skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a Discovery program showing what supposedly was an AN-225 airframe parked in a field somewhere. The story was that it was finished, but never certified for flight, and was eventually used for parts to keep the one 225 operational.

I can't find evidence online to back this story up though. Not sure of this was the second airframe shown in the article, or that this may have been a third airframe.
That's the absurdity right there. Saying that no lockdowns cause the same damage as full lockdown.

When it comes to coronavirus NYT is no different then Fox News, they are looking stuff up in their gut, ignoring all evidence, pushing a narrative based on a preconceived notion.

Why does the NYT not state how surprising is that the caseload in Sweden did not spiral out of control, and is actually decreasing? Regardless of what the death rate is (which is still much lower than many other European countries) it was and is completely at odds to the narrative of epidemics control. A balanced, fair journalist would state that.
I'm not trying to predict the future, I'm just saying it's possible.

At the same time, it's not possible at this time to declare "sweden's strategy has failed" - there's plenty of time for other countries to catch up on excess mortality.

I do think there's a very real chance that, assuming hospitals are not overwhelmed, there won't be a lot of difference in overall mortality between developed countries. This disease is, apparently, super infectious after all, and eradication seems unlikely.
Agreed. I'd say Math is a lot like the abstract parts of FP, and so short variable names make sense there, just like they do in higher order FP functions. Choosing "more descriptive" names risks locking you into a specific metaphor and prevents you from seeing the big picture, which seems doubly dangerous in Math.
great (or typical?) response from company:

"Through an Amazon representative, CaptainU claimed that the sensitive educational data was “meant to be openly available.” But it seems that CaptainU never mentioned this fact to the students or their parents."
There are different kinds of narratives. What you're describing isn't really narrative, it's active critical investigation, which is a different process. It is indeed very useful for problem solving - not least because you can read your notes a year later, remind yourself see why you made specific decisions, and see options you considered and eliminated.

But there's also rhetorical narrative, which is used for persuasion, not clarification. Create a story with a good person and a bad person, or at least good actions and bad actions, append a heavyweight emotional hit of some kind, keep the language as simple as possible, and you'll have no trouble selling your point to at least some people - no matter how nonsensical it is to others.

This is how advertising, political spin, social media influence campaigns, and troll farms work.

It's also how thought leaders try to work, but luckily not many are experts in rhetoric.

It's incredibly powerful because the human brain uses narrative as a kind of alias for information transfer. As soon as an idea is packaged as a narrative - a story, parable, something about people - it immediately becomes much more persuasive than a plain statement of fact.

If you look at company culture it's almost invariably based on a narrative about the goals of the company and the kinds of people that fit in. Some founders deliberately engineer an appealing narrative and use it as a cover story for their own personal interests.

Point being not all narratives are benign, and story telling - not just writing - really can be a superpower. But that doesn't mean it's inherently positive.
Why Did I Take the Microsoft AZ-900 Exam?
Yup, they do in the UK as well :-)
The linked article is the real interesting bit: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mandatory-online-cour...

Note that it’s talking about high schools.
Maybe

drawColouredRectangle("red", x0, y0, x1, y1)

decideHighlightColour(someDecidingFactor1, someDecidingFactor2)

then call separately? Depends on the number of calls to drawHighlightingRectangle I guess.

Something I've learned recently is to try to think in terms of behaviours, then compose them instead of mixing them together. Also it's easier to juggle the pieces by erring on the side of decomposition initially, then recompose a bit once they're organised, but only if it makes more sense.
> Mandiant, the incident response division of security firm FireEye, said it has tracked the hackers since 2013 and the tactics, techniques and procedures used by the hackers is “consistent” with its findings

Can anyone from infosec chime in? I'd love to know how pattern recognition works in figuring out specific actors, since I don't have a good idea what "techniques" here means. Is it the malware used, the attack vectors, or something else?
Nice landing page. I was exactly "Why would I need an API for for a Like button" until you touched the topic.

A bit pricy for my taste since what you are saying is "You'll need to hire a developer", although a developer will integrate your API. :thinking:
There is no reason to assume these are Chinese nationals when Fa Loon Gong spends $40million a day to stoke the flames of war between US and China so they can be the new aristocracy of China. This kind of reporting is why the media is crippled and will be gone soon.
I’m a huge fan of GraphQL but your comment about proprietary triggered a memory.

When searching for answers on how to do things like pagination, the answer I often got was “Oh just use this proprietary thing” and that is NOT a solution.

