skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theranos would be worth exactly $0 - their long term liabilities.

You need stuff that works first.
If one's main value is 'workers in the US', I can see this breakdown. Also, if the main evil you see is 'DNC corruption'.
It's fairly new, I remember there being a tweet about it but I can't seem to find it…
I completely disagree. The ASCII "graphics" (if you can really call them that) are a huge reason why I've never even considered playing it. I've read all about the mechanics, and they're interesting. I just don't understand why anyone would spend so much time developing so many intricate features when the presentation is so poor.
I played around with Google Cloud, expecting it to be terrible. It wasn’t
Kubernetes 1.18: Buffing up the leading container orchestrator
> What demographics are most interested in their products? How did they get there? Does Google Analytics (or Facebook, or similar) have profiles on people shopping for VPNs? Are there advertising patterns that could have better ROI for attracting users?

Great. But being privacy-conscious organizations, the VPN providers are surely including a clear and explicit opt-in/opt-out to any kind of data collection. Right?

Checks nordvpn’s site

Whoops. Nevermind.
This comment breaks both the Show HN rules and the site rules. Would you please read and follow them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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You don't need to peel the garlic before putting it in the press, and my press quickly disassembles and can be rinsed in seconds.
Well, I meant the full title when you click through to the page:

"Top VPNs are recording users and potentially leaking their data when they visit their website"

I had to truncate it here to fit
I am not sure if uninterruptable sleep is considered "living", but fun experiment.
A review of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”
No.

SSD blocks can be written 10k, 100k, maybe a million times. If one block is rewritten every time the most frequently changed directory is changed, that block might be exhaustible. But starting out with writing each block once won't make a difference.
The statement from b1tr0t directly refute that Google is contributing to MDN, as they put it: "Fully agree with you that docs are all over the place. We've started to consolidate docs under web.dev". As far as I know, web.dev is not MDN and has nothing to do with MDN.
Trying to keep this account disconnected from my real life persona so won’t name names.

But we had a series of number ones around the world in countries like the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Brasil, France, Italy, China, Australia...really every country you have ever heard of.

Of course some of the tactics had to be translated into 2000s world but I still recommend aspiring music artists to read it when they ask me for advice today.

It’s of course not the only strategy that works...but I’d say it’s the easiest to execute if what you want is commercial success

So in either case the book levels the expectations (“sex, drugs and money will always be a problem”) and establishes some fundamentals...and it’s of course a really fun weekend read.

Many of the general ideas also translate 1:1 to startups or really any kind of endeavor and have served me very well in my career
On Windows, I use ShareX[1], which is free, open-source, lightweight, and has tons of useful features. I love it!

There used to be an issue with ShareX where, by default, it uploaded screenshots and recordings to free online sharing sites, so that you could quickly share links to your files with others. I am not sure if this is still the case, but if you want to give ShareX a try and don't want your files online, make sure to disable this option.

1. https://getsharex.com
Guide to UX Strategy
Maybe a quick Google before going on the attack next time:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/gangstas-of...
Is the CCP really expecting people to go along with this? they're like a satire of themselves.

https://babylonbee.com/news/pr-disaster-president-xi-forgets...
Gearbox Software co-founder Landon Montgomery has died
Yes, of course they do. Most governments probably run some tor nodes. The privacy gamble is that you only have privacy if the entrance node and exit nodes are controlled by different operators.
That's interesting, I had no idea. Puts a lot of power in Mnuchin's hands I guess. I think he does have our best interests in mind, though.

Given this emergency though, and the amount of time it takes congress to even pass a bill like this, I would have to say I am not opposed to that clause.

