skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem really positive about this, but I don’t see anything here that seems actionable or materially different from what we’ve seen elsewhere. Can someone point out why this is noteworthy?
Yet this was one tube line this morning: https://twitter.com/DRileyamusing/status/1240923403919515648
Censys gets these defaults (you could probably measure a slight bias in their data towards alphabetically earlier names as a result, but I have never checked) for sites using Apache, and for other servers with a default they get that default (in nginx I believe you have to explicitly configure a default if you want one). If there is no default the site says you need to specify which name you wanted or too bad.

You'll see the same for various other providers that crawl the IPv4 Internet looking for services. My last job (it seems prescient now to have no job, very convenient in current situation to have no reason to go outside anyway) had me trying to fit some of this data to other service discovery information.
choloroquine is not a trivial drug. large amounts of it can have ugly side effects and can be quite toxic. exposing everyone to the virus and then slamming them with choloroquine is not a viable option.
she was still concerned about the legalities

I thought uploading to YouTube and seeing who tries to claim the rights might be one way of identifying it, but then again, the flakiness of the automatic copyright identification system would probably make that pretty useless for even slightly obscure music.
"My physics and sports teacher dropped dead with 30-something from an aneurysm"

Just for clarification: did he have covid19?
Fellow MD trying to help with engineered solutions.

Perhaps check this out as well; someone used a common valve from a hardware store to titrate pressures up and down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVbwWANqRI&feature=youtu.be.

I've been thinking about how we might increase ventilation to one part of the circuit if the pCO2 drops too badly--any thoughts there?
People don't expect aspiring accountants to spend their weekends managing their personal finances or imaginary companies in QuickBooks or (shudder) Oracle. If they've got a personal budget spreadsheet, and have done a few studies in school following tutorials with sample data in a few software packages, but frequently refer to the docs and don't know the keyboard shortcuts, that's great for an accountant. You teach an accountant the tools your company uses to apply the basic principles they learned in school.

They haven't spent a whole semester learning Java, they've spent a semester learning about Java. By writing a group project in each of those tools, they prove not that they are ready to start knocking out your Jira tickets on Day 1 - they're not, as your experience and their resume proves - but that they are capable of working on unfamiliar software projects in a group, which is what they should be doing in your company. Take a student who knows how the fundamental function your software performs can be built, and teach them the unique tools your company uses to do that. It only takes a couple thousand hours for someone who knows how to learn to develop good proficiency in your particular stack, and there are so many stacks out there that you can't expect everyone to have invested that in yours.
Article headline is really incorrect, should be "The Most Unremarkable Mysterious Song on the Internet."

There's a reason why people didn't put their name on it.
Self driving vehicles aren’t “just around the corner”
Show HN: Freelancer Protocol, self-enforcing payment schedules for freelancers
That was interesting, thank you. I first set `general.useragent.override` to empty and as you say arstechnica.com 403ed. I then set it to `Hello, I am a human` and arstechnica.com worked just fine. Oddly google.com renders a basic mobile-like UI.
> If you want to be a software engineer and you do not have any code to present in an interview, you can not call yourself a programmer.

You can still call yourself a Computer Scientist, but there's a difference between the two.
> 25% chance that this Google guy can get you to the front of the self-driving car race

This is the absurd assumption
Remind me of Elon's point, you don't need a high school diploma to work at Tesla. And he has lots of diplomas.
Yes any attempt to force people to stay indoors will lead to a huge amount of reactance and will just backfire a few weeks down the line with mass disobedience. That said, they should close the restaurants, bars, etc.
A GraphQL client library without queries: Building a movie app with gqless
Statutes of limitation run past the crisis when the lawsuits phrased, "you should have known" come out.
Not an easy sell. Touch shiny copper once - it tarnishes. Fingerprints, handprints, smeary looking instantly. Hard to convince folks its clean, or better than clean, when it looks grody.
The times I had this experience with depression and feeling empty headed etc was when I was working off-shore. We were isolated at sea for 8-10 months per year and it was 2-3 months stretches in one go (with only 1-2 days in between). I wasn't able to smoke weed back then and there was no Internet out there. I didn't know about cabin fever back then but only learned later that this must have been what it was.

But I strongly agree that smoking for many weeks/months every day could sure trigger a lot of side effects.

Isolation/quarantine right now is very different (I got Internet, and the problem is there is actually too much choice of what I could read, watch or study).

edit: N.N. Taleb talks about his concept of "balancing extremes", I'm very much a believer of this life style.
Some of it, sure. But it leads to people gaming the system.

In bureaucracies, many positions/people only have the power to slow down or stop the process. People need to feel important and powerful, and they cannot contribute to moving a process forward because they are, for example, a cybersecurity analyst or a lawyer.

