skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of facial sealing is well-solved in the industrial space. People who routinely need respiratory protection for stuff other than particulates use a half-face (or full face) respirator [0] that has a body made of some flexible material that seals to the face far better than an N95 mask.

You can get particulate cartridges in the N or P-flavored type, which I use for sanding. It's also usually possible to get a particulate pre-filter on top of e.g. an organic vapor cartridge.

Respirators also come in sizes and need to be fit-tested. The quick and dirty method is to take off the cartridges, seal the holes they mount to and breathe in. If you feel your ears popping, it fits-ish (EDITED TO ADD: I am not an industrial hygienist, and I'm principally worried about wood dust not organic vapors or acid vapors or anything really bad. Don't take industrial hygiene advice from some random on the internet!). A proper fit test involves somebody puffing something around the mask while you breathe, talk, and possibly a few other things.

As it happens, for a proper seal, you also need to be clean-shaven. As I'm principally protecting myself from wood dust, I don't bother. If I'm using something noxious (like paint stripper), I'll shave and put on the correct cartridges.

Whether or not this is a solution to the current medical problem is beyond my expertise. There may be an advantage to regularly disposing of your N95 mask to prevent accidental contamination or something.

[0] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/All...
I think he's correct that Minecraft scratches much of the same itches that MOOs scratch(ed). It's a little sad: at least some of the creations built as MOOs are still around, but will there be any Minecraft servers left in 30 years, and if so will any of them have builds from today on them?
It might be seen as self serving for western industrialists to promote the noble savage idea as 'myth.'

Notice that there isn't a 'noble industrialist' meme? I wonder why?
They'll be quite visible near the horizon the 30 minutes around sunrise and sunset. They're in very low earth orbit so they are in earth shadow and not visible to the naked eye the rest of the night.
I also have a particular dislike for disjointed ui experiences. I also like sane and customizable desktop environments. From that perspective, having tried a whole of bunch of them (except tiling ones as I'm too lazy to memorize shortcuts), I have found XFCE to be the right balance (for me). Lightweight, sensible defaults, snappy and sufficiently customizable. I personally like Papirus icons + Numix style + Tahoma default font.
Why the 7 requests to stripe.com on every page? And why the spinning loader?

Is there an export to file functionality?
I wasn't, thanks for the verge post and tl;dr. That looks much worse indeed
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I just tried it with Procreate - the files are PDFs, so they can't be brought into procreate like that, so I had to download on my desktop, convert the PDF to an image, then transfer it to the ipad and insert it into Procreate that way.

Hope that helps!
I think she might've been exposed to a lot worse than lead.
Ask HN: Simple static type registry in C++17
I'm working on a side project where I'm also learning modern C++. As a part of the project I've created a static type registry class that I'm using for associating type names with types, and for instantiating types from type names. It's part of my serialization logic.

It's not big, but it seems to do what I need it to do, currently.

Can someone with a deeper C++ knowledge take a quick look at it, and see if there are any obvious mistakes in my current approach to this problem?

https://github.com/bjaastad/simple-static-type-registry-cpp/blob/master/simplestatictyperegistry.hpp
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan: The Anxious Emperor
The scaling characteristics of a client side and server side rendered app is different. Client side apps have up front costs which are amortized as the view can be incrementally updated. Whether this is more performant depends on the metric and the problem domain.

Particularly static pages with minimal interactivity can be prerendered and cached at the CDN, but that’s not necessarily the same as an on demand server side rendered page, either.
Functional programming would tend to disagree.
Who is planning to do that? Any info available on that?

I understand the need for a proper study, just surprised we're not seeing more on this.
Your feedback will go a long way too, thank you!
Congrats on the launch, it's obvious a lot of work went into this :-)

My initial reaction: cool idea, I've seen it done a couple times before, what does this offer that's different? I wasn't able to get that from the landing page so I watched the video.

Watching the video, I was excited because if I could make a good looking proposal without much effort, that'd be helpful. But from the video I got the idea that there isn't much functionality and the output isn't on par with my own quality expectations.

Here's what I would've like to see:

1 - A few real live demos. I don't like watching videos, and I don't see examples in the live site. I just want to answer my first burning question of "How cool is the output?"

2- What other tools do we get in the editor? Some basic things like a table of contents would be mandatory. Something like a slider would be nice, but then you're becoming a bit of a Wix clone if adding a bunch of html widgets.

3 - Why not make it free? You need feedback more than you need money at this point, IMO.

4 - The branding, the name, is solid.

Your killer feature will probably come from the feedback you get. If I had to guess, it'd be an integration and not something 'sexy.' Agencies I work with already have systems they follow and a product owner wouldn't swap to a service unless it either provided massive value, or was able to read PDFs or Google Doc files and make them look good on the web.
Only if the company doing the buybacks pays out dividends in the first place. (UAL doesn’t.) But the cost of buying out those shares is significantly more than the slight increase in dividends yields in all cases.
For anyone wanting to try it, WireGuard with Algo VPN [1] to set it up on a server is a great combination. I found it quite easy to setup and use.

