skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can compare normal death rates from previous years to determine if you are having excess deaths. Here is data from a town in Italy for example:

https://www.corriere.it/politica/20_marzo_26/the-real-death-...

“Nembro, one of the municipalities most affected by Covid-19, should have had - under normal conditions - about 35 deaths. 158 people were registered dead this year by the municipal offices. But the number of deaths officially attributed to Covid-19 is 31”

There are some caveats with the data of course - I.e. the town might not have any more deaths for the rest of the year since it’s burned through all the people that would have expired anyway, but it’s interesting reading.
Ironically, the video is only available in the US.

Had to hop onto my VPN to view.

Edit: Ok, at least not viewable in the UK!
I started on this last week as well.

Seemed like something you can do with simple ingredients and time, and well I've got lots of time to feed a starter twice a day. It actually is growing well.

We'll have to see if it works well once it is made into bread.
Summary:

Most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking. Almost everything has a signaling component – we are just not aware of it. “well over 90 percent” of human behavior can be explained by signaling.
Eclipse Theia is a cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript
The value of these APIs is that they aggregate data worldwide. I don't want to write against the API of every national weather service in the world.
ANSI Makes Some ISO Standards Relevant to Covid-19 Freely Available
The "Fundamentals of Engineering - Electrical and Computer" exam requires topics from differential equations to impedance in AC circuits to op-amps to frequency modulation. I would never gong a candidate for not knowing any of those things, because we write computer software; we don't make our own servers out of magnetite and sand.
But if you've been asymptomatic for 2 weeks you are at very low risk for infecting anyone else.
I've used a fair amount of WebEx (hosting and attending "meetings"). I don't particularly like WebEx, but Zoom feels like a cheap knockoff in comparison. I think Zoom is doing a better job marketing to individuals than the older players in the market.
In short, no. Verilog is very nearly a general purpose programming language, with some syntactic sugar for doing userspace/green/lightweight threads (that it confusingly calls processes). It is used to model digital hardware, but the language itself doesn't really give you any insight into how to construct those models. Creating the model is still up to you.
Which in this case may or may not copy memory. You're only able to express changing the meaning of some specific bytes by moving them which is the contrary of what you meant. Sure you're not moving things because normally the compiler will (and does) optimize, but you must say that you need the bytes to be copied.
> killing competition

Apple believes it should make/provide the whole “widget”. If they think every phone should ship with a really good weather app, they’ll do one. If one comes on the market that they think is better, they’ll buy it and make it the new default.

I mean they’re not in the weather app business. They aren’t competing against Dark Sky. What they’re competing against is Android, and if their phone comes with a stellar weather app out of the box, that is good for Apple. Others can continue to make weather apps.

iOS comes with a calculator. People still buy PC Calc and Calcbot despite the built-in being pretty useful.
Is this now just a problem on mobile phones in the USA now that we have the no call list legislation?

The Do Not Call list has been around for almost 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_call_list
What do you use for an ID? Passport card? State issued ID?
From another commenter on another HN thread https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector
> I presume it picks up local yeast as it grows and eventually becomes a "local" variant

I had a funny experience of exactly this recently.

I got a starter from a friend a year ago and have been feeding it and using it regularly since. But recently, my father had some health issues and I had to go live with my parents for a couple weeks to help out, back in the small rural town they live in. I took my starter with me, and made a couple loafs of bread for my parents, feeding while I was living with them.

But when I got home, my starter was different. I grows way faster now. It's much more active. It seems to generate a lot more CO2 than before.

I suspect during my visit, my starter picked up a new strain of yeast which has joined the ecosystem in my jar. And it's made for some great bread.
Frosthaven, the Sequel to Gloomhaven from Isaac Childres
Google Duo have raised the people per meeting from 4 to 12.
Good point, may be they should use some custom heuristic that takes deaths + confirmed cases + fudge factor.
Apple is a services company now according to them, and as demonstrated by the Apple tv app on my Samsung TV.
Luckily, Mariott doesn't have anything else to worry about right now.
> How does everyone know?

I personally added some badges to all of my projects that inform the user if I abandoned the project and besides that, if a new feature from let's say Java is lunched and start breaking a project then why don't people raise an issue? It's not a PR and can be done in a few seconds. I'm sure someone will notice especially if a project is maintained by a handful of people.
I feel like giving people a decent coding project is, at the moment anyway, the best approach. If I'm interviewing someone I really just want to see these things: what their code is like, what their final result looks like (if there's room for creativity -and there should be), how they got there (revision history). And then in the interview portion I just want to get a sense of their personality and their decision making process on the project. It's not perfect but it gives a sense of if they can finish a likely task, and if they would be easy or hard to work with.

