skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to be interesting. There's actually a lot more value in just running a virtual conference like this, because they can now involve so many millions of people who wouldn't have been able to attend otherwise. Both Apple's and AWS conference would benefit quite a bit from having all the content online and searchable at leisure.

There is that face to face element being lost, but really they should offer more accessible developer evangelists or support staff to everyone anyway.
It's on the page you see after you click on a notification.
The money being "injected into the market" is in exchange for assets. They're not just giving it away.
Do you have a non-js requiring image link by chance?
Looks better than the real deal.
Maybe I misunderstand, but since the money paid out through social security will not be repaid by these 60+ year olds, isn't this a very different thing?
Does 1% error rate mean it's positive 1% of the time or wrong 1% of the time?
It's ironic that it's often the lone opposing voice that is accused of being a bot. Claiming bots is a valid argument against votes, or against a mass of similar comments and opinions. Claiming bots is not a valid argument against the logic of a single comment or opinion. Yet too often it is the lone contrary opinion, often with supporting evidence and logic (since the person is aware they have a contrary opinion), that is dismissed as simply being a bot.

If a solid logical argument comes from a bot it is still a solid logical argument.
You're welcome and I'm glad my intention quite perfectly matches your expectations.

I'm pro 'reader's choice' indeed! An informed 'skip' button up top is really just good hospitality while someone reads my post, me thinks. Like those "get started"-quick pages when hesitating to RTFM.
My first reaction was similar to yours, but after using it a few weeks I much prefer it over the old notifications. Those were really bad. These are functional and I expect them to be further polished as things go by.
While it's not a platform, Apple did develop and popularize the HLS protocol probably to solve precisely this problem - to run extremely popular live streams over commodity CDNs.
Yes, just like how poor people can get 1.5 trillion in subsidized payday loans to cover the gap between pay checks...oh wait.

It’s absolutely a bailout.
> no one will fire us during this crisis

There are many businesses out there that are going to be suffering heavily from the total collapse of tourism, downtown office work, community events, etc; I wouldn’t assume any job is sacrosanct given that level of belt tightening.

In agree with the rest of your message, however.
They’re technically short-term loans only (like, overnight) to avoid that issue.
We can compare these numbers in (hopefully) 8-10 months, after we have better information about the first incidence in various places, and especially the rate of testing. Right now, even your attempted normalization for population is meaningless because effectively the only thing that we know about the state of play in different places is that it's different. We don't know in what ways (let alone why).
I think you're looking at this from not quite the perspective I'm taking. I'm not saying that any individual is going to go "Pay me this or I will attack you. No that's not enough. I want $X". That is extortion of course.

I'm looking at it from the perspective of the market economics. Reward programs are about incentivizing people to do responsible disclosure. If the market (i.e. the black market here) pays significantly higher for an exploit then a reasonable company will try to reflect their payout to match what the "market" has valued that exploit to be worth. This way someone who would otherwise have sold on the black market may be incentivized to do responsible disclosure instead (significant payout, maybe not as high but 100% legal & no legal risk). It's all about shifting the incentives and structure before people even make any decision. I think it's silly that companies get dinged that responsible disclosure programs don't pay out at the same rate as the black market. There's a legal risk element their not factoring into the math. But it should be roughly comparable (my uneducated gut check is within ~20%).

Think of it like drugs. Marijuana on the black market is cheaper. People still opt to buy legal marijuana even though it's slightly more expensive because it's safer, legal, & vendors are accountable to their customers & community. If the cost grows too large then the black market starts to grow again (e.g. cigarettes are a notorious example of this due to taxation as an attempted lever to kill it).
> It is ABSOLUTE humidity which matters, not relative humidity.

This 2019 paper says that (i) in higher relative humidity, the fine droplets stay larger (larger size after evaporation down to the equilibrium size, given by Kelvin equation) and thus linger in the air for a shorter time. And (ii) higher temperatures, virus proteins denaturate a bit faster. The compound effect of higher relative humidity and higher temperature then makes it look like it correlates to higher absolute humidity.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.201...
Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563932
Thread about UK's Covid-19 response by Anthony Costello
might be good enough for machine vision applications with a narrow bandwidth LED or something like that.
I'm guessing light that's not exactly at that wavelength will cause additional blurring.
The graphic is meant to represent the top of a MacBook laptop with the requisite stickers and silver Apple logo.
I think some kind of indicator that networked devices are at risk is a smart thing to do. I posted this "Show HN" a little while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343786

Part of the idea is that people will modify their behavior when there's visible indication they're conducting a risky activity.
Loving the idea! On a different angle and for a more niche Indie Hacker audience, I've been building https://www.frenl.com around the same concept :)
FDIC limits end at 250,000. If your levered bank fails, that's all you get (maybe more if it's unwound and there are assets left ... but that can take a long time).

