skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was living in Daly City I saw them regularly if I went for a night walk in the Lake Merced area close to the Olympic or Thornton park. I once went pass one on the other side of the street, he glanced at me but was more interested in inspecting a trash bin. They usually ran away.

Plenty of raccoons too. For some reason those are more comfortable around people. One night I met one walking towards me on the sidewalk. First I thought it was a fat cat. I stepped aside as he strolled by me, he stopped, gave me a greeting stare and proceeded on his business.
Majority of equalization goes directly to Quebec, very little goes to the maritimes.
No, no, it said they have bottles and bags for such needs. So completely covered.
Microsoft’s coronavirus challenges are different
It also likely eliminates all but the quite wealthy from investing in one of the greatest wealth-creation engines of the modern era.
I thought Turing's Cathedral was pretty good but note that it's mostly about John von Neumann not Alan Turing.
Our town-hall meeting was 12000 (twelve tousend) people and there was no problem. We used it in some special mode where you only could open your microphone but not the video. I have no idea how many countries we were from but we're a fortune 500 company.

We regularly have milestone meetings at a custommer with 300 people joining with the normal setup where everyone can join the conversation, never had any problems with zoom.
for the moment I thought it was from 2003
Any iOS app has a ton of competition within its category for a many-times larger audience. Any macOS app has very little competition for a tiny audience. 36k downloads can mean that you've captured a larger audience on one platform than the other, and that seems more reasonable than the conclusion that the audience sizes are the same.
Thx! Heard about it already. I'll do a personal analysis and I'll report.
I got away with blaming missing the meeting on Bush, that one time. ;)
Since we are doing math and all, area of Wales is 20,740 km^2 ^1, this gives average weight per m^2:

0.0000675024 kg / m^2 = 1400000 / 20740000000

Now then, per ^2 soil weights between 1200 and 1700 kg per cubic meter. Let's take upper estimate to account for constant rain and minor human infestation in Wales (weight of cubic meter of concrete is 2400 kg ^3).

This gives depth of Wales that equals to the pressure experienced by dmurray's chest of 0.0000000397 meters of ~40 nanometers. That is greater than feature size in modern CPU's...

Well, there you go folks, I dare say that is a more useless (and maybe more fun too?) comparison than comparing pressure with jumbo jets.

^1 - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=wales+a...

^2 - https://www.reference.com/science/much-cubic-meter-soil-weig...

^3 - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=concret...
Working remotely builds organizational resiliency
"The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates is an interesting look into what Bill envisioned for the Internet. It came with a CD-ROM full of videos of how devices would be used in schools and workplaces (I thonk law enforcement too if I remember correctly). The videos are much better than the book.

"The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" was eye opening for me regarding the life of Jobs, his family life, and his business involvements.

"Masters of Doom" by David Kushner chronicles the history of id Software and its creators. It's an entertaining book for sure, especially the part where id has Gwar show up at Microsoft.

"Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman is the memoir of a software developer in the 80s. I need to read this one again, but it was enjoyable. I think about one part in particular from time to time where the author recounts being offered a job to work on an aging mainframe. The man pitching the job is probably the last person around who's dedicated to maintaining it. She would have made a lot of money doing it, but the work itself looked to be soul draining, so she skipped it fpr pther opportunities

"The Fugitive Game" by Jonathan Littman documents the story of Kevin Mitnick, the so-called most wanted hacker alive. Certainly has some surprises and is a fun read.

Pretty much anything by Norbert Wiener regarding cybernetics is interesting from a historical perspective. I've read several but the one that comes to mind immediately is "God and Golem, Inc". While unfinished, it goes into cybernetics, which was a practice or idea that technology could interface with biological life in a complementary way and those ways should be pursued. I think he was ultimately successful since we take a lot of those ideas for granted today.

"The Computer and The Brain" by John von Neumann is a great and short read. It mostly talks about how binary signals can be fired by synapses in the brain.
Wow, I had no idea all the money pledged to the rebuilding of the Notre Dame was reneged on...
Requires a G Suite enterprise account. It also doesn't help that Google Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts are two similarly named and looking but incompatible products.

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/7317473
This is a good option for startups as well. Keep in mind that the disaster loans also have new benefits approved today (no personal guarantee up to $200k, approval based on current credit score only, and more).

It might make senses for startups to wait a few days and weigh each program.

For very small teams, freelancers and sole proprietors, the disaster loans win out for its easier underwriting and approval process-- there is no need to go through a bank.

But if I had a large team I would go with this option.
Depends on when it is made. Anything made before 2003 is still broken when you turn it on again.
This article has a little more context: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21196446/yelp-gofundme-co...

