skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for suggesting remmina, it might be a teamviewer substitute for a couple old relatives PCs. However I have to solve the dynamic IP problem that doensn't exist on teamviewer, so I was attempting to build a string that sends an email with the IP as payload.

Something like this:
curl --url 'smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465' --ssl-reqd --mail-from 'xyz remote IP' --mail-rcpt 'myaccount@gmail.com' --upload-file mail.txt --user 'myaccount@gmail.com:pwd'

Where rather than the mail.txt file I can send the public IP of the remote machine, such as the output of "curl ipinfo.io/ip". Unfortunately I couldn't find how to do that. Backquotes also don't work, it wants a file.

The purpose would be to build a "pre-command" one liner that sends me an email with the remote IP as payload every time the remote user accepts an external connection through remmina. The remote users are old relatives with no knowledge about computers, so the simpler (one click) the better.
Yes, to be fair that seems to be the likely plan. It’s only crackpots like Bill Gates who are suggesting we go for the vaccine instead. Which, in his defense, might make sense to keep working on as a hedge.
Would you be happier if I said raison d'être of programming languages?
He may own fighter jets, but actual weapons are sold separately.
You can make your own with Feedly feeds. I started using it after Firefox dropped RSS support. Got some news, HN, and niche topics in a custom feed.
I don’t think many people agree with that. I do. Most people don’t know what it means.
Because the idea is that when you test positive, you upload DTKs for all days you could have been contagious, so that includes historical keys.
> Main thing we wanted was a minimap, or some way for new arrivals to find us.

I was thinking a minimap would be nice, or maybe a dash option so I could get around a little faster.

For helping people find each other faster, it seems like just having maps with more landmarks might help too!

It would be cool if I could upload my own PNG or something to use as a town backdrop.

It would also be neat if I could click people and find where they are on the map, or maybe just jump to them.
your scenario isn't all that different from how the jdk authors view the use of internal classes, like sun.misc.unsafe.
Both Vox and Gruber are political hits. The word "antibody" is not mentioned in either. Trump is correct that mass testing for cv19 infection without symptoms is useless.
Mass testing for IgM and IgG antibodies is useful.
I remember someone complaining about unix machine in comparison to mainframes:

"It generates an interrupt every time you press a key!"
A hugely successful company finally moving into the 21st century on worker rights. Belated congratulations I guess.
I always wondered about this. For COVID, the recommendation is that you have to be symptom free for 14 days before you are considered not contagious. Adding another 7-10 days of actual disease, you will be asking people to take 21-24 days off for a disease ? That is simply not accepted in American corporate culture, where many mothers return to work 2 weeks after giving birth
No, it's an error. "Woulda" is the correct way of spelling a regionalism. "Would of" is an incorrect spelling of "would've", which is a contraction of "would have".
As is the statement "all Soviet housewives do not have a nuclear reactor in their home", which I think is what your parent poster said.
Having been a greeter (for a few years before Larry died) I feel that for many people Burningman is a psychological and metaphysical enema that cleans a year's worth of angst and neurotic anxiety from many of its attendees.

Although it's possible the current forced solitude and inward isolation will refresh some, not having this incredible event will no doubt be troublesome for others.
So there's a known exploit in CPUs and your response is "prove to me it can be exploited or I won't use mitigations"? In 2020 no less? What can you possibly be doing that would even notice the slowdown from these mitigations? Virtually everything we actually do will be bottlenecked by something else long before the CPU becomes an issue.
It seems like Google disabled excerpts to news sites in France back in September 2019 leaving the search results only with the headlines/titles of news pages. What the French do there sounds incredibly unfair and I am certainly not a fan of Google.
This is a false dichotomy and assumes there are only two choices:

- not handling the pandemic

- tracking the population

You can get information about people assembling in other ways:

- helicopters

- intel gathering

- cops and army patrolling dressed as civilian

- create groups of citizen in town responsible to patrolling

And probably many I don't know about.

Then you add to that: keeping to communicate with the public, testing a lot, providing masks, etc.

The fact you are using this argument shows how much powerful the culture about "the end justify the mean" and "trusts the authority to deal with this" is.

I remember the first time I saw Jack Bauer on TV decapitating a terrorist in 24 to get an information. I though, "wow, they are really creating a new normal here".

That's what it is about: creating a new normal. And pretending there is no other choice, while nobody is trying to provide any.
ohhhh makes sense. I'll update the post
First time I saw one of these, I started laughing. I don't have a webcam.
It's hard to believe but people have actually paid the ransom. I seem to remember a post on HN matched some Bitcoin transactions by time and amount.
Let's just answer these

* Use stationary beacons to track someone’s travel path

Doesn't work because there's no externally visible correlation between reported identifiers until after the user chooses to report there test result.

