skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasons I can think of: depends whether you assume TLS is not going to be broken again and whether the TLS termination happens before the component you want to process the data, to do any sort of check, e.g., web application firewall. With the goal of reducing insider threat and reducing exposure of sensitive data to components that don't need to know such data. However usually it's a bad idea to solely rely on javascript crypto: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
Browser Retro Pixel MMORPG called RPG MO - https://mo.ee
I couldn't read the article, but of course the usefulness of this test also depends on the time of onset of the symptoms wrt the disease.
NetHack also has this, but most of the ghost's inventory will be cursed. :-)
This sounds fantastic and is something I've broadly thought about for a little while. A little while back someone else linked a concept of what they had done with the idea -- initially a paragraph was visible, and some of the words had a coloured box around them which could be clicked to expand on that term, all the while maintaining a flowing prose. So, I think a slightly different goal to what you describe (it was technical writing I think?), but similar enough. Unfortunately I didn't save it and have previously (frustratingly) spent at least an hour looking for it to no avail, so I'm curious to see what you come up with!
Are you aware that even with the measures you're arguing are unnecessary in place, our hospitals are fast approaching capacity and we're having PPE shortages?

It'd only be worse.
So far the places that have held up well (Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea) have a culture that favors masks.

In Hubei, you would be arrested if you were out without one (this may have lapsed now).

There may be other cultural/demographic/political aspects, but this seems key. Japan, in many ways, handled the crisis poorly. And yet they're still doing ok.
Mostly working on the same thing I’ve been working on: a YA SF comic. “Parallax” is about culture clash, adults acting in the cold interests of what they think is the greater good, growing into adults facing those same kinds of hard decisions, and lots of cute cartoon animals. I draw it, my SO writes it.

It’s free online at http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/, if you have piles of money from your software job and you like what we’re doing then there’s a Patreon.
Citation? Everything I've read contradicts that: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmissi...
> In this case it's even more juicy because its gay women.

I think in this kind of story, where the accused are women, they're pretty much always going to be gay women.

Not for reasons of any particular animus, but because that means the putative victims are female, which people will take a lot more seriously.
I made a twitter bot a while ago that tweets about free games! https://twitter.com/fgiafg

While that's cool and all. I didn't really like how it turned out so I started rewriting it. Right now I have an api, separate scrapers, and a discord bot. It all works independently so if one of them dies the rest keeps chugging along.

Now it's time to rewrite the twitter bot and I'm all good :-).
Step into a time machine: welcome to Amsterdam in 1922, in color and HD
A key thing most developers wanting the become entrepreneurs miss (I certainly did) is that more often then not coding something is the slowest and/or most expensive way to solve someone’s problem. Many, many business ideas could probably just be a Wordpress site with a small plugin which you can farm off to Upwork for a pittance that doesn’t make for a very good “Show HN”.
I'm studying reactor-netty[1], micronaut[2] and armeria[3] - to learn how to write production-grade servers with Netty from the pros. I have a couple of protocol ideas I know will be useful for some use-cases.

Also working on adding Java 14 support to zerocell[4] for mapping Excel rows to Java Records, efficiently!

[1]: https://github.com/reactor/reactor-netty

[2]: https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core

[3]: https://github.com/line/armeria

[4]: https://github.com/creditdatamw/zerocell
Show HN: Explore Quake/GoldSrc maps in the browser
Against Dog Ownership
Not just venom, they are begging for destruction.

People seem to forget the very meaning of a state. Spoiler: it is about power, and physical power.
I'm developing a low power wi-fi edge node that does low power beam forming and speech verification. really pushing the limits of this Cortex M4. Did i mention low power? Trying to get 10hrs of battery life on a few 2032s is not easy with 802.11b.
All I've done these past few weeks is build cloud-based call centers on Amazon Connect for customers who need to move their workforce to WFH due to COVID. It's been pretty surreal.
I am building a platform to enable anyone choose a real star in the universe and have it named it after them forever, it all started when I dreamt of having a ceremony to name a star after me, I got a big bang out of that dream and promised myself to have the coolest star named after me and have it stick forever. My intention is to somehow make it into kind of a galactic social network where you can explore stars and their owners and socialize. I have now data of about 500 million stars (sourced from ESA's GAIA space data) to start with, and more will be added later, I am hoping to be less busy in order to finish and launch it.
But at some point isn’t it helpful to know that some things are as difficult as you fear, and you just have to power through? I picked up vim early in my programming career and I think it was one of the best decisions I’ve made; I use it every day. Yeah, there’s a time and place for learning “easier” things, but there’s also a time to buckle down, get serious, and dig in.
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A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from Covid-19
There can be some or many kinds of viruses that survive under all sorts of conditions, by that doesn't necessarily imply that a particular virus does so as well.
Sadly, I'm surprised nobody patented the idea of "using natural magnets in a fusion reactor".
I feel the resemblance to Theme Park World - thanks for reminding me of it!
My girlfriend beat my high score at this mobile app Blockoduko so I'm working on a genetic algorithm that'll 100x her score
You could suggest it as a new category for this site?
https://bestofshowhn.com/
Torches are 25$ apiece now and you can only get them at Amazon.
If you ever find it again, send it my way please! Indeed it would be very useful for complex concepts explanations. Definitely not do tabloids or anything like that — though it might... help?

