skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! But I wouldn't describe this humidity as "droplets", like you would produce from coughing or sneezing.
Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers
I'm a bit confused. Shouldn't chartered flights go down in cost now that there are lots of airlines with planes, costs, competition, and virtually no passenger demand?

I realize passenger and cargo planes are different, but probably don't understand just how different in terms of effort/cost of adapting passenger planes to haul cargo primarily vs passengers and what the typical revenue is for a given flight (total revenue for passenger tickets). Even if it makes any economical sense to repurpose existing passenger jets for supplies unless of in dire need (which this may be the case for).
When trying to protect people (or, more accurately, trying not to hurt people) in low-information or high-stress situations (both very common for abusive situations), you can't throw something that essential into the second paragraph of a document that few outside of pundits will ever read.

The goal would be for the exception to be noticeable-enough that it ended up in most headlines. How to achieve that is an interesting thing to think about, but it's what should have been done.
Welcome to our brave new world.
It also goes on to say:

"An unprecedented collapse in passenger demand is prompting airlines to use their fleets to transport more cargo, including medicines"

shouldn't this, if anything, bring down the cost of chatering a plane?
"So we'll play it by ear and see what happens. It's not like the merge
window is more important than your health, or the health of people
around you."

Very nice.
In sixth grade, back in the '70s, my English textbook had Chapter Five ("Riddles in the Dark") as a selection. It turned out my teacher was a huge LotR fan. She gave the class a choice—we could either continue on with the textbook or each purchase a copy of The Hobbit (which was 1 dollar for the paperback) and read that instead. We opted for The Hobbit. I don't even remember her name anymore, but I would say that that decision of hers was monumental for my life. I liked reading before that, but this was something completely different.
> the life expectancy of the whole population will be reduced by a mere 20 days

It's not evenly distributed, though.
They've posted an update on their status tracker: http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=43793&
>> Everything is a tradeoff

Solutions do have tradeoffs, but if I tell you that breathing is important, we don't really need to discuss tradeoffs...

Simplicity is that important.

I'm getting more this way every year and I've been coding for over 15 years.
I'm yet to find the bottom in terms of how simple things should be; things can almost always be made simpler and simplifying things as much as possible nearly always pays off (except if you get paid hourly and care more about salary).
This is awesome! Great decision by the folks at ACM! well done guys!!
The U.S. has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants for outbreaks of disease
Author here! Side projects be can quite therapeutic during these troubling times. This is an app I've really enjoyed tinkering with off and on over the past few months and am now happy to share it with others. The app includes sample videos along with a settings menu that allows the visualization to be changed on-the-fly. Looking forward to any feedback so can hopefully take it further. Hope you enjoy!
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Externalities matter. Eventually that stuff is going to be handled by other people, in a year or ten or a hundred. The risk is not just to you, and is not just based on your own safety procedures.

Please stop advocating for people to use leaded solder at hackerspaces, which are generally frequented by children.
I think most of the comments on this are secretely fueled by the idea that the mac is going away. I used to fret until I switched to Windows. Now I don't really care. I think Apple doesn't care for you guys either. As soon as XCode is ported to the iPad, it's a goodbye to all the rest of devs in the world. I just hope you're prepared for that.

Life after the mac is not that bad. I miss some nice stuff, but the esentials are there.
The parent commenter doesn't say it, but it seems strongly implied that they live in public housing. In most jurisdictions, residents don't have the option of moving to another unit without approval. In principle no one is stopping them from moving into market-rate private housing, but unless they happen to have the income to cover the differential in housing costs, it's not actually an option.
Reminder that the nuclear ballistic missile submarines were built for - and continue to be operated for - a war of total annhiliation. Assuming they were submerged when the first strike missiles launched, there would be a period of under an hour before they struck their targets. During that time, the ground based second strike might be launched by the United States, but France and the UK have no ground based nuclear launch capability. Operational depth is usually below radio depth, so there would be no contact until surfacing again, at which point the submarine commanders would have to face the knowledge that most people they ever knew were probably dead and their cities destroyed. They would then have to open their sealed orders and decide if they wanted to carry out another mass murder of civilians as a reprisal, find someone to surrender to, or simply turn the gun on themselves.
There is only so much air cargo capacity, and passenger aircraft cannot be rapidly converted into that capacity. The cost is excessive to convert passenger aircraft to cargo service.
Anyone who has sat in the front row of a concert or broadway show has see how much spit is spewed during singing.
What are you interested in? If you like Ruby I maintain a list at https://rubybib.org/, and many of the ones with a paywall tag are now freely available and weren't before.
I think this is very wrong. Looking back I think this distinction is what people will point to as the big mistake people made. This idea of large droplets in itself is basically meaningless. I encourage everyone to read [O] very carefully. This thing will shed into the air, and it will infect others. Countries that encourage everyone to wear masks will succeed in containing this. There is way too much bs being discussed around large droplets. The paper I link to is looking at influenza A in particular, but I am making the very strong assertion that SARS-CoV-2 will show significant homology with regard to transmission behavior. I think the rates of infection alone bear this out if people think clearly about this.

