skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is it illegal to charge for scraping ads off?
"Death to ads" ideas:

1.
Likely illegal? (reselling copyrighted content):

Service scrapes sites, cleans up content, removes tracking-ware and gives paid access to clean, sanitized content.

Service charges $25/mo to access.

www.wsj.com/coronavirus/ -> www.scrapingcorp.com/wsj/coronavirus/

2.
Likely legal? (work for hire):

I hire someone to scrape news sites of my interest and create clone of this to my own, password-protected domain for my own access.

I pay $25/mo to guy/company to do that for me.

www.wsj.com/coronavirus/ -> www.mydomain.com/wsj/coronavirus/

#2 likely will violate TOS of some site but that doesn't mean it's illegal.

Loophole is that provider of #1 will be doing #2 as well.

Opinions?
Are you talking about recognizing multiple languages at once (e.g. you don't know which language the user will speak and you want it to react appropriately to all of them)? You're going to have a harder time doing that with any system, but it is possible. You would likely need to run multiple models and pick between their output, or train a specialized separate model that can classify the language, then use it to pick the model.

I haven't personally tested wav2letter with other languages yet. I know zamia-speech trained a german model, and some users have been talking about training for other languages. I've been helping someone who is training several other languages and they've reported great success as well.

If you want to make a new model from scratch in any language, you'll probably want a couple hundred hours of transcribed speech for it, but it doesn't need to be your own speech. Common Voice is a good data source for that.
I think it does, you don't wait a week to put out a fire, it gets worse. China has essentially contained it already. Maybe alternating lockdowns and releases we might be able to keep it manageable until there's a vaccine.

This is not hard to model once there are a few cases in a population, again IMO.
Here is a link to the Coronavirus Action Plan on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-actio...

I would suggest anyone read this and other official publications before any Twitter thread to understand the UK government's approach to the virus. Large, complex decisions are hopefully not made off of a few hundred word summary of the situation.
It's worth noting that the same developer has free tools for desktop (Java) and Raspberry Pi applications, and a paid tool for iOS.

All of these use the same dialect of BASIC, and I believe they can use (but don't have to) a cross-platform GUI.
I don’t doubt it but statistically New York has a very high average commute time compared to other American cities.
Hah, your timing is great. My lease is up for renewal, I've already toured some other alternatives, and I'm trying to decide right now (like maybe today) whether I want to put in an application.

The expense and hassle are both significant, but being away from that noise would be pretty nice. It's interesting to hear the perspective of someone with firsthand knowledge of the situation.

One thing I realized in this process is that you can find quiet and you can find walkability, but if you want both, that's way more difficult.

Also, in my experience, the loudest vehicles are all that way due to aftermarket modifications. And they're probably breaking noise laws that already exist but just aren't enforced.
Since people frequently miss this point, the population of Iceland is approximately the same as the Kalamazoo, MI metro area.
I mean, I'm a professional software developer (among other things), and when I'm commuting in highly populated areas on regional trains, the quality of Canada's telecommunications networks, the most expensive in the world to subscribers, is so extremely poor that SMS is the most reliable way to reach me during that time. It is pure luck that my workplace isn't in a deadzone for LTE or even 3G strong enough even to refresh Hacker News.

SMS is absolutely necessary for me, I still have a basic GSM phone for phone calls and SMS because it is more reliable than current stuff and has a month of standby time.
I do understand the mathematical thinking you're employing here, and if it were an abstract situation I'd be there with you.

There's a pretty prevalent model for Risk Communication that compares the actual hazard (how bad something will be if it happens) against a person's outrage (how bad a person thinks a thing will be).

When the prevalent authority communicates risk in a way that lowers a person's outrage too low you can get inaction (like a president saying "don't worry" or “I think that whole situation will start working out.")

When the prevalent authority communicates risk in a way that raises a person's outrage (like surprising a population who were told to ignore a situation by then banning travel, closing borders and telling people we don't have testing capacity) you can get very strong reactions.

It's good when outrage matches hazard, that's where we want to be. But when hazard is, say, in the middle, and outrage is raised above that, you can end up with people feeling like they desperately need things.

At this point, they throw whatever money they have to at the things in order to mitigate their perceived hazard, and that's where opportunists and gougers come in. These people aren't acting rationally (they're perceiving a higher hazard than is real) and are vulnerable to ignoring market conditions in that "a free market works when both parties have perfect knowledge" sort of way.

So understanding this, we take actions that kneecap the unrestricted free market, because it doesn't have compassion and we want to be compassionate toward our neighbors that got too freaked out for their own good.

No one should try and take advantage of a vulnerable party, and it's a good thing to have safeguards against that.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes :D

Wish I had thought more about my title now.. ugh
I find it ironic that this is behind a paywall. My default policy is to just find the article elsewhere.
Why does a blog post require 14 sources of javascript?

