skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a big electronics company. Those in charge are most probably shut off in country-side mansions.
We're moving past allowing this kind of manipulation and distortion of reality.
Hmm, one can enable an ssh service, as I recall, to get in. There is something there- what kind of userland is it?
I recently moved from a SAAS startup in the health space to a SAAS startup in the construction space.

Construction has completely stopped future scheduling for anything non-critical.

This is looking like a not-so-great career move on my part (hindsight is always 20-20).
Ray tracing can be used for different camera projections, sharp reflections, sharp refractions, sharp shadows and other things like physics. (Also it's rasterize)
Shenzhen's First 60 Days Since Covid-19 Outbreak: From Crisis to Normalcy
Previous discussion on EARN IT and its place in killing e2e
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110
> Why are they getting tax breaks for building warehouses and data centers for themselves?

Are you fucking kidding me? They get capital construction break like every other company gets. If you don't see that as the literal definition of investment you don't deserve to have an opinion on this.
It seems good in principle but in practice isn't so neat. With healthcare tied to employment in the US, people could literally die if they lose their jobs.
That's entirely separate. You should be able to trust a government that's wrapped in checks and balances.
Nobody has a right to someone else's property.
I have not tried software on the device itself, but I have written against the (community documented) APIs they use for sync'ing, etc. They work well. From the visible quality of the software engineering, I would have high confidence in deploying something on the device.
Maybe we should stop treating people like a child?
Maybe we don't need to "save" "others" and they can take care of themselves?
Maybe we can stop to rely on "something" and start to be more rational?
And yee, it will be much better for the economy and much better for ourselves.
Why N95 masks are hard to make
> they don't legally have to do it thoroughly,

I don't think that's an apt analogy because I don't think that's true. I've perused the health inspector reports for local restaurants a few times and I've seen businesses written up for substandard sanitation practices. It may not be the most enforceable law ever, but nevertheless I'm pretty sure the law does require them to wash their hands thoroughly.
Just got my first moderation warning in twelve years on facebook for posting this [1]. It was, in a strange way, a relief to find the parent article only a few minutes later.

[1] Linked to and commented on this fun, obviously fictional story: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
Political apps exist? Bernie has an app and I'm sure the other major party candidates do too.

Porn also seems like a very reasonable place to draw the line for the app store. It's not like the iPhone has a porn filter, you just have to use a browser to watch your porn.
Because we should be fair to everyone, at least to the extent practical. Isn't that obvious?
I was actually thinking about test kits.
Crying over revenue is what this lawsuit is really about, though, even if patent infringement is the cudgel.

I don't really understand how Broadcom believes they can get anything out of this. Look at the cited patents: several of these were filed and/or granted before Netflix ever streamed a byte, and one of them expired last year. I'm not a patent lawyer, but I thought you had to defend your patents quickly and vigorously. Won't Broadcom have to explain why they sat on this for roughly a decade while Netflix evidently destroyed their market?
Lol now they like socialism.
Envisioning the Bioengineered Soldier of the Future
The trouble is that you can always assume that systems will become closed. If that's true, there's nothing to be hopeful about ever. It may be true in the majority of cases, but you have to give someone a chance at some point.
GitHub Action: Automate Your Project Workflow
Don't panic, but yeah, you've been exposed if you're still in an office at this point.
He didn’t say which platform it ran on. Was Microsoft still using Xenix internally at the time?
Comparing the Virus’s Possible Toll with Other Causes of Death
A few problems I see with your argument.

1) The iPhone wasn't the start of the curve. It was building on the history of mobile phones, PDAs, WAP/mobile internet, portable music players, etc. It was a convergent device which brought together all of these other things, many of which had been successful in their own right. But you couldn't make the same argument about the Newton, or PalmPilot, could you?

