skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food

"Some media outlets, including Daily Mail and RT, promoted a video that showed a young Chinese woman eating a bat and suggested it was shot in Wuhan, but later it was confirmed that the footage was filmed by travel vlogger Wang Mengyun in the island country of Palau in 2016, to showcase local cuisine"
Thanks, I'm extending the editor to be more useful from a number of use cases I've spoken with users about. The variables and handle bars extend the markdown capabilities and looking to add more features. Let me know if your have any in mind and I will add it to our list!
The futures contracts don't always guarantee delivery. "Cash-settled" instruments just pay out cash based on the market rate (with the expectation that the long party can purchase the oil at that price)
Stuck at Home? What to Do with Kids During Covid-19
it seems that neural networks have problem for computing the maximum function, and a human can compute the maximum easily, so it seems that the three heuristic rules don't work in this case.

(1) https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/56676/can-ma...
I wonder if the same book recommendations are happening because people might just be buying products like these for gifts. Something like I liked this book, so you should read it to.
Happy Fable user here.

I think it´s easy to find some feature of a language (such as modules) and claim that every language without it is not viable. You could make the same claim about OCaml not having some of F#s best features, such as operator overloading, inline and computation expressions. But this misses the point. If you´re writing a functional-first web application, then the F# solution and the ReasonML solutions are going to look very similar.

Regarding server run-times and Microsoft lock-in, this is no longer an issue. DotNET Core is open-source and cross-platform. You can also use Fable to compile F# code for Node.
thanks for the comments!
I see when ordering online with whole foods /amazon a note saying that drivers get 100% of the tip.

Something strange by the way, is that tipping is variable. Eg my ~$110 order yesterday automatically tacked on a $7 tip, my ~$50 order of three days had a $5 dollar tip automatically added. Anyone have an idea how they are calculating this?
Yeah, I noticed that it failed on Hetzner when I tried it about a year ago. What I did instead was use boringtun from Cloudflare. Did not open any ticket though. I might want to try again and see if it works.
is this a realistic hypothetical?

Extremely reasonable.

Abused people get into a mindset where the abuser is an authority. The authority knows things you do not, and will be believed by others. And the cost of testing this authority will be..horrendous.

The more confidence that the abuser displays that the rest of the world will be on his side, the more that this message is strengthened. It doesn't matter whether it is true, it matters whether it is believed. "Nobody will believe that you're an abuse victim. They will just hand you back to me."

The real chain holding the victim in place is in the victim's mind. And abusers strengthen that chain early and often. :-(
One can also place orders at Walmart and Target, and pickup the next day; just pull into parking spot, order is brought to the car. Best Buy is also offering "to the car" order delivery during the pandemic.

Amazon delivery times are currently 1 week+ in many locations.
There have been doctors in the US in TV, articles, etc that have been recommending people not to wear masks. Doctors who work/worked for CDC, not just random doctors. Some say it's because masks don't work. Some say don't because Americans don't know how to wear masks properly. There have even been doctors saying masks will make spreading/getting infection easier.

People are probably just following their advice and once the advice switches, they will probably follow that advice too.
In most of the world, the lack of preparation seems to be more for structural and political reasons than due to lack of knowledge.

NYT had a fascinating story on an effort in the US to scale up production of ventilators, that produced nothing in 14 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
Do I understand correctly? You use WireGuard to set up your own VPN servers? Doing this is a lot more expensive than buying a VPN subscription, but it can be more secure if you know what you're doing, right?
>" The room tends to go quiet when you mention that this was enabled by their mass surveillance network. (Check out the live streams of their traffic cams!"

I fail to see how live traffic feeds is evidence of their mass surveillance network. The US also has these. NYC and the DoT even broadcast the feeds it on a cable TV channel:

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/atis.shtml

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/watching-city-...
GitHub issues supports animated webp FYI so I guess README does too.
Can you link to the video you're mentioning?
The reason why I used a two day old report on March 29 is simple, there was no full report yesterday nor today. I'm guessing the Tokyo lockdown means that nobody can get to work, and PCs are too expensive to buy for home use so the people at the Ministry of Health can enjoy a nice weekend with hoarded pasta.

How's corporate Japan as a whole doing with remote work?
I feel like I would enjoy the Internet a lot more if I had a "spam filter" that just hid everything that reads like that. It'd certainly make the experience of browsing e.g. YouTube 10x better, with all the content farms filtered out.
Ask HN: What would you tell yourself three months ago if you could?
How would a "mixed work/personal machine" not imply private use of the work computer?
it can actually work with 4.19 and the unstable repo.
I'm using 4.19.105-v7+ (to solve a macvlan bug in the default .97 and it works.
It's a pain to install the headers on raspbian though
At least they can stay on their health insurance. It’s always mind boggling that in the US you will not just lose your job when you get laid off but also your health insurance. For a lot of people this is life threatening.
Sadly even with the latest Thinkpad X1 Carbon this has been a problem for me.

