skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found at least one problematic section when scanning:

> The environment variables RUSTC, RUSTC_WRAPPER and RUSTFLAGS must not be overriden when using Cargo to build project.

This is simply not true at all. Mainly build cache systems like sccache work by wrapping rustc, there is no reason why using a build cache should be forbidden.

(Through currently rust support of sccache is still not perfect and there are some limitations, doesn't change that the rules are to broad.)

I also wouldn't be surprised if there are some rustc flags not exposed in cargo profiles which allow trigger some security mechanisms in llvm which are not enabled by default but beneficial for your project.

Like always the important think is that you understand what you do and want implications it had.
My pixelbook strikes a great balance there.
At 2.4 pounds, it's pretty light. The ipad weighs in at 1.5 pounds, but the keyboard adds back in most of that weight. I can run all the Android things and do "arbitrary code execution" with Linux as well. The tablet experience is pretty good overall too (not that I find myself wanting to use it that much).
I predict they will find a way to "postpone" the elections in November due to <insert reason here>. Everyone can scream "unconstitutional" at me as much as they want - the current administration has been practicing this for >3 years and they will find a way. Just leaving this here so I can say "I told you so".
My colleague showed me this a couple weeks ago, which makes me laugh even more when I think back to all the CSV parsers I saw in VB.NET in past gigs.

I'll admit, I'd written more than one in C# myself before I discovered FileHelpers.
Right, sorry, yes, I see that now.
I think you should finish the degree. For two reasons you have a scholarship / can do it without taking on debt and with recent events the job market will be tough for everyone.

I have a bachelors in a non-STEM field, and am self-taught (been working for ~5 yrs now, a few years as an IC and then now been an engineering manager for almost 2 years). I manage people who have bachelors/masters in computer science, and having the degree both grants you more job security and leeway in negotiating better compensation (I've seen qualified people without a degree get passed up/not been compensated as fairly for their skills). My company has a 'education benefit' so I've been looking to go back into school to get my masters in software engineering - maybe this is the year. But in my opinion/perspective, the degree opens up so many more degrees compared to if you didn't have it.
Saw https://saasify.sh/ on here recently that sounds in the ballpark fo what you’re going for.
I’m working on my podcast listening website and apps, https://www.podalong.com.

Podalong is (eventually) going to help connect listeners of their favorite podcasts with each other and in new ways with the podcasters themselves.

A lot of work still to go, but I’m more and more excited every day about its future.

Website is built with Elixir/Phoenix Framework, app is built using Flutter. I highly recommend both!
I am seeing a distinct lack of emphasis on “You’re contagious even before you realize you have COVID-19”. Instead of just telling people “Stay home”, we need to provide the reason why. I don’t see that in White House briefings. In the press. No where.

It seems to be that the spread of the virus is fundamentally linked to this incubatory contagious effects, otherwise this whole Coronavirus pandemic would have been a localized epidemic in Wuhan.

Can we press hard on this? Tell everyone you know. The press isn’t doing their job, it feels.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, if you're not dealing with approximately bandlimited and sampled signals, then this wouldn't apply. The article is about embedded devices processing sensor data (microphones, motion/light sensors, accelerometers, etc.), and in those cases the signal of interest will often be bandlimited.
I looooove Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. There was a five-year period or so where it was about the only game I played. (Things got worse when I discovered that there are two-week tournaments that are essentially a war on productivity... How many times and in how many different ways can you beat the game in a two-week period? Your team is depending on you! Down with sleep!)

Their design philosophy is fantastic:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/cr...

The core concept is that all choices should be /meaningful/. 'No-brainers' are ruthlessly pruned away, or given interesting side effects that could be situationally useful or terrible. And also, avoid anything that looks like grinding. These people speak my language...
Part of the reasoning is that people who believe masks provide them full protection will take more risks than otherwise. Combine that with hoarding and other behaviors and it's possible that promoting widespread use of masks would cause new problems the west doesn't already have.

If we had successfully promoted "wear a mask when you're sick" as general US policy in advance we probably wouldn't have these supply chain issues and it would be safe to advise people just wear a mask at all times during the crisis. We didn't, so most people don't have any masks, which means they're going to look at this crisis + advisory and panic buy a big pile of them when supplies are already limited.
I am currently developing an application for the smart bike trainer; similar to Zwift you can do workouts, aimed on power, cadence or heart rate.

You can also create and share workouts made out of segments with friends. It will also have a Chrome plugin that enables you to lay your live statistics on top of let's say Youtube or Netflix.

Or at least that is the idea ;-)
>The firm worries about the devices being compromised, less so with name-brand products like Alexa, but more so for a cheap knock-off devices, he added.

