skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sales recruiter here. If you want to scale your company, and attract the help of any salesperson worth a damn, you need to go out and get some customers on your own.

Being a founder / CEO is the closest thing to magic in sales. While it's certainly hard moving into a sales role, you will come across as far more credible than any salesperson you'll ever hire.

Hell, your first and third sentences basically sums up your pitch. It's going to be a lot more convincing coming from you, the person who knows the infrastructure and the product than a salesperson.

Good founders tend to be involved in sales for a while. Not to say you will be doing it forever, but if you can't close customers, you'll also struggle to close candidates & investors. Sales is a critical skill that you simply must learn.
I believe they do some sort of local batching of transactions then settle them all at once. You can see this sometimes if you go shopping early in the morning and you're the first person to use a particular EFTPOS terminal for the day, the UI will show a few extra steps in the processing workflow.
You can only charge back within a period of time. Here in New Zealand I think it is usually quite short, I think mine is 60 days. Visitors from overseas may have booked outside of that period.
Why is it important to have absolute accuracy on the 12V pin?
> Comments like yours have no place on HN

What ?

Think about that.
Not quite.

A lottery is ergodic, while a pandemic is not. No one can know the course of a pandemic early on, so the precautionary principle dominates. Also, income/employment is coupled to the market. If the market tanks out, people can lose their jobs, given the downturn a double whammy for "buy and hold"ers.

Personally, I jumped into cash/Treasuries and made some puts/bets on SPY. In the worst case, nothing happens and I'm out a little money. But my job pays me more money every week, so being out a little money isn't such a big deal.
IBM viewed this tech seriously enough to be marketing it to the public in 2006. It wasn't a "Hey, we're making this." ad but more of an, "We're cool because we're working on this, sorta maybe." ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFhBGKU6HA

14 years later, it's still vaporware. There are a lot of fairly tough problems that need to be solved to make it work. Today, Amazon is probably better positioned to sucker/bully retailers into adopting their solution than IBM is. It remains to be seen if they can actually pull off the tech side of things though. IBM is not a company that's easy to laugh at.
A reasonable deal to me sounds like they can do one of three things:

* Procure from someone else

* Procure from me at my price

* Sign an irrevocable deal that at any point I will give them any N95 and P100 masks I have they desire and in exchange they will give me any healthcare I desire at any point. My life is no less valuable than theirs so I think this is fair.
Wait, I don’t understand. Why did you even need the gorilla glue if you weren’t going to to tell time on your Bible-mounted truck nuts?
I guess about a year or so. I have some docs on the wiki re the code-gen features. I’m writing this on my phone atm, so I’ll do a fuller reply to your qs when I’m back in front of my PC

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/wiki/Code-generation
Wonder where you got that information from, since CP/M is older than VMS by like 3 years. Can’t be... wonder where this keeps cropping up.

Besides CPM filesystem wasn’t hierarchical.
Yeah, because the original comment was completely shitty.

- I don't think I'm an asshole, but I might come across as one, so hear me out and I'll hear you out. This context of the OP is not the same.
>> It's an old open source project that isn't really actively developed.

Is it actively used?
This is really cool. Many many years ago, I worked on a project that attempted to provide functionality like this, but with the limitations of browsers (IE 6 was still by far the majority share), libraries and my own talents, it was too ambitious to achieve. It warms my heart to see that vision realized in real products today.
Absolutely not. The difference in waiting times between cashiers and the self checkout lane is minimal (as it obviously should end up). Self checkouts require a reasonable amount of time to go through, even without a queue (when there often is one at the shops near me). Simply walking in and out would be a massive change from self checkout for buying a small number of items.
> One can't rule anything out when you're dealing with intelligence agencies, but in this case, is there a single known instance of the US government ever doing such a thing? Planting child pornography on a defendant's computer? Imagine dealing with the optics from that fallout; not only seeking out and spreading content of children being raped, but also using it to falsely imprison someone. I suspect nearly all CIA agents are far more comfortable with assassinating foreign adversaries than doing that.

Imagine dealing with the optics of the other major illegal activities, such as Operation Mockingbird, or trafficking drugs for Contra, or more recently, trying to smuggle 1300 lbs. of cocaine across the boarder. There are bad people working in the CIA (there are bad people working in most major organizations; it is logically sound to think the power and rule-bending offered by the CIA attract more of these types than other organizations). They had ample access, they have huge collections of child porn in evidence, and they had strong motive. Is it more believable that this guy circumvented their security, wiped his hard drive, but forgot about the life-sentence inducing child porn on his other hard drives? Or that is was planted by people who didn't like him, needed a scapegoat, needed a conviction, and had an easy way to do it.

> Of course it could happen, but such a claim requires evidence, or at least some attempt at refuting the prosecution's claimed evidence, not just "well, you can't trust the CIA, you know".

