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Launch HN: Avoy – the app to cure your wanderlust when we are all stuck indoors
Hey HN!

My name is Cody and I am the founder of Avoy (https://www.avoy.io/hn). Avoy is an invite-only travel inspiration app to discover the world’s best hidden holiday destinations.

Today, we have temporarily turned off the required invite code to open registration up to the HN Community. If you seeing this at a later date, but still want to give us a try, send me a note at cody@avoy.io and I would be more than happy to help get you a code to get set up.

Why build this?

Simply put to change the way we answer the question of "where should I go next?". There is a myriad of travel content, bloggers and apps, however, the fundamental structures provided to us by search and social media create homogeneity, travel group-think and dangerous overtourism.
We want to build an exciting product that allows travelers to discover the hundreds of hidden gems that each country offers:

https://medium.com/avoy/how-avoy-plans-to-change-travel-in-a-post-covid-19-world-174f0f6e9254

Our mission

We believe the most memorable travel experiences come when we allow ourselves to wander off the beaten path.

Our goal is to share the finest unspoiled destinations from around the world and help you discover somewhere unique.

https://www.avoy.io/mission

https://medium.com/avoy/in-defense-of-going-off-the-beaten-path-8dd4f055e68

A little about us

I have the incredible luck to be working with a great team of individuals & contributors from around the globe, all bonded around the mission that travel should be an exploratory, exciting way to learn about the vast world that surrounds us.

We are super passionate about building a product that people love and enjoy and can transform perspectives on this wonderful world we inhabit and are even more passionate about it now that we are in a time of global uncertainty. If anyone has feedback, comments or suggestions we would absolutely love to hear them.

Cody
`_` digit separators are also supported by both Python and Go.
It's peculiar how everything that has happened in Italy is slowly also happening over there.

And weird in a sense that the US actually has/had a chance to use other country's hindsight and is not doing it.
Really? Do you mean running your own data center or what services are you referring to?
My introduction to C++, was Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, in 1992.

Until 2001, you had Mac OS, Windows, OS/2, BeOS, EPOC, Telligent, ill fated Coplad, SOM, COM, CORBA, Newton all using C++ as the main programming language for enterprise applications.
Hi everyone!

I am Nick at Avoy. Would love to hear your feedback!

Check us out!
https://www.avoy.io/hn
Singapore uses this app to help fight Covid-19; open source soon
Can you comment on relevance for society? Do these companies generate a net positive, or do they only extract value?

I.e. should I look for a job there only because of the money, or also because I can make a difference somehow in the bigger societal picture?
Sometimes you need the motorcycle. Sometimes you need the train. If you only have trains or only have motorcycles, it's hard to meet all the needs.
(03/23) Hypothesis:ACE inhibitors and ARBs may increase risks of severe Covid19
G-Research in London are using F# I believe
Safari: Worker should support ES6 modules
plus in the current context, false negatives are much more dangerous than false positives
Coming soon: open source https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/26/singapore_tracetoge...
From your link:

”The widely available Roche’s cobas 6800/8800 Systems, which are used to perform the cobas SARS-CoV-2 Test, provide test results in three and half hours and offer improved operating efficiency, flexibility, and fastest time-to-results with the highest throughput providing up to 96 results in about three hours and a total of 384 results for the cobas 6800 System and 960 results for the cobas 8800 System in 8 hours. The test can be run simultaneously with other assays provided by Roche for use on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems.”
But there was an affordable Smalltalk system in the early 1990s -- Digitalk's Smalltalk/V. It cost $99 and came with a huge manual that had a great tutorial. It introduced me (and lots of others) to the whole idea of object-orientation.
And maybe Ruby in another 10 to 20?
Isn't AWS GovCloud a dedicated set of DCs for government? I'm sure the CIA can give DMV jobs the boot if need be.
This is great idea!
That’s how it should be discussed. That it’s not underscores the lapdog position of the media. All media.
Ha!

