skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you'd try defending such behavior other than you spent as little time reading the original email as the person who responded in the thread. They clearly state at the bottom their in-memory results - while they don't give EXACT hardware, it's more than enough to determine there is a major bottleneck in the encryption engine. To claim "encryption is heavy" is also a poor response - either the poster has no concept of the overhead of encryption with CPU offload or was just too lazy to put together a helpful response. Either way - no response would've been better than that.
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No paywall: http://archive.is/pzJbT
>No known preexisting conditions is very different from no preexisting conditions.

but you can easily have regular checkups and still have an undiscovered (unknown) pre-existing condition. so what is the difference?
Easy mnemonic: COVID-19 stands for COrona VIrus Disease 2019.
Indeed they only test on Python3: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/.travis.y...
Handfuls of cases are enough to discredit the belief (perhaps not common on HN, but common in many other places) that young people can’t get seriously ill or die from it.
Alternatively it could be a material and relevant fact.
You need to take a step away from the computer.
Mostly culture and habit, but I argue against the prevailing wisdom and say it's also more hygienic to use TP. Moving water throws invisible droplets everywhere that can spread bacteria, which is why modern health authorities strongly recommend against washing raw poultry, for instance. For females at least, there's some evidence of bidets not being ideal; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058441

Of course, soap and water should outperform TP, and maybe we should all be using soap.
Making a native app is more complicated than making a webapp, especially if you want something cross platform. Browsers are now an universal virtual machine, what was the JVM years ago, and with webassembly we will se more and more things done in the browser.

The real 'write once, run everywhere' are webapps, a webapp doesn't care if you are using Apple, Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever, if you have a compatible browser you use the app.

Sure there is Electron (or React Native), to me it doesn't make sense, what is the point that every application needs to ship basically a browser? And still Electron apps need to be compiled and packaged for every platform, while with webapps you enter the URL in the browser and you are done with it.

Doesn't adding APIs to browsers not only to use the local storage but also to access the filesystem of your device (of course asking the permission to the user) make more sense?

Of course what really Apple fears is loosing the control of the apps that gets used on their device, now they control the App Store that is the only way to get apps on their devices (beside jailbreak), with webapps is different, since you can access them directly from the browser.

And the thing that is absurd is that the first iPhone didn't have the App Store since Apple decided that the only way to get third party apps was trough the browser, now they are aiming for the opposite thing.
Yes this isn't like using the "N in the wood pile" quote which is obviously offensive
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Known supply-chain vulnerability hasn't transformed the US defense industry. Search "report on us defense supply chain vulnerability"
Interesting, I did not know that. Thanks for clarifying!
Ok, could be. I hope not for them, but let's see how it goes down.
Google is bad, and facebook is worst.
Does not really look like a drop-in replacement for cc yet.
The zip-install-prefix path is not relative and unknown. It is not taken from the downloaded path. The linker and autotools integration does not work yet. But it almost works.
e.g. --disable-shared CC="zig cc --target=x86_64-linux-musl" LD=lld
I definitely wish there was someone out there publishing like SPEC[1] test differences across various laptops -- would make for much more meaningful comparison than Geekbench scores, but that's the real advantage of Geekbench right now is that it's pretty easy to find samples across nearly every line of computer.

For what it's worth, the CPUs in those 12-inch Macbooks were pretty terrible. The base models were equipped with the M-series 4.5W chips. They had options for a couple of 7.5W chips, but even they didn't hold up in performance due to the lack of forced cooling on the 12-inch. I think 2017 is the last year they made them, and even its Geekbench score shows how underpowered it was: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/423

I'm still definitely looking forward to seeing how the cooling solution holds up on the 2020 Air.

[1] - https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/
But I don’t think people have been hammered with the view that flu can only kill older people. Whereas they have been for covid-19.
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Everything has CLI tool, es.exe, that you can use in shell.

But yeah, there is nothing better then Everything, on any OS.
There's also this NYTimes article (paywalled, unfortunately) discussing Galison's research for "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Map."

> Einstein's relativity has long been regarded by scholars as a monument to the power of abstract thought. But if Dr. Peter Galison, 48 -- a Harvard professor of the history of science and of physics, a pilot, art lover and nascent filmmaker -- is right, physics and Einstein have flourished more in their connections to the world than in any ivory tower aloofness. And one clue to the origin of relativity can be found in something as mundane and practical as a 19th-century train schedule.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/science-historian...
What if you don't have connectivity when localstorage is deleted and can't log in?

