skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of Vernor Vinge's novels describes 3d models transmitted as part of video conferencing, and re-skinning used to fool an adversary (while depending on causing a noisy, reduced bandwidth connection to make it plausible why the model is imperfect, I seem to remember).
Allocation of resources is always a political decision. There are multiple things governments all over the world stockpile in ranging from weapons, oil, maple syrup and even medical equipment. The electorate votes them in. Clearly the priorities of the electorate can change over crisis and a new set of values can be ushered in or forgotten quickly.

My favorite is when the French health minister Roselyne Bachelot sold stockpiled medical supplies in France in 2010 and there was no political cost to it from the electorate:

https://www.france24.com/en/20100103-france-sell-off-million...
Genuinely curious, would you mind explaining why some operation can be fast in software but slow in hardware?
> 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.

Can you please cite what you are talking about? Neither the CDC nor FDA are closed.

W.r.t the masks, I completely agree. This has been a decade's worth of failure. Why weren't the masks replaced in 2010? There should be an investigation for sure.
I use a couple of apps in order to track my sleep. I have sleep apnea, so I like to check how much noise I am making in a night. I use SnoreLab for that.

When I don't want to track snoring solely, I use Sleep Cycle, which tracks the agitation of your sleep, and uses that to wake you up. The tracking info is quite good as you can see the amount of rem sleep and where in the night that happened. It is also good to perceive trends through time in terms of sleep quality.
> The only way to direct traffic to it is to also post on all the other walled gardens, because that's where the people are. That sounds like a lot of addtional work just to get eyeballs on a page.

But it doesn't sound like overly difficult or excessive work. There's no reason to expect people to read your blog who don't know you; there's never been a time in which (nonfiction) authors didn't do promotion through engagement in public conversations.

If you start a blog or a podcast, you have to post elsewhere and show up on other people's podcasts, write articles for established outlets, and try to get TV guest spots if you're mainstream or corporate-friendly enough. You might have to start as a good poster on a busy subreddit, or as a Trump reply guy on Twitter. When doing this, you make sure that people (or potential employers) who find you interesting or insightful can find their way back to your personal outlet.

I don't see that system as very broken. The delegitimization of mainstream outlets outside of party partisans and the older hasn't destroyed them, it really just made them into prominent blogs (often running on wordpress and drupal no less.) So as traditional news media loses credibility to blogs, it really was just a process of coming to a parity where they had to compete on their own merits (links to administration and intelligence officials.)

edit: Those links are the actual cause of mainstream delegitimization - they're maintained by the willingness of those outlets to float government stories without any independent corroboration, and through friendly op-eds that help people and groups they want to maintain access to. I don't think this is a new process; its a balance between getting insider information and helping those insiders maintain their positions that these outlets have always made.
In 2012 OpenStreetMap switched from CC-BY-SA to Open Database Licence.

I think the most important is the provision that "produced works" need only to attribute the authors, and if you don't modify the source database then the license is non-viral.
As for as "persistence" is concerned I really care only about offline PWAs. Why would a website need offline data after 7 days? It would improve performance, that's true but everything else should be "fresh" unless that said website wants to actually behave like an "app".
Maybe the "website" should ask the client to be installed as "app" if the user wants to take advantage of persistent storage(and other "app" features) . Asking the user to install(which is actually just a kind of bookmarking for PWAs) isn't that much of an effort if the user is planning to use it regularly.
Interesting that the PP got downvoted. While many people blame China (and yes, they made some dumb decisions), most of what I see in the above post is technically correct.

For instance, despite having a 2,600 mile border with China, Russia has about the same Covid-19 stats as Iceland.

My gut tells me that their decision to close their border early had a huge impact.

So yeah, China deserves a lot of blame, but we in the west did not make it any better. The Italian “Hug a Chinese” event in Florence was particularly stupid, and many have paid for it with their lives.
fitbit or oura ring. not super accurate. it’s mostly to get some guidance and more importantly it can help you form a sleep schedule
It's funny you mention that... part of why I'm a minimist in terms of what I want from govt. That said, corporate welfare combined with a lack of dual sourcing and domestic production requirements are frightening.

I think we definitely need to identify sectors, and specifically medical supplies, prescribed medications and prescribed medical devices should have dual sourcing requirements in addition to require at least 50% domestic production as requirements to sell in the US market.

I am amazed at how well the logistics in terms of groceries and supply chains has held up. I wouldn't say that just-in-time has failed, it's worked surprisingly well. That isn't to say that all things should work that way, only countering expectations vs. results.
There are some params you can add to expose them. They dont do much, mostly used to pause the game when needing to debug.
"I saw another engineer get hit for talking about triggering a job since "using triggering improperly downplays the trauma of survivors".
"

This is nuts. Where is this? Silicon Valley?
> they know the American continent is geographically unassailable.

