skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe people like zoom because it's not associated with FB or Google.
In a best-case scenario, what is the timeline for testing, widescale manufacture, and rollout including “last mile” education to end users for the saliva tests? Is it achievable within a quarter? 2020? Beyond?

What’s the costs/benefits versus the temperature gun method already being used in Asia?

I fear that “perfect” or “near-perfect” solutions such as daily saliva testing would be potentially unrealistic for widespread rollout in an effective amount of time. Could we perhaps consider prioritize the superior daily testing solutions for high-priority environments like first responders and hospitals and nurses while reserving the “less-than-perfect” solutions such as what’s being done in Asia for environments with other essential workers, at least until scale-up hurdles can be surmounted?
Paper towels aren’t for your butt. They’re for wiping up things in the kitchen, your floor, dust, etc.
An interesting story I read from HN shows it's not out of the question for 'allied' intelligence to provide technology to 'opposition' nation states just to collect that intelligence. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963
I agree with a lot of the comments here about keeping your current job and maybe doing some side work.

One thing I hadn't heard mentioned is reducing costs. The two interdependent ways to financial freedom are reducing cost and increasing income.

Personally, I would like to move to a cheaper area to buy land and start a small farm. It wouldn't bring in a lot of money, but I could live more simply. Obviously this is a lifestyle change and would require some sacrifices.
Ah, I thought it was broken.
Can you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? This sort of rhetoric and polemic destroys curious conversation, which is what the site exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What happens if you just sudo apt purge snapd without the rest?
But the point of everyone wearing masks in public is to keep pathogens inside of the masks of those who would be asymptomatic transmitters.

The keep-pathogens-out effect is supposed to be this secondary thing, and I’m not under the impression that it’s even that reliable.
> also old kernel / packages.

So, LTS/stable.
He Helped Build Facebook Messenger. Now He’s Building an Army of Voters
So we can rule out she's a Quake fan?
I don’t know. My main gripe with StackOverflow is question getting closed for being opinion based or not worth debating. When constant debate is actually fun and interesting. (And you don’t have to watch the threads if you don’t care.)
I'm in a medium income country, Thailand and they do quite well testing people they think at risk and if you have it the government pays the costs of quarantine / treatment / some lost income. It works well. I don't see why similar won't work in poorer countries. They use regular PCR but a better test would just make things better I guess.

It's odd that there seems a negative correlation between country wealth and how well they are doing with covid eg. Vietnam zero deaths, UK & USA a mess.
Reflections on Building the HarfBuzz Indic Shaper
That's pretty cool and a really intuitive way of decision making. I think I like that style of reasoning slightly better than a good old fashioned pro and cons list, forcing you to rank is really helpful. Cool stuff!
what is my identity id for me to decide and not for you to claim. my identity on HN is my messages here, nothing else. if you need more than that you are welcome to ask and we can establish another identity outside this platform
What TRL are you at for the original POC test, and what TRL are you at for viral detection? Any published papers for viral detection?
The Apple Watch, Five Years In
The article says GEO, but actual quotes in the article say "GEO graveyard orbit". What this means is that, at the end of the satellite's service life, it was boosted into a lower (in this case [1]) or higher (also common) orbit out of the way of the GEO line. There isn't much space in GEO, as it's a one-dimensional space [2] - only true anomaly (position in the orbit) can be varied. So you want to free up the slot once you're not using it anymore.

[1] This particular satellite is http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1967-066E&search=1967-066e. Note the orbital period - it's shorter than a sidereal day of 1436 minutes, which means this is a lower orbit. It's also slightly inclined to GEO, which reduces the chance of collisions even further.

