skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can do it because they have the market share and are the standard for all practical purposes. When MS had the market share they were able to do the same. And I'm sure Mozilla would not look like they're struggling maintaining the browser if they had a commanding lead that made them the standard.
Ask HN: Why doesn't everyone consider themselves infected?
What is the point of waiting for a test? It is known that the testing is not going well, chances are it will be at least two weeks for any one not showing symptoms to get tested anyways. Why wait for a positive test result and be forced to quarantine? If you can stay home, stay home and if in two weeks your not sick, you probably don't have it. I know the government says that testing people is the best way to track the spread, but personally I would rather not be a node in any sickness graph, nevermind over burden the health care system because I couldn't stay home and chill out for two weeks.
The best thing I did was go from decent typing by knowing learned patterns (but having to look at the keyboard most of the time), to learning home key typing.

I did this in year 9 at school and my typing speed went down for about a month whilst re-learning.

The idea is you rest your fingers on asdf jkl; and to type a letter, raise the appropriate finger up or down.

Typing programs will teach you quickly by practicing the home keys then adding letters one by one like ‘e’ and ‘i’.

The biggest improvement comes because you don’t need to look at the keyboard. Your efficiency in overall computing tasks increases, then your typing speed rapidly overtakes your old style.

After a while you learn patterns of words so you aren’t always moving a finger off the home key and back like a robot. This is when you get really fast.

Always return to the home keys by feeling for the little bumps on the ‘f’ and ‘j’ keys.

I used to lay in bed at night practicing typing simple words with my brain. I’m sure this helped considerably.

It’s the best thing I ever self learned. Well worth the month of slower typing as my entire adult life typing has been a breeze.
The new apartment complex near the (old) Fremont BART station still had people actively working at it this morning. It doesn't seem to be on the essential list from what I saw from the official Alameda County order.
We had a couple of frustrating typos in the first version. Very sorry about that. We fixed them now, and the latest book version is in sync with the GitHub repo.
A reasonable view.

I value discoverability and comprehensibility of the underlying platform a bit more, and have recognized that isn't likely to happen any time soon.
Same in Michigan.
I switched and went from 110 wpm to 60, and have been stuck there for the past four months. Would not recommend if speed is your goal.
PyCon March 12 Update on Covid-19
Everyone and their dog went to go refinance their mortgage after the first rate cut, might explain the rates going up.
If you aren't using super-white printer paper, not sure that this is any more eco friendly than printing a sheet of paper off twice a day, every weekday for years. Not sure what the materials impact is for e-ink, and paper is a renewable resource and sourced from trees generally grown specifically making paper as a crop.
> Because it's not called terrorism when very similar incidents are perpetrated by citizens or residents, despite having very similar motivations, and especially not when it's the government telling us to call it terrorism going over and doing worse in other places.

Similar incidents? I don't recall any similar incidents of ~20 Americans working together for years to hijack 4 planes and collapse multiple large buildings killing ~3000 people.

The patriot act may have been a bad idea but it was a response to a real, significant event and is not based on totally incoherent reasoning. We had surveillance capabilities that detected the 9/11 attackers ahead of time, but arguably due to the separation of foreign and domestic intelligence, that information was not acted on. You can argue the costs of breaking down that separation aren't worth it, but don't bullshit people with word games.
The "country" doesn't have to do anything special to turn the company around - the company's management ought to be capable of that once the economy recovers. As long as the government doesn't pack the board with cronies, nothing should change. Assuming that's the case, it should make no difference who the majority shareholder is: the government, a large institutional investor, or the general public.

There's no reason failing companies should receive "bailouts" - defined as government-granted low-interest loans, often without suitable collateral. If the government puts in money, it should receive shares.
I'm not a fan of the banks, they were encouraged to loan to risky borrowers, people who bought as much as they could with little more than a pulse. This behavior began under Clinton. This was during the era of easy credit where college kids could get massive credit lines. Source: I was one of these kids and I also worked for a Real Estate Web host during the boom and bust.
I played through Epistory (find it on Steam) a couple of times and my typing speed improved. I didn't really have to try that hard and playing the game is pretty enjoyable. The same studio has another one that's a similar style (Nanotale). I haven't played it, but if it's anywhere near the quality of Epistory, it will have been money well spent.
I think you're reading far too much bias into this. The only individual being attacked here is McConnell and the primary target of criticism here is "the government". The article specifically mentions there are opponents on both sides of the aisle in both the House and Senate, and their dissent has been ignored while it's continuing to be pushed through. It also passed 278-136 [1] in the House with a nearly even allocation of D & R for both yays and nays.

