skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I studied medicine 15 years ago 130-139 mm Hg was not considered high blood pressure. We were young students and we were toying everyday measuring our blood pressure. Most males had over 130.

It seems times are changing: https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm

We have "evolved"!
Yeah I don't buy this.

Like any field I think there is a spectrum of quality and there are some really great doctors that know a lot, some really bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones.

I've had a doctor (in the bay area) tell me that I should smoke a cigarette instead of having coffee if I'm having trouble sleeping, but want to keep working on something. Another talk positively about the butter coffee guy. I think the main reason they don't talk about a lot of options is probably time constraint and the common case being right most of the time. This means if you're actually not a common case you're probably better off investing your own time to try and figure things out too.

I like this article though, I think there is some similarity of style in troubleshooting software and disease diagnosis (just very different things to reason about).
But, for finding interfaces and read about their state and settings, aren't /proc and /sys the best way to go, if there is no worry about toctou? I was answered yesterday on another topic that /proc is a linuxism, but is there anything missing there ?
The numbers matter here. Go up by how much?
Looks really cool! I'm going to see if I can get into the beta, then give it a shot.
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The example was finding a way to manufacture more hand sanitizer.
It has a better extension ecosystem by a wide, wide margin. Some of the benefits that can bring from my personal experience:

- Using the same editor setup for tons of different environments (Python, C/C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, and more are all very well supported)

- The VS Code remote editing extensions are fantastic: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

- There are live collaboration extensions that let you pair program with other devs over the internet, with really good responsiveness

- The remote extension also lets you specify a dockerfile/image ref + plugin configuration in your repository, which can then be used for your editing. This effectively gives you transparent, Git-based, immutable development environments. This can be a big productivity boost.

I've also found it pretty easy for most people to pick up and use, and it's also fairly lightweight and reasonable IME.
Github was cool when git was new years back - but these days, and especially given how git inherently is not centralized, it is not very clear to me why we all cling to github. With a little work, all that it offers can be done without any help of a centralized server/corporation.
Netflix to switch to standard definition streaming in Europe for 30 days
They could use direct connect, from each of their data centres, essentially turning AWS into a giant NAS. However this gives up the idea of using AWS compute to provide value added analysis.
It's very cool how many products have sprung up in the last couple of days to take advantage of the workplace changes caused by coronavirus.
I don't think anyone reasonably expects that their citizens will have any useful reaction. Rather, it's simply a way to cause economic hardship to the country.

Whether that's a wise or ethical idea depends on the particular situation, but it's certainly a much smaller hammer than (say) direct military action.
It's probably too early to come to any conclusions, while the infection rate is similar to Spain for example, there are only 1/10 of recovered cases, so the dead rate will most likely jump higher within the next few days.
This does not come close to the Web's design goals.
Fully agreed - but I'm wondering why the solution has been less bars, not more temporary hospitals, ala China.
This is good then. The company with the cheaper but vulnerable supply chain suffers and the companies who paid a premium for robustness in their chain benefit. That's how capitalism is supposed to work I think.
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I mean blood type is literally molecules exposed on the outside of blood cells. I believe they are exposed on other cells, not just on blood cells. Viruses bind to receptors on the cell wall in order to infiltrate the cell. Perhaps the A blood type receptor makes it easier for the virus to enter?
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For a scary few days he was considering completely breaking the ABI of getrandom(2). If he decides to break interfaces, I don't know that anyone can stop him. It is a downside to the BDFL model.

Edit: Breaking ZFS is not a great example — as sibling comment points out, that is a kernel module using kernel-internal APIs, not userspace syscall ABI. The Linux kernel notoriously considers all kernel interfaces unstable. GregKH has in the past characterized this as a feature, not a bug.
The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
This is wonderful, so far. Except the quality… does anyone know if there’s a higher quality version available?
Recession and depression have very specific definitions, and they don't involve the stock market. It's based on GDP.
> China doesn't recognize the North Korean sanctions.

And this is the key.

In order to the hypothetical NTT situation to be affected by US sanctions, Japan would have to recognize them. It would be up to the Japanese parliament to adopt them. US cannot force NTT unilaterally to kick out someone, NTT in Japan must be in line with Japanese law.

Most countries in the world do not adopt US sanctions as their own. The sanction are being enforced worldwide via contract law (i.e. the exporting company has a contract with the US vendor that it won't sell to specified parties); not by US forcing its jurisdiction on other countries.

