skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect that attitudes to public health will change significantly in some places as a result of the current situation and our different experiences dealing with it.

One of the things I think will probably happen is that the US public will shift to be more favourable towards a primarily public health service such as many other countries have in one form or another. Unfortunately, I expect this to happen because the shortcomings of the current system are going to be painfully exposed and result in a lot of people dying unnecessarily in the US and in the coronavirus problem taking longer to deal with than it will in most developed nations.

I also think there is a small but non-zero chance of much of the world blocking travel for people who have recently been in the US until they get their house in order. Under normal circumstances, this might sound preposterous, but clearly these are not normal circumstances. The virus doesn't care about American exceptionalism, and if the anti-science agenda that starts right at the top of the US federal government today continues, nations that do follow the science and support their healthcare professionals and ultimately get it under control to a useful level are going to be very wary of undermining that progress even if it means a big economic cost due to isolating the US that would never be seriously considered without the public health threat.
The problem is they don't really target invasive species, except maybe squirrels, from what I can see. They don't seem very interested in pigeons for example, while they clearly chase and sometimes kill nightingale, robins, magpies, and many other little birds around, lizards too, probably some butterflies who didn't ask for it too, all of them participate actively in the ecosystem health
That misaligned access is UB and that gcc's particular behaviour is assuming alignment are two related but different things. The article says that both are true, and the title is simply the second, as that is the more impactful fact.
Are they causing a specific problem? They are probably keeping your house rodent free.
Does Xpra support VSOCK connection between host and guest (which avoids latency of network stack) with WSL like X410?
As someone who mainly deals with web services, this all seems really weird to me. I was told from very early on "never trust the client". There was a lot of emphasis on server-side validation; client-side validation was only ever for UX, e.g. highlighting the field in red instead of making the user submit the form first.

Reading through this, it seems the game development world is doing the exact opposite and pushing all the "security" measures to the client. Is that incorrect? If it's correct, does anybody have any idea why?
> Anything you can help with/tell us to improve would go a long way.

My suggestion would be to make it mobile friendly if they were using 2G.

Also, take a look at Brutalist Web Design for lightweight inspiration.
Update: I did some searching and found some interesting demos of a hybrid of neural nets and more conventional DSP called LPCNet:

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet_codec/

Sure enough, it was discussed on HN when it came out last year. I think I missed it then.

For those who didn't catch this from the URL, this is by Jean-Marc Valin, of Speex and Opus fame.
I think this kind of sites are valuable as it is quite hard to keep track of the ever changing IT world.

In the beginning of this year we started https://nativecloud.dev/ which is a weekly curated list of noteworthy articles and tools of the cloud native world. We aim to publish every sunday.

I also recommend https://devopsish.com/ which is always on point.
> A familiar Dockerfile-like syntax is used, [...]

Oh, no. Another slightly different format? :/
Couscous OR not Couscous, let CoreML decide
Ruth's Chris Steak House Gets $20M from Coronavirus Aid Program
Seems like that is mostly false at best:

> "CDC is aware of a very small number of pets, including dogs and cats, outside the United States reportedexternal icon to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 after close contact with people with COVID-19. CDC has not received any reports of pets becoming sick with COVID-19 in the United States. To date, there is no evidence that pets can spread the virus to people.

The first caseexternal icon of an animal testing positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in the United States was a tiger with a respiratory illness at a zoo in New York City. Samples from this tiger were taken and tested after several lions and tigers at the zoo showed signs of respiratory illness. Public health officials believe these large cats became sick after being exposed to a zoo employee who was actively shedding virus. This investigation is ongoing."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
Thank you!

> to see which one is fastest.

The timing is extremely important and not at all visible in the code (which makes sense, since it's a side-channel attack.)
> native development processes are so unnecessarily awkward, particularly on Apple platforms.

Can you elaborate? For me it's launch Xcode, new project, hit run and off we go to the races.
Creating a License Plate Reading iOS Application Using OCR Technologies
Chest Congestion, Mucinex 12 Hour Extended Release Tablets, 100ct, 600 mg
> I'd like to see an actual example of such a city for better context.

Rome? Athens?

