skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
conceptually, flattening the curve is meant to turn an exponential infection curve into something more manageable.

We are flattening the curve, yes, initially because hospitals don't have capacity, but the root of this issue is the exponential nature of infection transmission.

If we have the ability to build hospitals at a rate to match O(2^n) time then we can let everyone out and declare quarantine over! But as you know, an O(2^n) algorithm is extraordinarily hard to keep up with once n approaches any large number.

That's the curve we're trying to flatten - by changing the approach, changing the "algorithm" so to speak, by not allowing people to interact so they have less chance of infection.

If you are able to build a new hospital in a week, and then continue building a new hospital every day after that and then one every hour after that, and then a new hospital every few seconds after that, then you have a chance to keep up with an exponential curve (well, until the virus runs out of people to infect, so until it reaches 100% of the global population).
I wasn't aware Intel still made "Desktop-AddIn cards", or that the Non-Mobile versions are in any relevant way different to the mobile versions. In any case, the page I linked above does not seem to draw a distinction. So I assume, mobile versions are good to go too. Heard/read about differing experiences?
we are being asked to believe that anything Twitter does or does not do could pose an existential threat to the United States?

Well, they can’t have it both ways. Twitter takes credit for the Arab Spring which was indeed an existential threat to several countries, at least their regimes, but still millions of ordinary citizens were impacted.
Highlander 2: Scotts from Space would have been a better comparison than Police Academy 6.

They both got 0% on rotten tomatoes, but I don’t think Police Academy 6 tried to switch genres.
The whole point is that if Apple would allow this, you wouldn't have to install the app. You could just use the website.

Forums are an example where the website is perfectly fine without an app, but I'd really like to be able to choose whether or not I get push notifications from them on my phone.
And at such low pay, too:

> As recently as this week, jobs boards such as Indeed and Dice.com listed hundreds or in some cases thousands of openings for mainframe positions at all levels. Advertised pay ranges from $30 to $35 an hour for a junior mainframe developer to well over $150,000 a year for a mainframe database administration manager.

If you are talented and patient enough to do software archeology which will affect millions of people, I think you can make (a lot) more elsewhere.
Essentially, the scientists found that yes, there are some additions in the nCoV coronavirus originating in Wuhan that other coronaviruses don’t have, which are similar to pieces of sequence found in HIV. But, the kicker here is that these pieces of genetic code are also found in countless other viruses and there’s no reason to believe they specifically came from HIV, at all. " https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/02/02/no-c...
I don’t understand the scenario you’re picturing.

Let’s assume I’m innocent but some neural net has placed my car at the location of a crime.

You’re saying that if I challenge the evidence, the prosecutors will counter that by showing that if my car were there, the neural net would have produced a picture of my car? They don’t need to do that and it adds nothing to their argument. I’m not challenging that the neural net is capable of producing an image of my car.

No, the point is I am placed in the position of having to demonstrate that there exists some other car which under those lighting conditions the neural net would mistake for mine. That’s a far harder burden of proof for me to reach.

Honestly this is similar to the way fingerprint, DNA and hair sample matches are presented to courtrooms all the time so it isn’t a new problem. As you say, forensics are persuasive.
> C + Linux. That seems to be the most promising tech with regards to longevity that exists today.

It really depends on the application. C & Linux will literally be around forever, but C isn't the best language for a line-of-business application like an unemployment system. Java would be a better fit for something like that.
"national security" could be at risk if, say, a terrorist intended to attack the Pentagon or the White House or any number of other federal buildings. But yes, I doubt anything that high-profile would be in twitter DMs (unless they did e2ee and only used twitter as transit) and I completely agree with your comment otherwise.
Not exactly an article but Grace Hopper's 1978 HOPL keynote makes for good reading: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800025.1198341 .. she rails against the then 'Establishment' and thinks back to days when people thought assembly language was a bit fancy and modern. There's a lot about the earliest days of programming in her keynote.
Governments seem completely unaffected and have even upped their game of stealing from the responsible, savers and children. Superior, if merciless, crooks.
The application looks and feels nice, but the per-device pricing/licensing model seems severely outdated to me. I will not make a purchase unless named licenses, which enable me to use the application on all devices and operating systems I use (with reasonable limits if DRM is needed for some reason), are available.
1. Formally defined semantics

2. Simple (LR1) grammar

3. Small, as a language

4. Static types (static need not be inflexible. Scala is static but very flexible. Perhaps overly so but whatever)

5. No undefined behaviour

6. All dumb holes such as buffer overflow always checked for

7. Good supporting tools (vague I agree but necessary)

8. Suitable, well-designed library

9. Not repeat not designed by the government which will make an utter mess of it all.

10. And pigs will soar
Like Scotty in that iconic scene..."Hello, computer...........Hello, computer......" someone hands him the mouse, which he holds like a microphone "Hello, computer...."
For me personally, Quanta magazine and Nautilus stand out with their unique style. Wired is also pretty distinct
Very weak output I’ve seen so far. Trying another before passing judgment, but honestly this is so obviously fake output so far.

