skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on a very cool idea that seems well executed. I rarely buy anything on an installment plan (never done it for a phone, etc) but for art it's for some reason very appealing to me. I think I will buy something from here.

If I am paying $XXXX for my apartment each month, $XXXX + $50 to have a beatiful piece of art in it seems like a good idea.

I bought my first piece of real art last year from a gallery and it was a good and bad experience. Good because I was able to see the art in person next to other pieces and actually meet the artist. Bad because the gallery owner was somewhat rushing me and even when I pulled the trigger I didn't get the piece until a few weeks later when the show ended.
It's a excellent software for managing things to do, and I pay monthly for it. It is very efficient to use, works offline and on mobile seamlessly, use a JSON format for storage, and can export in a standard format to avoid locking (even on the free plan).

I use it to manage things to do, listing, etc., but I would not use it for taking notes, IMO. The format doesn't look great for it.

Anyway, the free plan is good enough to try it on, and the customer support excellent.

I hope it will never be bought by some giant.
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And yet, with all of the pearl-clutching in this thread and countless others just like it, nobody seems to be able to point to any real-world exploits.

The threat is purely theoretical. The loss in performance is not.
For $1500 you can buy a 55" 4K OLED screen.

https://www.amazon.com/LG-OLED55C9PUA-Alexa-Built-Ultra/dp/B...
Singapore is very much a global hub of business, and it's high population density makes outbreaks even harder to contain. And yet they're doing a much better job.
ah sorry, the naming threw me off. TIL you can manipulate/compile ASTs in C#!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.expr...

i guess all the macro stuff is under System.Linq.Expressions because LINQ expressions like

from score in scores
where score > 80
select score

aren't just for SQL and can desugar to arbitrary C# code, is that right?
I believe this was how it used to be before the invention of the printing press [1]

> Royal pronouncements typically used a written document posted on the drawbridge, castle door or main bridge into the village, but residents needed the crier to announce the information for those who were unable to read.

[1] https://classroom.synonym.com/did-people-communicate-before-...
Botswana’s stubborn MPs ‘locked up’ after breaking quarantine rules
https://battlebots.com/
I have a suggestion for you that helped me. Try running Android OS like Prime OS (https://primeos.in) in virtual box and you can run those Android apps with low memory usage(I'm assuming that they offer the same experience in Mobile or that you are okay with limited functionality). I set this up for my wife as she kept complaining that her 8 Gb RAM was quickly consumed by Chrome, Slack, Spotify and other apps.

Now the virtual box memory limit is set at 3 GB and she has no complaints. Obviously this is not for power users but it helps a lot when there is a severe shortage in memory
I dont have a family or mortgage and cant fathom affording top PhDs.
https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2020/03/16/understanding-defau...

Sleazy, this is disappointing.
It's the first thing I did after ff updated itself again in the background and I saw that: google for a fix (https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...).
There's multiple people here suggesting everyday people spread a possibly less lethal strain, in ways that will likely spread every other contagious disease they also had.

I think this post needs to be removed now
The elite don’t like plebs breaking into their clubs.
At the end we'll all figure out "immunity" is the best defense. Miracles only happen when common sense takes over.
Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at Two Family Gatherings Chicago, Illinois
I don't think of preparedness as in have huge stockpiles of everything you might need in all crises is the answer. You could never make that happen. It's preparedness as in having competent leaders who are good at interpreting data. Seems like very, very few bureaucrats like that exist. I think I saw Paul Graham on Twitter a couple of days ago responding to someone who was ranting about how they can't understand the moves made and not made by bureaucrats. PG's reply was it's because they are a lot dumber then you think they are.
Poverty kills people, too. That has to be considered when deciding on the appropriate response.
On a single owner desktop system, isn't kernel memory strictly less interesting than user memory, for reads? All of the important things, like passwords and emails and secret keys, are in user space memory or in the user readable file system, generally...
Yes both. The Icelandic data suggests there is genetic diversity in SARS-CoV-2 and the Wuhan data suggests there are strains that are less pathogenic.

There is also a Singapore study that has identified strains with large gene deletions, but I haven’t yet updated the post to include it [0].

0. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987222v1....
First sighting of Majorana fermion on a common metal
Hmm? The only pref I change is "image.animation_mode=none" to disable animated GIFs and videos, and I can understand why they don't set that to the default. What do you find is broken about Firefox's default state? Do you really think most users feel the same way you do?
> Vaccines might not work.

That's not the point I am making. The only solution to virus spreading is immunity. It can either come from a vaccine or it can come from infections themselves. This virus falls within a virus category.

