skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not completely, but it's pretty unlikely it helps. First of all, no one will probably sneeze (or actually cough, because that's the frequent symptom) in your face directly.

If it's not 'in your face', just pretty close, then a lot of the droplets will be too small for the simple surgical mask to filter out. Especially as it leaves a lot of gaps around your nose and mouth. Not to talk about your eyes, where you can get infected just as easily. (Yes, you could wear protective glasses too.)

But... if almost everyone wears these in public places, which actually just became compulsory in Czech that should give pretty good protection to everyone (by filtering the emission of the asymptomatic infected).

And if we think about this use case, then actually it makes no point telling people that it won't protect them because if they think it will they are more likely to wear it.
Run v0.7.2 – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers
Hi willturman,

I'd love to hear if this goes anywhere. My email is carlchatfield gmail com.

Thank you
Sadly, as soon as this becomes common, the hoarders will do the same to avoid the shame/consequences. Fear makes people very very irrational. :(
You can't just take a non-touch OS and release it on touchscreen devices. It makes more sense to try and add additional power/functionality/versatility to the already touch-based iOS, which Apple is doing, than it does to try and redesign macOS for touch.
White House Cuts Top Cybersecurity Role as Threats Loom
... and they just shipped it as a feature! Impressive turnaround.
We've got a hire freeze as the business is sizably impacted. This could be a long recession if this virus is not stopped quickly. Could be a depression.
One man’s obstacle is another man’s security measure :)

I used to work in Techstop, I wonder how crazy of a time that team is having right now. But I wouldn’t call them an obstacle.
Do you find yourself using tools like make to manage non build-related scripts?

Build tools are great, but they are not optimized for general script management.

Run aims to be better at managing small scripts and wrappers, while incorporating a familiar make-like syntax.

I am happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you,

-TekWizely
> I like how you've seamlessly switched from the decade-old conspiracy theory that has become untenable to this legend where it "didn't pan out".

I'm not really sure what you're talking about but sure.

Apple was hoping they'd introduce the MacStore everyone would flock to it in droves. Unfortunately the revenue sharing scheme and onerous requirements and restrictions put upon the Developers have made it an undesirable distribution mechanism for anything that isn't given away free.

Apple's improvements to MacOS have all been about locking down and protecting the user because for years they claimed it was immune to malware and virus right up until the problem was too big to ignore. The past few releases of MacOS have been reminiscent of Windows Vista.

Apple would love to lock the platform down to be like iOS but the users have spoken with a resounding "f*ck you". So instead they're gradually developing a competing platform that is build from the ground up to be the unprivileged walled garden with a big ass toll booth at ever point of entry.

And you're sitting here taking the Apple approach of deny deny deny right up until you switch and say "it's better this way".
Maybe an early example of warehousing as resources and huntable animals became scarce: hunt an entire herd as it comes by on a seasonal route and preserve the meat for the year to come. Maybe this was a food processing and storage facility. If so, you would build up from a rather modest start until you scale up to such an extent, by which you probably had accumulated a fair amount of building material already.
Except the MacBook Air doesn’t have better specs than the iPad Pro. iPad processors have benchmarked comparably to laptop x86 processors for a while now. The iPad has a display which is around the same size but higher-resolution, 120Hz, and with support for touch and the pencil. Storage options are comparable. And the iPad has other random hardware like LTE, better cameras, and now LIDAR. On the other side, the MacBook does have more RAM, more ports, and a larger trackpad. But that’s not enough to call it a clear winner in specs.

It really comes down to form factor and OS.
Also, it's worth noting that in Judaism and some other religions these things have religious significance stretched to them. In this particular example, Aleph is considered to equal 1 and Bet is considered to equal 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
Was it Trump?
And in a panic stocks can dip far below what would normally be a fair value before beginning to recover.
IIRC super() is actually syntactic sugar for super(ClassTheDefIsFoundIn, nameOfFirstArgument), because there is no way I can think of to implement that as a function at runtime.
One good solution might be something like Datomic (the classic version, now called Datomic On-Prem), where each application process has the query engine embedded in it, and it pulls data from a relatively dumb storage service such as DynamoDB as needed, then aggressively caches it.
OS X, now macOS, includes lots of applications that are "miles from the platform’s intended use by the intended users". A huge userbase will always have tons of different clusters, and it's good to serve them all.

Furthermore, the terminal could be simply running in a little Unix sandbox, like Termux, and that could be a great entry point for kids to lots of different interpreters to learn programming. Not exclusive to remote into other systems.
We are building a 3D Hologram Printer so that you can have that kind of technology right at home!

Or entrepreneurs could set up new businesses so that this is available easily and as common as a print shop.
> Raft, and I believe Panos, contain some of the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing. The most unavoidable being assuming the network is heterogenous.

Did you mean homogeneous?