Eg: in a classroom.
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I'd argue that this is a single datapoint out of nearly 20k deaths. Are the odds of dying young with zero pre-existing conditions on the order of 1:20k, or exactly zero? Is death from covid rare or impossible?
Thanks for sharing these sites btw.
I don't even like VB, but this is a great read. Very informative. The author clearly points out that the deficiencies of the organization that sign the death warrant of VB.NET, regardless of the intrinsic value of that language/compiler/environment.
One in fifty thousand is still damn good odds.

I'm sure there will be more such cases. As other folks here are pointing out, sometimes that's just how it goes, even for somebody who "should" be in no danger. Sometimes 20-year-olds die of the flu.

But you still don't help yourself by getting into a tailspin over it. If you're sick, that just depletes your energy and makes it harder to take care of yourself so you can get better. If you're not, the same stress weakens your immune system and makes it harder to stay well.
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One of my guiding principles in UX is pretty much this. Be explicit about describing the thing that you are talking about. Then make it even more explicit.
It seems like the Storage Standard [1] could be combined with the writeable-files proposal [2] to permit the same sort of behavior for local files-on-disk webapps as mobile apps receive, where they can download large asset files and store them on disk in a persistent cache:

https://storage.spec.whatwg.org

https://wicg.github.io/native-file-system/
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Given recent flagships from these manufacturers are priced around $1k, I wonder how this can be reconciled with Xiaomi releasing a phone with this chip for <$500: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/xiaomis-redmi-k30-pr...

Are they looking to make more affordable flagships or are they upset their margins are being hurt?
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Read the article, it's not only about offline PWAs. All local storage is deleted after 7 days.
As a parent of a young man. I understand why your parents have these fears. They know what they are doing, but they don´t know what you are doing other than what you tell them. Even if they trust you, this is a deeper fear. You could start lecturing your parents about how dangerous this is, so they are convinced that you are taking it seriously.
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According to the article, China has instituted "one of the greatest infectious-disease containment efforts the world has ever seen":

By contrast, three weeks after the first known case of the disease now known as COVID-19, China had notified the WHO of a spike in cases of a pneumonia-like disease. Two weeks after that, the coronavirus had been isolated, genetically sequenced, and a diagnostic test developed, giving China the tools it needed to launch one of the greatest infectious-disease containment efforts the world has ever seen.

If "one of the greatest infectious-disease containment efforts the world has ever seen" has not resulted in contaiment and the virus has continued spreading, as your comment suggests, we will soon find out -and in a very unpleasant manner.

Or, to not put too fine a point on it: in that case we're in deep shit.
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That's absolutely what should happen actually (rent decrease coupled with price falls). There's no way that real estate prices can stay stable given the current environment.

Prices should be going downward fast across the board, due to the drying up of overall chances to transact for most people. Without those opportunities to engage in business, what little business we can keep going should be kept going.

I think the solution is somewhere in the realm of "pay what you can, and everyone keep adjusting prices down to keep as many people doing the necessary work that we can keep taking place."

Trying to act like the securities depending on on pre-covid conditions mean anything now is like clutching a Reichsmark or Confederate dollar and expecting a satisfactory exchange with a vending machine. The apparatus simply won't support it. The social structure that backed that store of value isn't there.

I think when we look back on this, this pandemic may be quite literally the transition point in Market philosophy moving forward. I'm not sure what it'll look like, but I know if I had a choice in what to hand down to those coming after me, it would be a reset in which those that come after me can have a chance to build up what my parents and grandparents had the chance to.

Maybe I'm just resigned to being the Lost Generation v.2; but the Gilded Age nonsense we've been cruising with up until now needs to stop; both in a normative moral sense, and in a pragmatic, people need to not be sacrificed so the inequality created by current market structures can be perpetuated.

Tear down/stop the pumps trickling wealth up, dump value back in the bottom, let people sit on what productive assets they are physically using, and let people adapt to this new physical threat. We'll figure out the rest in time.

Frankly, the people worrying about a transition to a command economy should realize we were already in one. It was just one where the top 1% were accountable to no one, and growth numbers were what was being optimized for even if there wasn't any net benefit to society at large. See the increasing frequency of corporate malfeasance (Boeing, opioid epidemic, Telcos, PG&E etc) if you really don't believe that everything was reaching the point of too big to fail. We just needed something like this pandemic to happen in order for everyone's physical survival to decouple from the economy's idea of survival to ram the point home.

Around each and every person is the corpse of an industrialized society. We need to figure out what the hell to do with it to maintain carrying capacity. Then we need to just do it.

