skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us have caught onto the scam promises of ongoing support from android device makers. With an iphone you are pretty sure of 3-4 years of good support. Doesn't the latest iOS support the iphone SE? And I think iOS 12 is still getting updates (Jan 2020).
I noticed the "O2 Therapy Humidifier" and other components.
How does this ventilator fares against a AMBU bag ventilator?

Right I'm making an effort to acquire DIY to build a ventilator that squeezes an AMBU bag. I found it incredible easy to make and scale, total cost around 300 euros/324 USD.
I feel this same way about Clojure, I won't likely ever use it professionally, but it's made me a better programmer having learned it.
Milligram does not look like a classless framework - maybe class-lite?
You have to send every change to Apple before the user can run the code. In theory, that allows Apple to do more checks than when the code is dynamically loaded from your web server.
What was the crime under the law?
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If we had to make non-electron, native version of our app, that would mean Windows[1] and Android, because that's where the current users are. Forget the rest.

Is that the future you want?

[1] And they would not be happy about that either. For many that would mean RDP or Citrix. They prefer webapp right now.
I think bounties create an unhealthy incentive structure. The kind of thinking you expressed in your post that payments shouldn't be seen as "charity" leads to people trying to not "waste" their bounties.

They'll add it to issues the maintainers won't do otherwise, which in turn leads maintainers to hold the code hostage, not doing something they'd have done had there been no bounty structure, hoping that someone posts a bounty for it. Of course a maintainer is one of the world experts in that codebase so knows really well which things can or have to be done. So that behaviour will lead to maintainers not addressing issues they know will annoy users. It leads to annoyance driven development.

Regular payments are far better IMO for projects long term because they allow maintainers to actually maintain the software instead of hunting for bug bounties. They give more security to maintainers (rent is pretty much a constant for example) and less overhad for users (unless they want to save money and use it most efficiently, but IMO that's not what donations should be about). That being said, bounties aren't bad overall, they are definitely great ideas if used here and there, but funding of open source projects shouldn't be bounty-driven.
There's a dbus layer which defines the actual backup operations, so without actually diving into the code to confirm this - I suspect there's a reasonable separation.
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You are not alone! I've come across enough of CS folks who wanted to be a physicist but ended up "downgrading" to CS. Within physicists, there are enough folks who wanted to be mathematicians but ended up "downgrading" to physics :).
scrolling up to load more chat history, and lots and lots of image attachments (and of course, the emoticons).

I remember comfortably browsing webpages with lots of large images and animated GIFs in the early 2000s, with a fraction of the computing power I have today. Something has become seriously inefficient with browser-based apps.
Measures in Nanjing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM&feature=youtu.be

Procedures at Zhejiang Hospital (zero fatalities)

https://video-intl.alicdn.com/Handbook%20of%20COVID-19%20Pre...
Oh my god, just try running a modern OS on a spinning rust drive. It's ridiculous how slow it is. It's obvious that modern developers assume everything is running on SSD.
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In some places food poisoning gets a surprisingly thorough response, with full batch tracing of the affected food. Here's what the CDC was doing last year: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
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Interesting. One other thing they don't mention that I found interesting when doing my own digging on dmcrypt speeds a while back is that the 'cryptosetup benchmark' command is only showing the single core performance of each of those encryption algorithms. You can verify this by watching the processor load as it performs the benchmark. That lead me to find that if you have a Linux software RAID you can get much better performance by having 1 dmcrpyt volume per disk and then software RAID the dm devices instead of putting a single dmcrypt on top of the software RAID. Curious if that would stack performance wise with what they found here or if that just happened to help with the queuing issue they identified.
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Agreed, if bounties conventionally worked like that I would feel incentivized to not contribute to OS projects unless there was a bounty. I dunno, maybe it'll still be a net benefit with an influx of bounty hunters. Hard to say really.
Regarding Nummi: the same workers work, but it was obvious and well known from the beginning that it was a different way to do things. It was not a change from the previous one. It was a different organisation altogether
The data released includes your age range, gender, and places you've been to. Which was already enough for the press to fully de-anonymize some individuals and confront them on camera. Seems like a reasonable title to me.
You're saying it's the USPS fault that customers demand service for unconscionably low price?
I think this is a problem of their own creation - done in the name of simplicity which has outlived its usefulness, but to take it back now would be chaos.

