skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this what it looks like to me?

Businesses don't sign up, GoFundMe gets slapped on their Yelp pages, and they have to "claim" the money (without possibly even knowing it is there?).

Meaning all the "unclaimed" money sits in a nice pool for Yelp to happily earn interest on, invest with, or do other things? Or does this money stay with GoFundMe?

If it goes to Yelp and waits to be "claimed", this is indeed outrageous and is not intended to "help" anyone but themselves.

That can't be how it works, or legal, so I must have missed something. Hopefully.
Have you tried Sn100C? It's supposed to be better than SAC305, but we mostly stick to 63/37 around here, so I haven't had a chance to compare.
I love the colorful persistent phosphor effect.

It reminds me of running Life and Munching Squares on a PDP-7 340 Vector Graphics Display, with its beautiful P7 phosphor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4

Conway's Game of LIFE in a DEC PDP-7 w/ Type 340 Display

Here is an implementation of John Conway's Game of Life on an 18 bit DEC PDP-7 with a DEC Type 340 X/Y point display. Patterns are stored on and can be called from our new JK09 PDP-7 storage device which is what we use for UNIX V0. We have set a few starter patterns including Bill Gosper's Glider Gun.

The sounds you hear are from the Type 347 display controller. They were received using a Yaesu FT1XD radio in AM mode.

The world supports 1296 points (36 x 36). We are attempting to increase this to 72 x 72 or 5184 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oRHv-Svwc

DEC PDP-7 w/ Type 340 display running Munching Squares and Spirograph

Two display hacks run on PDP-7 serial number 129 with the Type 340 XY display option. The 340 has a P7 phosphor has a slow decay which gives Munching Squares an eerie afterglow. Both programs read the left switches to modify patterns. A small AM radio was used to pick up RFI from the Type 347 controller. For the MIT AI lab hackers the Munching Squares "music" was referred to as Munching Tunes.
Paul Krugman crops and uses FT data journalist’s graph without giving due credit
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#Stay Home And Say No To Corona
Business owners right now have a bunch of crap they're dealing with. They really don't need extra nonsense to opt-out of, and from the sounds of it the opt-out is more than just a button click.
I had some fun with Affinity Designer as a means to help in the lockdown. I designed a few [still adding more] sheets to print out and colour in and glue together as small craft projects.
I hope it helps, keeping some kids from being bored and the parents from being stressed [at least a little bit].
These are completely free to download for private use. Enjoy!
Yes for cameras.

No to 24/7 monitoring for quite a long while - need a really large constellation for that (think Starlink/OneWeb scale).
I wonder if that decision was optimal for the circumstances, and if not, what actions we could take as a society to improve upon it?
Am I the only weirdo who prefers lead-free solders because they don't flow as much?

They dry almost as soon as you take the heat off, which keeps parts from moving off their pads while it dries. And the iron doesn't seem to "pull" globs of the stuff around as much. I get really frustrated doing finicky work with leaded solders, but I'll happily do 0.5mm pitches by hand with lead-free.

Maybe it's just because I learned with the stuff?
Reminds me of pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
Folks, thanks for the information
Garbage website.
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Nah, we don't have all those doctors for the sick. We have doctors for every type of plastic surgery you can imagine, doctors for aging, doctors for athletic training, doctors that specialize in hips, others in just ankles, also shoulders only, others that only do laser eye surgery, others that only do teeth, some just for gums, some only do tooth implants. And on and on.

There is a shortage of doctors that actually treat sick people.
I see echoes of the RIAA here. Artists told they are entitled to income, but have to sign up, spend money, register, and then get told "oh, the algorithm said you get cents"

I suspect Yelp is going to struggle to show financial transparency on this, and has a future-audit headache if they don't handle this well. The funds are very probably a liability on yelp's books, because the intent is clear: its not for them. If they don't disburse, they have a problem.
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Right now we have no satellites of our own, but later in 2020 we will get a limited level of access to one satellite from ESA. Come 2021, we will get our own satellite in orbit.

Will you be able to 'geofence' your code? Yes, absolutely!
I was assuming the money would just go back to the donators if it was never claimed, but that is a much more frightening idea. Hopefully Yelp clarifies.
If you guys make an “I put my code in orbit” badge (virtual and/or physical) I will wear it...! That’s another use case - vanity! I’m not being sarcastic, I’d love this.
The second point seems very selectively applied. If we take this stance, that death is but the beginning of something greater, then why do anything to prevent death at all? I mean, why wear seatbelts, why exercise etc. Isn't living a long and fulfilling life important in religious circles too?
> The decisions you make regarding your own needs are always going to be much more efficient than those that any rationing authority could ever make.