The US Intelligence Community has had some really massive screwups and straight up illegal operations become exposed over the last couple of decades (weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, COINTELPRO, PRISM, the list goes on...). They have lost the legitimacy required for blind trust in them.
Mutations can reveal how the coronavirus moves–but they’re easy to overinterpret
I know you won't care, least of all because I don't maintain an account here anymore, but I have come to pretty much detest seeing your username in any thread. That's a first, to remember an HN handle for such repeatedly crappy content.

could you at least be less of a jackass and articulate yourself? are you denying (1) current numbers (2) that the existing trends that are being followed so far will stop holding true (3) that old people count as people? Because otherwise I (and likely everyone else) have no damn idea where you're coming from.
> Buying the dip always feels intelligent in a bull market. In a bear market, it's not so wise.

Why not? Assuming you can weather the bear market, the bulls will eventually return, no?
I'll add that I usually have trouble following these, but it was a breeze here. Glad I read it.
~50% increase in performance at 20% reduction in cost / hr.

So ARM on Server all of a sudden went from a FAD to actually delivering cost / performance benefits that no one should ignore them.

Unfortunately that means DO and Linode will have an even harder time to complete.
As is pbs.org, or nasa.gov, or a bunch of other CloudFront websites that are only connected to Amazon because they use AWS.
We used to have that in some of our supermarkets years ago, but they've all disappeared over the years. It's all a mix of self-help checkouts/human checkouts now. Not sure why.
I’m surprised the article discusses extensional equality for functions, then doesn’t mention why languages don’t try to derive it: it’s equivalent to solving the Halting Problem (per Rice’s Theorem).
Coronavirus Epidemics Could Alter the Future of Tech
There's no world in which 15% of Italy is going to be in hospital with nCoV-19. Even in Wuhan, there were a total of some 80,000 cases (an overestimate) out of a population of 11 MILLION in the city alone, and 19 MILLION in the metro area. That's (using the lower bound) 0.7% of which only a 5000 were severe or critical, or 0.045%.

You are continuing to not understand causes.

The cause of the spread stopping in Wuhan was because China put 46 million people on a fairly draconian lockdown. For a month now. Streets are empty, people don't go to work, etc, etc, etc.

Unless and until a large fraction of the world does the same, the rest of the world should expect exponential growth. Not the exponential decline that Wuhan is experiencing. Furthermore if the rest of the world does not, eventually China will be faced with having to choose between the nightmare of permanent economic disruption due to quarantining the rest of the world or the nightmare of mass casualties from letting the disease run wild.

And I guarantee that if your life was implemented by similar public health measures, you'd be screaming bloody murder.
Saying "they don't work" followed with "we need them" is especially blatant. It cancels itself out. After all, no one would need them if they didn't work.

Another recent example was this on CNN and others: "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer "under any circumstances" because of the coronavirus, according to a recent survey."

This spread like... well, a virus. Even after it was debunked[1], CNN didn't remove or correct it[2].

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/about-coro...

2. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1233406525491814400 https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/business/corona-beer-marketin...
> English is generally easier to learn..for most people in the world

Ohoh, this line sparked a thought in my head:

"English is the JavaScript of human languages."

> ..slowly lost it's more difficult native features

That may be true of creole and English spoken as a second language (which, I believe, is more dominant in the world than English spoken by natives). Maybe also true about losing inflections, thank goodness, that surely must have made the language easier.

On the other hand, English as spoken by natives do contain plenty of quirks, exceptions, phrases that don't make sense explicitly (with implicit meaning you have to have learned/memorized)..
Which two would you recommend?
Anyone with the aptitude to pass actuarial exams could be making more elsewhere.
> This person needs to spend less time using childish turns of phrase

It is just one guy's Twitter feed.

> more time understanding the contracts he enters his business into

Sure, he is in no way going to get his money, but I would have expected a refund without reading the fine print. Some Fyre Festival goers got money back, and that event did actually happen (in some sense of the word).

It is surprising that SXSW did not have insurance to cover refunds, but if you never give refunds you probably don't need insurance and get to walk away with some profit.
OPs meeting sounds like one of those fixes where shit really got out of whack because of real or perceived communication issues, so now there's a global interlock and no excuses. It will fizzle eventually.
This experiment has already been run.
18-Year-Old Blind Piano Player, So Talented Scientists Are Studying His Brain
It’s probably a good thing honestly. Better that people panic buy now, when the disease is still rare, than later when it isn’t. There’s only so many toilet rolls that a person needs.
> An Uber for home cleaning was never going to work because it is tough to commoditize inviting someone into your home and both the cleaner and the user have an incentive to cut out the middle man as soon as a solid working relationship is established.

Eh, I've started using Helpling in Singapore (on-demand home cleaning service) that seems to be quite stable/successful.

