skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last week i was trying to find information on corona virus and its spread but as its distributed with different agencies, it was becoming difficult everyday to get a complete sense of whats happening. So i thought of building a website which aggregates the different sources of data and lets you stay on top of this global pandemic. It took me 24 hours to build and it now ready. I thought it will be very useful as i feel lot of us want to track this and stay vigilant. You can get the latest toll numbers for the Novel Coronavirus epidemic, see affected regions, stats, casualties and more. Its data is collected from WHO and other government agencies and updated everyday.

Do share this with your friends and colleagues and travel safe.
Underreporting of infections leads to a overestimated mortality rate, underreporting of deaths leads to an underestimed mortality rate.
On the justification of the four freedoms (2017)
My Czech bank (Equabank) also made withdrawals free anywhere in the world a few days ago; I was worried that this would come with hideous rate increases, but apparently not.

Weird instance of banking actually getting better with time?!
Personally I much prefer plastic on my laptops. Less likely to bend and doesn't pass current and heat to my hands.
Voluntary cooperation and peaceful competition is what makes a society. A government is just a group of people who attempt to maintain a monopoly on violence and use it to enforce their will on others. I certainly think they are less ethical then people who do not attempt to enforce their will on others.

Government created laws and regulation are just threats. They tell you nothing about what is right or ethical. They only tell you how a particular group of people want you to behave and what they will try to do to you if you refuse to obey. Anyone with enough capacity for violence and willingness to use it can create a law but no amount of force can change what is right or wrong.
Can new Counter-Strike league be esports’ WWE?
Apple's spotlight has had these kind of features for a long time too, though most of the time it mostly works.

It loses your input, it baits-and-switches, it opens completely irrelevant software (often uninstallers that immediately begin an uninstall process or never-used settings pages), some applications are plain missing from there and have to be accessed through the application menu always.
FOSS driver and open firmware are separate issues.

Binary drivers executing on the CPU are a no-go for me. OTOH, I consider device firmware blobs user(OS)-loaded on power-on to be strictly safer than a stored blob, though less convenient in some ways.

Devices these days have firmware, usually on flash-able storage, as they don't make it right the first time. Would you rather have a wifi chipset, that can be permanently infected after an exploit / evil-maid / malware on PC, or one that can equally be exploited, but is as clean as ever after a power cycle, because the OS needs to load firmware every time?
Dragonflies, frogs, newts, tadpoles, geckos. Most small fish pray on mosquito larvae. Bettas love them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1GezJo79M
The first one claimed:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9794348B2/en

Abstract
A method of using voice commands from a mobile device to remotely access and control a computer. The method includes receiving audio data from the mobile device at the computer. The audio data is decoded into a command. A software program that the command was provided for is determined. At least one process is executed at the computer in response to the command. Output data is generated at the computer in response to executing at least one process at the computer. The output data is transmitted to the mobile device.

It is worth noting (based on Google...) that they are the first ones against which this patent asserted in court. Based on its broad applicability they are clearly following a strategy of getting a few wins against weaker targets before taking on the rest of the world.

Alexa, Siri please help!
I'd love to see a Q&A session with the programmers about those games. Putting so many incredible "anti-piracy" or "anti-emulation" pain points into games most people would consider shovelware
Yes, this gives the actual energy reaching the surface: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/v1/
You assume everyone has permission to install software :)
The Weird World of Historical Re-Enactors
For those who don't know, the callsigns are because the audio used by the phone service is primarily used for broadcast on shortwave / HF radio.

If you're in the US and have a shortwave receiver you can usually pick up the time broadcasts on one of their frequencies any time of day.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-s...
Interesting to note that Cloudflare went a few steps further and not only tried to invalidate the patent but also took the troll to the state bar association for disciplinary action. I'm not sure there is an outcome on that yet, but I think the strategy to do everything you can to destroy the trolling entity that sued you is a great one in this case. Might even consider filing several lawsuits and complaints to overwhelm a small scale troll.

Or if you're the size of Cloudflare, bully them in other ways. In this example it's an operation setup by just two lawyers, easy to make them regret going after you if you make their work impossible. You could for example hire away their legal staff, delay things for ages, screw with the personal life of the two founders. They can't keep a small business afloat for very long if you dedicate some resources to screwing with their operations.

Might even just sue their clients for something else (one of your patents for example). In this case the client is a small firm in Germany, they would be in a very bad place if they got sued in the US home district of Cloudflare and had to defend. High probability that they would put pressure on the lawyers to drop the troll suit.
Ok, I will act accordingly.
iOS 13.4 beta (keyboard shortcuts, key remapping, universal purchases)
The tricky thing about parallelizing workflow apps is that most workflow happens in a pipeline, which fits single cores really well.
It's tricky to find problems that fit into grids.

