skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I like that. Every site that successfully resumes via a session identifier after the VPN is turned on can now use the session identifier and their logs to match up my real IP address and my VPN IP address.

Obviously, I don't care if those particular sites know my real IP address since I was using them without a VPN before.

But I might not want the sites that I only visit via VPN to know my real address. If I go around giving both to whatever random sites I happened to be using before starting the VPN, there is the risk that one of those sites will give/sell the data to one of the sites that I want to only know my VPN address.

If there are some sites that I do not want to have find my real IP address when I'm on a VPN to them, not letting any sites find out both (except for the VPN provider) is a good idea.

This might be hard to do. Many higher level protocols do not use persistent TCP connections. They connect, process data for a while, and then disconnect when they go idle. Those will end up moving to the VPN (and leaking non-VPN/VPN IP information into the server's logs).

Maybe if it worked at the process level? Processes launched before the VPN starts would not use the VPN unless you explicitly told the system to do so. Still probably has holes.

If you really are trying to seriously use the VPN for privacy, I think you might need a setup where things that use the VPN and things that do not are kept separate, including separate things like cookies and other storage. On a desktop, something like running the things using the VPN in a VM or a container. On phones, though? I don't think you can do that.
Yep. In the US, eggs in the refrigerator should be good for 4-5 weeks after the listed expiration date on the package.
There's also a third group with an equally-valid point: the people who don't want to pay for any of it. I think they've gotten drowned out by the others.
Same origin as loophole (hole in a wall), which can also be any shape?
Much of Latin America locked down early and hard. Brazil might be the big exception.
With pretty compelling examples showing Meyers (default) behavior that I've encountered many times. Nice.

Yea, a fairly accurate TL;DR.
Lets say China has 81 million infections. That's 3.3 doubling periods away, or 17 days
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This particular data point is irrelevant since the game launched on Android one year after its iOS debut, losing the novelty and marketing factors.
> Why do comments suggesting that data collection is paid for by Facebook/google get downvoted?

It's not that I disagree with the facts here. Obviously they're doing so for some sort of monetary incentive. That doesn't make it any less evil. I don't care if it's legal. Companies that depend on the sale of user data to be profitable are acting unethically and (imo) unsustainable as those profits may not be available to them in a future with better regulation.
The US has been doing a lot of testing for literally just a few days. Spain has over twice the testing rate (per capita) as the US, and Italy several times more than that.
The best application that I ever used for this was docear. Unfortunately it's not being developed anymore and some other things make it a bit painful to use. I'm still waiting for someone to integrate mindmaps with reference management in a better way.
They were by far my favorite retailer to work with when I was CMO at Quest Nutrition.
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Suppose there is an abundance of respirators. Could everyone self service themselves?

Or is there a medical reason to be at the hospital?
India has lots of young people. Young people are not affected as badly as old people.

Also India has no Winter, only Monsoons, wet and dry. It is warn and dry there now.

It seems this virus propagates much better in cold weather.
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Yes, and adjusted for population the US is doing only slightly worse
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You are hallucinating hatred and bigotry where there is none.
I've read that Japan legalized birth control in the late 40's 10 years before the US did. The post war constitution gave women a lot more rights. And also Japans sudden inability to feed itself left a mark on government policy.
Handwashing is an important component of slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, but not enough people remember to regularly wash their hands.

We spun up a little mailing list service that periodically sends you email notification reminders to wash your hands.

Sign yourself up (or even better, spread the word and refer your friends) at https://scrub-a-dub-dub.org!
I wish everyone could take a marketing class. Apple, Nintendo, and half the car companies would be out of business.
Does China report accurately and honesty?
The government generally has no problem with rejecting filed claims after review.
Supersonic flight is going to get cheap.
At a certain point it's not about hiding cases, it's about hiding thousands of deaths and overwhelmed hospitals, complete with temporary tent facilities we could see easily by satellite.

Edit: Feel free to downvote this, but please offer an explanation as to precisely how China could be hiding an outbreak of any significant scale.
> It seems this virus propagates much better in cold weather.

Its the first time i hear such claim.
'unknown' in TypeScript: a type-safe version of 'any'
const_pointer_cast should do the job.
Unfortunately, it's pretty easy to imagine India doing so, given the size of their population and many challenges.
Isn't the population density there such that a lockdown might not have the same effect it did elsewhere?

Edit: 29th ranked, behind Hong Kong, South Korea, but ahead of most other newsworthy COVID hot spots. I suspect large Indian cities are well above 29th.
You can ban competitor apps and charge big fees.

