skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love PWAs. I'd be really curious to know if anyone could point to some good examples of PWAs doing biometric authentication using facial recognition / fingerprint.

I don't actually know if it's possible using standard APIs that work on iPhone and Android
To amplify: think about road signs when you are trying to get somewhere new, especially in places with weird parking or entrances. After you've figured it out, it's easy, but everyone is a first timer at some point.
I should say that I mis-speak (write) characterising MMM this way, its how its casually talked about. The incremental benefit of adding people can be higher than zero, but less than enough to be worth the cost. It can also be negative which is the core point MMM was making. Can be, is not always. And of course there are problems where it simply cannot alter the trajectory at all (the baby problem)
8051 can certainly service interrupts quickly and predictably, which is probably all you want if you are sticking a microcontroller inside a turbine engine or oil drill.
Well, you might have read Machiavelli's "The Prince" for the same reasons.:)
If performance means performantly hogging resources performing the most basic of task, then sure.
Sick, thanks for the links!

The Booste implementation of rsync is definitely not indestructible, especially during this beta. Been a pain in my butt, but making progress.

Main improvements over rsync:
- .boosteignore. Just like a .gitignore, a .boosteignore helps filesync filter past bulky files that may not need to be monitored and uploaded every time.
- end-to-end encryption

Admitted flaws of our current algorithm:
It's built pretty ground-up in python. Haven't speed tested against rsync, but using it so far, I've never managed to edit code and run it through booste before the sync made it through to remote. IE the ssh tunnel doesn't beat rsync, mostly because files sync asynchronously. That said, I plan to do port it to a compiled language to cut time.
Oh yes you can use a control group. I would volunteer for such a trial if success would mean approval of a vaccine.
I have configured ublock extension to block everything except player
I would like to block YouTube altogether but there are some articles that point to YouTube, movie trailers, etc.
Not related to this particular story, but:

You are transparent. I see plans within plans.

We are coming after you.

And if you on HN, reddit etc? understand this, either join or be fearful.
1.fault tolerance 2. scalable and 3. would be a pretty cool and novel concept.
They use shared_ptr pervasively in their C++ implementation. It's not the best way to manage objects in C++ by far. The only thing that this performance comparison really tells me is that shared_ptr is worse than a modern GC. This is not really a surprising find.
This guy's following a bunch of Instagram thots and now he's complaining all he sees are Instagram thots...
This is making a lot of assumptions on what the at risk crowd is.

Now, I confess I am also making assumptions there. Data would be nice.

My assumptions are we could have saved a sizeable portion by tighter lockdowns on nursing homes. I also suspect we could have done things pre-infection to strengthen lungs of people with pre-existing lung conditions.

More pointedly, I think all of the havoc we have caused by closing schools is likely not amounting to a lot of saved lives. As a risk group, children are basically not at risk of severe cases.

Now, I hasten to add that no policy should be set by some random internet poster. I am hoping we are collecting data and running simulations to give us better data for the future.
Try out both and check them out. The dev experience on Flutter is in my opinion far superior to React Native. It just works whereas with RN I spent so much time getting things to work correctly, even with Expo. I am not sure why it's so terrible given that create-react-app "just works" almost as well as Flutter.
Is there a config you would recommend? Primary use case would be for programming & browsing. Would prefer not to build as I haven't done it but am not averse to the idea.

Thanks
Tempest Home – Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
Harari would be upset to be excluded from this list.

:)
Design Patterns gave us the vocabulary and opportunity to argue about design for a previously ignored level of abstraction.

Source: started design patterns study group, still active today.
Florida is spending up to $110M to back up its unemployment website
17% of Ubuntu Linux Users Have to Use Windows OS at Work
Would you please stop posting ideological flamewar comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, we ban accounts that do it, and we've already had to ask you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
30% of Ubuntu Linux Users Want Unity Back; 80% Want “Better” Gnome
https://archive.is/dqvsA
Your point feels vacuous, then. Yes, getting sick can have long term impact. Do you have evidence that that is relevant to our current scenario? More so than it would be for any other sickness that is running rampant?
Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Covid-19 Patients in NYC
Although satisfying, this isn’t a good idea, they have your number and are capable of asymmetrical warfare eg spoofing your number for the next 10000 scam calls they make.
But surely the engineers were who were inventing jets and rocket guidance systems and radar understood probabilities of independent events. The point, which the author almost misses completely, is that they dramatically overestimated how correlated the measurements were.

Beyond that, while there's no accounting for taste, I find it to be an appallingly bad article. It's poor man's Malcolm Gladwell.
yeah I use to automate a decent amount of stuff for bigger deployments for client with it as it’s easier to pass through security audit then an executable.

