skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WebAssembly brings extensibility to network proxies
This is totally missing the point.

The point is DWD is tax financed service to process weather data and to distribute it to the once that need such weather data. As it is pay by taxes, the data is distributed free of charge. The are many services, even the one you just mentioned, that uses exactly that data to distribute it further. DWD build its own app to inform about severe weather conditions as this is also allowed by DWD. Then DWD added just the regular weather data to the exact same app including rain radar and such things, that OpenWeatherMap for example does not provide. DWD got sued for this by the companies who using the exact same DWD weather data and selling it to the customers either by adding ads or by subscription.

By the way OpenWeatherMap is providing just basic weather data that is actually allowed to be included into the app for free. We are talk about much more detailed data.
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Do us a favor
Yes in the end its a preference, we have to make choices and I too would like to have the choice to buy unrepairable item. We too are "the society" so if we want to still have the option we have to fight the law. One thing to do is obviously do not vote for or support the law .
I think this is applicable to not just CEOs, but project managers and engineers too. Some PMs and Devs just cant function when things cool down.
> Reading their internal emails regarding encryption and their general tech capabilities was enlightening.

Please elaborate.
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It was the network interface aspect that made me think of it.
Exceptions when opening a file has been chosen because they have the nice propery of encouraging a race condition free EAFP rather than a hard to get right LBYL.

It also fits nicely into the context manager pattern.

Besides, remember exceptions are cheap in python. So cheap that for loops are basically syntaxic sugar for a try/catch.
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> Sending patches is as easy as sending one in GitHub or any other web-based system.

Its still prehistoric in projects like the Linux Kernel, from a beginners point of view compared to GitHub, Gerrit or GitLab, which most of the active contributors are already working at large companies who's work requires contributing to it, thus already have invested in time and money learning the contribution process. To look at the LKML and do code reviews via back and forth emails looks simple for a veteran Linux developer at a large company but very arcane for a student sending a patch to the kernel.

> The problem is that you (and many others) have never done it, and so anything different is harder.

Your assumption is quite funny here as I have done both and I can tell you that most of the beginners particularly students are introduced into open-source via GitHub or even GitLab these days and its used as a starting point into contributing to a OS project. IIRC, ReactOS and FreeBSD has retained more student contributors from Google Summer of Code than say GNU/Hurd, by both improving the contribution process for beginners. I still wouldn't recommend beginners to learn about OSes in general by contributing to the Linux kernel due to the above reasons. Project making contributions more accessible for beginners isn't a bad thing, its actually how they attract potential long term contributors to stay on, rather than to make things simple only for veteran developers.

> You should consider that if learning a handful of CLI commands is such a problem for you, perhaps it is not the system that is being unfriendly to you, but that you are unfriendly to learning anything else that is not your way.

There's my point, it is still beginner unfriendly. Beginners these days would start with Github or Gitlab with a GUI to send PRs to a different OS project and wouldn't bother learning tons of CLI commands to send a patch in a email + code reviews. It is therefore favours veteran developers at large companies who stay on being long term contributors than the old days of random Linux enthusiasts doing this, which I'm very surprised you don't see the contribution process prehistoric from a beginners eyes. Perhaps something needs to change...
Dutch false sense of security helped coronavirus spread
Why aren't doctors prescribing this ?
You've just been sort-of lucky, so far, but the reckonings are coming.

The safest country will be China because their measures are more effective and they have been really tested by the situation.

See how TW will respond if they get an actual outbreak. They will:

- cover it up

- blame China

- blame each other

- and crucially not be able to contain it.

That's the politics of that place, which seems to need to prioritize self-preservation, appearances and emotionality over results, like all democratic governments. Unlike China.

This is so, which despite claiming to "live there" you clearly do not understand. Whatever. Know-it-alls like you are so often wrong, faker dude.
Most Eastern European countries are actually doing well compared to the big wealthy countries in terms of CO2. (Not necessarily in terms of other air quality stuff.)

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/greenhous... [see fig 4 about targets for 2020 and actual changes in emissions for 2017 and 2018]
From my (admittedly limited) experience, Go has the worst story for error handling, where functions end up repeatedly checking for error return conditions from called functions.

It feels trapped between "We don't want exceptions" without going full "Result<T> or Maybe<T>" functional style that might be more typical of something like elixir.

