skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brendan Eich wanted to do Scheme, but then edict came from above that "it has to look like Java" https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...
We also regularly hear (otherwise very sensible) software engineers saying stuff like "Clone twitter? How hard could it be?". It's not very hard to see how manufacturing life-saving medical equipment in a rush without proper testing could go catastrophically wrong. Even if you get known-good schematics from another company, retooling (say) a car production line to make something else needs a lot of planning to make sure all the supply lines and trained workers are in place.
I don't believe I am confusing important happenings to transformational changes; rather, I think you are simply denying that there was a transformation.

For example, you write "The soviet union existed before ww2 and they were a dominant force before ww2." The second part of that statement is either irrelevant or factually incorrect, depending on whether you are referring to potentiality or actuality, but let me guess: when confronted with the evidence against it, you will fall back on the position that what actually happened did not amount to a transformational change.

Your argument so far has been a combination of non-sequiturs (such as mentioning the moon landing), downplaying the magnitude of transformation that did occur as a consequence of WW2, and your 'get out of jail' argument of simply denying that this or that was truly transformational. At this point, you owe us some examples of truly transformational changes.
Well as you can probably understand English is my second language (I am greek) so I didn't do that intentionally.
Doctor+Strange+++Urfa+Kalesi+Photoshop+Manipülasyon+Dersi+#photoshoptutorial
Little Snitch seems to have solved it fairly well on macOS.

Apple doesn’t allow software like that on iOS.
I’ve worked in the industry for about 15 years now and Trading and Exchanges is the first book I recommend to anyone who isn’t looking for a flashy “Invest this way and make millions” book.

Excluding some of the technical details, specifically related to US Equities, which are a bit outdated, it is hands down the best book on the subject of market participants and their interactions.

Books like Reminiscences of a Stock Operator are great as well because they provide a little historical context to market regulation and improvements to market structure.

If someone were particularly interested in clearing and settlement there is also After the Trade is Made
What the West Can Learn from Vietnam’s Response to Covid-19
Ask HN: Why is there no dashboard app for iOS?
Why is there no simple dashboard app for ios that takes my json/google sheets/stripe data and displays it in a nice and simple way allowing me to create widgets like subscriber count, MRR, hours tracked etc. with a nice graph and UI.
I would easily pay $10 once or $4 per month for it if it looks nice and my data gets automatically updated each time I open the app.

I know Numerics exists, which offers this features, but has a terrible UI.
Okay, wait...

> more than $800 million in funds towards producing medical supplies used to fight COVID-19, and in ad credits

> produce 2 million to 3 million face masks, and will financially support efforts to boost the production capacity for lifesaving medical devices

> $340 million in Google ad credits to small and medium businesses active on its platform

> $250 million in ad grants for the World Health Organisation and many government agencies

Google was already going to report reduced ad earnings this year. So, based on these numbers, if I am getting it right, they're going to get a $590M tax credit or whatever for these worthless ad credits, and then (potentially, since there's no hard numbers or commitments) spend $210M on medical-related products.

So their expenses on this might be more than offset by the tax benefits of their "donation."

Nothing quite like looking good without spending any money!
How to boost immune response to vaccines in older people
"The main problem I see regarding masks is, besides price, distribution."

There's a crap ton of unused aircraft right now. You would just need heads of state to direct the airlines to fulfill that need, simplify clearance, customs, etc. Treat it like wartime.
Scientists find a way to extract color from black
We've found Google Meet / Hangouts too unreliable for even small-scale calls (e.g. our daily standups) whereas Zoom has pretty much perfect quality (and the lowest CPU footprint).
Also, collecting income is and always has been possible without selling/leaking private user data. This is a red herring.
I read somewhere that it could be dangerous to wear one when you're infected, because then the virii have a much bigger chance to be inhaled again and get deeper into the lung.

Is this true?
Coronavirus testing: Why Iceland's approach could be a model for other countries
FYI: I'm the author of the linked article, and I added a link to the image after it was posted here.
Well we'll have to maintain the old version. It'd be simpler to keep on calling it "C++," but then we need a catchier name for "new C++." How about "Rust?"
The F to Z mount adapter is ok from what I’ve read. The cross brand adapters usually have a lot of gotchas though.
I started typing in a hex colour, and the page disappeared. And it’s persistently broken. (This is probably the biggest problem with storing persistent data, even including persistent caches of server data: if it’s broken, it stays broken. A great strength of the web historically was that reloading the page made things work again.)

Other than that, it looked better than most such things I’ve seen.
"Before we invest too much thought into this, we should focus on getting devices that are sitting around in a basement somewhere back into working order."

