skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common-enough knowledge that the first thing any lender asks for will be copies of your 1040 or other forms for the most recent tax year.

You don't have to pay until July, but it's not bad advice to go ahead and file, if you think you may need documentation for 2019 personal or business income.
Stuntronics
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Curious as well.

I find that in the US, we have an understandable but sometimes costly attachment to 'treat at all costs'.

I lost a family member to cancer last year - and was pushed by providers to pursue treatment that would have bankrupted me and my family, while adding (maybe) a few months of (low quality) life to someone already in pain and confined to a hospital bed.

I was made to feel callous about balancing the collective 80+ years of my family's life going forward, against the 80 days or less of an elderly relative.

If we can't break out of that mindset, then the coming coronavirus storm is going to provide some very painful choices on us, as it already has in other countries such as Italy.
You might not see this anymore, but in the hope: I'm saurik@saurik.com and am an elected government official in Southern California (in the United States) working with a nearby regional government, and have just learned that we are also interested in surgical masks (I had previously thought we were only interested in N95 masks). Are you also interested in shipping to the US?
What's the battery life with Ubuntu and 4k?
Thanks! Hopefully Linux some day, Windows coming soon, in beta. :)
Is that at all comparable in speed to a SATA SSD? I know that Apple uses NVMe SSDs in MacBooks, but if something over the SD card bus were anywhere near the speed of any internal SSD that would be very impressive.
This should be a blog post, my friend.

And incidentally, things like this are one of the (many) reasons I love Emacs.
https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js
I don’t understand the question.
Why is computer science the only career, that I can think of, where I have to spend my free time doing "personal projects" to improve my skills? What if I just want to go to work, knock out tickets, and go home? With the emphasis on spending all our waking hours coding, no wonder we all burnt out.
I'm impressed but also confused that the calim nobody would chose to do something is being supported only with evidence that millions of people chose to do that thing despite exposing themselves to the negative effects you cite.

This is how powerful the draw of cities are. People will happily sacrifice seeing the sun for an opportunity to live and work in a city - if the alternative was living in the country.

And I think it is pretty obvious that between city-no-sun, country and city-sun the ranking is going to be:

1) City-sun

2) City-no-sun

3) Country

By the numbers, nobody chooses to live in the country. Your counterargument is essentially that people have good reasons to live in the city - yeah, that is obvious. That is why they are making the choice that they are. I dunno what this 'neutral choice' concept is but I don't believe it is a real thing. Yeah they move for economic opportunities. That is why sterilising large areas is irrelevant. People have been tested and nobody cares about the environment when the economy is on the line; they are all going to be crammed together in cities.
https://github.com/shakiba/svgexport

Is that what you’re looking for?
In the press release MIT says they are still looking at SAT scores. What they say they stopped looking at is the "SAT subject tests." That's something like the old Achievement Tests.
Depending on the country you're in yes, and on short notice even moreso.

As for assembling one, anybody who does proper gun maintenance takes their gun apart and puts it back together.

There's a market for DIY guns (outside of the 3D printing scene) where they ship you all the parts.
Ah, I misunderstood what he was saying! I read it the other way around. Thanks!
A small health tech startup beat Alphabet with a coronavirus screening tool
C-h f, C-h k and helpful are your friends for that sort of thing (spelunking through the Emacs source).
Ask HN: Major cities rental market 2020
Hello everyone,

Have you noticed a storm of super cheap rental offers in your city's nice neighbourhoods. In Prague it is ~45% down for a week and in Sofia ~35%. My guess is Airbnb and mortgage-to-rent. With many borders expected to stay closed for an extended period, when are those properties going to end up in bank auctions?

Is the housing bubble about to pop?
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Netflix Creates $100M Coronavirus Relief Fund
I did a DIY on my 2011 Air for $70ish and while it seemed to solve my problems at first, after a short while it seemed like every time i went to use the machine it was dead. (I only use it once every week or three). I'm not sure if it's not sleeping, or waking from sleep, or what. I use it too little to even troubleshoot. But that was enough to get me to pull the trigger on a new i9 Air yesterday.
I mean ya I agree, my pedantic side couldn't help itself though.

>(c) Class 3; gin. “Gin” is a product obtained by original distillation from mash, or by redistillation of distilled spirits, or by mixing neutral spirits, with or over juniper berries and other aromatics, or with or over extracts derived from infusions, percolations, or maceration of such materials, and includes mixtures of gin and neutral spirits. It shall derive its main characteristic flavor from juniper berries and be bottled at not less than 80° proof. Gin produced exclusively by original distillation or by redistillation may be further designated as “distilled”. “Dry gin” (London dry gin), “Geneva gin” (Hollands gin), and “Old Tom gin” (Tom gin) are types of gin known under such designations.

