skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Creator of the Ebola Vaccine Has Hope for Slowing Covid-19
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Hmmm... no! I guess every country has an equivalent agency to FCC.
This is about the contention ratio, and service delivery. When you have many users you can still deliver great service even if the contention ratio seems higher. There are two main factors for planning the bandwidth needed, the average data use/bandwidth use, and what max utilization is during the peak, typically 6-8pm when the highest number of users are using the network. If you are selling 100mb plans, as long as you have at least 100mb of available bandwidth during the peak times, any individual user can still burst up to the plan max. So that is 90% on a 1 gig line, or 95% on a 2 gig line. 1 gigabit a second for a month is about 325k gigabytes total. Or about 160gb per month per customer data use for 2000 customers sharing a 1 gig line with near 100% use. There are also multiple steps where the contention ratio or bandwidth use matters ranging from very local, last mile issues to international ones related to peering.

https://startyourownisp.com along with dsl reports and ubiquiti forums have info on planning small ISPs
Consequence to every action. He knew the price. Carry on with your lives.
Floor Exchange usually happens seamlessly in most in-person conversations, but it can be a challenge over video chat, even in 2020.

This is because (conventionally, at least) video chat doesn't really allow eye contact in a natural way, isn't it?

I'll be really surprised if the easiest way to hack the interview process this year isn't just being aware-enough about your camera setup that you can emulate visual cues inherent to physical conversations.
Suspected SARS virus and flu samples found in luggage of Chinese man: FBI report
asking questions when you know the answers is pretty pointless, innit
By using a Dutch oven you get a more consistent temp since it holds the heat like a stone, and doesn’t let moisture evaporate until you take the lid off.

So yeah, the variations make sense
Yeah, well, people are selective in their concerns. How much does it affect reaction time to have passengers in the car who you may talk to, or may be doing all sorts of things that distract you?
German government plans national crypto with basic income and Gold binding
Yes you do, but there are thousands of ways you can skin a cat.

Sometimes that automated something you thought was really important but super hard to do might not be as useful as one would think and the user requested it because he could.

The trick is to have a flexible scope based on what problem you are trying to solve and not around a specific feature/solution.
I don't even own a car, and I get them all the time. I make sure to very loudly laugh whenever I get one of those calls, even when I'm completely alone (which has been a little over two weeks solid now...).
> What makes this problem uniquely hard to solve for the USA as opposed to anywhere else?

Starting back in 2018 or so there has been a big problem in Australia with scam robocalls claiming to be from the Australian Tax Office. The area code on the phone number said it came from Canberra (Australia's national capital) which made it look more legitimate–even though in reality the call was coming from an overseas call centre. The robocall started out by saying that you owe a tax debt and the government was about to commence legal action against you. I got several, most people would hang up realising that the tax office would never do that. (It is illegal for them to discuss your tax affairs without confirming your identity first, so they would never begin a call by saying you owed them money.) But, some people (many of whom were older/vulnerable people), stayed on the call until the live operator connected. The live operator would then pressure them to go to a store and buy thousands of dollars of gift cards (such as Apple iTunes gift cards) and then read the gift card details out over the phone.

So this definitely is not a problem unique to the US. And other countries have been taking action, see e.g. in Australia – https://www.zdnet.com/article/acma-proposes-three-point-acti...

(Definitely the incidence of these fake calls appears to be falling, in my personal experience, so I think the Australian authorities'/industry's attempts are producing some results.)
Of course they don't substitute for fresh, but canned tomatoes are pretty good for a lot of cooking. They are harvested relatively ripe compared to store fresh.
I guess I'll have to echo your sentiment back at you. For some reason, the guy's supporters seem utterly blind to, what to the rest of us, is the obvious fact that he's a regular doofus who finagled his way into the highest office in the land. He's floundering around, not really trying, defensive and petulant most of the time. Totally unready for the rigors of the task, and not willing to learn.

So if we give only the most cursory attention to his incoherent remarks, its obvious why. To some. To others, we're "not giving the guy a chance" or for some astonishing reason, we should "rationally evaluate his actions and statements". Like maybe this time, he's said something that by some accident can be construed as reasonable.
If it is 100% recyclable+degradable, I don't care how much they sell
We do need to fund more science, but we also need to fund more PPE, more testing and contact tracing, more medical equipment and more nurses. Please support the Coronavirus Action Plan: https://www.change.org/p/coronavirus-action-plan
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays

I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that.

Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
That is where the sourness in sourdough comes from. sourdough starter has a balance of yeast and bacteria.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough
Services != Advertisement. Advertisement is about collecting data from potential customers and offering that to advertisers. Services in the context of Apple is about selling the hardware hoping to capitalize on the ecosystem of their services (music, news, icloud, etc). In extreme cases such as Sony who sells PlayStations ("hardware") at a loss hoping to recover it from game sales ("services"). Apple is more like Sony than Google.
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This is the kind of "natural experiment" that economists get excited about.

