skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also we need to remember what the relevant pre-existing conditions here are.

I think most people are immediately thinking severe asthma, COPD, recent or current cancer treatment; and while all of those elevate your risk, they aren't the most common comorbidities.

The key co-morbidities are high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

Only heart disease seems obvious - high blood pressure is almost standard, and diabetes is often managed well to the point of invisibility.

The cardiac link appears interesting. Patients who are given ECMO, a complete lung bypass alternative to ventilators, have still died after their lungs recovered.
Why? Are you paying for it? To you, it's trivial amount of data that you can wipe if you somehow desperately need the 1mb, to them it quickly adds up to significant costs.

I find this position absurd, just like the suggestion that everyone should start programming complicated user hostile save flows.
Storm chasers are searching the clouds for the key to climate change (2019)
why are you equating laws with morality? Just because there's a law does not de facto might is right or wrong.
Is there no such thing as a chain of custody for parts manufacturing? Crowd sourcing plastic parts from printers seems beyond naive. Do you know what goes into design of plastic molds or the repeatability and tolerances required? How do you quality control parts created from layers of hot glue? Plastic molded parts can rely on fundamental chemical understanding and tuned parameters of a molding machine.
The one thing nobody ever mentions about this is the Chinese connection. Zoom is 100% developed in China. They have a datacentre in tianjin. Even states in their financial papers. The S1 form that one of the risks is the fact the product is predominantly developed in China. By PRC citizens.

Encryption is also off by default? why is this?

The Zoom App also collects screenshots and transcriptions of shared data. This is fine if you are Facebook or Google.
Ah it's like HIV and AIDS, isn't it? SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, and COVID-19 is not the virus but the disease. She's right.
Happen to have a link to a video of this talk?
Sketch only works on Mac, so it's a non-starter for real distributed teams where people aren't given company hardware
The store is just a global variable. That's all it is, dressed up pretty.

You still have to structure your data, and scope it properly. Some of the state will live in the store, and some in the components. It will be different from application to application.
Right? The virus has to have a host. With people able to leave their homes and move about, it seems that the number of cases are just going to return to increasing now.
She could have a specific mutation in her DNA that protects against other things, that somehow makes COVID-19 worse.

Like the CCR5-Delta32 mutation makes 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.h...).

There are other mutations that appears to combat virus more effectively, but who's to say that there are not mutations that are beneficial for some disease, but catastrophic for others ?
Good points. Any ideas how to fix it?
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On that coronavirus timeline it would be good to see:

* Wuhan throw a party to celebrate the lunar year

* Almost the entirety of China goes on holiday for the lunar year

* New Year holiday

* Border lock downs of various Countries within that timeline
Normally when one said "the new Internet Explorer" he meant "the browser that was always recommended to use", "the browser that stopped innovation because it was almost the only one used".
The satirical magazine "Private Eye" collects these as "Malgorithmns - A feature dedicated to excellence in online advertising" and they're usually much as you described. The software has spotted a mention of idea A, but doesn't grok that the context makes this a bad time to advertise X even though A and X are associated in some way.

They also, as fair play, put in some examples from offline (physical newspaper) advertising.
As are Berkshire Hathaway, Ford, Cisco, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft. But that's not the point, the point I'm making is a solvent business should have cash reserves.
>He just can't add such adverts to the codebase.

I'm curios why do you think that. If the codebase is a fruit of his efforts, why shouldn't he do as he wants with it?

I would understand that in cases where a maintainer adds malicious code - but that's not the case here. Author asks for donations, the only negative effect of it is NPM logs getting longer. I think he's well within his moral rights here.
Not sure about US, but in EU citizen accounts are insured up to EUR 100k. So it doesn't matter if banks fail.
Doesn't make sense, just ask the permission to use the local storage to the user if that is the deal.

But that is not the deal, the deal is that they fear that more and more developers are moving to webapps instead of developing native apps that need to pass trough the App Store and thus be approved by Apple, and they don't like that.
SICP is really cool! I would follow up with Practical Common Lisp right after, for insight into a more usable Lisp dialect.
Yesterday (actually 3h before that bounty was posted), I wanted exactly that feature, but I couldn't get it soon enough (I did find obs-virtual-cam at the same time as the bounty was posted, what are the odds).

A bunch of friends and I were listening to a live quiz, on Facebook and we were in a Messenger video calls together to solve it together. The issue was that it was quite hard to watch it together while being live together, so I just pointed my phone at my computer screen, but it was far from ideal.

