skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's really ready without what they're calling "magic DNS": https://tailscale.com/kb/1054/dns

Something that bugs me about ZeroTier is also present here, which is that there's no name management whatsoever, so I have to either keep a hosts file around with all the names of the network or find a script on GitHub that does it for me (or put a DNS server on the Tailscale network, and make sure all the hosts have records on there manually since there isn't a way to automatically integrate it with the hostnames that Tailscale already logs). Or, of course, use public records and pray you don't have more than a couple services because who wants to log in to the domain host every time you bring up a new container?

Half the magic of BeyondCorp (which I'm a big believer in) is that it's invisible from an end user perspective. I open a browser, go to git.corp.planeteaston.com, and it works, not "let's go to gitlab... it didn't resolve. what was the IP address again? 192.168.10-oh, wait, I'm offsite, the address is different, let's go see what it is in the Tailscale console", and a tech person could figure that out, maybe, never mind a computer-illiterate person in another department that was just told "go home, coronavirus, take your laptop".

This isn't a knock, since the main competitor, ZeroTier, doesn't have a great solution for DNS either besides run a DNS server, but whoever cracks it will probably win this race. And it's almost worse for ZeroTier, which by default (at least when I started using it 2-ish years ago), wanted you to use IPv6 addresses by default that there was no chance of you memorizing. I'll be a customer when this works!
I guess it depend on where my bank currently has the savings invested. That seems to be a pretty common problem with all savings - stock investment at best being an abstraction of a companies value and in no ways actually linked to how much wheat is produced by said company.

Either way, you dodged my question about the immune compromised. If you're trying to sanitize this whole thing as simply economic numbers, where those who take should be removed for those who produce, you're forgetting about those people, as well as all the other producers who will die.
Coronavirus leaves US more vulnerable to cyberattacks
Any sources? Or at least 1-2 subreddits where one can read Amazon warehouse workers public discussions?
Ask HN: How to write techincal documentation for complex systems?
I'm a junior dev in a large company and after a few small projects I got an assignment to write a technical document for the system my team develops and supports. The document will then be used internally between developers, especially newcomers.

The system is made of out of the box enterprise solutions, custom software, a bunch of APIs, numerous SQL and server instances, legacy business code, web apps etc. There are bits and pieces of documentation for some of the parts but there is no complete document where all of the ins and outs of the system are explained in a readable and understandable way.

I'll have help from senior devs and architects but this is mainly my task. Are there any articles, tutorials, books to read and can you give me advice how to start, what to look for and what to avoid before I jump into this rabbit hole?
It's not content marketing. It's first-hand testimony that this worked for me under extremely difficult circumstances posted to an audience that best knows me for surviving those extremely difficult circumstances.
A conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci: “We are in a war”
Interesting project,worked on itext and pdftron SDK but your scripting language much simpler
nice work guys.
best wishes :)
We still do, via https://www.pathforward.org/
To be honest, I've been watching this since early January, expecting the worst. I did not stockpile food in early March as Trump acted like it would be no big deal... and then all the stores around here ran out of food. This really made me thing Trump was an idiot for thinking/saying what he did. But in hindsight, if he actually did speak (what we know to be) the truth, there would have been a super large panic. So perhaps he downplaying was calculated.
Thanks for clarifying. Maybe I'm just cranky today (very likely – Old Man Yells At Cloud), but I'd love to see a black and white subdued mode for emoticons as a user preference, it would help with the stimulation if focus is one of the central tenets of this product.
Temp checks are USELESS. We are dealing with a stealth virus which is asymptomatic the first 5 days on average, these are the "spreaders".
️Show HN: Gossips is a cafe on the internet
Kind of... Jitsi lives on in the SIP bridge: https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi
u/pacala's law: The competency of a government organization is inversely proportional with the size of the governed body. At 7B and counting, WHO is a sad joke.
>Ψ(x,t) = phi(t)ψ(x) = Ae^(−Et/ℏ)ψ(x)

This equation is missing a sum symbol, also it should be e^(-iEt/ℏ), where in the correct case the amplitude does not change. What you get is a sum of products of each occupied stationary state and a time-dependent phase. So the general solution looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Scythe33/san...
> One misleading headline that’s been pushed out by Microsoft and unfortunately picked up by various tech media outlets, is the “775% increase” in Azure cloud service usage in geographical areas that are most committed to some form of social distancing or shelter-in-place policy.

It's way worse than that. The original statement:

> We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders

The updated statement:

> We have seen a 775 percent increase in Teams' calling and meeting monthly users in a one month period in Italy, where social distancing or shelter in place orders have been enforced.