But I didn't try Go for long and that itself was years ago, so perhaps modern Go has better paradigms.
I don't have the numbers ready, but my guesstimate is that about 100% had the pre-existing condition of old age.
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Even without a test you could quarantine people who get off flights. We've been doing it for years with pets traveling from specific countries.
MFC programs look like Win32 programs. You often can't tell the difference from a screenshot.
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Years ago I reported a security bug (CVE-2004-0103) in the nethack-like game "crawl". In that case it involved copying the contents of an environmental variable into a fixed size buffer.

I've just checked my bug report, where I wrote:

Demonstrating this bug is quite challenging as it involves:

* Finding pizza.

* Eating the pizza and having a two in three chance of your message (getenv( "CRAWL_PIZZA")) being used.

Fun memories; I should audit some more code soon.
Warning tho with those statistics that are also to be found at Eurostat. Curative (acute) care beds are NOT ICU beds.

They're just normal hospital beds.

example, the netherlands have a total of around 1300 ICU beds (source https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/issuearticle/organisation...).

the number there is 50k ... which is indeed about the amount of normal beds excluding ICU and other few specific beds.
Most likely a coal problem than cars. At least in Poland and most likely Czech Republic and Slovakia where lignite coal is abundant.
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I guess it's a good moment to recommend Altered Carbon on Netflix to everyone. I love cyberpunk genre, played through every single Deus Ex game multiple times, watched most of the relevant movies, etc.

What I loved about AC is that it adds a few concepts I hadn't seen before: separation of body and mind, virtualization of the mind and perception of time in those simulations. If the brutality of the series doesn't put you off, I think there's a chance you'll agree that many of the ideas are pretty thought over in general.

I didn't like the books though - while the first one was OK, the second just didn't engage me enough and I was glad that the TV series greatly deviated from it.
A problem with TV news is that there are very few facts to be found.

I haven't once seen them show a chart with ratios on death rate per age bracket per country. This is commonly found online for this outbreak with many analyses about how populations and social interactions are different in different countries.

People need facts to calm down. TV news makes money on people not being calm and wanting to watch it endlessly. They craft their programs to pull you in as if there is always some "breaking news" or new development that you need to "stay tuned in".
A lot of really good stuff in here. I have a few questions & quibbles though.

> You’re probably all Macbooks.

What if we're not? Are there any good MDM solutions for Linux? I would prefer not to force macOS on folks who don't want it.

> Another bonus point: standardize everyone on Chrome.

Why not stick with Firefox? It has the advantage of at least trying to keep user information secure.

There's a lot exciting in here, though. I would love to transition to SSH certificates issues by some fancy OAuth2 service. I imagine one could use a named pipe to request them on-demand, so one could just issue 'ssh foo' and everything would Just Work.
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Extending a little charity to your father, maybe he recognized your strengths and helped you develop those. Maybe, for some reason, handiwork is not your thing so he was directing you to where you felt more joy.

My father also was both technical and handy, and while I would enjoy an afternoon working with him on something or other, I didn't naturally drift toward it. I had a couple of small projects (a weight bench is one I still remember) and I never got very far with it. It worked ok, but was kinda shitty. I never put any love into it.

But the Heathkit digital electronics course? I couldn't stay away.
Angband is 1990, Nethack is 1987
Which parts of the potential legislation do you have concerns about with regard to difficulty for new entrants?

Product obsolescence does seem to be a concern that the EU wishes to address:

"The Commission will propose legislation on Sustainable Product Policy, to ensure that products placed on the EU market are designed to last longer, are easier to reuse, repair and recycle, and incorporate as much as possible recycled material instead of primary raw material. Single-use will be restricted, premature obsolescence tackled and the destruction of unsold durable goods banned."[0]

I also think that legislating to ensure that issues such as energy efficiency, durability, repairability and recycling must be considered during the design phase are great progress too, as outlined in the Circular Economy Action Plan[1].

It's important to raise those concerns and get involved to help shape the process and outcomes.

[0] - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

[1] - https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/new_ci...
Since the article fails to do so, here's a link to the text of the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/339...
Nonsense.

Tell many people who lived through World War II in an active theatre or, in more recent decades, conflicts in Somalia, Syria, or Yemen, that, "You aren't having an emergency for years at a time. That's just normal."

Steering back from warfare to business, after returning to Apple it took Steve Jobs several years it around and put it on a long-term firm stable financial footing. He avoided bankruptcy fairly quickly (he had no other option), but they were by no means out of the woods.

In the auto industry it took years for Toyota and, particularly, Nissan to turn around after WWII. In the early 1980s Chrysler were in a dreadful state after a combination of years of mismanagement and the second oil shock of 1979.

