skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvoted due to the interesting story, but the point is conceptually unclear (at least to me, but I'm quite slow) how would this improve my cognitive toolkit?

I understand the (one) example presented apart from wrestling, but it is not quite obvious that the actual framework of Kayfabe immediately maps to it. It feels like there are easier constructions that would explain this exactly as well, if not better (perhaps most notably, the Prisoner's dilemma and the fact that coordination games are hard[0]).

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[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06580
Covid-19: UK Prime Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
Started and sold a startup for $5M all while working from home
Agreed. using bpf can eliminate some of the requirements for packet captures. Computing the metrics on the host, also eliminates the network traffic of exporting logs or pcaps to for instance splunk. [1]

Brendan Gregg wrote a book that digs really deep into the bpf system. [2] I recommend you check it out if you need to do real work fast.

[1]: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/StreamApp/7.2.0/Deploy...
[2]: http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html
I couldn't find any "about" page. Who owns it? Who are the people behind it?
Agreed completely. I think it's quite easy to imagine that a virtual version of this law could be enacted to require that they actually deal with these situations in a timely manner.
What does "taken seriously" mean? We don't even know that from a prediction that vague.

If the prediction is "we can expect a serious epidemic once every 10 years", then we have something definite that we can plan for, or at least discuss the costs of planning for. There's no way to discuss the costs of planning for "this will happen, some time in the future" without more detail.
Viruses and Cross-Species “Spillovers”
Thanks for all the insight, certainly helpful!
And didn't confirm transmission until Jan 25th.
So that's worth just about nothing then for now. Thank you.
And this factory makes surgical masks, not N95s. The material is not a bottleneck as far as I'm aware.
I’m learning how much time and effort my significant effort puts into keeping our household in order and clean (we have 4 pets - 2 cats 2 dogs).

Anyone who says homemakers don’t work hard is full of shit.

(And we don’t even have kids....)
One of the best features of draw.io is embedding the graph information into exported pngs. So if I save a version of a document as a png, and you open it with the Draw.io app, then you can edit the png as if you had opened the project file itself!

I know pico-8 also does this png embedding (where you can export a cart as a png, and others can load the png into their pico-8 machine).

Are there other apps that do this? It's really a cool hack!
Video Link Below.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cor...
Do It with a friend which is equally curious an committed as you are.
I've answered this so many times on HN. In Australia it's perfectly easy to get a bit over a grand a month, plus a bit more for rent, forever.

It's note quite UBI, but if the negative consequences were what you're saying, we'd see it in Australia. The fact is less than 5% of people sit around and do nothing, and Australia's economy is doing great.
I’ve heard stories where an account PIN or other “enhanced security” was still bypassed during fraudulent SIM swaps.

Presumably, the PIN is supposed to be verified by the tech support advisor which can get social-engineered or bribed.

Maybe the solution is to actually have real technical support that is tech-savvy and paid a good wage instead of the monkeys we currently have?
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I think that I would want to see source for "most health scares are exaggerated". Because I don't recall that many health scares touted by scientists as much as this one and I am not young.

The 50% of cases being asymptomatic is what makes it spread so easily and overwhelm our healthcare system. It is good news with regards to mortality, but the asymptomatic cases were predicted to be there by scientists already when it was in China only. If you read the reports, the models suggested the asymptomatic cases must be there long time ago.
The scientific basis is definitely there. Even the worst viral infections do not reach more than 70% of the population, and take decades to do so.
One thing I've had trouble reconciling is the fact that the CDC estimates 24k-63k deaths from the flu this flu season[0]

We just passed 10k from covid-19. Only last week a "low" estimation of covid deaths this year was 200k. So it seems the expectation is there will be many, many more, and we're just at the start of all this.

On the other hand, it also seems this week like the infamous curve is beginning to flatten, and the epidemic is slowing down. Does this contradict the "low" 200k number? Or does the 200k number factor this in, and indicates that the "long tail" of the disease will be very long and damaging indeed?

Some of the clips show in the video referenced in the article actually seem pretty "sane" to me - the one guy saying "I'm not worried about getting this illness", another saying for most people it will seem just like the flu. Those two statements, as far as we know, are not that outlandish, right? I'm certainly not worried about myself, and for many people it does seem to be mild or asymptomatic?

I don't want to have an "opinion" on this matter, I want to interpret the data and understand the truth, Fauci-style.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
I have those as well! Definitely more rare than my dumb days though. It's not so much the fact that I'm sharper, but life is just...rose-colored.
It won't even load the root page at all for me (the connection times out), although if I want to play chess I can just use any communication, even just by telephone. I do not even have a camera on my computer and I don't use video chat, but even by IRC, telephone, radio, anyone, you can easily play chess by computer. However, card games (such as poker) are more difficult to do.

