skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived through it for the past month here in Hong Kong, please do not panic. I've seen what panicking does, and it really doesn't help anyone. A simple rumour triggered a run on toilet paper, we even had a toilet paper heist, and for what, only to realise there is in fact enough toilet paper.

One recommendation I would make, buy a box of face masks and some hand sanitiser, but only buy the minimum amount you need. I found it absolutely ridiculous that some people here bought all the stock, so that they could keep themselves and their family safe for years, obviously that doesn't help prevent the spread if other people don't have access to those goods.

It seems the measures Hong Kong has taken works, with only around 160 cases so far. I was surprised how quickly it spread over in Europe.
It’s not loading for me on my iPhone so I only saw the image from readme: are you using that remote looking gadget to type? And monitor is the iPhone?
It also just doesn't make sense as an objection, because it's not like the bounty rates on reliable clientside RCEs in browsers and mobile devices is capped at $6k, and everyone doing this work knows it.
> Seriously, you consider the Saudis preferable to the Americans?

It does not matter to me if you're the House of Saud or US frackers, if you're pumping oil I want you out of business. My agenda is the end of fossil fuels, and I don't much care how we get there. Saudi Arabia requires $80/barrel to fund their state (Russia is ~$40/barrel), a highly unlikely long term market price for oil even with Saudi Arabia increasing their market share. So, if they can drive US shale (which is heavily leveraged using debt [1]) out of business before they decline, kudos. The planet, nor carbon emissions, care not about geopolitics.

Not buying oil from an authoritarian regime who funds terrorism is also an option if you're not a fan of Saudi Arabia (see: tariffs and embargoes). Why getting off oil is never the first option is always strangely not prioritized. Can't complain they're terrible folks (which they are!) but do nothing to migrate away from depending on them. It's been almost 50 years since the 70s oil embargo, and the US is still pathetically behind (compared to resources available) electrifying transportation. We have only ourselves to blame.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-energy-companies-hav...
It isn't about wanting to torture students. I never learned so much so fast before or since - and there was a lot to learn. I prefer teachers that expect a lot from their students.

It's not fundamentally different from athletics. If you want to be a good athlete, you're going to have to work your tail off. If you want to be an incredible engineer like Kelly Johnson, that ain't going to happen if you party through school. Nor would you have any chance of working with an engineer like him.

So ask yourself - do you want to design rocket engines? or cup holders?

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BTW, as for health, I came out of Caltech a far more confident person than when I entered. I knew what I could do, and was happy about it.
Administration wants hundreds of thousands of fed workers prepared to telework
There should be no shame in having a mental illness, but there are many mental illnesses that I would highly highly advise not disclosing publicly. It isn't a simple matter of discrimination, if you disclose that you have BPD or ASPD or are bipolar people will avoid you and view you negatively with actual reason, these conditions are absolutely devastating.
'Recommend' is pretty tame for the steps that are being taken. It is more like "if you can WFH, absolutely do so." To the extent that people are taking monitors etc. home with them.

source: Googler
The Chinese and EU car markets sell vast numbers of <$20k cars
Much the same in the US. A Toyota bought here is likely to have more US value-add than a Ford or Chevy.
It's buried in the article, but TypeScript support is being worked on by one of the TypeScript team members in collaboration with the Svelte devs - https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/4518

The template language's restrictions compared to JavaScript/JSX-built views are part of Svelte's performance story. It's able to optimize things ahead of time that are impossible with dynamic code because of the constraints. Here's a couple tweets from the author about that -

1 - https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1224414679021301761

2 - https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/948231770725605377

The Svelte template language is quite small, and compositional features like slots and <svelte:component> are powerful. There are currently some unwanted edge-case restrictions as this comment points out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22541100
MIT is within walking distance of the Prudential tower, which has a supermarket at the base.
Some of those DBs solve different use cases than others. I wouldn't use Redis as an embedded DB (unless benchmarking indicated it fit my needs better), as the user of that software benefits most in using it with multi-machine access in mind. Embedded use cases are where RocksDB, LMDB, TokyoDB/KyotoDB, SQLite, etc. come into play.

Keeping the use case in mind (and it's possible evolution) will help pick the best tool for the job.
CNN's coverage of Sanders was 3x as negative as coverage of Biden
I am from AWS. Could we please change the title to say “Bottlerocket from AWS“. Like Firecracker [1] it’s explicitly not AWS branded.

1. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
$60k that he claims is much closer to the ASP than the $35k that Tesla claims.
Looking at the current situation (mishandling of coronavirus, imminent recession and a powerless central bank, field of presidential candidates) one wants to echo Szilard, saying that Biden ought to lose the election, but Trump ought to lose the election, too. It's impossible to predict what will happen in the Fall.
Wow. That's even worse!
A company with an open and communicative culture can be more productive remotely than located in prem. I also believe an on prem company that has a communicative and open culture can be more productive than a remote company.

