skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like this. All of the question of 'Why on earth choose WHO' aside...it is dangerous and depressing precident.

I live with a number of ladies who are very familiar with plant medicine. When this whole thing started we all started taking lots of dandelion root / hawthorne tincture. Dandelion is well known to both help your lymphatic system and support respiratory issues.

Hawthorne is an amazing heart / circulatory support. There is literary NO RISK for us in applying these home grown medicines.

We've all been infected since then, and each of us had pretty mild symptoms, that lasted for relatively short amounts of time. About two to three weeks. Many many people see 30-40 days of symptoms.

It cost us nothing. The medicine was prepared at home. Who knows what using these plant medicines across a population would result in statistically? Maybe it would reduce hospitalizations by 1%, or maybe it would reduce them by 75%, we don't know because there's no money to be made in it.

YouTube is a fantastic avenue for period to share their own experiences. Yes, you must take what people say with a grain of salt. You can't just believe anything you see. I feel sad that they are censoring people from sharing their own experiences in this time where are governments and medical systems are largely failing us.
> A lot of the Etsy engineers seemed to find this fascinating. I think the main reason for this is that they run in a data center and control their own hardware

I'm shocked that Etsy, then or now, is at a scale where that's even close to making sense, that it would even be a discussion.

I wonder if it still is, I don't know how its size has changed over the intervening seven years, but with the explosion in popularity of I/P aaS I think it would be even more surprising today.
This website is wrong in so many ways. Cloudflare isn't perfect and too much centralization is an issue but the arguments in this are wrong and emotional.

"Cloudflare is shielding cybercriminals"
So? Criminals use many good services, it doesn't make the service bad.

"Scaring internet users into thinking their ISPs are insecure in the middle of a global pandemic"
ISPs ARE insecure because of this. The global pandemic has nothing to do with this. Do we get mad at CVEs all of sudden during a pandemic?

"Falsely advertising their VPN application"
It can be safer depending on the situation. If you need model closer to zero-trust (still not zero-trust though) use Tor.
The HoneyComb LX2K comes closest to your specs, not particularly cheap though.
Kids don't get infected - is that due to contact tracing?

Epidemiologists are just as confused here as anyone else. They have never seen anything like this disease, there is no data, there is no evidence to anything claimed here. You can't compare to any epidemics before.

The best evidence is the absurd statements by epidemiologists at CDC yesterday:

1. It is extremely important to maintain social distancing to save lives!

2. The next wave in the winter might be much worse due to the current social distancing that will be pushing many of the vulnerable into the winter months where the risks of coinfections are higher.

Uhh? What? Do you see the absurdity in these statements? They make no sense, as if they had no idea what to do.
I mean they literally ripped off the header design of the original Cloudflare-run BGP site. That alone makes it clear they're responding that original post, and not out of some random desire to inform people of CloudFlare's design issues.
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> Suppose now, that the Federal Reserve buy all those bonds. Who is that money owned to? who receive the dividends of those bonds?

To Federal Reserve of course, which will receive the coupons. To be sure, taxpayers will pay the principal and interest down the line.

> In 50 years there is not infrastructure left or new technologies but the public debt is zero. Are the children rich or poor?

Lack of government-built infrastructure is seen. What is unseen is all the other things that the money saved on government-paid infrastructure paid for.

Money is a claim on resources in the economy, and if the government doesn’t claim its share and use it to build infrastructure, these resources do not disappear. Something else uses them.
Build Your Own Debian GNU/Linux Base Installation ISO
I've done some audio related challenges in the past that were cool

Focus on that. Cool projects is the best way to learn DSP (or anything else for that matter).
Yean I was thinking the same thing.

How spectacular of a view could you get from an earth like planet ... and still not have any ill effects?

Could it be a huge spectacular thing reaching across the entire sky, or would by that stage you be in real trouble?
Turn your linux into a microkernel with this one weird trick: run fuse!
I've been running Ubuntu 19.10 on a Ryzen 3900X / Nvidia RYX 2070S / 64GB RAM, so close enough I suppose.

The biggest issue I can remember was weird issues with the graphics drivers a few times. Not quite sure exactly how it happened, but apparently I had a pretty wonky installion at first. I uninstalled and installed the nvidia drivers through `apt`.

Other than that, I have an unsolved problem of random, occasionally reboots, mostly which conveniently happen when I'm away from the PC. Everything goes back to normal after rebooting and it usually doesnt do it again for a while. I havent managed to solve this, but I'm assuming it's a rather localized problem.
One particular class of supernova is used as a standard candle for determining the distances to other galaxies.
True. But on the other hand similar to how for example USB standard has developed from USB 1.0 to USB 4.

While it would technically be correct, no one says new USB standard X is USB in name only.

