skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were taking money out of the company by buying back stocks and sucking it dry, who are the people loaning them money to do this? Your story implies they're throwing billions into these companies without expecting to get their money back.
Another soul lost due to their inability to prevent letting anonymous assholes make them feel bad.
Nethack definitely has a place in the history of roguelikes, but for people reading this HN thread, please don't play it as your first roguelike.

It was not only my first roguelike but also the first C codebase that I ever played around in. I was blown away in the 90s installing Linux as a teenager and it coming with GCC built in. I owe the dev team for getting me really interested in computers as more than a consumer of games.

But, it's creaky and idiosyncratic and has a lot of sharp edges that people who have been playing it for decades are quick to forgive, but if you're coming to the genre from, well, anything else, you're going to get put off, hard.
Currently writing a web app to help business owners navigate the Byzantine process of getting federal assistance (US) for Covid-related hardship.
Really recommend the book, "Why Buddhism is true" by Robert Wright. He discusses the "atheist" take on buddhism, and how it predates an awful lot of what we now understand through modern psychology.

It's not really a tutorial on meditation, but I've learned more than enough to get started, and it's really interesting to see where I've gotten since starting.
> I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there is no war

That's not really right, because that implies that other people are using the word wrong. It's more that it's a word with a lot of uses, and you got stuck on one of them.
Staying alive....
"If you really want to solve this". Exploring Tokyo is awsome and something I want to do at some point in my own life, but like anything else it can also be a form of escapism.
"Alexa, order a bouncy castle", if all things are setup, you may have just spent $200 on a nice toy for children.
Well then we're all fucked, because it's going to make its way through the population no matter what we do. Might as well continue on with our lives.
Seriously, can all of this stuff please go away already?
I am so angry at the experts saying masks were not helpful at the beginning of all this.

Sewing Ordinary face masks should help! The lie was that only n95 rated masks help because the virus is so small it goes through ordinary masks, but its not about that. It’s about stopping infected from spreading large amounts of it through droplets.

It’s in Japanese but I found this website on recommendations on how to create a mask: (I had to use Google translate) https://www.cottontimemagazine.com/page/10
Not back then, even by late eighties USSR, technical occupations were women dominated. By 1990, 68% of union's engineers were women.

Men were supposed to do either dunce jobs, or jobs for "big men" like bossing people around in the party or state enterprises.
Wait. Do you think it's the right thing now for the FED, ECB and other central banks to print money day and night and eradicate savings of hard working people via inflation?

I'm not sure why you bring up those companies in response to my proposal of managing your own money. But since you mention how purely evil those companies are, last time I checked they were employing real people, working on real products and services, supporting their families and contributing to the economy. I'm not a fan of big corp, bit it's not so black and white.
Working on a couple of things that are relevant to the new normal of #QuarantineLife:

https://www.roseandrex.com/pages/resources - Index of Covid-19 related online resources for families

https://www.jqbx.fm - Listen to Spotify with friends online

https://www.zigpoll.com - Embeddable polling widget for websites.

With the bump in traffic on all the web properties due to the quarantine it's a been pretty hectic week! I wonder if y'all feel the same. Stay safe!
> Every western country has used some central economic control continuously for the last 100+ years. Tariffs are ancient, but more modern tools like the FED or child labor laws are far from recent.

Tariffs and child labor laws are not remotely "turning industry over to government to run."
I hear you and understand in theory things like surgical masks allow coronaviruses to pass through them. But we've got to stop thinking about wearing masks in absolute terms of "it works" or "it doesn't work". Just like computer security, wearing a mask is one layer of protection. I don't think any reasonable person expects a mask to be foolproof. But when used in conjunction with thorough and frequent hand washing and social distancing measures, I suspect we'll find that wearing a mask is a prudent thing to do, even if it's just a home-made one out of cotton pillowcases or a surgical mask. Masks should not be relied upon in the absence of social distancing and hand washing just as airbags should not be relied upon without wearing a seatbelt.

