skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My coworker's whole family lives in Beijing. Her father died recently. He suddenly was having a hard time breathing, was brought to hospital, and by then his blood oxygen was far below normal.
They refused to test him for COVID19. She told me this. Her facial expression was utter shock, and she told me her mom's grief has been multiplied by the fact that the government doesn't want to be honest about his real cause of death.

People who believe the data coming from China is accurate are ignoring the recent history on transparency around this disease from the CCP. I just don't understand it. Sure, the country where police arrested the first doctors to publicly state it was human to human transmissible is being completely honest. Wow.

Two things can be true at the same time:
Trump administration has done poorly AND the CCP is culpable, lying, and made the situation much worse.

But in the US political system, there is no tolerance for distraction from hating the opposition party. You can only blame Trump, and saying bad things about China is "just racist and mean. They did such a great job, they say they have contained it. We didn't because the bad orange man didn't do his job."

Yeah, meanwhile, those of us living in reality know that Trump and the CDC/FDA suck, AND the CCP does too. And yeah, maybe, just maybe, if the US news media had dedicated 1/20th the coverage they gave to the impeachment to the virus, the government would have been held accountable to start acting then. I was travelling internationally, and when I got back home in early February, I was shocked at how little CNN and MSNBC were talking about the virus. Basically zero. And Fox only talked about it in the context of the impeachment distracting from it.

When governments fail, we hope that the free press will hold them accountable, and there's no reason they couldn't have done that earlier. No, the red vs. blue team sports are just too good for ratings to talk about things that actually matter.
awk is great. Started using it in 1987, still using it in production today!
I honestly think it's about a quarter of the code. Yes, there's a bit of ceremony around state management (but you are also free not to use Redux). But it's mostly boilerplate with a prescribed structure, so IMO it's pretty difficult to get it wrong.

On the other hand, most of the code has always been DOM manipulation, and having that declarative rather than imperative is a huge win. The alternative used to be using a template engine like handlebars, but that did a complete re-render every time any state changed, so for anything moderately complex that was too slow and you had to fallback to manual DOM manipulation, and manually keeping the DOM in sync with your state. And that was a large amount of rope in which to hang yourself
> here's the operative question: were they wrong to set their priorities the way they did?

Yes. Let me ask this the other way, in a different context.

Say your company builds rapid-assembly prefab building components. You have built the business on being supposedly greener than the competition, by using natural materials where possible. All of a sudden there is a massive surge in demand, and you find out that certain cost-cutting optimisations that used to be merely mildly beneficial, actually provide a marketing edge.

Does it matter that your fire-proofing is a naturally occurring material? Namely, asbestos?
My recommendations are okay as long as I turn off watch history. Mostly just celebrity bullshit and stuff. I don’t watch what’s recommended anyway.

Now the ads are another story. I already turned off personalizations and YouTube claims to base the ads on my location and the current video, which, if true, means a lot of people in the area watching COVID-19 related videos is being led to this very publication.
Credit is cheap right now if you can get it.

But just like before, it's "subject to status".

Which roughly means, if you really need it, the answer is no.
Do you publish source code?
Just tried with the data from my existing account - "invalid email"
> Uber, Moia or FreeNow

Does Uber work fine with microG? Last I tried the map rendering was messed up and I couldn't really use it.
Not the parent, but since I moved there is a really good local brand of organic instant coffee (generic grocery store chain). I no longer use my AeroPress because there aren't any good sources of coffee beans near me.
Thanks. I've had this account for awhile - was planning on discussing and maybe posting some articles about cryptocurrency. Your wacky screed is the first thing that actually motivated me to reply, though.

Re: that guy's posting history: no thanks. I don't really care. All I saw is this exchange, and in it you blow up over something that is pretty innocuous. I'm just trying to let you know that you're coming across like a wild-eyed political extremist with a bone to pick here. I mean, GamerGate? I was just trying to google "posiopathy" to learn more about it, and instead I find you ranting and raving about some political thing from over half a decade ago. All because - as far as I can tell - some guy asked a couple questions in a way you didn't like. It's completely bizarre. I'm not going to accuse you of being schizophrenic because that would be rude, but I will admit that it's the first thing that came to mind when I read that post.
Is there a Helm and Operators showdown?
hot water + plastic = bad
Thing is - this story is all over the mainstream news. It's got multiple stories on the yahoo front page, it's reported via multiple sources in my fbook feed, but also with our regular tv news station.
People are seeing this about zoom that have never seen zoom.
People that I suggested use zoom are going to notice the word even if they would normally scroll past some gomeeting story.
Kind of. The US has some different frequency allocations so it won't work in all areas.
Opinion: StubHub’s Urgent Peril and the Industry Response
already over:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Hopefully we don't have any unfunny things come out of this.
I call in for every meeting I can. My hearing is poor; the sound quality on the computer just isn't good enough for me. Then add in that my computer is heavily loaded, so it's ability to encode/decode sound is degraded.

