skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left MSFT and went to Viair (with folks from the MSN Mobile and Outlook Express team), and we didn't have a bug tracking system... so we had someone send us a few screenshots of RAID and built a VisualJ clone one weekend. Fun side project, didn't really want to be in the business of bug tracking, was slightly before the web app era... We called our bug tracking system "BlackFlag" because it was a competing brand of bug spray. (And obviously we used the logo from the punk band...)
I getting downvotes for reporting simple fact? That's the spirit. Never let the facts get in a way ...

Here: "US law is more strict. It forbids anyone from making, using or selling the invention, even when the use is strictly personal." - https://www.iusmentis.com/patents/crashcourse/rights/
Avigan Effective in Tackling Coronavirus
When I got my raise recently, I still got the same amount of breaks as I did before, and sometimes I can take tiny breaks while working on the floor. Yet, I don't understand what you mean by inflexible hours. I understand it's not like Uber, but it's got more schedules than most businesses. My site has 5 different FT schedules, and a PT schedule: 2 on night shift, and 3 on day shift. I initially chose this job because the hours were perfect for my schedule. Plus I'm able to have more time off during the week to spend time with family since I only work 4 days. It also makes it easier to get that OT and still have days off. I do believe this is unskilled labor, and I believe we should be paid accordingly to it. But that doesn't mean we can't learn skills while we're here and get promotions because of it. Well thanks for listening, and I hope you stay well.
The biological platform of humans discriminates. There seems to be a greater amount of pleasing chemical reactions happening when people see good looking people, so they seek them out themselves. I don't know how or if one can fight that, it's seems to be one of the fundamental mechanisms of mating.
All Dead Sea Scrolls fragments at DC Bible museum are fake, investigation shows
There’s plenty of reason to criticise Tesla without relying on false narratives. With a couple of rare historical exceptions Tesla do reliably distinguish AP and FSD.

(Also, the generic term for what AP does is lane centering, not lane assist.)
That's probably not long enough unless you live someplace hot and dry like Kuwait. Previous viability studies have found it stable up to 9 days. Furthermore, low temperatures and high humidity greatly increase viability for additional days. Also, fomite materials such as stainless steel extend the viability of it further.

Given the lack of specific data, two week quarantine is the practice we're using at home. Unboxing things isn't as important as mitigating the threat of insufficiently-characterized, novel pathogens that our immune systems have basically no experience with.
Circumstances such as this call for mandatory licensing or pooling of patents.

The system itself is broken and should be abolished, as has been long and well argued.
> Devil's advocate: Why would a manufacturer consider damaging what is a potential mega cash cow? I read earlier that ventilators generally sell for $40-70,000USD to hospitals (who then go on to charge $20-40k for ventilator based treatment.)

Because capitalism only works with a functioning economy. If everything goes all pear shaped, and we have tens of thousands of people dying because we don't have enough ventilators (and the numbers suggest that this is quite possible), these companies that have been filling their bathtubs with cash are going to have angry gun toting mobs of newly homeless and bereaved Americans using their office windows for target practice. This will happen regardless of what's right or wrong, legal or illegal. We haven't seen this here before because we haven't had a strong enough economic collapse yet (excluding the Great Depression of course, where some of this did happen). It's happened in many other countries, and may happen here too if CEOs don't take a more long term perspective on pricing.
Exactly. The Chinese government's vision of a clean, sterile, society and citizenship.
Oh lord, product studio. Back in 2013 the preferred method of filing workitems for a given "wave" was to load this spreadsheet, do weiiird formatting, and indentation, type up all the workitems you foresee for the next sprint and then press a magic "send to product studio" button." God help you if you messed up some of the nesting or wanted to reorder anything - honestly I would just wipe it clean and start from scratch.

Ironically my team just finished a product called RAID that was designed to kill bugs in product studio and move them to DevOps. There are still pockets of teams that use Product Studio within Microsoft - the sufficiency gap is real - but they're the overwhelming minority now.
A Book About Software Engineering at Google Is Out Today
If we aren’t locked down for 6 months, probably more than 2 million Americans will die from coronavirus his year.
Please don't use HN to spread misinformation that could cause massive numbers of deaths.
> You think booking revenue at a later date restricts them from spending the cash they receive now?

I did not know what to think, as I have never dealt with this before. Thank you for explaining it.
Netlify does branch deploys. I’ve hosted on S3+CF and Netlify. Both have their place, but Netlify has a great developer UX. S3 does not.
You’ll change your tune in about two weeks as hospitals start to fill and people you care about start dying.
The native apps are usually a lot better to use on mobile phones / tablets though
I just checked a typical day's correction by the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/pageoneplus/corrections-m...

