skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we slow Coronavirus through proximity awareness?
We are few friends working on Coronavirus Proximity Alert service (http://coronaproxi.com/) in hope of slowing down the virus spread. We recognize a number of issues that could go wrong, but believe its potential value is worth the hassle. What do you think? Do you believe such a service can provide value? Is it bound to blow-up? Any feedback is welcome :). Our hypotheses are:

1. We could slow down the spread of the virus by letting people know as early as possible that they were exposed to the virus and are at higher risk of being a carrier.

2. Awareness of being at a higher risk would lead people to test early and self-isolate.

3. We could detect and communicate the risk while respecting privacy, e.g. by detecting proximity of individuals to each other without tracking their location.

4. Most people would act in good faith and self-report in case they are diagnosed with the virus

5. We could stay compliant with various regulatory requirements (including EU GDPR etc.)
Windows 10 isn’t the most vulnerable operating system – it’s Linux
Good idea.

The self checkouts I see here simply don't cut it.

Don't know if people are just too dumb for them or the machines are too flakey
Correct. I deliberately chose the longer CAPE terminology because I thought it was more descriptive than the term Shiller PE. But thank you for adding a better explanation
My gut feeling from Italy: May, difficult. June, maybe.

But expect that this disease expands to almost everywhere so what's going to be the status of your country by then, regardless where you are from? I'm not expecting to be able to travel much this summer, not because I'm from Italy but because every country is going to have its own share of problems.
Google Cloud launches machine images to simplify data science workflows
Interesting approach, how every page is a JS file that builds the HTML page as a string; structurally it looks almost the same as how React/Next.js do it.

With that setup, I imagine it's fairly trivial to add a "static site generator":

- Run the local server that serves the rendered pages.

- Run a Node.js process that will take a given array of all page routes; make HTTP requests to those local URLs; and save the rendered HTML into folders, for a complete static site.
I think few people know the difference, so they say backslash when they mean forward slash.
Blazor, while a good effort, is still an experiment. Microsoft Office etc. are React apps, and has one of the most maintained React libraries: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-react/

I will believe the Blazor effort if they start rewriting Fabric UI components with Blazor.
Eur 80 / month is terribly low. I can pay a single day of babysitting with that money. But I don't receive it, it's for lower income families only.

The sad truth is that Italy is hard for young people with the wrong degree (or without a degree). Postponing children is often a necessity, if you don't want to depend on your parents (who often own an house and have a nice pension). And so many skilled people just leave.
Audit RedShift Historical Queries with Pgbadger
See page 175 of the WHO report on SARS: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/207501/9290...

Many survivors end up with "honeycomb" patterns in their lungs because the immune system response blew holes in alveoli, which then merged together as they healed.

A recent study on the novel coronavirus found that 14% of patients ended up with this honeycomb pattern as well. (They call it "ground glass opacity".) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The thing is legally it is just that black and white. If she wants sympathy or what have you that's fine but legally she has no leg to stand on - there is zero nuance there.
A couple of reasons:
1) Their "policy" does not override consumer protection laws.
2) Even if it was enforceable, when enough people call their credit card companies and request refunds it will cause so many problems for them that their "policy" will change.
Not sure where the raw data is but there seems to be various things here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Simple terminal UI for Git commands
I live in Kazakhstan and I absolutely don't trust US. I don't fully trust Kazakhstani government either, but at least I know that they won't act hostile to me. I'm not removing US CAs, because it would be absurd, but I'm actually pretty angry at Firefox blacklisting some KZ certificates without my permission (and even without clear way to manually trust it again).

IMO software must respect every country and let government to act on their citizens as they want, even if some US guy thinks that it's not OK. It's not really his business.
how else would you suggest it be done? if there can not be legally enforced contracts how can even the most basic of transactions be completed?
Is “Learning by Doing” a Myth?
> the name "/e/" is terrible. Hard to search for, hard to meaningfully verbalize, hard to interpret.

I think I read somewhere that this is a deliberately-obscure temporary codename pre-proper-branding, during initial unstable development.

That said, they've used it a lot in their branding, so I'm not sure...
> it's true that widespread use of masks is somewhat beneficial. It's also true that we don't have enough for absolutely everyone, and that health care workers being unable to procure masks would be detrimental. The question is not which is true, because both are.

But the misinformation at issue is the idea that masks don't help, not the idea that they do help.
No. Both in theory and in practice, there is burn-in time needed for people to adapt to new strategies and workflows.
This is part of an attempt to make information security risk modelling more quantitative that has been going on for a few years. There's very little in the way of data to really back most of this up, but actually putting numbers to things is significant progress IMO.
And in this way Amazon gets a lot more data and avoids the "monopoly" issue. Better optics too. But this is the only way that Amazon can get tons of data from smaller companies that they can't (don't want to) compete with (niche products or physical spaces).
It's not an example of a global PKI and worse, Estonia had to invalidate/patch everyone's e-ids once already. A hassle somewhat mitigated by the fact that fewer people live in Estonia than in the Bronx.
It is free money until Lambda School actually gets it back. It's up to Lambda School to decide the if money and/or the precedent are worth the public relations cost of fighting about it.
> Why would she violate an agreement and expose herself to legal liability if she didn't care?

