skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link, that was a fascinating watch, but I don't think they're modeling a return to normal life there. They assume a transmission rate that is decreased by social distancing measures, and they leave the transmission rate constant over time. I think that means they are modeling what happens if we continue the same social distancing practices indefinitely, rather than a return to normal life.

Another way of looking at it is that they are modeling herd immunity under social distancing, which is achieved at a lower infection rate than herd immunity under normal social behavior.
Great to see.
When someone runs out isn't the relevant stat. A person could receive $100/day and still run out in 17 days if they are ridiculous. The real question is can a person reasonably feed themselves on $4/day. I would submit the answer is 100% yes for the vast, vast majority of locations in the US. You can do your own web search for the litany of sites/postings on how to eat on < $1/day. You have 4x that amount in your budget.

Here's one sample site:
https://www.budgetsaresexy.com/how-to-make-nutritious-meals-...
> Synology's set of first-party OS packages has 1:1 feature parity (and then some) with every function Server.app either has, or used to have.

That’s a strong statement. Care to articulate? Server.app used to have services for Calendar, Email, Contacts, Wikis, a profile manager (basically an MDM server), Open Directory, VPN, DNS, DHCP and, well, a web server. Would a Sinology really cover all these features?
Yeah, the 'discard' keyword is a pretty cool way to note that you're using a procedure only for its side effects.
> my partner—classical music

> a lot of people for whom strings were tight

There's a bad joke in there about tuning a little more flat, but I'll leave well enough alone and instead send my sympathies.

I have an acquaintance who was nominated for Juno[0], Canada's highest music award, and the entire award process is apparently dead now, no certainly no awards show. This should be her possibly hitting a new high point in her career- a big award can mean future opportunities- and instead it's all just on hold.

[0]https://junoawards.ca/2020-juno-award-nominees/
LyftUp Scooter Critical Workforce Program
The US declared a national emergency on the thirteenth. Every day past that in which they did not quarantine the employee is a far greater risk than the day he came in. And the idea that they didn't understand the risks until the 28th is ridiculous.

You're trying to spin it both ways. If Amazon was just idiotic about their response to the outbreak, why did they pick that moment to suddenly take things super serious and fire the employee?
One pattern I see with videoconferencing is that there never is a tool that works for all. WebEx was great for me but a lot of people complained. We had less complaints with Zoom and as of now Teams works best. I don’t expect this to last though.
Distancing for what, months, years? Lose businesses, homes, future because there's a risk that 1% might die?
Gorkiy: Moscow Covid-19 person tracker
> What are you talking about that requires encryption?

The UK are using it for Cabinet meetings - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52126534
SNAP is supposed to be supplemental no?

As, a college student with limited funds, I noticed I could keep my daily food costs down to 1$-3$/day range by eating healthily: It's at least 4 times cheaper than eating at mcdonalds. (and this was in CA, one of the most expensive areas) https://kale.world/eating-healthy-is-four-times-cheaper-than...
> But thank you for regurgitating the ignorant "bread lines!" trope when there are actual, literal bread lines in the US right now!

I am aware that there are actual bread lines right now, as implied by my original statement.

Of course, the bread lines we are facing has more to do with (at present) a rapid shock in demand, rather than actual food shortages.

Whereas in actual historical socialist countries (like Soviet Russia, East Germany, etc.) did actually have shortages on a regular basis.

> the fact that socialism has never been tried in a fair way because it is an existential threat to the wealth of people like Jeff Bezos, who prefer to strangle it in the cradle instead.

There is no notion more riddled with folly and arrogance that "socialism has never properly been tried". That the USSR was defeated and China was bullied into submission by the likes of a few wealthy corporations is nonsense.
It doesn't?

I just thought it was a high quality article going over some of the actual technical detail (rather than high-level anti-zoom articles about nothing, like the Facebook SDK).

Two things can be true, Zoom can still be comically better than the alternatives like Cisco/Webex which are universally terrible, but they can also have serious security concerns.

Hopefully this attention will cause them to fix it (though it may be hard to fix the Chinese development shop concerns).

I have some hope that Zoom can improve their security posture, but I have no hope that Cisco can make a good product.
That's a massive change to almost every human culture on earth. I don't think you'll find many people willing to write it off as a minor inconvenience.
Very unlikely. If you're not worried about social engineering then I don't think you should worry about it. Only thing is that sometimes if you do pick up you can be more likely to get those calls, since they know you pick up.
Boyd was an amazing man and his biography is a must read for anyone who wants to accomplish the impossible in life.

https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/B01...
Disclaimer: I worked at LinkedIn. Currently, Linkedin's job classification system doesn't have open API. You can check their documentation but they won't provide access to it. So if you want to use it in our application that'll be difficult.

