skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else found UK hospital admissions data. UK ER aren't just empty right now but disturbingly so.

Part of the reason they're empty is that pneumonia and respiratory illness has hardly moved, yet cardiac, gastro and others have fallen off a cliff. That implies people with serious non-COVID problems are staying away from hospitals when they need care, because they've been told they have to "save the NHS".

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I'm a contributor to the MetaBrainz Foundation (maintainers of musicbrainz.org and other projects) and have written a few blogs about my contributions [0][1]

[0]: https://paramsingh.github.io/2018/moving-acousticbrainz/

[1]: https://paramsingh.github.io/2017/gsoc-2017-hacking-on-liste...
Same in Firefox:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.leads.breef.io/. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
They were in that space already.

With this new pricing model, it feels like we're getting a generous "free tier" on the platform, but it's implicit.

The "Hobby Plan" section in the ToS sounds like a risky thing to sign up for https://zeit.co/legal/terms#hobby-plan

I'm a solo dev. I won't sign up for the "Pro" plan in the foreseeable future
Tesla announces pay cuts and worker furloughs
Burnin' Rubber, a browser-based 3D action racing game with smartphone controller
Targeted advertisements on highway billboards didn't exist in 1990 and they don't exist today.

However, on the internet, there is no controlling who sees or clicks on your advert without targeting controls, hence why said targeting controls are a godsend and should be protected.
I looked at the data flow paradigm a couple of years ago. Back then I thought that the difference to just a "ordinary" functions is not that big, and for performance (which is important for my data work), you do not want to deviate from the traditional way too much.

Anyone felt the same or can provide a real-world problem, where data flow is actually working better that other solutions?
A Stanford MD PhD who had a recent article in the Wall St Journal was interviewed on video[1]. In the video he refers to this very denominator-related test being forthcoming. There are two things I don't understand. First, why did this have to wait for some approved(?) antibody test, rather than being tried with a presumably research-grade test to start?? Second (physicist talking here), to get a rough estimate (to within a factor) whether exposure has already silently _significantly_ spread, why not relax some rigor in the sampling design and just sample 100-1000 geographically-diverse people to get _some_ estimate that could at least speak to the "is exposure already widespread?" question?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Wd5urg0
I think the OP means the actual, infective and complete virus (fully assembled) as opposed to the RNA of the virus, which can also be released by degraded/inactivated viruses.
Difficult Conditions Don't Always Make for Obstacles
This highlights a problem we should have addressed long ago - engineer a method to reliably educate old people about using modern computers so they could develop the same kind of intuitive understanding we have.
For people coming from a functional programming background, `fold` might be the superior name. But setting aside monads, `map_or` expresses the intent much better I find.
> I'm not trivializing this kind of effort: it takes rigorous sampling designs and dozens or hundreds of field workers, among other things. It's intense but very straightforward. Political pollsters (and thousands of researchers in different fields) do it every day.

I am trivializing it, when compared to the cost of stopping down there economy as we've done.

If there a chance the results can restart the economy a bit earlier, it almost doesn't matter how much it will cost.
True, though ironic in this case since "vote for us because the government is broken (btw we broke it)" is an odd look.

Of course, it's also possible that government already is broken, they did win, and now they are reaping the rewards of corruption. I tend to think this is pretty likely.
7-Zip, now there's a fantastic piece of software. It opens damn near everything, has an ultra-lightweight interface and doesn't have any near-malicious money grubbing schemes.
IFR relates death to total infected, not total population.
The point is that Rust is changing too fast. Not that Go does not change ever.
Most of the design principles covered by the first part of the book are quite generic and can be applied to a broad range of systems. If you are working on embedded systems, the Design for Recovery chapter might be a good start since it contains examples related to constrained enviornments.

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)
It's also a big problem if the hack gained any publicity. Who's actually going to believe "no no, it was actually fake data that got stolen"?
I believe this is not hard to detect. Apple should detect this and report such an installer as particularly risky. Chances are the majority of installers working this way actually are malware, legitimate apps like Zoom and WebEx probably are exceptions.
Mitigating the effects of video call latency through UI
Quick idea: Show a progress bar during the video call indicating how long I have to wait before talking to avoid interrupting the other person? The progress bar speed should change depending on the current latency.
As someone also said, one of the biggest enemies of PCR is contamination, or perhaps the samples had conservation / handling problems which meant the RNA ended up degraded.