Pictures are grids, And for computationally intensive tasks that are isolated gpus work greate. But you still have to find a way to make your sums work in a grid if they don't.
Last time I was writing OpenCL the ability for threads to chat with each other was at the entry and exit points which made fitting some problems through parallel architecture very hard.
If you can afford it, and/or land/actually mounting the panels is the most expensive part, I'd recommend to install photovoltaic panels instead, though, as they are more versatile.

And it would simplify plumbing a lot to put everything in the same place, vs pumping brine up many roofs, and water down again.
It’s pretty stable for me.

I start typing "Code", by the time "Cod" is typed, I see VS Code and want to press enter, before I realize that, I get done typing the "e" and out of nowhere "code.bat" (whatever that is) appears and gets executed.

Stable at a PoS level.

Windows search is the worst part about Windows 10 for me and I have no idea how anyone ever thought it was at a better than some pre-alpha stage. All the different updates do, are make it behave in new utterly dumb ways.

Luckily Keypiranha means I rarely ever need it.
Check what is the currency exchange fee - while you might not pay for withdrawal, they can still add a few % of the exchange fee (that’s at least the case for some of Polish cards).
Funny. "bitt" -> nothing. "bitto" -> works. "bitt" -> now works as well.
I think that's due to pressure from a number of fintech-companies such as revolut, monzo, transferwise, and what not. They focus on exactly just that, lower exchange rates and simpler money transfers.
If you’re logging to a local disk on ephemeral VMs, that doesn’t make the situation any better.

That’s why you need a central logging facility. If you’re using AWS, you could store your structured JSON logs in S3 and query them with Athena.
(https://medium.com/quiq-blog/store-json-logs-on-s3-for-searc...)

Of course there are other ways both using AWS and third party services. Centralized logging is a solved problem.

AWS isn’t going to run out of disk space any time soon. You could also use a lifecycle policy to delete old logs or move them to a lower cost storage depending on your retention policy.

I’m not saying that I have never had to log on to a VM to troubleshoot, but that’s a sign of the need of better logging.

And if my logging infrastructure isn’t good, how pray tell will I troubleshoot my programs running on Lambda or Fargate?
Polar Express: New Spacecraft Will Explore Elusive Parts of the Sun
Nasa provides historical data on the amount of solar energy reaching the surface for any point on planet: https://power.larc.nasa.gov/docs/v1/
Do you know of an energy source that can completely replace oil an gas today? It is very much not only a thing of past, but necessary for our survival today.
Show HN: Fakevoices.com – Donald Trump text-to-speech converter
Write lots of OOPs so editors can parse it and give it back to you so you can write more OOP.
Not an audiophile, so reading this through the lens of ux, what you describe is a form of pliancy: taking the record out etc. Something that isn’t reproduced properly in digital is feeling and operation (as in actual touch and manipulation) I presume there is something in our brains that responds to that (beyond simple nostalgia)
Making React Fast: Tips on Optimizing ReactJS
That's the absolute EU mandated minimum. Per country it can be stricter. Also, generally businesses are expected to do somewhat better than "the bare minimum that makes you not want to demand your money back".
Quick turnaround as it's related to travel. Travel safe .
Spanish flu killed very many people in regions that did not directly participate in WWI, so civilians (as opposed to recruits sent overseas) should not be affected by the war; e.g. India, Indonesia, etc.

The half a million people who died of the Spanish flu in USA did not die because lots of wounded in the same place and scarred lungs from poison gas.
The original Xbox is x86 as well, the complex part is emulating the GPU, DSP, etc, which developers sometimes use at a very low level, setting registers, relying on HW quirks, etc (see: xqemu)

Maybe such low-level optimizations are now longer necessary with more powerful consoles, though?

Regarding GPU drivers, that seems quite doable, as the PS4 Linux port uses slightly modified open source drivers, and gets good performance, IIRC.
Don't they have different characteristics compared to the final retail units?
That's wishful thinking, not reality. In reality, many different actors can benefit from info about the used software on a particular users' PC. And now they know who to bribe to get it.

> Has this investor got a beta build from that new startup everyone's talking about? Their bets are always winning, I better frontrun them if that's the case.

> What apps could I exploit to get into this guy's computer?

> Wait why is my employee suddenly running tor browser after I involved her into this new secret deal? Better be careful with her, she might be talking to someone.

> Damn, our competitor's engineers are all running our app. Let's correlate the timestamps with our own backend to discover their accounts and push a special update to them.
"Its search is pretty good"? I entered "cf.lumen" and all the results were completely unrelated ads.
Back in 2000 - 2005 it was in cluster of Oracle ones.

