit is due, DOCSIS 4.0 supports symmetrical uploads.)
In my city, landlords gang up on trees with see click fix. They express fake concern over power line proximity, just make up stories about dead branches or rot, etc.

It saves them a few hours of labor to pick up leaves.
Not really in this case. The list of native fastigiata trees available is reduced. Yew would be the closer one, but can be very problematic in public spaces
Any half-decent plot aimed at non-specialists will have "log scale" written in the title or surrounding description. The one linked by 'soVeryTired didn't, which is where FT dropped the ball. But it does not matter here.

The relevant axis on this chart is the time axis, the x axis. The chart is linear in it. You see a bunch of nearly identical trend lines, and you have to just count how many days a given country is behind Italy. It doesn't matter what scale the vertical axis is in.
That's already here and called JMAP, created by the Fastmail team: https://jmap.io/

Also this InboxSDK is for integrating in the Gmail webapp UI which many people use and want to stay within when adding functionality to their email service.
I particularly liked this compilation of lectures. Eco is great if you're interested in "postmodernism" without the (sometimes deserved) reputation for gleefully desecrating the classics. Different historical perspectives are examined and synthesized into arguments that are consistently interesting and thought-provoking.

For example, in the context of the sublimity of nature, Eco tries to define beauty as:

> when we are in the presence of something we are not a part of and do not wish to become a part of at any cost. In that distance lies the slender thread that separates the experience of beauty from other forms of passion.
do you mean that privacy could be a reason why? Yes, I bet there are several issue related to it, but I have no doubt that a solution to anonymize data could be found
anyone know if something similar is available for outlook.office.com
Google translate link to original article: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
> There are also the thousands of people employed full time in the autumn to pick up leaves
Don't they do any other maintenance work for the city?

And even if trees are not there won't grass/dust/pollen from plant flowers cause the allergy problem.
As long as growth remains linear in an exponential plot, you are nowhere near the saturation point. When about half the population is already infected, the number of new cases should grow roughly linearly. In Italy, it seems to still grow exponentially.

Itally has already passed the number of simultanous cases that their healthcare system can handle. I don't believe they really want to find out at what level the saturation point can be found. That could mean hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, dead.
While I didn't have high hopes to get a summary of a technical paper, since I spend a good chunk of time every week reading some related to exploits and mitigations for a podcast I host, I hoped this might help reduce time spent trying to get an overall understanding before diving into the details.

It actually did better than I expected with the paper "Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks" [0]

I copied and pasted the text from sections 3-7 (Case Studies - Conclusion) and Section 2 on its own (describes the attack)

It did pull out some important statements, better than I expected. Probably won't save me much time, but I was quite disappointed by the fact that the Advanced and Basic versions were the same for both which kinda felt a bit cheap to get the same results especially since it still cost to get that advanced result. Maybe including information about how the basic version is restricted and what the advanced does better would make it easier to know when the advanced version won't be useful.

I also tested with a random write-up I'll be covering tomorrow "Breaking the Competition" [1] I had higher hopes for this since it was more of a blog-ish post. I did get different results for basic and advanced with this one, but the result was basically non-sense, worse than expected, and worse than the paper summary.

Overall, probably not something that I'll end up using, but technical content also isn't the intended use-case which is totally fair. I'll also add that one feature that I looked for immediately was API access as I'd have wanted to integrate this into an app I use to plan episodes.

- [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05503v1.pdf

- [1] https://medium.com/ctf-writeups/breaking-the-competition-bug...
Great summary. This should be upvoted - it covers most of the debate happening in this thread.
Was considering this, that the debates about authoritarian vs democractic philosophy are moot currently. There are times where your population must be treated as a herd. While we often see the "father" metaphor for authoritarian leaders, they're really playing the role of shephard. When not dealing with situations where people may totally screw over others unintentionally, this shepharding becomes unnecessary, & ends up only being a power grab
> in Germany's case, in particular, there is very little concern with them not sharing

sure, like in 1939. In other news https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/masks-china-coro...

"Germany and the Czech Republic last week banned the export of face masks and other protective equipment"

Guess where 3m European distribution center and their main warehouses are located.
I had them and I killed them dead. Bed bugs are very susceptible to heat so steam is the key. The second key is to divide and conquer room by room. I did this with masking tape. So take your steamer and heavily steam every crack, crevice and fabric, then seal that room off with masking tape. Repeat this room by room.

Bed bugs can travel up to 100m in a night so if you live in an infested apartment building you might be in for a battle but in that case seal up all through wall pipes and electric vias and then use masking tape on your door at night.