Perhaps every data transfer interface standard eventually adopts a PCI-e lane. :-)
I agree. I stupidly ordered a copy of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier from Amazon and it just arrived yesterday, and the back cover was all bent along the edge because they did a terrible job of packing it.
Muphry's law strikes again.
Education is certainly one part, but we could also shift business models away from advertising. Ads are a cancer on content and attention, and the fact that so much of the economy is centered around them is mind boggling.
The grandparent made a blanket statement that "we know MMT is a bad long term policy" which the other poster was rightly pointing out is wrong. This is a ridiculous blanket statement, and clearly and obviously false. Such arguments don't deserve detailed rebuttals.
Literally any article about Amazon on HN inevitably devolves into a bunch of useless anecdotes about how much Amazon supposedly sucks. You could set a watch to it. It's beyond tiresome. If you did nothing but read HN you'd think Amazon was filing for bankruptcy imminently.
Fair point, we need more relevant research to know how prevalent this is.

I did find multiple references to 20-30% reduced lung capacity.
That statement means that range of energies extends over two orders of magnitude at least, I'm not sure if I'd call that a "narrow" range...
> You're confusing the Fed's ability to monetize assets with the Treasury's ability to spend money on whatever it wants.

They're related. There's both fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus going on here. The monetary stimulus only makes its way to consumers indirectly. On the fiscal side, as you say, Treasury can spend money on whatever they want. And when they do, they transform some of the financial sector's money into assets (treasuries). If the Fed wants to maintain its accommodative monetary policy, they're going to want to re-monetize those assets.

> your statement that our economy has the capacity to provide a decent standard of living to everyone is an article of faith

"decent standard of living" was not crucial to my point.

There's some part of our economy's productive capacity that we have consciously decided not to shut down because we've deemed "essential" to consumers. My point is that it would be a mistake for us not to provide consumers with the means (money) to access that capacity.
By that logic, I guess you are fine with using `exec` to run Python code to rename the file? It's "just another API".
On the contrary, sometimes the ethical thing for doctors to do is to not try to save a life. The Hippocratic Oath says "First, do no harm"[1], and sometimes it's harmful to try to save a person's life with interventions that decrease quality of life, especially when those interventions have a low probability of success.

[1] Actually, the Hippocratic Oath doesn't say that, but I think not doing harm is more relevant to the modern social contract of being a doctor than the actual Hippocratic Oath is. The original contains promises to not use a knife on someone (so no modern surgery) and to never give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion (technically modern abortion doctors follow this because that's not how abortions are done now, but they're certainly not following the spirit of the oath).
On that note, what requirements pushed Ubuntu to select snap over flatpack?
I think this is an important point.

I've seen others on HN claim this means ventilators are killing people.

It's possible there are alternative protocols that can be used prior to ventilator use. It's also possible these alternative protocols could have increased the survival rate. But that's still different to ventilators killing the patient.
It seems to be based on a site by cloudflare: https://isbgpsafeyet.com/
Fantastic write up.

Curious and respectful.
And? If a central authority (or statute) doesn't dictate implementation, connectivity providers have the ability to defer forever. Customers have accepted the risk and deemed it acceptable if their provider does not support RPKI. It's their dollars to spend on connectivity, not ours.
> Many of the dead are talented doctors or nurses who had asthma or asymptomatic heart issues.

Many of them are, but most of them aren't. This isn't a pleasant subject, but when you're talking about events at this scale, general trends count for something. I'm growing pretty weary of the moral grandstanding in these conversations.
Possible. My understanding is that blood clotting is showing up in the lungs in autopsies. Vent settings set too high can rip apart the alveoli.
I hear you. I was like you for the longest time. I had an SE for 3~ years and I absolutely loved it. I researched and researched to find another phone with the exact same dimensions. Couldnt find anything. The thought of moving up to a bigger phone pained me.

I eventually bought the iphone 8 about 6 months ago. And my god, it is just as good if not better. The size that scared me so much? Turns out I like it even more. The speed has been great, and I never knew how much I'd appreciate the larger screen. Point is, I know where you're coming from. But trust me, the iphone 8 size still feels relatively easy to hold (I can still comfortably hold it with one hand 100% of the time), and I have 0 regrets whatsoever about the upgrade.
Does eBay verify authenticity? No. No reasonable 3rd party marketplace dealing with millions of products can.

And again... estimated delivery 5 weeks out is because of a pandemic. Or because you ordered something from a third party that shipped from China. Or it was out of stock, which is a normal thing to happen sometimes in any business.
Sure, I definitely agree. Unfortunately it seems unlikely in the short term: Google alone still makes ~85% of its revenue from ads.
> It's not anything that future generations have to "pay back."

I really wish the term "debt" were not used in these contexts. This type of "debt" is fundamentally different from private sector debt or other ordinary forms of debt.

