skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the amount of fraudulent reports that already go on with Amazon, this would not be tenable. Remember Amazon Marketplace wants to grow as well. It is also important for big brands to have the ability to create lots of new listings at scale. For example, every year or every fashion season, brands release entire slates of new products. It is important for Amazon to function to allow sellers and agents of brands to be able to create lots of new listings at once. Manual review would greatly delay that process and create a lot of unnecessary frustrations.

A lot of things that one might think of such as "well, whitelist the big brands" or "use enhanced reviews on sensitive, regulated categories" is already built in to Amazon's policies, protocols, and automated systems.

If you want a zero fault option, buy direct from brands. I often do that myself.
I don't think 12 months without revenue is "living on knifes edge"
I think you're reading the position a little wrongly.

People are upset when being rich means you can be prepared for a test and so get a higher score than someone who is equally able.

Supposedly, in a properly operating university, once at the uni the background of the students shouldn't matter [as much], those who came from schools where they couldn't afford equipment should now have equal access as those who could buy anything they needed and more. Simply having access to facilities makes a massive difference to what can be achieved and that feeds in to intellect growth.
> Sounds more like you don't want to accept that bad shit is happening in the world.

What you accept and what you choose to spend your precious finite attention on are not the same thing.

If anything, what I suggest is the opposite of what you're saying. I do accept that some small fraction of people will do dumb shit, as they have through time immemorial. And, because I accept that, I feel no need to waste my time and emotional energy reading about it on social media and getting all outraged about it.

> And that's why we need enforcement.

Sure, but what we don't need is every social media site plastering pictures of people not wearing seatbelts with headlines like "Look at this horrid fucker not wearing their seatbelt! How can they be so thoughtless?!"

> Moreover unless you're able to outright deny people medical care for their negligence (which we can't do), unnecessary Coronavirus cases put more burden on everyone.

I fully understand the implications of non-compliance with social distancing measures. I don't agree with people who aren't doing it.

What I am saying is that it is not beneficial to crowd social media with stories of those people. After you read a Reddit thread about some selfish assholes partying up in Miami... then what? What is the action? I'm not going to personally fly to Miami and scold them. Me consuming that story has added nothing of value to my life, nor has it materially addressed the problem in any way.

All it does us make me feel angry and shitty. I've got enough bad feelings floating around because of, you know, the global pandemic. I don't need impotent manufactured outrage on top of that. What I and others need to get through the day are reminders of all of the good that people are doing.

And those same reminders are also a good way to encourage people to do what they're supposed to do. Do you want to live in a world where we teach people who to be by giving them heroes to aspire to, or by having the threat of public shaming and punishment looming over them 24/7?
To push this further, I was working on a research paper with Ron Rivest, Neha Narula (head of MIT's decentralized currency initiative), and Sunoo Park (a wonderful applied cryptographer) on whether blockchains in general could be helpful in casting and tallying.

We're skeptical.

See: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf
Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles, covered this in his address last night.

We are buying time to get more tests, more hospital beds set up, more ventilators, more medicine. The Navy is talking about turning Aircraft Carriers into hospitals. China is getting things under control and switching factories to produce medical supplies. It takes time to build these logistics chains, and we are buying that time by slowing our economy down and implementing social distancing.

I agree that this information is not well-circulated right now.

EDIT: another commenter posted this great link which I will also share: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
They already do this. You will get flagged for unusual activity if it is not already in your history, much like you get flagged by a credit card company for unusual purchasing behavior. While there isn't a formal probationary period various systems do get tripped more easily for new accounts with no history.
You can LD preload libraries to redirect syscalls to a 3rd party stack (userspace / DPDK).
Agreed. Politicians just shutting things down without a plan for what we do in this time is unacceptable. A vaccine won’t be safely available for a year. Shutting down that long will destroy everything.

I liken it to the immune system. Shutting things down can work for a short period but if the system goes into a full panic it begins attacking good cells and shutting down organs and the host dies a slow, painful death.

We need to be using this bought time to building medical equipment, beds and places to put them, manufacturing existing therapies to help, training people to use specific equipment, creating a system for the most vulnerable to quarantine but get food, medicine, safely as they wait for acceptable safety to them.

We can’t lock down for months and months. People will eventually be fed up, see their risk is low, and throw the dice. The economy can’t grind to halt for a long time.