If you google bedbugs and heat you will see that some companies will wrap an entire house in a big plastic bag, raise the temperature to 50 or 60C for a few days to treat the whole house at once.

Heat, particularly steam, is the magic bullet for bed bugs.
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I personally think Trump is doing a great job. Unfortunately he inherited a dysfunctional CDC, but at least he was one of the quickest to shut down flights between China and other infected areas, unlike eg Trudeau up north who took his sweet time. Talk about someone who shouldn't get a lot of slack eh
CureVac press release: https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...

"...rejects allegations about offers for acquisition of the company or its technology."
2 billion people use gmail.
I admit to not having done more than skim the abstract, but couldn't it be just as likely that authoritarian governments cause the spread of disease (and famine, etc.) through ineptitude?
I live here with my wife (who is from Myanmar). Yeah I don’t mind emails, inbox is always open :)
Not exactly “serverless” but I built something similar with AWS SageMaker, which has elastic inference abilities. it’s rather fast to spin up and down.

Also, when it comes to summarization- you don’t really need to infer each run, you can throw up a pretty simple caching system. Which means repeat requests are far cheaper and faster.

I used cloudflare workers as a proxy / caching layer with KV in front of an AWS lambda to do article extraction and SageMaker spinup (with a small cache on the AWS side too- to catch in progress jobs)
The only advice I may be able to give you, and to myself, is talk to an association of SMB in England.
Not sure it helps, but we are all in the same boat. No payment here also.
There's various factors that contribute to underreporting:

- not enough testing / 80% of people have mild/no symptoms

- cases reported today were contracted ~5 days ago, so there's always roughly a doubling in the pipeline

Right now the official case number is ~3k for the US. Focusing too much on the number doesn't help (it will keep going up for a while), what matters is doing things which will stop the spread.
I used to use a system like this for passwords. The downfall is it depends on the site name being exactly right. For instance a naive program will treat example.com and login.example.com as different sites with different passwords, which is a real problem in practice. You can work around this but ultimately it means the user has to keep some state in mind, which is "the real site name for this site that I used to generate the password". I was surprised what a pain that was back when I did this.
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It wasn’t to RIM initially. It was to customer premises via their existing infrastructure (leased lines, usually, but from the telco to the customer).

Later (for consumer services) RIM became essentially a large virtual corporate customer, with traffic routed via the Internet.
Air pollution may lead to Alzheimer’s disease
But presumably you can just unwind that? In the UK the "Direct Debit guarantee" paperwork that's included with every form where you give people your account details explains that the bank promises to unwind any transactions that you decide you didn't want.

Direct Debit also only works if you're an accredited recipient, because obviously under guarantee the bank is going to want to claw back that money it just refunded and so they need to know the recipient can afford that almost always. The huge global utility company won't go bankrupt if I unwind a monthly utility bill payment, but the fly-by-night vape shop might. Presumably ACH pull is the same?
ever heard of this rave in the desert called Burning Man?
and building a wall while being a little xenophobic.
It looks like they don't use those types of machinery to unload food. The shot showing some kind of grain being loaded was using a chute and not a bucket or excavator. I assume they use a vacuum system to unload food as it is cleaner and faster.

Though, it is wild to think that the grain in your bread was sitting in a cargo hold which previously could have been filled with coal or scrap metal covered in greases, oils, heavy metals, paints, fluids, etc. I hope they really do clean the hell out of them.
Genesis has finally joined the best people of this world. Rest in bliss.
Yes, and if you install one on site, they send dedicated techs to set it up, which lasts a month or more, plus custom integration with site software. I worked with a similar machine and if it lost its net connection to the backend database, it would dump half a million $ in reagents down the drain when it entered "safe mode".
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Correlation is not always causation.
was this a dealbreaker for her or for you? for me, I generally don't care how the other person spends their money as long as they can pay their share of fixed costs we have agreed on. this might be in part because I don't want to invite questions about my computer budget ;)
Usually it’s used by attorneys to explain actions that aren’t required by policy or law to demonstrate that actions were taken based on circumstances.
My KaTex/Pelican-based solution is here (don't mind - new blog, no real content yet, but the technical side is visible):

https://depot.traits.de/

Feature test here:

https://depot.traits.de/pages/2020/02/21-rest-example.html
“Results revealed that parasite prevalence predicted measures of authoritarian governance, and did so even when statistically controlling for other threats to human welfare.”