[O] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843947/
I ended up putting together a gist of all the stuff I had to do to get my gen 7 carbon x1 working: https://gist.github.com/dwaynepryce/5a3141dfcb3cb166cd54766f...
Just wearing shoes from outside is a COVID19 risk
Beyond those washing hands normally many all still bringing coronavirus into our homes and cars through other normal daily habits - - wearing shoes.
Have you ever seen a sick person expectorate on the ground ?
Where does gravity take anything that is coughed, sneezed or spit out ?
We are not taking shoes off outside the front door, dipping soles in 10% bleach solution, placing them on/in UV light box, or other germicidal methods.
How many are using hands to take off shoes and then failing to wash hands immediately ?
Even if one was to wash hands afterwards, how many are carrying laptops, groceries, and other items that get co-mingled with dirty hands at front door ?
I know some families that demand all members of family take off shoes outside and transfer to slippers inside house.
I recall during the bird flu several years ago all poultry producers had trays of 1 inch disinfectant liquid in some cases with towel nearby to step on after liquid - - - at the doors of all chicken houses to dip shoes, and they were very, very serious about it.
actually the median age of death is 80, for some more accurate perspective. Generally speaking I would consider myself lucky to live to that age and greedy if I thought that others should make major sacrifices so I could live slightly beyond it.
Because orange man bad
I can see nothing wrong with this and clearly nothing will go wrong. /s
Yea that's my assumption. Don't know what it takes to pull out seating, overheard, flooring?, etc. and what sort of effort that takes time wise. I assume it's not simple and takes time.
ARKit 3.5 Enables Immersive Augmented Reality Experiences on iOS
It doesn't. In fact it doesn't do anything for assets in general. But integrating it with Webpack is quite straightforward if you're comfortable with Webpack.
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I would object to the sentence “ The Surface knows what it is”. From my experience it’s still a regular windows laptop with a bolted on touch interface causing neither regular Windows nor touch to work that well. I think both Apple and Microsoft are in a weird spot where they don’t know where they really want to go so they are trying to cover all bases in a half assed way. One of the strengths that made Apple as big as it is now was the willingness to say “no”.
Actually submarine fleet gets a bit better food than the rest. Toward the end of a long underway, things can get a bit odd, but I was never truly disappointed in the food.

You find other escapes - I bought my own laptop at the Exchange and taught myself Linux from the install CD up on one deployment.

If you're senior enough, you get your own rack. Perks :)

And once you're off watch, there's routine to do but after that you have your own music, games if you like, movie nights (voting gets weird sometimes), read, we even made up a Stellar Conquest type game once, played out on paper, one turn per watch rotation.

The family thing could be a big deal but I was already pretty estranged from my very small number of relatives, so wasn't much for me.

YMMV.
Ask HN: Can someone explain how the stock markets can be rising now?
UG=undergrad?
There’sa lot of demand and also reduced supply from what I understand.
Don’t passenger planes already have huge cargo holds for all the luggage? Would it really be that hard to stuff that space full of cargo?
At first glance this appears to include everything including conference proceedings, which makes it better than the access I had when I was in graduate school and better than I have currently as a standard ACM member. I hope I'm correct about that.
If you've been using it on linux, you've almost certainly already been using the kernel version. Anecdotally, using it on my home LAN, the kernel implementation on linux performs much better than the userland implementation on MacOS. (Admittedly not the same hardware, the linux machine is a i5-3427U while the MacOS machine has an i5-5250U. I think the former might have an L2 cache advantage, but I'm not sure if that would explain the difference.)
Yeah, but if I say SDS everyone thinks I'm talking about a hammerdrill. Say MSDS and everyone knows what you mean, even if the name technically changed.
How Is South Korea Winning the Covid-19 Battle Without Any Lockdowns?
This is fine. We’re waiting for some new computing paradigm to come in and revolutionize the way we use tablets, but these new computing paradigms and their killer apps don’t come often.

The killer app for smartphones was having a web browser in your pocket. Super damn useful. Maybe tablets just don’t have a killer app on the horizon, and that’s fine? Like how hard drives for 5.25″ bays got replaced by 3.5″ drives, and now SSDs. It completely upturned the industry, but as a consumer I just don’t care. An SSD is just nicer than a 3.5″ HDD for general use and that’s enough for it to take over.

