skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If COVID-19 digs in deep in the US then there is going to be a transformational change in how US citizens think about work, travel, entertainment, security, and the relationship between US citizens and their government. All of these aspects are intertwined:

Work: More people will work more time from home and many firms will switch to virtually full time remote with limited physical gathering. This will decrease the cost of office rents and alter the work/life balance. It will affect wages because people can live outside of city centers and still work so companies will pay less. We may be on the cusp of US government guaranteed sick leave.

Travel: People will, for the short term, do less travel for pleasure, but the big impact, long term, business trips will decrease. More and more business meetings will be replaced with voice and video conferencing. There was no big driver other than some cost reduction here, but now safety and security will be the big drivers here. Global pandemic concerns (prevention, containment) will complicate travel to varying degrees, and in a way that most US citizens aren't used to - it will affect interstate travel, not just trans-national travel.

Entertainment: Many of the sports that have been deferred or canceled will likely be replaced with other forms of entertainment that can be viewed on television or the Internet. Fewer people will go to live performances, both because they can't (cancelled by the government) and reluctant to after COVID clears. This will affect service workers - where most of the lesser skilled jobs have been created in the last three decades.

Security: Security will no longer be seen as just a physical access control concern. Business has been preparing over the last two decades for the eventuality of global pandemic - now they can put those plans into action, and the impacts of them will cascade into personal lives. US citizens will be demanding more from their government in disaster preparedness on pandemics - it will affect travel.

All of these tie into how US citizens see their relationship with their government, and what they demand from it.
Of all the places on the internet to hear Steve Wozniak referred to simply as Steve Jobs's friend...
Granted, most people in the world don't care about that there is no data from the US, because most of us are not there :)
"Flip phone" is another common term (for those that fold anyway.)
This is true. When pgSQL, SQLite and MySQL began to support JSON in 2015/2016 a the attractiveness of NoSQL databases - especially - of document stores seemed to diminish somehow.
RTC-based: https://github.com/twilio-labs/plugin-rtc
Congrats! Sourcegraph has great code navigation and search.

We're also excited that they are open core: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117755

BTW There is a spelling mistake in the title Sourcepgrah => Sourcegraph
Also BigBlueButton, which is geared towards education, but also does video conferencing well.

https://bigbluebutton.org/
I will never get tired of how good Apple's marketing is at spinning a situation towards the positive interpretation. Excellent headline, Apple staff.
> Conventional cameras also use multiple lenses to keep different colors of light in focus simultaneously. Since our design is very general, we can also use it to create a single flat lens that focuses all colors of light, drastically simplifying cameras even further.

Not sure if they already have a full-spectrum version working though.
Shoot me for splitting hairs, but I think Twilio mean they build open source video apps, not that they "built" them.
Question about Corona Virus Mutations
If the virus mutates into something more deadly, would it be better to get an earlier version of the virus so that antibodies might protect against deadlier version?
cool that their giving $1M to local organizations, I wonder what who is getting what.
The social contract not falling apart. Most people stand to lose quite a bit if it does.
Why can't social security pay back a loan? It has revenue, it requires management and accounting for its assets anyway. We take loans from the trust fund constantly!

There's absolutely no reason this can't be done.
I feel like our brains are like flexible a ASIC. They're mostly preprogrammed but do have some flexibility (neuro-plasticity).

I'm not under the impression that we could easily train the brain to follow some different, very specific, synthetic algorithm.
me too but that was already released
The whole automated message is like it was taken straight out of Blade Runner or another dystopic story. I can already hear a nondescript computer generated female voice announcing the vacancy in an emotionless tone.
Technically lowering the SS age doesn't cost any money either. The government controls the money supply; they could just print money and hand it out.

The real problem is that if they did this it wouldn't actually have any real short-term effect other than making the things seniors want to buy more expensive. Money's a fiction: it's purpose is to incentivize people to produce things that other people want. If you increase the amount of money in a population but don't increase the supply of goods, it just means everything gets more expensive. You still have the same amount of hospital beds, senior living centers, cruise berths, golf courses, etc. to go around but now the market-clearing price of buying one goes up, some fraction of poor old people end up without one, and their spot is taken by a richer young person.

Over the long-term there's a reallocation of labor that actually does change things: that senior might retire and his job will be filled by someone younger, or people who might've gone into pediatric nursing instead work at a nursing home, or luxury condos might be converted into assisted living. All of these have unintended consequences that ripple down to others, eg. if condos are converted to senior homes it raises the price of housing for young people.
We've been looking into Osquery. It's open source and appears to be very lightweight. Has anyone else used it?

https://www.osquery.io/
What's subtle is that the middlebox is being tricked into parsing the body of an HTTP request as the envelope, or vice versa. The requests hitting the backend are being scrambled. The browser is doing what it can to ensure cookies only go to the right domain, but the servers are chopping those careful requests up and sending them to random places.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguid...