Essentially my goal was to screenshare on my computer and then the sound quality would have been much better. Messenger does support screenshare but it's weird and doesn,t seems to works if someone is on his phone (which we all were).

So essentially the use case is to share your screen, but also be able to add stuff to it, like your own webcam, and use that on ANY streaming software. Many does support screensharing, but not all of them, and even if they do, adding a camera on top of it is most probably not possible.
It's easy to find an article like this very frightening, if you're young and healthy and have been thinking there's thus no chance you'll die of COVID-19 if (more likely when, tbh) you get it. I already have it, so I totally understand that.

But this is the first time we know of that anyone young and healthy has died of the disease, and we're over a hundred thousand confirmed cases in. Even assuming the current understanding is accurate, and this person didn't have some undiagnosed comorbidity, that's on the order of a .001% chance of dying.

For a pandemic disease, those are very good odds.

Yes, it's frightening, and in frightening times. But it's important to keep a sense of perspective. After all, stressing out over this can only weaken your defenses.
> No one is forcing you to download video you don't want.

If its a work meeting...then yes they are absolutely being forced to download video they don't want. They could possibly minimize the window, but then they lose out on key things like muting and screensharing. I'm not aware of any meeting software that lets you turn off the video of other participants (though you can usually do it for audio).
I don't understand why the title was changed - the focus of the article isn't just on the fact that WebKit is changing how it handles local storage, but also a criticism of Apple's motivations for this decision.
This is a valid argument.

Here is a fun idea that just came to me (trying to find middle ground here):

- Allow localStorage writes automatically, persist forever (choose your favorite definition for "forever").

- Allow localStorage reads automatically for 7 old.

- Prompt permission dialog if last read from localStorage is at least 7 days long.
Some quick googling also shows that young people without pre-existing conditions can die from the regular flu.

https://time.com/5099042/influenza-deaths-flu/
Actually you do, because scraping is considered legal in the US and your information is on a public site which makes scraping the information legal.
Honestly, read the original message and consider how you would have replied.

They showed work in a vacuum - demonstrated that dm-crypt has costs over raw device access (I would hope so!) on some unknown hardware, and then asks "does this look right to you?"

Well, yeah, that looks like it looks elsewhere, and by the way, there's a built-in command that also would have told you this.

People whine about technical mailing lists, I think because they don't get the context. Think of them as sort of like water coolers at an office that specializes in whatever the list is about. You get a short slice of expert attention in between doing whatever they actually have to get done.

Throwing a bunch of data on the floor and saying "hey, is this expected?" is not going to work well. Seriously, what were they expecting?
If it accepted that is not a person or persons whose mistakes create problems requiring postmortems meaning it was the collective that made mistakes then it should also be accepted that it is never a person or persons whose accomplishments propelled the company forward rather it is the collective. So everyone in the collective should get paid the amount of money for equal contributions to ups and downs, should not they?
Apparently CBC is used by cryptsetup by default, see https://linux.die.net/man/8/cryptsetup

It might not be ideal but it still can be used. Though, I would not call CBC common at all. Pretty much everyone has switched to CTR or some variant of it (such as GCM).

Also, CBC is not a stream cipher algorithm.
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Can you tell that to my governor? 'cause every couple days she's throwing more things in, based on how "ineffective" the previous orders were. It's like, I get it, we need to contain the spread. But stop saying that you're doing this new thing because the rates are still climbing so obviously this thing you did two days ago didn't work. Maybe it didn't, but two days is not enough time to know.
For those interested, Peter Galison has written a bit about his thoughts on how Einstein's work at the patent office influenced his work on physics.

This interview is pretty interesting: https://history.aip.org/exhibits/einstein/essay-einsteins-ti...
I thought this was about Switzerland... Just an opinion on a country that usually is ahead of others in smart decisions - they have almost 0 medical manufacturing here, and in past weeks were/are progressively getting screwed by ie Germany stopping trucks full of face masks and medical equipment at the border and forbidding them to come here. Outsourcing is not an issue only in US.

Also, people in government responsible for raising alerts, closures etc. voted 2:1 to not do quarantine when Italy was already exploding with cases (mind you, regions super close to Suisse!). Why? Effin' economical concerns, meaning businesses stronghanding (probably corrupt) politicians to keep things running. So while people were already dying en masse 50km south from here, all the shops, restaurants and caffees were chock full of common folks were acting like nothing is going on. Somebody didn't realize that it will take much longer to get economy back afterwards...