Will await a mirror.
Gastornis
The primary reason why other countries go into a lockdown is to prevent their strained healthcare systems from collapsing.

It's not just sick people who can't get a hospital bed. It's everyone else too. People who get heart attacks, strokes, accidents, other illnesses,...

A lock down is NOT meant to stop the virus in its tracks. It's meant to slow the infection rate and avoid hospitals and health care centers from getting swamped.

Any chart about China and Italy published thus far shows how the infection rate thus far grows exponentially. As such, the most impactful time to perform a lock down isn't next week or in 10 days. It is NOW.

The "herd immunity" strategy isn't a strategy. By the time this is over, the population will have achieved "herd immunity" regardless of how this will have played out. What matters is where we would like society to end up 6 months down the line: a relatively preserved, functional society with low mortality; or a dysfunctional one where likely anyone of this forum will have lost loved ones.
Yeah, there's an annoying genre of videos that's just a dude in his basement talking to his webcam for an hour. Not only is the format low information density, but you can't even extract the key bits by skimming through it.
Thank you for recommending these! Our problems is not related to Lambda functions though, they can run for minutes. It is the API Gateway that shuts the connection after 30 seconds.
We might just need to build our own web server.
Car oil can get additives that motorcycles cannot get because the engine and transmission share oil. Friction modifier can extend effective oil lifespan. 600 hp also requires e85.
The main reason is that Europeans realize that you don't need one. If they actually need to haul a bunch of stuff, they'll buy a cargo van.
Czech Passive Radar Detecting B-2 at 150 miles (2015)
Mostly, do you know of a single procedural language with a concept of IO monads in its stdlibs?
He really does take it to another level though. Take his attitude towards engagement with Cuba. During his campaign he flipped, flopped, flipped again then flopped again all within a few weeks. Some of the reversals were literally on consecutive days, it just depended who he was talking to at the time.
> What doesn't help improve our probabilities nor mesh with my personal philosophy is giving criticisms with either no alternatives or no position statement of what you believe is an acceptable protocol going forward.
Besides the technique, it’s also important to use the right kind of lacing cord. A current standard in telecommunications is nine-ply waxed polyester twine, traditionally in white or natural color.

In aerospace, flat-braided lacing tape is sometimes used, in aramid (Nomex), glass fiber, or other materials suitable for more demanding conditions.
Nice to see a CMake guide here, but I don't see any discussion of generators at a cursory glance, even in the "IDEs" section.

CMake is used a lot in embedded development with large or cross-platform projects, like an RTOS or the famous ESP-IDF.

Unfortunately, the embedded development space is a messy hodge-podge of IDEs. There are shiny commercial ones like Keil which support most kinds of devices, but most vendors also provide a free Eclipse-based option which targets their chips, and there are usually flavors of GCC for the adventurous.

CMake does have a nice way to add support for a new IDE or compiler in a modular way; you write a "generator":

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators....

My pet peeve is, it seems like nobody does that. Instead, they try to re-write all of the logic which generates build files either using CMake's internal logic, or one-off scripts which get called from CMake.

If (for example) Espressif provided a CMake generator for their style of `xtensa-elf-gcc` Makefiles, everybody could use that to quickly add build support for ESP32s to their CMake systems. What they use now doesn't seem to be very easy to re-use. Ditto for companies like ST/TI/Microchip/etc; if they provided CMake generators for their Eclipse IDEs, people wouldn't have to keep re-inventing the wheel and making it square-shaped.

It makes me dread using embedded libraries that use CMake-based build systems, even though I really like CMake as a cross-platform build system.
Good for you. We know the government-sponsored ISP monopolies/duopolies here suck. It's incredibly naive to think that this fact is lost on us.
I'm not sure what ideology you are alluding to but that statement is correct, it's impossible for me to not see things through my lense, it's the only one i've got.I'm not by any means saying that countries should do away with their sovereignty in the name on internationalism but the article does state that the cooperation between countries and sharing of knowledge is also being closed with the borders.

Marxist catastrophism? Never heard of it, but it very clear that the dogma of modern neoliberalism calls all other ideologies or opposing thoughts marxist. Is it not possible to critique our current system without being called a marxist? Marx wanted the means of production in the hands of the workers. I couldn't care less, I just want to be able to live in a society that has the ability to address problems that or not profitable in the short run. What should I call myself?
Trump announces Google coronavirus website, shocks Google
Maybe use hand sanitizer
This article does a better job than most, but I think still only half-asses the thought process necessary to logically reason about COVID.

The naive or “known” CFR is the fatality rate to-date divided by the number of positive tests to date.

For example, China at one point decided to consider a large number of people as positive cases based on purely clinical symptoms because they didn’t have the test capacity or specificity to definitively diagnose them. Which is why their case count gapped up one day.

