skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an excellent example of motivated reasoning. The author wants to keep selling his IPSec tool and thus throws together a word salad loaded with conjecture and theoretical concerns.

It appears he’s not even tried WireGuard. The argument that it does not work for road warriors is a misunderstanding of where static IPs are required (inside the tunnel, not outside).

As one who has tried WireGuard, I’m happy to say it can already replace OpenVPN and IPSec for the 80% case. And not only that, it is in practical experience much easier to install and set up, and much faster to connect and has excellent latency and bandwidth. It is great for road warriors, I’ve been using it for that purpose for six months or so and have never had any problems with it.

Sure, there are some VPN features WG will not implement, for those you’ll have to stick with legacy VPNs like IPSec or OpenVPN.

The rest is just FUD.
Kind of ironic, because Facebook at least has allowed and even facilitated "fake news"(regarding anything)for at least 8 years blatantly.This has been done purposefully, let's be clear.

If you get your news/health tips from twitter,facebook or similar platforms, you deserve your fate to be eventually misinformed.Facebook would not risk their profits and existence even if this would become humanity's last plague.

Having access to social media platforms means that you more or less have access to the internet, which is way more filtered than social platforms for qualitative information about anything regarding health.
One actual problem I had with a most basic Roomba(6xx) was it was banging a shelf in the room at exact same angle each run every day, which eventually toppled a thing on it and splayed water all around.

I felt like writing a automobile recall notice that says “inappropriate X leading to Y after Z repeats” of which X seems pretty benign item like a wire sheath was just one step too thin or a strap was too tight by a notch.

Damn those things are consistent and it’s extraordinary how powerful consistency is...
do you respect the time delay when calculating Case Fatality Rate?

https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2020.20203
I would generalize that further and say that shell processing works well when your data is well-behaved wrt the thing you are trying to do. But once you start venturing into untrusted data, escaping, and yes, Unicode, things can become hairy. So basically you should always be doing some sanity checks when working in shell
More like cabins in the wild than country cottages, some of them not accessible by car. Calling them country cottages makes them seem like they’re houses, but they’re more like cabins, often without water and electricity, because they’re not near population centres, so the infrastructure doesn’t exist. The entire point of a Norwegian cabin is to escape the urban life for a little while and go back to basics.
The rapid transmission in industrialized countries is most likely helped by the daily indoor concentration of people in the big cities, during commute, in large schools and workplaces. Large cities in Africa will surely get it to some extent, but the spread might be slower since Africans don't spend as much time indoors, and the rural communities are already practicing "social distancing" to some degree.
Sorry about that, I am aware of the issue and I'll try to implement a workaround asap. It's because Safari doesn't allow 3rd party cookies, which Auth0 relies on, by default. You can fix it by allowing 3rd party cookies.
not all data comes from sources that you control and have chosen how to output.
My wife is a singer. That’s her top recommendations above, plus good sleep. Her voice derails with a bad night.
I was just telling that a little sense of urgency would not be bad to accelerate things about climate (ie move from a decade rythm to something like a yearly one would be so much better)
Paz is a nice song.
Eh universal healthcare would probably increase 'drive' at a macro level as it doesn't chain the overqualified or highly productive individual to crappy jobs that happen to have good insurance.

Not to mention you lose the overhead of dealing with insurance, for you and your family.

But yeah, I could see a class of people who would use UBI to permanently slack off whereas they would be highly productive otherwise.

Edit: Note I'm from Canada and have taken healthcare for granted until I went to the US. My experience has been overwhelming positive with universal healthcare, and the only complaint is I've had to wait a few hours per emergency visit. Zero wait when serious though.
They actually cost a lot of money to businesses, but no one cares to track to show the ugly truth. Europe has a lot of data showing that going to work sick ends up costing much more than staying home, thus this is a irresponsible attitude - given you keep getting your pay of course.
massive reduction in the quality of life of people everywhere

General messaures of wellbeing and life satisfaction in the West haven't shifted over the last forty years despite a massive increase in air travel.
If I am the only person on the planet with a 100% deadly disease why should I force everyone else to suffer because of me?
An absolutist definition like that is completely and utterly meaningless unless the only person you talk to is yourself. And even then there are concequences for what you say to yourself, even though they might not be externally visable immediately. And if you want to get really ridiculous concequences of saying anything involve movements of air and possibly particles of spit. Maybe even spreading an infection.

So by your definition freedom of speech cannot exist, or you need to refine your meaning of "concequences". That refined meaning is accepted as conceqences from the government.

Any other meaning is senseless because people are free agents and may respond to your speech in any way they feel fit.
Reddit has been a very good source of information in this crisis.

