skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's a +1 for my list! Thank you for the recommendation. Love the title and fourth already — it seems that Mr Miller gets it in a way that would speak to me. I've seen the same objects multiple times now, they seem close to 'invariants' to me — compassion, attention, gratitude.

In particular this counter-intuitive idea that you should strive not to "do what you love" but rather adamantly to "love what you do". Understanding that relieved me of so, so much emotional burden, like dead weight I was carrying for who-knows-what reasons. It changes people in ways that make others say "maturity" or "wisdom" about it.

If you want to add more books, please feel free!
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Our servers. We don't require to make databases open to the world, but we do ask that our IP is whitelisted. We use lambda functions to run the queries.
I don’t see a time limit on that second point. For how long will companies be expected to act upon vulnerability reports? What’s a reasonable end of life?
Our team ended up creating a Discord voice channel that we can each chime in on as needed. It gives us a "ambient chat" as one of my colleges put it and helps simulate working in the same environment.
TikTok's noodle dance recreated in Python using OpenCv
Ask HN: Are we already fixing the Year 2038 problem or are we procrastinating?
There are interpretations of quantum mechanics that give up on locality, most notably the Pilot Wave Theory[1]. It does work, and it is compatible with relativity.

I think that may be the reason it's not very popular: ok, so we've got these faster-than-light pilot waves, but we can't actually use them to do anything faster than light. They're just there for bookkeeping. (That said, Many Worlds suffers from the same problem, but it's very popular. They're two different ways of slicing up the same equation. You pick whichever one suits you.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory
Vitamin D deficiency in winter, close quarters are factors.
This thread has so much optimism considering what chatroulette is/was/became.
How the Speedtest Server Network Supports Millions of Tests
Systemic issues:

* Creds scattered throughout source code, including DB / AWS creds, "fixed" by removing but still present in git history

* Numerous crypto vulns: nonces / AES-ECB

* What's even the point of blockchain, it just makes everything worse

Selected quotes:

"Trail of Bits was only provided a backend for live testing on the second-to-last scheduled day of the assessment"

"The system is unusually complex, with an order-of-magnitude more custom code than similar mobile voting systems we have assessed."

"Voatz's voting processes are error prone and manual, relying on manual verification of voter identity and long-term storage of this identity on Voatz's premises"

"E2E-V systems allow voters to cast encrypted ballots such that ballot counts are verifiable
to anyone, but individual voters’ preferences are not revealed. ... Voatz is not E2E-V."

"Storing voting data on a blockchain maintains an auditable record to prevent fraud, but this
comes at the expense of both privacy and increased attack surface. Clients do not connect
directly to the blockchain themselves, and are therefore unable to independently verify
that their votes were properly recorded. Anyone with administrative access to the Voatz
backend servers will have enough information to fully reconstruct the entire election,
deanonymize votes, deny votes, alter votes, and invalidate audit trails."
It's been great for me for one major reason: I used to work on a pretty active project, but have since moved on. I don't have time or energy to look at things from that project anymore, but notifications from issues I participated in drown out the things I'm working on now. The new UI lets me bulk unsubscribe from those issues, which has been great.

Of course, being able to just bulk unsubscribe from an entire project and all its issues from the outset would be better.
It wasn't me, it's the computer that did it, that excuse is as old as dirt.

There is that version of the Monty Python "Dead Bishops" skit, where the murderer says "It was me, but society is at fault." Consequently the Church Policeman asks all the other people present: "Excuse me, are you a member of society?" - "Yes." - "Come with me, then."
Even if it doesn't work over the whole visible spectrum, is there any way that this could be used in some way that is sort of like an inverse ink jet printer where half-toning is used with a couple basis wavelengths to simulate the whole color spectrum? Am I basically just describing something similar to an LED screen but in lens form?
Thank you for your suggestions. I did plan to showcase it on ProductHunt and this was just a first stop :-) I did not consider those subreddits so I'll give them a try.
This is very cool. Also, the resulting images remind me of Susan Kare's icons for the original Macintosh – or more specifically, her "Steve Icon": https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor....