I hope they're able to at least gain some knowledge from all the disruption throughout society.
This post (from the Matrix team) gives a good account of the differences in design philosophy between Matrix and Signal https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
Nonsense.

"Reducing" requires proper pricing, that is it
No it isn't, people compare the EU and the US all the time. A bad comparison would be comparing the US to the Nordic subsection.
The last breach was November of of 2018 . They have had a year and a half to fix their abysmal security practices. Instead they choose to focus their efforts in that time on a ridiculous branding juggernaut("Bonvoy".) Seriously fuck this company. I hope people vote with their wallet.
This made me check the date, but it's still March 31 in the US.
I don't think SHAKEN/STIR will stop robocalls, because the economics won't change. It's too easy for foreign robocalls to cycle numbers once one gets blocked. It will help with impersonation, but I don't believe it will significantly decrease robocall volume.

I think the telecommunications world will need to adopt whitelisting instead of blacklisting. I run a whitelist-based robocall blocking service called CallStop and a lot of customers have straight up given up using their landline, or their personal number with unknown numbers.

People who claim that whitelisting is a bad solution because it could block an emergency call don't realize that many people don't answer unknown calls anymore--and I don't think SHAKEN/STIR will change that.
>I don't think so, to me an internship is temporary by nature and does not have a "guaranteed" job at the end based on good performance.

If you do a great job in a FAANG internship then you will get a full time offer at the end. Does the probationary period you propose have a lower performance bar than is applied post-internship? If so then it seems it wouldn’t achieve FAANG’s standards.

> The selection process is so competitive right now that I think plenty of people would be happy for such a change if it meant a more reasonable interview process. Plenty of strong candidates are being thrown away over arbitrary metrics right now anyway.

FAANG doesn’t need to attract more weaker candidates who can’t pass the interview, they are more concerned about getting strong candidates who have multiple offers to pick them. For less competitive candidates there are contract positions.
Autonomous air traffic control is far further along than you think it is.
> g---le+

What is the purpose behind "censoring" Google's name here...?
I'm not in the US and I'm able to watch it. Maybe it's not available in your country, but it is available in at least one other country than US.
> passport...has your SSN printed on it

My U.S. passport certainly doesn’t.

(Agree that it’s a poor form of primary identification. It is bulky. It is difficult to replace. And it contains more information than you need for identification.)
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Does it really? I can’t find anything to agree with that.
Great demo.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a Javascript implementation myself: https://github.com/avik-das/js-raycast

And then, when asm.js (precursor to WebAssembly) became a thing, I rewrote it in C and compiled it to asm.js: https://github.com/avik-das/emcc-raycast

I'd already written a ray tracer (so a fully 3D renderer) prior to that in college, so it was fun to learn about a more limited algorithm that was better suited to older hardware.
Summary:

Gig work has a really negative reputation overall, but it was nothing short of a miraculous solution for me when I was very ill and homeless. I still do gig work and I still see it as a potential force for good for the world at large, but only if we can start doing a better job of designing platforms with more upside for the workers.
Try registering a domain name without privacy.
Well... that's blatantly anticompetitive. There are two mobile platforms: iOS and Android. The owner of iOS is buying apps and removing them from Android. Wtf.
Could we see this in a MacBook Air sized laptop?
GruntJS/GulpJS/Webpack - none of these address the issue of transitioning to new behavior without having to fiddle with current state / fix existing object / reset and recreate some things from scratch. Clojure addresses that by forcing immutable functional mindset.

Sure, there’s a combination of tools / plugins / unorthodox (to vanilla JS) development practices that gives you the same thing, but in Clojure you just get it out of the box and nothing feels weird.
the peak occurs because transmission has been stopped. the reason you come to that conclusion is because the incubation period is 14 days, so once you get widespread isolation/quarantine/shelter in place of the population, then the peak will occur 14 days later. if you dont isolate then your peak is only reached when there are no more hosts, either through killing them off or herd immunity preventing further transmission. of course there would be a considerable difference in the size of the peak between these 2 methods.

so I guess I'm saying you can't say "the peak is in 2 weeks, isolate now" rather it is "if we isolate on $DATE then we will see a peak in $DATE+2 weeks"
This’d be yet another topic on which everyone has very different “definitely the right way” advice, too, which isn’t helping. Though I have started them on the counter, it’s just after that they have to go in the fridge if you don’t want to waste flour on them every single day, apparently, and even then they’re still very hungry. Throwing out flour hurts when I know I could have made something good with it. I’ve tried recipes to use up “waste” starter without having to make bread with it, but it was still more effort than doing the same thing with other ingredients and the flavor was... poor.
I found this a good read, but I don't feel that Fortnight's business model is really as novel as the author suggests. Free to play games (MMOs in particular) had been leveraging this consumer behavior for quite a while. I think it is the audience and their perception that have changed.

