skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coronavirus specific GPU projects are now available at folding home
"We shipped a trojan and code-signed it, but it's okay, it is some blob from a vendor that we included just because. We should talk to Bob from marketing to make sure it's not doing bad things."

No.
Coronavirus will change how we shop, travel and work for years
Something that confuses me:

Windows app can do this. Heck, in the case of a Windows app, you need not even poll the clipboard, you can sign up for notifications when it changes. The API is ancient, well documented, and provides no feedback when it's being used. And some apps indeed use it, one obvious one is remote desktop apps use it to "sniff" what's in the clipboard to mirror it along.

Is there a reason whatever security trade offs are OK in Windows, but not on a phone?
There are r3 alpha builds for PPC and x64 from rebolsource.net but they're from 2013. There are sometimes daily builds of renc which are uploaded to S3 including x64 OSX from Travis-ci.
OT: what determines network speed for an AWS EC2 instance? I work from home, and occasionally need to scp a large file from one of our instances at AWS.

I've never managed to get that to go faster than 15-20 Mbps.
VB3 was my first real language. I'd attempted stuff before on spectrum and BBC BASIC and later QBASIC, but VB3 not only allowed easy development of a GUI application, it allowed you to distribute an EXE -- a real grownup program, not a ".bas" file. I wrote my first commercial program in VB3 or VB4, to look after book orders, had an access database behind it, and all sorts of oddness to do printing if I recall rightly. Used VB4 as well, and I guess I used VB5 as well.

I moved on, to the web, to things like TCL/TK, Java, and Perl. Some things never change, I have a full screen vim window with a brand new perl script on my right-hand monitor as I type this.

Despite having dumped windows 20 years ago, I've still got a place in my heart for visual basic.
This is one of the few ways SDKs can enable e.g. diagnostic modes without extra integration work by the app developer, but as is often the case there's a fine line between "convenient hack" and "gaping security hole".

Obviously this sort of thing needs super-explicit user opt-in and needs to be secured sufficiently that it can't leak private data, and it's possible/likely that a lot of SDKs aren't great about this.
Coronavirus lockdown helps Italian police nab 'leading' mobster
> I loved VB6. Of all the languages and IDE's I've ever used, I've never been more efficient in any other one.

Other than the amount of work it would take, what's to keep someone from taking all of the specs and docs, and implementing a language compatible with VB6 and VB.NET?
> Carolyn Wang, communications lead for Verily, told The Verge that the “triage website” was initially only going to be made available to health care workers instead of the general public. Now that it has been announced the way it was, however, anybody will be able to visit it, she said. But the tool will only be able to direct people to “pilot sites” for testing in the Bay Area, though Wang says Verily hopes to expand it beyond California “over time.”

That is most definitely not the impression conveyed by the president's speech. This is a very, very bad sign.
FYI: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C64C.jpg

Lots and lots of revs, apparently.
"It’s only a threat to people who have a compromised immune system because of age, diabetes or something like that."

Yeah forget those people.

/s
Waiting for them to come out of beta so we can get a look at what they are doing. Why u so secretive Darklang? Is it in the name?
Google isn’t building the coronavirus screening site – and it’s not ready
Fine, 27M(million)

"Why must I always explain" Bob Dylan
I think this TED Talk did a great job of describing why this is such a huge issue, and how people get into the state of addiction https://www.ted.com/talks/travis_rieder_the_agony_of_opioid_...

What you're doing is incredibly inspiring. I have a friend who ha to kick their morphine addiction alone when the medical system wouldn't support anything other than continued medication.

I can only assume your girlfriends name was Ophelia. What an incredible tribute to her memory.
Yep nice area to ponder. Maybe brains don't just encode behavioral responses to stimuli but rather allow pattern recognition. Cue the Gibson. :)
> Is there a reason whatever security trade offs are OK in Windows, but not on a phone?