>i) Class 9; ... flavored vodka, ... “flavored vodka,” ... vodka, to which have been added natural flavoring materials, with or without the addition of sugar, and bottled at not less than 60° proof. The name of the predominant flavor shall appear as a part of the designation. If the finished product contains more than 2 1/2 percent by volume of wine, the kinds and precentages by volume of wine must be stated as a part of the designation, except that a flavored brandy may contain an additional 12 1/2 percent by volume of wine, without label disclosure, if the additional wine is derived from the particular fruit corresponding to the labeled flavor of the product.
Wideband AMR has been available for a decade on 3G, Eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11138503
I'm not sure how it works, but definitely some packages manage to autoload.
Voxels are directly analogous to 2d pixels, which means they benefit from the myriad of CNN based techniques developed over the last few years (GAN in particular)

3d manifolds are sparse, and more analogous to 2d vector graphics. There are approaches for dealing with this type of data (eg. spectral graph NN) but they don't work as well for 3d topology as CNNs do for dense pixel data, as far as I know.

In the near term, it might be better to explore approaches that use voxels, then generate the topology heuristically.
Several breweries are going the hand sanitiser route:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=distillery+hand+sanitizer&df=m&ia=...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/17/no-purell-di...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/03/20/c...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-jersey/articles/...

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/17/distilleries-usi...

etc.
It's true for most of Europe though. Or - depends whether we're counting the black market.
Well, I guess if people didn't avoid work because of the incentive effects of social assistance systems, then your model would be better, but that's not the world we live in.

>And some people will make that calculation and figure out a way to officially be unable to work and pick up government money. That's always happened, it's called malingering.

Wait, you agree this happens, despite just having waxed eloquent about "living in society", but then condescend to everyone who suggests it does? Right, I'm the one wasting everyone's time here...
I don't understand why businesses don't use text messaging services exclusively. It's asynchronous and convenient, everything is recorded in writing, privacy and encryption are now standard features, we can have helpful automation that isn't a pain to interface with... It should be possible to do everything over text message.

> I will literally miss extremely important business opportunities because I put off calling someone for too long.

They will also miss important opportunities because they refuse to adapt.
There was a report saying that reduced industrial output saved the lives of 10K plus chinese citizens through improved air quality, outweighing any COVID-related deaths.

Hilarious, in a sad and dark way.
I think this is a decently unpopular opinion---6 hours of battery life is atrocious for the use case the Air is competing in.
Is there an API? How are you dealing with rate-limiting?
This kind of stuff for some reason, tends often to exist in Emacs.
That's a different issue than the lack of expandability.
Let's hear it for 2013 Macs!

My 2013 MBP is going strong. I do 100% of my work on this computer, and half of that is through AWS EC2 instances (x86 and ARM linux, and Windows for testing); if I need a local OS I run VMWare images of Ubuntu and Windows. I've had 0 issues with this computer. It really blows my mind how good it is.

By comparison: my first laptop was a Toshiba Portege (sic) in 1992 that was monochrome for about $4000... and then my various jobs usually gave me IBM Thinkpad / Lenovo thinkpads, buit would waterfall them routinely.

But my MBP2013? this is the longest I've owned any computer in my life (work or personal), and I have absolutely no reason to replace it.
What you are betting on with a lock is not primarily stopping a lock-picker, but that most people are hesitant to force the door or break a window.
But won't they be tied up one way or another producing something else, unless by chance they happen to currently be producing something that turns out to be important in the fight against the pandemic?
Being available and actually being used when making calls are unfortunately two different things.
The second lift would suggest that isn't true.
Ask HN: How to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 as a software engineer?
As a currently remote, housebound software engineer in the U.S., I’ve grown increasingly restless amidst the current COVID-19 panic and I would like to help in any way I can.

My day-to-day work no longer satiates me as a fellow human to all those suffering as a result of COVID-19 or to those fighting it on the front lines.

I do not have any active online projects for which I can grant free access, and would rather not make a one-time donation to non-profits at this point. I’d prefer to participate in COVID-19 mitigation & recovery efforts if possible.

Are there any avenues/channels out there connecting those in need of a software solution for the COVID-19 situation to those willing to create said solutions? Are there other ways to contribute as a software engineer? I’m open to pretty much anything. Thank you!
There are VoIP providers that are incredibly cheap.

As an example, I have an account with voip.ms. They charge $0.85/month for the phone number, and then $0.009/minute. (E-911 service costs a little extra.)