Some stuff that was weird about this rollout, from the Verge article:

- opt-out process required sending a scan of your drivers license

- GoFundMe page added a suggested donation of 15% to GoFundMe

- Yelp showed fundraising links for international retail outlets like L'Occitane

Strikes me as something that would be great as an opt-in. As an opt-out, it's understandable that "I'll stop doing this if you send me your drivers license" didn't go over too well, particularly from a company that many small business owners understandably mistrust in the first place.
$9 trillion in 2005 dollars, right? So ~$12 trillion in 2020 dollars? Still pretty crazy to see it double in less than two decades.
What was lockdown like in China? Dumbril and Iversen
Apparently Wish is having a hiring freeze until sales volume improves
> There's a number of really great history channels on YouTube

I really rate Drunk History (I generally don’t like Hollywood humour, nor American history, but somehow it is done brilliantly and is super informative).

Typhoid Mary episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wh0lfHb2U

PS: Typhoid is a bacterial infection, so only somewhat relevant.
Sure, but if an initially-infected respiratory cell releases its "baby coronaviruses" out to the respiratory linings, away from the blood, they'll find lots more of the respiratory cell surfaces they're optimized to infect, and maybe get a ride out to other hosts on sputum.

To the extent an infected cell releases its "baby coronaviruses" into the blood stream, they find a hot, chemically active environment – which is already inhospitable to their continued survival – plus a relative dearth of the respiratory cell-walls they're optimized to enter, plus a growing number of hostile antibodies.

(I don't know if a coronavirus-hijacked cell can direct its fresh viruses one way or the other, but it'd probably prefer to do that if it could, and I can understand why viruses wouldn't persist long in blood compared to respiratory-membranes.)

The coronaviruses are definitely active in mucosal surfaces, and carried by mucus. I haven't seen anything about, nor do I think any activity is necessarily implied, in other connective tissues.
Agreed. I only found out about the Dream Machine from Hacker News (I think it was Alan Kay who recommended it) and it was absolutely the best book ever written on the topic.
An El Reg unit of measurement, no?

Oh the nostalgia!
Metafilter is like any community. You'll enjoy it if you buy into most of the group think. Even hacker news has that guy who does great satire of how out of touch this place can be.

I favor hacker news over metafilter specifically because this place is less of a community of familiars. On metafilter the spirit of ingroup/outgroup behavior and the bullying that comes with that is intense. I barely even contribute there but the amount of nasty, mean spirited and passive aggressive interaction there is depressing. Lots of people like the idea of metafilter until they actually try to contribute in good faith and see the result.
> You can easily avoid this tracking by not having your phone broadcast bluetooth or by not carrying a phone.

Until government makes it mandatory.
Premonition: What is about to happen to culture?
If the profits from the CAPEX just get plowed into more CAPEX, though, you could end up looking like you don't have profits for decades, and it isn't necessarily a problem as long as you're growing.

Edit: What I'm saying is that profit is a lagging indicator of CAPEX, and your lack of profit now could be the result of bad CAPEX 5 years ago, or good CAPEX 5 years ago, plus aggressive new CAPEX now.
BC has the biggest coal export terminal in NA. It's biggest export is coal. BC's clean image is bullshit.
I'm not sure I follow. How is it gone? We have fusion (solar) and fission. And we may find out how to more directly harness energy as we progress. I think our access to energy is limited by our lack of knowledge.

I agree though, we should get out on some new space vessels soon to buy some insurance and project ourselves into the far future.
List of Autodidacts
Thanks. Currently, we have been focusing on all the official resources from YC and not so much on Hacker News threads. But if there's demand for better discovery for Hacker news itself, it'd be very interesting to look into.
I would say it's well above average, mostly intelligent respectful discourse with the occasional religious person or jerk.
And if another species dies off, it can also destabilize the ecosystem. Where is the special role of humans coming from?
I think HN rules allow this since it wasn't really discussed before.
Could someone please help me with a rough way to get started with web development for a backend engineer.

I am overwhelmed with the choices/alternatives there are for everything.

Ideally, I would like something which follow do-and-learn approach. Directly put in into building a project or start working on existing projects and I learn about the things and concepts along it.

Thanks!
There were workarounds like TOC cloning to keep the transfers digital (by making the device think it was playing something from an analog source, not a digital one, so it would allow a digital copy over SCMS), but those were not possible on all devices. And even the digital transfers were over SPDIF, not direct data transfer (so it depended on the quality of your encoder chip).

There was one way around this: the MDS-W1 (http://minidisc.org/part_Sony_MDS-W1.html) could move tracks in raw data format between discs. Of course, it erased the source track, but if you did this twice (it defragmented as it went) and then TOC-cloned, you could have two identical MD's. They're available on eBay, but they're $400-500 and ship from Japan, so good luck powering one if you're in Europe.