However, you can’t deny the benefits of going remote if the above is a wash depending on the company.
Doesn’t RMS have an old thinkpad he wears around his neck?
I know what you're thinking . . .
Haha. It's a $100 deposit for a car that'll never sell as they showed it. I wouldn't read too much into that.
For accuracy and transparency (since I can't edit the original): all exams and homework in the CS department are postponed until after Spring Break as of five minutes ago (March 28th).
I wonder why Intel doesn't start to use TSMC 5nm and 3nm for CPUs. They are struggling with their internal R&D for these nodes anyhow.
What would instead happen is that students would go on spring break, quite a number of them traveling of town. Some of them would pick up the virus and then it would spread among the student body over the remainder of the semester. That's a plausible scenario that no university would want. Better to have them go home and stay there.
Hi, yes we feel the problem with SMS and how delivery rate is often not 100%. If I may ask, what do you guys use the SMS for?

I'm not too sure how reliable it is during peak traffic, but I think probably best not to use SMS as a single point of failure. And yes SMS in other countries are more expensive and less reliable.

In our case, the SMS is not used to login users (we use trusted devices). This should reduce the reliance on SMS - only for verifying that the phone number is active. Our cross-app phone number verification also makes it so that if a user already entered SMS otp in just 1 app, they don't need to enter it again in other apps. Additionally, we're looking to integrate WhatsApp to solve this.

About snooping by government officials, I'm not really sure how this applies, but basically since we don't use the SMS OTP for logging in, there is no SMS code to be shared with government officials to allow them to login to someone's account. In our case, the logins would be based off a cryptographic key that is stored in the device's secure storage. As far as I know, this should be pretty safe according to the documentations, that keys cannot be extracted from the hardware.

Let me know if I'm not answering your questions :)
tannerlinsley for president 2020.
Let’s hope. The question is how relevant the 13.5k subsidy is to whether others can compete. The top comment about luxury cars being irrational purchases is probably the best commentary here.
Erlang is probably the closest thing to this, but unfortunately everything it runs also needs to be written in erlang. If erlang could run containers as processes it would take over the world, all of the features from kubernetes has been baked in since the late 90's.
It's pretty nice to see that Reich is literally hammering home that HBD as HBD proponents see it isn't real yet you think it furthers your argument. Three things:

1. That there are population (not race, these are not the same thing and only ever overlap by happenstance) differences in some critical traits for survival is old news. These traits are few and far between and have been the subject of extremely strong selective pressure. They're also subject to evolutionary convergence. For this reason they can't be a good proxy for classifying populations phylogenically, even though they do come up in medicine. Also, because of the very one-dimensional and extreme selective aspect of it, it is highly dubious that very complex traits (let alone undefined traits like "intelligence") could be involved.

2. That you lump up artificial selection for a single purpose and natural selection (which Darwin specifically coined as opposed to the artificial selection we do on animals) shows you have a very limited understanding of how, well, evolutionary genomics works. You can't treat selective breeding the same way you treat natural selection. You need to look up basic concepts before we have a reasonable discussion.

3. You keep thrashing Saini but you haven't addressed the fact that her books have received inputs and feedback from many prominent people in the field. I asusme you're not a specialist so surely your first reflex should be to assume the people she's thanked in the foreword know what they're doing as their daily job.
Yes, assuming Tesla doesn’t successfully lobby to change the law, which I expect them to do.
Reminds me of what happened in Japan.

They closed schools, and now all the kids are playing together in the park.
I don't think you understand. The $20B isn't the cost to make the cars, it's how much they've lost doing it. There's nobody in the world that is losing $20B making ICE vehicles, and even big daddy elon might have trouble convincing investors to blow that money on such a traditional product.
I think it has a balanced chance of being overestimated or underestimated. The psychology side of me recognizes the human tendency to end up in an echo chamber(twitter, HN, etc), but the other side of me wonders if this time is really different.

Only time will tell. The only thing I am certain of is that traditional news and even twitter to a certain extent has lost a lot of credibility in my eyes, long before coronavirus was a thing. One of the few industries that will absolutely win during the next few weeks and months is news, so yeah, they don’t have the best incentives to calm people’s fears.
I'm waiting for news about OneTrust, the company handling GDPR/CCPA cookie management for a ziiilllion sites. I can't imagine they aren't getting in on this action.
Like David said, we currently only help you build a web frontend, but we intend to eventually make it super nice to build a mobile app, desktop client, CLI, etc. All under the redwood umbrella (canopy?).
This is somewhat false advertising. This is not an operating system in the sense of being a new kernel. It looks like it's a set of build tools for building a Linux distribution.
The value, as I see it, in a native app for an ecommerce company lies in personalized push notifications (transactional and marketing). However, encouraging users to download an app solely for that purpose seems like an impossible task.

