skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> masks can be helpful, so we should encourage everyone to wear them

Whether it does or doesn't make sense to use masks, this is not a logical argument. "Masks can be helpful" is almost certainly true, but it doesn't imply that using them is necessarily worth the cost (in terms of material, production capacity required, convenience, etc.).

"X can be helpful so we should do it", without any regard whatsoever to cost (especially opportunity cost), does seem to be the predominant thought process at the moment.
What Is App-Ads.txt and How to Implement It
If you don't develop immunity, think how that will affect the economy. With immunity, it's possible this is a temporary condition, and once we get through it, we can go back to something we almost recognize as normal, and the economy can start to recover. Without immunity, it's more like something has fundamentally changed. For example, dining out at a restaurant or seeing a movie in a theater may be things that people are not comfortable with for years.
The message from the community was to ensure mask supply for medical staff first. They are both more at risk themselves and a risk for others due to the large numbers of contacts.

Once supply is secured everyone should be educated about correct use and be encouraged to wear them.

Most of Asia already has a culture of wearing masks and existing supply chains. Europe/US did not and it takes a while to establish.
> WHO most reliable

WHO, presumably under China's pressure, discarded Taiwan's findings in December that this was human to human transmissible. Also they have a tweet in January saying the opposite. At this point WHOs reputation is same as that of OPCW.
I can't recommend enough this video of Jeremy Howard (from Fast.ai fame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDwXwZXsDI

There's a lot of scientific evidence that masks are useful.
That is exactly why I already had masks. I've kept a small stash since the Ebola epidemic.
Thank you for feedback, I'm glad you've found it to be useful.
Agree, it's not novel, but can save few minutes of work when you need to tinker with a lot of CSS properties.
And thanks for trying it on mobile, this was challenging UX task :)
You are speaking about an industry where the margins are so thin that small fluctuations in petrol price or minor geopolitical events are enough to make a dozen companies brankrupt every 2 month.

Also yes, hoping that the coronavirus make them suddenly resilient, it's pretty innocent :)
One .zip to rule them all :)
Please try to make sense in future posts.
I don’t know that we can or should regulate how much cash every single business in the country keeps on hand. Financial institutions that pose systemic risks, sure, but if a cruise company goes out of business because it was mismanaged (i.e. didn’t keep enough cash on hand) is that really something regulation should have prevented?
How is rationing working? supply is still not enough and rationing on that basis still doesn't prevent the "rich" from effectively paying straw purchasers to buy the goods they want to hoard. Hell, it doesn't even prevent people from repeatedly making visits to collect whatever is on the shelves.

I'm not convinced the US government, let alone any western government, has the plan, manpower or infrastructure in place to actually take over distribution of essentials in fair quantities.
>As I wrote:

>Bacteriophage MS2 - 23nm :

oops, misread the units!
The ventilator challenge will test ingenuity to the limit
Parasite Uses Brilliant Design and Invisible VFX to Transcend Language
This doesn't work for me... no screenshots are imported, and no new ones appear (running latest Catalina)
I'm pretty sure some ROMs already have kernel support, although I don't know details.
Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections
No, it was built because a solutions architect sat next to a film producer on a plane and talked about how to solve for his unique needs.
It's extremely conceivable to me that the conditions of developing countries means quarantine is one of those "cure is worse than the disease" scenarios. Their fate is already written based on the resources they can muster, and when many countries GDP is dramatically less than the healthcare spending of developed countries, that's not much. It's counter-intuitive to pretend otherwise. Rich countries have the luxury of saying "you can't work if you're dead", when the ground reality in poor countries is "you're dead if you can't work. The demographic pyramid of poor countries with disproportionate youth is more resilient against COVID than the Spanish Flu that targeted the young - they're in a favourable position to get through the pandemic milder interventions.
Design of a Distributed Stream Processing Engine
If they say "Masks work" when it only works 70% of the time then a lot of people will get sick despite wearing masks, there'll be a big public outcry, and people won't trust the WHO in the future.
Based on my own personal experience, I have to wonder if you're not on to something here. I wear just one glove every time I go to the supermarket and my nurse friends have been quick to point out to me that gloves are completely unnecessary. But I do not wear them because I think they'll protect me. I wear them precisely because they are a reminder not to touch my face. It's a simple reminder to myself that: "oh yeah, things are different now... be extra careful, don't touch your face, keep a safe distance from other people, etc." I'd be interested in knowing how many other people think like this. Having said all this, due to the shortages, I should probably stop wearing gloves and maybe just draw a large X on my hand or something to serve as this reminder.
Elastic Cloud January 18, 2019 Incident Report
Tailscale looks like it's creating a mesh network - he's not asking for end-users to have VPN connections between each other (what Tailscale is doing).

