skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is tempting to blame solely the CDC, but I think there is just as much to blame to go around on the general public. Almost everyone was getting on their soapbox on social media to shame people who were wearing masks or trying to acquire a mask.

Yes I know there’s a difference between an N95 respirator and a cloth mask. But that’s beside the point. If the virus can be transmitted over an air gap, then people should be able to buy whatever face covering they want to contain the risk to themselves or their family maximally. And there’s nothing morally wrong with them trying to acquire the highest degree of protection possible, including N95 respirators.

Predictably someone is going to respond to this comment and say that the mask is more necessary for medical professionals or that it is more to prevent particles from exiting your own mouth towards others. The former might be true but it is totally okay for people to want to prioritize their own health. And as for the latter - clearly the reverse transmission is very possible (particles into your mouth/nose) and it is just a matter of time before everyone acknowledges this more openly and starts recommending N95s (most likely once supply constraints are alleviated and the lies are no longer needed).

Just as a reminder: the WHO, possibly at China’s behest, claimed even as late as the middle of January that the virus wasn’t transmissible between humans, a month after Wuhan doctors observed exactly this. It took several weeks for airborne transmission on particles to be acknowledged. And then weeks again to note that the virus can linger on various surfaces and materials.

The lesson to be learned is to trust personal judgment and common sense. Be self reliant, and don’t put faith in random authorities who’ve done little to earn your trust.

EDIT: this article discusses the WHO’s failures in this whole fiasco and how they are a political organization, more than a trustworthy medical organization: https://www.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6...
This was an early limitation, which was fixed in Windows 1803 with the release of the Windows.Graphics.Capture API. [1]

That being said, your general point that there's so many ways to develop an app for Windows, and that not all of them support the same features, is definitely true. I think the general advice these days is that if you _can_ build your app as a UWP, do that. Otherwise, use the Win32 APIs as sparingly as possible, defaulting to the UWP APIs. Legacy apps are a bit trickier, and that's where Microsoft is investing in things like the Desktop Bridge (run Win32 apps in a UWP container) and XAML Islands (host UWP controls in a Win32 app).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/audio-video-cam...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/07/boeing-...

It's definitely a software problem per NASA and Boeing. But thanks for pretending that you know more than the people actually investigating.
this is so egress of a misrepresentation its absurd.

redis in its default configuration is in memory. postgresql
stores to disk.

I doubt they was running anything in parallel. (python)

if you tune postgres by using a RAM disk and actually use parallelism it blows redis out of the water hands down.
How coronavirus swept through JPMorgan’s trading floor
Recent Trends in Gasoline Prices
Are you suggesting XAML/C# to WebAssembly/PWA to Desktop app?

Why not just XAML/C#/Desktop App?
NEARProtocol.com is hiring. Please have a look. https://nearprotocol.com/careers/#openings and I can connect you with our recruiting team. Thanks :)
Waymo halts self-driving car fleet due to coronavirus
I'm not all against digital seller, but at least when I was a kid, I read in the bookstore almost every day after school. I've only got the allowance of one book per week from my parents, so the bookstore was the only way for me to read though a few books a day. I'd like for bookstores like these to continue to exist.
Some banks do actually send and then ask for a verification code over the phone. And it's legit!

They have multiple types of verification codes, like ones for wires and another verifying your identity if you call customer service.

Avoiding fraud is complicated already and will continue to be a problem forever. As people get better at identifying scams, the next one will emerge. As companies create new policies to avoid fraud, "jerk"s will figure out ways to manipulate it.

I'm not sure a long term solution exists.
It would just never go out.
1. Sort-of-but-not-really. Usually, you have to work a certain number of months or weeks at the place you get laid off, before you are eligible. However, there's not a "lifetime minimum." If you get fired for doing something "bad" (at-fault) then you may not be eligible at all.

2. Usually, there's a cap for how long you can be on unemployment. You can't be on it forever. You also have to provide proof that you're looking for a job. Some states require signatures from those companies, some just require a list of companies you've applied to and they do their own random validation.

3. Companies pay the unemployment insurance tax on your behalf, and if you're unemployed and don't file, you don't get to use your benefits.

4. 100% agree
> In good faith or otherwise, the site demands you assume good faith of the people you're arguing with. You cannot do that while calling people's statements "motivated".

So what I'm hearing you say is that a quoted person's motivations aren't up for discussion in the comments section when they're posted as an article on this site.

> It would be similarly unfair for me to go look you up and call your affiliations into question.

That's totally fine, I follow you on twitter, you can look up my linkedin, I'm not exactly making a secret of anything here.

> In reality, the quality of bug bounty reports across all these platforms is a running industry joke.

Maybe internally amongst the incumbents but the industry is growing.

> I laughed audibly at the sentence in your post where you implied that P0 and Bugcrowd were organizations of similar stature and repute.

