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Show HN: Self-Published Book – Health Data Privacy, HIPAA, and COVID-19
I just self-published a book that is a brief guide to health information data privacy, the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and COVID-19.

I'm an attorney and web developer and hope you find this helpful.

Here are some links:

- Sample Excerpt (PDF):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2p2ia224u5efqx/%5Bexcerpt%5D%20Healthtech_HIPAA_March_2020_unique.pdf?dl=0

- Paperback (on Amazon.com): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086B9QHBL/

- Kindle (on Amazon.com): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0868VXCGH

Please let me know of any feedback.

If you buy the book, please know that 100% of the profits will be donated to restaurant workers furloughed without pay during this time. (I once worked at Domino's Pizza before law school.)
Haven't seen it ever happen before. But this time is different. I am seeing almost no one without a mask outside.
For what it's worth, you can get "S3 compatible" solutions for your local/colo'd hardware through Ceph or Minio - and I use S3 on my homeserver because it's such a robust and well supported protocol in a lot of apps that don't support ssh/syncthing.
Facebook eyes multibillion-dollar stake in India's Reliance Jio
Here are my three reasons not to be customary in this case: poetic license, public domain, and maximum impact.
It would be nice to have a non-VR version of this
I know this is a joke, but please don't do this. Sure, people used to use newspapers & the Sear's catalog, but they were also using outhouses.

Newspaper will clog plumbing, and it is not fun to deal with.
OpenCL and OpenGL on DirectX
Or something like Hugo or Jekyll if it's supposed to be static and markdown is fine.
Oura ring and UCSF partner to see if ring can detect Covid-19 early
Nope, there is no such precedent.
You can extend this trick further by specifying the User in your SSH config to make for even shorter URLs.

Host gh-me
Hostname github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host gh-work
Hostname github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work

Then all you need is a `git clone gh-me:org/repo` or `git clone gh-work:work/repo`. I've been using this for sometime and it's not too hard to remember. Although when I don't it's easy enough to fix the origin url by editing `.git/config`.
I think maybe we don't need a controlled experiment. Maybe we need to embrace a situation where we are forced to adapt and come up with solutions on the fly.
"China had an oversupply, so we bought 1255 FDA-approved ResMed, Philips & Medtronic ventilators on Friday night & airshipped them to LA," Musk said on Twitter.

What prevents our government from doing its job? Where is FEMA?
I think almost any transaction which results in a public record including your address could lead to this. After I bought my house, I was inundated with letters offering mortgage insurance.
Typical tiered memory hierarchies put more popular assets in faster tiers of memory. This post describes the opposite: putting less popular assets in faster tiers of memory to improve performance of the system.
You could use a random three word combo.

"Has there been any progress on sausage-biscuit-club?"
Could you or anyone else recommend a book on the topic of viruses? Not a textbook but something informational and somewhat in depth for a lay person?
A lot of them are wearing masks now. In point of fact, there was a shortage of masks in many cities until recently.
The tools for doing this at "medium business" and below scale have gotten much easier, especially with things like ZFS.
Do you believe the net effect is in any way positive, in whatever metric you’re trying to optimize for?

No offense intended.. I’m really interested in the answer. Because I, too, have spend a lot of time optimizing keyboard shortcuts and similar. But I’m nowhere close to actually using all the great shortcuts I set up, and then some new software might create a conflict and the patterns I set up need rearranging etc.

I’m probably the only one on HN who actually thinks the magic bar could be useful-to expose keyboard shortcuts in a discoverable way. There must be hundreds of actions I do less often than once a day but more often than once a week, and some method to train could really put a dent in my mouse-meters.
I've been there and have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, the boulder has always seemed fishy to me. It's a remote location and I doubt many people would track something that small, or care enough about it to know about the seasonal changes at that boulder. It also doesn't make a lot of sense to me geologically, although it's possible. I also years ago remember people familiar with the site jokingly talking about how "if there were a boulder there..." which lent the whole thing a sense of fiction when I started reading about it. It was easy to see how a humorous fantasy could change into folk legend and then into documentation.

On the other hand, where are the photos? Where's the meticulous documentation? To trek all the way there to address this and then not take copious photos to share with the media?

They also got lost, which adds to my skepticism they even made it there, or were sure they did. Can you get lost there? I suppose -- there are a ton of islands and things there so I can see that -- but the area is blanketed with topo map coverage, and you've got GPS now. If someone were to get lost there, I'd question whether or not they even got to where they wanted to begin with. Siskiwit Lake is a fairly large feature on Isle Royale, and the nesting doll nature of the goal makes your target hard to miss.