I have a high quality desk phone on a land line (admittedly, VOIP from FIOS, but not via my computer) and I will fight tooth and nail to keep it.

All that being said, I'm comfortable typing in an arbitrary length password on my phone. All I ask is that it be formatted to make that easy (groups of 3-4 numbers with spaces).
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Do you have a source for the claim they haven't identified the root cause before determining that a regular reboot is a suitable mitigation?
What is it about weak encryption that has these politicians convinced that using it won't lead to higher incidents of hacking and identity theft? We're already dealing with one blow to our economy, should we bracing for a second?
which means all you gotta do is war dial the phone network...
https://aeropress.com/use-it-now/evolution-of-aeropress/

edit confession: I have collected all versions, save for the new red one.
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Hm? Pour-over is practically an artform. You have to stand over the chemex, pace the pour very carefully, watch the bloom, continue to grow the bloom for two or three minutes… pour-over is absolutely the best coffee and also the most labor-intensive.

Aeropress: pour, wait, push. Maybe 85% as good as pour over and massively better than french press, percolator, or drip.
Google can afford to do that. Most people can't because they lack the money to develop a process that allows it, the people to make that process work, the variety of opportunities to apply it with varying degrees of success, and more than two decades experience with a minimal aesthetic.

One designer in their bedroom with an average client, average brief, and average budget can't nail that. Even at the normal scale of enterprise there's going to be a decision maker who demands a picture of golden retrievers on the beach at sunset and another who thinks it looks to much like Apple.
Modern Version:
"Shall we play a game?"
"Love to"
"‼To play Global Thermonuclear War, you must first update your flash player. Click here‼️"
When debugging, your attitude matters
Since "topic model" is not explained in the post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
I read back in mid-late February that Hawaii had shelves empty of toilet paper. It was only a matter of time for that to spread to the mainland. Did no one pay attention to what was happening?
That wasn't really arbitrary code execution.
But still vastly over reacted.

A pneumonia death as just far more spectacular than a normal flu death. Look at the Italy numbers eg. with about 18.000 COVID-19 deaths this season, which is much lower than a typical flu season of about 25.000. Or look at a bad flu year like 2014 with 54.000 flu deaths. With an IFR of 1%.

That's far higher than with this Corona virus. The COVID-19 IFR is below 1%. So what do we wreck our economy for? Flatten the curve, OK. But not much more than for 5 weeks.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/ful...
Leaked Amazon memo details plan to smear fired warehouse organizer
(Tailscale employee here) Automatic provisioning is definitely on the list. It's an enabler for immutable infra deployment, getting connectivity into containers, and building things like automatic enrollment based on external sources of trust (e.g. "automatically enroll any VM that can prove via its vTPM that it's in this GCP account").
I was talking about screen sharing FPS. Not, the normal video FPS.
I have plenty of bandwidth on my optic fiber connection.
You can take a look at the situation @:
https://community.jitsi.org/t/desktop-sharing-frame-rate-con...

and

https://community.jitsi.org/t/screen-sharing-fps/25132
Do you mean specifically 1M elements in memory?

Because something like a relational database could have 1M elements in a B-tree but the whole data structure doesn't have to be in memory at the same time.

Or operating system page tables as another example.
My husband is a market researcher, and is now conducting market research over Zoom & other platforms. The first thing he does is have _everyone_ dial in. It's been a major help in reducing latency and dropped packets, which in turn has a majorly positive effect in getting stranger to be able to talk normally with each other. It helps prevent the "you go no you go" as latency allows people to unknowingly step over each other.
Because countries are shutting their borders and we have a tightly coupled network. Add to that decades of streamlining logistics to avoid any inventory and consistent dividends and stock buy backs that make scaling up additional capacity difficult and you can quickly see disruption.