Of course there will be misinformation. That's not as big of a problem in Reddit because of moderation and voting, compared to Facebook and the likes.
https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

Mezzano is an operating system written in Common Lisp.
Dry cough and fever are the most common symptoms of Covid. Given that you display both, staying at home is definitely the correct behavior. Also get on the phone with your GP or the respective coronavirus hotline for your country to inquire about the next steps.
> Better to have all sides without being muzzled.

And misinformation about health issues leads to deaths
Please don't spread inaccurate and misleading information. The WHO declared this an international public health emergency just over 6 weeks ago on Jan 30th [0], one week exactly after the first published data indicating high mortality[1] and a few days after the first reports of cases internationally.

The main reason it wasn't escalated sooner is that through January China was still withholding and delaying the release of data. China only confirmed that cases of human to human transmission had occurred on January 10th, and froze reporting of new cases during a party congress that ended on January 17th. So the WHO escalated this appropriately within 2 weeks of the first indications from China that this was a serious issue, despite confusing and inaccurate reporting of data.

Also about 2% mortality was an early estimate, is 20x that of most strains of flu and is comparable to that of the Spanish Flu pandemic. So those estimates were as good as they could have been at the time, and are still not far off what we're seeing happen.

[0]https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-01-2020-statement-on...

[1]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
What else is new?

Anything short of allowing misinformation, hate and propaganda to run rampant on all channels is an inevitable slippery slope towards an Orwellian fascist dystopia, no nuance can possibly exist. Either we let the trolls, cranks and Nazis take over or it's the camps for us all.

It's become the CMB of the internet at this point.
Any democracy I know (including the US) has used censorship in times of crisis throughout its history. There is little indication that the "slippery slope" is more than a fallacy.
EU to states: Want to trace Covid using location data? You have to legislate
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> and actually going sometimes back to the 70s

Try 1725, especially for those of us who (still) set their editors to favor 80 columns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
> elevating authoritative content on our platforms

That's quite orwellian of them. Oh that explains recent lack of facebook hitpieces by the "authoritative sources". I swear everytime the "authoritative sources" attacked facebook, reddit, google, twitter, youtube, etc, they "elevated authoritative content by authoritative sources" and gave them preferential treatment and magically the hitpieces stop.

Also, rather than offering joint statements and colluding together, I'd rather these social media platforms compete to provide the best information. There is just too much collusion by big tech. We need competition.
Wells Fargo literally stole their customers money.
The dry eyes thing is crazy.

I got Lasik about two years ago and had a period of dry eyes afterwards, which abated in time. I got them again about a week ago. I also got an intermittent fever and a dry cough. The fever wasn't severe and only hit me for a short period over several days. The cough, which is still present, is like a smoker's cough and is accompanied by a feeling of reduced lung capacity.
The paper name-drops Ivan Illich and "Tools for Conviviality". If you are intrigued by his ideas, you might be interested in the blog by L. M. Sacasas, The Convivial Society. His writing holds plenty of insight on the intersection of technology and society.

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/
Sorry but visibility for what exactly? A "whisper" app for accredited medical staff? That post is pretty unspecific, the thread reads like partisan US American Twitter bots arguing with each other. There's plenty of app/website/foobar efforts going around, another call to action should be more goal oriented than whatever that is.
Show HN: Covid-19 Check-ups via Slack
I'm not talking about getting a sick note rejected. I'm asking, would you realistically go and get a sick note for a runny noise and feeling generally unwell? Would you feel secure at your job if you did that 20 times a year?
But Italy is a mess... So it is not an actual cure?
I have already begun taking daily sky photos. The week after 911 was exceptionally clear in the Detroit area. This time I'll have my own documentation.
Anybody else noticed how bad Google search is at search nowadays? YouTube search too. Both of these search engines used to be incredible at turning up results when provided with even the most obscure search terms, but now all of the top results are from main stream media news sites. In their quest to control the spread of misinformation they have neutered their core product. I miss the good old days :(
I've seen an infographic passed along, albeit on twitter, so authenticity is suspect --but it was comparing ages in SK and Italy of cases, where mortality is higher in Italy, because mean age was higher in Italy, a lot of the tests in SK were in churches where initial outbreaks were that were prevalently populated by youth...

2000x 20 year olds 2000x 60 year olds...and you're gonna have highly different results for CFR.

I'd say it's somewhere in the middle of both... maybe something like 1.5. But I'm not an epidemiologist, but if the age gaps matter then it could be about that... just my thoughts.
Covid-19 Automated Detection, Patient Monitoring with Deep Learning CT Analysis
Yeah. I got a squeaky wheel on my Roomba 960, sent an email to customer services, they just sent me a whole new wheel module with instructions on how to replace it. Really really great service. And it looks like pretty much all parts of the robot can be bought and replaced separately.
It's a tax on wealth, but as the Krugman article points out it also allows real wage cuts without the psychological barrier facing nominal wage cuts, which facilitates corrections when wages have overshot their sustainable levels, assisting in reaching full employment (unsustainably high wages necessarily reduce employment levels.)

