skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: I live off passive income from software projects and now run a VC-backed SaaS)

Repeating what others have said, starting a SaaS company broadly speaking does the opposite of what you hope. It gives you a job that you think about 24hrs a day, while maybe only actively working 6hrs a day, but realistically much more. That said I LOVE my job and super grateful I get to work on it everyday!

There are much better ways as a software engineer to take a lower risk approach to getting to financial freedom.

(These suggestions are not inclusive of coronavirus)

1. Save cash. Change jobs and increase your baseline income. If possible get to a FAANG and then also freelance on the side. It's very possible in the Bay Area after 5 years to save enough to retire without necessarily subscribing to the FIRE goals.

2. Work for enterprise companies or build them a micro-saas. There are plenty of high-value services that companies will pay $XXk monthly for. If your goal is to make money and maybe not love your job, this is a great place to be. Orchestrate Segment and a data warehouse, build out a robust Salesforce pipeline, take a spreadsheet and implement in Retool or Rails. Each of these examples can easily cost $300k for the right type of company.
A micro-saas example is Sidekiq ([https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...). I would have probably 4x the enterprise rate to get to $4M/yr.

3. Explain something difficult, really well. Related to selling services to enterprise, you can also consult with companies by owning a very specific niche that is very high value. Explain security compliance (like SOC 2), orchestrate edge servers and CDNs, up-level sales teams with technical knowledge or off-the-shelf tools. A single dev can shepard folks through a process that costs $XM of dollars or enable a teams that also costs $XM of dollars.

4. Rebuild existing tools, much better. This is my personal expertise, but I believe all existing tools could use major improvements. You can make tools better in UX, better documentation and tutorials, faster code, easier onboarding, etc. The major benefit is that you know there are existing customers paying money and you can then develop much better tools along the way. In this model I believe free or enterprise is way to go as a single dev. With free tools, you need strong traffic to monetize with ads or sponsorship. At the enterprise you sell featured postings or (3) services / consultation.
The majority of code will never be hit in QEMU or any testing in general, because 56%+ lines are in drivers. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/223763/29119

With 16%+ lines in all 24 architectures combined, you're not going to reach more than one of them at a time.

10% is going to be an extremely happy case. If we can test 5-10% that's a great achievement. To get past that you need to start booting real hardware with specific configurations.
> The pros think that demand is going down due to economic activity

Does that make any sense? Do people eat fewer grains when economic activity goes down?
The numbers would surely come out in a study later in the year, if not next year, as they do for other kinds of cover up here[1][2] or simply because it's hard to find out as it's happening in such a short time over such a large area during a pandemic. Personally, I'm basing it on:

- The propensity for cover ups to happen (even on a small scale, it's part of the culture of maintaing wa)

- The strange lack of testing while the Olympics was still a possibility

- The ease with which deaths could be covered up given the system here and things like the already mentioned kodokushi deaths

- The many anecdotes of people being turned away for tests[3]

- The knowledge that Japan and the Japanese are not special, so their position as an outlier must have some reason beyond "they wear masks" (how did wearing masks help in China?) while there are barely any measures to prevent transmission in place

- I like Ockham's Razor

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/06/kodokushi-in-agi...

[2] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/31/national/crime-...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusJapan/
There are always corner cases like (1) a Japan-based non-PR/citizen professional who's on a work trip to the US who needs a couple days to get back to Japan, or (2) someone's partner who again is based in Japan but is currently in the US traveling temporarily for work/family/leisure. Typically spouses of citizens/PRs can tag along through travel restrictions but a romantic/domestic partner will not have this avenue available (also spouses traveling alone without their PR/Citizen partner)
It's super easy to download and get started on Linux/Mac:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1

I even managed to get it to run on an Android tablet via Termux by downloading the ARM64 binaries.
> pointing out that this will make it harder for them to eat and pay rent during the isolation period.

Which makes very little sense. Royalties on books already pay out very little, and at very inconvenient timespans. It is probably not going to make any impact for most authors.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has now treated 699 patients, 100% success HCQ, Zinc Z-Pak
>they should have done it yesterday.

The visa waiver program was canceled a week ago, so in pratice there is a ban already. This doesnt change much.
Their search engine is quite good. The IA is always asking for volunteers. Maybe you've got some time off?
So in other words, after one famine where a large fraction of the population dies, the market will be better afterwards?

