skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the "when this is turned off" bit not actually turning it off? That's not exactly up front. It could easily have not been called "turned off", like "OS use only" mode or "bluetooth not function except as a spy tool for Google" mode, something snappy ...

I suppose you have no problem with people calling things purchase when they mean short-term rental, either.

Do you really think it's called "off" when it's not off for any other reason than to fool users? They could make "off" actually mean off very easily.
I once worked for a very successful small firm whose primary product was a weekly email / newsletter: subscriptions start at around £20,000 / year.

Their product was analysis (energy markets), their customers were the banks / hedge funds, etc.

The analysis was provided by, um, analysts. These guys (and women) were Phd's, they were extremely well qualified and experienced.

Anyway you don't have to be a phd: the point is that if you have knowledge / expertise there may well be people who are willing to pay for it - the medium doesn't really matter.
Summary:

- > 70 companies have signed up with FDA to sell COVID-19 antibody tests, and are listed on the FDA's website[1]

- FDA decided to waive initial review of the "simple" tests under COVID-19 emergency situation

- companies are supposed to state that their tests have not been FDA-approved and cannot rule out whether someone is currently infected

- some (unnamed) hospitals are incorrectly assuming the tests have been vetted

- public health officials warn that the unregulated tests are creating confusion

[1] Article doesn't provide a link, but I think this is the list. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med...
The Nigerian prince scam emails are supposed to look horrible. It's a filter: if you're smart enough to notice the numerous grammar and spelling errors, you're smart enough to not be duped, and so they're not interested in you. They only want gullible people to reply.
The "Screen Time" program on my mac & iphone :-) I give the password to my wife and set it to lock my computer and phone at midnight. It probably saved me 1000+ hours.
This is something I like about Plan 9 (and I like basically everything about Plan 9). The entire OS's source code (the kernel, userspace, everything) is available at /usr/src and can be compiled and installed with these commands:

cd /
. /sys/lib/rootstub
cd /sys/src
mk install

It takes about 5 minutes. Want to cross-compile for another architecture?

cd /
. /sys/lib/rootstub
cd /sys/src
objtype=arm64 mk install

If you haven't tried Plan 9, you really ought to spend your next spare weekend messing around with 9front.

http://9front.org/

No other technology you could spend your weekend with will have a larger impact on your way of thinking about computers than Plan 9 might.
Just a throwaway idea, but instead of radiating the whole ocean evenly, why not dump it in the already highly radiated nuclear weapon test zone? The US blow around 100 nukes and I wonder if a few thousands of tons would actually do much worse compared to what already down there.
off topic: why should they be on lockdown? There shouldn't be any infection risk from a guy working solo outdoors.
Herd immunity is not the only way out; there is a lot of room between a decade and the time to get a vaccine to market.
I’m not sure I understand your comment, but I believe inDesign is a proprietary, closed-source product, probably driven mainly through a GUI. My goal was to write my book in vim. All I need to do is type, and the book comes out, including a visual index of all the plots in the book. Every link in the chain, and every tool I used, is open source (and free). The result is exactly what I want. To each his own, but the project, described in my article, is to create an interface for me as an author. That interface is typing in vim, using a set of tags I created for the purpose.
Will do. I just texted him the HN thread, so he might hop on here.
This article, and every other article, goes to great length to talk about the problems they attempt to solve: computing (and storage?) separated from an individual device, personal ownership of an identity, and communication channels between those identities and presumably the computation that works on those identities' behalf. With a bunch of privacy stuff and maybe some ability to fund this computation?

Where every article fails is in saying how they accomplish it and what any of it means in practice. We're both baffled on that point.
It is a really hard question.

I can attest that the sales presentations tend to be overly optimistic and cheery and if the head guy really wants a given solution, from office politics perspective, you might as well just nod your head, point out the issues you think should be addressed just so that you are covered and roll with it. In practical terms, the decision is not up to you.

In one of my previous roles, manager simply said it is happening ( so it did ), spent some time with the system not fully understanding the underlying logic and was somewhat surprised, when it did not work as advertised. IT had to get involved to smooth some edges. The roll out was still painful. But the contract was already signed and the advertised feature shown during presentation was now extra money, so we were forced to use incomplete product. Annoying.

But then, the real answer is that it varies. Everyone needs to do their due diligence.

What I did not notice is that managers see pretty dashboard and fail to consider the use of the rank and file users. This is the one thing I have learned from all this.

