skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving the economy which will then be able to afford multiple Roche products is a pretty good payment, methinks.
Then press the button with a handset instead of the one with a camera; it's called "FaceTime Audio" for a reason.

If you had added them to Favourites and are calling from there, you added FaceTime (video) as the favourite; delete that shortcut and re-add them to Favourites as FaceTime Audio.
He doesn't understand exponential function, neither most of the people in the world. It's counterintuitive, as the brain is heavily biased to linear thinking. Also in western world generally math is not cool, people have a strong bias against it.
Yes. There's a mac mini running which directly interfaces with the Messages app and underlying data storage. There's been a few synchronization problems, but for the most part the Messages platform is fairly robust. Unfortunately, there's a couple sleep statements that I had to write in for the short term, but there's a path to removing them in the long term.
Congress, Not the Attorney General, Should Decide the Future of Encryption
This is super cool! There's definitely an advantage to being a native iMessage vs just sending out texts.

Also if I'm understanding correctly, I can also use the API to understand if a message was read or not?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

In case it's not clear, I'm with you. Either you're in a position to state in what capacity you work or you're not. In the latter, don't hint at it. Just leave that out. It's useless, and more likely to make people doubt the validity of the vague claim.
This is why you never, ever sign a personal guarantee.
The new rules eliminate personal guarantees for loans <$200K.
I was bummed out when Siteground moved all their cloud accounts over G, without telling their customers beforehand
A maker's implementation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGrh2io9Ds&

Looks cool, not sure how well it works.
> Their concerns aren't about freedom in the short term, but rather civil liberties in the long term.

What's interesting to me is that with the right institutions, surveillance does not actually even diminish one's right to qualified privacy.

It can be illegal to use identifiable data for various purposes, or illegal to use identifiable data in a non-fiduciary manner.

With respect to abuses of the surveillance power, it can be employed against those in power as well, to prevent abuses of their power. e.g. police bodycam can work against abusive police if the laws should support it.

So it's important to see surveillance as a sword that needs proper laws to use responsibly, that allows a society with proper laws to obtain better freedom from actual harm and also a better quality of life. If we should just bury our heads as the technology materializes, the abusers will be the ones to exploit surveillance infrastructure.

In cautionary tales like Nineteen-Eighty-Four, Brave New World, or in the design of the Panopticon, the surveillance power was in the hands of a large power, not themselves held accountable by surveillance. But with the right laws, a citizenry can hold a government accountable and limit government and powerful offices by surveillance. These tales fail to see the how surveillance can help strengthen egalitarian institutions. They were more concerned with demonstrating just how powerful surveillance is, a reasonable point, than with how it could be employed to reinforce egalitarian institutions.
The Chapel Parallel Programming Language
>The accepted wisdom is that IQ tests are inherently racist and favor white evaluees over black and brown ones.

Huh? Where did you hear that?

The reality is that Asians score the highest on IQ tests, whites score somewhat below, blacks score lowest.

The accepted wisdom is that Asians have the highest IQs, followed by whites, followed by blacks.

Well, that's not entirely true. Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQs, but their IQ-advantage is in the verbal area, which is why when you see lists of the highest-paid lawyers a disproportionate number are Tribe members.

Keep in mind that these are averages. There are plenty of dumb Asians and there are plenty of smart blacks! You can't apply group statistics to individuals.
There’s no joy in your comment
I couldn't get it to work. When I click "Join movie party" it just opens another tab of the party page with a timestamp in the url.

Also there appears to be a timezone issue? I have to input a time an hour ahead of what I actually want.
Its good to have dreams. It took a few years but PS/2 dropped from the supply chain mobo. We might move on from multi-voltage power supplies in the next decade.

I think people don't use 3.5" floppy drives any more. Or parallel ports.

