skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is so disingenuous and reeks of a superiority complex

Well, no. I doubt anybody on Earth (including bankers, billionaires or governments) truly can grasp all the ins and outs of money/debts creation and all the consequence it has on the economy and society. At best they can have a local and short term view which are in their best interest.

For example, 1929 crisis, more than 90 years after the events is not a completely settled question among scholars up to this day (not so much on the origins but more on the effect of the responses of Hoover/Roosevelt distinct policies and the policies of other countries around the world at the time).

To make a really bad analogy, the current financial system is a bit like this big old legacy system with COBOL, some partial rewrite in Java, some ad-hoc hacks created when it crashed. It's a huge mess to entangle, not always logical, but it kind of works except when it doesn't. And nobody really knows fully how it works. The current financial system is a bit like that, except it's a 300/400 years old (~creation of the first central banks), has seen tons of crashes and hacks, and has laws, procedures, customs and policies as "source code" which makes it really hard to read.
Unless they were apps from a trusted source, such as an official app from CDC, this is the proper course of action.
You pay them more.
Agree. The big issue is that non-tech people can use zoom. With Jitsi (which I hope to eventually use mostly), you have to be someone who's willing to fool with it a bit to make it work.

If some of you 10x programmers would go on a Mission from God and get it going that would be super cool.
Pulling Covid-19 Impact Data Out of Thin Air
Then tile is misleading.

This is a running theme on HN:

Why X does Y?

Well we don't know but let me talk abut Z in relation to X.
I suppose if those jobs are so terrible that no one who has UBI wants to do them, they'll have to pay a fair wage to attract people. If they're truly necessary, wages will rise until until positions are filled. And yes, you may now have to pay more for work that was woefully underpaid previously.

If your scenario comes to pass, it just means we've been taking advantage of the people who currently work those jobs because they have no other alternative.
> it's far too late for contact tracing to be effective for Covid-19 now anyway

I think you are right about this and furthermore, non-optional bluetooth tracking is just going to encourage people to leave their phone at home when they go out, especially if they are on the fence about whether or not they are a danger. If they need something they are going to go get it.

We need a rapid cultural adjustment that causes people to voluntarily minimize spreading.
> Shrug apple marketing

It's a standard press release.
Neat idea and not a hard app to write for both WatchOS and iOS. Not something that can be done from a web page "app".

Then there is this:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-covid-19/id1504132184
Can someone explain the advantages of Zoom over a FOSS solution lake Jitsi Meet? https://meet.jit.si/
"Rust makes it quite hard to do things" generally as a result of that decision. Even just syntactically it's a large overhead. It does force you to explicitly manage lifetimes at every place in your code. Which is a good example of the wrong implementation of the wrong objective.
You know countries other than the USA exist right?
The article gets flagged when the commenting becomes a flame war, much like this post is becoming with people flagging and down voting based on emotion.

Case in point why crypto doesn't belong here, too many people getting too emotionally attached to their ideas to have a civil coversation.

Please downvote and flag more things you dislike for personal reasons.
Ask HN: Best ways to maintain good sleep schedule?
With all the remote stuff going on, how have you maintained solid sleep?
Anyone know how the self-hosting experience is? Also whether it has Activity Pub support? If this reaches it's potential, it would be great if it were part of the Fediverse.
Empty malls. Closed stores. Did coronavirus kill shopping?
Message from Famous Actors on Beating Coronavirus
I was just thinking about how I spent hundreds of dollars for Zortech C++ and Borland C++ back in the 90s and was shocked when IBM included a C/C++ compiler for FREE with OS/2 and it even included a visual UI builder tool.
I have spent a lot of time thinking and writing about exactly this, for some years (edit: it is all free, and skimmable, I hope). My web site (simple tech, lots of content, no cookies or javascript, no tracking besides whatever my ISP logs that I haven't looked at in a long time) is at: http://lukecall.net . I can be contacted via the email address in the page footers.

Edit: (ps: some things I have learned for myself about the nature and purpose of life, and no longer have to ask anyone else or wonder. The same is available to you to determine, if you want.)

pps: I have also learned that each person has infinite worth: that means you, right now, have infinite worth: Ud. mismo tiene valor infinito. Don't let your self-view be determined by comparison to your perception of what others are doing. There is so much more.... No deje nunca que sus pensamientos consideren que Ud. no tenga valor.
I do use both — I actually used MPV before discovering IINA — but I like the UI of the latter, even if I still use MPV keybinds.
That’s the sort of regulation that needs to be relaxed in an emergency.
Seems fair enough:

> To maintain morale, World War I censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu". Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin, with varying views as to the origin.

It's not like we call syphilis "French pox" any more.
Homebrew maintainer here.

There are many good reasons for a piece of software not to be included in a default repository.

