skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Illinois RapidVent: Working prototype of an emergency ventilator for Covid-19
I think it's only up to around three months - 90 days - it isn't like a full-length tour.
But we had influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968, plus the swine flu in 2009...
Now I really want to know when raspbian will get linux kernel 5.6. The most recent version of raspbian came out in February 2020 and uses linux kernel 4.19, which came out in late 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
Tesla self-driving traffic light and stop-sign interaction in leaked manual
How to Use the Lockdown to Turn Your In-Person Job into a Remote One Long Term
If you use VueJS without a compiler or bundler during development (and yes, this means no TypeScript), you can achieve an amazingly productive development experience.
If you can resist all the tools which try to bait you into adding a bundling step, you won't regret it.

It takes a lot of effort to figure out how to use VueJS without the bundling step and it can feel constraining initially, but the simplicity pays off in the long term.

I'm quite annoyed though that VueJS team has been moving towards TypeScript and bundling.
Am I the only person who thinks that front end work is too simple to need type safety?

Front end programming is like riding a bike, after a while, you don't need the training wheels anymore; they just slow you down and deprive you of real enjoyment.

Also, there is a joke my colleagues used to say about front end:

"Front end work is like building a house of cards. If it collapses, no one gets hurt. On the other hand, back end work is like building a house out of wine glasses..."
Alright, someone tell me what are some must downloads? I've been out of college for a while so haven't kept up.

edit: I am most interested in models of computing, and more recently ML-family of languages, and the theories behind it. I am also generally interested in those papers that people view as "classics" or serve as computing history. Hoares CSP, or most anything by Dijkstra that may not be public already.
> PS4

I am pretty sure they have video games in a submarine these days.
I would love if the definition of websockets would be added to OpenAPI https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/523
The file name being a understated and appropriate reference to "Garbage in, garbage out"

If you don't have reliable data any attempt at clever maneuvering is likely to plant your face into the ground.
The App Store + screen size is the killer app for iPad.
Hyundai, Samsung, LG Suspend More Plants Abroad Due to Covid-19
Stockholm syndrome is a very real thing, unfortunately. I'm a 6+ foot man that's been emotionally abused, and despite all the pressure from my close circle to break it off, I wasn't able to do it for a long time.

If 'just leaving' was so easy, we'd have a lot less domestic abuse out there. This is not about throwing shade, this is about giving victims the support they need.
This is exactly what the problem with UBI is. Companies will know that you have an extra $X so they may be able to offer less salary (unless we are talking about a huge UBI where people won't have to work if they don't want to). However, the risk is much more realistic with landlords. Since renting is basically a bidding war, the only difference with everyone have $X extra is that the final "sale" will be $X more
The coronavirus may hit rural America later – and harder
> They're ubiquitous anywhere [an embedded device] is needed.

Just like the Mac Mini. I’ve heard people ask why Apple doesn’t kill off the Mac Mini since it’s not an extremely popular consumer device. But apparently it finds lots of embedded use. I’ve read for example that some casino floors have thousands of Mac Minis hidden behind cabinets controlling gaming machines.
I post a lot of instagram stories and hope for friends to react haha. And also have been reacting to tens of stories of my friends. Also joining lives. Difficult times!
Very cool. Is there some kind of library so one can integrate this into one's own application easily?

Also, slightly related, Google Mail (and probably other products) has a "Report issue" feature, where I can take a screenshot of the current tab (and even crop it), is that in any way related (technology-wise)?
This is not a viable business model. And fraught with liability. Not to mention risky.

Any business that have to resort to volunteerism to survive..or ‘gofundme’ ...Or any business that needs works risking their health by exposing themselves to covid are those in an industry that MUST be automated
Is it possible to context switch between userspace processes directly, without going through the kernel, i.e. a kind of fast, inter-process cooperative multitasking? I know earlier operating systems used inter-process cooperative multitasking, but I'm guessing they still went through the scheduler?

I was trying to figure out if QNX does this with `MsgSend`, as QNX is renowned for being a fast microkernel, but it wasn't clear to me. According to Animats, "There's no scheduling delay; the control transfer happens immediately, almost like a coroutine. There's no CPU switch, so the data that's being sent is in the cache the service process will need." [1] According to wikipedia, "If the receiving process is waiting for the message, control of the CPU is transferred at the same time, without a pass through the CPU scheduler." [2]

It seems like `MsgSend` circumvents the scheduler, but does it circumvent context switching to the kernel entirely too?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX#Technology
Or much slower on systems with AES-NI, but relatively slow CPU. Like are used in some hi-end SOHO routers.

I did not test IPSec vs WireGuard, but scp from/to my home router/NAS is about three times faster with AES (used by IPSec) than with Chacha20 (used by WG).
There was however a perfect environment which allowed us to have an idea of percentages:

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

And the percentage of really asymptotic cases is much lower than the most here expect.

