skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wiki Creole in 2006 standardized many wiki engines on {{{ }}} code blocks. {{{#!python ...}}} for language or other extensions. All of OP's other points were also solved, at least in the most common implementation. Unfortunately people forgot about this IMO huge improvement.
Isn't this two-factor login? Something you know (username) and something you have (phone)? There's also a good chance that the scammers had a set of leaked security questions on hand. I'm sure some banks even use SSN as an authentication factor.
I've often played Catan by dealing in futures contracts. "I will give you two sheep for one wood now, and also the next three brick you receive from any source". That practice is quickly banished in every house I've played in. No one thinks it's "unfair" per se but everyone, including myself, believe that it horribly breaks the game.
+1 for OSRM. Switched after a bad API call cost me thousands :p
> but they were not interested in following up.

Why would they be? All they're interested in is avoiding transactions that might be marked as fraudulent, they're not interested in actually fixing the issue. Thats the polices issue, not your carrier.
Since they have actual vehicles on the ground, they could collect data on actual travel times under various traffic conditions and apply a bit of ML to predict how long it's going to take under current conditions. No need for any Google API there.

But now that their Google bill is only ~$50/day, it might not be worth building their own prediction system.
The various European governments have free data but it’s not very granular.
Thanks, those log-scale plots are way more interesting than linear one.

Small mistake: Israel isn't in Europe but in Eastern Mediterranean.
The good news is this NSO thing appears to only work if it's not everywhere. If every FB app comes bundled with it, it'll be easy to figure out how it works in aggregate, and then NSO gets to move into the league of the common spyware/antivirus cat-and-mouse games.
Nordic countries are pragmatically ethnocentric, mandatory military service, have state Churches and official state religions, popular Monarchies (Sweden's royal family is more popular in Sweden than the UK Monarchs in the UK), and people, in general, are nice but the furthest thing from 'PC' as we understand it. They are economically left-wing, but the culture is very closed.

The very consideration of the 'Nordic Model' is almost absurd because it ignores the other 80% of the situation which is the social fabric that's not part of the political system.

New York has 23% of the population functionally illiterate and there's a perfect correlation between literacy and success and health in every domain. So that would be a really good place to start.

And there are a zillion obviously unfair things in the US that could be fixed.

So much low-hanging fruit before a comparative basis is even needed.
Liverpool Care Pathway
Your observations are correct, but your implied conclusion is not.

In the 'real' environment micro-droplets are shown to be suspended for minutes. It is the larger droplets that are pulled down by gravity and do not make it far. But the micro droplets can contain more than enough virus particles.

It is shown that the room gradually accumulates more and more suspended droplets as people continuously produce them, not just through sneezing and coughing, but just by talking and breathing.

In a typical office environment there is continuous low velocity air circulation spreading these droplets through the room and saturating the whole space with them.

The video shows also that cross drafts, which produce a high air replacement, can take the droplets outside of the room which is a good thing. The moment the draft is closed the accumulation starts anew.
Coronavirus: Trump to defy 'voluntary' advice for Americans to wear masks

This is an article about Trump refusing to wear masks, not an article implying the US has resorted to piracy.

It now has 12 upvotes.
Daily numbers have problems too, they can get quite noisy. Both have their uses, particularly seen together. I also think linear scales have their place alongside log (which can be hard for laypeople to grasp). Here are daily numbers for France for example:

https://coronavirus.projectpage.app/france?period=28

The jump recently is due to a change in reporting to include deaths outside hospital (something most countries have yet to do), and these are reported deaths not actual, and subject to all kinds of caveats. Reported cases is even worse. Recovered cases is worst of all and not being properly tracked in most areas.

A moving average of daily cases might be best. I think the ft (who have nice graphs of this along with commentary) are moving toward this.

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

There's a nice commentary on what they're doing here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1246184639540...
'Breakthrough' seems to be a slightly strong word here; this is one of what might be more than 100 parallel efforts to create a COVID-19 treatment going on around the globe.

The next breakthrough isn't going to be a good idea that is testable; they already exist. What is needed at the moment is something that has scientific evidence (ie, a good solid clinical trial) behind it and that is cheap to produce.
> asymptomatic carriers are the norm

Asymptomatic people while they are infecting others doesn't mean these people will remain asymptomatic all the time. Just that at the moment they are spreading the virus they aren't having any symptoms. They can and it seems a lot of them do develop the symptoms only days later (especially once the children aren't considered).

That just means that it's hard to contain the carriers early enough to limit the growth of infection based on the symptoms. Until the antibody tests show otherwise, we can't even assume that "most will be fine" in the sense that it's not true that 20% of all infected (again, maybe excluding children) would really need the hospital.

