skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 million is way too high. Old infections aren't interesting for this; users only need to download newly reported infections since yesterday. Limiting to broad geographic regions would also help reduce scope and not be especially privacy invasive.
Exactly, this is an important narrative. I've read the spec and I'm really positive (hmm). This could be a game-changer for dealing with the pandemic in a systematic way.
I'm on the developer edition so I've had it for a month now. I didn't like it at first, but now I don't even remember any differences.
Artists definitely deserve more than they're getting. I would love to see that delivered to them via blockchain. I think it could also improve the fan experience. We would feel more connected to their sustainability.
I've seen many authors bring up micro frontends recently, but I haven't seen anyone address size overhead. In modern web apps, third party dependencies can easily be the bulk of your final deliverable volume. With micro frontends and complete separation, this overhead cost can easily end up being paid multiple times. How does your project address this?
Yes. Looks like the author made his own with D3 [1]. It does look very nice. I especially love the colors.

[1]: https://github.com/gera2ld/markmap-lib/blob/master/src/view....
Unlike others here, I am non plussed by an open source implementation of an old format mostly used by non free operating systems. It doesn't add much.

I would be far more interested by a GPU accelerated server, with a focus on low latency, like parsec: something more or less equivalent, with native support for wayland or xorg would be much more interesting.

This would superset the uses of RDP: you can use parsec for remote desktops, just like you can with RDP except it's smoother and more responsive.

But you can also use games with parsec, something you can't do with RDP, and everything else that requires low latency.
That may be true but it's not at odds with what I wrote. Lippmann was a critic of what he believed to be the inherently partisan nature of democracy. It would be unsurprising, then, for him to be a critic of wielding partisanship. It would be fair to say that Lippmann figured out the system's structure and how it could be manipulated, and then Bernays wrote the playbook for manipulating it.
Chrome Remote Desktop is a pretty performant and hassle-free option
Related from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745123
What? No! Ghidra has support for many, many less-known CPU types. With extremely good support. I recently RE'd Intel 8051 firmware, with really good results. I'm aware of people using Ghidra to reverse firmwares of all kinds, from the PS2 Emotion Engine to Nvidia Falcon Security Processor.

The amazing thing about Ghidra is that all of its tools (disassembler, emulator, decompiler) work on P-Code, which is Ghidra's IR. All you have to do to get the tools to work is write a Sleigh file, which basically describes the registers, address spaces, and map the instructions to P-Code. This is dead easy to do, and with very little tweaking, gives really clean decompiler output. A friend of mine implemented Nvidia Falcon support to Ghidra in a week-end or two[0].

As far as built-in processor goes, Ghidra has X86 16/32/64, ARM/AARCH64, PowerPC 32/64/VLE, MIPS 16/32/64/micro, 68xxx, Java / DEX bytecode, PA-RISC, PIC 12/16/17/18/24, Sparc 32/64, CR16C, Z80, 6502, 8051, MSP430, AVR8, AVR32, and variants of these processors. I dunno if IDA has more, but it's still far from AMD64 centric!

[0]: https://github.com/Thog/ghidra_falcon
we need to collectively take a step back and put this pandemic into proper perspective so we don't fall for privacy and liberty erosions like this. the panic is unproductive and dangerous to our civil rights.

for context, roughly 8000 people die per day in the US. the virus has killed 2 days worth of people in the US in the 80 days of known infection, and probably ~100 days of undiagnosed infection. so covid has killed 2% of the expected number of dead. it's serious, but it's not the black plague, or even the 1918 flu. and we're already seeing transmissions curb.

the virus overwhelmingly infects others in close and closed proximity with a lot of cross-breathing going on. random airborne infections or surface infections are likely small, certainly less than 10%, probably less than 1% of infections.

so, you don't need to social distance outside unless the other person is actively coughing/sneezing (or maybe singing/talking extra forcefully) in your direction within 6 feet. you don't need a mask unless you are in close proximity (less than 6 feet) to random other people for more than a couple minutes at a time. grocery clerks, and other service workers in close proximity to strangers, on the other hand, should wear non-n95 masks (but probably not gloves) during work. same with those who are often near folks with comorbidities like age, auto-immune disease, diabetes, etc. medical providers should wear n95 masks, gloves, gowns, and take many other precautions that make no sense for the general public. you are not lowering your risks in any percepitble way by doing so. allay your anxieties with those basics, rather than looking to buy more toilet paper. it's enough, really.

the overwhelmingly most effective way to prevent transmission is to not breath in a sick person's exhaust. that's it. that's all we need to do. and yes, we don't know everyone who's carrying the virus, so it makes sense to reasonably physically distance in enclosed places like grocery stores. but not more than that as you've already reduced risk to background noise with these basic distancing rules.

contact tracing only makes sense when groups of strangers come into close proximity. it doesn't need to track every single person you brush past on the street. so for instance, you could just provide "contact tracing" with beacons in stores rather than always-on phone tracing.

let's not lose our heads, and our rights, over this.
You are confusing effort with impact. They are not the same.