So they say "well this process doesn't check box #134 on the list, we need to circle back and solution this" and they hang up and go back to reading reddit until the next meeting on their calendar.

It's awful to be a "doer" in a bureaucracy.
If you can't breath you go to the hospital regardless of it being COVID-19.
Could not agree more. A couple of years ago I decided to learn Java (I was already aware of the 'basics' in programming from other languages... variables, loops, functions, classes, etc.) so I spent maybe a week learning the basic syntax of Java. Then I jumped right into building a (very simple) 'virtual study partner' system where you would take notes by 'teaching' your virtual study buddy certain facts about what you were studying, who could then in turn quiz you using your own notes. You could also ask your study buddy about things you had already 'taught' it to see how well you remembered them or if you just needed a quick reminder about something. A bit of a silly project, no doubt, but it really helped me learn Java, and was so much fun!
It’s not a problem for you because you’re not a coffee snob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6AVFbpsrmQ&feature=emb_logo
F1 drivers set to compete in official Virtual Grand Prix series
Having gone to a decent state university (Rutgers) and talking to some people who went to CMU for undergrad CS, yes.
Resilience in Complex Adaptive Systems
I love this site. I used this site back then to learn all about HTML and CSS and the fact that it still works with those age-old designs is a testament to the original CSS philosophy.
Only if you're doing computer science.

What I do is primarily programming.
No, that happened a decade ago.
These are nonsense conspiracy theories. South Korea's Numbers are also too low?

No.

Our response in the west is just terrible because of all the political nonsense, the fact that scientists don't influence our countries, and most people are just too stupid or too spoiled to listen. Look at our countries, have you seen the kids partying in Miami? The people still protesting in France? How about everyone still going out for dinner?

Don't go blaming other countries' good performance for our crappy one.

Edit: on that note, other countries have been testing people on entry for months on entry. Russia has been testing people on entry. The Philippines tests everyone on the public transportation.
I’ve alway called this the “Producer Consumer problem”, which I obviously reused.

You can consume a lot of books, TV, movies, games, etc., however, it’s more valuable to produce something.
Canute is a small CLI utility to transfer files and directories over the network
Flattening is still important at first - gives time to respond, to improve treatment and response plans.
Ok but lets start by freeing the poor descendants of slaves before we rush to worry about spoiled elites.
The death rate is probably a lot lower given all the under tested asymptomatic infections.
> Setting up a new Manjaro workstation is far less annoying than setting up Windows 10

Pretty much true for any Linux distro. Also much easier to fix when something goes wrong (which is increasingly rare unless self-inflicted). And Gnome is an unbelievably polished environment (if not very customizable)

Hypothetical scenario - new Dell laptop refuses to connect to your home Wifi. Linux laptop does that flawlessly, same laptop connects when booted to a Linux live USB stick. Where do you look? Standard control panel? Driver-specific panel? Dell's panel? System logs?
Idly wondering, did Coffee really took over the world, or was it really just Caffeine.
To put things into perspective, in tiny Norway companies have issued warnings to 170k, in one week. In six days they received 105k applications for unemployment benefits.

The government is paying full salary (capped at ~600k) for the first 20 days. After that you receive either 62,4% of your salary up to 600k, and if you make less than 300k you receive 80%.

But it's not just Trump and Boris pushing for it. Trials of anti-virals are pushed heavily by the WHO in all countries.
There are also some that can only be downloaded limited number of times (a year). Example - Gotham, at least in my country.
The death rate is not as high as people think, because far more people have the virus than the number of people who have been tested.

We are lucky this is not a super deadly virus, because I don’t think we would have handled it any better.

Based on last week’s numbers, unemployment claims are up almost 10x compared to the normal level. That is one indicator of the damage to the economy.

We need to consider that the human suffering caused by the economic shutdown will outweigh the human suffering caused by deaths, and it will last longer too.
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Thanks - I’ll reach out.
> Two or four euros per month.

Times a million or 10 or 50.
Add to that the 25% savings on internet egress, which last I checked was still how commercial internet is financed.

The cost of actually providing the content to the consumers is on the ISP which hosts an Open Connect box.
That’s a poor analogy. Accountancy isn’t creative (in fact, creative accounting is frowned upon). Accountants don’t need to develop a taste for ‘good accounting’.

Coding is writing, and choosing what to write about, and picking language to use to write about it. It is an unending series of creative choices.

If someone has no exposure to the process of making those choices, they are not ready to code.
Post-Covid-19: What Will Be Normal Five Years from Now?
Wasn’t trying to troll, this was just my first time posting on HN. I was genuinely curious about the downsides, b/c of our 2020 presidential options.

Also, I said I’m all for peopling working as long as they want — I’m still bitter that my grandpa was age restricted out of being a pilot at 55.

