skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radio Amateurs Team Up to Help University Design Low-Cost Ventilator
I hope these are coming to my town. GingerPCat has the sniffles.
How Co-Founder of InBook and Yafi Is Bootstrapping His Way to Success?
Compilation does not guarantee neither readability nor ease of maintenance.

Interpreted languages typically give you a very quick feedback loop; they're great fit with scripts and utilities that you won't ever write UT for.
It was a rational choice based on a totally flawed understanding of the other side, is the point. When you believe the other side is out to destroy you, then yes, that is how you respond.

But that belief was driven on both sides by an underlying belief on both sides that they were the good guys and the other side were cartoonish villains.

Neither side questioned the belief that the other side were war mongerers with a crazy willingness to sacrifice to expand, and both sides saw proxy wars as evidence of that while they saw their own involvement as protecting themselves by building alliances and creating buffers.

We see this up to and including Reagan describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire", only to then get reality thrown in the face by the Soviet response to Able Archer 83 in particular (and I generally have little respect for Reagan, but he does deserve credit for actually coming to that understanding and acting on it in what was one of the biggest foreign policy about faces in modern history).

It was understandable, though, in that both sides had seen the nazis, and both sides saw the nazis as a model for the other side - the Soviets seeing the nazis as not fundamentally different from capitalist imperialists, and the West seeing the Soviets as not fundamentally different from nazi authoritarianism.

But it was nevertheless in retrospect terrifyingly flawed. It stands as one of the biggest foreign policy fuck-ups in human history that the world for half a century was shaped by the two biggest blocks fundamentally misjudging the intentions and motivations of the other side, despite the vast amount of "intelligence" both sides believed they had about each other.

It makes me terrified to think about, because of the implications it has for what stupid mistakes we're probably still perpetuating when we try to infer the motivations of the major powers.
User behavior observation for the desktop (Windows) apps
Hi! Can someone recommend an alternative to HotJar or Fullstory to see heatmaps, design funnels and observe usage of a Desktop app?
I hope they make it there in time!
Toxic. Employees would do better to leave ASAP.
Lots of functional language featured end up copied into traditional languages (monads, immutability, pattern matching, lambdas, etc). The difference is that these are almost always more ergonomic in a functional language that was designed with these features in mind vs. having them bolted on afterwards
The last thing you or I need is another configuration file clogging up our home directories.

This is why the XDG spec exists. Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME, not HOME.

I don't feel strongly about config file vs env var for just 2 settings, but seems worth noting. Dropping a dotfile right into your home directory is old school and needs to go away.
Your well wishes are appreciated on me!
TLDW;

They extended their already totalitarian surveillance measures to allow for more effective isolation.
How to Install Official Android Software Updates
Is your ass that dirty though ? Honestly gotta wonder about diets here. Most of the time I wipe clean or almost, and I am never constipated nor have diarrhoea... Eating lots of greens yada yada
Scientists already have a precise knowledge of what the human body is made of, is it possible to develop a shot which basically annhilates anything in the body which is not supposed to be there? I mean instead of developing a vaccine which kills xyz vareity of microbes it will destroy everything which is not in human genetics.
Typography Manual – Standard Ebooks
Looks good but I am hesitant to recommend it to my children's friend's parents (who are all trying to settle on a platform at the moment) because of the ease with which the kids might enter a short room name and find themselves on the recieving end of an unwelcome 'chatroulette experience'.

It would be good if the app version could have some parental controls added and/or the web version could enforce a minimum room name length/complexity. Meanwhile, perhaps a browser plugin to enforce that wouldn't be too hard to knock up.
Where you go friend? You can’t get the corona thu pc! GingerPCat knows.
Hi all,

Please see my new tool, PrivacyTrail. Feedback, comment and tips to improve much appreciated.

The goal of developing PrivacyTrail was to allow organisations of all sizes to assess their digital privacy, especially those who can't afford expensive threat intelligence tooling or haven't got the time to do it themselves.
Backup for Catchup in PostgreSQL
Corona has on virus. Computer can get on virus.
I wonder what the best compact wearable display + chording keyboard combination for coding is.
This setup does ensure this. These are the two relevant commands:
git config --global --unset user.email (etc.)
git config --global user.useConfigOnly true

This means that there is no default email set, and that git will error if you try and commit, because there is no email set.

I do a lighter weight version of this article by just doing the above. Then when I do the first commit in a repo, I get that error and I do the following command:

git config --local user.email me@myworkemail.com

(or the my personal email as appropriate). Then I have per repo config that persists unless I blow the repo away completely.
*walk-in bidet
So why are they rolling out army tanks? How do those fight the flu?
Not the same thing. The ATMFD code moved to fontdrvhost.exe, but don't rename that, you'll break your system.
It may be too late for me now. Much happens in last minute. It has on me. GingerPCat out.
The bullwhip effect reminds me of ETL memory management issues like backpressure and parallel streaming of pipelines to maximize throughput
Shops in NY have been limiting to one pack per customers for over a week now, at least here in Rochester NY.