We need to prepare to minimize death and we need to do it now. Lockdown is not much of a strategy or something that will work beyond a few weeks before people ignore it massively.
And if that wants to get organized I can see how that would work. "Get sick to beat the rush", however, is not that - it's an action where the only good outcome would be if only you do it, which I think is a definition of selfishness.
Can confirm. I'm in central Washington, and while restaurants and bars are closed, people are _definitely_ not respecting social distancing guidelines. I've even had people tell me to move closer to other people when standing in line at grocery stores.
The UK chief scientist, Patrick Vallance, has stated that they suspect a winter resurgence is possible, thus I also question the value of waiting and flattening curves. World governments should clarify this matter by saying that a bad winter resurgence, months after nations are fatigued with lockdown, is definitely not going to happen.

But right now no government dares suggest any vision past a few months.
Your data was probably leaked with 200M records from mysterious database
https://covidactnow.org/state/CA

This is missing a HUGE point. At the very end of the California "shelter-in-place" plan, the numbers will go up. What it doesn't show is that this will merely delay the epidemic to 3 months in the future. The chart useless with only a 3 month time horizon.
This was apparent from the Chinese data, and sadly discounted by most Western countries.
You're absolutely right. But does it really matter ?

A lot more ventilator are going to be needed, not in % but in hard cold real absolute number. Isn't that more important ?
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I think a half a million people are worth saving even if some of them get decades more of life and some only get A single decade more of life.
The expectation is not that 99% are uninfected.
Because people react really badly to the cold-hearted measuring out of human lives, except when it's war.
Yes. I thought about that too. Totally agree, timing is not 'perfect' :(, but could not just wait.
You should switch to the Linux approach, where you are guaranteed to only ever be frustrated by your own decisions. ;)
Yes.

At the moment, I would be happy if we just began promoting non-invasive ventilator alternatives. I'm very concerned this is going to turn into the biblical plagues scenario, where the first plague causes the second which causes the third, etc.

I predict one of those knock on plagues will be antibiotic resistant secondary infections, many fostered by widespread use of ventilators.
I think it'll be amazing if only 10% of US firms default on debt in the next year or so.
The more interesting question is how many of those non-fatlities only survived thanks to access to intensive care and ventilation?
Keep reading. This footnote is attached to the California-style scenario:

> * A second spike in disease may occur after social distancing is stopped. Interventions are important because they buy time to create surge capacity in hospitals and develop therapeutic drugs that may have potential to lower hospitalization and fatality rates from COVID-19. See full scenario definitions here.
Certainly: locking down the populace and the economy, without any plans to take advantage of the resulting respite, is unacceptable.

Giving up and attempting to resume normal activity is also unacceptable, full stop.

The best/latest explanation I've seen is https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th.... Please read it (everyone, not just parent) if you haven't already.

Then if you're frustrated that your political leaders aren't moving to make best use of your sacrifice... let them know!
Is there something wrong with https://joinpeertube.org/
If done correctly, it doesn't have to be like that. See Korea, etc
Abelian Sandpile Model
Oblique Projection
Because the first wave is enough to develop herd immunity and reduce the R-rate of the virus
For example, take "decision capacity".

For that, there's an "inbox test", a set of incoming messages to be dealt with in order. Such tests are widely used to screen candidates for manager jobs.
I don't get it, because these measures can't last forever. Let's pretend USA completely extreme isolates...step foot outside and you get arrested. Fine, the virus disappears in a month or two. Then what? Unless every single person on the globe does the same thing, you have to effectively keep your borders closed forever. This isn't a solvable problem at the state or national level, it's a completely global thing. We can attempt to slow it, but it's just gonna rear its ugly head again when we let our guard down.
Even without sanctions, even with equal infrastructure. They always find a way, not just to protect European profits, but to punish African ambition.
Yeah, this is absolutely a problem and people's homes being foreclosed due to this type of situation does upset me. But this is a side-effect of people making money off housing shortages, which is the root cause and due for a correction.
I clearly pointed out in my comment how hotels are vastly different from normal apartments that have been converted into short term rentals.
Would love to hear more in general if you have time to go into more detail, but my main question is at what point do you convert highlights into question and answer or clozed deletion Anki cards and how do you reference the source on those Anki cards for when you want to go back and read more details from the original source? I guess that's two questions
Yikes, please don't post like that last bit here. I get that you probably meant it lightheartedly, but it does not come across well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> One of the reasons they picked Vue is because (...) it allows you to do so without a build step

I think it's great that Vue is capable without a build step; however, this implies one restriction, which is that you must have all the components loaded before the application starts. And Async components don't help here because you would have to mantain a list of components names, which without a build step become cumbersome.