Protecting (or eroding) privacy has always been a bipartisan issue.

[1] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll098.xml
Das was great, but starting with the 4 they changed manufacturers to china and have lame quality for the price. (I say this as someone who has a 12 year old das in front of me that I'm using to type this) I do totally recommend a blank keyboard, though! Just check out wasd or kb paradise or something

Here's a up to date buying guide, find one that lets you get blank or has a standard layout you can swap with a set of caps you like
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/buying_gui...
The 4/17 2650 SPX puts are now worth about $26,500, up from $6,000 10 days ago. Did you put your money where your mouth was? I hope so!
Also this is 0.2fps. (or 0.25fps for the smaller one).
More indication that the Democrats and Republicans are just a face/heel arrangement.
Have you thought about keeping your pantry full as a reserve and still eating out / getting delivery a lot? It’s what I’ve been doing since I want my favorite restaurants to still be around when this is all over.
Leave it on a table?
I wonder if I say dang three times in a mirror, he will show up and take advice on HN policy changes.

I really would like to see TC just gone. It didn't use to be this bad, but they've been going downhill since... forever, really.
I'm not installing a stupid app so Microsoft can collect data on me. Please just make the website continue to work properly in a mobile browser.
Atlas, a tool for developing applied deep learning now open source
Does their business model revolve around open source? It seems to be the opposite. I don't have to pay anything to host open-source repositories. We get free repos now too, with caveats though.
The author's description of the experience of being able to linger over a particular scene reminds me of why I like video game music so much. When I'm listening to the Breath of the Wild soundtrack, I engage with the game in what I feel is a much deeper way.

Or when I'm watching clips of television shows on YouTube. Attention is compressed and highlights and expands parts of the experience in an almost richer and denser way than the first watch or playthrough.

I wish copyright holders would loosen up some when it comes to derivative works and be freer with licensing deals. Every single engaging story and game world could have an order of magnitude more audience attention if we could let loose the young would-be creators of the world at them.
It's likely that we'll have a vaccine or at least some kind of treatment by the end of the year, so this should improve the prospects quite a bit.
Still, one of the main reasons I love github is that the site works 1000x better than bitbucket on mobile browsers
As I understand it, many COVID19 deaths could be prevented if cities didn't run out of ventilators. What open-source good-enough version can we mass-produce in a hurry?

This isn't my project. But I was thinking along similar lines, found this on the web, and now I want to find a way to contribute. I'm posting this here on HN to add our collective brain power to the cause.

I'm looking now to see what other similar projects are out there. I can help build a better web-presence for the project if it's helpful. (My agency: https://www.syllablehq.com/)
I think that going all in is a requirement to actually solve anything new. Money is not enough, you need someone to start the work and crack open doors. Funding is necessary for them but so not enough..
Construction companies do it annually - at least here where it gets cold in the Winter. I know people who get laid off every year and then re-hired once the Spring work picks back up. Thing is they know this so they're prepared and plan for it.
These will be the lingering repurcussions from this crisis. Restaurants might bounce back but the people working in those places will have a tough time.
All OpenJDK versions are created equal. Vendors provide LTS services for arbitrarily chosen versions, sometimes after the fact (Azul now offer LTS for 13, while Oracle and others have LTS for 11). There are several reasons to use the current JDK. First, if you don't have a paid LTS service, the current JDK is simply safer. There are about 20-50x more OpenJDK developers working and testing JDK 14 than JDK 11 (and those who work on JDK 11 are split among different projects: Oracle's 11u ≠ Zulu 11u ≠ Red Hat's 11u ≠ Corretto 11u), while some free LTS offerings backport a huge number of changes. Second, you get to enjoy some significant performance, footprint and serviceability improvements.
It's not exactly a taboo question: conservative outlets and voters are asking it constantly.
And what the reuters article is saying is that that's not the case at all. So, by your definition, it's not actually over capacity.
Yeah, I'm a little confused about this as well. It's also not clear if the demos can be used as is. I would use this for an ad-hoc meeting with friends if there's no restrictions. Given that they don't mention it maybe that's fine? I'd be willing to go through the steps to set this up on my own server, but why do I need to if this site already provides everything I need?
It doesn't take much to put together an argument that keeping people from going stir-crazy in their homes is critical.
Cooking also requires proper cooking facilities and access to ingredients. There are a lot of people in living situations that don't involve a kitchen, and many who don't have decent grocery stores nearby but they do have restaurants.

Still, you're right that many people have access to all those things and choose not to cook for whatever reason.
TIL that after the 5 year "full support" period (which is what I had in my head), RHEL has a 5 year "maintenance support" period (and that CentOS matches that 10-year total) (and then the "extended lifecycle support" arbitrarily long after that for whoever wants to pay enough).