That would result in pretty nasty questioning about democracy.
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Show HN: Waze for Coronavirus
I built Sneezemaps.com to correlate symptoms & confirmed cases. With enough data the model might be able to forecast local infections.

*Map interactions requires participation in a symptoms survey. Awareness saves lives.

US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszOC41ODI1MjYxNTkzNTMzMywtMTAwLjk0MjM4MjgxMjUwMDAxXSwiem9vbSI6NX0

Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0Ny42NjUzODczNTYzMjY1NCwxMC4zNzEwOTM3NTAwMDAwMDJdLCJ6b29tIjo1fQ
Seems that Github has automated some repository banning actions.

3 days ago, the author of a repo got removed his account without reason and hours later got his account reactivated (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593595), after posting to hackernews.

As we see, the Aurelia repository were also removed, and hours later reactivated.

What caught my attention is that the banned user is from Russia and that Aurelia repository has got developers from Iran.

Is this a sign of Github country discrimination? Or is this a sign of Machine learning bias?
Ask HN: Ideas for how to collaborate on fun things during social distancing
Has anyone found fun things to collaborate on with their friends online?

Couple questions:

1. What would be the best tool to use to have an always active "room" that you and your friends can join and leave that supports group video chatting?
Ideally you don't have a to start a video call every time someone wants to connect, you have something similar to a discord voice chat that people can pop into at their own discretion (except it has video).

2. Do you have any ideas on things you can use to spend 30 minutes on at a time and work together with people online?
I'm thinking about something like creating a Minecraft world that you open up to your friends that you slowly start building something together over time. An idea that allows you to pop into something, work on it for a bit, see where others have got to and continue on.
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The people who ran those companies retired rich. Do you really think anyone going into business or finance looks at those people's careers as a cautionary tale? I know I'd trade my career for theirs in a heartbeat.
Here's the links that didn't turn out in the description:

https://SneezeMap.com/

US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszOC41ODI1MjYxNTkz...

Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0Ny42NjUzODczNTYz...
(Against) Virus as Metaphor
You are absolutely right. Viruses proliferate in large groups of animals in the conditions we keep them in. So much so that we routinely euthanize millions of animals to prevent viral outbreaks. Avian flu and swine flu both can mutate into global plagues. And we continue - business as usual.
How about a data export tool?
If you’re fighting qmake there is a very good chance you’re fighting the wrong problem. Is your build a complicated mess? (It shouldn’t be) Do you have a complicated multi platform mess (it shouldn’t be complicated)

I would be happy to take a look at your build.
The Washington Post has a nice visualization. Not aiming at realism but easy to understand:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...
- Wouldn't it be great if we kept the canals like they are now?

- Certo, but how are we going to live without boats?

- Oh, giusto.
I meant "conclusions this could lead to". Not sure how I ended up with the above. Sorry about that.
Sounds reasonable. Mask should be required in grocery shops and crowded places, but it was probably easier to include all public spaces.
The nice thing about builders is that when they see a new problem, they try to fix it. Not everyone comes up with good solutions, but it's the thought that counts. Very inspiring to see people tackling problems from the new WFH situation, CONVID-19 testing, distribution of medical equipment, in-home fitness, social, essentials for the elderly and sick, helping SMBs like restaurants, etc
When posting this, I searched for a better source (NYT has "updates coming" but no one else has anything) because I thought I was reading a tabloid website, then I realized the site I was on was actually Newsweek. I don't know why their site looks like that, but the news seems legitimate.
The stupidest part is, people in affected countries easily and routinely circumvent the block. The only people affected are foreign companies from countries that do not have a sanction, but risk being sued in the US. For example, European oil companies operating in Iran.
I am in Europe; here it is common to have a probation period. After this period it is less easy to fire someone, but during the period they can do pretty much anything. So if you happen to be switching jobs right in the middle of an economic crisis there is not much security. In addition, in my country you get your salary covered up to 80% if you pay for extra unemployment insurance. I was stupid and did not sign up for this earlier - and you have to be a member for 12 months to get the benefit. If you do not have unemployment insurance or have not been a member for 12 months, you get <900 USD per month (where I live this is not enough to make rent).
How about reparations from the WHO, for telling countries not to close their borders for fear of “stigma”?
Armenia and Azerbaijan had a war. Probably since the end of the USSR though.
Thanks for the link,
There are essential medicines that synthesis of which should be public domain.
> Boeing needs to be broken up. Parts critical to national security can be federalized.

