skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It lives behind NAT, so I can't host anything. But it seemed to be unmolested. That said, I couldn't handle the NAT and decided to bounce all of my traffic off of a Vultr VPS. That comes with its own problems, like lots of websites (e.g. Vimeo) thinking I'm a bot and blocking me.
Ask HN: If I developed IP and go work for a big tech company, do they claim it?
So long story short, I'm going to a big tech company in May and currently am the owner of a dating app. The big tech company has also dabbled in the dating space.

I published the IP prior to starting my job. But am wondering if the tech company will try to take my IP from me after I start working, assuming I still update the IP every now and then with minor updates.

This is in California if that helps. My product is fairly different than theirs, but they are both technically in the dating space.

I plan to disclose this to them within 2 weeks of starting. Am somewhat worried they will ask me to transfer my code over to them that I've been working on in college for 7 months or they tell me I need to shut down the app because they feel threatened by it.

Alternatively I could just not tell them. I think I'm protected under Section 2870 of California's Labor Code but not sure.

I'd be pretty upset if I have to transfer them my IP after I start working there. Do I need to worry too much about this?
An Attic of Solitude: Applying my work from home routines to my self-quarantine
Part of why SARS-CoV-2 is so hard to handle is the long incubation period, with many people being asymptomatic carriers and other people having initial symptoms that look a lot like much less rare diseases. Is there a reason to think we couldn't have another disease that worked this way but with detection being even harder?
Invite people to ascend PG's hierarchy of disagreement
My personal favorite is to look at the original values that were used to build the empire. If those values degrade and are not sufficiently replaced/reinforced, this is a sure sign your empire is in decline.
I think this is a little optimistic. Apple doesn’t have the cachet it did ten years ago and their attention to detail on the Mac platform has slipped a hell of a lot. They would probably have an ISA emulation to support x86 apps, but that will likely be deprecated in a couple of years.
Even if would pay more, as long as our population keeps increasing, it won’t work out.

The only solution is automation of most Ag operations, create many more decentralized food production/distribution hubs that is more sustainable. Food security necessarily means assured labour supply.

No one wants their kids to be farm labourers. As we educate more of the world population, why would they come to the field and do manual labour? We need Ag robots and automated platforms of all sizes for farms at different scales. Farm labour is implicitly exploitative.

The only solution is automation and reducing manual labour/labour costs for food crops.
Cuba is already supporting Italy at this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-93Uhrpam4
Time to buy MS stock.
I think you can assume 8-digit numbers can be stored in 27 bits

The relationship between cardinality of the codomain and image of the numbers is approximately 100

I would try to convert incoming numbers into pairs/tuples of N + differences (which can be done using less bits)
Pretty awesome.

What about errors at conversion time? Is there any help for that or do you just get the raw traceback of the generated code?
20min Startup Financial Model
Where can I read more about those sabotage attempts?
I have been nursing for years and the battle of skills has never stopped. Only doctors can do A B or C. Then at some point the registered nurses start doing it and then eventually the licensed practical nurses get to do it. The shift in skill set is always happening and often fought from the top ie doctors fighting to keep the skill to theirselves. You are absolutely right there are plenty of people who could efficiently watch the ventilator patients and report back the important facts. And you are also right they don’t need to do a perfect job only better then just letting people die with no chance. That is what triage is all about. All hands on deck. It is just really hard to start giving extra direction and have new people on the ward when the shit is hitting the fan and that alone can fluster staff. But in a pinch we won’t have enough staff so other rolls need to be taken or people will die.
It seems like that's a concern with any testing strategy that mocks out some part of the system. Obviously there's no getting around actually testing against the hardware, but it seems like it could still be useful for the same reason tests with mock implementations are useful generally.
Meteorologically, there's a definition of when winter starts and ends. According to that definition it was one of the shortest one in Sweden in a long time.
Keyboard shortcuts in Terminal on Mac
priced in
Neural networks facilitate optimization in the search for new battery materials
I don't think it would have been in poor taste just because there's a pandemic.

That being said, the demise of modern April Fool's jokes will not be something I grieve.
iOS development and, potentially, better support for Catalyst are the obvious pluses I haven’t seen mentioned yet.
The difficult question is how quickly can capacity be increased and given uncertainty about how long this demand increase will last, does it make financial sense to do so?
> Thanks to Trump's inability to not tweet anything he sees

If there’s one thing I hate about that guy, it’s his being the most transparent presidency in history.
Ask HN: Why does outdoor GI never look realistic?
I've seen engines produce indoor lighting which is almost indistinguishable from real life, but outdoor lighting always seems underexposed.
... put a credit card on the account that only has a $1000 limit. Or better yet, a prepaid one.
Wow, -3 points
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/13/21004456/b...

