skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the NYT gives it for free, that means you should read the NYT, not steal from people who don't give it for free.

Putting prices on human lives is a good idea. We do it for food, we do it for car safety, we do it for relative risk analysis. Putting a price on groceries means the government can subsidize food fairly, rather than having individuals break the locks on the grocery stores and say "food should be free".
Fruit and veg 'will run out' unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe. UK urgently needs 90,000 labourers to pick crops that will otherwise die in the fields, warns charity.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/28/fruit-an...
34% actually strikes me as pretty good for a new and not-particularly-well-advertised service.
the argument you are making, from the perspective of microeconomic theory, in short: no.

for a monopolist to offer high quality products and service is exactly part of the monopolist's playbook, not any sort of consumer benefit. The overly generous profits they earn allow them to use comparatively smaller quality enhancements as a barrier to entry for competition. The point is that "high quality service that you pay too much for" reduces the overall level of consumption. So, while the smaller market is happy with the service they receive, a larger market is receiving less service than they want because the price is artificially too high.

Monopolists absolutely do restrict supply, and economists all agree that monopolists are bad for markets.

The part where you suggest "particular situations" is essentially reflective of the other monopolist tactic of "bundling", product mixes designed to price discriminate separate market segments, again, always to the monopolists benefit.

The theory of monopoly is quite robust, and your arguments in favor of the benefits of monopoly do not hold any water whatsoever.
>I'm hoping to persuade you!

you can't because i fundamentally disagree with you and i have zero incentive to abide
I quite like their on-air banter, and have only found it on a couple of their shows such as "Yes Yes No", or "Super Tech Support". Their other shows seems to be quite professional.
> This is why, for D, I was determined to use DFA to catch 100% of the positives with 0% negatives. I knew this could be done because my compilers were using DFA in the optimization pass.

Is this really true? I thought this was impossible due to Rice's theorem
The coronavirus could devastate poor countries
Protecting log records at 30k feet with syslog-ng
I've had that and a major issue is that the $10/month covers both phone and internet, not just internet. The combined plan I had was supposed to include 500MB per month internet but I'm fairly sure hot-spot was not enabled and direct tethering was certainly not enabled. Also the phones are extremely locked down and don't even allow USB audio devices. The $10/month can be used towards a more expensive plan which is what the providers would really prefer that you do. There are obviously corrupt limitations like a six month (at least, maybe longer?) waiting period between services if you want to change data plans (this does not apply to phone service). There are $10/month DSL plans available in my area but it is extremely slow, maybe 2mbps I think. The phones have some security issues; a six digit numerical PIN is all that protects full call records and the ability to change devices for the Virgin plan I was on.

Lifeline is better than nothing when needed but there are reasons it is still mostly used for phone access. It seems like a fairly corrupt program.
One of my favorite variants is suicide chess. The goal is to be the first to lose all your pieces. All rules are the same with one addition: if you can take a piece, you must.
> There's enough radiation released as a result of the activity of operating nuclear plants

"An operating nuclear power plant produces very small amounts of radioactive gases and liquids, as well as small amounts of direct radiation. If you lived within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, you would receive an average radiation dose of about 0.01 millirem per year. To put this in perspective, the average person in the United States receives an exposure of 300 millirem per year from natural background sources of radiation."

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/related-info/faq.htm...
That’s the primary reason why our design team chose Sketch over Figma. Lock in with Figma is worse than with Adobe - there’s no way to export other than flattened SVGs or bitmaps and almost nothing else understands their proprietary file format.

Plus, if you stop paying the subscription you potentially lose access to your files. Yes, there’s a generous free tier, but that’s essentially VC funded at the moment. There’s no guarantee that will last forever, especially if they need to actually make some money.

At least with Sketch the file format is well understood and you can keep using whatever version you end up with when your licence expires.
Now who doesn't have an implementation of Boids of their own... :)

https://anoopelias.github.io/boids/
Yeah that rule is extremely stupid. Please do what you can to make the mods and admins realize that this rule should be removed. Politics is fascinating. HN is absolutely a good forum for it and it already is basically unenforced.
Governments are going to offer deferred interest loans in this environment. Not sure how much but it only makes sense to prop up Main Street.
>This really shouldn't require such exotic internet. Unless you are downloading large files, it's hard to use more than a few megabits per person on average.

You're assuming averages, but just looking at Youtube buffering, it downloads videos in bursts, despite being a "streaming" service. Combine bursty behavior with latency sensitive applications like video conferencing or gaming, and having that headroom is nice.

