skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile in Spain...

Madrid has converted its largest ice rink into a morgue:

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-24/madrid-starts-...

Staff are leaving senior homes and their inhabitants to their own devices. Soldiers have found deserted senior homes with bodies of victims:

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-24/spanish-prosec...

Arguably, the planet isn't going to get wiped out. This isn't Hollywood. But rapidly mounting deaths, strained or collapsing health care systems and widespread fear will make these type of stories inevitably more prevalent in many countries in the next couple of weeks.

"everything will be fine" sounds nice.

But it's crystal clear that it won't be fine for many. The vast majority isn't going to die, but many will lose family members, friends, jobs, their current way of living,... And that's just horrible in itself.
How about cleaning the pavement with a toothbrush? Worked in Germany in the 1930s.

Seriously, I'm astonished about the rise of people advocating dehumanizing authoritarian measures here.
America’s Millionaire Ranks Shrink by 500k in Record Time
This is all correct—but you should always look at the actual paper and not the summary article that some journalist wrote. The authors are pretty clear about what they've shown and how it fits into ideas about chaos.
I’m definitely hoping it’s a statistical artifact. It would be very interesting if some country or ethnic group was genetically resistant to the virus, but that sort of invites the opposite to be true too, which I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Still, if it’s 3% like everywhere else, that’s horrible enough that the point of the person who said 7% still stands, IMO.
BTW the portraits near the end were painted by a Jesuit priest in the court of Qianlong named Giuseppe Castiglione.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Castiglione_(Jesuit_p...

His works is a blending of both European and Chinese techniques.
Tiger Woods and the Game of Life (2019)
in what way? King County, WA is at 605 and growth has flatlined (without an SIP in place). Manhattan is 2.5x that at 1500+ and probably growing much faster (very high testing rate true positives compared to WA). Westchester is the worst in the country at 3k. (realistically, well over 1% of the population has been infected).

The Bay Area (known to be an outbreak) is a blip comparatively - around 200 with sub-exponential growth.
Peer reviewed papers are great, and that’s obviously where medcram got their info from. Whether or not this is the actual mechanism of action for covid-19 has not been demonstrated however.
:D during metta meditation, don't you radiate metta, and then when you notice you are distracted, you come back to radiating metta?

also it just might be that you think it is about practicing a secondary emotion (because it makes sense right now), but actually it is an indirect way of making you practice something else.
I saw the punch line coming when I read that it was a parasite. That being said, it's an extreme form of parasitism.
India locked down for three weeks to contain Covid-19 outbreak: PM Modi
Deep Dive into Joining in Kafka Streams
San Francisco warns of coronavirus surge: 'The worst is yet to come'
It’s an Indian name but I am not Indian and quite far from India :)

It’s an interesting story from your side! Wish for your children to be healthy, and for everyone else that are having crisis of TP and other essentials items to be able to get through it. Stay safe!
Serverless in the wild: characterizing and optimising the serverless workloads
That's definitely a step in the right direction for rclone, but I still think the protocols are the problem. Or more precisely, the lack of a protocol designed for sharing data between services. HTTP is good for retrieving, but lacks directories and a standard for uploads. WebDAV is good in theory, but too complicated and implementations aren't compatible enough. I've been playing around with my own take[0], but it's still really early. Also, I think OAuth is too complicated. That's tricky though because most of the features have been added for good reasons.

I've been keeping an eye on rsync.net for while. I really like a lot of the things you're doing. I think SSH is pretty much the best way of doing remote file management that we have today. The main problems are it's hard to share stuff and it doesn't work in browsers.

[0] https://github.com/remfs/remfs-http-spec
It definitely can, but we had our first case more than 14 days ago.
Thanks! I'm really not a fan of the trope of piping stuff directly into running it as root for obvious reasons.

Have you seen zerotier (the software)'s idea too? They ask you to import a GPG key and verify it before chaining it into a |sh or |bash.
Hey Feross, took this class in the fall and loved it! Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get the lay of the land in web security.
When it comes to 'text-friendly' I far prefer nicely formatted MMD tables...

| Treat | Quantity | Description |
| :------------ | :-------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Albatross | 2.99 | On a stick! |
| Crunchy Frog | 1.49 | If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, now would it? |
| Gannet Ripple | 1.99 | On a stick! |
[Frozen Delights!]