2) iPhone is a product, Blockchain/Bitcoin is a network and protocol. Networks need mass adoption to be successful. You only needed one iPhone for it to be useful. Protocols are infrastructure to be built on top of. The iPhone didn't release with Apps (as we know them today) and could have still been successful without them.

I'm not saying Bitcoin will be a success, and what would it be a success at is still the open question. But you can't put it in the same bucket as the iPhone.
I commented on the blog post, but:

> If you are presenting a computer desktop (e.g. I teach programming classes, so I do a lot of this), then get your IT department to organise an Amazon Workspace for you. Join the conference call from twice — once from your laptop, and once from the Workspaces session. Share the Workspaces screen, not your home laptop. That way, if a message pops up on your screen, the students won’t see it.

I can recommend a better option (in my opinion): use a VM to "house" the work you're doing and then using OBS to broadcast that VM's window to Zoom/whatever using a OBS->Webcam plugin.

I do this and if you get in touch (I'm in Australia too; Brisbane) I'd be happy to share my setup and show you an example of the work it renders.
Play a game where typing is required to communicate. Never took any formal typing courses just started playing a lot of EverQuest back in the day. There wasn't voice chat at the time and the gameplay requires a lot of quick communication with your team. Can easily touch type 100+ wpm (according to typeracer.com) now. It's very motivating to be able to type well when you must to communicate and you have something you really really want to communicate via typing (such as communicating with your team via typing in a fast pace game)
I don't recall if it shows up as a USB storage device, but it will expose a webserver to you over USB to which you can put documents. I also wrote a utility to send documents up to their server side APIs, which them gets them automatically sync'd down to the device. Takes about a minute, works very well.
This conclusion doesn't, at all, follow from the premise.

While yes, nit-picky review could mean the reviewer doesn't understand the big picture, an LGTM with no comments at all is more likely to be indicative of missing something.

What you really mean is that nit-picky reviews that don't pick up on actual logic or functionality issues are a smell. Which is true, but isn't usually the case at Google[0]. The chapter on teamwork covers some relevant concepts (like psychological safety).

[0]: https://testing.googleblog.com/2018/05/code-health-understan...
Around 18 months (until sufficient quantities of vaccine) is this group of experts’ estimate

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
“A Coronavirus Winter”: Interview with Center for Infectious Disease Director
If anyone is interested in using a Scheme-like language with Make 3.81, take a look at: https://github.com/bhk/scam
On the opposite side of organized nests, I vote for Mourning Doves for the most haphazard, half-*ssed nestmakers. They're notorious for disheveled nests which barely stay together, in odd places:
https://www.wild-bird-watching.com/images/dove-nest-on-hangi...

https://www.wild-bird-watching.com/images/dove-nesting-on-la...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ornithology/comments/6i7cwk/dove_la...

We had a pair in a planter box whose nest fell apart so often I ended up reinforcing it for them with some twine when they were away! They came back and had two more sets of babies in the same spot.
China exporting its culture to the world.
Unfortunately, those written document are nothing more than ugly but accurate reflection of the market. TikTok does this the same reason Hollywood does. The only difference no one in Hollywood wrote it down, but it is almost as a taken.
Mostly Claude Shannon.
That makes sense, thanks.

How can they tell when for instance zoom is encrypted, or generally the main presenter does need to show their presentation?
This. Gemstone III and Dragonrealms and countless other MUDs when I was younger got me around 90wpm at near 100% accuracy. It is shocking how fast you improve when you are in combat against multiple critters and need to micromanage your attacks.

Incidentally, scripting for Dragonrealms was one of my first memories of really hacking together somewhat complex logic for travel and skill training.
Seems like a trend of incompetence.
DFI GHF51: AMD Ryzen R1000 on a Raspberry Pi Sized Board
Creative Commons doesn't mean you can't put it on Spotify iTunes Etc. It just means it can also be distributed on platforms that aren't part of the music industry copyright and licensing system.

One advantage of doing it this way is so your music is widely available even if the platform of the day goes away and you're not on top of it to migrate to whatever's current.

