skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great for managing active SSH sessions, but not so much for the other purpose for bastions: fine-grained network access control+routing. It would be cool if they made a more specific version of this just for network traffic without the SSH component.
> I also feel that it's poor taste for a Russian living in an authoritarian state to liken github to the gulag.

If Microsoft is no better than Roskomnadzor (and in this case it isn't), than he's rightfully doing so. Russian government being shitty is no excuse for the US government or US companies to be shitty as well.
Using the "is joining" phrasing is a classic way to try to spin an acquisition as some kind of partnership. 99% of the time, it's definitely not.
1. Onions are good lung support.

2. Watermelon is good kidney support. This is helpful if you are experiencing bloating.

3. Hot peppers are antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal and open a cell channel that helps you dump fluids.

4. Tea is an astringent. Drinking it can help reduce fluid in the lungs.

5. Spicy foods are medicinal. Some stuff that helps combat infection include: onions, garlic, hot peppers, black pepper, cinnamon, olives. Oregano and oil of oregano are especially helpful for lung infections.

6. Alkalinity helps combat viral infections. Look up alkaline food lists.

7. Stay hydrated and get enough salt. Water and salt are critical components of mucus, an important lung thing.

8. Lysine helps combat viral infections.

9. Lung clearance is a standard means to treat serious lung conditions and keep airways open. A simple means to do this is stand in the shower with your feet about shoulder width apart, bend over as far as you can and cough hard.

10. Caffeine is a stimulant that works very similarly to an inhaler drug. So you can drink coffee or eat very dark chocolate to open up the airways as a drug substitute.

Most likely, this comment will be downvoted to hell and one or more people will promptly jump up to accuse me of nefarious behavior, delusions of grandeur, having no fucking clue what I'm talking about or similar. I get that a lot.

I have a very deadly medical condition that involves the lungs. I'm off all drugs. The above are some of the things I rely upon.

I'm not a doctor. I'm a former homemaker and formerly homeless person.

Do whatever the hell you want with that info.

Edit: if you have lung distress, avoid bacon.
The people running the high frequency trading bots.
The arguments for ways other companies are better work both in and out of favor for them. Conversely, centralizing it (Amazon becomes a monopoly) also works both ways: It's possible worker conditions can be better or worse compared to the average standard, but with greater number of them in a single go.

Thus the counter-argument, for me at least, stands out, which is less volatility from a decentralized market, however, if a centralized market would turn out to have better employee conditions, then this reduced volatility would in turn work against other companies as an argument, and so we're back at square one.

History tells us that monopolies tend to ...treat their employees badly? I don't know and I think it depends on the company and market it serves, but my gut-feeling says yes and so, to me, less volatility sounds like the sanest gut-decision I can make.

It's up to each and everyone for themselves to decide, I guess.
I'm inclined to agree. I suspect this was also the thinking the prevented them from pursuing a merger with Netflix. They seem to target their big acquisitions towards things where their own "Apple-ish" culture and philosophy guides the core technologies. They're not going to want to muddy that by having execs from Netflix or Blackberry or Bose in on it. Like, they bought Beats, but mostly because Beats was basically just a brand that they could do whatever they wanted to under the hood.
"Bad design" is just your opinion, not objective fact. If every clock were designed specifically for its ability to be read easily, there would only be one type of clock, with high contrast colors, perhaps in different sizes.

Good design involves trade offs. Many of those trade offs are opposing factors like form, function, cost, versatility, etc. And not all of those trade offs are worth it for everyone. E.g. adding a diamond to a watch will increase it's cost many times over and distract from reading the time. But that trade off is worth it for some people. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad design.
Coronavirus Showed That America Wasn't Up to the Task
I would assume a small percentage of people would stick to their new habits but the majority will go back to their old ways when it's over.
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For the self quarantine thing to work the testing would need to be effective, and we dropped the ball there, we refused to obtain test kits from WHO, we provided broken test kits from CDC. We made ridiculous restrictions to obtain tests.

If we would follow South Korea's example, and test as many people as we could, we would be now over the hump.
> isn't a crisis that can be fixed with monetary policy alone

but it might certainly help, for example, people might be willing to risk getting corona (if they are 20-40 year old) and are asked to do a job for a lucrative amount of money.
I didn’t get the impression he was comparing them. Just providing reference points. He’s pretty clear that this is bad.
Yes they were, cheap longhaul flights stopped being profitable and they were having huge issues. I think low cost longhaul will die after this epidemic.
I like that, thank you for the suggestions :)
All the big companies are freezing hiring. This doesn't seem like practical advice.
I disagree. Many languages are technically excellent, but not gaining much mind share. They languish in the job market. For example, at Indeed, Clojure has 393 job postings, Elixir has 430, F# has 156, Haskell has 419, Julia has 706, Lua has 562, and Nim has 81. These are for the U.S. at the time of writing.