The iPad gets a few years of life as a pure tablet computer, and it has a whole ecosystem of apps designed around that. Now it gets an optional keyboard + mouse, and it will start getting apps built around that paradigm—but you can’t ignore the fact that the keyboard is optional. If the iPad had appeared with a keyboard + mouse from day one, half the apps would never have worked without a keyboard or mouse because they would be simple ports of desktop apps running full-screen.

What I get out of this is a decent, comfortable device which is easier to use than a smartphone and more convenient to carry around than a laptop. A reasonable niche doesn’t have to be a revolution. Half the apps I have on my iPad are half-baked ports from iOS. I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of half-baked desktop ports join them.
I enjoyed Marooned in Real Time so much. A great murder mystery set in an anarcho-libertarian far future society.
I don't have an iPad Pro, but instead the current gen iPad with keyboard cover, pencil and a bluetooth mouse. There's a lot to like about the iPad as a day to day computing device(web browsing, email, light word processing, etc) and it's even to the point where I use is as the main adjutant to my desktop in place of my laptop for most casual tasks. For non-casual work loads, most of my issues are less due to the iPad itself(especially with mouse support being official) and more to do with the app ecosystem needing to catch up, but part of the problem with the app ecosystem with the iPad as a laptop replacement is on Apple's shoulders. I don't expect do be able to do much development work an an iPad anytime soon without using the iPad a just a dumb terminal back to my desktop(which I do occasionally).
If you're in an abusive relationship, there's likely complex factors preventing the abused from throwing that paragraph in their abuser's face and leaving.
Just FYI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703000
Savaging
Not comparable to dedicated cargo aircraft.
Nit, but it isn't virii (doesn't make sense given etymology) It's viruses :)
To get an idea how it would be to "wake up" to all this I've found clips from Big Brother pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6vwVUYmv7I

I even think there are some countries where they still don't know anything (Brazil?).
For ignorant people who lump "asia" into one sure, that's bad. However, let's see, this came from Japan, no, they are well regulated. Taiwan, SK., no. Where did it come from again?? Asking for a friend...
The more spy software a boss buys, the more insecure they really are about themselves.
Escaping gases from Uranus: “forces take over, and the plasmoid pinches off”
> The news media simply does a terrible job of communicating what exactly these "lockdowns" mean.

The news media have no incentive to rationally analyse facts and put them in perspective. They need panic and confusion so we continue to click on their substance-less articles and videos.

In times of confusion like this, go directly to the official sources (WHO, ministry of health, NHS etc) and skip the "journalists" altogether, this will have a significant positive impact on your mental health.

Stay safe everyone
Ask HN: Is it time to start an apolitical, decentralized version of WHO?
There has been a lot of red flags on the WHO recently, from misreporting data [1, 2] to confusing guidance on masks [3] to the controversial case of Taiwan [4, 5].

Does anyone here feel that such bureaucracies wouldn't/shouldn't survive long? And that they could be easily replaced by an efficiently-operated, software-powered non-profit (something similar to Our World in Data)?

One starting point that I could get couple universities and hospitals behind is a simple portal for any medical staff around the world to report severe flu or whatnot cases (with anonymized record/evidence) that they suspect to be a stem for a new disease outbreak.

Would anyone here be interested in helping to build such initiative? Or any thoughts? Suggestions? Counter-arguments?

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[1] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data#world-health-organization-who-situation-reports-our-previous-data-source

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-intl-hnk/index.html

[3] https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/11/whos-confusing-guidance-masks-covid-19-epidemic/

[4] https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-says-who-not-sharing-coronavirus-information-it-provides-pressing-complaints-idINKBN21H1BS

[5] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/asia/coronavirus-who-china-intl-hnk/index.html
Similar situation in Germany with regards to the news, I believe.

I wish we'd talk more about the effects of the media's reporting style on psychological health. Do we really need headlines and reports about individual deaths every day, live tickers, and an unending amount of notifications and newsletters regarding the same?

For people with anxiety disorders it can be total hell right now (talking from experience), and it's much less because of the virus itself than the reporting.
This is really rather interesting! I played with a few of the preset videos and you can really get some interesting results with the sliders you've made available.

One thing I was not sure of--is it possible to use it with arbitrary video sources (say from YouTube, or otherwise?)

I wasn't able to paste in a youtube link after the ?v and make it work so I was wondering.

Really cool idea, love it.
Why “Crossing the Chasm” doesn't work for workplace products
A highly customizable RGB controller implementation for Arduino
> Great Brother

Curious about this term - is that the back-translated version of "Big Brother" from 1984?
Thanks a lot! Will give that a watch.
Twenty years later, I still remember that exact smell, so yeah. But I can't say it bothered me any more than walking into other people's houses to their distinct combination of odor. Just very different and something you get used to.
I don't blame asians (the definition of Asians in the UK mean indians and Pakistanis and in the US it means orientals).

