skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been fine if shelter in place had been ordered sooner. Further the first outbreak was in Westchester which is far outside the NYC subway system (there are still trains but ridership numbers are far lower).
The Working Group's White paper on Japan and Covid-19
https://imgur.com/ts3ashk

Some of your background boxes overlap with the sidebar.
This is incredible. Just what I needed for a project! Thank you so much!
So far I like it, it's been a great supplement to uBlock Origin and it was easy to setup.
Factorio scripts are called blueprints.
when i bought my laptop, foremost on my list of features to look for was actually having the ability to open it up and replace parts (RAM, HD, Battery, etc).

Unfortunately, Microsoft went the same direction as Apple with the Surface Book (minimal to zero repairability).
I'm a very enthusiastic worker most of the time, but I have never been rewarded for improving my own productivity at work. Usually improving my own productivity is because of a certain stubborn and personal distaste for intent that can't be backed by action.

I can see why people should improve their productivity at work in the abstract, but I have to admit there isn't much tangible in it for them. They will work 8 hour days however productive they are. Less productive workers are if anything more likely to clock out on time.
HW-wise the Vega is better, but the SW, OpenCL compared to Cuda at least on Linux, sucks. It rarely works, and you get the crashes at runtime, not compile-time.
Show HN: My Quarantine Project, The Bell
This is conspiracy theory level thinking. There is absolutely no evidence that China is lying.
I would argue against all of 1, 2 and 3.

1. Anything AI/ML-based that can be applied to COVID-19 will be. 90% will be useless, but some percentage will pivot to these applications as their new business model. There may be some others that see cutbacks, but most companies should get a boost from the good PR of the ones that work.

2. I've seen a couple different sources pointing to blockchain as a good solution to inventory management and tracing, both seemingly important given current events. Second wave infections will keep this at the forefront through the next few years at least.

3. Subscription boxes for foodstuffs (meal kits specifically) probably saw a HUGE boost when a few million people suddenly had a lot of free time, coupled with supply chain problems and shopping difficulty. Other periodic vendors may benefit as well if shopping remains inconvenient, and customers may get used to the convenience and stick with them after everything goes back to normal.
How to Get Your Team to Challenge Your Ideas
I don’t put a very high priority on my job. As long as I stay better than average that’s enough for me. I am not trying to make top tier income as the median income for an experienced developer is plenty to hit diminishing returns.

Simply staying focused on work at work, solving whatever the current issues are, and going home is fine. Languages, tools, and best practices are constantly evolving, staying current is already a significant treadmill adding mastery of everything is an endless time sink.
That wouldn’t fix it. As long as programs can write faster than the compaction algorithm frees space, you can run out of space.

The only solutions I see here are to block IO until the compaction algorithm frees space, or return ENOSPC. Both options violate assumptions that real-world programs make.
You realize this is talking about TCP, right?

You're referring to things that happen in a different OSI layer
why not limit SBA to companies with <10M yearly revenue?
To accomplish similar I use "Back" from the Navigate menu regularly and have it bound to cmd+opt+left arrow. Works pretty well - also puts your cursor back to where it was in that file.
Connecting to Substrate Blockchain from NestJS
Education already is subsidised through state and private scholarships. And I believe rent is also capped in many places.

Seems a tautology that access to high-opportunity would help an individual. But if rent is too high as to be unaffordable, then the place is not so high-opportunity. Cost of living can't be excluded from the opportunity calculation.

I get that some sort of 'jump-start' in life might be required but can't help but feel that deep down this will hide a dysfunctionality somewhere.

Maybe something like Lambda Housing would prove this economical theory. Signing an ISA for subsidised housing if this proves to significantly raise the person's income seems a no brainer.
VRDs sound great in theory, but the more you learn about them the more you realize that they aren't the right solution for the problem. Compared to other AR optics approaches, they're vastly more expensive, more dangerous, and have more limitations to overcome. For example, a VRD will only display if your eyes are looking in one direction (see the North glasses), so a VRD-based headset would need eye tracking (and vastly more complex optics to move the image around) for basis use.

Diffractive optics can achieve much better effects at a fraction of the cost and without any risk.
nice constructive counterpoint to https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

a key point (IMO) innovation happened online becuase being a new space enabled by novel technology, it wasn't regulated yet. But now it's mainstream, so inovation will decrease.

also, this quote from an intervier questioning Marc Andreessen

> a “primary technology” would need to involve, you know, some fundamental new insight in code, some proprietary set of algorithms.

tells me that so many people just don't get it. software due to being immaterial just doesn't play by the same rules as other mechanical machines.

I know I cannot explain it properly; but why is open source such a superior way to develop infrastructure software?

finally

> Human progress in this view is solely online.

