skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colluding to prevent competition is and should be illegal in a market economy. We can't say we can't implement a viable and beneficial social policy because people will break the law. We should enact the policy and ensure the culture, norms and laws are in place to make it effective.
Best open-source, self-hosted solution to this problem. There is a mattermost plugin.

Very easy install, requires a 10 - 15$ vps instance.

Would like to see if anyone uses this on a large scale
Not refuting the UX point. It’s possible (at most an hour of work) to set up webhook-based deploys to s3. Not as turnkey as Netlify, but it is very possible to build your own great developer UX with a bit of elbow grease and pipes :).

If your time frame for hosting is 10+ years, I’d personally recommend to put your eggs in s3, (or the “s3 interface”, to be specific; whether it’s with AWS, DO, etc).
10 Positive Updates on the Covid-19 Outbreaks from Around the World
Before radio, did everyone pronounce names wrong?
I remember using RAID when I worked at Microsoft from 1993-1996
There is correlation. Someone who cannot take care of themselves is probably not suitable to lead others. In work, "beauty" regards more what you can alter on yourself than what you were given at birth.
Symbol of Hope: Blake Shelton to re-grow long lost mullet
I occasionally leave my opinion that "this particular piece is crap" in essence and I'm actively looking for non-COVID stories to read and comment on. I think helping bad COVID stories sink faster and helping support some diversity of subject matter is a good thing.

But I think a moratorium is too much. Better to try to actively support some variety and actively try to help people sort the wheat from the chafe.

/2 cents
re: patents

I agree. I wish the system did as well. :(

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital...

> Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments

> The valve typically costs about $11,000 — the volunteers made them for about $1
The rock of.Gibraltar had a secret Stay Behind cave for Hitler's invasion.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/06/operation-tracer-secre...

It was not found until recently. They also found one of secret operatives alive (doctor).

https://www.google.fi/amp/s/www.warhistoryonline.com/world-w...
Better to allow the posts, and those who wish to discuss them, then not allow them at all to save a few folks from clicking 'Hide'. Usually it is obvious from the post title if it's COVID related or not. Having to read the title isn't causing great injury to you.
Until covid-19 has petered out, the comparisons aren't valid. We're not even sure yet where on the upslope of infections we are. It's way too early to compare it the annual rate of anything else.
This is a wonderful example of why no speech should be allowed to be censored.

Freedom of speech isn't a slogan. Freedom of speech means allowing others to say things you don't agree with or like, because it allows your own voice to be heard.

Once censorship is allowed, in any form, it will always devolve into us and them. Us and them is determined by who is running things. They're the us. Everyone else is them.

Us justifies their decisions and actions, but it's still the same ol' story. Power corrupts and those Us' in power, will use their influence in any way that they choose.

Censorship equals tyranny.
Witnesses say Aus SAS soldiers killed unarmed Afghans in potential war crimes
I think that is intended to mean spare parts suppliers (including tyres), so auto repair shops can continue to maintain vehicles.
And those characters stand out partly because they're not the norm in Hollywood
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Rolling Your Own Encryption
Xoogler here, circa 2015. My reaction is that this is a very google3 (i.e. web services) centered book. But Google contains multitudes and it feels wrong to ignore them.

For example the book has a section called "How Code Review Works At Google." And it goes on to describe strictly the google3 process. But Chrome, ChromeOS, GoogleX, others have different processes. If Google has a proven model, why do so many of its projects deviate from it?

During my time there, the Android team was recruiting internally, advertising "come work on Android, we don't require Readability." It was seen as an internal competitive advantage to reject these processes! What does that say about how they are perceived internally?

I speculate that Android and Chrome and others have distinct processes for a good reason, and that the book is unknowingly slanted towards web-service style engineering.
As a consumer, you should only buy gift certs and prepaids to the extent you could lose the money and be ok with it.

If this gets a lot worse, you’ve pre-bought a bunch of meals out, you lost some/all of your income, you might not want the expensive meals over the cash, and you even less want those to be an IOU from a bankrupt place.

As a shop owner, it’s indeed quite cheap loans.
Those are all good questions.

My point I was trying to make is that we are treating individuals with the cold hard truth of full boned capitalism, but when it comes to corporations we suddenly have all these excuses and help for them.

If we are fully capitalist then the only answer to the right sized war chest is one large enough for the next recession. Whether or not its difficult or impossible to determine what that size is, if you don't have one big enough your company will go into bankruptcy.

