skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're entirely ill-suited for mobility though.

I am a happy owner of a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard and mouse, and it is quite mobile. It has a built-in wrist rest as well.
It was a joke, yes. I knew it'd get downvoted when I made it, but I thought it was worth the price.
I see buybacks just as an alternative to dividends. They do mean more valuable options, but I wouldn't call them "steal[ing] from the market" since they give shareholders more ownership of the company. I actually prefer buybacks to dividends because record keeping for DRIP can be messy, but more importantly, dividends are taxed as income, while gains from buybacks will see the lower capital gains rate (if you hold for a year). That's the real reason no actual shareholder seems to mind buybacks.
>Countries that encourage everyone to wear masks will succeed in containing this.

Isn't the main reason for the success of this measure precisely to make any infected people retain droplets (big or small) inside the mask?

I'm not saying it doesn't offer any protection from droplets in the air, but the main motivation was containing droplets.

In this case, Choir practice it's literally a spit fest - you're singing loudly in a tightly packed large group of people. It's like the perfect scenario for spread.

Even if they are in rows, you get them on your head, neck, shoulders, hands, pants, sheets of paper you're holding, even shoes.

Also, if it is indeed suspended in air, then wouldn't the minimum requirement be N95 masks?
Actually the unacceptable rise in mortality begins around 55. Who cares the median age, for something that's so severe? That's a spurious argument.

"The median age of those executed by firing squad was 80, so why are you whining?"
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How would they display ads in an API form?
Popular opinion in the US regarding the integrity of various countries' coronavirus reporting is hilarious. Whatever China says must ALWAYS be a lie, on the other hand, the US numbers are not "suppressed," it's just incompetence. Meanwhile, nobody is batting an eye at Japan's ridiculously and obviously doctored numbers.

Hey guys, maybe China was just having literally the same organizational problems the US is having now leading to underreporting of numbers, back in Jan-Feb when every commenter on reddit and HN were saying China was covering it up.

Meanwhile people just assume Japan's numbers must be honest because... why? Anyone who has the slightest awareness of how Japan works knows that this is par for the course. And no, it's not just the government brainwashing the people. The people are complacent in this and defend their government by rejecting criticism and continuing to vote them in office.
At least on my account, it seems like Amazon has given up on recommendations and is just suggesting I buy the same things again.

I wouldn't be shocked if it's actually quite a bit more accurate then real predictions, but it does lead to funny things like "You already bought this book? How about a second copy?"
Some communication is possible...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarine...

The VLF section above that one is also relevant.
A substantial portion of worlds population lives in rural areas with very poor internet connectively. Starlink isn't for urban areas, whether in the US or Africa. It's for ships, planes, islands, mountainous rural terrain, etc.
I've noticed people only ever bring this up to derail conversations around women's shelters. Do you spread information on this topic and try to raise awareness in a proactive way, or do you only bring this up in reaction to comments about women's shelters?
Where I live what he did is a fairly serious criminal offence.
There's multiple typos in the first sentence on your landing page. Might want to fix that.
I really loathe GIF for screen recordings: they are huge, they look terrible due to the 8-bit color pallet and low frame rate (in a desperate attempt to make them less huge), encoding is slow (in my experience at least, probably no hwenc available?) and they are expensive to render. There’s hardly any reason to use GIF when you can use a video instead — Imgur did exactly that with their GIFV which is just an H.264 video IIRC.

Unfortunately there are still many places where only images are allowed (e,g, GitHub README). HEIF is supposed to solve this problem but support is apparently abysmal.[1]

Anyone aware of any progress on a replacement of GIF?

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif
Two sides of the story.

One: people that are doing this are likely to have already been bad bosses. I don't think this changes anything.

Two: I work for a large bank. My director, on a town hall, told us they do understand that not everybody will be able to focus on the job as before and that they expect us to spend less time actually working and be unavailable more often. Then he URGED us to actually do so. To take time off, to deal with family problems first. He wanted us to know it is ok and that they will allow it without deducting pay so that we don't have to worry about our salaries.

I am pretty sure there will be people that will abuse this. You know what? People who do this probably have already been bad employees so not much is lost. Most people I know to be good employees feel very happy about this as a convenient option and do whatever they can to use it as little as possible. I see this as an investment that is most likely return in other ways, employee happiness, retention, engagement from the staff you really want engaged.
Former fuzzywuzzy maintainer here.

We relicensed fuzzywuzzy mostly because I am not a lawyer and really just wanted to stop having the same argument with the same three people about whether what we were doing was legal. I actually think that we were violating the license by not including the license header on the included file, but were fine with the rest of the project being MIT, but again, not a lawyer, and the emails from the same ~3 people were becoming quite annoying.

