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> Coronaviruses are very different. We've rarely had any this deadly before.

SARS and MERS.

> Keep in mind people who test positive but die of a car wreck are counted as COVID19.

I'd like to see evidence that this has happened, that's it's not some freak outlier, and that it has any meaningful impact on the reported death toll. Looking at excess mortality, it looks like deaths have been under-reported, if anything. It's getting tiresome to see people trotting out the anecdote about someone getting in a car wreck and being counted as a CoVID-19 death.
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Generally you sum the coefficients from the polynomials to get a single set of coefficients. They are usually very close to the Taylor approximation.
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No protections in place and blindly trusted her kid. It is her responsibility to manage her passwords, not Amazon / twitch / whoever else. A shitty situation for sure but if she wants the $ press charges, if she doesn’t want to press charges then she must forego the 20k. Not as simple as that to her, but to everyone else it is.
Some balance needs to be struck. In addition to the virus being harmful to health, the mitigation measures in place to reduce spread are highly disruptive to society.

I don't think we can wait until the risk is zero, after all the risk of allowing the virus to continue is far from zero. You talk about unknowns, we don't know the long-term impact of the disease either. Damage to the heart and lungs, oxygen deprivation of the brain, the impact extends beyond a boolean live or die.
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> Now you know how the Germans hate privacy, you will almost certainly be asking about alternative locations.

I don't know where this guy comes from but this has to be the most sensationalist sentence in that blog post. It's on par with "non Americans hate freedom". If Germans hated privacy, why would they be the biggest bandwidth contributors to the TOR network?

Not sure the author was using all of his brain when he wrote that blog post.
It's 100% reasonable to doubt and verify anything coming out of the Trump administration, at this point. "extreme skepticism" is the correct response to have. No idea why you call that "anti-science" and "irrational".

(Honestly: Crossing fingers the vaccine won't come out of the US so this situation is avoided)
I think he forgot to answer you but OP mentioned it elsewhere on the thread[1].

[1]https://gitlab.com/phoennix/youtubesearchfix
But there is wind, and storms.
Kids who get into this stuff might get into F@H later.
On an unrelated note. Thank you so much for PortableApps.com! It was invaluable at university when studying in the library. To this day, I still use it for utilities that don't need to be installed on my desktop.
I'd imagine it's dynamic to some extent and evolves over time, much like search algos. Pretty curious to see behind the curtain if this happens
Off topic, but any regrets on getting involved in content policing? It always sat with me as wrong and a disturbing precedent that an internet backbone service such as yourselves would make it their business to shut down unsavory yet legal speech.
So you basically say that becoming a doctor or an astronaut is easy and doesn't require "ambition".

I'm sorry I can't agree with that.
Maybe as a former VC-backed founder you'd like to have the monopoly of ambition but there are many many ways to be ambitious. For some it's just be able to run 5km after being overweight for decades, for others it's changing the world with a vaccine.
This has been my experience too, CF is just so easy to migrate to and to configure once you're there.

If AWS was able to offer a single click "DDOS protection and CDN" feature with similar pricing and features as Cloudflare then I'd consider it since most of our infrastructure is on AWS but at the moment they don't offer anything nearly as competitive. Just the Cloudfront bandwidth costs alone would dwarf our total infrastructure costs.
I think they want to price discriminate: the costs from AXFR should be minimal, as it is an old technology, very optimized and low bandwidth.

However, cloudflare decision turns cloudflare "free" offering into a free SPOF. They should extend this offer to their free users, who could then use the secondary DNS that most hosts/domain name sellers provide for free to the IP that is proxified by cloudflare. It could even be limited to the case of proxy or cloudflare DNS failure, so that cloudflare could still price discriminate (make AXFR fail, unless cloudflare is down, like a dead man's switch)
This is very typical of the libertarian streak that underpins HN. I'm always a little turned off by this strange dominate-the-world culture out of SV. I come from a culture that valued open source and interoperable open standards. Where did my people go?

Twitter is clearly and objectively a monopoly or in a duopoly with Facebook/Instagram. At my most charitable, I could include YouTube in the mix. But I'd still say monopoly.

Even though Google and Facebook are much bigger companies, Twitter has clearly cornered the market for online publishing of thoughts and opinions. Only Facebook/Instagram and Reddit come anywhere close, but those platforms are mostly for different types of content.

There's a reason that modern "news" publishes article after article that merely reports on whatever conversation is trending on Twitter. There's a reason that celebs on Reddit provide proof via tweet. There's a reason Trump's YouTube and Facebook accounts are run by staffers.

