skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just like to note that, while we should be conducting many more tests, we should also be aware of the danger of false positives, and the burden that places on individuals and systems. Some of these tests are just not very accurate, according to an MD I know.
Which headlights did you buy? Asking as a fellow Impreza owner. They really are inadequate.
Quote: "...the same isn’t true for all your other intellectual property in the form..."

Sorry, it's not your intellectual property anymore, it belongs to Microsoft now. People tend to forget Microsoft owns GitHub nowadays, and also tend to forget Microsoft is a corporation.
Product Manager at GitHub here - I'll be the Product Manager for npm when the acquisition closes. I agree - npm is definitely an integral part of the JavaScript ecosystem. The npm package registry will remain free for public projects. We're going to work to ensure that the service is stable and accessible, and ready to serve the next million packages.

This is independent of what Microsoft's doing with .NET Core. I'm excited about the work that they're doing, but this isn't going to stop us from making sure that npm is outstanding.
Wow, congrats! You are amazing! I can't believe someone disagreed with your prediction.
I do not know about that but hopefully they realize they can not pack passengers any more for the fear or spreading disease and move back at least to how seating used to be a couple of decades back ... more space rather than less.
I am pretty sure COVID will strike again next winter.
Oh, I love this. That UI is wonderful! I really just love text menu UIs in general. They're just so lightweight, fast, easy to understand, ugh. It's like the best parts of GUIs and CLIs.

I also love how his password is clearly either '1234', 'asdf', or something like that, lol.
I can't even come up with a scenario of how MS would realistically do so? Sure, making GH actions easier to set up with Azure than AWS seems plausible, but also strikes me as somewhat benign.

Banning python from Github? Requiring \r\n for NPM packages? What's the move you're afraid of?
Show HN: Remote Job Direct from Twitter
HID headlights are a bigger problem than trucks/SUVs. I've been blinded by sedans on divide highways.
Millennials: but moooooooom! I have been self isolating in the basement for years!
We need a system where repositories are duplicated in different political jurisdictions that don't get along with each other. A copy in the US, a copy in the EU, a copy in China, a copy in Russia, a copy in Kenya, a copy in Japan, a copy in Vietnam, a copy in Iran. With hashes on a blockchain every few days to check for tampering.
Currently in the embrace phase ...
And not a single detail on what they are...

Antibody tests are more suitable for test strips, and work under 30m, but they need blood test.

Few companies in China are already marketing 30 minute PCR systems. One from Xiamen, another from Nansha.
Rust Notebooks on Data Analysis with Rust and NDArray
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/airlines-bailout....
I'm not a Trump enthusiast but your claim 'No one believes he's capable of handling the current crisis' is typical of the thinking that DT is single handedly running the USA. There is a huge administration, DT is the spokesperson for it. The Federal Reserve should shoulder a lot of blame for allowing this financial disaster to happen.
Having said that there is a huge shortage of credible and non corrupt politicians in the western world at present and I think globalization is another root cause for the current oil & gas melt down and virus panic. These two elements, corrupt politicians and globalization are related and the tinder for the current conflagration IMO...
So, in your opinion the measures against the virus only have a minimal impact on financial markets? Would you say the impact of virus related measures is : 0.1%, 1%, 10% or more (or less)?
> Your colleagues, maybe not, but certainly you are culpable for your direct reports.

Should we jail parents if their children commit crimes? If anything, a parent has more influence upon their child than a manager has upon a direct report.
Its fairly trivial to lock down AWS via a require MFA policy
How would MS possibly extinguish linux?
How do we stop cities blinding us with LED street lighting?!
Yeah, I think you're right. I guess a more general statement would be that the example optimization may not be valid because that function may contain unknown side effects, including program termination.
Open Yale Course: Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
I believe that that is the point of UBI. It’s a huge benefit for almost every American, but it’s not enough to live on as that’s the point. It allows you to pay for the things you need and maybe go out a bit to help stimulate the economy, but you couldn’t just be a “free loader.” You’d still need to work. In the current pandemic that obviously presents some challenges, but it’s better than nothing.
> showing that they have caught it very very early, due to their decentralized testiing system

This is why I'm terrified of people that want to centralize things even more in the federal government.

Centralization produces systems that are not anti-fragile.
Is 6 weeks really an "extended period of time" ?, we are barely a few weeks into a global crisis and already companies are collapsing, that's an indicator of just how insanely fragile things are.
There is nothing noteworthy or undetectable about this. Disappointed that it’s getting hype on HN.
None but they can sell them to another group of PE and recoup the Capital their investors are probably clamoring to reclaim in light of the industries issues.

Their LP’s would probably take a hit to unlock the cash and get into something more likely to rebound faster.
My prediction, that my IT department hates to hear, is that Windows is going away.

