skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>With a bit more advanced setup, you could even completely cut off the adblock process from accessing any files or any other resources related to the browser, further nailing down security.

>How would that even work? The adblocking process has full access to whatever's being passed through it, and therefore it can eavesdrop or tamper (eg. inject malicious js) with the contents.

A web browser is so much more than just the network traffic. Consider the mouse & keyboard input, the browsing history, the cache, the security credential store, the connection to display, GPU, USB and Bluetooth devices, microphones & cameras... the list goes on. This includes ability to read and write local files, start new processes, compile and run code. And then there are other HTTP user agents, like automatic software update tools.

Most of this functionality shouldn't be needed by, nor accessible to, an ad blocker.

Lastly, you could put much stricter resource usage limits (CPU time, operating memory) on an adblocking process than on a web browser, thwarting whole classes of resource exhausting attacks.

>only worse because it only works locally

You can apply varying levels of restricting any net traffic not passing through the adblock, up to and including dropping any such traffic. Ability to ad-filter HTTP traffic of an email client, RSS reader (i know, 2020) and similar user agents would be good.
The joint statement, an open letter really, was written to the Chinese government - not the Chinese people as the current post title implies.

The title of the WP post is "An open letter to the Chinese government"
Honestly I mixed this with riot.im
Well, if the Lean methodology is so great for the entire supply chain, why it suddenly shouldn't be applied to the last link - the consumer? Building up a buffer is against just-in-time principle :P.

(The truth is, JIT supply chains simply aren't designed to survive events like a global pandemic. They're control systems overtuned to extract the last bits of efficiency from trade, and fall into bad oscillations when disruptions happen. As we can see today.)
I'm not peddling theories, I'm raising honest questions that I hope rational minds on HN can challenge me on. Peddling hate won't convince me. :)

I'll assume for a second that you're Indian... let's say your brother were to become Muslim tomorrow. Would he be any less Indian after the fact? Or any less your brother? No he wouldn't. Muslims in India aren't Arabs who invaded and settled, they're Indians who converted. Go back far enough and you probably have a common, Indian ancestor with most of them.
> I know brave isnt the most popular product / business model

Curious what you mean by this. Are BATs unpopular or is there some other issue with the browser itself?
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Nonsense, the kinds of low-IQ folk that can follow any presidential speech can understand 'new flu-like virus' instead of 'Chinese virus'.

He is scum.
aside from outages, these sounds like self-inflicted problems.
Large ships have a lot of passengers. In the US Men hit a 2% chance of death at 68, which jumps to 3.6% at 75. At 85 that jumps to 9.6%, and by 95 your at 26% and the numbers keep increasing.

This means you can’t simply look at the average age to estimate risk factors. Still a 2% risk of death per year x 3000 people = 1.15 deaths per week ignoring crew. In other words what you’re describing is still a fairly heathy population.
"...a limitation on numerics."

My understanding is that measuring quantities smaller than the Planck limits is problematic. (IIRC, the energy of a photon needed to make the measurement is large enough to create a black hole.) As a result, it's not just "numerics"; the theory may be symmetric, but the physical system cannot be observed to be.
A business owner could sell more targeted ad space instead of whatever commercials are run by the station. During college football games on ESPN, there are no beer ads and a huge amount of ads for Coke Zero. You go to a bar to drink beer so there shouldn't be an issue with running ads for whatever beer they serve. You could display specials menus or run quick trivia games or advertise gift cards/merch. You could even run local commercials to make the system have a really visible ROI. Finding your ROI on running specials menus might require some advanced accounting skills but getting paid to run local ads requires little skill to realize the benefit.
I'm going to get downvoted for this but the corporate folks that will eventually pull out their credit cards and pay you for this service have never heard of the screen command much less used a command line interface. I think you should stick with the name.
The final goal of ever endeavor is not always profits.
Now that Olympic Games are cancelled they don’t have much reason to cook numbers anymore. I expect a gradual change in tune of official communication starting immediately.
There are no clear internal dividing lines, everyone is mixed together. And there is plenty of antagonism between nation states even without significant religious differences; for example see the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
Immunologist needs help with Covid-19 database, not just for positive test cases
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The whole blockchain ecosystem has inherent flaws that the sweep under the rug.
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Joke apart, yes, someone asks for a concise, plain explanation and looks like it can't be provided.
It’s because we have really been in the midst of a stupidity epidemic for at least the last 5 years and our debt has finally come due.
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Why or why not?
Great question!

1. From Gophish: you need to be technical and you need at least a week off to prepare the attacks. With Riot, you can be sending attacks in a matter of minutes.

