skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually I learned that POKE allows you to change values at specific memory addresses

I remember, with my first TI99/4A home computer, reading tons of program listings and trying to port Vic 20, C64, Spectrum, etc programs to it.

Many of the programs had hundreds of peeks and pokes, which the TI99 lacked. I thought it was an additional super power that I was missing. The envy.

I eventually got them with the Mini Memory module and the Extended Basic. Soon I discovered they were not "compatible".
I think the implication was that hospital staffs are overworked with Covid-19 but that normal every day emergency situations are still going to happen.
How much computational resources does this take? Is it ever growing, or can you cut it off outside a certain window without it affecting the visible part?
I'm thinking of a challenge more like Sweden rather than an enforced lockdown. Make it a competition- a race to the moon. What happens in Sweden remains to be seen though.

More interesting to me is that we have a measure by which we can evaluate our leader's response. Deaths well north of 200K means he severely screwed up.

Of course we'll never convince his base of that should it come to pass.

And to be fair, if he keeps the number of deaths in the 100K range then he will have done a good job from the point at which he started taking action.
I'm confused about the ntlm hashes - so it sounds like there is some service that contacts the auto-generated guid domain and sends legit SMB traffic to it? That seems really odd? I'd be curious to hear more about that.
Wonder how hhat the conditions for the bailout money in the US is. Do the companies have to pay it back? What about small businesses?
You're right in that it boils down to that, but that does also inherently justify using React for them.

Why would the author prefer unfamiliar tools in favor of tools they are productive with that produce the same output?
I'm in Thailand right now and everyone even the expats are wearing them. Why? Because the law in our local jurisdiction has mandated that if you are outside you must wear a mask. And if you don't, the police will fine you and can arrest you. They even set up checkpoints a couple of days after it was announced and now everybody wears a mask. It's great, actually
What the Right to Repair Movement Gets Wrong
Well, I guess it's time to buy a drone
Because it could be personalized content that differs for each request/user.
> The list includes a lot of "please ignore the references to specific programming languages", which is inexcusable, languages influence design, this is why we have OO Languages, and Functional languages and DSLs and Scripting languages etc .. because languages influence design

I meant this like "I'm not saying that everyone should read about those languages", but it seems you've interpreted this differently. :-)
Heh, I guess you get what you vote for
"Amazon Is a Breeding Ground for Coronavirus"
Because this is NOT a bailout. A bailout implies that those who receive it are potentially at fault, like when someone is bailed out of jail. Banks were bailed out in 2008 because they acted recklessly but had to be saved to limit the damage to the rest of the economy.

Here businesses that may otherwise be perfectly sane are temporarily prevented (or limited) by the state from operating for the public good.

It's analogous to the state paying for the property they seize under eminent domain.
What's your experience desoldering lead-free?

In the custom keyboard hobby you often have people desoldering 160+ through hole joints. With good tools (Hakko FR301) and good solder (Kester 63/37) that's a 15 minute job, but the frustration level and time commitment increase significantly as your tool quality or solder quality declines.

How would doing a whole keyboard of lead-free compare? Especially if you don't have $300-500 invested in gear.

Another question is, how's quality of life on surface mount components in a home/DIY setting? Obviously industry has no trouble here, but sometimes you need to do 0602 or a TQFP by hand.
it would be helpful if you can provide more details. e.g. os, browser.

on my end it looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSZS6_UlO4

(actually better, video-recording is slowing it down)

the helix is an extreme performance demo, since it is neither using canvas, svg nor webGL. just 300 div nodes which get adjusted in parallel.

managed to get > 30k dom manipulations per second (console logs for details)

it might make sense to adjust the configs of this component for your setup, but can not really help without details.
Can't fit all the great books in a single talk, right? :-)
Shareholders are already on the hook.

The way shares work is a way for a publicly traded company to obtain a loan. It does this by issuing shares which can be bought by investors. Shareholders are not liable except for their initial investment.

After selling shares, these can be traded i.e. on NASDAQ, but any price on the shares there only reflects the public perception of value of any given company. It's a high risk lottery.

This is also the reason that companies pay out large dividends to shareholders. They're obligated by law to payout dividends. Think of it as interest on a loan.
Show HN: A tool for startups to create product roadmap
Generally, I liked borg, but I did run into a situation a few years ago where borg would fail to recover parts of my backups because of some unicode error. I didn't knowingly have any unicode filenames in my home directory, but something annoyed it to the point that it would bomb out during recovery. I tried for a few hours using different mechanisms to do the recovery, but couldn't find any way to resolve it.

So, as always with backups, make sure you do regular test recoveries.
A Note of Positivity for the Recently Laid-Off
The calculation seems to be that it would cost more to the state to have these companies fail or fire most of their employees, have them apply for unemployment, and wait for new companies to emerge/rehire when the tide comes back.

