skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a reasonable point of action. The problem, IMO, is that the rest of the population MUST be more stricter than ever regarding their distancing. And here comes the rub, because I, honestly, do not think this is about to happen. People are _still_ not taking this seriously, even those in the most at risk groups. Enforcing this separately would be a nightmare.

We might end up there anyway, because I think people will get exhausted with the current situation and will sill up anyways. Once the cat is out of the bag and the disease is rampaging through the population, it will be too late.
I hope you guys at Kogito take this in a constructive way.
For instance, once you want to know more and you read "examples", as user, I want to fully understand what does it do! Instead, I find a link to https://github.com/kiegroup/kogito-examples/releases .
I have no doubt your software is amazing, I just would like you to help me understand what it does and if it suits me. :)
It obviously wouldn't be the default (it couldn't be, in fact, since the existing APIs are set in stone short of memory unsafety).

The way it'd work is either you'd have two different collections entirely, one which'd signal and one which'd panic (the latter possibly being built atop the former) or every method which can panic on allocation failure would also have a panic-safe alternative.

Example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043 similarly Vec could gain `try_push`, `try_append`, `try_insert`, `try_split_off`, …
"Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable."

- Sebastian Junger
A portal/console for customers of saas products.

Every time I launch a new idea, I hate wasting my time on writing some basic customer facing admin/console where customers can see their invoices, change payment method, access support tickets, make some configuration change.

I am creating something more generic where I can just plug in firebase, zendesk, stripe, Braintree etc api Keys and all the base functionality is there. Easily extendable through react plugins.
Yes the best way is to use voice control. You can tell the tesla to "set fan speed to 2" and it will do it. Voice commands are the safest imho.

But at least in my car I only need to select fan speed in the first menu then scroll do actually change it. This in a model x. But I was really responding to the "100% touch screen" statement.
Working on https://folge.me - tool that helps bulding step by step guides. This is my first experience with writing desktop apps.
> Building up herd immunity in the rest of the population once hospital supply lines are robust might be the best way to unwind the existing rules

Have you been out in public in the USA since the "shelter in place" orders took effect in any of the affected states/cities?

This is not a quarantine, it's not an absolute containment effort. The effect is to simply slow the spread to something hopefully less than wildfire.

There will be herd immunity developing regardless of what we do. Vulnerable people are already afraid and staying home as much as possible.

Plenty of people are out going about their lives despite the shutdown. I'm in CA and went for a supply run yesterday, Home Depot was crowded with folks who seemed to be taking advantage of the time off to do home improvement projects.

Plenty of evidence of sick folks out there being careless as well. The contagion is spreading either way.
This is horrific. I am gonna use this term "Don't burn your bridges until after you've cross them" to communicate that contagious incubation period is extremely dangerous and the reason why the current Coronavirus epidemic turned into a global pandemic.

Thus, testing is by far the most important capability to have - it is a litmust test whether the pathogen is ready to build one of those bridges to cross.
People in Japan pack pretty close together on public transit and that probably offsets whatever other social distancing is going on there.
Question is is it the conditions or the medicine they’re taking to counter those conditions that make the patients more susceptible to the virus.
I’m working on HeadlessTesting.com - launched last month.

It is a grid of browsers; currently Chrome, Firefox and Edge, which can be used to run Puppeteer and Playwright scripts.

Your existing Puppeteer and Playwright scripts can be easily configured to connect to our grid. The advantage for the user is scalability, no maintenance and setup of infrastructure and support.

Usecases include generating PDFs and screenshot and headless browser testing.
Just relaunched - tierlist.fyi -

Its an aggregator for tech company rankings in tier list format. Takes all user generated tier lists, combines them, and shows a “master” list.
Yes, but once the disease passes for them, they will be immune. Herd immunity is basically the only way this will pass away now, so we might as well be clever and push it on the side of the population that can take it.

EDIT: If we assume this is true and this will end when 40-50% of the population has already caught it, would it not be clever of us to make sure the 40-50% of the population that caught it is the one least affected by it? By making the measures the same for everyone you basically make sure the percentage affected will be uniformly distributed among all groups. If you make the measures distinct for each group, you tilt the odds in favour of one or another group, and might get a better outcome in the end.

IMO, now the people in power should balance several factors:
- People in need of medical assistance
- the group of people more likely to have permanent health effects from the infection
- Economic impact of measures ( this, imo, can probably cause deaths in an indirect way as well)
- population compliance to lock down measures (this will erode in time, I expect)

Ideally, the would find some social valve where they could play with the number of infected and they would direct this to the less at risk population and adjust the pressure over the medical system so it's just close to breaking, but not quite there, and directing the disease towards the least affected segment. Problem with this is the disease is not spreading linearly, so it's _very_ easy to loose this from under control. If they manage to make the status quo distanced enough so that the spread is more linear without disrupting too much the lives of normal people, and in the meantime playing with this valve for the less-at-risk population. If htis is feasible, I do nto know, but sounds like a reasonable idea.
They don't remain endurance athletes by skipping workouts for months on end. I've seen articles where some body builder got the flu, couldn't workout for a week or so and lost significant amounts of muscle mass, like 25 pounds.

