skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, large sized travel monitors. I am reasonably (unreasonably, really) well versed in this topic although my interest leans towards carry on sized monitors. I started looking almost a decade ago... http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/1080p-travel-monitor... and there are no good solutions still.

The best monitor when looking at physical formats is the Asus PQ22UC. It has a fantastic little folding stand and less than five pounds even with that. Of course, the price immediately kills the party. Wish they released a FHD version of it.

The next best is the AOC E2351f. It's 5.5 lb with a stand that disassembles well. The 21.7" length alone however makes it near impossible to fit it in a reasonable carry on.

The one that is actually carry on friendly is the Sharp LL-S201A. The stand is a problem with that one, I admit. It's 5.1 lbs without stand and stand wise I do not have a great solution. https://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-Folding-Tablet-Stand/ this holds it up for a while and then some parts bend because it's not meant to hold something this heavy. But while it works, no question it's the lightest possible stand :) Or you could use the K&M 19685 to adapt it to tripods and use a travel tripod with removable head. The K&M 19685 is the only affordable VESA-to-tripod adapter I am aware of but it's alas 1.366 lbs and a bit bulky. The VESA stand visible on https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81SC5mDeNdL... has a few problems: it doesn't fold fully flat and it's impossible to buy these days. See rant about useful products being discontinued at https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/evj4o0/why_ar... and https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1201726345383776256

However, since the new Club 3D DP 1.4 MST hub makes both of my PackedPixels work with the ThinkPad 25 I have, I am simply flying with those, makes life easy. I posted the first quick test and a comparison to the venerable W701ds to https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/portable-lcd-monit... and have found a personal item sized bag which easily hosts the PackedPixels and the laptop https://www.reddit.com/r/ManyBaggers/comments/f40dz2/hersche... so for me, for now, this problem is solved.
"X Windows"
Let's say I'm a casual gamers, without a console or a gaming PC and I briefly heard of Stadia. I imagine this is their target audience.

I went to stadia.google.com and there's no catalog with the available games on the platform. There's nothing that show me, with trailers, videos, what's on there and why I should buy this. Remember, I am a casual gamers, so I don't know much about what is out there in terms of games.

What I see is some images of games that tells me nothing, a link to buy the service and links to both App stores. That's it.

Basically, this is Google assuming, once again, that because they're Google, that people would be tripping over themselves to sign up for this. Total lack of empathy.

I ended up closing the tab.
Reactive Adventures in Angular: Introducing Angular Effects
What is the functional difference between a melt up and recovering? Don't they both imply an increase in asset prices with different reasonings? What would indicate one versus the other?
It sounds like your tastes are an outlier, and didn't present a good ROI
I agree with this, but only for their consumer products. I gave up on the Google Home and went back to Alexa. It was like they just don’t try to use their own products themselves, and once they tick the box of releasing, improvements seem to be nonexistent.

Admittedly, most of my issues were because I have a GSuite account, but when it can’t read my own calendar or set a reminder, you realise they just don’t care. Alexa can read my GSuite calendar just fine.

I always approach Google products with caution.
I use geli for full disk encryption on FreeBSD.. If you do not load the kernel model "aesni" it is intolerably slow.
I can eat like a King every day, and do less physical labor as well. Celebration foods have become everyday foods, especially in the United States.

> "You'll need a LOT of data to support the general hypothesis that humans who eat 20% more of any food will get fat,"

But that's just the thing, theoretically I could choose to eat any number of healthy things, but guess what I think about when I get hungry?
Ask HN: Which Stocks to Buy?
Which stocks do you recommend to buy during the corona virus outbreak?
I imagine it's just to assure the consumer that "this is likely that very product you saw cut the skin off a grape in that infomercial that impressed you."
I have two of them and I hate it.
I hate having to use a chrome browser to stream online streams. Vivaldis last version just crashes on fullscreen tab cast. Installed Chromium, it wouldn't find any of the Chromecasts. VLC finally supports it but sometimes it's not working or you can't hit pause and resume. It'll just stop and you have to start from zero. Also it's doing things online I have no control over.

