skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, it's to stop the spread of the virus

This is a misstatement. Nobody is trying to stop the spread, they're trying to slow it within a bubble. The surrounding counties, cities, and states aren't under quarantine. The bay area is simply hitting the pause button, with a slight rewind, for three weeks. Once those three weeks pass, the pause button is released.

One thing is for sure, unless there's some compensation or forgiveness of late payments/credit score hits from the state, this is going to really harm the lives of those already struggling to afford the bay area.
UBI removes the geographical constraints that have been distorting the US housing market. There are plenty of areas in the country that would gladly absorb excess housing demand, but the lack the jobs and economic prospects of those areas make it difficult under current circumstances.
So you agree with me...
Can anybody comment? How could it be worse than nothing, and is there a way to evaluate these designs? Imagine somebody had parents with lung issues and the hospitals were turning away old people with such conditions in 1-2 months
Two reasons: leverage costs will drag the performance of the 3x to worse than 3x over time, and in big drops there's a chance that the 3x ETF may actually implode like the XIV ETN did a while back. Those work in your favor if you're short but may or may not be worth the cost of borrowing for your situation.
No, but a person in an ICU bed will need a lot of other services which might be subject to triage. (Remember that "beds" is a shorthand here - it's not a shortage of physical beds that's an issue, it's easy and quick to build beds.)
I'm not sure I understand that. Because the signature guarantee isn't "by" the transferring financial institution, is it? You want to transfer an account from "A" to "B" and you get the guarantee from someone that provides guarantees, call them "C". And if someone forges the guarantee, then "C" never did guarantee anything, so why would they be liable, let alone "A" and "B"?

Maybe I'm forgetting how this works...

...reading the wikipedia page, it sounds like the idea is to deal with forgeries of signatures provided to the guarantor. Not with forgeries of the guarantor's approval.

Then again, maybe you can't really forge a guarantee as long as it can be looked up or invalidated by their database.
For certain values of "trust" and "working".

For example, having the highest incarceration rate in the world would be consistent with both authoritarianism (a form of high trust in government) and not really working all that well.
People ordered to stay home except for "essential jobs" which are defined in this article as:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Bay-Area-...

A wide swath of businesses that do not provide “essential” services must send workers home. Among those remaining open are grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants for delivery only and hardware stores. Most workers are ordered to stay home, with exceptions including health care workers; police, fire and other emergency responders; and utility providers such as electricians, plumbers and sanitation workers. BART will remain running for essential travel, and airports are not closing.
Hey - I am Haseeb Founder of Efani. So we deploy atleast 11 ways to authenticate a user over couple of weeks to make sure that this is a legitimate request + use some manual & automated processes to kill any illegal attempt
I think we all can agree here that most of us care about "UNIX user experience". The shell, the tools we can combine, APIs, man pages at my fingertips, etc. As far as I'm concerned there can be NT kernel beneath that doing all the work, I couldn't care less.
This looks great, thanks! One quick note: one often-unnoticed thing that OpenVPN currently has in its favor is how robust it is in the face of users with different sets of needs or competency levels.

This comes out in, for example, the "Accessing your home LAN" part of your article. It has a bunch of iptables magic that I understand, but presumably shouldn't have to in order to use WireGuard. Actually, the device that makes the most sense to use as a WireGuard server is my router, which is based on BSD; so presumably I'd need modify your commands to get this working on my OS! With OpenVPN, on the other hand, I can literally install a package for my firewall (OPNsense) and it's all done for me with a few clicks. That's what I mean by robustness: I'm capable of getting OpenVPN working on just about any computer, including my GUI based BSD router. WireGuard just doesn't have that yet.
Wow! Finally a way to easily filter Netflix by rating and IMDb quality!

How are you monetizing this?

I ask out of concern that this thing sticks around!
Here's a whole thread from @dhh about a few dozen others:

Head of thread: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1239286206803742721

> Do you know of a tech company that’s asking people who could work from home to come to the office? Reply to this thread, so we can track these irresponsible organizations, and remember their names even after this is over.

Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239286206803742721.html
Around here, it's often very difficult to tell if the oncoming lights have flashed in your eyes because someone's deliberately flicked their high-beams at you, or because they've just gone over a bump in the road, exacerbating this problem.
Agree with your points but as we are being taught to cope with the negativity, we some times need a toxicity free experience on the web as we learn to cope. Moreover, toxic stuff like "fuck you", "you piece of shit" should always be toxic no matter who you are. The main goal of the plugin is to remove such content.
I mean, this is what the UK is going to try. We will see how successful it is. I am not optimistic.
> keep the latency of your signal path at the 1 ms level

NYC->LA at the speed of light in a vacuum

4000 km / c = 13 ms

Slower in fiber; apparently about 19 ms.
Ask HN: App or service to help those in Covid isolation?
Now that SF Bay is in "shelter in place" with other places soon to follow. It occurs to me that something which may be desperately needed in the near future is a web service/app which connects those in COVID-isolation with local volunteers.

