skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The California shut down has no affect on food and consumer necessity supply chains.

Citation needed. If it has "no effect" then we should just get rid of whatever they shut down, since it's clearly not necessary.

> We have very good numbers from Diamond Princess

We don't. All the people who died there were in their 70s and 80s and had pre-existing conditions as well. And it was a single digit number. One would have to be totally statistically illiterate to extrapolate that to a country the size of United States.

> 1K deaths today

Yes, the slope can get pretty scary in the middle of a sigmoid. But there weren't "1K deaths today", and they are seeing gradual reduction in the number of daily new cases. This is especially encouraging given that they're doing a ton of tests now.

> Are we?

Yes: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi.... With half a million tests given so far, best I can tell we have the highest testing throughput in the world, and it keeps on increasing. It's very impressive actually. I wish we didn't fumble it so badly out of the gate, NY could be much better now if they had more reliable info earlier.

What we need is serologic test to determine approximately how many people had asymptomatic COVID19. Some studies suggest there could be a ton of those, which would explain why Wuhan did not experience a second round of epidemic after lifting most of the restrictions and putting people back to work. Assuming, of course, we're not getting fake news from there.
Blatantly mislabeled stuff being rediscovered in archives and dusty back shelves of museums is more the rule than the exception. It happens all the time. There's way more stuff collecting dust in museum archives than there are subject matter experts to review them.

For instance:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/historians-find-long...
Do you remember the rest of his anecdote, and the massive disruption and starvation he speculated it would cause?

We’re actually seeing a hint of what he described, thankfully not near the full scale.
Super interesting concept! Enjoyed it from start to finish.
One minor nitpick: it needs some spell-checking and copy editing throughout. I'd be happy to help if the code is somewhere accessible.
*Added security for the remote server but massively reduced security for the end users computer.
More nodes is more throughput, not lower latency.

You’re always bounded by max single shard latency AND by coordination latency.

Ignoring how expensive it would be, over-sharding and over scaling (I.e. low volumes of data per shard and low shards per host) could reduce max single shard/host latency, however it’ll increase coordination latency but also memory (which directly or indirectly will cause more coordination latency).

Perfect data per shard and perfect shard per host numbers are currently an unsolved problem. They heavily depend on the domain, I.e. data types, data volume, data ingest, mappings, query types, query load.

:) if anyone has found a way to consistently add hosts to reduce latency, please let me know!
Your source for that is China itself?
> A good chair costs $300, and is tax-deductible.

No, if it's for remote W-2 work, it's not. If it's used exclusively for your own business, it is. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated home office deductions for people who are not self-employed.
Exactly that is SARS which had a mortality of 15%
I don't really understand why it's linked.

We are making the claim Covid-19 has a really low mortality, much lower than the 1% claimed. But even at 1% your link in not relevant.

So the question stands to the downvoters, one fucking link?

Are you all Russian trolls? Why do you think covid-19 does permanent damage. Where is this coming from? I've linked the only study I've seen.
Hello everyone,

I just built a site which aggregates the remote work related news and posts from reddit, Hacker News, etc.

I’m sure the amount of info about remote work is rapidly increasing but not sure how it should be arranged and presented so please let me know what you think;)
I still think the comparison is useful. Cars and their (horrible) rate of serious injury and death seem to be the worst thing that people readily accept. Showing that covid-19 can be worse than that can be enlightening. And it obviously becomes exponentially worse if the hospital system overloads.
We didn't have to have ventilator shortage, leaders chose not to prep
I beat the game without ever scanning or listening to the secure network shrug. I probably had access to it after the Ping Spike and before becoming Skynet, but I was to busy clicking things to care.
You can install any browser you want from playstore or outside of playstore. There are no restrictions on what you can and cannot have on your phone on android.
They are both similar (graylof and splunk) but they lack bells and whistles traditional SIEMs like Arcsight or Qradar have so I hope Panther does a lot more!
Wait til you see how amazing the experience can be with Usenets...
Also because by the time someone has antibodies they've already spread it to other people?
So, I am currently suffering from toxicity-induced sleep problems from an adverse drug reaction that happened in November. Without medication it is almost impossible for me to get more than 3 hours sleep in a night.

One problem is that I now build tolerance to medication extremely quickly. As in, something will work great for a few nights and 5 days later I'm back to baseline and totally miserable.

Another problem, that my sleep tracker helped identify, is that at least part of my problem is paradoxical insomnia - where you go to sleep and dream about having a restless night not sleeping.

After some initial difficulties getting anyone to take me seriously, I'm now working with a psychiatrist and neurologist who actually understand what happened to me. By using sleep tracker data, we're able to measure actual medication response, which is much more useful for knowing when to make adjustments than perceived response.