And COVID19 is turning that assumption on its head. The only question that remains is whether the US can buttress what's left of its public health institutions to keep it at bay, and prepare for the next wave that comes, whether of this pandemic or the next one.
Chrome will support the legacy apps by maintaining a static-user agent. It just won't be updated when chrome updates. If you want to build NEW functionality that where you need to test support for new browsers, you do that via feature detection.
Hasn't always been semiconductors... or electronics at all, for that matter. That just happens to be the current majority physical implementation, where metal is a little scarcer than it used to be.
Right. But he didn't have the fish and baby seal diet for 2 weeks before pooping, and he didn't freeze it at -50˙C you get above the Arctic Circle. (Common freezers only go at -30˙C). So that refutation is inconclusive, and the experiment needs replication with the right parameters, I would say...
Much needed!!
I track my sleep with my Apple Watch (with an app obviously). I used Pillow (app) for a while, but recently I switched to AutoSleep (and I'm happy with the change). The app write up states that it tracks movement, but it doesn't really deliver direct data about movement. I think it does track sleep very well, and had allowed me to greatly improve my sleep health.
Reminds me of https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
In large corporations politics are abound. If the Chrome division cannot get other divisions to behave through other means, this is fine.

You can see that they should have fought harder and escalated, but issues like this are probably not the ones most upper-middle management want to potentially damage their career for.
this is exactly the opposite of what we should do when they degrade experiences of competing browsers!
These photogrametric, structure from motion, structured light, etc. techniques have been around awhile so I don't think this changes too much though it may make it a bit easier to generate realistic depth maps for other purposes.

At some point you can probably reconstruct large portions of scenes in existing movies and change perspectives, especially if you had good techniques (perhaps AI based) for filling occlusions in the data.
I hope somebody out there in a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with the US breaks into their systems and publishes the list of their clients. We urgently need a big-style leak of everything these scumbags do.

Also countries should start issuing arrest warrants and sanctions against them.
From an Ars comment, apparently all these phones have the 865:

$500: Xiaomi Mi 10

$500: Nubia Red Magic 5G

$500: iQOO 3

$550: OnePlus 8

$700: Sharp Aquos R5G

$800: Nokia 9.2

$800: LG V60 ThinQ 5G

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/reports-google-lg-do...

Maybe these low-priced phones with a top-end SoC are making some bad tradeoffs to get that low price, but there's at least some evidence that Qualcomm isn't forcing phone prices over $1,000.

(And yeah, don't post WCCFTech.)
I can vouch for Autosleep with Apple Watch too. much better than Pillow and does the job well.
Yeah, same for me, looks fine.
I was recently listening to the short story "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by cory doctorow. This came up and I started crying. I have no nostalgia for this time period (I was less than 5 yo when this was written) but I do have nostalgia for this sentiment. Due to the technology delay I got experience a part of this when networks were being rolled out in India. Nobody really knew how to operate it or how it worked entirely. Discovering networks and connecting with people from around the world was a revelation. I miss that feeling. But I can't figure out if that feeling is lost because I grew up or because that sentiment just doesn't exist these days.
MIT Sloan Management Review is open to all through March 26
> Regardless of the other situations, you're also making the assumption that I and others can just immediately find other employment.

Losing your job because you're "off the grid" is always terrible. This is not an excuse just because now there is more serious ramifications. Perhaps it's just now extra terrible.
Semantics has less to do with style and more to do with the fact that an element can be clicked in order to navigate somewhere else.
I had been having an issue with Google Sheets and Firefox that the app decides to change row height randomly.

On Firefox only. Obvious solution to which being...
Sounds exactly like how Walmart works with suppliers.
Ask HN: What are the up and coming streaming projects? Tutorials?
I have become obsessed with the idea of video streaming applications ever since this whole coronavirus lockdown started in my country and I've been learning of the evil that is Zoom web meetings.

Please, somebody, anybody, point me in the right direction to start learning up on the latest internet video streaming one-to-many technology.

I found https://github.com/muaz-khan/WebRTC-Experiment to be a decent starting point, but I am craving more reading on the subject.

Chaturbate uses chunked mp2t files, youtube does similar with mp4, where can I learn more about how exactly they do what they do?

Thank you!
I propose a shared manifold ventilator based on plumbing and pneumatic parts and pieces. I just wanted to point out that such a device could handle 20 or more patients at once and uses well-established principles of reliability. https://bit.ly/c19ventilator
Friend of ours created a quick Covid-19 Survey for people (public opinion poll)
Which is included in the cost of opening an account with the bank, you're not told to go buy this device off Amazon.
We also pogrammed the 8085 machine very recently(2015). It was a very weird feeling realising all the myriad of abstactions come down to basic load/store/arithmetic/logical instructions. Had fun implementing squaring a number whose result wouldn't fit in a register.