It just seems like the presidency should have some standards and there’s already an age minimum.

I love Clint and hope he works until the bitter end :)
Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic
Market Crashes (Is This Time Different?) [video]
Okay, and how about Korea? Korea is also lying? Everyone is lying except the countries in the west?

Have you considered that those countries just simply have had a better response to mobilize than the western countries?
So you don't think any limitation is reasonable?
It’s taking back the world.
Mutations. You don't want many people getting it because there is a higher chance it will mutate.
As a professor at a state university, I try to tell my students all of this.

They’ll get hired at non-tech companies no problem with just a degree. But if they want the high salary tech company positions, they have to spend considerable time practicing their skills outside of class and building a portfolio.

Our curriculum is great for exposing them to a variety of CS topics, but it won’t make them stellar engineers by itself.
There are many like it, but this is a quite simple application. Useful tool.

Use case: you want to copy files/folders from a host to another, but you don't want to start off with googling (again) the syntax for scp/rsync, or mess with paths.
You just want to "tjo send ." and "tjo get *". Security doesn't matter, since it's known hosts, and local network, and the files doesn't matter.

There are alternatives, but had various trouble with most of them. Magic-wormhole had potential but failed install on win/cygwin.

canute has the downside in that it doesn't have a discovery phase, so you still have to know the IP of the server, but that's fine for me.

(not affiliated)
> If literally the only thing they do is force a sensible election system, it’ll be worth it.

If global history (even just the past 70 years) is any indication of the results, there's a very high chance a coup won't force a sensible election system. Let's not dream up this situation
Do we even live in the same time line ? All he did was say "nothing is happening", "we have the best people" and aggressively push to call it "the Chinese virus". None of it being useful. [0]

The US will get absolutely destroyed by this virus. It's way too little way too late and it'll really show how far behind the US is in term of social/job security and healthcare.

[0] https://twitter.com/LeeHolly81/status/1240223327811239936
I actually did some AOLserver / tcl development in 2007. MapQuest was still running off of it for the core site before the big java rewrite.

To think that if AOL had open sourced it before Apache got popular the early internet history would have looked different.
Yes, as someone who is isolating entirely until this is all over due to health grounds, how soon I get to go outside again (and whether I even live through this) depends largely on the efforts of others.

It's frustrating that everything so far is "advice" or "recommendations" and nothing is actually mandated yet.

At least shut the pubs, it takes the piss that spoons is still open.
Sounds fantastic. Glad most people are doing their part. If only Western governments were encouraging their citizens to wear masks. I know there aren’t enough even for healthcare workers but people in vulnerable groups should really be encouraged to wear makeshift masks. There’s no shortage of tea towels and if you strap one to you face you’re at 70% effectiveness catching virus sized particles when surgical masks are just under 90%. Decreasing the viral load that gets into your lungs decreases the possibility you’ll actually get infected.

> Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population

> Principal Findings

> All types of masks reduced aerosol exposure, relatively stable over time, unaffected by duration of wear or type of activity, but with a high degree of individual variation. Personal respirators were more efficient than surgical masks, which were more efficient than home-made masks. Regardless of mask type, children were less well protected. Outward protection (mask wearing by a mechanical head) was less effective than inward protection (mask wearing by healthy volunteers).

> Conclusions/Significance

> Any type of general mask use is likely to decrease viral exposure and infection risk on a population level, in spite of imperfect fit and imperfect adherence, personal respirators providing most protection. Masks worn by patients may not offer as great a degree of protection against aerosol transmission.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
An introduction to cluster provisioning using Crossplane
I wish the FUD about UPnP would finally calm down so we can finally have at least some P2P connections without the need for a rendezvous sever.
Thank you for saving many clicks! Pandemics are a great excuse for clickbaits!
I wonder if there is a way to engineer our past that in the first month.

Maybe a web-based PWA while we wait for approval.

And not specifically calling it a COVID-19 app.
You need to consume a lot in order to be able to produce something. That's why writers, for example, take their inspiration from other writers.
>Luckily, this is not something being pursued anymore and they moved away from it in time but you can certainly understand the attraction when you consider the consequences of the almost total shutdown required to suppress.

Imperial suggested a very interesting approach, turning the measures on and off as the cases rose above and fell below a couple thresholds. You can't hit R0=1.0 exactly, but you can swap between 3.0 and 0.3 as conditions change. This would allow businesses to have a chance of survival.
>mtr uses UDP data packets, as far as I am aware.

Doesn't matter what it uses (though by default MTR does use regular old ICMP Echo - you have to specify -u or -t to get it in UDP or TCP mode). When TTL expires it still requires an ICMP TTL Exceeded be sent, regardless of whether or not you were sending ICMP through it.

