skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems more of a policy issue than an economic issue. In Europe you'll have healthcare and you will keep getting paid when you're in isolation. Kenia or Peru mit lack the budget to do that for their population, the U.S. does not have that problem.

It's a choice to value the economic value a person brings over their life, heath and wellbeing and I find it really odd to read a comment such as yours.

This doesn't need to hit families and definitely not for generations. It's your national choice, by how you vote and what policies you do and do not accept, that a few weeks out of work means you lose the job, your livelihood and at the top of absurdity also your healthcare. Somehow you've come to consider that as normal but in a country that finds trillions each year to buy overpriced fighter jets or similar things, making the choice to NOT let families go into intergenerational poverty due to a health emergency should really not be that difficult.
I apologize for not being clear enough, and I think I misread your intentions. There are people on HN who believe the government could be abolished tomorrow and replaced with private services, including a private military force, and that this would make everyone more free, since the invisible hand of the market would do the job of protecting the rights of the ordinary people. I mistook you for one of those people.

Governments aren't fundamentally needed per se to create a free market. But rules are needed. And whatever system we have to enforce those rules would resemble a defacto government. How that governments power is distributed, who's interests it represents, and how far it goes in regulating the market may vary.

Without someone enforcing rules to keep monopolies in check, I think those monopolies would become defacto governments. And they wouldn't be democratic. This is what I mean (but did not carefully express) when I said that some government intervention in the markets are needed to prevent the powerful from take advantage of the weak. (And it can go the other way too... governments tilting the scale in favor of existing powerful interests.)
thx!
everything on meetup.com
email me and i can maybe give you a list. (email in HN profile)
Overview of Decentralized Identity Standards
It's a shortcut just like Panama and Suez channel. It changes travel time from around few weeks to few days.

Panama channel allows you to not to go around America.
Suez channel allows you to not to go around Africa.
This shortcut allows you to not to go around Europe.
So let's say you have a raw address with an ampersand that needs to be encoded (the second one) so as not to confuse a URI parser with into thinking there are 3 query string data segments when there are only 2 as the second ampersand is part of a value and not a separator:

http://domain.com/?name=data&tag=c&t

You will need to encode that ampersand so that it is interpreted as something other than syntax:

http://domain.com/?name=data&tag=c%26t

Now the first ampersand is not encoded but the second one is. You are correct that ampersands are also syntax characters in HTML/XML so if you wanted to place that address in HTML code it would need to be escaped in HTML:

http://domain.com/?name=data&amp;tag=c%26t

That address can now be inserted as the value of an HTML anchor tag as such:

<a href="http://domain.com/?name=data&amp;tag=c%26t">somewhere</a>

The important point to distinguish is that addresses are often used in contexts outside of HTML, even in the browser. For example the address bar at the top of the browser is outside the context of the view port that displays HTML content, and so the appropriate text there is:

http://domain.com/?name=data&tag=c%26t

This is so because URI only has one encoding scheme, which is percent encoding.
When I was younger, I used to routinely joke on the internet that "I have three shades: White, off-white and lobster red." I didn't really tan. I mostly went from cadaverous white to badly sunburned.

I've taken a long strange journey of healing and one of the side effects is that I am now capable of tanning. So based on my experience, I will suggest that gut biome may be a factor here. It's less obvious than "female hormones" in a cross-gender transplant, but it more closely fits my experience of changes in skin function and color.

For background info to help you understand the context:

I have a form of cystic fibrosis, not diagnosed until my mid thirties. My maiden name is Irish in origin and discussion on CF lists years ago suggested that people with CF are "typically" very pale skinned with blonde hair. Irish families are the most likely to have more than one member with a diagnosis of CF and Irish people tend to be very pale and often don't tan well.
I am unsure how much I can trust Geeks3D Furmark GPU load generation. I feel like it is probably heavier than actual game usage. So far it is holding up!
It would be nice to have a sample table just to see how it works :-/

Looks great, though!
If this goes well I think it will get easier for YC to scale.
> With Huawei entering the 5G market, all ostensible law enforcement encryption backdoors now become de-facto Chinese communist party backdoors because of the pervasiveness of their equipment, and that nations interception capabilities.