Never underestimate the impact of a pretty dashboard.
I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux
Show HN: Setup 'Hacker News.com' to redirect to this website
I have called myself a normie before. Is that sufficient?
How did they recover this...?
.. and construe terms in the worst possible double-speak way: purchase means rental, off means "spy on you mode", ...?
Hello mr. "normie" author:

1. Try rewriting this and putting your use cases first.

2. Try explaining to people what it does for them. Why is this better than other platforms?

3. Next, give a little technical jargon ("decentralized personal server platform blah blah blah) and link to meatier standard stuff getting into the tech.

4. As a zillion other people have said, ditch the word "normie." If you have to spend that much time justifying the use of that word, it's probably doing a disservice to your marketing efforts.

Try something like: "Tech for the ordinary joe." or "High tech solutions for people who don't have or want a CS degree." or "Privacy and control of your data for everyone."
The free market is also 3M realizing after the SARS outbreak in 2003 that something like this might happen again, and building surge capacity into its manufacturing plants. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-25/3m-double...

Unfortunately, the CDC learned no such lesson and continued to operate as though no widespread contagious disease could possibly break out on US soil, as they had virtually no stockpile of masks nor even plans to secure the mask supply chain, etc (not to mention their testing strategy only scaled to hundreds of cases per day). I suppose that's the unitary state.

Of course, the CDC should have a serious reserve of masks (and other general equipment for the most likely outbreaks) and plans to secure the supply chain, including partnering with private industry to make sure they can operate at an increased capacity in case of emergency. There's no fundamental reason that our federal agencies have to be incompetent with respect to their fundamental purpose.
The unfortunate outcome is more yaml and less lisp or small talk :(
It’s the linear model which suggests those low doses are mostly safe, it may be a more accurate model means average adults are at say 1/2 the risk of linear models. But, say children are at 10x risk, babies are at 100x risk, and Fedus are at 1,000x higher risk than those linear models suggest. Thus because of a high risk to a significant population it’s even more dangerous.

It’s very easy to find some way a specific model is wrong in one direction, but hard to say if that’s the only adjustment you need to make. Ex: Counting better cancer treatments making nuclear safer while ignoring longer lifespans making it more dangerous.
Appreciate the rapid response here. Thanks!
Thank you for the lengthy response
The population of my neighborhood has doubled since the shutdown as everyone's kids came back from college. No gestation involved.
If this was a simple change of preferences due to all the vegan/vegetarian talking points, I could agree with your premise. The thing I wonder about C19 is that what kinds of agricultural processes involve humans ensuring that beans/corn/greens/starches get from the fields into produce aisles and cans? The same reasoning on shutting down production for infection risk applies there as well.
Abandoned Athens Olympic 2004 venues, 10 years on – in pictures (2014)
The most obvious case of the Dunning–Kruger effect is when random HN commenters think that nobody in marketing is capable of using data-driven metrics. I don't think you appreciate how numerical modern marketing is -- marketers use conversion rates, A/B tests, attribution, and a lot of other techniques to actually calculate the ROI of advertising.

What you're describing may have been the case, in a number of companies, five years ago, but it's just not meaningful now-days. Companies spend marketing dollars because marketing dollars work.

Any other interpretation is ideology-driven wishful thinking. You might not like marketing, but it's silly for the conclusion to be "thus, the entire field is made of people who don't know what they are doing".
I'm with the other poster. Child experience and their memories will vary greatly (mainly around socioeconomic status).

I can't help but be afraid this will only bake in the inequality already present.

For my kids, this means more enrichment time, more time spent outside exploring the woods and streams around our home, and generally more quality creative time.

For the family down the street, this means more time in an abusive/shitty situation, less food, and more instability in the present and near future.

I feel like this is going to have a real, lasting impact on inequality, and not in a good way.

As an example; my grandfather talks about the great depression. He always says it wasn't that bad. But his family were already dirt-poor subsistence farmers. So for them, it was just less noise from other people. They had food, they had water, they had livestock.

But for my grandmother, who lived in town and was the daughter of a banker, the experience was very, very different.

And you could tell by the way they acted. Grandpa was free to give out food/money to anyone who he thought had a need. Grandma hid silver and various other valuables in floorboards and in wall-slats.

I can't help but feel like this is going to have a similar outcome for many people.
DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit Review
I'm using todo.txt via the CLI [1] with my TODO files in a Dropbox folder syncing it with Simpletask [2] for Android.

[1]: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli
[2]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android
It's only weird if you put Signal's specific design decisions from 2013 on a pedestal and declare it perfect and incapable of being improved.

(N.b. I don't expect my specific suggestions to be adopted. However, I view complaining without offering solutions to be poor form, so I offered some alongside my complaints.)

