skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advice around wearing face masks has changed in the last 48 hours.

You can stay tuned in to the world around you without collapsing on the ground in hysterics.
Okay, I'll take a shot at it. The National Review writes the following:

> Three weeks after doctors first started noticing the cases, China contacts the World Health Organization.

This implies that China hid the existence of the virus from the WHO for three weeks. This is untrue. On 24 December 2019, doctors in Wuhan sent out samples to labs in Guangzhou and Beijing. The results returned on 27 December. The lab in Guangzhou said that the patient had a new coronavirus, while the lab in Beijing said the test turned up SARS, but that the result was probably a mistake. The Chinese government notified the WHO on 31 December, four days after these initial test results came in.

So on that crucial point, National Review is fudging things in a way that is pretty darn misleading. They're trying to make it look like China kept the existence of the new disease under wraps for three weeks, when at most, you could argue they did so for four days, though even that is dubious.
This is an unbelievably well-written and fascinating article. If you don't have time to read all of it, I strongly, strongly recommend you read the section titled "Suburbia, layout, and transportation". It makes a point I had never thought about before and changed my view of the US in a small way.
Yes, just announced. They will be using the most expensive oil to fill the reserves up, as a way of financially propping up the oil and gas industry.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-make-st...
The Politics of Star Trek (2015)
I don't think anyone's proposing a policy where the public will be forbidden from social distancing if they want to.
$3B was allocated to precisely this purpose in the stimulus proposal before it passed, but it was later dropped over opposition:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/bailout-for...

I agree with your assessment and this was a serious mistake in my opinion.

There is now however an alternative plan to monetize the remaining open space by leasing it to oil companies that need storage space:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-usa-reserve/us...

Storage space is in very high demand at this point - to the extent that oil tankers are being used as floating storage:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-04/the-most-...
I did the same years ago. We were providing realtime suburb data for a fleet of trains. Each train received a GPS coordinate once per minute, we took this and displayed the suburb. So 1440 updates per day per train. For the fleet it was going to be over $100 a day in API costs.

We were going to not display suburb data because of cost. In the end I found a creative commons placename database (geonames.org). For placenames with >500 people it's ~10MB of data and that covers the entire planet (surprisingly small). I then wrote a KD-Tree based library to look it up the nearest point in this table extremely efficiently (log(N) time).

I'll admit i haven't updated or maintained it. The server running it has been chugging along well though >5years later.
https://github.com/AReallyGoodName/OfflineReverseGeocode
Hello there,

Thanks! Yes, range modifier is coming, but also please take note that -50% is the change regarding the last 30 days compared to the previous 30 days.

This year the month over month growth in the US was 3.52% which is very good. And, the average interest was only 4.85% which tells me there's still a lot of margin for growth.

https://treendly.com/trend/zoom
Well there is the web loophole.
there's some truth to it. in general, european countries have less progressive tax regimes than the US, both directly through income tax (the middle class in particular pays a lot less in the US) and stuff like high VAT, which is very regressive. the average tax burden is similar, but the distribution is very different. people with high income are taxed aggressively in the US, although there are lots of ways for wealthy people to avoid taxes on capital. it's hard to compare apples-to-apples though because the middle and lower classes in europe receive much better public services.
This was the best part in the article I think.

> Much of the rest of the world takes for granted architectural principles of how to build life-affirming human settlements. These principles evolved over thousands of years, and it’s no accident that so many cultures reached the same conclusions. Urban Europeans, and indeed Armenians, are accustomed to vertical growth, mixed-use development (shops on first floor, apartments above), sidewalks, plazas, public squares and street cafes. These are the fixtures amidst which your halcyon childhood days played out, where you walked hand in hand with your first love, where you met friends for coffee, and hopped the train to work. It’s the corner with the pastry shop, it’s the supermarket down the street, and the bench in between.

> Few people can prepare themselves for the degree to which Americans have, in the last half-century or so, taken this entire corpus of human experience and thrown it completely into the trash, with the exception of a few older cities–not the places where the majority of Americans live. What has replaced it is a surreal moonscape. For those accustomed to the traditional urban civilisation, the primary question in America is: where do I go? What do I do? Looking around leads to an intangible but intense realisation of emptiness. Suburbia is both a cause and an effect of the destruction of civic and community life in America: there’s increasingly little to come home to, and vanishingly little to go out to.
Maybe it's not the article itself, but they want everyone to be able to take part in the discussion.

I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to want, especially on a site that values open and public discussions.
No, as I mentioned, I'm a master scraper.
Do you have a citation for this which includes part-time jobs, and breaks out self-driven vs. public transit?
From March 13, 2020:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/trump-asks-energy-department...

