skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government is definitely responsible. They fucked up testing. They fucked up contact tracing. They fucked up stocking for supplies. They fucked up handling travelers and quarantining them. They are still lying to people about the effectiveness of masks. They called it a hoax and pretended it wasn't happening. In fact, I can't think of a single thing the US government didn't fuck up. Most other governments were not much better. But I understand you want to blame the people, most of whom were asymptomatic, for spreading a disease they didn't know about that, at least in the US, was called a hoax, that the Chinese arrested people for talking about. Yes, it's their fault not the fault of the government that is supposed to prepare and handle such issues. Absurd.

And yes, the airlines played their part in it too, not disinfecting, not requiring masks, not caring a single bit about the safety of their passengers. Now they want a bailout because they couldn't manage their cash properly and decided to increase their stock price with stock buybacks instead of saving cash for a rainy day like this one. Absurd.
In the U.S., healthcare is a product, not a right. Just like many other things: education, clean water, police, justice. Public versions aren't supposed to meaningfully compete with the private versions, because competently run public institutions constitutes a threat to the idea a) free markets are inherently superior b) classism is good.

On the one hand classism purports to be a motivator: if people just work harder, they can improve their class standing and buy more stuff; on the other, it's just a variation on aristocracy: some people are better than others, and they are wealthy people, it's an indisputable fact of their superiority that they can buy more and better versions of the basic things that we claim form a civil society.

If public institutions are incompetent in a democracy, how is it the culture isn't also incompetent? Incompetency and aristocracy are not civil institutions, yet we've managed to institutionalize them both by just making excuses for them.
I'm still mad about Apple killing 32bit support; I don't have a few extra grand a year to drop on Photoshop. If they drop x86 support, too, I might finally jump ship.
One would hope he'll bail out the airlines that he owns part of... unless of course our government decides to do that for him.
I have never really thought about daily cash flows before, but it looks like for SMBs the cash inflow and outflow is the same on a daily basis. How do the owners make money?
Sure, but nobody wants to be the guy to go up to hundreds of thousands of people and tell them that they're fired. The skills needed to work in an oil production company aren't the same as solar.
Demian by Herman Hesse.

Taught me to not rely on logic/rationality alone. Sometimes you have to trust in intuition and the unconscious to guide your decisions.
>If you use passwords of a small enough size that this would really be a problem (like four digit PINs or your "aaaaA1!" example) then your password isn't delivering adequate security against brute force and so you've definitely lost.

I can't force users to use reasonably long passwords. In the case that they don't (and some certainly won't), it's preferable that their password is still as good as it can be given the length.

When it comes to web logins, brute force is probably the least effective method of attack. Social engineering, dictionary attacks, rainbow tables, password lists, guessing and so on are all much bigger concerns. It's my thinking that most of those threats are better addressed by sacrificing a negligible amount of entropy and removing a large subset of weak passwords.

Moreover, this reduction in entropy only applies when the attacker knows the algorithm used to derive the password, making it even less relevant for the average case. (That's not an appeal to security through obscurity; just an observation).

>Whereas if you generate passwords of decent length and at random then they're random so there's no purpose in checking them.

Random != secure. "aaaaaaaaaa" could be the result of a random function. The goal is to create passwords that are both difficult to brute force, and difficult to guess, while making no assumptions about the length.

Entropy has diminishing returns; if it takes 10 million years to crack a password, another 5 million doesn't increase security. However I would re-consider if someone could provide a concrete example of how the small loss in entropy could lead to a practical vulnerability.
The fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Seriously, that’s stupid. You’re collecting outliers. Unpublished writers trying to hawk 400k word novels are for the most part delusional. Every single piece in your list that goes into that territory is something written by an established author.

Though, to be fair, an author organizing a work of that size in a single markdown document has bigger problems than key lag.
Pretty easy to call their bluff and just pay for those people's unemployment instead
> Critical services are no place for whimsy

I disagree. That’s exactly where we need whimsy most lest the world become a drab nightmare land
From the article: "Provide Subscriber Information SS7 message"
Live Corona Case Tracking Dashboard – India
> It may also be joked that some politicians aren't solving actual problems (but creating new ones) in their day job.