Given the (currently) very low numbers of these "apparently relapsed" cases versus the total recovered cases, I think it is most likely.
Commercial real estate could be in trouble – even after this is over
Is it me or are Bloomberg articles in general panic stricken? I've been observing this over a number of articles lately, almost all of them are adjusted to sound like they want us to be more afraid and tensed, maybe my subconscious bias dunno.
Happy to answer questions if anything is not clear or discuss.
It doesn't seem like there's much evolutionary pressure given both the estimated R0 and the asymptomatic transmission to make this disease learn to become less deadly. It transmits just fine despite killing people. I suppose our immune systems will just get better at learning about it (similar epitopes) as we continue to be exposed year after year.
ELI5: I fail to see how essentially breaking ties with your (quite active) open-source community does any good to the qt org | business.
Some of us don’t have security as a high priority. I for example wouldn’t really mind if my computer’s entire contents were published at nytimes.com. What I care about right now is my kids getting to see their family over Zoom or whateverx
Are the Dirk Pitt books any good? I need a new thriller/action series to binge read.
The Windmill source code is now public
I wonder what happened to all the H1Bs and postdocs. Disney Imagineering employed quite a few graduates in Robotics and Graphics (typically, from India and China).
Far too many people on HN seem to think the public facing code that we see is all that the engineering team in a large company works on. There's so much more to running a large SaaS business. If Slack is like all the other SaaS companies I've encountered they'll have dozens of internal apps for sales, comms, analytics, engineering, etc that they work on that people outside of the business never see[1]. Those all need developing and all need deploying.

[1] They might buy in solutions for some business functions like accounting, HR and support, but they'll still have tons of homegrown stuff. Every tech company does.
Innate immunity is not going to learn about Covid-19. That adapts on an evolutionary time scale.

We share Toll Like Receptors (TLRs) homology with drosophila. That's how ancient innate immunity is.
I always read the subtext as "This installer will run a script whose stated goal is to determine if the package can be installed, but y'know, it's a script, and its existence is warranted for doing supposedly helpful yet nonstandard checks that the pkg API-or-something doesn't provide, thus can't be sandboxed, and therefore can do anything else it wants to. Would you like to assume trust and proceed anyway, or would you rather cancel and possibly audit the thing beforehand?".

But that's my paranoid tech background speaking. I can totally understand technical naïveté though.
I agree that storing a reference besides an Entry is probably safer than #touch. It's also similar to arrays slices, where we store reference to the array itself + offsets.

The ST-like region typing can be still useful though, because we get a static bound on the lifetime of a compact region. We'd prefer to avoid leaking space via large compact regions which survive beyond their intended life.
I was mainly referring to personal pc uses, not corp/server users.

It's still technically breaking the license to override TERMSERV.dll's protections on home/professional PCs not allowing somebody to be logged in while somebody else is already logged in.

ie, a home or professional licensed pc can not support 1 user on remote desktop, and 1 user sitting down in front of it at the same time, you have to pay for a server license to get that functionality. This technical limitation is considered a DRM measure and also protected by the DMCA anti-circumvention provision.

if you don't mind breaking the law, I was pointing out how you could use abuse 127.0.0.2 to connect remote desktop to localhost in other to do seperate user accounts for seperate tasks, (such as putting your job hunting activities in a seperate account so you don't get distracted by discord/chrome desktop notifications and reddit in your new tab page)
What big companies? Android manufacturers aren’t exactly flush with cash.
Google bans employees from using Zoom on their devices
It's not about making the attacker think the data is valid. It's about not letting him know whether the data is valid or not.
Ok, I edited eating cells to killer cells, before you replied.
Because with a quick look on english and german wikipedia, I found a bit contradicting information. Anyway, my first post was more right as the macrophage cells are indeed a first line of the defense and killer cells come later (ca. 3 days).

So .. I leave this debate to more knowing persons.
mobile site still under development, thanks for checking out the tracks!
Sex differences in the number of scientific publications
> I might be wrong but for C++ for example every C++ fan seems to happy about every new release (at least happy with new features, not lack of desired new features).

I believe you are mistaken. C++ community has a lot of diverse opinions about its features. As an old saying goes, it is possible to use only the good subset of C++ features, the problem is every shop has its own subset. Even about something as basic as exceptions there is no consensus. Similarly, not everybody is happy about the "modern C++" movement. I guess these people are just confident that thanks to serious commitment to backwards compatibility they will be able to continue writing code in their old grumpy ways so there is no need to loudly express their dissatisfaction.

Rust community is much less fractured (in part because it is smaller and younger) and there is a sense that decisions made today will determine how everybody will write Rust code tomorrow. Combine that with efforts to encourage an inclusive discussion and you get a lot of disagreement visible in discussions, especially concerning aspects that are prone to bikeshedding.
A Linux in Unikernel Clothing [pdf]
Multicluster Gitops with ArgoCD
Multiple teams working on different features rolling their local commits into release branches - and rather than feature related deploys they do time-boxed ones by the looks of it so that they have dedicated support on hand to spot issues and rollback immediately (guessing from what I can see based on the screenshot).