Merv was considered the most beautiful city in the world for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv

We have sent men to walk on the Moon but we suck at beautiful architecture.
Face Detection and Recognition with CoreML and ARKit
There are products that are supposed to deter cats, though I don't know how well they work or whether there are associated risks to other creatures. I remember one that claimed it was based on lion dung, and would make the cats think someone much bigger and scarier already owned the territory...
I wouldn't want to take people's freedoms away to protect me a little bit. Why live longer anyway without freedoms.
Interesting. A 2-D being in flatland would consider the inside of a closed, empty circle to be "dark", but from 3-D we can still see inside it. Maybe one could postulate a 4-D source of light.
Has anyone compared X410 performance over VSOCK to FreeRDP's Thincast Workstation, which is an "optimized for graphics" remix of Virtual Box?
Go with data grip then. I’m pretty sure it can be installed on every machine. At least that’s what I do, and I see no reason to switch other than their lack of official support for non-relational databases. It’s otherwise solid software.
Check out Bromite, they have an F-Droid repo that you can add to F-Droid!

Not affiliated with Bromite, just cycling accounts, can point toward my last one if anyone's concerned about this acct's greenness.
Dogs can kill livestock. The birds that cats kill don't have a commercial value.
Contact-tracing apps have a trust problem, even if they do protect your privacy
Any history of this?

For anyone: Why don't they cross-sign with their key+dev key?
Yep, that's the plan at the moment!

I'm trying to design this product so that it doesn't become a crutch for people, but rather a source of general kindness and compassion. So I think it'd need a lot more thought to figure out if professional support would fit. I'm also wary of providing "official" advice due to potential regulatory and moral issues. But I do see the potential, especially from a business perspective.

If you have any other thoughts or feedback on the app, I'm eager to listen~
> the original predictions that inspired this level of lockdown have not come to pass

The predictions of what would have happened had no lockdown been introduced then haven't materialized precisely because the lockdown have been executed.

That is no argument that the lockdown haven't been needed.
Seattle is a boom town like most of the towns out west. It booms and then the busts are especially hard. My dad remembered the “will the last person leaving Seattle please turn off the lights” sign after working for Boeing in the late sixties. Much of the Seattle suburbs is post war, heck, it’s even post 90s from what I remember growing up.
Those licenses pay for the dog pound, and help the local govt control the number of dogs. You are only allowed 2 registered dogs, all dogs must be registered etc...
Yeah the HN userbase can be extremely frustrating to deal with. Your comments will be flagged and you'll likely get some admin telling you to read the HN guidelines as though it means anything or matters.

But I want you to know that someone else on this site sees the bullshit within the community that exasperated you so much. The HN crowd will upvoted BS posts and downvote substantial discussion on basically a random whim. The admins are known to very insulting label good posts as things such as "tedious ideological boilerplate" or "political flame bait" when they personally don't like what was posted. The userbase treats upvotes and downvotes exactly the way they're used on Reddit. This place is basically just nerd Reddit.

Unfortunately your claim about the virginity of the userbase is both unnecessary (and guaranteed to find the wrath of the powers here) and most likely wrong because the folks here really do make money.

You gotta play the game by their rules or they grey you out. Use those coding skills we all supposedly have to make a new platform and make it better so you can steal away the part of HNs userbase whose worth a damn. That's likely the only way to "fight da powah" since you're obviously very unhappy about this whole ordeal...
and any other wild animals free, it's all clean!</sarcasm>
Single process for all tabs/sites, no sandboxing, for a start.

I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha
I am still confused. Does TIL stand for Technical Information Library?
I live in rural KS. We afford our roads in rural areas by purposely not paving them. Maintenance of gravel roads in the East and dirt roads in the West is accomplished by running a road grader down them every few months. There are paved county roads every 5 to 10 miles. These are generally only chip and sealed every 3 to 5 years, not repaved, and are not smooth. Every 15 to 25 miles there is a paved state road. Even many of them lack shoulders, leaving nowhere to stop in emergencies and causing semis to roll when they catch the edge of the road. Even for those of us in town, UPS and FedEx packages are generally coated in dirt upon arrival. The one benefit is the low cost of maintenance.

Long term, the cheapest roads are in older towns that still have brick streets. Some are a 100 years old and have nearly zero maintenance. They are slick and noisy.

On a side note, we have hundreds of miles of gravel roads to bike. We even have an internationally attended event called the Dirty Kanza.
I think top in macOS is the BSD version where top in most linux distributions is the GNU version. Same with tar.
If they are on my property and are destructive or a danger to me? You bet.
>What’s the endgame? Cities default on their Muni bonds? Then what? Giving up pension obligations?

First what'll happen is that they cut back on maintenance of infrastructure like roads. Then the bond defaults will happen, followed by bankruptcy and haircuts to pensions. Detroit is a better example to look at than rural Japan because it actually went through bankruptcy.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how little someone else has contributed to open source or how mad their comment makes you feel.