If that were true, then hoarding wouldn't happen in the first place. You're obviously wrong here, and there's abundant evidence that consumers don't always make the best choices for themselves. Try scaling back your claims to something less absolute.
There's one glider that comes back: https://youtu.be/IK7nBOLYzdE?t=112
Great concept ahead of its time. However, I'd advise people who live in houses made of WOBO against throwing stones.
Fewer accidents and mass shootings.
ETFs often have relatively low management fees. If your current fees are high, by all means reallocate!
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And in the next lecture, you learn that factories can't be retooled overnight, and people die in the meantime.
Aside from the already mentioned predatory nature of Yelp (I personally watched a smear campaign happen to a bar I played piano at in another life), IANAL but I think raising money for your business could have all sorts of unintended tax and legal ramifications the business owners did not sign up for.

Also, having one business have one of these campaigns but not, say, a competitor could be seen as a sign of weakness. Conversely, it could be seen as anti-competitive behaviour
We plan to run a Kickstarter for that exactly :) Keep in touch with us on our mailing list:

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Someone pointed out that this could be in part due to a backlog in reporting from other causes of death due to the virus. I'm sure fewer accidents (auto, medical, etc), also play a part. Even the OP (of the Tweet) admits this.
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Joseph Pilates worked on his exercise system in a WWI prisoner-of-war camp
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I remember in my school stairwell wall that faced the street was made out of glass bricks. 4 storey high building btw.
@yibg Absolutely, life is a gift. We don't _fear_ death, but we don't go seeking it out either, and we certainly do everything we can to reasonably avoid it. This is because God put us here for a purpose, to know, love, and serve him (as defined in a whole different argument), and our job is to serve our current purpose and task in life as much as possible until God decides that your time has ended.
The problem appears to be that it's not clear this money is actually "theirs" (the businesses), customers intending to donate via Go Fund Me through Yelp likely think they're actually giving money straight to the business when they're not, and businesses have to "claim" it later on (and yelp seems to have done a not-perfect job of letting them know about the whole thing). I think what's happening here is that Yelp's already toxic relationship with bars/restaurants in general is operating these owners' priors on what the intent of the whole endeavor was. "Fk all these people" might be rude but I'm going to suspend my usual condemnation of otherwise unjustified outrage right now, for obvious reasons.
This is a good idea. I will propose we do this

FWIW it looks like zoom did the same.
"Some are even worse than that. They keep it secret that
they have the disease and go among others in the belief that
by contaminating and poisoning others they can rid themselves
of the plague and so recover. With this idea they enter
streets and homes, trying to saddle children or servants
with the disease and thus save themselves. I certainly believe
that this is the devil’s doing, who helps turn the wheel of
fate to make this happen. I have been told that some are
so incredibly vicious that they circulate among people and
enter homes because they are sorry that the plague has not
reached that far and wish to carry it in, as though it were a
prank like putting lice into fur garments or flies into someone’s
living room. I do not know whether I should believe
this; if it is true, I do not know whether we Germans are not
really devils instead of human beings. It must be admitted
that there are some extremely coarse and wicked people.
The devil is never idle. My advice is that if any such persons
are discovered, the judge should take them by the ear and
turn them over to Master Jack, the hangman, as outright
and deliberate murderers. What else are such people but
assassins in our town? Here and there an assassin will jab a
knife through someone and no one can find the culprit. So
these folk infect a child here, a woman there, and can never
be caught. They go on laughing as though they had accomplished
something. Where this is the case, it would be better
to live among wild beasts than with such murderers. I do
not know how to preach to such killers. They pay no heed. I
appeal to the authorities to take charge and turn them over
to the help and advice not of physicians, but of Master Jack,
the hangman."
Isn't it counterproductive to waste LEDs optimized for our perception to plant growth which doesn't fully utilize the spectrum of sunlight? I thought that is WHY grow lights have this purple sheen, be it traditional flourescent ones, or contemporary LEDs, or a mix of red and blue ones.
it depends on the use case. For example, I would like to have developer accounts with a fixed budget that developers can use to experiment with AWS services, but there isn't a great way to enforce that budget in AWS. In this case I don't really care about data loss, since it's all ephemeral testing infrastructure.

In theory I could build something using budget alarms, apis, and iam permissions to make sure everything gets shut down if a developer exceeds their budget, but if I made a mistake it could end up being very expensive. Not that I don't trust developers at my company to use such an account responsibly, but it is very easy to accidentally spend a lot of many on AWS, especially if you aren't an expert in it.
Wash your hands and lead is fine for hobbyists and far more people enjoyable to work with. The problem that ROHS solves is landfills full of manufactured goods not full of lead.
I listed a couple of reasons in the previous HN story about this [1]. Ultimately I think it comes down to the lack of consent. These guys just unilaterally decided to involve all these companies in a business arrangement without getting any consent from the business owners.

