skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which remains true. The only thing that would work is forced quarantine for all travelers for the hole incubation time so you could be absolutely certain they're not carrying that virus before letting them back into society.

That wasn't going to happen, and anything else doesn't stop the virus from entering in some way.

And even this could potentially be unsafe as the virus could potentially mutate.

Honestly, anything but herd immunity with vaccine isn't going to cut it with an easily spread virus such as this. (Still not a guarantee, just highly likely to work)
It’s constant because it cannot be reassigned - but it is not immutable.
This seems like a terrible move. Even if the prices are extortionate, how can eBay take away people's right to protect themselves?

Surely educating and empowering the general population to take their own measures to prevent the spread is the best thing we can do in this situation.

If this is a matter of supply shortage. Why the heck have the people in charge not covered this?
/methinx most people would be more interested in

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=frontend+for+youtube-dl

For convenience, you know?
Either I’m imagining things or this was posted months ago here.
They mention 8 pcie slots with 48 pcie lanes... I'm presuming they are filling them with sas/sata controllers.
I don’t.

Even if the masks were actually being used properly, people who need masks the most after the sick, are the people we pay the lowest, retail workers, food service, people who come in contact with extreme numbers of people on a daily basis.

Well paid tech employees can work from home, take 2 weeks of sick days and continue to make thousands a week.

These people will come into work even if they’re anything short of dying because they’re more likely to live paycheck to paycheck when we don’t pay them enough, and the free market has decided not to give them sick benefits that we all benefit from.

The free market is actually externalizing the issue to all of at this point. Don’t give workers enough sick days and keep all that profit, but then when the workers end up spreading the virus as a result of their boneheaded policies, the public will suffer, and the government will pay dearly.
On an aircraft that has a mixture of polished and painted surfaces, the painted surfaces often aren't bare aluminum. Often that's the wing root fairings, winglets, nacelles, radar cones, vertical stabilizer, and so on.
I wish my laptop were as clever!
Hey, cool demo and article! You clearly have more experience with DSP than me haha

I was considering using an AnalyserNode since it's implemented natively by the browser and therefore a lot faster than using a FFT implementation in Javascript. My biggest issue with AnalyserNode though is that there's no way to control the window function or overlap amount between windows. While I'm sure you could make a decent spectrogram with an AnalyserNode (as you've done!), I think implementing the FFT yourself lets you do more fine-tuning.

When I get some time I might make Spectro use a Wasm FFT implementation like PulseFFT (https://github.com/AWSM-WASM/PulseFFT) for better performance. At the moment I'm using jsfft (https://github.com/dntj/jsfft) inside a web worker, which definitely isn't as efficient as a native implementation.
This tech seems very cool, but with only 200TB stored I worry that it is destined to not pay for its overheads. No big project can survive on a revenue of $20/month!

When will the project grow some mobile apps like Dropbox or Google drive that you can just put a credit card number into, pay a few bucks and know your data is safe?
In addition to that, behind every beautiful, polished aluminum aircraft is a crew that is washing, cleaning, and polishing it regularly. Polished surfaces are higher maintenance than painted ones, generally speaking, and by quite a bit.

Polished aluminum is not low maintenance by any stretch.
I have seen things
Are there any mainstream databases etc adopting io_uring yet?

I first heard about io_uring here on HN and a rust DB lib called Sled was used as an example.

But when do we get fast MySQL etc?

I recall a paper from 2012 or so that implemented a PoC syscall buffer so a bunch of syscalls could be scheduled and executed sequentially with just one syscall. They claimed 40%+ performance improvements in various programs, including MySQL. This was of course before meltdown and other cache mitigations were a thing.

So programs, including MySQL and Postgres (hey, I know something about various DB storage engines), would benefit massively from scheduled sequential syscalls (easy to adopt, big win) and true async io (io_uring, harder to adopt, even bigger win).
That layer also doesn't shine, something people don't take into account. A local FBO with a fleet of gorgeous airframes polishes them at a minimum of monthly, and they don't fly more than about once a month.

Polished aluminum is labor-intensive to keep looking good. But I'm glad so many still take the time to do so.
Try anywhere in Northern Europe
Looking through the Wayback Machine, it seems like this was a funky styled-email service that allows sending emails with backgrounds, emojis, etc.:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200225122954/http://www.incredi...

Definitely something whose time seems to have passed, and probably legacy for a couple of years judging by the "Windows 7" support badge on the bottom; I'm not quite sure how this is newsworthy, but then again, it's always interesting to see a relic from another age
> 9 out of 10 managers will give you more money. They are not going to offer it to you, normally, because they are not a charity. They want to give you the least amount of money that you will except.

