skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So those are both good points, but:

a) People were confident before, they will again. Business 'demand' will be back, and consumer appetite for travel, food will shoot back I think.

b) "Tons of office workers who do little more than keep each other busy" basically you're implying that companies know they have terrible inefficiencies, and used the coronavirus to dump their 'bad staff' and effectively won't re-hire. I'm not so sure companies are very good at determining who's crap and who's not nor are they good at fixing their processes. They will start hiring, thinking they're hiring 'better' but really they're just hiring back the same bag of workers.

Before the coronavirus, unemployment was crazy low. Historically. The Fed actually was going to raise rates but noticed people coming back into the economy as they had stopped looking for jobs previously. Companies were literally starting to train people again (!) they were so desperate.

I think we're going to get back to it fairly quickly.

My prediction is several months of funny money zany economy, during which time we edge back to work. The coronavirus will hang over everything for 18 months and still kill a lot of people and keep doctors buys, but the economy will start moving. In 2 years we are in full recovery, almost back to previous employment levels. Stocks are not back yet but who cares.

There will be a long term reckoning with the sizeable debt and garbage on the Fed's balance sheet but that won't stop the underlying economy from moving.

The thing I fear the most is a huge second wave, particularly in poorer countries. So far they have been spared.
Actually Apple and Google should not allow this in their app store policy. An 3rd party SDK sending data if it’s not needed should be a BIG no-no....I expect at least Apple to require this.

There are probably thousands of other apps that have the same problem.
There's always the dumb adapter that allows you to use without AF (and possibly lose aperture for some lenses) but I think there's like a 300 dollar one (nikon F to sony FE) that lets you use autofocus and whatnot.

But the general consensus is to get rid of your old glass if you're switching to mirrorless because the AF performance with adapters is on the "it barely works enough to not call it unusable" level.
Great work here. Are you using the legacy AppleScript interface [0] provided to Messages? I built an iMessage bot a long time ago that would respond automatically to messages you sent it and save notes for me using that and found it to be pretty reliable and easy to script but with a number of quirks and gotchas. I even bridged it out to Python to make it easier to work with.

The only limitation of course was that a Mac had to be always on, logged into the relevant account, connected to the internet, and running AppleScript to run it so there was no dream to scale it reliably/economically (as you are) much less even use it privately since the Mac was also a primary laptop. How are you getting past one device, one account scalability problem? Mac in cloud on the roadmap?

How do you consider you will scale this and at what cost? Have you checked into Apple's viewpoint and policies on this given they offer a business API [1] for a similar solution?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11812184/how-to-send-an-...

[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/business-chat/
Finally some good news
You shouldn't have your tests artificially limit the life cycle of parts. Either for artificial reuse or artificial termination.

To that end, if you have variables that live as long as your program, or longer, have your tests reflect that.
Most Alzheimer's research money has gone into the Amyloid hypothesis, which hasn't resulted in any fruitful results.
Great point. If Apple or Google enforced what you're saying in their app stores this problem would disappear overnight.
I tried Alacritty some months ago also because of a HN post.

I think it lacks features compared to Kitty. At the very least tabs for multiple sessions and support for a transparent background made it not an option for me.

Kitty has replaced the standard terminal in Ubuntu for me, and I am quite happy with its performance and Unicode support.
Why Have Founder Vesting?
I wish samsung didn't give up. The cameras basically ran Android and could have been really fun with app development and whatnot.

edit: also, just something that ticks me off: Razer does not make 1 inch gaming laptops. Their whole schtick is that they have "gaming ultrabooks".
> And in 1918 the victorious powers, dictating a new European peace at Versailles, would not have credited that Adolf Hitler, a destitute, neurotic would-be artist and gassed veteran of the trench warfare, would within two decades undo their new order and plunge the world into its greatest war.

According to a book review discussed recently here, Hoover did. Said book review totally transformed my understanding of him. And OK, not Hitler personally, but conceptually.
To use the Facebook SDK is a rocky mistake. It includes all kind of telemetry that is send to Facebook, whenever the user is connected to Facebook or not.

In the company I worked for, they read the code, you have access to it, and stripped that parts. It's not much work but its a pain.

The best approach is to use just the HTTP APIs and ignore the SDK. Your team will better understand how Facebook works, your app will be lighter and you are free from nasty surprises that a 3rd party may add to your app without your knowledge.
Microsoft to divest AnyVision stake, end face recognition investing
Would be pretty hard to scan for, but I agree that there should be something at least outlined. Privacy policies clearly are aren’t useful enough.
Didn't AirBnB start as a sort of organized couch surfing? Same way Uber was for people who were taking the same trips to carpool.
Huawei propose New IP variable length addresing
> Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? If so, I'm not sure what to tell you.