I'd be so happy to have an easy open source solution. I'm ready to spend some money on it too.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Suburban

Megastore

Water: larger quantities starting to sell out

Food: increased purchasing but most SKUs still have stock

Sanitary: weirdly low but not sold out
I just measured, and it is 34" from my eyes to the screen. My old monitors were a few inches closer.
Theoretically. Unfortunately, the device trust settings are not reliably remembered. My phone regularly asks me if I want to trust my computer despite the fact that I haven't made any changes to it. So it might be an indication that something is fishy, or (much more likely) it might just be that a trust setting has expired. Also, no device fingerprint is displayed along with the query, so there's no way to know which device the phone is actually asking you to approve.
Yeah. Fed was able to intervene in 2008 because it was a financial crisis. This is a physical event that will affect the real economy. You can print all the money in the world, it won't make people go to the restaurant or buy a car.
People are panic shopping. I think even though the president is downplaying it, seeing how fast it spread in China and Italy, people are preparing for it to be really bad here.
Bad engineering shouldn't be related to use of the general English word, nor should it be used as justification over ownership of such a word. I admit I am unfamiliar with this specific case, but if he claimed he was an "engineer as certified by X" I'd be more sympathetic to X claiming he's lying.
Do you have any facts to back that up? Leadership issues aside, the US is clearly the country that is best equipped to deal with a pandemic (see https://www.ghsindex.org/).
> "collective wisdom“ would make it more difficult to sell snake oil to unwary consumer, but now I think the opposite is true.

Check out the Fyre Festival documentaries
> before 9/11

At Aph where I worked in the 1970's, the airport people freaked out over my colleagues carrying a briefcase filled with electronic circuitry on the plane.

Aph made the prototypes for Mattel's handheld LED games. The prototype was a custom wirewrapped single board computer about 8*11 inches, with power supply and a rigged up game keyboard. It was all conveniently mounted in a hard shell briefcase. He'd have to power up the device and play the game to convince them it was harmless.

Playing them in the airport would always draw a crowd. Nobody had seen anything like that before.

I wonder what has happened to those machines. They were pretty cool.
No matter what happens with Stadia and its market, Google simply cannot afford to kill the projects in the next few years. It would be a huge blow to their already tarnished reputation wrt keeping services alive. They need to prove to the world that they can long-term commit to major challenges even if they are suffering in the short-term.
So is everything.
I don't know what qualifies as "huge", but around $300B worth of cargo passes through the Port of Los Angeles every year. And other ports are also reporting slowdowns.

It takes about 2 weeks for a cargo ship to reach the USA from China, but it can take 30 days or longer to get a shipment through the entire cargo chain from start to finish, so even if things are recovering on the China side, we're still in for at least a few more weeks of disruption.

And since cargo is stacking up on both sides, it'll probably take months to get everything back on track.
The description explicitly says as much:

> the O.MG Cable is built for covert field-use by Red Teams
Totally agree. But that comes at the expense of profit. Big public companies who claim they are there only to make money for shareholders won’t do that.
> To be honest, as human beings we've evolved over millions of years to be able to handle all of this stuff.

I don't think ever before in human history there have been as many particulates in the air as they are now (except when a volcano erupted, until the ash settled).

Additionally, "handling all this stuff" doesn't come for free: I don't have them on hand, but in the previous HN discussions about pollution there have been several papers linked on the effects of pollution on cognitive ability and health in general.
Android is kind of the same: by default, no data connection is made unless you explicitly change the USB mode from charging to something else.
GTK has a new website
Frito Lay vs some company no one's ever heard of? I'd say the original statement stands :)
Bioremediation? Might depend on the plant.

