skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking cynically, it could be a power-move by Google to strengthen their hold on the ecosystem.

Right now when they go out and make their own API changes without consensus (which already happens), it's possible to distinguish the "for Chrome" case and still support the standard. But if there were no User-Agent, and Google wanted to strongarm the whole group into something, and 90% of browsers are Chromium-based, devs will likely just support the Chromium version and everyone else will have no choice but to fall in line.
Just wanted to say it's awesome that you have an office in the Upper Peninsula. I'm excited to see tech up there, and it's such a great place to be. Thanks!
We are not prepared for anything right now, though. We have literally closed the government agency focused on things like Ebola or COVID-19, and we lack even the stockpiles of general supplies we had in 2009.

To have prepared for the wrong thing would be unfortunate. To be prepared for nothing should be criminal.
Think about chess players: 95% of the time Magnus Carlsen immediately spots the right move to play (by his own numbers). The work is then backing it up by analysis or search.

If we didn't have a "hunch" in mathematics guiding us towards proofs or interesting results, we would be doing a completely random walk, or be brute forcing the search space, which would never lead anywhere interesting.

Sure, this hunch may be stronger with some people than others, but it mostly just comes from experience.
I realize that your question is rhetorical, but I'm not sure the facts supports your point. Democrats controlled both the House and Senate from 2009-2011 and controlled the Senate all the way up through 2015. All the while controlling the Presidency as well.
so call me a jerk... i failing to see why would i use this instead of something like bootstrap or tailwinds. where exactly does this "fit". is this something i use in adjacent to other css framework or on it's own. i'm very confused.
That is not really a thing anymore, most processors now have burned-in ROM from the vendor that they boot into first.

If you really want to understand and control a processor when it boots from nothing, you should look into a FPGA RISC-V development board.
Unfortunately, the EU adopted law which will force all social media to do something like what YouTube does.
Only somewhat related, but I recently found out that the dev who created Finite State Machine Designer [1] (which I used extensively in my undergrad) is Evan Wallace, the CTO of Figma.

[1] http://madebyevan.com/fsm/
I think I read that statistic differently - that of the critical cases, 10-14% were between 20 to 40.

Not a per-capita number. Not a percentage of young people - a percentage of sick people. Folks in that wide age bracket are around 30% of the US total population. The old - 15%?
Title might be:

Coronavirus Crisis Shows Marijuana Is ‘Essential’ and Pays High Taxes
If you want to serve two totally different pages, you use two totally different URLs, and don't try to second-guess what the user asked for.
The weird thing about this is that the only company I've seen doing problematic user-agent handling in recent years is Google themselves. They have released several products as Chrome-only, which then turned out to work fine in every other browser if they just pretended to be Chrome through the user agent. Same with their search pages, which on mobile were very bad in every non-Chrome browser purely based on user agent sniffing.
> Distancing arguably should create evolutionary pressure towards a weaker, asymptomatic, more contagious virus

This doesn't make sense to me. Distancing reduces number of cases and chances to spread infections, reducing chances for successful mutations.

It seems that instead of having multiple strains you will end up with most resilient strain in the end. But that's probably better as you have to fight a single strain then.
Only if the photo itself was in colour and broadcast in colour.
It's the other way around I was thinking of - a still shot (in black and white) of a PAL or NTSC signal would still contain enough information to decode the colour now, in retrospect.

For instance, a high resolution (still) film photo of a large high resolution TV from back in the day.
Can't comment on all vendors, but OnePlus at least are reasonably decent. My (two-three generations behind) OnePlus 6T got the February 2020 patches about two weeks ago if that's indication, and has been on Android 10 for a few months maybe?
Patches lapsed a bit while they were concentrating on Android 10 though iirc.
App Store guidelines ban services that rely on streaming from the cloud
Don't worry, your parents will live forever. Trudeu will take care of that. Don't mind the life they/we gonna live. More is better, right? Imagine if the government could put us in some little cages, feed us and keep us away from any harm we or others could inflict upon us. Everything would be safe and we would enjoy a long life! Our purpose in life is to live as long as we can. No brainer!
> but a person's face image doesn't belong to that person

Copyright applies there too, and if you sued them for it, it's not inconceivable you might win.
This is getting back to OP's point too, if the US government had actually prepared for this, there would be a stock of these types of items in a government DR warehouse somewhere not available to the public, but ready to be shipped around the USA when needed.
> This has been my conviction for the past 10 years, and I'm glad I never had to touch llvm with a ten foot pole.

Out of curiosity: what do you touch with a ten foot pole? I'd be hard-pressed to call GCC or MSVC much better in that regard, and I can think of very few others that are in use anymore.

