skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh as someone who works in IT, there’s a lot of hate spread around. It’s an awful part of the entire industry. People neglect whole ecosystems of the industry and thus their career paths because of the Mac, windows, Linux hate war. If someone’s stuck to a single tribe they’re a lot less interesting as a professional. I take it as a sign of lack of experience and professionalism.
Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents
> Adding a special VM instruction for such operations as inheriting from a class is a strikingly bad design decision

I am struggling how this can be seen as a runtime instruction anyway - surely inheritance is a compile time semantic?
If you got a 0% loan last month and bought an S&P bond index and sold now to pay back the loans, congratulations: you just lost 10%.
I've had a bidet in my bathrooms since I was born (actually I believe we have bidets since at least my father was born in 1951) and:

1. I can not imagine my life without it
2. In my very humble opinion the only effective use of bidet, as parent states, is seated towards the tap using hands, soap, and mildly warm water. After that, washing hands at the bathroom sink
Ask HN: Manhattan Project for Coronavirus
What does HN think about asking the US Federal Government to start a Manhattan Project for Coronavirus? It seems like a project that we should be able to put our best and brightest on to find a drug cure, vaccine or, at least, better testing. Given the Coronavirus economic impact on the world, it seems like a no-brainier to spend whatever $$ it takes over the next 6-12 months on such a project.
They have shipped out the laptop I think you're in good shape. Seems like they might pay you for some down time since the can't set you up right away but you're probably be paid for all.
No, the information cost grows exponentially going from random letters to English sentences. We can measure this with crossentropy to get a probability of generating a well formed English sentence from a uniform distribution over the letters. To generate just a few hundred words we end up needing more trials than are available in the lifespan of our universe.
A "donate" button when the current remaining budget would last for less than 100 minutes.
I have doubts about the bidet-in-bordello anecdote.

How many GIs stopped to visit such a place? Didn't many more visit theatres and restaurants and perhaps associate bidets with those?

Too many dangling questions for credibility on that one.
This simplification misses the point. Unlike paper money and stocks you can't print more Gold. That's why people fall back to it again and again. Also it has _some_ intrinsic value in various applications. I am not arguing we should be using Gold, only that the statement you make, while true on the surface, glosses over the entirety of the interesting and relevant points about its use as money, historically and today.
Ask HN: Are there any bootcamps for hardware
Are there any bootcamps for hardware? There seem to be limitless options for programming but I can't find any for electrical engineering sort of things?
What Facebook's Internal Facial Recognition App Looked Like
Thanks for the kind words! Cockroach is awesome and it's something we'd like to offer someday. Until then checkout FaunaDB.

Your push example is interesting. We don't have a way to connect to redis from outside fly, but you could certainly boot up a tiny app on fly that acts as a proxy from external apps into the fly redis.
The nice thing about this one is the lack of the touch bar.
Twitter “broadening the definition of harm” for Coronavirus
For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time. And the idea of uploading such a personal document as W-2 seems laughable. The more believable option is the informal offer letter with numbers: that could be shared, indeed.
> fatality was highest in persons aged ≥85, ranging from 10% to 27%, followed by 3% to 11% among persons aged 65–84 years, 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, <1% among persons aged 20–54 years, and no fatalities among persons aged ≤19 years.

The problem with all of these numbers is that they assume sufficient medical care and access to an ICU.

This report here breaks down how many people need an ICU by age: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-new-age-anal...

> In contrast, among people 20 to 44, 14% to 21% of 705 cases were admitted to hospitals and 2% to 4% to ICUs; 0.1% to 0.2% died.

If we assume that ICUs are overloaded, how many of the that 2-4% would die?

Not that this doesn't count the people who won't catch the virus because of herd immunity. There may also be some people who are immune, or who defeat the virus quickly enough to not show positive on an RNA test.
I find that if I am excited about a subject, I tend to participate a lot more (create/edit) than if I am simply consuming. I think there is a 1% rule for /topics/ as well, i.e. I as a user am interested in actively creating/contributing to 1% of all topics I see...
APY rates are 0.3% yearly. Not precisely raking it in..
> so it's natural to just add another instruction for inheritance

No it's about as natural as goats that walk on their hind legs. Inheritance is a compiler function, not a runtime function, let along a run-time function that deserves it's own instruction. You might want to read some books at an elementary level, rather than writing them.
LXC also uses this attribute.
I keep a stack of about twenty small, thin wash cloths (each one is about 8 inches by 8 inches) in a container on the shelf next to the toilet, and after using the bidet, I just use a single cloth to pat everything dry.

I then drop the cloth into a small bathroom trash can with a lid that is marked, "dirty wash cloths only". This small trash can sits down on the floor next to the toilet, and once a week I just wash the cloths along with the other towels. The cloths aren't even really dirty, since your butt is clean by the time you use them. I don't like the idea of re-using them without washing them though.