It's two minor mistakes, transparently corrected. I can't think of a better process except "let's agree never to make any mistakes".

And the self-certified "Brave" browser is a for-profit scam. It's an answer only if the question was "Why isn't there another middleman between me and content creators, skimming 30% of ad revenue?".
my process = hose the box down with lysol, let it dry. move into the basement, let it sit for 5 days, then open
I've been trying to encourage people to support local eateries by getting takeout.

I have a compromised immune system. I don't do a lot of eating at restaurants. I do get a lot of takeout and have for a lot of years now.

If you call ahead or order online and pick up, it minimizes your exposure to other people. Little Caesar's has a pizza portal where you can order online, pay online, enter a code at the store and retrieve your own pizza from a customer-facing warming oven without ever directly interacting with a person.

If you aren't sucking wind financially as a consequence of layoffs and shut downs, getting takeout can help protect our economy from a total meltdown while fostering new habits for a healthier future culture.

I'm still getting takeout and some staff at eateries are beginning to greet me enthusiastically by my first name like I'm their best friend, apparently thrilled to pieces to have a regular customer while business is hurting.
A good number of us will be locked out in the comfort of the fucking street if we can't pay the damn rent.
This is same Bible Museum involved in many fishy deals.

Oxyrhynchus collection being "disappeared" from Oxford, smuggling antiques out of Iraq.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22003708
ProGen: Using AI to Generate Proteins
Goodbye privacy. (Even more than normal)
Here's my 2 cents -

A. [0] Familiarity breeds attractiveness.

This isn't a new concept. You can find many advocate groups who want "diversity" in workplaces and higher positions to stop systematic or perceived racism due to non familiarity. How is that different from above?
Do you have a choice to be ugly or not? Do you have a choice on whether your body is deformed or disabled? Do you have a choice on being poor?

To little extent, maybe but most can't be helped beyond a certain level.

B. Scale

Night club doing it doesn't affect society as much as a platform with 1.5+ billion users. Of those who are going to vote new policies and may get to a high position of authority later,

do you really want your judge who uses tiktok to sentence you for longer?

You can already find people living in echo chambers online and as more of it is moved online, will you be okay if your child is excluded from something more than a billion people use because she is a bit shorter than normal?

How many of you have LinkedIn, twitter or social media crap that you despise but have to use due to others using them? What will happen then?

C. Awareness

Do you think users are aware that they are being censored constantly compared to real life where you can't avoid meeting different people? If you go to a bar, you will see different people in your way - few "ugly" and others pretty.

<sarcasm>

I propose we stop ugly people from having kids so everyone remains pretty and similarly symmetrical. Who wouldn't wanna live in a world with everyone pretty and same?
It's not like we will seek more exoticism after that happens. The problem will remain solved forever.

</sarcasm>

0] http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~efi614/documents/InPre...
There’s a Hugo flag for buildFuture. I have it turned on in Netlify branch deploys and off in prod. ;-)
Coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
Haven’t read this yet, but another good question is why can’t we know the topology of the universe.
> from your username I wonder are you on the Chinese side as well?

Are you not going to address the racist dog-whistle? You work in San Francisco where many of your fellow Americans actually do have last names like Dang. Maybe you should consider the harm this type of rhetoric does to them when you ignore it.
Semi off-topic, but the development of solution for this problem is a minor plot thread in "Rainbow's End" by Verner Vinge, which was a fairly popular sci-fi book with some really cool "near-future" predictions.
It looks like the virus cases are increasing by a factor of ten every eight days

https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states

5000 now

50000 day 8

500,000 day 16

50,000,000 day 32
Not providing table of contents is IMO offending to potential readers. And, unfortunately, this issue applies not only to this book.
To be fair to Tesla, they are much less likely to spread the virus than some of the "essential" services that are allowed to remain open.

To be fair to the county, finding that perfect balance of what is essential and what is not is impossible. I can't blame them for coming down on this side of things.
> I seriously doubt any critical medical part can be made for $1.

Seems like these things that were 3D printed could be. At least at a marginal cost.
I feel like I'm watching an episode of Halt and Catch Fire. Thanks for sharing!
And then call someone a pedo when experts they point out his ideas won't work.
You are taking my Russian roulette analogy way too literally. The "bullet" is not literally just dead people, it's also the economic impact of letting this disease run rampant, which you are clearly not accounting for.

