skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is trying to counter misconceptions that COVID-19 is harmless to young healthy people based on misinterpretations of guidance that elderly and those with preexisting conditions are most at risk. Just because younger people are at less risk doesn't mean they have no risk. While the numbers have been hard to pin down, early data from China showed that more than 10% of people in their 20s-40s with the disease had critical cases. Some other studies outside China have put that number at 15-20%. The number of severe cases is much less, but not 0.

With proper treatment nearly all of those critical cases will survive. But if the health care system becomes overwhelmed that may no longer be true.

It is trying to sink in the idea that young people are not invincible to COVID-19 and that they need to practice social distancing, if not for the benefit of society as a whole, then for their own self benefit.
In QEMU it's dead simple, you have control of everything; I believe that it boots into https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/pc-bios

A physical machine will still, despite everything, start executing at FFFF:0000 in "real mode", and the code run there will be found in a physical EEPROM. Some of these are socketed (although this is less common these days). So you can get in there and fiddle with the pre-boot code.

See https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/booting-an-intel-architectu...

There is no way round the Management Engine, a source of distress to some. Oh, and you won't have any DRAM until you've run the DRAM training and turned that on, the early BIOS gets to use the cache as a scratchpad instead. See https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memor...

If you like bare metal work with decent processing power ARM is probably the place to start.
I've always been skeptical of using retro machines to learn low-level programming.

While the processors are simple, making non-trivial programs is hard, because the machines as a whole have lot of limitations, making programming very intricate, compared to more modern systems (say, 16-bit 80x86, but I guess even Amiga and so on).

If the target it challenge for the sake of challenge, then nothing makes those machines special, I mean, one can code directly in machine code if that's the intention :-)
The U.S. is out of masks because the shelves were cleared in January and February by people buying for relatives back in China, and by local Chinese associations bulk buying and sending them there.

I have family in China. I watched this happen. I saw emails and chat posts organizing donations.
Not being able to pull from or push to the git remote is pretty low on the list of problems when GitHub goes down. If that’s the main problem I’ll just set up gitolite on a server (and I do) and call it a day.

All the issue/PR discussions and CI/CD are the real problems, and this doesn’t seem to help at all, so good luck collaborating without changing your workflow when GitHub is down.
Computational power–or its absence–shaped World War naval battles
We call the code that users can actually interact with (even code that's deployed to a web server on the other side of the world) "production" because that's what factories called it when they started producing something. It doesn't make much sense when you think about it either, but I also can't think of anything better to call it.
The European bank actually has 2 data centers (Rome and Amsterdam) connected via 2 different intranets going through opposite sides of the Mediterranean and they switch the main DC every 6 months to know that the backup works at all times.
I'll have to look at that the next time I need to build the kind of JavaScript app for which it's appropriate. I haven't done that kind of work in a couple years or so.

Thanks for the explanation.
The death rate in the US is doubling every 3 days. (A bit less than 3 days.) What will it look like in 21 days?

0 785
3 1570
6 3140
9 6280
12 12560
15 25120
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Very cool, getting a universal paperclips vibe already.
A healthcare worker I talked to had the opinion that she's getting exposed at work anyway so why not do what she wants outside of work.
Some of us still write assembly now and then, even if it is for embedded systems and not x86. I found this interesting!
No, but hospitals are mostly for profit in the US so they don't. They run lean so as to make the best return on investment. That's also why we have as few hospital beds as we do. Most US hospitals used to be non-profit. When they were converted to for profit institutions there was a concerted decades long effort to reduce hospital stays and the beds that requires. Completely understandable given the need to make as much money as possible.
That’s interesting! Tnx for the info
Login password screwed up after macOS Security Update 2020-002
At my employer we are using UserAgent to detect the browser so that we can drive SameSite cookie policy for our various sites (e.g. IE11 and Edge, which we still support, doesn't support SameSite: None).

There are a variety of scenarios where this comes up (e.g. we ship a site that is rendered, by another vendor, within an iframe; so we have to set SameSite: None on our application's session cookie so that it's valid within the iframe, thus allowing AJAX calls originating from within the iframe to work based on our current auth scheme.. BUT only within Chrome 70+, Firefox but NOT IE, Safari, etc).

Just providing this as an example of backend applications needing to deal with browser-specific behavior, since most of the examples cited in other comments are about rendering/css/javascript features on the client and how UserAgent drives that.
> And once You think you’ve run hw to its limits there are plentiful demos and examples around to blow your mind watching what people have been able to do with these machines (often in obscure ways).

