skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everything can be solved with money. Developing a vaccine will take time and tests, Bill Gates even said the foundation is developing 7 factories for different approaches in parallel and likely only 1-2 of them will be useful. Normally this is done sequentially to not waste money.
The sync comparison operation might need to happen on something different than the default, that could be why it's not syncing. Like you might need to use time instead of md5
Csound is a programming language. Whatever GUI you are referring too is a third party application. There is no doubt the syntax takes a little getting used it, after all it is a direct descendant of the Music N languages. But in recent years the language has seen many improvements and updates.
Science -> Engineering -> Technology

Technology is applied engineering, and engineering is applied science.

The study of types may fall into some field of science. Applying it is engineering.
Niffy: Perceptual diffing suite built on Nightmare
What exactly is your opinion, out of interest, like how does it work? Do all the miriads of people who buy fragrances or fragrant-induced products (not to mention all the workers of that industry) just spend their money and resources on something that makes them no benefit whatsoever because they are what, too stupid? Or like they don't understand what they like? Or can't form their own decisions? In what way do those numbers not speak of some amount of "serving" these people receive from the fragrance industry? Since they keep using it, keep pouring their resources into it?

Also where do you draw the line? How about video games? Do they really serve humanity after all? Porn? Christmas lights? All the work spent on designing and constructing beautiful buildings? Should all buildings just be efficient faceless boxes because it saves more resources?
UK officials have not been mincing their words:

Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of the NHS, said: “The 5G story is complete and utter rubbish, it's nonsense, it's the worst kind of fake news.

“The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us, particularly in a time when we are asking people to stay at home and to not see relatives and friends.

“In particular, those are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency services and our health workers and I'm absolutely outraged absolutely disgusted that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency.

“It is absolute and utter rubbish, and I can't condemn it in stronger terms than that.”

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/06/5g_coronavirus_theo...
I think most tech has been a lot quieter, but that's because PR and Marketing has stopped rather than any change on the tech side of things. At the moment, getting anything that's not virus related in to the news is effectively impossible, so why waste time and energy trying. It's much more sensible to quietly carry on and announce things later when people aren't so distracted.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784747
Reminds me of when I went crazy with some Christmas lights: https://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/turning-ge-color-effects-g-35-c...
There's medical grade superglue, it's a bit more expensive than regular superglue which has mildly toxic byproducts.
How SEO Ruined the Internet
This was exactly my reaction when I read it on Reddit - it’s on the frontpage as a I type. Haven’t read any of this in the Spanish news...
Why is Ikea evil?
I don't disagree, I'm just tired of the (in this case blatant) "but think of the children" in situations where it's totally irrelevant.
JHU provides this, right?
You know the scene in The Great Escape where Steve McQueen is bouncing a baseball endlessly against the wall while in solitary confinement?
CoinMarketCap vs. CoinGecko: Choosing Tools to Analyze Crypto Markets
Many Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone. This is not secure.
OP here.

Explicitly-annotated fallthrough was still allowed; I codified a particular annotation that the analysis tool understood and allowed. I removed implicit fallthrough, but explicit fallthrough can be quite useful sometimes.
Are there many games that will let you gatcha for that long without dumping money into them?
I do think it should be clear that the model is from outside the mainstream

Which model? Your article mostly dwells on the Oxford model in the FT which is as mainstream as it gets. The Daily Mail article is about a prediction by an Imperial academic.

There doesn't appear to be any "mainstream" in epidemiology. This kind of false-consensus argument is one I've seen before and frankly it undermines people's respect in both academic and journalism. How exactly is the "mainstream" established, in your mind? And don't talk about vague, easily manipulated non-metrics like reputation. Mainstream models should come from a single thing: success. Your insistence on rigid academic segmentation is the very thing that makes academia brittle and riven with non-replicable papers.

You know which kind of modellers I respect the most? Actuaries. They have skin in the game. They don't try to predict pandemics or sell insurance products against them, implying they think pandemics can't be modelled. So far based on what I've read about the history of epidemiology, I can't disagree with them.
Regarding the macOS installer: did this turn out to be real? Last time I saw this turn up, there seemed to be some question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750619
1. Domestic production
2. Low prices
3. Surge capacity meeting sudden demand

You get to choose 2 of the 3. This guy wants protectionist policies to help him stay in a more sustainable business. You can't fault him for wanting to serve his own interests. But we could've prepared for this by having the proper stockpile in anticipation of an emergency.
I usually don't buy computer books anymore because I can't really finish them. I went through this post and signed-up for the mailing list to notify when its available in physical form. The effort he put in is an inspiration - if he has the tenacity and this much pure love towards this work, I have to try harder to overcome my inertia and read it once it is available.
I am hoping to use https://toga.tech/ for my school's clubs.
After exhausting all other options. And the malware peddlers are still ultimately getting their payday.
So, what do software developers say about Boeing 737 MAX software? I mean I think "That's terrifying!" might be an initial response.
Whether Trump is right about anything is completely orthogonal to whether something is true.

