skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you were fired with cause so no unemployment insurance because America is barbaric.
Bought this yesterday after seeing this post trending. You echo my sentiment perfectly. I was particularly disappointed at the flashcards being one sided. Not seeking refund for the same reason as you.

IMO flashcards are more useful if you build them yourself and try to recall the context around it, not just what's in the flashcard. Doesn't have to be flashy, though flashiness may help with retention.
Then let's be about it. South korea did this, why can't we?
Show HN: Workout Warrior, a workout/fitness app for Android/iOS
So about a year ago, I was trying to find a workout app for android that would allow me to create and implement my own workout at the gym. I found many great apps with slick interfaces and neat programs, but none that would allow me to create my own program from scratch. If they did, I felt them to be unintuitive. Or they weren't free to use. So I decided to make one myself.

I present to you : Workout Warrior! You can get it on Android/iOS here: https://workoutwarrior.app

I used redux and redux-persist to manage and store state. This app is still in it's infancy but I would love some feedback! I will also be more than happy to answer any questions (:

Thank you for reading and stay safe out there!
Not enough uses of the word capitalism for my taste.
What if the person playing the game doesn’t have a strong internet connection?
Is there no alternative way?
Why is no one comparing the North of Italy with the South?

Why is no one comparing Madrid to the rest of Spain?

Germany and France have a very similar curve to Spain, Italy and even China, with a much smaller population as US.
I'm an adult who plays Animal Crossing. He's a poor excuse for a human being.
Ask HN: How is 100 % 13 and Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER % 13 just as expensive?
Well I lied... It's just under twice as expensive in some rudimentary unit tests I have done on my local nodejs v13 setup here on my laptop...

It takes about 10 milliseconds to execute 1m modulus operations on Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER and about 5 milliseconds to execute 1m modulus operations on 100.

But I can't wrap my head around how.

How is it virtually just as fast to find the remainder of such a large and small number in Javascript?

Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is 2^53 - 1 (9,007,199,254,740,991 or ~9 quadrillion).
You're reacting emotionally when what the world needs is cold rationalism.

As of Wednesday afternoon this week, Italian hospitals were not yet at the point of turning people away:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/italys-death-rate-reaches-re...

Medical facilities in Lombardy will “soon” be unable to help new coronavirus cases, regional Gov. Attilio Fontana said Wednesday, as he urged everyone to stay at home.

That was based on a quick search of English-language material. Perhaps there's a more recent update from the last 48 hours where things have changed - I'd love more recent info. But at the moment I'm seeing a lot of people who clearly believe hospitals are turning people away en-masse already, and yet I keep finding news stories where it's being officially denied by the relevant health authorities. Are they all oblivious, living in a fairy tale too? If so, isn't that a shocking scandal that needs to be talked about right now?
I do wonder, at there people writing ML programs in Python without learning basic math notation?

It's hard to imagine someone learning important fundamt math concepts without using math notation, so anyone who benefits from this article should probably take a detour through a math book before continuing their Python ML, or else risk having beautiful code that implements nonsensical math.
It's not tin-foil. That's exactly what EBGames here in Canada is doing.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/18/toronto-employee...

Awful. You can just download Animal Crossing anyways...
Same crap from EBGames here in Canada:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/03/18/toronto-employee...
Bethesda apparently broke its own Denuvo protection for Doom Eternal
Trade schools and community colleges will focus more on skills than theory, but there's an image problem among well off children... and the social environment is far different (boring by most 19yo standards).
Portuguese Startups Join Forces to Create Tech Solutions Against COVID19
The mob-like response to this is sad and deranged...

In stark contrast to “profits über alles”, which is perfectly A-OK. Here ya go, folks: if you want the voice of late-stage capitalism, it’s right there in print. The only thing missing is a nod to “job creators”.
Hah, I never thought of making alcohol from milk. I own a still so I'm tempted to make my own. Probably makes the most sense to use evaporated milk since the sugars are more concentrated. In fact, I wonder if a specific yeast strain is needed.

Converting waste to alcohol should probably be more common. Grocery stores toss out old fruit all the time, but yeast don't care whether the fruit is bad. Even if it wasn't sold for drinking, surely it would have some industrial purpose.
This looks cool. Something I really never get with async is the executor:

- if I use this do I have do use tokio or async-std ? none ? is the code assuming an executor ?

- e.g can I use this library with, let's say, hyper ? tide ?
This is how I remember Venice ... from Tomb Raider 2 ;)

There are a lot more people out in nature at the moment. If this will lead to lasting changes? The lockdowns may be long enough to turn new behaviours into new habits.
The US has already outpaced Italy. They simply didn’t test anyone and still mostly don’t. The US doesn’t test people because:
1. You might have to pay $$$
2. You might not have paid sick leave
3. For-profit health care means providers do not have any interest to pay for your test, even in part.
There's also a Scottish drink made from whey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaand
This article is literally about the EU asking Netflix to reduce bandwidth in Europe.
It would be useful to know what "shows" means in this context. The normal meaning doesn't work.

