skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Finding ways for people to live inside nature reserves, rather than trying to keep people out with walls, can help preserve biodiverse habitats overall."

Our immediate call to action (as yet another zoonotic disease threatens to infect _every_ urban civilization on earth) is for all people, particularly in major cities, to disperse to their homes, and isolate from groups of more than a 10 or so people. And do this for many months (up to 18 months if I read the ICL/Ferguson paper correctly).

And that's just for _this_ virus. Expect another in 10-20 years.

I'm beginning to think that urban life, with all its benefits, may not be worth it in the long run. Specifically, I'm informed by James C. Scott's recent "Against the Grain" ("Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states?"), and also by Daniel E. Lieberman's "The Story of the Human Body", particularly his chapter on farming and the resultant explosion in fertility (due to women having babies every 2 years instead of the 4 years of our paleo hunter/gatherer mothers).

I will say the most (only?) delightful thing to observe is the lessening of so much political bullshit. Trump looked absolutely petrified in his speech last week.
Interesting, I feel like the Author is describing what a well done Visual Novel does in their critics of the whole Adventure Game Genre. To summarize lazily: "remove the stupid puzzles and just take the reader on a wild ride for a couple of hours"

Maybe they kinda predicted YUNO and the whole VN explosion in Japan that came soon after their article was published. Or a least the reason why the demand was there.

Granted, these games still cost 40+ bucks and deliver 20+ hours of gameplay, which differs from the vision the Author outlined. But that seems to be because the extra effort does lead to better returns (and maybe that consumers want 20+ hour games), so it's a good thing.
I don't think its fair to say its a shitty OS. They're single purpose PCs with an OS tuned for single app performance. One is NT based and the other will probably be BSD based. I believe the Switch is a fork of Android.
They should still be able to store the video up until it was destroyed which would show the destruction.
The breakage of ZoL wasn't a side-effect of some big technical change. They literally just made the SIMD enable/disable barriers no longer usable from non-GPL modules (the changed an EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL). This means you can't use SIMD-accelerated hashing functions from ZoL -- and there is no way to fix it without hurting performance other than reverting the "license change". And the entire justification for this change was "there are no in-kernel users".

Now, they are obviously free to do that and ZoL needs to work around it. But it's silly to argue that this was not an intentional breakage of a system which many people use and cannot be worked around out-of-kernel. Yes, it's not userspace code but it did cause regressions for users. Linus and GregKH have always disliked ZFS because they feel it was designed to be incompatible with Linux (and they're entitled to that view, however wrong it may be) so it's unsurprising that they are against doing anything that may help ZoL.
Levandowski agrees to plea deal over Google secrets
I was layed off before corona. Although I have been interviewing at 2 companies, both of those have frozen hiring and the positions have been cancelled. So still in a way affected which sucks!
not great for super high stakes stuff (which interacting with US law enforcement absolutely is, given your life may be in jeopardy) - really need a streaming externally enforced trust and confirmation mechanism... perhaps something like, i dunno, oversight? just brainstorming here though.
He's poor, so no. If he was already rich then yes.
I've always thought so. But the US does a far better job re appearances, and has far better propaganda.
The alternate timeline where sometime in late 200x Apple buys Sun (instead of Oracle) and still invests in Unixy datacenter things, ZFS, and similar tech that Sun was good at, and use it to build high quality services and hardware is a fun thought experiment to explore.

Wouldn't have happened because of the iPhone profit rocketship which caused Apple to abandon that entire market segment.
I set up Cloudready on a Dell Optiplex 3020 for my parents. They like it and the maintenance I have to do is non existent.

Before that I had set up a ASUS CHROMEBOX-M004U. It had gotten too slow, especially with photo viewing and basic internet browsing - definitely unfortunate.
http://www.imcclinics.com/english/index.php/news/view?id=83
How do you monitor this? The 90% over capacity, would like to see where mine is at
Discussion re new simpler antibody test
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/new-blood-tests-anti...
iPad and iPhone only? Really?
Let my try to restate what Ididntdothis is saying in a self-contained manner in case thorwasdfasdf is unclear. Calling for "capital punishment" means you think the offender should be put to death: literally, the state should take their head. Whether or not this is excessive (most would think so) it seems odd to follow up by saying that they person should also give up their pension and be sued. Could you (thorwasdfasdf) please clarify?
Are there any engineers on HN who worked on Copeland? Because I've always found it astounding that while the stated reason for the NeXT aquisition and the transition to the OpenStep-based OS was that Copeland was still years away from completion -- but then after Jobs took over it was still 5ish years for OS X to finally be released... And in the meantime they continued to release OS 8 and OS 9 as updates, including some tech that was under development from before the NeXT acquire.