By creating problems, they solve a problem of a lack of suitable problems. Thus creating the much needed liquidity in the free market of problems.
You are definitely right for CEOs of large companies. But for small (aka most) businesses, including startups, you might be surprised. It’s also important to note that some business owners don’t have the luxury of being able to cut their own salaries (because they are already living at subsistence levels) and sometimes don’t even take any salary to begin with. By paying himself nothing, he shows he already has resources accumulated (which is not a bad thing!). This is a luxury some business owners have and others do not.
Everyone should be ordering online regardless of age or increased risk. Limiting contact with individuals is the only way to stop the spread of this disease. The answer is that the surge in demand for delivery should quickly be filled on the supply side by delivery companies. The increase in business should go to providing hazard pay, PPE, and benefits for the supplying workers. This limits the number of people in contact with others while supplying jobs for those who have been unemployed during this time while increasing pay and benefits for those workers due to their increased risk vs reward. This is how capitalism is supposed to work in theory at least, to quickly adjust to market needs.
The fountainhead
So it's hard to say that Ford is the best company to make trucks. A slightly lower bar might be, is Ford the best company that has actually made a truck?
annihilating duck egg blue (#C3FBF4) is a personal favorite.
It doesn't always work in my experience. The problem is as you get near the tip of the pizza sometimes it is too narrow to curve and since the line across the pizza is now flat the front drops down.
"East of Eden." Steinbeck draws beautiful vignettes of human life and emotion, and I think the book's main idea about human motivation is largely correct and explains a wide variety of behavior. It helped me see both myself and others with more clarity.
HN has plenty of political, cultural, and social threads. I'm surprised you haven't noticed them. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 for more explanation.

Political topics take over everything if you let them, so we have to moderate HN to prevent it from becoming all-politics-all-flamewar-all-the-time. Do you think we should just let it burn?

Nobody's trying to "enforce" anyone to "focus 100% on business". I do worry whether users' addictions to sites like this keep them from doing better things.
Grendel by John Gardner - The epic of Beowulf from the perspective of the monster.
A Clockwork Orange - Dystopian novel following a twisted youth named Alex.
Thanks for the confirmation! I've long wondered whether boids was from a NY accent -- 'bird-oid object' has the smell of a post-hoc construction.
This seems like the obvious case. They could probably excavate large areas of ice for mass refrigeration with ease.
Markdown is like writing an approachable recipe.

Readable but has some intelligence and decoration that is not distracting. See it enough and the syntax will become invisible over time like using punctuation.
Agreed. The simple solution is an expenditure cap. Why can't Amazon implement one? The fear of it going wrong like this would make me keep away from AWS forever.
A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you
With everybody at home, something that is really important is video calling. And thus I show to you, my amazing creation "co-vid"!

But it's not actually a video calling service. It's a rickrolling service! Simply tell someone that you want to call them, and then tell them to use co-vid. https://co-vid.github.io/join then tell them some random meeting code to use and you're ready!

heres a sample conversation.
you: "hey wana call"
them: "sure, discord? zoom? "ect...
you: "how about we try co-vid"
them: "sure"
you: "https://co-vid.github.io/join the meeting code is blahblah123"
them: "alright"
...
them: "do not speak to me again"

and there you go, that's co-vid in all its glory.

https://co-vid.github.io/

(ps. it sends the screen name and code to a request bin, so i can see how many people co-vid has gotten)

let me know what you guys think.
The article is accurate. A piece of paper can bend without tearing. An eggshell can't. The difference is the shape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_curvature
Kallocain scared me shitless as a child. I'm sure it has influenced how I view technology.
Why the downvotes? What am I missing about ACLU?
Always good to see that some systems still do some engineering. Linux has lost this. It got so complex that only small patches get in, so the hacks continue to stack up.

OpenBSD does interesting stuff like this or pledge(2) and unveil(2).

Dragonfly does interesting stuff like their concurrent lockfree/lockless servers approach instead of using kernel locks, and HAMMER2[0].

Genode[1][2] implements multiserver systems supporting many kernels including seL4, making good use of capabilities.

[0]: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/HEAD:/sys...

[1]: https://www.genode.org

[2]: https://www.genodians.org
The fourth is actually the best, in my opinion. One of the most impactful statements I've ever read about being a scientist is delivered by Wonko the Sane.

I had no use for the foray into soft pornography mid-way through, but otherwise it was well worth the read.
One thing the I don’t see discussed is imho analysis should not rely on a single plot. Multiple different plots describe different thing.

Let’s use “all the plots”
The person who lost their job for accidentally including a minions gif in an emails job was basically over anyway.
ARM Macs are one of the things I don't want to be an early adopter of. I am going to stay with Intel as long as possible but I am excited about making the switch to ARM once it's shown to not be a hassle.
The Things I Did Before I Started My SaaS Business
Note that Apple is currently doing this.
Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals
The battery taxes won't be far off.
This is, indeed, scary. Now we have global baseline. During pre-covid times self-isolating/self-sufficient communities were crazy-labelled - maybe that's going to change now. Maybe the world, as we know it (during our livetimes), will actually change in very noticable ways.

Pulling off global social distancing is the only short term, generic tool it seems, ie. next virus may not require ventilators to help at all so securing that is not a solution.