Microsoft doesn't want to be Microsoft anymore; it wants to be Oracle and IBM and primarily make money off of business consulting and the cloud.

I think Windows will eventually become a presentation and slowly-phased-out compatibility layer on top of Linux, similar to the way macOS became Unix, but even less different than its underlying OS.

However, it should be noted that I'm not very good at predicting things.
Bonus points:

npm install username/repo#semver:^1.2.3

The big problem is that lots of Node.js modules don't push their tags, so there are issues on lots of repos begging maintainers to push their Git tags so that we don't have to use the npm registry.

JavaScript is an interpreted language -- as long as you're only downloading source code from the registry there's really no reason to use a registry instead of the plain old Git repository.
That’s a great analogy. The assassination caused a military fight that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, but the conflicting alliances and leaders itching to use their new military power would have caused a major war anyway. The spark didn’t matter as much as the real systemic issues, but for a layman it’s a good enough cause.

Something would have popped the bubble, and I’d argue the real cause of the start of the downturn was OPEC and the bottom falling out of the oil market. Then COVID set in and made things a million times worse, making a quick recovery nearly impossible. That’s what will be remembered by lay people, while experts will hopefully remember you can only pop a bubble if there is a bubble to be popped. And OPEC/COVID didn’t create the bubble, they just popped it.
It's disingenuous to compare COVID-19 death with traffic death in Dr. Lin's presentation.

Here are the facts:

- The 30k U.S. traffic death count is for the ENTIRE YEAR. The 3k death in Wuhun happened in a matter of weeks(6-8 weeks).

- Given that U.S.'s inaction and squandered 2 months of lead time, we could see death count to be in the order of hundreds of thousands in U.S. alone.[1] This is NOT an estimate based on mathematical model, this is the estimate based on clinical data so far and virus's exponential growth rate. There isn't a national lock-down yet although some states are acting quickly, still 2 month late.

- Mass majority of the vehicular deaths are preventable because most of them are due to human error. COVID-19 is NOT preventable RIGHT NOW. Vaccines are at least 1-1.5 years away, no matter how fast track you spin it.

- Asymptomatic and family based clustering transmissions are making the lock-down less effective.

- We will get through this nightmare pandemic outbreak. But the economic depression is real and ongoing. Nobody knows what the long term effect could be.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-us-hospitals-pr...
Just wanted to say, the github page has a note saying:
NOTE : Do not upload the BOT to online scanners!

With you posting it here, I can guarantee that at least a few people are going to upload it to online scanners.
You make it sound as if it is the guy's fault.

Being a software developer is a well-paid job indeed, but that guy was offering (some of) his work for free, and apparently other developers made some use of it. And now you are blaming him for the fact that he was not also paying extra for being able to share his work.

As much as I support self-hosting and not relying on third-parties, attitude like this is bullshit.
Thanks for that clarification, I was not aware of that. Thanks RubyCentral!
Corona was what broke the camel's back, the stock already was struggling before.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

https://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/...
I like how he writes “do not upload to online scanners”.
Yes, interesting. Hope Norwegian survive.
Before Norwegian I often paid like 350$ for a trip to Oslo (40 minutes). It was only one single provider, SAS.
After Norwegian arrived usually around 100, often 50.
What other public registries are there, besides yarn's mirror of npm's registry?
> People keep reinventing history as if UNIX won based on merit, when it was licensing that made all the difference.

I think you keep reinventing history as if licensing was the only thing that made the difference. I think you are badly mistaken. The licensing may have made it popular with the university crowd, but it didn't do much to move the workstation customers.
Certainly not FUD or "advanced". No encryption/obfuscation used to communicate with C2 at all, common patterns in the c++ binary that drops on clients, no polymorphism, drops itself on the disk. Might be a fun toy project for the author but this wouldn't be useful in any actual security testing deployments.
You're way too sensitive and act as if we should conduct ourselves like formal robots. Sounds like a really boring world, loosen up a bit.
Doesn't that require actually extending and extinguishing, though?

WSL1 was a proprietary reimplementation of the Linux system call ABI as an NT subsystem. WSL2 is actual Linux running in a VM. That seems to be moving in exactly the opposite direction.
For once, I am glad that I kept faith in yellow metal.
That's great, you should have that option. "Option" implies choice, however. I should have an option to meaningfully not agree to it. And "don't use Google services" doesn't actually cause Google to stop collecting data about an individual. Nothing short of "don't use internet" does, and even then only to an extent.

I've started reading "privacy agreement" for Google's "do not track me" browser extension the other day and it just seemed grotesque.
How is a convenience feature a dependency? The same command exists as "gitlab:username/repo" variant. The GH variant just happens to be the unprefixed one as it has by far the biggest userbase.
I'm in the same state. One year, I had to spend $600 for a new ABS module because the parking brake light kept flashing on and off and that was an automatic inspection failure (despite the fact that the parking brake had no issues).