It's also useful just knowing when perception differs from reality. I'm so tired all the time anyway that I can't tell a 3 hour night from a 5 hour night.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend the Dreem - it's a bit like a double slit experiment - the discomfort of wearing it is enough that it in itself worsens my sleep. I'd also not necessarily recommend other non-EEG headband trackers - the data is probably a lot less reliable. And the data that the Dreem exports is somewhat limited. I'm actually working on my own tool for working with it that I hope to release at some point.

Philips also has an EEG headband that looks like it might be a bit more comfortable, but it doesn't seem to be available outside the US.

As much as I hate cliches, what gets measured gets managed. And not-quite-accurate data from a wristband might be enough.
They fill up with a few TBs of RAM and then turn off garbage collection. Always surprised people dont know about this.
The government serves itself first and the people second or third.
Sell more, is obvious advice here. My problem is I’m a solo founder so I wear all the hats, and I love to code and research and architect. I don’t “love” to pitch, and convince people I’m legit and show them how I can help them. Pretty confident I’m not alone in that. We geeks must sell.

Startups running out of cash right now can cut costs, yes, but the only path to long term survival is to sell enough to cover your costs. For that you need a list and a pitch / script (or a SaaS platform funnel)

It’s a turbulent time. There is almost someone out there struggling who would pay for what you’re selling, but not the way you sold it before this crisis. If not, there’s almost surely someone out there who can use a different application of your skills.

And you know what? Business isn’t the end of the world. A living human can rebuild a dead business. A living business can’t rebuild a dead human (unless Peter Thiel became a necromancer recently)
There are plenty of apps on the app stores that do this.
Hospitals turn to remote monitoring tools to free up beds
This is a $199.99 price for me and I'm in the USA. I think it is a Chinese simulation of the eye in VR.
A coordinated reduction of time spent in groups doesn't have to be extreme to have a pretty big impact on infection transmission.

Like state health departments could declare that influenza is trending in the state and businesses could have less face to face meetings, and maybe churches cancel some of their non-worship gatherings, and so on.

For example, the orange scenario on https://covidactnow.org/state/MI includes possibly closing schools. States are doing the ones down at the bottom of the graph, social distancing is less severe and less effective, but still compares favorably to not adjusting behavior.

School closures in response to infections could probably be done more aggressively than we usually do now, but doing it on a statewide basis also probably doesn't make sense.
Agreed Google’s is as much to blame. But listening to you and being kind enough to tell us doesn’t make Amazon innocent
also 10 - 12 is over ventilated. If you over ventilate some one you will kill them. full stop.

You should probably learn more about the medicine.
http://www.goodtheorist.science/

http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html

It take more than a few months to learn.
> do you really believe there's a single incorporated entity on the planet that makes decision based on social responsibility?

By proxy when the unpopularity of a decision impacts revenue/public perception. We can choose not to do business with companies that are especially unconscionable.

And once in a while someone at the head of a company does just do something good too.
So thoughts on rural areas- my experience is that they generally have more workers that will be considered essential than in urbanized areas- agricultural workers, truck drivers, people in the supply chain, etc. That might provide some moderating forces on the lower bandwidth options they are often stuck with.

That being said, schools doing distance learning over low bandwidth dsl or fixed wireless is going to be interesting...
Covid-19 no longer a high consequence infectious disease in the UK
For a 'strong foundation', you'll want to look at a first-year textbook and make sure your math skills are up to it. Use something with an eraser on it.

Old joke from Anonymous: "Theoretical physicists aren't very expensive -- they only need a blackboard and an eraser. Compare that to a philosopher -- much the same but without the eraser."
Seems to me that firms like two sigma and jane street form some sense of "mystique" about them with regards to how elite their developers are. But once you get inside, most people are writing run of the mill software. Google has the same tactic, even paying below market rates to people willing to work their for the brand. Jane Street does pay very well, but still, most of their hiring is based off of prestigious colleges, less off of people who have written brilliant software. Not that they arent smart. I've just seen enough marketing, and met too many people working at these firms to give them much credit from an "elite software" perspective.
I live in Canada. I am quite familiar with Ezra Levant. I have no idea what you are talking about. Please educate me.

Everything I have read about or by Ezra Levant has solidified the idea that he is yet another alt-right media personality wannabe who LARPs as a journalist and sues anyone who disagrees with him. I don't respect him, and I have a hard time taking anything he says seriously.
Google is planning on implementing part of this in 2022[1]. Not sure what they are going to do about the browser storage though.

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064698/google-third-par...
the human element will always be a failure mode. Every photo I have seen in my area has shown the testers either reaching into the car or having contact with the patient. So you may be asymptomatic or you may not, but then you possibly end up catching it at the test site but your test was negative so you continue about your routine and start spreading it for real.

