skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unfortunate wisdom in business is "nobody cares about privacy or security," and in my experience it's true. Outside a small number of people nobody even asks these questions.

With our own product ZeroTier we get maybe 1-2 questions a year about privacy and so far only a few enterprise customers have even asked about the security of encryption and authentication. "It's encrypted" is good enough for 99.9% of the market. Encrypted with what? A cereal box cipher? Nobody cares.

What do people care about? In my experience its ease of use, ease of use, ease of use, ease of use, and ease of use, in no particular order. An app that's a privacy and security dumpster fire but is very easy to set up and use will win hands down over a better engineered one that requires even one or two more steps to set up.
It wasn't just you: Why Google suffered widespread outages
Yeah about the in vitro thing.. I'm sure gasoline also kills the corona virus. Unfortunately the patient also goes.
There was a great Philosophy Bites podcast that talked about the high comorbidity of mental disorders. This one, I think: https://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categori...

The point that stuck with me is that, as you say, the high comorbidity is strong evidence that we have a bad model of the situation. Part of that for me is the medicalization of deviance.

As an example, I saw a bit on Twitter from an autism researcher who was sitting in on a young girl getting tested for autism. She was shown an animation of triangles moving around in a way that neurotypicals would anthropomorphize: https://twitter.com/DrRubySapphire/status/123278780736346112...

She described how the triangles moved instead of humanizing them. She recognized that they looked like they were playing, but knew that triangles didn't have minds. That was marked as a failure, a sign of sickness. Not because she was wrong, but because she was different from the norm.

I think a lot about the world where we just accept that there are a bunch of different kinds of people and stop trying to fit them all into one mold. Where we make the world work for all of them, not just the "normal" ones (which, historically, seems to mean straight, white, moneyed, neurotypical men of a particular body type).
Show HN: Project Opal – Post Exploitation Framework for Wordpress
It's kind of far down in the page so I missed it the first time I scanned it.

"We are working around the clock to finalise our protocol reference documents and reference implementation, to open source what we have built, so that others may deploy their own flavours of TraceTogether - each implementing the BlueTrace protocol. We appreciate your patience in the meantime."
It's a very cute box, and I particularly enjoy that this small blog reflects a microcosm of development, fixing bugs for a product, and making it usable for a "customer". That said, games for the author's child remind me of the MIDI Fighter 64 as used by Shawn Wasabi [0], which while a MIDI controller, has reactive patterns to button-presses while being used to play music.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof7PkoggbM
> * to use the correct tool for the problem (macro are not easy to write and that’s good otherwise you will abuse them. Instead they are great to use)

Just wanted to add: Nim has Macros (which are comparable to lisp forms) and Templates, which are closer to C and Lisp macros and are much harder to abuse; It also has built-in inlines and generics, which are essentially the prime use for templates and macros in languages that lack those.

It also has stuff like operational transforms, which lets you state things like "whenever you see x*4 and x is an integer, use x shl 2 itself", so that you CAN apply your knowledge in the places where you know better than the compiler, while still writing the code you meant to write (multiply by 4) and not the assembly you wanted to generate.

Right tool for the right job is a very good description, which I don't think many languages can claim - definitely not minimalist ones like K, nor kitchen sink ones like C++ (no, an accidentally turing complete template expansion system is NOT the right tool for compile time computation).
LOVE IT! Thanks a bunch mate. Works like a charm. Used: https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/
Cannot compile it, cause npm is fucked and and my nodejs fu is meh....
I've been playing around with jitsi (https://jitsi.org/) and have been impressed. I may play around with deploying their server on aws this weekend (via this docker, most likely: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet)
It helps with agreeing to do something together online at a certain time. Including announcing online events.

Nothing else. But that's enough.
Funny thing is I cannot use my rather expensive Bose QC53 because my Bluetooth audio insists on mono playback when using the microphone. And that really sounds horrible.
Some friendly feedback: Your pricing table lists the most expensive plan as being "for big boys". This is really not appropriate and looks immature; it will put a lot of people off. I assume this is not your intention though!
"Seems". Some people reported that Zoom handle gracefully more participants than Hangouts and performs better on a slow connection, see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15717701 and this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155155

There are probably a couple of others you can find here and there.

Edit: Well, this thread also.
A fair question. In principle this can happen, and HotSpot can respond to changes in the program's execution patterns, but to my knowledge it's not a problem in practice with real-world Java servers. Other than a 'warming up' phase, real-world performance doesn't tend to vary wildly as time progresses.