I mean, I've definitely dreamt about using SBCL or Clozure for things other than Lisp (seeing as they both include their own compilers not dependent on GCC/LLVM), but I've seen effectively zero effort in that direction.
'Bi-partisan' just means that both groups came to a compromise to get some of the things they want. You then have to look into how the bills and rules evolved to figure out how it came to be. My guess (non-researched) is that the party that has cutting government budgets as a priority was the one injecting a lessening of resources into the process.
No, 1984 is a whole list of dysfunction. If you're saying that "if this happens then the book will happen", that's foolish and alarmist. This isn't going to lead directly to the two minute hate. I get that it possibly puts us on that path, but saying "if you invent fire you're going to end up at Fahrenheit 451" seems dishonest.
>The GOP have convinced scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people that all the government does is waste their hard earned money paying benefits to poor, non-working, non-white, non-Christian, non-citizen, LGBTQ's.

It pains me to see something like this in a highly up-voted comment. The point about businesses never preparing for disaster is a good one, and one does not need to claim a party has scummy voters to make it. Adding such flamebait does not strengthen the point being made.
Is there a tool that downloads every website I visit locally and then, upon revisit, shows me my local copy for instant load, but does a diff in the background with the online version and asks me to show newer version only if there are differences?
You can change the expiration date of an expired key.
Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.
So this is surprising

Not really. Especially if you've been there. Singapore is considered one of the more nimble governments of the world. But it's easy to be so when you have a small population in a small area.
This was super fun! Only after quite a while I have noticed how much time I had spent playing with it, great job! If I may suggest something, a visual like in https://css-tricks.com/old-timey-terminal-styling/ would make it look even more retro-hax0r!
Unsupervised Static Asset Server Converts Probably Simple HTTP Requests to 404 Errors.
Given that a cellphone is necessary for many people to conduct their daily lives/business now[0] and that necessity is increasing over time, your argument quickly boils down to "no one is forcing you to take part in society". Sure, it may true, but what a terrible standard to set or defend.

[0] e.g. If I didn't carry a cell phone, I would be fired because I am expected to be reachable while away from the office. This is not a unique situation.
Covid-Net: CNN to Detect Covid-19 in Chest Radiography Images
any way to save my progress?
I feel like you're kind of missing my point.

I don't want to downplay the severity of the problem we're having, but this isn't a "corpses in the street" plague, and the core of the economy will not falter (unless we really fuck it up, but we're already starting to get a clue.)

The nightmare scenario here is rampant spread, followed by massive spike in demand for medical services just as the people providing them succumb to the virus themselves, followed by the various unpleasant consequences of that (like thousands of people laying in hospital parking lots in tents with improvised ventilators, dying from slow asphyxiation as their lungs rot inside them.)

Now, my sister might well lose her job at any moment, and then she won't be able to pay her rent, and then her landlord... is a massive holding company or something based out of NY or S. Korea or something, and honestly who cares what happens to that entity this summer? No sheriff is going to evict my sister and our 80-year-old mother onto the street in the middle of a Goddamned pandemic, eh? The employees of the holding company that owns the subdivision she lives in are in the same boat. As for the owners, well, that's "paperwork": let's keep records and, when the fire is out, we'll sort it all out one way or another.

And what do you want Gates to do? Sit in his backyard and rub ashes in his face? Didn't he just pitch in $100,000,000 to help?
This company does very intriguing work, with some inspiration from numenta, as far as I know. The low resource usage (running on CPU, on a raspi!) is quite impressive. I wish there was more research on this approach.
Works for me on Ubuntu 18.04.
Ask HN: Why 21 Days?
India has gone into 21 days lockdown. Just curious, why 21 days?
> Let's not forget Singapore is pretty autocratic.

This may have been true in the 90s when Singapore was transforming it's economy but it's not true now and hasn't been the case in over a decade. It's a country with a large service economy, well educated workforce, and burgeoning middle class. It's also very tiny with a strong national identity. If the government says they are going to do something, unlike the US, the public trusts they are going to do it.
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A Facebook profile that you have to register, and is only accessible post-login, is not "public" by any reasonable definition.
Does it gain the ability to use certbot.exe at some point? :D
$8.32M of MakerDAO Collateral Gets Liquidated for $0
Thankfully, in the US the recommended distance is only 6 feet (1.8m) :)
Life after school closures: students speak out
Video here: https://youtu.be/5rPJyrU-WE4

Can anyone explain why people would use text to speech for something like this, when they have perfectly good voices themselves?
I only half agree with you. I think the real problem is the board votes for people who are not in attendance. How many of you have been to a stock holders meeting? Nor have I. Nor do I want to. I think rules need to be put into place:

1) where if stock holders do not send in proxies, there shares are not counted.

2) if you are on a board for a company. The other members and CEO cannot be involved in any other company that you are a CEO or board member of. I feel it has become too much of a 'I will give you a raise, if you give me a raise'

3) proxies to member cannot have open ended 'and other issues as they occur' clauses. Typical proxy lists a bunch of things, but mostly 're elect xyzzy', with a clause at the end allowing the board to vote your shares as they seem fit. Like #1 above they do not need this.

