skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. Hilarious.

Who finances something like this?

I have to imagine the robbers knew they had a buyer before they executed the theft.

I mean... you can't just steal a Van Gogh and then, only after, start ask around for who's in the market for a painting, right?

You can't exactly post it on Craigslist or OfferUp.

Imagine something like this had a buyer before it even started, right?
> See: Hawaii, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, much of California and a lot of the warmer south. Which are all seeing between extremely low and low localized per capita transmission levels and hospitalizations, despite the very lagged (and overall mediocre) US response.

And yet Lousiana is getting pounded because of Mardi Gras.

And Florida is likely to follow due to Spring Break.

No state yet has evidence that they have turned their curve over from the standard R0. And, last I checked, practically every state was on the same trajectory past the 100th case.
Moving forward, masks should be readily available in public places in the same way tissues are.

For example, a large box or auto dispensing machine for individually wrapped, single masks, in libraries, grocery stores, offices, classrooms, movie theaters, etc.

And might as well add motion activated hand sanitizer dispensers at the entrances too.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. It's a huge waste of taxpayer money for a library, which is already closed and which is already in possession of lots of books, to share those books electronically? How is taxpayer money being used here, let alone wasted?
Superfluidity
I think the idea is more to stop you from unwittingly infecting someone by shooting droplets while you speak or cough or clear your throat, than to filter out the air you breathe. So it's not your mask that protects you, it's all the other people's masks.
Posted this two days ago but it was flagged, maybe now it won’t be?

https://medium.com/@thejanellemj/please-join-me-in-wearing-a...

We have made a big stumble in the US by falsely claiming masks don’t work, seemingly for political reasons. If we can get mask production in place and made available to the public it will help us ease our lock down restrictions which is something we all want to do. We are starting from so far behind so I don’t know if that’s possible now, but we should all be honest and factual, so we can develop solutions and innovate.
I've seen many reports of the virus lasting many days on plastic/hard surfaces. I imagine that's under lab conditions but still worth being aware of.
Was a host for awhile.
Huge penalties for canceling on guests.

You do everything possible to not cancel.

Loss of super host status for a year is very harsh.
85% as of a couple of years ago.
>It's interesting that Hokkaido is red for infections but the growth rate is really slow.

Hokkaido is about the size of South Carolina and approximate population of 6 million people. ~2.5M of which live in Sapporo. Most of the island is more rural with many tourist destinations. It's a popular destination for Chinese tourists in winter.

>Are the distant prefectures less likely to follow guidelines from Tokyo

Tokyo was seen as mostly following Hokkaido governor's lead early on. Hokkaido was the first to close schools, etc.

>and reporting more honestly?

Could HN dwellers stop implying Japan is handling this dishonestly? That is extremely rude coming from the nation whose CDC was angry to accept 14 infected citizens from the only ally nation that would accept their US Diamond Princess cruise ship and provide care for passengers.
Sudomesh has been working on one of these devices, disaster radio: https://disaster.radio
The least bad option was to try to explain to the public the slightly complicated truth: they do work, but they're not a bulletproof solution, you still need to do other things to protect yourself such as washing your hands and social distancing, and please don't hoard them since health care professionals need them a lot right now. Instead we were given a simple lie: they don't protect you.
Worth the click even to just skim the hilarious images that illustrate the points.
What do you think about hierarchical state machine [1] ?

>Has it already been through state X?

Like everything else, logging

>Will it come back to this state in the future?

Mentioned in the comment before, there is a transition graph that you can do static analysis on, note that you might run into a halting problem

>Is there a route from state Y to state Z?

There is a transition graph

>State machines are effectively goto writ large...

quoting Prof Carl Hewitt of Actor Model, "goto is harmless"[2], function/procedure call is a goto, much like sending an named event while in particular state with/out parameters

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML_state_machine

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo&t=34m54s

note: edited for formatting
That's true though, isn't it? A mask will not prevent you from getting the virus, since covering your own mouth from others coughing doesn't really help you. If you are sick though, it protects others.
I take it from that that you pronounce "Gogh" like "go". A Dutchman once explained to me that both g's are pronounced with a strongly guttural h sound, like in loch or Bach, or like the Spanish j but much stronger, like you're clearing your throat. And a short "o", like non-USA English "top" - not an "ah" sound. CHhhoChhh. Yes, pretty impossible for English-speakers, but anything would be closer than rhyming it with "go".
That's comparing a GTX 2060 to a 2080 in the Intel laptops. Now if you care about gaming it's fair to point out there aren't any GTX 2080 laptops with AMD being reviewed, but it's not an indication of the performance it could have with a full spec GPU. Hopefully we should see one in the next few weeks.
Understood. Since you're knowledgeable: this goes back to some other portion of copyright law, yes? Are copyright holders required to sue in order to force the alleged infringer to cease infringement? In the process of the suit, when might an alleged infringer be forced to take down the material in question? And under what circumstances would they claim damages versus a simple takedown (if, for example, the work in question is out of print)?