(Aside: 3.82 is a surprising version to be stuck with... most distros went straight from 3.81 to 4.0, because by the time the show-stopper bugs in 3.82 were all patched, 4.0 was happening.)
"Boeing, Which Repurchased over $100B in Stock, Downgraded to BBB, Seeks Bailout"

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/boeing-which-repurchased-o...
Ask HN: Do you feel lonely as entrepreneur?
Gave everything up, followed my heart, built the company of my dreams, and another one, then one more...

ended up alone, isolated, exempted from society, considered as "crazy"

everyone i knew before disappeared or is like super-busy with school/work

i feel like the only free person in enslaved world

i don't have to go school or college, i learn everything myself

i don't have to work to be able to afford anything

but you see folks, that's where the most people are, most of the time

that's not where i am

how do they learn more about me?

at this point, i'm considering putting a online ad

but i'm really worried it would look too needy and just scare everyone away

how do you, fellow entrepreneurs deal with loneliness?

how do you meet new people when nobody, especially your age, could relate to you?

thank you very much, i appreciate each and every of your feedback
The comment[0] you reference is more nuanced than your brief copy-and-paste shows, and keeps a more neutral tone than you. Despite that, I'll respond.

Some of the frustration is because millions of people in the U.S. may be losing their service jobs soon and may find themselves in financial difficulty.

Meanwhile many Facebook employees already lead a life of privilege with excellent access to healthcare, free on-site perks, and good base salary and stock options. They are isolated from many of the experiences and problems of the daily grind across the U.S.

This bonus can also be seen as a political move by Facebook to undermine the current administration by essentially 'acting faster' than them in providing a demand-side financial stimulus.

It doesn't seem likely that they've co-ordinated with government or other tech companies on this policy, since not many employers nationwide would be able to provide the same kind of bonus, raising further inequity concerns.

Alternatively it can be seen as a bonus for people who might have been able to cope anyway by adapting their lifestyles temporarily. The median compensation for a Facebook employee is $228,651 according to the article.

Either way it will likely be an interesting decision to reflect on as the situation and political landscape develops.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606846
Ability to quarantine seems totalitarian but does not seem excessive.
How to Work from Home with Kids
tl;dr: (I love the New Yorker most of the time, but their bury-the-reader-in-prose style is absolutely NOT an appropriate fit for this story)

1. A technical messup led to the orginal batch of CDC tests being bad. This seems unavoidable. Stuff happens.

2. A bureaucratic disaster in HHS led to delays trying to get private tests certified. This will forever be fodder for conspiracy arguments, as both the HHS secretary and president were issuing statements at the time pointing to low positive test counts as evidence for the virus not being serious.
I like this. Reminds me a bit of another useful triad for software, the Vitruvian principles in architecture: firmitatis (stability), utilitatis (utility), et venustatis (beauty).
In case you don't feel like clicking through to gumroad and opening the sample PDF...

https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/amazondynamodb/latest/develo...

Here is a link to the AWS docs referencing the limitation of local secondary indices. Any table with a local secondary index is limited to 10GB per partition key.

The authors may have misinterpreted this limitation.

>Once you create a local index on a
table, the property that allows a table to keep growing
indefinitely goes away.

It limits the value for that partition key but does not limit the overall size of the table...
Never going to happen. The general populace is full of bootlickers
Many restaurants are advertising curbside service. I assume this means they bring it to your car. I'm just trying to understand how this all works.
You still have to be at least upper middle class to afford the cheapest Tesla car.

And I suspect their other products (power wall), etc, are more upper middle class, unless there are new apartment communities using it.
While named somewhat poorly for what it is sometimes used for SIGQUIT can be used for this. Ping uses it for statistics reporting in the middle of pinging. You can use Ctrl+\ in the terminal to send it. E.g.

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (172.217.5.110) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=4.04 ms
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=4.04 ms
2/2 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 4.037/4.039/4.037/4.042 ms
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=4.16 ms
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=4.06 ms
4/4 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 4.037/4.076/4.054/4.164 ms
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=4.19 ms
64 bytes from sfo03s07-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.5.110): icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=4.20 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 11ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.037/4.114/4.195/0.068 ms
I'm frequently an opponent of (what I see as excessive) regulation, but in this case - would you really want to fly in a low barrier to entry situation? The vast majority of the barriers here seem to be related to ensuring safety.
I got mine yesterday. It was dated March 12th. I got a notice about it dated March 16th. I think they were having some issues mailing them out.
This also reeeally needs code search.
I never said "years", 2021 is in less than a year. I think you're contrarian, misinformed and in deep denial. Anyway, facts are what they are and we'll see in due time.
To the point. It removes the pressure when pressure is everywhere else.