It really was a lovely format that was crippled by the music side of the company. 170 MB on a rugged, infinitely-rewritable, non-accidentally-erasable format that was smaller than a 3.5" floppy?
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://sf.eater.com/2020/3/27/21197236/yelp-dna-gofundme-wr.... Thanks!
It's an implementation detail. You probably just need to change the code of file to change the format of Mastodon's URLs: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/lib/ac... and this line: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/config/rou...
The Hangouts video meetings you have access to do in public Gmail/Calendar are not the same product as "Hangouts Meet", which is only available with a G-Suite account. Meet is definitely a more polished experience.
>non-sapient critters still around

even leaving out monkeys and apes, i think other animals like for example racoons can make it to the "sapient" level with time if humans would "release" the space back to the Nature. And i think we have only very slightest idea about birds and insects. Cro-Magnon has been i'd say a version 0.7 of sapience with major bugs and broken&missing features, and i'd not be surprised if the Nature had other versions in the works.
The ghost stories.

And, so they can play you Queen's Under Pressure as a joke.
Or the Mac market is so much smaller that the iOS market that there is practically no competition for an in-demand RSS reader on Mac and barely any space to enter the market on iOS.
Aging and infectious agents are both environmental insults. The cell doesn't care so much about the difference. Result is the same.
Serverless Service Mesh with Knative and Linkerd
There have been several reports going back at least a few months of a coyote wandering around Noe Valley at dusk, I think around 25th & Sanchez or that general area.

So this isn’t new although perhaps more are venturing out for longer periods of time due to the streets being emptier.
What part of hn remind you of social media?
Thanks for your reply! I'm intrigued by this point, "HN is as unhealthy and flawed as its members, which is something to be proud of", could you say more? also, what do you mean by the part about 'healthy' at a global scale only being a 'sterile echo chamber'?
Folding@Home Reaches 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 Operations / Second for COVID-19
> And, given that Mac apps are less complex to write than iOS apps these days, a Mac app could be more profitable than an iOS app.

And you can charge more for a Mac app.
First Electron Microscope Image of Covid-19 Virus from India Released
How many of those people held that same view for 5 years before finally being right?

It’s easy to call a market reversal if you’re comfortable calling 9 of the next 2 reversals.
Computers are multiple layers of massive complexity. Somewhere in that complex stack it's very easy for 'something' to go wrong.

When it's first turned on the computer works, so it's clear that there's an initial 'state' where all those layers of complexity are in alignment. Turning it off and on again is the best way to try and replicate that initial successful state.
I wrote a super short description of the overall architecture of prettier if people are interested: https://blog.vjeux.com/2017/javascript/anatomy-of-a-javascri...
Private healthcare providers in the USA are not like that. The hospitals are normally glad to accept your money in exchange for treatment. You can go elsewhere if you wish. If your insurance company denies payment, you can find some other way to pay.

Canada prohibits the existence of private healthcare providers. The only reason people aren't condemned to die on waiting lists is that nearly all Canadians can easily travel to the USA when they are desperate for treatment. Canada saves money because people are using their own funds to purchase treatment in the USA.

The UK will actually prohibit people from seeking care in other countries. I guess it would be an embarrassment if you got care elsewhere, so instead you must die.

There, that's two developed countries. I don't wish to research every damn country in the world, and you said "free to pick any developed country to compare to - it won't matter". I picked them because they are English-speaking and relatively large.

I'm not interested in generic "better outcomes and lower expenditures". That just means that everybody gets substandard ("cost effective") care. I want to live in a country where a person over the age of 80 can get an expensive treatment to improve quality of life. I know a person who did: first about $80,000 in drugs for hepatitis, then a hip replacement. Neither would happen in a country with socialized healthcare because she wouldn't be worth the money. They'd estimate something like "quality adjusted years of life", determine the value is low, and give her some pain pills.
Nope, Dashmap is all xacrimon, and came on the scene long before my port. We've been collaborating on writing a shared benchmarking suite over at https://github.com/jonhoo/bustle/ though. For the time being, it looks like Dashmap outperforms the port of ConcurrentHashMap (called "flurry"), often by a significant amount. It seems to be mainly due to the garbage collection scheme flurry uses, but we're still digging into it (maybe you want to come help?).

In any case, I'm glad you enjoy the videos!
I take a magnesium supplement before bed. You should discuss this with your doctor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/minerals/health...
Isn't that weird though? Isn't reading the news the sort of thing you'd do on your phone more often than your computer?
+1 for Turing's Cathedral. As mentioned, it's a lot about von Neumann. Slightly dense writing style but does a great job of explaining some of the key intellectual breakthroughs behind development of the computer. It's most about the 1940s-50s but it sets the historical context well (both contemporary and going back to Gottfried Leibnitz).
Lol I didn't think he would setup that HN-redirect-to-ballsack for his bar's website too
The Intel Trinity
About the early days until 90s for Intel, having stories on Shockley's semiconductor lab, Fairchild then Intel etc.