One of the reasons 20% of all "confirmed cases" need the hospital is that the doctors can't know who of those 20% will get even worse to need the machine to be kept alive.

And no country could ever have enough doctors and machines to treat such a big part of population at once.
There is a multitude of reasons for this. Beyond some limitations which still limit the ipad, it is the chick and an egg problem. You won't have real software on the iPad until there are users (buyers) for it and you won't have users until the software exists. This is especially important for corporate usage - at my work place I haven't heard of any iPads being provided to the employees, which means, no one can use an iPad and buy/develop software for one.

There are and were limitations preventing desktop class software on the iPad, some have lifted but it also takes quite a long time to take up on that, see also above.

- Keyboard support. For a lot of tasks, you need a keyboard. It took a long time until Apple sold keyboards for the iPad, and it still was quirky. There is a row of keys missing and even when coupling bluetooth keyboards, the extra keys didn't work. What Apple didn't really get was: a lot of people need an Esc key for their work, many would like funktion keys. It is still a struggle to run as simple as an ssh session on the iPad. Also, so far I haven't found a truely good SSH client on the iPad.

- Mouse support - really has been added only with 13.4, we will see how this develops.

Restrictions by Apple:

- For a long time, there was no real file exchange between apps, no joint file spaces. This has been partially fixed, still feels cumbersome and very much depends on the apps to get right.

- There is a ton of stuff that could be done on the iPad, but is banned outright. Termux is great on Android, not allowed on the iPad. The iPad would be great for development, if not mostly disallowed.

- And yes, for a lot of things, the screen is just too small :).

- The app store. Great and bad at the same time. The issues are probably best seen on macOS, because on macOS the app store is not mandatory. A lost of applications only exists outside the app store. While I liked the convenience of the app store and the fact that I don't have to deal with license keys and was free to use the app I bought across all my devices, the perpetual updates for free are condemning most longterm development. Paid upgrades were the life blood of the software industry for decades. They mean a regular revenue stream from power users like subscriptions, but didn't force the casual user to constantly pay, only when that user wanted the features of the newer versions. Subscriptions currently seem to be the only way, how a actively developed application can survive in that universe, but limits the user base.

- In app purchases. In principle a good idea, it lead to a reality where apps are flooding the app store which constantly try to extort money from the user. That games are allowed to charge in total more than lets say 2x what an AAA title would cost, is scandaleous. A model where an app could offer a free trial and then is purchased normally would be much more supportive of quality app development.

Many of this can be worked around, but unfortunately that is rather the exception. There are still great apps around which are a joy to use, but the whole ecosystem is drowned by all the bad stuff.
This API is a disaster. None is insecure, but Lax is private?

Lax and Strict are adjectives. What are they even modifying? Not "SameSite"!
They are referring to "SameSiteRestriction" or something.

Why not align with CS of CSRF as
AllowCrossSite, and values Always / OnUserRequest / Never ?
I just ”shell out” to HTML for tables.
Because big orgs check for a minimum list of features and that list will nowadays always include some element of encryption/data protection. Many companies use zoom, or e.g. I've seen the OECD host seminars there. Have they done due diligence and an independent audit of the software? No, Robert and Lucy from procurement had a week to read through 8 different bids describing software features and support modalities, assured they fit the checklist and then calculated which one is the lowest bid (or "best value for money" which is checklist points/price) as they are obliged to choose that.

Then zoom can go around and claim OECD and IBM and the UN (all made up) use them, which lends credence, even if it's just that one training team in Nairobi that trialed the software once.
You're overestimating the legitimate companies' employees security acumen. They do it all the time.

Sometimes when a legitimate company asks me to verify something, they do it by telling to me. As in, "I need to verify your date if birth. Is it xx/yy/zzzz"?
Healthy young people with no underlying health issues are at very low risk of dying if they can get medical care. If we run out of hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators, the death rate climbs. If we run out of doctors and nurses to care for the hospitalized patients because they're all home sick with COVID-19, the death rate climbs. The death rate isn't a static feature of the disease, it's a function of how well we can care for the ill.
It works by applying a low-pass filter on the camera's motion, so a sudden kick turns into a slow, low amplitude bob.

Perhaps you just need to increase the smoothing parameter. I found the default of 10 way too low, and needed around 50-100 for my very shaky 50 fps home videos.
> Anyway, most popular kids games are wholly or mostly luck (Candyland, Parcheesi, Trouble, LIFE), and kids enjoy them.

Is it the case that Monopoly is a kids game? I don’t know a single kid that wants to play Monopoly.