Long incubation period is really scary as it renders social distancing useless (too late to be effective); the only survivors are natural survivors (immune system finding it's way to create antibodies) and isolated communities. Or Mars collonies, maybe.
Everybody's brave until the deaths start to mount. Let's check again in two weeks.
Is there still no Kotlin implementation of protobufs?

WTF? It's Google's own language and their own messaging standard.
Unfortunately I don't think it's possible for a corporation to be funny, unless they're willing to hand over a large amount of power to a single funny person (or a small team of funny people).

A product team of mostly unfunny employees brainstorming "funny" ideas and then filtering those ideas through their managers (who themselves are unlikely to be funny) will result in a funny idea exactly zero percent of the time.
Good to know about the lens roadmap and battery life. I have a second battery for my D50 for much the same reason, though life is pretty good and seldom runs out on me mid-usage.

The Z50 with the two kit lenses looks like it could replace my D50 + 18-70mm + 70-300mm; the new 50-250mm lens has a shorter reach but shouldn't be a big issue on a crop sensor, and would be lighter than the 70-300mm. Using the adaptor to allow use of the wide and micro lens may tide me over until Z equivalents are available. Reading reviews and watching for a good sale is where I'm at now.
Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game

Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig: Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Nope, remember a Microsoft counts as exactly one company the same as someones 2k/year side hustle. Further, both are to far from the median to have meaningful impact. So, it’s really just talking the long tail of companies not some sort of meaningful average.

The thing about the median businesses is it’s either a single specific business or the average of 2 very similar companies. In that context a single company making 140k/year and paying out 138k a year in expenses likely mostly as salary for it’s owner/operator is uninteresting.
Apple doesn’t have chips that support it, yet.
This is the way it should be.

If the test is slow and hard to deflake, then let's add it slowly. Maybe only test the critical path. There are ways to manage it, instead of discarding it entirely.
"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann.
Ah no from what I have read the information and warnings were given by the intelligence community but were ignored. A country ruthlessly quarantined a city of 20 million. At the same time it stopped movement of people inside the whole country. Western countries ignored it Asian countries did not and were faster to put restrictions. Now politicians in the west are trying to use China to deflect from the fact that they were caught with their pants down.
That will happen when only two parties matter.

I'm a Democrat, but it's only because I'm a leftist and in the US, the Democratic party is "the left" and voting for any other party under the current system would only be implicitly supporting the party I disagree with more than my own.
For example, the problem of how to survive on minimum wage, with a terrible boss and no job security.
As someone who know a lot of people, just giving us food and water and shelter would be good enough.
Yeah, I get that “casual” face mask wearing won’t do a lot to protect the wearer from contracting the virus, but if everyone was wearing a masks, that would reduce transmission by know AND unknown carriers. I’m somewhat frustrated wearing masks for this reason is not mandated.
Common misconception. It’s not uncommon for companies to use leverage to fuel growth. High yield venture debt is often tied to growth metrics. It’s not a mistake to operate a company using venture debt. In a highly competitive market, if you don’t lever up, your competitors will eat your market.
JavaScript Date Tricks Tutorial
Tons - in addition to the split between stochastic (statistical) and deterministic (mathematical) formulation, there's individual vs. population averaged models, various kinds and types of spatial generalizations, an alphabet soup of additional compartments (SEIR and SEIRS being probably the most common), generalizations of the compartment membership time (check out PS-SEIR models), and much more.
Ah, the good old employment argument for destroying the planet. We are so wise and far sighted if we let this happen...

It would be make more economic sense to pay these people to stay home and do nothing!
Can you link to the app
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath - really spoke to me about what 'poverty' means and how it affects people and perceptions of people.

Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea - a gorgeous tale that brings to life the beauty of struggle and suffering.
They don’t have to own the whole thing. However at some point owning a small non voting stake... I just don’t see the downside. You want cheap money? Uncle Sam is going on your cap table.
German state finance minister Thomas Schäfer found dead
You act as if this is the first time that Apple has done a transition or the first time that the aforementioned companies have made the transition.

Each of them have made the transition from 68K -> PPC -> OS X -> x86.
Oh ok, fine to push them over the edge then?
I have small tools. TechShop had the big stuff - CNC mills, waterjets, plasma cutters. I used all of those. The smaller maker spaces are at the low-end 3D printer level. Maybe a wood shop. There's Humanmade in SF, which has much of the old TechShop gear, but it's an hour away and twice as expensive as TechShop.
It's not a bailout, it's relief from the effects of the government's solution to a perceived problem. There were much better, rational, scientific solutions that wouldn't have destroyed the global economy, starting with mandatory masks and gloves and highly restricted travel starting as far back as January 20th. Smart people acted accordingly as soon as they saw the Chinese doing this, you know, people who knew their government were liars and corrupt. The governments shut things down for people who aren't able to think for themselves, and instead rely on doing what the government tells them to survive.
In my experience with community colleges it was more physical fees that were an issue. Professor pay and work load issues, extreme parking fees, profit driven book deals (locking professors in to using books they would not choose), sales, exchanges and refunds. It was not uncommon to spend $200 on a book, and the next quarter have the book for the curriculum changed so that you could not sell your now outdated copy back. If the book wasn't changed, your now used book could be sold back to the school, but devalued by as much as 80%.

