skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some people for some purposes at some times. A good transport infrastructure should be multimodal (i.e. lots of competing options). Thoughtful regulators can balance these interests to provide diverse options. However - as pointed out above - regulation can also be used to stifle competition to connected interests.
Nope, never started working. I asked kaniini; she suggested extending a particular timeout config value. No values for this worked. I heard this a lot from other people, though I'll acknowledge I shut down my instance a while ago so maybe it's been fixed?
Sounds like some grade B bullshit.
A lot of people moaning about how the data caps are unnecessary don't seem to understand how bandwidth works. If you get fiber or high-speed cable to your home, yes, you may have a buttload of potential bandwidth. If everyone in a large metro area tried to use all 1Gbps of their bandwidth at once, connections for many of them would crawl to about the speed of a 48.8 modem.

There simply isn't enough backbone capacity for everyone to use all potential bandwidth all the time. But besides just not having enough raw capacity, the closer you get to reaching capacity, the more knock-on effects from buffer overruns and collisions and retries and latency and all sorts of shit start to cause connections to slow further. In order to keep speeds faster near capacity, you are forced to use traffic shaping to artificially squeeze capacity in order to make it not seem dog-slow, and falling into an unusable tailspin.

The caps are there to keep people within practical, usable limits, to prevent knock-on effects on edges of the network more vulnerable to bandwidth problems. To reduce that possibility they'd have to invest more money in unprofitable sections of infrastructure. Charging you more for bandwidth is effectively a way for them to not invest, because if they did invest, they would subsequently charge you more money to cover it. The caps basically artificially lower your own bill by getting you to choose to use less data. It's the choice of "do we piss them off with higher prices or worse service?"

Do they want to charge you more? Of course. Do they know most people won't use more than 1TB of data per month? Of course; they have trending usage metrics, they do a calculation, and this is what works to balance what people want with what they need, and how the provider can afford to pay for maintaining it all.

If they weren't absolutely enormous multi-headed-hydra conglomerates, service would be cheaper, better quality, and faster. But they're enormous, and as such they are inefficient, and as such, very expensive for what you get. If you want better service, lobby your local government to make municipal internet legal, because local private providers will never be able to compete.
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Coronavirus rest API and example front end, node
github: https://github.com/javieraviles/covidAPI

node and ionic app. deployed to heroku using actions.

frontend: https://coronavirus-19-api.herokuapp.com/

api rest: https://coronavirus-19-api.herokuapp.com/all and https://coronavirus-19-api.herokuapp.com/countries
Ideasthesia
You mean besides the fact that they recommend taking herbs and hoping for the best?

Ironically they recommend ACE2 inhibitors which was one of the primary treatment protocols explored with SARD just form unproven herbal “remedies”.
Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.
> What happend to we are changing the world with technology?

Well, we did. Are you sure you want more?
China has rejected aid before from certain entities/countries. They obviously view foreign aid as a power move.
Sorry if you're that nostalgic, but the cold war ended decades ago.
Not designed for random matching, but we're beta testing a free always-on voice app for remote teams for anyone interested - https://www.presence.so
My emails are all gone but Yahoo doesn't even seem to be working. I can't send or receive email. A search yields no help at all, save for a support team who seems too relaxed about it.
Flexport is hiring software engineers in Amsterdam (we'll get you a visa)
Trump sure has a way of doing as little as possible to respond to this particular global crisis. At least he's not in a rush /s
I'm sorry I meant University of California, Hicago.
Perhaps not exactly what you mean, but Scala eschews [] for array access, and arr(0) returns the same as arr.apply(0).
Using Content-Security-Policy with multiple policies
Google has 1,700 engineers working on Trump’s Covid website (according to Trump)
> I'm not sure where tail calls enter in the picture...

GOTO essentially involves setting the continuation of your program to something other than the following instruction(s). That's what a tail call does. No "functions" involved except as a high-level description.
Working in a windows environment you often end up dealing with powershell already .. which means you don't have to learn another language and ends up simplifying everything.

This is the VB6 comparison in my book.
Given that this was a black swan event and the actual damage is minimal, DeFi has proven to be extremely durable.
cheers! I was actually surprised how many bitcoiners liked it - because it was reality-based, and had 400 footnotes ...
frontend is dead right now (1733 PDT)
> The EU sending aid is definitely a political flex. It is still a good gesture, but sending aid is a sign that a country is in a 'superior' position.

When countries from around the world sent urban SAR specialists to Christchurch following the earthquake, was that a signal that, say, Taiwan, thinks they're superior?

