skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

http://euromomo.eu

There's nothing for the USA as a whole, it will be compiled from states' records and estimates eventually. But it already seems obvious to me that the excess deaths in the next few years from secondary effects (avoiding hospitals, drug overdoses, suicides, stress/panic attacks, less traffic/police on roads, etc) will far outnumber the deaths where COVID-19 took away more than one year of life. I'm probably still in the minority with that belief.
Article date: March 10, 2018

He swore that he would avoid learning about anything that happened to America after Nov. 8, 2016.

...

Mr. Hagerman begins every day with a 30-minute drive to Athens, the closest city of note, to get a cup of coffee — a triple-shot latte with whole milk. He goes early, before most customers have settled into the oversize chairs to scroll through their phones.

Life finds a way I guess.
You're absolutely right that we can't be 100% confident, and best practice dictates a full rebuild from known sources, as usual after IOCs especially of this magnitude.

However, the number of public and non-patched salt servers might be considered a sufficiently small volume for bad actors to have investigated, who can say why it took so long to see genuinely malign attacks.

> One of the scripts I saw went to great lengths to eliminate competing crypto miners from the systems so they could run their own. That tells me there were multiple people (or groups) exploiting this in competition with each other.

It wasn't very sophisticated - just a series of kill statements. This tells me that the author of that script picked up an existing script that's probably been around for years and adjusted it to their needs.

The script also tried to kill confluence, amongst a handful of other large, relatively rare applications, which further suggests this was old fashioned copy-pasting by some non-sophisticated script kiddies ... or someone just wanting to do a PSA and draw attention to this exploit, and making a few BTC for their troubles. Who can say.

We don't know there wasn't a 'v0' - but we're fairly confident. Unless it was disabled as soon as 'v1' popped up, you'd expect honeypot systems to identify non-benign variants - and honeypot systems were identifying modest, reversible changes and nothing in the way of data exfiltration.

By Tuesday or Wednesday of this week I expect there were more (and worse) exploits than could be tracked, though, and some people are really going to suffer as a result.
> it's our job to stay on the bleeding edge, and I'm not sure how we would do that without working with vendors through these procurements and running our own systems.

I think this is key. Also the fact that you guys have a land grant so your datacenter costs are cheaper than most. :)
That seems outside of the scope of an in-browser text editor...
LOL. Your "friend" might be better off with a bluetooth jammer.
We used to have 24 hour urgent care facilities in Indianapolis, but I don’t believe any are still open (or open 24 hours, anyway).
The old joke applies: what do you call the graduating student with the lowest grade? Doctor.
There are plenty of laws that would have been sufficient.

One of them would be to make browsers responsible for providing sensible defaults. And while the public perception might think the webpages are at fault it was the browsers that were responsible for storing and broadcasting private data. Arguably without clear and informed consent.

Of course there are problems with requiring software to have sensible default settings, but I reckon most problems with any legislation are due to the fact that none of them address the fact that cookies are a perfectly private system (with the user in full control of their own data) provided browsers don't send this data with every request without permission.
Yes, please.

Firebase should be next, requiring you to include a whole bunch of Firebase lib crap just to use Crashlytics.
I am responsible for what happens to me. (I.e. I am not a victim.) Accepting responsibility is very empowering, as it implies I can do something about it. Being a victim is dis-empowering, as it means you are helpless.

(People who read my posts will recognize this as a consistent theme. Being a victim is a choice. I choose not to be.)
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I feel like this is an American perspective. From my understanding the danger is overblown (provided social distancing measures are in place and respected).

> maybe $50 a day before expenses

If the alternative is homelessness, people will take this offer. And don't forget, there's entire groups of people who do dangerous jobs daily with little thanks (builders, bin men, etc..) so I don't think they'll have a problem filling these spots.
Yes, but we work in financial information so very weird requirements.
You're prematurely optimizing donald knuth out of the algorithm.
I think that you are wrong on VS Code Remote not being open source. Here is the relevant repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release. Corresponding official documentation (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview) states that Visual Studio Codespaces is essentially a managed service of Visual Studio Code Remote Development. BTW, there is also an interesting alternative, the `code-server` project (https://github.com/cdr/code-server).

P.S. FYI: The TLS certificate on https://gitsense.com has expired.
And yet it keeps feeling like "if they use it in Fortnite, it's production ready, otherwise you're on your own"
>so where are russian words?

Like, all of them? At least, "words comprehensible to a Russian-speaker".

>Does Russian alphabet have Є letter?

Ukrainian still does. It's closer to the Old Church Slavonic. And the Ѣ was only dropped 100 years ago by the commies.