It's particularly not ok to bring someone else's personal details as ammunition in an argument (or attempt to): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But please omit the name-calling ('leecher') and snark ('sorry to break it to you') also.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
You, earlier:

>I think the CDC did actually perform a cross-benefit analysis on masks during the initial segment of the outbreak. Given the not-incontrovertible, yet positive, efficacy of masks, combined with the implications of a PPE shortage for healthcare workers meant that there probably was a calculated decision made to not recommend masks. (emphasis added)

You postulated that the CDC not recommending masks was due to a recent cost-benefit analysis taking into account a circumstance (mask shortage) that has only been true for a few months. The article and link shows that the recommendation predated that by 10 years. Ergo the mask shortage could not be the cause of that recommendation.

There's no reason to even think that the CDC considered recommending masks - surely the default position is to leave pre-existing recommendations (don't wear masks) in place. You speculated that they did an analysis, which is not in evidence, and made a conclusion based on factors that may or may not have been important even had the analysis happened. That seems pretty weak to me.
Social shaming 'anti-social' behaviors from an early age such as not cleaning up after yourself or taking care of yourself combined with incredible emphasis placed on the importance of maintaining good standing in your social group and less emphasis placed on individualism? Confucianism?

Look at how Japan or Korea deal with fat-shaming (or in a non-western culture - you'd probably just call it motivating people you care about to take care of themselves). Watch Terrace House to see a snapshot / slice of regular Japanese life and you'll see how often people who have only known each other for a couple of months will stage group interventions to tell someone the way they are living in unacceptable, that they need to work harder or find a dream to chase or clean up after themselves better. It's part of the culture to feel shame for letting the group down and to shame others for letting the group down and all of that is taught culturally from the day you're born.

Western individualism has its benefits but also motivates people to feel the freedom to act out negatively as well and to feel fine being ostracized.
Seattle does not seem to be skimping on maintenance of its infrastructure. City roads do not have potholes and are generally of good quality.

Anywhere I look, municipalities don't spend too much on road maintenance. If the argument is that it's below what's actually necessary to spend to maintain it, and in near future it will come and bite us, clearly some places must already be ahead of the curve and already have significant pains due to falling behind with maintenance and having no budget to pay for it. Where are those places?

> If you go look at older suburbs, especially the less wealthy ones, you see a lot of supporting evidence for the Strong Towns argument. Try traveling around metro Chicago, for example. Or go to a place like Memphis, TN and take a hard look at their maintenance costs versus income.

Can you name one of those places around Chicago so that we can look at its budget? Memphis budgets around 10% of its revenues for infrastructure. Is it significant? Yes. Will it bankrupt the city? No.
OK, so if this is true that towns and suburbs had subsidized construction and that now the cost of full infrastructure maintenance can't be supported locally...

...then what happens? Do roads just get a lot more potholes but we deal just fine in the end? Or would it get so bad that people wind up just leaving somehow?

It's almost impossible for me to imagine that road etc. maintenance is that expensive that it could mean shutting down entire neighborhoods because there's no other choice. ("Everybody who owns a house, goodbye it's worthless now.")

Is there more likely to be a supply-and-demand thing where a town is forced to massively increase property taxes, people who can't afford it are forced to leave for a cheaper locale, and people with more money come in? (Attracted by the now lower price of the houses which compensates for the higher property taxes.) In other words, existing homeowners will get the shaft, because the deferred maintenance will essentially be paid for in the end by their loss in home equity?
Are VSOCK connections available yet in any open source remote X desktop solutions?

Xpra, X2Go, VcXSrv, Cygwin, FreeRDP, ...
Brave seems well-intentioned but really dodgy to me. In addition to the other issues that have already been raised, they were initially collecting money on people's behalf without their consent or knowledge [0]. The problem has since been resolved but their handling of it at the time put me off them for good.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-youtuber-claims-bra...
What do you mean ? I am not using facebook, and facebook is not using me. All their domains resolve to 0.0.0.0
Today I Learned.
I wasn't thinking about the internet. I meant the "experts", you can't be an expert on the unknown.
Startups Weekly: How will tech hubs weather the pandemic?
Modernizing Peer-Review Research
Is there a link to the content please?

It seems to be heavily paywalled in a way I can usually get past.
Are you sure that you've researched this thoroughly and there would be no problems with that PCI thing (compatibility, unknown errors, performance regressions)?
Yes, that. But even cities experiencing growth aren't likely to get a pass in the short term.

Austin has had massive growth but what happens when sales tax, hotel taxes, fuel taxes, local income taxes (not in Austin but other places), etc all take a massive hit all at once?

With canceling SXSW this year, they're projecting there was an immediate $30-50M tax revenue hit and hotel occupancy is still ~4% when it's normally 70%. Sure, there's less wear and tear on infrastructure but they don't cancel out.

