skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if servers always enforced a minimum ping on the users! Never thought of this. Then, I might have had better luck playing shooters games when I was younger.
Can we get a fax.gov?

It's great that there are so many websites that can fax a PDF for you, but theres good cause to not trust them with your private information. Especially given the sort of information a Government service needs to process a claim.

Until the Government can figure out how to make usable websites, fax.gov would be a safer fallback.

It can charge a small fee for service, and maybe whitelist known Government fax numbers (to prevent scammers from convincing people to send data to a scam number).
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> I was under the impression that covid19 was a two step process. First the virus infects and attacks the protective layer of the lungs (causing cough and fever). Then, the damage done to the protective layer of the lungs results in an infection / pneumonia, and that's where people have respiratory problems and may be in critical condition. But at this stage the viral load is low and the virus isn't the problem anymore, the pneumonia is [1].

There are apparently a large number of cases that work differently, with hypoxemia prior to any evidence of severe lung dysfunction:

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.202003-0817...

There are also discussions of this phenomenon on Twitter by emergency medicine professionals from NYC, e.g.

https://twitter.com/ericleemd/status/1243613497243639809

Some of them propose that early mechanical ventilation in these patients can actually cause lung damage.
Have the people laid off on this list consented to have their contact info (email, name, linkedin etc) published like this?
Blockchain: A tool to comabat Covid-19
How much "better"/different is flutter compared to native Android development in your experience?
I am currently being forced to do learn native Android development with Java and hate every second of it.
Some of the replies are focusing too much on specific examples rather than applying the idea in general. Checking out a local news source and government announcements once a day during a crisis may expose you to information that you wouldn't know to look up, and that information may be vital.
To literally deal with their own shit! At the very least pay for it and dispose of it yourself.
Blumenthal is a 74 year old millionaire. Is it possible hes just forgotten the fact that hes presently on record as ardently opposed to competent encryption? or has he been lead to co-sponsor FOSTA without being given an honest explanation of what it actually does?
It's not super clear yet what the mechanism of Chloroquine (and derivatives like HCQ) is in combating COVID-19 / Coronavirus, and I imagine people are not sure about Remdesivir either, except that it was previously developed as an Ebola treatment (ineffective), but also shown to be effective in some in vitro studies on SARS-COV-1.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or an expert.

Chloroquine is suspected to have general prophylactic abilities (like Remdesivir), but also hypothesized that if taken with Zinc, [1] acts as an ionophore with which Zn2+ ions can inactivate the first part of the viral replication step. But at this time, clinical trials for HCQ have been somewhat mixed, with small N-size studies reporting weak benefits or lack of benefits. I don't know of any RCTs that include Zn2+ in the treatment group along with HCQ. It's still as yet unclear.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M
The New York Times wants a taxpayer funded bailout
That's interesting logic. In aggregate small businesses employ more people, so why are they paying effective higher rates? Because the label of the employment is from the a larger entity? Why not all just band together and create an even larger company of every SMB and pay 0 taxes. Free money!
whoosh..
Anecdata: I've taken three cruises over the last twenty years, and the obesity rate on those was an order of magnitude higher than what I see in my everyday life as a coastal yuppie -- the only other place I've seen that many people who are that fat was at Disney in Orlando. But America as a whole has a way higher obesity rate than what I see normally, so cruises might just be representative of the country in general.
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Great question. To talk to more people, I've started to do a couple of things very intentionally:

1. Be super authentic. People instantly become much more willing to help / interested in what you're doing when you're open and authentic about your goals, problems, and general story (people love stories).

2. Ask others for advice and mentorship (although maybe not in so many words).

The guy I chatted on LinkedIn was actually a friend of another contact that I'd made, who was willing to talk with me and mentor me (as well as connect me with his friends) as well because I opened up to him.
Yeah, what's useful today will be ossified in ten or twenty years. That's kind of the point I was making (which you note in your second paragraph). If you want a healthy ecosystem you have to remove the ability of economically-disconnected middlemen to screw with your protocol. And the best way to do that is to make it as dead simple as possible, so there is very little leeway in implementation.
Are the amounts on the website broken or am I slightly dense?
The "Overnight Weekend Bread" recipe (http://www.breadscheduler.com/#/recipe/5bac85f720211052e0b70...) instructs you to create 500g-550g of levain (the amounts in the overview and the step-by-step instructions don't quite match for me). Then, in the "Mix Dough" step it tells you to use 108g of the levain. What happens to the rest? Are you supposed to throw it out or keep it as your sourdough starter?

Also, the "Autolyse" step tells you to use 402g of white flour while the overview specifies 804g. (Judging by the hydration they must certainly mean 402g).
More complex ≠ better.