If that sounds like a ridiculous burden to put onto companies, _then why do we put it onto individual citizens?_
Is a "useful level of indirection" not perhaps possible?

news.ycombinator.com/covid19/normal-URL-behaviour
Ask HN: Are there any companies looking for remote/hourly workers?
Hi HN,

Many of us are at home. There might be some of us going through tough times or people willing to take on additional work to save more for their family. Are there any companies offering these kind of projects?

Stay safe!
> can only hit things that are visible to the camera

Isn't the whole point of ray tracing things like refraction? Otherwise why not just rasterise?
They're means to transfer wealth to the executives and risk too everyone else. Simple as that.
This project was started by Sam Altman to organize volunteers to support projects or ideas intending to provide Covid relief
sourcing timezonepicker.js and using <tzpicker> is making our pages slow??
How I think about this is that adding this flexibility is no harder to do when we actually need it.

So there is no reason to add it now, even if we're 100% sure we'll need it. And in reality, those expectations are rarely more than ~40% true.

This goes hand in hand with refactoring as a core skill. If you're good at refactoring, you can always tweak code to do what you want.
Ask HN: How come my Ryzen 3750H is faster than my RTX 2060 in TensorFlow?
I thought the RTX would do better here, but the Ryzen 3750h performs better on training a model in tensorflow. I'm using this guide to get things going, and I'm usng tf-nightly with Ubuntu 20.04.

https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/quickstart/beginner

I'm wondering if using nvidia 440 drivers is the reason? I also have 3 versions of CUDA installed (10.0, 10.1, and 10.2). The tensorflow-js test I did uses CUDA 10.0, and the Ryzen performs roughly 50% faster. The Python test I did uses CUDA 10.1, and the CPU is less than 10% faster.

Even so, shouldn't the GPU perform an order of magnitude better here? I feel like I must be doing something wrong :/
100% correct! We are providing an essential service and precautions are being taken to protect our health and the health of the people we love. The new time off options allow anyone who feels as if their health is at risk can stay home with no fear of losing their job, while those of us that are able to work still have that opportunity. Time off policies have been changed, additional paid time of is being given if you are ill, additional sanitation staff is on hand, doors are being propped open so as to avoid door handles, things are being changed minute to minute to ensure the health and well-being of all Amazon employees while we are trying to provide a vital service to those people who are home bound. A relief fund has bee set up and a pay increase has been initiated. You are so right..the stories are just that...STORIES! I keep thinking what else can Amazon do for me before at least one person with a negative attitude says...hey wait a minute...maybe they are not so bad after all. Looks like I'll grow even older waiting for that to happen!!
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This highlights the crazy, partisan nature of the news these days. You have to really read carefully (and probably from several sources) to really understand which way is up.

I shared your first thought-- why is this article all about the wicked Republican Senate, with no mention of the previous hurdle of the Democrat House? Shameful.
"we" is the generic we, as in whoever is reading this. China is no different, they've been pointing at external influences; typically the US as the bad guys for a long time.

But this response is the kind of thing I'm talking about. I'm sure you have legitimate reasons to have a negative view of China, but discussions just devolve into emotionally charged rhetoric that doesn't go anywhere. How am I supposed to respond to this in a constructive way?
You're probably more a triple torus.
Looking at the names of these accounts it hardly looks like those people care about health.
Have other car factories had to shut down, or is the Tesla plant unique for being in an urban area?

The UAW seems to be trying to get Michigan/Midwest plants shutdown, and of course the southern plants aren’t union.
I don't think that's a fair comparison, personally. Getting your hours cut is a big deal and might mean you can't pay your bills.

Like I said, I think it's great to split them out if you can, but let's not minimize actual pain people are going to be going through right now. Especially on a site where the average income is so much higher than most.
It's literally just information. I'm comparing current data, which is clearly indicated and sourced.
I suspect the reason for fewer tests is, as many have pointed out, because of a lack of tests rather than overt political malfeasance. Note: Yesterday they performed 3.4k tests,[0] which is aprox 30% of the total tests to date in a single day. Tests are ramping up as supplies come online.

[0] https://covid19japan.com/
Groovy is particularly nice I find. Completely cross platform and supports command line args similar to Perl to enable inline / pipe style processing easily, but if you are using Java in your back end you can throw any of your business logic in there too and use those.
I believe we should be focused on the virus, but when this world wide short down is over we shouldn't forget were this came from and put some international influence on shutting down the wild animal markets in China which no doubt will just spawn another coronavirus in the next decade. I don't respect any "tradition" that leads to havoc like this.
Not to the people who need it for medicinal purposes.
Please don't attack fellow users like that. During economically damaging, socially isolating, fear-inducing, death-causing events, we need to take more care for each other, not less. Note this site guideline:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Personally, I like to mention the ticket number(s) and a description of what changed and why. I wish git would reject commit messages like "fixed".
> Or am I missing something and Tesla did not stop operations for some reason?