Surely Copeland could have been completed in that time period. Or was it _really_ that off the rails? 5 years off the rails?
Because the normal flu does not kill at a rate of covid-19. The post above does not try to dispute that covid-19 is what it is and is not suggesting that it is a normal flu. We are definitely dealing with something different than normal flu. But you have to consider that majority of the population will go through this without showing symptoms.
Its on the way out for casual use but its still the primary method for enthusiast use, Its the best and sometimes only place to get flac/bluray quality and the only reliable place for console games.
You didn't read it. He's giving people this advice. It's dangerous advice. I am not overreacting. This is a time for solid, real medical information and not anecdotal folklore.
You assume there wasn't problems before, because none was being brought to public attention. You also assume there has been an increase in corruption because there is an increase in problems, as you say it.

You are linking two separate issues through correlation and implying causation, which is a fallacy.
The post on r/protectandserve got immediately locked:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/fl57x6/nyp...
Its more automatic/streamlined. The app looks like an ordinary streaming website and all the torrent stuff is in the background.
Webinar: Chaos experiments in Kubernetes with ML-driven verification
Yes, I've been saying all that, for decades.

Not that it's ever accomplished anything.

So now I basically focus on passive resistance.
RCT? Sorry don't know that abbreviation.
This is basically what the "steam machine" model was. Standardized controller, hardware specifications, OS, available from multiple vendors. It was unfortunately a bit of a flop.
Yes, that's why I'm downgrading. I'm on FF.

After diligent conditioning by Netflix, I've come to enjoy 720p, apparently. On the plus side it means I can pay them less.
This is true, but essentially every transit system in the world (minus Hong Kong and Singapore's) operates at a loss. Maybe you can save money vis a vis unionized drivers, but I'm not wildly optimistic.
Well, there's more articles supporting the thesis. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870528/
Yes, I agree. But it seems nature thinks different.
> Why isn't it standard for all body cam footage of an arrest to automatically be entered as evidence? It seems like even for a judge to accept a plea deal, they should be forced to see the footage. Someone should be catching things as clear as this.

Because they don't have an incentive to do so and have every incentive to not do so.

I won't go into a great deal of detail, but in short: getting this as discovery without an attorney present and actively forcing the Courts to release it won't yield much, it is often entirely impossible to do so in time by the forced court dates forcing most people to accept plea deals if they cannot afford legal counsel, getting even the District Attorneys to review this footage before moving with a case in time of said case is equally unlikely (combination of apathetic and being overwhelmed), and Judges' will ALWAYS favour with an officers recount of events UNTIL FORCED for compelling reasons to over turn this. Which means an almost certain guilty verdict.

Discovery in general is so hard to get, and they can/do use a series of excuses; not limited to using proprietary software to release the body cam footage which is not compatible with any other system. Even between other attorneys and jurisdictions.

You need to realize that you're assumed to be guilty in the Legal system, and the burden and responsibility to prove otherwise is on the defendant: who is possibly injured (physically as well as mentally), all the while you're incurring costs left and right for everything (even wrongful arrest cases), in addition to apathetic-callused District Attorneys/Public Defendants just trying to bide their time and not 'rock the boat' until getting to the next level of their careers and are often forcing people to just accept untenable time frames for court dates or pleas deals to just churn the numbers and look good in front of the Judge who they will encounter again in their career(s).
A niche cpp-only lib that is looking for a maintainer.

I would not consider using it for production code either.
Ask HN: Virtual Living Room?
What are others using to keep in touch using chat, audio and video with friends and family. I'm looking for something that non-techy family will use. Either a service or hosted. Should work on devices, computers and browsers.
It might make sense to use it, but why does it make sense to resell it? What are you adding to the equation and who is going to pay 1.29 an hour?
WebGL was never opt-in and everybody familiar with GPU programming saw the issues coming from miles away. It was an idea that was about as stupid as Java applet sandboxing.
20200319 Life Sustaining Business
Starting back in the 60's, hundreds of thousands of Americans serving in the military and peace corps in areas with malaria were given daily chloroquine for extented periods of time. Think Vietnam. How long does it take to evaluate safety?
> a quick visual scan

Yeah a quick visual scan from a human is super easy to automate.
This is such an important realization.

I, too, personally wish most of those features didn't exist. But I acknowledge that I am in the minority.
I have a friend, commuting 6hrs every day (3hrs + 3hrs back) in a Tesla model S, using autopilot (3 days a week). He has been doing it for almost a year now. So far, so good... given the number of miles driven, it is actually pretty good.
Just stopping is ok is ok in some use cases, but not others. It will be a long time before robotaxis "just stop" less frequently than uberdrivers, but AV trucks can already be more reliable than contemporary drivers.
Maybe, but I somehow don't feel like their government would have fought to hide as much info about it unless they were embarrassed about something, so I feel like the razor cuts the other way. Can we really trust a government that hid things for so long? That said, I doubt we'll have any real proof one way or another.
"As a user, I don't want this" seems like a reasonable claim.