SOC is a good basis but our API allows you to correct for errors, synonyms, etc... That makes our approach way more robust. We plan to provide a mapping from our classification system to the SOC at a latter time.
I never understood how an expensive device like a camera was added to literally every laptop in existence without any option to remove (save for a few). I can only think manufacturers were pressured.
I don't want it shut down, I want reasonable precaution, but they aren't taking it, so shutting down seems to be logical
Few mac's have ECC..

Which was one of the big problems with the original G4 Xserve. They added it later in the G5 model, but I suspect much of the damage had been done. Most technical people, just ignored it after discovering that it didn't have ECC and the disks were low end ATA rather than SCSI. With the cluster/HPC version the stories changed to how unreliable the machines were.

At that point it seems only the diehards were willing to trust their data to apple server hardware and it died a couple years later.
Not for Linux users. The client repeatedly crashes.
Article says they were drifting during engine maintenance. Likely why they couldn't respond quickly.
The actual law is a little bit more permissive. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/contents/made

This difference between the law and the government guidance seems to be causing a few teething troubles as police adjust to it.
I live in Campbell, which is surrounded by San Jose on three sides and Los Gatos is to the south. I've seen abandoned scooters downtown San Jose and along Lite Rail stops. And yes, off and on when I visited San Francisco.

Granted it seems to have calmed down the past year or so but 2 years ago I was seeing what folks were complaining about on other social media.
The classic intro to this is "Life at Low Reynolds Number", https://science.curie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Purcell_...

Another interesting thing: cells are packed so tightly (not just a bag of water) that proteins grind against each other and against their ligands, increasing the "activity" (even the free energy of ATP hydrolysis isn't the standard 7.3kcal/mol.

Yes, macro-scale intuition isn't great (although people pierce cell walls with tiny needles all the time), but if you spend enough time looking at cells under a microscope, you start to build an intuition about cell and molecule behavior.
The FSF doesn't develop the tools listed in the article. Since it's free software, anyone, including you, can help make it prettier and more user-friendly.

But again, the point of the article isn't about which software is free as in cost or easiest to use. It's about taking an ethical stance despite sacrificing things like a pretty UI.
Ideas for Remote Employee Engagement
Yeah, unless Leibnitz was busy making some tacos.
Kiwi TCMS releases v8.2 – open-source test management
I sent you a request via LinkedIn. My company is looking for data scientists.
Corporate and government mass surveillance in the time of Covid-19
ScyllaDB is far faster, more stable, and requires less config, maintenance and tuning. There's no reason to use standard Cassandra unless you need it for compatibility.
Machine learning on everyone's video feeds to make better deep fakes of common people?

You get the face and the voice of people talking directly to the camera. You get the people who they constantly talk to so you know their relations. You know the content of what they are saying.
Hello Peter, thank you for doing this. I had a couple doubts about the H1B processing during these times - my application was selected in lottery but my employer is going through a tough time and I’m not so sure if we’ll be able to survive till October.

Is there any way to transfer my application to a new employer if I do happen to get another offer? Post grad student on an F1 STEM OPT.

Thank you again!
> In a crisis, communication at speed is the priority.

And UK officials say the risks of not communicating in the middle of fast-moving events far outweigh the possible security risks of using such a system.

They add most government work to do with the coronavirus is unclassified and anything highly classified is communicated over secure systems

Government meetings use the paid-for version of the system and are password protected to prevent "Zoom-bombing", when uninvited individuals intrude on calls.

The UK Ministry of Defence also said Zoom should not be used for classified conversations.

And it is understood Nato's policy not to use Zoom for any meetings, briefings or conversations between member state ambassadors if classified or sensitive information is shared.

Nato staff are understood to be using "more stable and secure" means of communication.

=====

They seem to be perfectly well aware of their threat model
Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims
The web app runs on TCP/443 and benefits from your Let's Encrypt cert. Jitsi also exposes UDP/10000 for receiving streams from clients, which doesn't go through apache/nginx. So what does it do for encryption there?
Hey Peter, I am a German citizen living in Mexico who has been to Iran since 2004. As a result, I am ineligible for ESTA and had to apply for a visa. But its now been in processing with the embassy in MX for 1.5y. What would you advise me to do?
All these downvotes make me sad. I guess we're in a world where people turn off their Alexa for sensitive phone calls instead of choosing not to have an Alexa device in the first place.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22755596

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669968

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477785

Recent and seemingly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761816

Not so recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155155

Not so recent and maybe not so related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311324
IBM Executary Model 212. Magnetic belt “ejected”. https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_450...
I don't think I ever saw it mentioned in HN, but Hop[1] based on Bigloo[2] seems so much more than just a Scheme to Javascript.
If I'm not mistaken, Hop (now hop.js) could even compete in a lot of use cases with Electron.