Btw, none of that involves puzzles or trying to guess their IQ. If your company is like google in 1998 maybe you care about that, but chances are you need someone to build something relatively straightforward, not invent PageRank. Honestly having a super genius on board might be bad if you're not solving a truly hard problem - they might get bored and check out.

It's a valid complaint that these projects can take time, but job searching is pretty time consuming anyway, and joining the wrong company or hiring the wrong person is way more so.
It had been in read-only maintenance mode for quite a while. Then they just took the whole thing down with no warning. The wayback machine copy unfortunately seems to be missing a lot of articles.
Don't forget potatoes. We're still using some of last year's crop from our garden (and they're so much better fresh from the ground than anything we get from the store).
> Who is really reading a site's terms of service, or EULAs etc.?

I do. I make a point to take the first five to six hours of every working day reviewing the ToS for each website I'm projected to visit that day.

I diff the text against known past versions and if there are significant enough changes to any particular ToS, I stop using that site until I can sit down in-person with my $550/hr lawyer (usually I only do this once or twice a week) and review the changes to make sure I'm clear of all liabilities for my projected use-cases. Once I get the go-ahead, I resume access to that website.

Overall the process only takes on average 30 hours a week, and the costs are around $2000/week. It's worth it though, I wouldn't want to break any rules set by private land owners (whether virtual or not).
I think corporate upper management are the only echelon of business capable of such waste and cynicism, maybe they noticed that traffic was going to the wiki and not the dedicated support pages.
TL;DR - The 775% increase applies only to Teams usage in Italy.

....
A little more specific:

The elephant in the brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler argues that most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking . this is not a new theory, but Simler and Hanson argue that a lot more human behavior can be explained by signaling .
That's not the only security leak in that photo.
> State issued ID?

This.
Ubisoft offers free games to encourage you to stay at home
1) Unlike Shuttle they have deep cryo fuel on board, that they can potentially use for stuff like that. However that is my speculation.

2) Different diagrams have shown it a bit differently. Usually they are shown coming out of the back of the rocket and then unfolding like a Peafowl. That's what probably those things between the Vac engines are.

But this is just me guessing.

3) Yes, this should be very possible.

There are so many new things possible its crazy. You could design a costume interior of the ship and launch that. Like a whole movie set and crew, or maybe almost like a sports stadium sort of thing for some new space boxing or whatever.

But if we have more then 100 tons to Orbit, it should start to be possible to have pretty big LEO hotels/stations for much less cost.
You’re right.

It’s controlled by IBM, Fujitsu, Bosch, and Oracle.
> Optimized the zip size by removing .pyc files and unnecessary libraries

Why do you remove the .pyc files instead of the .py files? Keeping the .pyc bytecode means that it can skip the bytecode compiling when used.

Some bootstrapping code I use from [0] is helpful to remove the uncompiled .py files.

[0]: https://github.com/RemotePixel/cogeo-layer/blob/f04d14ebf99d...
A non-driver's state ID works for everything you'd use a driver's license for except operating a motor vehicle. Even though people typically say, "Driver's license" when they really mean either kind of state-issued ID card.
In all markets, and generally as a life strategy, there is a "winner" method and a "survivor" method.

If you play to win, you are most likely following accepted best practices to maximize gains - in your career, socially, economically, and so on. You optimize to "cut the fat" regularly, stay with the trends and try to be the front-runner in everything. In this market, playing only as a winner amounts to taking on huge amounts of risk, because there's high volatility and little accepted wisdom or trends to follow. Any move that uses leverage could be the one that makes you wash out - and in the same way, being gregariously social to keep up appearances during a pandemic may kill you.

The "survivor" method is what it sounds like: playing to not lose. They are not just aiming for low numeric risk factors, though; the point is to have second, third etc. lines of defenses against black swans. Survivors will tend to look for overlooked niches and early diversification. They amass unlikely hoards while keeping their heads down, which leaves them isolated a lot of the time.

In general the optimal position for every market is where winner strategies intersect with survivor strategies: Find something that is relatively stable that nobody is talking about and move your money closer to it. Then when the business cycle picks up your portfolio magically turns into something positioned to capitalize.

Of course, the essential problem is that if nobody is talking about it, how are you going to discover it? If you wait until it hits the news, that's probably too late.

But business formation or repurposing presents another option. Down cycles are opportunities to start the next trend yourself, because the air is clear and you don't have heavy competition. When a market is competitive, everyone spends on sales and marketing to be the loudest voice. When it's quiet, "build it and they will come" becomes a great deal more plausible and you can really focus on product.
> telephone operators can be forbidden from let spam categorized numbers reach you

How does this help with a spoofed call from India?
> Right, they are different. [Racial slurs] make people uncomfortable or alienated at their job. [Diverse hiring] keeps people from getting jobs in the first place on the basis of race and gender. Which one is more serious?