"Then you don't know what other people want" doesn't seem like a reasonable response.

People want a lot of things - but only use what they can access. Additionally, people will deliberately choose to use broken/painful systems if they have to, in order to accomplish a broader goal. Finally, the vast majority of systems used by users are built because they are profitable to build/operate. In many (most?) cases, they are not profitable to the user in the same way that they are to their builder/operator.

From those simple observations, it seems like quite stretch to claim that anything that has many users is something that people want, and that they enjoy using.
Ask HN: Team now works remotely, what to do with office phone for 2FA?
Our team is working remotely now, we have an office mobile phone for two-factor authentication and some other calls. If somebody takes the phone home with them, then they have to be available to receive a call or an SMS if another person logs in to a service that requires two-factor verification. Are there software solutions for this problem? Ideally would like to leave the phone at the office and somehow every employee can remote in to the device to check for SMS.
Dylan was the C++ alternative that was being developed at Apple before the Jobs coup. It had all kinds of awesome sauce, much much better than Objective-C. Likely a non-Jobs Apple would have used Dylan in conjunction with C++, or Java since that was in ascendency at the time. The hate for any tech that came from Newton or was non-NeXT in general was a Jobs thing.

Also it's nice to think about an alternate universe where we had Newton descended mobile products, rather than iOS.
I believe they were being facetious.
It's the Register, their trademark is equal-opportunity snark about everything and everybody.
Amazon is one of the largest employers in the world. It’s lip service, as further evidenced by the tons of fakes on their website.

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...

Anyone who wishes, Amazon staff included, can go and see the $10 “1TB” usb flash drives that are just 16GB drives with hacked firmware to report a different size. It takes about 2 minutes to find them. They don’t bother.

The evidence is there if you want it.
Things Software Developers and Marketers Have in Common
Newton's OS was the iOS of the 90s. A very compelling system.
I'm reasonably sure that comment was dripping with sarcasm.
Commerce announces new emergency housing grant for counties
Also happy to answer questions (my username might sound similar to the name of the author ;) )
There is a logical progression here that I think means sueing isn't necessary:

Are police protected by law from coming under charges such as assault, kidnapping, breaking and entering, manslaughter, etc, if those things are done in the course of duty?
- Yes

Are police required to follow certain regulations in order to retain those legal protections?
- Yes

Do those regulations allow for drugs to be intentionally planted, then used as false evidence for an arrest?
- No

Were these officers under special legal protection during this arrest?
- No

Was this arrest legal?
- No

Are these officers solely liable for their actions, as any other person would be?
- Yes

Did they assault and kidnap a man, then perjure themselves on a legal document?
- Yes

Is the State District Attorney required to press criminal charges against them?
- Yes

Are they required to be tried in front of a jury of 12 other citizens?
- Yes
He’s an epidemiologist, his opinion is relevant.
I once made a patched LILO that would print LOL instead of LIL when the second stage bootloader barfed.
Travel restrictions, border shutdowns by country – March 19th 2020
Curious, what ISP do you have? Currently moving to a new place in Seattle and have to decide between Wave G or Atlas Networks.
If anyone reads the parent here and doesn't agree then watch "You Have the Right to Remain Innocent" by James Duane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8
Covid-19 Supply Chain Impacts
Looking at these, I feel that browsers do way too many things than they should.
Citizens of US are in the exceptional position that they can actually force things - as gun is legally owned.

Other countries are not so lucky if such things occur - they just wait for the next election and hope for the best...
This is also a reason to eat meat from animals fed food for people. In the bad times, slaughter the animals and eat the meat and the feed.

It's changed my perspective on efficiency. There are some forms of inefficiency that can provide a buffer if something goes wrong.
The first line was my favorite: "It is harder to make new connections right now but it is possible and we have to try for the sake of each other."
Doing things in userspace prevents a context switch, presumably.
Isn't there Internal Affairs? Though the problem is the incentive is not there. Budget problems prevent hiring only good candidates, and similarly the courts don't think cities should be paying a lot after these bad apples.
But then what happens when they forget opting into the opting in?!
Hard to say.

We had really strict rules on what we wanted our data to look like, and were very specific about subject matter. We probably wouldn't have been able to be a customer.

