skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creator of the course, Professor Laurie Santos also has a podcast on the same topic which is quite good: https://www.happinesslab.fm/
> Most HN readers saw this for exactly what it was.

Yes, it's a national security issue.

The rest of your post is nonsense as well.

And by the way, you forgot to mention that "a chinese CFO" is related to the president of Huawei, a member of the PLA.

You can always spot the Huawei apologists because they never seem to mention the PLA connection.
Correct. This isn't looking through traffic for search information. It's just aggregates based on traffic volumes to our customers' properties. So based on their domain and nothing else.
> China had an obligation to its citizens and to the world. The CCP decided they didn't care if the virus went worldwide. That's homicide, and they should pay for making people whole again.

I'm no fan of the CCP, but this is ridiculous. In your hypothetical world where China takes action to prevent this, what would they have done? The common reaction from public health professionals to the Hubei lockdown was that it was unprecedented and was unlikely to work (e.g. [1]). Are you saying that it's reasonable to expect them to have done more, sooner?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/unprecedented-chinese-...
This post is arguing that US is extremely behind in technological advancement because of historically insufficient focus on STEM education. However one might argue that US isn't actually that weak when it comes to tech. There are a good number of technology companies and research that came out of the US in the past 50 years.
> No problem you would say, except for the fact that they constantly had to keep their hand in front of their mouth to keep the scarf up.

Given the choice, I pretty much prefer that over the scenario where they carry the virus and freely spread it into the environment by having zero filters between their airways and the world.

Scarves over the mouth and nose are not a panacea. They are a way to mitigate the problem.

Counterpoint: I've seen policemen wearing masks on their chin instead of their mouth and nose.
> relatively authoritarian societies

Relatively authoritarian societies like Taiwan that switched parties in a recent election, or SK that impeached their head of state not too long ago.
I had the same reaction at first, but after a bit of thinking I reached this:

You can do without it, sure, but if you don't have a bidet then it's inconvenient and annoying.
Toilet paper is cheap, easy to store and it does not degrade (in a meaningful timeframe).

Basically, unless you are really space constrained, there are no downsides to having more than needed, so why not buy extra?

I say this as someone who had to go without a couple days because the stores had been cleared of any toilet paper.
shouldnt be a surprice bro. they have been doing this for decades but still under the pretense of the opposite. protecting marketshare, by bringing up national security as excuse is no surprise move.
Tourists' stomachs with (some of) your foods, allegedly!
TSMC reports one Covid-19 case, 30 employees in quarantine
Yes. I've said in similar threads the existential threat to the party here is economic ruin and failure to protect the people: the belief all things in China are lies is false hope for anti communists, the Chinese communist party needs this problem solved just as much as the west does.
It doesn't matter if you got it from Trump or not, my points regarding the idea that somehow "China" is at fault still stands.

With sufficient preparation and action the effects could have been mitigated. Other countries like Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong have shown this to be possible (granted they are smaller, but also arguably at higher risk due to their trade with China and also much much denser than the USA).

But probably the most important reasons why you cannot blame China is that

1) the virus cannot be contained, even if you tried (or Europe, or any of the hundreds of countries it spread to are just as easily culpable for not containing especially since Trump banned China travel early on)

2) the virus just happened to have mutated from an animal in China and it just happened to have been highly contagious. This was just bad luck on China's part. You can also read Bill Gates' explanation for WHY in this video of the reddit posts from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwmLbhA8Kyw

Basically, these viruses are very common and in the past the US/Mexico was responsible for H1N1 (Swine Flu)... except in this case we all just got unlucky and this one has a long incubation period, high transmissibility, mild symptoms (leading to hubris from infected people) and a total lack of global preparation.