That said 1000/1000 may not be absolutely needed, but 100/100 or even 100/10 does not seem like it should be that big of an ask.
Covid-19 Interactive Dashboard
From your link on MSB "for an amount greater than $1,000 per person, per day, in one or more transactions." - so, no.
If everything stopped, that would be an issue, but in reality there is still a ton of economic activity happening. As far a big businesses go, there are a handful of industries that are being impacted by this pandemic and if they were slowly drawing down on cash reserves over the next 6 months or so that probably isn't terribly harmful.

Also, this is why Central Banks exist.
The workbooks are more than manuals. You can get a manual from the Help menu. The workbooks are textbooks that show you how to do specific full projects.
Why have eastern europeans do the work instead of the normal workers? It's not like eastern europeans have any special resistance to corona, nor are their lives worth less.
so you have a very well tested boot sequence -

is this not a slightly better kernel equivalent of 'it builds, ship it' ?
They can and recently did.
Obviously it should be called C+=2.
For a visual output, voila can give you a dashboard look: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila/ see e.g. https://github.com/maartenbreddels/voila-demo for a mobile-ready responsive rendering of a notebook.
Annus Horribilis
Well, yes it currently adds or i should say AI "selects" suffixes but if you think about it, it's not an easy problem to solve. For example, if you want to add just 3 letters the possibilities are 26^3 or 17K, with 4 its > 450K. How do you select just a few hundred pronounceable relevant words? That's where AI comes in. I plan to display non-suffixed results as well in future. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm guessing that by "giving up", GP meants having a false negative
With a larger sensor, you don't have to compress the image as much, so you can record more detail per unit of area.

If you take two pictures of the same scene, one with a small sensor, and the other with a larger sensor, the geometric difference is apparent.

Scale a 5 meter tree down to the size of a phone's sensor, and you're having to tightly pack the detail of the tree, to something smaller than your fingernail.

But shrink that same tree onto a bigger sensor, or a sheet of 4x5 film, and you don't compress the tree as much.

We don't notice the shortcomings of phone sensors until we try to print the photos. They don't enlarge very well. Printing an 8x10 from a cellphone is challenging, and the grain and imperfections are magnified.

But you can enlarge that piece of film to 8x10 no problem, and the detail is astounding.

If you only look at phone pictures on a phone, then they look very nice, and a piece of 4x5 film is bigger than some phone screens. There are more silver crystals (pixels) in the film than there are pixels in your phone screen, so you can't appreciate the total detail of film on a small phone either.

The thing to consider is choosing the sensor or the film size based on how you want to display the image. Then you pick the best camera for the situation, considering cost, convenience, usability, etc.

I have worked a lot of different analog film cameras and digital ones, and I've noticed that most cameras can take great pictures. You end up paying more for usability and quality. Pro bodies have dedicated buttons and whatnot, so you can accomplish what you need, very quickly.

A touch-screen camera with pure software controls is never going to be for pros, but, cell phones have their moments of better performance for getting the job done.

A cellphone camera is like a piano that plays chords but not individual notes as far as usability. A manual camera lets you do what you want and make up new chords.

Hope that clarifies the image sensor aspect. Aperture helps, but it can never make up for the constraints of the sensor.
It's not a framework. It's just a toolbox and set of libraries. There is no inversion of control which is the core point of frameworks.
Ask HN: What's the correlation btw smoking and the risk of dying from covid19?
I don't think he dislikes the topic, but rather the way it is framed as senior vs. junior instead of subject matter expert vs. non-expert. The skipto example from your post is not exemplary of the difference between a senior dev and a new grad, it seems very domain-specific.
If you go for the volume licensing deal, that is an annual subscription, and it works out at about £13 per year per licence.

One company I worked for had one laptop with Creative Cloud shared between an entire department because they couldn’t justify getting everyone CC just for occasional use.

When I pointed out what good value Affinity was, they promptly rolled it out for the entire organisation.
I can't even tell if that heap of twattery is self-aware enough to be parody.
Arrow functions don’t have ‘this’ bound in them, which makes them safer.

Of course some libraries like cheerio require a callback with an available ‘this’ bound into it.
You are an awesome person.
Starting and Sustaining by Garrett Dimon
https://startingandsustaining.com/

This was invaluable to me when getting started with my SaaS.
The price of long distance has more to do with the changes in technology since then than the regulatory environment. Competitive long distance could have happened without lifting the overall regulatory framework that governed telecommunications for 60+ years. Sometime between 1975 and 2005, long haul bandwidth became effectively free - consider that in 1975 the widest bandwidth deployed carrier system was about 108,000 simultaneous calls, a fiber system deployed in 1999, is now carrying 320gb/s which if I did my math right works out to 500m simultaneous calls.

To give you an idea, a residential phone bill from 1982 with unlimited local calling in Seattle was around 13.50 inclusive, in 2019, that same service cost 50 dollars - inflation alone would expect the cost of that service to only be 36 dollars or so - and technological advantages should make that service cheaper, not more expensive.