With an MM fund you're holding treasuries as collateral, which the fed will buy immediately for cash.
maybe they forgot to change that page on their powerpoint template? I know I've done it.
I am not sure we will return quite to that model. For a trip down memory lane: The US specifically had an FCC decision (Carterphone - 1978) designed to to remove the leverage that landline providers had over the market with regards to forcing customers to rent or buy a phone from only them.

Reference article:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/16/business/new-era-for-the-...
I really enjoyed the read, thanks!
Would you want to be our early beta user for the Snowflake integration? We'd appreciate your insight and learn from your use-case. Timeline-wise we are prioritizing MySQL, MongoDB, and improving our back-end. I'd say another month out before we start messing around with Snowflake, but would love to give you early access when we start with it.
You can mark all as read. To do that select all, click the ...-button and then Mark all as read.

Not super streamlined, but it definitely is there.
And of course, you provide evidence of a causal link to quinine derivatives. This is ridiculous.

If you really knew the scientific state of clinical research, you would be far more skeptical.
Sure, but it's basically free money for them because they'll turn around and loan it to the rest of us with higher interest rates.
FCC asks ISPs not to terminate service or overcharge customers during Covid-19
I don't think its fair to say it wasn't used. Just that it wasn't used on the big projects like Office. There were certainly a ton of internal tooling from that era that did indeed use it, which was also the primary use case in the wild: Internal line of business applications. With RAD you are making tradeoffs that aren't appropriate for massive code bases. Microsoft always took dogfooding very seriously.

It's a bit like complaining Ford doesn't use its pickup trucks to transport vehicles to the dealer. They just aren't designed for that purpose.
http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/bokeh/

here's an extremely in depth look at what that means.

It explains what people mean by "soft bokeh" (~= bokehlicious!), apodized lenses, and the "cat's eye" shit you find sometimes.
The Russians have just started transmitting from a new OTHR called Konteyner ..

https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/russian-othr...

also ..

https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/konteyner-fo...

The HF bands are full of OTHRs at the moment. There are Russian ones , Iranian ones and a British one from Cyprus among many others.
https://outline.com/rkhWgj
I find all fiction to be mostly full of worn-out tropes. What's that old saying about there only being seven fundamental stories, or something?

But the devil is in the details. IMO, execution trumps trope.
> It isn't a good idea to have rogue government departments "competing" with privately funded alternatives at public expense on their own initiative.

Why not? Does every minor thing that any government funded organisation or employee wants to do need to be approved three-fold by layers and layers of bureaucracy?

That seems absolutely ridiculous. We are talking about something very minor here: making an app that displays regular weather information, where they already had an app that displayed extreme weather information. This is not some immense initiative they are undertaking here. This was likely done by a single person that thought "hey, we are gathering this data, why not display it in our app".

I am working as a scientist on government funding, should I require approval in three-fold by congress before I publish a paper, open-source any code or do any research at all, because a private entity might want to monetise something similar to that research and I might negatively impact their profitability by putting that in the public domain?
I'm impressed by how competent and professional some independent security researchers are.

How do people learn this stuff? Are there any resources that anyone here can recommend?
Russian election meddling is back – via Ghana and Nigeria
Doing it so thoroughly that you purge any reminders of someone's death is a bad idea.

Even knowing this happened, I don't see how it should have been done differently. Eventually you have to do something about the vacancy. Communicating to the author about the vacancy will remind him of the death. It's unavoidable.

It's "overblown" to expect everyone not to communicate to you in any way that calls back to your roommate dying.

>Did you read the actual post?

Yes.

Edit: To put it another way, let's say this email was sent how the author would have preferred. Next semester, then what? They have to keep adding a blurb about sympathy for the roommate's death, every time the vacancy is mentioned? Eventually you have to accept that "no, the world isn't going to keep dancing around this".
It's not racist, but it's stigmatizing and that facilitates racists. Let's stop doing that.
The Future of Data: Part One
Just to be clear: I'm not asking about the lack of testing (which is of course problematic) but rather why the other web site has much larger numbers. Why is it that some web site has different and much higher numbers than the official US government site?
Five dollars? Yuck.

If it’s a barrier to entry against creeps, it’s got to be higher. Maybe a deposit of some kind?