Of course, I doubt they're Uber-scale profitable, and I don't know how much capital they're burning (if any), but there definitely seems to be business value there.
Upvote for a random Simpson's reference.
How ? Discussion is based on opinion ?
I like HN, but what are you talking about ?
... this was within a url parsing library, if I understood correctly? Either way, urls need to be parsed somehow, and using a regex is a reasonable strategy (urls are a regular language) for implementing a url parsing library.
* Health services in Italy are entirely controlled at the regional level

* The two worst-hit regions (Lombardia and Veneto) are ruled by right-wing coalitions

* Not even the administrations of those regions, who should be politically on the same page, can agree on what to do / what should have been done

* Prato in Toscana, the "unofficial Chinese capital of Italy", has seen no cases whatsoever.

But sure, let's use a worldwide pandemic to throw around some casual racism - like the rest of Europe is doing against "dirty Italians" right now.
If I set aside the 'unknown seller', which is not really unknown: Mid 80's, France: order something with your Minitel (terminal available free of charge) from any of the major mail-order companies, get it delivered in 48 hours.
GermFalcon: How A Potential Coronavirus-Killing Airplane Sterilizer Was Born
I have no comments on (2) & (3), though they sound a bit too speculative. However, (1) does not make sense to me, since due diligence, pretty much by definition, should have included "getting deep into the weeds" (especially for Series A and, even more so, by a prominent VC firm).

BTW, kudos to you for your December 2018 blog post on bootstrapping (the relevant HN discussion does not disappoint either).
There are a few startups pitching a "nuclear power station in a shipping container" idea -- and having heard them and done a bunch of reading about the state of nuclear, it's hard to not come away with a complete and strong belief that:

1) It's a really good idea.

2) Nuclear power, more broadly, is probably our best bet to quickly the tide against climate change.
what tasks would this team assistant do that a team leader/manager is not doing now? I'm a team lead and I consider myself a facilitator/server of my team mostly.
To be fair, the CIA doesn’t need to seek out such content. There is a giant repository of it at FBI headquarters, used to create the hash database that they scan people’s computers with in order to convict them.

This database is decades old.

The government has people clearly capable of torturing actual living children in Guantanamo Bay, so I doubt they will have trouble finding someone capable of planting a picture taken in the 1960s.
And you'll get that sweet degree, which is really what you need to get a decent job in the current market!
Thank you, that’s really kind of you!
I wouldn't call it a psychosis, because in this case people are right. If you look at the numbers [1] it went 10x in 10 days in Italy. Despite the counter measures. Now it's only 7.3k if the efficiency of the counter measures don't increase, it will be 73k in 10 days, 730k in 20 and probably 7M in a month. With 20% requiring hospitalization. Which simply cannot be managed at this scale. (Probably not even at the 730k mark.)

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
I have studied asset allocation (per Bogleheads.org) and understand my comfort zone.

Recessions are inevitable. I hope I'm ready, I feel like I am.
I call it an overreaction precisely because I see no evidence of a really grave pandemic.
I've offered to pay the person who watches my dog directly, and she declines exactly because of the value add of Rover insuring her. Seems a fair model.
If no mainstream programming languages implement equals like math—an obvious and well known example throughout the history of computing—maybe it’s because that’s a bad idea.
A QR code can be displayed as a saved image. The Amazon Go app on Android requires the following permissions:

Identity
find accounts on the device
add or remove accounts

Contacts
find accounts on the device

Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)

Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections

Other
receive data from Internet
view network connections
create accounts and set passwords
full network access
run at startup
use accounts on the device
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping

That's actually not as bad as some other apps, but horribly insecure from my perspective. I avoid all such apps myself, and will do so as long as I can. I'll never know what an app like that is doing, and that is unacceptable on MY phone.
I mean no doubt that life would have sucked in those situations, but there's no investment choice that would have saved you either.

Guaranteed saving, no. But keeping an emergency supply of highly portable wealth in the form of gold worked surprisingly well for most of those historical examples. (The ironic exception being the USA where we confiscated people's gold under Roosevelt.)
> The reason is that gold is itself a useless piece of metal (electronics and jewellery notwithstanding)

Gold being an excellent conductor while being mostly inert, solid at room temperature and highly malleable seems to be a pretty useful set of properties.

> because gold is useless if the country you're in fails!

Not entirely true. You have to look at why gold became one of the earliest mediums for exchange in the first place. I'd list six primary properties:

1. High density

2. Relative scarcity

3. Distinct appearance

4. Solid

5. Inert

6. Malleable

It turns out density is a really important one. Why? Imagine your country stamps gold coins. If you can take a coin of unknown origin and weigh it against a known good coin, you can pretty easily detect a forgery by it having lower weight. Gold isn't the densest element but it pretty much was until modern times. The only one other that was reasonably accessible was platinum, which was pretty valuable in its own right.