Another year, I took my car in for a brake fluid change and state inspection. They failed the inspection because the rear brake rotors were below the minimum thickness. I replaced the rotors and pads and took it back in. They passed it and put the sticker on.

On the way home, I get the low brake fluid warning light and find that one of the front calipers was leaking brake fluid. So I had to replace the caliper as well.

Essentially, they'll fail inspection even if it's not a real safety issue (blinking parking brake indicator light), but miss actual safety issues (leaking caliper during a brake fluid change service).
If you are talking about blue collar jobs I am with you.

Anything above that and people have to start rethinking their choices and be held accountable for their choices.

By the same token I shouldn’t hold accountable Google or FB engineers who are just trying to make a living.

Or soldiers who did atrocities because they were just trying to be good soldiers.
The central repository is entirely optional when using npm the cli tool; many companies use a proxy repository (such as artifactory) to host their internal packages and cache public ones already.

Anyone can already run their own, or install from remote git urls (not just github) as well. If the new organization undermines the community, the community can easily move.

NPM the company has had a significant number of missteps, and them getting better oversight and removing the need to be profitable will likely be better for everyone in the long run.
Slightly off topic.

To any Norwegians around HN: Were they in trouble before the corona crisis ? Stock value[1] started a heavy downward trend around Feb 2018, from 171 down to 41 before corona crisis, down to 7 as of today.

I am based in Spain, and I am seeing this same trend in some local companies. It seems that coronavirus is the trigger for an existing, latent problem.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/companies/NWC.OL/charts
As an example of this, the article at the time of me writing this post doesn't include the 8% drop from today. Of course, the market hasn't closed for the day so it would be premature to add anything like that ... but if it stays that low today then it is yet another massive drop to add to the list.
That raises the question of how GitHub/Microsoft plan to profit off the acquisition though? It can't be just for goodwill or marketing.
In the given example, the if check for null was NOT unneeded at all, it was vital for proper program operation. Optimizing it away caused a bug that should not have occurred.
Hi, would be happy to chat, do feel free to reach out to vered at fintext.io
> It's actually quite easy to self-quarantine everyone over 70

Is it though?

What about the ones in nursing homes? How do you quarantine the workers who work there? What about when the over-70s living at home have to go to the doctor, or for their chemotherapy or dilation treatments? How are they going to isolate themselves from all the people they'll interact with while doing that?

> The UK will be mostly done with Covid-19 in two months

Is what they're hoping. We won't really know for another 2 months. At that point they'll either look like geniuses or callous morons. And if it's the latter, it'll be too late to change course.
No golden parachutes if you or your underlings tank a public company. That will incentivize the required internal controls.
I'm not sure I'd find that a comfort unless I held physical possession of it.
Johnson: Avoid pubs, clubs and other social venues
Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)
Some countries pay next to nothing unemployment benefits (e.g. UK) and must be seeking a new job for being eligible.
Still, this is what they are forced to do anyway.
How much did Microsoft pay? What did the founders take away?

Most people don’t know, in these open source acquisitions by for profits there’s money involved and “founders” get an exit. Not always clear To the public who those are or what they took home from a mostly volunteer effort.
Why is Meetup helping people organize meetings during a pandemic?
So you're going to use hand sanitizer a hundred times, on average every five minutes? Color me skeptical.
> The likelihood of your software being discovered, used or contributed to goes to zero as soon as you host it anywhere but GitHub.

There is hope with Federated Code Hosting being developed.

https://feneas.org/federated-code-hosting/

https://forgefed.peers.community/
The centimeters we're speaking of has no effect at all at how quickly disease spreads, the way the air circulates is more important than your leg room.

Seating like we used to have a few decades back is available. It costs about the same as it used to. People seem to forget how expensive air travel were back in the days, no wonder it was more luxurious.
Theoretically, and JUST for the sake of argument. Apple could buy Disney, give themselves a perpetual license to all content, and then immediately spin off the parts of Disney they don't want (including any executives, theme parks, etc).
The incompetent response of POTUS and the US Government is the cause.

If George W. Bush or Obama or Clinton were president, you would have had a better reaction and communications plan than what you’re seeing here.

All of those other factors are there, but the panic is because of the actions of the government.

It sucks. I’d guess it’s 50/50 that I’ll be unemployed by January, and 30/70 that I’ll lose my home as my major assets (house, retirement, etc) are attrited down. When the risk of infection wanes, we should be taking to the streets.
Isn't the web a connection without presentation ? it works to an extent, I also think people have a need for deeper, thus presented connection.
And the best thing is, if you read it from the top down, it’s in ISO-8601!
No, I’m responding with a piece written by a nonspecialist with a general data/technical background who is also an excellent writer, who spent a bunch of time reading and digesting data and arguments published by epidemiologists and public health experts, and then synthesized that into one clear and coherent summary aimed at a lay audience, including many links to the direct sources so that readers can click through to evaluate them.