Somehow an increase in usage of a single feature of a single product in a single country was miscommunicated as an increase in demand for all of Azure's cloud services. Microsoft's PR team royally screwed up on this one.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft...
I think it's better to just wash them in soap and water when you get home. A good soap will kill the heck out of viruses.
To save everyone the search, here's the link to parent's analysis from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693012
That thinking negates the economic impact that a bunch of people dying is going to have on the economy. There are really two options here.

1) A huge impact on the economy and fewer people die.

2) A huge impact on the economy and lots of people die.

Nobody has the capability to predict the real outcome of one scenario over the other from an economic perspective.

If the US does everything perfectly, we'll probably lose 200k people to COVID-19. If we "reopen the economy" prematurely, the number could easily be 5x to 10x that figure.

Loss of human life has a very tangible impact on the economy, so folks should not be thinking of this as a binary decision ("do we save lives vs do we save the economy").
Yea, this is super important to emphasize. Even though surgical and homemade masks are only good at filtering out a portion of the larger respiratory droplets, that's still going to be a lot better than nothing.

This is the same reason the medical authorities have recommended these types of masks for healthcare professionals in areas where N95's are not available. It's better than nothing.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f... (see "HCP use of homemade masks")
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> limited to places where shelter-in-place is in full force, which at least in the United States, is only a small part of the country with densely populated urban areas: New York, California, New Jersey, Michigan, etc.

Ummm, it is NOT a "small part" of the country that is under "shelter-in-place". By geographic area, maybe, but California, New York and New Jersey alone include some of the largest cities by population and population density. And there are now several other states with large populations (Illinois, Florida, Washington, for example) not listed here that have shelter-in-place as well.

UPDATE: I found an interactive map that shows which states have statewide shelter-in-place orders in the United States; it looks like all the states with the largest populations (and more than 50% of the country's total population) are covered, which is actually significantly larger than I had actually thought before I looked this up: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay...
The main value I find in LineageOS is for devices past the end of vendor support. If LineageOS supports a device I own, great, I get to keep using it with security updates for extra months or years I wouldn't have otherwise.
If the citizens of the internet didn't vehemently demand blood for any misstep, would it still be the Internet?
Comments like this are maddening.

No mitigation effort is perfect. Not even vaccines work perfectly.

The point is to reduce the average number of people that each infected person spreads the disease to. Not to get it to 0, which is impossible.
Co-founder of Daily.co, here. Just a quick note: if you're building something related to COVID-19 and you're not charging users anything, unlimited use of everything you can do with our APIs is free. Ping us at help@daily.co, tell us what you're doing, and we'll upgrade your account.
A better comparison would be between Azure and GCP, both of them provide office suite (SAAS) to customers.

Google recently released its side of the numbers (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/how...)
Its not about guarantees. Its about reducing the infection exponent. Which all of these recommendations absolutely help with.
Do you have a sort of demo room you could post to HN that allowed people to play with the interface without signing up?
Microsoft Edge 0Day [CVE-2020-?]
truly a lost opportunity that it wasn't tailwind
I think the main pain point is towards front end appearance/interactions. Js as a language has gotten more ergonomic, but it's been Turing complete forever. As a practical matter, the pain comes when you say "I want to align x" and come to learn that every browser has different flags to accomplish the task. I'm sure you've seen the fat stacks of moz/ie/opera checks and flags before. I know that example is bad, but I can't think of a good one at the moment, I rarely touch front end.
Outstandingly, by modern standards, clean HTML page, markup-wise.

Great content, too.
What you're saying makes a lot of sense to me, but I think the OP's comment still has valid insight. The point about the in-your-face bright colors all over the place could be addressed as easily as muting down the colors of the tags that you're not subscribed to. You could click the tags you want to subscribe to, which would instantly brighten them.
I am, it seems, in the market for this. But...

I don't want to be alerted unless something is important and urgent. I was taught at college to use that distinction.[1]

Not seeing the word "urgent" in the copy on the front page made me think the authors don't appreciate this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...

At the risk of sounding like that bloke who wrote about how he wants to be playing offense, not defense, when it comes to communication, this is what I tell people I work with:

Important/Urgent: Call me or come find me

Important/Not Urgent: Tell me when we next talk, or email me

Unimportant/Urgent: Hover by my desk, or message me. If I'm not dealing with more important things, I might see it in time.

Unimportant/Not Urgent: Bring it up when we next see each other, or email me.

The only things I want making a noise and interrupting me is calls on my phone, the doorbell, my egg-timer and my smoke alarm.
As a quick example, I’ve been doing a bit of work with land-mobile radios lately (LMR). We rent a very small slice of spectrum from the government (12.5kHz wide, IIRC), and all of the radios use that frequency. They work anywhere (within the range of our license anyway). They run independent of a repeater or any kind of fixed base station.

