skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your optimism but I’d still like those reserves filled up for cargo planes, fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, big trucks, etc. that, due to energy density, I’m not sure will run on batteries for quite some time, if ever.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=9991
omnigraffle pro is $250.
We're hearing a lot of stories about labor activism now because every employer allowed to stay open needs as many workers as it can get. When the rest of the economy reopens, and the millions of unemployed people start looking for jobs, that's unlikely to weigh on labor's side of the bargaining table.
They did say "engineer", not "software engineer" - that one's not just an accreditation, it's legally protected (in the US at least).
Cars are hardly the only driver for fossil fuels.

Why oil price is crashing is simply variance in the greater scheme of things. Not some death knell to it, not in 2020. Industry will take far far longer to convert to electrical/alternative methods of energy.

Though I'll concede that oilsands/hydraulic fracking dealt a serious blow to oil prices worldwide.
From an environmental standpoint this isn't particularly good as I'm pretty sure oil extraction and distribution and processing causes a ton of additional emissions both carbon and worse like methane.
It's mostly the YOB that's valuable; 'basic demographics' is a powerful tool.

Full DOB can probably isolate you from other people with same name for other marketing purposes.

They do have 'adult v child' stuff so they for sure have legit reasons for wanting to know in addition to sleazy reasons.
Amen brother. People shouldn't have to choose.
Alaska also produces a ton of oil, but gas is crazy expensive since it's mostly refined far, far away.
I don't bother growing things that will get smashed by bugs (broccoli, etc) - just too frustrating. Spinach and lettuce grows easily enough that the bugs can't beat it down. Garlic is easy and rewarding, though cloves might be puny. Zucchini worth trying though they quickly cop disease on the leaves in my experience. Carrots easy, though also cheap as hell to buy. Herbs are a no-brainer as bugs ignore them and they're expensive/annoying to buy each time you need a small amount. Tomatoes are a warzone with grubs or heat gunning for them but hard to resist trying to master them!

Get a reliable watering timer. I've had them fail or kill batteries due to unreliable motors and by the time I've noticed, plants have been dead. That at least is a predictable and solvable problem.

For shade, I have brackets down the side of my garden beds into which I can slot broom-handle style posts. Onto that, I slide a half-hoop of inch-thick irrigation pipe. Then I can clip shadecloth or bug/bird netting onto that as needed.
gasbuddy.com has a nice map of user-reported gas prices (https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?_ga=2.108840642.1740344...) and yes, Oklahoma's among the lowest prices, specifically the area just east of Oklahoma City.
RGBZ in general. They killed a market just to have a minor feature in their phones. Also keep in mind that Primesense's biggest precious licensee was an Apple competitor.
With oil so abundant and cheap - there's a renewed appeal in gas-operated cars.
I think this applies to many large companies.

The ones that do best, the ones that are the greatest public benefit, seem to be governed by a strong leader who stays at the helm.

As soon as the people at the top change, you get jostling and unclear leadership, and power gets diffused.

You get emergent behavior - lots of internal and external competing for power and interests - and the ability to say "no" or "this sucks" or "we will do this" happens less frequently.

Normally competition would take care of all this, but with big gorillas that dominate a market, it might take a while.
I recently signed up for OmniFocus cloud, should I be worried? It’s a fantastic product.
? Telecom is one of most regulated industries in the United States. Not sure why this pattern ("look how bad the free market is" @ highly regulated market) is so common here and on reddit.
If anyone else is wondering what debouncing is:

https://my.eng.utah.edu/~cs5780/debouncing.pdf
> Obviously you're being downvoted by the libertarians here,

Much like how when libertarians haven't touched the levers of power in decades you get indignant tweets about how they've caused the government to fail at something, we get comments here about how the top-voted comment in a given thread is "downvoted by the libertarians."
Thanks for your honesty, This barrier to entry just convinced me to consider looking elsewhere for moderated comments.