Should the population not be immune to the virus, the flare ups will occur.

> We need drugs before vaccines, to be able to treat the disease and/or its sympthoms and hopefully make sure patients don't end up in ICUs

That's managing flare ups. Look at measles in non-vaccinated pockets of NYS:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/09/us-measl...

The immunity rate (mostly via vaccination) for measles in the US is over 91%. The immunity rate for COVID-19 in the US would be a percentage of people who were infected since there's no vaccine.
Yup. We did get a lot of that with our meeting room solution. We'll be expanding the feature set over the near future, to entice home users to go for something like this even with a price tag of 250.
Heh, I'd rather hesitate on a question and give any answer than boastfully blurt out something that's incorrect
Oh! Speaking of command line and the basics, this one from MIT is amazing. Covers all the basics.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education - https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Contents:
Course overview + the shell, Shell Tools and Scripting
Editors (Vim), Data Wrangling, Command-line Environment, Version Control (Git), Debugging and Profiling, Metaprogramming, Security and Cryptography
I've worked with guys in their 50s and 60s who learned new languages and picked them up and wielded them with far more skill than some 20-something kid.
Not only have they added a new telemetry system, it is added as an active scheduled task, without warning, even if you've explicitly configured Firefox not to send data to Mozilla.

(I have just verified that this is in fact the case on my own system shortly after applying the update, before nuking the unauthorised scheduled task from orbit just to be sure.)
> This abomination has to die, and today would not be soon enough.

These are some harsh words for a user interface change. One would think reading from this thread that Mozilla has committed a crime against humanity.
My policy is to close the window, be it Medium, NYTimes, etc

Plenty of free access websites to cover my needs without them. Why should I jump through hoops if they don't want to share publicly?
> What's the alternative? Every country should become island with no import or exports?

Reciprocity and fairness? Seems like a basic diplomatic concept but apparently it only applies to "important" countries who have enough leverage to warrant it. How can developing countries develop the leverage necessary to negotiate favorable trade agreements with established super powers like the US and Europe?

We need the ability to say "we don't actually need you but we're willing to entertain your proposal if we find it to our benefit". Anything less is actually exploitation. The fact the US can just send an aircraft carrier to somebody's coast to project some force prior to negotiations doesn't help, does it? It was never a level playing field.
> This abomination has to die, and today would not be soon enough.

Please don't use this kind of language. It's software, and a lot of people work hard on it. Sometimes they make decisions you disagree with. There's no need to be rude.
If it was low-band (30 to 50 MHz) police radio, it was most likely sporadic E propagation.
Being Kind While Working in Lockdown
As Cyberdog says, the hoop is that a lot of regular users do not know about.

Moreover, signatures and notarization are there for a reason. Code signing makes it more likely that the bundle was not tampered with. Apple can revoke the certificate if the developer key leaked. Notarization will catch at least some forms of malware.

I refuse to run unsigned code (with one exception), because it decreases security significantly. There have also been severe incidents in the past with unsigned code, e.g.:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/mac-threat-ana...
Learn to code, where to start?
> The browser gives so you much for free.

including arguably the most attacked and compromised software surface in history.
Reducing timer resolution was done early on as a quick reaction by browser developers when Spectre & Meltdown were first publicized.

All an attacker needs to do is distinguish between a cached and non-cached memory read - i.e., was accessing some variable "faster" or "slower". There are lots and lots of ways to measure this. A good whitepaper is "Fantastic Timers and Where to Find Them: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in Javascript".

The TLDR is that timer resolution reduction is ineffective as a speculative attack mitigation.
> Mind maps aren't trees- they are bigraphs

Yes! So many of the mind-mapping software is limited to just trees, plus there's no way of styling some paths differently, the interface is far from ergonomic, in short: I couldn't find an interactive tool for drawing complex relationships between many kinds of content (I want to be able to put an image in one place, then paste a bit of some documentation in another, then connect them in some way, then repeat this 100 times and then have the tool "auto-layout" all the content.)

Here's the thing I'm currently trying to create: https://github.com/piotrklibert/awesome-config - I need it in SVG so that the links are working, plus it would be nice to be able to show/hide portions of the graph. I'm currently using Gliffy, but it's getting slower and buggier with every box added.

Any advice on what to use for things like these?
I got the idea from an article I read about how much candy crush makes everyday ($2.5m) and thought it would be truly amazing if these funds could be used for coronavirus relief.
One of my most common action sequences in Firefox is:

Open new tab -> Click on one of the links in the Bookmarks Bar [1]

But now, when I open a new tab, the address bar is expanded and partially hides the Bookmarks Bar. So it's hard to click on my favourites. Needless to say, I disabled the new address bar straight away.

