skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least on my Linux build, Ctrl-L still highlights the entire URL. Considered whether you've just come into a bug?
> And in that time span about the same people died from the "regular" flu.

We're past the seasonal flu peak and coronavirus is still on the upswing and hasn't peaked, it's not only killing more people per day than the flu, but it's actually now reached the status of leading cause of death in the US.[0]

Even with countermeasures, covid-19 is, short of a literal miracle, going to kill far more people in the US than the flu this year.

And it's also going already contributing more to deaths by other direct causes by clogging hospital systems, consuming resources like ventilators, etc.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-bec...
Robin Hanson has been covering variolation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/variolation-test-desig... and part of the issue is that the FDA is poorly equipped and set up to respond to a pandemic. One obvious solution is to cut through the bureaucracy and make emergency exceptions, but no one with political power in the US seems to know this, or understand it.
Maybe you can now correct the "killing between 1% to 3.5% of the people it infects" part. It's horribly misleading.

IFR < CFR and IFR estimates go always down over time and never up due to the skewed nature of the data. Antibody tests are coming in already and based on them you get very accurate numbers.
These are all just more recent variants of tools which we have always used, e.g. some chat apps, some editor, etc. In that way, not much has changed. It make sense though to move on to newer tools, which are basically the same tools though, just updated, maybe more modern features, not necessarily more features in total.
"Captain's log, stardate 73740.9. The Enterprise has taken on board a distinguished Federation virologist, dr. Daniel Tillett, to help him with his search for a less harmful strain of the virus that's currently ravaging several planets in Federation space. The doctor is confident that such an attenuated strain could be used to swiftly end the ongoing pandemic."

I would watch that episode. Hell, I'd watch any new episode; unfortunately, the only proper Star Trek we've had since Enterprise stopped airing is The Orville.
And lying in bed all day kills people too. I'm concerned about elderly people I know who aren't getting enough activity during the lockdown.
I think what you are missing here is what is the novel part of my idea and what is the conventional. It is not novel to think of an attenuated vaccine, what is novel is to look for an attenuated strain in a pandemic using genome sequencing. I hope someone else has thought of this, but so far I haven’t seen any evidence of this.

Waiting for vaccine is not a good option. This is a situation with only hard choices.
> I have friends who have literally calculated how much it costs them per square inch to make a painting and it can be shocking.

Any medium/cost data you can share?
Great Courses video version: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-philosopher-s-to...
Eh. The amount of performance you sacrifice in order to mitigate the very small chance of actually running across any javascript in the wild that a) successfully exploits you, and b) actually retrieves anything worthwhile, just isn't worth it. It's such a tiny risk that it's really only worth mitigating against if you're paranoid or handling particularly sensitive information.
Show HN: Regex Matches Generator in Python
Crew of prehistoric monkeys rafted across The Atlantic to South America
Right, I just wonder why no one tried hard to break that cycle and whenever I read about e-ink technology, I get the impression that the company behind it is not making it easy to create products with their technology.
> If indeed those numbers are comparable or the same

Well if you mean now now and not just annual totals or totals over the 2019-2020 flu season, they aren't the same or comparable, Covid-19 is the leading US cause of daily death, flu is way back in the pack.
I decided pretty early in my career that I wasn't going to concentrate on figuring out how to get hired to what folks consider the top tech companies in the world.

I decided to take a different route. Take the decent-paying, but average job at an average-ish company, which will require immersive experience in all aspects of running a web infrastructure.

The reason for this, I didn't see "getting a job at Google" as the pinnacle for me and my achievements. I saw "creating my own successful company" as the end goal.

Sooo many benefits to this I think. You'll get the IMPORTANT experiences and knowledge, which will benefit you regardless of whether you are able to achieve the end goal of creating a successful business. The ceiling in terms of compensation is SOOO much higher. And in this scenario you're ALWAYS doing the most important things. In my experience working for large corporations you will typically be doing things that are far less important and in most cases your job will not push your limits. You will be a cog in a wheel using maybe 20% of your capacity to do amazing things.

Worst case you go back to doing what you love making a decent living. Best case you far exceed anything any of the FAANG companies could ever offer you.
Note: I reverse in my spare time and have occasionally been called on to reverse at work. I find subscription based pricing for software like this completely disagreeable.
Reminds me a neat Windows program from beginning of the century: https://www.mind-mapping.org/index.php?title=B-liner_2002
Mental models around Ok-Wrapping
It is commendable to search for solutions to the Corona virus.

But the author is doing himself a disservice by saying that tens of millions of people worldwide will die.

And why is it a bad thing to have to be vaccinated on a yearly basis, poor African countries have not been hit hard that is a fact.

The areas being hit the hardest can afford to be vaccinated yearly and is accustomed to it with the yearly flu shot.