Hospitals desperately unprepared with equipment. Doctors working with plain stupid paper/cloth masks on emergencies, not having them swapped often. Leaving schools open for way too long. I could go on... I expected more from this country. I really did. Quick removal of any workers protection laws for doctors.

I personally know few doctors that are already sick with Covid here, mainly because system fucked them hard with lack of equipment, and they are properly disappointed, desperate and furious.

So don't be harsh on US government, I think basically almost all governments screwed up badly.
Right- like I said, local state is the natural solution in some cases. But it's not always so clean-cut. Maybe dropdowns were a bad example.

Here's one I've run into: say you have a list of things that can be edited and then when you click "Save" it saves them all to the server. Each of those would need to track a "saving" state to drive its loading spinner. That saving state is transient and UI-specific, and it is tied to each instance of a list item in some sense, but it can't just be local to the list-item component because it needs to be a) set as part of global app logic, and b) read by, for example, the "save" button so it knows when you're allowed to click it again.

There's an entire spectrum of these gray cases and there's no single answer for "how far up to hoist things". You're always making compromises. This is one reason I prefer MobX over Redux, because the latter basically locks you into "global state" and "local state" and doesn't allow for a lot of in-betweens.
Yeah I've got a lot of users with very shaky internet and intermittent involvement with a given application (not using it for a month, more). This presents some serious challenges / impossibilities for those user's use of a web app when they're not online.

I hope they come up with some good options as this news settles. It's hard to see this as anything but even just a accidental push ('well you should always have written an app for the app store') to force folks to write a native app / participate in the app store.
Anecdotally, my parents keep bringing up this narrative every time we talk on the phone. I've reminded them that while me and my fiance dutifully haven't left the house since last Sunday they've happily gone to the grocery store multiple times, attended a funeral, and had wine at their neighbor's house. They also refused to stop babysitting my niece and nephew until I called my brother and convinced him to stop dropping them off. But no, young people are the reckless ones.
I think the quality of guesses is affected by prior experience. This seems obvious, but it means that hunches won't help a new grad find interesting problems. It also means that a lifelong mathematician has a lot of failed and successful attack vectors for problems of a certain class. Not only by virtue of experience, but also because the field and competition to publish and produce results makes it necessary to cultivate a sharp instinct for viable solutions to avoid wasting significant time ... and it weeds out those that do not cultivate this skill. (Note, weeding out includes making 7 figures in industry so dont consider that a dig).

You can call this survivorship bias, and it may be that successful mathematicians are being weeded out by factors other than their ability to quickly solve problems.
Good point! Even as we did the presentation of the project at the end of the hackathon, one of the judges immediately mentioned how he needed loads of tips, as he was at home with two teenage kids.

We unfortunately haven't found a lot on this topic (if you do, please submit!) but a team member did find this article that you might find useful:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/the-family-loc...
I actually thought we'd already self-submitted it to Homenauts but seems like we missed it, so I just added it. I put it in the "Mental Health" section for now. But creating a separate category/tag for living with co-homenauts, as you suggest, sounds like a good idea.

Stay safe (all three of you!) and hope you find any of the links useful
Oh yeah, I didn't mean it to be a knock against Agones, more that there seemed to be a fair amount of marketing speak in the google copy("supercharged", "Companies like Activision Blizzard are benefiting from our ... artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities") and it wasn't clear what the value was.

Honestly, your comment is much clearer than most of the linked article.
We use local storage for features in hubs.mozilla.com when most sites would use a database, because we want to minimize storage of data in our servers to increase privacy. This basically will now force us to store this data in our database for safari users, eroding their privacy.
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Ok, allowing, then what? I still don't want to deal with export/import as a user.
Yes, it's their device, they literally are paying for it. What kind of question is that.
In that era, railroads were expanding across Europe and needed to sync time. Likely those patent application crossed his desk so he was forced to deeply think about "relative time" according to something I watched.

But his Brownian motion and photoelectric effect papers ...
Maybe landlords will need to get a real job. I hear Amazon is hiring warehouse staff.
- Give user the option whether to enable "unlimited" storage on per-domain basis. There's already a standrad API for that.
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True, but it is important to highlight that outliers exist. People should understand that better to err on the side of caution.

Fear will only subside long time after fatigue creeps in, but before that no of cases should plateau.
There's some irony that Apple forcing the use of Safari on iOS is creating a monoculture when, were the restriction lifted, everyone would be using Chrome.
No known pre-existing conditions != no pre-existing conditions. Besides in a large enough dataset this isn't surprising.
I disagree with your assessment.

