skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called a semi-log plot. X is linear time, Y is log population count. The slope of exponential-like acceleration phase indicates the growth rate.

PS: this type of data is much better modeled by relatively simple ordinary differential equations because the rate of change of a communicable disease is proportional to the number infected.
Notifications don't have much to do with whether JS runs fast or not. I have them turned off and use Twitter and Gmail and Slack and so on.

And along the 'control' axis, stuff running in the browser probably has less of that than the same stuff running outside of that sandbox.
I spent most of the last 4 years running a startup that has proven to be the steepest or uphill battles. Struggling to find investors willing to take a chance in our space vs the trendier ones, struggling to convert slow moving clients, struggling to find engineers willing to work in our very unglamorous niche.

We’re a platform for designing and managing digital government processes for permitting and licensing.

After for years of pain, struggle, and doubt, we’ve had more inbound interest this week than ever before, and I feel incredibly lucky to have landed in that small number of startups.
Well we don't all get our computers off the back of trucks so I'm not sure this is relevant.
To be a good human being? Why does every interaction have to be run through a cost benefit analysis?
Good read for you

http://boringtechnology.club/

I'll leave this one alone as opinionated experienced guys get like that for a reason
The evidence up to now, indicates that the coronavirus did not start at a wet market. Patient 0 did not get it at the wet market.
It's largely turned into a doorstop after the battery was dying a year or so ago. I bought a $70 battery from a random seller on advice from a friend who had good luck with fit and instructions. Replacement was a breeze, and it seemed great at first, but pretty quickly started just dying on me. I use the laptop so rarely, it just seems like, no matter what the SOC was last time I used it, next time I pick it up (usually a week or more later), it was dead and needed power.

that said, about a year or two ago was also when it just started feeling too slow to be usable (beachballs all the time). I blame web bloat, mostly :-/

I bought it new, so I definitely got my money's worth out of it.
Not just for HTTP anymore: gRPC comes to Cloud Run
It was announced like a year ago...

So is the news that it's now orderable for people who can afford $6K for a monitor amid a pandemic?
The Fed is not privately owned. Directly from the Federal Reserve’s website:

Some observers mistakenly consider the Federal Reserve to be a private entity because the Reserve Banks are organized similarly to private corporations. For instance, each of the 12 Reserve Banks operates within its own particular geographic area, or District, of the United States, and each is separately incorporated and has its own board of directors. Commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System hold stock in their District's Reserve Bank. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
Severe Outcomes Among U.S. Patients with Covid-19, Feb 12–Mar 16, 2020
How is it new? Wasn’t this released with the Mac Pro a few months ago?
What's the nano glass option thing and why is it worth $1k?
In the general case, you can make a hologram that looks like anything from any angle (like play a movie as you walk past) - given a particular viewing distance, because at a different viewing distances you will see mixtures of different "frames" due to parallax.

I can't offhand reason out what "viewing distance distortion" would do in the specific case of making a 2d image "follow" you (might even cancel out!), but in any case it's not a big deal if the viewing distance is much larger than the hologram size.

Interestingly, there's a traditional optical solution to this problem as well: beer pump logos, which are often displayed behind a very convex lens which partially corrects for parallax distortion.

(Edit: you will not, however, be able to correct for rotation. The hologram can't possibly "know" what orientation your head is in, only where it is.)
I really like this reddit post about this topic: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Deflation wouldn't be so bad. everyone says it is because they think people will stop buying stuff. really? will people check the CPI figures before they go to the grocery store, everytime? stop buying bread because the inflation figures say it'll be cheaper by 25c next year? will factories stop because they won't buy parts, so they can save 1% on parts? i don't think so.

people and govt's are addicted to debt, that's why they want inflation.
Hello, hundred people that'll read this comment! I can't hear what you have to say, but hopefully it's not too scathing.
Lots of product announcements but no word about iPhone. No iPhone 9/SE 2 in March then?
Probably not, it needs to be laser-illuminated.
I'm surprised no one pointed this out yet, but there aren't 1,217 W3C specifications. There are 1,217 published documents... which includes drafts, old versions, and notes saying "we're not developing anything anymore."

