skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His original announcement is in this video (starts at around 34:00): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/568019342 ... one of the questions asked in the chat (55:07) is "How?" and he says he's going to answer that in more detail in the future -- tantalizing! I for one would be very interested. He adds, "As a quick summary: I spent a lot of hours on this. I don't even want to admit how many hours I spent on this. Essentially lots of effort, and time, and sweat. No tears though." Kudos!
There used to be a Linux client, but not anymore it seems. If you can live without the convenience of cloud sync on the PC, USB transfer should also work on Linux. You'll need to physically connect the device to your PC though.
It is widespread but this usage is off label.
What are the best acquisitions of all time?
In addition, restaurant supply chains aren't impacted by idiots doing panic buying.

So, you can get pad thai takeout from a restaurant. But you may not be able to get a box of noodles from a grocery store.
On HN this morning -- news that someone in Japan is already on their second infection of this virus.

So there's our first data point.
I struggled with this thought before buying my rM1, and I can honestly say it's worth the price tag.

Both physically and mentally this device has changed how I use tablets/devices. It feels like real paper to me, and without all of the glorified app icons and notifications screaming at me I feel more focused on the task at hand. Purpose-driven devices reduces distractions and has helped me grow professionally and I'll even go as far as saying reduced some stress and anxiety.

I am seriously considering buying a dumb phone (minimalist interface) thanks to the impact the rM1 has had on my productivity.
Yikes. Say you buy a box of cereal from the store... is there any good way to disinfect it, or just let it sit in the garage for a few days?
Federal Reserve reopens crisis-era primary dealer credit facility
Can you please elaborate? I don't understand.
Ground stop was just lifted but tower is still "ATC Zero."
Definitely wouldn't call them that. Maybe "luxury-priced electric cars".
Yeah, I've had this discussion before. I'm not convinced that its any worse than a base 3 series, but I'm also not convinced that a base 3 series is a luxury car.

Sure, its a premium with premium perforance, but its not "luxurious". Conversely, you can get more "luxurious" cars with worse performance for about the same money.

Want luxury and premium performance? That's another 10k (at least) with most brands and Tesla doesn't really offer a car with both at all, IMO.
Presumably because a lot of attractive young people do

That's explicitly the point.

Yes its evil and manipulative - but everyone should understand CPC is not above such tactics. And neither are pop magazines, holywood.. other people

Its an ugly world out there
I'm not sure they could manage that "give masks" step. Most of the supply still seems to be diverted to health and emergency services.
I don't understand, are they just selling completely vanilla HTML forms? What's the product here?

> Airform turns complex HTML forms into simple calls.

a.k.a a POST request? a.k.a how all forms already work today... it's already language agnostic.
TikTok has a long history of doing shady things:

* TikTok's local moderation guidelines ban pro-LGBT content - Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal [1]

* Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing - Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-l...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
Aren't those Saturnian hexagons blue? Hyperintelligent shades of the colour blue, I reckon.
If it's not in your bank account, it does not exist.
Doesn't mean it's not a shitty thing to do.
Hahaha that's like 99% of the people on there. Great marketing tik tok. Tick tock your time is coming
It's been shown that spherical cow, not bees, is homeomorphic to the Universe [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow#/media/File:Spot_...
> Because it's not like a restaurant that you can close and then open a month later with little consequence to the public. If you stop production of components or cars, you will not have them later on to restart the economy.

Interesting. VW, Daimler, Lamborghini, Ferrari, FCA, PSA all are stopping production.
I'm not sure that's a great example because its probably a better experience to be outside of MENSA than inside it.
"Up to 24 hours on cardboard" - makes me wonder what the likelihood is of mail and package delivery being shut down soon?
makes sense to me. Isnt this how society works at large? Cute hostess at the front of a restaurant to great you. Top sales earners are usually in decent shape and charismatic. Society segregates itself away from the poor. Sounds like tech imitating real life to me. (to be clear not saying its right, but giving my opinion on what I perceive in society and how this aligns to it)
TC needs to be banned from HN.
Can't wait to listen!
I am unsure how this is relevant. "protected class" is a legal term, it has nothing to do with morality.

In addition to that I doubt that refusing to sell a cake to someone because they are ugly would be considered an acceptable thing in a court of law.
Sounds like a question for XKCD’s “what if?”
Amazon limiting shipments to certain types of products due to Covid-19 pandemic
> By some strange coincidence maintaining a working web browser became a task that only Google can do "properly". Microsoft gave up. Firefox is struggling.

In what way is Firefox struggling? And you didn't mention Apple, who seem very capable of maintaining Safari.