So yes: the UEFI boot spec is FAT. Once, we didn't have UEFI and maybe once, in the future, boot spec won't be locked in FAT.
this is an incredible resource
Google often releases a pretty solid post-mortem, which will give the detail of the event. The level of detail appropriate for same-day release is really 'router failure' or 'power failure' or 'software failure' or 'vehicle drove into the building failure'. Expecting more than 'we know what it was, and we fixed it' or 'we don't know what it was, but it stopped happening' or 'yes, we're working on it' on a same-day twitter post is unreasonable.
The blog post linked to has information on the new program passed today. I'm sure the info isn't complete, but it's helpful.
thanks for this response, and for making these suggestions of a new forum as a contrast to HN — are you seeing 'content' and 'content metadata' as two distinct modes with which HN members make comments? Is there perhaps a balance between both, such that you wouldn't find discussion 'annoying' to read through, while also ensuring that members don't feel at a loss if their comments are removed for being one or the other?
So you can get the loan to cover up 2.5x monthly payroll, use that to pay your employees for 8 weeks, then the loan is forgiven? Is there any reason a software company < 500 people wouldn't want to or couldn't take advantage of that?
WW2 as some sort of Anglo-challenge must be a uniquely American school system PoV.
It’s great that gig workers were included in the CARE bill. Hopefully this starts a trend of more bills including protections for gig workers. I fully support these workers striking for basic rights.
It could be that life at our current level is more observable to life at our current level than more advanced life would be. The "Dark Forest" hypothesis from 三体 would be one explanation, but even that isn't required. It could be that advanced life can better meet its needs via technology that we can't sense. That was certainly plausible before we could broadcast over the electromagnetic field, which wasn't so long ago. Perhaps it is still plausible, because we're still missing out on something important.
And it has a pipes implementation, which is saying something for how ascetic it is. It's only got a couple dozen syscalls total, and is smaller than sel4 at least in lines of code.
Real-estate is assets, of course.

But I think the inflation in health-care/education is caused by lack of competition.

As in - you can choose to not buy a new coat this winter, but you HAVE to buy health insurance. You HAVE to buy college education for your kid or otherwise s/he won't be able to ever start a family (working as a barista, or some such).

Also, none of these services were outsourced to cheaper location (because they can't. although a good number of people have been going abroad to get their medical degree, etc.)
Age-dependent effects in the transmission and control of Covid-19 epidemics
> Manual formatters still send, even today, TTY Model 37 style input from 1969 to the manual pager

Thanks, you are perfectly right. What I found charming was that the 3E pipe.2 manual page contains «word^H^H^H^H____» written out by hand in the roff _source_. The 4E one switched to using ".it word" instead.

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man2/pi...

Another charming little quirk: the 6E kernel's falloc() does «printf("no files\n")» if it fails to find a free file structure.
I think I agree with this. My friend Dave took a detour into cooking school in between startups, and used to talk about the difference between the NYC restaurant scene (he lived in Manhattan) and the Chicago scene, about how Chicago had a scene focused on building things up and being excited for new stuff to happen, and NYC had kind a vicious, competitive, cynical scene. I usually think of HN as an NYC-style scene, not a Chicago scene.

(I'm sure the phenomenon isn't unique to Chicago, but rather shared among all major cities that aren't NYC or LA).

But most of HN doesn't work in startups; something like half of it isn't in the US. Without explicit norms-setting that HN seems loathe to do, it's probably not reasonable to expect the kind of enthusiasm you're talking about.
>https://www.who.int/uv/faq/whatisuv/en/index2.html

>The three types of UV radiation are classified according to their wavelength. They differ in their biological activity and the extent to which they can penetrate the skin. The shorter the wavelength, the more harmful the UV radiation. However, shorter wavelength UV radiation is less able to penetrate the skin.

>Short-wavelength UVC is the most damaging type of UV radiation. However, it is completely filtered by the atmosphere and does not reach the earth's surface.