I sure as hell blame the Chinese government though!
5G? Around here in central Kansas 4G is spotty, and there's plenty of places that your phone will lose all data connection, and occasionally even lose the connection entirely. Also a max of 10Mbps would sure beat a max of 6Mbps from CenturyLink. Though at $1000 that would probably be too much...
Realistically, people who stay in abusive relationships were already stuck. The problem wasn’t cause by the lockdown. Only compounded.

Changing the presentation of a document won’t change this.

What would, is a society that doesn’t tolerate the problem, and provides material support for the abused.

We are a long way from that.
I wonder how much this is a shortage of supply vs. an increase in demand. From what I understand, commercial passenger flights often take commercial cargo. With fewer flights, all that demand for cargo capacity has to go somewhere.
-I have found that the news cycle (for anything but the largest of events) is so short that several times when I've worked offshore, something happened back home - some celebrity died, some place burned down &c - but by the time I get back home, it is old news. Hence I am blissfully unaware until the topic comes up, perhaps months later. "Oh, so that is why Wenche Foss hasn't been in the news lately..."
If you had actually tried it properly, you would not disagree, it's really that self-evident.
That was my first thought, "oh, it's a commercial satnogs".

Which I suppose proves it's a good idea. :)
>If you suspect one of your neighbors is being abused, call the police and report it. Don't wait, don't hesitate.

Talk to your neighbors before you call the cops on them!!!!

If you see someone get physically abused then sure, you're witnessing a crime in progress, call the cops. If you're not then don't. It's wildly inappropriate to call the cops on a hunch.

If you think a neighbor is being abused but are not sure then just be their friend and communicate with them (you're neighbors, it's reasonable for you to have each other's phone numbers and email addresses) until you can discern whether or not you are correct. Cops are good at arresting people. They are not good at mediating. If they get called to a DV situation where they can't arrest someone they have a lot of potential to make things worse.
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The airlines will screw you even in a disaster, DOJ should go after them now.
ReasonML can target native platforms transparently by using the OCaml compiler toolchain. dune (OCaml build tool) supports ReasonML out of the box.
Why? I'm genuinely curious. Obviously total cargo volume is lower. Is there some regulatory concern that makes them "not comparable"?
>while in reality the statistics show us that both men and women are guilty of domestic violence at about the same rate

I find that _extremely_ suspect.

> In the U.S., about 31 percent of men and 37 percent of women have experienced sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I am not disagreeing with that statistic, but it's a single number that can mean almost anything. For example, 80% of that 31% of men number could be men filling out a checklist and being like "well, technically that applied once" whereas 80% of women on that list could be frantically hitting every checkbox and it's happened multiple times.

That's just way to broad a statistic and you should be suspect looking at those numbers.

> Hines said some men don’t even realize they’re being abused until they read pamphlets

That's kind of what I meant above... if a man needs to read a pamphlet to realize he's being abused whereas a woman is literally living in fear all day long... are you saying that's the same thing? Of course some men experience the extreme end of it.. but to pretend like the abuse goes equally both ways seems like grasping for equality straws.
McDonald's and KFC: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-urge-...
Ubuntu 20.04 will have wireguard backported to their version of 5.4.
The article is just race baiting.
Socialism for wealthy corporations, rugged individualism for the rest of us. It's the American way.
From my understanding of "Reducing fever, good or bad" (Dr. John Campbell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJqSdmNNwW4) the human body needs fever to fight the viral infection.
No, it doesn't circumvent context switching to the kernel. With memory protection and separate address spaces, you generally need privileged execution to change page tables. However, the raw CPU cost of a syscall exception to the kernel followed by an exception return to userspace isn't actually all that high compared to all of the work that an OS usually does on top of it.
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This made me smile for some reason, congrats and thanks!
About the AR$5 bill in Argentina
Tool use in animals is fairly common. Generally we haven't seen it in the past because we simply weren't looking.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S16165...
I would guess typical passenger planes have significantly smaller cargo stores than cargo planes so the layout may not be good for efficient cargo transport (outside of course... people as cargo).

You'd allocate the volume in the aircraft very differently I imagine for cargo than passengers. I also suspect passenger planes were already using any leftover cargo from passenger cargo storage for commercial cargo transport to begin with. Two potentially very different optimization problems.
I'm really hoping they'll open IEEE journals as well.
Palantir platform to NHSX to assist the NHS in the fight against covid19
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Boomers, yes. Fast attack boats are never really underway that long, but they deploy away from home port for 4 - 6 months at a time. I did five deployments in a 54 month sea tour. (My time away from home port was 68+%)
I wrote https://github.com/amb007/persistent-buffer hoping to use the actual editing history foe precise diffing. I know that projectional/structural editor do such things, not sure if for diffing.