It's fine, but as Jean Yang pointed out on Twitter, no-one would ordinarily call disclosing everyone you'd shared a location with over weeks "privacy-preserving". And once you've done it for some large fraction of infected people, you end up with a country-wide social graph built up, even though you weren't conducting mass surveillance in the usual meaning.

It's a loss of privacy either way (whether done via location or Bluetooth contact). I'd rather just have the conversation about how we've decided to suspend physical metadata privacy to combat the pandemic, than act like the Singapore model is going to preserve it.
>why can't states handle this and the best emerge?

Is it fair to die in State X because it had more inept leaders than State Y? This isn't about long term economic or social policy, this is about an exponentially growing pandemic that doesn't respect borders.
How do you know anyone has ever read that code? Surely they read the lines they changed - that's where the problems were - did they necessarily read the lines they left alone?

Even if it is true that code is read many times more than it is written, isn't that an argument for writing shorter, more dense code, so there's less of it to read? And an argument for more clever code so it's more interesting to read? If you're going to spend the next six months reading, that doesn't make you want all books to turn into Spot the Dog, does it? To the contrary the more you do something, the better you get at doing it; reading more code is often suggested as a way to make yourself better at programming. In fact, isn't it equally an argument for "if people have to read the code, there aren't enough comments, and/or there wasn't enough code verification"?

Comments are for people to read, code is for computers to execute. The refrain "code is for people to read and only incidentally for machines to execute" is like saying "engines are for people to watch and only incidentally to move vehicles" - it would lead to engines made of perspex, taking up the size of a room so there's plenty of open spaces to stick your head in for a look around, interrupting the combustion cycles for cleaning and washing cycles, moving at 10 rpm so it's not too fast to see...
That's a Serological test and it only goes positive about 5 days from infection, by which time you're probably not that contagious. This is a nucleic acid test which directly detects the virus and will be positive if you're contagious. They're complementary, but you need a molecular test to stop the spread. This will be a very good product.
If you've ever considered teaching (and relocation is okay), you can consider tutoring English in Taiwan. Living is very cheap (compared to the United States), and it's very much a different lifestyle. There is also a technological central there as well, but I'm not too familiar with it.

With COVID-19, they've closed their borders, but I definitely do see it opening once the whole thing is over (ie. hopefully not longer than half a year). Good luck!
Considering how many apps are using Facebook's SDK, shouldn't this be something that FB should be addressing? After all, they are the ones making an SDK available to app developers to help with user-login. Shouldn't the presumption of trust rest on FB?
And what did that task force accomplish?

* Shipping a laughably insufficient number of test kits that didn't work, while banning private labs from developing their own tests. We still have a crippling test kit shortage.

* Asking people traveling from China to self-quarantine, and not following up.

* No stockpiles of necessary medical supplies.

Getting called names has never stopped him from rolling out bad policy in the past. I don't see why it can be credited for stopping him from rolling out good policy this time.
Over $100 is insane for groceries? We regularly spend that much for a family of three almost every weekend. Admittedly, we are in a high CoL area.
You can pretty easily see all the traffic on your own phone. You can even do it on device

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562
Using Ubuntu I was only a `sudo apt install` away from running it.
Two on AI history:

Pamela McCorduck's Machines Who Think, either the 1979 original edition, or the 2004 2nd ed, which adds a 100-page afterword covering 1979–2004.

Nils Nilsson's The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009).

They have somewhat different styles and focuses. McCorduck is a writer (of popular science and sci-fi), while Nilsson was an AI researcher. Which isn't to say that McCorduck lacks knowledge about AI or that Nilsson can't write, but their backgrounds are noticeable in how the books are organized and written.
Wasn't this company already facing of running out of cash and other financial issues before COVID? I feel that, like many other companies, Bird is gonna use this pandemic as an excuse, when they had other big problems to deal with already
No requirement to look for work for the unemployed, that's been waived, at least in my state.
For a few years. It also costs the US next to nothing to borrow money at the moment. Yields on 10 and 30 year t notes are on the same order as long term inflation targets.
This is an npr article on the size of fish caught by tour boats. You can see the size reduce over the years.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
You can easily see all traffic on your device, try Charles proxy.
>Getting mad at Zoom for using the Facebook SDK is missing the point.

It's really hard to believe this point given that... getting mad seems to have worked.
> "why x?"

To be fair, the language is developed by Cray. So my instant assumption to the question "why Chapel?" is "because programming supercomputers is hard".

