skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't, it didn't have those numbers when it got big.

It, like so many other companies in the networking space, were in the right place at the right time. And seem to many of us to have grown in proportion to the money thrown at them, rather than the actual operational need.

There are examples of companies that needed to do that, Groupon, etc., but that's because they had to actually do sales.
Similar to the Samwer brothers method in Europe.

Clone a popular site, gain some traction in a locale outside the US, then sell it to the original company.
Mars could have at least two ancient reservoirs of water underground
The lack of a responsive website for this project makes me reject it on its face.
I think you already pushed the scenario too far. The best measure to the example you gave is clearly the one we arrived at now. Complete lockdown. Worldwide. There's no discussion about its subjectivity. But the original point/motivation was to avoid getting here in the first place: identify and report potential breakouts early enough. The WHO was too late on this because of the way it's set up and that contributed to getting us to the extreme example you mentioned.

As for subjectivity per se, that's a separate philosophical discussion to me and doesn't have to do much with epidemics. The initital proposition was simple but the discussion drifted (as expected); let's find a better and faster way to prevent outbreaks altogether. There can be no subjectivity/relativity about this - it's a universal imperative.
Sadly I feel this is very true. IT was the last refuge of the introverts and social awkwards/outcasts. Now that the extroverts have taken over and tend to be the ones making the rules, IT is becoming more and more unbearable. Couldn't just let us have this one thing?
Around 20% of all biotech revenue gets put back into R&D.

So the next time your insurance pays $1000 for a drug, know that $200 of that goes back to R&D.
Nice, I see the link talks about SSO with Discourse but not sure which service you use to do the identity verification. Could you say a little more about how you did it?
I suspect most people are upvoting because they found it funny (that's why I did). We could all do with a bit of unexpected humor now and then.
Not exactly five people, but Craigslist runs a huge, popular global site with 50 people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist
I've experimented with both. Aeroponics is a LOT more complicated- you really need a high-pressure system if you want good results (fogponics with an ultrasonic humidifier doesn't work well enough). And a high pressure system has to worry about clogs in the nozzles, and it has more moving parts, and some of those parts need to be well sealed.... vs. hydroponics which can be as complicated as turning on and off an aquarium pump.
I never understood it either. It was usually silver bearing multicore solder so it had flux, had no issues with flow. The stuff was an absolute joy to work with.
This. I almost always click on them twice to see the other state, so I can be sure it's on the correct setting.
Vaccine takes years to make a year and a half is a guess. No pandemic is cure that way, sars, zika, etc. They all end with herd immunity. and if we wait to long those people making the vaccine would starve long before that during the economic collapse anyway.
Ask HN: Modeling Covid-19 outbreak in your area
> What choice is there when congress can't/won't legislate?

Work on electing different people to Congress, and meanwhile try to implement it on state level?

I mean, the whole point of having Congress is so that the executive can't just do whatever it wants.
Good stuff, but the "two files" qualifier is somewhat misleading if one of them is almost 350KB ;)
The proposals put forth in the article are lacking any affordances common place in the nineties and obliterated from "modern" and "beautiful" "design systems" of the future. Why has so much work been put into "moving forward" to a dystopian unusable future instead of backpedaling back to a past where everything was empirically more usable?

I would prefer specific descriptions of changes in articles like this. Being "modern" or "beautiful" mean thing to me except "probably work poorly and look worse compared to the same thing twenty years ago".

For example, "The new theme is more consistent with Windows 10 and iOS than the previous look and feel. However, it still doesn't perfectly align with native controls so users will still have trouble learning an adapting."

I don't see how 100% native control implementations isn't the target here. Developers and designers wanting to steer the look of a control toward their application or website will still have the same amount of work cut out for them and will still have to fight an uphill battle to keep their applications looking the way they want. Developers and designers wanting an as-native-looking-and-feeling control will now have to augment the new designs to steer them toward native, something the user agent should be doing.
Meetup is the classmates+myspace of events. It will get replaced by a young person that doesn't even know it exists.
Show HN: BankHooks – get webhooks or emails for bank activity
Well I enjoyed it. I’m sure I’ll be downvoted by the resident Vulcans for encouraging deviant behaviour immediately.
> at peak, the US needs 25k-30k ventilators for a few days, and then 90 days later we don't need anywhere near that number.

Those numbers are way off. NYC alone needs 30k machines.
I love your passion and drive towards making things work. Often without a blueprint to follow. Thanks for shining light (sometimes literally) on so many obscure topics.

If you ever find yourself bored, we could really use a reliable method of removing a camera senor bayer matrix. Bonus points if you can figure out how to deposit microlenses back onto the photosites after removal.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/166334-debayering-a-dslrs...
> There are quite a few very good lead free alloys that are basically as good as any leaded alloy.

