skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the NBN, most providers don’t use PPPoE anymore but instead just plain IP.

Every NBN connection goes back to one of 121 Points of Interconnect (PoIs) (which is way too many by the way but was a dumb and misguided decision imposed by the ACCC). At the PoI it gets to the provider through a Network to Network interface (NNI). The provider’s switch that plugs in here is the earliest that a P2P connection could loop back (but only to somebody in the same region, that is, connected to the same PoI), and is also the closest that a Netflix OpenConnect device could be (although it might not be cost effective to rent the rack space there vs. putting it in a data centre in a capital city).

A lot depends on the provider, however, on how they have structured their network. Apparently some do tunnel all their connections back from the PoI to a central location even though they don’t have to.

But for most, I expect the provider’s backhaul to the PoIs in a state would all go back to the capital city of that state, which would then be interconnected to the neighbouring states capital cities (this is what the ISP I use, Aussie Broadband does at least).
The factor 4 is also not too important -- with the doubling time of 3 days, it's a difference of only 6 days in one or another direction -- any delays or speedups can easily add up to that. Only the speed of growth is stable and completely consistent information across many countries and what everybody has to worry to reduce.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.amazon.com/Sani-Dis...
Fun with Interpolation
The "induction" that machine learning algorithms do also isn't the same as the induction that humans preform. We induce new concepts from experience (data) -- The description itself assumes consciousness in both "concepts" and "experience".

Thinking of computers as getting more "intelligent" like humans is a category error -- computers are dumb matter configured in an intelligent way by actual intelligence (humans) to preform certain tasks for us. We get better at telling them how to preform certain tasks (software), but there's no reason to think we're moving along some continuum of intelligence towards us.
Custom reporting: combining sheets from multiple Excel files
Only 70%?
The talk for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg

I found it really quite interesting, even if I don't game on consoles primarily.
And here is somone who got a "#1 best seller listing". Notice they say "ma-sk" instead of "mask"

https://www.amazon.com/Breathing-Disposable-Respirator-Activ...
3 days into a complete lockdown here, supermarkets only open, every retail shop closed, takeaway food or delivery only from restaurants

Everyone I've spoken to is losing it, there's still another 2 weeks. Have been working from home for well over a month now, but this is entirely different, you can't go anywhere nor do anything.

The societal and economic costs are far too high for what has been 2 deaths over 4 months in the country. Vast majority of the new cases have been from a single massive religious event.
There are formulations with higher bio-availability. Try Thorne Research Quercenase.
I haven't heard that, but I have read (in a source I can't find at the moment) that the first known patient also had bacterial pneumonia and so was misdiagnosed for several days, during which time several healthcare workers became infected, who in turn infected who knows how many.

I'm sure the rate of initial spread, when the number of transmission events is low, is very much subject to chance/luck.
It's not only to keep the number of people needing hospital care below capacity, it will also lower the final proportion of a population infected before herd immunity has an effect [1]. By slowing the spread, it becomes more and more likely somebody exposed to the virus has already recovered and is immune.

[1] https://www.r-bloggers.com/flatten-the-covid-19-curve/
From what I've read, temperature checks are still happening at many buildings throughout China, so even if IoT thermometers don't get put into place immediately they'd probably be useful after things are more under control and we are working on stopping any second waves of disease.
You're welcome to rub your hands with a copper disk after going out in public. I'm going to wash them with soap and water for 20 seconds.
Typescript won't save anyone from intentional writing bad code or using a broken library. Nothing will. I don't see how that's a criticism of TS itself.
IBM's Summit simulates molecular dynamics to find Covid-19 therapeutics
The restrictions have more influence because we're not at the point where they are overwhelmed by the virus' impacts.
Did you read the indictment and do you know what a plea deal is? Why do you think google is lying about the 14000 files he downloaded? That could easily be proven or disproven and everyone knows it. It’s obvious they just threw him a soft ball on probably the least incriminating file they could to just get some money back rather than dragging the trial on forever then sentencing him to 100 years. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t take all the CAD files and act in what is clearly bad faith. Yeah, I could see a 24 year old legitimately doing that “for personal reference” but he is fucking 40 years old
This has been part of my thinking for a while. A lot of people's models seem to be based on the idea that they know when the first actual infection arrived in a particular area. Given that a lot of people seem to have almost no symptoms at all, that doesn't seem very likely.
I hate to break it to you, but this event as a whole is almost certainly going to be debilitating. WFH advocates will be lucky as hell if this event isn't used to say "WFH doesn't work" for decades.

Personally, I'm WFHing now and I don't like it. Many things are more of a pain in the ass to get done despite me having access to top quality tools to do them with, and many day to day things are much harder and slower to do (quick chats with coworkers about work tasks).
That is exactly what is going on. The idea of having to pay for treatment and care is driving this, not any humanitarian or security consideration.