* Increased hit rate of stationary / marketing beacons

Doesn't work because they depend on coherence in the beacons, and the identifiers roll every 10 or so minutes. Presumably you'd ensure that any rolling of the bluetooth MAC also rolls the reported identifier.

* Leakage of information when someone isn’t sick

The requests for data simply tell you someone is using an app - which you can already tell if they're using app.

The system can encourage someone to get tested, if your app wants to tell people to get tested, then FairPlay to that app (though good luck in the US).

- Fraud resistance

Not a privacy/tracking concern, though I'm sure devs will have to do something to limit spam/dos
I had the same thought, but I think this except from the post assuaged some of those concerns:

"We want to make clear here that even though the current version of the robot appears to be performing amazingly well, our human flaggers are just as important as ever. The only reason the robot is able to do as well as it’s doing is because of the 100,000+ flags that humans have raised and moderators have handled. The robot is a way to find things that look like things humans have flagged before, but we don’t think it can identify truly novel modes of unfriendliness. Only the humans in our system can do that. So if you see unfriendliness in the comments, please flag it. You’re helping to make Stack Overflow better."
China's positioning is rapid growth and "social harmony". I'm not saying that they actually deliver on this, but that's how it's being sold.
zoom works in the browser, iirc
I was surprised to find it's not california or new york that have the highest taxes, New Jersey has the highest taxes in the nation.
It's been envisioned already:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

The talk is hilarious, and very much on point.
Today, yes. But in that era? The notion of declaring a war to profit from the plunder (or reparations, or whatever you call it) was not yet dead back then.
One key missing factor: live replication across three clouds is not just a technical problem, but a cost problem, because the egress costs will be murderous.
It's not even color. A letter or a4 sized tablet is out of the price range most people. Especially grad students or recent PhDs who'd have a huge use for it.
Why was "SQL+ColdFusion and some ASPX" selected as the replacement stack?
That story really gets to me.

With Covid-19 it's not just getting sick, it's getting sick and then being isolated from your family and loved ones knowing you may never see them again. Then you have the health care workers who are providing life saving care while isolating themselves from their loved ones so as not to risk getting them sick. The closest thing I have experienced to that type of fear is military service, but at least in that case my family and I had time to prepare for it mentally. Luckily I got through that experience okay.

I couldn't imagine being in the situation that these people are in today.

Anyways - I find it kind of hard to put into words how Covid makes me feel
Oops I misread it as two pieces of feedback even though you explicitly said one. I agree - changed!
No! Greenspan famously held only treasuries. Result? A long treasury bull market.

Seriously, the way it should work is that elected and appointed government officials, as well as civil servants with potential access to material non-public information (MNPI) should all be required to use only investment accounts managed by a manager with full discretion and with whom the official does not communicate.
Ha. Later in my nuclear career, I realized the genius of Doc's claim:

"Does it run like on regular unleaded gasoline?"

"Unfortunately, no. It requires something with a little more kick: Plutonium!"

"Ah, Plutonium. Wait a minute, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?"

"Hey hey hey! Keep rolling! keep rolling there! no no no no! This sucker's electrical! But I needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need"

I should try that in public. No, those aren't nuclear plants over there. They're electrical! They just use nuclear reactions to generate the electricity you need.
Increasing the lifetime for what are currently "daily keys" reduces the precision of the contact reporting - e.g. your example of a week means that a positive user would need to report at least 3 weeks of keys, so someone can now do correlation over 3 weeks instead of X days.

There's no inclusion of location data as that has no value - the only thing that this protocol cares about was whether you were in the vicinity of someone who has tested positive for cover-19, and so suggest you get tested. Knowing where you are/were has no value for that purpose.
You're assuming some senator would have access to confidential FDA reports. This is not likely to be the case.

What is likely to happen is people betting on new biotech issues. This looks like it is what happened. He turned about to right on that occasion.
I remember reading 70%.
I have read several times that they do not consider the language stable. Yet they repeatedly advertise it as «production-ready» [1,2], which is contradictory at best.

[1] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/two-experiences-with-elm/91...

[2] https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-github-install/issues/62#i...
No, a former Ukrainian colleague of mine from Germany.

I also just had a double PhD apply for a job with me - one PhD in stochastic differential equations, one in machine learning.

