skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Founder of Streak (author of the InboxSDK) here. Yes we made the difficult choice to close source this. One of the big value props of the SDK is that it automatically maintains compatibility with Gmail and all other extensions using the SDK.

The way we ensure this is by remote loading most of the SDK from our servers to ensure users are on the latest version of the SDK.

One thing we wanted to prevent was developers including the stock SDK directly in the extension or even forking their own version and including it in their extension because then we can't guarantee it will always be compatible with other extensions or Gmail. We'd have to rely on developers constantly upgrading their dependency on us and submitting an extension update to the chrome store.

There are ways where we can still host the SDK but open source it so people can contribute/inspect the code - we just haven't gotten there yet but it is part of our plans.
Exactly - I'm tired of hearing people say "oh but the economy". How good do you think millions of dead people are going to be for our economy? Would you rather lose your job or your parents?
Probably the healthiest thing all around to be honest haha
I wonder what are your views on wildlife, where animals live often in quite poor conditions, and are regularly brutally killed and eaten. Isn't properly organized farm life a better option for e.g. a sheep?

I'm not being ironic here; I'm genuinely curious.
Once you remove community spread, you only need to deal with international travel, which can be dealt with much more cost-effectively.
Have you looked at using OKR/ML to completely skip the mark up step?
Clinical Features of Infection
Which would be better sex with Cthulhu or hp Lovecraft
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It’s not easy for me to explain (and I would imagine not easy to create in lesson plans) but I think it’s something Colt Steele consistently does well in his Web Dev Bootcamp on Udemy.

Here’s my best effort at articulating his teaching style: He walks students directly into the mistakes they’re going to make and then helps guide them out. Most instructors will teach the concept and leave it to students to avoid making mistakes. I learn a lot a better when I know what mistakes to look out for and what to do when I’ve encountered one. But more importantly, I feel like I’ve really mastered the material when I’m confident that I can get myself out of any mess I can get myself into.
...or maybe trump heard something in a briefing and said what he thought he understood, instead of what he'd been told. And without, you know, coordinating or having the speech fact checked before delivering it to millions of people. The dude doesn't do process... See also, walking back the "no trade with Europe" thing a few days ago.

He doesn't get a lot of slack (outside the right wing machine) because he's repeatedly foot-gunned in dramatic and damaging ways.
I thought I'm also much more motivated in the morning.

But since I been WFH for a while (thanks for the COVID-19), surprisingly I found if I took 30 mins nap both at noon and dusk, I would extend the motivated period to the most of the day! It's a game-changer for me, and it's not much a loss because I can sleep less at night because I trade to the day.

I'm a ADD person, it feels like the dopamine would exhaust after hours, and a nap would reset it for a while.
I think this pandemic will reveal many facets on the effectiveness of quarantines/lock downs.

These measures always have a political meaning, because they effectively create a separation between those included and those excluded from the quarantine. Such a political move will pressure some politicians toward implementing these lockdowns if they are targeted toward foreigners and away from them if implemented toward a domestic subgroup.

It may be easy to ban travel from Europe, but very hard to ban travel from Washington state.
Sure: The Clinton's are my favorite example, not least of which because I lived with a crazy kool-aid drinker who swore Hillary was the Messiah come back to save the Earth when she was a total crony:

http://www.clintoncashbook.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKqWHkg5xmc

Obama has already showed himself to be an enabler for the Military Industry Complex as he expanded the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq (went in Yemen, Syria, Ukraine etc...) and went deeper on extra-judicial wars and rendition camps, then went deeper with the use of Drone Warfare, such that he was called the Drone King. Which makes sense because how did a formerly unknown Senator form IL become a 2-term president who seemingly eroded Citizen Rights? His war on whistle-blowers is already outlined. And was a Constitutional Scholar/Lawyer no less!

Worth noting, Trump from a supposed contrasting party, expanded drone warfare even further [1]. Further solidifying my point(s). And Trump doubled down on not just drone war-fare and its secrecy, but also went further than Obama on prosecuting whistle-blowers [2].

I'd say something about the Bush dynasty but I think its very easy to see their alliances to the Saudi family and previously Nazi-sympathizers to build their wealth and eventually political clout.

FYI: I'm an anarchist, and I don't have a political affiliation so I can scrutinize both 'parties' objectively and what is consistent (In the US) is that politicians always side with War and interventionism, and are often benefactors of some cronyism--they may decry it, but it happens.

Dick Cheney is the like the poster-child of what these people embody. Those that fail to 'play the game' are often berated and marginalized and subject to unfair (often illegal) practices when they run for office as they will not participate in the order of things: eg Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders come to mind.