There are limits on pasta, canned goods, meat etc. as well.
if Bash is asbestos, what are Windows Batch-scripts?
An interesting anecdote: they're installing Jitsi Meet in all Catalan prisons as we speak, as the go-to option now that visitors are no longer allowed, installed on the existing computers (i.e. prison libraries).

They're planning to have Whatsapp setup too as a secondary option, because it's the option with widest reach, but that requires buying a bunch of new mobile phones.

More details (in Spanish): https://elpais.com/espana/catalunya/2020-03-24/videollamadas...
I'm happy to hear that you've found us helpful in your academic life!

We don't have internship openings right now. We generally do those interviews in the fall (for the following summer).
Afro-jazz star Manu Dibango dies after contracting coronavirus
The CDC report only indicates finding RNA, which is NOT the same as finding a live virus, so that CNBC article is clickbait.

>SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e3.htm?s_cid=mm...

Here is someone qualified discussing CDC report:

https://mobile.twitter.com/aetiology/status/1242254105155973...
The HN who’s hiring post yesterday convinced me absolutely no one new is going to consider work from home when this is over.

These are the companies on the forefront of technology and zero opinions have changed.
> keep and rotate three or six months of it,

I've been doing this unintentionally. The top of my linen closet isn't good for much else; it's awkward to reach up there so it's only good for lightweight, bulky things.

Given that I'm only gonna use it for TP or paper towels, there's no reason NOT to keep it completely full; there's nothing else I'd be doing with that space anyway. And actually I have the paper towels stored somewhere that's more convenient to the kitchen and garage, where they get used, so the closet top is all TP.

If my girlfriend moved in, it would probably be a 3-month supply. As a single guy, it's closer to a year.
2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed, IOC member Dick Pound says
Who are "we"? Assad regime and Russian mercenaries perfectly use it.
I can't find anything for Purkinje at the beach, do you know where you heard it?
There are links here: https://khanacademyannualreport.org/financial-information/
I’d imagine a lot of these type of projects could get way more funding and interest now.
I do not recommend extensive work (full-time job) on such a small device. In fact I do not recommend doing a full-time job on anything smaller than 14". One can really ruin the finger joints, risk RSI even more on smaller keyboards, ruin the neck, ruin the spine and really ruin the eyes even at 11". In fact you need a proper chair and proper desk and proper keyboard and proper monitor at eye level, to do a full-time job and not ruin your health.

But, I understood the OP question as not about being productive but being capable of doing some small work if needed when on the move, a the device is small enough to be with you everywhere you go and not consider it a brick load in your bag after 10 hours of carrying it with you, but still performant enough to be able to make a patches and shorter coding session on the move.
>> No, it's the opposite. Places which are already at capacity (like Venice, Mallorca, Santorini, etc) then receive multiple cruise ships a day which dump thousands more people into the system.

I'm sure the host country has a say in this...they can receive cruises or not so the "dumping" might be a different thing for them. Like tourism cash. At least they decide for themselves, not us.
In my experience you can find sameness anywhere if you look for it, or you can find the interesting differences. Four hours is pretty short, true, but it's time enough to wander around a place and experience something unique (I had around that long in Vienna on one trip, but I ate a lovely "sushi burrito" for lunch, saw some amazing paintings, and drank in a wonderfully traditional cafe). I'd argue that a cruise can be worthwhile precisely because long bus rides suck; I've done similar trips around Eastern Europe as a road trip, sleeper train trip and river cruise, and the cruise was when I spent the least time moving luggage around or staring out of a window and the most time actually in the cities I was visiting.
So you no longer stand by your original statement where you said "But with pen and paper and envelopes and urns and observers and counters, you can determine that the system is doing the right thing"?

Somehow you have gone from one extreme (implying that a traditional paper voting system is always trustworthy) to another extreme (saying that all voting systems can be corrupted), which, by the way, is not true either. For example, the results of a voting system where all votes are public, can not be manipulated. This tiny example shows that clearly some voting systems can defend against corruption.
> If situation become really bad and raw - killing all the civilians - chemical weapon would still be a very effective weapon I think.

The article argues pretty convincingly that this is not actually true, since they are just not as effective as high explosives at killing people.

They are possibly more effective at terrorizing the population into surrendering.
Japan calls for a one-year postponement for the Tokyo Olympics
Need reviews on app that let you make/receive phone calls on Mac via Bluetooth
Recently, I switched from iOS to Android. And I was missing Apple's Continuity feature. Where I could easily make or receive phone calls on Mac, get access OTPs, messages quickly on my Mac.
I also noticed I was ending up landing social media or hacker-news :D spending hours every-time I picked up my phone for a call(there're a lot in this work from home situation).

