skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, housing is not something they are required to take. The they can live in a tent which is what they were doing 70 years ago when the farmers felt sorry for them living in a tent and built a bunk house for them to live in if they wanted. Bad as a bunkhouse is, almost everyone agrees it is better than a tent and so they live in that. (I love sleeping in a tent, but that is because it is a vacation I do once a year, most of my nights are spent in a house)
A lot of the inaction was actually on behalf of the markets. Fear of upsetting Wall Street played a bigger part in not closing off access to China than meanies complaining about xenophobia. Also probably presidential denial of it being an actual issue.
Frontier prepares for bankruptcy, regrets failure to install enough fiber
Just give us a mass produced anti-body test we can take already.

This is ridiculous. If people can just take an anti-body test to show they are immune to covid-19, they can safely return to work.
Take ques from other countries that has it under control and it expand on it. The entire country need to be as one when enforcing not by local laws etc, it will be too slow to propagate new orders
Zoom Streams Feed
I thought this was going to be overzealous Feds put useful business out of business, reducing supply, but it's actually underzealous Feds fail to block merger, which ended up reducing supply.
"There was a counter-backlash from the United States Flag Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution, who felt it inappropriate for Americans to have to change the traditional salute because foreigners had later adopted a similar gesture. ... From 1939 until the attack on Pearl Harbor, detractors of Americans who argued against intervention in World War II produced propaganda using the salute to lessen those Americans' reputations."
Totally depends. A particularly industrious person could essentially be a human spam bot / template permuter.

It's too open to say definitively. How many people are contacted, how were they identified, how much unique effort went into each email, what is the actual content of the email, what are your intentions, what is your offering, what do you say you want from them, what do you actually want from them, etc.

If it's sent to 1 person, like in this article, it might be completely fine. But in general, I don't think there's any way to answer that without thoroughly looking at each case.
Tackling the Beast: Using GNU Health to help the fight against COVID-19 pandemic
Refers to how to give a good lecture too- three main takeaways, three subpoints per main point, three supporting examples per point...

Less than three points sounds too simple; more three points too complicated
I agree. It sounds like an awful solution. Imagine if they did this for herpes.
> And... that right there would also be a very sufficient surveillance system.

If you're using "Find My Phone" on your device, you're already relying on this sort of surveillance. I'm not sure what's "scary" about using the exact same feature that many people are in fact relying on for their convenience, to mitigate an ongoing disease outbreak.
I'm not familiar with the history or the closed-source feature set of chrome. This [1] search result shows rather minor features compared to a browser - codecs, flash player, auto-update (I suppose this is a big deal on non-linux). VSCode, on the other hand has a proprietary Visual Studio Marketplace extension, (extra?) telemetry and an updater. [2] (I found a better link)

I actually only want an open source build for macOS and Windows - on Linux I almost exclusively use what is in the package manager. I just wish "Code - OSS" had a more recognizable name (and icon), like "VS Code OSS edition" (with a different color of the same logo) Code OSS is just impossible to search.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differen...
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
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>I’m not even going to go into it. I don’t want to end up on Hacker News again bitching about Catalina.

Whoops
Is Germany a Model for Covid-19 Response?
NO THANKS!
AbleFridge – Scan and Track Grocery Expiration
British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine
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https://github.com/sum12/songbook - dynamic video-clip-loops for guitar practice.

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:sumitjami
Thanks, but I like to just type and talk as I go.
I vote for the galaxy colonization program, thank you.
Personally I'm not into hydroponics as I have a house and a large yard (2/3 acre) but I have a friend who lives in a condo and doesn't have much of a yard to speak of. His whole basement is devoted to hydroponics. As such he's growing as much or more food than I am! Yes there are significantly higher up-front costs, but he doesn't have to worry much about pests. He also loves to build his own automation solutions so he has fun with that, too. So while it's certainly more expensive, I suppose it's cheaper than buying a house!
Instead of streaming the entire desktop (or a portion of it), you'll actually want to set up the ["Game Capture" source](https://obsproject.com/wiki/Sources-Guide#game-capture), and configure it to automatically attach to any fullscreen application.