It’s rare, for sure, but not unique.
My fear is that the FEC rules would be written in a way that discourages third parties, or non-incumbents.
Pick of the coronavirus papers: viral enzyme structure points to possible drugs
I genuinely agree that each of them is a noble cause that will make America a better place, but unfortunately, none of them are an answer to "We have a pandemic going on here, now what?"

First you make a absurd assertion that most of the US has much lower population density than Europe or Asia - that's true only if you measure by land area, not people, but then it's irrelevant: land doesn't contact COVID19, people do. In any case, it stopped being relevant about two weeks ago when the US overtook Italy - America's lower population density clearly didn't stop the disease.

There's a crisis going on, and I'm sorry that you will likely be affected much more by it than I will, and I agree that it's a social injustice that should be addressed in the long term, but that doesn't mean you can just wave away the crisis because you have a moral high ground. Coronavirus doesn't care.
Part of it is cultural. For hospital beds, do you keep patients one extra night ‘just in case’, or do you send them home as soon as possible?

For IC beds, do you give patients the choice between going home to die a week later and a bed in IC that will make them live a bit longer, but with a less comfort and less contact with their loved ones, or do you always go for “all life is sacred”?

Some countries discus this with patients, even if the IC option has a chance of survival. That may sound unethical, but survival, for many patients, will be with much lower quality of life. They may have to move to a care home, stay on medication with severe side effects, may have to train hard for months to even be able to walk again.

Patients that already have a low life expectancy may choose to stay out of IC.
singapore centralized the reporting with TraceTogether / bluetrace, and call out fraud risk in their whitepaper
I remember working on a super-old-legacy Fortran program that had 6-character significance for the variable names.

I vaguely remember they had different namespaces using common blocks.
It is not a hoax to be concerned! To say it causes C19 is something else but even on this highly biased HN I have seen people with brains link to the studies that show how it clearly can be harmful! This urge to focus on people who spin it further and use them to dismiss valid concern pisses me off!
My Fourteen Year Side Project
The thing is generally for lung treatment doctors follow a path of escalation, start with less invasive methods like oxygen and progress to ventilators. With covid 19 there have been several reports from doctors that skipping this and putting the patient directly on ventilators directly significantly improves survival. Doesn't that contradict what you are suggesting.
That is a strange but understandable misunderstanding of the relationship between the Federal government and the States in the US, it is not remotely like Germany. German states are much weaker both in theory and practice. The Federal government often cannot intervene unless the States ask them to, and the States control the terms of that intervention. People raise this issue in every major natural disaster under every administration, baffled why the Federal government doesn’t do more, oblivious to the legal and practical structure of the US government. In my own lifetime there have been many cases where States actively restrict Federal operations within their jurisdiction, with full support of the Federal courts.

By convention, the States typically allow the Federal government to operate freely within their jurisdiction, but it is not an obligation as it is strictly at the pleasure of the State. When there are strong disagreements between the Federal and State governments, this is a major point of leverage. Many Federal programs have been successfully killed by States prohibiting Federal operation in their States.
Young folks in schools are in constant contact with old folks. Whatever is spreading in school does not stay contained there.

The thing about schools is that thy are super effective at spreading everything.
The question is, what if they want to build an elevator for their car at their vacation home in Aspen and need to pull out some cash, and just happen to do so immediately prior to a recession they received a briefing about? Surely “give me cash” and “invest some cash” are acceptable communication to an investment manager, but still could abuse the MNPI.
There's no way to answer this in a comment...you can take a full course on tech product management and still not have all the answers. But I'll at least offer some advice:

Just be very good at measuring and presenting data from all the channels in your company. Your customers, your prospective customers, your customer engineers, your sales people, your support team, your engineering managers, directly from developers too.

Understand the real cost of each feature. That's not easy. Try to predict the real value of each feature. That can be even harder. How many customers are asking for that feature? What's the avg LTV of that cohort? Will the feature reduce churn? By what percentage? Own those metrics and tell the whole company that's why you're prioritizing those specific features.