To solve this problem I've launched an app recently on Mac Store called "CONNECTON". https://apps.apple.com/in/app/connecton/id1497000705?mt=12

It would be great if I can get some reviews. :)

Thanks
- Neha.
For the same reason we do not use nukes, the elites can't guarantee there own safety if we start using it.
Rethinking and rewriting job openings probably wasn't the highest priority now, so not sure it's a good indicator yet.
That would be right up there with toxoplasmosis. It's entirely plausible, too.
I mean, I do too, have for over a decade now. I'm still much more likely to bind under a prefix than directly to a meta chord.
The CDC report does not state they found live virus after 17 days. See my other comment.
Wearable Computer
Definitely a typo. My apologies.
I think GP means Asian supermarkets in the US, places like H-Mart.

Non-Asian people haven't been raiding them because a) they either never knew or simply forgot these stores even exist or b) because racists think they're more likely to catch covid from anything Asian.
>A reasonable person absolutely would have made that decision based on information that was already public.

The stock was sold immediately after a coronavirus briefing, not just some stock, his entire net worth.

Maybe it is reasonable to have sold your entire net worth based solely on the available public news, but then why not well before or well after the briefing and instead right after the briefing? Why tip of your wealth constituents at a $10,000/plate fundraiser while simultaneously maintaining a different political position publicly?
I'm not fully agreeing with the argument.

Chemical, biological and radiological weapons (not nukes) are effective as defensive weapons. They dramatically slow down down area access and advance of the enemy. Troops fighting in full NBC suit move very slowly. They have to periodically retreat, decontaminate and rest.

Just like land- and sea mines they are defensive weapons that attacking armies dislike. The rationalization is the long term damage for the civilians or society (can be true), but mines and chemical weapons allow for smaller armies slow down the advance of the enemy.
Having been paid to do the work, wouldn't it be classed as a "work for hire" so not eligible for him to copyright in the first place? (Not sure how US law stacks up on this issue.)
The unthinkable: Is it time to shut down the stock market?
The bidets are for a normal home toilet that has a waterline coming out of the wall below the tank and a flex connection/pipe that goes up to the tank for fill.

You shutoff your water, disconnect the toilet fill line, add the bidet connection in-between with a T connection, and hook your toilet back up. They share the same supply line.

And it's very cold water depending on your geographic region and time of the year. Not sure I'd want to try it in Alberta during the winter.
haven't recycled papers, now cannot find toilet papers.
A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
Not sure if Sony makes them still, but they used to have small VAIO portables with keyboards.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-VAIO-VGN-P530H-Lifestyle-PC/dp/B...

https://www.google.com/search?q=sony+vaio+small+laptop&rlz=1...
Do you have a source for that? I'd be very surprised at the existence any organism that's entirely impervious to UV. Especially something like a virus that doesn't have active repair machinery (or any machinery altogether) when it's out and about.
Here is the best collection of face text art - https://www.facetextart.com/
I have a friend who used to be a purser for one of the big cruise lines. They had a leak which ruined a huge amount of carpet in a dining room. They carried spare carpet on board and replaced it... and then dumped the old carpet off the side of the ship.
” Furthermore, the stability of this virus is worrisome as well. If you put it in aerosol form and keep it in the air, the half-life is several hours; if you drop it on surfaces of copper or cardboard, it could survive about a day. But if it's on steel or plastic surfaces, you could still detect infectious virus after 72 hours, although the infectivity decreases with time.”

Source: Virologist David Ho

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/tip-iceberg-virologist-da...
What can data scientists contribute to the Covid-19 effort?
There was also a "everyone else is stripping the shelves bare, I better get some" reaction. I've tried to avoid buying more than I think I genuinely need, but my idea of what I genuinely need definitively shifted when I saw I could not easily get relative essentials near me because other people were buying as much as they could possibly get.

I've stuck with a relatively conservative 2-3 week supply of noodles and rice, and the kind of toilet paper supply I'd normally buy anyway but where I'd previously be ok with waiting until I had a couple of rolls left before reordering. But that is mentally more effort than just panic-buying - I'm ok with 2-3 weeks because I've kept a close eye on supplies and know I can still top up, but if I'd just panic bought everything I could get my hands on I wouldn't have needed to put the effort into keeping track.

And even millions of people trying to be similarly restrained but accounting for the reality that others aren't still has a massive negative effect.

