skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being snarky and I agree with you. But we have everything we need!

Both of those things are accessible via web technologies. I am not a web developer, but it doesn't seem like we have a bidirectional data/component model. What if we could instantiate a component on a page that shares its state with all other components in the same group?

Since they are also a shared experience between humans, it by no means has to be correct all the time. Only that hits "reality" every X seconds. Analogous to the delta compression of video [3], if we define a rate at which I frames are broadcast, we know that the view of reality doesn't diverge too far from the other participants. Think of it as sCRDT a sloppy convergent replicated data type.

[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHz17gwiOc8

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_type...
why do you think it's not an animal.
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> I agree that S3 is fantastic, but not sure I would consider it simple considering how much sensitive data is left wide open in publicly accessible buckets all the time.

You're conflating two things: A) simple, reliable service B) dumbass operators.

Yes, I said it: If you leave a public bucket exposed in S3 unintentionally, you're a dumbass. You're also most likely not appropriately skilled (security fundamentals) for the responsibilities you have been charged with (information security). Neither of these are the fault of AWS or S3.

S3 is a tool, like a pick axe. If you ram it through your foot, it is not the pick axe's fault.
My favorite illustration of this principle. From an account of one of the first MMORPGs:

Under the resource system, players could gather raw materials, like ore, and make them into finished goods, like armor, which, once used, would begin to break down and reënter the pool as raw materials. Players, it turned out, liked to make things—they were turning out hundreds, and even thousands, of swords and shields and gauntlets—but instead of using them, or throwing them out, which would have had the same effect, they hoarded them. One player reportedly had a collection of ten thousand identical shirts.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/05/28/pimps-and-drag...

A collection of ten thousand identical shirts. Yet there are times in my life when I could have certainly appreciated the therapeutic benefit, if not higher purpose, in coming home from the office and spending all evening folding t-shirts in a virtual castle.
Some might slip through the cracks. But in most cases they'd just give the receiver a postage due notice and those junk companies wouldn't pay so it get trashed anyways.

Better to make sure the company gets it so they have to pay someone to open it.
I've been at home for four weeks (as of last Sunday) due to wonky immune system. I made my first trip (not counting walks with dog) to grocery store yesterday and while I was careful about spacing while shopping, when I got to the register I went on autopilot and I was an oblivious guy. I only realized it when I got forward to use my my payment card. I wish someone had said something.
The problem is that people soon start misusing this. One person comes, then second, then third and soon you have a crowd. This happened at places where people went for morning jogs.
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For ad-hoc, drawing on an iPad with PowerPoint is pretty good and makes it easy to share.
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The EAN-13 standard is pretty close to what you need, giving single-digit error detection (tho not correction), and you can shorten it to the last 5 or 6 digits. As the last digit is the checksum, this gives you 4 or 5 digits of precision.

Back at my earlier workplace we used EAN-13s as product serial numbers. Generally in customer service we used the last 5 digits, with the leading ones being implied by product model.
Buckets are private by default and always have been. A bucket needs to be made public. Given that, I would hazard a guess that buckets are often made public (when they shouldn't be) for either testing purposes and never reverted or because creating proper access to the bucket took too much time/knowledge.
If you say you ban people for telling the truth I'll consider to not post on this platform and contribute in the future. Because we are getting close to censorship if you despite someone explaining himself threatening with banning them for a personal attack which it wasn't in this case and even the OP agrees to that if you follow the course of this discussion.

>It's easy to make your substantive points without declaring others to be stupid, so please do that instead.

I agree with you on that point, instead of calling someone else stupid for poor judgement I'll instead call their argument stupid or to not cause any friction "poor judgement" instead and explain why I think that to keep room for a discussion on the argument and not the author.

Thank you for your input.
20-50 year olds with no pre-existing conditions are at low risk. The policy of shutting down the economy indefinitely is frightening on its own and we'll be dealing with the steep repercussions of that for many years. This is not sustainable.
The quantum mechanics of black holes is still open, isn't it? As I recall even Hawking entropy depends on putting the (non-unitary) Second Law of Thermodynamics in as a prior. This turns out to be consistent with (unitary) string theory and LQG, so far at least.
How many people in India live on daily wages. In countries with large poor populations this is a very hard balance to keep. Close down everything and a few million people die of hunger keep it open and few million will die from getting infected.
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> Serverless is more like a service running on a server that requires zero configuration or maintenance for you, just add your code and it works. Typically that means no messing with apache, nginx, no language nor framework setup/configuration, etc...

Whoa, I thought it was: Use a server, use a CDN, shutdown the server and its running serverless. Because everything is getting hitting the CDN and not the actual server.
I am not happy with the way this govt has handled the economy and this pandemic, but I support the PM in this decision and the police in their violent enforcement today.

People are being too callous. They are going about the city as though everything is normal. Some are celebrating religious festivals, some are going out on vacations and 'long drives'.

We are poor country with 4x the US population, packed so tightly even 7Zip would be put to shame. We don't have money or medical infrastructure to fight this at later stages.