The CFR after all cases have concluded is an upper bound on the IFR. There seems to be no true consensus on the percentage of asymptomatic or very mild cases which would not seek treatment or even testing. This number (which is basically unknowable during an outbreak) is a multiplier on the case count, and acts to reduce the true IFR.

Lastly, as we’ve seen quite clearly... How bad it is depends almost entirely upon the person, or at a higher level, the demographics of the people who are infected.

Italy as of March 11;

> Of the patients who died, 42·2% were aged 80–89 years, 32·4% were aged 70–79 years, 8·4% were aged 60–69 years, and 2·8% were aged 50–59 years (those aged >90 years made up 14·1%). The male to female ratio is 80% to 20% with an older median age for women (83·4 years for women vs 79·9 years for men).

Likewise, the outbreak in a WA nursing home was devastating to an elderly population where they would see 5-10 patients die in an average month.

IMO the path forward is either successful containment—which seems extremely unlikely given the transmission characteristics, but apparently China was able to do it? But where you constantly have to be watching for pockets of reemergence and clamp them down.

Or, if we can keep the virus away from high-risk populations while it spreads “like a flu” through the majority of the population, then you will see herd immunity kick in which ultimately works like a vaccinated population to prevent further outbreak and protect the at-risk population from ever becoming infected.

[1] - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Yep. When I was 2 my parents got an old computer from my uncle's business that he was replacing and set it up in their living room for me. I was learning the command line as a toddler. I'm certainly no guru, but that kind of formative experience was certainly a big part of my choosing this career path. Kids of today grow up with ipads and iphones and have no cause to go poking around and experimenting with the basic functionality of their computers.
Ansible doesn't install a runtime on the target machine, it temporarily copies over the scripts that do the work and removes them after the run is complete. These are a few kilobytes typically.

No configuration system is likely to work with a full root partition, though.
Yes, people seem to be taking against these mediums now that they are exposing the pitfalls of their own political delusions. Turns out multiculturalism was stupid thing to impose upon a country. Turns out immigration has negative effects. Turns out the "democratisation" of media means those people you thought you could ignore can not be ignored. Must be the website! stop it! regulate the website!
Folding in Vim
Not totally true, a honda CRF450 for example has separate crank case and transmission oil
I love P4 for just working, but I absolutely can't stand the limited shelving ability. I ended up writing a helper program that lets me shuffle local changes off to a git repo just so I could manage working on several overlapping changelists. Perforce would be so much more usable if they would include this sort of basic functionality right out of the box. The thing git gets right is that you often need to juggle several threads of change at the same time, and those threads may have complex branching as you try out different approaches and combine the best pieces at the end.
That's why designing the actual program is important. Also, static and strong typing for powerful refactoring plus extensive tests, and you can refact that Dragon class into something new.
And while I do agree with you, I think it is not OOP that's bad but the programmer doesn't understand when to do inheritence vs composition etc
"If there was a way to build a 3cyl SUV, I'm sure someone would have done it by now."

Ford's new Escape has a 1.5L turbo I-3 on the base model.

And Ford also used to have a 1.0L turbo I-3 in some models of Fiesta and/or Focus, although it was kind of obscure and may have only come with a manual transmission (in the US).
reddit.com/r/mmt_economics

Not a book, I know but there are a lot of articles and resources in the sidebar, including a list of academic papers on the inner workings of money/monetary systems. Search for "MMT Foundations" within that subreddit to find those.
Obligatory:

https://imgur.com/Lf6QHcw

Get a First Life.
The link https://app.jogl.io/project/121#about doesn't go anywhere anymore. And there are no results for "ventilator" in the app.jogl.io search.
Haha I was thinking the exact same!
>Damnit, just let me gouge! You can do something about it once I've cashed out!

No thanks. I'd prefer inflicting a social cost to disincentivize the behavior in light of the taint on one's reputation for doing it.
Red Wheelbarrow, Revisited
does 'hacker' 'news' now need constant reminding that donald frequently contradicts everyone, including himself?
Considering this is HN, there is enough engineering brainpower to build open source clones of this. Biology is not the same as electronics, it is closer to software in the sense that a lot of things can be easily (for some definition of easy) cloned once you figure out how it works. The only difference is that biology is slow and expensive and takes a lot of equipment.

