skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current mask situation reminds me of a doctor that promoted hand washing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
The pixel perfect terrain deformation of Lemmings and Worms will always be impressive, and something that 3D can’t do as well as 2D (yet?)

I wonder why there haven’t been any modern sequels or mobile ports of Lemmings..
There are plenty of homeless people in London.
Yeah, I'm only a couple of years younger than you and I feel the opposite. I'm always trying so hard to parse the words and meaning, that I easily miss the sentiment of spoken words.

It's one of those things that I realize is probably just on my end though. I've had speech issues since I was a kid and am technically on the autism spectrum. I've learned enough by now so that most people wouldn't guess either of things - but real-time streaming audio processing is one of the few things I just can't learn or accommodate for. It's like I'm always 3 seconds behind in understanding what was just said. Often, I can even recite back what was said to me before I can parse it. I'm surprisingly fine at highly technical conversations / phone troubleshooting though - because it's easier to anticipate the path of the conversation and sentiment isn't usually a factor. Taking tons of notes helps too.

From my experience, text can absolutely convey a significant degree of intimacy - but it takes a great deal of practice to do so fluidly. There is some latency - but the trade-off works to my benefit since I don't have much more latency than my peers on average.
Slightly off topic (but considering this is promo article from Snyk):

What is the value of Snyk now that Github and NPM have built-in dependency security audits?

I was a customer of Snyk before auditing was built in to NPM / Github (and before Snyk's price shot up to $750/mo for private repos). Was always confused how they justified that price point now that their main value prop is built in to npm for free.
No. Here, as in several places, you make unwarranted assumptions about other's thought processes. Remember that "efficacy" is a matter of degree. I try not to spend too much time and effort on strawmen.
Airbnb racks up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses -- WSJ
I think a more likely explanation is that a heatmap of covid-19 cases will roughly mirror a heatmap of population density and interstate highways are built between populated areas almost by definition.

https://xkcd.com/1138/
I never seen a distro that didn't have a http mirror for those things myself. Even the ones that offer ftp.debian.org for example are accessibly over http as well.
If you are open to it, would love to work with you (e.g understand your requirements) as we develop the personas product. Can you please email soumyadeb@rudderstack.com
TIL. Never took one.
Not my genre (prog rock), but I'm enjoying it. Unfortunately I could get only a glimpse at the previous band, however the Sorry Entertainer DJing now seems quite a talented artist.
Big thumbs up for the initiative!
ftp over ssl
So, you will be approaching the boiling point of ethanol and a lot of other stuff you don't want (methanol is 65c, where ethanol is 78c) will boil off along the way, but time is a factor here, and also the fact that you are not likely maintaining a precisely even temperature along the entire column until the condensing stage, and so one will typically account for real-world pollution by discarding the first material, instead of being a cheapskate and blinding people... for example.

bear in mind that there are other substances that ALSO boil around 80c-90c and that fermentation of a given substance or mixture or solution of substances will be varying byproducts (from your ethanol-questing perspective...)

the sheer notion of distillation being some precise and quantized quantifiable process is likely suspect...

think of cooking, and how the ingredient list is only part of how a given dish may turn out...
Predictions of abuse and scams exploiting Covid19: why?
I think many more that realize that. Are you sure that all "download" links that you've clicked lately have been HTTP?
Thanks for the link. Most involved read I've seen on strategy, but unfortunately for me I'm in the UK, so now I'm significantly more concerned than I was previously.

I will see what my MP has to say about it. Couldn't find a UK petition about it.
I'm surprised browsing the web isn't a separate, isolated process from the car's general ui.
Is there some especially compelling reason to dredge up a decade-old petty flamewar? Does anyone believe doing so would produce some interesting discourse or enlightenment?
Last I’ve checked SFTP was much slower than FTP unless you used the HPN-SSH patches. Is this still the case?
Tech Industry Ask California to Delay Enforcement of Data Privacy Law Until 2021
The best part of this thread (from a yak shaving nerd perspective) is joeyh's breakdown of profanity filtered for personal insult in the Debian changelog: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454#101

"""