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Art imitates life. With coronavirus being the dominate thing on my mind, I found myself wanting to make some art — and also felt drawn to cellular automata.

Here’s something I did this week. It’s a 3D cellular automata made in Metal (Apple’s real-time graphics framework) using a 3D texture and compute shader:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nuxwDpF4O/?igshid=1qqdhzlo6b0h

Maybe I’ll write up a post on it if people are interested in the details.
We're entering the realm of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology here.
Facebook commits $20M to UNF, WHO and CDC to tackle Covid-19
Effects of Social Media on Real-Life Communication
Upcoming Book: Compiling to Assembly from Scratch
Its only been around a few months so hasn't had a chance to significantly mutate- and it hasn't needed to. As such its unlikely you'll get a second time any time soon, however in future years it could mutate.

Here is an article on how they can see the DNA changing in different patients so can track the path of infections.
https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/
I think nobody thinks this particular thing is unfair. It's a move of desperation. It's much more ridiculous than unfair, shows you bad things really are.

The borrow-buyback scheme that has been going on for years now is highly unethical and will probably blow up, though. I'm short on corporate credit for this reason.
What’s overblown? Did you read the actual post?

It literally came down to, and I paraphrase, “and this experience taught me the lasting lesson that software will interact with human beings in a variety of contexts and situations that we may not anticipate. We should be thoughtful, to not hurt people who interact with our software in ways we didn’t bother thinking about”.

That’s not a bad idea.
Interesting tidbit I learned at a Town Meeting (streamed) yesterday. Winter Break in Massachusetts was instituted to halt the rapid spread of flu during the winter months. Kids would take it into school, spread it among themselves and bring it home to adults, who would get hit harder by it.

The winter break put an an incidental isolation in place that slowed the person-to-person spread down.

This is why schools have to close now to control the spread of COVID-19.
Effectively ?!!?
The usual approach is some sort of deferred compensation scheme where the employer promises the trainee a bonus payment if they successfully complete training and then stay on for a couple years afterwards.
That would both put a massive strain on the Social Security trust and not pressure employers at all, since they'd likely be happy to have the most expensive employees retire early.
Redash offer this as a feature[1]. Their product starts at $49 per month for unlimited users with up to three data sources from a wide range[2], not just Postgres.

I think the Google Sheets export is very valuable, it opens up data to non-developer analysts and general business users. But I also can't see how this product is competitive at this price with only this functionality.

[1] https://redash.io/help/user-guide/integrations-and-api/how-t...

[2] https://redash.io/integrations/
It's better than the old system for sure if your code is spread over more than just a handful repositories.
At 0.01%, Italy would expect to see around 6,000 deaths. They're up to 1200 as of today and don't appear to have be nearing an inflection point. We should know soon I guess...
Streaming data storage tools overview
As per this paper - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767. Both increase in temperature and humidity reduces the transmission of COVID-19.

Abstract:
This paper investigates how air temperature and humidity influence the transmission of COVID-19. After estimating the serial interval of COVID-19 from 105 pairs of the virus carrier and the infected, we calculate the daily effective reproductive number, R, for each of all 100 Chinese cities with more than 40 cases. Using the daily R values from January 21 to 23, 2020 as proxies of non-intervened transmission intensity, we find, under a linear regression framework for 100 Chinese cities, high temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19, respectively, even after controlling for population density and GDP per capita of cities. One degree Celsius increase in temperature and one percent increase in relative humidity lower R by 0.0383 and 0.0224, respectively. This result is consistent with the fact that the high temperature and high humidity significantly reduce the transmission of influenza. It indicates that the arrival of summer and rainy season in the northern hemisphere can effectively reduce the transmission of the COVID-19.
FaceTime doesn't necessarily have to support only Apple devices:

Petition: Keep your promise to make FaceTime open source https://www.change.org/p/apple-inc-keep-your-promise-to-make...

