skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're writing new C, why wouldn't you write C++ or Rust? I think part of why Rust's borrow checker works so well is because its support for higher-level abstraction is so good; my impression is that manual iteration and general array munging is pretty hard to do in Rust (especially without runtime checks), but that doesn't matter because the iterator abstraction is so good. It'd be pretty hard to build something like Rust's iterators in C.
> Give them money, while the company is apparently still going to worry about milking advertising dollars out of me?

Does Zoom have ads? I haven't seen any. I believe all of the ad tracking is for the reverse: Zoom wants to see if their own advertising is effective. For example, if they buy an ad on Facebook that you saw and then you install the app, they can attribute the install to that ad and measure ROI.
is GDPR still in effect in UK?
Porting Embox RTOS on Raspberry Pi
Perhaps ironically, the author himself aspires to become a lawyer (and thus leave the shrinking pool of Perl devs).
The Fed's Cure Risks Being Worse Than the Disease
Both the Federal and Provincial governments have comparable self-assessment tools on their websites. This doesn't appear to be much more sophisticated than that:

Here's the Federal self-assessment:
https://ca.thrive.health/covid19/en

Ontario:
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/#q0

BC:
https://bc.thrive.health/
A lot of vaporwave/synthwave and adjacent artists do limited minidisc releases for the aesthetic, too. Nobody's pressing them any more, but there's a UK company whose name I forget that does mass copying and UV label printing on rewritable blanks.
Web browsers made JavaScript unavoidable, UNIX clones did the same for C.

C's copy paste compatibility in C++ is the Trojan horse that ended up being its security Achilles heel.

However even with that, the C++ community and ISO C++ actually care to improve the language security story.

The same cannot be told for ISO C.

Actually even Microsoft does more for it with its Checked C research and SAL security annotations.
"Zoom is the Dropbox of videoconferencing" weird I had the exact same thought yesterday and it even translates to everyone thinking they can build it themselves with gluing tools x,y,z together!
Possibly, though my personal experience is that people differ mostly on their understanding of privacy issues, not their valuation of privacy. Somebody that doesn't fully understand how much you can tell about someone just by looking at their call meta data isn't concerned about meta data. I've found most alter their stance when they get a better understanding of the issue.
There is no part of that's true.

The restrictions in the mendaciously named "commons clause" license are excluded by the FSD, BFSG and the file-off-the-serial-numbers copy of it that is the OSD.

"Keep headers" or "share and share alike" are not restrictions on use, although every April first do I realise that I once again haven't sent out a fake press release about how the BSD licenses discriminate against my source file header-removal business.
‘Covid-19 Clearinghouse’: Project N95 is matching hospitals with PPE suppliers
Love the idea overall, at my job we have a total mess of Jira + Gitlab + Confluence + Confluence Questions + Sharepoint + Mattermost.

I believe there are efficiency gains to be had from having a unified platform that is self hosted.
Creating an event-driven architecture out of existing, non-event-driven systems
What UTC time is it?
That's for tracing who came in to contact with one another after the fact. It wouldn't stop people coming in to contact, and it's far too late for contact tracing to be effective for Covid-19 now anyway.
You need to chose a subfield, find the classic academic books or moocs on them until you reach a level that enables you to read research articles. Then you read the research articles..
How about the transcriber getting free tuition, and a citation in the published data.
I don’t know what corners you usually take but the average side walk has plenty of space to turn a corner without getting into someone’s face.

Don’t hug the wall and you’ll be fine.
I stopped using instacart because of their workers. The person who showed up at my door had the audacity to tell me I need to pay my tips in cash and not on the platform.

Well thanks for replacing half a dozen items with others that cost 3X. Trying to improve your tip? The extra cost comes directly out of it. Oh, and the produce you selected is awful.