(Disclaimer: I've not done a great deal of real-world Java work.)
Choices are:

Allow Windows 10 auto update but for a chance for it to delete all your profile / data files PERMANENTLY :

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-k... (February 19, 2020)

Or

Turn off auto update with user control on when is best time to update:
Seems to me this is like tagging, but instead of making the tags at the end of your thought, you're annotating words within your writing, which become the tags. I grant you that it is more intuitive to do it this way.
Skype for business has terrible UX. Traditional Skype works great for one-to-one, but can't handle a room full of people.
Ask HN: Why do we need app stores?
What's the reason for app stores nowadays?

I know it's a marketing channel, but overall it seems like an additional problem when you want to publish an app.

Also, the best apps, like YouTube Vance, aren't even in those stores.

So what are the reasons to use them?
Fascinating Relationship Between AI and Neuroscience
Just tidbits, nothing worth referring. But too many to for comfort. Systematic studies either don't exist or they get lost in the noise of death-counting. It's particularly hard to find even speculative opinion because the same lung damage keywords that would describe outcomes are also preconditions associated with greatly elevated risk, so there's naturally a lot of charter about that.
Everyone mentions Jitsi on HN but I'm guessing AV quality isn't as good as Zooms...
Try it at 12 people.

Try it when you want to control who is speaking and when.

Try it when you want to co-ordinate hundreds of participants and still want to track who has a question so you can hand the virtual mic / airtime to them.

Try it when you want breakout groups and to determine who is in which group, and after a set time for the groups to return to the main space.

What is good enough for 2 people facing each other, and appears to work perfectly well for a group of 5 or 6... doesn't quite scale to a company all-hands, or giving a lecture or seminar.

Tools fit a scale, and Zoom is excessive for the small and simple use-case but excels at the large and complex.
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/rainfall-rescue is the direct link where you can start transcribing the data yourself.
>If anything, I'd ask why La Repubblica published a bogus article.

Seasons come and go, but click bait is eternal
It's a security feature of using florescent yellow ink.
Note that existing RDBMS are gradually adding and improving their text search engines. Of course there will always be specialized situations that need dedicated high-end text search engines.
UN, WHO and Mila Map the AI vs. Covid-19 Battlefield
I always am impressed how people clearly can tell someone got the difference between a dot matrix printer and an inkjet wrong despite working with it for months, just from seeing a short silent video snippet.

BTW: https://twitter.com/MLE_Online/status/1243551232087584770
> For non-US readers: Somebody made an incorrect decision to take him to an urgent care office, which requires immediate insurance or payment

Is this something that all US readers would know? What about people who have never been to such a place?

> You're supposed to use urgent care for minor things like an earache or prescription refill.

Surely urgency comes in degrees and someone with the symptoms of COVID-19 is surely in more urgent need than someone who has an earache.

I realize that the name is just what it is called; I'm not really arguing for a change of name, after all it's not my country, but it does seem quite plausible that someone might go to such a place under the (mis)apprehension that urgent needs would be attended to and payment be dealt with afterward.
pretty amazing! so many, and lovely mix of drawings
"As far as I know Mycroft does its speech recognition in the cloud..."

How practical would it be to recognize my most common commands, eg "resume podcast", offline?
I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect this would violate our HIPAA BAA with Zoom. Forwarding this to our legal department...
I don't know if it can. Its always bound by its government. By that measure I am really surprised people in large companies trust it. I really am surprised by its adoption.
Sadly all of this data assumes there are approximately as many beds as needed, and won't be very helpful `x` weeks from now because once we hit capacity, the situation is bound to look very different.

I don't see enough people making this point: the young will be very vulnerable if left untreated, and you can't treat e.g. the entire state of NY with 3,800 ICU beds plus however many the wonderful people in the Army Corps of Engineer can put together in a pinch.

It's not like young people are going to recover at home from their nasty case of pneumonia. With no ventilators and no medical staff, the mortality rate will markedly increase.
The dreaded hackernews effect!
Exactly. There's a general and very real disconnect with what it takes to make things. I watch the White House and Gov. Cuomo's press conferences every day. The repeated questions about test kits, beds, ventilators, etc. drive me up a wall.

I calm down when I realize none of the people asking the questions understand manufacturing one bit. And then I get rattled again because they are communicating falsehoods to the general population. We don't have enough masks, test kits or ventilators because you can't Superman hardware production.

It isn't Trump's fault or anyone else's. It takes time --lots of time-- to setup a manufacturing process and start to produce product at scale with consistent quality and performance. Weeks for the most trivial of products, years for more complex hardware. Yet people don't have an understanding of this.

Ventilators? Holy cow. Talk about not being able to Superman something into existence.

