skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We created free public libraries so that people could consume as much culture as they want for free.

Virtually every country in the world except for the USA pays authors for library lending.
Why are people downvoting this? It's the real danger of finding a rain forrest beneath antarctica. Of course the oil companies already know about it.

Maybe we're too cynical but money runs the world and money will eventually bypass all environmental protections and start drilling antarctica unless we switch to more reusable energy before that.
Well... That sounds testable.

Use 10 people who have chronic pain who report pain relief with hands-on reiki.

As for the test: Hands-off reiki vs hands-off no reiki (person who isn't trained in reiki present) vs nothing

We should see significant reporting of gains with the hands-off reiki, and should see no gains with #2 or #3...

Just because we can't see this assumed energy doesn't mean we can't measure it somehow.
A great book on applying Boyd's ideas to business is Certain to Win by Chet Richards.
I saw somewhere a spreadsheet that keeps track of Musk's promised and real timelines.

Musk seems to be off by 1.8 on average.

1.8 is also one Mars year in Earth years. Coincidence?
How few questions can I answer on the 2020 census?
That assumes that in 100 years optimality of response will be defined as fewest possible deaths in this outbreak?

(I am not saying that is not going to be true, but if the virus doesn't get effectively eradicated then it may well not end up being so? Not An Expert At All, just spitballing)
> Zoom already has all the necessary tools to prevent it

How about:

- A good UI which encourages users to do the correct thing
- Systems to detect and block war dialers
“Restoration Agriculture” by Mark Shepard is a great book. It’s about his project, “New Forest Farm”, and is heavily influenced by Permaculture. He pulls from a lot of references like “One Straw Revolution”, etc, with a heavy focus on agroforestry (where tree crops and more traditional crops are grown in a mixed system).

“The Resilient Farm and Homestead”, by Ben Falk is another great one — full of illustrations and practical ideas (like using a compost pile to power a radiant heat system.)
The security benefit here is that software has no access to this hardware switch.
I've used the Plantower PMS7003 sensors for some DIY particulate sensors. I don't have a lab reference to calibrate against, but they should be pretty accurate as they are a laser sensor and the readings I got out of them were very sensible and consistent. Plus they include a tiny fan, which is important to get good readings. They are easy to use as well, it's just a simple UART digital interface. I also experimented with the cheaper Sharp IR dust sensors, but these were much less stable and also require constant calibration; they were ok for doing simple relative readings but they were clearly very inaccurate and unstable.

Sensing VOC's accurately is really difficult because most sensors have radically different (orders of magnitude) sensitivities to multiple compounds but can't actually distinguish between them. The readings typically get heavily skewed by the presence of minute amounts of some compound the sensor is very sensitive to. I tried several sensors and the best I could get out of them was a relative "good / bad" reading.
I am extremely familiar on the law in this case and have worked with some of the world's biggest arts organisations on release of archives into the public domain, with considerably larger budgets than the IA.

Lots and lots of exceptionally large and powerful long running organisations have done very stupid things.
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Tooled Up. A brief history of SaaS tools we’ve loved (and lost)
SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype fails under pressure testing
> But does anything in this article really count as programming language theory?

It's a casual magazine - give it a break.

> I’ve been put off designing a programming language, even a dynamically-typed scripting language, because I’m just not that interested in PLT.

Many (most) successful languages were designed by people who either don't know anything about theory, or who do but don't chose to employ it. It doesn't seem to be a showstopper in practice.
They're comparing babesiosis to malaria, not Lyme.

A lot of the "Lyme-literate" discussion (from a layperson's perspective) talks about: 1) tick-borne coinfections like Babesia, 2) Borrelia "hiding out" in parts of the body where antibiotics don't circulate easily like nerve tissue.