Edit: now done three images, all well lit face, no dramatic movements, and the output is just terrible.
There is also London bombing map in second world war which many people claimed was methodical but was later found to be random. e.g. https://images.app.goo.gl/mdQEVE9gfQAsLHn66
Well in England&Wales the National Statistics Office figures show <500 deaths (I think that excludes specific flus, H1N1 and such, which would add 4 more; ) for the most recent figures (2017 IIRC), for a ~60M population. Papers I've seen suggest a adults get flu every 5 years, children ~every 3 years. So we're looking roughly at rates of 500 per 15M. 1:30000.

Now there's some controversy that UK government have been reporting other deaths as flu, basically hiding Winter deaths due, eg to poor elderly care, in flu figures. So other sources suggest far far higher flu rates; but this is going off death registrations.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

Covid19 death rates for under 50s are something of the order 1:1000, 30x the flu rate in data I've seen most recent (Worldometer) but reported rates vary considerably.
I just spent last night having a set of bizarre dreams ... I wish I could remember them because I'm sure I'd find them funny this morning. Two summers ago I had a very strong strain of Salmonella poisoning and the dreams during the first two weeks of recovery included very trippy dreams. Last night's dreams were nothing compared to those.
Yes, thanks for clearing up the intercept part, I didn't remember how they did it exactly. They do make right decisions in my opinion to balance security/privacy issues at the cost of less ability to detect cheats. I think they also have a pretty good record of not banning inocent people.
It's got to be something like that, unfortunately I just don't know the exact syntax. I've got some other javascript bookmarklets in firefox, but looking now at their links, they are a mess of %-encoding, and I'm not sure if that's important or not (perhaps they got mangled through an old import)

FWIW, here's a bookmark to get rid of static bars (the kind of thing annoying websites have stuck at the top of the page and won't go away when you scroll):

javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()

I don't remember it being quite so ugly when I first added it, surely bookmarks don't need to %-encode spaces and curly brackets?
Totally agree, I loathe the kiosks, it is an incredibly slow way to order food. Perhaps they need to implement a voice assistant so you can just ask for a 5 with a coke.
I learned about this from a user of my Chrome extension who was having some issues. Most of the features actually worked out of the box, though the UI isn’t quite right. Very cool that it works this well!

I understand Brave will be adding extension support this year as well.
I never heard of that model. I suspect it probably wasn't very successful because DEC started to move to the Alpha architecture not many years later.

I worked with a lot of VAXen back in the day but I never heard anyone refer to them as "mainframes".
It’s arguable whether either of those are ‘in python’.
It hasn't changed.
> C++

Really? :(
Not only that, you could end up shipping malicious code to your customer.
Really awesome write up. I personally would love to start building native Swift apps, but honestly Swift (although I’ve heard it looks much better than Objective C) looks so incredibly involved. For now I guess I’ll stick to react native
A simple and cheap cabin makes it really valuable for less acute patients
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/2020/04/13/fisioterapeuta...
Let's not forget the history of shareware:

https://www.filfre.net/2020/04/the-shareware-scene-part-1-th...
One of the big benefits I found of 'doing my own thing' was the ability to pick and choose who to interact with - whether that was a meeting, call, email, etc.
Also, comparing this to anything long-standing is flawed because it misses the point that we have an opportunity to solve this that we don't have with other situations.

Smoking habits and seatbelt habits and just about everything else is in a steady state. Nothing we can do can change those situations dramatically, we can only nudge them to a small degree slowly because those situations and habits are entrenched.

The point isn't that N people die from this so we should be cool with it because N is in the same ballpark as stuff we've accepted. The point is that we have a short window to solve the new situation before acceptance sets in.
That's a cherry picking fallacy and unrelated to the effects of the Great Recession.

We do not live in a 1930s world of belligerent alliances itching for a chance to bloody someone up.

Wars between the big powers are now economic and political. Nobody wants nuclear annihilation.
The Roundabout Entrepreneur
Ask HN: How do you feel about companies outsourcing without clients knowing?
I work for a small company doing creative work. At times, when a low budget project comes in for example, we send the whole thing away to be done by a cheaper outsource vendor without telling the client, pass the work off as our own and cream off the thin profit that remains. Management would say we're still manageing the whole thing and involved in the process.