First of all, it’s about prioritizing maintainer workload.
It makes sense to draw the line somewhere in order to prevent the backlog from growing. A huge backlog is bad for everyone: it tends to burn out maintainers, causes important (security) updates to slip, and can be frustrating for users.

As a package maintenance team, what options do you have to draw a line? You may decide to narrow the scope somewhat arbitrarily (e. g. FOSS only, stable versions only, latest only), add some notability requirement (e. g. 50 or more GitHub stars), or streamline your process (e. g. exclude packages that would require downstream to write and maintain patches).

Anything of the above can cause a perfectly trustworthy package not to be included into a default/core repository, leaving 3rd-party repositories as a good enough option.

I think it’s super important to be extra vigilant when tapping into a 3rd-party repository. But it would be a little unfair to consider those packages (or their upstream projects) damaged goods.

Not saying you did imply the latter; I just felt like chiming in with my point of view.
The "law of large numbers", "institutional inertia" and related phenomena tend to cause large organizations to behave worse than individuals.

E.g. at least some individuals will do the right thing, but institutions do the wrong thing consistently and punish those who do the right thing.
It's actually a long-time HN user who is doing serious work in the crisis and whom I've been attempting to help with an Ask HN. The problem is that the URL is getting in the way, and what's needed is a text to give background. Will try again.
One corner of U.S. oil market has already seen negative prices
if they were marketing it as a tool to help people to remember to take their medication then that would be illegal because it hasn't undergone testing to prove that it increases medication adherence or whatever

I doubt those little plastic M-T-W-H-F-A-U pill organizers went through any FDA clearance.

/Some days when I wake up, that's the only way I know what day it is.
The point of contact tracing is to find out who to quarantine, so you don’t have to lock down the entire population. It’s not a “copout,” it’s the bread and butter of epidemic mitigation. It’s why most of them don’t get to this point.
Looks pretty nice: I'll give it a try over the weekend.
Added a demo on the homepage.
Providing a UBI doesn't mean market forces vanish, it would just shift/adjust those market forces. I think these "shit" jobs would either cease to exist if they weren't really necessary, be replaced by automated solutions, or be compensated at a high enough rate that someone would be still be willing to do them. It seems like all three of those would be net positives economically.
There is, at least in Windows. Advanced options screen.
That is one of the toolkits used by mycroft. It isn't everything needed for an assistant but if you want to make one it is probably the best starting point.
Sure, but that shouldn't be used to dodge responsibility in other areas, like the abysmally slow response in many countries including the USA.
COVID-19 Stalled English Football – What will be the outcome?
JavaScript Party 120: WFH?
Matt's Remote Workspace in 2020
To me the argument is the equivalent of trying to stop eating fast food by asking a friend to come over everyday with fast food.
Still no widespread testing..
Not at all. It isn't criminal, nor does it use loads of electricity. It wouldn't be possible with Paypal or any other solution.

>The volatility of crypto just don't provide a real alternative to regular currencies though.

What's that have to do with the price of tea in China? I.e. if that's the best you can offer, you can't construe that cryptocurrency is a detriment to society...

Definitely a ways off from proving your point.
Zoom also has a good Linux client. It's been the least frictive option amongst the well-known conferencing apps with clients for me.
Sure. But UnsafeCell is a part of the language. So if we're comparing the language to the language, then they're equivalent. It's only if you say "no unsafe Rust and no unsafe rust in anything you use" that this wouldn't be true, and that also means any program is effectively impossible (to print something to the screen, you need to talk to the OS, and that's unsafe!)

> Similarly, is splitting borrows still an issue?

It depends on exactly what you mean, there's a few different patterns that people mean when they mean "splitting borrows" and one of them has a camp of people who don't think that's a problem, but a feature.
Thank you very much for the rundown of features and your description of the service, I was interested but after reading your comment I'm definitely gonna try it out.
Google: We’re committing $800M+ in new COVID19 response efforts
I used it for a meetup to convene remotely and it worked with maybe 6 or 7 people total. Also used it for movie night with some friends. Worked both times. So idk if I agree it's not ready for serious use (we might have different definitions of serious).
That is not what that study says. Yes, cloth masks are not as effective as medical masks. But the study does not compare cloth masks with no masks. The three groups in the study are:

> medical masks, cloth masks or a control group (usual practice, which included mask wearing).