He's asking for a central server where he can retrieve/update/manage end-user keys, likely: because helpdesk.

You could in theory do this with any number of the existing team password managers, but I think he'd like integration directly to wireguard.

Edit: care to reply rather than just downvote? All of their documentation and examples state exactly what I'm saying. They're turning all the devices into endpoints and creating a mesh - he doesn't want users bypassing his SINGLE VPN endpoint into the company or talking directly to each other based on his description. He wants Cisco Anyconnect - only wireguard.
DNSSEC Signing Potentially Interrupted by Coronoavirus
Recycling takes a lot of energy. If you can reuse instead of recycle, it might be better.
> AIUI the WHO and others have said quite loudly that masks don't work reliably for the second case.

what does "not working reliably" mean?
EFF and Covid-19: Protecting Openness, Security, and Civil Liberties
We could solve that problem right now: Don't use LED traffic lights in areas that get snowfall.
I like this! It's scoped and does exactly what it should. I didn't know about the cropping until I read this, maybe add some text explaining the feature?
For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity
Since it was published some time ago, it may miss some tools like blend modes. Working on update now :)
Let me know if something else is missing in its toolbox.
Over-engineering is indeed fun - that was part of the point of the project, it was (and remains) a labor of love.

Modularity was actually a design consideration I really struggled with, but at the end of the day, I realized I didn't want to do just another Arduino clone where you put the whole thing together yourself. I designed Chromatron under the assumption that you'd eventually end up with a lot of them, in which case the Wifi and live coding are really useful features - I wanted and all-in-one solution. But for most people who only need 1 or 2 projects, it's overkill. I think that's part of the reason it didn't sell that well.
I tried looking at the tutorials and docs, but didn't immediately find any mention of images. Does it do images in a sane way, or does it require third-party plugins?
The benefits of integrating Apache Kafka with Istio
There were 560 cases the day they started the policy, and 2817 eleven days later. That's a "flattened" growth?

It will be interesting to see the Czech Republic's data and attempt to isolate the benefit of the policy, but I don't see how one could draw a conclusion at this point.
Same here -- it's absolutely fascinating to see the space race from the other side, as well as seeing Soviet impressions of the Apollo program and the Cold War. Highly recommended.
Johnson and Johnson, U.S. gov plan one billion doses of coronavirus vaccine
As they say, "What once was old is new again."

Beer bottle houses weren't uncommon in the late 1800's and early 1900's in the mining towns of the American deserts. There wasn't enough water to make bricks, and wood was scarce and needed for other purposes.

But where there are men, there is beer. So beer bottles were used to build homes. I've seen at least four, including one preserved by the State of Nevada in a ghost town outside Beatty.
I don't claim to be a welding expert, but the immediate and obvious answer to "why don't they simply do X", where X is more expensive and more complex than the current solution, is that for those reasons X isn't going to catch on.
Amazon could always pay their employees a fair wage and not work them to exhaustion. It wouldn't directly impact their chances of catching the virus, but it would improve their odds of survival.
I feel like your arguments are being disingenuous. All I can think of to summarize it on is for the same reasons I might want to host a file on IPFS, I may also want to use my central Git repo (the one my team pushes to) on something like IPFS.

Yes, I could host my file on Github. However I think it's well beyond my patience to argue for why IPFS(/sia/etc) should exist, in this conversation.

If you see no reason why someone would want to host anything on IPFS/sia/etc over Dropbox or Github, I'm not the person to change your mind.

This discussion merely spawned because I thought I had an idea on what the hell Dgit even is. I didn't write it, have never used it, and know next to nothing about it. Merely, I had envisioned a use case for my team using Git on IPFS, and mentioned that in these comments.
The Tyranny of Management
Depending on the mask, eg any N95 I’ve ever tried, you’ll touch your face a lot more to constantly readjust it because of skin irritation. Surgical masks are much more comfortable since they don’t form a seal.
Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
Just to add my previous answer:
the trivial native python equivalent doesn't have the same functionality, because it consumes data iterator 3 times in your case, while convtools would consume it only once.
>"Buybacks are just tax efficient dividends, and all of the hate against them is from people who don't realize this and haven't thought through the math."

No, the issue people have is not with the buybacks themselves but the massive debt binge many companies went on in order to buy these shares back. It's precisely because people have done the math.
As of a few years ago, you can change this in the cmd + shift + 5 screenshot tool, and it'll persist to the other screenshot shortcuts https://i.imgur.com/tsAmsFe.png
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Forbidding people to gather together as part of religious observance is definitely a restriction on their religious freedom.

In your example, forbidding people to gather at a certain location does not forbid them to gather elsewhere.

In the current reality, forbidding people to gather in groups > 10 people does.