We aren't just shutting everything down to save lives, we're shutting everything down because we some reason to believe that if 70% of the population gets this disease in a very short amount of time 20% of them are hospitalized, and at least 2% die (in truth, the CFR would skyrocket if we don't flatten the curve), the societal and economic havoc would be much worst than the one resulting from these government imposed quarantines. At the highest end of the risk spectrum, it could be orders of magnitude worst. Do we know that for sure? No, hence the Russian roulette analogy: some chance of extremely high risk, esp. when it comes to the entire planet: NOT WORTH GAMBLING.

If you think that world leaders are currently sacrificing the economy just to save lives, you are not paying attention to what they have been doing.
would a few hours in the oven at 150 work to sanitize a package? (assuming the contents can tolerate that, and i don't burn down my house with the cardboard igniting)
This is awesome. ZZT was huge for me when I was young. I had already been toying with making games and desktop programs in VisualBasic by the time I found ZZT, but the ability to just throw together little worlds and play with the basic primitives the game gave us, share them with friends, was such an experience for the time.

I wonder how kids today would see ZZT. I think they'd have a lot of fun with it once they got into it, but being an older DOS-based game, ASCII art and all, might be particularly strange to some. A lot of modern games, Minecraft being one that immediately comes to mind, invoke the creativity and that ZZT did in my generation. Still, I'd love to see what people would make in ZZT today.

Tangent: I can't believe it was this long ago now, but about 10 years ago I started working on reverse-engineering ZZT with the goal of putting together a web-based implementation that was compatible. That spiraled out of control into a brand new project I called MWorlds (https://mworlds.wordpress.com/).

Haven't toyed with this in ages, but the idea morphed into an open platform for making web-based games, including all assets (sprites, music, script packs, monsters, weapons, etc.), that any kid or adult could build and share and use in their own games. I really should just open source this someday. Or start hacking on it again.
Influenza is a completely different family of virus, COVID-19 is not another flu. The realm Riboviria is where they diverge, which is pretty far up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronaviridae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomyxoviridae
> The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex.

And big companies take advantage of their position as the only ones who can navigate such a system to justify their sky high prices, and then they lobby to maintain that position.

The valve in question looks to be for IV drug delivery, which is not a new technology. It's probably just a simple check valve.
Considering your company probably makes them for <5k I'd say it's sad all around
Having lived in areas that commonly use masks to control yearly influenza, I have to disagree.

Even if the basic instruction of 'don't touch the front' is ignored, they still reduce exposure. The contaminants stuck to the surface of the mask are less dangerous on the mask (even if you touch it), than on your face or in your lungs. Even if the mask is changed infrequently and reused. Viruses on droplets stuck to the mask are dying remember, and hastened by just sunlight. Or a washing machine for cloth masks or improvised masks like scarves. And personally I found wearing masks to reduce face touching, as they serve as a reminder and reduce tickles like hair brushing your face.

I'd much rather be surrounded by people reducing their chance of being infected, even if 'ordinary people' incapable of following basic instruction and completely lacking common sense. Reduced exposure means slower transmission and fewer people infected at any one time.
Similar insofar as using e-ink, but they're battery operated (from what I can tell). The "coolness" of what I'm talking about would come from being a completely passively-powered device.
Also a small pedantic note: we call it "pandemic" only when we are referring to the global scale of the disease. When the context is limited only to some region then it's just "epidemic".
I'd prefer this Google option my self.
Sad how most of the comments on that thread are focused around it being a conspiracy to affect Tesla's stock price.
I think the club analogy here is spot-on. From what I've seen of TikTok, if you're classically attractive then you're famous on there, and it drives the wants and trends of TikTok. A userbase that is infatuated with crushes. It's no different than any teen magazine from the 90s.
I have an ignore-worthy conspiracy about this app, stop reading here if are you have a distaste for this.

I think it's used as a staging environment to test mass human interactions with computer generated videos of people in a setting where there isn't pre-loaded skepticism and where the sample sets are extremely good. Mass amounts of people doing the same dance is a pretty good data set, and the information in this article makes me believe this even more. They are effectively "cleaning" the data so the sample set is attractive people in clean and presentable homes or areas with good lighting, all confined to the "For your page" stream. Might not be true, but it's a fun thought.
I have so many questions lol
I am not.