Think of it this way: how would you like it if some prominent web site all of a sudden decided to put up a web page with your name on it and a picture of your face asking people for donations for the destitute and promising to send what they collect to you?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707173
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Question if I may: which one would you recommend, the HackMD version or the community fork, and why? Both seem to be actively maintained and interfaces look close enough (other than template buttons and nudges towards signing in upon opening a new document in the company version).
The data backs you up.

The model projected 437 deaths for March 28th (tolerance bands of 380 - 508).

According to [0], the deaths were actually 264.

But the model predicted around that only two days prior ( 273 deaths on March 26th).

I’d say it’s pretty accurate - off only by a couple days.

[0] - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
To a certain extent the distinction is moot.

Deaths directly from an infectious agent, or due to society-wide institutional impacts ... are still deaths, and would have, at least in a statistical sense, have been avoided without the epidemic. Specific mechanism differs, but the ultimate avoidance measure is the same: avoid pandemic situations, as a society.
You are talking about section 1.8. I agree, it is not that scary. What is scary, however, are sections 2.1 and 2.2. They contain stuff like this:

> Our experience is that providing broad ABI-level stability for high-level constructs is a significant and permanent burden on their design. It becomes an impediment to evolution, which is one of our stated goals.

This does not name it, but doesn't this refers to all those discussions about changing internal representation of std::string, std::vector and so on?

This does sound pretty scary. Once you have separate classes for "C++23 std::string" and "older std::string", you can no longer link together files built with different versions.. and this means you lose a lot past compatibility.
What I don't understand is why seemingly the majority want to opt-out. Sure, it's a bit weird and presumptuous and they botched the communication, but these businesses really are struggling and they're potentially being handed free money?

Edit: I know Yelp has a track record of being scummy, it's just that in this case the catch isn't clear from my perspective
Yelp's eligibility criteria [1]:

>To be eligible, businesses must: (a) be in the United States, (b) have claimed their business on Yelp by March 22, 2020, and (c) have five or fewer locations. Additionally, businesses must (d) be listed in at least one of the following categories: Restaurants, Food, Nightlife, Beauty/Spas/Salons, or Active, though some exceptions apply; (d) have been negatively impacted by a government mandate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, (e) be independently owned and operated and not nationally dominant in their field, and (f) intend to use funds to either to help care for their employees / workers or pay ongoing business expenses.

The rest of the post sounds as though the process would be on an opt-in basis. I wonder when/why that changed.

[1] https://blog.yelp.com/2020/03/helping-local-businesses-raise...
> people breathing rosin smoke maybe there's still a place for lead solder

This statement is what the author is trying to shoot down. "Thoughts that sounds safe" when in reality they aren't and hurt people along the way.

There are times when pragmatism isn't the way to go. Pragmatically, leaded gasoline was everywhere, it's too difficult to change. Pragmatically, emissions are so expensive to deal with, we shouldn't.

If you are exposed to rosin smoke, you need good ventilation, not switch to leaded solder which is what you're implying here because when you switch to solder you've got a whole host of other problems to deal with that are way worse.

For those do this regularly to gain asthma, OSHA (or equal) needs to step in.

Articles like these and activists push us towards better legislation when pragmatism does not.
Also, TIL that "putting lice into fur garments" was a typical German "prank" of his time. Or something.
Microsoft has a similar service called Databox, wouldn't be surprised if GCS has something like this as well

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/databox/
True, but how many countries behead people for sorcery and witchcraft? [0]

It's mindboggling how easily people will let such things slide from our allies while mindlessly droning on about the far lesser actions of those who are perceived to be enemies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Ar...
Compromise is to turn on video only when talking. Also works as #raisehand ..
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Watching this video caused some noticeable motion aftereffects for me.
And comining on sixty years later, still not decomissioned, because dealing with both chemically and radioactively volatile materials is a nightmare.
Thanks for the additional resource, but I don't find it understandable at all. I mean I understand the words, but together I have no idea how to interpret them.

For example, "Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to pray as we ought," are we ready to receive freely the gift of prayer." What does that mean? It seems to be saying that prayer is communion with God, but also that "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."

So is prayer a request of God or not?
Ask HN: How do you deal with overthinking?
I'm very good at analyzing a complex code, and understanding it quickly, debugging it, ...