You develop capacity like that, you use it or lose it.

And maybe I'm not making my point very well, but everything I've seen in life suggests such people do have a real need to workout regularly. It's not a "nice to have" for them. It's a "must have."

There was even a woman who was eventually diagnosed with a genetic disorder whose disorder had long been de facto managed by her very active lifestyle.

But I'm going to step away from this discussion. It's starting to look like a pointless pissing contest and that's not really my cup of tea.
Probably the mix of

1) Ubiquitous government funding

2) Student-teacher power asymmetry

3) Strength of tenure
Rather than frame it like this, it would probably be more useful to talk about whether these people differ from a typical person.

For example, about 80% of adults in the US are either overweight or obese, with some extremely obese. With that come many issues, e.g. diabetes.

So, are we talking about typical people here, many of whom (us) have some form of health issue, e.g. a 40 year old who is overweight and may have high blood pressure because of it, which is very common? Or are we talking about people we consider truly sick and fragile, e.g. a 82 year old who was hospitalised for a heart attack last year, has vitamin deficiencies in the bloodwork, and smoked for 30 years and survived cancer.
Brilliant idea...
Title IX has always had these problems and has had these abuses since inception. Numerous lawsuits have been brought about this kind of thing and even won. Why is this case different?

No, really, I am asking. Why is the New York Times writing about it now? Why for these people?
I heard flash freezing can make the sushi taste better too. Does anyone know if this true?
Of course it is. My Alexa app on my phone is eating all the battery even though I don't use it. Going to uninstall it.
NY is also the leader in testing, so that isn't surprising.
Brilliant idea.....
I'm catching up on movie watching.

For the last 10+ years, I've been collecting a list of any movie mentioned on reddit or HN as being good or excellent. I also will add the Netflix top 100 DVDs each month (yes, I'm still a DVD Netflix subscriber!). I'll also add all of the academy award nominated movies (although most of those already show up in the Netflix 100).

That list has grown to about 650 movies now (fun fact, Netflix will only let your queue be 500 movies per profile).

They are all stored in my Netflix queue, so I can't share the list.

My first task is figuring out a better way to maintain the list outside of Netflix, and a way to export the Netflix list to the new method, as well as having it auto-import some top films lists automatically.

If anyone has any suggestions on what to use to keep track of the list or any easily importable "top movies" lists, I'd love to hear them!
Hi HN. Another user shared this link in a comment and I thought it warranted a direct submission.
Why? Universities don't really want to act as a parallel judicial system, and it turns out that they're not very good at it.

We have real laws and courts. Let them work.
Not the kind of reply I expected and utterly fails to be a setup for the joke I wanted to make about not being human myself and just being here on your planet to do the field study portion of my degree in Human Studies.
I really can't envision how anyone could think these toys would do anything other than distract drivers.

Truth is driving requires one's full attention and any distraction is going to reduce safety, even in a self driving car.

I don't really find it remarkable that it's worse than pot, or alcohol within the legal limit though. They didn't offer much info on the weed thing and that surely depends on how "high" one gets, but if they kept it within the same range as the legal limit of alcohol (a small toke or two) that's no surprise at all.

I worked for years designing and building custom cars. Honestly, that giant screen in a Tesla is the craziest thing I've ever seen in a car, and I've helped build some pretty crazy cars.
I want people to rush to testing all sorts of drugs, this one included.

How quickly should testing of a drug expand? That depends on a balance of risks. The faster you go, the more danger there is of the drug having bad side-effects while you're figuring out how safe and effective it is. The slower you go, the more you delay the possible benefits if the drug ends up working. Right now the potential benefits of such a drug are enormous -- or, put another way, each day of delay is a minor catastrophe. That should tilt the scales a lot.

Sometimes the careful, cautious thing to do is to go fast!
Europe has very different regions. Some countries have the best infrastructure, with nearly everyone on glassfiber, while others only have cripled ASDL.

You really cannot make a statement like 'Europe has a poor internet infrastructure', without (i) comparing it to somwhere else and (ii) highlighting the differences in regions.

I mean, I'm pretty confident that everyone in Europe has better internet than everyone in Cuba or Zimbabwe.
You are not alone. Many amazing groups fail to properly communicate and describe what they do/offer.
Don't forget the citation needed.
- Setting up a small webservice that creates PDF files with sample data for workflow development. I need this for work as it's easier than working with real customer data. Hopefully others find it useful, too. Will make a ShowHN once it's finished.

