skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in the research phase for an idea using algae/other plants that sequester CO2 rapidly and continue to have questions, which lead to more questions. Thankfully there is a ton of research that has been done, which makes diving into the topic easy. But having someone to work with that has a PhD/postdoc in this area could help build the idea faster.

How can I meet someone with a PhD/postdoc in a specific field? Should I just browse ASU for PhD students or look at specific universities and areas.
nginx couldn't solve the "execute expensive query" though right, only limit max size. I guess you could do a request timeout + blacklist, but that would also be hard to do right, since at heavy load some proper clients might get blacklisted.
Google provides search results via an API?
Yes people are "greedy" who trade stocks. GTFO of here with that hype shit.
> When skill level differs even a little bit, metagame becomes non-deciding factor.

Which lets top tier players troll high level players by going jokingly off-meta. In L4D and L4D2, we would do what's called rushing against top ESL teams as a way of embarrassing people who played in those leagues.
If one of those games is offline, you could disconnect that machine front the internet and start Steam in offline mode.
> We're talking Google here: they have a hard enough time coordinating internally when they're openly trying.

Which is an interesting point here: is Google a drunken master pretending to be an incompetent but way more coordinated than they appear or is Google simply an incompetent company whose left hand never knows what its right hand is doing, but yet has been extremely lucky at pretending to be competent?

(Either way, given such history how can you trust anything about Google if they seem so uncoordinated and prone to so many "oops"?)
“Grammar.” Thanks.
Experience says no. Betteridge's law of headlines says no. I'm going with no.

But, given Conway's law, if you are a giant organization, then it probably meshes well with your organizational hierarchy, and you will use it regardless of whether it makes sense.

It probably does make sense if you are one of the few Big Tech companies working with trillions of transactions, since fault tolerance and scalability are paramount over absolute cost and maintability.

I worked on a "microservice" architecture at a very large firm using AWS Lambda. But it was entirely the wrong approach, and we were explictly forbidden from even implementing it in a textbook fashion. Would call it more of a hydra architecture - a term for this anti-pattern that I just made up - since it had a shared database. This is probably fairly typical.

And even though the organization was very large, it wasn't actually dealing with big data in any real sense, and you probably aren't either. You aren't Google. [1]

Luckily Infrastructure-as-Code is making it less terrible to do this, but it is still silly.

I think what they really wanted was a serverless architecture, but that could've been done as a monolith. With something like AWS Fargate you can have infrastructure-as-code and no server administration, and yet it will be a stateful always-on container.

[1] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
Mythbusters tested storing toothbrushes outside the bathroom and found it doesn't really make a difference.

https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/surpris...
I'd take the other side of that. Fifty bucks?
In Italy it's illegal, you cannot hoard or speculate on basic necessities (as the masks are being considered during the epidemic).

https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2020/02/26/news/coronavir...
If by "pattern" you mean, "complex hierarchical probabilistic predictive models" and by "matching" you mean carefully weighting these models against each other and using them to predict unknown facts and outcomes and to generate well calibrated error bars over their predicted behaviours under different circumstances then, yes.
He tapes over his camera on his laptop because he doesn't trust it. I do too and don't think this is odd behavior. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...
For those who don't want to follow the link, there are no changes to the replication protocol in Couch 3.0, so PouchDB already works.
While not a source for 'assembled', https://oshpark.com/ claims to manufacture just the PCB's in the USA for $5/sq inch in three board units.
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For fundraising time and effort.
The existence of "patient access programs" are symptoms of the problem, not cures for the problem.
examples. examples. examples.

Most documentation has the theory. The best documentation shows examples of the common use cases.

Examples are a more wholistic way of transferring the state of mind of the implementer to the person who will use it.
I thought you could not write parallel anything in Python because of the GIL
> I decide to change the color of "gray-700", since those colors come from a configuration, I only need to change it in my configuration.

This sounds like a boldRedText pattern to me [1]. I get the idea of adding utility classes that inherit the base classes, but altering the definition of the "gray" class to be some other color feels wrong.

[1] http://thecodelesscode.com/case/95
I like the design. I wonder if I would prefer it over Googles design in the long run. My first impression is that I prefer the clean design of Runnaroo. Not sure if I would miss all the stuff that Google throws into it, like images, places etc.
My electric stove is by necessity fireproof, as is my girlfriend's gas stove. If you have a combustible stove (!?) then the sink is a better idea, like you say. Or possibly the bathtub. Or the back yard. This is less of a concern for me because my house is not made from combustible materials.

