skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Project OWL (Organization, Whereabouts, and Logistics) creates a mesh network of Internet of Things (IoT) devices called DuckLinks. These Wi-Fi-enabled devices can be deployed or activated in disaster areas to quickly re-establish connectivity and improve communication between first responders and civilians in need.

> In OWL, a central portal connects to solar- and battery-powered, water-resistant DuckLinks. These create a Local Area Network (LAN). In turn, these power up a Wi-Fi captive portal using low-frequency Long-range Radio (LoRa) for Internet connectivity. LoRA has a greater range, about 10km, than cellular networks.

...

> You don't actually need a DuckLink device. The open-source OWL firmware can quickly turn a cheap wireless device into a DuckLink using the -- I swear I'm not making this up -- ClusterDuck Protocol. This is a mesh network node, which can hook up to any other near-by Ducks.

> OWL is more than just hardware and firmware. It's also a cloud-based analytic program. The OWL Data Management Software can be used to facilitate organization, whereabouts, and logistics for disaster response.

Homepage: http://clusterduckprotocol.org/

GitHub: https://github.com/Code-and-Response/ClusterDuck-Protocol

The Linux Foundation > Code and Response
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/code-and-response/

GitHub: https://github.com/code-and-response
Thermostats didn't take a vaction and leave you frozen till it was replaced. Toasters didn't crash and require firmwares to work again. Washers used mechanical switches that didn't need software to work. But yes, go ahead and believe this is normal.
There is an epidemic going on, and personnel have better things to do than optimizing a buffer to play nice with your thermocycler.

Any time there is a monopoly, prices have nothing to do with the cost of production and everything with what the market is going to bear, and no one but the monopolist benefits. And then the monopolist comes and wants to suborn the power monopoly of the government to sustain its profits. Come again, why should the European Union put the financial wellbeing of Roche above the health of Dutch citizens? We used to have antitrust, but nowadays even right-to-repair is controversial.
Well said... I mostly agree, that said there are definitely clustering and grouping around ideologies... and it's not a clear left-right thing, and only mean that in more general contextual terms for ease of communication.
I don't know of any, which is why I'm still on HN. That doesn't make HN a healthy community, however.
The defense department has plenty of money. Maybe they should reallocate some of that budget to purchasing oil for storage. Having plenty of oil is definitely part of national defense.
Not true in my experience. I have a remote cofounder and we do always-on video for hours a day so we systematically evaluated each option. The absolute best (resolution/framerate/latency) is FaceTime and the best cross-platform is Zoom.
Pretty sure a savvy DA could figure out how this is a criminal offense.
Iran doesn't have 80k cases
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/
Lovely blog post, thanks for this.
I think it's relative, and for the most part a little friction and dysfunction are okay and necessary to make stronger people and communities.
Polymer is a game changer for big data.
Bleach and peroxide, among other disinfectants, do kill the virus. One could clean the outside of the box before opening it.

Not sure why parent is subtracting the transit time: Who delivered the package? Were they infected? Exactly.
Tower info plus other sources. A while back I couldn't stop my iPhone from connecting to the 'free' Orange WiFi at my mall.

Since signal is weak I enabled 'WiFi calling' which also shares location info with the carrier (so they know if you are roaming or not, presumably).
The easiest to spot is the favorable tax treatment. The oil industry has a sweet deal that slashes taxes on oil investment. The provisions are complex and written to facilitate big investments in this industry [1].

1: https://www.energyfunders.com/blog/oil-investing-benefits/
Their data set shows only 1 case in san mateo county. That aint right
Given how much trans-continental/trans-oceanic network cable the major cloud providers own, they almost certainly have special trans-cloud network traffic infrastructure. Especially since so much of "The Cloud" is within a few 10s of square miles in a field in Virginia. I can easily see how one provider could majorly disrupt another provider by accidentally breaking inbound traffic on one of those links.
http://www.getoutcome.com
This is a great point. People understand installers/.pkg files far better than `.app`'s wrapped in a DMG. Those often get launched inside the DMG which has a ton of other issues, rather than being dragged to the Application folder.

Also packages allow for easier deployment rather than dmg's.
> I don't get what introvert has to do with focus.

A common object of attention for Samatha (one-pointed concentration / tranquility) practice is a Mandala or Kasina.

The copy on the site and the mandala-like art the app generates leads me to believe the author hopes people can use the app for this (or a non-Buddhist equivalent concentration practice).