Not saying the above scenario is a reason not to get tested, I’m saying it’s an argument against getting tested for the sake of getting tested. I am safer and I am making the world safer by locking myself down until this passes. See China as example. I urge you to do the same..
The founders and my immediate boss at the first startup I worked for were convinced huge corporations would see what they were doing and just beat them to the punch. Only years later after one of the huge corporations bought the business and they could see it from the inside did they understand that was never possible. At the startup you'd set three people working on something important and get it done the same day, at the huge corp there'd have to be a week or so of meetings to even assign people. Sure you could assign thirty or even three hundred if you needed them, but you're already a week late.

So don't worry about it.
Confused, their "ultra" test is detecting the spike glycoprotein, which is a test for infection, no?

(And the antibody test is also useful to figure out which nurses/docs are safe to send back in?)
Plastics industry goes after bag bans during pandemic
The inability to save local files really hinders PWA and just allows all the shady large players to enforce their self-serving rules.
Here’s my take on what it is: the most battery-efficient browser. I’ll take 30 more minutes on my laptop before some nebulous modern web standard.
Debian does the first thing you discussed if you create an encrypted partition in the installer - it writes 0s through the crypto layer to fill the entire disk with encrypted data.
C-suite shakeup at Groupon as Williams exits CEO role
Yep, I never liked hand shaking because of that. Where I am currently (PT) and where I lived mostly before (ES) kissing is almost mandatory, even often with people you meet for the first time and will never meet again. I think it is the same in Italy & Greece.

I think the future might be better with a polite nod instead. But that is because I do not like this contact with just anyone (I did a lot of business travel and it is scary to see how few people wash their hands after doing whatever on the toilet). Obviously with friends/people you know well things are different; I am referring to contact with just anyone you meet.

Is there any research about infectious diseases and greetings? Especially handshaking, hugging (another one I could do without unless close friends) and kissing.
Getting rid of UAs would actually force meaningful update rather than migration

...and effectively block access to a bunch of existing content on the Internet, still very valuable, whose owners may not have the effort to spare to make any changes.
The point of encrypting free space is just so you can't say how full the drive is.

This way, an attacker can't focus cracking on the fullest disk, match stolen backup disks to hosts based on non-sensitive health metrics, etc.

>The only way I can imagine this could happen is by overwriting the entire disk initially with random data

Traditionally, for speed, you'd write all zeroes to the encrypted volume (causing the physical volume to appear random), but yes

>Then, when a file (which, when written, would have been encrypted) is deleted

You'd just leave it. Crucially, you don't TRIM it.

>I would argue that overwriting an encrypted file with random data isn't really encrypting free space

Yup, that's why it's not done
By your logic they should just remove push notifications completely from iOS because it uses power. Wouldn't that be bad?

Web push is better than native app push when it comes to power consumption as web push is stricter on what you can do.
What’s New in Next.js 9.3?
>By proxy when the unpopularity of a decision impacts revenue/public perception. We can choose not to do business with companies that are especially unconscionable.

do you really live in a fairy tale?

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-n...

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/gilead-sciences-coronavi...

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

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

just off the top of my head
7th, though I really don't enjoy sleeping with a watch on so I gave up on it
The actual report: https://broadbandnow.com/report/internet-speed-analysis-marc...

"But New York City, now considered the epicenter of the virus in the U.S., saw download speeds drop by 24% last week, compared to the previous 10-week range. That said, NYC home network connections, which have a median speed of nearly 52 Mbps, are managing."

It took me a few times reading it to understand what this is trying to say. What they mean is that many of these cities that are showing slowdowns already had higher-than-average median speeds. Many of the cities that aren't seeing slowdowns were already pretty slow to begin with. E.g. Chicago has only slowed down 10% but its median speed is only 26.79 mbps.
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The Doolittle Raid was military insignificant, and in no way should have altered Japan's belief that their home islands were geographically unassailable.

Even in 1945, with the Imperial Japanese Navy suppressed or destroyed and their supply chain in tatters, an invasion would have been incredibly costly.

Occupying enemy territory, across an ocean, with a large population of civilians disinclined to cooperate, is never easy.
- I need help on generating a docker image. Would be great if someone contributes to this.

- Sure, I was thinking about that. Being this a self-hosted software, I should have used those vendor js libraries directly. But it was hyper fast when I used Cloudflare CDN that blinded my eyes. Anyways, I'll release a patch version today using the js libraries directly.
Where is this explained?
I'm curious if you give away more free access to books and computers than MIT does.

JSTOR licensed content isn't legally MIT's to give away.
Lucky us. We web developers really want to care about specific browsers like it's 2006 again.