Python has 76,979 job postings, Java has 72,743, and even lowly Perl has 14,802. Technical merit is not enough; those lesser languages need marketing.

The fact is, language adoption in the IT industry is very much a matter of luck, fad and fashion.
Neat contribution! You guessed one thing, someone else guessed another, but they were wrong, and you were right! Yay on @pavlov. Boo on them.
I've been through a handful of ventures in the past few years with ultimately no lasting success. Some made money in certain periods, but ultimately they failed, with the thousands of hours and many thousands of dollars invested in these ventures now "down the drain".

The only thing we can keep doing is pushing forward. Failure must be seen as a learning opportunity, not a failure of intellect or similar.

With that said, if you are experiencing emotional side-effects, which are completely normal from my POV (I've certainly had them), I urge you to consider your mental health, nonetheless your overall health. Success and money do not mean a thing if you cannot get out of your bed or house every day, or if you've frayed all relationships (whether familial, friendships, etc.) while working as hard as we're told to as entrepreneurs.
Show HN: Painland – Helping entrepreneurs to have problems worth solving
Rather than rely on SQL, why not put the common info in tables? A "data dictionary" (DD). If tools can extract or sync that up to the actual schema, that's a great bonus, but is not a prerequisite. Using things POC annotations is ugly and hard to track.

And we don't have to rely on the DD to do everything. Of course intricate business logic should be in app code, but app code shouldn't reinvent the obvious things like minimum length ("required"), max length, field description, synopsis (longer "help"), display order, key type (primary, foreign) and their related "look-up" references, etc.

I've found that if the DD results can be intercepted by the program, then it's more flexible. It should have an event that allows the DD attributes to be programmatically altered per screen, and then another event to modify or remove the actual HTML and/or SQL generated from the those attributes. I call it "staged rendering". This allows the DD to do 90% of the grunt work, but not limit local customization. Local customization has been the most common bottleneck of past DD-based attempts.

I like it when computers do the grunt work; that's what they were invented for. Our current common CRUD stacks violate data-related D.R.Y. up the wazoo and nobody seems to care as long as they get a paycheck. Auto code generation is only a half solution because once you alter the copies, you can't rely on generators anymore: they wipe out your custom code.
Why new diseases keep appearing in China

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54
Thanks for sharing. May I ask what day you are on?
Norwegian was near death many many times before this hit. Coronavirus just makes the death inevitable. This is too bad, I really did love their product. Their premium economy seats were well priced, and only on 787, which really helped with jetlag due to the higher humidity and lower pressurization of the CFRP frame.

That said, it's going to be hard to see who doesn't go bankrupt with the virus. Airlines are on limited margins at the best of time, and parking half the fleet makes their business model untenable very quickly.

The other thing is that unlike almost all of the rest of the world, airports in the US are still publicly owned, and funded by per-passenger fees. A lot of cities are going to have a massive gaping hole in their budgets because of that.
In principle you could isolate just the higher-risk individuals, but the age limit you'd want to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system is wayyyy lower than 70, probably around age 40 where the CFR is maybe 0.2% [1]

1. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
How dare they gain market share by putting out products that people want!
Hi there,
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That honestly doesn't need 2.5GB. On my Linux machine I can run a web browser, KDE, Telegram and Pacman on barely over 800MB.
Um, no you didn't. It only works with windows 10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install
There's a disclaimer missing from this article (and many others like it), writing a frag shader to generate 3d geometry is generally not the ideal way to actually render stuff unless you're doing demos (with some exceptions).

The other thing that gets me is these articles say "here's how you write a shader" but shaders are much more than a fragment shader over the whole screen (like what shadertoy provides).
> high bumpers are death for pedestrians

The typical counter-argument to that involves some sort of abuse of the notion of freedom.

(Not endorsing, of course, just mentioning it.)
Ask HN: How has Covid-19 affected your startup?
Very unlikely, as it would mess with backwards compatibility and cause unhappiness of users and IT departments. Microsoft still makes money selling Office and other products there.
Yeah think this is barely the start

US hasn’t even gotten proper sick yet and a big chunk of the world market cap is US based
Zoom Virtual Backgrounds
Could you share the link to the article?
>On 11 March, impeached US president Donald Trump gave a public address.

Someone really wanted to work that in there.
> By the same token I shouldn’t hold accountable Google or FB engineers who are just trying to make a living.

No you shouldn't - they need to put food on their families' tables just like you do.

> Or soldiers who did atrocities because they were just trying to be good soldiers.

