skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah? But have you tried to buy canned beans though? ;)
> Do I back in after they have fallen 10%? How about 20%? Should I wait till 25%?

You should not try to time the market. And hopefully you don't really mean "buy back in" (meaning your panicked and sold, you should just be adding/averaging down). Just look for general buying opportunities and don't kick yourself if the market falls a bit further before it rebounds.
It's not on the sidelines. Like 0.001% of "cash" is actually cash. Apple holds like a third of its "cash" in equities. Airlines could do the same, or hold
short-term debt, or pay down their own debt (which would free up capital for other uses). (They could also hold long-term debt in other companies, but I'm not sure where that shows up in the balance sheet.)
So essentially, Microsoft has bought npm. Smart move. Seeing that node.js builds on top of Googleware, this is not the worst that could have happened.
A company is donating toilet paper
it’s obvious that past performance is not a predictor for the future. Yet, I could have said your same exact words in 2000 and 2008: “this time is different, let me go out of the market!”.

I don’t know any other investment which is completely passive that will statistically allow me to grow my capital over the long term. So yes, I will rely on 100 years of data I have, and to prevent Nikkei I try to diversify using a healthy international allocation. If you have a different investing vehicle to suggest, please let me know.
Google is trying substitute the OS with their browser. The rest is accordingly to this goal. They'll be exposing more and more of underlying OS functionality on one hand and turning Chrome to be a fully fledged IDE as well. Web and at some point traditional app developers will play along as well since having one platform to develop for is very attractive idea. Web components is just on of many other steps towards this goal.

So yes I'm afraid that at some point we will all end up being servants of Google. Hopefully something will prevent this from happening.
The Love App
Right, a market where a lot of people suddenly have the ability to move to a less expensive town and not have to worry about finding a job or worry about commute times. They may do so eventually if they wish, but I think this is a huge amount of leverage over landlords and would reduce housing demand.

I'm not saying it's good for San Francisco tech workers, but I don't think rent costing two thirds of your take home pay is historically typical. Based on that history I do not think landlords could effectively collude to keep prices high if people are willing and able to walk away.
Some pharmas.
That's a great idea. Thanks so much!
Yeah, I'm planning on it. I just need to move the Yelp API key from source to an environment variable and then I can switch the repository type on GitHub.
For all the worries about tech monopolies and oligopolies, I am always more worried about the ISP's and their power.
Interesting points here, especially about `<style scoped>` being removed from browsers after Google requested it. That would be really handy to use. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552
Ironically, that very page handles link clicks with JS without bubbling back to the browser, so since my browser is set to forbid opening new tabs on a webcoder's whim, I also can't cmd-click links on that page to open a new tab when I want it. And the page does open new tabs on simple clicks if it's allowed in the browser. Such simplicity and accessibility, wow.

I also have no idea from that post what particular problems the authors see with WebComponents and Shadow DOM and why those would be Chrome-only.
> undeserved rural areas

Was this just a really unfortunate typo for underserved?
IE and FF could've just kept up... Apple is doing decently at least.
A fourth person may absolutely see no point in one, or both of running marathons or losing weight, because they already do tennis or swimming or whatever and/or they are slim enough for their needs.
Personally, I think it should be tiered. I'm willing to pay ~$2 for older films (that's what my grocery store charged when I was a kid), ~$5 for new releases, and I expect a discount for paying month to month vs ala carte. So, if I watch one movie/week, $10/month seems fair since I'll probably watch 1-2 new releases and likely won't watch a movie every week. If I watch 2x that, then $15-20 seems fair. If I watch a movie every day, $50/month seems fair. Maybe pay extra for higher quality.

I currently pay for Netflix and Amazon prime, mostly so my kids can watch cartoons (we don't have c cable or satellite TV) and because my wife likes fast shipping (we watch way more Netflix than Amazon Prime though). I don't expect to pay more than either service to have access to a better selection of movies.
The press that has got ,,better'' just is doing the minimum necessary to publish anything believable by a non-informed person. At this point anybody can look at Italy and see that COVID is clearly not better than the flu.
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"Get it on Google Play"

meanwhile the screenshot shows an iPhone 6
> FF was best when it was called Phoenix, from there it was downhill

WTF? Firefox 3 and above altered the browser landscape, providing a viable alternative for people using IE6.

> instead of focusing on their core product, Mozilla decided to become a sjw organisation

Yeah, I’m sure all engineers suddenly stopped work on the browser because they care about gay rights. Makes sense.
I can't help but think these outages are just IBM trying to remind us they're in the cloud business too...
> fresh produce is fine and things like pasta, rice, baked beans and frozen fish fingers are long gone

This is exactly what I noticed in the local super market in Boston as well.
Caught cold at the most inconvenient time
> if you give it a query that only requires certain result rows from one of its mat views, then Materialize is only going to compute the intermediate rows

This is absolutely correct!

