skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not liked nethack for over 20 years because of the ASCII look.

I'd say I played a lot of Pixel Dungeon on my phone compared to this.

Not everyone who grew up with DOS games has fond memories. I'm not one to chase the latest 3d graphics, but sometimes new things can be better for some people.
> Neil M Ferguson

You do realize this guy, the first guy listed in the paper, originally said the UK would loose 400,000 and the US 2 million no matter what. Now he's saying 20k for the US, but he's still trying to tell us his original estimate wasn't wrong, it was just assuming people did nothing, which is not what his original estimate said at all!

None of his estimates have matched the numbers so far, not even in Italy. Ferguson and his other researchers are spreading bad and dangerous information.
Marketers (Startups, brands), we’ve got to reconfigure
Right now doctors and nurses are being fired by their hospitals for speaking publicly about lack of PPE. You would think that whistle-blower protection, freedom of speech, or occupational safety laws would prevent this from happening. But now that we need medical staff more than ever, hospitals are firing them for alerting the public. Is there anything that can be done about this?
Thanks! I need it for work, but since getting my wife to beta test it she has also used it to somewhat similarly to pretty good success.
I can't imagine trusting the mindset of a dev who builds a sensitive personal safety app for (mostly) women if they calls it "dead man tracker".
Ask HN: Can I get some opinions on best alternatives to Digital Ocean?
It's for warning when a person is no longer capable of operating the device for any reason, one being that you've died.

In the case where someone's worried for their life, isn't it exactly the correct severity for the situation?
This is satire but it's pretty lame and unconvincing satire, so much so that I didn't realize it until about 1/3 of the way in. The funniest thing here is a Go developer complaining about JavaScript's unpredictable behavior.

I'm not going to take the bait and start a flame-war. I will just say that odd quirks don't make either of them a bad language because they each have many other benefits. And that the author shouldn't quit his day job to become a comedian.
"The problem lies with the way Zoom's chat handles links, as it converts Windows networking UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths into clickable links."

This is deeply concerning, but I feel this should really be looked at more as a Windows bug than a Zoom issue. I get that UNC is mainly intended for local networking, but why is the (encoded) user password included in the string? This just seems like a huge security vulnerability, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this bug is exploitable in many other applications besides Zoom.
Rich-bashing is so unproductive. You do realize he runs a huge charitable foundation and has pledged half his money to it, right? Why are you mad at “the billionaires”? Why can’t they have a voice and a platform? Because they’re rich and out of touch? What evidence do you have of that?
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i've used a lawn mower many many times and there is no part of it I would have called a "dead mans switch". I'm sure it's technically there, but knowing the name is hardly a requirement. Also, i'm certain there is not a 1:1 overlap between abuse victims and lawn mower users.
I don't disagree I'm saying that getting people to wear masks is going to be hard. a shutdown removes the reason for leaving the house. if there was no shutdown people would still go out, some in masks and many without, this would mean transmission would continue and so would pressure on health care services. you would flatten the curve but A) at a higher point and B) extend the length of the plateau, instead of seeing the descent
3.14 % 5
// 3.14
13.14 % 5
// 3.1400000000000006

There's nothing strange about this, it is, as you would expect, exactly 13.14 - 10.
Honest question b/c I'm curious: does this mean that as a policy you won't engage with cold outreach regardless of what is being offered? And if so, do you ever consider that such a policy may indeed hinder your business?

A non-zero portion of unsolicited sales-based emails DO include something of meaningful value.
I know I've been getting a number of questions around livestreaming for churches lately (since I used to do that a lot more in the past), and I've been gathering my thoughts in a blog post here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/how-livestream-masses...

It depends mainly on the budget, but with Easter coming up (probably _the_ major day in many (if not most) Christian churches), it seems many groups are scrambling to find a way to get a decent quality stream set up in time.

Many groups on the lower end of the budget scale are using an iPhone on a tripod (but the audio is terrible). Medium range you have one or two cameras plugged into a laptop with OBS, and you can get audio from the church's sound system. High end many places already have PTZ camera systems installed, and they just need someone to control the video system during the event.
Thank you for that link, reading through the filenames was quite humorous. Agreed, what is considered "adult content" varies significantly between people, and whether children should be able to access what is considered medical/anatomical reference is a frequent argument.
Ostensibly over a shorter period of time though.
If you enjoyed this, you'll also enjoy this "Wat" video:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Based on observed behavior, https://www.glaad.org/ is "adult content" according to Cloudflare.

