skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to consider with AWS is that a lot of the services are designed with multiple levels of isolation and independence beyond the region/availability zones. So a service that fails even 100 % for one customer may not fail even once for another. In such cases it is possible they do not post a general availability drop for the entire service since it may affect only a small number of customers. It may be posted to the specific customer’s personal health dashboard. It took years of operating such systems for Amazon to understand deeply how large scale systems can fail and incorporate those into the designs and even then it is an ongoing effort to make them ever more reliable. Now I don’t know how Google’s services are designed and if they don’t have same or higher layers of isolation then it is possible a failure affects most customers in a region thereby requiring a global status update.

Disclaimer AWS engineer.
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Why did you have to bring politics into this (Buttlegug)?
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714203

Also a bit from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16250184
This seems to be a consistently popular course. For anybody who took it, did it teach you to be happier or more positive?
Ask HN: How can we improve web banking security for the better?
Pages like the dongleauth.info banking page [1] make for bleak reading. Every bank I have an account with requires some sort of 2fa by now. With all of them, it only ever comes with their own custom „security app“. Those in turn are typically nothing more than an opaque totp implementation that does not allow the end user access to the psk.
How can we, the technologists of this society change this in favor of open protocols? Sure everybody here has multiple Android and iOS devices but are we really ok with being required to have one of those in order to be banked?

[1]: https://www.dongleauth.info/#banking
I understood ibuprofen was relevant: "ibuprofen could increase the expression of ACE2 receptors that the virus uses to bind to cells" (https://www.popsugar.co.uk/fitness/should-you-avoid-taking-i...)

And you originally said

> upregulating the expression of ACE2 receptors

So ibuprofen is relevant.

And your first link says

“This speculation about the safety of ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blockers treatment in relation to COVID-19 does not have a sound scientific basis or evidence to support it,” de Simone wrote in the ESC statement. “Indeed, there is evidence from studies in animals suggesting that these medications might be rather protective against serious lung complications in patients with COVID-19 infection, but to date there are no data in humans. The Council on Hypertension strongly recommends that physicians and patients should continue treatment with their usual antihypertensive therapy because there is no clinical or scientific evidence to suggest that treatment with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers should be discontinued because of the COVID-19 infection.”

THEY DON'T HAVE THE INFO TO MAKE A DECISION ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

STOP SPREADING YOUR NON-EXPERT OPINION AS IF IT WERE FACT.

WHO repeating CCP bullshit is one thing, but you are not being honest here. Stop this.

Now I'm going to stop because I have some work to do that is laterally related to covid and I need to get on with it.
Well, I think it's along the lines of "The US has behaved recklessly for the last 20 years, and any personal or corporate preferment for a US entity has been supported at the cost of the national interest of its allies. We have discovered all sorts of theft and malpractice by US companies and intelligence agencies and yet any complaint made to the US government is met with a smirk and a shrug. Not only does the US ignore our national interest, but US officials are openly contemptuous of it. The Chinese are evil and their values are alien to us, but the US is increasingly more similar to Saudi Arabia in it's values, system of government and international outlook than it is to us. We don't trust the USA and we need to have options."

If the UK goes all in with the USA we will end up looking like Mexico. If we go all in on Europe we will end up looking like Italy, or Greece (as was made clear in the aftermath of the 2011 veto). Many people who are not from the UK seem really keen that the UK is smashed up and humbled, we are supposed to be poor, sardonic and to provide cutting edge humor. This is not a great direction of travel for everyone who lives here though. Fundamentally the UK is alone in the world and needs to grow up and act like it - so we need to make some sort of bargain with the Chinese, and the Russians (which is much harder as they are acting as the perfect irrational player in the game of international relations right now).
That only proves that those compilers are not willing to follow up on everything that the standard specifies.

Like always on the C and C++ community, "works on my compiler" and "what the standard states about it" is not the same.
>...the goal of American policy on Huawei is less about security and more about market share – and making sure America, not China, owns the future of 5G.

Bingo. Most HN readers saw this for exactly what it was. Most of the premise for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou was comical at best. 30 years of US companies ignoring ITAR with at most a small fine, only to suddenly watch the US issue an extradition warrant for a chinese CFO accused of doing the same thing? I guess if its the cold war its different.

Huawei made it to market first. Most of this theatricality from the US government is a last-ditch effort to buy time until US communications companies come out with something remotely 5G.

AT&T did their usual tactic with 4g, and rolled out a watered down branded 5GE experience even to phones with no 5G chipset whatsoever in a desperate attempt to brand something they'll likely buy at twice the cost from a US supplier in 2021 just to spite their loss at Huawei.