...despite the comparative hassle in editing them. It's just so much more readable at a glance later.
> I was lucky enough to get Wasabi's older, cheaper pricing model for the lifetime of my account

You'd like https://scaleway.com free-tier of 75GB object storage / transfers per month.
Is this an ongoing course or anyone can join and read the material at own pace?
The article says the emperor compared his soldiers to the Solon cavalry. Does anyone know who/what that refers to? A quick Google search did not turn up anything.
Every last parent on my team of 100 has at least one child under five, so not even then.
I welcome more competition in this space, especially ones that operate at a different abstraction level than others, but this one doesnt look active anymore.

I know brave isnt the most popular product / business model, but their rust reimplementation of the Adblock Plus syntax, a rewrite of uBlock Origins and Cliqz, might hopefully be a valuable contribution to the open source world.

Regardless of how people feel about the ethics of ad blocking, being able to dynamically block parts of websites has become as or more important than anti-virus, for safety.

https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/

https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

Although it will make troubleshooting a nightmare, necessary protection at multiple levels of the stack is becoming a reality. NextDNS (or quad9, pihole, adguard) combined with Brave (or uBlock Origin, Cliqz) in combination are going to keep people safer, despite the shortcomings of both dns based and active page filters and parsing.

It would be nice to be able to manage and maintain filter list configurations across all browsers, devices, and dns. Some sort of central management that updates and propagates NextDNS, Brave, uBlock Origin, uBlock Matrix, and Dark Reader. uBlock Matrix and Dark Reader are especially cumbersome to use between Chrome and Firefox on different devices.
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Coronaviruses do not make spores. Even new masks are not sterile. Paper bag storage scales with the number of employees; each employee needs personal space for 14 small paper bags such as lunch bags.
Nothing is bulletproof, all we can do is take actions to reduce probability of transmission and the actions chosen should target the greatest drivers of transmission.

I am not aware of any studies but on the other hand it would be incredibly easy for cases of asymptomatic spread to actually have been infected by a symptomatic person, in a chaotic environment it's difficult to get good data.
> We know from basic economic theory that there are manufacturers who would either ramp up production or go into production if the demand increased.

I'd be hesitant to use Economics 101 theories as a way to model the real world. While they are intuitive theories there is a reason they are 101 theories and even "expert" economists are often wrong. :)

These lines of thought are often similar to how people point to evolutionary reasoning because of how intuitively the "survival of the fittest" explanation comes into play (esp. wrt the capitalist society we live in).
Luck and Value Propositions
Hospitalization does not imply high risk. That article also has an unnecessarily wide range to make the data meaningless. Why are 20 year olds and 54 year olds bucketed in the same category?

For more accurate data, 0 deaths have occurred in Italy for those under 30. Under 40, the few (9) are due to severe pre-existing conditions. Median age for fatality is 80 years old.

The exponential curve not only applies for rate of infection but seems to be holding true for age as well.

Edit: Source for Italy data here - https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infograf...
Ah, that makes more sense. I was looking for a sword "near the bottom" of the article itself and saw just the curved sword; the hook sword was past the end.
Italy’s Covid-19 deaths are staggering. They may be more preview than anomaly
Urbits supposed value proposition isn't technical, so I think it's completely valid to analyze its founders political and social philosophy to try and understand its vision and decisions.

The urbit website does very little to explain, on a technical level, how any of it works. It goes to great lengths to explain the supposed impact of its design decisions and how it will make all of our lives better (supposedly).

Another post recently popped up about Urbit last week and I did (against my better judgement) a bit of a dive to try and understand all the lingo. It's a real WTF. The "Hoon" language is completely esoteric, the website a mess, the docs written in this very philosopher-intellectual like way that is completely incomprehensible.

I see that the website has gotten a lift recently and they are clearly trying to make an effort to be more approachable, but its cultural roots are in a lot of problematic stuff and it still does not convince me that it's anything more than crypto-LARPing.

Urbit might be technically interesting, I can't tell, but that's not what this blog post is about. It's not what Urbit is trying to sell to me. And based on the thought leadership, I am not interested in buying.
I've been reading/watching a lot about Apple history lately. The two or three threads by Chris MacAskill on Cake that have been linked here recently, some audiobooks, podcasts and the documentary 'General Magic'.

It's interesting how much of these personal accounts directly contradict each other. I don't think much, if any, of the contradictions are in bad faith... just an interesting window into the collective human ability to tell stories to suit our perceptions after the fact.
>OTOH, in the longer run it makes sense for ad blockers & similar tools to be ran as a wholly separate process, offering one more layer of separation.

what's the advantage of that?
It's weird that it requires me to read a "series" to just understand what it is.
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> With sexual reproduction, individuals can differ genetically but still be compatible, so there is some notion of a pool with a clear boundary.