You know what is 100% as good as leaded solder? Actual leaded solder!

You remember that giant class-action against the Heathkit company for all the people they poisoned with leaded solder? Don't remember it? That's because it never happened!

If your soldering consists of soldering pins onto Arduino nano boards, or whipping up a prototype or two with your JLCPCB boards, you'll be fine with leaded solder.
I would really like to see Laptop Reviews sort by price first, then logical maximums within a given narrow price range.

It would make sense to group by Price, then key secondary features like: Weight, Screen Quality, Raw performance (Mixed current year games score, Disk Bound, CPU bound, GPU bound) when plugged in, maximum battery time (default out of box experience).
... that was the joke. But I agree jokes are better when they're explained (not kidding).

Of course, if enough people start saying "I could care less" I guess they get to decide what it means. Living languages are literally awesome.
How about we vote on it?
It seems rather quixotic to have a last-resort plan for your country's collapse, with a potential to kill additional millions of people, and entrust the choice to a single person, and never question or even want to know what the choice was.

Sounds more like an Arthurian legend than stuff of modern diplomacy... but maybe that's British politics for me...
I originally read this headline as "WeWork sells TO Meetup" and I was extremely confused.
You're talking compensation not going up because too many people want the jobs and Amazon employees quit or strike because of COVID-19 working conditions so it's all connected.

I appreciate that you either can't see that or don't buy it so I end my participation here having tried to make the point as clear as I could. That is not a sly way of saying "I'm right, you're wrong" by the way. I am just out of words and ideas and time to re-express the relationship again.

Very best to you.
It's a bit disappointing that all the discussion's momentum/energy here got wasted on the letter of the proposition and not the spirit.

Clearly and pragmatically, anyone certified to work directly with patients at a hospital, clinic, etc. is "medical staff" regardless of where they are.
Exactly, this is essentially a 'free market' vs 'command economy', the free market has inefficiency in lots of individual actors doing the same thing at varying levels of success. The command economy has inefficiency from a weaker link between product fit and success. In most of the cases we see that better results are seen in terms of product quality through the free market. There are cases where the commmand economy works better - well understood problems where success is easily measured, but I think UIs are about as far away from that as I can imagine.
Hey!

I built this because I had 10+ bank accounts, and they were annoying to monitor. I'd log in every month and have to chase down why they didn't look as I expected them too.

I've set up Lambda functions to e.g. post bills to Splitwise, email me when my balances go above/below thresholds, and pipe all transactions into Google sheets. I've been running my own personal finances off it for a while and it's greatly improved my quality of banking life.

Would love feedback :)
Wasteful money wise? Or timewise? Or resources (paper/trees)?

I remember re-reading many sections of a book before I understood it. Some get read others never and some re-read.
Ideas for Relieving Stress During Coronavirus Quarantine
This seems to be one of those lies that keep getting circulated. 44 is not young. when you really look at the data yes 1/5 are hospitalized, but if you 40-50 you are .4% likely to die if your 30-40 it's 4 times less likely .1% and if your 20 -30 its ten times less likely. Its like they presented the data that way just to scare people.
Most important caveat from the link:

> [T]hese calculations do not account for any potential effects of fiscal measures, such as payroll support measures for small businesses

A $2 trillion stimulus very likely means that the actual figures are significantly less than what this model calculates.
Can the ketogenic diet cure mental illness?
Curing mental illness with the KETO diet
I think his question was more "where", as in software vs hardware. As a physical product company, you would have to find a way to interact with these physical products, remotely, assuming you couldn't take them home. Apple has a software division, but that software needs to work on future/prototype hardware.
Even if no one else reads them it'll be a great resource for you later on!
I've realized that sometimes when I ask a question I'm worried about seeming dumb. Maybe in that moment it's true, maybe not. Often you appear more thoughtful and engaged. Either way, for the rest of the conversation you'll probably seem smarter than you otherwise would. Continuing without understanding, you're way more likely to say something stupid because you didn't understand that thing two minutes ago. But if you retain mastery throughout, even though it may take some questioning to keep on top of things, you end up able to keep up and contribute better. Recognizing that, and that people just like engaged listeners, has helped me ask "dumb" questions more easily.
Would love to get feedback on the proposal
Waste styrofoam as source, that would be excellent.

"Project 1000x1000 refers to the idea of distributed medium scale manufacturing of N95 grade nano-fiber material across the country, in small factories with 2-10 people involved with a capacity to make enough filter material for 10,000 to 20,000 masks a day. This allows for an alternative approach - where if 1000 small businesses engaged across the country - roughly 1 to 10 million masks could be produced in a distributed manner.

