skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Flattening the curve obviously improves the situation (even if it doesn’t solve it)

Yes. The criticism feels like Nirvana fallacy to me. Let's aspire to flatten the curve, it will make everything less bad, even if we don't fully succeed.
Facebook is testing out a dark mode, and new design for their website
>I'm not sure who's responsible for getting pregnant, though.

Haha, Zeus of course!
Speaking of Software, 90% of the time expert level knowledge is not necessary. On the other hand, broad generalist knowledge is essential for many non-trivial projects to get off the ground. I guess this observation is basically why we have the DevOps movement. A team of people highly specialized in different topics is cool in theory. But in practice a team doesn't work like a brain :-)
My company is domiciled in the U.K., and that’s where the mortgages are - I live in Portugal. Unfortunately only two lenders in the U.K. have said they’re granting concessions, and when I spoke to both of my lenders on Friday after I’d heard from clients, they both said that yes, I can have a holiday, but only on the terms I mentioned - as far as they’re concerned it’s all BAU until the government says otherwise.

I mean, if your business or income is entirely domestic, I suppose this is ok - but if your income is primarily from a country that has now declared a state of emergency and has companies using this as an excuse to shirk their bills, it’s something of an issue.
Testing in Italy was far less, the totals for there need to be inferred from the deaths and cases and the amount of testing!
> and that's leaving out how library fees are prohibitive for low-income families

Setting aside your other points - completely free with no fees is prohibitive?
People who haven't bought clothes for a decade
Why are gag laws needed then? Why is any kind of filming prohibited at most factory farms? Which practices in that film do you claim are unusual?
Everything involves luck, but until very recently (past 100 years) mortar maker was an expert occupation with thousands of years of accumulated art and science. These days most professional concrete and foundation contractors don't have a clue about mixing or pouring anything other than portland cement and whatever is most popular at Home Depot.

Who knows how much knowledge has been lost, but my guess is that the Romans developed their processes much more deliberately than haphazardly. You don't have to understand the 21st century chemistry of why something works in order to build a systematic and even scientific methodology. It was part and parcel of a mortar makers job to understand how to make use of regional materials and handle local environmental conditions.
In Italy I had a lot of people asking, numbers looks good, I would take the plunge and make another step.

a crappy website

Let me know if you want to cooperate. My email nic@lookdental.it
The problem is that in the U.K., there is no official state of emergency, so nothing for me to use on that angle, unfortunately - when I spoke with them both on Friday, they said that unless the govt announces an emergency and explicitly instructs them otherwise, it’s business as usual.
pass and browserpass if you want to go the web route.
Get a bike... then walkability is much less an issue
People with integrity apologize based on their own actions, not their opinions of the qualities of the other party.

I apologise to douchebags regularly, if I'm wrong, though I'm very clear about the limitations of the apology.
Coronavirus Lockdown May Save More Lives by Preventing Pollution
Pretty good. Some alternative word for Yoga would help though.

You might want to turn to https://www.instagram.com/nathanwpylestrangeplanet/ for some inspiration.
So? If someone can steal the hash, they could probably hijack the session anyway.
Thats why I am doing it in Turin, where my company is based, we can move easier and overcame regulations.

Redundancy: yes and no, our local cotsco usually takes 24/48 to bring groceries at home, now it takes 10 days. Too many people asking
But in China for the equivalent stage of the outbreak there was zero testing. Because there were no tests. The data cannot be compared.
You don't want to flood hospitals with millions of Americans that think they might have corona virus. Testing in non-hospital space is the correct thing to do.
Pcaps are remarkably versatile. 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.

(This wasn't the original purpose of the second number: the original thought was that you would not be able to afford to store all the bytes of every packet, so the second number would say where you cut it off.)

The 32-bit seconds / 32-bit microseconds timestamp in the packet header has evolved to use 32-bit nanoseconds as we got better at timekeeping, with just a change of magic number. Meanwhile, the 32-bit unsigned seconds count (since 1970, UTC) takes us all the way to C.E.2106 while the time_t crybabies are running in circles about 2038.

The whole fintech industry rides on lz4 pcaps of multicast packet streams, with essential file metadata recorded in the file names. (There is a very complicated "NG" pcap format, but nobody uses it.)

Just for the record, a single 1U server with a disk array can record the complete activity of all the New York exchanges plus CME, CFE, Impact, and OPRA with enough headroom to handle >2x peak daily traffic of previous years, as happened in each of the last three weeks: but only if programmed with C++, ring buffers, and kernel bypass network drivers.