Yeah, the road to hell was paved with good intentions and so on. At the end of the day, you have to trust someone.
Stuff like:

- 35MM for the JFK center in DC

- 300MM for migration and refugee assistance

- no voter id

- early voting

- emissions stuff regarding airline industry.
They have a Patreon now. I recently started supporting them there.
Reliable data on asymptomatic cases.
The models we have at the moment are trying to fit parameters based on the known data, but of the known data, the only reliable one is the death rate. So there are a lot of degrees of freedom here with regards to the spread of the virus. (Because carriers are only identified on a limited basis, mostly in hospitals, it presents a skewed picture, so this data is not hugely useful)
Once antibodies tests are available, you can get a sense of how many people in a sample population have had the disease with mild-to-no symptoms, and that can say a lot about how it's spread.
I wonder would a vaccine be able to reverse this instantly? Can you imagine. It's going to be a bumpy few months.
Give people at-least some credit... :) It doesn't work like you think at all. We buy lots of high end equipment for our vaccine research/manufacturing, including PCR machines. Nobody in biotech opens up their wallet for high-ticket items based on a few words on a website. They have to actually demonstrate that it does what you want. We demand application notes, papers, data, industry references, the works. Before a purchase is made a URS document is prepared, then there is the FAT, the SAT, IQ/OQ/PQ validation and on and on..
In addition to DF I also play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a venerable (and actively developed!) roguelike with the classic ASCII look, and I'd like to present a counterpoint: once it became possible to play DCSS online using the graphical tiles interface rather than the ASCII look, new players overwhelmingly prefer the graphical. Stats that I have seen indicate >95% choose the graphical tiles.

I myself still play both DCSS and DF in ASCII mode, but it seem reasonable to presume that the reason that old hands like us are fine with the ASCII look is because everyone who wasn't fine with it has self-selected themselves out of the sample. If their goal with the DF Steam release is to bring in new players (and compete with the likes of e.g. Rimworld, whose players are accustomed to graphics), then I see this as a sound decision.

(And of course, seconded that DF's nonsensical command UI is going to continue to stymie their efforts here.)
"efficiency" and "innovation" are neoliberal buzzwords. They are the very same buzzwords that were used to justify the cuts to our supplies and offshoring of our supply chains that led in part to this crisis.

It is absurd on its face to summarize Germany's ascendancy to "efficiency" and "innovation" when, you know, complicated geopolitics is a thing. It is literally fluffy propaganda.
Yeah that's the issue for me. I don't mind interpreting ASCII characters, but the UI/menu navigation feels intimidating. Rimworld will (I assume) never be the type of indepth simulation that DF is, but it spoiled me with its point-and-click GUI
Because gameplay matters 10X as much as graphics.
What is the true mortality rate? All the numbers are based on positive test counts, but testing isn't being done for most people with nominal (casual) symptoms.

This has led to a situation where we think (for example) 2% of positive cases die, when in reality, there may be millions of positive untested cases resolving without issue.
There's literally no football going on whatsoever but it's only dropped by two thirds?
To what extent will lies, half-truths, spin, and disinformation increase preventable fatalities?
What can be done within existing legal frameworks to stop this disinformation?
Those are indie games.

Naturally Kotlin and Swift are in mobile games, they are part of the user space official SDK languages
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/coronav...
The New Travel Document: Photograph of an Empty Plane
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I wonder if it is some kind of market segmentation choice. Does it even make sense?
I like how the ascii graphics look better but the fact that they are not square drives me crazy.

I used tilesets when I was learning the game which I would recommend since it can be a lot to take in all at once.
> Those definitely were corporate socialism, but I think we have progressed as a country since then

Please provide reasons with sources to back up your opinion.
Improper corpse disposal can itself help spread disease.
Business Source License Adoption
Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, a universal checkout service for ecommerce
Coronavirus: What are the latest free cyber security offers?
> I've never said that the Chinese have released this virus on purpose, I did in fact imply though that the Chinese created this virus on purpose

There is zero credible evidence that this virus was engineered in any way. What we do have is detailed genomic analysis done by actual virologists, comparing it with coronavirii from the vast pools in animal populations, that can trace its natural evolution [1]. This analysis and ongoing surveillance is how virologists and epidemiologists hope to predict future epidemics.