EDIT: It was 8085 kit, not 8086.
UK researchers develop low-cost, rapid Covid-19 test that could be used at home
Show HN: An example web app (board game) for learning ClojureScript
> website.example will be marked for non-cookie website data deletion if the user is navigated from a domain classified with cross-site tracking capabilities to a final URL with a query string and/or a fragment identifier, such as website.example?clickID=0123456789.

So my guess is you are fine most of the time, except if you allow other sites to embed your content in their page. In that case, you should:

- provide the embed on a separate subdomain

- remove features requiring identification if the content is view embedded: attempting to use them redirect to the real site.

Otherwise ITP will mark your domain as tracking and wipe you after 7 days if your user don't interact directly with the site.

I have a hard time deciding if it's a good thing or not.

I guess it has the potential to be mostly a good thing, provided that:

- I understood it correctly, which I'm not sure, as their wording is not clear

- It's implemented correctly. Once the deal is done, it's in the wild years, fix or not.

- It's implemented in good faith. Apple wants to promote the app store and has shown to neuter web apps in the past.

I still have a strange bad feeling about this.
"Given a choice between preventing the spread of disease and avoiding mass casualties that are bound to result, and living our lives in ignorance, we chose ignorance."

You're like someone who's complaining their rights are being trampled because the fire department is yelling at you to leave a burning building.
Checking the user-agent string for scrapers doesn't work anyway. In addition to using dozens of proxies in different IP address blocks, archive.is spoofs its user agents to be the latest Chrome release and updates it often.
What about the landlord's loan payments?
LOL!

has this ever, ever happened?
related previous HN discussion about the Waffle House Index https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662
Ask HN: Doesn't anyone at Google realize “People Also Search For” is annoying?
> Depends on how quickly state bits leak. If the state only leaks 2 bits per minute, then adding 32 bits every minute is perfectly sufficient. That's why even though actual leakage rate is >0 bits for any real-world CSPRNG it can still be perfectly acceptable (and even desirable, depending on threat profile) to add entropy at a rate of 0 bits.

This isn’t the type information leak you should be concerned with. If you attacker has access to some segment of the output stream, they can detect whenever you update the RNG state, and brute force the new state unless you are updating it with a large enough chunks. 32-bits is certainly brute forceable.
I mean they already did. The goal is to replace user agent parsing with a simple field that says exactly what browser and version this is.
I don't think that most, today, would see a requirement like dual sourcing + at least 50% domestic production for all medical equipment, devices and prescription medications would be excessive. It's about security and always has been.

For that matter, I think similar requirements for all communications equipment, and this would include computers, cell phones and mobile devices would not be out of line as well at this point. Most of this crap happened roughly a century ago, including collapsed markets more than once.

The above limitations as well as putting US banking closer to post-depression and canadian requirements would be a good idea as well.

I'm very libertarian leaning... that said, I'm pragmatic, there's definitely room for having restrictions in place in leiu of the limited liability given to corporations. It's supposed to be a trade-off, not a give away.
Disagreed.

I don't know if "metaphor" is the word, but in comedy/theater obviously it's not the literal usage either, it's a figure of speech (unless the man is physically straight). That our understanding of this is different is another example that the term wasn't as pervasive or well understood as you initially thought.

Yes, metaphors and figures of speech must be deployed in context, like all of human language. There's a certain kind of humor based on saying things out of context -- I don't recommend you use it at the workplace (or risk being fired). I'm sure you've experienced telling a pun out of context and being misunderstood. The same principle applies.

Human communication is about context. The modern workplace requires more precise consideration of context.
Yep it works for the most part - I remember having weird issues once in a while - not sure if it was build from git kitty that I was using or some TERM compatibility thing.
Major Upgrades, Subtle Problems: finding bugs after a Rails 4-5 upgrade
The question wasn't "are vulnerable people vulnerable" it was "why is there a focus on whether a person might have had another condition?". The answer potentially changes the extent to which our hospital systems are inadequate to treat patients.

Keep in mind that 2-5% is likely way overblown given how little testing has been done. Unless I am misinformed, the Diamond Princess cruise that had been infected and quarantined had a fatality rate under 1%, and that presumably had a more vulnerable population. A more realistic mortality rate is well below 1% https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

In either case, I am actually more vulnerable than the standard healthy young adult, and it is very easy to say that mortality rates havent been high, especially in the context of a discussion over whether the virus might be mutating to become even more deadly than it already is.
Needs (1996) in the title.
Annoying, as I just added a user agent based workaround for another Chrome compatibility problem (the increased security on same-site cookies, which can't be handled in a compatible way with all browsers).
It gives users of the code the ability to inspect it and understand what is going on.
Nouriel Roubini: could Covid-19 spark the greatest depression?
Some Google properties are broken on Chromium, even.
> Why would a website need offline data after 7 days?