How is this different from those backdoors being CIA/NSA backdoors, when that equipment was made by US vendors?

Nothing fundamentally changed. We should be building protocols that don't require us to trust the underlying network.
Because it's good enough, has nice integrations, and is better than email. Convincing non-technical parts of my team to use a chat application is impossible if it can't go on their phones and is basically one single step to get going. Slack fits that criteria.

That being said, their notification logic. I remember seeing this insane flowchart demonstrating how complicated slack's logic was when determining whether to do a push notification. I wonder why it never occurred to them that one of the primary considerations should be that if you've sent me over 3 notifications in the past 5 minutes, and I haven't checked, please fucking stop.
Works for me on mobile and desktop FF
Extra incentive: A desktop PC with a standing desk is great way to remaining a good posture.
We don’t collect PII, emails, scrap profiles, etc. We are not in a situation in which someone could perform a few joins and know who was reading what, that’s not how we designed it. If anything, we use a lot of financial and CRM data.
"I didn't get to go on vacation so instead I'll..."

I've heard variants of this from so many people at this point that I'm convinced the default human behavior is to consume - not to preserve or save.
No we were not. The host knew we were mad at the state of her house, any review made on our part would trigger her retaliation (as she would assume correctly it wouldn't be positive).
I'm betting this becomes a paint job option. While it looks appealing I also can't help but suspect real world will just fill those crevices up with bug guts pretty quick.
How Google is helping with the coronavirus
No founder would be willing to pitch to the general public. Companies are providing very private information (economics, stats, etc) that should not be made public.
Pretty sure it's a reference to a Simpsons episode where Ralph becomes obssessed with Lisa after she gives him a valentine's card out of pity. He assumes they're dating and keeps harassing her. At one point he shows up at the house and Lisa tells homer to make up some excuse to get him to leave. The parent poster's comment was the excuse.

I kind of hate that I remember that. I haven't watched the Simpsons for who knows how long but that shit's just burned into my brain from how many times I watched it as child.
What are you talking about? They're going to be streamed...
They make it up with the dozens paying $12/month and only using 8gb.
You are wrong, that is one of the worst data sets to use, because of so many unidentified cases.

Again, see the NEJM:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

Or any of the better data sets:

On the Princess Cruise, a naturally controlled study, the death rate was less than 1%, with a cruise full of old people.

Non-Wuhan death rate in China, where more mild cases were identified, ended up being 0.7%.

https://www.livescience.com/is-coronavirus-deadly.html

Goodness, there are so many chicken littles on HN nowadays.
I used the Hipchat web client for a year. It worked perfectly.

I heard from others that the native app didn't.

I had a chance to talk to one of the Hipchat PMs. Atlassian didn't seem too attached to operating it for some reason.
There are more than 4 weeks in a month, should you not divide by 4.33?
A googol-to-one gear ratio [video]
Retail prices might drop for frozen lobsters, as more restaurants can afford to start offering it. There is a switching cost though for fresh (tanks)
>That is until I realized that it was my own dumb fault because I accidentally left my Plaid environment set to development

One of the last things you do before launch is pay money to yourself by running a real payment with real money in production. An automated test for config is nice, but nothing beats actually doing the critical thing yourself before launching to the world.
Interesting, but not really tractable if you have to manually add every single variable to the rules config.
Wuhan’s ‘Fangcang’ Shelter Hospitals
any recommendations for a recent 5G router that can be flashed to OpenWrt? The table of hardware [1] has many routers but many have exceptions that 5G is not working.

Amazon [2] has some micro travel routers only - so what are good options under 100$?