In short, I wouldn't be surprised if the boulder isn't there (or isn't surrounded by water). However, I also wouldn't be surprised if this guy and his mother never actually went to where they claimed to go.
Carnegie Mellon University | Full-time | ONSITE | Pittsburgh, PA

The Simon-Initiative at CMU is building a learning engineering ecosystem that can scale and deliver effective online and hybrid courses worldwide.

We are hiring for Software Engineer and UX Designer roles:

Tech stack is React/Typescript and Elixir/Phoenix.

Job links:

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Would you consider bootstrapping a small / freelancing business using this?

(Assuming an already enterprise-y prosumer IS, i.e. pfSense, VLANs, ZFS storage, 'enough' CPU/RAM/network, all patched and well in good sysadmin fashion, inet-facing resources behind some reverse proxy, etc).
my best attempt:

- too much compromising and not enough dynamic effort leads to death
It's not necessarily covered in a traditional CS program, it really depends on the instructor.

This is a good resource.

Regarding the videos: they're hard to watch because the text size is very small and it seems to be blurry due to compression/encoding issues and in some of the videos, the audio track has a high-pitched hum in the background that makes it very hard to listen to.

If you still have access to the source materials, you should seriously consider cleaning up the sound and re-encoding the videos for better quality (as well as making the text bigger where possible).
There's a lot going wrong with that headline. I didn't really see "showcase websites" being highlighted either. It's a decent tutorial on Contentful, Nuxt, and Netlify, but I feel like the title is trying to deliver something else.
> If they tried to have it, there would have been no crowd

I'd be more concerned that there would be a crowd and that it would greatly affect Japan's population given how a significant proportion are elderly.
Super fascinating, I'm going to try this out. Thank you for sharing!

Where we were hiking, it was unfortunately raining non-stop for a couple of days, and the laminated plastic made a big difference.

But you can always read the map under covers or something, as long as it's transported in a watertight bag, I think the cloth solution might last longer than ours did (plastic forms creases).
You could use LDAP, but really the default configuration allows for Prosody commands, e.g. prosodyctl adduser user@example.com

What I did was set up a vanilla Jitsi Meet instance (on DigitalOcean) and then create a shared user / pass per room share with my team. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.
To all the people who's feelings got hurt by me calling it "Wuhan Fever" I'm sorry, but I am still upset that the W.H.O. and other government bodies believe they have the mandate to dictate what is appropriate and what is not when it comes what the public call diseases.

I keep hearing these same people state that "Now is not the time for political rhetoric" yet they feel the need to push tbeir "Political" agendas though something so trivial as what people call a disease.

I can't help but wonder if the W.H.O. was given an ultimatum by the Chinese government to push the name COVID-19, or not gain access to study the disease.

What ever happened to "Sticks and Stones"? Maybe it's time to bring it back, preferably before "Ring around the Rosey" makes a comback.
Unless they have a test that determines whether fully recovered people had it at some point, they are never going to get an accurate CFR.
I'm assuming that you accidentally got that statement backwards, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me.

Would you still feel like dropping things in HOME was tidy if hidden files weren't a thing? You can also back up XDG_CONFIG_HOME without grabbing garbage like cache data.
I've ended up with multiple iPads over the years despite my best efforts. They definitely do stop working after a while. I've also noticed MacBooks get burning hot doing a video conference for more than 15 minutes. And I'm not a hardcore gamer, but my kids play Minecraft and it's fine by glitchy.

Compared to the Acer I bough for $700 with a basic Nvidia card and upgradeable memory that can handle everything I throw at it. My last Acer ran fine for almost 6 years but I dropped it one too many times.
WordPress is a terrible example, though.
Congratz!

The number is of course contextual. $2k in SF is less than $2k in rural Europe :)

Where I’m from that $2k is what you’d call an engineering salary. Where I’m now, it’s a nice solid bonus on top.
Location: Boise, ID area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Drupal, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, jQuery, sysadmin, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD

Resume/CV: https://albright.pro/garrett-albright-resume.pdf

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Covid Anxiety: a bleak personal forecasting game
It runs the risk, though, of murdering the credibility of those officials. Who will trust anything they say, when they're right there on the record intentionally telling ridiculous lies?

If masks should be diverted to hospitals, then the correct action would be to divert them to hospitals, not to lie to people.
My “aura” feels like encountering a bad memory. Like an overpowering bad memory tied to a place. I can see how it could be interpreted as a mystical experience
I work in a bioinformatics lab that develops data visualizations for genetics. A typical file for a whole human genome is in the 50-100GB range. These files are heavily indexed and streaming-friendly, but still rather unwieldy to work with.

Our most common flow involves files stored on S3. The app will download the index, then use sampling and streaming techniques to pull from the full file. This works well because S3 supports range requests.

Where S3 falls down for us is sharing. I'm not aware of any easy way to share S3 files with email. You either have to create a signed URL (which has a max expiration), make the file public, or use IAM, which I'm pretty sure requires all users to have AWS accounts. That's a non-starter.