There's anecdotal evidence from places like Taiwan and Hong Kong that masks are somewhat helpful and very little real evidence that they're harmful except in terms of making masks unavailable to frontline health workers. I firmly believe that in hindsight, public health agencies in the west will realize they did a lot of harm by saying masks were worthless.
Do you know these are the real reasons or are you just rehashing what you have read? This feels more like confirmation bias. Can't imagine the rest of first world countries are completely shut down and here Japan is just doing fine with 1000s of ppl picnicking etc. There has to be something else going on..
What made you chose matter over others, say phaser? I'm building a p2p thing and want to build some showcase simple apps on it
Whose limb is it anyway?
What's up with all the bitmap images. Was expecting to see at least one SVG image.
Yes it was the case for many people in February. They didn't have covid. Your dad is very high risk and should stay home. The doctors in UK don't need a test to diagnose covid in a patient with pneumonia. They see it in a second on an xray because it is so distinct. The Chinese doctors said the same. So do the Italians.
Depends on the circumstances. On a roundabout, the cost of missing an exit is minimal. On a highway, it’s often 30km, and can be much higher (we once missed an exit and ended in Mexico on a 3hour illegal detour).
Can confirm - here in Czech Republic the government even released illegaly produced alcohol they have confiscated in the past few months for companies to make sanitizers.

And not only alcohol related companies are making sanitizer now, even chemical oriented high schools and university faculties. Even a fuel distribution company reportedly reprurposed one of their huge tanks for large scale sanitizer production.
Going through all that trouble then _not_ shaving is hilarious.
Significant performance improvements in the core, reworked CLI, crypto improvements, professional security audit of both design and code, easier root server federation, easier DIY controllers, better multicast, and of course bug fixes.

The firm doing our security audits is an extremely well known one. Don't want to reveal the name quite yet.

It's possible that some of that won't land fully formed right away in 2.0 but will follow shortly thereafter, but the performance, auditing, crypto, and multicast will be there.
Most people will actually touch their face a lot when wearing a mask, to adjust it, scratch an itch or temporarily remove it to speak...
Yeah, the way they designed this test makes it meaningless in the real world.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43552152?seq=1

and

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227283604_Populatio...
Brother QL-810W Ultra-Fast Label Printer with Wireless Networking

If you’re using an iPhone, make sure it has AirPrint so you can easily print labels from your phone.

To scan labels, I just use my iPhone camera, tap on the link, and the webpage for the item opens.
Simple Respiratory Mask

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373043/
I'm making all these remote meetings suck less with a real-time collaborative idea board.

The idea is that you can set up a meeting agenda, get everyone to add ideas, then discuss, vote and get consensus quickly:

https://getshuffleboard.com/?betaApproved=1

Also I film all my work on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP8wPiIB7kz7pbYCnjIc...
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
Maybe you do care but your significant other or roommate doesn't (and doesn't want to understand because... inconvenient).

This is possibly the biggest single problem with modern surveillance/privacy culture. The idea of requiring an individual's consent to something that is potentially a risk for them is laudable, but it's also largely a symbolic gesture when some of the largest and most powerful organisations in the world are duping all of their friends into providing much the same information without their consent or even necessarily their knowledge anyway. The whole business model is fundamentally flawed, and privacy laws are a long way from catching up.
21 days to death, doubles every 2.5 days, exponential growth. Do the maths.
DVD Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) (2019)
Make TP expensive enough, and shoplifting will be the least of the problem, it will be worth robbing or killing over.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
For great good!
Nice idea! So do you use it similar to how you'd do a git commit?
This seems more human-like, in the traditional pre-modern sense, than the extremely abstract idea that is modern finance.
a few random points to consider:

- Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam all in much warmer climate.

- hot spots in Italy and Japan are likewise in the northern region: Lombardy in Italy and Hokkaido in Japan.

- wearing masks during a global pandemic isn't apparently as fashionable in Japan.

- many Japanese elderly, or over 30K per year, die unnoticed in solitude. so it might take a while to catch up.

But on the other hand:

- In South Korea, most infections trace to a middle-aged lady "Super Ajumma" who is also a member secretive cult. Without the cult, the total infected with the virus in SK would be comparable to that of other Asian neighbors. So outside China, the spread of the virus doesn't seem so bad in Asia overall.
There's no invasion or rebellion. Local courts can still operate. There's 0 chance of any suspension being found legal.
That might be the worst idea I've ever heard. Shutting down the supply lines during a pandemic would have disastrous consequences for everyone.
I'm building what I hope is an educational and entertainment project for when my son is older. It's a cross between Dynamicland[1] and Osmo[2], that combines a projector, camera, and computer vision to hopefully bring programming and creativity out of the monitor and into a semi-real world. I'm just designing the system now and I posted on reddit[3] to ask the machine learning community for advice. I'm also reaching out to computer vision engineers to offer to pay them for a few hours of their time via Zoom to get advice. Some examples of similar systems are [4] and [5].

I don't have a name for this yet.

[1] https://dynamicland.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hKzrjRWww#t=1m10s

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/fl2akd/d_a...

[4] http://tablaviva.org/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFwz5Qjr3c#t=40s
The suppression of SIGPIPE was done in the Go code, not in the Python code.