[1] http://hop.inria.fr/home/index.html
[2] http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/
A little off topic. I find it really weird that journalists have tried to paint this recession in light of other recessions. It feels like apples and oranges trying to compare the two. We've effectively shut the economy off, yet people still act surprised when 6M apply for unemployment. It feels a bit like putting cake batter in an oven and being surprised that you pull out a cake 45 minutes later.
There was also an interesting row from a senior (VP level) at WeWork that would lead you to believe that they aren't in a good state ("f'ed").

That is a good summary of WeWork: "SoftBank, which is run by the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, announced on Thursday it was terminating a $3bn share tender rescue deal hammered out last October to save WeWork from collapse."

Combine that with a lot of long term and expensive real estate leases with nobody working in the buildings... f'ed.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/02/wework-foun...
In the context, I take it the question is about why javafx is better than swing?

I would say javafx produces better eye candy, and the programming model is much better in terms of properties and bindings (not that one can't reimplement a similar framework in swing, but in javafx it is just there).

I feel javafx is still lacking in many areas:

- focus handling is still buggy: one can have multiple nodes having focus and accepting keyboard input

- WebView behavior differs a lot between 8/9/10/11

- mouse subsystem has critical issues on linux

I wish javafx got more support from Oracle, but we know that neither Sun nor Oracle viewed the desktop as high priority. I don't think the situation will change, considering the fact that the majority of development switched to browser-based js.
Meanwhile Zoom uses a bunch of open-source software without the required attribution…
That’s unfair unless you also answer which of your friends you’re willing to sacrifice to unemployment, poverty, homelessness, depression, etc. so we can go on lockdown for longer.

I hate this framing that makes it seem like it’s a choice between caring about people and caring about money. When the economy crashes it causes real misery for real people.
I will stay with Julia because although it gets touted as a general purpose language it's audience is predominantly in the sciences, and it is fast. The article mentions the program fine tuning itself which reminded me of genetic programming. I read Koza's book back in 1997(?).
I might take a look at Swift, but I did think it was a weird choice for Google until I read in the article about Chris Lattner's involvement.
There are details of an API at the bottom of this page. It might provide a way to import what you need.
The question we have to ask, is as an at-risk person, do you have a higher chance of contracting the disease over the course of its activity if you are quarantined for two months but most people aren't, or if everyone is quarantined for a year?

I.e. if during quarantine you need to interact with people once per week to get groceries, etc., and there is only a partial quarantine, many people will be carriers, so each time you go out you have a 5% chance of contracting the virus. Your chance of contracting it during this time is 1 - 0.95^9 ~= 37%.

In the full quarantine, fewer people are carriers at a given time, but the virus will be in circulation longer. So let's say there is a 1% chance of getting it every time you go out. Your chance of contracting it during this time is 1 - 0.99^52 ~= 40%.

This is a simplified model that doesn't account for the way the percentage changes over time, but it makes a valid point.

So the odds of each at-risk person contracting the disease may not be much higher (or possibly even lower) in a partial quarantine, even though more people overall are getting it and over a smaller time period (pressuring hospitals). The advantage being that the world continues to function during this time.
Try applying some reading comprehension and reading the response again within the context of the overall discussion.
Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
I understand your point, CLJS is a superset so it's ideal to understand the substrate that it's based on, it's more complex than just JS from that point of view but usability wise:

lein new re-frame myapp
lein run

or

git clone https://github.com/jacekschae/shadow-reagent.git && cd shadow-reagent
yarn install
yarn dev

It is very much fire and go in a way that a typical JavaScript developer might grok
They were fined for not telling people about the feature. The feature still exists.
Fortunately they are very understanding...
Look up Kotlin Native. It doesn't use a JVM (and compiles to native via LLVM).

There's also Kotlin JS, which targets the JS ecosystem, and comes with tools that let you import TypeScript type definitions into Kotlin, so you can easily interact with third-party JS modules.

