skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: YKK (look at your zipper) relies on absolutely no one else for its supply chain [0]. This could easily be seen as a waste by those who would say YKK should just source its metal from the foundry down the street. It's easy to do a quick thought experiment in your head to think about how feasible it might be for every company to vertically integrate the way YKK has. On the other hand, YKK can't get jerked around by greedy corporations looking to take advantage of their dependencies.

[0] https://ykknorthamerica.com/the-ykk-difference/vertical-inte...
Why Stellar Is Exciting According to Sam Conner
Odd how you switch from the reputable CDC to whatever "liveupdate.world" is. There have been 97[0] reported COVID-19 deaths in the US as of yesterday.

That said, "all causes ever" is ridiculous. Even worst-cases scenarios[1] put COVID-19 as the potential third cause of death in the US.

UPDATE: I think you weren't reading your own source well. There are +10 "new deaths" since an unspecified time, but that site is reporting 160 deaths overall.[2] I don't know how that's sourced, though, so I would be leery of trusting it, even though it makes a stronger case than the CDC.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/16/upshot/corona...

[2] https://liveupdate.world/coronavirus/p/en/official-corona-vi...
Hi Miktor, if you'd like to be contacted you should add contact information in your "about" section.
Universal speech-to-text for Windows OS?
I'm tired of typing, and it's really getting to my wrists. Yes, I have a fully ergonomic setup.

Speech-to-Text works pretty well via Google's API, for example, I can use this https://dictation.io/speech
But this requires a lot of copypasta.

But what I'd really like is a little prompt [] where I can talk and have it insert text wherever the cursor is, in any program - web browser form fields, MS Word, etc. Does this exist?
FWIW, grants are usually targeted to a specific dollar value, though the stock movement between grant and vest does affect your results. (And if this significant dip is sustained, I would expect many companies to issue additional special grants to compensate.)
Oh it was pretty much a dedicated machine when it was burning a CD. This was a postgrad office, there were 4 of us (three called Simon...) and we had a Unix workstation each.

Generally the PC sat in the corner and wasn’t really used. It had a SCSI card too, and when it was burning CDs it was left alone.

I remember one day a colleague of mine burnt 50 CDs so he could give them out after a -resentation, it was pretty damn reliable. I also used it as a mastering machine for a CD that I had professionally duplicated to sell, full of Atari ST shareware/public domain s/w.

These were very early days of Linux. I actually had already released the “Mint distribution kit” which let my beloved Atari ST work like the Unix machine I had at college, and this was before any sort of distribution for Linux (at the time, Slackware had yet to be released) was available. The MDK was quite popular, mainly amongst students I think, but of course paled into insignificance compared to what Linux/Slackware/all-the-rest would evolve into :)
Tangential question, does anyone have any tips for someone who has lost all interest in video games?

I used to like them as a teenager and whenever I pick up a game now (I'm in my early 40's) I am just completely bored. Part of it I think is because it requires some form of mental engagement after a day's hard work?
Life is Strange is, in a sense, a much better adventure game than Thimbleweed Park (not even talking about the storyline here) simply because there's no stupid puzzle to solve at every corner that defies basic logic - I guess TBP is made this way (to make you feel like you were back in the 80s) but I don't think there is much charm in being stuck just because your mind is not twisted enough.
I'm not an expert, but most government agencies are allowed to charge reasonable fees for access to their data. I don't know if this qualifies, but it at least seems like a possibility, especially if it's transparently just passing along their costs in the form of AWS' own cost structure
Atleast they get punished for it, unlike public systems which might get punished once every 20 election cycles.
> classes are intended for extracting common visual styles

No, they’re intended to group together semantically similar elements. There’s no reason that a blue button and a blue link should be related–what if I want to make the button red later?
My tuppence: by some long-term LEAP calls and perhaps write some OTM puts on SPY. Due to current volatility premiums are insane.
Playstation 5 specifications revealed – but design is still a mystery
No this isn't true. The competition to get any residency slot is insanely difficult. There are people who graduate from medical school that apply to hundreds of residencies every year and still don't get anything.
So excited to share this week's episode of the Stellar podcast! Sam Conner knows his stuff and has personally helped me navigate entrepreneurial challenges in the past. His optimism around not just Stellar but blockchain at large is inspiring.
Explaining genetic drift has helped me deal with this faulty, dangerously misleading "natural selection" argument: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0TM4LQmoZY
I was pitching responsive (or at least, fluid) design by 2011, and I was not blazing trails. I started using the iPad as an example but tiny laptops were an issue, and in a business setting, most production projectors were only 1024 pixels, hardly anyone had the 1280s, and the cheap ones were 800x600 native with terrible interpolation.