> You can just have a bunch of “the same” Materialize node (i.e. every node just freestanding clone of a template node, with exactly the same sources and matviews) and then hit them with the parts of a map-reduce query

This should work, but we have been thinking about it/testing it differently internally. In general you should be able to create materialized views on different "shards" that have different `where` conditions, allowing you to control memory that way. This technique does require data that is actually partitionable in this way, same as it must be partitionable in mapreduce.

> this is all irrelevant the moment you write a query that needs a pure reduce

Of course, with materialize's sinks you can spin up a bunch of `materialized`s and connect them for a final reduce after data has gone through e.g. kafka or shared files. Being able to write joins and aggregates across heterogenous sources makes this kind of workload actually pretty pleasant.
Now would be a good time for a general rent strike until the government steps in to help small businesses
> I mean, with the dawn of webassembly, I feel as though things are going to get closed off more and more.

This is already possible today - many Qt applications, for example, compile to WebAssembly with minimal changes required.

Look at this nice Qt rich text editor demo, rendered in a canvas: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wasm-qt-examples/last/ind...

Even copy&paste works! But except for use cases like porting existing niche enterprise applications, I don't see why anyone would prefer this over standard web development.

Performance is worse, it's very slow compared to the DOM, accessibility is nil, it requires arcane tooling and the ecosystem is so much smaller.
This sort of action is what we need across the economy. Cancellation or deferral.

Rent deferral, interest deferral, mortgage deferral... etc.

At the individual level maybe limit it to the lower 50%-70% of income earners. Cancel interest and utility/rent/mortgage payments for lower income population. Do it for 2-3 months.

The upper half will just eat into their savings some but won’t suffer like those living paycheck to paycheck.

I’m fine coming out of this with $15k less savings. Im not ok with my neighbor becoming homeless or permanently in debt because of it.
Sure, but try to eat a juicy sandwich that was made in the 80s.
Toilet paper makers: 'What we are dealing with here is uncharted'
You can always go by the number itself, or a critic that you trust.
> The music industry got their shit together and even the most copyright-paranoid artists are on Spotify...

To be fair, unless their play count rivals Taylor Swift, those artists probably still aren't making much money. I have quite a few friends who are professional musicians and this is a common complaint.

Im nit saying spotify isnt a positive thing for consumers (and maybe also artists in the long run) but there's definitely a tradeoff to having one platform to rule them all.
How to Invest during the Corona panic
I wonder to what degree piracy serves as marketing ie someone pirates the film then tells three non-pirates what a good film it was, and they pay for it.
As far as I know, most fast food franchises don't own the land under the restaurants in the way that McDonald's does. I'm not familiar with the numbers, but I've seen quips to the effect that McDonald's is a real estate investment firm that does fast food as a side hustle.
When you steal from someone, you take something that belongs to them. If someone steals your bike, you don't have a bike anymore. When you torrent, you create a _copy_ of your friends _copy_. your friend still has his copy, but now you have a copy too.

Hope that helps
I only use chrome for sites that don't work in other browsers and for testing. I think it's great that IE is no longer the defacto standard, but I'm not a fan of chrome being it either.
> There's your startup idea for the next 2 weeks.

all medical startups are legal heavy, there's not much space for gung-ho attitudes.

imagine the shitstorm that would ensue if someone dies on a makeshift ventilator. and they will, because being ventilated gives no guarantee of survival.
Open source App to help with CoronaVirus spread
As we have seen the coronavirus spread across the world and affecting people, I feel powerless working from home on my day to day job as a backend engineer.

I wonder what application could help reduce the impact of the crisis.

I believe the South Korean and China have introduced some apps to mitigate the disease but that comes with some privacy concerns.

https://www.wired.com/story/phones-track-spread-covid19-good-idea/

I wonder if an open source solution could be develop mitigating the privacy concern. I don't have any expertise with this but I'm thinking encryption / blockchain / federate ...

This app / servicer could then be used by countries with less technically advanced countries as the virus spread.

Does anyone know if such project exist or would be interest in starting something like that ?
> is there any effort to do the same thing in a non-scoped way?

It's already done! Web Components (Custom Elements + Shadow DOM) are web standards, ratified by W3C, and they already work great in Firefox and Safari. This whole article is simply incorrect.

http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/
https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/

https://www.webcomponents.org/ see "Browser Support"
The motivations (and problems) of mega-corps rarely align with the motivations (and problems) of human persons and it's always a mistake for everyone to copy their practices blindly.