However, as GP pointed out, temporary restrictions != permanent restrictions, and I don't personally know anybody, at my church or elsewhere, who sees this as part of an effort to restrict religious liberty.
What's OPCW? And how is it relevant to the financial resources available to companies and freelancers?
I think too many people (myself included) have thought incorrect things like, "Ah, wood is natural and can't hurt you". Not that wood is any more natural than lead, or arsenic. But it doesn't seem bad like inhaling smoke from things... and yet, it clearly is not good for you in the long term!
"People in the US" isn't a useful category for thought on this matter. There are subcultures where I find the idea that they will ever wear masks routinely risible. There are subcultures where I could easily see it becoming absolutely de rigueur with social consequences for non-compliance. You and I probably have different ideas about what those subcultures are, but for this post it would simply suffice to say that there would be different reactions.
I've been doing this for the past year or so.

couldn't run pihole network wide because too many shady "deal /discount" sites my girlfriend uses kept breaking, so this was my alternative.
Twilio Quest
> this reduces housing availability for "the lower classes".

Only in the areas that are popular tourist destinations. I guess that's something that NIMBYs seem to care about that I don't identify with at all. Why does it matter if poor people can afford to live in the hottest tourist areas? As we can very clearly tell from the price signals, being there doesn't benefit them nearly as much as it benefits the tourists.

As you say, the same thing applies to the long-term housing market. The price signals are telling us that there's a large social benefit to having higher-productivity workers living in urban zones, and there's an opportunity cost associated with displacing (counterfactual) high-productivity workers with low-productivity workers.
The Whale Fall at the End of the Universe
It does become a problem if the company does buy-backs on the premise that they will get bailed out in the future should something unexpected occur. Too-big-to-fail companies can count on themselves getting bailed out which causes them to keep pumping their stock price without worries.
People are stupid and use them wrong. I saw people while out shopping this week who absolutely did not handle their masks correctly; while the mask still probably helped them, I’d rather see that mask go to a medical professional who will use it correctly, especially in times of extreme shortage.
"Since I’ve been off the job, I’ve been taking money out of my 401k just to get by. I shouldn’t have to do that."

For salaried folks, this should tell you what kind of employer Amazon is. She is right: nobody should have to draw from their 401(k) in their mid-thirties.
If you look at the pictures of people wearing masks in china, most are most definitely not wearing N95 masks, those are surgical masks. The only time I’ve seen everyone wearing an N95 are pictures coming out of hospitals.
Detection is delayed. Many of those people may have got infected prior to the quarantine, or from family members during the quarantine.

But I agree, it’ll take more time to see how effective the measure is.
This will be important information in a few months when countries have lowered the new detected cases and the lift of harsh measures is considered. So there is still some time to get the data. At the current moment, they are not important for the decisions.

However I want to caution anyone to expect a large proportion of the population to test positive in these tests.

We know that South Korea was able to contain the spread before a significant proportion of the population was infected. A important part of the strategy was contact tracing. For contact tracing to work, you need to detect at least 1-1/R of cases. If we assume that other measures such as masks and limited social distancing pushed R down to 2 and assume they were able to trace 100% of contacts, then we still have only twice as many that are infected. If nobody of the cases that are still ongoing dies, we look at a lower bound of the IFR of 0.8%.
if you haven't, you will love barth's "the floating opera". my guess is that you won't be able to put it down.

also, "the sun also rises", "the stranger", "death in venice".
You can make your own cloth mask.
Daily micro-journaling cards for focus and wellness
Annual worldwide copper production is 18M tonnes and increasing. Most of it is used in plumbing and wiring. Taking a little bit for hospital hardware wouldn't impact demand much, and the extra cost would be a rounding error compared to all of the other equipment that goes into a modern healthcare facility.
> Personally, I'm pretty bad at soldering, so maybe it's time to finally swear off hardware projects.

I wear gloves when soldering, and I'm building a fume extractor (currently using an out-of-room Shop Vac). Terrible at it, but getting better. Don't let your current skill level hold you back! It takes some work and practice, but so does everything else in life.
Linux Kernel and Measuring network throughput
There’s a big difference between a nuanced message and a lie. If you see The WHO statements as a lie, you lack the understanding of the situation needed to make a thoughtful decision, and it’s for the best that you were misled.