I just did a 10 minute session. It's excellent for this purpose!
Not exactly: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/about-mycroft-ai/faq#can-...
Not that simple as you sometimes need to manually isolate the faulty hardware and remove it from service.
For bigger classes Meet is just not good enough. Unless it changed recently they've got a limit of 20 connections per meeting. Also you can't mute everyone apart from you easily (you have to do it one by one) which adds another problem.
Call them carnivore viruses?
I would certainly employ somebody who could answer "have you ever wanted to be a panda" cogently. A single word answer invites questions. This is not the same question as "what is your spirit animal" which may be a reason to terminate the interview as a candidate.
It's like you are co-opting reality here. An alternative to the phone-dream presented within that very dream.
I kind of agree and frequent the New section daily. However, I've noticed a trend that New is increasingly filled with what looks like a lot of auto-submitted content from large media companies and Medium authors. Finding quality links is getting more difficult. That could just be a perception, however.
Really cool tool. Would be great if there can some kind of sorting based on time line. like more recent articles etc
I'm not sure whether this makes things more or less healthy, but because HN really downplays the posters of links and comments, I don't really have any sense of personalities on the site like I do elsewhere.
The Dream Machine is a fantastic and thorough history of the early days of computing, woven together as a partial autobiography of J. C. R. Licklider, though the scope of the book is substantially grander.

It’s a long read, and I opted to do the audiobook option, which I found entertaining and captivating. It covers the origins of computing from the WWII days, to the early debates in the computing world, to ARPA and all of its resulting projects, Xerox PARC formation, and finally the emergence of microcomputers.
We've had quite a few cougar sightings up here in the north bay but its rarer now with all the watering holes closed.
Are you saying that all the YCAdvice data is sitting in a spreadsheet? Other than the effort to categorize all the content, aren't there many tools that let you use a spreadsheet as a database? What am I missing here?
My grandfather bought a $1,000 house years ago, not in the Detroit area, but a similarly blighted area.

Immediately after purchasing it, the city started fining and hounding him to get it cleaned up and up to code.

He went in to court at one point and asked the judge why he was getting all these notices when it was already the nicest house on the block.

The judge's answer was something to the effect of "oh, well they can't afford to fix it up."
Would you prefer if there were 'reaction' features on a post to aggregate these sorts of comments?

Something like:

I've bookmarked this for later review, good post (this partially exists as the upvote)

I like posts like this (an overload of the upvote)

I want to read what other users think of this, but don't necessarily have a comment of my own. HN, please comment (an overload of the upvote as well)

I think this post is off-topic (this one exists - its called the downvote for users with ~520+ points)

I think this post violates the guidelines (this one also exists - called flag)
In and near NYC are Robins, the US pioneer of IV ozone therapy ( https://www.ozonedoctor.net/ ) and presumably many doctors Robins has trained.

Of course nothing is known yet to be effective against SARS-CoV-2, but, see paper on IV ozone by Robins and Robert Rowen, MD: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=78032311573342346...

I got turned onto the alternative doctors, who got me back to work, after conventional medicine failed me for years. Turns out regulatory capture isn't in the public interest after all. Who knew?

Anyway, if there is any upside of being in NYC right now, it may be access to broader variety of treatment options.
I've switched to a "dumb phone" over 2 years ago and I have no plans of turning back. I've recently published a piece about it https://pawelurbanek.com/mobile-internet-addiction-focus
Extremely hard.

I was given a preliminary diagnosis for an auto immune (Sjogrens) because among other weird symptoms I put down that antibiotics would resolve symptoms for several weeks.

Doctor had noticed that people with Sjogrens often did better on antibiotics. He informed to find a rhumotogist that understood this.

I can’t find any locally, and mentioning it gets me dismissed.

They have been taught that it’s nonsense and they refuse to listen.

Bringing in research just annoys them.
That could be a good way to learn new foreign language words.
That is absolutely true. Still, if masks are necessary for medical professionals, it's ridiculous to say they don't help anyone else at all. And yet, that's what our government is saying.
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You gotta control here for variables, hon.
Cancer isn't like a pandemic. Cancer multiply within a body; pathogens multiply within societies.

I disagree with "you can only surrender your rights once"; unlike life, rights can be won back. There's plenty of places on the planet in which you couldn't freely speak or assemble just a couple decades ago, but now you can. Things aren't going monotonically from bad to worse (though I admit, there's a strong directional pressure here; maintaining rights feels like fighting entropy).

I am a parent, I want my child to live in a world where the government doesn't abuse and spy on them, but where that government is also capable of containing an infectious pathogen (whether natural or purpose-made) pretty much as soon as it registers. There is a practical balance to be found there.

