skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very common, and very fallacious to think that projectors are automatically upgrades over reflectors.

It's also very common, and very fallacious to think that a cutoff is the be-all, end-all of a good beam pattern and headlamp performance.

The reason people buy "bright" LEDs is they fail to realize that improving headlamp performance doesn't mean throwing random aftermarket parts at the headlamp.

The art of car diagnostics has been lost upon the younger generation. Cars come equipped with long-life halogen bulbs; a mere glance at the bulb you pull out a new car will clue you into that fact, because the bulb will have "LL" (long life) or "L+" (life plus) or "L" (life) printed on it. Long life bulbs trade off luminance and brightness for life. The logical upgrade would be getting a bulb that performs the opposite tradeoff--not throwing questionable aftermarket parts at the car and then, without any knowledge or testing equipment, self-certifying that the car still meets federal safety standards.

https://imgur.com/Ju1g1eo
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You need a trillion dollars to make 3 billion dollars a year with that strategy. Like you could buy Amazon, and have a 100 billion spare still.
Volkswagen says it is changing into a software-driven tech business
Leading Hong Kong microbiologist retracts op-ed claiming pandemic began in Wuhan
The repos are back, but the site http://aurelia.io which is also hosted on GitHub servers is still showing 404.
Seems like a wrapper for, and should be compared with https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/
Aims Innovation – Application Performance Monitoring
Method 1: You hold the spray/jet in one hand, use the other hand to gently wash. Then wash your hands (twice) with soap and water.

Method 2: If there's a jet/bidet fixed on the toilet that shoots a stream of water, you still need one had to gently wash the butt. Then wash your hands (twice) with soap and water.

There's only one issue with this -- public toilets/hotels where you don't want to touch the spray gun. Need Toilet Paper there.

That's how we all are taught to do in south-east asia atleast. *I feel unclean if I'm using toilet paper alone! Billions of people do it this way!
Remdesivir therapy in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Executives aren't paid to build resilient organizations, they're paid to return capital to shareholders. Until you incentivize them otherwise, it won't be a priority. Right now, everyone is content to throw their hands up saying "it couldn't have been predicted" and then return to business as usual once the crisis blows over.
Absolutely on requalification.

IYHO, would that be more or less time that manufacturing fully new units?
Allow me to chime in and agree with you that in real life there exist real applications using ORMs that have or cause these problems even where the ORMs in question provide modern query facilities that don't suck. Whether this happens because the ORMs were not that advanced when the apps were developed, or the devs were not that knowledgeable, doesn't matter -- the apps exist, and I know because I've had to deal with some such.

I agree very much with the idea that the problem is fundamentally caused by wanting to present objects to apps, and that dealing with queries instead is better and the real solution. Of course, the queries can't be SQL -- we can't have that! So we end up with N+1 query languages: SQL and N more non-SQLs. But N+1 query languages is a lot better than no query languages as in earlier ORMs.
What an amazing initiative from an ever impressive organization!
I can confirm this as another nobody, we have under 100 customer WISP, have peering sessions with Google and Cloudflare, and Netflix is visible on the routeservers anyway.
Neither have many doctors I've interacted with. The God-complexes in some of those people is just incredible.
In some areas it is still technically 2 quarters of negative growth however manufacturing has been in a recession for a few quarters now using this definition.

It is ongoing but previously limited to specific sectors that were hard hit by tariffs and other policy decisions.
Aha, thank you! Nice work putting this together, it's much easier to understand than a paper.
Ok, so we replace a lot of opex with a little capex and a lot more opex. You only need devops types if your business runs on a cloud provider, now you need to employ facilities, sysadmins, security, etc. It's not just the cost of the hardware we're talking about, your labor budget will necessarily increase as well.
I trust their statistics and words. Do you?

But either way, now is too late. The entire world got it and tens of millions will de directly or indirectly.
I believe that recent(ish) builds of Windows, webservers running in WSL can be accessed from Windows via localhost:port, just like with WSL 1. [0] Accessing servers running on the Windows side from WSL is a fair bit harder, but IMO also a lot less likely.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes...
You can sit there in your academic cubbyhole at MIT and rethink all you want; at the end of the day, you need something from halfway across the word that they don't make here, or not at the price you want or other requirements.
It's not about China. It could have happened anywhere in the world. It's about any authoritarian or communist regimes. It's about hiding the information from surfacing. More people should be speaking out about such regimes.
The UN should pass a resolution. 100% global sanctions on any country that allows these.
"Urged" by who exactly? Some random politician who thinks the internet is a series of tubes?
And they've just bought npm!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22594549
Programming, like spoken language, is one way to express yourself. A lot of value is lost because otherwise apt people, with profound skill or potential in a given vertical like medicine, cannot express themselves in digital terms. Moreover, non-technical people use Excel in amazing ways. It would be better if they knew how to program. The volume and distribution of technical labor is becoming more and more of a bottleneck to innovation. Every year that we don’t systematically introduce people to programming is another year where we forsake large amounts of innovation, and the economic value lost compounds, just like investments compound. There must be a large national effort to introduce young people and adults to programming.
If that's not an idealists view of how the world works. So you think if you're in Japan that NTT is going to risk losing ALL of their US contracts for a random home user that's violating US sanctions? Good luck with that.

