skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2000 Volvo with same radio interface as the earlier 850. For playing a particular song, rest my wrist on the shift lever and push seek next until it gets to the right track. For a specific station, same button until it lands on that station. Not particularly distracting, and minimal glancing at the LCD readout that only shows current frequency or track number.
This is commonly believed, but how do we know how true it is?

If breathing particles into your throat and lungs is the primary vector (seems likely to me, although I don’t know exactly what is), then what you are saying is wrong.

It seems that masks are being de-emphasised, based on the obvious fake reason of saving the retail stock for the front-line workers (how does avoiding buying retail stock magically get masks into hands of nurses?).

It also seems to me there is an over emphasis on washing hands, and avoiding touching your face (well mouth, nose or eyes). That could be one vector (although unlikely to be the main vector) yet why is everyone so hyper focused on it like it’s the critical vector? It’s the emphasis on washing and touching I find disturbing (even though obviously we should wash hands and avoid touching holes).
Ugh. Having a baby should be a joyous time in life, and it shouldn't have anything to do with money.
This is a great, great point. I struggled with this feeling for a while too. It's amazingly frustrating.
I’m working on amna. It’s a better way to manage everything we do. We’re constantly switching between different tasks and use various pieces of information to help us (docs, websites, emails, chats) to help us get those things done. Consider this across all your head spaces, maybe you’re planning a trip at home, and coordinating with volunteers at work. A better to way to keep up with all that is what I’m building.

If it’s interesting, drop me a msg. Planning to open source it (getamna.com)
Interesting, I wasn’t aware immunity works this way. Thanks
I am working on a key-value decentralized datastore on blockchain called Kevacoin. Some people are using the datastore to record the events and news related to COVID-19.
You don't need unwind safety (for anything, ever); a error kennel is more commonly known as a "process"; when a panic occurs

> you always kill the whole [process] in which the panic occurred and don't share mutable state between [process]s

Processes are designed for this, including making it very hard to accidentaly share mutable state (using eg mmap(MAP_SHARED) explicitly).
None of these are better than the other. They are all great and powerful languages for different reasons, and a lot depends on the needs of the application.
I regularly recommend installing VirtualBox, obtaining a Linux distro, e.g. fro. OSBoxes.org, and using it to do a
http://linuxfromscratch.org/
project.

LFS is well-document and maintained, and levels you up in a jiffy on the practical basics.

It's not about programming per se, but covers quite a few concepts you're expected to "just know".

Plenty of pointers to more advanced concepts, too.
No, it’s covered. You might just be shocked to learn that children don’t really care about collective bargaining history anymore than the dates of important battles in WW2.
I am not strictly speaking a developer nor do I work in a department that has developers. The weekly meeting with my manager is called a "touch base" but a daily email summary is also required, only since working from home.

Friday we had a "scrum" meeting regarding COVID-19 related work, so I guess the PMs are appropriating agile terms kind of like Wall Street bros like war metaphors.
- People do shake hands in Japan. In Western countries hand-shaking is limited almost exclusively to business (I’d imagine the same goes for Japan).

- Washing hands is common, but not necessarily any more of a practice than in Western countries. But in many places like in subway station bathrooms they do not have soap.

Some of the cultural things like mask wearing (which was born out of the density and close proximity in public transit) are shared between Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other Asian countries, but a lot of things are also different culturally so I don’t think you can easily attribute these reasons as “not surprising” with regards to coronavirus growth.
I run an online collaborative songwriting platform (https://songcraft.io). With the quarantine, I'm going to be pushing to launch a matchmaking system for songwriters looking for collaborators. I've already heard from a bunch of people who are looking for new ways to collaborate on music.

If you're in this space at all, I'd love to chat!
Tell me more about the a la Genius idea? I know, love and constantly use Genius.

Here's how I see what I described earlier: https://invis.io/GQWINO2YKU2#/410298082_1_Min_Verison

What do you think?
Home Offices of a Four Person Remote Startup
I scrolled all the way down to see the goddamned fixed backpack, but the image is not there...
>Amazon and Google say their devices are designed to record and store audio only after they detect a word to wake them up. The companies say such instances are rare, but recent testing by Northeastern University and Imperial College London found that the devices can activate inadvertently between 1.5 and 19 times a day.

How can a device activate 1.5 times a day? Does it have to activate right before midnight then deactivate the same amount of time after midnight? Technically that's still activating on a whole day. Or can some devices half-activate?
I'm building a no-code web app development platform. There are numerous existing tools in this space, but I don't think anyone has really hit the sweet spot of having the same composability/reusability/conditional benefits of code in a WYSIWYG interface that drastically increases development speed.

