skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in Ireland .. Retail & Recreation are down 80-90% in most counties!

What I did find interesting though, is that after the initial lockdown, we show a reliable increase in "parks", that all take a sharp nosedive after it was tightened and we were told recreation should be within 2km of home.

That felt like something of a facebook-furor at the time, but it seems google's data really does back it up.
Any accent you're not used to is trickier to follow.

Americans get a benefit in the anglosphere due to the prevalance of holywood on TV and movies, so the accent tends to to be less unusual to ears.
I think that Google and Apple will be extremely helpful in the coming months, at least in the USA, for tracing the spread of COVID-19. Google and Apple know where probably 90+% of adults/teens in the USA are located in real time. If they are able to anonymously tell you that you were in the same building as someone who has tested positive for the virus then you could take extra precautions or further isolate yourself to help prevent the spread. This wouldn't be perfect but it would be much more data than is given to people today about who is infected and it would make tracing contacts much easier for health officials.

A small number of people who read sites like Hacker News will find this an appalling invasion of privacy. Health officials will think it's a really useful thing to try. It'll be interesting to watch, if it does happen.

In the near term, I would happily try to convince everyone I meet to opt-in to such a service as I feel the health benefits could greatly outweigh the privacy concerns. But then when we do have a better long term solution for this virus I would also strongly recommend people to disable the tracking.
Worked for me - you can try this too, it will show screenshots too: https://geopeeker.com/
> Back then it was just the iPhone with an incrementing number afterwards.

I just had to look this up - the only actual increment in version numbers was iPhone 8 following iPhone 7. And even that counts just barely considering that they released iPhone X a month after 8.

I agree with your feeling on the confusing product line though - it mostly comes from very similar models being released at the same time which wasn't the case in the past.
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Interestingly, no one has mentioned the Library of Babel[0]

One could assert that if you were to translate Chinese/Russian/non-UTF characters into UTF, you'd be covering every word ever possibly said.

[0] https://libraryofbabel.info/
To understand the terms: webrtc, stun, turn, mesh, sfu, mcu, ice and trickle ice, there is (1). 15 minutes to understand what is all this about. What about IPv6 stun and turn?, it seems other people asked the same idea I thought: (2)
bout all of this, one is the answer is: As IPv6 takes over the complexity of new networks, STUN and ICE will become irrelevant. I think that with the surge in video conferences and rtc, ipv6 with take off.

In my very humble opinion, I would suggest to reserve some address space in IPv6 for rtc, so that a peer is able to adopt a new special ip reserved for rtc. Nothing new under the sun, in 2014 someone comment along this line of thought (2) and (3).

So what are we waiting for?

(1) https://webrtcglossary.com/
(2) https://www.quora.com/Will-the-IPv6-result-in-the-death-of-S...

(3) 2014, AshleysBrain,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7496986
I think the solution is IPv6. Once every device on the Internet is uniquely addressable again, we can do away with these NAT hacks and two endpoints should be able to reliably connect to each other again, no matter where they are. Of course, that's assuming we don't get more short-sighted engineering that breaks things again...
You're right, but it would provide a permanent use for regular old TCP connections (which means the answer to the article's question would still be no).
I don't disagree. I still live in hope that one day I'll work on a project where all functions and variables have relevant and informative names and the Runbook is (accurately!) updated with latest changes on a weekly basis.

The point I was trying to make wasn't about previous developers on a project. Rather, it's the way frameworks ask me to trust them about the choices made by unknown developers to include NPM packages by other unknown developers in the framework's build. That, to me, is the definition of "wild west".

React is backed by Facebook. When it comes to frameworks I'm a lot happier to trust an open-sourced codebase backed by a company with a big vested interest in making sure that all the NPM modules they include (and all their dependencies, etc) are solid, safe and up-to-date. Even so, React's package.json file lists a devDependency for core-js - whose main developer is currently serving 18 months in a Russian jail[1].

How much trust we choose to put into other, unknown developers and their code is a risk to any project, is all I'm saying.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_j...
Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
VPN goes not affect GPS signal as far as I know
That is an amazing resource!
As I said the lines are probably BS anyway

But you can't do something that feels like getting poked with needles but isn't
Modern Libertarianism is Ayn Rand's horribly written capitalist pornography in practice. You can't separate the two at this point.
There is also Micro Snitch from the makers of Little Snitch:

https://obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
How Are Funerals Now in Bergamo
Same here. The iPhone X design in iPhone SE size would be a dream device. One handed usability and fairly recent hardware would be just a lovely device I’d pay a fortune for and stay with for quite a few years!!
Right now I live in London and all I see are European SUVs (Range Rover,MB,Jaguar,BMW) with an occasional Toyota or Lexus and maybe 1 Jeep out of 10000 other cars.
Could you name some better alternatives for analytical db?
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I agree -- generally, holistically, well-being is crucial for any person's health. And a lot of that is related to emotion/psychology.