If people understood they would realize that we made a massive mistake over the last 50 years by allowing our industrial base to evaporate and migrate to China to the extent it has. Consumers are as much at fault as the decades of incompetent politicians who allowed this to happen. While we bothered with nonsense (wars, etc.) China quietly went from an agrarian society to the second economy in the world. And, even worse, the world's factory. We, quite literally, cannot make anything in the US or Europe without Chinese components and, in some cases, all we are able to do is design in the US or Europe and have no choice but to manufacture in China.

I suspect things might change over the coming years. The money we wasted in wars would have been far better spent keeping industry alive locally. Yes, subsidies, no taxes for manufacturers, relaxed regulatory burden, etc. Either we do those things or the next pandemic will, once again, find us not being able to even manufacture face masks at scale. How laughable is it that people have to sew face masks at home in the US? Sad.

BTW: In Spain they just woke up to the reality that they received 340,000 bad test kits from China.
It's possible were in a slow decline. Rome didn't fall in a day.
> "As a reminder, you don’t need to wear a mask unless you are sick"...

But of course, you may not know that you're sick... so wear a mask.
>I have a question, what does this for?

>/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/in....

Sorry, your first sentence still doesn't make much sense. If you are asking how is that better command than piping download into bash, it's pretty much same thing, but at least this one uses https.
ESlint and Prettier and TypeScript = Consistency
Install from zero an advanced linux distribution (CentOS, Debian), make it work properly.
This will give you enough things to do to learn and also decide if you like it.
Write an application on server side stack, for ex Nodejs.
Learn how to set it on a server.
Connect your app to a database you setup.
Deploy all of this on a cloud.
Good luck!
Article on the naming from BBC Scotland:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-5...

"However, the chief scientist on my expedition, Dr Alan Jamieson and a Scot, once met him in a bar."
I ran into that with a backup product showing the current file being backed up. I wound up just posting the current file to a buffer that was protected by a mutex and whatever file name happened to be in the buffer at render time was what was drawn.
Lots of neat descriptions on the page. Can't wait to see the reference documents.
Probably the MacIntyre et al. paper. It's being misinterpreted everywhere in this very misleading fashion. See this blog MacIntyre wrote to clarify this: https://iser.med.unsw.edu.au/blog/impact-ppe-shortages-healt...

People misrepresenting this study are doing tremendous harm, it has to stop.
Boardgames to get you through Quarantine
The problem with use of masks in the US is that we do not have enough masks and we need them all for health care workers. If there aren't enough masks for health care workers, doctors and nurses will stop coming to work people won't be able to get medical attention the death rate will sky rocket because of lack of simple medical procedures, there will be panic in the streets, etc.

For this reason our media seems to be under strict orders to de-emphasize masks and just talk about distancing and hand washing.

It is very regrettable that we have a completely incompetent federal government that did not stock up on masks even though they had plenty of warning but these are the facts. If we ever make enough masks so that all the health care workers are covered, then yes all civilians should wear masks. I am sure then the media will start talking about masks.
Video literally shows a dragnet.
On our priority list, containing the virus is way higher than making sure China takes responsibility (how is this even a debate?), but the US Executive branch leader (and everyone who follows that lead) has a major priority inversion.
Agreed. As long as the country is not capable of pulling that off, any discussion of UBI is a waste of time.
It seems there is a ritual of articles every 6 months for finding a microbe to degrade plastic for past 5 years now. I wonder what is the real story.
10+ years ago, Ancestry.com hired people in Asia to transcribe U.S. census returns and vital records. They also used volunteers: http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2321

Not sure how it's done now, but I suspect it's very hard to automate owing to inconsistent handwriting styles, unusual names for people and places, footnotes and abbreviations, etc.
Sounds cool, I'd love to do it. I just need to lose 25 pounds. And save $750,000. Anyone want to pay me 30 grand for every pound I lose?
Look for keystudio respeaker hat for raspberry. I got one for this exact purpose but still haven't got the chance to test it.
Taiwan's government has been pretty open, since the government in power has been trying to contrast themselves from China and HK's governments which have issues with transparency. They have an English status page https://www.cdc.gov.tw/en for results. They're also reporting the origin of the imported cases.

Edit: Taiwan's case count is also low enough that they're still reporting updates using confirmed case numbers to track the spread from different cases.
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Any chance you have some sources on this? There a lot of talking around the subject of masks, but I don't have any articles or similar to show people when discussing this.
Ah yes, in my case it doesn't agree with firefox at all. I have chrome installed pretty much for hangouts only.
Every cell phone user has to be tracked so the cell network knows how to route their calls. Result: https://twitter.com/TectonixGEO/status/1242628347034767361 (edited for better link)
I worked on a service that had this exact issue; actually it was worse because it was a signed integer so rolled over in half the time.

