skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used it, but Dwarf Fortress Remote for iOS seems to accomplish this somehow; the whole UI is iOS native.

Obviously there's no official API, but the developer has somehow managed to achieve something similar.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dwarf-fortress-remote/id100366...
Related ventilator guidance: Rapidly manufactured ventilator system specification

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
They can’t be sued. They can be reported to a proper privacy authority who can chose to do something about it or not.
Hospitals will be overwhelmed much more, and there will be far more deaths if we don't "flatten the curve." In addition, workers will stay home anyway (which many are already doing), collapsing the economy regardless.

It is indeed a false dichotomy. If anything, just irresponsibly letting nature run its course will be worse. Besides, recessions have been consistently associated with decreases of death rates. There is no evidence, and plenty of counter-evidence, that recessions cause increased death. Of course, we are getting a recession either way.
This is my reading. I believe that this is correct.
node-html-to-image: Generate Images from HTML
Is that the rumor? Last I had heard, the best science is essentially a guess, but the thinking is that people will develop some kind of immunity. We know this happens with other coronaviruses, and we have found antibodies in people who have recovered from the disease. I don't really know how we can definitively and ethically say "yes, people do develop some immunity to the virus" without deliberately attempting to reinfect people. Maybe an in vitro study would add to the evidence, but in vitro studies frequently don't scale up to whole humans.
I have been using SourceHut since the alpha went public. I think the hardest thing to adjust to is patchsets being sent over email. But when you think about it that is the way git is supposed to work. It keeps version control decentralized. Drew DeVault has also created a site git-email.io I believe to help new users with the process. He has also either implemented or is implementing a good web interface to sit on top of patchsets.

It is nice knowing that your data is actually protected and private because Drew is very public about his ideals.

One of the cooler features I think is the site runs without JavaScript entirely, unless you need to pay for the first time, which uses Stripe, but even then Drew allows for alternative methods of payments including walking up to him at FOSDEM and giving him a check.

The communication of the service to its users is actually really nice. You get monthly updates regarding development, and quarterly updates which I will are similar to like state of the union addresses, where Drew will talk about the financial situation in detail, including a line item receipt of expenses like new hardware and salaries. Drew used to put his own salary down, but since Simon Ser was hired to work for SourceHut, Drew has chosen to protect Simon's salary and reports salary payouts in totality.

The performance is also a big bonus. Consistently you will find that SourceHut just outperforms GitHub and GitLab on SSH operations. Now this might have a lot to do with the amount of users who use the site, but if you watch the dev mailing list, performance is a top priority. And it is funny watching Drew complain about Python on Mastodon every once in a while.

As far as self-hosting, the documentation seems fairly straightforward. You can pick and choose the services you want, so unlike other options where its all or nothing you can cater to your needs. You can also just move to SourceHut incrementally. Some projects use lists.sr.ht but keep code elsewhere. Some use git.sr.ht, but run CI on Travis. Some use the github.com, but use builds.sr.ht. Any combination is possible.

I definitely recommend using the service. Later this year the service will be in beta, and there are some good features coming right around the corner including names.sr.ht and hub.sr.ht.

Important note that at least during the alpha you can use the entire site for free. Pricing is a pay what you want scale (for sr.ht, there are 3 options), but you get all the features.
That's Greek. (Well, the -um ending isn't, but the rest is.)

Latin for small is parvus, and Latin for watcher is visor[1], but Latin doesn't tend to form compounds the way the Greek does.

[1] Visor is literally "watcher", an agent noun formed from the verb videre "look at". Microscopium just uses an ordinary noun ending, not an agentive construction. I don't know what happens in Icelandic.
It sounds like bad code is your problem, and not Perl. Am I missing something?
Step 1) Generate a GUID

Step 2) Send a message to all the `downstream` systems (i.e. not the Source of Truth systems) with the change description and GUID

Step 3a) Update source of truth with the new info, write the GUID to a log table in source of truth in the same transaction

Step 3b,c,d) Downstream systems poll the source of truth for existence of the GUID in the log table indicating the change has been committed to source of truth. Load latest value from source of truth and commit the change to the downstream system.

Step 4) If GUID never shows up, transaction was rolled back in source of truth (or an error occurred trying to send to one of the other downstreams, aborting before transaction)- do something relevant for your use case. Alert somebody, carry on, whatever.
I use my own one because the $2 Huawei ones perform really poorly, they’re the source of a large portion of general internet performance issues for a lot of people.
> They assumed consumers make rational decisions.

Maybe they believe that low-fat sugar and simple carbs is worse for you than sugar and carbs combined with fat, due to the lower glycemic index?

