skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ host www.sex.com
www.sex.com is an alias for dmz01.cdn.live.
dmz01.cdn.live has address 15.222.131.21

$ host www.sex.com 1.1.1.3
Host www.sex.com not found: 5(REFUSED)

$ host www.nothing 1.1.1.3
Host www.nothing not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I hadn't noticed a DNS REFUSED response before. That seems reasonable, although a web browser's error message doesn't differ between REFUSED and NXDOMAIN.
> My last job offered unlimited paid sick leave,

If we were talking about sick leave only, then I misinterpreted the comment I replied to. I saw "isolate and self-quarantine" as not only sick leave, but also "feels like staying home for any reason at all as long as you work the word 'coronavirus' in".

> no questions asked, and in all my time there I never heard of anyone abusing it

Was your last job entry-level with no college requirement, and paid by the hour? Have you ever worked through a deadly pandemic before? Your defense is based on an extremely narrow experience that might not exactly apply to grocery store workers during a health crisis..
That's my point, some may find his email to suggest he's an eager go-getter, and to others it may come across as over eager and annoying, so I don't think there's general principles to be deigned from that exchange and I think this post is attempting to provide general advice, at least it's worded as such.

I used the word lackey, to strongly infer that he is undervaluing his worth, by his eagerness and his willingness to do whatever it takes. This ethos is couched in a "Devil Wears Prada" mentality. I'm not saying it doesn't work. I am suggesting that if that doesn't resonate with you "the random HN reader", that this isn't good general advice, but rather advice for a particular kind of person.
I'm building a SaaS for just one person
Mobile Hotspot Data Limits and How to “Avoid” Them
I don't have a problem with reinventing the wheel if that's what you know you're doing. Other people have already pointed out the many good reasons why you would want to do that. What I do have a problem with is people who reinvent the wheel because they couldn't be bothered to check if someone had already invented it.
I've always been a bit curious -- you cook the rabbit. Which pesticides (etc) survive the cooking process to the point where you'd need to worry about them?
What makes Thomas Piketty so sure he can save the world?
Thanks for this info! I will not trash them and instead convert to treasure.
> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

Public health experts all over the world have predicted the magnitude of this sort of thing for decades, and this particular virus for months.

We have plenty of historical examples of pandemics to reference.

Hell, Bill Gates himself gave a TED talk in 2015 about exactly this: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gates-warned-us-covid-19-...

> “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said during the Ted Talk. “Not missiles, but microbes.”
It's just Wireguard that doesn't route to Cloudflare servers and that's pretty easy to setup with Docker or algo or whatever. But self-hosting a VPN for privacy is questionable as to how much it helps (since the VPN server is probably sitting on your home network unless you put it in AWS/Digital Ocean/Azure).

(if the address you are trying to go to is hosted by Cloudflare, they route it using your normal connection so that it'll be quicker than going an additional couple hops to the WARP server and then to the Cloudflare dc nearest to the WARP server. you could say that this kills the privacy argument, but using their VPN at all means they can see what sites you are going to, so you'd already be trusting that they don't log.)
It is not true that “no one could have predicted this” since myself and other have been discussing exactly this since mid January.
In this situation most would agree it's better to be ahead; the criticism is justified.
This is an unprecedented measure. I can understand the need to do everything possible, but there are other costs. Shutting down rural areas could shut down food supplies, which we're already seeing with seasonal fruit pickers in Europe.

COVID-19 becomes critical in people because their immune system overacts and ends up hurting living cells. If they recover, it's just some dead bloodcells and they can be replaced. When our society starts overrating with out social immune system, people die. I wrote about this hidden cost last week:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease...
The bill to implement it would have to be called the "START" Bill.
That's not really a cold outreach though. LinkedIn can be OK if you can send a message of the form "We met at XYZ and talked about ABC..." Though I'll not infrequently miss LinkedIn messages simply because they go into a Gmail tab that I don't make a point of checking--and most of the LinkedIn messages I get are very ignorable.

You can usually find the company email convention, as you say. (That specific example wouldn't work in my case though and, for larger companies, email collisions mean there are a fair number of non-standard addresses.)
neither has one been imposed in the UK, it's just using common sense and also protecting their staff
Things that are not for kids. I think it is a broad category. What element is not fitting there for you?
If y'all hug my web server to death then read it on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200401142803/https://blog.c-ma...
Know the functionality, but how should you guess the term from operating a lawn mower?
Fathom Analytics launches Individual Person Tracking
22 submissions in 3 days. Third time this blog post alone. You risk getting banned permanently.
Yep... that was our hack to make the demo apps work without passwords. Quick and dirty... but quick.
> does Sony have a 'monopoly' on PlayStation games?

