skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People will see how the internet should be used, as a method of connection, cooperation, and empathy. Historically, there has been a big selection bias with internet contributors. A small % of people create most of the content. In the first few years of the internet, this was fine. However, beginning in the early 2000’s, a critical mass of people started using the internet. This caught the attention of “extremists” of any kind (people with strong motivations and views). Suddenly, they can blast their message to billions of people around the world every day, for better or worse. This made the internet seem like an irreversibly toxic place. It polarized people. With Coronavirus, we know that the internet doesn’t have to stay that way.

We shouldn’t cynically limit the internet. We should pursue the seemingly quaint, democratic ideals of early internet pioneers. There is a lot to be gained. It is now clear how arbitrary it is to think that internet connections aren’t “real.” They’re literally all we have right now. Seeing that in practice on a greater scale than ever before will pay dividends. I foresee a new wave of investment in internet companies (online education, virtual collaboration, etc...) after all this is said and done. A lot of innovation and economic surplus will be generated.
It is also a rather easy attack vector. Publish an npm package with this code and when people pull it into their project they will have opened up a backdoor.
WhatsApp Is at the Center of Coronavirus Response
Also for F#: https://github.com/allisterb/Sylvester/tree/master/src/Math/...

Contains both rigorous definitions and theories for use by the Sylph prover.
> So Microsoft could very well sue anyone using Powershell, using patents.

No
Is there any guide or plan how to rebuild from such a catastrophe?

Even brief nuclear winter would cause billion of deaths from starvation (and chaos caused by collapsing economy).

I just wonder if we have a plan B to rebuild stuff (relatively) quickly or humans will be thrown into preindustrial world condemned to reinvent everything again?
Robert Heinlein had a story The Year Of the Jackpot, about exactly this.

Ends with the Sun going nova.
This is one of the reasons the subject tests are not especially useful. And since they test knowledge rather than aptitude, making them more difficult doesn't actually find smarter people but instead people who had access to more rigorous high school coursework.

At the GRE level this is even more extreme. For competitive programs a perfect score doesn't distinguish you so taking the test can only harm you. When applying to grad school I was explicitly advised not to take the GRE subject tests.
Note also that the measurement error of a section score is 30 points, which dwarfs the effect of prep.
Yes, I get that... but there is an implicit "what should be fixed" attached to the complaint.

This white-collar punishment is going to hurt him badly. Is fairness best achieved by hurting him even more? Or is it best achieved by "only" hurting non-white-collar crimes with a punishment similar to this? It's important because the real question here is "are you complaining about his sentence, or the sentence of others?"

Personally I'm pro-reform. Would really like to see lighter sentences for a lot of things. So I'm not going to complain about this white-collar sentence at all. I'm going to complain about the harsh sentence for "people not like us."
IOC President: 'Cancellation Is Not on the Agenda' for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Thanks. And same – I'm not advocating one way or the other, simply wanting to understand the constitutionality.
Low income students get a fee waiver
The reason BTC has value for a lot of people is because stablecoins exist.
I'm just not counting on should at this rate...
In norwegian we have an expression:
En ulykke kommer sjelden alene.
A misfortune/accident seldom comes alone.
We stocked up on my daughters medications last week, there was already a non-covid-19 related shortage. Thank god we got what we need for several weeks. Its pretty scary when you rely on a common drug and it runs out.
A lot of banks charge fees for business checking accounts, so I recommend finding a credit union. If Navy Federal is in your area, they are excellent. I have five [free] business checking accounts with them, and haven't had any issues.

I also have an account with Azlo, which has been pretty good, but I don't think they support paper checks.
I've worked as an SAT prep tutor and I've worked in the oil industry.

Actually, I felt way more guilt about my SAT tutoring work than the oil industry. The world runs on oil, but no one needs expensive SAT tutoring to give rich kids an edge over the poor ones.
Save NYC restaurants by buying their wine
It’s funny how Amazon feared eBay, and then failed to beat them — in 1999.

But when I worked at eBay in 2003, they had the mailroom put a sticker on every amazon box that said “Next time get it on eBay!”

And now the tide is swinging back a bit as people get fed up with fakes and commingling at Amazon. At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from.
I was under the impression that chloroquine was used to facilitate cellular absorption of zinc and that the zinc was responsible for any antiviral behavior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT6mHi_8V5E
I built a website that makes it easy for New Yorkers to find their favorite restaurants and see how they can support them.

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In my (normally very busy) neighborhood in nyc, I'd say this week vehicle traffic is down like 70-80% and pedestrian traffic had been down 50-60% earlier in the week and yesterday and today is looking more like 80-90% reduced -- and actually today vehicle traffic seems like it is almost gone. Just delivery and sanitation vehicles.

