skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atrial fib is no joke. I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you are considering becoming an endurance athlete, and especially if you are considering transitioning to ultra-endurance, go see a fucking doctor before, after and during.

Source: father had a stroke 20 years later.
It seems to be the drug targetting IL6

https://www.evaluate.com/vantage/articles/news/corporate-str...
Yeah that's what is lacking from my comment: expect panics to happen and attempt to gracefully recover whenever that happens. This is not easy though.
My advice is to start working on a project you care about and then learn everything required to make it happen. If you already know JavaScript, maybe build and deploy a static website. Once you've done that then perhaps make it interact with an API.
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Is there any point in encrypting API payloads when the traffic is going via TLS?
As an infectious disease epidemiologist (although a lowly one)
For programming, start by having a project. Think about something you’d like to build and focus on one thing at a time. This will guide your research.

For Unix, install linux on your computer and use it daily. You’ll be forced to learn.
They also give a hand cleaning product at like every food place before you eat.
There are a number of different twitter Accounts that post 10-20 videos a day that come out of various WeChat groups.

This one that is allegedly cell phones outside of a crematorium is probably the most famous example: https://twitter.com/solomonyue/status/1241166393673801728?s=...

I’ll try to relocate the one primary account I was browsing a while back.
I give you my word, they've had a go at me online since 1998. I'm not worried about criticism directed my way. I mostly deserved it anyway.

But they went after my friends. Someone on an imageboard compiled a list of my friends' real names, photographs they had posted, locations where they lived ... really creepy stuff.

I'm stepping down because I don't want my personal friends and the dozens of volunteers who helped develop my emulators caught in the crossfire.
I had this exact same idea and built a very simple tool that lets me input three values: link, difficulty/rating and addendum. The uniqueness is based on url and I do keep a count of if I have been there before. I update the timestamp to last visited. I built a simple UI for that as well though looking at your project it seems much more exciting to have the full visiting history as well.
I built my app using svelte (spa) but now I want some SSR pages –: sveltejs
I've been using matter.js to help encourage my kids to learn to program in light of the recent school closure here in the UK.

Excellent resource that gives you interesting instant feedback. Reminds me of learning Basic in the 80's.
I could never get it work with my VW Polo headunit.
Was just plain confusing and that was on a Samsung A70 while my daughter's iPhone worked out of box.
are you sure? I mean I think in most states, if you were parked outside a person's house with a thermal camera pointed at the house, and the police drove up and asked what you were doing and you said "I'm using my thermal camera to spy on what people are doing in that house, and they don't know I'm doing it LOL!" I think the police would probably take you in.

Now as to whether they could find anything to charge you with that would stick that would depend on if the state had any sort of peeping tom laws, and if the police went up to the house and found if anyone was naked or partially naked in the house while the thermal camera was being used.

That said if there was a peeping tom law, and there was a naked person, the party with the camera that was charged could then argue that thermal cameras don't show enough to be considered under the law.

However it is my experience that police can be creative when they want to charge someone when that someone is doing something they don't like, so not sure that just a peeping tom law would be brought into play on such a circumstance.

I suppose after all this you might argue that police overreach does not make it actually illegal, but in general my viewpoint is that something being illegal is determined by power and in the case under discussion the court wanted what the police did not to be illegal because they felt it benefited the power of the system that it be so, and therefore shaped their arguments to their wants, not to any particular logic or moral sense. Thus when later another court wants the people on the street using the tech to be illegal, power gets what it wants.
If we cat this file, it will be printed to the terminal.
> cat brothers_karamazov.txt
... many lines of text!
***FINIS***
It takes a noticeable amount of time to finish.

The amount of time it takes for cat(1) to read and output the file is almost certainly insignificant. The time the author is noticing is probably related to how long it takes for his console to process the text.
Luck can play a role, but consider the confounding factors against luck:

1. Travel with China. There was a huge amount of inter-country traffic up until the New Year.
2. Population density. Japan is quite high, and this should increase the country's R0.
3. Population demographics. Over 20% of Japan's population is over 60. This should increase the CFR for the country.

So there are two basic scenarios. One is that Japan is somehow mis-counting patients and deaths (similar to kodokushi). This could also be intentional, in a misguided attempt to protect the economy and the Olympics, or it could simply be a bureaucratic flaw in their methodology.

The second is that something unique to how the Japanese culture, healthcare system, etc is giving them an advantage.