These problems were not quick or easy to fix.
I was diagnosed in September and looking back at my 2016 labs I see I had been living with only 55 percent kidney function (had no idea .. no symptoms.. you may not until it's too late) for whoever knows how long.

Most doctors aren't helpful and just say it cant be reversed ... hogwash .. what you put in your body matters. If you feed it processed crap and crap that is harder to break down then water and a say a natural food like a carrot, apples, etc your no doubt stressing out your system more then you need to especially if you have kidney disease.

Overall I didnt listen to the various stupid doctors I met with rather joined a facebook group called Natural Kidney Journey. My kidney function is healthier then ever as i was at stage 3a kidney disease now my kidney function is 80 percent and climbing after 7 months of revolutionizing my diet.

If you were to join that Facebook group too you would see many similar stories like mine daily. Further the creator of the group along with others in the group are now dialysis free .. see Don Davis's story https://www.forksoverknives.com/from-3-percent-kidney-functi...
> Or it is harder to force people into quarantine.

From the article:

> Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines during wartime.
That's what "public" means. It's an investment in economic development and externality reduction.
Another could retort that systemic inequality, the economic and financial "game" being rigged, is not a conspiracy theory; it's not even a conspiracy - that's why it's called "systemic", behavior exhibited by a system, not necessarily by intentional collaboration of individuals (though that clearly happens also).

To that a counter-retort may say, even if we acknowledge the "systemic unfairness" in the US, the country is leading the world as far as entrepreneurship and startups go.
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I can't find any references to covid 19 inducing bacterial pnuemonia in patients, and many references to it being induced by the virus itself and not responding to antibiotic treatment, e.g.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092966462...

https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/ct/covid-19-pneumonia-trai...

https://www.jto.org/article/S1556-0864(20)30132-5/fulltext

It also doesn't seem to match what we are seeing about how it is basically only the severe cases that end up with pneumonia - the ones even less likely to end up self quarantining and taking medication while remaining at home.
That's the curse of backwards compatibility. AFAIK, on BSDs not only are the kernel and the C library developed together (so neither needs to stay compatible with older versions of the other), but also programs are expected to be recompiled for every major release of the operating system (so there's no need to stay compatible with binary-only software from the 90s).
> He said that if I had nothing to hide, I shouldn't need to worry.

It's one thing to see random people say this but government officials? That's terrifying.
The NYT article linked in this article has a lot more, posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22542662
Lots of work reconfiguring major distros and their latency disastrous configurations
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Hey HN! We are building a 3D Hologram Printer to let anyone create 3D hologram images.

Like Makerbot did for 3D printing, we want to make holograms more accessible.

We started with a simple desktop hologram lab: https://www.litiholo.com/hologram-kits.html

But we want to do much more, and are working on a 3D Hologram Printer for making hologram portraits and images from digital 3D content.

I'm the founder of LitiHolo, and would appreciate your help and feedback on what you would do with a 3D Hologram Printer. The plan is to start small (think Makerbot Cupcake), and incrementally get more advanced, so I'm trying to find early applications that are unique and exciting.

Thanks for your help.
Makes sense, it's difficult to calculate without knowing the number of tests that are being done in every country.
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I also have a hard time disbelieving in global variables. We have a lot of evidence validating quantum field theories, and the fields in QFT are global.
Bezos has been CEO for 25 years. Did he stop at one product?
If they are never recorded does that not mean they infect more people and that results in sicker population creating more burden to the health system - resulting in more deaths?

The statistics always seem to go up no matter what kind of interpretation.
> Let’s be honest: majority of users will cause more harm than do good when repairing something.

Yep, let's make everything a black box that can only be repaired under the watchful eye of a corporation, and they retain the right to refuse the repair and charge whatever the fuck they want. That's surely gonna work out well. That's surely gonna work out well.
Oddly I think it's the weird instructions that people are going to write more often: hardly anyone writes assembler compared to the more likely use case of reading disassembly, and when they are writing it it's usually specifically to do something that's difficult or impossible to get a high level language to emit.
You might think on the surface this is a fair comment, but a brief internet search would reveal that there is an overbearing amount of independant evidence onthis matter and the CDA are quite conservative and balanced in presenting it.

It was on this basis and acquired knowledge I have from some years interacting with them that I recommended them as a one stop starting point for this info, all items are referenced.

But I guess you did not actually go to their webpage to investigate, or do any actual research of your own, so that is how such an erroneous opinion might have formed.
> I think tech leadership in particular would benefit from a rigorous education in ethics.