Our intention to deal with accidents/edge cases was that if anything looked outside of ODD (as in, not perfect driving conditions) we'd execute a MRC (pull to side of the road, or stop at next exit). Relatively easy way to solve most of the really hard edge cases.
That's the joke, bud
Not only locked, but locked for a rule that the poster didn't actually violate, as anyone could verify by scrolling down by two comments.
I really wish I could make a difference like that.
This is the same type of argument made by people that say the government should have the keys to all encryption. The standard response is that, if there is a key and the government has it, it will get out and then all those things that were recorded are now open to the public. Not wanting to be filmed whiled going to the restroom seems reasonable.
I don't really see any disconnect between CS and math.
The people replying to that comment make a much better argument against the point it was trying to make that it does for it.
NA is North America, correct?
Wow, what a touching story about an amazing woman and human being.
depends heavily on what you mean by ethical. would they commit those offenses themselves? maybe not. but - and this is absolutely crucial - many of them will refuse to tattle. if they do, they'll get blackballed. ref: blue wall of silence or related terms.
>Citizens of US are in the exceptional position that they can actually force things - as gun is legally owned.

>Other countries are not so lucky if such things occur - they just wait for the next election and hope for the best...

Are you implying that armed revolutions don't occur in other countries, or that such a revolution would actually be legal in the US because the guns are legally owned?

If so, you would be wrong on both counts. The only thing the Second Amendment buys Americans who want to "force change" is the convenience of not needing to procure arms through a black market, as other countries do. The "politics by other means" part, though, is illegal everywhere.

In that sense, American citizens aren't in that exceptional a position as anywhere else.
Many many smart people share this thought. I don't.

Freeway costs roughly $4m/lane/mile. Building a duplicate system for trucking would make UBI look cheap. Truck taxes also pay for much of current hway infrastructure, so you'd need to replace that $
Some (probably inadequate) steps are being taken to mitigate the magnitude of that problem.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51947802
I think you're talking about this article https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
California estimates 25.5M residents will get virus in next 8 weeks
I will be very surprised if they are found guilty of anything or even charged.
I see that the CDC bans blood donations for 3 years after being diagnosed with malaria [1], but can't find any citation that blood donations are banned for taking chloroquine itself... do you have a citation to that effect?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/blood_banks.html
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NTSB cites drivers in fatal Tesla crash, and photos tell the harrowing story
Pickles can also be time bombs, especially around python upgrades. Sometimes (ok, rarely) the serialization / deserialization of some types changes between versions of python.

Another issue is painting yourself into a corner: when you use pickles, you make it harder to either switch away from python in the future or consume the same serialized objects from any non-python (micro)service. This can delay or prevent transitions away from python that would otherwise make sense.
The choice of naming here is somewhat unfortunate, and probably contributes to some confusion.

Level 0-5 is terminology used by SAE to describe the range of fully manual (Level 0) to fully autonomous (Level 5). One would expect that in an article about Autonomous Vehicles, L{0,1,2,3,4,5} would describe the level of autonomy that the vehicle provides, but the article instead uses these to describe arbitrary thresholds of a graph demonstrating the capability of an AI.
The fact that everything was fine and dandy while all the valuations were going up reminds me of this sama post: https://blog.samaltman.com/growth-and-government

...for more than one reason.
Another common fallacy. The US actually has a better rail network than Europe - most people just think it's worse because passenger rail here sucks. That's the case because we prioritize freight trains over passenger (in America Business is #1).

To paraphrase Churchill, trucking is the worst form of transportation, besides all the others. If you can put freight on a train, you do. It's slower, point-to-point, and less good a less-than-trainload freight than trucks are.
This was a beautiful little story! I had a big smile. Thanks for sharing.
Tinc-boot: Bootstrap your Tinc VPN node quickly and easy
> The previous eras of consoles had a design complexity that made it hard for developers to get anything done or tap the potential of the hardware.

I thought the developers that did figure out how to tap the potential of the hardware did quite well?
I never liked the idea until I started using a browser based pomodoro timer and I enabled the desktop notifications, it's been a useful feature. Now, I'm wondering if there are other benefits I've been missing out on since I have always disabled desktop notifications by default.
Simple, the law does not apply to republican leaders as long as they are loyal to Trump.
Will this progression be followed? No.
I live next to the weird intersection at Duboce Park. I see a Cruise car go by it every 30m.

A better solution for robotaxis - just avoid the weird intersections.
It will be worse than 9/11 but better than 2008. 9/11 was relatively short but this crisis will last months so the impact will be greater.

In 2008 the banking system was on the verge of falling apart something that would have been devastating to the economy. The Federal Government will do all it can to make sure that there will be money to borrow. As long as the banking system survives and people can borrow to start or continue businesses after it's over, we will be fine over the next few years.

As a result of the economic slow down central banks all over the world will be forced to increase the money supply everywhere. Will this lead to inflation? That is the big question. When the central banks had to do it in 2008 it did not. But no one knows what will happen now.

We did see a lot of money being put into hard assets such as real estate but that was after a huge collapse in real estate values.

Given the social safety net in the US and the ability to borrow money by business, we will not see a depression but the recession that's coming will hurt.