IMO, we don't need a new cleverer algorithm. I believe that Amazon's success is not some really sophisitcated piece of code, but the way in which they integrated computer technology into the very core of the organization.
Is Cloudflare Safe Yet?
Newsom's secretive $1B mask deal with Chinese automaker sparks concerns
This bug falls in with "reasons connection attempts to your server may be mysteriously failing" - this is a bug in connection setup, when you'll be setting up your secure connection.
Since I'm doing other things now I'll tell you the secrets:

Basically its all anti-patterns, the things people SAY are not the things popular people are DOING. And the unorganic stuff like "buying followers/email lists" isn't the unorganic stuff that you should be paying attention to.

Long story short: don't buy people to add to the list, buy the account

On Instagram, you just buy a popular account and rebrand it. Pricing is followers multiplied by engagement. You'll figure it out. 3% higher engagement is much better than higher followers. But you can get in the door with partners with higher followers.

You break even on the account by doing paid features for like a month.

The rebrand will cause a bunch of followers to leave, so THATS when you use bots like instagress to get the attention of other real humans to offset the decline. you are never actually growing the account, teenagers in Albania and India are growing the accounts. Don't fall for the time wasting ideas, unless your time isn't valuable. You buy their already grown accounts.

Use those accounts to hack hashtags for several years. I'm not sure thats a term but here is how you do it: you take the account private, and thats when YOU pay for promotions on other people's accounts to drive real humans to your account.

When your account is private, instagram queues up follower requests 100 at a time, and when you switch back to public only 100 followers or so are added at once I think. There is some limit. The point is that you always maintain a currency of new followers that you can accept in bulk at any time.

So THEN when you post a picture with almost any hashtag (based on popularity of that tag), you can accept a TON of followers that you've been queuing for an indefinite time period - also amplified by paid promotion again - and everyone likes/engages with it quickly, pushing it to the TOP section of a popular hashtag.

Rinse, repeat.

Regarding promotions again, you also want to be in a liking ring in Instagram DMs with other popular accounts. You post your picture in those rings and they like your photo, and vice versa. I'm not sure how much this works since the friend's activity feed is gone, but it can still move your photo up on other people's normal feeds if you share followers.

Its a decent place to START your funnel these days.
>We project a true count of over 500,000 infections, including more than 5,000 severe cases, and a breakdown in provision of care (“overshoot”) in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo, before the end of April.

The current count is ~21,000 with the number of confirmed daily cases declining for 6 days straight, from 741 to 338 yesterday. So... not only wrong on the numbers themselves, but also on the scale, trajectory and impact on society.

Japan's response seems commensurate with the problem, and this reads to me like an excessively verbose illustration of how one can spin even pre-registered falsifiable claims whichever way you want regardless of outcome. 'See? We were mostly right'.

Maybe that's too harsh.
Search Reddit, lots of doctors and med students discussing which of the cheap ones work. Nearly all are sold out though. I bought this one last night based on Reddit feedback for $35 but it's already sold out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HSAG8BE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

If you've got $300 to spare, this one is allegedly FDA approved:
https://www.masimopersonalhealth.com/products/mightysat-fing...
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>Only CSS. No JavaScript!

It is indeed a feature, and one that I wish the vast majority of websites adopted.
In the Keymap editor, Tool Windows -> Commit
My S8 has a "Samsung Health" app, that measures Oxygen Saturation under the "Stress" section. It uses the sensor next to camera (also used for Heart Rate).
I've no idea how accurate it is though.

Some googling and I found a related paper: "Accuracy of Smartphone-Based Pulse Oximetry Compared with Hospital-Grade Pulse Oximetry in Healthy Children"

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:
Smartphone-based pulse oximetry is not inferior to standard pulse oximetry in pediatric patients without hypoxia. [1]

However in this case you _are_ trying to test for hypoxia...

Another link answering the question "Should smartphone apps be used as oximeters":

CONCLUSIONS

It is not physically possible to measure SpO2 using current smartphone technology.
The two published studies which assessed smartphone oximeter apps (Digidoc and Samsung) raise serious questions about the diagnostic accuracy.
The Samsung app has been withdrawn, and the claim that oxygen saturation can be measured indirectly through “stress assessment” is false. [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29215972

[2] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/question-should-smartphone-app...
Thanks a million :) Let me know what you think.
I feel like going to ARM will alienate the customer base of developers that Apple has, won't it?
And still, drunk driving kills more than 10k every year in the US only: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