None of them of course will have healthcare coverage...
If that amount is for civil damages, I think that would be a separate matter, but the last two paragraphs of the article leave little doubt that he is, and that Uber is not picking up the tab unless he can force them to (...would it be in the interests of Google (Alphabet? Waymo?) to help him do so? It would hurt Uber. Could it do so, if it wanted to, e.g. by hiring lawyers on his behalf?)

Update: The article has just been shortened, and the paragraphs on that issue have been removed...

Update 2: they are back again, apparently slightly reworded, IIRC the original...
Ask Amazon; they're the ones who said they'd remove these listings, not derank them. I assume that means they understand the difference.
And then there's the "masssk"

https://www.amazon.com/4-Layer-Adjustable-Disposable-Comfort...
There isn't really such a thing as acting in isolation in a police department. They work together a lot, even in departments that don't do two man patrols.

The police are a fraternity. They have a code. At worst, they actively protect and cover up bad actors. At best, they just don't report it. That's why you rarely hear about officers being whistleblowers, or departments doing internal investigations and finding wrongdoing. Things rarely gets past the blue wall.

Policing in America is fundamentally broken, from urban areas where people are framed, to rural areas where people are robbed.

This doesn't mean that all police are bad, but the culture around policing certainly seems bad.
A little more info from SFGate:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-Atria-Bur...

> The order is completely identical to the one in the Bay Area, meaning individuals can also leave their houses to take a walk or go for a jog so long as they are practicing the requisite precautions when coming into contact with another individual.
Chiming in here after reading this entire thread to say that you are definitely missing the point of the above commentator.

"the value of an asset is how much you will get for it."

and the price of an asset is an estimate of its value. projection of future dividend/buybacks is an important part of determining that value. the idea that its irrelevant to pricing is ludicrous.
$500 might be on the low side, but it would cover a good percentage of the cost. :)
I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but I think this is a very myopic take. For many, work-from-home is not an option, and the alternative is just being out of work completely. Many of my friends and family members outside of a few specific industries are already unemployed, moving in with parents (who themselves might be unemployed now), trying to figure out where next month's rent or mortgage payment is going to come from, etc.

Given the vast economic devastation being invoked in order to contain the virus, it's worth taking a moment to ask whether we actually have enough information about its spread and mortality to properly calibrate our response when that response involves making decisions of truly monumental impact.

Now, on the very small snippet of the COVID-19 response which involves technology workers and programmers working from home, I'm among them, and I'm already counting the days until I can get back in the office, as are at least half of my teammates. Most folks I work with do not like it so far. So I think the effect could be the opposite of what you're positing.
Look at the graph from my parent message again -- that info that you cite (coronavirus being active in November) would completely not match what we already know. We know extremely good how fast it spreads and how fast people start to die:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_on_c...

"On 20 January 2020, an 80-year-old passenger from Hong Kong, China, embarked in Yokohama, and disembarked in Hong Kong on 25 January. On 1 February, six days after leaving the ship, he visited a Hong Kong hospital, where he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.[47][48]"

"On 4 February, the authorities announced positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 for ten people on board, the cancellation of the cruise, and that the ship was entering quarantine."

"Two passengers died on 20 February[78] and a third on 23 February, all three Japanese citizens in their 80s.[79] A fourth passenger, an elderly Japanese man, was reported on 25 February to have died.[80] The fifth fatality, a British national in his 70s, died on 28 February.[81] A 78-year-old Australian national, who was evacuated from the ship, died on 1 March in Australia, making him the sixth.[82] A Hong Kong national from the ship died on 6 March, making him the seventh coronavirus-related death from the ship.[83]"

With the doubling time of 4 days, if the first case had been dying in November and nothing had been done to prevent the spread now there would be million of dead in Italy now.
This is purely about stealing.

> agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to taking sensitive documents

> Prosecutors accused Levandowski of stealing materials in late 2015 and early 2016 after deciding to leave Google and form his own company

> I downloaded these files with the intent to use them for my own personal benefit, and I understand that I was not authorized to take the files for that purpose

That's the material in the article. Any hints of said thief's brilliance must be elsewhere, if they exist, and the burden to produce them is on those who would claim they should be given weight.
ITAR absolutely, without a doubt, applies to open source projects. Giving the code away confers no immunity.
I have worked with ex-cons back when I worked in food service, making pizzas for rich suburbanites. I say give him a chance to redeem himself. But I'm a romantic...
I remember a Nova documentary about this...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/a-walk-to-beautiful.html

Edit: Also available on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HfPV7FEy6o
Hmm, I'll check it out. Thanks!