Easy to get that many deploys out the door if you have a managed process like this - fast iteration, lots of different feature bumps and tweaks, different locales, updating even 1/2 links or words in a hardcoded page...
Le*v*andowski != Le*w*andowski

Seriously though, there is no relation that I am aware of. It's a very common surname in Poland (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewandowski).

(I'm Piotr Lewandowski.)
The HN account of Ana Oprea (anaoprea), one of the authors of the book seems to be blocked. All comments below are marked dead. Probably because it is a new account with low karma rating or such.

Can any mod here restore the comments?
There's no reason monad shouldn't be a zero-cost abstraction, to the same extent as any other trait (i.e. using them in cases where the type is not statically known would require boxing, but the abstraction is not really a cost overhead in that case since you simply couldn't write that code at all without it).

Haskell currently uses a garbage collector, as do most languages that we could look to for inspiration, but I don't see that that's an essential barrier. The part I would be worried about doing in the presence of a borrow checker would be being able to form first-class functions, especially closures, but Rust already has those! AFAICS the only other "hard" part is having higher-kinded types and preserving good type inference, but the solution to that is already known (Hindley-Milner).
But 'fold' isn't very useful over option types as there aren't really any non-trivial operations that you can perform on something that's either Nothing or Just x. I think OP was probably thinking of folding over a list of option types, which you can do easily enough in Rust.
Scheme.forth.jl: Scheme in Forth in Julia
Provide value.

If your business provides value/solve a pain point it will do well.
I didn't get very far with Myst.

I really enjoyed Riven, however. Fantastic game. Right up until the penultimate puzzle, and it's a doozy that basically requires you to have paid careful attention to things along the way (my notes were mostly sufficient), and to not be red-green colorblind (wups, I am genetically screwed).

I wrote in to support, and actually got a refund on the game.
Most software is either sold to non-software businesses, or is developed to serve non-software businesses.

Most non-software businesses are about to take a wallop. A ban on travel, and ten million Americans filing for unemployment in two weeks will do that sort of thing.
Show HN: Reboot aviation – track development of air traffic during the crisis
No, you are jumping straight into calling someone a rapist. If I described perfectly consensual sex and you replied "it's rape" with no explanation, you should also expect repercussions for the misunderstanding.

Labeling an act primarily privately and publicly labeling a person are vastly different.

This might answer your question though. If you pointed at someone and said "this person is a rapist," I would withhold judgment until learning more details. A label is not enough to evaluate someone's life. And I try to limit who i casually toss such labels onto, preferring to give some detail into their act.
> At that time, the most influential executives at my workplaces said software engineering in America was dead, to be replaced by cheaper outsourced Indians, and then other countries once they became too expensive.

I remember my first software internship, in 2003. Two weeks into the job, the company's VP came into our office for a little pep talk (the project was way behind schedule). The gist of the talk was that in India there are programmers who are 4x cheaper than us (I was in Poland), so we must be 4x as productive as them. In hindsight, it seemed that the VP was part of the same groupthink as everybody else... Now, I know to not treat such sexy extrapolations that the business people are excited about too seriously. In 2020, they are things like data-driven organizations, AI, autonomous vehicles, perhaps "Industry 4.0"? (I don't know anything about the last part).
Names follow a power law distribution, there are millions of guys named Joe and everyone has a friend with that name. Half of the men in the US have only 100 different names.

Do you think it was just a coincidence in Amazons serie "The man in the high castle" the main character is named John Smith?
Oyo is an Indian hotel chain - of course it will suffer.

I get the allure of the sky is falling but aren’t we missing just how privileged we are having an office job that easily can be done remotely?
'Houston, we've had a problem': Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
Anti-vaxxers and Russia behind viral 5G Covid conspiracy theory
>it is not about magnets

But he was asked a question about magnets...
>But "how" was not a starting question of the interviewer

As your transcript shows, the interviewer asks "why are they doing that, or how are they doing that?".

That seems like it would have been a good point to respond with an explanation of why magnets repel each other.

I don't buy all this stuff about 'how' vs. 'why' questions anyway. Lots of 'why' questions are perfectly sensible scientific questions. E.g., 'Why don't magnets stick to aluminum?'
Hospital cases are all lower respiratory tract, but even just within that group there is huge variety. It starts from 'under observation' for a day, then goes through needed oxygen for a day or two, to progressively worse symptoms, cytokine storms, intubation, organ failure and finally death, from a couple of different causes, such as lung damage (the vast majority of the cases) or heart failure (1 in 5). It can reverse at any point during that trajectory, and can also go back-and-forth.