Especially with anti-price-gouging laws - this process is explicit forbidden from happening during a crisis.
The map looks really good and detailed will be using this for stats from now on.
Imagine getting mad at archive for nearly doing the exact same thing that Google books does more or less. It's Google library but more liberal in it's approach, which was initially what Google wanted it's ebook part to be, an accessible elibrary, until authors who did not pay attention to the evolution of music distribution successfully pulled a partial injunction against them. Laughing in hexadecimal, until neural nets become the new authors in 25 years.
> Even an improperly worn mask is better than no mask.

You can supply the study for that too. From what I've read, and I've been reading as many as I can, it's not true.

> verroq 4 minutes ago | parent | on: Japan set to ban entry from the U.S. as early as n...

Even an improperly worn mask is better than no mask.

It's not about achieving 100% perfect protection, it's about some protection.

> Even if somebody pulled down their mask to sneeze, if everyone else had masks on then it won't be as big of a deal.

This is also not true. You have to prevent transmission all day not just in one event or it's meaningless.
Since I remember these debates as they unfolded: an existing code block for various alphabets was typically used for, as I said, round trip compatibility and what was seen at the time as reduced complexity for migrating old code.

“Han unification” was caught bitterly and the lack of alphabetic unification was cited by opponents that the motivation was racist. I have a strong opinion as to how Han unification should or should not have been conducted, if at all, however I recognize the strength of the counter argument as well so to avoid flame wars I don’t express my opinion.

Given that this comment is a deep reply to a reply and probably will never be seen this shows how hot tempers flared at the time, and perhaps still do.
I guess the idea is to put everyone in one queue, rather than having separate queues per day/slot.

And now you've just excluded all the doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and their families from using the service.
I was at UCSB at the time and I remember incensed undergrads camping out in the public spaces for weeks.
Ignoring the slightly wacky right wing politics, the medical results seem interesting.
It took a very long time to get started. Check the history using the news headlines as your timeline. The Federal government rejected non-US tests/guidelines, while the CDC worked on a test. The test didn't work. The U.S. State of Washington had a solution, but the Federal government rejected it. Meanwhile some countries were conducting tests like crazy and were able to do some initial containment. In The U.S. we continued to go to the beach (Trump country), we went to farmer's markets (DNC country), and neither U.S. political culture made any effort to involve the authority figures to force citizens to stay apart.

Because Freedom.

Nice job, U.S.

I write this holed up in the U.S. city with the most infections and deaths at the moment.
Who is "his dad" here?
Yup. I’m starting to pull them from standardebooks first, because they’ve already done all the chapter separation work and made corrections.

The raw project gutenberg filed and either plain text or rudimentary HTML and are super tough to parse. I tried automating the parser for one book and it wound up being quite a manual job.

The point of Papiary is greatly improve on the Gutenberg experience with better design, fonts, responsive layouts, customisation, accessibility, etc. And to help write and sell their own books.
But why would there be? It’s a niche application and the target market doesn’t care about open source.
Such a system would require all devices to be secure against key extraction. Otherwise the attacker need only choose the most vulnerable device, extract a signing key from it and sign their deepfakes with it.

It would also allow any device manufacturer to sign anything they like, as well as anyone who can coerce a device manufacturer to do so.
This is Governor Moonbeam here. Remember what he was selling in the seventies? He could have run with it.
Less efficient face masks (e.g., surgical or medical) also decrease exposure to aerosols of droplet nuclei to a lesser (8–12 fold) degree than N95 masks (36), and they provide protection against larger droplets. We did not determine the type of mask worn by the passengers; presumably, individually acquired masks represented a mixture of N95 and other less efficient masks. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23968983/)

Can't really tell if those people "improperly" wore the masks but most people prior to COVID-19 wore standard surgical style masks.

As I stated in my previous post, doing things to limit transmission is not a binary act. Just because you can't limit transmission all day does not mean that you should not try at all. Just because we can't completely eliminate Covid-19 doesn't mean that we shouldn't flatten the curve.
not for any country where tourism is a significant source of revenue.
And far different densities, demographics, levels of travel, airport accessibility, etc.

As lamentable the initial response has been at the federal level, I have take some solace in seeing more local leadership successfully emerge.
>the electorate doesn't seem to prioritise that sort of thinking.

>the public prefers charisma.

Democracy is not really tuned to long term thinking. It's tuned to "the next election cycle", and in places like California elections are happening all the time.
> It's not about achieving 100% perfect protection, it's about some protection.

But it might not even be 10% or 1% protection, especially outdoors outside of a sterile hospital environment. Is it worth wearing them for a some small amount of protection, or is the false sense of security they provide more dangerous than their benefit?

