skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self reply to all others: try doing something that actually tests the limits a bit for health reasons. you can tell in a welding/woodshop when N95s and P100s go bad, they get physically harder to breath through after about 6-8 hours. If they don't they're not sealed well enough. they do keep working longer (probably), but they get quite a bit worse.
Disaster for nk and it's people I hope they accepted medical supplies as it will create a bridge for communication in the future.
Some of that could be due to versioning... Ansible's releases always have breaking changes, so you can get into trouble if your setup is vastly different from when the playbooks were created. I think this is part of the point of a dedicated control machine, but unfortunately the documentation (last I checked) seems to neglect the importance of it.

Along the same lines, there are also .cfg files and roles that can live outside the root directory.

I've been able to get decent reusability out of roles, but that's mostly because I can live with my servers all being deployed the same way (e.g. they all have the same nginx config with minimal customization points and share the same certificates).
First hydroxychloroquine randomized controlled trial: results disappointing
Depends on what people define as panic and the degree of it. I started stocking up food a couple of things a time in January and many people told me I was panicking. If a lot more people had panicked like me shopping would be easier.

As it turns out I didn't panic enough either, I should have had more toilet paper and pasta to get through the panic from other people.
These are mostly bulky items, it would be an inventory-storage nightmare. Let the d-bags who bought a years supply of toilet paper deal with that themselves.
They limit the amount of TP you can purchase to 1 case per cart..
An outhouse doesn't actually solve the need for paper though. My backup plan of last resort is to cut up a few old t-shirts into tp-square sizes. Wipe & run them in a washer load by themselves and repeat as needed. I think I'd choose darker ones-- it's not like they'd be any cleaner after a washing, but I'd feel better about it.
> Well, if there's only 2, maybe 3 of you...

Do you mean for more than 3 - the call/video is routed through the server and would consume server bandwidth? If so how is jitsi paying for all this if it is free?
"Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised"

https://apnews.com/ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a

"Quick left amid a bitter U.S. trade dispute with China when she learned her federally funded post, officially known as resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, would be discontinued as of September, the sources said. The U.S. CDC said it first learned of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia” of unexplained origin in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
The increase in usage will lead to higher conversions and offset the bandwidth usage. If that fails they might restrict the free tiers and introduce some fees. It’s a great problem to have in this market.
What is their(Jitsi's) business model if it is free? How do they keep themselves up?
The world's largest paper products producer Koch Industries.
Absolutely. It's hard to say what would be reasonable for any person really. What if someone is looking after relatives, friends, or neighbors who are quarantined? What if someone is buying a bunch to give out to the homeless? When we take pictures of people "hoarding", how do we really know their intentions?

That's the problem with these systems. You either limit the good people from doing reasonable things or you expose yourself to bad people. There are some reasonable compromises in between but I wish people were a little less quick to judge an entire person's being from what's in their shopping cart.
For people who are asymptomatic, how long before it's completely purged from the body?

I ask because there is a lot of "asymptomatic people may not remain asymptomatic" type of discussion whenever a thread on this coronavirus comes up.
Ahh, that 'splains it, since I don't watch TV. Surprise..emotional contagion strikes again.
Using eBPF requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the host user namespace. Unprivileged user namespaces don't help.
Honestly the backgrounds are goofy and non-essential, but it's been a huge positive icebreaker for the adjustment to all online meetings.
Not completely inelastic: we have instituted "wipe consciously" awareness program in my house to promote careful husbanding of resources.
So you're saying if I wait a month I should be able to stock up on my next year's supply of toilet paper for cheap?
> You already have lost some rights

not sure which side of the fence I actually stand here,
but this would add at least 4th/5th amendment in US context to the list
You were extremely lucky to read only the one point that has been in the news as not entirely correct, missing the other dozen or so that are difficult or impossible to refute.
Nabokov's Rainbow
I would imagine pornhub would be mostly an automated site by now with manual QA to ensure legality. However there’s a job listing almost every month.