The basic idea being that this service could connect healthy, young, car-owning, volunteers with the elderly or immunocompromised in their neighborhood.

Does anyone know if this service (or something close enough) already exists (or is being built)? Or perhaps there exists some government system which functions similarly that needs attention brought to it?

If not, then I'd love to volunteer my time (I'm a web developer) to build it. I'm looking for others who are willing to donate their time to brainstorm/program/design/whatever.
Not just trucks but people working and etc
Really, you don't need to "convert" anything much. Plain old CPAP is better than nothing (especially if it has c-flex (or diff name depending on manufacturer) to allow for decreased pressure during exhale). In fact it is WAY better than nothing if a person is needing support and can't get them in help as we may soon be encountering.

There are forums out there that teach you how to adjust the settings on your CPAP/APAP/BiPAP machines, including how to get into the "clinician mode" to make REAL adjustments (e.g., like pressing and holding two buttons down on machine for couple seconds puts you into clinician menu settings). There is also software out there that will let you download the data from the SD card in most machines to your computer and analyze it. This isn't terribly critical, but if you have motivation / need it is handy to know how to do this. Makes titration much faster/easier and with less trial and error.

sleepyhead is the name of software (open source, no long maaintained unfortunatly but entirely functional still). Just google for sleep apnea forums.

Good luck with your son and rest of family!
China and Europe have public healthcare and social safety. They've been much worse off than the US so far.
I'm not saying that won't change, but to sit here and shit all over America's approach to limited government is a premature celebration.
Super fun: In the full model { 5%, 3%, 5, 3, 0.25, 5, 14 } led to a walking sprawl of disease in a healthy population that lasted a long time, turning down the incubation days by 2 made it slower. The rate of new infections eventually eventually tapered off because the virus encountered its own sprawl like a growing structure in Go. Seems like a STD.
What a crazy statement. The reason the USD is so highly valued is because there is such high trust in the government. There’s a reason countries with low trust have to come to NYC to sell bonds.

Society is much more productive when you don’t have to worry how much to bribe everyone.
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Why would a country ever bail out a private company? (Except for corruption of course.)

They can always estatise it, but I don't imagine an airliner is strategic enough for that.
I’m actually a fan of UBI. Comment was more out of frustration as I’ve seen idiotic behavior en mass from humans.
> they floated the idea on Friday of letting people request up to four days per two week pay period to be remote

I don't understand why do they think of it in terms of people requesting it like it's a perk? Even out of time of crisis it's not some luxury it's just a normal working arrangement.
Telemedicine companies are struggling to serve ‘extreme volumes’ of patients
One could argue that the greatest weakness in this case is in holding your life savings in cryptocurrency.
How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
The virus is certain to push the US and many other economies into recession, which becomes self-sustaining. After the health crisis has passed, we will be left with this economic crisis.

Monetary policy is maxed already, so we will need fiscal stimulus. This will be the opportunity to invest in green infrastructure. We will need the government to step up and provide jobs and spending, and it should direct both with wisdom to prepare for the climate challenge.
> I see WireGuard as a very promising VPN protocol. It should be easy to build e.g. higher level configuration protocols for DNS and such on top of it.

You're 100% correct about this, but I think it's easy to miss that you could say very similar things about all sorts of very well designed, low-level technologies, that for years no one has bothered to build the necessary high level tooling around! Magic Wormhole is another great example: it's a brilliant system, it's even very easy to use from the terminal, but nobody has bothered to build a GUI around it or create any of the more complicated (but awesome!) tooling that the wormhole protocol allows. (At least as of the last time I looked into this.)
I strongly recommend against Family plans because this connects your family to you which makes them vulnerable as well
Most of the responses focus on how you meet the current requirements. However, the most important thing to know is not actually about current requirements, but future ones.

Sure you can assume that all the requirements will change, but then you’ll need to make a system so flexible it becomes a nightmare to do anything (just look at JIRA or other software like it, with 100 configuration options for every piece). These systems require vast resources to maintain because there is so much code to make it flexible.

You can also assume the requirements won’t change at all, tightly following the spec and optimizing all the edge cases so you have a pristine black box no one can touch.