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864?dataflt%5BDe...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=openwrt
Indeed- it was about a year prior.
Coronavirus: What You Can Do to Help Slow an Outbreak
it's probably a SAS/Sata controller, and the sas interface split to 4x sata.
I'm the wrong person to ask. I'm not interested in either ads or gaming.

Two suggestions:

1. Post this as an ASK HN so that you can get feedback from people who are a better fit for this sector

2. Just build the damn thing. How hard can it be? (And if the answer is "really hard", then your deck should explain why, and why you are uniquely qualified to do it.)
James Hamblin, MD on Why You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus
You are mistaken. Firstly asking your employer to close the gap is a great way to get fired. Secondly minimum wage is so low that you cannot possibly live on it. It's in fact so low that not even walmart pays minimum perhaps because the kind of people who would work for it aren't liable to be worth employing.

Federal minimum wage is 7.25 after taxes this is about 250 per week wherein most people in this situation are paid every 2 weeks. That is to say that one cannot expect to have more than 2 paychecks per calendar month for a grand total of $1000. If you didn't need food, clothes, medicine, or anything else this is about enough for rent.

What this means is that the employee/employer relationship not to mention the individuals ability to live indoors and have food is actually predicated on the ability to achieve greater than minimum wage. Tipping out even if they can do so isn't enough to keep anyone afloat. Not tipping in a state that has a tipped minimum wage is not that much different from dining and dashing its just not illegal because its never been illegal to screw someone if they are substantially poorer than you.
Not surprising since most of the important companies pulled out. The attendance would be poor anyway.
Excellent idea, this will be our first milestone after we raise our seed round!
This reads exactly like an Onion headline
XIX (YC W17) Is Hiring Engineers and SDRs in San Francisco
UPDATE: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/sxsw-canc...
Nice! I kinda figured each startup would have to produce their own, kinda like how some talent shows have you produce your own video to audition. So sounds like they won't have to worry about that all.

I've always had an interest in video production but never had the chance to really express that. I think one thing I'd recommend is when demoing maybe create a fresh separate user account, so less distracting when demoing with other programs or a clutter desktop. Also probably makes it look more professional too. I've figured if I ever made something with video tutorials, that'd be a little improvement maybe.
I agree that AWS has economies of scale that makes it hard to build a better/cheaper S3, but one way you can get around this problem is by building to lesser requirements. S3 has to work for all use cases, but if you know you need less of something costly (say, less IOPs) you can build a system that's cheaper than S3 even if the individual components are more expensive than S3 is paying.
There are actually really clear guidelines on what is reportable and what is not. CPS generally can't and won't do anything beyond take a call if the content of the call doesn't suggest a valid safety concern and meet the guidelines. Any parent talking to any service provider (or educator or doctor) will be talking to someone who follows these same guidelines.
Honestly, I'm a bit confused on who the targeted audience is for this article. I've been running as a host for Sia for months now. My rig is a raspberry pi and a 10tb external HDD I had laying around.
Charts for Charity: Pay What You Want with 100% of Proceeds Donated
In an isolated instance, sure. But for those who live on the road, 5 bucks a day (minimum) would add up quickly enough. Those people are usually going to be doing the paperwork for other expenses anyway, so just tag it on.
> Being an American doesn't make it any less prejudiced.

Correct, but it does provide an insider's opinion.

> It's a gross generalization.

It is.

> Even assuming it were true, how is this an exclusive characteristic of America?

It isn't. I've noticed that Chinese companies are even worse.
Hey, we're Supermedium, a YC company exploring building a VR home environment for utility and productivity (which includes focus). If anyone is interested, subscribe to our email list at http://supermedium.com to get updates, we'll be slowly releasing apps and experiments to try.
Current status quo is whatever quick fix is fashionable at the moment, i.e IF, Ketosis, Binge & Purge...
>(People, please don't let beginners start with webdev!)

I actually think Web Development should be what every new hobby programmer should learn. It is the quickest, easiest way to get simple, understandable, showcase-able results.

I kind of miss the good old days of WYSIWYG Dreamweaver and Front-page.
You're using bad data.