Link here: https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy/issues/130

That said, if their interpretation is right, then unless you clean-roomed the reimplementation, that derivative is also GPL.

Again, not a conversation I personally care for, and I no longer work for SeatGeek so it's no longer really on me :)
No big surprise. Given that retail was already in decline before this some of these jobs will probably not come back.
Ask HN: Devs now working remotely, how productive have you been recently?
Since the whole Coronavirus lockdown thing started my productivity dropped significantly. My job is fully doable remotely and previously I even took quite a few remote days, but these weeks I have not been productive at all. Between constantly checking the news (way more than I should), being interrupted by the kids that are now home, feeling bad for my wife who is now ultra tired of spending the whole day with a baby and a very active 3 year old, trying to do groceries outside busy hours, among other Coronavirus-related stresses, my productivity has tanked dramatically.

Looking back, what I accomplished in the last 2 weeks is something previous me would have accomplished in about 3 days. Am I alone in this?
I'm surprised cubicles get so much hate. I loved mine at my first job. Oodles of desk space. Locking drawers and cabinets. There was a chair in the corner so a guest could sit. Made it easy to have 2 meetings without disturbing people.

less aesthetically pleasing in office photographs, but overall a much better work environment than any open plan I've experienced.
Vs custom embedded solution developers? Apple developers are orders of magnitude easier to find, in any universe.
Sent you an email about potential job at my company. Not sure if it goes to spam, so posting here
I actually used this personally (Jan 2019)

You'll get supplied (at least) two SSDs.

With instructions for how to use in both Windows and Linux.

Unfortunately even though it was "GA", it appears that they never really actually tested using it in Linux.

I submitted (and they were merged) a number of documentation bugfixes related to Linux.

Two firmware updates later, one bricked disk, one which failed to verify the copied data -- and 9 months of time all down the drain.

This reason is why I will never use Azure. It wasn't the bugs and device failures that was the problem. Just the sheer work in having to teach Azures' support staff about their own product (after fighting to get them to record the support case -- you normally can't raise one if you don't pay).

Why did I pick Azure for this?

Because (at the time) both GCP and AWS catered for 100Gb+ volumes. And we were (and remain) around 50Gb.

I haven't re-evaluated to see if either GCP or AWS have better options now.
The real question is how long can it linger in the air? Seconds, minutes, hours? There seems to be a lot of social pressure to stay indoors, and that social distancing with a 6 foot radius isn't good enough.
The strategy here is clearly fighting Covid-19 with 'Security through obscurity'.
That is very subjective. I'm on a Mac and when the term "modern web browser" is used, Safari doesn't even come to mind.
For smallish cargoes I don't see why you'd need to rip out anything. Place it on the floorspace in front of seats, place it on the seats. Getting it in an out is a matter of people lifting and carrying.

(am not an air cargo freight expert if you haden't realised already, so be gentle)
It's not just large droplets that seem to carry the virus but also aerosolized droplets that travel farther when you cough or sneeze and that are emitted from talking and singing.
Users are suggesting that group video chat app “Houseparty” may have been hacked
The volume vs weight probably comes into play as well.

Without passengers, passenger aircraft probably run out of volume capacity long before they approach their max take off weights.

Whereas I think with dedicated cargo aircraft, it is usually the other way around - weight is the main limit, less volume.
Using almost all of your available cash flow to do stock buybacks is, by my understanding, very much against the long term health of the company, in order to inflate stock figures in a way that disproportionately helps the people making that decision. See the airline industry.
oh I get it, the virus teleports from the patient to the surface, no air transmission. /s

(you're splitting hairs, and the implied medical advice will actually kill people who follow it - much MUCH MUCH safer to simply say "airborne" to the general public, who need a simpler model than this)
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed this.

Traffic inside the EU works for us, but not USA <-> EU.

UPDATE: Connections work again now (For us)
Victims of abuse have typically been trapped financially, emotionally, and physically long before the lockdown occurred. Abusers have many ways of keeping their victims from “asserting their rights”.
Oh easy. Just try the HTML only version of GMail, I believe you will quickly notice the lack of client side interactivity.

Maybe just a bit of Babylonian language confusion. Static, to dynamic, to server-side-dynamic-vs-client-side-dynamic...
Read this:

Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036673v...

Humidity has a tie to temperature and for this virus that seems to be the bigger "factor"
“Pure logic”? Is this a joke?
I've spent the last 20 years providing informal supports to street-involved gay and bisexual youth and adults, many of whom are fleeing abuse of some kind.