I understand you are angry and have family members at risk, but that doesn't excuse you from prejudicial blame that will burden the people of a country of billions of people for something they did not have control over and were not responsible for. And it also will not save your family members and is wholly unproductive (as is all mis-assigned blame). The severity of the virus at this point has little to do with the virus itself and more to do with our total lack of preparation, lack of action because a) "trusting China" is not a valid excuse, as we've never done so in the past, and b) China reported the virus well in advance, not to mention the epidemic spread wildly in South Korea and Europe well before it was noticed in the USA.
Um, yes?! Is that surprising?
Google image search changed drastically recently. Have you searched for (NSFW!) "podesta art" and "jimmy comet instagram"?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37543
You talk a lot about boosting your immune system. This is very hard to study because immune function is broad and complex so it's hard to measure and test any such claims. Therefore claims like these are widespread but often not backed up with good science.

The best way to boost your immune function is to be exposed to a pathogen. Then you will develop antibodies. Those antibodies boost your ability to avoid that pathogen. Vaccines work in a similar way. Of course this advice is currently useless in the context of COVID-19.

Specific foods and supplements might help here and there, but most of the evidence is that they are antimicrobial (antibiotic/antiviral/antifungal) in vitro. There's much less research in vivo. That's not to say that some foods won't help, but just not to rely on them having a significant effect in your body. The effect, if any, is probably very slight.

There is stronger evidence for a healthy lifestyle: regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, getting adequate sleep, avoiding infection, not smoking, minimizing stress. Some good evidence for sun exposure too.

Back on the foods though, you didn't mention black elderberry syrup (sambucus nigra). A 2004 study (randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled) showed efficacy against influenza.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080016
and a 2016 study (randomized, double blinded, placebo controlled) showing it reduced the duration of the common cold (often a coronavirus): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848651/ And it's quite safe -- Europeans traditionally use it for pancake syrup.
Waschlappen would be something like “Wash Cloth”. Lappen is one of my favourite German words.
The main thing that seems to cause the paradox is a lack of specificity around the door opening mechanism. If you make it clear that Monty only opens a door that will definitely be empty, I find that most commentators will agree that Marilyn is correct, you should switch.
China appears to be there now for me, and I hadn't noticed it missing previous days.
What about Qualcomm, Motorola, Intel?
So for getters and setters a Jit can inline the function call and in the end you have a direct memory access.
In your example you have to cast because URLConnection could be a HttpURLConnection or JarURLConnection.
But again a good Jit would speculate that it is always a HttpURLConnection and deoptimize if not.
The average reader of HN would rather have their data shared with the US, then with China.

Not many good things have come out of China privacy related. It's against what a lot of readers here value in our "digital Life".

Who here truelly believes the "0" Covid case numbers that China is publishing? :)
Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder
> a member of the PLA

If China were to ban retired US army officers from running companies, I think a double digit of American tech companies should start thinking of liquidation

Moreover, Chinese military is in remarkably bad relationship with the party at large after, if you didn't know.

Even a flag rising ceremony in Beijing was done not by military, but police up until recently
UK banned Huawei from all critical parts of their network, all sensitive locations (factories, military, energy, etc), as well as restricted market share to 30% elsewhere. They also officially labeled Huawei as the only provider that is a threat to national security. Even Beijing slammed their decision. Trump wanted to have the complete ban to go even further, but that wouldn't bring any practical value to the UK given the limitations they did impose.
I was realistic. We are at two weeks now and 260 new deaths yesterday. Its unimaginable how stupid UK "plan" was.

Btw I read an interesting conspiracy theory today. Dominic Cummings https://news.sky.com/video/prime-ministers-chief-adviser-in-... , author of herd immunity aka >500K dead at minimum plan spend 10 years in Russia in the nineties. Russia isnt all that fond of UK.
Publicado el estudio: "An international comparison of the second derivative of COVID-19 deaths after implementation of social distancing measures" => https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.25.20041475v...