Yes? The whole console industry is equally awful, and does the same bullshit. That said, there used to be a few mitigating factors for consoles, but they have never been relevant for phones:

1. Generational incompatibility: Since console generations generally weren't backwards-compatible, every new generation would more or less reset the playing field.

2. You could have multiple consoles connected to your TV. You probably won't bring multiple phones with you every day.
Imagine in the future that your computer, composed of biological neurons, could literally die.
There's literally one state with 0 deaths, and it's the same state that had to inform our president that there aren't enough tests available for them to contain the virus. To which he responded with confusion because he was convinced that there are more than enough tests and have been for weeks (that response should tell you how much trouble we're in). It is not a matter of if, but when they will see their first death.

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...

I'm not sure what your source of information is on this virus, but you've got an extremely naive outlook if you think anything other than a total shutdown is going to contain it at this point. And quite frankly contain isn't even the right term because we can't contain it anymore, all we can do is try to limit the death count.
tl;dr: I built a glorified spreadsheet app called Bicycle (https://usebicycle.com) in seven days. Now I'm refining it for one user's needs based on principles from Do Things That Don't Scale by Paul Graham and the 1000 True Fans theory.

Also, working 90hrs in a week is draining.
If you're running a modern Linux desktop you're probably running Wayland, and screencasts on that have long since been a complete pain in the neck with per-compositor "solutions" that mostly don't work quite right. Fortunately someone who works on Gnome wrote the obs-xdg-portal plugin that should fix this, at least for Gnome and hopefully soon for wlroots and KDE once they fully support the underlying portal API. Until then, the easiest way to get screencasting working is just to run in X11.

(Ask me about ffmpeg raw GPU buffer capture one day; running a bunch of codec code as root is always exciting.)

OBS Plugin: https://gitlab.gnome.org/feaneron/obs-xdg-portal/

For GTK: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

For KDE: https://github.com/KDE/xdg-desktop-portal-kde

For wlr: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
relevant: https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018...
What about physical things with near zero marginal costs? Do you feel like your logic applies to an album on a CD when everything was on CDs?

It’s absolutely immoral to me that you see a long chain of work (research, writing, editing, marketing, printing) and judge it solely on its last component (printing). There are so many physical goods where the final piece is just a small portion of the final cost.
A paywall that's painless to circumvent.
> In fact, most of the time, if something bad is happening, simply letting go of the controls will lead to the issue resolving itself.

Unless you're flying a Boeing 737 MAX that is.
Lots of people predicted this and the tools we needed to prevent it were in place just a few years ago: not to mention we had over a month of warning by just observing the situation in China. We should definitely dwell on why we were so unprepared for this.
Weird how the article says that Honda is the only manufacturer doing this when I read about Mazda doing it in Feb

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...
My team loves OBS! We’ve been using it to live stream “learn to code” sessions for kids 4-5x daily after the world went into lockdown.

Shameless self plug: https://makecode.com/online-learning
previous comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882635
ha, had to include a "this is not a joke" April Fool's disclaimer at bottom. Why not just release it tomorrow?
I don't disagree with you, but do you believe the figures for infections and deaths in the US? Or any country, for that matter? If so, why or why not?
How many times will this have to be repeated: not doing anything will cause more people to die because of overcrowded hospitals, health workers would be even more stressed and people under 65 would die of unrelated health issues due to lack of beds and available health worker. People will be sick, sick people can't work (dead people too), the economy would tank either way.

This isn't on on/off switch: "let the old die and keep 100% of the economy" VS "try to save the old and destroy the economy"
This is ignorant.

What makes you think that you are better informed on infectious diseases than the guy whose charity has been engaged with the issue for about 20 years now?

It is buried in https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/27/scient... but among the other useful tidbits is this. In California today, about 50% of new COVID-19 cases are from out of state travel. 30% are from people known to be at high risk (medical workers and family members of people who have it). And 20% from community spread. Which means that California's biggest problem now is that other states aren't taking sufficient action to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
It's great for my kids, who aren't tech people.
I've been using it to create videos of an infrastructure provisioning product. One of the most useful things so far is being able to record a process that may take 15 minutes to fail but only has an error for a few seconds before clearing the screen, rebooting, hanging, etc. Much easier to rewind and grab the failure from a stream than to hang poised over a keyboard waiting to bang print screen at the precise moment needed.
Except developers who are intelligent, creative, optimistic and want to get better will not accept those who just do the "bare minimum" with the mentality of "just do you shift then go home". They will build a culture that demands more and effectively pushes these voluntary baseline performers out, or more likely leave the organization and go somewhere better.