Other than that, keep up the good work !
True but look at about:config.. there are a lot of options already! It's one reason people use Firefox
1. Get rid of systemd
2. Done
The Senate exists to preserve slavery and other interests of the colonial aristocracy. This is basic history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act
SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from confirmed cases
The two largest metro areas in the US have 10% of the total population.

The top ten metro areas have about 25% of the total population.

So, not a majority, but an absolutely massive number of people.

And that myopia goes both ways.
> Most communities don't aspire to be the "greatest city in the world"

Undeniably true, but honestly, what's your point? The OP's words were "the best America's got." I think in the context of the conversation we were engaged in, a suggestion as to what is the greatest city we have in general, or the greatest city we have in terms of public health, might both be interesting. I'm surprised by these "who cares about how good a city is, mannnn?" comments.
Right now it is also impossible to protect immunodeficient subjects, but herd immunity could help. I don't think the author ever says, "We should do this and only this in lieu of a vaccine."

The argument is, "This can be done now, or soon, while a vaccine will take 12 - 18 months, if not longer."
Completely agree. I made a post couple of weeks ago trying to find some solutions for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22673236
Not sure what gliffy is but Graphviz can conceptually draw the same thing. You can have box shapes and colors for nodes and edges both. However, the rendering layout itself is usually unpleasant. You can have some control but it's really suboptimal. As I said, Graphviz is both simple and very powerful so no reason to not use it to represent data in concept.
Plus it goes in your VCS.
Ultimately a decision to use or not use any attenuated strain found will be a political decision.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but for a remote Borgbackup you need to be able to create the full backup on your local drive, and only then you can upload it to your server (unless you are able to run something like an ssh-server on the server-side, which you can't with a lot of cloud storage services.)

With rclone, you can simply upload without having to create a full local 'snapshot' of the 'files-to-upload' first.
Don’t store medium cookies, that works.
Gotcha! Similar to the ol “Fed Put” :)
What Is Venture Debt?
I had a CS professor in college who required assignments to be submitted with 3-space indentation.
Related tangent: Roam^1 is a graph-based webapp that supports hierarchies, bidirectional linking, and an interactive graph view. Dunno about the step to get it into svg, but you may find it useful for any number of things. HTH

1. https://roamresearch.com
Show HN:  (Eacc) Write your own lexer and parser. Parsing for humans
You ever worked with someone who was really good at setting up environments? Or really good at refactoring the structure of the code? They'd always be pushing fixes and updates, and writing tutorials on the perfect environment set up, but when you look at their work, you realize they never actually shipped any products that required taking a risk or trying something unknown. All they did was restructure code that other people wrote.

These people are really good at having intellectually stimulating conversations. They're the kind of people who lurk on hobby forums and can tell you all about the hobby, but have never actually done it themselves. They're the people for whom the phrase, 'do you even lift' was coined. They'd lurk on /fit/ and talk about form and theory, but would never post any videos of themselves. They can tell you why you want to drive your hips out of the bottom of a squat, but they've never actually felt what it's like to be at the bottom of a squat and want to just give up and have to grind through it. They're the people who watch twitch streamers and think they're good at the game cause they understand the decisions the streamer was making, but they've never actually had to make those decisions themselves under pressure.

I've worked with a handful of these people over the years. They usually get in early and embed themselves in way that makes them seem important or very knowledgeable.
Yea, it's related to https://mdxjs.com. All .md files can contain valid jsx code. This `mdxComponents` folder name, refers to components that could both be - used directly in markdown files or used to generate html from markdowns.
People have been saying that tech hiring is broken over and over for a decade now but nothing was done about it. Hiring processes are still rooted in the "If you can solve this tricky textbook problem, you're smart" ideology which is completely wrong because it commoditizes a very narrow type of intelligence which is not related to value creation.

Unfortunately it's too late to fix that problem now. If a top value-creating developer was hired by one of these companies today, their approach and thinking style would be fundamentally incompatible with most of the other people who work in the company today (due to the legacy of bad hiring). Moreover, their boss would probably be one of those textbook and process-oriented people who is completely detached from actual value creation; working under such people is deeply depressing for value creators who have developed a laser-focus "eye on the prize" and "simplest is best" mentality from years working in harsh startup environments.

I would argue that the "simplest is best" mindset is good at any scale but the corporate hiring process has systematically weeded those people out.