If I’m out in the middle of nowhere with my team and we’re using these radios because there’s no cell coverage, a) how would a given radio “bid” on a piece of spectrum, and b) how would the other units in the talk group know to listen to a particular frequency for my message?
The EFF didn’t change. You just went off the deep end. They don’t care about your pet issue of alt-right 4chan stars not getting rooms at universities because there just is no right to get meeting space at public universities.

(And what a surprise that what bothers you most is the EFF supporting a woman)
Thanks. That's the context I was referring to. Reading the whole thing again twice more, I can still confidently say it would have confused me more than helped me when I was first learning.
The title is somewhat misleading (and different from the one in the article). They are now allowing opposition politicians to buy ads related to Covid, just as the administration can.
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ACE2 expression in heart: potential mechanism of heart injury by SARS-CoV-2
Isn't covid still contagious before you even get a fever?
We pay 100% health insurance and will try to keep it as long as possible while they are furloughed. Things change day to day though. A number of our buyers, including some large public companies, decided to just stop paying their bills by switching to net-180 terms.

I can tell you right now most $15/hr employees aren’t too worried about health insurance. Most of them have gone their entire life without, so suddenly losing it again isn’t as big a deal as you might think.
Page to customize and embed the Coronavirus Real-time Map Widget
‘Lucy’s baby’ suggests famed human ancestor had a primitive brain
Perhaps, and I think this most likely, he blurted out whatever made him look good on TV. Like everything that comes out.
In Common Lisp, you can only transfer control up the stack. With continuations, you get multiple stacks that you can transfer control between.
This would be a great opportunity to make a difference.
I haven't been offended by it, and I'm the founder of a company that's been around longer and is probably the closest competitor: https://www.zerotier.com/

I don't hate on people for doing similar things. If anything I am absolutely shocked it took someone this long, since to me the idea of a full mesh virtual network is how things should work, everything else is stupid and clunky, the fact that we have to bounce off servers to transfer things is dumb, and NAT is pure concentrated evil and must be destroyed.

I absolutely loved David Crawshaw's Remembering the LAN post:

https://crawshaw.io/blog/remembering-the-lan

It echoes exactly the sentiments that motivated me to start working on ZeroTier, so I wish them well.

As far as the upvotes go I just figured they have a lot of friends from their time at Google and their posts get upvoted a lot.

I notice the same thing when any company that has a lot of HN users among its employee base does anything. When AWS, Apple, and Google do a bunch of product releases the front page gets bombed for days. The site practically turns into a news feed of new AWS Elastic Beanie Cap products when the ironically titled AWS ReInvent happens. If anything the FAANG companies get more free advertising here than anyone.
"False sense of security" is a frequently misapplied concept. Your post is such an example.

Something that reduces a risk (e.g. virus spread) by 5% provides very real security improvements. There is nothing "false" about it. Your concept of "false sense of security" would only apply if someone promised a 5% measure provided 100% security - and nobody is doing that.
Well, at your use of the term 'gaslighting' I kind of like to quietly step out of saying, OK, whatever, this discussion has become especially unproductive.
I'm also curious about how they are dealing with the actual sent packages. From past videos I've seen, workers place the objects in boxes. So if a worker is sick, wouldn't they be sending contaminated items out? Is amazon doing anything about that in particular?
From the FDA:

"even a properly fitted N95 respirator does not completely eliminate the risk of illness or death"

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/personal-protective-equi...
The point of mitigation measures is to reduce the spread, not to slow it to zero, which is impossible.
Do you shutdown electricity/water during riots? Food for thought.
Okay, but you have to look at both sides of it. How many people aren't dying in road traffic accidents that don't happen because of isolation? How many people aren't dying of diseases they won't develop because reduced economic output has also reduced the output of carcinogens and toxins produced by manufacturing that's not being done? And like that - those are just the first two examples off the top of my head; there are more.

I don't see much mention of this among the "back to work at any cost" crowd, and I wonder why. It seems like a pretty obvious consideration.
Yes! You can be contagious without showing any symptoms (asymptomatic transmission). Recent data shows that up to 25% of people who have it are asymptomatic!
I've just started learning how to use it and it's blown my mind how bloody useful it is, while also being open source. I've got it set up to record part of my screen and my webcam at the same time, and then I can chop it up in post using Resolve, no problem.

