skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never happened because there was no use case for it.

FTP made some sense to have in a browser because it supported unauthenticated downloads.

SFTP, as a protocol which runs over SSH, basically requires authentication. (You could conceivably set up an SSH server to allow authentication against a "guest" user, but that gives security folks the heebie-jeebies.) So it doesn't really make sense to link to an SFTP resource in a web context, making it very low value to support in a browser.
Keep in mind this is an antibody test, it only works >1 week after someone gets sick.

It might help differentiate COVID from Flu if someone is sick, but it's not great for screening otherwise healthy people.
Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust
Very fitting for much of today's music indeed.
Surely still important progress & a big deal though, right?
In other words, the price was reset back to its original after the Covid outbreak was a known problem. This articles title is extremely misleading in that case
Marginnote
Tinderbox: The Tool for Notes
The irony is that Flash is pretty much alive.

After those actions, Adobe created an AOT compiler for Flash, so before Unity and Unreal took off, plenty of iOS games were actually AOT compiled Flash ones.

Following up on that, Animate was born.

Now thanks to WebAssembly and CheerpX, old Flash applications can keep on running.
This also requires a blood sample, as opposed to a swab.
The MCU on my Model X has frozen a few times without visiting a website. I've had to forcefully restart my MCU at a stop sign twice since having it.
Here are some stats about Italy: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1593946/embed (extracted from here: https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/ )

("Morti giornalieri = daily deaths | "Terapia intensiva" = total amount of people in intensive care on that day)

As people who need a ventilator are in intensive care (but I admit that that includes as well people that have other types of complications who might not need/be using a ventilator), an idea of that can maybe be extrapolated by comparing that number vs. the number of deaths (daily? total?)?

Thinking more about it, another complication with these numbers is that there are probably already now not enough ventilators, therefore the deaths might include people that died because of the lack of a ventilator... .
I would genuinely be surprised if even 5% of users used FTP in the last year. But damn do I wish they kept the feature in; Firefox should distinguish itself as the tech worker's browser, sorta like a forensics live CD that has every imaginable tool you need for deep work.
Thanks for your inputs! I will think about this more. Typically users want to move tasks between boards in a Kanban board UI. But I get your idea about keeping tasks in a task list.
If I'm reading the telemetry correctly (https://mzl.la/3bq5oFZ), there are ~6k people who used FTP to download a file in the past week or so. That's not enough users to really justify spending manpower rewriting it.
I'm not talking about behavior that involves any form of physical violence or physically moving quickly. Such behavior is almost certainly inappropriate under any and all circumstances. Humans suck so I guess I can assume that it has happened somewhere, but that's not the behavior I've been observing.

I am talking about buying x times as much as you usually do when you go grocery shopping to build up a stockpile, including a larger supply of food that you can store for a long period of time (canned/frozen/dry goods).

Edit: And yes, it doesn't include everyone's homes. In particular it doesn't include the homes of people who didn't do this. Unless the store is literally bare it does still help those people though, because it means there are less people in the store who might transmit the virus to them.
Ask HN: Looking for a certain HN submission from a few months ago
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, but I can't think of a better place to ask.

There was an HN-submitted article a few months ago listing various (recalling it again I'm pretty sure the number was in the low-end, like 4 or something) digital tools that supposedly can potentially change how we work or think. I think one of them was some kind networked note-taking tool. The article seems well-thought-out and not just another generic "15 cool tools for doing X" kind of article.
But I forgot to save the link, and I can't come up with right keywords to find it again.

Does anyone know what article I'm talking about?
> No Gecko and no Chrome? I'm waiting for you to say we should all start using Brave. Please say it.

To be honest i like Seamonkey :) Maybe i am too old.
Consider this an anti-lump. Stored in the back of my mind is a shower based all-other-things-gone-to-hell-in-a-handbasket option. Thank you.

Keep sharing - medical best practise moves onward as well. Perhaps your experience is only effective for you, perhaps it's a viable alternative for millions. We'll science the shit out of it in the next few months no matter what :-)
Because that'd amount to the same result as removing FTP. The "installed base" of web-accessible FTPS and SFTP resources is essentially zero, and that's unlikely to change -- if a web site was previously using FTP, they're probably going to move those resources to HTTP/S, not to another protocol which has limited browser support.
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Your post or website would need to be in english.
What do you mean GPUs don't support them? Most opengl tutorials I've read have people building triangles in 2d to learn fragment shaders and vertices before going 3d. Most of them also support parametric curves, so even hardware accelerated bezier curves should be possible.
Sadly latency makes this almost impossible. However, the guy who made Winamp came up with an interesting solution to this: https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

The idea is, everyone's playing is delayed by one measure, so they are playing along with people from the past, while everyone else is playing along with a past version of them. Kind of crazy.
> Standardized testing significantly levels the playing field for students across income brackets.

