skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is news-worthy. They are mentioned on the BBC as hiring during COVID.
Pathogens can definitely evolve to improve fitness and settle into an ecological balance with their hosts. I more meant to contest that most start out very harmful. I don't think we have data to support that, or to be able to separate virus vs. host adaptations that would cause the appearance of lessened severity, given that most viruses circulating today have ancient origins.
The footer could work. If you round up the file to some reasonable power-of-two block size and put the footer right at the end of the last block, that would be highly portable; it would work on systems/devices that only write binary files in multiples of a block size (even if you write a short block at the end).
> Think, and judge, for yourself.

But surely also be inspired by others? OP simply said "I like this". I agree we shouldn't blindly follow or resent others, but that seems a stretch from "like".
I agree, they were most likely studying SARS like viruses to prevent future outbreaks, but due to employee negligence it got out.
True. The editor on the left side does look like emacs.
Did You Fall for a Coronavirus Hoax? Facebook Will Let You Know
Real Ale in a bottle would continue to condition slightly so depending on the yeast strain I'd expect bottled beer to change flavour slightly.

Also because of the way cask ale is dispensed it's pretty much always oxidized after the first couple of pints are pulled so that might be the change in taste you're noticing, since it's in the bottle it doesn't get oxidized.
It's a terrible design to make a "factory reset" that leaves an entire partition completely intact, and to compound the problem by attempting to paper it over with regressive DRM. The obvious good design is to simply rewrite the entire flash image over USB, but apparently that was just too straightforward for Android.

The especially frustrating thing about bespoke special/hidden state is that it doesn't straight up fail hard enough to get scrapped, but rather causes ongoing pain for the lifetime of the implementation. Every additional bit of unnecessary complexity is another layer of knowledge and "tricks" that someone needs to know to competently maintain a device.
The image background on that webpage is extremely distracting
Photon-counting camera captures 3-D images with record speed and resolution
Honestly, this makes me appreciate Signal all the more – it seems the only barrier is getting friends to adopt it, but if used by an organization could it be an alternative to E2EE email?
I think the main thing people underestimate in general is the amount of setup you need to capture something interesting and the amount of editing afterwards you need to turn it into something that actually holds peoples attention.

I enjoyed doing it for a bit with backcountry skiing but kids meant reduced trips and no real energy to sit down and edit.
That’s mainly due to irresponsible monetary policy by the Fed. Imagine if the benchmark rate was 10%. A lot of the indebted would default/go bankrupt, but it would also incentivize companies to save and behave fiscally responsible.
Firefox 74 on Windows 10, mostly smooth but stutters noticeably every few seconds.
Exactly. As I said in a comment that was inexplicably flagged, "compensation" doesn't pay my rent. My paycheck does. Not only that, but I have to pay more in real terms for things like housing and education than people in the 70's did, and I have to fund my own retirement.
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Drones have a lot of commercial uses and most of them havent even past their formative stages. From inspecting power lines (which most municipalities mandate every year) to mapping properties and utilities to eventual deliveries of goods, if another consumer drone was never sold I would still be bullish on the drone industry.
Can you help me understand why scientists would intentionally take a virus that can’t transmit in humans and go to lengths to make it transmissible in humans? Just at a gut level that seems reckless and irresponsible to me, but people talk about it like it’s normal and no big deal... so, help me understand?

Also, if it was somehow proven that the virus did come from a Chinese lab, what does that mean? Will the world hold China liable for this mess? That seems unlikely to me, rather I assume it would come down to “big stick diplomacy” and China carries a pretty big stick. But is there any precedent for a disease being leaked from a lab and the lab being held responsible for the consequences?
> Every time the death rate spikes, we'll have to lock down again.

this will likely cause more business failures than a prolonged shut down. Starting up and shutting down a business is not free. There are legal costs and you need to source materials for operations. In the case of restaurants in particular, there will be loss due to spoilage
Doesn't this level of "burn in" mean that these oled screens will simply burn-out with use rather quickly?
Yes I thought I covered that here:

"BUT! Be careful before you embark down the path of running integration tests against a different database than the one you use when running the application. There are SO many pitfalls"
We use BlueJeans at work, and it's an excellent piece of software. Very reliable, and integrates well with conference rooms and our meeting system.
Any unsigned native executable is a vector for malware. Images with stuff appended to them can be signed.

For instance, think of signed Linux kernel images on secure embedded systems. The signature includes the embedded initramfs and device tree blob.
GoPro has been struggling for a while but like a lot of companies they will likely use the present situation as cover to make some changes.

It’s a lot easier for executives to say “there was this terrible Coronavirus thing that forced us to downsize” vs “the business strategy I was in charge of wasn’t performing well and we have to downsize.” That’s happening a lot at the moment.
Don't know any bartender that will take a promise...
I don't live in Brazil anymore and haven't in years and I voted for João Amoedo. Bolsonaro and the PT are both awful.