Pronóstico para España, peor que el de Italia en Mayo de 2020, 45.000 víctimas. El pico llegaría a mediados de Abril con 2.200 víctimas diarias.
Piggly Wiggly (invention of self-service shopping)
Viruses can mutate and come from anywhere. Granted that animal market probably was not very hygienic, H1N1, Spanish Flu (which did not originate from Spain), pox viruses, mad cow, all did not originate from China. You're probably holding this opinion because those are the freshest in your mind?
On some level it's a battle between two ways of running a country. One could expect nothing less than dirt and lies being flung about.
I've thought the same thing and after spending time in Asia I got really accustomed to using a water hose. This whole thing (among other things) has made me question the practicality of toilet paper even more, strongly considering installing a hose in the bathroom.
I remember reading somewhere that Pass could be used with libsodium (or age), but I cannot find the source now, sorry.

One difference I see between this and pass is that spicypass is storing all the credentials in a single file. If you don't want to leak metadata with pass you have to add pass-tomb[1].

Anyway I just use pass (gopass actually) and I have no problems, it's a great improvement over a text editor.

[1] https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb
Kudos to the developers at Walmart Labs. They clearly know their stuff.
I could be completely wrong here, but isn't it a pretty big risk to start doing actual business (i.e. selling your stuff for money, using your personal bank account to cash your business' checks) before you incorporate? Because at that point, if there is a legal dispute can't you be held personally liable and get really screwed?

I'm imagining a scenario where you have some sort of SAAS that a customer uses, then there is some issue (could be real, could be made up or the customer's fault, but I doubt a court could tell before trial) and the customer sues you for some huge amount of "potential lost revenue". Just the pessimist in me talking, but I'm pretty sure I've read before about things like this. Incorporation is so cheap, I don't see why you wouldn't just do that right before you start doing actual business to protect against this scenario.
Not quite. Ocado[1] (who I use almost exclusively), lets you fill the basket full of food, and then when you pick a slot, it tells you what's out of stock for that delivery slot, letting you pick alternates if available.

However, the 'correct' way is to pick the slot first, as that way you can see what's out of stock as you shop - this does put you on a time limit though, as the slot can only be held for 1 hour (I think).

So it's not enforced, but it is preferable.

---

[1] pre-corvid-crisis
My personal take is:
Huawei belongs to CCP.
Korean and US companies do not belong to their governments.

This should be an issue by default, in my opinion. That said it's not why I distrust Huawei (not that I trust Google, Cisco, Qualcomm all that much more - but I give them more benefit of the doubt). I don't even care about ATT because if you trust your carrier you're already toast, and I do not know any carrier that I respect as a company (despite them having great employees).

Here's why I distrust Huawei and similar companies:

From my 20y incident response experience in the field at very large companies, we've never caught the NSA or similar US agencies. Either because they're too good, we're unlucky, they're too bad at it, or because they don't actually need to, or do not backdoor. Who knows.

What does bother me is that we caught other countries several times, sometimes using terribly bad tactics (where the defense was bad for various reasons that are usually also bad) and sometimes using relatively novel stuff that we'd never see before.

Thankfully you do not have to trust me, ask any security engineer at any big company (amazon, fb, uber, google, lockheed, etc.). They'll either say they're not allowed to speak about it or give you an answer that's similar to the above (or break their NDAs, alternatively, I guess?!)
Github supports the IPython notebook format.

I much rather prefer that for literate programming.
Hey, for me it took me a while to understand it as well, so I created a cheatsheet[1] and a tutorial[2] (shameless plug). Maybe they are helpful to you.

[1] https://woile.github.io/gopass-cheat-sheet/

[2] http://woile.github.io/posts/sharing-team-secrets/
The coronavirus pandemic drove life online. It may never return
Show HN: Snips – CLI snippet management with fuzzy search
I always thought that was a simple fiction to stop selfish hoarders from giving themselves a (randomly chosen) 10% better chance of staying healthy as opposed to people who actually need a mask to have a 200% better chance of not developing life-threatening symptoms.