People seem to be taking it seriously here, but I'm sure there are plenty of places where people are not.
No thanks. No need for an ideology that has killed hundreds of millions while keeping the ones the survived in poverty.

Any wealth inequality that exists in capitalism is only magnified in communism where an even smaller group of people have both political and monetary power.
Boards Suffer from an ‘Experience Gap’ as the Coronavirus Upends Business
Yeah, my first though: so this is how Q2 2020 is going to start. Will we even get to Q3, or will the gods cancel humanity mid-season because of low ratings?
Virologist: Italy's attempt not to appear “racist” crippled pandemic response
An Italian virologist says that the country’s attempt not to appear “racist” in the early says of the coronavirus outbreak crippled the ability to properly respond to the pandemic.

Professor of Virology and Microbiology at the University of Padova Dr. Giorgio Palù told CNN that measures imposing travel restrictions and border controls were taken too late due to fears over political correctness.

https://summit.news/2020/03/20/italian-virologist-says-concerns-over-racism-crippled-italys-coronavirus-response/
Yes, I gave up on case numbers. Seeming CFR differences between countries are mostly artifacts of testing policies.
Has anyone checked the expiry date on Earth?
I think everyone would agree with you. The question is how long that realistically takes, in a minimally-damaging way.

I don't think there's a world in which there's a better option than "waiting for the vaccine with various forms of mitigation". Boy would I love to be proven wrong.
They should worry about it. Especially in light of the administration trying to weaponize paranoia and blame the Chinese people for the outbreak by labeling it "the Chinese virus."

This is profoundly short-sighted race-baiting for domestic political gain, which could come back to bite us if China decides they're tired of losing face and start putting up export controls on medicine.
dont worry - in DBZ, channeling an energy attack usually lasts 10 episodes before its ready... so we got until 2030 to prepare
I think it’s fair to say that you have a very naive view of the average human. I‘ll stick with the real data on piracy rates.
I don’t know what you expected. File is just there to give a good guess at a file’s format. There are a ton of reasons why this problem is hard, and there are reasons to make “file” less accurate in order to make the implementation simpler and more secure.

But it will work fine for PDFs, often enough.
The department of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has put out a call for business that could help to supply ventilators or ventilator components [1].

Large manufacturers including Vauxhall and Airbus are apparently planning to produce parts [2].

[1]: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/call-for-businesses-to-help-make-n...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/17/uk-manufact...
Whatever hope we had of surviving a nuclear winter now was gone the moment the virus shot the global supply chains to hell.
to be fair, Laibach of that era (1984/1985) alternates between sounding like Coil (State) and random new wave music (1st Generation TV), but is still usually dominated by Milan Fras' vocal style.

so, I guess it's possible?
What does "cancel culture" have to do with containment measures taken in response to a global pandemic?
As a former SAT tutor (and a guy who gamed the hell out of the SAT) I have trouble believing that. There are only a few classes of questions they ask on the test, and if you master them the whole test is a walk in the park.

Maybe the problem is most students just don't give a damn about the classes their parents make them take? Can someone explain the findings in this paper?
I think you can make a case that Node/NPM is more vulnerable to this than usual due to the huge number of packages pulled in by even simple applications. Can anybody really audit what 10k different packages are doing, and if any of them has had malicious code snuck in at some point?
Someone from Berlin here, my observed reality is quite different. Hospitals are massively preparing for the expected infections, people are largely staying at home and business are reorganizing to handle the crisis.

Sure there is still an observable portion of the citizens which seems to be in denial, but I guess this was to be expected.
Yeah, the title is pretty terrible. CPU power? GPUs contribute far more to the project.
How to design safer public transit in response to Covid-19
Agreed. It sounds like a demo tape to me. Probably from a short-lived band that never made it big.

It's actually fairly good, but IMHO it sounds familiar because it's derivative of lots of things that were happening at the time. Which you might expect from a novice band.
> GameStop is running on fumes. If they close down their stores, they will completely lose their business.

The state of their business isn't a criteria right now to determine if they should be open.
The Quinism Foundation Warns of Dangers from Use of Antimalarial Quinolines Against COVID‑19.

"Use of Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, Mefloquine, Quinine, and Related Quinoline Drugs Risks Sudden and Lasting Neuropsychiatric Effects from Idiosyncratic Neurotoxicity."

https://quinism.org/press-releases/dangers-of-antimalarial-q...

The Anit-Malaria drugs They are pushing have a common ancestor to Fluoroquinolone antibiotics have MANY FDA warnings. The FDA says they should not be used unless all other options have been exhausted.

Those that have already been devastated by Fluoroquinolones are extremely upset to hear that a related quinolines drug is being proposed. While these two drugs are technically in a different class, they share some common ancestors. They both share many of the devastating side effects.