(This is largely anecdotal, but) 7-10 years ago, a game having a cash shop of _any_ kind caused it to be shunned by a large portion of the (US) gaming community. However, the model proved so effective (particularly with the "non-traditional gamer"), that it eventually became the norm. The market shifted that way as it grew and now the community is resigned to it. Don't get me wrong, there are still a multitude of games that follow the traditional model, but those aren't the cash cows of the industry because the market is simply smaller.

With Fortnight, I feel that Epic succeeded because they took a known formula, applied it to a budding, ultra-competitive genre, gave it an unassuming art style that had mass appeal, and made the game play simple and approachable.
Sure, but this is what labor organizing has been threatened with since the beginning of wage labor and they’ve still won lots and lots of victories.

Google employees organized largely online, internally and did just this. And the situation at Amazon for low wage workers is arguably worse.

If workers at Amazon are legitimately motivated to do this, there’s not much that can stop them. Also, firing workers on top of workers for organizing tends to not play out very well in the courts and Amazon HQ people are well-paid enough to find good lawyers.
yup i'll 2nd that :-)
I came here to say this. No tracking, it's a public service and the UI is great. Thanks to the Norwegian Metereological Institute for making this available to everyone.

I really think this shows how direly we need "public interest" services on our phone.
Along the same line is Deepchord, a dub techno band I've been getting into lately.

Can't wait for the next BoC release though!
April’s fool?
I've been a Dark Sky user since the beginning. I likely brought about a dozen users to their service over the years. This really sucks, but I'm sure for the founders it was worth it. Apple will lose a lot of viability in Dark Sky as they'll be cutting off sensor input - so I guess, I just don't understand the move. Sure, Apple weather sucks so maybe this replaces it?

I think the thing that frustrates me is that I've been a paying customer for a long time only for the parent purchaser to shut me out. Like I said, I'm glad for the founders, but as the parent here has stated - I highly doubt Apple will do much of anything with this.
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The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux
It assuredly does to citizens of the United States.

The hint is in the name.
Worst April fool's joke of all time.
web2.0 jaded me would say 'instagram is a pale copy of <past tech that was inspiring and joyful>'
Ask HN: How much time do you need to setup your project from scratch?
Think about you lost your all production and deployment servers, all your infrastructure, but you have latest DB, storage backups, code etc. How much time do you need to setup your project from scratch to get back live again?

For example I can setup my simple SaaS side project in ~40 minutes.

Also how about big compaines? Like Google or Facebook? Any guess how much time they need to recover?
> I don't see a legal purpose.

The courts will hold a corporation accountable to its own terms of service, ie. if they, say, terminated an account against their own terms, then they could suffer penalties.
I live in one of the largest countries in the EU and I receive one, maybe two, spam calls a month (and always coming from countries outside the EU). From what I understand from the never-ending list of articles about spam calls in the US, some receive tens, sometimes hundreds of spam calls every day! So yes, this problem is, from our EU perspective, unique to the USA.
I just set up passwords on Zoom rooms for a little room automation project I'm building. There's no drawbacks; you can send out a link that includes the password, so nobody gets left out (no matter how technically challenged). And, someone who "stumbles upon" the room can't just get access.

All in all, Zoom has done a lot of things right, given the extremely challenging competitive environment they're in.
>If you’re using 100g of flour, then at 75% hydration you add 75g of water

>I always use 100g of water and 100g of flour. This is considered 50% hydration.

Well, which is it? :)
Any ideas on how this will be implemented? I use voip.ms and I can put in my cell phone number as my caller ID so I don't need to pay for a DID (basically, rent a phone number) and calls come back to my cell.

I've thought about some potential SaaS products that would leverage a similar approach. But I would authenticate the number back to the customer before allowing it to be used to avoid spam/malicious use.

Based on this:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-t-comcast-successfully-test...

I'm guessing this is down a layer at the provider level. So in my case, voip.ms would verify the number I'm using as my caller ID is actually a number that comes back to me. Right now, I just tested by swapping my wife's cell number in, they do not validate this. Now I understand how people are spoofing numbers so easily.