(And if we're trading imaginary worlds: I want my child to live in a world where private entities don't spy on them and sell private information, a world where adtech doesn't exist.)
same number as shown for Italy, so copy-paste mishap?
Have you worked with redundant routers? They certainly reduce the number of outages, but sometimes the hardware (or software) fails in exciting ways that doesn't engage the redundancy, or doesn't engage it properly, and you still get an outage (or you get an outage that wouldn't have happened). Or sometimes, one circuit is out of service for repair or upgrade, and the other circuit is connected to the router that failed. And routing for the AS that travels on that circuit was set not to fallback to transit because the last time that happened, it caused major issues.

I have no specific knowledge of today's events, but this sort of thing happens. You can get the number of incidents down pretty low, but not to zero.
There's a difference between the school allowing tracking your use of their equipment and the school requiring you to use tracking software on your own machine.

Of course, if the schooling is voluntary; either private K-12 or any collegiate level, then you just have to play by their rules or go home. Someone could definitely bring the case against a state K-12 requiring Zoom use though, were they properly paranoid, motivated, and funded.
Only-EOL like python is fine and always-semicolon like C is fine.
Sometimes-optional but sometimes-required semicolon like
Javascript is bad in my experience. Javascripts C-like syntax
doesn't cope well with missing semicolons
> I'm curious how many people who now say "give me privacy or give me death!" will change their tune in a hurry once they are themselves, perhaps for the first time in their lives, in real danger of dying.

The weak ones we shouldn't be prioritizing over the strong. Harboring weakness is just asking to be taken advantage of. It may seem empathetic at first, but all you end up doing is undermining the individuals growth and selling out the security of future generations. If you're an adult, you need to come to terms with death, and recognize that extending your life isn't worth stealing from future generations. They deserve more freedom than we've had. Not less.
7zip isn’t the complaint, it’s that the installer installs the app before the user OKs it.

Honestly zoom is something that I would never let near a personal computer. What really surprised me is that there’s a “zoomgov.” (a friend at a defense contractor showed me) Either our government is enjoying the benefits of being able to force companies to be audited because of defense budgets or things have become way more relaxed than they should be. Judging by our “stockpiles” and inability to get critical equipment I’m guessing the second one.
Car manufacturers would be really effective, though far from efficient. Under our current conditions, it makes sense to use car manufacturers.

Car manufacturers rework and reuse things all the time. There are always new models coming out, mainly to look different from previous models. Lots of parts get repurposed, being used for very different vehicles. Lots of parts get redesigned each year, often for small improvements.

Car manufacturers also have great small-volume production for engineering prototypes. It isn't as cheap as normal production, but it can be put to use immediately.
If I may, doesn't lobste.rs try to push against the Eternal September effect by still being invite only?

I have been on HN for years but as I've not done much DMing and don't live in the Silicon Valley geographical area, I've never had an invite to join. Which is not a complaint as such, more like an acknowledgement that if there is a HN user who feels he's done at least okay in the effort to be a good HN user, yet has not been invited to lobste.rs, it probably would result in a more rarified user population for that site.

Exclusive clubs seem to correlate to good reputations, and for good reason.
Coronavirus modelers factor in public health risk: Accusations work is a hoax
they're super cute, but will claw and bite you viciously if threatened. there used to be a couple in my neighborhood in LA and i'd hear them fighting sometimes (when not raiding trash cans). they're also a rabies vector. but generally, they'll leave you alone if you leave them alone.
too much sugar can make your code diabetic.

pipes are cool until they aren't
That’s a great place for hikes. It’s got a seasonal creek and small wetlands. They’ve got signs posted about the local wildlife you can expect see. It’s a shame dogs aren’t limited to a given area as they drive away some wildlife.
Interestinggg. So, as mentioned by another user, I'm better off mapping Lat/Lon to FIPS. Found a census endpoint that does just that[1]!

Now for an address, I can geocode it up.

https://geo.fcc.gov/api/census/
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Shortened from: Coronavirus modelers factor in new public health risk: Accusations their work is a hoax

Originally found on Marc Lipsitch's twitter: https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1243593174985117697

This is also a good thread explaining modeling complexities:
https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1243347447537115136
Discoverability is horrible on the iOS App Store. I have looked for a good RSS reader on there in the past and only been served shovelware.

I found out about NNW from DF the other day. Even after using and installing it, it is nowhere to be seen when I search for RSS.

Apples broken App Store system surfaces cheap crappy apps. Apple wants users to make impulse purchases so they can skim 30% off the top. It’s a bad experience and is doing tremendous long term damage. Steve Jobs would be pissed.
Networks are harder than everyone thinks. The 2018 CenturyLink outage on the west coast was caused by 1 bad network card that started writing malformed packets.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/report-huge-centurylink-outage...
DroneAid: A Symbol Language and ML model for indicating needs to drones, planes
You know, in Italy you could not buy a face mask since mid January. Yes, if it were in our culture we would stockpile them at home. But I can assure everybody would use one since February, if we could get some.
When you were a minor in high school, yes. Presumably, in college you were 18+ and legally allowed to consent on your own.