(Obviously not, but the biscuit maker is guilty of jumping in on the sugar-industry nonsense dietary advice that fat is the only bad thing, and should be replaced with sugar).
Yeah, he promoted some sort of Council communism IIRC.
Bill Gates on the Imperial College model: 'Fortunately it appears the parameters used in that model were too negative. ... Models are only as good as the assumptions put into them'
https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill...
> This seems really obvious once you've seen it

I think that's true for 90% of patterns/problems in dev.
Did you see that Prince of Persia post the other day? How the original creator came up with Shadow Man? Kind of resonates with what you are getting at in being obvious.

I embarrassingly have a 8 year old top StackOverflow post asking what a fluent interface was. Keeping in mind I'd been devving for 5+ years already at that point. It was just a "ahh F* yeah, that's obvious" moment.
Continuum Hypothesis
does hn avoid normalizing leftwing propaganda? if not, why make a special effort for other propaganda sources?
No. React and React Native are totally separate from the Facebook SDK.
> The competence of private companies shouldn't enrage you, that's one of the their strengths.

When you have to compete, you have to develop competence to survive. Only those that don't have to compete (monopolies) or those that survive despite incompetence (bailouts) are the exceptions.
Just published an update to Zod that overhauls the error reporting. Now you can get the exact location in your complex/nested object where each validation error occurred. Plus all detected validation errors are reported simultaneously instead of just throwing an error at the first sign of trouble.

If you decide to switch to Zod keep me posted and don't hesitate to reach out with any feature ideas
They used to be bigger. Now they're Lean, and exist for the sake of ticking a checkbox.
I would argue that the market demanded lower cost travel rather than higher speed, so the technical development followed suit. Fuel efficiency and lower cruising speeds were simply a result of that demand.
Yelp Creates Gofundme's for Local Businesses Without Permission
Projects Built with Vue.js
British Columbia is testing for Covid-19 faster than South Korea at its peak
I disagree with this article. There is a case where you might want to pass a const reference to a shared pointer.

Suppose you have a class

class Foo {
shared_ptr<Widget> widget;
bool has_widget();
void set_widget(shared_ptr<widget> widget);
}

and you are writing a function which may call set_widget(), it can save an unnecessary shared_ptr copy if you pass it as a const reference:

void maybe_set_widget( Foo& foo, const shared_ptr<Widget>& widget) {
if(!foo.has_widget()) {
foo.set_widget(widget);
}
}

Doing a quick google search finds that Herb Sutter agrees with me (https://herbsutter.com/2013/06/05/gotw-91-solution-smart-poi...):

>Use a const shared_ptr& as a parameter only if you’re not sure whether or not you’ll take a copy and share ownership
Hey thanks for sharing your thoughts. She tried her best... it will get better, just needs some constructive feedback and some work.
Why do people use zoom at all? I know big companies that use it. A little disconcerting that even large companies don’t ask the right questions or do the due diligence and when paying for it.
I always thought the Imperial model was ridiculously fatalistic, but this turnabout, and this quickly - that really surprised me.
"..wider testing, more hand-washing stations, increased attention to sanitization, and isolation of patients is helping to reduce the transmission of the disease and, in the process, may favor the evolution of less virulent strains of the virus."
Does it really make sense to call it a "VC app" when Zoom is a public company worth more than Ford or GM?
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I play DCSS in tiles mode and DF in ASCII mode. It's not that I think graphics are a bad usability feature, I just think they're over-emphasized because they're the first thing people see.

Adding graphics to DF means more new players give it a try, but most of them are going to bounce off of the wildly inconsistent menus. It's an acquisition funnel thing; the total players will be incoming players times the percent that are okay with the graphics times the percent that are okay with the menus. My assertion is just that in DF's case the menus have room for a bigger lift, because they're really that bad.
That's just fine and dandy then, I didn't lose my job, and Bill Gates doesn't need to earn money.

Un-fucking-believable.
Evolutionary AI Battle
Faraday did a lot of "self studying of Physics". He was a book binder who didn't know any Math (had to drop out of school at 13). The reason he got into it was not because he read a Physics or Math textbook or worked out math problems, but because some one liked the way he bound books and gave him a ticket to a Humphrey Davy talk at the Royal Institution. Thats all it took to get into Physics.

Without him dreaming up his experiments and tinkering away, god knows when Maxwell's equations would have been discovered.

Why did we have to wait for a Faraday to show up to do his simple experiments? How come all the natural philosophers and mathematicians of the age, around the whole planet, had not thought to do them?

If Faraday had asked that bunch how do I self-study physics the answers wouldn't have been too different to what we see today.

