skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Constantly seeing Apple Arcade (their paid service) at the top of the App Store app is annoying, unfair, and unnecessary. They even have a 'sign up for Apple TV+' at the top of the Settings app IIRC. Apple already controls/owns the ecosystem. There's no reason they need to spam the system with ads for their own apps/services.
Therefore, the sane person lives inside a secured enclosure with military-grade defenses, with the potential threats making of their important decisions for them.
This just in, from Washington: Donald Trump is racist! In other news, we're all going to die! Are masks effective? Nobody seems to agree! #SocialDistancing! Next, we'll listen to experts predict things! Maybe they'll be right this time! More at 11!

No, thanks.
That's the SO way, though—there's so much they need to fix and won't or can't, that they need to distract from their user-hostility by making a fuss over whatever small user-positive things they do do.
I suspect it’s the airports and aircraft themselves rather than the destination that’s at issue. Small isolated groups may become infected, but they are far less likely to infect others outside the group. Airports inherently mix people from large areas within a country together which crosses those boundaries.
Probably the injuries from silly unnecessary unsafe movements like this
No it proves my argument,e by e market works. No one should be investing in shale oil right now. And when we need shale oil, it will be there waiting.
The only sound advice one can give is: there are two elements to consider:
1) ethics is different from law
1.1) the ethical way: respect robots.txt protocol
2) consult a lawyer
2.1) prior written consent, they will say, prevents you from being sued, and not much else.
I don't know what you mean by 'just android', they get paid when people use the search bar. Apple does not allow other browsers, I think you have been told this elsewhere in this thread.
Ask HN: In FAANG companies, what PM/organising/get-things-done tools are used?
My curiosity is not just for Fb, Apple, Amazon, Netflix or Google, but also other big tech companies. Besides the obvious dogfooding cases (like MS using MS Teams), what other tools are there used for:

- Remote working
- Communication
- Organizing teams/project management
- Get-things-done
Did you miss the rest of that comment: "Even the term “elite panic” is lie. The elite are fine in a disaster and they know it."
Google has estimates of this which you can see in Google Maps.
The UK is still bound to the EU rules until the end of the year.

Here is an article stating this explicitly in connection to the "ghost flight" rules:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/10/eu-airlines...
One thing you can always depend on HN for: there will be "that guy" who willfully ignores the point and jumps in to correct you based on a literal interpretation.
98point6 raises another $43M to expand virtual healthcare tech
I am not saying you can't be both user and publisher. I am saying that these are two different processes often made by different people.

When you publish book you have mostly zero power over how it will be designed. And honesty you should have zero power over it because there are people editors/designers/typesetters who dedicate their lives to exactly that. Better to let them handle it. Same goes for the web.
> FAANG will probably survive in some form because of cash reserves, but there will absolutely be cancelled projects and mass lay-offs. And those will have an effect on the the property and rental markets, on startup funding, and on everyone's cash flow

FAANG will lay off their armies of contractors before down sizing FTEs. Google has 125k FTEs but over 300k temps. Will it get to the point where FTEs are laid off? I’m not sure, but it seems pretty unlikely unless things don’t improve over the next few years or so
Yesterday I read an article that claims an opposite of elite panic -- working class denial? -- of the virus is happening in my city [0].

The thesis is that a community (euphemistically termed a "subculture") of older African Americans in Philadelphia refuse to participate in the quarantine due to their skepticism of the federal government's public health directives due to previous medical conspiracies, namely the Tuskegee Experiments.

0: https://6abc.com/health/expert-says-subculture-still-thinks-...
Top Fastest Growing and Declining Categories in E-Commerce
https://thedailychain.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-hex-the-quick...
If the history of the world teaches anything, it's that "don't worry, the effects of this will be small and contained" is always false. (Insert inevitable Godwinism here.)
Maybe the same reason why others choose to omit light modes, despite that being my preference.
Literally just came to post the exact same comment.
haha yes indeed. I had never heard the term "turning point" used like that, but I guess it makes sense if you think about it as the turning point of the first derivative.

But I learned what a logistic function is, so thank you. I guess that is needed for the cumulative count.

You might be interested in this. I posted it a few days ago- it's why I'm talking Gaussians.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043752v...
I find it funny that it's pitched as helping eye strain and readability when a light background dilates your eyes, improving focus.

That and everyone patting themselves on the back for building dark mode.
That dislocation was temporary, and prices did what they are supposed to do, they spiked to better allocate limited supplies and spur more rapid redevelopment.

The strategic oil supplies releases were done to lower prices for summer drivers to prevent damage to Bushes popularity rating.
This is a weird headline. It amounts to the claim that f(x) = x + 3 is made from non-invertible parts because its "subcomponent" g(x) = 3 is non-invertible.