It's worth it just for having proper 911 service at home. The improved voice quality over cellular is an added benefit.
Well, 2 things:

1) The entrenched power structures will be most able to abuse this technology, as they have the social structure through which the technology acts on their side, and

2)The lack of any authority, central or otherwise, makes the importance of these soft and constructed parameters even more important, not less. If you're betting on anarchy sorting more effectively because you think authority distorts a natural balance, that's probably not the case. When you remove the tentpole, you're not freed from the tent, it just collapses on top of you with all its weight. Everyone needs to have their personal pillars ready.
I don't need complicate Kanban SaaS on the market,
so I built this vscode extension to simply manage tasks in TODO.md

- It can manage tasks in TODO.md - a plain text markdown file.
- The syntax is compatible with Github Markdown
- TODO.md file is portable and can be committed with Pull Requests (PRs) to any git repositories.
FDA allows chloroquine and remdesivir for compassionate use to treat coronavirus
Hey guys - owner of the model in question here. Thanks for your feedback, and yes, the model isn't perfect. Idea is just to give some forward-looking picture for policy-makers to use to make decision.

Interestingly, the model is not nearly as sensitive to R-values as you would think, until they get under 1.5 (half the current observed number in most places).

See here: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Doubling-time-Average-do...
Thanks. I did see that, but it should more than a (literal) asterisk at the bottom of the page.
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The SATs have a top score, if it were easy to game you'd find many people would clump at the top. That would make it impossible to normalize that distribution into a bell-shape because they're all clustered into the same bucket with no way of spreading them.

OP's point was that the perfect scores remain consistently outside of people's grasp despite the variety of resources available to prep for the exam. I only once managed to hit perfect score and my other best scores were one or two questions off. I had been taking the test since I was 11 (for various extracurricular camps/activities) and prepped multiple times for them. The biggest scores jumps were more closely related with my age and academic achievements than anything else.
Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox
OK so your original post was premised on there not being massive mobilised response to less than ~250 cases in a city of 11 million by mid-december. It's nice to have the benefit of hindsight.

Thanks for the response and links, but I basically regret this entire interaction and would rather leave the discussion here.
There's always an upside ;)
Also consider expressin this with a lateral join.

Scroll a bit down here for a similar example.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11472790/postgres-analog...
Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8fl24001s
I suspect people who don't understand vaccines may have reflexively downvoted your comment but in fact this is a real risk. There is also concern over repeating the debacle with the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Vaccine development will continue but certain steps can't be rushed.
Editing multiline commands directly on the commandline in Fish and IPython5 is a nice feature, I do feel that Jupyter notebooks or Org-mode with langservers is another type of CLI that should be mentioned. With that said I feel that Excel is counterpoint, it has something similar to CLIs as well; it can instantaneously display and filter lots of data. This is where Org-mode and Notebooks fails they have a laggy UI when you give them too much data.
Hey - owner of the model in question here. The idea here is to buy time; time to roll out testing (so only those that test positive need to isolate), prepare beds and ventilators, and develop therapeutics (vaccines are likely quite a bit farther off).
The measure's are to get a hold on the explosive number of cases. Once we get a grip on it, then you keep it contained with aggressive testing + targeted isolation.
The 2016 MBP (the only one I've used) has very poor thermals too. The much lower TDP/benchmark point of the A series means that they're surprisingly competitive with the poorly-cooled MacBooks. If MacBooks of that era had better thermals, the Intel chip would blow it out of the water on sustained use.
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Wouldn't demanding English language abilities help to reduce instances of this in the future? Like if they're letting students graduate with language deficits then the chance of tutors/teachers/professors having less language ability than desirable would seem to go up?
> So the state would actually get to hold onto your money for longer.

What if they file on April 15th? Do the refunds also come 3 months later? Would be bad PR given the circumstances if nothing else.
I have not read the reviewed book, so I can't say for sure, however, it would be hard for almost any book to be more informationally dense than The Power Broker.
SAT scores is heavily correlated with income level (the data I have is for the standard tests, not the subject ones, but I would guess they follow a similar pattern).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280232788_Race_Pove...

I applaud the MIT decision in this area.
In general, sure, but how much diversity you can reasonably expect for say, high school calculus? It’s not as though schools abandoned their infinitesimal-based curricula to match the AP syllabus better.

