skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use any old git repo as your main source, and "dump" every commit into github for visibility. Any issues and pull request into the github site are replied by an automatic answer to use some other site.
>>If you ban bonuses, people will switch companies

That's what the finance geniuses did in 2008...it was a great job market.

Ban bonuses or go bankrupt but no board will choose to go bankrupt so who cares about what's normal during normal times.
Scatter Plot of San Francisco Covid-19 Cases
I couldn't find one anywhere so I made it myself. I will keep it updated daily to track the growth. Source is https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/coronavirus.asp
Some of them. That was an easy question. Many of them, though, are not for changing the world, just for maintaining the status quo that empowers them.
Common No-CORS Misconceptions
That minimal feature set is a CPAP machine + maybe an oxygen valve of the 3D printable variety.

Modern CPAP machines can generate phenomenal pressures and can be adjusted with simple touch screens. They support automatic pressure reduction on exhalation, and Bluetooth/cloud access to the data in them for remote monitoring via mobile apps.

BTW it's not quite as simple as 'hospital ventilators are hard to use'. Firstly, modern ventilators are much easier because the manufacturers realised that high training costs were limiting their market, so they've got a lot easier to use. Secondly, the US did a previous disaster response training exercise where they trained a bunch of non-specialist medical staff like nurses and even vetinarians how to use the machines. After 2 days of training there was an exam: the vets did best.
>The current recession (which we are undoubtedly technically in) is mainly due to government's everywhere mandating...

Unlikely. The writing has been on the wall for a while. The inverted yield curve and the long overdue 7 year cycle, among other indicators suggest that the virus was just a trigger.

And we'll see it was a trigger for much more - the world has been an increasingly overstuffed powder keg for years. Do you know that Turkey and Greece are inching toward war over the refugee situation, and Greece already has support from multiple European Nations in shutting down migration? Imagine how many nations will be pulled in if one of the saber rattling incidents actually turns deadly...

COVID-19 is the chaos that is about to shake loose every crack in the global socioeconomic system. Imagine how the geopolitical landscape is about to change when billions of Indians and Africans are exposed to the virus...
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This isn't a history that an analytic philosopher would give, its just question begging from a postmodernist bias.
Calls for free broadband resisted by internet providers
I'm not real optimistic about things, but... maybe things will come back to life quickly if we get a handle on the actual problem?
And for Google, we have CDN PoP in

Amsterdam, Netherlands (3)
Budapest, Hungary
Dublin, Ireland
Frankfurt, Germany (3)
Groningen, Netherlands
Hamburg, Germany (2)
Hamina, Finland
London, England (3)
Madrid, Spain (2)
Marseille, France
Milan, Italy
Munich, Germany
Paris, France (2)
Prague, Czech Republic
Sofia, Bulgaria
St. Ghislain, Belgium
Stockholm, Sweden (2)
Warsaw, Poland
Zurich, Switzerland (2)

https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/locations
This is a very serious issue, but I just have to ask anyway... Will the masks have RGB?
No, it doesn't need to be minimalist.

Styling is totally OK. And the browser could even be Firefox, just with a separate rendering path if it detects the page is html5core or whatever.

Old pages works just as before. New, html5core compliant pages loads blazingly fast and displays just as nice though.
Why are the specs not more configurable? You could offer it at a lot lower of a price if a costumer can get 16 GB of GPU without 244 GB of RAM.
I've designed medical devices. They're not rocket science. Yes, being tolerant of a single-point-of-failure is important, but not in this climate. Military should cut through fines. And as for lives, they just need to be more safe than not having a ventilator. You don't put a healthy patient on a ventilator.

I think if 10,000 come out which kill people, that's a problem, but it's not a particularly hard one to catch. If 10,000 come out where 1% kill people, that wouldn't pass any sort of bar in normal times, but these are not normal times. That's much better than not having them at all.
That's interesting. ifconfig bond0.143:0 would be the vlan? Either way I can definitely tell you the interfaces were missing from `ifconfig` but visible in `ip`.
Dermfix 3000. It seems it is discontinued. They are selling a handheld model now: https://www.dermfix.eu/1000mx-psoriasis-uvb-lamp.html

Using just magnesium never fully fixed my insomnia issue. It helped immensely in the beginning, but eventually the issue deteriorated and I again could not sleep even while taking large doses of magnesium.

Using a lamp was a world of difference within days. With a combination of both I have absolutely no insomnia issues anymore.
is this discussion missing the important distinction between QoS and bandwidth limiting?