Lastly, the ad hominems have no place on HN.
> The new camera can acquire images at up to 24,000 frames per second.
Yeah, there would haven't to be some sort of correction from "temperature measured at the wrist" to "estimated core temperature" using some fancy models or ML. I have a feeling there hasn't been a lot of research done by Garmin into doing this.
I see drones and gopros following the same adoption arc as DSLRs. The DSLR market size definitely peaked a long time ago but there's enough professionals and enthusiasts who use them that it's a healthy market that's not going anywhere and they are going to be a tool in the toolbox of anyone who creates visual media for the foreseeable future. Drones and gopros seem to fit the same mold because they enable people who want to create visual media (and other people who need the equivalent capability) to do things that you formerly needed a helicopter to do. I don't see those people giving up that capability anytime soon so while the market may shrink, especially for consumer oriented devices, it will be around for the foreseeable future.
Your argument seems to imply that an Amazon employee is unable to quit their job to find better working conditions. Under current, modern American labor laws, this is not true.

Edit: I own a business, so I do know about employees leaving for better jobs.
thank you facebook
Security is convenient. Losing your sensitive data is pretty damn inconvenient.
You should check out how self-extracting archives work. All of those that I am aware of have a first part that is a regular executable and the archive to ve extracted is appended to that. File formats like zip have an advantage here as they keep their index at the end of the file after the compressed data. So there is no need to scan for the start of the archive.
> A home ISP account typically came with an email address, some space to host a website

But that's not really self-hosting is it? If my ISP can decide to poke around in my user folder and there's nothing I can do about it?
Thanks for putting all of these sources together!
I wish stripe would offer some relief for the pandemic to their customers. I use them for my business to process CC's but they have not provided anything. I can't get a PPP loan. I'd accept an interest free loan if they would offer it to my business. They did approve me for a loan but want a fee upfront + a slice of daily sales until its paid back.
This supply side argument could also be made for the great recession and great depression. But obviously those still happened.

Historically when lots of companies file for bankruptcy and large swathes of the work force are laid off we enter a recession/depression. And they've all been stickier than your comment suggests.
FeathersJS + Nuxt/Next (or any front end you want) has been a good combo for me.

Meteor always had a blocking issue for me every time I'd try to use it.
At this point we may as well just start using numbers instead of letters.
My interpretation of the parent post was not that there is no middle ground, but that if a user can use a service without engaging in an extra step to increase security, they will do so, no matter how easy the extra step is. Passwords are not an extra step - they are required.
And if it's your own older iPhone, it's essentially free. Slip a waterproof case on it and you have a pretty rugged camera/GPS/etc.
> Tennent's has a nostalgia factor for me

Me too. I rented a flat right next to the cathedral when doing a semester as an exchange student in Glasgow 20 years ago. What I did't get was how someone, at some point, sold that plot of land next to a 1000 year old cathedral and cemetery, to the smelly Tennent's brewery! Every time I walked past I'd wonder who had agreed to that, and when. City planning disaster, that. I don't remember much from the semester itself but and I blame that on Tennent's too.
I would love insider knowledge on their innovation tract. I'm sure they are licking wounds after the karma fiasco but it's like they went back to vanilla action cams, and that market is seeming nascent. What's happening?
Right now our plan is to make it free for users and connect as many people as possible. Down the road, we can make money by charging book publishers to feature stories, or possible getting insurance companies to pay us because of the improvement in well being for seniors. Thanks for the feedback though, we should make that more clear on our site!
Query plans are based on database statistics.

Explain will calculate the query plan for a query.

Explain analyze will calculate the query plan, run the query and compare the query plan expectations to reality.

However, if statistics change, so does the query plan.
So if you run a query then run the same query again with explain analyze, you don't have a guarantee of getting the same information back.
And since explain analyze doesn't return the query results you are obligated to run two separated queries.
There is a useful idea called Pareto Optimality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

If you measure two things, you can draw the "frontier" between them, sketching out the max of X that you can have while having an amount of Y. This will draw a graph where the lower left is the part you can reach, and the the upper right is the part you can't, e.g. you can't have 100% security and 100% usability.

When you are on that frontier, than the two things are in apparent opposition to each other, in the sense that you can't get more of one without having less of the other. However, if you are not on that frontier, then suddenly the conflict evaporates, because you can indeed have more of one without less of the other.

(Almost everything we ever talk about as software engineers being in "opposition" to each other is actually in this relationship. Sometimes optimality on one axis is so easy to achieve that it's still practical to discuss the two things as being in "opposition", but most of the time, before worrying about to things being in opposition it should first be checked that we are indeed on this optimality frontier. Otherwise we risk constraining our thoughts into a win/lose frame and miss the win/win options on the table.)