I have put all the FDA warnings for Fluoroquinolone antibiotics on my late wife's website. Levaquin was a significant contributor to Karen's suicide. :-(

http://www.kpaddock.com/fq
This is where having a fully funded CDC and pandemic team in the US pays off. They would have been paying very close attention for weeks on end in China, Italy and South Korea and many approaches could have been already dead-ended before it even significantly reached out shores.

To say nothing of actually being in the process of ramping up medications that HAVE shown to be effective. It feels like we are starting from ground zero when that should simply not be the case.
I’ve heard it said in California as “When it rains, it pours”
What i don't get is that these rational thoughts backed up by hard facts that says Italy lost 60.000 people(!) over a three year period to the common flu, are being overheard/ignored in place of a response that threaten to throw organized countries into economic chaos.
I tried to self isolate, but completely alone 3 weeks, I'm going bonkers..
Ask HN: As a software engineer, how can I help with Coronavirus?
Are there any open source projects, nonprofit organizations, or other special situations that need extra software engineering firepower during this time of crisis?

Being stuck at home is an environment where most of us can still be incredibly productive in and I feel shitty sitting here without being able to help (beyond being socially responsible and not going out into the world).
What if the asteroid strikes Yellowstone?
What if it's obvious that the police are framing you? I've seen videos where the police outright refuse to tell the suspect what they're accused of, so the arrest is illegal. In those cases, resisting unlawful arrest seems reasonable.
I wonder what the pulses might indicate elsewhere (like water temperatures in the gulf or s/t)
Really the risk sounds more like a job for insurance and warranties tied to product specs than tarrifs.

I don't see a connection between tarrifs and risk in a supply chain. Infamously US autos which refused to adopt Tailorism or other cousin methodologies for reliability wound up being expensive crap compared to Japanese car makers. It is a peripheral variable at best or an irrelevant one at worst.

Tarriffs as a solutio resemble opportunistic timing to not let a crisis go to waste rather than addressing a root cause.
Freight and truck are the big ones. Millions of truckers and trucks need to roll to move things. We need truck stops and gas stations to stay open to keep these moving. We need distribution centers to stay open to load and unload trucks. We need the factories that make toilet paper and baby formula and canned soup and N95 masks to stay open and fully functioning. We need the farms to stay open and the fertilizer and seed operations to stay open to provide to the farmers that are growing the crops. The pig farms and the cattle farms need to stay open and they need to be supplied to provide for meat in 6 months. And all the follow on industries that support these things.

You can't just stop all this.
Doubt it, and in any case, that would be years down the line. It wouldn't help you one whit if you've got police ordering you back into your house now.

Which might be reasonable if there are flagrant violators and things continue to get worse.
Does MIT ask for AMC/AIME scores which are miles above the SAT Math Subject tests?
I think it would be hilarious if the first reporter to ask a question asks, "Sir, what was that percentage of workforce reduction again?" and writes the number down on a pad meticulously. Then the next, "Are you sure it's not 101 or 98 or something like that?" "Sure I'm sure! And I mean everyone!" And the reporters keep asking for the percentage again, while groping for writing pads as if they are terrified they will not remember or transcribe it correctly.
This would be great for instant replays
Another term for what you call "lewd behavior" is sexual harassment and it is a crime.
YouTube forgoes streaming quality to prevent European networks buffering
Anti-inflammatory medication is responsible for some of the death, and NSAID are often taken by people with diabetes (joint pain and stuff like that).

Still, uncontrolled glycemy + covid19 will likely put you to ICU, NSAID or not. If you have diabetes and controlled glycemy, (+ you're young and did not consumme NSAID), you're likely to come out OK.
This seems like such a weird stance since pretty much all formal education isn't free. Even without SAT prep rich families can still afford better schools, private tutors, set up apprenticeships.

It's a weird world where people are mad that those with means are using them to educate themselves and their children.

As an adult I choose to pay for lots of different forms of education that gives me "advantage" -- bleh -- over my friends, peers, coworkers, etc.. Why should I feel guilty that I have the means to buy culinary textbooks so I can bake better?
I think the intention is to lighten the mood a little, so to speak, for those who are being forced to work from home due the current pandemic.
He's a real go-getter!
Reminds me of a comment I read on Reddit some week ago; the commenter was going from store to store looking for disinfectant for a family member that has a prosthetic and needs to disinfect it daily, lest an infection gets into the wound.
How hard can it be to protect AAA games when can't be bought or played without an internet connection? (Can't be bought because you don't buy stuff on physical media any more, and can't be played because there is a huge patch every 3 days that you'll need if you expect to be able to finish it).

Just make the damn thing require an internet connection all the time. I don't care. If you are a good publisher then you promise to remove this restriction after 1 or 2 years and enable offline play.
The number of infected though is unknown because we haven't tested many people. When it is known then lock down on bars restaurants etc. will be too late.
I picked the VAB because it's current dollar cost was roughly a billion dollars.