There are Lisps that are almost universally seen to be great. There are absolutely terrible Lisps as well.
Pretty much any career that has an up or out policy with the promise of riches if you don't get pushed out of which there are plenty. For example, many consulting companies work this way where they will pay you a fraction of your billing rate and have you work a ton of hours in the hope that you will eventually make partner which is where you make the real money.
There are going to be a lot of fundamentally good businesses going under because they mismanaged their cash flow. There are going to be a lot of promising products cancelled because their companies needed to shift resources back to their main products.

If there is any silver lining to the economic destruction happening right now, in a few years I hope to see strong businesses that were started during this time.
OP here: While I do share my articles here often, I think the content can be valuable to folks who recently lost their jobs or are looking for jobs. Regarding point 1, sometimes general advice is still practical. Regarding point 2, not all HN content is tech specific. 3: I included the links to tech companies hiring.
Not necessarily to get rich, but to be around for long enough to even offer your food to enough people that will appreciate the superior taste, nutrition and craft that went into all of your offerings.

If you are having to seek alms just to pay the bills or resort to charity to even sustain yourself as a restaurant, there is something fundamentally wrong with the makeup of what you offer. Simply put, far too many people think they have what it takes to run a restaurant. Their abilities and resourcefulness cannot match their over sized egos.
I'd say the extremes are

"I am above the law, you are not" and

"every law applies equally to us all, no exceptions."
Worth noting that there _is_ a chicken pox vaccine, you have to take two injections less than a year apart.

I never had chicken pox as a child and got the vaccine as an adult due to a colleagues child being exposed to the pox and knowing that it could affect me and my colleague quite badly.
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Are you unaware that judgement will be used?

Compassionate uses are hail marys and are used appropriately.
Thank you for the support.

The case of StarLink (in difference to (indoor) 802.11n/ac) won't give you more than polarization duplex (capped at 2x, in practice you'd get up to (iirc) ~30dB isolation) for any individual point-to-point connection. Yes, including the satellite <=> ground-facility "backhaul".

Theoretically it _should_ be possible to get like 10x bandwidth via spatial MIMO when using <3μm (likely <1μm) wavelengths, but that might require optical heterodyne detection to get the MIMO streams separated from another in the speckle pattern the atmosphere caused.

I'd like to read that paper about optical heterodyne detection spatial MIMO for the link to/from a satellite in an 200~1000km orbit.
Ask HN: Is HN Dead?
My apologies for the outrageous title.

As someone who started reading HN 7 years ago and (started participating in this amazing forum in late 2013, but of course mostly reading because I don't always have interesting things to say), I feel like over the years things have changed a lot on HN. The content here have a very different taste to them now. It might look like I am following the hashtag-X-is-dead trend and trying to play devil's meta-advocate here. I am just wondering what have changed and why I feel this way.

Please don't get me wrong. Of course there are still a lot of interesting topics and discussions going on and overall HN remains a unique place on the Internet and I'm still learning a lot reading HN - that has never changed.

But if someone is to ask me if HN is dead I would answer in the affirmative. HN in the recent years is just not the same HN I grew up with. It felt like a different place. It's like if I were to market a product to people here vs market the product to people here 4 years ago I will do it very differently (or even change the product, maybe).

I'm just curious what are other people's thoughts on this. Perhaps I am just being anal. Perhaps I'm becoming more narrow-minded as the world gets more polarised. So here is the question: will you agree or disagree with the proposition that "HN is dead" and why?
We do exactly this for example, for Australia vs USA matches, hosted in California. With minping, all players ping around 160ms.
It's surprising and disappointing that production takes 6 months, that's well beyond the peak of the pandemic.
I hope all companies in this world will care customers like Bose does.
I didn’t say all IRS/DMV businesses are conducted via snail mail. Some are. E.g. ever been audited? Also 1040NR couldn’t be e-filed at least a couple years back. As for DMV, this obviously varies by state (and again, the nature of the business).
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> Is this a good argument for a straight revenue tax on companies over a certain market cap? Incentivize then to break themselves up?

This exists for many giant companies; it's called "sales tax".

(Of course, sales taxes apply equally to small companies, so the incentive to break yourself up isn't there.)
That’s exactly what I’m saying. There’s a chicken and egg problem. Perhaps an entrepreneur could change things but I think you’d have to be ready to lose a lot of money before getting traction.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? The bigger the company, the more incentive it has to create a tax-avoidance strategy, and the more resources it has to do so successfully.