And just like that, my toilet paper usage has dropped to nearly zero.
Boeing Crashes: $43B in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat
Pre-2008 financial crisis we didn't have the iPhone, no app stores, cloud hadn't truly taken off, and my graduating class of 4000 students had only 30 computer science majors. The 2010's were such a golden age for software developers in terms of salaries, employers bending over backwards, never ending funding, etc. etc. Many young tech workers are "children of the summer" and never known any dark days. Although this will be painful, it will also teach people a lot of lessons. A lot of weaker talent, sketchy business models, and fast money investors are going to wash out and the industry will emerge stronger.
Thats what is most interesting about human innovation and creativity in general. There are very very very few original ideas out there. Almost any idea anyone has had, a large number of people have had it. And most innovation is just tiny tweaks to existing formulas, over time.
In fact, if you understand the backstory behind most innovations, you realize it really wasn't all that impressive. There were many proposed models for flight before the wright brothers. They stumbled upon the right mixture. Modern day car fuel engines have essentially evolved over centuries of perfecting "torches" (fire and gas to create heat)
The people who make history are simply the first ones to act upon these thoughts. So, you become a content creator/culture setter, by simply being the first one to vocalize your thoughts.
I watched this video when it came out and some of the youtube comments are gold.
Another company playing the "Heads our shareholders win, tails the taxpayers lose" game.
Honestly? I'd probably get most off whatever dirty substance is on my hands with a paper towel, etc. and then wash with soap and water. (And a bidet doesn't include the soap part, so the comparison doesn't work anyway.)
Funny how Apple went from a mindset that mice were only intended to be accessibility peripherals in iOS, to fully support for them so quickly. I think it was only a year or so ago that someone high up at Apple said something to reaffirm that mindset.
Is this just an ad for triplebyte?
Ask HN: Must know algorithms for freelance platform coding tests?
Hi everyone, I've been applying to freelance platforms like Gun, Toptal, and others as a web developer. They're sending me coding tests through platforms like Colidity.

What are the top 20% must know CS algorithms to pass the tests?
Ask HN: Job-searching for the long-term underemployed, post-outbreak?
Unfortunate circumstances lead to layoffs at a startup I was working in late 2014, and I haven't found any stable work in my field since then.I have been under-employed for a long while before the virus outbreak. And now with it shaking up the world, what new change-ups in job hunting should the long-term underemployed be doing now? What should be the new set of strategies?

Many people have told me that I should have been "snatched up" by companies in just a month or so, because my years of experience are an asset, but the reality hasn't shown that. However, I do at least some experience working remote that should make me more appealing to employers.

(I in particular am in unique situation where I have almost zero income but I am also not in any real risk of going homeless)

What new things should the under-employed be doing in this new scenario? Especially if they no longer have money. I just can't call it impostor syndrome anymore if I consistently fail at getting full-time offers even when the economic climate was good.
Coronavirus: Mysterious bat cave in Chinese wilderness could hold key
Basically.

I was actually laid off last year and had been searching for a new gig.

Finally made some progress on finding two companies I really liked and made it to the final interviews. One company’s business is in jeopardy and the other has paused hiring.

If anyone needs a full-stack marketing leader with digital, offline and partnership experience, I’m here! Full or part time at any level or consulting. Let me know!
I feel that by using these types of tools you could really miss out on a fantastic opportunity to create a schema that models the business domain as accurately and elegantly as you want to make it, regardless of the underlying service topology or the databases behind it.

That's what I find the most attractive about GraphQL. Large companies and companies that have grown fast often have all kinds of APIs made at different time by different people with different standards. GraphQL lets you paper over that without breaking existing, revenue making code.
Bergamo, Italy: 70 military vehicles haul away coronavirus corpses for cremation
I did not realize it either until a few days ago!
Hey Miktor,

It was quite a while ago now, but I got into software from almost the exact same place you're in now: I'd been laid off in my previous career, and I needed a job really bad. I'd been hacking stuff on the side, and I used that as my resume. I found that Stack Overflow Jobs had a lot of remote options, as well as sites like We Work Remotely. It's worth applying to a handful of companies and writing a good cover letter just telling them your story and how excited you are to move into software. I think you'll be successful.

Best of luck!
> When I apply, I don't have the faintest idea whether I'll get a response or whether my application will go into a black hole.

STOP applying to positions immediately.

Every Bozo jobseeker is applying to those posts.

And worse still, the candidates are sorted and selected by Flunky HR types.

Instead, consider your target audience.

ASK: Who is the guy/gal you can most help? What are their title(s)?

Think - CTO/CIO, VP or Director of Engineering

Where do they sit? What companies?

Now, hop on Linkedin.

Sort for individual profiles of people you can help.