[2] By contrast, the set of Keplerian orbits is generally a six-dimensional space, with singularities at eccentricity = 0 and inclination = 0. Well, also technically at semi-major axis = 0, but that's not a physically possible "orbit".
Well, this was all born out of the line in the post saying that young and healthy healthcare workers were dying. The data indicates that occasionally, they have, but overwhelmingly, the data indicates the statement is false. This continued on to an evaluation of "even if they don't die, they may have permanent lung injuries -- even if they show no symptoms" and I responded that I have not seen any data to indicate this is the case. I'm certainly open to it being true (it was for SARS-COV-1) but I have not seen any supporting evidence.
One thing to note is that this shortest path won’t typically be much shorter. Consider a circular ring road. The circumference on the inside is pi * d and on the outside is pi * (d + w), where w is the width of the road, so the amount you save by driving on the inside is pi * w which is probably less than 100m.

In a more general simplified case where you always stick to the inside of every curve and jump from left to right for free, the amount you save compared to sticking to the middle lane is the line integral:

\frac14 w \int k \mathrm ds

where k is the curvature (strictly speaking k should be an adjusted curvature of 1/((1/K) - (w/2)) where K is the actual curvature).

Because roads are not very curvy, the integral of k will be small and so the distance saved is very low. And note this is an overestimate because it doesn’t cost in changing from side to side
Reminds me of Weinre, though it’s very old now:

https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/
My assumption would be that high accuracy solutions such as PCR testing or even the saliva testing that Paul is suggesting would be ideal, but potentially difficult to effectively rollout in a widespread manner. While IR thermometers are not very accurate, are they on a whole accurate enough to effectively screen out a sufficient number of people to reduce the R-factor viral spread below 1.0? Again, I’m not a medical professional, but shouldn’t we be biasing towards processes already being used by the multiple regions that have seemed to have successfully managed to reduce the viral spread below 1.0 first before seeking new solutions?
> Without them, software engineers would starve and die

Software engineers are perfectly well capable of making a sandwich themselves, bringing a packed lunch, or surviving on an empty stomach for a few hours until they get home. Not to mention buying lunch from somewhere else or ordering delivery food if one cafe is gone.

Unless you're positing a world where all food production, farming, fishing, etc. has vanished, then software engineers are in no worse a position than chefs, cooks, baristas, grocery store employees, or anyone else.
It makes a huge difference to the characteristics of the dough, you can feel it instantly when stretching.
Sorry, I don't understand :)
4. Ben Shapiro. Editor-at-large 2012-2016
Nah, it's just there, ~/snap/lxd/current/.config/lxc/config.yml
This would be nice if it was easy to toggle showing hidden files and hidden files wouldn't show up by default in all folder listings.

Of course you do have system files, which are hidden from all standard folder listings, but aren't usually used by software, presumably because they're too damn difficult to find again (although I really hope google drive realizes at some point that desktop.ini is supposed to be a system file, not merely hidden).
considering how late they're to the game, how massive and dense Tokyo metro is, even 200,000 looks like charitable estimate to me. Tokyo metro has 38 million people.
GNOME is great as long as you use it the way that GNOME devs want you to (this year). If you want extensions, themes, customization, to use software the way it worked last year, or tray icons, it becomes... less supported.
From the press release:

“If any team members are unable or unwilling to work a scheduled shift, they can use unlimited unpaid time off through the month of April without penalty, and we are supportive if someone chooses to stay home.”
Wired piece on Peter Martinazzi and his work with Mobilize America, a platform for organizing events and volunteers, which is used by many Democratic campaigns.

https://www.mobilize.us/
I think this is not the case in all three examples given in the posted article.
Hi, Walker here, one of the PreDxion Bio co-founders. Heres a some more information on the technology underlying the test we are developing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25790830/.

Unfortunately, up until about a month ago us like many folks, were blissfully minding our business developing a rapid point of care cytokine detection platform for use in monitoring patients experiencing certain immune responses following cancer immunothereapies, you can read more here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31597044/.

Currently, we are very much focused on techical/clinical validation. We will have many more details to share on our approach, the technology, as we continue to move things forward.
Do you pre-cook the base? At the point the crust would start looking like that, my cheese would be extremely dried out.
And it's a public kiosk that you spit in?