Trump has proven repeatedly not to base his opinions on facts, so while his opinions might coincide with facts from time to time is besides the point.

The article in question does not at all touch on how we got there and why there is now public/office willingness to do something about it.

It has long been true about both US and China that they are not stopping at much to achieve their global-ruler agendas, just in a slightly different way. So there is no need to consider how China is doing that, we all know they are. And the mention of US aid coming with no strings attached — ha.

And the most blatant explanation of the current trade war is the rising economic standard in China, where salaries are not multiple orders of magnitude smaller anymore, and the production costs are now not even an order of magnitude lower than they would be in US. Which means that the globalist capitalist system driven by big US businesses is getting close to not getting any returns on making China richer and more equal economically. But this discrepancy in standard of living has long been the driving force of USA's purchasing power and middle class fortune.
Haha this was the first track I thought of, you have good taste :)
https://newsthump.com/2020/04/05/5g-conspiracy-theories-all-...
The future's gadgets the top of technology
Shout out to the amaaaaazing folks at Teenage Engineering who built this with Ikea, you can also 3D print accessories for the Ferkvens: https://teenage.engineering/designs/frekvens-hacks
It’s happening in at least one location and maybe others. This is the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, from King
County Public Health and Seattle Flu Study: https://publichealthinsider.com/2020/03/23/introducing-scan-...
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There are only five pages (it shows you in the right pane). I had no problem with clicking "Next" but even if you dislike that I suggest you persist - it's a nice project, a well written article and worth reading.
> in the days before the internet and you were similarly confined then how would you occupy yourself?

Not the OP — but books and TV?
Depending on how much storage you need, and whether you need instant or delayed access to your files, there's a couple of ideas like

- Scaleway's new AWS S3 Glacier-like storage (75GB free, in Paris)

- OVH's regular object storage vs. "cloud archive" (multiple EU locations)

- Wasabi (S3 compatible, but prepays for 1TB) (in Amsterdam)

The "cold" storage options are obviously cheaper, but have bigger problems in my experience of playing nice with backup and sync solutions like rclone.
Since the "lockdown" in the UK, I'm not going on social media much more than once every couple of days at most just to check up on friends. And when I do, it just reinforces why: it is full idiots. It is full of more idiots than usual.

If your national health advisor / chief medical officer / government advisor hasn't mentioned it, then it is wrong and likely will always be wrong.

But Sarah on Facebook / Mark on Twitter has an alleged top tip on COVID19, then which one should you share? It seems the general public would now prefer to take their advice from "a bloke down the pub", rather than a qualified expert in the field with 30+ years of experience.

I'm much happier without social media, not that I was on it much to start with. Silver linings and all that.
Mission: Increase conversion rate to starting a dialog in a chat
Serverless Patterns
Nice idea! Maybe should involve some randomised offsets so it can't just be planned ahead of time
I use an app that has that as a feature, but I personally never utilize it.

The main reason is that each time I take a moment to "think" about how I feel, my mood changes accordingly.

In a way it's like a self-inflicted Hawthorne Effect when I try to consciously track my mood.

[caveats to the Hawthorne Effect: https://www.nber.org/papers/w15016.pdf]

Another issue is that I'm not sure what to do with the information such an app feature would generate. For many, mood is the result of things that aren't within their control.
That would just mean nobody would publish articles about models, as there are no models that don't have some scientists disagreeing with them.

Which is fine. It'd be far better if people weren't trying to model COVID-19 at all. It's clearly far beyond our societies capabilities today. We can't even get useful data let alone feed it into a simulation of society.
Buying American doesn't increase shareholder value or executive bonuses. Reducing costs does. At least, that's the mantra

Walmart became the giant it is because while people agree that supporting local businesses is important (especially when they and their neighbors own those businesses), they still could not help themselves and chose to do their shopping at Walmart because it was cheaper. Then many of the small local businesses died.

Modern (American/western/and-possibly-everywhere-else) people are really terrible at balancing short vs long term priorities.
They fully compensate hardware with portability and the most polished titles you can find. Also, their first-party games look better on 720p switch display then like 98% of all games on 4k displays.