[1] I'm pretty sure that I do this more often compared to typing something in the address bar.
Show HN: I built a site with ideas to reflect on Covid-19 and it's lessons
Well, obviously, this price is extremely high. But the question is: why is it so high? Is there anything in the technology which makes it even more expensive than OLED technology, or is this a problem with the company, which kind of seems to work hard at preventing the technology to enter the mass market and become cheaper?

And of course, I am very aware of the downsides of e-ink. Readers like the kindle are pushing as far as it is possible with respect for interactivity. But for all kind of mostly static displays, it would shine.
> just difficult enough to make it unlikely for most candidates to complete everything.

How do you judge someone's half-finished work? Do you expect me to write half-finished code on the job?
So then you resolve those issues and go on the attempt #2.
What made the biggest difference for me was using a text to speech reader to proofread and edit. You are able to catch a lot of phrasing that looks ok but sounds wrong or awkward this way.
The WHO vs. coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic
Mort Drucker has died
I've been using nightlies for a while, and the address bar seems fine to me. I haven't even noticed when it changed.

It's a central piece of user interface, so it makes sense to make it more prominent than what a '90s design of a bog-standard dropdown menu allows.

It even logically makes sense to make it like a little popover window, because when you edit the address, you're navigating to a new page, not editing a property of the existing page.

Anyway, overall it's a small issue.
A naturally attenuated strain would still be regulated. In the US, 21 USC §321(g):

> (1) The term "drug" means… (B) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals;

CBER would be the responsible center for the FDA. Other countries have analogous regulations.

Could you come to market with a naturally attenuated strain? Yes. Would it take less time? Not really, because you don’t get to do an “end run around the regulations” as you put it in another comment. The logistics of making sure it works and then setting up the supply chain and quality systems are what take the most time. There are no shortcuts in medicine.
A large part of the bloat is from graphics assets. The icon for most apps is many times larger than these old programs and you can’t do much about that. It’s one thing people don’t realize that happens when you get these hidpi screens.
Thanks for the information, I am a non-native speaker and only picked up the expression from the net. I have to admit though, that I fail to understand the reasoning on that page other than "it means something different".
Noted. The contrast between old and new plus the reference to composer should have pointed in the right direction. But alas.
Your response seems to imply that class and race are not related to each other in any way. In fact, they're deeply intertwined.
It seems like this blurb of code has appeared on HN quite a bit lately, and it's cool to see a breakdown of it.

The next time I write C, I'm tempted to do it Whitney style like this. There really is something to be said about seeing everything at once.
Even better than pooling is griding [0].

0.https://twitter.com/rwade300/status/1247340350076628992
>What do you find is broken about Firefox's default state?

Firefox uses a self-made fullscreen implementation by default on macOS, which is buggy and causes menubar issues. Firefox has code to use the macOS native fullscreen feature, but it's actually hidden behind "full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen" about:config flag. So if you're on macOS and want to fullscreen something on another monitor (and actually have it work proper), you need to figure out that the fix is hidden there.
Android will never work in a cordless scenario. We have device with 3 months autonomy and the next gen device currently nearing production drastically increases that as well. We've evaluated everything embedded, especially Android (love the ecosystem), but there is literary no tech that would give you full operation and full wifi connectivity, months of autonomy off a standard phone battery and Android. We had to develop a lot of proprietary stuff...
Those areas would probably still be relying on 4g/LTE much like how you can still get 3G signals out in the countryside. You're right though. it probably won't help (and may not be cost beneficial in the near-term)
E-ink's contrast ratio is quite poor, typically around 8:1 and with even marketing claims topping out around 12:1. For comparison, a baseline gallery-quality inkjet with good glossy photo paper can easily exceed 200:1, and professional repro methods do better still.

So, emulating newsprint is a good e-ink use case, since newsprint's contrast sucks too. But black and white photos, which depend critically on effective use of contrast for a lot of their effect, will not look good on an e-ink display, any more than they would on a Game Boy.
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Not necessary anymore, you just need to enable overlayfs for unprivileged users https://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-bionic.git/commi...
The US Federal government is similar to the EU; member States have considerable amounts of absolute sovereignty, their own forms of government, and their own legal systems. Importantly, the Federal government cannot operate in a State except with consent of the State, which is withheld in numerous instances. The Federal government works for the States, not the other way around, and the States are free to ignore requests by the Federal government on most matters. Why wasn't the response coordinated across the EU? Same answer applies to the US. It would be like herding cats. The Federal government can ask nicely but no one is required to listen