I can certainly agree emergency communications warrant better QoS guarantees than a netflix stream; it's probably not a big deal if your stream drops more packets than usual, but it matters a lot for real-time communication.

if we're talking about throttling connections, OP of this thread has a good point. if you want to keep people cooped up in their houses indefinitely, you gotta throw them a bone of some sort. throttling their netflix stream is going to piss people off, and at the margins, people might just say fuck it and go outside.
I sure get the feel that it would be, but I hope we get moving on that ASAP before this is over, because I suspect minds have only been temporarily opened on this matter. Before too long I suspect our old heuristics will reassert their dominance over logic on topics that are in any way associated with the identity of the person.

I am going to bookmark this thread in anticipation of this phenomenon.

"Nobody could have foreseen what would happen when the world’s second-largest economy went offline and completely shut down external logistics connections."

Exactly what they said about the housing bubble. Honestly, how many people on HN and elsewhere couldn't anticipate this? I think the main thing that has caught everyone by surprise is just how comically unprepared we are for this. And the overwhelming sentiment I've been getting from the memeplex is that this situation is entirely the fault of Trump, when he fired Obama's pandemic team. Not only is this not actually technically true, the idea or insinuation (dog-whistling) that the extension of that team would have mitigated this whole thing seems to be quite unlikely, to put it mildly. Oh yes, of course having this team in place would have improved things - but by how much, and under what counter-factual scenarios?

These are the discussions we need to have, but I don't think Western culture as it is is capable of having them. We need to wake up and realize the human ego is the root of all of these problems.
EDx's videos are served straight from youtube, I think
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First a disclaimer, this is pure speculation on my part, but based on what others have said about github cracking down on sanctioned countries. I'm guessing they audited and found some accounts that belonged to people they suspected of being from sanctioned countries, and then went massively overboard and nuked any repo those users ever contributed to.
Virtual Tech-for-Good Hackathon After Action Report
Virality is a major component of YouTube.
Over the years, I have run into:

- Counterfeit components, like memory out of spec that creates scaled failures.

- Fake products from the channel.

- Fundamental mistruths with regard to how services are delivered.

- Poor operational practices for maintaining SLA, especially for off-shored services. Those ops folks will move mountains to meet the minimum standard of "up", but will allow problems to fester.

- Fraud. Fake on-site employees sending work back to a boiler room with people actually doing the work.

- Fraud. Named users actually being fake people sharing a credential. In one case, a colleague in a manufacturing case discovered this when he accidentally received a link to an open video stream of a MFA token.

- Fraud. Stuffing fake or inferior products into orders. Example: Order new laptops, find a bunch of refurbs in the pallets.

Basically, people suck and if you primarily make purchasing decisions based on price, and you care about what you are buying, you need to treat the counter-party as a potentially hostile actor and assume that you are going to be ripped off.
I've heard this before and it's the most troubling. Humans have adaptive immune systems. When our bodies first encounter a virus and a while blood cell successfully attaches too and breaks down a virus, it should either replicate or release the right activator proteins that will aid in breaking down the virus.

Vaccines are all about tricking our immune system into preparing those specific antibodies before an infection occurs, so it can stop it quickly. If reinfection is true, what does that say about the nature of this virus and how difficult it is to create a vaccine? Are there other viruses that reinfect like this?
As a non dev-opsy person, I do not think i can create an environment to use. To be fair though, I cannot understand amazon pricing compared to vagon's enough to have an opinion eitherway
There is zero correlation between unstructured interview performance and on the job performance. You read that right, zero. Interviewers would like to think they can discriminate talent based on interview performance. On average, they don’t add one iota of value. Collectively, they are wasting millions of hours a year and destroying untold billions of dollars in economic value.

You might have realized that I added the qualifying adjective “unstructured” to the claim about interviews (there is plenty of empirical literature). Structured interviews are more predictive. However, some of the function of a structured interview can be replicated at third party test centers which give you a score. Employers can select for the best and most predictive tests in the ecosystem. Furthermore, those employers who don’t know exactly what they want are the least likely to have structured interviews. They are probably taking the unstructured route, and kidding themselves into thinking that they’re selecting for talent during the interview process. In reality, the best they are doing is soliciting a pool of candidates from good schools and prestigious companies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying get rid of interviews. However, most interviews should be structured, and companies should outsource most of the process so that:

- they can interview more candidates

- and more of those candidates would be a good fit going in
Easy: you used to like games decades ago, so get an emulator, get the games you used to like back then (I'll leave the specifics out here), and play the games you used to enjoy. Then get some other games from that era that you never got a chance to enjoy, and try those.