I'm of the mind that holistic "let the customer decide" approach is best. Have a very solid strategy for a PWA, native app, and your marketing/notification funnel. As long as the opportunity cost of developing and maintaining an app isn't prohibitive....
I don't see a problem with an individual that discloses a mental illness. I do see a problem with a subculture that celebrates mental illness.
A Flowchart for Kids Learning to Code
Sure, with no options. I’d like to hear your response to the $8500 used car comment.
> There really is a sweet spot in most people's disposable income and on-road costs and range anxiety (also a highly irrational place btw) which is just around the corner

I often jump at the opportunity to talk EVs with common folks who aren't car enthusiasts but do own/operate automobiles.

What I've come to appreciate is that range anxiety isn't even the primary anxiety anymore. There's enough EVs out in the wild and just general evidence of their being usable as daily drivers that it seems to be a thing of the past.

What does seem to be a major source of anxiety is battery lifetime and serviceability/cost.

And I think that's a perfectly rational thing. Consider what most people experience with laptops and smartphones when it comes to modern rechargeable battery technology. They swell up, they catch fire, they lose capacity, they're not even standardized on EVs so you're locked into a specific vendor, it might not even be made by the OEM anymore so you're stuck with shoddy reverse-engineered replacements (classic thinkpad owners know this experience all to well). With volatile companies like Tesla you can't even be confident they'll still be around to service the electrics/battery in 5-10 years.

What I wish companies like Tesla would do is define some standard form factors for things like batteries, motors, motor controllers, and charge systems. If they'd just get things to where EVs are very much like oversized electric RC vehicles, where we can buy the vehicles potentially without any battery at all with a competitive market of battery vendors to choose from fulfilling requirements of an open standard, a lot of these sources of anxiety completely vanish.

Imagine a world where you could have a Tesla delivered to your local mechanic without a motor, motor controller, or battery. It's a roller conforming to a set of standards for those components. Then you buy those to your liking from whatever vendors you prefer in the size/capacities/costs you prefer.

I'm pretty confident such a situation would have EV adoption explode everywhere, nobody would be worried about having an unmaintainable rube goldberg machine of proprietary electronics collecting dust on their driveway in 10 years.
Containership Acquired by Hitachi Vantara
Curious, what tech did you use to implement this?
Toyota is the most profitable large car manufacturer on a per-vehicle basis and they make under $3,000 per car. Tesla needs to manufacture a few million more cars and not lose another penny before they recoup that investment.
New cars don't compete with used cars.
A shame the mc88120 never made it to market. It was designed as a 2-3 way superscalar out-of-order processor with a lot of impressive ideas (considering the time).
> Their founder is former Chinese army.

And like 70% of all Silicon Valley big firms have been founded with direct help from In-Q-Tel....
I think this was added later under that paragraph.

> Please note: Any student who is permitted to stay may be required to relocate to another building on campus.
There are shortages in the supply chain; hand sanitizer, masks, and tests for coronavirus in addition to overwhelming hospitals by sick people. If there aren't open beds or staff (ideally who aren't overworked), people who otherwise would get medical attention will die.

If a vaccine wasn't even in the picture flattening the curve would help with these things.
That story and his individual points fall apart upon analysis.

The below is the best current analytical distillation I've seen of where we are:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

The upshot is:

a) there is a huge diff between localities that act aggressively and prepare and those that dont

b) the ones that prepare and act aggressively to reduce exposure see death rates below 1%. This is still 5-10x more deadly than the flu, and is best case

c) the ones that dont see death rates above 5%. This is 50-100x worse than the flu.

In the US Washington and San Fran are failing to act aggressively enough in time.

The article doesnt discuss NYC, where I live, which has similar levels of infections as Washington tho far fewer deaths. The piece explains how the difference in death rate indicates NYC is in a far better position than Washington, and my own analysis is that we may still have time to stop the worst case, but it is really about what happens in the next several days.

Even in worst case, most people will themselves be fine, but everyone knows at least someone immune compromised or elderly or otherwise much more significantly at risk. So everyone's social or familial network will be impacted.

In terms of the future, it seems likely that even in best case, there will be subsequent waves that hit pockets that were missed the first time around. The difference in impact again will be in how overwhelmed the local hospital system will be. In the US this is likely to be highly variable as healthcare, bed availability, etc, is non-uniform.