Because she thought she could do it anonymously and keep the money and run? Not rocket science.

The point OP was making was that if she felt strongly about speaking out she shouldn't have signed.... and if she did sign for money to not talk she must not have felt that strongly about it.
Great thought.

At first, you made me think about how a quarantine/isolation plan could be implemented on the internet. Something that is controlled mostly by a limited number of entities.

However, what if there was a habit for individuals to "feel clean" after exposure to misinformation? Something that could be accomplished on a personal level. Like washing your hands or brushing your teeth. Something where afterward you feel like you contributed to both the community and your own wellbeing.
Pixar does, along with many other video/movie producers. There are also a lot of professional musicians and recording engineers using Macs as well. Not to mention all the developers using Macs for iOS app development. None of these activities are realistically viable on an iPad Pro. I think the real issue is OSs aren't very interesting at this point - they're mature and there isn't a lot of sexy sizzle to be added to them.
I once read that Next is much closer to regular React than Gatsby, which brings in many concepts of its own.
I think you're right and will go a step farther to say that I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if everything without a 'Pro' in the name went to ARM over a relatively short period.

Switching the Pro lines over is a tougher row to hoe, and has much higher expectations from users. I do know that Apple was playing with ARM coprocessing chips to allow for certain types of computations to be performed while in sleep mode. Perhaps the Pros will end up with both.
Yeah, not sure. I'm in Australia and people here tend to take espresso pretty seriously. I generally either see stove-top coffee makers or espresso machines.

There are probably a lot of people that use pod-based machines, but perhaps just not among my friends. (Personally I think pod-based coffee should be banned for environmental reasons.)
Update: From their FAQ page[0]:

> Why this weird, inconvenient /e/ name?

> ...

> It’s the current project codename, we will probably introduce a new and more convenient name for our mobile ROM in few months.

https://e.foundation/get-support/#faq
There Will Be WireGuard (2018)
Why would he be?

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Yes.

I learned a couple of afternoon's worth of welding (TIG and MIG, with a dash of spot) and looked at some books regarding it. I realized that I was staring into a piece of craft that would take years to actually master the nuances of, if I were even capable of it.

Very much, yes. Yes because of the probably different steels in a cruise ship versus a battleship, yes because of lifetime expectancies, yes because of stresses expected, yes because of inspection schedules. I probably don't have even a good enough sense of what is required to come up with half of where the differences would lie.
> Except for what the government steals via a death tax

Good comment overall but this is just unnecessary. I'm guessing you prefer the heirs stealing via birthchance tax? Either way, zero net change in spending (the governments also spend).
Yeah, because Casper mattresses are a solid block of foam. Way cheaper than spring mattresses, all you need is to source foam sheets, cut them, and roll them for shipment. No springs, no fabric, no filler, no construction.
It's not black magic to handle that with a capacitor or two.
500 of the top American companies is good enough for me. (S&P500)
It doesn't even need to be a special app, it could just be another Apple Wallet/Android Wallet card. If you tried the Amazon Go app, it is literally just an app that displays a QR code that you use to scan when entering the store. That's literally it, no notifications, no other extra functionality, nothing. As soon as Apple Wallet/Android Wallet integrate it, it will become even more seamless.

A good example for people familiar with electric car charing is the ChargePoint integration. I have the app, but I never open it, and I don't even really need it (as I only use it for rare circumstances where I am in an unknown area and need to find a charging spot asap). Whenever I want to charge my car at a ChargePoint station, I just open up the ChargePoint card in Apple Wallet, NFC scan it, and that's it. It already knows that the ChargePoint card is associated with my account, so I can later open the app and see how charged my car is, what's the charging rate at the moment, my billing history, etc. If I don't have the app, I can check it on the web just as well.
Out of curiosity, since I'm interested in industrial monitoring: would you mind telling a bit more about the monitoring infrastructure, esp. how often are those metrics collected and what data protocols are involved in the process?
Nice, with SSG support Next becomes basically Gatsby on drugs.
>Reddit and the media are a bit sensationalized. But at the same time, WHO/CDC only has basic info in their reports every day. Any good sources with a more optimistic tone

Listen: for the first time, the media has actually been underreporting the danger of the virus. They've been a month behind since they finally started reporting.

China shut down for 2 months - risking permanent loss of business by disrupting global supply chains.

Mecca is deserted - first time in history they've shut it down.

Italy just announced a Nationwide quarantine.