Of course, any deviation from Signal's design can and should be vetted by the same experts that vetted Signal's. And if they're unavailable to vet the derivations, the conservative thing to do is grit your teeth and bear Signal's legacy until they become available.

However, if Signal still targets Android 4.4 phones in 2020, there's a lot of devices without AES-NI and thus improving upon their AES-CBC design decision is worth probing at least.
Yep, that's about it. Or even worse, from the carrier's POV, regulators would take the higher profits from this year to regulate rates for the future (carriers file their target "loss ratios" with states, and if it deviates substantially, prices have to be adjusted).
“Panic buying AMZN” is my new favorite quote to highlight how financially nonsensical HN can be.
Smithfield is owned by the Chinese. Their economy is getting back on track, let them bail out Smithfield.
Flu (2020): About 600 deaths per day at peak, 14,000 total in US.

Coronavirus: 1400-2000 deaths per day now, 23,000 total so far, still climbing.[2]

USA #1 in coronavirus deaths! [1]

[1] https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-death...
They do promote YouTube premium videos in the beginning but after a while you stop seeing it if you don't consume it. I think it took a week max for premium videos to leave my recommended content (it was a while ago I started my subscription) .
I've become fed up with typing "HackerNews.com" into the address bar and having it go to SpaceRogue.

This script should install this to your hosts file on unix/windows.

The change is: 209.216.230.240 hackernews.com www.hackernews.com

Feel free to check my work. I'm just sharing in case anyone else wants to give it a go.
Newspapers are being hammered.

Local big-city paper ran several days with virtually no ads. Sport and Entertainment sections still carry none, though a few are appearing in the news and. business pages. And of course, obituaries -- or as they're called in the biz, "former subscriber appreciations".

Even the Sunday edition inserts were reduced to a single druggist's circular.

Even with increased eyeballs, ad buys are likely down and both business and people are avoiding all possible expenditure.
"There is a long list of problems with this suggestion, starting with how amazingly classist it is."

It's the opposite of classist, it's about bringing food to everyone in the safest way possible.

This is how Vietnam handled their lockdown to great success and they guaranteed food to everyone.

"Let's just point out that some people are homeless, soup kitchens are closing and homeless people still need to somehow eat."

Bring food to them. Everyone deserves to eat. In addition, house them. Hotels are more empty than ever before.

"As someone who actually has a compromised immune system, I don't want delivery drivers. I hate getting food delivered."

The grocery store is even worse. It's a nexus for disease, has unenforceable distancing, and mandatory touching of shared materials. Delivered food (i.e., groceries if you can cook) will have to be sterilized just like food you buy at the grocery store, but without those concerns. If it's stable at ambient outdoor temperature, you can also leave it outside for hours to decrease the chance of contact.

"I don't know what possesses people to imagine that delivery is superior method for germ control. That doesn't at all fit with my understanding of life, the universe and everything."

This is a tried and true method that limits contact and the spread of disease.
Yikes, that's not a good wikipedia article. It doesn't address the adverse events experienced by participants, and it is written in heavily biased language.

Leary was probably a net force for good, but his drive to evangelize psychedelics apparently prevented him from doing good science.
Factorio is great, I don’t see it as a waste! It’s given me a new respect for logistics and advanced planning. I think the whole idea is a massive exercise in programming, producing functions, changing structures and then debugging the problem/expanding the bottle neck. But yeah it’s still a game.
You can think about it step-by-step: first you need some rectangular structure that has two well-defined states to represent your cells, then you think of how to implement periodic refresh and communication between neighboring cells, some gadgets for and/or gates, etc. As you have gliders, glider guns, and similar building blocks, it is not that difficult, given enough patience. Very nice to look at though :)
Meat packing has already stopped. Feel free to get scared.

https://time.com/5819878/smithfield-pork-plant-closes-corona...
Tell me how you format your PhD thesis in a plain text editor without wasting countless hours on LaTEX?

Sure, designers create beautiful presentations outside PowerPoint, but I can grab master slides, plomp down the stuff that I wrote in a plain text file and bam - presentation ready in 10 minutes.

Excel - I'm a programmer but even I use Excel for quick data tasks - cleanup, remove duplicates, create histogram and summary, build a pipeline for data where I see intermediate values for every step for every data point. I might be an exception but I sometimes even copy data from an SQL client to Excel to drill into it.

Or Access? Entire departments of non-technical people are running on this stuff.