Speaking of Ring knock-offs:

In these days of self-imposed isolation, this hands-free motion activated connected door knocker seems seems pretty useful for scaring away unwanted visitors without spreading germs:

https://blog.smartthings.com/how-to/smartthings-door-knocker...
(Re: Meditation) The Waking Up App is a godsend; baffingly comprehensive. The only potential problem (for some) is it was created by Sam Harris.
What's funny is nowadays Alexa or Google Assistant will fail to wake when called but tend to trigger randomly during conversations.
iPad is not a jet, it's a general purpose consumer computer. And for some reason I'm not allowed to run a webserver on it, or simply run a background service that does the computations I need without bringing it to the foreground.

No, I don't need manufacturer to tell me that it's for my own good because background tasks waste my battery.
https://darebee.com/
Curious about which numbers do not hold. Can you tell specifically? - a news article tends to cite a lot of numbers - And given the situation, can you also mention the original sources?
The reason we don't publish a full moderation log is that it would likely spawn more meta-discussion and litigation about how HN is moderated. We don't have the resources for that (or the stomach).

Most users don't care that much—I know that because if they did, we'd never hear the end of it—and those who do tend to be the litigious type who raise two new objections for every answer you give them. To play that game is to agree to a DoS attack on yourself. It sucks up limited resources that should be going into making the site better for everyone: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

That said, we're 100% in favor of satisfying users' curiosity about how HN is operated and moderated. We just do it ad hoc, by answering specific questions, rather than building meta facilities. From my perspective the issue isn't secrecy, it's efficiency. If meta facilities would actually be more efficient, that would be a great reason to build them. I would love it if software could alleviate more of our load. Unfortunately, I fear that they would have the opposite effect. The founder of a well-known forum that is older than HN once told me that introducing a meta section was the worst mistake they had made and that we would be crazy to do that.
That's how the internet works. All fields in forms are always sent in plain text, so its up to HTTPS to secure it (as long as it is sent via POST request, not GET).
No, we're not wearing masks because we don't HAVE any.

I live in Brooklyn and I'd love to wear a mask. I'd love to have been wearing a mask every day for the past two weeks.

But where exactly do you suggest I find one since they're sold out literally everywhere, and we're also getting advice not to wear them so they can be saved for healthcare professionals!

You ought to reexamine your assumptions. We love masks but don't have any.

Sheesh.
Some folks have only recently been made aware of the actual usefulness of masks. Before a couple of days ago, I saw and believed the stuff being put out by the CDC. Next time I am shopping I will have a make-shift mask on.
Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) – Statistics and Research
The worst is the Tesla interface. It's great to look at and if you're sitting in the car parked, but if you're trying to drive it is terrible. To be honest, stuff like this should be legislated away, it's too dangerous.

Even something as mundane as turning on the fan requires several seconds of concentration because it's al. It's not like a regular car with buttons and knobs that you don't have to think about. You have to actively look for it as you drive which makes it very dangerous to use.

As for Apple Carplay, I have as well, and it feels like the designers don't actually use it for driving. Some decisions are absurd. For example, a lot of the buttons you need to press are on the opposite side of the display (at least for cars with drivers on the left side). It's totally dumb that they are on the opposite side that needs to be hunted for.

In terms of safety, big knobs and buttons are best.
Turning a Ender 3 3D printer into a belt printer was put on the back burner pending TaxAmmend.com

TaxAmmend.com was put on the back burner pending AmIAccessible.com

AmIAccessible.com was placed on the back burner pending my AWS Certifications.

My AWS Certifications were put on the back burner pending a Computer Forensics research paper into Consumer Grade Forensics.

My research paper is almost completed pending some Forensic Wipe testing using Roadkil's Diskwipe (don't use it, it just failed).

I am now rebuilding my Open Media Vault machine (as it has had a critical software failure), and rebuilding my small 1U penetration testing server, and creating a new forensics portable machine, and publishing a Computer Networks paper that I had kicking around since 2019.
Alternate source: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-experts-say-new-sympt...
Please please dont be hard on yourself. I actually "wasted" my 20s (and most of my 30s) in startups and "learning". But employers really dont care for this (I am in a FAANG hiring committee) and are no different than recruiters who care more for nothing more than the latest buzz words ("scaling distributed systems"). What is worse is even startups who are meant to value diversity/breadth of skills are doing the same.

But would I trade my breadth of knowledge and learning. Nope. Would I try to become a one-trick-pony? Not at all. Do I still code - Yep totally but on things I care about and enjoy rather than on a yet-another-engagement-driver while also building up on other hobbies.