People who read the news and get “masks don’t work” out of it should not be using masks until there are enough available for professionals who need them.
I'm actually interested how AWS handles exponential cases like this. They must throttle it somehow, otherwise something dumb like this would be causing availability issues everyday.
I made this as a YC SUS side project as it was difficult finding time to chat with colleagues compared to in real life. This allows people to mark that they are ready to have a break, rather than scheduling something in the calendar, so can better work around people's schedules.
Works nicely on a phone, as you go and grab a tea and biscuit :)

Feel free to pop in and try it out in my room: https://virtualcoffeebreak.app/group/hello
More than 5k inmates at this prison die every year (2019)
From hearing nurse aquaintances talk on Facebook, listening to This Week in Virology, etc it seems that the idea that surgical masks don't protect you from getting sick is very pervasive in the western medical community. And from a medical community standpoint it's true! If you're working with sick people every day and just use a surgical mask you'll probably get sick eventually. But in the game of telephone that is horizontal knowledge transfer "Surgical masks are generally insufficient for consistent protection in a medical setting" becomes "surgical masks don't work" and then becomes "a surgical mask won't protect you when you're going to buy groceries."
Jeremy Howard's list of sources is here: https://tiny.cc/maskswork
I finally got around to reading it about a year ago and the line that hooked me was right in the beginning. "We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on 'good' rather than 'time' and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes."
I'm afraid that is not an option, this leads to an inevitable conclusion that absolutely every facet of society should be completely shut down. Amazon or any company for that matter can't guarantee a "safe" work environment from COVID-19 for at least 2 years given the widespread pandemic nature we are now living in. When you get a confirmed case of the virus in your workplace or house, you've already likely been exposed for days if not weeks.

Shutting down and "cleaning" will mean the entire distribution center has to close. Since once someone has a confirmed case, you can bet they spread it to many other people.

Furthermore, I would presume at this point, you're more likely to get COVID-19 from going to the grocery store or the door handle to your apartment building, than working at an Amazon distribution center.

At some point, we as a society have to determine a new path forward, our current path is unsustainable given that likely 70-80% of the population has or will contract COVID-19. Multi-month shutdowns aren't going to be saving any lives at this point. We have done about as much as we can to "flatten the curve" and hopefully prevent some portion of deaths from hospitals being overrun which they already are since every bit of data we've seen from this virus has been delayed.
Hey, this looks really good! Didn't even know that the information about those studies was accesible. I don't understand the phases meaning, can you explain them? Maybe a table or tooltip somewhere could help.
I've read this while I was a student messing up with gnu/linux and sometimes writing shell scripts and after having worked as gnu/linux sysadmin reading and writing shell scripts for a living.

It's amazing to see how many shell pearls and tricks these pages are interspersed with.
GM’s 4-week sprint to build emergency ventilators
One intriguing question that I can't answer today is whether or not this global pandemic is the exception, or whether 100+ years without a global pandemic is the exception.

Not to mention, you look out over the next 50-100 years, you gotta be concerned about biological warfare. Having a population that knows how to handle a pandemic keeps the non-science-fiction viruses at bay pretty well.
> improvise using layered paper towels and tissues because those are readily available nonwoven fabrics.

sorry is there a youtube video for this. Just want to make sure i don't make a mistake.
They've been working on mitigating the problem
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/darksat-is-di...
Introduction to Venture Capital [video]
Unfortunately, it is not. I already tried various kernel modules to support (i.e. detect) the hardware. Apparently, there is a reason why Arch chose some specific compiler flags for the kernel. I don't really want to start building my own kernel (there's a reason I chose Arch, not Gentoo).
This is great! Thanks a lot.
I spent years collecting and returning those glass bottles, and to this day maintain that Irn-Bru tastes better from a glass bottle than a plastic one!

I had no idea the program had stopped, but I guess it must have been around the time I left Scotland.
Fair wages are determined by the market, the ground work done at Amazon is not highly skilled with a surplus of labor that is capable of doing the job.
Or add optional heating elements to the traffic light package that turn on automatically based on temperature sensors.
I think the idea is that they do help you. They provide alerts and and APIs that can be used to programmatically control all of your infrastructure. So in a sense having a Lambda listen for billing events and respond in a way appropriate to your particular organization may be pretty close to the best solution.
The creation of SwiftUI (2015-2016)
Power features in file manager nnn (Part 2)
Opera browser showing Disney Plus overlay ads on Netflix.com for some users
Not so long ago, a developer would have to test with every type of browser to see if the site was working.

Now that is mostly fixed, but instead the developer has to test with every type of plugin/blocker ...

Sigh.
If you die because you have Covid-2019 and your lungs get filled with liquid, then it's definitely Covid-2019 that kills you, not the cancer

But the stats don't track if you died because "your lungs get filled with liquid". They only track if you die and the virus was present in a PCR test.

I find this narrative particularly dangerous

And yet you failed to understand it properly. It's faulty and facile reasoning like yours that is leading Twitter to delete tweets by elected national leaders; they think they're much smarter than they really are.
Now if I could just get any kind of particulate-reducing mask for a semi-reasonable price...
This is the second installment of the 2-part series. We decided to have a distinct section in the Wiki for these type of features which may not be very obvious to the users from the rest of the documentation.