skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds like they assessed the risk incorrectly or their risk tolerance didn't equal the actual risks they took. Isn't this normal? If I buy stock with all my money, and the stock dramatically lowers in price, I don't get to complain to the government and get free money, do I?
Hello BERT?
Testing your sites resilience to missing non-essential assets should always be done.

The Stripe CDN could be down. Or blocked by some overzealous corporate firewall.

That shouldn't lead to a whitescreen.
One foggy morning I walked out to the rock at Morro Bay and as I got out on this spit of land, I realized that what I thought was a big sand dune was actually all birds, a huge see of birds. They started taking off and obscured the sky.

There are places still.
Presumably they could refinance the debt by issuing new debt to work around the dividend and buyback rules.
Fine, but then rage against that debt regardless of whether it's used for dividends or buybacks. Focusing such hate on buybacks per se is still confused.

Also, it might be worth probing the cause of bizarrely low rates, or wondering if it's a good idea for a high corporate tax rate that distorts behavior so much. (If you're going to reply that the effective corporate tax rate is actually low because they engage in complex schemes X, Y, Z, to reduce their effective rate, then you're agreeing it's distortive and encourages socially-wasteful activity.)
I disagree, this is a valid point. Making everything about the perceptions of Americans is very bad for open source software. It is a fact that this is a fork of a very well established open source project that will at best fragment branding and documentation because the name is offensive to some puritan Americans.

I absolutely guarantee that if this name was a mildly offensive reference to something in pop culture in say Nigeria, no one would care.
I’m curious as well. A google search didn’t bring anything up about people licking solder.

Presumably, it acts as a flux or something?
What about kind doesn't work in CI? The Kubernetes project uses it in that fashion?
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While I'm sympathetic to your generalised (1)–(3), "why not solve this more general problem before solving the specific one?" is usually a great way not solve anything because you're worried you haven't solved the perfect thing. It's almost always easier to make a working solution more general than it is to create a working but specific solution in the first place.
Excuse me, could you please not just throw allegations of racism around?

There is nothing racist about referencing the fact that the Chinese, and not just some small minority of them, believe in and practice TCM - including the application of Rhino horn[1].

The statement I made is as logically (un)sound as the statement I am lampooning. The practices of a population don't imply knowledge or rationality.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/10/wildlife-...
Putting aside the need of a citation or at least an explanation as to how tip cleaners create lead dust, that's a reason to use sponges with leaded solder, not a reason not to use lead solder at all.
> You may want to fact-check that statement more. Here is a list of mask research that could help...

I did. Most of the data is on medical workers, pitting N95 against surgical masks. We already know that even N95 masks, which are unlikely to have good sealing over a longer period of time, are not very effective in protecting against viruses. Obviously, there is no data on medical workers wearing no masks.

There is almost no data on the general population wearing masks (or not), and the data that exists doesn't seem to provide a strong argument either. Please correct me if I overlooked something.

Here's some quotes that don't exactly inspire confidence:

"Improvised homemade face masks may be used to help protect those who could potentially, for example, be at occupational riskfrom close or frequent contact with symptomatic patients. However, these masks would provide the wearers little protection from microorganisms from others persons who are infected with respiratory disease"

from "Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks"

"Home made masks, and to a lesser degree surgical masks, are unlikely to confer much protection against transmission of small particles like droplet nuclei, but as the reproduction number of influenza may not be very high [14] a small reduction in transmissibility of the virus may be sufficient for reducing the reproduction number to a value smaller than 1 and thus extinguishing the epidemic."

from "Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population"

"Neither face mask use and hand hygiene nor face mask use alone was associated with a significant reduction in the rate of ILI cumulatively"

from "Mask use, hand hygiene, and seasonal influenza-like illness among young adults: a randomized intervention trial."

"Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection."

from "A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers"
This is, literally, the first sentence in the article.

> It's unclear whether people who recover from COVID-19 will be immune to reinfection from the coronavirus and, if so, how long that immunity will last.

There are abstracts of scientific papers that are not as upfront about their results as the first sentence of this article is.
I'm reminded of the description of the situation at Nokia when it was going down. In meetings, managers talked at length about problems that had actually been solved weeks ago already.