Now that this bug has been brought to my attention, I cannot help
myself. I have to grep Debian changelogs for profanity, filter for
profanity that includes personal insults, and wonder why these packages
reached the archive w/o RC bug reports being filed:

"""
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... yeah ok.
This is a duplicate of this earlier submission of the WSJ article, which got flagged down from the front page to oblivion by those with a vested interest in not giving the story the attention it deserves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22639181
> Supply is not an issue

Well, I was going to order some, been researching for a couple days before buying, and in that time all stock on my known pharmacy sites is now gone.
Some files from Adobe are available on their ftp server, it's kind simple to get them through clicking a link than copying the path, opening up an FTP client, connecting, etc.
looks good! although media gave me enough depression already, and slack is for work & headache :)
I still don't understand why eBay hasn't leveraged eBay, Skype and Paypal into something like WeChat.
> A hiring manager in (let's say) one state has their experience, and a new college grad in (let's say) another state has theirs.

That's interesting, and a fair point. The differences I'm admittedly fixated on are the differences between software development as a profession versus engineering, medicine, or law, for example - or even the creative arts or science, not just the licensed professions! And I really do think it's a bit much to unpack adequately in the comments here, though I have seen a few good ones that touch on some things I think are important.

> the abstraction "new CS grads"

No abstraction intended, you can read that as "members of the set of students who recently graduated from CS programs in the United States and will now look for jobs or continue further in academia" if you like.

I would encourage them, if any were nutty enough to ask me for advice, to be enthusiastic about their future contribution to what is (well... should be) an amazing field, to be proud of their education, and to negotiate as well as possible with their first employer out of college, since that will help set the trajectory of their future career.

And to avoid people who misunderstand them by saying things like:

They come with a chip on their shoulder, flaunt their degree, and demand a salary close to what they think they should be getting, according to their advisers or statistics or whatever.
Ok, well if that is true then it is dangerous but I just do not believe that people will do that.
> I don't get this idea that "panic buying" is necessarily bad. We are moving goods from communal locations to people's homes.

Not to everyone's homes. For example: old people who can't rush to the shops and elbow their way through the queue may get nothing.
I’m sorry to hear that but you are spot on. Some decisions require cold-blood and we can only hope we chose the lesser evil.
The entirety of changes to one of the files in the past 13 years is here: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/netwerk/strea...

There's more changes on nsFtpConnectionThread.cpp: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/netwerk/proto...

Looking at those changes, it's clear that there has been very little substantive modifications to the FTP code itself, as opposed to keeping up with style guide changes, mass renamings, and API changes. So either you believe this 15 year old code is really rock-solid, stable, high-quality code, or you believe that it's a massive pile of bugs and security holes that no one's examined too closely. I know which one I believe.
If you're building a DIY rotary cellphone and are actually concerned with the practical aspects of it, probably the more important aspect is that it only supports 3G. The major US carriers have already shut down large portions of their 3G networks to free up spectrum for LTE and they will likely be completely gone in 1-2 years.
I know a guy in Aarhus, Denmark once that was triple distilling floor cleaner. He still had his vision and all organs intact, but I still did decline the offer of a drink at his house...
I wasn't aware that was even a feature in Firefox.

fun fact, Windows has a built in FTP client in Explorer. Just enter an FTP address into the address bar and then right click to login.
America’s Intensive-Care Dividend
Not sure how much effort you want to put into it, but the raw data is in JSON files on the site under the following pattern:

