skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why are people investing in a cartoon mouse and not solutions
There is no doubt the Keynes' quote rings true even in what may be an existential crisis:

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

As 10's of millions are at home and likely will not have jobs to return to...why are people investing in a cartoon mouse that owns theme parks, hotels, and cruise ships? All of these businesses are shut down. Sure they have a streaming service, and maybe all the millionaire and billionaire investors all know something we don't (Senators certainly did).

Can't we shut the markets down, and wouldn't it be beneficial so the 1%er's have no more games to play and money making opportunities while the workers of the country suffer?
any facts? No!
I like Joe Armstrongs 7 deadly sins.

1. Code you wrote you cannot understand a week later - no comments.

2. Code with no specifications.

3. Code that is shipped as soon as it runs and before it's beautiful.

4. Code with added features.

5. Code that is very very very fast and very obscure.

6. Code that is not beautiful.

7. Code you wrote without understanding the problem
FSLogger is like inotify but for the whole disk. Inotify is just for files and directories; it doesn't scale to millions of directories. It also would require a full rescan on every boot because installing the watches will take so long you will miss changes.

I "guess" because no backup program for Linux supports watching whole filesystems for events. There are ways it could happen with recent kernels, but they are poorly documented and not designed for backups. Nobody has done it so the performance impact is also unclear.
Well, if there was more market for bounties then surely you’d have no problem asking for a bounty in order to contribute that feature to the project?

I don’t see an issue with people saying “here’s my contrib if the community is willing to pay for it XX”.

One could even see maintainers becoming the budgeteers of aforementioned projects.
C++20’s Iterator Sentinels
It won't disappear. Just change owners as it was already explained and proven.
This is exactly what every project should start with, instead of wasting time and bytes on a framework.
Her aunt is the one claiming she had no pre-existing conditions. I'd like to see a statement from a medical professional and an autopsy
I'm in the middle of this transition right now and it's pretty good so far.

Also, there's a plugin for Figma that lets you automate anything in Figma with typescript which is immensely cool.
Keeping Our Services Stable and Reliable During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Sorry, I only just saw this.

I run several websites pertinent to homelessness. I also run r/GigWorks. The Welcome message pinned at the top has a compendium of links to stuff that help you.

Given that this is on HN, probably the most pertinent thing is this list of remote work platforms:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15...

If you do actually end up homeless, this may be important info:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/prepping-to...

But also standard advice from r/homeless and r/almosthomeless is to just keep working at finding solutions and try to not end up homeless. It's much easier to avoid homelessness than to get back into housing from the streets and thus is a bad time to be homeless. They are closing soup kitchens and the like.

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-an...
Not sure if this answers that, but: https://webkit.org/blog/8613/intelligent-tracking-prevention...

Cookies can either be set in HTTP responses or through the document.cookie API, the latter sometimes referred to as client-side cookies. With ITP 2.1, all persistent client-side cookies, i.e. persistent cookies created through document.cookie, are capped to a seven day expiry.
Yeah wasn't there a whole subplot where she was super attached to the kid and tried to find and adopt her?
The problem with cross compilation isn’t the compiler, it’s the build system. See eg the autoconf, which builds test binaries and then executes them, to test for availability of strcmp(3).
A reminder that we still don’t know what the hell is going on
How I Built and Sold a Popular Publication on Medium During College
I have nothing against hybrid apps. In many use cases, they are the best approach, and I have often declined business, in recommending them to others, as opposed to what I can do.

My post was not an attack on anyone or anything, and it was not being snarky. All I said was that I develop native apps, and that this policy does not affect me.

I like developing native apps. I've been writing native Apple software for 34 years. It's not really difficult; just different. I have also been developing "Internet" software, of all kinds (full stack), since before the WWW. Using Apple stuff. It certainly can be done.
All moves of Apple's towards privacy are tempered with the knowledge that smooth, successful webapps hurt the iPhone's business proposition.

Apple want to move you closer into their walled garden with the prospect of enhanced privacy.

The idea that iPhone apps are more private than web app because Apple must approve your apps is troublesome.
Virus delays Russia vote on Putin staying in power
> Source code answers the how and what but it doesn't provide any answer to the most important question of all - why?

Currently having this fight - "The code is the best documentation!" has been the answer to my "where is all the documentation?" question. Sure, except there's 2100+ source files spread over 120+ Go packages encompassing 4+ years of development before I arrived. I'll be right back and productive after 2 years of wading through this, ok?
Well, I am in the Midwest and there is hardly anything going on here, so yeah, wearing a mask would be kind of out of place. Anyways, I basically stay away from people anyhow.