Does the POSIX standard mandate that programs receiving EPIPE/SIGPIPE die silently? I don’t know of such a rule, and there’s plenty of programs that violate this. Python is a bit too verbose with the errors (with a full trace back and two copies of the error) so suppressing those errors somehow seems like a good idea for a general-purpose command line tool.
Have I been here before? When?
real hospital ventilators are much more complicated and require specially trained people to use properly, as they can be very dangerous

This is all quite true, however from the sound of things places like New York City need both ventilators and staff.
Large companies that want to remove us from the trusted group should run the coordination server on-prem.

We have considered other certification options, but so far they boil down to running a part of the coordination server on-prem. Still exploring the space though.

(I work at Tailscale)
My point is that it keeps infected from spreading droplets through the air and on those surfaces.
On one hand that's awful. On the other hand I can understand the insurance company balking at that price.

I'm in the UK. My ex considered private C section, and checked prices in the UK. We could have had it done by one of the top specialists in the country for ~12k GBP including the subsequent hospital stay.

In the end we chose not to, and our total costs were ~40 pounds/night for her to get a private room (NHS is allowed to charge for some extras) instead of sharing.
Service engine with built-in economy of executions
In crisis situation, to save TP, men may want to limit themselves to tapping.
Building a developer community called Able - https://able.bio/

Been focussing on the markdown editor and finishing up some new data portability (easy import / export of posts) over the last couple of days.

You can try out the editor here: https://able.bio/new

Would appreciate any feedback.
Choose friends and partners wisely. If your roommate is doing something to endanger you let them know or change roommates. What if they were doing hard drugs? Would you live under the fear of cops busting down the door?
Looking for something to do myself, actually.

I recently built https://www.warcache.com to save paint recipes and army lists for wargaming, or print out sheets of proxy cards for Underworlds.

It was fun to build, but kinda stuck thinking of what to add.

If anyone out there has a Python/Flask project they need help on, let me know. Stuck in the house, might as well help some projects.
Ask HN: Law firm recommendations for IP/employment type stuff
Preferably ones with no direct or indirect connections to China. US/CA jurisdiction.

Need help with a Eduardo Saverin/Facebook sort of situation.

Yes I am being serious.
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I'm working on bot implementation for my latest game[1]. I only ever made bots for my first game[2] but it was a breeze then. Now I needed to setup waypoints, pathfinding algorithms and some funky chasing logic but frankly I'm loving it. It's amazing how fruitful javascript community is! Libraries like rbush[3] (and really just a lot of different things by mourner) and ngraph.path[4] make things so much easier.

[1] https://redka.games/shootout
[2] https://redka.games/mages
[3] https://github.com/mourner/rbush
[4] https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.path
Working on some creative coding projects that I've been putting off for the last few years. Latest one I've released is https://coronation.xyz/ - a visualization of the spread of coronavirus around the world, which I built with threejs
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A live radio station about dev tools! (Live on Thursday, March 26th)

https://wapi.fm/

"Getting a bit RESTless in your apartment? To help fight the boredom, ReadMe is launching WAPI—an ephemeral live radio station that will air for only 24 hours. Tune in to talk about building developer experiences people love. We'll have a live chat, dozens of awesome guests joining us and a few surprises!"
There are a number of thoughts I have, but I'm puzzled as well. My first explanation is that the Japanese are simply more hyegeinic than most other countries I've been to. Fastidious is the word that comes to mind. They wash hands often, wear clean clothes, wear masks or stay home when sick, don't shake hands or touch often.

Second explanation that comes to mind is that they tend to be just healthier than other countries. They have low obesity, exercise correctly and routinely, walk and ride bikes to get where they go, and do all of this even when elderly. The counterpoint to this is that they have a really high smoking population.

Source: I lived there for two years.
That's not what they're doing. China is losing her biggest customer, possibly for an extended period of time. If America's economy collapses, China's likely will too.
SpaceX isn't necessarily doing better. They had more funding, but the OneWeb technology was better. You can't beat the musk reality distortion field, though.
Reverse image search for dirty XTC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Custom Android tablet with speech to text: getting my deaf grandmother out of social isolation.

