skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd follow you from the airport. You could maybe evade if you were a trained expert who looked like a local national, but otherwise they'd just check CCTV (Taipei is covered in it) and follow your trail. I've never taken public trans out of TPE, so they'd probably just call the cab company and track you down that way. Otherwise, they would check the public trans cameras.

Also lack of local sim doesn't mean you aren't transmitting. It just means the towers are choosing not to provide you with service. A SIM's only purpose is to link your usage to a billing account and phone number.
>bodily exertion for the sake of developing and maintaining physical fitness

I don't think I agree with that definition of exercise.

Bodily exertion for any other sake (running from a wild animal, from a threatening person, towards an individual in need of help etc) is still exercise. There is not a requirement that it must be for the sake of developing fitness.

>If you control for diet you absolutely can.

Well, no, that's not quite true.

From my examples above, distance running is a form of cardiovascular exercise which has benefits such as stimulating the release of chemicals like BDNF, which tend have positive neurological effects. There are, obviously, also significant cardiovascular benefits - increased VO2 max, lower resting heartrate, etc.

On the other hand, deadlifting heavy weights results in major growth of the musculoskeletal system, bone density, and other benefits, but causes little benefit to cardiovasculr or neurological function.

Cardio and strength training are two entirely different beasts in the types of empirical claims you can make about the benefits they bring.
> PR != Citizenship in any shape or form.

Regular administrative renewal, yes, but aside from that, I guess my complaint is that PR should resemble citizenship better, in matters of justice and in other matters.

People live in PR status for an extraordinarily long time. Decades. Sometimes their whole life after obtaining it.

Nobody should be have to live their lives in "second-class person, second-class justice" mode for such a long time wihout being able to lay down roots. It's not good for individuals and it's not good for society, and it's not right.

The same applies to partners or spouses of citizens.

Generally if you're an immigrant partner or spouse of a citizen, you live a second-class life, with second-class justice and second-class healthcare, because you know everythig you have can be taken away by one bad domestic argument. All it takes is uncertainty about a breakdown of the relationship for you to be remainded that you can lose just arout everything you have and value in life. So suck it up and be a good wife/husband, now fetch me my dinner etc.

There should at least be reasonable time limits on such second-class status, purely on moral and natural justice grounds.
Don’t bail out the cruise industry
“Too bad so sad for poor kids”

C’est la vie.
Also in SF Bay Area (in The City). We have TP in the grocery stores.
Kind of incredulous seeing how many people are ready to forfeit all their freedoms so willingly. Simply can't wait for the government to keep us safe in our electric pens.
For a country that hasn't had a recession in 25 years, it's really bad.
Actually, I'll come up with a better option... don't render any fonts locally... instead, get them when/as you need them as precisely sized bitmaps, from a font server, somewhere else on the Internet...

Now the security for the font server becomes the problem of the server its running on, not your local PC... and while the font server runs the risk of compromise, you, by only using pre-rendered bitmaps, should ideally not...

Of course, the drawback to this approach is, what if you want to work offline and have not downloaded the necessary fonts?
+1 for Akamai here; the TPM roles are excellent for SDEs who have hung up their coding hats for more managerial roles. And none of us are being forced to come into the office at the moment.
You could require restaurants to show exclusive deals and vouchers that are not found elsewhere. That makes it directly quantifiable.
You have some misunderstandings here. Flu and common cold are two different things.

Flu is caused by Influenza viruses. Common cold is caused by a grab bag of viruses, some - but not all, of which are rhinoviruses. There are in fact already coronaviruses that cause common cold.
I’m in Tasmania.

As of ~11hrs ago we appear to have no community transmitted cases.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-24/has-tasmania-been-spa...
It doesn’t. It also doesn’t cover people without phones, like most children. Or people with feature phones that don’t have Bluetooth.