I don't typically see either point addressed in these kinds of discussions. Is the 2nd one even plausible biologically?
Remember when Solyndra stole $700 million dollars from the taxpayers by accepting a loan/grant from the Obama administration, then paid out a shit ton of bonuses to execs, then killed everyones accounts one night and people just showed up to work the next day to find the doors lock and all their accounts disabled?

The CIO took multiple ~$75,000 bonus days and weeks before the closure.

The IT manager got a ~$25,000 bonus days before locking all accounts and killing exchange.
Running NoScript, and had no problems reading without logging in
You would be surprised how much you of what you see around you, you internalize.

The message sticks with you. Look at me. It has been years now and I just remember the message despite not remembering the exact words.

Just for that reason alone I was surprised/grateful, I did not see that great a push from ad industry to use memes yet. There are clearly some thinly disguised ads, but the various communities tends to weed them out fast.
I can understand your preference, but the prevailing aesthetic seems to be going in the direction of completely removing physical controls. To be perfectly frank, seeing earlier-than-current iPads and iPhones with physical home buttons strikes me as kind of quaint. I greatly prefer the entirely software-defined interface of the latest devices.

I suppose I can trace that preference all the way back to being fascinated with the Star Trek: The Next Generation LCARS (Library Computer Access & Retrieval System), which (to quote the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual written by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach from teenage memory) was “expressly designed to suggest a highly simplified manner of managing vastly complicated processes” or some such.

If you really want to be sure it isn’t listening to you you can turn it off and/or leave it in another room.
I'm in quite the same boat. Heavily affected area. My whole family was sick in the period around the first notified case in the country. All the typical symptoms, but no-one severe. My wife still hardly smells.

... and still. I think it's a social psychology phenomenon. If I talk to our baker, her family has the same story. Friends as well. We all might like to believe we've had it and so we lightly skew the facts to fit our perception and hope. What I know as a fact (data released today) is that mortality was not rising in my region until two weeks after 'patient zero'. In our case three weeks after the first ill kid.

Occam's razor: It would be very hard to imagine wide-spread asymptomatic cases without symptomatic cases and deaths. No deaths means no spread. So we had something else.
In Akamai the mantra is - Stabilize, Adapt, Emerge
Anyone else wonder what kind of horrors are currently frozen down there. I’m thinking smallpox and other problems we believed were gone for good.
And they will start backing up anything and everything they can to take with them.
Too bad they used such a gross clickbait headline
nobody said masks don't work - the article doesn't contradict the fact that masks don't protect you very good against other infected people next to you. This article just repeats that it's known that masks help to prevent spreading of the disease if you have symptions and need to go outside. At least here in Germany nobody ever spoke out against that.
I am guessing they need bigger buffer to would clear it out and some good GPS and timestamps database integrations to clear the alt and speed data. A sensor should only look at data from the past week and not calculate from 49 days in the past. What use would pilot have other than for service and maintainence.
Coincidence?

Yes.
It mades me laughed.
Thanks for the suggestion! Seems like pdftk is quite outdated and doesn't work on latest OSx, so I'm going to explore other options for now
But Jitsi is open source and you can self-host it. Then there's no third party in a hostile country controlling anything.
An idea of a title for a new book on group theory: Crystal Math.
WHO said masks don't work
Stepper motor: working, construction, types and driving methods
Does it need more bandwidth or more server resources (or both?)
Im surprised PG isnt taking over PHP instead Maria is. wth
It's especially awful when it's a company that pushed some agenda about integrity, loyalty, etc.
Will truly only find out when random antibody tests are done in the population. I personally doubt it was already widely spread before as otherwise

1. the number of people dying from respiratory problems would have spiked up specially among the older population