In this context the term is being used to refer to an accounting construct that looks like debt, but the meaning of this particular accounting entry is completely different. Using this term only creates confusion among the public and even politicians who don't understand the complex and esoteric details of modern economics.
I haven't used a home button iPhone in a long time so I'm not sure about them, but home button iPads definitely support the X gestures.
I fondly remember the free CDs in early Ubuntu days.

Is it actually possible to buy an "official" USB/DVD of Ubuntu these days?

When I say buy I mean most of money would go to support Canonical.

There used to be such an option about 10 years ago but I guess there is very little demand.

The world has moved onto mostly online distributions.

For some reason I still do yearn for the world of "touchable" official software - the world of 6 foot long Borland C++ manuals.

PS One of honorable sources - https://www.osdisc.com/ - closed last August
Wouldn't brightness have a cube root relationship to energy, because it radiates into space? That would make it 125 million times more energetic.

Edit: Rereading the article, it seems it's only one order of magnitude higher than a normal explosion? I clearly am out of my depth on this one, because that doesn't make sense to me.
There's a lot of unique, very high quality software that only runs on macs:

For designers not on Figma: Sketch, OmniGraffle, Principle, xScope and a fully featured OS color picker and palette manager that works across all apps.

As a developer, I wouldn't want to miss: Paw, Alfred, iA Writer, Monodraw and Kaleidoscope.

A niche favorite that really has no analogues at all: Lumen video synthesizer

Only the design stuff is probably in the "worth getting a Mac for" category though.
Honestly, if I'm ever in charge of hiring, I will probably be heavily biased against anyone who mentions having PHP experience without a deep, regretful sigh as an accompaniment.
I mean, it depends on exactly what they did to get rid of it. For many Linux distros you add 32bit support back by "apt-get install glibc-x86" or similar.

_If_ they were taking the approach of a deliberately early deprecation, which it seems like they were given the timing relative to the rest of the industry, it would only make sense to make it be an easily reversible decision.
I saw this linked from another comment on HN, but Dr Kyle-Sidell, an ICU doc in NYC, is trying to figure out why COVID-19 patients aren't responding to typical treatment protocols on Twitter[0] and YouTube[1]. His current theory is that pulmonary edema at the capillary-alveolar interface could be causing diffusion issues, which a ventilator would not directly address.

[0] - https://mobile.twitter.com/cameronks

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRlvX3VrAQ
This is a very immoral and insane way of looking at this problem. Supposedly dispassionate, "rational," mathematical economics has wreaked havoc just because it focuses on numbers and output and forgetting that we are dealing with humans who have feelings and people they love and who love them.
That flexible ssl option is a huge problem. Some years back, https:// secured sited started showing injected ads and messages from an Indian ISP providing service to cloudflare there: https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo...
They provide no source for the "DDOS for Hire" claim.

Sure, Cloudflare can decrypt SSL traffic and send it to the origin server unencrypted, but that can be (and is) done without Cloudflare involved at all, and you aren't any safer that way.

The VPN claim is just basic facts about how a VPN works, but they're wrong in saying it won't protect you. It will, if your local network or ISP is untrustworthy.

And then it just ends with them complaining about the BGP vulns they were called out on.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

WHO is a political organization with medical leanings just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics.

Yes, there's a lot of information out there about SARS-COV2 and COVID-19 infections out there that are downright misleading at best and life threatening at worst.

No, censoring that content including videos is NOT the role of a hosting platform.

We already have examples of central authorities pushing "information" that they agree with and supressing information they believe is "incorrect" - as a freeish country, we should absolutely not encourage this behavior.

The argument can be made that Youtube is a private company and free to do as they please.

I personally dont agree with that argument - to a regular random person, Youtube is synonymous with video content.

Youtube is the news.

Perhaps one solution for Youtube would be to demonetize and label such content as "unsafe" aka "don't sue me bro mode".

Anyone who's a minor doesnt get to see this "unsafe" content.

Anyone who watches the content with "unsafe" mode on, sees the content.

Give customers the choice to choose and make up their own minds.

Removing content with the authority of being the primary video content platform? They don't get away so easy.

With power comes responsibility.

They have to handle this another way and this, is not it.
As of 2018, there were only 3 in service in the US: https://people.com/health/polio-survivor-last-3-people-use-i...

There were quite a few interviews done in recent years with people who still rely on them; one recurring difficulty they talk about is that both expertise and availability of parts became scarce over time, so it becomes harder and harder to keep the machines running.
Yeah, but that uses carefully calibrated relations with the time evolution at different filters to significantly decrease the the observed spread in luminosity.

Also, here they don't report on a Type Ia supernova (the ones useable as standard candles because we ain't got anything else).
No introduction necessary, monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors.
Who decides who the liars, cranks and con artists are?
Do you mean monthly or annual?

If monthly, the answer is still no, but only because testing for covid is a significant public good.

Otherwise, yes, sure?