I'm not so sure about this!
Really? a quick search of "breitbart antisemetic" finds lots of discussion of the topic. I found an example quite quickly.
Not every company. But maybe a global, near-universal online marketplace, logistics company, etc. has a 10-year plan.
If it's good enough for Boeing...
I created https://www.reminddit.com, a tool that is a hybrid of a todo list, journal, and reminder tool for such tasks. It’s useful to check on content at your own time instead of being locked in to platform notifications. One feature I like is creating reminder by emailing bot@bot.reminddit.com.

Often, I am reading on phone and headlines get my attention. Those articles take too long to read so I just click the share button and forward it to the bot email with default remind time of 4 days. Oftentimes, the article loses its charm and I can quickly complete the reminder. Hope you’ll find it useful.
This is so good! When I was a kid I wanted to make a billion dollars so I could buy the Philadelphia Eagles and guide them to their first Super Bowl victory. Now I want to make a billion dollars so I can buy Castle Rock Entertainment and let these guys make Seinfeld Adventure.

> Well, firstly, here’s what we DON’T want to make. We don’t want to just create a fan service game that repeats jokes or plots that people already are familiar with.

> Elaine reminds him that the publicist was supposed to get them all tickets to the opening night of the new movie “Rochelle, Rochelle 2”

You can't have both!
There's a difference between bugs and software developers who cares less about the user than software being up-to-date.

The first is a fact of life. The second is bad judgement.
Great, please post the link. I did see a lot of opinions about Breitbart, but no actual content.
Canonical distributes LXD as a snap package.

That does not forbid others to package LXD independently.
Debian has been close to packaging LXD at https://wiki.debian.org/LXD It is a matter of picking up interest to complete the work.
I work in medical too and I have seen the same thing. But to be honest, the same happened when I was consultant. You painstakingly go through every detail, everybody is happy, but when the product gets delivered, it just doesn’t feel right. That’s where rapid development with quick customer feedback is useful. Unfortunately often the customer doesn’t have the time to look at things.
I guess that was before we had responsible satellite disposal.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2017/04/Space_debri...
> Half of the utilities I install out of the box on a fresh macOS are built in, and the annoying stuff that used to be editing arcane files is now easy preference settings

That's been the case with KDE for 15-20 years now. KDE 3.5 was a great environment (and Trinity (TDE) is a modernized fork of it).

Note that, this year, KDE added telemetry to their Plasma desktop environment. Of course, it's opt-in, so it must be acceptable, right? Well, of course, users who objected to the telemetry found bugs that caused data to be recorded even when disabled.

KDE's response was to ban said users from reddit.com/r/kde and call them "paranoid schizos." (The mods there are KDE members wearing "KDE developer" flair, not random Redditors.)

So, despite using and recommending KDE for almost 2 decades, it's hard for me to do so any longer. I wholeheartedly recommend checking out TDE instead.
Do you mean the clock? I don’t like it it there either. Used to looking in the corner.
For a somewhat cooler visualization, which also gives you a comparison to the GEO belt and other satellites but may be bad for browser performance, see http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1967-066E&search=1967-066e
I don’t know about that. There’s a story arc where George’s fiancée dies and he’s relieved because he didn’t want to go through with the marriage.
This illustrates more than anything the Dunning–Kruger effect. Dilettantes and dabblers with a little knowledge often tend to be the more nasty on online forums, while actual experts have the humility of not just knowing the limits of their knowledge but more importantly have enough information to contextualize even those questions which might appear dumb to an untrained mind.
I'm not familiar with many of the games in that video. But one of the things that makes Monopoly well-suited to remote playing is that there no information that needs to be kept secret, so it's reasonable to play with a physical board where remote people tell the board owner what moves to make on their behalf.