I don't want to be part of things that are average and marginally accepable, and I have a profound dislike of the status quo. It doesn't matter if it's work or shooting hoops with my kids or seeing how long I can stand on one foot - a desire to do a job well and have fun doing it are not mutually exclusive. I'm confident my attitude and approach are not unique to only me.
If you believe your kids can't figure out tech nor their friends friends can then maybe 1.3 may be safer on your office vlan.
You could also user a policy.json for Firefox to permanently disable it. I don't see Firefox dropping this option as it is important for enterprise users.

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates
Eventually everyone either (1) gets it and has none or mild symptoms, or (2) gets it and requires hospitalization if available and then either recovers or dies, until (3) there is a working vaccine available in quantity for those not yet infected. Dealing with (2) is the biggest issue and that requires masks, gloves and ventilators and universally available free testing. (3) will happen eventually but not right now. Social distancing helps with (2) until we have enough capacity to help them, which is the major problem. But you still have to have food to eat and a place to stay and that requires some measure of assistance, logistics and production and distribution still functioning. Once you can deal with (2) if everyone was careful (which isn't happening) you could function until (3) with some limitations.
You can video call up to 31 people (32 if you include yourself).
Bill Gates for president!
Bill Gates should stick to writing software that works, instead of preaching destruction of the economy /s
> It mostly says that it'll take a ton of investment and immediate action because COVID-19 will become a pandemic. That all seems correct in hindsight.

None of what Gates' recommended in his article from a month ago would have made an impact on things now. He didn't criticize the way governments in the West were handling the outbreaks in their countries, or suggest that we start locking things down. More investment in vaccines is great, but that's something that wont have an impact anytime soon. Gates' newest piece says that the U.S. missed the opportunity to get ahead of the virus, but he didn't suggest a different course when things were actually unfolding.

As for masks, there's a lot of evidence that they might be vital to the effort to slow the spread of this[1], and our inability to act on this is yet another example of our poor response.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...
It's natural selection and no action should be taken, at least that's what I've heard few weeks ago
I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. SAG-AFTRA is a labor union and a member of the AFL-CIO.

And they don't work to keep new entrants out. Union workplaces do prefer to hire union members, but if they can't then they'll work to get someone enrolled in the union.
I've never really liked Bill Gates the Microsoft owner, either.

If you appreciate what the Gates foundation has done, consider that it's called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Open source "low-code" for devs here: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

People did predict the magnitude of this, and it was ignored, repeatedly, which is why it got out of control in the first place.
Nations need to have a soul but companies need not. Health is wealth and sometimes, life is more valuable than dollars.
Ask HN: 2020, a broken year. A golden year?
89 days ago, predictions were made for the coming decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

How true are they still ?

What do you believe will happen ?

I imagine some kind of therapy by confinement. A person is locked (with their consent) in a small room, in which we find many art supplies: music gear, brushes and paint, cooking ingredients, clay, a computer for all digital creation, anything she wishes for.

This person is invited to realise she's mostly not limited by the physicality of the world she lives in, but by her own mind.

In this day and age, in this new decade, a lot is possible. We just need to ask for it, make the required efforts to see it happen.

Thoughts ?
For editing together screen/face/camera streams later probably.
Are you a robot?

If you are at all in doubt of your qualia, to quote Sam Harris (who has many entertaining podcasts on this topic with people far more qualified to speak on it than I am):

> Unfortunately, many experiences suck. And they don’t just suck as a matter of cultural convention or personal bias—they really and truly suck. (If you doubt this, place your hand on a hot stove and report back.)

https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/951276362387591169

The twitter thread was about moral realism, but the topics are very much intertwined. If there is no imperative for anyone to do less harm to other creatures, why should anyone care if you are in pain?

And of course this argument extends to our treatment of animals too. Countless number of living, feeling animals, suffer for scientific progress (and cosmetics), let alone factory farming and wet markets. But at least there's light at the end of the tunnel for some of these concerns (lab meat, improved in-vivo testing)
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For what it's worth, I knew immediately what this was for but read your entire page looking for some kind of explicit confirmation and/or clear description of the use cases. The info given almost seems intentionally coy, as if you're even trying to maintain plausible deniability on the website.
A power drill is my favorite analogy. If I drilled holes once every 18 months, I’d gladly rent from Home Depot. If I found myself doing a weekend project every month, I want to own a drill. That drill comes with the expectation that it has an 18-24 month warranty (support cycle) and if my power outlet (OS) doesn’t change after that, I expect the current drill (current version) to keep working, essentially, until the hardware dies. However, I do not expect Milwaukee to add a light or whatever new feature to the drill, or change the plug if my outlet changes. After that 18-24 month period, I expect that new features, breakage, etc will mean I buy a new drill.