Today's version of Faraday could very well be some kid hacking away at some computer game, dreaming up scenarios, exercising imagination and cooking up experiments in the same way Faraday did.
Concerning it being a simulator first and a game second, that's definitely true, but it makes me wonder if the very old 2D versions (before there was a Z-axis or fancy worldgen) was more enjoyable as a game. I didn't start playing until after those versions, but I get the impression there was a lot more consistent narrative as to what you discover while tunneling into the mountain, as opposed to so much depending on the worldgen.
Open borders are only in favour by a scant few individuals, and is in no way a standard position of the left. This idea is a lie told by right-wing propagandists.
All great ideas, especially since the GOP tries every day to make voting more difficult. At least all this will help people, unlike most of the provisions the GOP wanted to slip in (abortion nonsense, pro-corporate loans, etc)
> Is there an alternative non-optional strategy for achieving secure delete

Issue normal data writes of blocks that are filled with zeros. The same way regular data makes it to the drive just fine will also of course work for data that's all zeros.
I don't get waffle house. I took in all the hype, and when i finally made it to one was disappointed. I had the steak and eggs. The steak was pretty bad, the eggs were eggs, the coffee passable. Not a fan.
Are there any papers coming to a similar conclusion that were released prior to December 2019? Just in case there's some bias from the current moment. Not saying there's necessarily any evidence of such in this one, but it'd be interesting to compare, at least.
I was thinking maybe they used Deep-fakes to "turn podcasts into videos" haha
The market for indie apps is far better on Apple devices in general. More people are willing to pay for an ad free, nicely integrated app than on Android.
The way job boards make money is to have employers pay to post jobs on the board. PPC and Display ads pay very little.

You could charge an employer $200 to post a job. Or you could try to reach hundreds of thousands of pageviews from non-adblock devices to get the same amount in Adsense money.
We actually need more testing than that. Yes, we should be testing every suspected case, but we should also be mass testing everybody, or, at least random samples of everybody. We need to know where this virus is and is not and what the extent of asymptomatic carriers is. Information is the only weapon we currently have against this virus, and we have shockingly little.
I don't think contingency planning is actually that unusual for large companies. I did Google searches for "$groceryChain director of contingency planning" and found that many major chains have them (via LinkedIn). Also found some for hotel chains, etc.
If anyone enjoys reading about income inequality, I also recommend Joseph Stiglitz' book called "The Price of Inequality". He speaks of inequality more from an American perspective and he's one of the thought leaders I personally like to hear from.

I am a staunch Capitalist and I'd like to see another great era of America ingenuity and invention. I think the path to solve inequality comes from creating wealth and solving big global issues in energy, health and transportation.
Let's make that into a complete language:

ka := the S combinator

ku := the K combinator

Done. Now kakuku is as expressive as any other Turing-complete language.

( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus )
Ben Shapiro is the face of Conservative Inc. and pre-Trump mainstream Republicanism. (Think Mitt Romney)

He’s an open-borders centrist who loves globalism.
Now at the bottom of the article...

"Correction: The original title of this article incorrectly suggested that Neil Ferguson stated his initial model was wrong. The article has been revised to make clear that he provided a downgraded projection given the new data and current mitigation steps."
Covid-19 reveals how SaaS products respond in crisis mode
What is the sensitivity and specificity of the Coronavirus tests?
Not necessarily. If transmissibility is high, you could be seeing close to the peak.

The data out of NY that makes me most suspicious of this new model is actually the 72% negative rate on tests. I would expect that to be a lot lower. But that's just a gut feeling.
Every single thing you do is logged in their cloud. If you can accept that,nothing wrong with using SaaS EDRs.
Here it is!

http://mdfs.net/Software/BBCBasic/C64/
I have thought about purchasing ecards at my local stores, but how will I know if they will still be around long enough for me to use it?
yes - I didn't mention it explicitly in my comment - but this much unemployment, coming this fast, is unprecedented in US history.
Likely, simply curious if questioning Apple about it is enough for them to nuke the Facebook SDK from further app inclusion at the review process. Privacy is their whole marketing schtick, no? [1] If it's a core value, stand up for it.

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/ ("Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in.")
A Terrible Game Cracked the 3DS's Security [video]
This reply sounds suspiciously bigoted and was posted incredibly quickly. I do understand dog-whistles.

I need to get out of here before someone accuses me of controlling hollywood. this place went to the rats

Edit: after taking a quick look, it would seem that this user comes to HN to post bigoted arguments with little to no facts, just hate. it seems like HN is totally ok with this user continuing to spread hate.
Further he went an endorsed a candidate nowhere aligned with his supposed policies. :(
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i...
Is contingency planning the same thing as emergency preparedness?
Maybe he meant unix v7? I'm sure a lot of stuff still runs on it, somewhere...
> Also, this is a detailed simulation, so things move a lot faster if you're not spending CPU on graphics.

Pretty amusingly, DF used to spend most of its CPU on graphics. There was a graphics rewrite at some point that fixed it.
I want to see the App Store list what entities a given app might communicate with without explicit user request.

