skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially since NJ has the highest property taxes of any state in the US. $150-180K is a very good salary for where I live (Indiana), but not IMO for NJ:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/property-tax-which-homeowners-a...
is this 1 in 5 in people who are otherwise asymptomatic as well? I guess not, or we would be seeing a lot more dead but I wonder if there are any heart attacks occurring in otherwise asymptomatic people and not being marked down as Covid-19 related.
Since some people are entirely mistaking my point, here some more in-depth thoughts.

We should hold the companies and individuals operating on the internet to the highest standard to prevent such security violations. I am talking about a balance of the barrier here. Guessing meeting IDs is such an obvious and trivial attack vector that it should be expected to be abused.

We look at companies like Facebook and expect them to keep our data safe and if they don't, we hold them accountable even though they are a victim of a crime. Some comment equated that to victim blaming in case of rape and that is just an insane analogy.

Obviously if there is a real world consequence and people having damage they should have the right to get compensated and that is why we expect providers and companies to keep logs, but honestly how do we expect services to develop the highest standard if they can pass the blame to an attacker. At least an equal part if not the majority should be the organization that engineered a vulnerability because in most cases these happen due to improper design. (See programming vs. civil engineering quality discussion)

We are talking about a minor inconvinience through trolling easily fixed by a proper token system on Zoom's end. This is not what the criminal justice system should be prosecuting some teenagers for.
To summarize some important bullet points of the USG's failure:

- FDA blocked hospitals from using their existing equipment to test for the virus with an old regulation that has been sitting on the books for a while.

- FDA blocked Seattle Flu study from testing their flu samples for Coronavirus, which would have A. provided an invaluable measure of the early spread in the Washington crisis, and B. provided us with crucial data about the deadliness of the virus untainted by the "asymptomatic cases aren't tested" issue that still hasn't been perfectly resolved. This would have significantly reduced panic.

- CDC indicated masks didn't help, and the establishment media took that and ran with it. Stigma against mask-wearers, instead of being reduced, was fueled. Fortunately now the error has been realized and people are being advised to cobble together masks from whatever they can find.

There are many other examples of the agencies not doing enough, but those are debatable because you can always argue that the action was impossible for one reason or another. However in these examples it would have been better for the government to do nothing, and you can't claim they lack the ability to do that. The most expensive and capable research/medical apparatus in the world can do little to help when it is being actively hindered.
Does it make sense to wear masks in the outside though? suppose I have a limited number of masks, should I keep them for indoor public spaces, such as public transportation or doctor's waiting room?
I tried learning Coq through the Software Foundations track a couple times and enjoyed what I did learn, but bounced off. If Coq made something similar to the Natural Number Game [0] I'd love to give it a go and see the differences!

[0] https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_gam...
That implies a low heart rate causing death, correct?

If so, this would be an easy hypothesis to test based on heart rate.

But also, do the rats in voodoo death have heart damage? These covid patients do. If the rats don’t, then you’re quite off track.
It's an aggregate of the months you're selecting (2019/04 - 2020/03). If you select just March you can see what they're seeing:

https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...
To be clear, that isn't something in all of AU, it's a local law in Tasmania: "The regulation was introduced to the Tasmanian Traffic Regulations in November 2009". And I'm not positive about the German article, but it seems to imply that's a local Munich ordnance.

Oh, and none of this contradicts the main point, which is that nothing in those articles suggests that robbing an unlocked car is legal.

EDIT: though interestingly, at least in some municipalities breaking into an unlocked car may be a lesser crime than forcibly breaking into a locked car. Still a crime, but basically you're charged simply with stealing rather than some sort of breaking and entering.
Germany, desktop, statcounter: chrome 44.65%, ff 25.5%, safari 8.8% and edge just below it (can't get it to show the exact number on mobile). and fwiw, I think new Firefox installs since last year block most of those trackers by default
Isn't tied to the size of the 'public' (crowd)?

Too few members in the crowd, and the probability for one to understand and explain to others remains too low.

Too many of them and the Big Chiefs control the media, and also live so high in the Sky nobody seems credible when it comes to criticize, moreover all non-official messages are diluted into other ones to the point of many being not even emitted because the ones understanding the situation know that they will not be heard.
It's omitted from this article, but they also banned Google Classroom at the same time, so I'd give this more credence than I usually would...
Thanks for the tip. I gave the "Scraper" extension a try, and 1) I got an error, 2) it only seems to scrape 1 page -- it doesn't paginate (or, did I miss something?).

I used the jQuery selector `a.storylink`.
so if it impedes red blood cells does this mean my gout is helping me out?
As many I experiment the same with some projects.
Though I've been working on a side project for 7 years now!