I know it is an imperfect metaphor, but it helps get my point across that valuing ownership doesn’t make someone cheap. It makes them unwilling to lease software.
...shouldnt you just log errors as you go and check the log?
I read the text in the link, but I can’t figure what it is a dead mans switch _for_?
Is Bill willing to pay for it? I really don't want to see anything from the mega billionaires right now other than zeros on the checks they are giving to charity, government, and people.
Nothing in your post contradicts mine, but you're using a contradictory tone, so I'm confused. Dynamic/static typing are indeed orthogonal to weak/strong typing; however, the OP seemed to be arguing that "SQL is typesafe because it is statically checked at runtime/JIT-compile-time" which is almost exactly the definition of "strong typing" and not generally what we mean by "type safe" (the latter typically refers to statically typed).
> temperature checks at public places like work,

People infected with covid-19 may not ever get a temperature. We've focussed heavily on that because it seems obvious, but it's possible that plenty of people spreading covid-19 have anosmia but no other symptoms.

Some people will get temperature, but they can spread covid-19 before their temperature starts and after it's finished.
Awesome!
Except, how do I trial run it before buying? (without having to checkout code and running an emulator...)
You can look it up yourself.

Sadly hate sites like dailymail.co.uk are not being blocked.
Evidence suggest that masks will slow the spread right now, and every day we wait on this is another day we're not doing everything we can to stop the spread.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think Unreal engine will let you do anything and you can actually compete with the big studios, performance and feature wise.

The only reason someone can't actually compete, is man-hours available. Some things are just very time-consuming to implement.

But this last point applies to any engine, even the ones the big studios use.

About open source, just check Godot. And Godot is a competitor to Unity, in the 'learn this engine and you will have to keep using it' market. Which I think is fine for Indies.
Now you’re being ignorant. Texas rates are so low because we are not testing. I live in Austin and we are only performing 20-30 tests a day. Of course the available data doesn’t reflect the real numbers.
Popular opinions are often popular because they're false. (Hence why David is unpopular)
Cases are a really bad measure. We don't do randomly sampling in each state and we don't have any antibody tests (to see people who might be exposed, but have no longer have viral load). I found the best measures to be fatalities and the exponential scale graph by Aatish Bhatia (which uses case data, but with a lot of caveats).

https://covid19data.ml/
Man I miss those.
They are and the only saving grace I can think of is that they just didn't want to shut down the entire economy based on China's/WHO's data alone. Our economy is a tad more important than many other countries and unfortunately that has to mean we're among the last to turn the lights off.
> No one could have predicted the magnitude of this.

Anyone who was paying attention to what was going on at ground-level in China in January could see this coming. It's the lack of testing at that time up through February that caused us (speaking as someone from the U.S.) to follow Italy's trajectory (or worse) rather than South Korea's.

And no one is disparaging those at the front lines who are doing their best to mitigate this very very bad situation.
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I've been surprised by the number of businesses that are classified as "essential". I have a friend that works for a place that is essential, so she still went to the office a few times a week despite being fully able to work remotely.
I would say that endangering other people by risking spread of a deadly virus is itself immoral, and a violation of the nonaggression principle. If you believe government has a role in enforcing the NAP, then it's legitimate for the government to enforce isolation measures.
The Texas curve is ramping up like every other state.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi...
He's presumably still paying experts who know how to deal with infectious diseases, and listening to them.
he's using his status to evangelize. of course bill Gates is smart enough to know that he doesn't know everything. I would not be surprised at all if he's simply parroting one of those experts.

let me put it another way. if he had the experts come out and say things instead of himself, i doubt it would be on the front page here.

this is why people have celebrities endorse their causes
Isn't getting a job at least in part about selling yourself?
Wow that’s heart breaking. Stay safe everyone
Facebook must be really happy.

Good thing about this is the fatigue. We're just a few years away until jo*rnalists lose most of their power.
Hospitals in the country aren't overwhelmed. The majority of them are seeing lower than normal patient counts as they've canceled elective procedures and people are avoiding the hospital because of Covid. Only a handful of hotspots like NYC, NO, and Seattle are being significantly impacted.

>He's proposing one serious shutdown to calm things down before we gradually go back to normal life.

The point is we can't go back to "normal life". Going back to normal life gets us back to where we are now 2-3 months after the lock down ends. We have to get to a new normal that will stop the spread.