Maybe they should have the shareholder meetings online so the people can vote.

You know for crazy salaries, do you ever see not public companies (privately held) paying such ridiculous salaries?
Really it's about tone:

"It would serve everyone well to start at that level."

Backhanded way of saying the guy who only learned the Javascript keywords would have been better off spending their time trying to learn to program from first principles.

Which is extremely condescending if you think about it, for you to assume you know what's best for all these people who are already being productive technologists.

If that person takes the time they used to make software that helped in the lives of 1,000,000 users, to instead learn how to improve memory access patterns in their CRUD app, who is it better for? Your ego?

It is a form of gatekeeping, even in your comment you're being extremely condescending, like those programmers aren't "real" programmers until they learn algorithms and data structures, and implying they find programming computers simple because they're not really programming.

> you'll be a better programmer in any language if you understand assembler

Better by what measure? You can write code that takes one order of magnitude more for every single task it completes and still help more people and enable more productivity than the guy who dedicates his existence to hand unrolling loops and implementing obscure data structures hand picked from the Library of Alexandria for their perfect match to the current use case.

And this is all coming from a guy who taught himself programming starting with calculators in middle school by the way (TI-Basic => C via SDCC => Assembler on calculators and MCUs before I ever even touched programming for a desktop).

And since those days I've always found programming incredibly simple and intuitive. The computer does what you tell it to do, and that's that. How many professions in the world are there where your tool is nearly infallible in its ability to correctly execute your thoughts exactly as they're transcribed?

Can you be more productive by learning some deeper levels of knowledge? Sure.

But I don't advise anyone listen to someone who makes blanket statements about how all developers would benefit from "hand-assembling on pre-printed carbon sheets", or anyone who tries to defend that.

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Oh Jesus, I just saw your other comment:

> I still can't figure out how programming computers (the most complex task a human can undertake) managed to become singled out as the only profession in the history of humanity that is simultaneously assumed by so many to be something you need only a cursory understanding of to be proficient at.

Is this a copy pasta? No, I'm on HN it's someone's genuine thoughts.

the most complex task a human can undertake

Yikes.
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> As apparently people were still infectious after they felt better and left their house, causing healthy people to become even sicker than expected with the increased viral load from both pre-symptom and still recovering patients.

That is not how I interpreted it. If you are out of the house, you are more likely to get a smaller dose of the infection (such as from a handrail or something), and therefore your immune system is going to have a head start on fighting it.

If everyone is home on the other hand, and one person in the house gets sick, then everyone else in the house is more likely to get a higher dose of the infection due to the repeated proximity to others in the house. And therefore the infection is gaining a foothold and head start against the immune system.
Snowden warns new surveillance measures will outlast the coronavirus
This feature already exists in OS X (since 10.7, I believe?): https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-and-restore-pa...

I don't know how many third-parties implemented it though.
People Around the World Are 3D-Printing Face Shields to Battle the Coronavirus
Another Dgit deve here. You're right. Git is decentralized, but most people use centralized git remotes like GitHub. Dgit makes using a decentralized git remote easier. Eventually we'll build more decentralized alternatives to other GitHub features, but the most important value proposition that GitHub provides now is as a git remote, so that's what we started with. We've provide a GitHub action that allows you to use GitHub's other features until we build more decentralized alternatives
I'm sure Google won't build in some proprietary way for them to identify Chrome.

/s
The proposed User Agent Client Hints API would replace this:
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
https://github.com/css-pkg/style.css
Democratically enacted laws apply whether you cast a vote or not.

There is no contractual agreement that you surrender your agency when you decide to vote.
> If I didn't carry a cell phone, I would be fired because I am expected to be reachable while away from the office. This is not a unique situation.

I would argue that this is unique or at the very least, the minority of positions.

Only here to say that it's your choice to engage with an employer who makes that decision for you. In other words, find a new job.
I think it means its a new user with like under 10 posts or something
GCM requires somewhere to put the nonces and authentication tags. In principle, you could use a layer of indirection not entirely unlike a page table to store that information. For example, a 64-bit nonce, 64-bit block pointer, and 128-bit authentication tag could pack together in a radix tree for the job, retiring 7 bits of the virtual-to-physical mapping per level for 4 kB blocks.

Of course, the downside is that now the block layer must tackle all of the write ordering issues that a filesystem does when updating the tree. The block layer would find itself greenspunning up a filesystem inside itself, even if it was a filesystem of only one file.
Thats super cool, will definitely look into that thanks!
> But i think it might be cool for creating virtual meeting rooms, where you can take a webcam shot of a persons face, normalize the skin tones for lighting, map to a 3d surface, then relight it for the virtual room.

