skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows Subsystem for Linux has a separate set of files that constitute the root file system of the Linux VM. These files are not currently accessible through the File Explorer application. The announcement is that they will be (which is rather nice).

I believe you can already access ext4 USB drives, but it's not native. Hopefully this will make it so.
An another study [1] suggest that the effect could be rather small.

> We find that when a user’s cookie is available publisher’s revenue increases by only about 4%. This corresponds to an average increase of $0.00008per advertisement.

Although I didn't fully read either studies so I'm not sure if they are really about the same thing.

[1] https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
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I think it's debatable whether vehicle depreciation is a cost that needs to be included.

For the majority of Uber/Lyft drivers, the vehicle is a sunk cost — they would have bought a car Uber/Lyft or not. These drivers use these cars for personal use when they're not driving on gigs. There are even drivers that buy cars just so that they can drive for Uber, but if Uber/Lyft didn't exist, those folks would still need to buy a car to meet their own personal transportation needs.

Depreciation is going to inevitably happen to anyone that owns a car, whether or not they are a rideshare driver. It's like saying that you need to include the cost of a daily lunch in the equation.
Eventbrite to lay off 45% of workforce because of coronavirus
To me it seems like kind of a kickback program for people expensing their purchases. You make a purchase using a rewards card, expense the costs, then you get free stuff as part of it.
We have almost all the technology. What we don't have is verifiability in most cases. i.e. the real problem is that the publisher cannot determine that the User Agent is telling the truth. Everyone has a different value on the value of their data. For instance, I find great targeted advertising to be practically like a recommendation engine. Instagram's ads are great! And few of them relate to things I've done on Instagram or Facebook. They're clearly 3rd party.

If we can find a way to ensure that the User Agent isn't lying (this may not be easy), then I could trade my data for a discount on the WSJ instead of paying full price and you could pay for the WSJ at full price and share nothing about yourself.

I think the truth is that most people will pick the discount, but that's because I would. I think that's a fair exchange and very open and clear. You can opt-in.
Note that none of Microsoft's domains are even signed. What this announcement really says is that Office 365 will at some point in the next 12 months stop implementing Microsoft's policy of actively impeding people from using DNSSEC.
Or, you are the raw material whose behavior is measured and rendered to create a behavioral prediction product.
I refactor code with dynamic types all of the time with no problems -- but the code I work on has a lot of tests (or I'll add them), and I definitely never refactor code that lacks tests, whether it has dynamic or static types.

It's almost as if different people have different working styles that make different aspects of a language useful.
The virus takes a while to run its course. We don't know how many people die in the end. There's a huge number of people who have neither recovered not died yet. A lot of people focus on Diamond Princess, which was at <1% fatality late March. It's already up to 1.6% (the 12th passenger just died). 82 are still sick, of whom 9 are in severe condition. That's one of the first set of cases, so that's a lower bound with perfect medical care. Those 9 who are still in sever condition will almost certainly have permanent lung scarring. I'm not sure the status on the 82, but they've sick a long, long time -- we're now something like two months in.

Lower bound: Deaths/(total cases)

Upper bound: Deaths/(deaths + recovered)

Some media in France tend to focus on the upper bound, and reports numbers in the 10-30% range, so the country is very open to very severe measures. The US tends to be optimistic, and everyone plays it down, so the virus is spreading like wildfire.
> Depreciation is going to inevitably happen to anyone that owns a car, whether or not they are a rideshare driver.

Depreciation is partially a function of miles put on the car. Rideshare drivers put miles on their cars a lot faster than they would have otherwise.

Either way, sfkdjf9j3j is right. Your source doesn't account for vehicle depreciation.
Support for DANE in software doesn't mean anything. It's always been the case that you could stand up an MTA that used DNSSEC. What matters is how many users are protected by DNSSEC, which is a function of which domains actually deploy it. Virtually no domains are signed (it's less than 1% of American domains, a number that has dropped in some of the previous years).
It's hard to argue that a product from targeted-advertising companies like Google and Microsoft wouldn't exhibit much worse privacy concerns, and the other major competitor, Cisco, was the architect of China's great firewall. Zoom works pretty great. I have been on very large conference calls almost daily over a year and they've been pretty flawless. They also sign HIPAA BAAs which is great for the industry I'm in.
Zappy is macOS only and Greenshot is Windows only, so they don't overlap in terms of audience.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I just bought the first one. Just kidding. In my 'to buy' queue.
Works on Firefox

osx 10.4
FFX 74
That is a very american pattern, offloading responsibilities that would be part of the government onto businesses themselves, probably because of government budget reasons.