There's a correlation between parental income and SAT scores.

“[S]tudents from families earning more than $200,000 a year average a combined score of 1,714, while students from families earning under $20,000 a year average a combined score of 1,326.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/rich-students-get-better-sat...

An "equalizing effect" would imply students of both parental income groups would have the same score.
Fridays don’t count.
> Assuming that understanding is sufficiently correct, what I'm not hearing enough of is what is being done with the time we're buying.

This was along the lines of my first thoughts as well. Theoretically, we want to maximize the usage of our medical resources (personnel, reusable supplies such as bed space, non-reusable supplies such as medication that become available at a variable rate), to keep just enough below the capacity to handle the needs and allow for some spikes (if we can even get it that low).

To my eyes, that calls for the ability to reassess and shift directives for the public (that is, maybe ease up on shelter-in-place next week, but put it back the week after), track and optimize resource flow, and coordination between locales. As a national level emergency, it makes sense there would be national level coordination on how to deal with it. Instead it appears we have governors and mayors making their own calls on what to do based on what advice they are personally getting, and the health care system is just struggling to figure out what to do.

What we don't have is any leadership putting forth an actual plan, or any real indication that they are even attempting to do so, or that if they are that they're putting any real teeth behind making sure officials are on board.
>It’s perfectly possible to patent something and then release all rights to it.... but why?

Perhaps to prevent another company filing the patent and trolling it.
> The essay is funny. Per the SAT's own published rules, they are not graded on fact at all; purely rhetoric, vocabulary choice, and clarity. All of the prompts also usually include a historical figure or event of some sort -- you don't need to know anything about them other than what the prompt tells you

When I realized this applied to a lot of required essays -- ie, they can be fiction or satire -- I had a lot more fun writing papers. I wouldn't exactly recommend it but can confirm it doesn't completely tank your GPA.
It is possible and in fact it has happened already in a lot of European states.
The tech workers browser is Next: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next

source: biased developer :-)
90% of tests reported negative. If someone is tested, they need to take 2 tests. If someone is tested positive, they need to be tested until they get 2 negative tests in a row. So the numbers are very skewed.
> I'd like to live in a country where you can be a bit of a flawed person and still not experience any violence from the government, unless you're so flawed that you're actively hurting others and there's no other way to make you stop.

Yes, me too.

But this is not responsive to my comment and if you feel that it is, maybe you're not familiar with the full series of events that night? I recommend the documentary LA 92.

> In this world, none of us are blameless victims.

Um, sure, in some abstract sense.

But in a very specific and real sense, Rodney King was less blameless than most of us.

* He was speeding while driving drunk, endangering others;

* he failed to pull over when the police initially indicated he should (a non-violent authority granted to police by the state to enforce traffic laws);

* he attempted to outrun LAPD by driving at high speeds through neighborhoods (in an attempt to avoid parole violation for previous robbery), further endangering others;

* and finally after the chase was stopped, and he was out of the car on the ground, he attempted to get up and fight the police officers arresting him several times.

* Here is where the the Holliday video starts.

* Police first use violence against Mr. King: they taser him when he first gets up off the ground, refusing police direction to stay on the ground.

* He gets off the ground again and attempts to attack a cop (Powell).

* Here's the beginning of the video cut that KTLA broadcast. Notably, it's missing the part where he tried to attack Powell.

* Police again use violence in self-defense.

* He continues to refuse to submit to arrest and attempts to stand repeatedly. Police continue to use violence.

* At some point the violence was no longer necessary to keep him detained and allow an officer to safely handcuff him, but continued despite that.

That last bullet is unacceptable! I don't dispute that. But Rodney King meets your bar for actively hurting others justifying government violence.

Yes, people shouldn't have to be blameless to avoid government violence.
But it is a much more compelling demonstration of the problem when the victims are blameless. There are so many other recorded incidents of excessive police force with less problematic victims.
They’re not mandatory to drive. Tesla does silent over the air updates with important fixes since the car has data capabilities. Larger updates happen over WiFi.
Thanks team Mattermost. Super excited to be working with you guys!!
> They should remove http then.

They're working on it. It has and will continue to be deprecated with ever increasing security warnings.

But the reason why FTP got pulled and HTTP hasn't is simply usage. The FTP client in browsers is terrible, and anyone using FTP professionally is using a better client (e.g. multiple connection modes, resume downloads, concurrent streams, etc) or has already migrated to FTPS or SFTP.

FTP just adds attack surface and maintenance cost.
Stanford CS243: Web Security
That Sunday lineup is great
It will also detect recent infection after the virus has been wiped out but the antibodies remain.