This has been a PSA.
By that logic, you shouldn't rely on encrypted communication at all since encryption is a reversible process.
So have you ever wondered if cynecophali (dog-headed men) have souls?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5RZBKBl_A

(Voices of the Past, by two brothers, a historian and an actor)

Ratramnus, a 9th century Carolingian monk made an in-depth analysis.
The people making these laws are completely out of touch with reality. Come to think of it, so are the people executing them and judging them. When you're a multi-millionaire with no care in the world, it's hard to relate to the huddled, working masses. This is a token law. Just like the free coronavirus testing is a token law. It won't help much because people will still be afraid of bills to go get any treatment (which is definitely NOT free). Only the test is free. The rest will bankrupt you. And when you don't even have sick time at work or you've just lost your job due to this crisis, you can't afford it.

We are definitely going the UK route. We're just not public about it. The government isn't governing. They aren't doing shit. Some state governments are trying, but absent federal leadership and due to all the red tape, they are faltering. The federal government is actively holding testing back. The crisis is already a disaster here. The way this is going, China and Italy will be models of extreme success compared to us. Our CDC is incompetent. Our government is incompetent. They are telling lies about masks and other things. We have almost no testing. Asymptotical to zero for a country this large. We are so fucked. And you know what they'll say? "Thoughts and prayers." Yeah, thoughts and prayers for better leadership. Welcome to the new third world.
Covid Tracker on Bing.com
> it's been fascinating to see just how many of my peers in non-software industries are now interested in learning to code because it's useful for their jobs.

Agreed here. One of my co-workers started a coding club at lunch, for people in other departments who don't know how to code. For several of them it's changed from black magic to an amazing productivity enhancer.
Biometric information are usernames, not passwords.

They're just hard enough to fake that a password can become unnecessary for casual security.
Aluminium is fatigued with use over time, so will at some point fail, even if it's not subjected to major trauma. (This is opposed to steel which is only fatigued by major trauma, and carbon fibre which cracks when you look at it wrong.)
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> Why on Earth is this a good model?

Because it worked. Millions of lives have been saved - 1% of 1.3B is 13M people. That's 1/5 of Italy.

Are there better models? Maybe. But there are also much worse models, as I suspect we might soon find out in the US [1]. Personally I'd much rather take the Chinese model for the next few months than risk me and my family dying or going bankrupt over the next few months.

And, instead of thinking that China could "afford to take the economical hit", consider the economic impact of 13M people suddenly dying. At this point, there's definitely going to be a hit to the economy. It's just going to be either A) from stricter lock downs and government aid, or B) from more people dying due to overrun hospitals. It might not be a wash in terms of the dollar amount, but it's clear which option will save more lives.

[1] Comparing China and US response:

- China has made treatment (not just testing) for coronavirus free for everyone. In the US...better hope you have good insurance.

- Tests performed per million people: China 2,800, US 5

- China is ordering banks to increase loans to SMBs rather than hoarding cash to protect themselves. It has rolled out a bunch of policies to support SMBs and employees. The US...well, not much so far.

Sources:
https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-many-coronavirus-tes...
https://qz.com/1813181/china-is-taking-pleasure-in-us-mishan...
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3052474/c...
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-latest-regional-m...
Digest auth is a thing, although the user-agent needs the cleartext password for that
Several EU countries have already closed or will be closing their sovereign borders in the next 24 hours. They can do that. They are doing it.
Secure Remote Password (SRP) is a protocol for verifying a password without knowledge of the actual password. Now we only need all browsers and applications to support it! Well and a way for initial setup (sharing the seeds).
Because this strategy only works if they can identify the point in question.

Why wouldn't they, they know the rate of new cases. When it's low enough they lift the quarantine. Out of all the problems this seems the smallest to me.
A vaccine is 1-2 years away. It's likely the majority will be infected before then.

It is unclear if you can continue playing whack-a-mole with quarantine measures for the next 1-2 years. It's possible but unlikely, at least in the West.

The UK's gambit is that by timing stricter quarantine measures they can cut the head off the peak, while slowing down spread due to some immunity in the population. This may work if the risk groups can indeed self-isolate for 4 months, and if more ventilators can be manufactured at speed.

It will still be devastating.

It will be interesting to see what happens in China after people return to work.

Either way, I think we are looking at bans on international travel to continue for many months to come.
They've backed away from the herd immunity approach now.
Embarrassing
[Citation needed]
China is always great- according to China. And the WHO is saying it too.
Found about Psychic TV aimlessly downloading stuff from people on soulseek, took me through a deep rabbit hole.
Truly weird person, certainly inspired me and and bunch of other people. RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine
Helicopter Money
since encryption is a reversible process

Encryption is a reversible process if you have the key. If you don't then it is effectively irreversible. It's definitely secure enough that we've built the entire internet and banking systems around it, so it's probably secure enough for your HN password.
Update: people is responding very good to the ads. If anyone wants to cooperate:
nic@lookdental.it

Second step:
Right now I am taking orders via whatsapp or messenger.