I’ll concede that using GraphQL in a great way requires FAR more setup than REST but the benefits are worth it, to me.
Whether their strategy was successful or not depends on the definition of success, but -- more importantly -- I think it is still too early to tell.

Much will depend on the endgame: if there is a vaccine soon, Sweden's strategy will look foolish, since it would have been better to enforce stricter measures and wait for the vaccine. If the vaccine takes a long time to arrive, they may have immunised a larger portion of the population much quicker than those with stricter measures (basically their Nordic neighbours) and will be in a position to return to "normal" much quicker.

Sweden has a high death-toll at the moment, but I think their strategy was a valid choice. It seems that there are strong diminishing to the measures. That is, even fairly light measures slow down the spread a lot, and the stricter measures have very little punch, but much economic impact.

Running the numbers on this, my team and I guesstimated that measures representing a 5% economic slowdown already reduce the infection rate by 60%, whilst a 10% economic slowdown would buy a infection rate reduction of around 70%. A 15% slowdown would buy an infection rate reduction of around 75%. So the thing is, the trade-off is not constant between economic impacts and the reduction in the infection rate, the policies seem to have (strong!) decreasing returns.

Sweden is closer to herd immunity than its neighbours. If the vaccine comes soon, the strategy of their neighbours will look better. If the vaccine takes a long time, Sweden's strategy may turn out to have been the better strategy. It is, quite simply, too early to say at this point.
You should visit Scandinavia sometime. The Swedish and Norwegian economies cannot be compared easily.
To put ESP32 in perspective, it is much more powerful than this baby over here,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re40EEKHAqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uUPKMmXYTs

ESP32 has enough juice to do everything we were able to do in MS-DOS and then some.
It seems to me that the lesson we should be learning from Sweden is different.

The measures undertaken in Sweden weren't sufficient to control the spread of the coronavirus at the start. They saw exponential growth like anywhere else that did not impose a lockdown. But the growth stopped faster than predicted by any models of herd immunity. They're now seeing 300 new cases a day, compared to 1100 at their peak. They've had about 1% of the population test positive, and about 0.1% of population die - and neither of those numbers look likely to grow significantly. You can quibble over testing statistics or death reporting, but they've had about 50% of the testing rate of Florida [0] and the excess deaths are within a factor of two of reported deaths[1].

If only 20% of people are immune to Covid-19, with a base reproductive rate of well over 1, this slowdown simply couldn't happen. The truth is there's something else going on: either it's way more infectious (but less dangerous) than realised, or more likely, a very large proportion of people have baseline immunity to the infection. It spreads rapidly through those who had no previous immunity and then burns out.

So it's not that Sweden did things right. They chose to be the control case for the lockdown experiment, and they got lucky that the virus isn't as bad as we thought. Back in March, it was a totally reasonable belief that the virus if unchecked will spread to 60-70% of people and kill 1% of those - we'd only seen the spread rates from the early days of the pandemic in China. Now, the only observation we have from leaving the virus unchecked points to a much lower number.

It's still rational for governments to err on the side of caution and wait for more data (especially on long-term effects), and to manage the pandemic to avoid saturating hospital and ICU use. But it's not rational to treat a disease that threatens to kill 0.1% in the same way as one that threatens 1%. If we see similar results in Florida - a region with good data and a reckless/casual approach to lockdown - we should see a peak in terms of new cases/day in the next three weeks and then it will be time to really accept that the risk is lower than we thought.

[0] almost all stats from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[1] excess deaths from https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Ask HN: Whiteboarding for Virtual Collaboration
I'm a heavy user of white boarding when discussing / explaining / exploring ideas with colleagues.

What is your favorite way to achieve the same in virtual collaboration?

Doesn't have to be a literal recreation of the physical experience.
Coupled with the American war on intellectualism and a capturing of the state by corporations, and higher education bloated with administrators, there are sufficient blockers that a coordinated state level AAA online higher education system will be pretty hard to achieve.

The closest possibility is that the California state school system develops an online wing.
Hey,
I produced a detailed feedback for your website (incl. video and breakdown). You can see it here:

https://firstimpressions.link/result/kaapi-team

I hope this helps.
Great catch on the 3 comments from users created 1 hour ago.

Seems suspicious.
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My first PC that I actually owned was a 386SX running at 20MHz....
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Wow, this entire article seems to be more a "let's repost every tweet that hates Krebs". Most of it assumes he is a "a 50-year-old dude in a suit" doing cyberstalking, but I don't think that is an accurate description. Keep in mind, much of the criminal hackers do not like Krebs because he exposes them. People Swat his house and attempt to entrap him. So reposting a bunch of hate-Tweets is stupid.