But of course, truth is more important than lives. Which will earn lots of anger from people who contributed to the mask shortage, but I don't care. I'm not saying I'm right about the previous paragraph, just that it's a simpler explanation based on basic human nature than some conspiracy theory.
When it comes to building the mobile network itself, none of the companies you mention have any footprint in that space. It's really the 3 (Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei) along with some less prominent players (Samsung, ZTE etc). The vast majority of networks are using the big 3.
Warren Buffett has the cash to buy Tesla, Starbucks, or McDonald's
iOS exploit chain deploys LightSpy feature-rich malware
Same is Slovakia. When looking on handling the covid spread, it seems that generally central/east european countries are doing surprisingly good job compared to western europe, which is rather clueless and is paying/will a rather pay high price for this incompetence.
> but AFAIK the Java compiler throws away any type information from the source code

You're thinking about generics. .class files preserve a whole bunch of type information (I'm building a .class decompiler in my free time, and I'm looking at that very same data in my debugger ATM).
I was accidentally following coronavirus from its absolute infancy because of some strange subreddits I follow (r/n_n_n). I became f r e a k e d out about this thing and how it destroyed the way of life in Wuhan.

I tried to warn my friends and family to prepare and take this seriously by writing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TOQezig4-wV6Hhl5e5Ub_D01...

In it I had a section on why I thought the numbers emerging from Wuhan were not accurate, which read:

...

On top of this have been the extremely grim videos coming out of China showing bodies
piling up. It is not easy for people to get damaging information about China out beyond its ‘Firewall’, so it is my personal view that these videos are the tip of the iceberg.

You will not enjoy clicking on these links, but you can if you want to see some of the reality
where there has been outbreaks:

https://www.reddit.com/r/N_N_N/comments/ezjpcc/more_video_of...
en_from_private/ - 20 days [this was written on 27th Feb, so 20 days ago means 7th Feb]

https://www.reddit.com/r/N_N_N/comments/eyuz5z/lots_of_bodie...
ntage_is_bs/ - 22 days

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/04/whistleblower-arrested-reveal...
-12179637/?ito=newsnow-feed - 22 days

https://www.reddit.com/r/N_N_N/comments/exph1z/two_at_the_sa...
n_locationtime/ - 24 days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/N_N_N/comments/ex3k7p/what_exactly_...
unknown_location/ - 25 days

In these videos there are probably a total of 15-25 bodies, and there are a lot more of these
videos doing the rounds. As you can see these videos are from between 20 and 25 days
ago. At that time there were 400 and 900 registered deaths associated with the disease. It is unlikely beyond the extreme that ~ (20/900) 2.2% of all deaths were being recorded on
camera and making it beyond the great firewall. To me this is a big indicator that the real
figures are much higher.
I never had to pay that much to drop acid.
Someone took a picture of ~3000 urns in a city than normally cremates ~20000 people per month - according to the same article - and that's news how?
> Likewise, people would instantly forget about the green boxes after a few year.

I disagree, as a pedestrian I have to walk around FTTC and terminal boxes every day.

Imagine if they were installed off the kerb, on the road instead of the pavement. There would be uproar.
China thermometer manufacturers: let’s make fake thermometers, sell those to USA
The Java standard library isn't particularly verbose or insane. It's the "enterprise java" world that deals with the sort of excesses you're thinking about.
Why would you trust data coming form the country that is putting over 2+ million people into concentration, er... 're-education' camps, and it was denying it....

Propaganda is a strong tool of dictatorial regimes, and in cases of existential crises it is essential.

On the other side of the border, another communist regime (North Korea), still claims that has 0 cases of Covid-19, yet the indication is that deaths are incresed....
Iran, until recently it was denying it had a problem, and their numbers are just not trusted.....

In any regime where 1) Free speech is suppressed with extreme measures (people disappearing) 2) There is strong incentive from that regime to mask numbers....
They probably did, unless there were independent verifiers that could verify those numbers....

