skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God the number of times people complained about their laptops being broken only to find out they'd turned WiFi off. Either through a separate kill switch or through a function key. It was a pain the arse.
Just to be clear, even here in Sweden the economy has taken a big hit. People lose their jobs, companies go bankrupt. So the situation is still dire.
MySQL also hast lots of GIS features, including r-tree spatial indexes.
Yeah, but it's not clickbait-worthy unless it has "corona virus" in the title these days.
I prefer the names "memetics" to talk about the field of infectious ideas and "memetic agents" when talking about single instances. A "memetic agent" is something like a virus, just replicating in minds instead of meatspace.

The SCP wiki started these terms to refer to objects which present anomalous properties when you're exposed to them, such as what the foundation regularly employs to protect articles; "memetic kill agents", basically information that kills if you consume it.
Could you expand on the issues with PostgreSQL full text search for Korean?

I'b be interested to know about the limits of the full text feature.
Google is sharing it for this specific situation.

https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/

That might make a better submission URL. That or the blog post.

https://www.blog.google/technology/health/covid-19-community...
Are you aware of other video chat apps that support e2e-encrypted multi-party videoconference?
trying to download the (self-installing) app twice _every_ time, whilst you're (actively) trying to join a meeting in your browser is the kind of organic popularity the yahoo toolbar had...
What's the accessibility story or a roadmap for one?
shorthand object method syntax === regular function

shorthand object method syntax != arrow function

> We're not using arrow functions for everything. Why are you assuming this?

Because you said "but I just ran a grep in the app I architected and it has exactly 21 instances of the word "function"... some are comments, but most of the ones that aren't are inside a lodash debounce function."

Seriously, am I in some kind of twilight zone or something? Because that statement suggests that there was a goal, and the goal was to get rid of "function" but lodash debounce ruined the anti-function-keyword cult party.

Who runs a grep on a whol;e web app to see if there are any "function" keywords, then shamelessly turns around to say "We're not using arrow functions for everything.". If you know you are not using arrow functions for everything, WHY GREP THE WHOLE CODEBASE LOOKING FOR "function"? And whats all that about "some are comments". Right? Phew! We did not really use it, they are just comments. We did not really use that old, evil 'function' keyword. It was just comments... we're too cool and hip for "function". LOL!!!

> And sorry if this sounds harsh, but it seems that you have extremely limited knowledge of Javascript and ES6

Hilarious! Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa! Thank you sir for your information, all this time I thought I knew, but you've corrected me. Now I know I don't know. Thank you genius.
Isn't it amazing how video conferencing gets reinvented time and time again?
Auditd would show frequency, the process name and uid that did the write, and when, etc. Last modified time isn't always enough.
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I was wrong, fibrosis did not only appear in ICU patients, but also in patients who were healthy enough to stay home.

This is shittier than i thought.
Understood - one would hopefully expect the impact to be somewhat lesser, but if people choose to impose the lockdown on themselves without the government enforcing it, I guess it could end up being much the same.
>Virtually none of the important names are signed.

Source?

>...Or likely ever will be

Source?
The purpose of a virus is to replicate.

The purpose of a bacteria is to replicate. They just do it the complicated way.

That goes up all the way to modern humans; on a ground level, life is about replicating your genetic information. What you do beyond that is on you.
I'd recommend reading the original Citizen Lab article as well, which discusses the flaws more specifically. This Intercept article is good, but seems to be aimed at more of a general, less-technical audience.

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

At the very least, they are validating TLS certificates. (Which I know is the true bare minimum requirement of TLS, but "goto fail" and all...)

>We set up mitmproxy to intercept the TLS traffic and configured the Zoom Linux client to route its TLS traffic through mitmproxy. Fortunately, the Zoom client did appear to warn us that the fake TLS certificates generated by mitmproxy were untrusted.
SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test
Not necessarily. You can SET ROLE at beginning of transaction and DISCARD afterward. This is what postgraphile and postgrest do, for example.
Good work! People talk about how a webcam cover is essential on laptops but I think iOS side of this exploit is even more crucial. Very few people use camera covers for phones, cause they are ugly and new phones have FaceID etc which makes impossible to use a camera cover daily. More importantly, we take our phones to places more private, like bathrooms. Now that iOS Safari support front facing camera stream, I think this discovery worth more than $75K
Whatever the actual reason, my wife re-bought the DVD set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy after switching to the Blu Ray version, citing basically the same reason, and that was just DVD-resolution to 1080p. And she still goes to see them in the theater every so often when they show and thinks they look fine there. Go figure. Maybe some companies are messing with color grading and such in higher res versions, or otherwise applying some sort of filters? Like how The Matrix was made much greener after the first theatrical and first DVD release.
And I don't think it reflects the sentiment here in Sweden either, there is a lot of internal critique and a lot of people want harsher methods (regardless if it actually does anything).