Fatality rates in places other than Wuhan (which had many undiagnosed cases due to limited resources in the outbreak) have all been less than 1%.
I wonder if it would be helpful for YC to set up a chat room/discord (twitch?) like environment for non-anonymous founders and investors to hang out during an "online" only demo day?

It won't "completely" capture the face-to-face meeting experience, but perhaps partially?

P.S: And Then. Do it in VR.
What constitutes financial and CRM data, how is it obtained and how is it tied to a user just browsing and running the JavaScript of one of your ads?

(Not looking for any special techniques or trade secrets, just trying to understand where the data comes from and how is it tied to a pseudonymous browser fingerprint so I can make an opinion on whether I think it’s ethical and how can I defend against it.)
Where are you getting that price? Google Drive is 300$+ for that and GCP archive storage is 140$.

Edit: apparently that's the unlimited storage in GSuite for 12$/month/user as long as you have 5 users or more.
A lot of lean protein and vegetables; eggs (3 egg-whites + 1 whole egg is a common combination for me), chicken, fish, broccoli, etc. I wasn't trying for low-carb, but low-carb made it easier to stave off cravings. I was paying attention to calories more than anything else.

I do drink, however, straight liquor. Rarely to excess, but also rarely fewer than 2 drinks (almost always 2-3 drinks an evening).
See, this is the kind of thing I knew would happen, rent seeking from the rest of the economy because the bar has risen and you have to pay, not because you get some economic benefit from paying for ads compared to the baseline prior to Google.

Google has become a bloodsucker on the economy. You and I are the ones paying in higher goods and services costs passed on to us. Worse, the bidding has no natural upper bound.
Increasing redundancy and uptime to the next factor of nines is exponentially* more expensive.
Thank you. I'll do it.
Vomit gas was used against the Bonus Army
We are working on an open-source Knowledge Graph called Cayley (https://cayley.io) including a browsable web interface (https://github.com/cayleygraph/web) and a new query language improving on the work done by Google Knowledge Graph (formerly Freebase) and the W3C's Semantic Web project.
Disagreed. Simply said, not everyone has the chops to do it, not even mentioning luck. If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have a demand/supply graph for software engineers in the US so screwed up, given how much pay one can get and how few credentials are required for it, especially compared to other similarly paying jobs.

Not saying that those situations are perfectly comparable at all, just trying to make a point that "if it was so good and easy, why isn't everyone successfully doing it" isn't really a solid argument for this.
I just checked, and have "LAN TIM 2" and "DiepTrinh" on my list.

The data from "LAN TIM 2" was sent to Facebook on the 5th of March 2020, yesterday that is.

The only stores I've shopped at lately were ALDI and EDEKA, and yesterday I bought a Webhosting offer directly at the hoster's site, no third party involved.

I have never bought a custom shirt.

What I do have is a Motorola G7 Plus, which is filled with uninstallable background services from Facebook. Two days ago I upgraded it to Android 10 and now all those background services, like "Facebook App Manager" or "Facebook Installer", "Facebook Services", all names which truly frighten me, are activated again. I had deactivated them months ago on Android 9 as soon as I got this phone. I really am wondering about the data this phone is pushing to Facebook without my consent.

I really wonder what caused those two entries, I never give any consent to any company to share my data.

God I hate Facebook, they are the cancer of the internet.
You are struggling to articulate why it's not okay for a company to quietly hand all of your purchases over to facebook without ever telling you about it or asking you if that is okay?
I feel like this is the right call, but I'm still a little shocked they actually canceled it.
Intermittent Fasting is an eating disorder. Ketosis (unless you are an epileptic) is an eating disorder.
This is why I drink Irish coffee when I want to solve problems creatively.
Last night my friend and I made the call to cancel our little trip focused on the film portion of the event for two reasons:

1. There is a lot of revelry in SXSW despite it being more of a conference than a festival and it did not seem appropriate to take part in that during a pandemic.