Also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/china-to-...
It's not just the best time to build reserves; there's so much oil out there that prices dipped to negative values in some spots (yes, they would pay you to just come and collect the oil; if only you could). Oil is energy, this is similar to the occasional negative electrical energy prices in renewables-rich countries like Germany.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-02/negati...
We did have a reserve (and there is some coming out). This virus is using up masks at 4-10x greater then the projected numbers.

We also apparently sent a chunk of them to China early on.
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Surely they can seal the masks with plastic?
For the use case described in the article it sounds just fine. The content part is a big vague. If read very broadly it would be super prohibitive. Perhaps it is?
I'd imagine that in such a situation, a lot of things would be shut down - there's a good chance it'd last a little more than 35 days when use is lower.
That type of “wait and see” approach to leadership and government is exactly what this virus exploits.

The U.S. should have started ramping up supply production in the early days, not because they had some guarantee that this particular virus would wreak havoc in America, but because two things should have been readily apparent:

1) The stockpile of essential supplies was apparently abysmally low, both at a state and federal level

2) That if this specific respiratory virus didn’t end up arriving on U.S. shores, it was just a matter of time before one did.

Aggressive production should have begun long ago, with the assumption that supplies may be needed for this outbreak, and if not, it ought have been treated as a wake up call and at least the country would be more prepared for a future outbreak that could happen at any time.

Not only production, but aggressive public messaging about reasonable social distancing, hand washing, etc. should have begun much earlier.

The inaction was, in my view, bizarre and indefensible, and few elected officials exhibited the true qualities of leadership that are needed to foresee the risk and act swiftly to hedge against the risks that were readily apparent early on.
A lot have expired, but 3M has also recently said that they may stil be used. The expired ones are going to police departments.
Call me old-fashioned, but how about using the covid-19 crisis and its eventual aftermath to reflect on how we might solve the existing problems that plague us? Inequality, injustice, poverty and all the other usual suspects.
The three seashells are proximity sensors for a gesture interface controlling a multifunction bidet.

The part that really matters (bidet add-ons) in today's market has plenty of manufacturers, and they are using the TP situation for marketing.
> it was later dropped over opposition

Both parties make mistakes.

Sigh.

Why on earth did they frame this as a "bailout for big oil"? It's a strategic concern for national security.
Surprisingly, a lot of large companies use Rust in-house. I work at Nando's, one of our biggest systems is in Rust, and we're a chicken restaurant business, so it's not just limited to bleeding-edge SV companies.

Hoping we can open-source some of this stuff in the near future too to kind of show the world that Rust is ready.
Exacerbated by the lack of sidewalks in many suburban neighborhoods. I once lived the equivalent of four city blocks from a grocery store but wouldn’t have been able to get there on foot without walking on the shoulder of a highway.
I'm really having difficulty understanding this comment. It seems completely delusional. I very much doubt you have "extensive knowledge" of other countries if you are not aware that the legal system of many countries do not even give the pretext of having fair trials.

Can you give an example of the American "legal system" vs this "justice system" in another country?
Some documentation would go a long way here
Simply put, yes - staying at home all day isn't living, it's just existing. And giving up 3 of the best years of my life isn't a price i'm willing to pay, even if there is no cure or vaccine.
after surviving so many bookmarking apps, including my own and delicious, I gave up and resort to simply emailing myself the link.

That approach is pretty effective so far. I can tag by adding whatever phrases I want in the email.
So what about other emergency reserves? No point in hoarding oil if you are dead.
We have the national strategic stockpile for masks in the US. The problem is that neither party likes funding masks because voters hate it. It's like infrastructure spending. Neither party wants to do it, it doesn't buy enough votes.
Try having a naming system, I usually name things based on what they do and typically follow the same ordering format across the board so everything builds on each other and matches up.

I'll also add some Star Wars and other movie/pop culture references to keep things interesting. And hopefully bring a smile to someone editing the code in the future.

Kamino is one of my favorites for anything cloning or duplicating related for example.

You do need to be decisive and quick so it doesn't hold you up, with a system you will be, and realize that sometimes a name just isn't that critical.

Avoid being cryptic though, think about what name would make sense to someone looking at your project for the first time.
Instead of thinking in hyperbole, think in CS terms:

"Solid" houses are "immutable", and "paper" houses are "mutable".

I recently redid some plumbing in my "paper" house. It was real easy: shut off the water, cut some dry wall, make the fix, put some drywall back in, plaster, and paint.

How would this work in a solid house? Do I need to jackhammer through stone and then mix concrete to seal it back up when I'm done?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/court-violating-...