Then add an audio stream, and you're good to go.
>Associate timers with projects to group your work (or don’t)

Perhaps it's because I'm so used to seeing marketing materials that always present features in a way that assumes you'll use them, but the "(or don't)" here caused me to actually laugh out loud and made the "no tracking / spying / advertising / etc" comment above more believable. Well done.
how exactly did they not respect the license?

i just don't understand your complaint at all.
We will offer a paid tier for high volume users and enterprises over time. However, the point of my comment (and apologies if it wasn't clear) is that the majority of workflows will never hit the paid tier levels. Our goal is to build a platform that has broad developer engagement and solve a wide range of integrations, and we believe having a robust free tier is essential to that vision.
Why are there two such organizations? I mean, I know the federal government never stops at one bureaucracy when they can create multiple, but what are the effective differences in focus?
If this ever comes online, I imagine they'll use it for all and any social "ills." Including herpes. It will be like McCarthyism on steroids; guilty by literal proxy.
Wouldn't a "find my phone" feature like Apple developed be possible to use in this case?

See: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/06/05/how-does...

I think that with two tweaks, we could cast a pretty wide net and remain privacy preserving:

1. Phones record a 14 day history of every pseudonym and public key they generate, as well as every pseudonym and public key they observe. Observers (potentially exposed contacts) could encrypt these observations with their own public keys and upload them using the same method Apple uses, I believe.

2. People who test positive can opt in to publishing those pairs publicly, which would allow any device to scan its history for those pairs and determine if its owner has been exposed. Or alternatively, Apple or another company could perform this on a user's behalf using the central database.

I think the privacy preserving aspect is dependent on users opting in to sharing information for the past 14 days following a covid-19 test. That would allow the contacts to perform the same "have I seen this device" search locally.

Edit: This actually seems a lot like "haveibeenpwned" more-so than anything else. As long as a case's device generated unique IDs continuously, logged them privately and broacasted them to nearby devices, then a potentially exposed contact's device could regularly query a central database for hashed prefixes of IDs they've seen in the past 2 weeks. Any person (case) who tests positive could opt-in to publishing all of the IDs their phone has generated in the past 2 weeks.

The contacts could then opt in to publishing the location said contact occurred, and a hash of a geofence could also be logged - allowing contacts who have been exposed to opt in to publishing that someone in a particular vicinity had tested positive and was present at a particular date and time.
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Why not just an anti-body test & if you feel sick, do a regular test.

People with anti-bodies go back to work, people who feel sick get treatment, everyone else is in lockdown.

In 12-18 months we have a vaccine and / or are all sick anyway and have anti-bodies.

Reality is any complex solution will take longer to implement than the easier solution(s) (just getting antibodies).
"Smart" should be in quotes.
> Also, what kind of weird country do you live in where there even is such a thing as legally mandatory vaccines?

Sounds like one of those with highest quality of life, gini and longest life expectancy countries. Yuck!
I'll gladly WFH if the kids weren't here!
> Why is it that so called conservative organizations who proclaim to love "small government" always push the most privacy invading and draconian solutions?

I'll give you a hint and it rhymes with honey.
All but one scooter company pulls out of Detroit amid pandemic
Do you have pointers for how to better do binary and path management?
It's a long article written on April 1st. Please, don't say it's an april's fool joke.
I have to imagine there is a substantial amount of regulatory capture that makes it incredibly difficult for an upstart to sell into this space.
That's not very British.
Doctors turn to Twitter and TikTok to share coronavirus news
> I make $50K per year, are you interested in going out?

> No

> New job. Now I make $5M per year, are you interested now?

