skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. The solution I described would survive a local machine compromise (the GPG key is maintained on the Yubikey), the 1Password based solution won’t. How could generic malware steal secrets that are not even on the device? Furthermore, pass encrypts each password separately (I.e GPG generates a new symmetric key for each password). In case of 1password, if the master password is compromised, it’s game over.

Also, I was a long time 1password user, switched to my current setup after 1Password moved to the rent-seeking subscription business model with 1Password 7.

In terms of convenience, it’s even more convenient than using 1Password. The only minor hitch is having to key in the PIN for the Yubikey if I haven’t used it for a bit.
I think we need to stop taking China's numbers as the reality. It's giving us a totally wrong perspective of what has and is going on.
They're asking people not to hoard the food because of the impact it has on people who can't afford to buy a month's worth of groceries in advance.

If those privileged enough to be able to afford to hoard have cleaned out the supermarkets to an extent that the supermarkets' supply chain isn't designed for, the person shopping weekly is screwed.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Thank you.

My ability to speak frankly is one part me and my history, one part the rest of HN. Over the years, I've been thrown off of several forums. Most of the world is quick to shut down criticism and look for a scapegoat, usually the person giving the criticism.

I'm well aware I can be hard to take. I'm still here in part because it isn't at all lost on me that most social groups would have long ago run me off rather than continue to listen to my unflinching appraisal of all that's wrong with the world and how that expresses itself in the microcosm we share in this virtual space.

I've seen forward progress. And the thing is that most revolutions are bloody and violent and there's a lot of collateral damage. And there's also that principle that "Going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."

A desire for revenge and a desire for actual solutions is often at odds.

I think whatever changes have gone down because of HN's willingness to put up with my uncomfortable presence probably quietly cuts more deeply to the heart of certain problems than a lot of other efforts in the world.
Happening in Canada as well, Save-On-Foods, Shoppers Drug Mart, Real Canadian Superstore and London Drugs at least - there may be others. London Drugs have also added an hour for healthcare workers and first responders at the end of the day.
Thoughts on Paid Media and Marketing Spend in the Age of Coronavirus
Singapore does 7am till 8am, you need a senior citizen card, or be taking care of a senior citizen / person with disability to get in during this time.

I think this is really great. When I go it's often crowded because people are still panicking.
There are a tiny handful of smells (perhaps 3) that I encounter very rarely (maybe once every few years), and for whatever reason, they bring back childhood memories of a particular place more vividly than just about any other form of recall I've ever experienced.

It's always the same smells, and it's always the same place, and it's happened enough times that I dont think I'm imagining it, and nothing else does this.

Has anyone else experienced something like this?
Deaths lag by three weeks.
Ask HN: Unschooling centers like the Recurse Center?
... that are for adults (there are plenty of K-12 schools based on the unschooling philosophy); an alternative/supplement to curriculum-based learning in universities and bootcamps; and not necessarily for programming.

If you're interested in doing one online, I'd be happy to hear about it in this thread or by email.
The peer comment about static typing is correct, but there's more, err, flavor to be enjoyed in the challenges of JITing JS. Here's some deopt scenarios to keep you up at night.

To whet your appetite, what happens if you redefine Math.round? Java prohibits this for obvious reasons, but a JS joker may write:

Math.round = () => Infinity;

JS engines really do inline Math.round, and must be prepared for this nonsense.

It gets worse. Maybe you check for a property which is usually not found:

if (!val.uuid)
val.uuid = uuidgen();

Hidden classes can almost reduce this to a pointer comparison. But what if someone adds a uuid property on Object.prototype? Every check is busted! v8 handles this with "validity cells", and it's ugly, requiring that every object know about every object which "inherits" from it.

Now if you are a monster you may choose to write:

Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, "42", {value: "lol"});
console.log([][42]); // yes it prints "lol"

Every array gets a default value for 42. Think about how you would JIT numeric code in such an environment...
Incredibly naive viewpoint. The mob / herd mentality is real, and often invoke reactions based on emotion and not facts or practicality.

I can think of 10s of stories where lives have been ruined over misrepresentation of facts in the past 5-6 years. The most prominent example of this in my mind is when a reddit ps battle faked a cheerleader having diarrhea at a game.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cheerleader-accident/

She appeared on TV claiming this ruined her life. It was a single well edited photo. What can a video do? The general public still thinks faking video is outside of normal capability.

The real problem is SWGIT will take years to catch up to deepfakes. If you include case law it will likely be decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Working_Group_%E2%8...

Worst case: You could probably go to jail if being placed at a crime, but more likely it will just ruin your life and/or your reputation with friends and your employer.
> And all I can think about is "Hey, you could build this with a small team as a simple monolith and with proper caching you could probably run this on one or two raspberry pi, that is the amount of power you actually need here".