I'm not sure ethically I can really support this any longer, but then again I understand it's a tough world out there and we're just a small company trying to stay alive out here.

How do you feel about outsourcing whether it's just some bits of work or entire projects.
I'm interested in scalograms and continuous wavelet transforms. Here's something from a few years back

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=22
Where are you getting those numbers. From this study it looks like 20% of Swedish adults are obese. That's compared to 36.5% of US adults.

Also the swedish study is from 2012, so it's probably slightly higher now.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160604050632.h...
> this malicious gem had 2,100 downloads, close to 30% of the total downloads that the legitimate gem

I wonder if most of those downloads are fake to boost the download stats and to give more credibility. Either way, that's troubling...
Seems like they definitely have every right to reveal these; I don't see how there is a constitutional basis for this unless they can demonstrate that Twitter would be enabling some imminent vital threat.
> it's not very obvious what aspects of the image you're seeing are real, and what aspects were dreamed up by the system doing the extrapolating.

It would be quite obvious unless the raw data before extrapolating is destroyed, for which there are no reason nor is it possible to stop others in the vincinity from receiving this raw data.
Setjmp()/Longjmp()
I was writing that we should both create hospital capacity and have some moderate flattening of the curve. Of course we shouldn't let the virus run free.

But unless you are hoping for a vaccine to be invented soon, which would of course be wonderful, you have to face the other scenario and that is that we have to slowly build up herd immunity. Herd immunity means that people have to get infected and a percentage of that will have to go to the hospital. No matter how you manage it, bigger hospital capacity simply means that you are able to reach herd immunity more quickly.
No it's not. You're being intentionally pedantic here and seem to be ignoring the actual meaning of those words.

If I helped someone do something bad, then I bear some responsibility for the outcome. That is the definition of responsibility. What is your definition, considering it seems to differ from the dictionary definition?
Sure, but if you are starting elevated processes from public-writable folders, this is not a Nirsoft-specific issue. It's an issue with your own ignorance or negligence. That's not Nirsoft's problem.
Previous discussion (333 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339004
Ask HN: Why aren't recruiters doing this on HN?
In the "Ask HN: Who is Hiring" threads, recruiters could provide a temporary code in their job posting, like an expiring promo code.

Job applicants could include that code in their email application (in the email subject or somewhere in the email).

This way, the recruiters will be able to easily filter the applications and look at those coming in from HN readers. Less noise.
Yes, because that's what the word "mainframe" means today, simply because all other machine architectures that were considered mainframes are now extinct.

I'm not saying it's not IBM PR, though.
Why would a convention be considered unintuitive? You learn it and it's just a design fact. I'm not sure I agree with the article - it seems like a case of human-pattern matching.
I love the licensing model. No crappy "pay us for the privilege of using the software every month and year" like Adobe does. Just plain perpetual licence like Affinity. We need more projects like that.
"Computer Lib/Dream Machines"

> ...is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press.

> In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines

Buy directly from the author: https://computerlibbook.com/ it says it's "sold out" for now.
He probably has to support Safari...
I think RedHat does a lot more than just packaging open source in a nice manner. AFAIK, they actively shape the ecosystem and contribute to quite a few projects. Wasn't the whole systemd transition spearheaded by RedHat for example?

But I agree with you, that consumers pay for convenience and companies require Service Level Agreements for which they are willing to pay.
I can recommend to get a copy of

* Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution, by Lamont Wood.

* The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder.

* Books by George Dyson (son of ...): Darwin Among the Machines, Turing's Cathedral. (unrelated, but also give Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship a go)

* The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, by Leslie Berlin.

* Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

* Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, by Thierry Bardini.
House cats have more impact on local wildlife than wild predators
If it truly becomes commonplace, then there is a chance video of any kind will lose some of its visual impact. Having seen enough of these, people will hopefully be more cautious about assuming videos are true.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Published in 1992, released on the Internet as a free ebook in 1994.

"The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the early 1990s. The most notable topic covered is Operation Sundevil and the events surrounding the 1987–1990 war on the Legion of Doom network: the raid on Steve Jackson Games, the trial of "Knight Lightning" (one of the original journalists of Phrack), and the subsequent formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown
A lot of the decline has to do with the desktop importing web-based UIs: documents with a hodge-podge of interactive widgets that glue them into a cohesive app. Every app can be different and can be optimized for its function. New desktop apps are often built with either web-tech or some new UI framework that tries to give developers and designers that same level of differentiation and task-specific optimization you get in a browser.