All the tests in all the countries could be seen as the statistical sampling. The speed of the transmission is also known, and surely not fundamentally different than the speed of people needing hospital or dying -- the doubling time is nowhere faster than 2 days, and the typical is 3 days.

In short, it can't be expected that "already everybody has it" in the positive sense of "nothing will happen."
iOS is very locked down and the hardware is not very modable - why would you chose iPad for custom controller use case ?
This thread is not the appropriate place to propose a policy solution because the parent article is about a sad topic with lots of terrible suffering. To make policy proposals here would be insensitive. And, no, I'm not a libertarian. I think that dysfunctional organizations are a moral problem that we must strive to solve, collectively. The free market will not.
> Make things simple and pretty on the surface for the happy path, but overly simple, so that there's a bunch of secrets to get actual tasks done.

I don't feel like this is true. One thing I'm consistently impressed by in the original MacOS is how well the chosen abstractions map to the actual way things are. There are some exceptions, like the trash can and its famous relationship with removable media, but on the whole it works a lot better than what we have today.
Macy’s to Furlough 100k Employees
Show HN: Boundless player – A web app that 3D projects a video's edge pixels
I've been trying to convert people to various flavors of Linux for 20 years now and the usual showstopper is wifi not working at all, or at least without a ton more fiddling. Interesting to see that some things haven't changed.

Trying to be constructive here, might it be because automated testing can't easily test things that touch the "real world"? Or is it due to some sheer number of possible wifi hardware implementations? Or both? (I really wish the vast majority of wifi antennas were hooked up directly to a generic SDR at this point)
Campaign Gaffe: How a Voter Contact App Exposed Credentials and Code
In some cases, countries. In the country I'm thinking of (name omitted on purpose), you have an effective choice of two ISPs, both government-controlled.
The way I understood it, some benefited but some had already hedged so they got screwed. In essence, the Fed disrupted the normal way of doing things and some bankers will get screwed. Oh well. :)
first of all, if lenders did the kind of DD you are talking about, it would preclude most ordinary w-2 employees ever getting a mortgage for a home. "they have only one source of income! they could lose it at any time!" these people are a much bigger risk than some landlord trying to get a mortgage for their nth rental property.

to answer your second question: if you, a private individual, bet all your money on investments that go belly up, you're just screwed. if you're a large financial institution, you get to argue that your going under would create rippling consequences that outweigh the erosion of moral hazard that comes with a bailout. it's not fair or reasonable, but it's reality.
The article notes that the commanders are likely aware.
I agree a video codec would be much better -- curious as to why animated gif was chosen in the first place ?
I appreciate that you brought your own perspective to the problem with your comment. I would have liked to have seen more clarity on how victims could be helped to choose to escape.
As addendum to my comment, D learned the hard way how not having a focused goal or godfather company hurts adoption.

Go and .NET are doing quite alright.
Don't break your users: keep your API/ABI stable [video]
I worked at a startup that made the bottom-tier unix box for ATT at one time. Trouble was, ATT stores just used it as a sacrificial offering, moving all their customers up to the next tier for a small increase in price. So we sold almost none.

They got used in Texas in gas pumps. Our whole inventory, bought out for this embedded use. Never mind they had a screen and keyboard (kind of a terminal-like deal). They just mounted them sideways inside the pump!
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Linode has been compromised how many times now?

I don't think considering a VPS insecure is really that far fetched.
Adding YAML to a problem will always make it worst.
Fiction – Beta
IMO 99% of the time, anything you need to "opt-out" of is bad for you.
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Estimates are that, if governments do nothing to combat Covid 19, then the life expectancy of the whole population will be reduced by a mere 20 days.[1]

Sacrificing 4 months of exercise, meaningful conversation, sex and other basic human needs is really not worth it.

[1] For example 13.26 million QALYs divided by the US population
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/another-covid-cost-ben...
Hi, macOS / Firefox 74.0 user here. It will ask for permission and then fail with this message:

MediaStreamError { name: "NotFoundError", message: "The object can not be found here.", constraint: "", stack: "" }
main.js:116:15
oncreate https://gifcap.dev/main.js:116

https://imgur.com/a/2pIsGto
New AI tools help writers be more clear, concise and inclusive in Office
"...could I have saved the day if I were willing to loudly complain until someone listened?"
I can answer the second bit: no. However, cutting it off at a certain point won't affect anything, so long as you keep shrinking the cut off bit by one each turn. Eventually you'll have nothing generating any more, but everything you do generate will be accurate.
For interface to custom controllers, and back-end databases. Because they solve the software distribution problem; because they have a standard user interface; because they have rich tool support; because you can find developers by the dozens.
https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs

There are a bunch linked from the links section at the bottom.
I wonder if there's research comparing Covid-19 deaths versus BCG Tuberculosis vaccination:

1. Between countries. E.g. Russia (mandatory vaccination) versus Western Europe (canceled some years ago).

2. Between territories. West Germany versus East Germany.

3. Between people. Migrants to US from mandatory vaccination countries versus US locals.
I read it that what was being advocated was that shareholders would be compelled to provide additional funds, rather than just standing to lose the amount they had already invested.
Another one for the pile of "Men dying of _ at a higher rate, women most affected!"
Steaks are cut across the grain of the muscle as opposed to fillets which are cut along the grain. Tuna just happens to be large enough that you can do that.
> I don’t think 100% news saturation is good for us either.

