skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that certainly answered my question! Thanks for the heads up.
Well he said in references to drones "The F-35 would have no chance against it,"

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say the Musk thinks the F-35 is no match for future drones?

Also, I think besides G tolerance there is the issue that a pilot with a pressurized air system, controls, glass cockpit, ejector seat etc. adds a lot of weight and drag.
>The FCC proposed fining T-Mobile $91 million; AT&T faces more than $57 million in fines; Verizon is looking at more than $48 million in penalties; and the FCC said Sprint should pay more than $12 million

So that's actually $200 million split between four companies and what really amounts to not much more than cost od business for them.
I don't know how many people who have approached with an secret idea for an iOS app... I just roll my eyes...
A lot of the US problems around covid handling seem to be coordination related. There used to be coordinating personnel specifically for that at the NSC. But that has been slashed over the last few years.

That kind of short sightedness drives me nuts.
There are security updates, for one.

Plus there are a bunch of CSS improvements and the like in the last five years. If you don’t keep up with the competition your users are going to see broken sites eventually.
Rude comment.

I code.

https://github.com/samsquire/

My submissions doesn't mean I do not code. I wouldn't know if someone stole my idea until it appeared in the world or I finished it.
Have you not heard of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County
I had the same dissatisfaction as you, both for wallet and keys.

3D printing allowed to me solve both of those problems. Thingiverse provides a plethora of different solutions on both fronts. The two that I settled on work great for me.

For my wallet, I use this minimalist one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2347625

Given that you mentioned that you tried a wallet that didn't carry enough, a minimalist one might not be your speed, but I encourage you to give one a try. I was skeptical, but learned that everything became much better when I dropped the habit of carrying everything I might possibly need in my wallet. Now I carry just 6 cards, a credit-card multitool, and some cash.

For my keys, I use this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2749745
The page has been updated recently, the 64-bit version was added this year. So it's actually the date on the page that is wrong.
There are services that exists that checks if a person is real or not (requiring Id, passports, real facial captures, etc). Surprised that twitter didn't even do the most basic checks.
I was incorrect here! I don't know Python as well as I thought. Thanks for all the discusison folks.
What do you suppose the lifecycle is of something like this?

Does the new owner, under their own power, set about adding ads to their site? Do they install a 3rd party ad tool that does the dirty business? Or does some smooth talker show up and tell them they'll take care of everything for a modest cut of the profits and that person makes a hash of everything?

Because it really does feel to me like there's a certain detachment from the userbase. If the owners are the actors instead of just complicit, maybe they're 'doing us a favor' by showing us how they really feel.
Don't you think 20 years is enough time to profit from a creation? Copywrite law lasts so long, it makes little sense.
I'm not talking about _those_ people.

Nor am I one of those people.

I'm someone who gets shut down for trying to talk about ideas. As you are kind of doing.
> and they served 510 million requests last month for about $200.

In EC2, which is not cheap at all, that's between the monthly cost of one m2.2xlarge and m3.2xlarge instance, or two m2.xlarge instances, or 3 t3.large, or 7 t3.medium.

In other words, you can operae a small cluster on AWS for that price tag.
I'm not one of those people.

I'm one of those people who tries to talk about ideas but gets shut down by people who think ideas are worthless.
I'm also a huge fan of the Mom Test!

In your specific customer interview, I would probe deeper. For most real problems people have, they've hacked together a makeshift solution. It may work, but it doesn't mean it works well. It doesn't mean the problem is solved.

I would ask "how is it like working with this larger company?". If you have any specific pain points working with larger companies that you've seen, I'd ask "how do you deal with pain point X?"

I doubt someone would say something is their biggest problem if they have a great solution for it!
Is this really appropriate for HN?
The fact that what made the poor creature popular were its tentatives to escape back to freedom horrifies me.
not WHO owned, registered 2002, wow that's some foresight

now they are getting search rank by getting people to link to it and later they can redirect it or put whatever content they want on it
In general yes and no, in this case no. I think he sees it as a personal moral obligation by how he was raised.

In general, there are some extreme examples:

- The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a non-profit with a multibillion endowment. It's how many American billionaires get tax benefits immediately while transferring assets later. And, the SVCF doesn't do very much community work except for donors' pet projects that may or may not be for the public good.

