skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a blog post, so shouldn't really be a Show HN. Take a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> This week has been particularly bad regarding security

Seems like a weird way to phrase it, when talking about security fixes. If it was about security vulnerabilities, I would understand you say it's bad, but in this case it's about fixing vulnerabilities, that's good right?
Deriving the Y Combinator
There's a component to it that we haven't found yet (blood type, genetics, obesity, glucose levels, etc).
No, herpes, chickenpox + shingles would be the counter examples.
just a heads up, the page you linked seems to hijack the scroll bar on safari and is generally unusable (clicks not working, etc). it appears to be your bundle.js coming from assets.ubembed.com that is causing all sorts of issues.

might be something to look at.
$1200 is barely enough for one month for most people. for a lot of urbanites, that check will get eaten by rent more or less immediately. if not this month's rent, next' month's rent, and so on. if not rent, then food. or healthcare. or essential utilities, or car payments.

when things get tough and there is scarcity, people save more and spend less. as far as the unemployment benefits go, i think most people will still be very reluctant to spend on anything other than staples until they have a sustainable way of generating income that isn't dependant on a government program.

many of today's workers remember the duration of the unemployment benefits offered during the great recession -- and they remember for how many years economic conditions were difficult long after those benefits ended, even including the extension programs. everyone sees that there is a substantial chance of an extended and deep COVID depression which might dwarf the great depression and will certainly dwarf the great recession. you're not going to convince people to spend money in that environment.

plus, most of the things people would usually spend on are either explicitly off-limits or unlikely to be purchased in the current situation.
It’s Time to Improve the Scientific Paper Review Process – But How?
I think the problem is how we look at risk in the context of our cognitive biases.

Although given a long enough timeline a pandemic is all but guaranteed, on a annual or election cycle it scores pretty low on the probability scale. Our gauge of the severity may have been misrepresented due to the once-in-a-century nature of this event.

Juxtapose that with issues that people face in the immediate term like budget shortfalls, service disruptions creating disgruntled electorates, etc. I think it's easy for powers-to-be to convince themselves to gut preparations for a pandemic in favor of more 'guaranteed-to-happen' short term crises. Combining poor risk assessments with a recency bias can incentivize these kinds of decisions.
Engineering society around the police is how you end in a police state.

>I think this sort of thing leads to a lot of frustration on both sides.

The police can be frustrated with the fact that catching the bad guy is hard sometimes. I can live with that.
Though both Result and Future types can be described as a monadic shape, it only works if you fix the Error type. Even then, you've lost the value in the Result entirely. The interesting and useful thing about a Result is the part of it that breaks from the monadic mold, the error case.
Replace www with old on reddit. Removing some large query parameter before submitting to HN, removing the last parts of the URL to get to a higher section of a web site.

I edit URLs all the time.
>get shit done.

Call me prude, but this kind of copy turns me off to the product.
Best part of this laptop first address bar is that it shows less (half of) information than the old one (lengthwise)
Lockdowns flatten the “economic curve,” too
I'm not certain if you are talking specific to coronavirus, but it is not unheard of with viruses. For example, chickenpox/shingles or herpes.
Many of the COVID tests are not cleared/approved or even authorized for emergency use yet. But, this is what we are having to rely on to count confirmed cases due to the circumstances.

https://www.questdiagnostics.com/dms/Documents/covid-19/SARS...

"Is this test FDA-approved or cleared?

No. This test is not yet approved or cleared or authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). When there are no FDA-approved or cleared tests available, and other criteria are met, FDA can make tests available under an emergency access mechanism called an Emergency Use Authorization. Quest Diagnostics is working with FDA to obtain Emergency Use Authorization."

And the tests that are authorized for emergency use are not FDA cleared or approved.

"Testing was performed using the cobas(R) SARS-CoV-2 test. This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by LabCorp Laboratories. This test has not been FDA cleared or approved. This test has been authorized by FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). This test is only authorized for the duration of time the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostic tests for detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 infection under section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner."
i think our plan would be to come up with a new plan
It seems like they bootstrapped themselves using an ICO.
You are proving my point with this bigoted response so please no need to bother 'replying' to my comments. Thanks.
> Sorry, a former user talking respectfully about the shortcomings of your software project is not "abuse."

I do not agree that Luke's article fits that description.

Luke's post talks not only about the software project, but also about Evan personally. It's not direct but that doesn't matter. (You cannot make something respectful just by phrasing it indirectly.)

He moralises and talks about Evan personally, by implying strongly that Evan does not live up to obligations that Luke has decided Evan has to others, with the additional twist that it doesn't matter if that implies a free-labour obligation.