Avoiding taxes by legal means, is neither illegal nor immoral.
Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020?
Would you choose something else in this area?
Well that would be the first time a politician was completely worthless and serving only his own interests
OP here: While I appreciate the feedback and understand parts of it, I think writing general pieces that can help broader audiences still can be valuable. The piece wasn't designed to cover simply today's reality but tomorrow as well.
I made one a couple years ago to watch the clouds sail cross the sky. After a few weeks I noticed scratches in my acrylic dome. On review I have some nice picture of the feet and claws of juvenile bald eagle.

Sacrifice a bit of your horizon to make a perch higher than your dome.
Great effort! For those laid off, we’re working on compiling the companies that are still hiring filtered by role + location to help with your search.

https://levels.fyi/still-hiring
How many layoffs within tech? It is unclear to me much and how tech is affected.
Is a person dead when they change from being a child to an adult? Is a company dead when they transition from an old business to a new one?

Things change. Just because they aren't what they used to be, doesn't mean they're "dead", even if you don't like the change.
WebGL and animations, put together a NPM package to load GLTF files and show them with animations and materials. Quite tricky to get right but fun. Planning to use it for a game idea I have.

https://github.com/larsjarlvik/webgl-gltf

Demo: https://larsjarlvik.github.io/?model=robot
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I’m reading the Raft paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
The goal of establishing a lower bound is to inform decision-making. A lower bound of 0 is trivially true and doesn't help decision-making. A lower bound of 0.5% rules out some policy options, though -- in America, it means over a million people would have to die to achieve herd immunity, which is probably unacceptable to political leaders.

The higher the lower bound, the more policy options can be ruled out, and hence the more useful the bound.
This isn't a peer reviewed paper. It's an extremely brief summary piece based upon a complete absence of evidence and then suppositions.

And to what the guy above said, the Lancet infamously published Wakefield's since debunked repeatedly claim that MMR vaccines cause autism. A paper that has literally led to many deaths.
HN is dead, long live HN!
They could.

But with such a large, diverse pool of companies, I highly doubt they could get their interests to align.

But it’s not uncommon to see lobby groups for specific industries lobbying for favorable legislation.
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> n-BuLi is short for n-butyllithium, which bursts into flame if exposed to oxygen or water.

It looks like the author is overselling some of the dangers here.

While you really don't want to dump n-BuLi into water, you have no reason to either.

The problem child of the class to which n-BuLi belongs is t-BuLi. That will spontaneously ignite in air, whereas n-BuLi will not. There was a very high-profile case I believe at UCLA a few years back in which a student using t-BuLi in the lab caused a fire with it and ended up dying.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/87/i31/Learning-UCLA.html

Also, I find this article confusing in the way it's written. Take the title, for example. It gives the impression that the author is describing his own efforts to make remdesivir ("we").

What he's really describing is some preps he found in the literature. And with a little too much hyperbole for my taste.
> So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB.

Another idea would be to use SDL which essentially provides functionality to make windows, draw pixels and handle input/output. If you do not want to use any library at all and do not mind low "resolution", you could use your terminal as window and regard characters as pixels. Sure, there is the curses library to abstract away different terminals, but if you do not care about platform independence you can just directly write escape sequences to the terminal.
"giving people rights" sounds kind of odd. No one has the power to "give" rights to anyone else. Government can confer privileges and protect rights. But rights themselves are inalienable.
I wonder if they have more interest in UX than most people, and that gave their frameworks the edge.
BuildForCOVID19 by making Johns Hopkins data a real-time stream
How would you describe the difference between working in devops vs working in web dev?
What's wrong with being verbose?
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This is scary. But as Bill Gates suggested, as long as there is no vaccine that can be rolled out world wide, we will have to continue living differently.
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I agree, however if you have two accurate lower bounds then it’s only the higher one that’s useful. Aka X > 5 is not useful if you know X > 10.
Yes, WiFi uses the same channel for xmit/recv and is half-duplex at the MAC layer.
Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
Since low-coding is super trendy these days, I was wondering if there are actually useful apps not only for non-devs but also for lazy-devs?

I tried couple of no-code apps, but found them inflexible –not really giving you the opportunity to dive-in and customize.
I don't remember the details since it was a while ago but apparently for instance they couldn't have virtual/multiple accounts in one physical card because raised numbers for the account were desired, in line with: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/embossed_credit_car...
That's an incredibly short article for a "complete guide". Compare and contrast with https://nmap.org/book/toc.html
It can also, strangely, discover "inalienable" rights that were previously being... alientated.
Lot of smart people who are not selling their soul to empower companies to:

- track people and systematically destroy privacy forever

- trick kids into clicks via what should be illegal recommendation algorithms

- use their insanely talented minds to work in advertising

Need more diversity in tech. This should be encouraged vs gulping down the big fat framework FB tells you to
I used Svelte 3 for a fairly complex side project last year (rewrote it from React), and it's my favorite JS framework so far. I do wish the TypeScript story was better though.