I'm mechanically and electrically handy but don't have a basement full of ventilators. I'm going to send an email to my local hospital ... we'll see how that goes. Anyone have know where else to find ventilators that need to be serviced?
Intestinal alkaline phosphatase targets the gut barrier to prevent aging
I don't think the sensor size is the limiting factor on a smartphone; rather the very small lens just doesn't let in enough light to really capture sharp images, especially ones that are far away
What do you mean product liability? Delivery liability or faults?

Ideally you would import it from a vetted manufacturer

I don't think anything but FOB is common, except in specific cases.
I don't think it's exactly fair of them to blame "financial impact and market turbulence related to the spread of COVID-19" for their bankruptcy. The history of space industry is full of companies that ran out of money when attempting to launch massive satellite constellations.

And let's be frank, an attempt to out-compete SpaceX on mass satellite production and cheap launches was doomed to fail.
Tell HN: Gitlab Is Down
Interview with leading Covid-19 expert from South Korea
Vets, dental surgeons, people with old CPAP machines.
StarCraft 2 used boids, and I'm using boids to rewrite Age of Empires II:

github.com/glouw/openempires
These HPC programming languages (there are others too) would be good candidates for GPU programming, hopefully GPU world will at some point emerge from the C++ dark ages despite all the hinderances (proprietary fragmented SW stacks).
From the things I've read online, that'd not going to be good for people from Asia or using TOR as they will be greeted with more captchas. For TOR I can definitely confirm that cloudfare is absolutely terrible, but I cannot confirm the claim about Asia.
Ah, I did something similar at some point when looking for a job.

Only has a single template though. But my main concern was being able to export to both word and pdf, because recruiters always want word documents.

https://resumedrone.com/

I really like the way the templates look on yours :)

May have to try and implement live preview myself.
Exactly. Also looking at German car manufacturers, their production lines are almost completely automated and rely on robots. Reprogramming them, if they would fit the job in the first place, would require weeks of testing and calibration alone.
My concern is the rush to acquire PPE, rules be damned, a decent amount of counterfeit masks will make it into circulation, and will provide a false sense of security.
I wonder why picking ones nose is considered gross (and eating it doubly so).
Is it simply a weird quirk of our society? Kids will naturally do it right? Are there examples of other societies where its considered to be fine?
I always thought a debugger was more useful for when you got a big buried in a long execution sequence and produced by unknown combinations of variables. Where as usually my notebook cells are only a few lines long, and with a very clear state going in. Can any of you speak to the practical need for a debugger in Jupter?
No doubt GitLab have considered this carefully and are doing what they need to do diligently and thoughtfully.

This is a planned maintenance operation, and they've likely picked 4am Pacific Time on a Saturday in order to reduce impact to their user base.

That said, it appears CloudFlare is increasingly becoming an essential element of (US?) web infrastructure, and given that they provide many tools (including, for example, those mentioned on the status page) which are proprietary, there seems to be a risk of monoculture and lock-in developing.

Edit: add second paragraph, to note this is planned maintenance
The FDA is already relaxing administrative control and vets will have their time coming.

However, project management and engineering setup takes a long time.
I start to think Corona is not the problem, but the solution.
Employees at home are being photographed every 5 minutes
This may be related to planned maintenance that GitLab have in progress: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/maintenance/5b36dc6502d06804...

The maintenance began around 4am Pacific Time on a Saturday morning, and that's likely been chosen as a period of relatively low GitLab site usage.

Relevant HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710445
Mainly feral cats but there are rats too big for them to go after. The coyote project started around ten years ago, it’s been a great success: https://cei.org/blog/chicago-coyotes-control-mice-and-rats
Way better. Two dishtowels equals n95:
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
“Black eyes... dolls eyes”
If only there were a presidential candidate proposing to upend healthcare and make it affordable for all, and has been doing so for most of their career. Eh... won't get the votes. Who needs affordable healthcare, right?
Perhaps intravenous oxygen supply could be a way to treat those who are't getting a ventilator due to shortages?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27910706

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247295

Not a physician, but sounds like a more rapidly scalable method - if it works.
Nothing money or waivers cannot solve, as long as masks are being made and China allows export. I doubt Germany, USA, Italy etc care about chartering dozens of planes just for that.
Possibly, but in my experience the less real work there is the more politics and thought leadership tends to crop up.
That Minitel book is okay, but I didn't get too much out of it that wasn't on an early Reply All podcast episode.
We're not talking about FFP2/3 masks here, but simple masks that mostly prevent droplets produced by the wearer from spreading as far and slightly reduce the probability of inhaling the larger ones other people produce. Basically anything that covers mouth and nose.
Results: Two dishtowels can be as effective as an n95 mask
D50 is a great camera. I used one for years until moisture got inside while shooting pics of an incoming hurricane. I only by weather sealed bodies now :)
Nonsense, fanboi.