Regardless, nobody is saying that the beresty are modern Russian, just that it's in a Slavic language (and one comprehensible to modern-day Russian speakers). What's your point, exactly?
Perhaps unemployment being up leads to people not wanting ER bills even more than usual.
I for one will be feeling less safe love we start opening things again. Nothing has changed in the US except that people are getting tired of the situation. We have enough idiots walking around without masks or who aren't distancing as it is. Once we start opening up there is only now risk in going to places where there are other people.
This seems interesting, but I highly doubt Walmart can make it work.

Everything about the company screams crap. Every time I go to a Walmart store, I feel as if I lose several IQ points. I have stopped going there.

Their only saving grace, is that I don’t trust Amazon to buy certain things, which means I’d rather buy it from a physical store. But I’d still choose any other company, than Walmart.

But, if they can offer decent delivery, with the option to return stuff, then I might try them out. I dislike returning stuff at Walmart.
But Apple advertising says we have privacy!
I think this is changing. Rapidly. A few years ago no one batted an eye at a financial institution using AWS but now banks seem eager to keep as much data as possible in-house. I’ve recently had two prospective clients (I now work in compliance SaaS) ask whether I use a cloud service provider as part of their vendor due diligence.

Many banks seem to be aiming for the minimum viable external data processing.
I'm not sure which timezone you're in but, yesterday (Wed 6 May) in New Zealand we recorded one confirmed case, one probable case and one death.

We still have a ways to go before we're out of the woods. We have some reassuring signs though (many consecutive days of < 10 cases detected).
Facebook doesn't seem like the kind of company that would be outsourcing their SDK development to some random Indian outsourcing firm stuffed with graduates from second-tier engineering schools that don't know their : from their ;
> You aren't forced to resort to sending emails and receiving some idiotic canned response from a bot. "Sorry we have reviewed your case and our decision is final. By the way, we don't tell you what you did wrong. Fuck you. Ha. Ha. Ha."

Incidentally, this is exactly what happened to me on my very first attempt with Digital Ocean this year. Just an autoresponder that kept sending the same email with no way to reach a human. And this was just after creating an account and going through an payment authorization process. No money was lost, but I’m not touching a system where humans refuse to get involved.

Edit: To add a comparison on this aspect, Hetzner wanted some verification for a new account and handled it quite well with humans involved (and responsive).
And got so much flak for it. How much "zomg you're spying on me" press are the other 50% of the iOS ecosystem going to receive for doing the same thing Zoom did, going on a decade.
I don't think it's that little money; I just delivered some packages on Amazon Flex to get out of the house and it was CAD$70 gross for about 2:30h of work. Not bad at all for unskilled labor.

Instacart is paying ~CAD$30 gross per shopping trip but seems riskier and more annoying so I haven't hopped on that.
That definition is rather too broad. It makes basically everything spyware which dilutes the word too much to be useful.
In many similar contexts, buying hardware is different than buying services (e.g., AWS time), in terms of how you interact with funding agencies. Because of those realities, you might sometimes be unable to "go cloud" even if it's actually cheaper.

Also, licensing can be a big problem. Some software packages understand licensing for a "real" cluster, but have no concept of how to license for the cloud.

Finally, think about all of your interactions over the last ten years with companies behind the major cloud services. Which of them would you really trust, if it's your money/job/reputation on the line?
This one had 600 on-site employees serving 12 million customers. Not sure how many were off-site.
Ask HN: How did you hear about HN?
Outlook can also take a second to react to a click on a high end PC. It feels terrible no matter what. You always have to bring an extra bucket of patience when doing anything with it.
The urgent care clinic can assess you. In fact, they could probably assess you over the phone before you even arrive.

Kaiser heavily pushes their nurse hotline to help minimize costs. I can hardly fathom going to either the Kaiser emergency or injury departments[1] without calling the nurse hotline. The nurse, in consultation with a staff physician in the call center, does an assessment, tells you what to do next, if anything, and schedules any appointments--phone physician, in-person primary physician, or calls ahead to the emergency or injury clinic to minimize wait times.

Our current healthcare system is so fractured that most people have no idea how to go about seeking healthcare in the most convenient and smoothest way possible. Smaller regional hospitals and even some regional systems don't have the scale to do what Kaiser does, at least not nearly as efficiently as Kaiser. High costs are baked into the system.

[1] Injury department is for broken bones, cuts, etc that happen during the day. At the SF Geary medical center they're conveniently located across the hall from the imaging department.
This is really frustrating, as we were told over and over again from the media of this huge surge of cases that would overload hospitals. Stay away from the hospital we were told over and over, the "worried well" are overloading our medical system and its professionals. Well guess what, people did just that, they avoided the hospitals to allow for a surge. That's why these hospitals are ghost towns now. I had a tele-visit with my physician and he said both covid cases and visits themselves in his location have dropped off a cliff in recent weeks(sfbay area location). The tents they erected in the hospital parking lot to treat the legions of sick are being taken down at another hospital in San Jose. A friend who worked in radiology is now on partial furlough due to such low patient counts(Stanford, Palo Alto) so I guess this avalanche of cases never materialized at least not in the bay area(NY is a different story).
I would love to see the user acquisition model they used to calculate the viability of this business move. If a Wink Product manager is reading this, please make notes and in a couple of years when the Wink Lawyers are long gone, please create one of those "We failed but this is what we learned" posts.