Well committing an atrocity is a crime. If people are acting criminally that's different. And if they're committing atrocities then they aren't good soldiers, are they?
I'm sure some folks who are upset already will remain upset.

However I don't expect any kind of real 'new' outrage from this particular action though. There aren't people flying... so yeah this result is pretty understandable.

Most folks are understandably busy with other news.
I haven't seen anywhere suggesting that the transmission vectors between passengers are a major cause of the growth into a pandemic - even if that was the case, I doubt a once in 50 year disease is cause for them to change to a less profitable seating setup the other 49.
I like how Mankiew nonchalantly remarks that $1000 "sounds about right."

Wonder if he consulted any of the models in his widely used Macroeconomics textbook in order to reach this profound conclusion.

I think an even better way to help people right now would include Congress putting an end to the price gouging of students who are forced to pay as much as $200 dollars a pop to purchase textbooks (like Mankiew's Macroeconomics) for their classes.

And there's an idea for Bernie Sanders too, who is gasping for breath on the campaign trail now: instead of promising "free tuition" handouts, how about asking government to play a role in establishing "fair tuition" (much like Medicare already does in health care for seniors) that reflects the true costs of educating students (using the latest technologies) in subjects that lead to real jobs, after universities have been forced to cut the fat (starting from the top!) out of their bloated university administrations.
Wow Air, until they went out of business. But it was supposed to come back this year, in light of recent events probably not any more.
They own the ecosystem, they can leverage it in a lot of ways. And cost of running npm is drop in the ocean for a giant like MS.
Amazon Athena now publishes CloudWatch Events for Athena query state transitions
I get that people want to stop the spread of Nazi propaganda, but making it so that people can't purchase Mein Kampf just because of the ideas that it contains is reminiscent of a dystopian novel. Where are independent researchers supposed to get access to these books in their printed form? The internet is already subjected to massive censorship and historical revisionism. It's a bit troubling to think of a world where Amazon determines what information is and is not available to the public.
That is fair, "circus" was a judgement.
Regardless, the main point stands. I tried to start a discussion in another thread; this post was mostly to bring more attention to the fact that the virus is not disrupting things at all at this point, the reaction to it is.
Fields are generally aligned so that they are at an offset which is an integer multiple of the field type's alignment. Type alignment for built-in types is generally the highest power of two which is both (less than or equal to the type's size) and (less than or equal to the maximum alignment for the target ABI). Type alignment for compound types (like struct) is generally the maximum of the constituent types' alignments.

But details may vary from implementation to implementation and platform to platform.
Ballmer would have suggested chemotherapy.
They have been struggling for quite some time.

They got hit quite bad with the grounding of 737 MAX (10% of fleet), and before that they a lot of issues with the 787 Dreamliner (20% of fleet).
Why not join an online-only socially-distanced startup?
How would that help at this point in time? Italy has universal health and it is not helping. UBI, on the other hand, could make an impact.
Can I be so bold as to suggest a new feature?

It'd be wonderful, as a package consumer, to have visibility into some security metrics for a given package. This would be useful both at initial install time, and when the package is upgraded. Something like:

1) who are the latest commits GPG signed by?

2) is the package publisher using 2FA?

3) what is the security profile of all dependent packages?

4) are there any new authors (directly or via dependencies) since the last version (with links to the author and their contributions).

These might help avoid prior situations where popular packages get injected with malware by new maintainers.
You're stating this as a fact. Can you provide any reasoning or evidence?
That's real bokeh from a 36×24mm sensor and either moderately fast apertures or long focal lengths.
What he mentions about people being superficially nice to allow for more selectiveness is very interesting. I think it’s hard to say that being direct from the get go about interest is ideal beyond that reason alone because friendship with people is something you build, not something you immediately just know you’ll have when you meet someone. If you don’t feign interest in the beginning you’ll miss out on all the people who you could have become good friends with only after a certain level of closeness.

While feigning interest causes people to second guess themselves, I think being direct could also do the same. If I know someone I’ve just met will tell me they don’t like me if I don’t give them a good impression I’ll be constantly trying to please them. Though I guess if you’re also trying to be highly direct things become even more complicated.

It seems like there are far more social dimensions to this than I’d first thought.
I'm reminded of this article[1] I read a couple weeks ago... maybe the bond market is a more apt comparison than the stock futures market?

[1]: "Why active bond investors can beat the index when active equity investors can’t" The Economist, https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/02/27/w...
How Uber Flawlessly Manipulates with Numbers in Its Earnings Report
CFRP :-)
True, I put the point bluntly.

If the market produces bad outcomes for years on end, which it in some narrow cases it does, do we 1) keep with it regardless or 2) do something else.