The only reason SpaceX is going into the satellite business is because they have 5,000 employees sitting around doing nothing. The "launch business for paying clients" just isn't big enough.
Keep reading beyond the 1st sentence, he's describing bureaucracy problems, not transport problems.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mjnblack/status/12436416374204538... (posted in HN as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707935) as as a particularly bad example.
> Under normal circumstances though, health and safety oriented regulatory bodies such as the FDA play an absolutely essential role in protecting us from bad actors.

Does it though? There's a perception that government agencies are impartial watchdogs, but this belies the reality that governments have agendas of their own. The FDA is so politically removed from the people it was created to ostensibly protect that there's now little incentive for it to relieve real suffering today. A brief example:

My brother and thousands of people suffer from type-1 diabetes. We have had the technology for years now to create an artificial pancreas, but FDA and EMA regulatory procedures have stopped any device from being sold. People are creating their own DIY systems because no commercial, professionally-developed, reasonably-priced alternative exists yet.

This isn't snake oil. There are solutions for many people's ailments available today. And the FDA is a massive giant standing in the way of people living healthier, unencumbered lives.

Treat people like adults. On the whole they're pretty good at figuring out what's best for themselves and taking care of each other.
Machines that produce raw materials for cars, like frames, can't simply be repurposed to produce ventilator frames (to my knowledge) as the tools that are attached to the machines (e.g. the stencils) are specialized, intricate parts themselves, so designing one for a new task can take years.

The assembly lines / workstations also look very different, in general. You can see in the picture how the ventilators are assembled, it's not a factory line but more a workshop.

Then you have all the supply chain issues that the article discussed. Companies like Dräger have been optimizing their supply chains and processes for literally over 100 years (the company was founded in 1889), so to think another company could just replicate all of that within a few months or weeks is unrealistic. Even with Dräger's help this would be challenging, as building up a new factory location usually takes several years as well.

I think we have a strong bias to think that all problems can be solved with technology or engineering. Some need to be solved on a social and political level though, at least initially as technological developments take time. For Covid-19 we need to change our behavior now to allow technology to catch up.
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people are so serious and literal nowadays! ;)

(btw., since debate initiated, C++ standard attempts on garbage collection too - as well as on many powerful concepts incorporated into C# from here and there - and IL is compiled into machine code before execution, naturally, also making C# really had an intention of making a better but similar C/C++ without its crippling compatibility barriers towards improvements. C++ is more universal still - but considerably less than C - and it is all right, each have advantage here and there. You usually do not work on all use cases anyway! ;) No need to abandon backward compatibility with C++, abandoning will become a new language, we have quite a few already, it is done already!)
The Coronavirus Crash Will Also Hit Rental Property Owners
All the human cell cultures infected with covid-19 will certainly rejoice... whether it's effective in real cases is completely another matter.

Remember while it's a commonly used drug, (hydroxy)chloroquine can kill you. So whatever you do, don't take it at your own initiative!

Immune system boosted by regular long sleep at night might actually be one of the best ways to avoid this disease. Probably also a good idea to get enough Vitamin D.

The best way to avoid it is of course isolation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine#Side_effect...
Ask HN: Will this be the end of Airbnb?
Context: living near Amsterdam, following the situation in Amsterdam (pre-Corona) closely, founder of Kamernet.nl - the largest marketplace for student rentals in the Netherlands.

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Once the various quarantine measures have been lifted, and international tourism and travel rebound, I am hypothesising that cities will want to know (and control) where (foreign) tourists stay in a city, and that renting out rooms/apartments to tourists without a specific license will be banned.

HN: your views?
I don't think anyone trusts Google enough. They can help by providing governments with anonymized data they already have. Immediately what comes to mind is identifying to governments public hot spots while lockdowns are supposed to be going on so that they can send people to disperse the gatherings. I'm sure people can come up with better ideas
They detect the face and then extrapolate the body. You can tell because hiding your face (or turning away) makes you background.
Maybe read the last 2 sentences of my comment.
That analogy is only partially accurate. For instance, injection molding machines are pretty flexible these days, parts are almost exclusively drawn in CAD and molds are commonly cut with EDM. Every injection molding house has to have the ability to maintain those molds too. So if you wanted auto manufacturers (or more likely one of their suppliers) to produce a plastic part, it could almost be hands off. Send them the CAD files and specifications, produce a short run with heavy QA and once they're started, you can almost have as many parts as you need.