FYI - Essential supplies are being kept open, govt services are being kept open, food delivery is being kept open. Free groceries (rice, dal etc)are being given to people who need it.

I pray that our country survives this without too many deaths, even as an atheist, because that's the only thing I can do now.
I remember being a kid and seeing this music video for the first time and thinking, wait, that's the guy who sings this song? Rick Astley must have one of the most incongruous voices in the industry.
Mostly not.
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You are forgetting that the people deciding the fate of this country is Trump and his billionaire cronies? I don't know how you can put your faith in "experts" anymore when the experts are controlled by these people.
The "public" label was somewhat recent (I think that happened in the last 18 months), but I think many of the biggest S3 leaks predate that labeling.
Only "should" here is whatever arrangement you agreed to with your employer.
Here’s an exercise:

There’s an epidemic in the China with a population of 1.3 billion, the second largest economy. They lock down Wuhan on Jan 23rd to try and contain it from spreading to the rest of China.

On Jan 30th with 7818 infected, the WHO declares Global Health Emergency. It’s a now threat beyond China.

What do you do?

Things to consider:

- There are 100,000 global flights a day.

- China is rushing to build 2 hospitals in 10 days

- It appears to be highly contagious
That is however extremely underfunded, and has high rates of fraud.
I often have to make that tradeoff, too.

The protocol I've settled on is to always buy the first one or two parts of a new type from Adafruit. This may also has the advantage of higher quality than no-name eBay sellers. That way, I know how a part is supposed to work, before trying cheaper sources. Then later, if I want a bunch of them for stock, or just messing around with (and maybe using up or breaking), I would buy from eBay.

Also, if I'm placing an order from them (and already having to pay for shipping), I'm willing to pay a slight premium for any other things I might want to include at the same time.

(This is the same tradeoff I make between buying from the more-expensive local hardware store that has fantastic people working there who have been in the trades and know everything versus Home Depot. Five 8 foot long 2x4's? Home Depot. Some specialized part that I want to get right one? The local store, even though it might be cheaper at the big-box place.)
I am more worried that the lockdown/curfew will be too stringent, and cause essential services to be shutdown. Many grocery shops etc are closed, as of now, there is no compulsion on them to remain open. Ideally, it would have been better naming it a partial-lockdown and assure the population that essential services shall be provided for without interruption.
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Which are where? Source?

EDIT: I did some quick googling and no one seems to share anything. So where are you getting your guidance may I ask?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/googles-still-not-sharing-...
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An old discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20795526
Nationwide lockdowns don't really work unless you are trying to totally contain it, which is likely impossible in the US, Europe, and India.

Each metro area and state should lock-down when they think they are going to get near their max ICU capacity (of course taking into account that hospital load lags by 2-3 weeks).

It doesn't do any good to lock down a city that doesn't have any community spread yet. It's just pure economic pain without any benefit.
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> I think almost any transaction which results in a public record including your address could lead to this.

Which is one reason why public records should not include any personal information, particularly including addresses or other contact/location information.
I strongly believe that work that could be done remotely MUST be done remotely until the coronavirus vaccine is developed and deployed (even if at the expense of some potential performance loss and/or corporate culture impact; though it is arguable, especially the performance aspect). Lifting off the remote option would IMO be a recipe for much more suffering due to a significant contribution to next waves of the virus spread.
Doesn't Japan have a much higher case fatality rate than the US?
Japan has been trying to downplay COVID because they didn't want Olmypics to be delayed. Now expect their script to flip.
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We should follow Taiwan's lead and withdraw from WHO, who lied to the entire world while Taiwan was preparing.
I LOL'd. I was really wondering what was behind this link.
I hear many keep saying "stay positive"! Wishful thinking and optimism typically lead to shorter lifespans and the reasoning is optimists underestimate threats, ignore symptoms, don't prepare to handle threats. Not to panic, but be more on the pessimistic side, save lives - including your own! We have an excellent saying here in America, which the young do not follow (especially in Flordia!) these days: "Better safe than sorry!"
Could you please share your excuses, so we can all use them? :)
This is the kind of article you get when people are motivated by money and not by an objective desire to compare and contrast different approaches to a problem.
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Generally, the good ones are paid. For hospitalization one can take insurance where premium is paid annually.

There are government hospitals and they are average. They are better avoided by people who can afford private clinics.

But for epidemic causing diseases the government is very active and proactive when they understand the protocol. If you are in quarantine, they will give your free medicines for you and the people you contacted, free and hygienic food, will sanitize your house and neighborhoods if needed. If you hospitalized yourself to a private hospital, the cost is yours. But otherwise the government will take care of hospitalization. Their quarantine beds are nothing less than world-class.
However, things can be drastically different and painful for your care taker once out of quarantine. ICUs (non-quarantine) in government hospitals have a higher rate of passing on a secondary infection.