The "strange coincidence" phrasing makes it sound you're saying Google engaged in some kind of clandestine conspiracy. I think it's pretty clear that they wanted to make the web a more capable platform and I'm personally glad they did. Imagine if everyone was required to create a native app on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android to reach all their customers. It would be a nightmare. Google Docs alone is enough demonstration that this is something people want.
Changelog hasn't been updated in 3 years. :/

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/v0....
If one is using OpenJDK is there any reason not to track the versions > 11 as they come out, short of the usual reticence to upgrading?
It's rather basic (i.e. not great), and only supports DRM-less epub and pdf.
Yes, let’s mix all the colors until we all turn out culturally brown. Sounds super exciting.
You're comparing America to Italy and saying they're different (which I don't fully agree with). You should also be comparing our response to Italy's and seeing they're the same. We're both under poor leadership who downplay and deny basic scientific facts. The spread here will be the same. The timeline will be the same. Our shortage of hospital beds will be here within a week. The interruption to life is not going to be measured in weeks; it'll be months. I'm not trying to stress you out more, but you keep saying "two weeks" without any actual reason for saying so. I'd put $100 that in two weeks all we see is the very well understood and predicted 2-4x in infection rates.

Last point: I live in Seattle. You have previously mentioned how people won't stand for this and there will be riots. What you're failing to grasp is that when people are scared, 90% of them stop going out on their own. Yes, there were some young people still going to bars, but Seattle shut down FAR before any kind of order to do so. People chose to stay in once it became apparent their choice was either staying in or risking needing a hospital that is oversubscribed. That will happen in many, many other places in our country, and there won't be riots because people don't want to be around enough people to riot.
That proposal is just a complicated and inefficient bureaucratic reinvention of a supply & demand marketplace. Just let S&D do its thing and take its course, and people will get water.
You can simulate grayscale with dithering, similar to drawing with a pen or pencil. If you really need grayscale or color you can buy eink displays that support it, even ones up to 300ppi. I don't know if 1w would be enough to power them though, and they're a bit more expensive.
It's not the same amount of scientific difficulty though. Low hanging fruit (relatively speaking) was already picked. Impact of even greatest geniuses toady is miniscule compared to geniuses of yesteryear. Andrew Wiles', Grigori Perelman's and Terence Tao's impact on humanity is not even one thousandth of Leibniz's.
Yes that can work fine for certain low-value/low-volume forms, but it's a bad UX to effectively put spam mitigation on your users.

It should really be handled on the backend (e.g. using https://akismet.com/development/api/).
Daily COVID-19 diagnoses 5x'd February 12th d/t broadened criteria
Edge cases suck. Sorry.
I'm generally in agreement with you, but tangentially, Chloroquine was already tried in some countries (not in the controlled sense we expect in an actual clinical trial), and showed "promising results"

https://sci-hub.si/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
This is still just talking about a property of information that resembles one aspect of what's meant by "meaning".

This is all still purely structural and independent of semantic content.

The example given above about alternate interpretations of the same bit string on a USB drive gets at the problem.

Semantics is about the process of interpreting data into something "meaningful" to some particular system (e.g. a human). It's essentially an importing process: converting data to a format that some system knows how to operate on (i.e. "understands).

To keep it brief, meaning (or "information" in the non-jargon sense) is about a relation between some data and a system which that data operates on (or the system operates on the data, depending on how you look at it).

"information" from information theory is an intrinsic property of data[0]: the information content doesn't change based on what's interpreting it. (At least that's my understanding.)

[0] I'm using "data" here to refer to something like a serialization of a system into a form where information-theoretical analysis can be applied to it (e.g. like a bit string).
The model that may be making US, UK rethink coronavirus control
So basically it is the car that a lot of doctors and nurses drive? They seem like they'd be pretty important now.
Discriminating on mental agility seems an eminently useful thing to do.
The spike [0] didn't make any sense and wasn't reported on Wikipedia's timeline (which someone should fix btw [1]). Concisely:

"In Hubei province, on February 12 health officials essentially broadened the definition of what could be counted as a case [...] trained medical professionals could classify a suspected case of Covid-19 as a confirmed one based on findings in chest imaging and a doctor’s analysis [...] a lab result was no longer necessary to consider a case confirmed. The change was made to speed up the finding of new cases. The 14,000 new cases weren’t even new [...] Many were older cases reclassified based on the new definition."

Also, expect more:

"For now, the rest of China is still using the results of lab tests to count confirmed cases, which is why the surge only appeared in Hubei. It will take time to see the real epidemic curve of Covid-19 — that is, a visual of when exactly cases became sick, not just when they were reported. Until then, we should brace ourselves for more panicked spikes and hopeful dips in this outbreak."

[0] https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...
RedBeanPHP 5.5 Beta 1
Thank you so much. Ive just done some server maintenance and tried the new user flow with another email address. I was able to sign up, confirm my email, log in and post. Hopefully it’s fixed now.