Also where are you based? DM me if you are looking at roles in the bay-area. (Unfortunately as much as Id hate to see it die, leetcode is unavoidable at a FAANG interview :) ).
Good article, Elliot!
Wrap a t-shirt around your face and use a clothespin to secure it. It's not perfect but from the best of my reading it's far better than nothing.
The virus only existed since ~November or December last year. There's no way anyone could reasonably tell you if its temporary or permanent.
It's even worse for me if I know the person.
Python doesn't catch SIGPIPE, it ignores it.

The exception is raised from a -1/EPIPE return from libc write().

I fully agree that Python is often a bad citizen in terms of signal handling — it wants to only process signals on 'the main thread', but also wants end-users to fully control signal-handling. The two ideas are sort of at-odds and in general I find handling signals in Python frustrating.
Distributed version control for a graph database.

Not just serializing the graph and putting that in a DVCS, but an actual graph based DVCS which manages graphs (reflectively).

https://github.com/Symatem/SymatemJS
How to become a developer and get your first job as quickly as possible
Unions bring everyone toward the average. So, it's not in my interest.
I'm working on https://topstonks.com - We're covering the speculative culture of investing coming from Reddit's WallstreetBets and 4chan.

I'm also considering buying a sewing machine and making masks for my local community. Shoot me a message if you'd be interested in branded (cloth) masks for your startup. This would help subsidize the cost. Still feeling the idea out.
And yet, there have only been 36 reported deaths in the entire country.

As long as you test symptomatic cases, the death count should at least be reliable, right?

That a third the deaths of South Korea (who has very aggressively contained).
This comment would be stronger if it dropped the leading “You've got it backwards.” Especially since the content is not incompatible with the previous comment.
When people start marketing iPads as replacements for notebook PCs, some users are expecting it to be able to do what they could do on their Mac OS or Linux machines.
I'm building a new twin ad-hoc encoding format to replace JSON and friends [1].

It has native support for all commonly used data types, so you don't need to artificially specify custom encodings just to get your data across.

It's a twin text / binary format, where the text format can be transparently converted to the binary format, and vice versa. This means that you can use the binary format for storage and communication, and only convert to/from the text format when humans get involved.

I'm currently building a reference implementation in go [2], which is now running faster than the JSON codec in my experimental branch [3].

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding#concise-encodi...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-cbe

[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-cbe/tree/new-implementation
Re social distancing:

Italians and Spanish kiss when they greet each other. They’re the worst hit in Europe.
In my case, full loss was temporary, but the reduction permanent and still lasting to this day several years later

Maybe it will be different for covid?
Italians are using CPAP machines for serious (but not critical) cases.
Unfortunately there simply aren't enough masks produced in western countries. If governments directed factories to produce face masks, like they are currently doing for ventilators, then we could have enough. And I believe most people would actually wear them if they were widely available and governments directed it.

It seems like that would cost less, and might also be more effective than shutting down half the economy?
Is a good article and very help you to choose a web road map.
Fund-my-project: Earn grants/funding for your project
Strike right now means government will chime in and force them back to work.
Have you considered a BMW with their iDrive controller for the satnav/entertainment?

I have yet to find a car with a better UX (aside from road handling, which I find equally good, but that’s another topic).

Touchscreens should only be allowed in cars with self-driving capabilities, and probably only on the higher levels.
> Is this the beginning of the tsunami

Yes. The problem with coronavirus is that young people apparently can be asymptomatic and spread the virus around massively, which means that without mass testing they will continue to spread... and then, detection of symptomatic CV patients takes time, both in that the patients go to testing and that the test gets executed. Unlike countries which have done mass testing for weeks/months, for the US, Germany and many others the current infection counts are a momentum in time of about ~1-2 weeks past. Time in which the virus can spread exponentially, something humans are not really good at visualizing.

Shit will look grim, especially the deaths, pretty soon. Italy shows the beginnings, and they hit hundreds of deaths a day now.
Someone suggested that there should be a place that documents a list of grants + deadlines in my last post, so I’ve gone ahead and put together a list of grants, crowdfunding platforms, and other resources that can help you get off the ground with no upfront costs!

If you know of other grants or resources, please feel free to create a pull request :)
The Line Between Biological and Cyber Threats Has Never Been So Thin
Back then the actual process of programming was considered as a clerk job, wasn't it?
Mostly trying to improve https://ossia.io, a sequencer for all kind of media and interactive art :)
Iceland is doing science – COVID19
Exactly, this stuff needs to be monitored either intensely for 24 hours (or maybe even longer), or periodically for longer periods of time (days, weeks, months). What they did doesn't really give us useful data other than "directionally this is an area for more investigation."
> In the unlikely event I find the need for an illicit purchase, I'll use cash.