I might later make a telnet service for playing a card game (including also tarot cards, mahjong, Fanucci, etc), so that you can play a card game too, rather than only a chess game.
Definitely prefer the Github link, the short intro video gives you a very quick understanding of a good part of the value proposition, what this tool does in general, etc.
PayPal is the worst - a couple days ago they disabled my password (including both 2FAs) and sent me an e-mail asking me to reset it. The only way to reset it is via SMS which I don’t do. I’m locked out of my account now and also support now since the only way to contact them is by logging in. I’m hoping Synchrony has an in with them because I have balances on PayPal MasterCard and PayPal line of credit that can only be accessed by logging in.
Two things, integrated and well put together debugger for node and chrome debugging in the IDE would be the first feature for me that stuck out. I am a debugger or REPL forward developer, I like to digest code in small chunks. VS Code has some fairly slick debugging features. Second it's a text editor that acts like and IDE or it's an IDE that acts like an editor, I cannot really decide which it is and I think that is the sweet spot. It also has a huge base of quality plugins for a host of languages.

I am not sold on strong typing for the web and SPA's there is just so much tear down rebuild and remodel that I don't know if the gains are there. Given that I take that view I tend to shun a full and robust IDE in favor of a text editor with language support. VS Code is something a little bit more than that, and I it hits a sweet spot for me. When I have to support our legacy Java apps I jump back to Intellj Idea but it's not my favorite and goes a little too far towards the IDE side.

When I do embedded C, I tend to prefer a full blown IDE as it's just too easy to get lost in the weeds of a large C code base. Which is usually CLion.
Show HN: Helping Hands – free delivery for the vulnerable during Covid-19
Johnson showed the same careless attitude towards covid facts as he has shown towards all other things he has faced in his life.

> The facts changed and he changed his mind

He was pushing against scientific advise at first without good reason when the time is the essence. Nobody should wish him iĺl, but using him as an example is justified.
Just looked it up, T-Mobile has a NOPORT account level security protection. It requires that a valid ID is presented in store to port your number to another carrier or swap SIMs.
Hi HN,

Wanted to share a site that myself and a group of volunteers - mostly former employees of Google, Uber, and Facebook - have been building. Helping Hands connects those most vulnerable to COVID-19 (such as the elderly and immunocompromised) with volunteers that can run errands for them - like delivering groceries and picking up prescriptions.

We're a 100% volunteer effort. We have a few hundred users signed up and a several dozen deliveries made, and we're trying to further spread the word to those who need help and those who can volunteer.

We're also looking for help on the product & eng side - if you'd be interested in contributing to this, feel free to email me at neil@helpinghands.community.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDP6e5N9gw
A short 'no' doesn't burn bridges. A long-winded explanation full of half-truths might.
Brooks's Law in effect, same as in all the other places where managers believe that 9 women working together could make a baby in one month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
We've taken out the baity bits above.

I bet this is a case where the article would have been more interesting if the title hadn't oversold it.
I was always shocked by McMaster-Carr's delivery speed. I felt like the parts would arrive as quickly as I could have conceivably picked them up.

This was 10 years ago now, so sort of like Amazon Prime before it became ubiquitous, but for materials and tools. However McMaster was and remains much better organized and much better spec-ed.
Unless you're doing a dip of the number against proprietary telecom data sets, you have no idea if the number is a "VOIP" number, due to North American number porting laws, you can take any number that was a "Verizon landline" or whatever and move it to a VOIP provider that can overlay SMS capabilities on it.
Even if you dip and see that it belongs to a VOIP provider, it's a completely legit use case for some to own their phone number through Bandwidth, Twilio, Telnyx, Messagebird, whatever.
How to detect malicious DNS Traffic using SIEM
I don't agree with you that it's scary that the admin's approval rating climbs. If anything it's positive news. People close to me, particularly females, who previously were anti-Trump have been changing their tune and some are considering voting for him in upcoming election for the level of leadership and openness since the covid19 stuff started. That's the opposite of polarization, at least anecdotally.
I've resisted Twitter for a long time, but this would be the only reason I could see myself becoming a user.