When we send our victim identification specialists or rural firefighter volunteers to countries that need them, is that flexing? Or is it just, I dunno, countries helping each other?
This is surprisingly useful and difficult to implement well. It’s more than just keeping accurate information up to date, but also ensuring it works for the blind and as many languages as possible etc. Further, the Bay Area is just the initial pilot, their goal is likely nationwide if not international.
oh, I had the same idea and started working here https://github.com/redraw/karaoke-machine days after Deezer's spleeter was released, but stopped while searching for a way to sync the lyrics. thx! I'll try it out
And also unpredictable and variable (and delayed) medical bills for those who don't have great employer-provided healthcare (and even sometimes when they do).

The stories abound of a hospital visit with a magical bill that appears months later with some unpaid sum that's in the 4 digits. Everyone knows someone who this happened to - I happened to know a couple who received a 5-digit bill for a baby who died many many months later. Now, as a rational person you're not going to go to an ER willy nilly, and sometimes an ER is what you get pointed to by smaller medical centers.

The U.S. medical model doesn't work - for the group. It works - for the individual. I had superb eye surgery recently from a top world center and it was fully paid. But the viruses don't care if one of us can afford care, and the other can't, because the virus views us as a singular organism, and now we're all at risk. Which is exactly how the health system should begin viewing us.
had a couple of CT myself. Usually it's minutes of active scanning. But all the preparations/calibrations/whatever is done - you stay in machine at least half an hour+. They cut it down to 5.
when that works... pretty sure the fallback is to copy/paste, unless copy/paste from password manager apps also bypasses the clipboard
Official Italian data is here: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19

I made a gsheet that auto pulls data every hour (file > make a copy, to use it. script included in README): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xAyDSpzEp3n4iiu54_XL...
Related from 4 month ago, though back then the question about the microphone didn't come up.

Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21563355

Ask HN: Which headphones are you using? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289035
There are already systems in place to defer payments on student loans if you are unemployed or otherwise unable to pay. Normally doing so still accrues interest - I assume under the announced plan you'll continue to be able to do that, but not accrue more interest.
An API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572400
It's a start of sorts; I seriously hope it develops into a wider set of reasonable policies and practices. The UK gov't does a lot right when it comes to IT and security, but it also gets a lot wrong — I'm hoping this develops sensibly.
Coronavirus, Podcasts, and Relevance
well, if the US tried it, the drones would drop bombs instead
> Then again, people paste passwords, so.

It’s more serious than that, current security best practice is telling everybody to use a password manager. People are being told that pasting passwords is “the right way to do things”. And that behaviour (at least for me) has morphed into keeping account numbers, credit card numbers, and other important private information in the password manager, and copy pasting those when I need to.

(1Password on Mac seems to have a trick where it empties the clipboard after a certain amount of time, I’ve noticed that occasionally when a password I’d copied a little while ago isn’t still in the clipboard when I try to paste it. I haven’t been quite curious enough to look into it. Yet...)
I’m sure it helps that doing something good also makes them look good and shifts public perception of China from oppressive to we just helped save the world from an epidemic.

There’s no way the leadership has thought out all the angles.
I do not mean to offend, but if you could be more specific about what is it that you deem wrong, we could have a more fruitful conversation.
Minimal? My understanding is someone was able to pull ETH out at near zero DAI. Nothing the contract didn't allow, but unforseen use of it which caused some people who had invested that ETH to essentially lose their life savings!
Exactly. Any time a wealthy person contributes to a good cause people have to start deciding what the alterior motives are.
I don't think it's that bad. Better than bash where every command has is either something archaic or just what whoever wrote it wanted it to be. It better resembles English than the other way around. Plus you can use "get-command "something`" which gives you everything that contains that string, or search for a certain provider for all commands related to a specific thing.

Autocompletion still works, just type first letter or two after get and filter most stuff out.
isn't that the same for all billionaires? got a big hit and think a bit too highly of themselves now, and given far more power than they deserve?
one thing you may yet learn in genetics is that it doesn't take pains to correspond to your social constructs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/
This is cool, but as a medical physics student, it has been repeatedly emphasized to me that CT scans are extremely dangerous and usually considered the "imaging of last resort" when no other method is appropriate. The risk of cancer from a single CT scan can vary from 0.01%-0.4%, bringing it near the risk of death from COVID-19:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635397/

> An estimated 1 in 270 women who underwent a coronary angiography CT at age 40 will develop cancer from that CT (1 in 600 men), compared with an estimated 1 in 8,100 women who had routine head CT at the same age (1 in 11, 080 men).

