skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another joyful detail is how the ident bounces around in the frame. This is because the ident was recorded on film and the film jumps around on the sprockets.

This you would not notice in the cinema or on a CRT TV in a darkened room but is quite apparent in a YouTube video.

In latter years when the ident would be put onto videotape for playback the bouncing on the sprockets would still be there as a result of the telecine process.

This did not come to an immediate end with the introduction of proper tools from the likes of Quantel. Some broadcasters were quite small, regional and proud of their long-standing analog idents. The whole channel would have to be rebranded and, as part of that exercise, the proper hardware added to do modern idents.
1 - coming from Belgium, my statement is valid for Europe mostly too. Don't change my statement as you please :)

2 - That's nuts, looking at what China actually does with the data, it's way more dangerous for everyone involved.

You are targeting US, but forgetting that China actually has concentration camps ( calling it education doesn't make it better) with millions of people currently in it, ...

China is actively bullying Taiwan, Hong Kong and all their neighbouring countries.

Be glad that you can share your opinion on a popular US platform without censorship.

( There is active moderation, but this is done in a very open way). In China, you would just suddenly disappear.

Saying China has a bad track record is a serious lack of judgement.
Why does the string random_password(unsigned int size) function have "no duplicate characters" as a requirement? Seems to me that this would only reduce the entropy; what does it bring?

I need access to passwords from my phone so I'll stick with KeePassXC, but nice project! This makes me want to play around with lib-sodium, the API looks nice.
given the fact there were 400 to 900, I wouldn't be surprised at any of those videos. have I missed something?
Perhaps the toilet is a microcosm of the other $139 billion in unexpected costs?
No one in the West will put you in concentration camps for having your opinion.

They won't censor it also
Rust has "function overloading: the good parts" in the form of traits, inspired by Haskell's typeclasses.

Rust does not provide the facility to strategically obfuscate code at scale like C++-style function overloading does.
I've also heard that lack of / loss of sense of smell and Alzheimer's are correlated.
The question is also: how much would China/Huawei loose when something like a backdoor was discovered?

They are one of the biggest companies in the world generating billions of income. They would loose a lot if not all of this when there is proof of espionage.

Would they risk this? I don't think so.

I am not saying China isn't spying on us (every country does) but I doubt they use Huawei for this.
no context here
Permanent ban on wet markets before December first 2019 would have been a good start. A media campaign to get people to stop buying into "traditional Chinese medicine" would have been good too. Make them use that propaganda machine for something good for once.

No excuses for this one. China could have done something and not only choose not to, but actively attempted to surpress information about the disease. They're lying about every number related to this crisis. They are manipulating the WHO. This is a country which claims that "only" a "few hundred died" in tiananmen square. The 50 cent army actively brigades many types of anti-CCP dissent at home and abroad.

Yes. It's reasonable for them to have done more sooner. They had an obligation to do more sooner.
Agreed, I don't really see the problem. It's not like Catalina is bugging you over and over again with permissions. The first time you start e.g. Skype, it will request access to the mic and camera, you either allow it or deny it, and that's pretty much it.

Both alternatives, 1.do not give applications any access at all; 2. give applications access to everything, suck much more. (1) makes a system unusable, (2) makes a system insecure.

I'd rather know if an application wants to start using the mic or webcam.
It's not so cut and dried, eg OS X ships with an ancient bash that's missing many features, and of course many operating systems (eg BSDs, Windows) and Linux distributions don't include bash by default.
Guess how much shipping is to the middle of the ocean. Go on, guess.
Well, the old way to do it is to use sea water flushing which leads to its own problems over the life of the ship with pipes corroding. New(ish) environmental regulations dictate that you can't just flush everything overboard anymore, it needs to be processed through a sewage plant. Despite probably being able to ignore most environmental laws, the Navy normally at least tries to abide by the current laws to be a good citizen and not pollute the oceans as well as having an easier time when visiting foreign ports.

The process plants run better on fresh water but fresh water is expensive and heavy on a ship so a vacuum system allows for less water per flush and really works pretty well if people don't flush stupid things.

Stupid things that my co-workers have fished from sewage plant besides the things mentioned in the article:
Towels
Screwdrivers
Glasses
Rags
baby wipes/ flushable wipes
Pens

As long as only body waste and a small amount of toilet paper are used, the systems are actually fairly reliable. Teaching people that that is ALL that can be flushed is an on going problem. The chemicals seem to be another issue, possibly a design issue but there are ways around that too. Urine crystals build up on the walls of the pipes and reduce the diameter for the waste water to flow. The vaccum systems typically have smaller diameter pipes then the old style "gravity" flush systems. There are companies that make continuous dosing systems that go in the end of the branch lines to help keep them clear.