In the past I've had a hard time finding people to follow with a high enough signal to noise ratio (or who don't flood my feed with a new tweet about their cat every 5 mins).
Do you have any tips for picking sources? Or choosing when to fill them? And how do you stay on top of the flood of information?
GraphQL: Front-End Superpower
Check out immediately after midnight, this is what's worked for us.
I wonder which truly free and open-source IDE is a good choice if you want to be able to run it locally and develop in several languages - C, C++, Go, PHP, Python, Jython, Ruby, Haskell, C#, Java, Kotlin, R, ...
In some of the regulated organisations I’ve worked in, every single piece of email, web, or IM traffic has been scanned. At a minimum for DLP and malicious content reasons, and usually by profanity/obscenity filters too. How could that possibly work with such a regulation? Every communication is read, at a minimum by a computer, and if you trigger an alert, it will usually be read by a human being as well. If such a regulation allowed for that to take place, then it would be a very weak privacy regulation. If it didn’t allow for that, then it would interfere with the basic compliance requirements of a lot of industries.
I'm a biologist and I have no trouble saying with a straight face that, as of yet, COVID-19's true health impact has been lower than that of a bad year of flu. I don't care about TV commenters- by the metric of # of deaths (not potential number of deaths, or total cost to the medical system, or impact on economy), COVID-19 has been less than a bad year of flu.

This isn't to say COVID-19 isn't bad, or doesn't have the potential to become worse. Instead it's saying that i'm shocked we don't take a preventable disease like annual flu more seriously, and that we've internalized the cost of all those deaths.

(I know people get really riled up when I say the above. If it makes you angry, please take the time to write a cogent, reasoned response based on data, not anecdotes or emotions. We know that people's anecdotal experience has a strong effect on their personal feelings, and that this is an emotionally charged time.)
AirConsole has this feature now too
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Conspiracy theorists have long been depicted as just weirdos who think they're smart. They're actually generally people who have experienced trauma and are suffering from paranoia. Conspiracies validate feelings of distrust. More sad than funny.
I remember reading a blog post some months ago here from a former AirBnb employee where they talked about how some senior manager in the company wrote an incredibly detailed spec for a CRUD feature which required them to invent a datatype because they insisted on using no more than N bytes to store some inconsequential field. There was also a description of how the author had to crawl through a parking garage to escape a meeting wherein he insisted that nobody was allowed to leave.

I feel like there is no accountability for these clowns. They'll inevitably switch jobs and ruin the work lives of so many developers with their stupidity. There is a culture of not wanting to name your abuser for some reason. It's weird.
"False sense of security" is literally the reason stated by Dr. Birx for why the CDC made it a recommendation and not a guideline.

> you know enough to not have that sense yourself.

That's the thing about a false sense of security - you do things subconsciously when you feel protected. You may or may not realize it, but only after you've done it.
I don’t think this is the time for snarky comments about his politics.

He’s in intensive care and his wife is pregnant. I hope he gets better soon and I hope his family are doing ok at this difficult time.
It's nothing like that. I agree that selling personal data shouldn't be applauded but that is a ridiculous analogy.

(you seem to have been downvoted - wasn't me)
If you want to go old school, Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” is one of the more prophetic moments. It was written in 1945.

1979 reprint: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1113634.1113638
CapitalOne is even worse -they locked me out of their app today and asked to send an SMS code - and they let you pick which number to send it to on the spot. Good one fellas. What is the point of having Touch ID and their dumb Swift ID stuff set up if they keep doing dumb stuff like this.
It doesn't, I love Eric but sometimes he tends to overcomplicate things. Kayfabe is/was more of a respect thing. If I watch a movie I'm willing to suspend belief, same goes for wrestling. When WWE "revealed" that wrestling was fake, everybody already knew.
> In the background global warming is a much greater threat to human life and has the exact same dynamic with the exact same players.

No, global warming has a very different dynamic. With a virus, if you do the right thing and protect yourself, you’re more likely to survive. With global warming, if you get a lot of people to emit less CO2, you might just end up making CO2 emissions cheaper for everyone else.
From developer to entrepreneur: disassembling careers
Remote Work is an exercise in behavior change at scale
Do something small - write an integration package that bridges 2 tools you enjoy using.
I imagine a lot of gear is tough to get unless it’s high end stuff right now. There has been a ton of people picking up instruments during the shelter in place orders.

Sweetwater is significantly better than GuitarCenter though. Better customer support, better site, better warranty, better everything.
Yep, we had a PIN in place before and it did no good, because the transfer is initiated from outside of Verizon - and for some reason Verizon just allows it (without the enhanced security). We were told that Verizon's enhanced security requires actually having to provide photo ID in person at a corporate Verizon store to allow a number to be transferred out.
Good question. I initially got told by friends in academia that this is all fine and what they all do if they can't access the paper and they would also hand it over if someone emailed them asking for a copy.

In the end, I guess it depends on who the copyright of the published paper belongs to. If it belongs to the authors, they are free to do as they please, if it belongs to the publisher, you should actually email the publisher and ask for a copy (but good luck with that).

Here are some resources with more thoughts from people in academia and outside on the subject:

- https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21440/is-it-rig...

- https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-send-requesting-email-to-res...