2. From Knowbe4, …: those are products made for enterprise companies, that are trying somehow to adapt to smaller companies. Riot is doing the opposite: it was built with smaller companies in mind.

Overall, I think there's a huge need today for product-centric cybersecurity companies, where most of the big players are sales-centric companies.
Look, the US and everywhere is more interested in financializing everything, leveraging and doing all kinds of other stupid shit in order to make money without actually producing anything. So this is what you get.

Want strong civil defense? Look at Switzerland.
Collateral damage? There's no vaccine for this disease and we may not get one for years. We have to develop immunity for it at some point. We can't live in a bubble. A body in quarantine is safe but that is not what bodies are for.
"I've been keeping an eye on rsync.net for while. I really like a lot of the things you're doing."

Thank you - appreciated!

" think SSH is pretty much the best way of doing remote file management that we have today."

I will alert you to the issue of deep inefficiencies in SSH/SFTP over long WAN links. This problem has been solved by HPN-SSH[1] and is likely already built into your OpenSSH distribution, but I mention it here because it is not very well known ... we run into customers doing long, distant (hops) transfers over SSH that we sometimes need to step through the process of updating their ssh so they can negotiate HPN-SSH with us. It's also worth noting that you can configure ssh do use a "null" cipher which might be applicable with borg uploads, bit I digress ...

"The main problems are it's hard to share stuff and it doesn't work in browsers."

This is true - and by design. There will never be anonymous / non-credentialed access to rsync.net accounts and no rsync.net storage array will ever run an httpd. Our nmap results will always be one line long: TCP22/sshd.
Mise En Place is a very important skill in cooking. Its also easy if you batch things up and further take advantage of modern help.

Ex: you can buy carrots precut from the grocery store in "matchstick" form. You can buy pre-minced garlic. You can buy pre-soaked + cooked canned beans. There's no reason to work overly hard preparing meals.

Not everything is available pre-made in the grocery store. But the preparations you do can be batched up into larger sections. Cut the entire onion, or two, or three. Then tomorrow, you have pre-cut onions for other meals. Don't cook 1 cup of rice for today, cook 3 or 4 cups, so that you have rice for fried rice tomorrow.

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I like the idea of prep-work being applied to writing. Batching additional work together can make you more efficient in cooking, so it makes sense that batching research together (for many different articles) would make you a more efficient writer, when it comes to writing many (say, 50 articles) at once.
This is a fantastic article. I often have a similar process when writing code. The ideation (architecture, user input, etc) and research (ensuring the existence of all necessary APIs, etc) are separate phases for me. Once the ideation and research are mostly complete, the writing of the code is usually a breeze, and I end up with having to refactor/rearchitect a lot less than if I start by writing code.
Further, sometimes users aren't truly aware of the implications of what making a bucket "public" means. Heck, maybe the original use-case wasn't too concerning, but it changed over time. The folks writing/reading from the bucket are also likely distinct from those setting up the infrastructure - although that's (thankfully) not always the case these days, it certainly can still be.

This reminds me of how React has a dangerouslySetInnerHTML[1] API - sometimes it's the hammer you need, but the name should (hopefully?) cause pause.

[1]: https://reactjs.org/docs/dom-elements.html#dangerouslysetinn...
The audience that you posted this at will never get over that unfortunate product name, as I bet they are heavy users of the real screen program, (or tmux)

Has there been no real research that your chosen name is already taken?
I think that the coronavirus situation will teach liberal-minded folks that individual rights are always contingent on public health and public well-being, and it will teach Americans in particular the need for a notwithstanding clause in the Constitution so that the government can take action if necessary. We tend to interpret First Amendment rights as absolute, but only a Sith deals in absolutes.
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook is also practically a must-read for those in the field.

https://www.amzn.com/B005LVQA9S/
That's because you're not a LoL player ;-)
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Many scientists say that viruses aren't alive because they can't reproduce. But they actually do reproduce by parasitizing a host.
Two things:

1) GNU Screen exists and people use it everyday to do something similar.
2) Why do you mention that started Screenhero and that Slack acquired that company in the banner? That’s great for you, it just comes off a little haughty, because it’s pretty irrelevant to a new user reading about this product imo
Not at all a physicist, but I think I can take a stab at this. I think so far we only see CPT (charge, parity & time reversal) symmetry as being a fully unbroken symmetry of nature within the context of what you're asking. (I believe the weak force breaks a simple time reversal symmetry.)