But who cares? Our f(x) is as conceptually simple as an invertible function can be. If we're going to consider it to have been assembled from non-invertible parts, then what's interesting about the fact that an invertible function can be assembled from non-invertible parts? It's impossible to define any function, invertible or not, without using non-invertible parts -- by this definition.
I moved to a smaller town and there's only local one box which is populated with the town's supply of douchebags. It's hit or miss: sometimes a crossfit gym is a fun bunch of people, other times it's a bunch of head-butting-brahs that make the whole experience awful.
None of the problems you describe (to the extent they are problems--for example, futures and commodities markets are natural features of any market and serve useful purposes, though many people ignorant of basic economics don't recognize that) are problems of "industrial food". They are problems of bad government.

Furthermore, even if all of those problems of bad government were magically solved, it wouldn't change the fact that people won't buy things they can't afford. If you can't make the kind of food you prefer cheaper, most people won't buy it, because they can't. They're going to get the best deal they can for what they can afford to spend. Moralizing won't change that.
Maybe. I find so much white light overwhelming and have used dark styles nearly everywhere for many years. Even with night color shifting the lighter backgrounds feel like overkill
Do you know if there’s a good equivalent for node, or something client side in React?
The American people want public services to be funded, but that is not where money comes from. American politicians are far more influenced by big money than they are by their constituents.
Are nurses guilty of ‘price gouging’ for being paid $10k per week in NYC?
Air-Independent Propulsion
Show HN: Send life-saving Medical Gear to Doctors
> Supply is also dropping as tons of homeowners are refinancing, which balances out any drop in demand.

Can you explain this? How does refinancing affect housing supply?
Notify didn't actually handle those particular messages. It can only, like most services, send text messages to specific numbers.
Agreed, it's a matter of degree. You can auto-scale up to a certain amount, at least in Heroku, so in practice you can limit it, say up to 8 servers or something, but nothing beats your own box if you can afford the opportunity cost.
how does it work ? if i look for "business" i have not so much about business...
I just use a single spreadsheet on Google Sheets. This is mostly for ideas/things I want to explore with three columns:

Name, Description, Notes

It's been working well so far.
To "stay healthy" obviously, as by not doing that you may need to interrupt forevever.
Weird, why? Since he can't keep this information from leaking around the world, the best strategy is to obfuscate it and show his trusted partners the concepts required to understand it. By gaining notoriety around the world, he is also attracting more partners, and he can filter them out (ie. he knows english, but will only do lectures in japanese, inside the country). If at some point the information gets fully decoded, he will be recognized as having solved the problem anyway. In the meanwhile there is a technological advantage to keep.
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Oh this is really cool! I could definitely make use of something like this.
From a geopolitical aspect I think this is perhaps the most significant leverage the "west" has over Russian military adventurism

Russia is a petrostate, so the most significant leverage we could have over them is electric vehicles and, ideally, appropriate carbon taxes. Nuclear power would probably be #2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992958
The (7th) Guest's New Clothes
I work for a Fortune 150 company as a programmer. I've had lots of people ask me why I don't move to California and work for a startup. The main reason is because I'm risk adverse and I really don't like the Bay Area (I spent many years living in San Ramon, Alameda, Newark, etc. in my youth and have no desire to ever return). Now I have a new reason to be grateful I work for a Fortune 150 company. I've been able to work from home no problem. Nobody has been laid off. The company has already announced that they are going to go ahead and pay 100% of our year end bonus regardless of what happens in the 4th quarter (the current quarter). Frankly the quarantine has been very very non-stressful for me and my family so far. I don't think that would be the case if I had been working for a startup.
There's a reason we try to automate repetitive manual labor - it's dangerous and detriment to long term health. The whole of human existence has been a long march towards minimizing labour though we've definitely overshot to the point where disease of affluence has become our foremost public health challenge. That said, cultivating fitness in modern society should focus on the least amount of labour for maximum individual and public health benefits. An hour of strength training, some cardio per week to build individual durability and cardiovascular health is probably the most sensible prescription. A common anecdote between people who deadlift 600lbs and build houses for a living is how much pain they live with in later life.

On the topic of clubs, these are surprisingly good prehab tools for shoulder health.
Devonthink.
It's because the first two are actually not a comparison. The first image is a screenshot of author's first attempt, while the second is a designer's (maybe the author's?) mockup.