Also I’ve worked out a potentially simple functional solution. I’m going to try to make a YouTube video to appeal for input.
I'm wondering the same thing!
Hi, thanks for reaching out! Here's a couple I've submitted to mobilefeedback@github.com:

* Repository names aren't centered to the screen; they're centered to the space left between the bar button items. This might be intentional but is somewhat strange and out-of-place on iOS.

* Repositories with "strange" licenses show up with "None" rather than "tap here to see the actual license".

* Submodules used to show up as "Something went wrong". Now they show up as "Unable to view file".

* Tabs don't actually line up to a character boundary.

Since you're here, a couple more that I haven't bothered to get around to submitting:

* There's a lot of places that could use search fields. The repositories list, the organizations list, notifications, individual repositories (i.e. code search/file search)…

* A view to see a list of commits would be nice.

* There's a text-field looking thing on my profile for a status that I cannot actually figure out how to put text into.

* It'd be nice if links had the option of opening in SFSafariViewController.

* Code viewing is a bit uncomfortable, especially on smaller screens. The font size is a tad large, line spacing is pretty big, and not being able to disable wrapping on demand is somewhat inconvenient.

* It'd be nice to be able to review multiple lines at once.

I have a bunch more but I can't really recall them at the moment, so I'll keep submitting feedback in-app and hoping that you can get around to taking a look at it. Thanks!
> All that applies to operating systems and has been like that for decades.

Windows has had "great security sandboxing" for "decades"? Are you sure about that?
You’re saying, in effect, that it is not illegal.

Which is not a statement of whether it is moral, or a social benefit. Discrimination against an “unprotected class” can still be worthy of criticism.

For a very long time in Ontario, homosexuals were not protected from discrimination by law. The laws protecting them came about because people would not settle for, “if it’s legal, it must be above reproach.”
I don't think there is an easy way to disinfect it, maybe wipe it down with some lysol wipes if you have some. I guess your best bet is to just wash your hands thoroughly after going grocery shopping, and before and after eating.
We've just be quarantining packages. They get shoveled into the garage and sit there for at least 3 days before opening. Seems like a pretty small convenience hit to stay safe.
Things that can tolerate it without getting ruined/spoiled will sanitize much quicker in direct sunlight.
You DO know people that dev on mobile???
Is it their primary platform or just an acceptable downgrade during in transit or "out of office". What sort of programs do they use? Do they remote into tastier machines to run beefier programs or are there a range of IDEs for mobile?

I am most intrigued.
This. I used to be a big fan, but this fact has become transparently obvious in the past few years and makes it really hard to like the guy.

Now I'm just waiting for his big announcement that he's putting together a crack team to develop a COVID-19 cure/vaccine, at which he'll throw a few million dollars and achieve nothing other than to stoke his ego and reputation. I hope I'm wrong.
Not likely, as it's a lot easier to do some basics like take a temp of your delivery people at the beginning/end of their shifts. And there's only one person, so you could do some contact tracing if you were some kind of modern country - unlike those unable to test hardly anyone.

So it seems a bit better than a free for all at the supermarket?

I just got the mail, with gloves, and left it in the garage. Same thing with an Amazon package yesterday.
It means Npm always wanted to be the "one true source" for nodejs code. No matter who wrote the code.

No interest in mirrors from day one.

Npm sold out to Microsoft and got paid. All that free community effort to stop Npms "crashiness" got sold to Microsoft for dollar.

Nodejs went to the Linux foundation.

Npm went to Microsoft.

Suprised?
Why is this a surprise? Glamor magazines and Hollywood movies have been doing this for all time.

This is the natural consequence of any platform that wants to be popular and get a ton of media attention.

Is it mortally wrong? of course it is, exactly the same as glamor magazines and Hollywood are.
Yeah, screw usable UIs! Bring back marquee tags!
I don't disagree (although I'd be curious to hear your rationale on Mozilla; their incentives are... curious). I suppose what's hard to not view as a lost cause is the idea that accessibility to non-JS/Lynx/etc is best-practice or the default. But there are counter-examples of less-is-more good citizens (Craigslist and HN itself come to mind).

As flawed as browsers (and their vendors) may be, I come at it from the other direction: from the perspective of end-user adoption, the open web and federated email are our last two bastions of open computing ecosystems of any kind, holding back the tide of walled-garden apps and clouds and such from taking over completely. While radically-simple "good citizens" of the open web may not be the norm, at least they're possible, which can't exactly be said for the computer-as-appliance model.
That's a myopic view of the largely tax-payer enabled Tesla/SpaceX/SolarCity conglomorate. I don't expect a company largely bootstrapped by massive US gov program awards & free passes+subsidies to give equity to the gov despite the massive capital investment, but backroom calls to circumvent public health policy is somewhere between "far below baseline expectations" and "evil".