If Office didn't provide anything of value nobody would use it.
The Emerging Emerging-Markets Crisis
Contact Tracing
Irrational part of this fear is ignoring the very low probability of it ever happening. People have this strong, but from mathematical perspective irrational preference for 100% safety, compared to say 99.99999% safety, even when the 2nd offers many benefits.
Living as a bare minimalist in Manhattan, NY
How is spam prevented?
May sounds pretty reasonable up here in Canada - I'm concerned that the US still isn't ramping up production fast enough though. Trump is... and idiot - yea sure whatevers, but right now he's really doing harm by constantly talking about how close to being over this America is - it is causing a lot of companies that could ramp up production to be more conservative since they're worried they might be left with a lot of debt and a lot of unsalable stock.
>How come the people who propose this strategy never put up their hands volunteering to make the required sacrifices?

I've known many environmental activists in my lifetime, and can confidently say your extreme characterization is wrong. It is common in the environmental activist subcultures in the US to choose not to have children while advocating for the reduction of population growth. It is also not uncommon to for them to live lives of severely reduced consumption of material goods, consumption of energy, and production of C02.
What is the term for this sort of statistical error? I see it very often in online discussions.

I think it's related to Simpson's paradox [0] or general issues with interpreting conditional probabilities, but I'm not sure what the best overarching term is for this sort of fallacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
After physical, social, and other factors involved in the decision making process, along with the enormous number of choices we have to make on a regular basis, I can't imagine free will having a place anywhere in our existence.

I'd even say free will is more of a spiritual belief that people like to adopt, and in whatever year far off in the future it will be accepted that it just isn't a thing.
Is using nixos not enough to have a deterministic install?
Covid Will Accelerate Trends That Were Already Coming
Projects are often like stone soup, it takes somebody to kick the process off, and I thank you for that.

I saw that it now supports Whalebrew[1], which seems interesting. One of the issues that I have with Brew is that often my need is temporary and that I want to be able to clean up afterwards (similar to `git stash`).

[1] https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew
Of course. That's corporate America strategy #1. Never fix anything, never concede to anyone, never admit wrong, and if all else fails distract with a PR campaign or by donating a tiny amount of money. As if the damage a company like Amazon (just as an example) could ever be mitigated by donations from Bezos. It's a clever trick. Starbucks buying coffee from war torn areas? No problem. Donate some money to charity and pretend the company isn't a piece of shit exploiting the world. Workers dying at supermarkets? No problem. Put up bullshit ads and other PR materials to pretend you care. Companies don't have feelings of course, but it'll gain the goodwill of Americans too stupid to realize they are being swindled.
What problems has Andrew Yang solved? My main concern with him is that he lacked any significant accomplishments for a presidential candidate.
We've asked you before to edit the swipes out of your comments here. If you keep doing it, like here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847040 from yesterday, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to do that, so would you please just make your substantive points thoughtfully?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
How many windows/tabs do you have open? I often have two WebStorm/IntelliJ windows, VSCode, a dozen Chrome tabs, and at least one Electron application open (usually Slack) and it's not too bad on the CPU.
An unprecedented look at Apollo 13’s damaged Service Module
Why I've made “yet another UI framework”?
It's like a standard padding oracle attack, but 4 billion times slower (on average) and requires 4 billion times more CPU work and bandwidth, and you have to be able to distinguish between a HMAC failure and a padding error.

(a.k.a. isn't happening)
> For many EM countries, this pandemic will quickly escalate from a health crisis to a humanitarian crisis, and ultimately to a solvency crisis. Political stability will be the last domino to fall.
The thread is a mess, but he clarifies that he's referring to those who develop software for "critical infrastructure."
I like this take on software arch. essence.
Wasn't talking about the bears specifically, but yes, this should enable us for a greater call to action to save our ecological systems.
I found this Twitter thread (https://mobile.twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1249348452095373...) that explains the origin of https://draculatheme.com/pro.

It's a single person selling a terminal and IDE color scheme for developers.
I run Textbelt, a simple SMS API (https://textbelt.com/) and Quickchart, a chart image and QR rendering API (https://quickchart.io/). Combined they cover my living expenses.

Both started from open source projects of mine. I love building open tools and stumbled upon the fact that I could sell services around these projects after people started reaching out for support and extra features. I improve the products incrementally every week and eventually it adds up.

The virus shutdowns have affected Textbelt a bit because many of my users are small businesses doing appointment reminders and such.
well there might be risk for the guy traveling from his house to yours. Also there may be other reasons why they think people can't have the lawn guy come by but they think it might not be nice to say, like people laid off still want to keep their lawn looking good but don't want to pay for a guy to come do it.
Beautiful shot. Thank you for sharing the photo and the story!
Learning LaTex and tiKz help out with this. It looks like a presentation. So latex beamer package with some custom templates. The downside is that latex and tikz has a little bit of a learning curve. But it is worth it in the long run.