The difference? It's purposeful to me and a long challenge for be and the foundation that needs it.
Because people depend on the work I do, I must do it.
Because these people can't do it, I must do it.
Because the purpose they serve is something that means a lot to me too, I want to do it.
Politicians are elected based not skill but marketing. The hardest job for them is to win elections and then they use connections to make money. At least in eastern eu.
If politicians would need to be tested and can be easily fired maybe they can do smth. But in todays system it's nearly impossible.
Legislative and government funding response to COVID-19
Jamie Dimon's Letter to Shareholders
(I'm from Hasura)

Hasura connects to a read replicas and manages connection pooling across the database cluster.

Hasura itself is stateless so it doesn't do the database replication.
Biggest change will be the loss of small businesses, even more vacant storefronts.

If there is an exodus, it will be of blue collar workers to states like Pennsylvania.
If people have to create an account to leave feedback for a company I see that as a big obstacle. Is that the case?
Definitely blog post worthy. Thanks for sharing.

I've noticed similar triggers and hooks and such with myself as a fellow introspective individual.

I suspect some of this is related to the dopamine hits that come from easy/early successes in things. It's why I've noticed when I get run down, the only games that really appeal to me are idle clickers because they are essentially just dopamine buttons with a front end.

I think you're on the right track with first identifying these things and then figuring out how to harness them. In essence, you have to understand an API's inputs and outputs before you start calling it, and that's what you seem to be describing by thinking of yourself as a framework.
This is very similar to the caller-id problem that plagues telephones. Our networks were built for trust that no longer exists. Our protocols need to catch up with the times.
Didn't read the article, but would like to add that there are already programs used and loved by many people, which are using a programming language for configuration. I know just the following, but there are probably many more:

- Emacs which uses elisp an embedded Lisp interpreter to configure but as well to implement new functionality.

- XMonad, a tiling Windows Manager written in Haskell and it is configured inside the program itself, i.e. you edit the main program.

- Guix package manager (and GuixSD, the distribution) that uses Guile (a scheme) to describe the programs to be installed and their configuration. This case is interesting because Guix is using the same concept/functionality to manage the package dependencies which they took from the Nix package manager, but in contrary to Nix decided to use the general purpose scheme programming language instead of a special configuration language.
In my side projects I always keep todo.txt. There's a line for each thing I need to do, in order. Putting new things in that file and removing ones that get done becomes a kind of game. Try that on whichever idea you find yourself coming back to again and again.
Preprint: ACE2 variants underlie variability and susceptibility to Covid-19
The problem is, you have to get the politicians to agree to the same policies so that the code works for both states. Politicians don't like to be told "You have to do it this way because of the computer system". Politicians want to decide the rules, then make everyone follow them. They don't follow rules themselves.
>An alternative setup for a web IDE for vim or emacs users would be, in my opinion, an in-browser terminal hosted somewhere that gives you secure authentication and access to your server. A big plus is to implement it in such a way that the machine will turn on automatically when you access your site-terminal, and auto shutdown if it remains idle for a period of time.

You basically just described cloud console in GCP. It's pretty slick.

I wouldn't use it as an all-day IDE, but it's more-or-less what you just described.
Bugs and Battleships (2011)
Under Discussion: The Evolution of Swift
I don't want more internet standards or faster pace.
As someone who thinker with Text to Speech (TTS), I can say this apply to TTS as well. Good model such as Tacotron2 rarely scale beyond clean ( good text and speech alignmen ) large ( > 12 hours ) datasets.
Side effect from all the Windows VM's spun up by IT departments trying to lift and shift into the cloud ASAP due to COVID?
Covid-19 Tracker USA, India and Global State Wise Data
I just had a family friend die of a heart attack with no covid symptoms - definitely a scary time
It shows the acknowledged state of the art and thus offers an alternative for people who do not always want to start from scratch. I am well aware that there is a generation that questions everything (because they like to do so or because they simply do not know the state of the art, e.g. because it was not covered in their bachelor studies).
Free market solutions break down when demand AND SUPPLY are BOTH inelastic, and that's only if you count 'price goes up' as market failure. Think of it this way - the demand for food is inelastic. Does this mean free market solutions for food have broken down?

Governments preventing price increases just means that supply doesn't increase nearly as quickly as it would otherwise.
I'll be interested to see how well they can scale this up. Production functions are always dependent on the most scare component. Hopefully Tesla can leverage their already existing supplier base to easily source everything needed for this design.
A Fast Web Is Achievable
probably the same thing it looked like after SARS, h1n1, and ebola, and all of the great pandemics a little further in the past.

which is to say we were already living in that time. its not that people forget, its that no one wants to remember. things are the way they are wanted to be. this is what we want.

coronavirus was dangerous in 2019, and still no one cared. our worldwide risk vs reward function appears to have a time window of about 3 days.
Videos are easier and more entertaining to consume than text for most people. The audience of a text post like this is mostly hacker types; if turned into a video that’s as much about the entertainment value as the nitty gritty, your audience now becomes 99% bored tech enthusiasts and 1% hackers, and you could plausibly go from a few thousand reads to your article to a few hundreds of thousands views for your video as on top of that, the YouTube platform itself acts as a reach multiplier.