I should definitely quarantine me and my family after before 6 AM and after 6 PM.
[3] says 1000+ ICU beds needed and capacity 79 (!?) when actual numbers are 1000+ beds, of which about half are in use.
So I would heavily discount its conclusion that deaths in Sweden will somehow surpass Germany (!?). In any case be mindful of the confidence intervals, they are huge and the projections seem much more volatile in general than local ones.
I'm reminded of this short video of a blind software developer using Visual Studio. Maybe it'll give you some idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc
Firefox supports it and Chrome has plans to support it in the future. I agree that it's not much right now but it's a start.
All you need is for the two instances of the app to use separate sets of key pairs, where the keys have been generated on the device itself and the private keys never leave the devices, to share the private key for the conversation between the two devices. I don't know if Signal or any other app does this, but it's 100% conceptually possible.
Most of what I know can be considered anecdotal; it's something I've seen myself, or heard about first- or second-hand. The amount of such stories, plus basic understanding of labor law history and dynamics of market forces, makes me conclude these stories are very much representative.

Random examples I've seen and mentioned here in the past:

- The franchised grocery store close to me would wash stale meat with detergent to stop it from smelling, then sell it as fresh. I only learned that because I was very friendly with the staff, and some of them started discretely warning me not to buy meat today. I understand it to be common practice.

- Most of the small stores and cafes I know will not pay their employees for the time spent getting ready to man their station, cleaning up after work and closing down the place. Which means they get paid for 8 hours a day, but are expected to work 9. I think a related legal term is "donning and doffing". I learned that from being friends with people working in the service sector.

- A very common theme that's especially important in the times of pandemic is that in low-end services jobs, like grocery store clerks, food preparers in restaurants, etc. sick leave does not exist in practice. It may on paper, but if you take it, you can kiss your pay - or sometimes even job - goodbye. Since people working there are on the low end of the wealth spectrum, it means they all just eat their painkillers and show up to work sick.

- I've read some other horror stories about the back ends of restaurants. One I remember vividly is learning that your food may not be what it looks like. For instance, I've heard of places that do grilled chicken breasts by heating them up in the microwave and then dropping for a minute on a hot-dog bum iron, in order to give it the marks of grilling.

- Don't get me started on e-commerce. Problems are brought up in every thread about Amazon or eBay (which I think is more often than weekly here). One spectacular failure is that of comments and rating systems. In my family circles I've had people working e-commerce; in each such place the boss would order their workers to create fake accounts and make fake orders (legitimately looking orders with self-pickup and payment on pickup, that never get sent or paid for), and then rate them positively. Meanwhile, if an actual customer leaves a negative comment, they'll get begged and bribed with discounts or free merchandise to take it down. As a result, the rating system is completely bogus. Notably, this is a problem created by the e-commerce platforms themselves, in the same way Uber made their ratings bullshit; if you're a seller and you drop below ~99% of customer satisfaction rate, you lose special privileges; go below ~97%, and you get suspended.

Etc. etc.

The common themes here are, 1) everyone does it because everyone else does it too, so those who don't can't compete, and 2) the players involved are too small for the legal system to go after them even if they break actual laws. I.e. market competition in the long tail.
Firefox supports it, although currently only as a configurable.

Users can test their ESNI support online here: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
Pain in your spine, constant headaches or lung problems would also hurt work productivity. Focusing on first-order problems could lead to gains both at work and home.
New Earthquake Math Predicts How Destructive They’ll Be
with support for optane memory too, nice.
Matheminecraft: Where math and Minecraft meet
Awesome write-up, thanks for sharing.

Network is fascinating. I initially introduced myself to the subject by reading Michal Zalewski's Silence on the wire [1]. I really recommend it to anyone who wants to do the same.

[1] https://nostarch.com/silence.htm
Odd that more aren't discussing the incentives for banks to secure the funding for their clients who have debt on the books with the banks.

e.g. take two companies who both applied at the same time and each is doing $1M in revenue. However, company A has $250k in debt with the bank whereas company B does not.

Now all of a sudden the banks give the cash to the company with the debt because they know if they fail they will have to eat that on their balance sheet. They are incentivized to distribute the $ in a priority that fits them not on a 'first come first serve' basis which is the fair approach.
I ended up watching a bunch of those videos, they are really well made, thank you for the link
Also "vermicelli" (even closer in sound to "вермишель" in Russian) :P
Oh my. The Japanese government should feel ashamed to have hidden all of this from the public (edit: I mean the real data and the real gravity of the situation, of course). I, for one, fled the US to come to Japan for a few weeks because I mostly believed these numbers.

I hate this. I really hate that politicians (all over the world, in this specific case in Japan) can afford to treat us like this, and usually not face any significant consequence.
We encounter a similar problem at my current job (mixing systems that we want to keep stateful with systems that we want to make “real-time”/stream-based).

I think you’ve covered most of the problems you’ll encounter. One thing that sticks out to me is downtime: how will your order subscriber handle a product publisher that’s down or otherwise delayed? Then, the events will be potentially out of order, is that a problem for you?

