skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think most big name radio producers see amateur sales as a secondary market. There are some hobby projects like the uBitx and the mcHF, and both are low power. The amplification and filtering are in opposition to dynamic range and total power output. For instance without filtering, a very strong signal will blow out the dynamic range and quieter signals will get lost. If you say were to build a ZetaSDR and plug it into a 192khz 24bit sound card, you would have excellent dynamic range for weak signals, but you'd still want to filter out local FM and AM stations.

I think as more SDR stuff gets reduced to single chips for commerical or military reasons, then perhaps the amateur equivalent will be viable... But filtering and amplification is still something that is difficult to miniaturize due to heat and wavelength.
Why do sites like Techcrunch think I'll stick around longer if they block the back button?
> A more updated version would be that neoliberalism is the opiate of intellectuals.

The real opiate of the intellectuals is any system that gives you the belief that you've got things mostly figured out. Neo-liberalism definitely qualifies for some, but so does Marxism.

However, given the current state of things, there's probably more value to be had now from reading Marx than some venerable free market tract. Just don't let it go to your head.
Sure. That's good because they shouldn't assume that. The author isn't assuming that either; as I said, he wrote what he knew and was clear on that. I'm sure he'd be thrilled if other people wrote books covering the things he didn't know enough to cover.

That said, some GLBT people have said they find the book valuable. Even as a straight man, I found it very useful, and not just domestically. Abuser psychology doesn't just come out in romantic relationships; for example, it was great in helping me see what was going on with an abusive boss. I walked out of a terrible meeting saying, "What the hell just happened?" Later I had an inkling, so I opened up to the chapter on abuser types. In one meeting, the boss hit 80% of the characteristics of the "Mr Right" type.
Doctors and dentists routinely catch colds and flus from their patients. In most countries they are not working behind a perspex face shield (and as you know, there is now a shortage of such safety equipment). Consequently, they could easily catch coronavirus during this lockdown and spread it, or even perish from it.
I'd definitely recommend the book as well. His books are easy, fun reads and I personally enjoyed the fake scientific rigor (like fake citations) that get put into the books as mentioned in the linked article. Also of interest to any Michael Crichton fans like myself is that there was an authorized sequel written by a different author named the Andromeda Evolution just published in November 2019. It's not quite as good as the original since it deviates a little from the original "we're trapped in this facility with a virus that's trying to kill us", scientific drama into something more action movie-y - I don't think it's a spoiler to say that it involves a space station and space elevator along with exploring ancient structures. Even with that complaint, the sequel was still a pleasant way to pass a few hours on a plane for me!
Assuming this is correct, what is the estimated death toll in China due to COVID-19, preferably from a reliable source ?
What are the contracting opportunities? My company is DC based and have been doing similar scalability work for high traffic state and local websites in the past two weeks and we have been quite busy (as state and local sites could also use help with scalability).

We're on SAM.gov, if that matters. I can imagine it's all hands on deck everywhere.

Either way, good luck! I've always admired what your group (and DDS) does. I almost joined DDS a couple of years ago.
So you are saying you only have to increase your income about 5% to have enough money for heat?
Related xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/936/
Agreed. I just looked at the study itself, and there's an important fact that the article does not mention. There were two test groups WFH and on-site. The WFH groups were volunteers, and their outcomes were better.

It's interesting that the net productivity of the on-site workers did not go up despite the removal of the self-selected WFH-curious population.

The study:
https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...
Agree, and this is in general an issue with lots of "deep learning" AI technology. The models are trained on huge amounts of text in the public domain and biases often leak into them.

This is an active research area and we will actively try to address such issues.

Apologies if it offended you or anyone else.

Thanks for the feedback; these are important issues that we want surfaced.
Yeah, I think that's pretty much the perfect model and I wish most companies would adopt it. It supports both types of customers: people who always want the latest updates and features, and those who want the most stable software.

I am firmly in the second group, but get why so many people prefer the first. I like that those users can get all of the updates they want, while I don't have to constantly burn mental energy figuring out UI changes and new bugs.
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Sure you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_of_Tide_Pods
Wasn't aware, good to know there's more options, ideally there'd be a lot of different options to keep this functionality in some obscurity

What you described is called gaslighting
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Did you even have signed apps (typically) installed in Leopard?
Anyway, it depends on the standard of proof. But for the parent comment, it's fairly easy to get most reasonable people to agree that it's false. As a reminder, the claim is about:

> the number of Mac users running 100% signed code

You just have to ask yourself:

- what percent of Mac users run Javascript code

- what percent of Javascript code is signed.
It's a real time-saver.
One thing I wish you could do is have two different copies of an input - in my case, I wanted a video stream input (webcam) where I apply one set of filters to it for one scene, and a different set of filters to another scene. Seems like filters are globally applied to the instance, and you can't have two different scene elements with the same video input device.
How can you make that statement given the piss poor testing going on? The numbers are not trustworthy.

Where are the drivethru testing centers, where anyone who wants a test can get one? Those were promised weeks ago.

Tests are still being heavily rationed.
Because the text displayed in the dialog is specified by the caller.
commit 3f858d836a1d07c5ba682ba327df0711e7ada8fd
Author: Frank Denis <github@pureftpd.org>
Date: Tue Mar 31 21:53:48 2020 +0200

Add doh.nsa.gov
Weird things that happen in your brain when you videoconference
With a quick DuckDuckGo-ing, I found this intro to be really understandable compared to most links I read:

https://z0ltan.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/conditions-and-resta...
I've tried googling and didn't see any blog posts. 140 chars is certainly enough for someone to link that :). Anyway, thank you for making me and others aware of this blog.
It's a spinoff of the covid crisis. The rush to remote work has made Zoom much more prominent than it was a few weeks ago. This has attracted a flood of attention, so a lot of spotlights are trained on it right now. For the same reason, we've been hearing all about ventilators lately [1]. That's not a ventilator plot, it's article moths flocking to the spotlights.

With Zoom there are compounding factors. Software, video conferencing, video conferencing software, and software businesses are all topics in HN's wheelhouse—as is anything security or privacy related. There have been security and privacy surprises (shall we say) with Zoom in the past, so people are naturally hunting for more. Also, readers are primed to pattern-match any new findings as part of the ongoing sequence. That's a strong multiplier. Familiarity reactions—cache effects, if you like—magnify how much attention a story attracts. There was a similar, though slower-motion, sequence of stories about Facebook last year.

It's not a YC company.

When there's a major ongoing story, such as the current crisis, floods of follow-up and copycat posts appear, since every website and media outlet wants in on the action. After the Snowden deluge of 2013, we learned to moderate these counter-cyclically, so that HN can surf the big waves without getting totally sogged with repetition. The test for a new submission on a MOT (Massive Ongoing Topic) is: does it contain SNI (Significant New Information) [2]? If no, we downweight the MOT. If yes, we try to have one thread about each SNI. I just made up those TLAs.

Zoom has become a MOT in its own right. You can tell that when objections like [3..9] start cropping up. The question is: is the OP a SNI?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749596

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743303

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748549

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750059

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750251

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22753810

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754138
Yes, full namespace-based user management (SSO, LDAP etc) with lenses.io.
I had some audio issues today on a zoom and they helpfully asked for me to sudo to fix the problem

https://i.imgur.com/oCqmZZ3.png

"just to shut the error up" is about right.
> I actually like my morning commute

This one has really surprised me! (It probably helps that I have an easy bus commute.) I actually have been finding that my evening commute is critical to my mental health -- who'd have guessed that, it's usually the other way around! It's been the way I detach from work, and separate my "work headspace" from my "home headspace". Historically I've been really good at leaving work at work and home at home, and this crisis has been revealing just how big of a role my commute played in doing that. There are ways you can cope (e.g., end your workday by going for a walk), but it's taking a lot of experimentation to find a routine that works well for me.
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A prominent branch of a project named after the maintainer, accompanied by a version number?

That's a reasonable option for what "Catalina" might mean from context clues. Have you never run Alan Cox or Con Kolivas?
This is gold

>> My nightmare scenario is that the Web grows into a rich application platform in an operating system-neutral way, and then a company like Siemens or Matsushita comes out with a $500 “WebMachine” that attaches to a TV. This WebMachine will let the customer do all the cool Internet stuff, plus manage home finances (all the storage is at the server side), and play games. When faced with the choice between a $500 box (RISC CPU, 4-8Mb RAM, no hard disk, …) and a $2KPentium/P6 Windows machine, the 2/3rds of homes that don’t have a PC may find the $500 machine pretty attractive!
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> I imagine that if Amazon agreed to that one demand, the workers would be ECSTATIC, because it allows them to get paid whether or not they decide to keep coming to work.

I don't think you're going to see a lot of that because most people are decent and honest human beings.
That's great! A known shortcoming of Gotenna is that it assumes civilization (play/app store, Internet access) in order to set it the device, which isn't totally reassuring to go off into the wilderness with (its primary use case).
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The blog post is linked to in the article being discussed and honestly would be a better link.
And god forbid that you repeat two characters in sequence
"Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag" is another great book showing how brutal life can be.

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

"The Soviet Story" is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941. It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Katyn massacre, Gestapo–NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG.

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I just use Quicktime. Open up a a new video recording, but don't start recording. The video recording window has an option to "float on top" — use that to put your video on your screen where you want it. Then you can either open up a new screen recording (for offline recordings) or just share your entire screen on your favorite conferencing platform.

I also use desktop backgrounds smartly in conjunction with multiple spaces.
Thanks for the contact, will reach out. We would love to learn more about your experience. Kelly in the City is a great example.
You tell that to the people who can't make ends meet.

Absence of opportunity is poverty. If the opportunities go away so does the prospect of getting out of your situation.
This is entirely not true when discussing the conditions of work: see the National Labor Relations Act. Nor is it strictly true for speech that takes place outside the workplace.
Ideally if we closed off the borders early to non-citizens + temporary residents, we’d be in an entirely different situation.

The administration did things half-assed. At the first notice of the virus, Trump was in denial. The first case was on Jan 20th. After 40 days they were still downplaying it saying it will go to zero.

The borders and airports were where it would spread. Ideally every incoming passenger would have been tested. Every single one.

The other way would be to lock down hotspots. Like China locked out Wuhan from rest of country. However in US many things are just hard to achieve since we are a democracy.

US most likely will have more deaths than other countries, mostly because we have third highest population. China and India seem somewhat competent. I guess time will tell.
> Our classification implies that 34 percent of U.S. jobs can plausibly be performed at home.

If even 25% of jobs could be made remote, that would be huge. The reduction in automobile traffic, the improved happiness of workers(who want to work remote), as well as parents being around more for their kids, would benefit society overall.
Your name is syntax, but it seems like you're only arguing semantics. Those countries have lots of properties of both capitalism and socialism.
> Don’t use it. Problem solved. You’re being a moral policeman too.

I was just talking about you, and what I see as "No, _you_ are the moral policeman." ddevault is going to morally police you? With HN comments? Like having a conversation with the UK police, or Congress making laws?
Maybe they are advocating companies pay the liability, raising the price and incentivizing safer practices. Without some kind of labeling laws saying how many estimated to die per strawberry, you’d have to do a research project on every brand.
> At best it buys you time.

That's the very point. It takes some (or a lot of) burden off the health infra. Lockdown is being done in many countries so that not everybody will need hospitalisation at the same time.
What Constitutes a Vulnerability?
There's a big difference between "the job can't be done safely" and "the way the job was done previously wouldn't be safe if they continue doing it that way".

There's literally no step in "picking strawberries" that can't be done while maintaining social distancing. It will increase the cost of labor, and force humans to be treated like... humans. But farming isn't inherently unsafe re: coronavirus.
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I'm just saying, in the age of globalization, it makes sense to push out your April Fools' joke once it hits April 1st somewhere.
How are you planning on modifying the script?

The network can't do it if it is downloaded over TLS. A malicious host can already ship evil scripts. Malware on the local machine can already do worse that edit a script.
This kind of depends: if you live alone or you have the ability to isolate yourself from everyone else you live with, be it flatmate, partner, family, etc., then yes. In that respect I am absolutely loving it and I find a lot more motivation to work(contrary to what I imagined).

HOWEVER, If you have to work with 2 4 year olds running around all day long(or someone who requires attention in any way), I'd argue things change drastically.
Last week I walked out of the grocery store and saw some grouch blow his nose in the air and sulk off.

How much disease is preventable? A lot? Like over 90%? How much is spent on trauma? Car wrecks. Falls. Burns.

How about we start there.
Planet Money did a good podcast on this topic recently. I learned that it's hard to follow CDC guidelines when you're sleeping 20 in a garage and there's only enough water to shower every few days.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-an...
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Wouldn't state machines in a logic programming language or even just a constraint programming DSL be better than doing everything manually?
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Families consist of more than one person. It's more accurate to say that this is opt in for the head of the family.

Which may start to show why this is such a bad idea.
I’m not saying it should be that way on purpose, I’m saying that’s what you can expect. No one tests for people using terminal browsers or IE4. Noscript users are in the same niche. I understand why you’d disable JavaScript but I don’t understand how people expect those who make web apps to cater for that.
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Our first case was in January. The US acted too slowly and worse, they acted incompetently. The borders were not actually closed so we knowingly brought back infected people without testing and without quarantining them. That's not closing the borders, that's just incredibly negligent. Criminally negligent. You'd think the government would at least have some common sense and test/quarantine/track people coming back from China. Nope. And as of two to three weeks ago, it's still doing no checks of people returning here from Europe.
Take a look at wlroots [0] for a library that massively simplifies the task of writing a wayland compositor. It also gives many of those lower level things "for free". For an even higher-level API built on top of wlroots, you can look at wltrunk [1].

There are standard APIs for screenshots and screencapture, implemented through the desktop portal and pipewire. Check the top-level post for more info about this -- it's part of why Wayland support for OBS has progressed.

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I'm hoping this is a step closer to being able to image connective tissues too. But being able to diagnose muscle tears and such would also be pretty helpful.

Hard to stay healthy when your range of motion is impaired.
So wait, this doesn’t actually send anything through the NSA does it?
Agreed. But I won't reach for a language that lets me treat all my program's working memory as an undifferentiated integer-addressable array of bytes if I don't need that to solve the problems I'm trying to solve.

... which goes back to the topic of the HN post; that's only one way to look at the state of a running program, and it's a way that has strengths and weaknesses. The utility of it comes at the cost of the program failing in ways programs in other languages structurally cannot fail (unless you do something truly exotic, like implement a subset of a C++ compiler or interpreter in that language).