This pretty much seems like the end, they don't seem to have a buyer for the organization, no one to bail them out, and they most likely are running out of whatever cash remains.

Thank you Wink development team for 4 good years, it was not always perfect, but I did enjoy the user experience.
The concept of "Unknown Unknowns" changed my approach to life for better.

I was one of those laughing to the famous speech [1] the very first time I heard it. After a few days, I begin to grasp the epistemological truth in it, making me humbler.

Today in every system I work on, I know there will be risks unexpected and possible, and the system shall be resilient and with physical negative feedback in case control loop fails. Same in private life, I do not expect luck and I try to minimize kurtosis in all known scenarios (hoping it somehow covers the unknown unknows).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
in a similar vein, "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi.

(or in your case, "D the change...")
It almost sounds like he either straight-up placed it on the front page himself, and/or had the founders organize a small upvote brigade of employees and family and gave them the best time to post
Having management experience on your resume is a good thing, assuming you are open to managing again.
This would seem to be necessary for any serious multitasking workflow on an iPad Pro.
I have yet to hear anyone explain how we’re going to lose millions of lives due to the lockdown, whereas the risks of opening up without sufficient testing include that as a very real possibility.

Yes, it stinks that people are suffering due to the lockdown, but the government could (if it were so inclined) pay people to stay home indefinitely. It clearly can’t manage the virus, however.
"In 2004, the American Heart Association issued a scientific statement concluding that exposure to air pollution contributes to cardiovascular illness and mortality. A 2010 update elaborated on those risks.

Short-term exposure can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, arrhythmias and heart failure in susceptible people, such as the elderly or those with pre-existing medical conditions, according to the statement."

https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/consumer-healthcare/w...
What's the efficiency on something like that?

What's the cost of tearing up every single highway in existence to add a charging loop?
> Opening things back up prematurely, without sufficient testing, is just going to get people killed.

Yep, some people will die. That's unavoidable. Tens of millions die every year. Hundreds of millions will die per year in a few decades. That's life.

If you are at-risk, you should continue to avoid contact with others. But there's currently no cure for covid-19 other than your own immune system. The sooner the disease runs its course, the sooner we can return to normal. Sheltering in place forever means you prolong the propagation of the disease to excruciatingly long timescales.
I'm half-asleep and I've got to say reading that title made me do a double-take and sober up fast. Didn't expect to see something like this on Hacker News lol (but it is legit innovation / hacking! Seems there's a lot of work put into this.)
Yes. You've got to be aware of where those boundaries are when adopting the cloud and the cost information around these cases are inadequate at best. Too many people get surprise bills.
With many apps, you can completely bypass kubernetes entirely and just use something like elastic beanstalk or heroku for scaling (just by adding nodes).
As an addition, your opinions are mostly formed from the information you have and haven't been exposed to. It's easy to come to a conclusion if someone feeds you specific facts you can verify. But there may be other facts that can change the perspective that are not so easy to verify.

We don't have perfect information, so clinging to a perspective is bound to create some sort of conflict when you are exposed to valid information that may change your perspective. Either you discount and ignore that information, or you are forced to abandon your identity and get emotionally hurt(which can be a good thing if it causes growth and maturity).
With many apps, you can completely bypass kubernetes entirely and just use something like elastic beanstalk or heroku for scaling (just by adding more nodes behind a load balancer).
> The only other app I noticed doing this is Caviar.

DoorDash does have a percentage fee. For me it shows "free" delivery and taxes and fees. Tap on taxes and fees and there's a service fee.

I have a Dashpass, so my service fee is cheaper, but I think it's 11% without the pass based on looking at some of my past orders.

I just tested a couple restaurants that are on both Uber Eats and DoorDash and it's pretty mixed in terms of cost. For some reason the delivery fees are really high on DoorDash for some restaurants, but for others they are "free" and the lower service fee tilts things in their favor.

Sometimes the price of the items themselves is different.

Shop around
You ever see the movie "Real Genius"? It's pretty good and he was in it.
Yep. A lot of issues come from legacy products and configurations. You can do a greenfield infrastructure with OpenStack, VMware, or oVirt/RHEV and it's a pleasure to work with.
Should the media have some of the blame for these deaths by scaring people? Cherry picking young corona deaths, up playing tenuous studies saying corona causes diabetes and strokes, replaying stock footage of overloaded hospitals.