I would like that my proposal for lazy loading components (https://github.com/vuejs/vue/pull/8807) would be accepted, then we would have the ability to load components on demand without a build step.
Try reading https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th....
I wonder the same thing. A lockdown cannot be done in perpetuity and I think even 90 days would be too long. So the best bet is a lockdown while we ramp up the healthcare system to deal with the outbreak as best as possible. At some point we will have to go back to some semblance of normal life as the economy and people’s personal finances can’t continue to lockdown. Unfortunately we don’t seem to ramping up the healthcare system enough during this lockdown period.

And no the vaccine is still too far in the future so the idea that the lockdown is biding time until the vaccine is ready is ridiculous.
You can look at software rasterization from good opensource libs: Freetype, Agg, Cairo.
Really astounding to see them publish this article today. I have a CVE that's about to go live regarding auditing tools like this one.

I contacted Snyk a week ago to point out that their audit tool (just like npm audit, and others) cannot fundamentally protect you from attacks like this when installed to the same environment as a malicious package. Almost feels like they are trying to get ahead of it.

I was withholding the CVE while other tools are wrapping up their mitigation strategy. NPMJS and Snyk folks basically shrugged their shoulders. This is kind of forcing my hand to publish now.

Well, here is the blog post explaining:

https://mulch.dev/blog/CVE-2020-5252-python-safety-vuln/

And here is the snyk proof of concept:

https://github.com/akoumjian/npm-audit-vuln

TLDR; Don't ever use the `npm install` version of Snyk. Use the binaries or the dockerized version.
I think the courses mostly help with discipline in studying for the test. There’s nothing magical about them. I’ve taken many standardized exams with and without prep courses and it’s quite possible to do very well with inexpensive self study material if you’re incredibly disciplined about studying.
They don't. Period. That's a simple fact. No questions need asking here; they do NOT make enough money from their listings to cover all of their costs, full stop.
A lot of ventilators and more importantly people to administer them. This project is not providing a ventilator, and it's not providing people the special training required to administer them. If we need ventilators, we can have ventilator companies produce them using emergency powers every developed country has.
How exactly do standardized tests identify those who will or won't prey on other people?
> an articulate, socially well-adjusted person who can communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way and who is comfortable making connections with others

If there's any correlation with this and academic success, it's not necessarily a positive one. There's a grain of truth to the stereotype of "nerds" not having great people skills.
Herd Immunity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity) means that everyone doesn't need to get it. The threshold for COVID-19 is estimated to be between 29-75%.
Coronavirus Under Microscope and Visualized
I work for a company that collects aggregated SAT data. I was pretty upset when I discovered there is a very strong, direct correlation between family income and SAT score, with a credible spread of several hundred points between the average scores of the highest and lowest income groups. I knew that there would be a correlation, but seeing how strong it was was pretty depressing.
It doesn’t penalise anyone. The money goes to those who need it.
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Well said. Nobody seems to know what is being done with the time we're 'buying'. I get the feeling everyone just thinks if we sit at home for a month (or two? or three!?!), it will just magically go away. This site even admits "A second spike in disease may occur after social distancing is stopped". It's very possible that sitting at home will just delay the acceleration phase, and it will rear it's ugly head after we come out of out caves.

Why have we all (I'm speaking for people in the USA) immediately bought into the idea that shutting down out lives and the economy is the only way to combat this thing? South Korea didn't shut everything down in an authoritarian fashion, and they already have this thing beat. I know, not a fair comparison, USA is way bigger, less experienced in handling disease outbreaks, different governments, etc, etc. But aren't there smarter ways we can handle this than just blanket isolation & lock downs?

From the CDC:

"Pandemics begin with an investigation phase, followed by recognition, initiation, and acceleration phases. The peak of illnesses occurs at the end of the acceleration phase, which is followed by a deceleration phase, during which there is a decrease in illnesses. Different countries can be in different phases of the pandemic at any point in time and different parts of the same country can also be in different phases of a pandemic."

So we know from South Korea's example it is possible to hit acceleration phase, execute a smart plan of attack, and have it carry you into deceleration, without blanket lock downs. Lock downs can still be an effective tool, and should be used in areas seeing steep acceleration to take pressure off the medical system.

Our plan doesn't have to be exactly the same, but we can learn from theirs. Seems like nobody is even trying to think out of the box. We just accepted that we have to turn our country into an authoritarian state and that's the only way to beat this.