It's not charity to pay people what they are worth, it's a good business strategy. Paying them the least they would accept is a sure way to have a high turnover and frustrated employees. Bad strategy. At least in a workers' market (so in IT for example).

Asking for a rise is awkward, many people have problems doing it, so they postpone it. In IT the expected salary growth is pretty fast, especially early in the career, and it's also the time when junior developers are the least used to negotiation with their bosses. So people are routinely underpaid until they talk with their friends and realize switching companies gives them automatic 10-15% rise and some new learning opportunities.

When you have a job applying for a new job is actually pretty stress-free, and it's a good idea to do this from time to time just to see what technologies are hot and what questions people are asking. Then you get offered 15% more than in your current job and a new project that always seems better than the project you're currently working on :)

So companies that don't give rises without being asked to - will have to deal with a high developer turnover and all the associated costs.
Coronavirus: the second-weirdest solution?
You are doing it wrong. You need to drop to his level in order for harmony to exist. He can't just jump to yours.

Better yet tell him to just stay home and get the job done right.
A nice story. A little reminder that giving engineers ownership of their projects is such an important requirement for success.
> requires its incubatees to relocate (if they're not already there) to the SF Bay Area during said incubation.

Not sure "relocate" is the best word. I've been freelancer for 8 years and one of my client is a YC startup that is and has always been in Paris, France.

See https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/ "We ask the founders of each startup we fund to move to the Bay Area for the duration of their cycle"
and https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#p3 "Of course, after the 3 month program, you can go wherever you want."
Watch SpaceX launch the last of its original Dragon spacecraft tonight
Yes, many people will buy more than they need. But without a forced price ceiling, fewer people will buy even more of them in order to profiteer off an emergency. The former is suboptimal, but still better than the latter.
I don’t think it’s sociopathic to choose having a functioning economy over elderly people getting a severe cold
How can I learn Python?
I am new to programming. I want to start off by learning Python. Could you suggest good books, YouTube video tutorials, websites, guides, online courses or other guides that cover a lot of Python? I can allocate 3-4 hours daily for learning Python.
Because there is no such countries until someone can prove otherwise (which will not happen because they don't exist).

Big capital put this idea inside the heads of many people living in the West and until today they really believe there is countries who are socialist/communist. Neither the GDR nor the UDSSR or China are examples for countries like that and people who know about politics, economy and society know this as a fact.

It is easy for you to criticize all alternatives at once because you have never seen any and chose to believe what the ruling party (=capitalism) makes you believe.
Yeah I've read about this sort of idea as well. I guess it's some sort of auction system where you find the best or most efficient holder of an asset via the scheme you describe. In this world someone could invent a vaccine and offer it up at a price, but if they aren't good at selling it or keeping costs down, someone else could grab the patent from them and do it better.

My main issue with it is risk or noise. It's not clear how we avoid a bunch of over optimistic actors from "winning" the patent based on wrong estimates and then themselves going broke. Sure, if one or two firms get in trouble they can sell the patent, but what stops a succession of overly optimistic people from holding it to the detriment of everyone? The person who bids highest at an auction could well be the person with the most wrong inputs to his model.

Kinda like how there's this one building in my town that several restaurants have tried and failed in, but as a monopoly.

I like the idea for land rights though. Those are not gonna hold back all of society if a bunch of people do badly at it.
You know things like finishing work.

Pair programming is about the relationship first. Code second. Overall system quality last.
For relativistic effects I think you'll need to apply the Lorentz factor [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
No one suspicious there is no footage of her gripping things?

This is amazing, totally amazing, but you are not in a Sci-Fi movie. Her hands are quite limited.

> Today, her handwriting almost matches her original

Here is footage of her writing, but you don't see her initially gripping the pen. Certainly her hand writing will have changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1scH3riEc

I get in India life is tough for many people so the media does all these great glossy stories that border on lies, it seems built into the system, individual facts are not as important as the story. But it's not that simple.
I uaed google the last 3 years on my desktop while I used DDG on my phone, so I have a pretty good feeling about the differences. I started using duckduckgo because I accidentally set the default search engine to it and thought: OK I might as well use that for a while.

The question you ask is hard to answer because the differences depend on the thing you are searching for. My feeling: for searching code stuff google is a tad better, while for everyday stuff duckduckgo seems to display more relevant results.

It is definitly worth trying, just to notice the subtle things google does sometimes.
I had a look into peaks.js - it looks like it supports both server and client-side waveform generation these days. Server-side generation still makes sense in some cases imo - like if you have a very long audio file such as a podcast that you don't want users to download the entirety of just to display a waveform.
Thanks for posting to HN, blown away by how much interest there's been!
AFAIU the client itself didn't work for at least a few years. Mostly since Win 10 became the norm.