You have to decide what you want the web to be. An opaque application or a document. Using the tools of applications for documents is pretty stupid even if it is hip and looks good on a resume. There are two webs. There's the money web run by coporate persons and then there's the web run by human persons. If you're being paid you don't really have a choice and that sucks. But if you do have a choice, please please, consider what Moonchild is asking here.
The first thing we did when we started building our ml platform was to go with a plugin architecture. All applications are simply plugins. Data connectors are plugins.

We do consulting work and have to build custom solutions for our clients. Once they were satisfied with the models, they'd ask for an application to use these models: user management, data uploads, etc.

We used to build a custom solution for each client. It was very hard to change these solutions when client's demands changed, and it was almost impossible to reuse that solution with another client.

We took advantage of a decrease in activity to build a platform where things would be plugins. The time series forecasting application is a plugin, with endpoints you can tap into with authorization tokens.

The recommender system is a plugin, the notebook application is a plugin, etc.

Now our notebooks are "Published" in one click, which generates an AppBook a business person can interact with by changing the parameters. The runs are tracked (params, metrics, and models) in case domain experts tweak parameters that result in a better model than we have. The models can be deployed to endpoints you can invoke with generated tokens.

The major benefit is that when a new member joined the team, they had to understand the whole code base to be able to contribute or add something. Now? They don't have to understand anything, only the application they're building. If they want to render it on the sidebar, they just have to add a `sidebar.html` with the proper icon and route. If they want to show it in our appstore, they just have to add a file with the proper icon, and our platform handles the rest. It will discover the application, load it, etc.

An administrator can even load an application as a zip file. The platform will consume it, install its dependencies, load it, and activate it.

We want the product to be easy to add to and modify its behavior with config, instead of changing the code and we work to do just that.
There is valid business opportunity then.
There's also https://www.richis-lab.de/index.htm

He goes into a bit more detail and explanations, and has some interesting comparisons between different versions of chips (especially fake vs original). In German, but Google Translate does a good enough job.

One of my favorites is of the LTZ1000[1] ultra-stable voltage reference. An interesting (IMHO) read about the LTZ1000 can be found here[2].

[1]: https://www.richis-lab.de/REF03.htm

[2]: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article...
Possibly you have to be really good at a language to realise how "bad" you are. If you're poor at using a language you can't see your mistakes. As you become significantly better you can appreciate nuance, and such, and again feel inferior.
And COVID-19 is on track to kill way more than that in less time. So what's your point?
It is not that some devs use Chrome only features, the other browsers are to blame for not keeping up, I see.
The big difference is that Google is building well-specified new web standards which are quickly adopted by other browser vendors, rather than adding a heap of poor proprietary browser extensions that become de-facto standards.

They even deprecated Chrome Apps in favor of the PWA standard. Google has nothing to gain from hurting the open web ecosystem.
Hello from Montreal, Canada!

My employers are industrial equipment dealers who remember WW2, and the pivoting of industrial production that it took to win the war.

We can still make a major difference if we are able to manufacture open source ventilators en masse.

What am I doing about it? First I'm reaching out to the engineering departments of two major academic institutions to find local engineering leads that can help in conceiving or identifying sound open source plans for a ventilator. The goal being to find consensus and validate a ventilator design that we can mass produce as fast as possible in North America. In parallel we would reach out to our provincial government to pitch this initiative. For this to be a success we need local as well as national government support. Not delegating the work to government but rather getting their legal support.

My employers know some local manufacturers, some in the USA, and in Mexico; all of them capable of manufacturing various parts as well as assembling on site. The knowledge, equipment, and production facilities are scattered. We just have to identify who can do what part in their shop as per plans that have been reviewed and approved. Ultimately we could use this production model for all essential equipment to fight Covid-19.

About patents. No patents were required during WW2 if governments had to produce equipment that would win the war. The Covid-19 pandemic might be worst than war so to win it patents should not be an impediment.

There are multiple online forums where a low-cost or open source ventilators are being discussed. I'm not seeking to add noise to this very important endeavour but I do feel the need to at least contribute towards a coordinated, structured effort.

I'm actively searching for open source ventilator initiatives all over the world to identify the most promising ones: I need your help in getting this done, the world needs your help, so please reach out via opensourceventilator@gmail.com along with your suggestions and advice.

Last but not least, I just registered opensourceventilator.org and will gladly donate it if needed to centralize efforts in this fight.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

PS: Elon, how ya doing?
I believe this is currently possible with Chrome's Workspaces [0].