"How we got here: The Gates Foundation believes in consultants"
Imagine thinking that the role of a medical professional in the ICU is to just sit around and “press buttons”.
Not sure I agree with the bit about Linux + Raspberry Pi not being able to handle precision timing down to the microsecond level. I'd be interested if anyone has thoughts.
This does work on Ocado, but you also need to disable redirects also by the way
The Hannibal Lector series. I’ve found the world building Thomas Harris did to have a lot of parallels to real life (especially now).
There's no evidence for this. They could remove root access now on x86 if they wanted to. They didn't have to spend engineering hours making it possible to disable SIP when they turned it on. Most software signature restrictions that have been added to macOS to date are easily disabled, and besides that have nothing to do with x86 vs ARM.
We had spot instances with a mistakenly high bid that incurred thousands overnight when the prices spiked. No refund offered.

I know several other companies that had expensive mistakes without refunds. There's probably a complex decision tree for these issues and I doubt anyone really knows outside of AWS.
This is problematic for a few reasons.

ICU admissions, as you say is a 'hard figure' of what matters, in some ways, yes I agree, I see what you are trying to say.

But what you are saying is like "We shouldn't count the Nazis coming across the border, let's just count the number of people they kill, that's all the data we need"

1) 'fewer ICU admissions' is absolutely not a hard fact (!), because the number of confirmed cases is growing quite a lot in Sweden [1], it's absolutely inevitable that many of them will end up in the ICU. Sweden Covid cases are growing rapidly, borderline exponentially. ICU cases will 100% increase unless Swedes are literally superbeings.

2) Other kinds of data are really important in terms of planning and modeling. This is the most existential crisis since WW2. Wouldn't it make sense to test as extensively as possible? Surely, the cost must be some kind of factor, but the alternative is an economic meltdown.

I don't think they have an excuse: 'rapidly expanding and pervasive testing' should be high on the agenda of every nation facing this crisis.

In fact, I think that cheap, pervasive testing will be one of the ways we can lift these lockdowns and get people back into the community.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
To the first point: maybe they’ll eventually make that money back, but they also may need help to survive the crisis.

As for the second point, I’m a bit confused whether you think you’re disagreeing with me. Giving companies loans on terms they couldn’t otherwise get is a form of supporting them. I was disagreeing with an OP who said we should only care about individuals.
I am a Backend PHP Engineer, 3 years of experience working with PHP 5,7, few Laravel projects, but mainly just plain PHP on custom made frameworks, looking for a remote opportunity.

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania. Remote: Yes Relocate: no

Technologies:HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ES6+,PostgreSQL, MySQL.

Resume: I just always send my Linkedin.

Email: rokas.lakstauskas@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rokas-lakstauskas-57229288/

Github: https://github.com/rokiszb
Hi! Thanks for sharing, this could be promising for build tooling.

What tools/processes did you use to optimize performance here?
I wonder if the author was familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
Lord of the Rings had some good effects stuff in the making-of. And Fury Road. Last cool one I remember before LOTR was Independence Day. So many are just “a computer did it, exactly the same way as in every other movie” now.
No it's not.. The market is not sane atm. It's 100% emotion.
There are many perfect viruses in this sense. They're all around us and we hardly take notice, and they've been around.

New viruses tend to be more virulent than old ones. And new viruses tend to get less virulent over time -- else they die out. Ebola's incubation, transmission, morbidity, and mortality are such that it burns itself out. The common cold's are such that... it's common. Covid-19's are such that it's causing massive economic damage even if the recoveries are V-shaped. Hopefully covid-19 will get less virulent soon though.
Show HN: Web P2P Sharing
Sweden has a doubling time of the cases of about 10 days which is about the same as in Italy, but still should raise some concerns. The swiss government just communicated that the strict measures can be lifted if the doubling time is more than 14 days. In Switzerland the doubling time is 8 days now.

For comparison in China the doubling time is in the order of 2 years now and in the US it is 3 days now.
Laughs in bankruptcy
This problem 20 yrs ago might be worth attempting to solve. Not sure it is worth the complexity and effort. Having said that the thinking & creativity could be reused. Not sure it is a complexity that we solve every day.
> The reality is ventilators are useless without intensivists to operate them,

Get guard reservists and order them to squeeze the airbag by hand if 5 million American health professionals are not up to task
And no households consist of elderly living with younger relatives. That at least helps isolate the old from the rest.
The question in a lot of ways is how many exponential doublings do we have to have before this situation switches in peoples' minds from a peace-time inconvenience to essentially real war.

Right now, the death rate still isn't higher than a flu epidemic but just the number of known infections promises a lot worse and the potential doublings after that are terrifying.

It seems like there's an endless dialogue of:

A: How would you accomplish X?
B: I wouldn't, X is not what I do.