You could probably (at your own risk) try just leaving them alone in a paper bag in a well ventilated, heated and not too humid place... For about 10 days... If they're not obviously damaged/spoiled... See CDC guidance in case of mask shortage.

If I'm not mistaken, this study seems to indicate it shouldn't remain active more than 9 days on pretty much most surfaces(source : https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670...)
Is this more of a statement than a practical thing? Surely they can just block the minecraft server.
Much of modern Cyberpunk feels more like Near-Future-noir. Stories live in the future but feel less wildly futuristic.

I think this cuts close to the reason why I don't enjoy cyberpunk quite as much as I did. As our world has actually become more and more cyberpunk, it feels less and less like fiction, or entertainment.

One moment in particular that stands out to me, was back around the time of the Arab Spring, when people in Turkey were spray-painting Google DNS server IP addresses on walls to help people evade the government 'net restrictions. That was one of the times I really thought: "We are living in the cyberpunk future, now."

Of course not all of the sci-fi elements of cyberpunk are here yet (no Altered Carbon style ability to shuffle your mind into another "sleeve" for example) but you can definitely start to recognize a lot of elements of it in real life today.
Show HN: Covid-19 Deathrate
https://corona-deathrate.herokuapp.com/

I had a recent conversation with a startup who needed a developer, they asked me to write some code to prove I can code. NOTE: I hate writing toy CRUD things... so...

Recent Coronavirus news was on my mind so I thought I would add a fun little project to the mix. So here it is.

This website is a little tool so you can make guesses as to the possible death-rate of Covid-19 is assuming you contract the illness of course.

The problem is, the numbers you need to actually make these calculations don't exist so it's all very hypothetical. But I wanted to show that things are hypothetical at this stage.

I am not sure how I will improve it moving forward but I have a few ideas. I'm more interested in what some of you guys think!
Yup, I think my chances against the virus would be pretty good but my summertime hiking is in the mountains, always above 7,000', often above 10,000'.
Covid-19 can likely live up to 96 hours on your phone
How many non-institutional investors are keeping that much cash at a single institution? And if you're using a cash management account such that Fidelity has, their underlying banks are giving you $1.25M in FDIC coverage in aggregate.

We're arguing different use cases.
Neat idea, but unwilling to spend $5.00 on something I don't need. Perhaps use affiliate links or some other type of not intrusive advertising.
many mini cameras use either liquid lenses or voice coil lenses to focus.
How about a $2,790,000,000,000 trust fund? Is that asset enough? I think a big problem with this discussion isn't about public policy, it's that people don't understand how social security works.
I know and i agree - seems like the us government doesnt care about the hard life of us soldiers, since it ignores the struggle of so many veterans. I am ok, Europe we have universal healthcare, and we dont need the “military” to take steps in that regard, nor do we elect idiots like trump in power to tel us fake scientific facts. Therefore i can afford sitting and pointing out how the us is a joke in terms of healthcare and its army is a bully as it can not do more than point and shoot. idiot.
If a 5 person data science team gets any value of out this -- even if it only prevents frustration and literally doesn't save any time -- it's worth it. At a minimum, that team is costing $50k/month, so in theory they should be driving much more than that in value... $150/mo to support that much value is nothing.
Coordinating Asynchronous Tasks in iOS
Ask HN: Is anyone else having issues with stripe?
I am having issues when processing a payment using stripe. I am using Stripe::charge and 80% of transactions are getting declined. Previously (20 days ago) everything worked smoothly.

According to stripe logs, a successful transaction has 3 steps: create a token (/v1/tokens), then the customer (/v1/customers) and finally generate the payment (/v1/charges). At the moment, all the transactions are falling when they receive the customer (/v1/customer). Stripe has been telling me it is an issue with the bank. But the bank it is telling me that they don't are receiving request for payments (transaction is falling on step #2).

I've talked to several friends and they are having the same issue, so hopefully someone from the HN community can help :)
> I feel bad about killing any living creature so I made an announcement in advance advising them to vacate the area.

I would love to know what you mean by this, how many living creatures are there in your room... and how do you tell them to leave
"I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is."

