skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have about 50 and have the same problem. So I scratched my itch.

https://newsy.co

Hope you find it useful. Let me know if you have any questions. We are still in beta.
And his family would have been bankrupt from the ambulance ride alone,

Actually, they could have signed him up for an ACA plan that day, and everything would have been covered. That's why so few healthy young people go without coverage: the twisted economic incentives of how ACA was written reward it.

Talk about an ambulance is a red herring anyway, because the safer choice is for them to drive him to the hospital themselves immediately, and not wait.
IDEs like IntelliJ do this all the time. For instance, formatting a block of code when it's pasted into a file with syntax errors elsewhere.
> Paying customer or not, no business is ever going to say "let's give up a huge amount of revenue so we can avoid invading people's privacy and annoying them with ads they don't want to see".

Some companies do this and capitalize on it by advertising it.
Someone wrote a post and called that "evaporative cooling." Edit: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=evaporative+cooling

Of course, Eternal September also applies and HN likely suffers from a low level case of it. If you aren't familiar, it's easily found on Wikipedia.
When a sick person exhales into a mask, majority of fluids stop at mask. Why? Because fluid dynamics and inertia.

When a healthy person inhales wearing a mask big part of the air comes from the side, because it's an easier route and because fluid dynamics. Then healthy person touches their eyes with unwashed hands and still gets infected.

Official recommendation for sick people as far as I am aware is to change the mask every couple of hours, because by then enough fluid accumulates on the mask to pose threat.

"it's useless to you" - it's a freaking pandemic - nothing is about you, the fight is to stop exponential growth of the infected.
It looks pretty non-native to me; kinda Qt-ish.
No, you attack the systematic problem and don't become happy by fixing one of them, since it is a hollow victory, and public outrage has limited capacity for repeated posts of "app x is sending to Facebook".
Conversely, I’ve never worked anywhere, in 10+ years, where “we shouldn’t be sending this data to X, it’s bad for our users”, would have got further than the developers. Marketing, Product and management rarely care: in many cases they want the data to go to as many analytics and targeting services as they can.
I have a custom app/algorithm that manages our bills and bank accounts. I once tried to make it into a SaaS, but it turns out that doing so was illegal in a bunch of states without being a "bank" (which is literally impossible to bootstrap). Oh well.

It was specifically designed for high-cashflow to income accounts (people living paycheck to paycheck).
Only in specific cases. See the “Recommendations” section in that document.
Same opinion here. Parallel first language, and no GPU support??
It can be exploitative and also better than the alternative at the same time. Those things are not in conflict.

I understand the moral satisfaction of punishing the evil profiteer. I don’t see how you can claim to be acting on behalf of the worker when you trade off her livelihood in exchange for that satisfaction.
Many of us are trying to escape "Trump Derangement Syndrome" which has become infectious almost everywhere else.
For anyone following the madness and joy that is cameras and cameras releases... Can I plug my fav Youtube Camera Channel. "Camera Conspiracies". This dude is real fun to watch and not as clinical as many others that just list the features and some test shots. He is on the "hunt" for the perfect camera now for years. Uploads few times a week. Casey if you reading this... Keep up the good work man ! Spoiler the channel is not a fan of Sony Cameras.
The density needs to exceed 223,563/sq. mile (says the essay).

Singapore's density at 20,445/sq. mile is less than 1/2 that of Monaco, says its reference 5, which is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... .

Thus, only 10% of the land is needed, giving plenty of space for roads, etc.

Of course, if you include walls then you can place people on either side of the wall without an infection problem, so that changes the calculation considerably.

FWIW, I wondered if Vatican City could reach the limit during a papal audience. It looks like perhaps 15,000 people could be there for one? That alone gives a density of 88K/sq. mile (bearing in mind that Vatican City has nearly 6 popes per square mile - or nearly 12 if we include Popes Emeritus.)

Then there's the staff, and the people visiting the museum, and others beyond the estimated population of 1,000.

