skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow 1 ms seems fast. I don’t do any live sound, but I’ve read that 10ms is touted as the cutoff point below which most humans can’t detect any latency.
Don't trust Chinese statistics. They are manipulated to say whatever the government wants them to say. This is the same country that starting running empty production facilities so economists couldn't predict GDP impacts.
https://www.issms2fasecure.com/ This is a great resource on this issue
Another step one can take is to use a separate number for authorising banking transactions. This number should be 'unlisted', i.e. not shared with anyone but your bank(s).
You control the #, sure. But what specific technical measure prevents the carrier from associating that customer line with another sim card?

The fact that you control the # might defend against port-outs, I don’t understand how that could prevent SIM swaps though.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596539.
> Well, I didn't mean to. In fact, I'm advocating for the community at large.

This thinking led to all sorts of atrocities in the past 100 years, from fascism to communism -- and the murders to starvation that accompanied them.
Spanish Flu (1918)?
The toilet paper thing is bizarre.

We are a few weeks ahead of you here in Australia on the panic buying and toilet paper is one of the few things we actually produce here.

But it's still impossible to get in most places a few weeks after the panic buying first happened. People seem to buy it immediately on reflex, and people who didn't panic buy are beginning to panic search for it.

One factor is that toilet paper is a bulky item, which makes the logistics of shipping and storage tricky. But still! I'm very surprised at how fragile this (fairly simple) supply chain has proven.
And what I was saying was that is probably true, but I'm not sure what would happen with a similar hack only aimed at the guarantor.
Didn't ration stamps have specific amounts written on them?
But as American, I always feel like the government does its job and nothing more and does not terrible is because no one trusts it.

No one gets lazy about keeping a critical eye on it. We also don't give it complex tasks cause it would just mess it up so it only does really big simple things.

We look at other places that trust their government and it always historically goes wrong as soon as you give blind trust. Like if Trump got elected in a well-oiled machine that mechanism that necessitated blind trust. I don't want a smart capable government. Give me a dumb one that does simple things any day especially if the people in the country are capable.
Statement: So we can all live to see another day, everyone needs to stay inside.

You: Not for any good reason other than to make a point about civics, singing anthems and flag-waving, I'm going outside. See you all later.
What leverage?
Well, in Brazil it's officially known that there has been domestic transmission in both São Paulo (that has been cold, much like a summer in North Europe) and Rio de Janeiro (that has been quite hot on the last few days).
> Additionally, I think HashiCorp not embracing kubernetes and trying to push Nomad was a huge miscalculation.

Nah, embracing kubernetes is the miscalculation that every other company is making. It's a dead end. This part they're doing right. (Not saying I'm fond of nomad, but kube is absurd.)
Thanks. Didn't know it was that bad.

I also suspect that most US consumer toilet paper is fluffier than the non US norm, with far fewer sheets per roll. So the 90g per roll conversion is misleading.

My favorite institutional style paper comes in 1000 sheet rolls, which weigh 187g. The consumer brand that I recently bought comes in 220 sheet rolls, which weigh 106g.
This is very interesting. I'm usually on the side of interpreting tests/ordering them instead of knowing the nuances behind them. Are there any major breakthroughs in testing that you're excited about?
My area is fixed mobile only now.

The storms we had 6+ weeks ago knocked out the landline (and adsl), so we've been tethering for any internet, which is 1 bar strength of 4g.

It's increasingly unlikely that Telstra (the fixed line telco) will ever repair the copper: we've had several promises and nothing yet (nor expected until April).
I'm a single guy and a roll of toilet paper usually lasts me a few weeks, so where am I supposed to go to buy 1/3 or 1/4 rolls so I don't run afoul of your petty head-law?

I'm the type that usually buys 3-6 months worth of goods because I hate the retail experience and don't want to see the interior of a store more than a few times per year. What kind of hateful soul are you to want me to only be able to get enough goods that I'd need to return on a weekly basis?
The government of the US is no more or less capable than its ever been. People lives are just to short to realize it.
I am updating the website within a week so that'll have the complete information. Just rebuilding it to aspire some more confidence in the product honestly.

We do defend against SIM swap attacks because MNOs can't access our account
This an aside, but this seems like a textbook example of government regulation of healthcare not only failing but getting in the way and actively causing harm. There are literally 1000s of generally certified labs that they could have said very early on "go to it if you have this certification" and instead they plodded through this top-down heavy handed mess and made this pandemic many times worse.

In the US you have this combination of heavy over-regulation and lack of public provisioning. It's like the worst of both combined. Between this, cannabis, ketamine, and the opioid crisis, I absolutely do not understand why there isn't an uproar over overregulation in healthcare getting in the way.
> The US has less than 3 hospital beds per every 100,000 people.