A lot of issues with maintenance can be solved by design of branches in the piping system with isolation valves so the whole system doesn't have to be shut down to fix something. Even replacing a toilet means shutting off the branch or system since it opens a hole in the vacuum system and leads to loss of vacuum.

Some more information:
https://www.boatus.org/clean-boating/sewage/msd-types/

Manufacturers:
https://jetsgroup.com/jets-group/the-highest-standards/the-h...
https://evac.com/
No one in China will put me in a camp either, as I don't live or travel there. Which is my point. Not saying usa will put me in a camp, but currently they have more options to screw me over. (and us do put children in camps)

It may be a bit hyperbole. But I just don't want to be so quick to accept the narrative that west=good east=bad
Tell me why I'm wrong, usually the more a chart is 'perfect' the more the data is 'averaged' and so the less you can actually see what's going on

Also this chart is about number of cases, which is not a good way to compare evolution between countries as all countries have different test method
Surely you can stock on the thing.
Distasteful, and not something I agree with at all, but I appreciate that someone is making an alternative argument (even if that's what they're paid to do).
You want the roots finding real food as soon as possible before exhausting the seed reserves.
>With this reality, why would any government risk allowing Huawei in their networks?

Well firstly because the USA does the same thing. Being technologically ahead, it tends to work on giving it's companies an edge over regulators or competition rather than stealing tech. But no one is being fair here.

So you're not choosing between a good guy and a bad guy

I'm happy to agree the USA is morally less repugnant than China. I'm neither American nor Chinese but I'll take US hegemony over Chinese. But that's still picking the less bad option.

And either way, you lose some sovereignty. And both nations will be in your infrastructure whether you buy their kit or not, because most such espionage is software based, so it doesn't really matter.

So the question is really not the one your asking. A better question is, "how much will I lose to the security issue and how much will I gain from the tech I'm buying and how does this affect everything else I am doing including relations with both sides?"

Since China has better 5G tech, and the loss is the same, you buy Chinese based only on the first part of that question.

And that is the reason the USA is making so much noise: since the 70s, after the US got scared into pushing for technological progress by sputnik, the USA has been the leader in tech. Now Cisco etc have dropped the ball and the Chinese have edged ahead in this one product...

It's also worth noting how unfairly EU/Asian companies have been treated in US markets over the last decade. There might be value buying Chinese to dissuade US bullying given that the age of peaceful cooperation (economically) seems to be over (Deutsch bank fines, Toyota recalls etc).

Plus increasingly the EU wishes to deviate from us foreign policy and have its own policy. China doesn't care unless you're messing about in their back yard because they don't have much foreign policy beyond there. But the US expects compliance world wide. If you buy Cisco, and then refuse to sanction Iran for no reason, will you still be able to get Cisco spares?

You can disagree with my assessment of parts of this, that's fine. But the point is, this is 100 times more complex than buying a knock off version with security flaws or a proper piece of kit...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...

https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-spied-on-eu-antitrust-official...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/16/iran-says-it-i...
> Because dead bodies tend to behave characteristically, are inconvenient both directly and via surviving relations, and present a smaller testing target (about 1% of total cases) as well as representing a full course-of-illness endpoint, these data should be generally more reliable and cross-regionally consistent than confirmed cases. Deaths are, however, lagged by about two weeks.

Completely agree. Just to add another source of differences between countries for this metric: Some countries test post-mortem (Italy) others don't (Germany).
I highly recommend folks check this out.
I also remember when I first started with Arch, which at that time had unsigned packages.

Very much at the urging of Arch maintainers not to, people are using package managers to install stuff from AUR, where literally anyone can upload PKGBUILDs.

Another easy vector (for developers) are language package managers. E.g. Rust's Cargo runs build scripts (small Rust programs for configuration) for many crates, unsandboxed.
It is saddening to see the experts also succumb to straight lying to the public. I'm sure they think this is 'for the best', because there aren't enough masks to go round and what there is needs to go to first line healthcare workers.

But trust is hard to gain and easily lost. A real compounding factor in this crisis is also that our leaders have lost all credibility. In many, if not most, countries, the citizens just know that actions that were and are being taking are neither competent nor in their best interest. The specific implementations of democracy we implemented never selected for reason, precaution nor long term benefits or well-being for all.

So most of us have a political 'leadership' (and I do not mean a specific country or party, it's mostly across the board, with few exceptions) that has lost all credibility, trust and moral authority long before this happened, leaving the population already at best confused, but mostly mistrusting and (justifiably) cynical.

For scientists to go 'on message', telling obvious non-truths, just further undermines the already shaky ground they were on after decades of anti-science propaganda.