> If the numbers disturb you, then this is from lack of understanding on your side.

This is arrogance on the part of the person replying that hand-waved away their problem "you just don't understand" when in fact, they (Cloudflare) do/did understand. They then went on to prove that it was due to queuing within the kernel, not the hardware as commented by this person in their flippant reply.
And for what? To save space? That's ridiculous.

> If anything died here, it is the implicit consent by the user for allowing unnoticed storage space consumption

What about explicit consent? It also dies. That's just inventing problems.
> OBS can do all of that except nativley output a virtual camera.

Right, that's literally the title of the article we're commenting on: OBS can't do that thing that we need.
framing the US as the world's "richest country" is a disservice here.

a few people are very rich, and many people are well off. but the institutions of this country are, despite being the product of the "richest country", entirely poor and weak.

public institutions have been hollowed out by decades of intentional neglect and austerity. the CDC has no help to offer hospitals in need and is still like a deer in headlights, months into the crisis. before their weakness was exposed, the national stockpile was mostly empty. the cracks in the system were never filled, and many were barely papered over.

private institutions have been optimized to extract profits rather than to serve their stated social purpose. hospitals are now on the brink of going out of business and closing down as the pandemic starts to ramp up. their readiness was low beforehand, too, as there's no money to be made in being prepared for a public health emergency.

so, how did the world's richest country run out of face masks? easy: we organized our society around the idea that buying them and keeping them around was too expensive to bother with.
This type of Virus can cause respiratory failure by infecting the central nervous system even without infecting the lungs significantly. Latest interesting theory I’ve seen is that cases like this young woman (if truly otherwise healthy) could be because of this CNS disruption.

https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/15/7264
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A 13 year old died in Panama on Monday, but again, no confirmation on her health from a doctor.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/panama-13-year-girl-c...
> Articles like this make the news because they're fighting the myth that the young and healthy cannot die from it.

Yes, but look at the comments from when I made mine: they were all of the nature of "I bet they had some other problem". Once you've seen this reaction enough it begins to look less like information-seeking and more like denial.
Also, disk speed in 2006 was probably much slower. Disks have gotten faster at a greater pace than processors during the last 10 years.
While I agree that it’s ideal to treat localstorage as a permission, as someone who has played a lot of games over the years I can tell you that I wish I could manually manage game state files.

The current way iOS does it (either keep the game installed forever or erase all your progress when deleting it) is a huge barrier to me getting invested in iOS games at all.
With “save progress to file” (and loading), I would be a lot more comfortable.

I would still want autosave though. No way do I want to go back to the era of “oh all my work for the past 6 hours is just gone?”
> You can't use any algorithm that requires O(n) IVs (e.g. a separate IV per disk sector), because there's nowhere to store the IVs

Certainly you can. You just have to reduce the effective sector size that the file system can use.

> What do you do when you need to overwrite a block with new data?

You generate a new random nonce (as per XChacha) and you store it in the sector.
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We’re also dealing with the fallout of living in a “post-truth” era, where we as a society can no longer agree with basic facts.

Yes, it’s exceedingly rare to see a case like this, but what’s not rare is seeing the examples of people not taking this disease seriously, even some public officials.

Getting people to cooperate with drastic disease mitigation efforts won’t happen if there’s a probability embedded in that headline. People are doing that in their heads already when they think “this can’t happen to me, so let’s all go to the beach today.”
The dropdown looks fine to me, also on firefox
It seems so easy to avoid, too. Just add a "Somber Mood" checkbox to your CMS when publishing, and swap it to "Help us continue to provide important journalism..."
I remember https://gdprchecklist.io/ and I think they (or somebody forked) one for Corona preparation.
Is this also going to affect web views?

For the past couple of years I worked on an education app where users are 90% of the time offline. Users can remain offline for weeks. There the is no reliable internet in most of the schools in Mexico.

I don't work on that company anymore but this is going to be a massive headache.
And what happens when the finger starts pointing back towards business imposing terrible incentives?
Comedy duos still have a straight man today its literally the suggested completion in google.

Sounds like some one had done a diversity course and missed the point, to be kind. There are other less charitable conclusions that could be drawn.
One can always rely on cordova/phonegap type of app with a C++ plugin to address this issue.

Personally, not having web app storing large amount of data is a good thing.
But that's a solution for a single OS, for a web page that should be cross platform by default. And it's not really a solution, just additional complexity to what was a solved problem.