I hate the term intellectual property and its easy to slander people for theft, but the US paved this road in my opinion with massive cuts to education and a public policy that actively persecuted hackers and anyone interested in STEM since the sixties. The US decided to turn their colleges into luxury sports arenas driven by unforgivable student loans and underpaid graduate students as teachers. It drafted legal DMCA and DRM to punish curiousity and reward obedience, and now for the past decade its tried to play both sides of the field. Insisting STEM is something all its citizens must learn, while at the same time branding anyone too interested in technology as aberrant and unlawful, a circumventor in violation of the license for the product they own. Unless and until this changes, im sure China or Korea or some other slave of the international market will own 6, 7 and 8 G as well.
https://archive.md/bhHpl
Figure can include not only acid costs, but work amount and ship idle costs
In a certain way, I find the fact that everybody can make deepfakes positive for society.

Because we will finally stop trusting videos and images as a reliable proof, when they clearly aren't all the time.
* LitCovid - NiH curated list of new scholarly materials, updated many times daily[0]

* Biorxiv and Medxriv pre-prints on COVID-19[1]

* The PrepareInsteadOfPanic (disclaimer: I started it) gathering "anti-panic" science and scientific commentary[2]

* The COVID19 subreddit[3] (don't go near /r/coronavirus; it's a terrible mess of panic, hype, profiteering, and political toxicity)

0: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

1: https://connect.biorxiv.org/relate/content/181

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepareInsteadOfPanic/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19
Also they have supplied aid to Italy and Spain (although also screwed up with medical supplies to Spain).
"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Your local account is associated with X, you attempt to sign in with Y, the Y authentication was successful but there is no local account associated with Y.

Some heuristics (such as email address matching) means you indicate to the user that perhaps they meant to try X? They sign in with X, and now you have authentications from X as well as Y for the user.

You use the authentication from X to authenticate, and you associate provider Y with the account as well. From this point forward, either X or Y can be used. You might also indicate these on a user profile page, possibly with other options - the user may decide they want to either revoke authentication from X or Y or add on authentication with Z.

You also have a similar behavior with multiple authenticators if you are implementing Web Authentication/FIDO, however these are "pure" authentication with no attributes so your heuristics for this sort of pre-login suggestion would be limited.
The whole point is to prep for the future, if you target the present you’re always going to be one step behind.
To clarify, Huginn is a framework/app server for scrapers and doing rest calls etc based on them
The US hasn't had domestic telecom infrastructure firms for many years. We rely on Nokia and Ericsson, and both have failed to compete with Huawei.
The UK is weak following Brexit, it needs friends wherever it can find them.
Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
Two reasons: Germany's much higher per capita income than England and it's federal structure. I won't comment on the first claim, it's self-evident. Germany is a federation of states: each state needs to provide adequate healthcare; states can't absorb spikes by distributing excessive patients to other states' hospitals (unless in a crisis) so they must over-provision infrastructure.
Free webconference platform based on Jitsi hosted in Switzerland
> We actually left the city that Saturday

And then you went into strict quarantine for 14 days right?
Crypto-graphy, not crypto-currency, right? Cryptocurrency seems unrelated.
It depends. For example, you can verbosely write a loop to copy data from one array to another, or you can use memcpy. The later is typically implemented as hand optimised assembly - it's a pretty small number of operations in x86_64. The former - maybe the compiler optimizes, maybe it doesn't. If it does optimize it, it's definitely more complexity in the compiler and slows it down.

In general having some higher level, well optimized helpers can certainly reduce verbosity and increase speed. That said, some types of verbosity just make the programmer write what the compiler would translate to anyway. Or can end up being unnecessary - e.g. a strongly typed language with no inference certain slows the programmer with no effect on the program (though maybe an effect on the type checker).
The patch has been released the day after the issue was being noticed to Pi-hole, as you can read at the bottom of the article. This is just an informative article and, as a pentester, I find it very interesting.
A few days ago I saw 2 women in a shop covering their nose and mouth with a scarf.

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.

I don't know about you, but in a shop where everybody touches everything, I keep my hands as far away from my face as possible, especially when some people like to breath in their hand and then touch everything.

So no, scarfs are really bad and counter productive.
The whole idea behind these trolls is that they repeat stuff until it becomes popular opinion. It's hard to stay objective, we tend to agree with majority (Asch cconformity experiments would be an example but this is way more subtle and harder to control).

You are correct with the war. And what we are talking about is not even a conspiracy theory. You can watch a top US general talking about it [1].

I see almost no comments like yours, only how China is evil. There is propaganda on both sides. But what worries me that here in the west most people don't seem to be aware of it.

I think people accepted that political news they are getting is biased based on who is delivering it, but somehow it is not generalized to politics outside the country.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE&t=841s
This is the key question! Both Europe and the USA took their eye off the ball.