Finding the happy medium involves knowing which assumptions are likely to change, and which aren’t. Usually, languages won’t change often, so you can rely on most of those features. Certain well-maintained libraries and APIs won’t change much, so those can usually be baked-in too. The business logic around things like pricing, users, analytics, data visualization, and data processing are likely to have changes. My favorite one for web apps with databases is search. The filters very often change and grow, so getting a highly flexible search working is usually a big win for not too much effort.

Note, I’ve never said always. If you can get knowledge about the business needs you’re supporting, you’ll have a much better idea of which things need flexibility, and which things don’t. The longer the roadmap on a project, the more wins you can get when architecting systems too, as you can set yourself up for easier implementation of future features.
The trust in the government comes from the skepticism of the citizens.
> They've been much worse off than the US so far.

I think this is a simplistic view. We're not only talking about infection rate here.

edit: Social safety nets, medical debt, etc.
Why are climate change alarmists also coronavirus alarmists?
"Humor" and "publicly belittling your spouse" are completely orthogonal issues. As people tend to notice after middle school, life can be enjoyed without any out-group being made the subject of tired stereotypes.
Except a stock market crash and a recession are two different things. Beyond temporary contraction in demand, and supply line disruption in China, the US still has solid fundamentals and I see no reason why things wouldn't just pick up again in a few months. Do you have reason to believe otherwise?
It's coming to the rest of the country soon. My employer has already sent many of their employees to work from home though they've never had a work from home policy and very few exceptions to the rule. As the continuing jokes goes, I guess we'll find out how well we can work from home after all.
Jesus Christ. What an Orwellian nightmare. I hope the people of SF either get out of there and stay out, or violate this lockdown in such high numbers that it becomes unenforceable.

Good luck to all of you. The rest of the country awaits you. Housing is actually affordable in most of it.
Absolutely spot on. They could try to sell find, grep and less.

Most of the recent "hip" devops tools replace 100 lines of homegrown python with 10000 lines of lock-in and hype.
I bet I could learn a lot from someone who thinks the Earth was created 6000 years ago, but that's not a useful activity overall.
But that is precisely what makes it so easy and yet remain secure. When I add a new client, it takes just a minute to generate the keys and send over the QR code to the person via an already secure side channel, if we aren't already meeting face to face.
Premature for people incapable of deduction or what?
Very cool stuff. I really think that versioned, functional-ish databases are the future.
Where's the innovation compared to LXC and wget?
Absent a market selloff, they're better for shareholders for two reasons: one, it manifests earnings as capital gains/stock appreciation rather than dividends, and two, it has positive future ROI.

Point 1 is not super important because of the existence of qualified dividends.

Point 2 is like this: let's say I'm a company with 1000 outstanding shares valued at $100 each and want to pay a yearly dividend (for simplicity) of $5/share. All market movements notwithstanding and absent any changes, that means I'm basically giving investors a 5% yearly ROI. But, let's say I instead bought back my shares with all my earnings. The first year, I buy back 5% of the outstanding shares. Now there are 950 outstanding shares and total earnings are still $5000/year. Next year each remaining shareholder gets an extra 5% of earnings per share (this compounds). And rather than pay tax each year on dividends, shareholders defer all their taxes until they exit their position.

One argument is that dividends aren't really worse in this case because investors could still choose to spend the cash on purchasing more shares, accomplishing the same thing. But the deferred taxes change the math.
This was the link:

https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...

My account was less than a day old, and both the initial registration, as well as the connection at the time of suspension were via Tor, which may account for the fact that it was incorrectly identified as spam.

Censorship is censorship, though; connecting via a privacy network should not suddenly mean you can't link your friends to your own website without getting summarily deleted.

It's not really a massive story; people simply don't give a shit that Discord is a surveillance/censorship platform.

I think amongst younger people there is a general sense of "they can read all of it on every platform, who cares anymore" fatalism, and anyone who refuses to participate on that basis or complains about it is seen as an inconvenient whiner who should just click AGREE on the ToS without reading it like everyone else did, and leak their physical location/residential address to Discord via their home IP or phone number, like everyone else did.

Unfortunately, I (and others like me) do not have that luxury. For physical safety reasons, if I cannot participate without leaking my location, I cannot participate at all.
Somehow I feel like we're still being let off easy. Antibiotics still work for the vast majority of bacterial infections. The U.S. government has (at last) come together-ish to fight this. The U.S. dollar is still the world's reserve currency via Bretton Woods and we can print money to alleviate pain and suffering. So...what will happen to us when these facts may no longer hold true?

I don't think this pandemic is do-or-die. This pandemic is just a stress test for what's to come.
Like so many of the good things in life, this is not on the internet.
Okay, sure. Lets talk about fiscal. Italy's going go re-enter another sovereign debt crisis because they were already in recession before they shut down their entire economy.

