skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone verify or contradict this, with reliable sources?

I've spent my whole life believing that it was a disaster when the library at Alexandria burned. Is it possible it wasn't a big deal? How do we know?
Regulating them to a pure marketplace is the best outcome we an hope for, i.e. require them to divest any product they sell in the marketplace. India took some steps in that direction last year. Why not in the US?
That would be preferable. I had a call from my bank once that went like this.

> CS: Hello, this is X from Y Bank. Is this Z?

> ME: Yes, this is Z.

> CS: Z, can you confirm your last 4 digits of your social security number so I can confirm who I am speaking to?

> ME: Uh... How do I know you're the bank? I can't just tell any person who calls that information.

> CS: Z, we are from your bank, Y Bank. Please provide the last 4 digits of your social.

> ME: There has to be another way to do this, right?

> CS: Please hold... (puts me on hold for 30 seconds)

> CS: Hi Z, I'm back. Can you look up our phone number on Google and give us a call back and ask for me by name, X?

> ME: Sounds good.

It was them. I got quickly reconnected to the same woman. I'm still concerned that the norm should be something closer to what you commented, even if it adds friction and will probably result in lazier people not calling back for something important. It's better to normalize this than allow for the alternative, which is to normalize people telling random strangers their sensitive, personal information.

Any time this topic comes up, I immediately worry about my parents and grandparents falling for this sort of thing if real scammers are out there trying. I realize the last four digits of my social security number are not as great as the whole thing, but as far as I know, it's enough to be dangerous.
>return (char *[]){"No", "Yes"}[!!x];

Is !!x equivalent to x here?
> This still is not a random sampling. It only samples from shoppers at grocery stores and big-box retailers. Imagine doing the same study, but of people who ordered groceries online only. Would you expect to see big differences in exposure rate? I think so.

There's a larger, related problem with this: It's way over-sampling people who go outside a lot and make unnecessary trips, and undersampling people who don't. I'm in NYC and I'm only going to one store a week (the grocery store). So I'd have much less chance of being included in this study than someone who hasn't changed their habits and is still shopping much more frequently. And there's a direct correlation between how often you're going shopping and how likely you are to have been exposed to COVID-19.

So yeah, it's very far from a random sampling, and it is specifically over-sampling people who are more at risk. So I'd take it with a grain of salt; it could actually be way off.

They should've activated the jury selection tool for this and gone to people's apartments to draw blood. That way they'd correctly sample the people who aren't leaving home at all, or only do so rarely.
This works extremely well as a tourist too. If someone is walking up and offering something to me that is almost always a no. Scams frequently depend on seeking out targets.
Now you can get paid for your Zoom calls in crypto
read mapping are actually not too bad. remote TLBs can be sychronised lazily on a page fault.
The above comment being [dead] seriously concerns me.
Oh man this is going to be rough if it keeps the corrupted data in a local cache. Cache probably won’t get refreshed before previous contents get parsed, and parsing the data crashes the app.
Didn’t stop the news media from tabulating a death rate based on hospital cases alone.
I maintain voicemail for that purpose and would call you right back. And call blocking doesn’t work well, since caller id is easily spoofed.
i mean it's not the SDK that's crashing right, the service changed somehow.
Some people would like freedom to discuss the coronavirus without being oppressed. They can't on YouTube if this policy takes hold.

The sort of people who contradict the WHO happened to be right on this one; they predicted a problem early and tended to pre-empt the WHO on upcoming problems. This was also expected, because the WHO only advises stuff that is already obvious to everyone. Interested parties can offer better advice than the WHO because they can move with news while the WHO has to wait.

Case in point, Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity runs a prepper/doomsday style channel. He is also a very smart bloke with an honest-to-goodness PhD in a virus-related field. Who are YouTube to say his opinions are less valid than an organisation that can't say "Taiwan" in a sentence and can only say things that are politically palatable to China and the US?

Chris' advice on the coronavirus has been consistently high quality, accurate, sourced and early compared to the WHO. His only fault is his standards for safety are a lot higher than are reasonable. This policy will be aimed at exactly people like him. He has been contradicting the authorities all the way.
Percentage of people with antibodies is similar (if you take those studies at face value).

Percentage of people dead is not.
I just blocked YouTube on all devices in the house
The study is dramatically over-sampling exactly the people who have the most potential exposure to COVID-19, and dramatically over-sampling the people who don't.

This could easily be way off. It's not testing the people who aren't home at all, and it has a low chance of only testing the people who leave home rarely, only when strictly necessary. It's mainly finding the people who leave home a lot.
It’s probably more the desktop vs laptop than the Linux vs Macos
Exactly. The last coherent release of Windows was 7. From that point on it was only downhill.
Disturbing. As it should be.
He didn't target poor, uneducated masses. He targeted the most educated people in his society, the clerics of the Catholic church.
First, Mars round trips typically take 2 years, not ten. Flying to Mars can be done in under two months.