I really, really hoped they would refrain from this, but, judging by what is happening in my own country and what the science community is publicly communicating (privately it is a completely opposite discourse), I sadly must say that the opposite is true.
Arguably brexit is the result of Russia's psyops effort on the UK, much like it did in the last US presidential elections.

And let's not pretend that Russia hasn't been caught financing and supporting far-right parties throughout Europe.

https://www.ft.com/content/48c4bfa6-7ca2-11e9-81d2-f785092ab...
> although also screwed up with medical supplies to Spain

The "screwing up" of medical supplies in Spain is due to the incompetence and corruption of the Spanish government. They tried to arrange directly for the buying of supplies, bypassing the common importation route used by health officials. Unfortunately, and despite the repeated warnings of the Chinese embassy and many hospital managers, they ended up buying the supplies to a non-homologated Chinese startup, so the supplies cannot be used.
China and India have an extremely small infection percentage - all the areas below 0.001% are filtered out. You're right, that's likely very misleading - I'll leave them in for completeness.
> or where severity mix and/or mortality are strongly out of line with expectations.

Yes, that was the only conclusion I was able to make based on Germany's data being so different in the proportion of known cases against reported deaths. Some arguments from there like to explain their results as "superior" hospitals and the "lack of hygiene" as the cause of the results of Italy, Spain, France etc. and I just don't buy it.

It seems to me rather a result of a combination of more factors: my explanation at the moment is that they already had more old people in hospitals, and that they had for a lot of such people already "diagnosed" what brought them there, not changing it now when they die. As we see from the user
nathell reporting from Poland, they are not the only land with such an idea.

It earns them short term prestige for "superior" health system, but it obscures what's going on. If they manage to keep doing this with the newly admitted cases remains at the moment unknown.

The real story behind all the graphs, anyway, is not in the numbers which we can see from the statistics of "reported cases" or "deaths", but those that are only to read between the lines, and which are the actual causes for all the measures introduced by all the countries, and that is for the countries at the start:

- how far are they from the health system being overflown

and for the countries where it progressed:

- how many people are without necessary medical care due to the health system not being able to handle, and how many people die due to that.

Both of those are something that the countries would rather not directly report. So that's why, from some point on, the only conclusion we will be able to reliably have would be possible if we'd be able to have the actual death statistics (including the cases not claimed to be Covid-19 cases) and compare these statistics with the statistics in the "normal times." All surges are then surely indirectly (due to the disruption of all the country's systems) and directly caused by Covid-19, even if they aren't reported as such.

Back to the data we have now, I also find the ft.com graphics the best on the web at the moment.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

The log-log graph from this title is only useful post-factum and I don't agree with its current advantages claimed in the video at the moment. It is obscuring the current severe issues in most of the countries:

Contrary to the claims of the video, at the moment, most of the countries indeed should look at the charts of log of whatever on the y axis against the linear time on the x axis. With the doubling time of around 3 days, that means that whichever capacities you manage to provide, like hospital beds, or more health workers, whenever you double them, that "advantage" disappears in just three more days.

Linear time on x axis is the only sensible choice. The charts should allow us having some idea what the future brings.
There's three classes of countries.

Conscientious testers like South Korea and Germany. These countries have low death/confirmed_case rate and cases are only a small factor from reality.

Disinterested testers such as UK which only tests hospital admissions (and royalty). The case numbers for these countries are completely unreliable and useless. Deaths are probably quite accurate.

Lastly countries that are trying to perform a coverup, or developing countries where there is poor access to healthcare. Both cases and deaths are unreliable and there's nothing you can do about that.
I visited BBC Shepard's bush in the eighties and saw the mechanical globe. It was very cool. In a hokey, home made ah-haaa kind of way.
The government gets a lot of flak for this (tame? naïve?) approach, but the underlying principles are interesting in a general leadership perspective -- setting a goal without explicitly forcing people:

“Therefore, you don’t need to micromanage or control behavior at a detailed level through prohibitions or threat of sanctions or fines or imprisonment,” Mr. Tragardh said in a phone interview. “That is how Sweden stands apart, even from Denmark and Norway.”

Let's see how it goes.
With any luck people will get an overdose having finally watched all the good content on netflix (nobody is filming anything currently!) and run outside the minute this is over, never to go online again. Me personally, I'm already to hike the AT.

Lets be real, for all the good the internet has done & given us, its actually destroying our society in fairly fast order for comparatively little gain
Malice or stupidity makes no effect, and shared incentives are far stronger forces than conspiracies anyway.
> I don't know how they could be any more specific.