Mind you this was 10+ years ago. Maybe things have changed.
Finance+Minister+Commits+Suicide+Over+Recession+Caused+By+Coronavirus
It's curve-fitting. By real epidemiologists. It's not just based on Wuhan, but based on knowledge of how things like this spread. Wuhan fit the model, so there's hope.

But it's just curve-fitting. And it depends on certain things, like people being smart. You get your parameters from what you observe.

If you have a better way to do it please share.
“US Shale” is many plays, each play having sweet spots, so breakeven is a range, not a fixed number. Some areas still look okay at $30 but not many.

US shale producers have already started imploding, you can see it in the stock prices and the cessation of drilling.
There are several products available for pinging money to people ... how is yours different? What problem does it solve that I haven't already solved with TipJar, Ko-Fi, GiveButter, or Patreon?

How does cash get injected into the system? How do I withdraw cash from the system? You may think these questions are already answered on your landing page, but given that I know about, and possibly use, an existing system, why should I read it?

Why should I use your system instead of one of the others? If I already have a system, why should I switch? What pain-point are you removing?

It's very likely your product is amazingly implemented, but I can see no reason to read beyond ... "Oh, another micro-payment system".

Why should I trust you with my money?

And so on.

Hope that helps.
If you want to get really scared and don't sleep tonight I suggest this presentation by John Sotos in 2019 Def Con:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIj0iJXTMug

It's really good.
Kuo is extremely good with supply chain rumors.
My perspective is it's useful for data scientists who are more likely to be 1) working on Windows 2) using packages with compiled extensions 3) less likely to have the system management background to properly deal with 1 & 2 in CPython.

I take Anaconda at their word that they are a different distribution of Python and conda is a tool to manage Anaconda environments, which includes more than just Python. I find it difficult to completely trust them as a for-profit company that is putting itself between Python programmers and the actual community package repos. I don't think there is any particular advantage to Conda unless you are support the use cases I described above, but good people disagree sincerely on it.
TempleOS programs in Linux user-space, part 2: Anatomy of a kernel
If you don’t operate a restaurant on lean margins, you won’t have any customers because your prices will be too high. The competitive market forces low margins and thus low capital overhead.
At least there is industrial oxygen production that could be repurposed.

Also oxygen enrichers could be made and distributed, they could also help some people. I know of a person who made one themselves in a week.
Both should be a lot easier than ventilators (which of course also should be pursued).

If you read the reports from Italy, they first ran out of ventilators, then CPAP machines and finally even oxygen.

But for some reason the talk is very concentrated on ventilators for now.

Also other equipment saves lives. Pulse oximeters so those needing help breathing can be identified. Protective equipment. A lot of things that save lives and are a thousand times easier to make than ventilators.
I'm confused. Why would you need a few extra grand a year for Photoshop?
I don't know what the project is claiming but the demo is running quite slowly. that's all i can say.
try being poor
Pirsig has a way of writing that appeals to people of an engineering mind. Don't know much about the others.
Rent/mortgage/insurances/property tax are the big ones.
Stack Overflow is a read heavy website. They can get away with caching most of their requests in POPs around the world which will deal with the vast majority of traffic.

Having thousands of users is a meaningless metric for web operations. Are those concurrent users? Are those read/write heavy users? Are those mixed usage users? There are a lot of qualifiers that need to be attached to that question to allow any meaningful discourse.
We don't need to wait two weeks; Sweden has significantly more deaths (110) than any of it's neighboring countries: Norway (25), Denmark (72), and Finland (11).

[0]: https://www.corona.cloud/
I used to try to use Conda but it is extremely crappy and does not give you anything over venv in case of using Python. On Mac we could not get Conda reliably working (tried with different shells but no dice).
Porting iOS to Macs don’t require ARM. Almost every iOS app started life running on x86. The iOS simulator runs iOS software compiled for x86 linked to x86 versions of the iOS framework.
In this tragic times I was secretly waiting for Google’s April Fools’. I always enjoyed them and would have brought a smile on many people’s face.

I know I am the minority (here on HN especially with its long tradition of hating April fools’) but those are my two cents.