Could 100 Twitter-like companies all make it? Perhaps not, but we'd be in a better place. Twitter is poison and I'd not shed a tear if it went bankrupt.
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It doesn't mean they can't produce significantly more doses than that.
Democracy was certainly a thing before the Baroque era. A lot of old school "kings" were chosen by groups, with varying degrees of how large that group is, e.g. Ancient Athenian democracy.

What you're talking about is European/Western Liberal Democracy, which may involve voting, but has a different set of assumptions and serves different rights.
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You could have written the same comment 5/10/15/20 years ago. The markets always will be saturated, the low-hanging fruit will always be taken (almost by definition), but then somehow, a new group of kids(and not so-kids) will come up with new solutions.
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As always, this solution doesn't benefit from a blockchain structure. You could do the same thing with an immutable, publicly readable database.

The currently unsolvable problem is that there is often disagreement about axioms and proofs bring disproved. Even mathematical proofs can be very controversial.

This is one of many problems that humans can't solve yet, which means it's hard/impossible to teach computers to do it.
Video quality is more important for coding instruction than movies, imo. If you can't read the code or gets blurry, the feed becomes nearly worthless.

I agree that here auto-bandwidth adjustment is the wrong answer here and would not be appreciated by the author's paying customers.
If you look at the folks who are backing this, it is clear what their intent is.
A lot of people bashing on this, but I think overall it's pretty impressive just showcasing to more people what Mars looks like. I for one was impressed and enjoyed the panoramic effect.

Crazy to think Earth might eventually look like Mars.
I have been dying for some keyboard recommendations. I'm using a corsair w/ blue keys but I feel like the activation force is becoming a bit too much for everyday continual use (my opinion).
Isn't this just a meaningless ad?

The company is part of the development. Afaik many apps are open source.
"Donating it" means offloading the support and profit from Linux Foundations status.

Nearform is involved in integrating the backend into the countries health system... so they offload the app and just do the work that gets paid well. ?
If Apple does 1:100 split and their shares will have new price of $3.89, will that somehow make Apple stock more volatile?
It’s evidently not, especially since votes aren’t equal in the US since voters in certain states have more sway in electoral college than others. Which is how we end up with leaders that the majority did not elect.
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I agree but consider Measles, much more infectious and hits children the hardest. As far as I know, there is no federal law requiring forcing a Measles vaccine on parents.

On the other hand, Covid19 is affecting the economy and we're not having any of that in the US after the shutdown devastation so maybe a law requiring a vaccine is in the cards.

edit: thinking about it for a second, i don't see a law requiring it working. The lunatics would go crazy, there would be states refusing to enforce the law. Maybe some sort of incentive would work better, like a federal tax credit for proof of vaccination or something.
Agreed, I've discovered some really nice tangentially related videos/channels that way. That said, it should be a strict opt-in model presented on the settings dropdown not a Here-is-a-feature-we-think-you-will-like-so-you-have-to-use-it.
You're right. Gasoline is much more terrifying. Urine was just my gut reaction.
as the thickness of the book grows the cover doesn't also grow. towards the end of the scale the contents are taller than the cover.
This is really nice. I have a personal book library app too, also in PHP/MySQL, though as a former library employee I ended up focusing more on cataloguing and checkout. (I import from the Library of Congress API rather than Amazon, for example.)

Also, I wrote a bunch of me-specific hacks and am still working on patching all those out (ten years later, lol) with the intention of making it usable to others and publishable as a Sandstorm app.

I'm also still in the process of open sourcing it, mostly for some of the same reasons you mentioned. Right now my library-specific code is open sourced but the core framework I built it on top of is not yet: I've only recently begun modernizing the security code.

I would love to see your code someday if you ever get around to sharing it though!
Interesting question, I guess, but the world CANNOT WAIT for studies of long term effects.

If this turns out to work in the short run, we should deploy it. Not wait 2 years while the pandemic rages to produce the perfect science paper.
Would be great to add a quality binaural microphone and listen to the sound of Mars.

Apparently the Mars 2020 Rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/microphones) will have that capacity when it lands in February 2021 but the microphones may break after landing: "Engineers are optimizing this microphone for space from easily available, store-bought hardware. It is unlikely it will work beyond landing. If it does survive, we may be able to hear the sounds of the Martian winds and sounds of the working rover, such as the wheels turning, or the motors that turn its head, and the heat pumps that keep it warm."
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I still remember one fake news site that took this to the extreme, in that it linked to a story that flat out didn't exist on the site it linked to. You clicked on the link, and you just ended up with a 404 error page.