If your product has a global audience who needs to CRUD stuff, caching and a single raspberry pi won't get you very far in the game.

If it's just an intranet stuff with a few hundred users and your front-end isn't very chatty then you're right, you don't need much.
> They claimed it does not spread through atomized particles, only droplets. This has been demonstrated to be false by experiment.

Do you have a link on this for further reading?
LAT is clearly credited in this version, but this avoids the native paywall.
These are fascinating. But all of this data seems to indicate to me that this virus has a far longer incubation period than what I was led to believe. Right, how can it be that it continues to spread at the same rate weeks into quarantine?
Why is it that, instead of just forking and making a patch is nowadays replaced with a CVE focus.
Are CVE's the new big thing on your CV?
Thank you for the information! I will be giving this a read!
Can’t wait!
Norway, specifically the city of Høvik, which is practically a part of Oslo being as close as it is to the Oslo city center.
Huawei is dividing Western nations
Not very odd given the shortages of masks.

Don't use medical grade masks. The rest might not help and cause a false sense of security. You also need to cover your eyes.
Why is the growth rate with time faster in every other country except China ?
Apple Sign in to be mandatory by June 30th for certainuse cases (source: Apple WWDC update email from a few days back).

Along with a number of other enforcements.
Verbosity makes the programmer slower not the program.
There is evidence coming from China that people who had the virus and recovered became re-infected. Which means there is no certainty at this point on immunity.
How Lisa Su brought AMD from the brink of bankruptcy to the top of its game
Yea, the author is probably from the USA where MiniDiscs never took off.

In Japan they were huge! It's still frustrating that at end of their life some of the final models would run for 230hrs on a single charge! I know of zero mp3 players or phones that do that.
"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus" - U.S. Surgeon General

====

I think we should hang this guy, or whoever promoted this idea.

It is going to get a lot of Americans killed.

It is not even based on facts or science. It is based on a misunderstanding of science.

And it was promoted simply because of the shortage of masks for medical professionals, because Trump’s disastrous trade war with China, placed tariff duties on over $5 billion worth of medical supplies [1]. This was exclusively his fault, and those that voted for him. Good job, you shot America in the foot!

It’s about time that we start observing from the Asian countries, like China, that successfully fought back this virus, and actually contained it.

Wear a mask in public.

A Vancouver business just started a “No mask, no service.” policy, in addition to social distancing. This needs to be adopted here very quickly.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/breaking-c...

Edit: This got immediately downvoted, so apparently, there are a lot of people here, that thinks that wearing a mask is a bad idea.
It’s likely due to a lack of testing.
Great idea! But I think this is harder than GPS because the chip simply spits out speed and direction.
> do you have any evidence that the consensus of the medical profession is that getting the general, non-sick population to wear masks is useful in combating the crisis?

Yes:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810906/

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712%2808%2901008-4...

"Wearing a face mask was a protective factor against influenza infection."

"The staff who wore surgical masks and N95 masks were significantly associated with non-infection."

"In compliant users, masks were highly efficacious."

Also common sense. If you wear a mask you reduce the probability that you transmit the virus. And, to a lesser extent, you reduce the probability that you are infected by the virus.

Claiming that "they are not effective" is simply false. Perhaps "lie" is too strong, but it was untrue and irresponsible considering the position he holds.
> They said travel bans don't work. This defies basic logic.

> They delayed declaraing the pandemic to be a pandemic.

I have come to think that a major problem with the WHO might be that it is not independent enough from the political interests of major countries.

Banning non-essential travel from/to highly affected countries early would probably have helped to slow down global spread, but political opposition made that impossible.
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> With microservices, you lose the ability to use database transactions across services/tables. Later on, when people realize this, it's too late.

I don't follow your reasoning. I mean, the ACID vs BASE problem you described is extensively covered in pretty much any microservices 101 course or even MOOC, along other basic microservices tradeoffs such as the distributed tax and ways to mitigate or eliminate these issues like going with bounded contexts. Why do you believe this is a mystery that no one is aware of?
I can strongly recommend https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/

There's also a Podcast, Newsletter and the creator is active on Twitter and responds to questions.

In short:

- packed with first-hand experience

- easy to follow

- instantly useful

- the best advice for making something with actually returns money: find and solve a "critical" problem. Learn how to look & find them.

Start small while listening to it.

Also, I've found "This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See" by Seth Godin to be really helpful. It changed my mind quite a bit around the topic of marketing (Ads != Marketing; love the concept of "find the Minimum Viable Audience").
Please do not recommend fertilizing plants for human consumption with human manure!!