Good news: They're both shit and you don't need to worry about it. Just get back to being productive, mature, calm and focused/disciplined like an old person, and let spazzy young people keep obsessing over signaling & getting laid. They're not a good source of advice for how to live YOUR life, because they've spent most of THEIR short-ass lives cooped up in schools with people almost identical to themselves, obsessing over tiny differences & declaring certain ones in or out. Be who you are or you've lost everything.
Large NYC corp - still business as usual, except all interviews are remote
I bailed on a job just before all of this started because we weren't doing any work for 3 months and I got bored. Biggest mistake ever.
I love Nethack, and have returned to it time and time again since the 80's. However, much as I love it, for about 6 years now I've been drawn away to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup[1], which has in some ways evolved past Nethack.

One of the main draws to DCSS for me has been its autoexplore feature, which makes exploring the dungeon much less of a chore than it was in Nethack. It also has much better use of color in text mode (the only mode I play both games in). Then it has an enormous variety of gods, powers, races, classes, and spells.

Unfortunately, it does have some downsides compared to Nethack. The interactions with gods, shops, and pets tends to be richer and more complex in Nethack. The things you can do to and with items is as well. The trend in DCSS has been to kind of dumb it down over the years, taking away friction points that made it more complex and thus (arguably) less fun for a certain kind of player. My own taste is for more complexity and more options, so I'm not a huge fan of going in that direction, but I still stick with DCSS because it's great despite that.

You can play and watch other people play the game by ssh'ing in to crawl.akrasiac.org, with a username and password of "joshua" (a reference to the classic 80's hacking movie Wargames).

Another game, in some ways very different but in other ways very much in the spirit of both of these games that I've really enjoyed has been Path of Exile.[2] It's not minimalist like Nethack or DCSS, but it definitely has a lot of roguelike elements and is pretty complicated for a mainstream, modern game of this sort, and is a worthy successor of both of these games, in my eyes. It's free to play too, so if you have the slightest interest, give it a go.

[1] - https://crawl.develz.org/

[2] - https://www.pathofexile.com/
It’s really unfortunate that as a country we haven’t yet figured out how to offer relief for people in industries harmed like this.

If it were up to me, we’d be figuring out how to temporarily suspend rent, loan payments, and taxes to people who are quarantined/isolated/hospitalized/furloughed due to the crisis, and temporarily block evictions. We’d be expanding public food assistance and just directly paying affected workers. We’d be figuring out how to deliver food and medication (and test kits) safely to those in need. We’d be figuring out how to scale out childcare for any child whose caretakers all get sick.

We’d be closing all restaurants to the public but organizing restaurant workers to (while taking strong hygiene precautions) make prepared deliverable meals. We’d be organizing taxi drivers to work as delivery workers. We’d be maybe organizing empty hotels to e.g. host medical workers who need to be quarantined away from their own families for a while, or potentially even turning some into temporary hospitals.

We’d be retooling existing factories to produce necessary equipment like face masks, antiseptics, mechanical ventilators, ...

This is one of the richest societies in the history of the world. A pandemic is an economic challenge but we can afford to keep everyone going through a few months of acute crisis, if we make it a policy priority.
Quaranteam: A space to talk about self-quarantine
I haven't heard many things about it, but what I've heard has only been positive.
I like this idea. I'll play around with those tools and see if it's a viable options - we just want to make sure that UI/UX remains easy for people to access their data in the spreadsheets.
Perfect example of an athletic lifestyle at risk.

As I'm assuming you are over 15, protect your body right now. You won't get another one.
I'd think the EU market is big enough to foment enough competition for cutting-edge-within-the-constraints europhones, if it comes to that.
Yes, data is returned directly from lambda. We’re working on the pro version and enterprise versions that will run queries in the backend and update sheets as you described. For that, we’d need to request for additional scopes, to be able to update sheets remotely. Currently, updates are made by the addon and only when it is in use.
Reduce, re-use, recycle, IN THAT ORDER.
It is not my fault what the state does with it after I correctly dispose it. I am not sure how that looks for my country and I mostly don't care - not my job to do, I (have to) pay taxes for that.

https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/czechs-become-eu-leaders-in-plast... ;-)
BTW, since we're talking cyberpunk... one recent series I did read that was pretty good, was the Necrotech series by K.C. Alexander. It's pretty edgy and dark by some standards, but some of you might enjoy it.
I think the PhD is the best example of a modern knowledge-worker apprenticeship. Three or more years with an expert passing on their knowledge to you one-to-one, finished by a magnus opus to show you’re ready to work on your own.
ARM is shit compared to x86 for single-threaded computing; you're right about that. But ARM is great at the types of hypervisor-driven cloud workloads that most applications fit into. Most cloud workloads are limited by network latency far more than single-threaded performance.