CT scans might just be the worst possible way to detect the coronavirus.
If there really are people that literally put their entire life savings into a single, unproven vessel then they almost certainly did so because they were gambling it would make them (an order of magnitude+) more money than a more reliable stable alternative. They won’t find much pity.
An equation that takes Pythagoras to a new level
You don't need to write any data to storage. Just analyze stuff and make a loud beeping noise if someone has a fever.
From Wired: "There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one."

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-...
I used to think this, but it is not true. Surprising, I know.

Here is FDA authorization for CDC test: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download. The required machine is Applied Biosystems 7500, and CDC targeted it because it is approved, widely available, trained on, etc. in USA.

Here is product information page from one of South Korean test suppliers: http://www.solgent.com/english/sub03020102/view/id/45. It is compatible with Bio-Rad CFX96 and Applied Biosystems 7500, and was approved as such in South Korea. While Bio-Rad's machine is more popular in South Korea, they obviously thought of exporting.
UFOs and the theoretical spacetime-bending technology behind them
And the equal and opposite rumor is being raised by an American Senator: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-co...
Alma Deutscher (12yo), piano concerto world premiere (2017)
We could probably use some ventilators as well.
You don't know if something is true if you can't measure or test it.
Tell HN: Simple DIY wet towelette spray solution
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does money the US spends on healthcare do things other than line pockets?
Jack Ma is close to Chinese PLA. It’s a national security threat.
You mean the Chinese hackers, right?
I think you’ve missed the point now twice. It’s the lack of trust that is the issue here that leads to that assumption. The lack of trust is the fault of the moderator not of the GP.
workflow times are far from what is technically possible, for a host of reasons.
What an awful take. This is charity. Don't be such a cynic, especially when people do good things. We need more of that and less skepticism of it.
Disingenuous comparison. Ministers of foreign affairs in China is similar to Secretary of State in US. A senator is nowhere near equivalent.
Yeah, honestly. Even as someone who can be cynical about things, I still think this is very much kind and appreciated. Meanwhile I know others who say it's political and means pretty much nothing... I just don't know how to reply.
Apparently, almost all of the world's saline bags were made in Puerto Rico, and a single hurricane disrupted this essential gear.

There have been longstanding concerns about strategic food - and even Oil supply, I don't see how the US or any nation can reasonably not have the domestic demand to meet an emergency.

China has been engaging in a form of systematic dumping on a variety of industries for quite a long time - most of us enjoyed the benefits of lower prices while local producers went out of business.

The nefariousness of their strategy is that it's often difficult to tell the difference between simple 'low-cost advantage' vs. actual dumping strategies, and who in the business world is going to argue against lower prices? Nobody.

The US military certainly wouldn't have 99% of their ammunition 'made in China', well, war is much more than bullets, moreover, there's much more to life than war ...

It's definitely time to have national regulations on a lot of such goods. A simple ban on the import of strategic goods would work really well - America is large enough that there'd be several domestic providers.

Americans would end up paying more for certain items, but does it really matter when the surpluses are so large? So it costs $4 per mask instead of $2? The price is not as important as availability. It would be a very natural and synergistic way to increase wages as well.

This could be done in concert with a few key allies on a product by product basis.
I saw this interview, too. It blows my mind that Crash himself accounted for a third of their budget for onscreen polygons, something like 550 polys, which is more than many PS1 games managed to render for an entire scene.
> No API integration with the other 600+ SAAS means the technology does not yet scale

This is an extremely naive take.

I’m curious about how many people actually approach technology evaluations with this mindset.
They did it for self preservation. To not repeat the situation where firemen run into Verizon limits which triggered a bad PR.
It also doesn't sound like it even lowers the bar for getting a diagnosis, even with all these caveats. You'd still need a CT scan, in a world where many can't even get a respirator.

I'd be more interested in a model that tries to give a preliminary diagnosis (positive or negative) based on data a patient already has with them or can get at home. An image of their throat, audio of their cough, maybe a time sequence of thermometer readings. If we could self-diagnose (or at least rule out some cases) using a smartphone, that would truly change the game.
Well. Not so fast. It isn't cynicism to point out issues with this idea.

You can't accept half a million random tests kits and use them for anything. It isn't that simple. At a minimum, we know nothing about where they came from, their traceability, method of manufacture, sterility, etc. And then there's the reality that "test kits" does not mean swab-to-result technology. There's a lot more to testing someone for, well, anything, than the mere extraction or collection of a sample.

Extreme example, ten million blood test vials are useless if their manufacturing and quality isn't traceable and you don't have the chemistry needed to run blood analysis with them.

Same with the million face masks. China isn't necessarily known for top quality manufacturing except for where external companies (Apple) put in massive process controls and supervision. Same issue here with masks. I would not trust them as far as I could throw them.