They were selling an email client that had "advanced features". Features that include:

- animation as notification. E.g. a batler appears with posh accent saying "You have mail, sir"

- you can send animation and sounds in message. When I used it, it sent embedded flash animations and sounds

- you can customize its looks

- always on top mailbox, if you remember downloaders of yore, their always on top url drop point

There were some more technically interesting features, but its selling point was cosmetics.
Friend of mine working in a hospital reports the same. The staff is stealing masks to sell them online.
Not a surprise. Nobody wants to openly contradict the president
I'm going to guess all those things will be available in 30 years.

Want to make a http://longbets.org/ bet of it?

PS. longbets, please get https.
> to be respectful to the netiquette of this site.

Which is to deeply inhale one’s own farts and declare them delightful.
Cyberdemon from the DOOM soundtrack is another fun track to put through a spectrogram.
Google One Today, 1,5 months ago, ~8 days notice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184937
I am working on a budget, so... But yeah, on the list to be replaced with something non-stock!
I generally use words based on their dictionary definitions as colloquial terms (which is generally implied since I've not identified as an expert). So in this case, I say hysteria as in the definition: "ungovernable emotional excess".

So basically doing things that aren't reasonable as indicated by health experts. This means for everyone:

- Staying home in areas with no contagion

- Cancelling travel to place where there isn't a particularly high risk of contagion as defined by the CDC (basically, everything in grey here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.ht...)

- Hording PPE

For people who smoke, cancelling travel seems silly no matter where they go; they are already exposing themselves to a 33% mortality rate for something they choose to do. The worst place in the world for this virus still has a less than 0.005% probably of death (less than 0.1% of the population in Wuhan have the illness and less than 5% of those that do die). Surely we can agree that someone who smokes and fears the virus is having 'emotional excess' when it comes to risk assessment.

Now, how is mentioning the total number of US deaths from the virus as reported by the CDC a 'non sequitur' in relationship to fearing death from the virus in the US? It seems to me to actually follow quite reasonably.

Also, if your accusation that I'm 'against caution' is to be cohesive and reasonable, it would seem to necessitate me asking people not to engage in precautionary activities that are recommended, so I'd like to know which they are. Surely we can agree that IF I did what you accused me, it would be very irresponsible. And I don't want to be irresponsible.
Do these reviews include stars? Ie would be good to know how the cancellation was handled. There was a recent example in NZ where a host cancelled on a family based on their ethnicity (Covid-19 fear related), would the automatic reviews provide insight into such issues with hosts?
It's not my code btw, only found the post on the internet. Your points about the restrictions of AnalyserNode make sense. A wasm solution is indeed the ideal way to solve it if you want full flexibility.
Price gougers aren't trying to reduce misery; they increase it.
Hard to say but i would gather 10-20% dilution. Later rounds are less so valuation $250-$500MM

SaaS valuations have reached all time highs companies doing $2MM ARR are raising at $100MM+ post
Mask production is not a terrible bottle neck [0] I could have a factory setup within a week with 5 million in capital.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5GV8shCz0
Very strange! Did you get the permission prompt from Firefox after it started spinning? If not you might have denied access to the microphone in all sites which is why the prompt wouldn't come up.
Web-scale stuff, of course! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Jokes aside, I had to do some analytics work at my last job, off data that was on Mongo (arguably with no good reason, other than it being 'web scale'), and it was a major pain.
Thanks for pointing me there! This whole about us thing took me longer to write than the content for the rest of the page, I hate selling myself. Seems I have my work cut out for me over the next couple of days!
I own equipment, have stock, and have staff that could start making masks this afternoon (I normally make decorative covers for custom car interiors).

It probably isn't as fast as other production lines, but I could probably make 2 masks per second, and if I brought in night workers, that works out to a million masks a week. Not much, but profitable if I could sell them at inflated prices, but not at regular prices.

I don't though, because I don't have the contacts to be able to sell them. And anyway, I'm scared of liability if my masks don't work as expected.

That equipment will sit idle if coronavirus spreads to my bit of the world.
also zeit fast for build, netlify build tool overload and over price
India has some very good doctors and hospitals but are generally unviable financially for most of the population. Hypothetically, if the doctors and health staff lost to the West and Middle East over the last 50 years remained, it would have much stronger reputation for great doctors. But that’s again a what-if thing.
I can't access this paywalled content. Is this estimate for US only or for the globe?
I remember this! They made this email client they let you insert tons of GIFs and other smileys into your email. Was pretty cool at the time when outlook express was the only mainstream alternative.
I see you point.

It is possible to significantly reduce resale markets by going after price-gougers though. It doesn't have to be perfect to have the intended effect, and the threat of being busted is usually enough to push it to the edges. This assumes a certain level of law & order though, so in areas with thriving black markets the effect lessens.