What blew my mind was using a modern C++ compiler to build optimized software for that old hardware. Here's an example with the Commodore 64 [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE
Another anecdote to put on the pile:

I spoke with my mother recently and we were lamenting how people were completely ignoring the "JUST STAY HOME" guidance. As the call was ending she mentioned how she was about to have her sisters and friends over for wine the next day. To which I replied that she was doing exactly what she was lamenting others doing.

I think most people just assume they are the exception and can be trusted to do this correctly, when in fact the guidance is the way it is explicitly because that is not the case.
> Are there other rationales?

Yes. The fundamental issue is the total lack of respect for the user's consent.

People usually have no problem with volunteering personal information that is relevant to whatever activity they're trying to accomplish. For example, a company will need people's addresses in order to ship products to them. This is a voluntary, explicit and respectful process: consumers willingly and knowingly give the company copies of the information they need to perform the service and the company uses that information only for its intended purpose and absolutely nothing else.

The problem we face today is that businesses are collecting massive amounts of personal information indiscriminately, invisibly and without true consent. Web browsers hemorrhage personal information without them even asking and there's no way to stop it. Companies make apps that mine people's phones for every last bit of data they can get their hands on. Web sites put up annoying little banners saying they collect data and call it informed consent even though there's no way to say no. They bury some clauses in a terms of service nobody reads and say the user agreed to it by continuing to use site even though cookies were set and fingerprinting was performed on the very first visit before the user could possibly have known about much less read the contract.

Not only that, the information is being abused to do things people don't actually want. When people give a company their email addresses, they assume they will receive messages that are actually important. What happens is the company thinks it has every right to spam people with marketing and advertising emails or sell their data to other very interested parties. People give a company their phone numbers and next thing they know they're getting marketing calls they never asked for and can't opt out of.

And then there's the security issues. If someone has information about people in a database, there's always a chance it can be leaked even if every precaution is taken. The potential for harm is significant. Data should be considered a liability for companies. Knowing things about people should cost them money. They should have ample incentive to collect as little data as possible, limit the scope and frequency of the use of whatever data they collect as much as possible and delete that information as soon as it is no longer needed. What's happening today is the complete opposite of that: companies are collecting as much data as possible, keeping it forever and using it for whatever makes them the most money regardless of people's wishes.

These examples are relatively benign but the potential for harm is always there. What if companies start buying up personal information and using the data to profile and exclude candidates? No doubt information such as browsing history would condemn a huge number of people. What if companies find a way to deanonymize that data and link it to candidates?
Directory of services that became free as a response to Covid-19 crisis
http://www.letmewikipediathatforyou.com/?q=Orwellian
Lazy companies have had 10 years time to migrate to 64 bit.

Likewise all major engines have already added Metal support.
Isn't it how the world runs since maybe a decade now? Google and Facebook, American companies, know pretty much everything about everyone. It has been revealed that these companies are being tapped by three-letter agencies and it was revealed that rough employees leaked data about their users to other governments. Private data has been sold and stolen too.

Maybe, the way to go is not as simple as protesting against openly using this data for a fight on a pandemic.

I don't advocate that it should be the way it is now, I simply don't like pretending that something is happening NOW. It has happened long time ago.
Maybe "it's not Redux" is meant in the same way as "Toyota Camry isn't Car". It's a car, but you can have a car that isn't a Camry.

Otherwise, I'm really not sure what that "it's not Redux" comment means, either.

edit: Oh, crap, I just made a software/car analogy. I hate those.
I don't understand the 99% statistic. It is hard to imagine that any measurement, where errors and odd cases are inevitable, is almost exactly 100%
I became a single parent when my daughter was 14 months old. I'll offer your child comes first no matter what and toddlers need constant attention. There's no getting around that.

At that time I subcontracted work with a few small companies that relied heavily on the work I did. I had to explain to them there were laws against my putting her in daycare when she was ill.

Being a kid she'd get fevers from all kinds of crud brought into the daycare by parents who'd dose their kids with tylenol before dropping them off at the daycare, but I refused to do that. This happened about once every 4-6 weeks.

None of those companies offered to pay me more so I could afford a nanny to care for my daughter at home during work hours, but all complained they were severely affected when I didn't complete the work on their schedule and they all made a lot of money off my work, far more than enough to cover those costs.

Such is life. I didn't feel it necessary for me to worry about them anymore than they worried about me and my daughter and our situation. I have no regrets about putting her first.

In your case, whomever you're working for needs to adjust their expectations to the realities of your situation and you need to be at your best to keep up with just your one toddler.