Also - since you made the bizarre choice to directly reference it below the “50% off till Monday” tag - it’s coronavirus or COVID-19, not corona virus.
Yes! This but democratized. Should be possible for someone in the community to publish their own URL that you can point to at startup (or even have your own personal one on dropbox). I think one limitation is that these are separate ISO images. It should instead be a customization point. Yes probably would be convenient to generate a customized offline installer but the majority should be exposed to it directly through NUX.
Payday loans are generally not overnight and are typically not collateralized; they are in fact very risky.

Repo's are overnight borrowing collateralized by the US Treasuries. Basically it is borrowing to maintain capitalization requirements in these high volatility times. From the perspective of the US government they have literally 0 risk (you are guaranteed to get back either USD denominated money or US treasury).
There will be a shortage of ICU beds too. Would you like to allocate them to the best payer as well?
No it's not stigmatizing, it's a location, you are mind reading the entire population.

There is precedent (I listed them above) for how viruses are colloquially named based on their location.

Let's stop trying to find racial issues where they don't exist.
We looked at building a two-way sync tool in Google sheets to test out an MVP instead of building some custom tool and it was a shitshow from a data synchronization standpoint figuring out how to keep the state of each in sync is very hard. We abandoned the idea pretty quickly.

For problem (2), I'm not sure if you're directly returning data from lambda or if you're using lambda to use the sheets API to update the sheet after the data is returned.

If it's the first one, there's no way around it since lambda functions called through API Gateway have the 30 second timeout that you're running into. If it's the second you should be able to use two lambdas one as one that ingests the requests and adds it to a queue, and the second one (which can have up to a 15 minute timeout) that consumes the queue.
This man's positive role in defusing tense stand-offs at political rallies and short circuiting bad faith discussion derailing with incredibly skilful humour is tragically underrated.
AI could help with the next pandemic–but not with this one
I was thinking dark mode.
Well... it's a morbid thought, but if COVID-19 kills a large number of old people quickly, maybe SS will work itself out (FWIW it was my elderly dad who pointed this out to me)

Related: according to Twitter, kids are starting to call COVID-19 the "boomer remover" https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1238147875143647234
https://slack.com/apps/A11MJ51SR-donut

for anyone that wants something distantly close to this, but baked into slack.

Not mine; I'm just familiar with it from past employers.
I haven't watched Season Two yet, but Season One was, IMO, very good. But I went into it without having read the novels, even though they'd been on my "to read" list for some time. I still plan to go back and read them at some point.
For years I'm been thinking about something like this in terms of data compression:

Would it be possible to have some sort of cellular automata program that generates the uncompressed data after so many generations.

The compressed data would be the start state of the game field, which over several generations would produce the uncompressed data.

For it to work, you would have to start with the uncompressed data and work backwards. Which is what the author of this article is trying to do with these pictures.

Based on what I can understand from the article, there is no hope for my data compression scheme.
It costs, just not the face value. From a government revenue perspective, it's going at around half a point lower than before, which costs about $20m/day.

(There are a lot of different ways to look at the effect of that money injection, but this is one way to try to simplify it into a cost measure that doesn't require thinking about the effects on the economy)
But the "it" here is "tell you the consequences of the vacancy". The "wrongdoing" is reminding the author of the roommate's death (which is out of the control of anyone who communicates to him about the vacancy). A human would do the exact same thing (to the extent of telling you about that), so nothing is being excused by virtue of the computer doing it.
You may want to explore a partnership or some other relationship with no code tool providers like Tray.io, Zapier, and the like. In my experience, users are looking for this sort of functionality from those products, but they're unable to support this use case, as they're not designed as bulk ETL tools (but event driven transformation tools).
I wasn't aware of Jitsi - I really like Twilio but Jitsi's ability to self host elevates it to another level.
Most colleges would do well to get this into their curriculum at some point: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

>what the relative risks of adopting one database over another might be

Entire companies get that wrong. Those licensing terms are complex legalese a lot of the time. Databases are not trivial things. You always get new risks as more product features get added. It's very difficult to predict the future on that front and how your database(s) will handle those challenges.
Why not ask your cardiologist to switch to a calcium channel blocker during the pandemic? Until we have a vaccine for instance ...
It’s a bailout that doesn’t cost the government any money and that is guaranteed to be returned. Unfortunately, poor people aren’t a guaranteed return or the government would give subsidized payday loans. That said, the whole system needs to be changed to make it so that no one is in a situation to need a payday loan.
If it's mutating, would it be better to get the virus early, before it mutates to something more severe?
https://web.archive.org/web/20171010081410/https://addons.mo...

seems poorly rated when it was available 3 years ago
You might consider building and providing a docker container for on-prem use when a database cannot be exposed to the world.
And Bernie's M4A as well.
Well, they are presumably generating some 10s of basis points of profit (lack of loss) for the banking party, so it's more like putting a $B out there for the taking, but providing a lot more "liquidity".