The boundary isn't very clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

A can breed with B, B can breed with C, C can breed with D, and D can breed with A.

But A cannot breed with C.

Are A and C part of the same species, or not? These "ring species" occur around geographic rings, such as the Arctic Circle, so each population remains genetically compatible with its neighbors... but not "across the ring".

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Ri...
Nobody said that those who use the term "Chinese virus" are necessarily racists. That's beside the point; in my other reply to this subthread, I linked a StackExchange thread which has good responses to why "Chinese virus" should not be considered OK, even considering previous namings as "Spanish flu", including those from experts (such as the WHO). The influenza epidemic of 2009 started in the US. Nobody calls that "North American virus".
"Scientists discover a clump of anaerobic cells that steals ATP from a host, and call it an animal."
Indeed... in Haskell this can be implemented with a GADT and an evaluator which is really easy to express.

Still useful to know the "pattern" regardless of OOP cruft, Javascript prototypes, or Haskell data types.
It's almost as if some people think human's purpose is to sustain an economy, rather than the other way around.

Economies and markets are a tool used by human's to achieve goals(ideally better quality of life), they are not the goal itself.
This is a very deep and important question.

Here's a predictive model for central banks. Their unstated objective is ensuring that control over resources does not change hands during a crisis. In practice that means that the relative value of financial assets is roughly preserved. Check out [1] pdf page 4.

[1] https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/GDPBD00000292870.pdf
You need research a bit about Indira Gandhi and consolidation of Power, oh by the way Communist Party of India was lovingly called Communist Party of Indira.

Modi is a shallow imitation of Indira Gandhi in his attempt to centralize powers.

The "Far Right" is to news papery editorial opinion written by 20 year olds.
Something I've wondered about for a while: does GCS allow 3rd-party access via OAuth? One of my biggest annoyances with S3 is you have to automate generating signed URLs in order to allow apps to access files.
Wasn't this just posted a few days ago? I went through some materials and it's top quality.
I loved the back and forth when Jon Rubinstein was at Palm, when every other update for the Palm Pre would have the phone identify as an iPod in iTunes.

https://www.wired.com/2009/10/palm-pre-itunes/
> doesn't it make sense to break India down into more governable nation-states then?

The last three partitions of India led to three of the largest genocides of the 20th century, so I'm not sure that would be a great idea.

> I read somewhere that there are districts in India with more people than the entire population of Norway!

New York City has nearly twice the population of Norway. Not the metro area - the city itself.

European cities and countries are small by global standards; it doesn't make sense to use them as a point of reference.
Both terms are meaningless in our current understanding of systems biology.
Yea, unfortunately that seems to be the case. While local level officials in Wuhan punished some early whistleblowers for posting publicly about the virus the Chinese Supreme Peoples Court said they should not have been punished.

I think China has shown a lot of transparency and has put a ton of resources towards containment.
Thanks, I'll try it. Though it seems to me it's still chance dependent. If you don't get the crew/encounter/weapons you need, you're screwed. And this is what often happens...
I don't see how you equate serverless with another person's computer. Cloud computing is another person's computer, sure, but there's not really a local equivalent for something like AWS Lambda as far as I know. Having an API call or trigger that pops a machine into existence, runs the code, and terminates the machine in a couple hundred milliseconds isn't something I've ever really seen used outside of clouds environments.
Besides, all the good tooling for RST is in Python. So if your project does not use it, it's yet another language.

Markdown is supported everywhere.
Looks like it was posted under "Stanford CS243: Web Security": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22642220
Take comfort that various organizations have been giving these situations a great deal of thought and the outcome gamed for optimal results, per an ideological point of view.

The military will deliver the food to you. Only thing you need to ask yourself as an Indian is the degree of integrity, honesty, and uprightness of your ruling class. [edit: and not to forget, + authoritarian tendencies]
Stay Strong
I don't know who needs to hear this in the world right now, I know this isn't the place to post this, I know some of you are up to solving some big problems, but if someone here needs to hear this today – Stay Strong! I have never seen the world battle something like COVID-19 and never have I ever been so scared of what is ahead.

I know science will work this out, but till then take care of yourself and your family.
Study Reveals Geographic Differences in the SARS-CoV-2 Genomes
Quantified Self is basically about self-tracking and has been around for a while now (I heard about it I think 10+ years ago).

https://quantifiedself.com/get-started/
JavaScript has a (mostly) analogous concept called sourcemaps.
Would that still hold if the universe operated analytically?
That's because they've stealth-edited the headline. Look it up in other news sources. The initial headline was extremely, and deliberately misleading.