>8% of Iranian parliament is infected and two are dead

The media is not sensationalizing anything, for once. This is the real deal, this is the Black Swan, and the sooner we start preparing to isolate and/or self quarantine, the better off we'll all be.
Interesting to read:

This is what the Rocket Chemical Company figured out how to make:
a coating for Atlas missiles that prevented rust and corrosion.

since WD-40 is popular among gun enthusiasts (if not others) specifically as a cheap alternative to using other oils for rust prevention..
Four important things to consider:

First, this already happened to some extent. Outside of drives and fans, the virtually all of the power used in your system is exclusively 12v; either from the 12v pins on your ATX24 or P4 or EPS12 connectors, or via the PCI-E connectors; very little non-drive or non-fan power is supplied via 3.3 or 5v rails.

Second, almost all PSUs today use 12v DC to 3.3/5v DC converters to increase efficiency given how little 3.3v and 5v is required. The PSU itself is often designed internally as a high efficiency multi-module single rail 12v-only design.

Third, Intel is not in a position to dictate anything. Intel has tried to float many changes in the standards (such as the WTX board standard (with matching incompatible mobo plug), and the BTX board standard (using ATX plugs)), and all failed. The only thing that stuck was using 4 and 8 pin PC Minifit Jr plugs (the same ones ATX, PCI-E and countless other plugs come from); and, annoyingly, somehow not compatible with PCI-E's pinout.

Fourth, Intel is also not the dominant player in the field now, AMD is. They failed to get major changes through as the dominant player, what makes them think anyone cares to hear what they have to say today? It is unlikely AMD will ever ship machines that don't ship with normal ATX unless they just jettison the ATX24 altogether.

Side note: 12v capacity: ATX24 144w, P4 192w, EPS12 336w, PCI-E 6 75w, PCI-E 8 150w, and the PCI-E slot itself 75w.

A modern desktop could theoretically be ran off a dual EPS12 and a PCI-E 8+8 for the GPU; modern mobo designs run the CPU and RAM VRMs off the EPS12 entirely, modern GPU designs run the GPU VRMs off of PCI-E plugs and the VRAM VRMs off the PCI-E slot power, very little power of any voltage is supplied to the system via ATX24.

Another side note: Any board that has a legitimately clean 5v rail for USB is not feeding it off the PSU directly. Any board that has absolutely garbage USB power probably committed this sin.
The death rate of 3.4% as claimed is a mathematical artifact, not an estimate for “how likely am I to die if I get COVID-19”. Most knowledgeable authorities I've seen suggest reasonable estimates for that second number are 1% or lower, although admittedly that's still a much higher range than the flu.
Most desktop users would probably prefer a UPS that also ensured their monitor stayed on.
> For OP, it's a twice monthly 4 hour meeting with ALL product and engineering sr. mgrs and directors - FML

This sounds pretty dysfunctional. Is that a productive meeting?

I was involved in an "all leadership" type meeting that was heading in that direction, and then we switched to a memo based meeting.

Everyone wrote their update in a Google Doc, each team had a section. The expectation was that you read the memo before coming to the meeting.

Then we had an agenda with specific time blocks for each topic, and the expectation was that you came for the topics that were relevant to you, and it was totally acceptable to come and go in the middle.

The meeting was scheduled for three hours, but almost no one came for the entire three hours, and usually we didn't have enough topics to fill it all anyway.
Avast JavaScript Interactive Shell
> It helps to have a recession-proof skill.

Leetcoding is a much more recession-proof skill than Rust.
S&P500 has wiped out all growth from 2019 at the moment and is headed lower.
It's much different if the person being fired is pregnant (or of another protected class). The company has to go through many hoops to make sure they have valid, documented reasons to fire someone who is pregnant so as to not be misconstrued that the reason for the firing was the pregnancy.
Just spoken to an Italian friend, apparently they got a few hours notice before this was enforced (much more kept under-wraps than the previous quarantine of Northern Italy).

Expect other Western European Countries to follow this pattern as the number of cases increase [1]. I would specifically be looking at France, Spain and Germany as potential next candidates.

If people here haven't already, I would recommend not leaving your shopping to the last minute and to stock up on a few extra supplies to help not exhaust the local food-chain when people do start panic buying.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
The market is smart phones, where the market share for a linux kernel (android) is much higher.
How's he making it difficult? This is how the world has operated for millennia, pick item and pay money to cashier. Its amazon that's going to make it harder for others.
Cannot speak for the whole country, but after living in cities on both coasts, I can say it is extremely widespread. The issue is that even with 10 self-checkout stations, there will be a queue at "normal" times of the day, as there are a lot of people shopping at any "normal" time. And that's not even a particularly large store I am talking about, it is a local QFC. I spend at least 5 minutes just waiting in line every time wanting to buy something. Not even mentioning the process of scanning, bagging, etc.