Reiki, or whatever other fad-of-the-day, will keep that at its core and just help people with that.

That being said, from a results-oriented point of view, if it works for people, great. Keep on doing it.

But I wouldn't put it anywhere near some exact science. Rather, as you said, it's related to something that needs serious consideration in the medical and scientific community.
Only a small part of the economic issues are caused by sanctions: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/05/03/no-u-s-san...

Cuba went through the same but didn't turn out like that.

Looking at your post history you appear to support the genocide of millions of Muslim Uyghurs in China + Chinese colonization of Africa, maybe try being less of a tankie and look more into the facts.
Strange. It only works for some parts of the world, then.
Na. They are already experts at that. Nigeria's president already spends an awful lot of time outside the country. Also didn't give a speech about the virus until late last month.
I love old timey articles like this. I remember reading something from Charles Babbage about how the means through which coal is cycled back out of the atmosphere are as yet unknown. Oh if only he knew.
Actually, what would be really wild would be to group the wardialers into a meeting and sell them product. This process will no doubt keep them busy and reduce teh attack surface.
Those popular vote ratings are mostly useless. What I really would like to see for instance is the books most favored by those who enjoyed SICP and who thinks the `Uncle Bob` books are garbage.
You could whip up a quick script to move driver kexts for mic and camera in and out of extensions folder essentially toggling the functionality. This would require a reboot though.
There is a good active community and resources at https://permies.com/
Grant model is little outdated in some aspects, but with right tools it is doable. On some level you just accept that you need to read documentation and follow it. It is just another thing that you need to care about. In case if you need it.

I can little imagine case when you have access to the system and install dumps from untrusted sources. Probably it is world of untrusted PHP scripts from russian forums with stollen software. It is the world full of whole specter of pains. But I’m not agree that it should be considered as weakness. You never should restore dumps from untrusted sources ever. Such dumps can contains stored procedures that can contain code in pl/python that can do a lot of shady things. Is it a weakness or advantage of having freedom of using of python? In the world of script kiddies it is, but it is not problem of the Postgres.
Yes, I know that's why I even tried it in console as I was a bit surprised that parseInt doesn't do octal.

Why does js even support octal? I never found octal particularly useful. Speak hexadecimal or die
Yes, it's real. And yes, it's plasma, not blood. (It's just more sensationalistic to call it blood because then you get the vampire analogies and "blood boys" from the Silicon Valley show. I find it amusing, personally.)

Obviously giving away an organ is far more health-adverse than giving away a small amount of plasma. Unfortunately, lots of people already do donate plasma in exchange for money because they desperately need the money, and that's just for plasma that goes to sick people. In my opinion, if rich people are offering those same plasma donors 10x or more than the amount they'd get from donating to a typical blood bank, then it's at least a big improvement over the current situation. And hopefully they put limits and ID checks in place to ensure people never donate above a certain amount of plasma per day/week/month and risk their health.

Hopefully we'll one day be able to grow or synthesize the youth-preserving compounds in the plasma without requiring the donors.
Yep. It's so very dumb that it now charges you to read content.

It's a great ploy, get authors (who probably don't realise there is now a content gate) to post on your site, then start to charge visitors.
Highly unlikely. The few people who still use 3.5mm headphones could purchase the $9 adapter from Apple.
> You add all kinds of select queries, joins and foreign keys and when traffic hits scramble to make it scale. NoSQL is hard to design but you can atleast be sure that once traffic hits, you don't have to redesign the schema to make it scale.

Surely this depends on how you set up your SQL database to begin with? I'm not familiar with NoSQL, so can you explain why "schemas" aren't necessary and scaling happens automatically?
> If they care, why are they accepting money just to listen to you?

Because they have to pay for food, pay for a roof over their head and pay down their student loan?

Accepting payment does not mean they will care, but it certainly does not preclude that they may care.
PVA glue is not water soluble after it has cured. It's a common myth which is entirely false and easily testable.
Well, as this case shows, an attacker doesn’t always need to get low level access to your device in order to capture video and audio. So there is still a valid concern shot being recorded.
Do you really want a log that might have useful information incase of meltdown? I think logging is something you should probably confirm or you’re setting yourself up for nasty bugs.
> I wonder what fossil treasures are sitting beneath the ice in Antarctica.

It's well understood that the arctic and antarctic has tons of oil. The arctic by itself is thought to have 22% of the world's oil/gas.