Let them strike, I'm not giving them business either way.
We have not, but we can work remote and have had to move our hiring process to be entirely remote.
The first one, unfortunately. To reach the concentrations in the paper, you'd have to consume over 1kg asprin.
I could run my own node, but I opted to use pinata.cloud instead.
Ask HN: When will mariadb stop hijacking MySQL commands/filenames?
MariaDB and mysql have diverged enough that the old slogan "binary drop-in replacement" is only marginally true. When will mariadb own up to its name?
Kaggle’s 5 remote-first tips for new WFHers
Truth is, it has the best video quality I've seen out of any of the video conferencing tools out there by a mile. Only Facetime comes close and it's limited to apple hardware and has more limited screen collaboration tools.

As a result, they're going to have staying power.
What's the definition of "set"? Or what's the definition of the implication symbol, i.e. when someone says that something obviously follows from the previous theorems? We don't bother to define a lot of foundational things in math.
I think that used to apply. It's not so much a thing since C++11.
Surgical masks don't need to offer complete protection. For one thing, something is better than nothing. But more importantly, the reason people in Asia wear these masks isn't really to protect themselves from getting sick, it's to protect everyone else from getting sick from them. It's a product of a culture that values acting in the interest of the group instead of only in your own selfish self-interest.

So it's sorta like "herd immunity": if everyone is wearing a mask to keep everyone else from catching whatever they might have, it makes it much harder for diseases to spread around and everyone benefits.
That's really nice, but in "cases by country", when I select Czechia and then choose "deaths" for data, the country selector reverts to US (and the graph displays the US track) and the country list no longer presents Czechia as an option. AFAIK, there have been deaths in Czechia - if there hadn't been any, then I'd be happy to blame a UI glitch: no record, so no option in country drop-down. That may well be the case, but it might also suggest that the data used are incomplete/out of date.
It is a nice tool and I write this more as a bug* report than anything else :-)
[* er, perhaps bug report is inappropriate in our times. Sorry.]
Exactly what I came to the comments for... dimensional analysis, done right - you the real mvp! Thanks.
I'm fascinated by the quote from Carmack:

>>The joke here is that if we ever do a CD version of DOOM, you are going to get the game and “The Making of DOOM” a one hour feature film.

I would pay good money for a proper documentary about the making of Doom! As someone who only looks at gaming from the outside as a casual gamer who happens to write software, something like that would be awesome! I've watched several "making of" histories of games on YouTube pieced together by fans. Getting a more direct, from the horse's mouth, account quite compelling.
This whole comment chain distills down to "some people, who are wrong, don't agree" which is 100% noise, 0% signal. I'm not sure why you bothered replying.
Show HN: Personal Courier App to help you stay indoors
As a basic analogy, think of it like human metabolism burning fat vs. carbohydrates. Fat is much more energy dense, but until you starve the body of carbohydrates, your body won't burn it. This pathway likely exists as a "backup" metabolic system so that in the absence of easy-to-digest feedstocks, the microbe can still live, but at an energetic cost.
Simulated Losses to a Covid-19 Outbreak in the US Congress
I'm not sure about remarkable, it's a quality of implementation issue. Around the turn of the century I worked on an EU project where we did this for voice calls with IPv6.

In the present era QUIC can support doing this, although whether that'll be something every popular implementation actually does remains to be seen, but again a high quality implementation will be able to just rebind - "Hi, this is still me, I just have a different network address now" and carry on seamlessly.
What are some end-to-end encrypted video chat apps? I know Signal offers it but only has one on one calls.
The case of #poorjennifer calls for major concerns. Every woman should feel safe using Zoom for work, never worry about privacy violation, such as manager videotaping her without her consent, then saving recordings in zoom cloud without her knowledge. Zoom videotaping goes against Privacy Law in California. Consent is diligently required.
Seems like there is very little overhead, so the profit must be huge unlike restaurants.
[Original article here is better](https://www.scmp.com/tech/gear/article/3077122/hangzhou-park...)
This is very nice, thank you! A goodreads url in each book would be great
What could possibly happen in an educational setting that is so sensitive that it needs a CIA-level approach to safeguarding privacy?