Secondly, a fully fueled SpaceX starship in low earth orbit will likely land 100-150 tons on Mars. It won’t be able to land any payload on the moon.

Lastly, you don’t need to take fuel for the return trip to a Mars. It’s easy to make there.

Fuel will be virtually impossible to make on the moon for decades, requiring every drop to be shipped from Earth. Because of the tyranny of the rocket equation, that requires a massive amount of fuel to land a much smaller amount of fuel on the moon to be able to fly back a tiny payload to Earth.

The cost of food, water and fuel on the moon is probably 10x that on Mars. The moon is also a desert, full of razor sharp dust and nearly devoid of resources, as well as commercial and scientific value.
I'm not talking about gaining persistence via a legitimately-installed system service. Instead I'm talking from a malware point of view.

If a malicious Snap has read/write access to non-hidden files within someone's home directory, you can almost certainly gain a level of persistence, e.g.:

* Edit a desktop shortcut file so that it points to your malware

* Edit a script or program so that when the user runs it, it runs your malware

* Edit a non-hidden configuration file in a malicious way

I am talking very theoretically here, and I agree that this is taking security concerns to the extreme, but these are important considerations that aren't really present with Apt (when using default repositories).

At the end of the day, despite my security concerns, I do like Snap and the technology it uses.

However, at the moment at least, I will always prefer Apt with default repositories as it provides that extra level of safety/guarantee of authenticity.

Finally, I use a script to install the Chromium Snap to remove the risk of typosquatting, which sufficiently mitigates this risk for me.
>Why would a government build an expensive, high tech piece of equipment, then not ensure it could X

Maybe short design periods in some cases too. Either way it was not too uncommon. There were bombers with escape hatches big enough for the crew, provided they didn't wear parachutes[1]. Fighter bomb releases that required ducking down to reach them[2] and fighter planes who's fuel feed stopped when pulling negative Gs [3]

[1] Lancaster bombers

[2] P-26 or F2A I think

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Shilling%27s_orifice
No, it "collapses" an integer to 0 or 1. (Essentially, it's x != 0.)
> A silly question: do you forsee any issues getting Cap’n Proto 0.8 to work over a completely locked down Docker environment that only allows HTTPS proxy as the connection between nodes that use Cap’n Proto RPC?

If it supports WebSocket, it should be relatively easy to layer Cap'n Proto RPC on top of that. Alternatively, some proxies allow full-duplex HTTP (request and response bodies streaming simultaneously), which could also be enough to bootstrap a connection on top of -- but in practice that tends to run into a lot of problems.

Otherwise, that's tough. HTTP is fundamentally a one-way, FIFO request-response protocol, whereas Cap'n Proto is multi-directional and asynchronous. Starting a separate HTTP connection for each call -- with connections initiated in both directions -- would be pretty ugly and have lots of issues with synchronization and routing.

> PS: Thoughts on why Cap’n Proto did not win over MessagePack? MessagePack had a better JS implementation? Is it the convenience of not needing to define a schema when using MessagePack vs Cap’n Proto schema requirement?

I don't really consider MessagePack a direct competitor to Cap'n Proto. It's more of a competitor to JSON. Schema-driven vs. non-schema-driven changes everything about how you use a serialization.

A more apples-to-apples comparison in Protobuf. Protobuf is much more popular for a simple reason: It has had a lot more engineering investment, leading to mature implementations in more languages and lots of great tooling that capnp doesn't have (yet). No amount of clever design can beat that.
Just to add to the anecdata, my MBP would kernel panic ~25% of the time it was plugged into a 4k displayport 1.1 monitor. I'm glad your system is stable, though!
Among many other things in this article, it's a good reminder to simply never use a debit card: use a credit card instead as the most you can be out is $50 for any incident of fraud. And if you need cash? How about going to the bank and talking to a teller (or going through the drive-through during social distancing)?
I think it’s important to have a solid answer to this question. When people believe that a plan is weak on the details, this is what they are talking about. It gives the impression that the promises of the plan stated upfront (we will save money by moving away from wasteful health care system) are some sleight of hand, moving costs from a well-defined bucket to a mystery bucket we don’t measure.
I know someone working at a VC funded startup for a few years, they have way more employees than they probably need and seem to be paying 20-30% above the going rates to attract talent. That combination makes it hard to turn a profit. Yet they keep getting more cash infusions even though they are losing money.
Oh, I loved that book! Maybe I'll re-read it...

I found my way into some x.25-to-internet gateways in the early 90's. Most corporate networks were very insecure then. Some of those gateways had no authentication: you'd connect in over x25, then telnet out. The local colleges were also pretty bad.
I agree the original article was really dumb, and sounded like it was written by an enterprise network guy who has only worked with and been trained by big vendors.