"The United States Geological Survey estimates that 22 percent of the world's oil and natural gas could be located beneath the Arctic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resources_of_the_Arcti...

But antarctica is more remote than the arctic and has extremely harsh weather/terrain/etc so it will probably be the last place exploited for resources. I doubt there will be mining or drilling for oil in antarctica anytime soon, if ever. The arctic is a different matter altogether.
I went down this road, trying to look for an alternative to my SE with one hard goal: Support Guarantee (The SE was released in 2016 and is still supported).

I looked at _all of the Android One_ devices, which have guaranteed EoL timelines, and the smallest device was still 5+". The smallest was Sharp S3 at 5", but only available in Japan (and released in 2018). The smallest 2019 Android One global release was the Nokia 2.2 at 5.71". There has only been one release in 2020 (Nokia 8.3 - 6.81").

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One#Products_by_year_o...
Developer Relations & Solutions Engineering (aka Solutions Consulting, aka Sales Engineering) could be worth a look.
It also gives you 4 simultaneous users with the premium plan, which I would guess most families use simply based on that.
A contact for Dangote was on the table one a half year ago. I am very glad now, I steered away from it.
> PostgreSQL is great to host a production database, it isn’t a great choice for an analytic database at scale

How do you define an "analytic" database? Time series data, or something else?
> Mecha or technical sci-fi? I want to be able to count the bolts and read the warning labels.

You want to pay and wait the extra time and money it costs to have someone adding those extra bolts and labels too? Because I expect most anime is drawn with a keen sense of what you only need to hint at and get away with it.
Are Microsoft's GitHub Actions Embrace, Extend, Extinguish in Disguise?
Does it do TURN/STUN?
This is amazing - thanks so much for the LYMERix link. I'm nearly done with medical school and somehow never heard this story!
I signed up for it, I got 4320 hours left ... What's to complain about it?

Honestly, the customer in mind is not the startup with bootstrapped money. $10 a month is what people pay for a Netflix subscription, but this stuff is quite valuable. I think they may offer special plans for the poor, ailing startups but I don't see ANY reason to complain about their service.
“This is my least favorite part of discussing Lyme online. So many people are deeply convinced of their chosen narrative that they unquestioningly accept any papers that support their claims, while refusing to acknowledge any evidence to the contrary. This has created quite the market for pseudoscientific researchers to peddle narratives and pseudo-research that meets the demand for what people want to hear.”

SCAM SOP. Because it’s all about Them. Peddlers reap wealth and adulation; victims are miserable AF but “vindicated”. Talk about mutual parasitosis.
I follow reported health news.

My understanding is that if you have a transient event (hypothermia, drowning, electrical shock, internal ticking problem), and you're otherwise healthy, CPR is helpful.

But if you have a chronic heart condition, CPR is not going to fix that. Additionally, if you're old, several of your ribs will be cracked, possibly a lung will be punctured, and then during surgery they will crack the rest. So it's unlikely you'll ever walk out of the hospital.

Meth overdose is a weird one. According to one video I saw on Youtube, you need CPR every 5 minutes or so as they take you to the hospital after they inject you with an antidote.

So when revived meth patients try walking away from EMS, the ambulance just follows them until they fall over again.

Anyway, I'm just trying to illustrate how CPR is a complex thing, and you should do your own research to understand it better.
But that also means that:

- the code is not reusable outside of a database setting. So not cacheable.

- the code is not reusable accross different storage layers. So not portable.

- the code may needs updating if the schema change, you can't abstract that

- changing the logic means a db migration

- testing the code requires a DB

- tooling support to check that code si limited to SQL tooling, which is very weak, especially for code completion, refactor and debugging.

That's a lot of constraints for just making the application logic a lot simpler.
That doesn't make any sense. Color accuracy has nothing to do with resolution.
I had no idea. This is revelation. I am thinking that if more people knew about these features you would have 10 times that a month!
Can you just shortly elaborate on why PostgreSQL is not good for distributed scenarios for those of us who are/were under the impression that psql does have stable distribution features?
> it's one gigantic imposter syndrome trigger

Yes, this was exactly my experience when I first encountered the repo for this project a couple years ago [0]. I actually still remember what it was like to read this for the first time.

From the perspective of someone who has been impaled on the hedgerow of despair, trudged through the endless shale of '5-minute-must-reads' and fought their way through the jungle of 'lazy tutorials rehashing a languages main beginner resource', I see why these kinds of things are created and upvoted/proliferated by developers who are no longer beginners. They're probably helpful to a minority I expect to show up in this thread. But to me these roadmaps are pathological (no pun intended) - inducing a cocktail of fear, apathy, and perfectionistic mania.