A closed, curated app store gave less technical users the confidence to actually download software without concern that it would screw up their device. However, things which have a different model like web apps or system extensions (read: keyboards) were also put into the same distribution mechanism.

You can see why as it removes a barrier to using them: people just go the same place they've always gone to get software on the platform. They make no distinction between the native Gmail app and GIF Keyboard because the install process is the same and each are displayed prominently.

In reality, 3rd party keyboards and the like should probably be handled - from a UI standpoint - like they are on macOS, inside System Preferences/Settings, with no app icon on the homescreen, they simply aren't as important as full blown apps.

^ People will dispute this and that's really nice...but they're wrong.
Given how widely differently active cases are asserted (different methods of testing, different capacity of testing, different politics towards testing), and how widely they are also well asserted, this figure has little meaning but for local forecasts; not for comparison between countries.

On the other hand, ICU cases, and deaths cases seem more relevant.
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I don’t get your point. Just don’t exterminate them from their natural habitat?
As long as you start refering to the "i" in "iPhone" as Intranet and not ~Internet~ then we're cool.
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100% agree. The "hacks" and "get stuff done" approach gains quick and short benefit, which probably fits a freelancer/contractor role. Maintainable and testable code should be implied.

It's not about how fast you get to code to production, it's about how fast code/product can be adapted to new or unexpected requirements.
The official chinese treatment recommendation.
https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fd28s6/preprint_ar...

Amongst doctors both hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate run under broadband antiviral.
Whether they did or not, they spoke truth. Linux's (userland, not kernel) backward compatibility is ridiculously bad unless you're compiling from source. This is not the case on Windows.
Yes the DNS companies are an exception because the number is meaningful to humans.
They cut corner because the system tell them to do so. Not because they are fundamentally flawed into liking to gamble. I can make a perfect product with zero gamble, if i get infinite money and noone need to use it.
GH page says Py3.
Lol, 50GB unexplained mobile data consumption. That'd be 3 months worth of rent on my mobile data plan. Good luck ever getting out of debt if that happened on some more expensive international roaming.
It's not "limiting browser storage", it's making browser storage expire. TFA's example is just some random app, but this essentially kills the entire concept of an offline-first web app, and severely hurts the browser as an application platform.
Offline web apps are direct competitors to apps from the Google play store and Apple app store. You can't expect Apple to be fair to them if they are missing out of their 30% for every USD of revenue on those web apps.
There is a scrollable div, the one that leads with:

grep -A 11 'xts(aes)' /proc/crypto

Is that what you mean?
I voted for the guy specifically because the agencies were rotten and the civil service needs deep reform. I’m very disappointed that the law has not need changed to so that more government employees can be immediately fired.
Very good question, I would too like to hear thoughts on this. My first impression was that the data was simply not being updated anymore. The change was too abrupt, simply doesn't seem natural.

Is it likely that the Chinese are giving false data / simply not testing as thoroughly anymore?
I'm not from the US. I just know what racism looks like, unlike, apparently, many Europeans.
The problem is that these sorts of standards are selectively applied. We might as well call federal and state taxes a scam (in the US) because it is easy to pay more than you actually are legally obligated to pay. The tax system has been made confusing, and regardless if it was done purposefully or not (because purposefulness of the design isn't a factor in this sort of standard, and even if it was it can be optimized around).

Are state run lotteries also a scam given how they are advertised in a way to exploit underlying flaws in human rationality?

Are the people who go on dating applications with the primary goal of seeking free meals from their dates scam artists?

Are advertisers making any sort of ad that exploits underlying flaws in human nature scamming their users, but not quite to the level of this flyer, scam artists?

What about grocery stores who put the products that appeal to children at heights meant for the children to see them, and who do things like put candy at the checkout section?

What about every phone vendor, game vendor, and website that has a large legal document that they know full well their users aren't reading, but requiring them to agree to, as they know the users will just click the I agree and move on?

All of these are in some way exploiting flaws in humans to make a profit. Should they all be scams and condemned? Maybe so, but we should try to be consistent in doing so.

>It's like trying to pass off counterfeit bills and then claiming you weren't engaging in fraud because the money had "Not legal tender" written in small print and the store clerk would have realized that if they'd only inspected every individual bill closely enough.