But we need to give the final answer:
A: I didn't ask whether you can do X. I'm telling you, "do X or many people die, you are all we have at this point. Think outside the box".
Who has time for books nowadays? Some lovely tales so short u can read'em over coffee:

- Asimov's Profession, his best short story IMHO

- Mimsy Were the Borogoves - just reread it, it's as great as it was when I was a teen!

- Flowers to Algernon is sad, but a must

- Everything from Lem's Cyberiad

- Everything from Borjes` Fictions
The only annoying part is that it doesn’t give you any sys notification when blocking a site. You have to check the logs. So if gmail isn’t losing the inbox that means something needs to be whitelisted and you now have to dig.
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> Given how medicine works, the chances of actually seeing this in action are low.

This has already been happening in Lombardy according to an account I read about two weeks ago.
My wife is a doctor (I am not). I've been following COVID closely and discussing with her/peers. I'm not an expert (but feel I have an above average understanding, thanks to my wife)

> I see a lot of DIY posts that are probably not 100% the same thing but are they even close?

I have yet to see (though I haven't looked extensively) a DIY ventilator that has the fine tune control many doctors are suggesting are required for COVID patients.

My understanding is most of the DIY vents are comparable to emergency or transport vents. They'll keep a patient breathing for minutes/hours until they can be transferred to a proper ventilator. After a short period of time, you really need to transfer a patient to a proper ventilator to continue to support life.

Two big challenges with COVID patients in particular:

* They require ventilation for DAYS or even weeks. Over durations of that long, you really need precise control over a vent. A tech analogy is using floating point numbers for finance. Over a small number of transactions, a floating point number may be sufficient. Over time, though, the inaccuracies of floating point numbers will become apparent.

* Many COVID patients needing ventilation also have Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). The simple explanation is their lungs are functioning so poorly that you can't simply stuff oxygen into them and hope it works. You need to be extremely particular with how you control breathing.

* Bonus, related to point two, many doctors are reporting using pretty crazy ventilation settings as a baseline. They're basically overclocking a CPU/GPU by default then hoping they can keep overclocking as CPU/GPU load increases (not fully accurate, but it's an analogy).
Some governments are wisely tying their bridge loans to requirements that companies not do layoffs.
And all of this is based on hacks and ugly workarounds, due to the kernel being a monolithic design.

When the kernel isn't monolithic, kernel preemption isn't necessary, or worth it[0]. Imagine if instead of the, I argue insane, complexity added by the fine-grained SMP locks and the unholy mess that is kernel preemption, the kernel had been split into separate processes, which maps to SMP cleanly.

Actually, I don't have to imagine it, because that's what Dragonfly has been progressively doing since they forked FreeBSD, and what microkernel multiserver systems like Genode/seL4 or HelenOS are from the get-go.

It turns out, despite having very little manpower (which is why they chose to focus on x86-64), Dragonfly has performance and scalability competitive to Linux today. Imagine if they had more people. I will not be too surprised when Dragonfly finally leaves Linux in the dust and people wonder how the hell, which is something I predict will happen. Linux hit a ceiling despite all the money thrown into it. Dragonfly hasn't yet.

[0]: http://ts.csiro.au/publications/nicta_full_text/5859.pdf
First-person fighting game built with Emojis
I don't think 1) locking in customers via proprietary APIs 2) limiting supply of resources 3) auctioning off to the highest bidder among your locked in customers was entirely the core feature of clouds. Rather, the idea was "we'll charge so much margin you never need to worry about anything physical, another machine is just an API call away". You don't need to overprovision for peak times and there is less physical stuff on your balance sheet, ez cash flow, win win!

Of course now everyone realizes it's a big sham and neither Amazon nor Microsoft are stupid enough to spend a trillion capex on building the datacenters, fiber lines and so on you need to handle a temporary 700% pandemic situation. In a year from now, they don't want that stuff on their quarterly report just as companies going "cloud only" don't want it.
Not to be obtuse but I'm from eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island's "southern border" is with the Atlantic, not CT.
> I don't think it would save the university money, if done well

If universities have to be closed for the next 6 months, And is this could happen again next year, online learning will be their only source of revenue
That rainy day kitty is known as taxation.
My understanding is that a lot of those young people end up needing to go to the hospital, and only survive because of treatment.