I think you will find there are quite a few people who will choose #1
It seems driven what the local government is doing which (at least in US) is going to be dictated by how much federally funded relief money they can get.

In some states it will take a legislative act to cancel school and/or significant funding and training to go all-digital. Public schools are there legally for all and they need to have solutions for all - inclusive of poorer people that don't have internet/computers.

Once there are reliable tests and ability to test for residue (computer geek here, forgive my ignorance on biology) that someone had the virus then I would imagine more things return to normal-ish. From what I'm reading, this does look like a multi-month adventure.
No. It’s a low bandwidth communication medium which, because it is asynchronous, allows for more calculated choice of presentation (eg, Instagram).
Github "Frantically clawing for control of developers", "vying for government rent-seeking and free market capital"?

...We must be experiencing very different versions of reality. Usually I sort-of get where people are coming from, even when I disagree. Here, I couldn't even name anything Github is doing that would support these statements. What power do they have, except being a useful product?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/airlines-bailout....

We cannot permit American and other airlines to use federal assistance, whether labeled a bailout or not, to weather the coronavirus crisis and then return to business as usual. Before providing any loan relief, tax breaks or cash transfers, we must demand that the airlines change how they treat their customers and employees and make basic changes in industry ownership structure.
I just thought it sounded a bit extreme to make a potential visit to Crimea sound like "he may have thrown toddlers into a volcano". I get the "our hands are tied" argument, but even then, communication should be clear and honest and not follow Google's support handbook.

RE github staying impartial: yes, that would be nice. I suppose there would be a market for independent countries to do this, but I doubt it's large enough to outweigh the damage done by resisting the pressure of the big players.
There is a budding sector of the economy now selling ‘authentic’ relating. Recycled cult indoctrination methods are easily repackaged as the solution to loneliness and lack of community.
You could say that it was caused by the coronavirus, but that would be highly reductive. This seems epecially true when you consider that of late, there has been a waning of confidence in our economists' ability to accurately model the markets, combined with the fact that a massive shift has occurred over the past century from an economy largely based on equity, to one based largely on debt.
Always a concern, but under the present circumstances, a false positive (someone quarantines for two weeks who doesn't need it) is far better than a false negative (someone has false confidence in attending public places).

Unlike other false positives that could lead to unneeded/harmful interventions (surgery, chemo), erring on the side of false positives would actually be desirable for COVID-19.
My and my partner regularly fly Norwegian in Europe and they are the best airline we can imagine. They are cheap; booking a flight is a breeze; you get meaningful benefits quite fast if you fly often; planes are modern. They stopped operating the main line that we use to visit, and you can see it immediately on the price.

They recently introduced a fee for cabin-luggage which could be disputed but:

1. I don’t mind, I generally fly with a small bag;

2. my partner has enough miles to get free upgrades.

No one has complained about it when boarding.
The implied populism is disturbing. There are no facts presented, everyone is jumping on memes.

The TC article [1] has considerably more information though still missing some fine points.

The details of the charges are not going to benefit from transparency, as it doesn't look like some kind of solid case - it seems that Apple was engaged in some otherwise normal business practices.

They required their resellers to sell at certain price points, and during times of short supply, they favoured some channels over others. This is not anti-competitive really, it's normal practice.

If the French government applied such rules fairly and broadly there are probably any number of businesses that would be found to be committing such practices.

The French have been outdone in so many areas, they're now engaged in a new form of a trade war, which is simply to grab surpluses of foreign companies as they can. And who, even among intelligent, literate people who are responsible enough to grasp material facts is going to care one bit?

It's perfectly fine if France and the EU want to be more assertive in applying their legislation, but the rules have to be clear, they have to be applied impartially and universally, not in a punitive manner.

Even better, France needs to produce exceptional companies that produce surpluses - much better to be in a situation where you have 'the great companies' and the risk is having someone DJ Trump screaming murder, as opposed to digging up dirt on otherwise well run companies in your own borders.

Also - the EU's ridiculous taxation scheme, which allows Google and FB to declare most of their profits in Ireland and skip paying taxes in France is their problem, not the problem of foreign nationals who are just following the laws. The architect of said massive loopholes is none other than outgoing EU Commission Pres. JC Junker, so the hypocrisy there is nigh.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/apple-fined-record-1-2b-in...
What coders can do to save lives during a Coronavirus outbreak
If we could actually do a full halt for 2 weeks, we will be back to normal in another 2.

The problem is that some are doing it, some are not. And then they are doing it on different schedules.
Selling won't work. If suddenly "many" airlines start selling, the demand won't be that high, and 1) the prices will plummet and 2) there won't be enough buyers so some airlines will be severely damaged (anyway)(better fewer than all I guess).