2. The number of people each infected person infects that he knows points to the virus not having passed through the population before
As others have noted, there's little to no Lyme disease in the Ozarks currently (https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html). The other thing is removing the ticks daily; ticks need to be attached for usually around 36 hours before the Lyme bacteria move from the hindgut to the mouth, so if you're doing a daily tick check then you're good (from a Lyme disease perspective).
The Uber cowboys are really a cancer for this industry
I've been using zinc suckies as a form of prophylaxis against respiratory viruses for a while now. There's actually some research that suggests it's effective at preventing cold virus particles from attaching to and invading the throat, so it doesn't surprise me that it would also be effective against COVID-19 (which is kind of a super-Saiyan cold virus).
Ubuntu 20.04 beta is out
It's called ThinkShutter and it physically covers the camera lens.
Ok say that is true...do you know:

1. Are unemployment employment benefits only extended to those who have already themselves paid a certain amount in UI taxes AND that amount is the extent of the benefits available to them?

2. If the answer above is no - do you know what % of end up receiving more money in unemployment benefits than they have 'pre-paid' or will 'reimburse' thus a net cost to the system over the course of their living/working lives?

3. What happens to the unemployment taxes paid by people who choose not/never to file for unemployment benefits, even when unemployed? Do those individuals ever get their money back?

4. This line of questioning leads me to wonder why in the US is UI/UB not just directly linked to each individual?
Leave it to the English to consider ways to get even less sunlight.
Thanks for the comment.

...yeah. All this also reminded me of the story when he gave lectures on category theory in the forests near Hanoi when it was being bombed...
People don’t buy specs, they buy experiences. If the Android has 12GB ram and some super fast processor, but runs in a GC’d runtime that stutters when collecting and unloads background apps with high frequency, it’s not actually better than whatever’s in the iPhone.

Plenty of videos out there comparing opening a bunch of apps in a cycle on iPhone vs Android. Android wins the first open, iPhone destroys on the second. (iPhone is able to keep all apps in suspense, whereas android unloads them)
Reddit's /r/spacex is probably the most informative place about SpaceX and what they're doing.

A good example, here's their info on Starship prototypes: https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/starships
Grothendieck's relative point of view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%27s_relative_poin...
The world has gone mad if a scooter renting company(!) is valued very comparably to Lufthansa.
Yes I can’t stand the 3D animated anime. In fact I wish it had a different name altogether. I was super disappointed when I saw the new Altered Carbon anime was 3D
Everybody is not acting like that. I meant help in any way that would benefit everyone.
potentially stupid question - why do the residential increases seem relatively low compared to the decreases in other locations?
What else might 'optimal' be?
If anyone is interested in a free psychological support program during the coronavirus lockdown:

- Download the app 'Mindspa': http://onelink.to/7w9cpv

- Search the course 'Plaid' and unlock it with code: NIKA-BOOK-TOUR
I'm sure the night crew welders, operators and techs are top notch. Engineers, designers and managers who depend much more on communications and collaboration? They tend to cluster.
> When an immuno-suppresive is effective at reducing symptoms you know it's an autoimmune disorder.

Aren't there diseases where someone are caused not by the microbe directly but by the body's immune reaction to it?

> Out of curiosity, do you have any formal training on medicine/physiology or is your knowledge base self-aquired?

Argument from authority (or lack thereof) is pretty contrary to the HN ethos, imo. You're not right because your degree says so, but because the facts do.
Ask HN: How to efficiently learn Algorithms from scratch?
Knowing what you know now, how would you go about learning Data Structures and algos from scratch on your own?
There's a history[0] of UK gov pushing through Chinese tech, despite security concerns. Why stop now...

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51806704
I personally don't think laying people off during a zoom meeting is that bad in itself; like, there are limited other options and all of them could go horribly wrong in their own way. I think that it's really the execution issues that has gotten Bird all the negative press.
U.S. and Europe Look to Track People to Halt Spread of Coronavirus
I started a repo [1] that parses the data. PRs welcome.

[1] https://gitlab.com/pisquared/scrape_google_mobility
Since apparently someone else posted their launch here, I guess I will too lol. This thread is really interesting :).