Where that division line might be isn't clear to me. For instance the 737 is both a civilian airliner and a military maritime patrol aircraft (as the P-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_P-8_Poseidon)
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I'm waiting for the Datacenter Enterprise Pro Plus version.
To pick an extreme example, do you seriously believe the US has less legitimacy in this respect than North Korea?
Thanks for the kind words!

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He did, and the poker on the show was generally abysmal. But partly for the ‘I’ll see you... and raise you’ prevalence in drama is that it creates a more dramatic situation. The dramatic effect is the very thing that can be taken advantage of in poker, and is why there’s a rule at most professionally run tables that what you claim, on your turn, is what you must do. Once you call, you can no longer raise no matter how much you want to.

Though the bigger reason for not allowing it, is that it can really add confusion and slow down the game when a person says call and the next person now has to wait until they’re sure the current asshole isn’t going to say ‘and raise’ before they can act.

Oh, and keep in mind that poker is full of assholes who will do all kinds of anti social behavior to gain an edge. So the fact that this is a standard rule really gives some idea as to just how annoying it is to the poker community.
How do you think sysctls are implemented?

In fact, prior to Linux 5.5, Linux had a direct sysctl syscall and removed it — which, uh, is clearly an ABI break.

With Linux's sysctl pseudo-fs model, you can argue the actual structure and behavior is just some aspect of sysfs, and the open/read/write syscalls are obviously not broken, but I think that's pretty simplistic. sysctls (and sysfs) are provided by the kernel.

Linux doesn't break ABIs that Linus judges to be worth more stable than rototilled. That's all. Usually Linus swings conservative on this.
> 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.

why? why is proprietary software less reproducible? aside from cost, i might even argue that proprietary software is more reproducible. open source software often has dependency hell. how are you sure that the dependencies and software installation is the same between two computers?

how are results not able to be reconstructed with proprietary software, aside from cost (which is not your argument)? if someone has a result found in mathematica, then couldn't that same method be reconstructed in other software to compare results? if it can't, then mathematica provides some feature not found in other software.

and plenty of science operates by not being fully reproducible by independent parties due to cost and available equipment. that's often mitigated by people reproducing the experiments or results with different equipment and even methods. and even then, every regular joe still can't reproduce the results due to massive costs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8115879/COVID-19-Au...
I consider myself something of an HN contrarian.

There are some downvotes, though on balance I've been better received than I'd expected.

Sometimes researching on your own to indicate you've attempted clarification, helps. "Did you mean / are you referring to X? ..."
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I think you're asking the right question. We're definitely seeing microsoft Embracing and Extending gnu/linux here.
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Where can I buy a gun under the table in souther California ?
It’s a nice app for light users, but if you try to use it heavily as a detailed infinity board with lots and lots of notes spread around the canvas visually, you’ll quickly get flustered by the lack of quality-of-life improvements . Examples would be lack of setting text styles , requiring -every-single-textbox- you create to click through three or more separate ui flows to change the: color, size, emphasis, (and font).

It’s a nice concept but their devs have moved on and barely update it at all. Trivially small feature updates are spun as huge improvements , but only released every six months to a year (!).

For the same paradigm but with a much, much better user experience with constant quality of life upgrades and devs that actually spend full time job on it, use Margin Notes 3 (iOS).
A front-end framework I first used on a project about 4 years ago. I always hoped it would become as popular as Angular or React but it hasn’t picked up that much (I still have hope since I like it so much). Pretty strange that GH would have applied sanctions to it, even if it was a mistake.
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Why the down votes? Bitcoin was invented for times like these. E.g. criminal banks receiving bailouts, and governments printing money. You can't keep printing money to solve problems...
> Well, when it comes to performance - you can’t use the average if you don’t know the distribution.

This is frankly wrong. Performance comes in multiple flavors. Latency is one of those, and there we know that percentiles really matter (see Andrew Certain's section of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKRdemSirDM&feature=youtu.be... for Amazon's experience).