Turns out for instance that if you plant sunflowers in lead contaminated soil, most of the lead ends up in the stalk. So you can cycle through the rest of the green matter as compost and dispose of the stalks and slowly reduce the lead content of the area. However, the only part of a sunflower that might even remotely work as bio char is the stalk so in that case they would be mutually exclusive. Meanwhile, heavy metals tend to accumulate in leaves of broadleaf plants (which also exacerbates the many problems with tobacco smoke).

These people are working on a different angle. Refining minerals commercially requires that the input have a certain concentration to begin with. So any source below that threshold is unusable. Unless you have a low input way to concentrate them first.

Which is why about every 10 years someone tries to figure out how to get gold out of seawater by using the effluent of some other process as input. From what I understand though the output of desalination equipment is still far too dilute for that. Or maybe the salts screw up the process, I was never clear on that.
Sure, but having a unique solution is not a required property of integer division.

Parallel to your statement:
If both 1 * 0 = 0 and 2 * 0 = 0, then 0 / 0 has two solutions.
The full title was too long and did not convey the relevance of the article to HN. From my reading, I understand that Scottish Power is still using the IT system mentioned in the quote I re-purposed as a title. According to Gerald Slater, quoted in the article, that IT system is the reason behind its false billing of non-customers:

>> They are calling my good name into question and, at the very least, should change their chaotic systems to ensure my treatment does not happen to anyone else.
DIAL provides discovery, launch and provides a mechanism to establish connectivity between the client app and the app running on the media device. This functionality and a open development platform for apps on the media device are the key functionality required.

There is no need to get anything approved onto a TV. The apps would run on a media device, such as a Raspberry Pi with the appropriate software, connected via HDMI to the TV just as the Chromecast does.
I have no idea how people manage to do work with small screens.
Agreed. I've also appreciated the quote of "Last time I checked the fed can't print a vaccine"
Christmas 2018 was a melt up.

You had a case where the market felt like it was in freefall. People piled into puts and some panicked longs sold their portfolios and sat on cash.

Then, when it was clear the market had stopped falling and was moving up quickly, cash hoarders suddenly piled back into the market in a panicked attempt of buying the dip. Two weeks or so and the market was in an identical place.

People that sold paid taxes on their gains, a huge hit to any portfolio. Everyone that held was better off.
> If all inputs were handled by the server then everyone would agree on what they see

You can already have that; no need for streaming. For example, original Quake handles all input on the server and movement feels kinda like skating on ice with the latency. You can feel the latency when you shoot; your gun doesn't actually fire until the server acknowledges it. I've played Quake online somewhat recently, and I absolutely hate how it feels. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play like that. There's a damn good reason why newer engines added client side prediction, even if it makes different players' view of the game inconsistent.

Unreal Tournament, up to UT2004, (maybe later -- I'm not familiar enough with newer ones) are similar. I think they added prediction for player's movement at some point, and that alone makes it feel much better, but jump pads (and such) are still unpredicted, shooting still has latency (I can't recall the details; it's possible that your firing animation/sound is instant but actual projectile only appears on your screen once the server acknowledges it).

It's great when you're playing with <20ms ping but it absolutely sucks to have little to no prediction with higher ping. I much prefer unlagged Quake 3 engine games, where hitscan weapons hit what you see on your screen (they're latency compensated on the server). Otoh some people argue for Unreal because everything's synchronized and you don't see the ugly side effects of prediction, like getting shot right after you leap into safety behind a corner.

Notice that interpolation and prediction are two different things! Interpolation actually increases latency; I turn it low or off in Quake 3. The result is that everyone's movement is jerky (they update when the server sends an update; higher packet rate is better). If you enable interpolation, then their location is going to be interpolated between two most recent updates.
Synapses
It wouldn’t make it a synonym with existence, only an aspect of it. If a fertilized egg is not conscious, when precisely does it emerge, and what does that transition entail?
Do they really split a single photon or just absorb one and generate 3 new one?