A pure Kotlin library could easily be used on JS, JVM, and native/LLVM seamlessly. Which is pretty impressive. All your non-platform-dependent logic could be placed in a decoupled shared pure Kotlin library. Which avoid code duplication that is so common when you need web + iOS + Android client apps. (And the Intel Multi-OS Engine could be used to write your iOS app in Kotlin.)
You don’t remember the whole Australia debacle when their government passed a law allowing them to secretly compel software developers to compromise whatever they’re working on? This is basically the same thing, where we know the Chinese government is capable and willing to coerce anybody in their grasp to serve in their interests. Guess where software developers in China happen to live? China. Where can the CCP most easily wield their power and influence? Also China.
Ext3, ext4, and XFS have a journal that's constantly being overwritten. On Btrfs, the file system is the journal. It does have a bit of a wandering trees problem [1], where F2FS expressly intends to reduce the wandering tree problem.[2] There's also different approaches that don't involve filesystems [3].

But I think you have to assess the crash resistance and repairability of filesystems, not just worry about write amplification. I think there's too much made about SSD wear. The exception are the consumer class of SD Card and USB flash, those are junk to depend on for persistent usage, best suited for occasional use, and all eventually fail. If you're using such flash, e.g. in an embedded device, you probably want to go with industrial quality flash to substantially improve reliability.

Consider putting swap on zram [4] or using zswap [5]. I've used both, typically with a small pool less than 1/2 of RAM. I have no metric for clearly deciding a winner, either is an improvement over conventional swap. Perhaps hypothetically zswap should be better because it's explicitly designed for this use case; where zram is a compressed RAM disk on which you could put anything, including swap. But in practice, I can't tell a difference performance wise.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08514

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/520829/

[3] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast13/technical-sessions/...

[4] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator

[5] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt
At least a decade ago, it wasn't that uncommon for me to see Mac minis kicking around as "office worker" desktops in places that gave developers Mac laptops. Get one of those, bring your own cheaper display, plug in a wired keyboard, and go. My suspicion is that "cheap desktop" has always accounted for more Mac mini sales than it's usually given credit for.
I too would be interested in empirical research about the efficiency of existing purchase patterns by people with limited means, and, to the extent they are inefficient, research into interventions that might improve things.
It's as though the title was "Try these green ways to generate energy" and you responded with a list of petrol engines which are painted green. It's not wrong, it's not unhelpful, per se, but does somewhat miss the point.
Keep in mind that "spring up very quickly" to a geologist is on the order of inches per year.

There are several places currently where glaciers have melted and are experience uplifts on the order of inches a year.
One technique some use is to map the same page in two locations, so you've got a distinct execution address and writing address, both pointing at the same page. That way, you get no protection faults and you don't remap memory repeatedly.
The privileged class knows that congress sells us out. The privileged class are just again working to rob the masses to wealth transfer more to the privileged classes. Happens every year, some more visible than others. Hopefully this is one time congress won't sell us out.
Deep fakes can only work for so long. When it becomes ubiquitous people will naturally learn that anything can be deep faked. We would need some process of verification, then.
Here is a forum thread on doing this that looks to be from the same guy (based on screen caps included), but gives a little more detail: https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/15128
If all you need is audio and text Mumble works very well. It used to be the primary audio chat app for gaming but unfortunately the field has become fragmented with game built in voice chat and platform voice chat (eg Steam).
> Since when is this ability to dial-in such a hard requirement?

The main reason I see people use dial-in, is when their audio or meeting client is not working, for whatever reason. The phone is a nice backup in those cases, and it (almost) always works.
OP's post is about choosing free software alternatives in place of proprietary software that abuses your rights. You recommending more proprietary software is entirely against what the FSF's article is saying.
Smaller gatherings are fine, especially if e.g. limited to folks from your local neighborhood or small town. "Almost every human culture on earth" still functions basically on that scale anyway.
> The people who would die of COVID are nearly exclusively people who would die relatively soon anyway.

Why are we building emergency mortuaries?
"it will start with some simple things like your favorite deodorant brand and snacks disappearing from store shelves"

Something tells me that those will come back on the store shelves, no more and no less but for their market potential (in a restored size market, of course) ...or people will just pick another candidate for their favorite product. I prefer to enjoy the ride to that postcoronavirus world and be glad to live these interesting times in general.
Amazon to delay Prime Day sales event due to coronavirus
Hey Peter I’m about to start a company with 2 other founders. I’m on h1b with a different company today. I need to get my h1b transfer approved before starting at the startup. The New company is about to get funding and then it will file for my h1b transfer. How can I get founders stock? Can the company grant it to me in a few weeks/months once my h1b transfer is approved? The company will obviously be formed by then and also funded. Will I have a massive tax liability?
fatrace
https://piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-ac...