There are so many varied and interacting and nonlinear threats to human welfare that I don’t know if the number of variables to control for (if even identifiable and measurable and appropriately transformed) would allow for meaningful result with only a few hundreds countries as data points.
If you're younger and able to keep your job, think of it instead like stocks are now on sale. You can buy them cheaply and make good profits(for the market as a whole. Individual stocks are relatively risky as some companies will crash)
Soon: there are 15 competing C++ build systems.

Anyway, I suspect that what happens is, as worse as the C++ compiling/linking situation is, it's not bad enough to warrant learning a new build system.
Man, I'm trying to just copy the model and keep getting the error "The file might be unavailable to heavy traffic". Never seen that before.
If you are interested in vehicles with pedals that protect you from the rain but aren‘t overlooked as easily as velomobiles, look through this German forum thread:

https://www.pedelecforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/ein-rege...
Noise reduction (better quality sleeping time), improving psychological well being of citizens, and pollution cleaning are another economically relevant services.

Trees are not free, but even taking in mind the need to remove litter and manage it, they will improve the economy in a city. At least as long you choose wisely the right species.
I wore Timex Ironman watches for about 10 years and had the same problems. I discovered that (1) the bands are easily replaced, and a band that isn't deteriorating makes the watch much more comfortable, and (2) all but the absolute deepest scratches in the acrylic watch face are easy to buff out to a like-new shine with a cotton buffing wheel on a Dremel and some graduated polishing media. This would have been more valuable to know when I was a high schooler being rather rough on my gear and going through a watch every year or two, but I figure it's worth sharing.

This was valuable to learn because I since replaced the Timex with a Garmin Forerunner 220 (now 5 years old) that's much more expensive. The rechargeable battery now only lasts for about 2 hours of GPS activity or 5 days of non-GPS use, about half what it did when I bought it originally, so I'm considering an upgrade again.
Errr, so if I get this, nations where there are high rates of individual stress are more likely to welcome authoritarianism - and parasites in people indicate one such stress. Pretty much everyone welcomes peace from a "strongman" over chaos of war or economic dislocation.

It is hardly "we are all ruled by a secret state of bugs".
Just to make an example: I realized myself only yesterday that my (very bad) attitude to chew my fingers (biting the skin around nails) put me at a higher risk: it is just personal idea, of course, but I am sure few data could easily prove a correlation that could sure help.

Smoking too, if you think: apart from other damage, smokers are all the time putting their fingers on their lips

I would really expect that all kind of (even) crazy data would be collected: then with (even classic) statistical methods and today's powerful and cheap CPU, you can very easily discriminate and get only what could explain a higher risk.
To me the big improvement over Lua won’t be security, or necessarily performance. It’s the ability to target a WASM runtime with your desired language, and it would still be a safe environment.

Be it Rust, C, C++, Typescript, and I bet there will be a Lua interpreter in WASM at some point too.

It will be more flexible, and possibly more performant.
Most people dying of COVID-19 die from pneumonia. Pneumonia risk can be reduced through exercise.

Try a Google search like:

exercise and pneumonia prevention "doi" after:2016-01-01
They talk like that to sound factual and remove ambiguity in a legal sense.

If you say “he was driving too fast”, “or he was speeding” that’s potentially a subjective assessment.
A large exception would be Russia, and to a lesser extent, all of Eastern Europe. The extreme cold in Russia helps suppress parasites, yet it has historically been authoritarian. It’s also worth noting some of those countries that for awhile provided interesting exceptions, such as Liberia from 1860 to 1990, a famously free country though surrounded by authoritarian territories.
I've recently been working on WASM VM embedding with C (well, via libffi) for a personal project and uncovered a couple of WASM VM options, wasmtime & wasmer:

* https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime

* https://wasmerio.github.io/wasmer/c/runtime-c-api/

The underlying implementation of each is written in Rust.

(Recently I also discovered there's a "micro VM" too: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime)

The official WASM C API is still WIP but wasmtime targets it directly: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-c-api/

Not sure if Wasmer is aiming for compatibility with the official WASM C API currently.

From my experience, Wasmtime's C support is probably best described as "under-documented but functioning".

I haven't implemented anything with Wasmer.

My impression is that Wasmer may offer a higher level API than Wasmtime but not sure if it counts as "drop in" yet.

Part of the reason why I ended up going with Wasmtime was...I kinda forgot Wasmer existed. :D But also I do like that they're targeting what will hopefully become a standard API--but I think that results in a lower level API than what is most "friendly" for starting out.