I don't understand how you got that out of me saying I can understand why both those groups refused to talk to this journalist.
Everyone has their own strategy. I only answer calls from my own contact list. I have some friends who literally turned off the ringer and don't answer any calls. You have to leave them a message, or just text them and ask them to call.
Yes, a big part of what local bookshops offer is the physical environment. Mine (near the University of Chicago) does book events, which is why I keep supporting them.

Good bookstores also provide a free service: curation. Really good bookstores are usually small, located near a good university and are run by book-loving alumni who never left the area. Small is important -- limited space means having to be super selective with inventory. A good bookstore display can give you a sense of the zeitgeist, a feeling for what thinking people are interested in at the moment. There's nothing more pleasant than spending a Saturday afternoon stumbling across new ideas in the stacks.

Unfortunately, you're right -- all these things can now be had online. Curation and bibliophile owners? Follow interesting people like Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution) and you'll get some of the best book recommendations around. Book event? Can be done via video conference.

All that's left is the physical environment, and now that's gone too.
Let’s be clear it wasn’t just Trump saying you don’t need masks. Everyone, Democrats and Republicans, both politicians and private individuals, were amplifying the same obvious lies. Why people didn’t trust their own common sense and reality around them is beyond me.
Many were probably running ok in steady state but will die due to all their customers vanishing (For endogenous reasons) unless something happens. And their employees will all become unemployed.

It’s the ultimate in liquidity shocks and is an otherwise uninsurable risk excerpt if the whole economynis used in an attempt to fight it. If I took your attitude where should people live: not in California where earthquakes are more likely than the average, nor the Midwest where tornadoes are, nor near an ocean where storms could happen, nor mountains where landslides can happen.
PostgreSQL's Imperfections
Is that not what libraries are for?
> list out some of the easier tasks that you have on your to-do list

I think that's a good idea. Maybe the next steps for finding contributors, isn't to find a place on the Internet where many want-to-be-contibutor-to-something hangs out, but instead have better docs and to-do lists for those who find their way to Talkyard already somehow.

> bringing in other devs is a huge step

I think the first contribution tasks would be to just find out where they get stuck, when they try to get something done. And then I'll remove such "roadblocks" one at a time, until people can actually get things done. — Maybe this means many small steps :- )
New Life or Just a Hoax
I, joe solares castaneda Jr. Have discovered something. Well, how can I put this. I ife exists in other light spectrums. How do you see past ultraviolet? I know how?
If some random Russian dude shows up and offers to pay $100k to crack something with untraceable digital currency inside, don't you worry about getting killed if you fail to do it? Maybe I watch too much TV.
To be honest, Amazon shipping works because it's a monopoly. They don't care how much you buy, it's almost the same for the company, they have to hire the same amount of staff, and same paid hours, at least in urban area. But for any independent store, they have to negotiate a rate with a shipper, which would charge a flat base rate, and overweight if there are any. So it can be difficult for them to offer quality and fast shipping in terms of cost. In a way, they are less efficient than Amazon.
Trump administration cut pandemic early warning program in September
I think this is going to be a "thing" in future books. A massive blunder on a historical scale that gets talked about over and over as a "what the fuck were they thinking?" moment. Maybe even worse than "Saddam has WMDs" if empirical evidence can show how many deaths it caused.

It may take some time, but I think people will be held accountable. I think there should be prosecutions if it can be shown any of them knowingly lied, because in that case they would have intentionally caused deaths through the spreading of disinformation. Incredible that experts had to combat deadly disinformation or misinformation from the CDC, WHO, and US Surgeon General. It's as sickening as COVID-19 itself. We're really still living in the Dark Ages.
Just a pet-peeve here: I am well aware if the CCP and how they run things in China as well as their hostilities against the west. But sending traffic or anything to or through China in itself is not a security risk. If the data goes through the US and you are european, whatever protocol weakness exists should also worry you because of possible network and server-side adversaries in the US.

"China" is a threat not a vulnerability is all I meant, and using it for hype-training seems dishonest.

I've had meetings with people in different companies using webex,goto meeting,skype , zoom,teams and hangouts. I found hangouts to be the most worrysome with regards to privacy (not security). A lot of the issues that keep popping up about zoom this week might also apply to the others (looking at you webex!).

Zoom became popular because you can see everyone's video all at once. They had a betterr product. Vulnerabilities don't make a product bad, how you handle them does! If anything, I would like someone to show me how the free security audit zoom received by the hype crowd this week does not make it a superior alternative (provided they continue patching it).
Isn't "MFi" just their brand for licensed accessories?
No, their argument is that if you have a higher entropy per byte, there will be more variation in the aligned 16-byte chunks that are relevant for attacking AES-128-ECB. This reduces the probability of the attacker being able to find equal blocks.
Am I the only one who reflexively eye-rolls when people in the startup world co-opt military jargon?
Sure, but there's also a bunch of wire fraud chasing people going through the process. It's scary.
How do multiple processes usually 'share' a timer?
Why is the Apple Calendar so broken?
Matt Parker looks at some odd behavior of the iOS Calendar app on his standupmaths YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER1a6jgW1Gs
I have 30 or so surgical masks that I bought in early January (I read the news), but now that consumers can't access those supply chains, I'm afraid to donate extras.
> Clojurescript is one of the most stable and better choices for writing production-ready web-apps.