That was avoidable. Luke could have framed his discussion about how Elm is not suitable to his needs and why others should be aware, in an actually respectful way that did not frame it as a set of obligations Evan was failing to satisfy. But he did not.

Talking about obligations is not always disrespectful, but in this case I think it was.

If you have been on the receiving end of that sort of thing in a public situation, you may or may not have experienced that it can entrain a mass of many people's responses to an overwhelmingly stressful degree, depending on how people collectively respond to it.

People who write such things may not care about that, but these days they have no excuse for being unaware of the possibility. (I don't want to devalue the word "abuse" by overusing it; and for example I wouldn't vote to remove someone from a group I ran for what was written this time, but if it kept happening over and over then eventually I would because I have seen what can happen if action is never taken).
Something like PREP (anti-HIV drug for people in high risk groups) probably. There also might be a lot of deaths and suffering if it takes a long time to create a coronavirus prophylaxis medicine.
Cory Doctorow to Speak at Reset Everything, April 29
> I hope the pandemic lasts long enough to make some of these things permanent.

PEOPLE ARE DYING. This is A DISASTER. Have some fucking compassion, good grief.
That is just in America, the rest of the western world will plan far better because short term profits for the rich are not the overriding factor.
I heard that most of the elderly in South Korea already live in isolation.
Both of your "taboo thoughts" seem blatantly obvious to me, and not especially taboo. Intelligence obviously exists and some people have more of it than others, even if the metric "IQ" doesn't perfectly capture it. And yeah, some people are not cut out to be programmers. Why are we pretending otherwise?
Indian report about the improvement of the air quality due to the lockdown
I appreciate that the UI is fresh. I'm tired of the trend of desktop apps not taking advantage of larger screens and instead just shoe-horning mobile "feed" designs into a floating window.

Not convinced that tagging is better than channels for large teams. Seems like there would be an explosion of tags to keep track of.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on Teams.
It looks like you currently need to go to about:config and enable layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled. It worked for me without enabling web render. Not that this does much good until it's on by default.
Where's the study and data? What's the time frame we're looking at here?

This German study (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20030502v... -- see the graphs near the end of the PDF) suggests that viral RNA may be detectable in recovered patients for 3 weeks after symptom onset, or longer (the study seemed to stop testing after 3 weeks, despite some recovered patients still testing positive for viral RNA). But they were unable to isolate live virus after about a week post-onset.

Could this be what we're seeing?

If you're still worried, I recommend looking at this small study on macaques designed to test immunity (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1). They found that the macaques did develop immunity and were able to fight off the virus on reinfection. If we compare with the this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/) on the development of immunity in response to the original SARS virus (I'm not sure on the exact mechanism of immunity, but if the body's immunoglobulin response targets the spike protein, then it's probably similar), we should probably expect antibody production to continue at least a year after infection, if not for 3-4 years after.
Highly recommend Ripcord[1] to anyone who dreads opening Discord or Slack.

[1]https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Cool! Sent you an email
The markets are up much more than a mere few percent.

Going off closing lows, the SPY is up ~25% from it's ~223 close on 23 March. The Nasdaq Composite is up ~19%. That puts them back at mid-late 2019 prices, not 2016-2017 levels.

This all agrees w/your latter point - investors are already bullish again - but I wanted to add data points to supplement the market has recovered much faster than some people realize.
I am not an expert in this area, but the problem is that these things all have very different kinds of permissions, in a sense... I'm not sure what being polymorphic over ownership looks like.

I don't think that anyone who understands this stuff deeply denies that there's good use cases for HKT. There's just not a design, and we're not sure that one actually exists. And a general perception that GATs will give us most of the big benefits of HKT in a way that feels more Rust-like. That being said, there have been a few attempts at this. We'll see.
Fixed but it looks like it is still hiding behind a toggle on about:config.
Good question!

I found a demo here on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/4hu0B2F4HU4?t=12m
if bureacracy held up the spread of a live coronavirus, we wouldn't be in this mess
can you get 4chan to start using hcaptcha, I can't tell you how much I hate Google recaptcha. not to mention the brainiacs at 4 Chan have figured out how to solve Google's recaptcha easily.
Email: Send me $100 for details on a security flaw in a website
Beats me, but that's not really my point anyway. Displaying photographs was cited as a good use case for an e-ink display, and as a photographer who puts considerable effort into producing high-quality display prints of their work, I felt it worth explaining why that's a terrible use case for e-ink.

(Anyway, why do people frame newspaper front pages? Given the total lack of archival quality in newsprint, I could see scanning and printing to frame in a way that'd hold up better over time.)
Neat. I was looking for one of these. Wanted to make a KindleBerry Pi to do some writing/coding in a destruction free environment.
Zoom just got Hacked in Singapore
Docker has a number of security layers that can make breakout more challenging, specifically dropped capabilities, a seccomp filter and (on debian/ubuntu) an AppArmor profile installed.