You probably missed the earlier story, which is that Tesla believed they had obtained special permission to continue normal operations as an "essential business":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607357

This story is that Alameda County has since made clear that Tesla is not an "essential business" and is only allowed to "maintain minimum basic operations": https://www.kron4.com/news/alameda-county-officials-determin....

Presumably Tesla will comply with this?
Won’t they pretty much all get it eventually? The quarantine is more about reducing the rate of infection not preventing infection to reduce load on healthcare system.
The flu is community spread, and not possible to contain. There are many strains, and immunity to the previous season's flu does not provide immunity to this one.

The new virus can be contained, at least could have been though perhaps it's too late for that. The only thing keeping the deaths so low to this point has been the containment efforts.

The flu does not overrun an entire country's hospital system like COVID-19 has done to Italy.

It is misinformation to blindly compare total deaths between two diseases like you are.
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Rights don't involve being given "free stuff", they exist to prevents it from being taken away. Which is a super popular misconception (or at least misuse) all on its own.
Thumbs up for typing club. I put my kids on it. I took a typing course when I was 15 and TC most closely resembles that instruction.
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If there's any saving grace, it might be that this is spring-break time. Perhaps some workers were planning on spending cash on a vacation, that money can be used for essentials.

Wishful thinking, probably. But I'm really looking for ways this will all work out. (As it inevitably will.)
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Ah, yep, fair enough.

Yep, generally agree.

A strong social safety net seems important to me. Here in Australia we do have social security and a healthcare benefits program. So there's that.
I literally have made calls and received calls with a librem 5. I have no idea why this person could not. It wasn't anything special either. My only thought is if the reviewer had very out of date software and didn't bother to upgrade?
Fair question - my wife is too nervous about getting us sick since both my daughter and I are in risk categories. We're fine with the occasional trip to the store but are holding off restaurants for now. And I get it - there's some local restaurants that I love and I feel bad for them, but the risk right now isn't worth it.
I noticed the Philosophy of Computer Science article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy was on the front page. That article is pretty old; this one here is hot off the presses and may be of interest. Sort of the converse of the other one on the front page.

edit: here's a quick summary of the topic from the intro: "Computational philosophy is not philosophy of computers or computational techniques; it is rather philosophy using computers and computational techniques."
Jury trials in Italy are only for the gravest crimes (like some murders)
Hi everyone, the other day I was trying to come up with a way to find the Fermat point of a triangle, and I think better with visuals. I needed a quick way of plotting points and drawing lines so I came up with this very very hacky way of exposing a canvas as an app.
Tesla's Fremont factory employs 10k people. I imagine they work closely together, touch a lot of the same stuff, would be at high risk of transmitting this, but I really have no idea.

This would almost certainly lead to 1-10+ deaths -- his workers directly or people infected by them. It would lead to hundreds of not thousands of cases of pneumonia and permanent lung damage. It could easily cost millions of dollars to the US tax payer in Medicare and Medicaid expenses.

Shutting down production at Fremont for a couple werks shouldn't do much to the underlying fundamentals of Tesla -- it could actually be a good thing. Car sales are giving every indication they'll be heavily depressed for months -- if not til the end of the year.

This is a selfish play by Elan to do anything (almost literally human sacrifice) to keep his stock price high.
tested it for 1 minute at that “beta” store. must have been the old version of course.

it’s terrible. the response time makes it very awful.
>But being able to buy and collect rent (in various ways) from the basics of life (and scaling that rent up to market rates, or the highest anyone will pay without leaving)

This is how every other good in society works though and it generally works out in the consumers favour. Food is right up there with shelter in the basics of life and it's been driven way down as a percentage of labour that we have to perform in order to earn it. Same as clothing.

The problem is that housing has super high constraints on it and that's largely caused by private home ownership not landlords. It creates protectionism for land value reducing supply driving up both home prices and rent costs. Then because getting a place to rent becomes an ordeal, instability in your current living situation becomes a big deal, so theres a bunch of protection around eviction. Then because you can't boot someone easily you be more selective, vet harder, more likely to leave it vacant if you cant find someone good; which reduces supply even further.

There are no policies keeping the price of food or pants high because 99.9% of us benefit from low prices for those things which makes it harder to do politically. The same cannot be said for housing. Sure the amount of people that benefit from high rent is a tiny percentage of the population but its intrinsically linked to housing prices overall, which a lot of people do benefit from being high.