Obvious approach is to voice call or text the number and require the confirmation code to be entered on the website. Just curious though if there are other requirements or if this is up to the provider.
Can you extend a bit on that, maybe I'm not understanding the problem right. Isn't having calls being authenticated the first step before you have whitelist/blacklist? Once every call can be definitively attached to a given source, then you can ban any foreign provider that let's these proliferate completely, no?
Because fancy, advanced UIs work so well for Navy ships.
> having a few jars that you cycle through every feeding removes the funky crusty buildup that tends to happen if you reuse the same jar.

If I decide to give it another go I’ll definitely do that. Good idea.
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If you don't have precipitation data, then I would agree that it's fine. Their hourly forecast data is quite friendly.

But I wanted precipitation data so I had to use this endpoint: https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/TOP/31,80

That endpoint groups hour-by-hour forecasts (see below) together to deduplicate data, but it makes it very painful to parse. For instance, "2020-03-31T15:00:00+00:00/PT4H" means that value is valid for 4 hours beginning at 2020-03-31T15:00:00+00:00. The durations varied from time interval to time interval and it made it super annoying to parse through.

{
"validTime": "2020-03-31T15:00:00+00:00/PT4H",
"value": 0
},
{
"validTime": "2020-03-31T19:00:00+00:00/PT1H",
"value": 2
},
{
"validTime": "2020-03-31T20:00:00+00:00/PT3H",
"value": 4
},
Summary:

Kpt is an OSS tool for Kubernetes packaging. It uses a standard format to bundle, publish, customize, update, and apply configuration manifests. Kpt operates like kubectl, providing additional functionality to prune and delete configuration.
> Another point of evidence is the lack of luxury software products. People spend absurd amounts of money on jewellery, handbags and cars, but I can’t think of a piece of software with an even remotely similar price tag.

The author isn't looking hard enough: professional software frequently goes for many thousands of dollars.
He had a lifelong neurological condition. He didn't work for RCA. It wasn't just RCA that tried to restrict him. RCA did offer him a million dollars that he refused. He did hit his wife with a poker and she left him.

It's a terrible story and he was treated badly, but you're making it more dramatic than it was.
You don't need an article to estimate the direction from which The sun will rise tomorrow.

Zoom is better than the alternatives on most verticals and has good PR. In fact, justified privacy concerns aside, it's hands down the best vid. conference app I've ever used.
>Focus is likely the reason they don't want to do it.

Yeah....

I'm sure it has nothing to do with apple trying to force people into their ecosystem by every measure possible. That is practically their mission statement.
I would not be surprised if turns out to be a bigger problem in the USA (and perhaps also Canada) than elsewhere simply because the USA is a bigger, easier-to-access pot of honey. It's a large area where everyone speaks the same language, lives in roughly the same regulatory and infrastructural environment, and has a lot of money to be scammed out of.

Europe is also a big pot of honey. But people speak all sorts of different languages, so you'd have to redo the scam in a bunch of different languages, which increases the effort needed to operate it.

China has way more people all speaking the same language, but relatively less wealth per person, which reduces the potential payoff. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if China has already closed off most the holes people exploit to operate these scams, because they seem less inclined than the US government to fart around about silly crap like this for literally decades on end.

Latin America has scads of people all speaking the same language, too, but they're split up among a whole bunch of different countries, which I'm guessing also makes the scam more expensive to operate at scale than it would be in the English-speaking bits of North America.
Is this acquisition going to give more people access to a great weather app or less people access to a great weather app?

It's going to be the same people, working on the same product, but now, it's going to unavailable via their cheif competitor. Tell me how on earth you can consider that not killing competition.
MOSP JSON editor now supports recursion in JSON object
How do you get a new US phone number? (I'll likely block anything from outside the US if authentication happens.)
Since I started using Ogre3D I always had a hard time settling down to feature rich engines like unreal or unity.

I don't know how often, giving beginners access to a space shuttle, will it lead to a successful project that can compete with non-indie game developers.

There is also a fine line between an indie team of developers who can benefit from those tools, and experienced game developers who would not need them.

It seems unreal and unity are just very capable, but cheap, tools that are well-marketed towards students and beginners. The problem is, once those developers learned to use those tools, they are still unable to develop a game without those tools, which is a huge win for unity and unreal.

Generally I tend to believe unreal and unity only enable developers to make games that will never be able to compete with more established and skilled game developers. I think it's a pretty sad situation, because initially I really believe indie games were able to compete with those big studios, but they're not, and I think unity and unreal are responsible for this. It seems the whole FOSS mantra/paradigm/philosophy has a lot of trouble penetrating the field of game development, maybe because games are heavily monetized towards consumers, unlike other softwares. It bothers me.
yes I agree. It may sound extreme but this small decision has actually turned me off from ever purchasing an apple product again (I do own an iPhone now but don't frequently use it. There is just no consumer friendly reason possible to shut the Android app off.