https://covidactnow.org/data/{{state_abbreviation}}.{{scenario_number}}.json (where scenarios go from 0 - 7)
Doing Giveaways on Twitter
One reason is to generate screenshots of HTML by combining this technique with SVG <foreignObject>.
Moving to Backus FP
(Post in German) Ich habe mich einige Jahre mit Backus FP beschäftigt,
und einige Erfahrungen in ein FP Projekt einfließen lassen.
Man könnte es damit vergleichen, dass Leibniz eine Rechenmaschiene baute
und dann neue Ideen daraus entstanden sind.
Ein bekannter Informatiker verbeitet auf Twitter, dass John Backus meinte
er wäre mit FP gescheitert (und alle sollten bitte OOP verwenden).
Aber ich sehe keinen Widerspruch zwischen FP und OOP.
Nein - die können sogar sehr gut miteinander harmonieren,
wenn man sich auf immutable Daten beschränkt. Das FP,
daß ich nun vorstelle hat vieles mit Backus FP gemeinsam.
Es ist immer noch ein "combinator based functional programming system",
und ich verwende Fähigkeiten von FFP verbunden mit der Schönheit von FP,
die John Backus im ersten Teil seines Aufsatzes vorstellte.
Das AST-System von Backus habe ich allerdings mit einer Monadentechnik ersetzt,
da es sonst die Sprache unnötig komplex machen würde, und außerdem eine mittlerweile
akzeptierte Technik geworden ist. Eine Fortsetzung könnte ich mir aber m
it algebraischen Effekten vorstellen.
Ich setze auf die Infixnotation als einen grundlegenden Mechanismus,
wie sie auch in der menschlichen Sprache verankert ist.
Die Form "Subjekt Prädikat Objekt" wird also ungefähr als ein Tripel in einer Zelle
dargestellt. (die Lisper verwenden cons-Zellen, ich verwende hier Tripel)
Für die, die den Aufsatz von John Backus kennen, bringe ich nun eines seiner
bekannten Beispiele, das Innere Produkt:

IP == (+ \) ° (* aa) ° trans ° ee

Es ist eine Definition (==) des Namens mit einem Term.
(\) ist der insertr-Kombinator.
(aa) ist der applytoall-Kombinator.
(ee) bietet die Möglichkeit IP in Infixnotation zu verwenden:

'(1;2;3;4;5;) IP '(10;20;30;40;50;)

Dabei ist 'x der Konstanten-Kombinator und (;) ist eine Liste.
Weiter verwende ich [i] als Selektoren, statt blanker Zahlen und #name für lokale Variablen ...

https://www.fp-system.org
Which illnesses count? Why does dyslexia count but not lower IQ? Why is there a time limit at all?

The point is that not everyone gets diagnosed and has equal access to performance enhancing drugs and extra time when taking a competitive test.
This is completely incorrect. The SAT is not changing to incorporate the skills that would have previously measured by the subject test. As a result we are simply going to have fewer objective metrics.
Sure but then isn't it better to take this approach - 80% of your salary for people out of work and nothing for people still employed - than to give an arbitrary amount of $1000 to everyone regardless of local cost of living?
How can you reliably use confirmed cases to suggest a trend given the disparity between states in test availability, population density, and timeline of introduction?
But if everyone used a public blockchain, with proof of work + user-level signatures for each vote cast, wouldn't it be far more auditable than any current system? Ignoring implementation details, reaching a point where anyone could have a way to audit that their vote was counted (correctly) seems very useful. Using this sort of model, it theoretically wouldn't matter who completes the proof of work as long as the results are audited.
All the waiters who are out of their jobs and urgently need money.
My years in cleanrooms and a postdoc in a shared appointment in biochemistry have taught me to see gloves as contamination distributors.

It's literally not okay to be wearing gloves in a chemistry/biochemistry building when you push an elevator button.
Designer's Work Music Fix
You're going to love http://n-gate.com/.
The Price of Discipline
They are just great.
Wouldn't it be wild if this triggered secession?
FTP is FTP.

SFTP is SFTP -- a protocol which runs over SSH -- and Firefox doesn't support that. It wouldn't really make sense for it to do so, either; SFTP more or less requires SSH authentication, making it a poor fit for a web browser.

There is FTPS (FTP + SSL/TLS), which Mozilla might support -- but that's rather rare.
seems so: https://codepen.io/andyfangdz/pen/abOjPxe
Flagging a problem doesn't mean you're required to provide a solution.

Mozilla has been cutting useful features from Firefox at an increasing rate, and there are no real alternatives out there.

The whole point of having multiple implementations is that they are different, and Firefox is quickly turning into Chrome with a new logo just like Internet Explorer.
I still don't understand where the personal insults are.