You might be interested in project HeadOn at TU München:

https://www.niessnerlab.org/projects/thies2018headon.html

Justus Thies gave a presentation at our University about a year ago. IIRC they don't use any fancy NN stuff but instead extract the face geometry using a stereo camera and use interpolation to project the movement onto a target mesh. Using stereo goggles for a VR meeting and various other applications were discussed during the presentation, but the main focus was of course on entertaining the audience with fake videos.

On a side note: This is probably the closest to a real-life Max Headroom that we have so far. Not sure if that influenced the name.
Of course you are free to speculate, but my point was that we lack evidence of Apple’s motivations that would help us to make predictions of any value. All we can do is tell a plausible story, and without evidence your story is no more likely to be true than mine.
I believe other teams do copy this, but not in driver pairings. A different F1 example are the pit crews. There's no time or space for blame if a pit stop is messed up. In the first season, Haas has pit stop issues twice in the same race. It wasn't the mechanics that were blamed, but the team principal took it upon himself to diffuse the scenario as the team's failing. This is likely similar across all the team as any doubt or the hesitation for the mechanics would only risk additional mistakes.

Drivers will always be pitted against their teammate though. F1 is technically a team sport, but the real judgement for the drivers is how well they compare against their teammate. Each driver wants to win, that's why they compete.
No for loops with a constant count is also a very strange choice

for (([100]void)(undefined)) |_, verb| {

And I've been bitten multiple times with line endings having to be \n only.
If you really want to be pedantic then the data is processed and stored in flip flops and stored as charge in semi conductor dielectrics.

But don't take this so seriously, I work in semiconductor manufacturing and even I don't take it that seriously.
Google is probably so big that we might as well consider Chrome and rest of the Google as separate entities.
No, no save unfortunately sorry
> I am expected to be reachable while away from the office

Are you though? Do people not have the right to set boundaries anymore?
We all need some laughs right now. Been channeling some extra time towards this, hopefully you chuckle and feel a little better, even for a moment. think "the onion for tech stuff"
They missed a real opportunity to name it "Locutus".
Disrupting Deepfakes: Adversarial Attacks on Image Translation Networks (Code)
tldr: "Google and LG are opting for the Snapdragon 765G, but not because it’s just saving them money. It’s Qualcomm’s first SoC to sport an embedded 5G modem saving manufacturers a ton of design hassles"

Good news to pick a lower power chip as Google has been putting wimpy batteries into their phones.
"We store a copy of the uploaded image ..."

Is this really happening with a "deep network in the browser"? It looks like it is happening on a server, then the 3D result is viewed in a browser.
>That's really the only mistake that seems likely to matter that anyone might have conceivably not made.

How about reacting 6-8 weeks earlier, rather than wasting so many weeks of warnings in denial mode, calling it a hoax by rival politicians, downplaying and lying the whole time?

>Global supply chains are a fact of life.

And that clearly needs to be rethought because the dependencies introduced can cause a global economic meltdown. As evidence I introduce: the current situation.

>Strategic stockpiles are spotty.

Doesn't matter since you can't run a country like you run a business. For one, when a business is trouble it throw out all free-market ideology and immediately cries for government for help. The government doesn't have that option.

The US is willing to spend $700 billion a year on the military, yet this war is being fought by doctors, nurses, hospitals, grocery stores, delivery people, and truck drivers.

Sounds to me like devoting, I don't know, 1% of the military budget for future pandemics (just lump that in under nuclear/biological/chemical threats) would be a wise move. Having $8 billion of PPE around would be extremely handy right now.
>but couldn’t because I wasn’t sure if certain people on the team would understand due to past misunderstandings among the team.

If someone doesn't understand an idiom, why can't they ask?
So this would apply to t.co links from Twitter, for instance?
How a startup is helping to secure the open source ecosystem with huntr.dev
For instance: https://www.businessinsider.com/kitty-litter-nuclear-waste-a...
Most powerful chip is hard to come by in small Android phones and often not really needed/warranted. I think you'll get poorer performance a couple years down the line (which is, I expect, the reason you're wanting the best chip) if you have to deal with Samsung touchwiz and bloatware vs. bare, unlocked Android.

The Motorola One lineup checks all my boxes right now: Stock Android with unlocked bootloader, uSD card, good displays, good battery, headphone jack, stays updated, and under $400. I'm mourning the loss of swappable batteries and small displays in the market, but it's the best option I've found.
This is insane -- Median age of 60 for diagnosed patients?

What this indicates to me is that Italy was testing only the worst patients. This whole scare to me reeks of sampling bias. We only test the worst patients for covid 19 which ups the mortality rate.

The truth is -- people who are at risk should social distance themselves rather than the general population. We want herd immunity to develop for this disease -- that means having young healthy people be exposed to it.