skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not as indiscriminately. Interestingly a large number of these people went down this path initially because of chronic health problems, e.g. autoimmune issues; things that our modern medical system is not great at diagnosing or treating but sometimes radical diet changes or the like can alleviate symptoms. For most run-of-the-mill things they'll just use natural remedies which, if you have no experience with them, can be surprisingly effective. Aspirin was derived from willow bark, chewing that bark gets rid of a headache just as well.

With that said when things get serious and/or acute, the people I know do still use modern medicine as a backstop. If someone were to break their leg and have a piece of bone sticking out of their skin, I'm certain they would go to a hospital. Or for instance if they couldn't breath because they caught covid-19, I'm sure they'd go to a hospital and use a ventilator. There are probably diehards who wouldn't, but those exist in cities too ;)
Not OP, but it was my impression that quality journalism was generally the case in the 1980s (in the US at least). What I was reading then certainly seemed to be. Separation of church and state was taken very seriously.

These days, you can't start with the assumption that a story is written to J standards. Rather, you need to start with the assumption that it's pushing narrative, and hope to be surprised.
HBO makes some top shows, movies and documentaries free to stream
> The TSDB that it comes with is horrible.

The TSDB in Prometheus since 2.0 is excellent for its use case.
"The democrats are/were historically the pro-worker party."

This hasn't been true for a few decades. they are now the party of the well educated professional class.
I wonder when in (pre)history commerce first developed. 200,000 years ago could Lynx have offered classes in return for food, shells, or an early form of debt? (e.g., “Teach me to fish and I will share half of my first year’s catch with you.”)
One of the things in the article that feels off is presenting correlations among historic empires by looking through contemporary model view. In their time, those empires were ruled by different models. To give you an example, here is this "currency reserve" thing that he's talking about, and especially the claims about the Dutch empire in that context. AFAK, the "currency reserve" notion itself is pretty new, and to consider the Dutch empire as "world power" is also a stretch, regardless of whatever wonders that may have happened there in its heydays.
Difficult to get rid of an employee in Spain?

No, not at all
I'm not sure. My post was mostly in jest. But being at Microsoft clearly hasn't helped.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying here. Google's control of both Chrome (client side monopoly) and Search, Gmail, etc. (server side monopoly) together under one entity is what enables Google to define Internet protocols on a broad scale regardless of what a standards body thinks.

I agree with you that how Google servers talk amongst themselves has no relevance in Internet standards.
Hehe, somebody modified the XKCD "Compiling" comic.

https://twitter.com/PonteIneptique/status/783190337602846720
Twilio is pretty great but for this use case using Google Voice is a lot simpler (assuming its available in your country)

I recently did this for a firm that is fully remote now during pandemic. They had non voip line for main number. Set the office phone to FW to a GV number and put GV in DND so it goes straight to voicemail which was what they wanted. Then setup GV to send voicemail to email and gmail to forward to slack channel using the basic slack email integration app.

All in all very easy to setup in 20 min or less and get transcribed VM in slack channel with link to play the message as well.
Show HN: A quality checker for Python wheels
Wasn't this also partially driven by the military buying up a ton of ammo? I know they don't use 22, but I thought it put a lot of pressure on the suppliers.
If you want to reverse-engineer those devices, do that in a reverse-engineering lab; you may need to dissect the device to figure out what it's doing. Alternatively, run more open devices.

If you want to run those devices in production, put them in a separate network or VLAN where they can't see anything they don't need to see.
Gemfile-gemfile.lock is setup.py-requirements.txt.

And yes, as I said, a nice wrapper for management of it is missing in python. The main ideas/approach is the same though.
I fall into category 3 which is why I list it. It's not a technical reason so much as a code style reason so it is definitely subject to the opinions of each developer.
Amazon really could be just as big as they are without going down the Walmart route of being actively shitty / evil. It sucks that they're choosing not to do that.
PSA: I just received a github phishing request that was not detected by Gmail. I almost fell for it.

Phishing email looks like a "review your suspicious activity" alert, but the alert is the suspicious activity.

https://imgur.com/a/zdtWmuN
Those supply chains will recover after this once-per-century risk is over (eg we find a vaccine). For now I'm still way better off as a professional who can work from home and order food online, than I would be as a subsistence farmer somewhere.

And remember, being subsistence farmers without long supply chains didn't help the native Americans when Europeans arrived with a new plague they weren't immune to.
UTC for status updates?? Not PST/PDT??

Amazing!
>The software giant counted 32 million daily active users of Teams last week on March 11th, but this jumped by 12 million to 44 million daily active users yesterday.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21186452/microsoft-teams-...