All of that is a lead up to my claim that the idea that GPG is on the Pareto frontier for usability and security doesn't pass the smell test. In fact it manages to have such a bad UI that it adversely impacts the security it can provide. It isn't just what git calls the "porcelain", either; some of the fundamental data structures GPG uses are just not quite right and produce fundamental confusion. It certainly doesn't help that the UI is so obscure that even a heavy user can be confused by everything that is going on.

GPG really needs a total UI overhaul, but I think this is one of those cases where the existence of an apparently "blessed" product (the GPG distribution itself) prevents anything better from being able to get enough of a foothold to succeed. If you waved a magic wand and made me the PM over the GPG product, I'd be putting out a call to the community to make a better UI, no holds barred (i.e., fundamental data structure changes are on the table and while I wouldn't necessarily want to promise a lack of backwards compatibility, don't be afraid to break it), and in a year we'll circle back around to the proposals and the GPG project itself will bless one of them. But that probably won't happen. (And I personally lack the bandwidth and the gpg street cred, so "why don't you do it" isn't a terribly practical response.)
Sort of related maybe? I would do the grocery shopping the day that I needed stuff. The lockdown has forced me to plan ahead, and in planning ahead we've made better choices and are eating healthier.
A friend of mine worked on a shell based on jq a few years ago: https://github.com/jq-shell/jqsh
Can you upload somewhere (GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket) and then put a banner for buying a beer?
This is a great question. So EventReduce is only the algorithm that calculates your new results. The parsing of SQL is not done by it, you have to bring it by yourself. This works over providing some information about the query like Sort-fields and query-matchers. This is described good in the JavaScript implementation [1]. Providing this functions works easy for NoSQL-Queries because they are better composable. For SQL-queries you have to do some work before you can use EventReduce.

Also see the limitations of EventReduce in the readme.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/event-reduce/tree/master/javascrip...
So... you consider a handful of people in your social media circle rhetorically equivalent to an "opposing party" made up of most of the major media figures on the biggest news channel on TV and the president of the United States?
Regarding Windows 10 in your browser, Azure Bastion rolled out recently and does exactly that: https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/services/azure-bastion/
Seems like a pretty serious conflict of interest, being both broker and seller. I’d think twice about counting on them for price discovery now.
Yes, but stocks are ripping higher on much worse jobless claims, housing starts, and Philly Fed numbers than expected, 113 unexplained cases of reinfection in South Korea, and the PPP fund being completely tapped out with three weeks to go in Congress' recess.

The market is fully convinced that everything is fixed.
Yes, there are people who do point-and-shoot photography with all kinds of equipment that they don't actually need. The iPhone also ̶c̶a̶n̶n̶i̶b̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶d̶ absorbed some of the DSLR market from point-and-shoot photographers who don't actually need DLSRs.

That doesn't mean that niche markets aren't real. It it not going to make any sense to mount an iPhone to my helmet any time soon.
Star Orbiting Black Hole Proves Theory of Relativity
They're called packaged terminal air conditioners:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaged_terminal_air_conditio...
Yeah, but because it is o easy to fire, some companies (especially startups which just got some VC money) over-hire and then are forced to let people go.

This creates a never-ending hamster-wheel of hiring-firing - not good for the employee and not good for the company.

Also, if paying 1 month of severance is too much for a company, then perhaps it is not run well and should be allowed to fail?
> I'm seeing 714kb of data loaded over 924ms.

That's really bad!
> Just get an email client that has PGP capability built in.

That step isn't as straightforward as you might think.

Put yourself in the shoes of a complete novice. As of this writing, a Google search for {pgp email windows} returns gpg4win as the top search result, which is the tool the author used.

Otherwise, the software listed on the openpgp website (https://www.openpgp.org/software/) mostly doesn't have PGP capability "built in." In particular, both Evolution and Outlook require addons for PGP support.

Despite suffering from bad UX, the instructions the author followed are largely those present in a top-Google-searched guide (https://yanhan.github.io/posts/2017-09-27-how-to-use-gpg-to-... -- infobox result for {gpg encrypted email}). Easier methods that are harder to find or less obvious may as well not exist for a novice such as the author of this article.
Very true. But in that case it moves up the chain to the bank to forgive mortgage payments, or for the government to hold off on collecting property tax. The same logic holds for them as it does for the landlords. Better to deal with people who are proven to pay in all but the most extreme circumstances.
>series G

seriously? like they've had A,B,C,D,E,F,G rounds of vc funding?
Astronomy AT HOME – Astronomy is the perfect activity to do from home
I second this, thoroughly enjoyed the article.

Expecting a short announcement about adding COBOL support, I was instead treated to an educational journey about the language, amusing history and examples, technical decisions on implementation, and a practical tutorial on getting started.