Reach out to them directly. Engage in a live conversation.

Do this 100 times.

You will find competing opportunities.
After 6 days patients treated with HCQ and Azithromycin virologically cured
UPDATE:

Full peer reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9….

After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured

p-value <.0001

https://www.covidtrial.io/
It is reasonable to say this is a tradeoff. However, one of the costs is having the VM structure depend on the language structure, which kind of a software engineering no-no. But yes, tradeoffs always happen.
Corona Virus Realtime Stats
This game was also released on the NES. I still have a copy in my basement. Wonderful game.
I think it moreso has to do with that we ourselves only put time into so many things. For example, I myself probably read 99 or more articles on HN for every 1 I actually comment on. Take that to a general level, there are a lot of platfoms were I lurk, and very few were I actually participate. Putting your words on the screen takes mental effort that we selectively choose where to focus such efforts
GraphQL Tooling, Today and Tomorrow [video]
To add to that, I was wondering earlier today if HN has seen an increase in traffic, this "1% activity", and / or longer visit times now that many of us are WFHing until further notice... I suspect so, but would love to know!
Google Translate English version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> To relieve the burial chamber of the cemetery - with no more space available - it had been necessary in recent days to line up the coffins of the deceased in the church of Ognissanti, inside the cemetery. Since yesterday, the solution identified to deal with the emergency has been the use of army vehicles.
HIV drug combo fails as treatment for severe Covid-19
That would be cool! Personal favorites would be Big Sur or NYC skyline.

Stay tuned on the LitiHolo site for hologram printer details as we get closer!
I am so glad it doesn't have a Touch Bar. Nothing turned me away from the newer Pro models quite like the lack of physical keys. Sure the Touch Bar is nifty for timeline scrubbing and slider adjustment, but those are such small aspects when compared to how often the function keys are used.
I think you are looking at this from SF/SV centric point of view. The correct solution to the problem to high housing costs is to build more housing, not lower everyones income.

Here is another angle to look at the issue from. We have been relying on monetary stimulus for the last decade to keep the economy chugging along. The landlord class has been benefiting from that via cheaper interest rates. What if, instead of lowering rates, we did a UBI and in your proposed scenario, most of that money just results in high rents. Well, we would be roughly in the same spot we are in (stimulus largely benefiting landlords), but with the key difference that people who are really struggling (living in their car for example) can use that cash to get back on their feet. Also, because the money passes through multiple peoples hands before eventually getting sucked up by the wealthy, it will actually result in higher measured economic activity (because GDP is basically measure the velocity of money).

So I guess, that is what I don't understand. Our current policy is to just shovel money to the wealthy. They in turn just bid up the price of stocks, real estate, art, yachts, super bowl tickets, etc.. creating an inflationary bubble for rich people things. With a UBI, the working class gets first dibs on that stimulus, and every one up the chain will benefit (including small businesses, which also don't bet much benefit from monetary stimulus).
Many of the toilet seat based bidets (such as the Brondell Swash) have sensors in the seat that won't allow the water sprayer or blow dryer to run unless contact is detected from someone actually sitting down. That's what relieved my concern about it. I have a toddler who likes to press buttons, too! He just presses them and nothing happens. You can also just turn it off and completely deactivate it by holding the stop button for 5 seconds.
Nope, and I don't remember how I did it.

Edit: I've added something above though.
Yeah that’s what I ended up messing with, it works for sure.
Someone asked me that today. There seems to be a slight increase in traffic, but there's so much fluctuation normally that it's impossible to say, and it ticked down a bit today relative to last Wednesday.

I suspect it's just noise. Perhaps our users are particularly honest and don't goof off on HN while working at home any more than they do while working at the office.
This is also a good technique to not forget where you parked in a large parking lot.
This was a really interesting comment to read that I feel accurately summarizes most of the points being made here. Thanks!
Yep. Very reminiscent of "Bottom Line Up Front" (BLUF).
I love how you are basically going around the thread with bold statements with 0 data to backup your claims regarding the fatality rates.

Currently experts are giving us data and people are giving us sources.

[1] Countries like Iran literally have mass graves at this point and here you are claiming this is overblown by social media.

You really need to stop.

[1] https://youtu.be/eWUT1V6WrRA?t=12
For me this really helped my typing speed. Like more then doubled.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/

It's a cli but once you get into it it's really a great experience. It will take you all the way from where to put your fingers onto typing so fast your like someone out of Hackers
How the Chinese built a hospital in 10 days for Covid-19 patients
Note the caveat here: "the initial approach to testing was to identify patients among those with travel histories or persons with more severe disease, and these data might overestimate the prevalence of severe disease". One of the things that makes it frustratingly hard to tell the real likelihoods is that almost all data has this problem to some extent, except maybe the Diamond Princess cases, and there weren't enough young people on there to get good numbers.
I believe it's like this:

L1 - if you lose your job and you have no other status (ie have not filed for green card or have your H1B), that's it. You have to leave within 60 days and you cannot work at another company in the US.