If the hospitals are overwhelmed, the death rate is going to go way up.
Show HN: Playing Snake Perfectly with Deep RL
Ah, I'm of two minds about this, because I felt like there maybe 30-50 pages of amazing, incredibly deep discussions, but then so many hundreds of pages where it felt like nothing was going on and I was just masochistically slogging through it. I actually feel this about quite a number of classics, especially those considered more "novels of ideas" (The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace come to mind). But even more so with Magic Mountain. I think Mann was trolling people when he said one has to read it a second time to "get" it. ;)
my russian relatives and peers swear up and down that the burgin is the only one that’s even close to accurate in tone. So it’s the only one i've read.

there’s a kindle version too.
Please don't compare testing/case curves. That just a report of how many tests can be performed. That will never be an accurate representation of how many are actually ill. It's an absolutely useless number for comparing between countries too since testing strategies vary. Sweden only tests those admitted to hospital (starting some randomized testing now too). Other countries already have capacity to test broader, e.g. germany, so case numbers can give a better picture of actual infection numbers. Not so in Sweden.

Look at deaths, icu admittance and hospitalisations. Not case numbers.

We have a worrying trend in deaths doubling every 3 days or so, but at least it is a bit slower the last 2.
ICU admittance trend is great suddenly, for some reason I don't understand (trending downwards last several days).
Sorry, I should have been more specific.

Given how American medicine works, I see challenges with this approach.
Did you use any library?
> If corebit happens to be an Operations Research specialist then it is reasonably likely that they would be better at running an ICU than a typical professional medical worker.

Why do people on HN consistently presume that they somehow know better than the experts? It’s distressing to me that anybody can say something like this with a straight face.
"US pressures countries to reject Cuban aid during coronavirus pandemic"

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/us-pressures-count...
Show HN: Gatekeepercli: environment variables done right
The Republicans certainly give lip service to it but both parties seem more corporatist than anything else.
Right, never said that was attainable or good. The point is that some people view perfect free markets as the ideal, and this is a move towards that, so people might view the market as getting g fixed rather than being broken.
- Qur'an

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Brothers Karamotzov by Dostoevsky. Helped me see the relationship between suffering and happiness, between pain and pleasure. Made me realize that government is an exercise in making the best of a bad thing, given that so few people can handle power. Taught me ways that government can goad or torture people into submission. Confirmed my opinion that pseudointellectuals can fool quite a sizable audience. If this author spent so many years in the salt mines, I wonder how much of Russia's brain trust was decimated.
I don’t know about that. Long MSFT short AAPL perhaps. But if we believe that the lockdowns will last 2 months+, and if we believe the economic forecasts, we are facing a crisis worse than 2008. Even good stocks sink in those markets. The 30% drop we have seen so far barely reversed Trump’s rally. I don’t know that a severe recession is priced in yet.
> I don't think we really need to create more skilled medical professionals,

USA has 5 million medical professionals, almost as much medics per capita as Cuba.
Veterinarians make sense. The ones that do surgery already know how to run vents on animals. Humans are a form of animal, after all.
I think this is the real SaaS (Satellite as a Service ) o.O
Pyenv + Virtualenvwrapper is 100% the way, plus Poetry when it's time to get serious about packaging for a project.

If you go the route of Virtualenvwrapper (over just virtualenv), just make sure you install the Pyenv plugin version, as plain standalone virtualenvwrapper has annoying path issues that don't work well with Pyenv.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Plugins
Nice that they've already begun a double-blind trial
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/can-century-old-tb-v...

"the wholesale price was US$0.16 to US$1.11 a dose in the developing world.[6][7] In the United States it costs US$100 to US$200."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine
and next service come as a FaaS (Fusion Reactor as a Service), you can produce your own power and pay as you use it =D
> computational time

Understatement of the century lol, especially for fully Bayesian versions.
Monster is magnificent. It’s a psychological thriller set in pre-unification Germany that tells the story of how a talented Japanese neurosurgeon deals with the repercussions of saving one human life over another. It’s a study of morality, human nature, and the origin of evil.

The anime is a bit dated now, but still holds up. Planning to rewatch it soon!
Didn’t know that lol was a tld but i did lol
Dubliners by James Joyce

A collection of short stories united by the fact that characters have epiphanies.
Talk by Tom Soderstrom[1] of JPL on this from December 19. They announced a partnership last year for various things, including downlink of high definition video from the ISS. [2]

1. Tom is part of the office of information technology office at JPL
2. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-web-services-nasa-team-...
We aren't in the Euro zone and were never likely to be.

They did not remove the Italian government.

The Greeks shafted themselves.
> It’s not uncommon for companies to use leverage to fuel growth. High yield venture debt is often tied to growth metrics.

This is, of course, exactly my point. "High yield venture debt" only exists due to absurdly low interest rates and an abundance of capital being driven out of public markets and into private ones. Now that the free lunch is over do not be surprised that your lenders come calling now that your "high yield" (read: risky) loan is no longer profitable under current market conditions.

> In a highly competitive market, if you don’t lever up, your competitors will eat your market.

I.E. When capital is cheap and abundant it is possible to burn cash on an unsustainable business plan for marketshare, but when the entire market itself rapidly shrinks your business plan is horribly unviable.