- Remade a small landingpage for tshirt-designs with motives for my hometown/area. Used a software called "Bootstrap Studio" for that. I think I found it through HN. Really like it for static one-pagers. Looking into doing more with that.

- Rebuilding an old commercial espresso machine. The electronics were fried, you can't get them as spare parts, so I'm doing a full rebuild. New casing, new electronics but the old mechanical parts. Waiting for the last exchange parts, then I will finish the mechanical work and can look into the electronics.

- Learning French via Duolingo. Been keeping it up for almost 30 days now, Homeoffice made some time for two or three more "lessons" a day. I like it so far.

- Maybe I should start meditating, but I'm not sure where/how to start. I looked into some apps but I find them rather distracting. Maybe I just need to sit in my bed for 10 minutes with closed eyes and everything and just focus on my breath every morning. Any recommendations on how to get this started?
- No business model

- Families (arguably the people who would use this) probably won't use this. It's too much time overhead for minimal gains.

Don't sweat it.
To what end? If the data you collect cannot change behavior, it has no purpose.
My intent is not to convince you to do anything, rather to point out that "I never do X and feel bad when I do X" shouldn't lead one to the conclusion "doing X is bad for me".
Flexport donates 60k masks, other supplies to SF healthcare workers
The matter is not as simple as "Devos is against it, so we must support it"; also one could say recent revisions aren't attempts to "dismantle" it. Criticism has come from all sides:

AAUP: https://www.aaup.org/article/trouble-title-ix

Harvard Law: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/1/law-faculty-titl...

More law professors: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/17/professors-ur...
If your goal is to reduce the problem domain from hardware and software to just software, then yeah, using a chip with most of the hardware work done for you is fine.

Looking at Ben Eater's youtube channel, there seems to be a healthy demand for building more authentic '80s 8-bit systems.

If one's goal is to learn about how to build an 8-bit computer, using a microcontroller is not going to be an edifying experience unless the goal is to do something mostly in the software domain like write a simple OS.

While I think your parable is good advice for getting a business going quickly, it's not appropriate for deep dive learning or hacking.
Those were about using devices from outside the home though. Physically going inside a home and planting a microphone. Installing something like this into a house by law enforcement would still be a step beyond that ruling.
NASA suspends work on Moon rocket due to virus
Looks great – installed it and will let you know how it goes. :)
Some very insightful thoughts in that link. I especially liked these two:

"People who provide challenging opinions are not trolling so long as they are not deviating from the conversation at hand. There are some people whose only goal is to attain emotional harmony. When a challenging opinion is encountered it is easy for some people to view this disruption to the social norm as trolling, when it likely isn't."

"Some people are easily offended. When a person engages in a conversation directly without distraction they aren't trolling simply because you became emotional."
Nice! I was shooting for something that works better on a phone, but I really like how you tie chords to the scale. I'd like to do something like that, too, but in bluegrass, out-of-key chords like II and bVII are really important, too, and not sure how to make that work.

I also decided to show all the chord notes across the fretboard, rather than specific playable chord shapes. Both approaches are useful for different goals, but I wanted something that's more about leaning the fretboard than individual chords.
You had better not trust the T2 chip, because it is vulnerable to the checkm8 exploit and the checkra1n folks have already demonstrated total compromise. The encryption functionality isn't affected if you have FileVault on, because your password is not stored anywhere on the device, but everything else, from basic SMC functions like mic/cam/fans/touchbar to secure boot to verifying the microcode and ME firmware before loading are totally useless now.

AFAIK, the T2 is always powered on even when the main CPU is off, so this could have ultra-long-term persistence.
People are complex, and often irrational.
This is bad advice, if you are doing anything other than output to stdout/stderr (which you almost assuredly are, unless you are doing something very simple like "yes"), you want to switch to /dev/null. For instance, running

rm -vfr folder/ | head

involves SIGPIPE causing problems because it may or may not kill rm before it finishes deleting the directory, based on its internal output buffer size.
The Black Death probably falls into that category, being thought to have killed 30-60% of the population of Europe, and followed up by multiple subsequent related plagues over the ensuing centuries. The Plague of Justinian might have wiped out a similar proportion of the population a few hundred years before that.

Modern medicine and hygiene would have significantly increased survival rates, especially since many of the most deadly plagues are thought to have been bacterial and transmitted by flea bites. The other big difference is transport of course; historically extremely virulent and deadly diseases in many parts of the world had limited ability to spread beyond that particular ill-fated town or city, and rats and fleas were more necessary as well as more effective in helping the disease spread.
In Canada right now jobs are being lost at a higher rate than the worst recession of all-time...
Intel to release neuromorphic-computing system
Still building Alchemist Camp: https://alchemist.camp and working on an analytics product.