I now keep a copy of the iwl source so I can build and reinstall every time Ubuntu updates and breaks WiFi again.
They have pushed digital pretty hard. Walmart even has https://www.walmartlabs.com/.

Both have been adapting pretty well to Amazon and offer 2 day shipping options as well.
Why does it sound like so many people here literally eat lead solder.

Practice proper lab safety for chrissakes.

Wash your hands after dealing with chemicals and/or dangerous materials, such as flux or lead. Don't let your small children near it. Don't eat or drink in the lab.

The spread of the hobby through cheap dev kits and stuff has made people ignorant to the fact that, yes, these are potentially dangerous chemicals like any other, with MSDS documentation and proper handling precautions that must be taken.

You don't get lead poisoning unless you're improperly handling the stuff. Give me a break.

Arguing that "lead free solder is better for you" is absolutely terrible. That's like saying "drinking straight bleach is better for you than drinking bleach with arsenic mixed in."

None of these should even be coming into your body in any way, shape, or form and if they are, you're doing something horribly wrong.
Webex did not lose. They just serve a different audience (mostly B2B I would say). Zoom has done a good job at going after the usual B2C customers so they are more popular but webex is a beast and is not going anywhere yet.

Situations like these, zoom is easier and cheaper to start with and hence barrier to entry is low. They also have done a better job at advertising to the consumers.
How'd that company turn out?
Yeah, Scry definitely needs some love -- it doesn't really autocomplete outside of local var names and some basic syntactic structures.
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They might even be under the impression that they are negotiating with / buying from a rightful owner.
Give it enough time, and will anyone even know who the rightful owner is supposed to be? I have a feeling van Gogh's fame will probably outlast the Netherlands, let alone a claim of legal ownership by one museum.
Sitting behind a computer really kills any empathy huh?
Pointer – A free tool for remote agile pointing/planning sessions
> Maybe tablets just don’t have a killer app on the horizon, and that’s fine?

I just want to hear peoples ideas for killer tablet apps.

What do ya'll think would be the killer app? Feel free to get sci-fi with it.

EDIT: thinking about it more, I also want to include peripherals in this question. Maybe it's not so much an issue of apps as functionality.
Ironically, the scale legend in the chart actually uses a font that's very easy to read
It makes sense that PMC types see these workers as disposable infantry in the army of Capitalism, given that they fantasize themselves as its officer class.
I found my old minidisc player recently. It still powered on despite the single ancient alkaline AA battery.

Good memories.
Chloe Middleton did not have coronavirus
Haha. Ok - probably some of his primary school poetry isn't required reading either ;)
As a Hungarian, it would be devastating for our country if EU kicked Hungary out. Also EU understands it that the government doesn't represent the will people, as there was a huge amount of vote manipulation.

The better solution is to just stop sending EU money to Orban (which he used to buy up all the media and gain this power) and send money to the cities and projects directly.
Job losses could total 47M, unemployment 32%, St. Louis Fed president says
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (the whole cantos, all books).

The finale in the last book really touched my heart and let me think about love and how much to value the time you have with each other.

--- no spoilers ---

I never thought to find this in a science fiction space opera - I was shocked.

The idea in the book I am talking about is crazy and I cannot fathom how one would feel if something like this really happened. It is wonderful and sad at the same time.

That said and totally apart from it, the whole thing is a masterpiece. You have to read all books of the canon, even if the first book with the unique stories seems strange - I could not put it down though. Apart from that it also has great storytelling, wonderful language, crazy ideas (a house with rooms on different... no spoiler :) and more.
Optimizing for the beginner isn't necessarily a good thing though. While that is true of Go, the trade-off is for even somewhat complex systems, Go starts to falter compared to Haskell. Local reasoning of Haskell scales nicely with complexity, at the cost of learning it.

There are economics at play here too. If your turnover rate is high (1-2 years even), the company can get the short end of the stick, while the employees get to pay the fixed cost of learning Haskell on company time.

My experience though is FP novices can get to doing new-hire-level tasks in Haskell within a couple weeks of mentorship. I've seen 0-FP-experience interns dive into applicative functor code in _Scala_ and have no trouble so long as we sat down and explained things from first principles (and motivated the value of the abstractions we use.)

I have actually found the opposite to be true for hiring. Every place I've worked has had more Haskell applicants than they knew what to do with. Largely because Haskell can make your company uniquely desirable in a sea of options.

The only time a Haskell company I worked at "had trouble hiring" was when we turned away countless Haskell-experienced developers due to the sole veto of a VPE over and over again. After months of observation, it was clear that he was actually starving the team of Haskell resources so he could build momentum to move away from it (despite the team being fine with the language)
Makes sense. I never really cared that much about the illicitness of it. That just made it more of a hassle really. Though it's never really been that big of a deal here for most of my life so that could be why.

