skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The places I’ve worked at where “everyone is a leader” ends up with 1 person feeling adamant about something. And everyone else disagreeing, but then saying: sure whatever, we will do it that way.

Nobody wants to have conflict and nobody is in charge. Leads to a lot of very bad decisions imo.
Why can't they be rare and valuable without being innovative?
The best example comes from Darwin's finches and the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant. Here's a good article outlining some of the things they've documented: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/legendary-biologists-clocked-e...
This is probably not true. There have been experiments where faces have been reconstructed by measuring the neural responses of monkey's when seeing faces: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40131242
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>Of course, it’s gonna happen if health authorities take the same defeatist attitude as you and do nothing.

I'm a bit confused. Isn't expecting it to be devastating the very attitude needed for authorities to justify engaging in the containment methods needed to reduce the harm caused?
Buy extra food so if you get sick you don't have to go out and infect other people, or if you are in an area with a lot of sick people you don't have to go out to bu food and get infected.
Yes. It has been able to for quite some time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thelinuxgamer/status/121251196907...
No, but how can we ignore that, like we do in every other facet of life.

I mean un-nuanced thinking has done great for so many of our other problems like: war, homelessness, drug-use, and governance!

Joking aside, we might just need to write certain people off and just let them be. We might not have the resources to tackle climate change, feed and shelter an increasingly populated world, and individually talk people out of these entertaining delusions like believing in flat earth or doubting the efficacy of vaccines.
Comp Sience is loaded with people who need to compensate there insecuritys by making other people look stupid or incompetent.

Why shouldnt somebody refuse a "broadly" accepted theory. If science, then he/she will only proof it in the end. It should be embraced, not discouraged. Attacking science with rigor, is the best you can do for science.
Grip, a web framework based on the Kemal framework
As someone who deals with PCI-DSS compliance in fintech land on a daily basis this thread is showing me there are a lot of people who like to crow on about stuff they don't know a thing about.
After the blockchain mad dash finally draws to a close, I think we can answer that question in the affirmative for a small subsector - VCs and wall street.

That same subsector also does feel pain - look at the news about the Dow dropping 950 points over Coronavirus-related slowdowns.
Signal does store important metadata: the phone number itself. In many countries, you cannot purchase a SIM card now without showing ID, and the seller takes down your ID details and forwards them to the state. Then your phone number is inextricably linked to your identity. Yes, the contents of messages may be securely encrypted, but many states can easily determine which of their own citizens (and visitors to the country who bought a local SIM) are using Signal.
Yes, the closed cases has been steadily dropping but remains well above 2% - however, we expect that number to be higher than the actual mortality rate while the infection is still spreading/growing, as recovering from the disease takes longer than dying from it.

What I find more concerning is that the current ratio of deaths to cases is 3%, which I would expect to be an underestimate. Hopefully this is due to under-reporting of the mild cases, but it does imply either a major under-reporting of active cases or a significantly higher mortality rate than has been estimated so far (most likely the former).
Seasonal flu does have containment efforts - vaccination
The idea I think is that someone needs to implement it using macros and get it into Nim's stdlib. Then we can all make use of it. If you're passionate enough about interfaces then you may just be able to implement something that works beautifully and get it merged into stdlib (that would be awesome).
Because when you make the rules you get to make the rules?
There's been some recent discussion that it's actually diarrhea that is causing the spread among 'asymptomatic' carriers.
No more so than any casualty of extreme sports like climbing, biking, paragliding etc. It's cliche but I'd like to think the man died doing something he loved: piloting a home-made rocket. The world is a richer place for people like him following their passion.
To quote the Medium comment from Masklinn:

> Actually, humans generally think in terms of graphemes, which may or may not be composed of multiple Unicode code points (irrespective of the normalization form being used).
Some may be gloating, but I think the majority are simply pointing out the tragic irony of someone losing their life over a demonstrable, undisputed fact that has been known for several hundred years. Conspiracy theories and the anti-science thinking behind them are dangerous, both to society and to individuals, as this case sadly demonstrates.
It's really not. Speciation is slow (on the order of 50 generations at minimum), but selection is very powerful, and can cause large phenotypic changes in the span of tens of generations instead.
Not an expert, but it's been stated by experts that coronoviruses, in general, spread slower during summer. This has not been proven for COVID-19, but presumably there will be some nontrivial affect on this virus as well.
what about developing a vaccine?
That's what I meant, RSA (the company) is cancelled.
If you are using Brave or Firefox, you can just use "reader mode" to bypass the paywall.
There are various papers on the topic of developer locations.

Among community-driven projects USA is very far from #1.