Total cost for constructing Launch Complex 39, which includes the VAB and the crawler-transporter launchers was estimated 1t $500M in 1962 for 2 pads. A total of 153 launches have occurred from LC-39. This number is greater than 4.
This is a poor example. Most locks - like most DRM - does not stop the most determined people from gaining access. It makes it slightly harder, more time consuming and/or more resource consuming to get access, with the hope that it will deter the most opportunistic attackers, and slow the more determined ones "enough" where "enough" is a function of the cost of the protection vs. the benefit of delaying access.

We accept that because we recognize that there is a cost/benefit tradeoff to be made to protection - it is relatively rare for a protection to need to be absolute to be worthwhile; in fact in a lot of settings protections that attempts to be "absolute" will be prohibitively expensive and/or complicated.
Or like Contagion "Nobody can know until everyone knows" -- especially with quarantines because if people think they have early info they will try to leave before it's established exacerbating the exact measures the quarantine is intended to invoke.
There is no doubt Cuomo should be the national point person for the response to the crisis based on his performance so far. He is independently working with regional manufacturing to retool to make critical medical PPE and ventilators, and has organized a regional coalition including CT, NJ, and PA. I have not agreed with him all the time, but his crisis management has been exemplary and he will have saved many lives in NY by the time this is done.
The workers who maintain the website likely are working from home and have a larger workload on them than normal. I could push changes out to my personal website in minutes but the IRS might have a complicated CMS with a long approval pipeline that takes time and coordination to work through.
The US has a lot of mountains too in various different climates.
I think it looks nice!
Someone is going to be fired over this.
Right - but it isn't completely clear yet.

From https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175438.h... :

A new study calculates that the median incubation period for COVID-19 is just over 5 days and that 97.5% of people who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days of infection.

From https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19#Inkubationszeit :

...the incubation period can be up to 14 days. In addition, there are reports from Chinese researchers that extend the possible incubation period up to 24 days. An analysis of the first 425 cases reported in Wuhan shows an incubation period of 5.2 days on average and an average age of 59 years. ... A statistical analysis of several reports of infections in a household or in another narrow spatial limitation (so-called clusters) shows an incubation period of 5–6 days on average.

Anyway, as long as people don't keep distance between each other, the situation won't improve. Here in Switzerland the limit was shurunk within ~2 weeks from groups of people of max 1000 to 500 to 100 to 10 to 5 (today's new guidelines) => so far nothing improved.

The company I'm working for reacted early => many employees started staying at home (and working remotely) already 3 weeks ago, like myself => at the beginning it was ok for me, but now it's getting psychologically a bit "heavy". Luckily the government so far did not implement a total curfew, so from time to time we can still walk a bit in the parks/forests (but alone).
Think it's a common saying in English the language, in general. Heard it lots from people around the world.
How Fast Does a Virus Spread? Let’s Do the Math
There's been a similar debate over subject GREs in my field. The argument has been made that subject GREs are racist/sexist, because of the differing distributions of test scores in different demographic groups. There is a strong social pressure to accept this argument, despite its obvious absurdity, leading most people in the field to do so (and if they disagreed, they probably wouldn't tell you).

The problem is that graduate school admissions committees are left with very few quantitative measures. Undergrad grades are difficult to compare, because every university grades differently, and applicants come from different countries with completely different grading scales. So many people score perfectly on the quantitative GRE that it's nearly useless. The verbal GRE seems irrelevant to a scientific field, and it seems pointless to rule out international applicants because they don't know the meaning of the word "garrulous." In short, the subject GRE was one of the only uniform quantitative measures available to admissions committees, and now it's considered "racist."

There upshot, ironically, is that the elimination of quantitative measures makes discrimination easier to hide. This discrimination is meant to be positive, helping increase representation of underrepresented groups. The applicants who suffer most from this policy are those who are just on the line between admission and rejection, and who don't come from the "correct" demographic. The people pushing these policies think they're changing the world for the better, but it sure looks unfair to the individuals they're denying entry to. Applicants are being treated as representatives of their race or gender, rather than as individuals who should be considered individually.
The question shouldn't be is the SAT unfairly biased towards families with money, since of course it is, but is the SAT less biased towards families with money then other criteria. Having parents with money and connections lets you get tutoring to increase your GPA, tutoring to write essays, connections to get internships, the free time to do clubs, training to excel in sports, and so many other things.
You were downvoted but I tend to agree. Even karting costs in the tens of thousands per year once you want to be competitive. You have to either have well off parents or live in good circumstances like Schumacher whose father worked at a track. And there is almost no amount of talent that can compensate for new tires and a rebuilt engine at every race.
I think your own view that every game pirated is a lost sale is equally naive, so, to each his own.