You can make the best hardware possible, but practically no companies can achieve Nintendo level quality.
I had some issues with them. They screwed up and their customer support didn't even answer two written letters.
It's a complex subject, because we're now in a situation where screens are our main form of socialization. It's not necessarily good to cut yourself off entirely; a number of friends of mine have been self-organising entertainment of various forms, and it can be a good place to find some of the huge number of musician and entertainer livestreams that have sprung up. (Remember to tip your musicians who no longer have an income!)

But yes, there's a big risk of "doomscrolling". It's a good idea to quietly unfollow people who post too much doom. Or use the ability of Twitter to turn off retweets from someone. And expand your blocklist. I have blocked a few people who I _agree with_ simply because their political posting is too endlessly retweeted into my timeline.

Normal politics is suspended for the duration. See how many are dead by (US) election day and vote accordingly.
Canada for instance

https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...
Yes I wonder if these URLs have to be made public by law in DMCA notices.

I assume that, if they legally could, they wouldn't show you anything
The Pkgsrc-2020Q1 Release
Out of curiosity, why exactly do you find IKEA evil?
Worked the same for me. I actually like the css on the site, but I refuse to click through multi-page articles. Especially when I am not even informed about the total number of pages.
I am learning Ansible from the 30-days free course of RedHat

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I don’t really get this article.

If you have the foresight, and money, to pay to transplant an entire industry from a place which manufacture masks for 2 cents as opposed to one that does it for 10 cents, wouldn’t it be a lot easier, cost efficient, and sensible, to simply by 2 masks whenever you need one for a total of 4 cents for the 2 masks, and keep 1 of those 2 masks in your stockpile?

You end up spending about 4cents per mask, and you’ve built up a massive stockpile in addition to that for emergency situations. And you’ve only paid 20% of the money you would have for the masks the article is advocating.

Frankly, this was a disaster in federal planning. Trying to twist this into some sort of issue with the supply chain system is kind of ridiculous.

Also, if you actually look at the US right now, the idea that American companies would be manufacturing anything full throttle is beyond ridiculous. China in fact manaaged to completely lockdown Hubei province in a way the US can never dream of, which allowed them to continue their industrial manufacturing, and actually be able to supply masks to states and hospitals around the country (of course, life would be a lot easier if the federal government coordinated the procurement so states weren’t outbidding each other only to have the Federal government pirate their supplies to ha d off to private entities that then resell it to the same states for even more...).
Is Gitlab going to crush GitHub in the next few years?
We built https://versoly.com/, it is an easy way to build landing pages and marketing sites.

Start off with a one pager with an email form and analytics.

In one click add an SEO optimised blog.

Also don't need to worry about hosting, upgrades etc we handle all that for you.
And that means they are evil? Wow, people nowadays.
Seems to be missing any mention of how this whole process is resilient to killing the apiserver or kubelet at any point in the process (it is resilient to that, right...?).
It will depend on what you're using it for. I use Azure Archive storage for last resort backups. Will be reasonably expensive if I ever need to restore the data, but until then it's £0.00135 per GB per month.
The PE firms who bought Toys "R" Us put up $1.3b of their own money to do it. After they bought it, they did, yes, extract some handsome returns in fees and salaries; by the time Toys "R" US went under in 2018, it paid its PE masters several hundred million; Bloomberg has the number as $470m all up (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/bain-kkr-...).

Certainly a case can be made that those fees, given how poorly Toys "R" Us was doing, were ridiculous.

However, if you buy something for $1.3b of your own money, extract a bit less than $500m in fees, and then drive it into bankruptcy, zeroing out your investment, you haven't come out ahead, and in fact have made a major loss.

Even to the extent that PE and LBOs are about looting companies at the expense of other stakeholders (which is debatable). Toys "R" Us is a pretty clear example of PE firms selecting a target in a dying line of business and getting burned.

(It's worth noting that large toy chains have been flaming out globally. In most countries the large chains have either gone under or are closing stores rapidly. If a bunch of large toy store chains are having issues, but only one was bought by PE, what's the common factor here?)
Nice! I'd wondered about that guitar, it sounds impossibly real to be pure Csound. Thanks for the insight. And yes, I had the opportunity to listen to the whole album on a decent 5.1 system at uni a while back and it's pretty spectacular.
When Plagues Pass, Labor Gets the Upper Hand
> help stop the spread of Covid is downright illogical

You are thinking from an individual point of view, governments and WHO are thinking of society, not you as an individual.

From a society point of view, saying masks don't stop the spread is completely logical. If WHO said "People should wear masks" there would be a world wide shortage overnight. Even for hospitals, care homes and other health workers. That would be a very bad outcome.

The current best use of masks is in environments of higher risk, not them being stockpiled in people's homes. You might be sensible and only buy what you need but will others?