Wikipedia has this timeline:

> Cameron Adams created a demonstration in 2004 that is still online.[46] By 2008, a number of related terms such as "flexible", "liquid",[47] "fluid", and "elastic" were being used to describe layouts. CSS3 media queries were almost ready for prime time in late 2008/early 2009.[48] Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive web design[49] (RWD)—and defined it to mean fluid grid/ flexible images/ media queries—in a May 2010 article in A List Apart.[2] He described the theory and practice of responsive web design in his brief 2011 book titled Responsive Web Design. Responsive design was listed as #2 in Top Web Design Trends for 2012 by .net magazine after progressive enhancement at #1.

And while the Garden was indeed around long before that, IMO it didn’t get properly cool until maybe ‘07. And once fluid and responsive came in it wasn’t keeping up.

The point, I thought, was to be able to send people there to learn, and I was afraid of having to fix that kind of smoke and mirrors in our production code so I stopped telling people about it, other than other seasoned UI people fora particular design, and half the time it was to laugh at one, not learn from it.
I agree that we're not looking at a year's worth of data, but that was also kind of the point... we're not looking at a year's worth of data.

If 97 people have died in the US so far... you've got a _long_ way to go, even looking at an exponential growth rate, to even approach the top 10 causes of death in the US. According to the CDC 47,000 people killed themselves in 2017 [1], and that's #10. Also 100% preventable.

You also have control over your own susceptibility and spread of something like the flu or the common cold, but no one in the US ever wears a mask to prevent that (though in other countries that is a common sight).

1: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Edit: It wasn't 8 people who have died, it was 97 according to the CDC. My bad.
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IPhone users should try to ask Siri "What time zone is Antarctica in"

Edit: added screen shot
https://imgur.com/a/xw8Z7qr
The scale is only important if you trust yourself to build a secure interpreter in the first place. Caring about the complexity of the interpreter means you are relying on the interpreter to keep you safe. Do not do that thing! The interpreter is not your sandbox.

If you're following best practices and isolating the process, then the number of lines of code shouldn't matter for the actual security. You should assume that a custom-built interpreter designed to run malicious code always has bugs -- whether it's running JS, LUA, whatever -- so you should run that code in a separate, sandboxed process that doesn't have system access.

It's not that the scale doesn't make a difference in complexity, it's that (for the most part) if you find yourself at the point where you're asking questions about the scale, you have already seriously messed up, and you need to go back and rethink your design.

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The business problem Avast was trying to solve was, "how do we tell whether or not a random Javascript file contains malware?" The answer they came up with was, "we'll run the file in a process with system-access and see what happens."

I'll ask the same question I asked the original commentor: what is a safe way to solve that business problem without process isolation? And if you are correctly isolating the untrusted code, then why does the complexity of the JS interpreter matter?
Using AWS for this type of use case is dumb for an org as large as NASA, if cost savings is a goal. It's cheaper to just land capacity at a datacenter.
what does 17.9.1991 mean? Can I suggest people stop coming up with their novel date formatting schemes and use a standard that universally makes sense? ISO 8601 is worth looking at:

https://xkcd.com/1179/
In what ways are we dealing with the fallout from Julian to Gregorian time migration?
I remember Doom in particular being considered the poster child for what some considered to be lowbrow gaming. Of course people dividing entertainment into highbrow and lowbrow groups is nothing new - it's common for people to think of someone who's entertained by Shakespeare to be more "cerebral" than someone who's entertained by Twilight.
Yep! We've been experimenting with Vultr, their physical servers are only in 7 cities. I hope they expand.
70 C dry heat for 30 minutes will work for the coronavirus.
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Nah, then they would be fun on a Saturday morning. I think it's just age. I still buy the occasional title on steam, but hardly play beyond the 1h mark.

The only ones that caught me surprised were Factorio and dota2 both of which I then ended up playing far too much. The first singleplayer, and the second with a group of RL friends.
A story like this being at the top of HN is how we know covid-19 is serious.
Most ISPs have enough capacity to handle this, investments in capacity usually last many many years. I'm seeing like 10% growth of peak traffic consumption on lock down in my country which is nothing. I'd be surprised if anyone on FTTB experiences problems. I'm not talking about monopolies though that neglect and postpone investment into infrastructure upgrades as much as possible, plenty of their consumers probably already live with significant quality problems and routinely experience "slow internet".
This is one of the consequences of the modern obsession with "reach for yield" or growth at any cost. Everyone feels pressure to put every single dollar "to work", because everyone else is. It's an extremely fragile modus operandi, but managers would get fired for underperforming their peers if they didn't do it, so the incentive structure guaranteed the result.
Just like with programming you have to limit scope. And avoid using global scope. Its fine to have a "private" base style for components. The power of CSS however is that users can overrule those styles. Its however important to organize the css in a cascade and not have rules for the same element spread out all over the place with !important everywhere.
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The Unicode standard defines which glyphs should get an emoji rendering by default. It is quite random. I think they made a mistake in applying this to existing symbols (like the media player buttons above) but that ship has sailed.
Can you elaborate? What are the other purposes?
Stacked Rainbow Cards with Animation in HTML and CSS
Ask HN: Why are Lot of people in US turned away from Covid-19 testing?
I see on the Johns Hopkins covid-19 dashboard that China has 80k infections and ~3k deaths. Italy has 35k infections and ~3k deaths!! One tested/acted early and swiftly and the other didn’t. Meanwhile US is still not testing rapidly or moving swiftly. What are the possible outcomes here Given the best idea the govt leadership has here to give money to people. Is this more of a election win strategy than actually solving the problem?
I cannot believe it's been 15 years, literally half my life, since I got my design accepted at CSSZenGarden: http://www.csszengarden.com/185/