I was distantly involved in opening one of Toronto's first shelters for abused men and sole fathers with dependents, and it's been difficult to secure public funding comparable to what is given to women's abuse shelters on a per capita basis. The government largely seems to have the attitude that the general men's shelters are adequate, even for non-gender-conforming men and men who are abuse victims, and that children of men who are in shelters should simply be taken into foster care, rather than trying to keep the family together like they try with women's shelters.

I say this with the hope that it doesn't devolve into a flamewar about gender relations and roles, but for whatever reasons, our society seems to be less sympathetic to a man fleeing an abusive partner or violence than it is to a woman in the same circumstance.
Why couldn't they scale on-prem? Setting up Kubernetes on a bunch of servers for distributed workloads isn't that difficult these days.
Single person with no roommates, I can confirm that my mental health is slipping and it's really hard to maintain a positive attitude at work. Productivity will slip and employers just need to adjust their expectations.
So sorry to hear that; praying he gets well, along with all others sickened. Thanks to him and to everyone else who worked on the internet; they're the reason why we can still function and communicate at all.
So, price gouging?

Pretty shameful in a time like this (unless shipments of medical supplies are getting the normal rate from a few weeks ago).
on financial markets nobody who gambles should get bailed out. future generations of investment bankers would simply price in the bail out. I'm pretty sure they are doing that already.

how risky are you willing bet when you know that you only have to fail really hard to get bailed out?
I guess keeping broadcasting Radio 4 no matter what has very significant priority in Her Majesty's Government's crisis plans. You can use Radio 4 to reach the whole country if needed, with I guess just a few generators.
Being worried about the current trajectory of macOS, I’ve been thinking more and more about Linux and imagining how far it must have come since I last used it in the early 2000s. Reading things like this really dampen my enthusiasm for trying Linux again.
Aka “skids”
"He is describing hypothetical people"

He's not talking about hypothetical criminals and capital punishment in a modern sense. He's talking about a vague concept that seems to overlap with the witches that were burned over several centuries. He's talking about "people" who may be devils and not human. And saying they need to be hanged by an official in no way implies that is the only acceptable way of dealing with them.

I don't mean to suggest he's other than a product of his time. He couldn't know that fleas spread the plague. So ignorance of what was going on would have had terrible consequences in trying to assign blame.

But people do try to shoehorn sages from centuries ago into a modern sensibility.
It isn't necessarily nefarious but can be. Recent events have shown quite a bit of nefarious activity surrounding this practice which is why there is a call for increased regulation.
I'm sorry, I don't see the point here.

As others mentioned on the thread, you praised OpenBSD, which is just as monolithic.

It's a pretty common opinion that the *BSDs are better architected as a whole unit and maybe a bit more care is taken with evolving kernel interfaces and so forth. I share that opinion.

But what I don't understand is that you are unwilling to see where Linux has done something well, and cite the monolithic design as the critical flaw. We have your counter example of OpenBSD (monoliths done well) and we even have some examples of good design in Linux (lock-free path caching in VFS). Linux, despite criticisms that you or I may have, is thriving pretty well in many domains as well, so I might be tempted to say the proof is in the pudding.

I still cite Windows NT as a microkernel design gone wrong, though I wouldn't confuse that as an inevitable property of microkernels. I am ex-MSFT by the way and have seen NT kernel source, and used to work on a filesystem driver there in 2008-2011. The NT I/O manager is this "message-based" thing, but the design that emerges from it is much worse than what Linux has, and the relatively bad I/O performance is a result. [In WSLv2, they opted to run a Linux kernel in a VM, rather than fix the inevitable performance consequences of the NT I/O design choices. The bad I/O performance of NT was specifically cited as a rationale for forking and embedding Linux.] It is actually a good example of how "microkernel" type thinking gives a poorer result if you are not careful about the big picture.
Are you talking about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lamps? I think most "full spectrum" bulbs will work, they sell them at hardware stores.
I wonder if it will actually get built and used due to the critical nature of the Medical Field, even amidst this emergency.

The good thing; at least you'll have a working Ventilator.

On the other, your life depends on this frankenstein'd together machine made with hospital spare parts.
- AI Writer - my preferred MD app, simply beautiful

- Bartender - removes clutter from macOS icon bar

- Paper - for doodling and fleshing out ideas on my iPad

- Brilliant.org - my preferred way to brush up my maths skills

- TeuxDeux as a simple and timeless todo list
It wasn’t a very good hedge then, was it
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https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

Disease -
coronavirus disease
(COVID-19)

Virus -
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2)
I am extremely suspicious that Japan's numbers look good because they have not been testing enough.