So this is much better than any RNA test to assess the progression of the disease through the population.
I worked for a company that made software for libraries (public and academic). It evolved over many years, starting off as a terminal session onto a mainframe.

The newer windows version still kept every single keyboard shortcut, because it turns out once you know the shortcuts, it's so much faster than pointing and clicking.
I hope the legal framework does not lead to people like her getting sued over their attempts to help
There's no mandatory updates that I've seen. You get an alert that there's an update, and it shows up every time you put the car in Park. It prompts you to update now or schedule a time.

You usually have to be in range of wifi to download updates, afaik.
From my understanding, this should still detect the virus in individuals with mild or no symptoms, correct? Because those individuals do have an immune response.

But what you're saying is that RNA tests will have better recall during the initial stages of infection when the virus is multiplying in someone's body and that person doesn't yet have an immune response?
Those inputs cause aptitude.
I still always seem to fall back to Wordpress because the idea is to create content, not play with the software.

Wordpress just works and has an active community and a ton of plug-ins which lets you focus on generating content and not fighting constantly with the tool. There are plenty of inexpensive hosting options for Wordpress, and lots of templates to get moving.

If the goal is to blog, use what is popular and already works so that you are blogging and not constantly focused on the platform. The more time you deal with the platform the less you focus on actually posting which is what is important.

FWIW, I don't particularly like Wordpress, and there are parts I downright despise, but it works and gets the job done.
Same here, I did some contracting to start my career as it was less credential-dependent than FTE. After showing what I could do for a few years, nobody has ever concerned themselves with my lack of degree since. I've literally spent my whole life studying computers (my dad is a geek so I started at 4 years old), so college was meaningless. Most of my classes I either already knew the subject matter beforehand or knew more about the subject matter than the instructor, so I dropped out. Most of the information is available for free online or in a library if you're self-motivated enough to learn.

There are some people who definitely benefit from structured learning environments, so I don't ever try to dissuade people from going to college. Rather, I try to get everyone to just start building stuff and releasing it open source and contributing to open source as soon as they can. If you can learn how to search effectively, read documentation effectively, and program proficiently in at least one language you don't really need college.
An excellent keyboard-first interface exists already. It's called Emacs. Give it a chance. It might surprise you.
This will make it easier to tell if a symptomatic person has COVID or something else. But it won't help with early detection, which is what is most urgently needed.
Big chance of getting false-positive. People will think they're clear and won't distance themselves from vulnerable. While they may be carriers.
The kit looks very interesting. Unfortunately, it appears to me that the Pinnacle kit is not yet approved under the emergency fda authorization, yes? I'm using this web page for reference: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med....
What if you're asymptomatic?
It's important to test the public to see the penetration into the population. People who test positive should get an RNA test to determine if infected. People who are not infected become valuable assets to keep logistics and supply chain up and work front line tasks as they have little risk of getting infected. This group people can return back to normal life and don't need to be lockdown.
You mean average white middle class kids who have "smooth talking, photogenic, well-connected parents" who can pay for the tutoring?

This is like the old Uk secondary Modern vs Grammar schools - but with the total destruction of the skilled vocational path.

It interesting that if I had staying Birmingham (UK) my mum was keen to use family connections to get me into King Edwards :-)

For those not familiar with the UK education hierarchy its always in the top 3 in the entire UK and was Tolkien's old school - Rich Thickos go to Eaton
Not turning a profit is a meaningless metrics for a silicon valley company. They could burn endless amounts of (VC) cash with zero relations to how well the business is doing or how solid it is.

I've worked at their main competitors for a while. I know the industry. I guarantee you AirBnb is not at any risk of disappearing.
The difference is that nobody runs untrusted binary apps.

If we wanted to do so, then the "run" operation on an executable would be different.

There is no difference, and in fact, OS have more features and capabilities to make running untrusted code safe.
"That said, both the current Pro and Air are thinner than the original MacBook Air and the same weight or slightly lighter."

That may be, but there is no 11" model so it's a bigger thing to put in my briefcase/bag ...

I knew I should have purchased three identical 2015 11" MBAs ... I bought two and I am on #2 now ... when it breaks there is nothing to replace it with.
That's actually better, some competent people said, because the chance of contact with virus carrying bodily fluids is eliminated
Pretty funny. There's a joke in there about running javascript in your car.
There's even more, though. It gives us an opportunity to replenish masks, hand sanitizers, tests, and other supplies we have an immediate need for. Once this plateaus and stockpiles replenish, we can take some small steps to normalcy.

Medium term, we can more properly organize and distribute medical resources, assemble temporary hospitals, learn more about current anti-virals to better manage it, etc. Allowing even more steps towards normalcy.