Incredible, I had never thought of how long it's been...
It looks interesting, great work!
I'm curious why you chose x86 emulation instead of arm emulation though, provided that this is running on an arm processor?
Yes, absolutely, show the distribution whenever you can.

But consider production alerting purposes. For example, consider database user-lookup time. Use the 95th percentile, or even the maximum value to compare with an alert threshold. In many (most?) real-world cases system trouble shows up as a few lookup-time outliers. If you only look at averages, or even medians, you miss those outliers.
It is the exact title used by the Reuters article. It's a pretty big omission but not by OP.
Yes, every year. When your expenses are 7+ figures annually even small scale changes make a big difference. I work for another large company and we have a small change (~2 week effort and ~200 LoC) that is going to save the company $500k-$1M/year. So it's a no-brainer for well-run, high scale companies to pay competitively. And that's not even taking into account the rest of the year's worth of engineering time

The thing I find funny is I've worked at much smaller companies, worked way harder, made much less of an impact, and got paid much less (justifiably so - a scalar on a small number is still a small number). It's really just comes down to solving the right problems at the right scale
The way some Linux/BSD developers fled to OS X and now WSL, kind of shows the big mistake it was for Microsoft and Apple not to be serious with their NT/POSIX and A/UX efforts respectively.

In a parallel timeline Linux would never picked up steam if those systems had been serious POSIX implementations.
Show HN: Hallway – make working from home less lonely
The strategic stockpile shouldn't just be masks. It should also be an assembly line to make more masks should the stockpile run out.
Hi HN! We're launching Hallway https://hallway.chat to encourage people working from home during this pandemic to socialize more.

This started because my roommate started working from home recently and was sad because he doesn't really talk to anyone anymore. Given that this is the new normal for a while, we hacked together a project to make WFH a little less forlorn!

It prompts you to take a break and join a short 10 min video chat with your co-workers throughout the workday. Just add the bot to a Slack channel, set the frequency and timezone, and it'll ping the channel with a link to a timed video call

It's a fun and simple way to simulate watercooler conversations like when you bump into a friend at work. We want to encourage spontaneous conversation and keep mental health positive during these stressful times

You can also use your own Zoom/Hangouts Meet links for free, but if you don't, we'll generate one for you (it's timed so you still get some work done). It costs us to host video chat rooms so we do have a paid plan, but if we make any profits in the next few weeks, we'll donate it to fight COVID-19

Remember to talk and be social with your co-workers during the workday - don't forget how to speak. Practice social distancing, stay safe and healthy!
Yes sorry, I was copying the terminology from the article poorly. It's going to be higher than historical events, but not other medical causes. E.g. 4x deaths of the civil war.
Can there be an impact on how organisms age in such places?
Why FTP - torrent it all the way, perhaps have the AWS as nodes...
Unless you're a paid online marketer / shillbot, or maybe some sort of journalist / blogger, I suspect this is true for everyone on the intrawebs.
The price advantages of globalised supply chains vs. the relative rarity of an event like this means that, during normal periods, firms using them will enjoy a significant advantage over those doing the "right" thing and market forces will weed out the latter. So I don't expect management to be taking a lead on this.
>Test runs done for emergency preparation have proven that veterinarians do a better job than all medical professionals who aren't already specialized in respiratory care.

That's amazing.
Producing safe medical devices is about more than just schematics. It is a social process with people having a huge impact on how safe the result is. All the blueprints in the world have no value if you don’t know whether they’ve been followed and the materials used are correct. And when there are defects you need to have socialized how people are to respond to those defects or your not building a competent organization. I see many comments about blueprints on here that miss the point. It’s like saying your software product is just the source code. The reality is that you have to build a competent knowledgeable organization around those blueprints or what you’re making will kill or injure patients.
I think at least part of it is that whether its fast twitch or dense strategy/simulation, it takes a fair commitment to really get into a lot of games. Personally, I've always liked the idea of complex games (especially strategy and simulation) but I mostly didn't have the patience for them and that's even truer today.