We need a crappy website:
1. Registering people in needs
2. Registering volunteers

A "payment system"
When they make the order they should put the money to pay for the groceries, we will keep that money until the groceries will be delivered.

Any advice where we could meet all togheter online? The forum seems fine, but we need something better.

I want to keep things public, but a remote workplace could be useful.
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The average person doesn't build his home in seawater.
I somewhat doubt that it makes sense to apply this on an invididual level but this Wolfram group lists a few resources and models https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1872608 e.g. https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1896178 if you really want to plug in your country / county level data. Especially given the dynamic nature of responses we currently see many of these models can only provide a really broad abstraction and will not be a reliable indicator when you personally are not affected anymore. With the current information on this outbreak it is pretty unlikely that full voluntary self quarantine can be upheld until "it's over" (you might live in a bunker, in that case replace "can be upheld" with "makes rational sense for the majority of the population").
There’s the concept of unclonable physical functions (PUFs) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function) that can provide something like this. Some companies like Physec offer key derivation mechanisms based on PUFs that depend on the physical characteristics of the environment of the device that generates the key (e.g. the electromagnetic impedance), so an attacker needs the actual device to produce a key that matches the profile, and tampering with the device by e.g. opening it destroys its ability to generate a key due to changes in impedance.

It’s a really neat concept but I don’t think anyone found a way to apply it to a human, though it should be possible (e.g. using your heartbeat).
What better plan for vulnerable people is there than isolating them? You also seem to be under the impression that the plan is for no lockdown. The government has already said that there will be increasingly tight measures over the next few weeks.

I despise the current government, and have no idea if this plan is better than alternatives, but please if you want to criticise it, do so for what it actually is, not a straw man of your own construction.
A personal use and a company with massive computing power is so different.
Roman concrete is slow setting and didn't have rebar.

We prefer to build quickly (more efficient use of land multiplied by time) and prefer our buildings not fall over in earthquakes.

Also much of residential construction is wood frame (edit: US), which also has pretty bad longevity unless extremely overbuilt.
does not have up to date data. check http://www.covid-19.com
> For example, college won’t necessarily teach you how to [..] stick to a schedule even at home

If anything, I'd say it's especially good at teaching the opposite if you dormed on-campus - how to fit work in between randomly-timed socializing.
No, it's not a problem. I don't remember when I last "wasted time synchronising my encrypted database" because Bitwarden does it behind the scenes without my knowledge.
I’ve noticed an increase in services like this lately. What gives? Is there some sort of ML serverless offering made available on GCP?
The original comment was someone talking about backpacking and 75 pounds is very heavy for a backpacking (which is supposed to be fun after all) - even for extended (over a week) backpacking trips in winter (ice-axe, crampons etc.) I'd be surprised if my pack was half that weight.
This is insane. It depends on a bunch of things we don't know turning out to be true: can we develop herd immunity to COVID-19? Can we adequately isolate young/healthy people from old/sick?

IF this turns out to be the UK strategy it will also become imperative for countries trying containment to ban travel from the UK.

I think it's an idiotic brainwave from a bunch of people who have spent way too much time pretending that they are the "smartest people in the room".
There are literally thousands of types of concrete you can buy today, and even now occasionally you get a 'bad batch' that doesn't test as strong as it's supposed to be. That indicates there must be quite a bit of per batch variation too.

Overall, considering we build far more things per day than the Romans did, I reckon there's a good chance more of our buildings are around in 2000 years than the Romans have left now
I tried starting a room with the NES app and it told me to load a .nes file. However, the dialogue it launched was for photos (on my Android device). I don't think there's any way to select a .nes file from there.
Thanks for the link. Current Chinese treatment guidelines are: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/coronavirus-treatment-p...

They state:

4. Antiviral therapies: Interferon-alpha (adult: 5 million units or equivalent can be added to 2ml sterile injection water and delivered with a nebulizer twice daily), lopinavir/ritonavir (adult: 200mg/50mg/tablet, 2 tablets twice daily; the length of treatment should not exceed 10 days), ribavirin (recommended in combination with interferon or lopinavir/ritonavir, adult: 500mg twice or three times daily via IV, the length of treatment should not exceed 10 days), chloroquine phosphate (adult 18-65 years old weighing more than 50kg: 500mg twice daily for 7 days; bodyweight less than 50kg: 500mg twice daily for day 1 and 2, 500mg once daily for day 3 through 7); umifenovir (adult: 200mg three times daily; the length of treatment should not exceed 10 days).