This isn't being negative. It's reality. If you've ever manufactured anything in China you understand very well how careful you have to be not to end-up with junk. Sure, there are great factories and engineers there, but, to use the phrase, you have to trust but verify.

That said, nice gesture. Yet, no, I would not touch any of that stuff unless our authorities can ascertain their quality and safety 100%.

Our private enterprises are spinning up manufacturing of all of these items fast. I would much rather trust them. Sorry, but we need to start to decouple from China to the extent possible. If Europe and North America can't make their own masks and medical supplies we might as well hand over the keys and call it a good run.

EDIT: Personal example about Chinese manufacturing as a consumer (I have plenty more stories as a manufacturer):

We bought a jacuzzi tub directly from China. Alibaba, in fact. After much research we found the factory that make these tubs for everyone. By this I mean, they make them and companies like Whirlpool in the US put their logo on it. So, we bought one. Given that I understand the issues with Chinese manufacturing due to personal experience, the first thing I did when we got it was take it apart and test absolutely everything.

This thing had almost every defect in the book. It had leaks. It had loose washers inside the electronics enclosure. It had copper wire strands in there as well. The screws on the barrier strip for the 120V in and out connections were lose. And a ground connection was missing. Without spending several hours fixing it, this thing would have leaked water and soap everywhere, shorted out, burned out and maybe even electrocuted someone.

So, yeah, trust but verify. Everything.

And, yeah #2, the people down-voting this have no clue whatsoever about the realities of manufacturing in China without serious and extensive controls.

Ignorance is bliss.
CT will not play a role in the diagnosis of Coronavirus in the US now that both the ACR and Society of Thiracic radiologists have come out not recommending it for first line diagnosis. This is a complex decision involving the availability of other tests, the potential for spread via contamination of CT, the need for CT for other things and the limited availability of scanners.

There is a group that will open source a great dataset first this sometime soon, as it might be useful in other countries.
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar (2018)
For bonus points, have it return one out of every 1000 or so requests with "not hot dog."
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It’s not neoliberal austerity. Austerity is a neocon cornerstone.
Pretty sure at least some of those are “helpful” in the sense of “this is one of the ways we make money, by installing someone else’s sdk in our game and getting paid for it, while not looking too carefully at what it’s doing to our users”. And I’d be astounded if various Facebook/Google/Twitter SDKs (including things like Fabric/Crashlytics and Google Analytics) haven’t done this in the past even if they’re not doing it now. Surveillance capitalists gonna surveil...
It's mostly a nice gesture and good PR.

If it was purely humanitarian, there would be no press release, but there's nothing wrong with him getting a thumbs up for this.

Most rich guys like to get some 'brownie points' while they give money away, which is fine.
But you can trace all of that after the fact. If you have a positive result you can go prove it later. If you have a negative result you can go prove that later. But you can at least start by acting on the result.
While this is a kind gesture it is likely propaganda and a power move.
Given the choice between a Chinese mask that perhaps didn't meet some specification (but probably does) and, no mask which is better I wonder?
It would definitely be odd if you worked at Microsoft and hadn't heard of Satyella Nadalla :)
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Senators are within the top 100 most powerful people in the US. They represent millions of people.

I think you're just grasping at straws because you've already decided what narrative you want. In which case there's nothing more for me to say here.
Any word on people already paying the $50 for no data-cap on Comcast? Should I remove it for 2 months or did they say they'd waive it?
It's still a power move. Just a global one.

I have no doubt his intention really is to save lives, but a secondary motive is surely also PR. Perhaps the Chinese state had some role in this, as well. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I could see a possible benign conspiracy like them using Jack as a proxy to distribute these.

If they did it officially, it could be trusted less and the motive would seem more blatant. And Jack of course has enough money to do this himself, but such a big international move might require the approval of the government.
Webpages have been able to read your clipboard for decades without prompting you and was only taken seriously recently.
No, I don't think you understand how VPNs work. They're as fast as the slowest link, and the slowest processor of the VPN client and the VPN server.
> I'm not sure "willy-waving" translates into American well.

The translation you are looking for is "dick swinging" :)
Outcomes are determined by more than health system inputs alone (indeed, it has little to do with health care in the developed world), and costs have much to do with the intensity of health care. Rich countries spend more because they can, not because they need to.
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Zapier will not support HIPAA requirements, sooo... they may as well not exist for businesses that touch healthcare data.
Southwest Airlines 737 Decompresses from Stress Cracks: FAA Mulls Inspections
The YouTube algorithm made this recommendation to me today. I'm beyond speechless at her talent, regardless of age, which in and of itself is remarkable!