The previous maybe some ostensible philanthropy, but that's not how every very rich person operates: Patriotic Millionaires (calling for more taxes) and The Good Club (Bill Gates, Oprah, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner and more) are definitely counterexamples to the stereotype.
Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision to make PCs
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lol boogidy woogidy woo
Application load balancing is VERY expensive compared to other solutions on the low end. Minimum ALB price is $16/month.

The trade off with API Gateway is around 5 million requests (I wrote an article on it: https://ldoughty.com/2019/12/comparing-aws-api-gateway-to-lo... )

ALB is probably the best solution > 5-6 million and up.. or perhaps HTTP API Gateway between 5-6 and 15 million... But it needs to be near 20 million requests/month before ALB is the "best" solution (though there are still some other considerations that might factor in if your involving a lot of AWS Data transfer which is waived when you are not binding to a VPC, which ALB requires)
> until the law passes, it means absolutely nothing

"Nothing" is too strong. Public support from the Chief Executive carries weight.

Even if it's offered duplicitously, it's a signal of viability to donors, community activists, civic leaders and electeds. That support was deemed beneficial to offer is meaningful.
I see a selection of tools you've white labeled as your own, but no software applications of your own creation, just your opinionated means of deploying them, were they to exist...
> Special English is a controlled version of the English language first used on 19 October 1959... World news and other programs are read one-third slower than regular English. (paraphrased from Wikipedia)

This is fascinating. I had trouble understanding the FDA's article until I slowed down and imagined a newscaster reading it. (It's still really hard to skim, though. Weird phrasing.)
Still waiting for someone to publish a volume of HOPL-III papers. The HOPL-I and -II books are essential for those interested.
> No, you can't get any Hetzner VM for $3/month.

So Hetzner's CX11 instances, that go for €3.01/month with unlimited bandwidth, don't exist in your world?
At This Conference, Scientists Spout Bogus Theories on Bugs, Yawns and Belly Fat
Best practices for bringing AR applications to the field
It should be easy to test. Just set the alarm at a random time. Something like 5 to 10 minutes earlier.

To do it blindly you can have someone else do it, scramble the clock, use an app,...
I love this idea. So much potential. A way you might improve it is include tomorrow's Todo list below the tomatoes? That would also make better use of the paper.

P.S. The price for the PDF may be a touch high. I'd drop it by a buck.
The smart thing to do at this point would be to abandon the fool's hope that this will be contained in the US, stop trying to track cases and spread, and just work on shoring up the heath care system for when it's inevitably going to be overrun. Trying to keep it contained now is like putting up a truckload of sandbags to stop a tidal wave.

If it wasn't possible to be reinfected, I'd say the wise thing to do would be to get yourself infected now, while you can still get a respirator in the hospital.
Yes, many writing coaches counsel writers to explain terms of art that might be unfamiliar to random readers. Granting that you're new here, one assumes that someone commenting is familiar with YC, but that might be a flawed assumption.
I created an account just to ask, what is the fetish and obsession with OCaml and functional stuff on here? Does anyone actually write it (besides Erlang)?

OCaml specifically is such an obscure language you'd have a hard time explaining it to most people who are software engineers.

Who cares?
Not that I disagree with your point, but Twitter has been known to "strip" the checkmark from controversial accounts.

It's no longer for simply verifying authenticity.
How would a world war start via Twitter?
The chemistry is kind of interesting. If you distill isopropyl alcohol, you can't get more concentrated than 91% because it forms an azeotrope. That is, if you try to distill 91% isopropyl alcohol, the vapors are also 91% concentration, so distillation doesn't get you any further. Thus, 91% isopropyl alcohol is a common product. Similarly, ethanol forms an azeotrope at 95% concentration, so you can't distill higher than that. This is why, for instance, Everclear has a 95% alcohol concentration. (You can produce higher concentrations, of course, but it requires a more expensive process than distillation.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeotrope
I would also add learning to evaluate your idea(s) objectively.

When you think you've thought of a great idea, by definition, you're biased toward it.

If you then start building it, the sunk cost makes you even more resistant to abandoning it.

In my experience, just "building the product" can take a lot longer than you expect. I've spent several months building out what were mostly CRUD apps.

Why? I didn't realize it at the time, but I was working part time, I had to figure out how to do many things for the first time, I had to keep myself motivated, and I had to do development but also design and PM work.

