skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly, that giant screen in a Tesla is the craziest thing I've ever seen in a car

Same here. I cannot understand how people are fine with it. I once had to drive a car who had it's GPS display further down (where the AC controls usually is, basically) so you had to glance down towards the shifting stick to be able to see where you are going. That feels like a similarly crazy idea. I'm lucky my car has a display that is as far up it can be without blocking the view out of the windshield.
C-PAP ventilation from a Decathlon snorkeling mask
Masks on sick people probably have the most impact when sick people wear them before they realize they're sick.
This is what patio11 had to say about it:

"I will say this: when Japan had major natural disasters in 2011 I praised the response and wrote a long blog post about how things were much better than commonly believed.

I have written no such post this year. That is not because of insufficient personal interest in the topic."

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1241103181511180288
I find that to be true, and actually consider this an advantage of GPS. I remember being super careful not to miss turns before it, because getting back might be difficult or confusing in some cases.

Now, I don't care so much. GPS can route me back pretty easily if I miss anyway.
Age is the best correlating factor right now. They are prime for an outbreak demographic wise.

>http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
I have a big issue with the politics of this piece. The whole “leader of the free world” applying to Merkel is media frustration with Trump.

However, it’s not the media (or my) job to apply this label. Rather, it’s earned by the person who most shapes the free world.

By definition, that is not Xi or Putin.

Merkel’s influence compared to any American president is significantly less.

A US President has mush more influence over things like trade, war, and finance than any German leader since 1945.

I say this objectively, regardless of whether I like or hate the person in either office.

Merkel may have nailed the speech, but that is almost tangential to the distorted headline.
Even isolation and recovery at the process level does not guarantee that a multi-process application will have no invalid state! By the time invalid state is detected in one process and a panic happens, the invalid state may have already propagated to another process via IPC messaging.

And even taking down an entire multi-process application doesn't fully protect against invalid state, if that invalid state has wound up in persistent storage.

All recoveries from panics are ultimately heuristics.
> Could this all be avoided by just not telling anyone that you are in the running for a job, until you have the written offer in hand?

Probably not in U.S. academia. When a U.S. department is thinking of hiring you as a professor, you give a public talk in front of that department's faculty. At that point, it becomes more or less public knowledge that you are in the running for a job.
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I created https://projectconnect.us a few nights ago as a central location for small businesses that are still open in our area to promote that they are so. The service allows for businesses in other locations as well, so if you would like to help promote small businesses that are open in your community feel free to add them, and I’ll set up the location based off the address you give and get them live ASAP!
I haven't been able to figure out from the public statements regarding blood pressure: does the high mortality correspond to treated BP, untreated BP, or both?
OTOH, quite a few people in their 30s survived only after two weeks on a ventilator. That involves “fixating the patient, who will otherwise try to pull out the tube because he believes it is suffocating him”. No fun.
I see this sentiment expressed a lot, but I can think of edge cases where it fails. One case is regular sexual harrassment from a peer (say 2 students in a class). It's not technically a crime, but it's easy to see that the educational experience of the victim is worsened. In that case, I would say it's the university's responsibility to investigate and step in.
I'm not an insider, just a Norwegian that consumes seafood :)

But that might help if they reduce the drugs they put in the feed. However I think what needs to happen is that they stop poisoning public waters and move everything to highly controlled on-shore facilities.

I would still be worried about heavy metals etc as the feed contains left-overs from other fish like bones (high in toxins) and fatty tissues that humans don't want to eat.

They take the "role" of the apex predator except for us and it's typical that the higher you are in the food chain the more toxins build up.
Isn't it funny how many meanings the word "why" has?

My first explanation, on hearing the question, was: because, evolutionarily speaking, no organism would have relied so heavily on the heart if it got tired easily.

Or looking on it another way, if the heart was easily fatigued, we'd be all dead, or be very different.
The cheats make use of PCIe's ability to perform DMA. One example I found was https://github.com/EngineOwningSoftware/pcileech-webradar.
We've merged this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644644, which posted that original source, and also was earlier.

(From the site guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.")

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder - there seem to be all kinds of studies going on about SARS-CoV-2 and results seem to spread fast in the current news climate. Are there studies for the effectiveness of masks planned or going on as well?
One of my many projects is taking the motor from an old battery-powered mower a neighbor gave away using it as a generator and hooking it to the exercise bike and some batteries (actually the batteries from the mower, since they turned out to be fine). Want to watch TV, play a game, etc? Better get pedaling. :)
Haskell IDE 2020
>Posting information about someone

One of the biggest problems is that anyone can make up the same username anywhere online and use it in false flag attempts to harm someone's reputation and the dramaqueens at Kiwifarm don't care as long as it's "verified" by their very ambiguous standards, something which has happened there before many times.