What’s on your roadmap? Where’s all that php going? Just curious.
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didnt find a link to the abstract, seems the results are just being published

link to the trial on clinicaltrials.gov is here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517

patients in both tx and control arm fared better than in the french study from earlier this week, suggesting patients were healthier / lower risk at baseline

patients got slightly lower dose in this study (400 mg / day) vs the french study (600 mg / day)
People who thinks it’s ok to do this need to hear the word no.
Well if you think you might have the disease but you're asymptomatic you might not get the test.
I thought it was so outlandish that no one could actually believe it. Then I thought about my crazy uncle who still thinks this is a bioweapon released by the Chinese on its own citizens.
These concerns do affect the platform since clearly on HN, a technical forum, the trust issues engineers have with Google are a serious consideration. Sure they haven't cancelled anything yet, the concern though is that very few people have faith that Google won't cancel things in the future.
Exactly my question. The old adage "if you're not paying for it then you're the product" makes me worried to try Jitsi, unless they come out clean about their business model.
I'm becoming considerably more afraid of the social and economic consequences from the pandemic countermeasures than of the virus itself.
In the Uk I expect they will shut down hard, then after the NHS recovers a little we'll get a little holiday from the shut down to spread the infection a little.

I guess they will do this in phases (e.g. some shops will be opened for a weekend) over the spring/summer and then we'll all go back to school next academic year.
There are a few ways. First, if you’re a business — especially a bar or restaurant, you need to get a business satellite or cable setup — you can’t just call up Comcast or DirecTV and get a residential setup. You can try — but the cable/satellite companies are good about sussing that out. They’ll have their own required contract lengths and provisions for business accounts that will include additional terms if you are going to be broadcasting to the public. The sports packages like NFL Sunday Ticket and the like are charged based on bar/restaurant capacity. If your bar can hold 150 people, you’re looking at about $5k a year for NFL Sunday Ticket. Compare that with the $600 or so a consumer would pay, sans any discounts or promos.

The same is true of pay-per-view fights. They charge based on capacity and it’s a multiple of whatever the residential rate is.

Now, enforcement isn’t perfect but there are people that do spot checks and if a bar is advertising a fight for example, that’s a surefire way of helping ensure there is a visit to make sure there is compliance. I have to think social media has only made this easier, as bars and restaurants use Facebook and Instagram to drive customers.

All of this is to say — although it sounds like this particular startup isn’t infringing on anything (at least not as we’ve seen in the other commercial skip/replacement lawsuits against Dish and the like), I would think guess that any sports bar paying for a premium sports package probably has something in the contract prohibiting this kind of behavior.

If I were a bar or restaurant owner, I certainly wouldn’t want to risk pissing off the multi-billion dollar leagues and corporations I rely on in part for my business. But that’s me.
It did after it was already infected, by then they should've reduced the mobility of the people, close the football games, etc - which they didn't and led to people from Valencia going to Milan for the match, getting infected and spreading the thing faster still in Spain.

No "panic" enough.
> On the flip side, they have been more expensive on quite a lot of things that the normal grocery store carries.

Example? On a per unit/per weight basis, for equivalent quality, I have never once observed this.
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My most interesting takeaway, from the causes of the bullwhip effect:

> Free return policies: Customers may overstate demands due to shortages, if customers cannot returns items, retailers will continue to exaggerate their needs, cancelling orders and causing in excess product or materials.

I was annoyed when I saw that stores were refusing to accept returns, thinking that they didn't want to suffer the cost of regretful hoarders trying to make right. Most people I talked to were pleased that hoarders were getting their comeuppance. But its effect on supply went completely over my head, and while I don't know if anyone else was aware, certainly nobody mentioned it.
These are probably rare enough its easy to consider just a cost of doing business. The toilet paper thing seems like it would be happening a lot these days.
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Super reliable. Our rather large company was all Skype all the time, but people started doing Zoom because it worked all the time. Now we're almost fully Zoom.
Thanks for the clarification, somehow I missed this tradeoff summary. Cheers.
AWS offers hundreds of very mature, extremely reliable services, many of which have either no competition or half-assed clones with few of the same features.

Serverless is a great example of this. GCP and Azure both have serverless offerings, but neither of them has the equivalent of Lambda Layers, which has been groundbreaking.

Even if we grant that Google's network is better, how can you point to that single dimension and claim that GCP is a better cloud platform? For most business's use cases it would be professional malpractice to recommend GCP over AWS or Azure.
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It would be insane for a small business to buy items at retail prices. They should be going to a wholesaler to buy what they need.

I used to work for my uncle's coin-op business. I would often go to the wholesaler to purchase vending machine stock. Cases of cigarettes were insanely expensive ($2K each??) even at a wholesaler back in the late 1980s early 1990s.
Or Skype? ICQ?

This thread is quite idiotic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6vqqHHulw
How do they deal with their friends or relatives that do not use iPhones?
No. Completely untrue. Minefields can be deployed by air drop or artillery over wide areas in a moment. Google FASCAM, or cluster munitions, for example.

