skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the bubble is going to burst at some point. Not really an expert in any of this, but it seems conventional wisdom is "invest in 10 startups, see one succeed", whereas by now I'm led to believe that the chance of success is much lower than 1 in 10 given the often times ridiculous companies that are being invested into. But happy to be proven wrong.
According to twitter themselves, "The blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic." https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/twitter-ve...

But i agree, in practice it's a "twitter endorses this account" indicator.
Updated news articles mention El Camino Hospital in Mt View
I am not sure what is your data source. The one I linked shows 6 deaths, 10 recovered, and 36 in serious or critical condition. There is no information about the status of the other 653.
I hear you, I work for a large manufacturing company as a lead engineer (household name in the UK) and this complete lack of agreement between teams on how to do things results in a colossal amount of churn/wastage between "new shiny" and "already working".

Lots of "Lets move X to Y" which never gets completed then someone addes "Z" and now you have 3 ways of doing basically everything.

Worse is our documentation (which is generally good) frequently documents X but not Y or Z because the person who decided on Y or Z didn't look.

It's mentally fatiguing, I feel like every choice on what to use comes with more trade-offs than I should have to consider for something so simple.

Video conferencing is a good example, We variously have Hangouts, Skype and others, teleconferencing equipment in one room is one thing, in another something else.

The only reliable way to throw video to a screen is a USB-C to HDMI cable I keep in my rucksack.

Feels like half my decisions are saying "No" to an engineer who wants to replace Foo with a very shiny but 99% identical and unknown Bar.
One thing people tend to forget when talking about improvement in tech is the added stress social media creates for the younger generations. The pressure from outside is higher now then when we 40+ grew up and became adults. There are blogs and youtube stars showing you what you should be, there are comments to tell you that you are not good enough. And if you are female, they will tell you even worse things.

There are facebook to show you that your "friends" have a much nicer house than you, they have vacations in warm countries, they eat at expencive restaurants and their kids are wonderful geniuses and certainly don't watch TV all day or eat any sugar. And so on.

The mental stress is grinding our young down and we do see the results of it already. The modern sickness is the burnout of youth.
Is algorithm being templated not enough?
> If either the key or salt values are all 0s then the encryption does nothing. AES for comparison will still encrypt your data with some level of security even if the IV initialisation is not perfectly random or skipped.

Not experienced in this field but this seems like a good thing to me. Even just using crypto properly appears to be hard, and this 'do nothing when given 0' trait makes the vulnerability very obvious to a quick basic security examination (or even just looking at it in Wireshark), vs needing an expert to do lengthy analysis and figure out that you subtly fucked up the AES initialization and had been running unsafe code for years.
Some open source companies offer free use of their product if your product or organisation is open source as well. For our tool[0] we got offered free use of Gitlab Gold and a Sentry account for error tracking.

[0] https://websecuritymap.org/
Extremely good for weight and extremely poor for volume. To reduce the gasses volume storage is usually either highly compressed (200-700bar) or cryogenic (30K), like in the space shuttles tank.

In both cases the volumetric density is still quite poor, cryogenic is about 70g/l, which is actually less than the weight of hydrogen chemically bound in a liter of gasoline.

There exists some concepts of storing hydrogen chemically bound, e.g. to hydrocarbons or metal hydrites which release the gas on high temperatures (100-200°C).
What frustrates me is how hard it is to make people understand this is a very serious matter.

R0 = 2.2 and CFR = 2.5%

It only takes ten minutes on Excel to understand the potential horror those numbers represent.

How do you communicate this to an audience that is mathematically inept to the point that calculating tip at the restaurant is hard work?

The best I’ve come up with is to say that, starting with one person, under ideal conditions, this could infect the entire world population in a month. OK, yes, ideal conditions, I know. How else do you drive the point about exponential/geometric growth?

I’ve had the conversation with a few people. It’s amazing to me how many of them were completely dismissive.

Is it that hard for average folks to understand? Ignorance is bliss?
The Obama administration did a number of things right in response to the Ebola epidemic. They quickly ramped up US capacity to treat Ebola patients, delivered substantial resources (people and money) to affected countries, established a presence on the ground in numerous countries specifically for pandemic readiness and staffed a position on the NSC for interagency pandemic readiness. The Trump administration cut that position from the NSC and substantially scaled back the presence in other countries.