JWT for example.
Girlfriend and I use Apple Watch with AutoSleep (http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/).

Not having to set anything up or say I'm going to sleep is perfect for us, and the results seem to generally be in line with reality. I don't believe it tracks restless legs. It's really comfortable with the sport loop band.

From the limited research I did a few months ago it seemed as if the additional accuracy derived from a dedicated device was outweighed by the faff of setting it up + the additional utility of a multifunctional Apple Watch / Fitbit-type device. It felt like a single-digit % gain in accuracy over Apple Watch, which had a huge % gain in utility.
I have found the built in sleep tracking of my samsung active 2 to be good. Maybe you could strap the watch to your ankle instead of your wrist?
Cloudflare did not understand at the time. Anyway, I'm not questioning that the reply was not very helpful, I just don't see it as unreasonable. I liked the technical parts of the CF writeup overall.
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Ask HN: Good USB camera for remote work with good Linux compatibility?
Zoom makes my 12 core CPU burn to the ground. I wonder if it's the camera. Some cameras do some processing in hardware it seems, but I suspect this happens only with proprietary drivers (probably not on linux).

Anyone found something they like?
In Egypt, it is 14 days, but I don't think it is based on any rational thinking :)
So you're ruling out a change in tech? We're stuck here because there's no reason we could conceive of something better due to the ROI? I'm confused as to why you believe now would be that moment, as opposed to something earlier.
Have you tried iron supplements? The evidence I have on it is purely anecdotal, but it really helped my son with his restless leg.
I’m concerned this isn’t being done through the proper legal channels. The emergency powers act would allow the suspension of civil liberties and permit this.

However short of that a mayor shouldn’t have this power.
This was really fun! Thanks for making it :)

Got to a point where I overloaded a host and my system melted taking me back to the start, is that the end or should I try again to get past that?
I always hear it's better architecture-wise but what are the real life implications of difference?

Also, Kafka has:

* ksql
* ksqlDB
* Kafka Connect
* Kafka Streams

Does Pulsar has something comparable?
Related: https://css-tricks.com/freezing-user-agent-strings/
An important resource for the community! Fantastic and needed
damn, that's dark.
I was one of those 2-3 I suppose (I think we graduated like 5-10 per year), but there weren't any jobs in physics so now I'm a programmer too. It all ends up the same.
Sleep Cycle is pretty good. I have the iOS app.

They used to use movement but now use ambient audio to determine sleepiness. It a suggestion worth looking at maybe not "powerful" enough but certainly easy to use.
Leg movement is probably hard to track. I would think that the Withings Sleep Tracking Mat might be working somewhat, but I have no first-hand experience.
I've been hearing "I rather die from Coronavirus than live my life in fear of it" from some at risk people who don't wish to isolate. Which I suppose is their decision. They'll unfortunately change their tack pretty fast when it becomes hard to breathe.
Hardware initialization after power-up is HARD, here a high-level overview: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
I had the One Plus One (first phone), only switched away when I went to Verizon for better coverage on the road. Is their band coverage for Verizon still partial? Haven't checked in the past year or so, last I checked you could use it with Verizon, but only with LTE bands.
Bounded Incoherence: A Programming Model for Non-Cache-Coherent Shared Memory [pdf]
Tutorial: Build a next.js app, storybook app components and monorepo with lerna
That sounds great but in real life, when your boss wants his crud app fixed yesterday and the previous dev left no documentation for random code, you have to do what you have to do.
Medical imaging down 20% in US, 39% in Europe as routine healthcare is cancelled
Oh, that kind of TCP hole punching. No, we don't do that, because we run over UDP only. So far, I don't think we've seen network conditions where UDP is blocked but the NAT is friendly enough to permit TCP traversal (same problems as UDP traversal, only with extra state to manage). I suppose we might get to it eventually, but there's a lot of simpler cases we can handle better first :)
Antibiotic Resistance May Be a Key Factor in Italy's Covid-19 Deaths
Yes, e.g. https://noyb.eu/en
If this is targeting carriers then the only way around it is to not carry a mobile surveillance device anymore.

Based on past incidents by 3-letter agencies using it to stalk ex-lovers[1], nobody should want this kind of surveillance at all.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...
Installing a Secure FTP Server on Windows Using IIS