Now, imagine a world where a large percentage of reality is presented to people in this manner, what might be the result? Does it look anything like what we've been living in for quite some time now, where it seems nobody can agree on what is actually true?

I may be way off base, but I think this is a much bigger issue than people realize, but it requires some effort and the will to see it.
Show HN: We made a Slackbot for sending physical birthday cards
I'm no fan of Musk, but the tweet you linked does not say the response has been overblown.

He's not incorrect in the tweet you linked: both cpf and mortality are currently overstated due to lack of testing and asymptomatic cases.

He has plenty of other silly tweets such as: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12360294490421985...
Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks
This is a short-sighted view. If GameStop closes, they will go out of business. If they go out of business, these employees will lose their jobs.

I see no reason why a GameStop employee can't just quit or refuse to come to work if he/she fears getting infected.
> I suspect purposefully

Please don't do that here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be just fine without that bit (and the final bit).
Maybe related: Interval Analysis ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
We don't know how bad this will be which is exactly why we're acting like it's going to be bad - assuming that it'll be fine is irresponsible at a time like this.

And the worst part is, assuming it works and the epidemic curve is flattened out, people will still see this as "proof" that it wasn't necessary.
This reminds me of the scene from War Machine. The general is asking some consultant why they can't grow corn or wheat since they have loads of fertile land. The guys said the exact thing you did. The WTO disallows them from doing so by entering into the export market and competing with American farmers.

So they grow heroin instead haha!
You think the risk is negligible. The rest of the world does not. Good for you being a "contrarian," but neither you nor Gamestop get to act on each and every one of your contrarian thoughts.

Lots of people, if left to decide these matters for themselves, decide that the risks of their behaviour are negligible. That's why Spring Break is crowded.

But you aren't even framing this correctly. It is not just about the risk of a 20-something retail employee dying. It's also about the risk of them transmitting it to each other and to customers, who in turn transmit it to people who have a non-negligible risk of dying.

Get a grip.

This is not an abstract argument, we are watching thousands of people die from this, and we believe that community transmission comes from otherwise healthy people passing it around long before they have any symptoms at all, and those carriers need not die to cause the deaths of others.
The simplest way: make video, insert this song, post to youtube, see where DMCA claim come from :)
no, that one is actually a good idea
The huge issue with the numbers is that they always lag behind the actual situation right now. There is a delay of around 5 days until symptoms show, and something on top of that until you get tested and until the test is processed. And the deaths lag even further behind, it takes very roughly something like 3-4 week to die as far as I've read.

The deaths of today are the people that were infected 4 weeks ago, 4 week is an eternity on an exponential curve like this.
pity we dont have the number of tests conducted by each country also
I refuse to believe Americans can't produce a cup of 100 Degree celcius boiling water either at home or at work.
RSS: The Original Federated Social Network Protocol
Merely tangential, but I’d missed or forgotten that you can use Keybase as a static hosting platform! Very cool.
Watch “Learn Freelance Web Development / Software Engineering” on YouTube
I've played stuff from Song Fight[1] in the car, or been signing along at my desk and been asked about the songs. There's so much good, "catchy" stuff out there if you take the time to look. At least w/ Song Fight I can usually trace down the original artist.

I have the same thing w/ old tunes from MOD files. I have a couple melodies I whistle that I know came from MODs I downloaded and listened to 25 - 30 years ago but I have absolutely no idea which ones they are. I still have most of that stuff (the benefits of kicking your data onto new media every few years), but slogging thru all of it just to find a few bars of melody just seems like a chore. I also thought that, if I ever chose to do that, I should record my current interpretations of the melodies to see how they changed over the years vs. how the original actually sounded.

[1] http://songfight.org/
They've already found a solution for that class image problem -- upcycling "trade school" into "bootcamp."

Now you can live in your tiny home as a minimalist and participate in a bootcamp, instead of living in a trailer park and going to community college.
Had GameStop management not neutered it, there would still be lots of unique things going on.

Turning an already online platform for truly cool items, into a side counter in only a few core stores, just goes to show how truly clueless GS management really is.

Yeah, I'm bitter. Wife and I gifted each other lots of TG stuff over the years.
The writing has been on the wall for GameStop for quite some time. Amazon and digital sales have made them pretty irrelevant and not much can be done. Just how capitalism goes.
Yeah, that one irritated me too. There's no "standard" meaning for \hat{}. I often see it used to denote the global mean as well.
Hi,

Dammy here. We've been working on Cardybot for some months and are excited to share it!