I assumed that photon is an elementary particle.
The simplest way to resolve that dilemma is to acknowledge that almost nothing we do is "engineering".
Tools can't close a gap of entire cores, much less twice or more of them.
I think they should be planning for a substantial fiscal stimulus. Something like a temporary expansion in medicare, guaranteed free testing, etc. A temporary expansion in funds for paid sick time. Expansion of unemployment benefits.

Or just say fuck it and cut people checks every month for a while.

Plan to have these ready in case they're needed. Health-related ones can probably be activated soon (esp testing).

Chance of any of this happening: 0%.
Evidence is also that the virus just isn't that bad, it's the same order of magnitude as a bad seasonal flu. We definitely didn't know this at the start, so the reaction was justified, but evidence is showing us that this is both (a) likely not a virus we can contain in part because it's just not that bad and (b) that shouldn't really matter to us. Longer term, we'll have a vaccine and it'll be added to the usual seasonal flu vaccine package.

Time to accept it: we're all going to get the coronavirus, and you know what? The vast, vast majority of us are going to be just fine. [1]

So we're clear, the seasonal flu has killed 80,000 people so far this year vs 3,000 from nCov-19.

The transmission rate is a bit higher than H1N1, the fatality rate is a bit higher than H1N1 (0.6% vs 0.45%). Treating this as some sort of ebola pandemic where we're all going to die is a massive overreaction.

From the WHO report almost half of people are asymptomatic.

Death rate for people under 7 is 0%.

Under 40 is 0.2%.

Under 50 is 0.4%.

For older folks or the immunocompromised, it's naturally higher, because they're older and immunocompromised. Data shows the H1N1 flu is 10% fatal to old folks, too.

We've reached peak unsubstantiated fear.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vac...
No they didn't. AirPlay streamed the screen from your idevice, huge difference.
This is true. If one uses this cable to attach to a computer- there is no way to know, but charger is supposed to be dumb device. I wonder if this thing detects that and does not announce itself.
As far as I'm aware, node.js is a wrapper over libuv which is a truly asynchronous socket IO library. It fakes file IO async ops with thread pools because on Linux file IO isn't async at all.
The wooden spike through the heart of screen mirroring is DRM. Publishers were aghast that devices were "sharing" video feeds without having to pay per-viewer licensing fees back to them. Even when using supposedly compatible devices, like a Samsung flagship phone casting to a Samsung smart TV, you have no guarantee that the app won't block the streaming to protect their subscription model.
I wonder if the trend toward remote work is temporary, or if it will continue long-term. The plot in that article shows that the percentage of remote workers employed full time seems to be increasing fairly quickly.

If this is a real trend, my second question then is whether it will have an effect on the current migration away from rural communities toward cities. There are many beautiful places around the world that I think people would prefer to live in if they could work remotely. (Environmentally speaking though, I'm not sure it would be great to have huge numbers of people moving to all of the most beautiful spots on earth).
fear is indeed spreading faster than any disease here.
Yeah, the car-on-demand price was incredibly appealing.
I do know for a fact that front end work is a big need. Solid FE work that takes a11y seriously will provide endless opportunities.

Best of luck!
The Fed also has substantially less wiggle room now. Interest rates are already very low, especially for boom times.
In the context of what was basically "I have been educated as an engineer, which is why you should be giving me more credence than a random person", I feel the use of the word is perfectly fine.
Realizing the damage caused to my neck by wearing heavy headphones over prolonged periods of time at my desk, I'm going to have to pass on this.
I know someone who recently did that with a satellite that they were transporting to the facility that was going to pack it into a rocket to launch it into orbit. They apparently didn't have any problems.
There is still one at Oakridge Mall in San Jose. Probably a bunch more in other malls.

https://www.westfield.com/oakridge/stores/all-stores/as-seen...
Why would anyone believe in a bunch of bureaucrats in the first place is beyond me.

They showed tremendous incompetence in letting the crisis happen (laughable oversight, too low rates).

This whole meme "the FED will bail us out" has to die before it dies naturally of fatal failure. The real economy is the real economy, not a bunch of econ PhDs wondering why the Phillips curve is not working any more. But we all know it'll take a fatal failure to remove it from people's minds.