That's the really disturbing thing... the bond market hasn't been liquid this week! Lots of no-bid.
Language designers: you may want to see how Nim helps these causes. E.g. it includes a tool called "nimsuggest" which make it easy for VSCode, vim and Emacs modes to (relatively) easily implement intellisense-style suggestions.
There is no “Advanced options” link. There is “Change adapter options” and “Change advanced sharing options”.

I can’t find “Random Hardware Addresses” anywhere
My guess is that this is covered by the third point - if you EOL security patches for a device I am guessing you are no longer expected to act on vulnerability reports.
Also California just waived the waiting period for unemployment benefits and short term disability as a result of Covid19.
If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video
Apple's recent ones are fairly easy to search (think this goes back to WWDC 2014): https://developer.apple.com/videos/

It's neat that you can click on the transcripts to jump to the appropriate place in the videos.
Anybody may repair cars but not everybody can repair cars.
It turns it into a different thing. Would-be attendees lose a lot of value - at least for me, the bulk of the point of conferences is the other attendees, not the scheduled events.
Banks have assets to offer as collateral for those loans. What assets do entitlement programs have to offer as collateral?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOjc3b_FZ8
Apple hadn’t announced WWDC dates and location before this, so there was nothing official to cancel.

The motive for the positive tone is probably to build faith that the new event format will still be exciting and as valuable for developers.
There is, but popularity doesn't seem like a good filter to determine the value of a given feed.
> The App Store is the world’s safest and most vibrant app marketplace

Anyone else love how no company can tell you “hey we don’t distribute through the App Store, you’ll have to sideload and run this totally closed binary blob with 0 third party auditing to use our product”?

I’m always seeing people on HN complaint that Apple doesn’t allow sideloading. I think it’s brilliant.
I'm afraid you misread my intentions.

I can plead guilty of seeking attention (I figure 'commenting' is the first such step), but I thought the very length of that post is already by far its most salient aspect. I don't think a foreword changes anything to the big picture. ;-)

Also, on HN of all places, I resent doing that (long pieces), I must delete 4 out of 5 such write ups before posting — self-restrain to keep the place neat, once done it must meet high enough standards for me to actually post, i.e. "would I learn something from this?". So there's structure, and an 'abstract' naturally emerges from that.

Now the "TL;DR" up top is really practical, I care not for sensationalism, not the slightest. I just want to inform people so they can quickly decide whether to dive or skip. I like that myself as a reader (call it anti-click-bait, honest-to-god synthesis).
> CODE 444

I think a ‘410: Gone’ might be better.
I think read-only is what most businesses would want, that seems to be how most BI works.

Other challenges:

1. Building uniform data connectors suck. GLHF.

2. Long queries: can you return a promise, then callback to an Apps Script endpoint when the data is ready?

3. Row Limits: I don't see aggregation in your screenshots, that would certainly help. Spreadsheet users know about row limts, just give them good UX and control. Sheets gets sluggish pretty quickly on large data sets, so you may want to have a lower default limit so the UX stays snappy and a warning for large queries.
Well like the others said, bokeh != Depth of field. That said even if you removed all depth of field (everything is in focus somehow) it would still be missed.

Depth of field is incredibly important for managing a viewers focus. Imagine a picture of a coffee in a coffeeshop with the background out of focus - you can clearly see a coffee cup. That same photo but with everything in focus will be much more confusing - what should I be looking at, it's too busy, etc.
First Impressions with Apollo Client 3
It should be noted that Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University, is NOT an infectious disease expert nor does he hold himself out as one.
Did you choose the stock photos for your front page profiles? Are they random? Are you trying to be all 'modern' and 'diverse'? I'm always curious about those ones.
This question may be off topic for HN, but never let it be said that I
didn't answer the call. I eradicated my bedbugs by getting rid of the
mattress, washing all the bedding at 90 C, stripping the room of all
carpets and furnishings down to the floorboards, distributing some
kind of powder that kills them by clogging their pores, and leaving it
that way for several weeks. I feel bad about killing any living
creature so I made an announcement in advance advising them to vacate
the area. That was a few years ago and they haven't been back. When
you check into a hotel room, the first thing you should do is look
under the mattress.