skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only thing I can respond to your lengthy comment is: politics as we have it now is rigged in the favor of populist "leaders" that do what people want them to do, not what is the right thing to do.

I mostly agree, but I would replace "populist leaders" with something like "the rich and powerful". If you think back to before Trump's election, can you remember anyone complaining about the system being rigged in favor of the rich and powerful?

> With "one man, one vote" the lower 51% less educated and intelligent part of the voters will elect the politicians that play their tune, even if the other 49% that are more qualified will vote otherways.

I agree a lot with this also. Where you and I likely differ quite substantially is in the designation of who belongs in the groups "less educated and intelligent part of the voters" or "more qualified". I consider concepts like intelligence and qualification to be highly dimensional, where most people seem to see it as uni-dimensional (here I must speculate, because ideas like this seem to be a rather sensitive subject for many people).

> In a way, it is the dictatorship of the stupid (no intention to offend someone, just math and basic psychology).

I would absolutely love to see the math behind this, are you referring to a specific paper of some kind?

> If a country leader tells them to self-isolate, they will laugh and ignore until it gets serious and in hindsight they blame politicians.

This seems true enough, there have been all sorts of people on TV laughing it up on the beach with full knowledge that a global pandemic was underway. It would be nice if we could find a way to put some additional sense into these people's minds.

> When you have no pandemic for 100 years you don't care about ventilators and ventilator contracts, you care about unemployment, taxes, football and the last iPhone models.

110% agree here - it's true, and it is a very big deal, imho.

> History is always forgotten because regular Joe and Jane don't read history and Einstein has a single vote.

Yup. The interesting thing about that though, is that hardly anyone reads history. Take HN for example, I'd be surprised if even 10% of the people here would remotely qualify as "students of history", yet I suspect the percentage of people who consider themselves qualified to deploy phrases like "History is always forgotten..." would be up around the 90% range. Obviously I'm not referring to you here since I mostly agree with everything you've said, but I suspect I'm at least in the ballpark.
It's not as if the web-UI "toolkits" that openui is attempting to "standardize" don't already have those things either.

The issue seems to be that the way they work, and the way to work with them, differs from toolkit to toolkit.

I.e. just like ye olde SQL forms tools and ye not so olde desktop-native toolkits.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"

In India, where there is currently a huge political divide, this crisis can actually bring people together. The right and left wing bigots will realise this soon enough.
Those are massive companies with little competition and millions of global customers so they can have crap-tier support that works most of the time and get away with it.

You're not going to put up with that for Meetup.
I think snow blindness gets the retinas more than the corneas. Had it once. Not nice.
I read that, and the key thing to pay to attention is whether you willfully did something that was “unfair”, “unjust”, and “fraudulent”.

I don’t think those apply here. If by sheer accident you were hit with a giant AWS bill, and you were facing potentially having to shut down your company, and you conducted the maneuver that I described, what’s wrong with it? Your company was facing a life-or-death situation, and decided to be reborn.

Maybe there needs to be a form of corporate bankruptcy where the company can retain its core/key IP assets...
I wasn't advocating one way or the other. It was a genuine question. If 10 orders per hour is typical, that is $50/hr on top of what they are already making. Even just 4 orders per hour is an additional $20/hr. That could put the total pay to at least $30/hr? I think maybe that's fine for a luxury service like this, but that kind of pay probably shrinks the market for this service considerably, I can't imagine the margins in this business are very high.

Personally, I would be fine with paying $5 extra per order of groceries, but I'm not a user of services like this.
Love that the name "rhymes" with Git (both are insults), potentially a good fit for MLOps to version your training splits.
Far-uv tech vs. viruses = has this been around since 2008?
Also -- And this speaks more to Airbnb's shoddy enforcement more than anything else (and maybe they've changed it, it's been almost two years), but a relative, after being banned by Airbnb for winning a CC dispute due to this exact same problem, was simply able to sign up immediately after with a new account (and credit card number); the ID verification didn't even present any problems.
it's of a piece with git:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git
It is, relative to the assumptions people usually make about the HN community. The other common wrong assumption is that HN is concentrated in or somehow represents Silicon Valley. In fact less than 10% of the community is in SV and the majority of the userbase, if anything, identifies against it.

Incidentally, many of the HN members in the US come from other countries, so 50% is a lower bound.

By the way, I think you may be using more precise definitions of some of these words than I am. That's because I'm commenting about this strictly from a moderation point of view. If you post pejoratives about "average characteristics of the population of a nation", we're going to get a flamewar whether you intended it or not. And it's going to be about national characteristics, hence the phrase "nationalistic flamewar".