For the customer? The false feeling of security and privacy. Marketing!
Are they doing population-level randomly sampled testing?
Having moved away from the Austin area to Illinois, all I can say is...man I miss H-E-B
So they actually have an ONT somewhere and provides you with a RJ45 Ethernet port only?

This is brilliant! Why aren't more ISP doing it? I dont want another ONT / Modem / piece of equipment in my flat.
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"It seems this virus propagates much better in cold weather."

This hasn't been confirmed, but I've seen quotes from various professionals saying it is at least likely, and the distribution of cases certainly makes it feel true.
No sane person believes the numbers coming out of China. As countries start testing more for the virus the numbers will continue to grow. Very easy for a countries line to flat line if you don't test for it.
Hi, OP here, actually it's not true. Think the scenario as this: you don't have the CLI root password, you just do a MitM attack and learn about root password when your ISP attempts to change it. This applies my situation, also I could learn about the default password just by looking into the firmware.
I am not an expert but i am really puzzled by how one may think any goverment could stop a virus from spreading. Do you really think China managed to block the virus inside its borders when it already made it to other continents? That is utterly ridiculous.
Maybe, but it is slightly ironic to chose 'the' walled garden platform and also read that quote from him in the shared article:

> For podcasting to remain open and free, we must not leave major shortcomings for proprietary, locked-down services to exploit. Conversely, the more we strengthen the open podcast ecosystem with content, functionality, and ease of use, the larger the barrier becomes that any walled garden must overcome to be compelling.
That all sounds like lua, where does lua not work?
I'll do you one better and say that CodeWarrior 1.x was the high water mark. 2.0 and later were slower.

Xcode is not bad now, though, and I think I'd miss the extremely robust autocomplete.
The US passed Italy (and China) today. And Spain previously. Although only for cases, not deaths.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
I've been using Zotero for a few years and I really like it.

I'm using my own nextcloud storage to get more than the 300Mb free storage on zotero cloud.
I think it demonstrates the point - that if Java is not able to be fully self-hosting in practice, then there are significant gaps in its abilities – and those same gaps in its abilities that drove HotSpot devs to implement HotSpot itself in C++ instead of Java also drive other projects to choose C++ over Java.
The Health Commissioner on Feb 9 was still pretty early. That's 8 weeks ago, ancient history in this pandemic.

On Feb 25, over 2 weeks CDC said covid-19 was detected in the US (from travelers back from Wuhan) and wasn't a risk for
spreading among the general public.

The flu is here every year but we don't cancel parades.

De Blasio on Mar 2 was a lot later.
I've noticed this before with DNS, too. I have internal names that always get resolved externally despite my VPN. Hoping this all gets fixed eventually :(
This is why I use a "slug" when I use a VPN.

A "slug" is a layer-2 bridge, with no IP address configured, that still enforces a TCP/IP whitelist. So it does not "use" a hop on the network route, and you can't see the device, but as it bridges traffic it enforces a (very simple) ruleset.

In my case, I use my own VPN hosts that transact over TCP22 ... and so my network "slug" allows only tcp port 22 traffic. Everything else is blocked.

This means that no matter how badly behaved (or buggy) my VPN software is (I use sshuttle[1]) the bad behavior is blocked by the slug.

The slug itself has almost zero attack surface as it is a BSD based system that has no IP address configured and runs no network services.

I keep meaning to write up a blog entry about this ...

[1] https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
People aren't allowed to go through my mailbox and sell that information. I don't see how this is any different.
I have ublock automatically reject media files over 5mb.
the number of gifs I see that push this are astounding.

I wish people would pick their formats better, or the platforms that supported them offered the functionality to allow it.

Some pages have 100s of MB of gifs, it's a serious problem to users with a datacap due to some ignorant Web author
Last time I needed a SOCKS5 server + client in Go, I remember using github.com/getlantern/go-socks5. What does this offer above that?
I made something like this once for a podcast. FFMPEG is a godsend. Essentially I took a video (could just be the logo image made into a video) and looped it to the length of the audio track. Essentially it just called ffmpeg with the right parameters. The process only took a few moments and gave me a video I could upload to YouTube.

Back then I was really surprised that I couldn't find a service like this. Had I found one I probably would've used it.
>even big names like Cisco

Even? By now Cisco having hardcoded credentials and glaring security fuckups is a meme.
No jurisdiction is doing randomly-sampled testing, so how is this relevant?
One should of course normalize by population. The USA has a population of 327 million. Eight nations in Western Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany) which are the core of the EU, have a population of 303 million. The US has 82,612 cases today according to worldometers.info. Those eight nations in Western Europe have a total of 289,767 cases today, which is about 3.78 times the US rate on a per capita basis.
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Should adjust for population, but then the US will actually come out remarkably good in terms of both confirmed cases and mortality rates and whatever political/social case to be made on this will be lost.
It’s been down for years. No one cares. I don’t either. You can judge my linked in if you want.