Actually, I think archive.org has a lot of those old games, playable directly through a web browser, so it depending on the game it may be much easier than what I wrote above.
The west has grown fat after decades of easy living. The reaction thus far from the public has convinced me that the vast majority of people are helpless and ignorant. This virus was an obvious threat in early January - long before the WHO was turning a blind eye to China's censorship.
If you surf sufficiently exotic videos on YouTube, you know, the ones in the hundreds of views after 8 years, you can pretty much see them getting pulled out of long-term, low-priority storage. I don't get 10 second waits for the streaming to begin on very many other videos.
Please don't spread conspiracy theories without linking to a reliable source.
Hopefully. People are still allowed to go to work, and there are a number of people not respecting the rules. Everyone keeps hoping to see the numbers dip, but they aren't yet.
Did the US pay reparations to essentially all the nations for the 1918 flu? This originated among cattle in Kansas, and killed 50 million people: more than WW1 and WW2 combined.
This does not answer my question, I've read the site and the README: what do you see there that I didn't see?
I hope this makes it on the front page. This might be a real solution to a large portion of the problem given that it is readily available, easy to manufacture, and prevents infection with less side effects than regular chloroquine.
Large amounts of the population could be prescribed this as a prophylactic and prevent much of the spread from occurring even in high risk occupations.
I would love to see the telehealth system used to send prescriptions for this to pharmacies everywhere for at risk workers.
Yes, once we have a decent treatment/mitigation/herd immunity for the virus we will be able to pick things right back up where they were. The only difference will be that the value of the dollar is going to get cut by 50%. Expect massive inflation as we bailout everyone.
> The only problem is that PC technology is significantly behind PS5. It'll take some time for the newer, PCIe 4.0-based drives with the bandwidth required to match Sony's spec to hit the market.

This is what stands out for me (I know this quote is a bit dramatic but bare with me): for a long time consoles have lagged behind PC technology - in the sense that PC was always the early adopter and spread out before consoles.

I'll dare to say that the last console that achieved this was probably the PS3.

The PS4 was a bit of a turn off for a lot of people spec wise.

So it's good to see they're using these platforms to push the early adoption of new standards.

Also, good for Sony to let standard NVMEs be used, and not some proprietary form factor that adds no value, and has no benefit to the consumer. That's one of the reasons some of their consoles lost traction - proprietary storage media.
AI can help mitigate a global pandemic
Open source software first and foremost means reproducibility. With open software, anybody on earth with the right equipment can easily and trivially reproduce a result at no additional cost or hindering contractual terms. Reproducibility is paramount, and sits at the very core of science. Results that cannot be reconstructed hardly count as new knowledge.

(As a funny story, even Wolfram-the-company can’t run SMP, the predecessor of Mathematica. Why? They can’t decrypt it or unlock it, and can’t figure out how to work around it.)

Every major tech company on earth uses open source software at the heart of their business. So we know something sustainable is possible.

Open source, one-size-fits-all math software is a tough nut to crack. I think most people could get most of their algebra and calculus done with existing open packages like wxMaxima or Sage. Specialized computations, such as those in group theory, already have open source implementations that exceed any closed competitor.

As for the construction of a competing CAS, some organization would have to employ a team. That costs money, and so far no company (that I know!) sees it as either a worthwhile investment or charitable cause. If folks do know of a company, I’d love to know.
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Sea of Stars – Official Reveal Trailer
Citation please?

If we take a few verbal statements of political figure or government officials as official stance. Then US' official stance must be fascism xenophobic totalitarian antiintellectal ...

Let not fall with the questionable thinking cultivated by propaganda and fear mongering
I'm looking for advice (or resources for finding advice) that would help my family (ages 15+) get started building with LEGOs. I have more nostalgia for LEGOs than I do experience, though my teenage-to-young-adult children have much more experience. Do you have any advice that would get me pointed in the right direction? (eg do this, not that)
really depends what you mean by hard here
“Hey Alexa, Pause the Economy”
My ISP provides me detailed traffic charts. For example on Monday night I lost link-layer service (as did a neighbour and perhaps my whole street, this isn't exactly the ideal time to go asking everybody in person) and I can see that on the chart, and then I can see the next night when I had a multi-way video conference with friends for several hours.

Apparently in March 2019 I used a total of 106GB of download 25GB of upload, and this month so far is way below those numbers. This is biased by me working from home, so hour-long video conference calls aren't a new thing for me.

The ISP's policy (for which they charge significantly more than a typical ISP in my country) is to "never be the bottleneck". If things are too slow it is never (intentionally) their fault. So that's one reason they provide these charts - you can see latency info in them, drop rates, everything.
I heard in an interview with Michael Osterholm, that scientists in China started testing people who had come in contact to those who were sick in the early days of the outbreak, and found people who were not showing any symptoms, but had a large amount of viral load in their throats they were actively breathing out.