Acknowledging the existence of GLBTQ+ people is apparently "inappropriate" to them.
> At the time, it was a "Chinese problem". It's hard to "close your borders to China" without being accused of "xenophobia" in the modern era. What's your/their concrete counterproposal for the time? Leave them open? That certainly appears to have been the implicit counterproposal being made by the accusers; what else could they possibly mean? In hindsight, how has that fared?

Most of the criticism I've seen covers two factors:

1. It only made perhaps a little dent, as it'd spread far past China already. Trump is dramatically exaggerating its effectiveness in an attempt to distract from how feckless the overall response was.

2. It was implemented in a rather silly fashion. Instead of actually banning travel from China, we permitted US citizens to come back with minimal screening to spread it here.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...
That's pretty much how I read it as well. Sure, for an internship, lots of enthusiasm probably differentiates you from a form letter and a resume (which, lacking much real experience, doesn't tell you a lot anyway). And, honestly, a followup along the lines of "Thanks. I'm still really interested in your company. Do you have internships or other programs?" would probably have worked at least as well as offering to fetch coffee.

But, as you say, you're probably not going to get an opening created for you unless you have connections and/or a special skillset.
Is there some news with OBS or just sharing this wonderful piece of software?
Conversely, it has aged well in that all of the code still works. My Scala and Python books? Grrr
Roberto Esposito: Philosopher of Community and Immunity?
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Albert Camus
Not going to work, latency will be greater than 10ms which is too much for musical timing and coordination
It’s a false choice. Without a shutdown, do you think everyone will just start going back to restaurants? Will all businesses bring everyone back, filling up the elevators?

The purpose of shutdown is to drive absolute case numbers low enough for a new regime of contact tracing and testing to take over as the primary, far more granular means of fighting its spread.
A far better plan would have been to quarantine the at risk population. Hard as that sounds, the current system is probably going to be much worse. Somewhere between a quarter and a half of working class adults aren't working right now, and that is going to make the depression look like childs play, because when those people stop paying their morgage, car payment, its going to ripple up the economy. You might be protected in IT at big CO this month but in 12 months when there is a 50% decline in revenue due to the lagging effects your going to get laid off too, which is going to just keep getting worse.
There's a wide range of measures that lead to effectively no infection. You have no way of knowing that the "correct" measures were taken, only that measures at least as expensive as necessary were taken. They could well be far more expensive than necessary.

That's the future-history perspective, too, where we assume that we can already count them as having successfully contained the disease; in the here-and-now perspective, there's plenty of time for it to develop that they in fact didn't do enough either and will explode in disease in the next two weeks or something. Or months. Or, in the worst scenario, years. (See Spanish Flu history, as you've probably seen cited; what we know of as the "Spanish Flu" was not the original outbreak, but a later one.)
Using a linear Y-axis without normalizing by population is misleading.

For example, Los Angeles vs. San Francisco -> https://imgur.com/a/k4SykrJ

The chart makes it appear that LA is a raging wildfire, while SF is under control.

Actually, LA has 2 cases per 10000 while SF has 4 cases per 10000. SF is twice as bad but you wouldn't know it from the chart.

You could use a log scale for the Y-axis, and while this doesn't solve the population problem, at least you can compare the rate of growth or trajectory to judge how well the county is controlling the spread.
The CL condition system is completely orthogonal to any concept of continuations or stack unwinding. Both condition handlers and restarts are plain functions and any kind of stack unwinding has to be implemented inside these functions (by means of TAGBODY/GO, BLOCK/RETURN-FROM or THROW/CATCH).
Often, yes. Abusers are not just people who are occasionally randomly violent. They are people who are deeply controlling, and use violence as part of that control. If you're at all interested, I strongly recommend this very readable book on abuser psychology: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling-ebook/dp...

It's also important to remember that our society spent centuries where women were effectively property of men. We've been digging our way out of that, but there's still a lot of overhang. The level of cultural and legal support for women leaving abusive men varies a lot from place to place and person to person.
Most large SoC vendors only sell their chips to qualified partners who enter into contract agreements. They only want partners with significant technical resources and commitments to significant minimum order quantities (6 figures).

> My first non-trivial PCB in fact, and it seems like it's going to work.

Building a PCB to support a modern SoC is a serious undertaking. Layout and routing for high speed traces (DDR RAM) and power supply distribution is a very challenging topic. Many of these SoCs are in dense BGA packages, requiring 4, 6, or 8 layer boards with advanced features like via-in-pad as the BGA pitch gets smaller and smaller. This is within the reach of dedicated hobbyists, but it's something you'd want to work your way up to over several years.