Be prepared to go back and check your assumptions and see if your predictions were correct...If you were wrong, then your next job is figuring out why and then working towards improving your own models to predict the value/cost of each feature. The fact is once you start intensely measuring that type of data, you'll find lots of gaps in your own process and fixing it as you go.
Hey, just thought I'd ask. You never know when you're gonna need a new voice ;)
Microsoft is extending parental leave, not maternity/paternity leave. There is no country in the world that offers 12-24 months of a paid parental leave (in addition to the initial maternity/paternity leave).
The problem are the procurement rules. You want to make procurement as 'fair' as possible, but this makes the process lengthy, slow and costly. The only option or deal with this form the administration perspective is to to occasional big support contracts with generic terms, which then call in specific expertise when it's needed. The administration knows it's overpaying and getting 2nd rate service, but the alternative is to wait 2 years to launch a procedure and get a contract with hopefully the right guys. But the right guys rarely apply as the procurement rules are too complex to handle for any organisation that isn't specialised in handling procurement.
What a thorough and valuable comment. This is really valuable stuff - thanks for sharing your experience!
NJ seems to be on the bad side of the Laffer curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
It’s odd that the folks picking this apart looking for surveillance risks don’t seem to be one-tenth as bothered by Facebook censoring wackos (and indeed anyone determined to be guilty of wrong-thinking), or you know, the government literally arresting people for leaving their houses.
I'd like something like this in Australia, targeting real estate speculation which is probably our largest single source of corruption at all governmental levels.

The US polity though seems too deeply corroded for transparency to be more than a minor (albeit positive) tweak.
If the restaurant raises menu prices then pick-up orders would be more expensive. Maybe they don't want to do that?

Another possibility might be that delivery services charge more to consumers. Apparently some delivery services waived fees during the crisis? They could stop doing that, keeping their revenue per delivery the same. (But this would encourage consumers to switch to pick-up.)
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My understanding is that it's really bad in New York, one of the few places with population density similar to Europe.

I have no idea why you assume I will be impacted more than you. Although dirt poor, I already do remote work from home and hardly go out. My life has hardly been impacted at all. A few meetings I attend were cancelled (and now people are answering my emails for a change).

The pandemic has mostly had a positive impact on my life because the rest of the world is practicing germ control for a change and pollution levels have dropped dramatically.

I mean feel free to support my Patreon or otherwise kick a few bucks my way. I can always use more cash. But my kids sit around gleefully announcing "Coronavirus is the best thing that's ever happened to our lives" and giggling about all the free games they are downloading.
Black swan events don’t wait for a 10-year bull market to occur first. You strategy might hedge against a market bubble (still very questionable), but what about all of the other things that can crash the market?
Separating the IO from the rest of the program is always a good practice, that we keep rediscovering.

E.G:

- UI in React are trying to be just rendering functions with one input and one output. Even more so with hooks.

- in python, there is a new trend of providing "Sans I/O" (https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/), and async/await are not just keywords, but a generic protocol created to delegate I/O to something from outside your code.

It's interesting to see that on very old systems, even the hardware was organized that way.
Enabling her to pursue her interests. She’s 13 and has wanted to be an author for years. She’s fairly bright and is in all the highest difficulty classes at her school. Unfortunately, her honors English class isn’t challenging. So I looked for summer writing workshops and did the leg work figuring out what the pros and cons of each program are.

Then I did the research and found a public arts high school in the area that’s 45 minutes away. Encouraged her to apply. Next year I’ll be driving her to school in the morning.

I think the most important thing you can do as a parent is do the leg work for them. Passion doesn’t translate to an ability to navigate bureaucracy or take initiative to do something outside the norm. I felt that I would’ve been much better off growing up if my parents had helped me find a math & science school to go to instead of tell me to find one and then they’ll look into it for me. I never did because I was too young to navigate that whole process.
> For me at least, that first link has some NSFW content.

> Specifically, it shows a pair of leggings on a woman designed to look like a naked man titled "David's Marble Legs":

But how is that NSFW? This is one of the most famous sculptures in western art. Everybody has seen it. I had a photo of the David sculpture in the cover of a history book when I was 11, given by our school. I find it very disturbing, even creepy, that somebody may honestly think that this image is NSFW.
> “We found that when flies ate unsweetened food, this made sugary food taste much more intense”

I noticed the same thing in myself: If I cut down on sugary foods for a while, the same foods that I enjoyed before (e.g., pastries) start to taste overwhelmingly sweet.
That was the first thing i thought of too
Please refer to the
BlueTrace and
iOS bluetooth issues, now Apple is willing to open up .. https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/04/10/leaky.html
Interesting that is. I once had a chat on the phone with some friends who worked at Twitter that were discussing about Scala at the train station but they briefly complained about the train skipping their station.

I jokingly suggested that they've chosen the wrong station and that the 'Scala hype-train' seemed to have actually stopped at my station since that I might have mentioned about using Kotlin instead.

Perhaps one could say that if the train is either full or if there's little to no people at the station, it will be likely to skip the station. Quite a fitting tale of Scala vs Kotlin?
Also, here's the source from musl (somewhat similar to what we have)

https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/blob/79f653c6bc2881dd6855299...