Yes, Krebs' does his own research, but he also has hundreds of security researchers and contacts that provide him info, many of those are insiders. In his book Spam Nation, he even goes to Russia to visit a crime boss to ask tough questions. This isn't some cyberstalker.

Krebs is a better researcher than most, so I tend to trust his doxx. Most of the info he publishes is already public (poor opsec) and he is more thorogh than Reddit. Can he be wrong? Sure..... should he doxx? I don't know, that's an ethics question.. but if he's wrong on this, I'm sure Brian will reconsider that in the future
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Herd immunity just means that the R factors drops to one without any mitigating measures.

Right now, Sweden has an R around one, without any enforced mitigation. Of course people's behavior still makes a difference.

That, to me, indicates widespread immunity, even if there is no herd immunity by definition.
I bet I could get my MacBook’s battery life down to 5hrs with Slack, Chrome, WhatsApp, and VSCode all running, while “not doing anything that demanding”. Use Safari, use native-code messengers or open them only as-needed in response to alerts on my phone, and use Sublime and it’s back to approaching 10hrs.

JavaScript eats battery and Safari is the only of the three major macOS browsers that takes power use seriously. If you live in webapps and Electron you’re gonna have battery trouble no matter what.
Yes, completely right. EU, and NATO will have a problem almost on the same scale if Russia collapses on them, as if it will launch an attack on them.

Russia has 8 times the population of Syria, and people can't live on a big part of its territory without artificial heating (and thus fuel supplies; your heating bill is pretty much a live or die price in a lot of places there,) or completely reliant for on long range freight for essential supplies.
Luckily he has a twitter feed full of his beliefs boiled down into bite sized 140 character blurbs.
i mean... that's a legit theoretical concern, but so far i've bought many dirt cheap electronic products from ali for years and so far they've all worked as advertised.
Up to a degree, definitely. It seems thought that for certain people it somehow comes naturally. (But perhaps it was taught to them unbeknownst to themselves)
thanks for this! in my experience, typical
If you're still on graphite and need scaling, metrictank is something to consider.
What is the current 'leading' library for creating a Java based GraphQL endpoint? We are getting limited asks to move that direction, and it seems like the 'modern' bits are all node.js based. We will see if a variable payload is something our internal folks will bit on.
> but if he's wrong on this, I'm sure Brian will reconsider that in the future

If I remember right its not the first time he has gotten such things wrong, and mostly responded by blocking people criticizing him for it on Twitter.
Who is responsible for the PCI considerations? The POS system company or the franchisor?

Start looking at other POS systems immediately if possible. If that system's owners do not take security seriously, ditch them.

One option, which would likely hurt your friends business, is to go public about that entire franchise using insecure payment systems.

Put an ATM in the lobby/outside and go cash only.
> The top-line going even lower still doesn't materially change the calculus.

There’s a big difference between $50-100M and $460M, almost an order of magnitude difference, so yes it does change the dynamics.

> Speaking of assuming too much

I made no assumptions about who you are or your employment history, I stuck to the figures presented. Software engineers are barely as high as the figure you first provided for fully loaded salary on average, hence the comment about the software bubble. The rest of the LinkedIn org makes no where near those numbers on average.
I've always thought the quality was subpar with oddly fitting cuts.

Still occasionally shop their for some niche items (longjohns spring to mind) but generally I find a store best avoided
> Saying that no lockdowns cause the same damage as full lockdown.

It's borne out by various bits of evidence; most people wind up DIYing their own lockdown, even if the government doesn't order it. Restaurant reservation numbers dropped dramatically before the first lockdowns, for example, and didn't jump back up to normal in states that reopened early.

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-03-14/restaurant-res...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/19/american...

The benefit of a formal lockdown is enforcement for the small proportion of people who YOLO things.
This link had a GDPR-wall that had no opt-out choice, better one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53493028

I think it's kind of hard to defend keeping covid-19 vaccine research findings as proprietary in the current times, I hope that's not what this is about. (charge is
"Prosecutors said the two men spied on a Massachusetts biotech firm in January which was known to be researching possible cures for Covid-19")
...and by not letting anyone not descending in a straight line from the Mayflower work at it, they make sure it's second-rate, at best.

Of course if he also succeeds in abolishing universities' non-profit status as he's recently started adding to his culture war talking point reservoir, not even Americans will be there to run this thing.
(1) The advertising-based model has brought the web to a kind of heat death. I have nothing good to say about it.