It is a practice that has been abandoned for good reasons. The reasons are the propagation of pathogens right into your food chain. You can compost the manure and use that compost for fertilization of fruit trees in early spring. But please do not use it on vegetable plants, leafy greens and such.
I have adhd. Every "couple seconds" of waiting is a chance for me to lose focus and "wait what was I doing?" 15 minutes later. This stuff definitely matters.
Looking at the European panorama. That highly depends on the country.

Multi partidary systems are the norm everywhere in here, but only in some countries there is a stable coalition culture.

Recently Spain and Belgium spent years without a propy government because of that.
Remote File Inclusion (RFI) – Detecting the Undetectable
Buttons are somewhat broken on mobile, just FYI.
This whole "rationale" of feeding people noble lies so that some fleeting, temporary gain can be had for the next few days or weeks, comes at the expense of destroying their credibility in the public's eye and thereby making any expert advice they might offer in the future far less convincing and effective.
Twitter Deletes Giuliani Tweet Pushing Misinformation and Attack on MI Governor
There are a lot of bacteria in the colon, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's safe to have them everywhere, even if they are your own.

It would be necessary to store poop dry, separate from urine, and to compost it to make it somewhat safe. Usually, a dry toilet is used for this. However, it might be difficult to install and operate the whole process if you're not living in the countryside.
This is justification for people like me who rolled our own using the lists from pihole and a tiny bit of shell script. No need for a web gui.
> At best, they're effective at presenting people who don't know they're sick from infecting others.

I don't have numbers, but I'm pretty sure the number of people infected by people that didn't know they were sick is significant. Imagine if all those sick people wore masks (or some substitute, like a scarf over their mouth/nose).

If we can agree that wearing a mask (or substitite) if you might be sick is a good idea, but you don't know if you might be sick, that seems to translate to wearing a mask (or substitute) is a good idea.

> that only works if you can mask a significant portion of the population without a shortage of masks for people who we know need them.

I agree it's important to reserve masks for those who need them most, but that doesn't mean we have to teach people they are not effective. We could instead teach them how "non-masks" can make very reasonable substitutes. And let's not forget that reducing the spread has a real impact on the need for healthcase workers to have them.
Few months ago someone had posted open source scraper that got 1k+ votes (or maybe not) - it was used by NYTimes for realtime alerts.

Someone remind me please.
NY is the new epicenter of the outbreak and therefore new yorkers have a higher chance of being infected.
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NextDNS is fantastic. I use it to block ads on my iPhones and iPads.
“Our vaccine is into human beings”
I agree with your points, however its worth pointing out the dollar is also a bad store of value too!
Elon Musk Dancing with CJ
Hey Node/bluebird person here: You want to run Node with --teace-opt and --trace-deopt and --allow-natives-syntax with %OptimizeFunctionOnNextCall before benchmarking.
I'd try to get answers to:

- Who will this app be used by?

- What are they doing now?

- How is this app going to help?

- Assuming that the magical technology to detect everything is already available, how exactly will this app do what it does?

- Do they really care enough to take action with the use of this app?
scrapy for python is pretty good, check it out.

In most cases getting banned is the big issue. The bigger the site, the more advanced their bot detection is. You can use luminato.io to get residential and mobile IP's, but it's pricey.

Some sites will also obfuscate the DOM, ie. removing classnames and ID's, which complicates the data extraction.

http://scrapinghub.com/ has a paid "do it for me" service, which may be an option depending on your budget.
And for both terms, he had same-party control of both houses of the legislature the entire time.
What I heard was an average of 5 day incubation period (rarely up to 2 weeks). But early symptoms are often things like slight sore throat or mild fever or a slight cough, which might be easily confused for other respiratory viruses or seasonal allergies. People with minor symptoms are told to stay home and not tested in many places.

People often start experiencing more serious symptoms 1 or 1.5 weeks after symptom onset. Then getting a test result can take another 0.5–1.5 weeks.

Deaths are typically not occurring until something like 3–4 weeks after initial infection. Then in some cases data about deaths can take at least a few days to be aggregated in regional/national statistics.

So any public health measure instituted today will take at least 2 weeks to show up in the data about number of cases, and at least 3 weeks to show up in the data about deaths. Full effect of public health interventions is probably not seen in the data until a month or more later.

And keep in mind that public health interventions are only as effective as the public’s willingness to follow them. If someone is getting their news from a source which repeatedly claims that this is all overhyped and there’s nothing to worry about, they might not take appropriate personal action.
BTW: You can use something like a small washing towel (I do not know what the proper english word is - in German it is Waschlappen). So you do not have to touch your shit:)
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Well this is hyperbolic.
> The WHO rationale on masks includes not emboldening people to go out in less than effective masks.