I wouldn't agree that it's trivially possible to breakout of a default configured Docker container, not every attacker is packing a Linux Privesc 0-day and the knowledge to use it.
It's easy to be right in hindsight. There was some probability it would've never left China. Let's say the probability was 10% of it leaving. If we need airport screening for a mere 10% chance of a virus potentially entering the U.S., we will always and forever screen people's temperatures at airports -- because there is always that (small) probability of a novel infection entering our borders from somewhere (China is one of 195 countries, after all).

Is that what we want? I think it seems to be the case. We could be entering a new normal.
Does that make Google or Apple a nation-state? They can make large international purchases too.
Ah, ok, that makes the feature useful now. </sarcasm>
There's a lot of weird statements here.

> This is the petrodollar hypothesis, a debunked theory of global trade.

The petrodollar is a real thing, I'm not sure what you mean by a debunked hypothesis. I assume you are speaking with knowledge that Nixon used the petrodollar to stabilize the dollar after the abandonment of the gold standard. [1] Can you elaborate on how this is "debunked"?

> Oil is globally traded. It can be and is priced in many currencies.

Not if you're buying oil from Saudi Arabia or OPEC. Which is the point of the petrodollar.

> Those dollars can be reused for trade or invested, the latter supporting dollar financial markets. Both support dollar hegemony, which in turn drives its dominance in global trade and finance.

There is nothing unique to the dollar in this statement. Swap the dollar for the pound, and it is also true. All currencies are traded, and more trade in that currency makes the currency stronger. The point is that the petrodollar artificially strengthens the US Dollar, because it is artificial demand for the US Dollar.

> Oil is priced in dollars, and countries borrow in dollars, because dollars reign supreme. Not the other way.

This is very circular logic. Please help me understand your point here. Because it seems like you are saying "The dollar is supreme, therefore the dollar is supreme." But _why_ is the dollar supreme in the first place? And it certainly isn't just because "American consumers spend in dollars." All countries's consumers spend money in their local currency. We must look at why the dollar is unique.

> Argentina and Turkey’s currencies devalued relative to their trade-weighted baskets of currencies. The dollar was not a driver of their problems.

The dollar is a large portion of their "trade-weighted basket of currencies". Seems weird to admit that and then say it had nothing to do with their problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling#History
Pause? There is no way I'm taking my family to a crowded restaurant until either full scale frequent testing (with intra-region travel quarantine) proves it's gone or an effective vaccine is deployed at scale, or lastly if some medicine which means you get mild symptoms and no after-effects is developed.
Another way to run WASM in Kubernetes would be to use Lucet (from Fastly) inside a Firecracker microvm, managed by Kubernetes with something like Weave Ignite
A Sweat Sensing Patch Aimed at Athletes Takes on Covid-19
There's a populist war on expertise. Arguably justified when fake expertise is available for hire. Think big tobacco paying for studies (expertise) to say smoking doesn't cause lung cancer. When this becomes rampant, eventually there's a public trust issue.
That's cool but it still requires compromising privacy by providing a phone number.
Must-WATCH: Live broadcast of the nearest star
No politician wants to say it, but the plan regardless was to quarentine until a vaccine comes out in 1 or 2 years.

That or accept the 0.5 percent death rate with the "flatten the curve" method where we all catch it.

Your concern means we'd only have situation 1, quarentine for 1 or 2 years.
I wonder how many engineering hours they use to strip the mobile web version of features to force you into their app. That is one reason I'll never install their app and won't miss them when they're gone.
> No rights are absolute. Your right of free speech famously has limits; "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" is prohibited.

Thats a terrible analogy as it’s not a partial limit that’s being applied here. It is an absolute removal. If a citizen is not allowed to create their own firearms or order them by mail, closing local stores is a total elimination of that right.

> Temporarily closing gun shops, like shops for anything else not required for daily life, is absolutely reasonable.

Says you. Your personal opinion of which constitutional rights are required for daily life does not dictate which ones others enjoy.

> If you claim that guns are required for daily life, that says more about your country than any other point here (and not in a good way).

You could make the same facetious statements about the 1st, 4th or 8th amendments as well.
Card style chats feel a bit limited in 2020. I'd like to see full-window chats with the conversations I've subscribed to in the left panel. Like Slack but everything is a channel or a combination of channels.
"Everyone" says and knows it is going to be bad economically. But thats typical behavior when problems are coming to an end. Is it so? I don't see how we are at the end of those unrealized problems.

Or may be we are looking at an upcoming false silver lining before the real economical problems show up.
The user who runs the docker command can indeed always get root (with a default install, assuming you're not using rootless) but the process inside the container isn't going to necessarily breakout.