On call work is not deep work. Fixing a bug may be, but you’re not doing deep work simply by being alert.

I am responsible for the uptime of a ton of big apps. If I’m in deep work, I miss all those slack messages. It’s the nature of intense focus to have tunnel vision.
Yes you're right, technically it's 2x bus speed moving 16->32 bits, but I was guestimating the effect of the cache to allow the 020 to stay off the bus ie. interleave cache and bus access.

What would have made more sense would be for the object processor be dropped, so Tom and Jerry could be placed on the same chip with some scratchpad ram to share amongst the processors. You'd have a big cost saving on a single chip system, and you could also move to 1.5mb dual bank ram probably at price parity.

020 probably would've been too expensive, but you needed to go large or go home in the console world, I'd have gone with CD to drop the ROM costs so hopefully over a year projection the upfront hardware cost would amortise with the CD savings. A single chip might have allowed an 020+CD at a $300 launch price rather than $250.

The Saturn architecture is a completely bizarre kettle of fish even vs the Jaguar! I can see where the pinch points were for the Jag, but the Saturn looks as though they redesigned the machine twice, and without actually having any input from the AM2 team (Virtua fighter). Certainly from a systems perspective there's a lot of scope for making it more efficient.

I kinda of thought the TG-16 was straightforward from a programmer perspective? The custom chips had a few things they could do and that's it. The demos I've seen (pouet) basically seem to use the hardware as it was intended ie. no fancy tricks that you can coax out of it. I'd say the SNES was more crippled by bottlenecks, probably stemming from the initial backwards NES compatibility that never materialised?
No, they're testing people who are a) having issues as likely infections or b) those who have been exposed.

The odds of any random person getting it are still low, especially if you're not in one of the epicenters. Testing random people would be wasting time, effort, and tests. All of which are limited.
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Japan seems to be doing fine with minimal testing.

https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/japans-winning-its-quiet-fight...
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> I then keep a primary repository of notes in a flat folder with links between them and the literature notes as my makeshift Zettelkasten

Could you give more details about this ?
Do you sync the notes to a folder ? How do you do this ? And how to you browse your notes ?
I agree it’s hard to believe such a thing existed and undoubtedly accelerated the spread of the Wuhan Virus. Many lives could have been saved if Italy embraced social distancing instead of virtue signalling.

Proof: https://www.westernjournal.com/italian-mayor-starts-hug-chin...
Oh...you don't want to know that...
(in the tone of J Frank Parnell explaining you don't want to look in his Malibu's trunk)
Obviously someone at Zoom thinks they get value out if it. But that's quite different from "this is a revenue source", which would suggest Facebook paying money for it. Your typical company will happily put a tracking SDK in so some marketers get some more graphs to look at in Facebook Analytics.
That’s democracy for you, where the ruler is whoever controls the discussion, which is usually the media.
It doesn’t help that leadership is a revolving door and nobody is accountable. At least with monarchies you could lose your head.
This, so much this.
Especially for mortality rates where the US is currently doing better than most large developed countries.
Didn’t backblaze do exactly this (shuck drives from external enclosures) when they couldn’t buy enough drives on the open market after the tsunami?
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Which could explain the lack of interest in squeezing every bit of profit out of it. For them their name is literally on the business so being prepared to do the right thing is important to them.
you're amazed that people have interests besides their basic needs?
Birth control was not widely accessible, reliable, available in pill form etc.

Around this time, due to commonly available forms of contraception: the nature of sex changed, family roles changed, the workplace changed, gender roles changed, birth rates plummeted, demographics changed fundamentally, family structures changed fundamentally.
Ummm...

1. This is a CoC

2. Read #1

3. "We are all adults..." Then why are we having this discussion?

4. I'll continue to try an format text because I'm crazy
Minor correction: Switzerland is not a member of the EU
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I just wanted to give you my first impression as someone who wasted really sure what the title meant. All I knew was that I'm a programmer that's terrible at design I thought this might be useful for me in someway although I wasn't sure exactly what this site was.