Filter by level recommendation and latest version, and there's only 295 specifications remaining. Even then, there's still some duplication (e.g., HTML 5.1 and HTML 5.2 still count as separate), and scrolling through the list, well less than half are actually relevant for a web browser.
If that bothers you, you will love this whale of a tale about Oregon's 1970 exploding whale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw

"The sand dunes there were covered with spectators and landlubber newsmen, shortly to become land-blubber newsmen. For the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."
I had the feeling that there are more creators lately, but since Smartphones and mobile internet got big, there are also magnitudes more lurkers online, so it's probably still right
In Toronto here, and I actually want it cold. Nice and refreshing!
Then call my Fortune 100 bank rare. Everything we do is going with a multi-cloud strategy where it makes sense, especially around secrets management and infrastructure as code.
Add a hidden checkbox. If checked, it's definitely a bot. You get rid of more than 99.99% of bots, from my experience.
Inflation (as measured by the CPI) measures price changes. Wage indexes measure wage changes.

You want to measure both separately so you can do exactly the kinds of comparisons you want to do above ("Hypothetically, let's say the CPI indicates that prices are double what they were ten years ago. Is the median consumer better or worse off? Who knows! Maybe wages are the same as they were ten years ago, and everything takes twice as much work to acquire. Maybe wages have tripled in that time and goods seem cheap.")

Money supply is measured separately since it affects lots of other things too (eg, the relationship between interest rates and money supply). You have to measure all these things separately because that lets you tease apart the relationships.

Again, if the OP is talking about increases in money supply (which I agree can lead to increases in the speculative assets) then you need to explain how buying silver would protect against those increases (since the silver price is uncorrelated with those speculative increases).
Is it? It looks exactly like the one that came out awhile ago.

I hadn't really noticed the very video-production friendly refresh rates before though (mostly because I'm not in the market).

>47.95Hz 48.00Hz 50.00Hz 59.94Hz 60.00Hz
Given the early Makerbots' reputation for quality, I hope the analogy isn't precise... ;)
Something about scattering the surrounding light, so you get a clearer picture and fewer reflections.
I would be very interested in understanding the psychology of the 1%. I would bet they (we? I mostly lurk, but am still probably at least in the top 10%) are a very weird bunch.
If we had not taken prevention measures, the economic impact would be worse? I'm very skeptical of this. Keeps in mind that the disease has a 2-4% mortality rate among hospitalized patients, and the real rate is very likely to go down, not up, since most sick people do not immediately go to the hospital and there is an unknown-but-surmised-be-very-large population of infected people with mild symptoms.

There is a real chance that our lockdown will kill more people through stress-induced heart attacks, suicides, and general fallout from food and income insecurity than the virus would have.

My only takeaway from all of this is that our hospital system is really, really bad at handling any kind of temporary spike in disease or death. And I'm upset with our governor for panicking and putting the entire service industry out of a job, which may actually cause harm to them in great numbers beyond a probably sub-1% chance of dying from a flu-like illness.
A quick search shows a post from this week titled "Bitcoin drops 50% in epic two day tumble", so somehow I doubt it.

As others have said, Bitcoin is a very shallow market. It is "worth" a lot in principle, but good luck trying to convert it to cash.
> While both the standard glass and nano-texture glass options of Pro Display XDR are engineered for extremely low reflectivity, it helps to consider your work environment when deciding which one is right for you.

> If you’re in an especially uncontrolled lighting environment, there’s an innovative matte option with nano-texture glass. Typical matte displays have a coating added to their surface that scatters light. However, these coatings lower contrast while producing unwanted haze and sparkle. The nano-texture on Pro Display XDR is actually etched into the glass at the nanometer level. The result is a screen with beautiful image quality that maintains contrast while scattering light to reduce glare to the barest minimum.
no mention of motion or response times. they're important ergonomic factors, much more so than 6k for a 32" screen you're 3' away from imo...
Amid coronavirus outbreak, drive-in theaters unexpectedly find their moment
Pat Hanrahan and I were CS grad students at the University of Wisconsin Madison at the same time. In addition to being brilliant, Pat was kind, egoless, and infectiously happy. He was just a fun person to be around. I haven't seen Pat since grad school days, but I'm sure it's as true now as it was then!

Amusing side note: Brian Paul, who wrote the mesa open source implementation of OpenGL, was a Wisconsin grad student at the same time! He was in the meteorology department, in the building across the street from computer science.
I got lucky. I started a full time remote job in an edtech platform, and this one has some capability for supporting distance learning.

A friend of mine started a new full time remote job several months ago at a 12-person startup doing telemedicine and remote patient onboarding.

I think it depends on what it is. I would have expected Slack to be launching like a rocket ship, but they are actually have an in-office-first culture and resisted the transformation into a fully-remote culture.

I'm still wondering where all those VR startups and entertainments platforms are. I haven't been hearing anything from Second Life, for example.
Definitely push the start date back - too risky to be stuck without a seat. Try pushing it back a few weeks, continually, until you feel it's safe to move.
I would assume that means "senior engineers looking to provide guidance to entire teams eventually, but in the near term are very hands on and would act as ICs"
According to https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#detailed-vpn-comparison AzireVPN, CryptoStorm, IVPN and Mullvad.
This is SOOO annoying

Users are lower on the sidebar, I go to write something and it’s not showing up there anymore.

