skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it needs real consequences for companies who let that happen.

Companies are ran by business people who often aren't technically literate, or are at a high level, or have become detached from it, and so they hire and pay people who lay claim to expertise knowledge to create these systems.

Why stop at the companies?

Engineers ultimately allowed this, and other such breaches, to happen. We've seen auto engineers in Germany being taken to task over fudging numbers for emissions tests, what if we held software engineers to the same level of liability when their creations result in people's data being stolen?
Do ISOs and other large blob types support only partial (block) modification? Wouldn't all subsequent blocks change too?
I'd expected some training required for each separately so we've got a decent collection of voice examples. Some of us mix languages within a sentence but that's a bad habit anyway so unsupported. I don't see figuring out the language as being a problem as my proof-of-concept already handles that well enough with around 90% accuracy. Once its selected a language then the appropriate model can be used. To make it fast we'd likely just keep the whole thing in RAM. Might need more however.

The issue I see with talon is its currently mac only. That would however still help one of us who lives on wheels (got a 16" macbook IIRC and a mac mini as well). Different set of use-cases so things would be more relaxed.

I see some hints about a linux version however. I've got windows / linux VMs on the server but no other macs. GPUs will be installed soon when I decom some old gaming rigs.

Plenty to think about.
This is mostly my experience. I'm 18 and a lot of the people that go to my school only know how to use social media, and come to me when they need tech help. My closer friends are more tech literate, but they still come running to me when they need help with something more complicated. I supposed I should be happy that they even have interest in getting help. Most would just give up.
Yes. Schweppes is my go to drink.
Anyone who calls you stupid for being vigilant and preparing for the worse, are just as likely to call you stupid for not preparing if disaster does strike. It looks like many people prefer to be stupid and fed, than stupid and hungry.
lol it sounds more on the insane side to me. you have to have a thought out plan to protect the vulnerable and do exposure in "phases", but has that ever been done ever?

and even if you are young and healthy why would you knowingly expose yourself to something that, while wouldn't kill you could put you in a life threatening situation, regardless. i know there are probably way more statistical higher ways to die, but there's a reason i don't go rubbing my face in a sick co-workers hand. even the flu symptoms are no joke.

i've heard that there's a chance of re-infection, but not sure how accurate that is.
I'm all for brass, as long as it's one of the lead-free alloys.
That reads like a badly-translated press release. I don’t buy it.
I have Lazarus IDE running in Raspberry Pi just fine for one of my fun projects
Meson supports CMake subprojects:
https://mesonbuild.com/CMake-module.html#cmake-subprojects
At a larger level, "hurting the economy" may be the best thing to happen in a long time for (1) the environment, e.g. clean air, (2) family time, (3) cutting out some useless activities that go on due to sheer inertia, like formula-1, olympics, auto shows, most conventions, etc., (4) give people and societies a chance to slow down, think through things and refactor a system that was running full speed towards the wall anyway.
i do not doubt that there art parts of sweden with significant diversity; it still pales in comparison with america, one of the most diverse nations in history
Ask HN: Why didn’t SARS spread like Covid-19?
I recently read an article from Bloomberg claiming that SARS was more contagious (3.0 vs 2.8 RO) than COVID-19. If this is true, why were there only 8,000 cases? Here is the link: https://www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/how-bad-is-the-coronavirus-let-s-compare-with-sars-ebola-flu
> Who owns SuperTux?

«SuperTux» game title is copyrighted:

> Copyright © 2003-2020 The SuperTux Team[0]

Its source code licensed under GNU GPLv3, so everyone could fork it & BUT naming own forks as «SuperTux» (OR creating any game from scratch and name it «SuperTux»; including usage of «SuperTux» title in any 3rd-party promoting materials without permission) IS PROHIBITED.[1]

[0] https://www.supertux.org/discover.html

[1] https://github.com/pelya/supertux/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Shut up you, every problem has a simple clever solution!\s
Exactly how mine works. Each language uses a different trigger. Simple.