Fundamentally, it looks like most cities are living "paycheck to paycheck" like a good part of US..
I quite like Postico (Mac-only though)

https://eggerapps.at/postico/
> To get something that works better.

Despite all evidence to the contrary.
It's beyond me how you can think this makes even an ounce of sense. Contrary to your assertion, owning a home in a city isn't the same thing as working in one (I can't believe I have to say that), as should be made obvious by the fact that there are tons of employed renters and retired homeowners in cities. There are plenty of situations where the dynamic runs precisely counter to your claim: the obvious example being assetholders of real estate in a booming city extracting rents from the newly-arriving people whose work is "highly rewarded".

Work in cities is "highly rewarded" through high salaries (obviously). High house prices is (part of) how work in cities is _taxed_, which is pretty much the exact opposite of rewarding.
Sounds like farm towns could self-sustain with a sacrifice in some luxuries and tax money from cities, but cities would starve.
> You need 6 times more QLC chips to get an equivalent write performance to TLC on average.

Depending on how you define average, yes. But a sufficiently bursty workload is always writing to SLC. How the drive performs in practice depends on where you sit on that spectrum.
sadly cats are not only good predators, they're cherished and fed by people, and just go hunting for exercise. A bit of an unfair advantage
New York State have a population closer to 20,000,000.
I'm not saying Giesecke is right, but he could possibly be much more right than the official WHO number.
I don't think you can compare the death count from place to place that easily either, you have to take the general health of the population and how the medical services have coped with it.
The cats of my neighbour kill pigeons, even with bells on the cats' collars.
Canada will require all air travelers to wear face masks
You can probably install it via Homebrew.
This happened last year...[1]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/south-park-band-china-why-banned-ch...
This is what people say when their basic needs are met and they have enough free time to engage in "social, intellectual, and aesthetic activities."

Tell the people who don't that growth isn't necessary and see if they're happy for you to have that but not them.
This is great. I've been collecting 'things' I learned and links to pages, like a reading list etc. but none of that sticks out long term because the resources might move, the data might not be searchable or the thing you wanted to get out of a larger article is actually much smaller than the 20 pages it came with. And then when you collect links and a reading list you end up not really going back to it anyway.

This approach makes it much easier to just add the thing you actually wanted to learn and learned in a small concise way with a reference back to where you found it. So simple, yet as so many others I hadn't thought of it.
Lisp programmers lived without Paredit just fine for many decades. Even if we assume that developers aren't clever enough to write a Paredit extension for their editors/IDEs for curly-brace languages, I don't see how that's a problem if this style of coding were truly superior for those types of languages.
But Apple cares about our privacy. They said so in a commercial!
I haven't used concurrent mode in anger yet, but I have used frameworks built on top of React that introduce their own async scheduler for rendering - Reagent, re-frame in ClojureScript-land.

You end up with two issues IME with async tasks (rendering being one of them):

- Making everything async - without prioritizations - means that at some point you have simply moved the problem into the scheduler. Just like taking a sequence of sync operations and wrapping them in a promise chain doesn't speed them up, likewise making every render async by itself doesn't speed things up at all (on the contrary it can make things slower).

- Using prioritized async tasks only allows you to prioritize the things which participate. If a component renders, or any other computation occurs, and isn't sent to the scheduler, it can steal work from higher priority things because the scheduler doesn't control it.

This is why IME a la carte async async rendering isn't super useful. It is a lot of mental overhead (and potentially laborious) to manage your application's schedule while also trying to build features. It would be interesting to have tools to tune it when necessary (which I assume React will provide in the form of ways to schedule computations at different priorities), but having it opt-in means that the default case is everything will steal work from the things that you are actually marking as high priority!
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It just makes the thread even worse.

Also, please stop posting smug putdowns of others. Those are usually examples of the thing they're complaining about, and unsurprisingly they evoke worse from the others, who take the unfairness in them as an excuse to lash back.

We've had to ask you this kind of thing several times before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Voight-Kampff test
Working Link: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-pati...
I loved it and would pay for it. But after 3 months of restarting it a couple of times a day since the 2018 Mac update, I switched to TablePlus.

I still miss SequelPro, as its search and export features where way better then TablePlus’ way.
Reliza Hub – What Changed Across My Instances on April 15?
I've seen companies that use their name in .com for external communication, but also own a .org for internal email addresses. How would those be affected?
Parsers aren't particularly difficult to write, and even if a hand-coded parser might not be very efficient compared to a generated one, it's unlikely to be a significant factor in the overall performance of the application. Compared to the complexity overhead of adding another dependency, be it a library or an external parser generator, i feel it's a fair trade-off.
Fuck you sign up wall.