> I guess it's fine if they never want users

I think this not far from the truth. It's not that they don't need users, but that they don't need pedestrian users. Supercomputing is a niche market, so I'm sure the marketing is more about networking at conferences.

Put another way, you're going to pick up Chapel at work, not at home.
> I don't think these companies are sharing data with Facebook intentionally.

That would imply they are incompetent and negligent.

Would one not expect large companies like LG to have internal security and privacy reviews of the software they publish, and know very well what they are doing?

> What justification

Their core business.
Firefox market share + Firefox Rust usage is mostly stable.
Seeing it != blocking it.
I don't think so. I think "imaging products" is cameras. Sensors and modules would fall under their semiconductor division.
> But if you're selling me out to advertisers after I've given you money, then you're one of "those" companies that I avoid if at all possible.

Sadly, this happens everywhere. Verizon and ATT? Selling your location and data usage patterns for years.

Bank accounts and credit cards? Selling your purchase patterns for decades.
The 10% margins are what’d be insane. Not an individual bill of $100. At 2-3% the profits on that bill drop down to nowhere near enough to cover gas, mileage, health insurance, unemployment tax, and everything else tacked on for the true cost of delivery.
Doesn't scale. We can't have 1,000,000 front page "App X uses Y SDK" posts. People will stop caring. Nobody's made a post of that flavor in awhile, and Zoom got caught in the crossfire. Honestly, if anything it shields other apps. People have a limited capacity for repeatedly addressing the same thing.
So what? If AirBnB or the property owners are not held accountable, the law doesn't matter.
I love this, great share - thanks for making me smile today.
Father was furloughed along with 900 others.

Every manager called every single worker personally to relay the news, for a general well-being check in, and to answer any questions about UI benefit filing. Each manager has also personally checked in once a week to see how things are going, and to provide updates, and said they will continue to do so for the next 5 weeks they plan to be closed.

... and that's a non-union, publicly traded company.
Algorithm solves NP-Complete Problems in P time
Pune-based Mylab’s Covid-19 low-cost PCR kit makes detection faster
Obviously, but it's hard to call a company's management short-sighted for taking advantage of a corrupt government.
My point is that you've removed one instance of the Facebook SDK from your phone, but you still have 50 others. Plus probably hundreds of other analytics frameworks that you've never even heard of that are just as bad or worse.
> [On patient died but] For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in patients with a definite outcome.

Note patients were excluded based on an extensive list of contra-indications, and there was care taken to avoid one of the known side-effects, heart arrhythmia; EEGs were taken before and during treatment and reviewed by cardiologists.

Also note that this treatment is not preventive, but rather would be used to treat people with serious illness, to shorten the illness. Given that, and the lengthy list of contra-indications and potential for serious side-effects, it could be useful in reducing deaths among infected people, but not in reducing infections, nor -- given you need to be pretty sick to justify the risks -- in reducing hospitalizations.
Designing a DSL for accounting: use a DSL to describe taxes and pension
I can’t see the big deal. We use the Facebook SDK specifically for the free analytics. It’s just a default part of the SDK. It’s not sending anything any other analytics package wouldn’t
Thank you for sharing this. If I was into 2D game development more I'd more comments to share. Neat video mate!
> mirrorless formats

Sorry, what is this and why is it revolutionary? (Why did Nikon and Canon miss it?)
Safari uses some sort of algorithm to determine whether you actually want the autoplay to happen.

For example I've noticed that if you play a video on a website during that session, it will allow autoplay from scripts on that page (not 3rd party) for the rest of that session. Same for unmuting an autoplaying video.

This is all undocumented though and through personal observations, as Apple seemed to stop posting Safari documentation years ago.
tor does not use ipv6 currently.
Anything added after iOS 6 is the cheeky answer, but it’s not totally wrong either. Auto layout is incredibly hard to debug; it’s great when it works right, though, fwiw. The audio APIs are a garbage fire (equally on both platforms, at least!) Mapkit has a lot of sharp edges if you try to do anything more than Apple envisioned, which is true of a lot of iOS and macOS APIs. View controller transitions are a mess, but they may have fixed the bugs by now—I’ve stayed away since being traumatized by them five years back. The Metal shader compiler is an absolute shit show of bugs on the Mac, but is better on iOS. Core Bluetooth has caused me pain (just doesn’t work sometimes). Stringly types objective c-isms like KVO. In app purchases are a mess (I’m told, haven’t used it myself). CoreData might look like a good idea but you will live to regret it if it’s an important part of your app. UITableView is really powerful but also gets complex fast, with legacy baggage showing up when you try to get fancy (like auto layout and dynamic row height). The security API is hard to use correctly, also on both platforms.