Yet it’s still better than nothing.
You're looking for CentOS (essentially RHEL without the support contract) or Fedora (bleeding edge, also without support) if you don't want to pay money for updates.

We run an Emergency Services communications platform for a State Government on RHEL. Stable and reliable are what we need; our customers require us to run an OS supported by the vendor. On the odd occasion we have needed it, their customer/technical support has been fantastic.
> but the accuracy of that research is disputed due to small sample size

if we can't detect mutation, can we really tell other coronavirus from SARS-CoV2?
Amazon will deliver at-home Covid-19 test kits in Seattle trial
When I wrote that, I had no idea who Eppstein is.

I just came across https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/03/but-he-did-stay... providing commentary:

> [WaPo]: Conservatives close to Trump and numerous administration officials have been circulating an article by Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, titled “Coronavirus Perspective,” that plays down the extent of the spread and the threat.

> [lawyersgunsmoneyblog]: Richard Epstein, one of the most important academic figures in the neo-reactionary legal movement that is busily destroying the contemporary American administrative and welfare state

FWIW, the death toll in the US, 10 hours later, is now 582.
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> Actually, I'll come up with a better option... don't render any fonts locally... instead, get them when/as you need them as precisely sized bitmaps, from a font server, somewhere else on the Internet...

This sounds like:

- a latency nightmare
- a performance nightmare
- a privacy nightmare

> Of course, the drawback to this approach is, what if you want to work offline and have not downloaded the necessary fonts?

I'm calling Poe's Law on you, friend
> even though they are remarkably better across the board

I think you're pinning on incompetence a lot that has more to do with cultural mores. This doesn't seem remarkably better across the board to me. It seems neat to the technologist in me, but it also feels extraordinarily fussy, an accommodation for the weak or incapable.

I recognise we should probably move to bidets, but I wouldn't look forward to the sidelong "is he a bit weird?" glances from guests. Warmed seats is a bit like fuzzy earmuffs: probably an improvement but something I feel like I shouldn't need. In some sense, I think trying to improve a toilet at all feels weirdly epicurean.

I find this vaguely embarrassing to write, I'm not a particularly macho person and I don't like to acknowledge that sense of masculinity circumscribing my actions. But I think it would take a hell of a marketer to get me past that, especially at a steep price point, nevermind people who are openly manly.
Mt. Sinai in NYC is not currently reporting shortages of any kind. They are preparing for shortages, but are not currently experiencing them:

https://www.westsiderag.com/2020/03/23/mt-sinai-setting-up-o...

Perhaps you want to reconsider your news sources.
There is already a large amount of mutations of SARS-Cov-2: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

Most of them are irrelevant noise but some likely alter behaviour.

The influenza virus is more inviting to evolution due to having multiple nucleoproteins. If multiple strains of influenza manage to infect the same cell, the virions produced will contain a mixture of the nucleoproteins. The process is called reassortment.

Corona on the other hand has only one conneted RNA strand.

This is only what I gathered from the internet, not an expert on this.
You showed them your passport. Locals have to show a national ID.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We ban accounts that do that, and you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other places too. If you wouldn't mind reviewing them and using HN in the intended spirit only, we'd be grateful.

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I really wish (hope) that Microsoft is working on a brand new OS with a VM like thing for running legacy stuff (like Apple did with OS9 to OSX)

They really do need to start over from scratch, get rid of all the cruft, design the APIs not to suck, design in security, permissions, and sandboxing from the beginning. Make root kits and other spyware much harder. Get rid of installation scripts (more like iOS/Android/Some Mac app) and a million other things.

I don't hate windows but I hate that every app I install including every game on steam or the oculus store or humble bundle can basically own my machine.
I would argue we do use chemical weapons, but only in specific circumstances in order to generate outrage about whoever we are claiming used them to justify our own military action. The biggest value they have now is how offensive they are. And I dont mean "we" as in the United States or anything like that, I mean humanity in general. No rational actor would ever decide to use a chemical weapon unless they intended primarily to blame someone else for it.
X.org: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-14600/

MacOS: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/07/apple-image-rce.h...