I did like Infocom games though I didn't finish most of them.
can probably be considered low risk

How so? I would think it puts its files in a publicly accessible path. That means if it puts executable code there (python,php,js whatever)
in a future release it allows for a server-takeover.
There are a lot of software projects spinning up -- how do we know that this one is going to see active use?

As an example for my concern -- I've had a consistently-updated pull-request[1] outstanding for the JHU data repository for more than a week. It is their prerogative not to pull, but it means my contribution is largely wasted.

The coronavirus-diary project has one contributor, no issues, and no pull requests.

[1]https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/pull/296
It's a joke. Windows ? Never again.
Oh man, I had blotted that out. There’s a somewhat arcane set of table styles that will give you proportional layout of blocks that is more powerful than colspan. I found that it was often worth the trouble of reaching for the more sophisticated solution.
Says

"Note that I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories so I will focus only on non-political information."

Spreads youtube Video of a guy who didn't even realize that he made an impostor his second in command leading a public health office in Germany.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel

Article: Why Wolfgang Wodarg's Statements have little to do with science. By a well respected fact checking and investigative journalism group.

https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/hintergrund/2020/03/18/cor... ( Translate with Google Translate )

OP is a great example of how a disinformation campaign by conspiracy theorists works. They make you believe they have credible sources you can rely on they base their arguments on until you start digging and find out the stuff above and that this is the same guy who voted against a Child Predator law in Germany and is heavily politically and financially involved in spreading the bullshit he does.
Intelligent designs economies are best associated with tyranny. See CCCP.
Seems like a better (albeit similar) article has been submitted at almost the same time:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-plays...

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627899

Mods, feel free to merge or whatever if this gets traction.
Once upon a time every website layout was defined via the Table element. Your side bar would be a cell spanning multiple rows, and inside the sidebar you’d have another nested table that defined more layout. The shift to table-less divs came almost as a massive over-correction to the abuse of nested tables.

We are in similar egregious territory now days with how we’re doing styled components directly in the javascript and totally forgoing some of the principles of CSS (we are effectively in-lining styles , for everything). That’s alright, we go through this upending in frontend every 3 years anyway.
Semantic HTML also happens to work quite well on even the most anemic browsers! I am somewhat proud that a non-HTTPS version of my website (which is designed for modern browsers) is navigable and fairly usable on the original WorldWideWeb, aside from some of the <head> content poking through.
Yes correct certainly not more deaths than other medical causes. As in the article I meant major wars or terrorist events.

Also if you check Italy, whose stats the US is currently following, death number ~infected number (t = -10days).

So I would say let's be very careful and it we see +5,000 deaths in the US in two weeks it will be a strong confirmation of how serious this is.
Typescript will not help us a dime with type checking for most of devs we hire are long past the stage when typing errors are a thing for them.

It's genuinely terrifying to think that people out there with this attitude are producing software that I might be at risk of using.
A DIY personal protection gadget – WUHAN HOOK
>A commercial system can value surge capacity for peaks just like an online retailer does; the capacity to handle extra load means extra profit.

Sure it can, but that's obviously not the reality and spinning up extra servers is not the same as adding extra physical rooms and beds. This analogy doesn't make any sense.

>ncidentally the NHS has just identified an unintended reserve: a pool of nurses who have been sitting in nadministrative middle-management roles for years. They are being retrained and redeployed now, but it illustrates the lack of efficiency in the system. A private provider would not have 'wasted' nursing staff in those positions.

You're right. A private company would just fire the nurses instead.
This is built-in. Select the text field and press Windows-H. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4042244/windows-10-...

It's pretty good for me out of the box, but if it's too inaccurate you can go to Control Panel\Ease of Access\Speech Recognition and click "Train Your Computer to Better Understand You".
I work with, have family and have friends in NYC. A lot of the problems in NYC are due to the restrictions on every day life, not the virus. Don't confused the virus with the draconian restrictions we put in place. The latter are having a much larger influence.
Ahhh I see I see. I should probably just let it be, so other people can experience it too.
Try new genres. I used to love FPS and action/adventure games but now I play cities skylines or satisfactory and have a lot of fun.
The IWBTG maker has a rarely updated blog in which he talks about game design in stuff he has played or made which I enjoy. Maybe check this out? This post seems relevant.

https://kayin.moe/?p=2653
Strictly, GMT is not the same as UTC. Ironically, GMT is often used as a synonym for UTC by English speakers (the English bias being the irony).
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Hard to imagine how that could be the case, other than with messed up circadian (and diurnal, etc) rhythms.