2. While we are both young-ish and healthy, it does not seem appropriate to participate in an event that would unquestionably increase the spread of COVID-19 knowing what it is doing to older folks.

Really, the city should have cancelled it days ago. It took all three major labels pulling out this morning to make this happen.

I believe the most substantial takeaway from the coronavirus so far has been how every government seems to be focused measures that support short term finances i.e. worker productivity and consumption rather than taking swift and far reaching measures to combat this virus.

That said, the next high-profile event I'm watching is Burning Man.
Thanks!

Two of the features we are considering next are templates and a guide/in-app training. Which one do you think would be more valuable to you?

(Also, I can answer any specific questions on the chat if you are logged in)
No city wants to become the center of a health crisis. If they didn't cancel it there was going to be a shitstorm of bad press for the Austin leaders and the city in general.

Millions of dollars will be lost, but the health of millions + the reputation of the city was at stake. That was the right call IMHO.
Reminds me of a saying from the first dot.com crash. (Or at least I heard it then first.)

Tying two bricks together doesn't make them float.
I would love it if you're all correct on this. The problem I face is that I do notice other countries who are a week or two ahead of us really struggling, and taking increasingly drastic measures to try and maintain control. I guess I just don't really understand the argument people are making who are saying we are overreacting.

Are you saying we should do nothing, and just accept some tens of thousands of deaths and overburdened hospitals across all major cities? Or that this isn't really a big deal or contagious, and we should just ignore it?

It seems to me that the prudent and responsible thing is for us all to do our best to lower the secondary infection rate, in order to guard against these outcomes.
South by Southwest Cancelled
basically ACE2 is a regulator that converts between angiotensin II <--> angiotensin 1,7

these have opposite effects , angiotensin II is a vaso-constrictor, thus increases blood pressure.

angoitensin 1,7 is a vaso-dialator, thus decreases blood pressure. so there is an equilibrium state of the two established by ACE2. this is something that ACE inhibitors or ARB blockers dont directly influence.
The flu also did not face the same interventions as covid. No one has been isolated because of the flu, so it has reached far wider. What would the death rate look like without the quarantines, preventative testing of contacts and medical interventions?

Also the proportion of people hospitalised is far higher, with 10% or so needing oxygen. You don't get those numbers with the flu...
Anecdotally, I feel like my hands have changed to be slimmer after 3.5 years of estrogen, but I haven't taken any measurements and don't have detailed photos of my hands before/after.
You missed deep fat fried lobster. Yes, it's a thing. And quite frankly for what it is, it's delicious.

http://www.binions.com/dining/binions_steakhouse.php
Er... maybe you're not being clear in what you do, but when I think of "financial data", I think of information that the general public would prefer nobody outside of their bank would have access to. Am I missing something?

I swear I'm not trying to be overly confrontational, but... what you're saying makes me think that you're just a bad guy who uses naive mental gymnastics to rationalize their dystopic contributions to the world. Please prove me wrong. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but... you're not making it easy.
An external ssd via USB-C. Transfer speeds are fine. Get one that is sturdy and it will last her a lifetime. Set up weekly backups to b2 or something.
I worked for a p2p startup 15 years ago. We were exploring ideas and products in this space. We came close to partnering with a company doing distributed cloud storage. Their idea was to allow people to rent storage space in personal computers.

We decided to scrap the plan to do p2p storage, ended up using cloud storage. This p2p storage idea is a tough one. People are not willing to make a few dimes renting out their hard drive or CPU. The economic unit is too small to work. But good luck trying this idea. I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries again in 20 years. :)
>airtable.com

No thanks, not since they tried to slurp my contacts and other personal data when I used Google sign-in. I think they've finally changed their scope, but once bitten twice shy.
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/essays/special-journey-to-o...
The only reason I am not using DDG for everything is because location based search simply suck. I live in Europe but all the search results default to US. I wish I can tell DDG that they can use my rough location for search queries.