Once we're on the other side of this pandemic, there's going to be a world of fascinating research/study into how different countries reacted to COVID-19, and how successful they were.
Building a tool to help couples manage their finances together. My fiancee and I are using it already!
Come on, the man wants to look cool at his viewing.
- Almost everybody wear mask when they are sick to avoid contaminating others. They do that since way before Cornavirus and on voluntary based.

We're told that masks do not work
Yes they are. A married couple each making that wage puts them right around the average household income in the US. Amazon got big by catering to the average household.
I’d imagine at least some of the advice against buying masks is to prevent hoarding and a supply shortage where they are needed most: healthcare workers.
Correct, and I never claimed otherwise.

Whether you have a credential becomes less important the more experience you have. There will always be silly companies that do a hard-filter on degree, but you can have a perfectly happy and successful career without them.

But winter has come.

Available positions will become way more competitive, with more people chasing after few opportunities. It may be unfair, but the combination of no degree and no experience will be a large handicap.
For household usage I think it might be helpful to separate items into categories:

- Frequent use

- Infrequent use & stock needed

- Infrequent use & stock not needed

The first category I wouldn't worry about: you know how much you have stocked due to frequently using it, so just jot it down on a simple shopping list as you feel more stock is needed. Both short and long shelf life items can be placed here, you know when you need more sugar or toilet paper, or when something you use frequently might go bad soon.

The second category would be very good to put in a system like this, complete with expiration dates. These might be emergency supplies and medications, things that are easily forgotten about but shouldn't be lacking at any time. Keeping track and being notified of expiration dates would be pretty important.

The final category is personal choice. Since you don't need a stock of it, then it's non-essential. You could place it in a system like the second category, or you could just throw it on a shopping list when it's running out like the first.
Why emergency powers are being proposed to be used for anything other than increasing supply of necessary hospital supplies, increasing hospital capacity, increasing testing capacity, and saving the economy, is a mystery and a scandal of historic proportions.
I'm creating a multipage programable form builder. Example: https://p.evaluatly.com/psycho/anxiety
Broadcastify Calls

A Full featured managed radio calls ingest platform. Every call on every captured radio system is available live and archived. I'm currently doing some of the final beta development work before I make onboarding call ingestors available to the general public. We have 18 systems being sent to the platform at this time.

https://www.broadcastify.com/calls/

This will be part of a new direction for how Broadcastify takes in content and distributes it to end users.

Technologies used include:

DynamoDB, Redis, PHP/Mysql/Apache, Bootstrap, Lambda, NodeJS, Trunk-Recorder
Why use this over SQLite?
HN generally eschews tagging and categorization, because it's intrinsic to the site that it be non-siloed: everybody sees the same site. This has deep consequences for community: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

/ask and /show in the top bar are partial exceptions, but those are not exactly topic categories.
Thanks very much! Yeah, I realised after Loaf #1 my folding technique needed to improve, and being a bit more energetic with the folds has given much better results (today's loaf! https://i.imgur.com/2WQYvcT.jpg). I'd never heard of the Rubaud method though, I'll try that out tomorrow!
This is how pretty much all writing online should work IMO, even if the 'deeper' version is just a citation or link to respected expert work. Some combo of this tool for writers and community-annotations a la Genius.
I've been using Dropmark (https://www.dropmark.com/) for collecting and sharing movie titles.
Meta: This thread is fun to read, it's cool to skim through such a large variety of ideas and projects. I wouldn't mind seeing it as a monthly thing like the "Who is hiring?" posts. There'd probably be some overlap with Show HN, but I personally wouldn't mind if it's just once a month.
No one considers a microwave or toaster to be a general computing device. The iPad is at least marketed as one.
Or you can just not define a z coordinate in the vertex buffer object (at least, in opengl). I think the vertex shader might still need to output a 3rd coordinate. But you can always just discard it.
Not really surprising at all. There are most likely a higher percentage of asymptomatic individuals in the US than is expected. From the article: "In the past week, the number of tests conducted in the United States has increased, however, the data for the past couple days has not been compiled yet. This could skew the numbers to look like coronavirus is growing faster, yet we are simply testing more."

and since we didn't self quarantine and cancel public events sooner we will see a wider distribution than would have occurred with social distancing.

"Health officials in New York, California and other hard-hit parts of the country are restricting coronavirus testing to health care workers and people who are hospitalized, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost[...]" [1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/21/coronavirus...
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> Can you explain to me how that's relevant here?

>> Most urban counties are blue. Cannot blame Dems for infectious disease based on density of cases.