If this triggers a financial crisis, then working capital can disappear so even if capacity exists liquidity won’t and there won’t be enough purchase power to float inventory.

I worked at the best corporate bankruptcy law firm in the country in 2008. I can tell you there was a real concern that lack of liquidity would result in grocery stores not having food for extended periods from lacking working capital. That can happen fast.
How does the protocol Google chooses to use on its private intranet at all put pressure on the IETF to accept that protocol as a standard?

The chrome argument at least sort of makes sense, but I really don't get how the network transport that literally no one but Google can see threatens IETF irrelevance.
Internet and other forms of communications should not be shut down or censored.

But if there is bad information on there, then the government and/or anyone else who has good information should add the good informations too.
This is a neat video. It made my day. I'm currently in isolation at my family's place due to covid, enjoying my old computers, including my A1200 (which I use with an OSSC), so I found it particularly amusing.

As I have a 68030 and I've been messing with current netbsd on it (a decades old pcmcia bug finally got fixed on netbsd-9 stable branch, so now my ethernet card works on netbsd), I feel the video should have been called "with AmigaOS" rather than "The Amiga".

Of course, on netbsd, it is very possible to run ssh, ansible, aws-cli and all the other crap I use to work.
Also, don't understimate the amount of old, unsupported or ancient hardware that is still churning along in factories and supply companies keeping the supply chain running.

It's terrifying how much of the world is held together by (literal sometimes) duct tape.
I wish some upstart would try to create a plane making startup to crush Boeing at their inefficient bloated game

We need an Elon Musk of flight, Boeing has gotten away with too much mediocrity
Oops: Elon Musk Donated the Wrong Kind of Ventilator
This is with extreme social distancing measures.

We’re in “virus time” now and there will not be an end until a vaccine is manufactured and distributed.

On again off again quarantines are now ‘normal’.
Riot isn't an alternative to Jitsi so much as a complement to it. Matrix is for text chat, and Riot uses Jitsi for calls; while you can embed a Jitsi client into Riot rooms, and it auto-shares the URL, AFAIK group calls are not E2EE even if the room is.

One-on-one calls through Riot _are_ encrypted, but only if made in a one-on-one direct chat.
I wouldn't say it's mindless. Organic growth is okay for a lifestyle business, but if you want to compete with Google/FB/etc you need fast growth (or a really fucking good business plan). If you want fast growth then you need capital that you're okay with pissing away. You can front all that capital yourself if you're rich (e.g. Gabe Newell's M$ money going into Valve) or you go the VC route. VC route is simply less risky. Less chance of competition beating you to the punch, and no chance of losing all your money.

At least that's my understanding.
How does a person outside the system compete or move up at all then? Sell immediately to someone who owns the means of production?

I don't disagree with your thoughts about patents, but I also don't know how to protect regular folks.
What I forgot to mention is. Even though US companies seem to be a lot more willing to hire remote. They usually also expect a certain timezone overlap. Unfortunately SE Asia is one of the worst timezone for US clients (e.g. Thailand: west coast is 15h behind/9h ahead, east coast is 12 hours behind)
recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669968
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(Tailscale employee here) For personal use, we're planning a "sharing" feature, so that you can share machines (or individual services) with friends, and they just show up on their network (after mutual approval, of course). It's a feature I very much want for my personal use of tailscale, so it's going to happen :)
Overflow is not the only kind of bug triggered by uptime. In February 1991 a Patriot missile failed to intercept and incoming Scud due to an accumulation of time-based errors. The missile system had been online for 100 hours and this resulted in enough error that the intercept calculation was incorrect. People died.

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/patriot.htm...
No, it indicates that the problem domain is sufficiently dangerous that the risk of fixing must be balanced against the risk of the fix causing a different unknown error. There were ~500,000 787 flights in 2017 with an average of 200 people per flight. The 737-MAX resulted in 385 fatalities, so if a fix had a 1 in 250,000 chance of causing a different error that could result in a fatal crash then it would be worse than the 737-MAX problems. Do you have confidence that systems you have worked on have processes in place to guarantee that there is less than a 1 in 250,000 chance that a fix would not cause another error? If not, are you aware of any organization whose development practices you have first hand knowledge of and that you are confident could give such a guarantee? That is the risk analysis that must be done when doing a fix.