For an accurate comparison, compare the first and last screenshots in the article.
This looks extremely annoying, but the raw doing of the project is interesting. I appreciate it exists but I hate it :D
"The small towns of Faulkner, the paranoid communities of Pynchon, the tangled but discrete “cases” of Raymond Chandler, all reflect beyond themselves onto the guilt, corruption, and greed that power our national political “progress” and economic “growth.”"

I really hate cynicism. It's considered hip nowadays to think everything is degraded, monstrous, corrupt garbage. It's like people have forgotten that there's more to humans than the murderous. Must we blind ourselves to the good in order to recognize the bad? How about the respect for human dignity, the love of family and country, the sacrifice, the self-restraint, the growth and change, the reform that we've seen through human history, and American history in particular? Was the Civil Rights Act powered by "guilt, corruption, and greed"? Was the establishment of drug safety standards? Was the abolition of slavery?

People are so blithe in proclaiming everything horrible. I just worry it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This is a whole new level of crazy to me, what on earth do people think 5g has to do with the current pandemic?

>One suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.

What on earth??? Do they think the virus is a conscious thing that can communicate.

This is insane.
At-home Covid-19 exposure and immunity testing
These people are risking their fucking lives, and you're penny-pinching? Get real.
Right now voting is like cheering at the professional wrestling. Do it if that's what you enjoy. Don't think for a second you are having influence. Trump v Biden. Seriously, caring is like caring about the wrestling result. Both these gentleman have been bought and paid for and have zero credibility. While the stench of sexual assaults, pathological lies and an absence of talent and worthiness permeates both at a cellular level.

Yes but Kang is on my team and Kodos & co are just evil! Vote! Cheer for Hulk Hogan!

Which flavour of total corruption do you want? Any of Trump's Republican challengers would have been better than him. Any of Biden's Democrat challengers would have been vastly better. Until there's an overwhelming movement to pick the candidate who is not actually bought and paid for (unless they're actually comparable to Stalin levels of evil) the whole thing is lost.
Democracy was so hard won and is so very worthwhile. The end run around democracy has been spectacular in its success. I would have thought it impossible if i hadn't lived to see it.
It seems to be incorrect in regards to zoom. Zoom interest rose 30ish percent from March 3 until today. During that time there was a 20% increase in uaers. The interest level should match levels somewhat.
You don't understand why ignoring news during the biggest global pandemic in a century might not be wise?
Yes, thanks for this. The modulation to G-flat and then the respelling to f# is absolutely stunning. I debated quite a bit about what to say here. I often dislike program notes that give a harmonic play-by-play, for exactly the reasons you say, but I was hoping to help build an intuition for what a "distant key" might sound like. If they hear it and are told it at the same time, maybe it'll register that it does sound foreign.

But you're right that it's meaningful in the context of the earlier iteration -- I'll give some thought about what can be done here. Perhaps it's another layer or for another audience.
Schadenfreude is an absolute awful response to this. A lot of us are just trying to put food on the table and pay off student loans.
The thing that annoys me about "lifestyle business" is that it also suggests this idea of short days, tons of vacation, etc. Which is usually not the case.
> 100,000 people on the governor's doorstep ready to riot will get bipartisan legislation instilled immediately.

That doesn't sound like democracy.
How can you possibly fly while social-distancing? Even in first class.
Ask HN: How was your experience when you hired a PR/Marketing Agency?
Agreed, and the author (whose work I generally love) seems to also set up a straw man, considering cases where a small, single-digit percentage of humanity is affected. Sure, in that case, there won't be much social upheaval, as most institutions of "civilization" will remain intact.

If you consider a zombie story in the vein of The Walking Dead, we're confronted with a world where something like 90-99% of humanity is dead or zombified. Governments are gone, militaries are gone, industry is gone. I expect we'd see a pretty violent world where people try to protect their immediate family and are naturally distrustful of all but small groups of people. I don't think this has anything to do with so-called "elite panic"; if you reduce people to constantly struggling to fulfill basic survival needs, and remove any kind of laws or consequences, people will do whatever they need to do, and resorting to violence will end up quite common.
it would have been somewhat would be useful if you could tie into inventory systems like brickseek, or directly from online grocers/amazon-wholefoods/instacart.

but... during this time, even those systems are unreliable so i cant imagine this being of much use as of now.
Heh. My website has crashed due to excessive bandwidth -- I'm working on it.
Not bad but still intrusive.

So idea is to let you continue for some time and not be intrusive and not change anything (OK, anything important at all). Suggestions like chaning fonts or graying the screen are just not that.

Besides color, what else could be done ? Here is some brainstorming from me:

1. THe more you work, the slower are keys rendered, just as when computer slows down. This allows for some continuation but eventually you will stop to let computer (and yourself) rest.