The thing we care about is convincing users not to post to HN in ways that are guaranteed to lead to shitty, nasty discussion. You're no doubt right that some of these topics can be discussed in ways that are not ideologically nationalistic, just like a high-energy physics lab can work with high temperatures without burning down the building, but this is the internet and those distinctions don't apply.
What does git mean?
I’ve addressed this in this reply to a sibling comment stating that the LLC/corporate shield could be pierced here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734033
sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (1/2)^n approaches 1, eventually.

Rather than waiting for an infinite time horizon and theoretical rampup, the better approach would be to build a bridge for a bit.
That's also what Git means.
A sibling comment explained it better than I did, but it's not the comfortable chair or the beer or the lunches or the foosball table. It's the slippery slope of unchecked spending. Plus while an Aeron is a great chair, you can find a lot of great chairs for at least half the price (including used Aerons)
Interesting that Starry Night is a bestseller for the start-up, but not available from the Van Gogh Museum in either collection.
Package registry is pretty important for my organization. We need to do builds with jndi and other similar java libraries. We deployed Nexus OSS because we did not want to pay for GitLab Premium.
It's far from clear how long masks will be effective against SARS-CoV-2 (aka Coronavirus) for.

First, when testing their masks for their effectiveness, the manufacturers of these masks were certainly not testing them against SARS-CoV-2, as it didn't exist five years ago. Even now, it's very unlikely any manufacturers are testing their masks against SARS-Cov-2. What they were probably testing them against is various toxic fumes and smoke -- the things they're actually rated to be effective against, not viruses.

Second, some filters used in respirator-style masks have charcoal in them, and that charcoal will absorb fumes from the environment while in storage, so depending on what environment a filter is stored in and for how long the charcoal may not be as effective at absorbing various toxic fumes and smoke that these filters were tested for, but for all we know they may still be quite effective against filtering out SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

Third, it's well known that some manufacturers put bogus expiration dates on their products, and the products are good well past the expiry date. This is a phenomenon well known in the food industry. I'm not sure how widespread it is among mask manufacturers, but I wouldn't put it past them to also have unreliable expiry dates.

The CDC has some guidelines regarding the use of expired masks: [1][2] and they approve of the use of some such expired masks. However, it's not clear what tests they actually used to decide on the suitability of such masks, and if these masks were actually tested against SARS-CoV-2. It is pretty unlikely that they had randomized, double-blind trials of hundreds of people wearing masks and hundreds not and exposing them all to SARS-CoV-2 to see which got infected. Their tests were probably much more imperfect, and so their results less reliable.

All in all, there's just too little information to know how effective expired masks are against infection by SARS-CoV-2, but they're probably better than nothing.. especially the ones the CDC has blessed in their research.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/release-stockpiled...

[2] - https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/FAQ-N95.aspx
I totally agree we shouldn't call it open source if we mean proprietary and source available. We changed the classification of our company from open source to open core a while ago https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core... Sorry for the inconsistency in this thread.
Couldn't help but think of Dune & Fremen references when I saw the headline.
I'm sure at some point, but at that point you're no longer really their customer and I'm sure they're less worried about not completely destroying your work or livelihood.

I've actually had my payments on my personal account bounce once or twice and no, they did not.
Businesses are not just a website.
VC is responsible for creating these behemoth bloated cesspits. If Meetup wasn't constantly being bailed out by venture capitalists, it would have died long ago and been replaced with a more nimble distributed ecosystem. The efficiency of capitalism lol.

I'm a big fan of consciously capping a startup to 20-100 people max. Just hire slowly and automate everything. If you don't hard cap numbers you'll inevitably end up with multiple layers of managerial hierarchy in both vertical and horizontal silos.
Depression of 1920–21
I don't think it's that clear cut. The Schmoes are still leaving the house to grocery shop and get exercise. Two masks could make the difference for them and/or everyone near them in the next week. What will two masks do for a hospital full of healthcare workers?
Seven tips to manage your mental health and well-being during the Covid-19
> Furthermore, if any court finds that your action was not appropriate, I will urge my lawmakers to craft a specific exception to copyright law to support the internet archive lending at all times, not just during a national emergency.