It's essentially the reverse way of what writers do when they write the "tweet version" of their essay — plus all the steps in-between.

@ your last sentence: Check out the InVision link I've added to the OP!
Ask HN: What is the most user friendly videocall setup for old (age 95) people?
Because of COVID-19 measurements my grandma (95) cannot have any visitors in her nursing home since a few days. She also cannot meet her friends downstairs for coffee or play some rummikub. So she feels quite lonely. Luckily we can still call her and send her postcards, but that's just it. She never used Skype or any computer before, so we are not sure if we can teach her to use Skype on a tablet either. Anybody have experience with teaching a senior how to use Skype? And are there tablets out there that have accessibility features like bright light flashing when an incoming call comes in? And is very loud in volume? Her ears are not the best any more.

A permanent open connection is not preferred :-). Just something with a TV and a large button would be the best.

Any suggestions or experiences are welcome! Thanks
Really grateful for this resource, but the instructions are not exactly clear. Do you take the t-shirt and make it a single layer of cloth or somehow cut the shape into "1 outer layer (≈37 cm × 72 cm) rolled and cut as in panel B with 8 inner layers (<18 cm2) placed inside (against the face)." How do the inner layers stay put?
oh wow "vacuum cleaner bag" almost as good as surgical mask

I bought 60 HEPA bags a month before this disaster started.
Ah, it's so visceral, but there's people with virtual pitchforks screaming for his head on Twitter, and it's satisfying to watch...

Edit: I wonder if Ms. Viren planned for the discovery by Twitterers. I'm sure (and hope) she cleared the article with their lawyer. If that is the case (that she knew there's a way for the public to get person's name through hints in the article), that is an amazing way to get back at the accuser.
Nobody knows. That’s the point. These are some fly by night home made hobby projects not medical devices. This is why we have the defense procurement act not the “why don’t you give it your best shot at home and see what you come up with” act.
Oh no is this a permanent loss of sense of smell?
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You seem sincere, and unlike prior comments to be approaching this in good faith. Maybe you even welcome criticism as a means of improving your thought process. I don't mean to be cryptic, and certainly don't mean to be rude, I just try to conserve energy and not get caught up in non-constructive arguments.

You don't seem to be taking people's statements at face value, but rather projecting additional meaning onto them, almost as if you conceive of fewer possible positions than there actually are, and pigeonhole us.

Consider my prior two statements in this thread which start with "the fact" and "you were". Do you agree that these statements were correct, on their own terms, in their own context, and independent of additional complexities involving degree if efficacy or various arguments for or against use, testing, or hopefulness?

Also, do you see that the people who disagree with your framing are not 'picking nits' nor are they having 'struck nerves'? Can you see other reasons why they might respond as they did?
Surprised to see cannabis reaction times slower than alcohol for driving. I wonder how they controlled for it, and whether the test accounted for high people driving slower and taking fewer risky moves like lane changes, turning corners without looking for pedestrians or speeding through yellow lights. Reaction time alone can be mitigated through adaptive behaviour, but not if you're not even looking at the road.
From what I understand, the sense of taste is intertwined with the sense of smell.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-connection-between-taste-a...
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I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working:

https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/

Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my very own version of Space Invaders:

https://arcade.ly/games/space-invaders/

(WARNING: this one is barely functional - e.g., no levels, no shield damage, no scoring, invader firing pattern is all kinds of wrong, invader movement isn't quite right, etc.)

Enjoy! (And feedback welcome!)
I just checked your demo. Good Job
I'm pretty sure you're aware that was hypothetical.
I think the carploy interface via controls on the wheel is good on my '17 subaru, but I absoloutely agree it is NOT for use by the driver when in motion. It requires a lot of focus, and if I can't get siri to do something for me on it then I wait until my next stop.
Sure - the only benefit of a VM is that you can mess up the VM's filesystem without worrying about it too much.
It'll be a writing tool. A text editor. There are two ways to approach it:

1. Let people brain dump — write everything they've got on their mind. Click "new layer". Cut down on words. Click "new layer". Cut down on words. Repeat ad nauseam.