Even more insidious, we never hit the issue until months into production because we had a pretty consistent two week release process. So the issue only came to light when development slowed down as the project became more stable.

Luckily deployments were staggered across datacenters so when the bug hit it didn’t happen to every server at once, but of course as always happens, when it did, the majority of the servers started hanging over the weekend while I was on call.
One major problem for Zoom is that it cannot merely focus on its core video conferencing competency while achieving the growth objectives of a publicly traded company. A high-quality video conferencing platform is hard to replicate until it isn't. The amount of talent and energy being spent right now on video conferencing, as a result of remote work, is going to amount to commoditization of high-quality video conferencing. Zoom has maybe another 12 months of juice left. As a result, it's advancing into new categories and will compete with customers very soon.

I'd be very cautious about sharing information with Zoom. You may be showing it where to fish.
What type of tech? There are tons of programs for consumer tech and even B2B tech. You have to pick based on what 'tech' niche your content is addressing.

Besides that, many technical sites and even apps/services leverage Carbon Ads network - I know that is not an affiliate recommendation, but something to look at if you are open to Ads (and if they accept your application)
Thanks! The previous project was a playful take on UX.

https://blog.afandian.com/2019/09/ux-for-toddlers/

Thanks for the video, I love seeing performances like that.

I've been fascinated with those grid MIDI controllers for a while. I started this project with a Launchpad Mini but didn't have the energy to work out how to make it battery powered and reliable (there's an excellent Python library but it was a bit flaky with a Raspberry Pi).

I wonder how you use them in reality. Learn a new layout for every song? I can play a few instruments' keyboard layouts, but it would be a challenge to remember where each sample was mapped.
>Sorry, you must be new to the Internet. Everything besides World Health Organisation website (in this particular case) is an opinion here.

It is ironic you mention the World Health Organization as a source of truth given this tweet:

>If you do not have any respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a medical mask. When used alone, masks can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection when not used correctly.[0] - WHO Twitter Account

I put a spin on it:

>If you are not drunk, you do not need to wear your seat belt. When used alone, seat belts can give you a false feeling of protection, and can even be a source of accidents when not used correctly.

[0]: https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024
> Self reliance is key.

I'm not a student of politics, but I wonder if self-reliance also makes a country more willing to start unnecessary wars.

If so, I'd wonder which strategy has a higher death count.
I had a few mini-disc players in the late 90s. I had about an hour commute in to work in those days and it was awesome not to lug around tapes or the shock sensitive, constantly skipping, CD Walkman.

I managed to find a fairly cheap "all-in-one" hifi that had a minidisc drive in it too, so transferring was easy, but lacked the track naming, and it would only transfer at 1.5x speed.

Those minidisc players took a bit of a beating. In the end I replaced it with a Creative Nomad Jukebox (http://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/technology-flashback-creat...). That was a revelation. 6GB of MP3 storage meant I could rip all of my CDs and take them with me.

Sony seems to have a habit of producing some really great technology and then woefully mismanaging it by having short term thinking and failing to learn from rivals.

It had so many advantages at the time, but the equipment involved in recording to it was so expensive it was hard to get the labels on-board. If Sony had been willing to drastically subsidise the recording equipment and got the labels on board they'd have had so much more chance to make it in the market. When you're leaving it for your target consumer to wrestle with "How do I get my music on to it", and requiring specialty hardware purchase or complicated hacks, you've sort of lost the market already.
> Try aliexepress

I'd be surprised if that worked at all. At least one Chinese ecommerce website is preventing foreign IPs from even viewing item listings for masks. When you try to view the item from the search results, it gives you an error saying something like export is prohibited.

Also China has pretty much shut down air travel to the country to prevent "imported cases," so air freight capacity from is greatly reduced: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/asia/china-virus-tr...:

> The halt to almost all international passenger flights in and out of China will make it even harder for other countries to import N95 respirators, disposable surgical masks and other personal protection gear from China for their own doctors and nurses. About half the world’s airfreight typically moves in the bellies of passenger aircraft, while the rest travels aboard air freighters.

> Previous, large-scale cancellations of passenger air services to China have already created an acute shortage of air cargo capacity over the past two weeks.
Docker is the best medium for distributing and running developer-facing software
We just used it at work with 500+ people. After all the various teleconferencing crap we paid $$$ for, we couldn't use them because they couldn't handle it. Zoom worked flawlessly.
It changes the culture. In my experience, Silicon Valley companies have more of a culture of growing at all costs. And they're either fanatical about privacy or they'll sell you out to the highest, middle, and lowest bidders all at once, then give it away free through an unpatched security hole too.