Also, I'm curious to know your reaction to the second part of my reply.
Yep. After all, Windows was source available in different forms even in the "old Microsoft" era (education and government programs, IIRC).
"Nationalizing health care and single payer are different. Nationalizing something typically refers to having it managed by the Federal Government. Single payer refers to having the National Government pay healthcare providers."

I do not disagree.

"I will be one of the skeptical ones in reports on deaths to COVID-19 because the government is now fully invested in maximizing the numbers to justify the incredible expense. A similar situation exists in current wars, where they claim every male killed over a certain age to be an enemy combatant because they need to justify their actions. They may likely claim that every person who dies with COVID-19 in their blood was a victim of COVID-19 (SARS2, or whatever the correct term is)."

My wife's hospital does not have enough test for the living. They do not use a nCov test on the dead as of 03/30/2020. To suggest that they are downplaying the cause of death to "justify their actions" is misleading and downright disrespectful to the departed. The comorbidity between COVID-19 and other causes of death, such as pneumonia is widely known. To downplay this fact is ignorant.
You know exactly how much an SRE makes. That's not what a library should be spending money on. Simply making a copy is thousands of man hours simpler than making a consumer facing online asset tracking system. You wildly misrepresent my obvious intent.
The nice thing about WebRTC is that is p2p. All media info goes direct between users, no middle-man server.

There is some basic information to connect the peers. But we do not store any user info on ba.net. https://ba.net/screen/privacy.html
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Art on Berlin Monday Newspaper Front Page
Late edit: they're really going out of their way to remove authors who don't want to be included. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1244793574073524229
> Could HN dwellers stop implying Japan is handling this dishonestly?

They are. The incredible rate of test refusal here is keeping the numbers very low.
Of course it's ethical to wear it. If you have some to spare, then it may be ethical also to share with others.

We've been donating some of our N95 masks to the local hospital, but I'm not donating all of them. My family is important too.

As for age, I have noticed that the older ones had crumbly rubber foam and the straps are more delicate, but the melt-blown fabric itself seems perfectly fine. We've re-strapped some with new elastic and replaced the foam with closed-cell foam.
But if the WHO acts in China's interest and not the health of the world, maybe we should abandon them?

It's more than dancing around political disputes; the WHO acted in a way indistinguishable from Chinese official media.

Their tweets and media have really not aged well.
You can accomplish this using time-travel queries in frameworks like Apache Hudi and Databricks Delta that i mentioned in more detail in an earlier comment. They only work for Spark-based data pipelines.
If you want to be able to keep a handle on a playing sound so that you can stop it or do other things, you've got state. So this is like an audio version of useState.
That is fundamentally a political issue. Amazon, and Instacart and other direct to consumer business models could easily be nationalized. This event is fundamentally different that the structural issues that undergird the 2008 financial crisis. This is a supply shock followed by a demand shock, not a structural financial shock as we witnessed in 2008. Conflating the two does not do anyone any good.
There's a big difference between "the library" and "the library, where you use a photocopier": when a book is in more demand at the (normal) library, they buy more copies. That translates into more profits for the author. Authors like libraries for this very reason; authors do not like libraries-that-photocopy. Fortunately for them, there seem to be very few libraries where, if you go to check out a book, the librarian offers to photocopy it for you instead.

The change the Internet Archive made is that they previously had a model of lending e-books that were backed by physical copies, and now they have a model of letting as many people read the e-book at once, without reference to physical copies. That means they've shifted from the library model to the library-that-photocopies model.

Also, the photocopier at every library I've seen has a sign warning against non-fair-use copying of copyrighted material. So, one big difference is in intent, not just scale. Your average library discourages you from feeding quarters to the photocopier. This one has posted a sign arguing that unlimited copying is fair use for the next few months, and is handing you a roll of quarters.
> Bruce Aylward, the WHO assistant director-general,

No more! https://www.who.int/dg/who-headquarters-leadership-team

Perhaps his deference wasn't robust enough.
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I'm with you on both counts.

I like fast music without lyrics. Lyrics are distracting when I'm coding.
In an abusive relationship.

If I try and leave she threatens to call the cops.

Uses every emotional trick to make it clear I have no wear to go.

Lots of other emotional abuse.

Next day she’s bright as can be. Confused as to why any of it bothers me.

Kids are very much only reason staying.

Took many years to break free of mental chains.