On another note, we follow the same bounded context principles, but we implemented it with Kafka+confluent, since that infrastructure and those libraries were already available. Teams make their data accessible via a mix of “raw” Kafka topics and very refined gRPC services. Your subscriber is implemented as a cron job that reads from N stream and “reduces” them to 1 stream.

FWIW, we also store a transaction log in each of our databases, so we can generate a stream of object states relatively easily later on. This has helped a lot with converting old tables into streams, and vice versa.

The only thing that’s a persistent issue is schema changes. My only recommendation there is to never make them... In all seriousness, keep your data models small, and whenever you want to experiment with a schema change, add the new data as a FK’d table with its own transaction log, rather than a schema mutation to your core table. It’s never worth the headache if you take data integrity seriously.
What are the secondary effects of this? Less conviction? More crime? Longer trials? More expensive legal process? Less jury trials? More judge autonomy?

I feel like my education in government had a strong bias in philosophy versus economics. That is, principles versus effects. In the practice of government, the bias flips.
For anyone interested in event sourcing with the actor model I've built an open source Elixir library called Commanded (https://github.com/commanded/commanded) which takes advantage of Erlang's BEAM VM to host aggregate processes. There's also an event store implemented in Elixir which uses Postgres for storage (https://github.com/commanded/eventstore).

The actor model provides the guarantee that requests to a single instance are processed serially, while requests to different instances can be processed concurrently. Distributed Erlang allows these instances to be scaled out amongst a cluster of nodes with transparent routing of commands to the instance, regardless of which connected node it is running on.

In Elixir and Erlang, the OTP platform provides the building blocks to host an aggregate instance as a process (as a `GenServer`). Following the "functional core, imperative shell" style I model the domain code as pure functions with the host process taking care of any IO, such as reading and appending the aggregate's events.
Literally the entire point is to automate/write scripts.
A sort of aside: I'm no expert here, but every time I've run into the whole question of who authored Shakespeare's work the basis seems to be "I don't think this nobody could have read it, and if we assume he didn't all these other ransom theories sort of make sense!".

That is to say ... there's not much there to support much in the way of conculsions at all.

So I guess this makes sense that some weird math also doesn't help.
Only as a side note, and of course IMHO, A/B testing may not necessarily - even if sometimes it happens - end up with actually improving user experience.

What it does - once a result is chosen - is to "shift" user experience towards what an unqualified numerical majority likes more (which not always is the same as better), and while the experiment is running it risks to irk a lot of users.

To the scope of making the whatever more popular. it is of course appropriate, but it shouldn't be called "better" or "improvement" unless it is actually better or it really is an improvement.

About the specific on dark patterns, you must I believe, re-consider your (or your firm's) approach, as you say "luckily " it didn't work this time, but that doesn't mean that the next dark pattern will not work, possibly surprisingly well.

Dark patterns exist exactly because they are successful (in sheer numbers of subscriptions, conversions, etc.), even if often only on the short or very short term.

We cannot deny this.

Many companies use dark patterns and are successful until they cross an invisible line that - all of a sudden - makes their customers angry at them.

In a perfect world customers at the very first fraction of a hint that maybe a dark pattern is used should get angry and leave.

But this is not what happens in real life, they come and stay until they don't.

So you won't be able to convince anyone that dark patterns are "bad" (as in the short term they do work) if not by scaring them about the possible long term effects or by making ethical considerations (historically things like a company motto "Don't do evil" didn't work all that well)
That was my interpretation as well. The bizarre bit in the opening paragraph about Sundar saying that quantum computing will magically solve climate change is so baffling and stupid I'd probably want to quit after realizing that was my boss too.

I once worked as a developer for a massive trillion dollar tech company, but the company was terribly dysfunctional and never did any real work, so when I quit I joked about how I was quitting to get into software development. Sounds like the same situation here.
Doesn't this inspection of the manifest have a fairly limited scope in how it can be exploited though? I know the attacker will be able to see what someone is watching, but only for non-novel information, right? You can't use that technique to guess anything new, and had to have yourself already seen the video?
I found myself wondering what exactly those weapons are supposed to be for in that case.
Yeah I'm not denying there are people who are genuinely protesting the shelter orders. But what's actually happening is a concerted, right wing political campaign [1].

> Any argument that cites NYC results for restrictions on non-NYC behaviour is ignorant at best and most likely disingenuous imo.

There are outbreaks in several other cities and the recommendation is the same: either get a robust testing system in place, or shelter. Those are your options right now.

[1]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-d...
No, it's not that easy. It may also mean your transmission live-locks because your receiving state machine is waiting for more data that never arrives.

Yes, it needs a failure detection mechanism, because next time it might be a cosmic ray. But encryption and authentication alone doesn't help necessarily.