Even with those, it doesn't seem like it comes close to 223,563/sq. mile.
Western Union, Moneygram, Paypal, and so on?
It doesn't support markdown.
There is also a feature called App Translocation that further restricts the abilities of applications launched from disk images.
Lots of Microsoft Edge (pre chromium) code that stretched back to at least IE4 (along with comments with TODOs for long departed employees)

The style around naming, spacing, etc was very different, and not always cleaned up, so it was easy to tell what was old.
Thanks for this! Very interesting!
Backticks have been a thing with that behavior in UNIX shells longer than Javascript itself has existed.
Thank you for your comment, I’ll use this explanation myself. Many people asking about it, I didn’t mean psychological definition.

I Just really hope it doesn’t sound offensive.
Well you've just documented examples of your personal style, which can be made into custom rules for the formatter.

Maybe using some natural language processing, machine learning, and crowdsourcing, a formatter could understand intent sooner or later?
> So do modern Linux pipes work bi-directionally?

No, they do not (nor on the modern BSD kernels, as far as I can tell). The Linux pipe(7) manpage says (under "Portability notes"):

«On some systems (but not Linux), pipes are bidirectional:
data can be transmitted in both directions between the
pipe ends. POSIX.1 requires only unidirectional pipes.
Portable applications should avoid reliance on
bidirectional pipe semantics.»

I believe the systems that supported bidirectional pipes were SysV kernels that implemented pipes using STREAMS and 4(?)BSD kernels that implemented it using socketpair.
It also isn’t a selfie!
Get mad at Facebook for stuffing analytics into their login button library
This is just horrendous.
Well yeah, you can make the numbers square up if you ignore/offload a bunch of costs, but not everyone who is delivering for one of these companies is a student or has another income stream, and wear-and-tear on a vehicle will manifest as a mechanical fault one day.

This argument sounds like a lot like the argument against raising minimum wage ("it's not meant to be enough to survive on"), however the reality is that large numbers of these gigs/jobs are worked by adults who depend on it as a primary source of income, and in the face of the massive and sudden job losses we're seeing, it's quite callous to say they should "just choose different jobs".

If the Instacarts and Ubers of the world cannot afford to pay these people appropriately then their business model is a failure.
Tesla confirms two employees tested positive for COVID-19
Footnote 4 [0] discusses the struggles of formatting comments. This was interesting to me because back in December I wrote most of a code formatter for Lox, the toy language from Crafting Interpreters [1], but I never finished it because I got caught up on how exactly to handle and represent comments, and then I got distracted by other projects. Does anyone else have thoughts on how to handle comments in a code formatter?

Edit: Well, apparently this blog post (from 2015) is by the author of Crafting Interpreters. That makes this more interesting to me.

[0]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

[1]: https://craftinginterpreters.com
We already working on it!
Like with C in systems programming, the targeted users must be willing to try new ways, and most aren't.

Here is your GPU mention,

"Targeting GPUs and Other Hierarchical Architectures in Chapel"

https://chapel-lang.org/presentations/SC11/05-sidelnik-gpu.p...

"GPUIterator: bridging the gap between Chapel and GPU platforms"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3329722.3330142
>An ingenious 18 year old glucoses meter company hacked a glucose meter to do it. Interesting past between them and JNJ. They submitted it for EAU.

I was super impressed by this 18 year old, but the company is 18 years old.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/decn-finalizes-fda-pre-eua-14...

Looks like this is a Korean developed test. Pretty cool.
Many HPC worloads are MPI first, and then something else later.

Still there is ongoing GPU support work, see sibling comment.
The term for this is loginwall, not paywall.
Aaaaaaahhhh this is just so horrible. There is specific in-process C and Objective-C API for this. Someone should look at this app. Maybe I will if I finish up what I’m doing.
The slides are from 2011, not the code. Linux had pipes even in the v0.01 release from 1991, as the original article here mentions.
I feel bad for these devs. For years they went around proclaiming they had great engineers, but not many people saw their tech, so nobody could verify this.