Caveats: getting to Roche level of throughput and scale would be tricky with just Arduinos and off the shelf stuff and there are some magic numbers that you will have to figure out through experimentation. Building a usable machine just for a small number of people is not that tricky if you have e.g. 5 bio and 5 CS/EE people working on getting a design shipped.
2020 Minnesota All Hockey Hair Team
I like tomp's comment from a few days ago, feels like the UK playing a game theory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22555643

1) no pandemic, no action -> government was "right", avoided wasting money -> reelected

2) no pandemic, action -> government was "wrong", wasted a lot of money, damaged the economy, inconvenienced the lives of the population -> voted out

3) pandemic, no action -> government was "wrong", caused loss of lives and damaged the economy -> voted out

4) pandemic, action - this is the trickiest scenario, so let's consider two options:

4a) pandemic, action, it works -> government was "right", saved lives, spared the economy -> reelected

4b) pandemic, action, doesn't work -> government was "wrong", their actions failed, they're incompetent -> voted out
"in 2025 one kWh of batteries will probably cost only $50"

https://xkcd.com/605/
Mirror: http://archive.md/fyPMl
I wonder if we’d be better off if we donated to library collections of audiobooks, films, and music rather than subscribing to Audible, Netflix, and Spotify?
> Ignorance is no longer an excuse.

Nor is it justification for the leak. It may be unwise to share sensitive data online but people aren't going to stop doing it just because it's not a good idea; it needs real consequences for companies who let that happen.
No, you are misinformed. For rosetta there is neither a version 7.14.2 (that would be BOINC) nor are there any GPU projects.
the continuously variable valves is the key here, you can have the engine make good power at very high rpm, AND very low rpm, AND in between.
You can be a petrolhead -- among other like-minded petrolheads, in designated areas where you don't bother other people who simply have no choice whether or not they are subjected to your "taste". It's similar to smokers being inconsiderate and blowing smoke onto non-smoking persons. If I'm a "metalhead", that doesn't give me the right to blast music at 1 in the morning in my apartment, or during my morning commute.
"The warm colours of old lightbulbs are forgotten too"

This is obviously not true; when I go to a hardware or home improvement store, there is all sorts of information on the color temperature and purported color reproduction quality of the light bulbs. And "warm white" LEDs that are supposed to imitate incandescent are ubiquitous.
Has anyone true evidence that drinking Gin reduces the risk of a Corona infection
Each of us has a high probability of doing that several times a day. But the chances for all of us, on every story for a day... nah, not gonna happen.
I'm sorry- I am happy to respond to specific questions from the above but nearly every single sentence is a factual/historical misrepresentation, and the language/terminology ("fiat-based", "backed by gold", "yet everyone legally obliged to accept it") is that of someone who has a particular religious view of money (maybe a "goldbug") that may have its own philosophical consistency but...is...just...completely...ahistorical.

Money is a much more interesting topic that goldbugs give it...um...credit for.

There is another recent discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573204

that has a lot of pointers to good resources from which to begin the discovery process.
funny, cuz that's what I call VB programmers...
lol jk

This is an interesting project, but in my experience with companies that still use VB6 or VB.net (they have no idea about linux nor a desire to learn anything new... hence why they are still on VB6)
You mentioned the lack of a declared pandemic in response to a statement that the need for tests was clear in January. Now you mention the need for "numbers" (i.e., positive tests) in the same context. I think you're getting it backwards. A widely available test was essential for establishing that it was a pandemic. We all need to keep cool heads, but we don't need to make excuses or pretend that the lack of tests in the U.S. was the result of prudence and good sense. We could have responded faster. Our national policy isn't dictated by the WHO. It was a failure. If waiting for the WHO to declare a pandemic held back our response, we shouldn't have waited. If we needed a national emergency declared earlier in order to respond correctly, we should have declared it.
Same here, some of my earliest memories are of an old ms-dos mickey mouse game, where you were required to look through a booklet and enter in codes to perform actions.
> you don't wait a week to put out a fire, it gets worse

I don't think putting out a fire has any major adverse effects, so perhaps not the best comparison.
Corona virus spread prediction using kalman filter
Here’s a 3-cylinder SUV from that other Swedish car manufacturer: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volvo-adds-t3-th...

Also, the first Freevalve engine to be put presented in a car was in a normal sedan from a Chinese manufacturer: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1107384_1-6-liter-camles...
Bridges bottleneck many more paths than random streets, though, so while they aren’t special for any particular trip, they are special over all trips.
> Sometimes, a single flip phone will be shared by four or five families living next to one another.

Now that is an interesting surprise! Is that a cultural/knowledge issue, or is it poverty doing that?
Thanks for mentioning the split sleeving, I didn't know about it and that looks quite useful!
tldr:

This article leaves off about where a similar report on epidemiological models did a couple of weeks ago: Covid-19 will be very very hard to control if persons showing no symptoms spread the disease too often, but we do not know whether or not they do.
Isn't type 2 somewhat reversible by cleaning up diet and a prolonged fast?
This does not meet any standard of proof or attribution.

With that it’s just misinformation and should not be here.

With reputable reference sources it might be different.
There is two to three week delay in everything. If they wait until there are 100,000 confirmed patients before they act there will be several million more cases not yet showing symptoms or still showing minor symptoms.
I think the best way to understand it all is to understand the history of how it came to be. I would start with something like:

Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went
by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson