skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden stopped testing people who don't get hospitalized about 3 weeks ago. Before that their death rate was extremely low, on par with Germany.

> However, that strategy has now changed. Authorities have shifted their focus away from testing all possible cases, and instead on protecting the most vulnerable groups. People with severe respiratory symptoms or who belong to a risk group will still be tested.

https://www.thelocal.se/20200320/fact-check-has-sweden-stopp...
Volkswagen launches virtual motor show due to cancellation of Geneva Motor Show
Having developed in Java for many years now, primarily on Windows for the desktop, Linux for the server side, the occasional MacOS desktop and even Android and Android Wear, I'm very rarely reminded that there are differences in platforms.

The biggest issues I've faced:

* On a headless server you can't load any GUI components (mostly my mistakes).

* Android is still effectively Java7. I blame Oracle and Google for this.

I've even recently moved from Java 7 to Java 11 with very little issue.

I'd be interested in people's thoughts about why "new is better"? My own take: you can't sell tools, tutorials, books, conference tickets, etc for something that just works and is well documented with great IDE support.
I always got a kick out of RIM's career website URL. They had a .jobs domain on it.
I would say gc:arc beta quality. Very usable for many programs, but needs more battle hardening. Please try it and send bug reports if you find them! That's how we improve!
Lots of people watch Netflix on their computers…
Ohhh, theoutline.com

I was wondering just how many employees outline.com even had and if they could just run as is with a couple people.
Note that "server" is a role you might use a Mini for, but "Server" in the article's title is a specific software package. You can have a server not running Server.

Also, I bought a Mini for my desktop because it's tiny, cheap, and powerful, and I can use my own screens.
And yet they’re still not encrypting iCloud Backups in a way that doesn’t allow Apple (and by extension the federal police) unfettered access to spying on iMessage. iCloud Backup is on by default, so this means that iMessage for almost every iPhone user is insecure. Incongruent.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
They weren't idiots. They understood that the flu spread from person to person, and that shutting gatherings of people would curtail the spread.

This happened. It's part of history. You can't argue against it. There are thousands of contemporaneous newspaper articles about all the measures that were taken to curtail the spread of the Spanish influenza.
"You're all still here for a reason. Eighty percent of this floor was just sent home. For ever. We have spent the last hour saying our goodbyes. They were good people, and they were good at their jobs, but you were better. Now they are gone. They are not to be thought of again. [...] I've been at this place for 34 years and I can tell you this is not be the last time you're going to go through this. But you all are survivors. And that is how this firm over 107 years has continued to grow stronger. So keep your heads high, get back to work."

Sam Rogers, Margin Call
> Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.

AOC has done an excellent job in that regard :-)
I've participated in Zoom meetings while driving.

I've participated in Zoom meetings while sitting in a conference room with a speakerphone of considerably higher quality than any laptop mic.

The first case is probably unsafe. The second was very common back when we had offices with high-quality speakerphones.
"exercism.io" is such a great name!
@dang Righto - so will you consider asking companies to include some of this information? It's basically impossible to compare job opportunities without it. If you see two similar postings, but one has a 6 week process with unpaid projects and the other is 3 weeks with whiteboarding and past project reviews, it really helps with your job search to be able to compare. Without this information, we're all flying blind.
I apologize if my point on that was misstated. I was using that to illustrate that when California banned plastic bags they actually saw an increase in the amount of plastic and waste generated because there were many things the grocery plastic bags were being used for that people didn't think of.

I was illustrating the idea that just because something sounds like a simple and easy idea there is often a lot of nuance and complexity and that is involved that isn't being considered.

In general I'd say the more simplistic an issue appears to be, the more obvious the solution and the more villainous the other side seems, the less of a grasp an individual actually has on really understanding an issue.
I think building an iMessage-style PKI might be a wasted effort for them. They would need to immediately and silently inject server "participants" that listen in to every conversation (for dial-in or recording), so the permission model is not much better than a shared ephemeral key. To some extent, the difference depends on logging--if you log the ephemeral key or throw it away (or similarly, if you throw away the made-up participant private key or keep it).

Maybe they should allow small groups to establish on-the-fly OTR-style conversations when they can.
> (e.g. couldn't recite essential statistics about mortality rate once one a ventilator off the top of their head)

Couldn't, or didn't want to?
My advice is that if another offer comes up, take it even if the salary is not what you expect. If there really will be a big recession then very soon it will be very hard to find anything. You may end up unemployed for a long time and by the time things pick up, companies will prefer the new grads. In 2002 I made the mistake of being too proud to take underpaid work and it hurt me quite a bit.
I'm a "Permie". The "Permaculture Designer's Guide" is IMO one of the best books on design-- any kind, not just farm --ever. (Did you read "Mote in God's Eye"? This is a book on Motie engineering.)

https://www.tagari.com/store/books/permaculture-a-designers-...

Anyhow, I was reading Smil's "Energy and Civilization: A History" (yes, because Gates) and it dawned on me that the high-touch high-tech (ecology is a science) "horticultural" civilization, as described so ably by Toby Hemenway (RIP) in his talks "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet – But Not Civilization" and the sequel "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture", would be a new, radically new, thing under the Sun. A new form of civilization.

https://tobyhemenway.com/videos/how-permaculture-can-save-hu...

https://tobyhemenway.com/videos/redesigning-civilization-wit...

http://vaclavsmil.com/2017/05/08/energy-and-civilization-a-h...

Combine applied ecology with Alexander's Pattern Language and I think we've really got something.

There is also the possibility of integrated carbon-neutral alcohol fuel production. http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/518

Since it seems like we're going to have to redesign (parts of) our civilization anyway, why not make it really awesome?

(I should add something about wholesome plant-based whole food diet and the health effects but I can't find a good link right now.)
That's part of it, but it's also because E2E is a specific security guarantee which most cloud meeting providers (including in most cases Zoom) don't provide.

Contrast with Gotomeeting's claims[0] that data transmitted between their servers and their users are encrypted using TLS. This is a weaker claim.

[0]https://www.gotomeeting.com/meeting/resources/hipaa-complian... (third table)
IMO Java is not native anywhere.

I prefer to use HeidiSQL running on Wine.
It's good that society is able of achieving that.

It's very, very bad that it's achieved through the mechanism of central government, which uses coercion and a giant monopolic beurocracy apparatus in order to implement that.
You're WRONG. :D :D
It was thought they were formed via responses to e.g. damage-signalling molecules cells might release.

This article is about cells deciding to express genes on their own, via force, independent of any chemicals that other cells might be releasing around them.
"JS makes Google Docs, Slack, and a thousand other applications .."

...I never use.

Take all the JS on all the webpages and throw away every page to which it's not essential. Call the remainder set A.

From set A, throw away every application whose functionality could be essentially be replaced by something like an ASP or JSP/Servlet round-trip hit without it much bothering anyone, as in the olden days. Call the remainder Set B.

Take everything in set B and task yourself with creating a secure methodology of obtaining the same or similar level of utility not involving Javascript or anything less secure.

Compare the effort to do that with the sum total cost of what Javascript has inflicted on the world.

Include in your calculations direct financial losses, expenditures in counter-measures, all the manhours spent in ameliorating all the breaches in security caused by Javascript, all the human toll of being tracked - by Javascript- online...

In fact, let's just keep this simple, forget all that.

Every time any human being in any security agency in all nations the world over is engaged in any activity, offensive or defensive, which has as its ultimate root cause Javascript, just make that the bill you have to pay.

Now look at the net gain (Google Docs!) and the net cost and tell me Javascript is a great idea.

I got some time ago that not everyone shares my hierarchy of values and concerns. You use Twitter and Facebook and Google etc. etc ad naseum... all forks where each time I chose the other path.

But by saying "no" to that steaming pile of shit I don't find I've said no to modernity and I don't find myself disavantaged in any way. Those things are not modernity or even the web- they're gadgets. Gadgets you love and can't imagine living without, that's all, like the smartphone you have, and I don't.

J'accuse our world of the following. We have cost everyone incalcuable wealth, time, opportunity and frankly the attention of some of the best minds of the past two generations all to buy ourselves a very particular, circumscribed and unnecessary kind of interactivity on our computer screens.

We have recklessly trodden very far down a dangerous and even deadly path, step by step, merely because at each point along the way we counted our own sunk efforts and extant artefacts as the measure of all things. This, and we have effectively coerced the world into following us.
Yeah. The answer is almost always "it depends". A may be a better option than B in light of our particular tradeoffs, but almost always A is not better than B in all circumstances.

So if you're advocating A, and you sound like a teenage girl talking about her boyfriend or her favorite band, you're almost certainly junior. If you're saying, given these particular technical aspects of our situation, A looks like it might be a better choice, then you're talking like a senior engineer.
I wonder how many people will die from the economic impact of a prolonged shutdown. I wonder how many lonely older folks will wish they were dead now that they can no longer receive the few visitors they had.

I'd be willing to bet it's more than the actual numbers affected by a virus and an overburdened hospital system.
Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
The linked CitizenLab report (titled "Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto") is worth reading on its own for more technical details: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

Its key findings:

-Zoom documentation claims that the app uses “AES-256” encryption for meetings where possible. However, we find that in each Zoom meeting, a single AES-128 key is used in ECB mode by all participants to encrypt and decrypt audio and video. The use of ECB mode is not recommended because patterns present in the plaintext are preserved during encryption.

-The AES-128 keys, which we verified are sufficient to decrypt Zoom packets intercepted in Internet traffic, appear to be generated by Zoom servers, and in some cases, are delivered to participants in a Zoom meeting through servers in China, even when all meeting participants, and the Zoom subscriber’s company, are outside of China.

-Zoom, a Silicon Valley-based company, appears to own three companies in China through which at least 700 employees are paid to develop Zoom’s software. This arrangement is ostensibly an effort at labor arbitrage: Zoom can avoid paying US wages while selling to US customers, thus increasing their profit margin. However, this arrangement may make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities.
But is the alternative really better? Say they’ll use Skype or WebEx instead, is the situation any better there?
I disagree that these "fads" fade away due to lack of corroborating evidence and results. Has anything in the nonmaterial realm been conclusively disproved that you connect to the decline in popular interest? Academia has a built-in "knowledge filter" (confirmation bias, if you will), and ideas that run contrary to existing mainstream beliefs don't get funding, and indeed get labeled as pseudoscience or explained away (as you have done here, respectfully), until there is a smoking gun. Which, of course, is difficult to find without funding.

For example, the Chicxulub hypothesis was ridiculed until they found the crater. A more modern example is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, which is even starting to sway previously-outspoken "skeptics" like Michael Shermer. These are geology examples, but the principle applies to all fields.

I don't think we have found the nonmaterial crater yet. But I do think that Radin and those before him have found something that warrants taking a serious look at. Not to mention that in the past, we didn't have access to the technology that powers the potential and scale of these studies. Scientific progress is nonlinear, and I think it's worth shaking the snowglobe even if (especially if?) positive results would constitute a paradigm shift.

It's clear you've thought about this a lot too. If you feel so inclined, I'd urge you to check out a Dean Radin talk. Here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sc0vlDmris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-9BxI0zk-M
> they still come out and make amazing little features like this one that nobody thought to ask for

Privacy/security-conscious computer users have been asking for user-controlled hardware switches on such peripherals from the moment they were shipped integrated into the device.
Exposed every day picking up meals vs exposed every other week in the supermarket.
If you have been laid off and looking for a remote job, At Remote Leaf, we have been working on an initiative to curate the remote jobs from Hacker News who is hiring thread. Hopefully you will find some interesting openings here.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NVzygGYTmF3g_VPAh4lX...
Given MTU fragmentation this is not a very bright idea.

It will basically require another framing protocol on top of TCP to make it even remotely usable.
The article was pretty good, a lot of basic intro to analytics. What analytics tools did you use to track the events in your app?
Bug bounty platforms buy researcher silence and violate labor and privacy laws
>Though vaccine development is proceeding at a historic pace, in a best-case scenario a product won’t be available for the general public for at least 18 months, and likely longer.

Without a vaccine, the limiting factor are ICU beds. If 1% of sick people need an ICU bed, then the number of infections has to be limited to 100 times the number of ICU beds.

Now, if people need 30 days to heal, and you have 100,000 ICU beds, that means you can treat 1,200,000 people per year and let 120,000,000 people be infected. There are 300 million people in the USA, so it takes roughly 2 years to reach something like herd immunity.
My point is that there is no comparison to feeding the hungry, and we have all the proof we need that your and everyone else's private donations are not enough.

So, is there a solution in there that doesn't leverage government, or are we going to continue to complain about the baldly positive sides of government because "government bad, situation too complex"?

I very much agree, we don't have a complex understanding of the issue here, so maybe we should stop attacking it.
> The difference is that there is no certificate authority vouching for each participant in a video call's identity, so you would need to do independent identity verification if you want to ensure that the call is secure, which some people would do by reading the public keys of each participant aloud, and people verifying that everything matches what they see.

This is a good point I hadn't considered. It led to me questioning how signal did it "right," and realising that there is seemingly no way around educating users to check public keys.[0]

So if video chats were meaningfully E2E encrypted, we would need a way to verify the public keys, which afaik Zoom doesn't have.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160828135326/https://www.inter...
My bartender friends are some of the smartest, most capable, most hard-working people I know.
Won't mailgun send all of the same information via event callbacks, or is there event information only available through their web interface?
I've become a huge fan of M4. At work, we needed to create a container that would create templated configuration files based on environment variables. We were considering using Mustache or other existing template systems, but most of them are fairly closely coupled to a programming language. We didn't want to tie container creation to a language runtime, and M4 seemed to be the most mature, well-documented (albeit crusty) language agnostic macro system.

M4 was easy to use, and unless you do something crazy, fairly easy to read. I ended up moving most of the actual envar reading/processing logic to a single base m4 file, and so the actual templates would import all necessary variables from the base m4 file and largely keep the original structure.

I wish there was a more "modern" (read: ergonomic) descendant of M4, but M4 is easy enough to understand, flexible, and extensively (if not well) documented enough that it's easy to use, stable, and fast enough for most of my use cases.
Yeah. Never just answer "Yes" to a question. That can be recorded and played back as the answer to a different question. (By the way, the same thing is true when talking to reporters.)
It could be done using WebAssembly. But AFAIK all existing Common Lisp implementations want to manipulate the stack in ways that WASM disallows.
Federal government spent millions to ramp up mask readiness, isn’t helping now
Many people were never taught this stuff and the world does not exactly go out of its way to make it obvious how to play the food game properly. All the advertising and all the media point you to inefficient purchases. And really, I guess most poor people are doing exactly what I talked about -- buying and eating efficiently. It's the counterexamples that make the news.

Also FWIW I'm not saying it's easy to be poor. In many domains it's extremely painful and difficult. But I think we can acknowledge that while also pointing out that meeting food needs using $500 of SNAP benefits is an eminently doable challenge.
I would to as well. I can easily have a smaller grocery budget when my kids are in school and I eat at work. But if we are eating at home time is not always there to cook. The poor usually don't have time to cook. I have more time to cook now and eat at home which has lowered my grocery budget quite a bit. My cost of food dropped the wealthier I became.
maybe I'm just too cynical, but I have a hard time believing it would work out that way. the difference between the cheapest and most expensive brand of pasta is at least 4x. why wouldn't you buy the nicest brand every time? if the tax bracket adjustments had any bite, you would end up with poor families owing more tax than they earned income. this ends up basically equivalent to means testing anyway.
Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing [pdf]
Isn't it announced here in this release : --gc:arc and linked explanatory video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA32Wxl59wo
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I completely disagree with that assessment. Disclaimer: I've been doing front-end for a long time. I've tried all sorts of ways to transpile/compile/deal with Javascript. I've tried Coffeescript, Typescript, Babel, Traceur, Fay, Haste, GHCJS, looked into Elm, Purescript and Reason, KotlinJS and ScalaJS. Clojurescript is one of the most stable and better choices for writing production-ready web-apps.

Clojure, currently is the most widely used Lisp dialect in the industry. Lots of people trying it and find it massively productive. Just because some lispers "don't like it", doesn't make it less valuable technological choice.
The US spread is a few weeks behind the other countries. People are projecting based on incubation time and mitigation response what will happen. The US growth rate is on track to make everyone else look peachy keen.
Situations change! Is anything more true right now? Amazing that you had the opportunity and foresight to completely change your product.
helpwithcovid.com. I believe there is quite a bit of demand on some of these projects.
New York has a tech response team that you can volunteer with to help out: https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-state-covid-19-technolo...

See HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723098
youre really showing your true stripes here.

>Especially if it takes taxing the "rich" more.

im not sure why you put rich in quotes since that's not what I said. however, the majority of tax revenue already comes from businesses and high-income tax brackets. what do you think is a "fair" share, since theyre already footing the bill?

> Imagine the chaos that would ensue...

youre being sarcastic, but im not sure why. American capitalism has helped catapult the world into a standard of living previously unimagined. most socialist experiments have ended with millions of dead, and the current socialist successes are either brutally authoritarian and/or 1/100 the size of USA.

> This can only push innovation!

if you want to stop using technology that was gained in some part by the "needless" (whatever that means) suffering of others, then good luck; you've got quite the task ahead of you.

> That would certainly make for a better society!

im making good-faith arguments including first-principles. you respond with false dichotomys, straw men, putting words in my mouth, sarcasm, and generally being a piece of shit.
Companies maybe. I bought the last of the previous generation to have a small desktop with redundant internal drives. A Mac Pro would have been budget overkill.

At the time is was useful, as the Mac desktop was my daily driver. Unfortunately current macOS versions are really sluggish, so its currently a home "server" running Fedora 31.

The 16GB RAM limit is becoming a bit of a problem, so I will likely replace it with an Intel NUC.
I've always attributed that user-tradition as a Jobs byproduct; he was a unifying force for the user experience and that role hasn't been filled since his passing. There are lots of hands involved with many projects, but it feels there's no point-person or champion on this for many years.

From going back to dongle hell of the 90's via USB-C, to the conflicting marketization of the macOS products, the connectors proliferating on the iOS standards(now lightning and USB C!), the conflating of iOS apps into macOS space, dropping magsafe; it doesn't feel very user friendly when you start getting into the details.
March numbers for overall unemployment rate have been published, but they’re wildly inaccurate because their reference date is mid-month, before most layoffs started.

So we don’t really know yet with precision, but it’s getting close to Great Recession levels.