If I was working on something new, I probably would:

1. think of a problem to work on

2. talk to a lot of users following the Mom Test (keeping in mind your product has many personas of users) to validate the problem

3. think of a lot of ideas to solve the problem

4. somehow identify what idea to prototype first and what the feature set should be

5. prototype it in Figma, show it to users, improve the prototype until customers are asking "when can I buy this?"

I haven't done this yet. If anyone has any suggestions for getting from set of ideas -> a prototype users want, I would love to hear them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)

If you ever need to be somewhere important put on a reflective vest and a hard hat and walk around with a clipboard saying excuse me excuse me and more often than not you can get right on thru.
Strings are the same story, except there's still a widespread (and incorrect) perception that they're simple - probably because it's a built-in type in almost every language.
TLDR;

> The infected patient is an older adult woman with chronic health conditions who was hospitalized for a respiratory illness, county officials said.

> This would be the 63rd confirmed case in the U.S. Of those, 44 were people who had been aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship and repatriated to the U.S., three were repatriated from Wuhan, 12 were people who had recently traveled in China and two caught it from a close family member. This week's two cases in Solano and Santa Clara counties involved people with no known exposure risk.
I guess I was just listening to (and resonating with) John Carmack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCBCk4xVa0

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/john-carmacks-deep-...
That works fine (somewhat) when you have moderation, and breaks down at a certain scale.
Are there any ad networks that allow random advertisers to include custom JavaScript in ads?

It just seems like a huge security hole and is not in the interest of ad networks for multiple reasons.

They might have JS in ads, but isn't that from the ad network's infrastructure.
My impression is that it never was. Rather, the notion that the blue-check is an indicator of celebrity was cultivated by Twitter itself. It's just not something they can come out and say directly anymore.
This bootcamp might help you, it comes with github repo too -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGOEq5FdNUQ&list=PLxNYxgaZ8R...
Covid-19: Amazon Cancels On-Site Job Interviews, Asks Workers to Avoid Travel
It is very much an engineering argument, because writing maintainable software requires respecting contracts. If an escape hatch is private, you can't depend on it, because code doing so will break when the hatch changes (and there's no guarantee that it won't).
Good point! Updated it :)
That assumes you can't get it twice, which we don't know yet. It also assumes there are no long-term effects, and there are already reports of lung fibrosis. You're better off delaying it as long as possible. Work from home if you can, and try to avoid non-essential travel while people work on better treatments.
DoT and DoH have virtually identical service models. The practical difference between the two is that DoT deliberately runs on a nonstandard port, so that network operators can filter it. It's not an exaggeration to say that DoT is simply DoH with a network kill switch.
It may not be “accessible to the layman” (yet?), but this seems rather intriguing: “The memory crystal is capable of storing up to 360 terabytes of data for billions of years.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
I have a stock trading algo that tracks over 500 stocks profitably. Never been able to market it on the web. Even in today’s market. Website is in my profile, not for sale but can license it.
GDC 2020 has been postponed
Yeah, the date on the page is wrong.

See:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181015090301/http://miranda.or...

It was still proprietary as of 2018/most of 2019, got a source release in the form of a 32-bit version around December, and then a 64-bit version released around a month ago, from what I can tell. I completely missed this occurring until a friend pointed it out, but I'm so happy it did.
You are very rude.

My github profile has software. The picture you are trying to paint isn't here.
> That assumes you can't get it twice

I'm assuming you can get it twice, based on recent news[1], that's why I said:

> If it wasn't possible to be reinfected

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
But... isn't he really the person behind the fake 2020 candidate? Seems like the process basically worked. At worst, twitter made a slightly embarrassing decision about who warrants verification.
Right.

I have an idea for you, it involves the purchase of a bridge in Brooklyn... interested?
Well, wondering when they’ll close schools. I’m somewhat surprised they haven’t yet. With the CDC saying it’s “not if but when”, I would think you’d want to take measures to contain the spread sooner rather than later.

Kind of feels like we’re sleepwalking through this in the US.
Yes, and if HN ever cracks down on stuff that literally saves people's lives, than maybe it's time for folks to leave and find a better platform...
Have you tried going to a farm and helping there.
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I wish there was an app that allowed me to charge all these data companies for use of my data directly.

The app would pop up when I was signing up for any service and let me know which of my data the service be using and give me a price per month.

I would then gladly share it and collect my pennies per day or opt-out and get degraded service or no service at all.
If they are trying to say there aren't enough ingredients to make the drug then the second way is better. But that isn't the same as what the original sentence said.