> Yes

:-)
Blockchain Project Algorand On-Chain Architecture Development in Review
GPS data is pretty accurate outdoors, but the second you step inside a store the trace goes completely haywire and bounces round hundreds of meters in all directions. So any warnings will end up so broad as to be useless. Even if just 0.1% of a population are infected, you’ll end up with everyone getting multiple alerts everyday. How does that improve our situation?
they're scummy?

on edit: slant rhymes count right?
> They are now supported in pretty much every server out there

Sadly whatever library Spring Integration uses does not support them yet, as I found out the hard way. I just tried to search for it and couldn't find the reference but just dealt with it a month or two ago.
If you're looking for a more theoretical overview, the first chapter of Sipster's Introduction to the Theory of Computation is a really solid into to FSA and automata in general.
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Good prediction but now go check out The Who’s hiring thread.
If your IdP goes down, how will you SSH in to fix it?
> SlapChop

I did indeed love his nuts.
Are you guys looking to build your mobile app on native or react platform? I am a mobile developer and would be interested.
Thanks!
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April Fools. That's the text of 'never gonna give you up' in Hungarian.
It says bluetooth
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There was an article posted earlier today that talked about problems that startups are currently facing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750457

A quote from that article:

> Bill Gurley, an investor at the venture capital firm Benchmark, said that over the past 10 years of the start-up boom, investors had taken on more and more risk. That has changed, leaving many of the riskiest start-ups exposed.

> “‘Risk on’ happens slowly,” he said. “‘Risk off’ happens overnight.”
Thanks for the comparison! Another one in the fray I forgot to mention is Nim. With all these new languages marketing themselves in roughly the same way albeit with slightly different vocabulary and with similar syntax, it's difficult to iron out what exactly the differences are.
I really like using the recording feature to do sound checks. We go through all of our checks, then I watch the video locally in VLC. That way I'm certain when it goes live it'll sound the way it's supposed to.
For NOC/SRE/ITOps on-call teams – getting woken up only by alerts that matter
Welp, guess I'm not going anywhere for a long time.
Apple buys weather app Dark Sky
> China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country.

Isn't China bigger than the States by land area?
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So this is just a CAD program that doesn't really have anything special to do with trains? It's just a barebones CAD program or am I missing something?
i didn't know about that. just read the wikipedia article and nvidia wanted to support x86 but intel wouldn't let them use their patents. i would be SUPER surprised if that wasn't the same with Apple.
Python – While Loop
Google isn’t doing April Fools this year.
Yep, and since then masks have became mandatory also in Slovakia, in Austria (so far only for shopping) & Israel is starting to require them as well.
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At Ambra Health we are doing something meaningful about COVID-19. We make it possible for doctors and patients to collaborate remotely, at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves managing a lot of medical data, getting it to the right place quickly and reliably over the Internet - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are looking for a Java and Scala developer with Linux experience to work on our remote-only image storage engineering team. This team works on the storage and image-transforming services of our platform, which handle 8 billion (4PB) medical images in data centers and cloud environments around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to be independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/coding/architecture decisions.

Requirements:

- Java (Scala is a bonus)

- Basic Linux system administration skills

- Must live in USA

Big plus if you've got any of these skills:

- Building server software with multi-threading and concurrency, in a distributed network environment

- Experience with DICOM medical file format

- Experience generating, diagnosing or hacking image formats (such as PNG, JPEG, etc)

- Diagnosing application problems in a Linux environment

Send me an email with your resume: pete+jobs@ambrahealth.com
Ask HN: How do you build a weather API?
I'm sure a lot of HN'ers are sad to see Dark Sky go, so I was wondering what it would take to build something like it from scratch. On the off-chance that someone here has the expertise to explain, what goes into building a weather API like Dark Sky? At the very least, where does the raw data come from?
> This is like the 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again.

I would say it is worse; it is the Patriot Act on steroids. Because this will be "to keep your children safe from epidemics" there will be even less public scrutiny and pushback on questionable data collections. Ouch!
I have not found any evidence to confirm any of the information you provide here. Do you have any credible citations?
I think the monopoly that the FDA has on approving medical equipment and tests has had far more of an impact than any commercial concerns.
Slightly OT, but I wonder if anyone in the know could shed a light on where Baye's theorem is applied (if anywhere) in quantum mechanics?