So, there has been leadership in this area (and others) in the past.
If you’re using free Heroku dynos, the first visitor in a while will experience long load times because the dyno has to be spun up. This is a pretty bad experience. I’d spend the 7 dollars each month to make sure your dyno is always up.
Why this personal abuse?
What is the standard process for failure analysis for a company like SpaceX and how do they likely integrate the lessons into the next iteration?

Do companies like this have some form of high level "failure procedure" they go though?
ZigWay is hiring a Technology Lead
They only spend $227/month in total. Why even bother centralizing? That's peanuts. I spend more than that on my personal AWS bill.
interesting point, never thought about this. If containment strategies include limiting number of people at events (as was done in Switzerland) then this would really impact abilities of candidates to rally. Sanders here has more to loose than Trump I think
Bootstrapped Tech Companies by Google Search Growth
"I'm somewhat disappointed in your reply, as I presumed that someone with a stated interest in ciphers would be eager to investigate anything new to pop up that didn't have obvious holes in it."

This is totally, utterly and critically wrong. Ciphers with "no obvious holes" are dime a dozen. Nobody is interested in looking at your cipher unless you both have strong evidence that it's beats the existing ones in at least one area and that you did your homework to check for known weaknesses.
If you read the literature it's clear that model determinations of very high climate sensitivity (4°C, 5°C, 6°C and up) have increasingly been determined to be in error.

Moreover,
“Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world – possibly none – have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.” (Roy Spencer)
What makes some people remain sharp at old age ? My observation is it can be attributed to practicing intellectually challenging jobs continually. For example Don Kunth, Marvin Minsky are and were sharp. Is this observation a surviour ship bias or is it mostly genetics ?
How do you setup load balancers with SSL and Nginx?
New Education Model Is Needed with Fourth Industrial Revolution
I am Yehuda Lindell, cryptographer (& CEO); ask me anything!
Here in the UK we learned the hard way that health care is national defence. It’s a matter of vital national security. In WWI we were chronically short of healthy young recruits, far too many potential soldiers were too sickly or under nourished to serve. What goes for the military goes for industry too, what use is a sickly, unfit work force, especially in a crisis? This is why universal health care is not controversial in the UK. It’s why lifelong conservative voters like me support universal health care, we were faced with a clear existential threat generations ago. How could we expect the population to fight for a country that didn’t look after them in return? Loyalty has to go both ways. I accept we’re a different case from the US because we’re a much smaller country, the US can manage due to sheer numbers, but that’s a pretty poor excuse. Having a fit, healthy population matters.

Now we’re faced with Covid-19. This is a matter of national and international security and defence. Health care spending is national defence spending. It’s just a different type of defence against different types of threats, some mundane, some exceptional.
just curious, are there really customers who really paid for this?
Was making a pun on the title’s grammar, not on the people working there. I don’t know the people working there, and have nothing against them personally.
Docker Swarm is not dead (yet)
I think Facebook is known to have more interesting jobs.
Show HN: Django Installer – Setup your Django project in one minute
Tree Service
the HN crowd likes data. this is as much about data[1] as anything else - and it's not like the tech topics stopped.

[1] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
Full name of root account in BSD
They really need to either moderate comments on the blog post or disable them altogether.
I wonder how feasible a rendering proxy would be. It would run the JS in a simulated browser environment and return the HTML.

Interactivity would be tricky, but static HTML is better than a blank page.

Edit: Found something very similar, but it targets legacy browsers using clickable image maps rather than privacy/security.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
Tree Care
Rockets of Earth
Depends on how small you are but it’s extremely important for business meetings if you want to speak/pitch to publishers, VCs and others. Everyone is there. Obviously you don’t actually have to attend the conference proper to setup meetings and you usually need to set them up in advance.

Conferences themselves are great for networking which can be great for fostering business relationships in the future. The talks themselves can be extremely variable in quality but can be a good source of inspiration. Lots get posted online (and you get access to all the GDC talks through the conference pass) these days which feels like a better fit to delivery for that side of things.
Replacing rural train links with buses invariably means significantly reducing mobility for a lot of people. It is also akin to a signed death-warrant for a locality that prospers from tourism and/or houses commuting families. That can be a valid choice for some localities, but it is a choice with far-reaching consequences.