So, what would be the closest thing to legal tender that a person can offer to use without payment without having to explicitly call out the fact it isn't legal payment? If I were to offer someone operating a register an item of value, let's say an older model smartphone, in place of my bill, wouldn't that be legal and wouldn't it be acceptable for them to accept that as trade for the items? If they aren't an owner and don't have permission to make such decisions, then they should either refuse or act as a middle man (accept the item and pay out of their own product, if that is allowed). But how close can I get to legal tender before it becomes unacceptable socially and unacceptable legally? Does either answer maybe depend upon how I look, if I'm attractive, what gender/race I am, how rich I am? I ask that because I do honestly think if we had alien scientists who were creating a perfect answer to that question, they would find those to be factors.
The PRC government is known to be flexible with the truth. They could simply be lying.
Surgical masks have an air gap, so are not comparable to N95 masks at all in that regard. They are solving different problems.
You say that as if it isn’t an absolutely giant extra piece of functionality and ongoing cost. That native apps won’t have to do.
Of course they did due diligence. They found someone with profitable ideas and execution. This very site is funded by an investor that brags about explicitly filtering for founders that break the rules they can get away with ("being naughty" and "hacking the system"), and has made millions of dollars from startups like AirBnB that are built and marketed on that premise.
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My day job is maintaining the toolchains for a popular safety-certified realtime embedded operating system. I have never once been asked to provide a Rust toolchain. Fortran, yes. Ada, yes. Python and Go, yes. By and large it's just C (and more and more C++).

Rust seems to be mostly something "full stack developers" and "back end developers" embrace for server-side toys and hobby projects.
Not to be conspiratorial, but China has a vested interest in seeming as if they've beaten the virus both to their own people and the world abroad. Their lockdown clearly had a strong effect, but after its over the virus will spread again. With that said, I don't see any reason why China would share their numbers. They have a history of lying about this disease, I don't know why we should assume we can trust their data now.
SARS made people very sick very fast so it was easy to identify and quarantine patients. With extensive contact tracking it was able to be contained.

With covid19 many patients are able to continue their lives and infect others without being obviously sick themselves. This limited the ability to contain outbreaks without extensive testing.
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Yep, the response they received was incredibly condescending. The follow-up from Cloudflare remained polite and added a lot more data, and was ignored.

It's a shame because I've seen this condescending attitude quite frequently in the crypto open source community, and am not really sure how it arises. At least in this case it seems to have had the good outcome of motivating Cloudflare to dig in deeper and solve the problem by themselves.
I dunno about typical commercial ovens, but the ovens at a pizza place go up to about 800F. it's unappetizing to think about, but I don't think any pathogens can survive for long at that temperature. the real trick might be keeping the oven at a steady low temp to sterilize the masks. they're not really designed for that.
Designs haven't kept up with the recent advancement in production technologies
Indeed. China's numbers aren't to be trusted.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-03-23/despite-official-fig...
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This really reminds me of most my interactions with the JS community. I'm sure not everyone is that way.

Whenever my projects use FOSS I always remind them exactly what a 'dependency' is. You should know and understand your dependencies and risks associated with relying on them.

You need to be willing to lock-in to a version if need be or replace it entirely. Some developers I work with that throw together one-off web applications tend to inject dozens (sometimes hundreds) of dependencies (which they like to dynamically pull from latest builds) into their projects, enough to make me dizzy looking through the list.

Typically development starts, they meet some initial goal and keep gluing more and more packages together to meet some goal/desired functionality. Then something breaks and they conveniently have other internal work that has to take priority, leaving a broken application they don't want to deal with for someone else to fix because they know it's an absolute mess they created. Rinse repeat.

Now you've established an expectation of functionality you have no clue how to maintain and did not clearly explain that to your client when you took shortcuts to glue everything together.
1) becuase you don't how to use grep et al.

2) because you don't use open formats.

3) because you do have a minimally decent data organization and have to search too much data every time.
Whenever a newish programmer has asked me what language they should learn next I always say prolog. I fully expect them to never touch the language afterwards, but writing prolog was a truly a mind opening experience. More so than learning functional programming imo.
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In Spain no walking, biking, jogging etc is allowed. If you have a dog, you can walk it max 100m from your home.

But as I said above, we, adults can understand and cope with it easier than kids. And sadly, when we make our decisions, needs of children often is an aftertought.
More deadly viruses tend to kill its victim faster, before disease can be transmitted. Also, despite being Novel, COVID-19 could be mistaken for flu or be invisible, so could go undetected for longer periods. Countries grew fatigue from the scares of earlier epidemics like swine flu and avian flu, so waited until danger was "evidently on their doorstep".