Even at the costly private hospitals, cost of healthcare is quite low in India compared to the western countries and quality is similar. But they are not adequate for the pandemic of Covid19 scale
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Meds, vegetables and essential services are available. My father was able purchase vegetables without much hassle.

While I don't support police beating those who break curfew, it should be understood that India is severely underpoliced and Police do have a difficult job ahead.
I use Zoom on a computer (audio/video), share whiteboard and then connect to Zoom on my iPad and use that just for the drawing portion. It works great.
Japan shows that wide use of masks, good hygiene and a decent HC system should actually allow to keep the country running. After what's happened so far, I wonder whether Western countries will be able to learn from this - it's going to need lots of politicians to walk back on previous statements.
Yes, literally showing at night might make a difference.

So many things: maybe they regularly clean the handles on doors. Maybe the restaurants always use a disinfectant wipe. Maybe people 'stay at home' more regularly if they are sick.

There's a really powerful EpiCurve calculator someone at OpenAI published - and the most interesting thing is how sensitive everything is to R0. R0 1.8 v. 2.2 is just a huge difference.

If 'social distancing' brings it down some, but then 'showing at night' nudges it a little bit lower, voila, noticeably less spread.

It's going to take a very keen measure of variables, in fact, it's going to take a keen observation of culture to even figure out what those variables are.

Sadly, I don't have faith we'll ever get there.
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I'm posting with the article title but agree that it's a bit clickbaity. Please change if you can think of something more moderate.
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It would be so nice to somehow be aware of what the other person is looking at and where their hands are like in that video.
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> we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses

The problem is that they are right with this. Shutting down the city will probably destroy small businesses. Those same people also can't do much to help small businesses. It is understandable that they don't want to sentence these businesses to death when they are powerless to save them. This is why the relative inaction by the federal government is such a problem here. They are the only entity that has the power to stop the wide spread of the virus and absorb the economic repercussions of the shutdown.
My biggest gripe with markdown for writing is its removal of single intentional newlines.
I agree 100% with your sentiment:

> So please, write your documentation in whatever you feel like. As long as it gets written.

Just so long as you remember who is supposed to be reading it, and ensure that they can. What language you use to structure it is more a question for you (and your team), and matters much less.
No - Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon, Flipkart, Grofers, Medlife, 1Mg, PharmEasy and many more are functional, but at decreased capacity.

These services cater only to major cities though. The govt is looking to keep supply lines of essentials open even in villages and remote towns.
Right, at this point only some countries do "flatten the curve", for the rest it's an attempt of containment and once they see it failing they will try to figure out what to do and how to reopen everything while trying to prevent the spread.
This is another of those sad cases where worse is better. AsciiDoc, and perhaps RST, are superficially better by measures of specification-completeness and uniform handling of corner cases.

Markdown is used everywhere, so it "won". Better doc in a "worse" format than no doc at all.
Currently in Bangalore. The one day curfew on Sunday was promising. Just a day before the curfew, you could find large groups of people playing cricket, basketball, going on walks, etc. That's mostly stopped, with the police strictly forcing people to disperse and go back home. A neighboring state chief minister just mentioned during a press meeting that people will be shot at sight if they leave their homes... without debating whether it's healthy to issue orders like that, I'm relatively confident that the quarantine will be executed effectively.

My concern though: the economic pressure of staying indoors will make a 3 week long (minimum) quarantine very tough. Based on certain sources, more than half the workforce are daily wage labors. Every day they don't work, they're not paid and they don't have insurances / safety nets to leverage.

Unless there's an influx of aid (from the government or otherwise) to help these folks pay for food / rent / pay back loans, etc. in the short term, there will be significant suffering, likely riot attempts and suicides. I'm already feeling significant panic from daily wage worker groups. There needs to be some kind of aid announcement ASAP to help them cope.
Don't think there are any similarities. CBDC is basically digital cash.
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In response to the first, I don't think the bulk of $ is spent on things that are shutdown, ie restaurants/gym/stylist/etc. I think bulk is spent on rent/mortgage (no supply change), groceries (very limited), meds (ditto).

re: serologic: we still have widespread factory production. It's extremely useful to know who is immune.
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I also felt his push for 1 shot was aiming unnecessarily too high. I suspect his motivation isn’t so much that in developed countries multiple shots is impossible, but more for use worldwide in less developed health systems. He obviously wants a wide uptake.

We have plenty of vaccines which require multiple shots. If he just halved it to 3-4 shots I think it would be a huge win for the world. Move from there to the idea of 1 shot.
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Its pretty simple. We didn't scale testing at all which turns a national isolation into just isolating people that are potentially infected. Then you keep isolating those people until it dies on the vine. This current solutions SUCKS, but it silver medal sucks to just letting the disease roam free and infect everyone.

Also, the whole "young people and what not are at low risk" is anecdotal. We have no clue what the longterm, and passive ramifications of this virus are.
"nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were age 20 to 54"

So yes, they are low risk because they get priority in the hospitals. But when the hospital is full, what will happen to them?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-...