Then they made one engineering product with public customers and it fails miserably compared to the competition.

That must hurt on the inside knowing they are frauds.
It's a trade off. We've started using a code formatter recently: the overwhelming majority of the code in our team is more readable because it's so standardised. There are a few sub-optimal lines here and there but I wouldn't trade that for going back to the wild old days.
The headline should note - virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale, Mylab's research and development chief, finished development of the kit just 1 hour before being taken to the hospital to deliver her own baby!

>That same evening, just an hour before she was taken to hospital ahead of her Caesarean, she submitted the proposal to the Indian FDA and the drugs control authority CDSCO for commercial approval.

What a hero!
OP wrote that "Translator positions ask for native Mandarin and good English, not the other way around." Do you have specific opportunities in mind where that wouldn't be the case?
Something to consider is taking the time and learning algorithms and data structures and applying to faang for software engineering job. They still recruit and at least one do it fully remote in this situation.
It maybe risky though because preparations can take significant amount of time depending on your current level of knowledge and it may not pay off immediately (they may not come with an offer first time you apply). The upside is those companies will likely survive the crisis and if you are well prepared you should be able to get in. Also if you apply to couple of those companies around the same time it's less likely you won't get a job because of some random factors and it more depends on how well you prepare.
Take care.
Yes, you have a valid argument. Not sure why you've been so heavily downvoted.
You are absolutely right! Just wasting people's time. Bunch of a*! I feel sorry for the OP, he sounds legit
Well, I'm glad nothing has changed over there in blue badge land. I remember when they added the feature to outlook that would warn you "you're about to reply to x number of people." But I guess that got lost along the way.
MS Teams can blur the background on video.
At this level, sales pitch happen with on person meetings during lunch time, not with marketing sentences on web sites.
The image you used as an example already has some nice shallow depth of field from the beginning, which I think really helps make blend the effect in the end result. Did you try applying the effect to an actual selfie, which usually has more even focus?
Yes, serology tests are antibody tests.
Consider how effective instant read temperature tests (thermometers) are in post lock down mitigation efforts right now.

Abbot is doing something at least. This article is indeed marketing material though. It makes me wonder how quickly this form of testing could be deployed across populations if IP was not enforced.

Edit:
I agree with your other points, although currently I feel lucky to have a pretty good governor.
Yes, it's one thing to gang up to extort General Motors, and another thing entirely to gang up to extort the taxpayer.

Public-sector unions should not be a thing.
I see coyotes up on Bernal Heights park all the time. Harmless, they tend to stay in their lane.
In my experience as a food courier, tipping amount do not correlate with the category of food delivered. You could get tipped more for a hamburger than a sushi.

In fact the only correlation I've noticed is when the recipient seems like a decent person, combined with you having to go trough an extraordinary amount of trouble, like getting on a hill at the edge of the city, or having to navigate trough a confusing maze in a giant office complex.

But then again sometimes you deliver in the night trough a thunderstorm an orbital amount of stuff for a party, and get nothing.
Often the developers are aware of, or at least suspect these types of things.

However, it's the Project Managers and Product Owners that are not aware and they say "do it because that's what the customer wants!" and you can argue. You really do so at your own peril if you don't have others on the team to back you up.
Advantages of Placing a Toll Free Number on All of Your Advertising and Marketin
As soon as they were aware of the thing they themselves did.

So they don't know what they're doing? Really? How does that defense go in criminal trials?
You are absolutely wrong.

Obviously the projects I pick may be popular (but some are just gems I found while navigating the internet), but I pick them because I believe they can make a positive impact on the world.

I invite you to read the past issues to change your mind.

You can read the source code or the commits of the website if you are suspicious ;) https://gitlab.com/bloom42/open_source_weekly
University Students Are Learning to Collaborate on AI Projects
Ask HN: What Webinar Service to Use?
Our small company usually organizes 'events' (dinners, visits of particular locations, etc..) for around 30 people in France.