Yes, the cloth mask group had more infections than the medical mask group and the control group. But the control group included wearing masks as usual. It does NOT say cloth masks are less effective than nothing. "No mask" was not studied. Cloth masks might be less effective than wearing no mask (I personally doubt that), but this study didn't say anything about that hypothesis.
I am very curious about Zoom’s desktop version as I have seen it used for sensitive telemedicine sessions between doctors and court ordered patients. I think Facebook’s response was disgraceful, putting the onus and blame on the developer after FB developed a plug-in which is no different than malware.
Does anyone know a good real gif editor which show you advanced gif options?
such as per frame delay, left, top offset..
Background geo, including geofencing is challenging, but there may be a way forward. We're exploring this conceptually, but it's not in the plan for 2020. I'd certainly like to be able to improve the capabilities of web based ride sharing and similar apps that have a need for this.

Bluetooth discovery is an especially thorny area from a privacy perspective. What use cases did you have in mind?

Asking for permissions upfront has been found to be an anti-pattern in systems UXR. Research has found that users make better decisions and find the experience less interruptive when permissions are requested in context at runtime. For example, in a video chat app, it's better to ask for the camera/mic permission at the start of the first chat session, not when the app first starts. Mac OS, Android etc. and other platforms have all been moving in this direction over the past few years.

When the permission is requested, we're investigating ways that we can do more to communicate permission risks to the user. Nothing publicly shareable yet, but do expect experiments to be showing up in dev channels over the next few months while we try new things.
> The "insurance hack" in the US is that since hospitals must accept you if you're critically ill

Work hard, save hard, get unlucky, go to hospital, go bankrupt. Don’t just lose your health, also lose savings and dignity.

There is no way the US should be considered a first world economy when “freedom” means freedom to become destitute if you have the bad fortune to be a low income earner.
What is the data source used for this and who owns it?
$800M to support small businesses and crisis response
President Trump encourages General Motors & Ford to start ventilator production
I disagree - often adding a barrier to entry can help a lot. For example, I've found Forest app [1] to be successful at stopping me from using my phone as a time waster when I start to seek a distraction.

[1] https://www.forestapp.cc/
Real life is full of tradeoffs.

Accept it, and you'll be happier.
As another user mentioned, we do contribute to MDN. MDN is where we point devs for reference documentation. web.dev is for guides, how to's and other support docs.
Check out Forest!

https://www.forestapp.cc/
Source for the checklist thing? Can’t find it.
Actually squeezing it from a highlighter is messy and unnecessary. You can buy bottled highlighter ink for fountain pens pretty cheaply.

(there are special super-broad pen nibs for highlighting work. To use bulk ink, you have a "converter" cartridge with a piston or squeeze-bottle that allows you to suck ink out of the bottle and into the pen)

Since you specifically seem to be after fluorescent, here's somewhere to get started:

https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/bottled-ink?filters%5...

Here's an "invisible ink": https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/bottled-ink/products/...

Or a yellow highlighter ink: https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/bottled-ink/products/...

Pink: https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/bottled-ink/products/...

I am not 100% sure that the viscosity will exactly match what printer ink is, but if it's too thick you could cut it with isopropyl alcohol or similar.

edit: on further reflection if your goal is something that is visible outside of a blacklight, the darker colors might have more pigment and thus be more visible, although still probably quite light.
I think yes, EU laws are in effect until end of the year, to have time to create new regulations.
Overhead of MessageChannel
Rushed job? We've been at this for almost 8 years. We tried doing this without a kernel module for several years, but it just wasn't feasible.

You see, people think XNU is just another kernel, but it's very different from Linux or the Windows kernel. The only reason why we need a kernel module is Mach IPC. But this IPC is so critical and omni-present that a user-space process cannot even do a sleep() without using it. Even event loops in every GUI application use Mach IPC on the lowest level.

There is no way of implementing the full semantics of this IPC mechanism without a help from the kernel. For example, Mach IPC involves making direct memory copies between processes.

So even if we decided to take the "wineserver" approach, which would set us back by several years, the result would be super slow and not very compatible.

Also the userspace on macOS is quite different from other operating systems, which is why it's all taking us so long. MacOS is a bloated system with a huge number of layers sitting between the UI toolkit and the windowing server.

Imagine creating Wine from scratch. How much functionality would you need to implement to provide the correct behavior for a super-simple native GUI application? Probably just USER32, GDI32 and KERNEL32 would do. On MacOS, this is AppKit, QuartzCore, Foundation, CoreFoundation, libobjc and libSystem (which includes huge components such as libdispatch and emulating complex APIs such as kqueue).

FYI: The reason why we don't emulate raw syscalls is because this is not possible from kernel modules, unless you resort to techniques that could easily destabilize the whole system.
I was under the impression that Apple Health is designed so that Apple itself doesn't have access to this data, even in aggregate. Is that not the case?
I'm pretty sure there are self-hosted alternatives. First one i recently tried that comes to mind is almond.

Yes it's a struggle but you can definitely fiddle with them to retain your privacy.
That's Old in the sense of the first millennium AD. This is "old" in the sense of two hundred years ago. Very different.
> but they will return.

In what time frame?