If I want to download a particularly big file, I use tethering via my phone. Seriously, about 90Mbit/s download on the phone, that's faster than most places I've worked and also faster than my home connection.

It was so obviously better, that I switched home to be on 4G instead of ADSL, because the 4G was both cheaper and faster. It's working out well, but the phone still manages to be faster than the router.
Yes, my reaction to this was "this is horrifying Python, never do this in real life!" But also fascination at how malleable and subvertible it is once you go deep enough into the internals.
Yes, me too :)
No one who works with cloud infrastructure would tell you the cloud is cheaper on a resource basis. It’s only cheaper if you can take advantage of elasticity and use managed services to reduce the overhead of managing infrastructure.

But then don’t hire a bunch of old school net ops folks who got one certification and call themselves consultants when all they know how to do are lift and shifts.
This is such a great tool which deserves a wider audience. I honestly think that more people would hear about it & use it if it had a less unappealing name.
Not even remotely close. There are several other examples - including various circumstances in WW2 such as Pearl Harbor - that are still far beyond this, including the 'intelligence' that got us into the Iraq War. The article's basis for claiming it over Pearl Harbor, is that it's... more glaring, whatever that is supposed to mean (it doesn't actually mean anything, it's an empty shell, you could plug anything in there; it's to enable the article).

The Iraq War might easily end up having killed more people than Covid globally. Its cost to the US is at least three or four trillion dollars. Iraq was trivially avoided, far more so than Covid (as witnessed also by Italy and Spain at present, both of which are said to have highly functional universal healthcare systems; Germany is testing like crazy, is responding competently in most regards (eg low death rate), and is still seeing a very large ballooning of infections).

Iraq is less glaring than Covid? Pure bullshit.

The US could have limited the spread of Covid, and thus limited the deaths that will occur in ICUs around the country. It could not have prevented the extreme economic damage of a national lockdown, which much of the world is enduring regardless of their fast or slow reactions to the virus.
Great concept Cody, you are on a good spot with a clearly defined business solution. Wish you the best!
For AWS, limit monitor is a handy tool for "small" customers:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/limit-monitor/

It starts having issues when you get to 5,000+ ec2 instances, but it's somewhat understandable that they don't aim to support that level of usage within a single AWS account.

On another bullet point: if you go serverless (API/HTTP Gateway, Lambda, Dynamo DB), you automatically get full region DR. I personally recommend HTTP Gateway if you can swing it, API gateway is only worth of it you are doing personal projects (mostly free tier) or are seriously leveraging the API gateway specific features
Smartwatch users are not representative, forget about the brands.
Shameless plug: I developed https://digester.app, which creates weekly or daily digests about your favorite github projects (or RSS/Atom feeds).
Sounds more like more people are taking their temperature despite not feeling sick. Hence the sudden increase in readings they receive. So a pronounced decline in the percentage of high temperature readings should be expected.
FYI, https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=2kMIqdfyT8kC&pg=PA145&lp...
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/28/3

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/24/5
Then, I can't see how they work on Alpine w/ musl.

@jpgvm Do you mean they work if you manually install them? b/c pip won't install glibc wheels on alpine.
Why did C++ survive the advent of Java? One reason: the mainstream JVM, HotSpot, is written in C++. As such, the production Java ecosystem is not self-hosting and relies on C++ to be sustained.

(Writing a JVM in just Java is doable, and some research JVMs have done it, but that approach hasn’t yet been fully productionised.)
This seems like a lot of work for a result that isn't even very self documenting compared to some earlier efforts e.g.

Guido's post on multimethods: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

Clojure style multimethods: https://adambard.com/blog/implementing-multimethods-in-pytho...
This is just another test cardridge available for the existing on-site lab machine. The idea is that health-practitioners with access to the device can now test on premise, instead of sending samples to the lab.
I can't image a lot local doctors have access to qPCR, where this device is useful for all kinds of other test.
No, not running your own data center. Traditional server hosting. Rackspace, Liquidweb, Packet.net and similar.