One thing to note, what we often think of as luxury housing or new building regulations adding cost tends to be %10 of the cost of new housing. Expensive housing typically comes from expensive land and zoning bureaucracy delaying things.

I call it the lexus effect. A luxury lexus vs the camry it was based on is often a %10-%20 BOM difference vs. bigger margin it has when sold.
Let me ask a clarifying question then: Is there any person who organization who is qualified to speak on security best practices?
>There are a lot of situations where I would prefer “mostly” secure communication, rather than no communication at all.

We are not talking about "mostly" here for the video conference case. We are talking about a situation where most providers have access to the data of their users without very much work. If you are actually willing to confirm the identity of your correspondent using verified binaries you can get end to end protected communications ... if someone claims that they have something easier then they are lying. You can't beat the law of logic. The fact that anyone is even suggesting that Zoom could of been e2ee in any way that mattered is kind of depressing. I think we have some education to do.

Security audits are pointless unless you can confirm that the software that was audited is the software actually running on your device.
For what it's worth, my philosophy is that if you can't see or touch something (in other words, a 'tangible asset') it has no intrinsic value.

Thus, if its value can be instantly changed upwards or downwards, it is potentially worthless, and only relies on herd mentality for its value.

For Americans, a good example is Confederate Currency. When was the last time you could buy a Big Mac with a Confederate currency note? For Zimbabweans, what could you really buy with one of those $100 trillion banknotes ?

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160504154606-one-tril...
Thanks for pointing this out, we're on it (other formats have a similar problem).

(disclaimer: I work at Google)
brew cask install cool-retro-term
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Yeah that's fair -- there might be some high-exposure situations (like being coughed on) where infection is very likely with or without a face shield.

I suspect that a lot of airbone infections are from inhaling small doses here and there though, considering how long mucus droplets can stay suspended [1] --

> Particles of diameters 1-3 μm remained suspended almost indefinitely, 10 μm took 17 min, 20 μm took 4 min, and 100 μm took 10 s to fall to the floor.

[1] https://www.mintie.com/assets/img/education/Aerosol%20transm...
This is the kind of thing we need to be thinking about. A clear opt-in.
So this is the thing that is really confusing me: isn't Signal like CompuServe? Signal doesn't moderate my content and in fact can't; so why would a repeal of Section 230 matter to Signal? And like, yes: maybe the people at Signal personally care... but that's not how this article is written. I feel like most of the people who are super knee-jerk pro-230 are ignoring this precedent you have pointed to of CompuServe: if you build something that really and truly is a distribution platform, shouldn't that be OK?
Can anyone explain how the virus is twice as infectious as we thought, but we're consistently lowering our death projections everyday?
Before COVID-19, Africa's overall GDP was on a growth trajectory - faster than other economic blocks. We can prevent the virus from greatly undoing the gains and progress:
Prolog reminds me of Cyc.

"Cyc failed to understand a story about a person named Fred shaving in the morning... Its inference engine detected an inconsistency in the story: it knew people do not have electrical parts, but because Fred was holding an electric razor, it believed the entity 'FredWhileShaving' contained electrical parts. It therefore asked whether Fred was still a person while shaving."

From "Deep Learning" by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville.
If I'm reading it right, the article agrees with you. It's saying that they want 230's protection, but the EARN IT act will take it away from people doing end-to-end protection like Signal.
If the JavaScript is small and efficient, I would guess the overhead is little more than the extra roundtrip that you'd avoid if you just delivered the HTML pre-baked.

A slight aside: Dynamically producing HTML (avoiding client-side JavaScript) is now back in vogue with a rather silly buzzword: server-side rendering. Presumably coined by someone who doesn't understand what 'render' means.

https://alligator.io/react/server-side-rendering/
Could you reinstall it if it was uninstalled?(real question)
Do you have any Firefox users? Not having simulcast basically makes it impossible to scale up to large meetings.
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(disclaimer: I work at El Goog)

A number of companies have rightfully banned Zoom's native apps, given how insecure they are. I had previously uninstalled it when the news about the secret web server they install came out. Google is still allowing use of the web app, but the web app bizarrely doesn't support Grid/Gallery View, which is the main reason my friends/family wanted to use it.

Hangouts Meet was optimized for work meetings where most people would be dialing in from high-bandwidth meeting rooms, not everyone individually dialing in from home, but hopefully now they've heard the loud feedback about the especial usefulness of Gallery View during quarantine times and will introduce the feature soon.