I always feel like things in power shell are harder then they need to be that other scripting languages I don’t have that problem. One thing I do like is being able to leverage .net locally and also import DLLs. That helps me get around a bunch of gaps.
That's not what I said, but it is according to empirical data. America is a long way from segregation and the LA riots.

In 1990, nearly 50% of white respondents to a survey indicated they'd oppose living in a neighborhood where half the residents were black. In 2014, under 20% would oppose it and over 80% are indifferent or would favor it.

Going back further than 1990 only serves to bolster that fact.
I played with this when it game out.

At least the demo worked.

https://webauthndemo.appspot.com/
I agree it is a strong signal. That said, I suspect there is a lot more to it.

I confess false confidence in CT scans from stories such as back pains paints me a skeptic here. :(
>'The armchair libertarians...Hayek fairy tale...'

This is noxious.

>'YouTube is part of a private company. They're under no obligation to...'

This is the free-market, libertarian position.
What fan can even run at 10 rpm without stalling? I don’t think most will even go down to 100.
Having pneumonia is not having no symptoms. That would be on the low end of severe in the case category. Right?
That's the thing. I never liked the yoghurt back home. :D I like the Greek Youghurt here a lot. But, I did enjoy Lassi. I'm from Orissa.
Differences Between Rate Limiting and Throttling
Wow... would have never thunk it
Sure. Any references to concepts from earlier books can be easily googled and learnt. Most books nowadays are around 200/500 pages but the essence is contained in only 20/30 pages.
I don't know about the best. But I usually get either Devondale or Mainland I think. It'd be interesting to get butter produced in the local Victorian farms. :) Any suggestions where to get better butter?
> The Gamecube version is looking more appealing because the town is already established, so you have to discover and interact with the world instead of starting from a generic empty island.

What makes you think there’s nothing to discover and interact with just because the island starts off empty?
> Yes, it was painful to develop applications using native UI

I actually think it’s getting easier. Android and iOS are both offering quick, modern ways of building UIs with there upcoming UI frameworks thats IMO far less work than the web where things have to often be built from scratch or from some third party that will abandon it.
You can probably get there most of the time with WebAuthn and specifying a platform authenticator.

You can probably implement facial recognition yourself as well.
One more thing about youtube. If someone forget how retarded are people just say him to open YouTube trends/top page.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956536.
I started out re-writing the core of Wordpress to Elixir around last year. Once of the decisions I had to make was with databases. I started out with flat files as well and realized they can quickly grow complex when you have more than a handful articles. Eg. If you want to add some new attributes to the flat files, they can't be backported to the older articles if the number of articles is quite large.

Guess what? That's the problem that the SQL databases already solve.

So, to circumvent this, I searched for a database that can be version controlled but doesn't require a separate database server. And I found one - SQLITE.

It's been amazing so far. It can be inside my GitHub repo, while giving me access to normal SQL queries via my ORM.
With a static file solution built on just flat files, complex querying is definitely not possible.
With now over 30,000 posts in the SQLITE database, my static file generator is still absolutely fast.

I now use my solution for a high traffic client with 3-4 million visitors a month and it works really well for them.

One downside of SQLITE is multiple concurrent writes, but so far it hasn't been much of a problem yet.
Human height should be a negative binomial distribution, since human height can't be negative.
There's so many times that an ostensibly international website has rejected me because I don't have a US-formatted numerical zip code. Even when they have a country field.
I wrote this app last weekend mostly so that I could look at COVID-19 stats, but also as a learning exercise. I download data from John Hopkins, ingest it into a SQLite database and then have a couple of Python scripts to present an API to the front end. It is hosted on a Digitalocean droplet which costs me US$5.00 per month. Setup is easy - takes less than 10 minutes, and if you know Linux everything is pretty straightforward.

I also use Cloudflare as a DNS (free tier).

https://martin.schweitzer.id.au/covid19/
Thanks for bringing it up in the firefox issue tracker.
I am actually having a hard time squaring the claim that they are younger than the average. The number of people over 70 that have died in NYC is above the number of people over 40 in many cities across the nation.

That all said, my point is that we don't know the bounds. Period. It could be higher. It could be lower. That is why I said it is conceivable. Probably it is about that value in most places. I am interested in where the data falls.
That is somethimg I've been wondering too. Is such a huge difference in perf/watt due to the ISA?
What a missed opportunity, Boeing is on its knees and shown it cannot compete with SpaceX, and Blue Origin has the best opportunity to displace SLS with New Glenn program once and for all. When else will you be able to kill a crony-Goliath like ULA, by their own incompetence no less, and gain the public's adoration for it as CEO?

I get it, this is his golden goose and its undergoing huge stress and delays due to COVID; but for all the talk about why he got into tech and wanted to make Billions was essentially to get into Aerospace in the first place makes it seem like the vapid platitudes of Billionaire.