Meaning that if you're going to use the lowest common denominator, why not pay fair market prices for egress and compute?

Any value in cloud is typically the services that are higher level than a VM. Those services would be hard to put a generic multi-cloud facade in front of. It would be brittle and bug ridden.
This is a really useful tool and I had been using it for quite a while before I learned that Cockos is the new name of Justin Frankel’s company. He who made Winamp and Gnutella.
In that scenario the money sent to them still gets spent locally. They’ll still need to pay rent or mortgage, buy groceries, etc etc. They’re not going to sit on it like corporations do.
Show HN: Easy sharing of server access for remote employees
An email basically never expects a response

This might be a SV thing, because I can assure you that many, many e-mails require a response elsewhere including government. Failure to respond to some emails will result in a loss of funding or your job.
Not really. You are still in the paradigm of computation.

Detecting anything is signal processing.

And if I am wrong about this - all the better! It is exactly the right kind of wrongness we need to progress science.
You can run real Firefox too, if you jailbreak first.
GC pauses aren't inherent.

I've written a java compiler that does GC and watched that part work; no pauses even for data structures with loops, and generally excellent performance. Not released yet, because I've also watched other parts not work.

But GC without pauses: That worked. And I was relieved² when I saw that my ivory tower worked, after many people had told me it couldn't possibly ;)
At best, those were optional (to the student or to the school) classes for the final 2 years of education.

I am just 3 years older, but in Year 2 (age 6-7) at primary school we wrote programs on the computer in Logo, and then connected that to the floor turtle to trace the pattern onto paper.

A couple of years later, the only work we did on the computer was word processing.
Scientists Figured Out What Viruses Are – Science – Smithsonian Magazine
Unfortunately, there is no RSS/Atom feed for issues or pull requests.

I made a little Ruby script (https://github.com/bhaak/github-feeds) that outputs static RSS files but you would expect that GitHub would have exported those by themselves.
The argument is why C++ hasn't died, and the video games industry has undoubtably contributed to its staying power. Most of the things you list have replaced C++ with other languages.
What's more on yr list?
Great to hear! I understand adding listings from around the globe is difficult, I was honestly somewhat surprised to find any listings at all.

Good luck with the project, I hope it will be useful for many, even if not for me.
Whales or Rookies: Who’s to Blame for Bitcoin Crash?
Funny, GCC/glibc had this same problem (except you could work around it by detecting the version).
10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience leading engineering teams
Seeing that most major subscription services on the App Store are already forcing users to subscribe outside of the App Store, Apple isn’t getting a cut of subscriptions from the most popular service.

How many apps require a subscription and cannot be a web app because of limitations of Safari?

How many paid apps would be websites if it weren’t for limitations of Safari?
This is fine, but it is yet another molecular test. What we need now are serology tests. They are faster, cheaper, easier to execute (blood-based), can detect cured patients, and can scale to the population of a country.

Serology tests are already used in several countries in Asia, I have little doubt they will arrive in Europe and the US soon-ish.
Email is a bad tool for discussion in that it lasts too long, and too many people can save copies; it's far better to have ephemeral and limited-distribution discussions, so if something obnoxious or actionable is said, nobody is opened up to legal actions.

The modern trend of people believing accusers is pushing against this wisdom, but it's still far better to not have evidence. That said, I'm sure Slack can be persuaded to destroy incriminating logs if the right pressure is applied. One of the benefits of people moving away from self-hosted solutions.
> The real 'write once, run everywhere' are webapps, a webapp doesn't care if you are using Apple, Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever

that’s not been my experience*

* unless you use some huge web framework to abstract everything and patch all the differences between the browsers
How can I help fight covid19 as a Software Engineer?
Hi, I am curious if I can help projects/companies/organizations as a sole software engineer ? Basically I would like to help companies/organizations etc. with fighting covid19. Is there anything I could do to actually help ?
yeah that's bad marketing but who needs marketing these days.

their advantage seems to be that they don't need extra personell to run , so anyone with sufficient safety precautions could use them in a hospital
Shameless plug: If you'd like to subscribe to a lot of these feeds together, I made a OPML generator[0] a long time ago that generates a OPML subscription feed for all of your starred repositories on GitHub.