I have in fact had a raging alcohol fire on top of another gas stove due to spilled fuel (for reasons much more stupid than cooking over a camping stove in my kitchen). Things stored above the stove started to burn (more stupidity). But because my stupidity didn't extend to using something like gasoline or lighter fluid, a cup of water instantly extinguished the blaze. Now I have an ammonium phosphate fire extinguisher in my kitchen. You should too.
For that matter, do you trust the courts not to misuse that access themselves? Or sell government keys for hundreds of millions plus free emigration for their entire family to wherever they want? Because I have a feeling the going rate would be on that order of magnitude.
Who knows. Viruses that become widespread tend to mutate. Most often they mutate to become less deadly - a virus that doesn't kill the host has a better chance of spreading. However the 1918 Spanish flu that was so deadly mutated from a less deadly version in spring to the more deadly version in fall so nothing is guaranteed.

Make your bets... If you think this will get worse get it now and live with lifelong heart problems. If you think this will get better wait as long as you can in hopes you get the less deadly version.

I'm personally holding out for a breakthrough in vaccines that mean I don't get it at all. Time will tell if I'm right. Time will also kill me - the only question is when.
I meant as an investment. I'd see more return than 1:1.
I would expect their market is the group of professionals for whom doing that is simply not worth the time.

When your job is delivering high quality UX and there are always more apps to build in the pipeline, having someone give you a library of useful components works.

I have licenses for probably 4-5 of these, and they've all saved many hours of time, and resulted in avoiding the cost of a dedicated designer.
There should be a sniglet for this situation.
Just until it starts mutating just like the common cold...
I agree with this. Even YouTube tends to have 5 minute summaries.
I agree with you. I support people doing the right thing even for mistaken reasons. That's why I don't normally criticize comments saying that we need to solve the problem in <some arbitrary number of years> even though I believe that "deadline" approach is technically incorrect. I don't look forward to the backlash after these various deadlines pass in the 2030s though.

Fortunately, there is also a longer term trend of battery storage costs and renewable generation costs continuing to fall. It may be short term reactions to wildfires that guide Australian energy investment in the next couple of years, but it will be the technological improvements that keep low-carbon options on top in the next couple of decades.
My vintage 1981 Carver amp still runs all day every day.
Not too farfetched if you read a lot of news and see what is going on in other countries that are affected.
Just a nitpick - CD Project Red is the development studio, while GOG.com (aka CD Projekt Blue) is a separate company, both of which are subsidiaries of CD Project.
Sometimes it is serendipity that makes the biggest breakthrough, though... see for example the Ebola drug now, this same evening, seeming effective against Coronavirus... you as a VC can neither plan for nor invest in any given lab or boutique consultancy worldwide... and the bigger and bigger hammer thrown at hard nuts is just another way, a very expensive one and possibly unsustainable by VC?
VCs don't throw money on small businesses.
The risks of growth models relying on paid marketing
Everything you've written here presents a nightmarish vision of the computing future. Ethical and privacy considerations play a large role in my decision making process on which software I use. I don't want to use Chromium at all, if possible. I use one Electron app, Slack, on account of requiring it for work.

> Native desktop apps are never coming back

I really hope you're wrong. This would be a terrible outcome for so many reasons. I refuse to use Electron apps on my personal laptop on account of the absolutely noticeable degradation of performance and battery life from using these Electron apps. Using vscode literally halved my battery life.
Why? The personal aspect to it is important. He is self promoting his own low quality blog which breaks multiple rules.
Less sensationalist and more informative link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15126 (CVSS Severity Base Score: 3.1 Low)

Eh yeah, you shouldn't use WPA2 as your sole defence against data exfiltration. Nice way to drive traffic to your website though..
This is complete wishful thinking. It is nowhere near contained
Poker is a great example where players can be playing very different "meta" levels. You can play the math ("given my cards, what is the probability I have the best hand on the table?"), play your cash ("are the other players willing to lose the equivalent of a month's income if they are wrong?") or play the other players ("I will let you win a couple low stakes games in order to build your confidence and then clean you out once you start to bet bigger?")
And yet Hank the Cowdog might have a higher return on invested time.
So what if they cost $550 ?

The target audience are companies and professionals who have no qualms dropping $40k on a workstation.
Correct. The newest version of CouchBase mobile no longer supports CouchDB as a replication target. It can still be accomplish with the CouchBase Sync Gateway, but get complicated quickly.
Remdesivir is the drug that is mentioned in the OP, but I am specifically talking about emtricitabine/tenofovir and tenofovir alafenamide, the only two drugs in the US approved for prevention of HIV tranmission, both of which are manufactured by Gilead and cost $2k for a 30-day supply.
Ex-Microsoft engineer nabbed in Bitcoin embezzlement scheme
The Guardian has it on it's UK Politics main page. That's not really buried.
I bought this the second the email hit my inbox. Overpriced is super subjective. I will bet that this launch does incredibly well.
A popular model is for the clients to run the queries locally, the server doesnt need to expose any query endpoints, only the ones necessary for replication.
Most of that's going is overreacting people hoarding supplies.
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The tunnel had electric lights? So.. lost in the sense that within the last seventy years somebody forgot, not lost for 170 years.
Wow, this title sure got changed to something far more inflamatory than it was an hour ago, when it was something closer to "reddit picks your stock". Nice one, bloomberg.