Games like Catan where you maintain a hand of hidden cards require either some software to facilitate play, or else a lot of painstaking effort. It's not impossible though: one of my relatives played Euchre (a trick-taking card game) on a Zoom call with friends, where the dealer would show each person their cards one at a time, while everyone else turned away from their screen so that they couldn't see.
Howard Hughes comes to mind.
Canonical packages LXD as a snap package.
Other distributions can package LXD in their favorite packaging format, and some do.

Some developers are trying to package for Debian. The work is in progress at https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
>stage a coup
From tfa:
>This is not the first time xtraeme has left Void. I wrote about this on my personal site back in 2018, and you can read that full article over there.
Are they pushed towards it or do they gravitate towards it?
Likely critical issues with Reddit's new ad supplier
The only relation of Google and Wine I can find is them paying CodeWeavers to bring Picasa and Photoshop CS2 to Linux, that was 12 years ago.
Problem with this idea was twofold:

1. It completely misunderstands the supply chain. By the time this message was out there, masks were already mostly sold out in retail places. Even a slight increase in demand will cause that because of JIT manufacturing. Anyway, by that time the healthcare system and the government had already taken over the supply chain for all new masks. And obviously hospitals don't buy masks from Home Depot

2. In fighting any emergent public health crisis, the number one thing you need is the public's trust. Why destroy it for essentially no gain.
Me too!

Relevant How It's Made I found interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ElKE-qeKYY
Context: Users were reporting pop-ups being opened forcibly by some ads and an administrator of Reddit just admitted in a comment that they had no knowledge of the source and for that to stop it would likely require them contacting the ad supplier. Goes to show that (most likely)Reddit's administration team has no control over what ads are sent to them by this "supplier" and that third parties are potentially provided with a high level of access to client-side data.
Ageism in the legal sense (40+)? No.

I have been overlooked or talked over in some scenarios because I am younger. I have even been told I can take a hit for the sake of office politics because my career has plenty of runway.
Free Expert Content Strategy – RoundupWiz
I not sure I believe that Vietnam has had zero deaths.

How many tests is Thailand doing per day?
Great point. I guess my thinking was to make sure folks could afford to isolate and increase compliance even more.
In support of my statement, it is now noted that the lead professor's wife sent out misleading emails to find people who wanted to return to work, if they tested positive. The professor says he knew nothing of it and because they are wealthy they would skew low rather than high.

BuzzFeed News: A Stanford Professor’s Wife Recruited People For His Coronavirus Study By Claiming It Would Reveal If They Could “Return To Work Without Fear”.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...
So it would be how you would sound out "Boston Strong" if you developed a cold half way through the marathon haha.
Well, I'm saying that the team needs to insist on those boundaries, to keep the relationships healthy.

Not claiming it's inscribed on some sacred tablet.
You could look it up on Wikipedia. KDE and Qt are Free Software.
Second Hand Washing Timer for Covid-19
Jerry himself has a reasonable take on this:

"There are dozens and dozens of investors and people that you never meet or know about. These are giant, multi-national corporations of, you know, NBC, which then became Turner, and then got bought by Comcast, so I mean, I don't know."

Pick anything you are a fan of. You probably really don't want to know how the sausage is made.
For a disease as transmissible as Ebola or the flu that might be true, but for a brand new highly transmissible disease like COVID-19 with limited testing supply, it might be safer to live near someone who might actually have access to regular testing. Do the people stigmatizing healthcare workers have the data to back up your theory?

Trying to explain away prejudice with science requires actual science.
If you can find an end customer that's willing to do the work, you're very lucky.

But usually some proxy for the customer in your organization has to take on that role.
It's proprietary software. There's little chance they'll release it for the public.
fixed :) thanks for the feedback!
of course so much better than if she did it right, imagine the fun laughter someday if you wore this as a t-shirt at the race

but seriously, wtf who registered the domain name?!
We need more details.
Tangentially related: I rode cross country (on a bike) from SF to NYC, and on the last day when I arrived in Manhattan (around 3 or 4am, I think) I decided to write LOL in SoHo with the GPS.