>to stir up drama

Ironic since the whole product they're selling there is drama and invoking it not only on their own boards but elsewhere.
Supposedly they use on-device AI to recognize "OK, Google," "Hey, Alexa," etc., then send the following command over the internet. Supposedly.
The administration would certainly order employees back to work under the Taft–Hartley Act under threat of imprisonment. While it resists ordering companies to produce critically need medical supplies on ideological grounds[1], there can be no doubt that it would not miss an opportunity to damage labor organizations.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/trump-coronav...
What's the name of this fallacy?

1. "New thing X puts us at risk of losing Y lives every day."

2. "We lose Y lives to car accidents every day".

3. "Ergo, X is harmless!"

You now have 2Y lives lost every day.
It may just be my better understanding of bacteria, but I think it'd be significantly easier to engineer bacteria as a bioweapon where, largely, you are the one doing the spreading, via something like a crop duster.

I've heard a firsthand account from a guy who worked at Vector [0], that they had difficulty controlling viruses [1]. Accidental releases of weaponized bacteria also happened [2], but in that case they could prophylactically treat with antibiotics. That said, this was done using 1970's-1980's technology. I'm sure there's some more sophisticate bioweapons that are possible now. Maybe viruses are a more reasonable chassis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_prog...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
I think this is a good question. Here are some random observations on Japan:

1. Japan, Tokyo area in particular, is crowded but clean and neat.

2. The Japanese, contradicting western prejudice, are not particular healthy. Lots of heavy drinking and smoking.

3. The Japanese never did a China travel ban. Lots of trade with and tourism from China.

I personally guess the answer to the question is that they did very good testing and contact tracing wrt. COVID19 and do not have the same testing bottlenecks as other countries.
We merged comments hither from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22646564, which points to a cnet.com article about this study and was originally the thread on the front page. We kept its title.
I am a class of 2020 MIT student. Taking these tests was sort of awkward in my case. My high school allowed me to take the ACT once for free. I did not have to take SAT Subject Tests for any of my other college applications. I am happy with Stu's decision here. I can speak more on my experience if people would like me to do so.
My intent was not to create a false narrative. I can only refer to what I read and hear. There have been several stories of Italians not heeding the Governments orders and hence the Army and basically martial law in some parts of the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/europe/italy-military-coronav...

I only wish the best outcome for Italy and hope they can overcome this Epidemic they are suffering from. Wishing you safety and good health,
It's because they acted early. All the epidemiological models show that if you lock down when there are only a handful of cases, the disease can be managed effectively. There is no mystery to this, it's because they "overreacted" by closing borders and schools when the West was still telling people not to, and now they can relax the restrictions.
Ask HN: What perks/bonuses did your company done due to the virus?
I don't know how you think bargaining works, but they don't just demand "do XYZ or we'll all walk out". There's lots of levers on both sides. The point of negotiation is to arrive at a mutually beneficial solution. Striking is always a last resort, and quite rare, since it's bad for workers, too.
I don´t disagree. But one face mask has a mayor benefit on a doctor or nurse and minimal effect on a regular person. But millions of masks on millions of people may have a major effect in the pandemic.
> For a well-paid programmer it’s a different story but it’s not hard to imagine the immediate liquidity bieng more valuable when expenses take a bigger bite of your income.

One of the best parts about Netflix's compensation program when I worked there was that you could choose your ratio of stock to cash. You could do 100% stock if you wanted to, or 0%.

Despite this freedom, almost no one chose to get any stock at all. Even people making $200K+ decided the cash was better than the stock.
It's not a matter of "convenience" any more, when you know for a fact that nobody dashing off quick five-line scripts in your language is going to bother doing the extra thing, and so the default behavior will be the only behavior for those scripts.

Defaults matter. It's like the difference between opt-in and opt-out for organ donation, or the difference between encouraging and requiring cars to have airbags.
> even within an order of magnitude of 0.6%

Have previous estimates for other diseases been off by that much? A whole order of magnitude, at this level of study? Citations please. Yes, the number is probably not perfectly accurate, but it's also converging toward what is very likely to be a correct figure. Also, how much does it have to change to affect the broader point? A hundred thousand deaths (i.e. one order of magnitude) is still nothing to take lightly. Such aggressive minimization of danger is still a worse problem than the "hysteria" the OP is supposedly trying to address.
Absolutely, and thanks for the clarification.