I highly recommend Jermey Scahill's work.

1: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-do...

2: https://theintercept.com/2019/05/21/why-you-should-care-abou...
I'd rather my job ceased to exist than my parents or grandparents. Because that's the choice we're making now as a society.
NYT has an amazingly annoying paywall. It makes me want to avoid them as much as possible.
I wish there would be more guides like this for macOS KEXT development. Easy to read, clean code examples, and quick to get started.

I was planning to port a driver for a specific PCI 802.11 NGFF WiFi device from FreeBSD or Linux, but it's really hard to find exhaustive guides on KEXT development, whereas Linux has the amazing guide at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/80211/inde....
Solar and wind aren't exactly 'perfect' either.

As I've stated elsewhere, the main problem is the supply constraint, and it's always a trade-off with food production. It means E85 is still expensive, and hasn't shown promise to scale to become cheaper. And the only way it can scale is to use more land, which must come from somewhere. Even if you don't care for the loss of biodiversity, the destruction of carbon sinks may nullify the purported carbon reduction of switching fuels.

Hybrid vehicles with regenerative braking don't require infrastructure changes and reduce carbon output, all while the consumer spends less on fuel.
HK and SK both have huge amounts of social distancing in effect (notably schools shut down). Singapore is about the only country I'd view as never having used lockdown.

Taiwan did heavy school closures but is now coming back online. Hopefully, things hold up.
In another video he comments that they are pushing for owners to use Vulcanol (https://www.carbonrecycling.is/products) as the fuel for this car. I'd still rather a pure EV, but for people rich enough to buy one of these cars, I'm sure they could easily afford to exclusively use this fuel.

It's still a stretch. We need to try to be carbon negative, not just carbon neutral.
I don't know, but syncing was never a problem for by tools. Use bitwarden, lastpass or some other available, good working tools and don't waste your time like that
Also people don't seem to realise, a patient on a ventilator is extremely unwell. They are the most unwell people in the entire hospital. They have 24 hour 1 on 1 nursing, constant invasive monitoring of vital signs, blood tests, X-rays, CT scans, antibiotics. They are managed by a team of extremely well trained and highly experienced senior medical professionals. And this goes on for a week or more. Then they leave ICU and proceed to be the most unwell people in the hospital except for those still in ICU. They might have various other complications, and need several more weeks to recover, often needing inpatient rehabilitation.

This does not scale.
Try telling people you're vegan (doesn't matter if you are or aren't) & leaving it at that. A significant portion will think you're judging them & try to talk you out of it or say why it's a bad thing.
I have a similar stateless password manager I wrote. I just store the counter in a JSON file along with other parameters, e.g. Baidu doesn't allow passwords >16 characters, usps.com doesn't allow symbols, some other sites require symbols, some require a number, some require a number but don't consider 0 to be a number, etc.

All of these things, including the counter, don't particularly need to be securely stored and can just be in a file in a git repo or Dropbox. Not needing to be securely stored eliminates many of the concerns with stateful password managers.
And then you can have something that syncs that local cache between computers, and you have a complete solution.
Show someone an animation of the lily pads doubling every day and ask them when the pond is half-covered? You're not even asking them to solve a problem at that point, only to point at the animation when it looks half-covered.

Relating this to the spread of the virus, people aren't carrying around an animation of this in their minds. Perhaps science communicators should do a better job of communication and produce such an animation? But then you're still not getting people to understand the concept. You're telling them "this is what it looks like, sort of, now just trust us." The problem is that people don't trust scientists (and mathematicians) as it is.
What? Of course they feel pain. Do you have a cat or dog? They feel pain. So why wouldn't cows? Or pigs, which are arguably smarter than any of the above?

To eat meat, one must acknowledge that it means causing pain and suffering. If you're fine with that, go right ahead. But you cannot pretend there are no consequences. i say this, by the way, as an occasional meat eater. But at least I'm honest with myself and others...
Coronavirus Is Making Life Hell for China’s Tech Workers
Russia is relatively isolated from the rest of the world. Officials recently reported cases coming in from Italy so it will be spreading.
Or you could just order one on Alibaba.[1]

More likely to work than something from a website-first operation with no product and no manufacturing capability.

Now that the coronavirus epidemic is winding down in China, demand for those units is probably down in China, so getting delivery is probably not too difficult.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
I thought Apple was deprecating (3rd party) kernel-mode drivers? Or am I misremembering that?
I've been looking for a flash-card app with this sort of functionality since I do a lot of reading/learning from the web. However, the extension wont work on my chrome (Version 77.0.3865.120)
edit: [resolved]
Thanks for a bunch of random and useless links to things that have nothing to do with the spread of COVID-19.
Millenial here, and because I spend pretty much all my time on my phone when I'm not programming, I sort of feel a bit like a gen z'er.