I lived under a communist regime, and absolutely don't trust the numbers coming out of China... This is even worse than Chernobyl, which true numbers of victims of the after-math cleanup efforts are not known even today:

"Since the 1990s—when the declassification of selected liquidator records prompted some direct participants to speak publicly—some with direct involvement in the liquidators' cleanup efforts have asserted that several thousand liquidators died as a result of the cleanup.[18] Other organizations claim that total liquidator deaths as a result of the cleanup operation may number at least 6,000.[19]"
Stealth.
Ocado in the UK do exactly this, using queue-it [0].

On some sites, apparently queue-jumping is as simple as disabling javascript (n.b. Ocado [1] have been in the game longer than most, and this does not work on their site).

[0] https://queue-it.com/
[1] https://ocado.queue-it.net/
Definitely. Be it childhood memories, or even just something from few years ago, memories seem to work very well with memory, much better than picture-type images.
Yes. Each nation looks out for its own interests and the interests of its citizens. The only thing that's surprising is that a large number of citizens seem to think that this is unusual or immoral.
Mask vs. Respirator: N95, FFP2, FFP3: What’s the Difference?
Yeah that makes sense, I guess in my mind I don't see it as a C or C++ replacement as with Rust. To me it fits as a slightly higher level, safe, general purpose language with pretty good performance for most tasks you throw at it. After working with it for a year I feel very productive and that I can trust my code will work if it compiles. A similar feeling to Elm or maybe Rust but yet to spend a longer time with Rust.
The world had time to evaluate the trickle of news and intelligence agencies knew earlier. Some countries took heed and prepared and are now looking at a different Future. Did they take responsibility for themselves? Who is responsible for the future of Taiwan or South Korea? China? The US?

Blame is an important tool for the structuring of responsibility, but responsibility is ultimately about results — but whose results? And who shall take up our burdens?
So let’s break it down like this, since apparently HN isn’t smart enough to see the hypocrisy of the situation.

Liberals: pay fast food workers $15 an hour!

Conservatives: that will dramatically increase food prices and lead to layoffs.

Liberals: no it won’t! Fear mongering!

Conservatives: let’s stop illegal immigration.

Liberals: who’s gonna pick vegetables then???

Conservatives: Americans

Liberals: impossible! That will lead to dramatically higher food prices!

That’s why I get a kick out of this. It’s the same arguments repeated by both sides.
> ...they are managing the outbreak and the economy far more effectively than their western counterparts.

And Mussolini got the trains to run on time!
Scenes created for star wars (19xx) are also quite
fascinating.
My guess is that the cost of the raw chemicals is a small part of the $400,000. If there's 500 toilets on board that's $800 per toilet. What is probably much more expensive is safely transporting the chemicals in massive amounts, storing them, inspecting all the pipes after the treatment, and safely disposing of the chemicals. The GAO report doesn't say what they're using. I wouldn't even be that surprised if the acid flush was actually done with a base like Drano/lye
I agree; however, a plea to young people on HN is much less effective than having it as a company policy. They could reserve some/most/all spots for seniors.
> which helped kill the 117 year old company. [1]

If Nortel ever been killed by somebody, that was by financial engineers from hedge funds, and inexperienced managers that came to board after the bubble popped
The UK's weakness was exposed by the 2011 veto and subsequent upending of the EU treaties to suit everyone apart from the UK. We had been floundering in that club since 2009, despite bailing out other members (ie. Ireland) - and when push came to shove Germany and France made it clear that the UK could shove off. The UK is no weaker now than it was then - it's just that it's clear where we stand. The great powers of the world (China, US, Germany) act in their own interests, the UK must act as if that is true and attempt to navigate around them - or we must simply be subjugated to one of them. I believe that Germany in particular will regret this situation in the future, with a pretense of a triumvirate of powers and associated allies (ie. France, Italy, Spain etc; UK, Poland, etc; Germany and everyone else) there was a chance of a very different EU. That's gone now and Germany must take the reigns - and it will be in a very different strategic context.
I've seen a couple of projects where the original team didn't think they needed transactions, or underestimated how much harder eventually consistent distributed systems are to reason about than an acid system.
So Roko's basilisk was China all along.