We propose to use waste styrofoam - commonly available everywhere - as a raw material to convert it into N95 grade nano-fiber material which provides the key ingredient needed for making high grade PPE masks necessary for health care workers.
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Humans never did anything either for approximately 100% of history. Newton could have lived a caveman's life if his top priority was basic survival, regardless of the quality of his hardware.
I had a couple of conversations recently that made this pretty real for me.

me: people struggle with X, it doesn't really work.

he: I haven't heard any problems.

We all know that people don't want to talk to people who make them feel stupid. Either by claiming the problem is all them, or by claiming everything is amazing and there's nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, I will call BS on stuff (even, much of the time, when it is mine) and generally be sympathetic. So I hear about way more (although it's still amazing sometimes the stuff I don't hear about until much later).
Unless you own a domain and they just take it away. Now you get to sue them.
Time to Ban Stock Repurchases
Rather makes sense, because for many open source projects with a single or handful or contributors it's not a very important feature, but for larger teams (i.e. companies) it is, which ensures they pay their fair share while still keeping the product available for free for most of us.
The song in the clickbait title is “Weightless” by Marconi Union.
I don’t know of one but I really wish there was at least a chromecast app for something like this. Not only isn’t there one but when I checked their API it has a limit of 720p for photos for some reason.
>Games are traditionally single threaded and hard to parallelize.

ECS and being able to safely run "systems" within your game concurrently is becoming a thing rapidly as "lists of objects" do not scale.

I just checked Doom Eternal: it's running 81 threads. (Of course, not all of them are always active or doing things concurrently. It's just a datapoint.)

Intel basically only wins by a non-significant margin at video encoding nowadays thanks to AVX512 which AMD does not implement. AMD wins or is comparable at a lower TDP on everything else.
I think a lot of the criticism towards farm subsidies is less about the actual subsidy itself and more about perceived hypocrisy in the system for supporting only certain industries.

It doesn't help that many of those on the receiving end of the subsidies hold highly individualistic political positions while benefiting from diametrically opposed socialist policies.
There is no big clock hit. The turbo clock is 4.4GHz vs 4.5GHz, that's nothing. In practice the difference is mostly 1 FPS. The base clock difference looks bigger, 300 MHz, but Ryzen does not stay at the base clock like old Intel cpus did, it always turbos.

Now, if it's the same price there is no reason not to get the 3800X over the 3700X :)
It can be a form of control and oppression, but is it always?

And, is that all ("just") it is?
That’s like saying we shouldn’t use the theory of gravity to explain why objects drop because it doesn’t hold at the speed of light. Well, it’s a fundamental theory for a reason, and it holds up a whole lot of the time in practice. You don’t need quantum physics to know which direction your phone will go when you let it go.

But in any case, even tossing that basic fundamental economic theory aside, what about the rest of my comment? Is it not true that we would have more masks in production today if we started producing them in January?

If there was enough additional demand, you bet there would be more production. Let’s say someone in January is suddenly willing to write a 10 billion dollar check for 100,000 masks. Not one additional mask would be produced before March? Because people are scrambling to procure masks now. And additional masks are being produced and even donated.
Boards would never go for it because it would reveal how little work they actually do.
Connecting to Decentralized Network 42
Pen-based note taking or drawing already seems to be a (small) killer-app. I've heard several people say they bought a Surface or an iPad Pro purely for one of those two tasks.
The most infuriating part of the shutdown is the disconnect I see between comments on Twitter, where the shutdown is basically a game because everyone has a WFH-capable tech job, and in real life, where I have family members suddenly unemployed, with wild uncertainty about whether they'll get their job back (in a month? two? three?). It's incredibly stressful, and not a fun joke.

Like, independent of whether you think the shutdown is the right risk / reward tradeoff, please at least think about the 70% of the workforce that cannot work from home, because they work in restaurants or physical service jobs. If you are still working (or at least pulling a paycheck), you're incredibly lucky -- please don't act like you have the only voice of moral authority about when and how this should end, and the calculus that goes into that tradeoff.
I don’t think any of their models can accurately predict what will happen. We don't have any good prior examples to base the models on. I don't think the economy will recover, but I also don't think it is possible to guess how bad it will be.

I don’t think there is any model that can predict pent up demand.

I know a lot of my friends who still have jobs are talking about going out every night when the quarantine lifts so they don’t have to cook.

If a lot of people do that, we’ll suddenly need a lot of waiters back. And then they’ll have money.

Or maybe everyone will have learned that they love cooking at home and never go out again.

I don’t think there is any way to tell. We don’t have any good prior data.

All the previous models assumed unemployment claims and stock market drops when it was possible for everyone to work.

Right now there are a lot of jobs that are temporarily suspended skewing the numbers.
That would make it higher than the great depression, which peaked at 23%.
I'm really tired of stats of the very worst case but with a headline implying it's what experts are expecting.
Things like DNS tracing apply outside their network too, like WFH situations with no VPN.