Kids almost old enough to see through BS.
Do you have per capita rate of testing for those locales as well? Otherwise you’re really just comparing mayors/governors from different regions.
Master the Istio Service Mesh
I'm bullish on stolen van Gogh shares, personally
> your user styles can override the developer's (and the browser's) styles on a per-site basis.

Too bad Mac Safari is the only browser of significance that still has an interface to load a user style sheet.

Yes, other browsers have extensions for using them including separate ones for separate sites but how many people really want to create and manage those, especially on mobile?
Why must you twist everything to make victims where you are the theoretical aggressor while comparing your desired outcome against what could conceivably happen should your proposed solutions be ignored? Is this a trick of some sort? A legalese technique? I am legitimately confused.
Hello HN!

Learn Istio service mesh is a course I've been working on for the past year. Originally, it started as an e-book and recently I added more than 2 hours of video content to accompany the book.

I've always liked courses that teach concepts through practical examples. The theory is definitely something one needs to understand, but I feel learning from practical examples and scenarios is what helped me to really grasp the concepts and that's how I built this course.

I'd love to answer any questions you might have about the course and don't hesitate to contact me at peter[at]learnistio.com.
No paywall: https://archive.is/jewzW
This is looking ahead to next quarter. Optimistic estimates of when things will open back up are looking like "May or June," so I don't think it's plausible to believe in a total recovery by the end of Q2.

Well, a totally naive model would be a uniform prior bounded between 0 and 1. The blog post says that they think it'll be between 0.1 and 0.4. That's more narrow than the naive model, but it's still pretty large error bars. I don't think they have spoken with much more certainty than is justified.
Are the machines made in China?
Yeah we just watched it a few nights ago. Truly is excellent.

And so, so 90s.
It's also slow and difficult to cache build artifacts which makes it immensely painful to debug if you have anything of moderate complexity.

Allegedly there's a way to cache image layers and artifacts on Github. I've taken to pushing them to S3 buckets so my CI runs can be incremental where possible.
Good for Airbnb to do this. Any idea how much cash reserves they have?

This and their monthly burn rate will deplete their reserves since not much revenue is coming in.
I'm calling Bullshit on Medtronic's Open Sourcing of a ventilator design
I mistakenly thought you wanted clarity on my reasoning, instead it seems I've been made a fool of by providing an opportunity for you to argue a position I already understood and couldn't care less about. It's funny, this is also pretty much the reason I stopped relying on Python.

You're welcome to absorb all the externalized costs your heart desires, but in future please consider reviewing HN's rules before bandying attacks like "smug" and "superior".
I think the virus situation is exposing the difference in what rules or behavior people / companies think society will put up with, and what people will really put up with / want when push comes to shove. (And, by the way, in so many things, not just this story.)
It's misleading. Even improvised masks will reduce the chance of asymptomatic carriers spreading the disease, thus reducing the chance of the general public catching it. Note the "general public" language in the tweet. Even if there is a way to parse that tweet that renders it technically correct, it's still phrased in a way that is certain to mislead a lot of people.
Does this effort provide incremental, meaningful value? Or is it a hail mary, kind of like SETI@Home?
Stolen art opens up the market for forgeries.
TinyKV: A Go-based key-value storage system for education purpose
I'm not sure how that article claims that spying is illegal. Typically it isn't illegal for a company to monitor is own equipment. That article says they can't force you to divulge your social media password. Most companies prohibit you from doing personal stuff on your work computer. I'm not saying it is right, but I don't know if any laws in America that make it illegal.
> But a fundamentally cooperative kernel would really worry me. You'd be looking at freezing the whole kernel, and likely the whole machine, if anything, anywhere, goes wrong with the cooperation. It won't take a lot of scale before that's a problem.

This is already the case, isn’t it? If you do a ‘while(!operation_complete) {}’ anywhere in the kernel and it never happens then I’d expect it’s pretty much done.

Whereas with async/await it’d be more likely that the coroutine would simply never resume. It might wind up being a memory leak, yeah, but not freeze your system.
You also fail to mention the marginal propensity to consume. Whereas poorer households tend to spend marginal income as opposed to higher income households who pay down debt or save the money. The former which tends to propel the velocity of money through the economy whereas the latter stagnates it via savings that have no where to go.
I suspect there aren't. Please write the book while you learn about it, and we can all have it. Thanks!

(I'm a strong believer in writing the books yourself that you really would love, but don't exist.)
I've opened Japanese documents from, AFAIR, at least the Ministry of Immigration, the Ministry of Health/Labour/Welfare and the Ministry of Justice. They all had the similar properties: manual HTML in the best case, PDF in the worst case. Tables very often with hierarchical data. Lack of overall coherence. It's so similar between Ministries that I have to wonder if it's not just the result of some Japanese governmental directive, or the result of their Education system.
I'm not saying you're right, but, humorously, the fame of the Mona Lisa is rooted in the fact that it was stolen at some point. Before that, it was an obscure and unimportant piece that most people had never heard of.