If you happen to have a Strava account (I don't use Strava anymore) you can see it here by zooming in on Manhattan: https://www.strava.com/activities/685757465

Edit: just realized it's also available from Garmin: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1316969958
He's close.
Some engineers go around making APIs that are as fun (and slow) as doing taxes. I hope they get paid.
> Snaps break debain's stable release model. They allow upstream to ship updates outside of the normal 6 month ubuntu releases.

In fairness, I think that's the point, just like RHEL streams.

> There are times when you might want this, but it should be opt in not mandatory. I thinking specifically of lxd which is only shipped via snaps.

Yeah, decent idea, poor execution. Especially for system/infrastructure software like LXD. I want a stable kernel, a stable glibc, a stable LXD/Docker/k8s/whatever, and then on top, bleeding-edge applications that will not break the world if they autoupdate at random to a less-tested version.
I wonder how different airline food tastes when on the ground. I expect generally saltier than normal.
i am confused (by the article), i thought this

when you build an MVP, you should bias towards cutting features rather than cutting polish or introducing bugs. If your MVP is filled with bugs, it isn't actually viable.

is what an MVP was about, the minimum effort that gets people interested.

You should also focus on making an MVP that people actually want. If it isn't solving a real problem ("loveable"), it's not actually a product.

finding out if people want something is usually the goal. if don't want it you change the product until they do.
This is pretty awesome. I just used this to help consider what to get my mom for mother's day. I think the most value comes from actually enumerating your options and considering what's important. It's interesting to get the algorithm's perspective, but I think I settled on a different choice after working through it.
Isn't it possible to query the drive and, if it is SMR, just send the data to the disk in the order it expects so that it can resilver the drive one SMR region at a time?

This seems more like a misunderstanding between the drive and the OS in that the drive doesn't tell the OS it'll need a break between write batches and an OS that tries to write to the disk in a way that's not compatible with the device technology.

The same more or less applies to SSDs - the drive can't write a disk block, but only a memory block at once.
AT&T WorldNet vs. AOL: How Flat-Fee Access Disrupted Dial-Up Internet
Out of date info, but it was once valid. Relevant because Pegasus malware is a product of NSO Group.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4zpkkm/release_p...

https://github.com/z448/pgcheck

https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegas...
People in middle management are often quite smart.

They saw a process that did an end run around them in favour of more self-management, and it worked well and got a lot of hype, that's terrible for their careers obviously.

So they fixed it and kept the same name for marketing.
Same in Germany. A lot of pizza places are run by actual Italians.
I totally agree on the dev side of things.

It's just that I've been hearing from people lately that having a product labeled as beta is a turnoff to the non-tech-savvys, especially if it's a consumer product.

If it's a software for made for devs, I'd reckon devs would love to try anything on beta. Devs are really amazing problem solvers :)
He doesn't control pricing, Adidas does. He called CEO of Payless to make a deal at one point and was turned away.
I disagree with one bit. We always have our boards as public as possible. I think one of the main selling points of following a product backlog is the visibility it grants to stakeholders. You can point to stories in the queue and what acceptance criteria was agreed to. And they can see and adjust the priority order of tasks to be done. And see when stories are in a demo-ready state.

Estimates are an interesting one. The theory of story point estimation is that you are estimating the size of the work being and not even implying, let along guaranteeing any notion of timing. That being said, it's still sometimes a valid question to ask why something is taking so long.
No, that particular commit was in the aftermath. xtraeme's angry tweets started at 7:40 PDT, access to infrastructure was cut off at 8:40, and that commit was at 9:32. The individual who made the commit apologized on reddit and said it wasn't intended as a reference to xtraeme's personal situation. Terrible form though and certainly didn't help matters, but I think the outcome was determined by that point.
Detecting and monitoring Covid-19 in wastewater