Oh wait, Bloomberg's trying to run for president?

Owning one of the authoritative news outlets feels like maybe that's an illegal conflict of interest, there, then.
Sorry, but the tape on your fingers is a bad idea. The adhesive from tape attracts germs, and far more than just having bare skin.

Wear gloves instead, to avoid touching your face.
The Pope's Astronomer [video]
Simulation of the first image of an Earth-like planet
"so you just need to come up with the right technology"

That line is not OK. If somebody wants something and you say you are not able to do it then it should be on them to prove you wrong.

Reminds me of work BS. You say “it can’t be done in the timeframe”. VP response: “you are just not working hard enough”. It’s a nice way to manipulate the conversation.

Technologists definitely should get better at messaging and arguing with bad faith actors.
I think at least some engineers genuinely believe they're doing what's best for the users and that it just so happens to also be either the best for their personal bottom line or the easiest route to go with their product.
Indeed, the marxist argument is that the productivity gains of the industrial revolution would allow unprecedented human freedom, if not for their capture by the small class of people who own the means of production. The labor movement has played an enormous role in ensuring the working class gets a fairer share, via the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, etc.

We may see another example of this if Andrew Yang and other folks bullish on automation are correct. The few people who own the AI systems that replace truck drivers will get fabulously wealthy, while the large mass of workers will get nothing.

In the past ~50 years in the US, labor has been on the back foot, and productivity gains have gone almost exclusively to the wealthy, rather than the working class.
> Guinea Equatorial Airlines, the country's oldest business corporation, founded in 1996.

The number looks more like 1962 to me (maybe they changed it).

The actual youngest seems to be South Sudan's Ivory Bank, which was only founded in 1994. This is easily explained by the country being relatively new.
As a regular of WSB, this article is just absolutely absurd. Which I guess is the regular for Bloomberg these days (seemingly the Buzzfeed of business news it appears). All you'll find on WSB is a bunch of homophobic bored desk workers. The idea that subreddit of only a few thousand guys (mostly) with an extra $500 to blow on meme stocks can move a stock in _any_ significant way is laughable.
I wonder what would the effects be of a "control situation" where you stay at home in bed. You are fed there using the same "nutrients", you get the same amount of exercise (none) and may even be induced to less motion by sleeping.

Also think of all the stuff you're exposed to in the ICU -- lots of patients come back from a hospital stay exposed to a number of things like MRSA or worse.
Zinc.

Evidence shows that if taken before exposure it reduces the risk of catching the cold, and if taken during the first 24 hours of symptoms it reduces the length and severity of the cold.

Some evidence suggests it works for the SARS Coronaviruses too (i.e. not just Rhinoviruses)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47794995_Zn_Inhibit...

Beware. Taking Zinc regularly, especially in the high doses necessary for the cold/flu resistance effect, is NOT a good idea. It leads copper deficiency and anemia.
I questioned the policy of paying people differently based on their location (more specifically, some algorithm's idea of the rent in their area) rather than the work they do

Interesting, there was a moment maybe a year and a half ago where I wanted to work for Gitlab, but upon learning precisely this I changed my mind. Not necessarily just that pay was location based, but reading through the Global Compensation page just felt very...I dunno, cold and dispassionate?

There's probably a better way to phrase the sensation, because I'm certain this wasn't their intent, but the right descriptor eludes me presently.
While that's good news - it isn't statistically significant.

You need to do a double-blind test to confirm results.
That actually was an easy one for me :). Enjoyed it a lot.
I will venture a guess that you'd do better pitching people with domain experience, particularly if their fund targets your domain. I have never pitched a hard science startup but I believe it's generally true that people prefer to invest in things they know and understand. It has certainly been true of my fundraising efforts in niche markets.
Thanks! That did help. The info on the page didn't really help much, but it gave me the idea to look inside the package and see what I could find.

I ended up installing a 64bit DOSBox and then finding the original game files in the package to point it at.

Sadly, after the intro, it crashes. But we'll see if I can get it to work!
Since the bug is apparently in FullMAC devices, it would be a firmware fix in most cases (unless someone is running a FullMAC device as SoftMAC for whatever reason).

Also, the boundaries between firmware, hardware and (driver) software are pretty murky as far as Wi-Fi drivers are concerned: I remember reading that many FullMAC devices contain their own firmware in a ROM and have some room in on-chip RAM for patches (but not an entirely new firmware image!). These patches can be uploaded at device initialisation time and are contained in the device driver.