Externally, the US presents a common negotiating front. Internally, it is 50+ separate countries. Americans interact almost exclusively with their State governments when in the country, not the Federal government. This explains, for example, why there is no "national" ID in the US. Americans are citizens of their States, first and foremost, and each State has their own independent ID systems. What makes the US somewhat unique is that Americans have an absolute right to change their citizenship among the member States at any time. There was a time not that long ago when many Americans more closely identified with their State citizenship than their Federal citizenship.
Don't sweat it, it's a common error made by native speakers too, myself included until I learned about it. :)
Most of those accreditations exist only as a barrier to join the guild and limiting the supply of people in an industry, driving up costs. They establish some baseline of competency but it's mostly just a way to keep people out of the field.
You actually want to screen all people in the local area for the strain that may have it. If all the people have had a mild case and none of them are in hospital then you have something special.
> Vietnam is a police state. Singapore is a police state. South Korea is a police state. China is a police state. HK is a police state.

Taiwan is not.

I'm not Taiwanese but one sentence I used to hear when I was little was:

"The extent of your personal freedom goes as far as it starts endangering other peoples personal liberties"

The reason why the US and Germany are resorting to police state techniques is because:

1. The countries have been pushing there boundaries for at least a decade now and this is the perfect opportunity to use.

2. Even though Germans are happy to police you crossing a red light in the middle of the night, there is no sense of communal unity in society and there is even less trust in Government because there is zero transparency in communication. Basically the Government assumes everyone besides them is an idiot. Social shaming is the weapon of choice in Taiwan.
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I can't even imagine what you'd add to make it useful for 250 dollars. Like, look.. If I don't want to be disturbed, I close my door. If I am OK with being disturbed, it is open. That's not going to cost me 250 bucks. If the product were in the 100 bucks range, maybe I'd bite, but it is far from that. This is trying to be pitched to me as a home solution, but with the price tag of what I'd consider for a company instead.
Fortunately, neither Spectre nor Meltdown allow write access of any kind.
> It can either come from a vaccine or it can come from infections themselves

It is unclear whether Covid-19 confers SARS-CoV-2 immunity. There are conflicting data, with some for future immunity out of China and Germany and some against out of Korea [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/coronavir...
How to Create a Coronavirus Covid-19 Map in React with Gatsby and Leaflet
Covid-19 is not mutating like other viruses, but it acts differently on different people, and very problematic for people with pre-existing conditions. Also in some cases again not proven it also infected heart muscles, now it’s not clear yet that it’s due to pneumonia or covid-19. In China they tried plasma from recovered patients and that also didn’t yield very good results. Also in some studies they find a correlation between BCG vaccine and low mortality (again not proven).

The issue with covid-19 is that it’s proving to be much harder to understand than other viruses in spite of not mutating like flu virus. Hopefully by more studies we can increase the chances of developing some cure or may be with so many efforts someone discover cure by chance.
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I’m sure they aren’t for the most part. They have so many people trying to get in that they can afford to have a lot of false negatives though.
I'm currently starting to use Microsoft Teams and I really dislike this mess, that said I use what other use so..
Exactly. If the the additional chaos and labor of the nuclear option works that much better, then it's a sign there is a significant ongoing cost-control problem. The nuclear option just masks underlying issues.
Australian here - we're under a lock down of sorts, seems to be working, the government is spending big time on keeping things going - lots of payouts to people to pay their rent, food etc. New Zealand is going even further. It seems to be working so far. We do have an ocean to close our borders, so that helps I suppose. It can work in a western democracy though
Yes a pattern. WHO misses the mark and we have to stay home? So there is no less draconian way to deal with it. Of course there is. Draconian control was their whole purpose for doing this. Turn a flu into a war on the American people and freedom in general.
What a strange game of life
No one is seriously predicting a 100% infection rate. Due to herd immunity effects, epidemiologists expect the maximum to be about 70%.
Alright everyone time to tear down all your Linux and Postgres servers...
Manually highlighted text going into the selection buffer for quick middle-click pasting is great, and makes me much more efficient at manipulating text on Linux than Windows. If you don't like it, you can just ignore it: don't click the middle mouse button on text areas. The selection buffer is independent of the explicit cut-copy-paste clipboard (if you have some program running that's trying to synchronise them, you can turn that off).
I am not planning on doing anything other than trying to look for the attenuated strain. How it is used is for others - what I am suggesting is once such a strain is found is it will be impossible to stop people spreading it around on their own.
That's weird. I don't think anyone has measured these mitigations at a 50% perf hit even on crafted workloads. I wonder if something else is going on.