I'm happy we have real civic-level project funding for people who get results, and private citizens reaping massive profits from them. In fact, I think the real genius of Musk & Thiel is to be self-enriching versions of FDR, and the DC prime etc. mess has forced their need. But that doesn't excuse evil - there are real lives involved,.
That’s fair. SoftBank acted like an unsophisticated investor and goaded Neumann on, so it really is a codependent VC train wreck.
I would argue this is currently a carefully maintained illusion which is shattered by malformed input.

Perhaps a universal function exists, whereof all known programs are a special case of. Perhaps humans operate like this or perhaps we are Boltzmann brain apparitions. If not the latter then the subject turns into a discussion of communication through lossy channels and convergence, and the data are again just tokens.

(Sorry if I ramble. It is late at night here.)
Definitely, lack of proper intensive care will pull the CFR in the opposite direction. But I don't think that is the main reason we see such high CFR's in Italy.
> Not just people, but primarily people living in a pathologically authoritarian state that doesn't allow them to access other places on the Internet that they could put their content on.

No it's not. China has their own version of TikTok called Douyin. If I recall correctly, TikTok isn't even available in China.

Since TikTok isn't even used in China, who exactly are the users you're describing as "people living in a pathologically authoritarian state"?
A look, a theory contrary to all evidence!
there is a couple ways to do and handle this. It seems like the best practices change every 6 months. There is a similar way to do this with azure AD also. I'm curious how workos differs. Seeing this field evolve over the last 2-3 years has been interesting.
The shares purchased in a buy back go on the corporation’s balance sheet (sometimes to be retired) - it’s a way to control float along with other things. This is the crux of the issue - you are increasing a liability (debt) to shift another liability (shareholder equity to tStock) — this in theory is meant to increase the earnings per share by reducing the share count and lower your overall weighted cost of capital. (Debt is most always cheaper than equity in terms of a cost of capital)

If this is a truly capitalistic society - what should really happen is that all the bought back stock needs to be reissued (sold back) into the market — but that would create excess supply, reduce price, then freak out everyone’s 401k.

Finance is a crazy web and really cool - but massively complex. So you are right that there is liquidity every day, but that liquidity does not affect the total number of publicly traded shares until the purchaser is the corporation itself (the buy back).

The real screwed up compounding variable in liquidity is who is actually buying (awesome when it’s actual primary investment aka private fundings and ipos, and messy when it’s the secondary market aka the ticker price) — guess what’s even more messy: Passive Funds like ETFs. Passives (where 401ks live) are now the primary vehicle of investment for average America so really no individual investor is actually buying an individual stock- instead you buy a ‘share’ in a prorated basket of stocks based on ratios set in investor agreements (vanguard ishares etc).

When money goes into the ETF, the fund buys 10% x, 10% y... so on of the basket of stocks they market. No earnings have changed, no cash flows, but external secondary market forces now drive the market.

This is what Michael Barry (of the Big Short) is waiting for next - along with Water, which will be the next decades issue.
Dry cleaners are essential services because they are necessary for sanitation. They may not be for you, but for example my pillow is dry clean only and it would be a problem if I spilled my morning tea on it and then ants showed up because I couldn't have it cleaned because someone thought I could live with limp creases.
Guess I could have been clearer.

I do not want to ban buybacks, but now I at least understand an argument for doing so.
Sure, but it's a good argument against calling something a "small upstart".
I find the experience using AWS Amplify Console to be great, not dissimilar to Zeit or Netlify. It's a 'productisation' of the S3 and Cloudfront pattern and does its job very well imho.
https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/
Mnuchin Warns Virus Could Yield 20% Jobless Rate Without Action
I don't shame people unless I think it will accomplish something productive. I wouldn't think of denying that you have the right to shame people for whatever reason you like, but I choose not to do it myself unless I see a good reason for it.
Several schools in the US are using this for online classes in the face of COVID-19.
But how can you objectively establish that somebody is unattractive?
Assuming the world moves into this hypothetical society you're describing nobody wants to be part of that new protected class.

If you're by some semantic classified as unattractive, you will automatically feel segregated and marginalized. This is not like sexual orientation where non-heterosexual people actually have a desire to express their sexuality but this desire is repressed by a regressive, judgemental society. This is exactly why "Gay Pride" is a thing.

Compare that to being unattractive. Unattractive people, whatever that means, don't want to be part of that group. That's a pure factual reality of the human instinct. People want to feel attractive because they have a natural instinct to intermingle and reproduce.

But even if we opt to oversee this particular deficiency when attempting to justify an "unattractive" protected class, the problem is that "attractive" is extremely subjective and usually dictated by societal norms.

What's attractive today wasn't attractive 100 years ago. What's attractive in Africa is not what's attractive in North America. What's attractive for me (even in this dictated herd mentality) is not necessarily attractive to you. The only common factor that all these perspectives share is that nobody wants to be classified as unattractive.