To be fair, this is somewhat of an over-exaggeration of the requirements since not all systems are critical and not all errors cause critical problems. In addition, the risk must be balanced against the alternative, in this case the risk caused by making sure a reboot is done every 51 days, so you would need to do an analysis of the failure probability and possible consequences of the status quo and compare that against the possible error modes of a software fix.

As an addendum to the risk analysis, the above analysis was only for one year error and on a per-flight basis. If you expect the 787 to fly for ~30 years then the fix must not cause two crashes over 30 years so a 1 in 7,500,000 chance. The average flight is ~5,000 KM which is ~4-5 hours per flight for a total flight time of ~60,000,000 hours. A plane takes ~3 minutes to fall from cruising altitude, so we need fleet downtime of 6 minutes per 60,000,000 hours which is 1 in 600,000,000 downtime. That is 99.9999998% uptime, 8 9s, 6,000x the holy grail of 5 9's availability in the cloud industry, 60,000x the availability guaranteed by the AWS SLA (again, somewhat of an over-exaggeration since you need correlated failures to amount to 3 minutes of continuous-ish failure, but that depends on an analysis of mean-failure time and mean-time-to-resolution which I do not have access to).
Sounds like you would make a good project manager.
Masks-for-all for Covid-19 not based on sound data
As we've used it at work, the phone dial-in option is the backup plan -- useful when people can't set up their computer's microphone correctly, or lose Internet access for whatever reason.
Some smartphones, using some applications, and some input devices, can dial some long codes.

Jim from sales who is dialing in from his company's oddball calendar app over Bluetooth on the infotainment system in his rental car probably can't.
Ultra high volume email workflow
>This is nonsense, if you presume the administration knew what was coming then they would have known that this would last up until election season, as it likely will.

Here is an article pointing out that Trump ignored warnings about the virus from his own intelligence services as far back as January[0].

Here is an article about his efforts to downplay the effects of the virus, and calling it a Democratic hoax[1], also going back to January.

Here is an article about Trump's efforts to quickly scale back social distancing guidelines and ending the quarantine in order to get the economy going, again, for the sake of his reelection campaign.

Here is an article about the lies, minisformation and misdirection Trump has offered about the coronavirus[3].

> Unless you're implying that they waited deliberately for it to get worse so they could "fix" it.

I'm not implying that. I will imply that Trump assumed the problem would just go away, and when it didn't, his primary concern became political damage control. FFS he's said he only willing to help blue states with funding if they stop criticizing him[4] and during a press briefing on the coronavirus he boasted about being "number one on facebook."[5] Clearly he cares more about his image and his ego than he does the health of the country.

Notwithstanding whatever other failures have occurred, when the Executive branch is being run like this during a crisis, the result affects the entire system. It affects funding. It affects procurement and distribution of goods. It affects the way people behave, whether they even believe a crisis exists, and what actions should be taken. There's an entire "coronavirus truther" thing happening now resulting in people ignoring quarantine orders and that's directly a result of Trump convincing people the scale and danger of the problem has been overblown by the "liberal media" in order to attack him. That's directly his fault.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intellig...

[1]https://www.vox.com/2020/3/18/21184945/trump-coronavirus-com...

[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-wants-to-r...

[3]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/trumps-...

[4]https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21193803/trump-to-governors-co...

[5]https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1245476330193518596
Exactly. I even worked on a medical instrument that had a similar problem.

Early in development we ran everything (real-time embedded system) on a system interval whose finest level of granularity was a 1ms tick. The system scheduler used a 32-bit accumulator that we knew would roll over after 50 days. However, we were given assurances that the system would have to be powered down for maintenance weekly so it didn't matter. Since proper maintenance is a hard requirement (or the instrument will start reporting failures) that was OK.

Eventually, some time after release we started getting feedback that the system was shutting down for no apparent reason. We investigated and found that those failures were all due to not having been powered down in months.

Apparently, since it could take up to 30 minutes after powering on the instrument before it was ready to run, some labs were performing maintenance with the power still on, so the machines were hitting much higher than expected uptimes. In many cases it wasn't an issue, but if time rolled over in the middle of a test, the instrument would flag the "impossible" time change as a fatal error and immediately shut everything down.

Next release moved to a 64-bit timer. I think we're good :-)
Can you explain that more clearly? What is the reason to not pay large sums with a credit card?