skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weirdly hidden but if you go to meet.google.com and make a meeting, others just need the url to join, no faffing about with connecting to other users in gmail. It needs a corporate gmail account to use though.
In the second study, they are claiming that people were infected through their building's ventilation.
This is why democracy is so important. It is the pressure valve to excess. Sure some government will abuse this type of feature but there will be a point where people push back. Maybe not soon enough for initial abuse but eventually.
Crashed my Chrome on desktop
Again, like the "jimbob" guy above who was objecting to the name Jitsi, I find "dandigangi" to be rather odd and unsettling.

If we're going to make names be the cover of the book, then we must all realize that almost any name will be uncomfortable to some audiences.
The impact of global warming is estimated at 150,000 fatalities[1] per year currently, which so far is significantly more than the epidemic. Do you think that automobile drivers should be treated as "attempted mass murderers"? It is even the same people telling us about that and coronavirus - the WHO.

[1]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-an...
To each his own - I work in web development but use Altium, Solidworks, Xilinx, and some esoteric embedded compilers that are Windows only for hardware side projects and some Linux infrastructure on k8s clusters for trading. All of my hardware including laptops is powerful enough that I just choose the base OS depending on the context and run VMs to provide any apps I need from other operating systems. Usually the base is Mac OS X for work to avoid deviating from the designers, Windows on personal machines because virtualized 3D still sucks on a per app basis, and Linux on headless machines at home and servers. The context switch is simply too costly for my workflow, especially since I don't always do a good job of firewalling my work from my personal machines.

WSL is great although I often prefer to SSH into a VM or run a docker container (in a VM). There are still some lingering performance problems with filesystems that they haven't solved yet though (partially solved by using VMWare for my own VMs).
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Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.
Why focus on a single tweet, pretending as if that is the only relevant communication?

He called it "very very promising", claimed it would become immediately available all over (it won't), and has been talking it up for multiple days at multiple events on national television as a treatment for a rapidly spreading disease. His own experts are contracting him in an attempt to tamp down what a moron in a hurry can correctly guess is going to happen.

If you wish to hang your word on the fact that he never explicitly called for self-medication, well, it is your reputation.
Is MongoDB Atlas down for anyone?
MongoDB Atlas seems to be down for the last couple of hours. Anyone experiencing similar issues?
cloud.mongodb.com
Add to that the emergency nature of the choice is reuse or have nothing. I suspect lawsuit risk at least today is limited.
Totally an anecdote, but grocery stores in Austin, TX are much better stocked than they were a week ago.

There's only so much over-buying the average household can do before the pantry is totally full. Give it another week or two and things will be much better.
Hi Hacker News!

My gf is an ICU nurse and challenged me to build a device that helps people wash their hands properly (I wanted to build a ventilator, but she said that wasn't super helpful....:(

This is my first attempt, it's a soap dispenser that marks your hand with a stamp that fades with at least 20 seconds of hand washing—the minimum time recommended by the CDC.

Very open to comments both constructive and commending! :)
Mark Rober (the Glitter bomb package theft guy) started a Physics class today on Youtube. According to Youtube numbers, 70K people were watching it at the beginning and 377K had watched it when it was over.

I watched it with my daughter and it was review for both of us, but it also was very, very good.

https://youtu.be/pPn-Bay_ANU
Sorry but just no.

It is not a "medical" treatment unless it treats, prevents, or otherwise modifies some actual disease or state of health.

I agree it is important to know what ridiculous, non-evidence-based dietary supplements people are taking.

Regardless, you can't get out of your extremely irresponsible claims by arguing about semantics.

Please stop giving anyone your incompetent and potentially harmful medical advice. Luckily most people with COVID won't try to treat it with garlic supplements alone because they aren't stupid, but you have to realize that in panic-inducing times like this people might actually take your advice and you could end up with blood on your hands.
>"I don't like it, it's weird."

To be fair, it is sort "busy" in regards to the UI and the stuff surrounding the screen.