Until I found OBS I was basically trying to record my screen and then narrate over it after the fact, but it just didn't jibe with me as there's basically no room for improv or failure at that point. And I personally prefer to leave my less egregious mistakes in the final cut to demonstrate that you don't always get things right the first time.
https://reddit.com/r/AmazonFC
Please link research.
Indeed. But as another commenter points out, what I think they wanted was to solve only for eigenstates here. Apparently I'm not the only one this confused.
Or spray with bleach
Artificially low interest rates, government entities buying corporate bonds for 'liquidity' (aka, bailing out the banks that shouldn't have ever made the loans in the first place) create the incentives for companies to borrow heavily and artificially boost EPS. There's literally no reason for a company to not do this.
That's a good point. To complete: Just tell CDC to tell employers to have employees sign a waver.
Stock up on cocaine and girlfriend instead
Obviously it's impossible to say for certain. This was/is a relatively controlled economic crash landing. The decision was made to take the plane from 30,000 feet to the runway in record time. So everyone has bumps and bruises, some are going to have broken bones and a few may die as a result of their injuries... but that was the best option available at the time.

Personally, I find this a lot less scary than '08. The main objective of the current exercise is to ensure the healthcare system does not collapse... because if that happens, things could get dicey. (i.e. blind terror would likely cause more damage than the virus itself) Once we get to the point where the medical community feels like 'OK, we've got this under control' things should start looking up since we'll know for sure what the bottom looks like from a health/mortality standpoint. Then people can start sorting out the economic side of the equation. Right now there's fear because no one knows where the bottom is for either situation.
China handled this quite a bit better than the US and has a multiple times bigger population.
That's a neat problem. You may hear N other stations, but they may not hear each other at all. Its very difficult to know whom to tell about coordination information, or even how to calculate it. Solve that, even heuristically, and make a $B
This is Amazon's entire warehouse solution, in some sense. Pickers are "optimized" by software. It's probably relatively trivial to teach the system to keep people further apart, at the cost of optimal routing.

They're not monitoring the public, they're monitoring their supply chain system.
You're avoiding my question.

I really don't agree with your argument that caring about user security and privacy would have a substantial effect on development time, certainly not in respect of GDPR.
(Designer behind the Tailscale blog here)

Glad you like it! The text styles are custom, and the layout is built using an in-house CSS framework not unlike Tailwind [1].

But if you'd like to build something similar, you could get pretty close by using something like Tailwind and building with Rasmus Andersson's lovely (and open-source!) Inter type family [2], which we use throughout the site.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/
[2] https://rsms.me/inter/
Fleet Management for Kubernetes Is Here
OBS is very good software, thanks for working on it!

Recording the screen works much better than any other screen recording software I tried. For this use case the preview can be a bit confusing. If the resolution does not match (because of OS 200% scaling for example) going to the settings each time to adjust it is a bit cumbersome; the interactive resizing handles in the preview somehow never helped me. Sometimes one of the reset zoom context menus helps.

Also the "Window source" would be awesome, but is a bit cumbersome to set up every time, and doesn't capture things like menus unfortunately.

It's probably really difficult to improve these things, so they work automagically for dummies like me that know very little about OBS and use only a tiny feature set, without taking making things worse for power users, which are probably happy with things as they are.
This kind of info usually circulates in the corporate world for a week before it hits the wider media zeitgeist. My company has been holding weekly analyst briefings on what to expect.

Right now, the sources I have say to expect to be WFH and "socially distanced" until July or August at the earliest. Restaurants will probably start slowly opening back up around then, but conferences or sporting events are going to be cancelled through at least the end of the year. A single sporting event or conference can lead to thousands of new infections, so none of that stuff is coming back for a long time.

Past that, we were told to expect 3 waves of economic pain: one right now when everyone loses their job, another big layoff cycle in 3 months once companies that can WFH start to adjust for structural changes, and a third wave near the end of the year after people start to seriously curtail consumption in response to the first two waves and global demand falls off a cliff.

This information has been getting priced into the market for a few weeks, so none of it is new. But these numbers are just starting to hit the wider media and your average American is starting to panic because we're looking at a decade or more of hurt before this is all over.
Ask HN: Reference for preindustrial chemical syntheses and their uses?
Hey guys, I was playing Cataclysm:DDA, and I noticed it let you make ammonia from salt water, a little research showed that it is possible to do this with electrolysis and a high enough temperature.

I've had a long standing dream of moving into the woods tm, and I was wondering if there's good reference material for what important chemicals existed in preindustrial society, and the ways that they were fabricated and used, and ideally even a section that shows the modern methods of synthesis in comparision.
Good examples of the materials I'm trying to build up to are charcoal, roman concrete etc. I realize that it's also skills, tools and non chemical fabrication techniques that will be relevant, but I feel like reference on agriculture and wooden construction are quite readily available.

My chemistry is quite bad, but I'm willing to relearn the important bits to get a solid understanding of these methods.

I also understand that this isn't probably the best forum to ask, but I'd love to know where to go looking for this info.