Europe's overly strict rules on "state aid" (giving public money to fund private sector work) mean that large, publicly traded telecoms companies are outsourcing their own R&D out to China, simply to save money. Few people realise, but that's where Nokia and Ericsson do a lot of their 5G R&D, and this can be verified with a quick dig around jobs and LinkedIn etc.

Huawei is the recipient of large quantities of state aid domestically, as well as the beneficiary of inter-governnental loans from the Chinese government to other countries for the purpose of building a mobile network!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-journal-calculated-huaw...

In terms of the USA, they don't have a significant notional domestic player in base stations - if we consider significant players as being Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei, and consider the former 2 as being mostly European.

The obvious existing networking business to enter from the US perspective would be Cisco, and they weren't interested in this kind of low margin stuff (which says a lot about their other pricing!)

https://www.ft.com/content/536d28c8-4e87-11ea-95a0-43d18ec71... (soft paywall, access via Google referrer)
> $56,707/week, or $2,948,764/year.

I picked the wrong job.
Thats the whole point of creating a precariat: rich peoples lives get safer and easier, poor peoples lives become less secure and harder. The system is working as intended. Three cheers for the gig-economy!!
Isn't it 9600? (240*40).

And maybe less because it's 240V,AC?
> the US paved this road in my opinion with massive cuts to education

How much has the US cut its education budgets?
Might want to tone down the snark just a tad. I am an authour, with around about twenty books on the market at the moment.

However, a legal process that barely touches on the edges of (the relatively thin) margins is in fact unlikely to have a direct and immediate impact on anyone. That has no emotion attached to the statement.
Hmm, what have we Indians ever destroyed?
Ok but even pedestrian first residential neighborhoods need roads. It’s not like power lines where you can completely get rid of them.
Qatar Airways CEO says will keep flying but warns cash is running out
Not necessarily, web GUI password and user/root ones can be different.
From an attacker's point of view: he just needs to crack the Wi-fi (e.g. aircrack-ng), join the LAN an then bruteforce the Pi-Hole webadmin password.
they are paid a pittance of a salary compared to their charged. McKensey is pocketing the difference.
Lose your crypto-material, though, and you're really in trouble. At least in the past and in the near future "losing" our faces isn't a concern and "using" faces to prove our identity and verify each other's comes naturally. Not so much with crypto.
After decades of campaigning against good security in internet protocols, mandating backdoors in networks, etc - government security organs are miffed that things can't safely run on untrusted networks.
The amount of red tape involved in working with the government- especially anything related to defense- is astounding. I previously worked with a start up whose contacts in the military genuinely wanted to buy our services, but the process to do so was so long that the company ended up pivoting to focus exclusively on the commercial market. It was a less ideal fit, but it actually paid.

Take:

One part slow bureaucracy

One part nepotism

One part jealousy of internal teams

One part good intentions (regulations to prevent said nepotism)

And you get a cluster of inexcusable outcomes.

The company seriously considered hiring a consulting firm whose sole business was helping other businesses land government contracts. The fact that the system is so inefficient that that kind of arbitrage opportunity exists is depressing.

The only companies that can possibly win government contracts here are those that are huge, with tons of staff dedicated to winning government contracts. The end result is they can charge the moon and the sky, not because they do what they do better than anyone else, but because they are just as bloated and inefficient as the government itself and can survive the process of winning the contract in the first place.
China looks to be bouncing back ... how bad has COVID affected their economy vs. all other economies? Is COVID going to help them in the global economy? If so, I wouldn't put it past China as unleashing this virus on the world purposely.

Before COVID China had SARS. Why are these virus all coming from there?
It's about the size of the particles (both COVID-19 and flu are 80–120 nm) not the type of virus.

Besides, the other links concern a SARS virus.
I would think Google street view data of tunnels would be a challenge to train on. I’m not aware of standards for distance between lights, and apart from that, they tend to be fairly dark. Also, overtaking often is forbidden inside tunnels, so you can’t easily use the size of road markers, either.

Even if that works, doing sensor fusion with a gyroscope and an accelerometer probably is both easier and cheaper.
They also screwed up (faulty masks and/or test) at the minimum with Netherlands, Czech Republic and Turkey.
Wouldn't get less particles of virus better than getting more?

Let's say I cough at you. 33% go to your eyes, 33% go to your nose, and 33% go to your mouth.

Are you saying that getting 33% is the same as getting 100%?

I'm fairly certain that your immune system works better if you are exposed to less amount of virus. This is true for bacteria and toxin as well.

Every measure reduces risk/amount. Nothing can guarantee 100% that you won't get covid.