That said, the fatal flaw of Wireguard is the crypto model. Nobody who interacts with the US government, regulated US industries, or some F500 will be able to use it because of the fixed algorithm choice, which isn’t possibly FIPS 140-2 validatable. You’ll always need that Cisco/Pulse/whatever box.

That may be a feature for some, but it kneecaps the possibility of it being as ubiquitous as it might be otherwise.
> The idea is: "We are the decent, good, people who know the truth. Now we control the platforms, so it's only well and good we control the information, and we tell the deplorable others what they can and can't say."

Yes and the reality TV show star criminal idiot is the solution.

You get me 100% with the problem, you lose me totally trying to say MAGA is the answer.
Corncob was the shit. What was that other Amiga game? With the cones, and everything, it looked like corncob, but it was something else. I bet someone knows. Good times anyways.
> Is it bad that I've written some of these in my normal code?

yes
Nevermind the supposed sources, op's sarcastic criticisms of the WHO are all entirely on point.
I have one of those. I've been remote for a couple years so none of this is new to me.

I just unplugged my laptop from my standing desk and went to lay down for my postprandial chill session. I'm going to get some work done as soon as I'm done faffing about on HN (whomst among us...) and then I'll probably plug back in again.

It's just easier to do it this way rather than synchronize state between a desktop and laptop. One less thing to own, also.
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Didn't Apple try this already with the Power PC chip, then switch to Intel?

Why the 180 reversal of course?
If theres no mandated political buckets, influence will have to be individual. Collusion less robust, since proof of political clubs would be illicit and migration to a new/other group trivial. If you are out of the R/D troughs now, thats the end of your political career. This is an unfortunate and forseen end-stage two-party system.
> This section of the article is confusing at first because it talks about “road warrior” users (who generally have dynamic IP addresses) not being supported by WireGuard. But this is not true; standard WireGuard happily works as long as as least one end (usually the central VPN concentrator) has a static IP address.

Maybe I don't understand the issue to be solved (I was unfamiliar with the 'road warrior' term so I looked it up [1]), but I think both Avery Pennarun and Michael Tremer misunderstood what WireGuard is capable of. WireGuard works just fine when the physical network interfaces have dynamic IPs (on both ends even). You can use the basic wg or wg-quick tools to create a VPN server on a server with a dynamic IP and have clients connect from dynamic IPs. However, all the tunnel IPs must be static unlike e.g. OpenVPN where the server gives the client a tunnel IP during authentication.

> (for example, so you can get to an office network whose home connection uses dynamic DNS). It’s true that plain WireGuard does not support this configuration out of the box.

I have done literally that for over a year now. I cannot think of a way to interpret this that would make Avery's claims true.

> Someday, WireGuard will need to be upgraded to support a second cipher suite. When this happens, users will be able to configure it peer-by-peer to allow one cipher suite or the other, or both, exactly as they would with any other VPN.

That is not how I interpret what Donenfeld has said [2] about the future of WireGuard. I believe the software will get a v2 without backwards compatibility. However, even that is a non-issue because sysadmins can run both protocols in parallel during the transition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_warrior_%28computing%29

[2] Page 3 of https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
I've noticed the reverse - non-essential items are still delayed by weeks, but quasi-essentials (e.g., food, food storage items) are often faster than expected, and there are noticeably more Amazon trucks around than even at the holidays.

Getting a delivery from Amazon/Whole Foods has gone from difficult (get up at 2AM and have a 50% chance of finding a slot, and maybe a 2% chance during the day) in March to completely impossible since beginning of April - even the exceedingly rare event of "finding" a slot fails when trying to click through [Pay] and [Schedule] screens.
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Japanese women are having on average one child. They want two.

> Japan is one such country that discrepancy between
intended and observed levels of fertility is relatively large. For example, calculated from a
nationally representative survey in 2010 (IPSS 2011), the average number of intended children
among women aged 40-44 is 1.84, while their observed cohort total fertility is estimated to be 1.48 . These discrepancies between intended and observed fertility suggest social constraints on
meeting intentions.

https://paa2014.princeton.edu/papers/141630
The SDK is crashing. It's likely crashing because the service changed, but it's causing actual crashes on iOS and Android devices which rely on the SDK.
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In the original rules for Pandemic, the player who was ill most recently went first.

In Ticket to Ride, i remember it as being the person who was most recently on a train, but on looking it up, it seems it was the player who had travelled the furthest to get to the game (either way, always me, as i used to play with friends who lived across town, at their place!).

So i tend to pick something relevant to the theme of the game, and pick the player who did that most recently. If nobody has done that thing, fall back to weaker versions of it.