I've also been digging into and learning more about how Git works under the hood.
I wrote that some media doesn't like Trump, and I think that's fairly obviously true. Are you suggesting that all media outlets do like him?

"Leader of the Free World" is just something that American media, and perhaps other media outlets, use. They chose to start using it, to contrast the "Free World" with the enslaved world of the USSR and sundry. Some media outlets have chosen to stop using the term to refer to Trump, but that is purely an expression of their estimation of Trump, it's not an actual role or title lost.

Since you come from Europe, I'm curious to know, did you consider George Bush your leader? Do you consider yourself part of the Free World?
"Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired. To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
Could be that social norms of Japan make the exponent approximately 1. It's a stretch, but not impossible.
From the report:

Median age of patients who died: 80.5 years

Median age of patients with infection: 63 years

So the data would seem to suggest that the overweight 40 year old is not likely to die and is far below the median for even getting the infection (and going to the hospital.)
I wasn't passing judgement on whether it's a right or wrong or rational thing to do.

I'm saying that this literally is the definition of panic buying: buying significantly more than you normally would, because you fear that goods will be unavailable, or you will be unable to do your regular shopping in the future.
A wonderful book that answers this and many other questions is 'Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life' by Martin Nowak.
On the other hand, the problem with your argument is that there is absolutely no way to be sure, today, that the mortality rate is even within an order of magnitude of 0.6%. And as more evidence comes out that this thing is spreading faster and more stealthily than expected, one consequence is that the true mortality rate may be much lower than those estimates.
Oh, that's pretty cool! I remember trying to hack Path/Pure path to support compressed files (at least to some extent), but got stuck because of some closed slots.
Show HN: Simple LD_PRELOAD-able memory allocator
Here's a link to the FAQ on the subject
https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/20632.html

It includes instructions to disable-

4) Getting rid of the vendor-logo/firmware-splash being shown while Fedora is booting?

If you don't want the firmware-splash to be used as background during boot, you can switch plymouth to the spinner theme, which is identical to the new bgrt theme, except that it does not use the firmware-splash as background, to do this execute the following command from a terminal: "sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R spinner"

Note that the kernel will restore the vendor-logo early on at boot in case it got damaged by e.g. option ROM messages. If you are switching to the spinner theme you may also want to add "video=efifb:nobgrt" to your kernel commandline. See 7 below for how to edit the kernel commandline.
> And as part of a settlement, they are prohibited from publicly naming him.

That would be a non-starter for me. I think I would burn about half my net worth to let the world know about a scumbag on the level of "J".
Rewriting the NodeMCU-based chicken coop door in MicroPython (currently written in Lua). Also gotta rebuild/clean my anemometer and rewire the temp sensor for my homebrew weather station. Oh, and replacing the IRF510 on my Bitx40, since I blew it up.

Aside from that, I'm getting a lot of non-technical work done around the house, from painting to gardening.
Who cares about Android Auto with specific buttons, I wanted them to compare the same tasks to a old device.

How distracting is it to play a specific song on a radio from 1999? Or a specific FM radio station that isn't already programmed?
The public health experts in Trump administration (CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, DHH Secretary Alex Azar has been a bunch of clowns) had not been forthcoming from late Jan up until National Emergency declared last week, either due to gag order or ignoring the fact that travel ban would not save America from this viral outbreak. Even NIH Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci has had an gag order at one point when Pence was in charge of the Coronavirus Task Force a few weeks back. Yes now it's getting better. But We lost a few weeks of time. In a pandemic, every second earlier save lives!

On the other hand, I follow Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Harvard/Johns Hopkins trained Epidemiologist on Twitter[1]. He was the first to blow the whistle in America and say COVID-19 is a "thermal-nuclear" level bad on a later deleted tweet[2], when Wuhan was in hell because the healthcare systems there were crashing in late Jan/early Feb. And now we know, COVID-19 is likely going to cause more death and worse economic tolls than the past nuclear war in WWII.

[1]: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing

[2]: https://disrn.com/news/harvard-epidemiologist-says-coronavir...
One of the food delivery apps available where I live initially started offering no-contact delivery as optional, after a few days no-contact was default and I think now it's the only option for delivery.

You can't fully reduce the risk from aerosol, as who says that in an apartment building someone didn't pass by 5 minutes before and went all disciple of Nurgle by coughing their lungs out, but that is that.
If that happens I'll show up at my local warehouse and work for free. People are dying.
Thanks for the detailed analysis, SG govt made something similar
To manage your home inventory of regular consumables...
Is this loss of scent permanent or temporary?