x86 will still exist for high-performance workloads, and companies will happily pay a premium where they need it like they already do with GPU instances. But I do think we'll see the vast majority of cloud usage shift to ARM over the next 5 years. RISC-V may come in and replace it some time after that, but not without major cost advantages over both ARM and x86.
Printing money and QE are not the same, and it spreads misinformation to equate them.
Coronavirus Is Shutting Schools. Is America Ready for Virtual Learning?
Surely surviving the first wave will be a plus against a second wave as you already have some immunization?
I'd like to have standard rechargeable batteries in products. Not necessarily "hot" swappable (though that would be nice for devices like cellphones). But at least available in standard forms, and replaceable by someone with a screwdriver in a few minutes.

I'm sick of "renting" batteries that are permanently installed in devices that would otherwise work for tens of years, but their batteries wear out after only a few years. I'm sick of paying inflated prices for batteries that have bizarre configurations and that go out of production.

I understand there are significant engineering challenges for some things (e.g., earbuds that are basically some electronics wrapped around a lithium cell). But there's no reason a set of headphones couldn't have a replaceable cell (I'm looking at you, Bose). I'm happy to have slightly heavier headphones and slightly thicker laptops and tablets if it increases the device lifetime and reduces e-waste.

Not gonna happen without a mandate, that's for sure. Gotta keep customers on the upgrade treadmill.
I don't think the right to repair is about the design being specifically repairable (i.e. uses exclusively sockets and through-hole components), rather it's about avoiding things which are deliberately constructed to prevent repairing them and legal barriers to reverse engineering items in order to repair them.

Examples are components which, while identical to the component requiring replacement, will refuse to work until coded to match the intended device with some proprietary cable (which is really a normal cable with a couple of wires reversed or some other dick move).
Not necessarily angry, but greedy maybe. Although at this point your guess is just as good as mine. Unfortunaty this guy has a lot of money and some sort of personal agenda against my cofounder and I. Hopefully we can sort it out. Otherwise we are looking at personal bankruptcy.

Make sure to stay away from assholes and never sign a contract that says you (your company), will cover the other party's legal expenses.
Unless you are doing anything more or less related to SAP. Then you can make $150k/a easily.

If only other companies would realize that that's one of the reasons why SAP is Germany's no. 1 software company.
> There is precedent

Appeal to tradition (i.e. a well known fallacy). Denied.

> Let's stop trying to find racial issues where they don't exist.

Translation: "Let's turn a blind eye to racism-enabling behaviors where they do exist."
If you're connecting over the internet without a VPN or SSH tunnel then you're requiring databases be open to the world, regardless of any firewalls that sit in front of it. Having worked on the infrastructure side of things I can't imagine that any serious companies would be amenable to such an arrangement.
Australia’s World-Leading Jindalee Operational Radar Network (OTH radar)
Yes. We'll likely take this on-prem approach
I thought that the reason cold weather helps the spread is the higher humidity means the water droplets you spray last longer.

Air conditioning tends to produce a very dry environment which should also cause the droplets to evaporate very quickly.
A vibrant community helps retain and acquire talent. And that said sum is but a small amount for Apple.
The hackerone write up which this submission points to actually goes into explicit detail on what happens step by step, along with nice infographics.

The TL;DR is that you can make the front-end see something like GET /my/supplied/url\nX:X at the end of your request, but the back-end see it as the beginning of the next request, (and the X:X turns the real GET/POST whatever info a custom header of X:XGET /real/request/url), and Slack returns that request with cookies for that person, but to a domain controlled by you when it comes back. The diagrams included in the post and the accompanying text do a better job of explaining it than I am, I think.
Tim Cook’s trick for making iPhones is now at risk from the pandemic
> Entertainment: Many of the sports that have been deferred or canceled will likely be replaced with other forms of entertainment that can be viewed on television or the Internet. Fewer people will go to live performances, both because they can't (cancelled by the government) and reluctant to after COVID clears.

My guess is that you're overstating the long-term effect on this front. People like leaving the house; people like gathering with other people; people have liked these things for as long as there have been people. They're not going to stop liking them because they've been stuck alone indoors for a couple of months. Enforced abstinence for a while may even increase demand for social entertainment, once the dust settles -- "you don't know what you've got until it's gone," etc.
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> it’s basically free money

They can only borrow to the extent they have collateral. You can do the same thing. Any decent broker will let you margin Treasuries on the cheap.