Zoom does not release numbers but they have seen an increase say in usage but if we look at estimated numbers:

>Zoom had 12.92 million monthly active users, up 21% since the end of 2019, Chrane and Isaacs wrote, citing data from privately held Apptopia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/zoom-has-added-more-users-so...

Microsoft seems to have had an increase that similar to Zoom's whole user base in a week (and I don't know how much was added before that).

I think people in tech circles underestimate how many large non-tech companies just followed Microsoft into the cloud and started to use Office 365. And I assume a lot don't use it that much, maybe for a meeting here and there and a few (or way too many) channels but suddenly everyone in the company is on it.
My previous answer was more about tech in the broad sense.

Here are software tech trends that I thought were going to be HUGE but kind of fizzled. Some I strongly believe are ripe for a comeback:

1. (As before) I thought Java and Java Applets would be the GUI and OS for everything.

2. Object-oriented Programming. It has become fashionable to ridicule OOP but I still think OOP (minus nearly useless inheritance) plus Design Patterns is powerful, just not the grand solution to all problems.

3. Knowledge Management Systems. There were supposed to be rules engines for every domain of human knowledge that experts would fill with rules-of-thumb and facts and voila! You'd have all-knowing oracles that could diagnose any medical problem, etc. They still exist but proved expensive to build and limited. IBM's Watson revived the idea for a while, though.

4. Associative Operating Systems and Object Stores. File and folder OS'es were supposed to be dead and gone by now, replaced with content-oriented OS'es that retrieved information by their contents and by tags without regard for location. Everything was supposed to be a series of linked and nested objects so that if you updated a spreadsheet here, your related contract and presentation would update automagically.

5. Syndicated content and automatic agents. There was a time when RSS was king and existed as a parallel API, if you will, to human-readable content. Everything from your coffee pot to your favorite news site would have a feed and your self-programmed agents would hunt and sift and deliver information to your dashboard, handle routine transactions for you and, of course, broadcast your status and thoughts to the world. Much of this, too, exists in scattered patches but isn't the universal nerd nirvana we expected. Instead, people relinquished rich, decentralized RSS feeds for controlled, predigested Facebook, Twitter and Reddit feeds. Sad. APIs and automation are big as ever but somehow never became tools of the people.
...its back now for me.
Apparently CT scan use a lot less radiation than they used to and are therefore much safer now.
Envoy Traffic Tap in Action
Yeah, can confirm. I'm working on some visualizations for covid-19 where I pull data from raw.githubusercontent.com and I'm getting 500s.
But when joining a Zoom call from your phone you dial a number, then enter the meeting ID. The meeting ID has the same number of digits as a US phone number, but it isn't the number you dial. The calendar invites generated by Zoom format the number + meeting ID in such as way that a user can tap them and it will dial the number and enter the meeting ID.

Basically, in both cases (computer/app or dial-in), increasing the number of digits of the meeting ID has very little impact on the users. Forcing a user to enter a password after joining (which is just more digits) does impact the user.
This is really interesting, I always assumed it was exactly the same infrastructure but segregated off into customer instances. If anybody has more info here that would be really neat.
You may be able to mirror those to your GitLab and then do all your work from the mirror.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...

Congrats on the self-hosted uptime :)
Control over non-members is an implicit goal common to all kinds of organisations, even in ones that are primarily instituted to control its members.
Covid-19 impact and Social distancing in action – a view from US parking data
Done right it takes little time. Ingredients into the bread maker, leave it overnight, the rest in, leave it until evening then into a bannaton. Wait a bit then cool it. The main cost is remembering, as I’d spend less than 10 minutes on it over the 2 days. Maybe even less than 5 minutes.

It is vastly superior in taste but each to their own as applying my logic to everything you do would use up the entire week in no time.

There is a correlation between the mass production of bread and the decline in the amount consumed by the average person. The Chorleywood process has not done good things for the quality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

A sample of the criticism:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13670278
Have you? That book was about how the pro-corporate media portray various regions & people so as to drum up support for war. This situation is roughly the opposite of that.
A Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Just Solved Time Travel
I didn't realize until today that https://www.npmjs.com/package/geckodriver downloads from Github.
Their status page is quite pretty, does anyone know of an open-source option that looks similar?
>Other nations have openly and honestly dealt with this as a national health crisis from the beginning.

Nations with capitalistic economic systems which makes me wonder what your point is again.
erm no.. that doesn't even make sense

The reason everybody is panic buying toilet paper, is because they read the stories and they see the empty shelves in the shops.

So they then maybe grab the odd extra pack when they see stock - and the cycle continues until all domestic storage space is exhausted (or full shelves are seen again).

Toilet paper is especially susceptible to this as it's cheap, has a supply chain designed for constant/continuous/even demand - and is bulky so tends to be produced relatively close to where it's consumed, magnifying these effects.