I do a number of things on my phone that would be faster and 'easier' to do on my mac, but which I don't simply because doing it on my phone is more comfortable/natural.

Yeah, it's weird. However, my phone has become a part of me (in a way). Doing things without it feels unnatural.
US House bill exempts employers with 500 employees from sick day requirement
Hi, I work at Google and replied to you way up-thread. I built a CI system used by ChromeOS based on Repo and even contributed some changes to it. While I don't like it much, it is useful. You misunderstand or are misinformed about many aspects of it.

> Google had to overlay the repo[1] tool to scale past git

It was created to allow for a forest of git repos to all coexist in a world in which git submodules wasn't suitable yet OR the repos spanned security domains. However, almost all of the shortcomings of submodules have been addressed and so—at least—the team that I lead now is considering migration to it from Repo.

> cross-repo commits are not atomic

Yes, that is a feature. But I think you meant that there's no cross-repo coordinate in the timeline to sync to. However, there is. That's exactly what a Repo tool manifest snapshot is. Our CI system ensured that change that had deps across repos were committed and a Repo manifest snapshot only was taken with all inter-commit deps satisfied.

> Good luck bisecting a breaking change across millions of lines of code and build files

The team that I led implemented this. We simply snapshotted the forest at every T time intervals. For bisection, we walked the snapshots. Once a specific manifest snapshot was identified as the culprit, we further bisected within repos for a specific change.

> Pulling source took 1/50th the time a repo sync took.

Yes, that's what the partial clones (the article you replied to) and sparse checkouts solves. Once these two things are widely available, I don't see any benefits to P4 remaining.
Commercial almond milk has very little actual almond in it. It's basically water thickened with gum.

For example, I have in front of me a box of Kirkland brand almond milk. It provides just 1g protein and 2.5g fat per 8oz serving. Compare that to whole dairy milk, with 8g protein and 8g fat.

IMO it would more accurate to call it almond flavored water.
Schematics show you where a wire begins and ends. Wire ducts with no covers so people can ‘trace’ wires is a sign that either a) they don’t know how or can’t be bothered to read schematics or b) poor maintenance practices such as making modifications and not updating the schematics.

Wire ducts are popular because they are faster to make a bundle and put it in a duct and not worry about exactly how it looks, but our panel shop is still zip tying wires in bundles that behind and end in the same general vicinity to keep the wire ducts tidy in large panel line ups - say 5 cells each 1m wide.
None of these examples are passive constructions! (The first two don't even involve verbs.)

Apologies for possibly being pedantic, but I do think this is necessary to point out. A lot of people seem to think that "passive" refers to statements that are vague about agency, or often something else vaguely along those lines. But active-vs-passive has nothing to do with that!

Now one could say, well, that's just not how people are using the word "passive" these days; but the thing is, I don't think whatever notion people are trying to express via "passive" is a useful one. Sometimes it means "vague about who's responsible", but often it doesn't; I don't think there's a useful notion worth salvaging in there.

Anyway for way more on this you can see Geoff Pullum's article on it[1], or the whole "passives" category[2] on Language Log...

[1]http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf

[2]https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=54
And you thought I was crazy when I started 30 years ago.
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I'll take that on good faith then. This is a reasonable that lays it out nicely:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/12/10/evidence-prove-russian...
"Thoughts and prayers"
I don't think so. There was a surveillance study in I believe Guangdong province where they tested tons of random people, and compared the positive rate with cases/population, and found that they had detected most all of them. Don't have the link at hand, sorry.

There was also a statistical analysis of the Diamond Princess cases. That produced an estimate that about 17% of infections were asymptomatic. [1] It's possible that there are less asymptomatic cases among the older population, but between the Guangdong and the Diamond Princess data, I doubt it.

The 3.4% CFR that everyone is looking at is also dependent on some reasonably adequate level of medical care. If this thing blows up, most people are going to be on their own, and in the absence of a miracle drug that is widely available (maybe Chloroquine?), the fatality rate with home care I would expect to be something like 10-15%.

[1] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
This is classic normalcy bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

People will grasp at any excuse to convince themselves "it'll be fine, it won't happen to me". The fact it started in China made it easy - the Chinese government must be overreacting because it's authoritarian, it's halfway across the world, my government must have gotten this figured out, my health care system must be better than China's, etc etc. And of course the classic "it's just a flu".