What do you use?
NZ is going into lockdown earlier (but not as early as I would have liked), so that may help. We have ~150 known cases right now, with all but a handful having a clear link to international travel. If people follow the lockdown rules, it seems like it could work, but just like everywhere else, there are idiots here too, so I hope it's enforced pretty hard.
Very slick. Easy to use.

It appears that everything is done clientside, but looking through the github code it's hard to imagine that it's done with so little code and no cloud/server side processing!
This Doctor in NY seems to have had great results so far https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/stunning-ny-doctor-...

This Doctor, Health Commissioner of NYC, Oxiris Barbot, seemed to take a lot of joy in proclaiming: Today our city is celebrating the #LunarNewYear parade in Chinatown, a beautiful cultural tradition with a rich history in our city. I want to remind everyone to enjoy the parade and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about #coronavirus. https://on.nyc.gov/377LlcH

https://t.co/bwCnIb7j8H

Which Dr deserves awe and admiration and which brings with the seeming hordes of dumbfucks?

https://www.amny.com/editorial/city-leaders-seek-to-allay-fe...
Latin translation:
“It is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland”
Anyone know enough to compare to CovidWatch from folks at Stanford, about to be released?

https://www.covid-watch.org/

I think CovidWatch has the privacy focus of SafePaths and the Bluetooth mechanism of TracePaths (the Singapore app)?
Why is this a waste of time? I know nothing about it but it seems interesting enough.
> Are the unfortunate consequences worse than the alternative?

Yes. For one thing, it mis-allocates things from where they are needed to where they aren't. (Because rationing assumes that everyone has an equal need when they never do.)

For example, during WW2 gas was rationed. This produced a nation of people who either had more gas than they needed, or didn't have enough. Naturally, this produced a black market to clumsily compensate, with the resulting crime.
Would you please stop posting these violent things to HN? It's not in the spirit of this site, at all.

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NYC is offering gig workers delivery jobs during Covid-19 pandemic
It does help if you read the translation.

By now everybody should know that the successful dosis is 2x500mg per day for 10 days. Not 1x 400mg per day, which is the old dosis for Malaria prevention. This dosis needs at least 2-3 weeks to be effective (saturate the cell membranes with zinc), and by then the infection is already over. And the Chinese treatment plan contained much more.

A study with zero value.
They should introduce refrigerated toilet seats for macho men, that clean your bottom with a vigorous squirt of icy water, then dry it with a refreshing blast of cold air.
I am sorry, but isn't the mechanism of action that hydroxychloroquine is simply a zinc ionophore, i.e. you need enough free zinc in the blood for this to work? I read doctors suggesting using hydroxychloroquine along with 50mg of ionic zinc.
Sure you can, it is no different than mapping a FFI pointer inside unsafe code block, or doing a mmap like access.
Thanks, I mixed Flu with Common cold. I've corrected it.
It is a 30 patients test and almost everybody’s fever was gone right after enrollment. Even the swab test results turned negative in 2-4 days. Why is medicine ever needed for such group of patients?
South Korea did extensive testing when they successfully eradicated the virus. As user rramach points out, Ioannidis cherry picks the data in many ways, including ignoring the extensive data of South Korea. Not did was Koreans' testing program extensively documented (by Korean scientific institutions, The Western press, and etc), we know they found most or the larger portion of cases because they were able to bring new infections and deaths down to zero.

(e.g. require n95 masks in public, keeping the elderly at home, offer voluntary isolated infection to low-risk individuals to increase herd immunity, etc)

These "get the economy going" measures are totally nuts. You know 10-20% of even fairly healthy people get pneumonia and require hospitalization for virus. Most young people survive but many of those surviving suffer permanent lung damage.