How many businesses won't return because the owners couldn't afford to keep the thing going?

How many business owners themselves will be wiped out because their primary income source has been shut down?

How many people lose their homes and vehicles?

How much wealth from the average American will be absorbed by banks as people get wiped out?

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I cannot imagine a scenario where the economy is not depressed for years, just like 2008.
Our team actively contributes to MDN. Web.dev is not an MDN replacement, it's a channel for guides & other supporting documentation.
Ebola is actually an example in the opposite direction you think it is.

https://www.livescience.com/48234-how-ebola-got-its-name.htm...

> But naming the virus Yambuku ran the risk of stigmatizing the village, said another scientist, Dr. Joel Breman, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This had happened before, for example, in the case of Lassa virus, which emerged in the town of Lassa in Nigeria in 1969.

> It was Karl Johnson, another researcher from the CDC, and the leader of the research team, who suggested naming the virus after a river, to tone down the emphasis on a particular place.

We were already going "place-based names kinda suck" in the 1970s.
Remembering every stranger you come into contact with is a social problem? How?
Yes, that's what the store providers gain.

But what do the users gain? What do I as a app creator gain?

What would I lose if I'd simply provide my app as a download on a website, like some app creators do?
That's the reason we still have COBOL and similar systems working.

For exact this reason. They are working and doing what they meant to be doing.
Their data is of higher quality than upstream sources like the Johns Hopkins CSSE set. Notably, it's in long-form (one record per day per area) instead of wide-form and the schema is consistent.

This takes some know-how and a bunch of ETL effort. There is significant value in their transformation of upstream data.
It's not about sneezing. Real-world experience is showing that just breathing is enough to transmit the virus.

The news report about 45 people at choir practice testing positive is just one episode [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1243331922903908352
Saving lives doesn't absolve anyone from critical consideration about what they are publishing exactly.

For all intents and purposes, there are authors who write similar massive viral pieces that may - and likely will - end up killing thousands of people inadvertently.

As I said, the core message is absolutely right, but his method - the way he packs his message with solid looking graphs and number juggling - is questionable. Sure, it gets the job done; whereas many others fail to push the very same message. But it's still a questionable tactic of convincing people.

Does it matter? Perhaps not. At the end of the day, he saved lives. Morality is a luxury presently. And yet, dismissing critical considerations outright equally opens the door to unintended consequences if we turn it into a habit each time someone is purported to have saved lives.
University students, graduate and undergraduate.

1 to 1's are totally common and accepted in a university setting. You're generally supposed to leave your office door open (when having them in person), but otherwise this doesn't raise any eyebrows.
Alternatives might be Jitsi and the 8x8 supported by Jitsi tech.
Side note, why do you love MongoDB? I've never had a situation where I believed it would fit my current problem better, so I really don't know why people use it.
I mean, if it was the mast tempting him, it might have been ill-advised...
Here in Portugal, 2500+ volunteers are building solutions for the virus. From arranging free housing for medical staff to a self assessment app. If your government is slow to deploy tech solutions, I urge you to unite, bootstrap the project and hand it over to the government as soon as it gets enough traction.

If you want to help Portugal, you can join in https://tech4covid19.org
That's the case. The only way that they would get this is through a research study with explicit consent/opt-in.
Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff
Can't wait to die from a new virus because of insulated Silicon Valley libertarian ideals.
Internet Archive raises National Emergency Library: 1M free books no waitlist
Even if he doesn't there are snowmobile resorts. People pay good money to go to places with a lot of snow, rent a snowmobile and ride in the wilderness for a week.

Also a fair number of people live where a snowmobile isn't practical but have a cabin where they are and so they will be making weekend trips to where they are practical.

Your point stands though, anyone who lives in the wrong area is unlikely to be targeted if the only indication they might want a snowmobile is home conversion. If you are serious you will do other searches (tracked for sure), and have location history in a target area (might not be track able, these area often have poor cell coverage)
I am using zoom for school with 300 students and it works great. My professors who are not tech savvy were able to use it without problem. Zoom makes recording, screen sharing and chatting much easier than other softwares. Also, I like how easy it is to call in.

Also, at my work we use zoom for everything. It is a powerful software that we love.
Mamute is a FOSS StackOverflow: https://www.mamute.org/
Same here! I can't wait to fork this and add to it! Looking forward to seeing the source code. Amazing job on this game :3
I just got out of a call where we arrived at the exact same design as a way to track down the infection spread.

Thank you for posting this!
> What's the definition of "set"?

It is a function from objects onto booleans.

> what's the definition of the implication symbol

The implication symbol doesn't have a definition, it's part of a completely different kind of reasoning process. Formal symbolic reasoning is a completely different animal than informal arguments involving words that have definitions.

Next question?
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process