Our hospitals here are all losing money waiting for a crowd that may never arrive. Kids are silly miserable. We're losing our way of life and our nation to mass hysteria and we need to be strong instead.
The Best Place to Build a Subway
With cookies you can set the expire time yourself, as a developer. And looking at the list of the original blogpost from webkit (https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...) it shows the following will be affected by the 7 day cap:

Indexed DB, LocalStorage, Media keys, SessionStorage, Service Worker registrations

Since cookies are not mentioned, I'm assuming it's NOT affected by the 7 day cap but will instead continue to work as normal (except for the fact that 3rd party cookies will stop working, which is a Good Thing)
I’m really noticing how unhelpful the mass media is and the corporate control is kind of showing. I feel really bad for everyone watching the nightly news. Seems like complete panic.

I notice them play up deaths of the young and ignoring the statistics to make sure everyone does their part.
Where can a person find such videos? You believe they were legitimate, and truly occurred after success had been declared?
The audio he plays is from a person who self identifies as a front line doctor. She says so during her explanation of the situation they have.
How is that relevant to the conversation? If it is so little-used as to be irrelevant then the user-first thing to do would be to remove the functionality but Apple haven’t.

I can speak from personal experience that users do use it when you include specific instructions on how to use it. And it’s used in a number of corporate settings for installing webapps on an iPad.
It is not an airborne infection.
This impacts an app I've built for reading academic papers but I imagine the work around here is to write to a file periodically and then load the file in if you don't detect indexedDB having the data you think it should. Obviously this has error cases all its own and makes it more difficult to manage but it doesn't seem like Apple is killing it to me, just making us jump through hoops and add extra complexity. Don't mistake me though this seems like an anti-competitive move from them to prevent people from circumventing the app store.
Web recording api. Only works in safari under a flag - they won't release the feature to chrome/firefox.
A linear scale for that graph is completely appropriate: it’s showing how one data series has flattened out and the other continues to grow at an increasing rate. I would also argue that since one of those data series is clearly not exponential (it’s more of a sideways S-shape) it would be harder to interpret what that series actually looked like on a log scale.

If you choose to plot things on a logarithmic scale, you open a whole can of worms with expecting your target audience to be educated numerically and understand the implications of a line on a log-scale (which looks far less dire than an exponential on a linear scale).
Sounds extremely condescending and off-putting. I'd be annoyed if a company said this to me.

There is a lot to love about Apple products outside of a few safari restrictions. They're not perfect but better than a lot of alternatives.
Since he's using the context api https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html not exactly.

Imagine you have a React tree with a 100 node depth. You would then need to walk all the way up those 100 nodes, but using the context api you can put in context consumer at the branches of your tree where it makes sense, so instead of walking up 100 nodes you walk up 3 nodes to input into the global context.

Hope that is a reasonable high level explanation of a thing that can be complicated without experience of it.
Manual memory management is the most important difference
I’m surprised everyone is still so politically divided. A potential medicine doesn’t work because Trump mentioned it? I’ve heard this many times.
Yeah. No known preexisting conditions is very different from no preexisting conditions. That being said, it's certainly possible that she was just unlucky and the virus hit her harder than normal for people her age, or she caught some other bug at the same time.
App Store rules are preventing game streaming services
Or Vorta, if you want GUI. https://vorta.borgbase.com/
I am from India and I see that you require a degree for all job openings! Is it OK for me to apply for a job without having a degree ?
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/navneethakrishnan/
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/despite-official...
Video: Hospitals Desperate for Covid-19 Equipment, Innovators Race to Help
The simplest explanation is that describing a disease as more or less fatal (in this context) only answers the question, “if you already have the disease how likely is it to kill you?”

The total number of fatalities caused by a disease on the other hand depends on the spread across the population which is influenced both by the communicability and by the effect of the symptoms on its spread—how long are people infected, how long do the infected live, how identifiable are the infected.
Apple planning for 'staggered' reopening of retail stores
I liked this Numberphile video on that topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EGDCh75SpQ
Ask HN: How much money will you get under the stimulus plan?
The plan includes direct deposits to many Americans. Here's how they work:

Individuals who earn $75,000 in adjusted gross income or less would get direct payments of $1,200 each

Married couples earning up to $150,000 receiving $2,400

Families will get an additional $500 per each child

Payment would scale down by income, phasing out entirely at $99,000 for singles and $198,000 for couples without children
Food poisoning that results in more that one case almost always gets taken very very seriously. At least in the US.
How to Fix Politics: These 5 Places Tried Bold Political Experiments (2019)
These two videos show how organized and committed China is to containing this virus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehCnbW4FAhg

Brief:

- Your temperature is checked before entering any store/restaurant/tourist attraction/(sometimes) leaving your neighborhood/(sometimes) at a road block. You must scan a QR code so your location is logged.