Ugly times these. Ugly times indeed.
All this seems to me a series of very strong arguments for doing the crypto in your application.
I'm actually surprised that no country seem to have had any protocol in place for this kind of tragedy. It seem all is very disorgonized and not really thought through. You'd think with all budgets around the world put in the military and R&D, some kind of protocol should be in place to reduce impact. Things like:

- Build hospitals in x Days by Army

- Identify key equipment in case of Bio tragedy and either stock them or have them produced locally by at least two different companies in different location but same country

- Supply chain impact

- Distribution of aid, either medical or even monetary. Even with all advanced tech we have, we still can't figure out how to get things from A to B, when B really needs it.

The above would not need only to be put on paper, but also tested, evaluated and continously reviewd.

I'm also very surprised that a lot of companies I deal with do not have a Business Continuity Process that would deal with the above. A lot of customers want their staff to work from home now but are struggling with the HOW. Should the users use their own devices (BYOD) and connect to the VPN? what's the impact on security?. Should the company provide laptops?, if yes how fast can we buy them, configure them and send them out.

There are some companies who were prepared, because they took this seriously, they tested this frequently and were expecting a similar event.
I did this on Arch as well.
encrypted data at rest allows you to do an instant erase of the device.
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This is a great point with a simple explanation: How good Safari was on iPad was irrelevant before mouse support. Before mouse support, we had apps made with UIKit, which is a touch-first app framework, competing with web apps, which are keyboard-and-mouse first. So UIKit apps won, because UIKit apps are better for touch. With mouse support, that situation becomes exactly inverted: In UIKit apps, the keyboard and mouse are secondary, so web apps have the advantage in being keyboard-and-mouse first.

So now that web apps have the advantage, at least when a keyboard and mouse are attached to the iPad, Apple is going to be seeking to tip the scales back in native apps favor.
If so it would be because users chose it and it would also help keep Firefox in the game which important to the long term health of the web.
Let's go one step further:

(let ((p (read-from-network))) (lambda () (eval p))

ie. basically, the server program is an interpreter that loads the actual program when it's booted.

From this, you can see that the whole discussion comes from cheating. The actual source code, is not only the source of the interpreter, but the source the administrator will load into the interpreter when he boots the server. This source should also be "contaminated" by the AGPL.
One may also consider that already the GPL has the provision that you should provide all the files required to build the program (makefiles, configurations, etc). But this could also cover the sources of the interpreters or compilers and tools needed to build the software, if the sources of the software depends on some specific features from the tools. Ie. basically, any software that cannot be built from a simple command (but requires days of work to install "dependencies", "compilers" and "tools"), doesn't fulfill the GPL (or the AGPL)! Software should be packaged with their gcc version (with C now evolving at such a fast pace!)
And don't give us the sources of gcc for the sources of your software, don't cheat!
He's hanging a lot on the taxicab story, but it turns out that he had done some investigation of that class of numbers some years before, and had written down 1729 in one of his notebooks in that context. It's just as plausible that he just remembered it.
> this is the first time we know of that anyone young and healthy has died of the disease

It may be the first one that’s been in the news here, but what about in China? I’m wondering if there have been any cases there, that haven't been officially reported in the news.

The whistleblower doctor who died was only 34. I don't know if he had any prexisting conditions. https://nypost.com/2020/02/09/coronavirus-doctor-li-wenliang...
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This is a sign of good things to come, in my opinion.

I am not an old man by far, but I remember when even considering attacking the paradigm of solar system evolution (a long period of an accretion disk slowly coalescing into planets and other bodies) an act of heresy, even when their evidence didn't quite make sense (semi-ironically, for the reason this paper is about).
Cookies can be used for storage for up to a year, but it’s commonly accepted that browsers vary in implementation of this based on user settings. So why wouldn’t user settings exist for other kinds of permanent or session storage? Google Chrome is so dominant in both browser-making and standards-making that we’ve forgotten the browser — and user — is always king when it comes to the web. If users want permanent storage they will use alternative browsers for those particular sites. And while site authors can block Safari with a prompt, it’s then up to users to change browsers. Presumably for developers these will have knobs to tweak so local storage can continue working in alternative browsers on iOS the way it always has. Presumably Safari will eventually get a config toggle for this setting if it isn’t already there. Users already don’t notice when browser history is cleared, though advanced users will configure this by following instructions on Google. Same here.
It is relevant information when the previous narrative was that 0 young people had died of COVID, and that the “only” old people who had died had co-morbidity factors.

BTW, this isn’t “anecdotal evidence”. This is an actual, verifiable data point.
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If anecdotes like these succeed in making people take the problem seriously, was it still irrelevant information?
It seems the Spanish flu first targeted old people, and almost disappeared during summer, before returning during fall and targeting young people. I hope it won't be like that this time.
This is the part that annoys me. Most people would agree that this particular virus presents a threat that should be addressed in a way that bypassed day to day considerations.

