skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was never faster then squirrelmail. It had cool features search was fast. But loading up your mailbox never as fast as other solutions.
Please stop using engineer when referring to software developers.
How about we settle for some nice hardware tools to inspect the honey, rather than turning the whole world into a 'The Scarlet Letter'/'Snow Crash' horror story, carried on the whims of law-makers and enforcers carrying out whatever might be trendy?

But, on second thought, my forehead might look nice with "LOW IMPULSE CONTROL" branded over it..
I mean, that could be good for the greater economy. Big tech is better off, the wealth coming into distributed workers benefits their areas, and the distributed workers might come out even? Lower cost of living vs lower income. The only people unambiguously hurt are landowners, which is fine by me, given their decades of rent seeking behavior.
Problems with talking to people: (1) can't communicate it properly (2) too few people to hit one who loves it

What worked for me: make an absolutely minimal version of the idea (2 hours), and a webpage that describes its promise (9 hours). 500 people looked at it, one thought it was cool - that was enough for me.
Some feedback: use k as a suffix to express thousands (instead of T)
Baapan – A Node REPL which auto-installs dependencies from NPM as you 'require'
Many people say the same about the traditional Outlook style clients. Maybe it's just a matter of what people are used to and nothing logical?
What's your reasoning on that? I really want to know, since on the face it seems like an absolutely outrageous, borderline random conclusion to draw.
(Please don't write code like this anymore)
I for one have full faith in the United States government to handle the situation competently and expediently.

Facetiousness aside, that doesn't sound like the CDC. "Hide the numbers even from ourselves and hope it goes away" is the antithesis of what a scientist stands for. No way someone at the CDC wants that as official policy.

But you know who has tons of influence over policy, an estranged relation with objective facts, a disdain for experts, values the perception of a good economy over everything, and is worried about re-election this year?

Call me excessively partisan / bringing politics into it / whatever else. The danger here needs to be stated and I don't care what it makes me look like. Trump and his surrogates have already made public statements suggesting Corona virus isn't real, is a hoax, is a ploy by democrats to crash the economy etc. This is a guy who fudges numbers even on trivial things like the size of his inauguration crowd. He already calls all news that makes him look bad "fake". Why wouldn't he give an order to keep the true infectious numbers hidden? Maybe not a direct order to fudge the numbers, but certainly by way of proxy like limiting the amount of testing.
In Argentina a new case just confirmed some hours ago is from a young man coming back from a conference in Boston, MA.
Find better peers.
> Talent outside the bay lags behind

Wow if ever there was a [citation needed] this is it.
Every time i'm reading something like this, i'm wondering where my f-ing Tricorder from Star Trek is. What would it take to get the equivalent of mass spectrometry into a miniaturized clip on module for a smartphone which you could point at anything for a few seconds, and get the results on your app just from the backscatter? I don't care about the means, just the results.

Oh, and not as something exotic but massproduced and cheap, so that everyone can afford it, use it casually on a daily basis and make a wide berth around all the fraud that is always out there even before putting it into the shopping cart.
Microsoft has started to implement more of C99 over the years. I think it was 2015 where they implemented mixed declaration and code. I noticed they put stdint and stdbool finally in 2010 or so.

Still pretty incomplete last I checked but portability is better than it was.
This matters so much. I am a strong advocate for WFH. When I worked an hour and change away from the office, and I went WFH I felt so much better about life. Suddenly, when work ended, I was just off. No commute to frustrate me. I'd walk away from my desk, and start dinner then hit the gym. On lunches I took walks. It was glorious. I did however start to fatigue as time went on. I was wound up at the end of the day while my wife was ready to wind down because some days I just felt like I'd been isolated all day. Even with walks and going to the gym in evenings.

A year or so ago we moved 20 minutes from my office. Some stuff happened with management etc that they wanted people to at least come in a couple days if possible. So I did. Being only 20 minutes away I didn't mind it as much. I had also been migrated to a new team that I really got along with. We lunch together, we shoot the shit if things are chill, I get pulled in on more interesting projects because I'm right there and if I hear someone talking about something I know I'd be helpful on I chime in "Hey, I can help with that" - things I'd have missed out on getting to do if I were at home waiting for someone to send me a Jira ticket or mention it during morning standup. I also have more visibility with our VPs and directors.

Anyway, IMO, WFH is fantastic - especially when you live far away - but some office face time is also great. Good for people, good for careers. I feel incredibly fortunate to have stumbled into a position where I have the option to WFH, but also enjoy 3 or 4 days in the office.
Making high-fidelity audio sound like it came through the phone (2018)
Italy’s Coronavirus Response Is a Warning from the Future
My problem when I WFH is I work too much.