Obviously the Windows APIs are far older and are from a time when there wasn't the same concept of untrusted code.

Also, people do tend to install more random software on their phones than their desktops and laptops in my experience. Someone will install a funny Chinese app in the pub based on a recommendation from a friend. They wouldn't do that to their desktop system.
Air pollution clears in northern Italy after lockdown, satellite shows
Euroleaks: The full 2015 Eurogroup recordings now public
How this is done here in Czech Republic is by placing a medical tent or a mobile office container on the grounds near the given hospital handling the testing.

Then people who are to be tested and are in quarantine at home (mostly after visiting affected areas in Italy and elsewhere or by being traced to someone infected) make appointments over phone, then arrive by private car at the designated time.

They will actually not set foot in the tent, instead a swab sample is taken by a medic in full hazmat suit. The tent houses the medic & sample handling equipment.

The people who have been tested then return to quarantine at home and wait for the results.

This is also compounded by a dedicated ambulance with team in full protective gear that takes samples from people at home.
I’m on mobile. If you google, there are charts of hospitalization vs. age. The primary reason for admittance to a hospital is ARDS.
Coronavirus diary: Ethically sourcing data for the fight against COVID19
Show HN: Managed service for PostGIS + Jupyter for building Geo Data Driven apps
Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US
Here: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/empty-mailbox-yahoo-mail-sln29338....
Yes, browser/javascript UI. I was testing it with a colleague and having 2 people in a meeting CPU usage already hit 50% and with 4 it was 100% all the time and the CPU was boosting to its maximum. Tests done on latest Chrome.
https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
RIP Yahoo and Verizon
You can load a .NET dll in a Powershell script and invoke it.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
Similar here with wfh. Estimates and stats are fine but I prefer to trust the experts than play public health expert myself. If someone is being extra cautious that's fine, but trying to villify for not being as paranoid as you is silly.
Padmasree Warrior was CTO at Motorola, and then at Cisco.
The pasteboard API is essentially the same in iOS as it is in macOS. Which means it's an api that was likely designed more than 20 years ago. Because of that, it was not designed for the user-hostile app world we live in, where developers will harness any api that can leak data about the user.

A solution to this is to re-design this api so that it allows developers to query for specific matches, but requires user-action to unlock them I.e. I can passively ask "does the clipboard contain a photo?" or "does the clipboard contain a url in the *.facebook.com domain?" but in order to get the contents I have to prompt the user to manually paste. Probably this would require putting these queries in the info plist, so that they can be validated by app review and you don't get developers brute-forcing the contents with large numbers of generated queries.

This is very similar to how apple solved apps detecting what other apps you have installed using `-[UIApplication canOpenURL:]`. Apple added rate limiting and an info-plist based whitelist, which essentially put a stop to this practice.
My initial reaction as a pathologist bringing in COVID19 testing and talking to friends estimating the disaster that is about to land is this: I want this guy to get a lot of help. Now.

My second thought: are there others like this? I need people putting data in, but I also need the health system to have collective visibility on the stats and be able to reach out to individuals and say "how are you doing?" "Time to come into the hospital." "Your results are back, you're clear". Patient-Provider-Public Health.

Edit: the only other one I can find is the Korean app (link to the app in this article, but Korean, so I don't really know) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615329/coronavirus-south-...
Exactly, I was surprised with HN because HNers from experience are otherwise very rational.
This is the thing with unions they don't care about one persons issues at a workplace but general issues like pay when compared to other companies in the same field. If the company previously had toxic people in high places the people will just adjust to follow union rules while still being toxic.
You often see people sitting on boards from entirely different industries. One reason might be having a entirely different perspective on your business. When you have a board that entirely from the same sector, you end up with a lot of group think.
If a clearly identified real person or long-standing HN pseudonym were saying this, the accusations might have been worth reading. From a throwaway, they are smears attempting to besmirch the reputation of a firm in a competitive market. Not even wrong, and not worth reading.