Check out more about this here
https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture...
You're contrasting hot food with a new car that has a six week or more lead time and no shortage. There are a lot of traffic still on the road because they too are essential (e.g. delivery vehicles/drivers), they need to eat, hot food fills an essentially need. Nobody "needs" a new Tesla in a crisis.
What is the security of these things? I'd really like a good encrypted notebook, but tbh I would want iOS like security (hardware enclave, so I can use a short PIN and still have moderate security).

Also, is it too much to expect colour?
I remember the EU saying they were suspending rules on government aids (as well as budget and debt) during the covid-19 outbreak.
Reminds me of the S10E7 of Curb your Enthusiasm, "The Ugly Section"
Hashtag of Note
Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment
Chloroquine is real, but in vitro work is a long, long way from human treatment. The paper you linked is an in vitro study only. There isn't even any preliminary animal data.
It's not prudent, or cautious, it's exactly panic. People are irrationally afraid, and as a consequence are buying crazy amounts of things with little reason. Even in Wuhan the lockdown wasn't severe enough to make that type of hoarding necessary. The only common thread in discussing quarantine in the US is that Wuhan is far more drastic than would ever happen here.

Consider for instance the absolute run on bottled water; what possible explanation other than mindless panic could explain that?
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
We'd expect the size of the universe to to be, at minimum, (oldest visible star's age * c * 2 * star's distance from us) - right - unless we just haven't looked in the other direction and seen the image of the other side of that star.
> The “readability” label comes from other “brilliant” Google engineers.

This doesn't mean it leads to complex code.

The Google cpp style guide[0], for example, tries at length to keep code simple and stresses that even in C++, you should prefer simple things unless the performance benefits (of, say, nontrivial ownership) are provably necessary:

> The performance costs of value semantics are often overestimated, so the performance benefits of ownership transfer might not justify the readability and complexity costs.

[0]: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
Way more than triple, considering things like nephrons in kidneys
They Went Off the Grid. They Came Back to the Coronavirus
"a very credible and personally-detailed report" isn't a medical test. Don't panic, but that doesn't make you safe.

Anecdotally, a lot of people have started coughing around me (in Auckland) since Friday. At work, with the homestay family, at church, on the bus - every group had at least one person with a dry cough. "No fever, so the doctors said it's OK."

Unfortunately, tests here in New Zealand cost 3000 NZD, and only people who have travelled recently AND show symptoms are allowed to be tested. Even then it takes hours on the phone to a helpline to join the queue. So far only about 500 people have been tested.

I found an old N95 mask in the bottom of my bag that I used for air pollution in Taiwan. I've been wearing it in public since yesterday, and in the office today. I've been going for walks down by the river to get lots of fresh air, and sunbathing to get more UV. I bought 4 bottles of tonic water today, to share with all these people around. (Yes, I know the quinine concentration is too low to matter, but things like masks are sold out and the US/Europe need them more... I feel like I have to try something).

My symptoms are barely noticeable (is that joint pain or RSI? shortness of breath or am I panicking?), but only when I started wearing a mask did other people take it seriously. The recorded cases in the country just jumped from 6 to 12 to 20 in the last few days. Exaggerate your own symptoms if you have to, instead of blaming someone else, and ask for personal permission to take sick leave. Take a week off for your wee cough.

We've just been granted permission to work from home until the end of the week. Perhaps it'll be longer.

Wash your hands, get a mask and wear it, drink tonic water and share it with everyone, try to take sick leave.