Even then it can misinterpret so plenty of room for improvement. My quick POC is around 90% accurate for language detection based on the trigger word.
>Under the assumption everyone will get infected anyway

Under that assumption you presumably have no choice? The question is whether that is a good assumption
Coronavirus vs. the human immune system: the brutal microscopic war for survival
Ugh, I hate it when readme's have zero useful information; and literally only a way to cite them as a source... this is a big problem with C++ libraries. I 100% think the author(s) deserve credit for their work, and I'm sure it's brilliant, but I'll never use your work if I don't know what it does.

How does this compare to anything other than being fast? Why should I use it? Can't you include a few examples, use cases, or reasons why it exists? Is it in memory, distributed, on disk... when is it fast? Does it have a binary I can run?

[clicks around documentation site]

... oh shit there is a binary of something, maybe multiple... how about showing those on the readme? Or maybe talk about what algorithms are actually implemented instead of just saying lots of them are.
Global Officials Call for Free Access to Covid-19 Research
The moral (and financial) reasons to self-isolate
> the deaths of thousands or more

More like a million deaths assuming 50% UK infected and 2% death rate.
Merging threads?
Why Charcoal? in 100 lines or less or more
As a former IT industry analyst who tended towards being a generalist--and has a somewhat similar role today--there's a tension that I've often discussed with people.

On the one hand, my personal preferences just tend to being more generalist. And I think that can inform opinions and understanding whereas extreme specialists can often have such blinders that they really miss broader context.

On the other hand, go too broad and you know a little bit about a lot of different things. And you really have very little background in any individual area to, for example, push back against BS claims.
Appealing, but a coin the weight of a UK penny made of 18-carat gold would be worth a bit over 130 USD. Not sure how practical that would be for buying a hot dog.
You can't "do studies on them after". These aren't studies for the sake of publishing papers but to determine whether or not the drug is safe to use and whether it is actually effective.

If the drug or vaccine you are developing ends up killing more people than saving it is not much of a cure, is it?

The same if the drug isn't effective - in that case it would be wasting critical resources and probably causing the sick to not get a really effective treatment.

That said, this process will be certainly sped up to maximum amount possible, given the situation, but it will still take a long time.
That's why US has HARM missle. First operation is to send in aircraft along the "fringes" with HARM missle to take out any and all radar sites. Then, enemy fighters don't have such radar to detect stealth US aircraft.
Doom Running on SYNC3 via SmartDeviceLink
>multiple RF detection stations with synchronized clocks, to determine the difference in arrival time. The radio emissions all travel at the same speed through the air, the difference in arrival time can be used with some simple trig to figure out where the RF emitter is.

That's a fancy way to say 'triangulation'.
i embarrassingly didn’t read the body, and I am also ignorant of those things i’ll be reading this thread again , thank you.
According to the growth rates along the exponential curve, it seems more like a week or two than a month.
The handlebars are also out in the sun. I'd think that subjects them to the UV light needed to kill any of the nasty stuff; but I could be wrong.
From: http://charcoal-lang.org/index.html

Excerpt:

"Charcoal is a programming language project. Its defining characteristics are:

o Charcoal is a C dialect

o Mostly source-compatible with C

o Calling C from Charcoal and vice-versa works with minimal fuss

o Follows the "C philosophy"

o Charcoal makes the design and implementation of interactive/ reactive/ asynchronous/ concurrent software more accessible to application programmers"
Corona Virus Response by the People for the People
Already on it :)
SK does 10.000 tests per day with test kits which they could quickly produce but which involve a lot of manual steps and hence man power. You could replace all that with 2.5 of these huge Roche machines. So for really high throughput you absolutely need those huge machines, everything else simply does not scale.
Of course you need a stockpile of reagents, but manual test kits need these as well and AFAIK those are fairly standard.
Killing older population will provide £350M/weekly for the NHS and decrease financial gap between generations.
Unless, oh I don't know, you test for the disease.
I don't understand all the negativity and downvotes around Trump's actions.