And, yes, a vaccine in 12-18 months is pretty much the dream scenario. No guarantee we get there.

The dynamics of this are not something most of us have ever experienced.
GitHub is donating up to 60k core-hours per day to Folding(at)Home
It’s impossible to buy a used Tesla for anywhere close to $8500. I find the comparison compelling.
Exactly. And even then, database choice faces some of the same selection criteria. What's better supported, does it have well tested and documented client implementations (or do I have the time to write it myself), what features do I need, what features should I anticipate needing, is the performance good enough for what I plan on doing.
Italy has one of the best healthcare systems in the world. It's more of a policy problem in their case. We will see Germany in the next 1-2 weeks when the severe cases might start developing en masse.
Since CRISPR-Cas9 was discovered one of the leading figures, Jennifer Doudna, has been active in the discussion of the ethical implications, though we’re yet to see many applications of the technology.
Ask HN: Turning a research paper into a startup, but it's written in Matlab
My friend is about to launch a startup based on his bioinformatics Ph.d thesis. The idea is basically to run his model as a web service.

The problem is it's written in Matlab. I don't know much about startup business and I have zero experience in deploying Matlab code to the web so my major concern is the license cost and developers available to hire.

I can come up with three ways after a quick look at Matlab's portfolio:

1. Run Matlab Production Server on AWS as a microservice. But the licensing cost of Matlab Production Server is "contact us". Scary.

2. Use Matlab Compiler to convert it to another language. I worry about runtime dependencies of the compiled output and there might be a hidden pitfall when deploying it.

3. Rewrite it in Python/numpy. We are fine with rewriting it and it might be easier to get developers, but we might run into a reproducibility problem.

Does anyone have a similar path? What is the best practice to deploy a matlab research on the web?

Thank you in advance.
If Safari has a system back button to take me back to the app, it knows enough to include the “originating app” for the profile. Similarly it could create an association between the domain the profile is hosted on and the app. Finally, Apple could indeed change how profile installation works such that profiles need to be signed and associated with either an Enterprise account or a per-app developer account, to make deleting such apps-with-profiles in future more robust. Lastly, like privacy warnings, Apple could say that Certificate Owner has installed a root certificate to monitor all communications and let you opt out. That would be ideal, to deprecate existing methods and even more explicitly support app-based root certificates in their privacy warning flows.
I guess he better lay down, drink plenty of fluids, and have some chicken noodle soup?

This whole story has become so over-the-top it’s almost comical.

Every tech company falling over themselves to see who can have the “stronger response”, because they don’t want to risk the brand damage that would come from media companies singling them out as the company that let one of their people get the sniffles...

This is such blatant sensationalist fear-mongering nonsense from the media companies. It’s unfortunate that we (apparently) still give them so much power.
Outside of google, what other C++ libraries do you think help in writing services in C++. C++ lacks a huge amount of libraries compared to something like java, e.g, I can't even find a half decent http client which handles all the important stuff.
I still think they suck. They should really change their policy on this.
The ID.3 still looks a bit too funky compared to regular VW models, but BMW, Audi, and Mercedes are just launching models that look a lot more like their regular lineup:

https://www.caranddriver.com/bmw/i4
https://www.caranddriver.com/audi/e-tron
https://www.caranddriver.com/mercedes-benz/eqc

And if you want something similar to a Model S, Porsche has got you covered with the Taycan:

https://www.caranddriver.com/porsche/taycan

Traditional carmakers are obviously capable of making electric cars that look like any other of their cars, it's annoying that it took them this long to get on that train...
Show HN: Private Support Club for location-independent free-agents
Excellent example! From the article linked

>A 3M spokesperson told the Star Tribune that the company was "not yet under contract for the volume mentioned" by Pence, but it was preparing to respond to the government's request for a proposal for respirators.

Note the sly language. Not under contract for the volume mentioned. Not sure where you saw they haven't been contacted, but the spin here is clear. This is a negotiation but it is presented with enough ambiguity for people to see what they want to see.

It is patently naive to believe that only the other party is guilty of bending truth.
What is the benefit of delaying until a country reaches Italy’s levels? If Italy’s measurements are considered proper at the current levels of the outbreak, why not be proactive and start earlier?
Hopefully, we'll see articles like the recent articles talking about how closing schools during the 1918 flu saved lives. Specifically, closing schools before there were any identified cases were much more effective than waiting until one was detected.
Voicemails for the U.K.'s Minister of Loneliness
(See also José Delgado: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodriguez_Del...)

Who owns the mental models/processes once we can extract and implant them? (...in light of patents on software.)
They are using tradicional RPM for packaging.

The cargo.toml workspaces relates more to make IMHO.