I would love to see a web app where anecdata like this could be shared on a map (checkboxes of symptoms, severity, locations, number of people in groups).
MoonWalk: Go package to return files walking back to the root directory
It would be pretty hard to prove somebody coughed deliberately (unless they talked about their plan online first...)
This is more like trickle down authoritarianism promoting Potemkin villages in all spheres of life. Old decorations just won't do there.
Yes there is a sentiment against TV shows and magazines doing such things, but many shows and magazines continue the practises today.
You're logic causes panic that will lead to overwhelmed hospital systems and massive deaths. It is misinformation that should be squelched.
Based on a recent post about WGSL (the WebGPU shading language) it sounds like Apple is in a legal battle with Khronos so Apple seems unlikely to adopt anything Khronos related.

this might be why WebGL2 never really shipped on Safari. They added a flag but there is no actual implementation.
I think he is kidding.
I don't disagree with anything you said. I was just pointing out that having free press while a great thing didn't seem to be much of a positive factor in handling this pandemic in western societies. Information was either ambiguous, ignored or the significance severely down played. All of what's happening in Europe or the US was predicted and warned about. Just not much was done about it.
Tried to find a pic... Does Apple secrecy really extend that far?
I'd guess because if someone is building something in their free time they're likely to build it either using whatever technology is most fun for them, or using whichever framework they're most excited to learn.

For most frontend devs that's going to mean something a little bit more exciting than a static site.
At this point, you should look out for yourself - why worry about affecting your employer if they’re the ones putting you at risk?

If you have enough saved up, quit and be safer. That will signal to your team and they can make their own adult choices.

If you think you have corona already, take sick leave.
Now that it's 2020, I've been looking for a new year to think of as "the future". 2040 seems too obvious and maybe too far away to really imagine, what just add 20 years? Boring. I think I'll take 2032.
Later is still safer. They're currently testing two anti-virus drugs that look promising, three different vaccines, and there are likely to be a major shortage of ventilators.
In some ways we are, in others not. I think there is great value discussing such things abstractly, in no small part because it can minimize personal biases and rivalries.
Today they published an online version which covers many of the platforms listed in these comments:

https://makezine.com/2020/03/17/private-by-design-free-and-p...
Got a credible source to link for your claim about Canada there?
Google Cloud Next Digital Connect Postponed
See my comment: the original text has a typo. The translation is correct.
Geometric and Flowers Wedding Invitation Templates
I enjoyed this paper by Doug Schmidt of Vanderbilt on what it was like to teach a comp-sci MOOC at Coursera:

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/POSA-MOOC.pdf

Section 3.1.1 "Filming High Quality Video Lectures" is especially good:

> After teaching courses on object-oriented software patterns and frameworks for two decades, it's become second nature to present lively and inspiring lectures despite minimal rehearsal and ad hoc slides. This haphazard model of preparation does not work in a MOOC since there are no students to interact with while filming the videos in the studio. As a result, we needed to produce much tighter scripts and highly structured lecture material.
They may not be. Copper is antimicrobial and sometimes gets used in hospitals for things like railings because it helps prevent the spread of infection.
It's more a question of "proper" filtering, not "no" filtering.

For instance, if a PhD program only accepted white male applicants, we'd find that unacceptable. If instead, they only accepted people with proper credentials, scores, and recommendations, we'd find that fine. It's not no filter, just the right one.

Similarly, if we were making a movie about Jim Crow segregation and needed actors to play white racist men then our same unacceptable filter all of a sudden looks reasonable.

So it's not about removing filters, it's about making them justifiable and relevant. That's why we say "there's no reason that a qualified X can't be a Y", that part, the reason part, is important.
> since it'll lure in more young users

The older crowd also prefer to look at beautiful people.
The brushless motor on my original Xiaomi Robovac died and I was able to order a new one and install it myself from AliExpress for under $50. Big fan of Xiaomi products, even with their poor brand reputation. RoboRock is an off-shoot that's done really well, best-in-breed for most consumers.
> last page is result of experiment mentioned above

The last slide is a bibliography. The second to the last is a slide is in vitro results.

There's not one shred of new clinical data in that presentation from what I can see.