Given that honesty in testing consistently precedes the eventual slowdown in deaths by several weeks, I strongly suspect that Japan is maliciously incompetent and a lot of dead Japanese will be the result.
Not only were they smarter than we give them credit for, they were smarter than modern humans. There's nothing about intelligence that guarantees not becoming extinct.
Kudos to the MIT group, but I think the problem of ventilator shortages has nothing todo with technology (this is old, well understood tech), but the lack of leadership in mobilizing industrial production to supply this lifesaving equipment. Since the early days of this crisis this country should had mandated companies to produce record levels of ventilators, masks, vests, and other equipment that are now needed to save lives. On the contrary, the federal government is up to this point dilly-dallying about how to procure and produce ventilators, without a clear solution in sight.
Managers and executives.

1. Cheaper rent because you need less space
2. Easier to look over shoulders and on to computer monitors

Managers (especially product managers) delude themselves into thinking this spurs collaboration and creativity and productivity.
True. How do you think this could be overcome? Crowdfunding? Donations?
How to run open source video conferencing on Brightbox with Jitsi
This isn't the LA Times saying it spread through the air:

>The outbreak has stunned county health officials, who have concluded that the virus was almost certainly transmitted through the air from one or more people without symptoms.

Aerosols don't need to hit a surface to end up in someone else's lungs.
Love the idea. It's simple, does a specific thing and seems to do it well.

A couple of suggestions:

1. Maybe have the 'DEMO' tab be more visible on the landing page. like a big "try it out" button would be nice. I had to loiter around for a minute or two to notice the demo button hidden away in the top. Also, maybe let people preview the demo before needing to signup or commit in any way.

2. Gifs on the landing page. It makes a huge difference. People don't want to click on videos. But gifs auto-load which is great. (Legit speaking from experience and stats, we did user studies to confirm this...but it is to an extent, common knowledge in the UX world)

3. Think about finding a way to export PPTs to your editor. Most proposals get made in Powerpoint, so giving your user a convenient way to bring preexisting work into your environment is IMO, the fastest way to get new users. Especially the non-techy kind who have all the $monies$.
I had italics in vim (TERM was xterm-256color), but not in tmux (TERM was screen).

Added this to ~/.tmux.conf and it works:

set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"

BTW it matters to me when using vim as a markdown viewer (esp for github readme.md).
Why We Wish for Wilderness
Finally found my notes on it, and threw this quick page on it since the original website doesn’t seem to work:

https://observablehq.com/@shaunlebron/meaningful-color-names

I had not heard of Werner’s, but I like the idea of colors based on animal, floral, and mineral, thanks for the reference!
Former US Navy submariner here. This article seems... overblown.

Now I was on fast-attack submarines (versus ballistic missile boats), but we regularly got email roughly every day when at sea. During certain operations, we would even regularly get an abridged NYTimes PDF news summary sent to us. And my grandmother died when I was underway on deployment - I got notified immediately. (Though obviously wasn't able to travel back.)

One important thing is that the IT admins on the boat had various scripts they'd run against all the email sent/received to help ensure that classified information didn't leak out, or troubling information (I think like family deaths?) leak in. But it never felt invasive.

Maybe the French Navy operates very differently than the American Navy, but... I call BS on this article.
“ Frost declined to comment on whether Garrabrants, one of America’s top-paid bank CEOs in 2018, is subject to the same monitoring when he works from home.”

Tells it all pretty much...
As per www.worldometers.info, Russia seem to have relatively low death rate (0.06 per million of population), despite having a border with China, no early distancing measures, public transportation in the cities, etc. Could be just accident, but they did one interesting thing - recommended a nation-wide treatment strategy early on.
EDIT: I'm sorry, for some reason the link I submitted isn't working. I don't know if mods can fix it?

It should be pointing to these search results: https://twitter.com/search?q=houseparty%20app%20hack&src=typ... — but HN seems to have altered the URL.

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In case you're unfamiliar: Houseparty is a social video chat app, where groups of friends (and friends-of-friends) join an impromptu and casual video hangout.

I'd never heard of Houseparty until COVID-19, but suddenly it seems like everyone's using it. I think I was able to connect with 20+ people I knew, right off the bat, after joining a couple of days ago. It's definitely gone viral with young people here in the UK.

I've found it a surprisingly fun way to socialise and hang with friends, whilst the UK is in lockdown. It has an interesting mechanic where you can add "friends of friends" to the chat — like bringing a plus-one along to a party — so it's connecting strangers in an interesting way (though not without some unintended consequences: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/houseparty-users-share-horror-... )

I would've posted a better link than some top Twitter results, but this doesn't seem to have hit any reputable sources yet, so we just have these early warnings to go by.
The Great Billion-Year War Between Cells and Viruses