Algo has built-in support for various cloud providers, where, when you run it from, day, your desktop, it can setup the VPN server for you based on answers to some questions (with sensible defaults) and some information on connecting to the provider (like an API key, for example). You also get QR code images that you can use to install a VPN profile on your phone.

You can also run Algo from within a server and have it setup the VPN for you.

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
They're guaranteed to stop 95% of the hardest to stop particulates which actually tend to be somewhat larger than viruses.
I wonder how WireGuard compares to IPsec with regards to the mobile battery. AFAIK IPsec implemented in kernel while WireGuard uses user-space implementation on mobile devices, at least for now.
Not without severe repercussions in the market.

The dance between supply and demand in a market enforces a number of unavoidable consequences. When an outside influence artificially influences a change in one side, a contraction often occurs in the other. That reaction can often overcorrect. Theoretically, a small downturn in supply could cause a proportional contraction in demand as price rises. But what usually happens is the response is driven both by the proportion of downturn and a measure of future value confidence based on additional factors. Subtle changes can game the system a little, but every change carries an added risk of flight to substitutes.

At a low point, the ROI on trying to game market share or other factors quickly narrows.
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I think if a company wants to buy back, now is the time.
Congratulations and big thanks to all of the project developers and contributors!
Wall Street Is Quietly Telling Companies Not to Draw Their Loans
Thanks!

I only knew the two fingers on spacebar method.

Is there a short overview over all iOS and iPadOS gestures somewhere? Especially the new window management confuses me.
I've worked on this a bit! It turns out to be quite difficult (at least it was for me)

One of the big problems is that GANs can't generate files at a high enough resolution to make great coloring pages.

I then tried to make a neural network that would generate SVGs directly, which turns out to be really tricky too.

One thing that might work is to generate low resolution pages with a GAN, and then use an image to svg converter to make high resolution versions... maybe I'll try that next :)
Oh yep, you are spot on. I wasn't referring to the sensor size standard but to a general medium of sensor sizes in mobile devices.
Grsecurity finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens bill
You didn’t explain how this is different from dividends.
I’d recommend using Algo VPN. See my comment in this discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727713
Not in American English. Lobster meat and Crab meat both make sense. The canned meat in my local grocery store has Tuna, Salmon, Chicken, Sardines etc...
Link to the code:

https://github.com/bjaastad/simple-static-type-registry-cpp/...
I can't say it's my best moment, but they were belittling OP's achievements so I was belittling their statement. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a joke, but I thought it might show a bit of support for OP
Standard Notes, its search and tag features have basically replaced the need for OneNote
Show HN: KanRails – Kanban Workflow Management
Hi I'm Jonathan, maker of KanRails. KanRails is a blend of Trello + Google Forms + IFTTT + Process Street + (to be determined). Something remarkably similar to us is Pipefy, I started working on this and then I discovered Pipefy. I think there is room for another player :) Hope you give it a try for your software development workflows, and other workflows. Very open to feedback and feature requests. Thank you so much HN!
Privacy is paramount in the current day and age. Glad that you took a peek into it.
OK so there are a few use cases here. (1) Finding something in a sea of timestamps. (2) Storing not to Desktop (which always gets cluttered). (3) Searchability when you want something.

It seems like you have a hyper-focused solution to 1-2-3 which only allows you to solve screenshots. What about other use cases? Could you not make this more general? (1) Auto-rename files matching a certain pattern when they are created in certain directories using a filter (eg. current OCR/image analysis approach). (2) Allow also moving, based on a similar inotify (or similar) API. (3) Make the OCR output an existing search platform (eg. Mac search) pluggable module.

All of these would be possible to achieve cross-platform.
Windows and Linux have already run on ARM for quite a while, both are able to run x86 software while doing so (at a penalty). The main holdback has been lack of desktop class ARM CPUs.
Generally speaking, you have to keep in mind that in the US many employers see employees as subjects (much like slaves),especially when it comes to bluecollar work. There is no national legislation that draws a clear line.
The story of how they picked a storage engine ill-suited for their needs and then used ridiculous and unsustainable workarounds to deal with its shortcomings (including unsafe practices like relying on rebuilding the databases, assuming it’s safe to turn off synchronous writes for KV storage writes, etc) just confirms how shoddy engineering is at CloudFlare. That is peak technical debt.