You need an office to go to so work is isolated from home
Ask HN: Does your company care if two (or more) users share a single account?
Venezuelan oil exports have collapsed due to a mix of foreign sanctions, corruption, and government incompetence.
The best I can tell is that you can safely use around 50Mb for local storage.

https://love2dev.com/blog/what-is-the-service-worker-cache-s...
I found this interesting, because I associate education with lack of faith, but that is not the case in the US:

>People without college degrees are also less likely to attend church

So I looked into it:

Moreover, the majority of American adults (71%) identify as Christians. And among Christians, those with higher levels of education appear to be just as religious as those with less schooling, on average. In fact, highly educated Christians are more likely than less-educated Christians to say they are weekly churchgoers.

https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/26/in-america-does-more-edu...
All of the forms of insurance I mentioned are extremely regulated. All of them have adverse selection effects. All of them have good populations and bad. None of them are associated with employment and you’d think someone was crazy for suggesting they should be.
Most likely that was based on a cost benefit analysis involving QALY. Which is logically a reasonable way to figure out how to spend Healthcare dollars. The US system is not.
Atlassian and Microsoft
This is pretty cool, one thing that confused me was using "T" for thousands instead of "k", but I think that may just be a localization thing (I'm used to "T" signifying trillions).

I am curious how something like population distribution over geography would affect a model like this (obviously it would become a lot more complicated).

My understanding is, at least in the U.S., the goal of public health officials is to stagger the COVID-19 infection rate to draw it out over a long period of time. Given that there is no vaccine, the best they can do is prevent it from spreading as quickly. If 100% of 330 million Americans suddenly got sick, if ~16% of them need hospitalization, we'd run out of beds, and if ~6% needed critical respiratory care, it would be a catastrophe (one of my family members who is a medical doctor estimates there are roughly 70,000 ventilators in the country). So by slowing it down they can stagger the rate at which our medical facilities are impacted.
In the context of this post: the kind of quarantine where nobody is allowed to venture far from their homes.

Where goods can't travel from where they are made to where they could be sold, or worse can't be made because nobody is allowed to leave home to go make them.

Where we isolate each country from the others, each state/province/region, each everywhere.

Where commerce is effectively ended due to the inability of people to participate in it.
Look into public choice theory. Some voters even see an advantage in incompetent government, in the sense that they think paralysis will preserve a status quo and this is more productive of stability than well-intentioned change that may ultimately go in the wrong direction. It even kinda works as long as you don't have any external shocks; the US has maintained a very long economic expansion (at least on paper) despite a longish period of divided government that has resulted in relatively little getting done.

Of course when an external shock does hit an incompetent or paralyzed government the results can be catastrophic, as we're seeing now.
Hysteria: emotional excess.

Not sure why you assume "hysteria" on my side. My opinion could be wrong, but that does not make it a hysteria. Isn't the fear of COVID more a hysteria?

As for your bet - it is overly specific - there could be thousands of similar, equally negative outcomes that would not be in Seattle, or a bus company, etc yet could all be triggered the same way.

I would be most worried of people that want to infect others about finding out anonymously that they are infectious.
Ask HN: When can you expect to be sued by a Big-4 for exploiting a loophole?
Hi, I found a weakness on a Big-4 website, whenever I create an account and launch a certain script, I'd earn 50-70$, I can do this a virtually unlimited number of times. I do NOT need to lie or use fake credentials to take advantage of this.
I warned them about it, send them some of my code.
They classed it as a low priority issue, said they were aware of it, that it was "working as intended", and that they didn't plan on fixing it.
So I'm like, ok, maybe they don't realize that I can do this on a large scale, that's free money then, or maybe it's just that they're a multi-billion dollar company after all, why would they care about a measly thousands $ or a few grands of damage.

I think it would be hard for them to get me convicted as I'm only using my real legit credentials, but they could certainly ruin me with legal fees if they ever wanted to sue me.

When do you think I should stop?I did it with a few accounts already, I honestly think I could easily make a few grands per day if I went all in on this, I don't know when I should realistically expect to get in trouble.

I kinda want to use this as a way to live well while working full time on my startup, this is probably a crazy idea, but it could work.
On the other hand they're in the news every fucking month because their products are full of intentional backdoors, unintentional backdoors, other security issues, and bugs.
"Coin flip" would imply half of the people who don't have the disease will test positive. There is no evidence for that. It is a super inept analogy.

The infection is at the lung while the swabs are done to the upper respiratory tract. There will be misses no matter how good the kits are.
For programmers maybe. Rest of the world not so much. Most things can’t be pushed through fiber pipes
The NHS negotiates prices directly with drug companies. Usually this situation happens if a drug company refuses to offer a reasonable price. Yes this sucks for anybody who depends on such a drug, but there is no alternative.
> The only people I've ever heard talk about the static html version are a few HNers. I'd wager 99% of people don't care, don't mind their email client's first load being slow (they just keep it open in a tab anyways), and don't even know about the static html version.