The consequence of getting on a school bus can be life or death. The consequence of eating a peanut butter sandwich can be life or death.

If you’re a medical professional or psychiatrist, maybe you shouldn’t use zoom due it’s privacy record. But if you’re teaching a lecture on linked lists to your class of 30 kids, death via persecution should probably be very low on your considerations when choosing video conference tech.
The one thing I don't get about UBI is who does the "shit" jobs. Those jobs that are low-skill low-pay under the current system. Most people who do those jobs do so only because the alternative is worse.

Even in places with generous social-welfare systems there tends to be social pressure against relying on it, but making the payments universal seems likely to remove that stigma.

The first order effects are obviously very positive (lookup the term "wage slavery" for some of the moral arguments against such jobs), but it's hard to predict what the higher order effects of a transition away from a system that has basically been in place since the industrial revolution.
> I studied CS at a great cs uni

Do you feel that your time there was wasted, and that you would have been better off attending a more focused bootcamp?
> I, for one, would consider a language that shepherds you towards highly interoperable DSLs [...] Also, the One True Language will obviously have macros.

But that just motivates someone else who isn't you to prefer another language that has that "DSL" and macros as the baseline syntax of the new language for convenience. Now you have 2+ languages again.

If someone else prefers not to type out extra parentheses ")))))" to balance things and/or requires highest performance of no GC, then a "Racket/Lisp-like" language can't be the basis of The One True Language.

>You can express all the complexity you need with composition.

True, and to generalize further, a Turing Complete language can be used to create another Turing Complete language. But the ability to build any complexity by composition is itself the motivation to create another programming language that doesn't require the extra work of composition.

For example, one can program in the C Language and combine its primitives to build the "C++ Language" (first C++ compiler was C-with-classes) and the C++ Language can be used to build Javascript interpreter (Netscape browser was written in C++). And then Javascript can be used to build the first Typescript compiler. Thus we might say (via tortured logic) that C Language can let you write a "DSL" as complicated as C++ and Javascript and Typescript. Even though that's true in sense, people don't think of "C Language" as the One True Language. It's the same situation of not thinking of low-level 0s and 1s of NAND gates as being the One True Language even though composition of NAND gates will let you build any other language.
Ask HN: What does your ideal programming language look like?
Hi HN, happy Friday!

I'm not a developer working on a new programming language, but I am curious about what others would like to see in one.

What things do you wish a new programming language would consider?
Well Japan is one timezone, and you know how US timezones work because you live in it. I wonder what would be your mental process if you see an online event with time specified in MSK+3.
It doesn't falsify it. It only shows one or a few examples where just a few people self-report any benefit. And getting medicine through the dark markets is shady as fuck.

That kind of example doesn't seem to support the whole crytocurrency stuff with all it's downsides in any way.

If that's all you can come up with, all the more reason to shut it down (hypothetically).
>Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China?

1) Because that's where it's made

2) Because they're obviously a lot more competent at public health than we are. We don't know WTF we are doing.
These are not tools, they are applications, and it looks like they are just open source mirrors of internal code that hasn't seen any updates since first post.
This is the result of a simulation of a COVID-19 outbreak in the US Congress under a variety of experimental conditions:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-27-whos-at-risk-of-covi...

Black X's represent losses of legislators of the illustrated house and party. The blog post goes into detail about the data and simulation used.

Data sources:
US Congress demographics: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/us-congress
COVID19 mortality: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/corona-virus