Focusing on making testing widely and easily accessible is key for sure. If people could easily get a test, it would eliminate a lot of the fear/ uncertainly that is gripping everyone. Healthy people who are at low risk to get severe reactions could go about there lives normally, while still practicing 'social distancing' in public, not locked away in their homes in fear
note that the SAT subject tests are actually different from AP tests. when I was applying to college, a smart kid from the regular section of <subject> could expect to do fairly well on the SAT subject test for that topic. the AP tests ask questions on material that isn't typically covered in the regular classes, so it's hard to do well on them if you haven't taken the AP course or done a lot of extracurricular study.
I don't understand the point of your questions. Are you disputing the fact that Airbnb is not profitable? Because they very clearly and obviously aren't.

Or are you saying that their business isn't well run, that their costs are too high, etc.? Because I can't answer this part of it; I don't work for them, I don't set their strategy, etc. I can't defend them on that mark. But it is true. They are spending more than they are earning. Just because you don't understand how or why doesn't mean that it isn't in fact happening.
Apart from developing drugs, vaccines, and expanding hospitals, the time could allow us to produce enough tests to detect infected people before they are contagious. Perhaps even earlier, we could test all the contacts of people who were detected after they were already contagious.

With enough testing and sufficient frequency of testing, isolating just the people who test positive (and perhaps their contacts) should be enough to stop exponential growth, which means we could mostly return to normal life.
Are you upset you don’t have a wheelchair?
Coronavirus: Has America ever been this humbled?
>coming from a more advantageous social-economic background grants you so many benefits in many ways //

It's not all benefit: you can be taught to be lazy, not to be self-reliant, you can lack tenacity and resilience, you can have perverse expectations and a sheltered view of the World. Such things can turn out to be a hindrance to self-fulfillment.
Ask HN: How can I help during the Covid-19 crisis as an open source developer?
Do you expect that when the Shelter In Place orders were issued around the Bay Area earlier that there were 70,000 active cases in the Bay Area? That would be a far higher estimate than I've heard and I would love sources which project it in detail.
Sort of off-topic, but I'm interested in how often you reverse a linked list at your job.

Is that something that you expect people to be able to do? If so, what does it tell you about them? If they don't know what a linked list is or how to reverse it, what does that tell you about their real-world coding knowledge or lack thereof?
One point that stood out to me as odd is that he says family units are clustering together and that's worse for the elderly/most at risk. He mentions students coming home from college but aren't they the only major group coming home that don't live there normally? If people live with their parents and grandparents then it seems to make sense that working to keep them from getting infected (ie - keeping K-12 students home, parents avoiding the work place) is a better course of action than sending them into school and work. If they've already moved away then they shouldn't be taking this time as a free vacation to see those people anyway. I'm not sure how you would protect those at risk people while keeping everyone else in their normal lives. Fill the hospital beds with them and don't let in the coronavirus infected?

Edit to add: US Population 65 years and over: 16.03% (male 22,678,235/female 28,376,817) (wikipedia)

Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. Hospitals: 924,107 (aha.org)
They didn't save for the hard times? It was their own choices that caused them to default. They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
CPU power is fine. I wouldn’t mind having at least one USB-A port and HDMI port so I don’t constantly have dongle anxiety when I am traveling. I would also prefer a bigger battery even if it makes the laptop thicker.
You might consider how Obama and Clinton being president drove the over-class completely insane.
$1k display stand

$400 casters without locks

camera-bump sticking out of iPhone that makes it rock on a flat surface
The source article:

https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/200204...

From their earlier article:

https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/200317...
no prob with electronic music, just being pedantic :)
I suspect this is just getting rid of redundancy. Everyone taking the SAT subject tests is probably taking the equivalent Advanced Placement test anyhow.

However, the biggest problems with these tests (and the AP tests) is that they are expensive--they cost a non-trivial amount of money to sign up for and they cost a lot of time to prepare for if your school doesn't offer direct AP classes.

The expensiveness is the barrier.
I think the top level comment is based on the assumption that a greater quantity of objective data will lead to a greater weighting of objective data, and a lower quantity will lead to a lower weighting, leading to a greater weighting of subjective measures.
yarn 2 will change our workflows where dependencies will be put into zips and checked into git. You will no longer need to install anything. You will only add or remove.

https://next.yarnpkg.com/features/zero-installs

Give above I would still not recommend with current tooling to checking-in node_modules folder.

Current SASS implementation is made in Dart.
https://sass-lang.com/dart-sass
It's not triage if the device you have is worthless. It's not a medical resource if it's not fit for purpose or if the people using it aren't trained.
Definitely say that here (Alberta, Canada).
The Hate Pill Against Coronavirus Isolation
And more competently. They actually managed to make enough tests in time and use them on all known contacts of any infected individual. We're long past the point of that being remotely possible in the US.
This article has an overlay of known cases in US versus Italy. We're accelerating past Italy now.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/corona...