Mostly though Xcode is the worst piece of software I’ve ever used, besides Wind River’s IDE and Windows ME.
Yes like I already said multi-pass is not a good way to sanitize SSDs. However it does directly contradict your stance that data is irrecoverable after a full-write. It doesn't really matter that it's done via a direct flash chip readout. Literally anyone can do that. In comparison the cost of a SEM(which can't read out platters) approaches a million dollars.
Native Americans arrived less than 80,000 years ago. That's a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. They were not the natural predators.
A journey begins with a single step. As a community, we suss our and shame the rest into removal. If shame doesn’t work, those in California try using the CCPA.

We’re all stuck inside for a while, this is the perfect time to act. One app and SDK at a time.
Blacklisting is a losing game, especially from the malicious sites most likely to abuse this. Notice how those malware and fake Chrome extension ads have a new URL every day.
When is this ready for use ? Next week ? The article didn’t say ?
Thanks for the interesting product you have here, I'm sure it took awhile to build. May I ask, is this for business use or for consultants to report hours?
I think they mean negative as in "not positive" (for virus).
Perhaps appropriate: The famous poem by Sara Teasdale, about a different context, which also lent its name to a short story by Ray Bradbury:

There will come soft rains

--------------------------

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows calling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.
We heard “masks don’t work” because that is literally what they were saying.

>> “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, on Feb. 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!” In an interview with Fox & Friends, Adams said that wearing a mask can even increase your risk of getting the virus. “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus.”

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/

Gutting trust in medical and scientific institutions by telling obvious lies right as a pandemic got rolling will go down as one of the greatest failures of public health communication in US history.
thank you. I usually share open source code (maybe I'll share this editor too, when it's more mature), but now I'm trying to get some action on my YouTube channel.
Human Readable Magazine Issue #2 is out (all issues now free)
> accused of offering a “$75 goodwill credit” to dupe customers into waiving their legal rights

Curious to see what the e-mails look like. On one hand, settling a claim is a real thing. The present value of $75 may exceed the expected claim the recipients would receive out of the suit.

On the other hand, we're in the midst of record joblessness and a pandemic-induced liquidity squeeze. If it's dangling cash without informed consent, it could be construed as bad-faith negotiating.
Once upon a time

I was of the mind

To lay your burden down

And leave you where you stood
I don't want to live in a world where my parents and grandparents are expected to pull up Wireshark to figure out if the app they're using will record their front camera without consent.

Blaming Zoom and FB is entirely acceptable here, it is their responsibility to keep my data private.

Blaming Apple? Why, when Zoom is on the Play Store as well?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zoom.videom...

>As long as you're running binary blobs that can make whatever network connections they please, people are going to take your data and send it to places you don't know about.

Surely there are open source video chat solutions already? They haven't taken off for one simple reason: video hosting is expensive. It's quite literally one of the most intensive network activities you can partake in, rivaling torrenting.

It doesn't make sense economically to offer a video hosting platform without collecting income from it. Nor does it make sense to attempt a peer-to-peer solution knowing full well that one laggy peer wrecks the experience for everyone else.

It's a very hard problem.
Some have received far more after rejecting this offer, in some case thousands of dollars depending on the loss demonstrated. (/r/wsb)
Yeah, I'd ask you to stop. And eventually maybe get around to calling a lawyer.

I wouldn't be off on some foul-mouthed rage-fest about the cosmic injustice of it all. Especially not this week.
For those not keeping up with the consumer and pro digital camera scene, nearly all brands (except Canon?) buy Sony sensors for their cameras.[1] Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, etc.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/chances-are-these-sony-sensor... (and many other references for this)
They were made aware of the issue on the 25th... it seems like due diligence would have revealed the issue at the outset. It should be no secret that FB provides their authentication services with strings attached. At least they fixed it quickly.
Yeah, but type systems are not fool proof. eg: I've seen plenty of Java code which blindly passes String objects around that eventually get parsed into json/int/long/etc. At that point, the type system has been silently circumvented.

"Nothing is foolproof given a sufficiently talented fool."
For the first couple of years of my first bootstrapped company I tried to keep “cash in the bank” in excess of 3 months. Everybody knew. The one time (after the first six months of transient jitter) it dipped down close to two months everybody knew, and nobody quit (headcount at that point was about 60). So 9 months seems pretty good.

Though perhaps they are/were on the “don’t worry about the burn we can always get more” plan. In that case 9 months does sound perilous....though perhaps many people who couldn’t make car payments will become customers?