Been meaning to make this embedded Wasmtime C API example--created while figuring things out--public after tidying it up a bit more but... well, I just now made it public, as is (it at least has a ReadMe now :D ): https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/wasm-embed-test :)

Also, this is one option for test compiling C to WASM without setting up a tool chain: https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle/

Some of my notes from development so far: http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-webassembly#20200...

Edit: Grammar. Add & then move micro WASM VM link.
You make some reasonable points, but two I find somewhat strange:

> Setting the master password to something insecure will undermine the security of all derived passwords

Then don't do that. The question is: Is LessPass in practice more likely to encourage this kind of poor security than its alternatives?

> Master key is related to the generated passwords. Using a strong PBKDF this should not be a problem, but why take the risk?

If its PBKDF is broken then so is its security. If crypto is incorrectly implemented in any other password manager then it too is broken. If the crypto algorithms used by TLS are broken then our online banking is broken. We don't avoid other things that rely on crypto just in case they might get broken some day.

[Mods: accidentally posted this as a top-level reply rather than a reply to this comment, sorry!]
Why do you feel like humans need to be responsible for upkeeping cattle populations, who's sole existence is for human consumption? As others have said...consume them and then don't replace them seems like a good plan.
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Unlike Google, Microsoft actually has APIs, so you can use those. Depends on the project, though.

Since Google's fans ironically can't Google, docs below:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/

is the modern typescript/web API. It's not totally feature-complete (yet), so you may need to develop a VSTO add-in in C# or VB, which will unfortunately not work with the web client. Docs for that:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/create-vs...
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> Any half-decent plot aimed at non-specialists will have "log scale" written in the title or surrounding description

I have to wonder how many non-specialists would even know what “log scale” means.
No I haven't. But I have half a mind to place a sternly worded letter on their windscreen!

But what do you say? "Um. You shouldn't do that." Why? Because it's bad for the tree? "Have some respect for nature?" It's a difficult argument to support.

"Don't be stupid, ya moron." is really what I'd like to say.
> There's probably a segment of small mid-sized businesses to prey upon making apps with this

You realize it's mostly for enterprise companies building internal tools, right?
yes, http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-p... is a very good read, and it is actually what woke up my (mostly forgotten) background in statistics
Ways hospitals will change to tackle the pandemic
a plosone paper published in 2013, enough said
For me, the most surprising one was paste.

paste allowed me to interleave to streams or to split out a single stream into two columns. I'd been writing custom scripting monstrosities before I discovered paste:

$ paste <( echo -e 'foo\nbar' ) <( echo -e 'baz\nqux' )
foo baz
bar qux
$ echo -e 'foo\nbar\nbaz\nqux' | paste - -
foo bar
baz qux

I wonder what other unix gems I've been missing...
Nobody has enough ventilators.

Also, people in the West mostly underestimate the rest of the world and their capabilities. Once you show them that majority of the rest of the world does not live in caves they are bummed. It's ignorance.
Axions could unlock the mystery of why you exist
Well, or potentially in the next couple years depending on how things go. But the principle still applies.
Ask HN: Help I want out I want to leave HN
Hi everyone.

I’ve been a member of this community for a decade plus.

I’ve used two accounts: TotlolRon and ronilan.

I recently figured this community is not good for me and I want to leave.

I tried to delete all my content (comments and posts) as one can do in other communities (i.e. reddit, Twitter), but I can’t. There is no technical way for me to do it and the moderators are refusing to help.

If anyone reading this is willing and or able to help make this happen - I’d be thankful.

Thanks,
Ron
That’s seems especially reasonable to assume if we look at the divide between North Korea and South Korea, a division that has only existed since 1950. South Korea has had increasingly better governance and increasingly less parasites, in contrast to North Korea.
However:
`Germany’s Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac to the United States.
Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: “We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.”`

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to...
Given the Royal Family is entirely a cost, that's not saying much.
The mortality does matter a lot if we plan to let everyone become exposed. However, if we do that, we must expect 15% of the people that are currently having enough symptoms to be diagnosed in Italy to perish. Even if only 20% of the infected are diagnosed there now, that is up 14 million people in Italy (if everyone gets it), out of which 2-3 million would die.

Or, if applied to the US, 10 million.

Alternatively, we can shut down the virus in the same manners that China, South Korea or Singapore have been doing, and keep it supressed until we develop efficient treatment.

Unfortunately, that means shutting down all affected regions really hard, and maintain a high level of supression for maybe 2 years.

However, if we are going to do so anyway, both the human and economic costs will be lower the earlier we begin.

If we allow exponential growth to continue with a doubling time of only a few days (even if we can move it from 2-3 days to 6 days), the time until this move is forced is very limited.