Or in summary, you don't know what the future holds - but you know you're going to be ploughing through that decreasing pile of rolls in the cupboard.

So in a capitalist market, why wouldn't they just make more and run the factory 24x7 (like say an RNA test or respirator maker)?
Well because the actual consumption is a flat line. Sure, you could pay new workers to man the new night-shift - but then in a month or two you'd have to lay off both shifts, as we all work down our reserve and don't buy any TP.
No they explicitly said Linkedin sales api.
> Becoming one of the top names in video conferencing and displacing dozens of established players virtually overnight? Sign me up.

What!? That's small thinking. You could be so many greater things than that if you're willing to compromise peoples security and personal information.
Meanwhile, in this other fictional universe, a guy who looks just like you and posts the same things as you on HN is a child pornographer. Not to worry, our hero stops him.

Or perhaps it is your company that is involved in the pornography. And they are secret Nazis. Not to worry. All fictional.
> If something breaks in Vanilla JS, you know with 100% certainty that it's your code that's failing.

If you're lucky enough to have the same developers for the duration of the project. Otherwise it'll be your predecessor who worked at the company 4 years ago's code. I've had to do far too much "reverse engineering" of "we don't touch that" code.

On the other hand, I've literally never encountered a bug in React. I guess it must have them. But I think not all that many.
Thank you for your support and for taking the time to write a lengthy comment. It seems my original comment looks like I'm complaining about my situation - that wasn't my intent. I wasn't trying to win sympathy or start a controversial thread to get fake gold or virtual likes; it isn't Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram. I just wanted to point out that the market dried up and even industries such as ours (where software engineers are usually in demand) suffering greatly from the economic downturn.

> Open-source contributions, side projects, whatever you can do to further demonstrate your value to prospective future employers

That's what I was talking about. Why can't we all as a community figure out some platform where we can help those developers who [temporarily] lost their jobs? We all use lots of open-source tools without paying a dime. Wouldn't it be great to have a platform where they can still contribute to open-source projects during a transitional period? Platforms like Patreon and Github Sponsors are aimed to help authors, but not contributors.

That was the whole point of my comment. I wasn't asking for an advice and certainly wasn't ready for people telling me how incredibly lucky I am.
Depends on what type of injury it is. There are lots of injuries that don’t require medical attention, such as minor sprains and hairline fractures, that you could survive as long as you had someone to feed you and take care of you.

I don’t think you can say you’re “more likely” to just die just because you don’t have access to a doctor.
I was about to comment in your ex's defense that "Jeep" originated from General Purpose ("GP"), so it's only fair that it reverts to the generic, but it turns out that story is apocryphal.
Heterogenous Computing: Hardware and Software Perspectives
Funny thing, people using the word "articulate" are generally misusing it!

They mean eloquent, not "articulate".
Agreed! Still not available much on a county level in the San Francisco Bay Area :(
riot.im hosts its own Jitsi instance which is built into the UI, so hitting the call button in a room will spawn an embedded Jitsi call in the room.

Recently we added the option for people to use their own self hosted Jitsi instances, if they prefer.

(1:1 calls at the moment are normal WebRTC, directly over Matrix)
The cost of the electricity is minimal. Maybe 30 cents or so in the US. But I agree with your basic point. If you consider bread baking a chore, you maybe save $4-5/loaf given artisan bread. (And, of course, less for even higher-end bread aisle bread.)

>it's much cheaper to earn the money and buy bread that's produced in bulk.

That said, most people don't have the option to directly turn hours of working into extra pay.
If only there was some kind of distributed version control system. /s
In the end they're all situational formalisms. Imperative code is by definition implementing a state machine.

One thing that you can often get by moving the state machine a bit away from the source code as tends to be the case with these libraries is a definition that specifies I/O more concretely. In something like the Unity3D Tick() case, I/O is open-ended: All game state is available, and that state may itself impact when Tick() is called via various concerns of concurrency(timing, update order, etc.). When trying to apply a formal model it's usually a really bad sign to see a very broad "tick" or "update" callback dumped into execution - it leads towards hacky code that sets flags and uses frame boundaries to confirm events.

Game engines don't always have the best examples of these patterns, since games can so often get away with shoddy usage.
I think you overestimate the reliability of the alternatives.

Zoom focused all their early engineering muscle on reliability. When we build new products, we don't have infinite resources to attack every front simultaneously. We have finite resources to prove a concept, and we incur debt in just about every other dimension.

Now that everyone is using them (precisely because of reliability) the emphasis becomes other things - UX, security, etc.

Tech debt is what the 2nd generation of engineers gets to complain about after the 1st gen made the product succesful at something.
That's not the point of that passage, here's the rest

> Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed.