> The Pi computer module has been the most accessible way I can find to get my hands on a Broadcom processor, but still, this unit adds $35 to my BOM, from which I estimate 15-20$ to be unnecessary parts (for my application).

The Raspberry Pi compute module is a great solution to your problem. You'd be surprise at how expensive it can be to design, develop, source, and manufacture an equivalent solution on your own.

Sourcing a pre-built module from an SoC partner is the standard way to do this, even for companies operating at small (<1000pc) volume. The R-Pi compute module is particularly large, but other SoCs can be found in significantly smaller modules. Search for "Linux system on module" to find other providers. http://linuxgizmos.com/ has a news feed of module announcements.

If you absolutely must design your own system, there are some SoC vendors who sell to retail customers and provide open access to their documents. They are the exception rather than the rule, so you must explicitly target these chips from the start.

Perhaps the most well-known vendor in this category is NXP with their i.MX series of chips. You can buy them on DigiKey and download all of the documentation from NXP's website. If you want to get started, take a look at their i.MX6 series: https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers... .

However, even with the i.MX parts it's still a better choice to use a pre-built iMX module for your prototype phase and even early shipping units. Prove the product and design first, cost reduce with a custom PCB later.
> Do we have any reason to disbelieve China's numbers are orders of magnitudes wrong?

Crematoriums in Wuhan seem to be doing more than the usual number of cremations:

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/88435z/wuhans-crematorium...
Ask HN: Are coupon sites worth having as affiliates?
As a software developer we have a lot of affiliates who own coupon websites. I'm unsure of their value, meaning would we get those sales they're sending us anyway? So we're just paying money for sales that people would have found via search. Eg, they search our product + discount. Does anyone know how we can track this?
So is wikipedia supposed to be blocked or not? Twitter? Reddit?
We don't need one method to stop all transmissions. Some will be stopped with a temperature check, some by masks, some by symptomatic people staying home, some by washing hands, etc. The goal is for all of those "somes" to add up to infected people, on average, transmitting it to fewer than 1 other person. That will lead to it eventually dying out.
I use omnigraffle every day. Recently tried to create penrose diagrams but discovered you can't create custom open-ended shapes; and modifying any of the few open ended shapes they have closes them. Guess I can't hope for any improvements any time soon.

OG is probably the main reason I'm still on a mac. Nothing else comes close. I hope they can rethink their plans and create a more sustainable & successful business. Their other apps are pretty good too. Easily the best software shop for mac.
"Not for kids" varies widely in the western world.

The average American seems happy with plenty of violence, but any nudity at all is strictly off-limits.

I can't write "average European" for this, but most would prefer less violence and accept more nudity. There's still plenty of difference within Europe.

There are also websites that are for teenagers, which some parents would be uncomfortable with -- LGBT support and advice sites for example, or even general sex education.
I guess the OP was answering to

> To many developers, what the software does is several orders of magnitude more important than how it looks.

Native widgets are still the easier way to produce an UI that looks good enough to work with

This link[1] explains how they work on different OS, if they work for desktop apps, why shouldn't they work for web based ones?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/Basic_n...
So, 1.1.1.1 is Cloudflare's public DNS resolver. It's the fastest resolver on Earth: https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers It's fast because Cloudflare has 200 data centers all over the globe, and you connect to the nearest one.

Warp is a set of apps that will set your phone (and with this, today, your computer) to use 1.1.1.1 for resolving your DNS. But additionally, it uses the Wireguard protocol to connect, which is a VPN protocol. This hides the contents of your connection from your ISP or network provider. It does mean you're connecting to Cloudflare, and so we've made a bunch of privacy commitments, and gotten external auditing to back those up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22747770

The above is all free. You can pay a small subscription fee to get access to Warp+, which uses Cloudflare's "Argo" product to route your requests faster.

Does that make more sense?
Life Without Toilet Paper Is Better
> What number of deaths would it take to convince you to agree to a 3-4 month shutdown?

None. You are either ready for a massive shutdown or you are not. I actually was convinced of the shutdown until just a couple days ago. Things start to break. Your car insurance might expire. Your heater might go down but there is no one to repair it. Cabin fever (even though I'm an introvert and probably handling it better than most people out there). Some people are stuck in one place and need to move to another place.

As time goes by, I can see more and more people changing to the opinion that this was a bad idea. They are not ready and the shutdown risk completely devastating their life or worse.

> What qualifications do you have to assume this virus might kill 100k and not 10 million? Are you ok with 10 million?