Also, Raft doesn't assume the network is homogeneous.

> I’ve heard of Raft variants with three (pure consumers, full voting members, and new or returning members who are still catching up) so that you can use machines unprepared for leadership and they will never try to elect themselves leader.

What's the purpose of these non-leader-competent nodes? Is it merely to increase the quorum membership and make consistency more difficult? Why wouldn't you architect this as a client/server relationship?
Droplets on the mask and you breathe them in right through it.
For what it is worth, I think your online presence is above the average.
IPv4 Hilbert curve heatmap of spoofed events detected month-to-date
Sure, but if the cost of short term futures contracts is negative or zero the oil companies would just buy them back instead of continuing to produce. When we say the cost of oil, we really mean the cost of short term oil futures.
Modernizing Twitter's ad engagement analytics platform in Google Cloud
How windows does things and how other operating systems do things, in the wise words of Jayne Cobb "ain't exactly but similar".
A Better Programmer: Part 1 – Software Design
Was this due to triage where resources were focused on younger people with complications as the medical professionals felt that it was a better use of limited resources?
>market was already fairly saturated ... did not appear to be seriously hiring ... an employers market

This was my experience in the job market last year, as well. A lot of open listings, but curiously picky requirements for who would be considered for a role. I definitely got the impression that companies were just idly trawling for fresh meat, without seriously pursuing any senior talent (read: highly experienced and commensurately compensated) for their "senior" roles.

I got my foot in the door as a contractor at a recently-acquired startup in the medical industry, considering it a safe bet against the inevitable recession. Like the economists and investors are now writing en masse on their blogs, I would never have guessed a virus would kick off that recession. =/

Advice for OP: Try finding which companies in the medical space are looking for front-end devs. There are a lot of not-exactly-tech companies that keep small groups of web developers employed.
Essentially: carpe lingua
They already have that problem solved:

https://firebase.google.com/docs/test-lab/

As do many others:

https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/

https://appcenter.ms/

https://kobiton.com/

https://www.perfecto.io/

https://saucelabs.com/solutions/live-testing
If it's not FOSS and an open protocol, it's not relevant.

That would be simple and correctly organized.
Not laid off, but I have been held back from a planned role transition (Agile Team Facilitator) so that I can continue contributing towards developer resource in the interim.
Ask HN: Where to find commission-only salespeople for a startup?
Where to look for consulting/sales companies who will help sell software for commission? Or an an online community of sales individuals interested in selling software for commission only?

For context, I'm a technical founder of a bootstrapped B2B SaaS product. I currently have one customer through an existing relationship and no sales experience (although I'm learning).
Well, that's pretty much any job board. AngelList's jobs area [0] in particular has good deal of equity-only positions - no pay, but a share in future earnings (which, it can't be overemphasized, are entirely theoretical). Unfortunately, my landlord and debt-owners do not accept hope for the future as payment.

0: https://angel.co/jobs
I've actually considered something like this. An idea of my own is creating a true marketplace for talent where everyone starts at a $1/hr for contract remote work, but the rate goes up by $x/hr for every hour that's booked in advance. Things would eventually balance out where there would be a balance of the rate with the 'pre-booked' time. Even if a person were to start at $1/hr, their hourly rate would either stall out or reach $40/hr by the end of the week.

If anyone would like to work on this kind of thing with me, feel free to get in touch. Who knows, it might actually get some traction.
For most people, your argument is akin to saying "you too can go into space if you just start your own commercial space company".
Evolution of Modern Workday (in pictures)
Will Shift to Remote Teaching Be Boon or Bane for Online Learning?
They originally had (and seem to still have) the same JS runtime at the edge to give you a smart CDN/reverse proxy.

They just updated it from being JS only to being able to run any Docker image. Cloudflare gives you a persistent key/value store and Fly provides a non-persistent Redis cache.

You don’t have to move your entire app but there are plenty of use-cases where you can move more logic to the edge.
This was interesting and it brought back some great memories. Legendary Wings and Dragon Spirit are my earliest memories of shmups, a genre I still love today.
Wow! It's good to hear that at least some business is still able to occur there. All the best!
Like always, getting funding is the problem.
> He says the “physical reality” of the market is that oil is pumped out of the ground and has to be consumed or stored. When the cost of storage goes high enough -- or space runs out -- companies might pay customers to take it.

Wild. Kind of like negative yield, but for a physical good.
LinkedIn really depends on your resume/skills and geographical area.

In the Bay area, I passively get at least two recruiter reach outs per week and when I was set to actively looking, it was more like several per day. Some of them are highly targeted. For example, I've had a company reach out recently based on previous distributed column store experience.

Triplebyte is also pretty good, although it's heavily skewed towards startups.