If your SDK feeds FB, it needs to be on the label. If you talk to dodgy surveillance shops, ditto. Making this enforceable (plist authorizations, like microphone permissions) is a little tricky, but at the very least smoking out slimy crap like this would be much easier.
The very title of this paper suggests a deeply flawed conclusion. A sample size of one pandemic, from 100 years ago even, is used to generalize a conclusion that "Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not". Sure, there were multiple cities with varying levels of interventions, but you can only conclude that in the 1918 economy for that specific pandemic, the health interventions were good for the economy at that point in time.

I also agree with the other commenter that it may be better to see some research prior to December 2019.
I see that as Zoom's stock price is increasing, people are writing hit pieces against it! Good job!
2020 Brings the Death of IT
> I was going to say the same thing about BBC BASIC on the C64, but I checked and GP was right.

http://mdfs.net/Software/BBCBasic/C64/
Well, we are currently running a global experiment to find out whether it is better for the economy to be negligent or have a robust public heath response during a pandemic. We'll know soon.
You can also collect data on the risk groups during the current shutdown period, provide the infrastructure for isolating the risk groups (ie. setup delivery services, organise isolated accommodation, etc.), triage appropriately in the case of spikes and then transition in to plan 2.

Considering the numbers of infected people confirmed alone and the percentage of asymptomatic cases contact tracing and testing sounds about as realistic as waiting on a cure.
I'm using Zotero with Yandex WebDav and it's pretty amazing. But there is no official iPad/mobile application. Are you planning to release a mobile application?
If you're a big company then busuiness continuity plans are required to get those magic ISO numbers that enterprise clients and insurers like to see.
Ask HN: Do you have any remote (work from home) teambuilding ideas?
An At-Home Coronavirus Test May Be on the Way in the U.S.
Covid-19 infection (and social distancing) simulator in HTML5 and JavaScript
They claim half the population is already infected. So conduct a random sample, test 50 people and you would expect 25ish MTO be positive, with most showing no symptoms. If so, then herd immunity is indeed a thing.

I have my doubts that the numbers would support this claim. And if so, then virtually everyone in Spain or Italy would already be a carrier.

The fact that cases were linked to known arrivals also is evidence against this hypothesis : if a high proportion of carriers were unwitting and asymptomatic you would expect many of those diagnosed to not have a link to someone previously diagnosed.
Covid-19 Will Kill a Ton of Startups (Or So It Will Seem)
Even their HQ is in an area that regularly floods. Disasters are a somewhat regular event for them.
I want to agree with you, but I do have a concern about this point of view that I've yet to see addressed. Perhaps you or someone else can give some insight into your thinking.

What about the deaths caused by the wrecked economy?

Even putting things in simplistic terms, the 2008 crash is credited with 10,000 suicides. Following the chain of misery into homelessness, stress-induced illnesses, criminality (which leads to loss of life in multiple categories), and so forth leads me to question whether it is actually as black and white as people say it is.

Currently, we're on track to make this economic catastrophe bigger than the 2008 crash. I don't want to imagine what the fallout is going to look like in the future, but I already know a lot of people who are out of work and scared.

Mind you, I'm saying this as someone who has family in the 70+ high-risk category. I'm not oblivious to the value of human life. I am purely speculating about whether or not we're actually doing the right thing, and thinking about the consequences as thoroughly as we should.
Because AWS is going to have to answer to pissed off Enterprise customers if there was ever a story to come out that they're handling customer data inappropriately.
Krugman agrees with you. What's a better measure?
HEB is routinely one of the first on site with stockpiles of water and essentials ready to go during disasters.

I'm so happy they have my back.
> Wartime economic mobilization potential.

Without an intention to slight you, I'm asking "Does America has much to mobilise?"

US is no longer the same America of thirties. America of thirties, even despite of the great depression, was still a country of great industrialists, brave frontiermen, and a lot of hungry people.

Despite all the s__t the country went through in thirties, it was still on the upward trend, and leading the world in the industry. Now look what a country USA is now. It's not an America of Carnegies, and Fords.

I was once entrusted to setup a mini side business in my last workplace in Canada — a scooter assembly workshop. We tried to open the assembly plant in parallel in British Columbia, and Washington state. Neither plants went anywhere.

I wrote about what problems we faced a few times on HN.

I was unable to hire plain assembly line workers who can wire a harness with 4 connectors, colour coded, and supplied with mechanical keys on them. This is something I can hire highschoolers for in China.

Finding assembly line engineers was an even bigger problem. The only guy who qualified was a Chinese engineer who moved to the US. He very much realised what situation we are in, and demanded $80k+

I spent the remaining time in that business manning an SMT line myself.