I’m not aware of any evidence that education in ethics leads to more ethical behavior though it obviously leads to being able to discuss ethical problems better. The evidence suggests ethicists steal more books than other philosophers[1].

]1] Do ethicists steal more books?
Eric Schwitzgebel

If explicit cognition about morality promotes moral behavior then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books similar in age and popularity. Study 1 found that relatively obscure, contemporary ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students of philosophy were actually about 50% more likely to be missing than non-ethics books. Study 2 found that classic (pre-1900) ethics books were about twice as likely to be missing.
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Indeed most EU ICU services are already usually running at around 90% with the usual issues (including the Flu). And please also do consider that most of theses cases are within the Lombardy region and that most ICU patients are very difficult if not impossible to transfer safely to other regions. While the ICU beds are limited, the amount of ambulances equipped with ICU equipment is probably even smaller (and will also require an ICU nurse+doctor on board during the transfer).
The NYT article is behind a paywall.
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Depending on how this is handled it could backfire and we end up with more pollution as people discard used parts. For some items, like adding easily swap of batteries may open the devices to easier contamination. However if right to repair is contained to authorized repair centers; which is currently how warranties are preserved in many countries; then it might still pass provided someone with the right tools can do it safely.

As for the software side this may be a tough one as many times a change in chipset can make features available in newer models that are not in older models and the real question is, how far back must they provided like software upgrades that new models have? iOS goes back quite a ways, is that not enough now? That my prior iMac no longer had support from Nvidia (2013 model) is whose fault? Apple's or Nvidias?

What people need to understand is that replacement parts may involve complete assemblies because there is no feasible means to replace some of the pieces in common tablets and phones. So take a dryer, you might need to replace an entire motor but depending on how the regulation is written that may not be sufficient.

tl;dr it all sounds well and good until those who have no understanding of repair start writing regulations that could lead to less reliable items, more electronics and batteries in the trash, and even most costly items.
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See, competent governments dont need the army for medical supplies. Also it appears the US army is not prepared at all. Lack of tests, late response, a commander in chief ignorant of the problem. The US army is indeed prepared for securing an area that i am sure of. Pointing weapons is not particularly difficult. Perhaps it is time to reflect over what is marketing and what is real about the army? I hope i am wrong but from where i stand the us army is sheer numbers of people and bullets and loads and loads of pr.
You can boil it down presumably. Probably won’t taste very good though.

(I do not recommend this and am not a doctor)
I would imagine it would be really handy for embedded systems.
It's not obvious that those applications are using the data from DWD. It's possible that they're using (for example) global forecasts from the ECMWF (Euopean Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts), or even global forecasts produced by the US.

The DWD's contribution would be higher-resolution (and presumably therefore more accurate) forecasts for the region immediately around Germany.
For those looking to wean yourself off the negative news cycle, switch your consumption from the main news to the fluff content about TV and celebrities.

As you slowly become indifferent to which celebrity farted on which day, it becomes easier to care less about the news in general.
It's possible that the government had to make sure that the Coronavirus would take hold in the US first. Otherwise the Fed would not have had a sufficiently good excuse to justify their $1.5 trillion cash injection into the financial system.
Very strongly agreeing with this assessment and hoping Colin will come to agree.

A zero-argument function is either a constant, or a side-effect. Given we don’t want a side-effect, exposing a constant instead of an effectful-looking function is preferable.
I'm talking about the execution of what is happening on the ground. The President has a long history of overstating things and otherwise words not matching actions.
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Hey,

Does anyone know of any tools that would be useful in teaching music remotely? Sound quality is obviously a big issue. But there are other more subtle challenges in teaching music remotely. Here's a paper on the subject https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318776141_A_new_medium_for_remote_music_tuition
Am I the only one thinking this no-checkout comes at a huge cost of extreme surveillance? This is creepy as fuck. I would never want it in a store, no matter how much time I save. The self checkout machines at CVS make checkout already x-times faster. This would only be a small gain a price I am not willing to pay. Also there is some satisfaction in paying for things/checking out.
A possibly better source here https://theweek.com/speedreads/901405/seattle-lab-uncovered-...

Mynorthwest is sort of an AM radio/crackpot theories/nasty racist comments section kind of place. Some of their articles (and this seems to be one) are solid, but as a rule it's a highly suspect source of news.

On topic: Hard to imagine how much more fucked we'd be if we hadn't sampled and found the virus for another 2 weeks or whatever. Good on these guys, just another way that the flu project is paying off up here.