IE6 must have been a great inspiration for Apple judging by their behaviour when it comes to Web.
Not really if you ensure every pod sets cpu request (which sets up cgroups cpu.shares) and your kubelet and system services are running in separate top-level cgroups (—kube-reserved and —system-reserved flags) you have reserved enforcement enabled. On full node contention every container will just consume its proportional share. This is not to say that someone malicious wouldn’t be able to dos a node but untrusted workload is a whole separate topic
I came here to say this. In addition, searching through bash history is a terrible "save and fetch" interface
I'm not a historian / archaeologist, so I can't really be sure here, but I would have assumed bronze would have been valued throughout history for-at least-it's appearance?

I also would have assumed the fun-factor has been a historical constant too? If you're wealthy enough, at any time since the bronze age, you might want a bronze version of [thing] for the same reasons people want a bronze [thing] now?
Spanish Flu 1918 in NYC
How would you improve my application?
I spent 5 years developing my app without discussing it with anyone. Maybe that wasn't the best way to do it, but I had a powerful vision of what it should be. It's free for the rest of this year. What changes would you recommend before I take it commercial? Epiphany WorkFlow at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epiphany-workflow/id1490449900?mt=12 Positive and negative responses are both of great value. Thanks.
What the last few weeks have been like for the CEO of Slack
> We don't do that to men. Men who get around have bragging rights for "being a stud" or whatever.

This canard, along with much of the rest of your post, is wildly separable from "let's not molest and rape children".

Sexual morality is a subtle thing. Plenty of people have sexual trauma they associate with a culture of licentiousness or libertinism, which to the untrained eye is indistinguishable from one in which we "build bridges and foster healthy and safe avenues for sexual expression and sexual satisfaction". Or perhaps more cynically / realistically, over time, as a sense of security grows, the latter shades into the former.
I was wondering this too. It seems like the problem would be the rate of oxygenation of the blood is too high for any current machine to handle and something completely new need to be designed
Any time you see the phrase "implicit consent", it can be helpful to stop and ask how that consent could be withheld without changing anything else. If it can't be, then it's not really consent at all.
> hosted on a decentralized platform (IPFS)

What's the difference between this kind of "decentralized platform" and GitHub?
Technically the same is true of Haskell[0] but most people (myself included) will refer to the kind of type system used as Hindley-Milner for simplicities sake. (Both are more powerful though)

[0] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/30528/20014
It's hard to imagine that it would
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All these sibling comments throwing $229 at a newfangled and unproven gimmick based on some anonymous online comment have really got me scratching my head...

Am I the only one who likes sleeping on these things before committing to a purchase?
I'm aware. 70k and 100k people in the US died, respectively. This was far short of 1918.
I don't remember a H1N1, SARS, or MERS outbreak in the US.

Borders are absolutely a defense, they're just not an absolute defense.

That SARS-CoV-2 was able to spread globally as a pandemic has more to do with its transmissibility and latency characteristics.
> in production.

I went looking, but found nothing regarding any operations management.

* How does this scale?

* How is it monitored? Where do I get the metrics for it? (indexing performance, search performance, etc.. Stuff not found in the OS)

* Are there any kind of throttling or queueing capabilities?

* What's the redundancy/HA approach?

* I'll ask about backups, though its the least of my worries as indexing databases like this and ES should be able to be rehydrated from source. However, snapshots may be faster to restore than reindexing.

This might be a nice local dev tool for something, but I'm not sure how you run a business critical application with it? I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

Edit: formatting

Edit2: also wondering about security too
I once wasted a whole day trying to get two instances up on GKE. Permissions problems, about ten configs for the JVM alone, many more for ElasticSearch. You would fix one, restart, wait ten minutes, browse 50 pages of logs, google for half an hour, add a config, and goto 1. Never got it going in the end.
Remember, harming webapps is Apple's agenda because only they benefit from it.

On the other hand, the web is mostly open for all, so most people benefit from it, not just Google.
Would you support forbidding cars in neighborhoods designed around the car, e.g., most American suburbs planned after 1950, or would you limit the ban to neighborhoods planned after the start of the ban?
Yep and everyone underestimates the systemic risk.
An alternative path: The bailees issue preferred stocks to US taxpayers. In case of failure, the taxpayer collects first. In case of success, they get repaid for their investment.
How does something like allowing data to be stored by a web app that isn't even being used for more than a week cause your laptop to lose 30 minutes of battery life?
It seems your user name matches your hobby!
It's not just readability.

One day the code breaks. For a one liner I have to pick it apart, add logging / diagnostics, fix it, and reassemble. The two most time consuming and error prone parts of that are dealing with the 'one liner'