Bravo!
Ultraviolet-LED Maker Demonstrates 30-Second Coronavirus Kill
This is only for queries where you explicitly want the query plan.

However, your query won't return the query results.

And regular PostgreSQL queries don't let you return the query plan they used on top the query results.
Beggars can’t be choosers. The fee and slice of sales until paid back is completely reasonable.

Why should one business have to shoulder the struggles of another? Yes, there is potentially a moral obligation to your fellow man. But this is capitalism baby.

If stripe handed out a bazillion loans without any expectation they’d be paid back... what do you imagine would happen?
my bad, didn't look at the options enabling wider time frame, thanks !
Space crew to return to different Earth
I love the quote from John Collison:

"This is digital migration in a very compressed period of time, for both businesses and customers," Collison adds. "My mom recently asked me if I'd heard of 'this Instacart thing.' Yeah mom, I have."
I recently finished reading Pete Brown's Man Walks Into A Pub: A Sociable History of Beer, which is a good and quite humorous introduction to the history of beer in Great Britain. I'd recommend it to anyone taking an initial interest in the subject. I've followed up by starting Brown's next book, Three Sheets To The Wind: One Man's Quest For The Meaning Of Beer.

Since the start of lock-down in mid-March, I'm now brewing my fourth batch of home brew. I recently purchased Durden Park Beer Circle's Old British Beers and How to Make Them[1] book. I'm looking forward to trying out a few of the old recipes.

I am also worried about the potential closure of a couple of good pubs serving craft beer in my location. I even contacted the owner of my local to suggest I support him by buying beer directly to take home, but he said regulations prevent him and he didn't want to risk his licence. Hopefully they'll be able to open again soon.

[1] https://durdenparkbeer.org.uk/
New Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro now available to order
That's right; this isn't new. We just decided that it was prudent to extend the round a little given the economic uncertainty.
Crank.js
This is true, but not pragmatic.
> Working with researchers at Korea University, in Seoul, the company showed that its Violed LED modules could eliminate 99.9 percent of the SARS-COV-2 virus using a 30-second dose from a distance of three centimeters.

Unfortunately, the company did not disclose how many of its LEDs were used to achieve that.
> Second, that additions and modifications to Org-mode tend to use Emacs' text juggling here and there instead of a higher-level Org API and string functions

I was shocked when I started looking into Org's API and found everything is done via parsing. There's virtually no tree/graph type API.
This is simply false.

The entire grocery supply chain works on a just-in-time model. Demand for stuff like flour, toilet paper, etc. on a chain-level scale is entirely predictable in normal times - Walmart can likely tell you what a given day's sales will be of stuff like toilet paper down to within a couple percent.

A sudden, unexpected, and sustained 10-20% increase in purchases of various staples blows a gaping hole in the entire thing.

The entire supply chain plans months ahead for Thanksgiving-level demand. We basically all did a Thanksgiving shop without warning.
> Wish there was some solution to filter out sites that use completely not-ignorable (like in the corner) CTAs.

uBlock Origin, if the default filter lists don't catch it just right-click and block the element.
Lazarus 2.0.8 Released
This looks good in theory, but in practice many of its examples are cheating: `ps`, `ls`, etc. are something like shell builtins, so your memorized `ps` arguments won't work with this, for example.
Remind me why there's this native mobile app fad.
Ask HN: Is PayPal SMS Down in the US?
I'm completely locked out of PayPal due to SMS 2FA being down.

Can't contact support because its phone support is closed and web support requires logging in.

The only option is to reset your password in an endless loop, not prove who you are and disable 2FA.

Seems like a Catch-22 of poor planning and poor execution. Am I wrong?

Oh and web support is basically unreachable too.
I’ve resigned myself to the general understanding that any vaccine, if it’s possible, will most likely be out next year or later.
Building a Dynamic Instrumentation Agent for Go
So with Stripe, is it industry practice to keep the fee when refunding customers?

For example, if I return something to Best Buy, are they still paying that 2.9% fee to their CC processor?
Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
I remember going snowboarding with a go pro. We were so excited to see the footage. The guy in the Chalet even offered to put it on the big screen so everyone could see. What followed was about 30 minutes of embarrassing slow and inordinately dull snowboarding. The jumps that seemed high were barely off the ground. The speed that seemed potentially deadly was a snails pace.

Recording yourself doing sport only makes sense if you are really good!
>camera manufacturers are slow to change and have a hard time valuing simplicity

I would never use simplicity and GoPro in the same sentence. At last the model I played with a while back had an absolutely terrible user interface which made it really hard to sure it was on if it was mounted on a helmet.
They use LEDs to sterilize water bottles for hikers. I wondered how long it would take for this to get in the news.
Ted has one of the best, and longest running tech blogs I've seen, and it covers such a wide array of topics. If you're reading Ted, thanks.