Further, people between 50 and 65 make a huge contribution to the economy and taking them out for an extended period would be highly costly like all this is highly costly (but quarantine should eliminate the virus so could be even quick). Just much, quarantining just some people would require moving a vast number of people from place. IE, what happen with young people living with old people (as happens a lot). The movement of people from place to place would naturally ... spread the virus extensively. More over, where do you get the extra places for either the young living or the old leaving? The UK talked about plans, true but abandoned quickly when infection began because they are obviously impractical fantasies.

Quarantining everyone is extremely simple and just requires doing what South Korea did but on a large scale.
I don't say I agree but people have different length hair
Hello - would red hat be interested in a team of 4 programmers & project manager all ready to go and fluent in Linux/python/react style of technologies and agile methodologies? Where would I need to contact to broker a deal? My team is located in Uruguay.
Weirdly enough, just yesterday I took all available sequence data currently on GISAID, used it to estimate R0, and got ... 1.3.
No, HCQ is the Antiviral. Anti-inflammatories are also in the plan, but not Iboprofen.
Misconception is that IPC and external resources is always left out of the message, so anyone without experience in distributed computing assumes guarantees that Rust actually does not provide.
Why POSIX sh? Bash is everywhere. I once in my career had access to and needed jobs performed on a mainframe with AIX running. It had bash, it had ruby, it had day, it had fish shell. I couldn't and can't understand why people insist on asceticism (Korn shell, POSIX sh) when nicer options are available.
This works both ways though. I hope you're smart enough recognize that. There's literally nothing Trump can say or do to earn the approval of those suffering from TDS. He could say "water is wet" and you'd still argue that's not the case.
I don’t think that’s most people. If just a small percentage of people buy one extra pack just in case it disappears fast.
The PCR test we're using was specifically designed to distinguish the new Corona virus from the garden variety.
Thank you for that resource.
You will need it only depending on the type of API you are building. If redirects etc are not an issue then your won’t need it. APIs are an attack vector for hackers.
Are you hiring in Pune?
Cough for the Cure – Help Build a Model to Detect Covid
But bpf(2) isn't the only entry point for bpf filters in the kernel. Unprivileged user programs have access to the SOL_SOCKET SO_ATTACH_FILTER sockopt, as well as the PR_SET_SECCOMP SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER prctl. Now, these take cBPF programs, not eBPF - so they don't have all the fancy programming features that bpf(2) has - but they're still "code running in the kernel".
You don't have to imagine. Just read a book on life in the Soviet Union. In fact, there is a book entitled "Life in the Soviet Union":

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Soviet-Union-Report-Socialism/dp...
They are being overrun with panic of the citizenry in the U.S. so far - not with people needing hospital care. At least so says my E.R. doctor sister.
Underpromise, Overdeliver
> An economy is not something that one should have to shovels lives into to keep going.

I think this is almost the literal definition of the economy. I've been shoveling my entire life and eventually I will die.
Neo: what are you saying? That I can wipe my ass without TP?

Morpheus: I’m saying that when you’re ready, you won’t need to.
With a warning sticker that says: "DO NOT PUT REMAINING EYE OVER HOLE"
How do the Libra crypto connect the world? No sarcasm here.
I feel already damaged listening to Trump for over one hour. Watch the update yourself and you will hear it 1:1. I do not want to go thru that torture again! All his "update" could be compressed in one short paragraph.

Maybe one day I will propose a Trump compression algorithm as his vocabulary is very limited and he keeps repeating the same nonsense a million times hoping on inducing some hypnotonic effect in his low-IQ fans...
That's not the worst of the worst.

The worst of the worst is when there is nobody to run the power plants. How do you shower without electricity? There will be no water.