That's why corporate monopolies are harmful for society, some entrepreneurial people just can't fit in at the bottom of large corporate hierarchies but yet they are often left without any alternatives.
Gatsby and Headless CMS, Including Strapi, Drupal, and Oracle Content and Exp
You’re ignoring the fact that this virus Is an order of magnitude more lethal than the flu, and I would guess that most individuals in poorer countries skip the vaccine altogether.
Live in 40 minutes: https://youtu.be/H1WNHVXJiUg
China did well?
The only subscription for desktop software I've found I liked is Jetbrains and that's mostly due to me getting their entire product line dirt cheap.
That is why I am wondering how low the prices of a 31 inch e-ink screen could come down, if only produced in reasonably high volume.
OP didn't say that, he said without depression-causing economical restrictions this is going to be a likely headcount. I.e. right now there is a difficult choice between killing the economy and killing millions of people.
It's rewarding for mentors to see teenagers develop their passion for engineering in these competitions. Here is a thank you video that described the journey of a few of our programmers from team610.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCuPoC-Z70
Life under lockdown: coronavirus in the UK
>> the default `mitigations` value, `auto`, leaves SMT enabled—even if it's vulnerable(!!!)

Is SMT always vulnerable? Is there a way to only disable SMT if it's vulnerable on the target system?
Agreed. But for the heard immunity one does not have to go and vaccinate/expose to an attenuated strain of virus the whole population. Even getting a majority of say under 50yo immunized should have a big effect.

These are special times. In reality it does not matter if this 0.1% +70yo will die after vaccination since the mortality rates in this age group infected with the wild type are bigger by about two orders of magnitude.
But out of concern to human rights it will make sense not only to exclude any immunocompromised people but also make it voluntary to the groups where mortality rates are at certain level.
"I've yet to see a horse run out, so why would I bolt this barn door?"
"America is finished if this is the best we got"

I am 100% sure the Donald Trump administration's nation-scale coordination is not the best we've got.

For example, see the CDC's Ebola response in 2014 https://www.cdc.gov/about/ebola/timeline.html .
>ADE is more a problem for the vaccine approaches. It is one reason we may never have a vaccine for this disease.

This is at least partly why there are no SARS/MERS vaccines. There's a paper I'll try to dig up where 4-8 (can't remember) modified vaccine candidates were tested in multiple animal species, and in each case except one, immunity was conferred but exposure to the virus lead to a dangerous autoimmune response which destroyed lung tissue.
Have you considered sending this as a letter to a medical journal? I know it's not a "scientific article" per se, but many journals have a section dedicated to letters. For example, CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) considers such letters, and right now they're fast-tracking anything COVID-related: https://www.cmaj.ca/

Best of luck!
Until we solve the cobalt problem we should keep our tech equipment. This is a very strong argument even if you hate it.
That is quite subjective...
> But the author is doing himself a disservice by saying that tens of millions of people worldwide will die.

We're officially at almost hundred thousand dead now, most places on Earth haven't reached peak infections yet, and it's an open secret that deaths are being underreported everywhere. I can easily see tens of millions of dead in few weeks.
I use it too but I wouldn't mind a non-ugly layout renderer!
Nothing will ever beat a trial. It's more expensive, but it's clear shortcuts just don't work that well. Give people a chance to work with you and then you both can make a well informed decision about how the situation is likely to play out.
Surely it does, but the CDC estimates that there have been 24k-64k deaths so far this season from flu [1]. That's over a 5 month span so that averages 4.8k - 12.6k deaths per month. Lockdowns really only started going into effect in that last month of the 5, so most of this time the flu was running around unmitigated by social distancing.

Now compare to coronavirus, where we were late to start but eventually locked everything down, and we still have 17k deaths in less than a month, and we know that's a lower bound. We're not even a month past the first 100 deaths. The death rate now represents infections 2 weeks ago, which we measured at 14k. After that we started measuring 30k+ new infections daily, so the death rate is likely to get worse by the time we hit 1 month.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
The open-source ethos means welcoming the friendly competition that comes from a fork. Look at the grandparent's link for the attitude taken by awk and bash.
To me this seem attractive for those that want to put ML into production.
Having a solid type system and an easily interoperable language could lead to a lot less bad surprises than using python.

For research this seem indeed like a bad fit.
Understanding models at several levels is a crucial skill to possess in engineering. It's not that you're "discarding 95%" it's that you are adding only as much as you need. In a problem about a block on a spring, for instance, you might start with a system that's just a point mass on a spring. Then maybe you need to account for friction losses, so you crudely model friction as a constant term. Then maybe air resistance is significant, so you model that as a function of velocity.

As you keep adding to the model if your model is a good one, your predicted results should asymptotically approach the physical ones.

Problem solving on a whiteboard is the same process. You start with the simplest model, and add complexity.
> Open source really does mean that you just have all the code to rebuild the thing from scratch under the right sort of license. Open source doesn't mean anything else, like having access to design decisions.