I hate defending FB, but these measures are really good.
Going above 65 WPM will not cause injuries.
Most mainstream sources buried this, but search for "mighty sea of coronavirus".
Restaurants employ ~10% of working Americans. A lot of
people are going to lose jobs.

No one disputes that. Although that 10% figure needs corroboration. As other comments have pointed out restaurants have switched to take-out and delivery and will need ample workers for those operations.

But meanwhile what happens to the other 90% Americans who are working who face uncertain futures - some even in underrepresented sectors or even non-union sectors? How do they make rent or their mortgage payments?

All I'm asking is why are restaurant workers deserving of such singular attention and their concerns need such elevation over the rest of the entire working classes of America including other blue & white collar workers?
Crazy to me that they've released this without a way for organizations to disable using it with private repos... in no way shape or form do I want engineers using this app to access company IP on their personal phones.
But even Mozilla is having problems implementing it. Bugzilla has more than 100 open bugs about WebComponents.
The same "penalty" applies to the capital gains realized by the sellers when the buyback happens and future sales. The only substantial difference is the ability to choose when to realize those gains by the other shareholders. It's a bad argument and buy backs should be made illegal again.
You should not be giving medical advice. 3% of people with no fever who test positive end up needing ITU admission. Deterioration can be sudden after the first week.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Emerging research suggests that aerosolized SARS-Cov2 can stay active for hours.

Droplets (e.g. projectile saliva or mucus) fall out of the air quickly, but this is different.

Here's a source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973, and an upvote.
Those who can, should. But there are people who can't simply stop working, who don't have the resources to pay for food, rent, etc., without the paycheck.

If you can, do it, and good for you. And not necessarily just for two weeks. Unless you're incredibly paranoid, every time you go out you will run the risk of being exposed.

But seriously, can you stay in your home for 3 months without going out at all?
edit: Once Bitcoin deflation is too strong ...
https://www.thebalance.com/what-to-do-if-you-contributed-too... (Excess Roth Contribution)

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/backdoor-roth-ira-... (Backdoor Roth IRA HowTo)
Ok, but I believe that your use of the word parseable diverges quite a bit from common usage.
Agree with you there. Many times I have been frustrated that I have to find and then click the readme button.
One fact that checks out is the CDC owns the patent and will make a copious amount of CASH by all the sheep that will line up for their NON-SAFETY tested, non double blind placebo, not tested for carcinogenesis, not tested for mutagenesis, not tested for infertility, expedited va((ine. Curious to see how that all plays out.
-Bring on the bots and paid bashers
Please stop downvoting arguments you disagree with.

There are a few bad posts, simply calling someone an idiot, etc. Good: downvote.

But a lot are being downvoted because they express arguments that are disagreed with.
You are correct: the headline is not-untrue, but it is misleading. The short-term extension is solely a matter of the pandemic; it's unclear what the outcome of the long-term vote will be.

There are many who consider this bill shady regardless, since it's there to extend powers passed in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Civil libertarians (of whom there are many on this site) always considered it dangerous, and two decades on even more so. So from that standpoint, the alarm in the headline is called for, even if not precisely for the reasons it says.
> What I know is that they sent all the production to China and Iran a month ago and now that we critically need masks there are none to be found even for medical professionals deemed 'not essentials'.

That may wind up being the right call. China's ramping up production dramatically; the goodwill engendered may be to France's benefit.
"Tangent: I wonder if it’s partly the changing media landscape from 2009 to 2020."

You think that the reaction of health agencies worldwide was the result of a "changing media landscape"? This takes quite an extraordinary perspective to serious posit.

And just to be clear, there was a huge reaction to SARS (a sibling to this virus) six years before H1N1. A massive, coordinated worldwide effort, quarantines, and whole-cities going quiet.

How do you blame the media for that, or was it a "changing media landscape" between 2003 and 2009? SARS thankfully was contained through heroic efforts so it never yielded the catastrophe we have now.

Regardless, they're very different viruses. Even if we pretend that the world "barely noticed" H1N1 (hint: It saw a huge response), health agencies and their experts have rang the warning bell about this virus because of the way it accelerates and presents in an area. They aren't jerking about CFR (which is a post-facto statistic), they're noticing that it hits an area and as it spreads the need for massive intervention explodes. That is why Wuhan got so much attention early on, and why cities are taking extraordinary, historic actions.

Rather than repeat myself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607318

Trying to casually blame the media is not useful.