Perhaps you might want to publish a log of the things you aggressively downmod (contrary to the votes they receive) for being offtopic in the interest of curiosity/transparency? Maybe something like /leaders, a URL that isn't linked to from the frontpage? It would clear up confusion like this Ask HN.

I think there's value in links that get a lot of support, and it seems a shame to throw them away totally, even if they don't belong on the frontpage. I'd certainly peruse the stuff on such a list. Unlike /newest, it'd be mostly high-quality stuff, as otherwise it wouldn't have trended high/needed downmodding in the first place.
1. 'Manage' is meaningless verb in this context. If you do nothing, you've managed poorly, but still managed.
2. Chores / task management doesn't fit that bill.
An Ounce of Prevention: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and Mass Gatherings
I agree wholeheartedly. If we tell people "Don't write code that panics" then we collectively start writing code that assume panics don't happen. Suddenly panics become a footgun in Rust, and it isn't the safe language we want it to be.

If I'm feeling in a mood, I think we should panic all the time. We should have a "panic monkey" tool that places panics at random parts of the code, to see how panics are handled. Eg to see if they interact poorly with unsafe code.
I don't think patio11 is a Japan expert.
My plan will not even apply my out of pocket payments to the deductible. There are wide swaths of the U.S. where I'm 100% pay out of pocket for emergencies, heck, even inside my own state. Most people are completely unaware of how poorly they are covered when they travel on vacation, within their own country.
High blood pressure, or related to the medication that people with high blood pressure take (ACE inhibitors)?
This is from 2007: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-...

Again, the vast majority of use cases for GPUs is 3d vertex graphics. But they're capable of more than that. Modern GPUs are very different from early GPUs that only worked with triangles. Some of the early ones were actually ASICs, and couldn't even load different shader programs.
What is a "typical person"? As the article states, most of these people are 70+ years old.

It would be interesting to know the prevalence of these illnesses among the cohort of 70+ year old Italians, but that would require more searching/translating than I care to do now. But feel free have at it.
The UK considered this until late last week but reversed course over the weekend when new modelling revealed that ICU admission rates in populations they had previously assumed were less vulnerable were higher than anticipated if still very small. That would mean completely overwhelming ICU capacity (like more than 20x) for weeks at a time with otherwise healthy young people who would likely survive with ICU care and die without it.
It's surreal how this is so obviously logical, but we live in a world where ideas like this are treated as if they're absurdly impossible.
Aye. The heart is not really a pump for blood. There's a kind of signal that comes in from above through the Sun to the Earth and then up into each beings heart. The organ is more of a resonator or tuned waveform guide for this pulse, which then flows through the body moving the blood.

There's a kind of meditation you can do that involves becoming aware of the pulse throughout your body. The subjective experience is very powerful, so much so that I've personally have not gone "all the way" as I fear it would dissolve me. Metaphorically, direct awareness of the blood pulse is like looking into the sun, it's too potent.
No--it's saying that 75% of the dead had it, not that it was responsible for 75% of the deaths. High blood pressure is common in the elderly.

I also seriously wonder if it's actually an issue at all, or if it's the drugs used to treat it that put you at higher risk. Properly controlled high blood pressure shouldn't weaken you--but one standard category of drugs is ACE inhibitors and Covid-19 exploits a related path.
At a time when there are so many rumors and wrong information, why is he adding more confusion? he's involved in the efforts, but please let space for doctors and scientists to talk about that subject, we need science to be at the frontline, or people will also be tempted to listen to some crazy Elon Musk or Adam Neumann too...
As of right now, Italy’s fatality rate is almost 9% [0], so saying “it might not be within an order of magnitude of 0.6%!” is optimistic to the point of delusional.

[0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/12414116867...
Me, no. Them, maybe, once they have enough meaningful work during the days to deliver them from the delusion that repeated daily check-ins during 6 week sprints is a valuable chore.
we will! We are currently working on making our documentation and getting started experience more accessible. We welcome constructive feedback like this :)
Dropbear SSH
Patient zero in Lombardy has never been found.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it sounds like an excellent idea on first glance. Have a pair of glasses (not necessarily Google but something similar) that you use when driving, that is connected to your car. Now you get information right where you're looking so you can always look at the road.
Can a Corona test detect antibodies after you are cured?
I don't know where to ask this.
Can a Corona test detect antibodies after you are cured?
If negative, how can you know that you are immune after being cured or not even seeing the symptoms?
Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE
I would like to point out that byuu's recent response to that thread was composed and dignified: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430.... As someone with who wasn't familiar with the drama I came away with the impression that byuu handled it rather well in the end (and also has grown as a person thanks to it).