The phrase 'issue with manufacturing of' covers a much wider range of problems than a shortage. Maybe they have tonnes of materials and they just need a mechanic to fix the machine for example. No shortages of anything except people in the right place at the right time.
Um if you're near utrecht i've got a garden to fix. i never get around to it. i dont know where in the netherlands you are, but if its utrecht it might be the trouble of walking/biking. I will offer a meager ten euro for it. theres some other things that need to be done here as well as i want the place to be ready for paying guests. Do you have any skills like tiling? I want tiles in my kitchen. If you know about phones well my phone needs fixing or replacing.
as for jobs, try the dutch post or sandd. anybody can do that. just like me, they dont pay well. but its steady and better than nothing. if you need an address, pay somebody for registration. thats fraud, but fairly common and i dont think anybody cares. you can try working in it after that. you need an address for it. but lots of consultancies need fresh bodies to throw at clients. they wont ask too many questions.
Ooh, that one is fancy! But looks like it will need some refinement to be untethered.
I think at this point it's pretty obvious that WHO is being run by criminals, but thanks for the heads up anyway.
Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
My best horror dungeon so far was a 3-level abandoned dwarven mine. 2 first levels are infested with kobolds and pseudodragons, players kill some kobolds, block off some others with explosions, solve puzzles to get through blocked lift to the last level and see that it was blocked from inside on purpose, there are dwarven runes on the walls written with blood warning not to speak to each other and not to read anything or you'll get infected by HIM.

I borrowed it from SCP series - it's a "memetic hazard" - nonmagically infects brains when it's thought of or spoken of. Mechanically players roll a Wisdom save whenever there's infection opportunity, on a fail they start shouting the meme (then others have to roll :)), on a bad fail they become possesed and run somewhere. You of course don't explain it to the players, just ask them to roll when needed :)

As they explore searching for the artifact they were hired to recover they find the whole mine is full of dead bodies calmly sitting in circles, pools of dried blood, all the books are burned and there are bodies of dwarves who were fighting each other before they died. Then there's the last room with a huge portal that starts to activate when players who got possesed run into it.

The climax is a big pvp fight between the players that try to teleport to their new god and the rest of the party trying to knock them unconscious and drag them away before the portal activates :)
It's not immediately obvious, but the rant is less about the specifics of the design, and more about the assumptions and attitudes underpinning said design - and how they translate to bad design all around, not just those particular pain points.
Deploying Ingress across multiple GKE clusters
One company asked me to write a wrapper around database/sql that adds a connection pool. This is pretty easy until you want to implement any function that returns Row, which you just can't, because you can't make one of those. Amazing.
> I used to run sales teams, my job was to try to give a realistic figure for how much our revenue would increase. Any experienced VP Sales will play down the number – most would prefer hitting a $20M target, over missing a $22M number by $1M and ending up at a higher number. That’s how you optimize for not getting fired.

8 bosses, Bob!

Good write-up.
I'm not sure what conclusion you are drawing from my reply as I'm not claiming the growth is exponential.

I'm was just referring to the op's observation that the growth is linear.

My point was you can only achieve that linear result if the first few data points are ignored.
I don't think you're wrong. Great ideas are extremely valuable. But I think the disconnect comes from the fact that it's very easy to mistake mediocre ideas for great ones.

Most times when I hear someone's self-described great idea it seems impressive at first, but then fails to hold up to scrutiny. Among other reasons that an idea may not be as valuable as it appears:

* It's not actually original. Even if not widespread, one or more other parties is already working on it.

* "And then a miracle happens..." Some aspect of the idea assumes magic technology or dependencies that don't exist.

* The low-level details are not elucidated and have just been hand-waved away.

* It's solving a problem that not many people actually have.

* It's not economical or practical.

* It requires mass widespread adoption or buy-in from powerful interests before being able to actually have value. There's no gentle gradient to product organic growth.

The contrast, is that it's much harder to be deluded about the value of execution. Great execution is obvious when it happens. Ask people for their great ideas, and you'll often get something half-baked. Ask people for a demonstrated history of execution, and that's pretty hard to fake.

Ideas tend not be valued, not because they're valueless, but because they're hard to value.
Slowing the spread via containment so the health system can be shored up seems sensible to me.

Possibly those weeks could make a difference; I'd imagine vaccine development is highly parallelised relative to a normal year, and there may be something in the next 6 months. 4 weeks in that scenario could be huge.