I'm not surprised, just disappointed in Bezos. I guess we're going to have to live with ULA clogging up the system and spending billions more without producing results all while SpaceX is sending astronauts to ISS next month.

I don't buy things from Amazon anymore, their supply chain optimization results in inhumane business practices, and despite having access to Prime I still prefer to stream shows on it elsewhere. The quality looks equally mediocre in comparison to Netflix on a 4k screen anyway.
Great point. When I was growing up, my parents property was subdivided from a large old farm and orchard that had been farmed from the Dutch colonial era. We had apple trees that everyone considered junk/crabapples. (Although my mom made pie with them)

Later, we learned they are a well regarded heirloom for cider and other alcohol making purposes! Cider was a big thing in the Early 1900s and has made a resurgence.
You can follow my updates here as the other commenter has mentioned. Thanks!

https://medium.com/build-ideas/
I picked 15-34 because it corresponds with the data table I cited from the CDC, which lists confirmed deaths from each for the time period. It's already cited and linked, but here's it again: table 2, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Note that a few of the deaths are -both- COVID-19 and influenza.
I'm envious of your 3950x, but on the other hand I suspect I'd never actually max it out. I should get into video editing or something to justify more PC upgrades...
There is an param to declare response type parsing and if you want to use different parsing. Older versions of powershell use IE and webrequest will randomly barf. It really sucked. You can also use a rest request method that uses json.net to deserialize I believe .
Used to offer this when working on fraud in <a Big Corp>, but have to give them my name so main number switchboard can route call. Very few people did, but those that did appreciated it. Only costs you a few minutes while they find the old time printed phone book, look up <a Big Corp> and call back.
You've been posting substantially the same comments many times. That's not cool, and we ban accounts that keep doing this.

Please don't post any more duplicate content to HN. It adds noise.
That description is far from universal, and it’s trivial to find plenty of obviously terrible videos with millions of hits.
I had someone claiming to be from my bank phone me in relation to certain transactions that actually happened, and like a fool I just answered their questions, without verifying who they were.

Later on I called back, to verify that it was someone from the bank who had phoned me.

The call-centre person in the bank who answered my call was unable to confirm or deny if someone from the transaction-checking department had actually phoned me, because it was all very confidential.
"A thorough introduction to eBPF"

https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/

Excerpts:

"While eBPF was originally used for network packet filtering, it turns out that running user-space code inside a sanity-checking virtual machine is a powerful tool for kernel developers and production engineers."

[...]

"The eBPF virtual machine more closely resembles contemporary processors, allowing eBPF instructions to be mapped more closely to the hardware ISA for improved performance."

[...]

"Originally, eBPF was only used internally by the kernel and cBPF programs were translated seamlessly under the hood. But with commit daedfb22451d in 2014, the eBPF virtual machine was exposed directly to user space."

[...]

"What can you do with eBPF?

An eBPF program is "attached" to a designated code path in the kernel. When the code path is traversed, any attached eBPF programs are executed. Given its origin, eBPF is especially suited to writing network programs and it's possible to write programs that attach to a network socket to filter traffic, to classify traffic, and to run network classifier actions. It's even possible to modify the settings of an established network socket with an eBPF program. The XDP project, in particular, uses eBPF to do high-performance packet processing by running eBPF programs at the lowest level of the network stack, immediately after a packet is received.

Another type of filtering performed by the kernel is restricting which system calls a process can use. This is done with seccomp BPF.

eBPF is also useful for debugging the kernel and carrying out performance analysis; programs can be attached to tracepoints, kprobes, and perf events. Because eBPF programs can access kernel data structures, developers can write and test new debugging code without having to recompile the kernel. The implications are obvious for busy engineers debugging issues on live, running systems. It's even possible to use eBPF to debug user-space programs by using Userland Statically Defined Tracepoints."

There, now you understand eBPF.

It is not a Microkernel.

It is an in-kernel Virtual Machine, with access to all of the kernel, whose programs can register for, receive, filter, and optionally act upon or act to moderate, kernel events.

Quite the powerful tool indeed -- but not a Microkernel...
I don't recall ever having my height measured. Is that a U.S. doctor thing?
IIRC they said you shouldn’t wear a mask because you are probably doing it wrong and increasing the chance of touching your face.
I switched to some sexy cargo shorts, and my wife was pregnant a month later

Coincidence? I think not
Pretty sure uncontrolled trials are common at the latest stages of drug development. It's called a single-arm trial.