Just because you aren't in US jurisdictions doesn't mean your ISP doesn't make a LOT of money off the US market. Not to mention the mass exodus of customers if they were banned from all US based content:

All Microsoft properties

All facebook properties

All Google and Amazon properties

etc. etc. etc.
Luminosity has dethroned "xenon" as the most abused word in automotive lighting parlance.

Luminosity is a term best left for astronomers and not people who deal with automotive lighting.

Luminosity has units of Joules/second and is the measure of all the electromagnetic radiation emitted by something. This is obviously more relevant to something like, the Sun, which emits significant amounts of not only IR radiation but also visible light and UV radiation.

Luminosity has 0 relevance to automotive lighting because last time I checked, the human eye is unable to perceive IR radiation. We don't drive at night with the aid of IR radiation.

Unfortunately, this simple fact has been lost on the people who attempt to sound smart when pushing their latest and greatest illegal HIDs/LEDs and projector retrofit kits.
Correlation between Nitrogen Dioxide and Covid-19 outbreaks?
Farming is not a good comparison to manufacturing when it comes to overproduction. Food can be eaten or processed/preserved to be eaten later. Some foods have elastic demand but in general food doesn't since we all need to eat.

With a lot of manufactured items demand is far more elastic and any given manufactured item isn't necessarily a substitute for any other. If Intel or AMD overproduces higher power desktop CPUs but there's market demand for low power laptop CPUs or ARM SoCs...the oversupply isn't going to spur any demand. Even if the oversupply depresses prices on those chips and desktop systems, they're not portable or phones so there's no useful substitution.

Managing production volumes and forecasting demand is a huge aspect of modern manufacturing. Responding to demand quickly is one of the reasons manufacturing consolidates geographically. If a production line needs Component X at volume Y to keep moving, they can't wait weeks to get that supply. Too much surplus of components is also a problem because those all need to be stored until used. So the most economical configuration tends to be shipments of sub components feed almost directly into component manufacture lines that feed into packaging which feeds into shipment and distribution. That's difficult or impossible to accomplish if your supply chain is geographically dispersed.

Slower and less dynamic supply chains aren't necessarily better at responding to crises since the production schedule of whatever will have been set well before the onset of whatever crisis. Responding to the crises then takes longer since extant component supplies likely don't match the crisis production needs.

You can see this right now with industries the produce regulated/qualified products like medical supplies. A random factory can't just supply medical grade components. Without proper quality controls, sterilization, or batch tracking those items can end up more dangerous than not having them. Face masks that are ineffective due to manufacturing issues can get healthcare workers sick or spread disease to uninfected but at risk populations.

I'm not saying JIT manufacturing is a panacea or that it's a good thing China has such a lions share of commodity goods manufacturing. But the solution to supply chain issues is more complicated than just building factories. Many companies are also simply unwilling to take a profit hit by diversifying their supply chains or moving to longer production cycles.
Do you have sources for such a claim?
This is laughable. What trade sanctions would apply to a JS frontend framework? Insane.
It is significantly more complicated than this. Have you looked at foreign exchange rates lately? Other currencies are getting crushed relative to the USD because of COVID-19.
>It might even be logical with the above 3 steps in place for zero/low risk group to deliberately seek out the virus. This grants immunity quicker, and if they become sick, they can receive treatment whilst hospitals are still underwhelmed.

This is extremely irresponsible. The long-term effects of the virus are currently unknown but there are some worrying signs of possible long-term lung and other-organ damage that have been reported (anecdotally) from China and Italy. It's going to take time for these studies to be done.

Not to mention the immunity period length is unknown at this time. If this coronavirus follows the pattern of other coronaviruses, immunity could last 6 months to a year tops. That is ... not good. And a secondary infection could be worse than the first due to immune system overresponse/cytokine storm.

It's important we take the time to study these secondary effects and allow time for treatments and/or a vaccine to be developed and studied before we come up with any long-term plan.
This is one of the frustrating things about what I have when I go to the doctor.