If there is such a high bar to moderation it pretty much means that only those with the best 'crowd appeal' will get this, and these are not the people that I consider worth listening to in most circumstances.
I’ve never heard of crude oil expiring. Is that a thing? And if so, how long does it last?
Influenza related death rates are estimated after the fact from several sources of data and are about 25x higher than official influenza confirmed deaths. Everybody talks about the number of influenza related deaths as the real death rate. the chance is coronavirus related deaths are also higher, not lower, than the official count.
My question is not about what the default ToS covers or doesn't cover, my question is about when/where/how/if -- someone on the Internet accepts a ToS...

And it's not really a question.

It's a solicitation of opinions.

To understand what I'm asking for, you must have an understanding of Contract Law.

That is, what is a contract, when are they accepted, how are they accepted, etc.

OK, now given those understandings, apply that to a public website.

How does/would someone in the public accept a public website's ToS, other than clicking "I agree", when presented by a page or requester saying "Do you agree to accept this website's ToS?".

Does it happen?

If so, why so?

If not, why not?

I'm looking for compelling arguments, both for and against, both pro and con...
crazy is the best choice of words. why even take the time to respond to that portion of the content. you’ve obnoxious
> high returns to our clients with minimal risk

That's classic ponzi language.

Upside and risk go hand in hand. You can't sustainably produce one without the other, else everyone would be infinitely wealthy.
> Being in a competitive job market

Are we in a competitive job market still? For whom?
Are you saying that union members need to... unionize against their union?

It's all unions, all the way down.
How about each person grows one herb or vegetable and they trade?
For convenience, they can all bring their harvest to a meeting point to exchange
This is a nice semi-random deeply nested spot to observe how the topic of naming is so cognitively attractive.

Even in the meta-sense it is being discussed here.

There is something about naming that we like thinking about, and fine tune our thoughts on, more than a simple need for legibility.

There is a sense of ownership in picking a name.
Pressure / proximity info is just as noisy and requires its own version of denouncing and x/y jitter handling on top. (Is it a click/drag/hovering over?) My partner can't even stop accidentally registering right-clicks on her laptop touchpad, which should be a really polished experience these days.

I'm not sure I buy touchscreens ever being simpler to handle. (or even in the similar range - they're strictly harder)
BarkPass Login for Dogs: No Typing Required
I bought 2 pounds of active dry yeast a few weeks back. I just pulled out the bread machine I had for over a decade and made a loaf with my daughter. She had a ton of fun adding the ingredients.
Interesting. I see. This helps.

I haven't looked at market share numbers.

Just observing mindshare.

But this is good to know.
You must be pretty new at this. This comment is a rather pedestrian ad hominem - well below the quality you showed earlier with "dimwitted hot take".

Perhaps your statement is true because most people just ignore you?

As I wrote: "I'm probably doing the wrong thing by pointing out some of the problems in your argument head-on, which is something you refused to do with the Nature Medicine communications."

You are again refusing to address substantive counter-arguments to your viewpoints. Why is your goal in making these comments?
How is that possible if every death is counted as corona death? Besides a missing test of course.
1. HIPAA et al have very specific meaning that do not have anything to do with end-to-end encryption at all. If you know this, read this line, and care about HIPAA you know exactly this.

2. end-to-end has several meanings, for users it means what Signal does, for machines it means TLS is securing edges.
...or oil we pump, right?
Not totally disagreeing but I'm pretty sure the idea for most is that we want people to keep their jobs. Corporations staying rich means people staying employed.

What does it say that you use Apple as a supporting example, one of the strongest corporations in the history of the world, rather than any or all of the millions of small businesses all over the country which are now hanging on by a thread.
How to Publish Domain Events from Aggregate Root
It is not a VC application, it's a user chat application
as a southern state beach-goer, you always wash the oil slicks off as soon as you find them. gasoline isn't carcinogenic because of the refining process, its because the oil itself will kill ya
Apple has a VC product? I wasn't aware of this
The HTTP Client and WebSocket APIs
WinDirStat is similarly nice for those on Windows, or JDiskReport for cross-platform
Oh boy.