Nowadays no idea.
I disagree with your first paragraph, especially the conclusion. Case in point: Facebook is still doing just fine at their data collection even though they are (yet) only at the application layer. But I don't want to keep beating this bush.

In the end, all I can say is "if you are so worried about Google's Android, go ahead fight the good fight, get a Fairphone with a custom ROM without g-services, or with any other OS. Asking for Android as a whole to be killed is short-sighted and will not achieve anything"
Yes but conceptually it amounts to manual classification into multiple categories, which is just neverending work in my experience.

Manual classification is still useful to classify documents according to labels that are not present as strings in the books' contents though.
See also:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/legos-absolute-zero-science

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/18/lego-in-the-l...

https://news.utexas.edu/2018/06/27/new-nerve-gas-detector-bu...

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/320416v1

https://twitter.com/whippletom/status/1011995003923681280?la...

https://twitter.com/samburgroup/status/1012165655036981248

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-use-lego-to-co...

https://mrc.ukri.org/news/blog/lego-powered-biomedical-resea...

Probably lots more out there too!
I agree that for some people, they stick with Windows because their hardware and software does just work. Compatibility with the things you do is important.

However we are in a thread about how Windows 10 search just up an broke and whose only permanent fix is to disable part of it in the registry.

The search function barely works compared to alternatives too.

People can absolutely stick with Windows but I was referring to people who argue that they cannot try alternatives because they don't "just work" and you have use a command line and do all this configuration stuff.

I have less problems on Linux and most of them are of my own creation, trying to run software in wine or use hardware with non-free drivers.

It helps to adapt to doing things the Linux way when using Linux instead of contiuing to operate in a Windows mindset.
On Windows 8.1, when I want to run Paint.NET I have to remember to accept the suggestion before typing the full name; it guesses correctly until I finish the .net, at which point it decides I want to open a web page.

(Honestly though I'm pretty happy with it, it's good enough that I never miss the old-fashioned Start menu like I expected to.)
Tips and Pain Point Workarounds for Machine Learning Work in Google Colab
I'm not scared of dying. I am scared of dying slowly and painfully as I burn from the inside out.
Linux has the best gaming performance?
I am a native English speaker and it seemed polite enough to me.

How would you phrase the request?
Encoded messages and open rooms – Weekly Challenge
>A method of using voice commands from a mobile device to remotely access and control a computer. The method includes receiving audio data from the mobile device at the computer. The audio data is decoded into a command. A software program that the command was provided for is determined. At least one process is executed at the computer in response to the command. Output data is generated at the computer in response to executing at least one process at the computer. The output data is transmitted to the mobile device.

this is revolutionary. are they taking investors?
In that case, will this really cut down on time to see the test result? Won't I have to trigger my TS/React build, then run the test (two separate actions, difficult to automate this).

Again, I like simple... but it seems like to move from Jest to baretest I'd be giving up a lot, in terms of both features and time from saving my file to seeing the test result.
When I was a teenager the “555” Impreza WRC seemed reasonably priced for consumers to buy. But the point was about homologation — competing with products that are general available to amateurs — ensuring accessibility to the sport.

Rally driving is indeed pretty niche, so the entry fee for wannabe drivers being the cost of a reasonably specialist mass produced car seems fair.

For running: the audience is wider and the cost should be lower. Race organizers that put a price cap on equipment help to hold back the tide of performance being affected by gear instead of grit.
They write this to scare off trolls looking for marks. They would not do this in clear-cut cases.
Steve Yegge's old rants are good. I can never tell for sure which parts are him trolling me.
Facebook's Twitter and Instagram Accounts Hacked
That's generally what you want. If the private key only ever existed in the TPM then you know there aren't any copies in an attacker's hands somewhere (ignoring hardware vulnerabilities). But if you copy a key into the TPM, there could have been malware that stole a copy of the key beforehand.
Thanks for this. Non-native speakers of English trip this one up a lot. This entire phenomenon of "please" is worthy of its own article.
> Hi this is a great article! I don't know if you've ever considered adding TLS to your personal site? I know a lot of people like me really appreciate even small websites having this.
>>I thought older people are more valuable since they have more experience. There isn't much physical difference between 20, 40 and 55 year old people

Older people have families, don't buy the "lets work 20 hours a day," or "we're a startup" despite being founded in 2000 or whatever, and that's a liability to some. (Another thing, is that they might be less willing to take orders from their 23 year old boss.)
Wow, I didn't know this was still around, this is a serious blast from the past.
The parent felt that, not I.
I want to sleep till 10am and then have breakfast
Very few algorithms really care, rather, it's when you're composing them that maintaining insertion order avoids a lot of boilerplate in having to cart that information around.