Surgical masks are pretty leaky compared to N95 masks we wore during crazy bad air days in Beijing, but the latter are so uncomfortable that they cause people to touch their face more, doing more harm than good in this context. That’s why all the videos we see in Asia just have crowds wearing flimsy surgical masks, I mean, they are super easy to wear, so why not, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking they are doing much good.
When Bad News Is Good News
Of all the grocery companies in my area, only Walmart has it right: Choose an available pick up time, then start online shopping.

All the others let you fill your cart, then at checkout tell you there are no slots available until the end of time. Waste of time, energy, and hope. F U, Target, Safeway, Albertsons, and Kroger.
Perhaps they wanted to be closer to their families and the communities they grew up with.
I mean for Amazon Prime you have to have a Prime susbcription to even play, so the $129/year fee is a good barrier to bots.
How will someone who always works remotely be financially impacted by isolation orders?
I don't fault Japan for closing their borders to the US.

The US's response to the pandemic is frightening. Federal leadership appears to be focused on denial while setting things up to fix the blame on their political opponents when it all goes sideways. Leaving everything up to state and local governments. Some of which are just as bad as the executive branch.
In the end the junior spent a month working on this. Now you are on the latest python.

How does this benefit the user again? Could the junior have been working on that spa for marketing? That's one months salary..
I've been really impressed with Affinity Designer's features but I've had a lot of problems with the iPad app. It frequently uses up 100% of my disk space for no apparent reason unless I periodically uninstall and reinstall the app -- I found a lot of people in the Affinity Designer forums complaining about this issue since 2018 but it hasn't been fixed.

I ended up having to stop using the iPad app because of the disk space issues and because I kept on losing work because Affinity Designer didn't save reliably.
I think there may be an important cultural difference in play here.
Maybe by mentioning the swine flu pandemic that had just happened in 2009? Californians live in earthquake country – they understand preparing for cataclysmic event in the medium-to-far future.
Banning people from leaving would be the true dystopian action.
They have people pulling the emergency button on the subways if someone if coughing.
Are you trying to make the case for single party rule here?
Thanks Yoda. No, I mean seriously, you just dropped some gems.
China bought us eight weeks of ramp up time? Was that before or after suppressing information about the issue for almost two months including getting WHO to claim there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission in January?
People quit after a day because they are in poor shape and those jobs are really hard on the body.

I read a story a while back where this guy went to work as a bike messenger and the first couple of weeks his body hurt every day, but he eventually really got into it once his body adjusted.

Maybe you could tell the gringos that they have to ease into the work. They only get to work 1 hour their first day, then 2 hours their second day and eventually work up to 8 hours a day so they don't give up.
Maybe I'm missing the intended distinction, but in normal usage, Java is also a JITted language. It's almost the canonical one... JITs are much older, but HotSpot really popularized the concept in mainstream production.
I'll take this in parts which I always think looks aggressive but I assure you it's not. We're all concerned and want the best :)

> that hardly means that it is 100% ineffective otherwise

It may not be 100% ineffective for a single event, it needs to be effective over the entire period of use.

Point 1, yes, sick people should wear masks. This is already known. Most people aren't sick.

> 2. The mask prevents you from touching your mouth with your hands, and reminds you to not touch your face.

If you've worn one or watched people on the train in Japan or across Asia you'll know this isn't true at all. People are forever readjusting it.

> 3. Many people in Japan wear masks to prevent stuff from their own mouths going into other peoples' faces, and not for the commonly assumed selfish reasons for wearing one that Americans keep focusing on.

They wear them for many reasons, and they're people so they're just as selfish as Americans or anyone else, and that's certainly my experience.

4b is certainly true. 4a is partly true because if people aren't going to use masks correctly - and they don't - then there really is no point to them other than to deny people access to them by those who really need them, and in settings that studies really have shown a positive effect.
>where solidly 1/3... believe that healthcare is a product not a right

And I guess the opposing 1/3 just don't understand the difference between positive and negative rights?

Healthcare, as a matter of fact, does represent a collection of products and services, and access to those products and services represent a positive right because it requires somebody else to provide something for you.

It is only negative rights, those which define what other people can not do to you, that should be considered inalienable. The right to free spreech doesn't require somebody else to go to school for 20 years so that you can express yourself, they just aren't allowed to prevent you from doing so.