A snippet from the article:
A federal court in Washington, DC, has ruled that violating a website's terms of service isn't a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, America's primary anti-hacking law. The lawsuit was initiated by a group of academics and journalists with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Can anyone chime in why we're not simply looking at antibodies from those who have now recovered?
I still use GuitarTookit! Skeuomorphic design has fallen out of favor but I’m glad they haven’t changed it
Well as long as everyone has enough toilet paper the oil should get us through the rest, right?
1. is the only one I don't like. I think you should use your real user agent first on any given site, as a courtesy; whether you give up or change to a more "normal" user agent if you get banned is up to you.

Oh, and for 3.: if you can, apply some heuristics to your reading of the robots.txt. If it's just "deny everything", then ignore it, but you really don't want to be responsible for crawling all of the GET /delete/:id pages of a badly-designed site… (those should definitely be POST, and authenticated, by the way).
Another option is to not scrape at all, and use an existing data set. Common crawl is one good example, and http archive is another.

If you just want meta data from the homepage of all domains we scrape that every month at https://host.io and make the data available over our API: https://host.io/docs
Why couldn't they rotate out the supply?
To be precise, about 8% of households earn $200k or more.
Query latency is about the same, especially if you are serving from cache. If you have to hit the storage layer it probably slows down but we have a 99%+ buffer cache hit rate so we don't see it that often.

Replication lag is pretty steady at 15ms.
The cost of sending money abroad is too high
this is a bold claim from someone who was no other information about iends's home (overall size, number of windows, size/shape of existing windows, local labor market, etc.).
One of the interesting things that stands out to me is that the age range of athleticism is still the same as today. I guess it's not that surprising that his career spanned from age 18 to 42, but the fact that lines up so closely with modern professional sport competitiveness is intriguing at least for some reason. Sample size of one of course, but I guess maybe that even for all the advancements we've made in terms of knowing about the human body, physical limits haven't changed to a drastic degree or something.
United States Alert Message Service as a branch of USPS?
For example, as an American what struck me most about the article was this line: "I’m just saying that if you are found to have signs of a meningioma and go in for an MRI scan, you might expect eight to ten friends and relatives to take time off work to show up with you and weep in anticipation in the waiting room. You will not find that here, and you’ll feel a sharp crash and withdrawal."

Is the author exaggerating, or is this actually a thing in other countries? I'd expect my immediate family and close friends to know I was going in for a scan and to care about the outcome, maybe even wait by the phone for results if they have the time. But to take off work and physically show up in the waiting room just for moral support? What planet is that? I mean sure even Americans can do that for major surgeries/births/etc, at least for those there's some amount of physical care required during the recovery that people can help with. But moral support for an MRI?

I actually would feel bad being the center of that much attention. I guess Americans moralize "being useful" more than other countries, or just have a different conception of what "useful" means. Just because I might have cancer doesn't mean anyone else's time is less valuable than it was yesterday, or that I'm some charity case (Is being a "charity case" an Americanism I'm unaware of?). Immediate family and very close friends have some obligation of moral support, but beyond that it's like how a cat grooming another cat is the dominant cat. It's generally seen as less genuine, and even if it is genuine it's seen as putting unnecessary burdens on people who don't have a pre-existing social obligation to said burdens.
I've setup a Telegram channel with only myself in it. Works great a cross all my devices.
"Like many people, Armenians have a tendency to compare the worst aspects of life in Armenia with the best aspects of life in America, or elsewhere abroad."

This is usually the case in America vice versa, comparing the best aspects of life in America with the worst in other countries. In reality, an individual living an ordinary life might actually be happier than those in America.
Here is my flow:

1. Use Pocket[1] to store anything I want to read it later

2. Use Reader View extension[2] to store it as a clean PDF file or screenshot it

3. Use PDF reader to annotate it.

4. Save the file to one of my Knowledge-Base folders[3]

5. Use ripgrep to search it later [4]

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[1]https://app.getpocket.com/

[2]https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html

[3]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base

[4]https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
Only if they are wide open to the situation.
elixir is mix. mix is hex.