Google Drive is the opposite. It's better for sharing. Just drop in an email address, or share a permanent link. But it no longer supports range requests, so it's essentially walled off from the rest of the web.

What's crazy to me is that neither of these services provide a non-authenticated way to use a CLI tool to download/sync a directory tree, even if it's public. rclone is probably the best tool in this space, and it requires you to configure "remotes" ahead of time. You can't just point it at a public bucket and have it download.

I think there's still room for improvement and competition in the cloud storage space.
> Regardless of the server you set Apple mail still sends the email as from the account you hit reply on.

Unless you flip the setting to always send it from one address.
If you've ever had to work with legacy code on a WordPress project at scales [WP wasn't intended for] your feelings might differ.

The horror...

It's great for small sites and less-technical users, but for some applications I've seen it squeezed and wedged and crammed into...

The horror...
> steal energy molecules called ATP from their hosts

Not unlike a virus which also lacks their own metabolism.

This will raise similar question as whether it is "alive".
Isn't that per Indian law?
You must use graphql for even the simplest of apis.
It's curiously spreading at the exact same rate that tests are being administered. Curious indeed..
Physics laws cannot always turn back time
Former CDC Chief Frieden: Coronavirus infection risk may be reduced by Vitamin D
I recently learned that moving one buttcheek out of the way while wiping with the other significantly decreases tp use.

Great topic :)
Rust Notebooks: Unique Array Elements and Their Frequency
Facebook in talks to acquire stake in top Indian telco Reliance Jio, report says
I built a little tool a while ago that converts CSV/TSV to Markdown. I use it mostly o convert MySQL EXPLAIN's to Markdown for pull requests.

https://donatstudios.com/CsvToMarkdownTable
>We need to let Japan know that this is not their fault. It's ingrained in Japanese culture that they often put too much pressure on themselves.

I can't help but think this is such a bizarre take.

"Japan" and the Japanese people aren't children. We don't need to reassure "them" of anything, as if their culture collectively precludes them of realizing that the Coronavirus isn't "their fault". As if they're too naive and caught up in same bushido notion of honor and dignity. A quick few moments on Japanese Twitter around news of the virus will show the intense xenophobia[0][1], with highly liked/retweeted posts directed almost entirely at Koreans and Chinese people, and praising Trump calling it the "Chinese virus".

I know Twitter isn't representative of the Japanese population, but I'm highly skeptical of the idea that "Japan" is down in the dumps, thinking they only could have done better for the olympics. From what I can gather, a large chunk of the Japanese population didn't want the olympics anyway.

[0] From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_xenophobi...

[1] A quick search of the trending tag "#ChineseDontComeToJapan" and the corresponding Japanese-language tag "#中国人は日本に来るな" and related posts (example of a popular anti-Chinese people post: https://twitter.com/mobirufosugang2/status/12391799224944803... - other posts in the thread emphasize the beauty of Kyoto without "Chinese and Koreans")
The reaction is good, in a way that it buy government and other institutions time to work out better way to tackle this emergency. I think other countries are not so keen to take such actions, why is that ? What should be better solution in long run for the world as a whole ?
Until you posted this, I thought they required a hot water supply line, and power for other features.

A cold water only bidet would save on bathroom tissue and coffee...
Interesting. I live in NM and always wondered how they managed to plow not one but two interstates right through the middle of Albuquerque. It has turned out to be a boon for the city I expect. It's very easy to get from one side of the city to the other and as one of the major cities on Route 66 (now I-40) Albuquerque certainly hasn't lost its prominence along that major east/west route.
The underlying message is simple. Willingness to do the work, make hard decisions, and be productive, leads to success. A history of success without that underlying willingness, leads to failure. The West got where it was by being on the winning side of that equation, but has lost it. Taiwan is on the winning side of that equation.

The first example was the rise of Compaq (in the West) when it had that willingness, followed by its fall when it didn't. And the rise of other companies in Taiwan that were willing to do the actual work.

The second example is coronavirus, where Taiwan's current success stands in stark contrast with the unwillingness of western countries to even consider taking effective action. Taiwan shows what it is possible. The USA can only consider which tragedy to choose. And has gone about it so badly that it is effectively choosing both.
For these kinds of amounts you could use the cheapest of Hetzner SX line and save half of that. But real savings start over 100 TB.
How does healthcare work there? Is there a free-to-use system? Insurance based? Someone tell us.
I doubt it. It's a multi-cellular organism that is capable of moving on its own. I don't think anyone will claim that it is not alive because it can't produce its own ATP.
More food for thought, as I've been thinking about this:

1. std::thread::hardware_concurrency

This is the number of threads that can execute in parallel, no?