Generate your feed, and then import it in your RSS Reader.

[0]: https://opml.bb8.fun/
I was very pleased when I found that Repton 3 has been released for Android, by the original developer.

When I was 6, I couldn't get beyond the 4th level. Now, I have completed a few of the level sets, but I'm still stuck on others.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superiorin...
Actual official paper https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/AdvisoryontheuseofHydroxychloro...
I discovered the post by Susan Fowler a few years ago and really liked it.

I studied physics (2001-2006) and teach physics (and math) at a high school and am working through the list of proposed books (and others [1]) again, just to stay up-to-date :)

Other ressources: brilliant.org, quanta magazine,youtube channels (Veritasium/Vsauce/Physics Girl/PBS Spacetime...), ...

[1] e.g. Leonard Susskind's "The theoretical minimum" series.
Worked on small Azure setup several weeks ago and probably my experience will be useful for other people:

Pro:

- you can use shell in browser

- traffic is cheaper related to AWS

- fast 1GbE network

Cons:

- VM deploy is VERY slow, 2-3 minutes

- no ipv6 out the box, you need a balancer(!) and 4-5 non-trivial shell commands

- attaching new storage was extremely painful experience

It general Azure feels just like middle cloud service.
I like this feature and use it quite a bit. I used to use yahoo pipes to mush a bunch of different repos into a single chronological feed to watch all of the projects my teams worked on. I liked that rather than having to click through lots of different feeds.

I’ve been meaning to write something to do that for the many years since yahoo pipes was euthanized.
lol, yep

>Our increasingly decadent mass culture has gradually become more ideological and openly opposed to the values Western civilization is based upon.

wtf?

How does one express disdain for a post here, btw? i don't see a "down arrow"?
These terms don't translate very well on an International market. Bosch probably chose its terminology to suit its plans to market these devices outside the Anglo-sphere, as well...
How else could it have been developed so fast?
"Up to" is a synonym for "not more than but probably fewer".

So it doesn't really say how many tests it can process in a real-world setting.
It's just a reality check on how much your current ISP has oversold their capacity (similar to overbooking of airplane tickets).
Blog post: Building a more accessible web form at Auto Trader
Meraki got bought by Cisco?

https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/24/19683-tech-layoffs-and-cou...
As you want to expand your country coverage, if you need support for regex development for foreign job boards tell me. Good work so far.
I use Gentoo Linux so it was as easy as putting the patches in a directory, and then rebuilding the kernel with the option to enable the synchronous cipher.

For Debian it's almost as easy: https://passthroughpo.st/patch-kernel-debian/
Here’s some past threads asking the same or a similar question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591090

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+help+coronavirus

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+help+covid
In Italy they claim to have developed such a test which is based on blood and takes only 15 minutes.

https://www.vivachek.com/vivachek/English/prods/prod-covid19...
Need to try!
That still doesn’t answer the question. How many websites were required to be apps because of limitations of Safari?

What makes you think users would willy nilly put their credit card on every random website.

Everyone can avoid using Apple for subscriptions. There are existence proofs of apps on the store that require payments outside of the store - like all digital content from Amazon.

Most of the money that people spend on the App Store are from games and in app consumables. Especially since the major services like Netflix and Spotify don’t allow in app subscriptions.
Absolutely. How can you claim to model something if you haven't at least looked at the thing with your own eyes, played with it with your (metaphoric) hands?