Why? TypeScript, for example, is used pretty much everywhere these days; all the other languages are completely niche. I dislike the language (mutability everywhere, no standard lib), but it's dominating the frontend world ATM.

I've been using Scala.js in production apps for around 3 years now. Curious in your experience what advantages Clojurescript has over Scala.js. I ask because you often hear things like "best in class" when Clojure devs talk about the frontend development experience.
"According to Dr. Struck, chariot racer from Ancient Rome named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, amassed a fortune of 35,863,120 sesterces – the equivalent of $15 billion."
...
“His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period – enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fifth of a year”
This was a really interesting article, and I learned a lot. I'm very much lacking in chip/assembly level knowledge, and this helped me to understand a little bit more. Thank you, Lochsh, for writing it!
Henry Kissinger: The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order
This feels directly contradictory to every story out right now. Are you sure you have the right?
by either having the timer fire regularly and have run code to figure out what needs to be done now, or having code to set it to the time to the next needed interrupt
The "industry" has had many years to grow, and what I see recently is the same as what I saw years ago: DKIM spam and redirect filter bypasses for long-defunct versions of Firefox.

I am not aware of any shift in the perception of bounty submission quality, where people in the field are now saying "huh, suddenly the bounty inbounds we're getting tend to be legitimate and interesting". If that were happening, it would be newsworthy.
Disney Shifts Entire Release Schedule, Including Marvel Films, Mulan, and More
The STM32 USB libraries are provided under the oddly named "Ultimate Liberty License" [1], which is actually incredibly restrictive -- it requires the code to only be used on ST hardware, and prohibits it from being used "in any manner that would subject this software to any Open Source Terms".

[1]: http://www.st.com/SLA0044
yes it can. in fact it can be faster due to the fact it isn't single threaded. learn about table spaces and RAM disks.
https://www.cato.org/blog/against-noble-lie-covid-19-edition

"Research shows that during disasters, people can show strikingly altruistic behavior, but interventions by authorities can backfire if they fuel mistrust or treat the public as an adversary rather than people who will step up if treated with respect. Given that even homemade masks may work better than no masks, wearing them might be something to direct people to do while they stay at home more, as we all should."
What would the legal issue be, exactly? Twitter is the one deciding to code against chrome’s features, not google.
It's blindingly obvious. We've known that people with only subclinical symptoms (such as cough) spread this since very early on. People were told to cough into their elbow. We also know that almost nobody coughs into their elbow, even some public health officials have been caught on camera at press conferences coughing into their hands[1]. A cloth mask is surely better than coughing into your hand or worse into the open air.

[1] see this video https://news.sky.com/video/coronavirus-medical-officer-cough...
What if I care specficially not to add a dark mode?
Guaranteed Income is raising the sea level of capitalism so that people start from $1000/mo. instead of $0/mo. That's not SS, that's changing the ambient conditions of capitalism.
Having worked in startups for most of my career, I see a lot of engineers who yo-yo between high paid, boring jobs in FAANG-esque companies and burnout-inducing early stage gigs.
I suspect they didn't test for it at all, noticed later or got a report, and then checked which browsers are affected.
"If (hypothetically, somehow) ads were outlawed from existence tomorrow, a thriving industry of independent reviewers would instantly pop up to serve the need of product discovery."

By "independent reviewers", you mean bought youtube influencers, right? Because that's what's often happening in industries where external reviews plays a big role.
New Life or Just a Hoax
You get to the edge. The horizon of photons and push yourself off with Gravity.
Super off topic, but why does this site look like its from the 90s?
I have for years thought of SpaceX as my sports team to cheer for. I get just as excited watching their launch livestreams as many get watching football games.
> ECB reveals repeating plaintext blocks.

That by definition is saying any pattern in plaintext shows up in cipher text
I'm guessing they're doing this in states that are not on lockdown.
How William F. Buckley Jr. Tore Down Summer of Love Liberalisms (2017)
There's not going to be a good plan. The good plan set sail in early January when we didn't consider SARS-CoV-2 a serious concern. So now we're choosing between flattening the curve to mitigate the overall death toll, or ignoring the moral cost and having 2.5m Americans die. I'm pretty sure where I stand on this.