What's happened is that the OP has linked to an article making claims that are not supported from the slide deck or YouTube video.
5G and Shannon’s Law
It was not a rumor, it was a very specific and detailed account that resulted in employee quarantines.

The chain of influences is big enough and reaches into national government, with a confluence of interests. I'm afraid a leak to the press could be more effective than a report to the government.

I believe t will eventually come up because these things are difficult to hide as time goes by.
And shirts!
Postponed for federal and some states: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608290
I believe the factory workers are hourly. He should just shut it down for two weeks. Not a huge cost.
What about the people you care about who lose their jobs, get evicted, lose the businesses they spent years to build, suffer the permanent long-term effects of impoverishment (even temporary periods of unexpected unemployment still have a lasting negative effect on health outcomes)? Or maybe you're in the upper middle class, like most readers here, and don't know what life's like for the restaurant workers, hairdressers and the like who are about to lose their livelihoods.

The lockdown is essentially asking the younger generations to make a massive sacrifices to support the older generation that has demonstrated very little willingness to make sacrifices to support the younger generation (accept a slightly lower standard of living to fight climate change).
If you think of UNIX tools the way a chef thinks about kitchen tools (like chefs’ knives and cutting boards, or mixing bowls and frying pans), you won’t be as surprised to be using stuff that dates back decades. Good design is built to last and to enhance the skills of an experienced craftsperson. I wrote a little on this here:

https://amontalenti.com/2012/06/22/unix-kitchen
Anyone knowledge about the probabilities of getting infected from takeout / delivered food? Either via handling at the restaurant itself or en route. All indications are that the virus can survive quite a while on smooth surfaces like plastic bags.
I read both the Kerbson & Wired articles and while I commend the work they've done, it sounds like an expensive operation and not really worth the investment by Cisco if they can't brand it or make any money from it. When I read statistics like "1.2 billion malware samples" or "11.6 petabytes of threat intelligence data" I have to wonder how much of that is really relevant today. Do we really need to be storing malware samples from archaic operating systems? Couldn't they lean down their operation to focus on the most widely used platforms? How effective are honeypots in 2020? I'm just not sure this really needs to be saved.
you mean the first image to come up in a google image search for [Annika the Anteater apple radar]?

https://twitter.com/macshome/status/1028996446903783426
> In short if the overwhelming majority found something to be immoral then it would seem a reasonable standard to apply now.

Majority consensus does not entail truth of any kind. Your "reasonable standard" would have seen no lawyer able to defend Rosa Parks.

> The main problem is defining what is abjectly immoral, what amounts to an overwhelming majority, etc.

A deceptively pleasant sounding summary of two problems so deep that they've had no resolution despite millennia of philosophical debate. And you call my argument impotent.
So...does that mean ugly people are going to be star actors too?
When it’s your money building and running the club, you can decide who to let in or not. There is freedom of association and the freedom not to associate. If a nightclub was a public service, the argument might hold, but it’s not. However, let’s extend your discrimination opposition to universities— should they be allowed to admit or deny people based on their economic, racial, or other non-academic characteristics?
Surgical and homemade masks are much better than nothing. And by better than nothing we mean reasonably effective.

Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a professional. And get your union to scream bloody murder if you are not allowed this essential safety equipment, and put complaints in writing so your heirs can later sue to oblivion.

Trying to massively reduce your risk when going out for supplies, or living with someone infected and have no other options? Surgical and homemade are vastly vastly vastly better than nothing.

Extremely antisocial, harmful, dangerous? Shaming those wearing masks.
Here's an old version: https://images.app.goo.gl/zxbGoJuVHxSd2dhGA
Alternate geometries are interesting but it seems pretty clear that a flat universe is the simplest conclude when what we observe in the large scale is a flat universe (this is the case in most sophisticated observations despite general relativity demonstrating local curvature).

I think that the motivation for a universe that's bounded in some fashion comes from the philosophical paradoxes that come from an infinite universe. But I don't, maybe just deal with them.