I've also used Elm for another little side project, and it was super fun to learn, but it was a bit mind-bending at first.

I think Svelte is a fairly safe choice because it's actively developed and because it's not too different from Angular/React/Vue.

If there's any possibility that you'll have to hand this code over to someone else, I think Elm is a much less safe choice.

So, to echo tomerbd's reply: Elm for fun; Svelte for profit.
> If the hinted queries changed performance for the worse, why wouldn't you expect unhinted queries to also change for the worse after migration?

The hints can introduce wrong assumptions to the planner, which can lead to worse performance than if those wrong assumptions weren't there.
It's funded by Stripe. Probably the best way to support this work is by sharing it and upvoting it!
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It's a clear indicator we need to change the laws so it isn't legal.
Totally irrelevant, by many, many, orders of magnitude. Like 12-15 orders of magnitude, conservatively.
What are "road taxes"? Where I'm from, highway infrastructure is funded with general taxes (property or development taxes in municipalities, or federal/provincial income and sales taxes). There are additional taxes on fuel, but that covers only a small part of roaid maintenance.

And the Amish definitely pay taxes, even for schools which they don't use. (An exception is social security in the US because they were exempted from the very start, but they can't collect it either.)

Also, how is having horses pull buggies cruelty to animals? Horses are working animals, and it's no great hardship for them to pull a buggy or a plough. They can be overworked or treated roughly, but so can any animal.
I like those. I think they’re orthogonal to the axis I was suggesting, which makes them all the more interesting.
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> Furthermore, I can’t think of a place in code where the generic and comparison use cases of < or > would be ambiguous or even adjacent.

Most languages that use angle brackets for generics (e.g. C++, Rust, Swift) also allow you to explicitly instantiate generics, which leads to a syntactic ambiguity, e.g. is

a < b > (c)

a function call or two comparisons? The usual way to disambiguate in these cases is to check whether b is plausibly a type and treat it as a generic, but this is ugly on a few different levels.
This is funny, sad and familiar all at the same time. It’s not limited to politicians either. I’ve seen top leadership in companies where they cut resources or investment in an area, then when the quality or output suffers make grandstanding speeches about how this must be improved, they’re either totally clueless or psychos, or in some cases a bit of both.
maybe adventofcode?
>until those rights are used against you

This is handled by the old common law saying, "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Countries that operate on common law systems (like the US) are a lot better at handling rights than statutory law countries like the UK, which have to decide all of these things in advance. In the US system there is really not anything tort law cannot handle.
Like you I also hope to see bailouts, but the biggest bailouts happen because industries that receive them have an army of experienced lobbyists.

Hospitals for better or worse have negligible presence with lobbyists and won't receive the windfalls that fossil fuel, airlines, airline manufacturers, and cruise lines will.
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Your website has no content as of now, so would you mind sharing one sentence what you’re doing/building - at least roughly? SaaS, product, ML ... ?
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I would add that government can also take away rights whether inalienable or not.
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Feinstein was re-elected in 2018 and so won’t be up again until 2024, when she’ll be 91. It’s quite likely that she won’t ever face the voters again.
Right, with this and chloroquine, assuming it works to prevent the virus from binding to ACE2, you'd want it to be in the early stages, before massive damage to the lungs, liver, intestines and brains are done (all of these are targeted by this virus). All other countries that are testing these are giving the drugs to patients in both the early and late stage of the infection. In the US alone, trials are only being done in the very late stage, after permanent damage has been done, and it's less likely to be of much use.
Trying to learn quantum machine learning. I am currently a physics professor, but considering moving to industry.
Airbnb:

> 80% of Marketing Layoffs globally. Followed by non-technical roles (business functions - Finance, HR, Legal, Business Operations, Sales Dept)

Can someone confirm that ?
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Being able to negotiate (or lobby, or coerce, or bribe -- pick your term) lower taxes does not justify lower taxes.

Economies of scale create value when leveraged to, say, produce more goods with less effort, but they do not create value when they are leveraged in zero sum games against customers, workers, or society.

> If there’s not a net gain, then don’t take the deal.

The thing about deals is that what happens between deals is always more important than the deal itself. Focusing on the value flow exclusively at the point of exchange is a terrible mistake. Otherwise highway robbery would be a value-creating activity: "Hey, I'm offering you your life in exchange for everything you own, that's a great deal! If you don't like the deal, don't take the deal!"