A lot of stuff known as quintessentially Apple today was bought by them; Siri, Logic, Final Cut, as well as tech like Face ID and soon AR.
This comment is mind boggling to me.

There is a incredible difference between "I'm taking a month off of work" and "I'm being forced to stay in my home, physically isolated from my friends and forced to be around those I share a home with 24/7, with the possibility of financial hardship in the near or far term."

One is a vacation, the other is prison.
I am highly sceptical that this can beat a baseline model built on common symptoms (coughing, fever, etc.) of COVID-19.
> Google has been in decline since ~2010

I would agree. The quality of the company seems inversely proportional to the number of employees, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/google-employee-growth-2001-...

In the early 2000s, it was the one search engine that returned relevant results. All the old ones returned a hodge-podge of key-word matches. Google used the number of citations as a strong signal of relevance (the number of pages that linked to a page meant something).

In the age of GMail beta, Google was my hero and I wanted to work for them. They were doing new things with the browser. First was Google Pack, which included necessary software like Firefox. Then Google introduced Chrome, which was even better.

Both began to descend. I don't know, they became slower and clunkier, as if they were designed by the denizens of any number of companies. Google had about 50,000 people at this point.

Recently, I can't stand even to read Google's documentation, because of its (1) bureaucratic wordiness, and (2) cluttered layout that reminds me of that video about Microsoft redesigning the iPod box. In the early 2000s, Google was a maverick. Nowadays, Google is hard to distinguish from any other corporate giant.
Hypothetical question - If you had to pick a leader from anybody in the World, from the entire history of humanity to lead in such a situation - who would you pick and why?
I think it's cloud9 but easier and aimed at less-technical users. Like Processing. I gave it a brief shot because joelspolsky and that was my impression anyway.
From what I've seen/read as a layperson, crude oil is quite dangerous; it has all the volatiles that will eventually be isolated and sold or burned.
Also, likely homicides:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/tenant-suspected-property-o...
There are plenty of missing tests. Testing is limited almost everywhere. Due to the testing that is in place I don't expect the same ratio, but also, not all countries count all tested deaths as corona deaths, only a few do as far as I understand.
How many Corona positive people are dying of non-Coronavirus related issues? Is that number really that much to impact the total figures?
What is the shelf life of oil?

Is there a point where not using the stored reserves by a certain year would make it unusable if bought today?
My fear is that entire sectors of the economy are all shut down at the same time. Many of those businesses will never open their doors again. A lot of institutional knowledge and expertise will be lost.
Really recommend reading http://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radar#How_a_weather_ra... to get something of a handle on it

For one thing, the resolution of radar is finite where one "pixel" (gate) is quite large, and everything under it is assumed to be constant. Precipitation at a spot on the ground is the result of everything happening from sea level up 40,000', and we don't have exact properties (temperature, dew point, humidity) for the atmosphere at all of those locations. We can fill in some gaps with models on supercomputers, but they're just models.
In addition to the nation-wide fever numbers, Kinsa tracks numbers by state and county.

Take for example, Forsyth County, GA, due north of Atlanta. The Heat Map shows Forsyth has as many current Atypical Fevers (per capita) as every other county adjacent to Atlanta.

Georgia is not a state in lockdown, and is below normal in testing. Individual counties in GA are in lockdown. This includes South Fulton county which includes Atlanta. It does NOT include the cities of Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, and Milton which comprise North Fulton county, and Forsyth county north of them.

The Fever Heatmap shows the folly of this situation. Politicians are driving thru the rear-view mirror. Atlanta has the most cases Now. But the heatmap suggests all those location mentioned above have as many people (per capita) actively spreading the disease.