Lets talk about medical. I haven't heard anything about hospital bed shortages in the US yet. Again, not saying we won't get there, but China had to build entire new facilities because they didn't have adequate infrastructure.

Lets talk about essentials. American stores might be temporarily out of toilet paper, but Wuhan is currently dealing with dramatic food shortages.
ATT’s login is the phone number itself.
> so far.

Those words are doing a lot of work. If we densely-packed city folk don't work extra-hard to contain this, it's going to absolutely raze our health, and other support systems.
Ok, I'm one of the people who thinks this whole thing is way overblown, but I'm not about to violate this order. It specifically permits you to go out for a walk/run, but otherwise to stay home. We can figure out if this makes sense afterwards and evaluate for next time, but until then, we show solidarity and wait for cooler heads to prevail.
>Can anybody comment? How could it be worse than nothing

by giving those under-qualified to accurately diagnose a condition medical equipment that requires expertise to use, you increase the chances of incorrect use and non-indicated use.
Have there been any legal analysis of this? Is this constitutional?
Let us not call it "America's approach to limited government". It does not represent the view of majoriry, just an influential minority. A better phrasing would be "America's approach to privatising profits and socialising costs"
The problem is how do you establish effective rationing with no preparation? It's nigh impossible.

Even with preparation, It would be a very difficult and impossibly contentious process.
Fuck this company, and others like it. I know nothing will happen in the end, but these executives should get imprisoned and barred from ever holding a leadership role ever again.
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Your employer sending employees home does not have the force of law behind it. You're probably not at risk of getting shot and/or imprisoned for violating their request.
There exist a large cadre of politicians that consistently run on the platform that the government is incompetent and should not be trusted, win elections, and then go out of their way to prove it.
If they won’t be paying for food, paying rent, paying for commute, paying for gas, the life of people who lost jobs due to corona will also be much easier. What’s so special about internet? Nothing.
Google. There are handful of sleep apnea forums with instructions on how to enter into the "clinician mode" of most machines. From there, you can adjust modes, pressure levels, etc. Said forums also have wealth of information on WHAT to change. There is also software called "sleepyhead" that is free and downloadable if you really want to geek out and understand the data saved by the machine.

I "hack" (not really, just doing stuff / adjustments that clinics supposed to do) my machine for no other reason than they clinicians are useless once they sell you a sleep study and machine. You are typically on your own once you get it unfortunately, which is why the success rate of people using CPAP machines is usually pretty low. It can be a frustrating process without help and even if you do have good clinician, it is still frustrating to get used to it (some moreso than others).
Unfortunately a lot of people lack any common sense or sympathy for others. On the other hand it might be a good time to motivate and teach users to stay safe.
Low trust in government is the mantra of the US and it's an issue.
They’ve also had widespread infection for longer. China got a 3 month head start. It’s pointless to say one has an good outcome when it’s only now beginning to grow.

And some countries like Japan have public health care. Despite being one of the first countries with widespread infection, they’re still far below America.
Yeah, I noticed the flatten the curve graphs have a horizontal line about "available beds". It probably also represents available healthcare workers, equipment, etc. Surely this line can be made to move. E.g. when China sent a plane with doctors and equipment to Italy. Or simpler, find suitable buildings and make hospitals out of them (easier said than done, obviously).
It's knowable that the situation in the US will be comparably bad to what we're seeing in other countries. The original comment suggested that it'll be particularly bad in the US, and I think it requires a lot more than deduction to figure that.
People like you are going to get people like your parents and grandparents killed.
WireGuard is very hard to manage with a pool of connected devices, especially if you don't know how many will connect ahead of time, it really needs Dynamic IPs, Routes & DNS to compete against OpenVPN. You should be able to add in hostname & credentials on the client end and let it do its magic.

I also feel like the language used in wg-dynamic is very dismissive and counter productive:

> WireGuard currently uses static addresses everywhere. This is because that is mostly a better way to design your network. But in some cases, insane people want dynamic IP addresses or other dynamic configuration.

https://github.com/WireGuard/wg-dynamic/blob/master/docs/ide...

So now I'm insane for not wanting to configure every connected client?
> What's missing for me: * a good "connected" indicator * session tracking/logging

Wireguard is (sort of) stateless by design, so this would be tough.
There has been a geological extinction event associated with high levels of atmospheric carbon - it was the biggest one of all time, and it nearly wiped out all life on Earth. Look up the Permian Extinction. (Yes there are multiple theories of cause, but one of which - and perhaps the most likely - is run away global warming.)

And stop reading bad science.