I then have to stop, start looking closer until I remember or click cmd+k (mac) and then type the name.

This is so annoying.
Yea, highlight.js is awesome and it's pretty easy to add new languages. Your code still looks like code, highlight handles breaking it down into html
Thank China, and especially Chairman Xi.
> consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted.

Happy debt bubble land is over, for a long time.
It feels like there could be perverse incentives developing here.

There's a lot of discussion about providing cash bonuses to employees and perhaps citizens across the U.S.

Encouraging people to put that money back into the stock market could be sold on the notion that "we're reaching a bottom; join the economy on the way back up, and you'll help the recovery while profiting".

If that works as intended, then in the short term that would seem good.

However there could be a significant number of stocks which don't recover. And the whole process would then essentially signal that "crisis is good for these types of business", leading to continued ascent of crisis-oriented businesses, and, as a side-effect, more incentive for crises.

This may be a cynical or slanted perspective, and perhaps a correctly-functioning market avoids this trend somehow. Any opinions and discussion would be appreciated.
> Do you know how "software engineers" can "help with COVID?" By getting into their cars and bringing supplies to elderly people in their neighborhood.

Even if you think the best thing to do is deliver supplies to the elderly, it makes no sense for a software engineer to stop what he or she is doing and do that. The entire restaurant and hospitality industry just got laid off; you should keep working and pay someone out-of-work to deliver supplies instead.
To start, how about South Korea's approach to testing corona virus.

I fully accept that this is a low effort and mostly off topic comment.
I suppose they'll be prohibited from ever distributing dividends too, but then I wonder why anybody would buy the stock.
im a CMVC man myself
Isn’t that supposed to be share/ and maybe a few others? bin/ and lib/ are architecture specific.
Why should we care about what the silent 99% think? We’re the top 1%, everyone else wishes they either had something to say or the courage to say it.
What percent get banned? There are plenty of percents who would happily edit pages on wikipedia about politics, but those pages tend to be locked.
Coronavirus Cocktail, Catalyst, and Closeout
This is splitting hairs. You can easily use (or make) a downstream distribution of Firefox where that is the case. No forking required, just ship a default config.

This still would be a reasonable course of action even if your real concern is what is adequate for the wider community, not just for yourself. Threatening to switch to another browser isn't going to help because anything you switch to at this point is going to be a fork of Chrome or Firefox, probably with additional ads and tracking added from the other downstream vendor. Like it or not this is the funding model of the web. Edit: I haven't checked in a while but I believe there are actually already several privacy-focused forks of these browsers that ship with the default configs changed to remove ads and tracking, among other things.
I feel really torn about this issue. When I was a child, the web was much simpler and similar to the ideal the author proposes. I enjoyed it a lot and today appreciate a website (like HN!) that isn't an exploding mass of APIs and functionality. I worry about users with browsers that are less feature-complete or have less computing resources than I do. If computing resources ever become a scarcity, I want someone to be able to use the internet with a 15-year-old computer if they need to. That barely even covers accessibility issues as well.

At the same time, I love the vibrant opportunities to be creative with the modern web. I recently made a submission[1] for the 7-Day Roguelike competition and used WebGL, WebAudio, and other various APIs to make something I'm really proud of. It's incredible that someone with little formal training can create art and easily share it with others over the web.

Is there a balance here? I almost want webpages to have a "simple web" view and a "rich web" option that browsers both support.

[1] https://danbolt.itch.io/nayr-odyssey
You'd be surprised. The onus of "wrongful termination" is on the employee. I had no justification to show why I was "wrongfully terminated" amongst 100 others across the larger organization. I was just an easy target.
If a restaurant is making $2m/y gross, with a 5% profit margin, is $100k/yr profit.

If they need to take a loan to cover 3mo of missing revenue, that's $500k. If that loan is an _amazing_ 0 interest over 5 years, the owner basically gets to keep his business name, for 0 profit over 5 years.

How is this any better than letting the business go bankrupt, starting a new one next year when the dust settles, and working it back up to profitability in < 4 years?
Chromium engine is fairly easy to embed and integrate with new code. Firefox's isn't.
A traditional analog hologram of a real plane, like a table, would simply recreate the image of that object exactly. It would have parallax just like the real thing.