They are holding press conferences daily. Adjusting to the situation. Daily. He has changed course multiple times regarding his position on things.

Fail fast and course correct. That's the whole "agile" thing, and it seems to me the country is doing a pretty damn decent job of it.

Testing has been the main shortfall so far in our response. It's getting fixed as we speak. That should make people happy.

I saw a clip today of the Surgeon General basically saying "Stop nitpicking and start helping." This is a national emergency. Time to start acting like it.
DISCLOSURE: Just a PSA, it's a work under progress, and you're all invited to contribute or to fork it.
Death of thousands or more???

You are living in some pleasant fantasy!

Back in reality, the UK wants to infect about a cool 40M people (for the herd immunity!). Last I heard they expect 50% (20M) to get it in a 3 week interval. Meanwhile they have about 4k ICU beds, which are at close to capacity already. Assuming cocooning works so great that only 3% of people need urgent care (rather than a more likely 5-10%) and only for one week on average (again, unlikely!), that's 200k people for 4k beds for a period of 3 weeks. Surely the fatality rate for those 3% is going to be way over 60%. At which point you have close to half a million dead in those 3 weeks alone.

I'd like to see numbers for a realistic scenario where this strategy does not result in something in the millions of deaths.
No. It’s dumb asf.

It’ll last like 2 days.

Here’s the EIC of The Lancet:

https://twitter.com/richardhorton1/status/123814984490619290...
So how we debug the code? I mean other than various form of logging/dump.
I see myself as a generalist (a guy called me “wideband” once, found it very descriptive). I have heard so many times that I am on the wrong, and so many times I am the right, that I stopped worrying.

It is like the old question whether eggs are part of a healthy diet or not.
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17897685
The uncomfortable truth is, the British government have weighted cost and benefit, and they have decided, the death of thousands or more is not worth the cost of near-absolute lockdown of a country, It might lead to total breakdown of the economy, full-recession, and that may cost more lives anyway.

And so begins the Great Reaping. Get rid of the old and the sick, so the nation can move on, freed of the burden of caring for an elderly population that consumes but does not produce.
The honest answer is that I don't know. Perhaps I generalised too readily before, given Taiwan is quite a bit closer to the UK in population than the other two.

Even so, assuming that strategies that appear to have been relatively successful in a smaller, more densely populated country will necessarily also work in a larger and less densely populated one seems to be dubious. We know that we don't have the resources we'd need to implement that strategy in the UK right now, and I haven't personally seen any experts arguing that it's a viable option for us, so I'm cautious about extrapolating too much here.
Ask HN: Engagement Selfacare Mobile Apps?
Hi

I'm working in a company that provides energy, insurance and broadband to consumers. We've just launched a mobile selfcare app - and are looking for baseline numbers in terms of engagement.

My theory is that in we can't really compare our engagement to the engagement of mainstream consumer apps like Facebook, TikTok, Spotify etc. As there is no reason for a consumer to user our app every day.

Currently users can see their bills (usually billed monthly), manage their subscriptions, see their energy usage, chat with customer service etc.

Do you have any comparable numbers on expected engagement of a consumer selfcare app?

Thanks in advance!
No, Trump did not "cut the CDC budget" either.

No, he only proposed cutting the CDC budget. Luckily, saner minds prevailed.
The talon beta is on windows/linux/mac. I was recommending wav2letter directly instead of talon specifically because you mentioned thin clients, and I'm not really targeting something like headless raspberry pis yet.

I mostly mentioned wav2letter@anywhere because it could handle a bunch of audio streams centrally, so you can stream from 16 pis to a central box, and it's very accurate.
Covid-19 World Statistics – A Perspective with Less Panic
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm says (of the current US flu season): "CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 36 million flu illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations and 22,000 deaths from flu."

If 50% of the 36 million flu illnesses had a fever, and the flu season is 23 weeks long (the records start in 201940), and the flu lasts for one week, then that's over 750,000 people each week with a fever, on average.