Also happen to be looking for a cofounder as well. I'm a developer myself but I'd love to partner with another product-minded dev or a product person with significant industry experience. Let me know if you're interested.
What you propose as the system for writing makes sense and probably reflects what many people already do.

However, I am curious to know what the tool does. In other words, someone can write a “thesis statement”, and the bullet points and an outline and so on in any editor. What does the tool do?
Working on a new semi-anonymous social network. You can share your thoughts with friends without being afraid of getting “cancelled”. In case any front end devs are interested please say hi
hah, cool to see this idea. I built something similar in 2010 to track my debit card purchases because I always pressed the 'credit' button (in the US) and the transactions didn't appear on my balance sheet for a couple days. So I sent a text just like your site describes and kept a ledger. Nothing like the tags or trends in yours though. Cool idea! The Monzo app in the UK has some really inspiring ideas.
Sure! Or how TLDRs work on Reddit. The problem with news and reddit's TLDR is... there's only layer 1 and layer max. What about the in-between?

Here's how I see what I described earlier: https://invis.io/GQWINO2YKU2#/410298082_1_Min_Verison

What do you think?
Working on Polyaxon (https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon), an open-source machine learning experimentation and automation tool.
I had a nice surprise and learning experience, when I discovered that the output of

(echo red; echo green 1>&2) | echo blue

is indeterministic:

http://www.gibney.de/the_output_of_linux_pipes_can_be_indete...

As it turns out, this short line and its behavior nicely demonstrate a bunch of aspects that happen under the hood when you use a pipe.
Getting back in the daily live streaming routine and dogfooding my platform. I’ve been homeless for 2 years after burning out in tech and recklessly draining my savings to build a POSSE streaming video system. I felt the calling. Continuing to work on it from the back seat of my car. Marketing is my shortcoming.

I recently decided to find 10 people who want to create interactive video projects or vlogs. Email me if you want one. I’m about 5/24 hours into a hackathon, streaming on Twitch and YouTube as ispoogedaily (iSpooge Daily) and email is in my profile. I’ve been dogfooding for 2 years and have gotten great feedback in 2 big hackathons.
Cool idea! But dat room tho! :)
A comparison shopping app for (legal) digital movies, so I can just go to the app to find the best prices rather than the one app and six web pages that I go to now.

Between being laid off then having to go on disability for a year just after that (2019 was fun), I need some additional skills in the current job market. It just so happens that this project covers all the bases: new language (Go, which I really like), cloud computing, cloud-native architecture (containers and much more), and mobile app development. I really hope I get a job before I'm finished but this is something I'm motivated to work on and will give me some experience that the next job may or may not.
What do you mean "there is no directed selection"?

Any virus is reproducing as it spreads, so it seems to me impossible for there not to be evolution happening. Milder illness enhances the spread, so it's going to be selected for. What is the counterargument?
https://host.io - an API to get domain name metadata (scraped web content, backlinks, redirects, dns data, ranking information and more). See https://host.io/google.com for an example.

We've been building out the infrastructure for a while (scrape all domains monthly, resolve all domains, progress the data etc), but have only recently launched the API (see htttps://host.io/docs).

We'll soon be releasing a Top 10M Ranked Domain list, like the Alexa top 1M, but 10M, and based on our own ranking signals, instead of traffic data like Alexa.

If you've got any interesting use cases for our data or any feedback I'd love to hear it! ben@ipinfo.io
Why isn’t all domestic air travel on hold?
Awesome initiative! I like the idea of combining non-VC resources for the very start of the project. Thanks for sharing!
The bailouts you are referring to are just loans. Are you suggesting loans are what workers need?
I heard that because school is out the young people just went out instead.
I'm building a no-code "click-button" open-source machine learning platform.

https://flytehub.org/
Link to the Cinnamon app? Didn't see something matching description when I searched in App Store.
> Convention is that when a program dies because of a signal, the exit code should be 128 + the signal number

Note that this is incorrect. This is a common misconception about POSIX/UNIX. Not every process exits with an exit code; that's right, a process can exit without an integer exit code! A process exits with either a) an exit code, _OR_ b) the signal which terminated the program (as a separate status in the underlying struct, rather than as an exit code).

Many shells–including bash–provide an abstraction that translates process exits caused by signals into 128+signo, but this is only to fake an exit code for processes as seen when executed within the shell; this is a nonstandard and shell-specific abstraction.