The fact that fooled anyone should probably give you a worrying insight into how many people are willing to trust/distrust links without even clicking on them.

But yeah, either way, make sure the link actually goes somewhere, that it goes to a relevant page/article/video/whatever, and that said source does indeed say what the linking said says it does.
We don't offer an on-premise version, but we do have customers testing environments not accessible to the public internet. They're doing it by allow-listing a static IP and we configure all traffic to come from that IP for that account. There's other options if a static IP allow-list doesn't work - we've specced an approach for a prospect where we would set up an agent inside their firewall that we use to access their internal environments. This is an approach used by other tools to access secured environments - we haven't done it ourselves yet though.
What if all scientific publications were composed by linking together a cluster of nanopublications?
Ask HN: Why aren't there any 'good' long-term personal use printers available?
Since I was a kid (im ~23), I have always been fascinated by printers- of all sorts. I developed a liking towards certain HP model, which was an inkjet printer and very portable... until I had to get a new cartridge. So I figured out a way to refill the ink cartridges and pray that it'd work.

I'm curious why no one worked on creating really portable printer (Epson Workforce WF-100 for example) with different ink options, so the printer is really just one time investment and the ink could be just as cheap as it can get. Currently, it seems like an oligarchy where the goal is to sell printers and then keep making money by selling single use cartridges.

On the other hand, the space like 3d printers, or mechanical keyboard is already getting so much 'indie' development. I'd personally love to buy a printer (like my mechanical keyboard) that I can use every once in a while and something that is easily/cheaply refillable.
Devils advocate: if you hate tor you should try to contribute to the network as much as possible. The more you control it, the more you can exploit it when vulnerabilities are found.
To quote a friend of mine: But then I would have to doubt and question everything.

It kept me laughing for many years.
If I could do it over, I would find a good mentor.
RAID-Z expansion is being worked on:
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/8853

Last I checked BTRFS RAID5/6 was a dumpster fire and unusable in production. Have they actually open sourced the ability to fix bitrot detection with mdraid? If not, it's kind of irrelevant.

So... once again down votes without response - BTRFS raid still isn't recommended and the file healing isn't compatible with MDRAID I assume and you just don't like the fact I pointed it out? The "I'm downvoting because you pointed out a flaw in my logic" @HN is disappointing.
Employers will be good to you if you have bargaining power, but employees who have none are often mistreated. That is why we need a competing source of power (the government!) to regulate employers. The government, like an employer, needs to be checked by something if it isn’t going to grow abusive.

Parents are somewhat different in that they tend to actually know and love their children. But even then we don’t give parents unchecked rights over their kids.
I think we will be more limited by supply rather than willingness. Locking down for months has much more economic impact than one shot for each citizen even for poor country.
That's not the experience I had with the environment. The tooling is amazing and the libraries are plenty for pretty much anything.
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Ah, yea. There's definitely climates in California where that would work. I'm in Tampa Bay, and during the summer there's very few times when you would want outside air coming in. Even if it's OK temperature-wise, humidity is always there. I've open windows to take advantage of cool air during storms, but I also know I have an A/C that will act as a full-house dehumidifier.
Thank you! Yes I agree
> I've had this discussion a number of times, and I guess it really bugs people that not everyone cares obsessively about fashion and outward appearance as they do.

If that’s what you got from what I said, then either I’ve failed to make what I’m saying clear or you’ve misinterpreted what I’ve said. I don’t actually care how you dress. As a lot of people are fond of saying—words have meanings. And what _you_ define as “fashion” is a small (but vocal and visible) subset of what the word “fashion” means. Sadly, even if one is trying to buck trends…you’re participating in a trend of bucking trends.

You are describing a fashion—a trend even—that resonates with a certain number of people.

I am also amused that you recommend visiting thrift shops. Fashion “leaders” tend to make their own clothing, visit thrift shops (because often they are poor artists trying to make their own way and can’t afford or don’t like the current fast fashion trends), and combine clothing in ways that (sometimes) eventually becomes a fashionable trend.

(Consider the pre-ripped jeans trend. This wasn’t caused by some “Fashion Overlord” deciding that this would be some year’s fashion. People who became fashionable wore their jeans into the ground and looked good in them. Other people couldn't/didn’t want to rip their jeans or wear them into the ground like that, but felt that having ripped jeans gave them some sort of fashion credibility…so it became something that mattered in fast fashion. But it started from someone who didn’t decide to make a fashion statement as such anyway.)
but thats not quite what OP was hinting at.

They were talking about long term protection. Realistically it only needs to last a year or so. After all the flu vaccine is only valid for a year because it evolves so quickly.