Similarly, it's possible to reduce hoarding by putting a limit sold per customer. Not perfect, but helps. Hoarding definitely happens, but only certain goods are really things people realistically hoard.

There's another argument I'm not seeing brought up, but one that is key to the argument. The reason why we tend to have laws and regulations around situations where people are desperate is a moral obligation. These laws and regulations acknowledge the vulnerability of people in these situations - we are not homo economicus when our lives or those of our loved ones are on the line.

In the case of price gouging, it disproportionately affects the poor. I'm seeing a lot of comments coming from a place of privilege, where people see the upside of higher prices (more stock for them) and not the downsides (a person goes to the store to get some and cannot afford them).

I understand the different points being made, however this is hardly the first time this type of thing has happened or been debated.
Someone once said to me that every politician was a class president somewhere. As I think back to every class president I've ever had, it explains pretty much everything I've ever hated about any given politician.
I love Xiaomi Yeelight smart bulbs. They allow LAN usage even in the official app. There is API documentation. It has been a great experience developing solutions using it.
Hah, yah you might have nailed it there
I had never heard that the "assume you're already dead" tactic was used by anyone.

I can vouch that it works, I was born with several heart defects and spent so much time as a child and through my early 20s going in to surgeries and procedures with uncertain outcomes that being "already dead" has been my thing, a kind of "I was born already dead" mental headspace, I still think that way effectively 100% of the time and as a result I'm pretty hard to be derailed by mundane problems, fears and slights that seem to get under the skin of others.

I wonder why they don't continue that mindset when they get home, I wonder if any military psychologists have identified downsides? A few different periods of my life I've gone to therapists and they don't seem to know care about that headspace once they carefully confirmed that I'm neither suicidal or a high risk taking individual.
We’ve already had the Cryptography is Free Speech test, so why is this not the same argument - you can’t tell what a person or company can or can’t say, including how it says something (plaintext or encrypted)
All the things you mention serve actual purposes other than killing.

A gun is designed to kill. Anything else you do with it is just practice to kill more effectively with it.
> It doesn't allow any client logic between op1 and op2 if that's what you meant though?

Yeah that seems to be the trick doesn’t it? Is the next step beyond pipelining A) provide a way to run limited code on the server end or B), reformulate the API so that these situations don’t occur as readily.

Take a classic I/O pattern. Give me 5k of data from X, write all 5k out to Y. Except that’s not what actually happens. It tells you what it wrote and you have to do a conditional branch and arithmetic. I still recall feeling shocked and a little scandalized when I learned that these APIs worked like this. First, why didn’t you just do what I asked, and second, why am I the one held responsible for all of the bookkeeping when you are the one selectively following instructions?

I think one of the features of completion ports was a slightly better, “go do this and don’t bother coming back until you have”.
I don't get the reaction here.

The online service will be shut down but the bulbs will continue to be locally controllable and Philips is releasing a dedicated app to interact with the v1 bridge.

Is it really such a huge deal that you can't access your bulbs over the internet? What's the use-case for this? Are you controlling your lights while you're not home? Do you not have access to the network the bulbs are connected to when you're at home?

I have Hue installed and this just seems like a non-issue to me.
What? I never said anything about bulbs. A Hue Bridge is not a bulb at all. And “dumb” bulbs still exist, you can buy them, most people aren’t really complaining when they don’t last forever, and frankly they’ve got nothing at all to do with my comment or the one I was replying to.
What do you find weird about var?
Bhils in Sindh
There's a distinct possibility that a vaccine will be discovered before too long.
I use DDG as the primary search engine on my own devices and Google at work.

DDG is still worse than Google in the following aspects:

- autocompletion is crap, DDG thinks that "lyrics" is a word that improves every search

- DDG is worse at searching SO/Reddit/GitHub. Just a few days ago I was looking for a solution to an issue with my 3D printer, and DDG missed the most useful Reddit post

- a filter bubble is often a good thing, I don't search for political news, but Google knows I usually search for technical issues, so where DDG is happy to return results about tabletop games, rock formations and corrosion, Google knows I am looking for Go, Nim, Crystal and Rust.
I wanted to make a geared divider for a "micrometric" slide but the slop/room made me wonder if there was a way to know the actual precision.
The website seemed okay and even useful until:

"Both renters and hosts use Siacoin, a unique cryptocurrency built on the Sia blockchain. Renters use Siacoin to buy storage capacity from hosts, while hosts deposit Siacoin into each file contract as collateral."
To be clear: I wasn’t making a political point. Just trying to offer an explanation as to why the numbers differ from those that we’re getting from other sources. The AHA has a history of making contributions to both parties. If my hunch is correct, they were using this deck as a way of stimulating their members to make financial contributions that would then be used to lobby on behalf of their members’ interest. It’s an educated guess, not a political stance.