Both of those options are pretty high return on little investment (a few hours).
Most dorms have a single shared bathroom per floor.
If there are any products in computing history that do not owe their success to the model you're describing, it's iPod/iPhone/iPad.

We got disintermediated with the very first iPod. Remember "less space than a Nomad. Lame!"? That was very much the attitude of the crowd you are describing.

I distinctly remember a pry-my-keyboard-from-my-dead-hands attitude when the iPhone came out. It's only benevolence that stops me from constantly reminding the "power user" among my friends that his first reaction was "Not even a stylus?"
My heart goes out to everyone getting laid off or looking for work for any reason.

Would anyone be interested in a free "lightning round no-bs Q&A for engineering candidates webinar"?

I do interview and negotiation prep with candidates, and while there is a lot of general advice out there, I've found specific advice to be incredibly helpful to individuals.

I'm imagining a zoom call where one person at a time briefly describes their situation -- maybe with one or two clarifying questions on my part -- and then receives specific advice about what to prepare for their next interview, or how to find jobs to apply to, or what to say to that recruiter.

Let me know if you're interested, and what times would be good. Reply here or email hello@DangoorMendel.com

Adam and I have a Youtube channel here, though it so far focuses on negotiation (we've done a ton of application and interview stage work with individuals but haven't made videos about that yet, hence the idea for a live lightning Q&A): http://CandidatePlanet.com
I'm a developer and now that there's UTM for iOS I am going to be exploring the new ipad as a development machine, AWS Cloud9 already makes a great case for portability
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy – stay sane in world of remote, async work (2019)
I used to think I needed an amazing online presence in order to sustain a freelance career. In hindsight, that time would have been better spent reaching out on job boards and building relationships with real people.
I believe the older MacBook Pro has an iSight camera, while the newer one has a FaceTime HD one.
Diabetes mellitus is highly prevalent amongst patients with heart failure, especially those with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and patients with the two conditions have a higher risk of mortality compared with patients without diabetes or heart failure.[1–3] Diabetic patients have an increased risk of developing heart failure because of the abnormal cardiac handling of glucose and free fatty acids (FFAs), and because of the effect of the metabolic derangements of diabetes on the cardiovascular system.

A wealth of epidemiological evidence demonstrates that diabetes mellitus is independently associated with the risk of developing heart failure, with the risk increasing by more than twofold in men and by more than fivefold in women.[1–3,6]

Both population studies and clinical trials have demonstrated that diabetes mellitus significantly increases the risk of recurrent hospitalisations for heart failure and the duration of hospital stay in patients with heart failure, and it is associated with a significantly higher mortality compared with those without diabetes.[11]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494155/

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in women. Both obesity and diabetes mellitus are important independent risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease. Obesity is the leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 32% of white and 53% of black women are obese.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066828/
FDIC has approved two new industrial banks for the first time in over a decade
You won't find a high end reader (other than Sony?) that is in this size which is quite useful for those reading scientific papers, a bit blind, or who want to use it for sketch/art. It is only slightly larger than a typical hard cover.
As hologram technology gets more wide spread, the price will be able to come down.

Right now a <$100 Hologram Kit replaces what used to cost $1000's. So we're moving in the right direction!
We're on it!
The point is for the project to contact you. Not for you to contact them.

I understand that signing up is annoying, but really this isn't the time to be concern trolling about an email/account sign ups. Plus how are you going to help if you can't be contacted?
GraphQLize: JVM library to build GraphQL API instantly from PostgreSQL and MySQL
People keep saying “recession” but that sounds like they don’t understand the implications of what’s happening to the world economy right now. “Global depression” seems like a more appropriate term but time will tell.

I’m a CFO of $300M company that employees ~2200 employees. We’re out of cash in 6 weeks if our revenue continues to decline. Down 30% vs last year this week (which is good compared to most). Doing layoffs and pay cuts right now. My network of CFO friends are all doing the same, many at much larger scale. Hard for me to imagine a scenario where unemployment is <20% in 2 weeks in the US if this continues.

At some point, the financial cost is too severe for the majority of us who will survive this thing. We need to just resume business and accept there is a death toll. This is war. That’s my unpopular opinion on things anyway.
>You actually do, by saying it's less morally wrong because you're "aware" of your actions.

This is an utter lie. I never said this. Me being aware of my actions does NOT make any of my actions more moral. I never said this. You are either lying or delusional.

I'm actually a very high scorer on the psychopathy spectrum. The official term is antisocial disorder. This means I am technically less moral than most people.

Me being aware of my actions only makes me aware of my actions and my morality and who I actually am as a person. That's it.

>as long as you don't claim they're the original. It doesn't fit this scenario.

You're getting into technicalities. Let me put it simply. It fits. I'm talking about the general notion and feeling about plagiarism. This is the ENTIRE point of my conversation. Copying something without permission is in general wrong. There are cases where if the author is dead for over a century then things may feel gray, but who cares.