To engineer a hologram that makes some attempt at "following" you, you would either need an extremely elaborate multi-exposure analog setup with rails and shutters and god knows what, or a digital holographic printer, which is another (fascinating) kind of beast entirely. In the latter case you generate what you want the hologram to look like from every possible angle, which is your case is simply the same image with perspective (un)distortion.
It would be great to have libxo in linux!

FYI, `jc netstat` also generates JSON output for `netstat`.

(disclosure: I'm the author of `jc`)

While I'm at it... check out `jtbl` on my github which prints the JSON or JSON Lines output to a table in your terminal.

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jtbl
Hi, Cal Paterson himself here. It's not a Ruby example, it's a Python example. Don't look too deeply into the code samples for specifics though, they are a pastiche.

You are not the only person to get the wrong end of the stick re:"Active Record". I'm talking about the Active Record the design pattern, not about the Ruby library that took the pattern as it's name but now is apparently a querybuilder library. I probably need to go back and make it clearer somehow.

EDIT: I've done this now. Back to stockpiling tinned food and bullets!
Giordano Bruno said that whatever has the most value and least cost of storage becomes money. Dunno if it's true but it seems solid, eh?
I'll go on the record asking a question that might be dense: why would this apply to stock buybacks and not dividends?

Stock buybacks accomplish a similar goal to dividends. You're transferring profits to shareholders. By paying dividends, you distribute profits via cash. With a buyback, you distribute profits by increasing the value of equity. There are tradeoffs between these two approaches (tax treatment and otherwise), but they do the same thing.

And aren't dividends (or future dividends) the ultimate point of equity?
i have done something similar by using the ptrace hooks..you can ask the compiler to insert the calls, but link in your own functions instead.
I admit I was looking at this exact model yesterday to upgrade my current work at home monitor, though I can nowhere near justify the price...
More probably they (we) are selling something... or even themselves?
I thought it was the basis of consulting companies as was told to me by an old boss: "if you know 1% more than the other guy you are the expert!"
I'm not sure how much water a typical cleansing will require; our cold-water one is on its way to the house now. But I reasoned it would probably not require more than a 1-2 second blast.

Given that it's plumbed in at the toilet tap, and that you'd use it before flushing, I would presume the water would be relatively close to room temperature, as the supply line is indoors just below the seat. That should be plenty for 1-2 seconds.
Here's a quick mental experiment: You accidentally put your hand in poop. Do you a) wash it off? or b) take a piece of paper and rub it off?

If you answer "a", then you've just admitted the bidet is superior.
White House teams with Ad Council, media outlets on coronavirus PSAs
Streaming boom has Broadcom suing Netflix for infringing its patents
Lots of people in these coronavirus threads have been confusing "confirmed cases" as reported by various countries, vs the actual number of cases, and using this to propose various conspiracy theories about governments downplaying or suppressing information about the situation.

Here is an interesting analysis including analyses done by Chinese health officials to estimate the actual number of cases in the past on a given day, based on symptom data collected from confirmed cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk

Other countries should follow suit.

Chart:

https://miro.medium.com/max/5376/1*r-ddYhoUtP_se6x-NOEinA.pn...

Commentary:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

> This is one of the most important charts.

> It shows in orange bars the daily official number of cases in the Hubei province: How many people were diagnosed that day.

> The grey bars show the true daily coronavirus cases. The Chinese CDC found these by asking patients during the diagnostic when their symptoms started.

To be precise, even the grey bars are an underestimate of the true cases in reality, since they would exclude unreported cases as some people were turned away from hospitals. (In the UK they are advising people with non-severe symptoms to stay at home, where they can't be tested.)

It's encouraging that a retrospective analysis confirmed that the Wuhan lockdown had the intended effect however, to reduce the true spread of cases.
There will someday be games supporting TiltFive AR (tiltfive.com) that will be a great for this use case.

For something like chess, for example, the player on each end could have physical pieces, something that would work well for non-gamers/techies.
How about the initial water after leaving the taps closed for, say, 20 minutes? :)
While I agree with most of the responses to your situation, I'd also suggest this.

How much do you believe in the start-up?

How much do you want to work there?

Personally, I'd have a VERY frank discussion with the founders about the current situation. They should respect what you are giving up, and be concerned about putting you in a difficult situation.

Who knows, they may suggest that you hang onto your current position and circle back in a few months once they have funding. Maybe they offer you more equity for greater risk. Maybe they're flippant about the effect this change may have on you and ignore the risks.

Whatever the result, you'll get a better feel for where they are at, and get some answers to your current questions.

If they can't be open and honest with you now, or you feel they aren't being, would you still feel safe with the move?
I thought you were talking about the "Baltimore shootings" thing, which is in fact another dog whistle.