That logic is deeply flawed in my opinion. Sure, any sort of protective gear might give a false sense of security. However, people still need to get out, and odds are some of them already carry the virus. Getting a filter between them and the world is an effective way to contain the spread. After all, some efficiency is far better than completely unobstructed access, right?
Aleph was posted a few weeks ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457530

"Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators (alephdata.org)"
It seems the one you described was a formal challenge without a trial, rather than court ordered after a trial?
> Computer Science existed long before there were computers.

No, various bits and pieces of it did, but not the whole, coherent field, which is motivated by the existence of computers.
My comment was responding to parent's "push for testing", not the development of a test. Having a test exist is one thing. Deciding how many people to test is a different thing, and is decided at the local level in the USA.
In contrast, CA budgets $98 million/year just for full MediCal plans for undocumented people age 0-26.
This is all great work, undoubtedly. I do wonder if the app sandboxing story can be improved further, though. For example, I suspect you can further harden the defense with a gVisor style approach to sandboxing syscalls and filesystem access, while still using the same kernel mitigations to protect the sandbox itself (if not more). But, I don’t know for sure.
Simple -- because China found the cure. /s
How would crypto solve deep fake? You're generating new fake content, nothing to crypt here.
Unfortunately I never saw the papers on this and I'm looking for them now, so take this bullet with a grain of salt. Two lines of research were relayed to me verbally.

1. In one experiment in a hospital room detected virus on surfaces but not in the air, but it did so many (I vaguely recall it was 4) hours after the patient was in the room. I think I heard this in answer to a press question during a New Zealand official 1pm broadcast on COVID-19. They didn't categorically claim it can't be atomized, but suggested strongly that this wasn't expected to be a significant vector for transmission.

2. The other source was a paper someone linked to on Twitter. And I neglected to download it. But someone physically atomized material with the virus and then after some time period was able to detect the virus still atomized in the air. This proved it was possible to remain atomized, but not that sick people actually atomize the virus well. Again, perhaps not a significant mode of transmission.

I'll keep looking. I'll temporarily retract that bullet point.
> I have come to think that a major problem with the WHO might be that it is not independent enough from the political interests of major countries.

Yeah unfortunately the WHO showed it lacked any credibility and is sounding like a major tool.
> CDC, US, and WHO are just so incompetent around this matter. If they didn't want N95 shortage, they could've told people to wear cotton washable masks. It was such a simple and effective solution that they couldn't think of.

The behavior of the CDC, WHO, and FDA during this crisis has long since passed incompetence and entered the territory of active malevolence. They're institutions at their most corrupted, driven more by the bureaucratic impulse towards self-sustenance than any connection to their ostensible mission. I hope we burn them to ground after this is over (I mean that metaphorically: more literally, we should dramatically reform them).
> but I will stop short of suggesting any conspiracy

But that's what you're doing.

> They held that there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission for far too long in the face of evidence out of China

Possibly true. Any pointers to that?

> They claimed for far to long that if you weren't showing symptoms you weren't contagious

If you make these claims, provide refrences please. This is new to me.

> They've been completely silent about ACE inhibitors and ARBs upregulating the expression of ACE2 receptors, and that available evidence strongly suggests that people on these medicines have much more severe reactions to the disease

Provide a link. If you're going to post stuff that sounds relevant and important, post references to it.
There are people still using Windows XP.

There are programs still using COBOL.

That's life in IT.
FDA actually, but I'm not addressing the existence of the test but rather decisions on whether to perform widespread testing like SK.
The super complex generic grid library is also probably useful for someone but I’d say neither case is more universally useful due to the complexities involved.
That's a good question. I'm introvert and realized how non-event it is for my working style.

Covid-19? Shelter-in-place? Cool. I been doing that before covid for last 4 yrs.

Sorry, not answering your Q :)
Is there science behind that WHO rationale? Trying to use mass psychological tricks instead of direct communication also has a big cost because it reduces people's trust in authorities which can lead to more deaths.
I and some friends (older people) have always food at home for couple weeks. Older flats in Germany have designated rooms in a flat for storing food. In my flat it’s in the corridor, but in friend’s flat it’s directly in the kitchen.

On the other hand I saw the hoarders in action: throwing 2 shopping carts with cans to the car’s trunk. Really disgusting. Especially knowing, that this canned food does not taste well and will end in a landfill afterwards.
What you're implying is that the "speed" of a language is purely defined by the speed of the C FFI? This view is absolutely ridiculous and I don't think you would find a single other programmer on this green earth that would agree with you.
Handwashing is shown to be effective in a non-clinical setting though, and there are plenty of efforts to educate people how to handwash even though (I hope) everyone does it every day. Again, the same is not true of masks.