1 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Harvard Medical School Student-Generated COVID-19 Curriculum
What about it? From what I can tell, people would rather choose to live in countries where there is some social contract regarding a minimum quality of life rather than Somalia.
Can't they still just provide you with a "modem" and give you full IP access through that? What difference does it make if they put the modem inside our outside your premises? (Eg they put a switch/DSLAM/modem into a box on the street and then they give you a cable?)
You can't do anything about this stuff without a lot of power. It's a very deep-rooted problem in US society.
One aspect of this that I was thinking about yesterday is that everyone can spout all kinds of hogwash and opinion without fear of repercussion, because this is socially tolerated in US society more than some others.

But with today's amazing communication technology this means that strong opinions without evidence in support of ideological action for causes and reasons not grounded in reality gets broadcasted; low-quality opinion masquerading as facts.

But I think it may be possible to "hack" this lack of repercussion by a platform/institution where reporters/publishers can artificially promise repercussions for themselves that so-and-so statement is true. e.g. betting that a claim is true, and allowing anyone to challenge your claim with contrary evidence by posting a higher stake, that if the challenge meets some platform/institution-wide threshold for rules of evidence, allows the challenger to pocket up to half of the prior claim's stake (the remaining becomes the stake for the new claim), else the challenger loses their stake and the prior claim stands. Of course, the evidence needs to meet a certain standard.

The hope is that non-bogus rules of evidence end up supporting only a theory of very sane and reasonable facts, whereas bogus rules of evidence end up allowing a lot of bogus claims to stand unchallenged that are not falsifiable, or that claims are too easily contradicted, so that it becomes easy for people to tell real information from ideological polemic, and also invites challenge from fact-checkers and competing interests.
Because everyone knows it's much more likely that people got it from bats being sold at a fish market, then from the level 4 lab across the street...
This is the trolley problem. If we don't keep the economy moving, people will also die as a result. Should we try to calculate how many in various scenarios with various degrees of shutdown? Should we try to reduce harm, numerically? Should we differentiate between degrees of social influence on the causes of death? It's a difficult question.
Do you know if this applies to cable modems too? Are they required to allow a 3rd party modem that they normally wouldn't provide to customers?
Eh, wrong, this is the key to freedom. You can have people who already had the disease, and no longer test positiv for the disease, return outside to go back to work, as they acquired immmunity.
BBC Dad, the OG of interrupted work-from-home calls, is back with the kids
Scientists Say There Could Be Life on Mercury
Governor overriding local efforts to contain the virus. While the order improves things in some areas it weakens efforts in the cities that were trying to get ahead of the curve.

https://m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/mar/24/gov-tate-ree...
Thanks. In my appointment today, my sleep doctor pointed out biofeedback devices like Muse for optimizing meditation (to relax for sleep).

With such devices, is there a hope of portable EEG based sleep monitors?
Ocado (the IaaS for online supermarkets company, and, in the UK, online-only supermarket itself) has done this in response to the increased demand, and makes you wait in a 'virtual queue' (virtual relative to what in America you call a 'line-up', but we call a 'queue', at a physical supermarket) before you can place or edit your order.
Many people here pointed out a problem: Removing access for the ISP and/or device manufacturer means they cannot fix bugs remotely and automatically. This is bad in situations like when the Mirai malware hit.

How about this?: "You can use your own device and we provide all required information, but there will be no advanced support and you have to check for bugfixes yourself monthly."

... now that I wrote it, I see the answer: There is no way to enforce this, especially not reliably.
Next step: going 3d http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=167533.0

A raytraced DF front end would be breathtaking.
Because Cloudflare and Google Recaptcha will lock you out.
I am not saying it hasn't contributed, rather that it hasn't been a critical factor to keep C++ around, the OS SDKs have been it.