Traceroute implementations in general are probably telling most everyone in this thread a lot less than they think, even without icmp deprioritization being taken into account.

https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sun... is worth a read for most anyone that's ever attempted to use traceroute to troubleshoot networking, because they're almost certainly doing it wrong.
You must be able to see how someone who roasts their own beans and has a preferred sourcing vendor and someone who says "it's just coffee" are basically not even interacting with the same thing at that point, right? That's right up there with "it's just a car" and "it's just a computer". It's either your thing or it isn't.
I elected people to govern. If I have to govern for them, what exactly are they being paid to do again? Besides, what we need during a crisis is expedient, logical decision making, not incredibly slow and decentralized power.
How many civil engineers are building bridges on the side? Why has it become the "norm" that CS students pay tons of money to attend universities that leave them ill-equipped to find a job in the real world?

One of the best parts of college is the ability to learn more about yourself, diversify parts of your life, and experience new things. It's hard to do that when your life is split between school work and personal work.

I worked my life away at side projects and a part-time programming job in college and looking back there's so much I would've done differently. CS programs across the country need a wakeup call.
This reminds me of the search for Q Lazzarus. She and her band are famous (or maybe some would say notorious) for writing the song played during Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill does his infamous "dance" in front of the camera. For decades, folks couldn't find any information on her and weren't even sure that she was still alive. Jonathan Demme, the director of Silence of the Lambs happened to be in her cab one night and she played some of her music and he really liked it. He put it into several of his films. It's someone's dream to be discovered like that - and then to fall almost faster back into obscurity?

https://www.stereogum.com/2009727/mysterious-goodbye-horses-...
I’ve been developing software for self driving (both road and offroad) the past two years and what I’ve noticed is that there isn’t much innovation in the field. It seems like everyone follows the exact same design paradigm which is using something like Autoware. It’s pretty disheartening to see how much money has been poured into this field and what do we have out of it now? GM Supercruise came out in like 2013 [0] with similar performance to the level of autonomy we’re at in 2020. To clarify, this was in a production cadillac in 2013, so anyone who knows about automotive products knows how long this must have been in development before they were allowed to put it in production.

To the author, it’s interesting to read how quick you rose and fell, but it’s good you got out now instead of holding on for years and years.

What do you think is next?

I’m honestly tired of the lack of progress in self driving, and was wondering what anyone’s thoughts were on home robotics. I feel like that’s the next big thing that VC’s will pour billions into.

[0]https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content...
My parents pay a similar amount for 70% of a 16/1 MBit connection. But that is not quite rural, it's one of the richest towns in the country and part of a big agglomeration.
Vimwiki and Zettelkasten – Note Taking Nirvana
How the coronavirus outbreak is like a nuclear attack: Jeffrey Lewis interview
I am a developer who started as a trainee/junior with no formal education on the field. last year I started a degree course alongside my job, thinking I would learn more and become a better developer. This is not the case. I get a small amount of actual programming done in a variety of languages, but a lot of the assessments are based on writing a report about how or what I developed. I can see how a software engineering degree can be useless compared to actual experience coding.
It looks like you send an automated text to a questionnaire. That’s a much simpler way to start, and a text is a great “push notification”... :-)
that thread is dominated by confusion about what backstage _is_. i'm hoping this thread will have some new insights.
It might be difficult for governments to admit that they were "lying to you for your own good." No official is going to want to suffer that embarrassment, and even though this is an emergency situation the normal laws of bureaucracies (avoid embarrassment at all costs) still apply.
Analyzing the first 12 patients with coronavirus (Covid-19) in the United States
USA wasn't even testing until very recently. Those numbers IRL are probably insanely higher than that.
It’s part of the county office of engineering and he’s responsible for overseeing all ditch maintenance of course but has to do some light civil engineering work with all new construction and drainage projects that impact the outflow of water off of a property. Just checked and the county is 437 square miles so he keeps busy.
Emailed. Thank you.
Having reduced my pollution by about 90% over the past 5 years according to online calculators and discovered the joy, community, and connection that comes with acting on my environmental values, I hope people experience simplicity and non-polluting behavior enough to continue it for the rest of their lives and create long-term systemic change.

I used to love flying and didn't think twice about packaging, ordering online, or buying food out of season. I prefer this way more than I can describe, though I did my best in my TEDx talks http://joshuaspodek.com/my-second-tedx-talk-what-everyone-ge..., and the old ways evoke disgust the way a polluted canal would look after seeing how clean they become if given a couple weeks.
I want to replace my aging 15" MBP (2014) with possibly a Mac mini but am scared of its seemingly underpowered graphics. What Mac mini do you have and does it handle two 4K screens well?
Yeah, and this works somewhat but sites just listen for the events on every element and trigger the popup then.