"The fucked up system release": no personal insult

"Changed debian/watch to match with the new fucking Sourceforge Interface. Sourceforge sucks!": no personal insult

and so on.

The only ones are possibly "thanks Gerfried Fucks" and "The upstream author is kind of a lazy bastard".

Still, what is that exercise supposed to mean for that bug?
Your monitor is likely running low on black ink.
Litteraly the only major player in the browser market thats not chromium based.
You're talking about low-info by-standers and comparing them to someone who should be governing an important state in the richest nation in the world.

There is no comparison here. He is doing a subpar job given his responsibilities.
On just about a daily basis. Especially when interacting with local governments.
> I want to know when people estimate that the societal damages of the illness start to be outweighed by the damages of our response.

Loss of life to the inner vs loss of life caused by economic consequences, I've seen that argument before and it's not entirely unappealing. But wherever I saw it there was the unspoken assumption that the economy would just continue completely unaffected by an uncontrolled epidemic. But much of the economic damage will be there no matter which path you take. There are likely same areas where a short, hard wave would even be worse, economically, than a controlled lockdown. The delta is even harder to estimate than the cost of slowdown strategies, but an argument that only looks at the economic cost of one option is flawed.

Personally, given the choice, I'd take option C, "show me a rerun of 2019". Unfortunately this isn't in the cards that we are dealt.
Great! Probably one of the first managed languages to properly support RISC-V.
My Spectrum voice service is $10/mo and has a 30-number white list. Everyone else is blocked.
Does outside temperature affect the spreading of Coronavirus/Covid-19?
I'm sure that I will get in trouble for this but...

The SAT/ACT system is corrupt. It's plain an simple. Follow the money. It's as simple as that. The root of most issues involve simple economics. (Maybe a little broad of a statement, so take it with a grain of salt, but certainly applies in this case.)

The tests are built on revenue from the taking the tests and industry selling you prep material. I don't have time to find the article but the SAT organization got busted a while back for charging different prices for different zip codes.

Although I can't prove it, but I'm sure there were kickback for universities that used the tests. It's a little unsubstantiated claim but we already know you can bribe your way into to school. (The Rick Singer debacle) Why wouldn't these "Testing" companies be doing the same.

Memorizing a method/strategy to take test is a waste of time and national resources.
I can't believe they have a dysfunctional captcha (doesn't display a captcha at all). That's hilarious considering how critical n-gate is about useless tech.
Show HN: Python utility to manage local SSH environments
Here's the vulnerability:

<html>
<script>
var total = "";
for (var i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
total = total + i.toString();
history.pushState(0, 0, total);
}
</script>
</html>
Perhaps they should take the opportunity to rewrite it in Rust.
Oh wow, thats really lame.
I actually use that pretty regularly....
I get bronchitis once or twice a year. The method by which I clear it is to hang upside down until the s* just comes out of me by coughing as hard as I can. That sounds awfully similar.
If you gave me a student who had enough motivation to succeed, I bet I could raise his score far far far more than just 100.
Maybe I don't understand. The number of confirmed cases is going up exponentially in all of the warm locations you mention. This is in spite of a lack of testing. How is that evidence of R < 1?
>where the fix is just to substitute in any other meaningless string placeholder. [...] I mostly skimmed the inane discussion,

You shouldn't have skipped the part where they talked about how the fix was not just that. (Though I don't think the actual fix merited the amount of bikeshedding it got either.)
I would lean towards it being a joke.
A small business loan is usually for traditional businesses with physical equipment that can be repossessed, or something like a doctor's office where the risks are fairly well understood. Is you physical equipment something that could be re-sold for some notable percentage of the purchase price?
> That way the virus spreads quickly among the less at risk, they suffer no or minor symptoms, and develop herd immunity.