For now I'm using the Chrome extension that enables this feature client-side using JS/CSS, and staying tf away from Zoom. With how little I used Zoom before quarantine, I don't understand the adoration for it (I found its UI confusing and quality similar to other tools), and I haven't been able to find any benchmarks comparing its video quality for people on less good internet connections (my home network is pretty strong).
if you want a screen capture tool that doesn't require signup and still makes good enough GIFs, check out https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ it's open-source, doesn't have a fancy landing page ;)
Not exactly, Tibet is a different type
of thing, it’s more like chinas’s expansion rather than Xi wanting to deflect attention from his own problems. American wars weren’t for any purpose or even any benefit for the US and lots of money was wasted and stolen through military industrial complex.
I don't have any experience with .NET or F#, mainly JS. Out of all the JS frameworks of current and past like PhoneGap, Ionic is the current Lexus of web based app frameworks. I found that they also broke it all down into a core project called Capacitor that is essentially just an event bridge between your web app and any OS api available. It supports iOS and Android, and seems to have some gateway into Electron for desktop support. But either way, if you have a front end that uses webpack, you could spinup a cross-platform and cross-device app relatively quickly using Capacitor and Electron. It would also take figuring out a little bit of XCode/Swift and Android Studio to write the notification integration.

https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/apis/push-notifica...
I think Gary is the only guy working on the project and it is a new project no wonder he migrated it super fast.
What is the source of this data. Looks like out of lacking behind worldometer
The free version is fully featured but has 2 limits:

- 4 Rules (targeted file types, etc.)

- 3 total Menu Items (Apps or Scripts) in any given Menu

Any additional menu items you set up will be grayed out.

The free version also inserts the "Service Station" menu item at the bottom if there are other active menu items.

screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/2k8NO4u.png
Wet, fertile soil indicates two beneficial things for certain: water, and fertility. The presence of these strongly implies other things we like: a food web and a source of energy and shelter.
This projection seems kind of optimistic based on the figures we are seeing. They may need to update it tomorrow.
The fact that you think this is going to get decided by a judge is at the root of your misunderstanding.

Nobody can afford to be defending the thousands of cases that would be brought against platforms over user-generated content if there wasn't a simple knock-out rule to get them dismissed. It doesn't matter if you're doing something reasonable, somebody would argue that you're not because there's still enough chance they might win and get awarded millions of dollars. And even if you win you still had to spend a million dollars on lawyers to prove it to a judge, and then someone else files a new lawsuit next week.

So the platforms can't just be right, they have to be so far away from the line of wrongness that they can get claims against them dismissed out of hand. But since it's inherently a trade off between false positives and false negatives, getting right up next to the line without crossing it is what you really want (that's the middle ground), and then that's off the table. Which leaves avoiding liability by not moderating at all or avoiding liability by moderating hyper-aggressively beyond all reason, since those are the two options to keep it from needing to be decided by a judge (which is the thing that bankrupts you).
It's unusual that x86 and Linux, which are generally not considered to be reliably and robust under an extreme environment, are used here. But since it's developed by SpaceX, it makes sense - move fast and break things, use off-the-shelf commercial systems as the basis to reduce costs.

Anyway, I think it should be more interesting to compare it with a modern rocket that uses a more specialized computer system, VxWorks comes to mind.
Honestly, I don't disagree, but I feel like it's harder to get resources if you're not aiming for neural networks somewhat directly.
Maybe civilized elephants wouldn't really look like the elephants we know. Although people are fairly similar to apes, it would be hard to look at an ape and imagine them to evolve to humans as we are now, with bipedalism and hairlessness and all that. Maybe elephants would evolve to be smaller and more nimble, or even more dexterous than they are now, if they were to evolve to a civilized form.
https://quicktype.io/ is a nice solution
Sorry about that the live demo is at https://app.sleuth.io/sleuth/sleuth
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Do you think that drone delivery technology and/or startups will become more common in the aftermath of COVID-19? I’ve been thinking that remote delivery services aided by drones might see a boon during and after this crisis.

Also, I’m curious if this might lead to the emergence of cloud-like, pay-per-use models for drones? I want to know what other HN users think about this and related ideas.
> Maxwell's equations only apply to static states

Nonsense. Maxwell's equations are the equations of classical electro dynamics.

> It's not generally applicable without extensions to more complex scenarios such as handling time delays and arbitrary movement.

The equations for the Lienard-Wiechert potentials are mathematically equivalent to Maxwell's Equations (when you put those equations in potential form instead of field form and make an appropriate choice of gauge).