I agree. In Italy basically all the news are just about the coronavirus and nothing else, plus a lot of sensationalism ("we're all gonna die" style), and the Big Brother style press conference every day with the reports of daily numbers of cases, deaths, and recoveries.

It's so aggravating and anxiety inducing that I only check a news roundup in the morning and I shut myself away from any other news sources. Not ideal, but at this point it's the only way to make sure I'm not consumed by the constant stream of bad news.
What will travel look like after coronavirus?
This Dilbert went around the office a lot when I was a new employee. The numbing is real...

https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-02-16
Hi, I've gotten a couple of reports on this and I'm looking into it. Please be patient while I figure out the cause.
My wife has sung in choir for years there’s zero social distancing in them. You normally stand shoulder to shoulder while practicing and there’s normally a person less than a foot behind you so, to me, spreading like this makes perfect sense.
This seems like poor reporting.

Even droplet based spread (which is not airborne) can transfer over distances on to surfaces. This is why there is advisory for a 6+ ft physical distance.

That does not mean it is an airborne disease, as it seems the virus needs to survive in droplets.

It is no surprise to me that a choir singing could easily spread droplets on to surfaces and inadvertently touch their faces during that time.

Even a heavy breath that expels air and droplets from the lung can cause spread. That doesn't mean its airborne.
Done, thank you for the tip.
And that load is taken almost entirely by the elderly (50+) population. Who don't matter? Are not worth it?

They vote it turns out, so no we're not going to see a politician sacrificing them any time soon.
They have discussed this ad nauseum. It's not airborne. It's designated as "airborne droplet".

I read an article from a epidemilogist that wrote about a very recent study of an isolation chamber for a covid-19 patient. They detected the virus everywhere on surfaces in the isolation chamber. This is consistent with airborne droplet spreading, since the patient was presumably coughing and droplets were being spread throughout the isolation chamber.

What they DIE NOT find was the virus in the air. If it's truly airborne like measles, it would be detected in the air itself, but that was not true. Thus, it is not airborne.

I don't have the source for this, because I probably read 200 articles a day like everyone else so it's lost in my history. But I actively committed this to memory and reassured me that this was not airborne, but rather airborne droplet.
On a slight tangent, does anyone know what the deal is with the phrase "beautiful responsive websites"?

The number of google hits for the phrase is enormous, and it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb every time I look at a new web template, framework or generator. Every single one uses exactly the same phrase.

I have never looked at a website and thought to myself: "That is beautiful responsive website". Most people would describe sites as "good looking" and "easy to use" instead.

Did some marketing person back in the mists of time dream up the term and everyone has been blindly copying the same old tired phrase since then?
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Sure, but changing C-suite compensation from being stock-based won't change the dynamic around buybacks because the buybacks are pushed by the owners not just the management.
"How much excess capacity would a cloud provider typically have (as in %) to accommodate normal peak loads and still have a comfortable margin?"

We (rsync.net) run a sort-of just-in-time deployment model wherein as our storage arrays approach 80% capacity, we completely remove-and-replace the oldest storage array at a location[1].

The 80% number is related to performance penalties that become extant when you fill up zpools too full. In the old days, that is the threshold beyond which we would see significant performance degradation. ZFS behaves better now and you can avoid a fair amount of that degradation by having read and write cache devices (L2ARC and SLOG) but we still hang onto that 80% number ...

When we do such a replacement, we are often replacing a 2-3 year old storage array with a brand new one, which means that the drive capacity of the refreshed system is about double what it was before - so we have a relative glut of space for a time. This allows us to onboard larger (50-100 TB) clients with no lead-time.

FWIW, we have seen a relative increase in signups since lockdowns began. My current theory is that a lot of people are sitting at home with a lot of free time and thinking about risks ... and some of them think about backups.

[1] Denver, San Diego, Fremont, Zurich, and Hong Kong.
We do that often when we drive up the Dempster Highway into the Arctic Circle. No Cell, no radio, just a couple of weeks exploring the wilderness. One of the massive perks to living the Yukon for sure.

I personally need that kind of "off time" from the constant connectivity, and I thoroughly enjoy it.