* * *

If you spend some time hunting around for career epidemiologists and other experts to read, they are as far as I can tell unified in opposition to the British plan, and have been calling it out as sheer folly in published opinion pieces and ranting about it on twitter.

For example, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/uk-cov...

I guess we’ll all see how things play out in the next month or two, but I’d much rather be in South Korea or Taiwan than England right now.
Neither? Markets have been overheated, so a correction makes a ton of sense.

What we need is to get over this pandemic as quickly as possible so we can stop disrupting trade and get people back to work. The news coming out of China is encouraging, and production seems to be slowly returning to normal.

Any discussion about UBI should be based on the long term merits, not a reaction to any current crisis. QE is a bit different, but honestly I think it does more harm than good much of the time, especially once it makes it through the political system.
Me and friends were speculating just a few months back that for a crash to happen, one of the FAANGs has to fail, spectacularly. Even with the privacy concerns, that we deemed as top risk factor, we did not see that crash happen.

Little did we know that the concentration of talent in Bay Area, Seattle, NYC and maybe London and Vancouver would be the trigger. I wonder if this gets any worse, and if one team coincidentally is wiped out, would the org be able to actually play their DR scenarios and rebuild their stack!!
What, the US imprisoning American citizens on no charges and without legal recourse or due process is not mentionable? It happened in living memory.

Yes, Russia did it to uncounted millions of their own, and actually murdered many millions of those, for decades. That does not excuse US behavior: both are indefensible. The US has, at this moment, more people imprisoned than any other country. The US doesn't seem to harvest their organs, at least on a grand scale, but does engage in slavery: products stamped "made in USA" are now quite likely to be produced by enforced prison labor, particularly in Louisiana.

Solitary confinement for months or years on end, and withholding medical treatment are certified torture methods, and routine practice in US prisons. The American Way is to have corporations do it under contract, somehow absolving government officials of responsibility.
I'd love it if the C standard just removed undefined behavior, replaced explicit instances ("the behavior is undefined" to "the behavior is implementation defined") and put in a blanket "Any behavior not specified by this standard is implementation defined". Keep the rest the same, just document the footguns. Implementation defined is exactly as powerful as undefined, it just makes the compiler writer describe what will happen.
It’s a 1000kg weight that broke camels back
DT fired the previous Fed chair and replaced her with a man that was willing to cave to his demands.
Indeed. I had completely forgotten my daily driver has auto-dimming mirrors until I jumped in a rental car a few weeks ago for a several hour drive at night. It was extremely difficult.
I have these on my Volvo. They are great for avoiding bright headlights from behind but they make it virtually impossible to see a bike that may be approaching in the bike lane. Anything with headlights that aren't super bright becomes dim or virtually invisible.
Still better to have as one of many screening options
I've always thought that my chosen superpower, if I could have one, would be as to tell by looking at someone what they honestly think about me.

Do they think I'm cool, weird, ugly, creepy, friendly etc.

I would never hsve to ask if someone is only pretending to like me or put up withe because they want something out of it.

Life would be so much easier, meeting people would be so much easier.
A sort of meta lesson here for bootstrappers and technical founders is that explaining in simple terms what your product does is actually extremely difficult. YC hammers that point a lot too.

Good example here is the “open, plugin etc.” feature being almost right the top. I don’t care if it’s open or that I can make a plug-in if I have no clue what it does.
Maybe? Enterprise SaaS deals are for year long commitments. Sure in 6 mo, they may choose to renew less tooling and having less employees means less seats, but I don't see a big shift here.
They tried that in Iran. The result: massive inflation. The system cannot handle such a massive spike in demand especially if production is under strain from covid. It surprises me Romney is for it because he was a politician back when ahmedinejad tried that little stunt.
Ethan, 16-year-old maker from Sydney, Australia is the real Goat! Big up Ethan!!
That remains to be seen. The consequences of current actions, while the current impact of the virus itself is basically nil, will be severe, including extra deaths (and lack of births, for that matter - didn't occur to me to count that but looking at demographic articles I realized it's also lives lost in the net), and massive waste of life-years due to economic disruption that will disproportionately affect the developing world, the poor and the young. Which one is worse, I don't know, but over the last few days my opinion is starting to change towards the latter being worse.
Remote Interviewing
In situations like this, many people realize that we are in a mutual game of hot potato. The people involved are each trying to figure out what everyone else is using as a timer, so they aren't the ones left holding the bag.

Everyone knows about the student debt crisis. Everyone knows that public companies were borrowing to pay for stock buybacks. Everyone knows about the rampant de-regulation and rent seeking. And nobody thinks any of these issues will be addressed in the coming years.

It's going to be the 1980s all over again.