>Medium-wavelength UVB is very biologically active but cannot penetrate beyond the superficial skin layers. It is responsible for delayed tanning and burning; in addition to these short-term effects it enhances skin ageing and significantly promotes the development of skin cancer. Most solar UVB is filtered by the atmosphere.

I think this is a misunderstanding.

It won't penetrate deep into the skin, it will continuously cook the top layers.

https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q9450.html

Frequent exposure WILL cause damage to skin and eyes.

Creating and selling personal protective equipment should be taken very seriously.

Putting UVC light sources on a headband without controlling airflow is simply too risky, no one could safely guarantee that a stray air current and or virus from an unexpected angle would be exposed to enough light for enough time to be safe. Air flow must be controlled.
>And yet, oddly, sometimes mastery confers the inability to teach something, because most of what you now know, you never learned in association to a structured explanation, only in association to your own trained reflexes.

A friend of mine once told me something that stuck with me, truly mastering something isn't the ability to do it well yourself, it's the ability to pass on the knowledge to others. Having taught before I agree. You never realize how little you understand the details of things until you try to teach someone else, and once you become cognizant of the details you forgot while learning enough to teach them to someone else, while retaining your skills and muscle memory, I feel like you can begin to call yourself a master.
> that 500 million you mention is just 0.8%.

It's not about what percentage of their revenue it is, it's about how that money that should go to adding customer value, not making exceedingly rich people richer.

500 million dollars could change the lives of tens of thousands of people that Aetna calls customers... but instead it goes to ONE person.

It doesn't have to be that way.
Even with wordpress you don't necessarily need the database connection. Either a colocated reverse proxy can cache the result, or you can configure cloudfront or some similar 3rd party service which will not hit the origin unless it has to. Or you can even use one of the wordpress plugins which caches the resources/pages as static files.

It requires extra half an hour of work, but... it's probably worth it.
Url changed from https://www.theinformation.com/articles/airbnb-to-halt-all-m..., which was hard-paywalled, and which The Information has unlocked for HN readers. Thanks!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret
Kinda think that they couldn't put a face to it (specifically the CEO) is way worse than it being (possibly) prerecorded
This one is more in-depth: http://www.rozmichelle.com/pipes-forks-dups/
Perhaps so that when WSL2 is available, they'll be able to mount all Windows filesystems easier?
Covid-19: Chinese health authorities confirm patient zero ‘had sex with bats’
Chest Drain (Thoracostomy) Pump as Alternative to Ventilator?
I had a needle thoracostomy for a collapsed lung (pneumothorax) when a teenager. The operation took 5 minutes, was done in my hospital room as I watched and was almost painless (OK the initial anesthetic hurt a bit). They slid a metal needle between the ribs into the pleural cavity. It was attached to a hose and a small pump (looked like an aquarium pump) that provided negative pressure. I spent 3 days in the hospital. Use and removal was painless: they slid the needle out and put a bandaid on it.

Rather than build complex, cumbersome and expensive to run ventilators for Covid-19 patients, why not use the far simpler chest drain to remove fluid from the lungs?
By far the worst part of using Linux, Windows, and Mac is trying to find a compatible filesystem for them. Every time I have a file on my Mac that I need to transfer to Windows or from Windows to Linux, trying to write to a filesystem that is supported by all three platforms is just an exercise in frustration.
"How the Internet Happened" by Brian McCullough covers the early years of the internet through the dotcom bust. He has a podcast consisting of some of the chapters for the book and interviews he did while writing.
Similarly Palo Alto, for years now: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2004/05/17/mountain-lion...
> [...] but a blanket statement like that is nevertheless unconstructive.

Let me be very concise with this next statement: WAKE THE FUCK UP.

The entire world economy is fucked right now because the Chinese lied their little asses off to save face.
NSAPI, the server based Netscape Server Application Programming Interface, is not to be confused with NPAPI, the browser based Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface. (I only say that because I just confused them, then realized my mistake.)

NSAPI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Server_Application_Pr...