Legal battle may be to blame for Apple breaking Steve Jobs’ FaceTime promise https://macdailynews.com/2018/06/07/legal-battle-may-be-to-b...
Bikini+girlz+( Girlz_bikini)+/+Twitter
I suppose, but in this case the author fought for and got a free upgrade - he got to live in a single for the price of a double using his roommate's death as the reasoning.

If the roommate had dropped out it's unlikely the author could have pulled that off since there is less claim to being emotionally unable to accept a roommate that the college has to accommodate.
Well, speaking personally, it's very helpful if the mentee is willing to say things like "I don't understand that, please explain it in a different way." Often I think people just keep quiet, out of shyness or politeness, or not wanting to appear dumb. But the moment you've lost the thread of what's happening, you're both just wasting your time.

A good mentor can pick this up, and is constantly checking to see if the mentee is really understanding, or whether they're just saying "Uh-huh". But it's a two-way process. Sometimes you will genuinely struggle to get something, and that's okay—everybody finds different things easy or difficult. If this is happening, just say "Sorry, I'm having trouble with this. Can you go through it again?" The mentor absolutely won't mind doing this. They're not here to look smart, they're here to help you learn something, and until that's happened, they haven't done their job. [If they do mind, get another mentor.]
Working remotely for almost 4 years here. Whenever I join a call with co-workers to "hang out" there's no work being done. If someone is there I will speak to them or I'll want to hear what they're saying. And if we're just quiet, my work just becomes the same as if I weren't on the call except I can't have Spotify on.

I think there could be a demographic for this tool, but I'd wager not a lot of work will be done while connected to it.
Would love to chat about hiring research analysts. I seem to be in the same position as you. Email is info@koanmail.com.
If we can afford a $1.5 trillion injection into the markets, then we can afford moving the SS retirement age to 60 where the most vulnerable exist.
The Federal Reserve's trillion-dollar injection into the Treasury market yesterday would seem to indicate the direct opposite
Should probably make it free to use to get a faster test on your assumptions. It is a very novel assumption that people will actually use this as intended and return everyday.

I see more revenue opportunity for advertising, partnerships, and affiliate relationships than a flat membership fee.

You can have a premiere membership that has special features like improved vetting and ability to refine matching specifications, after a person ends up liking it, and it’s usage becomes routine. You should give users the opportunity to try, because again, its a novel assumption.

For the free tier, the 728X90 leaderboard above the chat screen would be highly valuable real estate.
So, if you were wondering what to do the next, say, fourteen days...
Generally consumer available. Google UV-C disinfection. Not sure on the light dosing, as the paper has dose limits before you start to damage the filter media.
I might be interested in using this, but I'm seeing the Snowflake connection is in the "Enterprise" package which requires an annual contract and is coming soon. Any idea on timing? Is there a beta?
Social security is based on what you paid in, so the earlier you start withdrawing the lower your monthly check is. You couldn’t allow people to receive the full amount starting at 60 without bankrupting the program.
Vermin Supreme
Forrester Function-as-a-Service Platforms
A few thoughts:

1. This is a really neat idea. I love the creativity.

2. But for $5 you're not giving me a whole lot more than what I can get for myself on Reddit, HN, Social Media. What do I get exactly that I can't get by just asking on social media?

3. Call me wrong, I'm not actually sure how I feel on this. But it kind of slightly maybe smells like profiteering. Do you really need $5 per person? Does the price really need to go up if I don't act fast? (I'm anxious enough, thank you) Maybe make it free and ask for server donations?