Hangouts is comparatively less daunting.
5 years might actually be right on the mark? I think Borg and EC2 et al. had all of this functionality 5 years ago, but I'm not sure it was all there more than 5 years ago.
The claim about quality sounds incredibly dubious and really gives away the game is about felony interference with a business model. "High quality" is downright narcissistic witg delusions of grandeur.

High production value can and is absolute shit. Gell-Mann amnesia effect says hi. The problem isn't the competition but that the old guard sucked at their job.

I am no fan of targetted advertising but I despise attempts to control the internet for the sake of dinosaur propagandists. They need to just die already and stop crapping out bullshit.
FWIW, it works great on my Chromebook, meeted up with myself on my Android. Even used x86 Bromite browser on Chromebook, and even blur background worked after a slight delay. Impressive.
It starts with messed up clocks and ends up with a bricked SecureBoot.
Because Netflix is razor-sharp focused on their core business?

Speaking of their infra, Netflix focuses on productivity, based on a fundamental value that everyone inside the company has freedom and responsibility. This culture empowers the engineers there to build amazing tools that make employees very happy, but in the meantime the stacks they built may not be suitable for serving individual enterprise customers. For instance, they certainly don't fully use the elaborate security infrastructure that AWS offers. They don't worry too much about being frugal, either. Remember the famous saying that "Netflix is a log company that happens to stream movies"? They do store everything, at the cost of millions of dollars. Their monitoring system is so easy to use and so expressive, that it blows out any known monitoring systems out of water, but in the meantime it requires thousands of machines (amazingly, it used to be only 4 engineers manning the whole stack. A perfect example that shows how much productivity good systems can bring to engineers).

So, yeah, great company and great stacks, but it does not mean they can compete in enterprise cloud business.
> No, not just other peoples - that includes my own life too.

Glad you don’t get to make that decision on behalf of other people, and those actions are at least illegal in California.

I also think it’s nonsense to imply you are putting yourself at any real risk, if you were immunocompromised or elderly you wouldn’t have such a callous attitude.
That hellaciously unlawful and immoral company (at least in England) UBER does this with their "surge" pricing.

Want more cabs than we have?

2x, 4x, 7x the normal price for the ride is a win-win.
Driver gets more money.
Company gets more cut.
More drivers come out to earn the extortionate fees.
Fewer customers take a cab at that time, lowering the demand.

It's great until you figure the drivers are gaming the system by not going to work until there is a surge price in effect.

People will always take the opportunity to profit at others' expense.
A moral company would attempt to curtail this.

Are Amazon moral?
It's a term coined by Milton Friedman many years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money
Some would possibly count tear gas, white phosphorous or depleted uranium.
Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
Is the Android App open source? I haven't been able to find the source code for the play store app on the jitsi github account.
The YAML syntax is awful for expressing those constructs though. It might be a DSL, but it's a very awkward one.
Ask HN: Startup Founders Looking for Clojure Cofounder
Any startups looking for a tech cofounder that want to use a Clojure/Hy for the tech stack?
Needs a Corp account to setup and approve non-invited attendees.

You do not require a google account at all to join a Meets session, but someone in the session with a valid invite will have to approve your entry.

I test this quite often with incognito tabs to have multiple participants for room setup and testing.
To the authors, if they see this: I'm trying to use this to call my mother and we are both just looking at our own faces. I've confirmed -- via separate video call on phones -- that we're at the same URL, both look connected, and both have camera permissions. There's no indication that anything is wrong on either of our computers.
FDA updates Covid-19 testing guidelines to allow self-swab tests
Fortunately unlike Tylneol, Hydroxychloroquine requires a prescription in the US.

In an effort to limit shortages multiple states are already making the criteria for prescription even more limited (anyone who prescribed it for COVID-19 was already making an off-label prescription):

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ph...

Also of note, the couple took `chloroquine phosphate` not `hydroxychloroquine` which was what the government just fast-tracked and is apparently a 3x more effective treatment than the former. According to Wikipedia, HCQ is used for people sensitive to Chloroquine-phospate:

> Specifically it is used for chloroquine-sensitive malaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine

We don't yet know if the person in the article was prescribed it or even had any symptoms/prior medical history.
The same reason why Apple is not in the search business even though search is a key part of the phone experience: someone else does the job really well.