One cool thing about Amazon Go is that it actually sends you an email afterwards telling you how much time you spent at the store. Without failure, my overall times range between 30 seconds and 2.5 minutes. While for a regular grocery store, I would estimate it to be at the very least 10 mins for an equivalent amount of items purchased. Maybe it is my own quirk, but it deeply annoys me to spend time doing things in an inefficient manner, whereas I know I can do them much more efficiently AND with less effort.
The market after 2008 has been on a historically low volatility and a record bull run isn't it?
I'll assume that's supposed to be a question how pets are different from kids when it comes to government-set incentives about having more or fewer of them (if it is it would have been more direct to just ask that).

First of all, arguments that we ought to have fewer kids are being made when it comes to environmental footprint. But even ignoring that the the birth rate is already below replacement rate. So unlike pets the government does not exactly have to go out of its way to incentivize people to have fewer of them. Then there's the issue that for society to continue to work we have to keep up the inter-generational contract, so at a larger scale having children is a basic need for society while pets are not.

And last but not least this conversation is not about forbidding pets or children but factoring in externalties so people can make better resource tradeoffs, perhaps they could still have a kid or a pet but decide it's too costly to have both or abstain from some other luxuries to afford either. In that regard children and pets are similar.
A quick summary: Avast antivirus, which runs as the super-privileged "SYSTEM" user on Windows, includes a poorly secured javascript interpreter.
Maybe for a lot of things, but I've seen plenty of SSDs that only need 5v power, and I've never seen one that only needed 12v.
I could never figure out how Java is in any sense halfway to Lisp.

Python, maybe.
I don't think we can say it's good or bad without context. Hiring skilled immigrants at a lower price might enable a company to compete for contracts with overseas companies with cheaper labor, thereby making the company, it's shareholders, and by extension the nation, money that it would have otherwise not have gotten.

I think the "populist vs. globalist" dichotomy as is often used in our political discourse today is far too reductive and not descriptive of reality, if not for society at large then definitely for HN.
Maybe they want to match some revenue with expenses?
A $60B Housing Grab by Wall Street
Change in subscribers per language sub-Reddit over the last two years
cytokines storm in only one of the many ways coronavirus can kill, lungs failure, trachea obstruction from mucus, are others.
For me its not the code/language that is un-intelligable (all code would require me to stop and try to brain interpret it); but the fact that the article at least to me refers to too many things at once. Talking about dependency handling, using data structures with dispatch vs direct function calls, data types for errors vs exceptions, expressions, etc makes the article dense to read and hard to skim.

Many programmers have used these techniques even outside FP and would be able to understand it one concept at a time - they aren't advanced concepts to me. It's more that it isn't "easy reading"; but it seems its for an internal audience with assumed background knowledge.
Then again, why not shorter hours? Matt Levine writes about this occasionally:

> We talk occasionally about proposals to shorten the stock trading day from its current 6.5 hours (in the U.S.) to, say, half an hour. The idea is partly that traders would have more time to spend with their families and dogs and hobbies, but one shouldn’t overestimate that. Really what it means is that you have 23.5 hours a day to ponder information and synthesize it into stock-price views, and then half an hour to trade stocks based on those views. The big advantage is that anyone who might want to buy stocks can pay attention to the stock market for that half an hour, so the liquidity during that half-hour should be pretty good. When the trading day is 6.5 hours, sometimes no one’s around when things happen, and you have to shut the market down for a bit to call everyone back in. But I don’t think that’s quite what happened this morning.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-09/stuff-...
I think people want to live in a world where breaking a contract is a serious moral quandary. The notion of an oath is old, and has seemingly always resonated as sacred. It's one of those lawful aspects of society that make people feel safer and more capable of trust.
Whilst accusations without evidence can be problematic, you don't see the irony in asking someone to violate NDAs in a discussion about how willing this company is to sue people to prevent them violating NDAs?
>you can’t gain any advantage over the market that overcome your transaction costs

I know this is the predominant efficient market adage but is there a case to be made for low volatility portfolios outperforming the market over long periods? [1]

I’m curious especially now that most online brokers have significantly reduced trade costs on ETFs

[1] https://archivefda.dlib.nyu.edu/jspui/bitstream/2451/29593/2...
> streaming Internet Video that is Free to End Users

Yeah, doesn't sound like that would include Netflix, etc. Nor would it include a huge amount of other video that is distributed in other ways. It also doesn't cover using your computer to encode h.264 like your webcam almost certainly does.

The fact is you probably have several h.264 enabled devices on your computer right now that are licensed. And just because Cisco is covering the cost for it's open source encoder doesn't mean the license doesn't exist.

My feeling is if HEVC wins the race it will be the same. 90% of people won't even notice since your license will be included in your hardware/OS without you ever knowing.