Intentionally or not, people like you confuse the issue by treating both positive and negative rights as the same, and actually do not seem to understand, or are avoiding acknowledgment of the fact, that treating a positive right as some kind of natural right carries the high potential that you will be demanding access to another human being's labor or resources against their will, and in America, 1/3 of use are against the enslavement of others.
Pypy JIT is way faster than CPython
Sorry to keep plugging this, but I think it’s much more important to take good books and lay them out well for reading on all screen sizes, make them accessible, give people good fonts etc. Trying to do that on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710232
>Can't expect China-like second derivative when countries are not doing these counter measures

* not reporting cases accurately.
I got fucked by that indecisiveness. Couldn't get a visa extension in the country I was living in without my country of citizenship closing its borders.

Country of citizenship shut down national airlines but let foreign ones keep flying in and out, banned tourists from flying out, banned foreigners from flying in, instituted a quarantine for people flying in. Absolutely everything they could think to do other than shut the damn border. And they have the gall to have "dont fly" up in a big red notice on all of their travel shit. I didn't want to! You forced me!

Now instead of being at home getting meals dropped off at my closed door and being in complete isolation from the outside world the entire time; I've been in a series of public transports and crowded public locations, stuck in quarantine house sitting for a friend of a friend, with more temporary housing and transportation scheduled to take place in the coming weeks. I'll be more active and in more crowds during this pandemic than I was in the entire previous year. My previous lifestyle was basically "lockdown" anyway. But noooo they have to play games with the borders so some dingus that decided March 10 was a good time to take the wife and kids on vacation doesn't get a chance to kick up a stink in the media.

Kicker is that the country I was living in issued emergency visas to everyone still there a couple days after I left anyway.
Current worst case projections for New York State are for around 30,000 ventilators needed at the peak of the epidemic. 2400 is not insignificant but hardly enough in this case. Nobody predicted or projected the scale of the current crisis in terms of ventilators needed. Germany is best prepared of all countries, has around 30,000. Hopefully we flatten the curve enough so those worst case projections never materialize.
kotlin is pretty neat to work with.

In the end it is all bytecode (so java, or rather both java and kotlin output bytecode), but kt removes a lot of the ceremony, boilerplate, and altogether ideas that have proven to do not be that great in the years since java's inception.
Ask HN: What sources are you following for updates on Covid 19?
Not quite. The spread narrows if it’s liquid. All else being equal, a liquid asset is preferred over an illiquid one, but liquidity does not mean something is more valuable.

It just means the price paid or received is closer to the consensus valuation.
It's not just about protection, it's also about preventing people that are sick and asymptomatic from spreading.

>but the latter are so uncomfortable that they cause people to touch their face more

The logic just doesn't work here, you can't touch your face if you have a mask on and N95 respirators aren't as unconformable as you claim, if anything they are often higher quality and the cheap elastic bands on surgical masks are more uncomfortable on the ears.

>That’s why all the videos we see in Asia just have crowds wearing flimsy surgical masks

It's because they can't get N95 masks. No one wears a mask for comfort.
I know this is outside the usual way of arguing what's true, but: the studies are wrong.

They're underpowered and poorly designed. The smart money is on masks working, at least when used in a widespread way by the population as a whole. Benefit to individuals is much harder to show, hence why studies have failed to show it.

The chloroquinine drug, or whatever it's called, I bet that will turn out to be effective as well. Studies so far have been not powerful enough to show it definitively, but have you noticed the stuff has been selling out long before Trump opened his mouth? And it's not just idiots who will eat fishtank cleaner without checking the dose or the other ingredients that are buying it, it's nations, and doctors.

Did you know Parachutes have never had a randomised controlled trial to determine whether they are effective?

There are many things that there are good reason to think are true, that science has failed to show definitively yet.

Masks is one of them. I think people will eat their words on this one, and anyone reading this should take their trust in randomised controlled trials down a notch. They are designed to have a low false-positive rate. But their false-negatives are through the roof.
That still doesn't make sense to me.. how can JIT in general be slower than Java when Java is JITed?
Java’s bytecode is JITted, which is a subtle distinction since there is an AOT translation step capabale of optimizations etc.
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I would say Canada has seemed to avoid so far what is a really large outbreak like in NYC, which is starting to look pretty grim. With more outbreaks starting in other areas like say Detroit (and compare that to south Detroit) I think the US could be battling this for some time.
What a ridiculous criticism. Their inside jokes aren't inside between the two of them, they are inside WITH THE AUDIENCE.

Yes, that may make a new listener listening to an episode for the first time get less out of it than a long time listener.

But to the long time listeners, it is an absolutely delight, and it is exactly inside jokes and callbacks that breed loyal long term fanbases.