"As a software engineer and team lead I have both technical and administrative responsibilities."

Caring for your children supersedes everything else, and by a long shot. Especially right now.
No, you're being paranoid. I don't know that it came straight from the CCP because I don't know much about the rumor. I never stated or even implied to that Trump started this rumor.
Not having everyone on the team be as familiar with English, especially its idioms and figures of speech, is a great reason to avoid using them and stick to (legalistically) simplistic vocabulary. Unfortunately it also makes its usage feel cold and dry which in turn affects the company culture. There have been plenty of times I wanted to use a phrase that was perfect for the situation at hand and all its connotations would have helped provide lots of context “for free” in the discussion, but couldn’t because I wasn’t sure if certain people on the team would understand due to past misunderstandings among the team.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme uses an instruction set designed in the 80s: x86.
I would happily accept the blameless postmortems in such a company.
Libgen is incredible if you need a chapter or two each from a whole bunch of books that’d qualify as obscure outside of a university library. Or if you want the TOCs and indices from a huge number of books of that sort so you can figure out which ones you even need, and when. Massive time saver.

I mean it’s great for other things too but for that kind of dragnet research—damn is it nice.

[edit] oh and for when you’re just getting started and just need the introduction and sources from a representative work on a topic so you can track down the foundational works. Beats the hell out of waiting on inter-library loan when you just need to skim a few pages.
Cool I like it a lot
I think we slammed it dead.
This is typical short-term thinking. Let the guy rot.
Young people can die in a car crash, too, but that doesn't prevent most people from driving anyway. As long as it's only a small chance, nobody will pay it any mind and keep agreeing, that young people won't die from this.

I mean, there are even cases of young people just randomly dying without any visible cause. Yes, not only the elderly can die just like that. No one really pays this any mind either.
I’m not editing the URL with my thumbs. Is there a convenient way to avoid it on mobile?

Maybe HN should just automatically rewrite AMP links to avoid these inevitable comments.
As someone who basically only listens to podcasts while in a vehicle, I'm surprised you think that they're getting more use now that people are at home with a TV, laptop, etc. around them all day. Any numbers to back that up?
Shameless plug regarding the issues: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
> Back when Snowden story broke, I tried explaining its significance to a handful of my friends - all I got was a yawn. These are not dumb people, they are smart professionals (non-IT). Even then, I failed to get the point across to them.

If you were unable to convince multiple smart people who you care about / respect, then perhaps it is time to at least considere the possibility that your position is incorrect?
yes but it doesn't cover all unseen future events. Only a specific predefined set. Yours does?
I think it's largely people talking past each other. One group claims that deeper understanding is useful and the other group says "no way, you don't need deeper understanding to get into (e.g., web) dev!". Being useful doesn't mean "necessary for an entry level position in the highest-level subdomains of computing".
hey cfstras, another dgit dev here. Each repo has a storage adapter specified, so any storage infrastructure is possible, but at this moment we've only written two: sia and on tupelo network.

We've had a lot of experience with running IPFS nodes internally, that might be a great option for you in this case? We are in early stages and will add more adapters as feedback informs.

Also, its open source and we would love PRs :) - the storage interface is pretty straight forward:

https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer....

Here is an example within dgit:
https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/ch...
I had an issue with the title but the article addresses the issue. It isn't just the higher price tag. It's the thermals and power management that comes with having a separate modem as well as the price tag.
The dust hasn't settled on this yet, but it appears that countries that are in a siege military footing (S. Korea, Israel, Cuba, Taiwan) have done better in controlling this situation because they have strong universal health systems and institutions coupled with mentality of constant preparation for a military siege. The culture of real preparedness is present throughout those countries' institutions, military or not.

This was discussed by Max Brooks on Fresh Air yesterday:

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820601571/all-of-this-panic-c...

What Brooks doesn't discuss is the extent to which those countries have varying degrees of authoritarianism or the tendency for citizens to voluntarily comply with public orders.

In the US however, our military stockpiling is geared toward propping up defense industries. This has value to a point, but only when its objectives are actually defense preparedness, but not when the objectives are profit maximization.

The military is no substitute for having properly resourced and coordinated national institutions to deal with huge public health issues.
It is Chernobyl of capitalism.. Sure.
And biometrics (which would include images of faces) are a special category of data with stricter restrictions.
This is really well done and fun. Great job!
It should be noted that the city came out and denied that this was actually happening or that they've received any data

[Paywalled]
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-toronto-may...
Users aren't interacting directly with the storage layer so any timing attack via the network is going to be once or twice removed. Can attackers really gleam useful and mount a successful attack in this type of setup?
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I have enough C++ credentials on my resume to know what I am talking about.
Cool, I love sport betting too. I always follow the latest scores and game results on https://www.xscores.com/ . Very convy. It is a provider of live scores, results, fixtures, standings and statistics.
No way. They already learned that having 2 number 1 drivers doesn't work (Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on 2016 season). They won that season, but if it weren't for the totally superior car, they were on a tight margin. Distributing the winning points to two drivers doesn't work to secure both the Driver's championship and the Manufacturer's championship. There's a reason why Red Bull picked Max Verstappen over Carlos Sainz instead of having both, or why Ferrari had troubles last season with LeClerc suddenly performed better than Vettel.

Is it fair? No. Drivers like Barrichello and Massa never got a title, while arguably they are champion-level drivers. I think Bottas is someone in that position right now.

The other question is would you rather be in Bottas' shoes of being on the top team but the number 2 driver, or like Ricciardo or Hulkenberg which are also top tier drivers but haven't had a clear shot to compete or even the chance to get a podium for the latter. Motorsports (and Formula 1) is a cruel world.
Don't they generate any income?
Also, right above that: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic

Dynamically linking a GPL library is the same as statically linking a GPL library; the resulting executable must be GPL-licensed.
As others have commented, this appears to be a decentralised alternative to GitHUB rather than Git itself (which is already decentralised).

For a similar project, see git-ssb https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...
I personally loathe JSX, not because of JavaScript, but because it's a wholly unnecessary different syntax for JavaScript that just forces me to deal with SGML/XML problems in a new and more painful way, because it has crept into the application logic as well.
Spammers are abusing GitHub gists for link building
Even US industrials like the metals industry is still chugging along, and some of it even ends up in Chinese products. It's just that the US has shifted to making more specialized metals and alloys, rather than cheap and basic metals.
Hello Hackers,

We’re Firat and Tolga, co-founders of Jooseph. We would like to show you Jooseph which is basically a platform where you can learn with a collection of links to different resources.

Me and my co-founder really like to learn new topics but nowadays, we can’t escape from fluff content. Especially when you are just starting off a new topic. We were frustrated by the search process which is time wasting. Search Google, find the right keywords and then dodge all the fluff/seo content. Voila, we have just spent 2 hour and still have dozens of tabs opened in our browsers, hours of content waiting for us to read or watch them. Yet, still we don’t know which content would be valuable for us and which won’t. So we tried this concept of lists, it’s like asking a friend, teacher or colleague for suggestions.

So, you can learn with modules curated from youtube videos, articles, essays, blog posts, podcasts and more. Also, you can curate your own module and share with others.

Some features

- Follow a curated list of different resources.

- You can like/dislike a content and this determines the total rating of that module.

- You can create weekly goals to finish your module.

- You can curate your own list and share.

I’ll be around so I would be happy to answer your questions

Thank you,
Standard ebooks is also working that

https://standardebooks.org/
> I genuinely want an in-depth answer to this question.

Me too. Even some in-depth, evidence-based discussion would be an improvement over the current state of affairs.

> In 2006, Congress approved funds to add protective gear to a national strategic stockpile — among other things, the stockpile collected 52 million surgical face masks and 104 million N95 respirator masks. But about 100 million masks in the stockpile were deployed in 2009 in the fight against the H1N1 flu pandemic, and the government never bothered to replace them.

Ok, let's think about this:

According to Google, Donald Trump was elected on January 20, 2017.

According to Google, Barack Obama was elected on January 20, 2009, which would imply he was the sitting President in 2009 (matching your reference above).

To me, this strongly implies that Barack Obama would have more influence over this specific policy than Donald Trump.

And yet, in all the reading I've done on this specific attribute of the crisis (and I've done a lot), there seems to be nearly unanimous consensus that it was Donald Trump's "firing" of the head of the pandemic response team that was(!) the(!) root cause of a lack of masks in stockpile. Full stop.

Now, there's no doubt at all in my mind that Trump has utterly botched this response, I would even confidently speculate that he may be the worst President in the history of the United States that could have been in charge during this crisis. But this isn't only what is being claimed - rather, something very specific is also being claimed, and assuming I haven't made any mistakes in my dates above, I simply am unable to see how that makes sense. Your quotation seems to completely contradict this claim.

What in tarnation is going on here? This situation feels surreal to me. Like, how is a person supposed to sort out fact from fiction in this information environment? I feel like I am unable to discern what is actually true.