And a vaccine won't be ready in 6 months. 12-18 is more like it, though we might be lucky and stumble upon a treatment to the disease itself.
Do you have solid data sources for this?
FourSquare anonymized “location trails data”
Wikipedia [1] has a more sober figure than the $15 billion claimed from the featured article, which is far below the wealth of modern athletes:

> In equivalent basic good purchasing power, Diocles' wealth would be between approximately $60 million and $160 million.

This appears to be supported by the table at the bottom of this page [2], which claims that a seaside villa in Naples cost about 3mil sesterces/sestertii. That makes the featured article's claim that 35mil sestertii is $15 billion questionable. Adjusting using seaside villa prices, 35mil sestertii (Diocles' wealth) is more like $7mil.

The $15bil figure appears to come from the "enough to pay the whole army for 1/5 of a year" stat multiplied by the modern-day USA figure [3] (by the way, [3] appears to be the source for much of the featured article).

As far as the "enough to pay the whole army for a few months" stat goes, the most common figure I can find for "annual pay for a legionary" during Diocles' life is 1200 sestertii, or 240 for 1/5 of a year [4]. 36mil/240 is 150,000, which does sound like a plausible (even high) number for the size of the Roman army. On the other hand, [2] claims that 1200 sestertii buys about 100 lbs of pork, so that means a soldier could expect to get paid about 1 Roman pig per year?

Cross-era price comparisons are hard!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Appuleius_Diocles

[2] http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~lac61/ASSIGNMENTS/SectionOne/R...

[3] https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/greatest-all-tim...

[4] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40310480
> Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID

A meeting id with a password is semantically the same as a longer meeting id (or a meeting id with a character space larger than just digits). I wish they'd do that instead (make meeting ids longer) so I could continue to enter my company meetings with only a link but not have to worry about getting wardialed.
When comparing across time periods as broad as this, pretty much the only thing that matters is how you compare purchasing power and adjust for inflation. If you compare something that hasn't gotten appreciably cheaper over time - say, gold, or skilled labor - you wind up with an extremely large number. Compare something that has - like grain or clothing - and you wind up with a much more reasonable number. Going based off agriculture, back-of-the-envelope math gives about 400k people in Rome and $1000/yr expenses on staple foods for about $400m, which is significantly less than the probably-gold-based conversion scheme the article's source uses.

And if you want to be really persnickety, no amount of money in Rome would buy antibiotics, televisions, etc, etc.
Probably meant to comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767035
you can put the password in the link.
Shannon's source coding theorn says that the entropy in a compressed information is at most the entropy of the uncompressed information. If you add entropy to a compressed algorithm, you are by definition adding noise to the SNR of a signal.
I joined the coop years ago when I was a student and never sold back my shares.
Lots of people thought it was obvious that sodium intake caused hypertension, or cholesterol intake caused heart disease. Both ideas were since discredited. I am weary about calling anything in science or medicine "obvious", especially in a time of panic like this
It seems like this is just a result of having the team stay home, not a risk specific to self-driving cars. A more accurate headline might be "Waymo employees stay home due to Coronavirus"
Ask HN: How do you deal with bad internet while WFH?
I live in the Seattle area, and unfortunately, this means my home internet has been getting increasingly worse over the past couple of weeks as our neighborhood node has maxed out its capacity. This is already confirmed by our ISP (Comcast) and me to be an issue on their end and not something at our home. They've been unwilling to give me any kind of ETA on when this might be fixed. Only one other ISP serves our neighborhood and it's not feasible to change to them at the moment.

Throughout the working day, I'm stuck at 20-60% packet loss, very low speeds, and high latency. To illustrate, here are two PingPlotter graphs covering roughly the last 20 minutes (red bars are packet loss, y axis is latency):

https://i.imgur.com/HoFRx43.png

https://i.imgur.com/w6BoOO5.png

It looks like that throughout the day, from around 8am to 11pm. Sadly, I'm not able to change my schedule to work midnight hours instead.

I can't stay connected to calls of any kind, can barely use our remote machines, constantly disconnect from anything that streams data real-time, am much less productive on dev work, and generally get upset with my internet countless times per day.

I'm really at a loss here. I'm sure I can't be the only person with really bad internet lately - what are some ways to improve your experience while on terrible internet?
If someone had tried to start my programming journey with Haskell I'd likely have given up and not touched programming ever again.

God forbid that the functional crowd gets their way. Most people are terrible at recursive thinking. That's why those languages have such a reputation for being difficult.

The declarative languages are also a good starting point, but the most used one (SQL or spreadsheets) are somewhat orthogonal to what one tries to do with python.

You need for loops. You need if statements. You can't just hope that they will get recursion.
They should have absolutely added a no-store cache directive. It is crazy that they didn’t and instead just checked if browsers cached it or not. To rely on undocumented behavior when there is a specific documented way to do what you want is just bizarre.
How would rendering the file perform a malicious action?