That number far outweighs the current numbers for people with COVID-19 symptoms, so gives a large false-negative signal in the current situation.

As the number of cases increase, the signal-to-noise ratio changes. But at some point, specialized per-person notification is no better than general advice to the entire population.

You mention that the numbers for flu/colds "seem to be going down in countries with lockdowns."

FWIW, it's also going down in the US without lockdowns. That's because we are approaching the end of the flu season. See the CDC chart just under the text "In the most recent three weeks, influenza A viruses are the most commonly reported influenza viruses in all age groups." in my earlier link.
Stop it. This is bigger than Brexit.
A new decade, a new tool
Seriously. I think their comment is good example of patting themselves on the back for their interests while being completely wrong about reality.

I happened to run my own phpbb/vbulletin forums as a kid and I can confidently say I was the only kid even close to doing that in my high school. I also didn't need to know anything to do it except press buttons on CPanel and phpmyadmin, things I didn't really understand. And I was scared to tell other guys at school about this stuff because I'd be an instant loser. Even in uni I rarely met anyone with those interests.

Meanwhile, these days, it's completely cool to spin up your own Discord server for your friends. It's totally mainstream to be into that sort of thing. Even gaming is cool now. And there's more kids these days doing more of what the grandparent post glamorizes because it's more accessible than ever.

I'd be surprised if grandparent commenter was even working off any real experience with modern kids and instead just wanted to glamorize their own nostalgia. I mean, surely modern kids aren't as cool as he was.
A pilot severely limits the kinds of maneuver the craft can perform, where the craft can be deployed from, etc.
This is actually surprisingly cheap. My guess is the real margin is in the tests itself, which you must buy from Roche as well.
"My question, restated, is what part of the US constitution do you think prohibits anti-gouging laws?"

You specifically claimed that these were state laws and thus were not subject to federal constitutional limits, which is absurdly wrong. Why you would even inject that, and then strangely start spinning in a different direction, is left for one to wonder.

Then again, you also grotesquely misrepresented my post, so I understand your comment has zero sincerity and instead you're just stomping your feet and saying "gouging bad!" despite agreement by all parties.

As to your "I did a Google search" --

Again, convictions. John Shepperson was not convicted. No one is EVER convicted. Anyone who contests the fines see them dissolved. It's a feel good for stupid people.
I'd recommend this if you added the rate of growth per day in percent (between 30-40% worldwide additional cases per day, applying also to deaths per day).

E.g.:

2020-03-14: 0.0019%

2020-03-21: 0.02% ( = 0.0019% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-03-28: 0.21% ( = 0.21% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-04-03: 2.22% ( = 2.22% * (1,4 ^ 7))

2020-04-10: 23.43% ( = 23.43% * (1,4 ^ 7))

etc.

(Assuming a constant daily growth rate of 40%, which will probably decrease due to deaths of hosts).
Small drones will never be banned by international treaty. There is zero chance of that.
Sure that sounds sensible. There will be many variations on responses to this, it’s too early to say which worked best.
Mechanical discs are pretty cheap now and quite effective. I've had both. They're all better than canti-s
It's far too early to say whether they're doing great. Several months too early. Their lockdowns are preventing virus spread now, but at some point, the lockdowns will end, and then there is a vulnerable population waiting to be infected by a carrier coming from abroad. Will they be able to keep carriers out? Will they be able to respond to further outbreaks with more lockdowns indefinitely? Will there be a vaccine soon enough that they can protect everyone and then end the lockdowns before it all goes wrong?

I don't know enough to say that the UK strategy is correct (i hope it is - i live here, and more importantly, so do my parents). But i think the situation isn't cut and dried.

Hopefully, we will get a lot more detail in the next few days, and then the real experts can come to a consensus.
Addressed by the next bit in my post: force developers to list their queries in the info plist. Only allow those queries. Validate that the query list is not malicious during app review.
>No, he only proposed cutting the CDC budget. Luckily, saner minds prevailed.