By "cost more" I mean not just in sheer money, but also counting the overall impact on the population.
Though the sting and specter of looming layoffs is still fresh for everyone, and news about the pandemic seems gloomy, I think we can all use a bit of a note of positivity.
A Data Scientist Cannot Grow Without Organisation’s Support
Study: Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques
No, the mortgage holder has a lien on a property, which can be assigned. Title always remains with the lender.
If ownership of a lien is unclear, it may be unclear who ultimately owns the mortgage, but the mortgage servicer should remain. Not a lawyer, but I believe the laws relating to the owner/mortgage servicer relationship are designed to maintain consistency. A mortgage holder needs to be able to show proof of ownership. In the 2008 era, there were cases where this was lost and homeowners successfully challenged and had liens removed.
Are there any companies in America mass producing basic cloth masks right now, or at least distributing them at scale?Trying to buy one online seems to be quite challenging right now (either back ordered from Amazon, or purchasing from Etsy are the only options I have found). To be fair, I have not searched too hard. I guess I can learn to sew as well.
"I'm just here to ridicule people like yourself"
Glad to see that you found a goal in your life :-)
Again, have a good day pal.
in the 08 crash there where some people that won their house in court, due to the industry using a practice called Robo-Signing. Some judges saw this as irreparably separating the mortgage from the deed. So while you technically still owed for the mortgage you signed, the asset could not be reclaimed due to the fracture of the mortgage from the deed due to robo-signing. The practice was used to move mortgages around while not having to pay filing taxes every time it changed hands. It robbed local municipalities of a lot of money in avoidance. So some judges frowned on the practice and basically awarded the house to the owner. Whether you would win your case or not was hit or miss though.
This seems like such a no-brainer. 3Blue 1Brown did a video on epidemic simulation, and central markets, places where people in the region congregate, are major factors in the the rate of disease spread. Limiting the transfer coefficient in these places has the key to reducing this impact, assuming you can't prevent people from going there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs
Difference between law and official instructions
You could take a mixed approach. Server render non-stateful stuff, restrict user state to client-side only. You can then CDN cache the public stuff.
A couple notes on the linked news source (NOS) from a dutch person. The NOS is the national news source, it is government funded but not state operated. As far as I can tell there's no significant bias to their reporting.

Tangentially it's a great way to learn dutch as they strive to keep the language they use simple without simplifying the issues themselves. As you'll note in the translation I've linked it's mostly short sentences without complex overarching grammatical constructions.

The NOS is currently mirroring the advice RIVM provides on corona, which is the official governmental body dealing with population health and environmental issues.
Ask HN: What paid applications do you use?
In the world filled with free and open-source software - if you're paying for an app - probably it's really good. What's on your top 5 list? It can be a desktop or mobile app. The only rule: useful for a dev.
I think for their hard limit on MSDN funds, MS shuts down everything that creates incremental costs. As far as i know they don't delete anything, even things like storage that have an associated cost.

That said, i am pretty sure the the TOS for MSDN funds say they are not be used for production systems.
Rhesus Macaques is a type of monkey found in China. Researchers infected 3 monkeys who all exhibited weight loss, pneumonia and temperature increase. The virus infected most of their organs within mere days.

All symptoms went away overtime. Upon reinjection of infection of two of the monkeys with a third left out for control, there was a slight temperature gain but overall no reinfection.

The paper concludes that we get immunity [1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-fauci-those-who-...
De-paywalled: https://archive.is/Jf1P2
It's a phenomenon dubbed the "Brain Eater" by author James Nicoll on Usenet[0]. I don't know what it is about science fiction and fantasy authors in particular - maybe it happens in other fiction genres too and I'm just not aware because I don't read them as much, but a lot of them seem to succumb to extremist (usually right-wing authoritarian) politics, fringe science, conspiracy theory or other such crackpottery at some point in their careers, with their writing sometimes suffering as a result of these beliefs seeping in and taking over.

[0]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FilibusterFreefa...
You can declaratively manage wireguard using networkd:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WireGuard#Using_systemd...
> "national police force of young unemployed men"

How can members of a police force be unemployed?

> "I'm sure that by quoting this paragraph from wiki I will get more downvotes."

I normally downvote comments that complain about downvotes, but not for quoting well-sourced interesting/concerning background facts about relevant authors.
this.

I am often left surprised by how many people are always and only read the headlines. Even those who do read the headlines and the article, don't really question it.
This is the same as in the UK currently. If you have, say, terminal cancer but it is a dose of flu that finally kills you, the death is recorded as due to cancer.