As a developer, I generally want a lot of information in order to pose theories about what is going wrong. They always seem really annoyed by this.
Since my substantive but apparently "name-calling" reply got flagged, here it is with the offending parts corrected, for posterity's sake:

Can I blame him for picking John Bolton, who is well-known to have anger issues? As I said before, Bolton -- the best man for the job in Trump's eyes -- cut NSC/CDC funding, making the US blinder to threats.

Are you really that much of a Trump-defender? Now it's wholly CDC's fault, so Trump is still innocent?

I'd bother look up his many downplaying and ignorance of the issues, but is it worth it, if you're just going to deflect and still defend him?

As this man said [1], during the 2016 primaries:

> I would, however, add a casual observation: at this point Trump has been the front-runner for long enough that it’s very hard to imagine his supporters suddenly losing faith, because it would be too embarrassing.

> Bear in mind that embarrassment, and the desire to avoid it, are enormously important sources of motivation. [...]. Nobody likes looking like a chump, and most people will go to great lengths to convince themselves that they weren’t.

> Now think about someone who has been supporting Trump since the summer. For the Trump bubble to burst, many people like that would have to slap their foreheads and say, “Wow, he’s not a serious person! What was I thinking?”

[1] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/the-donald-and-....
Sanctions for online services are one of the worst things about working in this industry. Being forced to implement and maintain technical solutions to block access to every day citizens of certain regions because some guys in suits decided these are second tier humans is demoralizing as hell.

How are people supposed to rise up and depose or vote for less tyranical governments if they cannot access information, or use services that'll boost their businesses in the global market? Having had to implement things like this myself in the past, I just feel like puking when I do it.

And don't think about just ignoring these, as soon as you get bigger than tiny, your bank will threaten to freeze all your accounts and stop doing business with you if for some reason you let some Crimean or Iranian get onto your service and pay you for it.

What exactly is the plan? Are we expecting that individuals who disagree with their regimes would leave their country and their families? It just feels like cold blooded retribution with no care for the regular every day population.
No worries. I think it's also important to note that the Imperial College study that's gotten a lot of attention recently is an agent-based model - i.e. they simulate actual individuals - which allow them to look at specific quarantine measures like school closures. You can accomplish an approximate version of this with our model by controlling the isolation column of this table. This allows one to selectively quarantine age groups quantitatively.
Is it really a thing, to have to learn another site?

If you know the basic functionality of Github, do you really have to learn to use similar functionality of Gitlab, Gitea, etc? Is it not enough to be familiar with the concepts?
"Pornhub urged to slow streaming to prevent breaking the internet"
My grad math advisor was one of the folks who wrote significant parts in Urbana of the symbolic core; the behind the scenes team got legal settlements after that strange move. He's not from Silicon Valley; I think he'd done some early prototyping and coding himself while at CalTech (in Lisp if i recall) then came to Urbana-Champaign as a research prof, and got the team of several to build it out. [ I've been using it since 1988, and love it. ]
They could introduce some new GAAP rules like...

Add 10% of the value of all inventory sourced outside North America as a "risk liability". Same for 10% of yearly labor that's outsourced.

Basically find ways to make short term thinking visible in their financial reports, since that's what's measured and rewarded.
It was a joke, but virtual desktops are capable of dynamic resource allocation. For example, you might see you have 32BG of RAM, but you won't be allocated the last 16 until you need them.
Yes, obviously doses this high are prescription only. Should have mentioned that.

Guess I have to trust my doctor, who mentioned this is a saturation dose, and later on I will switch to lower doses available over-the-counter.
Have you ever tried cutting caffeine out of your diet?
> On FreeBSD this is not a problem. They update the kernel and userland tools in tandem.

Yes it is a problem, to some programs doing, say, nice FFI to get at that ioctl and structure cleanly instead of forking and piping some utilities and text-processing their output.

The concept of an ABI, and one that is stable, is very real and important.
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Nobody should depend on GitHub, especially after it was taken over by Microsoft. If you have any repository on GH, create similar accounts on competing sites such as bitbucket. Also consider services hosted in other countries, since it seems that local political prejudices and propaganda are starting to creep out on the science and technology arena.
Is Canada the Next Silicon Valley?
And now we're back to table-based design and flash-like but less powerful javascript based application.
Even in the age of Covid-19, you need to stay focused on the customer
There are other services like this, mostly for gamers. Vagon is $1.29/hour, plus $8/month.
There's no technical problem doing this, but it's an expensive service to provide. The pricing is usually too high to get a market. NVidia's GEForce Now and Google's Stadia are running at a loss for promotional reasons. The game industry's reaction to Stadia is that almost everybody who considered supporting it expects Google will cancel that service.