Before the lock down, an 'event' would be organizing a lunch, taking people to a bus, going to see the mayor of some city, or a construction site, etc...

With the lock down going on, we need to switch to digital events.

Here is what we are looking for:

- a way for people to register (for free) on future events/webinars
- no need to install a software (100% web based)
- webinar recordings
- multi presenters with microphone/webcam
- ask questions to presenters via a form

The only tool I trialed is webinarninja with seems great but I'm looking to test alternatives...

What do you use ?

Thanks !
In a remote layoff situation? The whole company would know the moment one person was laid off.
I don't know what your link was apart from the hints in the url (won't let me in) but in general in the nordic counries they don't call themselves socialist or socialism, that's true, it's an US phenomenon to use that phrasing. SD parties see the socialism hint in the name as vestigal and prefer to think their policy aims as merely pragmatic.

Yes of course things have changed a lot from the 70s, I agree about that, but the strong welfare state is alive and well, though is under attack, and has wide popular support.
Zoom, you've handled this perfectly
There's "The Nudist on the Late Shift" by Po Bronson, which is an expansion on his various Wired writing from the Dotcom era. It's pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Nudist-Shift-Other-Silicon-Valley/dp/...

You can read the first (and best) chapter here: https://www.wired.com/1999/07/pilgrims/
That was what I was thinking. If so, this merely equates to a percentage of the inventory already given away to Charity.

Am I missing something?
In user interface, sure. Performance-wise Electron usually loses even to things like GTK.
Which frameworks? AppKit is mostly stable, even too stable.
My Mac (just over three years old) reliably gives me 7+ hours off a full charge if I’m not constantly compiling anything; just reading mail and Hacker News can easily give 10+ hours. I very actively ensure that Electron is never running on my Mac.
I don't know about Mandarin, but I know that this is also true of Japanese translation, but not Japanese technical translation. There is a fair amount of work for technical people who are native English speakers because the work is from Japanese to English. I'd be surprised if there wasn't contract work for translating documents for Chinese companies.
The Mac App Store is a fairly well known atrocity which might as well be a Catalyst app for how bad and out-of-place it is.
Ask HN: Introductory Books on the Stock Market?
Hello all.
Most of the books out there on the stock market are these flashy title kind of books promising to make you money.

I'm instead interested at learning about the systems at play with the stock market as the whole thing has always confused me.

Books/Articles/Online Courses will be appreciated!
Yes, based on there twitter account; will be available at urgent/ER care sometime next week
Sure, I was just saying that such settlements do exist and that their costs are not zero.
The Oatmeal: Eight Marvelous and Melancholy things I've learned about creativity
What a loaded statement.
1) You're already assuming these FAANG tests are an IQ test when people are discussing whether they are.
2) You're taking an assumed characteristic that tests that can be practiced and that makes them IQ tests.

Practicing for these tests makes you a rote learner and and rote learners by definition have too much crystallized knowledge, and they fail when met with new situations, which is not what intelligence tries to define. FAANG tests hence are not IQ tests if you can practice them.

Essentially these assumptions that FAANG tests are disguised IQ tests are just a reflection of the ego of those who are perpetuating them.

Anyone who feels like replying to this out of emotion they because they're in FAANG or whatever should take a psychology/psychometrics class first (yes, something outside of the software sector) before replying.
What industry do you work in and what country are you in right now?
> But when a Californian says "brown bear", usually they just mean a brown-coated black bear (https://bear.org/black-bear-color-phases/).

Well that's confusing. Whenever I hear brown bear (in hunting contexts, etc) I assume grizzly.
Pauli Chess
Fortune 500 consulting, European Union market.