The vaccine is immensely important, but there are major steps before then that we don't have to be completely locked down waiting for.
That's an excellent link, better than the one current story points to.

> CoronaCheck was evaluated in China using 760 clinical samples. In this cohort, 286 samples were confirmed positive. Our manufacturers report a sensitivity of 97.2% and specificity of 92%.

I wonder how this compared to other tests.
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Working from home vids: MTV Cribs, Day in the Life, and other isolation thoughts
Because everyone keeps parroting what you're saying. We are effectively now in a fear bubble. So now everyone's mindset is "stop the world lets hunker down and cower in a corner for the impending doom. Nothing positive or new data can change my mind."

In a couple weeks/months they'll start testing people to find out if they did have the virus. The tests right now only show if you currently have it. Once the real numbers come out I am confident it will be a massive over estimate for the CFR.

The fear bubble is causing people to underlook the data in places like SK, SG, Japan, Germany and overlook the data in Italy, China, Iran. It could be quite possible that a mixture of smoking, age, over reporting causes, and bad healthcare (gasp not in Italy where socialized medicine is world beating) is being overlooked.

So what we get now is stopping of society and the economy, millions of people will go through displacement and a host of negative things. People's savings will be depleted, not to mention teacher's/public servants/ pension and 401ks will take a MASSIVE hit. Oh and add to that more trillions of USD to the debt.
Yeah I really do love that. Once you get a grasp on it, you can control it blindly. I'm so quick on our UI right now, that you sometimes don't even see the command line opening. I think this efficiency combined with modern design has great potential.
That doesn't help anyone on mobile.

This does:
http://archive.is/Vu92k
Since I'm getting messages about this as the quoted source in the Stereogum article (they never contacted me for permission or to clarify btw, just took that Facebook post and ran with it), here is the fully researched article I wrote for Dazed after my experience. Hopefully it can give some more insight for anyone who's been trying to reach me to inquire more about it!

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/43946/1/where-is-...
The actual numbers seem to be in the region of 0.1%, according to Chrome telemetry, and my best attempt to read the Firefox telemetry myself.
Nobody is proposing we just let people die. At least, nobody credibly that I have seen.

There are some questions on if there was really going to be a curve to flatten. Such that, if we flatten it now, was it the social distancing we did, or was it going to flatten anyway?

These are not reasons to abandon caution. They do seem valid questions, though. Especially considering the costs of the actions we have taken.
http://archive.is/Vu92k
I think it's likely useful for mild cases and for detecting people previously infected. People that recovered can be put to work in hazardous places. And can donate plasma to make serum[1] for treating sick people.

[1] Antivirals are a crap shoot but serum works hands down.
This is fantastic. Much better than my idea of just using text recognition to search a database of models. I hope this research continues so in the years to come I can slap on a VR headset and generate scenes like the holodeck.
How to Cope with Your Stress, Fear, Uncertainty and Coronavirus Anxiety Pandemic
Antibody tests are also fairly unreliable in a number of circumstances as well.
Is it hard for managed languages to support RISC-V for some architectural reason?
https://archive.vn/1BenC
That I understand is totally correct.
> I wonder why there haven’t been any modern sequels or mobile ports of Lemmings...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)#Legacy

In 2010, it was announced that Lemmings would be ported to the iOS operating system by developer Mobile 1UP. On 29 June 2010, Mobile 1UP reported that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe had presented them with a cease-and-desist letter, forcing them to halt development of the port. In April 2011, Mobile 1UP has released a re-worked version of the work done in 2010 with a prehistoric setting (new artwork, sfx, music, levels) under the name Caveman, available for the iOS and webOS platforms. Brutal Deluxe, the developer who did the porting of the Apple IIgs version of Lemmings, has released the games' source code.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)#Ports_an...
Consider that the evidence you are presenting does not show the actual influence of temperature on the virus itself. I would argue (anecdotally) that warmer climates mean people are less confined in general, therefore adding some element of "natural" social distancing.
It says > "This test has not been reviewed by the FDA."
This advice grew out of the days when database platforms cost enormous amounts of money. It is still as true as it ever was, but since then the biggest pressure that lead to it no longer applies.

Back before PG and others were viable competitors to the big commercial databases, about the only leverage customers had against aggressive sales people was the threat to switch to a competitor. So people would preserve that as a credible threat by not using proprietary SQL extensions.

No vampiric salesdroid from Postgres is going to knock on your door demanding 8 figures.

Now, there may be other reasons you want to switch away from it, or you may want to support a variety of DBs in whatever you're building, or some other reason. So it is good to be aware of. But shying away from SQL extensions is usually no longer a matter of budgetary apocalypse.