[EDIT:] ...and since the throwaway-maker has a number of real accounts, pointing this out is instant downvotes...
I never understood the purpose of VB.Net. My second job out of college was a mixture of VB6 and C++ where we would use C++/ATL (COM) to mix and match languages. Of course the VB6 IDE was miles better than the C++ IDE.

But, Windows Forms with C# was just as easy as VB6 and VB.Net was just as complicated and more verbose than C#.
Rewatching the stream, I count 4 [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbHVBL-HCc
Are uber and lyft really bus alternatives?
PREACH

But just so you are aware you can use the 'class' modifier To change this behavior.

It is one of the most fundamentally bizarre language design choices I have seen in my career
My laptop has that. There's a second internal battery, and you can swap the external one while it's on.
I remember I had a GPS device that took AA batteries, but the cells would disconnect with strong vibration.

I would imagine a battery with power wires + a legitimate connector.
According to 2018 population figures on Wikipedia, metro Seattle has just over half of the state's population. Sounds like it wasn't just rural people voting for that initiative.
DNA Lounge to close temporarily, will continue to pay its employees
Or, it could be that

> Bill Gates stepped down from the company's Board of Directors to dedicate more time to his philanthropic priorities including global health, development, education, and his increasing engagement in tackling climate change.

If you follow Bill Gates at all, you'll understand this is where all of his energy, and passion, have been going for a long while now.
Do human doctors have a better rate? And at what cost/throughput?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:10,000_most_common_p...
VB was a great and successful language. It empowered a lot of departments to create bespoke programs that, while not having been built on solid comp sci principles, were good enough and solved real business problems without having to involve the IT department. That’s a strength and a weakness.
This was true for my office as well, but at the same time when I was in elementary and high school in advanced math classes with mostly other guys, I was always mocked for it by students of parallel classes. Life's not fair for sure.
Correction: The bay area schools have shut down for 3 weeks. :)
Isn't a CT scan kind of an ordeal to do?
At a glance it seems the answer is No.

Unreal Engine 4 doesn't officially support icc, for instance. Neither does the Source Engine. I believe the same goes for CryEngine.
"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
Speaking of AI and coronavirus detection, some Chinese tech companies (Megvii, Baidu, SenseTime) have apparently built systems to detect fever with thermal imaging cameras and AI.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3049215/ai-firms-de...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51717164

Seems like something that could be useful anywhere. Ideally, people would self-regulate (go to the doctor, isolate themselves, etc.), but in practice extra layers of protection seem smart. People may not immediately realize they're sick, they might go out anyway, etc.

This seems to, in China's case, tie in with facial recognition they already do (which has privacy implications), but there's no reason the rest of the world would have to approach it that way.
not sure, but i do seem to remember that passwords copied from the “passwords” screen in system preferences get removed after a minute or so... so that functionality seems to exist in some form... (if i am remembering correctly that is)
In order to determine who to test, you need to base it on what your actions will be with a positive or negative result.

If someone is showing mild Corona virus symptoms and can safely quarantine themselves, then there isn't a lot of value in testing. The result isn't going to change what you do.

Where it's useful is controlling transmission. When you identify a patient, find out who they came in contact with and confirm whether or not they have it.
Apple WWDC 2020 to be held online, first time in more than 30 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moebius_(1996_film)
Target, Walgreens, CVS and Walmart to Offer Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing
My u-verse dsl modem, owned by AT&T and rented to me, got an update pushed to it recently with lots of telemetry. no recourse. Comcast does similar things with their cable modems, such as opening them up as semi-public access points.
Are data caps from ISPs still a thing? Where i live, only mobile operators have data caps, regular ISPs ditched that about ten years ago.
Don't confuse EdDSA with ECDSA, I was stumped for a moment until I realized my mistake ;=)
I think this is largely a business model thing - because your phone is virtually always on your person, it is a very rich source of information useful for advertising. Because of that, there are more apps that build their business model around harnessing that kind of data on your phone than on your pc. The ones on your pc that do this are mostly websites, not installed software - if your browser allowed that kind of access, you'd probably see a ton of websites abusing it in the same way as mobile apps.
SAT problems, after all, are in the NP-complete class of problems, which means that they are damn hard to solve with current methods.