Webex, Teams, Slack are the only ones that matter.
The String Theory (2008)
Sorry, I was wrong about the BSDs. FreeBSD's pipe.2 manpage clearly says that pipes are still bidirectional. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pipe&sektion=2

That said, it is not based on socketpair any more. sys/kern/sys_pipe.c says:

/*
* This file contains a high-performance replacement for the socket-based
* pipes scheme originally used in FreeBSD/4.4Lite. It does not support
* all features of sockets, but does do everything that pipes normally
* do.
*/
They are, but they aren't that concentrated and networked and their attitude isn't that ingrained in the culture. You'll always have assholes, but if you have few non-assholes, it's a culture issue, not an asshole-issue.
for the 'road ahead', I guess it's interesting to read both versions (the original edition and the 'Completely revised and up-to-date' that actually takes into account the Internet)
Here's our round-up of optical comms systems for small satellites: https://blog.satsearch.co/2020-01-22-optical-communications-...

The optical comms market is quite dynamic at the moment, There are a number of ground stations being deployed around the world, in addition to terminals for satellites being brought to market for ground communication and inter-satellite links (ISL).
Parked being the operative word. You don't see abandoned cars littering the pavement/sidewalks, left lying around in parks etc. (at least not in most neighbourhoods).

I'm no fan of cars but the idea that a company can just dump junk like this all over public spaces as an intrinsic part of its business model is bizarre to me.
Dumping cars in public spaces shouldn't be allowed either.
honest question: _how_ do we attack the underlying systematic problem to solve it once and for all?

write a blog post?

take it twitter/HN/reddit?

hold a rally/demonstration outside Apple/Google?

call our MP?

bombard their employees with phone calls or knock on their front door where they live?

write malware?

... really I got nothing that sounds like it would work. In retrospect all of Tim Cook's privacy / security grandstanding and attitude of superiority was just that. There are no good guys in this game.
There are not, at present, enough PPE[1] to allow for this.

If there were, then use, even haphazard and inexpert use, would slow transmission, reducing R0.

As there isn't, allocating PPE to highest priority, maximally effective, and most capability-preserving uses, is appropriate:

- Medical personnel, especially those with high exposure to (possibly) infected individuals, and with high and hard-to-replace skills.

- Others in high contact with the public performing critical work: first responders, retail and delivery workers, some construction and manufacturing workers.

- The known or presumed ill, when in contact with uninfected individuals.

- High-at-risk individuals: the elderly, immunocompromised, pregnant, or with preexisting conditions, if exposed to possibly infected. individuals.

If you are not a member of one of these groups, or even if you are but can reasonably and safely isolate yourself, any PPE is better reserved for those who have greater need or provide greater societal benefit.

It's not that PPE doesn't work (though this has definitely been part of messaging). It's not that most people cannot put it on, take it off, wear it, or choose where and when to use it for even reasonable efficacy (though this is often true).

It's not that asymptomatic carriers aren't potentially contagious (they are).

IT'S THAT THERE SIMPLY ISN'T ENOUGH FOR CRITICAL USES ALL OVER THE WORLD.

And that shortage will make the epidemic far worse, far faster, and in a far more overwhelming manner, for everyone.

You and your friends, family, and community included.

Other than a small supply for use should you or household members fall ill, spare supplies for critical needs first, so long as shortages persist.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-when-...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f...

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/

________________________________

Notes:

1. Personal protective equipment, including face masks, gloves, protective eyeware, gowns, etc.
Full Value
It’s not ‘basic’, but I strongly recommend Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette.
Poposed new standard to replace tcp/ip allows a central authority to shut down sites.
Looks like the API is down.
Maybe but it wasn’t the last time I did it. The main issue at the tome was that the naive deployment model uses SSH to deploy the artifacts and setup the cluster. Maybe it’s possible to create a hybrid build and do it that way but I’ve not tried.
Companies with large capital reserves, e.g. Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway. With startup valuations low, those three could go on a discounted M&A spree.
I think so. I primarily work in web companies and it’s still interesting.
A 4.1 KM Asteroid Will Close-In on Earth in April, NASA Confirms