Tools used:
Dolt (https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt)
Perl
Google Drawings
Ageism in Tech: Is Your Developer Career over After You Turn 40?
Cryptocurrency is:
* Resistant to government censorship: Short of total firewalling and mass whitelisting of all IP packets and blacklisting all encrypted traffic, governments have difficulty controlling transfers.
* Resistant to capital controls: Centralized banking can prevent you from using your money. The Federal Reserve reduced the reserve requirement to zero and cut interest rates to zero on March 15th. The FDIC released a PSA video advising people not to withdraw their money from banks. In June 2015 Greece closed its banks for almost 20 days and limited cash withdrawals to 60 euro. With cryptocurrency there is no bank to close, no authority to enforce withdrawal limits.
* Deflationary, not inflationary: Cryptocurrencies are all different, but Bitcoin for example has a strict upper ceiling on the number of bitcoins that will ever be produced and 85% of that supply has already been produced. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve is pumping billions of dollars into banks by buying their bonds and securities and is speculating about expanding its purchasing. Venezuela has had issues with inflation and hyperinflation due to excessive production of currency and deficit spending. They even launched their own cryptocurrency in an attempt to have a commodity-backed and more stable currency, which flopped because it was still under central control of the Venezuelan government for which there was little trust and apparently it was a scheme to avoid sanctions, which is laughable because...
* Resistant to Sanction: Venezuela could just start selling its oil for Bitcoin directly, obtaining a reserve of uncensorable value that it could use to regain its economic strength. In fact it is attempting this, which is underreported. Sanctions are economic warfare which harm the poorest members of a nation the most. Whether you think a nations' leaders are criminals or not, do the people deserve to suffer at the hands of the world's markets directed by the economic juggernaut and political interest of the U.S.A.?
* Low Fee Remittances: Using cryptocurrencies, people can easily send money across borders to family and dependents. If someone working in the U.S.A. wants to send, by Western Union, $200, or about a months' wages MXN, they pay a fee of $5-7, which is approximately the minimum DAILY wage in Mexico. Transfer in bitcoin, the transaction fee is about $1. If you have to also purchase your bitcoins (instead of receiving them directly as wages) the fee goes up to about $4.
* Automated Finance: On Ethereum you can earn 4% interest on your deposit with the Dai Savings Rate. Other protocols offer up to 10% or more for lending cryptocurrency to others who take small loans, all with no middleman other than an automated contract. No loan application, no credit check, no redlining. This is a huge silent movement for microfinancing and is growing at a steady rate, granting underserved populations access to financial services. And what's the best rate you can get from a centralized bank? 1.7% and likely to drop in the coming months.

So there are some arguments.
Contact tracing [1] is difficult in the middle of a pandemic from a cost-benefit standpoint.

[1]: https://www.who.int/features/qa/contact-tracing/en/

But if we succeed with strong enough measures to suppress COVID-19 within a few months, contact tracing will be critical to reduce the risk of rebound as we reopen our society.

I propose that Apple and Google together gets a head start on contact tracing. Singapore released the TraceTogether app (Android, iOS) for its citizens, but ideally we could have a tool deployed by default in Android and iOS. Does anyone know if Google and Apple are working on this?

(Apple’s Find My solution — with public keys broadcast and collected whether phone/GPS is on/off — might contain the right building blocks for contact tracing. But I’d leave it to top engineers at Apple and Google to build a better solution than what I can come up with alone.)
It's more of a macro system stapled to a layout engine, which emits a DOM tree.

WebAssembly sucks at DOM. It sucks huge. WebAssembly can't hold a reference to a DOM object and can't even create strings. You have to do that all in JavaScript, and then import that JavaScript code into your WebAssembly module. You'll end up doing something weird like sticking your DOM objects in an array and then passing indexes into the array to your WASM code. Strings have to be encoded/decoded to get them in/out of WASM.

MathJax is written in TypeScript. If you want WASM, that means rewriting large parts of MathJAX, keeping other parts in JS, bridging them, and dealing with all of the resource dependencies (i.e. dealing with WebPack).

And anyway, JavaScript is decent at string processing.
Stop panicking, you've never had it this good
I mean, other sites[0] that I've used seem to have a list of major cities (not Google Maps autocomplete)

[0] https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
To be more precise: 50 millimolar was the stock concentration, not the concentration used in the experiments. The effective concentrations were between 1 and 7 millimolar.