The case could be made that lower population density reduces the need for lockdown. But such an argument needs to be made and supported, not assumed. Currently it is not even addressed.
Astronaut urine to build moon bases
Germans may have a higher rate of obesity, but obese Americans seem to be more chunky than obese Germans. [1]

The number of times I've seen someone who's clearly 400+ pounds outside of America has been maybe 4, 5 times? In the US, I'll see at least one or two people around that weight daily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight
Ahem, the authority comes from Title 2 passed in 1934.

In 2005, the FCC decided that ISPs should be regulated by them. From 2005 - 2012, Congress failed to pass new bills granting the FCC this authority. It was denied by congress. In 2015, the FCC decided that they didn't congress to grant that authority.

So yeah, the FCC website claiming they have an authority is not an impartial source. Two years later, the FCC reverted back to the Title I classification.

So for 2 years, the FCC claimed a power that they were not authorized to claim.

If Congress wants the FCC to have this power they can easily pass a bill granting them that authority, they have repeatedly failed to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...
h0h0h0 tax increases are coming, you think this $4T bill will pay itself? i fully expect gas prices to rubberband back to the $3-$4 range before this decade has gotten fully underway.

until then, i've unexpectedly found myself in a great place to be with a recently modified turbocharger on a family sedan ]:-)
Really, why do you know that?

I would expect a car to have tons of code.

Think of all the functions...

Engine management, Engine monitoring, Powertrain control, Emissions, Diagnostics, Infotainment, Satnav, Climate Control, Traction Control, ABS, Anti-collision radar, Cruise control, Lane keeping, Backup camera, Parking sensors...

Now keep in mind that these hundreds of components exist in many many possible configurations so the system needs to handle having certain hardware available or not, and also handle a multitude of failure modes gracefully.
> would

Let’s argue about hypotheticals in a few months when we have more perspective. Both of your lines of reasoning are filament-thin and stitched together using way too many assumptions right now.
I use WinDirStat for the same thing on windows. Lets you pick and then scan a drive and then gives you a graphical view where the bigger the file the larger its block is proportionally to the other files.
Wow it's almost like a Ponzi isn't going to straight up tell you "Hey guys, we're a Ponzi!"

They're going to do everything they can to weasel the language into making it sound like it isn't, when it really is.
HIPAA (all caps)
Tactile buttons and switches are much easier to use by muscle memory. There is very little muscle memory with touch buttons and touch screens.

Also, touch screens are much harder (thus more dangerous) to use while you are in motion, hitting bumps, going around curves.
I'm partial to DaisyDisk for it's wonderful graphical view
It's not really a matter of privacy record. In general manufacturers don't do it on purpose.

For example, it was discovered that it's possible to extract keys from Intel SGX enclaves using certain speculative execution vulnerabilities. Intel SGX predates Spectre. It isn't a category of vulnerability they knew existed when they were designing it.

Vulnerabilities are regularly discovered in almost everything, iPhones included. Diligent vendors are quick to patch them, but an attacker only needs to wait until the next vulnerability is discovered and then extract the signing keys from a device that hasn't been patched yet.

You also have no way of knowing which keys they are -- if a million devices of a particular model have a known vulnerability then any attacker could extract the keys from any of them, and even blacklisting all of them (which would tend to dissatisfy their innocent owners) still wouldn't save you from an attacker using an unpublished vulnerability against a device you don't even know is vulnerable.

To put this another way, this is basically the same class of technology that Hollywood uses for DRM. Now, how many Hollywood movies can you say have not been pirated by anyone?
My first job in the oil field was cleaning up oil spills. Specifically crude oil spilled from pipeline breaks as it was pumped from the storage tanks at the well site to refineries from processing.

Oil is a general term that can include everything from fluids like condensate to near asphalt grade fluids depending on the source rock composition, depth of burial, time in oil generation window, and a bunch of other things.

Being a hydrocarbon, it is composed of chains of hydrocarbon molecules in various configurations including things like benzene, a substance known to cause cancer in more states than just California. Many of the central Texas leases I worked on had storage tanks that were marked with signage warning about the presence of benzene and notifying workers to use appropriate protective gear. (late 1970's).