It hasn't been exclusively some guys burying them one by one by hand since WW1.
If you take 10 min tonight to make the starter (poolish), you'll be good to go to make the main dough in the morning!
Yeah that's legitimate. "Amazon doesn't care enough to make sure counterfeits are struck down, continuing to put people at risk. Why wouldn't that corporate culture and lack of concern for the well being of the customer transfer over to AWS? What if I'm hosting with someone that'll leave big security holes or oversell capabilities just to drive sales at the expense of quality?"

Trust is trust, and if amazon can't be trusted to behave well in one context, over time, that erodes people's trust in the platform to behave well in other contexts. Thats what's going on with Google - they killed reader, and it's the same company, why are we magically expecting different behavior in cloud?

It might not be warranted, but that's irrelevant. Trust is earned, and Google isn't entitled to it, they have to earn it. Doesn't matter how they lost it, market forces are market forces, they need to get it back
Great! Now we know it for next time.
> From what I have heard, oftentimes they find themselves blocked by administrative busybodies at every turn, as a matter of course.

This doesn't seem to be a case of "administrative busybodies", though, there are material consequences to only educating the students with access to internet.

Under another president, we could be looking at turning internet into a public utility. Sadly, we are stuck with making do with this crisis the best we can.
Where... can I donate to the COVID-19 vaccine efforts?!
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's absolutely valid. Trust is trust, and if you can't trust the organization to behave in the correct way in one situation why would you expect them to behave in a correct way and a different situation if it's the same organization? Same culture same compensation. they're not entitled to trust, they have to earn it, and it doesn't matter how they lost it, it's their job to get it back, not ours to see the good in their hearts or whatever
Thanks for the wonderfully detailed response. This blog you referenced has some great reading as well. Cheers.
I agree. Nitpicking: I think only 1 person in the treatment group died. It is not clear that the 3 that were transferred to the ICU finally died. (And 1 just left the hospital and 1 had too much nausea with the drugs, I hope that at least they are fine.)
HEB (Texas) is doing a lot of these things too, it's great
It’s not an arbitrary rule that needs advance warning; it’s unethical hoarding, and there will be more instances of hoarding in these communities in the future.
I use C# a lot before and think F# is a good alternative. I use for ERP-like app development with web backend, CLIs, mobile all done on OSX.

I move now to Rust (for long term bets I made) but think F#/.NET Core is a great toolset in itself.
JS allows overriding overriding any object or method with separately loaded code. So even your “trusted” code could be compromised by separate “trusted” code.

Even native app packagers and languages can suffer from this when loading libraries dynamically (from search-path or symlink manipulation for example).
> I quickly figured it was pay to win (or a massive grind which is IMO an excuse).

A grindy system basically -is- pay to win for anyone who has a fulltime job and responsibilities. Good luck grinding for what you need if you only play ~30-60 mins every other day or so.

I've always disliked league due to this. On top of cosmetics, I also have to purchase heroes...? I guess, or I can just play dota (which is a better game, no bias here :-)).

> IMO they innovated pay to win

With MTG it was entirely too expensive for our group, so we used Cockatrice to play it for free online. Commander/EDH is fun with friends. More so when you can play decks where the only limit is your creativity.

However, one fun and relatively inexpensive format is booster drafts for mtg. I used to play this every once in a while at my local card shop.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_formats#B...

> Hearthstone

At least you can sell MtG cards. Hearthstone was manageable when it first came out, but I took a break for a while and was overwhelmed when I came back. That devolved into a soulless grind of a game unless one started spending some money on opening packs (... for each expansion).

Hearthstone also made me realize I dislike trading card games in a competitive environment. I like fooling around in EDH with wonky decks with a few friends, but trying to climb the hearthstone ladder was terrible.
Yes, Sam's club and Costco are/were mostly for small biz.

We didn't renew our membership at either because our family of 3+1 small dog can't consume the enormous minimum quantities fast enough. (How are we supposed to consume 3 larger containers of ketchup, etc)
Debian ship's dash for /bin/sh doesn't it?
Taleb's note was probably more relevant back when it was published. It's clear that current measures are measures devised against epidemics, and not "conventional risk-management approaches" for everyday business, which he seems to be criticizing. There's a lot to criticize about the note [1] but its conclusion was appropriate in that a response tailored to the particular epidemic based on conventional risk-assessment can't properly evaluate the harm of an epidemic until it is too late.

But today, governments are responding in the typical fashion of responding to pandemics. Closing borders and quarantines are precisely the measure that dampens the more frequent so-called "superspreader" events, and social distancing is the exaggerated response that decimates the potential impact of these "superspreader" events.