Travelling with a pram or a wheelchair using public transport is doable by train. By bus it is fine for a short ride (up to a few kilometres), but with increasing distance it becomes undoable for more and more people.

Another group of people heavily affected are those with incontinence or bowel diseases. Trains usually have accessible toilets on-board (usable with wheelchairs as well), buses don't.

A rational response is to explore all possibilities for keeping a train link operational in a sustainable manner.
I believe the attention cost of using and keeping up with so many great tools is underappreciated. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather use Github Projects than Trello not because GHP is better (it is not) but because I'm already using Github, and the mental and workflow cost of adding Trello to the mix is (I feel) higher than its additional value.

Notion in particular drives me nuts. I mean it's very very well done, but you use it to create a hierarchy of collaborative documents... because apparently GSuite docs are not good enough? Notion I think is a case of local maxima, because Gdocs/Office365 offer so many more ways to keep documentation and data in better formats (doc, sheet, slides...).

Sometimes I feel crushed under the weight of a thousand good things. :)
You won't get Google's culture. Regardless of the HN bubble it really is employee friendly and it shows in crises like these. Our health insurance is also the best if not way better than other FAANG + Microsoft. When the travel ban happened Google security helped people across the globe. Not many tech companies would do that. Doubt Amazon would.
Bori / Glbtq Sexology
It's like the saying goes, if you get paid 100k to work 80 hours/week, you're getting paid 50k.
Persecution can take more forms than law enforcement.

Maybe one day you'll come around to the idea that feminist ideas are valid without feminists being put into jail.
They're still considering hydrogen too, however hydrogen production/distribution is really inefficient and as of today not very carbon neutral [1].

When you count the whole supply chain it has about the same efficiency as a diesel.

Pumping hydro electricity into a battery is much more efficient.

I guess there would also be issues transferring the hydrogen to the trains, we already struggle (struggled, the H-stations for cars are closed after an explosion here) with multiple cars filling up in turn. The pumps would just freeze and you had to wait for half an hour to fill up the next car.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
I love this post. Have you upgraded PyCharm to make use of the Django support in your IDE?
this is the narrative of the far right and typical Trump supporter.
KPIBees Google Sheet Add-On to Pull Your Data to Google Spreadsheets
And ML (the language) is still a core part of Cambridge University compsci.
I don’t have a constructive comment, I just wanted to point out that your phrase _“The modern sickness is the burnout of youth.”_ is beautiful and really struck a chord.
https://kpibees.com

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At the moment, we have integrations for Google Analytics, JSON, MySQL, but we're almost done with Google Ads and Facebook Ads. We are a supermetrics alternative that will be free for a very long time and even then it won't be severely overpriced.

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Targeting open source contributions to support science for COVID19
Fixing Scrum #1: The timebox problem
I Created an Interactive Scrolling Visualisation with D3.js
So you argued for a position you didn't actually believe just to see how he would counter? I suspect this is what most "flat-earthers" do. I know multiple people who independently joined a "flat earth" Facebook group for entertainment purposes. It is just trolls trolling trolls.
What is the notation the author uses for historical prices? The one with the year in lower index and some other number in upper index? I tried <your favourite search engine>ing that but I don't know how it's called.
On numbers from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358 (and those numbers are not necessarily accurate for lots of reasons) the death rate is below 0.4% for all age groups below 49. Then it increases exponentially. I'm curious what the comparative age breakdown of the 1918 flu was, particularly given that a lot of people would have been malnourished due to the war, and health care was not as advanced as now.
Welcome to the Mass of the Church of Decentralization. Here is your baptismal wallet address.
If you would make a new language today you would design for readability above all else. Because modern software are huge, while programs back in the day was small.
The point is that should be part of the standard library, like wstring in C++.
Reminds me of Learn X in Y Minutes: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/
> Adulting in 2020 is child's play.

Weirdly taking care of kids is not substantially more convenient nowadays. It's hard to compare, because most of us haven't had kids with a 25 year gap, but I do know a guy who has done just that.

Tech is a double edged sword with kids. You can throw a tablet at them to placate them for a while, but often it leads to the kid being difficult when you take it away.

You still need to sit with them to put them to sleep, nobody seems to have made an app that buys back that time. Again, tech sort of looks like it will work ("I'll put on a soothing melody from YouTube") but often it backfires somehow.

Kids misbehaving? Where's the app to fix that?