Has someone measured this lag somehow?
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I've heard that some sorts of animals (racoons?) have moved onto the top of the Facebook buildings.
Almost anything you could want from a GAN coloring book generator can be found on Google/DDG image search with "coloring page $NOUN". I mean, you can find almost anything that way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+coloring+page&t=ha&ia=image... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slug+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=images... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bed+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=images&... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=teleport+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=im...

To save parsing the links, that's "hacker", "slug", "bed", and "teleport", all of which have perfectly reasonable hits.

I literally can't think of a halfway plausible coloring page that isn't covered that way. (Kinda thought I'd win that on "teleport", but... yeah, nope. Slim pickings at one result, sure, but that's still one reasonable result!)

Of course, you're pretty much writing off copyright laws in the process. How much that bothers you is up to you.
> ...you still insist on being absolutely correct?

I don't. I haven't been provided clear evidence, I have been given speculation. I can speculate as well.

As a general rule, is a mask going to protect you from infection? No. There is overwhelming evidence to support that. Even an N95 mask will not protect you. Your eyes are still exposed, you'll still be breathing in a sufficient amount of particles to get infected.

On the average, might it reduce your personal risk of infection at least a little bit, because of some droplets missing your mouth? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know that. It might increase your risk, for the reasons I have mentioned. This is not just me speculating, I have seen it in medical papers as well.

The idea that "you cannot protect yourself" simply isn't as popular, so people cling to the idea that cloth masks that everyone can make themselves will protect them. Fair enough, but then we should be recommending diving goggles as well. We should be recommending people to cover their clothes in plastic bags to dispose of later, because that too is "better than nothing".

> What is your explanation for the graph on this page, which clearly shows that wearing a mask has massive effect on the spread of the disease?

It doesn't show that, that's spurious reasoning. If that was valid reasoning, I might as well re-label those circles with "eating mostly rice" and "eating mostly wheat" and claim that "rice saves lives". Correlation does not imply causation, there's lots of other factors at play here.

Nevertheless, widespread wearing masks may well significantly reduce the spread of the disease to others, I said that myself. It just won't protect you.
Sure sounds better than "suffering people report drugs make them feel good" huh
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The income from the ACM/IEEE's investment portfolio is large enough that it could fund all of arXiv.org's annual expenses ~20 times over, in perpetuity, without dipping into capital. See this thread for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22103763
Everything businesses should know about the $350B Covid-19 disaster loan program
When Privacy Meets Pandemic
"Anything by Dostoevsky" and Camus.
Maybe Safari is no longer a modern browser.
Also, nut meat(s) is common in the US at least.
You can already easily do the other way round: populate the config files with keys retrieved in an external system
actually wireguard doesn't look at text files at all, it only has a netlink interface so you can configure it using the `ip` command. The current tools read the text files and set up the network interface.
You're really demonstrating how the virus is used as a pretense for unrelated socialist causes.
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If there are tons of studies showing that homemade masks prevent virus spread, almost no evidence to the contrary, and they tell people not to wear even homemade masks, I don't know what else to call it but "lying".

How about I meet you half way and call it an "incompetent noble lie".

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4p...
Watch this episode of medcram where he explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M

Also the most recent french study is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWS...
It does the opposite. Buybacks send that money directly back into the economy to the shareholders that sold.
“More than 700 new Outlook Web Access servers were exposed to the internet”
Other things WHO has said so far:

* Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China

* WHO did not recommend any travel or trade restriction based on the current information available
Minor bugbear: the thin font used does not lend itself to rendering nicely in Firefox 74 running on a GNOME 3.36 linux install with subpixel font antialiasing:
https://i.imgur.com/LauxkrQ.jpg

I made it more readable it for myself by switching to grayscale antialiasing, but it's still not a very readable font as it's quite small and thin and is light-ish blue against dark-ish blue background - standard sans serif, slightly larger and with more contrast in colours probably better for accessibility
>but dividends that go to every owner aren't unfair per se

If these companies are in such dire straits they need the infusion of cash provided by a government bailout, where did the money to pay dividends come from? Shouldn't they use that money to pay employees and fund their operations?
No doubts about usefulness of masks, however its too early to call Czech Republic curve flat. Its anything but flat. Look at daily cases. There's not enough data points yet. Italian curve looks more promising. For last 11 days, there has been around 6,000 cases daily. Though, its likely from lack of testing.
Neat idea but it doesn't work for me. Not sure if it's because of my browsers (Brave Browser) or my operating system (Arch Linux) or because of my window manager (AwesomeWM). No matter if I select record entire window or one window, I end up with a GIF that has the right duration but it's only black.
as someone who only does intuitive learning and who is garbage at memorization, the idea that people like this exist is so foreign to me
Coronavirus: Field hospitals treating patients around world
Off topic:

What are your thoughts about hoaxes, cults, groupthink?