(It’s one thing to make a wrong choice, it’s another to think you can paper over those mistakes and they’ll go away.)
I have had one up for around 2 years now and would say I have spent less than 5 minutes maintaining it over that time period. I did spend more than typical time setting it up because I added a custom php page so I could remotely add client ip addresses to the dns iptables whitelist, but I could have just done the basic setup in <20 minutes. It’s solid as a rock. Am I lazy about it? Sure. But I don’t quite consider it critical. It’s just personal use basic internet. And if something were to go wrong, most if not all client configurations have a backup/secondary dns option anyway so as long as that is configured things keep working fine, just with ads.
Posting from a throwaway because I know Amazon monitors this site.

As an Amazon FC employee, I follow several Facebook and Twitter accounts related to this, and I've heard many claims by employees of facilities not taking any action when the first case (or first few cases) are confirmed - including telling employees. Their policy seems to be to assume their existing contingencies, like social distancing and hand sanitizers, are sufficient even with active spread within the facility, and to continue business as usual until forced to do otherwise.

The article is accurate so far as I can tell. Amazon is unnecessarily risking their employee's health.
Ask HN: Is there a Shopify for digital goods?
I asked 3 growth experts how they're dealing with Coronavirus
One of the biggest companies manufacturing foam glass is actually based in the USA and has many production sites in Europe.

The insulation properties depend on the chemical composition of the glass. With recycled glass, the chemical composition is not fully under control and therefore they limit the amount of recycled glass.

Production of cellular glass (also called foam glass) requires, even with recycled glass, a lot of energy. That makes it one of the most expensive inorganic insulation materials.
"Nope they found it more useful to rename a Photoshop-like program... It is the matter with the US so-called left. They are totally useless."

"Calm down and keep polite"

hmmmmmmm
As others have said, make it convertible debt. It converts to voting shares. I actually like these conditions. If you need the money, you shouldn't be paying dividends or doing buybacks anyway. This real issue is that we need to ban C-suite and BOD compensation from using anything stock related. Then this perverse incentive for buybacks and quarterly numbers fades and people start focusing on building healthy companies.
I just got the Puls. It is very comfortable, but I've never tried the Capisco. It's very sturdy and really helps me maintain a good posture while working.

I also like the fact that it's a good looking minimalist chair which is nice when you care about your interior design and not having a bulky black office chair in your house
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When I was a boy, we used to use empty mole jars the same way!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mole+jar+glass&t=h_&iax=images&ia=...

It never occurred to me back then that it was unusual …
Hey, let them have it if they want it so badly. But they should not convince younger ones that it’s not a danger though!!!
Ask HN: Who is a researcher/startup/accelerator on Covid?
Trying to connect a bunch of different people trying to connect with each other on COVID work.
Doing this after my incidental post on Gates foundation connected two researchers...and i have been getting messages ever since. I plan to do this every month.

Please state your location and include the keywords INSTITUTE, ACCELERATOR, INVESTOR, RESEARCHER, STARTUP. If you're none of the above and still want to contribute in some way, please use the keyword FREELANCER.
When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If remote work is an option include REMOTE with your timezone.

you need to post your email here directly or use a mailhide. Please do NOT ask people to look into your profile.

Please state your ask clearly. Do you want to be connected to other research groups ? Do you need funding for your research?
Please only post if you personally are part of the interested org — Please do not post on behalf of someone else. Please explain what you or your org does and the research direction that you are pursuing/interested in pursuing.

Commenters: please DO NOT troll or comment about a research direction (even if you think its wrong). It's off topic here. This is just about connections.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in connecting.
Why Is Making Sourdough Bread Such a Trend?
Easiest way with pivpn:

https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn
I made a website to help with daily tasks
You can print a working mask using both PLA or ABS filament, but then you'll need to change the surface of the printed model in order to reduce the risk of contamination.

Here you can find a range of breathing mask 3D printable models: https://top3dshop.com/3d-model-finder/?q=breathing%20mask%20...

This video includes a good tutorial on how to 3D print, assembly and finish a working breathing mask. I strongly suggest watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77PgC3kMrFs&feature=youtu.be
>> requests to stripe.com

I'll take a look at it. I'm still polishing some rough edges.

>> why the spinning loader?

I use it while it's fetching user data and displaying to the user 'hey, I'm here'. But again, rough edges :)

>> export to file

Pdfs exports are on the road map, but you can only share w/ a link at the moment.
How would that work? Would random people be able to vote on which research papers have the most merit? Only people with relevant doctorates?

Another commenter mentioned a projected call Plaudit, which seems to use the 'ORCiD' system to decide who is worth taking seriously. [0] Can anyone explain how that really works?