Here's what it was: https://twitter.com/axios/status/1242425467438858241?ref_src...

And if this does not constitute lying to you, you need to wake up.
> And even if not, there would not have been liability anyway: it was manufactures that were previously liable when selling the wrong type of mask to health care workers. But in Facebook donating masks, no manufacturer is part of the transaction.

Just noticed this. It's wrong.

Hospitals could not accept donations of industrial masks, or, more accurately, they could not use them. This would expose them to potentially serious legal liability. Simple example: Someone dies. Lawyers discover medical team member were using using industrial masks they accepted from donations. They sue the hospital, every doctor, nurse and practitioner in the hospital and perhaps even whoever donated the masks.

How do I know this?

Well, as I mentioned elsewhere, my wife is a doctor and we have many doctors, nurses and other medical practitioners in our circle. In addition to this, we tried to donate many thousands of N95 masks from our own manufacturing operation's inventory to our local hospitals. They were refused, citing, very specifically "we cannot legally use industrial masks".

Once Trump went against Republicans in the House and Senate and signed the law releasing liability until 2024 we got a call from the hospitals we had contacted asking if the masks were still available. That's when we handed them over.

This, sadly, is how our legal system works. This is reality.

BTW, I do believe it was the White House who asked for the industrial mask exception to be included in the legislation. I don't have the time to go track down this assertion, so take it for what it is.
Where did you get anything remotely "alt-right" from that article?
A debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression
If you want extreme scale, most data in memory, such as a search engine processing millions of documents running data pipelines, then RDBMS isn't the way to go. For other MVC types, for a reasonable scale out, straight forward models with RDBMS should do.
It is definitely orders of magnitudes better than that flawed French study.
You’ve Got Mail. Will You Get the Coronavirus?
This person's criticism is silly. Markdown documents are extensible: the entire point is that it makes the main parts require less cognitive load, and allows you to use HTML for the rest.

## CHAPTER IV.
#The <white>Rabbit</white> Sends in a Little Bill

It was the <white>White Rabbit</white>, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself *“<red>The Duchess</red>! <red>The Duchess</red>! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?”* <gold>Alice</gold> guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.

Just write the two lines of CSS required for those elements, and bam! You're all good!

They criticize this within, but their criticism isn't particularly strong: sure, the point of Markdown is to write less HTML, but in this instance, the HTML is about as semantically concise as you can get: the quickest solution in any system. Their comment on hybrid documents also doesn't really work in the context of most parsers.
Bandits, Victims and Idiots
Divi for Photographers
Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team
Ahoy Hacker News! I'm Ben, founder of Riot (https://tryriot.com), a tool that sends phishing emails to your team to get them ready for real attacks. It's like a fire drill, but for cybersecurity.

Prior to Riot, I was the co-founder and CTO of a fintech company operating hundred of millions of euros of transactions every year. We were under attack continuously. I was doing an hour-long security training once a year, but was always curious if my team was really ready for an attack. In fact, it kept me up at night thinking we were spending a lot of money on protecting our app, but none on preparing the employees for social engineering.

So I started a side project at that previous company to test this out. On the first run, 9% of all the employees got scammed. I was pissed, but it convinced me we needed a better way to train employees for cybersecurity attacks. This is what grew into Riot.

For now we are only training for phishing, but our intention is to grow this into a tool that will continuously prepare your team for good practices (don't reuse passwords for example) and upcoming attacks (CEO fraud is next), in a smart way.

Your questions, feedback, and ideas are most welcome. Would love to hear your war stories on phishing scams, and how you train your teams!
No Bailouts, Let Losers Fail
> Every important system has logs since they’re necessary to improve the system over time. That brings me to the most important system I know. One that we never designed - but use all the time. The human body.

I would argue that there are two more important systems:

- Planet Earth

- Human societies (and overall humanity itself)

Writing a similar essay but with these as the the subject would be a difficult but fun and potentially fruitful undertaking.

I wonder: how might one go about this, considering the complexity of the system?
Just ask yourself: Why did CNN decide to publish this story?
I'm not assuming malice in you specifically - I'm observing malice and the results of action objectively in several others and saying it is serves very little benefit with relation to the risk it presents.

The virus has a name Covid 19. Naming it anything else does very little good (do you really think anyone doesn't know where it started) and potentially has a great harm.
South Korea and Taiwan did all right and they're democracies.