2. "Memory-level parallelism"

How many memory operations can be "outstanding" at once - seems comparable to a single core issuing multiple disk reads. The memory operations aren't really serviced simultaneously, they just have overlapping lifetimes.

For more fun, some people refer to the case where performance is limited by the amount of memory-level parallelism available as "concurrency-limited": https://sites.utexas.edu/jdm4372/2018/01/01/notes-on-non-tem...
Just pointing out it’s a steep hill to climb.
Gerrit Grunwald – Not dead yet – Java on desktop
> Developers: Thanks Linus, very helpful and great advice!

> Everyone else: Who?

Remote working has always been ingrained in the development of the Linux kernel which is brilliant. The 'advice' here however seems like it favours an audience that is unsurprisingly for developers who ideally contribute to open-source projects or whatnot rather than those who are new to remote working. So the title should append: '...for developers'.

> Or, as Linus recommends, it’s best to have email lists to keep things on point and that’s how Linux kernel runs.

Email-lists maybe perfect for the Linux Kernel, but for everyone else who isn't a developer in other large companies, startups and mostly general users, they choose Slack or Microsoft Teams first for back and forth instant communication and email comes last or second last for serious company-wide announcements. Email is still used, but its not a first-choice for instant communication with teams of both non-developers, so that advice falls short here.

I agree with flexibility which is great for jobs that can do remote working and is a failsafe alternative when times like this happen. When it comes to communication, I'd pretty much choose the optimal first-party tools that get the job done quickly and 'just work', like Zoom, Slack, Github and macOS rather than have to spend hours googling around a special konami code to fix unnecessary issues that happen only on my machine due to installing an open-source unofficial client I preferred to use on my Linux laptop.
I still have a website that uses server-side includes fro the navbar and other common page elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Low level code optimization tutorial
It will be interesting to see if India is able to be effective in this lockdown. Unlike China, centralized control has been limited in recent history, even at the local level.

But as living standards have risen, some people have developed civic sense. Also, on the individual, family, and community level, there are many traditional practices that are similar to social distancing that, though they have some questionable origins in repressive social structures.

At least they are not in denial anymore.
It's not been a thing here except for pollution. Recent days lots of people have been wearing though, with current situation I expect it to increase.
This work is continuing at Agoric https://agoric.com/.

It was also the inspiration for the Cosmos IBC protocol.
https://github.com/cosmos/ics/blob/master/ibc/2_IBC_ARCHITEC...
You know more than you think
I would have agreed then, in 2014, maybe, one or two years later, completely with GnuPG's statement on ECC support.
I cannot state whether any of the other open-source and free projects on encryption have advanced to ECC, however, I would expect most of them have so far.
Independent of the ECC support in other programs than GnuPG, I think to advance to the newest, but stable and well-tested, security measures (ECC), would be a good idea and will pay of in the future?
I expect, of course, to advance to the newest stable versions will, at some point, introduce regressions with older versions (or platforms).
But I think that is a price we should be willing to pay.
Do you really need more than basic redundancy + backups? I think most small businesses would survive a few hours restoring backups every few years.
TLDR: He advocates more government control to do what needs to be done.

Unfortunately, the government doesn't always know what needs to be done, and some of his examples (e.g., response of local businesses) don't actually require government control, but a societal attitude shift. Add in the desire of some parties to use the crisis to further their agendas, and government control gets worrisome.

Article summary:

The analogy: "the West feels like Compaq in the 1990s, relying on its brand name and partnerships with other entities to do the actual work, forgetting that it was hard work and determination that made it great in the first place."

Important points:

"""
look more closely at what Taiwan has done to contain SARS-CoV-2 to-date — you can reframe everything in a far more problematic way:

Restrict international movement and close borders (including banning all non-resident foreigners this week)
Integrate and share private data across government agencies and with hospitals.
Track private individual movements via their smartphones.
Even the mask production I praised required requisitioning private property by the government, and the refusal of local businesses to serve customers without masks or insist on taking their temperature
"""
I added it to Google Maps anyway.
Yes, sorry I got it backwards.

I don't look at my HOME directory often, I usually start from a subdirectory of HOME that has what I'm looking for. Is that why people prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME, because they look at HOME a lot? I guess I can understand that.
Experimental demonstration of memory-enhanced quantum communication
not to mention that Canada and Australia have already said they wouldn't attend anyway. It basically forced their hand. Same thing happened with NCAA March Madness. They kept trying to figure out how they could still hold the tournament and then Duke and Kansas said they were dropping out. And that was the end of that.
Show HN: Bail – get out of your commitments without the guilt
DirectX Developer Blog: OpenCL and OpenGL mapping layers to DirectX 12
AFAIK, there has been randomized testing of hospitalized respiratory patients from various parts of the country to determine community spread.