That said, how come people stock up on toilet paper for months, but they don't have enough food to ever survive to the point of last leaf.
Font rendering is a dark art at common resolutions of ~96dpi. These displays are not really suited to display resizable fonts (as opposed to hand-crafted bitmap fonts). To render half-way readable fonts at ~96dpi you cannot just pre-render at an extremely high resolution and then downsize using a generic algorithm. (Even ignoring the unacceptable cost). To the best of my knowledge most fonts are only readable at 96dpi because glyphs have manually picked control points to make sure that certain delicate points are aligned to the pixel grid.
Works fine in Chrome on my old phone
Boost is very relevant to the language's standard library, as it is the research ground for features that eventually end up in ISO C++ standard library.

Should we go through the ISO C++ features that were born in Boost?
A latency and performance nightmare... yes, quite possibly.

A privacy nightmare? I don't see how (unless you had to register on the font-serving machine and it tracked fonts downloaded -- but is that really privacy invading?)

Yes, there would be trade-offs (didn't I say that a couple of times?), but such is the price potentially paid for font renderer security...

That is -- get rid of the font renderer software component...

Hey, one other idea, while I'm at it... run the font renderer in a virtual machine... that could possibly work too... although given that virtual machines have the same issues with complexity and security bugs, I'm sort of 50/50 about that...

Another idea: You could have a completely sandboxed language VM -- (e.g., JVM), and if that language VM is provably secure -- run the font renderer code on it...

But again, we've seen JVM security bugs so...

I'm going to have to go with either "shrink a big bitmap" or "put the font renderer on an entirely different server and serve exact-sized bitmaps" ideas...

Or... use a 64K computer from the 1980's where the glyphs are in ROM... <g>
> They really do need to start over from scratch, get rid of all the cruft, design the APIs not to suck, design in security, permissions, and sandboxing from the beginning.

Security model is still better than what POSIX provides. As for sandboxing: "For systems running supported versions of Windows 10 a successful attack could only result in code execution within an AppContainer sandbox context with limited privileges and capabilities." From https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/ad...
Engineering details, what's the seal pressure reachable before rectal prolapse?

Yup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool
Of course majority of HN readers will proceed to set up straw-men, disregard references & argue for legitimising the populist alarmist rhetoric.
As others have said, this seems to be a Firefox issue, once you get a larger number of participants in a call it becomes unusable with a single firefox user.

I have actually considered running an instance of jitsi meet where I block out all non-chrome browsers. I don't like it, but if you pragmatically want something that works...

I really feel in this situation Mozilla should put all resources on fixing issues like these.
Vipassana meditation to reveal fears and other mental processes that are hidden. Also to repair focus disseminated by the modern culture of constant distractions. Even 15 minute session is enough to feel the potential and become more aware.

Sometimes this awareness is enough to change bad mental habits. But there are other things that you continue to do even if you understand that you don't want it. These are "imprints" NLP terminology.

To change these imprints my friend does really long Vipassana sessions for more than 10 hours. She claims to change at least one strong imprint that was "panic when staying at home alone". Which is related to an event happened when she was less than a year old.

I have not tried so long Vipassana sessions and to change my imprints I do Connirae Andreas "Core Transformation" technique. It's easier to have other person do it to you, however with enough determination you can train to do it by yourselves. Unfortunately it's still a lot of efforts to learn it. Anyway may be that helps.
(or 128 px - DCI 2K is 2048 * 1080)
S-expressions have keywords, and don't require commas between list elements. That alone goes a _long_ways towards making s-expression based languages way more readable/writable than a similar datastructure encoded in something like JSON or YAML.

Here's an example of a JSON coded query taken from a PuppetDB tutorial (PuppetDB uses a very lispy query language):

["and",
["=", "type", "User"],
["=", "title", "nick"]]

And the same code as you could write it in native s-expressions:

(and
(= :type "user")
(= :title "nick"))

...and one way you could encode it in yaml...

- and:
- =:
- type
- user
- title:
- title
- nick
I remember that saw blade (4:48) from when I first saw it years ago and I'll never forget it. There's something terrifying about it. Probably the rapid organic movement and complete lack of cover.