Honestly, it isn't surprising that web style UIs are so popular: they take a lot less time to build, and you spend more effort building functionality than integrating the standard actions your app is supposed to support (think the stuff in the File, Edit and Help menu). Also, most users do pretty well with webish apps. Better than they should and most of the time better than they do with a GUI app. As they say, Good Enough beats perfect almost perfectly.
According to Giesecke projection, the total number of deaths will be around 6000, 2-3 times the deaths from annual influenza. (currently 1,511 have died from COVID-19 in Sweden)
My opinion on this is that we will "soon" have "trusted" webcams that create some sort of signature in each frame. In other words, a way to say "this is what the camera saw, guaranteed".

Probably something that would be built into phones and laptops first.

Of course, we know that messing with such a datastream would be easy for us, but for enterprise users (think liability) and news organizations it could be a real boon.
Show HN: A place that lists free games
Most people like free things, some people like games. If you like 'm both then this might be something for you!

I've made a website, a Discord bot, a Twitter bot, and a bunch of scrapers that roam the web to find free games out there. Just so that they can be found in one place by other people.

I'm running this on my own server, so I'm curious as to how much traffic it can handle. The Discord and Twitter bots run on a fixed interval, so that shouldn't be much of a bottleneck.

You can check it out online at: https://www.freegameisafreegame.com

On Twitter at https://twitter.com/fgiafg

And you can check out the Discord server over here: https://discord.gg/upRUYWb

Let me know what you think, and what could be improved!

Cheers
I was thinking the same thing today. I wonder if it can be done in on-the-spot, like capture your image from the camera initially and then send the rest as data points for deepfake generation on the other side, but based on your own image. That would be amazing for low/limited bandwidth situations.
So let me ask you a question then..

Do you feel the same way about Microsoft and Apple, and every other company that provides a hardware driver for a modern computer, and whether state governments (USA included) put pressure on them to let them advance their agenda by using back doors in their drivers or software?

Why is Riot special in all this? What, in your view, makes them more likely to be so secretly and so deeply corrupted in the manner you suggest?

Note I'm not asking you if you run MacOS or Windows.
That's definitely not default behaviour... you should see a "You have chosen to open x. What should Firefox do with this file?" prompt.
That's not the reason for zip-based distros. Zip's are just easier to sneak past SmartScreen & Co.
Also worth mentioning is "Turings Cathedral" by George Dyson
I'm curious about the reasons for leaving Android development.
>In order for your game to render other players you have to know their position, so the game server has to send them to all players

I know nothing about game engines, but I have always wondered why is that the case. The server could compute visibility and only send the opponent position if there is a chance the player might see it. Computing visibility server side is not cheap, but it would still be significantly cheaper than fully rendering a scene, right?
The pictures you have there look similar to what I see when I visualise the spectrum over time (some examples here: https://vsound.app/high-precision-in-frequency-domain.html). I found that white noise was quite interesting too: https://www.instagram.com/p/BzF1f80AEvH/?utm_source=ig_web_c...
Every reason the US and it's allies must defend Taiwan from CCP hostilities.
Is Cobalt an obscure dialect of Cobol?
Cargo works pretty well too.
> If the US government made one request to stop a terrorist plot that they had some specific knowledge of, that would be okay in my eyes.

How can we tell that they just didn't straight up lie about whether the one request was to stop a terrorist plot, and not to gather intel on political foes or ex girlfriends? With no oversight and no one allowed to advocate for the rights of the individuals under surveillance, I am still not okay with one request to which they claim is stop a terrorist plot that they claim to have specific knowledge of, because there's no checks and balances to prevent them from simply lying.
The GIL is not a total ban on thread parallelism. It's a significant obstacle, but not a complete stop.

Besides, Go has its own set of problems with parallelism. None of those are best in class.
TLDR: Not yet published, Non-Randomized with control group. 636 Symptomatic Outpatients in Brazil, 412 treated with AZM+HCQ, 224 control group. 1.9% needed hospitalization with HCQ+AZM group. 5.4% needed hospitalization with control group. Trial registry NCT04348474.
sorry for reply so late, I knew the ardb and it's a great project. the function of the kvrocks and ardb seems to be similar, but it's architecture and the design goal were totally different, so the performance also different.
Adding to this confusing debacle is how HDDs are now being marketed like running shoes: one type for running, one for squash, one for tennis, one for basketball...
Well ... I think you'd need to do some statistical validation of that premise. Are the applications coming from HN less noisy? Perhaps recruiters were doing this in the past and found that the signal-to-noise ratio from HN wasn't any different than their other sources.
Let's make an Ethereum Simulation Game series