Even the apocalypse will have trade and need a medium for exchange.

> The only other use for gold as far as i see

You're not looking far enough. Gold has been used in places where the local currency has become questionable due to, say, inflation, (effective or actual) government confiscation and so on. Even refugees as recent as the Vietnam War would try and escape with gold.

In recent years India tried to invalidate bank notes in circulation with very little notice that set off a bit of a panic. That's not a problem gold has.
Is “cui bono” at odds with a disinterested analysis of the evidence?
No annual Fyre Festival for the rich folks. This is outrageous. Where are they going to feel special instead? Friends? Family? The horror!
>but it's very gratifying that over the last 15 years patent-unencumbered media codecs have won.

Am I the only one who is not reading this sentence correctly. It seems to suggest patent unencumbered codec have won for the past 15 years.

Regardless of that, AVIF is not patent unencumbered, it is just royalty free.
I'll edit them to remove certain language, but I still think the OP of the comment was baiting. And clearly you all lap it up. Good to know/
Is CIA really scared of fallout? This is the same agency that lies to congress, has blown up a plane full civilians (Cubana de Aviación Flight 455) and tortured people that later turned out to be innocent.

Which part of that indicates they respect due process?
Cars kill tens of thousands of people every year, but we don’t call them deadly cars do we?

Cancer is deadly, people with the flu recover just fine in 99.9% of all cases.
When I meet a founder that manages to take equity proportional to the risk they bear I’ll let you know.
China's belt and road initiative
> Fourth, Intel is also not the dominant player in the field now, AMD is.

This is delusional - AMD’s market share is like 15%.
If you think you are being framed, but have no evidence then your best court defense is to talk about what you can prove. Judges do not look kindly on desperate gambits.

Once you are free, it’s much easier to gather evidence.
What's so unhelpful about an honest, informed opinion from someone who is actually directly involved, working in a hospital?

Seemed quite helpful to me. Much more so than the pure speculation I'm hearing from other sources.

I got the impression the poster wanted to get their truth out, not fear monger.
To correct the opening statement: The two hard problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Sure, I’m all for nationalizing the service and making it free & more useful, I’m not arguing for making it paid.
College today is mainly for equipping people with the necessary conceits to sustain bureaucracies. It’s tribal initiation. Competence and excellence come from somewhere else.
Thanks so much! We’re really just getting started. There’s going to be a lot of advances in the next couple months.
And the Gita’s – “You have the right to work; not the fruits of your work.”
Launch HN: A bill pay service and more for individuals and households
It is essentially heavy grease dissolved in kerosene. It makes a good cleaner for bare metal parts because unlike soap or de-greaser, it won't strip all of the existing grease off. But the thin layer of grease left behind also doesn't last long, and then you're back to bare metal.

With that disclaimer, I frequently use it as a chain lubricant for mountain bikes. You have to reapply it basically after every ride, but you're going to want to do that anyway when your chain gets covered in mud and dirt. On road bikes and motorcycles I always use a dry wax lube that lasts much longer but is difficult to clean off.
It seems like these actions taken by governments will ultimately be futile, so the question is: can a vaccine or effective antiviral be developed fast enough to be worth the ~2-4 months of "slow spread" that can be bought in exchange for the economic and social slowdowns a country will sustain by creating massive quarantines like this?

While an authoritarian government may be better suited to positively addressing some very specific problems (such as a pandemic), I do not personally consider the benefits to be worth the costs of infringing on everyone's freedoms. A government built around liberty and individual rights simply cannot enforce a sufficiently useful quarantine here to contain something approximately as infectious as the flu.

Even China, which has severely curbed the spread of the coronavirus at tremendous expense, is still dealing with an exponential decay of new cases, at best. At the current rate (and assuming no incoming infections from abroad), it could take China a full year to go 14 days with no new cases. And if they let up restrictions sooner than that, perhaps they will lose ground to the virus once more. It does not seem sustainable.

Also note that most cases are not being tested and reported. Anecdotally, I have second degree connections who are mildly infected and being responsible (although still probably exposing some people who live near them), but see no point of getting tested because they don't need the hospital and it's just an extra trip out in public. Other seemingly sick people are out and about in the city in which I live, coughing without covering their mouths in busy areas, etc. Perhaps I am just noticing it more, but I suspect the official case numbers are still off by a factor of 10 or more, so considering roughly a million people are likely infected throughout the world, containment is a fantasy at this point.
This doctor is simply trying to warn people of what is to come. Anecdotal evidence is never ideal, but in some situations it’s the best we can have. I don’t see any motive for this doctor to create undue panic or hysteria.
In 2019, the average age of the Italian population was 45.4 years:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/569187/average-age-of-th...
Free breadsticks during a coronavirus outbreak