Facebook would need a way to differentiate the search experience. I don't think personalization is enough since Google personalizes too.

I also don't think a company should build products for the _purpose_ of revenue. Revenue is the output of building a great product with a purpose for users. So I think it goes back to Facebook asking what unique purpose would it provide in it's search experience?
I've always liked this short article written by Krist Novoselic, bassist for Nirvana, about trying to play the bass line to In Bloom in Rock Band 2.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090122035037/http://blogs.seat...
PLOS 2011 – Microwave Steam Bags for Decontamination of Respirators
Thank you. I learned something new today!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
All the occasions you mention are covered in the blog. The sarin attack is used to demonstrate that even in the best conditions for the attacker they would not be effective in a military sense against modern first tier armies. As a terror weapon yes but the question is why don’t modern militaries plan to use them. It doesn’t rest on perfect efficiency. At this point the US, for example, doesn’t have the quantity needed for battlefield and no procedures for deploying them.
> "Learning how to store passwords or add OAuth2 to your toy web site is not fun."

I think it's more that correctly implementing security is hard, and if you have no interest in exposing your application to the greater internet you shouldn't be shouldered with the burden of both gaining and maintaining an understanding of the state-of-the-art in web security.

> Let's be real, that software was almost certainly crap and full of bugs. It's not the type of thing that an amateur should be writing on his lunch break.

Nope; computer systems were simpler, and so they were easier to program correctly. There is tons of high quality hobbyist software from the 80s and 90s.

> It sounds to me like this guy wants to be able to make important software without actually learning to program for real.

The author of that blog is one of the most skilled programmers I have known.
Did you even read the article?

"in South Korea, where testing has been widespread, 30 percent of 2,000 patients who tested positive experienced anosmia as their major presenting symptom"

and:

"mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that lost or reduced sense of smell and loss of taste are significant symptoms associated with Covid-19, and that they have been seen in patients who ultimately tested positive with no other symptoms."
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GCP did $9 billion in revenue in 2019. Amazon and Microsoft may be ahead of them, but saying GCP is "struggling" is a weird way to put it.
This isn't accurate.

To quote the KFOR Wikipedia page:

> KFOR entered Kosovo on 11 June 1999 two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244. At the time, Kosovo was facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with military forces from Yugoslavia in action against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in daily engagements.

Note that daily engagements were ongoing at this point.
>You're just witnessing the old joke IRL: If Trump could walk on water, the Left would complain that he can't swim.

The skepticism is due to false claims like "anybody that wants can get a test" [1]

But as you say, maybe they shouldn't blame Trump since he says it's not his responsibility [2]

Anyway, why do any treatment if the virus is a hoax[3], hype[4] and fake news[5]

Or at worst, it is only one person coming from China and is totally under control [6]

Certainly the president is not concerned at all about the White-house [7]

And all this must be true because has has known it was a pandemic all along [8]

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

[2] https://youtu.be/NezEbDx4B9A?t=102

[3] https://youtu.be/NezEbDx4B9A?t=57

[4] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12369751966423900...

[5] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370045091566428...

[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/trump-on-coronavirus-from-ch...

[7] https://youtu.be/NezEbDx4B9A?t=78

[8] https://youtu.be/NezEbDx4B9A?t=109
It seems completely reasonable to you for the president to tweet out unqualified medical advice during a pandemic?
documentation is the only downfall. I did the step by step for Ubuntu, had it going in no time.
Why aren't chemical weapons (for example VX) effective area denial weapons? They seem damned good for the purpose.
What about a web based WebRTC solution? So people don’t have to download anything?
It's actually impressive!
> why biological weapons are even more useless ... they're tactically nonexistent, and strategically worse than merely ineffective because you can't control either their spread or your borders well enough to avoid them blowing back on you.

That's only true if all nations are identical. Which is another way of saying that it's never true. Unless it's a global extinction biological weapon, there would be winners and losers when it's over.