Had Apple, Microsoft, Google decided otherwise and game community opinions wouldn't matter.
Airbnb will provide housing for 100k Covid-19 responders around the world
Ask HN: In hindsight, what would you do differently for a startup tech stack?
I'm mostly curious about the context of a startup (because I'm doing that now). And I'm wondering what kind of things people wish they did in hindsight given their situation.

I for e.g. already wish I had spent a "bit" less time on ideating and a bit more time on getting in to flutter (as now I've gone in to an iOS mode and I know that's not scalable at the start since we won't have man power to maintain an android and ios codebase)
I don't fault you, but let's be charitable to Tarn here: the austere style is deliberately because he didn't want to spend any more time than necessary on the graphics, when what interested him most is the systems and the simulations (remember that DF has been a solo passion project for well over a decade now). His experience making the precursor to Dwarf Fortress (which is technically the second game in the series) is what led him to this conclusion, so it is not borne out of ignorance.
Other than #define'ing SO_REUSEPORT, libc has no role whatsoever in its behavior. You can see this yourself by grep'ing for SO_REUSEPORT in the glibc and musl source code. And both glibc and musl implement 1:1 threading, so it's the kernel making all the thread scheduling and inbound connection queueing decisions.

Your problem lay elsewhere, unless you were using a really old version of musl that lacked the SO_REUSEPORT definition.
"sacrificing millions for the sake of the market"

This is an unfair way to characterize this difficult issue.
I don't know if I am at all surprised that a USB hard-drive is failing to implement all SCSI commands, even if it really should.
There's also an experimental embedded DQlite (raft + sqlite) thingie too!

https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/ha-embed...
Wendover did a great video on COVID19 and the airplane industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2e2iEg_pM
Opinion pieces in favor of keeping the lockdowns going are a dime a dozen right now. Why are none of these smart people extending their opining to cover exit strategies and timelines? What are the steps being taken to make sure that an eventual relaxation of lockdown doesn't just put us back at the mid-February state of the pandemic?
Solving the Expression Problem with Clojure 1.2 [pdf]
Ask HN: How do software dev companies do sales during Corona?
Hey folks,
how do those of you working at software / web development companies try to acquire new projects during these times? We were planning to be present at several confs this year, all of which are now cancelled or postponed. Which alternative approaches do you currently take to try to get new projects?
That's kind of the point, the illegal solution is better than the legal one.
$2 Trillion Stimulus Package Includes Help for Gig Workers
Yes, so 6%/22.5 is the percentage of cases NY should have, given a uniform distribution. They're overrepresented by 22.5x.
Self-serve tool to extract themes from text data (ie: Tweets, survey answers)
One tip - for UI based Pull Requests/Merge Requests, consider attaching a LICEcap GIF of the before and after if you don't have any screenshot testing set up.

I work on a pretty front-end-intensive app (https://wanderlog.com) and it makes code reviews way easier, as you can see the change in context.

The gifs occasionally can go over the 10 MB cap that Gitlab allows, and in those cases I do a quick re-encode using Handbrake to a mp4 video.
Plus having a point of care test for triaging seems extremely useful as well.

I don't think this is meant to replace large labs running rtPCR tests.
Zotero phones home with perhaps more information than you expect.[1]

By default, there's a persistent connection whenever Zotero is running, a request when you visit a site with a translator (eg NYTimes) the first time since a browser start, when you download a PDF, etc.

I enjoyed using it, but their approach to privacy felt creepy. That [1] is somewhat improved... but only somewhat.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/privacy#disabling_automatic_r...
> download it from somewhere for free

The Smalltalk vendors provided student licenses / educator licenses.

Back in 1998, "…the largest object-oriented course in the world: the Open University’s new introduction to computing, for which over 5,000 students have enrolled for its first year. The course introduces computing from a systems-building stance specifically, through object technology, Smalltalk and our own adaptation and extension of Goldberg’s LearningWorks programming environment."

[pdf] https://www.academia.edu/33568403/An_Object-oriented_Approac...
PING. back online now.