Every time you write a new layer, you're "editing" your article so as to make it shorter. In other words, you're purifying the idea

2. Let people write the shortest version, then write a bit more, then more.

I'm doing way #1 because I feel like road #2 prevents people from having a brain dump... I'd lose all my ideas if I'd start with the short verison
Wrapper around three.js to help me prototypoe games https://github.com/mess110/vrum

also a few games. here is one I made using my engine during ludum dare: http://mess110.github.io/html-games/ld/040/index.html
Agreed. Correct handling of SIGPIPE is quite subtle and often done incorrectly.
I've some notes on SIGPIPE considerations at:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/sigpipe_handling.html
It would need testing to show they don't have a prevalence of "mild" cases. Not to mention we should have numbers on how often they wear masks. Last I saw, it was not everyone that did that.

Edit for reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kor5nHtZQ
There is a “Reduce Motion” setting in iOS that speeds some things up a little bit.
Show HN: Track and share your viral risk (experimental prototype)
Why didn't the investigator subpoena the details about the accounts sending the accusations? That would have shown right away that the accusations were not "credible" and the university could have just dropped the investigation right away.

By the second go round, when the "y'all" message arrived, the credibility problem was obvious but the investigation didn't address it.

This sounds to me like a very limp bureaucratic response by someone just going through the motions, with no real effort to resolve matters.
I'm working on tennis software. The idea started 2 years ago, when I started to play a tennis. In my local club all reservations where written down on the sheet of paper and people were have to come personally to book court. I started working on idea just to prove myself that I can do it. First version were pretty basic, but with complex logic for court reservations.

They liked the idea, so we were live, and they threw paper bookings away. 100+ users in a few weeks. It was little bit of pressure to get things right, but after fixing bugs, I was pretty satisfied with first alpha version, which was basically MVP and POC (proof of concept).

Then another club joined and there was around 150 users very fast.

I expand app so players can have their own ratings when they store their results. It was pretty fun to watch how everything suddenly changes. Players started to have conversions about their rankings, and they started to play more tennis. They have all history now for their matches, so no more 'I beat you that time, how can you not remember that :)"

I wrote some cool stuff too, like module for leagues and tournaments, which we organised under our Sliceer brand. We have pretty successful league and tournament with over 150 players.

We expand reservations to more clubs outside my hometown, and we are trying to reach even more.

I have some income from app too, but it's very basic, mostly from Premium users who can see little bit more advanced features like 'one sign in', i.e. non Premium users have to login every two hours, etc.

Now, I'm improving registration page which has to be very simple and fun. So I wrote some 'onbording' process to make it even simpler for users to sign in. There is little bit more data then just email, so it has to be fun. Here is a short video https://imgur.com/B6g0YwX

This year we will be in more clubs, and with bigger tournament under our belt (waiting for corona shit to be over).

I like what I'm doing so far, and I'm enjoying building software that other people are using, which is in fact solving real problem. I see a lot of things that I can improve, but for now, I'm sticking to booking module to be the best it can be, so people will be forced to use it. I want to be that good.

For now, I have little less than 600 registered users, of which - in tennis season - 100 and more are using app every day, and there is around 1000 active users per month (this numbers of active users are from last year, still waiting new season to start). We have one guy who recently passed 100 matches!

For now, we are operating only in Croatia, and app is only translated in Croatian, but I'm looking forward to translate it to other languages so other people can use it.

And, yes, booking module (what I have so far) is free for all clubs. Advanced features like statistics and some custom logic for clubs is payed separately - already have on club with custom logic (payed).

If you have any questions I would love to answer them.

Sasa
I didn't but I just checked it out now. Interesting I'd say. They have the short-version and the max-version. The tool I'd like to make would allow you to do all the in-between versions
I've been working on a personal knowledge base called mmap.it. It's like spotlight for all of your workflows and code snippets.

Basically combines a markdown editor with full text search and all functionality is made accessible through global shortcuts so you can look up information without context switching.

It's free with plans to be open sourced in the next day or so. You can check it out here (https://mmap.it)
Theme Park World is a big influence. Remember the advisor character, kind of looked like an ant? My game also has an advisor (not an ant, though) that is also voiced by a Scottish accent. I hadn't even meant to make that same choice, but the effect of that game runs deep!
I think it might be Android only, given the design is heavily compliant with Google's theming. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imdevgary....
The enterprise systems tie in to your Exchange / Outlook messaging for shared calendars. We saw excessive equipment failures with the Steelcase line. This was a few years ago. But like I said, they had the option of using iPads, but went with the proprietary solution instead -- which was NOT reliable for deployment.
I'm building premium WordPress themes at https://radarthemes.com and occasionally writing at https://marcell.me
I'm working on a modern and friendly cron/job scheduler with centralized execution/logging/monitoring.