I'm launching www.devol.io -> a social community for coders. The user base is quite small but I hope we can build it and grow it into something cool!
as opposed to....what? You're going to have that response regardless of how you handle it. At least by being open and transparent about it, your employees can take some solace in the fact that they can actually trust their employer.

All the reactions you described would happen no matter what type of delivery mechanism the company uses, and it is very likely that the response will be worse if you aren't up-front and honest about it.

If I was working at Bird right now, I'd be brushing up my resume and jumping ship at the first opportunity available, since they clearly don't care about their employees' peace of mind.
The StarCraft Human 'N' AI League in open beta – play vs. custom AI by hobbyists
There is a basic information problem, where good people have it and bad people don't. You don't need cryptographicaly strong approaches, you just need speed bumps that impose costs on specific classes of attacker that disrupts their economy of scale. It's not a secrecy solution, it's an economic nudge.

Then there are ones with vs. without user interaction.

Without user interaction:

- rate limit join attempts so that you at minimum need proxies or a botnet to guess room names.

- do a simple entropy measurement of multiple attempts and rate limit anything that exhibits symmetry or monotonicity.

- add a "correct battery horse staple" style key to the url instead of or in addition to the 9 digit pin so the link is not easily guessable, but still has the mnemonic quality for people entering it manually.

- static personal room ID's only work with a passwd/token (not pin) whereas ephemeral ones can be chosen from a much larger search space. (yes, just add entropy)

- free sessions limited to 40mins or whatever should select from a name space large enough it will take a botnet to hit even one ephemeral session in the 40min timeframe.

- separate the invite link from the login link so that session owners can specify that the user needs to click from their email invite so it gets bound to the browser, and you zoom can set a token before redirecting them to the live session.

with user interaction:

- Obvious one would be a user PIN for ephemeral room IDs.

- Next obvious would be to choose a real security protocol and key management scheme (http://www.lsv.fr/Software/spore/index.html)

Rest of user interactive ones is exercise to the reader, as those are all solved problems.

The challenge is that they require keeping logical state at the application layer, which is specifically the kind of complexity you avoid in your scale-up architecture - and it burns you down the road.
> Postgres' COPY FROM and COPY TO have been used to compromise the database by copying ssh keys to the server, amongst other things

MySQL LOAD_FILE() and SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE have been used to compromise the database by copying SSH keys to the server, amongst other things.

> Currently Postgres is subject to around a dozen metasploit vulnerabilities that any script-kiddy can execute

Such as?
Do you have a link to this statement? I've primarily seen various authorities mention the primacy of hand washing, vs saying masks are ineffective.
I dream of a species which doesn't use tribal psychology to explain complex phenomena.

Yes yes, "the rich and powerful" are "greedy and selfish". Yes yes, they brainwashed everyone.

You look at limited resources and are disheartened by your conspiratorial fantasies explaining their limitation.

I look at you and I'm disheartened that you mistake limitation for conspiracy, and sustainable distribution for greed.

What a disappointing species -- only able to think clearly and accurately in a jungle. The tools of our thought are stupid instruments for explaining a world of billions. When faced with difficult choices we retreat from understanding them into gossip, conspiracy and dumb outrage.
I've seen two other neat ways proposed to try to track the virus:

(1) Do PCR tests on wastewater. Viruses show up in excrement, and sewer pipes are a ready-made aggregate sample collection system. See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v...

(2) Figure out which keywords correlate with other data about the spread, then mine social media data for those keywords. See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20026682v...
This is really bad. I don't know how much money they have left but I cannot imagine they can continue blowing up prototipes that took weeks to build every other week like this.
“this may have been a test configuration mistake”

The article makes it seem like this is a good thing, I.e., there’s nothing inherently wrong with the design.