What kind of testing they do in those situations?
i am an anaesthetist
i trained using a manley ventilator
covid patients apparently are easy to ventilate
the issue is their gas exchange not their compliance
a manley ventilator will do just fine for many patients, not all i accept but many
An SQL database workload I would understand, but an FTP seems mostly filesystem/io not memory and cpu bound. If you have more information, I'd be happy to have the details.
This isn't even a review, it's just a description of the book. It says nothing about the quality of the writing or arguments except one fragment of one sentence in the very last paragraph:

> Lindley is engaging

That's it.
That is really only a political no-no. The issue is that if your VM takes off in popularity, some people get upset that it's a poor fit for their favorite language.

Technically, it's perfectly fine for a VM to be designed so that the semantic gap is small between it and the intended language family.
Have black hat people figured out what triggers this yet?

Looks like a new attack, where you make a few contributions to a project, then start proxying your logins through Iran for a while till everything you touch shuts down.
That's a great theory, but Linus picks and chooses when to decide it's outrageous to make changes that break userland tools based on his personal preferences. They intentionally broke ZFS - then Linus follows up with a wildly inaccurate statement about why he thinks nobody should use ZFS.

It's difficult to take him seriously when he picks and chooses when to enforce his supposed "never break userland" ethos.
Yes, according to the list of available animals in this Vox video (skip to 3:05 for the menu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54
Agreed. I designed supercritical CO2 flow reactors. There are a lot of advantages, and agree the main disadvantage is that a clog has the potential to cause serious damage to your system. I still think it's superior because the product consistency can be much higher when you can control exactly how long a reaction takes place (vs batch processing).

I'm kind of confused why this is an article on HN, but I used to have a startup doing microreactor based flow chemistry. It's pretty great for purely liquid based processes.
Conectivity and performance issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

I was way off with CloudFlare. Netflix might be better by using Akamai and others.
Qubes Architecture Next Steps: The GUI Domain
I wouldn't even call it that. Many services have base prices and additional usage prices.

You may call this expensive, but for things you need a few times a month it may make great sense. I'd even consider it if the base price wasn't that high (usage also seems like a bit much, but then again you're getting good power).

What I wonder the most about is how it compares to other cloud computing offers, as the nature of the offering doesn't seem that special and I'd most likely use it as a build server (although a media editing use case would be interesting as well, since it'd mean I wouldn't have to keep around a Windows installation, but then file transfer becomes an issue).
> the value of the dollar is going to get cut by 50%

Against what? Aren't all currencies going through a similar hardship?
Defnitely not the official stance, but Lijian Zhao (China Spokesperson & Deputy Director General, Information Department, Foreign Ministry) tweeted "It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan."

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823
> Well, it’s often due to a phenomenon called sleep state misperception. When you’re in lighter stages of sleep, it can sometimes feel like you’re still awake, because there’s still thought activity occurring in the brain.

I learning about this, uh, experientially. My wife snores. Many times, once she starts sawing wood, I will poke her and tell her to roll over. Very often, she'll tell me "I'm not snoring, I wasn't even asleep." Hmm...

> There are so many horror stories out there about people who developed a benzo addiction or did crazy things while they were on Ambien.

One of the real challenges about being inundated with information on the Internet 24/7 is that there is a fundamental bias that we have a really hard time compensating for: No one writes down boring stories. If you judge the world based on what you read online, every Ambien pill summons a visit from the Ambien walrus and setting your kitchen on fire. Every trip to Central America ends in horrid digestive disease, bot fly infections, or both. Every politician all the way down to your local city council member is a corrupt sociopath, and every cop a malevolent scumbag.

The reality is that all of those stories get written down because they are interesting, which tends to imply that they are unusual, which means they are the exact opposite of being representative. But it's really hard to internalize that fact.
I don't think I can live with a laptop heavier than 3kg to be honest. My old 15" used to be a little under that and it was a literal pain my back.
Hosted App Model
I like how you put it "governments everywhere mandating that the economy go into recession due to a public health emergency". Which is very true. While yes the coronavirus is the initial cause, the fact remains that governments put the economy on hold, for the greater good of humanity. Which means that it should bounce back, hopefully quickly in my optimistic mind.
"Shape up" from Bootcamp recommends integrating one soup-to-nuts slice of functionality at a time as well (https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.2-chapter-10).

A great read for anyone interested in simple, pragmatic, and effective approaches to shipping software.
BTW ICU doenst use volatile anaesthetics to sedate people we tend to use opioids & benzos to sedate
Thanks, this is pretty much the only real answer to my serious question here
Pandemania: Day Five
Linux won on the server because free beer and lots of money from UNIX companies, using the community to drive down development costs.

In what concerns desktop and embedded, it hasn't won.

Ironically IoT is now getting full of BSD/MIT licensed POSIX clones, exactly for not having to deal with anything GPL related.