Pay attention to issues such as adverse drug reactions, contraindications (for example, chloroquine should not be given to patients with heart diseases), and drug interactions. Further evaluate the efficacy of current treatment regimens in clinical applications. Using 3 or more antiviral drugs is not recommended. Corresponding medication should be discontinued should intolerable side effects appear.
And there aren't severe human consequences from millions of people dying in the next few months? Easy to say when you don't seriously have to face the possibility of your parents and grandparents dying, I guess. Remember that the mortality rate for people 80+ is 1/7, which isn't far from a game of Russian roulette.

Plus, all the school districts that have shut down so far have continued to offer meals for students AFAIK.

Source:
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/coronavirus-death...
- https://www.santaclarausd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&D...
- https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bay-Area-school-closures...
this sounds like it could be really exciting if it takes off. the one thing that puzzled me was requiring the same compiler flags and preprocessor macros all the way down a dependency tree - I'm not too immersed in the c++ world these days so I can't say for sure it is not an onerous requirement, but it seems like it could become one if you depend on a bunch of external libraries.
Interesting, thanks!

RE:NYSE, any sense of avg+peak bytes/s?

(Context being we work on interactive GPU visual analytics for related stuff, so always love fun targets to drive benchmarks!)
We tend to build bridges out of steel nowadays for all kinds of reasons (cost, speed, durability, strength), and steel ain't gonna last 1000 years. There's not a lot of benefit to designing for 1000 year endurance.
LSB and USB are lower and upper sidebands. On the amateur radio bands it is a convention to use LSB below 10Mhz and USB above. You can find the bandplan for your country by duckduckgoing for 'bandplan usa' or wherever you live.

If you want to learn it in a little more detail, and join in, take your basic amateur radio license. In the UK it is only a weekend course. I rarely operate, but taking the first two amateur licenses was one of the most interesting things I have ever done
Tents work as long as you have enough artificial respirators and it's not too cold outside. Also, you need to have enough medical personnel, if the Chinese stats are correct about 40% of the Wuhan doctors got sick after 2-3 weeks of the whole thing getting really serious and they had to airlift about 6000 medical personnel from other Chinese regions.
What's wrong with voice is that you lose a load of communication nuance. Depending on the tool and how people connect it can be difficult to tell who's even talking.

I work for a company where their policy is that you try for video chat first and degrade to voice then synchronous text then async. It keeps it as close to the feel of being in an office as possible.

I was pretty sceptical at first but the proof for me is when you meet a colleague in real life and don't realise you hadn't actually met them before. That doesn't happen with voice.

10 years on, I'm back in an open plan office at the moment temporarily and finding it painful that you can't just have a one to one chat across the office, that post its suck compared to online tools for certain meetings, that you can't see someone a couple of rows away doesn't want to be disturbed.

And I have to commute for an hour each way for this degraded experience.
People eat beans for decades. Why should this be an experiment? Because people like Dr. Gundry want to sell books? He‘s even admitted on TV that cooking mitigates the whole problem. And who eats raw beans? I think it‘s pure hysteria. In observational studies „anti-nutrients“ are mostly associated with better health outcomes.
For so many reasons, selfish and not, you should target being ‘ahead of the curve’. Your government is not the oracle here. Later, you’ll be happy you acted earlier than others.

Move your employees to WFH now.

Ensure you all have the infrastructure at home to support being as effective as possible.
> It's based on a specific email provider.

Companies who want to be integrated everywhere often have to write a lot of product-specific integrations.

Outlook, Office365 etc... And Gmail because Gmail is big.

> screw the fact GMail hasn't been responsible for breaking changes

As someone contributing to Gmail.js, allow me to absolutely counter this claim.

The change to “new” Gmail took months of effort to properly reverse-engineer, and there’s been small changes in behaviour since launch which breaks stuff some of the time.
Yup. In my youth plenty of parties went from forty people to just half a dozen of us listening to something... Unconventional like Discopathology or BANG! An open letter.

Some of it's definitely actually good. "Discipline" is good for example. Some of it is important ("All largely propaganda" makes a good point) and lots of it is just annoying and will make people leave. Some of the same friends actually hosted a few live music events at the turn of the century and "Did people leave in disgust?" was a measured criterion of success.
Those multi-day time lapse videos are mesmerizing.
Encrypted communication relies on keys generated by computers. They have significantly more bits of entropy than a master password produced by a human.
I wonder if that's the reason why google makes it nearly impossible to recover your password through forgot my password button. It's pretty useless now.
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I don’t think masks are as effective as you think. WHO says only wear a mask:

If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
there have been developments using the sound for terminal guidance to augment that.
> much of residential construction is wood frame

Why is this?