It is combination of a web app which controls cron agents in other servers.

It is somewhat between your OS's job scheduling system (*nix cron/Windows Task Scheduler) and the very sophisticated workflow systems like Apache Airflow or Netflix Conductor.
Working on my slides for an intro-to-UART talk aimed at fledgling hardware hackers. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but now it's focused on tools a lot of people might already have laying around at home.

Building a DC UPS for some of my infrastructure. I had been postponing this as long as my RIPE ATLAS probe was rockin' a 6-month-plus uptime, but a corrupted flash drive ended that. Soooo, time for a whole pile of Schottky diodes! :)

Tending to my pepper and tomato seedlings. It's too cold to put them outside yet, so they're in my kitchen oriel window alongside my GPS/GNSS monitoring receiver.

Learning systemd unit files so I can have better startup and log-rotate and stuff for said monitoring receiver.

Tinkering with Docker and TheLounge so I have a better handle on my always-online IRC client, and maybe other stuff that might end up running on that box.
How will you know the masks work?
Doh! Copy paste fail sorry
The article implies that the percentage increase in cases is highest in the US but that's not actually the case (the list of percentage rates at the bottom includes several other countries with higher rates). The US seems to have added the largest absolute number of cases but that's not a particularly meaningful measure given how widely countries vary in population.
As our founders knew there is no way to reconcile justice with anonymity. Any accusation that is to be taken as credible must necessarily provide the information needed to obtain physical evidence or names of individuals who can be questioned.

Without a way to credibly proceed such investigations should be expeditiously closed and sealed. With an avenue to proceed they should be investigated with intelligence and diligence.

With that said although author isn't allowed to name J I suggest that the populace is under no such constraint. I will not herein speculate nor suggest such but I have to hope that the interests of justice will be better served in the future than they are presently.
I’m creating a QR Code Generator web application! I’m a CS student, but haven’t really done a lot of personal projects, so I saw this as a unique opportunity. I’m using it as a way to learn more about TS/JS, Firebase, the math behind error correcting codes, and the web in general.

I’m really excited about this even though I feel it’s a bit beyond my current abilities and may take awhile to complete. Seeing myself make small amounts of progress is exhilarating! :)
> not sure if this has been or will be confirmed by research though

Definitely not research but I've read several comments on /r/italy that were mentioning just that, i.e. loss of smell combined with loss of taste for some of the commenters in there or their friends/acquaintances (who also had other covid-related symptoms). I've first read this 3 or 4 or days ago, so it was not written as responses to articles like these (which have started showing up in the last two or so days).
Thanks (especially for name dropping Quandl)! Using the data for investing was actually a major source of inspiration for the idea and I'll look into it, although packaging it nicely might be an issue.
There is no way that is enforcible unless they can produce an example implementation to defend it, or at least to my understanding of how it works. If there's an IP lawyer in the house, do please correct me, but I don't think you can use a patent to go after someone without actually producing anything. It's intended to be a monopoly to protect the inventor while they scale up after all.

Am I missing something here?

Edit: Yep, I am. Apparently there is no requirement for you to actually have to make the thing you're patenting.

This is ludicrous.
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Say I have a spare Android phone sitting around. Could I just plug it into a charger, aim it at the sky through a window, and let your software snap a pic whenever it feels the urge?
I'm working on Godot Engine plugin for IntelliJ.
I've been trying to start a movement to get quarantined folks to divest from fossil fuels, sign up to climate pressure groups, and register to vote.

The idea being we have all this time on our hands, time we can use to fight the other global catastrophe that's unfolding — the climate crisis.

https://greenquarantine.org/

If anyone wants to chip in and help, please let me know!
Not specific to the quarantine, though I have been spending more time on it due to it: https://inko-lang.org/. It's a programming language I've been working on for the past few years.

In recent months I have been specifically working on making the compiler self-hosting. This has so far taken up more time than anticipated, as I had to rethink a lot of parts of the compiler (e.g. parts of the type system), and I didn't want to rush it.

With that said, progress is slowly improving as I'm making my way through implementing all the type checking rules. Hopefully in a few months the entire compiler is self-hosting.
Well, in that case Occam's razor confirms the theory. "Government processes favor NIH (not invented here)".
A govt whose representatives are bought by rich corporations (including big pharma), prefers only-invented-here to enrich those corporations. (even if that means delayed dissemination of virus-testing facility)

While trying to dismiss the conspiracy, Occam's razor just confirmed the conspiracy. After all, digging conspiracies is not always a bad thing.