Overall I agree with you that it needs to bottom out soon, though. And I also very much agree about the psychological effect of keeping shelves look stocked.
> design (real, with artists)

I would never, ever, EVER want to be the frontend developer tasked with building out a design created by a "real" artist. You're not exactly making your job sound very appealing...
Clocks are a good one, except if you're office happens to have a broken clock hanging up in a meeting room.
Lots of science fiction has that. Some are even plausible. However our current technology isn't that advanced. Maybe we will get there someday maybe not.
Articles were written about someone who tried that with hand sanitizer, bought all the hand sanitizer in a several state region then couldn't offload it after being banned from Amazon, etc.

Search "17000 bottles of hand sanitizer". First article that came up for me that wasn't paywalled,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/16/new-yo...
Hi, thank you for asking!

Most of the public facilities in my town are equipped with bidet/jet + toilet paper (some might provide soap at the toilet, if not; they always provide soap in the hand sink. In this case, it's better not to touch your private parts with bare hands and use the toilet paper to fully clean it). All of the office that I went to always provides soap and toilet paper. So you don't have to bring your own kit.

The shape of the toilet and the positioning of the bidet/jet definitely could reduce the amount of water going outside the (pardon) hole. But there's always some of it that got out. It is advised that we wipe the water on the seat with toilet paper to make it dry. Some also provide a cleaning solution to wipe the seat before using it.

Usually, there's a cleaning service nearby that always wipe the floor and clean everything.

From my personal experience with toilet paper, I need to use a load of it to make sure its thick enough to protect my hands from touching it directly as there's no water to wash it later except outside in the hand sink. I could easily use half of the roll to fully clean myself and make sure there is no residue at all (further wipes doesn't leave any mark behind the paper). Also, we don't throw the paper into the (pardon) hole, there's a dedicated bin for it and the smells (pardon) when it is opened is a whole new problem (I don't know if the gas is dangerous, but its really something). But then again, as it is not cleaned with soap, I am sure there are some bacteria left behind and it makes me feel uncomfortable.

I don't know what to say about the perception of people, but I do think it does change the perception, I am just not sure how :)
I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home, and I'm having mixed feelings about it. As usual, there are pros and cons to everything.

Pros:

- Able to be at home all day, feel I have more flexibility.

Cons:

- I miss cycling to work.

- I miss getting out the house

- I miss chatting to colleagues

- I miss lots of indirect help from other developers.

I might feel differently if I had to drive to work, as I hated that. Now though, my commute is a 15 minute cycle down a clean, wide, and seperated cycle path which I love (especially in the sun!).
Are these sprays always in the same position or is it something that is off to the side and when you press a button they move into position? I worry about getting matter on it but maybe I'm imagining it to be longer than it really is.
A southern capital was part of the deal on the assumption of state debts by the federal government. Washington doesn't seem that southern these days, but the District of Columbia was about 1/3 in Virginia, and Maryland was culturally speaking something of an annex of Virginia. That Mt. Vernon was nearby played a part in putting the capital there and not around (say) Port Deposit or Fredericksburg.
How good engineering culture is in your team?
> not many PGP implementations support ECC

What other PGP implementations are relevant to interoperate with in 2020? Who still uses PGP, but doesn't use GPG? And why?
What I use to switch git identities is direnv (https://direnv.net/) which automatically loads specific config based on the dir that you are in. You can use it to switch AWS profiles, proxy settings, npm settings, maven settings, git configuration and so on.
Build your own CDN on a Raspberry Pi
would be great for africa. south america pass mostly trhu north america. if this happens, the anemic pipes used as backup that goes to africa and then europe would be beefed up significantly.
US also has plenty in stock.
3 days later and the law enforcement action is beginning in NYC: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...
Resilience: An Ad Blocker Without Compromises
Indonesian Genomics Firm Nusantics Secures Funding from East Ventures
I will go out on a limb here (I'm hardly a domain expert) and make the following prediction: In retrospect this will be seen as the moment when peer perception of Ioannidis fell from major scientific figure to reckless (or worse!) fraud.

The problems with what he writes seem to me to be so severe, I cannot fathom how it ever made peer-review.

His original article assumed, with no measures taken, a peak infection rate in the US of 1% of the population. For that to be true, R0 would need to be around 1.01 (herd immunity to restrict further spread is achieved at around 1-1/R0). This is totally insane, there is literally no way covid-19 could have spread internationally as fast as it does with this R0 (you can work out R0 quite well from the growth rates, the main problem is reporting quality, but death figures are presumably fairly accurate).

He also gave a plausible lower bound of CFR of around half of seasonal influenza, 0.05%. For comparison the Italian CFR currently skews closer to 9%! Even accounting for immense underreporting, there is no way to reconcile these discrepancies (a factor of 200x). He upwards adjusts a tiny bit in this article, but it is still extremely hard to reconcile the situation on the ground in Italy with what he is writing.

All the countless additional severe problems with his argument (cost asymmetries, health care capacity, ...) pale in comparison to these two.