Candyland isn’t even luck based. It is 100% predetermined by the shuffling of the cards.
yea came to post avidemux is this with a simple ui
Hello - I'm the author. I've found myself the last couple of weeks having a lot of conversations with friends and family around the misinterpretation of some of the main numbers and stats that are being published in journals and shared on social media around the COVID-19 outbreak.
I wrote the following blog post, summarising 8 key points , jargon-free, that were recurrent in these conversations...
There is already enough panic out there, we need to promote a level headed discussion about numbers and stats in a scientifically sound way, far from any journalistic sensationalism and fear-inducing headlines.
A big thank you to all the healthcare professionals on the frontlines. Please share if you find this helpful. And happy to answer any questions.
Shameless plug: I do 99.98% of my work in a terminal, and I'd much rather read markdown like a man page. I created a little utility to display Markdown (actually, any kind of file that `pandoc` can read) and displays it nicely formatted. You can see it here:

https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man

Hope someone might find it useful. :)
You don't need an app for taking a screenshot. Windows used to include the Snipping Tool I think since Windows 8, and nowadays in Windows 10 it's just functionality baked into the OS: press Shift+Win+S to access it.
Agree in general, but don't like the underline/italic thing. Most word processors have underline as separate from underline. Hence the alternative old email/Usenet convention: underscores for underline, slashes for italic.
SDK that lets you do free blockchain transactions
Webex is so bad that nobody would consider using it based on technical merits, security track record or being backed by a competent organisation, so it's kind of immune from the kind of critique that is being leveled against Zoom.

I have a feeling computer accessible Webex is just there because of the dedicated videoconf HW that Cisco makes. The software is to provide a feature checkmark and make its victims miserable enough to buy the HW.
SoftBank's Vision Fund Loses a Partner
Furnace and cabin filters are probably not worth it.
Even code written in C or Assembly can be dog slow, it is a problem between chair and monitor, not necessary from what tooling is capable of.

IntelliJ would be still dog slow even if written in C.

Non stopping indexing files on every startup isn't something that changes with the programming language, or the slowness doing code completion on C and C++ code, despite usage from clangd.
PSA: Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) was largely abandoned by its maintainers. Several of us are working to reboot it, so if you enjoy map data and/or graph theory and have C++ skills, this would be a great project to work on.

https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/

(Reboot discussion at https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/5209)
> If the chinese people don't want the chinese government, there is nothing the chinese government can do.

Isn't this a bit naive? How do you figure dictatorships ever stay in place? When the power in place controls everything, uprising is almost impossible.
Startup is always slow (I am really sensitive to latency, and I prefer to have some immediate response from software). You either need to tell people to install JRE beforehand (which nobody will do), or pack it with your distribution, adding 100 MB or so even for simpler programs. JVM-based software is fine on the server side, but I'd prefer something else on the client side.
Ask HN: What do you wish someone else built for you?
It's a question from paulgraham's blog and curious what are your answers?

For me I hope someone can create a browser with a lot of automation options.
> Talent is built, educated, trained;

I think you are conflating talent with skill. You can develop your skill, but generally, your talent is viewed as innate or biological.

Most people can train to be good at basketball, chess, etc. But most people don't have the talent to be michael jordan, magnus carlsen, etc.

> genes are partially luck.

Partially? I don't think it is possible since you inherit all your genes. Genes are entirely luck as you had no say in which genes you inherited.
Considering it's the default, even standard (DIN 2137:2018-12), I'd say yes most do.
Reposted, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22776775
by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=madaxe_again appears to have been killed over a mistaken URL.
Agree. reStructuredText has much stronger concepts. Composable. A standard way to extend semantics without requiring new syntax. Not tied to HTML. It has some slightly more superficial weaknesses that made it the loser I guess: ugly / awkward / inconvenient syntax; no atx headers; not every document is "valid"; HTML is less integrated... worse-is-better strikes again.
Agenda notes app has elegantly solved this. Pay once and permanently unlock all current features. If a new release has a feature you want, you can purchase again.

It's more work for the developer but they did a great write up on how they built this capability: https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agend...
One aspect of "lightness" is transfer & disk: initial download duration, storage size per app (often over 100 MB for apps with embedded Chromium), and the size of each app update which often needs to update the embedded Chromium too, if they're being responsible. There is no "LTS" version of Chromium.
Co-Parenting Tips during Covid 19
It is a proof of that Google API is overpriced. Google apparently sells something, that can be computed as well.
This seems to be violating the Maps API terms of service?

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms

(a) No Scraping. Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer will not: (i) pre-fetch, index, store, reshare, or rehost Google Maps Content outside the services; (ii) bulk download Google Maps tiles, Street View images, geocodes, directions, distance matrix results, roads information, places information, elevation values, and time zone details; (iii) copy and save business names, addresses, or user reviews; or (iv) use Google Maps Content with text-to-speech services.