It's sad that so many will suffer and die because of this.
The choice of units to display to the pilot (feet vs metres, nautical miles vs kilometres, etc) doesn't have any necessary connection with the choice of units for engineering drawings, engineering calculations (e.g. calculating forces on various components during flight), etc. You could keep the former in non-metric and do the later in metric.

Actually, many planes support displaying metres for altitude as well as feet. This is because, while most of the world uses feet for altitude, a handful of countries (China, North Korea, some ex-Soviet states) use metres instead. On an international flight, pilots can even change the units displayed on their instruments as they pass from non-metric airspace into metric airspace and vice-versa.
According to a report out of China, we are already experiencing the mutated version which is less lethal (0.6%) than the original (5%). I am hopeful that as we identify and remove the strains causing more terrible effects via prevention and hospitalization, the remaining strains will mutate themselves away in a year or two.

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3064908/coro...

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074938/chin...

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3048772/stri...
I don't think it's estimated at 500+kph, not realistically anyway. It took 12 years to go from 408 kph to 447 kph (current record) in the production road car speed record, I doubt they're going to jump 53 kph in the record overnight.
> Don't judge others.

It is by observing others and judging their decisions and actions that we can learn and avoid other people's mistakes.

Is it not?
it's not a difference that matters in this context.
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you should just store all 110 passwords in your google sheet while you are at it
I hate the fact that I kinda see your point.
"I don't like it" sounds like your own subjective opinion, but "it's problematic" projects your own subjectivity on to the object as if it was a property of the object.
One of the things I like in courses is that fact I can know who's studying with me and in few cases I actually became friend with one or two people.

Also in online courses it's an important factor that not many e-learning sites fully understand the potential
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Agreed. Need for ventilator is quite bad enough state for the human body. And it gets complicated further after intubation. Most patients have to be sedated to reduce the distress and anxiety caused by the endotracheal tube. Extubation is also a risky process and patient may have to be re-intubated when though they have recovered but stayed in for a recommended max period around 2 weeks and lungs got weak. When patient is on ventilator, it requires many control parameters to help a patient live longer - the sedatives have to be just right depending on the patient, antibiotics, secondary infection risks, intravenous needles risks, pre-existing illnesses, allergies, etc, etc, etc. All this assuming that the ventilator machines and peripherals are perfectly safe. On a large scale during a pandemic, there aren't just enough doctors, experienced nurses and heath care workers who that can deal with it. Engineers can build the ventilators, but the logistical part is still a nightmare.
1. Only in salt water

2. Only over time

3. And actually we still do not know.

Slightly disappointing.
I absolutely love this. If this is real - if there are investors who feel comfortable saying this out loud instead of claiming that they are "hands on" I want to have you on my podcast. We have to talk. And then I'll buy the hat. Definitely.
Populations of China and Italy are ageing and have a lot of smokers.
This sounds suspiciously like a way to help developers write Chrome extensions that steal the user's data. (While perhaps also providing other useful functionality.)

Gmail is known to have been locking down actual front-door server-side API access for 3rd party applications for years. Perhaps this is the natural result. Chrome extensions that add hacks to the Gmail frontend instead.

Same user-data harvesting but with less reliability! Fun times.
> We may think we're at the height of human knowledge, but the ancients did possess precious knowledge that has been lost to time.

I would love to hear why a chemical analysis doesn't solve the riddle here. Scientists were able to isolate a strain of the coronavirus and publish the entire genetic sequence in a matter of days, but we can't analyze a sample of concrete?
You want Get-Command here, usually, not Get-Help.
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Another interesting piece of lost ancient knowledge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
No, but for some people it might be worse if you also take into account the probability of catching the virus at this stage. Even in the worst-affected areas at most single-digit percentages of the population have the virus.
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You should keep in mind the key difference between your offering run of the mill MOOCs--you're students have to complete your course if they want to maintain their GPAs and graduate.

This should substantially change how you teach your class. A normal MOOC has to make learning "easy" so that students keep coming back. Unfortunately, when learning is "easy" it doesn't stick very well.

Effective learning needs to be challenging and force students to dig deep and think critically about what you're teaching them. If you give out hints or shortcuts, they'll probably like you more, but they're not going to build the deep understanding they need to succeed in further courses and in their career. If you're good at making them think critically, the whole learning process will feel hard for them, possibly as if they aren't learning anything, and they might resent you for that. So it's good that they're stuck with you. Do the right thing and make sure they're really understanding the material and not just memorizing formulas and patterns.