Would there be any limits to your proposed exception? Or could they buy a single copy of a book and lend out as many simultaneous copies as readers asked for?
David Deutsch, the physicist who proved that quantum computers can be Turing complete, has recently created constructor theory:

http://constructortheory.org/

"Constructor Theory is a new approach to formulating fundamental laws in physics. Instead of describing the world in terms of trajectories, initial conditions and dynamical laws, in constructor theory laws are about which physical transformations are possible and which are impossible, and why. This powerful switch has the potential to bring all sorts of interesting fields, currently regarded as inherently approximative, into fundamental physics. These include the theories of information, knowledge, thermodynamics, and life."
http://constructortheory.org/
If there was an HP Zbook or Dell XPS system with Ryzen and AMD graphics I'd seriously consider it.

Sigh...
Merge request approval isn't in the open source version? That's a huge missing feature.

I don't see how that fits into the pricing scheme outlined in the post either, unless they consider the maintainers of a project to be managers?
I regret to inform you that SOAP's death has been limited to open source. Enterprise continues to eat it up.
Isn't there a trade-off though between always knowing what a button does on the first guess and having to misclick once or twice but then having a clean UI forever? I prefer the latter.
That is the definition as defined by that one group... but others have a different definition.

Just because you own the domain name doesn't mean you get to be the only source for a word's definition.
That's the spirit. Thank you, I'm really impressed with this. I hope there are lots of people like you. It's easy enough to be frustrated and to wish for radical change in politics, hopefully for the better. But disruption for disruptions' sake is ignoring a lot of lessons from history.

One thing you might want to do is to do a write-up of how you were thinking before, what specifically made you change your mind and to promote that as wide as you can. You just might convince a couple of fence sitters.

I have no dog in the race, but since the rest of the world suffers when America is weak I'd much rather have them strong and stable than leaving a power vacuum. And that's taking into account that the democratic party is far from perfect.
What an utter waste of time and resources. It looked fine before and doesn't look any better now. Worse if anything.
FCP, Adobe, etc. Apple has enough market power, cash, and know how to pull some combos and killer features off.
Thanks for the link. I got this news through the following link

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
Declaring this "pro-social" doesn't suddenly make it legal. It's clearly not any more legal then lending out a single copy of a DVD to one million people via BitTorrent.

I get that it seems generous to give away these works. But they simply weren't theirs to give away to begin with. If you want to lend out 1,000 copies of book, first you have to buy 1,000 copies of said book.

I'm disappointed with Internet Archive. They're opening themselves up to a huge lawsuit, and I'd hate to see their mission derailed because of it.
Ask HN: How would you an API to handle request variability by US state?
I have been struggling with determining a sane approach to building a REST API for servicing each state within the United States. Effectively, it would be creating the same semantic resource/operation for each state, but the input/attributes of that resource slightly vary by state. Some states are nearly identical and others are drastically different.

One option I have tried in the past is having a super operation with a large interface for supporting all states, then the application handles the state variability within the application code. However, this makes the interface confusing for consumers as it quickly becomes unclear which attributes apply to which state.

Another option, which I have been rather hesitant of pursuing, could involve separate operations for each state with concrete contracts (i.e. an API path /my-service/ca/my-operation). This seems like it would introduce a maintainability issue within the code to support 50 operations and lead to code redundancy.

Curious if others have encountered a similar problem.
That of the article.
$2T Bill Documented in Google Spreadsheet
Macroeconomics. Normally they are but when there is a huge shock to the economy like now they don't have the money to bail everyone at once hence either the government steps in or else companies fold and many lose their jobs unnecessarily.
"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself." --Linus
I guess the parent was referring to re-implementing them within the browser. In other words, not using the actual native one but creating a fake one that looks and behaves like the native one.
Ask HN: What are you working on in lockdown?
Hi all,

Now that we’re in lockdown I’m planning to try and code/produce something every day to be productive.

Curious to know what everyone else is working on outside of their normal work.
A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe
Thanks, "open core" is a classification I would agree with for GitLab. Cheers!
Lead pollution in ancient ice cores may track rise and fall of medieval kings
> What we need is a browser standard for templated/reactive rendering of DOM content

They already created that a long time ago and nobody used it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms

Before anybody starts crying about it being XML please remember that SVG is XML. Everybody loves SVG and it integrates into HTML just fine.

I really don’t see the practical difference between your idea and the idea proposed by this site.
Facebook offers much the same thing for "free" though.
Sorry I should have been more clear in my comment. I meant to emphasize that the outages were not related to COVID-19. So there is no point of repeating the same thing everywhere as it is not relevant.
> with the 1918 pandemic

which we got through without state-wide lockdowns.
Finally setting up selfhosted stuff, have one rpi and one old laptop. Gonna setup some backup services on them and also will try out mycoft.ai.