And the speed of onset, progression and severity can change dramatically from person to person.

Finally, in many cases of recovery there is apparently lasting damage.
It's absolutely true that most western countries underestimated this. East-Asian countries were better prepared and more willing to take drastic action to do what's necessary. Western countries assumed that, like SARS, Asia would solve this. Turns out it's way more contagious than SARS.

Still, once the seriousness became clear, most countries did take action. Trump continued to deny and spread misinformation, even to this day.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

— James Davis Nicoll
In a somewhat cynic remark (and having nothing against the authors), I cannot think of a better timing to assuage someone about Google's competency after the numerous outgages in GCP these weeks. The "Compliments of Google Cloud" sticker on the cover makes sure to reinforce the association.
That's extremely unlikely.

Malware on macOS isn't prevalent. There is no market for anti-virus vendors on macOS, and Apple have been repeatedly tightening the approval process for macOS software. Gatekeeper only ever gets more aggressive, not less. Meanwhile videocall software is widespread, it's rapidly become a necessity for a large part of the world's population. I wouldn't be surprised if on macOS it's now in second place as a category behind web browsers.

No.

What Apple should, MUST do as quickly as possible, is understand and react to what developers here are trying to tell them - the usability of macOS software installation is terrible and no, the App Store is not an acceptable alternative. macOS software install UX is worse than Windows. It's worse than Android and iOS. It's better than Linux but that doesn't say much.

If Apple want to end these practices, they need to deliver:

1. Genuine one or two-click install of software from the web, without the App Store being involved and without requiring sandboxing, allowing install scripts and for signed/notarised software, without any security popups. DMG style installs require drag and drop AND device unmounting, which isn't especially discoverable and hardly used on mobile platforms so some users can't figure it out (hence the reliance on PKG files).

2. Removal of the scary popup that Safari shows when a user clicks a non-http URL.

Desktop software on macOS relies on these techniques because measuring the ratio of number of downloads to number of successful app starts shows that far fewer people make it through the process than they should, for instance, fewer than on Windows. This is a bit of an open secret in the desktop software world for many years now; Google for instance has detailed data on the problem. Each click you add causes the success rate to drop and macOS requires far more clicks than is justifiable. Additionally, the web server trick Zoom uses is because otherwise some non-trivial proportion of Safari users just automatically click cancel on the security popup when a web page tries to open a meeting, without even reading it. They don't understand what they're being asked or why, but figure if Apple want to double check with them it's safer to say no. Then they fail to join a meeting and if they're an important participant, that means the meeting fails for everyone.

Note that this usability problem is Safari-specific. On other platforms and browsers such workarounds aren't needed.

People need to stop giving Apple the benefit of the doubt here. Videoconf firms aren't doing this extra work because they're malicious or incompetent or because they inexplicably like doing work. They're doing it because otherwise a lot of Mac users fail to achieve the task they set out to do, and that hurts the usage of the video platform. It's ultimately Apple's problem to fix.
This book should be suitable for software engineers without security background. There are some sections that might require some knowledge but they are explicitly marked as Deep Dive.

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)
It can't properly do so because those costs vary tremendously by vehicle, location, etc.
My children's school is using Microsoft Teams for classes. The students are:

- kicking out their colleagues

- muting the teacher

- posting memes in the chat room

It looks like you can't prevent them from muting/kicking out each other. There's a larger threat surface of mean pre-adolescents, than a hacker trying to steal their info.
Wow, he said he got stuck with Rust 2015 and I thought Rust wasn’t keeping backwards compatibility, like earlier Swift. Not cool.
The point was that 'enterprise' is not any less 'duct tape and bailing wire'.

Unless you get value out of shifting blame to a vendor or some contract thing, there really isn't much use throwing money at it. In some sectors that's probably still a requirement. I hope I never get to the point where I have to go back to that.
Kubernetes Workshop in a Box
I think it's obviously true that some explanations are more fundamental than others. We have, e.g. a more fundamental explanation of tides than anyone did in 500AD. That is not to deny that it is difficult to make precise what exactly it is that makes one explanation more 'fundamental' than another. As always, individual cases are clear; the general principle is elusive.

>He's alluding to the idea that that question isn't well defined.

It's well-defined enough to answer. Hundreds of millions of school children learn a perfectly sensible answer to the question every year. (Would this answer satisfy someone with a PhD in physics? Obviously not. But that's not the point.)

It's in any case bizarre to insist that a layperson ask a question that's well-defined according to the standards of a particular field.
Yet somehow both Minecraft and git are massively popular, despite these facts.
In a somewhat snarky reply, I can assure you that the book release was planned long in advance, unlike the outages. ;)

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)