The site is open-source, by the way: https://github.com/contraptionco/cellarsnyc
Show HN: Rotation Using Euler Angles
Nobody is preparing anything based on the predictions of HN comments.
Lobbying power can be confronted by other considerable lobbying interests. Large healthcare conglomerates would seem to have considerable interest in reducing labor costs.

A crisis like this would be the perfect opportunity to fix some of these supply side issues. Lobbying is less effective when voters are paying attention and the government is in crisis-response mode.
Abstract:

The novel Wuhan coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been sequenced, and the virus shares substantial similarity with SARS-CoV. Here, using a computational model of the spike protein (S-protein) of SARS-CoV-2 interacting with the human ACE2 receptor, we make use of the world's most powerful supercomputer, SUMMIT, to enact an ensemble docking virtual high-throughput screening campaign and identify small-molecules which bind to either the isolated Viral S-protein at its host receptor region or to the S protein-human ACE2 interface. We hypothesize the identified small-molecules may be repurposed to limit viral recognition of host cells and/or disrupt host-virus interactions. A ranked list of compounds is given that can be tested experimentally

Additional snippet:

Here we combine restrained temperature replica-exchangemolecular dynamics (restrained T-REMD) simulations with virtual high-throughput screening in an ensemble docking campaign to identify well-characterized drugs, metabolites, and/or natural products that may disrupt S-protein:ACE2 receptor interface stability or the ability of the S-protein to recognize the ACE2 receptor. From this ensemble docking campaign,we provide a ranking of the predicted binding affinities ofover 8000 drugs, metabolites, and natural products (and their isomers)with regards to the COVID-19 S-protein and the S-protein:ACE2 receptor. Further, we highlight seven of our top ranked compounds, which are currently available and have had either regulatory approval as drugs or have had multiple prior studies which indicating high-potential for therapeuticuse
Medicine's Long, Thin Supply Chain Threatens Americans
That's not what this article is about. It's about people listing face masks as books or other items.

And then there's the issue of items not being as described, like photos of 20-mask packages, but what arrives are single masks repackaged under unsanitary conditions:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETU-_paU0AIjwnK?format=jpg&name=...
That's a neat alternative to PingPlotter. I like that it pings from outside, so no client required. I'll check it out, however, I'm in the US, so I bet it's always going to be high latency.
Enjoyed reading your POV on this. Thanks for sharing.
In the sleeper cabin monitoring the vehicle. The main cabin was unoccupied and there wasn't a single intervention for the entire trip. I knew people involved with that trip at the time.
I'm pretty sure kids will be fine despite spending more time with their parents. Vast differences in educational requirements of different countries assure me that possibly whole years of primary education are worth nothing. Besides, main concerns when it comes to closing schools clearly showed that schools are not so much places of education but most importantly storage pens for children so they don't bother their adults.

People who seek knowledge have internet.

And keeping billions at home to socialize just with people who live with them and with people who they can call and connect through internet won't increase on average depression and anxiety any more than going out currently does.

I came to this conclusion by living at home as vast number of people do.

His statements reminded me of the train scare because people had wild theories because they didn't know any better.

This guy should have lived at home and should know it's not some hostile environment you are barely able to spend a night in but must escape every morning or you'll surely go insane. Home for most people is the most cozy place in the world and it's filled with their most favorite people, pets and items.
\s and not /s? I didn't realize there was such a thing a reverse sarcasm. Or is that some new fangled TypeScript string escape character?
Svelte Native
If only we could convince everyone that our product is so hot, it will get you laid.
And how many people doing "science" do code review, computer-aided proofs, or automated theorem proving to verify their code is correct? Very, very, very few.
Why we need to shrink the labor pool. Better to think UBI enables automation than it saves us from automation.
Personal History of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Most AAA games don’t, but a lot of games do. Sims 4 for example is still a very popular 3D game, but it’s not very demanding. MMO’s are often designed for very low minimum hardware.
I agree that people should have a chance to redeem themselves, but serving time is meant to redeem him in the eyes of the law, not in the eyes of the profession or industry.

The onus is on him to demonstrate why his reputation in the industry should be restored.

The problem is that at the level that he was operating at, he would need to reenter industry in a leadership position of some sort, and most people would not trust him as a leader after this.

The ex-cons you worked with didn't have this issue because they probably didn't commit their felonies in food service, but rather in some other criminal situation or enterprise.

Also, fair or not, most people have less sympathy for those who commit felonies after they're already wealthy or powerful, versus people who commit felonies when they are largely poor or powerless. The criminal justice system, however, could be argued to have the exact opposite bias.
Compare and Swap is a command. E.g. Optimistic Concurrency.
All cops are predators in that the function they serve in society is to hunt people down, sometimes with violence. Predators serve a function in the ecosystem, just as the police serve a function in civil society, but it's important to remember the relationship between the police and citizens is one in which the police will find and exploit weakness wherever they can find it. Even the good cops aren't to be trusted, because their line of duty makes them untrustworthy.