...and if they weren't, it would have some very interesting implications for cryptography, one of which is that preimage attacks on hash functions would become much easier --- the SAT instance in this case is one that performs the computation of the function, equating each bit of desired output to equations of each of the input bits.
No, PCR test for a given RNA or DNA block. It will detect the virus, it will detect dead viruses, it will detect neutralized viruses, and it will detect virus bits.
My kingdom for the VB6 time traveling debugger in every language.
This is the base rate fallacy.

return “healthy”;

would have a 99.9% accuracy right now.
In Italy we have two different words: 'banchiere' the one who owns the bank, 'bancario' the one who works at the bank.
It’s amazing that anyone can still be in doubt about drastic measures being necessary when we have Italy as an example of what can happen
"Face masks" are just for patients. You still need people to get virus.
Oh I had a couple sites that were on web rings. Haha
Yeah, the PayPal version seems to be SMS-only 2FA too, so potentially reducing security in some circumstances. :(
Yep..had to tweak Matrix, Origin, and NoScript before it worked, asked for javascript, then errored 5300 for a bit as I worked the extensions.
Nobody's easier to fool than true believers.
A more compelling argument might be -- what things are you not permitted to do to your home or car because of a private entity such as the manufacturer.
Twilio is building the building blocks for solutions like Slack and Zoom. Their core competency isn’t to deliver a full fledge enterprise chat platform.
This is only partially true. The attack exploits a desync between your application and the proxy, so you can vulnerable to this attack even if you are behind a proxy that respects the HTTP spec if your application doesn't. I actually wrote a medium article about this since I fixed the vulnerability in gunicorn [1] a while ago, but I didn't release it (I will and repost here). What you linked to for the AWS ALB is only fixing ONE way to create a desync between the proxy and the server.

EDIT: Here is the link to my blog post https://medium.com/@emilefugulin/http-desync-attacks-with-py...

[1] https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2181
likely at night.
Well, since you've only worked for 3 years I bet you haven't seen many different workplaces either. I've been a professional developer for 3 years and 80% of the people I know use either vim or emacs. The difference between you and me however is that I'm aware that I have been to very few workplaces and don't assume that most people use vim or emacs because of my limited experience.
He has experience and credibility in the field and could bring widespread attention to a clear plan to tackle the problem. Everybody already knows what needs to be done to slow down the pandemic, but there needs to be swift and strong political leadership to make it happen.
If the market was good at addressing problems, our shelves wouldn't be empty of masks and hand sanitizer for the last SEVERAL weeks. Trump had to ask 3M to make more asks.

There's plenty of demand. Where's the supply? Market failure.
Accuweather — com.yourcompany.TestWithCustomTabs

Off topic. I can't imagine how did they shipped this app with this BundleId.
The limiting factor right now is the availability of approved labs to perform the test
Agreed... seems like the bottleneck is the cost and time to run the CT scan, not to have a doctor look at the results.
> The end result is a lens which has amazing depth of field but the trade off of only operating well at a single frequency and poor efficiency. Most of the incoming light is being focused on a plane that the sensor isn't on. Indeed at 1200mm it has an equivalent f-number of 555 requiring some insanely bright lighting and long exposure time to get a good image.

How does this compare to a pinhole camera, which (ideally) has perfect depth of field and focuses all incoming light onto the plane of the sensor, but which achieves that at the cost of admitting very little incoming light? (Thus requiring insanely bright lighting and long exposures.)