If you have terminal cancer but you die due to Corona, then it is listed as Corona that kills you [1]

"But there’s another, potentially even more serious problem: the way that deaths are recorded. If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare ‘notifiable disease’. So the vast majority of respiratory deaths in the UK are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation. We don’t really test for flu, or other seasonal infections. If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection. This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections.

Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19. The list of notifiable diseases has been updated. This list — as well as containing smallpox (which has been extinct for many years) and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers) — has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections."

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/The-evidence-on-Covid-19...
The situation in South Korea is clearly an outlier. Even knowing exactly the steps which have drastically slowed the growth of the virus in South Korea is about as useful as knowing last week's lottery numbers at this point.
filesystems with redundant superblocks and journals? that is most modern ones I think
Chinese wet markets still operation despite Covid-19 (Warning: Graphic Content)
It was too obvious to notice for but thanks for explicitly talking about it. I always wondered why the insane cash injections of the fed never reach the general public. Surely at some point some of that money is going to be used for payroll but that point of time never came because everyone is underemployed.
Many political leaders around the world seem to be downplaying the severity of this virus.

So lets consider some details:

1. Looking at past events, pandemics do kill (i.e. many tens of millions where killed by the Spanish Flu).

2. This Covid 19 also kills (i.e. high deaths tolls in Italy/Spain and rising etc).

3. Covid 19 also appears to be highly contagious (i.e. look at New York).

4. From what I have read the reason the virus kills is hospital get overrun so patients have zero treatment options (i.e. hospitals run out of ventilators, medical staff, space, drugs etc etc).

Now I suspect if Pakistan goes down the path of trying to save its economy before tying to control the virus, they are in for a world of hurt.
Alternatives to Deep Neural Networks(DNN)
https://alpes.ai/2020/03/02/alternatives-to-deep-neural-networks/
AFAIK, inotify only works on a single directory. You can set it up to add an inotify to newly created directories, but you need to hook into every directory in the filesystem. Unless this has changed more recently, you can't just set up an inotify on "tell me when anything has changed on this filesystem". Some google searches do not indicate that this has changed.
a lot of people use coloring as stress relief, I, for example, use it. Believe me, 4 pages are not that much, but these are really fun to do!
I am currently using FuzzyWuzzy in my project for string similarity in a large document collection. It is quite slow, so I will definitely replace FW with your lib.
I do know people with sewing skills but I can't go visit them during social distancing :-/
If anyone else - like me - has tried updating the kernel this morning and figured out wifi with an intel card was broken: It seems they broke the iwlwifi driver [1] and here [2] is the patch to fix it.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
Maybe you're getting downvoted because your own source advises against being used as a source for your argument? From euromomo:

> Note concerning COVID-19 related mortality as part of the all-cause mortality figures reported by EuroMOMO

> Over the past few days, the EuroMOMO hub has received many questions about the weekly all-cause mortality data and the possible contribution of any COVID-19 related mortality. Some wonder why no increased mortality is observed in the reported mortality figures for the COVID-19 affected countries.

> The answer is that increased mortality that may occur primarily at subnational level or within smaller focal areas, and/or concentrated within smaller age groups, may not be detectable at the national level, even more so not in the pooled analysis at European level, given the large total population denominator. Furthermore, there is always a few weeks of delay in death registration and reporting. Hence, the EuroMOMO mortality figures for the most recent weeks must be interpreted with some caution.

> Therefore, although increased mortality may not be immediately observable in the EuroMOMO figures, this does not mean that increased mortality does not occur in some areas or in some age groups, including mortality related to COVID-19.

EDIT: you can even see COVID19 deaths btw - if you scroll down to Italy there is an uptick. If Lombardy was there separately the uptick would be even bigger - the disease kills almost 3 times the number of people who die on an average day
My list:

* Bear for taking notes.

* Brain.fm for deep work.

* Headspace for meditation.

* Hemingway for writing.

* Grammarly for grammar correction.
> Perhaps the news people should be pointing that out, and doing a "here's how to use a mask properly" section.

No doubt. We definitely have got a long way to go toward educating the public if mask-wearing is ever going to be a part of slowing down this pandemic.
Messing Up the Web: a fun HTML intro for kids
Please use the URL and title field on https://news.ycombinator.com/submit "Our thoughts here" adds little to no extra information.
Well what would help the disabled is that no one use this kind of words when talking to or about them. And maybe this is the first priority.
Agree. I’ve taught kids to use needle nose pliers to handle solder.
I'm using uMatrix, and I had to allow scripts from static1.squarespace.com to get the text to load, and assets.squarespace.com to load the pictures.

I'd prefer it if sites were written to be loadable and readable with only first-party scripts, but in my experience with uMatrix most services/tools offering aided site construction (blogger, wordpress, squarespace, wix, etc.) have required external scripts like this.