I just like the way it calms me down, helps with stress and sleeping. Sleeping's always been something I've struggled with. I don't think it's for everybody though, kind of like the way coffee or alcohol isn't for everybody. Having higher quality coffee or beer might help someone like it if they're unsure, but if they don't like it, they don't like it and the best coffee or booze in the world won't change their mind.

Though, lower quality can give poor first impressions, or second impressions after a long period of not doing something. That was just my thought.
Don't forget to add in the additional flight hours on equipment as an additional cost vs sitting.
The old maxim about the low tide exposing who isn't wearing any trunks is just as true this time, but way more so.

In a situation where this quarantine could last months longer, what good is some manager whose value proposition was that they schmoozed around the office all day? See ya.
Apparently they can be used as collateral between criminals for loans. They can also be used as an insurance policy if the criminal is ever caught. Offer to exchange the art for a lesser sentence. A literal get out of jail free card.
Fair enough, I'll buy that and agree that this would have been a better headline.

To be fair though, and getting to the point I was teasing: it's very odd to find us having this argument about "implications" about groups in media coverage in defense a a community that is itself rife with equivalently unrepresentative coverage of immigrants, progressives, feminists, etc... All of these groups are constantly made to answer for the crimes of their most extreme members in the right wing press. It just seems a little... off that all of a sudden HN seems to care so much about this kind of journalistic integrity.
Ask for a raise, now
Same in Germany, and it's not specific to IT equipment.

You also cannot monitor employees using cameras.
Ok, but remember these are the folks who were delivering the $100+/gallon of fuel to FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
China locked down Wuhan much earlier than Italy did. And they did it harder. Totalitarian states have an advantage in situations like that.

The numbers are probably not accurate, but there is no place where the numbers are accurate. Case fatality rates go from less than 1% to more than 10%. In France, on the official website where they give the numbers, it is clearly written "we don't test everyone, the actual number of cases is higher", and deaths are "of COVID-19 patients dying in hospitals". All numbers are made up, because there is no way to know the actual numbers.

And don't tell me that anything after January was China's fault. It is not like governments around the world didn't know what happened there. Maybe the general public wasn't well informed but it is trivial for a government to be aware of an event of such scale. No, China may be to blame for the initial cases, but for the pandemic phase, it is completely our fault.
This is the Chinese Government seeking to silence Taiwan's information dissemination, to outside of China and outside of Taiwan.

This time, it's using political power over WHO and the UN.

This causes the rest of the world suffering, by reducing the world's knowledge about the procession of the current pandemic gripping the world.

To me, this seems like a prelude to war by China on Taiwan.
It's because of the 3 Fates.

j/k

More seriously, this is an interesting coincidence.
Maybe they could care less? Yes, it's a losing fight.

Of course, it's probably more literally true that they could care less, after all, they care enough to post about it on the internet. They probably don't do that for... um... articles about the 1984 Honda Accord after all?

Oh English.
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This was a big story a couple of days ago, even here on HN. Used to spread fud about sars-cov-2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22684242
I prefer the approach described here: http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/09/how-to-make-your-haskel...
I'm an AI researcher, and here's how I fight Corona
That's probably metal fume fever?[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever
In addition to the healthcare workers, we're going to look back a few years from now and recognize all the delivery drivers, package handlers, and grocery store cashiers as the "First Responders" of this crisis.
>I see when ordering online with whole foods /amazon a note saying that drivers get 100% of the tip.

If I remember correctly, the prior controversy was that DoorDash (or whomever) would give them the tip 100% but then take an equal or weighted portion from the company's contribution.
China's reporting in no way made it seem less urgent. The reported fatality rate hasn't significantly changed from their reports.
A VPN is one use of a Wireguard tunnel. Wireguard establishes a stateless encrypted connection between two peers, and exposes it to the user as a network interface. Endpoints can roam as with mosh
Use emacs + evil; y and p share the same clipboard as the system.
Sorry, I have to.

"I could care less" can mean "I could (stand to) care less".

As in, "The amount I could care about this is zero because it's so irrelevant, but in responding to this discussion or otherwise engaging the topic, I have exhibited a bit of care, albeit undue."

For fun, I sometimes like to propose this to anyone who brings it up, but I could care less whether people say "could" or "couldn't". :)

Edit: Hah! neltnerb gets me :)
The table "News articles on COVID-19 Treatments" shows a duplicate "FDA authorizes chloroquine for use in treating coronavirus"
It may not be presented to prospective buyers under truthful conditions.
By "opposing this" you mean some committee has blogged about it?
I'm glad there's starting to be some press about different groups for whom the shutdown has outsized negative impacts.