Is Vagon reselling AWS, or do they have their own data center?
so what you're saying is you avoid vue's poor typescript support by not using typescript
So I've been working with React/Vue/etc since 2015 and I agree that if you are looking for an ES5 jQuery replacement Vue is the best candidate of the most popular options. You can work old school, just import it via a script tag and start writing ES5 .js files.

That said, ES5 is going to die at some point and big projects like Wikipedia need to prepare for that. Making long term decisions that do not take that into account will be essentially flawed. It would be better to adopt TS than to keep writing ES5 in 2020.
Standard File: End-to-end encryption for web, mobile, and desktop applications
(Is that you Ted?)

I kind of said the same thing just now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22629837
Glibc certainly does this, I would expect for limited periods per interface. It is often at the cutting edge of kernel interfaces, so that becomes necessary during interim periods. I really doubt it makes sense for old and stable things like ifconfig, or a tipical application.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early...

China misled WHO into thinking the virus wasn't contagious up until Jan 20. On Jan 14th, WHO (https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152) said the virus wasn't contagious on twitter.

China arrested scientist whistleblowers. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-whistleblo...

To top it all off, China attempted to blame the united states for it. https://qz.com/1817736/china-fuels-coronavirus-conspiracy-th...

The Atlantic has a thorough article as well. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trol...
> based around the idea of understanding supply chains end-to-end

if you know more companies / projects in this area, I would love to know. It's of course wiser and easier to do b2b in this space, but there's also the dual problem from the consumer side of getting to know the supply chain.

It would be so great to have a portal where I can scan a barcode and get to know the whole chain of production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_t...
This is exactly why the costs are set up that way. The first time I saw AWS pricing I chuckled and thought "roach motel." Data goes in but it doesn't come out. Its one of many soft lock in mechanisms cloud hosts use.
And, you can still call it Mathematica!
Because it's DRY. With the top-level annotation, the rest of the table spec remains unchanged, so if you change your mind and decide that you really want a display table to be a semantic one or vice-versa you only have to change on thing whereas if you used DIVs you now have to change not only the top level but also every row and cell.
CPAP machines generate continuous positive pressures though, they assist breathing. I know they have slow ramp capabilities for comfort reasons (start off at low positive pressure when you fall asleep and then increase) but I don't think they can swing pressure fast enough to enable inhalation and exhalation.

You need:
-Gas blending (relatively trivial)
-A source of pressure (CPAP has this)
-A way of modifying pressure up and down quickly and precisely enough to stimulate breathing (Don't think CPAP has this)
-A way of measuring flow and pressure (Does CPAP have this with good time resolution? I doubt it as not required for CPAP)
-A controller which uses the flow and pressure data to vary the system pressure (CPAP doesn't have the right software but presumably this is less time constrained than the others)

So I'm really not sure that you can do this with a modified CPAP machine.

BTW I'm not sure that you can print oxygen valves, maybe air valves or patient valves. High pressure inlet oxygen parts need to be oxygen compatible and many 3d printed materials may combust under those conditions.
Comments like this break the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

One reason we ask users not to go on about downvotes is that users frequently come along and add corrective upvotes, but comments like this don't garbage-collect themselves. They start as off-topic and end by being off-topic and false.
The biggest thing I've been trying to get friends to understand (from 2 weeks ago on the we have to shut things down train, and now on the opposite "look not interacting with any other human being for 2 months might not be the best course of action train") is the non-linearity of how infection rate responds to decreasing the amount of social contacts.

ie; in most models you can get about a 50% gain with just a 25% reduction in social contact, after that it is diminishing returns all the way down to the bottom of trying to wring small population level effects out of reducing contacts from "very little to very very little"

In my mind, people are still underestimating the effects of large gatherings (and by large here I even mean 100 people in a nightclub) and overestimating the effects of seeing one friend in your house that sees another one friend the next day etc.

Don't want to get into an overall debate here about what level of distancing is appropriate or acceptable, would like to see an interactive model that does a good job showing how different types of distancing interventions have very different effects and that once you get to a certain point it gets very hard to get much more overall connection out of the system...
I think it's clearly not a bioweapon, and there would be no benefit to China for releasing it, but it's exactly the sort of thing that lab was investigating, so part of me wonders if there wasn't a leak of a research sample. Even if it were so, I would never blame all Chinese people for it.
Let's take a moment and appreciate the copy and paste support response "If a user or organization believes that they have been flagged in error, then that user or organization owner has the opportunity to appeal the flag by providing verification information to GitHub. Please see our FAQ for the appeals request form." https://twitter.com/GitHubHelp/status/1240682163193942018

Is that an official GH account? It's old and the answers look legitimate but that one is certainly a really off-putting reaction.