Photos here if anyone is interested
http://theroadchoseme.com/the-dempster-highway-fall

http://theroadchoseme.com/the-dempster-highway
- Cruises will be very cheap. But it might not matter for newcomers

- Cleanliness will be addressed -- a lot

- Hotel room rates will drop more before they come back up

- Travelers may feel safer in hotels than vacation rentals

- Look for lower airfares and emptier planes

- Business travel may spur recovery for airlines

- Air travelers will have more booking flexibility -- for a while

- Increased sustainability is a possible windfall
Just in: a Dutch submarine had to abort it's mission because part of the crew has been tested positive for corona.

https://nos.nl/liveblog/2328775-deel-bemanning-nederlandse-o...
It may be ideal to have the most at risk wear n95 masks (and ideally get them as much training on wearing them and only adjusting them with freshly cleaned hands) while the rest of the population wears surgical masks and makeshift masks of cloth or paper towels.
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Great attitude. Let's move on and leave 13% of the global internet population behind.
poverty somehow diminishes the agency

But it does. It starts with the deposit for a new roof over the head.
Fear mongering/rumors, no place on HN.
There's a lot to this question.

> what would be a ballpark estimate to get a reasonably intelligent person with no medical experience up to a "functional" level?

It really depends and I'm speaking out of my comfort zone here.

Becoming a doctor takes a really long time because it includes a LOT of background and general medicine knowledge. Doctors know a lot about medicine outside their speciality.

Med school is 4 years (2 years of bookwork focus and 2 years of clinical focus) and builds on undergrad significantly. Residency is 3+ years. I'd say the majority of people with STEM backgrounds could have function acceptably as a general doctor with 2 to 5 years of postgrad training. Surgeons are built much more on experience so that's very hard to fast track.

In my opinion, the real measure is the ability to handle edge cases/unusual cases. Specialized/limited scope workers, especially those with the direct support of an experienced individual, could pick up tasks much, much more easily as long as an expert is there to take over the challenging cases.
Ok, thats a good list for self reflection, but how do you instrument that besides "surveys"?

IMO the best things are the brain imaging technologies, but I suppose that's far too expensive to research right now?
Dividends do not increase the share price (the reverse in fact).
I bought a Hakko FX-888D a few years ago and immediately regretted all the time I had wasted using crappy irons for a decade and a half. Suddenly, soldering worked as easily as it did on all those YouTube videos.

I solder so infrequently that it felt like spending $100 on an iron was overkill, and I couldn't have been more wrong.
The rather quaint processes used by the Royal Navy apparently include checking whether BBC Radio 4 is transmitting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
Our current society worships victims, but unfortunately your kind of victim is not numerous enough to get mainstream attention.
"If you leave the house, I'll call the cops and tell them you're breaking quarantine, and then you'll go to jail and I'll be the only person who can get you out."

Funny how those are almost the exact words that parents of my girlfriend used in an attempt to make her stay. She was terrified of spending an extended period of time at home with her father who normally works abroad and visits only for holidays.
> none of the "wear masks all the time" people are telling you to also wear eye protection all the time

Huh? The earliest local news article I could find[0][1] that mentioned the importance of wearing glasses and goggles was back in January. But we didn't wait for the authorities to tell us -- we did our own research, and I purchased my pair of goggles in mid January.

[0]: https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1504801-20200125.h...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hongkong/hon...
What percent of unwillingness to leave abusive situations is truly due to poverty? I would have guessed the vast majority was due to love, self esteem, sunk cost, etc.
Your description reminded me of the British WW1 postcards [1] where, if you were admitted to hospital the messages allowed were "hope to be discharged soon" and "am going on well".

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BRITISH_FIELD_SERVIC...
What do you mean? There's nothing preventing him from running Pi-hole and stubby locally in Docker. That was how I interpreted his comment.
It sounds like you and I are thinking along the same line: https://github.com/joemccall86/cap5600-project2.

I am also taking AI this semester and was considering expanding upon something like this for my masters' capstone project. The application of machine learning to this type of situation is going to be very interesting to say the least.

Just wanted to say good luck!
All I can think of is that it sucks to be a pensioner or pension fund manager. Going to be really interesting to see the second quarter consequences of the "buy backs and dividends are evil" movement.
I like the idea of iPad pro - I have a top spec macbook pro from 2018 and while this model is particularly bad I've came to terms that processing power in laptop form factor is always going to cost more and provide less than a desktop machine.

So ideally I would have a medium power device with high portability and 4G built in and I could remote in to the big iron PC for the heavy lifting. But iOS is just too limited for this.

Maybe Microsoft can push out a good surface with Windows in the next iteration.
Zoom stock mix-up results in trading halt
Opening data to understand social distancing
That's the point I was trying to make (quite clumsily, I agree). I hope I didn't give the impression that I expected the numbers to prove that we are overreacting. Having a reasonable idea of how many people have been infected will help when trying to avoid a second wave of infections