- Restaurant workers and public servants are suited up in light haz mat gear.

- Entire neighborhoods have literally been walled off with just one entrance where your temperature must be checked to enter/exit.

- Hotels have shut off central air to prevent the spread

- Ordering food is touch free

- Elevators have tissue paper so there's no direct contact with the buttons

- Offices can only reopen once they have a Covid-19 plan, hand sanitizer, gloves, touch free thermometer, masks, etc. Each employee must log how they got to work.

- much more in the links
He tweeted hate at her. She sued. Then she met him (2019)
Except for fonts, there are issues using custom fonts with Linux.
Genome Analysis: Coronavirus Could Be a 'Chimera' of Two Different Viruses
https://issuehunt.io/
Sure but 10 lines is often more places for bugs to hide.
At least your first question is answered in the article: Yes
If you understand exponentials log plots are the way to go. But most people need a lesson in what they mean before nature gives them a catastrophic one.
I would have to REALLY love your service to want to carry around an extra device to use it.
Wait, does that mean that the only way to keep a login session for more than 7 days will be by using cookies? This seems like a terrible idea. Cookie authentication doesn't make sense in several scenarios, especially when working in a CORS context.

For webapps that keep a session token stored locally, this will be inevitably wiped, so users will have to re-login after that time. I can already hear the complaints coming. Should devs now build a back end just to keep the token, and connect there with a cookie?
I feel like we lost a lot of autonomy and respect when we submitted to daily stand ups.

Experienced engineers have to justify what they’re working on every day. What?
I more worry about China get away with it. It have started SARS and now this. Both by eating wild animal. I do not believe it is biological weapon but more an accidental leak of virus during their research. But it is not that part that is lethal. But the part that there are so many wild animal market those virus can go and spread in stage 1. Then stage 2 punish everyone who said it and let it spread. The saying that it is not known is NOT true in China. The news were spread by doctors among themselves first in WuHan case and in SARS case one doctor bring it to HK and kill 300. And whilst the guy dare to say were punished, the systems (like wild market and no freedom of speech) continue. These two factors should be remember! Otherwise we will end up like twitter. They can use it to spread news (like American release the virus) even though they cannot even use twitter in China. If we forget and let them run WHO and PR war, ... good luck humanity.
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Worried over Hantavirus? All you need to know
No, Apple offers anonymous user credential technology. Server gets unique identifier and ability to authenticate with no actual user info. Server gets an anonymous redirected email for sending info to the user. Apple is the intermediary. Of course, you can choose not to trust Apple, but Apple already has my info and their business model is not predicated on tracking and advertising. I'd rather continue to trust them than spread my data across more orgs, but that's my choice. You might choose differently.
Show HN: How to do sales in an economic downturn
If you use network storage for backups (AFP server) backup can get corrupted if the network goes down, and in most cases I have seen it is unable to recover and continue. You just have to delete the whole backup and start from scratch. This is why I use Vorta (Borg GUI) on macOS instead.
I've seen a lot of news sites and random WordPress blogs doing that.

It has become spam, just like news sites asking to send notifications.
Pretty much an expected move from Apple in its current state, shape and form. Security is such a sweet excuse for a tyranny.
Debt and securities markets are how for-profit companies can get capital needed to survive the crisis.

The govt should certainly focus on citizens rather than bailing out businesses, but it's in the public interest for vital businesses like airlines and hotels to survive, and shutting down the investment channels for the "1%" would prevent those people from assuming that risk.
The Internet Controlled Corona Virus Slapper
> Data encryption at rest is a must-have for any modern Internet company

What is it protecting against — data recovery from discarded old disks? Very stupid criminals breaking into the datacenter, powering servers off and stealing disks?

A breach in some web app would give the attacker access to a live system that has the encrypted disks already mounted…
Safari still lets you add a web app to the homescreen, though. It could be used as a signal.
It's funny you say "entitled".

Show me where anyone said they where entitled to his labour. It was him who felt entitled to advertise.

He can ask for all the dimes he wants, He just can't add such adverts to the codebase.
It's a win win.

OP doesn't need to spend excessive money on developing for a Evil company, and those who buy their products can go to a competitor with a more expensive product.

Nearly everyone has at least one non apple product, so it seems like it would be a problem for a limited number of users.

OP, you are doing God's work.
Ah, that would be an improvement: just re-read the article and I can't find any reference to "active use" vs "calendar". Can you point out where that is?
> assuming they exist

And that's the real nature of the market, isn't it? If enough third-parties aren't willing to play by Apple's rules, Apple will have to modify the rules.