So yes, if your goal is to make money/get an audience rather than purely documenting (nothing wrong with that), you’re much better off making a 10 minute YouTube video than writing a 5 page article.
Ah, thank you. I wish they included the URL, or shown the entire filter they used.
> They spend insane amounts of attention and manpower on the fine details.

no, they do not. they do on a very focused subset of what they feel the details should be, but they do not broadly apply this attention to fine detail across the entirety of a game. there are always very harsh transitions from "wow, look at this detail" to "what, how did this even make it into the game?" that really stand out.

there is something with every game beyond being considered a feature request that can only be attributed to either laziness or stubbornness or both.
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. We have the privilege of working in an industry in which we can gain experience in nearly any sub-field using online resources. If you were laid off from your $oldTech job, there are dozens of $newTech that can be learned in your newly-found free time for next to no cost.
Sharing Love from One Another
Help spread the positivity
https://youtu.be/aL1D8egac2k
Could you say more about how you work? I know C (very well) and the principles of synthesis (very well), but I'm trying to get my head around the idea that you find it easier to . . . implement your own DSP algorithms from the ground up than using tools like sc?

It took me many years to learn how to get the "sound in my head" programmed into a synthesizer. You do this with the fast fourier transform? Huh?
Extremely curious the outcome... I hope they can get some folks in the medical field to provide quickly some feedback.
While Vipps works well today, compared to MPESA it was developed when the market had already matured and you could rely on every user owning a smartphone. Telenor and DNB actually tried to release something similar to MPESA years before, but since the application had to be installed on the SIM card you had to be both a DNB and Telenor customer [1].

Vipps is not decoupled today, but has been merged with the e-identity (BankID) and e-invoicing (eFaktura) to form a monopoly behemoth owned by most banks in Norway with DNB as the largest non-majority owner.

[1] Source in Norwegian: https://www.digi.no/artikler/telenor-og-dnb-gir-opp-valyou/3...
They are not bad, they are just rascals. Must we live in a binary world? The kids are going to do this, implement some good moderator tools for the host of these meetings so they can ban ips, disable features. Those moderating feature literally exist because this is the reality of trolling since the beginning of time.

We’re a community of mostly professional tech workers, and even we need shit to downvote and flag stuff.
Back in the 90's, nobody did LOAs. I remember reading prefixes over the phone to a guy at InternetMCI when I was moving an ISP from a 56K line to a T1. Fun times!
This article is about desktop browsers.
Cassette Player Reinvented
> The root of the problem is supply, so stop the government intervention and you pay more money for the same problems.

The company in the article is closed on nights and weekends. Don't you think there's a price at which they'd stay open, thus increasing supply?
Animal Crossing: fish and insects tracker
Nothing resembles this. We haven't had nationwide lockdown in a century. We haven't had folks hanging on published death count; wearing masks in public.

Being negative for the sake of it, is adding nothing to the discussion.
I recently read Angela Duckworth's "Grit" and from reading this, suspect you might derive some value from it.
Zoom's inaction here seems to better fit the concept of an attractive nuisance than a crime.
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....

This is why
This appears to be related: https://twitter.com/InternetIntel/status/1247100092575813635

https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/accidenta...

Last week a large BGP routing leak (>20k prefixes) occurred in Russia briefly impacted internet traffic around the world.

See the interactive 3D visualization of the incident here: https://map.internetintel.oracle.com/leaks#/id/20764_12389_1...
I’m the opposite. I love to work on side projects, often getting carried away for several weeks/months until I finish them.

Once they are “complete”, I’m loosing interest and get carried away on other things, often times I don’t even publish them anywhere.

If someone wants to team up on this, let’s chat.
Vue Auth Version 3 Released
Learning 3D modeling in blender through videos from Grant Abbitt on YouTube. No idea what I'm going to do with that skill, it's just something I've always wanted to learn since Halo: Custom Edition came out on PC.
Isn't violating zoning laws for profit kind of the fundament upon which AirBnb was built?

Last time I checked, there were still many clearly touristic offerings in what should have been purely residential areas.
I am very into this. Did anyone ever come up with an API style interface to control what gets pushed to one of these?
I just don't think you are seriously asking for information, because there is shitload on the Web already, but rather mocking me (judging by your one-worded response, which is rude). But in case I'm wrong, here's a nice collection of links to begin with, updated daily: https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/ Scroll to the bottom for most recent updates.
> find one or two interesting projects that are diverse enough to be a platform for experimentation

This seems promising, thank you!