The soul of a new machine
Not much history, but more on how a small computer manufacturer in 70s. It's quite relevant today, as the process very much resembles a software startup's.
I'd greatly appreciate pipes in the next version of Python. Pandas is huge now, and the R programming language has implemented this for its dataframes. There are Python packages for this, but they were buggy for me.
Airborne particles may be assisting the spread of SARS-CoV-2
Not test kits. Swabs.
Although rare, amoebas found in untreated water can cause fatal brain infections if they get in your nasal passage[0], via neti-pots or swimming, for example.

[0] https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(18)34525-9/pdf
There have been sightings in Corona Heights too (pretty far from GGP)
People volunteer to donate organs despite a higher likelihood of harm than getting COVID-19 if you are 18-24 without any comorbidities.

If this would be an effective solution people would volunteer for sure.

The UK had 750,000 people signing up to volunteer for the NHS which could expose them to getting infected in the midst of the epidemic without guarantee of even getting admitted to a hospital if the situation would continue to escalate.

If you think you won’t get 1000’s of volunteers for a relatively low risk infection that would put you under 24/7 VIP medical observation and would likely get you first access to any medical assistance required if things would turn to the worse you clearly don’t understand people well enough.

And this is without the potential financial and societal benefits those people would directly and indirectly receive.

People are doing a lot more dangerous things for a lot less of a pay out in a daily basis.
Here in Vancouver there are social media accounts of cougar tracks on a beach and in a park. Unconfirmed. Unlike coyotes here (common)[1], or bears and deer (occasional), cougars are virtually unheard of near populated areas so this is notable if true.

Yes, yes, cue the "preying on young men in bars" jokes... :-P

[1] http://stanleyparkecology.ca/conservation/co-existing-with-c...
I'm sure there's a middle ground between bricks and slurry =).
That's an interesting question. I think HN has its good and its bad sides.

What I like about HN is the (usually) high quality of discussion. You're likely not gonna get hit with insults or low blows or trolling on this site. I think this is in part due to the great moderation (I always wonder how they're able to pull that off so well with so little staff) but it's also manifested in the culture here. Commenting on HN just feels different than on Twitter, for example.

I've also noticed that I act differently on HN compared to other circles that I'm in. Like, VERY different. On HN, people (me including) share way less details about themselves and their emotions (from what I've seen - I'm not a credible source for data), to the point where it sometimes feels like you're talking to a bunch of robots. Compare that to Twitter: I'm mostly just on Twitter to follow people I relate to for their portrayal of character online (be it real or staged). I'm also more open to show my own emotions on Twitter (though that has its limits as well). However, I wouldn't engage in a serious discussion on Twitter or use it as a source of information.

Generally I don't think HN really has a concept of "community". It's just a place where a lot of information is flung around and people (mostly serious and professional) come to talk about it but you don't really form "bonds" or "networks" on HN. I mean, sometimes you don't even read the name of the person you're replying to. That's why I like to think of it as "the least social network".

I don't take it too seriously either. Like okay, maybe HN has moved the needle in the real world sometimes but I think most of the discussion here doesn't have a real impact other than that we're entertained for the moment. (Though it would be interesting to see an analysis of what HN has or might have done in the real world.) Therefore I also sometimes see it as a bit of a "roleplay" where you act in a fancy way just for fun. Like, I'm not trying to mock anyone, I say exactly what I would say IRL, just in a more formal and correct manner and I think it's nice to do that occasionally but I don't know why. I'd like to know what others on this site think about that.

All in all, I don't know. There's a lot more to the question if a site is "healthy" I think and in the end it greatly depends on the receiver. HN also has a couple of mannerisms that could make it a bad experience for some, like strongly favoring some concepts and technologies while being extremely pessimistic on the rest. I'm glad there is something like HN but I think it could be a bit more open (to new ideas, different views, etc.) and, for the lack of a better word, human.

Addendum: While writing this I had the idea that Hacker News is filled with an equal amount of humans and (actual) robots and the humans are trained to be more robotic while the robots are trained to be more human, to prepare the singularity. That could make for an interesting novel.
The MacGyvers Taking on the Ventilator Shortage
why does that link redirect to some third party?

http://good-news.network/article/3XqVFb
302 Redirect
http://pubx.co/3XqVFb

301 Redirect
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-york-to-deploy-covid-pla...

Ahh, spammy blog with shady ad-block circumvention.
HPE releases urgent fix to stop enterprise SSDs conking out at 40K hours
>for a few thousand dollars

yep. Even 100K people at $100K would be just $10B, a laughable amount compare to the $6T stimulus in US.
Thanks so much for the clarification.

Couldn't you just put the solution through a gas chromatography machine?