hence elixir is npm for erlang
Apple's been like this forever, it's only gotten much worse since the late 2000's and the launch of the iTunes App store. Even in the old days, when Mac Classic existed, Apple would change its mind about stuff for developers all the time. Anyone remember OpenDoc and how that was gonna change the world? Apple's favorite thing to do is tell developers it's got the next big thing (Newton), next big language (remember Swift?), or the next big tool (AR). They hand this out to devs, devs eat it up, and like 1 or 2 years later, they either spring said thing like a trap no one can escape from, or they just give up on it and act like it never happened and move on, leaving developers with useless new skills.
Widespread testing makes contact tracing viable, assuming a big suppression in cases from lockdown.
Google has been plastering CDC stuff all over YouTube. Almost like the CDC made an end run around the TV blockade.
You make it sound like reading the article is a requirement to be able to comment.
> Germany has been able to hyper test their own population, while the rest of Europe was left running at low rates of testing, including Britain, France, Spain and Italy, along with all of Eastern Europe

This has almost nothing to do with industrial strength. This is about having lots of distributed, independent, competent laboratories. It certainly helped that the test was developed in Germany in January. Afterwards the developers started immediately to spread the knowledge about the test to the other laboratories. This shows the strength of decentralized laboratories. Other countries organized that differently. Sometimes centralization is more efficient, but often decentralization combined with distributed competence is more capable to adapt to change.
Where this 'best practice is “don’t”' idea comes from? I saw it couple of times when scraping topic surfaces. I think that it is kind of hypocrisy and actually acting against own good and even good of the internet as whole because it artificially limits who can do what.

Why are there entities which are allowed to scrape web however they want (who got into their position because of scraping the web) and when it comes to regular Joe then he is discouraged from doing so?
php was never anything serious until it lived on top apache.
Let's All Wear a Mask
A challenge of the IETF generally is that it is very solution-driven. There are many, many solutions that are proposed per meeting, and the barrier to proposing a document is very low. This is good for hearing different ideas (counter to one of the replies that you got below). The challenge is that it takes /significant/ effort to:

- Understand whether a solution that is being proposed actually addresses a problem that a real network or technology system has.

- Reshape a set of proposals that have already reached "we already implemented this" into something different.

Both of these challenges require significant investment from the community. People have to be willing to stand up and critique the drafts (which they do), but also take the subsequent steps of going to work with these folks to help them understand how better they might address real gaps, or even to explain why the ideas aren't going to work in practice. The problem is that for most technical contributors, this work isn't moving anything forward -- it's more "good of the Internet" work. My observation is that there are limited cycles available from the folks in the IETF to do this work, but the number of new drafts coming in has increased at a rate that out-strips it (source: >15y working in the IETF routing area in general). Equally, there is limited support from the folks that employ IETF contributors for doing this work -- would they rather spend time fixing standards that they have customer demand from, or stopping standards that they probably won't need to ever implement (and thus have little to no negative affect on them)? These two challenges for the IETF have really exacerbated the culture clashes there.

Whilst eqvinox's analysis above draws the line at a particular contributing company, in my experience, this isn't solely the case. If we look at the IPv6 data plane for segment routing being progressed in the SPRING working group, it has the same hallmarks. A solution was proposed that it wasn't really clear what the problem it solved was, there was no significant technical debate to say that it wasn't needed or was harmful ahead of time (6man and spring didn't see these contributors), and only later down the line - when there was significant investment of a number of companies in it - was its implementability, and efficacy discussed. At this point there's zero chance that this technology will actually be morphed or deprecated (at best there'll be a competing solution), even if there's no standardisation of it.

Overall - I don't see anything particularly new here, other than another outlet for the frustration of not necessarily being able to push forward standards in the Internet industry. The other outlet has been open source - as we've seen more push towards just running code. Some areas of the IETF have embraced this one with much more ease (SPDY->HTTP/2.0, QUIC adoption etc.), but the routing area - with its implementations relevant to quite a small number of implementing vendors - has been harder to crack. (Source: I work with a team that took this route, and has really struggled to bring ideas back into the IETF and have them openly evaluated.)
It's the same phenomenon as in the Eastern Bloc countries, where the state subsidized prefab concrete construction and left the building trade to starve. The result was cheap housing for millions (sorely needed after the destructions of the War) and complete destruction of the construction trades.
Tree fort
Trump: The Game is actually a good game design, but the branding is, uh, a bit tacky. (If you can get the original 80s printing, it's much more subdued.)
We do. The government is selling them at low prices to the private sector, and states or hospitals are buying at a premium.
i mean exactly "us small business" which is a title almost all companies ofering 401k managed accounts have.
It seems you live in a shitty apartment then. Plenty of concrete apartments all over the world are well built.
Because anytime you can re-frame whatever your opponent is doing into something negative you win more political points with your base.
The energy costs are probably a major part of the equation. Heating/AC costs are lower so it doesn't make sense to invest in energy efficiency. Same as low gas prices with very lightly taxed fuel compared to other western countries. This all has to change with the global warming threat (the much worse alternative of giving up on it, of course exists too)