Instead it's #1 on corporate stuff.
Not really a flat-earther. An attention-seeking stuntman/daredevil who would say anything to get publicity?
I would say if authorities don’t act it could kill a million or more. Which is very different from gp’s argument that it will kill a million or more regardless.
Isn't this akin to saying I don't like wearing seatbelts because it makes me more complacent in my driving?
Thanks, I've updated my link to the one you supplied. My Brave browser doesn't show the banner.
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It’s fundamentally about choosing features based on what can be done well versus done at all. Lots of server bloat is caused by loading our applications up with features that are not cheap resource-wise. If you think about the billions of calculations and the hundreds of millions of bytes you can ship from one machine, we should be able to do something like stackoverflow in one rack with room to spare.

15 years ago we could sustain 1/10th the traffic on 1/40th of the hardware of my current project, and the old one was badly architected. If we fixed that and added all the redundancy and telemetry of today they might just about cancel out. But factor in all the hardware improvements and this is not a good look.
For why we are collectively concerned about a good comparison is influenza (flu), which kills millions worldwide each year and has a case fatality rate of around 0.1%. I believe flu is the single deadliest pathogen worldwide currently.

Covid-19 appears to be extremely virulent and at least as lethal if not several orders of magnitude more so than influenza.

The immediate reason why is Covid-19 is getting so much attention compared to flu in the news media is that it is new. However, some of the reason why it’s getting so much attention from public health officials is that

1) it’s not well understood yet, and the upper bounds currently on virulence and lethality are very high

2) it appears virulent enough that it could become endemic in humans, meaning that we could be dealing with annual epidemics like the flu.
To be fair, the PinePhone isn't really trying to compete against Google or Apple, it's just carving a small niche for FOSS enthusiasts. I don't see it as a competitor because:

- they're explicitly not taking a profit, so unlikely to aggressively rev hardware
- little to no software development by the parent company
- little to no marketing by the parent company

Purism is developing an app store, productivity suite, and revving the software with full time employees. They're pushing the marketing hard even before the product is ready. They're already talking about a new hardware rev (batch Fir). That's pretty much a direct competitor to both Google and Apple. /e/ is essentially an Android fork, so it's a direct competitor to Google.

Sailfish might be a direct competitor, but I just don't see the PinePhone as even being interested in this space. One of the projects that's being ported to the device could become a competitor (e.g. Canonical could take up development of Ubuntu Touch again), but Pine64 just doesn't seem interested. It's a hobbyist device, and I wouldn't be surprised if Android gets ported and Pine64 offers that as a factory installation option.
I also worked with someone in a remote capacity who insisted on using Dragon Naturally Speaking and his communication on technical topics was unintelligible. It clearly wasn't working, but he insisted and everyone who worked with him suffered for it.

And now he's not working in tech anymore and is a field engineer doing repetitive labor with his hands...
Prevention and containment are related but not exactly the same.
It forces developers to write better code because they have to maintain it from design to deploy. The biggest pushback I've seen is from people who don't want to think about how inefficient their app runs in the cloud and just want to write the next API.
Because they are new.
Probably also warmth, increasing blood flow. Particularly important if you also have cold hands.
> the SQLite 3.8.7 release, which was 50% faster than the previous release

Nit: the link says it’s 10% faster than the previous release. It’s 50% faster than some arbitrary point in the past, perhaps the time when they began their CPU-based profile optimization.
Yes, and the huge majority of people don't have that requirement. Signal's devs have been very clear for years and years that the are optimizing for getting as many people as possible to use functioning e2e encrypted messaging rather than to focus on features that a subset of techies in the west care about.
> The border with Mexico is... probably more of an issue.

AFAIK there are no confirmed cases in Mexico. It wouldn't surprise me if that was because of the inability of the government to detect it.

I live in Mexico and I believe if it gets here it will be unstoppable. The government doesn't have the resources China has to contain and track infected people.
Contrarian view warning: neither listening to nor talking to them are important! At least not in the context of helping them come to a more correct belief about the shape of our planet -- talking to them just as people is fine and no worse or better than talking to anyone else. I guess most people presenting themselves as flat Earthers actually know deep down that the Earth is round. Perhaps they enjoy playing the fool. Perhaps they are trolling. Perhaps they just want attention. But they probably know.

Even if they don't, who cares? By virtue of being a flat Earther you basically exclude yourself from any position where such a viewpoint might be relevant. They're not hurting anyone, so just leave them alone. Let people be wrong on the internet.

(Note that like many aspirational exhortations, this one is a little hypocritical. I've been known to have a problem with people being wrong on the internet before. But I'm trying to be better. :))
> Sadly you can't feed your children from media drama.