2. The more your work, the more random, very short, beep sound is inserted on key presses. The same benefits as above unless you turn off the volume in which case the good old BIOS beep could do. This may deconcentrate a bit tho.

3. The more you type the more mouse starts moving on its own. Eventually it just flies around like crazy (until you use it, then when you don't it starts again). Yes you can still continue working like nothing happens.

4. The windows border colors start changing, the more you work, the more frequent it gets. It can be less distracting then mouse flying around.

All of above wont change a thing in your workflow which is important here as you want to allow some continuation and you don't actually want to change anything for user (screen size, font size, brightness changes, etc. are all intrusive and can change word ordering, syntax coloring etc. something you may depend a lot upon ( I do ).
It does lead to a general sense of degrading lawlessness throughout society. When powerful people start to have contempt for laws it can get really abusive.
Hamilton Township settles false arrest lawsuit for nearly $1M
What is PPE (Personal protective equipment)?
Wearing skiing gloves.
I still use a 2010 ThinkPad T410S that I haven't been able to find a better recent replacement for. But that's just my very humble opinion.

I've looked at the ThinkPad P series, and the X1 series. But they didn't convince me they were a better overall acquisition than my existing T410S.

I use Mint MATE as my everyday OS.
All the GitHub stars that show HN: has given me will keep me employable for a long time. Speak for yourself
They think the effects people are experiencing aren't from a virus at all, but from millimeter-wave 5G radiation. Same fear as the TSA nude-body imaging scanners but on a worldwide scale.
Although if you look at his rather colourful webpage, the strong, almost defensive, warning that Japanese will be the language used (at a Japanese institution of course) doesn't detract from the anecdotal suggestions that have dogged the saga of a reluctance to engage more fully with the world beyond his local region.

Scholze and Stix had to go to him.

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/students-english.h...
Obviously superior alternatives who ran this year: Gabbard, Sanders, Warren, Booker, Castro, de Blasio, Gravel. Plausibly superior such alternatives: Klobuchar, Harris, Gillebrand, Hickenlooper, Inslee, Bullock.

One could have predicted Biden would run in 2020 several decades ago, since after all he has run for president every other decade for the last five decades. The 2040s are not looking good... Whom do we have to bribe to get some new blood in the Democratic Party? Instead, against the original p####-grabber, they're running... another p####-grabber. [0] Good grief.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up...
Coronavirus: U.S. Colleges and Universities Reach Breaking Point
Fido (2006) as well!
When I came back to Gatwick, they were still listing flights from 12h before (100s of them) as "delayed". I think the system they use is pre populated long in advance...
Different ways cyber criminals are exploiting Covid-19
This is a great summary of the ongoing issues, it however does miss a few things. Including a security vulnerability in their lobby feature that has privately been reported to Zoom by CitizenLab the other day - and which still needs fixing.

The crypto part is really bad, because it seems potentially malicious even.

Has anyone done crypto analysis on the pwd= query parameter? Knowing their security skills I'm wondering if that is crackable...
That comment wasn't criticizing the actual headline, which never said Russia fears Sweden. Even if I don't fear you, I might fear your deadly submarines.

Headline criticisms are unsubstantive to begin with, but it's particularly unsubstantive to make up a different headline and criticize that instead.
>People always write about coming recessions. I could "recession year 20NN" and find someone proclaiming a recession would happen that year.

i have an economist friend that says "economists have predicted 10 of the last 9 recessions"
You're missing an adjective in there. It takes a special kind of mind to cite a case of government disregarding the health of African-Americans, as rationale for the thesis there is no health risk.
Sure everything from plastic surgeons to heart specialists. Not everyone has to be a doctor to the stars or go on shark tank to make millions. Does your local walkin clinic doctor make that? No, but would make 500k before expensives.
I like the idea a lot! It seems like people are concerned about this interrupting their flow, maybe add a command that allows user to reset the timer? so that they can keep their flow, but are reminded that they need to take a break.
When you don't have the technological and scientific literacy to understand even the basics of the modern world around you it's all magic.
I don't know what you mean by "these kinds of practices" but I agree with you to the extent that Apple is a for-profit company. Anything positive that Apple wants to achieve either for customers and/or society at large only happens if Apple is profitable. No profit, nothing else can or will happen. Profit is priority one as it should be for a business. Customers are next and Apple has succeeded only through driving profit by (most of the time) delighting customers. Developers are somewhere after that. This is how and why companies exist. I don't get why anyone expects anything different.

Amazon has leverage so their negotiation is different. Apple would be a poorly run business and less successful if they didn't negotiate and work deals in a manner consistent with reality. It is not good or bad, it is just the real world.