Sweden have rising deaths and will be hit hard like many countries and we have some of the lowest amount of ICU beds per million inhabitants in Europe, they are of course trying to build out but have problem staffing them as well.

I don't think Sweden will land on a low death toll but the question will be if a more complete shutdown would have helped.
In the beginning phases of testing in Denmark they found that 9 out of 10 people who showed symptoms had a bad flu or a cold. The past couple of months have been peak flu season
This was the view of "what personal computing would be like" held by the original LRG team at PARC. There would be no distinction between "user" and "programmer," since using the system would at some level involve some type of programming. All of today's computing culture and the systems we use heavily reflect the opposite view. It's hard for us to imagine, since programming is a kind of scribal trade.
I wonder whether any of this code predates the Blink-WebKit fork, and if so whether any of this applies to Chrome/Edge/Brave/etc. I'm guessing no since they're not mentioning it, but a lot of this sounds like deep old stuff.
> There is no actual evidence supporting strict lockdowns

That's false. Aside from common sense, that restricting contact would decrease transmission, China and Italy both reduced their infections by employing a strict lockdown. These policies are being borrowed straight from China and Italy. They both had it really bad, and they managed to get on the other side of the peak.
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For me, it's python and tkinter.
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Just to chime in, this has been my forth week working from home, and in that time I can probably count the number of people I've interacted with for any period of time on one hand. Literally every single person I know have been doing the same (my friend group and family is biased to people able to work from home of course, but still).

I met two friends last night for dinner at a restaurant (yes, perhaps irresponsible but I was going insane). Normally a very popular place requiring booking weeks in advance. Yesterday it was us, the owners and one couple in a place with like 30+ tables.

Of course you can get photographs on a sunny Sunday of people sitting outdoors at a café or something. However irresponsible that behaviour might be, it's not representative of the current situation.
could it be offered in other countries?
Not for mics, but you can essentially add the equivalent of a webcam kill switch with something simple like this:
https://www.amazon.com/C-Slide-Sliding-Computers-Chromebooks...
> There are two markets I see:

> 1) 4" phone users who have no viable option, even in Android-land.

Yessssss. I have a Pixel 3A, the smallest decent Android phone on the market, and it is waaaay too huge, so I'm really excited about this release. While I've been on Android for over a decade, I'm willing to switch if it means I can use my phone one-handed again. But more importantly, maybe this release will convince the Android copycats to make a human-hand-sized phone so I don't even have to switch. I figure I'll give it 6 months and, if no one has announced smaller Android phones, I'll just switch to iPhone. I'm done with phablets.
I'm interested in your opinion of the citations too. They purport to show persistence beyond standard treatment in mice, dogs, macaques and humans, the latter via xenodiagnosis and PCR. PCR is pretty direct.
#3, especially: if your company has sane mail tools, it can autorespond to every single application with a variant on this:

Thanks for applying to $COMPANY.

We will get back to you by $(TODAY + 7) if we want to start
a conversation.

Sincerely,

A. Robot
I don't have any proof I had it but I think I did around Valentine's day. It was very different from the type of smell loss from inflammation. I had no inflammation in my nose and could breathe through it fine, yet nothing. Usually with inflammation I can smell or taste if I sniff a bit. This was like a switch was turned off. I haven't had anything like it before. It took almost a week for it to start coming back. I thought it wasn't coming back that's how pronounced and strange it was.
You're so right... I've been twice in "medical wandering" where doctors couldn't figure out what I had. First time was IBS years ago when the condition wasn't well known (2 years of pain and loneliness before I knew what I had), second time was for lyme and I'm currently in PTLDS in the middle of the war between the 2 sides.

I can't stress enough how angry I am at some doctors I met, that had so little empathy and so much ego. Not only their incompetence allowed my condition to worsen and make the recovery harder and longer, they made me question my sanity and lose hope without caring a little bit about how it would make me feel. If it wasn't for the support of my loved ones, it would have been the loneliness and despair that would have killed me.

The only reason I haven't fallen into the "alternative medecine" world is because the ones I have met have been even more bullshit. But at least they cared (and for most, not in a predatory way. They genuinely wanted to help). No wonder so many people can fall into predatory practices when left alone like I was.
Maybe I could allocate a port to use for an additional low priority tcp candidate via configuration, or would I need to dive into the code for this?

For example, I could supply the generated udp and tcp candidates in addition to a tcp:443?