[0] https://plaudit.pub/#concept
Pigs are supposed to be as smart as chimps, making them in essentially the smartest animals out there except for dolphins and humans. However, we as humans design, build and run industrial systems that breed, feed and torture hundreds of thousands of them constantly, so we can eat them.
India’s Poor Flee Cities in Mass Exodus
Usage of Masks “Flattened” Growth of Coronavirus Cases in Czech Republic
Does the VPS have unencrypted access to the VPN? It's something I would want to avoid. (A VPS is a prime candidate to be compromised)
In my experience the problem with roaming mode is it blocks the login page for wireless networks. IE: in a coffee shop. Maybe that's been fixed recently, but it was a giant PITA in the past.
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Show HN: Flow for Lua (EmmyLua PR)
I'm the author of this PR.

If you're writing Lua and not already using EmmyLua, then I highly recommend you check it out. Basically the current release already has built-in support for basic type annotations, with limited support for static type checking.

The pull request linked basically significantly extends what kinds of types can be described, fixes some type checking bugs and adds some new static type-checking error reporting. It's still nowhere near as powerful as Flow, and not really intended to be. However, the premise is roughly the same.

P.S. To anyone looking at this pull request for inspiration, don't. This is a pretty terrible way to submit a pull request. It's enormous and only very roughly delineated into feature commits, with many future commits fixing bugs in earlier commits. It's basically a result of several months of on-again, off-again hacking at EmmyLua to meet my own needs. There's certainly been some squashing and interactive rebasing, but not enough.
Amazing. Looks like a warzone.
I just got a thinkpad x1 carbon and have similar issues with the intel chipset for wifi and audio with newer kernels as well. Only thinkpad over ever had issues with .
We haven't even seen the numbers from last weekend.

It takes on average 5 days for infected people to show symptoms, and they only test once you have fever for 3-4 days (I can verify this first-hand), then 1-2 days for the test results to come back. That 9-11 days average.

We will see a spike later this week based on last weekends warm weather and hanami.
PAC does not provide these types of estimates in most practical situations.
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Equity is by definition limited liability. It has to be. Imagine it’s not, and you own $100 of SPY. That means you indirectly are an Apple shareholder. Should you be responsible for Apple’s debts if they went bankrupt? If you were, how would that even work?
So, what is it going to be in 3 days? 6 days? 9 days? Your view on the situation is purely reactionary. Having population-level data allows public health officials to proactively take steps to mitigate the current crisis and anticipate how much surge capacity they will actually need. Right now they can't do that, because even testing of symptomatic people is bottlenecked.

Being reactionary to a crisis like this is a very bad idea and will lead to it being worse than it needs to be.
Part of the supply issue is that China effectively nationalized 3M (etc.) mask production there to prevent export to other countries. Now, they are using the surplus to effectively use mask donation as political donations.

Smart move on their part. Guess this risk was not considered when all the outsourcing was going on.
Create a need and fill it
If you're subject to state level actors attacking you, a VPS is probably the least of your worries. If you're just trying to make sure some kiddiot in a coffee shop isn't doing mass collections, a VPS is perfectly secure.
See my answer to mns in this thread for the sources.
It is very difficult to read the study, but IIUC it also prevent the formation of fearful memories forever.
Didn't the plague doctors with the bird masks predate that?
I did something similar with Nuxt.js when building my résumé site: https://resume.nathanfriend.io/

I used a more heavy-handed approach: I strip out all <script> elements from the build output before publishing: https://gitlab.com/nfriend/nuxt-resume/-/blob/63e0298fdb5a08...

The end result is a pure HTML/CSS site that has all the Nuxt.js niceties during development (e.g. hot reloading).
The sickest I've ever been was cutting/torching galvanized pipe and fencing in our poorly ventilated machine shed. I opened the doors to let most of the smoke out, but geez is that stuff aggressive.

We hammered milk afterwards to try to get rid of some of the symptoms, but that sticks with you. It's hard to describe, because it's an illness that isn't really like anything else. It sucks.
See my answer to mns in this thread for sources.
Yes, that has some mystical effect on me. I think I saw it when you shares it the other day. How does the AM capture the sound? What exactly generates the sound waves?
This would work in an ideal situation. We would need 10 years of manufacturing to try this experiment for a month on a global scale.
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Indexes on IBM Cloud Object Storage
since when? i was about to be a pedant and add the M...
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I came here to say this - Eleventy is so simple!
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The virus is generally contained within a much larger droplet that is expelled when a person speaks, coughs, or sneezes. So the 120nm number is not necessarily relevant.
12-18 months of quarantine has both a direct and indirect cost to life as well. For the indirect - shutting everything down for a couple of weeks has already created ENORMOUS financial stress for millions now out of work. Many of these people don't have a month of savings left for bills let alone 18 months (which is beyond the recommended runway to have in savings for those already better off) and society isn't prepared to pickup the cost for them either.
Show HN: Build Slack Notifications from SQL Databases – Inventory Management Bot
I think you are missing the point. I'm not saying "Those people would have died anyway" I'm saying that you can't tell if COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu in a reliable way because mortality is being recorded differently for other infections such as the flu.