Theft: almost as good for the reputation of art as the death of the artist.

https://www.historicmysteries.com/theft-of-the-mona-lisa/
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Wow. You seriously think I'm that selfish? Or that I'm any less serious about wanting better for everyone even when it's not on this site? I'm not exactly deprived in my 95 percent home situation, but yes I'll give up whatever i need to if friends family and strangers everywhere survive because of what we do.
I don't know, being a baroque Italian art collector sounds just like Furio to me!
Fireball Ignored the Solar System’s One-Way Signs
All good. I'd say try to print a face shield as your first real project after just playing in basic geometry. Good luck!
It's not too hard just a little funky. Though sometimes they run out of work to do when it gets popular.
Lung perforation. Inadequate ventilation. Aerosolization/Contamination. Suffocation. Death. You know, bad stuff.
No worries, the Fed just printed 4 Trillion dollars, that they’ll hand out to the rich companies.

The stock market will go into super drive. It will double in another 10 years. So load up on stocks as soon as this crisis is over.

And get a house and property if you can. The value of your dollar is going to get cut in half.

The rich oligarchs wins again.
Well, that's a pretty standard ambient-ish soundscape bordering on ‘chill-out’, though thankfully not as cheesy as a whole lot of them.

For me, dub music (not dubstep) was the most astoundingly un-aggressive music. Back in the past, I ran Bill Laswell's compilations two times a day: on the morning subway to doze for twenty minutes, and when falling asleep at night. Not really a surprising quality, since the genre is essentially produced as ganja in musical form. Note that you won't hear half of the music if your speakers don't handle deep bass.

https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/trojan-dub-massive-vo...

(Ever since the name-stealing dubstep occupied the web while having nothing to do with dub, I have to exclude it every time when searching for the latter.)

Even though the genre evolved decently into the 90s–2000s, with British and French bands like Alpha & Omega, Twilight Circus, High Tone, and Laswell & Jah Wobble's productions—I still find myself returning to simpler tunes when looking to drop out of the daily race.

IMO Sun Araw later grokked quite well that dub can be more trippy than ‘psychedelic’ genres. And Hype Williams are excellent bearers of this torch, though not in the sub-bass range.

https://sunaraw.bandcamp.com/track/horse-steppin-3

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMwsmam5X4Q, https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHCYKkU8jto

Ah, and in regard to ‘classical’ music, I'm a big fan of Swingle Singers' renditions of Mozart, from ‘A Cappella Amadeus’. They're magical for me somehow: I was able to have their songs on both alarm clock and ringtone, for years, without coming to hate them. This is while being cold to both ‘classical music’ and acappella in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLWdHh39p0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e06TWt4jvg
Where’s Bezos hiding during all this? New Zealand or space?
https://www.kingsing.com/product/561-en.html?gclid=EAIaIQobC...
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If the incompetent, selfish, and very disordered response from politicians to the virus continues, we will see modern civilization dissolve around us. This is the greatest threat I have seen in my lifetime to all of us.

Read this article recommended by Bill Gates, who over the last twenty years turned himself from one of the world’s best programmers and best businessman, into one of the world’s lead foremost authority on disease. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/?linkId=85439737.

If we can use our prowess to get out the message that the globe must unite or tens of millions of people could die, we have the potential to save many lives. Governments need to get billions of tests made and distributed, million of ventilators built worldwide, tens of billions of masks built, comprehensive tracing and tracking of those who have been infected, and most importantly a massive logistics effort to bring help to whichever areas are seeing the worst outbreaks. People worldwide need to work to understand the virus and what they personally can do to fight it.

This is the most important time of our lives, and we need to bring our very best efforts.

If you have good ideas to get the message out, please share here… And don’t stop there, tell everyone you know.
I built a gaming PC last fall, also Ryzen, but I picked it specifically because I know AMD likes to keep a CPU socket around a good long time. So really, my main goal was to buy a Socket AM4 motherboard, and then stuff a cheap CPU and some RAM into it.

Right now, it's low-end gaming, I got a 3200G because the integrated graphics are adequate for the games I play. The PCIe slot sits empty, waiting.

In some years when AM5 comes out and AM4 chips get cheap, I'll look at the last/best of the breed and pick a new chip. It probably won't have integrated graphics, so at that time, I'll add a discrete GPU. I plan to have this motherboard and RAM for probably 15-20 years.

(Just like its predecessor, an AthlonX2 4850e, in an AM2+ board from 2008. Which I recently dropped a $30 Phenom into, and it's a relevant machine again, my workbench workhorse.)