Modern cars have such a huge variety of parts with varying materials and characteristics that I'd guess almost all the ventilator parts could be out-sourced. I don't know enough to say what the specialized skills or parts could be but let the ventilator manufacturers build those, do final assembly and QA and you'd at least increase production to some degree. My guess is that the quoted manufacturer has ramped up their existing parts manufacture beyond their ability to do final assembly were Daimler to provide more parts.
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This is a PCR test, not an antibody test. That means it detects the viral RNA even before the body has mounted an immune response.
Show HN: Virtual Background for Video in Python and OpenCV – A Silly Approach
The issue with cloning Twitter is primarily the network effect, not the technology. That's different in ventilators, unless you're looking at long term investments, e.g. when this is over and you've invested heavily into scaling production, you might not be in a good spot.
Researchers test wearables as an early warning system for Covid-19
Ghanaian experts say local drug ‘COA FS’ could help fight Covid-19
Yes boids are great for parallelization. Each boid must compute a stressor imposed by neighboring boids based on the three rules in the paper (separation, alignment, and drifting towards center of mass). The stressor for each boid is simply applied to each boids velocity. Given a thousand threads / cpus / cuda cores, what have you, each unit can be applied to a single boid
“This is a short-term oxygen substitute – a way to safely inject oxygen gas to support patients during a critical few minutes,”
I hear they are starting to come back in southern Texas.
I hear GM and now Daimler are all offering to help. How easy are these to manufacture? Also setting up the manufacturing plant takes time doesn’t it? All these companies make it seem like it’s trivial to create the infrastructure needed to manufacture them in bulk. Or does auto manufacturers somehow have the equipment to do this already? Is that the case?
Covid-19 Oxford Vaccine Trial
Does it detect past infection?
On MSWord format vs PDF:

Whilst interviewing people, if I know their resume came via a recruiter, I tend to ask for their real one. The reason is not to cut the recruiter out of the process. Rather, it is to make sure the resume (and the questions about its content) are based on an unaltered version. Sadly, some recruiters will modify a resume to fit the position description, and the process, make claims on behalf of the candidate which are... untrue.

So, PDF, being more difficult to modify, seems safer.
> Yet we call Ebola that name, because of a place. Lyme disease, same thing. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - obviously.

Certainly there is a difference between calling it ebola and "the african disease". Or lyme disease being called the "american disease"? Calling it the "chinese virus", especially given the current climate fraught with geopolitical implications. Especially when there are subtle accusations by both sides blaming the other for intentionally passing the virus to them.

> This isn't some condemnation of the place, and its pretty silly to think of it that way.

Given the histories involved here, I don't think so. And toss in the trade war, it's really naive to not see the obvious here.

> Doctors go to pains to have diseases named after themselves, proudly.

Sure for recognition and to be credited for discovering the disease. Are you saying "the chinese" should be credited and honored for the virus? Should "the chinese" win the nobel prize for this discovery?

> Folks are over-thinking this.

Nothing to over-think. It's pretty obvious what the intentions are, not to mention the political motivations.

History is fraught with naming diseases, insects, etc after countries to attack those countries. Syphilis was called the french, italian, spanish, etc disease depending on politics of the nations involved. Cockroaches were called "german cockroaches" by the french, while germans called it the "french cockroach", etc depending on which nation was mad at which nation at the time. HIV was initially called a gay-related disease. But heterosexuals can get HIV. And non-chinese can get the "chinese virus" so maybe it wouldn't hurt to call it something else? What do you think?
The catastrophe would be worthy of inclusion in Randall Monroe's What If? book.
And? If they can simultaneously create demand for the launches and create global internet service business, what's the problem?
Final assembly or manufacturing components like hoses.
Language-wise, the existence of "sourceX, sourceY, sourceWidth, sourceHeight" speaks to a lack of tuples or simple records more than anything.

Obviously a formatter can't change the language, but just want to point out that the issue there is really that the arguments are linked logically but not in the code.

I think a language designed around using an auto-formatter will work better in that scenario. See, for example, Elm—where the use of auto-formatting is essentially universal.
Ask HN: How do you scale up your scientific reading?
Everyone knows that the number of publications is growing every year, this is especially noticeable in biology. I'm wondering how other cope with this volume. Is it possible to scale up reading articles?
I watch videos that don't have slides at 16x using Video Speed Controller extension[0]. A 47 minute video becomes a 3 minute video I can go through and judge information density, slides quality, topics addressed, depth of said topics, whether there's a topic that matters to me that's addressed there.

Then I decide if I'm going to watch the thing, which I note using Taskwarrior with a +watch tag, a link to the video, a description on what it's about. Then I watch it and take some notes, augment some issues with the information acquired or references, etc.

I don't really do this with great quality speakers I'm familiar with, as I'm sure I will learn things.

[0]: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
Surely some form of social shunning is required for a healthy community? There's limits.
You are assuming (edit: actually you aren't, see below) that the car manufacturers are producing these parts themselves. It is a lot more complicated for Daimler to produce plastic parts for ventilators (for example) if small plastic parts in Daimler cars have been produced in China for the last 25 years and delivered just-in-time to the assembly line in Stuttgart.