NPAPI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI

FWIW, here's some feedback I wrote up and sent to Netscape about the original version of the Netscape plug-in API (NPAPI), when I worked at Kaleida. This was from around 1995, when JavaScript was called LiveScript, before anything like LiveConnect/XPConnect/NPRuntime existed, when Netscape though Java was the solution to all their problems, and before ActiveX of course (but I warned them about Microsoft's use of OLE in the browser), so plug-ins only had very limited if any interaction with LiveScript and DOM.

ScriptX was a multimedia scripting language, a lot like object oriented Lisp or Python with built-in graphics and multimedia libraries. But unfortunately it was not designed to be an extension language library that could plug into another application like Netscape, the way Python does so well. So I made a "ScriptX Plug-Out" that integrated ScriptX running in another process with a Netscape plug-in via Apple Events.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/netscape/Netscape-Plugin...

>I hope NetScape can come up with a plug-in interface that is good enough
that they can implement their own navigator components with it (like the
mail reader, outliner, progressive jpeg viewer, etc). The only way it's
going to go anywhere is if they work closely with developers, and use the
plug-in interface for non-trivial things themselves. Microsoft already has
a VRML plug-in for their navigator, so presumably they have a plug-in
interface, and from what I've seen on their web site, it may not be
"good enough", but it's probably going to do a lot more that you can do
with NetScape right now, since they're exposing a lot of their navigator's
functionality through OLE. They seem to understand that there's a much
bigger picture, and that the problems aren't trivial. Java isn't going
to magically solve all those problems, folks.
Meanwhile, contact tracing, in places like South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore, appears to have made a major difference in the rate of transmission. In those countries, people have to some greater or lesser extent traded privacy for security, and - so far, at least - it appears to be working.

Is that a choice they all individually made? Of course not. There are penalties for noncompliance, same as for laws here in the US, whether you agree with them or not. Did that also, though, save a lot of lives? Ask again in a year, I suppose; it's too soon to tell.

But by the same token, it's too soon to call that a failure, at least if lives saved is a figure of merit.

I think it should be. I'm not averse in concept to the sacrifice of life in defense of principle, but I am very much averse to the sacrifice of some life in defense of others' principle.

You spoke earlier of the horrors of dictatorship, of totalitarianism, and the like? As far as I'm concerned, every one of them starts right here. If you want to die on behalf of whatever principles you hold dear, you're welcome. That's your life to spend. It is the only life that's yours to spend.
Or people that imbibe certain substances through their nasal cavities?
“Chloroquine is a Zinc Ionophore” – Zinc may boost (hydroxy)chloroquine
It's only time until he tests positive.
The only exaggeration in his comment is the shoe, and that hardly changes the substance of his comment. Yelp is very clearly in the wrong here. If you can't see that, your moral compass needs to be re-calibrated.
Yes! That would be great!
An actual chemistry degree will have 3 labs a week, all afternoon. Every week.

Whatever mickey mouse "biochemistry" degree you did, it was bullshit.
Magic happens in the minds of the audience and the method is the least interesting part. Shin Lin sells a video where he explains how to do his most famous act and some of the methods are so crude that I think many people would be surprised they hadn’t figured it out and some of them might feel cheated.

But it’s hands down the most beautiful card magic act I’ve ever seen. The real magic is in how he tells a story wordlessly, syncing it with music like a dance. You aren’t spending time trying to unravel how it happened because you’re so enchanted by the story.

Teller’s best tricks are the same way, and the fact that they often tell you more or less how the trick is done without ruining it confirms how unimportant the method is to the performance.

All of which is to say that I think teller was right to sue and I’m glad he won.

These days, finding out how to do 90% of the most popular magic tricks is a google search away, but it’s still very hard to perform magic well.
The chance that TrainedMonkey did this unintentionally is 0.0000000397%.
Hiding Bad Data:how LA and FL have changed the way report influenza-like illness
I'll keep using the Sync Settings plugin that does the job through a gyst, thanks.
TechCrunch has a lot more details: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/27/bird-lays-off-about-30-of-...