By the way, if the problem is "how do I reliably get money from bug bounties" (as opposed to "I found a cool bug, what do I do with it") --

I strongly recommend finding a product with some kind of barrier to entry. Most researchers on these platforms are very low-effort. A gigantic, complicated product, like Workday, or even better a gigantic, complicated product that requires payment (!), like Slack for Enterprise, will usually not be getting very many reports. That product is hard to understand. But that means that -- once you've put in the effort to understand the product -- there's a lot more low-hanging fruit, and the company is likely to treat researchers better because of the lower report volume.
He didn't lose his life because of a belief in the flat earth. He lost his life because he was a daredevil. His use of the flat earth meme for promotional purposes is incidental to his death.

Furthermore if a few nutjobs on the fringes of society believing silly shit is genuinely a threat to society, then society must be fragile beyond belief. I reject this.
Ask HN: Tool to search, tag and manage pdfs in Google Drive
Hello, hackers!

My friend is a lawyer and he has a tons of court documents in a pdf format on his Google Drive. He need to quickly search through content of pdf files and tag them. For instance, tag all the documents which have "ACME INC" with ACME tag.

I quickly explored the problem and found that Google Drive doesn't support tagging, and there is only two tools which do tagging:

1. digitile.io (can be integrated with Google Drive and provide tagging)
2. TagSpaces.org (desktop solution)

To be honest, I can't recommend either of them. Maybe I missed some great tool, can you recommend me anything?
This is the opposite of my experience. In practice, being forced to deal with edge cases makes you find implementations that eliminate them because dealing with each is painful.
Assuming you mean the USA, best way to solve that is for the data to never cross into US controlled facilities or equipment at all. Using apps made in California on operating systems also made in California to send messages to servers controlled from California and then trusting that the encryption works the way they say it works makes much less sense than just sending messages through EU carriers.

Consider, the Signal threat model assumes that you can't trust telcos. That's usually based on the assumption that you're some ordinary grassroots citizen who might be spied on by the government. But the EU Commission is the government. It seems a bit odd for them to implicitly assert the national European telecoms companies are untrustworthy.
Probably this one: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/18/rsi-solution/
Linters aren't bad (Go basically has one as `go vet` that checks for all kinds of "this is probably wrong", like the common "closing over a loop variable")

Warnings are bad, specifically when the warning is unambiguous (importing a package you aren't using is always wrong, though it makes debugging frustrating at times) The idea is that warnings that don't "stop" the build generally get ignored. Build most non-trivial C++ projects and count how many warnings flow past the top of your screen for an example of what they were trying to prevent.
It's basically just fashion. Tall men were preferred in the marriage market.
Agreed, it is sad to see people making jokes at the expense of someone’s death.
A joke is not meant to be accurate. This one is funnier if you only change one word of the original quote, even if the resulting one is wrong.
In some jurisdictions the title "engineer" is protected because it does imply that the person is licensed.
What about the people that made the food you got delivered.
This is some real tinfoil hat shit
> 3,200 will die vs 500 for the flu

Assuming the fatality rates are as given (3.2% versus 0.05%), that would be 3200 vs 50.
A vaccine is at least a year or two away from going through all the testing and approval it has to go through before it's ready to be deployed on a mass level... if one that's safe and effective is actually found at all.
Long sleeves and fingerless gloves definitely help, especially if you're the type to always have cold hands.

(I've written about my experiences with RSI as well: https://www.gustavwengel.dk/overcoming-rsi)
For me the best way to fight RSI was weight lifting exercises to strengthen my palms. That and a trackball.
I suspect this setup would not be ideal as background noise getting worse would be annoying for all concerned and even more challenging than an open plan office already is, and your colleagues might not appreciate this unless you're already surrounded by people talking all day (e.g. support or sales teams on calls).

That aside, in terms of worrying about your mic picking up other people's voices and the voice dictation getting confused, most dedicated microphones these days (i.e. not ones that are built into your phone's headphones), are pretty good at background noise reduction.

I've not used the one OP recommends - I'd never have considered a table based mic like that before - but the noise reduction on the Plantronics Blackwire 3215 headset I use is so good that if I move the mic boom a few inches up or down away from my mouth, people can't really hear me on calls. It's superb at getting rid of background noises, and if somebody else was in my home office using voice dictation it would not be picked up by my headset.
> And keep in mind the IFR, unlike the CFR, is the metric that takes into account undetected mild cases.

Interesting, this is always my argument against these fatality ratio estimates, can you explain how the IFR can take undetected mild cases into account? Does it just assume at random how many of those cases exist?
What does CYA mean? Haven't seen this acronym before.
I think it’s a given they don’t plug them in. I assume forensics is to determine who is trying to get at you, via what methods.
Who would you like to be upset with in a case where the black market is more efficient than HackerOne?