"A patent owner (patentee) may be precluded from enforcing its patent against an alleged infringer after a period of time from the first notice identifying the patent and possible infringement (e.g., 4 ½ years) if the following conditions are met:

Misleading Conduct/Silence: The patent owner, through misleading conduct (or silence), leads the alleged infringer to reasonably infer that the patentee does not intend to enforce its patent against the alleged infringer (e.g., by sending a cease-and-desist letter followed by years of silence);
Reliance: The alleged infringer relies on that conduct; and
Prejudice: The alleged infringer will be materially prejudiced if the patent owner is allowed to proceed with its claim (e.g., alleged infringer has continued selling and expanding product lines).
This legal doctrine known as patent equitable estoppel applies on a case-by-case basis to each patent asserted by the patent owner. Therefore, a patent owner may have other patents to enforce which may not be barred by equitable estoppel." - http://www.patenttrademarkblog.com/consequences-of-patent-ow...

Again I am getting downvotes for reporting facts. I guess mob opinion rules.
Rocket Lab regularly streams their launches on YouTube, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/user/RocketLabNZ

While they are currently a leader for smallsat launches, they've got some competition ramping up.

Exciting times!
Sweet work!
The specially-trained teams were often made up of local estate workers who knew the land in the area "like the back of their hand".

It was so heavily dependent on local knowledge that it was only found because someone who used to play in it as a kid went looking for it.

That's how you keep a secret.
Masks decrease R0. You don't need everybody to wear them. You just need enough people to wear them for R0 to fall below 1, combined with all the other measures. It's academic because there aren't enough masks but it's a lesson to learn for a future epidemic. Also it's high time that mask wearing becomes culturally normalised in the West as it is in east Asia.
Sorry, stupid question, but why not use /proc/net directly?
"Don't see your city? Hit Add Location above and your city will be added when you add it's first restaurant"

I could be blind but I cannot see "Add Location"
No. Temperature has more to do with it, which has already been proven with the semi-log growth charts.
The end game of the lockdown is the disease burning out over the course of 9 months instead of 1 month, giving more time to find a treatment or vaccine and fewer people dying untreated because hospitals are full.

The alternative is to let 2 million Americans die this summer.
There’s going to be a lot of empty space.

The land owners did it to themselves pushing for tighter building codes and zoning. No one built, rent went up, the economy got more fragile because people on the bottom had absolutely nowhere to go. Now they’re going to pay for it (except the ones that saw this coming, I know the building I live in just got sold a few days ago...)

I’ve been saying for years that the housing market is irrational and that most of the US should be building more. Not that my opinion means anything but I also wasn’t the only person saying this.
>I thought that it mainly referred to the weakness and dysfunction of the Imperial Chinese government, which was a major contributing factor to that.

It is, except the Chinese see no difference between China , Imperial China, and CCP China. They are all just collectively known as China.

I am not sure if any Germans would find it insulting if people were criticising Nazis.
Sounds like the product could have been named FLIT, given the finicky nature.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit_gun
Did not know, installed it awhile ago and given the effort needed haven't touched it since.

There seems to be a installer script (https://github.com/mafredri/vyatta-wireguard-installer) that will persist the deb between updates. This issue https://github.com/mafredri/vyatta-wireguard-installer/issue... will switch it to the port you suggest.

Perhaps I'll set that up. Given recent global events I've got some time, but not much need for a remote access solution right now!
>>> they might have been too scared to write it. When looking back on the origin of RAID, one of the original developers confessed, “It really wasn’t made to last that long. Sorry!”

This speaks to me - too many times we think we need clever architecture and well thought out methodologies and ... the most useful tools are a mix of inspiration and timing and luck.

Had the developers stopped to plan they would have built something with over 16 bits of primary key - and also made a hundred other "improvements" that would have destroyed all the value MS got out of it.

There is a point in this - it I am not sure I know what it is.
This appears to be a sales post, with a bunch of affiliate links.

Perhaps the actual products are good, but the credibility drops substantially as he has monetary incentive to list these things.

edit: It seems like the post author is acting in good faith
My real worry is that if the restaurant goes under (or sometimes, even changes ownership), your gift card is worthless.

Dunno if a chargeback would go through, since you technically received what you paid for.
People too. I'm a donut.
With actions taken in all of 5 issues. See all issues here https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues?q=label%3Aunsafe+
well, the premium they're paying is less than the market rate, otherwise the market would have given it to them. Hence, if they're going to get a subsidized loan, they should have to pay into that, along with everyone else that is elligble for it
Not a TikTok user.

I mean, to me, this is how things just work, ethical or not. What would we expect from "featured" things? Typically people in television (shows and commercials) or otherwise "featured" fall into more attractive territory.

Is it shallow? Absolutely.

Is there anything to be done about it? I mean, maybe, but is there some monetary harm coming to TikTok users?
Show HN: Birthday reminders and gifts your friends will use
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