Jefimenko's equations are also mathematically equivalent to Maxwell's Equations; their originator believed that the causality properties of those equations would be clearer when put in his preferred form. Whether or not he was right is a matter of considerable debate.

> The apparent "paradoxes"

Are a result of lack of understanding on the part of the people claiming and promoting them.

> are literally the reason Einstein started on his journey to develop Special Relativity

Nonsense. The problem Einstein had when he developed SR was not Maxwell's Equations; it was Newton's equations. He realized that Maxwell's Equations and Newton's equations were inconsistent. Every other physicist at the time who realized that (and there were many) believed that the way to fix that problem was to modify Maxwell's Equations and leave Newton's equations the same. Einstein, however, realized that the way to fix the problem was to modify Newton's equations and leave Maxwell's Equations the same. The result was SR, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I don’t see the humor in what you’re saying.
Where I live in the US, pretty much none of the oil companies are fracking to get gas, they are fracking to get oil. The gas is effectively a waste product - and honestly if we don't burn it for heat, they will flare it - so at least by using it in our homes and power plants it has some value and also replaces coal.
The CUDA I've written has never been joyous but it also hasn't been as horrific as I'd expected. There's a period of hair pulling but persistence will get you through it. The majority of CUDA code is closer to C than C++ too which is helpful. I'll be looking at diving back into CUDA in the near future given the exact speed issues we've been mentioning so feel free to get in touch.
I've seem people theorize about this before saying maybe it's good news because that means it's less fatal than we thought and therefore maybe we're closer to herd immunity. But I saw an epidemiologist talk about how an R0 of 2 meant you needed 50% of people to be immune for herd immunity, and an R0 of 3 meant you needed 66%. This would mean it'd need to be even higher - the article says 82%. We're nowhere close to that now - even northern Italy, they're estimating that maybe 10% have caught it.
Governmental regulations are not merely proscriptive, i.e., "You shall not pollute above these levels or we will fine you/shut you down". They are also prescriptive: "If you build renewable infrastructure we shall provide direct subsidies/indirect tax breaks to support it."

Both are regulations.
I've always had difficulty debugging functional and formula based logic, and others have said similar. Imperative is just easier to "fractal-ly dissect" to me. Debugging seems to be a reoccurring theme of many "high abstraction" techniques that perhaps keep them out of the mainstream. I known many disagree, and this claim often triggers heated debates.
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I don't like them either. My wife adds them to congee and I always fish out the black pieces when I make my bowl. There's just something about it that I can't get passed. It's a little bit goofy because there isn't much (pungent food) that I don't eat. I eat durian and love durian deserts and stinky tofu but I don't mess with these eggs, which are pretty tame comparatively.
The R is a function of human behavior, so sheltering in place lowers it (ideally below 1) which also reduces deaths in the future.
What you're describing applies to static type checking in general. I don't argue this point. Sorry about the edits. It's very difficult to express such things unambiguously.

I'm more concerned about the effects of the post's title on people's programming practices than the actual content of it. HN does tend to have this effect unfortunately.
EFS performance is just horrible. Running containers on it is asking for problems.

My advice, stick to EC2 + EBS, it works.
How times are changing. The person who is famous for his amazing Ruby/Rails screencasts rewrote his Ruby backend to TS...
Yeah, you’d think if 41% were unprofitable this year then next year there’d only be 4000 odd coal-fired plants, and so on and so forth.

So obviously profitability isn’t the only thing keeping these plants open or not.

Additionally:

but this risks locking in high-cost coal power

Coal is only high-cost when compared against certain metrics that favour non-coal electricity sources.

On the whole electricity is extremely cheap, even from fossil sources, and where the end user may pay enough to care about total usage, the major components of the retail price are not source related, but rather delivery / tax / administrative / bureaucratic.
Wouldn't it mean that physical distancing was even more effective than we thought?
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Finally, getting some decent data!

This means that “herd immunity “ is a non-starter: natural immunity through infection/recovery requires large fractions of the high-risk population to be infected, and vaccines are too far out (economic destruction would occur before vaccines may exist).

We must pursue large-scale testing on a “total war” basis, with the goal of containment and extinguishing the virus.
But what if they can't have what they want?

What if they want the mines reopened, and coal and oil workers back to work, the factories churning out American goods made on American soil, and lifetime employment with a pension and health insurance, a turkey in every pot and two cars in every garage like their fathers or grandfathers had, but the world has moved on, and the jobs and stability they want simply cannot, and will never, exist in the modern world?

What if "socialist" initiatives like nationalized healthcare, UBI and free college are better options?