If the legitimate channels are not working then the system is broken and you should blame PayPal and HackerOne. Be pissed at PayPal for not making it easier to report real issues. Be pissed at PayPal for not finding the issues themselves.
It is disingenuous to compare last years total traffic deaths to total coronavirus BEFORE coronavirus has spread. The coronavirus deaths haven't happened yet.

If I told you due to a newly discovered automotive manufacturing defect, 2% of cars would explode and kill the occupants, and 20% of drivers would be hospitalized in serious condition, that wouldn't be worthy of being on the front page of every newspaper?
That 0.8% includes 'old age'. In fact, its mostly old age.

The corona virus increases the death rate from influenza 10,000X. By communicable disease, 100X?
Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
I do not belong to USA or UK. I am a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree in computer science. But I would like to do a distance learning program to earn an additional bachelor's or master's degree in math or physics or another related topic to satisfy my eagerness to learn more.

I would like a distance learning degree from a UK or European University because they are cheaper than American ones. Any suggestions of degree programs and universities?
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Building on this, what happens if grocery stores shut down as the Just in Time stocking infrastructure breaks down as truckers / workers stop going to work?
Show me a person who values their minimum wage so much that they will risk making pizza deliveries (or even bake the pizza) in a quarantined city, please. Typically, the government does it in these cases, and often it's not enough or not what you need or prefer, so it's advisable to prepare.
> The point is that your client should not send any information which you expect to keep private to their services. It is the exact reason that we use e2ee rather than just tls for chats.

Yes. And Signal achieves this better than all the other major options, given the number of footguns in the other tools.

If you are concerned about the client builds then run a decompiler. It's not hard. People have been auditing binaries for ages.
This is one of the more worrisome patent trolls. AFAIK it could apply to WebRTC, anything P2P, perhaps also Wireguard and other modern VPNs, VoIP, pretty much anything that makes a secure link on demand.

Anyone familiar with the current state of these patents?
Why is hacker news censoring covid-19 articles? This article just disappeared from the front page despite having more upvotes than most articles on the first page after being submitted an hour ago. Another covid-19 article over the weekend disappeared from the front page also.
you need to be exposed to second hand smoke for long periods of time before it can kill you, the covid-19 exposure take considerably less time in comparison, then again are they really comparable at this point?
Most people never get past Kohlberg Stage 4.
Xtra History has a good intro series on the 1918 pandemic. They liken it to trying to fight off an alien invasion. These things become that serious so quickly.

Best advice: Wash you hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9WX4qVxEo
Reminds me of the article I read recently about Pharos of Egypt where royal males were consistently taller than average men and royal females were shorter than average female of the time.

I wonder how can tall gene flow in a way that they are only expressed in a specific gender but not other?
That does not make much sense since you can backup all your data on an Android phone.
Insane comment. As a customer of these companies, this attitude is borderline criminal and a big cause of the repeated data breaches. Why should I trust any company that sues security researchers for disclosure?
Signal is not on F-Droid, because m0xie does not want that[1].

Some forks of Signal are, though[2].

[1] https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-o...
[2] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/signal-in-f-droid-in-2018/2847
> Of course, it’s gonna happen if health authorities take the same defeatist attitude as you and do nothing.

how long can they get away with locking people up in their homes? There will be tipping point when those who are supposed to deliver the first-response and do the policing will also become a vector for spreading the disease. Things will escalate quickly no matter if the attitude is "defeatist" or optimistic.
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> According to Wikipedia, Coronavirus has killed about 2000 people.

It's mostly isolated to 1 province in China. If you extrapolate those deaths world wide, you're talking 10s of millions of people dead if it goes pandemic.
> The fragmentation of the Mongol Empire meant that overland trade was growing more expensive, meanwhile nautical technology and seamanship was rapidly advancing.

The fall of Constantinople and the the Ottoman Empire Also made trade routes more expensive

There were also efforts to circumnavigate Africa for this reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_your_ass
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I have started worktheme.com and planning to shut it down. It pulls h1b case data from govt web pages and some nice visuals around it. It also has has a message board with thousands of people talking. it has about 32k messsages posted at the moment.

The reason for shutting it down is, it is just my playground area and I have done everything I wanted to do. Not sure if I can make it any bigger. So closing it down.
This is true. What I see in my country is that initial product is maybe expensive, but still somehow acceptable. Problem is that, for some reason unknown to me, government does not gain rights to modify implemented solution and can't bring in another vendor to implement either next phase or do maintenance of the solution. And this introduces many years long vendor lock-in that pays off.