If 99.9% of people rented then abundant and cheap housing would be a priority for government at all levels. Renting isn't the cause of societal problems, it's private ownership. Specifically, politically active private ownership.
Would not the influenza vaccine be better than using osetalmivir?
Re-Thinking Hacker News: From HN to Hacker Villages (HV)
According to TechCrunch, PG worries about Hacker News growth leading to it becoming too much like Reddit, which has lost much of the hacker culture feel due becoming mainstream. The objective of this document is to suggest some mechanisms from offline society can help evolve HN concepts in positive ways.

#1: I wonder if a crowdsourced news aggregator like HN could be split into distinct communities
("virtual villages") instead of one central site, each having its own home page and (limited?) user base?

Let's call it Hacker Villages (HV). In a perfect world, these villages would be computed as clusters of what is currently all of HN. Clusters (villages) could be statically defined
or dynamically recomputed, or even human-curated. Dynamic formation of villages
by an algorithm might give the most organic feel. Nobody would be locked out when growth
happens, but instead of one mega-metropolis a new village gets spun out once the user base
exceeds a threshold.

Users would be associated with their "home village", and they could move villages (which costs karma, like a real move). Browsing beyond one's own village should be possible, but posting in stranger land imposes hurdles.

#2: Limit the newly created logins? Someone could need support from a "village elder" to get the right to post for the first time. The right to post could be temporary, and one could get a trial membership and karma (village citizenship) to prove they are a considerate villagers.

#3: HV could be P2P if it wanted to restrict itself to real hackers: only people
who contribute to its hosting by permanently running a HV process could become a village elder (karma boost). A distributed site is also harder to take down, which would protect political discussions (hackers need/thrive in spaces of freedom of expression, as often their ideas are radical/non mainstram).

#4: Which other offline social mechanisms are useful to model in an online community?
Im not actually a journalist in fact I think you are the opposite of someone that should be interviewed.
I’m going to ignore the thinly veiled personal insult and focus on why I wrote the above comment: I find it irritating when people assume that if they can’t see an obvious reason for something then there must not be any reason at all, and doubly so when they assume an air of superiority about it. In hindsight, it was a bit off-topic for this thread and maybe I should have held my tongue.

However, I’d like to point out that you’ve done the same thing again: while I do not personally have a maid, I might have been disabled and require a housekeeper to do some cleaning that I was incapable of. Fortunately, unlike you, the public health department has also thought of that scenario and covered it in their order as well.
Sorry, I thought you were asking if a national takeover of a company could lead to a turnaround. Were you not?
God bless the Intercept for continuously pumping out investigative journalism pieces.
That is an interesting article, but just so we are clear, he repeats exactly what I said: inhaled droplets. He then goes on to say inhalation of droplets is not historically what is referred to as “droplet transmission,” and goes on to discuss aerosols.

So... ok.
The CDC also estimates that if measures are not taken against the spread of COVID-19, direct deaths in the United States could range from 200,000 to 1.7 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est...

Few deaths in past months does not mean few deaths in the coming months, because infections spread exponentially.
But the company is poorer by the same amount as they spent on stocks, which if the stock price is correct should reduce earnings by the same amount, canceling out to no change in the stock price.
I haven't read the book, but looking at the contents I'm surprised that the author hasn't introduced analytical mechanics anywhere in the book. This might be a good introductory book if you haven't taken a mechanics course before, but using Newton's laws for understanding the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies is a terrible idea.

> All the principles are described mathematically in a coordinate-free manner.

Newton's laws aren't coordinate free, e.g., Newton's second law written in polar coordinates would look different from Newton's laws in Cartesian coordinates. But, Lagrange's equations are coordinate-system independent.
Your view of people's buying patterns is not accurate. I own a home care agency with 500 employees that live on low income (the government sets the Medicaid reimbursement rate so we have no ability to raise wages). NO ONE is buying a new car, let alone every 36 months. Half our employees don't own a smart phone. We pay $10hr, in rural North Carolina, so lots of people live on even less. Please research this issue and go and meet people in this income bracket, you will see a different picture. I also encourage you to read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

The truth is most American's wages have gone to Health Insurance, College, and Housing.

See https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/this-chart-i...
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If it's on "interest of the landlords" to make it work, then it will fail. And they will end up with the bill.
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Also Kinesis records are write-once read-many, where SQS messages are meant to be consumed (receive a message, do the task, delete the message)

Kinesis is for streaming data, and SQS is for job queues.
Whats App works on Apple, Signal, Telegram. How has Apple “killed” chat apps? That makes no sense.
tesla working living in fremont to tesla working living in alameda to supermarket worker in alameda to other alameda residents.