This is related to why minimum wage is inferior to UBI as a basic support: minimum wage is in tension with employment, especially at the low end, in a fairly direct way. UBI, while it had to be supported somehow, isn't directly in tension with employment specifically at the bottom.

I'd like to see minimum wage tied to inflation but UBI tied to a funding stream that grows with output, so that per capita benefits grow (over the long term) with per capita output. And I'd like to see minimum wage decreased from the level it is calculated at with inflation adjustments by the hourly wage equivalent of UBI (for simplicity, annual UBI/2000, so that a $12,000 annual UBI would reduce minimum wage by $6/hr from it's pre-UBI level.)
Climate change aside:

This trend of measuring what resources rich people use compared to everyone else just snacks of jealousy. Who cares if energy distribution isn't "equitable"?? Just live your life and stop comparing.

Edit: Prepared to eat Karma here, but it's what I believe.
So like, really reducing air pollution honestly has no effect on "weather"? Seems like it would go somewhat against common sense.

Take a look at the meteorological effects the forrest fires had on Australia recently.

I would say you're hyper smug answer might be right and might be wrong at the same time.
You let them fail and wipe out the shareholders. Let the shareholders cover debts. Forgive the rest of the debt. Wipe out the management team as well.

Airline comes out nimble and debt free. Average Joe still has airline competition. Shareholders get wiped out, but that’s the risk you run for yield.
Are you using intuition to say that the numbers can't be right or some knowledge of real numbers?

So how many did die of Coronavirus in reality? If someone is already suffering from life threatening complications would this still count as a Covid death?
i was unable to find the paper but the article made no mention of the difference between the different A blood types.

ie Type A could be AA or AO

And should really mention differences between all blood types..

Type A (AA or AO)
Type B (BB or BO)
Type AB
Type O (OO)

BB and BO

And OO
Is There a Need for Extracting Data from Annual Reports?
That's assuming that all reported cases make up all ACTUAL cases. This is likely completely wrong. What if a much much larger chunk of Italy is already infected and simply not showing symptoms? You would never get permission for a test.

Estimates, I found them on Germany's top Robert Koch Institute website [1], suggest that Wuhan underreported cases by a factor between 4.5x and 11.1x (3 separate studies with different factors).

[1] https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
There have been long periods of higher taxes and economic growth. If the private sector can't keep people economically active then the state will step in.
It's kind of strange to see a complete breakdown in online ordering and delivery of groceries. Target etc... basically shut down curbside delivery because they need people to restock shelves. That means you have to visit the store. Odd. I expect to see grocery only delivery companies really take shape soon (like Instacart).
Citation needed on it preferring colder climates. My own quick glimpse of the global numbers showed plenty of equatorial cases per capita. Many aren’t rigorously tested populations, too.
Ask HN: Covid-19 Philosophical Questions
I have been musing with some philosophical questions lately.

1. Death by poverty vs death by virus?

It's evident that the world is going into a lockdown which will inevitably last for at least 12-18 months. This will tank the world's economy like never before. It will demise many industries (hospitality, aviation, travel, holiday, insurance, maybe even healthcare?, etc.) and many jobs might be lost forever. At the end of the pandemic one might be left significantly worse off than if they would have just caught the virus and moved on with life. Will we cause more harm through action than inaction?

2. Blessing in disguise?

On the contrary a complete shutdown of the world is exactly what we needed in order to stop further global warming. The reduction of travel and lots of other things might have the largest impact on global warming which we've ever had. It's as if nature forced us into action because we were incapable of acting ourselves. Maybe the demise of one generations' economy is a worthwhile trade-off for saving our planet for future genrations?

3. Is nature exposing our bluff?

On a philosophical level one might say that the better we become at cheating nature (as in keeping dead people alive) and the more we get (over-)populated with an ever aging population, the more likely it is that a rather harmless pandemic like COVID-19 will have a significant impact and be able to wipe out large numbers of people in absolute terms.

One day we will reach such a large number of people with such severe health conditions that even the slightest cold could kill hundreds of thousands of humans and at some point we ought to ask ourselves is COVID-19 already that point or not? Is it ethical to force a 20 year old healthy human into a 18 month lockdown (prison) in order to save a 85 year old person who was able to enjoy their entire life and now is already on the brink of death anyway?