Are you claiming that because people are ignorant of an option that is clearly better for them, the option is redundant? So if people don't care about something, it's not better by definition of that fact?
For reference: Alberta's economy by industry:
https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/GrossDomesticProduct#ty...
For 4 more days to make a full 14 after he met and shook hands with the infectee 10 days ago. He's symptom free but wants to make sure he stays that way.
"At one end of the spectrum is Norway, who decided not to sell resource rights for peanuts... At the other end is the Middle Eastern countries. Monarchs and despots have largely enriched themselves and their families"

Note that while in resource effect they are the opposite, in terms of resource exploitation structure they are close.

Both cases nationalized their oil production - yeah, some ME states had a Western monopoly first, but that was decades ago. For the last 30 years, nearly all ME countries have nationalized their production.

The difference has more to do with governance structures, industrialization (Norway already had industry when oil was discovered) and resource curse.
Alexander Pentland's book, Social Physics, actually had a very empiric approach to measuring the productivity of employees and compared remote and physical workers and there was a significant gap for remote-based work.

The reason is that face-to-face interaction conveys significantly more information between people than any form of remote work ever does. The spontaneous, rich interaction and the resulting creative output of humans gathered in the same place is at least with today's tech, not possible to replicate at a distance.

There's the anecdote about scientists making the most progress while standing at the coffee machine talking to each other on breaks and at least if Pentland's is to be believed the data bears this out.

I think another pretty good example of this is language acquisition. Compare trying to learn a language through internet communication with actually physically locating to a foreign country.
Coffee vending machines already exist but aren't able to handle the volume of a busy coffee shop. Also a good barista is able to control quality much more than any super-automatic machine even if it could keep up with production.
Markets are going to be wild this week
ARMed mac: not again or for real this time?
Those things are database engines. Services can and do get their own instances. What those managed storage teams provide is akin to Amazon RDS, not one big database.
> Nah, I bet language barriers and substantial time zone difference will keep most companies out of that mix. You'd need to change the company a bit more to accommodate that.

I'm speaking from direct experience managing mixed teams of US-based and international remote employees.

Language barrier is not an issue. Most of the top international developers became experts by consuming years of English documentation, tech news, and discussion.

Time zones are the biggest hurdle, but once you get into the flow of an asynchronous routine it's much easier than you expect. In my experience, WFH tech employees like to push workflows toward being asynchronous anyway.
Congrats on the new release, that's some serious new functionality. This seems like a really useful project for cases where you wouldn't want to give a user SSH access into a particular server.

Thank you for releasing it as free software, I will be following this project for later use!
All of which makes the idea of some sort of JSON-driven API very, very attractive.
What is there to fear of a price war?
How about just using bootstrap? Or is there some inherently difficult UI component that you need to get just right (without a UI toolkit) for the MVP to be _good enough_ for proving the market?
> nice not to hear the awful (to me) mid-Atlantic accent

Why would a native Hungarian who moved to the US in his mid 20s use an affected prestige accent from the US Northeast?
Very much agree. This is something you learn after a hospital visit or two, and it makes no sense.

Doubly so since, as a patient undergoing examination/treatment, you have zero chance of sussing out who is who, what organization they work for, how their billing works, etc.

All you know is someone came into the room to run a test or otherwise interact with you. It's not like you can interrogate them and then refuse their services -- among other things, they don't even know how their financial org is going to bill you.
> Hell, I still write the HTML and push it to Github where Github Pages and Cloudflare put it up on the Web for me. I've never seen any reason to use Markup when I can just Mark my text Up in HTML pretty simply.

This sounds like you're making everything more difficult for yourself with little to no gain whatsoever.

With Markup or Markdown, you're still writing that HTML, but you're writing it once and then using automation and data structures to abstract it away. After that's implemented, and it's already been done for you (Hugo, MkDocs, ...), you're just writing the actual content and using simple syntax to format it. Everything else is then handled for you.

I wrote this recently: https://www.thecloud.coach/terraform/understanding-state/

If I had to write that from first principles, as you're doing above, I simply wouldn't have.
Not sure. Engineering skills are not linear (this is what allows for 10x engineer).

So the value that you get from an expensive engineer can be many number of times the saving. Of course, if a manager under employs an expensive engineer than yes.