GP asserted that incidence of SARS-CoV-2 didn't correlate with majority voting inclination.

> If you have evidence that points to the fact that Republicans or independents are considering voting Democrat based on this issue, I'd love to hear it.

If you have any proof that Republicans or independents are more inclined to vote, or to vote Republican, as a direct consequence of the Republicans' handling of this pandemic, I'd love to hear it.

On the basis that the pandemic is likely to be the causal factor in a global recession, there's plenty of evidence that would factor negatively in the US election [1]

1: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-views-of-the-...

> the fact that independents appear persuadable on the economy is a point in favor of the theory that a recession would indeed damage his reelection chances.
I'm working on a soft skills interview prep tool https://mrsimon.ai/
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently
Potentially to prevent MITM proxies on company computers from being able to sniff the traffic. Maybe because of what blind is about, that would make sense? Otherwise, if it's secure TLS, then no reason at all

Edit: maybe the reason they use public key for transmission is because you can't reverse that, and that would potentially be where your anonymous complaints your complaints (or whatever you do on blind) would be?
Covid-19 screening tool seeking community contributions
Please contribute to a simple mobile friendly COVID-19 screening tool!

github repo with contribution instructions: https://github.com/tconley/screencovid.com

live app in development: https://tconley.github.io/screencovid.com/

This project is based off a phone call I had with Sajung Yun, PhD from Johns Hopkins. He is very much interested in saving lives, and has analyzed the data available to come up with a simple formula for a covid screener. He created a screening tool, but it wasn't a mobile friendly UX. You can see what he's put together at https://www.screencovid.org/. The goal is to get this new tool production ready by Mon 3/23 at which time it'll be available at screencovid.com

You can view Dr Yun's findings and rationale behind the screening at https://github.com/tconley/screencovid.com/raw/master/Presen...
> Call around, talk to your network. I don’t just mean those ~300 people you’ve never met on LinkedIn, but your actual family, Facebook friends, etc. ... Figure out what the problems that they’re having are. Solve exactly the problems they express

This is, imo, the biggest hurdle for engineers who want to become entrepreneurs. I've seen so many HN posts about people trying to crowd source startup problems, trying to automate away this piece and just get down to coding. I too struggled with this for the longest time. I felt like a solution looking for a problem. Just give me a problem, any problem, and I'll build the best damn app and be on my way!

But that's not how it works. If you want to stop being an engineer, you need to stop acting like one. Engineers have their problems roughly scoped and entered in a JIRA board. Entrepreneurs have to go find problems to solve. You want to go be an entrepreneur? Go learn to talk to people. Go learn to listen to others, empathize, and to convince people to believe in you. You will be a company of one - so go build out your personal sales & marketing departments.
Experts warn: Pandemic is 'perfect time' for foreign hackers to strike
I misspoke, there’s no evidence I’m aware of that they were killed. But given China’s history of abusing critical citizens, it wouldn’t be surprising. What’s more accurate is that doctors who spoke up about the impending disaster died of the disease (perhaps unnecessarily) after being censured for their free speech.
Do you find recording your work and placing it on YouTube gives you greater self-accountability and helps keep you on task?
We learned from the SARS epidemic that there are no naturally occurring animals that match humans in terms of receptiveness to the virus, direct symptoms, and immune-enhanced damage. Here are a couple of articles that explain better than I can:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-labs-scrambl...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/researchers-rush-to-star...
FWIW, this is how news articles are classically structured. They are initially high-level, then dive more and more into detail as the article goes on.
One thing I've been curious about is that is the issue that these people had underlying condition, or is it that they were taking some medication(s) to treat/cure those underlying condition.

I believe it's the latter, or shall I say mostly-latter, due to the whole ACE2 receptor theory, though I have no data or evidence to back it up.

In other words, if there are two people with hypertension: One knows about it and is treating it with some medications, while the other doesn't even know about it and is hence not taking any medication - Do they both have the same risk profile?
Italy is special not just because of its elderly population, but because of its socially active and well-connected elderly population. Multi-generation families are still normal.

By contrast, Japan's elderly population tends to live socially isolated in the country-site.
It's a possible symptom but not a primary symptom, at 30~40% the anosmia seems way more frequent than nasal congestion.
This is something Apple could, at least in theory, fix on its end.