Time symmetry is typically synonymous with energy conservation in classical mechanics. It get's more complicated when you introduce quantum mechanics, and lorentz invariance from relativity. In essence though, there's probably an analogous invariant to energy conservation for CPT symmetry. Maybe this is just lorentz invariance for a quantum field theroy? Not quite sure.

Implications of seeing that symmetry broken would be huge since the CPT theorem implies that a quantum field theory obeying lorentz invariance obeys a CPT symmetry. (I'm guessing by an application of Noether's theorem?) SO a violation of that would be either a violation of lorentz invariance (which would be VERY interesting) or some type of violation of the assumptions of quantum field theory. In essence, it would mean new physics!
I’ve been wishing for a ScreenHero replacement for years. It seems odd to me that no one came out with a replacement earlier, but I’m super excited to try this out now!
I have so many friends that seem to be just reveling in the pandemic. If someone posts a picture of themselves anywhere but on their couch they comment "STAY HOME!" and they do nothing but post memes about how people aren't staying inside or how everyone needs to wash their hands. Any good news is met with extreme skepticism but any bad news is treated as absolute truth.

It's literally all they do anymore and I just can't imagine living my life so negatively.
So, the point is that margins on the UI boundaries of a component are a bad idea. Margins are a visual side-effect, which break the idea of keeping components encapsulated.

It's not anything new really, everybody has experienced pain to try to reuse a component but it's badly encapsulated so it's painful to fit in a new context. It's always worth making it clear and reiterating basic principle under different lights, but this "considered harmful" like you discovered a new law of physics always feels pretentious to me
Very good point.

Most people do not include counter-factuals in their thought process. I would go further and propose that not only do most people not even know what counter-factuals are, but many of them would be extremely psychologically resistant to the very idea.

A similar example of this is: go into a forum, find someone who is predicting the future, point out to them that they are predicting the future, and observe the result. Now do this 100 or 1000 times and keep track of your results.

"But this is just people being stupid!"

I disagree. Yes, it is indeed people being stupid....but is it "just" that?
"Health professionals" are just another interest group filled with leftist fools, total Dunning Kruger effect going in most quarters there. In my Biostats courses at UNC I ran into the same personality type over and over and over again. I get that they're well-intentioned, but they're too proud to know what they don't know.

We'll get through this, regardless. Plenty of brilliant minds coming to the fore right now.
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Until this post, I hadn’t thought of GNU Screen at all. It isn’t a tool that I’ve used in more than 5 years, and is not top of mind for me at all.

Also, no one in our private beta ever raised this concern.

Screen just switched to public beta today, and the idea is for us to get feedback on issues we may not have seen before. This is a great example of such an issue! And as I’ve said elsewhere, if this continues to be an issue, we will change it. It’s not in our interest to have customer confusion either.
So, I've been going down a rabbit-hole on how environmental change accelerates the evolution of pathogens and our current uptic of zoonotic diseases (covid19, Ebola, etc). The linked article mentions a more computational approach, but doesn't go into much detail. I would love to see more discussion on the subject!
This is a really good point that I think people will slowly figure out.

We live in a rural area with essentially no school age kids nearby, so we're very aware that during summer, Christmas break, etc, we have to arrange ways to keep our 10 year-old in contact with kids his age. In summer we usually sign him up for the in-school daycare a couple days a week so he can see his friends and we also arrange to visit other families with kids he knows frequently, trips to the park, library, etc.

However, in the current situation, that's all gone flying out the window. A least, because of where we live, there's lots of space to go outside and play without coming into contact with anyone outside this household. I shudder to think how quickly we'd all go insane trapped in a small apartment!
Same here in yet-to-be-hit pocket at other side of US, SoCal. Hardware store staff conferring with grey-haired customers at 2' distance. No sanitizer anywhere.
well, system of black holes would lose some energy via gravity waves, this isn't something that could be reversed, yes?
Congrats on the exit (money helps live life on easy mode), but after being left to hang out to dry with the acquisition and losing access to Screenhero (which was absolutely essential at the time at a fully remote org), I would never consider a non OSS solution again for this use case.

I would absolutely pay for any open source competitor to this type of product, preferably one that integrated with Jitsi (which itself is open source). Fool me once.
It does not go from zero to overload in two weeks and nobody knows where India is on the curve.
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I haven't consented to the WaPo site so not read the article.

I live in Sweden, with preschoolers. Unlike in neighboring Norway and Denmark, the preschools and elementary schools have not closed down.

According to https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb... under "Varför stänger vi inte för- och grundskolorna i Sverige?" (Why don't we close pre- and elementary schools in Sweden?)