The API might switch to a more stable hosting env very soon (rumors 1 day).
It's a bit like the Matrix. At first it's an overwhelming amount of mostly tiny green symbols and after a while things make more sense.

I'm definitely looking forward to this graphical version, though. And hoping that one day the game will even support multiple threads, but that's probably wishful thinking.
People need money more during a massive recession?
> In SpiderMonkey there is no mechanism currently to tier down; if you need to debug WebAssembly code, you need to refresh the page, causing the wasm code to be compiled in debugging mode.

Is there ever a reason to "tier down" WebAssembly besides debugging? In JavaScript functions will often get deoptimized back to the baseline interpreter if they side exit too often, but is this a thing that needs to be done in WebAssembly?
Norway's oil fund loses 1.3T kroner ($125bn) in coronavirus crash
59k deaths out of 54 million infections is a 0.1% fatality rate. While the average fatality rate for COVID19 using global statistics is around 4%, let's use South Korea as an example because they have been testing much more frequently than other countries. The South Korea fatality rate is about 1%, so we'd see 540k fatalities in the US for similar infection rates.

Also, initial R0 transmission statistics for COVID19 look to be in the 2.5 range, where the R0 for seasonal flu is around 1.3.

So COVID19 is 2x as transmissible, and 10x as deadly. I don't think the conversation is around dismissing the seriousness of the flu, and more around emphasizing the risk of COVID19.
I agree and that's why I pointed it out.
you could literally just put any URL to any website and call it a party if there is no sync capabilities.
Okay, some local Wuhan officials covered up the initial reports, and they have been held accountable and fired since.

Saying China covered up the virus is like saying US is poisoning its people because some Flint officials were incompetent.

Remember, China is a big country, and its political system is not a simple extension of an authoritarian leader like what media tend to portray.
Belgian biscuits, packaging, and copywriting
> The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great.

I like Zotero precisely because of its UI. It's efficient, and reminds me of the Firefox bookmarks manager.

In fact, I wish I could replace or merge Firefox's bookmark manager with Zotero, so I'd get the best of both worlds.
Raku's renaming was recent. It took 19 years to happen. Python 3 still has time to be renamed!
Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Kind of a meandering way for him to say, essentially: "Revenue can be replaced. People cannot."
Whoa. I ran across that in a library in junior high, when I was 12-15, and I still remember the plot and various incidents. It is a very affecting book.
I see two problems:
- apps with client-side-only data, i.e PWAs served from static sites
- delta sync, although useful, is little help when what the dev wanted was a fast start
The advantage of having your program reified as a YAML init+config + OCI image leads to easy resource-aware scheduling, auto-scaling, monitoring, etc.

Nix is great to build the image and manage changes to dependencies.
Also at a small Canadian business, and I think the vagueness on timeline and 'stimulus/bailout' is intentional. It seems very likely (>50%) this will stretch out at least to June, and the government appears to be trying to avoid a huge rash of layoffs.

My take is that the government is trying to get businesses to take on debt and essentially fund stimulus spending. My advice is not to count on being back in business in three weeks.

Sorry for the dour view, but I hope you can make it through; this is going to be tough for a lot of us.
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While not definitive, it does appear there could be a connection. Certainly enough of a possibility for the industry to change some of their operational practices. https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2018/08/cattle-feedlot-could-...
There's a difference between covering a song in a recording and being a cover artist. With the latter I don't find a consistent answer. I've read venues pay a licensing fee, and that depending on prop use it could cost more, etc. If you cover a song in recording, re-arrange it, whatever, you pay royalties to the original songwriter.
Eh, USDS and 18F jobs are kind of contract-based and do hit past six figures last I saw. However, they were defunded a lot since last I saw by POTUS45 so it's not clear what the state of comp is. DC area tech is a mish mash of rather enterprise-centric businesses and can be challenging if you're in the wrong domains of expertise.