4. The two bios on the front page feel so fakey fake fake that it turns me right off the service. Maybe that's just me.

5. I really _do not_ want to discourage you. I really hope this feedback is constructive enough.
nonpaywall version of this anywhere?
That's the "cytokine storm" theory, right? I've heard that but also heard conflicting and inconclusive evidence about it. Some evidence against it is that lymphopenia (abnormally low white blood cell count) is seen in 83% of patients and that patients with lymphopenia have significantly worse prognosis as far as death rates are concerned; this would seem to indicate that it's not the immune system doing the damage. It doesn't conclusively rule it out - you can develop cytokine storms with a depressed immune system, and Spanish Flu was another disease that also caused both lymphopenia and cytokine storms - but it does waggle its eyes suggestively in favor of looking for other causes.
That half-black mac logo...

Am I the only one thinking transition to ARM?
The $1.5 trillion injection doesn't actually cost any money. The Fed is making short-term fully-collateralized loans.
The Uncensored Library
Except with Jitsi you can self-host the entire back-end. These apps seem to depend on Twilio's infrastructure, as the READMEs mention needing a backend to generate Twilio tokens.
I knew that existed as a physical product but I never knew it was available as digital-only too. My non-gsuite personal account seems to be able to use it just fine for free.
I wish I could be optimistic that this won’t be abused by creepy guys to show off their junk, but I’m not.
Examples? Would love to get your feedback to our UX team.
This reply is selective and chosen quote not representative of the organisation, which I hold no affilation with, but have used their info for some years, regarding bus bar ratings (Copper for Busbars).

Of course they market, they provide useful information so people can use their members product effectively and safely. I guess if you live in a world of spin you come to expect it by default from others.

CDA are very professional, conservative and reasonable if you take the time to look at their offerings of information.
It seems you have judged a book by it's cover.

I find the following (Below), is there somewhere else you might suggest is a better place to find info relevant to copper?

CDA Mission Statement and Vision Statement
Mission Statement:
Copper Development Association Inc. (CDA) is a U.S-based, not-for-profit association of the global copper industry, influencing the use of copper and copper alloys through research, development and education, as well as technical and end-user support. CDA is committed to promoting the proper use of copper materials in sustainable, efficient applications for business, industry and the home.

Vision Statement:
Copper Development Association Inc. promotes the goals of our members while serving the needs of the users, purchasers, designers and specifiers of copper and copper alloy products.

We:
Are the world’s foremost resource on copper and copper alloy applications
Ahem. Social security is not self-funded, it's funded by current payroll tax receipts, plus a 2.6 trillion trust fund, plus about 5 trillion in debt owed to it by the rest of the government.
Hospitals worry about many microorganisms besides the coronavirus. It would be unwise to encourage the growth of bacteria and fungi to arrest one virus that can be controlled in other ways.
A phone is a commodity with little technological known-how required to pull off today.

iPhone sells for $1000 because people will pay so much for it but that doesn't mean that the technology in it costs so much.

However, when a single diffraction waveguide (the piece of glass that forms the display of devices like a Hololens or Magic Leap) which is the only known way how to make a flat-ish display (otherwise you need bulky mirrors or prisms) costs hundreds of dollars (and you need 3 per eye minimum, one for each color), then it is hard to see how Apple would pull that off. And that's only a display.

At least if we are talking a proper AR device, not a personal HUD/"smartglasses" like the Google Glass.
The disease is not bad for most people. HOWEVER, the the real threat is too many people getting it at once, 10% need critical care, and that overloads our medical services.

That is what has happened in Italy.

https://www.flattenthecurve.com
Yes, yes you are. It's a shiny mac logo.
Congrats on the launch, an important problem to solve. On the other hand, I found your previous idea about pipelines really interesting as well. Do you mind sharing why it did not work out?
What do you mean by "it fell behind the cracks regarding disclosure"?
You say that as if liquidity management in a crisis wasn't a thing. Why, exactly, should free temporary cash be available to investment banks but not entitlement programs?
I think its competitive. Many businesses run off of spreadsheets, and armies of folks enter data into them manually or with great integration pain. Self-serve business data in sheet form is pretty much the ideal UX for something on the order of millions of business knowledge workers. $30/mo is a pittance for that superpower.