I couldn't count the number of times we had a big spill and I ended up covered head to toe with crude oil. I have no idea what was in it. I know that the hottest fires I have ever seen were crude oil fires. I will never forget all the fire tornadoes I saw swirling on rivers and lakes and in fields as we burned off spilled crude oil.

Anyway, crude oil is full of all kinds of nasty stuff and, like another poster mentioned, also has some produced water along with it that is very briny and frequently full of nasty shit itself. It is so toxic that operators have to pay to dispose of it. Areas around wells and above-ground storage ponds used in the 1920's an d1930's are still dead from the salt that washed out of those ponds and down creeks.

Personally, after 40 years in the business, I hope low oil prices are the nail in the industry's coffin. They dug their own graves and it's time to shove them in and backfill the hole.
PIP or other effects can be done well on client side eg with WebGL or nultiple canvases.

Possibly you can save on BW by server processing - far from "no choice" however.
Mamoru Oshii ruined the Ghost in the Shell franchise
Where? It’s still above $2 in MA
I don't agree with the initial premise that suppression measures would potentially cost anywhere near as many lives as they would save. That said, I don't think it's reasonable to compare being off work due to a pandemic lockdown or similar circumstances to a month-long vacation. This will cause significant hardship and stress for many people. It's just that without measures to control the virus, you would still have those effects; they would just come due to fear after a bunch of people die, rather than intentional efforts.
Crude's been sitting in those formations since the dinos.
It's not going bad in a couple years. Petrol expires because it is heavily refined, cracked etc for higher octane rating at the cost of shelf-life.
I'm sorry to hear this. In a subscription model world, Omni stand out in producing very high quality one time purchase software. I love OmniGraffle! Such a great product once you learn it.
Nonsense; 4chan doesn't hate women. They hate everyone. Every race, every gender, every religion, every nationality, every profession, every socioeconomic status. No matter who you are, 4chan will find a slur for you.
The article could have mentioned this as well:

German researchers want to send out hundreds of thousands of coronavirus-antibody tests over the coming weeks, Der Spiegel reported.

People who test positive for the antibodies could be given an "immunity certificate" that would allow them to leave their coronavirus lockdown early.

Other countries, including the United Kingdom, are planning mass testing to ease lockdowns.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-germany-covid-19...
I received my Permaculture Design Certificate from Bill Mollison, my Permaculture for Aid Workers from Geoff Lawton, designed two properties, both included food forests, and I also like long walks on the beach and sushi. WHO’S HIRING APRIL 2020. Joke aside, gardens not only provide food, I’ve found they act as an anti-depressant and are quite fun to build.

One principle of Permaculture is to optimize space to provide for human needs. I feel like the HN community could come up with some cool shit in this space.
>> Hollywood unions are something we as tech workers could model ourselves after

That's a guild, not a union. And sure, it's good. As long as you don't care about people that aren't in it right now. SAG does their very best to keep new entrants out.
Phish of GoDaddy Employee Jeopardized Escrow.com, Among Others
By all means, do more. Many companies thought they would raise in Q3 and have little chance of that now and need to make immediate alternative plans to have a chance to stay in business. If they can pay more — I hope they do.

And on the latter point, as I point out, depends on maturity of workforce and leadership.

Minor last point — I’m sorry to say that if I’m normalizing eight weeks, then I’m raising the norm. You can not like it, and I don’t, but that’s reality. Eight weeks is generous for a startup, or most companies.
I can't help but feel like the character of this thread would have been much more severe if it were google shutting out all iOS users from one of their services. I do see a lot of ticked off android customers but a surprising lack of "break up these big companies" rhetoric.
Hm, what about malware masked as ZOOM? ;-)
what about the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?
BS.

Imagine trying to find the right switch on this by feel, without hitting the wrong one by accident.

https://live.staticflickr.com/6150/5990351987_fb9c159ea5_b.j...