Source: I once participated in a phase III open-label single-arm trial.
Unpublished children's notebooks reveal poignant view of history
Ubuntu 20.04
On modern systems the write-protection is gated via the security chip, which responds to various key combinations. My understanding is that it's possible to re-enable the write protection after flashing and the machine will behave identically (other than that updates from Google will fail to apply due to the system no longer considering Google a trusted authority)
Personal attacks aren't allowed, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I of course made the connection to the headline in this vein humorously but assumed it had to be about apples the fruit because

1. apple not capitalized
2. use of word pioneer

although the domain being appnews.com did make me question my reasoning.
You went too far with Coelho. Might as well throw some osho's books in there too.
Weeks ago there was a report that 13.7% of pregnant women admitted during labor in NYC tested positive for covid-19. That was using a PCR test, not an antibody test, IIRC. That surely implies that weeks ago the rate of infection in the city was at least 13.7% minus false positives plus what would have been antibody test positive patients who were not producing the virus any longer. To go from ~13% to 21% in a few weeks seems perfectly reasonable. Moreover, "suggest" is a bit of a weasel word: there's no proof, only statistical approximation. So, yes, I suspect the city really is at 21% exposed.

> The only actual good indicator we have is the rate of change of deaths and hospitalizations.

Nonsense. The right thing to do is to perform randomized antibody testing of the population. The sample has to be random. The city (and other cities, and States) should pick an appropriate number of household addresses randomly, send techs and police to each one, pick a random person at each address, and test them. Given a sufficiently random and representative sample, you don't need to test so very many people to determine with a very high degree of certainty just how much of the population has been exposed.

Only then can hospitalizations and deaths be put in perspective. If SARS-cov2 spreads through enough of the population to reach "herd immunity" and its ultimate impact is, as I expect, much less than a bad normal-flu season, then the shutdown was not necessary and should stop (not necessarily other protective measures).

On the flip side, if very little of the population has been exposed to covid-19, and we were to stop the shutdown due to declining death and hospitalization rates, then the risk would be very high of a second wave.

Randomized antibody testing is absolutely essential here. We need to know how it progresses through the population, and we need to know ASAP.
Ah, yes, I misstook your argument. That said, I do suspect having more nursing homes means they have more people over 60 than most places. Which will skew them to have more deaths, period.

Consider, from all that we have seen, elementary schools could get 100% infection rate on the same population size that NYC nursing homes have and not see the number of deaths they have had. It is not controversial that the IFR is dependent on how many people over 60 you have in your population.

To drive that home some, here in WA, fully 92% of the deaths have been in people over the age of 60. It is quite ridiculous how deadly this is if you are older.
SpaceX isn't turning a profit, though, especially since the number of launched has been dropping precipitously in the last couple of years. Bezos is smart enough to know that there's no rush in this.
Physical security is about making things more time-consuming/expensive to defeat or steal than they're worth. Scale the amount of concrete poured on/around and lock devices/armoring of such devices per local economics.
I'm kind of bothered by a lack of rigour and science in general software engineering disciplines. The vast majority of decisions seems to be made subjectively that any objective criteria. Also industry is very bad at documenting it's processes and experiences to the community, most documents if any are available to the company internally only.

Also detailed histories of the devdlopment of large and complex software needs to be written and studied, but I just don't see it happening.
That's simple; you just make sure nobody ever leaves and then you don't have to hire new people...
The Illusion of Certainty
Lets see..

Boeing:

See 737 MAX, other 737 boondoggle like the vertical stabilizer reversal back in 94'ish.

Monsanto, hell, what chemical hasn't hid information they damn well shouldn't:

Dicamba, roundup.. Take your pick. The stellar behavior of this corporate citizen taints cements the stereotype of an entire industry.

https://thecounter.org/dicamba-trial-monsanto-basf-pesticide...

https://www.phillyvoice.com/new-york-times-dupont-hid-decade...

Special mention goes to a certain German pharma company who brought you Thalidomide:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnenthal_GmbH

The lovely folks at Insys:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/health/insys-trial-verdic...

Believe there was a fraudulent implant thing a bit ago... Where'd I put that?

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/health/2014/07/09/south...

Someone beat me to Dieselgate.

Arthur Anderson LLP.

PG&E deliberately skimped on maintenance, leading to fires in California, and if I recall natural gas lines overpressuring in Massachusets?

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

Excuse me, the natural gas one was Columbia Gas.

Big Tobacco...

Nestle I think getting caught using child labor in their supply chain at one point.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

Oh what else can I think of off the top of my head? Uhhh...

That's all I can think of for right now. I mean we can hit the history books or case law to get a solid count I suppose, but to be frank, once a company hits a certain revenue point, it is pretty much guaranteed they've had to do something to get dirty/avoid getting outed as dirty.

So it really isn't that unusual. Throw in stuff that happened back before the rise of the Unions of the last century, and since their decline, and you also end up with so.e decent stories of workforce abuse. Though admittedly there's slant depending on who is telling it.

Like the Pinkertons as a matter of fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_%28detective_agency%...

Or the original incarnation of Equifax, who were tasked with vetting prospective executive promotees.

Just because it'sorganized doesn't mean it's doing anyone any favors.