Not knowing what "open-source design" meant, I visited the site and clicked the first design. I ended up on a page asking me to pay $60 for something. I closed to tab. I was really confused. Only after reading the comments here did I realize I must have done something wrong.Then I realized the first "design" isn't a design, it was a native ad. It looks like the designs but says ad instead of having a yellow gem. If I had just stumbled across this some other way and had the experience I would have closed the tab and never thought about it again. Sites that trick users into clicking ads are a red flag for me.

Ok, so I clicked another design that had a yellow gem. All it did was give me a blown up image of the thumbnail. I still wanted to know what the open source design actually was. I almost clicked something off to the right thinking it would be a preview or something. Before I did though I realized it was another ad. It wasn't even labeled though like the one on the main page.

The only thing left to do was click "download". I hovered over it to see what kind of file I was downloading. It didn't say since it's a button and not a link. So I clicked it. It was a ".sketch" file. Arggh! I knew that sketch was a Mac App and not open source. I don't have a Mac and I'm not using proprietary software unless I absolutely have to.

I went the the front page again because I realized that I must have missed something. I didn't see that these were sketch downloads. Then I discovered there are multiple formats you could filter by. The front page just happened to have only all Sketch format ones visible at the moment. I guess I was just supposed to know the logo was for Sketch. I assumed the yellow gem meant that it was actually a design and not an ad.

I had a hunch that the rest of the formats were proprietary to so I looked them up (by extension since the names of the apps are not mentioned anywhere, not even as title text on the images like they should be for accessibility). Yep, they where. It was at this point I closed the tab for good. My definition of open source is different from yours. If you can't open an open source file with open source software or if the file format is proprietary it's not open source IMO.

I didn't mean for that to be such a long rant. I'm sure your web site will be useful to a lot of other people. It would be nice if the people it's not useful for could determine that up front. Not knowing all the product logos, it was pretty much impossible for me to determine what your site was for without wasting time clicking around. You did trick me into clicking an so mention accomplished I guess. Your welcome.
This concept is often referred to as a "VPN killswitch" as well (though that is really a misnomer, IMO).

Popular with pirates because having torrent activity leaked to your ISP is not great.
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Cases are only skyrocketing inline with testing. You can see how incompetent most nations have been [1]. The handful of countries that have exceeded US testing figures all have some of the lowest CFRs:

Australia — 0.46%

Germany — 0.6%

Russia — 0.13%

South Korea — 1.41%

US — 1.43%

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
Singapore does, and it's relevant because it's the best way to get an unbiased view of the situation, such as asymptomatic spread.
And China has a population of 1.3 billion ... it is pretty clear what has worked better than the current shoddy approach.
>We went from Ruby on Rails, AWS, and a $800+ a month server bill to paying almost nothing to run it

Would love to read a write up on it. I know the focus may be on Cloudflare worker and Lambda, but would love to see how did RoR perform as well.
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Wow. And agreed. One question, re "being a great offline solution", in what sense offline? Able to work without net?

Thinking about dstillman's reply, I was thought-crawling towards a "local/remote vs online/offline" distinction. So Zotero would be local but always online (if net is available). Versus my expectation that when using only local resources, a local tool will be offline.
China had a 6-4 months heads up, and their data is still questionable.
Its incredible how blocking changing the default app on iOS isn't illegal. Its obviously insanely anti competitive.
The testing rate to date in Spain is about 2x that of the US per capita. In Italy it is closer to 4x. That, plus the complete failure of the US to suppress transmission rates throughout huge parts of the population, must be taken in to account.
Ok - I read this :

"He said that expected increases in National Health Service capacity and ongoing restrictions to people’s movements make him “reasonably confident” the health service can cope when the predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in two or three weeks. UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, he said, and could be much lower."

and

"This measure of how many other people a carrier usually infects is now believed to be just over three, he said, up from 2.5. “That adds more evidence to support the more intensive social distancing measures,” he said."

So the article says EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU CLAIMED.

This is disinformation.
You realize this is just the very beginning right?

Hospitals are already overwhelmed, what do you imagine is going to happen when the number continues to double every five days?

It's exponential. Start of the curve.
The death rate is worrying for the US right now because it's currently accelerating, not decelerating like many other countries that are in full lockdown. I guess we'll have to give it a few more days to validate, but they could actually cross the line into deaths doubling every 3 days.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
From that page:

> A contingency plan is a plan devised for an outcome other than in the usual (expected) plan.

That sounds a lot broader than emergency preparedness.
The true numbers won't be known until serological studies are conducted. It's possible to tell who has had the virus, even months after the fact, by testing for antibodies in serum.

However, given how differently the US and China have responded to the virus, it's hard to see how the US will not surpass China (if it hasn't already done so) in total number of cases.