So, you're saying racial slurs are preferable to diverse hiring? Thanks for definitively putting the "Are you a racist?" question to rest. I think we're about done here.
Google emphasizes popularity over accuracy
The fact is that with these meeting/group products, the one that makes it easiest to join is the one that succeeds, because there's always one bozo who can't figure out how to type a password, so there's an incentive towards insecure product behaviors.
i have a small jar of starter in the fridge that i replace weekly with 50% water and 50% flour of what I take out. any time i want to bake i feed it that day and use the half i was going to discard anyway to start that loaf of bread or a pizza dough. done this way it's not too hard to have a good sourdough starter in the fridge with minimal waste.

having a few jars that you cycle through every feeding removes the funky crusty buildup that tends to happen if you reuse the same jar.
It appears wasteful to put the cellulose from the grass through a cow to obtain a low-value product.

We used to say that coal liquefaction is a political process because of its price tag, only Hitler Germany and South Africa under Apartheid used it when they were cut off from importsd. But bovine ethanol is even worse.
It’s not ‘full pay’.

-Guaranteed hazard pay in the form of double pay during our scheduled hours.
Also, and more specifically HN relevant: how it's exploited in SaaS environments.
The idea is to prevent monopolies before they happen. If antitrust gets involved in a merger they dont want to let the merger happen and then reverse it, the idea is to prevent the merger from happening in the first place
Isn't FCC unique to USA? Well there you have it.
I felt a little slighted (in a cheeky way) by the "zero good weather apps for Android" comment. Started writing then decided against it. Then I got this email in my inbox from a user :-)

Dark Sky is shuttering their Android app after being acquired by Apple. People are saying things like "Now I will have zero good weather apps for Android. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22740331

Flowx is better than Dark Sky!
I think it's more Microsoft in the early 2000s. "What do you mean there is an internet and people on the internet might not have your best interests at heart!"
The reviews for the app are pretty amazing. It went from one of the highest rated weather apps to 2.5 stars in a matter of days: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wundergrou...
Part of it is that, (at least in my experience, maybe this has changed) Zoom can scale to a couple hundred people in a way that tools like Google Hangouts can't.

But like, if we're being honest, it probably has a lot to do with how easy it is to start a Zoom call and invite people. You can host a 40 minute meeting for free. No one needs to sign up anywhere. It's super easy to install but also works in the browser if you can't install it. Computer on the fritz? You can call in from your phone. And yeah, they've also used some dirty tricks to make it as easy as possible, and some of those measures (like the auto-reinstall thing) were probably unnecessary. But they've clearly focused on being super super easy to start using, and when their moment came they were primed to seize it.

Last weekend my family had a "month's mind mass" in memory of my grandfather who passed a month ago. We were able to get dozens of people, many of them very non-technical, into the call, and we started basically on time. There was no "it doesn't work on my old phone" or "you mean I have to sign up for gmail?" or "whoops I couldn't get in because I signed in with my work email". That's why Zoom is winning the game right now.
I vaguely wonder sometimes as to what's the origin of the extreme US cheesiness with these names. Like, it's elementary-school level kitsch.

So far my guess is ‘the forties’. Or maybe the fifties, with all the ‘atomic’ ridiculousness.
how is a hotel an isolation unit? there are little to no cooking and food storage facilities or others washing facilities in hotel rooms. so your hotel credit now also has to cover 3 meals a day if it is to effectively work as an isolation unit. these must be delivered to residents by someone who could then transmit the disease to lots of elderly at once. these would become defacto old people's homes/care homes but with untrained staff.
Nice. Not so long ago I was trying to make one without the grid layout, using lines instead. Never got the math quite right thou. Here's the link if you wanna take a look:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/myRaycast
I carefully evaluated all of the major players here (at least 2 hours in each one) and Zoom definitely has the 2nd best video/audio quality/latency after FaceTime (and you can't use FaceTime for meetings where even one person doesn't have an Apple device).
Generally when someone makes disparaging comments about the speaker, it is a sign they cannot refute what is being said.
You aren’t being rigorous at all, you are just asking questions and have no idea about the answers.
The US did this before most countries, actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_Registry

Most US spam calls originate outside of the US, though.
Digging into the Privacy Sandbox
Mine are mostly offers for a pre-approved $250,000 loan, available in less than 48 hours, for my non-existent small business. Curious what stolen mailing list I'm on that makes scammers think I'm a small business owner. Flattering really, that they'd think I have the potential to become one.
What is the right way to say that without sounding too pedantic every time? "Most platforms define a stable C ABI"?
Yes. His first "Ambient" release, "Music for Airports", back in 1978 was designed to induce a calming effect. It is very effective as I can testify since I've been using it for decades now to sleep.

The fact that it doesn't appear on the list by the researches cited in this article suggests a grave oversight.