Its certainly more affordable than Tableau and other traditional BI tools.

The userbase is probably not well represented on HN...
Johnson: Many more people will lose loved ones to coronavirus
Western Europe, actually. Germany, UK and Netherlands in particular but I'm sure the trend is the same in other countries.
TV for dashboards or maybe showing an HD camera feed of a cool direction outside your office, since there aren't any windows

Fathead wall clings (Star Wars?).

Custom wall clings relating to your company and/or stack/tech.

Paint areas on a couple walls with white board paint.

A plant or two that can live with just office lights would be a plus.

If your company has sales closes big deals have some lights or even a ding when one comes in.

LED lights inside crown molding installed a couple inches below the ceiling.

A startup here has some cool movie props (back to the future, pixar), star wars helmets, lego sets/sculptures, could be a nice addition on some shelves maybe.
The $1.5 trillion thing is a bit confusing. That came from the Federal Reserve, not the US Treasury so didn't it just essentially chip away a little bit at the value of all dollars in existence instead of adding to the national debt? The Fed just created that money out of thin air (or zooming electrons) as far as I can tell. A small inflationary tax on everyone holding dollars?
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It's strange but I've noticed most conferences are planned in advance.
exactly my thought.
Density is always a bit tricky because it's very affected by political boundaries. But, yes, SF is one of the densest US cities. [1] But people want it to be even denser (or, more accurately, they want their housing to be cheaper).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
They have abandoned the self-driving car and laid off the entire team.

And the "no one is talking about them" kinda doesn't match with the coverage of Apple rumors - and even this discussion.
The case fatality rate is estimated at 2% - 3% but that is with medical care. Without ventilators and ICU care, CFR might rise to as high as 10%-15%. With its exponential growth rate, it'd be highly surprising for the virus to go unnoticed so long.
Right, SS is already in a risky position, most millenials question if it'll even be standing when it comes to their turn (especially if population drops since they're having less children who will pay in), what they're suggesting would make it worse.
I've been playing--and sucking at--roguelikes for years, and I wanted to chime in to suggest "Caves of Qud" for anyone that likes this genre. It's a modern roguelike that's still in active development with a really imaginative universe: "The game features a mix between a post-apocalyptic and a fantasy setting, and is heavily inspired by the pen-and-paper role-playing game Gamma World and Dungeons & Dragons."
Given it's flu season right now, is flu an RNA virus and is there a high risk of co-infection?
The success of the whole story is going to depend on whether they will be able to push it on everyone else. Otherwise we're going to have normal phones for everyone except EU, and bulky, outdated, but repairable "europhones" in Europe. Probably good for local producers though.
Hey all, we just announced Oxidize 1K: A remote lightning conference for Embedded Rust.

Because the situation with COVID-19 is causing issues with conferences and events around the world, we wanted to provide a chance for folks to interact from home. Oxidize 1K isn't replacing the main Oxidize Conference, but we're trying out new things, just in case!

We've also opened our CFP[0] if you'd like to submit a talk, it'll be open until 8AM CET on Monday!

Happy to answer any questions :)

[0]: https://cfp.oxidizeconf.com/events/oxidize-1k/
I can't tell. Is this /s?

Why should I distrust an Chinese RCT over an RCT the US hasn't even bothered to consider?
I didn't like it at first, but after actually using it I find it very helpful in keeping on top of all types of things to do/watch/respond.
Please oh please just try it with a dithered image instead of a pure threshold binary choice. Dithering is well accepted as a necessity when downgrading image pixel space for a lot of good reasons and might actually result in some solvable images.
Hopefully all the states implement this as it would help immensely at least in theory. I’d prefer an emergency temporary UBI but bureaucrats gotta bureaucrat.
Here is the data underneath John Hopkin's map

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_...
https://twitter.com/kr3at
As mentioned in another comment, its a loan, not free cash. Investment banks will have to pay it back afterwards.