Send fun, personalized, and physical birthday cards to your co-workers with ease. All organized and mailed automatically through Slack. Great for remote teams or teams that just want to send birthday cards that co-workers will cherish forever.

The story: I started my career in a non-remote company where (like many other teams) we signed birthday cards for co-workers. Unlike most other birthday perks it was actually fun and personalized. But my last couple of roles have been on remote teams so it's been impossible to do cards like that. While I love working remotely, I wish we still did birthday cards and our early customers agree - that's why Cardybot was created. As a Slack integration, we take the fun in this for all teams (remote and non-remote) to the next level :D.

When we started building Cardybot, we (off course) had no idea we would be launching during a pandemic but I hope this brings more fun and engagement to your team during this tough time. Hacker News readers that sign up by end of March get 20% OFF till August 2020 - just shoot us an email saying you found us on Hacker News.

We'd love to get some feedback and are happy to answer questions!
I would think the physical aspects aren’t the largest barrier to entry.

As one could bluntly state it: because it takes a lot of money and connections to even be considered as a driver, it is statistically highly unlikely that, talent-wise, the current F1 drivers are in the top 1% or even top 25% of the world.

If Senna were born in tropical Africa, or even if he hadn’t had wealthy parents, he probably wouldn’t ever have raced a F1 car.

It’s way more likely for a talented soccer player from a similar background to make it into a top team.
This is fun! Obviously not a patch on the real thing, but could still be entertaining, as long as they keep non-real-racers out. The minute you add an esport driver I lose all interest.
That is growth rate as measured by confirmed cases. However given various restrictions on availability of testing, confirmed cases and real cases are likely to tell very different stories. Given that most countries refuse to test, refuse to test, hit an "oh shit moment" and start ramping up, the confirmed rate that your link uses measures testing more than actual infection rates.

References such as https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... have used a doubling time of about 5 days. As https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans... points out, studies of what happened in Wuhan suggest a real doubling time of about 6 days.

There are admittedly a lot of question marks about everyone's numbers.
Why not simply link to the original Nature article? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9#Sec4

"It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus. As noted above, the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is optimized for binding to human ACE2 with an efficient solution different from those previously predicted7,11. Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used19. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone20. Instead, we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer. We also discuss whether selection during passage could have given rise to SARS-CoV-2."

Note the use of the word "improbable" rather than "firmly determine".
There are two things econcon could've meant by "create" - either what happens before the tea/coffee reaches your shop, or what happens afterwards. I'll go with your interpretation...

I'm a fan of tea, ignorant about coffee.

Tea brewing generally has three variables: amount/proportion of leaves/water, water temperature, brewing time. With coffee, those three are still applicable. And there's a fourth variable: how finely one grinds it, and perhaps a fifth one: whether/what pressure to apply while brewing.

I usually don't even rinse oolongs/greens and it's fine. If you don't rinse your puerh, the first brew is just going to taste like a rinse. No big deal - enjoy the subsequent brews :)
What will average person lose? You are really exaggerating this...
A similar business in Canada: https://www.dairydistillery.com/

I think it's neat that they use yeast developed for fuel manufacturing.
What Would Roosevelt Do?
However, it's not addictive like many other drugs. Sure you'll suffer withdrawal for a day or too with some bad migraines, but afterward you're off it. I just make sure if I'm gonna miss a day to pack some aspirin to combat the headache.
I don't understand - according to this article, the tariffs are non-existent for the US & Canada [0], and according to this report from the USDA, the Ethiopian government controls the coffee market and exports [1].

Further, 8% of what, exactly? I bet tree farms get only a small percentage of the revenue of printer paper or cardboard boxes. Without this being defined, your comment kinda becomes meaningless. With a definition, it would clarify your comment for many.

[0] - http://www.intracen.org/coffee-guide/the-markets-for-coffee/...

[1] - https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/report/downloadrepo...
How soap spreads on hands using different washing techniques
This might be a more realistic compromise.