Music for Airports was also the first in a series by Eno designed to take advantage of his "ambient speaker technigue" wherein you take a third speaker, in addition to the stereo pair, place it behind the listener, and connect it's two terminals to the two + (positive) terminals each channel on your amplifier.

Call it poor man's quadraphonic. It basically sends side information (or any signal not present on the other channel such as an instrument panned all the way to one side) to this third speaker.

It sounds great.
Not going to defend a bunch of trolls, if that's what you're implying.

However, if we don't secure our systems, what do we expect? If there were no bad-actors in the world, people like tptacek would be out of work. What a glorious world it would be, no need for locked doors, fences, passwords, pin codes and more - but that's not the world we live in.

Instead, we're in a world where Zoom has laughable security for barging into potentially sensitive meetings being conducted by businesses and world leaders[1].

If it takes a few meetings getting trolled for Zoom to finally take action, I'm not going to feel much sympathy. Just be glad trolling is all they're doing right now.

So, while I'm sorry your meeting got trolled, it will just continue to happen until you get mad at the people that made it possible - Zoom.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534...
The plastic-wrapped fruit lasts longer so there is less food waste (and less carbon wasted on shipping wasted fruit).
Maybe you want to share which IDEs you've been using? It sounds like a wonder if there is one that can handle C++ in a way comparable to, say, IntelliJ for Java, or VSCode for TypeScript.

My experience is frankly more that the usual IDEs I know of can't even handle syntax coloring 100% correct when it comes to C++…
Show HN: Spot Covid-19 outbreaks with crowdsourced wearable device data?
COVID-19 testing -- or the lack thereof -- has been a crucial part of the unfolding story of the pandemic over the last few months. Until recently in the U.S., we've mostly been flying blind, because without much testing, we haven't known for sure how many people are infected.

With your help, the digital medicine group at Scripps Research Translational Institute -- we're a non-profit academic institution in San Diego -- would like to explore a different way of spotting outbreaks of viral illness, using crowdsourced data from wearable devices like the Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, and others.

Our group recently published a study [1] that showed we could improve predictions of flu outbreaks by analyzing heart rate and sleep data from thousands of Fitbit users.

We've just launched a new study -- https://detectstudy.org -- with the goal of someday using similarly crowdsourced wearable data to spot outbreaks of viral illness, including COVID-19, long before people start calling their doctor or showing up at the emergency room.

To accomplish that, we're going to need a huge number of volunteers for the DETECT study. There's no cost to participate, and all you need to do is download the free MyDataHelps app (from our partner, CareEvolution) for iOS or Android. With your permission, the app will automatically share heart rate and activity data with our researchers. [2]

Watching the grim news these days, it's hard to know how to help. We're hoping that the DETECT study is one small way that anyone with a wearable can pitch in.

https://detectstudy.org

Thanks,
Danny

P.S. This blog post has more info:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/pivoting-health-resea...

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7...

[2] Anything you share with us will be held in the strictest confidence, and we will remove personally identifying details before the data are analyzed.
While working from home, I was trying to figure out how to mute my Android phone on a conference call the other day. I eventually did, but the sequence of actions to get to the menu was very strange. I'm pretty sure it was more intuitive just a few years ago, but of course, you don't control whether you update software anymore. Interface design is accelerating downhill, and it's amazing how things have regressed since Apple and Microsoft published guidelines for good design in the 80s and 90s.
Foamglas is a great use for recycled glass

https://www.buildinggreen.com/blog/foamglas---my-new-favorit...
Interesting. I was able to watch it from somewhere not in the US before posting.
I had a quick feedback call set up by a common investor with Eric, Zoom's CEO a few years ago. I remember I pointed out a few of those issues, and his reply was that the only problem he could see with the app was that it wasn't "pretty enough" and it needed new icons.

I hope Eric is learning something from this situation and will pay more attention in the future, every business gets those moments, maybe not that publicly.
I think it's fine for adding depth to an already lit subject, but not for creating "golden-hour" light as in the article. I had seen his images before, and thought they were sunrise/sunset photos, so I felt tricked when I just read they were artificial lighting. In my mind, nature photography is about capturing nature, subtle improvements and manipulation are to be expected, but not creating it.
It's generally a bad idea to carry your passport around just because it has your SSN printed on it
I live in Seattle now but used to live in Ohio. I agree that the minute by minute is pretty much useless in Seattle but it was incredibly accurate in Ohio. I have numerous stories where I was able to get to shelter or remain sheltered minutes before a sprinkle turned into a downpour.

I know nothing about weather, but I have to assume the weather patterns in Seattle are just very difficult to predict or analyze at such a fine granularity.
I expected some kind of luxury service to impress neighbors, maybe delivering huge empty boxes to your door, but I wasn't disappointed anyway.