[0]https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/work...
I really wished such papers had double spacing, or better still, the ability of adobe reader to allow you to adjust such spacing - that would be an amazing feature as for some layouts, they are easier to read with better spacing between the lines - at least for me.
I understand why the WHO avoids animal names,but CORVID would have been a much cooler choice.
Always great to know someone thought it was worth trying to copy. Take it as a form of flattery and move on.

Focus on things they can't copy, like revenue and customer satisfaction
Turkish did this right, IMHO, when it adopted a Latin alphabet. No diphthongs at all. One letter, one sound. The “sh“ sound is spelled ş, and “ch” is ç.

You also need to add more vowels, as there are way more than 5 vowel sounds, but that’s not hard. Umlauts are already common in many languages.
Ask HN: What apps can we build to help stop the spread of Coronavirus?
A friend called me yesterday to discuss ways we could help with the coronavirus pandemic. It got me wondering if there are any ideas in the HN community for apps we could stand up quickly to help in some way.

My friends idea was a simple app to log your health each day and include any symptoms you develop. This could be used to know where it is spreading the fastest.

Ultimately the most important thing anyone can do is to stay away from group activities. So anything that could encourage that would be a plus.

Do you have any ideas for how to help with software or otherwise?
So what happens when there's an unexpected demand spike? "Most mills are 24 hours, 7 days a week operations already. They are running on fixed capacity," said [paper processing company CEO] Sellars. "It's not like there's an idle machine that can be cranked up to increase production."
Might be a tough pill for some, but ultimately I agree it's the way the industry needs to end up. Consider the architect; he doesn't get to blue-sky wild ass concepts for a building. He has to draw within boundaries of local codes and feasibility, often using technical tools such as CAD.
I read a similar article once as well. Back then I wondered where the benfit would be, other than it being kind of a company store for franchise owners. Turns out to be a very robust set-up for crisis, doesn't it?
I think the real news here is that people still use these search engines. :D
I'm using PIA, but they were purchased recently by Kape Technologies so I'm not sure if I'll re-up when my subscription expires. Where I'm at right now is they're probably more trustworthy than Comcast, and less likely to do something like selling my IP address -> personal identity to advertisers.

https://www.hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sol...

They say it doesn't change anything, but with VPN services you really have no way of knowing how trustworthy they are.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-continually-e...

Still, I figure on balance I'm better off having my internet browsing aggregated with all the other traffic coming out of their endpoints versus coming from my modem's IP address.
I have been using it with great success, but there has been some bother with portability.

I used it in ways that could have been done with make proper, but since I already know a lot of guile I reached for that.
"Designers should be engineers so they know what they're actually doing" is a pretty common feeling among engineers who have to deal with designers--not just in computer fields, but also in hardware, construction, even landscaping sometimes.

The reality is that they are very different disciplines, and the ability to integrate those competencies can be a competitive advantage for a company.
Amazon prioritizing product categories, suspends some inbound FBA shipments
Oh, like MSBuild with Powershell scripts. Each evil in their own ways.
You can still count them, even though you can't associate a bluetooth address with a specific device.
And then get crazier with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base
Bitcoin Price Has Changed, but Its Fundamentals Have Not Changed
It's a web API, but it's a web API that requires development work to do, and Goanna (Pale Moon's pre-multiprocess, pre-all-the-things-that-make-modern-Firefox-good Gecko fork) would need to implement those APIs.
Paywalled. Can't read it.
The UK has it otc
Can you get fired now for buying IBM?
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hard to believe you didn't just recommend invest in FB - seems like everybody forgets about cambridge analytica and doubles down on preachy posting when the world's on fire...
I went through this recently and have come out the other side with a successful new venture. It took some self reflection, humility and creativity to get here.

What did it for me was putting aside my ego and realizing that maybe my ideas weren’t the pinnacle of human thought. Up until this point I had been building what I wanted, believing that as an engineer I knew better than everyone else and therefore what they needed and should want. I think Silicon Valley and VCs have this problem in general and this is why most of them fail.

It wasn’t until I immersed myself into searching, networking and communicating, that I finally understood that there is a huge divide between what people need and what engineers think they need.

With that said, my suggestion would be to network with people outside of your normal circle and find someone or a business that is doing remarkably well without engineering or automation. Figure out how to pitch the bigger picture to them and co-opt them into a new venture. Their idea is already working with manual, redundant workflows. Imagine what you could do together to make the business scalable.
audio parsing cough ai that compares cough of cv infected vs normal cough
Random number generator party tricks
Wikipedia:

‘A book is a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers.’

I’d say going by definitions on Merriam Webster and others shared by you + real data it is safe to err on the side of proper definition. And HN complaining about browbeating? I mean come on. :)