As for safety, that's the entire point of these three phases of trials. seeing if its effective is a nice bonus, but in reality to see if there are any problems like there were with the dengue fever jab.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979596
They plan to make a million doses available by September, possibly more:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-oxford...
Agreed.

What the article actually means / we should think about it is a big part of it.

For a while there were some accounts on reddit (and even HN) posting the same collection of links with regards to a particular topic. The links even came in the same order each time ;) It always came up with regard to a particular nation and a specific topic. (for the record they're long since gone, at least with those links)

Anyway one of the articles was a US university professor who said something about some other countries actions and so forth.

To the astroturfers that was supposed to mean something, X.

What it really meant was a university professor said that if the data supplied by that country is true that it means that they maybe did Y.

The article was was miles and miles away from X.

Granted those were astroturfers, but I see the same issues with folks who honestly believe a rando quote means something significant.

I often find myself asking people about their links "What do you feel that article means?"
If the elements you interact with are DOM elements and non-DOM elements within a canvas then we should be able to detect and replicate those actions. The biggest remaining issue might be performance - our VMs don't have a GPU attached so depending on the application it may be slow because WebGL is not running with hardware acceleration.
There is in fact wind. Only ~1% as much air as Earth, but it's sufficient to support phenomena like dust devils.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/1...

Of course, it's very weak, so it couldn't push over a spacecraft or building like in "The Martian", but I suspect sands shifts on a very slow timescale. I'm not sure.
Yet Another Database.... As Shelnutt2 states below, its success will depend on how quickly TileDB can be integrated into other tools.

However, I don't see any benefit in TileDB supporting fast and efficient updates (and duplicates) of time series data. Time series should be immutable, and only in rare occasions require updating.
Similar issue with Aeroflot. They cancelled my flight and issued a refund but said it would take weeks. After 4 weeks called my credit card company and they issued a credit to my account immediately. The credit card company said that I could have called after a week, didn’t have to wait 4.
Making antibodies is a hugely expensive process in the body. You'd only want to do it for mortal dangers like Smallpox. So I'm pretty sure our body decides if it's worth it. The reason colds are endemic is that they aren't worth having a special forces team training to take them out of circulation at all times. You can just have the army look at it when there's an issue.
It's not possible to replicate the CDN, or DNS, or the message queue if it's hosted, or the database of it's big enough, or etc. etc. The differences between what you're able to create in a staging environment and what exists in prod are significant enough that testing against the staging environment doesn't build much more confidence than testing with mocks.

Testing in prod means accepting this reality, avoiding the largely unproductive toil of building and maintaining a staging env, and making the production system observable, resilient, and operationally agile enough that you can deploy changes that can trigger unpredictable and emergent system behaviors while managing risk appropriately.
Sounds good, good luck. Assuming your name is relatively unique then this should be something that resolves within 4-6 weeks. If it takes longer you might need to do some high profile PR to get the name out there and linked to the right place.
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“They say you can do anything you want in Hong Kong, as long as it's not in Hong Kong.”

That is a very nice aphorism, and a quick search doesn't yield prior occurrences of it. I'm impressed.

EDIT to add: I was flabbergasted that it had a Hong Kong theme (which resonates with me), until I realised that the submission (for whatever reason) seeds with Hong Kong by default...

EDIT to add: https://plagiarismdetector.net gives it a 100% unique, 0% plagiarism.
"Deepfakes aren't a problem because climate change is a conspiracy theory" is a pretty wild swerve.
On the same topic, who determines the '10 minute' and '8 minute' time scale perfect for engagement and how did they end up with these numbers?
I am getting screwed by KLM. I am guessing the Dutch government is giving similar option to KLM. my travel insurance is also screwing me saying that I should accept the voucher. It’s unfair the governments are bailing out airlines but they are just holding on to our money for the cancelled flights.
I enjoy the Axios news format; it's pretty concise, and you have the option to dig deeper into a given topic or event.
> Just use two anycast-ed IPs/domains

What are the brands offering DNS at a flat rate over anycasted IP over a few continents?

Most of the offers I see are per query at high rates. Setting up my own ASN to do this would be too expansive in IPv4
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I bought an HP LaserJet printer in circa 2005, printed with it occasionally, and the original toner cartridge lasted about 11 years. I was pretty delighted with that.
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“Black people bear much of the blame for their condition.”

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last thing you want is long term effects being harder than the disease itself. Even moderate effects will undermine trust in vaccines and the world absolutely can not afford that. I hope we’ll thread carefully here.
Is it because your credit card offered a travel insurance? Or just a dispute?
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