Citation, please. Here's a counter: This list shows about 29 ICU beds (so not even just beds more broadly) per 100,000 in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...
Could you explain how your company defends against these attacks?

From a quick look at your website, it looks like you are offering prepaid services through different providers similar to H20 Wireless. You claim to offer protection but give no detail on it except that you use "military grade protection".
My brother is working on this full time right now. He's currently tying in a database of who has shelter-in-place requirements!
Nah, that's prisoner's dilema at work.
On a similar note, here's a two-minute video by Calvin Harris on how he made "Slide": https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/843563157280903168

It's kind of crazy to see that while he has some slightly nicer instruments than me, he mostly does the same thing I do, only with a couple orders of magnitude more talent and a Dropbox with Frank Ocean and Migos vox in it.
I love that hack! Very clever
No the risk/reward is fucked up. Buy at the start of a bull market not the midst of a bear market. In the context of the last recession buying in 2010-13 would have been ideal. Trying to find the bottom is simply gambling, investing isn't an optimisation problem. The goal is to sleep at night, not to make the most money at any cost.
>“We don’t have a clear exit strategy,” Dr. Ferguson said of the recommended measures. “We’re going to have to suppress this virus — frankly, indefinitely — until we have a vaccine.”

This seems to dismiss the possibility that drugs such as Chloroquine or Kaletra could significantly reduce the need for hospitalization and/or respiratory support.

Vaccines are unlikely to be ready before the epidemic burns itself out, so therapeutic antiviral drugs would seem to be the only hope besides social distancing.
I don't think you should use an exception historically its apt to go bad rather than good in most cases. Norway is one bad leader away.
It’s sort of cool to watch it through an infrared camera. The front proximity sensor is like a set of headlights.
>We do defend against SIM swap attacks because MNOs can't access our account

How does that work? Your contracts might stipulate this, but I don’t understand how this could work from a technical PoV.
Carriers don't have access to the customer account. They don't even know who the customer is and our SIMs have a different serial number
It's a CFR of 0% in Korea under 29, and we're still missing a large portion of the population that's already either had it, or has it and is asymptomatic, or has it and is writing their symptoms off as a mild flu. Potentially divide all the numbers by 6 if the other article posted today is accurate.
And 3 to 7 decades, it's going to happen again because anybody who remembered the crisis are either dead or had forgotten what should be proper response. Imprisonment isn't going to change anything.
We're considering that at my work for internal use. The easiest solution we can think of would be using something like an HTTPS API to 2FA to a server, ship a private key and other connection info out to the client, and require the client to check in regularly to keep their generated key enabled. So yeah, something to build on top of Wireguard.
I had a 100 to 104.5 F fevers, chills, sore throat and upper respiratory track infection over the course of 4 days with symptoms persisting for over two weeks back in the last part of January. I was tested for flu and strep, and they came back negative. My wife had similar, slightly less severe symptoms. My four year old daughter had the same symptoms as me that developed into pneumonia. Her fevers were up to 102.5 to 103 F The pediatrician prescribed antibiotics for my daugther who was already recovering. She was not tested for flu or strep, since I already had been, or that is why I think tests were not done on her. They were not diagnosing or looking for corona virus at the time in New York/New Jersey. It felt worse than the flu I had had two years earlier. I was very tired and weak as was my daughter. We are all OK now, but I keep thinking we may have had it. We spend a lot of time in Asian markets in NY/NJ, and there were a lot of people visiting the US from Hong Kong and China for the upcoming Chinese New Year/post Christmas season that we talked with at the markets in the weeks before getting sick.
From what I've heard 12% have complications that would benefit from medical help, and 5% become "critical" and are likely to die without help.

See https://youtu.be/BYTFk34nhoI from the 10 to 12 minute mark.
My mistake, I took your "normal working arrangement" literally.

edit: No need to downvote an apology. I took it literally, without the appropriate context. Sorry.
> government employees

Where did anyone mention government employees?
Ask HN: Why is the US not testing for Covid-19 as much as it should
WHO director says that social distancing will not work as we don’t know who’s infected and who is not. That is true as with social distancing we are just making assumptions that groups of individuals (families) are either all healthy or infected. What logically works is testing and isolation. That makes sense and I feel relatively speaking there is very little testing going on in US.

Is this because lack of testing kits? Or poor leadership by bad communication or something else is going on here ?
Lets start with the things we probably agree on:
- The US healthcare system is wildly inefficient
- The US has certain societal advantages in dealing with this outbreak that China doesn't (i.e., we are more spread out, we are more likely to take individual transportation, etc.)
- China has certain societal advantages in dealing with this outbreak that the US doesn't (i.e., they can order mass quarantines and mobilize people in a way that the US cannot)

Keeping those in mind. Yes, we might get off easy. Yes, it might turn out worse for us. No, the outcome will not be 100% correlated to government effectiveness.