Gardens of Alhambra? The player who most recently did some gardening. Fall back to watering a pot plant.

Hanabi? The player who most recently saw some fireworks. Fall back to anything that was on fire.

King of Tokyo? The player who most recently destroyed a skyscraper. Fall back to doing some DIY which involved knocking a wall down, then to breaking a cupboard door.

Settlers of Catan? The player who most recently really annoyed one of their friends.
What if Zombie Apocalypse happened?
I think if you specify your dates and length of stay you can search by the total cost but I agree its certainly frustrating and for short trips makes the service annoying and nearly useless/cost prohibitive.

Overall, I think its better to have the cleaning fee separate, otherwise you penalize people who stay long and don't get cleaning service during their stay.
Most of it must be ARM compatible already, for the iPad version.

Also Photoshop was first released in 1987 and has been through all the same CPU transitions as Apple (m68k/ppc/...) so presumably some architecture-independence is baked in at some level.
So, that's definitely a good point to raise. I agree and should have been more clear. I think there should not be a second wave because I think we need to resume more or less normal society and let people naturally get exposed (since voluntary self exposure will not ever be tenable in the US I fear).

But given the way that California aggressively locked down early into this, I agree that we have been sloping down and thus there is guaranteed to be subsequent waves.

Basically, the waves are real but are arbitrary and are caused by our own misguided interventions.

> We need to figure out how to loosen up controls in a way that provides economic benefits, keeps a nice constantish burn towards herd immunity, but with enough safety margin to prevent catastrophe that New York got too close to.

100% agreed. Now the argument I do somewhat agree with is that it's very hard to get that balance right when dealing with exponential transmission. Which is why on balance I'm leaning much more towards "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" (because the alternative is that we have to stay permanently locked down).

Also the portion of the population I am advocating should be allowed to return to work is precisely the portion of the population that produces very low hospitalization rates.

I strongly believe that anyone who has been reading CNN the last few weeks would be _shocked_ to learn that we get 1 hospitalization for every 500 20-29 year olds infected (and again, these numbers are not fully settled but they're at least in the right order of magnitude IMO)

> There's a loud contingent advocating what would effectively be permanent controls.

Yup, this is what has me really scared. The widespread belief being that it is actually plausible to avoid ever getting infected and therefore any infections that follow a softening of lockdown introduce deaths that never would have occurred in the hypothetical alternate universe.

--

So, thanks for raising that point, I fully agree. The TL;DR is that implicit in "we need to watch out for the second wave" is the notion that "we need to fight these waves and halt their spread" which I strongly disagree with.

EDIT: And just to be clear, if we "re-open" we'll still all be wearing masks and keeping arbitrary distance between each other so it's not like we're all running around exchanging bodily fluids willy nilly. But I really do think that the shutdown has been, in some part, effective in curtailing spread, and thus naturally I would expect a higher infection rate following a re-opening.

EDIT 2: Removed the part about the political leanings of those advocating for long-term lockdown because it's going to set off people's defense mechanisms and potentially cause them to draw the wrong impression of what I'm saying
"its own sellers" aka its own data, why the surprise here?
<<if [ "${NAME:-}" = "Kevin" ] will set $NAME to be empty if it's not declared
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The OP probably meant "${NAME:=}" not "${NAME:-}"
I’ve never looked into that (I know of the hypothesis, though) but IFR in South Korea also seems to be around 1% (or higher), not 0.1%
It's less that corn is subsidized and more that the US has a system of price supports for sugar. The price of sugar in the US is significantly higher than in other countries, so food producers have an incentive to use alternatives.
There is also a big push by the WHO to censor anything critical of China
Shopify already has sales channels that users can tap into like Amazon and eBay. If they themselves build a marketplace, I'm sure those channels will opt out.
Backlash? Is that the title? Internal view, tons of cones, etc, pretty good gfx, fucking cannon shots out of your mouth/view. Backlash? The corncob person gave me memories. Loved backlash, it was fantastically graphic for its time.
Which is kind of curious because they only move data from app A to app B. Makes you wonder how much engineering effort it would take to actually do something with the data.
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> freedom to discuss the coronavirus

Unfortunately platforms that reach billions must prioritize the danger of misinformation spreading that far and wide over allowing for every dangerous and wrong opinion.

The complete and total censorship you fear never emerges, Youtube if anything is far too lenient on allowing terrible opinions to linger on their platform. They never do away with anything besides the most harmful, hate filled rhetoric.
> breaking into a Walmart with a ski mask and assault rifle and stealing a bunch of blu rays vs recording

I'm ready to watch that movie
And how do you go about testing that hypothesis except for placing infected people next to uninfected people and watching for them to become infected?

Their phrasing is correct and so is their methodology.
What's wrong with unordered map?
Direct writes locally to ebs and then stream to S3 and async collation after.