Presidents do not pass the budget; Congress does, under the Constitution. The annual President-proposed budget is just that, a starting point from which to negotiate from. Both the House (currently controlled by Democrats) and Senate (Republicans) have to pass it.

If you criticize the president for starting out with a proposal for cutting the CDC budget (and for most other agencies), why not also praise him for signing the final budget that raised its budget?
I think the tendency of generalists is to specialize into a kind of faith in abstract principles, processes and structures that cross domains.

As kids, we mostly learn "do what we're told" because it becomes clear early on that the adults know a lot more than we do. And so by the late teens we are in some degree specialised into the ideals of the previous generation. And then we go out into the world and have to adapt. And that's a space where the specific advices we were given start failing spectacularly, but not for everyone all the time.

In this light, generalists have the quality of survivors: Facing some adversity to any particular pursuit, they aimed to lower their overall risk.
Looks slick, seems to work real well on mobile too. Good work!

I noticed when creating a private room there's no auth, would it be possible to have something simple even like a shared password so you need something more than just the link to join? Also would it be possible to make it request audio and/or video access by default when joining, rather than making it a user action?
I've seen two reasons named:

a) SARS had a shorter incubation period, so people got seriously ill and isolated quicker

b) The virus now is a lot more present in the upper respiratory system, even before symptoms appear, and thus spread more easily during the longer unrecognized period, whereas if you were highly contagious for SARS you also were quite sick already
I LOVE IT!
thought this was about Bernie Sanders lol.
Let's practise binary reverse engineering during corona isolation time
I added a new chapter, a Linux binary basic reverse engineering knowhow is shared in one practical example, to motivate young folks who get isolated due to corona pandemic, to use their time to learn a cool stuff!
The direct url to newly-added chapter is:

https://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2020/02/mmd-0065-2021-linuxmirai-fbot-re.html#echoloader
You are trying to help, but you will get a lot of false positives, and it will cause more problems.

Lot of test are useful if you can vaccine all the people that meet the (false) positives cases, and all the people that meet the people that meet the (false) positives. This is a vaccination rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_vaccination but there are no vaccines for now.

Another possibility is to quarantine all that people for two weeks just in case, but if someone disagree you must convince the police to enforce that, and hopefully the police is following the advice of the CDC and want an official test.
If you're suspicious of the numbers of China, why would you not be suspicious when they said they 'controlled' the spread? I mean the press has all but forgotten about China and focused on the global spread, so there's probably less information being reported from China. Unless I had some good evidence apart from China state news sources (which is pretty much where this info is coming from), I would remain suspicious.
That's the upper bound on the fatality rate if it infected the whole population. In actuality not even Hubei had 0.1% of the population infected, so the numbers will be higher if it mostly infects older people (Italy), and lower if it mostly infects younger people (South Korea).
Xojo: Cross Platform Basic
Ask HN: Any GitHub Gist Alternative?
Probably with more theme options.
I am not knowledgeable enough to endorse/criticise the plan. But watching the various statements yesterday by the government/scientists it's clear that they do plan for lockdown, just not yet. But it's fully expected in the coming weeks.
Sorry but please try to use something in an ecosystem before you bash it. Little of what you're saying is true in the least.

CDP owners the only buyers of DAI?! DAI is on every dex, with pairs for a ton of assets. Try out Uniswap...
Today, it is very risky unless you pivot out of the engineering part of your job. Companies are investing in output, not people today. Old school companies invested more in the people side back in the olden times.

A friend of mine from high school is a brilliant person and a very successful manufacturing/process engineer in a specific semiconductor manufacturing process. Whatever it was, industry moved away from it, and he found himself completely unemployable, and at an age where he couldn't get hired as a junior, even at a 50-75% compensation reduction.

He's doing great now, selling real estate and insurance.
Yes, and excellent point! Thanks for pointing that out. Considering we're not all able to completely stop all action outside the house, it's all about reducing & minimizing risk surface, just like with computer security where zero risk is not possible, risk profile can be reduced.