> The results indicate an effective concentration 50 (EC50) of 1.31 mM for HCoV-229E resulting in a selectivity index (SI: CC50/IC50) of 15.6 as well as an EC50 of 3.69 mM for MERS-CoV, leading to an SI of 15.9, similar to that of HCoV-229E (Figures 2D and 2E). The EC50 for HCoV-229E-infected PBMCs at 24 h was 6.71 mM resulting in an SI of 5.7 (Figure 2F).

And if tlb is right that the volume of distribution is under 12 liters, the dose required in the best case would be approximately the maximum dose of aspirin (4 grams). In the worst case, far more.
I feel like this argument is equivalent to discouraging someone from training for a marathon on a treadmill.
Title is sort of incorrect: "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act" should be "Zoom needs not to do stupid shit"...

I'm a fan of the product but this is ridiculous behavior (great Linux support). I have a hard time imagining the product meeting in which "Yes. That's a good idea. Let's do it." was said. I get that FB is big, that Zoom wants the credibility, etc but that's a sign that management is not thinking clearly about their product and should be a red flag to any investor (among the many green flags from current demand)...
Citizen Scientists Are Helping Researchers Design New Drugs to Combat Covid-19
Tod, one of the founders here. At Pipedream, we operate RequestBin.com which is used by over 100,000 developers a year.

This new release address the most common request we have received over the past year. It offers the functionality of a request bin (a URL that collects requests you send it so you can inspect them in a human-friendly way) coupled with the power of an API (a way to consume event data in your app using real-time REST or SSE APIs). In addition, we now allow users to trigger serverless workflows, with built-in integration to hundreds of apps and developer tools.

We think there’s a lot we can improve and are eager for feedback so please send us your ideas and opinions.
Good luck with that. I’m having a hard time getting things delivered at all. None of the services seem capable of finding things like pasta, beans, TP, etc., and I’m not trying to shop in 2 month quantities.
How to Profit Out of Affiliate Marketing: For Begginers
If you don't mind my asking, what is the autoimmune disease? I have one of my own and with my own worries for the same reason. Data based on China and a few other sources from the Imperial College Covid-19 response team for people below the age of 40, down to 30 shows that of this subset of confirmed infected, only 3.2% are likely to require hospitalization and even of those 2.3% only 5% are likely to require critical care. I assume that quite a few more than that among them have some complicating condition.
Fixing SEM Campaigns with Python
Ask HN: What is a reliable Note-Taking app that syncs between Linux/Android/Mac?
Hi all,

I have been in a long search to find the perfect solution that can help me take my notes on either of the aforementioned platforms with MarkDown support and have it sync and work seamlessly.

I am only looking for free software (preferably open-sourced I guess).

The closest I found is Joplin, which seems to be a neat project with a ton of features and a strong community, but I am facing a few issues because of the sync part. I need to remember to sync clients manually and often times I find myself finding "conflicts" in the Apps.

I used StandardNotes before, but it was too simple without MarkDown (paid feature).

What are you all using? And what can you guys recommend?
Hosting a Hugo Site on AWS S3 and CloudFront
Well, I ordered some a couple weeks ago and got them as well. Been distributing them to neighbors.
Here’s a quickie animated bubble map, pulling in this new NYT data from GitHub: https://observablehq.com/@jashkenas/united-states-coronaviru...

... might be a useful starting point if you want to fork off your own visualizations and analyses.
Pi (Film)
That's creeeeeeepy.
I'd love for it to be so, but social inertia is a big factor. It's easiest to just use what everybody else is using, you won't have complications and, very important, you won't stick out.

It can change rapidly in small communities, e.g. you getting everyone in your department together, deciding on $goodAlternative and using that whenever possible (in addition to Zoom, because you'll still have to communicate with the outside world). But at large?
Covid Room
I actually think that government healthcare might be a good opportunity to reduce regulation of private healthcare: if the government is paying for it, they dictate the terms, but for a private transaction, much less oversight would be needed. Of course having this happen would require compromise which appears to be completely absent from our current legislative process...