It sounds wonderful if it works but unfortunately hard to enforce. And not to mention virus could mutate causing second outbreak.
Firefox is older than Chrome.
Yeah, this. I suppose the closest substitute will be to configure directory listings at the http server, although I suspect UX people will get their hooks in to make it pretty instead of efficient. (Ever tried to find something specific but not currently promoted on Dell's site?)
Have you looked at Axiom, a computer algebra system?
Yes, but I can easily see the borders staying closed for quite some time, especially in countries that manage to flatten the curve, the direction in which they are closed might change though.
hydroxychloroquinine should be readily available in pharmacies in India. I expect many to start using those when they're in bad shape.
I would assume there would be changes to how unemployment works if this was a regular thing.
I can get into Berghain finally!
> A Mind Is Born':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

Thank you. A Crystals Castles type vibe.
Yes but they have increased universal credit amounts substantially, that will go some way to close the gap.
One of the comments in the article:

I prescribe Plaquenil extensively in patients with autoimmune conditions.The safety profile of this drug is excellent. It is also still used for malaria prophylaxis in healthy individuals .it is not a new drug. I don’t see the reason of labeling it as dangerous. The question is : does it work for Covid19 prevention and treatment? The answer is “the current limited evidence suggests that it does”. What i can tell you that I am aware of a number of doctors in the US who are currently infected or waiting for results who are taking the drug. And I cannot blame them.
Lot of that going on locally too as musicians try and stay afloat.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2020/03/20/knoxville-mus...
I think adding a "Disclaimer: This is not an official Government of India site." like https://covidout.in/about did makes sense. And in general not calling it official.
Implementing AS OF clauses with Git refs (HEAD~) in our open-source database
Yes, that is the goal of the user transformation. You can add an element_id field while in the event before it is forwarded to destinations.

Would love to understand your use case a bit more.
1. Open comment section in a browser related topic.
2. Complains about the people discussing a browser related topic.
3. ????
4. Profit
This blog post discusses our implementation of the AS OF clause for our custom open-source SQL database, Dolt! In addition to the usual timestamp semantics, Dolt databases can be queried using git-like refs. Examples:

SELECT * FROM myTable AS OF 'HEAD~';

SELECT * FROM myTable AS OF 'HEAD~20';

SELECT * FROM myTable AS OF 'feature-branch';

SELECT * FROM myTable AS OF '4gunscn1j6ijtsj121m7bjaj4j8grjmv';

About Dolt: Dolt is a SQL database with the revision features of git. So you can clone, branch, fork, merge, push and pull databases just like you would git repositories.

Ask us anything!
So this is the main problem if all is driven by optimizing to a single value.
That's an antibody test, not an RNA test. Quite a different thing.

It will only detect an infection when you have an immune response already. It will not if you don't.

RNA tests can detect the virus even if it doesn't turn a person diseased.
A fair criticism of the study, but does not make the case that “no patient on HCQ alone was virus free by day 6”, since that is objectively false by my reading.
Pandemic club, everybody in a class 3 external pressure hazmat suit, dancing with a oxygen lifeline to the roof..
Insecure? Bullshit. They should remove http then. I'd respect them if they just said they're lazy and don't want to support the ftp protocol.
>Will we be more prepared for the next (epi/pan)demic?

More, sure a little more prepared, but we won't be "prepared" (in the US). Just like Pearl Harbor, WTC bombing, 9/11, we can see all the signs after the fact but ignore them prior, until disaster.
Some vehicle systems use a VNC compatible client for this. Essentially put the "web parts" into their own system entirely, even physically, and then project the results into a window on the "safe part" UI. If something bad happens the VNC server might crash and client lose connection, but that's the limit of the danger.

I know around the time Carplay became popular several auto manufacturers were pushing this idea as a Carplay/Android Auto alternative implementation: glorified VNC. But I guess the data wasn't "rich" enough for some parties.
A MITM attack occurs when an eavesdropper inserts herself between two people trying to communicate securely. e.g. Alice and Bob may think they're talking to each other over an encrypted link, but they're both talking to Eve. Eve's just taking everything Alice sends, decoding it, copying it, re-encoding it, and sending it on to Bob. A MITM attack is not necessarily the result of bad encryption, but of a failure in authentication. Eve's ability to fool Alice into thinking she is actually Bob is key.

An unencrypted connection (such as plain old FTP) is effectively a broadcast. No attack, MITM or otherwise, is required. Eve just has to listen.