Working more hours can lead to bigger impact, but generally that scales linearly. The better route to success and promotion is to focus on the inflection points: the bits that actually move the needle for the entire team / company.

Weirdly, as you become more senior in impact you may actually end up working less. If you have a strong record of delivering the right things then you can push back on unrealistic expectations. In fact, refusing overwork (except on occasion) is a powerful signalling mechanism.

If are effective at your job and your management team doesn't understand then it's time to find a new gig.
The joins would have to very seamless. The visual presentation is the whole point of this thing, so you wouldn't want to ruin that.
> I never realized there was one person essentially responsive for spreading that kind of manipulation.

Maybe the others have been forgotten ... Bernays was most probably at managing his own publicity as well.
What Coronavirus Reveals About the Human Condition
Swine flu killed a couple hundred thousand only 10 years ago or so. There were a pair of flu pandemics each lasting about a year, one in the 1950s, and one in the 60s. Each of those killed a million.

The Spanish flu killed like ?? tens of millions, also in a year or two.

There was a more protracted pandemic that killed a million around 1910-1920, but it wasn't a flu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
> Another topic not mentioned much is the whole concept of aggressor squadrons and Top Gun etc came from fighting similar tier adversaries in the 60s and, while not losing, not winning at a high enough ratio

> Well, generals always like to train to win the last war, not the next one, thats been true for a couple thousand years now.

I disagree. Wasn't part of the problem in the 60s that the generals were training to win the next war, which they though would be fought at stand-off distances with guided missiles (i.e. suicide drones) carried by planes with little need to maneuver [1] [2]? It turned out they were wrong, and had to subsequently rethink their tactics and procurement requirements, which led to stuff like Top Gun and the F-14.

> [Our] future adversary isn't going to send 8 Mig-21's against each of our F-14, they're going to launch 240 anti-personnel quadcopter drones toward the airfield per day to shut down operations... [more speculation about drone swarm warfare]...

Betting that some new, hot technology will obsolete old techniques can be a bad bet that puts you in a bad situation.

I don't think quadcopter drones are going to be anything near the game changer you think they'll be. For instance: if you're close enough to launch a swarm attack like you describe, you're several times closer than you need to be to launch an artillery bombardment:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/16/new-army-arti... (quickest google result):

> Existing 155mm artillery rounds, fired with precision from mobile and self-propelled howitzer platforms, have a maximum range of about 30 kilometers; the new ERCA weapon is designed to hit ranges greater than 70 kilometers, Army developers said.

https://www.dronesglobe.com/guide/long-range-drones/#sec3 (another quicky google result). The longest-range drone listed is:

> 2.DJI Mavic 2 Pro 4K [battery:] 30min [range:] 8km

I wouldn't expect a cheap military quadcopter swarm-member to have much better performance than a civilian one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F6D_Missileer
What you're describing is "the best way to do science, so we can make some progress". That's all well and good but what other people are talking about is the nature of reality which, in pursuit of, those crazy people, they are perfectly willing to doubt axioms.

As well they should and as is their right since a set of axioms are effectively ground facts which are selected to make logical reasoning across a domain possible, nothing more.

That doesn't make them true in the big sense of True, it makes them expedient, productive of theory, generative, a lot of wonderful things, maybe even strongly implied by all evidence, but not apriori true. They're dubitable.
Lists can't be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
There wouldn't be 3 million new patients per day. Wouldn't each phone just need to download the newly-discovered cases since the last time they checked?
Most people probably uploaded their contact list to WhatsApp without thinking about it twice.
Most people can't pilot a super yacht either; they hire a full crew. The FA18 can seat two. Also, anyone who has the money to buy and operate one of these vehicles has more than enough money to get someone to teach them how to fly it.