Look at the man page for waitpid() for details. There are macros to test for the difference between an exit status with a code vs. an exit due to a signal; eg. WIFEXITED() and WIFSIGNALED(). WEXITSTATUS() will return the exit status... if one exists because WIFEXITED() tests truthful. Hint: if you're used to seeing your shell report 128+signo, that's because your particular shell happens to check waitpid() for WIFSIGNALED() and sets $? to 128+signo for you… as an abstracted convenience.

tldr; An exit code, vs. an exit caused by a signal, are mutually exclusive statuses. Processes terminated directly by a signal do not have an integer exit code; your shell may provide a fabricated exit code to make things appear simpler, but that is shell-specific and NOT a standard convention provided by POSIX or UNIX.
I don't think this is the answer.

- There's no more social distancing in Japan than in the US. Nobody goes around hugging, shaking hands with, or kissing strangers in the US. Trains are still packed.

- Most public bathrooms don't have soap and I've rarely seen people wash their hands after using the bathroom anyways.

- People don't listen to the government - most people I know are arranging or participating in flower viewing parties despite the government's requests not to.

- Lots of the elderly in the US also live alone. I doubt the numbers are significantly different enough to affect transmission either.

TBH I had a hard time finding comparable statistics (re: single housing seniors and washing hands) though, do you have sources for any of those claims?
I mean that's sort of beside the point; it only matters whether they think they do. the older people I know are aggressively sanitizing stuff whenever they have anything delivered.
I don't know how keen you are on using C, but there's an excellent open Roguelike library for Python, with a whole community round it. The subreddit is pretty active..

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_Roguelike...
It sounds like you've hit on a reason that it might not be as bad for anyone else. Grandma and grandpa are sitting around having dinner with a bunch of asymptomatic but infected young adults. Everybody rubs their faces together when they show up and leave. It's a recipe for disaster.
I think it’s relevant that the company doesn’t have as excellent of a track record as people may think.
Well technically we didn’t like masks before... if we like them we like them now that the situation is bad.
Unfortunately, Tracktion's overall nice design is completely ruined for me by having an unusable piano roll editor. Manual MIDI editing is really important when your keyboard playing skills aren't up to par (or when you're a kid and can't afford a MIDI keyboard).

FL Studio's piano roll has been out there for a decade, I just can't understand how other DAW vendors didn't match features with it yet.
Be rational and consider all options:

1. The data is accurate and captures all coronavirus cases.

2. The data is not accurate and does not capture all coronavirus cases.

I read the entirety of this thread as though HN assumes only 1 is possible. If 1 is correct, then HN’s inferences sound reasonable (habitual mask use, practiced social distancing).

But what if 2 is correct? Is there any disincentive for governments to accurately test and capture all cases? Is there any particularly outsized disincentive for Japan to do so?

I leave the above questions as an exercise for the reader.
Working on https://www.yuzumetrix.com a platform for Content Creators and Brands and Agencies. Agencies can create campaigns and invite Creators. Once the Creators finished the work they can create a Campaign Report which includes each social media posts and Campaign metrics, RoI, etc.
It’s in Beta right now but planning on launching V1 in about a month.
I meant both -- they can both start cold.

Although I now realize I should have clarified, I’m only talking about baking bread in a dutch oven.

I haven’t tried any other baking methods in a cold oven. I suspect it wouldn’t work well but I don’t know for sure.
If you’re truly asymptomatic then you wouldn’t be coughing.
A month ago Italy was fine and now 5,000 people are dead. A month ago the virus had been in Japan for a month already... and still today fewer than 50 deaths.

Obviously time will tell with all of this. But so far, time has told us that either a) the transmission rate is extremely low in Japan for some reason or b) no one is dying from the virus in the world's oldest country, for some even harder to explain reason.

The world needs to be looking hard at Japan to see what the hell is going on there.
https://www.coronawhatnow.com - a website focused on helping people and businesses impacted by coronavirus.

Examples:

-Food banks (individual sites or directories)

-Financial aid

-Elderly grocery shopping hours and delivery

-Healthcare (shelter in place info, testing like Verily Baseline, etc)

This info is currently scattered across the Internet and we're aggregating it in one place. It's hosted on Github using markdown so anyone with spare time can be a massive help (https://github.com/coronawhatnow/coronawhatnow.com).

Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/coronawhatnow
N.C. Sheriffs Find 18,000 Pounds of Toilet Paper in Stolen Truck
Let me un-convince you: that keyboard is $350. Disclosure: I do have an iPad Pro. I use it to watch netflix and read scientific papers (PDF). That's pretty much it.
I built a dating app for open-minded people, gender Neutral and for singles and couples. It's available and called Delycatel. https://delycate.com
I am working full-time on a new end-to-end identity platform Axioms. Authentication, Authorisation and Assurance - all in one platform . Ready for beta in a week. Unfortunately, I have been slow to get this out early due to health issues but I am glad I prioritised my well-being.

https://axioms.io/
We don't need restaurants. If you cook your own food the empployees can find a useful job. Until they do we can sustain them just like we could sustain them while doing useless work.
Thanks! I'm creating a sight reading trainer using vexflow right now.

I just checked out pitchy.ninja, it's awesome! I've been struggling doing ear training and singing over the past decade. This will help!

As a side question, do you have any good resources or tips on creating music related applications?
Common Enemies
Thanks, it's nice to have an expert around! I was going to plot the divergence between the two but got seriously despondent and hit the bottle. Trying to sober up now.

May I ask, what area do you work in, numerical, discrete, logic, other?
I’m building an online math community for middle schoolers, by middle schoolers, of middle schoolers. Front end was written by a 7 year old so it looks quite funky. I want to keep it fun and quirky, no adult influences :)

http://jojomath.com
I built a website that makes it easy for people to find ways to support their favorite NYC restaurants. Restaurants and their staff are having a hell of a time right now and it's not obvious to most people how they can help.

Save restaurants makes it easy to search restaurants by neighborhood and see if they offer takeout, sell gift cards or are accepting donations (with direct links).

I built it in 2 days using Zeit next+now and Firebase for the db. It's crazy how easy it is to spin up simple projects using that stack.

https://saverestaurants.nyc/
I am currently writing my own compiler for a smaller language :)

This is my first real compiler and it's lots of fun!!! It's also my first time working with x86-64 assembler (compiler target).

I'll write a Show HN post when I finished it.
“Terrified” Package Delivery Employees Are Going to Work Sick
What's that in? ActionScript?
I strongly recommend "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming". It's a great overview of many things linux & command line. Very approachable for beginners and more than good enough to make them dangerous.
I got a really old and broken inflatable dinghy off Craigslist about 2 months ago for $30, and am rebuilding/restoring it. Right now, I'm about 16 individual Hypalon patches and 2/3 a quart of internal sealant in, with one tube finally sealed and the other most of the way. Once that's done (in an garage test, anyway), I'll bring it to a local stream to if it floats. If it does, moving on to building a floor out of plywood and putting together an electric trolling motor setup.

I'm dubious it'll ever be actually seaworthy, but I'm picking up all sorts of little skills and experiences along the way, like troubleshooting a Halkey-Roberts valve this morning that only partially sealed.
I can tell you what happened in Spain.

In Spain the Government did not take it seriously, it was a relaxed attitude. The person that was in charge of giving news , Mr Simon, said he expected two or three people getting infected in the future.

As a result of this attitude, there were no controls in borders. They let people(thousands) go to football(soccer) matches in Italy, where there were already known cases with no consequences.

Then serious cases started growing exponentially every two days, 50 to 100, 100 to 200, 200 to 500, and instead of doing something, they WAITED!!

How is that? Because the people in power are socialist and communist and considered a priority number one the 8th of March(8M) women manifestation. Doing something before meant cancelling the manifestation,(along 55 smaller ones in Madrid this day) which was super important for them.

So the only thing they did was hiding the exponential data two days earlier so people would go to the manifestation.

They believed they could wait and deal with it later after the 8M. In the manifestation more than 100.000 people gathered.

It was too late, after the 8M the two women of the prime minister(socialist) and the vicepresident (comunist) were infected. The communist one was already infected at 8M, so she alone herself infected hundreds or a thousand other people.

So it is just a matter of incompetent people in charge that prioritize their own party and private interest over serving the community.

Now it is the other way around, after doing nothing for so long they have become totalitarian despots(Well, they already were, specially the communist one, is only that they have an excuse now) and they won't let people go out of their houses and walk or run alone.

In the following weeks the weather in Spain will be much better and sun alone will be able to kill viruses and save us from our politicians.
100% can’t. Schools have their own secret police for investigation for no reason that make stories like this possible. If they just deferred to the normal police like literally every other profession, then everything would be fine.

Instead, universities made what happens off-campus into their business. I’m sure there’s a conspiracy theory to be found here.