- https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_we_send_published_pape...
Yeah DDG is hit or miss. Most (70% or more) DDG searches work but a lot of times Google or Bing does a better job.
This has some of the cleanest looking "math typesetting in a web page" I've seen. Very nice.
You're exaggerating, which is just as bad.

NYT reported that "200,000 to 1.7 million" people could die on March 13th [1]. Most of those calculations had to do with the fact that the hospital system would get overwhelmed at some point, compounding the deaths.

None of that is "scare statistics". It's useful modeling.

I think what you consider to be "scare statistics" is more lack of education. Similar to how people saw the Trump win as meaning "The media/polls were wrong! They had Clinton winning at 85%! They can't be trusted!". When in reality, flipping a coin and getting 3 heads in a row is all it takes for Trump to win. Or rolling a standard 6-sided die and correctly guessing the number once. It suddenly doesn't sound outlandish.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est...

Edit: The downvotes are concerning. If you have a problem with my argument, please respond.
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You are comparing subjective predictions and mathematically modeled predictions. They are not the same thing.

We have enormous amounts of mathematical modelling and a vast history of information about our atmospheric history. Using this, we can make inferences about what is likely to happen due to climate change.

If I were to just make a rando statement about what will happen when climate change comes, that's different.

Learning to separate the two is an important tool.
I believe this was at Snap Inc. I’ll try to find the link later.
Freelance journalist checking in: Current Affairs trashing The Economist is hardly surprising. I'd expect nothing less— as a newer pub you need to differentiate yourself from the marquee names in the field and challenge the more conservative establishment.

For what it's worth, Current Affairs pays $125-250 for 3000 word articles, while The Economist pays a dollar a word or more, and I think that's readily apparent when you compare the two (which I realize is not the point of the article, just trying to provide some context).
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This was linked to me right after coming out of a meeting with my product team where I was the engineer in this video. Worse, I had a large hand in defining how our software architecture is designed so I can't even blame other people. It's largely my fault.
That back-and-forth is between two bureaucrats, who are talking about how to obstruct politicians. One of the core premises of "Yes Minister" is that the bureaucracy holds the real power in government, somewhat similar to the idea of a 'deep state', though the show existed long before that phrase was coined.
The article this is pointing to was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22687927

and the study here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22016212
Economic recovery after 1918 pandemic [pdf]
That's a very reductive and defeatist way to view the problem, and potential solution. The reality is there is no silver bullet. Emissions have to be reduced by means of an energy revolution. Sure, some will benefit in the short term. But everyone will benefit in the long term.
I'm not entirely sure that not allowing them to just close your account, never talk to you again, and walk away with your money is "high customer support standards".
And it does in C as well!
I've been amazed at how eager people have been to stake out and defend firm positions regarding this pandemic. We know this is an unprecedented global crisis with no good analogies, and we know that new information comes to light literally every single day. But instead of acknowledging this and taking a patient and flexible approach, we have everyone from the president on down taking hard positions about how this will play out, when it will end, how many people will die, what will happen after it ends and so on.

Even under the best possible conditions, humans are famously bad at predicting the future. Why then, when faced with a situation that is riddled with known unknowns, are so many people so eager to declare they know the future? And how do these fabricated declarations help us in any way? They only serve to obscure how truly in the dark we are about our current predicament.
Chernobyl radiation levels spike as forest fires burn in exclusion zone
I have a sneaking suspicion that Amazon is re-solving problems that traditional supply chain companies like McMaster-Carr solved 1-2 decades ago. It would be fascinating to read a case study comparing the two.
Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroquine+Azithromycin
For what it's worth, I don't think ruby achieves this goal either. I've been programming full time in Ruby for nearly three years and things like this [1] still surprise me. Ruby feels less surprising than C++, sure, but that's a pretty low bar to clear.

[1] https://makandracards.com/makandra/46939-ruby-a-small-summar...
I like McMaster-Carr, but I often hear them being held up as a positive UX example when, in my experience, their website is endlessly frustrating. They often force you into choosing arbitrary categories too early, break tabbed browsing expectations, and have a frustrating mix of metric and imperial measurements that can't be escaped. Their pricing is also generally at quite a premium.

For example, let's say I want a piece of hollow metal cylinder (any metal, to be determined later based on cost and availability), with an ID of around 12 mm and a wall thickness of at least 5 mm, at least 150 mm long. It ends up being a needlessly frustrating experience even for such a simple item.
LiveProject: Discovering Disease Outbreaks from News Headlines
If you’re giving the CFR for flu as deaths/symptomatic you should do the same for COVID-19: 1.23% to 1.53%. That’s a factor of seven worse.

When you consider as well that everyone is susceptible and you may have infection rates well over the 5-15% you get for flu it’s at least an order of magnitude worse.