But for others, like throughput and scale, you don't need to know the distribution. In fact for throughput, the only thing that really matters is the long-term mean latency. For concurrency, it's that and long-term mean arrival rate. I wrote a blog post about it a while back (http://brooker.co.za/blog/2017/12/28/mean.html).

The core point here is that all summary statistics are misleading. You need to be clear on what you care about, and making absolute statements about the mean isn't a good way to do that.

Edit: This came across a bit more confrontational than I had intended. The OP makes some good points, but I think his point about the mean is overly broad.
I think we're damned if we do or damned if we don't.

There's a philosophy on international politics that basically posits that countries that don't share get jealous neighbors. I forget the line but it's something to the effect of, "Either goods cross your borders or soldiers will".

Instead, as someone else suggested, it's supply chain optimization that's the problem. But when you have a company that's making 20% margins, an 8% gain in margins by running right at the ragged edge would be pretty damned tempting. And if your competitors do it and you don't?

I think at the end of the day we are all to blame a little bit. And I proposed in the first article of this sort that it might be a good idea if Congressional pork were more evenly distributed throughout infrastructure and logistics instead of being concentrated entirely in Defense.
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Your modelling - how well does it match the actual data? Does it reproduce the actual data from the countries (China, Iran, Italy) furthest in the epidemic's lifetime correctly?

What does the terms moderate mitigation, weak mitigation, strong mitigation mean? What measures are required to go from none to weak, to moderate mitigation?
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Seriously medium? I just wanted to read
IANAP but my understanding is we've reached a point where it's very difficult to test anything in physics. Eg, we've picked all the low-hanging fruit and everything left is something that requires large expenditures to test (more powerful particle colliders, etc).

Is there some alternative direction available where testing and verification are easier and cheaper?
> This is just a panic created on social media.

Don't be ridiculous. You can discuss the distribution of deaths, but the deaths are real.

A 2% death rate is still 2%. That's huge. It still has the potential to overwhelm any country's health system.
So far I've seen articles claiming that it's particularly burdensome for the poor, the elderly, and now women. I'm sure soon enough I'll stumble across one that makes the same claim for minorities.

People just seem to spit out articles tying current events to their existing social causes, regardless of how tenuous the connection is.
Code search, access permissions, code owners, 3rd party integrations?
Indeed! At least, for systems with GNU Coreutils.
I see that a lot in the JS world, "libraries over frameworks" and all that.

The result is that when you go from project to project, people solve the same problems, again and again, in a different way. And create their own custom abstractions, badly tested and documented.

Eventually, the API you could "keep cached in your head" lead to a system you MUST keep in your head because it's very hard to follow how things work and you need to remember it all to be productive. Debugging, extending and onboarding suffers.

Another consequence is that there is still no Django/RoR equivalent in JS. Building any medium size app is a total waste of time, doing the same boiler plate over and over for problems solved 10 years ago.

Everybody has a boilerplate one of course. Nothing is standardized, so the ecosystem is not reusable. Any pluggable library must carefully chosen, then be manually integrated in your own Frankenstein creature, not to mention you end up with a TON of dependencies.

Vue doesn't have a big API. I learned the entire of vue in an afternoon.

It took me 2 weeks to understand react, and much more to actually write decent code with it. Practically, react is very unproductive without something like create-react-app because you have to take so many decisions about it for every new project. Simple things like placing a setInterval()/clearInterval() at the right place, or conditionally settings classes on stuff is not straightforward, anything more complicated must be meticulously though.

Because of this, when I give a training in react and one in Vue, the people from the vue training will immediately be 3 times more productive: their projects move faster, it rarely hit a read block later. I also get way, way less questions in the vue training.

Let's not confuse "barebone API" and "easy API". It's not the same.
It seems unfair to criticize some physicists for the fact that they haven’t subjected their theories to experiment, when we know that testing certain theories would require access to vast levels of energy that the human race doesn’t yet have at its disposal (and may never have).
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turns out it was the virus that affected the 737 Max
I figure this falls under "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That was the percentage of infections I was spitballing. 1% of that (a really low CFR) would be 700K fatalities.
Plus all these once a century storm and flood events seen to be happening more regularly in recent years.
Fantastic read. Once again, the chaotic nature of our future unfolding.

These days, the scientists that advise our countries‘ leaders about the pandemic can make a difference as Chris MacAskill made back then.
So true.

If you’ve got something and it functions, your job is done, move on.