But you do want to keep reducing risk.
I'd immediately quit my job and get into the house building game. I don't really know what I'm doing but if labor costs halve relative to the price of a home, I'd be rolling in it.
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In 2005.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
What problem is solved by using aircraft-style toilets on Navy ships?
Definitely not ideal, but php provides the escapeshellarg [1] function you are supposed to use in these situations.

You can even implement a "safe" exec function like so:

function safe_exec(array $args, array &$output = null, int &$return_var = 0) : string {
return exec(
implode(' ',
array_map('escapeshellarg', $args)
), $output, $return_var
);
}

// Example usage
$output = [];
$return_var = 0;
echo safe_exec(['ls', '/tmp'], $output, $return_var);
var_export($output);
echo "Exit code: $return_var\n";

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php
When to assume neural networks can solve a problem
Ask HN: People working remotely, how do you plan your workday?
Do you use any special tools or anything like that?

The problem I'm facing is when my team grew up, I get a lot of requests to check something, help, etc. Sometimes I forget about either of those requests because I don't do any planning (e.g work on a task for 7 hrs, then PR reviews/requests for 1 hr) and the requests get lost. I use slack reminder bot very frequently but this doesn't work well for communications performed outside of slack and neither have structured to-do list
The US, outside of the military, has a failure to make policy, whereas China has very clear development policies.

Why is that?

The US is led mainly by lawyers, where facts are debatable, whereas most of China's leaders are STEM graduates.

Thus China has constructed around 50 new cities and airports in the past couple of decades, while the US literally can't dig a tunnel from one side of Central Expressway in Mountain View or Palo Alto to the other.

The most egregious failure of US leadership is the corona virus crisis in hospitals. But you could say the same about infrastructure, or just about any other public policy.
I for one am surprised that anyone who is aware of some of the actions perpetrated by China's ruling regime with regards to their handling of the covid19 outbreak feels that they don't warant any criticism, and tried to pin any criticism on conspiracy theories involving troll farms and beating war drums.
Bit coin is a terrible store of value compared to the dollar. Say I have a bank account with $10,000 in it, that buys me approximately 3 months of living expenses. But if instead I had a bitcoin it would be 3 months expenses, no wait a year's worth, nevermind actually week of expenses.
Edward Snowden and the Stellarwind Report
Ok, so, you think there is no way that we can cover our mouth with scarf and not touch it for, say, 1 hour?

Are you saying nobody can do that?

If you can't do that with scarf, then get a washable cotton mask.

Also, we should all stop touching our face, mask or not. It shouldn't be too hard to learn that.
When the president of the USA openly disparages Europe at every opportunity, it's pretty difficult to feel very sympathetic with the us administration on such matters.
Did anyone else notice how worldometers.info, which maintains a table listing number of cases, recoveries, deaths, etc. for each country, ordered by number of cases, had China listed first even after USA surpassed it in number of cases. No explanations were given. Then they removed China from the table altogether. What is going on behind the scenes at that website.
Hehe, I had to do the same a week ago. The only difference is Slack’ing instead of mailing and also cart prepopulation because those delivery slots are taken out almost instantly in my city. This is in the EU btw, not specifying the country or chain to, well, to be able to survive longer.
Is there death on the line?
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I doubt that the birth of the precariat was consciously and intentionally master planned by anyone. In some sense, that's attributing too much competence to the upper classes to think they could mastermind such a plan.

In another, it's calling them more deeply and comically idiotic than they merit because even rich people are scared here lately of what is going on in the world. At least some of them wish they could figure out how to stamp out the economic instability we have and they just can't figure out how on earth that works.

It's hard to design good systems. It's much easier to design a system that does some of the things you want while overlooking a lot of important details and thereby fostering a lot of unintended consequences.
> Ordinary people with the right tools built into their devices will be able to see very easily "Is it in the chain?" based on a simple enquiry to the ledger, and if the answer is no, then it's untrustworthy.

Not that I disagree, but the first thing that came to mind when I read this part of your comment was that this approach reinforces the Monopoly of governments and media companies on the flow of information. On the one hand it's great that we could protect in this way from unverified, "not-in-the-chain" messages, but on the other hand being a contrarian, producing and coming into contact with information outside of the chain, not necessarily really fake videos, but other types of information is crucial to social evolution and civil discourse.

The "public" and "distributed" would be major priorities of mine in the scenario you describe.
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Western nations don't need anyone to divide. Just see the brexit or covid-19 situations ...
Being Scottish I learned at a young age how to tightly tie a football[1] scarf around my face to brace against the cold winter wind.

There's also products such as the buff scarf. Which are ideally suited to use as an impromptu mask[2].

It's not the scarf that is bad and counter productive, it's the haphazard application of it ;)

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football

2: https://youtu.be/IYNIzI3Hztk