Just a question: don't you risk to get stuck in a perpetual refactoring/rewrite cycle?

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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22793658
Preparedness Movement
They only need a couple dozen well-publicized arrests and prosecutions to deter 99% of the trend.
This will probably be the only Teenage Engineering device I can afford.

I just need to find a store that carries them.
If we can verify that (I really hope so) it would be great news. Because the tests would be much simpler, and maybe costs and duration would become 1/10 of what they are today or even much less. The double-blind requirements are really a pain.
> “If you are no longer interested in a project you started, maybe you already got what you came for”.

That's definitely the case with many of my unfinished projects. My "operating system" is a good example. I have an OS written completely from scratch for RPi3 that can run concurrent processes (and pretty much nothing else). I started to look into using the MMU but quickly realised that it's very hard and I'm not really that interested in it right now. All I really wanted to know was how to write an operating system. Now I know, but I'll almost certainly never actually write a proper one.
Or society can learn that a 12yo has a very poor judgement and treat seriously the thing that actually matters - that most people have no knowledge or common sense with regards to security. If a 12yo can distrupt your corporate meeting, then IMHO the problem is not that underage kids are prone to stupid pranks. This is nothing else than an outlash by people who feel humiliated. Maybe, just maybe, they should feels stupid for a bit.
Thanks for the reply. Also, when I run in an microservice architecture, how does hasura handles say for example websocket across the services? Do we need to depend on any other library?

Can you share some samples for these things if available. I will be glad to look at it.
I had a friend living out of AirBnB's for half a year due to laying low from an insane ex-girlfriend who stalked him virtually and physically and caused chaos around him. I could see how some people might be actually living via Airbnb and therefore entirely reliant on it given the circumstances.
That insight happened 30 years ago. Nintendo's best selling consoles and games have always been portable systems.
The main real advantage for me are linked records, which allows you to keep your data normalized. Let's say you have a data model with 10 tables that have foreign keys among each other. For users it will be easier and less error-prone to link records using the Airtable UI rather than Google Sheets.

You could do this with a "out-of-the-box" CRUD app in RoR or Django, but Airtable gives a ton of more flexibility and quick iteration if you data model is changing or adapting.

It does have plenty of drawbacks so I wouldn't use it for every project.
What "proven risk" is that?
> I'm curious what distinguishes those kids who can vs. can't resist that urge.

Friends pushing (or being in awe of) it
Seems a bit early for weird dystopian fantasies about populations segregated by covid-19 immunity status. Suggest the author go read Poe's Masque of the Red Death[1].

NYC will change and adapt. But from the perspective of someone living hear stuck in my apartment for the last few weeks, I wouldn't predict a mass exodus of older new yorkers. They are a pretty stubborn lot who live here for a reason. Maybe if we get recurring waves of large scale infections they would leave, but at that point, so would most people who could.

I would predict more wealthy families with school age children who have been considering the suburbs will likely leave, but a percentage of them leave every year.

I think one of the more likely and immediate impacts will be closings (as in going out of business) of many restaurants, delis, and bars and financial hardship for everyone who worked for them.

I got a request from a local restaurant I've been to exactly one time to donate to a GoFundMe to save the restaurant. I'm not sure what to say about that... Doesn't feel like a reasonable 'ask' to me. The place is good, but not sure my current priority for charitable donations should be a 30 seat restaurant with $35 entrees.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1064/1064-h/1064-h.htm
What's unsensible or civically irresponsible about moving yourself and your family to a more sparsely populated location or increasing interpersonal distance within your own household ?
Is this like the kid-size submarine or does it have a chance of being mass-produced?
Everybody 'operates on the internet'. We're going to hold everybody to the highest standards of security?

This is silly. There's already plenty of law around contract damages etc. Is there any need to rail about this example, and propose new rules?

If you can show monetary losses due to using Zoom, go ahead and sue. Using a free account? Then there's no contract between you and Zoom - has to be 'value received' to have a contract, and you didn't pay them anything.

Since there are and have been alternative to Zoom for a decade, it's hard to make this some national priority.
Right, it all falls apart otherwise.
For more background info on what is needed for a ventilator and why it isn't that simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779665
That's a pretty silly concern when photos and videos of the same children are spread across Facebook and other platforms willy nilly.
According to Wikipedia’s traffic analytics, Firefox has 13% and Edge has 5% on desktop.

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
Edge is packaged with Windows.

Chrome used Trojan horse tactics to get into the computers. Back in the 2010s when it just appeared, almost any popular freeware installer got sneaky "Also install Google Chrome and make it the default browser" checkbox.

So, underhanded tactics are extremely efficient. Therefore, I expect that Firefox will keep losing shares. Making a better browser won't help them.