If they gave people accurate statistics they could make an informed decision whether they want to go to a hospital.
We operate an X509 PKI with a Trust anchor and CA. Its not impossible to run the Hardware Security Module (HSM) in the cloud but its off the main path. Its more plausible to run it in a D.C. but it invites security threats you don't have, if you run it inside your own perimiter. Of course you also then invite other risks, but its a balancing act and it has to be formally declared in your Certification Practice Statement (CPS)

We also run some registry data which we consider mission critical as a repository. We could run the live state off-prem, but we'd always have to be multi-site to ensure data integrity. We're not a bank, but like a bank or a land and titles administration office, registry implies stewardship in trust. That imposes constraints on "where" and "why".

Take central registry and the HSM/related out of the equation, if I was building from scratch I'd build to pub/sub, event-sourcing, async and in-the-cloud for everything I could.

private cloud. If you don't control your own data and logic, why are you in the loop?
Right, they're likely dying at home, and being counted as COVID-19 deaths. That's the safest guess, in the absence of epidemiologic data.

Even so, medical systems and coroners ought to be archiving samples for testing. Eventually there'll be adequate RNA and antibody testing capabilities. Without that data, we won't know what happened.
Two months ago people weren't wearing masks or practicing social distancing.
They get counted as corona virus deaths as I have heard if.
Take a look at https://hypothes.is/
I'd honestly be surprised if something like this hasn't been built yet by the HN community. A service where you can input your likes and interests (and maybe a blacklist) to get a tailored feed of HN posts including/excluding the right content. Maybe you could even feed in a few links to examples of content you like and it would cater to you based on that.
Given that whatsapp is owned by facebook, that seems very likely.
> The Cloud is just someone else's computer. If they're running those machines more cheaply than you are, they're cutting out some cost. The question is, do you need what they're cutting?

They're cutting overhead and getting better deals on hardware than you could ever get.

Their efficiency is their profit margin.
I still do my hobbyist programming on a Atom netbook that was probably made around the time this article was published. I don't need anything more powerful to compile the likes of C and Scheme, and I think the relatively-constrained hardware helps me find performance bottlenecks and tighten up my code.
Cloud servers tend to hide their limitations behind payment tiers which makes it hard to really know how far you can push things. Also there are various turns, conditions, cache rules, change management strategies that are hidden when dealing with someone else's constantly changing box of magic.
I don’t remember gitlab being this cluttered, these new features you mention must be relatively new.

Haven’t used them since they allowed an intern to purge the production database.

Kind of glad I have stuck with github thus far.
How to Prove There Is No Such Thing as Luck
Not familiar with the book, but a thing I heard recently that I think gets at the same idea and is one of those things that make you say hmmm was something like:

"Your heartbeat is just the latest heartbeat in an uninterrupted line back to the original heartbeat."

Doesn't really matter what spiritual or scientific tradition you use to define "original", and it doesn't mean that there weren't innumerable branches that ended up in a dead-end. But it gives a bit of perspective towards this infinite game.
Roads are mostly made from asphalt and mother nature would still destroy them in well under 100yr in most places.
I'm not sure about those exact models but there are some links to pre-built ones in this /r/ErgoMechKeyboards thread [1].

edit: Just found this list of a bunch of split keyboards [2]. You should be able to find something on there.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/f5h3d6/s...

[2] https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards
Classic webdev reply. Hey how should I properly work with data binding and forms in react? npm install react-proper-use-of-binding-and-forms-duhhh!
Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097887
And you since you installed the app for some purpose.
The P4 with 256Mb RAM I was referring to is the likely spec of the server Zuck was renting for $85/month when Facebook launched. Amazing, considering the spec we have available today for only a few $ per month.
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I consume my news through RSS subscriptions to specific websites, many of which frequently show up on the front page. I can see this becoming a very useful supplement to HN to find original content, for me at least.

Thanks for making this!
For the love of God please make it work at least manageably in phones! Tall ask no doubt, but y'all seem capable of it. GitHub does everything right except getting the phone experience right!
Why not post the change here so someone else could contribute it? Sounds useful.
According to https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/international-travel-docume...

New Zealand has a 14 day isolation in a government facility if you enter it.
One single bug is why their process is bananas inappropriate? I really hope all of your code is perfect every single time to be acting so high and mighty.
Thanks for the PF comparison - I'll go spend some more time with it. Back in the day I listed to Dark Side of the Moon until I wore out the record.
My favourite example comes from the development of the modern picture of the formation of the solar system, when it was suggested that giant planets often swapped places during the early days of this and other planetary systems. This idea (now widely accepted as probably true) was known as the Jumping Jupiter hypothesis.