If you happen to be a beginner reading through this thread and thinking of using this map - don't. Get a feeling for the territory first. Don't worry about all these empty terms. Once you have a feeling for this programming thing you can use your powers of prediction, analogy, and noting minor differences to learn new stuff. You don't have to (you don't WANT to) jam it all into your brain at once. I took that route and it makes it really hard to play and explore for yourself, it was so painful and inefficient.

Go the naturalistic route. It's not wrong unless it doesn't work, in which case it's still not wrong. It's all good. Have fun. Make yourself laugh. Do it stupid, who cares. Edit/break/play around with stuff, maybe go Codepen [1] if that sounds fun. Maybe you want structure and streamlining, go see if FreeCodeCamp is for you - you'll tick off half the boxes here without even realising it, and that half will be the half that's worth anything to you :)

[0] https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/

[1] https://codepen.io/picks/pens/
> that such a beautiful mind ended up with paranoia.

there's certainly a pattern here, that people that walk the edge of what a human brain can do often drift to paranoia and/or extremism.

I'm thinking: Bobby Fischer, Grigory Perelman, Évariste Galois, and to a certain extent, Isaac Newton. I suspect the list is a lot longer.
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No because you can still use cryptographic signatures to ensure the packets are valid before acting on them.
We've got it more or less the same in Lithuania with a lot of brands. "Pampers" is the default name for nappies. "Scotch" and "Xerox" are popular in Slavic languages,we never picked these up for some reason. Here,in the UK, the more popular ones are: Stanley Knife( any retractable knife) or Hoover( Vacuum cleaner).
Why wouldn't I? I can see where and when I was, how long I was there. It can give context to notes and photos. It's essentially an extension of memory.
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Also, the Mic is disconnected in hardware when you close the lid:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-microphone...
https://archive.is/Li75A
No. LSM/Rocksdb databases do "block compressions". Even better is dynamic dictionary compression: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Dictionary-Compress...
Wow, seems like Blenders Open Movies push is really affecting the industry to share more assets. Seems weird of Netflix not to publicize the choice of license more, they can rightfully brag about being some of the few to publishes source material like that.

Also found more material under the opencontent domain at Netflix, interesting stuff: http://download.opencontent.netflix.com/
People who primarily use browsers to access Netflix will be a single digit percentage of the user base.

Firefox users will be substantially less than 1%.
You can use google trends for that:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=can%27t%20...
I don't have a source handy, I think it was Prof. Drosten, but I've read that in Germany, there were many such anecdotal stories as well. The blood serum of these people got tested, and there was no indication that any of them had already had covid-19.

Of course, that's Germany, not London or the US, but at least there, the evidence currently points to a bad flu or something else for all these people from November to February.
I strongly suspect Google has two separate classes of location history. Data which has been anonymised, and data which hasn't. I strongly suspect that your location history always exists, and that "turning location history on" only gives them permission to keep it personally-identifying.

Google make a lot of use of location data. It's used to map traffic in Maps, and is/was/? used to map wifi to improve geolocation. These reports are just another example. And they'd all work just fine with anonymised data.

(I have no proof of any of this, hence over-using the phrase 'strongly suspect'.)
No Code Opportunities
No Code is a collection of tools and methods that let people

easily create applications – landing pages, job boards, forums, apps, newsletters, etc.
automate repetitive tasks – welcome emails, reports, notifications, connect multiple applications, etc
manipulate data visually – calculate metrics, move data from one source to another, dashboards, etc

The ideal target for a No-Code solution is someone

would like to show value quickly
can explain their problem in enough detail
cannot access coding talent for budget or priority reasons

No-Code is having its moment because of the following

Growth in internet first businesses has led to increased demand for people who can build quick solutions to problems.
Browsers have significantly expanded the list of things they can do.
API first development ( led by AWS ) means with event-driven processing and juggling the right set of API’s one can build almost anything.
Tools like IFTTT and Zapier have lowered the learning curve for event-driven programming.

Create – APIs and integrations are the base layer for no-code. So any improvement here is a massive value add to the system. There are lots of opportunities here, take a business process that has a SaaS tool attached to it and build an integration. (Connect it to integration platform like Zapier)

Curate – one drawback of no-code is the lack of templatized solutions. The next best thing is a curated list of how to do X, (for any X that is a combination of tools). Find and build lists of people who have experience building in this paradigm. e.g No-Code developer as a role will be huge.

Sell – This is a small but growing movement, take advantage of the inherent “user-facing-ness” of no-code buy finding people/business processes that can take advantage and connect them to builders. You will see a lot of supporting infrastructures like development shops, startup studios, incubators, and funds.
Let's just say I'm the polar opposite.