What are your thoughts?
This is hardly surprising. A lot of poor people are not going to fly, are more likely to use public transport and because they have less, or no, disposable income, consume less.

Sweeping generalisations of course
I must admit as an immune supressed individual - if (uk) they might suggest prophylactic meds for us.
People want daddy government to save them.

Daddy government is why the virus first spread so far in China. Lies and more lies about how the situation was under control is how it got out to the rest of the world.
Emergency Remote Work Kit for Covid-19
So what counts as misinformation? There is a lot of uninformed statements about SARS-CoV-2 everywhere, including goverments like mine that says that you are "safe" if you just stay 1-2m away from infected persons.

If you ask me, constantly calling this SARS strain Corona, Covid-19 etc. can count as misinformation as well.
And the hospitals that will bill for treatment of coronavirus? Profiting off a global health crisis?

Providing basic necessities (I just bought some flour on Amazon and gladly paid for it) is not profiting off a crisis.
ELI5: Neem leaf will cure corona.
I don't think the proliferation of fake news is due to the lack of gatekeeping. I think the issue is the ease of authoring fake content.

Publishing a piece of news/article used to mean hosting a website, registering a domain, writing html, running a web server. All require studying, the very action to battle disinformation.

Now all we have to do is make an account (or even not) and start typing on keyboard.

Opinion is like a-hole, everyone got one. But not every piece of opinion as useful as an a-hole. Lowering the bar of publishing is normalising the weighting of each opinion. Which I think is the root cause of today's internet
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> What would reliance look like?

People adjust their spending/working patterns to account for the UBI - maybe they have a child they couldn't have afforded before, or take a long-term mortgage on a home.

Then the political winds change, a politician wants to show how tough they are, and of course we shouldn't be giving UBI to people in jail/drug dealers/anti-vaxxers/millionaire executives/people without photo ID/tax dodgers...

Basically, the same way the federal government can institute a national speed limit and a national drinking age, despite not having the power to do so directly, by making federal highway funds conditional on states having those limits.
And what happens when the censors are the ones lying? This is how the virus spread so far in China in the first place.
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OPEC hasn't been effective at controlling prices for some time now.
probably the folks here don't understand sarcasm or you really guys love to pay taxes and scroll through your facebook news feed...
For clarification, I went to the supermarket myself precisely because of the point you raised. My argument was more against the behavior that people display.
Sorry, I don't follow. Could you expand?
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how about no. why would you design it that way?
Gov.uk Design System – Help users recover from validation errors
Not very surprising. The question is; how do we mitigate further damage, address the damage that has been done and make sure that those responsible pay the bill?
If amazon, a master of logistics, is struggling, imagine some of these other e-tailers and online shops.

Got an email from a company i do work with, and they’re calling for 21 day delays for shipping items, and suspending new orders. Just because they literally cannot package and ship fast enough.
How can high-speed rail be slower than regular rail?
>They're going to be tracking all these kids who are going to miss months of school as a big "natural experiment".

Honestly I don't know why that would be an issue. Say you go to school for 12 years and you miss 3 months because of this. That's 2% of the total time of going to school. I doubt you will have a measurable impact in performance later in life.

Hell, I slept through most of grades 7-9. I was a teenager, always sleepy and unmotivated. Then I started catching up in grade 10 and graduated at least in the top 5% of my class.

Also you can learn so much outside school, it might even be beneficial to have your parents at home, like it used to be pre-industrialization.
So I don't know which one you have, but my mum bought herself the S9+ for christmas and wow, we were actually betting that it will fail as she lives in a huge house with a relatively complex layout(the living room has a circular shape with multiple entrances and central staircase) but nope, the robot deals with all of it fine. It takes longer than the 2 hour battery life to clean it all, but that's not a problem - it goes back to the base, empties its own bin, recharges, and then continues where it left off. It's truly amazing in terms of how well the mapping deals with that house, it shouldn't be that good.
No, it's not. Some of the oldest books are written on bamboo stripes, and others on clay tablets.
Should you live in a country where that's still on the table and the weather isn't too shabby: if you enjoy that kind of thing, taking a walk in the woods can be pretty calming, leave your phone in the car, no risk of diseases or people there.

Other than that, if you're stuck at home don't use every minute of your WFH breaks to check the news, exponential growth doesn't imply that your situation changes every minute. Make sure to take that breaks in the first place. Maybe reach out to other people in the same situation and have a relaxed chat, just like you would in a non-pandemic cafe setting. Try to find normalcy, hyperfocus on bad news is seldom productive for one's mental stability.
So glad the government and corporations are working together to ensure I may not have an unapproved thought.
You typing on an iPhone? Ever use Google to find your alternative suppliers?

Every big company is playing the tax game. It would be irresponsible of them not to.