But yes, this is not an hobby for the masses.
I also use ^L, but many times I just want to modify part of the URL (sometimes even with text from the clipboard buffer). As a web developer this change is going to be pretty irritating.
Jack Dorsey: the Twitter founder shows tech bros can grow up
U.S. consumer prices post largest drop in 5 years amid coronavirus disruptions
Honestly, I never really thought that the 10,000 hour thing was that lucid to begin with. Certain things are mastered in hundreds of hours while others are "never truly mastered". When I say I learned of it, it was reading the New Yorker article and then hearing it from my favorite kind of philosopher: stoned ones.
To clarify on the title; There will be a separate ERC-20 token per subreddit and it's opt-in. Each token be freely tradable on the Ethereum blockchain.
I wonder if this guy is able to get insurance on the planes. I'd imagine that if a single plane was destroyed he'd be out millions of dollars.
There is actually an awesome RDP server (called ogon project) based on FreeRDP available:

https://github.com/ogon-project/ogon
Jeff Bezos Recovers Apollo Rocket Engines from Deep Ocean (2013)
Googled it so you don't have to: ANC in this case appears to stand for Active Noise Control, i.e. noise-cancelling headphones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
It's more than reasonable to be suspicious of big tech companies, especially the ones residing in Silicon Valley. They haven't earned people's trust and that is the outcome. Just like you would be skeptical of Chinese communist party releasing app promising to help the world with covid19.
The governor is the one power tripping at the moment, state legislatures could figure something out
A big one is that you can't buy air to air missiles.

That's the sort of thing that can be easily circumvented and where the legal environment can also change rapidly. I will not be in the least bit surprised if a private military company deploys air power within the next 5 years.
I'm claiming it functions more like a doi or other identifier than a sales pitch. I don't think there's a ton of deep thinking involved: there will always be someone who's willing to run a web browser as root on their main system; you can't stop people who are set on something foolish from doing it, but if you can make it more convenient for people who have valid reasons, why not?

This all might be a bit too much serious thought for what was intended as a joke initially (the site, not my comments), though.
I think its important to distinguish between something that is a core piece vs all the other things that make the system usable. For example once you start adding error handling, and good error reporting, the complexity goes up by an order of magnitude. And in many cases the approach for the core does not necessarily scale out to the other contexts.
Structure of Mpro from Covid-19 virus and discovery of its inhibitors
> but was shocked at how resilient people are in their claims when they seriously understand math/statistics but don't understand the medical application of those statistics;

> but how many people here have ever watched someone be intubated, let alone do it themselves?

I am not sure I understand the connection you are trying to make here. Are you saying that just because someone understands statistics they cannot understand medical application of statistics b/c they have no experience physically working in the field? Just looking for a little more clarification on the point you are making.

I am genuinely interested in learning about multi-disciplinary disconnects in real life, because these seem to be the some of the biggest problems we face in progress today.
That specific example would just be laughable. "I gave you awesome asynchronous I/O; just write the five lines of code around a semaphore if you want it synchronous."
Agree with all your points, I'm just coming from the perspective of how I embarrassingly hired a guy who could answer a lot of these questions but couldn't solve the problems we needed him to solve.

And that, by switching to the "Hello, nice to meet you, okay let's open up Coderpad and solve this problem", as "inhumane" as it sounds, and I KNOW we will continue to see these forum threads for years to come, it actually WORKED to find some seriously amazing candidates who could actually showcase their skills LIVE.

It's like, there's knowing your implementation details, and there's actually implementing something.

Honestly, as a candidate, I prefer the technical challenge now. Partly because my brain isn't equipped to even remember deep implementation details of specific projects. Think about it, how much can you really remember from the last project you worked on? Is that result going to give you more concrete details than actual code on a small problem? I think companies will continue to use Coderpad because it just gets to a clear result faster.
The other option is that Bose, Sony or some other high-end audio company has a patent on whatever noise cancellation system was in place originally. A decision was made to avoid a legal battle (or a deal fell through at the last minute) and the feature was nerfed until Apple can strong arm the patent holder into a better deal.
Am I weird because I have no interest in terseness that you have to tease apart. It feels counter-productive. The programming golf (Code golf) contests and obfuscated C contests just seem like a waste of time to me. The whole point of programming languages is to allow humans to produce machine code using a more natural language closer human language that we are all already fluent in.
Anyone from Google/Apple reading this? Looks like there is a typo in the definition of the Rolling Proximity Identifier (RPI). I think it should say 'dtk_i', referring to the Daily Tracing Key instead of 'dkt_i' which is otherwise not defined.

Side note: the typography for the definitions are a bit strange: mixes of serif and sans serif fonts, arbitrary vertical spacing (not just kerning issues), odd horizontal bullet line alignments, and probably more.
I came here to say this. Never in my life have I wanted a VR headset. I've used others' to play games (Beatsaber in particular is really fun) but I don't have time in my daily life to allow for a regular gaming habit or indulging that kind of money on it.

In 2017, I had a conversation with a co-worker, where we talked about how badly we wanted a VR desktop environment with infinite screen-space. There's VRDesktop, but that isn't this. And then again the same conversation last year with another friend.

After seeing the demo video, I was compelled to go look at Vive prices (~$1,000, ouch).