"the host opens another door that he knows has a goat behind it, say No. 3,"

Using the knowledge of where the car is to avoid showing it, is more specific than just having the knowledge, and possibly still opening at random.
It's one of these things where age shows: If you're old enough, you just know this
(at least:I do, and I think it's because I am).
That would be mighty unpleasant in case real war broke.
It was a great video and I agree with your conclusion. However it’s important to note he specifically states not to generalise his findings as he’s not an epidemiologist and human interactions are often much more complex. I personally don’t see how they would be effective in this instance, but they may have indirect/occult effects not obvious to those without the extra data The Japanese have.
> This rhetoric against China, legitimate or not, seems like a precursor to war. I wish somebody would investigate if a troll factory is behind it or if it truly is a popular opinion.

As much as the anti-China rhetoric is shameful and harmful, the answer to the WHO official to the sincere question about Taiwan also is.
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Does anyone know of a source for hospitalisation numbers by country? I know some states in the USA provide this (https://covidtracking.com/data/) and some countries in Europe do the same, but I can't find a site that collects all this data.

It seems to me that if you want to eliminate the effect of the totally different testing strategies (which moreover vary substantially over time), then hospitalisation numbers are far more indicative of the spread than positive test results. At least in the sense that you can compare them on different days.
The choice is not between the United States and China.

It's between Sweden (Ericsson), Finland (Nokia) and China (Huawei).
There is also explanatory video about that graph on minutephysics Youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/54XLXg4fYsc
Lmfao no. MAD is still here and nuclear weapons didn't just evaporate. No one on either side of the Pacific wants a hot war. Saber rattling over Taiwan once every decade doesn't count because each side knows that the game of chicken won't go all the way.

If there is war with China, life on Earth will end. There is no situation for a war between the USA and China that doesn't end with nuclear annihilation
It's not clear that a scarf's effectiveness at blocking tiny particles makes it good at protecting the wearer from those particles.

Consider the case where you're on a flight with someone who's got COVID-19 and is coughing. The scarf blocks 50% of the particles a surgical mask would block. You then spend the rest of the flight breathing in and out through the scarf that blocked those particles. Does wearing the scarf lower your risk, leave it unchanged, or actually raise it?
Are cars like that street legal in the US? I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be allowed to drive that in Germany.
I don't think Americans realise how much diplomatic influence has been lost in Europe.

To me the American tradition of a politicised diplomatic corps is to blame. The politics of Trump is just very far from mainstream European politics.

I am personally convinced that had the campaign against Huawei been done by the Obama administration there would be no Huawei technology in the EU at this point.
Modern aircraft carriers have reverse-osmosis desalination systems on board. These can supply hundreds (thousands?) of tons of potable water per day.
Surely no one sends a warship "just" with their shipment of toilet acid, an aircraft carrier will be getting resupplies regularly anyway. So either the resupply run is insanely expensive and $400k is just a part of it, or someone is being dishonest and uses a cost of a single run as the cost of the clean.
it's the ratio of new cases to total, which accounts for the comparability. most countries remain comparable with themselves, and those that do change method, since the growth is exponential, it tends to drown out any incomparabilities quickly enough.

anyway, the proof is in the pudding. the data isn't smushed to the point of making individual variability invisible
This doesn't seem like a "desktop Linux security" problem.

It is a desktop Linux security problem, because people will want to install applications that are not available in a distribution. So, you should provide a mechanism to let them do that relatively securely.
Article points to twitter post: https://twitter.com/LDLOVEL/status/1239368178435833856
I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific.

I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
I failed Chemistry. And this is my literature review on coronavirus
> go straight for it

What does this mean, though?
Withoug a speed sensor, dead reckoning is really hard.
Nonetheless, dead + coronavirus symptoms + positive coronavirus test is a pretty objective way of measuring things. People who will end up dead are more likely to be tested, so it’s also a more complete data set.
A number of people have brought up ibuprofen in relation to the expression of ACE2 receptors. There was a long thread on reddit about it. My point is that any reliable information on ibuprofen does not necessarily allow us to make the same conclusions about ACE inhibitors and ARBs.

The bullet point about this topic was the final bullet point, and I put a clear warning in place on the bullet point (originally too, not as an edit). I did not pass off my opinion as if it were fact, nor did I claim to be an expert. I questioned why we still don't have better data on this, given how strong the coorelation is in people who have conditions that are treated with these medicines.

But I will concede one point: The list about the WHO was not the right place for me to bring up this topic, and putting it there was misleading.
I'm not American but given the choice I'd go with America over China any day.

Here's why: You can't make jokes about Xi Jinping's hair on a Chinese website. Where as if you want to laugh at Trump's ridiculous bouffant on an American site have at it.