And then there's the whole education side of things, where tech promises a lot more than it delivers. The only things I find useful are Khan Academy and various times table type apps. They're just straight replacements for a person, which is great. Anything more complex, I'm very sceptical of.
Original 2018 submit, 200+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245873
It would be interesting to see this kind of list for the "start-ups" in '90s.
I guess Windows and MS Office licenses would be unavoidable items on the list.
I think both view points are true.

- In orgs that don't trust dev typically have significantly less understanding of dev, and in my experience have really poor security postures. Everything is a slow manual process decided by people who don't understand apps or automation.

- In orgs that trust dev too much, you usually get a federated architecture that doesn't make any sense from a strategy point of you. Some teams are great; others don't have basic controls. You typically have a bunch of different consultancies playing land and expand and selling expensive solutions that don't actually work.

As usual, the sweet spot is probably somewhere in the middle.
Context matters. We had almost no medicine back in 1918. That changes everything.
The best medical service is also an affordable one.

That aside, I see a lot of health operation shopping to Leuven ( Belgium), but I have never met someone doing a surgery at the US because "they are the best", so I don't agree with your standpoint.
“In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: deflect responsibility and hold on to power.”
I don't know, man. I know social media presents different stresses.

But fuck. I'm bisexual. I literally knew no one like me. I did get shunned by folks deciding I was lesbian. I was pressured into being girly, into fitting in, into simply going to church and acting like everyone else.

I've been turned down for a job because I'm female - in the 90's, long after this should be a thing. It was another female that did it.

I could have, with the internet, found a couple of folks more like me. (It still does this: My spouse and I met over the internet). The internet brings all sorts of resources (some toxic, some wonderful). I'd argue that it is us that are failing the children because we aren't teaching others how to harness this good for, well, good.

Stress is just different now. Luckily, the trend isn't "Suck it up and go on with life" for the most part now - so we actually know about these stresses.
non-technical staff need access to tools like Notion, Slack and Hubspot, the bills add up quickly
20 percent? Where? Most people are not even tested and in China where they have the largest hospital facilities for treating patients the number is far lower than 20 percents.
We aren't even close to a cure for all disease nor holidays on Mars, though.

Electric cars, however, are common in some places (I'm in Norway, and they are everywhere here, and the infrastructure is spreading, both in the private sector and in public street parking). Other places, they are a growing trend that we've been measuring. The growth is picking up.

This wasn't a far-fetch prediction by the author.
I pay for G Suite as a freelancer. It lets me use my own domain for email and meeting requests instead of an @gmail account.
Most cases with mild symptoms are not even reported or noticed by those infected so the real number is lower than 1 percent in all likelihood.
Is this only true for US-based companies? Where I'm from, I rarely see use of subscription services (especially ones that incur per-seat costs). Developers here tend to earn roughly the same number, but in a different currency, which makes all software and services several times more expensive. This results in preference of OSS alternatives and free tiers whenever possible. We use Discord for communication, Gitlab for source control, vscode for writing code, and... honestly, what else do you even need to run a software company anyway?

At my last startup, the total monthly subscription cost was the $1 Bitwarden tier (granted, we were tiny). And yes, a Ryzen system bolted to a $10 lackrack was entirely sufficient for our hosting needs.
> Consensus isn't science, it's politics,

What?
yeah, and you wait and wait for the movie you want to come up, and if you miss the time you have to wait through the whole spiel again. Ugh.
Because atomic reference counting (needed for multi-threaded runtime) is well known to have terrible performance.
Does it make sense to have a badge on each component that shows accessibility is tested on it?
I'm currently looking into digital whiteboarding solutions, Miro & Mural seem to be the tools of choice, but both are so expensive that I'd rather hold my nose and wait for Microsoft to invest in the Web Version of Whiteboard instead of spending another 4000$/yr on a SaaS App that gets used by 5 people 2 times a weeks and 30 people once every quarter...
From the FAQ

Using a Personal License at Work
As licenses are per-user, you're welcome to use your license key on all computers where you are the primary user, including at work.
Did you mean to comment on the other Gates article, 'How to respond to COVID-19'? In that he says candidate vaccines "could be ready for larger-scale trials as early as June", not that they could be mass produced so soon.
Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
> It’s because no matter how smart you folks are as individuals, in the aggregate you are like toddlers.

Love the quote