Also taking course on machine learning by andrew ng, so far so good :)

And getting back to some old projects and ideas.
Very cool! The world needs better version control for data.

How does this compare to something like Pachyderm?

How does it work under the covers? What is a splice and what does it mean when it overlaps? https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/blob/84d9eded517167eb2...

Is it feasible to use Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) for this?
The NOS article clearly mentioned FFP2 rating in the second paragraph (from Google Translate):
"This concerns almost half of a batch of 1.3 million so-called FFP2 masks, 600,000 pieces. "

Am I missing something?
So, they're renting games that aren't widely available for purchase anymore? At what point do we sit back and agree that it makes no sense to extend protections to IP that isn't being sold anymore? Forgive my possible naivety here, but we grant patents/copyrights/trademarks to mitigate opportunity costs in markets, not to stop someone else from taking credit for an idea. So, if there's no continuous market, the risk of lost capital would be immaterial to the IP holder's interests, right?

I might sound radical here, so feedback is welcome. But this reads to me like anti-free-market: Invent a product, sell product with protections to limit theft of the idea, market evolves and the product and derivatives stop being profitable, no active market for product but protections continue... There's a logic break in the logistics there.

Maybe some protections allow them to transform the original product for a current market, but if that does nothing about the market for the original product, unauthorized distribution is immaterial to the holder. They can't lose revenue on a product they weren't exercising due diligence to earn revenue on at that time.
Historically, the only people who have ever rejected the OSD have been people who think that open source ought to be more conveniently defined so that they can capitalize on the marketing potential of the phrase without meeting the actual criteria for being open source software. There have been systemmic efforts to gaslight the open source community like this. The fact is: term is and has always been defined by the OSD, the OSI is the group which invented the term "open source", and you cannot change the meaning of the phrase to suit your perverted financial needs. The term was never controversial before it started catching on and being a nuisance for people trying to sell proprietary software.

Calling software open source when it's not is lying at best and outright fraud at worst.
Yup, that was my point but I failed to clarify in the first comment.
The approach of keeping people employed with their current employer sees value in maintaining the existing arrangements of employers and employees during the period of suppressed economic activity. Therefore it's a more socialist perspective, viewing a large part of economic value as derived from the common social fabric, and not just the capital of the business. The forgivable small business loan parts of the CARES act seem to be somewhat modeled on this concept.

The approach of firing idled staff and just having them collect unemployment doesn't value the preservation of the employer-employee relationships, and assumes that if they are broken up, they will all re-emerge naturally if necessary after the lockdowns are over. This is a more libertarian approach - no guarantees to employees (but still not totally as it still involves government backed unemployment insurance programs).
That sort of means a huge Trump landslide though. A day before election Hillary Clinton "had" 95% probability of winning. And she didn't have Alzheimers and didn't sniff children.
how easy is it to setup ?

I thought I'd print a little ad for kids in my neighborhood to use contribute their gpu
> While millennials and Gen Z kept partying and going to the beach, and boomers who didn’t want to recognize they are not so young anymore kept brunching, Gen X stood up and took action — and stayed in.

I never understood how broad-sweeping generalizations get made like this. Where's the data to support it? Some rowdy college kids on spring break don't speak for all of Gen Z. Sure, the going narrative is "young people don't care because it's inconsequential to them" -- it makes for a nice sound bite, but is it actually realistic?
I'm not sure "can't buy back shares" is the right policy economically. Buying back shares is just a way to give profits to shareholders like paying dividends or similar.

What they should do is companies benefiting from state aid have to give a lot of shares or options to the state in return. Maybe near 100% in bad cases.
I'd think carefully about what that incentivises. Do you really want a bunch of people who don't really wanna be there turning up to get their $10 back?
Unfortunately, HOPL 4 has been postponed because of the virus, but that will be a hoot, with Rich Hickey, Don Syme, Dan Ingalls, Robert Harper, Brendan Eich, Walter Bright, Bjarne Stroustrup....
Fair, but what alternatives are there ?
Maybe not a killer app, but there are certain kinds of collaborative 'CRUD' apps that could benefit greatly from having versioning built into the database as a service.

For instance, how much of a functional wiki could one assemble from off-the-shelf parts? Edit, display, account management, templating, etc could all be handled with existing libraries in a wide array of programming languages.

The logic around the edit history is likely to contain the plurality if not the majority of the custom code.