Converting an old school moped to an electric high performance version: On hold due to COVID-19 ...
Certification is useful. I don’t want my life to rely on the bio equivalent of a website with a self-signed SSL Certificate.
> The "installed base" of web-accessible FTPS and SFTP resources is essentially zero

Well that's true of SFTP, browsers don't support that protocol but I think they should. But FTP is still ubiquitous on the internet and most browsers like FF already support FTPS. To me it would make more sense to deprecate FTP like HTTP and warn users when their logging in over an insecure protocol than just kill the feature all together, especially if one of the primary reasons is because "Google did it". FTPS uses the same URI as FTP (ftp://). FTPS is common now, most people don't even realize they're using it. There are those of us that still need to deal with FTP and being able to click on a link in the browser rather than use a separate FTP client is just convenient. Just make it an optional feature and disable it by default.
I don't want TLS < 1.2. It seems like the setting can be changed though.

https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1101896

It seems setting security.tls.version.min to 3 should only allow connecting with TLS 1.2 or greater.
Why isn’t hand sanitizer back on store shelves?
By that argument there isn't any single payer healthcare systems in the world.

The reality is that when people talk about "single payer" they talk about systems where the essential services are insured by a single entity, not a system without any private healthcare, because none exists.
Log storage and search system for structured logging data in Rust.

i.e a database optimised for logs and log-like data and nothing else.

Existing solutions are too inefficient for the use case of logs (TB+/day), suffer under high field cardinality, are based on costly and unnecessary full-text-search systems that aren't well optimised for logs data or just plain and simply can't handle structured data and degrade to simply storing lines.

Design goals are super efficient/fast, extremely fast distributed regex matching backed by trigram bitmap indices, columnar storage for compression and cardinality reasons.

I have a prototype of the indexer and lowest levels of the query engine and regex syntax to trigram query optimiser. Will be adding the ingress and query frontends hopefully have something to show soon.

I don't know if I am going to go OSS or not but definitely designed to be run on-premise though I could easily run it as a multi-tenant service if people are interested.

I founded my own startup in the past and have been putting off actually doing a real side-project for the last couple of years but could never get away from the itch so this is going to be my swing I think.

If this is something you find interesting hit me up, or if you are just frustrated with ELK for some reason or another let me know what you think sucks and I'll try build something that sucks less at that.
A turn based multiplayer game, like a simpler (and shorter) Risk. Based off kdice, which was based off dicewars.

I made it to learn Elm and fell in love with the language. Lots of lessons learned, not only on the code side but also in terms of process, getting feedback, product design and such.

https://qdice.wtf

https://github.com/gipsy-king/qdice
I noticed this transition in the media around the time of the summit in Helsiinki. At the time, Trump publicly deferred to Putin and contradicted U.S. intelligence, this event strengthened the narrative that Trump is in some ways subservient or at least sympathetic to Putin's geopolitical agenda, thus violating the definition you emphasized in your comment. "Leader of the free world" is a statement of propaganda no matter who is uttering it about whom, but I think it's fair to argue that Trump's behavior contributed to this result.
What they're not doing is sending their children to school. Maybe that intervention alone is enough to suppress it.
Not my shit, I eat meat.

But, yeah, vegan poop literally doesn't smell. Is that so surprising?

You eat like a rabbit and you start to poop tidy rabbit turds that barely smell.

The reason meat-eaters' shit stinks is the rotting that's happening in their guts.

And only douchebags hate vegans.
Yep, originally i believed everyone when they said masks aren’t useful except to keep yourself from touching your face, but after wearing masks I realized it’s also really hard to stop adjusting it.
Susan Fowler is doing just fine - far better, in fact, than she would have been doing if she had kept quiet.
Thinking of dusting up my webapp for kids to get some math practice while school is out: http://arcadejack.com
I’m guessing my particular combination of hardware versions just got broken. I have MCU1 and the old Mercedes-style wheel. After the Christmas update, it couldn’t recognize anything. I think I got it to make a phone call once.
The "masks don't help" campaign is well-intended disinformation aimed at preserving medical masks for medical practitioners.

It is now proven that people with no symptoms spread the virus. Breathing virus into a cotton sheet is obviously safer than breathing on other people, despite being far from perfect.
A React loader which uses texts from an array as the loader content
I agree they are all related. Just push back on the applicability of some techniques in places we don't actually know there are signals. If that makes sense.
Is it just me, or does this source seem very unreliable?
A city street generator. It's a long project because it's maybe too ambitious. I'm struggling to spread "lots" alongside street while considering road intersections. I'm not using L-systems or other things.

I've already written a generator that makes 2D blueprints of buildings, with thick walls, openings, etc. Going 3D might be a little tricky but it should be fine.

When this will be finished I'll move on writing a good enough character controller with bullet-physics. I'm worried because I decided to use opengl since I have found no good alternative to ogre3D (I'm radically against bloated engines like unreal and unity, I need something very light and thin that does only one specialized thing, in this case 3D rendering), but since low-poly is trending it will be just as good, and this will probably allow me to have larger scenes.