If true, it means it may be a procedural escape which can be every bit as dangerous. Some of the fallout from the CST-100 Boeing Starliner issues seem to point to process escapes as well. Makes me wonder if in the rush to get “boots on the moon” by 2024 we may be letting schedule get the best of us...
> None was provided, so we will have to dismiss it until some proof is provided.

this itself is an affirmative negation with no supporting evidence.

at best we should be ambivalent from an empirical standpoint.

side note: why do strict rationalists love using the 'royal we'
Hm, that seems to be a rather peculiar and particular interpretation of the term. Grassroots organisations, political activist movements of all kinds would then fall outside your criterion. I mean... Women's suffrage movement (which changed the definition of who can vote in the first place), civil rights movement, etc. would also fall outwith your definition of the notion. (edit) The political processes which culminated in the French, the 1917 communist revolutions, etc... I don't see a point in defining the term in that way at all.
https://dnssec-name-and-shame.com/

This shows the top 25 websites and that none of them have DNSSEC.

As for whether people will in the future, it’s impossible to say for sure. But chrome doesn’t support dnssec, which shows how seriously google takes it.
In the US, architects delegate. Industry standard contracts (AIA series) reflect that. MEP's ordinarily meet with Owners, Contractors, and Building Officials during design and construction of moderately sized and larger projects. That is unlikely to change very much very quickly. Contractual norms inform the insurance market. Contractual norms facilitate logistics. They inform project financing.

Low cost is appealing, but in the long run only if the service slots into the way people do business. MEP drawings are important as instruments of service not as physical objects. That's a much more complicated role than what PlanGrid tackled. It's product did not have to bear scrutiny from Owners, Building Officials or the Design Team. It only had to make the construction manager's job easier.
Unless you're running arch linux is pretty stable these days. I can't even remember when I last had to fiddle with my debian install.
So on wordpress install woocommerce. Or if not wp then drupal commerce. Or Magento. Oscommerce. Etc. Etc.
That's a little different. Wifi is an invisible feature, and it can become disabled through no action of yours. Cameras are physical, so you can make it really obvious when it's enabled and when it's not. You just look for the physical obstruction. Apple's first iSight camera, for example, had a cool leaf shutter that you opened or closed by twisting it.

I know lots of people who have had trouble getting their wifi to work. I don't know anyone who put a piece of tape across their camera and then couldn't figure out why their camera didn't work.
I've heard this a lot, but there is another possible explanation - just speculating - that covid did appear and we're in the middle of a 2nd and more dangerous wave. IIRC 1918 flu behaved a bit like this, 2nd wave was more deadly. I'd really like to know if that's plausible, if any disease experts could speculate.
I think the catch is that people only notice when they're opposites. If making something more secure also improved the usability (or didn't harm it), then things would (generally) be done the better way. It's only when there's tension or compromises to be made between the requirements that we actually see it, and start to think that they're opposites - because in those cases it is.
IBM awards its second $50k Open Source Community Grant to Outreachy
Every computer controlled camera and microphone should come with an actual mechanical switch that cuts power.
> From the issues' comments some people are using the pinephone as a daily driver and phone calls are working.

Yep, but they had to buy a new phone to do that. pmOS mission was to let users keep using their old one. So e-waste keeps adding up.

> Regarding the original vision there are not yet there, sure, but they are relentlessly pushing the platforms where Linux can run.

Yes but there is no single platform that can make/receive calls. That's what phones are for. Text messages? nope. Wi-fi? sometimes, on some devices.

> Once the 2 Linux native smartphones are 100% working, it will be easier to add more and more devices.

Why would that happen? please elaborate on that.

> On the other hand, I've successfully flashed an old Nexus7 tablet which now can be used as a server rather than as a dead brick.

I used to run ubuntu on the nexus 7 in 2013, without much fuss. Booting Linux is not the problem. The problem is supporting the basic use cases. Which for a phone is, again, phone calls and text messages.
Perhaps this is the hardware people are speculating about with magnetic switches?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/33952/apple-put-a-hinge-sensor-i...

Though it seems their "hardware only" solution was on earlier models than that, so maybe not.