Another such "forgotten" group is Alcoholics Anonymous. Their meetings are mostly canceled, and for a lot of those folks those meetings are what keeps them on the wagon.
We use Jitsi Meet among friends, works well so far and you don't have to tie it into any account.
I've been driven to the store and told to pick out my own computer and accessories and nobody ever had it in their hands for any length of time other than the employee who carried it to me. This has happened in two of my seven or so jobs. As a counterpoint, however, at another position the boss was indeed spying on us, which wasn't surprising if you worked there for any appreciable time since he was a complete control freak.
Not everyone agrees with this assessment.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
Fast CI with pytest-split and GitHub Actions
Is that really an unsolved problem in airline business? It can't be that hard to build small containers that fit on the seat and can be fastened with the seat belt system.

Obviously, you won't want to do this for general cargo transport, but for "hey, we have a grounded plane, but transporting air mail gives great rates right now" situations?
I think the author is Lauren Alexander (found in a box in the upper right of the desktop site). But that is confusing because there is a picture of man with the subtitle "Thought Leader Insight" directly above the article, sort of implying whoever is pictured there is the author.
I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it is anonymity, setting it up yourself is probably not going to be a good idea.

If you can't trust a VPN provider for some reason or are trying to secure a route to a specific network, setting it up yourself starts to make sense.
This is necessary. Is there was a way to show support for this cause as an Amazon customer? Ditching Amazon as a single individual doesn’t send a message.
Show HN: Reachable -Stop Workplace Insults, Abuse, Flirting etc Get Early Access
It's pretty common just to include it as a disclaimer in GPO:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

Like this:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NUipb.png
I mean, I have a Renoir print up in my house. If I had $100 billion I’d probably have the original up. There is a demand for art as a consumption good.
Go is more like a faster python or lighter java, rust is more like C/C++, they aren't comparable
"Oh stewardess... I speak Jive"
https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?t=58
Which (developed Western) society tolerates the problem?

The core crux of the problem is literally that the society can't really do anything - the victim has to leave, out of their own volition, and that rarely happens (people who leave quickly aren't the problem, they don't get stuck in abusive situations in the first place).

I mean maybe this was a problem 30 years ago, but I've been bombarded with images, ads, information about abuse and victim shelters etc. my whole life, so it seems to me that society is pretty much doing the most it can.

Edit: seems to have hit a sore spot... look, I'm just annoyed everytime someone says "society tolerates slavery/trafficking/homelessness/poverty/rape/cancer/child abuse/organised crime/violence/..." - just because we haven't come up with a perfect solution to the problem (usually because the problem isn't as simple as some people imagine) doesn't mean that the society tolerates the problem...
Not sure why my post was flagged.

Just to be clear, Martin (site owner) added GUN to the list, not me. Proof:

https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1244672269395406849
Here's a crazy idea. Look at the worker's output. "Keeping tabs" on your workers doesn't tell you anything about the bottom line. The worker's output does.

Can't determine the worker's output? Then you have much bigger problems than remote workers taking a nap in the afternoon.
SpaceX Starlink Tracking Visualization
70+ years of of "aid" have destroyed Africa. Good thing not to participate in that scam.
What WHO does is intergovernmental public health coordination. It is inherently a political function. The decentralized version is just local public health authorities acting without the WHO.
Ask HN: Helping companies re-tool to make ventilators. What do I need to know?
I'm trying to help a number of manufacturing companies build ventilators -- and thus save lives.

Their main line of business isn't in medical equipment. What resources are out there to help companies re-tool?

I'm aware of MIT's Emergency ventilator design toolbox:

https://e-vent.mit.edu/

...but what else is out there? Any insights or existing efforts I should be aware of? Basically I envision a significant amount of re-tooling needed, to be potentially funded by pre-orders.

Making this process easier for companies will greatly increase the chance of workable ventilator production, shipment and actual use -- and thus fewer grieving families.

Any thoughts? Thank you!

Harry
He wasn’t born painting sunflowers. If you look at http://art-vangogh.com/1885.html, there a lot of dark portraits (also, if I’m counting correctly, 140 paintings in a single year)
The way it has worked in the past is that drivers get 100% of the tip, but the tip amount is subtracted from their base pay.

Company tells the worker a delivery pays $15, you tip $5, the company reduces their portion to $10, the worker gets $15 total. You tip $10? The company pays $5, worker still walks away with $15.
They hardly sit. They just fly around for practice if there's nothing else to do. There would undoubtedly be more hours in the air if airlifting equipment from hither to yon, but I doubt there would be more takeoff and land cycles.
Being able to keep the health insurance is a life saver. And yes, we really need to rethink this whole, "employer bound health insurance"-thing.

Maybe it made sense in the world of easy access to middle class jobs that was the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, etc. But today things are significantly different and we haven't adapted to reflect that reality.
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