(b) No Caching. Customer will not cache Google Maps Content except as expressly permitted under the Maps Service Specific Terms.
No, that's just a Clojure inspired syntax for WebAssembly.
You could try Pollen [1]; there’s a little bit of setup, but you can generate beautiful webpages in it. It even has a markdown dialect, in which you write most things in markdown, but you can also add your own custom tags.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
Show HN: Dhole – Libsodium for Humans (and Furries)
Krypt.co website SSL certificate expired today and website is inaccessible
Sounds like Second Life. https://www.connect.secondlife.com/about
Ask HN: How could doctors utilize technology more effectively?
Caching is allowed (for up to 30 days). Here are the specific terms for the API in the article: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-te...

"Customer can temporarily cache latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) values from the Directions API for up to 30 consecutive calendar days, after which Customer must delete the cached latitude and longitude values."
So could increasing pricing under circumstances help to make your customers more creative, more efficient and more ecologically sustainable by making your costumers consume less of your computing power and bandwidth?
You have a problem if you're trying to index every column...
> In one extremely egregious case, the company decided to purchase an Exadata server, and since its performance characteristics had little to do with the previous servers

I don't get this point. If the hinted queries changed performance for the worse, why wouldn't you expect unhinted queries to also change for the worse after migration? After all, the hints were there to overcome such issues already.

It sounds like the lesson should be "with large enough system, plan for extended time for query rewriting if you plan to replace your db engine", rather than anything about hints themselves.
You can order from China but shipments take a month....
Specific evidence of astroturfing would involve combing through IP and moderation logs.

I don't understand why insinuating the integrity of this forum is compromised - as if that's personally offensive to you. Do you not know what sock puppets are? Do you realize there's a market for it, and FB isn't above bidding?

This story is from 2017. By 2023 I promise you news will leak of FB using sock puppets. Sorry if that's offensive Dang.
Well, that's more clever than a company I did due diligence for.

Their strategy was to have a pool of API keys attached to new accounts that would take advantage of the Google Maps API free tier, and monitor its usage. As the free tier usage would run out, the system would roll over to a new API key automatically.

Wrote that one up in big red marker in my report...
Not really. Data for Spain can be perfectly used and fit without averages on daily increases => https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C5622AQH1JmaVMs3mqQ/f...
Looks good! Simple and to the point.

My feedback: a) default font size is a bit large, and b) I would change the placeholder "blah blah blah claim..." to something less distracting/funny :)

All the best to you!
No worries - good luck with the application :)
Sometimes you have no choices than working on something not fitting your skills.

Imagine those with a university degree working at McDonald's serving menus
Yeah - they indexed every single column.... also - what may not have worked for uber, will be just fine for 99% of usecases. How often do you work with that kind of load. What they moved to isn't so much mysql, rather mysql used as a key value store with 0 relational database usage. Not really a postgres issue, rather one of being too big for relational databases.
This is SpaceX: the fourth time's the charm.
There are a few unspeakable things that you can not do with paid labor but can do with slaves, you would have to be extraordinarily evil to pursue any of them which is unlikely but is a possibility nonetheless.
Some features:
- fully customizable layout (XSL template)
- CV data can be exported as XML
- default template features:
- very compact but readable layout (typically max 2 pages)
- include your picture in your CV
- include custom reference contact information
- automatically calculate the length of your experience (overall and per position)
- include skills & endorsements and endorsement counts
- include all licenses & certifications information
- include all volunteer experience information
- include all publications information
App Assisted Contact Tracing
Can you tell us what training/experience was required to become a Reiki master? Is there some kind of exam?
I believe what you're looking for is what Reddit's popular bot u/stabbot does.

I was able to find this comment thread where a user posted some ffmpeg scripts to replicate the behavior. Am on mobile currently so I can't verify they do what you're looking for but here's a snippet.

//PART 1 [Defaults: shakiness=5:accuracy=15:stepsize=6:mincontrast=0.3:show=0]
ffmpeg -i shaky-input.mp4 -vf vidstabdetect=shakiness=5:accuracy=15:stepsize=6:mincontrast=0.3:show=2 dummy_crop.mp4

//PART 2
ffmpeg -i shaky-input.mp4 -vf scale=trunc((iw0.90)/2)2:trunc(ow/a/2)*2 scaled_crop.mp4

//PART 3 [-strict -2 ONLY IF OPUS AUDIO] - [Unsharp Default: '5:5:1.0:5:5:0.0']
ffmpeg -i scaled_crop.mp4 -vf vidstabtransform=smoothing=20:input="transforms.trf":interpol=no:zoom=-10:optzoom=2,unsharp=5:5:0.8:3:3:0.4 stabilized_crop-output.mp4

https://www.reddit.com/r/stabbot/comments/9f7ayj/comment/e5x...