(2) I don't think React/Vue/Svelte/... leads to "a better web" but I have looked long and hard at options for building cross-platform GUI applications in 2020 and there isn't anything better.
First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star
Transpiling to Rust gains you nothing. All the benefit comes from further rewriting after that, so the limiting factor will be how fast you can understand a complex program written in a language you're unfamiliar with, which is written in an unidiomatic style (because it's been transpiled to that language rather than written in that language).
Meanwhile I would be happy if my AMD GPU was able to support OpenGL 4.1 like it used to do with fxglr, instead I have to be happy that it does OpenGL 3.1 at all with Mesa 20, or reboot into Windows to enjoy DirectX 11.
I Got a Job Two Weeks After My Coding Bootcamp
Parents turn to “pods” as a schooling solution
Mainstream progressives have very similar conspiracy theories. For example they believe that tens of thousands of women are shipped around the world for each Super Bowl to serve as prostitutes. See the NY Times article debunking this popular myth held by mainstream democrats: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/the-super-bowl-of...

Qanon, of course, pushes ideas that are batshit crazy. My point is more moderate people dress them up a bit and push the same concepts.
I'm of a mind to reduce documentation as much as possible, or keep it as vague as possible.

That's because I came from an environment that insisted on incredibly detailed, formal, approved-by-everyone-including-the-mens-room-attendant, documents.

These became "concrete galoshes"[0] that turned what should have been an agile, iterative project into a waterfall behemoth that cost a mint, took forever to make, and delivered a result that no one wanted.

I suspect that my current process[1] would not be acceptable for many organizations, as it basically requires that everyone involved be extremely experienced, and kept together as a team for years.

I've actually come to realize that "tribal knowledge" is not the boogeyman that its made out to be; but is a way to get very high-quality, rapid, adaptive, development done. The main issue is that it does require good, empathetic management, long-term retention of experienced, capable people, and an "apprenticeship" model. These are not popular concepts in today's corporate world (at least, in the US).

[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/concrete-galoshes-a5798a5...

[1] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/forensic-design-documenta...
I find it a bit funny that the whole discussion seems to be on what definition is better. The two complements each other perfectly, and reading them actually makes both clearer for me.

Since there is in the modern world almost no use case where you're heavily space contrained (maybe the final print version of an article for some publications ? I'm not that familiar with the research world), I don't see why you'd try to choose one instead of including both where needed.
I'm aware those aren't MDMs, however they still will have to deal with this. I was also under the impression that Intune didn't really support software management for macOS. I think Jamf and WS1 will be just fine. I think the Kernel extensions are going to be a much bigger problem for those of us managing Macs at scale with things such as Antivirus software like you said.
Show HN: Static-JSON-db, a database that can be deployed as a static website
i think i will do that, i am not defending him, i just dont know who is telling the truth in the media anymore.
Collection of machine learning projects applied in production, with results
In USA public schools the same history course is given ten grades in a row. Somehow it neglects to include anything about Wounded Knee, USA actions in Philippines, Mosaddegh coup, COINTELPRO, School of the Americas, etc.
> Which led me to realising that my intellect and conscious part of my mind is probably only in control of 20%-30% of me. That I'm not a fully logically creature and that I needed to come to peace with my body's needs and messages from my less conscious mind and work together as an integrated whole, rather than trying to force my will based on pure 'rational' thought.

I've had a similar realization. I think we vastly underestimate how good our subconscious/automatic parts of our brain are. Every healthy person can run up a flight of stairs without looking where the steps are and analyzing the position of each step. Many sports involve the forming of reflexes that let your brain analyze where an object is and respond to it without even thinking about it. There's A LOT going on in terms of calculation and response. We call that a skill and once mastered, it seems effortless.

So now, as a rational person, I value the conscious part of the brain not as much for its ability to be logical (though I still cherish that as a developer) but as a an agent of improvement, a programmer for the subconscious part of the brain. And the more I can offload and delegate to the subconscious, the more new and fun things I can take on with my slow but rational consciousness.

Of course, there needs to be a feedback loop, to prevent the subconscious from drifting into self-delusion or a general asshole but for that, empathy and the Golden Rule have served me quite well.

This is all very new to me and I'm probably not explaining things very well. But I had the epiphany on this watching squirrels in slow motion do insane calculations when tossed into the air, locking their heads on a target and twisting their bodies to land precisely on their target.
What 40% immunity number? I don't see that in the article here.