Maybe if the industry can agree on an OpenConnect standard with some traffic shaping. Then Netflix, Hulu, Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, EA, Disney+, etc could all share the same edge CDN hardware. Then residential buildings, cities, individuals, whoever, could run their own caching hardware that would cache based on downstream demand.
I worked for Doug as an intern at AOL and eventually led AOLServer development for a few years. It was a cool project and it’s neat to see it here !
We just celebrated one of my wife's friend's birthdays over groupchat.
Off-topic: code formatting on Medium is terrible.
Don’t think about what we can’t do during COVID19, focus on what we can do
Here's a crazy idea:

In order to speed up this quarantine, we should ask for "herd immunity volunteers" who basically volunteer to get infected (healthy young adults only). They would go into their own quarantine until they are no longer infected in which case they can be released into society, and since they are now immune, may be suited for certain jobs that require contact with infected.
Performance tuning in practice – is it mindset or just blueprint?
There are various discussions and theories especially as to the low death rates in Germany. Germany has had distributed testing capabilities very early (end of January) and has performed a large amount of testing compared to other European countries, which means cases are cought early and not when they hit the ICU. Other theories are the large amount of ICU beds, local medical production facilities, still ongoing contact tracing and some other things. The expectation however is that the death rate will go up a fair bit.
>And even people who like solitude do not often like being forced to stay inside, without being able to go for a walk, without access to nature and so on.

Is that actually happening anywhere outside of China?
Being receptive to hearing them is very different to actually implementing them.
Compared to other racing simulators the official F1 games are, to put it kindly, not the highest fidelity. Their design is geared towards mass market accessibility, not accuracy.

For more serious sim racing, iRacing is usually the game of choice. Some of the younger F1 drivers play iRacing in their (now quite copious) spare time and they generally do quite well.
Paths – Covid-19 Job Stats
Yup, you need a specific yeast strain, saccharomyces cerevisiae typically used for fermenting ales, won't ferment lactose.
Watch funny YouTube videos is my most obvious suggestion.

I ve also done a 'show me around your house' one. But it only works if your team is somewhat extroverted!

I've also seen my S.O. team doing "bring a pet/favorite non human thing to zoom day" lots of people have favorite plants surprisingly!
Simplify your Stripe integration with Paysly
While this may cramp your style, it also prevents your nextdoor neighbor from tearing down their house to start an open-pit mine... I don't think you'll encounter too many building code problems if you buy a parcel of remote land, if all you wanted was to live in a geodesic dome?
That would require some sort of verification otherwise you can't have a serious business environment [0].

[0] by that I mean the nievau shouldn't sink to the likes of reddit or twitter.
> I see no reason why a GameStop employee can't just quit or refuse to come to work if he/she fears getting infected.

You see no reason? I'll give you one:

In most jurisdictions, if your employer lays you off or closes their doors, you can apply for some kind of benefits, e.g. EI up here in Canada.

But if you quit your job on principle, you don't get benefits and have to live on whatever savings you've amassed working a retail job.

It seems you believe that everything should remain open, everyone should keep going to work, and hey, if you don't like it, quit your job and stay home.

That is not how a society gets through a pandemic, no way, no how. If you were in charge, millions of people would die. But they'd "Have their freedom to choose for themselves." So there's that.
Tracking the real US coronavirus testing numbers with open source
I've had friends consent to a search to avoid a $120 speeding ticket. I've also had a friend consent to a search. They found a seed of marijuana in his backseat (probably left behind by another friend). And used that as evidence to hit them for further charges.
I've seen figures showing a 50% success rate. I assume that the success rate is very low with much older patients because intubation itself causes a lot of damage.
It's a test of our healthcare systems that they can't possibly pass unless our government and society pass their tests. Any country that fails to get the general public sufficiently onboard to flatten the curve _will_ massively overload their healthcare system no matter how great that healthcare system is.
I might be missing something here, but how does the knowledge pandemic and about the severity of the disease about qualify as insider information? I guess this guy can be accused of not expressing his real beliefs to the public (to contain the panic as he would surely argue), but that is not the same as insider trading.
Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
One of my personal pet peeves is when library examples don't actually work anymore due to API changes (or typos).

There's actually a really great solution in the Rust ecosystem that I would love to see used more widely - Skeptic [0]. It's a tool that parses markdown, finds Rust and builds it as an auto-generated test. If the example is no longer valid, it breaks your build.

[0] - https://github.com/budziq/rust-skeptic
It's more like the land cosolidation act Britain passed in the 1800s. The peasant holdings making subsistence were forced out or became laborers. The "privatization" is where a business takes over.

It's better on a production level simply because the focus is for people to exclusively work on that as opposed to people living the complex life of a farmer. Instead of 100 peasants being marginal jack of all trades, you have maybe 50 be somewhat better at a select few tasks.
The only thing more over-simplifying than aquarium models is people accusing economists of over-simplifying.

It is a vast field with thousands of subtopics.

If an economist showed up and mocked Torvalds for not using Apache to React.js, they'd look about as silly as 99% of people accusing economists of ignorance of the actual world.
In your pricing > faq - there is a mention of why you chose SSPL and NOT AGPLv3!

And then you are on AGPLv3 ?

Can you please share your thoughts on why you moved to AGPLv3 ?
They do. Elon mentions this in a thread between himself and the mayor of NYC on Twitter.