Open source means you have access to the source in the preferred form for making modifications (and not e.g. dumps of generated code). IMO that should include any design documents that the original maintainers would consult when making modifications themselves.
Well, evidently they implemented backdrop-filter about 8 months ago, but only for the new WebRender stack. And apparently they don't intend to implement it in legacy stacks.

So I guess your feature is tied to the support for WebRender. And that is pretty much limited to some Windows environments, if this article[1] is up-to-date. Both of the Firefox installs I checked don't seem to use it, Linux/X11/Ubuntu and Android (where it's apparently tied to e10s aka Electrolysis, which I could not tell if they even intend to implement for Android any time soon).

Kind of a mess...

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
The idea that naturally mild strain of the coronavirus would provide a durable benefit, but a human-created vaccine would not, seems to me like an idea that needs a lot more explanation. The mechanism of immunity should be the same between those two.
It’s almost a running joke that if a big or well known company blogs about their deploys, they won’t go into detail about databases.
Ask HN: PC Games for Young Children
I'm searching for a fun games that my 4 year old daughter could play on the PC, either mostly by herself or together with me. We had great time playing "The Gardens Between". We played it together and after we completed the game she did most of the levels again, mostly on her own.

I would say the characteristics I'm looking for are: puzzle based rather than speed/action, minimal number of keys required for control, no violence. Hopefully nice graphics too.
First off, do you still read the news? If so, consider cutting them completely.

As for the rest, deal with issues in a sequential manner. Don't deal with multiple things at once. Be stubborn: pick one thing, kill it dead, move to another.

And consider adopting a GTD-like system. If you deal with information, you will benefit from having a clear distinction between actionable information (tasks) and non-actionable information (reference). See a task? Put in on a task list. Not a task? File it into notes and forget about it.
I agree, a plugin like this for OBS would be amazing.

I, too, have been playing with the chromakey in OBS, and like you tried a bunch of different sheets and blankets. The one that worked the best I discovered by accident; my wife was pulling out a puzzle, and with it she pulled out a green felt puzzle mat (really just a large rectangle of green felt). It was perfect. But I had to get it from her so I could use it on my meeting before she started her puzzle. After some brief, tense negotiating, I was able to snag it. All I have to do is the dishes for another month!

It works really well, but this would be way better and easier to set up.
From my limited exposure, my best guess is that whatever lighting / contrast adjustments it makes in art mode are only enabled for art mode.

I'm not sure what 'looking natural' for a television screen might look like. Naively, if you wanted the television mode to look more like moving pictures, I'd think you'd have to figure out a way to knock down the refresh rate considerably. 15Hz ought to do it. If you're asking me if it just adjusts the television brightness to surrounding lighting conditions, I don't know, but it feels like art mode is doing more than just adjusting brightness (though possibly I'm wrong here and brightness is just much more convincing than I've experienced in the past)
Depends on your hardware. I have a Win machine, but need a green screen because I don't have the horsepower.
Iv’e been looking around for some attack modeling tools myself. I am currently using Maltego, but damn it’s hard to show so much volume in such a small presentation space. There are alternatives to Maltego I haven’t had a chance to play with. Definitely could use some suggestions as PPT is not really the way I’d like to go.
> "Can’t we just wait for a vaccine?

> "No. Apart from the time it will take to develop, trial, and mass produce a vaccine (12-18 months), it is unlikely that any vaccine will be practicable. The reason why is immunity to respiratory viruses (like corona) doesn’t last long – 6 months to 2 years. We would have to keep vaccinating everyone in the world every year (or maybe every 6 months if we are unlucky). "

I am not sure I agree with this. I am taking the annual flu shot, along with all the members of my family. I would be fine with an annual, or semiannual, coronavirus shot.
No it is not. There is still safety data, it has just been done by nature and not by jabbing people in the arm with some experimental vaccine.
Show HN: DevSpace – Organize your local coding projects
I've always had issues organizing my local coding projects and finding resources I need. Almost everybody seems to have some sort of a ~/Projects directory, myself included, with all projects as sub directories. And then, for each project, we tend to have source files, assets, mockups and specific files like TODO and NOTES for tracking things we care about.
This has worked well so far, but as times goes by, I have to admit I spend increasingly more time management this structure and navigating between all the things I have.

So I set out to solve this problem. My major concern has to do with privacy and security so I made sure to be working on those areas by having a desktop app working entirely offline and that doesn't edit any of the project's file. Here's the final product, let me know what you think. - http://getdevspace.com/ (ssl coming up soon)
I've only recently gotten into reverse engineering as a hobby recently and have so far just used Ida Free and Ghidra to stuff. From what I've read it seems a lot of people are disappointed on the lack of the decompiler being included with this. How good is Ida's decompiler? I've tried using the Ghidra decompiler, and tbh I'd rather just stick with raw assembly than what normally gets generated from that.