That's why --privileged is generally a bad idea, unless you really need it, as it removes the isolation that Docker adds.
The creator of kdb+, the k language, and the q-sql DSL sold his share of Kxsystems (company that makes kdb+) to start a new venture called "Shakti" with a new version of his "k" language. Kdb+ is still around and developing, so I'd say they're forked at this point.
Saying that you can survive defying federal sovereignty doesn't prove that you aren't defying federal sovereignty.
I might agree more if async was just doing the Future type wrapping. However, because it is doing much more, it feels fundamentally different (hence the keyword).

I probably haven't interacted enough with larger rust projects, but I just don't see how "OK(123)" could ultimately cause all that much friction when working with the language.
Oops, Fixed!

I prefixed with "Show HN" because I started this newsletter 7 weeks ago and wanted to 'show it' to HN.

You are right regarding the phrasing (I'm not a native English speaker, so any feedback is welcome). Fixed :)
I assume they mean there are individually relatively self-contained pieces of functionality in the problem statement. Not completing an additional feature would still leave the rest of the project in a good state. Perhaps if you use a vcs you could even leave WIP code in an unmerged branch.
A Common Lisp project that uses SIMD (specifically AVX2) is the Quantum Virtual Machine [1]. It’s a quantum computer simulator. Here [2] is part of the source that has the SIMD instructions.

It’s cool that with using SBCL, an implementation of Common Lisp, you can write compartmentalized assembly very easily in an otherwise extremely high-level language.

[1] https://github.com/rigetti/qvm

[2] https://github.com/rigetti/qvm/blob/master/src/impl/sbcl-avx...
These predictions are so vague as to be basically unfalsifiable, I'm not sure it matters.
Changes how? I'd say being in WWI was much much worse, no? And yet you still don't hear about a great 1919 depression.
If someone considers it the best use of their time, they're better off with extra cash than without.
Looks like boosted upvotes here

Not really solving any problems I have with chat, seems it actually creates more chaos than slack
I found this curious regarding QuestDB[1]:

> Java 8 64-bit. We recommend Oracle Java 8, but OpenJDK8 will also work (although a little slower).

Anyone have an idea why?

[1]https://github.com/questdb/questdb
I appreciate your perspective, but regarding things not being that bad, it depends on your vantage point. I have a few friends with established restaurants in town. As you can imagine, this is pretty dire for them.

They're looking at losing everything they've built up slowly over a matter of years being completely destroyed in the matter of a few months--with ripple effects to dozens of employees that are essentially "family".

It's brutal.

I agree that there are a lot of silver linings, which you've outlined pretty well, but for some folks, it is REALLY bad.
My mom is a nurse. One of her refrains when I was growing up was (and is) "Germs are real!"

People who previously didn't think anything of it will, for decades, be aware that if you're indoors and/or closer than six feet from a person who coughs, you will likely inhale airborne droplets that may contain viruses or bacteria from their lungs. I think this was known academically by some, and the risk was calculated and accepted by a few, but most people wouldn't have expected to inhale airborne droplets from someone they pass in a grocery store aisle.
Another observation: I don't think there is a single company I've successfully working at in the past, where I could pass their interview process today (including my current company). Companies are being extraordinarily picky now, and the interview bar just keeps going up and up.

Companies keep complaining that they can't find talent, while their interviewers are asking candidates to implement red-black trees on a whiteboard in 5 minutes.
We have coronaviruses. There is no "cold" virus really and it's an umbrella term for a few different viruses including coronaviruses. With human adapted coronaviruses - unlike zoonotic covid-19 - you don't get lifetime immunity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7782/

You can just think of booster immunizations and getting tetanus shots when you're exposed. Why would you need those, otherwise? If you want to learn more looking into memory T and B cells.
Very interesting post. One way to get this talked about more widely is to somehow get it in front of Trump.
Here's a Q&A about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPISOM6p60
>> The CDC has a pandemic team, they were let go.
>Can we please stop parroting that distortion of the facts?

I'm not a fan of fact-checker battles but Snopes says "Claim: The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs. True."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
The guy had a genius for simple yet superb art.

An example off pinterest...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e1/ee/70/e1ee708d9a72bb8b8c52c8aa9...
Getting Saltier (2019)
I agree with you. The obvious, implicit motivation behind an article like this is to help other users make the same decision. Denying it only constitutes a reinforcing acknowledgement. It's just a rhetorical device. If someone says "I don't mean to be rude, but you're an ass", they in fact mean to be rude.

A good chunk of everything you hear and read revolves around people trying to get others to be like them and do as they do, implicitly so. (Another good chunk is made up of people justifying, explaining and defending themselves.)