I don't want to get into technicalities because I don't care for the technicalities and neither do you. We all are aware of the cases there's no need to argue about it. If you want to argue about how a "technicality" makes the original posters plagiarism correct than don't care yo have that conversation because it's a waste of my time.
No, actually it was a guy who owns some restaurants and hotels in SF and was trying to figure out how to keep paying all his employees despite his business cratering.

So kinda the complete opposite.
Microsoft did invent this particular I/O abstraction, named a console. And it's only irrelevant if you disagreeing with "Windows Terminal is a console" is irrelevant. Were you irrelevant? (-:

Windows Terminal is built on top of the console I/O mechanism. It talks to consoles, as do the 1990s and later Win32 console applications that one can run displayed within Windows Terminal. Arguing with someone who says that "Windows Terminal is a console", as you did, based upon the product name is fairly flawed. The name for this I/O abstraction, invented by Microsoft for Windows NT and evolved from earlier operating systems, is a console.

If you want open and shut, by the way, one of the programs that is the innards of Windows Terminal is named OpenConsole.exe . It provides an enhanced implementation of the console I/O server, formerly conhost, and before that formerly CSRSS.
Every country in the world is labelled “Do Not Travel”, for the first time ever
Coronavirus Financial Crash Is Bitcoin’s Biggest Test, BitMEX Says
Chiming in here with a bit of data on the hiring side of things. I'm the cofounder of SharpestMinds, an ISA-powered mentorship marketplace for data scientists. For all the obvious reasons, we track the hiring rates for our grads very closely and have been keeping close tabs on the pandemic's effects on the tech job market.

Our observations so far:

1. Hiring in tech has definitely not gone to zero, even for the junior-level roles we skew towards.

2. We're seeing more like a 60-70% drop in hires compared to our original (pre-COVID) projections for the month of March, so far.

3. Companies least affected seem to fall in two major categories: A) BigCos with deep pockets; and B) SaaS businesses with predictable revenue streams and some degree of economic insulation from the "meatspace" economy.

Many software businesses (e.g., Zapier, GitLab) are already run partly or fully remotely, so their hiring workflows can take quarantine in stride, to an extent. Many others (e.g., Stripe) are quickly adapting to these new constraints.

The effects of a global quarantine and pandemic are almost certain to propagate to all companies eventually. But some are less affected than others, economically and operationally. We're fortunate in tech that it's still quite possible - albeit measurably harder - to get hired under current conditions.
I'm the sole IT tech for a small manufacturing facility - I was already part time and just got the request to reduce my hours even further for now. The local job market is already subpar here, so I'm definitely concerned about the months to come.
Any Junior or non senior roles for full stack engineers?
Thinking out loud: what about a transpiler project that goes from backwards-compatible current standards to stricter but more implementable standards. The idea is that you run everything you receive through this before your browser starts parsing it, so that you can support a larger part of the web while implementing a much smaller set of standards. Like Babel in reverse.

Of course, there's still a monoculture in transpilers, but at least there could be more browser competition after that point.
> the cursor keys on my bluetooth keyboard did not move the cursor inside the code editor pane

This is a bug with Monaco, Visual Studio Code’s editor component, which does not support mobile browsers.
It's a mistake to think of Chernobyl as anything near worst case, there were absolutely huge containment efforts that took place after that disaster that might not take place after a similar future disaster.
I don't think they can just take over a hotel without any input from the owner. This is still the US. We do still have some rule of law.
> I haven't tried since I don't have a USB-C iPad yet, but I would expect that if they mount as a standard FAT filesystem that you should be able to just plug it in and copy the files.

Does the iPad not support HFS+ and Apple File System?
That's my work pretty much except not k8s but it does spin up between 4 and 8 containers (depending on which system) some of which require 4GB of RAM or more (don't ask..).

On the flip side standard issue laptops are now 16" Macbook Pro's with 32GB of RAM which is pretty hardware.
Ask HN: Will you buy a 5kg (11 pounds) 17 inch notebook?
Hello,

A small shameless market survey. Would you buy a 17 inch notebook with 320Wh batteries with and a desktop class display panel with it, if it weights 5kg?

The idea is basically trying to make a DTR class laptop with genuine portability.
> There is a huge opportunity in thinking about when things go back to normal, what things will remain permanently changed.

I started a thread about that the other day; let's collect some more ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22587052.
I work fulltime remote normally. With kids home and added stress of social distancing, I'm at 50% productivity at best.
Building Can Make You Sick or Keep You Well
Unlike most other Y-series devices (including the MacBook), the MacBook Air has a fan. This allows it to dissipate more heat and sustain higher clock rates.
Europe’s Coronavirus Response: Selfish Member States and Active Institutions
Baby steps with Covid-19 data for (Clojure) programmers