Another option if you're using Firefox is reader mode, which loads the content without images or other decoration. I forgot to try this first myself.
Elsewhere there were privately-run bottle-deposit schemes until relatively recently. One was active in Scotland until only 2015: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33985022.
I'd have to assume so - it was plain to see.
Slightly unnerving to see it fall victim to a kind of Kessler Syndrome, preventing gliders from escaping eventually.
Do so then, because Japan is already tapping it. Estimated 6X the energy there, than all the oil reserves we ever discovered. Seems inevitable.
Simplepush.io would be the only one worth mentioning.
> Speaking of improvised masks, would vacuum cleaner bags be a good MacGuyver material that's present in almost any household? It's surely better at filtering than random t-shirt cloth, but would there be a risk of ruining lungs with fibers from the bag material?

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...

This notes it is very hard to breathe through the vacuum cleaner bag in comparison to a surgical mask. It is more effective at filtration. I’m not sure about the possibility of it releasing fibers. The analysis on that link suggests to me that for a DIY, cotton is probably the right balance although it doesn’t provide nearly the same level of protection as an official surgical mask.
K definitely meets my criteria for being a Write-Only Language. I remember a quote about APL (a precursor to K) being “indistinguishable from line noise”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language
Security Advisories: D-Link DSL-2640B
Cheers Abs!
Scientists Use Crispr to Delete Fearful Memories in Rats
As an open source maintainer, I can tell you that we appreciate the small fixes and updates that come from people just getting their feet wet.

Even little things like spelling mistakes, or fixing a bug in an infrequently used command line option go a long way towards a better overall product.
How has Thailand handle production? In America, masks are nowhere to be found, and ordering the online takes a month or longer.
> their ideals never change

That wasn't enough. They are explicitly shown as slowly becoming amoral monsters. In the end Laurens Bancroft says as much in open text to further drive the point down.
ID2020 to test identity chip with Bangladeshi babies through vaccination
I don't think "better" is the right word. Perhaps "better for a particular purpose". Google Docs can do much more, e.g. allow multiple people to edit a document simultaneously.
you can join the effort and help me, the scope is limited to something I can do myself in reasonable time :-)
Show HN: Peoplelogic–Automated recommendations and guidance for team managers
Security researcher: Coronavirus is the end of privacy as we know it
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to switch jobs now?
Here's the situation: I currently have a stable position in a stable company set in a stable country. Most things are going well, but there are some aspects that do make me absolutely miserable. I tried changing these, but it's sisyphean. I was about to quit, but then Corona came along with a potentially severe recession in the wake.

What next? Insulate myself from the annoyances and remain fast? Or switch while things are roughly ok?

Crises can be an opportunity, so maybe jumping aboard the right ship at the right time could be one of the better decisions I can make.

Tips? People in a similar situation?
How silly would that be. Clearly, adulthood is marked by agreeing to become a financial milch-cow fattened on government loans, and milked by rapacious administrators in the service of insouicant and unaccountable "education" institutions. The most respectable of which are still Nozikian utility monsters devouring everything in their path.

Yeah, doing 4 in the Army is so inferior to that.
No, Those of Us on the Left Do Not Want Trump to Fail in This Fight
As does ZFS, unless I'm missing some distinction of "first class" in ZFS.

I'm really looking forward to Ubuntu 20.04 ZFS support. If I can use crypto with it (either the ZFS crypto or LUKS stuff), I'm going to switch my workstations over to it. ZFS snapshots work so, so well.

One thing I've really wanted from HAMMER is the deduplication. I've always had problems with ZFS dedup. I tend to really want it on my backup servers, but the DDT requires pretty amazing amounts of RAM. HAMMER's dedup seems less RAM-hungry, but I've only run small tests of it.
To have what browsers do. And getting there would take few months on its own so it's not a priority right now.
I don't know the link, or it is even still up, but I met a woman back in '01 that put together a coloring book site, internationalized it, and was receiving $4K a week in Google advertising revenues. She had sections for 80+ countries international holiday, a often a few of whomever was their country's founding people. When I last saw her, she was hip hop style covered in gold.
I used the RX 5700 XT with the community patch for months in a PCI Pass-through setup and had zero issues with the reset bug. It's definitely an option for consumers if you ask me.
I run it on windows!
We have all been waiting for this. Congratulations to Jason and the whole WireGuard team and community! And, thank you Linus!
Furthermore, if it "drains [your] ideas and energy" when people ask you to not be a dick, then I don't think anyone really cares that your clearly amazing ideas aren't being represented. Go away.
India's pandemic lockdown turns into a humanitarian tragedy