For the same reason, though, it's potentially a bad idea. All these algorithms that generate dicts generally won't promise to maintain insertion order, they just happen to by chance. Then consumers come to depend on it and be surprised when it inevitably changes.
Don’t conflate the majority of the beeching closures with a lack of investment. The problem was during the 80s when Japan and France were building new high speed railways, we weren’t.

We’re now trying to catch up with HS2, which is sorely needed to free existing tracks for more and reliable services, but we need to use that as a springboard for 50 years of investment. HS2, npr, midland connect, then high speed Birmingham to Bristol/Cardiff, Cambridge, and Leeds-Newcastle-Edinburgh-Glasgow

The key is to ensure we have schemes ready to go once construction winds up on the first parts, so the skills and equipment aren’t lost.
In case of paywall:

* https://outline.com/P2kyXX
> Nobody flies between cities in one state

Jesus, you say that with such confidence, Bravo! I’m afraid to tell you how popular the Houston/Dallas route is...
Yes, a failure to understand how your tools work or how to use them effectively does indeed make things harder.
I quit using Windows search a long long time ago but I have to admit that it worked better in the WinXP days.

Currently using SwiftSearch with very fast results, as it reads directly from the NTFS MFT. No databases, no indexing, no background processes or services.
There's also UltraSearch that works with the same idea but is more polished.
>The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did not require a hearing

And it also relied upon the testimony of Alberto Guerra, who later admitted that he was lying and was paid by Chevron to lie:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neye7z/chevrons-star-witn....
That solution is also rather terrible. We need a better solution than "vote with our wallets", I'm not prepared to give disproportionate voting power to those with disproportionally more money. Because money does not make one more right, more qualified and most definitely not more likely to make a decision that is fair to everybody.

"Voting with your wallet" only leads to good outcomes if the incentives are right. I mean it's money, the VAST majority of it is spent not for the greater good but for small, inefficient egotistical purposes.
people who argue that they cannot try alternatives because they don't "just work"

Fair enough, but your argumentation still sounds like 'works for me so it's all fine' which is the main point I was addressing. I.e. it's not because you have less problems on linux that others do as well, and hence they could make a rather valid argument that they gave up trying. Which doesn't mean all people complaining like that are right of course. It's never so black/white.
Since Android includes a deeply integrated Java implementation that they've put a lot of work into, which includes an AOT compiler, why wouldn't they write services like this one in Java?
On top of what everyone else has said: reliability.

My record player + amp have never had any problems I couldn't fix on the spot. Only things I've had to repair/replace were needle cartridges and the belt, both of which take under five minutes to fix. My vinyl setup has outlived my smartphones and will likely continue to do so.

Streaming music can have problems I can't easily fix. It's like the difference between an old car which still uses carbs compared to a new BMW: you can tear the former apart in your garage and rebuild it, but you have to pay someone to help you for the latter.

That isn't the primary reason I use vinyl, but all of the better reasons have been covered already.
Just sharing what we put together to hear our favourite (!) celebrities say stupid things. We're using https://github.com/Kyubyong/dc_tts behind the scenes, though the main challenge is curating high-quality training sets. The result can be a bit hit-or-miss but it was enough to have a laugh with our friends :)

Trump: https://fakevoices.com/tts/f41f033e-2129-4dab-a67b-4986642c2...

And for the David Attenborough fans out there: https://fakevoices.com/tts/3685f2d3-9b49-4635-9775-1b83783fa...
Basically agree but would quibble with your 1. If I've pinned an application (as I do for anything I use regularly) surely it's because I want to launch it quickly via the taskbar rather than having to go via search. If I'm in search it's because I'm looking for something else.
Vinyl is better than CDs?
Really enjoyed this, thanks.
The answer: you can't. Ping, or ICMP echo request, does not even let you choose a pott to send to. The closet thing to "port ping", is what the article suggested, a TCP connectivity test (and measure the RTT/2 as the latency.)
> Take a look at it from google earth ...

"Sputnik Street"?
My personal experience is that the very best managers use "asking questions" as their main management tool as this is effective to reveal all aspects of a situation and get employees to understand and support the decisions that follow.

Weak managers like to "take decisions" as a display of their value as a manager. This value elevation is undermined by old experienced employees who can point out bad decisions or that the manager doesn't understand the consequences of the decisions, i.e. a fear of being "exposed". Weak managers fear anything that makes them seem weak, like asking questions.
In the 2000s, we set clock from cable TV news channels that displayed time on-screen.
As a non-US citizen: What's the deal with entering ZIP codes in some gas stations in the US? Tax reasons?
This is not only about efficiency. As noted in the article, it would reduce the pollution of highly concentrated brine rejected into the ocean.

See for instance this article of the Guardian about a region in Chile where the majority of drinkable water comes from a desalination plant built in 2003: "The salt they pump back in kills everything'" https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/02/the-salt-they...