I'm hoping to find explainers in the same way Sara Robinson and David Neiwert have tried to study and understand authoritarianism. https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/cracks-in-wall-part-i-...

FWIW, I am scanning your prior posts (HN, reddit, mastodon).

I try to pay attention to "explainers" like you, Slate Star Codex, Gwern, Ezra Klein, David Roberts (also Vox), Bill Gates, others. People who voraciously consume info, synthesize it, and try to explain it to the rest of us.
Powerful LEDs also run rather hot, more specifically their power circuits. My pocket size flashlight would easily run up to 100 degrees I think but it has protection built-in and steps down brightness when overheated. And it only has 1 LED and 1 lithium cell for power. So it probably would have been easy to design external radiators for traffic lights internals, with a heatpipe or similar solution. But they would be more expensive that way.
According to Wikipedia, a cellular automaton running the game of life rules is Turing complete. So it can compute anything that a Universal Turing Machine can compute [1] - In other words, anything that a conventional computer can compute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
Apparently HackerNews used to run from a single application server + Cloudflare caching, but later moved away from Cloudflare. Unsure how many web servers it runs on now. [0]

In 2016, Stack Overflow ran on 11 IIS web servers, but they really only needed 1.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344

[1] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Nobody said that they don't work. But they are not effective for the average person because a month ago there were so few confirmed cases in the US that it would be extremely unlikely that you would ever encounter a COVID positive person.

On the other hand, healthcare professionals have to deal with infected patients all day. Suppose a mask is 95% effective on a healthcare professional, and 90% effective on a normal person. But the healthcare professional is in close proximity to a coronavirus patient nearly all the time. Without a mask, there might be 20 chances of infection every day for them. A mask would prevent 19 chances of infection.

For a normal person, they might encounter one CoV positive person per day. That means that a mask prevents 0.9 chances of infection. This is much lower than 19.

This math is off because I didn't account for mask changings, etc. A healthcare worker should change their mask more frequently than a layperson. After accounting for mask changes, though, I'm sure that the healthcare workers still get more benefit.
I would think that people should be avoiding co-working spaces just as much as they're avoiding traditional offices. I know that the local co-working spaces here (Chicago) are all closed.
You can either reach out to some influencers and ask them to help them in their projects for free in exchange for receiving knowledge or you can head to some websites regarding the language you are planning to run.

My personal suggestion would be to do both. Follow Scott Berkun - his blog, Twitter, he knows his stuff.

You also need to some sites and courses to guide you throughout your journey. This article (https://blog.codegiant.io/5-best-websites-for-learning-progr...) has some cool sites for learning programming.

All in all, the best way to excel is to find a mentor.
One would hope that this was not the only description in the world on how to save us... it is behind a crappy paywall.
And furthermore, even if the virus can't directly infect you via your eyes, the virus particles can move from the eye area to the nose/mouth after removing a mask, e.g., by touching one's face (even with washed hands) or when taking a shower or washing one's face.
I've been hearing about deep learning revolutionizing "everything" for the past 8 years. So, can someone name me any significant impact it made on figuring out what to do about the recent epidemic? If not, I think it's worth reflecting on what value we get out of the technology that sucked up so much of our intellectual, financial and computational resources.
You have a point on the "West" thing, however Austria, Chzech republic, and UK have already instituted mandatory mask use in some circumstances.
>Is there anyway to respirate using a pipe placed elsewhere? Thinking about having a respirator attached to 20meter long pipe and put other end of the pipe outside to get fresh air instead of breathing the welding fumes.

Yes, sort of. Supplied air respirators are masks or helmets fed with compressed air and are widely used in paint spray booths. You'll need a compressor capable of supplying a sufficient quantity of filtered, oil-free air.

A less cumbersome option is a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR), which uses a belt pack containing a battery, fan and filter unit to supply purified air to a mask or helmet. PAPRs are the most widely used respiratory protection option in commercial welding, with several manufacturers offering PAPRs with an integrated welding helmet.