We know it's deadly but not that deadly. The numbers from Korea, Italy and the Diamond princess are not good but they are not world-ending either. They are painful but that's it.

> Assuming you have friends who have elderly parents, are you ok with visiting them to tell them they are likely to die but it's for a good cause - 'the economy'.

I have elderly parents. The guideline is that they stay at home. They have a garden, a couple dogs and enough food. But at some point I expect that they'll probably be okay with the risk and seeing me rather than spending 2 year confined with no human contact.
First controlled study shows benefits of hydroxychloroquine vs. coronavirus
Do you believe that a robot cannot have qualia?

I am a collection of interconnected units, each of which is itself a combination of different organelles and other purpose-serving features. My intelligence is itself a product of the interaction of simple, unintelligent parts. So I would say that I am a machine. I would describe a robot as a man-made machine where the interaction of various silicon parts and processors gives rise to intelligence. By that definition, I am not a robot.

I believe that we don't feel pain when we are truly in trauma. It is only when we can do something about the damaging stimulus that we feel pain. I once had a major accident where I experienced lung collapse and multiple fractures. I never lost consciousness but I don't remember feeling any pain until well after others came to my aid. Even when I tried and failed to pick myself up off the ground, I did not feel pain, only disability and relief that my fingers and toes still moved.

I believe that the question of "what is pain" and the question of "is pain a good criterion for deciding whether it is acceptable to do harm to something" are two totally different philosophical problems. They are connected only insofar as we have chosen pain as a proxy for harm. But that very relationship between pain and harm indicates that pain is not just some kind of soulful feeling, but rather a signal to help us evade harm now or in the future.
Fact check: Almost all health experts and political leaders agreed with (or did not publicly oppose) implementing travel restrictions[1], and the xenophobic remarks were being taken out of context, and are likely aimed at Trump's attempt to re-name COVID-19 as the "China Virus"[2]

[1]https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...
[2]https://www.statesman.com/news/20200330/fact-check-did-biden...
OpenNebula + Firecracker: the future of on-premises Serverless Computing
How is that not gobsmackingly obvious to you??! Look at the words you just typed.

There are millions of other innocuous games whose names don't invoke death, men, capital punishment, gallows, prison, nooses, lynching, strangulation, hanging, suicide, murder, etc. For God's sake, pick one of those, instead of "hangman" and "dead man's switch".

Might as well call it "Kill My Abusive Boyfriend".

The whole point is NOT to be obvious when an abusive boyfriend looks through all the apps on your phone.

Hangman's not even a plausibly amusing game. Who even plays hangman on their phone?

How about "Pokemon NO!"
Market Cap of 38bn USD, based on a single product that entered a settled and crowded market.

Public, profitable, founder was Head Engineer for Cisco WebEx. Runs global videoconferencing under massive new load during Covid-19, on their own servers.

HN comment: "total amateurs".

Love this place.
I wasted a good chunk of a day looking into this. If you start multiple instances of OBS (you need to do this on the command line otherwise clicking will just foreground the current instance) then "multicording" should work fine, though perhaps using lots of system resources (the fan goes nuts). This was on macos.

Overall, I realized it's better to just use OBS and have it mixed into one file/stream. You trade off a bit of flexibility to do after-the-fact editing but save a lot of production/editing time.
Agree, but I don't think biological neurons are the crux of the issue. I can't find the quote, but I believe from the book Echopraxia, the author discusses consciousness as a form of conflict resolution in regards to predictions about the self, an example of holding a hot pan despite the pain, knowing the consequence of letting go results in hunger. Or similar, the classic Jabberwocky example from Dune as a test of Paul's "humanity". But we can easily imitate these processes with machine learning even today, several projects involving the OpenAI gym have approached this. At what point do we believe these agents are conscious, and at what point do we shut them down?
On the other hand, my solution to subverting AOL parental controls was to... log into my mom's account.
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham

Its not an online course, but it's a great book! It has a lot of information in it, can be dry, but I'm really enjoying going through it so far. Warren Buffet has quoted it in his shareholder letters and other talks.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Inves...

Also check out Warren Buffets shareholder letters, they are packed with great insights into investing.
Of course, if it's designed to be extensible then definitely non-public sources could be added, but whether they'd be supplied as included modules/plugins or need to be developed (and then optionally contributed upstream) by users of a given non-public service is a question of practicality and sometimes cost (if it's a paid service an OSS project may not be able to justify the cost of a licence/account for the service to develop/test against).
Accessibility isn’t being discussed here. All my sites are accessible, don’t conflate the two.