Right now, CarPlay interfaces with steering wheel remotes in the standard way where prev/next buttons change tracks and volume +/- changes the volume. What Apple could do is this: add a toggle somewhere in the OS that remaps these to cursor controls. This would, without any effort required on the part of auto manufacturers, bring something comparable to the Mercedes control system to the majority of CarPlay compatible vehicles on the road, all via an OS update.
Mass Testing to Fix the Labor Market
>For Unix, install linux on your computer and use it daily. You’ll be forced to learn.

I tried this years ago and it didn't end well. With how complicated current-gen distros are, you need to understand what's going on under the hood before you can effectively mess with it. In my experience you'll just end up with one screen that's only at 720p and a crashed pulseaudio that you never fix because you just want to watch netflix right now, and for some reason that still works as long as you use bluethooth. Even though you didn't want to use your bluetooth headphones, it's easier than fixing the problem with your sound driver or whatever so you'll just end up using them anyway.

It might be easier to start with server management because you don't have to figure out much human IO stuff... Linux is really good at talking to Linux. VPSs are cheap and give you root access. Plus if you mess up, it's generally pretty easy to just format the VPS and start over. You can't easily do the same on a desktop. Also it forces you to learn about Linux and not whatever software your distro uses (for example, learning how to use apt is a lot more important than the ubuntu app store)
I have no idea who you are, but I'm sorry to hear this. People can be truly awful and I wish the world had fewer obsessed, creepy stalker types in it.
> Out of the two-dozen-or-so NetHack variants, the most notable are probably SLASH'EM/SLASH'EM Extended and UnNetHack

Congratulations Amy, slex has been noted by Ars Technica now :D
I think what he means is that in signal processing you can define the signal analytically and perform the Fourier transform analytically, without sampling. The Nyquist rate only comes in when you talk about digital signal processing.
Any-time heuristic search algorithm library in Rust. Going to build some other projects on top of it for research purposes and maybe even to sell a product
Funny I'm trying to make a rogue-like game with my son these last days. Anyone has experienced using the C library `notcurses`, or some demo project ? (the library seems to be made to on purpose break curses API compatibility for the sake of sanity)
I am building a warehouse work order managemet system for a client who is in quarantine... It is a web app and I am having lots of fights with django.
Poorly conceived because ... such people don't exist? The majority of people doesn't need it? ...?
I think that goes under the “Japanese are generally clean” explanation. Along the lines of them not wearing shoes in the house, social distancing, washing their hands/bodies regularly etc. The hand cleaning product is actually called “Oshibori” and its usually just a wet towel. I am sure it helps but its not disinfectant or soap.
I, Backpack
Coronavirus and the Ultra Wealthy: Yacht Staffing and New Rules of Support Staff
It isn't physically possible to lose 25 pounds of lean muscle mass in a few weeks. That's off by an order of magnitude, check the energy and mass balance calculation.

But frequent exercise is certainly a "miracle drug" in that it effectively prevents or treats a host of different medical and psychological conditions.
Lord, I'm not really qualified; I've only been baking for a few weeks. My justification for writing this was more that I thought I could put it in a style that a new audience would be receptive to, rather than any perceived expertise on my own part.

That said, received wisdom is that loooong, slow ferments give more flavourful loaves. That's usually achieved with tiny amounts of yeast and time in the fridge. But please, go ask the experts over on /r/breadit, you'll get a much more reliable answer there.
Ask HN: Where can I get reliable data about the production aspects of Covid-19?
I keep hearing about shortages of ventilators, parts, masks, and so on and also of companies that are rising to meet the needs to produce them.

However I have no idea what is actually happening in terms of what is currently being produced, by whom, and in what quantities.

I would like to track these and hopefully provide useful information to people to help them understand the state of the supply chain for COVID-19.

Any idea if this information exists and where it can be reliably found?
It's totally possible to make touch screen displays that can be operated in bumpy environments without looking at them -- Aviation has been using them for some time. Instead of clicking on buttons, interactions only require touching entire regions (eg. top and bottom half) of the screen when input is requested. (See apps like XCSoar, LK8000, etc.)

The problem is that they are either hard to learn to use, or really ugly. It's always really bugged me that Google Maps on a phone (or in Android Auto) has tiny buttons that are impossible to click for the most basic tasks.

It doesn't have to be this way.
The problem is that along with this one good outcome comes many bad ones. It's awful that we cannot make all outcomes good, but that's simply not possible.

For what it's worth, I don't think that perpetrators of violent crimes, including rape, should ever be allowed out in public. Their incarceration should be humane, but it should not be temporary. And this judgement should be made by the courts.