H1B - you can switch to a new company and they port your H1B with USCIS. Otherwise, 60 day grace period to leave.

Adjustment of Status to 485 - if it has been pending with USCIS for more than 180 days & you have your EAD, you can port to another company under the AC-21 act.
Well it isn't normal, and it isn't the old Keyboard either.

Despite having Double the Key Travel of Butterfly ( 0.5mm to 1mm ) It still felt the same as butterfly. The old Scissor had 1.3mm, while only 0.3mm difference, it felt night and day.

The new scissors also claims higher stability. Although I doubt this has anything to do with the design but rather of the "height" of the key be lower.

It is indeed new, but I know if it is wonderful yet. I haven't had a long period of time to try and use it.
Gold is a noble metal and does not corrode. That is its main value as currency. It conveys a feeling of durability.
What's the difference between a software engineer and "just" a programmer?
Everything is relative: if gold drops less than stocks (for example) then gold is good to have.

The USD could easily start shifting into high inflation, or exchange rates could decrease significantly. USD has traditionally been stable, but past history doesn’t always predict future performance.
VBA syntax and standard library is nearly identical to VB6.
> What is Salary Stream? A digest of verified salaries sent weekly. Users upload Offer Letters, W2s, etc. We extract the relevant numbers and the share the anonymous data back with you.

The whole point is that they verify them. In contrast with, say, Glassdoor. Which is why even a singular data point can be treated as meaningful.

> For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time

I mean, sort of. I don't see that as a reason nobody would do it.
It's very common lately for online press when it comes to breaking news. I see it from many outlets not just TC
From Gregory Rigano:

UPDATE:

Full peer reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9….

After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured

p-value <.0001

covidtrial.io

https://twitter.com/riganoesq/status/1240273631604809728?s=2...
Take my ideas, please!

http://github.com/samsquire/ideas2
http://github.com/samsquire/ideas
http://github.com/samsquire/ideas3
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, German Measels, Zika, Guinea Worm, St. Louis Encephalitis, West Nile too. [1]

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30440/12-diseases-and-lu...
>To be honest, yes, I'd like them to say "we messed up, and we finally recognised that, so we're fixing it".

Exactly. In Steve Jobs days he would have either jokingly admit there was a mistake or at least say something that people dont like it ( hence admitting there is a problem ).

The new Apple put up a big middle finger and didn't act until there are class action.
This.

Also, I would not worry about making your site high-tech. Plain HTML is fine. A wall of text is fine. But I would focus more on explaining what you can do ("build a website supporting X", "integrate Facebook, cell phone, IoT alerts"; whatever), not the tools or languages you use. For extra credit, link to a few small examples to showcase some of the cool features you can do. My 2c.

Good luck!
Not sure about floating keyboard design. I have latest (well, before this one) ipad pro with keyboard and it sits really well on an actual lap. I have doubts about this. Looks like it would bounce on a lap when typing.
I wish downvotes had a text field feedback option. I often downvote comments for reasons that may not be obvious to the author. That could be ripe for abusive messages, but still think it's a noteworthy idea.
Alex Jones, Jim Baker and whoever these scammers are... Snake oil panacea merchants preying people during on disasters. The FBI, IRS and FTC should throw a whole library at these vile, criminal scumbags.
My understanding of silver is that it sometimes has more value as a commodity in processes that tarnish or change the silver in ways that make it expensive to restore. The supply of silver is slowly diminishing because of this, whereas gold is used less industrially and is chemically more stable.
Commenting just to mess with the ratios on this rule.
Did he ever get to fsck ? Or did it just hang the entire time ?
GCC attribute cleanup is so much harder to misuse than some hodgepodge macro construction like this. If you're a C developer, it is by far the superior option. Clang supports it, of course.
I don't live in a bunker, but I do have some gold and silver, in a box under my bed. There's also a loaded shotgun under the bed, with dual pistol grips and laser sight, loaded alternating slugs and buckshot :)
Pity how much of that cultural content was lost during the post collapse years of the USSR.
What do you mean? You want to leave a google property?

I can't believe getting out of an amp page takes a copy paste on iOS.
I found a book which very well explains the ideology behind what has been happening over the last 11 years. It is called Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky.

If Capitalism 4.0 is really capitalism I would leave to everyone's discretion. It is about to end in an really really ugly way though.

P.S. The book distinguishes between american 'democratic capitalism' and chinese state-run capitalism, but I personally don't see how the democratic one based on money printing[1; the stock market growing 20% a year with GDP only 2%] is any different or capitalism in any way.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/qe-correlations-between-stoc...