Experiments teach you, that reality is complicated and models have to be simple, but with judicious choices of assumptions, one can still get accurate and precise prediction out of simple models. I am a theoretical physicist, but I would say the experimental courses I have taken were the most important courses in understanding the limitation of theory.
You can also use RSS-Bridge[1], which covers GitHub Feeds, and lot more sites. My instance[0] has the GitHub bridges enabled, and I subscribe to a few issues on our Slack channels this way.

[1]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
[0]: https://rss-bridge.bb8.fun/

I like your static-file approach though. Never thought of pre-generating RSS-feeds that way.
"Sensitivity" is an inaccurate term, since for non-native English speakers, it could be misinterpreted as a term to mean some kind of emotional response.

"Accuracy" is a bit more scientific- leaning and therefore easier to translate.

Remember, COVID-19 is a global phenomenon, its not just relegated to the Anglo-sphere. Bosch, being a German company, is probably a bit sensitive to the accuracy of translations that will be needed to market this thing effectively around the world .. ;)
New attack on home routers sends users to spoofed sites that push malware
Gonna check this out :)
About Connecton
Nice looking site and cool of you to make this. I’m wary of giving my email address to more companies. Even free, ethical sounding ones. It would be nice if rather than sending emails, you created consolidated RSS feeds that digested everything.
Here's a similar one that does webm, mp4 and gif https://github.com/tarkusdev/WebMCam
> The bailout of Ford effectively punished Tesla

that’s a good point, and well taken

i guess the other side of it is, if it’s easy for people to find another job, and/or there is a sufficient safety net, then it’s also probably easier to “just let the companies die”... but i think our system is basically run by those with the money to direct resources in the other direction unfortunately....
Using environment variables in your next Golang project
Did my computer O level in 86. No reference to the BBC Micro at all. Punch cards tho. Punch cards were something I needed to know about. I had a BBC Micro at home and the O level seemed like something from the 1800s. Turned me off formal computer science education until Andrew Ng's machine learning course decades later.

But the literacy program convinced my mum and dad to buy the BBC Micro in the first place, and I learned to program 6502, and then ARM2 on its successor, and right now I have a job and am very thankful for it, and for my parents foresight.
But how how influential was it? It seems most of the unique ideas in Perl have not been adopted by other languages.

But if Perl can be credited with kick starting the dynamic language boom (Python, Ruby) then it have been massively influential.
Any idea why it's called LICEcap? Feel like I'm missing something obvious. I get the cap part, but not the LICE.
Up to 1,000
(in smaller font) tests per day on just 100 devices

I guess 10 test per day per device is not as cool
On the Canadian side so I’m not sure how our recent legislation differs.

Up here the government is forcing businesses to close their doors 3-4 weeks if they’re non-essential. We can can weather 3 weeks and continue paying leave to the few employees we have. After that we’re out of money to rent, wages, & utilities without any government assistance.

Small business don’t exactly sit on warchests of cash, especially if they have business loans to pay off.

I might be biased here, but I’d prefer to maintain existing employees then lay them off and try hiring when this is over, but no one can even see if we’ll actually be able to reopen in 3 weeks. How long will this take? No one really knows. If this lasts 3 months and the economy is still at a halt, we’re in even worse shape as now we’re bled of cash and on top of that have a bunch more debt.
Short answer: not every physicist works in a lab. Theoretical & mathematical physics are entirely about working with mathematical models of phenomena that other people observed in a lab. It's enough to understand that any theory is rooted in the experimental, and should be falsifiable by it.
Please Google this first. There's a Lott of stuff around.
Sounds like websummit to me.
I've seen this several times. You need to get the stuff to the students who usually have no money to spare.

Emphasis on "NO". Affordable doesn't cut it.

If you can't download it from somewhere for free, something else will be used by students that will later determine what they'll use at their startups or companies.

Even better if it's legal to download for free.
I'd say it was pretty influential for Ruby, CGI-BIN, pcre, and other things that will live on in more refined forms. PHP has some obvious Perl influence as well.

Edit: Maybe also Perl's Configure (crazy wide cross-platform portability) and CPAN. They were pretty ahead of their time.