AT&T was a different company, at one point before divestiture they were the single largest private employer (1973) in the US, providing union jobs with good benefits and stable (effectively) lifetime employment. Beyond this, they were also a leader in providing equal opportunity for minorities.

The money generated by AT&T was paid back in technology dividends - dividends that underpin much of the technological innovation we've seen over the last 60 years.

AT&T's disaster preparedness is a whole other topic that could be gone into as well.
Another sign that they are not taking this seriously enough yet is how they conduct the White House briefings and things like bill signings. You see the President, aids and advisors, and other participants all standing right next to whoever is speaking at the moment. No social distancing at all.

Contrast this to the briefings I've seen from state governors. All the ones I've seen have had either no one near the governor, or just a sign language interpreter standing several feet away.
I'm also curious + exposure to heavy pollution
There isn't much in terms of modelling built into the tool itself because that kind of functionality is secondary (the tool is primarily focused on quick and efficient gathering of metrics). You can do some basic forecasting at query time (holt-winters and linear regression), but beyond that you're using one of the remote storage adapter plugins to send the metrics to a remote time series database and the apply your ML on that (like OPs service does)

https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/functi...
This is maybe a meta-suggestion, more focused on chunking down problems and the process of working and shipping, but Amy Hoy’s Just Fucking Ship is full of useful advice on how to actually get things out the door. (I’ve taken their 30x500 class too, which is also excellent)

https://stackingthebricks.com/just-fucking-ship/
The simple answer is it probably can, but the actual facts are more nuanced than a simple confirmation.

All bio-safety labs or hospitals or water treatment plants or special HVAC systems have UV-C lamps to sanitize pathogens because UV-C radiation destroying nucleic acids (DNAs / RNAs).[1] However, the effectiveness really depends on the amount exposure/energy level, light of sight(because UV-C doesn't penetrate deep into objects), and even dust in the air or the on the UV-C light lamps(which reduced the energy they emit) as well as how DNA/RNA can be evolved or self-repaired.

Anecdotally, Chinese hospitals are using UV-C lamp to sanitize their medical equipments, masks (when it was in short supply months ago) among other things.

And yes, more exhaustive experiments should be conducted to affirm this practice as it's the most non-toxic and energy efficient way to sanitize surfaces.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradia...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/how-china-is-using-robots-an...
Registered Respiratory Therapist first-time post here

Siemens Servo 900 Ventilator C/D/E consists of
two separate units Electronic/Pneumatic driven.

Best for intensive care situations, but works in transport and anesthesia,
Neonatal, pediatric, adult.

Interface panel settings with rotary dials. No GUI.
When I was talking with Seimens sales rep, he said the original design was intended for anesthesia to make fine grain settings.

The design is excellent. I've used both C/E myself, 16 units per shift for three straight weeks 2006.

I've seen DIY vents floating around,
if people are willing to go out on a pandemic limb, use something already proven.

servo 900c post test
panel display [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d2uciOwlwY

The c/d/e series have similar parts in a pandemic situation interchanged.

The inner components are easy to access lift the top cover exposes all the working parts that allow quick repair and cleaning.

Units can be found in the US, UK, and EU on eBay and refurbished medical suppliers.
https://www.bemesonline.com/siemens-900c-ventilator/
Siemens 900C Ventilator refurbish

https://www.ebay.com/c/24004926166
900E $499.99 / 900c $450.00

https://www.ebay.com/c/1410306550
900c "spare parts only" $195.00

blog post:
https://siemensventilator.blogspot.com/2010/06/siemens-servo...
volume control with sight, pressure controlled, SIMV+ pressure support, CPAP

Might contain more links than usually allowed; I'm trying to point out there are many to be found we do not have to reinvent one. There might only be a few hundred, but they can be ready now.
The TARP is still projected to net a $121bn profit for the taxpayer. Only a portion of loans have been returned to the government currently.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/
Not only skin, but also eyes. You can look at Far-UVC light and it won't hurt your eyes either. Whereas regular UVC light can burn your eyes and cause temporary or permanent blindness.
Just FYI that if you’re in Northern California I believe that Mission Trail or whoever has a centralized compost where you can pick up what you need. In normal times, at least. I’d imagine that service is currently shut down, but worth checking.
We also get to see the trucks carrying the food. Go on any French autoroute and 2 out of 3 of the trucks will be from Spain.
Lieferando’s checkout with Apple Pay is really great
What? How could a cat pass anything on to a rat?

You think rats go looking for cats to snuggle up with? Prey animals generally try to avoid their predictors.
You don’t need to be better to criticize.
Yep, they wanted brexit, now live with it.
Fortunately, I am unaware that it was impossible and did it anyway :-)

But it is possible I made a mistake.