Moreover, as engineering tools become better, the better engineer become much more productive, thus magnifying his advantage.
Simple: every machine has already installed the gateway to your program: a web browser. No need to deal with issues like antivirus going bonkers, weird MSVCRT versions installed leading to support requests, you save a ton of money when you need to support OS X or god forbid Linux, and last but not least, an SaaS business model has recurring revenues while it doesn't have to deal with rampant piracy at the same time.
It would make sense if everybody were insured. However they really would want everyone to get tested, not just their customers, for the reason you cited. If anything, they should be incentivized to make their own foundation to give it away, like Bill Gates is. Car insurance companies have pooled together to form the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for crash tests. So such things can come about.
His painting, The Limit of Reason, is my favorite, and always makes me think of our attempts to develop AI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_Reason_(Paul_Klee)
The CDC screwed up the tests all by themselves, even the final primers they are using are questionable. Combined with the FDA blocking local labs from testing based on bad regulations, the government screwed up the initial response just fine without any help from Trump.

Trump says anyone who wants to be tested can get tested and the CDC says they just shipped a couple million test kits around the country.

As usual, don’t blame as malice what can be adequately described as incompetence.
Most people know Google’s webapps are slow, they just don’t know how to do anything about it. Or they notice it as worse battery life and fans running constantly and think there’s something wrong with their laptop because they don’t realize a web app can cause that, or even know what a webapp is.
Any of the very clealy labelled bits about religion.
The big middle east producers have cash costs around $10/bbl. They are definitely making money. Whether or not they are making enough to cover the budget necessary to keep their populace complacent is another matter.
zstd is _way_ faster at decompressing though, even from --ultra: some 13x faster in the case of Arch Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard
I have no idea what your site is about. Its just random links with no explanation about what they are or for.
Oil futures down by 31% in biggest drop since Gulf War
yes ;)

High enough oil prices and people invest in alternatives
But oil and its products are used in the production of many renewable infrastructure too ... so there's a point of diminishing returns.

And at this point the issues of long distance transportation and large scale production are hurting both ends.
I'm not sure about prediction efforts, but here's a map: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

BTW, I'm really thankful to those who put this together.
You know, like the coronavirus, I don't think anyone knows exactly how this will play out. It's good to err on the side of caution, but folks should avoid predicting and speculating about things right now. Better would be to just wash your hands, practice social distancing, hope for the best, and encourage others to do the same. Making statements like this aren't helpful and just upset people, especially those who can't work from home.

And there are a lot of people who our economy needs to show up to work. So let's all try to support them right now by not talking about things like this, OK?
That might be true about the accuracy of the other tests, but it's not the reason the CDC created their own. The reason, as I understand it, is simply that there was no WHO test when they started and there never would be unless some country got up off their ass and made one. As it happens Germany got their test finished first and the WHO used that, but the CDC were already well down the path of preparing and qualifying their own test for US use by that point and switching to the WHO one would mean abandoning that work and starting again.
Both the first book and the start of the second series are among the very funniest things I have ever encountered. They have a density of invention that is truly joyous to follow.
> Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project

What I also found odd in that section was that the poster apparently started a product strategy discussion with his coworker over Twitter.

It's an open source project, sure, but that doesn't strike me as a healthy approach.
10-year Treasury yield plunges below 0.5%
I suspect there's also resistance at the corporate level. Employee retention is easier when life itself is effectively conditional on employment.

You can save up enough money to pay the bills for a few months, but you effectively can't save up enough money to cover your own health care costs without some sort of insurance.
How I made a 3D game in only 2KB of JavaScript
Getting a PHP OOM error on that page.
> Recovery time from those types of events isn't very quick, espeically if the country is underdeveloped - look at how long it took Puerto Rico from Hurrican Harvey, Joplin from the 2011 tornado, Haiti's 2010 earthquake, etc.

Yet we can still talk about those things happening within narrow slices of our own lifetimes. Contrast that with the Black Death that dealt deep enough damage that some parts of Europe didn't recover for generations. Centuries in some cases.
I think we just all have to agree that plugging a complex, dynamic component into a web site should be done with care and attention to the details.

If you need to offer some dynamic element to your website, such as a form that does validation, then just add a form that does validation with the most minimal of code, bloat and everything else.

Why is this hard?
Nah, they'll just refuse coverage for COVID-19 treatment anyways.</cynic>
Alloy Card: a credit card with an API
Some car dealers advising buyers to default on car loans and buy another one
I don't see why it would. If anything it would create more liquidity since the insured would no longer be grouped by employer but entire regions, states, or even a single massive group for the underwriting insurer.
At least Zaphod was charming at times.
Loads instantly for me on FF desktop and laptop running linux. But i have experienced what youre talking about.

You either have graphics hardware support disabled or youre laptop CPU is not running in perfoance mode and has its govenor set to something like balanced or power saving mode.