It is an unpredictable, low probability event, with not so big an impact (the payment, I mean, not covid)
All these chip spec articles never talk about the actual performance of the device. If you compare how snappy the UI of an apple and an Android device are they are roughly the same, why? Because apple still uses a modified Unix that is heavily dependent on single core performance while Linux has been very multithreaded for a long time which is why the actual functionality of the devices end up being the same despite the difference in chip performance.

The cheapest iPhone is still just an iPhone...and expensive.
Slow your roll and don't immediately assume the worst.

I think english is not the OP's first language and I believe they were (perhaps unwittingly clinically) discussing long term impacts and trends.

How you interpreted this as some sort of gleeful desire to watch old/sick people die speaks more of you than them.
That's not really true. Single-threaded scalar performance is still super important for the everyday responsiveness of laptop/desktop systems. Especially for applications like web browsing which run JavaScript.
Props to the designer for creating a really clean interface :) I can really see this becoming like slack for schools vs. a Quizlet. I was a harcore Quizlet user, but for me it always lacked the opportunity to group study. I think you guys are onto something
Some vendors do seem to limit their address space, there have been suggestions that they just pasted an AArch64 CPU into one of their existing ARM SoC designs.
Thanks, also I need a TLS certificate and fix some other details, this was a PoC that got more attention than expected.
> Epidemiologists are just as confused here as anyone else. They have never seen anything like this disease, there is no data, there is no evidence to anything claimed here.

Of course they have! There are a lot of coronaviruses. And we already have experience with SARS and MERS. Obviously this isn't exactly the same but suggesting that epidemiologists don't know any more than the rest of us commenting in Hacker News is absolutely absurd.

We don't all get to be experts on this just because we've decided that we're clever. Or maybe we should all be burning down 5G masts as well, after all, who knows?
I don't dispute the faster part, but I do dispute the end result. The end result, in my experience, is always a larger file size for similar quality than even a CPU set to High speed in Handbrake.
What is your worry about pointing out BGP's flaws, that folks will start panic-deploying another routing algorithm like they hoarded toilet paper?
There was an article in the NY Times a few days ago from a respiratory doctor who explained that the nature of the physical mechanisms in covid-19 pneumonia mean that the patients' oxygen saturation will go way down before they start feeling short of breath, which accounts for the folks showing up at the ER with ridiculously low saturation. He noted that the celebrities who have recovered from covid-19 generally have really close, constant monitoring of their oxygen levels so problems are detected and treated way before ventilators are needed.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testi...
This doesn't mean that all of the 1 in 10 would have died without ventilators.

Elon Musk was getting torn apart for sending CPAP (or APAP/BiPAP/BPAP) machines but if in doubt I'd rather go on one of those than a ventilator.
Thanks, @dan301
Someone needs to make a dev environment where someone can write WASM and see realtime the generated assembly instructions, together with the number of cycles to execute.

That way, the developer can tweak the input to the compiler to get exactly the sequence of instructions they wanted.

They can also hand write the output assembly, and put a patch in to the compiler saying "this generated assembly is faster that what you generated, so please generate this in the next version".
This is just so they don’t get sued into oblivion.
This is fairly old at this point; we were in the process of migrating to the cloud for several years and completed the bulk of the effort recently: https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2020/0219/etsy-compl...
Has anyone benchmarked this against https://clearlinux.org/ ?

EDIT 1: To answer my own question: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu20...

With a pre release Ubuntu 20.04 Clear Linux is slightly faster.

EDIT 2: tldr; AMD 8% faster in Clear Linux, Intel 14% faster. AMD is miles faster (20%) than Intel in almost everything on Linux.
The only thing I have is an ad blocker. I tried to disable it, but the error persists...
> I feel sad that they are censoring people from sharing their own experiences in this time where are governments and medical systems are largely failing us.

Upvoted.

I don't feel sad, I feel outraged!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956536

To a regular random person, Youtube is synonymous with video content.

Youtube is the news.

Perhaps one solution for Youtube would be to demonetize and label such content as "unsafe" or don't sue me bro mode".

Anyone who's a minor doesnt get to see this "unsafe" content.
Anyone who watches the content with "unsafe" mode on, sees the content.

Give customers the choice to choose and make up their own minds.

Removing content with the authority of being the primary video content platform? They don't get away so easy.

With power comes responsibility.

They have to handle this another way and this, is not it.
I clicked expecting an open source clone that I could run on the same hardware.

How disappointing.
We can accomplish many great things if we knowingly discard ethics for the sake of efficiency, yes.
Lubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Only 1 kid can inherit a house, sure, but out of two marriage partners it’s enough that only one inherits it. In this simple model, you only need to build new homes if you have more than two kids per woman, which developed societies are not on track of achieving.

Practically though we build new houses because old houses tend to not be in places we want them to be, and are not large and nice enough to our liking.