But I don't know if me being analytical and suffering from overthinking has made me a better software engineer, or dealing with complex codes which requires highly analytical thinking has made me a kind of an overthinking person.

These days I'm suffering from overthinking about my personal issues and I just cannot simply ignore them.

Sometimes I think it's because of my career that I've become an overthinking/analytical person. I sometimes think that i should let go of software engineering, despite being very good at it, and becoming let's say for example an artist. at least give it a shot. I'm really really suffering from overthinking.

How do you guys deal with overthinking? Does meditation/mindfulness help on overthinking? How can I be a highly analytical person when dealing with software but be brain-less to large extent in real life?
550 attending in a single session is pretty big, and the week before was double. Over 10,000 in a single sitting is a high bar to set.
Where I live all nonessential medical interventions are on hold to free up space in hospitals. I'd assume that lowers the death rate temporarily.
We are used to the news format of presenting some who support side A, and those who are opposed, making it look like there is a balanced case. Seeing these stories makes it feel like we are getting balanced news. This makes for good TV.

However if the two "sides" are unequal, it gives the illusion of evenness when there is no actual equivalence.

You don't see this misrepresentation when it leaves an impression of an even split between churches that follow public health standards and those that don't. You do see this misrepresentation when it leaves the impression that there is a scientific debate about global warming. But the problem is the same in both cases - the format itself leads to systemic misrepresentations of the world.
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So circling back to the current situation. Isn't the best way to "do everything we can to reasonably avoid it" to stay home and not be around other people?
no we have not
I was taught the three domain system, although this was a couple decades after the model. Viruses don’t fit in because they’re not alive.
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I've heard tales of a giant PacMan who lives in the sky, eating the Icarus gliders who fly too high.
When people don't trust you even when you try to do something good for them - literally giving them money - that's a clear indicator that your reputation is terrible. And this reasoning assumes an incredibly generous interpretation of Yelp's actions here, a company known for countless predatory business practices over many years.
Well you see it was a mistake to lever up because now your company's failed. Bailing out companies that got leveraged up to their eyeballs just rewards companies that take as much risk as possible. Does that sound healthy to you?
I’m enamored with the term ‘recreational programming language’.

Not sure I’d ever use one, but it’s a useful categorization nonetheless!
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You know what's going to be cheaper and simpler? Get some vultr VPSes. Maybe one for your web server and one for a PostgresDB, and another for a Redis if you need it.

Done. For 98% of hobbyist projects, a single Vultr $5/month node is probably far more than enough. For 99%, three Vultr $10/month instances (web, DB, cache) is probably enough.
> Life currently is like a movie. A zombie or some similar disaster movie, a situation where things are changing fast, where the normal plans are expected to fail.

No, because after a movie you get to go home, no matter how terrible it was. And in real life you don't get to go home. So you will have to trust in the people that have spent their lives preparing for stuff like this while we, the software smartasses were 'changing the world' with our SaaS toys.

Right now the best programmer is worth less than a mediocre ICU nurse, and that will remain so for a while. Afterwards we can all go back to pretending they don't matter but right now this is how it is.

> We are talking about a situation, coming up in X many days, when it won't be a matter of the authorities "letting" people try but a matter of the entire health system being overwhelmed.

That's a past station in some places.

> What are the other, workable plans you have for people dying in the parking lots of the emergency room?

I don't have any plans. They will die. Because we were too stupid to listen to those sounding the alarm when it mattered.

> And yeah, this is a different world, one where we expect people to end up dead and we're asking how to decrease that are much as possible.

We can decrease it as much as possible by stopping to move around so much. And yet, that seems to be too much to ask. Just now in another thread some religious guy claiming an exception just because the risk was low. I sincerely hope they'll all be fine, I also hope that if they are not that they'll trust their god rather than to hog precious ICU capacity needed by people who were careful and who did not seek this out on purpose.

> If the ICUs have a different, workable plan for when they are overrun with a massive number of patients, I'll be tremendously happy. The only thing I hear is "this won't work" "but what can we do?" "don't you understand that this won't work"....

The ICU staff is working double shifts and around the clock in plenty of places. They too get ill, plenty of them have already died. It's a bit late to stick your oar in now and make it your mission, I totally sympathize with the intentions but this isn't your fight other than to stay put, tell other people to stay put and accept that this story will not have a Hollywood ending for many people.
What kind of use do you see for this? Is this just general "I want to play with blockchains", or do you have a specific use case in mind?
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Related discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706307
I love this site. On mobile, its such a pleasant experience to use it. It's clear what the site is about and where to get what you want. From the fonts to the padding, everything seems to fit. A great case study in form + function.
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