What are your thoughts?
CovApp – an open source Covid-19 risk assessment app approved by German doctors
Even the user that cares can sometimes forget to do it. With Apple solution you'll never forget to switch microphone off, but on the downside, you now have to trust Apple.
Gradual polar shift happens over millions of years; specifically characteristic rate of true polar wander is 1° or less per million years.

If the shifting occurs as a “Cataclysmic” polar shift [1] or geomagnetic reversal [2], the periodic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field (effectively switching the north and south magnetic poles) — I agree that it would likely have terrifying results for the inhabitants of Earth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypot...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
It’s at least a nice option—I don’t own a single device that can play 4k video (and have it look any better than 1440p), but at least it’s available for people who have new televisions. YouTube downscales automatically for logical bandwidth usage.
I dont actually know of any. I've heard of like biostar and maybe a couple others but I dont know how good those are. Researchgate is kind of a forum I guess? But most of the questions I've seen in the social media side of that are like "how do I turn this experiment"

I think most of the discussions I've had have been journal clubs during lab meetings. An hn style website for virtual journal clubs would be super cool...
Early versions of 2.6 and 2.4, release >= 15 years ago.
Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning
Children are unlikely to have been the primary source of SARS-CoV-2 infections
I don't think they contradict each other. The way I read it is, the former, have hardware disconnects controlled by some software/firmware, such as a relay/MOSFET or something of that kind; an electronic switch.

The latter I read as being hardware _only_; "only" being the key addition to this sentence. I would expect this implementation to be something like a reed switch to magnetically disconnect the lines _physically_ rather than electronically.
Venezuelan warship shoots, rams into German cruise vessel before sinking
Yep. And we’ve also grown a bit. Norway/Finland/Denmark have ~5M inhabitants each, while Sweden has twice as many.
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shipping a statically linked version of openssl 1.0.2o (Q2/18) is not building any trust either.
'Mom and Pop' firms worry they will be squeezed out of coronavirus aid
This is a simple web page for people to find and share ideas of what to do right now during this weird social distancing period.
NASA successfully deploys the James Webb Telescope's enormous mirror
+1 re "lifetime-scale project" nature of the work.

> it's turned into this whole badly defined spiritual thing, instead of just being about growing as much food as possible, with as few inputs as possible, with perennial plants.

I recently purchased Bill Mollison's designers manual. From this book, it's clear that the spiritual/ethical component has been integral to permaculture since the beginning.

"growing as much food as possible...with perennial plants" is great, but it's a subset of what permaculture is or was about.
I'm a retired developer, successfully avoiding management through my career. This is sooo bad, and I can come up with several things to do better, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what would have been a _good_ way to do this.
You have to lay off hundreds of employees, ideally all at the same time to avoid rumors & backchannels, and do it remotely. How do you pull that off?
Talking about stretching terms - how about "zero knowledge" encryption marketed by cloud storage providers? Taking a cool sounding term from cryptography space and misapplying it to describe end to end encryption.
Anyone interested in prototype-based languages should also checkout io [1], which is a really clever implementation that doesn't get enough love. And unlike Self it will work with your favorite teletype emulation environments.

[1] https://iolanguage.org/
You get it wrong; the Swedes are permitted to do stuff and encouraged not to, Boris went around doing the stuff Swedes are encouraged not to, until he changed his mind.

The Swedes aren't a people who have to be forced to be careful and will look for every opportunity to cut corners. Non sono furbi.
I have often thought that technologically advanced civilizations would not have FTL travel or transporters or the like, rather, they would be masters of specced-out materials engineering, producing items by placing just the right atom here and a different one over there to uniquely suit the purpose of whatever it was.
You're right about the quacks and the delusions. I have auto-immune issues after a Bb infection and after three years of high-dosed Doxycycline I still tested positive for IgM (active infection). Tested by a German state-accredited reference lab. I'm self employed and never asked for disability money, never kept going to doctors to try to solve the issue. I now have CFS and Rheumatoid Arthritis and when I stop taking Doxycycline (I try that all the time, I hate taking pills), I get severe neurological problems, such as incontinence and my breathing stops all the time and many other symptoms such as extreme tachycardia in rest, aggression etc. Something is wrong. Does Doxycycline manage my CNS inflammation or are there still spirochetes?
Fair enough. I’ve been using an SE since my 8 broke and the size is quite nice. Indeed less distracting and easier to handle.

The small iphone 12 rumours are from Ming-Chi Kuo, who basically has not been wrong about this sort of thing. I dom’t recall there ever being rumours of a small iphone 11, or that the SE 2 would be small. Certainly not from him. So, I’d rate it quite likely.
Body Zinc levels are linked to the sense of smell.

One of the many places linking Zinc and sense of smell:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-zinc/art-203661...