With better testing, this could've been nipped in the bud worldwide. Also, with proper pandemic preparations and alertness, countries wouldn't need to shut down. Shutting down proactive measures to save small amounts of money, costs much, much more in the longer run.

You will witness every decent country hit by unconstrained exponential contagion, shutting down.

When it's too late, or people can't be bothered, they become Italy, Spain and Worse.
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I remember I read a news article once about a man who battered his girlfriend to death with an iPod for messing with his playlist. The article had embedded advertisements to buy iPods.
Why not use borg? With fusemount i can mount a snapshot and navigate/restore the files. It's very convenient.
An offline web app is a frontend-only application (just HTML+CSS+JS or less) that can be loaded from any medium (internet, usb stick, direct TCP via netcat or any other transport) and work in your browser without requiring a remote connection to allow usage of it's features.

So yes, this would mean it doesn't run the risk of ex-filtration or snooping at the transport layer, as the data never leaves the specific website context in your browser.
This is also about IndexedDB. Imagine native apps had all their data wiped if you don't open them (with an active internet connection) every 7 days. Not just on an iPhone, but also on macOS.
That's a hurdle that involves de-anonymization of the user.
>How come we jump to CORRECT conclusions? Even if the guess was not quite correct, it usually was a good hunch that, properly adjusted, will open up new territory.

How much does survivor bias play into this idea that all hunches are at least on the right track? For example, I once wanted to study mathematics in grad school and spent my free time looking for interesting patterns. I ended up only doing one not very interesting presentation as an undergrad. Because of that and a middling score on the GMAT, I decided a math Phd wasn't a good choice for me.

But shouldn't people with a similar experience still included when looking at how "mathematicians" guess? Are mathematicians just more likely to have been people that had a good guess and therefore decided to keep studying mathematics?

So what I want to know is: how good are their guesses beyond their first big win? Maybe even in a topic unrelated to their previous work? That'd be the more useful question if you want to find productive habits or traits.

And examining famous outliers isn't very helpful except for a biography.

Disclaimer: I haven't finished the article. It's long and rambling, so I might not finish it.
Keep going. They risk being fined by not answering.
> One big issue with "Application and file system level encryption" is that you often end up leaking metadata (such as the date edited, file name, file size, etc).

I wonder how cryfs stacks up in this regard.

https://www.cryfs.org
You're mixing up "defined" with "defined via a decimal numeral" we can define these numbers without much difficulty via finite formula that compute them. This is a completely valid definition, it is just not a decimal numeral.

An interesting idea might be "useful integers" which requires whatever definition we have to allow approximation of any finite subsequence with error converging to zero given more computational power.
findstr /spin /C:"class sample" *.cs

you can use this to look in files on windows
Did they reach out to the Linux kernel mailing list? Or just the dm-crypt team, I found the answer they received rather arrogant and useless to be honest.
Almost every Figma user I know (and I know a lot) uses it on a Mac, so I’m not convinced that that’s a benefit they care about.
With embedded SDKs and device identifiers that work similarly to third party cookies, they're not.

I understand it's changing too, but not as fast as safari.
The stores should be allowed to raise prices in the face of increased demand, but the average voter thinks that is some form of theft. So stores can only implement quantity limits.
Apps added to the shelf should keep their data
"Direct Marketing" just means mailing ads to consumers. Almost all locally present businesses do that and many remote ones. It's cheap and effective.

You deem to be describing Multi Level Marketing.
I would like a bit more clarity on this chart [1] comparing R_0 and case fatality rate of COVID-19 with other similar diseases. I am trying to understand why Ebola did not kill as many people as COVID-19 has.

My understanding is that R_0 just depends somehow only on the virus itself, while there is another factor R = a R_0, which determines the actual reproduction number "in practice", taking into account isolation measures and such. So for Ebola R was much lower than R_0, so a lot fewer people died compared to COVID-19. Is this correct?

[1] https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-020-00...
Hey Vinay! Do you guys plan to have open positions for Linux Sys Admins?
Nice hot take on the headline... maybe actually read the article and add something a bit more substantial to the discussion?
Less fatal per case, killing more because wider spread.
Great question, and I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering this. It seems hard to believe that in a situation where almost every single country has it that somehow China kept it confined to one province... Obviously they censor their news and social media, so any information coming from them is questionable to begin with.

Other than incorrect numbers, the second most likely possibility is that they found some effective treatment.