Seriously, just think about it - you're trusting a bunch of bureaucrats that know no better than to follow what the bond market thinks (https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/countdown-to...). The blind leading the visually impaired.

And yes, as of Friday (last closing) the bond market tells the FED very clearly to cut the fed funds twice, already on the next meeting (Mar 18, 2020). Since Dec 2018 when Jerome Powell was humiliated by the markets and also somewhat by the President he dares not to do anything else than what the markets tell him to do, so very good chance for 2 cuts.
The % of corporate debt rated BBB has also exploded. It is likely these companies should really be junk, but are kept alive by reluctant/agreeable rating agencies and historically low rates.

"At the same time, the lowest rated part of the investment-grade market has grown particularly quickly. Globally, BBB debt makes up over 50% of the market versus only 17% in 2001."
- https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/invest...
The docs [1] say:

> A newly spawned Erlang process uses 309 words of memory in the non-SMP emulator without HiPE support. (SMP support and HiPE support both add to this size.)

And a word is the native register size, so 4 or 8 bytes these days, so fairly small, but not 64 bytes small.

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/processes.html
Two corrections:

- Adobe was uninterested in supporting Display PostScript by 1997. The cost was secondary.

- Quartz / Core Graphics is based on the PDF rendering model, which is derived from PostScript. You use C graphics routines to draw; there is no programming language.
Basic primer on spontaneous parametric down-conversion: it's an optical phenomenon where a photon of a given frequency (energy) is split into two entangled photons whose frequencies add up to the original photon. The resulting frequencies differ so you can separate the photons spatially by refracting them. Has long been a workhorse for experiments requiring a pair of entangled particles (Bell tests and such). You can buy SPDC crystals online for about $500 these days[0].

I guess they managed to SPDC a photon into three photons instead of two.

[0] https://www.newlightphotonics.com/SPDC-Components/405nm-Pump...
I mean, I wish that were true. But Apple does a lot of selective enforcement and the app store is full of editorial decisions. I agree with the editorial decision here, and disagree with the HKmap.live editorial decision.
Well it’s rust and actix so ya no big surprise. But take a look at es4x. It actually blows away Nodejs and many other compiled languages/web frameworks. And it’s in JS! They are in the most recent benchmark of TechEmpower.
Here’s a bit of a different answer: implement a company-wide wiki (if your company is medium-to-small sized).

I am in the process of implementing Wiki.js for my team, to a lot of excitement.

Institutional knowledge comes not just from managers, executives, and team leads, but also from those “in the trenches.” The finer details of operation can be lost the higher up on the org chart you go, and that’s where a well-organized and liberally maintained wiki (or other team knowledge base software) becomes invaluable.
> (Environmentally speaking though, I'm not sure it would be great to have huge numbers of people moving to all of the most beautiful spots on earth).

Nailed it. People often move to rural areas because they love nature, but ironically this is actually a terrible thing for nature.

Not saying everyone has to live in skyscrapers, but denser urban living is definitely better for the environment, most of the time, due to both energy efficiency and reduced need for land.
Facebook OAuth Framework Vulnerability
Does anyone have recommendations for writing Arduino code without the Processing-based Arduino IDE? I'm sure there must be a not-too-difficult makefile-based compile/upload configuration, but I'm not aware of any (nor do I trust myself to write one from scratch).

At this point, the Arduino IDE is my least favorite part of the whole ecosystem.
None of this is going to be resolved this week or month.

THe next big thing to watch out for is the virus spread in the USA.

Now, unless something changes, I am not overly hopeful in containment for the USA. The rumours of poor/non standard testing, and the limited access to healthcare is going to make one hell of a mess.

Could a US person explain who pays for the test/on going healthcare if an uninsured person rocks up to the ER with relevant history and flu like symptoms?

Does the government step in to fund care? or is it left to the hospital to foot the bill?