> This doesn't mean that governments are always right or honest
You are judging things only from your perspective, what is right for you and what is right for the masses are not always the same thing. Governments the world over have said they are following scientific advice. That advice is also going to be about hard decisions on who gets saved and who doesn't. That's a hard job for anybody as there is no right, only less wrong.
In recent years it is less easy, as content owners are now reporting huge batches of URLs in one complaint, so finding what you are looking for in this mass is much harder. They also often report fake downloads and scam websites in DCMA complaints.
If you disregard people dying from COVID-19 because they would have died anyway within a few years, then you may come to that conclusion.

I don't consider it ethical to do that. Quite the contrary.
Can you imagine the lawsuits that are gonna come pouring in because some hacker was able to control the webcam on a students MacBook because Zoom’s installer basically acts as an insecure root kit, and takes videos of a kid in his private moments and releases them to the internet?
A “Final” Security Bug
If you're doing a plug you might just as well tell us what you're writing about ;)
So it's similar to http://postgrest.org/en/latest/ but for GraphQL, and commercial?
That’s an ambiguity in English. “Foo is priority #1, bar priority #2, so foo has the higher priority” is perfectly valid English.

The only way to ‘solve’ that would be by banning priorities higher than 1, for example by numbering them 1, 0, -1,… or by using floats in the range (0,1] for priorities.
Coronavirus and Credibility
Sure, and the article goes on to discuss time itself as a necessary consideration, but it's not the main focus - the title is somewhat misleading.
> Maybe I'm spoiled by Apple et al., but my Switch feels quite the opposite of premium in the hand.

Does everyone still feel this way about Apple?

I still can remember the first iPhone I had. The 3G just felt really great in my hand. I probably played with that more than a 13yo will play with his balls. Then the first retina and machined metal feel. It all felt like this was the top of the phone world. But ever since then the iPhone just feels like another phone. I don't feel anything special about the X as its just another in long line of iPhones. I stick with apple because I like iOS compared to how android behaves. Apple could make a plastic phone and I wouldn't care or think less of it.

The switch on the other hand I am enthralled with. My wife, at 40, has gotten into gaming because of it. I'm sure if Nintendo partnered with Apple it would be a highly machined and precisely designed piece of hardware, but I would find it hard to believe it would matter.

I guess what I'm saying is I no longer associate quality of a product with the materials as long as they don't break on me. My switch has lasted 3 years which is about a year longer than any iPhone I've had where I've wanted to upgrade because the phone feels slower than it used to.
For the most part, this seems like a good primer on what the territory would be for people entering this space.

I feel like the easiest "Hello World" for newbies would be taking a simple full stack app and interfacing Blockstack as the back end:

https://docs.blockstack.org/browser/hello-blockstack

But the information in that Medium post is great for those who want to know where to dive deeper for developing things from scratch.
On the other hand see how double spending works in less regulated financial markets like cryptocurrency. What keeps that honor system working in financial systems is that it's backed by strong regulation and strong supervisory authorities. There are so many controls built into this that mistakes happen less often than one might think, considering the volume of non-bank transactions (think billions++, yearly).

ISPs have noting of the kind. One routing mistake (or "mistake") and all of your customers' data suddenly went through China, Russia, US (you name it), for better or worse. What's worse, in a manner of speaking that data is now devalued. There's value date equivalent in the ISP's world. As a customer you have no avenues, the thing isn't even between you and any ISP you may work with. The bank will never get away with telling you "well we accidentally made this extra payment, it got routed thorough this extra bank, so now you lost 25% of the money".
Comparing an operating system to a video conference app...SMH. Anyways the article you list is more about privacy policy issues, the kind of which even ZOom is subject to because the US govt forever it on all their companies. Zoom, in addition to that, was also routing the video through Chinese servers,making you vulnerabl not only to the NSA but also the Chinese services.

More specifically, Teams has been in use for several years now, without a faction of the security issues that Zoom has had in the last couple of years.

Edit: The US government regulations are the problem there which is why the article mentions that Google and Apple also do not meet the same privacy standards. In other words, all the OS makers fail to do so, and not just Microsoft.

The only solution that would probably work for the German standards (and is something the EU should be investing heavily in anyways) would be Linux.
Anticonsumerist is actually a great word. I might adopt it. Much more succint.
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I love Rclone and have been using it for years (even recommended it to some customers for data migration purposes when I worked at Dropbox). The simplicity is what I appreciate most and the fact you can just run it every now and then to sync any new or updated files to your cloud storage of choice is what I love. Mind you I could never get the upload throughput as high as the Dropbox client itself (but that might not be RClone's fault).