There have been reports of Zinc being used in conjunction with other medications to address C19.
I don't care about the price, I won't buy a new iOS devices until I can use it with one hand. And I care more about the headphone jack than the waterproof feature.
I've had to do it as a leader...hundreds laid off. I flew around the globe and had a lot of face to face meetings.
I remember years ago visiting a customer shortly after many of their engineering staff had just upgraded to whatever macbook was popular at a time.

Within the week that they had them, two people in the department had broken their screens/hinges from accidents walking in and out of meetings with the lids open because there was no way provided in the software to disable suspend on lid closed which was killing people's SSH sessions. Within the month someone in my office also managed to do the same, and most of us weren't even using macs.

(I understand that this was eventually workaroundable with some power users tools; and I imagine mosh makes the suspends a little less of an issue now).

I'm sad that the popular linux desktops later decided to emulate the bad software culture that brought anti-features like that mandatory suspend.

So I expect that mic off on hinge close will have similar results. Though, ... at least this seems a lot more legitimate to me than a refusal to not suspend.
Technically, PostgreSQL is a DBMS, not a database. I.e. “PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best DBMS”, but not “best database”. The problem is, if you call the DBMS a database, so what do you call the database (collection of data, tables, etc.)?
“we have some of the lowest amount of ICU beds per million inhabitants in Europe”

Yep, that really sucks and for me that is more scary than the harshness (or lack of harsness if you will) in the imposed restrictions.

AFAIK, after the cold war we got rid of most of our field hospitals that we had.

[Edited to add comment about field hospitals]
In germany the step size is twice as large; million, milliard, billion, billiard, etc. Makes things neater IMO.
It's not "almost impossible," it is impossible. The only decent Android phones on the market are 5.5+".
waifu2x is not suited for actual anime almost at all - its upscaling is primarily trained on sharp lineart, and lineart in actual anime is generally quite soft.

Anime4K has even less going for it than waifu2x does, it's pretty much just simple warpsharping with a fancy marketing name.

Neither of these are particularly interesting as far as upscaling / remastering goes, and I'm saying that as someone who has done SD to HD anime upscaling/remastering projects from SD masters myself. And while you can get results that look pretty solid for the most part, it is ultimately still going to look like an upscale when compared to native footage. Here's a comparison with two examples:

https://slow.pics/c/wNZKk3WQ

As you can see in the second example, the upscaled nature of the SD to HD conversion is especially clear in areas where the lineart has been very tightly packed originally.
Then what are you paying them for?
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

No, they require the same evidence as any other claim, but none was provided.
Xkcd: Collector's Edition
Yeah, I only kept the second part of the title when submitting it because it was a) too long and b) too clickbait-y.
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I don't claim to be very good at predicting the future, but I'd say the chances are low for Bird, and any scooters being used at all a year later. Maybe in a few very limited places, but no where near the levels they are now.
Why is Google not warning people that they have been in contact with potentially infected individuals? Implementing this would probably be trivial for them.

It almost feels like breaking some higher contract with society by reserving that power for advertising and not using it to tackle the pandemic.
Transaction in SQL Server – Codementor
Why are you saying they have not improved? That is flat out false - postgres provides a lot better tools for this now than 10 years ago. They still leave a lot of the plumbing to third parties, but they are now at least giving those third parties a lot better tools than they used to.
Weekly fintech roundup – April 3rd
This post is describing https://www.blog.google/technology/health/covid-19-community...

About privacy they say: "For these reports, we use differential privacy, which adds artificial noise to our datasets enabling high quality results without identifying any individual person. The insights are created with aggregated, anonymized sets of data from users who have turned on the Location History setting, which is off by default."

This seems pretty reasonable to me?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
OT: My kids school uses zoom atm.
Been connecting using the web client at
https://zoom.us/wc/join/<meetingid without dashes>.
Today however those links are returning 403 Forbidden (even tried multi)
My knee-jerk reaction was that they have some way of capitalizing on installed software which they can't on the web-client. But of course it could simply be that the web-client requires more server resources and now have to curb its usage.
Svelte-pdf provides a component for rendering PDF documents using PDF.js
The upgrade path from your plasma is an OLED TV, probably from LG.

And honestly it doesn’t sound like you’ve actually seen modern, not-cheap-Walmart expensive televisions these days. The color quality is incredible.

I’m not saying to run out and waste money on electronics, but there’s absolutely no way a 2011 plasma looks as good as a 4K OLED with all the modern processing technologies.
Why doesn’t Apple have an option for buying a MacBook Pro with the camera and mic physically disconnected? They could sell this option at an appropriately priced premium — along with a stylish Bluetooth-connected, 4K webcam with phased array mics for a very reasonably $499. I’m sure they would sell hundreds of thousands of them.

If ANYBODY could monetize “security chic” it’s Apple.