Overall in practice, there is nothing stopping creepy sysadmin, boundary overstepping lawyer or creepy manager from secretly stalking specific employees by pushing IT departments to install extra monitoring software or just plain spying on specific employees.
I would think as of now, the main lead that Intel has in with AVX-512 computations.
I wonder what games really stress the CPU these days and I wish to get some example beyond dwarf fortress of games that actually stutter without a top end system, I got a midrange one built around a old core i5 and a modern Radeon 570 and even physic bound games like beam.ng and games with lots of agents like arma 3 run just fine.
I am reading this and a little voice in the back of my head is asking "okay, what forums did you just get kicked out of in the past couple of months, and why?".
I cannot get over the irony of all these web UI framework sites that don’t work on mobile.

I’m like, oh please tell me how to build a UI for the web...
Instead of a trivial use-case of existing technology it would be far more beneficial to model (1) RF subscriber characteristics and how an unmanaged network of point-to-point devices can support crisis communications when a potentially (very) large number of devices can flip over to long-range point to point. How is congestion managed and mitigated? how is available spectrum, channel space and bandwidth most effectively used?
And (2) The paper mentions an upstream message board and the underlying networking features provided by DTN7 describe a range of routing protocols. If nodes are taking part in a self-organising mesh network that can route in and out to central services then the management of layer-1 & layer-2 is crucial to maintain a working network. It doesn't model any of the characteristics of the medium and any strategies for how the underlying physical characteristics can be leveraged to support a mesh.

LoRa is excellent at long range, but with Long Range transmission comes a greater opportunity to interfere with other transmissions. Sure you can reach a long way so a low number of rural casualties can be serviced effectively, but what happens when you have a dense urban scenario and there are 10's/100's/1000's of nodes all hitting refresh on twitter and they are all interfering with each other and the few low-bandwidth gateway nodes are attempting to carry the traffic?
Every developer should do all of these things, the behavior and norms described in this blog post seem like the absolute minimum to have a healthy work environment.
Two-legged tables don't exist because the minimum number of points to define a plane is 3.
Yes, free users with private repos have the same functionality as is in the Core edition of GitLab self-managed, the open source feature set. Free users using a public repo additionally get all proprietary features.
> The dire need for us to start calling out people for using “positive things only” to silence and enforce apathy has never been greater.

This encapsulates my objection to Christianity. If we are all saved by the love of Christ just for the asking, why strive? Why engage? How is the inner peace that is supposed to be the payoff for faith compatible with the inner turmoil needed to effect change?

I get called on by missionaries with some regularity. If they could actually deliver to me these benefits as they claim, I think it would lead me to exit the arena, to avoid conflict. It would diminish me. Like an opiate.
I don't think I could disagree more. See, eg: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear... (And this comment in particular: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...)

Or: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-09/why-getti...

Or especially: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/05/introducing-lefkowitzs-la...

Nice chairs and free snacks are a trivial expense, and are very helpful for generating a specific type of company culture (eg, if important people have nice chairs, and everyone has nice chairs, then we're all, on some level, important. Trivial, but these things matter).

Cutting them either means:

1. The company is going bust as we speak. They've either already made meaningful cuts (ie, firing people) or they're about to start, and they're now now doing the metaphorical equivalent of stealing pennies from fountains to try and make rent. You should leave for somewhere not imploding.

2. The company culture is changing, and it has been deemed important to remind engineering that they aren't that important. Making sure important people have nicer chairs than uninmportant people is an easy way to demonstrate this. Again, you should leave before the company finishes turning into a Dilbert-esque hell.

Either way, cutting snacks will not, under any circumstances, fix whatever is wrong (again, they're too cheap) and it's usually a leading indicator of bigger problems.

So when you say:

> It says a lot about a company's command of their expenses.

I sort of agree - it tells you they have no command of their expenses. :)
Which is why the "model" is 100% certified organic horseshit. If they want to tell me that a temporary pause in the roaring economy is worse than the largest systemic collapse to ever happen to it, I say "GTFO".
If you're not already a fan, might I suggest anything by P.G. Wodehouse. ;)
The headline only exists in the HN submission. TFA is entitled "Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Next Quarter’s Unemployment Rate."
You just don't need to spend that much, it would be grossly overpaying.
The 50 gigantic aircraft are just the tip of the iceberg. USAF has huge cargo capacity. Most of the tankers have a cargo deck too and they can be used as slightly smaller cargo aircraft.

C-5M: 52 in service capacity 127 tons.

C-17A: 222 in service, capacity 77 tons.

KC-10A: 59 in service, capacity 77 tons.

KC-135: 396 in service, capacity 38 tons.

C-130: 392 in service, capacity 19 tons.

And that's before you start even digging deep into things like the 30 or so VIP transport airliners the Air Force has that can be quickly converted to carry cargo or the dozens of small turboprops and bizjet type VIP transports.