But that is not the case. In US, the president openly says if it hurts economy too bad, we might as well roll the dice and see what happens. Very annoying given that the advice is likely coming from people who can cloister themselves if needed.

Why does everything has to be calculated in terms of the dollar? Hell, a month ago poster here was advocating killong off bat a species to save 2T in imaginary assets.

It feels like I am going on a rant here, so I apologize. The past few days have been bananas.
"Issues" might be a understatement. As the font-loading tool only supports windows and macOS, it's straight up impossible to have custom fonts in a official manner.

Seems to be some 3rd party solutions for this though, but since local font-exposing tools/servers are frequently used in vulnerabilities (Adobe's font loading tool that now comes built-in in Windows [and possibly macOS?] is one example, was recently exploited), it's a bit scary to run them.
Your example is (from the looks of it) using V4L2 as a source, the linked bounty wants to use V4L2 as a sink.
What we really need is a way for users to store their own data that has the simplicity of local storage but the convenience of storing data in the cloud.

It does seem that Apple intends to cripple web technologies in order to move developers to their native platform but this will likely do more damage to privacy than anything. All of the alternatives to local storage for simple mobile apps typically involve moving data to a third parties like Firebase, AWS, etc.

Simple apps that didn't need a server and could just keep data or user-preferences locally would now need to either create their own data service or pay for a BaaS which means moving your data out of your control.

This behavior leads to companies like Under Armour to house data they shouldn't have and puts everyone (150M people) at risk.[0]

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/under-armour-myfitnesspal-hack-p...
Sadly not, I was a question-answer format in a small group at the Paris Digital Lean Summit. It wasn't filmed
And the new title no longer has any relationship to the title of the post. And no admin (from what I can see) even bothered to let us know why he censored this.

edit: 17 minutes after posting this comment critical of moderation, I am unable to submit a new story. Coincidence?
THIS! I hate that Figma cannot support adding external webfonts when it is a webapp. This is the nr. 1 and only reason why I do not give them my money.
We have a sort of famous person in the Netherlands of 39y/o, he vlogged from his bed on a breather about his past 8 days of almost dying. That did a lot for awareness in my country I feel.
> Our company has started shaming iOS

Why isn't our product taking off?!
Wasn't the title 10K Bounty ... before?
Yes, the former. You can’t just put SSDs through a degausser!
It seems like you want a reference-counted pointer: you get shared ownership, and the object is deleted when the last reference to the pointer is deleted.

Similar to C++'s std::shared_ptr
There was a 18-year-old died in L.A. appeared to be youngest death due to COVID-19 in the U.S. so far.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/los-angeles-health-officials...
But that mindset is exactly why we're in a post-truth era. If a news outlet's primary goal is convincing people to do the right thing rather than accurately communicating information, why should we trust that the information they communicate is accurate?
Why can't he add malicious code then? It's his code, right?

Who decides who can, and cannot advertise? There are many ways to solicit donations - the problem here is he chose to go against convention and put those ads in a common space. Does every other contributor of JS packages not have this right to advertise?

Perhaps NPM requires specific rules against advertisement, but the moral aspect wrt is "this is why we can't have nice things", or in this case, why we need explicit rules.
Aren't they profiting from the copyrighted works of others without express permission?
Dear lord, I hope you don't have any UX design responsibilies.

> Apple didn't kill offline web apps.

Yes, they did. For an app to work offline, you need to be able to at least cache the app itself. If that gets wiped after seven days, you can't call your app "offline capable".

> If anything died here, it is the implicit consent by the user for allowing unnoticed storage space consumption.

What about the "implicit consent" that bandwidth is being consumed?

> You can always add an interaction to your app which exports the stored data into a file which then can be saved by the user.

That would be awful. Imagine being prompted to import your data every time you launch it.

Maybe that sort of works with document-centric apps that have no persistent settings, but even then it wouldn't be possible to integrate properly into the file system in the way users would expect (file assocations).

> HTML5 games -> Prompt user with a dialog to download saves/assets after they play the game for a while.

More like constantly reminding the user that their valuable progress gets wiped after seven days, should they make the poor choice to run the app offline.

> Productivity apps -> Detect "ctrl/cmd + s" to prompt a save dialog. Add save buttons somewhere visible.

Same as above, except the data might be even more valuable.

> Apps/sites which use local storage for auth related artifacts -> Notify users if they click "Remember Me" and explain them the caveats.

"I'm sorry, we made a decision to write an app with technology that, in hindsight, we shouldn't have used. Therefore, your user experience will now be more annoying. Thanks for sticking with us while we're rewriting the app!"