That said, the US healthcare system still leads the world in research, funding, talent, etc. Is it more expensive? Yes. Is it the best system for public health? No, probably not. But we do have our own advantages.

Immuno-suppressant therapies that are being used as a last resort for COVID 19 were developed by Genentech. Roche and Genentech are leading the way on development of a vaccine. The US healthcare system is home to some of the world's foremost experts on drug development and patient care.

We are undoubtedly better off in dealing with this than many other countries. We're probably not the top percentile, but we are most definitely among the top 5-10%.
I'll give you a very simple explain. Imagine you're ATT customer & you're roaming in Canada on Rogers network. Would the roger employee be able to SIM Swap you ? No because you're not his customer and even the kiosk guy can't look into the account either
Sounds like the original person intended on actually staying at the hotel for two weeks after failing to get their reservation cancelled, and was pleasantly surprised by the result. But yes, probably not easily replicable.
That's kind of the point. As far as discord users should be concerned, servers are independent which is why the terminology chosen was "servers" which conveys a sense that one server is independent from another. The term doesn't necessarily mean they are on different hardware or physically separated.
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This sounds like a joke more than a true anecdote. Why would a hotel ask for a reason for an extension?
Group of homeless moms and families are taking over a house – this time in L.A
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This does not work anymore due to MAC randomization by most newer devices.
There are causal accounts that use mutual information and its variants though. A lot of them introduce notions of directed mutual information and other similar concepts.
I record podcasts professionally and I have to say...I’ve never heard the banana trick before haha
It's not so much the injections, but just allowing the development of alternative processes that may scale much faster than the 70 year old egg-based process.

When we look back in retrospective, the CDC and FDA will be under scrutiny to take more preventative measures.
Did an experimental drug help a U.S. coronavirus patient?
TLDR: Use the excuse you returned from Italy and need an extension of several days to self quarantine.

It might work now, but maybe not when hotels start catching on and requiring proof.
Can anyone explain why normal ventilators don't just use flow meters on compressed air with a solenoid? A standard pilot valve pneumatic solenoid can switch much faster than this. with regulated air pressure, and an air filter on the air, it seems possible to make it work pretty easily just using compressed air.
Theres also a large cadre of politician worldwide that consistently run on the platform that government is all-knowing from Venezuela, Korea in the 50s, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, lots of central America, Chile, Italy, Greece, etc.

And still, go out their way to prove it doesn't work. Should you really ever trust a system that individuals can sabotage so easily on purpose or not?
> Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous.

How often have those experts been wrong?
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Congratulations. I have always had a love-hate relationship with Hashicorp's tools. In the end, though, the product that they provide freely to us all is absolutely phenomenal. I also have a lot of respect for Mitchell Hashimoto and really appreciate his humility. Great to see this positive news for Mitchell and the team.
The SM7B would take issue with your condenser > dynamic claim haha
I had a similar problem with the robot getting stuck under the furniture. Shimming up the legs by just a few mm did the trick.
Many hotels in fact did reject refunds due to coronavirus cancellations including that of Jason Lemkin and the canceled Saastr conference.
Whoa! Put the flag down! If you look at my history in my profile you'll see that I _anticipated_ your questions about the chloroquine phosphate studies but now been provided enough information so that I do not doubt that chloroqine phosphate is a very good treatment (in conjunction with zinc).

Some links for Chloroquine phosphate:

"Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-13/fighting-co...

L.A.Times article with links (feel free to chase the links yourself) that gives more detail about the above paper cited:

"A more unorthodox remedy being tested against the coronavirus in China is chloroquine.

The drug is intended to treat malaria, a condition caused by a parasite transmitted through a mosquito bite. A limited number of studies suggest the drug can work against SARS. In laboratory tests, it kept COVID-19 from spreading by blocking its method of infecting cells, according to a report last week in the journal Cell Research."

The Chinese source re chloroquine, was posted on ycombinator by sp332 3 hours ago (I quote him below):

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/...

"This summarizes the results of a bunch of trials that were run in parallel in China."

You can do your own search for information on the effects of zinc on viruses and in particular corona viruses - it's old story (dating back to circa 1970s at least), the results have created a entire industry of zinc-related products (zicam et al).
What do you mean by "user groups" and "ACL" in the context of VPN? In any case, the answer is most probably "write some firewall rules" (discriminating on the source IP, the ones you configured as allowed IPs in wireguard).
Just have to play it right. Slip in some details, get curious about what food you can order to your room, etc. You can always decide some detail is a deal breaker & not make the close
> provided these measures do not infringe upon any of the rights protected by the United States Constitution

I had the right to free travel in mind, specifically.
reminds me of https://old.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/dk9go7...
Why does one have to keep the dog 6 ft from people? Afaik, dogs are not Covid-19 vectors.
There is some evidence it may be useful as a prophylactic to prevent infection, and it is presently undergoing trials.

More reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

https://www.recipharm.com/press/recipharm-notes-increased-de...

https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/988648/...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/potential-pipeline-medica...

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/parallel-e...
Yes updating the website this week with complete information. Our arrangement is somewhat similar to any other MVNO with just that we've blocked sim port attacks & have specific measures in place along with a $5M insurance
The death rate for the elderly from the virus (relative to the less elderly) is amplified by triage.
Can you imagine how much legal trouble microsoft would be in if they blocked alternative browsers in windows? Simply providing a single default was too much.
Unless I'm mistaken, the thing you'd be getting shot for is resisting arrest? Which went above and beyond violating the health order that is put in place to try and contain a potentially lethal disease from further spreading?
So, I'll finally get served a relevant ad?
This is like someone saying "never put your cryptography project on Github, it's dangerous!"

This person isn't necessarily saying "Go build this if you have trouble breathing", it's a proof of concept.
The WHO agreed with China's assessment, and if you don't believe them, Tim Cook re-opened all Apple stores in China because the situation is effectively under control now -- and shut them everywhere else in the world.

No matter how you feel about China, you can believe Tim.
Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
There will be a technocracy - the world will be run by Specialists “scientists” not elected like in “European Union” today.

The virus is just a excuse to put in place severe measures and they will be there forever as it happened after 9/11.

It is a war and the enemy is a virus called freedom 2020
Corrected: per every 1,000. Thanks.
Compressed air contains lots of moister. You don't want this. It can also contain oil or other contaminants.
> The government of the US is no more or less capable than its ever been. People lives are just to short to realize it.

Ah that old chestnut -- the ostrich in the sand approach. I like it!
And Russia is one good leader away.
"That metric is hard to calculate because the transmission rate is still not very well understood for Covid-19"

I've heard multiple times from the virologists at This Week in Virology that we're not going to know the real numbers until it's all over.

In addition to that, they are going to be highly variable depending on the demographics, pre-existing conditions, and the level of medical care you are able to get.

So it's going to be very difficult to calculate these sorts of metrics even when the actual infection/death rates are known.
I've been looking at WireGuard on and off but so far I'm sticking with IPSec.

I currently have two use cases:

1) A road-warrior setup for iOS and MacOS devices with connect-on-demand if needed. Authentication is done using user certificates issued by an internal CA. This gives me secure access to check my security cameras, etc, and makes it completely frictionless.

2) A persistent tunnel to a cloud provider's network. The cloud provider only supports IPSec, so WireGuard isn't even an option here. This is mainly just homelab-type playing around, not serious work.

I think WireGuard can do the first use case, but without centralized control over what routes, split tunnels, DNS, IP address assignments, etc, are pushed to the clients. I'd have to manage deploying all of this to the clients by hand instead of letting StrongSwan do it for me.

On the IPSec side, setting everything up was a huge amount of effort. My first use case probably took a total of a day and a half (over the course of a couple of years as the solution changed and evolved) to get it into its current state. I'm not including getting the PKI stuff figured out since I wanted that for other stuff anyway.

The second use case took me about three days to get set up satisfactorily. Most of this is because I can't see the logs on the cloud provider side, so debugging it is a matter of waiting, sometimes for six hours, for the tunnel to stop passing traffic, followed by tweaking settings based on what the error might be, and repeating. IPSec's complexity[0] really works against it here. I expect that WireGuard would be significantly easier for this use case if the cloud provider supported it.

[0] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/ConnSec... - I've been staring at this page way too much lately.
True like in CC they've guarantees against such unauthorised usages
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Hey guys, I'm paying $182/m for my new car insurance. What about you? The main question is, would you choose P2P car insurance with up to 60% cash back? Right now, the market is over-regulated, but what if there was an option to be protected by your neighbors instead of a middle man?
I’m from Wuhan, I’d like to use your facilities.
High-speed rail is often slower and definitely more expensive than regular rail, if Europe is any guide.

Rail is best used for freight.

Autonomous busses and cars (electric) are the best long-term solution for travel.

The best approach is simply to enact a Carbon Tax and let the market figure it out.

We would be better off promoting mass-contraception to the developing world and halting land clearance in terms of massive targeted CO2 reductions.
We have 2 adults and 7 kids in a 1900 sq ft home. 3200 sq feet would be like living in a palace.