It's not that the life of being a hunter-gatherer is hard, it's that the ability to even live that life is hard to come by.
Taking bets on how many months it'll be before Google kills the project?
I disagree. Because when clients get phished or infected by malware that bypassed my inspection boxes, the end user was harmed. For me to buy that we shouldn't MITM for security reasons, you'd need to convince me that cloud providers on the other end were mildly successful at preventing malware, scams, and fraud.

And they're not. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. have failed to keep the Internet safe. And when they fail they hide behind liability shields like Section 230. So it falls on IT staff, more often than not, to filter, block, and intercept where Big Tech has demonstrated inability to do so.
All installed on one server, physically shut the entire server down.
> normally for most professionals it's much cheaper to earn the money and buy bread that's produced in bulk.

I'm a professional engineer who's baked his own bread (exclusively, barring baguettes, ciabatta, and brioche - but plan to change the first two) for the last few years. I assure you I certainly didn't sacrifice any money to do so, and there wasn't even an opportunity cost - I wasn't going to otherwise earn money in that time, I don't bill hourly.
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It also barely even takes any time, 95% of breadmaking is waiting (passively) for something to happen. In fact, now that I think about it, I'm writing this comment at such a time. The cumulative time of actively doing something is really small.

> and buy bread that's produced in bulk

Once you've baked some bread you won't even want to buy that sugar-laden stuff 'produced in bulk'. If I had to buy it for some reason I'd want it from an actual bakery, not a supermarket shelf, or most supermarket 'bakeries'.
Amazed that art (albeit military propaganda art) won out over the wishes and possibility of merchandising by an actual war profiteer.
Just received a repository vulnerability notification as well, in the Pillow dependency but it seems legit.
Okay... so, when is Amazon launching their GitHub alternative?
Another word is внедорожник, or off-roader: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE...

The legend has it that when economic restrictions were relaxed towards the end of the SU someone bartered a huge quantity of a natural resource (coal?) for a huge number Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles. So around that time they were only types of cars in SU - subpar Soviet cars and fancy American Jeeps.
> Depending on the statistics used to date there have been between 2,860 and 4,759 deaths from COVID-19 in the United States. This equates to between just 7% and 12% of the annual 40,000 deaths from flu.

Uuuh... yes... and half of those deaths happened in a single state... and within the span of three weeks
Scaramucci was his comms director. Big difference. The position of press secretary is one of the most important in the West Wing (It's been diminished a bit in recent years, but there is absolutely a policy component).
For the phone only route, it seems like you could still mostly automate it by going oldschool. Give the host an option to play the meeting code as a DTMF signal (or whatever) while the other person holds their phone near the mic.
Network Engineer / SysAdmin / Helpdesk by day in Singapore.

I’m part of https://www.dwarvin.com that provide lighting solutions to model railways. Its a small family business and I help out with online side of things.
Recently was ask to help out with to build a programmable lighting system and am having tons of fun, brings me back to my embedded systems class during my CS degree time.
Phone Is Your Covid-19 Health Companion – WeTrace
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Thank you for the hint (in the reference [1], the measurement done as in [2], which states "Collected aerosols were analysed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and by virus titration"), although I then don't get why the paper [1] writes that the viruses are "infectious".

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
[2] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
This is a form of mass hysteria. The media reports on some silly commodity like toilet paper having run out in one store (maybe they didn't get their delivery, unrelated to coronavirus at the early days). People take this signal to mean that toilet paper is going to run out. Now, afraid of being left without toilet paper, and worried that others are hoarding it for a reason they do not yet understand, others go to buy it.

It's the same reason why people start buying ridiculous things when a celebrity is seen wearing them. People look at it, don't understand what's going on, but don't want to be left behind, so demand increases irrationally.
Not a terrible idea, but these all take years to design. We tried the "shovel ready" approach in 2008. What they found was that there were few projects fully designed and ready to go. Producing construction ready engineering documents is one of the last steps in the design process.
What if Humvees become the worst vehicles in the game because of balancing reasons? If I were the owner of the brand I'd be pissed. Even worse in case of other vehicles like racing cars. Imagine a racing game in which Porsche cars are slowest and break more often than other cars. You wouldn't want your brand to be associated with that, even if it's a videogame. Or imagine a completely broken game with popular car. Big Rigs level kind of broken. You wouldn't want your luxury car brand associated with broken school project level of games.
For completeness, lots of discussion today on Jitsi.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758131
We may just be saying the same thing. I think all I'm saying is that there doesn't seem to be anything problematic about the arrangement we've landed on.
The US has destroyed nearly one trillion dollars in wealth for the bottom 50% since 1989:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
How do you plan to launch?
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