> We believe that it is not at present a meaningful measure to close all schools in Sweden. There are no scientific studies showing that such a measure would have any significant significance. Also, there are no data pointing to any major spread of covid-19 in schools anywhere in the world.

> Closing preschools and primary schools would also have negative consequences for the rest of society. For example, many parents who work in healthcare and other socially important functions would need to stay home with their children. It could also lead to vulnerable groups, such as grandparents, helping to care for the children.

That said, the interview with Christian Drosten in Die Zeit (linked from HN) at https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/christian-dros... points out:

> ZEIT ONLINE: The country is grinding to a halt. Daycare centers and schools have been closed nationwide as of this week. Is the government reacting appropriately at the moment?

> Drosten: Few of the decisions made in recent days were purely evidence-based. Many were political, and certainly correct. ...

> ZEIT ONLINE: It is said that you played a central consultative role in the decision to close schools. Was it the correct decision to do so now?

> Drosten: I don't know. It probably won't be clear until later whether it was the right time to do this. ... I don't see my job as condensing the truth, but as explaining aspects of the truth and allowing for uncertainties and saying, 'We don't know' – which makes a political decision necessary. And as long as it's communicated as a political decision, I think that's fine.
There's only so many trillions of dollars the Fed can print before the whole structure of the economy buckles. And when economies buckle, death and despair ensue. The economy is about more than just making money. The Great Depression caused a lot of secondary effects including World War II. We definitely want to avoid situations like that.

EDIT: All complex decisions involve trade-offs. Right now, there's at least a few dozen more likely ways that people will die other than COVID-19. Heart disease, cancer, car accidents, even seasonal flu currently has a higher death count. You cannot lock down the economy for months on end, ratchet up unemployment to 30%+, and continue to feed people and keep their housing and shelter paid for. People's lives and livelihoods depend on the economy staying functional and healthy. It's not trivial. You have to find some way of moving forward without locking down all 320 million people. Maybe you look at areas of outbreak and you quarantine those areas on a piecewise basis. You ramp up testing, you use masks in public, you do something pro-active to keep the economy going. You provide assistance to those that are at high risk, but you let low risk individuals get back to work and keep the economy moving. The food you eat. The healthcare services you depend on. The military. The semi-truck drivers delivering products and services. The aircraft to transport products and people. All of that depends on the economy working.

Kindly keep the nasty comments about trying to dissuade me from discussing these important topics to yourself.
That doesn't matter. If you have operations in the US, you have to pay US taxes. Now they may be getting around those taxes, but they have to file.
> The virus has a name Covid 19

Which was so named after the Chinese government put significant pressure on the WHO. Giving the Chinese government a free pass at bullying international organizations and the scientific community also potentially has great harm.

I do understand your point though. It is unfortunate that widespread malice is actually observed. But I would rather try to educate, however futile it may be.
It would be better if the parties that were proved wrong could show some generosity to admit they were wrong, apologize and give some indication that, given the magnitude of this event, they would be more willing to swallow their pride and listen to others in the future.

Unfortunately _that_ seems to be off the table. So what if the counterparty wants to taunt them a little? Maybe it's rude but at least they're not killing people.

I don't think any group in this country is mature enough not to operate with pride at all, but it's amazing how far some people will go to avoid admitting fault.
The identity of that first Wikipedia user to write about it—with those completely unrelated sources—remains a mystery, but all available evidence suggests that it was a person having a laugh, nothing more.

Wonder how many other Wikipedia entries have a similar provenance?
The US is doing just fine and there is no need for further authoritarian measures right now. We'll do what me must when we must.
The point is that we outsourced everything. Being on the top of a hollowed out value chain, while efficient, is a precarious place to be, because the bottom of the chain can just flip you on your head. A good brand will allow you to release one flop, but not three. The name of Compaq’s supplier in Taiwan? Asus.
Other stores with generous return policies (REI, etc) have had to cancel them because of abuse. I'm glad Costco recognized the abuse that was in play and acted to shut it down.
What about power requirements we don't currently have? Ideas like these might become useful for building technology that interacts with building blocks of life in a different way than a bulk process (like lithography).
In the future we will likely have different tools to handle dependencies and environments. If these things aren't immediately useful, it might be worth teaching other stuff instead.
I don't think the existing viruses that infect humans are so important. The problem is rather mutation - or evolution - any virus that at the moment does not affect humans can suddenly develop into one that infects humans, and this is how COVID-19 started. Land living animals are the greatest risk here because their bodies essentially work the same as humans and farming them increases the amount of viruses and thus the potential for a mutation to spread fast.