It could be acceptable to use (risk vs reward) if you believed your nation would endure far better than your rivals. If you believed you could get back up faster; that it weakens your rivals long enough, and substantially enough, to give you a path to hegemony. If you believed you could lock your society down better to protect it while the rivals were ravaged.

The US for example had that manner of booster path after WW2. It's not that the US didn't suffer in WW2, it suffered quite a bit, but far less than other major powers, particularly in terms of post war domestic conditions (vast manufacturing and export capabilities ready to go). It helped catapult the US to primary superpower status. Historically speaking, what major nations haven't wanted that position? Some even have cultural beliefs, like manifest destiny, that motivate the culture toward it.
It's a shame FaceTime was never made open. I heard that this was Apple's original intention, but there were issues with patents (not held by Apple).
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Why do people still use this "OS" is beyond me.
Firefox stable /Linux. Video works.
Typical cruise in airliners is about 10% faster than their most efficient speed, which translates to a 15% or so higher fuel burn per distance.

You also do not need to take off with max fuel weight-- and airliners these days rarely do, so that leaves more mass budget for cargo. For the past couple decades, airlines have been really focused on eliminating weight and using the efficiency increases this brings to reduce fuel weight, further increasing efficiency.

Across huge scales, this can have surprising effects.
United figured they saved $300k/year of fuel by printing their in flight magazine on lighter paper.
(2) and (3) are basically the same thing.
I got it off FDroid, so...
Can Canadians apply? Thanks
Walking your dog comes under exercise. You're allowed to go out for a walk as long as you stay 2m away from people who you don't live with.
Silly question, because I tried to run Nextcloud Talk and ran into odd connection issues for a user who I believe is behind a corporate firewall and so I needed to stand up “coturn”: what’s the obvious reason for avoiding STUN? And what would you recommend as the simplest/best TURN server implementation?
"You have a situation where X has no influence on reproduction, replication or transmission"

It is true that a basic law of reality/nature is that causes must precede effects, so in a sense, I think I agree your statement is technically correct regarding the exact cycle you describe.

But when talking about evolution in a population, the cycle happens a huge number of times. So "X" will influence all of the instances of replication that in fact happen after it. It would be silly to talk about evolution in a context of one and only one reproduction event.

I don't think we are debating anything that has to do with specialist knowledge of viruses.
I'm confused why everything keeps reporting mortality rate as (#deaths / #confirmed_cases). People are confirmed cases for a while before the outcome is known. Shouldn't it be
(#deaths / (#deaths + #recovered))? I mean, that would imply the mortality rate is around 13%, which would be awful, but the math makes more sense to me. Are the values for #recovered so suspect that they aren't worth using at all?
No passengers, just cargo? Probably ok if the pilot 1) disables MCAS, and 2) ensures a forward center of gravity, so the MCAS workaround (slow, high aoa) becomes moot.
Kraftwerk: Where to start in their back catalogue
Also this would be more expensive in both time and cost
> the authorities will call the number you put on that card to see if you're there or if you've checked into the hotel

So... what happens when you’re not there? I.e. if the government just can’t find you? Does this then translate to a police APB or something?
> It isn't going to happen. Both approaches have their pro's and con's - insinuating one is going to supplant the other is folly, despite people continuing to do it for multiple decades now.

The "web app vs. native" line is already blurry now with Electron apps, and will get blurrier in the future as browser capabilities and performance improves. The browser is becoming an OS on its own - Chromium has already surpassed the Linux kernel in terms of complexity and lines of code.

I hate JavaScript and the surrounding ecosystem, but there's no denying that this appears to be the future of a majority of desktop applications (if it isn't already).
Several how many? 5 or 25 ? Can I reliably teach to a small classroom using it?
Devon Loch bellyflop remains a mystery after 64 years
Erm… what is it? Forgive me for not wanting to download the PDF to find out, but I can't for the life of me work out why there isn't an opening paragraph explaining what it is, and I'm too old for guessing games.

This is the second link from HN I've opened today like this.