They're a stubborn company, but it's happened before. They've also been burned trying to own a standard when a common consensus exists they can't control before.
In addition to what others have said, I think the effectiveness of this likely depends heavily on the target audience - to a non-technical user, this will probably come across as lazy. From their perspective, everything else works fine on Apple, so you must be complaining about nothing.

Of course, if everyone did the same, people would start to realise the problem might be with Apple, but the chances of all (or most, or even many) big web services deciding to alienate such a large portion of their (potential) customers seem slim.
Why do banks fail if loan payments are paused?
Point taken and well made. Sorry if I misunderstood.
Will Covid-19 Lead to Another MOOC Moment?
Figma user myself.
Use on Mac at home, on Windows at office. At office Windows machine due to corporate security policies.
Okay, I personally wouldn’t hate logging in to a seldom used app once a week too much.
Exactly. It sounds to me like websites that refuse to load in GDPR countries. Good, if you can’t support me I don’t need to support you.

90% of software engineering (or engineering in general) is finding solutions for difficult problems. Throwing up your hands and saying you refuse to support one of the most popular computing platforms is certainly a decision that any business is free to make, but then again as a consumer I’m free to make my own decisions as well.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making bets where the payoff is smaller than the money risked, so long as the bet has positive expected value and the bettor's risk management is sound. It's the idiots who lever up too high or otherwise disregard bankroll management who get ruined when a "sure thing" doesn't go their way.
I think looking at Apple as saviour of Privacy, is for lack of better term just wrong. They have always favoured closed systems even if didn't provide privacy advantages or as in this case was counter-intuitive for privacy.

I feel the comparison of Apple with data companies such as Google, Facebook is by itself at fault. Apple like any computer company of 70's was not into data, just because Internet itself didn't exist at that point like it does now. 'Apple didn't choose to be in data' is projected as altruistic, instead of just a marketing ploy(they didn't choose, because it wasn't available).

Apple doesn't receive even the fraction of scrutiny Google, Facebook receive (which they should). e.g. iCloud hack, Apple's response to iOS vulnerabilities targeted by state actors, Newer Safari being incompatible with privacy extensions such as uBO etc.

Personally I feel good that Apple is not into data, just because I feel if they are into data; they might be more evil than Google or Facebook aided by their walled garden.
I'd say it comes from sitting at an ivory tower and giving 0 ducks about who you're talking to. In this case, the person/team asking was capable enough to go on their own, dig, test, change, and find a fix. It could've probably been easier for them if given proper directions.

OTOH, perhaps those that answered from atop the tower had little idea of the mechanisms that the author(s?) dug out and changed. So double shame on them, for being condescending and not knowing.

And it also falls on ourselves to be mindful of this behaviour, that can creep up on us without knowing. We sometimes think our time is super valuable and we don't have to spend it on some "newbie question" or this guy who doesn't understand. The past year I've been mentoring grad students in the lab I work at, and found myself once or twice going this route. I luckily caught it early, took a deep breath and gave them the time and explanations they needed. In the end I got a few nice surprises out of two amazing students, who were seeing a bit beyond what was evident.
The US is extremely top heavy with government workers, most of whom weren't doing much of anything. There are other considerations here, you can't just have it all. "Career employees with lifetime experience?" You have to be kidding me, most government employees are not very productive.

Also, you're sitting here complaining while your way of life is going down the toilet. We need to be looking at how to move forwards. What's done is done.
Diseases that kill people fast are also much easier to track. They become very obvious and the short incubation period means that it is easier to track the contacts of people who were exposed to the victim.
I already have a comment on this subject in a thread here but I believe this should be stressed more explicitly.

Apple didn't kill offline web apps. You can always add an interaction to your app which exports the stored data into a file which then can be saved by the user. It can be done entirely on the client side as well. If anything died here, it is the implicit consent by the user for allowing unnoticed storage space consumption. Implementing an export function will automatically make your app portable, which is always appreciated I believe.

Most data on local storage is some kind of structured tree, table or blob. All can be exported with only little effort.

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

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

Map like apps -> Do nothing. If the user is not visiting the map for 7 days, they don't need the map data persisted either. If necessary, allow explicit save with UI buttons for people who travel often.

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

Kiosks -> Use Electron or a similar tech.

I am open to counter arguments. I don't have any idea about how mobile browsers behave for the scenarios stated above.

Edit: I use draw.io since last year and the experience there is as refreshing as it can be in this SPA jungle. I use it as a good example to learn from for my own web app projects.