> According to a source, Bird’s balance sheet is strong but it needed to reduce burn in order to extend its runway into 2021.

I would not describe a ~9 month runway as "strong".
Beyond that, some people have been able to restructure their food business around take-out and are doing fine, don't need any kind of bail out and it looks absolutely shitty for them.

I know there's that whole "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission", but seriously, there are limits to it.
I'm sure there are a few!
Sending these people into work, in the middle of a pandemic, without appropriate protective gear, health benefits, or paid time off is criminal and I’m glad they’re organizing to protect themselves. Hopefully other frontline employees in grocery and delivery services will follow suit.
If you can use it then you should. However startups that have investors that own a major share in multiple companies might have a problem because employees at all of those companies can be counted together and cross over the 500 limit.

The "affiliation guide" specifies what counts as a small business and prevents a single organization from creating many smaller companies to get SBA benefits. I'm not sure if it changed for these new benefits.

Here is the guide: https://www.sba.gov/document/support--affiliation-guide-size...
I prefer we not engineer bugs to rot our plastics. The problem is not that plastics are durable. The problem is humans are shortsighted and have not developed systematic thinking and processes to prevent waste.

We need plastics. Durable, rot-resistant, waterproof, light, strong, malleable, easy to cast into different shapes.

But we as a species do not reuse and recycle enough, and even throw plastics into the ocean or into compost bins.

How about we get to the root of the problem, instead of apply bandaid atop of bandaid?

Reduce, reuse, recycle. Repair, repurpose, reclaim (put money into cleaning up our oceans?), rethink (do we need individually wrapped produce?) etc.
New Grad vs. Senior Dev
Average age of dead was 80.5 and mode had 3 underlying medical conditions. Based on the distributions of the dead world-wide it's pretty safe to say that overwhelmingly the young and healthy do not succumb. There will always be a fringe minority, as there are with the flu. For reference, the flu and other common perennial viruses cause 40% of all cases of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. [1]

[1] https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/home/topics/pneumonia/bac...
The new NNW is a total rewrite which started off as a different app.
Could this administration look any more like a bunch of comic book villains?
I meant self classification in that the self misclassified certain proteins as an "other" and starts attacking it.

And yes I agree they are very real and awful my grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis and it was terrible.

My reply was to the link he posted where he talked about auto immune disorders.
Since this .pkg completely subverts how packages are supposed to work, none of the files show up in Pacifist. Everything is in 'Scripts', which is a .cpio.gz.
> Plus the experience of Electron apps is generally superior lately

Uh, I'm going to hard disagree on that. They take longer to open, they're slower to use, they take up more battery, and they don't behave in a consistent way with the rest of the OS.
Sorry to hear about all this. Could you please post your resume online and provide a link to it so we can all view rather than emailing you? Thanks.
Yeah, I hope that the outcome of all of this negative attention is that Zoom publishes those guarantees. What’d be even better, though, is if they enforce them with tech – WhatsApp and FaceTime both offer end to end encrypted group calling.

Hashed contact info is just how Facebook intakes contact information. Makes it harder for them to get the info of non-Facebook users who are patrons of the business. They claim to delete it: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/112061095610075?id=24...
Those at the top refuse to stare the consequences of their actions in the eye. A tale as old as time.

If you take on a leadership position, don't be a coward like this. Even if the layoff is due to things beyond your control.
the interior of the lung must be drained in the case of pneumonia, covid or otherwise. the alveolar sacs filled with fluid are difficult to drain due to the viscosity and surface tension.

this is why oxygen delivery at higher than atmospheric concentration may be required for diffusion across the alveolus

thoracostomy only drains the space between the lung and the pleural membrane.
Those posts can be useful for site owners, but there's no reason they should be at the top of HN's comments