It does make me wonder if from the perspective of PR and reducing further trolling posting a calm, eloquent and self-deprecating defense is better or worse than not responding at all. What would you do if you had a Kiwi Farms thread with your embarrassing posts, some very old?

(Throwaway because I don't want a link to Kiwi Farms in my post history.)
That's a shame. Let's hope better alternatives exist and/or develop :)

I did try Open Food Facts[0] which correctly identified the same product for me -- and allows anyone to enter missing products, a bit like Wikipedia.

User /u/homarp mentions[1] an app which can integrate Open Food Facts with Grocy.

[0] - https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22648741
I am working on enhancing my pet project called bootman. It basically uses Redhat byteman to inject code at run-time in a Springboot application and exposed via swagger endpoint, taking care of differences due to java version specific quirks.
https://github.com/rajasenapati/bootman
From a practical standpoint, having a degree will make moving abroad easier. For example, the EU Blue Card scheme in Germany (which I'm on) requires a degree related to my job. I'm sure other countries have simar rules as well since most immigration laws are still operating under this "degree = well-educated professional" mentality.

Also there's never an end to learrning in practically any subject, and that is especially true in the world of CS.
We are destroying our economies to save people who will just die in a few years anyway.
Even if so, do you feel like taking a 1% chance?
Yes, thank you. So many people are confused about this just being about the # of people dying from covid. The entire health system gets knocked down and all the other preventable diseases that killed us before are no longer prevented.
Two examples doesn't change the stats. There were 0.8% of deaths in Italy that did not have any prior comorbidities. Picking two of those examples does not increase the 0.8%.

I don't think any one is under some kind of delusion that some young people will die. The only question is what percentage and what changing those numbers will cost. Picking specific examples of bad outcomes and pretending the risk is as high as older people isn't doing anyone any favors.
Being over 70 is pretty risky. Being over 70 and admitted to hospital is very risky. But so far it seems like covid-19 increases that risk a lot.

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-much-normal-risk-does-co...
> I'm curious how different it would be if you could control Android auto with physical buttons

You can, if the car is made that way of course, but the software supports it. I would not buy a car knowing it's only a touchscreen. At least in my car, the radial controls the focus on Android Auto and press it down to select. The screen is not a touch screen.
> 70% of U.S. adults aged 65 years and older have high blood pressure (BP), and the prevalence increases with age.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639920/
Yeah, he simply lives there.
https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~toh/spectrum/IntroToSignalProce...

https://allsignalprocessing.com/category/lesson-categories/

https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/edu/arm-education-media...

http://www.eas.uccs.edu/~mwickert/ece5650/

http://www.eas.uccs.edu/~mwickert/ece5615/

http://www.naiant.com/SM/SM%20Forum%20Attachments/Other%20do...

Sorry I don't know if any of these are good. They're in my dsp bookmarks directory, I think I found these a while back when I was trying to relearn these topics.
Reasonable, and I didn't learn this until today.

I think the term "panic buying" is a really bad term for it, then, if you can be entirely not-in-a-panic and fit the definition of "panic buying". It paints it as something it's decidedly not, and people who don't encounter the term very often are likely to make incorrect assumptions about it.

I did my "panic buying" in February, and there was no panic or urgency whatsoever involved.
>>OTOH, quite a few people in their 30s survived only after two weeks on a ventilator.

I wonder if anyone needing one will get a ventilator when times comes? Especially since you need it for weeks
The only big player that even attempted anything like that is... surprisingly Google with its partially offline Assistant on Pixels.

Apple doesn't really have a good track record with their data sharing without opt-outs in Siri :(
The biggest takeaway here IMO is that Python breaks the standard contract regarding signals–at least for SIGPIPE. Python should not be catching and throwing an exception for SIGPIPE; it should simply exit immediately, which is literally the default POSIX behaviour... unless a script/program/process specifically installs a signal handler to perform cleanup before exit. Python has some pretty awful behaviours built into it, and this is one of them.

Half of this article is not "How do Unix pipes work", but "how to fix broken SIGPIPE handling in Python".
Care to debunk it?
One difference from the usual is that the accused parties in this case are women.
This is a great intiative,over 800 devs now participating
Interestingly this is the reason why the first Raiblocks wallet was named canoe. [1]

[1] https://getcanoe.io/
Seems like you and a few other people believe that having your time wasted is the nature of work, or at least that it is typical. If you're dealing with this on a daily basis and you feel like it is not worth it, perhaps it's time to find a new job.