In particular, has anyone tries to apply the bayesian framework to the whole "the wave collapses upon measurement" shebang?
> Unlike malware, “adult content” is not adversarial to the ecosystem it’s a part of.

I have my browser crash at least once a month when viewing such content.
And to get to the pure web interface you'll have to either know the magic URL or fight some more dark patterns, because they really want you to install their software.
Escaping Web's Podcast Retrospective
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Willing to relocate: Not at this time but will be willing to fly back and forth once the covid-19 situation settles down

Technologies: Full-stack web developer with most of my experience in node.js/Typescript, React.js, custom front-ends, SQL(variety of flavors), AWS Serverless, check out my resume for a complete list.

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Both technology and computer programming are huge passions of mine and I have been messing around with computers in some fashion from a very early age. Business process automation is a particular aspect of software that I have spent a fair share of time doing and enjoy it a lot. As for industry, I've spent a fair bit of time in fin-tech... To name a few, video-game item market investing, financial product marketing, crypto-currency(got involved in mining back when bitcoin was under $10!), to credit union point of sale software. If you're a smaller shop and think you can find value in the style of work I do, please shoot me an email, I'm happy to chat!
That the lack of ppe can't be that bad.

A cynical would say.
I think the main hurdle that people seem to face when conceptualizing immortality is that they assume you would want to remain static throughout your eternity of existence. That's absurd considering no one stays exactly the same person as they live their current mortal life, why would immortality be different? No, immortal humans would continue to evolve along side their culture or would choose to splinter off from it to pursue their own developmental goals. An end to death is not an end to striving and changing, it would only be the beginning.
If they laid off 50% of their staff, I'm not entirely certain we'd notice.
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Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic [pdf]
I was just thinking about this, but mostly to route the audio through OBS so I can play my teammates some sweet synth music while we wait for others to join the standup.
Ask HN: DoH DNS Server (DNS Over HTTPS), is this an easy to do setup?
Few months ago I attempted to solve below DNS related privacy challenges and realized that setting up necessary tools was pretty time consuming and complex.

Challenges:

1. Private DNS server for my home network and for my devices when they are on the move away from Home network.
2. Ability to block all ads, maleware etc inside my browser and mobile apps that I use. No need for adblock plugins in browser or ad blocking VPN service configuration.
3. Avoid use of DoH client for home devices.

I came up with simple docker based DNS server with DoH capability that can be setup easily in minutes. I wanted to make sure that I can rebuild my DNS server quickly without redoing all complex installation and configuration and make it easy for others to use same stack effortlessly.

I have setup DNS server with DoH + Unbound on a raspberry pi at home (You can use any linux box/VM if raspberry pi is not available). I use it as my DNS server in router DHCP settings. This setup solves all my DNS related privacy challenges. This allows me to use native DNS + DoH for home network. I blocked 53 port traffic at router for all IPs except my raspberry pi IP. This makes sure none of the devices on network can communicate over DNS ports outside of my network except raspberry pi running DNS server.

When I am on the move away from my home setup, I use DoH service installed on a DNS server that I setup in cloud with same docker stack (AWS EC2 micro instance). AWS provides all new accounts a 12 months of free usage for t1.micro instance. This cloud DNS server with DoH keeps me protected from ads, maleware etc and ISP even outside of my house. This does not violate AWS policy as we don't have to expose DNS port in instance security group/firewall.

I have published my work here at https://hub.docker.com/r/satishweb/doh-server and https://github.com/satishweb/docker-doh.
OBS has dominated the livestreaming working for a while now (e.g Twitch)
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Technologies:

- Robotics: ROS, general robotics know-how, full-stack prototyping of simple mobile robots. Managed a team of hardware/software engineers for 3+ years to design, produce and deploy a fleet of robots.

- ML: TensorFlow, PyTorch (with focus on perception problems)

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- Data: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis

- Cloud: AWS, Docker

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You’d be interested to hear, then, that most of Marx’s work is about analyzing capitalism and very little of it involves prescriptions for future societies. In fact, Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. He was far more concerned with describing the internal contradictions of capitalism that would lead us to such a point.