The AP US History curriculum also kind of anticipates your critique:
“As has been the case for all prior versions of the AP U.S. History course, this AP U.S. History course framework includes a minimal number of individual names: the founders, several presidents and party leaders, and other individuals who are almost universally taught in college-level U.S. history courses. As history teachers know well, the material in this framework cannot be taught without careful attention to the individuals, events, and documents of American history; however, to ensure teachers have flexibility to teach specific content that is valued locally and individually, the course avoids prescribing details that would require all teachers to teach the same historical examples. Each teacher is responsible for selecting specific individuals, events, and documents for student investigation of the material in the course framework.”

https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/ap/pdf/ap-us-history-cou... (Page 11/15)

I would argue that it’s possible to have a good yet flexible standardized system; it’s just hard.
Great work! I wonder if using SDF as a 3d model representation would result in higher resolution model generation (rather than voxels), some recent work in that area here: https://github.com/marian42/shapegan
Adversarial Generation of Continuous Implicit Shape Representations
: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00349
At this point i think everyone had their data leaked
It's a communication problem. The way those articles are written simply doesn't communicate what's new or of interest there—at least not in a style that HN readers are likely to be open to.

What might work better is writing a blog-style article about each of these: what's new, what's different, why it matters—and then linking to some of these other more enterprisey or bureaucratic sources. If you decide to work on that, or know someone who is, feel free to contact hn@ycombinator.com because we might be able to give some tips about how to structure it for HN appeal. "New opportunities for startups in healthcare" is definitely a theme with a lot of HN juice, if presented the right way. "A healthcare revolution is taking place" is another.

One thing that would help is if the voice presenting this material comes from someone the community perceives as a peer—not necessarily an HN member but someone who could be. When first impressions suggest something dry and managerial, it gets pattern-matched into the same category as rote bureaucratic or industry sources, and people quickly close the tab.
https://helpwithcovid.com/ tries to bring project and developers together. (not affiliated, just the question comes up a lot lately I keep posting the same URL)
1. it's prescription only.

2. it's already available for compassionate use.

The FDA is allowing chloroquine and remdesivir to be used for 'compassionate use' to treat the coronavirus.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chloroquine-remdesivir-compa...
maybe for the market of the air, but would definitely appreciate a lighter design option personally, so maybe there is probably a market for it, but maybe just not big enough for apple i guess <sad-face/>
If you want your application to be portable, don't use this feature.
Hey guys - owner of the model in question here.

Yes, that's exactly right, but 3 months (or even 1 month) may be enough time to prevent unnecessary deaths by preparing hospitals, getting more ventilators, rolling out testing, and hopefully finding a therapeutic drug (vaccines are probably farther off).

Nobody can predict the future, though.
If it's only 5000-6000, not sure where the approximate 120,000 in the CDC report come from (assuming the total includes the three numbers we can see on the first page and motor accident deaths are mostly not work related but I could be wrong on that).
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
I guess a lot of people die at home from accidents and poisonings. But the motor vehicle accident death rate should go down.
> I don't understand why businesses don't use text messaging services exclusively.

You miss so much context when communicating in text.

Being able to hear the tone of someone's voice and quickly course correct when they are headed the wrong direction is invaluable for many things.

That said, I agree that for many situations text is very convenient. I am very happy every time I need to contact customer support and find they have a chat service available.

In my opinion, text is a great way to start almost all interactions. Being able to upgrade from that to voice is super helpful in many cases. Screenshare is also great for a lot of things.
sorry about this! Hopefully fixed shortly.
You could do that, but I think it's simpler to just introduce additional objects during the raytracing process that generates the images. That would produce accurate results even with semitransparent objects, unlike compositing with an depth buffer.
Nitpicking, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it "free". There is a cost to get it, which is the price of your Mac.
Coronavirus, lifestyle diseases and the Shadow Mean
the SAT test fee is about $65 and there's tons of free prep material (including direct from college board). what would you consider a reasonable price?
https://helpwithcovid.com/ tries to bring project and developers together.

Funny that the same question was asked within 10 minutes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22641549), great to see so much interest in helping!
> Health people who are at low risk to get severe reactions could go about there lives normally, while still practicing 'social distancing' in public, not locked away in their homes in fear

You don't need tests for that, just common sense. If you have low risk, by all means keep working while keeping high sanitary precautions. It's unrealistic to expect all people to stay at home, hence those of us who are likely to get a mild COVID-19 case should make sure the people at risk or already sick have services while they stay at home.

If you're healthy, take precautions and still get COVID-19, after recovering you become another line of defense with your new immunity.

That being said, tests are very important, but don't wait for free and widely available tests to decide if you can keep working, your circumstances decide that.
Didn’t mean that comment to be about MIT (who may not do legacy preference and certainly isnt lowering academic standards to win ncaa championships). But those are both factors at other top schools including the Ivies and Stanford
True and, further, those costs are almost the same whether you race for 1 hour or 1000 hours in the sim-world. Definitely not the case in the real-world racing series.
And everything else I mentioned is correlated even more strongly.
Hopefully Patrick Rothfuss also finds time to finish The Kingkiller Chronicle (The Name of the Wind) third book, The Doors of Stone. One can only dream :)