Both these options have the advantage of being positive-pressure, which means that no fit testing is required to ensure safe use - even if the mask or helmet leaks, the constant supply of clean air at above ambient pressure will prevent the ingress of contaminated air.
Unemployment relief is a temporary solution because people are usually single skilled. For example an airplane engineer doesn't easily get a new job in another industry.
It would certainly be a failure if it is communicated that mask wearing prevents you from getting infected. They reduce the risk of infecting others more than they reduce the risk of getting infected.

A 20% reduction in infection risk is already substantial and worth it. If there is a 50% reduction in infecting others, mask use alone could replace most social distancing measures.
Papers about effectiveness of basic masks
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How can you say this? If it's significantly more infectious than we thought, that will obviously influence public policy as the r_0 will be radically decreased
Well... this is why I said "you and I probably have different ideas about what those subcultures are". With my priors, "liberals" not wanting to wear masks doesn't surprise me at all.

Consider watching something like https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_... , and then ask yourself: Which groups would you expect to accept and even enforce mask wearing, and which will reject it?
Probably hardware vs software screen buffer issue.
I learned all my social skills on Slashdot. What could go wrong?
I think a better way to describe an RTOS than as specializing in "priority" is that an RTOS has bounded latency. If it's hard real-time that means deterministically bounded, while soft real-time means probabilistically bounded. What that bound is (or the distribution for soft real-time systems) is up to the system designer. It could be a microsecond, could be a day. But it has to exist, whereas in a GPOS there's no bound at all.
First setup always needs to be manual.
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The US military (and other too) use simulation, modeling, and analysis tools to help design all sorts of activities and equipment. Examples at http://jasp-online.org/model-simulations/
* I used ESAMS (Enhanced Surface-to-air Missile Simulation) and CODER (COnceptual DEsign Representation) to help flesh out design details for various US Air Force avionics platforms. ESAMS is a tools to help evaluate missile / aircraft scenarios. CODER is a discrete event simulation tool for designing and evaluating aircraft cockpit automation.

The RAND Corporation is a group that uses games and simulation to better understand many subjects (policy, healthcare, education, etc). See https://www.rand.org/search.html?query=games

This podcast episode from RAND shares an example of how they use gaming tools: https://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2017/03/23/the-serious...
I noticed that this study is not on the list:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04264533

What is the criteria for choosing studies that show on this list?
Unrelated maybe, but I find it highly ironic that the recent legalization of marijuana where I live coincides with my utter lack of enjoyment of it. I’ve tried enough products from the dispensaries and... whatever I loved about it in college just isn’t available to me now. Leaves me cranky, groggy, and with a bad headache.
As I know WireGuard team have no plans and desire for that.
I seriously just was thinking I needed this to send some customer's some demos / examples of changes I'd made to web apps and etc... this is great.
Twitter should not be censoring anything, period.
Traffic patterns of how SMBs are affected by Covid in Europe, USA and Africa
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Fauci predicts up to 200k U.S. deaths. Here is what you should know
Personally I think the best thing about React is the component based architectures, which you don't need JS/SPA to use. Are there any good SSR frameworks that have a similar react-ish syntax? (Next/node.js is apparently too slow to use as a server backend for rendering pages on demand)
+1 for good points.

Also, ty for "kiddiot" (much better than "script kiddie" term)
on a related note, can someone point me to a definitive guide for getting clipboards to work between vim, tmux, and my local machine?

my workflow rn is ... suboptimal
> why not just explore all paths instead?

Author here.

The problem is that concur-static generates static JS code that encodes all possible UI state transitions - so if the state space is big or infinite, so will be the resulting generated JS.

I wanted to explore the viability of generating simple static UIs with some level of dynamism. concur-static is definitely not intended as a replacement for full-blown client side UI libraries/frameworks.
Sorting by expected finish date seems be broken - it sorts by strings
This is really cool!

I love how simple and straightforward the UX is. It was instantly obvious how to use it, and it worked quickly and perfectly without any modals/banners/ads/whatever.

I think a single sentence somewhere on the page after you stop the recording telling you that you can crop by clicking and dragging, and you can trim by moving the little time markers might help with discovery.

I didn't realize you could do either of those things until I read your comment here.