You are, of course, welcome to opt out, but there is -- as you suggest -- no requirement for a school or employer to provide an alternative.
There is no competitive pressure within a company. CEO pay is usually an insignificant fraction of a company's revenue; there's enough inefficiencies both within the system and within the market to allow this to exist, even if the actual product of a company is a commodity.

The other part of my comment also mentioned that companies do everything they can to avoid being commoditized: that's another source of inefficiency/surplus revenue. The market is in flux; commoditizing takes time.
Well, what if I wear the watch on my non-dominant hand... and touch my face with my dominant one? Do I then need two watches?
I've seen coyotes in Buena Vista, and in october, Anza Vista (the hill just west of lower fillmore district). Seems like there is plenty of food in the area. In Dallas, Texas I would regularly see coyotes in the park.

Coyotes are generally quite meek around humans. You weigh 150 lbs and are 5' tall (or taller) they are perhaps 70 lbs wet and 26" at the shoulder. If you so much as make eye contact with them, they'll generally leave immediately.
I live down by west portal and have been seeing coyotes long before the shelter in place happened. Probably started a year or so ago.
competition == unemployment. corporate failure == unemployment. innovation == unemployment.

Maybe all in the short term, but, this stimulus is specifically looking to avoid short-term discontinuities.

That said, I'm a big fan of corporate stress tests and capital buffers as well. I'm not a fan of debt-fueled share buybacks, but, I understand them as a response to a system that allows them.
Maybe fraud? Yelp is posing as the owner in order to set up fund-raising without prior consent.

With any luck, they’ll pursue criminal charges and not let them off with a settlement.
Surely the "100 people" metric is too low although I agree at some point (and certainly Google-scale) a redundant router makes sense.
Do what you can for your community, your friends, and yourself
For Alzheimer's, yes, they have pushed hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

TFA looks at one researcher who was looking at antivirals. She has constantly gotten papers rejected and turned down for funding.
No country does enough testing to make empirical death rates informative.
Process mining is a field related to data science. Basically you take an event log, put it into PM algorithms (e.g. heuristic miner or inductive miner) and you get a model of the underlaying process eventually (think of it as a flow chart). On top of that you can run analysis that look for bottlenecks, for example.

I'm not quite happy with the ecosystem though. Most tools are either cloud based like Celonis or organically grown Java bloatware (PROM, Disco). PM4Py also looks like a Java project that was tweaked until it was syntactically correct Python. However, it's probably the most usable free tool for PM out there. And to be fair, it's a quite young project also, docs looked much worse half a year ago.

Edit: added PM tools
Sure, but this is usually because of UX reasons and less because of performance or capabilities
This is largely a matter of local lexical confusion. In the US, "brown bear" can mean two things: a black bear with a brown coat (ursus americanus), or a grizzly (ursus arctos horribilis, which makes me giggle every time).

Across the pond, "brown bear" probably means ursus arctos arctos, a cousin of our own more foul-tempered beasties.

But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/).
Idaho. There hasn't been a confirmed grizzly bear sighting in Washington since the late 90s. They're presumed to be extinct in WA.
That's true, it's not humiliating when you aren't being satirized or mocked by an Onion or Colbert report.
Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount
In short it is a way to map how people travel through a process. It could be how people use your website, a sales funnel, an onboarding process, compliance to process etc.

You may like to watch some of the early videos https://www.coursera.org/learn/process-mining

We started with pm4py it has a lot of the functionality the paid tools have.
Space looks super promising, but I looked at the EAP in late January and it seemed far from ready for actual use. It seemed like it needed another year in development to flesh everything out. I really hope it comes together like they plan for it to. It'd be nice to switch from our stack of Redmine, 2 instances of GitLab, Slack, and a custom wiki solution.
It's great that Tony Silva, the parrot smuggler, is the first name on the list. Also strange that he's under "artists and authors" and not scientist. Overall this page seems to need an update. Perhaps I'll take a stab at it sometime soon.
I'm not a manufacturing expert, but if came down to it and I was sick and only had the choice between "drowning alone as my lungs filled up with mucus" and "trying a ventilator that probably doesn't work and was built by an idiot using Home Depot parts and a Raspberry Pi" I'd still go with the idiot.

Sure, ideally we'd want the certified equipment, built by the professional knighted safety engineers, stamped by the right bureaucrat, with 1000 pages of documentation proving how thoroughly expert-approved they are, but when you run out of these, what do you do?
Tesla donates hundreds of ventilators to New York