It's obvious and unfortunate that the authors didn't do their research on public health policy, since public health advisors and experts actually already knows the right measures to take; it's a matter of convincing the decision-makers that this is the right way to respond to a new pandemic rather than the risk-assessment models that were tailored to more frequent events.

> Ioannidis' approach fails: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission..." [3] Authorities were looking for evidence before taking any action.

I don't think this is the right conclusion. I think many flu strains occasionally transmit from animal to humans, but fail to spread from human to human, and imposing drastic measures upon this is too much of an overreaction, since they aren't usually much worse in public health impact than the seasonal flu. On the other hand, as soon as there is a spike of cases in a local area, that is enough evidence to be wary. That tweet just reads like a poor excuse by Chinese officials that doesn't make sense, something that the rest of the world have come to expect from them.

You also have a misreading of what Ioannidis is trying to push for. He isn't advocating against taking action before good evidence comes out. Rather, he is highlighting that our current lack of good evidence about the epidemic is necessitating a greater reaction than may actually be necessary if we had better evidence. He is advocating for better evidence to be published with higher standards, so that if this pandemic is actually less dangerous than it actually is, decision-makers would continue to trust the public health experts to make decisions should a worse pandemic come about.

[1]

e.g.

> Standard individual-scale policy approaches such as isolation, contact tracing and monitoring are rapidly (computationally) overwhelmed

Computationally ???
> I don't believe you. That sounds more like bitreverse and morton interleaving. If you're serious that it's actually big endian and that it has a real use case (outside human social traditions and legacy infrastructure maintainence), then I'd love to see convincing details.

Back when I worked on Google's indexing system (2006-2010), one of the stages keyed documents by URL (with the host name in DNS order: com.google.www) followed by a big-endian timestamp. This put records for the same domain together, and put successive crawls for the same URL in chronological order. This improved compression ratios in our BigTable tablets, and finding the latest crawled version of <URL> was just a search for the largest key <= <URL><MAX_TIMESTAMP>.

> It doesn't matter if it generates or you hand code VPCMPEQB vs. VPCMPEQQ either, since they appear to have the exact same latency.

But with VPCMPEQB, you need to have 8 times as many conditional branches as CPCMPEQQ (in the naive case) in order to turn your vectorized comparison into a memcmp result. Note that VCMPEQ* don't modify any flags, so you can't just JE/JNE after your VCMPEQ*. Now, via some vector permutes, shifts, and bitwise-ors, you can cut down on the number of conditional branches. However, it's still more processing than if you can load / compare your vector registers in lexographical order.
Signaling is indeed over HTTPS and media is encrypted with DTLS-SRTP.
No browsers today support end-to-end encryption for multiparty calls.
The advantage that Jitsi offers there is that you can stand it up on your own server in just a few minutes and get protection that is equivalent to end-to-end encryption.
I tried it with them, and you know what? It felt good. That said, there was no shortage of red flags coming from Hof. Expelling the cancer? The bacteria? Hm...

I had to stop when the Russel Brand was trying to explain that the mediation quieted the narrative in his head. Hof attempted to finish his thought in exactly the wrong way, then pulled a 180 upon being corrected. Really had the feel of that guy in the mall trying to sell you hand cream...
Taking credit for good things that happen 'on my watch', but not bad things ... looks remarkably similar to privatizing profits and socializing costs.

Same old 3-card Monte. 'Look over here!'
Costco has a very liberal return policy. This has already been discussed here, but people are buying toilet paper with the ability to easily return in mind. If they can't use it, they will just return it for a full refund.

This is an excellent step by Costco to cut down on the return mindset. If you buy pallets worth of toilet paper, good on Costco for not letting you return them. You better have the square footage to deal with your own inventory.
Exactly. And all it often takes for a small bar/restaurant owner is to get one of those demand letters to scare them to settle. Of course, it can depend on the size of the bad/restaurant too. A small place with a capacity of 30 or 35 people might not care about an ASCAP demand letter that caught them using Spotify. But your larger places and especially anything that is a chain or franchise are going to take that stuff seriously. And the reality is that for music, there are a number of inexpensive sources that are licensed that a place can use. It won’t be as convenient as Spotify, perhaps — but those MusicChoice cable channels are often targeted to bars or other businesses because they don’t charge an additional mechanical performance license — the business just pays whatever they pay the satellite or cable provider.

The problem for businesses that want to go around those types of regulations isn’t that there isn’t a market for business owners who don’t care about music or broadcast licensing. There is one. The issue is the real target market for something like this startup is going to be a high-revenue/capacity bar or a chain. And those places tend to care a lot more about compliance.