It is also true that for it to work, one has to change the way one writes code, like Rust does. This is why D requires and @live attribute be added to functions to enable the checking for just those functions, so it doesn't break every program out there. It will enable incremental use of the checking at the user's option.
So, we should have PG&E run it? Or maybe the city of Flint, Michigan?

God no.

That’s what happens when you make the decision to be a utility. You give up all choice.

The solution is more choice in the internet market, not less.
The weight of Chrome as a browser and the more general concept of using the web as a desktop app platform are two different things. I think that when most people complain about "electron apps", what they're complaining about is the latter. If you're complaining about the former, I think that's more fair. Although, I do question whether a third-party browser even has access to the APIs that make Safari's efficiency what it is.

What I'd like to see, personally, is for the three major desktop OSes to agree on a "desktop WebView" standard. Then they can use whatever browser internals they want when it comes to launching those web apps. They could even let you pick your own, the same way you can pick your default browser now. This would not only allow people to use desktop safari for their "electron apps" if they want to, it would avoid one of today's major problems which is shipping a whole copy of the browser with each app. Web-based desktop apps would be no larger than native ones, and depending on how the OS handles them they could be roughly as performant.
How do you think hiding the possibility of doing calls in the browser fit into that picture? Surely doesn't make things easier for the people that don't want to / aren't allowed to install things.
This would be awesome if we could upload books!
This is the philosophy that has led to our software becoming slower despite improvements in hardware.

Performance is always important. Especially for consumer applications, where your software will probably need to run alongside many other processes each competing for resources.
Have you seen the reforestation that has happened in the 100 years since wood heating became less common?
Every bit counts and even on a small balcony it’s possible to at least grow fresh herbs and a few other things in pots and containers. There’s also the indoor microgreen approach. There have been some cool prototypes that look about the size of a mini fridge and can grow a decent amount of fresh salad greens.
True, but Gaussian or not, convolutional filtering should be performed in linear light space!
I was making the argument that the price for a local loop was price competitive with nationalized telecoms, but with little to no wait to have service provisioned - in many cases though the nationalized services were cheaper, by far even - but you may be pressed with a months or years long wait to establish service, because of capacity limitations, similarly in some countries you often would have experienced a dial tone delay of minutes from the time you picked up the phone, and/or would have had to schedule your long distance call many hours or days in advance because of limited circuit capacity.
I feel like the show would be boring without their casual laughter. It gives the show personality and keeps it from being stale. To each his own.
You should get Google Analytics installed, and AdSense ads... at the least.
That's import+export for you. It's not all local produce.
I hope we get there. Things have gotten closer. The ideal is being able to harvest something like a strawberry without ruining it and it turns out to be rather difficult. With enough attention and investment, this is certainly a solvable problem. Let’s hope our attention spans get a little longer and we can stay focused on the need to innovate on food security when this is all over.
Would you mind linking to the light you bought? Or a comparable one l.
Alternative title: "We layered compression on top of the Prometheus remote storage adapter"
A co-worker some years ago described being a missionary in the Philippines. The locals were perplexed at his use of a handkerchief.

Their perspective was "why would you want to SAVE it?" Their method being to lean over, hold one nostril and BLOW.
Crayfish in NZ is the size of lobster in the US.
Really cool website! Makes it much easier to visualize the difference between different types of orbits.

One suggestion would be to either disable panning or give a snap to center button. I found it too easy to pan by accident when zooming out and then the rotation could flip the earth out of view
“... encouraging all patients, especially those facing the prospect of intensive care, to document in an advance care directive what future quality of life they would regard as acceptable and when they would refuse ventilators or other life-sustaining interventions can be appropriate.“

Please take the time now to discuss end of life decisions with your loved ones. It may help to look at https://theconversationproject.org/
The outrage around stock buybacks is silly. It’s pretty much the same outcome as paying a dividend, just achieved in a slightly different way. The real problem is the current incentive structure. If your industry knows it will be bailed out, then the incentive is to not have enough cash on hand. Because anybody who saved for a rainy day will end up in a worse position than those who didn’t, and then just got a bailout. I’d say the solution is to either be more willing to let companies fail, or to structure bailouts in a way that represents a massive failure for shareholders, by significantly diluting their equity for instance.
No I meant what I said. Virtually no tool is sound (zero false negatives, lots of false positives) because in practice false positives just make people stop using tools when they are too common.
This sounds like the phenomenon dubbed Chesterton's Fence [0].

A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

So you helped the new dev understand the current lay of the land. They listened, then suggested an improvement based on their new understanding. You agreed and together improved the code.

[0] https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
It's a classic :)

I made a little framework for building these types of models:
https://github.com/jrhdoty/SwarmJS

Here's a boids implementation using it:
http://jrhdoty.github.io/SwarmJS/