You seem to be alluding to the "I have nothing to hide argument". Just because you think you have nothing to hide, doesn't mean you do. Things you don't think you need to hide now may become things you wish to hide in the future. Just because you "have nothing to hide" doesn't mean that you're not entitled to privacy. Would you want me looking through your transaction history?
Our national TV station has been asked by the government to show on the evening news how we have huge warehouses full of toilet paper. So the government is doing guarantor work: Proving enough TP is out there, and the delays are getting it from the warehouses to the shops
Healthcare startups Nurx and Carbon Health ship at-home Covid-19 test kits
Thanks!

There will likely be a one-time license fee (per major version). I'm implementing a trial period, but it will not be unlimited.
Apple Acknowledges Personal Hotspot Issues Affecting Some iOS and iPad 13 Users
I expect that the number of people who die monthly for a certain condition to be relatively stable over time.

We can compare the usual number of people who die of pneumonia with the current one, and any significant difference can be attributed to this novel virus.
I dunno, imagine being locked in your house for a month. Pretty much the only absolutely necessary behavior is to eat, drink, sleep, pee and poop. If you stock up on food for eating, you are going to need TP for pooping. You can survive without TP, but it would be unpleasant.
This is going to have long term lasting effects that further suppress labor rates and further concentrate wealth/capital in the US. It's accelerating a problem we already had.
Pop-ups work well, most people aren't technical and find no problem with them.
Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Faster in the US Than Any Other Country
My wife was a witness to the crying victim. I merely caught the fellow filming women's arses on his phone during class.
> most revered democracy

What?
Maybe it should be.

Think about it this way: had he done this, would it have made things better, worse, or no change?

And don't forget: had he looked into this, he would have realized that they were dramatically unprepared, and I suspect he would have been smart enough to assume that there was a possibility that the same state of affairs may exist in other cities, and then look into that.

Did this thought not cross his mind? It seems like an interesting question.
I don't think anybody has masks to wear even if they'd like to. I certainly don't. The US surgeon general was also adamantly advising people not to buy masks over the past month. At this point, any and all masks are being redirected to hospitals, as there is a critical shortage. Paint shops in my local area have donated their entire supply to the local hospital -- the health department is encouraging people to hand sew masks to donate. If we had a surplus for every family, I'm sure things would look different.
Completely agreed. In those cases, these tactics are required.
Italy had just declared any doctors/nurses on sick leave right now while not being sick, violate the laws and will be prosecuted.

Under emergency there isn't really rights for individual, not much.
As mentioned else where in the comments, Caves of Qud is a fantastic post-apocalyptic roguelike.
Folks don’t even track working hours at work let alone home
I think that GTD can actually eliminate overhead, but honestly it all depends on how good the ad-hoc system you are coming from was.
Well, natural signals that have an end arent band-limited either. It is a mathematical abstraction that approximates many real world scenarios well enough
Amazon.com to stop shipping non-essentials to consumers in Italy and France
> . If you really want to solve this, don't get too caught up in exploring Tokyo either. :)

Why?

The way I see it, detaching yourself from your routine environment for a while, disconnecting from everything toxic or anchoring, and instead rediscovering who you are and what you want - in an environment that has no preconceptions or preconceived expectations of you - is a great way to find what matters to you and who you can be, how you can express who you are and how you feel.

Not to mention that working abroad is a great opportunity that is very much different depending on age and personal status, so I do hope he makes the best of it, and really discovers the beauty of Japan and its culture and people.
Love this kind of thing. What challenges are you facing right now? Are you using any existing software as an inspiration?
So Gates is not actually going to do anything to help with this pandemic? If so, how is he an example of the effectiveness of private enterprise as compared to government?
For items like oil and flour or other staples, maybe the best option would be to track and learn how often you are buying those items and have it added to your list when the time is approaching.

I think the key is the meal planning. The recipes need to bulk manage the inventories and list as meals are prepared and upcoming. The recipes would need to be cleaned up and normalized.
I fully agree. But: I believe in many cases this is because, with both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay as I have used both for extended periods, they are simply buggy as hell.

Some car vendors have better implementations than others, but I frequently see things happen like the connection suddenly cuts or audio playback becomes choppy or sometimes the dash crashes entirely.

I suspect if it was less buggy it would be a lot less distracting, personally.
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> Consequently, I needed a lightweight programming environment for users, which led me to choose Forth over the traditional Basic.

Excellent! I’ve always maintained that BASIC is a bad language for memory- and CPU-constrained systems.
The Theme System
WYSIWYG Editor for SwiftUI for iOS :) https://acrylapp.tech

Basically it’s the app where you can design and build app’s UI by drag & dropping real SwiftUI components.
> I would love to read this, but keep getting blocked by paywalls.

Have you tried blocking JavaScript? It works fine here in Firefox with NoScript and in Dillo (which has no JS support).
Do you have any news to ZeroTier 2.0? I'm really looking forward to it and being able to deploy my own controllers easily!