It seems like the exact same tradeoff.
Are you saying the CEO didn't consider, at all, the business implications of focusing on producing the tests?
Well the hospitals are running out of masks, aren't they?
If you can get a pharmacy on board with the idea of encouraging their customers to stop buying their products, sure, but most of the worst ope addicts aren't getting their pills from pharmacies…
I just bought a new TV after my previous one crapped out. It was exhibiting the exact same symptoms when it was repaired under warranty a few years back. Decided it would be cheaper in the long run to buy a new TV, get a new warranty than to spend $800 on parts and labor to repair. That was my 2nd Samsung in a row to die a few years after a warranty repair. Avoiding Samsung TVs for a long while.
One criticism I've seen and levied myself is the sheer amount of typing:

[PS] C:\> Get-MyReallyLongFunctionName -Server furtle

$ lol --floop

PS is fine but it takes ages for the bloody thing to wake up and notice command completion. It is like dealing with a teenager in bed.

Actually, I have no problems with PS but with MS's idea of search as deployed to users.

(I run KDE on Arch. Search is faster than I can blink)
Funny how Sony did a similar thing (and had similar problems) with the Cell architecture of the PS3.

The developers who took the time to really target the platform (Naughty Dog? Kojima Productions?) managed to extract a lot of performance from it, and PS3 really felt like something from the future for the time, but it made developing and porting to the platform much harder.

(The difference is that the Cell architecture was more like cluster architecture, just focused on multiprocessing, while this Jaguar seem to have unique components each with unique quirks)
You could say the same about (early) php.
Ok then. :)

Perhaps the age of fixing cars in the driveway may return, if manufacturers aren't able to block the info needed.

At present, more technically advanced people seem to piece together their own CANbus diagnostic tools. But off the shelf products that work for "every model" should be practical if this legislation works.
Coronavirus care at one Chinese hospital got taken over by robots
Shouldn't there be hundreds of labs with these machines though?

The United States government spends far more on healthcare than any other nation on Earth. That's not including private health costs.

South Korea has the capacity to test 20,000 per day and has 1/6th the population.
Wow. Chinese citizen sends humanitarian aid to the U.S. What a queer situation.
Ahh, you need to use ROC AUC or something.
Ask HN: Schools are closing. Advice on teacher’s communication with students?
We’ve just been informed that my daughter’s middle school is closing as of next week. Everything will be done online but teachers are scrambling at the last minute to setup various programs with which they are painfully unfamiliar. The two platforms to which they have defaulted are Edmodo and Remind. Are there any others with more robust features but relatively easy to set up for the nontechnical person. Are Slack and Discord appropriate technically for the middle school group? Recommendations for more involved solutions are also welcomed, including any for K-12 in general.
The people who are experts have specific recommendations, you do your own analysis and freak out and complain about others not joining you.
> I've seen ATMs that take checks, too.

I didn't know there were ATMs that didn't take checks.

In my experience with depositing checks into ATMs, they originally just asked you how much the check was for. This would obviously require human oversight at some point, but you as a customer never needed to interact with a human.

Eventually they started OCRing the checks and proposing to you what they thought the amount of the check was, subject to your correction. Human oversight is still needed, but dramatically reduced.
Seems like a power move to me. Painting a picture for the world of struggling U.S. institutions needing a Chinese billionaire's help to weather a crisis.

I'm not even sure it's incorrect.
I think open source software and possibly hardware as CNC/3D printing/etc form the checks and balances against this.

It's sort of unfortunate. I can see having an idea, and wanting to start a business, but not have people copy it wholesale. But I can also see that people who do start companies go the full-tyranny route - closed source, phone app only, invasive data collection, until purchasing something is a compromise on every level.
And folks need to quit the 'super' this/that...I nearly immediately dismiss everything after that one word,as I already know I'm being pandered.

Downvotes suggest 'super strange' is not the hyperbole I believe it is...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22571009

Just saw this in top ~30 posted about 3 hours ago so making sure you saw it!