>They are people like everybody else and if they get no privacy at all maybe they wouldnt want to enroll to be cops.

I'm fine with them just getting no privacy while on duty. On duty, they're not people like everyone else, off duty, they are.
Google Firebase Part of U.S. Antitrust Probe
> Is this a thing that happens often? Used to, your phone number was in a publicly available book.

When you could only call that number. Messaging is pretty different.

And sure it happens! Phone numbers are (nearly) immutable. It's a valuable piece of personal information. Your web push ID is... not.
Yeah I came across that, it doesn't really seem actively updated + some of the microgrants that are listed there are inactive now
After reading the comments here, I think it might be better to move the source article to another one with more historical context, like https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21187651/anthony-levandow...

Things I learned from that article that aren't apparent in this one:

- Uber was forced to pay more than $244 million to Waymo in the separate lawsuit between them.

- The $179 million that Levandowski owes to Google comes from a third lawsuit between him and Google over poaching engineers from Waymo.

Update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633861 suggests that the article is being shadow edited. It now contains information on those two points, but I don't think it did when many of the comments on here were written.
Now if they could get me my groceries. And to everyone else. Grocery stores are where we'll see the next super-contagion events.
I'm not questioning the need. I'm just saying that it seems to me a lot more realistic that we'll be able to short-term ramp-up production of 1 and 2 than it is to think we'll be able to adequately ramp up 3.

The stories I hear from medical people I know (and this is just anecdotal) is that they are only given serious PPE when they know there is an infection, but it's less clear if that's just standard policy or if that is due to limited supply.

I do agree that if PPE isn't used early and often here, we're going to be short medical personnel, and I think getting those back online is probably going to take longer than throwing money at manufacturers to build more PAPRs.
To cache, to seek, to find, but not to yield...
Good move by Newsom considering there were photos of people in socal still going to bars.

Judging by how long the shelter in place has lasted and affected curves in Asia, we should be prepared for ~2 months as a baseline. From what we're hearing from friends, life is starting to return to normalcy in Hong Kong, with no new domestic cases reported (though now they're contending with new imported cases from overseas travelers returning home). They have a really effective screening/tracking quarantine system in place where they'll give you a location tracking wristband for remote monitoring.

Our family has been affected by this since late January, and there's a big mental challenge aspect to this. Being able to walk outside (unlike in Wuhan) is really big.

It's truly unfortunate that the the country's health services bungled their initial testing and screening ramp up.
I wasn't laid off, it was worse.

The last startup I worked for turned out to be a Theranos-in-miniature, and after 11 months (after solving the puzzle) I had to recuse myself to the VC who brought me in. Made me take a long pause/sabbatical to decide if I want to be in startups anymore, and I worked on my music for awhile.

Being in the midst of an intense job search before all this broke, I'd been blocking out the news. Coronavirus was peripheral to me, at best. I was just starting to gain traction on a job search, when Covid-19 lock-down happened.

The moment I realized (my weak knees broke the news) this was real: Trader Joe's, where all the aisles—normally so well-appointed, were empty. I've never seen anything like it, except in a Walking Dead episode.

After successfully exiting the store without fainting, I said, you know that silver lining? It's going to be huge.

In times of crisis, humans tend to go bigger. We discover how powerful we really are. It's going to become crystal clear what's important and what's not. We're living in the golden age of opportunity in so many ways it's not even funny.

Just because I haven't solved my own personal crisis doesn't mean I won't. It's going to push me out of my comfort zone even further, into a world suddenly in exactly the same place. The way forward is focusing on others.

Since last week, I've had two interviews go dark due to hiring freezes, but 3 dozen meaningful conversations with people over the internet that never would've happened otherwise. Some of them are afraid. I tell them about the silver lining.

Before Covid-19, I felt a lot more alone. Now it seems like everyone is freaking out right along with me, except I'm not anymore.
Vast majority of people are not depressed, are not abused and do not live with their abusers. If your home is unsafe for you that's an individual case by case problem that should be resolved locally and individually, not something that should be taken into account while shaping global policy.
Keeping Your Culture While Remote
Why are you pulling from an article from last August? There is news happening in real-time about this with updates. The DOJ dropped all those charges. If they could have proven it they wouldn't have allowed a plea. He was accused not convicted...He plead because he's bankrupt from a civil suit with Google and the DOJ let it drop because their case isn't strong enough. Look at the Fitbit case. And funny enough - GOogle went on to buy them just a few months after.