I feel like my productivity would skyrocket with this, mostly due to lack of background distractions. Imagine wearing noise-cancelling headphones. I want this so bad.
Sounds like a great way to tinker with ai and drone pilots. I wonder what kind of ability you gain when g force is removed as a pilot weakness?
Users that have migrated to Mac Pros have seen up to 40% faster build times
Dr. Craig Smith Covid-19 update thread
And this is why it's done during a crisis: it works. All the education and talk about how the last time the government overstepped their bounds goes out the window the moment a crisis hits. Then it's all about "why isn't the government doing more?"
I proposed an app [1] owned by WHO to do the tracking, almost nobody cared. Now governments will handle it, as they want.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/proposal-way-reduce-coronavir...
Spin Selling Process for Introverted Entrepreneurs
From what I’ve read, the goal isn’t always simplicity of reaing/writing code, but the simplicity of implementing multi threading
I use skimfeed.com to attempt to get an overview of headlines in the world and delegate everything else to lists and work through them. Once an item is on a list, I no longer need the mental exertion to remember what I needed to do, and avoid getting into the "what was that thing I was meant to do and remember?" situation.

I also deliberately avoid WhatsApp and force people to email or SMS me. This massively reduced the amount of noise I had to deal with. Sure, I hear off fewer people but I actually get stuff done and if people can't be bothered to write an email, it's probably not important in the slightest.

This might not be an option for you but in any case it is reducing the amount of time you're on your phone and/or distracted, coupled with exerting a bit of control over when and how people can contact you. Your phone is for your convenience, not theirs.
Global coronavirus death toll now surpasses 100k
Have you even read the spec before dumping your thoughts? They address the privacy concerns explicitly. A short summary:

- Doesn't collect personally identifiable information or user location data

- People who test positive are not identified to other users, Google or Apple

- List of people you’ve been in contact with never leaves your phone

https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contac...
Slightly related: I wasn't aware of this until last year, but at one point nuclear-powered jet aircraft were a thing. Think cold-war jets, always ready to counter if the other side strikes, that could stay aloft for a month or more.

The issue is that weight is the enemy of flight, and nuclear shielding is heavy. The US was working on distributed shielding: instead of being centralized around the reactor, messing with the CG, it was spread out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
I've always dreaded sales. But I find sales easier after following the 4 step process outlined in Spin Selling.
If you care enough, sure. But a draft during war times is something very concrete and threatening.

This is something covert, like secret courts, unconstitutional data collection, manipulating the stock market for the 1%.

You won't get people to care once a new, barely visible leash is entrenched.
It's unprecedented in the sense that the world was so different during the Spanish Flu that it's far from clear what lessons can be taken from it.

Yes, life will go on. But it's worth trying to minimize the misery in the meantime.
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I often use a screw driver to hammer things.
They're not the same and I think Google/Apple's is a bit better. In DP3T the infected person shares a single daily key from which all future daily keys can be derived. In Google/Apple's each daily key is HKDF derived from a master key and they are not linkable. Infected people share the relevant daily keys from their infection period. THat's more data to push around, but it is better for privacy.

It means that contacts with infected persons can't be linked across days, and it means that I can't build an app that alerts me that someone who was previously infected just walked by.
Contact Tracing Framework Documentation [pdf]
I seem to remember news of a flu outbreak back in September. I wonder if it was this earlier Coronavirus spread.
I'll stick to the language that lets me do speedy parallel processing, which happens to be C++ in this instance.
It is a constant and universal truth that irrationality of the masses exist. And then there are those who think that they can manipulate through propaganda
Presumably, the same thing that would happen if General Dynamics suddenly decided to change its business model, the major difference being that General Dynamics actually manufactures the weapons you're worried about private companies wielding, and Air USA acquires them.

This just doesn't make much sense as a concern.
An asymptomatic infection should still count as an infection, so it should lower the infection fatality rate. I don't have expertise in this area, but I think both infected fatality rate and symptomatic fatality rate are useful.
One of the things I never understood about the hype around these Clojure GPU libraries is that there is a lot of marketing jumbo about how high-level it all is. Even the book for these libraries has the words "no C++!" half a dozen times on its ordering page [0].

However, these are just high-level libraries and you cannot write the GPU shaders in Clojure. You still must use C or C++ for that (depending on if you are going the CL or Cuda route), and your C/C++ code is embedded or called from the Clojure side. This is no different than using another high-level language like Python -- I mean it's focusing on a rather misleading and irrelevant detail. You can use Clojure or Python (or many other languages) to call OpenCL or Cuda shaders, or you can just use the libraries that call them for you. Clojure is not special in this regard.

[0] https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/