This is similar conceptually to microcode, both in that such updates are not persistent (i.e. have to be applied again after every boot) and optional (compared to a mandatory firmware blob upload, you won't notice if your driver is outdated or simply not installing updates for a known vulnerability).
> They did this so their various teams don’t have to talk to each other.

This is absolutely dreadful. I've unfortunately worked in multiple organisations where teams deconstructed their web-based products into microservices for this very reason.
I was reading this comment while this was on my screen https://youtu.be/XSS_sOLoB68?t=1795
This is what I do with Skyrim, but sometimes I needed to install or update something. It sucks you can't create a family account and transfer/gift games to that account(they can limit to 2 family accounts), the family support they have is very limited , last time I checked a family member can't play one of your games while you want to play something else.
The point Im trying to make is even if we did trust the government and had full faith that they'd never abuse this power, whatever technical mechanism they'd use to 'rightfully' decrypt things would surely be attempted to be misused by people that are explicitly and exclusively bad actors.
How do you maintain momentum at these kinds of time scales?

When I ran engineering at a startup, I tried to structure things such that we deliver something worthwhile at some kind of predictable cadence. It's the best set-up for everyone: the employees feel like they've accomplished someting, the investors feel like there's progress being made. With software this is pretty easy to do (and even so, people often fail to do it).

But with a "hard" startup the gap between concrete deliverables can be years, and while you could put together some intermediate milestones, they'd probably feel contrived. How do you keep people engaged over long timescales like that?
It seems like restaurants/bars make it to a certain age where they become part of the fabric of a city/town. They turn into those places where "you just gotta go once or twice a year" and anytime someone comes in from out of town you take them or tell them to go. If I had to guess it's around 25 years. If my parents took me there when I was a kid, the restaurant makes it on that list. If my grandparents took my parents there, so much the better.
Precisely. Which causes supply shortages, and then you can't buy what you need. The whole point is to be ahead of the crowds.
The mortality rate is likely to increase of health services get overwhelmed.

This happened in China, hopefully current measures can prevent breakout infections.

I worry what will happen if the outbreak reaches densely populated areas in India.
A lot of the craziness is from exactly what bets they are making. The cool thing to do is to buy "Out of the Money" options (where $TSLA might cost $420/share but the options are for $450), sometimes with borrowed money. These options are dirt cheap, so you can buy a ton of them. Usually you lose your whole investment when the options expire, but if the stock jumps over the price of the option you can make a ton of money.
You are just among the first to panic.
That is physical privacy.. it's so someone can't SEE YOU. Not track your online activity.
I've sort of figured out the same thing with kindle books.

That said, 75% off a game you know you'll get around to playing, just not this minute... hmm...
The headlines absolutely do not help. They turn off people like me, who care deeply about sustainability, let alone your average reader. Nor do those promoting complex/high-tech solutions, or ideas like "you do your part if you buy an EV". The simple fact is - a sustainable, CO2 neutral civilization essentially only has the energy available daily from the sun to sustain itself (unless you include nuclear). This is orders of magnitudes less than our current energy usage. Unless you want another stone age, a compromise is necessary.
I suspect the former; that standards applied in various countries differ.

E.g. the oldest "company" in Switzerland is Gasthof Sternen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasthof_Sternen), built around 1230, and affiliated with a monastery. Quite possibly the inn WAS in continuous operation, but I have doubts as to the continuity of the "company" behind it. It appears to have been started by the adjacent monastery, which ceased to be a going concern in 1841.
If CNN and WSJ are any indication, and I'm pretty sure they are, FF's reader mode is easily defeatable by div'ifying everything.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425648
That is naive. Yes the virus has hit some places and we know a little about it, but pandemic means something different. Look what is happening in China, this can happen in any open borders country. Cases keep growing in Europe. If the virus hits more strongly in some country due to higher vulnerability of the population, or if it mutates into something nastier, we can have big disruption of daily life for millions of people, supply chains may get broken, empty shelves, curfew, etc.

WHO tainted its image by being too slow/cautious to react.

The ilness may have great survival rate, but nobody knows what percentage of survivors will have nasty long-term health condition. The virus can smoke your heart, or other organs. It is new, Chinese are falling like flies, that's why alarm is in place.
In case anyone hasn't seen the John Oliver episode on it [1] , it is worth your 5 minutes

1. https://youtu.be/kxatzHnl7Q8?t=16
Next some ex AWS engineer will quit Amazon to make a startup disrupting the supply chain industry with Shuffle Sharded Supply Chains.

Gotta limit that blast radius after all.
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Teeth are fairly near the brain and are part of the skeleton. Except for teeth, bone infections are typically considered to be very, very serious.

Bone marrow is an important part of the immune system. White blood cells and what not originate there.

I feel like if you look at a tooth ache as a skeletal issue, the seriousness of it begins to make more sense.